At this point in my life, God is more constant than I’ve ever allowed Him to be. Countless times before, he’s tapped my shoulder or pricked my heart regarding certain issues & I would run the opposite way. When he does those things now, I run to him because I know I’m not far from Him. Even when circumstances attempt to change my depth perception, all I have to do is bow. His feet are right there. Being a daughter of The One and Only True & Living God doesn’t come with some special stamp that makes me better than others. Lately I’ve just been basking in the fact that I’m actually related to The Most High God. The God of the Bible. The Ancient of Days. Not the little g gods, THE ONE AND ONLY BIG G God, please don’t play with Him.
God cares for us so deeply & he factored in every mistake: the ones we’ve made, the one’s we’ll make in the future.. nothing we do could separate us from God’s love. Nothing we try to hide from Him makes us any less desirable. He desires for us to give Him the things and habits we struggle with the most. As a matter of fact, He was crucified for (insert thing/habit here). We don’t have to carry the things that have brought us embarrassment, hurt, shame, or rejection.
Matthew 11:28-30 AMP says:
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation]. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest(renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.”
Why do we continue to carry the things that are breaking us down when the Savior was literally broken for us?
Mark 14:22 AMP says:
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it [giving thanks and praise], and He broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take it. This is My body.”
Isaiah 53:4-5 AMP also says:
But [in fact] He has borne our griefs,
And He has carried our sorrows and pains;
Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken,
Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him].
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing];
The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him,
And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.
Jesus literally offered his body as a living sacrifice so that we would not have to bear the weight of this world, the weight that tries so often to exalt itself in our minds and crush us. The fruit of choosing Him is the easy yoke and burden that is light.
In the early stages of my life, my view of God as a “father” was skewed because I couldn’t understand how the representation of Himself in the earth, my natural father, was barely existent. His lack of presence and inconsistency caused me to struggle with the spirit of rejection. I couldn’t understand how someone whose loins I’d come from could love me with his words, but reject me with his actions. Unfulfilled yet hopeful promises grew, which led to hurt and disappointment. Honestly, this was my story in reverse. I was created by The Most High God. At some point in my life, I loved Him with my words, but my heart was far from Him. I disappointed God. I hurt God. Nevertheless, every time I returned like the Prodigal Son, My Heavenly Father greeted me with his best (Luke 15). Forgiveness was mine. Grace and compassion were my portion, followed by correction that saved my life.
God allowed forgiveness and reconciliation to take place between my father & I. My Heavenly Father allowed me to witness a spiritual and physical transformation in my father that only He could take credit for. He allowed me to receive a genuine apology where my father, in a room filled with other fathers and daughters, acknowledged his wrongdoings and thanked those who stood in his place when he was absent. That moment started the process of healing for the babygirl on the inside of me. The substances of the things I’d hoped for met my eyes. Faith personified. Fulfilled. The whole time I was wondering where God was, yet he was actively watching over his word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:12) He was with me even when my physical father wasn’t. How full circle! Though my earthly father is no longer living, his transformation is one that watered the seed God placed on the inside of me. The faith that led to our reconciliation is what allowed me to rest in safety when he took his last breath. God is still with me.
God is the ultimate parent. When we get a revelation of God as our Heavenly Father and his divine order of family in the Earth (father, mother, children) I believe we will honor our parents more. We were gifted to our parents specifically for a reason. We will not hold our parents, who are human & capable of getting it wrong, to standards that only God can uphold. We will dispense more grace and mercy when due. We will be more willing to forgive because we understand the magnitude of God forgiving us. Don’t allow the shortcomings of the people who were responsible for you take precedence over the miracle of your creation. God formed your innermost parts and knit you together in your mother’s womb because He needed YOU in this earth. He loves you so much.
Let’s pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for being with us. Father, you are Emmanuel. We thank you for watching over your word to perform it God. We thank you for sending your son Jesus to die for us, and through Him – confessing him as our Lord and Savior, believing that He is your son, that he died & rose in 3 days we have the opportunity to be saved, in Jesus name. We thank you that after walking the Earth, Jesus ascended and now sits at your right hand, interceding on our behalf. Father God we thank you for every person reading this. We thank you that their hearts are fertile ground for the seeds that you desire to plant in them. We thank you that they are willing and obedient vessels. We thank you that we can acknowledge the places that we need your help in. We repent for anytime we have ever undermined your divine order of family. We repent for anytime we ever dishonored you and/or our earthly parents with our words. We repent for judging people and situations by outer appearance and not by the heart. We humble ourselves before you in submission to your will alone. We thank you that we can be humble and you won’t resist us, in Jesus name. We renounce, denounce, and divorce ourselves from the spirit of pride, in Jesus name. We dismantle the spirit of pride in Jesus name. Father God we thank you that you are the only one who can heal what is broken on the inside of us. Anything that has caused us hurt, Father God we address it and give you permission to heal us in Jesus name. We know healing is ours because of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, so right now we declare and decree that we are healed, in Jesus name. We thank you that we serve a God who is always present. You gave us emotions. You experience(d) emotions. You know what we feel not only because you have earthly experience, but because you live on the inside of us. God we thank you for exposing the root of what we are dealing with so that we can be healed and whole in you. We thank you for everything you’ve already done, the things you’re doing now and all of the things we don’t see but we know that you are capable of. We are your descendants, your heirs, a royal priesthood and you never go against you word..so everything that attempts to exalt itself in our minds is a lie and we send it back to the pits of hell where it came from, in Jesus name. We thank you for communing with us. We thank you for every opportunity we have to get it right. We don’t take it granted. We love you and we adore you. We will continue to serve you in spirit & in truth, in Jesus holy & majestic name we pray, AMEN!
Love y’all, thanks for reading. Until next time ♥︎
In Spirit & Truth 
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