Stay Planted

Stay Planted - We pray to “break every chain” or to be “loosed”.  And we should ask to be set free from all which bonds us spiritually from seeking God fully.  The earthly bands, barriers, borders, doors, the narrow paths and the hedges have been placed around and about us to keep us from ourselves.  Have you ever thought about the freedom that you pray for to be granted, and what kind of self-discipline it would take to handle that kind of broad and free ability?  To learn how to stop yourself and to continually humble yourself up under the mighty hand of God takes a discipline that can only come from a God-filled relationship.  It’s far easier to declare that we can handle the blessing, than to accomplish when there is nothing keeping you from YOU.  We see people daily who get all they wanted and THEN SOME but they cannot handle the power and opportunity.  To get a God sized-blessing and not have the God of the blessing will be too much for anyone to wield in their own best interest.  Just like newly planted trees, it takes stakes positioned round and about it in order to keep it stabilized until it is securely rooted and not easily moved; and that is how we must be in Christ.  With great power, with great wealth, with great freedom, with great choices and options; especially whether to do right and love a neighbor and to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul takes an even greater responsibility.  In all our getting and thanking, remember to Thank God for all those boundaries that have kept you from doing the most detrimental damage to yourself.  We are our own worst enemy if we are truly honest with ourselves.  Had we only taken God at his word – where would our lives be today?  One of the worse experiences to have is to not make it into your Promised Land because you chose to go your own way; that would be an excruciating life of pain to have and to live with.  Trust that God will loose and break every chain that needs to be severed but also know and trust that he will leave the ones in place to bring us upright and straightway into the life that those who seek him were promised to have.  Some plant, some water but it is always God himself that gives us the increase and we will be able to handle the blessing and not be consumed or destroyed by it.