Move Over…

In the fall of this year, I had received an ordained message from the Lord about breakthrough, transition and a shift. Now as we move into the New Year of 2024, we can leave 2023 behind leaving all of the pruned branches of us, breaking through whatever is not allowed to rot us in despair of any sort. I am leaving behind bitterness, anger toward those who have deliberately tried to mess me up, and anything that does not line up with what my beautiful Lord wants for my life and I hope you’ll do the same for yours.

I started this season off with praying Lord purify me in Your Holy fire and remove all that does not belong - to praying prune my dead branches off, Lord all that is not producing fruit and then as this last month of 2023 is on its way to a close I’ve repositioned myself, my breakthrough, transition, and shift was not completely to do with me uncovering another obstacle I had to face and conquer it was my ability to ‘Move Over’ and be along for the ride per-say, letting go of the reigns that drive my life was withholding God from His free moving in my life, I have slightly let go of some of the control in my life but as I prayed and moved closer and closer into Gods atmosphere I realized I needed to ‘move over’ completely and leave all control in His Mighty hands. I don’t know about you but what a hard position to give up, your controller to your own life BUT who better than to place your life over to and give all control and authority to than the one that knows and loves you best and the most… I took this new position and stand proud in awe and gitty about knowing I am fully in the palm of the Lord’s hand. I feel different, more settled, calm on a higher level of clarity oh! And this was another prayer I have held to, praying for more clarity and I tell you rereading the Lords Word when you have repositioned yourself out of the way allowing God to move without restraint, I totally moved over, handed over all control and been pruned and purified deeper than I have been before ( I ask the Lord to do this for me from time to time and this last one was a little harder because I didn’t realize I could sacrifice myself even more laying down my humanness to make more room for him and surrender even more too. )

John 15:4 & 5 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; but apart from me you can do nothing.

When God prunes us and purifies us it is out of love, He especially does not want us carrying around old smelly trash that digs into our backs and scrapes us up otherwise why did He send Jesus, why did He surrender Himself coming down from on high in human form to take all our aches and pains, transgressions and sin, if we were just going to pick it up again. Remember Jesus did not die on the cross for nothing but for everything and everyone.

Hebrews 12:2-6 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”

As I close let’s meditate on Colossians 3 soak here for a while it is so good, I had this read on my baptism day and really wanted it to stake a claim deeply to know where I belonged, with who I belonged to and leaving behind old desires and the earthly nature, I carried before and I put on my new self being renewed in knowledge in the image of my Creator. This is my declaration for my life and my statement to stay fixed upon my Lord. I was not recently baptized this was years ago but I can go there to that beautiful setting anytime and remember or be reminded that this mattered deeply it was another key to the kingdom of God to become open, only He can fully renew you and wash away your old self and replace upon you a new self what a Holy blessing. Anything that was in your past your mistakes or the mistakes of people hurting you leave it there, you cannot change the past, go back and erase the past, or have a face-to-face encounter with the one who hurt you the most and give them an uppercut to see how they feel but you can be renewed and healed by the One who loves and knows you the most. This is how anytime that scene plays on in your mind rebuke it and replace it with the truth of Gods Word, call upon Jesus’ name and lay it at His feet ask for healing, find a promise scripture and replay Gods truth in your mind and eventually it does get better and you don’t have to suffer there anymore and belong to a past that torments you, you can stand in strength and be renewed and set free. Later when this resurfaces, you’ll not be hurt so much by it but you’ll be a testimony to how God heals perfectly. This is the only way we should be sharing things of our past that has hurt us, when God brings it up its from a loving safe place, ‘He crowns us with beauty instead of ashes’ and He never does it out of spite to keep you in pain, its only for us to be an open vessel for Him to help another person get out of that pit, we share so the Lord’s grace can be seen through you and pour over to them.   

Colossians 3:7-10 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on a new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

I thank You Heavenly Father for renewing me and crowning me with a crown of beauty instead of ashes. I am so grateful for Your loving touch on my whole life, that I can fall on You for any need and You uphold me with Your righteous right hand I love You so. I pray others will understand the encouragement of Your Word written. That they will seek You in their own bible pages for all answers to life’s toughest obstacles You replace when we lay them at Jesus feet we can overcome by His Precious Blood and live stronger in You. With the abundance You have can be poured on Your people when they lack grace, mercy or love or strength anything we need we gain from You because You are such a compassionate God. You will never allow us to suffer but if and when we are in a suffering position, we have put ourselves there because You make a way when there is no way and there is no way we need to sit there we always have a way through we need only be still and we need to surrender ourselves or the very things that keep putting us in that suffering position. With Your hand upon our lives we will always prevail, thank You Lord. In Jesus Name, Amen.