No matter what the situation is right now or what we need to do next, we have to start with removing what no longer serves us if we’re going to make room for what will bless us.

 

If you aren’t holding onto some stuff, some thoughts, some emotions, some people that no longer serve your greatness, you are doing better than most.  As crazy as it sounds, it’s not as easy to release as it is to catch stuff that we don’t need.

 

It’s not that we do it on purpose.  After so long even wrong things can become right for a season.  Holding on is comforting when we don’t know what to grab or reach for.  Holding on can even become an emotional security blanket when we’re not ready to do what comes next or when we’re afraid to do what comes next.

 

 

One of the most powerful and overlooked parts of this scripture is this: renewing the attitude of our mind concerning old things gives us the ability to put on the new, powerful self that was created to be like God!  Catch that in the spirit — we have the ability to be like God by releasing old stuff — the more we release, the more we become (John 3:30).  This is what we give up by holding on to old stuff.

 

At some point, holding on to what’s holding us back will start to strip us of our power, our peace and even our desire to be like God.  We’ve all been there, some of us are there right now but it’s time to rise up.  You’ve been in that place long enough.  You’ve believed wrong long enough.  You’ve done overtime in your season and spoken death over your powerful potential long enough.  You’ve let emotions rule your mind long enough.  You’ve lost enough, you’ve tolerated enough, you’ve waited long enough.  You’ve excused it long enough, you’ve justified it long enough, you’ve tried to make mess be the best — long enough!

 

When your spirit starts to groan for your change (Ephesians 4:30), comfortable places will start to get uncomfortable.  Familiar people will start to become strangers.  Thoughts that no longer serve us will start to torment us.  The hardest step for us, all of us, is the step away from what was, what’s killing us and what prevents us from walking in the new self — the purest and most powerful state of mind.  But we must, the cost is too high not to!

 

You are powerful beyond measure, and it is time to put away the old and walk in the newness of your greatness, your forgiveness and your grace — by whatever Godly means necessary…even if you have to keep speaking it until you believe it, even if you have to get help. 

 

We cannot let ourselves forget that God’s new thing cannot be poured into our old things (Mark 2:22).  Out with the old hurt, the old thinking, the old relationships, the old fear, the old doubt, the old excuses, the old brokenness, the old way of doing things.  As we release what is old, we increase what is God — thoughts, ability, opportunity, prosperity and peace.  It’s your time!

 

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We’ve all seen or heard about one of those popular TV programs where people go in and remodel a house that has been neglected or run down.  Sometimes, we can get run down, neglect ourselves or be worn down by life.

 

The funny thing about these programs is that the house was always beautiful, a gem, it just needed somebody with vision and motivation to go in give it some TLC. 

 

When we get to a point where our mental and emotional house gets run down, we start to look and sound worn down, tired and neglected. Have you noticed that we feel like we believe, think how we feel and, talk and act like what we think?

 

 

We have a supernatural anointing in our house that we have to protect from neglect.  We have visions to decree, dreams to fulfill and legacy to live through the favor of God that surrounds our life (Psalm 5:12).  We cannot afford to let ourselves stay in a condition that does not honor whose we are, who we are and the destiny that we were created to live.

 

Sometimes our condition gets messed up by the people we let in our house, our head and our lives.  Sometimes, we let people who don’t belong in our life tear up our house, and worse, sometimes we burn down our emotional house to get back at people who we shouldn’t want back.

 

We’ve all been in a place where we needed to flip our house.  Shift from then to now.  Remodel thinking and upgrade our emotions.  Cut down weeds and trees that don’t belong in our head, and put people out of our life who bring down our value.  

 

Flip it Jesus!  God is a master flipper.  When we get stuck in conditions and patterns that cause us to neglect ourselves, mistreat our potential, and disrespect our greatness, we have to ask Jesus, “Lord, help me to flip my house. Help me to restore myself back to your vision for me.”  

 

It’s not always easy to turn it around, repair emotions or restore our hope after neglecting ourselves for so long but we have to start, even if we start with baby steps.  Even if we have to get help.  Even if we have to stumble and crawl on our way out.  Even if you have to cry one last cry and then let it go.  Even if we have to close doors, remove people and create new Greatness boundaries.  Even if we have to renew our minds, repair our emotions or rebuild our faith, hope and trust in God.

 

Flip It Jesus! “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).  This is your house, your life and as long as you believe in God’s plans for your life (Jeremiah 29:11), whenever you get to a point where it’s time to repair you, do it — by whatever Godly means necessary.  Destiny cannot find us when we’ve lost ourselves.

 

Guard your house (Proverbs 4:23)!

 

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Honoring you is not optional if you’re going to make it.  This life is not easy and you need your greatness cultivated and activated to walk in power. You’re planted in Christ and to be true to yourself, sometimes you have to be honest about people.

 

Your life is your garden.  Whatever we allow to be planted in our garden will either compete with or compliment our greatness. Just because people want to hold you, that does not mean that they can  handle the requirements of you.  Your garden has conditions that protect your greatness.

 

Put this in your spirit: “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm” (Proverbs 13:20).  Notice that God did not say that meeting or removing foolishness was the problem, He said the problem is turning foolery into a companion — allowing it or them to become planted in your garden will cause you to suffer harm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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God uses some of the most difficult situations, experiences in life to grow us forward.  When the worst happens, difficult shows up or a life lesson comes to teach, God has a plan in it.  Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to get our overwhelming breakthroughs in life.  

 

When it’s time to grow, one of the hardest things for us to do is to challenge the negative thoughts and feelings that come from growing pains. Our reaction to experiences, good and bad, tell us what we think and believe the impact is to our plans, hopes and dreams.

 

Have you asked yourself, “What is the source of the feeling or what do the feelings say about what you perceive and believe to be true?” Truth: Persistent, negative feelings almost always mean it’s time to stand up  against a lie, a negative view of our potential or value, or doubt in God’s promise (2 Corinthians 10:5).

 

Put this in your spirit: “All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely (1 Corinthians 13:12).  God is saying, “Feelings tell us what we see and know about today but hope tells us that today’s problem is preparation for tomorrow’s power.”  In other words, God prepares us for the future through today’s experiences.

 

God sees in full what we see in part.  We see today, God sees destiny.  We see what we want, God sees what we need for the future.  We see hurt, God sees maturing, growing, evolving. We see loss, God sees gain for potential, promise and His plans for us.  You see the worst thing that could have ever happened, God sees a door opening for the best thing that could ever happen for your destiny (Romans 8:28, Ephesians 1:11). 

 

In every experience there’s a reaction, a decision and an action.  After we’ve reacted to or felt the experience, we only have one of two places to go with those feelings.  We can go deeper into our feelings or go higher in our purpose.  We have the power and the control to do either, and whichever one we choose will decide our actions.  Feelings that keep us stuck, miserable or fearful are based on False Evidence Appearing Real — FEAR.

 

We’ve all sat in our feelings — unforgiveness, guilt, sadness, anger, grief and unhappiness, longer than we should have, and we know that nothing good has ever come from it.  We’ve put our lives on hold, we’ve hurt ourselves because someone hurt us and we’ve allowed lingering feelings to make us bitter and not better.  It can take time, and sometimes it will take help but the destiny mind knows that it’s OK to have a breakdown as long as we don’t unpack and stay there.  

 

We walk in destiny and potential even while we’re walking through a valley. Put this in your spirit: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation (Romans 5;3-4). Destiny says, “No matter what, I win.”

 

When we rise up and walk out of negative feelings, we choose destiny over defeat.  We choose to put our faith in God’s plan.  We choose to work through it and to grow from it.  When we choose destiny, we choose to balance life with truth, and to trust God’s plans for our life (Jeremiah 29:11).  When we choose destiny, we choose to intentionally refuse every lie that comes up against our truth, and to declare victory in advance. 

 

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Some people will meet God when they meet us, or they will wonder why God is necessary when they meet us.  Whatever you’re going through right now, remember that somebody needs you to hear from God, to win and to go back and lift somebody else up.

 

A young guy was asking me about God and said, “Why do people want to believe in a God that lets bad stuff happen to people for no reason?” I had the bible response — God works all things together for the good…” (Romans 8:28), but I sensed he was wanting something more than just a bible quote.  People seeking God tend to not be seeking a canned response or a cliche — they really want to know why are there so many that claim God but don’t have joy, peace, comfort or wisdom.

 

I asked him, “How many times have you succeeded in life without growing or working for it, or been grateful for something that you didn’t work for?” Of course he said, “Never.” Then he said, “But why do I need to believe in God just to have to go through the same things or work the same as I did without God?”

 

Hmmm.  I said, “If everybody goes through the same problems, and they will, does everybody have the ability to be coached through, guided through and grown through a problem by the wisdom that created them?”  He said, “You don’t have to believe in God to get help in a problem.”

 

Hmmm.  I said, “Do you have the answer to every problem, struggle or challenge inside of you — ready to help, heal and guide you whenever life shows up?”  He said, “No.”  I said, “The difference between going through with God and going through without God is like showing up to a gun fight with a bee bee gun vs. a cannon.”

 

A relationship with God means that we are in God’s hands — our life, our potential and our purpose are in God’s plans.  We will go through difficulties and challenges just like everybody else (Matthew 5:45), but we’re not what happened, we’re what will happen when our life is in God’s hands.  We don’t go through life’s troubles and difficulties alone, we have a helper, a perfect counselor, to guide us into the knowledge of how every test in life matures and grows us to fulfill God’s plans for our life (John 14:26). A problem without God is just a problem.  A problem with God is a key that unlocks the door to destiny.

 

He said, “Well how do you even know what to pray for or what to ask God for when a problem comes up, a situation knocks you down or you just mess up?”  I said, “When we believe in God and have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are not alone, we have the Spirit of God in us.  The Holy Spirit teaches us, prays for us and, helps us to hear and see God’s perfect will for our lives in all things (Romans 8:26-28).  We have a destiny coach, trainer, teacher and cheerleader in the Holy Spirit.”  

 

He said, “I need this Holy Spirit.”  I said, we all do, we all do…  Then he said this, “Why don’t more people who say they have a relationship with Jesus and have the Holy Spirit, have more hope than the average person then?  I mean, if belief in Jesus guarantees that all things will work out for the good, why do most Christians I know sound like they don’t know that scripture?  I read Facebook posts everyday from Christians and they sound worse off than me.” I said, “believing in God does not always mean we trust in God, we listen to God or that we follow the wisdom of God.”  He said, “If more Christians showed us God when they’re going through it, Christianity would be more believable…”

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Everybody is watching us — even when we don’t know it.  They’re watching what we do different with the difference.  This young guy, like most people, will meet God when they meet us, our lives, our get back up again, our hope in the struggle.  Life is not supposed to be free from pain, problems or tests, it’s suppose to prove that we have the ability, with God, to navigate and conquer all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.

 

Maybe God is allowing what you’re going through right now to prove that He is real, that He is faithful, that all things work together for the good, that He rewards those who seek Him, that Joy comes in the morning.  Maybe God is using you as the quote, the word wrapped in flesh, the example and not just a generic sound.  You are powerful beyond measure.  Walk in the glory that rests on you, your life, your struggle (2 Corinthians 12:9) — God’s got somebody He wants you to show what struggle looks like when you have God on your side.

 

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If you stand up to this, it cannot stand up to you.  The winds may come, the attacks may come but you got this. It’s not easy to stand without support but you have support, you have God’s angels standing behind you, protecting you against every trick, every scheme and every assault.

 

Put this in your spirit: “For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways” (Psalm 91:11).  They thought you didn’t have backup but what they didn’t know is that you have backup, front-up and side-up. You aren’t standing in your own strength, you’re standing in faith in God’s strength, in the strength of your future self, in the strength of your destiny.

 

It’s going to get rough at times, you’re going to feel like giving up, you’re going to get tired and emotions will try to talk you into counting yourself out but you will not sit down on you, you will not give in and you will not let what you see cancel what you believe (Isaiah 40:31).

 

You aren’t just standing for you.  You’re standing for the people who doubted you, you’re standing for the people who lost hope and need your testimony to believe again, to trust again and to find their way back again.  You’re standing because you didn’t just learn how to fight, you’ve been fighting all of your life.  You’ve been knocked down before and you know that if you stand up to it, it cannot stand up to you.

 

Pray for courage.  Some folks think that we don’t have a need to pray for our unbelief but they don’t know that when you go to new levels of faith, you need a new level of belief, a new level of trust.  This is not an old fight, this is a new fight and you don’t have to pretend with God (Mark 9:24). Pray for courage — “God, I’m standing for my blessing but the wind is strong and it’s taking everything I have to trust on this new level.  Thank you in advance for giving me the courage to trust you more, for giving me the ability to use more of my faith for more of your grace.”

 

When God is taking you higher, you have to stand taller, stronger and sometimes longer than you ever have before.  New wisdom comes from refusing to give up, learning how to stay in peace while walking in pieces, and surrendering our will to God’s will — on new levels.  Encourage yourself, speak life over your mission, refuse to let emotions cancel your devotion to standing. Remove people who add weight to your wait and who cannot support your greatness in your weakness (2 Corinthians 12:10).  An enemy to your greatness is a friend to your weakness.

 

The bible said, “Hope will not disappoint you” (Romans 5:5).  No matter what emotions say, no matter what your doubters say, no matter what the devil says, no matter what it looks like and no matter how long you’ve been standing, you cannot lose a fight that you refuse to give up on.  

 

Keep standing, keep pushing, keep your heart filled with hope, keep your mind focused and keep worshiping. Pray, stand and fight with truth. This is the process in the promise, the valley before the victory, the push before your delivery.  Stand up to it, stay in peace, put wisdom in your work, and this giant will fall!

 

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