Take My Hand Inspirations
Getting Right With MeBefore you can enter into any relationship, the question you must ask yourself is: “Am I alright with me? Do I love myself? Do I even like me?” The divorce statistics alone can help us to identify that there is a problem in the arena of human relationships. Added to these statistics are the laws that man has forced into existance permitting homosexual marriages which are blatantly against Biblical laws; and also force us to vividly see that there is a wide chasm of mis-understanding in how men and women are to relate to each other.
There are a plethora of experts and
leaders, as well as political activists and pro-this and that advocates who are
tackling humanity’s problem of relationship-building in their own “special”
ways. But when you get right down to the
root of the relationship matter, the final element, actually the only element
is: “How do
you feel about you?”
When you consciously reject who you
were intentionally designed by our Creator God to be, there is a consequence
that follows. Science stipulates: For every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction. Proverbially, the
same is said: The stone you throw against
the wall will surely come back to you.
And our life’s manual, the Christian’s highest authority, resoundingly
speaks the Word of God in Proverbs 23:7: For as a man thinks
in his heart, so is he.
Living
in a culture of blame-shifting, or scape-goating, has caused a backlash of
denial that we, as individuals, have personal identity problems; and these
problems have culminated in our not liking who we are, or comparing ourselves
with other “better off” people, or living as people unworthy of anything good,
bright, or excellent—settling for bad, dull, and mediocre. What?!!!!
Is
it easier to put the blame on how much money you grew up with, or the colour of
your skin, or the kind of education you got to determine your self-worth—than
to look at yourself squarely in the mirror and admit, “I am the cause of my relationship
problems”?
Dear
Brilliant Brother and Superterrific Sister, you must make a conscious effort to,
once and for all, tackle and destroy that lying spirit comfortably resting at
the back of your brain as if it’s supposed to be accommodated, fed and cared
for throughout your lifetime. It’s time
to burn that spirit to ashes and move on to the healing we all struggle for
every time we find ourselves in another broken relationship.
I do not call myself by any title when
dealing with the concept of relationship-building. I can only share with you what is called
experience; and Experience is the best
teacher. You must stop chasing after
other people’s dreams for your life and focus on what you want for your life,
that intermal dream planted in you by Almighty God. Then and only then will you be able to notice
how brilliant, special, talented and exciting you are.
It took me about 30 years to accept these
realities inside of me; even though, throughout my life I could see the
excellence flowing in me from my high academic marks in school despite the
colour of my skin or gender to the leadership roles I was voted or appointed to
carry out, to the high-level responsibilities given and entrusted to me; and to
the multicultural world of frienships I have made by living in various
countries around the globe. God did a
wonderful work in me, but I couldn’t celebrate it because I couldn’t accept it. The key word here is to ACCEPT
who you are with what God gave you.
WHY CAN’T YOU ACCEPT THE GREATNESS IN YOU? Are you afraid it will make somebody else
feel bad and, therefore, he or she will reject you? Then that person isn’t
meant to be in your life. Or if that
person is a family member, understand that family members are put into your
life to make you stronger and to allow you to give a greater testimony to the
victory you’ve won over ancestral adversity.
Here, I will refer you to my blog entitled: “What’s Wrong With You?”
Accepting who you are means destroying
that lying spirit. Yes, the lying spirit
exists. Read the account of the alliance
of Kings Jehoshaphat and Ahab in 1 Kings 22:1-28. Then a spirit
came forth and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ The Lord said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
(1 Kings 22:21-22). King Ahab
recognized that lying spirit in the mouth of his prophets, but still was
persuaded to go out to war; even though he was told by the spirit of truth in the name of
the Lord (1 Kings 22:16) that he would meet disaster.
Please do not allow yourself to be persuaded to think less of
yourself. Of course, there is humility. There is also stupidity. The lying spirit doesn’t work alone; it, too,
has a whole family whose members are called jealousy, pride, selfishness,
hatred, dissension (those who like to knock people’s heads together causing
mistrust and confusion while they watch as “innocent” doves). Their geneology
can be found in Galatians 5:19-21.
The lying spirit can convince you that
your skin colour makes your mind inferior; that your lack of money can never
get you into the top schools; that your being a “girl” cannot allow you to be a
great ‘anything’: doctor, lawyer, even ball
player; that your being a “boy” makes you have to prove your manhood by having
sex with as many “others” as you can. (Imagine the sexual identity crises from
such a destructive lie!).
All these lies can persuade, convince,
seem true? moving you to wrap your birthright in a nice multi-coloured package
and willingly hand deliver it to Satan’s open hand. The devil doesn’t force you to do
anything. He uses the lying spirit to
make you willingly give what is precious in you away into his possession. O how weak without the Lord we are!
In Luke 10:19, the Lord has confirmed
that I give you the authority to trample on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any
means hurt you. Our
Lord backs His Word in Isaiah 54:17: No weapon formed
against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the Lord. And their righteousness
is from Me.
The heritage of the servants of the
Lord is called your birthright. And at
your first birth, God put His greatness in you.
At your re-birth (when you were born again), God added the righteousness
of Jesus into you. Wow! YOU GOT A DOUBLE PORTION OF GREATNESS IN YOU! This is your power, your authority, your
weapon that can destroy any power of the enemy, especially that lying spirit.
So now the choice is yours. Will you allow yourself to be
controlled by the lies that you are (complete the negative statement yourself);
and reject the gifts of God in you? Or
will you accept the beauty, the
intellect, the strength, the talent that’s inside of you, believing that Jesus in you
makes you right with God and allows you to be alright with you; and
put that lying spirit out of your house forever?
It is only when we crush and cancel
that lying spirit and live as victorious Christians that we can enter into and
enjoy long lasting God-centered relationships.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ grant us His favour, His peace
and His joy while we patiently wait and allow Him to mold us back into His
original image. Amen.
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