How much do you want it?

There are a couple of blogs on the inside of me right now, so I will try to stay focused ;-)

How much do you want it? You know what your it is, you have probably even asked God for it a time or two. Now think about it....are you willing to pay the cost, the price of what it takes for that "it"? So many times we ask God for something, yet we aren't willing to do our part to make it happen. I remember several years ago telling a friend I wanted what she had. I wanted that deeper walk I saw in her. I wanted that next level. Well....fast forward ten years and hind sight really is 20/20. As Christians we start on that relationship journey with God when we ask Him in our lives, but where do we go from there. Choice comes in at that point....are you going to stand still for awhile and enjoy the milk or are you going to start walking forward knowing that despite the mountains ahead, you are only going to get stronger?  Oh if I could somehow convey with you how much the journey is worth it despite wanting to give up more than once.

Healing is not always an instant process. Sometimes God wants to take us through the process in order to grow us to be more like Him. Chains of the past cannot come off until you admit that they are there. So many times we walk forward for so long, but eventually the chain runs out. We ask God to take the chains off, we even sing about breaking them, but how much do want them off? Chains off aren't always comfortable. Chains off mean you are not simply out of the boat, but you are taking a step or two on the water towards Him. I remember telling a friend just a few months ago that I was ready to have the healing they had with a situation. Healing from a past situation means giving God the feelings you have about that time and knowing He will do with them what's best. We want to hold on to so many of our feelings and thoughts about a particular time when what we don't see is that it's keeping us chained. Just as the word says our thoughts are not His thoughts, neither are our feelings His feelings. If you want healing over a time, you have to trade your feelings for His feelings.

In a way this is the follow up to the blog before about tapping into the power. How much do you want it? God promised abundant life and joy. He never said it would be easy, never even promised that we may not have pain or tears, but He did promise to be faithful. God knows your heart and where He wants to take you on this journey called life. Are you focused on how you feel about it or what He says about it? Trust me....the freedom that comes with finally letting it all go(and by all I mean all...feelings, thoughts, pain etc.) is priceless. There is a peace and a power that is hard to explain (blog for another day).

More to come soon, He's writing a few more even now ;-)