In my prayer time last night I was praying about something...and asked Him to pour it out for this certain request. I stopped as soon as I said it...and listened for a minute. He whispered I am...but their lids are still on. God's word is truth...and truth says In the last days I will pour out my Spirit...let that sink in for a minute. We are living in the last days...if you don't realize it, look around you. Signs of the times are EVERYWHERE. God's pouring out His Spirit for those that are in the receiving mode....
Picture holding a big bag of candy and you are getting ready to share it. (Could be Skittles, M & M's etc.) As you are pouring it out to the hands ready to receive you are able to fill their hands with this sweet treat until you get to the hand that isn't fully open. You try to pour it into their hands, but it's difficult to get that treat into the hands of the one not ready to receive even though you are pouring.
Sweet reader hear my heart for a minute.....there are a lot of things that can keep your hand closed, your lid on. It could be the voice of others, the voice of yourself (i.e. emotions, feelings), situations, limitations, fear, anxiety, depression....anything the enemy can use to keep you in bondage (i.e. lid on, closed fist). If the enemy can keep your lid on, he can keep you from receiving what the Creator of the Universe, the One who knows you better than you know yourself is pouring out....God wants to pour it out so that you can be so full of all that He has for you...that you are Overflowing, stepping in the grace and the power that He said was yours on the day He breathed life into you.
God knows that you can't take the lid off by yourself...it's going to take Him. Sometimes God's been working on the lid coming off, but we have had our hands on it, holding it down. There is a power and a freedom bubbling up on the inside of you Child of God. Don't hold the lid on thinking you are doing yourself a favor. Let it go...and let freedom be what you walk in. God's shifting things even now ...move as He moves. It's not going to be easy..He never said it would, but there is a point where the lid staying on makes you miserable/uncomfortable enough that you will throw your hands up in surrender to the freedom that fills.
What are you waiting for? What are you allowing to hold you back from the freedom God died for you to have? Freedom doesn't mean easy, freedom means knowing the One who took all of the details and the pain on the Cross..has it all under control.
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