We often let things into our home, into our life, not even knowing it. It comes in and wants to say it has authority. It wants to say it’s great. It can feel like it.
But nothing is greater than God’s power.
I dreamt the other night about a monster bear.
My husband, Luigi, and I were headed outside. As we opened up the door, a giant grizzly came running into the house.
This bear was bound and determined to take authority over everything in the house. The bear was going to devour someone, no matter what. It grabbed one of the children, and my husband started hitting it the bear until it finally released the child. But then the bear promptly went after another one.
This happened over and over again.
I stood and watched the whole thing, holding the baby, and I felt despondent.
In my heart, I asked God: “God, I feel there’s no hope. No chance. This bear is so confident, so sure of himself. He looks fierce, so powerful. He looks like he’ll destroy everything. What can we do?!”
God replied: “My Name has the highest Authority above every living thing, so use it.”
So I immediately said: “You let go right now in the name of Jesus Christ and get out of here right now.”
In my eyes, the beast was so huge. Yet, when faced with the mighty name of Jesus, he instantly dropped the child and just bowed and took off.
Things in our lives can look like that. I heard about an 80 year old man in another country, riding back home, when his bike wheel came off.
He fell into a 20ft crevice.
He ended up surviving, but it seems life can feel like that a lot sometimes. Life can jam us up and make us feel stuck.
Dread, hopelessness, and being overwhelmed can swamp us.
Who can help?
God can.
It’s a serious situation.
The enemy is up to no good. In our natural, if we don’t get help, life will take us somewhere away from God.
That’s our pre-set pattern already. That’s our destiny already. Adam and Eve tasted of God, saw that God was good, and yet walked away.
Those two–our great-great-great-great grandparents–gave us that legacy already. They put that in our DNA. It’s not a good legacy.
Yet God came to set us free from that Adamic destiny.
I felt the burden, I felt the weight of all of that. For the past three months I felt that.
The other night, I felt I was in the dream again, facing that monster bear who said: “I am so big and so bad, I am going to destroy your home. You’d better believe it.”
It was overwhelming.
I couldn’t seem to break it.
All I could feel was the presence of that bear in my life.
But then God started to break through my heaviness.
I was laying in bed when I heard His still, small Voice. “Get up, get up out of bed. Be with Me,” God said, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t respond.
My husband must have heard God stirring him the same way, though! I watched in amazement as he rose and left the room, and finally I couldn’t take it any longer.
I had to be with him.
What’s more, I had to be with my Creator.
As I stepped out of the bedroom in the middle of the night to go sit with my husband, God spoke to me.
“This is your time, Sally. This is your time to break free. This is time for the bear to die.”
The enemy was right there, too.
“What are you taking about? Right now? In the middle of the night? This isn’t time for anything. Go back to sleep. Life moves on.”
But I had to respond, and so I did. I started talk to God, and as I started praying, my voice got louder and louder, until, before long, it was a yell, crying out to God!
I was free! Fear, despondency, hopeless, that awareness of my own Adamic destiny broke!
NOTHING was greater than God!
NOTHING was greater than God’s authority!
That demonic, devilish “bear”, that monster became a mouse. I was more than an overcomer in Christ who loves us!
PRAISE GOD!
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