“Being Free From ME”
By: Simply Rachael
One of my favourite song to
listen to is Kirk Franklin “Imagine Me”, this song ministers to me so much that
when I’m trying to find my way in life or when I’m having a hard time dealing
with life issues; it reminds me to hope in God.
I remember having days when
my thoughts reminded me of pass mistakes or old wounds, broken promises and
thought of waiting for salvation (someone to save me). Salvation from me, other
and the life I lived. One moment I was feeling great ‘flying high like a kite’ but
then I would feel so low. I prayed that my pain would come to its end for the
nightmare to be over.
Being Free
The most difficult thing in
life is learning to forgive oneself when you’ve lost your way in life or you
feel guilty or ashamed about past mistakes that are eating away at your soul. A
desire to be free stirred deeply within me as my faith in God was being tested.
Would I throw in the towel or run back instead of facing the dark clouds that
fog over the pathway ahead. The battle going on inside of me was so fierce that
I wanted to give up. The hurt, the pain, the loneliness, the sadness all made
me feel trapped within myself, looking for the strength to face another
day.
The ability to forgive oneself
starts with loving oneself enough to look beyond the pain to see that you are
loved by Jesus Christ. Regardless of what you have done or what has gone wrong
in your life (1 John 4:10 “Herein is
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the
propitiation of our sins.”)
I prayed and asked God to teach
me how to be better at lovely myself. To love myself even when I have mess up,
broken, sad, ashamed, disappointment or in need of healing and deliverance.
Being free requires prayer because prayer is a cleansing tool for the pain
within our soul. It’s easy to sit and have a ‘petty party’ but if you want
result and change in your life, then pray to be healed from your deep pain. As
David stated in Psalm 42:11 “Why art thou
cast down, O my soul? And art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for
I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”
Be Free
1 John 4:10 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but
that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation of our sins.” God
loved us before we could ever think of loving him. It’s easy to give up when
the battle on the inside in raging but if we trust and be confident that God’s
word is truthful. We will feel loved enough to be free through God’s love for
us that heals, transforms, delivers, restores and consecrates anyone who will
accept his love.
I prayed a great deal in the
dark times of my life for God to have mercy on me and deliver me from my deep
pains. I placed all my hope, trust, strength and love in God and his word that
I would be free to live in victory. When you pray it gives God an opportunity
to do thing in your lives that we can’t do yourself.
The dark times in your life
will not always last. You can be freed from your thoughts and feelings through
God’s love. David in his time of troubles declare, “For I shall yet praise him”
because he understood God’s love is everlasting. I declared in my dark times
“God loves me” even when I didn’t feel loved. Declaring God’s word empowers us
to believe by faith in his word Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an excepted end.” Be free
through the love of God.
