As God has been setting me free from the choking grip of fear, and as I’ve been coming out from under its suffocating hold; I have been stepping into more and more freedom in all areas of my life. It has been invigorating! With every step out, I am becoming more and more who I was destined to be. I am coming more and more ALIVE!
Speaking from my own experience of being a captive to FEAR, the bondage I felt trapped in began with lies. I allowed the lies in and believed them to be true. The lies began to take shape and form. They gripped my mind. Then because the lies were left unchecked and undealt with, they began to take hold of my heart, my desires, and the way I lived life. The joy for life, contentment, peace, and freedom were slowly being sucked out of my daily experience.
Lies are the primary way the enemy uses to keep us from knowing the reality of who we are and about who God is. The enemy is a LIAR, there is no truth in him.
God is LIGHT and in His Presence He exposes these lies, if we allow Him to do so. He does this to heal us. He brings the lies into the light of His loving presence so we can be healed, restored and be set free.
Over the years, I have believed MANY lies. One lie that kept me under the grip of fear was that lack would be my lot in life, that there would never be enough for Juliana. I believed I would get the scraps or the leftovers, certainly not the best. I believed that God must love others much more than He loved me. I believed that I would always get ‘second-best’ in the blessings and favour of God.
The belief of lack being my lot in life was played out in my participation in my own life, or lack thereof. I have lived most of my life on the sidelines. I have lived the bulk of my life in the shadows because I have believed that I just wasn’t good enough. While I’m being brutally honest (HA!), I believed that I was average, and many times much less than average.
What we think in our minds to be true, will be lived out of us. Therefore, because I believed that I was average, I was only capable of living an average life.
But God wanted to do more and believed so much more about who I was. God spoke the TRUTH as He said, “Your portion shall be fullness and abundance.” I am not just talking about material blessings or financial prosperity, although God does promise to take care of all of our needs. But I am referring to the blessing of Jesus Christ Himself. In John 10:10 New International Version (NIV) it says,
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
God has been showing me in my own experience that He is a generous God. When He sent His Son Jesus to the Cross, He wanted us to be able to access Him, but it didn’t stop there…He wanted to reach out to us and for us! No barriers of sin and sacrifices, the Cross made it possible! The veil tore in the Temple to signify that the sacrifice had been paid and now He could get to us.
Our Father did not just give us a little bit of Himself. No, He is not a stingy God. He is not a cheap God. He is a God of abundance and rich generosity! He gave us ALL of Himself for life and for Godliness.
Are you experiencing the abundant, full life that God promises you? Your Papa, Your good good Father delights in intimacy with you. It is His good pleasure to bring healing, restoration, and the experience of New Life in Him in all areas. He is not limited by your past, your wounds, or your fears. For He declares, “With God, all things are possible!” Healing is your inheritance. There is perfect and complete healing in the Name of Jesus. The timing and the way in which He chooses to heal is in His hands.
His arms are outstretched welcoming you to go deeper with Him. You are safe to lean your entire being on Him and He will prove this over and over to you. Are you willing to allow the Great Physician to heal you that you may experience fullness and abundance? This is your portion! New life in Jesus is not about staying the same, it’s always transformational.
