GOD WANTS TO SET YOU FREE

DAY NINETEEN OF THIRTY ONE

I want to go over something that many people don’t talk about. We tend to give the devil all of the credit when something happens that we don’t like, but a lot of us have a hard time telling the difference between the enemy stealing, killing, and destroying versus when God removes something from your life that never belonged there.

There have been times when I went into a deeper level in my walk with God only to notice things in my life start to disappear. Certain opportunities, certain friendships, certain material items…all gone.

Wait a minute, I thought Jesus came so that our lives would get better, not worse! This is true, and sometimes giving us a full and productive life means pruning anything or anyone that doesn’t belong in this new season.

I remember getting a realization that I needed to be completely flexible if I was going to really trust God and go where He was leading me. I understood that nothing in this life would go with me to Heaven, so I had to release ownership over everything I had.

As depressing as that might sound, it was actually the step into freedom that I needed. Releasing things into His Hands also meant that I was releasing a burden I had brought upon myself to not only keep these things, but accumulate more.

Prayer: Ask God to show you any burdens that you need to lay down at His Feet. Pray that He guides you in pruning off anything that is not productive to your walk with Him so that you can live in complete surrender and freedom.