Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Breaking Free- A journey to FREEDOM Part 1

I wanted to share this experience that has transformed my life , I just completed the book by Beth Moore titled " Breaking Free". It was the most amazing book and I recommend it to anyone who wants to really experience being "Free", I know that it may sound strange because you think" I am free", are you really "free"? but really are you? Do you hold onto things in your past, have you really given every portion of your life to Him? I want to share this with you in a 9 part series because I believe every step is crucial to learning how to be Free. I will reference to what the book taught me and provide my life experiences along with it, I want to share how I was set free.

I began this journey a year and a half ago first when I moved to Houston and then when I moved to the Pacific Northwest last year and I felt God calling to me to seek Him for everything, something I wasn't always doing. Houston was my "desert" I felt I was just wandering aimlessly trying to find my place and what God really wanted from me. I was searching in so many places but never finding what I was looking for. Desperately wanting to know what my life held and wanting to find that happiness I was searching for. I looked in all the wrong places and i could always here this small voice inside of me " stop looking for it, I am here I have always been here. seek me and you will find peace".

I would hold onto portions of my life and rationalize " i know best, so here's this portion God but I can't possibly give you the relationship piece I know what I need" funny right I thought I knew best? versus giving it all to Him. Little did I know that God would be showing me His plan for my life and the one key lesson I had to learn was to let go and get out of the captivity I was in, in order for Him to truly set me Free.

I was the worst kind of captive, I was a prisoner unaware. The kind of prisoner that was so vulnerable to anything and everything, and I had no clue. I wasn't free I was in this bondage that I was so blind to. Through this journey I had to learn that it wasn't going to just change overnight I had to put the work in, and I had to also allow God to work in me in order to make me new.  


Many of you may be struggling and I do too daily, but I wanted to share this learning I experienced through this book by Beth Moore "Breaking Free". 
 
I love this verse 2 Chronicles 32:17 
" In your love you kept me, from the pit of destruction" (v17) 

I learned that His love is constant no matter what, we have the  tendency to forget what God has done for us. What he brought us out of, when things aren't going our way. We start to complain, and ask why? How can we be so quick to forget all His goodness to us? I struggled with this the most in my journey. I had to learn to become humble and that involves discomfort because I wasn't used to it. I had to learn  some hard lessons and also experience failure. Countless times I failed and I knew I had to be set free in order to live life abundantly. 

There are 3 key things that Beth Moore talks about in this first lesson:
  • He came to set the captive free- no matter what binds them.
  • He came to heal the brokenhearted- no matter what has broken your heart.
  •  He came to open the eyes of the blind- no matter what blinded their eyes.
These I hold onto because I was all 3: captive, brokenhearted, and blind. I was living a life that had no purpose, direction, and I was so lost. This journey wasn't easy because I had to finally be honest with myself and look at what my life had become and how did I get so far away. "How did I get here" was a question I found myself asking over and over. 

 This is a journey you have to be willing to take, and one that you give complete surrender. I can say that this study "Breaking Free" by Beth Moore has changed my life forever. My prayer is that you too will be encouraged and if you are ready to be set free I pray that you will seek Him with all your heart.

I want to leave you with this verse: " You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant in who I have chose, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He."
(Isaiah 43:10)

 

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