Be Still and Be Changed

This morning I woke up and I went to meet with God in the secret place, and He begin to reveal to me some things that had happened in my life that I was still holding on to that even though I wasn’t consciously aware of it, it was still weighing me down. It wasn’t easy to look at, it was painful, but I was ready to be rid of these things once and for all. So I asked the Lord, to help me to release it, and let it be wiped away. So I just sat quietly and I couldn’t necessarily feel anything in the natural happening, but in my spirit I knew that God was doing something on the inside of me. After a few minutes it became very uncomfortable, my flesh started to fight the process. I literally wanted to get up and run out, I had to ask God to help me, to keep me still because more then anything I did not want to disrupt what God was doing on the inside of me. So I just sat, and my flesh kept crawling, but I knew that if I moved I would abort the process. It seemed like a long time and I asked God what was happening, and He gave me a picture so I could understand.

I don’t know how many of you have watched the spider man movies, but in one of the movies, there was some black goop that got on Spiderman that spread and took over him and became a suit, like the one he’s supposed to wear except this one was bad for him and made him act in a way that he was not designed to act. Well anyway once he came to the knowledge of what was happening to him and that this thing was taking over, and had affected his life, he begin to rip the suit off, and as he tried to rip the suit off it kept trying to cling to him, but eventually he broke completely free, and he was released from that which had been trying to consume him. So the picture God gave me was of him, pulling that suit off of me. Pulling that thing that was not a part of my new nature off of me and releasing me from it.

Now we might not be like Spiderman and those things which are still weighing on us, might not be something that is consuming our thoughts, or that we are even consciously aware of, or thought we put away a long time ago, but nevertheless if it’s something on the front burner or back burner, those things which are not a part of our nature as we are in Christ have to go. They are things that can hinder our growth and our maturity. They are things that can hold us back from doing that which God has created and purposed us to do.

So I want to encourage you all, when you are meeting God in your secret place and He reveals to you some of those things that are still lingering in your life, in your mind, or in your heart, make sure that you allow yourself to let God do His work in you. I know some of you have carried around the weight of things for so long, that you don’t know how life would be without them, but God is saying today that He does not want you to be bound by these things any longer, He desires to free you! He desires to do a new work in you! So allow Him to remove those things from you, the process might be very uncomfortable, but do not abort the process, allow God to work, be still and be changed.

God bless!

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org