What about past thoughts that plague your mind and not sure where you received those answers? What about the Whitesboro Baptist church that seems to thwart unrelentingly their freedom of speech and hatred in their bantering protests at America’s Heroes? Having marital problems that do not seem to go away? Debt that does not provide the freedom to buy that new item you have been wanting.
What holds you back from achieving the impossible? Could it have been someone saying you are not good enough? What about trying to mend a relationship and the other person does not want to mend it?
Sometimes we feed ourselves, a lie or someone tells us a lie. A lie is L(etting) I(n) E(xtremes). Meaning a lie expands from the truth, and someone might say a “white” lie. These extremes are, “it was not me”, “Oh yeah, that makes sense” (this involves, we do not want to seem clueless towards the situation), “Oh thank you; I just love it” (not wanting to hurt the other person’s feelings). Sometimes a L.I.E. we tell ourselves because of someone else’s reactions are, “I am not good enough because I cannot seem to please this person”, “It is always my fault”, or “I will never get this right.” These lies can be unconsciously expressing thoughts that can lead to fear, anxiety and stress. To break from this is shifting out of the lies and into the truth.
Sometimes religion from the actual truth causes us to be bound in chains. This is similar to an attitude that can be like the L(etting) I(n) E(xtremes) we tell ourselves. What is a chain? A chain is a C(age) H(olding) A(ttitudes) I(n) N(umbness). In the religious community there can be flying bullets of words of liberalism, conservative, or mainstream. When someone holds onto a portion of a scripture of God’s word, but does not explore the entire context of the scripture it can cause a CHAIN reaction.
These CHAINS that we create holds us back from the creativity that God has intended for us to live in full life in Freedom. Christ said that He is the truth, the way and the life (John 14:6, New International Version). Would you like to break free from LIEs and CHAINS that bond us in misery of anxiety, stress, and Fear (Forgetting Everything About Righteousness)?
Then we must captivate our thoughts and make them obedient through ‘Christ, who is the truth (2 Corinthians 10:5). How do you do this? It is not easy at first. Write out your thoughts on paper. Here is an example: “I am not worthy”. Then compare it to the truth, you are counted worthy of the kingdom of God, who CALLS you (1 Thessalonians 2:12, NIV). According to God, you are worthy. Start on something small, until you are able to do it without paper and soon you will see yourself free from anxiety, drepression, fear and stress.
I want to encourage you to break free from the LIE (letting in extremes) and break away from the CHAIN (a cage holding attitudes in numbness) and work on building up your freedom in FAITH (forging attitude in trusting Him) so that we can live free from anxiety, stress and FEAR (forgetting everything about righteousness).
I would like to encourage you to learn more about breaking free from these chains that hold you back in this life that has called us into being free through Christ. Memorial Drive church is having a fantastic workshop on letting go of Chains. It is called the Tulsa Workshop and the title is “Let The Chains Fall Away”. This is March 23-26, 2011 and for more information you may go to http://www.tulsaworkshop.org/. This is free and open to the public.
By Faith (Forging Attitude In Trusting Him)
