Every time I step out to do something God has called me to do I get smacked upside the head with naysayers and nasty name-callers. The same thing probably happens to you.
So what are we going to do about it? I'll admit it. I've wasted far too much time worry about being misunderstood. It can be painful to have your motives misjudged by mean-spirited people. I guess it was a couple of years ago that the Lord told me, “Stop worrying about what people think of you!” Can you say deliverance? Those words carried me a long way.
I still don't like when people say ugly words about me-and I always examine my own heart to see what grain of truth might be there-but I am learning to kick the dust off my feet and use the persecution as a propeller to the next thing God has in store for me.
I encourage you to take the same approach. This article round up is designed to help you do just that. And, hey, if you've got a good testimony about this reach out to me. I'd love to talk to you-and maybe we can even do a podcast together to share your story and encourage people in the Lord.
Don't Look Back!
Don't look back: Three words that together make up what I believe is a timely prophetic utterance for the Body of Christ in this hour. Let me write them again: Don't look back.
Many are carrying hurts and wounds from the past. We don't shake them off and come up higher because we keep looking back to the people and circumstances that crushed our hearts. Instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to use the injustice to propel us to places of greater authority in the kingdom like Joseph did, we rehearse our past in our own minds like a scratched CD. Out of the abundance of the bitterness and resentment in our hearts, our mouth speaks poison that defiles us. And we remain less-than-effective in proclaiming the kingdom of God because we won't bury the dead and say farewell to the past. The good news is, Jesus is our past, present and future healer.
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Getting Over Hurt Feelings God's Way
Have you ever had your feelings hurt? Have your emotions ever been severely wounded? If you are living on planet earth and engaging with your fellow man, surely the answer is yes. There is no such thing as a perfect relationship or perfect people. If you get involved with people, sooner or later, you are going to get hurt. It's an unpleasant fact of life. The good news is you don't have to stay hurt. So how do you overcome hurt feelings? God's way is the only way that really works.
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What Spirit Are You Moving In?
The carnal mind wants to strike back twice as hard, file a countersuit, tell everyone who will listen what they did to you, make them pay. To stand there and take it, to give away even more than what someone is trying to force from your hands, to pray a blessing on the ones who are cursing you . that, my friends, is called moving in the opposite spirit-and there's a reward in it. When you move in the opposite spirit, you avoid the bondage that the one who strikes you, sues you, takes advantage of you, gives you a hard time, or mistreats you in any way, is living in. You walk free-you walk in power. And your response might even set them free, too. We overcome evil with good.
