Freedom

Unforgiveness is a burden, it adds unnecessary weight to your walk with Christ.  I look at unforgiveness as an ankle weight, like the weights athletes wear while training.  When unforgiveness first takes root, you feel that burden.  But as time goes on you adjust to the extra weight and you don’t notice it as much.  All the while you are carrying an unnecessary load.

That is how my journey has been.  I had grown accustomed to the additional weight I carried because I had carried it for years so it no longer FELT like a burden, but it was.  As I continued to seek the Lord for the answers to my freedom, He spoke.  He told me to write to everyone I held unforgiveness against.  

As soon as He gave me those instructions, along came the enemy telling me that if I wrote them and told them the root of the issue then all I would do is stir up unnecessary drama and bring problems to my family.   But I knew that God had given me an instruction and I didn’t have a choice but to be obedient.  So I did, one Saturday morning I dug DEEP and God showed me the roots of a lot of hurt.  It was a long, hard, tearful morning writing those letters.  Exposing a wound is painful, but in order to have that wound healed you have to remove every trace of the infection (every poured peroxide on a cut?) 

God is so awesome, not only did He make the recipients receptive to what I had to say… They wrote me back with the most loving and encouraging words and instantly I began to feel the burden lifted.  The weight that was holding me down for years, the weight I had grown accustomed to was gone INSTANTLY.  And just like the ankle weight that athletes train with, I am stronger than I was before.  What Satan tried to use to weigh me down, God used to make me STRONG!!

Not only did I come out stronger but I came out healed.  To this day, I have not had any symptoms of the sickness that I battled for YEARS!!! God told me what was causing the sickness, I was obedient to His instructions and I AM HEALED! To God be the glory.

True deliverance only comes through Jesus., going before Him and CRYING out to Him for an answer.