The question is simple, “What / Who are you giving POWER to in your life that shouldn’t have it?” This came to me at the end of last year during a consecration.
The Lord, as well as some other individuals in my life, had been dealing with me, for a while, about being more consistent in an area of my life and how that consistency was tied to some things that would be transpiring in my life in the future. I wrestled with this and even disobeyed in this area for some years. I had the understanding as to why I needed to be more consistent but there were things holding me back from being as consistent as I should.
Like in all my other times of consecration the spotlight was shedding on something that needed to be dealt with. If not for me than for those connected to me, some of whom I have yet to meet. In my private time of worship I heard that still, quiet voice ask me, “what?” and “why?” What was holding me back from being consistent and why was I allowing it?
I started to rattle off the reasons as to what and why, which of course came from a past, negative, experience in my life, and revealed that I was giving certain people power over me that they shouldn’t have had. I was giving my mind / thoughts power over me that they shouldn’t have had. Once this came to me it was like a weight just lifted up off of me. Strangely a peace came over me, a confidence that I had lost. It was like the real me was able to emerge again, only better, and in a way that I don’t give a thought to what people think or say anymore. I don’t even give a thought to what (I) think or say anymore that doesn’t line up with what I know. The anxiety I had in this area vanished. I hadn’t realized how much I was selling myself short so as not to step on other people’s toes. I was allowing what people thought, and were possibly saying, to keep me from where the Lord, and others, said that I needed to be because what was in me was needed by others.
Now that I see the positive impact relinquishing power has I wonder how many others are paralyzed because somewhere down the line, something happened, and they gave up the power within them and allowed circumstance or situation, even people to have power over them. How many of us give power to people from our past, especially those we have had a relationship with? How many of us allow our thoughts to have power over us and hinder us from moving forward? How many of us have allowed religion to have power over us and keep us from relationship with the One who created us, or keep us from making decisions we know we should make but we don’t for fear of what others will think? And the list goes on. The only person that should have power over you is you, with the understanding that the power you have comes from another source other than you.
So today, ask yourself this simple question, get your power back, and FREELY live!
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