Who said…

Who said?

Who said you weren’t good enough?  

Who said you weren’t worth loving?  

Who said you weren’t pretty enough, smart enough, strong enough?

Who said you had to be perfect?

Who said this life is all there is and there’s nothing more?  

Who said you are who you are and you can never change? 

Who said you are the sum of your mistakes and your past? 

Who said no one could truly understand you?

Who said it’s too late for you?  

Who said you’re all alone? 

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power power to destroy  strongholds. 2 Cor 10:3-4

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 2 Cor 10:5

Some of the most overwhelming and, apparently insurmountable obstacles in our lives are those we impose on ourselves with the help of others which we allow.  What we tell ourselves, what others say about us and what we believe in, has the power to either free us or keep us bound. 

I hear the Father’s voice in my heart and it sounds like this:

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My children were never meant to live under the weight, burden and to be chained to condemnation or human judgment.  

No one gets to judge you or condemn you.  I am your Maker.  I am your Father, and if you believe in my Son Jesus and repent of your sins, you are Mine!  Mine to love, mine to hold, and yes mine to discipline when it’s needed.   You are my child and no one can judge, condemn or define you.  I made you. I define you and if you repent, I do not condemn you, so who is man that they should or yourself for that matter.   I sent my Son to make the way for you to come to me and now, dear child, would you come?

Come into My love.

Come into My light.

Come into My truth.

Come into My peace and who I say you are!  You are chosen, redeemed, known, loved, forgiven, called, justified and glorified!

I am here and I am waiting, for as long as it takes.  I am long-suffering, patient and kind.  I am your Father, and if you believe, and turn away from the sin in your life, there’s nothing that can separate you from my love.  There is no sin I will not forgive in my Son’s name.  Turn away from this broken world, from the sin that enslaves you, and all the lies that anything in this world could possibly fulfill you, and come into my truth.  Turn away from that which perishes and will never satisfy and turn to ME!  

Come, come back to the home, love and hope I have for you!

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“If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.” Luke 17:33 NLT

Can I encourage you to let go and let God?  I did.  Now, I could not or would ever go back to my old life and my old ways.  I NEVER want life without Him.  I used to believe the lies.  I used to condemn myself and judge others.  I used to be wrapped up in everything the world was selling then I let it all go and let God in and take over my life.  Now,  He is my light, love, hope, and only He gets to define me.  Jesus is the air that I breathe, the heart that beats, and the blood in my veins.  He is my first, my last and my everything.  There is no life apart from Jesus.  

In  John 15:4, Jesus says,  “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.”  Apart from the vine that is Jesus I never want to be.  He is “… the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) Once you come alive like this, everything else just won’t due. 

So, I say to you my friend, if you believe in Jesus Christ, profess Him as your Lord, and that He came for your sins, died, and rose from the grave, you have confessed your sins (brought them into the light), turned away from your sin (repented) then you, my friend, are a child of God! 

Child of God, Paul says this in Romans 8:38-39 (ESV), “ For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

This world does not get to define you.  This world cannot judge you or condemn you.  You don’t even get to do that. God does.  I invite you,  “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.  The Father is your Maker, the Lord, Jesus is your Savior and  “If God is for us who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31b)

So again I ask, my dear friend, no matter what you have been told, been through or what you have told yourself, who said?   

Who said…