
I believe the biggest thing the devil can take from you is knowing who you are, and whose you are.
I’m not just talking about the initial point of salvation, and his relentless attempts to keep you, or anybody, from that.
I’m talking to you as the saved child of God who is still walking around in bondage because some part of you just can’t quite let go around the whole being fully, but FULLY, taken care of bit.
Self-sufficiency …
Pride …
‘Having what it takes’ …
Being the strong or tough one …
Being the high achiever or performer …
Enduring in your own strength rather than casting your cares and enduring BY His strength …
Or any area where you question whether or not you REALLY get to have … receive … prosper … be well … or whether it REALLY gets to be to the fullness of what you see in the place where your vision meets Gods …
is you questioning God and activating your faith in the area of death and curse!
I know how hard this is.
I know what it’s like to push and strain and strive and relentlessly FOCUS, but in SELF ability, because … it makes sense.
Because … you CAN.
Because … surely God would WANT you to show you’re willing to (wo)man up and INSIST on the thing, WERK for it, make it happen, bring all of you.
Right?!
ESPECIALLY if you have the track record. Know-how. Capability!
I know what it’s like to repeatedly put aside, or just get confused by, the fact that having the ability in your OWN strength … to produce a COUNTERFEIT … doesn’t mean God wants you to try and BRING it … on something He already did!
I know what it’s like to be back and forth endlessly on what faith, surrendered faith, would look like, and whether or not you’re meant to kick back and do NOTHING, or whether that means you’re now in passive faith, which is to say dead faith, and augh – ! Maybe you SHOULD just show up with what you’ve got!
In fact I know what it’s like to go back and forth on this stuff for a VERY very long time, in particular in areas where I myself have thought well I can … so I should.
But here is a question for you. For me. For all of us.
Do you know how to do it GOD’S way for you?
Or do you know how to do it SOUL-led way, by you?
The soul way is not the God way PS.
The soul way is self,
it does NOT originate from the supernatural.
It is the DEFINITION of dead work.
It sucks!
But it’s also very … addictive. Seductive even. In the sense that operating by our own soul, rather than waiting on the Spirit of God, becomes a hit of ‘doing something’ which takes us down a pathway of believing we are ‘being something’, which takes us out of the favour and blessing, the open heaven RAIN of God, which when all is said and done, if you think about it, is just UNBELIEF.
And the greatest sin of all.
“Maybe God won’t do it, so I will”.
“Maybe when He said He will supply ALL of my needs, asks, and requirements, He meant not in that area”.
“Maybe He wants me to PROVE myself”.
“Maybe He won’t do it in time!”.
The undertone of which is something like
“I am NOT safe, NOT provided for, NOT cherished, NOT chosen, NOT truly a beloved and wanted child, NOT assigned, NOT a critical part of the entire Kingdom who is meant to BE on said assignment, NOT equipped for said assignment either, and all in all I need to be out dancing for peanuts to earn my keep and make sure I have the bare basics of what I need and want, but sure –
I’ll see ya at church on Sunday”.
I was thinking about this yesterday in reference to the battle of will I’ve had with myself over truly letting go and ONLY waiting on God and thus exalting Him in the area of finances.
I would say I’ve held at arms length I don’t know how many of His outpoured blessings by worrying on what I needed to do myself!
In fact He showed ’em to me, in the spirit, literal treasure chests in heaven overflowing to pour out on me and BURSTING at the edges of a net which WOULDN’T burst and allow ’em through, which I understood to be my own unbelief and trying to figure out!
In the end what it took was understanding right DECREE,
and understanding that I needed to truly relentlessly pursue a right HEART posture, which can only happen by the imprinting of His WORD.
I had to eat it so thoroughly that it BECAME me.
And I still am.
And this is a lifelong thing!
But eventually,
I got enough NUTRITION,
to where it started to change my BEING.
And bit by bit,
I decided to just … believe God.
The truth is that for me I need to know something is black and white and just how it IS, and then I will adopt it like WOAH.
I used to live my life by ‘it is what it is, and that’s all it is’.
But now ‘it is what God SAYS it is and THAT is what it is!’
It took me a minute to get that all the way through me.
I’m totally still learning!!
You know what helped me SO much?
Firstly, understanding that God’s law is LAW. And yeah, voraciously seeking all the knowledge and revelation He HAS for me on that, ongoingly!
But secondly,
and this was big –
I realised it’s not ABOUT me.
Me, you, any of us, dithering around down here trying to figure out what price God would pay for us, what we’re worth, when GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN HE GAVE HIS SON FOR US, is there a higher price you can come up with??!
But it’s not even just about PRICE.
It’s WHAT WAS THAT PRICE PAID FOR?
For you, for me, for all of us, and IN that … for the FURTHERMENT AND COMPLETION OF HIS KINGDOM COME HERE ON EARTH.
Which we can’t participate rightly in if we think the whole thing is about figuring out what God wants us to get to have, or be, or do down here, rather than seeing it as walking in who we are and WHOSE we are because it GLORIFIES GOD, EXALTS HIS SON, AND COMMANDS THE ATMOSPHERE FOR HIS PURPOSES!
Can you see how useful it is for the devil to convince you the whole thing is about you trying to figure out where YOU really stand with God, and which bits you should rightly carry?
Now imagine this:
You let Him carry all of it.
You gave over ALL of it.
And you expected, because He SAID so, ALL of it.
And then?
You simply got to work.
KINGDOM work baby.
Like somebody who knows who they are,
and whose they are.
Just an idea 😉
As you remember,
Life is NOW. Press Play.
Kat
PS
KINGDOM LAW SCHOOL HAS ARRIVED.
KINGDOM LAW SCHOOL HAS ARRIVED.
KINGDOM LAW SCHOOL HAS ARRIVED!!
Phewwww … and this?
Is my life work.
I kept hearing the word RELEASE, as I was waiting on God for the tagline. I couldn’t figure it out, why would a tagline start with ‘release’?
I wrote nearly the whole missive for you, before it came through –
RELEASE THE RULES OF THIS REALM.
Oh man.
Can I tell you I don’t know if I have ever been this excited to watch what God does through me on an offering??!
Mentorship. Apprenticeship. And the complete rule. Reign. And dominion. Of the Lord. BY HIS LAW. Through you.
Details for the intake,
are here.
Kingdom Law School. OH IT’S TIME.
This really hit home—especially the part about producing a counterfeit by working in our own strength. It’s such a subtle trap when our own competence becomes a barrier to full surrender.