It is possible to have complete freedom from sin in this life!

I have a very active imagination and for years it has been controlled by sin and darkness. When I was young I made up a world in my head, as I got older my thoughts were invaded by impure, sexual thoughts, it invaded my made up world. Sometimes I would waste a whole day away lost in my imagination, but my imagination was rarely a happy place, God wasn’t there, there was a lot of suffering and bondage. For a while I excepted this and didn’t even think it was wrong and I gave into every little temptation. That changed the more I encountered God and fell in love with Him, I began to hate this and I would try to shut off my imagination which never worked. For the longest time I tried to fight it off on my own strength.

A few months ago I got so fed up with this sin in my life I was determined to overcome it, not by my strength, but by the Lord’s. I have found the only way to overcome it is to keep your eyes on Jesus. A few times I was able to overcome temptation which was something I was never able to do and I gave into it a lot less often. It wasn’t completely gone yet, but I was believing God for complete freedom. 

In the past three weeks God did something to my imagination! He didn’t get rid of it, but instead took it and used it for His glory. Instead of thinking of sinful things, all I can think about is Jesus. Instead of the dark world I always saw full of suffering and pain, absent of God, I see heaven. I still can’t see the Spiritual realm with my physical eyes, but I see it all the time now with my imagination. God has also given me His eyes for other people to see them the way He sees them. So that I can speak life and freedom over them. 

I’ve been so captivated by God that I’ve had no room for sin. I didn’t even have to think about overcoming it I just had to gaze at Jesus, let Him fill me, and remain there, never leave His presence. No more do my thoughts have to be enslaved to sin, they are now free to bring glory to God and Him alone.

This is all to say that sin can be overcome and you don’t have to wait for heaven. You can be in God’s presence all the time this is what we were made for. Jesus does break every chain and there is not one He can’t break. Jesus is enough for us He can satisfy all our desires that we once thought could only be satisfied by sin. When you let Him satisfy you, no room is left for sin. 

I just declare freedom over you!! what ever sin has been holding you in bondage, Jesus is breaking those chains!! Keep your eyes on Him, stop trying so hard and just rest in His presence!!

Okay haha I feel like Daddy wants me to write right now hahaha!! Guys God is so real and so good!! Oh I love Him so much!!! Something Daddy told me today is that I need to never go back to quenching the Spirit. I loved God but often He asks us to do pretty crazy things and one of the biggest things that has held me back in my walk with God is this fear of what people will think and a fear of failing. I am such a perfectionist haha so sometimes I think way to much and I try to plan everything out so it will be perfect! I would even do this with prayer when I prayed with other people, I would plan it out in my head like a speech and if I couldn’t figure out how to say it perfectly I wouldn’t say anything. Wow I know I’m just being really real here.

I always wanted to be used by God and do great things for His kingdom I would pray for God to give me Spiritual gifts and to give me opportunities to use them and I wanted so bad to bring revival. The past few years I had seen some fruit, but not to the degree I knew God wanted for me. The Spirit would give me promptings to step out in faith and I did something we should never do, quench the Spirit, I didn’t want to, but I was so afraid. 

This past year God has said “I’m done with you quenching My Spirit, you are going to walk in faith and not hold back at all.” In these past few weeks I have seen God do so many things through me it would take forever for me to describe them all!! I stopped being afraid, how could I God filled me with His love, all I could do was gaze at Him and let Him do what He had been wanting to for so long. I have seen the Spirit flow through me and it is so fun honestly!! My fears have been so silly!!! There is nothing to be afraid of, my Daddy always wins  hahahaha!!! VICTORY!!! 

I will no longer quench the Spirit, not after what I have seen hahahaha!!! I want to encourage all of you to let Daddy have His way in you. Haha it’s going to be exciting the things He has planned for you hahaha!!! oh and it’s so fun!! it’s so worth it all!! Let’s stop quenching the Spirit and building up walls to try to contain Him hahaha!!! Oh let’s just let God be Himself hahaha wow He is so much more amazing then we have made Him out to be hahaha!! He is so goooood!!! JESUS!! 

It’s all about intimacy, crazy love. It’s about every moment letting Him fill you then overflowing with that, it’s about constantly getting in God’s presence and knowing Him, hearing His voice, feeling His touch, knowing the deep things of His heart. It doesn’t come from a book or a sermon haha it comes from being with Him. Let God Himself show you what He is really like!! Do you really know what God is like? 

When we stop quenching God’s Spirit and step out in faith with even the little things God will entrust us with more and more, it’s a process of learning to walk in the Spirit. This is how revival comes, when we just let God be God and partner with Him in what He is doing hahaha!! WOAH!! And that can only come through intimacy and really knowing Jesus and abiding in His love. Hahaha! WOAH!! We need to stop trying to do ministry on our own without the power of the Spirit!! and we need to stop making ministry the main priority haha ministry will naturally flow out of intimacy!! wow!! and we need to stop thinking that this has to be such a burden and a weariness to serve the Lord haha because it’s not!!! wow!!! oh just walk in the Spirit and you will see it’s so joyful and fun!! hahahahahah!!! YES JESUS!! IT’S A CONSTANT PARTY!!! 

NOW GO AND GET WITH JESUS AND LET HIM SHOW YOU HIS HEART HAHAHAHA!!! SHABA RABA SHOWDALA!! HEHE!

The More I Seek You - Steffany Frizzell

This is such a beautiful and passionate worship song!

God has taught me a lot in the past few months about what having a relationship with Him really means. I used to see God as some big scary God who really doesn’t want much to do with me, who is angry, who I have to try and please all the time by being a light and reading my Bible and praying a lot. 

That view of God couldn’t be more wrong. God is absolutely crazy about us and yes He is so big and glorious and He dwells in unapproachable light and glory. But here is the crazy thing, He has made a way for us to approach Him, to be with Him forever and not far off behind some veil! No! The Veil was torn in two and God has made a way for us to approach Him, to draw near and not as slaves or servants either, but as Children of God.

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” - Romans 8:14-17

Woe! Did you get that!? God has adopted us! We are His beloved children! and He is not only our God, but our Daddy. Did you know you can call God Daddy? That you can talk to Him about anything? That He is right there listening and smiling at you? God really is crazy about you! Why else would He send His only Son, His beloved Son, to die the most horrific death known to mankind and take on all the sins ever committed? He did it because He loves you that much, He couldn’t stand us being separated from Him any longer. He wanted us to be with Him so bad that He would give anything, He would give everything just to be able to hold us in His arms again.

Jesus death on the cross really did pay for all of our sins and make a way for us to approach God. Because of the blood He shed for us, we are free and God has cast our sins away, as far as the east is from the west. “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” -John 8:36

We are no longer slaves to sin, but children of God. Because sin no longer has a hold on us we can approach God, we can sit in our Daddy’s lap. It was sin that separated us from God, but when our sin is taken away what can separate us from His love? We now belong to God, He bought us with a price and we are His. We don’t have to try to earn our way to God, we are already with Him. Just rest in your Father’s love, let Him show you how much He really loves you.

This is the Gospel, it’s the good news of how deeply God loves us and how He gave His only Son to pay for our sins that separated us from Him and bring us back into His arms. 

We are free to be ourselves with God to just sit in His lap and fall in love with Him, He’s not asking for a big show or some fancy ritual, just your heart. Stop trying so hard to please God, because He is already happy with you, He delights in you just the way you are and just the way He made you to be. You don’t have to clean yourself up or be perfect before coming into His presence, that part was already taken care of at the cross, so stop trying to do the work that is already finished and just rest in God and His wonderful grace and love. 

Now go and let God pour His love on you, sit in Daddy’s lap, be real with Him and pour your heart out to Him. Jesus doesn’t want another religion, He wants a real relationship, and it’s so much more wonderful than religion. God is soooo goood!!! Haha Shabba!! 

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Psalm 2:2-4

Isa. 62:5 

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Colossians 2:8-10