"Brokenness is evident when you no longer react with your previous flesh patterns when the following rights are challenged:
Your right to possessions. (I have a right to this house, that car, this mate)
Your right to a good reputation (People should all think good of me and like me)
Your right to have acceptance (see above)
Your right to be successful (remember the even the results belong to God)
Your right to have pleasant circumstances (can you truly say 'it's well w/ my soul?)
Your right to presume on the will of God (I just KNOW he's doing __ in my life/ and the emphasis being "I"- only HE knows all!)
Your right to life itself
Your right to beauty or strength (I know I find pride in the fact that I have use of all 4 of my limbs- but what IF?? ...)
Your right to have friends. (wow.)
Your right to be heard. (Is he calling you to give up what you want so you can shut up and hear what HE wants? You know His way is better...)
Your right to take offense. (It's not about you. You are defined by what GOD says!)
Your right to avoid reaping from what you sow. (there are still consequences and we aren't above those)
Your right to be right. (Remember Jesus surrendering this in the face of Pilot when false accusations were put against him? See the bigger plan in his surrender?)
Your right to see results. (We may never see results or change...it's NOT about the results!)
Your right to be loved by others (LOrd, make me so steeped in your love that i dont look to others to meet this need. YOU are enough!)
Your right to ___________ :: you fill it in ... ask the Lord what you are holding on to that hinders your freedom.
When you give up your rights, here are some of the freedoms you'll probably experience though it's not limited to this list:
All of my rights have been surrendered.
I am willing to be out of control.
I am not believing in or living by feelings/old patterns but by CHRIST within.
I am obedient out of a love motive ecause I want to, not because I have to.
I am not performing for God but I am actively letting Christ performin and through me. I am willing to fail.
I am willing to be weak.
I am depending upon Christ to meet my basic inner needs: acceptance, meaning, and purpose, identity, power over sin, strength, and victory.
I am trusting God, whatever happens, and resting in Him even with external turmoil.
I am seeking Christ himself more than His benefits.
I am forgiving of all.
I am willing to be rejected, willing to share failures.
I am willing to be misunderstood.
I am willing to be broken again .
WOW! That's some pretty heavy stuff. Do you see how Christ free's us and what does NOT define us?! Imagine being so secure in him that you give up success and are willing to fail, or give up the right to be heart and are willing to be misunderstood. In Christ we have all our needs met.
I know we all have a fear of rejection in some shape form or fashion. Mine is the fact that I believed the lie "i am unimportant" due to messages received as a child. If I live out of this lie and cling to my right to take offense, then people will dictate my worth. I will continue to receive this feeling of unimportance and unworthiness because that's what i believe about myself. I am definitely NOT willing to be rejected because my significance is found in my lack of rejection. I am bound by what people do or say to me and can't receive it from the Lord because i am meeting needs in others. I am doing all i can (fleshly coping) such as telling people what i think they wanna hear, avoiding conflict so they dont reject me again, living in fear of hurting someone because i think it's up to me to guard their heart and much more. EXHAUSTING! HELLO! Conflict and Frustration in a MAJOR way!
NOW, if i receive my importance, my significance solely from the LORD, I DON'T NEED you to accept me. I can even enter into relationships knowing i may be rejected, and granted that will hurt, but it doesn't crush me because my significance is totally 110% in Jesus. I am willing to be rejected because I know that Christ waits on the other side to fill that need more than ever before. Your acceptance is only icing on the cake. I am not in bondage to how you treat me. Amen? ! Amen!THanks so much Jesus for your incredible acceptance.
Is your trust in God or men for your identity?
Ps56:11- in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalm 118:6The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Hebrews 13:5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."6So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
Greater is HE that is in YOU!
Lord make this REAL. Make this more real that we ever hoped or imagined!!
