LETTING GO!

Isaiah 43: 18 and 19

Do not (earnestly) remember the former things;  neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs forth;  do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it?  I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

These verses certainly cover a multitude of issues in all of our lives.  Just name a subject and you can apply this verse.

As a veteran of holding onto things or truly believing that this can't change, or I will have to be the one that changes it;  I just keep relearning this one.  

And, God, just keeps reinforcing how He takes things from small to large and changes it.  He even has to say. . .behold, do you not perceive it. . .I am even making a way in the desert.  I can imagine Him saying also - "What is wrong with you people?"  Can't you get it, LOOK - LOOK -  LOOK!

This was a couple of verses I learned by heart when I was in Bible College.  Dare we say how many years ago that was?  40+  some years ago.  And, here I am,  (Read the www.soudersentinel.blogspot.com for the full flavor) learning it all over again.  I got so caught up in how I couldn't go anywhere on vacation or overnight, or even for the day.  My dog, Dakota would never live through it.  She will have a seizure and die.  Even I see how silly and ridiculous that looks on paper.   I finally took it to prayer, and remember these verses and claimed them.  He brought me a dog sitter plus He added on that she house sits.  Brought us a free trip and then I was forced to test this theory.  I have to leave and enjoy myself and see that He made a way in the desert.  She did great, and I did great.

Now seriously, this seems silly to you, but it was real to me.  Drama queen or not, it was real.  Apply this to your life in all directions.  Some of you have some really hard places to turn over to God. There is cancer everywhere, there is divorce everywhere, there is a murderer lurking around some corner everywhere.  We have had, or are having many things that throw us under the bus.  Face them, Speak to Them, Turn them over.  TURN THEM OVER.  LET THEM GO!!!!

He answers small and large prayers, but our JOB is to pray, face it, speak to it, turn it over and let it go.   It is a Five Step process that WORKS!  Test it.   I John 4: 1/4