Letting Go of Control Part 2 (of 3)

       Could your present 'resistance to something God has spoken' be a problem with 'control issues'?  We are all plagued with them, and serving and ‘doing’ for Him are things that we 'feel' we can control.   Would you find, if you honestly contemplated it with a 'search me and know me' attitude of prayer, that there are times when you find it hard to allow Him any control in this relationship?

Hear His quiet whisper, 'Do you trust Me, My child?"

    See this thing that you hold in your right hand (this thing that you think you are in control of, but is actually cutting off your life)-see it for what it is- a lie. (Isaiah 44:20b) And bring it before Him right now.  It may feel comfortable and necessary (and even like where you want to stay), but it is not. It is a lie; it cannot keep you safe.  Allow Him to be your Stronghold.  You cannot control your life and live anywhere near the abundant life that you long to live and that He desires for you to live.  Open your grip and release it -letting go of even GOOD things and 'neutral' things that are okay for everyone else, but just do not work with what He is particularly doing with you, as an individual, at this moment of time.   LET GO OF THE GOOD SO THAT YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO GRAB HOLD OF THE BETTER. 

Ephesians 4:26,27 (Amplified) says... "do not sin"......"Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil- give no opportunity to him." That word, opportunity- topos in the Greek, means place.  "Place.  As occupied or filled by any person or thing, a spot, space, room.  In Luke 14:9, to give place to someone means to make room.  See Rom. 12:19; Eph.4:27." (direct quote from Zodihiates Complete Word Study Dictionary).

      How serious are you?  Do you really want to be free? Are you serious enough to close up the place, that opportunity that you give the enemy of your soul?  No sin is 'small sin'.  And even "...to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin." James 4:17

      So what is it that YOU are working hard at 'controlling' for yourself? What 'quiet', or not so quiet, instruction of God have you been resisting?  If it's a quiet one, you may not even be fully aware of it; you just know that something is 'off' and that you need some Psalm 139:23,24 time before the Lord:

 "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way."