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deeper into it. Do the right thing, even if it is hard. Obey God and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, knowing that "weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning" (Psalm 30:5).
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The Only Way Out Is ThroughIn one of our meetings, a woman came forward asking us to pray for a certain bondage to be broken in her life. As soon as I started to pray for her, she began to cry. Almost immediately I received a vision of her standing on a track, as though she were about to run a race. As I watched, I saw that every time the race would begin, and she would start moving toward the finish line, she would go about halfway and then turn around and come back to the starting line.
After a while, she would repeat the process. This happened time after time. I shared with her what I was seeing and told her that I believed that God was saying to her, "This time, you need to go all the way through." As I shared that message with her, she immediately agreed that God was speaking to her. Her problem was that although she often made some progress toward emotional healing, she always gave up under pressure.
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Now she was determined to see the process through to complete victory.It is always much harder to finish than it is to start.There really are no "quick-fix" methods to emotional healing. In 2 Corinthians 3:18 the apostle Paul speaks of Christians being transformed "from one degree of glory to another." If you are going through the difficult process of emotional healing, I encourage you to enjoy the degree of "glory" you are currently experiencing as you move toward the next level.
Many people turn emotional healing or recovery from abuse into such an ordeal that they never allow themselves to enjoy any aspect of it. Do not allow yourself to be tempted to focus on how far you have to go. Instead look at how far you have come!
Remember thatyou have a life to live while you are being healed!Adopt this as your attitude: I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be. I'm okay, and I'm on my way!
Going Through
In some aspects, spiritual growth can be compared to physical growth. There are certain stages that we have to go through in order to mature. I think it would be safe to say that many people do not enjoy their children while they are raising them. At each stage of growth, the parents wish the child were in another stage. If the child is crawling, they wish he were walking, out of diapers, in school, graduating, getting married, giving them grandchildren, and on and on.
We should learn to enjoy each stage of life as it comes because each has joys and trials uniquely its own. As Christians, we are growing throughout our lifetime. We never stop progressing.
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Make a decision right now to begin to enjoy yourself while you are striving to reach each new level of victory.In Deuteronomy 7:22, Moses told the children of Israel that the Lord would drive out their enemies before them "little by little." Between each victory in our lives, there is a time of waiting. During this time the Holy Spirit deals with us, opening to us new revelations, helping us to face and receive even greater truths. The waiting is usually difficult for most of us because impatience is always present within us to stir up dissatisfaction. We want everything now!
Patience Reaps Promises
A lot of people want blessings, but they do not want to prepare for them. John the Baptist came out of the wilderness crying, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" (Matthew 3:3 Kjv). He wanted people to know that Jesus was coming to do a work in their lives, but they needed to be prepared.
The Bible says, "Eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]" (1 Corinthians 2:9).
It requires spiritual maturity to walk
63
The Only Way Out Is ThroughIn one of our meetings, a woman came forward asking us to pray for a certain bondage to be broken in her life. As soon as I started to pray for her, she began to cry. Almost immediately I received a vision of her standing on a track, as though she were about to run a race. As I watched, I saw that every time the race would begin, and she would start moving toward the finish line, she would go about halfway and then turn around and come back to the starting line.
After a while, she would repeat the process. This happened time after time. I shared with her what I was seeing and told her that I believed that God was saying to her, "This time, you need to go all the way through." As I shared that message with her, she immediately agreed that God was speaking to her. Her problem was that although she often made some progress toward emotional healing, she always gave up under pressure.
64
Now she was determined to see the process through to complete victory.It is always much harder to finish than it is to start.There really are no "quick-fix" methods to emotional healing. In 2 Corinthians 3:18 the apostle Paul speaks of Christians being transformed "from one degree of glory to another." If you are going through the difficult process of emotional healing, I encourage you to enjoy the degree of "glory" you are currently experiencing as you move toward the next level.
Many people turn emotional healing or recovery from abuse into such an ordeal that they never allow themselves to enjoy any aspect of it. Do not allow yourself to be tempted to focus on how far you have to go. Instead look at how far you have come!
Remember thatyou have a life to live while you are being healed!Adopt this as your attitude: I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be. I'm okay, and I'm on my way!
Going Through
In some aspects, spiritual growth can be compared to physical growth. There are certain stages that we have to go through in order to mature. I think it would be safe to say that many people do not enjoy their children while they are raising them. At each stage of growth, the parents wish the child were in another stage. If the child is crawling, they wish he were walking, out of diapers, in school, graduating, getting married, giving them grandchildren, and on and on.
We should learn to enjoy each stage of life as it comes because each has joys and trials uniquely its own. As Christians, we are growing throughout our lifetime. We never stop progressing.
65
Make a decision right now to begin to enjoy yourself while you are striving to reach each new level of victory.In Deuteronomy 7:22, Moses told the children of Israel that the Lord would drive out their enemies before them "little by little." Between each victory in our lives, there is a time of waiting. During this time the Holy Spirit deals with us, opening to us new revelations, helping us to face and receive even greater truths. The waiting is usually difficult for most of us because impatience is always present within us to stir up dissatisfaction. We want everything now!
Patience Reaps Promises
A lot of people want blessings, but they do not want to prepare for them. John the Baptist came out of the wilderness crying, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" (Matthew 3:3 Kjv). He wanted people to know that Jesus was coming to do a work in their lives, but they needed to be prepared.
The Bible says, "Eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]" (1 Corinthians 2:9).
It requires spiritual maturity to walk
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