Being Free to Flow

Posted by Paula White - Sun, November 08, 2009 at 06:47 PM

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Isaiah 54:1-6 1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. God has a life of purpose for you. It is His divine prescription for your earthly existence… It’s your “Supreme Reason” for being…

Ephesians 1:11-12 (MESSAGE) It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

Your life purpose defies your most meaningful direction in life and when you are walking in it, there is a “flow”…a life that is fulfilling…
I. When You Live “In Purpose” = “You Produce”
a. You make progress and advancement
b. You have a “flow” in your life
c. There is no disconnect conflict or dissonance that exists between your spirit, thoughts, your feelings and living
i. But rather, there is a harmony that resonates and produces “peace” no matter what
1. Peace is the “umpire” to the Child of God
ii. Being in harmony with God’s will is the highest state of purpose you can attain

Galatians 5:25 (NIV) Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

iii. Walk in “synchronization or “harmony” with God

I Corinthians 2:14 (NIV) The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: 16"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

II. Spirit vs. Mind
a. A Spiritual life does not grow in the soil of intellectual information gathering and reasoning
b. You cannot logic, deduce, induce, or cohere God and His methods to mans mode of thinking
c. He is illogical to your mind, the antithesis to your flesh

Isaiah 55:8 (NIV) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.

d. The mind works on material problems by interpreting sensory data
e. When turned toward spiritual matters, the “mind” attempts to come up with intellectual answers by using proofs, logics, theories and reasoning… “Figuring God out”…
f. It demands assurance and proof to establish tangible results
i. Example: “Show me” is the attitude of the mind
g. But to the spirit, logic is not needed, but faith is

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
h. There is “no form” in the realm of the spirit

So in order to manifest into the material world, what exists in the unseen (to the natural eye), world of the spirit, I must move in Faith which functions from my heart and not my head…

III. I Connect to God with My Heart

Romans 10:8 (NIV) But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

a. Heart = the center of anything, the middle, the thoughts or feelings. = The Heart is the seat of your soul
b. I must cultivate a harmony between my mind and my heart
i. This usually means terminating intellects domination
ii. My mind must surrender its role as “full time” judge and allow my heart to lead

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed = (Greek) well off, happy
Pure = (Greek) Katharos = clean and clear
To See = to observe, appear, shew forth, gaze or to discern clearly
c. When I am clouded, blurred, confused and soiled in my soul (heart) I cannot discern or see God
i. Perhaps this is the problem in your life (but we are going to clear the clutter!)

IV. Sing O Barren

Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
a. Barrenness = (Hebrew) to hamstring = to make ineffective or powerless
i. This barrenness is a result of something
ii. You did not start this way
iii. Its an injury that occurred
1. an act that damages or hurt a person
2. a wound
3. an offense against a person’s feelings or dignity
4. a violation of another’s right

Example: Like Mephibosheth or Tamar ~
When an event occurs or doesn’t occur that causes you injury; you are wounded in your soul. When those who should love us, protect us, value, nurture and esteem us, instead, they violate us!

• They cause you to question attachment when you are not sure:
o Are they really there for you?
o Do they really care about you?
o They give no affirmation
o They cannot be counted on for love and protection

• When someone we love or we think should love us fails to provide our fundamental safety and security needs, we get injured

V. The Good News
a. You can give to yourself what others failed to provide
i. Injuries make you ineffective and powerless
1. You are doing nothing and going no where

No movement > No progress > No promotion > No production >
all leads to the feeling of “No Purpose”… But One God Moment and Movement can change EVERYTHING!!

b. Movement = the changing of position to go or pass to another place with a continuous motion
c. Movement + Moment = Momentum
i. A strength or force gained by motion or through the development of events
1. Faith does not dent facts, it just changes them

d. Some things are about to break in your life
i. Break = to separate into parts with suddenness
ii. To turn over the soil
iii. To disrupt the norm

e. You are being removed from the mundane and maintain into motion
i. Movement of the spirit

f. There is activation in you of what only the anointing can accentuate
i. “not by might, but by spirit”

g. You are entering 2010
i. #10 = the perfection of divine order
ii. Completeness of order
iii. Full cycle

h. This implies = Nothing Wanting and you are going to break forth from Barrenness!
i. Break forth = break out in a joyful sound or shout
1. Break Out = a violent, forceful break from a restraining condition or situation
a. To emerge with sudden force

VI. God is Going to Clear the Clutter
a. Whatever has restricted you and caused contraction is coming out of you
b. Clutter = a confused, crowded, disordered state or collection
i. To throw into disorder
ii. To disarrange
iii. Is derived from the Old English word “clot” as in “blood clot”
1. Like “blood clots’, clutter will cut off your “flow” and potentially kill the life in you

Ecclesiastes 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

c. Spiritual Clutter
i. The issues, mindsets, emotions, past history and habits that you harbor and hold in your soul-self, which makes you unable to nurture and support your purpose in life

Example:
When I go to the airport, my bags (luggage) are too heavy. I ALWAYS have to pay extra for “carrying too much”…

Some of us are paying too high of a price for what we are carrying around…

ii. You must make a decision to get rid of the things you know are holding you back and weighing you down

d. Clutter is junk:
i. It crowds your life
ii. It diminishes clarity
iii. It drains your energy
iv. It robs you of life
v. It impedes movement and progress

e. Something is shifting in you that knows you can not go to a higher ground if you are hanging on to a lower level

Heaven on earth is a choice that I must make, not a place that I find.

VII. A Big God Doesn’t Live in “Little Places”
a. God won’t co-habit ate with:
i. Un-forgiveness
ii. Bitterness
iii. Envy
iv. Jealousy

b. When you do surrender to let these things go, the result from braking out Isaiah 54:
i. Enlarge the place of thy tent
1. to broaden, to make room, to open

ii. Stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations
1. to bend, to extend beyond normal limits

iii. Spare not
1. do not refrain or refuse
2. do not hinder or hold back
3. stop observing

Being Free to Flow

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