LEAVE IT, MOVE

faridafa831
Sep 28, 2020
5 min read

Updated: Oct 14, 2020

I just want to thank God for all our lives and for bringing us here today. I still can’t believe today is the 15th of September. It is like we entered 1st September and I blinked twice and it’s the 15th already. I also thank everyone that has been reading this blog. May God bless you all.

So, I have spoken about giving myself to God and having faith...the two most important and common things I think every believer should know. I was coming back to talk about “faith” again but God said, “Sarah let’s put that on pause for now, let me tell you what to talk about this week. In fact, let me tell you what to talk about this week and next week”. So I’m here today, with this lovely title God gave me:

LEAVE IT, MOVE.

I have this bad habit that I didn’t realise I had until I got this message. So I don’t like throwing my clothes away. If they were from 10 years ago or 20 years ago, if it fits or not, I like to keep it. Half of my clothes don’t fit me anymore but I just like to keep them for memories (I know it sounds silly). I know my sister will read this right now and say “God I thank you for giving her this realisation” cause this habit annoys her a lot. Last year, I wore less than half of the stuff I took to university but at the end of the year, I packed all of them happily and put them back into storage for this year when I clearly know I’m not going to wear them again. I wanted to throw or give some away but I just can’t. But God told me, “I will put you in a tight position where you would have to let go in order to feel comfortable”. I thought “Alright I’m here for it”. Bear in mind, I didn’t even think God was talking about this habit. I just thought it was something He was saying to me.

So before we paid for the house we are about to move in, I got this thought to “take the middle room”. That wasn’t a bad idea. Vanessah on my right, Mariam on my left, me in the middle, sweet stuff. So we went to see the house after paying for it and guess what? The middle room was small, I said “Erm, I don’t think that “take the middle room” thought was from God because why would He want me to have this tiny room?”. My friends and I started thinking, who will get this small room because the other two rooms looks very good and this one is just small and very plain. So I told them, “I’ll pray about it”. Last week I was doing my morning devotion when God said: “I’m putting in you that small room so you can get rid of your stuff, you don’t need it”. It was then that I realised “this is the tight position he wanted to put me in”. It’s weird how God can use anything to communicate with you. Well, God is saying to you today, that past you keep carrying around with you, leave it and move on. You don’t need all of that. You are trying to be a different person, a changed person, an important person, but that past you keep bringing with you is overcrowding your future. Just like how my unwanted clothes will overcrowd me if I don’t let go of it.

You may think of yourself as unworthy before God because of your past or your present, because of the things that goes through your mind now, because of your actions or attitude, but God still has a future for you. Apostle Paul from the bible used to talk against God and persecuted Christians even to the fact that he ordered for them to be killed. He even referred to himself in 1 Timothy 1:15 as “the worst of sinners”. He was forgiven by God and was used to do greatness. Even Paul, yeah the Christian killer. What have you done that you’re holding on to and you think God’s plans ain’t opened to you? God is saying, it’s about time we let that side go. Look at it this way, if you give up your clothes or throw them away, it is gone forever right? When you remember that top or shorts, you can’t go back to the bin man and say “Two months ago I threw my top away and I’m back to get it” or you can’t go to the charity shop and say “Yeah I brought my pink booty shorts here the other day and to be honest, I think I need it back”. It is impossible.

So when you are letting go of that past, as humans, it will always be at the back of your mind and you will always think about it but you gave it away, so don’t let it come back and overtake your life. The bible says in Ephesians 4:22-24 that you should let go of your bad habits and be a new person. Isaiah 43:18-19 also says “But forget all that, it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new”. The bible said it not me. Are you not curious to know what that new thing is? Letting go sounds hard sometimes, but you would have to want to do it in order to actually do it.

Letting go of your past helps you to focus on your future. If you open that wardrobe every day, it is spacious now, you can see everything clearly. If there was a lot of clothes in that small wardrobe, it gets crowded up. What do you have to give away today in order to look into the future, in order to feel free, in order to see what God has planned for you? Leave the past, and step into the future. Let God use you. Let him move you to another level. He has a plan for us. Jeremiah 29:11 confirms it.

If you can’t let go, ask God to help you. He will put you in that position where you will know that “okay, it’s time I let this go”. He will put you in that position where you will learn that God wants to manifest His glories over your life. Always ask yourself this “What does God have planned for me if I let this go?”. It may not be something huge, but it will be worth it. Let me end with 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day. I am here today to ask you to help me in letting go of some things. It may be my attitude, it may be my behaviour, it may be something I don’t even know of yet. Please help me and guide me through it. I thank you Lord, I bless you in Jesus name, Amen.

Testimony: I want to thank God for adding another year to my brother’s life. It is God’s protection and grace that has brought him this far. I also thank God for His glories and mercies upon my life. I pray for more testimonies and more blessings upon everyone’s life.