For Believers Only: Taking The Plunge Into The Land of No Want (pt. 3)

Some who might read this post have already experienced the thrill of sky diving.  That is the artistic expression that we use for people who jump out of flying airplanes and parachute to the ground. I say it in that fashion because, until you have experienced the thrill of such an experience, it is likely that you continue to see the mere thought as jumping out of a flying airplane.  If your sense of anxiety for this type of experience makes it hard to even imagine it, this post could feel similar.  Lets, take the plunge anyway.

A lot of us want certain things in life and many things  like our passion for life, or fear of failure, have helped us to achieve some of it.  In the Land of No Want, to seize hold of these things that slip through the grip we have to let them go.  Take a moment and imagine your top 3 greatest desires.  I'll give you mine:

1.  For my family to be healthy and happy.
2. For a cure for Lupus and it's life robbing affect.
3.  For all of our children to see hope in the future.

If you have your top three in mind its our time to jump.  Close your eyes and say in quiet prayer or loud exclamation if you dare: "Lord I don't want for my family to be healthy and happy. (I can feel the wind now). I don't want a cure for Lupus . (Get ready to pull the cord)  I don't want hope in the future for our children.

 Michael Duever

If you are like most, the mere notion of speaking these words feels like flying in the wind.  You see, we have been holding so firmly to our desires that we can't let go and let God do his thing.  Even if we pray in a fashion that we think represents letting go, we often then speak contradictions and obstacles into the spirit realm when we continue to declare the want of anything.  If you have to use this word, practice, literally, saying I don't want (fill in the blank as I did above) and then shake off that feeling of fear you will instantly get from letting go of wantonness.  Now that we are back on the ground, take some time to just listen to yourself and see how often you speak the word 'want' into the wind. Until you recognize your challenge, it will be hard to climb the mountain.

One thing I know for sure is that somehow, all you who have the life to read, have overcome many things in life.  Some of us develop rational explanations for a few things we've experienced, but other things you simply can not explain (without giving God the glory).  This universal human experience crosses over our religious ideologies.  This says to me that God cares for the lily of the field and his eye is on the sparrow so we know that he watches each of us, whether we recognize him or not.  In other words, the Lord is OUR shepherd.......if the sheep have a want, it is because the shepherd did not provide for them, or that the sheep have wandered outside the realm of promise.  God is not limited by anything except his own promises.

The closer you get to the shepherd, the more you begin to reap the benefits of his provisions and promises. Conversely, the further away you get from God, the more necessary it becomes to speak your way through the jungle.


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