After writing that blog about the terminator, I realise I need to share something that I have found in New Zealand but it is not only New Zealand but everywhere I believe. One of the biggest strongholds if you like that I have come across in the spirit is the fear of man, is of intimidation. I may have shared this before but I find it in almost every church we head into, in the spirit, the thing that hits me and tries to stop me walking in my authority and who God has called me to be, or what he has called me to do in that place, is the fear of man.
That comes out of that place as I said of not knowing who we individually are in Christ. As 'Fathers Heart' courses have taught it, the "orphan spirit" if you like. We don't know that we are each special and individually crafted and needed and wanted by God, then we compare ourselves with others, we fight with our brothers and sisters in Christ, we judge ourselves against others, we lift ourselves up over others or put ourselves down. We are intimidated by anyone who may have a greater anointing or authority instead of honouring them. We are intimated and feel like nothing, we compare ourselves, fight for our rights, rise up in anger, try and take control over situations, whatever it is because of what other people may carry instead of embracing & honouring all the different giftings' & anointings' that others have and become a people that rise up together and take dominion of our land. Instead we pull each other down to our level instead of rising up to what the Lord says about us and standing in that.
Honestly this has been one of the hardest things for me to overcome myself, but as the Lord has shown me who I am in him and that I am hidden in Christ and that no weapon formed against me can prosper and that everything the enemy has intended for harm God will turn it for good, then I have stepped out and loved on Him the way he has called me to love on him. I have been obedient to the things he has asked of me no matter how stupid to the world it may seem and in that seen huge breakthroughs in other people's lives, as well as my own. And when I haven't been able to do the small thing he has asked of me by thinking it through and thinking what other people might think, I have come to realise, actually I was bowing to man rather than God and so pride & idolatry was an issue that I needed to sort out. And when I have risen to be who God has called me to be, I have seen people around me set free to be who they are called to be. Also when I have been obedient to God in the small & the bigger things he asks of me, I see the anointing that I walk in grow and be more effective in the lives around me.
There is a saying, "hurt people, hurt people but healed people heal people". Lets be a people that are continually asking God to reveal the things in our own lives that we are bowing to, the giants that we need to learn how to overcome & speak to, so that we can be a people that bring healing in our land, in our homes, in our marriages, in our relationships and that we together can be a body of people who rise up in our different authorities and anointings and bring peace and healing to our land that the Lord has placed us in. When we were on the mission field one of the aims of the organisation was to be 'life long language learners' and we too here need to be life long language learners of a love that casts out all fear!
That comes out of that place as I said of not knowing who we individually are in Christ. As 'Fathers Heart' courses have taught it, the "orphan spirit" if you like. We don't know that we are each special and individually crafted and needed and wanted by God, then we compare ourselves with others, we fight with our brothers and sisters in Christ, we judge ourselves against others, we lift ourselves up over others or put ourselves down. We are intimidated by anyone who may have a greater anointing or authority instead of honouring them. We are intimated and feel like nothing, we compare ourselves, fight for our rights, rise up in anger, try and take control over situations, whatever it is because of what other people may carry instead of embracing & honouring all the different giftings' & anointings' that others have and become a people that rise up together and take dominion of our land. Instead we pull each other down to our level instead of rising up to what the Lord says about us and standing in that.
Honestly this has been one of the hardest things for me to overcome myself, but as the Lord has shown me who I am in him and that I am hidden in Christ and that no weapon formed against me can prosper and that everything the enemy has intended for harm God will turn it for good, then I have stepped out and loved on Him the way he has called me to love on him. I have been obedient to the things he has asked of me no matter how stupid to the world it may seem and in that seen huge breakthroughs in other people's lives, as well as my own. And when I haven't been able to do the small thing he has asked of me by thinking it through and thinking what other people might think, I have come to realise, actually I was bowing to man rather than God and so pride & idolatry was an issue that I needed to sort out. And when I have risen to be who God has called me to be, I have seen people around me set free to be who they are called to be. Also when I have been obedient to God in the small & the bigger things he asks of me, I see the anointing that I walk in grow and be more effective in the lives around me.
There is a saying, "hurt people, hurt people but healed people heal people". Lets be a people that are continually asking God to reveal the things in our own lives that we are bowing to, the giants that we need to learn how to overcome & speak to, so that we can be a people that bring healing in our land, in our homes, in our marriages, in our relationships and that we together can be a body of people who rise up in our different authorities and anointings and bring peace and healing to our land that the Lord has placed us in. When we were on the mission field one of the aims of the organisation was to be 'life long language learners' and we too here need to be life long language learners of a love that casts out all fear!