Let go--- Monday Message from the Heart

I remember hearing God tell me “It’s better to let go than to hang on.” I heard this spoke to me in a season of my life where I was struggling to make the move from a business owner to a human service-related field. I knew God was placing me there, but I had a hard time letting go of what I had built. On that December morning when I had confessed my sins, repented, and truly accepted Jesus as my Savior, I was so changed that I said, “God use me." What I've learned is that you do not always get to choose how God will use you, but you have the choice to obey him when he places it on you. I was willing to move into a human service field and work for a non-profit, but I wanted to keep the store also. I couldn’t fully step out into what God was calling me to if I kept one hand on the store door. I had to let go. 

In the same sense you cannot live for God and live for the world. We cannot serve God and do his will while having a worldly mindset. Roman 12:1 wants you to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, but in order to do that, we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds and only Jesus can do that for us! Romans 12:2 also tells us not to conform to the world! That means you blend in with it and we are to be a light in this world and be set apart, but if we are still hanging onto the past sins in our life and trying to live for the world, then we are being just how I was, needing to let go. 

• As time goes on with our walk with the Lord, we will start to experience new desires in our hearts, and God will pull and pluck out what doesn’t belong. Sometimes that puts us in a situation to let go. What is it that you need to let go of?
  
  Is it a sin that you’re struggling with, and do you feel the conviction?
  Is it a relationship that isn’t bringing you closer to God?
  Are you hanging onto unforgiveness or guilt?
  Is God placing desires on your heart to do and you are scared?
  Or maybe God is wanting to fulfill a mission through you that seems bigger and it’s going to require you to let go.

Whatever the situation is, letting go is hard, but if we want to live for the Lord and to pick up that cross daily, then we need to be intentional about letting go. When we struggle to let go, then simply just call upon the name of the Lord and he will be there to walk you through the process of letting go. Remember the words God spoke to me, “it’s better to let go than to hang on.”

Reflect on Romans 12:1-2 

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you 

present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship.  

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Lord, 

I come to you today in prayer to let go of _____________. I know that is causing me to not be able to move forward in my walk with you. I no longer want that or anything else to hinder my walk or my growth in you. Please show me what in my life needs to be plucked or pulled out and place your desires in me. I ask that you help me to let go where it is needed. I praise you and I thank you for everything that you are.

in Jesus's name, 

AMEN