Daily Devotional – 12/6/12 “Shout it’s over!”

I had to pick back up on yesterday’s devotional because somebody is still too scared to shout it’s over. Yea, you’re sleeping with the enemy and too afraid to roll over to tell them it’s over. You’ve allowed your overgrown son to move back home and now he’s causing problems in your marriage and you’re too afraid to tell him it’s over. Your daughter keeps dropping off her kids at your house and it’s keeping you from having a life but you’re too afraid to tell her it’s over. Your sister keeps begging until she has the last dollar from your pocket and now you’re thirsty and can’t even buy a drink but you don’t want to hurt her feelings so you won’t tell her it’s over. You keep being used at work to do everybody’s work plus your own and you’re too scared to tell them it’s over. Baby, I told you yesterday that when you shout it’s over and you believe it; then the enemy has to flee. When you stop holding on to the stuff that’s weighing you down, you start rising. When you release the stuff that has you weighted down, you stop drowning. When you really start believing that all things are possible with God things starts to happen. Yea, you start having a little extra money, you start having a little extra energy, you start to smile more, you love more, you help more, you stop getting angry so fast, you speak to folks you don’t normally speak to, you go to worship service more, you get that promotion that you wanted, you have fewer pains in your body and you found the joy you had buried away. Yes, when YOU shout it’s over, things start to happen! Oh, I wish you’d stop being afraid to shout it’s over! You need to stand up and shout it’s over and then believe it to be. You can’t continue to go on in the situation that you’re in, so shout it’s over. You don’t have to keep facing the same hell day in and day out, so shout it’s over. That dark cloud that won’t go away, shout it’s over. The tears that you keep shedding at the hands of the person who is supposed to love you, shout it’s over. Being walked over by friends, shout it’s over. That depression and suicidal thoughts, shout it’s over! The sleepless nights, shout it’s over! The drug addiction and alcoholism, shout it’s over! The sleeping around and the adultery, shout it’s over. The stealing and robbing, shout it’s over. The pacing, the tossing and turning; shout it’s over. Oh, I claiming victory not defeat today and I am speaking life back into your dead situations. So, if you can’t shout it’s over; I am standing in the gap declaring today that you shall live and not die; you shall win and not lose; you shall dance and not doubt; you shall be healed and not sick, you shall be the lender and not the borrower, you shall be first and not last; you shall be greater than your problem! Oh, when you shout it’s over; you’re shouting that it will be and that it has to be over. Shout it’s over, let it go and then get on with your life and stop looking back. You are greater than the mess you’re in but you have to first believe it. Shout it’s over and then let it be. You can’t say it’s over and then keep going back to get it. It can be over if you allow it to be because you can only take what your hands, heart and mind will accept.