Daily Devotional – 8/30/13 “Man up!”

Yea, you shouted that it’s over on yesterday but do you believe it? Do you really believe it? You’re nodding and saying yes but you’re still worrying. You probably even lifted your hands with tears in your eyes but there’s still a little fear in your heart. Why? Don’t you trust God to handle what He promised He would? Then, “Oh ye of little faith, why are you so afraid? (Matthew 8:26)” You’re sleeping with the enemy yet you’re too afraid to roll over and tell them it’s over. Your overgrown son and disrespectful daughter, tell them it’s over. Your sister, that one that keeps her hands in your pocket even though she works too, 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 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, the sleepless nights, the drug addiction and alcoholism, the sleeping around and the adultery, the stealing and robbing and the pacing, the tossing and turning; SHOUT ITS OVER!

Oh, I’m 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.