The Shame Game
Have you ever been walking through a crowd and felt a tug on the back of your shirt? What is your first response? If you're like me, you stopped, turned around and looked to see who was behind you.
That's the nature of "Shame." It's like a rope that keeps you "tethered" to your past and allows your past to follow you in close pursuit constantly tugging on you and reminding you of your mistakes and past sin.
Here's a definition of SHAME - acute awareness of inadequacy, guilt, failure or disappointment; a strong sense of inferiority; abiding feeling of unworthiness.
Shame robs an otherwise productive and powerful believer of confidence, enthusiasm and authority. It's the "constant tug" that reminds you of how you failed and how unworthy you are. So how do we "cut the tether to the past?"
Here's the "phrase that pays":
"Release what's behind to embrace what's in front."
We become what we behold. The eye is one of several doors to the soul and whatever we gaze at and behold is what we will become. Another way to say it is your internal reality will always become your external reality. Whatever is on the inside will eventually "leak out" and reveal the truth that's been hiding... good or bad.
Declare your freedom, not your feelings. Prov 18:21 tells us that "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." It's critical that our words line up with God's words i.e. get your words in agreement with God's Word about who you are... you are NOT your past, you are who God says you are!
There is great Kingdom Power and Authority released when you Declare what God says versus what we think. When we "give voice" to His Word angels are released on assignment and they go to work to bring about God's Word that has been declared through your voice! Ps 103:21
So... open your mouth and say what God says! Cut the tether to your past as you declare that you truly are "the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, blessed coming in and blessed going out, that no weapon formed against you will prosper, that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, that your iniquity (your past) has been removed as far as the east from the west..!" All right... now I'm getting excited!
Blessings and Love,
Pastor J
2007 Breakthrough Beyond the Walls!
Have you ever been walking through a crowd and felt a tug on the back of your shirt? What is your first response? If you're like me, you stopped, turned around and looked to see who was behind you.
That's the nature of "Shame." It's like a rope that keeps you "tethered" to your past and allows your past to follow you in close pursuit constantly tugging on you and reminding you of your mistakes and past sin.
Here's a definition of SHAME - acute awareness of inadequacy, guilt, failure or disappointment; a strong sense of inferiority; abiding feeling of unworthiness.
Shame robs an otherwise productive and powerful believer of confidence, enthusiasm and authority. It's the "constant tug" that reminds you of how you failed and how unworthy you are. So how do we "cut the tether to the past?"
Here's the "phrase that pays":
"Release what's behind to embrace what's in front."
We become what we behold. The eye is one of several doors to the soul and whatever we gaze at and behold is what we will become. Another way to say it is your internal reality will always become your external reality. Whatever is on the inside will eventually "leak out" and reveal the truth that's been hiding... good or bad.
Declare your freedom, not your feelings. Prov 18:21 tells us that "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." It's critical that our words line up with God's words i.e. get your words in agreement with God's Word about who you are... you are NOT your past, you are who God says you are!
There is great Kingdom Power and Authority released when you Declare what God says versus what we think. When we "give voice" to His Word angels are released on assignment and they go to work to bring about God's Word that has been declared through your voice! Ps 103:21
So... open your mouth and say what God says! Cut the tether to your past as you declare that you truly are "the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, blessed coming in and blessed going out, that no weapon formed against you will prosper, that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, that your iniquity (your past) has been removed as far as the east from the west..!" All right... now I'm getting excited!
Blessings and Love,
Pastor J
2007 Breakthrough Beyond the Walls!
