the Spirit of Perspective

This weekend I met a friend, who told me that she and her husband are signing divorce papers. Very sad situation. Her husband is now living a full life of sin. All she could say was she wanted her marriage to work. That takes a strong woman to allow her self to go through such difficulty and still desire to stay. Her biggest regret, was not loosing a husband, not loosing a marriage, but the fact that her grand kids will be left with a legacy of a grandmother who was divorced. What an untrue perspective! I had to tell her that her legacy will not be her failed marriage. Her legacy will be that she was a great woman of God who stood up in the face of difficulty and she had faith in her Father in Heaven, to show love in the face of hate. And that’s what her grand kids will remember of her the most, her faithful love.

But see, the enemy consistently shows us a wrong perspective about our situation. The only tactic he has is to tell us that we are loosing, truthfully, that‚Äôs his end, not ours. He will tell us that we have lost a battle somewhere, and there is no way to get it back. But the good news says that there is a way back! Isaiah 61 clearly points the way; From despair to praise. From mourning to gladness. That’s good news, and a right perspective. The devil wants us to stay down, to believe the worst and live in that lost hope. But the truth is rising up, and shouting for us to rise up. As women of God its time to rise up!

So my sister, I’m still linking arms with you today. With your calling, with your heart, your desires, your marriage, your finances, your motherhood, with everything about you and together we are going to rise up into the Beauty of who we were created to BE. To Pursue, with a renewed Passion, what we were meant to pursue, without confusion, without fear. I speak RENEWAL over our lives. No longer held back by LACK, or insecurity, or challenge but BREAKing past the REALM of impossible thinking. Breaking forth into new realities and new visions, accomplishments, and completions — by our hands. Nothing holding us back!