Introduction
There has been an issue that presents a major threat to the
success we have spiritual, emotionally and naturally. We see this issue when it
comes to matter of racism and low self-esteem. This issue of self-hate plays
into how we parents, work and live and the Lord wants to heal that today.
Declaration: Lord I receive your healing for place where
I have accepted hate.
This is stark confession we made in the declaration, but I
want to peel back the layers of this so that we can walk in freedom and in
power.
Have you ever heard the scripture?
Rom12:3 For I say, through the
grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
dealt to every man the measure of faith.
I Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves
therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Have you ever heard this phase?
If you get too high the Lord will bring you down. If we ever
hear this again, we should recognize this as the hand of the enemy attempting
to destroy the image of you that God made. Our definition of humility on earth
has more to do with weakness and quietness. Whereas God’s picture of meekness
has to do with understanding the power you posses and only using it to glorify
God.
Most often people twist this scripture to try to accommodate
their smallness in front of someone else bigness. Which is no different than
saying…don’t be arrogant. I submit to you that message from that person is
seeded in self-hate. If you receive it or have received, you have done so in
because of self-hate.
Just because you are not harming yourself doesn’t mean
you aren’t harming yourself.
If its abundantly true that we take the position of God we
hold things over other people whom god forgave, then same would be sin for us
to hold things against ourselves that the precious blood of Christ came to
cleanse and redeem.
My intentional focus in on us and or rather that inner work
has come to head to defeat this and every other issue that presents itself as an
opposition to what and how God made you.
See the salient feature of how we handle ourselves in Pauls
address
Now I Paul myself beseech you by
the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but
being absent am bold toward you:
2 But
I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence,
wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked
according to the flesh.
3 For
though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting
down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ;…
This expression by Paul is an expression of an inner work
that present in me.
God is prospering me to defeat
the enemy, In ME!
The damage done to us when we
internalize negative words is so debilitating it can sometimes drown out the
word of God in our hearts and minds. The words spoke to us by people are filled
with emotions and can be scathing that same emotion which we receive the word
has power to distort and or enhance the words impact and or intent in our
lives.
20 But
he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the
word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet
hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or
persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He
also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the
care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he
becometh unfruitful.
Note that scripture places an abundant
emphasis on hearing the word as reception of the seed. Therefore the interference
can only be thoughts and or other words.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge
and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Death and life are
in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day
and night.
Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed?
Don’t accept
a meal from a tightwad;
don’t expect anything special.
He’ll be as stingy with you as he is with himself;
he’ll say, “Eat! Drink!” but won’t mean a word of it.
His miserly serving will turn your stomach
when you realize the meal’s a sham.
Don’t
bother talking sense to fools;
they’ll only poke fun at your words. Or “ as man thinks
in his heart so is he…”
These texts have something in
common I wish to share with you by revelation. All of this has to do with what
we do with the words we hear.
We should reject ANYTHING that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God…this included message about who,
what and how we are. We should soundly and public deny any message that does
echo the truth of Gods word, either hidden meaning and direct.
The lion share of the enemies
work is indirect, this is the nature of influence that is it not explicitly
said but implicit in nature.
