Hi, my name is Pam and I'm really wondering why in the world I should be writing. I'm not even great in English much less writing something like this! Maybe no one will read it, maybe the person(s) who need to will. I don't know but God just kept pushing so here it goes!
FREEDOM FROM DUNGEONS
I have lived in the great United States of America most
of my life and as an American citizen I thought I understood the cost, knew the
taste of and knew what it really means to be free. Well, I may have been a free citizen in this
country and even had asked Jesus to my savior at 8 years old, but I was
definitely NOT free until recently. You
see, for more than 20 years I was trapped in a life that felt like a dungeon
with just a tiny bit of light in it because of the pain of migraine headaches every
day, fibromyalgia, chronic urinary tract and kidney problems, TMJ pain,
cervicalgia in my neck and 2 compressed disks in my low back. I was mess! Whether you know me, of me or
just read this one blog I want you to you know that God has set me free from Satan’s
clutches on my life with chronic and widespread physical pain and the trust/faith
I had in medication to help me “live” and He will heal you too!
During that entire 20 years I never realized that when
all my friends, family and even those who didn’t know me were lifting me up to
God asking for healing, I had to put every pain down at God’s feet, leave it
there and my faith must turn from in doctors and medication to Jehovah Rophe’
(my God who heals). Don’t get me wrong, I knew that God is the great physician
and even in the midst of the worst pain the Holy Spirit can interpret our cries
and groans if that is all we can do, however, knowing with head smarts is very
different than putting all my faith and trust into The Mighty Healer! I
actually thought I had done this many times, but I really hadn’t because I kept
reaching for those meds, trusting them, worrying about whether I’d have enough
until the next month and worrying about whether the pharmacy would have the
meds when I got my prescription at the end
of the month. Do you want to know the most ironic part? The person I trusted to take care of my pain
more than God was my doctor who is agnostic who believes in nothing! Now, that
is absurd, sad and would be funny (because it is so dumb) except it kept me in
that dungeon.
As I cried out to God this time he was finally able to
show me that if I wanted out of this horrible pain that had me in its grip, I
had to let go of my grip on it.
I had to let go so I could reach up with both hands to God as far as I
could; then He would reach down and pull me up the rest of the way right onto
his lap until I was healed and ready to start again everyday with His help.
Satan’s hold was broken because God doesn't want me, one
of his precious children, to suffer. What he wants is for me to look to him for
every breath and for my freedom from things like pain, sadness, anxiety,
despair, and bad self-esteem and if you are his child dealing with any of that
or any other things, He doesn't want that for you either. He wants to free you
from being lonely or grieving for your beloved child, family member or spouse that has died keeping
you from really living. He doesn’t
want you needing your spouse or best friend to make you happy or make you feel
secure because at some point all humans fail and you will get hurt, or living in a miserable way just trying to make the best of it while
barely surviving; being addicted to pornography, alcohol, or any type of
drug/medication. Any of these things I dealt with or anything that keeps you
from being whole and free in Christ, God is there to take it from you. Your knees are buckling under the load, he
didn’t make you for that purpose, it’s too heavy for you, but not for Him, hand it over. All
these things I mentioned or anything else like them are what I now call "Satan’s
dungeons". If you are in one, get up off that cold hard floor, go to the
door of that awful place and try opening the door. Trust me; you can pull it
open because it has never been locked. Jesus holds all of the locks along with
their keys. That’s what he did on the cross, He saved us by taking the keys from hell away from Satan, and we just have to
accept we need Him and believe! Walk through that door out into the healing
light of freedom that only God is able to provide for us through His Son,
Jesus! If it’s been just one day, so many you lost count or you know exactly
how long it's been down to the minute, it doesn't matter because God loves you
outrageously, extravagantly and unconditionally and He wants you free!
Will I have pain some days? Sure, our bodies are not made
to last, but what matters is where my focus and faith is every day. Therefore,
each morning I ask God for the faith, love and peace I need for that 24 hour
period, no more, no less. Why would I do
that every day? Why not just ask once?
Because I know me and I must give myself over to Jehovah Jireh ( my God who provides) every
single day for the rest of my life or risk being in that dungeon again.
Listen, I know, it's scary and it will be uncomfortable,
maybe it will be the hardest thing you've ever done. I've been there, so
focused on my pain, my faith was in the
meds and a doctor who doesn’t even believe in a god much less My Jehovah, that
I never even thought to try the door! But as
soon as I did, I walked out of that sad, dank, dark dungeon and into that healing light and freedom! Come join me
- let's be FREE!
P.S. If you want to know more about this freedom through
Christ, send me a comment, I’d love to explain it!
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Good start! I can see this going places. I have a different life experience, but you can check me out at www.deniskderge.blogspot.com and maybe get some ideas for using pictures and other thing. Check out the "blogs I follow." I know you read Stacie's, and I do follow her, but she changed domains and I can't seem to link the domain to hers right now and don't know why. Keep at it!
ReplyDeleteThanks :) I just wrote what God told me to. I don't have any idea how I'll keep it up and I don't want to seem like I think I can write because I really am not good at this at all. I guess though if God has something for me to say, I will say it.
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