Let Non Own You But Christ Jesus

‘Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me’ Matt.16:24.

To live free, the fourth thing we must do is let nothing own us but Christ. Neither wealth nor poverty can set you free. Only Jesus can set you free. Bishop Tony says ‘isn’t it morbidly strange that we are born with clenched fists but we die with open hands’. You need to make sure that there is nothing you are holding unto that you cannot give away. Make it a life principle that there is nothing you own that you cannot give away if God says you should give it away – whatever it is. That is the key to your freedom. You need to say to God today ‘this is my life and what You have blessed me with. Lord, I am just a steward, it all belongs belong to You. So when You need them call for them’. This is a dangerous prayer because God can actually call for it. But the truth is until you get to this point you are not free. Anything you cannot give up for God owns you. If God says ‘give me a pen’ and you say ‘Lord, that pen was given to my great grand father, then to my grand father, then to my father, and now to me. And I am going to give it to my son’. And you don’t give it to God; that pen owns you now not God anymore. Make sure that there is nothing in your life that you are unable to release if God says let it go. Believe me, God does not have a problem getting wealth to you. The only problem God has is getting the wealth from you to whoever He wants to get it to. Many of us when God gets the money to us, we can it and sit on it. Until you release it to God, that money owns you. I don’t want to spend my life wondering how it would be like if I had obeyed God 100%. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life wondering how my finances would have been if I had given the seed that God wanted me to give. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life regretting why I didn’t obey God’s direction. God says ‘do it’ and I do it. Can it be tough? Definitely but my inability to accept regret is stronger than disobeying God. I don’t want to live my life wondering how my marriage would have been if I had loved my wife with reckless abandon as God expects of me. Do you?

Prayer [song]: ‘Lord I surrender, I surrender all. I surrender, I surrender all. All to Thee my blessed Saviour, I surrender all’, in Jesus Name.