{"id":22288,"date":"2021-12-25T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=22288"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:43:15","slug":"cede-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2021\/12\/25\/cede-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Cede Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22288-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dec-25.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dec-25.mp3\">http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Dec-25.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/392\/JOB.11.13-18\"><i>Job <\/i><i>11:<\/i><i><sup>13<\/sup><\/i><i><sup>-18<\/sup><\/i><\/a> <i>\u201c<\/i><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Surrender your heart to God<\/i><\/b><\/span><i>, turn to him in prayer. . . <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Then<\/i><\/b><\/span><i>\u2026 you will be <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>confident and fearless<\/i><\/b><\/span><i>. Your troubles will go away\u2026 and your darkest night will be brighter than noon. Then you\u2019ll rest safe and secure, filled with hope and <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>emptied of worry<\/i><\/b><\/span><i>!\u201d <\/i>(CEV, emphasis added)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Yesterday, we looked at the woman of Shunem and how the fear of disappointment would have stopped her from receiving God\u2019s blessings for her. However, Elisha said to her, whether you believe it or not, whether you like it or not, you will have a boy next year. <!--more-->I pray that you will get to a place where God\u2019s blessings will overtake you. That is what it means to overtake, it means to catch up and get ahead of you. A place where you cannot dodge God\u2019s blessings; where, if you run as fast as you can, the blessings will catch up and overtake. If you turn as fast as you can, the blessings will turn and overtake you in Jesus Name. That is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">God said <i>fear not<\/i> to Mary, <i>fear not<\/i> to Joseph, <i>fear not<\/i> to the shepherds, and <i>fear not<\/i> to Zechariah. But God did not say <i>&#8216;fear not<\/i>&#8216; to Herod, but he handled the fear anyway. The question is how do we defeat these fears? Firstly, like Mary, <span class=\"s1\">I Surrender My Life Completely To God Every Day<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+1%3A38&amp;version=TLB\">Luke 1:<sup>38<\/sup><\/a> \u201c<i>Mary said, \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant, and I am willing to do <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>whatever he wants<\/i><\/b><\/span>\u2026\u201d (TLB, emphasis added). In other words, Mary was saying, \u2018I am the Lord&#8217;s servant, and I am willing to accept whatever God wants for my life!\u2019 When you get to a point in your life where you can say, \u2018I am willing to accept whatever God wants for my life\u2019, fear can have no place in your life. You become fearless when you are willing to accept whatever God wants for your life. It is whatever God wants, not whatever your parents want. If it is in God&#8217;s will, or whatever your friend wants if it is in God&#8217;s will, or whatever your siblings want if it is in God&#8217;s will, and not even whatever you want if it is in God&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">It is, I am willing to accept whatever God wants and this is a huge statement. Are you willing to accept whatever God wants? My pastoral journey started with my Pastor telling me to go and start a church. How? I have not been to a Bible college. I did not make it past two days in Bible college, how can these things be? But he insisted, \u2018Go and start a church.\u2019 So, I wrestled with it until I got the point Mary got to and I said to God, \u2018I am willing to accept whatever God wants for my life.\u2019 At that time, I embraced it, and thank God I did. When I resigned from my previous place of Pastoring and felt it was time to move on, one of the options before me was to go back to school and do a Ph.D. But I felt that God was saying, \u2018go back and start a church \u2013 God\u2019s Favourite House.\u2019 Honestly, it may not look like it, but I was scared. When I told someone I was scared, he said, \u2018Pastor, how can you be scared? Do you even know what fear is?\u2019 I do but I know how to handle it, that is the difference. Starting God\u2019s Favourite House was going to be like starting from ground zero, but I flowed with God, and here we are today. If I had not started, you and I would not be here today. The point is you will be glad you followed God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b>: Father, I surrender my life completely to You, according to Your Word, I am confident and fearless, secure, filled with hope and emptied of all worry, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 11:13-18 \u201cSurrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer. . . Then\u2026 you will be confident and fearless. Your troubles will go away\u2026 and your darkest night will be brighter than noon. Then you\u2019ll rest safe and secure, filled with hope and emptied of worry!\u201d (CEV, emphasis added) Yesterday, we looked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,146,152,271,200,209,130,216,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ability","category-acknowledge-god","category-action","category-align","category-character","category-failure","category-fear","category-gods-promise","category-gods-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22563,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions\/22563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}