Time for a release

Well it has been more than 2 weeks since I blogged and while I could go on and on about not writing I will say this, Satan is a liar. According to the first part of John 10:10, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy..." is a perfect description of who Satan is. He is a thief and he wants to destroy everything Christ is about. We were created in God's image and so we are made in the image of our heavenly father. Our heavenly Father is the creator of the universe. He creates and Satan tears down and destroys. The best part of John 10:10 is the end of the verse," I have com that they may have life, and have it to the full." God's word does not return void.

One of the challenges I have faced through the course of my life is what most writers would call a wall or "writers block". I consider it a lie from Satan. God has blessed me with a gift of writing and Satan wants nothing more than to destroy that gift my Heavenly Father has blessed me with. I go through times when I can write freely and the Holy Spirit begins to flow through me and I feel free. And then the devil comes around the corner and begins whispering lies to me and I begin to have self-doubt and begin to second guess myself and reconsider the gift that I have been freely given. I begin to feel like if I don't "hear" something from God then there is no point for me to write. I begin to think that I have to have a "word" from God in order to write my thoughts down in hopes that if someone reads it will be touched. THIS is wrong! There is such a thing as being humanistic. I have been guilty of being humanistic and having a warped perception of who my Heavenly Father is. I act and begin to believe that I have it all figured out and that there are certain ways I have to worship and specific ways I must use my gift. God didn't give me the gift to put my own rules and regulations and own spin on it. I have been trying too hard. Of course I have allowed myself to get too busy to do the things of God and I get side-tracked doing the things of the world; i.e. work, etc.

God has been dealing with me in the last week in regards to this and I feel that God has released me from the negative thinking that I have been dealing with. I feel that I have received freedom from a spirit of discouragement and disparity. No more "woe is me" attitude. I have been given a spirit of authority, a spirit of boldness and a spirit of life. I am not going to live in doubt, disparity and have a spirit of death upon my life. Our tongues have the ability to speak life or death and I choose LIFE! As our forefathers proclaimed...Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I will have righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost! I will no longer allow the whispering lies of Satan to distract me and taunt me into not using the gift God has blessed me with.

I was at a prayer meeting this evening with several friends and several that I don't know. God began to speak in a mighty way to the group. The word that was released to us was that God wants to release His gifts in us. He wants his children to use the gifts He has given us. He wants the arts to be brought out with the Christians. No longer must we accept what the world considers entertainment and art. The world's perception is perverted and blasphemous. God is the ultimate artist and wants His children to begin to use their gifts. These gifts are through drawing, painting, singing, writing poetry and songs and many others. God is calling us to use these gifts and release what He has placed inside of us. As I was listening to what God was saying, He began to speak to me that I have allowed discouragement to set in regarding my gifts and that He wants me to release them for His glory. I feel that something broke loose inside of me and I felt a release of peace in my life and I instantly wanted to write something. We began to pray that the gifts of God would spring up out of us and nothing would hold us back.

While this isn't completely on the topic that I was just writing on I do want to write what God also spoke to me. He was speaking that we are his sons and daughters and we must remember that we are His children. Too many of us have been bogged down with life and we have become hardened and are no longer like children. We must begin to see God as our Father and we are his children. God wants us to be as a child and have a child-like faith. He wants our relationship with Him to be as our relationships are with our children. When our children bring home a picture they drew at school we normally will put it on our refrigerator to display proudly and we shower our children with praise of how good of a job they did. That is the attitude we must have. God wants us to release our gifts in the field of arts. He wants us to express ourselves and when we color something or draw something instead of worrying about what it looks like, our Heavenly Father is going to tell us that it is a beautiful picture and He will let us know that He is proud of us. God is encouraging us to be His children and live like His children and not the world. When I got home from this meeting I opened my Bible and where I had previously had a bookmark allowed it to open to this specific verse. Galatians 3:26, "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." We are heirs of Christ and we must remember this. That totally confirmed what God was speaking to me at the meeting. We are sons and daughters of God and we must begin to think that way. We are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ. We are heirs to His throne and we must begin to speak life and not death.

No longer am I going to allow Satan to steal the creativity that God has instilled into me and from now on I am going to allow the gift of God to be displayed through me regardless of what it is.

I know I have rambled a lot and it is late, but I had to release this and be obedient. While some of it may not make total sense, please don't judge and analyze everything that I have written. I have written this to express what God is doing through me and what I am experiencing. To God be the glory. Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom! I have freedom in Jesus' name.

It is my desire to continue to write and blog what the Lord is putting on my heart and even if I don't have a "word" from the Lord doesn't mean I won't write.

Blessings!

Anthony