I had been seriously frustrated about some issues in my life for a long time. I kept reliving then again and again: my mistakes; my loved ones mistakes; others mistakes; the things I felt like were unfair and frustrating and made me feel very helpless. I thought I had learned to live with them but I knew I really had not because their memories were always foremost in my mind. About a week or so ago, I cried out in my heart to the Lord for change: “Help me Lord. These frustrations need to go. I can''t change things in the past or even how it affects me today. I just can''t seem to be free. Dear Lord help me”.
Somehow I looked in the spirit, like a dream. I was in a group of Christians. We were supposed to be standing up and coming to attention because an officer was coming to check us out. To my horror, only a few were coming to attention. They others did not even hear the call to attention. A few stood straight and the rest were dressing their old, unhealed wounds and all of them privately moaning. Their jobs in the spiritual army were going undone. They were helplessly sitting or laying there concentrating on their wounds instead of being a soldier in God’s army and ready to serve Him. I realized that is what I have been doing for so long! I need to be about Kingdom business and I have not truly been because of all these unhealed wounds. I cried out to God from the depths of my heart and He answered my plea for help.
Suddenly Jesus was there with me and there was a huge dumpster in front of us! I bagged up all my trash, my criticisms of the past, my hurts and frustrations, my weakness of letting the devil oppress me and tied it closed. Jesus and I took it together and together we threw it into the Father''s giant dumpster. That dumpster had no bottom, just like the sea of God’s forgiveness. I never heard it hit bottom and I knew it was gone forever It’s been about a week now and it’s amazing. It feels like I lost about a thousand pounds. I had a heaviness that covered me from head to foot. And now it’s really gone. Forgiveness and cleanness and healing came into me and my feelings to me and all others. I am not holding account of anything for me or them anymore. Not only is the trash gone, but it is so gone that when I think of the circumstances again, I don''t even remember the bad stuff, and the good stuff is what I remember. All of my wounds, hurt and frustrations are finally gone.
If you have been unable to be free from your past hurts and frustrations that you have been privately carrying around for years, JESUS WILL HELP YOU GET IT TO THE DUMPSTER AND HELP YOU TOSS IT IN!
NO MATTER HOW HEAVY! You can be a part of what God is doing and be a viable soldier in His plans for your life. Ask Jesus to help you bag it up and take it to the Father''s Dumpster. Put all of your hurts in there. Throw them in the dumpster. It is trash and does not need to be living in you.
Jesus tells us in Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke fits perfectly and the burden I give you is light.”
PRAISE THE LORD!
Liz Cockrell Needville, Texas