Everything must go
Everything that's unprofitable in your life must go…
Hi, my name is Elise. On the 18th September I left home to go to University, where i’m studying Child Psychology. Although it’s a really exciting time, It can also be a time of stress and worry. I’ve been lucky enough to have an amazing family growing up, but that also means it’s been really hard leaving them behind. But recently God’s been encouraging me to place everything on Him, because He’s the one in control and not me!
I recently listened to a preach by Sarah Jakes Roberts called “Everything must go”. It was one of those preaches that I knew from the offset it was going to challenge me and it did!
She started off by saying, everything that's unprofitable in your life must go, because it’s stopping the profitable from coming in. Immediately I began thinking of things that are taking up my time and blocking God’s intended things from entering my life.
She goes on to the part of the preach that I've been replaying in my mind ever since I listened to it. She said sometimes we reach rock bottom and say to God ‘I can’t get any lower than this’. But God says the lower you are, the deeper the foundation is for the weight I’m preparing to put on you. God can’t put the intended weight onto a weaker, less humbled version of you because you’ll fall.
One thing I’ve learnt this year is that God doesn’t want us to fall or fail. In fact the situations you find yourself in, whether that be rock bottom, or the most joyful version of yourself, God’s intention is always for you to win. When you feel like you can’t get any lower than you currently are, God is preparing you for what's to come, you wouldn’t have been able to carry the weight he’s putting on you now if you hadn’t gone through what you’ve been through.
In my life, I know if I hadn’t gone through what I have, I wouldn’t have been able to carry the weight of going to university and embarking on this new experience. Sometimes God gets you into a broken place so that you know without a doubt in your mind, you wouldn’t have been able to stand back up again without Him. In turn it makes us stronger, more confident and allows you to grow into the person God intended for you to be.
John 14:8 says this:
‘Lord, show us the father and that will be enough for us’
In other words if God is everything you have, you have everything you need. If God is everything I have as I go to university; with people I don’t know, a place I’m not familiar with, even though it looks daunting from an outside perspective, I still have everything I need.
So I want to encourage you this week to look at your life and what could be holding you back from God’s intended promise
by Elise Wharton
