Are You Robbing God?

Isaiah 53: 3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our grief, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.  But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes we are healed.

This is about a true life event that happened to me about twenty years ago. It is a lesson God taught me about what Jesus died for and took to the cross.  It is a great lesson which until this very day many have missed and have not learned the meaning of. I myself had wounds of abuse, both physical and mental, emotional and sexual hurts, pains and disappointments, betrayals and many rejections that had so plagued me; I became greatly depressed, suicidal and cried many days and nights.  Jesus came to me and comforted me and told me I had much to live for, that I must remain strong to raise my baby daughter for there was none to do it but me.

My mother had passed away at Christmas that year and my father was sick. Other family lived away.  So I drew closer and walked on with God.  Years passed and I grew stronger in many areas of my life, and the old darkness from the past seemed to go away. At times it would come back and I would retreat and entertain those thoughts and feelings.  I once again became depressed, but I began to cry out to God, and He would comfort me and run the black time away. The Lord called me into the ministry and I began to fast and seek to know Him in a greater way.  He filled me with His Precious Holy Spirit.  I would read His Word and stay before His face and saturated myself with His presence.  I sought the Lord for what His will for my life was and I prayed that he would use me to reach the lost.

The Lord began to use me in a mighty way.  He would send many sick and hurting and abused people into my life who had gone through some of the same things that I had.  When I prayed and talked with them they were healed and set free and comforted, and as a result they turned their lives over to Jesus.  I was so happy that I could be of use to anyone and especially to God. 

The Lord sent me out to minister and evangelize in many places and the people would pour their hearts out, and God would deliver and set them free of many things, and fill them with His Joy.  He sent me into the jails and prisons, and my what a world of hurt and pain and wounded vessels there are in these institutions and also out in the world.  I was so happy to see them turn to Jesus. One day while driving from a revival I had preached in Louisiana back home to Mississippi, I began to feel the darkness trying to cloud my heart and mind and depression began to torment me once again as the thoughts from the past welled up in my heart and made tears slide down my face.  I began to talk to God and ask Him why these feelings and thoughts still hurt and bother me after all these years. I knew I had forgiven all involved with the wrong doings against me, so why did it still hurt?

 

He spoke to me and said, why are you robbing me?  I said do what?  What are you talking about?  I give you all my tithes, vows and offerings?  I do not understand.  He said I am not talking about your money!  I am talking about all your hurts, pains, wounds, disappointments, abuse, whether emotional, mental, or physical they all belong to me and you're holding onto things I took to the cross!  He said the scars of your heart I now wear in both my hands for this is the price I paid on that cross made by man.  Give them to me for they are not yours.  He said this is why it still hurts.  You are still carrying these things in your heart, your mind and emotions, and they belong to me not you. I took all this to the cross and died for you. You held onto it so long it set up roots and was an open wound for the devil to attack when he wanted to.  He knew he had the right because you had something that did not belong to you that I nailed to the cross. 

I said Lord! I understand, please forgive me?  Here by faith I give them all up to you Jesus.  I will not rob you anymore.  Now I am free from all of this and this does not hurt anymore.  Sure in life trouble comes in many ways but I have learned if hurts, mental, physical and emotional pain comes I forgive and immediately give it to God.  Many of you are still where I was so long ago.  Jesus died for you and everything that has happened to you and in your life.  You need to give it up to God and let Him deliver and set you free so you will not hurt anymore when things from the past come through your mind and heart.  It's not yours anyway.  It is His!  He died for it.  All of it. So give it to Him now.

This is resurrection time of the year when all who are children of God remember what He did on the hill of Golgotha.  He took my place and your place and the place of every man, woman, boy and girl.  Do you know He shed His blood and died just for you and has an eternal resting place for you in Heaven?  If you would like love, joy, and peace, healing and deliverance from all the past hurts and a new way of life.... turn to Him now and be born again.  Ask Him to come into your heart and give all to Him.  Stop robbing from Him like I was.  If you would like to do this now please pray this out loud and say. 

Lord Jesus I ask you to come into my heart.  I surrender all to you.  And please forgive me all my sin.  And I forgive all others.  I believe that Jesus was born of a virgin mother and died on the cross for my sins and rose on the third day and lives forever more.  Please save me and heal me from all my sin, hurts and pain, rejection, disappointments, wounds and scars from the past in my mind, heart and emotions as well for I give all to you.  I make Jesus Christ Lord of my life for I do not want to rob you.  Thank you for saving my soul and healing and delivering me and also please remind me to do this each time wounds come so I will not rob from you anymore. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth!  Amen!

 

So Are You Robbing God?                  Be set free and set others free!

Happy Resurrection Day!

God bless you all,  Love Pastors Roger & Dianne Wilson                  Email us at Broken Rose Ministries 

Many Do not know that in symbolic speaking of Greek and Hebrew, the hands represent the human actions of men, good and bad so it is no coincidence that God ordained for one of the exact places for nails to go was in the hands of Jesus, thus now a spiritual meaning of the scars in His hands representing our wrong deeds and actions to each other, which is also our sins and transgressions against our Living God who sent Jesus to take our place.

 

 

 

 

Written by Dianne Wilson

Feb 13,2007

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