James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
It’s not always comfortable, maybe embarrassing, maybe a little risky but its God’s will for us to bring into the light, the deeds of darkness. Who really cares if its hard. Too bad, it was hard for JESUS when he died on the cross because the weight of sin was so heavy. We may think, we’re on a mission trip, I won’t have to really deal with my sin, but this is the first place God wants us to be. Facing our sin with the blood of JESUS among a community that cares enough to have no hint of sexual immorality. To also bring things into the light that have caused shame. God doesn’t want us to carry that anymore!
There is so much freedom when you speak the truth! We need a spirit of repentance to fall in a mighty way, so we can be healed! We turn from our ways and get filled up from the inside out!
I’m sick n tired of things being put under the rug and not talked about. I’m tired of men in the church being in bondage to sexual sin. I’m tired of women being too ashamed to talk about their past. I’m tired of seeing people that love Jesus trapped. I’m sick of seeing only women stepping up into a spiritual role, while the men are too timid to battle. I’m sick of watching other men, alot older than me preach about purity and honoring women. I want to see it in my generation! I want to see men stepping up and hating the way women are being treated and be a voice for men to REPENT! The women can’t be the only ones speaking out, the men must say no, I will not tolerate this in MY Garden. I want to see my brothers fighting for freedom in a radical, desperate way saying I will no longer allow my sisters to not have a voice.
WE CANNOT ALLOW SIN IN OUR CAMP
We need God’s heart of passion for this issue before we expect Him to give us all the gifts and rich experiences. This is our revival song, this is our opportunity to get right and not talk about it anymore. I want to see a boldness among the body that hates sin! I hate the way the enemy has distorted beauty and sex. I hate the way He’s used it to ruin families. I hate that our temples have been defiled and God hates it more!
These are things that break God’s heart, that cause Him to weep because He died to eradicate sin, shame and guilt. Its like we’re walking around the prison with the key to escape and we don’t even use it.
It must stop here, we must be willing to approach the throne of grace with confidence. We must be willing to get our crap out so we can truly receive all the Lord has for us. We don’t want anything in the way and its a lie to say that some things are permissible when the Lord desires all of us, even the messy parts.
As I write this, I’m not thinking what are people going to think of me. I really don’t care anymore. I know that Lord has been burdening me with this and I’m finally saying something. I’m finally getting truly vulnerable for the sake of my total freedom and those I’ve yet to meet. I’m not holding back or backing down from what God has placed on my heart or my identity in HIM. The reason I even feel so strongly about this, is because I myself have experienced the freedom in being vulnerable, the freedom from a past that I carried sin and shame. I won’t be chained to a yoke of slavery again and I have some beautiful girls on my team fighting with me.
I want freedom for our squad, for the teams that have yet to go, and the ones who have gone before. It starts with being brave enough to face ourselves and desire purity! It’s not about right or wrong, good or bad, God looks at our hearts. I want the men in my life to experience victory and I want them to have a passion for God’s heart in this matter. I want the women to stop justifying sin and placing any blame. God wants to free us, and validate us so we can walk in His truth about us. I say this from an honest heart to acknowledge the call God has on our lives! I am going forward, broken and real and I am bringing an army with me. Let’s man up and fight. You joining us?
