Breaking Up With What Broke You: How God Redeems and Rewrites Your Story

 

Hey loves, 

I recently read the book, Break Up With What Broke You: How God Redeems and Rewrites Your Story. I am now climbing out of a season that felt like it was meant to break me. The battlefield of the mind is a real thing and keep me in prayer, it still is a very much a real thing. In this book, she shared about letting go of shame and breaking up with what broke you. I could relate to the author Christian Bevere so much. The book had me feeling so FREE that I still think about parts that I've read. It had me thinking how the enemy loves to silence God's people with shame when Christ died for our shame. 

Social media is so wild to me because we have people who shame people all the time. Shame them for their past. Shame them for their mistakes and mishaps. Shame and expose people by using their posts and ridiculing them. People who have callings in God are afraid to step into their purpose and full potential because they feel defined by their past mistakes, failures, or how they constantly fell short miserably even while being in ministry. 

You may have been buying into the lies of satan stating:

You are a hypocrite no one is ever going to listen you.

Don't you know what you said or did and who you hung around?

You will never be good enough, you will never amount to anything.

Remember the people who left you and rejected you!? You have no purpose. 

Remember your circumstance, there's no way out. It's a direct link to your disobedience. You should be ashamed of yourself.

You are worthless. All you do is mess up.

And these are all lies from Satan that has no truth in it. People will try to have you prove something to them. Prove that you are changed. Prove that you are made whole. Prove that you are a follower of Christ. Prove that you have repented.  And I want to break news to you that you have nothing to prove to ANYONE. Your relationship with God is intimate and personal. He knows all the areas you fell short. He knew all the things you were going to do before you did it. And He wants you to know He wants to redeem your story. He will take your biggest mess ups and miseries and turn it into the biggest ministries to set His captives free. You may have a recording in your head from the enemy reminding you of what you said or done whether it was yesterday or 10 years ago or even 10 seconds ago but the past is the past. God doesn't want you walking around in shame or guilt. His blood was shed exactly for that so you can walk in your full purpose and know who you are in Christ. 

I want you to know that GOD loves you no matter what!! No mater if you are the Chief Apostle, Bishop, prophetess, teacher, evangelist, elder, minister, etc...you get the point, He covered you with His blood and has a redeeming love for you.

So....,

So what that you did this or that or said that, Repent and move forward. God understands your humanity more than you think. All He ask for us to do is to turn to Him and keep turning to him even when we make mistakes. When the enemy come in your speaking his lies reminding you of what you've done and that you are a hypocrite, liar, fornicator, murderer, adulterer, etc... you remind him who your God is and your identity found in Christ.

Here are some scriptures to meditate on:

 2 Corinthians 5:17 New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For I am convinced that  neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to seperate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39

Psalms 130:7

7 Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

Your past doesn't define who you are---even that 10 seconds ago being your past. God's love never fails and He is not like humans and doesn't love like humans. His love is unconditional. You don't have to give into the traps and lies of the enemy any longer. And when you don't think God can use you after what you've done then read the characters in the Bible and Jesus disciples. They were far from perfect. They messed up big time even while doing ministry. But God still chose them and use them mightily. Surely, He can use you too! God is giving you a new name. God is redeeming and rewriting your story. You will not recognize the old you or resonate with it any longer. He loves you! 

With Christ Love,

Sheree xoxo