I pray that you will not only read this post, but really go deeper with Jesus concerning what I will share with you. May this post truly encourage you to rid yourself from a slave/orphan mentality that is holding so many of us back.
Galatians 4:7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
My family and I have been waiting for a promise from God to be fulfilled for six years now. One can try to imagine how difficult it is, but if you haven’t walked it you will never really know. We had many happy and sad moments, many disappointments, moments of “did God really say it or is this really what He wants?” We haven’t received the breakthrough yet, but we can see the finish line and we are filled with excitement.
In the meantime God has given us another endeavor, another FAITH test! God used these six years to dig deep within us to get down into the very root of things that have been holding us back from truly walking in the fulness of what He has purposed for our lives.
Our Story
Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
At the beginning of 2020 my husband told me that he felt we needed to buy a house. I was very surprised by this, but I knew I had to make work with it because my husband has always been the dreamer between the two of us and I have learnt that when he comes with surprises like this, God is telling us something. I immediately brought this in prayer before the Lord and I asked God to prepare my heart for when the time was right for this to be done. I surrendered it all into God’s hands and I laid my preconceived ideas down. I left it in God’s hands and I waited until God would speak to me about it again.
Later in the year we went on holiday to a place we have never been before and we loved it there. ( I want to add this – Since almost forever, when we want to go on holiday, we always ask God where we should go. We always try to include the Lord in everything we do). A few days before we came home my husband said we should go look at houses, and we did. The first house we looked at spoke loud and clear to both our hearts and I knew this was God’s go ahead. I must say I was a bit overwhelmed because to buy house is a huge thing and we had to make sure that God was truly in this. I had asked the Lord the same question over and over for several days – should we really do this? Is this what He wants? Our six year’s promise is on the horizon and this doesn’t make sense. By His grace, patience and kindness towards me, He replied every time with His peaceful voice, yes buy the house.
So It Started
The ball was put on a roll. We signed many contracts and then we had to wait for the banks to grant us a 100% home loan. Long story short. Many banks came back saying no, one bank came back saying they can only give us 85%, but we had to reply within a certain timeframe or the grant would expire. I spoke to the Lord about this because if He wanted us to buy the house we needed a loan where we didn’t have to give a huge deposit. The Lord said to me to ask Him for a loan where everything is covered and that His will will be done. He reminded me of that word in Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
This was my anchor – Faith pleases God and He will reward those who seek Him. I said ok Father, I am coming hard and ferociously after You for this, I believe You and my faith pleases You. You said it and I believe You will do it, against the odds. I grabbed hold of this truth and I didn’t let go.
A few days went by and we didn’t hear anything from the other banks. One morning while I was busy praying, I saw my husband in the spirit. I saw He was standing , holding his breath, busy “bracing for impact”. The Lord showed me that my husband was bracing himself for the disappointment. (My husband has had many dreams and desires in his life that haven’t come to pass because the time was not right. The devil used these past disappointments to bring doubt that this that we are believing for will not come to pass). This is a problem, through thinking this way we can block our blessings that need to locate us. Therefore, the enemy can steal things from us because of us holding unto past disappointments and then operating in unbelief and fear.
Slave Mentality
The banks came back with bad reports, but I kept going after what God said, without backing off. One morning someone sent us a scripture, Exodus 14:13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. I was really pondering on this and I allowed Holy Spirit to brood over my spirit concerning this word. I was waiting on Him to tell me exactly what I needed to do with this scripture. This scripture was about the time when Moses and the Israelites came to the red sea and the Egyptians were coming after them to destroy them. The red sea before them and the Egyptians behind them. They were STUCK in the middle, they had nowhere to go. They couldn’t go forwards or backwards. They were doomed! No way out!(That is what they believed). Then the Lord gave me the key. He showed me that this was the Israelites “BRACE FOR IMPACT” moment. Their moment of fear and unbelief. Where they believed that they were not going to see their promised land because Pharaoh is going to kill them. They were still afraid of Pharaoh and his army. They were still stuck in their “Slave Mentality”, a mentality that dictates no good can come my way or this is too good to be true and it won’t last. Not getting excited about the new land, but waiting for the bad to happen!
Waiting for the bad to happen – “BRACE FOR IMPACT”
And this is where I knew that God was going to break this slave mentality off of my husband, but we had to make work with it. This slave mentality came in with all the past dreams that haven’t been fulfilled and the enemy used it to keep my husband in bondage.
My husband and I sat together before the Lord and we repented of this mentality, we brought his past disappointments before the Lord and we repented of the doubts and fear that have entered because of it. We allowed Holy Spirit to take us deeper in prayer and repentance and many things started bubbling out of him that had to be dealt with. Then God said: “Now trust me as if it is the very “first time ever” you are trusting me for something, NOT listening to past negative experiences whispering in your ears.”
Pharaoh Making Noise
That very same day, after we have done all this. We got bad news. God in His faithfulness immediately showed me what was going on in the spirit. My husband almost crumbled under this disappointment, but I could encourage him by telling him what God showed me. I said to him that we are in front of the red sea and it must open up for us, but Pharaoh (the devil) is making a huge noise that we will not make it, that he is going to wipe us out and there is only disappointment waiting for us. Then I said, but now we will ferociously push and believe harder and lift our rod over this sea and command it to open up. It was not over!
The next day while I was busy waking up the Lord said: “Tell your husband to petition your own bank for I want them to give you the loan. (Our bank was the very first bank saying no for a home loan – This was truly against the odds). Write a long letter to them. Holy Spirit will guide you”. My husband did this and we trusted God, ferociously!
Spirit of Adoption
It was exactly a week after we received the word about the Egyptians that we will never see again when the Lord gave me another scripture, Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Lord showed us that my husband had to receive his blessing from Him and say thank you, because he is called “son” and a son has right to what his father is giving and promising him. A son can freely take what his father is giving him, he doesn’t have to be shy to take from his father or think that his father does not really want to bless him – for that is a slave or orphan mentality. That morning I said to my husband:” Are you ready to receive your blessing today?” My husband gave a confident, yes! It wasn’t an hour after that and our bank came back with very good news.
Conclusion
Beloveds, this whole process took 2 months. Months that we’ve been so grateful for, but even more so, we are grateful for the six years of waiting, crying, pressing, getting up and carrying on. All of this led up to these two months where we could seriously deal with the slave mentality in us. For if we didn’t go through these tests of faith, we would never have known that we are still stuck in a slave mentality.
Let us consider how a slave thinks and behaves. Let us weigh it up against what it means to be a real son or daughter of God. If there is anything in us that is in contradiction with God’s word, we have an issue that needs to be dealt with. True sons and daughters believes, without a doubt what their Father says!
Won’t you bring your “brace for impact”, your slave mentality, your fear of Pharaohs intimidation and your doubts before the Lord! Won’t you turn your back on your past disappointments that has established this lie in you that you will never get your promise. Divorce yourself from it (from Pharaoh), from coming into agreement with your enemy. When all the repentance and letting go is done, choose to go after that promise as if it is your very first time you are trusting God for something. Without clutter!
Before we pray, use this prayer as a guide, but I encourage you to make it your own – where you add your own prayer, repentance and petitions. Ask Holy Spirit to guide you so that you can deal with everything that is holding you back affectively. God is good and He never changes, His word will not return void!
Let us pray: Abba Father, I am crying out to You. I have been believing the lies of the enemy. I have listened and crumbled under Pharaoh’s intimidation. I have a slave mentality, Father. I have been led by my past disappointments. I repent, please forgive me. I ask forgiveness that I did not take You at Your word. I do not know what it means to have a Father that is completely different than what I know in this earth. A Father like You Abba, a Father that does not lie, that loves unconditionally, that wants to bless me, that wants to see me succeed. I repent that I so easily give up and that I don’t trust You with ferocious faith. Please set me free from this mentality. I choose to get up and shake the dust off and start again. I choose to receive my adoption as son/daughter and to start walking and thinking like a son who has everything his Father has to his availability, in Jesus name. Holy Spirit, fall on me afresh. Set my feet upon the Rock once again and destroy my enemy’s influence over my life today. I ask that there will be nothing left of the Egyptians and their prints on my mind and thoughts. I pray this in Jesus’s mighty name, the name above all names, Amen and amen.
