{"id":11131,"date":"2012-09-25T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=11131"},"modified":"2012-11-15T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T03:09:56","slug":"letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreading-joy.org\/site\/letting-go\/letting-go-pic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5435\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5435 alignright\" title=\"letting go pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spreading-joy.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/letting-go-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>Letting go is one of the most difficult things ever. You know I\u2019m telling the truth here! It doesn\u2019t matter what \u201cit\u201d is, it is hard to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Letting go means you place 100% trust in whomever you are letting things go to. It means that you have confidence in that person to handle things better than you would handle them yourself. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You relinquish all control and you step away, trusting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Letting go signifies great faith.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have so much to let go of don\u2019t we? I\u2019ll list just a few that quickly come to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emotional baggage from the past<\/li>\n<li>Fear of failure for the future<\/li>\n<li>Fear of success<\/li>\n<li>Choices we\u2019ve made and the outcome that is sure to follow<\/li>\n<li>Our children and their choices<\/li>\n<li>Our health, appearance and physical features<\/li>\n<li>Our finances, or lack thereof<\/li>\n<li>Our dreams, desires and opportunities that await us<\/li>\n<li>Our fear of the unknown \u2013 the what if\u2019s, why\u2019s and what was I thinking<\/li>\n<li>Our yesterday, so we may enjoy today, while looking towards tomorrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many think that letting go is a sign of weakness, but in all actuality, it displays great strength and faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I want that kind of faith. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I want to easily let go and let God. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Christian we are \u201cletting go\u201d of those things to the Lord. Our Savior! Our heavenly Father! The Kind of Kings, Lord of Lords and name like no other.<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t just letting go to some other person that just halfheartedly cares about us \u2013 NO, we are letting go to the ONE who gave HIS Son for us as a sacrifice. We are letting go to the ONE that cares for our desires, hopes and dreams like no other. We are letting go to the one who created us and then planned that everything would work out for us as He planned. We are letting go to the ONE who overcame death, hell and has endured anything we could ever endure.<\/p>\n<p>I pray that you\u2019ll confidently let go of whatever it is that weighs you down, knowing that the One you are trusting <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your eternity<\/span><\/em><\/strong> to is the <strong><em>ONE<\/em><\/strong> you are letting go of your problems, hopes, dreams and fears to.<\/p>\n<p>Let go and Let God!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What do you need to hand over to God? Many people see this site daily and I\u2019m sure they would be encouraged to see that they \u201care not alone\u201d in handing over a few things. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Encourage someone in the comments below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(I\u2019ll start out by leaving mine here) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes from a dream that I recently had. In the dream our family is struggling with all that we are currently struggling with. I felt extremely small and overwhelmed at the things we faced. The dream was very chaotic and fear ruled my heart. (I won\u2019t bore you with the gory details, but my daughter\u2019s health, the finances that have hit us due to this, my son spending his first summer so far away \u2013 completely in God\u2019s will, but still painful as I miss him much more than anyone could ever imagine and several other things)<\/p>\n<p>I was walking and praying as I so often do and somehow ended up on a bridge. I have a horrid fear of heights and this was really, really high. Immediately my fear kicks in and I\u2019m frozen. I can\u2019t think and can barely breathe when the bridge starts to crumble. It\u2019s foggy and I can\u2019t see below. I\u2019m hanging on for my life and I hear, clearly, God saying\u2026 \u201ctrust me, let go\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to say that immediately, I just let go, but I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I did what most of us do and cried out in fear and anguish, \u201cbut Lord, I\u2019m scared just get me off here\u201d He again, said\u2026\u201dtrust me, let go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that point, with tears flowing, my heart was thinking ok, it seems I don\u2019t have a choice, but I woke up before I let go, so I don\u2019t actually know if I truly trusted God enough to let go.<\/p>\n<p>When I woke up, I had been crying in my sleep\u2026.that is just how fearful I had been.<\/p>\n<p><em>So, today\u2026right here, right now\u2026 as best as I know how, I\u2019m letting it <strong>all<\/strong> go to Him. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>My family \u2013 I prayed for a Christian family, HE gave me one\u2026they belong to Him. Lord, just keep using us for YOU.<\/p>\n<p>My finances \u2013 with more appointments, specialists, surgery and such looming, there is no way we can ever afford any of it without the Lord. (When the dr. left the room, the first question Megan asked was\u2026.Mom, can we afford this? I told her it is a non-issue, that God will provide.) It belongs to Him.<\/p>\n<p>My dream of a larger home \u2013 we\u2019ve lived in a tiny 1100 sq ft home since Megan was born. If I get a bigger home, I get one. If not, I\u2019ll enjoy my mansion in Heaven one day.<\/p>\n<p>Spreading Joy &amp; Helping Others &#8211; God allowed me to start this and HE will have to fund it. I won\u2019t borrow money to help people. If we help others, it\u2019s because God will put it on the hearts of others to partner with us. <em>We will do what we can with what we have.<\/em> It\u2019s His.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to just trust Him. It\u2019s all I can do. It\u2019s all HIS. I\u2019m letting go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>{{hugs}}<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Never Let Go \u2013 David Crowder<\/span><br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hx5Y9DhoLJQ<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Never Once &#8211; Matt Redman<\/span><br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e02UNZRsdSQ<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Overcome \u2013 Jeremy Camp<\/span><br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERMzo0npg_g<\/h6>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">John 16:33<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have <strong>overcome<\/strong> the world.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1 John 5:4<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1 John 5:5<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Psalms 55:22<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1 Peter 5:7<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marie Wikle the Founder and President of Spreading Joy Corporation wants to empower everyone to make a difference and give without guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a personal <a title=\"Spreading Joy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spreading-joy.org\/site\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warm Welcome to Spreading Joy<\/a>. You\u2019ll find links to interviews, no cost ways to make a difference and other things that are guaranteed to bring a smile to your heart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>We want to rise above the discouragement of high prices, the obstacle of dead ends and the disappointment of our comfort zone. We want to be the change that is so desperately needed.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting go is one of the most difficult things ever. You know I\u2019m telling the truth here! It doesn\u2019t matter what \u201cit\u201d is, it is hard to let go. Letting go means you place 100% trust in whomever you are letting things go to. It means that you have confidence in that person to handle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/letting-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letting Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[5880,5881,2413,3433,1492,5877,508,5872,5873,639,5874,233,5876,5882,5875,2939,5878,244,566,5879],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-marie","tag-actuality","tag-appearance","tag-choices","tag-confidence","tag-desires","tag-emotional-baggage","tag-eternity","tag-fear-of-failure","tag-fear-of-success","tag-fears","tag-great-faith","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hopes-and-dreams","tag-hopes-dreams","tag-kings-lord","tag-lord-of-lords","tag-physical-features","tag-sacrifice","tag-savior","tag-telling-the-truth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}