BREAKING OUR WILL

God will use many ways to break down a person’s self will. God wants us to come to a place where we do not live by our own will, but by the mercy of God.

God created us with our different personalities. If we are outspoken, we are to be outspoken under the wisdom of God. But if we need to be broke from our outer man, God can use many ways to break that hold on us. God will allow things to come against us, until we see that we ‘live by the mercies of God.’

Have you ever thought Sister So and So or Brother Anyone always seems to have it easy? We are sure you have heard the expression, ‘favor ain’t fair?’ Favor does not seem to be fair but it is always what is needed.

The Spirit deals with different people in different ways and at different speeds. Some receive relentless strikes, others He deals with for a time and then gives a period of rest. The one thing that is the same is He always scourges those whom He loves. It may hit different spots but the goal is the same.

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Here we go back to the garden. A plant can look full and beautiful, producing fruit. The gardener knows that by cutting that plant to the ground, the plant will come back even stronger. How much more so the plant that has vines of weeds tangled up in it. It is fruitful to the plant to remove not only the vine but sometime even the branches the vine is wrapped around.

We have to become pliable, this is the mark of a broken man. A broken man is pliable before God. Think of a house with all its support beams removed, there is nothing physical to hold up the house. When we are speaking of man when those fleshly supports are removed then and only then can we let go and let God be the supporting factor in our lives.

We ask a question here that we ourselves have experienced. Have you ever gone through something and know that you failed, and in knowing that you failed you know you will have to go through it again? Well, we have news for you, God loves you so much that when He gives you a “TEST” if you fail, He will give you the same “TEST” again. Yes, He will give it to you until you pass. He will do this until we come to a place where we will not dare disobey the Lord.

The more we experience God’s ‘Tests’ the more pliable we become. The more God carries out the breaking work in us the quicker we will be mellowed. The quicker we become mellowed, the quicker we will be pliable for Him to shape this clay into what He intended it to be.

God Bless Indeed
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