They’ll be jealous of your joy because then you will be a living testimony of what you say you believe. Stop giving somebody else the job of making you happy. The price that you have to pay is obedience. The price that you have to pay is refusing to quit and give up. You have to do it and do it again and do it again and do it again and do it again and again and again and again and again, and every time you do one of those hard things, your flesh screams louder the first time, the next time a little less, the next time a little less, the next time a little less.
God never puts you in a situation where he’s not able to keep you. Stop being unhappy about where you’re at. If God has told you to stay in the situation, then God is going to give you the grace to be there and he’s not going to call you to be miserable and unhappy. Personal obedience is the only thing that will fix our lives and when we make mistakes, we have to admit it, we have to confess, if we need to apologize to a person, we need to do that. We need to swallow our stinking pride and do whatever we need to do because we need to be determined: I am not going to live in bondage! I refuse to live in bondage one more day of my life.
Whatever it takes to be free, I’m going to find out what it is and I’m going to do it. And here’s the thing: if you make the right choice, God’s grace hooks up with you and enables you to carry it out. “but I’m just so sick and tired of doing this! I’ve done the right thing and done the right thing and done the right thing and done the right thing, and the right thing is still not happening to me. I’ve been believing God, believing God, believing God, believing God, and I’m tired of watching everybody else get their breakthroughs and nothing happening for me.”
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