What good is a resurrection if you are going to run back to what is familiar?

 

Some of us need to leave who we were in that grave. God has raised you anew and with that burial was who YOU thought you would be. In essence, that death brought about a new name, a new focus, a new expansion, and with it new assignments.

 

I’ve been through many deaths with Christ. I died again in 2012 and God called me to leave my girl’s ministry in that grave.

 

While the devil had secured my headstone and thought I was down for the count, God was giving me a new name by pulling out “the Shelly” He had created in the womb. The time had come to move into other areas.

 

Tempted to go back to what I knew, I tried again the girl’s ministry. Once again, God said, “This is not your new direction.” Instead, I’m now in rooms tending the little girls in the big girls.

 

Some of you continue to align yourselves with old seasons. You keep recreating the same environment, the same programs, and the same tasks that were wonderful in the past but no longer part of the new season. This is why you’re struggling.

 

If you are digging in your heels like you know best, God will likely put you to another death until you surrender to His desires. I’ve learned my lessons here. Repeated seasons of teaching I do not want. It seems to be harder each time I rebel against God.

 

Loosen your grip, friends, on your life. Let Him have it. You’ll not be sorry. You’re keeping yourself limited in vision and scope while God is trying to expand you.

 

The old you is dead. Wave goodbye to her, or him, and follow Jesus.