Releasing

The question is not what I can produce for the kingdom. Rather the question is what will I release and allow to flow into and through me for the kingdom.

Most days we try and figure out what we can do for God. But Jesus reminds us that “by myself I can do nothing”.

Nothing I do will last.

What will last forever is that which God does.

The reality however is that He works in and through vessels. He pours out and fills up empty vessels so that they might be full of all that He is. Furthermore He loves to flow through vessels that serve as a conduit of His presence. And in order to be conduits, we must receive and we must give.

What are you receiving? How are you receiving it? Are you praying and waiting on the Lord for His perfect and all-sufficient provision? Or are you striving of your own effort and goodness to make something of your life?

What is flowing through you to others? If it’s not God flowing through us, then it will be self, worldliness or even the Enemy. And the best that we can create will ultimately be shabby, worthless rags.

Here are some questions I would encourage you to ask in order that you might learn how to wait on God for all things and release His power into your life:

• What attitudes are flowing through my words and actions?
• What things should I block from entering my life?
• What things should I release both into and out of my life?
• What should I be binding and what should I be loosing?
• Am I praying for God’s will alone to be done in my life?
• Am I willing to wait on God for all supply?
• Am I seeking out God’s will through His Word and through prayer/fasting, etc?

We have the privilege and the power to either bind or loose things in our minds, hearts and lives. We have the opportunity to either release or inhibit the blessing and love of God into our lives and through our lives. God is pouring out the fullness of His life and supply into our lives and we can either block the receiving of these things or release the power of these things into our lives. If we are lacking something it is simply because we have not asked or waited on God in perfect submission and trust. God will supply all of our needs in His perfect ways and timing, as we let Him.

The Spirit of God alone gives life. It’s not my efforts, thoughts, striving or straining. In all of the parables Jesus told about the kingdom of God, the person was searching for, waiting for or releasing something that already had been made. That which already had life/value in it (the seed, the pearl, the fish, the coin etc) and the value was not placed there by the seeker but by One greater than the seeker. The responsibility of the seeker is to seek. The responsibility of the waiter is to wait. The responsibility of the sower is to release.

To live a life of releasing we must:

1. Seek after the pearl/treasure of great price
2. In finding it, let go of everything else that is not worth nearly as much
3. Plant the seeds of hope, trust, faith, and the Word of God
4. Wait on God for all things
5. Water and wait
6. Then when we do harvest we remember that God is the one who is the producer of life and giver of all things.

We are simply releasers.