HSTC Book Excerpt - Molded to Deliver

MOLDED TO DELIVER

Many of us are bound by our past experiences; we are scarred and wounded from those trials. As the heat from the wilderness penetrates our skin, the bandages that covered our wounds no longer stick to us because of the sweat that we are releasing. Our wounds now are open and we are vulnerable in the wilderness. Initially, we begin to look for things that can cover our wounds, but find no sufficient substitute. Our wounds are completely exposed before God, but this allows Him to begin the true healing process. In our lives we want to walk in purpose, see miracles, and see God’s people delivered, but contradictorily we refuse to expose our wounds to God. When God sees our wounds, He heals them that we might be an example to others of His Power.

Those of us that God has purposed have no choice than to come to grips and admit that we need to be healed physically, emotionally, and spiritually; we have carried these scars for too long. As God takes us through the wilderness – with our scars exposed – we become emotionally detached from the hurt and pain that our past experiences imprinted on our hearts. We do not have to avoid our past, because we are no longer bound by it. Satan wants us to feel embarrassed about our past and present state, which literally shuts the door of growth to our future. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) We can not forget that Jesus is in control. So, no matter what we have been through or are currently going through, He has orchestrated it for our good. We need not be ashamed, for it is through our situations that we receive our testimony. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;” (II Timothy 1:8)

Our testimonies must be heard to set free those that are still bound by Satan’s lies. We are important to God and we are the chosen vessels that He is sending to deliver new wine to His people. “But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:” (Acts 9:15) There is no room for guilt, regrets, lusts and failures; we must make room for God’s new wine to dwell in us. When others drink of His wine, they will taste what has been missing from their lives and be made whole. We must endure the wilderness not for us to be blessed, but so that others might see – through our lives – and glorify the Father through the Son. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”(John 14: 12-13) After Jesus has dealt with the wounds of our past we then can become equipped for our future.

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