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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Agreements…
Did you know that most agreements that we make are unsaid, maybe even unconscious? I mean, there isn’t enough room on this blog to get into how many social, political and day to day agreements we make by default by simply following the status quo. Waiting at the street lights is an agreement! Standing in line at the grocery store is an agreement! This is not a criticism, these are necessary ‘agreements’ for the simple continuation of life as we know it! There are other types of agreements – these are the ones that I’ve been thinking about lately. The kinds you make with yourself – that then LEAD you to seek out other people who will make an agreement with you not to ACKNOWLEDGE your secret agreements. I don’t know how many people over the years I have met who have sought my help – and when I’ve refused to ignore their secret and perhaps unconscious agreements with themselves, they have turned on me. And then – like clockwork, go and find the other people upset with me for the very same reason!!! To agree with them!! LOL!
Do you have secret agreements? Perhaps you have settled for a mediocre life, that’s an agreement to settle. Perhaps you’re dishonest, or sleep around, or are negative, but avoid looking at these things inside you – that’s an agreement that you’ve made with your self. An agreement to avoid your hypocrisy. Look at your friendships. Your relationships. Have you cut everybody off who might call you out on your secret agreements? Are you in a relationship with someone you know you shuldn’t be? Do they know that? Or do you have an agreement not to rock the boat? Do you have people in your life that you gossip with? That you have non verbally agreed with to be lukewarm towards God? Look at the groups you are a part of. The places you go too, the FRAMEWORK in which you live. Is this framework a bridge to freedom, or invisible prison walls? I too, have made many, many secret agreements – all in the hopes of making my life more pleasurable, more comfortable – ALL of them were pacts with the Devil, that kept my soul enslaved.
How did I get out? One of the most powerful agreements I ever made with myself was over 12 years ago, I made an agreement with myself to stop lying. It started by telling the truth about how full of crap I was…almost immediately it began to nullify all of those secret and evil agreements I had made! There is nothing more powerful than the Truth. I made an agreement to tell the truth. I then made an agreement with God. I agreed to let Him rescue me – AT ANY COST! No matter what it cost me in my life, I agreed for Him to rescue me and lead me to The Truth! And He did. What is The Truth? It isn’t unknowable as Pontius Pilate believed. The truth isn’t an idea, or a principle. The Truth is a person. Jesus. He is the author of the new contract I have with God. He signed it with His blood. I refuse to make any agreements without Him as my lawyer being present. And the result? I.Am.Free. Amen
Recovered In Christ 
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