This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge
Please be sure to complete this week’s TWIRL 025 prior to advancing to this TWRAC.
The Experience of Letting Go
What or who is your Isaac, today? Your Isaac is your spouse and your children. Your Isaac is your home, your job, your finances, and your health. It is all that satisfies you. It is all that you yearn for in the flesh as well as all you need and desire in the spirit. It is all your ups and all your downs. It’s all that strengthens you and all that weakens you. It is your laughter and your tears. Your Isaac is all of it. Will you build an altar before the throne of grace where Christ is and offer him all that you care about? It’s all his anyway. Jesus died to free us from all that binds us, but we have taken quite a bit if it back. Offer him your body, heart, soul, and mind. Offer yourself to God as a sacrifice to be used by him to accomplish his purposeful plans for your life today.
Let go, since you have no authority over any of it anyway, and let God take care of it all. He will provide the lamb. He will make a way. Give God your husband, your wife. Give God your kids. Give God your home and your career. Give God your health and the health of your family. Is it better off in your care or his care? As you surrender it all unto him, you can trust him to direct you onto the best path for you, your family, and everything you hold dear.
- What are your hopes and dreams today?
- What do you want that you believe God should want for you?
- What big thing(s) are you praying for these days?
- How might you be impatient waiting for God to answer your prayers?
- What is your motivation for what you are praying for?
- How do you want for God to respond to your prayers? What do you want for God to do?
- How have you—past or present—attempted in your own way to hasten God’s answer to your prayers?
- Think about this: What might you be holding onto that might be getting in the way of how God respond’s to your prayer?
- What about your thinking, feelings, and behavior might be in the way of experiencing the full blessing of God in your relationship with Christ?
- What are your feelings about what is yours and what belongs to God?
- Thinking deeply about this, how might your feelings need to change in order to experience blessing in your life?
- What and who is your Isaac? What are you holding on to? What do you need to let go of to experience blessing?
- What might you consider to be the consequences (potential gains and losses) for what you choose to hold on to and are willing to let go of?
- What if God wants something different for you than what you want?
- What if what God wants for you is better for you but also presents challenges that could pose some difficulty before the best of what He offers is experienced by you?
You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:2b-3 (NIV)
Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)
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