Breaking Through

This week we had teaching called Plumb line, You can check out the verses Amos 7:7-9 and Isaiah 28:7. It's a very intense week, for me at least, where the Holy Spirit reveals a lot to you.

I had so much from my past, things I never felt like I would ever be free from. I can't tell you how many times I confessed the same sins over and over again because of the guilt or shame I felt. It was something that was hard for me to grasp, that God still loves me, and that others will still love me after they hear my story. 

As I was having my quiet time this morning, God brought up this song called "Breaking Through" by Jeremy Riddle, the lyrics are this...

"Your love is like a sunrise
Shattering the dark of night
Your presence is a paradise
To our hearts

You're filling all the world with light
You're making every wrong thing right
You're waking up the dead to life with your love

God you're always breaking though the dark
Breaking into lives and healing hearts
Your love has torn the veil
Your love can never fail
Your love is making all things new

Your love is an eternal fire
A jealous and pure desire
Strong enough to be the sacrifice
That set me free

You have taken all our sins away
You have risen and won the day
You have broken every bond and chain in Your love

So we lift up one voice
We lift up a voice
We sing and we shout for joy

For now we are Yours
Yes our hearts are Yours
You're ransomed us with your blood"

And it is so true guys! This week was so intense, and the Holy Spirit revealed so much to me and laid so much on my heart, things in my past that I had never dealt with properly. I had so much fear and so much anxiety that after I revealed these things that no one would look at me in the same way, that no one would love me because of my past. But that is the thing, because of my "past".

Past(adjective): gone or elapsed in time

Our past in GONE because the Blood of Jesus Christ washed us clean. Our chains are gone! We have been set free! God, Our heavenly Father sent His one and only son to earth, so that He may take on all of the pain of the world and die for our sins so that we may be broken out of bondage and have eternal life with Christ! 

How incredible is that? I had such revelation this week, For 6 years I wasn't able to accept Jesus's forgiveness because I wasn't able to forgive myself. But what a change I had! As I shared my story and how broken I was for a time in my life, it was like a switch, I wasn't a bad person, I wasn't unworthy, I wasn't shameful, I was broken. I need the Love of Jesus, For my Heavenly Father to pick up the pieces that were shattered, and put them back together, turning me into something beautiful. A beautiful creation in Christ. Yesterday, I was able to forgive myself, I was able to receive forgiveness from my eternal Father. Do you know how relieving? How refreshing that felt?

Jesus wants to wash you white as snow, he wants to take your brokenness aside and make it beautiful. We are all sinners, we have all done things in our life we wish we could change or take back, but there is nothing, absolutely nothing in the whole universe that you could do that would make Jesus love you any less. His love is the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow. His heart breaks when you are unable to receive it, because that's what he died for, so that you have the opportunity to be forgiven. He wants to set you free. Believe it, Receive it, Live it out. By the unending Love of Jesus Christ, Your Chains are Gone. You. Are. Set. Free.