Put A Demand On It!

I recently heard a minister say “put a demand on your tears”. Have you ever felt the more you cry, the more you cry, the more hurt you feel, the more hurt you feel, the more abandoned you feel, the more abandoned you feel, the more rejected you feel, the more rejected you feel?  The list can go on and on, you can fill in the blanks with your “tears” or area of discomfort.

The word tells us that Proverbs 23:7 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:... We make statements like “my heart is broken, you broke my heart, that did my heart good, that blessed my heart” because we tend to associate deep emotional feelings with the heart.  No wonder Proverbs tells us that our of the heart flows the issues of life, it is true because it is the heart that is so effected by life’s experiences.
Proverbs 4: 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

As long as we have dealings and relationships with people we will experience hurt and no doubt sometimes that hurt will make you cry but like the minister said “put a demand on your tears” put a demand on your hurt,  your abandonment, your rejection, your pain. Put a demand on it! What does that mean? Every tear, ever sting of pain, every time the memory of all the hurt, the pain the rejection, the abandonment rises up within you put a demand on it. I will make it through this! All things are working for my good! My pain will not have the victory over me! I will come out stronger and better! I will not be defeated by rejection, abandonment, pain. PUT A DEMAND ON IT!

Let us not forget that we cannot continuously ponder/focus on and/or revisit the memory of the past hurts because this is how the issues flow from your heart and effect every aspect of your life. If your past hurt, pain, and abandonment are at the forefront of your memory, every relationship you have will be affected. You will look for everyone to hurt you, abandon, or reject you. You may even subconsciously try to get people to reject you, abandon you by creating issues or problems. Maybe you will even test your friends and family by saying hurtful things, starting arguments, doing things to try and get them to abandon, hurt or reject you.. It’s called self-sabotage and creating your experience of  “everyone hates me, everyone hurts me, everyone rejects me”.  Many times this is done from the subconscious level of your mind but it validates the mindset of rejection, abandonment, pain and hurt. Sometimes we create situations that confirm what we believe about ourselves. We may not even realize that we are purposely doing these things to justify what we think based on some past hurt of experience.  Lets put a demand on our past pain and decree that "NOT ANOTHER DAY WILL I CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY  CREATE A CYCLE OF PAIN! TODAY I FORGET THOSE THINGS BEHIND ME AND I PRESS TOWARDS HIS CALLING TO BE HEALED AND FREE . I WILL NOT SABOTAGE MY RELATIONSHIPS! TODAY I HAVE A MIND SHIFT! I AM FREE AND I ACCEPT THE FREEDOM THAT IS ALREADY MINE BECAUSE JESUS HAS ALREADY MADE IT AVAILABLE FOR ME. I RECEIVE IT"!
 
 I love how Apostle Paul shared with us Philippians 3:13-14 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Paul was saying, I don’t know everything but I have got this one thing down, forgetting the things of the past, forgetting all the past hurts, past rejections, past abandonment to the point that nothing will stop me from pressing towards what God has for me.  He understood that focusing on his past issues, pain abandonment, and rejection could and would hinder and delay what God had for him.
 
Put demand on your tears, your pain, your abandonment, rejection …your hurt. Demand that it make you stronger, take you deeper in Christ than you have ever been, demand that instead of hindering you, it will cause you to be even more focused on all God has for you and the next time someone abandons you, rejects you, hurts you or causes you any kind of pain, don’t revisit the pains in the past by saying things like “ well, what am I to expect, this always happens”. Instead look at it as what it is, you got hurt this time, the last time you got hurt has nothing to do with this time unless you “THINK” it does. Imagine this, you’re a kid and you are riding your bike and fall and hurt your knee, 5 years later the same kid (now prob a teen) was running and fell and hurt their elbow and the teen said, “this happened because 5 years ago I was riding my bike and hurt my knee”. Do you see it? This is how we do with past hurts, rejection and pain.

That scenario may seem silly and that is my point. Let’s stop being silly and allow the finished works of Jesus to be at work in our mind, hearts and therefore in our lives. Let’s put a demand on our tears our pain, our rejection and that all things, the good and the bad can work for our good if only we will allow the word of God to work for us. The word works but you gotta work the word!
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Romans 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.