If I had a dollar for every time I have said "It is what it is," or heard someone say it- I would be a rich lady. It amazes me what we give license and a full tank of gas to for mindsets to keep accelerating in our lives, and we do not even realize what we are doing. When we confess it is what it is, what we are really saying is 'I am not honest enough or strong enough to offer up any kind of solution.' I am accepting defeat and I am communicating my sense of helplessness disguised as stating the obvious. When I profess this into the atmosphere, I am thwarting constructive criticism in its tracks, and have built a Fortnight wall around myself and any prospects of moving forward have been denied.
"It is what you expect and what you accept."
When we speak counter to the word of God, we create a theology based on what we see and feel, and not one based on truth. And if you peel back the onion a little more, the bigger question we have to ask ourselves is -- am I saying this because my level of expectation is low and therefore, it affects the way I believe? My beliefs influence my behavior. And faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. What are you listening to, friend? And what are you meditating on and feeding into your heart and mind? My kindergartener is memorizing a small script for his kindergarten graduation. He memorizes it by hearing it and by saying it OUT LOUD. We have to stop creating theological reason for disease to exist and for my situation to remain as is! We have to stop creating and adjusting our view of the kingdom by saying things like:
"well my mom and dad had it, so I will too"
"I just can't seem to get a job"
"God chose me to be Connor's mom because He knew I could handle it"
When we think this way, we create room for things to flourish that were never intended to flourish. What if key people in the bible had just said and had a heart attitude of "it is what it is?"
-If Moses had just said "it is what it is" and the Israelites stayed in captivity
-What if the lady with the issue of blood hadn't pressed in to get her miracle?
-What if Jonah had been content to stay in the belly of a whale?
Proverbs 18:21- "Your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life" TPT
I wonder if I took an x-ray of my sprit man, what it would look like? You can negatively self-talk to the point that it can change your composition. I think about what were created to be and in whose image, and what I have hijacked that with and changed my garment of praise to one of shame and defeat.
Looky looky- the amazing, never ending love of God is the great news today. What seems bleak and too far gone, is the perfect place for Jesus to walk with you through the remnants of disappointment, and construct an army. When Ezekiel walked around in the valley of ankle deep bones, I am sure he thought the situation was hopeless. In Ezekiel 37, the word says the bones were dry... dead... long gone... but the Lord asked the prophet (You) can these bones live? He is not asking you questions to stump you, but to make you think and to co-labor with you. The power to speak something into existence is YOURS. If Ezekiel had of answered based on his senses and his understanding, he would have answered the Lord and told him no. Instead, the prophet said "Lord, you alone know."
Are we speaking life and God's promises into dry bones, or are we speaking our own judgements and speculations?
"The opposite of faith is certainty."
My point? Ezekiel could have just thought these things, and that is good too, we should think happy and right thoughts. But.. there is active power in the spoken word. God's word in our mouth is a sword. God did not give us the spirit of the resurrected Christ so we can sit down and wait. You were born to be used mightily. The only thing more important than knowing God, is Him knowing you. We have to stop sitting passively by and having the heart stance that "it just is what it is."
Edmund Burke said "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
We have to take initiative and speak truth in the hard places. Some of us are one proclamation short of victory. To change the way we speak, we have to change our mind. I walk around my house and my job everyday and do not put on my armor (Ephesians 6:10-18). We have to take every thought captive. Think prisoner of war... we should be interrogating every thought, isolating it, STARVING IT, who do you work for and killing it before it has a chance to infect our camp. We pull down strongholds, not defend them once they are there and feed them so they get bigger. Our supernatural Nintendo game is jumping from cloud to cloud-- we go from glory to glory.
"well, you don't know my circumstance!"
Never possess what you want to release. If we believe that there is life and death in the power of the tongue and scripture says there is, then calling the circumstances yours is a big mistake. When we have been living with a circumstance for a long time, there is a tendency to let the devil talk us into believing we have to live with those circumstances. Don't tell God you have a big problem, tell your problem you have a big GOD. It's possible friend that if you are living in frustration, and I have been there, that you're still holding possession. We are aiding and abetting a criminal when we allow a frustration and disappointment to linger. A hardened heart poisons the mind.
Let's stop saying "it is what it is" and start proclaiming what the word of the Lord says:
I am loved
I am His
I am worthy
I am purposed
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