@Registered Member, I woke up very early today. I just went through a fiery trial with a visiting family member during my last two weeks of chemo. I learned a lot about boundaries🥴 and how to sustain them. False faces too! The Lord had told me long ago to stay away from this person but through misguided compassion I let them back into my life! It was quite the painful lesson.
So this morning, when I saw this post, I started writing out each step.
Example:
I AM your source (Not a church, denomination, priest, preacher, speaker or prophet)
*I had, in times past, without realizing it, let these things be my sustaining power.
Then I went on to:
I AM your validation
I realized I had let this family member somehow become a source of validation and got a big dose of reality! There was some serious, iron clad denial in this. Pruning hurts!)
I AM your security (not the current provider of my housing, not America etc.)
I AM your confirmation (through Christ Jesus)
I (AM) establish your destiny (not my former employer nor my ex-husband or my parents)
I (AM) equip, launch and sustain you! (In a post by Elisha she had used the word sustain in a note me!)
I (AM) will not allow man or their opinion of you to hold you captive. (Former church, family member etc)
This exercise help me see the ways I’ve let others define me, for awhile, and not lean solely on Jesus for all I really need. Hugs!