Is it time?

I'm wondering if you have ever heard God tell you to "RUN AND DON'T LOOK BACK!"? Or perhaps even, "It's time"?

Genesis 19:15-17 God spoke through the angels: "15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished." 16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!" Luke 9:62 "Jesus replied, 'No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.'"


I can recall a few times in the past couple of years, that God has nudged me, and honestly PUSHED me to let go of some un-healthy relationships. Pushed because I am a people pleaser, and simply don't like for others to be upset with me. I tend to have a personality of not wanting to rock the boat. He began with nudging, but there became an ever more increasing pressure to release. Makes me think of my fishing pole, to catch and release. God asks us to fish, He never asks us to clean. That is for Him and Him alone. Perhaps we are in His way, or perhaps even He has someone to bring into our presence.



I think that every situation is extremely different but requiring the same results, to be obedient to what He tells us and places on our hearts. In listening to the hearts of other women seeking more of God, there are comments being made of needing to let go of a relationship that is NOT healthy. As one that has walked this path, I want to share a few things I've learned because the situation was a STUMBLING BLOCK for me. Causing me to compromise instead of sharpen me. This was holding me captive, as a prisoner, and I found that I wasn't moving forward with Christ.

When you are in a HEALTHY relationship, you won't be continually dealing with drama. Nor will you find yourself surrounded by negativism, or control & manipulation. Other's won't place you on a pedestal as their God either. Healthy means just that! Sharpening, encouraging, delightful, a harvest of GOOD fruit and causing you to desire to be more than you are, and yet knowing that you are acceptable right were you are at.

Some situations or stumbling blocks that I have found myself in since walking with God:

1) Dwelling in the past and desiring to keep you there. God has redeemed you and I, He never tells us to go backwards. God never keeps us in our past! He has us in the NOW moment, and promises us a FUTURE. I can't help but think that when this happens they are eluding that The Shed Blood Of Christ wasn't enough to cover my past. Therefore you and/or I must live in guilt and shame for eternity. NO! He says, I came to give you life, and life more abundantly. He says, I AM your redeemer. John 4: 13-15 "13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." This passage at verse 14 that Jesus Christ spoke doesn't say for the good, or for so and so, it says: FOR WHOEVER...that means exactly that! Who ever....me, the worst of sinners! Thank YOU JESUS!

2) Control/manipulation. I became very heavy in my spirit when I would spend time with a person that was controlling and manipulating because they didn't really want me spending time with others without them. Comments would be said like: Why don't you invite me to bible study? Why don't you introduce me to your other friends? Why this or that, and I came to realize that she was putting me on a pedestal to be her god. This woman loves Jesus and she has a personal relationship, but she was looking to me to be her Savior. I CAN'T, only Jesus Christ can. And NO ONE should have that type of control over you, to pick your friends or to even pull you from friends.

3) GOSSIP and BACKBITING.



Remember, this is only after a time, not an instant decision. Pray about it, LISTEN FOR GOD and I also want to re say that: God says that iron sharpens iron. Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

If the relationship is not challenging you to be better or more for Jesus Christ, then it is probably causing you to be stagnant or even drying you up. Perhaps it's time to step aside from this relationship because God wants your LIGHT to grow brighter not dimmer. I just want to encourage you that yes it can be difficult letting go and please make sure God is pointing you in this direction. Never, ever, give up on them and to continue praying for them. If God places it on your heart to let go of a relationship, then you simply, MUST IN OBEDIENCE. He, and He alone, has your best interest at heart.


John 10:10 NASB "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Father, Thank You for life, for sharpening us, and commanding us to not look back. Thank You Jesus for YOUR SHED BLOOD for my sins and for the sins of all that come to the foot of the cross. Father, give us ears to hear and eyes to see. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.