Here is a little message that I recieved in an email yesterday. I hope you will read it through to the end as it is very powerful. These words are an except from a sermon by the Reverend T.D. Jakes. I really needed to see this today in confirmation of something I have been needing to do for three months now.
"There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you, let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
The Bible said "They came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not forus. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us." [1 John 2:19]
People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over.
Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......LET IT GO!!!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, & see your worth.....LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you ........LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude.......LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him......LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves......LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to......LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing in your life!!! LET IT GO!!!
So get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "
- The Reverend T.D. Jakes
7 comments:
Well, geez... That couldn't have come at a better time for me! Thank you!
That is amazing and I am sure fits into ALL of our lives somehow!!! Your posts are always worth the wait, Melissa, just like special little gifts!!!!
Bright blessings to you in your "letting goes" because Rev. jakes makes it sound easy and I know it is not!!!!!
TD Jakes coems up with some good, powerful stuff.
Thanks for sharing that.
I think we all have suff we need to let go of.
reading, repeating...reading, repeating...a new mantra...good I needed one.
very good advice. I think there's something, or someone, that we all need to let go in life. Thanks for the reminder.
Hoping all is well with you and your little guy.
It's amazing how quickly emails travel...I got that very same email, that very same day. And I too almost posted it.
It's so true... Let them go....
It's so hard to do at the time, but how so very true it is.
I used to read you ages & ages ago. Both of our lives have changed drastically since then. Both for the better.
I'm so glad I "found" you again & thankful to read this post tonight. I may repost on my new blog if that's ok.
Blessings,
~Kellee
Formerly of the Serenity Now Blog
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