What Are You Resisting?

What are you resisting? What has God been removing in you? Are you resisting what he has for you?

Book recommendation: Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. It will get your whole life together.

Resistance comes in a lot of different forms.

Are you resisting doing what God has told you to do? Are you afraid of success?

I am designed as an encourager, a coach, probably in another life, I probably should have been a therapist lol. That’s something that I’m totally guilty of, as in resistance to moving forward in the space that I know that God has told me to. In this way, we (I) settle and have been stagnant. And have you ever been around stagnant water? It smells. The reason it smells is that it is collecting dead things. When you continue to resist God’s instructions your purpose and what God has designed for you collect and become stagnant and have a stench because you are not flowing and moving freely in what he has told you to do.

We also resist because we are a perfectionist.

When you’re a perfectionist you feel like things have to be at 100% before you move. I never felt like I was at 100%, but recently as I grow in my own understanding of who I am I understand that I don’t have to be 100%. God has equipped me specifically for exactly where I am, and he’s given me very purposeful experiences in my life that motivate and inspire others.

All you have to do is be a water-walker.

You just need to take your foot and put it out of the boat.

Another thing that people might be resisting is hurting someone’s feelings. For example, you may have a mother who you think might be hurt if you tell your full authentic story or a family member who is trying to do the thing that you know you can do, and you don’t want them to feel some kind of way if you succeed and pass them. So you shrink and give up. You sacrifice your purpose on the altar of resisting encountering a difficult emotion or challenging relationship dynamic.

It’s really important to remove or grow around blockages if you want to move forward.

When something’s blocking there are two choices, it either dies, or it moves around it. If you look at a tree, and you put something in the way of the tree, that tree is either going to stay stagnate and die or eventually grow around the blockage, oftentimes incorporating the very thing that was in the way into the new branch that is intended to grow and reach out. You have to learn how to release those resisted things to God so the obstacle can be moved or you can around it in the direction God intends for you to reach.

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