{"id":1342,"date":"2011-02-13T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:13:29","slug":"twrap-025-21211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/applications\/twrap-025-21211","title":{"rendered":"TWRAC 025: Experience of Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This Week&#8217;s Recovery Application Challenge<\/h2>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #183921;\">Please be sure to complete this week&#8217;s<\/span> <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Open TWIRL 025\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/twirl\/twirl-025-21211\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">TWIRL 025<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #183921;\">prior to advancing to this TWRAC.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Experience of Letting Go<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What or who is your Isaac, today? Your Isaac is your spouse and your children. Your Isaac is your home, your job, your finances, and your health. It is all that satisfies you. It is all that you yearn for in the flesh as well as all you need and desire in the spirit. It is all your ups and all your downs. It\u2019s all that strengthens you and all that weakens you. It is your laughter and your tears. Your Isaac is all of it. Will you build an altar before the throne of grace where Christ is and offer him all that you care about? It\u2019s all his anyway. Jesus died to free us from all that binds us, but we have taken quite a bit if it back. Offer him your body, heart, soul, and mind. Offer yourself to God as a sacrifice to be used by him to accomplish his purposeful plans for your life today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let go, since you have no authority over any of it anyway, and let God take care of it all. He will provide the lamb. He will make a way. Give God your husband, your wife. Give God your kids. Give God your home and your career. Give God your health and the health of your family. Is it better off in your care or his care? As you surrender it all unto him, you can trust him to direct you onto the best path for you, your family, and everything you hold dear.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What are your hopes and dreams today?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do you want that you believe God should want for you?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What big thing(s) are you praying for these days?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How might you be impatient waiting for God to answer your prayers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is your motivation for what you are praying for?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do you want for God to respond to your prayers? What do you want for God to do?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How have you&#8212;past or present&#8212;attempted in your own way to hasten God&#8217;s answer to your prayers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Think about this:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">What might you be holding onto that might be getting in the way of how God respond&#8217;s to your prayer?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What about your thinking, feelings, and behavior might be in the way of experiencing the full blessing of God in your relationship with Christ?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What are your feelings about what is yours and what belongs to God?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thinking deeply about this, how might your feelings need to change in order to experience blessing in your life?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What and who is your Isaac? What are you holding on to? What do you need to let go of to experience blessing?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What might you consider to be the consequences (potential gains and losses) for what you choose to hold on to and are willing to let go of?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What if God wants something different for you than what you want?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What if what God wants for you is better for you but also presents challenges that could pose some difficulty before the best of what He offers is experienced by you?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>You do not have because you do not ask God.\u00a0When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.<\/strong> James 4:2b-3 (NIV)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. <\/strong>Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"StevieMG\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=TWRAC+025%3A+Experience+of+Letting+Go\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/applications\/twrap-025-21211\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week&#8217;s Recovery Application Challenge Please be sure to complete this week&#8217;s TWIRL 025 prior to advancing to this TWRAC. The Experience of Letting Go What or who is your Isaac, today? 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