LETTING GO & LETTING GOD!        DFO1493  4/83

         1. SOME PEOPLE ARE USED TO HAVING SO MUCH NATURAL STRENGTH & DRIVE, that when they don't have it, it really gets them down!--But that's the very thing that stands in the way of the Lord showing His strength!
         2. I DON'T THINK I EVER REALLY HAD VERY MUCH DRIVE OR NATURAL STRENGTH. I think that's why it's easy for me to depend on the Lord, because I had to! I knew I had to, because I was nothing & I had nothing. I had to have the Lord! I wouldn't have been anything without the Lord!
         3. IF YOU'VE HAD SO MUCH, IT'S HARD FOR YOU TO JUST LET GO & LET GOD! That's why you need the Word so much! You really need to get close to the Lord, to get to know Him & really depend on Him.
         4. THIS FIGHTING BUSINESS, THIS IS THE MISTAKE MY MOTHER MADE ABOUT HEALING WHEN SHE FIRST GOT PRAYED FOR & TOLD SHE SHOULD HAVE FAITH. She worked so hard at trying to have faith, it nearly killed her! People just don't realise it's not anything you do at all, it's just something you accept from the Lord, like Salvation. Your works must not be self-works & self-effort, it's gotta be the Lord!--Otherwise it's self-righteousness, self-works & self-energy, what the Lord calls "a voluntary humility," sort of a self-made spirituality. (Col.2:18)
         5. IT TAKES STRENGTH TO TRY TO BE GOOD, ACT GOOD, LOOK GOOD & ALL THAT, whereas this kind of strength is strictly from the Lord & you get it mostly when you're just down & out & almost dead!--Then you realise it's just the Lord.
         6. IT'S JUST LIKE SALVATION, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO GET IT EXCEPT JUST RECEIVE IT BY FAITH!-That's all! You can't be good enough, you can't work hard enough. I think the Lord just had to let me be such a terrible mess so I'd know it was nothing but the Lord, & everybody else would know it's nothing but the Lord--"all to the glory of God!" (1Cor.10:31) I'm nothing!
         7. THAT'S WHAT THE LORD WANTS YOU TO DO, TO THROW YOURSELF AT THE COMPLETE MERCY OF THE LORD!--Just to give up on yourself & just depend on the Lord to where you have nothing left but God.
         8. I THINK IT'S HARDER FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE TALENTED & HAVE A LOT OF NATURAL TALENT & ABILITY & DRIVE & PERSONALITY & LOOKS--& have got it all--to just trust the Lord, because they've got so much natural strength, & they're used to leaning on that. They're used to having it there, & when it's suddenly gone, they just collapse!
         9. FIRST OF ALL, YOU CAN GET PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED, then nervously exhausted, which results in mental exhaustion--& eventually, almost spiritual exhaustion!--What the World calls a nervous breakdown.
         10. I COULD NEVER HAVE DONE ALL OF THIS OR STARTED THE FAMILY OR DONE ANYTHING OF WHAT GOD'S DONE! What's been accomplished is all so far beyond me!--I know it's the Lord! People give me too much credit when it's all the Lord! I haven't done anything except open my mouth & He fills it.--The Lord just feeds me like a baby! I don't worry about all the problems of my Father or His business, I don't even know anything about it! I just let Him take care of it!
         11. SO IT'S ALL THE LORD--I ALMOST HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! He did it! He just made me what I am, & that's what I am! He does it all! I'm just nothing but a tool in His hand, that's all, & He does with me whatever He wants to.--And this is what you need to learn the most: Let go & Let God!--Amen?--GBY! ILY! Lie back in His arms & let Him do it--let Him solve it. Rest in the Lord! ILY!--GBAKY, in Jesus' name, amen.


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