I went to the doctor’s today, and as the nurse was about to take my blood pressure, her Sphignomometer fell apart. The cord just got separated from its source. Now, how was she going to take my blood pressure with a broken Sphignomometer? A broken Sphignomometer cannot do what it was created to do; it is useless when it is broken. It’s just not fit for purpose.
The nurse just looked at the Sphignomometer and said, “Oh! It’s come apart”, and without a thought, she put it together again. It was that simple. I found that quite interesting, and I began to wonder, if God could put me together again that easily. You know, make me what He wants me to be. I mean who am I kidding, I know I’m not perfect. I want to be perfect though, I want to be holy, and to be what he wants me to be, but it’s not that easy, I feel so broken.
I see my secret faults and think, ‘Lord I wish you would put me back together, just like the nurse did that Sphignomometer, I want you to put me back together right now, I want to be perfect right now’.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord”. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
The truth is, God wants to make me perfect, but because I’m a spirit with a soul and a body, it’s not that easy. The Sphignomometer is a non-living thing, and therefore can be fixed easily, it has no feelings, it has no idea what it is and what it was created for, in fact, it isn’t aware of its existence. Unlike you and I, the Sphignomometer cannot learn from its mistakes and doesn’t understand the word consequences. So if it gets broken, we just fix it, and if it gets broken again, we fix it, we continue to fix it till it can’t be fixed anymore and then we just throw it away.
God wants us to appreciate who we are, He wants us to learn from our mistakes, to love our weaknesses as much as we do our strengths, so that when He fixes us bit by bit, we appreciate Him and we acknowledge our growth in Him. We know that it isn’t by our power that we got fixed, but by His grace, His mercy and His love. When He delivers us from certain sin, and helps us to rise above that sin, we are enlightened and aware of how difficult that process of deliverance was, that we become determined not to fall back under such bondage (you’ve paid too much a price for deliverance, you can’t afford to go back into bondage), and we move up higher in Him, wanting to be more and more like Him, with each fault being nailed to the cross of Calvary as we grow in Him. We look upward and onwards to a higher calling; step-by-step we attain perfection. Yesterday disappears and today brings a new opportunity for us to better ourselves, an opportunity for God to start the fixing process.
God loves you the way you are, He created you for a reason, divine destiny awaits you, do not let your secret faults or weaknesses hold you back, expose them to God and He’ll fix you, but you have to be patient.
Prayer:
In the mighty name of Jesus, I command your spirit to arise, for the Glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Stand up, step out of brokenness and lack of purpose, and step into your divine destiny in the mighty name of Jesus.
I rebuke every spirit of self-pity and worthlessness. Receive the spirit of peace and love, the spirit of thanksgiving to make you realise who God has called you to be. Receive the spirit of truth that tells you every day who you really are in Christ Jesus, and reminds you of just how much God loves you.
Begin to do what you were created to do in Jesus name. The blood of Jesus has set you free to step into Divine destiny; it has loosed every chain of wickedness holding you back and broken asunder every shackle.
Get up and go in the mighty Name of Jesus, you are fit for divine purpose; you are free in Jesus Name. Free to be who He has called you to be. You’ve been fixed.
(Written by Yewande Erinle, 2008 © All rights reserved.)
The nurse just looked at the Sphignomometer and said, “Oh! It’s come apart”, and without a thought, she put it together again. It was that simple. I found that quite interesting, and I began to wonder, if God could put me together again that easily. You know, make me what He wants me to be. I mean who am I kidding, I know I’m not perfect. I want to be perfect though, I want to be holy, and to be what he wants me to be, but it’s not that easy, I feel so broken.
I see my secret faults and think, ‘Lord I wish you would put me back together, just like the nurse did that Sphignomometer, I want you to put me back together right now, I want to be perfect right now’.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord”. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
The truth is, God wants to make me perfect, but because I’m a spirit with a soul and a body, it’s not that easy. The Sphignomometer is a non-living thing, and therefore can be fixed easily, it has no feelings, it has no idea what it is and what it was created for, in fact, it isn’t aware of its existence. Unlike you and I, the Sphignomometer cannot learn from its mistakes and doesn’t understand the word consequences. So if it gets broken, we just fix it, and if it gets broken again, we fix it, we continue to fix it till it can’t be fixed anymore and then we just throw it away.
God wants us to appreciate who we are, He wants us to learn from our mistakes, to love our weaknesses as much as we do our strengths, so that when He fixes us bit by bit, we appreciate Him and we acknowledge our growth in Him. We know that it isn’t by our power that we got fixed, but by His grace, His mercy and His love. When He delivers us from certain sin, and helps us to rise above that sin, we are enlightened and aware of how difficult that process of deliverance was, that we become determined not to fall back under such bondage (you’ve paid too much a price for deliverance, you can’t afford to go back into bondage), and we move up higher in Him, wanting to be more and more like Him, with each fault being nailed to the cross of Calvary as we grow in Him. We look upward and onwards to a higher calling; step-by-step we attain perfection. Yesterday disappears and today brings a new opportunity for us to better ourselves, an opportunity for God to start the fixing process.
God loves you the way you are, He created you for a reason, divine destiny awaits you, do not let your secret faults or weaknesses hold you back, expose them to God and He’ll fix you, but you have to be patient.
Prayer:
In the mighty name of Jesus, I command your spirit to arise, for the Glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Stand up, step out of brokenness and lack of purpose, and step into your divine destiny in the mighty name of Jesus.
I rebuke every spirit of self-pity and worthlessness. Receive the spirit of peace and love, the spirit of thanksgiving to make you realise who God has called you to be. Receive the spirit of truth that tells you every day who you really are in Christ Jesus, and reminds you of just how much God loves you.
Begin to do what you were created to do in Jesus name. The blood of Jesus has set you free to step into Divine destiny; it has loosed every chain of wickedness holding you back and broken asunder every shackle.
Get up and go in the mighty Name of Jesus, you are fit for divine purpose; you are free in Jesus Name. Free to be who He has called you to be. You’ve been fixed.
(Written by Yewande Erinle, 2008 © All rights reserved.)
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