Power of Association

Have you ever had a place or an experience that cost you everything but then God used it to be "your everything."
Let me explain.
12 years ago, I …let me say it again, "I" had plans to move to another state, have a different life. I just wanted to move forward in my plans. I "somehow" (hum, How does God do that)….ended up in a business deal with my brother to create a subdivision. Now, at the time I knew this place was the most beautiful place I had seen ..in the Baton Rouge area. "I" knew it would make money. So, I dove in with plans to make a profit and move on. Over the next 7 years, that was the roughest time of my life…BUT GOD!!
 
But God used it and turned it into one of the best things in my life - something beautiful!
There were so many challenges - No road could enter the land. We tried one direction and then another. Then the bank pulled out due to the economy, so we were stuck with no way to put in a road. I tried to sell my house; and couldn't. Then, my brother sold his and he and his young family moved; to put a street in that the bank would now not fund. Engineering cost skyrocketed because every direction we went ..the door was closed.
 
God made a way where there wasn't one. This story could actually be a book; it is so long. But I want to get to my point for YOU!
 
If you are in a season that seems like it will never end, be encouraged. Persevere! Sometimes we can't see the finish line! But the finish line is there.  AND - YOU can WIN!!
 
I ended up on top. WAY ON TOP!! The place I once hated, is now the most beautiful place to me-- really It's flat out beautiful to anyone who sees it!
I no longer associate it with a bad time.
 
God was doing a bigger work in me. God restored it all - the lost time, money and energy. He has now given me the sweetest gift. (Romans 8:28)
When I look at "the property now", I call it home.
 
BUT - this is the question I want to ask you-
What situation in your life do you need to "change the way you see it"?
 
I'll give you another example-
 
I was coaching someone, just the other day, and they hated to see their husband look at and talk on his phone- because it was a picture from the past of him looking at things he shouldn’t (porn) and not being present. But that was a lie- that was then, not NOW, her thoughts were not the truth…God has done a work in her marriage. Yet she was STILL seeing thru old eyes.
She associated him being on the phone to a miserable time in their life.
 
I had her remember and recount the times he is on his phone NOW-ordering for things for their home, texting her sweet texts, calling the children or making money for the family….…
 
What in your life are you seeing through lenses that are NOW a lie--?
What are you associating with a negative or curse that needs a new association of the blessing?
Confirm the truth and Make a decision to see it differently.
This truth will set you free!
 
            If you hold onto the lie-you can't walk in the truth!
 
What if your biggest blessings are right in front of you and all you have to do is see them through the eyes of God - NEW eyes-with truth and love?
 
I encourage you to take a cursed situation or circumstance that you hate and take it to God and ask him to turn it into a blessing, something beautiful and give you the eyes to see it in a NEW WAY! (Romans 8:28)
 
            Change your perspective - Change your life!
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