Speak It!

       "You have to speak what you seek until you see what you said."

I am free.
I am free.  
I am free.
I am free.
I am free.
I am free.
I am free.

      Have you ever had to repeat something over and over again to yourself as if you were trying to convince yourself that what your saying is real and true? You may sound like a broken record but you know that what you are saying is a mandatory to do and necessarily vital to your everything. I have. This morning the words "I am Free" were on constant repeat out of my mouth. For some reason, I woke up with a sense that something was trying to take hold of me and keep me bound. It was my mind. In my mind, the past kept replaying. My past hurts. My past pains. My past failures. My past let downs. My past put downs. Things from my past that I thought I had buried to never resurface again. But guess what, they did.
      On yesterday in morning worship, the youth sung Free Worshiper by Todd Dulaney during Praise and Worship and it has stuck with me ever since. I am a firm believer that EVERYTHING happens for a reason. For me that phrase, even from some babes in Christ, was for such a time as this. There is a part in the song where we sung "Lord I'm Free" over and over again. This morning when all these memories and feelings started to arise, I had to sing just that part of the song to remind myself that I am no longer bound to my past. To what I did and what was done to me. I fought so hard to get where I am now and I am definitely refusing to go back.
      I say all of that to say to you this morning that you are free. What happened back then shouldn't and doesn't define who you are right now. At times the memories of what happened to you and what you did will try to rear it's ugly head to try to stop you from walking in the greatness and goodness that is you, but you have the power to stand flat footed against it and say "I am free." For some of you maybe it's not memories. Maybe it is present day people and situations that hold you in condemnation. Know that even in the midst of, you have the power to free yourself. You have the power to speak those things be not as though they were. That is if you are tired of being bound and desire to be free. Then and only then you will open your mouth and speak "I am free" like a broken record that not even the forces of nature can stop until you feel every shackle release you from the grips that hinders you from moving forward and being all that you were destined to be. I don't know about you, but I am willing to do this as often and as necessary as I need to do it. Not just for me, but for my babies as well. They model what they see. Not just for you, but for your babies as well. They will model what they see.
      Start right now. Right where you currently are. At your desk. In your cubicle. In the bathroom. In the break room. In your classroom, wherever. The shackles and chains that bound you are no respector of where you are or whose around you so why not. Just begin to say it out of your mouth. Pull it from your toes and declare right now, today that "I AM FREE!" 💜💜💜