From the Desks of Steve Shultz and Julie A. Smith:
This is an important message and one that is rarely talked about today.
We appreciate Lyn Packer taking on this subject matter and sharing what she was healed of and delivered from herself.
Lyn Packer shares this word from the Lord about the trap of self-abandonment:
God is saying to you today, "I am setting you free from that spirit and the effects it has had on your life, your health, your self-esteem and your service to Me and others. I am causing you to rise again with renewed strength and vigor; refreshed energy and fresh power!"
In all the pouring out of ourselves, we should NOT be abandoning and neglecting ourselves along the way. If that were so, why would God want us healed, restored and delivered? The great Deliverer came to set you free, to give you life abundantly, and to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you can ask or think.
That is how GOOD He is and how much He cares about your well-being.
With that in mind, read this most encouraging and heartfelt word from Lyn Packer...God is setting you free! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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Recently, the Lord has been speaking to me about the trap of self-abandonment that the enemy has lured many of God's people into. It is a web of self-denial, self-abandonment and the demonic counterfeit of a true, godly, "laying down" of ones life in service to God and others.
This spirit that has caused huge weights and burdens to become attached to people's souls; it has built strongholds in people's minds. It has not only affected their souls and their minds, but also their health and their relationships.
God is saying to you today, "I am setting you free from that spirit and the effects it has had on your life, your health, your self-esteem and your service to Me and others. I am causing you to rise again with renewed strength and vigor; refreshed energy and fresh power!"
Understanding How This Spirit Works
The Lord wants you to understand how this spirit works. It has led God's people to believe they must put others' needs before their own to the point of denying their own bodies the rest and replenishment they need. It has caused them to come under the wrong pressure to be at everything and to go above and beyond wise boundaries of service in order to be seen as serving God. Many have put service before family and before their own health needs – even putting ministry before God at times. (Photo via Pexels)
One of the other ways in which this spirit works is by getting people to believe that their needs don't count, their opinions don't matter, their voices don't deserve to be heard, or they are not important and cannot make a difference. It has stolen from them dignity and honor, causing them to discount and hide their feelings for fear of being rejected, and much more.
This spirit has twisted the meaning of Scripture in people's minds, causing them to believe that when Jesus said in the Bible that we should deny ourselves to follow Him (see Matthew 16:24-26), it meant to deny our needs as humans while putting others first – to see our needs as being bad somehow, and to deny our feelings. (I was caught in this trap for many years, and God had to set me free of it.)
A New Season of War Against This Demonic Power
God has declared a new season of war on this demonic power and is releasing a spirit of wisdom and revelation regarding this trap. He is helping His people to see where they have become ensnared and come under this demonic, burdensome taskmaster; He is setting them free, showing them how to escape its clutches and negate its effects in their lives.
The Lord is working in His people's lives, breaking down strongholds of wrong thinking in regard to how they see themselves and treat themselves, and helping them to see themselves and treat themselves with the respect that He sees and treats them with. He is saying that self-care and compassion are not wrong, and that we cannot love others well when we don't know how to love ourselves in a healthy, godly way, or how to treat ourselves with the dignity, respect and honor that He treats us with (see Leviticus 19:17-18 and John 15:12-13).
Seeing Yourself as He Sees You
Jesus gave us the glory that the Father had given Him (see John 17:22). In the Greek, that word "glory" means "most exalted state," "honor," "worth," "dignity," "good opinion concerning someone, resulting in praise, honor, and glory"; "magnificence," "excellence," and much more.
God is calling us to see ourselves as He sees us and to walk in the light of that revelation knowledge. This is part of His plan to bring His children, the Church, to maturity so that we can truly shine as lights placed on a lamp stand; shining like a city set on a hill; being the children of God that the earth itself has been groaning for and longing to see displayed (see Matthew 5:14-16 and Romans 8:19).
Allow God to bring fresh revelation to you in this season of discovering who you are in Him, how He sees you, and the dignity and honor with which He treats you as you begin to treat yourself the way He does. (Photo via Pexels)
Allow God to bring true health to every area of your life so that you can practice true, godly self-denial in a way which ensures that you have the strength and health you need to accomplish all God calls you to.
Prayer Points
• Ask God to show you where you have allowed the enemy to ensnare you and entice you into a false understanding of self-denial, and where that has led to self-abandonment.
• Ask the Lord for fresh revelation and scriptural understanding of how He sees you.
• Repent for allowing the enemy to distort your vision and make you see yourself as less than God sees you. Then ask the Lord to set you free. Cooperate with Him in how He leads you in this freedom process.
• Pray for the Church at large – that God's people would see where they have come under the tyranny of a false, counterfeit spirit of self-denial and allowed themselves to become imprisoned.
• Pray that Believers' eyes and hearts would be opened to see themselves as God sees them and to rise up healed so they can be agents of healing and freedom for others.
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Lyn Packer
Rob and Lyn Packer Ministries
Email:Â lyn@robandlyn.org
Website: www.nzpropheticnetwork.com | www.robandlyn.org
Lyn Packer and her husband Rob have been in ministry for over 40 years in varying roles from youth workers through to senior pastors and now currently as itinerant ministers in New Zealand. They have ministered in many nations throughout the South Pacific, Asia, and in North America. They are a part of the Prophetic Council in New Zealand and are widely respected as prophetic ministers wherever they minister. Lyn facilitates the New Zealand Prophetic Network, a ministry similar to Elijah List in New Zealand, and leads a network for women ministers in New Zealand.
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