It’s Time to Get Out FROM UNDER
Ever heard someone say this? “UNDER the circumstances, I’m making it”? Quite frankly, those dear souls in Southern Texas and Louisiana could get away with saying it and it’s not just a saying for them — it is literal! But in spite of anyone’s circumstances, there are other options for declaring where we are and how we are. You’ve also probably heard someone say “I’m UNDER so much pressure with this project”. If that’s our response, in any case, it’s time for us to get out FROM UNDER.
In our early years of marriage, my relentless husband worked several jobs to help us make ends meet. He didn’t complain about working hard. It seemed the harder he worked, the more gratifying it was for him. I heard him often declare, “I perform better UNDER pressure.” And pressure is what came his way. Pressure to succeed; pressure to look the best and be the best and achieve the most. Stress and Pressure were holding his hand and they were taking him “UNDER”. Along the way, he had an “aha” moment and realized declaring “under pressure” was adding to the “pressure”. I think one of the most significant moment in his life was that “aha” moment when he changed that thinking, talking AND living. His new mode of operation was “low profile, low pressure — HIGH impact”.
No longer should we be declaring “we are under…..”! We should be declaring “I am ABOVE and not beneath ANYTHING!” How is that possible? Deuteronomy 28:13 tells us how “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be ABOVE, and you will not be UNDERNEATH….. IF YOU listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully.” THAT picture changed everything about the way my sweetheart saw himself. He no longer spoke “pressure” over himself. He started speaking freedom and overcoming pressure with common sense approach to life. “I don’t need the limelight. I don’t need or want the pressure that comes with it. I want to be highly effective and have high impact on others with my life and the choices I make.” It worked, because he did.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus was victorious over the enemy through His death on the cross. He was victorious OVER all the powers of darkness. Now we have the victory and the power to overcome because He lives in us. We never have to be “under” anything again.
The fact is…..we go OVER! “We OVERCOME by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.” Revelations 12:11
1 John 4:4 “ Little children, you are from God and have OVERCOME them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
Still living “under pressure” or “under the circumstances”? Here, take this shovel and get out from UNDER and rise to that place ABOVE it all! Be an OVER-COMER!