WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE LOSING EVERYTHING

WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE LOSING EVERYTHING

Easy come easy go, is a flippant attitude possessed by those who did not work hard for what they have. It was either inherited or handed to them. They may have won it or were born into it, however the easy go still is not a reality, because of the deceitfulness of riches. But what about you who have worked your finger to the bone and worked night and day to get what you have, and then are faced with the choice of following Me, or staying with your stuff! Saying I surrender all, is simple, thinking you have done it is also easy,  doing it, that's different. "Any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to) all that he has cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:33 AMP

Material goods, such as cars, boats, houses, lands, buildings all represent riches, and in themselves are just objects for use by man. However they possess a strange power when they begin to accumulate in the hands of an individual that works night and day to acquire them.  There is something strange that happens in the heart of a man because these things grab hold and give the impression that the man's value is determined by their abundance. This is the deceit of riches! For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life in the eternal kingdom of God? [37] For what can a man give as an exchange (a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his blessed life in the eternal kingdom of God?" Mark 8:36-37 AMP You came into the world naked and that's the way your going out!

If you said, "I surrender all", I took you seriously, and it now belongs to Me, but because riches are so deceptive you will think you are going to die if I begin to take them. The deception is so well hidden, that you never realized you were basing your value and self worth on them. It becomes very obvious when you go through the dark valley of the stripping process, and you feel like you are loosing everything. No, you are actually gaining everything, you are just in the valley of the shadow of death to self, to gain the kingdom life, where I become everything to you! After this process is over you will still have to "guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); always keeping in mind that, a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs." Luke 12:15 AMP

The process is very hard on you flesh, pride and ego, which are all enemies of the cross. Right now it seems that all is lost and there is no earthly way out, yet that's the way it's supposed to be. NO EARTHLY WAY OUT! You may have said that I am the way, but for it to be reality, you must actually experience Me being your only Way! You must come to the end of everything in order for this to happen, stripped of everything that you have ever trusted or depended on, including persons, places and things. I know you think you are going to physically die because it hurts so bad, but it's only your old nature that's being put to death, " your weeping will endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5 AMP 

You are never for a moment alone, in this process, "even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, do not fear any evil: because I am with you; My rod and My staff will comfort you." Psalm 23:4 KJV Every believer must go through the stripping process in order to put on the new man, and if they don't, "then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things will creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless in your life." Mark 4:19 AMP