"SPIRITUAL GPS" by Moya Boardman

To get where you are going you first need to know where you are - seems simple but although we may apply it when we are driving we don’t always apply it anywhere else. At the start of the year I knew I needed to look at improving my health & losing weight but I’d put off getting any sort of medical assessment trying to avoid hearing anything bad. I had a few blood tests which indicated that I had a poorly functioning thyroid and may be verging on diabetes. I was initially disappointed; I didn’t want to hear that, I felt a failure that God was failing me.

However I had a choice - I could stay feeling like that and go into a pity party. I could carry on ignoring my health or do something with the knowledge. I chose to do something with it because I wanted to get to the place of being healthier. It hasn’t been easy but knowing where I was did motivate me to keep going and I have lost weight, I’m slowly improving.

In our lives with God we often get those prophetic words telling us about the plan He has for us, I’ve heard it described as God taking a slice of our future and bringing it into the present to show us the way ahead. He sees us as we can be. However hearing it does not make us that person - there is a process to go through. The starting point is to allow God to show you where you are and what needs to change to enable you to go forward. It seems incredible but many times we do not want to hear the things about ourselves because of shame, pride, wounding. We actually make a choice not to hear sometimes.
It takes courage to hear God say things like “we are feeling sorry for ourselves & complaining about other people” - we don’t want to allow Him to show us the wound and let Him bring healing. We’d rather stay in our own self deception of “I’m OK everyone else is insensitive”. People’s actions can cause deep pain to surface in us but the only person responsible for healing the wounded place is the person who has the wound. If the person acted intentionally then they are responsible for their action and need to be responded to (not reacted to) informed of what they have done & proper boundaries put in place. If however they have not intentionally done anything but you feel a reaction of being ignored/abandoned/etc that is a sign to look closer.

Only when you have heard God for yourself in that place can you get the healing. You can’t deal with this by self control - that’s like putting a plaster on a broken leg. You have to open up to the Holy Spirit and hear the word which brings freedom. Go to your pastor, leader or a mature friend who hears God and pray it through.

The other thing is if you have not progressed in healing over a number of years you need to go back to God again with your pastor or leader. Go determined to hear & RECEIVE what God is saying to you. “It was for freedom that Christ has set us free” Galatians 5.1, “By His stripes we are healed” 1 Peter 2.24, “He bore our sorrows” Isaiah 53.5  are not just nice words. Either they are true or what’s the point? Don’t judge God’s truth by your fact, truth is the higher power.

There is an anointing on God’s chosen leaders that is for our benefit, don’t fall into the ditch of isolating, after a while it’s really hard to get out of. God always wants the best for us - do we want the best for ourselves and are we willing to make the choices, sometimes difficult, to get where we are going?