Have a situation you need to get through?

We all do, right? Each of us is walking through a different season in life. Each of our stories is peppered with different victories and vulnerabilities. If we gave each of you a mic and allowed you to share we would see many differences and also highlight many similarities. There are many things required of us through each season. Sometimes it is praying until breakthrough, exercising extreme measures of patience, changing lifestyle habits, cutting wrong soul ties or just riding it out while clinging to the Rock! All of the above can apply + more. However, I am not focusing on any of that here today. There is one thing we have to do no matter what the struggle looks like. There is one key that applies to each and every season. Want to know what it is? Great, I am so glad you asked!

The essential key to making it through is "Owning It". Yep, take a minute to write that down or take a screen shot. This is an essential key to healthy personal development that many many people are never taught. When things are calm or when things are stormy, we have to own the fact that this is our life and we are each responsible for our own lives. Even if the situation you are in is the result of someone else's bad actions--it's still your life, and you still have to own it. We have to come to terms that we are each accountable for our words, actions & reactions-- no matter what. Many of you have been dealt some crappy cards over the years and have had to overcome many obstacles what were UNFAIR! However, until you step up and own it, you can never get over it! You can't move forward, you can't receive healing and you can't truly forgive. This is huge for some of us. Own the good, own the bad and own the ugly. If you just worked your backside off for a new car or a promotion or vacation-own it! You deserve it. Stop feeling guilty that everyone in your family may not have what you have, or do what you do. That is a generational curse that needs to be broken. If you have had the worst 3 years of your life and have fought battle after battle and are exhausted-own it. It's your life, it's your fight. Decide to become better for it instead of bitter for it. 

I will be honest with you. If this isn't something you already do and is a new habit you will be creating, you may have to do what I learned to do years ago. I had to physically say it out loud (or in my head sometimes). "This is my life and I take full responsibility for it!" At that point, then you can decide what you are going to do about it. You can't live as a victim to others for the rest of your life. There is no victory there, there is no peace there. If other people hurt you, then shame on them! But if you let it derail your destiny then shame on you!! If this is a new concept to you, then welcome to a new level of freedom and accountability. Life is too short not to own it. Codependency is crippling and blame is a ball and chain. Decide today what you want for your life. Get in God's Word and let him feed you. Take big steps toward positive change and watch the Lord use you to help others. 

Be encouraged today. I dare you to put this verse on your bathroom mirror:

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33