I’ve just been listening to Steven Furtick from Elevation Church, on YouTube.

Plenty of lessons to be learned. The title of this one was, 

The Facts Aren’t Final | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

He talks about Jairus daughter, when she died and was brought back to life.

It’s definitely worth listening to.
The full account can be read about in.
Mark 5:21-43

One of the things Steven speaks about is that the messengers who spoke to Jairus to tell him that his daughter was dead, weren’t wrong.
But they were limited by their experience.

Death normally means the end, but this doesn’t have to be the case when Jesus is in involved in the situation.

A new thought occurred to me as Steven was talking about Jesus clearing the house.

Jairus allowed Jesus to do this.

To do such a thing, then wouldn’t Jesus need Jairus’s  approval?
It was Jairus’s house after all.

Jairus had a choice to make.
Listen to the mourners and say, “It’s too late Jesus, you need to leave and let me mourn my daughters passing.”
Or Jairus could let Jesus clear his house of the mourners, and wait to see what will happen next.

I don’t know if Jairus actively agreed with Jesus for his house to be cleared, by nodding or speaking agreement to Jesus’s instructions.
Or if he passively agreed with Jesus clearing his house by just remaining quiet.

But Jairus did allow Jesus to clear his house of the mourners.
He paid more attention to what Jesus was saying, rather than listen to the mourners.

In effect, he allowed unbelief to be put outside!!!

The result was, that his daughter was then raised back to life.
He saw a miracle.

So, who or what will we allow Jesus to put outside of our lives and hearts?

Will we hear the word of God over our lives and listen to it, instead of the unbelief that is being constantly played into us?
Are we willing/trying to hear the truth that God is speaking into our lives?
Will we follow the prompting’s of our Father, when He leads us?

Will we let go of past hurts and bad experiences that have bound us in chains?
Will we say yes to Jesus, when He meets with us and tries to set us free?

Sometimes we might be able to do this passively by simply letting go of that which Jesus asks for.

But other times we might need to be a bit more active and hand it over to Jesus and declare, “I no longer want ….. , I hand it to You, my Lord and Saviour. Please take it, and set me FREE!”

It may work better for us if we are active in handing the things that hinder us over to Him. But if we are willing to just let go of …. then He can remove it from us.

He does wait for us to say Yes to Him though.

So will we say Yes to Him, our Lord and Saviour?
Will we allow Him to do a work in us that will set us free?

Father,
Search me and try me.
Show me if there is any offensive ways in me.
Help me to see the things that you point out to me.
Help me to throw them out or allow you to take them out.
I give you permission to remove the rubbish from my life.
Thank you that, You do want to improve me.
Help me to be willing to let You have your way.
You are my Lord God Almighty.
There is no one greater than You.
Amen