There was an old man and old woman riding down the road in their pickup truck. He on his side behind the wheel, and she on her side. A car with a young couple sitting closely together passed them. The wife looked at her husband and said, “Why don’t we do that anymore?”

He promptly replied, “Well, I didn’t move.”

You and I are like that. We may have been close to God at one time, and now we are not. Well, God didn’t move. We did.

When life gets so busy and has so many hurts, and we don’t have time to be with God, or we don’t take time to be with God because we are too tired or too busy, then WE start slowly moving away from HIM. At first, it is only a degree or two away, but the further we walk, the more degrees we are away from HIM.

It wasn’t our original intention to get away from HIM and all that we love, but we get away from HIM and cannot seem to find our way back. Perhaps, we are just too tired or think that it is just too hard to make our way back to HIM and those that love us.

LIES!!! LIES!!! Satan is the great deceiver, and he majors in magnification and lies. He makes the problem or situation look far bigger than it actually is. Our problems are a mere blip on the radar of GOD!

How in the world do we get back to GOD? All we do is call HIS name. It may be a weak call, but HE will be there. We don’t have to know how to get back to HIM. We just have to know how to cry out to HIM.

Once that weak kitten-like voice hits HIS ears, HIS power becomes more real to us. HIS power has been in us all along because we are saved, but satan told us lies and we believed them. Once we start to exercise our authority muscles, they get stronger and bolder. GOD releases HIS healing power and HIS Heavenly angels, and our faith begins to grow strong again.

You, my brothers and sisters, are mighty warriors that have been wounded in battle. It is time to come into the hospital of the HOLY SPIRIT and let HIM address your wounds, your soul wounds with HIS GLORY LIGHT. Let HIM focus on your soul wounds, let HIS LIGHT burn away all the trauma and the pain and everything else. THEN, you can be free! Free, indeed! BUT you have to run, I mean RUN, to HIM. You can do this! YOUR SAVIOR can do this!

Right now, I speak TRUTH and LIGHT into the situation. I decree and declare that you are free in the name of Jesus. No more, no more will you be plagued with this blight from Hell and the trauma that you have endured. It is over, it is finished, and JESUS took care of it at the CROSS. We release the healing balm of Gilead all over you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. We release peace, we release joy, we release the love of CHRIST, and we release you, my brothers and sisters, into your destiny in Christ. You are the head, and not the tail, you are the above and not the beneath, you are blessed coming in and going out for you are the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST, and NO weapon formed against you shall prosper.

Now, go in peace to love and serve the LORD. Thanks be to GOD!

Jan Allbritton is a Diboll resident who teaches at St. Cyprian’s Episcopal School.