Allow Yourself To Receive God’s Love and Support

A lot of my worship time happens whilst driving my car. As I was driving down the highway early this morning after dropping my child at school I found myself speaking in tongues and going into a conversation with the Lord.

As we were communicating the Lord revealed to me how I had denied His love and support. How for too long I’d been living in self sufficiency and a mindset of “I must do it all on my own.”

Self sufficiency and that toxic mindset had led me down a path of exhaustion, anxiety, health issues and struggle. 

When the Lord revealed this block in my heart towards Him I felt convicted to repent for not allowing my Creator to love and support me. 

So I said the following prayer - 

In the Name of Jesus, I now repent for the spirit of self sufficiency. 

I repent for all the times I have not allowed God to love, guide and support me.

I repent for the belief that it’s all on me to figure out and work out on my own in my own will, ways and strength. 

I repent Lord for denying your love and support and for closing my heart to You. 

Please forgive me. Please set me free from this bondage of self sufficiency and denial of your love and support so I may receive the love and support you desire to bless me with. 

In Jesus’s Mighty Name, 

Amen. 

God wants to love on you, support you and show you the way to a better life living in His beautiful glory but He can’t do that whilst you’re choosing to stay stuck in self-sufficiency, ego and a mindset that it’s all on you to do, control and figure out. 

I’ve spent a vast majority of my life being a control freak and trying to be in charge of everything and it’s been a humbling process to hand that over to God and allow His Holy Spirit to lead and guide me. 

But what I’ve found is that when you live life for God and allow His Spirit to love, lead, support and guide you the burden lifts, the heaviness dissolves and you realise it was never on you to do it all or to figure it all out, it’s on the Lord’s hands to do and figure out. 

He will show you the way.

And He wants you to surrender the control, the self-sufficiency, distrust and freaking out to Him so He can reveal a better path and way for you that will lead to more love, joy, peace and freedom in Him.

Trust and have faith.

All is well.

Yours in Christ,

Ellen xoxo 

Lord, I surrender all the ways in which I’ve been controlling, manipulative, fearful and distrusting. I break agreement with this now in the Name of Jesus. Please restore my heart, mind, body and spirit to receive and become an embodiment of Your love, peace, support, beauty and grace, Lord. In Jesus’s Name, Amen. 

Scripture To Reflect On 

✨ God’s Invitation to Depend on Him

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” — Matthew 11:28–30 (NKJV)

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” — Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV)

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.” — Psalm 55:22 (NKJV)

🕊 God’s Desire to Love, Support & Carry Us

“The Lord your God is in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” — Zephaniah 3:17 (NKJV)

“Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.” — Isaiah 46:4 (NKJV)

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” — Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV)

🌿 The Folly of Self-Sufficiency vs. Trusting God

“Apart from Me you can do nothing.” — John 15:5 (NIV)

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” — Psalm 20:7 (NIV)

“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” — Proverbs 16:9 (ESV)

❤️ God’s Love Is Meant to Be Received

“We love because He first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19 (NIV)

“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” — 1 John 3:1 (NIV)

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” — 1 John 4:16 (NIV)