A New Boldness

This week, Jane reflects on a work Holy Spirit is doing in the midst of these unusual times; and speaks of a 'veil' being removed that is taking us to a new place in Him filled with joy and liberty.

Joshua 1:7
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. 

When Jesus wants to do a new work in us, He will remove the things that hinder and deter us. He will provide everything we need in order to accomplish His purposes.

• What are some hindrances that need to be removed in your life?
• Why is it hard to surrender what occupies most of our time and energy?

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

I was just,  I woke up this morning with a sense it, it's hard to put into words. And when I say it, y’all think “okay well that's good get with you”, but it was a sense that something had lifted off of me. Something of, I wouldn't have said oppression, or something that kind of keeps you in place - like words don't come to me, like a lid keeps it down or you know and we can, things like that, can occur even in our own mind. I am not aware of shame or guilt, but things like that, sorrow. But when the Holy Spirit comes with that reset button, there is a sense that the old is lifting off of us. Old in the sense we didn't even know it was old, but something is changing. God's about something that we can't see, but it's huge and it's wonderful. I have the sense this morning, and I have I said this, of a veil being removed. Does that sound outrageous? It says in Hebrews 10, it speaks about removing the veil, “therefore having boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus”. I’ve been aware during Passover time that I want a new boldness; not for myself, not for anything, but a boldness in spirit to do the things that I feel are part of his call on our lives - of the body of Christ to step out in bolder ways. To speak of him in bolder ways. Boldness.

I believe he's removing hiddenness in us. Hidden places where we've made judgments against ourselves or other people. Decrees, even things, like “well I'll never do such as such again”. He's removing all of that and it's a good thing. I hope you hear it that way. Places of fear, places where we've held back places that we have fled from, and we think “I’m not going there again.”  I don't mean wickedness. I don't mean, I'm

sure you're hearing my heart, when there can just be places in us that have been hurt or bruised or disappointed or whatever, and we just mentally say “I’m not doing that again”. And the Holy Spirit is taking that veil off of us. He's saying, “I’m going to give you a freedom that you will go in to dark places, you'll go into places you thought you'd never go again. And you're going with a joy, and a liberty, and a freedom that you have never known before”. I thought about the scripture that says “the Spirit of the Lord covers the earth. It covers the world, it fills the world”. And then this is kind of comical - I just felt like the Lord said “you can run but you can't hide”. He has found us out and he is taking us to a new place.

Let me just close with a thought: Here this is one of the things I wrote down today. Freedom comes in revealing yourself. And I’m not saying by that you tell everybody everything, but there is a fresh openness and honesty is coming to us, and it's being birthed out of humility. I have nothing to hide, I have no shame, I have no guilt. I was overcome this season as we went through Passover and Easter at the suffering of Jesus. You know and we think of that song “Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe” and I think, “I don't want to hold back”, and I'm not conscious of holding back, but y'all know what I mean. I want a new boldness and a new freedom and a new freedom from self-preservation or so that self- covering “Am I doing it right? Did this sound right? Did this…” It's like, what a burden that can become - just to release all of that. So I'll say it again: joy comes as we let go of self-protection. Freedom comes in revealing yourself. Joy comes as the other. Here's the revealing of yourself. I've got tears so I'm not reading. First scene finally. Liberty comes in relationships as both far and this is in friendships, this is in marriage, this is in the body of Christ. Liberty comes when you're willing to become emotionally naked. And by that I mean a pureness of heart, and openness, and honesty. It has nothing to hide.