RHEMA 8/07/07 THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MOVE OUT OF THE CAVE

HEARD: You do the movement. And I will carry you. A choose shoes.

PIX: I saw the thigh and leg of a huge elephant that was picking up its leg.

COMMENTS: I thought that was a really strange vision! Often when I hear Him, it takes a few days for His Words to become clear enough to understand the context. He builds my faith with these Words. For He promises to go before us and set up our path, and He circles us as we walk forward and He encompasses us all about. It is so comforting to know He is Sovereign and lives outside of our time clock. He leaves these little road signs along my path so I know I am taking the right way when I get to the sign and then it becomes clear where I am and what He is saying. I received the understanding a couple days later:

CONFIRMATION UPDATE 8/09/07
DON’T BE AN ELEPHANT
Author: Jim Donovan

http://www.jimdonovan.com/

A number of years ago, I had the rather unique experience of visiting backstage in Madison Square Garden, in New York, during the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.

To say the least, it was a fascinating experience. I was able to walk around looking at the lions, tigers, giraffes and all the other circus animals. As I was passing the elephants, suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not. I saw a trainer near by and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.

"Well," he said, "when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free."

I was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn't, they were stuck right where they were. Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before? How many of us are being held back by old, outdated beliefs that no longer serve us? How many of us have avoided trying something new because of a limiting belief?

Worse, how many of us are being held back by someone else's limiting beliefs?

Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

“For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” - Romans 3:3