Waiting for the other shoe to drop

Yesterday I was telling a person how blessed I felt and yet how I was waiting for "the other shoe to drop". Even as it came out of my mouth I knew that what I had said was toxic thinking that needed to be washed and renewed by God's Word.

Again, later that evening, I was talking with someone else and again that toxic phrase popped of my mouth. It didn't sit well with me, yet I couldn't wrap my mind around why.

This morning as I listened to a teaching, the preacher began to prophecy blessings over the congregation and had listeners renounce doubt and unbelief. As soon as it came out of his mouth I knew that "waiting for the other shoe to drop" was actually a stronghold of unbelief. It was a fortress of doubt! It was a citadel of superstition. Plain and simple? It was sin. Is that the way God wants us to go about life--waiting for the other shoe to drop? How victorious is that? Wouldn't He rather His children live from blessing to blessing?

Once I realized what I had been saying (and believing), I began to repent and renounce unbelief and doubt in Jesus' Name. Doubt and unbelief are toxic to the spirit. They usher defeat into our lives. They dominate faith with fear. That is why doubt and apprehension not only need to be confessed but renounced.

With this said, I believe that the Body of Christ lives with the low grade fever of doubt and unbelief in the form of "waiting for the other shoe to drop". It is time to be set free. Just as Jesus took the hand of Peter's mother in law and her fever departed, so ask Jesus to do the same for you. Be gone "other shoe" in Jesus' Name.

Blessings,
Father Scott +