{"id":3918,"date":"2017-09-10T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/10\/let-it-be\/"},"modified":"2017-09-10T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:33:00","slug":"let-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/10\/let-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it be"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. &#8211; Genesis 1:3&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\"><i>Light, be!<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">That was the first command God spoke to the darkness hovering over the face of the earth&#8230;and there was light.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Why was there light?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Because the darkness didn&#8217;t have the ability to agree or disagree with &nbsp;&#8211; or even comprehend (John 1:5) &#8211; the Word it received.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">It just had to let it be <i>exactly <\/i>as it was spoken.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">The same was true for everything else that God spoke to&#8230;except man.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Man, made in God&#8217;s image and after His likeness (Genesis 1:26) was given the ability and freedom to choose, to disagree, to disobey and to reject the Word he received.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Why?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Because in the same way that Jesus chooses to submit to the Father &nbsp;(John 6:38) and the Holy Spirit is submitted to Jesus (John 16:13-14), man was created to live in a role of freely given, loving submission to God.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">And the power\/ value of that submission came from the fact that man could choose <i>not <\/i>to submit out of rebellion&#8230;or he could choose <i>to <\/i>submit out of love.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Why is any of this important?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">I think man&#8217;s ability to resist the Word through unbelief, ignorance, misunderstanding or just plain rebellion is the weapon being used to pick mankind out of the wealth he&#8217;s been provided through Jesus.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">And so as impractical or simplistic as it may sound, the key to tapping into all that God has provided you&#8230;is to simply let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\"><i>By His stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\"><i>He became poor that you through His poverty might be rich. (2 Cor 8:9)<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\"><i>Whosoever shall say into this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea&#8230;(Mark 11:23)<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">As Mary said in the Scriptures: whatever He says to you, do it. (John 2:5)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Or as they say in Greek: Amen. (Rev 22:21)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">And so the Bible starts with a &#8220;Let it be and ends with an Amen&#8230;&#8221;Let it be\/May it be so&#8221;.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">This book-ending of &#8220;let it be&#8217;s&#8221; is not a coincidence.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Instead it&#8217;s the key to tapping into the power of the Word of God that He&#8217;s given to mankind:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Receive the Word and let it be whatever it wants to be in you and through you.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Let it be.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAnd God said, Let there be light: and there was light. &#8211; Genesis 1:3&nbsp; Light, be! That was the first command God spoke to the darkness hovering over the face of the earth&#8230;and there was light. Why was there light? 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