-Lord, You are my Lord. How do I really let you be Ruler and King over my whole life? I feel like I battle against a divided heart. How I long to be "All in"...totally and completely Yours for all the world to see...Free...truly and completely free.

+If you owned a horse and kept it in a fenced-in area its whole life, and one day, opened the gate and left it open, it could take a while for that horse to realize the magnitude of the world that has been opened up to him. So perhaps he stays...safe and comfortable within the confines of his little patch of world. You have provided him with food and water. His natural inclination to run free has never been tested. But now, the gate is open and perhaps he tentatively visits the fields and woods that stretch before him. So you, My little colt, you have lived a great portion of your life fenced inside the limitations that you have unwittingly built around you. You interpret these confines as safety, but truly, they have functioned as self-imposed limits. Your spirit has been born again and everything has changed, and yet, My love, often you act like you have no choice but to remain where you were with your old identity intact, actually held back from the freedom that beckons, preferring to wait for the food and water that comes with the territory rather than busting out (like a calf from the stall) and looking to find and enjoy the sustenance and provision that waits to be discovered. I came to set you completely free. I want you to take this freedom and run with it! I've told you many times to look neither to the left or right (like the horse seeing only the fence posts and not the open gate)! I want you to run into your destiny with fire and power...with exuberance and confidence not in who you are, but in Who I am IN YOU!  The life I have given you is not for yourself. Just as I lived to open up hearts and lives to the Beauty and Glory of the Father's Perfect Love, so you live to bring this same revelation. You can't do it within the confines that you have known and accepted for too long. I have given you everything you need to live a life of beauty and freedom. You hear My Voice as I call you out to explore the waiting world. Come away, my love, and see the wonders I have prepared for you. Come out of the gates. Listen for my voice as I teach you what freedom is. You won't ever want to return to the "safety" of your old life. That life was buried long ago. Indeed, you are a new creation! Enjoy the new you and run like mad from all the ways you once were confined.
Freedom is yours! Revel in it as you bring your Father Glory and feel His smile over you everywhere you go!