“Just Give Up Why Don’t’cha!?”
Rabbi Yehudah ben Shomeyr
“Give up!”
“Surrender!”
“Just Quit!”
Those are
dirty words to the Westerner who fought oppression and tyranny to be free. “NEVER!”
is the response to the commands above. It is just not in the Western psyche to “Give
up.” That has been our greatest strength, but is also our greatest weakness. Even
in matters of faith, “Giving up” is not an option.
“Speak to
that mountain…”
“Have faith
of a mustard seed…”
“Name it,
and claim it!”
“Speak Life
and Breakthrough to your situation.”
It is simply
not in us to give up or give in.
Some of us
may not be physical Israel, but we sure our stiff-necked like them!
I feel the
LORD is really trying to speak to His People here, today, right now in the Western
World. I know of two friends of mine who are currently up against some unique obstacles
and they are frustrated because they have tried everything and do not know what
to do. While in mediation and prayer regarding their situation it occurred to
me. They have tried everything but surrender, just giving up!
This very
message GOD drilled into me at the start of 2013. I was in a very dark
spiritual place where I could not hear clearly from the LORD. I tried
everything, prayer, fasting, anointing myself and my house and rebuking and
casting our demons left and right. Finally I screamed to the heavens, “GOD! I
GIVE UP! I am done, I quit! I refuse to speak or move (spiritually) until you speak to me!” Childish? Yes. Audacious?
Most certainly, but necessary. Just three to four days after I made that declaration,
HE SPOKE, In a mighty and unexpected way! Out of the blue and I have never been
the same since. I advised these men to just simply, give up! Still sounds like
a bad idea? Let me put it another way, “LET GO AND LET GOD!”
I am
reminded when my wife and I were trying to have a child. It didn’t happen until
we gave up. It is when we stopped trying and focusing on the issue that it
happened!
What we
deemed as the enemy trying to stop us is perhaps the Holy One trying to stop us
so He can speak to us!
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you. –James 4:7
Submit is
just another word for “surrender” and “give up.”
Didn’t Messiah
say that it is hard to kick against the pricks (Acts 9:5; 26:14). He was
speaking in terms of Himself. It is hard to fight against Messiah when He is
trying to tell you something!
Remember when
you first got saved; the fight and the struggle that was to give up and
surrender yourself fully to Messiah? If in your walk and ministry you have hit
a brick wall and have tried everything and do not know what to do, why not try quitting?
Just give up! I recently had a friend call me and tell me that they feel so
stupid because they were trying to do ministry and they kept hitting
roadblocks. Obviously they thought it was Satan trying to stop them when they
realized the particular thing they was doing when all finished would have been
a waste of time due to a missing component. Satan wasn’t trying to stop them,
GOD WAS! He was trying to save my friend from further heartache and
frustration.
Have you hit
a brick wall? Tried everything? Is and has GOD been trying to tell you
something? Has He been trying to get you quiet and alone so He can reveal
something to you or download something into your spirit?
My advice to
you is, “Give up!”
Be still, and know that I am God. – Psa. 46:10
