Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.’

DAILY READING; Romans 4; 1 Samuel 13; Psalm 58

‘Breaking a horse’ means teaching a horse how to carry a rider on its back.
“Breaking’ young horses is a centuries old phenomenon that started when man first had the idea to climb on a horse’s back to use him for hunting, agriculture and war.
The breaking process, involves teaching the young horse to accept a saddle, a bridle and the weight of the rider on his back. It also involves teaching the horse how to steer, stop and respond to cues on command when they are given using the reins, leg and seat.
Before the breaking process, a horse will normally reject attempts by anyone to ride it.
A wild stallion being ridden for the first time doesn’t want to submit to the rider or do what it’s told. And anyone who tries to ride it will only get thrown off its back. Therefore a horse owner knows that he cannot just toss a saddle on the back of a wild horse and try to ride it. He first has to follow a process used to break a horse to prepare it to be ridden. For days, he may lead the horse around a pen as it adjusts to the feel of the harness and its new surroundings. Then the saddle is placed on the horse’s back but without a rider. Finally, the cowboy puts a foot in one of the stirrups. When the cowboy climbs into the saddle, the initial shock of having someone on its back is frightening and irritating to the horse. It might buck and rear its head before it begins to settle and trot around its pen. And so gradually, the horse is prepared to begin a lifetime of service to its owner.
Horses that have been broken are considered to have greater value and worth than the unbroken ones.

For us to be useful and valuable to God, we must become broken. For revival fire to flow through us we must become submissive and yielded vessels in God’s hands.
When God begins to prepare us to be used for His work, one of the first things He does is to bring us to a place of brokenness.
Through preordained circumstances and situations, He works in our lives to bring us to the place of total surrender. This is the point where Paul said in Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.’

Before we can be used by God, our flesh must be crucified. It has been said that dead people make the best Christians. If you are still alive to your feelings and old ways of thinking, it becomes difficult for the Spirit to steer you in the direction of God’s perfect will.
We cannot be useful to God or become fruitful until we have become broken and dead to the flesh.

John 12:24 says ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit..’

The place of brokenness is a prerequisite for stepping into the fullness of our destiny.
The way to a blessed life is to allow God to take control, when we invite Him into every area of our lives.
The focus should be on Him and not on us; on what God wants and not what we want, on God’s will and desires, and not our plan and wishes.
It is in the places of brokenness that we really grow. Indeed there are certain heights you can never achieve in life until you have become humble enough to be entrusted with them. It is he that humbles himself that is exalted. Let us therefore learn to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt us in due season and use to greatly manifest His power to the world.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to surrender totally to Your will in every area of my life. Please destroy in me hardness of heart and everything that causes me to be unbroken in Jesus Name.
QUOTE :
It takes a heart for God to make a mark in the sands of time. – WORDBITE 201