Have you heard of the story of the centipede and the frog?
It goes like this....
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One day, Mr Centipede wants to cross over to the other side of the lake. So he went to Froggy and asked if Froggy would be kind enough to let him ride on his back while Froggy swims over to the other side.
Now Froggy was a little suspicious and said ,'Wait a minute... How do I know if you wont bite me on my head and kill me?'
To which Mr Centipede said ,'Oh .. of course I won't. If I do that in the middle of the lake,and you drown, I will go down with you cos I can't swim!! I dont want to drown!'
Froggy thought for a moment and said ,'Oh ok... I will help you this once.'
And Mr centipede climbed onto Froggy's back and they both went into the waters to reach the other side.
Halfway through, Mr Centipede bit Froggy on the back of his head and they both went "Ahhhhh!!!" down together and drown at the bottom of the lake. Quite a sad case cos Mr Centipede couldn't resist the urge to Bite.
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The moral of the story as we are told is this: a centipede being a centipede cannot resists what its natural instinct tells it to do. Likewise for a man and a woman, there are things that is inborn and cannot be changed at all.'
Think about it for a moment... Have someone told you this recently? That you have something and there's no point changing it cos it is inborn? And you know that it serves to 'cripple' you in doing what is right and living a life with full freedom.
Or you have that something in your life, whether is it a bad habit, a physical defect, a generational addiction like gambling , smoking etc. that is passed down from your elders that you are told you cannot get rid of?
Well.. the truth is .. it is not meant to stay with you once you have Jesus in your life.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
What the voices are saying is to you is "That's the way it is to be.. cannot change.."
But what God is saying to you is "It is meant to be changed My Child! Believe in Me, I will change it"
God says to you and I, that we are born again which means in the past, we follow whatever we are born with , with the set of attitudes and conditions we have in our lives, but now, when we are given a new life in Jesus, we no longer are subjected to the curses and ways of the world that we live in, but are free to claim the healing, the restoration, the power to live the kind of life that is victorious!!
Thing is Do we believe in that kind of Power for such a kind of living?
You and I are not meant to be like Mr Centipede who cannot break off from his instinct to because he cannot help it and ended up drowning, but we are now given a new life where we can say 'no' to the things that are not beneficial and live a life of great freedom!!
We now have a Spiritual Father in heaven who is God whom we are given the rights to be his sons and daugthers to inherit what He has in Him and that is REAL Life with Power!!
Man in the Flesh gives birth to sin and bondage but God give births to new abundant Living!
So let's claim God's healing and His power to break the bad habits in our lives that harms us and choose to believe that we can live a life of constant VICTORY!!
Start Believing today!!
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