BY REV. DORAL PULLEY | Today’s Church Tampa Bay
Do what works for you. Jeremiah was in chains; he had been bound, and he was being set free. He was offered the option to stay in the promised land or to go into Babylonian captivity. He had a choice, and the idea that Jeremiah had to do what would work for him. And today, you are Jeremiah. You have to do what works for you, even if people don’t understand it. Share it with them, but don’t keep going back and forth with people if they don’t understand it.
You still have to do what works for you. If people disagree, not everyone will agree with everything you do, but you still have to do what works for you. Stop doing stuff that doesn’t work for you just so people will agree with you. Sometimes we have to agree to disagree but I have to do what works for me. Sometimes, for my friends, I give them the FTR, which means (I don’t agree with this, I don’t understand this, I don’t think this is going to work out) but because you are my friend, I love you, and I support you. I will be here with you and I won’t throw it up in your face when it falls apart. I will be right here loving you and supporting you, but I don’t agree.
You have to do what works for you even if people don’t like it or even if people stop liking you because you don’t do what they want you to do. It’s okay if people don’t like you; not everyone is going to like you. Stop people-pleasing and doing things to appease people that you don’t like. You have to do what works for you. Stop investing your time, money, and energy in people, places, and things that don’t work for you. You have to do what works for you.
Let me tell you, you are one with God, you are one with all life, you are one with the one cause. There is only one.
The Closer I Get to God (Jeremiah 27: 2)
The closer I get to God, the more I become; God flowed through Jeremiah as a vessel to show the children of Israel what bondage looks like. God said put a shackle, put a yoke around your neck, put bonds on your arms, and put shackles on your feet, and he was showing them what bondage looks like.
He was showing them that God was able to set them free and so the closer you get to God the more free you become because you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. The person whom the son sets free is free indeed.
Yoke around your neck talks about inflexibility when you are in bondage. There is a yoke around your neck, and you are not flexible enough to be able to turn and see various perspectives. You only see one perspective; you are inflexible. And when God frees you, you are flexible. You are able to see various perspectives, and you are not stuck in your way of doing things.
Take the bonds off their arms, off of their hands. When you are in bondage, you are not free to use your abilities, gifts, talents, skills, sensitivities that God has given you, and God is saying when I free you, you are free to use all the abilities that I have given you to get wealth. I have given you the power to get wealth; use the abilities that I have given you to get the wealth that you desire, and so when you are free, when your hands are free, then you are free to use the abilities that God has given you.
Take the shackles off of your feet. Shackles have to do with your mobility, your movement and when you are free, you are free to move, you are free to move about the country for every place that your feet walk God has given you the land. He says you are blessed, coming in and blessed going out blessed.
God is freeing you to be able to move and so today I AM telling you the truth that there is a level of freedom that is available to you. The closer you get to God the more freedom.
Rev. Doral Pulley is the senior pastor of Today’s Church Tampa Bay, 2114 54th Ave. N, St. Petersburg, and 3501 North 26th St., Tampa.
