“I Can’t Leave My Boyfriend”

.. I had a conversation with a woman awhile ago and she said, “You don’t know what I’m going through with my boyfriend. He treats me so bad and uses me.”

I can somewhat relate because some of my relationships were a hot mess too when I was single.. but my question is, “WHAT ARE YOU LETTING OTHER PEOPLE PUT YOU THROUGH?!”  You don’t HAVE to stay in that dysfunction boyfriend, girlfriend relationship! I stayed in bad relationships because I wanted to! Let’s just call it like it is! You are dependent on that loser boyfriend that God told you to leave forever ago. He told you that if you only trust Him & let go that HE is going to blow your mind! God told you that but you believe the words of the illegal thighs in your bed over God. Your boyfriend is your god. You study him, read his emails, stalk his cell phone and his life has become your bible. You spend more time & energy at his feet than  you do the feet of Jesus. So, when your idol treats you badly, you accept it because he lords over you.

Did you know that one day you will stand before God & be judged on ever sermon, every book, every blog that you read? You cannot say that you didn’t know better. You simply keep CHOOSING that lifestyle of sin. And sis, let’s not use grace as an excuse to STAY in sin, God graces us so we don’t GO back to the sin & we stay away from it. He gives us a way OUT. 

So, this blog aint for everybody. But God put it on my heart to post this for the few of you that are in BAD relationships and you need that extra push to get out. Stop rationalizing & wondering.. how you’re going to make it without him. You will  be just fine and God will help you out of it. Move out of his house and start depending on God again. You cannot afford to be out of the will of God for your life and people in the BODY of Christ need you to get into position! They NEED your gifts & talents and you’re up here distracted by a man that hates your God. 

By faith, step out and trust God. Let it go. NOW, go on & do the will of the Father. 

(And.. when you get tested (and you will)- write these scriptures out or the ones that minister to you & stare at them until they become more real than your raging feelings.)

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Isaiah 41:10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

And I blogged on, “We Just Broke Up, Now What?“– check it out. 

God Loves you like Crazy!

Heather Lindsey 

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