MOST PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE HAVE BEEN HOLDING YOU BACK FROM YOUR PROMISED LAND Most people who are choosing to truly follow Christ in their lives and live a consecrated and righteous life have family and friends who are living compromised lives who will give them bad advice and keep them held back from their promised land that the Lord has for them.  Satan will use people who are closest to us to speak words over us that are intent on bringing you down and holding you back from your destiny in Christ. As we choose to live a godly life the enemy will try to speak through your closest friends and family to discourage you, keep you in the same sin they are walking in, justify your sin and accuse you falsely to keep you from walking in the blessings the Lord has for you. They want you to be hurt, take an offense and give up on pursuing forgiveness so they can have demons gain a legal right to torment you and stop you from your destiny in Christ.  So you need to understand that you often must walk alone with Christ because few are willing to consecrate…

YOU HAVE A MORAL COMPASS SO HAVE BEEN LABELED THE SCAPEGOAT / BLACK SHEEP  Today there are many people in the world who have been unknowingly selected to be the scapegoat in their family and in other relationships in life such as work, marriages, ministry, church, etc. In a family situation the scapegoat carries the sins of their own family (which typically have many members in the family who are unhealthy, toxic and/or dysfunctional). For instance, Dad is an alcoholic, sex addict, aggressor, prideful while Mom is his enabler. Or Mom is angry, controlling, belittling, prideful, demanding and Dad is her enabler. The family is expected to deny the truth of their parent’s dysfunction and hide it from the public (keep their dirty laundry buried in the backyard). So what the toxic family members will do is to label one of their children the “problem child” and blame everything that is wrong with their family on that child. This scapegoated child can do no right in their eyes.  The scapegoated child typically has a moral compass and is a truth teller that won’t look the other way and ignore sin, but have a very good heart. The parent who is…