7Day Challenge Day 4/5

Let’s talk about Powerful Commitments. Commitments are powerful, and therefore without boundaries, they can be both helpful and harmful to our destiny. It’s our nature to stick to and hold onto commitments — even when they harm us. 

Commitment Traps are the death of potential. Let me unpack that.  Have you ever made a commitment to something or someone that turned out to be a mess or a mistake but you stayed committed to it anyway? Commitment traps are the number 1 cause of distress and delay in our life.

Commitments are powerful, even when we make the wrong commitment or stick to commitments that no longer serve us. Commitments control our life, our potential and our prosperity. To make powerful commitments we have to be willing to uncommit ourselves to commitments that no longer serve us, no longer benefit us and cancel our ability to make new and better commitments.

Put this in your spirit…You cannot commit to a positive self-image unless you uncommit to believing and harboring the lies spoken over you by a toxic caregiver, shame or even low self-esteem. You have to be willing to uncommit to any false false notion that you’re not good enough or that you don’t deserve better. Some of us have to uncommit to the lie that our beauty is defined by what other people think or some airbrushed, photoshopped version of somebody else.

One of the most dangerous commitments we can make is to decisions that we made when we didn’t know better. Our nature is to weld ourselves to commitments even when they aren’t healthy or beneficial…because commitments are powerful. To begin making powerful commitments, we have to be willing to divorce ourselves from emotionally harmful commitments, abusive commitments, blessing blocking commitments and destiny killing commitments.  Any commitment that proves to be destructive, denies us the ability to live our blessed life or keeps us stuck in a situation or relationship that blocks God’s plans for our life, must be canceled.

Commitment Traps test of our commitment to I AM, our Powerful Mind and our Powerful Decisions. Whether it’s a commitment to a negative self-image, agreements that no longer serve us, relationships that harm us, unhealthy thoughts and beliefs, or history decisions that we need to divorce, your powerful commitment requires you to uncommit to things that trap you in a life or mindset that undermines your greatness.

When you start uncommitting to some stuff, you will find out that some people will think you’re acting funny. When you start uncommitting to letting people walk over your boundaries, some people will have a problem with you: When you start uncommitting to settling, some people will start saying you think you’re better than everybody. When you start uncommitting to toxic family members, dysfunctional relationships, you will lose some people. When you start uncommitting to repeating curses and start committing to breaking generational curses, your whole life will change, your focus will change, and your circle will definitely change.

Powerful commitment requires us to have mad passion for what we want and deserve. And boundaries that cause us to make corrections when we discover that we’ve made the wrong commitment or a commitment is taking us in the wrong direction.

How committed are you to what you want and deserve? Are you willing to make the hard decisions to get out of commitment traps? Are you willing to make powerful new commitments that position you to get what you want out of life, love and faith? The one thing about a powerful commitment is you gotta want the benefit…nobody will force you to make powerful commitments or break unhealthy commitments. 

Powerful commitments have these ingredients:

1. They define your purpose
2. They reinforce boundaries, what you deserve and, your desires and goals
3. They transform your life by putting you on a path to greatness

If that commitment does not agree with these three, you better start praying for the courage, strength and conviction to start uncommitting.

Nothing in life will change without Powerful Commitments. Nothing. Your commitment to powerful boundaries that support your powerful commitments and a willingness to uncommit to commitment traps will cause a power shift in your life. How do we become more conscious and intentional about our commitments? Surrender. 

I know it sounds simple, and it is easier said than done, but the simple answer is surrender. You have so be willing to surrender all to your powerful commitment. A powerful commitment is your divine passport for your best life and life more abundantly. You cannot walk in fear or doubt and make powerful commitments. You cannot have weak boundaries and make powerful commitments. To use this passport, you have to be willing to surrender anything that stands in the way of your powerful commitment — including commitments that need to be canceled. 

This is your life and you have been given the power to live it to the fullest. Jesus said, “I came that they might have life and life more abundantly.” Powerful commitment turns that “might” into a miracle!

TODAY’S CHALLENGE

Today’s challenge is to read the attached articles and exercises to reflect on your powerful commitment and powerful boundaries.

1. I am free from the shackles of my past
2. The power of personal boundaries
3. How to keep a powerful commitment to yourself

 

Bless You!

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