Stop Hitting Repeat
If I know nothing else, I do know that God will always send you to class or send you lessons and he includes someone or something to help teach. The help he sends can come in many forms and there is no guarantee that you will always like the teacher or the way the lesson is being taught. The fact that we don't like the teacher or learning structure is not Gods concern, the question is can you humble your self enough to learn the lesson without having to repeat the assignment over and over again? Threw the years, the classes that he has put me in have many sessions to them. When you finally humble yourself before God and decide to submit to his will, he will send the teacher, whether the teacher comes in the physical form or over a video, podcast, a book he will send you the lesson that he needs you to study. Understand that if you fail to apply the lesson or forget it just like school you have to repeat the class.
I have always known that God will always 1. prepare you for the assignment and 2. send you a warning before trouble comes. He does this to see if you have been paying attention to the lessons, he has already taught you, because if you have, you will react a completely different way than if you had let the lesson go in one ear and out the other. When we forget the lesson or better yet don't pay attention to it at all God is not afraid to make us repeat the lesson again until we get it right "LET THE WISE LISTEN AND ADD TO THEIR LEARNING, AND LET THE DISCERNING GET GUIDANCE. " (Proverbs 1:5)
He will continue to bring a situation, in your life it may not be the same person that you dealt with it will not happen on the same day, time or even within the same year but there is something within the situation or circumstance is the same. He wants to see if you will apply the knowledge that he has taught you to pass the lesson that has been presented before you. If you fail which many of us will/have and let me be the first to say, I am a living testament to this he will present the lesson at a later date wrapped in a different package but if you do what the verse says and add to your learning then you will start to catch the signs of the past and begin to react to the situation differently. This is when you know That you are no longer on repeat I can remember when My heart got broke for the first time and I kept playing the song from Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, ALL CRIED OUT they say listening to music is therapy and it is true music is therapy, however when your a pre-teen/teen who has had their first heart break and a song relates to your situation you hit repeat to hear the song over again. It did not matter that the song would trigger the bad memories of what happened the song at the time for whatever the reason made me feel good. I take that back I know why, the song could relate to my situation and I felt like someone gets me even though I was 14 and didn't know a thing about true love. I continued to hit repeat on my recorder I think I stretched that tape out I played that song so much. and yes it eased my mind but what I realize now that I really didn’t then is every time I hit repeat on the recorder, the song would play and trigger the bad memories I unconsciously attached to that song over and over in my head.
It wasn't until I went to hit play one day and found that someone had replaced Lisa Lisa with a song from
New Edition, Can You Stand The Rain, and Everybody Plays the Fool, by The Main Ingredent, to this day I have no clue who did that but, I have an idea (Daddy) God rest your soul,what it did was interrupt the cycle I had set by repeating the same song it pushed me to realize what the lesson was in the situation at that time. The lesson: You know now that you cannot believe that everyone you call friend is truly a friend/ boyfriend they are there for what you have or who you know to them you are the pawn to get them to there goal remember their traits learn from the lesson and move on;no need to keep reliving the bad parts move on and apply this to your next task.
““One Mistake will never kill you
The same Mistake over and
over again will.””
However, It wasn’t until I stopped hitting repeat that the events stopped playing. Year's later I can listen to the song with out the deep emotional attacthment because of the fact that I gave myself time to let go of the nonsense, every now and then I will have a memory about that time and I can smile and laugh now because it dose not mean as much now as it did then.
There are many things we do in life that we tend to hit repeat on and God wants us to hit stop so How do we do that this is what I have to constantly. Remind myself to do:
Take a time out get to know God and if necessary, review the lesson that he has taught. Spend time by your self and with God.
Humble your self – This for some may be the hardest because we always want to lead, but if you want to level up to Gods next lesson. You must pause, humble yourself and kneel before God. Waite for him to give you direction.
Look at the situation or person that has been placed before you, take notice of the traits, actions, mannerisms that make you remember past situations that made you feel uneasy, many times you will have a deep feeling that what is happening is not right. If you feel that uneasy feeling confronts that issue on spot, don’t waite .
Its okay to say NO or remove yourself from the situation- Many times we want to make everyone happy even if it means that we feel a little uneasy we accept un-acceptable behavior or situations. Stop this behavior, if you are trying to get your finances in order and you start paying things off and getting all your bills in order and then a family member, friend comes and tells you that they are having a hard time ask for your help tell them NO. Yes, all your debit is caught up but you have not saved up what you wanted to and you know if you offer the help it is going to have a domino effect on you finances SAYS NO. no need to be rude just tell them I would love to help but I’m not in the best place to help you without jeopardizing myself. Someone on the same page as you will understand if they try and make you feel guilty. Tell them I Love you for being there when we hangout and talk but the direction I’m going dose not seem to be the same direction your headed and that’s ok, I love that because that is what makes us different, but it is also a reason why we need to part ways for a minute. You have just stopped repeat and entering your next level.
Under stand that God will continue to put you in a certain situation or present certain personality type until you stop to understand why you keep coming across the same people or problem. He prepares us for the lesson before he presents the issue. He is depending on us to pull from the lesson to know what to do when confronted with the situation. What needs to change with in yourself or around you to change the outcome of the situation? LET’S GET OFF REPEAT SO WE CAN LEVEL UP.