One thing that every human being steers clear of, avoids at any cost, is being controlled. It is though we have an aversion to someone controlling us. This is not a trauma response; this is not a rebellious action; this is how we were designed. We were not created to be controlled but to be complimented and to compliment others. Control is rooted in fear and perfect love casts out all fear, so we were not made to be controlled. When people resist control, throw off control, divorce control, run away from control, it is because they were created for freedom, not for control.

I was reading/praying Psalm 139 this morning and the Lord whispered to me, “I designed you, but i did not pre-program you. Your programming came from your culture not the kingdom.” I sat there and let those words sink in, deep inside of me, and what I saw was how God formed our infrastructure, but He did not program us to only know what He wants us to know and to only do what He wants us to do. God is omniscient, He is all knowing, He sees the end from the beginning, He knows everything, but He did not program us, Yahweh, is not controlling, because He is not fearful.

Psalm 139:1-2 says, “O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.” He understands us, He loves us, He created us, but He does not control us. Jesus said, “It is for freedom you have been set free!” We were born to be free, created to be free, but culture has programmed us, people have controlled us, not God.

When people throw off control, we call them rebellious, a Jezebel spirit, insubordinate, disrespectful, but what if that is not what they are, some are definetly that, but what if they are breaking free from your control, your fear, your need to dominate and dictate them, what if they were designed to be free and they have realized Christ has set them free and so now they gladly serve Him, because He is not controlling?

I believe, what Psalm 110 says, “Your people will volunteer freely in the day or Your power!” A day is coming, fast approaching when power is going to set people free and what they will do is volunteer to serve, share, surrender to the God of all Creation who created them, for He will set them free and keep them free. No one wants to be controlled for we were all created to be free!