Rise and Roar: Bold and Brave Hearted Steps in the Spirit – LETTING GO by Pastor Lourdes Hernandez

 

Hello Brave Hearted Steppers,

As Bold as Lions

Have you ever considered the lion? The characteristics of it? Have you ever stopped to

think beyond its roar and its persona?

If you’re like me, when you think about the lion, you think about his stature and his status; after all, he is the king of the jungle.

And if you consider the lion even more, then you would hear its roar, stirring up the inner parts of your being, striking fear in the places where you didn’t know it existed.

But when I think about lions, I also think about their courage.

The lion will confront its opponent, adversary, and prey.

They aren’t the type of animal to run away; they are the type of animal to stay and fight. They don’t truly back down easily or often, but they resort to who they are to confront what is standing right in front of them.

So in order to be bold like a lion, I must resist the desire to run away, and step in the wrong direction, and replace it with the bold steps that walk towards God and towards confronting all that God wants to work out.

And there will be times in our lives where God places us in situations where the very thing that we are trying to run away from is standing in front of us, and we have two choices. We either rise up as the lion and confront it, or we retreat like the prey and become devoured by it.

Many times, the thing that confronts our hearts and our lives is control.

I don’t know if anyone else is like me, or would admit that they are like me, but I have a very hard time with being bold enough to relinquish control.

Because within my personality, I am a fixer. I am someone who wants everyone to see the good in themselves and their potential, and all I want to walk around and do is “fix” the things that are in the wrong places, so that they can be in the right places.

I want everything to work according to what I think is right, to the plan that I have written down and placed in my head, and I want it all to work the way that it “should”.

But recently, the Lord truly impressed in my spirit the fact that:

He is truly the one who designed me and owns the layout for the perfect plan for me. As much as I want to believe that I am in control, he is truly the one who knows what is best for me and those connected to me.

He is the one who is ordering every step, and he is the one who knows exactly what I need and what would be good and not too good for me.

I know the glimpses God gives me of the plan, the pieces he hands to me along the way, the revelations he gives me, and the downloads from heaven from time to time. Those little bits that he entrusts me with, enough to keep me going, to keep me grounded, to keep me in line with what his desire is.

I truly wasn’t being bold; I was projecting a trust issue that had nothing to do with God, and everything to do with me!

The belief of being in control, or the desire to feel in control, is truly how some of us mask the bigger issue. And God can’t fix what we can’t confess, and he won’t work in what we want to mask.

The problem isn’t the control; it truly isn’t what needs to be surrendered. The true problem is that I don’t trust God, because I believe that I am more trustworthy than He. That I won’t hurt myself or allow myself to be hurt. That I won’t let myself down, that I won’t disappoint myself, and that, by controlling the next moment and the next choice, I can trust the outcome, because I know what it is.

God wasn’t asking for control; He was asking me to trust Him.

There in that moment, I was able to think of all the good things that the Bible talks about in Philippians 4:8. The times when I counted on God, the times when he came through, and the fact that, up until now, even the “worst” things have become my greatest blessing.

And there in that moment, there in my car, I gave to God that which I didn’t want to “control” or “manipulate” anymore. (You know, the, if you do this, then I will do this prayer?) I told God, if you have not let me down up until now, if everything has come together to bring me here, then I have nothing to worry about in the next steps you are leading us on. As long as you allow it, I trust you!

I didn’t just say it to God, I literally shifted the ownership of my life to the one who created it. I completely relinquished and surrendered it all before God, and I took a bold step of FAITH. I remind myself daily, and as often as I need to, that I may not like it, I may not agree, it may not be as I want it, but I trust God, and that is enough.

Maybe it is the same for you. Maybe God isn’t after the control, maybe God is confronting you with your trust issue, and He is asking you to take the bold step of LETTING GO and trusting Him.

Trusting God completely in this season has given me a peace I can’t explain, but a peace that fuels my spirit, heart, and soul whenever my circumstance tries to make me fall back into what I have decided to give to God.

Brave Hearted Steppers – be BOLD – LET GO – step out in FAITH today!

<3 Pastor Lourdes Hernandez

Center of Life.CDV - Florida

Founder of Kingdom Swords

Mark your calendars and meet me back here next Friday, August 29, 2025, for the next roar-worthy blog post in our Rise & Roar series. We’re stepping deeper, rising higher, and roaring louder — together!