Finally!  It’s finally time to stop talking about LIVING in the pit.  It is now time to start packing up our bags and talking about LEAVING the pit.  Today I want to answer the question that I’ve heard repeatedly since I started these posts earlier this week…HOW DO I GET OUT OF THE PIT?

First, the game plan.  The path to escaping your pit begins with a DECISION and is then followed by a PROCESS.  A decision, then a process.  The decision is something you can do today – you say I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE.  That is the first thing that the Prodigal Son did.  He came to himself and said “I don’t belong in here.  I am choosing to do whatever it takes to get back to my father’s table.”

But the decision was only step one.  The decision alone was not enough to restore him back to his father’s table – he still had to get up, walk back to the house, ask for forgiveness and consent to his father’s will.  Same with you too.  You can make a decision today but unless you follow up that decision with some effort, you’re unlikely to find success.

Getting out of the pit is a DECISION followed by a PROCESS.  The decision is “I don’t belong here and I will no longer accept life in the pit.  I was made to live in a palace, not a pit – not because I am good but because God is my Father.”  Romans 8:16-17 says “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.”