We are here to declare as a people of God that we aren’t independent. We’re not lone rangers who can survive on our own and who don’t need anyone’s help. We declare openly and without apology that above all else, we need God more than ever.

We believe that true freedom comes from bondage to Christ and being under His authority. We also believe that this flies in the face of what every media outlet has been telling us. Freedom isn’t doing what you want, but being able to do what you were made to do.

We believe that we have fallen for the idea that God is a frustrated deity who can’t get his own way and whose plans keep getting thwarted. That he needs us. But we are realizing that God is completely sovereign and doesn’t need us at all, nor anything we have to bring. He doesn’t need our love our our time or anything else.

The truth is that God has chosen us to be a part of sa magnificent plan that He started long ago and that He will complete one day. Neither you  nor I can thwart God’s plan and He doesn’t need your or my permission to do anything He wants. And what He wants is you and me.

We believe that all our efforts to fix ourselves and to cure ourselves have failed. We can’t break our own addictions and hangups and strongholds. All we can do is offer up our broken selves to God and wait for healing to come, not on our timeline, but His.

We are more determined than ever to lean on God and each other. We choose now to declare that we are weak, but when we are weak, He is strong. We say to the world that we are sinners that God chose long ago to use and make into beautiful testimonies of His own power and love.

We are thankful that each new day is a new start and we resolve to let the past stay in the past and let the future be in God’s hands and live in the present awake to all that God has for us. Plus, we get a clean slate each morning.

That is our declaration of dependence.