People with a High Threshold for Pain...

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This word I believe I received from the Lord may not touch as big of an audience as my previous posts because it is very specific for certain individuals.  You will know if you relate or not.

During intercessory prayer on August 24, 2013, while in prophetic worship of the Lord, I heard the following:

Some people with a high threshold for pain will tolerate things or people who cause pain entirely too long.  It's an unsanctified form of mercy...patience to endure what I am saying, "Put this away.  Be done with this."

There are aspects of personalities/characteristics/habits which need to be offered to Me in surrender of sacrifice.  You will feel like you are giving something up, but you are actually gaining.  Seek Me for wisdom of how to do this.  Look for open doors of opportunity to give it up.  Speak forth what I give you to say, confident of this:  I will turn it around for good.  Go free and help others do likewise.  Stop enabling behaviors which actually keep others in bondage.  Go free from chains of darkness which have even held some for generations.  Go free My people, go free.

I got a sense that this word is speaking to those of us who put up with things which we feel is the "nice or right" thing to do when it actually is enabling people to continue in wrong behavior.  Sometimes we do this because we are intimidated, or we don't like confrontation, or we just want to "keep the peace" and just don't want to deal with it.  This is man pleasing and displeasing to God, because it just messes up the very things we think we are fixing or helping.  He is specific that it is better to please Him than man, Gal. 1:10.  He also does not want our motivation for action or lack thereof to be determined by fear. We will be gaining freedom and helping them to do likewise, if afterward they will choose to make good decisions and change their own behaviors or accept responsibility for themselves and their actions.

It's interesting that the word, "threshold" means: the point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or to elicit a response; a point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect; a line determining the limits of an area.