Field Trip to Destiny

On the day that the Lord commanded Moses to send 12 spies into the Land of Canaan, I wonder if any of them grumbled about the opportunity and wondered within themselves “Why do I have to go ?” or “why is God sending me ?”. It’s the craziest thing, God wants to bless us, but we don’t wanna go through nothing. God wants to wow us by sending us on field trips to spy out our destiny, but we yet find a way to miss the abundance and instead come back with a bad report about what God has allowed us to see. You need to fix your vision. Your field trip to spy out destiny is not meant to discourage you, but it is meant to encourage you. When God shows you the land and the better our come that he wants to give you, look past the impossibilities and look to your God for which nothing is impossible.

God can’t bless us effectively with an Egypt mentality. We would never be happy because we are still comparing the gifts of God to the scraps we received in that old place that God has delivered us from. This season, that loneness is meant to destroy Egypt. Why do you keep trying to go back to what God himself has called you out of. You are either going to grow or die in the wilderness, but that is your choice. God can skip you and use another person in your stead. Look at Israel. They wondered in the dessert for 40 years until the old generation died out and the new generation rose up. Let those old traditions and your old way of doing things die. Why are you fighting a blessing?

What if God sent you, in your hard place, to spy out the destiny that He has for you. You have your current mind frame. God has brought you through leaps and bounds. You have been delivered and set free. You are on a journey and God gives you these instructions, “Get up from where you are right now, go to this street or this country (God has given you just enough provision so don’t worry), tell me what you see. What does the land look like? What are the people like? Tell me about the food? What type of clothes are the people wearing? What type of houses do you see? What is the atmosphere like?” When you return from your field trip to give God the answers that He is requiring from you to test your faith, what will your reply be?

God gave similar instructions to Moses to give to the 12 spies. Each one had an opportunity to be both a representative and unknowingly a blessing and a mouth piece for their family. It’s not that the opportunity is not available to you, your problem is that you are not using it wisely. You better check your perspective and your mind frame. When God calls you from a place He is calling you from the mindset of that place also. Leave Egypt alone and walk into the new place that God has for you.

Each of the 12 spies had to stand in fount of the congregation to increase their faith by coming back with evidence of the good things that God had planned for them. Although they came back with clusters of grapes that were so large that two people had to carry them, some of them viewed the land through a defeated and negative mind frame. Their negative mind frame caused others to continue to walk in a negative mind frame also.

Let me ask you a question. What will it take for you to trust God? It’s natural to miss what you are familiar with, but your familiar place was not healthy for you. The bad report of the 10 spies caused the Israelites to want to find a captain so that they could return to Egypt. Bondage is a very real and aggressive state. You have to stand up, know, and remember where the Lord has brought you from. Your decision can affect not only you, but it can affect your lineage.

Of the 12 spies only 2 gave a good report about the field trip to destiny. Will you be among the 12 or will you stand among the 2?

Lesson: God gets upset when we want to go back to the very place that He has brought us out of. Let’s face it. In many ways we have Israelite tendencies in that we are not as thankful as we should be for the presence of God in our lives. I was dying in my old place. I was unhappy and I was depressed. God did not deliver me or you so that we could go back to what was familiar. This is me right now. I have to be intentional about remembering where God has brought me from. I have to be intentional about remembering the pain and the prayers that I prayed. The truth is that my Egypt was not meant to go into the place that God is calling me to. If I choose to back track into the past, I won’t make it there either. Be intentional today about remembering where God has brought you from. This whole year, God has been dealing with me about how I view things. Sometimes your perspective can make you depressed when God’s intention is to show you His glory.

Question: Is Egypt worth starting all over again? Sometimes when we flunk the class, we have to take it over again.

Recommended Reading: Numbers 13-14,

I pray for the peace, the desire, and the will to endure Lord. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I pray that you help me to trust you and take everything one day and one step at a time. Forgive me for missing the things that you have called me away from. Help me to be close to you. Help me to remember where you have brought me from and look forward with gladness to where you are taking me. Please don’t abandon the work of your hands. In Jesus name, Amen.

“For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”( Ephesians 2:10 NIV).

“For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (Philippians 1:6 NLT).

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