When destiny is calling your name, it could cost you
your purpose if you do not respond. Purpose can sometimes pull you away from
all that you are familiar with as it was in the case of both Abraham and Moses.
Both of these men had to leave their familiar surroundings so that they could
be made and developed into the leaders that God had called them to be. Sometimes
your call will seem crazy to those that don’t know God. Stop placing such high esteem
on the opinions of what other people have to say about you and walk in the things
that God has told you to do. In God, you will accomplish more following Him then
you ever will falling into line with the state of mind that people have
assigned to you. Don’t look at your job, where you are in life right now, or
the negative words that people have spoken over your life. Make up in your mind
that you will look at the big master piece painting of GOD instead of the small
perishing polaroid of man!
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You fall when you
lose focus. Stay focused on God instead of the people behind you or the turbulence
that is going on around you
(Matthew 14:22-32).
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The dry land and wilderness like seasons of your life
are meant to cultivate you and cause anything that is not like God or pleasing
to His eye sight to fall off of your life. You have to leave what is ordinary
to you in order to walk in the extraordinary plan that God has for your life.
Moses had to leave his comfort zone and any voices of “reason” that would distract
him from learning who he was in God. Moses was raised around many gods as a
young boy, but the real true and living God is the one that actually showed up
and introduced Himself. There is nothing quite like having a personal introduction
to the Lord Almighty. When you come into His presence, every worry and idol
worship has to fall to the wayside. When Moses meant God, his childhood did not
matter, who people thought he was, and what they said about him did not matter.
The only thing that was able to stand was the purpose that God had called him
to. Moses had a mandate to fulfill despite his upbringing and the way that he
had left Egypt. God will make a fool out of those who tried to make a fool out
of you. You can’t allow the fear of failure to delay you from your purpose and
you can’t allow the intimating words of man to deny what God Himself has
already called you to.
Abraham had to leave what he was familiar with in the
natural in order to walk in the fullness of what God had for him supernaturally.
Stop comparing the relationship that you have with God to the relationship that
He has with others that are around you. Abraham could not afford to limit
himself in God. He needed God to show him the way that he had to go in order to
get to what God for him. There are somethings and some people that have to fall
off in order for you to gain the fullness of God. Lot had to go. The old
mindset of what is normal had to go. How many people can say that they reasoned
with God? How many people can say that they have heard His voice? How many
people have your promise?
There is only
one you, but you must answer the call. You must not be afraid of following the
word of the Lord and you must not be disobedient. Learn to follow the simple
instructions of the Lord as He prepares you to receive bigger ones. In the
lives of both Abraham and Moses, they had to move in order to get closer to God
and to their destinies. They had to listen, they had to have a personal
relationship with God, and they had to trust Him. You must know how to and
understand the importance of following the instructions that the Lord has given
you. Don’t take hearing His voice lightly and don’t take the fact that He loves
you for granted. More instructions will come when you are obedient.
Lord, I pray to stop trying to make worldly sense out
of orders that come from heaven. I pray to follow your word immediately without
doubt or fear in my heart. Lord, I place my future in your hands and I pray
that the only residue that is seen on my life is your finger prints. Lord, I
pray that everything about me gives you glory and I pray your perfect will over
my life. Help me to trust you in the midst of my process although I don’t
understand every intersection that is essential to my growth. In Jesus name I pray, amen.
Recommended
Reading: “"If you are faithful in little things, you
will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you
won't be honest with greater responsibilities" (Luke 6:10 NLT).
“My
sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27 NLT).
“And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee
from him: for they know not the voice of strangers” (John 10:5 KJV).
“Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it
not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall
preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal
thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to
honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of
grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee “(Proverbs 4:5-9).
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