Where God is taking you in this season is nothing like what you've ever experienced before. He is doing a new thing! Many of us have faith to believe that. However, we keep finding ourselves longing for the familiar. Let's take a look at this concept in scripture!
God used Moses to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt in the book of Exodus. The Children in Israel were slaves in Egypt. The new Pharoah was intimidated by the Israelites due to how populous they had become. Therefore, he decided to enslave them to keep them bound and to prevent them from achieving their potential. Exodus 1:8-10 states, "Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. He said to his people, 'Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don't, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.'" Pharoah (the king-- as the NLT refers to him) was intimidated by the Israelites. His plan to enslave them was rooted in intimidation. Some of us have been held hostage in your "Egypt" because the people there are intimidated by you! I don't know what your Egypt is. It could be your job. It could be your significant other. It could be a longtime friend. Whatever your Egypt is understand that it's bondage, and God's desire is to set his people free from bondage. Exodus 2:23-24 states, "Years passed. and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God. God heard their groanings, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act."
I don't know who needs to hear this, but God has heard your cries. He has heard your groans. He feels your pain and misery and wants to deliver you from your Egypt. He will make a way out of Egypt, but you must see your way out. God has given some of us many opportunities to leave, but we keep talking ourselves into staying, or we let the enemy convince us that it's God's will for us to stay in bondage. I remember in my life thinking I must endure. I am being too negative. I must see the good in this situation. I was thinking those thoughts, yet I was miserable. God doesn't want us miserable. He wants us joyful. He wants us energetic. He wants us to live abundantly. It's the enemy's goal to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus says in John 10:10 that His purpose for coming to Earth is to give us life and life abundantly. The Promise Land is your portion. Know what you deserve. Know what God wants for you. I had to really understand that it was not God's will for me to cry, have panic attacks, and be frustrated all the days of my life. Once I understood that, I began cutting some things and people off--things and people that were my Egypt--things and people who kept me bound in a slavery mindset. That is how I escaped Egypt. However, God never takes us from Egypt straight to the Promise Land. You have to go through the wilderness to get there.
Ah! The wilderness stage. This is the place that most people don't like. However, the wilderness is not a bad place. So many people curse their wilderness season because it's uncomfortable, not realizing that they are cursing the process. Don't curse what God is doing. God led you to the wilderness, not Satan. God told Moses to lead the people through the wilderness to get to the Promise Land. Matthew 4 tells us that The Holy Spirit led Jesus to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Understand that God led you in your wilderness, so don't curse this place--embrace it! Ask God what He needs for you to learn or overcome in this season. I can tell you one thing He wants you to learn: to trust and depend solely on Him!
When the Israelites crossed over from Egypt to the wilderness, they had to learn to depend on God. God was there with them as a cloud by day and fire by night. God would literally guide them as a cloud during the day time and fire during the night time so that they knew what steps to take to get out. However, they complained the entire time! They cursed their process! They made complaints such as we were better off in Egypt. God brought us out of Egypt to kill us in the wilderness.
Hear me out! Sometimes when you're in your wilderness, Egypt appears better. You start having thoughts of regret like maybe I made the wrong choice. However, it's an illusion. The enemy creates these illusions--which are not real--to make you want to go back to Egypt. He makes Egypt look so desirable. Please understand that Egypt was bondage and nothing changed! Taking a break from Egypt did not make it a better place! If you go back, it will still be bondage. Don't believe the illusion that it was better. Slavery is never better than freedom. The problem is Egypt is familiar. You know what to expect in Egypt. It doesn't require much faith to live in Egypt. So, you become enticed by the familiar. It's so easy to want the familiar when you're in a season of unfamiliar. The wilderness is unfamiliar. You don't know where you're going. You know God is guiding you, but you don't know where He's guiding you. You don't know what you're going to encounter while passing through. You don't know how long it's going to take to get to the promise. It requires full dependency on God and that can be uncomfortable for our human nature. Human nature wants to be in control. We want to know what we are getting ourselves into. We want to have a plan. We want to know where our next meal is coming from. We want to know that we have a reliable check coming in each pay period. We find comfort in knowing what to expect. However, God is saying, where I am taking you, you need to fully trust me, because your comfort is holding you back. Your thinking is so small. You're comfortable with $60,000 a year, but I created you to make millions. You're comfortable with that man because he provides, but the man I have for you will love you like Christ loves the Church and will not be intimidated by who you are in the Spirit. Your mind and your circle back in Egypt cannot comprehend where I am taking you. You are walking in unchartered territory. You are a trailblazer. You are what your bloodline needs and has been waiting for. You are a generational curse breaker. I've called you to be set apart, not to go with the flow of everyday life and to succumb to the thinking that this is as good as it gets. No. I called you for greater. I called you to a land flowing with milk and honey. Don't settle. This is not the season to settle. I don't care how good that opportunity looks, how much they apologize, how much they beg you to come back, what they offer you--if it doesn't align to where I am taking you, then it's not for you.
It was always God's intention for us to be fruitful. When He created the Earth, He created every living thing to be fruitful. He created seeds inside of every living thing so that it could reproduce. God even told humankind to be fruitful and multiply. This was God's original intent. Lack was never His intent. Bondage was never His intent. Struggling was never His intent. Toiling was never His intent. Seedlessness was never His intent. We were not called to live a GMO life. We were not called to be seedless. We were called to produce and reproduce--the things we produce should produce. This is the life God designed for us and, according to Deuterononmy 8:18, He has given us the power to gain wealth. Understand, that I am not a prosperity minister. I am not someone who writes things to make you feel good and shout. God gave me this revelation because I was willing to settle for less, but God said, no baby girl, I created and designed you for more. You are sitting on millions. By you settling in Egypt or staying stuck in the wilderness, you are sitting on your gifts. You weren't happy in Egypt because you weren't utilizing your gifts there. Don't be tempted to go back to an unfruitful lifestyle just because it's "safe." The safest place to be is in the presence of God. And God--although He is always with us internally--isn't in Egypt. His presence has gone before us. He is waiting for us to move forward.
I saw a vision this morning while in prayer of God standing in the Promise Land like a happy, encouraging father waiting for us to walk to Him. It was like we were babies learning to walk and take our first steps, and He was the parent encouraging us to keep going until we got to Him. That's what's happening now in the Spirit. God has gone before us waiting for us to catch up. Take steps of faith until you get to the promise. Cursing the wilderness is only slowing down your progress. Listening to the voices around you that contradict what God is doing is only slowing down your progress. God gave me this example a couple of weeks ago. He asked me, "Do remember when the disciples were on the boat and they saw what appeared to be a ghost, but it was me(Jesus) standing on the water? I told them to come, but only Peter was brave enough to get off the boat and walk to me on water. However, Peter became distracted by the voices on the boat (from people who didn't have the faith to step out and do it) and from the winds and ocean waves and, therefore, began to sink." Peter was only an arms length away from Jesus because all Jesus had to do was hold his arm out and lift him up out of the water. He was so close, yet he was distracted by the voices of those stuck in "Egypt" and by what was happening around him. It's not necessarily that those people you are leaving behind are bad--those were Jesus's disciples that He chose--they weren't bad people. They just weren't ready spiritually to step out in faith. Even the most well-meaning people can distract you. That's why you need this season of separation. God doesn't want you contaminated by other people's lack of faith. Jesus, while on the water, said "Come" (King James version). That was an open invitation to all. However, only Peter had the faith to come. You are the one--yes, you reading this--you are the one with the faith to come in this season. Don't try to drag others with you because you hate doing things alone. Their season isn't here yet. This is your season to come. This is your season to be ye separated. This is your season to move in faith. This is your season to trust God like you've never trusted Him before. This is your season to be a vessel for God. This is your season for the glory of God to manifest on your life for you to be a visual representation of Him and what He can do. Trust me--those friends, family, and things you left in Egypt or on the boat will be amazed by the things God did for you in this season. That will be what they need to activate their faith! But right now, it's on you--so what you gonna do?
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