FAITH CAPSULE: God is good He wants you to move forward out of stagnation.
Deuteronomy 1:1-19
God is not a God of stagnation.
Are you experiencing any stagnation in the journey of weeks, days, or months?
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long and not recognize the fact that you are not moving forward?
God repeatedly bring His children out of stagnation despite His children are comfortable with stagnation.
Terah the father of Abram decided to move forward but yet stagnation later made up with him.
The word recorded, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32)
Terah’s destination was Canaan but Haran became his place of stagnation where he spent two hundred and five years before he died.
Are you on journey of stepping forward but not of stopover?
Terah’s stepping forward from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan became his stopover at Haran as his dwelling place. God who called you out of bondage or stagnation did not design your stopover as a dwelling place. God is a good God. It is time to search heart and step forward in God’s design for your life. Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the concerning stagnation of Israel from bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in plans of going forward?
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. Faith demands from the children of Israel to turn from where they might have been having comfort to where God committed to take them.
Faith demands from the Israelites not to make dwelling place at stop-over.
Faith also demands from us that we see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to move forward.