FAITH CAPSULE: Your stop-over should not replace you from stepping forward.
Genesis 11
God is not a God of stagnation.
Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know?
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 wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his journey.
The word records, “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 when he came to Haran, he became stagnated to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
Haran could have been stopping over for Terah not to replace him from stepping forward.
Terah’s stepping forward from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place.
God, calling you out of bondage, did not design a place for you not to move forward as a dwelling place. God is a good God. It is time for you to search the 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 the Israelites from the 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 move from the comfort to where God committed taking them to.
Faith demands from the Israelites not to make a dwelling place as a stop-over.
Faith also demands from all, see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see in His word, to receive His blessing.