FAITH CAPSULE: See in the direction to avoid stagnation.
Genesis 11
Stagnation can be a lack of activity, growth, or development.
Stagnation can also be a state of not flowing or moving spiritually, emotionally, or physically.
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 recognizing that you are not moving forward?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, experienced stagnation in his journey in life.
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 was at the stop-over place for Teran, the evidence of stagnation that denied Teran his destination.
Stop-over in the journey of the life of Teran was not his should not be his dwelling place.
The calling of God over your life out of bondage did not design a place for you not to move forward to a dwelling place.
God is a good God.
It is time for you to search the heart and step forward in the place of the plan of God for your life.
Trust and hope in God to frustrate and make stagnation or termination of the enemy in your life journey.
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.
Obedience to God demands faith.
With faith, the Israelites needed to come out of comfort to commit to denying stagnation as a dwelling place.
Commitment to the word of God is rooted in faith.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see in His word not become a victim of stagnation.