Move Forward

Tuesday 18 August
READ: Deut 1: 6 - 8
MORE LESSON: Exo. 14: 15 - 16

God wants you to move forward in every aspect of your life. In Deut 1:6, God spoke to the children of Israel, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites . . . See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore he would give to your fathers — to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — and to their descendants after them: Deut 1: 6 – 8 (NIV).

The children of Israel were moving in circles around Mount Horeb, then God rebuked them and told them to advance to the land of their inheritance. Even though Horeb was the Mountain of God, a place of encounter, God was not satisfied with them camping around that spiritual encounter, He wanted them to go for more. I don't know what you have but I want to tell you that God is not interested in you remaining at that level; there is more. God actually hates stagnancy; He is not pleased when He sees you labouring and sweating on the same spot. Stagnancy is against God's will; it contravenes His order.

Believers make much ado about sin, and we condemn it passionately. This is good; but I want you to know that sin is not limited to adultery and fornication. Sin is anything that is against the Word of God. Stagnancy is against God's will so you should resist stagnancy with the same fervency with which you resist sin and satan in your life. I want you to be determined in your spirit that you will move forward. Stagnancy is contrary to the Word of God, fight it, refuse it and break out of it.

If a man is stagnant, people who are behind him will overtake him and leave him behind. This is why it is important for God's children to know that they have to move forward in their career, academics, business, finance, society and every aspect of life. The Preacher in Eccl 10: 5 – 7 says, There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler . . . I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. When the children of God refuse to move forward they allow the devil's children to occupy the places of dominion and use it against the kingdom of God. So your stagnancy is not just against yourself; it insults God and works against the Kingdom.

You have stayed at the same point, doing the same thing for too long. Move! In your spiritual life, move forward, in your business move forward, get a higher certificate, start a new project, do something new. Today, I command you in Jesus’ name, Move forward.

Prayer/Action
* Pray with the following scriptures: Psa. 71:21, Isa. 60:1, Job 8:7, Job 42:12.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, in 2015 I shall be an instrument for great exploit in Your Kingdom, in the name of Jesus.