The Command

Matthew 14:25-28 (NKJV)
Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.” And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”

I am in a place right now in God where I am being taught and trained in His ways. He is teaching me about patience, gratitude, peace, love, kindness, longsuffering, meekness, and temperance. This is my time for training to be sent out to follow His commands.

When we first started the ministry God showed us these wonderful visions of things to come, and we are very excited to posses those things which God has for us. But before we can posses, we first must be trained and then commanded. I am the type of person that doesn’t like inactivity; I always like to be doing something especially when it comes to something I am passionate about. When God revealed to Tracy and I these visions I was ready to go for it right away, but it wasn’t time yet.

God gave me a vision concerning what I was feeling on the inside; He showed me a dog on a leash that had a steak in front of him. The dog wasn’t trained so he was lunging at the steak, resisting his master and hurting his neck. Next God showed me a trained dog that was patiently sitting next to his master off of his leash waiting for the command to get the steak, when the master gave the command to get the steak the dog calmly stood up and walked to his reward.

In this vision the dog represents me, in the first representation the over excited out of control dog is me trying to lunge out and possess the vision God gave us concerning our future in ministry. The calm dog in the next vision represents how God wants me to be concerning the vision He gave us. He wants us to be trained up and patiently waiting on His command. (Now I’m not trying to say that God see’s you as a dog, this is just how he communicated one of His principles to me)

Luke 5:1-4 (NKJV)
So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

The above scriptures both accurately detail this principle God gave me. The first scripture tells us how Peter walked on the water when he saw Jesus. Peter was able to walk on the water because he was commanded to, if he were never commanded to walk on the water he would have sunk. The second scripture explains to us how Simon launched out into the deep and gathered a net breaking boat load of fish. This would have never happened if he weren’t commanded to do so.

Many of us sometimes take it upon ourselves to launch out into the deep without a command from God and we end up at the bottom needing to be rescued. We all have purpose and reward in this world, and in order for us to accurately posses all that God has for us we first must be trained up and commanded to go out. Wait for the command child of God.

Remember waited time is not wasted time.

I hope this has been a blessing on your lives.

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org