Go Forth!

There are a lot of people that have been dealing with challenges in their lives. Many think that the challenges have been due to the economy or maybe even just another part of living life. These challenges have not been without purpose in your life, these challenges were actually a time of testing and trial.

Deuteronomy 8:2-4 (The Message)
Remember every road that GOD led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don't live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from GOD's mouth.

When we are tested and tried it doesn’t mean that we’re living outside of the will of God or that we’ve done something wrong to upset God. The testing and trial is actually a representation of quite the opposite. During the testing and trials in your life consider yourself blessed…

James 1:2-4 (The Message)
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

The testing and trials are to grow and mature you as His child and to refine you in his ways…

1 Peter 1:6-7 (The Message)
I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.

1 Peter 4:12-13 (The Message)
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.

I’ve been getting over the past week or so that many have been tested and many have been proved. So now it is time for us to go forth and do what God has called us to. What has God put on your heart concerning your life? Has God been speaking to you about going back to school, if so apply to the one He leads you to and study what He desires you to study. Has God put a passion in your heart to advance in the company you work for, go ahead and inquiry or apply for that promotion. Has God been speaking to you about launching out and starting your own business, if so start to prepare yourself to be an entrepreneur.

There is so much that God has placed on the hearts of His people all over the world and the command now is to GO FORTH! Now there is a big difference between going forth and just being in agreement with God about the plans for your life. The person that goes forth isn’t moved by what they see, the person that goes forth is confident in God that He will do what He said he would do, the person that goes forth let’s nothing deter them from achieving the promise. The person that goes forth actually does something when the command is spoken.

If Noah never built the ark than it would have never been built by him. If Moses never lifted his staff and commanded the water to part than the Red Sea would have never been parted by him. If David never charged Goliath than maybe David wouldn’t have been a King and such an influential person in the Bible. If you never act on the promise that God has put in your heart than that’s exactly where it’s going to stay, in your heart.

The way may look impossible or even downright scary. There may be giants in the land or people that have more knowledge than you, more money than you, and more experience than you. Whatever the situation looks like ahead just remember that it is what God has promised you and God never fails on a promise. Stay the course and claim what it is that God has for you.

Amen.

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org