“But This Time”
Exodus 17:6b & Numbers 20:8a
Today the Lord wants us to know that it’s time to:
- Re-evaluate your position
- Re-chart your course
- Return to your battle
Re-evaluate – is to: reconsider, reexamine, and reassess….check again!
As I reevaluate, I will observe that I have been more than a conqueror. Although I’ve been through some of the same situations and the circumstances are still the same . . the same fact remains ….. I’m still here!
Now I can say…BUT THIS TIME, my position is from a platform of authority, But THIS TIME my position is to KNOW without a shadow of a doubt; and not guess or surmise the faithfulness of God. BUT THIS TIME I operate from the authority of one who is the head and not the tail; BUT THIS TIME my position is one of an ambassador and not one who governed by this world’s system. BUT THIS TIME…I really do have a new mindset. Previously I may have thought that my mind was renewed.. BUT THIS TIME – AS I REEVALUATE, I can observe that my thought pattern has change; I SEE THAT MY MIND IS RENEWED!
Re-chart my course - is to go back to my spiritual drawing board, discern where I am, and advance my anchor in alignment with my newly positioned mindset. Formerly, my anchor was in shallow waters.. in familiar territories and within the reach of what I could perceive. My anchor was launched in areas where I could still view the shore. BUT THIS TIME… I will launch out into the deep, BUT THIS TIME…I am taking the limits off of God and will begin to navigate through uncharted and unfamiliar territory.…..BUT THIS TIME…I can say use me Lord – wherever and however YOU desire to, …and really mean it!
Return to my battle – When God instructed Moses to “Strike” the rock in the book of Exodus, the people still had the mindset of being enslaved. They were accustomed to the harsh treatment of their slave masters… BUT THIS TIME in the book of Numbers, Moses was only required to SPEAK to the rock. God wanted Him to stand in faith. God was trying to get Moses to understand who he was and the power of his words. Thus it is with us… BUT THIS TIME…when I’m confronted with my same battle…..I only have to SPEAK to every adverse situation and command it to come into alignment with what the word of God has said. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve spoken, decreed, affirmed and declared… BUT THIS TIME; Because I’ve been studying my Word with a new mindset; BUT THIS TIME because I’ve been spending more quality time with the Lord…. BUT THIS TIME because I am operating from a sharpened and a keener discernment – it is time for me to return to my battle and possess all that has been stolen by the enemy.
BUT THIS TIME because I’ve Re-evaluated position;
BUT THIS TIME because I’ve Re-charted my course;
BUT THIS TIME as I returned to battle;
I can hear the Lord saying the struggle is over – It is now time to Replace, Recover, Replenish… and to walk in your Kingdom Power and Authority!
“Look, I am giving all this land to you! Go in and occupy it, for it is the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to all their descendants." Deuteronomy 1:8 NLT
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