You Gotta Move!


I'm so excited about the work that God is doing today.  Everywhere I look, I see the heartache of man and the attack of the enemy.  I see how people are fighting to hold on to God. It lets me know that we are facing transition in our lives.  We are looking at the opportunity to stay where we are or move to the next level with God!

Oh yes, I know that transition is uncomfortable, and sometimes it's painful.  In fact, it's downright difficult.  Nevertheless, transition signals spiritual metamorphosis. When you find yourself being pulled from the place you are in, stretched beyond what you think you can bear, you, my friend, are in transition.  God wants to take you into your destiny, but are you willing to go?

If we are to receive the promises of God, we must go through! It's not optional.  It's not a suggestion.  It is both inevitable and necessary.  We sometimes think that because we belong to God, we call the shots.  Not so! Not with God! He, and he alone, calls the shots.  Our only call is in our response.  Will we murmur and complain, or praise God in the midst of our pain?  Will we believe God no matter what the situation is telling us?  Will we hold on like never before?

God has been dealing with me about the shift that is coming.  He let me know that he's turning some things around.  The first shall be last and the last shall be first! In order to make that transition, we must go through.  I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about what God is doing.  And you should be excited too! Regardless of what you are going through today, when you come out, your relationship with God will be on another level! On the other side of through, your prayer life will be changed.  Your worship will be deeper! You will not be who you used to be.  You will not be the same coming out as you were going in!

Believe it or not, destiny is all around you! You gotta move!

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.  Isaiah 43:21

Reaching the lost at any cost,
Pastor Odie Kennedy

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