Moving Means Leaving


We're wrapping up January but it still feels like a new season.  I still have to remember to get the date right.  When I write 2018 instead of 2019, it reminds me that I can't bring the struggles of 2018 into my new year. To make a natural change is one thing, but what about the spiritual change?  Is your spirit man still in 2018?

So many are proclaiming that 2019 is their new season.  New year, new me.  There's nothing wrong with making the proclamation as long as we are willing to move to the destination.
  
We serve a great God and nothing he does is small or ordinary.  When he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, he sent plagues before their release.  Every plague was worse than the last, but Pharaoh was unmoved.  I wonder how many of the Israelites were also unmoved.
When God is taking us to a new place, old things cannot go.  It takes a forceful determined effort on our part to go where God is calling us.  The children of Israel had to make up their minds that they wanted what God had for them.  It required them to move from one place to the next.  When they were facing the Red Sea, they had to make up their minds to cross when God blew the ground dry.  I imagine that some were hesitant and even afraid, but it didn't stop them from going forward. 

Before there is a change for you, there must be a change in you! If you want to move into the wealthy land that God has promised you, let go of the person you used to be.  Let go of hurt and unforgiveness.  The old ways will taint the new place and become hindrances to you.  Don't be afraid of the extraordinary things God is doing before you. 
God wants to give you better! He wants to see you living better! The new season is waiting for the old you to pass away.  Moving means leaving.  Don't miss what God has for you!  

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.  2 Corinthians 5:17

Reaching the lost at any cost, 
Pastor Odie Kennedy

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