Keep Moving! part 4

Friends, there is such power in our words! Say these things out loud, prophetically, over your life on a daily basis:

• I’m going where I’ve never gone before
• I’m going to see what I’ve never seen before
• I’m going to hear what I’ve never heard before
• I’m going to feel what I’ve never felt before
• I’m going to do what I’ve never done before
• I’m stepping into a new level of anointing
• Sickness and disease can’t go where I’m going
• Poverty and lack can’t go where I’m going
• Fear, anxiety, and stress can’t go where I’m going
   
  

Listen: the reality is that Someone is watching you. Someone is waiting for you to get across the river, to come through the valley, to walk out of the fiery furnace, to crawl out of the pit. They are cheering for you; they are praying for you; they are waiting for you! So tell yourself, “I’m going to make it because I’m going to Keep Moving!”
 

Ezekiel reached the place in the river where it was too deep to walk anymore. To go any further, he had to swim. This is the place we call transition. What happens when you reach this place? It is the place of decision; it is where you either enter a new dimension or you settle into a lesser level. Up to this point you have been able to stand on your feet. There’s been a pressure of the river’s flow against you, moving you with its flow, but as long as you are on your feet, there is still a resistance to the river’s agenda.
 

The river represents the flow of the Holy Spirit. Going with the current of the river means that you are surrendered and yielded to the will and plan of the Holy Spirit.
 

Many people will never make this transition. Why? Because this is the place where your feet are no longer deciding the direction of your own life. At this place, your flesh is under direction of the Holy Spirit. This is where the Holy Spirit decides when, where, how far, and how fast you go. The Holy Spirit decides your stops and your starts. Suddenly, your only support is the Holy Spirit. This means you have left the land of logic and reasoning and you are now in the dimension where faith, alone is keeping you afloat. Everything you do now is just what is necessary to stay with the flow of the Spirit. 

Unfortunately, many people will never make this transition. They are too afraid, they don’t know what to expect, and/or they’re afraid of losing control.

But here at this point of transition, something happens. Up to this point, Ezekiel was in the river and he was experiencing the increasing intensity of the current of the river - but he still has control of where he goes, when he goes, and how far he goes. In other words, he still watches what he wants to watch, listens to what he wants to listen to, does what he wants to do, and goes where he wants to go. And, in spite of the increasing intensity of the current of the Spirit on him, his feet are still in charge. But once he hits this point of transition there is no longer an ability to resist. Now he is moving in total harmony with the river. Now his will is swallowed up by the will of the Holy Spirit.
 

Did God overthrow Ezekiel’s will? Not at all. Every step Ezekiel took in the river, was a willing choice of participation in losing himself in the river. In other words, the river didn’t take Ezekiel; Ezekiel gave himself to the river, just like Jesus did when He prayed in the Garden, “If You are willing, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not My will, but Yours be done” Luke 22:42.



Continued tomorrow