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Posted: 2004-06-27
Thru:
Undrai Fizer
~2004-04-22
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Make Room for Your Significant Promise!
(Blue bold = Quick-Read / Editor's emphasis)
Abram (before his named was changed to Abraham), lived comfortably with a blessing that was going to
soon be sent away! He lived with a 'blessed mistake' for 13 years (Genesis 16:15-16; 17:1). He lived 'becoming more and more emotionally attached to a seed that was
soon to be commanded to go away!'
While a Blessing of God can fall on anyone, whether faithful or not, saved or not, obedient or not, a Significant
Promise requires a revolutionary change of identity, life, mentality, and progression. Abraham received a promise from God of a seed that would perpetuate
throughout all generations.
A [Significant] Promise from God gives birth to legacies that perpetuate throughout entire generations.
It
is Eternal in nature, and manifested through impossibilities in the natural.
Abraham, because of the 'seemingly impossible odds concerning the Promise, settled on Ishmael, his son through Hagar, the maidservant of Sarah.' He waited so long that
he simply wanted a son, 'whether one by mistake or one by Promise.'
There are some who are faced with seemingly impossible odds, so potent are these odds that it can tempt you to settle 'for something other than the
Promise.' This is the proving Hand of the Lord. His Hand discerns the intensity of your faithfulness, and the depths of your kinship in Him, by 'giving you the choice
to choose between a Blessing or a Promise.'
Abraham was later told to 'send his blessing away from his house.' He had to send his emotional attachment away from his heart. He believed God, 'but for the wrong
child!' Many of us have used our faith to believe 'for a thing we will have to soon send, or give, away!' He used the strength of his faith to 'believe for wrong son!'
But the Power of the Promise will resurrect your contending faith to believe for the Promise. You see, Ishmael's birth didn't require a change
for Abram and Sarai. Abram continued to think and live the way he always did. He was comfortable with his little blessing running around the camp. It was as
though his long, labor in the soul, was finally over. He could finally get some rest from his inner fight.
But God is funny. He will lead you to a Place where you will have to decide between the blessing, or the Promise [“the ‘Y’ in the road”]. You
will have to fight between your 'rest from labor,' and your 'pursuit of Promise'. Abraham had to overcome 'his inner release' and 'season of rest that came as a
result of his contending for the Promise.' When Ishmael was born, 'a season of rest to his soul came as well.'
Now, he must muster up the energy and the Power, to believe against a greater impossibility. Now,
he must believe to 'begin again,' with all of the odds stacked against him. The Significant Promise from God does not come to merely give
you a testimony. It comes to manifest from within you 'an Eternal Legacy of continual birthing, prophetic dimensions, and kingdom realities.'
We, who are contending for the Promises that relate to our Significant Destiny, must also overcome the temptation of rest that is
assigned to temporal blessing. We must discern when certain seasons of 'rest' are merely attempts to get us to settle for anything less than the Promise. This is what
Abraham did. This is how we connect to the faith of Abraham. The seed of Abraham are pursuers of Promises!
*Don't get me wrong. It is imperative for builders of the Kingdom to rest, refresh, and renew, their inner Strength, lives, and relationships. These are things that we
must do as we accomplish the purposes of God. I simply speak of the 'temptations that come in the seasons that can force us to quietly give up on Significant Promises, and
settle for things not spoken or sanctioned by your assignment, even though it's good. |
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