We’ve discussed how we must break damaging cycles that keep us from crossing over from what we were into what God has spoken over us when He called us into creation. Along this journey, we encounter those who are for us and against us, but God has promised to work every person, situation, and experience for our good (if we love Him). Releasing the (P.U.F.F.): Power Understanding Fellowship and Favor of the Lord into our lives!
A quick review from Joshua’s life in week one (Crossover), told us “You can’t be so preoccupied with your past that you miss the blessings of your future in Christ.”
Philippians 3:13-14
Are you more concerned with earthly endeavors or heavenly treasures?
Last week, we examined the life of David. Although he was a man after God’s own heart, His earthly father, Jesse, excluded Him from the chance to become King. But as faith would have it, we learned that what God has set into motion no man can undo.
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider for a moment that being left out of the world’s plan may be inclusion in God’s plan. It may be how God aligns you for elevation and sanctification unto him. We don’t fit in; we stand out as much as light does from darkness. Like a beacon or light house in the darkness of the world. David was unusual.
1 Samuel 16:12
Now when you are the one, God may give you some appeal an anointing or gifting to draw others to you. It may even be “A look”. “David was glowing with health and a fine appearance”.
But these are tools that God uses to move men. He is not impressed with any of it!
1 Samuel 16:7
Your looks will only take you so far. Goliath didn’t care how pretty David was. Sometime when you are the ONE you are going to have to fight and get your nails dirty. You can’t be all fluff as a believer. Sometimes you will have to fight! Sometimes you will have to stand on your convections in God and resist the evil coming at you!
Can you stand? Can you resist the devil’s attacks?
James 4:7
Even resisting can be a struggle, but He doesn’t flee unless you resist. It’s not what’s happening to you. It’s your response that breaks cycles and strongholds in your life. You must break the cycles, so you can be positioned in your season.
Psalms 50:15
From the moment David was anointed, the spirit of the Lord was with Him and left King Saul.
The Lord does not leave one season without preparing for the incoming season. If you are walking with the Lord, you can see the changing of seasons in your life.
You may not like what you see, but God may still reveal it.Daniel 2:21-22
David was between 10 and 15 when he was anointed, but was not king until he was 30. God is not on your time schedule! Stop rushing your blessings. God doesn’t waste one minute. He uses the time to prepare and position you for His purpose (just like David). Don’t be discourage
Matthew 25:23
God does not have a problem using haters, calamities, and tragedies or even evil spirits to prepare and position us for His will.
1 Samuel 16:14
God will use anything, anytime, anywhere to bring about his will. Since God’s will for you is hater proof let the journey make you better, not bitter!
Moses’s journey proves that God has total control of all things.
God secretly hid the deliverer of the Hebrews in Pharaoh’s house. Moses was elevated to be recognized by all of Egypt because of his proximity to the Pharaoh. He went from endangered baby to 80-year-old servant of God. There was an 80-year culmination before God used him to return to Egypt for his purpose. God has complete control over time and people.
Exodus 10:27
Who hardened Pharaoh’s heart? God did! God is in control of all things.
The table was set for a display of Gods power through plagues.
Sometimes God creates resistance in our lives by positioning haters, so He can display His power to His believers and the world for His glory!
Time and people are all instruments used to bring about God’s will in our life.
When we see the spirit of God leave Saul an evil spirit takes up residency. Whose plan is that? We serve an all-powerful, omniscient God. Whose plan is that? The devil can’t even send His own agents out. If it’s God’s plan than it’s for me and not against me!
1 Samuel 16:23
David didn’t go looking for this. They came and sought him out for the job. Let favor of the Lord chase you down!
Deuteronomy 28:2
Matthew 6:33
God anointed a boy to replace the king. Then, He sent a spirit to the king to require a need for the boy’s gifting. Each day is brining you closer to your season and your preparation is necessary to be ready for your purpose in the kingdom.
Don’t get bitter. Your season is coming.
This put the boy in proximity to the king, and he could watch and learn from him. This also made him prominent and visible to others around the king for later use of his calling.
Zechariah 4:10
Joseph’s brothers put him in a pit because they were jealous of his dreams. But when Joseph’s season came, his gifting made room for him with the pharaoh. He was able to bless the same brothers that hated on him. They thought it was their plan. But whose plan was it? God’s plan!
Genesis 50:20
God’s plan for you supersedes all other plans. Your flesh would have you bitter, but God said He will make you better.
If you don’t love the Lord, you’re just going through. But if you love him, God has promised to use all of what you are going through for your promotion in His purpose. God will position you over time so make sure you don’t let you flesh make you bitter along the way.
King Saul began to grow jealous of David’s popularity. But David would have pushed any man to envy. God favored him. He was a ladies’ man and a man’s man. The flesh will have you in your feelings fast. It will make you compare fruit with someone who is not even in your season.
The world will tell you, don’t let life change you. Stay who you are! But that’s flesh talk. God says, don’t let it change you. Let it transform you instead.
If you let your flesh rule you, it can make you bitter instead of better over time.
Allow God to strip away the fleshly exterior, breaking down who they say you are, and build on who God called you to be in your spirit.
We all have a past. Either we live in it or build on it. If we let the enemy keep reminding us of our transgressions, we will miss the transformations!
Yes, they talked about us, but God proved them wrong!
1 Corinthians 1:27
Are you going to stay the boy David, that Jesse wouldn’t let in the room for the anointing? Are you living in the past staying in the cycle of hurt, letting it rob you of the seasons of success that God has planned for you? Or are you going to become the next King of Israel? God’s plan for you is better!
Are you going to stay Rahab the harlot, or become the woman who protected the Israelite’s spies and help God’s chosen defeat Jericho and change your linage forever?
Are you stuck in the first pit of your life with Joseph, or are you going to keep trusting God to deliver knowing He will bring every dream He has ever given you into fruition? Will you choose your past over your Future? Bitter or Better?
Romans 8:28
Are you living for your purpose or God’s? The difference could be better or bitterness. Are you going to be what the world called you, or what God called you?
Romans 12:2
Would you have stayed the carpenter’s son, or would you have walked in your assignment and gifting as the Messiah? Would you have been content building houses? Or would you have put down the trivial tools of men, and stood in the conviction of your spirit and built the kingdom of God instead?
Break the cycle of hurt in your life today and be transformed in your spirit by these earthly transgressions, knowing it was only God who got you through them all!
Matthew 11:28-30