There is Provision in Transition

 

It is important that we recognize the times and seasons we are in.

Right now we are in the season of preparation to the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Passover is a time of preparation.

One of the important rituals of the season was a thorough cleaning  of the home. They were also to remove  any chametz from within. What is chametz?

It means leaven. NONE could remain.

We know biblically that leaven represents sin. In baking, leaven is the active ingredient that creates fluff or holes in bread. We can see the mirror of that when we apply it in our lives. When we have any element of leaven (sin) in our lives, it creates holes in our foundation and our walk with Him and it prevents us from going deeper, keeping us in the “fluff” or milk rather than meat. It is a time that we are to go deep and eat the meat.

The Lord spoke to my heart “PASSOVER WAS (IS) A PLACE OF PROVISION.”

This year Passover takes place from April 10-18. So now is the time of Purim (March 12) which was the celebration of deliverance after the time of corporate fasting in the days of Esther. We are just completing a corporate three-day “Esther Fast” in the body of Christ as Lou Engle and others called us to stand united in fasting and prayer for President Trump and our nation.

This was a significant act in the spirit. An act that will be followed by deliverance.

Deliverance comes as we complete that time of corporate repentance and fasting…and we next prepare for PASSOVER.

Passover is the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of Nisan.

In Hebrew it is known as Pesach–which means “to pass over,” as God passed over the homes of all who had the blood of the lamb covering their doorposts. It marked them as HIS by their obedience, and protected them from destruction of those that had enslaved them.

As we now humble ourselves before the Lord after this fast with His blood covering our lives, purifying our hearts through repentance and “cleaning out the home” of our hearts and lives, we enter that time of “passing over.” And what He said spoke to me was that, “THERE IS PROVISION IN THE PASSOVER.”

Passover was a place of transition.

Immediately following the Passover, the Israelites were released from the slavery that had yoked them for 400 years. (Note that is also significant as 400 was 8 cycles of 50. The number 8 represents resurrection or regeneration and every 50 years is a Jubilee which was the release of debt, offering forgiveness and slaves to be set free. So when the Israelites were released from their slavery at 400 years it also marked a cycle of REGENERATION AND RESURRECTION IN THE JUBILEE of release of debt and slavery. We are in such a time of transition now.

We all feel that pull of transition now in this time in the spirit. It is a transition as we have never experienced before. That is true personally and corporately. Many people are transitioning into a call previously unrecognized.

We have never seen a time such as this. And it is an exciting time—but one in which we must see with eyes of the spirit. For it is those who will see past what is in the natural (giants in the land) to press in and say, “yes that IS my land and we are well able to take it.” It is a time of pressing in to walk through.

TAKE YOUR MANTLE

What is the “land” He has placed in your heart to take hold of? That is your seat of authority—your inheritance. For you are now at the door, the very precipice to take the land. It is available for all who are willing to take hold of it and press in.

It is much like Elisha who was given the mantle of Elijah. He didn’t just grab hold of it and wear it. He took it and used it as he held fast to it and struck the waters. AND THEY PARTED.

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“He picked up the robe of Elijah that fell from him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan. And he took the robe of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the water, and said, ‘Where is the Lord, God of Elijah?’ When he had struck the water, it parted from one side to the other, and Elisha crossed over” (2 Kings 2:13-14  MEV).

This is a word for you today. The waters that have prevented you from passing over are going to part and you will be able to walk over that which was previously impassible and impossible. The waters are parting. You ask, “How does that happen?”

Let’s look at Elisha.

Elisha took hold of the mantle given to him and started forward with the expectation that the same anointing that Elijah walked in, he would walk in. And he did…in fact with DOUBLE the recorded miracles.

That is also a word for today. We are walking in mantles and callings and there will be a DOUBLE manifestation as we take hold of them, use them and walk in them. But it important that it remains for us to do. We can either just hold them or we can use them.

There is a groaning taking place. The earth is groaning. We are groaning. It is the travail of the last birthing stage. In the natural, that stage is referred to as the stage of transition.

Transition usually isn’t pretty. In fact, transition often involves chaos. I saw two things as the Lord spoke to me of transition. A bridge. And a move.

Have you ever been involved in a move from one home to another? It’s usually not for the faint of heart. Packing, transporting, the actual move from one location to the next, unloading, unpacking. In general chaos.

And while there is expectancy, it can be accompanied by fear of the unknown. That fear is trying to magnify to intimidate you from continuing in the process. For it is in the process of transition (crossing over) where you will find the next thing and place God has in your walk with Him as we go from glory to glory.

The Israelites wanted to be free, but once they were into the move/transition, they became afraid. It was taking longer and was way more complicated than they had imagined. There was much to fear in the natural. Not enough food. Not enough water. The enemies that were following them and the unknown before them. And some chose to allow that fear to dominate their thoughts and said, “We want to go back to Egypt.” If they had, they would have never reached their promise.

I Saw a Bridge

There is a bridge which lies before you. In order to get to your next place, you must cross it. It’s a place of unknown and it doesn’t look safe.

What I saw was a swinging rope bridge high above a chasm. There was nothing safe about it in the natural. The bridge was so long that it was impossible to see the end on the other side as it was engulfed in mist. The wind was blowing and the bridge was swinging. It didn’t look safe. It didn’t feel safe.

But the only way to get to the other side was to cross that bridge into the unknown. I knew as I looked at the bridge that to stay would bring only frustration and disappointment, but as I started to step on the bridge the wind picked up and the bridge began to blow back and forth with it.

Only now I was on the bridge blowing with it as well as I put one foot in front of the other pressing in to get across. It took fighting to hold on even as I continued to cross.

Are you there in that place?

“The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1).

Transition to any position comes in phases.

Rarely does someone start at the first step and immediately get promoted to the final phase…and those that do don’t last. Why? Because they have not been tempered. They have not weathered the storms of experience that provide staying power.

It is the storms of experience that teach us how to endure, how to walk through and how to get to the other side. Storms are not to be feared. They are to strengthen us on how to hold on and battle through. The storms you have endured until now, that you thought you could not survive, have tempered you and strengthened you for your next place.

God is a God of transitions. We see that from the very beginning and in the transitions were provision.

“So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold” Genesis 13:1.

As the Israelites exited Egypt there was provision.

“The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians” (Genesis 12:36).

When Joseph was instructed to leave Bethlehem, God had already provided for the transition through the gifts the wise men had given. There was already provision for the transition.

“When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him” (Matthew 2:13).

We see His provision over and over in the Word of God. His Word never changes. If He provided then, He will provide in transition now.

What to do in the place of transition: 

1. Do not fear.
2. Do not turn back.
3. Do not stop. Press in and hold on.
4. Do not settle for less.
5. Do not lose courage by listening to others who would cause you to take your eyes off Him.

You are in a place of process and it hasn’t been comfortable. It has been hard and dry and you have questioned if you are on the right road because you can’t yet see the end and the bridge is swaying back and forth, violently at times.

Don’t stop. Take hold. Take the mantle He has given you, strike the waters and begin to cross. He said He there is provision even in the journey as you cross to the other side.

Do you need prayer? If you are in that place of transition take courage and do not let go. If you need prayer or if this has encouraged you, please let me know with your comment below.