Deliverance gets you out of Egypt.
Discipleship gets Egypt out of you.
It took the Israelites 1 day to get out of Egypt but 40 years to get Egypt out of them.
Egypt: toxic provision
Wilderness: God's provision
Promise Land: Garden provision
Egypt was bondage. It's being a slave to things.
Wilderness is transition and unlearning. Delivering you from you.
Promise land is God's promise. Facing & fighting giants while taking territory and dominion.
Wilderness is transition.
Wilderness is forgiveness.
Wilderness is repentance.
Wilderness is delivering you from YOU!
How do we know that we are in promise land...? When you see giants.
These different seasons are mindsets!
Egypt is a mindset.
Wilderness is a mindset.
Promise land is a mindset.
17 Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.” 18 So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt. (Exodus 13:17-18)
The Lord didn't allow them to go out of Egypt straight to facing giants, because the people might turn around.
They just came out of Egypt and the Lord knows what to protect us from when we are coming out of toxic environments.
20 So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. 22 He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. (Exodus 13:20-22)
This pillar of fire by night and cloud by day is a resemblance of the Holy Spirit today.
We must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit in this hour!
10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11 Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”
13 And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”
15 And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. (Exodus 14:10-15)
You will notice the Israelites carried a language
1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should [d]know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. (Deuteronomy 8:1)
The Lord allows wilderness...
To humble us.
To test us.
To know what's really in our heart.
4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” (Numbers 11:4-6)
What if you don't have a hunger for God because you're so full of you?
The children of Israel had intense craving for Egypt's menu.
What if we can't see God's goodness because of the appetite we have for bondage?
What if we can't be grateful for what we do have because we continue to focus on what we don't have?
7 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:27-30)
There were spies that came with a bad report vs. spies that came with a good report.
The spies that came with a good report made it to the promise land.
Caleb quieted those that didn't believe & said we are well able to overcome it.
God is able.
What if God is not looking at your ability, but your availability?
The question is not if we are able.
The question is if we are available for God!
Moses was available
David was available.
Elijah was available.
Peter was available.
Are you available for the Lord?
10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. 11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. (Joshua 5:10-12)
The reason we call the promise land garden provision is because the moment the Israelites ate the fruit of the land, the manna ceased.
The gardens of the land provided for them through Canaan.
How to unlearn what you've learned in Egypt...
Unlearning is discipleship.
Unlearning is married to healing.
#1 Remove pharaoh.
Remove all idols in your life.
Anything that is above God in your life is an idol.
#2 Leave Egypt.
God needs to take you out of something, so He can take the something out of you.
#3 Unlearn in wilderness.
Unlearning is married to healing.
Your former appetite will crave former diet.
Unlearn diets.
Unlearn cravings.
#4 Relearn to trust God.
Your calling may attract people who misunderstand you.
What if you trusted people too much?
What if you trusted YOU too much?
Trust God.
#5 Transform your thinking patterns.
Patterns influenced by the systems...
Education system.
Healthcare system.
Media system.
Financial system.
#6 Fix your vision
How you see is how you heal.
Change your spiritual eye prescription.
#7 Step into God's promise.
You can't have promise without process.
Move forward!
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