Get Your Strategy for Shift

Let's all pray that God will give us the radical idea or strategy that will catapult us into destiny.  It may come through something we read, something we see or directly through prayer.  But there is something we can do in obedience to God that will shift us out of where we are and into the manifestation of His promises for our lives.

God gave Jacob a divine strategy as he was on his way to do the will of God.  Jacob angered Laban and his sons.  So, God told Jacob to get up from Laban's house, take all his family, flocks and household and return to his father's land where He promised to do him good and make him numerous.  Jacob moved in obedience but was afraid of what Esau would do to him because he stole Esau's birthright. He sent his servants in front of him to tell Esau he was coming. His servants returned with the message that Esau was coming to meet him with 400 men.  Jacob responded in fear by dividing his household in an effort to protect at least one if the other was destroyed.  But then He prayed reminding God of His promises and asked God for deliverance.  What God gave him was a strategy that would spare his life and that of those in his household. The scripture does not say God gave him a strategy.  But right after he prayed, he made a bold strategic move that must have come from God.  Before he prayed he sent a message.  After he prayed, he enacted a plan of more than words.  He took much from his flocks of all kinds and prepared a gift for Esau that he sent ahead of himself along with the messengers in a specific order and format. He moved his family and he remained alone.  It was then that he wrestled with God and refused to let go until he received a blessing and the new name Israel.  As we know, he was more than delivered from Esau but his relationship was restored even greater than ever before. Genesis 32.

We, too, as we walk in obedience to what God has instructed and promised may face what seems to be a death-defying challenge along the way.  But if we pray, God will give us the pivotal instruction or move that will shift us not only into deliverance, not only into restoration but into promise.

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