Take God’s Path of Progress for a Transformed Life!

Things can be different from now if you are Willing to Take God’s Path of Progress for Your Life!

Are you feeling stuck in your life, yearning for a change but unsure of how to make it happen? Look no further! God has a path of progress specifically designed for you. 🙏

The Lord gave me a message of wisdom to share with you. A message full of truths that can unlock a new season in your life. It changed my life and I know it will be transformative in your life as you act upon it. What did God say to me?

“Things are the way they are because of what you are doing. If you want something different, you must do something different.” 💫

He further emphasized that what God has already spoken to you through His word, your heart, or prophetic revelation holds immense power. Rather than waiting for external circumstances to change, it’s time to activate the faith within you. 🌟

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus revealed a profound truth: the kingdom of God is not merely a physical place to be observed but a divine reality dwelling inside you. The key to unlocking this power lies in realizing that what you seek is already within you, waiting to be activated by your faith. 🙌

The understanding of the Apostle Paul echoes this powerful truth. Christ in you is your source of hope and the catalyst for your breakthrough. God’s glory resides within you, ready to supply all your needs and grant you abundant life. Through the 5-fold ministry – the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher – God works to bring you to the fullness of Christ. 🌈

To fully embrace this transformation, having a prophet in your life is crucial. A godly prophetic voice will mentor you in hearing God for yourself, enabling you to activate your faith and experience prosperity and progress. ✨

Are you ready for a change? Remember these key steps: Do what you see the Father doing, have no opinion about the consequences, and relinquish the outcome. These three components make up the “Chaos Decision” – a bold choice to obey God wholeheartedly, even when you don’t understand the next steps. 🌟

Embrace the unknown, for it is where God’s supernatural workings are revealed. As you walk in the Spirit, guided by God’s peace and joy, you will witness mountains move and destiny unfold before you. 🌄

So, take the leap! Tap into the power within you, activate your faith, and step onto God’s path of progress. As you wage good warfare with the promises and prophecies God has spoken over your life, you will break free from the stuck place and experience extraordinary change and transformation.

Introduction:

Many people feel like they are in a stuck place in their lives. The Lord spoke to me years ago some wisdom that will help you if you receive it and apply it to your life: 

Things are the way they are because of what you are doing. If you want something different, you must do something different. 

Then He followed up with: 

What God has already said to you (in His word, in your heart, or through the prophetic) is much more powerful than what you are waiting on Him to do or say. 

These can be hard sayings when you are out of energy and resources at the end of your rope and hanging on for dear life. But the path of progress is very plain. We want God to act independently of any input on our own part – but it is God’s nature that He requires reciprocal faith as a precondition for any positive change in your life. 

Getting Out of the Stuck Place:

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus was interacting with the Pharisees when they confronted Him with a challenge:

[Luk 17:20-21 KJV] 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The Jewish nation was in a stuck place. They were suffering under the jackboot of Rome and longed for the promise of God as they understood it to come to fulfillment. They were seeking to understand God’s linear purpose through time. Jesus seemingly changed the subject – but not really. 

The kingdom doesn’t come with observation. What is the opposite of observation? If you are not observing, then you are participating. If you are not in the bleachers, you are on the 50-yard line. 

Jesus goes on to say, “Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold the kingdom of God is within you…” 

How many times do we think, “If I could just get somewhere other than where I am right now (financially, spiritually, geographically), then things would be different…. Jesus dismisses this thinking and says to us what He said to the Pharisees: 

BEHOLD – THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. 

Whatever you think will be accomplished in God’s linear purpose through time will only be available to those who understand what they are looking for is in great measure already on the inside of them, awaiting the occasion of their own faith. 

The Understanding of the Apostle Paul: 

Jesus said that the kingdom of God doesn’t come with observation and that the kingdom is within you – not to be sought in an outward, independent context by those who would take advantage of your weakness. Those who say “Lo here…” or “Lo there” are those whom Jesus warns us about. Because when we show up HERE or THERE, we find there is an agenda on the part of those proclaiming the message of outward dependence that has nothing to do with our breakthrough and everything to do with building their own little kingdom. 

Paul dealt with this in Colossians when He summed up the whole of His message in Col. 1:26-29:

[Col 1:26-29 KJV] 26 [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. 

Christ in you is the message that encapsulated all that Paul had to say to the Colossians. 25 years ago, the Lord put it to me this way: 

Christ in you is your Father. Christ in me is your brother. You love your brother, but you know who is on the inside of you, making Himself known to you day by day. 

Why is this important? Because God meets all your need out of the glory, according to Phil. 4:19:

[Phl 4:19 KJV] 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Where is the glory? It is IN you. He isn’t a far-off God. He is near to you as the breath of your nostrils. He is as close to you as your hands and feet. As you listen to Him and obey Him you will come to a new dynamic in life. The whole purpose of the ministries God sets over you is to bring you to the fullness of Christ who lives on the inside of you: 

[Eph 4:7-8, 11-13 KJV] 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. … 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Now – what of the 5-fold Ministry?

Each aspect of the five fold ministry of Eph. 4 works a particular aspect of the manifestation of Christ in your life.

1. The Apostle establishes who Christ is in you.
2. The Prophet activates who Christ is in you. 
3. The Evangelist propagates who Christ is in you.
4. The Pastor shepherds who Christ is in you.
5. The Teacher elucidates who Christ is in you. 

All that you might come into the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of God – the knowledge that 2 Peter 1:3 tells us adds to us ALL THINGS that pertain unto life and godliness: 

[2Pe 1:3 KJV] 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Who is the Prophet in Your Life?

If you do not have a pastor – you are putting yourself at a deep disadvantage in your Christian life. Likewise, what is true of the pastor is true of all the other ministries given to us by Jesus according to Eph. 4:7-13. Who is the prophet in your life? If you don’t know it is because you don’t have one. If you do not have the influence of a godly prophetic voice, then as with the deficit of not having a pastor, you are at a distinct disadvantage, not having what God intended for you to have through the prophetic office. 

2 Chon. 20:20 … believe the prophets so shall you prosper. 

The word prosper here means to: to advance, prosper, make progress, succeed, be profitable; to make prosperous, bring to successful issue, cause to prosper; to show or experience prosperity.

The full definition of the word means to: go over; to attack; to fall upon; to accomplish; to be poured out as water.

In other words, the prophetic word is designed to provoke you to be a doer of the word of God. 

[Jas 1:22-23 KJV] 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

There is a Pathway to Change in Your Life:

Do you want to change? Again there are some things to consider:

Things are the way they are because of what you are doing.  If you want something different, you must do something different. 

If you want what you have never had before, you must do what you have never done before. 

What you do with what God has said is much more powerful than what you are waiting for God to do or say further. 

In other words, as James says, you must act. The Holy Spirit is the HELPER, which means He will not act unless it is in concert with your faith and obedience.  

Gal. 5:25 say if we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit

Walking means to “progress by steps.” Obedience, by its very nature, requires a doable response. You start where you are and walk into God’s highest purpose and your greatest happiness. 

Do what you can with what you have and stick with it. 

Do What You See the Father Do:

There are three simple steps to walking out of your stuck place. 1.) Do what you see the Father do; 2.) Have no opinion about the consequences; 3.) Relinquish the outcome. These are the three components of what we call the “Chaos Decision” that will activate your faith, destroy the enemy and catapult you into God’s fullness in your life. 

[Jhn 5:19 KJV] 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

God has a voice. He will not leave you without answers for your life. If He obligates you to hear then He obligates Himself to speak in ways that you can understand and perceive. The role of the prophet is to mentor you in hearing God for yourself (not just hearing God through someone else). The prophetic minister who brings the word of the Lord to you without activating you in hearing the voice of God has done you are great disservice. 

Have NO Opinion about the Consequences:

In Matt. 7:1 Jesus speaks of the importance of not being judgmental. 

[Mat 7:1 KJV] 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. (1 Ki. 18:21)

This isn’t just about everyone getting along. The word judge here means to “have” or to “hand down” an opinion. Jesus said in John 5:30, “…as I hear, I judge…” In other words, you obey God and then refuse to get into negative opinions regardless of what happens next. Opinion is the scaffolding or internal structure in your heart and mind that rebellion, fear, and disobedience hang themselves on. When you choose to have no opinion, you can say, as Jesus said in John 14:30, “…the prince of this world comes and has nothing in Me…” In other words, when you have no opinion, Satan has no mechanism within you by which to install his thinking about your situation. 

Relinquish the Outcome:

[Jhn 12:24-26 KJV] 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour.

After doing what you see the Father do and having no opinion about the consequences, you must be prepared to relinquish the outcome. Doing what you see the Father do brings your spirit in line with God’s will. Having no opinion puts your mind in submission to the mind of God in your life. Relinquishing the outcome deals with your emotions. If you don’t deal with your emotions, you can know the will of God and relinquish the outcome and still feel as though you cannot go on because of the rigors and turbulence associated with obedience. 

Make the Chaos Decision:

These three preceding aspects of being a disciple of Christ constitute the “Chaos Decision”. This is the place where you chose to be obedient whether you understand what comes next or not. 

[Jhn 3:8 KJV] 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Have enough faith in God and submission to God to be willing to be clueless about what happens next. It is one thing to be clueless in man but another to be clueless in God – to relinquish all to Him and just obey whether it makes sense or not. 

[Hbr 11:8 KJV] 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Abraham was clueless, and it was the key to seeing his destiny become a reality. 

[Isa 55:12 KJV] 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.

Many seek God’s will hoping for an explanation they can base their obedience on. The scripture above doesn’t say you will go out with explanations and be led forth with understanding. Rather you go out with joy and allow yourself to be led by the peace of God. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy. 

[Phl 4:7 KJV] 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

The peace of God will put you in the fast lane of God’s blessing when understanding and rationale will leave you in a stuck place. 

Conclusion: 

[1Ti 1:18 KJV] 18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

God has said some things about you. You may not understand them, but you can lay hold of them. This is what warring with the word of God, and the promise of God is all about. When you step up to this challenge, you will come out of the stuck place and see positive change and transformation take place that you have cried out for and hoped for over the course of many years.