Have You Made That Move Or Is Your Back Still On The Wall?
Matthew 17:20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
20He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.
I started writing a book some years back. I have struggled to gain confidence to structure my time and my thoughts to finish it because I think deep down inside I have struggled with failing and the possibility of success. As I was awakened this morning I heard the song by Kool and The Gang, “Get Down On It.” My first thought was that is odd, but then I began to hear the words, and understood what God was saying, “How you gonna do it if you… really don't want to dance… By standing on the wall? Get your back up off the wall… 'Cause I heard all the people sayin': Get down on it.” In those moments I realized the Spirit of God, and the great cloud of witnesses that we all have behind us when we are hid in Christ were using the words of this song to let me know, you can never win or lose a fight or get a decision if you never get in the ring. You will never dance if the desire is not there, even if the music is great. You actually have to get off the wall and let the rhythm or the beats take you and engage you to become a part. Basically I will never know if the book will sell if I don’t finish it and get it published!
There are many of us who have dreamed dreams, have had aspirations, have started doing things like writing books, making plans to finish college, or start a business and we are not following through. Like me, many of us have let fear or failure or success keep us on the wall as an observer, not taking the bull by the horns and going after it. It is because we lack faith in not just ourselves but in God. We can have strong faith in many areas of our life, but lack it in a particular area that ties directly into our destiny track, and our dream cycle. This can hinder us from becoming the one who dreams and succeeds; the one who aspires and obtains, and the one who says and does. The Bible encourages us that if we have faith the grain of a mustard seed we can say to the Mountain, be moved, and it will move. We have to begin to build up our faith in our personal lives, not just for others to stand in agreement with or to bring healing and deliverance to others, but it should begin in our lives, it is us who should be a living testimony, and sacrifice that shows forth the Glory of God. How will people be drawn to God if our lives are full of “woe is me,” and “I am barely making it” and “I have left all my dreams and aspirations by the way side?” We are living in a time period where hope is sparse and faith is weak, and people need to be able to see Jesus moving in us and that we are still reaching for our goals, still dreaming and moving towards those dreams.
God said through His Son Jesus, “I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” Where is our abundance if we have given up on our dreams, goals and visions? The Bible tells us “without vision the people will perish.” We need to stop being the wall flowers, and push past that fear and apply the faith that we do have and ask God to help our areas of unbelief and do what we need to do to be the one that obtains the goal, hits the mark, lives the dreams, because that is God’s desire for us, he said He “I wishes above all things that we be in health and prosper as our soul prospers.” Are we prospering, are we obtaining; we cannot do that living in fear and standing still, we have to move out. We can’t dance if we never move. We have a faithful dance partner in the person of the Almighty God, He makes us look good even when we are not sure of the moves, if we trust Him, have faith in Him He will lead us and make us look like the professional, the success and the winner that we are if we can only “get our backs up off the wall!”
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