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Greetings,
Today I am in Portugal. I have had a great weekend in Lisbon and God’s presence has been wonderful and life is happening. This is a year of partnership with God for the glory of His-story in all things.
We all face difficult situations in life. Those difficult situations are not meant to be the determining factor in the story of our lives. They are merely circumstances whereby we invite God’s presence to determine the story of our lives. What is the purpose of the difficult situations in our lives? What is God’s solution to our oppression? What is God’s solution for our bondage? We all face various taskmasters and sorrows, but God hears us, and He answers our cries.
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
In this account of God and the children of Israel, God revealed that His desire for all His sons and daughters was to bring them liberty. Like the children of Israel, God delivers us out of the hand of the oppressor. He desires to brings us all into a good and large land of milk and honey. Milk symbolizes what makes our bones strong and honey symbolizes what gives us renewed the energy of life. These things are not merely given to us. These things are found in the place of enemies that are bigger than us.
Deuteronomy 7:1 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you…
These nations represent things that are bigger than us, but they are not bigger than God. God wants to partner with us in all things. When we partner with God and God partners with us, all things are possible. Our enemies are greater and mightier than us, but they are not greater and mightier than God! God doesn’t merely want to free us from our enemies, He wants to demonstrate His love for us through His testimony in and through our lives. He wants our partnership with Him to demonstrate a strength of God’s Spirit that overcomes every weapon and power of the flesh. It is a testimony of His glory in increasing measures in our lives. It reveals us as sons and daughters of God who can inherit His promises in our lives.
Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.
The nations left in the Promised Land represent the curses of futility in the lands of men. These things thrive in an external administration of knowledge and information and can only be defeated by an internal administration found in a partnership with God by His Holy Spirit. These enemies thrive in the natural testimonies of human sin. These enemies manifest as selfish desires, self-preserving actions, testimonies of bitterness, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways that only end in dysfunction and death. When we are challenged with difficult times in life, we manifest these attributes. Whatever manifests in the difficult times of our lives will be a lord in the days of our peace. God wants us to find the power of Christ within us in the good times and the challenging times of our lives. Only a partnership with God by His Spirit can empower us to manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life to their world in every circumstance of life.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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