"You are closer than you can imagine to your breakthrough and to walking in the fulfillment of all you have hoped, prayed and believed for."
Prophetic Insight
We have entered into a season of fulfilled promises and destinies. The "and suddenly" lightnings of God are being released from the Throne, bringing breakthrough after breakthrough on an unprecedented scale. Things we have been believing for and praying into for years are about to burst forth. Many in the Body are feeling the ripeness of the spiritual atmosphere and are prophesying a similar word of burgeoning apostolic fulfillment.
During this exciting time, I feel led to share a word of caution that the Lord gave me regarding a tactic the enemy is unleashing to short-circuit the fulfillment of these longed-for promises by tempting believers to receive them in tantalizingly, compromised ways. I believe the Lord is saying in this hour that for each of us to truly come into our destiny, we must not only embrace His promises, we must embrace His process. The secret to seeing the true fulfillment of all we are believing for is to believe God is well able to bring us into these things without our "helping" Him out with any compromises along the way. The process is key to the promise. If we allow ourselves to be tempted into taking shortcuts in the process, we will allow the devil to short-circuit our promises.
Devotional Teaching
Often, the devil is more aware of how close we are to a major breakthrough than we are. Right now, as so many in the Body are on the verge of seeing their greatest hopes and desires spring forth after years of standing in faith, the enemy would love to short-circuit this by bringing compromise into the process. Once the devil realizes he cannot budge us from believing for the fulfillment of all God has for us, he tries to entice us to accept the promise in a way that perverts it and ultimately nullifies it.
When Jesus was in the desert, the devil tried to entice Him into rebelling against God. But Jesus resisted. He refused to turn stones into bread when He was hungry because the Father had called Him to a fast. He refused to test God by throwing Himself off the temple because He knew man does not presumptuously dictate to God, but God lovingly leads man. When the devil couldn't tempt Jesus into rebelling against the Father, he switched his tactic.
The third temptation was not an attempt to pull Jesus into rebellion; it was an attempt to pull Him into compromise. The devil realized he could not get Jesus to take His eyes off of the promise of God, so he tried to get Him to receive the promise in a compromised way. The devil was aware that Jesus had come for the entire world. After all, that is why the Father sent the Son (John 3:16-17). So, the devil offered Jesus exactly what He had come for, but in a way other than God intended:
"Next the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world...and he said to Him, 'All these I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.'" (Matthew 4:8-9)
Jesus knew that with God, the process is as important as the promise. While it might have been tantalizing to His flesh to be able to receive all He had come for (the world) without having to go through the suffering and difficult process of enduring the Cross, He knew this was not an option. He knew compromise was just as damaging to His relationship with God as rebellion, and even if it might save Him some hardship, it would ultimately cost Him the fulfillment of the promise that was seemingly being dangled in front of Him.
The devil is a liar. He offered Jesus the world, but Jesus knew no matter how it might look or sound, the devil can never offer the promises of God. The devil steals, kills and destroys (John 10:10). God and God alone brings abundant fullness (John 10:10). There is a process we go through to receive the promises of God, and that process may sometimes look or feel like there is hardship. But God's promise is that He will not harm us but prosper us and give us a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). In this hour, it is essential we trust not only in the blessing of His promises (James 1:17), but in the blessing of His process (James 1:12). We must not only have faith, we must have virtue in how we go after what we believe for (2 Peter 1:5).
God is just as interested in the process as He is the destination, and maybe even more so, because the process shapes and defines us to be able to handle the promise as God intended.
What we do is important. The way we do it is just as important. Many of us have fought a good fight of faith for so long. Do not let the devil come in a moment of weakness or fatigue and tempt you into accepting something that looks like the promise you have been believing for in a way that compromises God's ways. Stand strong. You are closer than you can imagine to your breakthrough and to walking in the fulfillment of all you have hoped, prayed and believed for.
God is well able to bring about His promises, and He is about to do it...His way!
Rob Hotchkin with Patricia King
Extreme Prophetic
Email: rob@extremeprophetic.com
Scripture Meditation:
Week 1: Matthew 4:1-11; 2 Peter 1:5
Week 2: Jeremiah 29:11; Philippians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:24
Week 3: Matthew 26:36-42; Galatians 3:3
Week 4: James 1:1-16; Ephesians 3:20
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