Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.” Micah 2:10

Whatever level you are now, is not your rest, so do not settle there like concrete. Standards are changing everyday. The success of yesterday cannot match the standards of today. As a matter of fact, yesterday’s success, if it is not improved upon, becomes today’s failure.

Where you are now is already tired of you, in case you are not tired of it. A higher place is waiting for you! The turbulence you are going through now, is an indication that you are long overdue for a change. And you know, God is a good organizer. When you are due for a change, and you do not move, He organizes some “heat’ around you to forcefully move you forward.

So when you begin to see some unpleasant situations or challenges around you, before you bind the devil, tell yourself, “I am due for a change”. You must create space for those coming behind you, because they are eager to take your place. But when you do not move they get tired of you and overtake you. You are either moving, or you are pushed out of the way. Sometimes, the things that are pursuing you are simply helping you to arrive your destination earlier than you planned That is why the Bible tells us that, all things work together for the good of them that love God (Rom. 8:28).

A young man in our local assembly encountered that kind of change a few years ago. He testified that, as I was teaching one day, I said, “There are some of you, who are sleeping on beds that do not belong to you.

May the owner become angry with you and take it from you”. That word turned something on, inside him, because he had been squatting in somebody’s house for long, and everything about his life was stagnated.

So he bought the tape of that teaching and kept listening to it. Meanwhile, the first night he heard the message, he got to where he was squatting and moved his things from the bedroom to the living room in readiness to move out.

The summary of the long story is that he moved out of that house, and God gave him speed in his marriage, which he had been planning for years. Speedily, he got his own house, got married and settled down as a young man should!

Wherever you are now is not your rest, because it is polluted. If you stay-on there, it would destroy you, and if you stay bit longer, it would destroy you with a sore destruction, an irreparable destruction indeed. That will not be your portion in Jesus name!

People become stagnated because they refuse to move when they ought to. It pains me to see people with great potentials becoming stagnated in life. I used to know some great men in ministry some years back, who were star ministers of the Gospel. However, because they would not change position, they have been left behind, and all the younger folks who came many years after, have overtaken them. Now they are full of castigations and backbiting. This happens in every field of endeavour, every one who is not making progress will ultimately castigate the one that is making progress.

Arise and depart! Initiate progress for your self! Take steps and you will be surprised how fast you will rise o heights beyond your imagination. Do not let stagnation catch up with you. This is your season to o forward!

It would interest you to note that, God, the Creator the universe is the first initiator of progress. Atter od created the heaven and the earth in Genesis 1:1, e Bible says in verse 2, “And the earth was without m, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the ep.” Stagnation and darkness set in, nothing seemed to be happening but God did not wait around and expect things to change for the better, He introduced some changes to the Universe to make it better, He said, “…let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:3).

God did not complain about the dark and void situation, rather He moved against it and began to initiate the required changes. So, whatever you do not like in your life, you can change it by thinking of new ways in which you can overcome it.

If you do not like failure, you have the power to change it to success, but it all begins in the mind. Once you can begin to think of a way out the process of initiating, changes has begun. As you do that, you will never lack ideas of what next step to take, because ideas dwell in the womb of initiative, and initiative is the first step towards change.

Remember, what you don’t oppose in your mind, you will soon approve, and because you have approved it, you cannot change it.

Your reaction to the situations or circumstances around you, is the proof of your desire for a change. This is because, as we said earlier, nothing has the power to change itself, every change is initiated by someone.

If God, the Almighty, could not change His world until He initiated it, why do you think you can make things happen in your world without initiating changes? Accept responsibility and begin to initiate changes today.

You do not have to endure that terrible situation, stop watching darkness take over your life, start initiating changes that will take you from where you used to be to where you ought to be!…

This text is an extract from the book “OVERCOMING STAGNATION” written by Bishop David Olatunji Abioye
We invite you to read the following article “THE COVENANT PROVISION“.

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