Make an Exchange

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. —Exodus 12:40

Life is a process of exchange. We enter to leave, go up to come down, give to receive, and die to live. God wants to make some exchanges in your life. He wants to lead you out of bondage and into your Promised Land.

The status quo is your greatest enemy of the cause of Christ. The Israelites were comfortable in Egypt and soon begged to go back. But your abundance is tied to the process of exchange. God wants you to exchange the bondage of your Egypt for the abundance of His Promised Land. He wants to bring you out of the kingdom of the world and into His glorious kingdom.

Don't stay in bondage another day. Determine to break through the boundaries the devil has raised up around you. Exchange your way of doing things for God's, and go forward with Him into your Promised Land.

A New Time & Place

Written by Jack Hayford

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” (Is. 43:18-19 NIV)

Permit me to ask you something rather pointedly: Are you prepared to allow the Spirit of God to change your status quo? Are you truly ready for the Lord to do something new in your life? Something unexpected? Out of the ordinary? Are you ready to follow Him down roads you’ve never traveled? Are you open to the possibility that He might bless you in an unexpected, perhaps startling way?

None of us would be so arrogant as to say, “I know it all,” yet from time to time we may affect a certain blasé sophistication, a posture of pride that finds it stylish to be critical, cynical, or “laid back.” Yet this prideful attitude hamstrings our ability to move into the fresh and the new... and grieves the Spirit of God.

Who says you know what’s next for your life?

Who says God can’t use you in a dramatic, wholly unexpected way?