Cast Your Nets

Just as I called my disciples, so I am calling you now. Just as I asked Simon Peter to let down his nets into deeper waters – I am asking you to trust me, and to go deeper with me.

Deeper waters is where you will find blessing, abundance and resource; the spiritual riches in that place of immersion in the Spirit are abundant and limitless. There is an ease to life in the Spirit; not toil and labour, which are the ways of the world. In the place of abiding, all needs are met.

The place of blessing can lead some to self-sabotage, as feelings of unworthiness emerge, but I have called you not to live from a place of fear. The spiritual riches that I have for you should lead you to a place of awe and reverence at who I am. So do not focus on your perceived self-lack. Instead, trust me as you cast your nets deeper into me, for I have called you to follow and what I have for you is always more.

Set aside your own agenda, and your past dreams of what you thought life ‘should’ look like, for the call that I have on you is higher and deeper still. And just as Simon Peter found, it is worth giving everything for.

Activation:
Sit with the Lord and ask him to bring to mind an area of your life that is currently in shallow waters. It may be finances, work, ministry, family, friendships etc. Repent of any times that you have self-sabotaged through fear.

Answer Jesus’ call to follow him, and to trust him with that area of your life. Give him your yes. Ask him where to cast your nets. What should you do to involve him deeper in this area, and how can you partner with him to release the blessing that he has for you?

Go deeper still! Is there anything that he is asking you to give up, or to lay down in order for you to be able to fully answer the call to follow him with your whole life?

Luke 5:4-6 (NIV)
“When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.