Beloved one,
You showed dedication to your growth, so I called you out from the nest. Oh the faith it took for you to leap! You pushed past fear and now look at you soar! This is what you dreamed of night after night. Now, I get to marvel at you flying high in the open sky.
You have longed to be in this place, and the freedom feels amazing! However, the temptation will be to fly back to the nest when times get tough.
Precious one, fight the temptation to regress. Fight it at all costs.
I did not bring you out for you to regress back to a place you have outgrown. I have you on a forward trajectory. You must hold on tight to your progress and keep pressing forward into the new. I want to keep taking you higher and higher. But, I can only do that if you stay strong.
You can do it. You overcome with Jesus. Break patterns of regression by rising up in your authority. Don’t go back to what was comfortable. Fly against the wind to make you stronger for the more. If you do, I will see to it that you reach heights beyond what you’ve ever hoped or imagined.
Activation: Take an account of your life. Do you notice a pattern of regression in any area, such as your freedom, relationships, work, ministry, family or finances? If so, ask the Lord to expose what causes the regression and reveal how to overcome it. You overcome by pressing forward with Jesus instead of retreating with the enemy in the difficult moments. Then, watch as the Lord breaks you past barriers and takes you higher than you’ve ever been before for an amazing and freedom-filled adventure!
Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)
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 wilderness and streams in the wastelands.
1 Corinthians 15:57 (NIV)
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.