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Do not go back to normal!
Play video: Christmas story wise men.
If you go back to normal there is a trap set for you.
God has anointed a new path for you and He has lifted His favor from what was normal.
Most of us are in some place of transition or in between.
What was is gone, What is, we are not sure of yet, and what will be, we can not see.
The trap is set in the place of what used to be.
If you try to go back you will get stuck and the outcome will steal your life away.
How do we find our way forward?
Holy Spirit will lead you one step at a time.
God led Joseph and Marry into Egypt.
Egypt represents a place of captivity for their people.
Egypt:
slave, trapped, powerless, not home, don’t belong, transition, in-between...
also promise fulfilled, rescued, delivered...
Normal for Mary and Joseph would be Bethlehem.
It feels safe, It feels secure, It is what they know.
Bethlehem = your old normal
Egypt = places you feel stuck in, trapped, powerless, in a box, frustrated, not your home, don’t belong...
In those places you feel stuck, trapped, not your home, Jesus has a gift for you.
In the waiting, you will grow.
In the waiting you will spend time with Jesus and family.
Bethlehem feels safe and Egypt does not.
The truth though is that Egypt was safe and Bethlehem was not.
It feels safe to keep going in the same building.
It feels safe to keep doing church the way we have.
It feels safe to keep those friends around.
It feels safe to keep that job or that position in your job.
It feels safe to keep the marriage the way it is.
It feels safe to keep being a peace keeper.
The truth is a trap has been set for you in what feels safe.
The truth is what God is going to do inside you in the places you don’t feel safe is what matters.
Egypt is the In Between place, the Transition Place.
Herod = hero or heroic.
- More specific and external hero.
Herod wanted to be the hero, and he did not want some baby threatening that for him.
When you finally let dye what you thought was going to be your saving option.
When you finally let what was going to save your life from the outside in...
That is when Jesus will lead you back to the place where you belong.
God led Joseph and Marry with only one plan at a time.
God could have come to Joseph from the beginning and said on this day you will leave Egypt and you will go strait to Nazareth.
I know you would love for God to lay out His plan for you with a map and an instruction manual.
What would be the fun in that?
lol
What would be the relationship and trust in that?
What God is doing in the season is all about trust and relationship and what He is growing you into becoming.
All through this journey of Joseph and Marry, Jesus was growing up.
Jesus grew up moving around learning to trust His Father’s guidance, not a map of His life.
Do not go back to normal!
Holy Spirit strongly reveled to me the importance of not going back to normal.
Do not go back to normal.
There is a trap set for you if you go back to that place you are familiar with.
Instead, let Holy Spirit lead you to the place that feels like in-between.
Let Holy Spirit change you in that place where you don’t feel like you belong.
Egypt is the In Between place, the Transition Place.
Go from what feels safe to the in between place.
Let what you wanted to save you die.
Let Holy Spirit lead you into what will be your new normal.
Today’s Activation:
Jesus what is one area you dont want me to go back to normal?
What path do you want me to take instead?
Other Resources:
Egypt
125 Αἴγυπτος [Aiguptos /ah·ee·goop·tos/] n pr loc.
Of uncertain derivation; GK 131; 24 occurrences; AV translates as “Egypt” 24 times. 1 a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa. 2 metaph.
Jerusalem, for the Jews persecuting the Christ and his followers, and so to be likened to the Egyptians treating the Jews.
Additional Information: Egypt = “double straits”.
Harod
G2264 a hero
Harod = heroic
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1491 εἶδος [eidos /i·dos/] n n.
From 1492; TDNT 2:373; TDNTA 202; GK 1626; Five occurrences; AV translates as “shape” twice, “fashion” once, “sight” once, and “appearance” once. 1 the external or outward appearance, form figure, shape. 2 form, kind.
Nazareth:
3478 Ναζαρά, Ναζαράθ, Ναζαράτ, Ναζαρέθ, Ναζαρέτ [Nazareth, Nazaret /nad·zar·eth/] n pr loc.
Of uncertain derivation; GK 3711 and 3712 and 3713 and 3714 and 3715; 12 occurrences; AV translates as “Nazareth” 12 times.
1 the ordinary residence and home town of Christ.
Additional Information: Nazareth = “the guarded one”.
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