I was reading this passage and was reminded that many times in life, we miss opportunity because of indecision and failure to act.
There are times that we need to “be still” so we can see the salvation of the Lord and to hear the voice of the Good shepherd.
Often, the options that we “initially see” in the natural have negative outcomes.
But we see in the story of the leprous men, where they concluded, that if they don’t act, They WILL die.
But if they did take action, They MAY still die BUT They also MAY live!
Hope and possibility was born.
As leaders, we need a decision making system that will help us to “move forward” in faith so that we can possess the promise land. The Word reminds us in Deuteronomy that:
“For the land which you go in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot laboriously as in a garden of vegetables.
But the land which you enter to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the heavens,
A land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.” Deuteronomy 11:10-12 AMPC
We are also comforted and reassured that: “the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea [the Mediterranean] your territory shall be.
There shall no man be able to stand before you; the Lord your God shall lay the fear and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as He has said to you.”
Deuteronomy 11:23-25 AMPC
We, as leaders, must:
⁃ Settle in our minds that we need to make decisions and Take Action!
⁃ Prepare for the battle by spending time in the Word to understand the heart of God concerning us and our mission.
⁃ Prayerfully make a plan and come into Agreement with the Word.
⁃ Close the door of impossibility by finding and reading scriptural promises.
⁃ Take action on the last directive/ idea received from the Lord. No more instructions may be coming until we act on this one.
⁃ Choose not to stay in the valley of indecision. In this valley, great leaders, great dreams and great visions have become paralyzed and have died.
⁃ Be comfortable being uncomfortable. For during most of the journey in the “Faith” highway, we will not see the “entire picture”.
We choose to move forward!
Be Blessed,
Be a Blessing!
“And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.”
2 Kings 7:3-8 KJV
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