I was in a church service not too long ago and an old familiar song was being played.
"When I die Halleluiah bye and bye, I'll fly away Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away To that land where joy shall never end I’ll fly away“
Now, I understand what the song writer was saying. I think if we live long enough in this world we find ourselves at times; especially difficult times, just wanting to “fly away” And I know as Christians we have a lot to look forward to, our future in eternity as citizens of Gods kingdom, and being with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus forever!
But this Sunday morning I found my heart longing and asking God for something else. I prayed “Lord I know after my life here is over I will be with you in Heaven, but I want the victory now Lord, in this life, please give me the total victory in every area now!”
I keep thinking about how the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years and finally the Lord told them to go in and take the land and over throw the giants of the land. God wanted to give His people the land flowing with milk and honey! God wanted His children to have the victory and to have total dominion! God wants His children to be blessed.
I heard a preacher say that God meets His children in the wilderness and I know that’s true. But I also know that if you stay in the wilderness too long you will die there. I don’t want to die in the wilderness. I want to make it into the land flowing with milk and honey. I want to take hold of the promises of God. I want God’s blessing to overtake my life, and I want it now, in this present day, not just when my Spirit leaves my body! The wilderness has made me tired and thirsty. Has it made you thirsty?
Thirsty for God,
for relief,
for fulfillment,
for total victory
for renewed strength!
And it has to be by Gods hand because I have none of my own strength left. My deliverance can only come from Him, I can’t do it. I don’t know how to do it and I’m not even sure what it looks like all I know is my soul is longing for it. But I do know our Father wants us free! Isaiah 55
“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
4 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
6 “Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
