It's not supposed to be that hard.
Favor, miracles, and wonders are supposed to follow you. They are supposed to create a dynamic that shows that there is a disparity or difference between who you are and who the world is.
Some have been laboring about some things about some prayers - toiling. Toiling for your breakthrough or answer or Gods favor. When you're dealing with the kingdom dynamics, it's the flow of grace, flow of favor, flow of blessings. It's what God uses to establish who He is and who you are to Him. But all of us have been in a place of wilderness or testing, where we've gone into the habit of toiling - physically and emotionally exhausting.
God wants for you to shift your mindset. When we toil for what God has given freely, for what God has already declared, what we're saying is that it's hard to get some out of God's hand, that God gives with a closed fist and a tight fist, and we have to pray it over for God to peel off his fingers. God doesn't give with a closed hand and a tight fist, but how many of us pray to God like that. It's not that hard. Favor is supposed to follow you.
It's supposed to be creating a distinction. It's supposed to be declaring to the world that God is for me. Blessings are supposed to be flowing in. You should not have to be striving. Because the only thing that we need to strive for is to enter into the rest of God.
Favor - God uses it as a weapon against the unbelievers. It is a witness. You are supposed to walk with evidence - God's favor, blessing, protection. It's clear that even those who believe in their money and worship money, they will say that it's clear, your God is greater than my god.
Isaiah 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.
It talks about a transfer of substance because what's in you becomes greater than what people have been relying on.
Oftentimes we think favor and blessing is about us. But what it is about, is God over our lives. They come into the light of the glory of the King over your life. And so sometimes we can get lost and think it's all about us. And that can skew our perspective on how we can receive and what we allow God to do for our lives.
If you try to measure God's goodness, the first thing you're going to do is take yourself into account "Am I worthy?" and oftentimes, the initial reaction is "No" and so what happens is people subconsciously start sabotaging the outcome or outflow of favor, grace, provisions, blessings, over their life because of what they feel like they don't deserve. Because they look at the blessings for themselves just solely being about them and God. When Abraham in himself had nothing to contribute to the outpouring and the outflow that God had purposed to visit upon his life.
God is blessing you for his namesake, not for you. Get out of the way and let God be God.
It's not supposed to be that hard. It's supposed to come, flow or happen. There's supposed to be an ease to it. The journey is one thing but what exists between me and God is not supposed to be hard. That flow from heaven to earth is not supposed to be hard. Like I need to pry God's hand open to get Him to bless me, like He's not good, generous and you need to beg Him for favor.
God is making distinctions. It is supposed to show a difference between you who believe vs those who do not, so that they can see the light of your God and come to it, so that your God can distinguish itself as greater than their god (themselves, their thoughts or minds, money, status, position, etc). But God has to show up in a way to show them that even all the things that they believe, in that they trust in, is futile in His presence. That they are less than HE is. So sometimes the Lord will move on somebody to bring terror to other people because of His people. Not because of the stature or faithfulness of His people, but because of who He is to His people (example in the Book of Joshua, people heard about their God and refused to fight them). God knows how to make His name famous and know how to create a witness. It's equally important not only for you to know who God is, but also for the world to know who God is.
If God decides to close the door, who's going to open it? If His fist is closed, how are you going to get it open? You can't. But the Bible already says that any blessing that you ask from the Lord, He's already done
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ
Toiling is not kingdom. In Luke 12:22 - consider the ravens, they neither sow nor reap or consider the lilies, how they grow, they toil not they spin not. Toiling was part of the curse, that the Lord passed down to Adam for his fall and disobedience. We're risen in Christ yet we still approach God as if the ground is cursed for our sake.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil brought self-awareness and that disconnected them. Before, Adam was God-conscious (kingdom minded). You think that being so aware of yourself is bringing you to God, but it's not. It's about being God-conscious. Am I aware who God is? What are God's thoughts for me, His perspective?
Toil is not kingdom. It's punishment, judgment. In order for it to be kingdom, that must mean that the Kingdom is established by toiling, they must be toiling in heaven. If they're toiling in heaven, then I'll toil on earth. We've been instructed by God to pray like this "On earth, as it is in Heaven." But you still got a toiling mindset. Toil work is hard work, labor, strain.
It's supposed to flow.
You don't understand just how significant your belief system is that's why the Lord works so hard to align or renew your mind. What you believe has given more power to the enemy or to every opposition because the enemy has no power of himself to work against you. That's why he relies so much on deception, cunning, trickery, so that he can use your power. Now, if you've been hindered all this time, guess what? Now, you can see how powerful you are, as created in the image of God - because he's using all your belief, to tear you up. The majority of power that the enemy uses emanates from us. That's why he has to work so hard to make you insecure, put you in doubt, make you unbelieving, believe erroneously. If the enemy didn't need you to participate in your own destruction, he hates you so much he would never even talk to you, but he's got to buy you in to your own destruction.
You know what real power does - it doesn't have to convince you that it'll destroy you. It will just destroy you. When the Lord says it's judgment time, He don't have to convince you. Judgment will come whether you believe in it or not, because that's real power. You can be like, "I don't believe God is real..." all you want to, "I don't believe that God is the judge of the earth..." all you want to. You can be unbelieving all you want to, but because it's real power, He's gonna show up. And you're like "What is this, what's happening to me?" - Judgment. "I don't like this at all. I didn't believe in it." You don't have to when you're dealing with real power and real authority.
Look at what the enemy did to Eve, "Did God really say?" Why did he need Eve's consent? Her ear to destroy her? Because he wasn't given the power to, so he convinced her to destroy herself by going against God.
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