Murmuring keeps people in the desert.
These are People who are permanently discontented, resentful, critically Murmuring and only stop when they find others that agree that their opinion is right. They gather people with the same bitter attitude, becoming a more of a prisoner to the stronghold of bitterness and are held in bondage by a multitude of demonic forces.
Israel was stuck in the wilderness because they just kept complaining about everything. They were permanently discontented and eventually died in the desert, never entering their promised land.
Numbers 14:27 NKJV
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.
Numbers 32:11-13 NKJV
Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord. So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
I Corinthians 10:10 NKJV
nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Murmuring draws the destroyer!
Murmuring is infectious, it spreads rapidly and causes great discouragement criticizing every situation.
Murmuring dresses you in the mantle of the locust.
On the contrary, you are well able to do this.
Enter 2025 with Thanksgiving and with Praise knowing, like Caleb and Joshua, you have a different spirit – The Holy Spirit – and that you are well able to do this.
I heard Holy Spirit say partner and pursue and this morning He added progress.
In 2025 we have to partner with God. Like Joshua we have to continue to choose the leading of the Commander of the Armies of Heaven in battle. To not lean on our own understanding. But to become still untill we’ve conquered the flesh for our weapons are not carnal, but mighty in God.
In the days of Nehemiah, we see that those who were building and constructing the walls of Jerusalem, worked with tools in one hand and sword in the other.
Ephesians refers to the sword of the spirit as the word of God. This is rhema or the spoken word.
Many will continue to build in 2025 and beyond. We have to do this with the Sword of the spirit girded at our side (Nehemiah 4:17,18).
For all the weapons of Ephesians 6 are defensive, but the Sword of the Spirit is an offensive weapon that gains ground and takes territory.
David dropped Goliath with a stone, but it was with the sword he took his head – conquering the philistines.
You will take ground in 2025.
David asked of God in 1 Sam 30:7 shall I pursue? Shall I overtake?
The Lord says, PURSUE!
I will surely make you overtake all
Without fail you shall gain all.
But the pursuit is in pursuing Me, say the Lord. Not the spoils of war, nor your creature comforts, but in pursuing Me. Those who are hungry and thirsty after me shall be blessed.
Many a giant will try to rise up against you in 2025, but I have taught you how to navigate the storms, to rest in me and to stroll upon the crashing waves. I will not depart from you, nor will My Spirit leave you. I have not brought you this far to crash and burn, but to burn with My fire and to bring Glory to My name says the Lord.
My hand is upon you. The furnace will not burn you and the lion will not devour you. Though the enemy is roaming around looking for whom he can devour. You are not edible says the Lord. For the blessings of Psalm 91 is upon you, for you have made the secret place your dwelling. Where My presence will always be around you and I will constantly overshadow you, imparting rhema, revelation, wisdom, and understanding.
You will build according to My rhema in kairos says the Lord and no natural, nor spiritual entity will be able to stop you in 2025 and beyond!
It’s…
A new day
A new dawn
A new season, and
A new era.
I Am an ever-progressing God and the giants you see are like little puppies, biting at your heels.
Partner with Me, Pursue Me, and Progress will be your portion.
Written by Juan Koen
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