MOVE OUT - July 7 Today's Perspective

PERSPECTIVES FROM DAVID’S 7 SECRETS

Chapter One, “Bring on the Giants” pp. 6-7

STAND UP, MOVE OUT

“Don’t ask the Lord to guide your steps unless you are willing to move your feet.”  I didn’t create that line, but I really believe in that directive.  Yesterday we blogged about it being time to take our stand, here’s more….

In 1993, The Continentals recorded an album by the title of this blog. We actually sang Michael Jackson’s, “We are here to change the world.”  The song is not as important as the message.  God has us here as His ambassadors to do just that, to change the world for Him.  “We are, therefore, Christ’s ambassadors as though God were making his appeal through us..." 2 Cor. 5:20.  The Lord is counting on us to stand up for Him. We can’t do that without moving our feet.

David was all action.  When the enemy knocked on the door, he was quick to answer it. He believed God led him every time because he prayed for God’s leadership and His will before he even answered the door.  “Since You are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your Name, lead and guide me.”  Ps. 31:13

There is a verse in Ezekiel that is one of my life scriptures.  It was written many years after David’s life, when the country had turned from worshiping the Lord.  He said, “The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice.  I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall, and stand before me in the gap, on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”  Ezekiel 22:31

God is still looking for people like you and me who will stand in whatever gap for Him. Paul’s confident message in Roman’s 8:31 is our backup.  “If God be for us, who can be against us?”

In that 1993 recording was a song by Steven Curtis Chapman called, “For the Sake of the Call”.

“We will abandon it all, for the sake of the call.

No other reason at all, but the sake of the call.

Wholly devoted to live and to die, for the sake of the call.”

This is our reason to stand.  Now it time to….

MOVE OUT!