Everyone has said for years, "In 2020 the church will have perfect vision." Well, the church has seen a lot already. The Hebrew year of Pey is a time to "Say" what we've been seeing. Moses spent his first 40 years learning Torah before he was able to spend his last 40 years transmitting it. Many will find this next season of Pey similar to Moses’ journey. Where you have spent the last season learning and storing up God’s word, you will now spend the next season teaching it and leading others in how to live it and give Him glory.
Declare the Impossible IS Possible!Despite the cliche use of 2020 as “Perfect Vision” this is not the year for vision setting, so much as it is the year for vision declaring.
“I am God your Lord Who lifted you out of Egypt.
Widen your mouth and I will fill it.”
(Psalm 81:10).
“I am God your Lord Who lifted you out of Egypt.
Widen your mouth and I will fill it.”
(Psalm 81:10).
The mouth has a certain size.
How can one stretch it beyond its natural parameters? And why does it say, “I am God, Who lifted you from the land of Egypt?” In the book of Exodus it reads, “Hotzeisicha—I took you out,” not, as the psalm states, that “I lifted you.” So, what is the connection between these two verses?
The word for Egypt, Mitzrayim, connotes restraints or borders, a narrow place. We must realize that every day of our life, God not only releases us from the shackles of Egypt (“takes us out”), but gives us the opportunity to break through an even higher and more subtle level of limitation (“lifts us”).
God gives those who love him the ability to go beyond their personal physical limits and even beyond nature. This is alluded to by the expression “widening our mouths.”
We widen our mouths when we praise God, learn Scripture, pray, and communicate positive messages to others, we complete the world. In this way we fulfill our purpose in coming to this world, by transforming nature and making the world a better place in which to live.
This next season we are invited in a special way to go beyond what we believe is impossible and to make the world whole. God is asking us to lift the world out of its Egypt, out of its narrow mindedness. It’s no longer an issue of boldness of faith but of conviction in speech!
Faith must be put into action or it is dead.
For as the body without the breath of the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. – James 2:26
How can one stretch it beyond its natural parameters? And why does it say, “I am God, Who lifted you from the land of Egypt?” In the book of Exodus it reads, “Hotzeisicha—I took you out,” not, as the psalm states, that “I lifted you.” So, what is the connection between these two verses?
The word for Egypt, Mitzrayim, connotes restraints or borders, a narrow place. We must realize that every day of our life, God not only releases us from the shackles of Egypt (“takes us out”), but gives us the opportunity to break through an even higher and more subtle level of limitation (“lifts us”).
God gives those who love him the ability to go beyond their personal physical limits and even beyond nature. This is alluded to by the expression “widening our mouths.”
We widen our mouths when we praise God, learn Scripture, pray, and communicate positive messages to others, we complete the world. In this way we fulfill our purpose in coming to this world, by transforming nature and making the world a better place in which to live.
This next season we are invited in a special way to go beyond what we believe is impossible and to make the world whole. God is asking us to lift the world out of its Egypt, out of its narrow mindedness. It’s no longer an issue of boldness of faith but of conviction in speech!
Faith must be put into action or it is dead.
For as the body without the breath of the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. – James 2:26
ACTION STEP: Open your mouth and begin to say what you have seen in the past. God breathed into man and he became a speaking spirit. We are to speak God's will on the earth, God's will be done in peoples lives. Will you begin to lift people out of the shackles of Egypt (a type of the world and sin), with your prayers, your words and your shouts of praise? Today is the day to say! Get your roar on!
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