To a people who have only known hardship, poverty, or being less than in culture, comments or covenant, a warning is being issued from the heart of God. Not a warning to shame, but a warning to protect.

Israel lived in Egypt as a nation for 430 years. That means they were dipped in a culture of oppression for a minimum of four generations. That is a long time to be living under oppressive rulership. Multiple generations were born into oppression and they did not know anything different.

Understanding this is imperative, for it gives us a better view as to why they needed some time in the wilderness, they had to be retrained in the way they thought from oppression to abundance mindset. If the shift in mindset does not happen, we will become the very people and place we have been rescued from.

When Jesus said, Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, He was not asking them to do some behavior modification, He was inviting them to change the way they think, for He was delivering them from an oppressive religious system and bringing them into a kingdom that would know no end.

The warning the Lord is giving us, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, abundance is about to invade our lives, but we must change the way we think from oppressive, survival mode to abundance mindset or we will treat others the way the oppressive system treated us.

If we repeat on others what was done to us, we will perpetuate a system God has rescued us from. If you never forget where you came from, you will never do to others what was done to you. Friends, a new narrative is needed for a new mindset is being offfered and a new land of abundance is being accessed. Everything is changing, everything and we must change the way we think. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org