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The Blessing Of Being Bound

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What are you bound to? What drives you in every decision you make? We are all bound by something or someone. David says in Psalm 56 “I am bound by Your promise, O God. My life is my offering of thanksgiving to You”; while the apostle Paul says in Romans 1, “Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.” David is bound by the promises of God and Paul is bound by Christ Jesus. If you read anything these two men wrote or read about anything they did, you will see how they being bound to the promises are seen or being bound to Christ Jesus is evident. Now back to the original question, what are you bound to?

Everyone of us is bound to something, for some it is a relationship. Decisions are determined based on a relationship to someone. You will hear them say, I can or can’t do that based on this person. Money is another major thing many people are bound to. They will move their whole family to another state for a job (money). I even know some people who are bound to a church, they literally will not make any move because they are bound to a church. Have you ever thought about what you are bound to? What drives your decisions, what filter you make decisions through? The answer to what you are bound to will help you understand your life and where you are right now.

Paul declared himself a bond servant of Christ. Every decision was based on Jesus Christ and the gospel of God. David, king of Israel, was bound by the promises of God. He only made decisions based on God’s promises to him. My friends, we are all bound to something, but many of us need to repent for being bound to someone or something that is not the person of God, Christ Jesus or the Word of God, the promises. If we are bound to anything else, we will not fulfill the purpose of God in our life and we know it. It is the 26th of July and I was praying Psalm 56 when God asked the question, what are you people bound to? These thoughts came from that question. I am bound to the promises of God and the person of Jesus Christ, oh that every Christian could say that same thing. We would see a revolution but it starts with being bonded.

No Delay

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“There is no such thing as delay, there is a lack of understanding the day.” This is what the Lord spoke to me this morning while in prayer. It has become popular to tell people they need to bind the spirit of delay; they need to prophesy, no more delay; and a variety of other variations of this vein. But, the Lord said to me, “there is no such thing as delay, there is a lack of understanding the day.” As I pondered these words, I realized we feel like there is a delay, because we put a time frame on the promise God has spoken. That is not delay, that is us not understanding the day.

In Joshua 6 the Lord speaks a word of promise to Joshua and the children of Israel about the city of Jericho, saying, “I have given Jericho, its king, and all its soldiers into your hands.” When God says something, it is going to happen, but when it happens is in the following verses, for the chapter goes on to release the strategy that needs to be employed for the promise to be actualized. Joshua 6:3-5 gives the strategy, “Every day for the next six days, you will march once around the city walls with all your fighting force. Seven priests will go in front of the covenant chest, each carrying a trumpet made from a ram’s horn. On the seventh day, you will march around the city walls seven times, and the priests will blow their trumpets.  When they play a long final blast, then all the people will give a mighty shout. The city walls will collapse in front of you, and all the Israelites will charge in and take the city.” Anyone of those soldiers could have decreed no more delay after day 1, 2, 3 or more, but it was not a delay, rather they were unaware of the day. If it is day 3, 4 or 5 there was not going to be any sign of victory for it was not the right day.

When we are unaware of what day we are in, based on the strategy God has spoken to us, we will cry, delay! But it is not a delay, we just don’t understand what day it is. People do this with so many things. We do it with prophesy, we do it with scripture, we do it with our end time ideas. If we don’t know the day, we won’t know where we are, but one thing is for sure, there is no delay. Joel 2 says, “In the last days…” (plural); Matthew 24:36 says, “On that day…” (singular); Galatians 6:9 speaks to a “due season”; whereas Romans 13:11 says, “now is the time and the hour…”. There is no such thing as delay, but there is a lack of understanding the days, day, season, time, or hour.

Many of us have a promise from God, we know that we know, God said…but the timing is where we are off. If we were honest, God did not give us a when it would happen, He only told us what would happen. For maturity to take place, it is important that we stop imposing our thoughts, our time frame, our faith in ourselves, rather we must listen not just to the promise, but the strategy about how to employ the promise and then we will better understand the day we are on, so we can be patient in the process, for the promise will not delay. Remember Habakkuk 2:3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.”

“Don’t yell or shout. Don’t let your voice be heard until the day I tell you. And then I want you to shout with all your might” (Joshua 6:10).  If you are still in the silent stage, don’t worry it is not a delay, it is just not the day. Once the day arrives, trust me, you will shout, the walls will fall, the victory will be sure and the battle will be won quickly, for the Lord will say, NOW! Shout unto God with a voice of triumph! (Psalm 47:1). It is not a delay, it is design, because with God there is no delay.