We often scurry around creating new plans when things are not going as expected. We try a new method or marketing scheme in hopes we will see a shift. We add new faces and change the name of a thing again and again, but what we’ve not discerned is the real need.

 

The power and plans of the Spirit.

 

Rewrapping our same old plans in different packaging doesn’t usually work. Trust me, I’ve done it. Sometimes, we’ve got something within us that needs to be dealt with, halting our forward movement or in all honesty the wind of God is simply not blowing on that which we keep trying to do. Both should be considered very often.

 

Sometimes, we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Location, location, location.

 

We cause so much unnecessary struggle not just for ourselves but also for others.

 

For a year I was looking for a ministry building in Tyler when God wanted it in Troup. It was super frustrating. I was trying to operate in the wrong location. It was not until I surrendered to Troup that the real fruit began to come into its fullness.

 

Some of you are doing the same. Your time is up where you are, but you’re refusing to move along to the place God has prepared for you.

 

Let me tell you something. You are missing out!

 

Frustration will rise again and again, and the true thing God has breathed on is sitting there waiting you to let go of the old and grab hold of the new.

 

For a few days, I’ve had an impression that some of you will be unexpectedly moving to a new place. Pack your bags. You’re functioning in the wrong location. Yet, you keep on keeping on knowing there has been no fruit. The definition of insanity, friends, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.

 

It’s time to just stop.  Release yourself for the sake of the Kingdom and your own sanity.

 

At this age, I’m happy closing things down that bear no fruit. I’m getting much quicker about doing it if I realize I have miss-stepped or simply need to shift. Why waste my time when God has something better, and more fruitful, for me to do?

 

So, some of you need to prepare to move.

 

Some of you will be found changing cities, changing houses, and changing landscapes. Yet, in this place is where God will undergird you by the power of His Spirit.

 

Your old assignments are completed, and it’s ok.

 

Go with Jesus.