“If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.”
As we move into influence we begin to receive solutions. We become sharper and have more power to cut through and breakthrough and open a door for others too. It is like a chain reaction, multiple, collective breakthrough.
We are all advantaged and can move up, move out, expand.
We also don’t keep repeating the same process because there are different stages, tools needed, strategies employed to get from say planting a seed to having the bread to eat.
All stages at the right time are imperative.
“Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground? Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places? His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture. Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail. Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it. This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.”
God gives us the wisdom, the strategy we need at the right time. He holds the source and the momentum. When to start, when to finish. Every principle has to be current and in season and is not for the one but for the all.
We restrict our prayers, requests, thinking too small when we contain it for ourselves, our family, our local church, our environment we have to grow into the mindset of all of us our families, all churches, the whole world.
It’s no longer about our own four walls but the whole vastness because in breaking through vastly we each automatically are part of it. The multiplication of the blessing is reaped by all.
Our own smallness confines us and denies the enormity of God’s vastness and power.
We as sons of God have all authority and rights to royally influence. God has us each placed for a reason and Christ has empowered us so we don’t shrink back but step in boldly.
It is not ok that others do not know Him or suffer in darkness when we have been given light for ourselves and everyone in our sphere of influence.
What we tolerate we will not change.
We are called to shift and fill the vacuum that the enemy fights to occupy in this world. We need a mindset that says not on my watch and decrees in the spiritual warfare what will be knowing that where we succeed in the big by default covers each individual domain too.
We come out of elitism, separatism, divisionism and contend for and safeguard all as Jesus demonstrated.
Not my Father but our. Not here but everywhere. Not my house but the earth. Not me but us, we, our. Not even those living in the day but for those who will believe in the future.
So much bigger and more. A whole kingdom for every Christian in all eternity
The enemy seen in the world as evil, sin and darkness arises and is actively visible and felt to be attacking as he feels increasingly threatened by a God who is moving and bringing us greater wisdom and more revelation of Himself for us to partner with and combat the advance.
The illustration shows spiritual axe strengthened by the power of God’s wisdom to push back evil, to emanate light and push back the darkness.
Two Scriptures that come to mind:
“If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.” Ecclesiastes 10:10 NIV
“Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground? Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places? His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture. Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail. Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it. This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.” Isaiah 28:23-29 NET
The song Battle Belongs. Phil. Wickham
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