For too long, people have been like the eagle who is chained for a long time in his prison cell and suddenly his day of liberation comes. His chains are cut loose and the cage door is thrown open, but that eagle is so accustomed to living in captivity that he remains there in the cage, as sad as he was when the chains were holding him. We are like this. Christ has moved us into a place of mighty triumph in Himself. We are seated with Christ in the heavenly places, above every principality and power. We have been living as penniless paupers with a tremendous amount of money and provision in the bank.
We need to consider the parable of the sower, lest this word fall upon unhearing ears or upon unprepared hearts. We need to eagerly reach out and grasp this word as though this is the long-awaited day of liberation, and the Emancipation Proclamation has been spoken unto the people of God. Let’s no longer continue to live like slaves, but let’s begin to rise up and live as kings and priests unto our God.
Let’s no more be speaking and living as though we are in the wilderness, still sojourning under the bondages. We need to wake up and realize we have already crossed into the promised land and there remain giants ahead of us to be taken. We need to take boldness and strength, pressing eagerly with zeal into the thing that God has called us to press into.
Let’s no more be like those who say, “Oh, I am yet in captivity,” but let’s proclaim the day of liberty unto ourselves. The day has dawned and we’ve been sleeping, as it were. Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you life.
The day of miracles has dawned upon us. Where then are the miracles? They reside in the hearts of those believing people who would dare to move out in God, who would dare to write the check on the basis of what has been deposited within the heavenly bank account.
Dare to take your place in Him and move in that which He has spoken, for this is the day of greater works—not a day before the day of greater works, but this is the day of greater works. God is not the God of the great I-will-be, but He is the God of the right-now. He is the great I AM. Therefore dare to appropriate Him and His mighty presence and His mighty present eagerness to manifest His power and greatness. Let there be no unbelieving heart in the congregation of the saints, but let there be great faith, great appropriation to boldly move into every work that He has spoken over us.