Barriers: An Upgrade in Our Identity

As we step out into our destiny, it does not take long till we run into barriers.  How we approach barriers, difficulties, and adversities will significantly impact how far we go in our destinies.  Different personality types will have a default way of reacting when they hit a barrier.  For example, those driven personality types will get frustrated, angry, and tend to redouble their efforts.  Those more introspective types will tend to perceive it in their mind's eye as bigger than them and become discouraged.  More extroverted types may tend to ask people around them and when there is not an answer just simply move on to something else.  Some barriers or problems we may not be called to solve but those God has a purpose for in our life need to be addressed.

Our Father in heaven knows these barriers will come in our path, He is not overwhelmed by them or discouraged.  He has a plan, barriers and problems are included in what He is doing in us and where He is taking us in Him.  In Ephesians 2:6 Paul tells us by the Holy Spirit, "...and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,"  Part of God seating you "in Christ" in heavenly places is so that we can see from heaven's perspective toward earth and then as Jesus said in "The Lord's Prayer" bring heaven to earth (Your Kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven).  God perspective of us seated in heavenly places "in Christ" is beyond most of our view of ourselves, yet this is the way God relates to us.  The Lord revealed to me that we often try to figure out the problem or barrier at our current level of revelation and living, yet the answer is contained at a greater level of revelation and a whole new realm of living.  God is inviting us to experience Him at a whole new level.  For example, those who have struggled to have enough provision for what God has called them to are in need of experiencing God as their Provider.

What if our inadequacy, weakness, inability, discouragement or needs are really an invitation from the Father to experience more of Jesus for us and through us.  When God led the people into the Promise Land, they quickly came up against what I call the "Ites", the Amelikites, Hittites, Amorites, etc.  Each of these battles against enemies that occupied the Promise Land required the Israelites to rely on the Lord for the strategy or promise to overcome.  I believe every barrier, adversity, or difficulty I believe comes with a promise "in Christ" to take us to a new level of knowing Him and a new dimension of living.

In His Promises,
Bret