Don’t Pack Your Bags Yet

Today I want to exhort you on the need to unpack your bags and start engaging your faith again.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? (Isaiah 53:1 KJV)

Many of God’s children have not lost their faith but they are not seeing miracles nor the move of the spirit because they have packed their bags.

Many have come to that place where they are not expecting anymore. They still believe God but they are not engaging their faith anymore.

And indeed, we cannot blame them because the circumstances of their situations suggest that what they expect may not happen for them. Many have packed their bags ready to go home. Many of God’s children have packed their bags; they have packed and resigned from living. Many are waiting for the archangel to sound the final trumpet. In as much as I believe and look forward for the second coming of Christ, I equally believe that men everywhere must benefit from His first coming. The church must arise and engage their faith for maximum impact.

I believe that God is up to something; we can all walk into the miraculous and experienced the great move of God. We cannot pack our bags ready to leave. The church of God can not resign from living the maximum life. There are promises that we must inherit and there is work to be done. If you have packed your bags, then unpack them.

Consider Sarah:

Genesis 12:1-4¹ teaches us that God appeared to Abraham and promised to make him great and fruitful though he was childless at that time. Abraham was about 75 years old. By Genesis 18:1-15², Sarah and Abraham had waited for 24 years; and Sarah had packed her bags ready to go and be with the Lord; until one day when she heard the report of God’s messengers to the family.

• She heard
• She laughed
• Then she listened
• She meditated
• Now she believed
• She received strength and acted
• Then she received the breakthrough

If only you will hear the word, listen, meditate, believe, receive it and act on it, you will breakthrough the glass ceiling.

Consider Jacob:

He had given up hope of ever seeing Joseph alive on earth. He had been deceived and had given up hope until Genesis 45:25-28³, when the same people who had lied to him brought him a different report.

I speak over your life that in this season, your family and loved ones will hear a different report. The same people who said you are dead and finished will go around and testify that you are alive. God will surprise people. Your story is changing. But your story will change if only you can unpack your bags.

Joseph needed to unpack his bags and engage his faith in prison for a change of story. Your will not die in this prison of pain! Your will not die in this prison of sickness! As you spend time hearing and listening to God’s word, He will change your story.

Consider the Shunamite who fed Elijah:

God is not unrighteous to forget your labour of love (Hebrews 6:10⁴ KJV). This woman according to 2 Kings 4:16-17⁵, have packed her bags waiting to leave, but God had a plan. God has a plan for you too, so unpack your bags and start believing.

You will build that business!  You will start that church! You will have that family! You will be healed! Your life will come together again! God will reopen your case! Your change of story is coming! You will break through in this season!

Consider Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist:

He had packed his bags. He was ready to leave. He had faith but he had shelved it. He was not expecting any more; but when the world came, he was activated (See Luke 1:5-25⁶).

Beloved, just a word in season, a report at the right time will revive your spirit and change the course of your life.

I pray for you that in this month of listening by faith, you will hear, listen, meditate, believe and engage your faith.

You don’t need a big faith; you need to just use your faith. In fact, even faith as a mustard seed can move mountains. Unpack your bags and start living. God will reopen your case and work miracles in your life.

God bless you

I love you 

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Referenced Scriptures

1. Genesis 12:1-4 (KJV): Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. ↩︎
2. Genesis 18:1-15 (KJV): And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. ↩︎
3. Genesis 45:25-28 (KJV): And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. ↩︎
4. Hebrews 6:10 (KJV): For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. ↩︎
5. 2 Kings 4:16-17 (KJV): And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid. And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. ↩︎
6. Luke 1:5-25 (KJV): There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course, According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season. And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple. And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless. And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men. ↩︎