Going to the Next Level

As we commence the New Year, one of the things that we understand is that 2016 will be a year of Ascension. God is ready to take His people to a Higher Level. God is ready to Elevate His people to the Next Level. The challenge with this is that you have to be properly Positioned and Prepared. If you've been a spiritual slacker or slothful, unfaithful and disobedient, then you can't expect to receive God's Promotion. You'll have to wait till the next class is in session (which could be decades). But if you've been patient and steadfast, then God has a Reward for you. He's ready to take you to the Next Level.

One of the reasons why many Christians don't make it to the Next Level that God has ordained for their lives and their walk with Him is because they give up prematurely. Understand that Going to the Next Level is not simply a "smooth transition", it's tough and it's difficult. As a matter of fact, when God is putting the finishing touches of taking you where He's ordained for you to go, it may actually feel like God is punishing you or that He's in some way abandoned you or is mistreating you. Quite the contrary saints. That's why we walk by faith and not by sight (2Corinthians 5). If you try to assess the movement of God by what you see in the natural, you'll always be disappointed and deceived. That's why you've got to trust God's Word and hope in the promises that you know He's made to you.

Jesus is the perfect example. Remember when He was baptized by John the Baptist and anointed by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove (Matthew 3), you would think that after that He would be ready to roll. That's not how it went down. Next thing we see, Jesus is undergoing one of the greatest seasons of Satanic attack He had ever experienced (Matthew 4). No one's had to endure the type of temptation that Jesus did. Yet it was the prelude to His Ministerial Promotion. That's why after His Wilderness Experience, the next scene we see is Him quoting His Messianic Mission (Isaiah 61) and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom (Luke 4).

It may be hard for you right now saints. But don't give up and don't give in. Now is not the time to quit. Now is the time to gird up your loins and be sober (1Peter 1). Now is the time to make up your mind that you'll never quit. You'll never give up on God. At His lowest point on the Cross, Jesus never gave up on God, and He never gave up on us. He knew that when the pain and suffering was through, God was going to resurrect Him from the dead and transform His pain to Glory. We too have the same promise (Romans 8), if we can stay focused on Going to the Next Level.