Making Room for Your Miracle

'When all you've got is a 'word' you've got enough to change your world'

The enemy seeks to complicate your life through chaos and confusion.  The solution to your complicated situation is found in the simplicity of a prophetic solution and provocative faith. 

Last week I wrote you about breaking the spirit of famine and I gave you some evidences to identify the spirit of famine and it's operative.  Today I want to share some strategies to encourage you and help create a path to victory in whatever you're facing.

Genesis 26:6 'And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.'

The verse listed above was Isaac's response to a prophetic direction given him by God. As a stand alone verse, it doesn't seem to be an impactful statement.  In fact, it seems more like a historical fact than a prophetic solution.  That all changes when you look at the context in which it's written.

Isaac was in a critical season in his life, dealing with the fallout of a famine.  Consider the complexity of his situation.  He was living in a foreign country, subordinate to the relationship he had with that country's king.  As the owner of a thriving livestock company his very survival was dependent upon the agricultural cycles in the land. 

Famine was a strong enemy that threatened his survival at it's very core.  His ability to provide for his family and sustain his business was subject to the conditions of his season.  Talk about a complicated situation!

When the dynamics are 'set' against you, don't underestimate God's ability & desire to 'set' things in your favor!

The Word tells us that Isaac was contemplating going to Egypt as Abraham had done during the famine that he wrestled with.  As Isaac sought a business strategy to survive the famine, God spoke to him to 'dwell, remain' in the very place he was experiencing famine and that in so doing God would be with him and bless him.  God completely redirected Isaac's life with a seemingly ridiculous instruction.

Breakthrough Key #1:  The Place of Direction is the Place of Protection

God promised Isaac both Divine Presence and Divine Prosperity in the place (the physical location) of a prophetic solution.  A prophetic solution or interruption is what God gives you when He wants to release Covenant Blessing into your life. 

Do you know that a promise from God is a component of the overall Covenant that you have with Him?  When God engages your life with a promise He is invoking elements of the covenant that He made with you through the Blood of Jesus.  God uses His Covenant Blessings to cancel the dynamics of your famine.

Your faith's response to a prophetic solution gives God avenues to step into your natural situation. 

Now let me be real for a minute: Famine will wear out your faith!

When you walk through a season where you've thrown all your resources at your famine, the process empties you.  The last thing your faith 'feels' is strong and victorious.  The last thing you possess in yourself is the ability to stand and fight it.  Famine is an exhausting enemy.

Real famine will exhaust you, empty you, and wear you out!  In fact, until you're wrestling with 'faith fatigue' you haven't really experienced a deep famine.   

While famine will wear out your faith, don't misdiagnose fatigued faith for dead faith!

The instruction must have seemed odd to Isaac as it 'made no sense' to remain where he was.  His situation was complicated, didn't God know that? 

Breakthrough Key #2:      Make a fresh Investment in the Prophetic

In spite of the seeming ridiculous nature of Isaac's prophetic interruption, faith rose within him, a deep expectation was birthed, and a dimension of prophetic vision was awakened within him that allowed him to see through the famine!  Isaac seized the promise of God to the extent that he 'married' himself to the place God told him to stay. 

Verse 6 says that he 'dwelt' in Gerar.  The Hebrew word means 'to marry' oneself to a thing.  Isaac's response to the prophetic direction God gave him was to make a covenant with God not to leave the place of instruction.  God counted Isaac's response to obey him as a marriage contract.  God later honored Isaac's covenant response with a one hundred fold harvest in one year, in the very place where famine had sought to destroy him.

Isaac took his faith to another level by making a fresh investment in the prophetic in his life. His decisions, direction, and behavior became an investment in the prophetic contract God had made with him.  By dwelling in or marrying himself to Gerar, Isaac invoked the covenant and God broke the effects of the famine out of his life and business. 

As you read of Isaac's outcome you discover that the ridiculous instruction released miraculous intervention.  God's covenant is your contract for supernatural intervention in a time of famine.

Breakthrough Key #3:     Your Success is God's Passion
Your success is God's passion.  Even in times of famine He is planning, positioning, and setting up another success season for you.  He is focused on your breakthrough.  He's busy in your famine season creating the solutions that will empower you to recover your prosperity (blessing, wholeness, and equilibrium). 

It's interesting to note that the Hebrew word for prosperity is 'wholeness'.  It's inclusive of physical, emotional, psychological, relational, and financial prosperity.  It refers to God's design for us to obtain a posture of equilibrium in each of these arenas of our lives.  Famine is a strong enemy that attacks your equilibrium on every side.

Breakthrough Key #4:  Your Covenant with God is a Prosperity Contract

Prosperity in the New Covenant is the Greek word 'salvation' which means 'whole' referring to the condition of the whole or entire person.  My point here is that the Holy Spirit maintains a continuity of principle and prophetic thought regarding the covenants of God in the Word, regardless of the time, season, or generation.

Jesus made a Covenant of Wholeness with us through His Blood. 

These are now our blood rights as sons and daughters of God.  Subsequently, when God wants to 'give' us our inheritance, He releases a prophetic solution that establishes a new degree of covenant with us.  While the whole covenant is in effect from the moment of our new birth, there are strategic seasons when God comes to us in the place of a famine, shift, or transition and initiates us by prophetic experience into a new dimension of Covenant Blessing that we've never moved in before. 

This is the strategy He implemented with Isaac in order to break his famine and birth the process of Isaac discovering his Rehoboth.  'Rehoboth' means 'wide place, room'. Rehoboth is the place the Lord had in store for Isaac as an inheritance at the end of his wrestling process.  It was God's place of establishing Isaac's own identity separate and distinct from Abraham's.  Rehoboth is also the place of an uncommon reward.

Rehoboth is the place God has in mind that He calls you to discover personally through a combination of prophetic experience and relentless pursuit.  When Isaac broke through famine and contention to come into his Rehoboth, he discovered his place.  His contentions were over and his multiplication season was born.  The process had begun with a prophetic solution in a time of famine.

Never underestimate God's ability to bless you in unlikely places!

Interestingly, it was the famine itself that threatened to prevent Isaac from discovering his Rehoboth: the place that belongs to you.  It's the place where God has made room for you.  Rehoboth is the place or season God's been positioning you to possess while you're wrestling with your famine.  God's prophetic promises release Covenant Blessings that empower you to get to where He's taking you.

Famine's assignment is to obscure your vision so that you can't get to your Rehoboth

Famine seeks to consume your success in addition to threatening your survival.  In the place of famine it's easy to scramble for a quick fix due to the unrelenting pressure that you're under. 

In chaos and famine it's essential to have access to a prophetic voice, a prophetic flow, and a prophetic anointing.  I say this because in times of famine it's easy to lose sight of any blessing.  It becomes a tremendous struggle to focus on the fact that God has promised, purposed, and positioned your success.  A real famine will obscure the evidence of God's blessing for a season.

While God did not send a prophet to speak to Isaac, He gave him a personal prophetic moment that set vision in him.  It's important for you to recognize your prophetic capacity and embrace it.  There will be seasons where God gives you no external word through a prophetic voice.  You will walk through a place where you seem to lack external confirmation and external encouragement. 

In that place it's important to remember that there is a prophetic DNA within you.  Know that in your famine you possess the capacity for your spirit to become the prophetic conduit of His Spirit.  Never forget that the life of God is resident within your spirit, especially in those times when it seems your external situations are dying. 

In this season, don't be surprised if God doesn't send a prophet to you but instead awakens the prophet within you!

The Law of Divine Direction: 

When you're headed in a direction contrary to God's plan to bless you He will interrupt you with a course-altering, prophetic solution   

God met Isaac while he was in a time of deliberation and gave him a prophetic interruption and a ridiculous instruction.  The word God gave him created new vision, gave him the capacity to see a divine solution where he was, and centered his decision-making around his covenant with God.

It's important to recognize that God never told Abraham not to go to Egypt when he was in famine.  The point here is important.  To bless Isaac with his own breakthroughs, he required that he break from the tradition of his father.  The reason is because no two seasons are ever the same. 

God needed to teach Isaac that his covenant with God was more than enough to create and release a divine solution to a complicated human situation.  God was taking Isaac to a new dimension of faith and destiny creation.  I've got a feeling that He's doing the something similar with you.

Prophetic Solutions & Strategies to set as a Prayer Focus:

• Your Covenant with God Creates Uncommon Solutions

• Make a fresh investment in the prophetic at this season

         In both the prophetic voices assigned to your life and the prophetic DNA

         that is resident within your own spirit.  Do not underestimate your 
         prophetic legitimacy!

• Focus on the truth that you have a Covenant of Blessing

May the material I've shared here provide a conduit of wisdom that will awaken new perspective within you. 

May the dilemmas and decisions you face at this time give way to great deliverances. 

Multiplied blessings,

Bishop Howard L. Bass