Selah List for November 30, 2009 - Remember Lot’s Wife?

December 1st, 2009

SELAH LIST

There's a theme I just can't seem to get away from in this season. It's the idea, or I should say revelation of transitioning from one era to the next.

One of the shortest verses in the New Testament is found in Luke 17, verse 32. 'Remember Lot's wife' This verse goes along with the context of the rest of the chapter, in which Jesus is being asked about the signs of the times.? What will it look like? In fact the question that the Pharisees ask Him is 'When will the Kingdom of God come?'.? Jesus answers, 'The Kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed, or with visible display'.? Yet He does go on to explain that these days will be as in the days of Noah and Lot, where SUDDENLY there was a change.? In Noah's experience, it was the shutting of the ark door. Then the rain began. In Lot's experience, it was on the very day that they left as a family, that it began to rain fire and brimstone.

This is where this little verse appears. Why should we in fact remember Lot's wife? What impact does this verse have on us today?? I believe it has a whole lot to do with transitioning. Lot's wife didn't transition well.? Why did she in fact look back?? No doubt her life in Sodom had been good. Lot had, after all, chosen this verdant valley land to live in, when he and Abraham had gone their different ways.? Even though Lot had been counted as righteous, and had been handed an escape route, it was no doubt hard for them to leave this place of prosperity and comfort. They may have so enjoyed living there, that they had even become desensitized to the sin happening around them.

Lot's wife now had to go on into the unknown, no doubt a very unnerving thing for her. She was now leaving behind all that she had known, all that had been a comfort to her, and she didn't like it!

The truth is that transitioning can be quite unpleasant, in fact quite brutal at times. I sometimes think of it as similar to driving a stick shift car.? I remember the early days of learning to change from first gear, to second.? It wasn't a happy time, for my husband especially, as I was driving his beloved Volvo. The crunching of the gears, and the jerking of the car, well let's just say, it wasn't the most pleasant of times.

The church is in transition. ?This is no longer a new revelation, as it's being preached all over the world.? Yet there are many who would prefer to stay in their comfortable zones.? It's comforting to be at ease with what's familiar to us, and not to want to move on into the unknown in God.? Yes, this can be a nerve racking experience.

One of the transitioning areas, we are being called into, is prayer - especially corporate prayer. Many of God's people, in particular the younger generation, have 'taken off' in a model of prayer that is absolutely and completely prophetic in its nature. Yes, it is possible to literally pray the heart of God, and weep over the things He is weeping over.? When we connect with His heart in this manner, there will be supernatural answers to our prophetic declarations. We can be a people who truly bring heaven down to earth.? How desperate are we, to see the Lord being able to interfere with the enemy's plans, and completely bring his orchestrations down in the name of Jesus.? We must be that militant church that we have been called and chosen to be.? Our corporate prayer times must of necessity have that strong prophetic edge. Nothing else will cut it in this season.

So the challenge is this. If we really do believe that the Kingdom of God, is within us, and that we are to brin
g His kingdom into our families, our communities, our provinces, and our nation, what kind of people ought we to be?? The answer is militant, strong, faithful, living and drinking of the prophetic well continually, so that we will have no trouble looking ahead, but in fact will be desperate for the MORE OF GOD. It won't even enter our mindsets to look back, and view what we were once comfortable with.

This week, remember Lot's wife. Take a lesson from her way of thinking, and decide to instead get on the highway that He is placing us on in this season.? He is calling us to run with His purpose. Using the Apostle Paul's words 'Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead'.? Let's go for God! Don't leave behind your prophetic mantle, wear it at all times!

Think on these things

Blessings on you and your household

Janet.

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