For too long you have stayed stuck and stagnant, but I am urging you to step up and into the things I have pressed into your heart and ignited in you through dreams and visions. I have asked many of you to complete assignments, move locations and make big changes to the ways in which you currently live, but many of you have not taken the bold steps I have asked you to take.
How much longer will you stay in disobedience to Me in the things I am asking you to steward well? How much longer will you wait on My provision and guidance when I have already bestowed it on you? You are waiting on Me to establish things and make choices for you when I have already equipped you to make the choices I am asking you to make.
I ask you this: what are you waiting for? I trust you in your decisions led by My Spirit and My wisdom. I say to you, sons and daughters, now is the time for you to faithfully establish what I have asked. It is not the time for delay, stepping back or second guessing but a time of swift obedience.
I have entrusted you with the secrets of My heart and the things of the Kingdom and I have made no mistake in that. You are trustworthy and I trust you. Shake the dust off your feet, awaken from your slumber and establish the next steps with Me. It’s time to go again with fresh momentum!
Activation:
Read Matthew 25:14-30
Parable of the Talents
14 “For it is just like a man who was about to take a journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his possessions.
15 To one he gave five [a]talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and then he went on his journey.
16 The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he [made a profit and] gained five more.
17 Likewise the one who had two [made a profit and] gained two more.
18 But the one who had received the one went and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “Now after a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.20 And the one who had received the five talents came and brought him five more, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted to me five talents. See, I have [made a profit and] gained five more talents.’
21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’
22 “Also the one who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have [made a profit and] gained two more talents.’23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’
24 “The one who had received one talent also came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a harsh and demanding man, reaping [the harvest] where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter seed.25 So I was afraid [to lose the talent], and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is your own.’
26 “But his master answered him, ‘You wicked, lazy servant, you knew that I reap [the harvest] where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter seed.27 Then you ought to have put my money with the bankers, and at my return I would have received my money back with interest.
28 So take the talent away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’
29 “For to everyone who has [and values his blessings and gifts from God, and has used them wisely], more will be given, and [he will be richly supplied so that] he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have [because he has ignored or disregarded his blessings and gifts from God], even what he does have will be taken away.30 And throw out the worthless servant into the outer darkness; in that place [of grief and torment] there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].
Matthew 25:14-30 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] Matthew 25:15 A talent was a measurement of weight, usually 58-80 pounds. One talent of silver was worth more than 15 years’ wages. One talent of gold was worth even more.
Spend time reflecting and meditating on it before spending time with Jesus reflecting on the questions below.
What was the last thing the Lord asked you to do? Was it to connect with someone, build something, start something, do more of something, less of something, put something down or pick something up? Have you been obedient in doing as He asked or have you spent too much time delaying, trying to figure it all out or felt unable to do all He is asking you to do? What has held you back? What have been barriers to your obedience?
Recommit to the things He has asked of you and is asking of you, repent where you have fallen into disobedience, knowingly or unknowingly, and ask for forgiveness. The Holy Spirit will give you fresh understanding and revelation of the next steps to fulfil your assignment. As a prophetic act, get up and physically shake the dust off your feet and take a big step forward. Now is the time to go again!
The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he [made a profit and] gained five more.
Matthew 25:16 (AMP)
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’
Matthew 25:21 (AMP)
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