Restrictive Spaces
From: The Prophetess Chamber
by Prophetess NardraV
Topic: Restrictive Spaces
Restrictive — is an adjective that describes something that keeps people within certain boundaries. Such as your own thoughts! They will restrict you!
Remember in the word, when God’s people walked around, and around in the wilderness?
Remember how the LORD led them the whole way in the wilderness—for forty years, on a journey that should only have taken about 11 days?! During this 40-day journey, God attempted to discipline them, to humble them so that they would obediently “go into,” their designed space; and also in an attempt to allow them to see and know what was in their own heart—then remember how they never went into their promised land, because of their complaining, their doubt, their murmuring, their fear, and ultimate disobedience. God commanded them to “go in” once they came to the entrance of the promised land—and they refused!
Never forget how He answered their prayers and their pleading for deliverance, and carried them out of Egyptian bondage, so that they could be away from the influences of Egypt—on a journey to their “promised land,” which became this wilderness debacle.
You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
“He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you, with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his son.
Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 8:2-6
Deuteronomy 29:5-6
Forty years of wilderness wandering until the unbelieving generation died off—everyone above the age of twenty, who had repudiated (refuse to accept and be associated with), the power of the Lord—never stepped foot in the Promised Land—because they did not obey the Lord! They restricted themselves and their life…from the liberty of trusting a loving, powerful God. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land, he had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Like Israel, churches and believers can become nests of criticism and unbelief. They can become the stronghold of the status quo, and resistant to a journey of faith, which will take them into uncharted territory, but their promised land.
Don’t forget that they never “entered in,” because of their thoughts—the process of their thinking—their opinions, beliefs, assumptions and perceptions, that is contrary to the will and purposes of God. These mental processes caused them to remain in a restrictive space! These mental processes, will cause you to suffer unnecessary restrictions because your faith in God's grace, and confidence is yet underdeveloped.
Following Jesus is Never Restrictive—but rather—Liberating! One’s own undeveloped thought life causes those restrictive spaces, not the life of the Kingdom!
LESSON 1: As with the early Israelites, God sometimes, will lead us into the wilderness of life to shape our character.
Some of our most valuable life lessons come through experiencing hard times, not good times. However most often, we only discover these lessons upon reflection, once the struggles and difficulties are over.
LESSON 2: We can learn from the experience of the Israelites in the wilderness is that God is sovereign, and used the trials of life to purify us—and to make us more like our Him. God uses the wars, (not cause) seasons of serious illness, and even pandemics in the lives of His followers, to helps us love Him and others, even more.
Moses offered a final warning to the children of Israel that good times can turn out badly, if we allow ourselves to grow comfortable in this world—(the wilderness), which is not our true home—and we forget about the Lord. His good promises assure us of a bright future. He calls us to remain faithful during the hard times, to grow in faith, and to learn to be totally dependent upon Him—lessons we could never easily learn when everything is going well!
“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today”
(Deuteronomy 8:11).
We learn some of life’s best lessons in the darkness. But we must continue to apply them in the light.
What are your thoughts about your life? | Your health? | Your relationships? | Your finances? | Your calling? | Your God?|
Be assured that it isn’t about just robotically going to a building, but rather—receiving the truth of the word!
“In beginning—the word! The word—GOD!
Are you still in your Wilderness? Then do the work—find and obey the mandates and decrees from God. Do not seek the ego of man—they lie!! Many believers are not benefiting from their wilderness experience; they talk about being “woke!” Yet they do not obey the word of God. My piercing question is then—“woke to what?” Probably to the world, but certainly not living in the truth of the word of God!
While others—are tender towards the truth of the word, and are seeking its infallible, immutable, power, to manifest in their lives—it is those, who will find their posterity and their prosperity!
Note: When wilderness wanderers come around—put on your “spiritual” masks—just like you did during Covid; no one had to ask you twice!! You did it to keep from getting contaminated with harmful, poisonous substances and become unclean! It’s the same with the word! Mask up with the word and His promises!
Those who do not benefit from their wilderness journey, exchanged the truth of the word, for a lie! They bartered away the glory of God and the truth of God. This “truth” is God’s revelation of Himself, in creation. The lie, is that “believers” can live independent of the truth of God, which is a falsification of reality.
When people say “no” to the commandments of the Lord, their soul (mind, emotions, will), begin to corrupt. When you lie to yourselves about what the scriptures truly says, you go downhill spiritually. You go deeper and deeper into regression…spiritually. Once you hear the gospel, and decide to reject it, you will exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worship and serve created things, rather than the Creator—then you will turn to your own sufficiency—losing the care of a loving Creator—who is self-existent, absolute, unconditional, unlimited in power and knowledge. For someone to worship the creature, rather than the creator, is the height of ridiculousness and foolishness!
Many times individuals talk about “go git it,” with intense fervor, but when anyone even suggest that you “go ‘git’ this word—they get mad and become condescending and malicious!!!
“Reconsider this—God’s people walked around, and around in the wilderness—BECAUSE OF THEIR “THOUGHTS!!”
Are you in a wilderness now? You just got to decide which way you are going, and commit wholeheartedly—or you will be blinded by the lie and never, EVER—enter in to your inheritance!