In the PIT – How you determine now matters to your future!



 In the PIT – How you determine now matters to your future!

*1. Your tolerance in the pit plays an important role towards your future *

Genesis 37:23,24

– We have gone through emotional, spiritual and physical pits in our life. The chart of Joseph’s life is a life that many of us are going through.

– Joseph’s life can be viewed as a U- shaped graph. His father loved him a lot, God gave him the dream, and Joseph’s position went from the highest position to the lowest of lows. But God lifted him up to the highest position where God had already ordained for him.

– Joseph had a life of adversity and abundance. Without going through adversity, we cannot attain abundance.

– Get ready to come out of the pit. God is readying you for the new season.

– When we go through a pit experience, we become negative and bitter. We become acclimated to our misery. Never believe it is better to be of the world than to live with God.

– The pit is not your end. Your life will not end in the pit.

– Command satan to get out of your head. The God who brought you so far will be the God who takes you through it.

– Do not fear your circumstances, death, sickness, the unknown or the pit you are in. God gives you the Spirit of freedom, not fear.

 John 8:36

 Jeremiah 29:11

2. When you are in the pit, satan tries to attack you because he knows you are next in line to reach your destiny

– Joseph did not let his spirit be burdened because he knew the physical pit was taking him further to the destiny God had kept for him.

– Joseph changed his destiny when he was in the pit and the prison, not when he was in the palace.

– The door of breakthrough started for Joseph when every outside door had closed in his life. Your breakthrough begins in the pit. Your doors are opening during the pit experience of your life.

– This pit is not your conclusion. Your destiny is not the prison. Your destiny is what God has ordained for you. Your destination is the palace where God will provide you with royal robes.

– God is going to give you sevenfold what satan has taken from you.

– Arise. Get up. The one who put you in the pit will lift you up from the pit.

Ephesians 3:20-21

 

*3. Losers only focus on what they are going through, champions only focus on what they are going to. *

– Focus on what you are moving towards. Act and live like you know the Truth. Jesus is with you during this time.

– Daniel and his friends knew that God was with them when they were in the midst of the fire. Daniel did not waver his trust in God.

4. How you react to others while in the pit matters as it determines how God reacts to you.

– Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.

 Mathew 7:12
 James 1:27

– We are ruling together and staying together. Do to ignore your brothers or sisters in need.

5. People who betray you and cause you pain now do not have any control over your future.

Isaiah 60:14

– Your current condition is changing. God is controlling my future. He knows that His best plan for me is yet to come.

6. When you go through the pit experience, satan’s favorite method of attack is using what is precious to you to attack you.

– The people who encouraged or lifted you up before may rise up before your God given time. They may rise against you. When you see that, know that something is happening.

– God will lift you up at your appointed time. The world way succeed before you, but God will never let you be left behind. He has the perfect plan for you.

7. You will not win this battle using your logic, battle in Spirit.

– Joseph cancelled all his logic and allowed his spirit to wait upon the Lord.

– Allow God to move and wait for God’s time.

– You do not battle spiritual warfare with your logic. You battle it with the Holy Spirit working in you.

– God strips your ego, selfishness, attitude, prideful nature while you are in the pit.

– Wine is pressed before reaching its full potential. Oil is crushed before becoming pure oil. God crushes you to refine you to be like Him. It is through our crushing that we can become more like God. Allow yourself to be crushed so that you can be used by God.

Proverbs 3:5-6

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Allow God to crush  you and make you in His likeness.

– Submit yourself to God and let work His plan in your life.

– Your pit leads you to your destiny. Wait for and allow God to work in your life and take you out of the pit.

 

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