April 7: The Power of Restlessness

"Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud. His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above. You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck." (Gen 27:38-40)

Complacency is the curse of the current, the enforcer of the status quo. Limitations love lethargy but the greatest fear of the status quo is a person who becomes restless as a result of his limitations. A restless person, the one who say's "I've had it with this thing" will not be held down by limitations for much longer.

This was Isaac's message to Esau, "Sure,  you will serve our brother, this declaration will make it so but when you get to the point when you become restless, you can break the yoke of this curse of servitude." This is a statement that testifies to the power of the restless will. It can even break supernaturally imposed limitations.

You will face many things in life that seek to limit you: financial limitations, habitual sin, domineering humans, educational limitations, health issues, background and family history, harvest of personal errors, official reports of your handicap in one area of the other. All these are real limitations but in the thinking of God, none of them has the right to be permanently victorious over you, except you continue to allow them.

So when God wants to bring freedom into your life, He does it by inspiring a restlessness in your heart. He births a desperation to be free. He creates a yearning you can't shake to break through the limitations and advance to freedom.You will get fed up with the status quo. The restlessness will linger. You will be unable to let it go. You will feel like you are washing your feet with your socks on. 

It is a favor from God to be dissatisfied with the status quo. That's where change begin. Until you get sick and tired of being sick and tired you will continue to be sick and tired.  This type of restless is a signal that you are due for change. You are no longer satisfied within you by the work you are doing. Something that used to excite you before now feels like a cage. You feel trapped and limited. Like a caged bird, you want to burst forth and spread your wings. 

When you begin to feel this way, you must act immediately. Get into prayer and clarify the specific cause of your restlessness. What is it that God is working within you to will to do? Find out where a change must take place in your life. Receive the ability before God to break through that limitation. Receive wisdom from Him on what to do. Never neglect a lingering sense of spiritual dissatisfaction. It is a signal that there is a new level beckoning to you. 

If you notice that you are lukewarm and complacent about your life, ask God to inspire this restlessness in you. That is the only thing that will continually motivate you to take the necessary steps to the next level of your walk in Him. It will empower you to break every limitation in your life. I pray that you will experience this stirring of God in your heart. 


Decision of the Day  

I understand the power of restlessness. I will not be complacent anymore. Lord make me restless when I'm out of step with you any part of my life. In the areas that I feel restless right now, show me what I lack and give me wisdom on what I must do to walk in your perfect will.