If you read my blog regarding the eight phases of purpose, assignment and/or vision it is important for you to know where you are within them as it pertains to your own purpose, assignment and/or vision so you can have understanding as to how to function in them. Just because someone's purpose, assignment and/or vision is in the fruiting phase doesn’t mean yours is, even if you are connected to them. And to attempt to function in your own purpose, assignment and/or vision in a phase you have not entered into yet is an attempt to fail.
Now, if you are connected to someone’s purpose, assignment and/or vision and serve or assist with their purpose, assignment and/or vision it can become tricky because you will then have to know which phase the individual you are serving or assisting is in so you can function where he/she is at all while knowing which phase your personal purpose, assignment and/or vision is and functioning there. Truth is, although it may seem tricky it is necessary, because serving and assisting a purpose, assignment and/or vision other than your own can only thrust you into your own. It’s a part of sowing and reaping.
Furthermore, we must understand that within these phases are cycles and seasons both as it pertains to our purpose, assignment and/or vision and as it pertains to our personal lives. And, just as one phase ends and there is transition into the next phase it is the same with cycles and seasons. I personally believe that the cycles and seasons become more relevant during the transition from one phase to another. Seasons and cycles are temporary and at some point either come to a defined end or transition into something else. Cycles and seasons must also be discerned, whether ministerial, relational, financial and/or as it pertains to business and career. This is important because the principles or operation that caused something to produce in one season/cycle will not cause production in another. It is important because the people that were an asset in one season/cycle may be a hindrance in another. And most importantly, as a believer, the weapons that brought victory in one season/cycle may bring defeat in another.
Once you discern you must commit to cooperating with what is to occur within these cycles/seasons so that what must be produced during these times can be and can move you to the next phase. Not cooperating can allow certain cycles/seasons to be prolonged or can cause you to move to the next phase without knowledge and without what is needed to function in it. You must also commit, as hard as it may be at times, to move when the cycle/season is completed. To prolong a cycle/season, to stay in a cycle/season once that cycle/season is completed will lead to the individual operating in what will now become foreign territory, even though at one point it was familiar. And, it will lead the individual to operate in that territory without the grace that covered them while they were purposed to be in that cycle/season. Without the grace it can cause the individual to deal with certain situations they should have never had to deal with, as well as engage in certain battles they should have never had to war in on their own. It can cause the individual to not just prolong self but to also prolong others and even their purpose, assignment and/or vision. It can cause one to spend so much time warring that they have little time to strengthen, refresh and even believe.
Some of your challenges and attacks this past year have been because of what you are carrying, but some of your challenges and attacks this past year have been because of what you have let remain and/or because of where you have remained either intentionally or unintentionally. Meaning some cycles ended and you attempted to stay in them, or did not move when the window opened and thereby caused that cycle to repeat itself. Others it is because the season changed and you were still trying to function in winter when you had actually transitioned to spring. Whether relationally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally or financially it is time to discern, move and function with understanding. Before this year is up, give space, quiet yourself and be still. Discern which phase you are in or transitioning to and where you are as it pertains to cycles/seasons. It isn’t always comfortable but it is a part of the phase and transition process.
I truly believe, in this next move, it will matter, for believers, how we handle the things of God, including the Anointing, His Anointed, and even the unbeliever. I also believe, in this next move, that we will have to move from doing many things without understanding to doing purposed things with understanding. So, discern, get acquainted, function and watch what produces!
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