The Highway To Your Destiny newest chapter for my new book
"ROCKSTAR DEVOTION - LIFESTYLES OF SINNERS & SAINTS"
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Isaiah 35
“Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, Be strong, DO NOT FEAR; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.” vs. 1-4
Next season in moving forward on the spiritual tour is expecting the favor of God to come. If we put limits on what God can do, if we make last season the be all the ends all, we are choosing to take a mindset of defeat putting God in a box he can not fit in. Our expectations become the highway to our future. Are your expectations of God’s favor too small? God can not fit in the expectations of the past He is bigger then our past. The box of your expectations can never be too big for God. The tour is for life in Rockstar devotion with the God that is the be all that ends all. Don’t put your expectations of the God that created the universe in a box when He has a stadium He promised to fill beyond capacity. Choosing to expect God’s favor over defeat puts us on the highway to our destiny and calling He has prepared for us in the next tour cycle.
On September 17 1968 in my home town of Fayetteville Arkansas at a concert rally for then Arkansas Govern Rockefeller a young Bob Wootten of Paris Arkansas found the tour bus of favor and took the stage of divine retribution. Wootten had come to the rally because his favorite artist Johnny Cash was performing. Wootten had been learning Cash’s songs for years and as God’s favor would have it the Tennessee Three, Johnny Cash’s band, flight was delayed. I asked Wootten about this legendary moment he said “I was up by the stage, when the girl I was with got June Carter’s attention and said I could play all of Johnny’s songs. Johnny asked me to play something and from that day on I played just about every show Johnny Cash played for 35 years. I guess I was just at the right place at the right time.”
Bob Wootten had been preparing for years learning Johnny Cash’s songs. Now in music industry standards if Wootten wanted to land a spot on the stage with Johnny Cash he would should have moved to Nashville hired an agent and let the agent see what he could do. The first night Wootten played with Cash he was in front of 8,000 people and he said his favorite show other then his first night with Cash was “A few years later in the early 70’s we were playing in Chic Republic, the show was sold out over 40,000 people came to see us play songs they loved in a language they did understand.”
God can use anything to work in our favor, He can also work outside of industry standards because He doesn’t fit in any box. The tour bus of favor has divine retribution all over it and nothing can stand in Gods way when we align ourselves with Him waiting on the Highway of Redemption.
Nashville Tennessee is known as “Music City USA” as the road signs say. The highways that circle around Nashville makes a big wheel around the city. Its easy to get around the city but the main problem with the highway circle in Nashville is that if you miss your exit you might have to go five miles down the road to turn around. While waiting on God to bring the tour bus of His favor, don’t get side tracked by the wrong exits. Trust that Jesus loves you so much that He is going to work in your favor as long as your taking the steps to preparing for Him to come.
Its tempting to go down roads with less tribulation when waiting on God. Temptation could lead us to exits with less wind. The road of fear, or the road of intoxication could help get you off the cold highway of waiting for a moment, or the road of hiding could keep you cocooned off from the wind. Those roads won’t lead to divine retribution they will only postpone it, let Jesus be your strength in waiting, pray he steady’s the knees that give way, and gives you courage to not fear. Make it your goal to prepare for the tour on redemption highway, let hell nor high waters move you from waiting and seeking God’s favor of divine retribution.
It can take a long time to get to the highway of redemption when we are still carrying the luggage of pride, bitterness, intoxication, jealousy, envy, slander, hate and past. If you haven’t already drop those heavy bags that are slowing you down drop them today. The tour bus of favor has all we need and there is no room for our baggage on that bus. When your on the highway of redemption your heading toward the stadium that God is going to fill beyond capacity when He comes with vengeance and divine retribution. Our stadiums of expectation are going to burst and gush beyond capacity so much that if a fire marshal comes like he has at many Music Hall concerts he would give a warning for being over double the capacity. Make your expectations bigger then a box, expectations of empty stadiums have more potential then confined limits we place on what God an do. Ask Jesus to keep your mind focused on His Highway of Redemption and to give you strength to stay off the dead end exits of temptation. When the tour bus of favor comes God promises that “Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert” Isaiah 35:6.
Isaiah was a profit that preached to the Israelites around 700 B.C. If your like me then in a lot of ways you can relate to Israel. Israel had gotten off the tour with God and had taken their own paths of rebellion and temptation. The things they had were more important than seeking God. They worshiped the idols and the things that they made with their hands, they had become corrupted by the standards of their society and had forgotten the favor of God. Like Israel if you have Jesus in your heart then you are God’s chosen people. Like Israel when we get off the tour, God will bring obstacles in our paths to block us, brake us, and redirect us to the highway where we find His redemption. When Israel had tried all the wrong roads and saw that nothing could lead them to the highway of redemption other then the God who created them, they turned away from their failures, dropped their baggage, forsook all other roads. Though they had to wait for a moment God told them in this verse and throughout the book of Isaiah that his favor is coming.
“And a highway will be there it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in the Way; wicked fools will not go about on it…….“But only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” Isaish 35:810
On this highway we begin to evolve even more as our maker reinvents us. Trust in this waiting that God’s promise stands, He isn’t joking when He comes it will be with all power, vengeance and divine retribution. The wrong roads won’t lead us to the stadium of divine retribution. As sinners we all take roads of temptation at times, but as new creations in Christ we have all access pass to the power that makes us saints giving us the strength to stand and not be moved from redemption highway. When you wait on the highway of redemption you align yourself with God letting all the wrong road signs fall to the side, forsaking everything else because your waiting on the tour that leads to the stadium of divine retribution.
Personal Prayer: Today pray Isaiah 35 over the areas of your life. Ask God to give you strength, to steady your knees that give way, and give you courage to fear nothing but Him as you wait for his favor. Write your prayer to God today in light of Isaiah 35
 
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