Israel encountered many challenges on the road to their destiny. Most of their problems came from their lack of faith in the Lord. Despite the miracles God had done in Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, and the miraculous provision along the way, they repeatedly doubted, murmured, and complained.
If you fill up on bitter waters, you too will murmur, complain, and fail God You will be tempted to turn back to your old life and leave your ministry behind. What you must do is get your eyes off of the visible and focus on the invisible. Only when you do this will you dare to do the impossible. Israel could have done so much more if they had left the friends of bitter waters behind.
Moses was a man who, despite negative circumstances, kept his focus on the invisible. He is enrolled in the Hebrews 11 "Hall of Faith" because "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible" according to Hebrews 11:27.
-Moses saw the invisible and led two million people out of slavery.
-Elisha saw that the invisible army of God was greater than that of the enemy which surrounded him. -Stephen viewed the invisible as he was being martyred, seeing the Son of God in the throne room of God.
-The prophets saw the invisible future and warned of things to come.
-The Apostle John saw into the invisible and received a great revelation of the end-times.
You will never fulfill your ministry by keeping your eyes on your visible circumstances. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off of Jesus and looked at the waves of circumstance swirling around him. The Apostle Paul declared in 1 Corinthians 4:15-18:
"For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
Don't stay at the place of bitter waters and friends. Look beyond the challenges of negative circumstances and realize that everything that happens to you is for your sake and for His glory. Your story is for His glory! Your trials work in your behalf when you refuse to focus on things which are seen, and focus instead upon the unseen.
Do not focus on the wilderness. Do not focus on the giant enemies. Focus on your gifts and callings of God and fulfill your spiritual destiny. Say "goodbye" to the bitter waters and keep on until you reach your final destination.
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