Press In

Up against the wall.

Push against it, lean against it.

Nothing solid.

It flexes.

You push and it moves.

You expect it to limit your progress. You feel the limit.

Yet when you approach it, it looks solid, it appears solid, without movement, it blocks your path.

Press in, yet press in, I want you to press in. My variant of pressed down, press in to expand, push out, push out – expand.

Luke 6:38 Give, and gifts will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into the pouch formed by the bosom of your robe and used as a bag. For with the measure you deal out with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others, it will be measured back to you.

Grow. Become larger, become more, bigger, stronger, fitter, more capable.

As the baby is formed in the womb, it rests upon the wall, it is held up by the wall, supported by the wall.

Yet it grows, it expands, it pushes back against the wall. The wall retreats as the growth expands.

Push against the boundary, find the opening, break forth, burst forth – new birth. Beyond the small, without impact, to the large, that cries out announcing its presence across the land.

Remember, earnestly give heed to multiplication. Multiplied multiplies, from one the many, the few to the multitude.

This is not the story of the two, this is the strong of the 10,000. Send into flight, impact the many.

You felt it didn’t you. Showing up when you didn’t expect it. The impact, the ripple against the wall, the kick against the wall, the movement of that which you thought was solid. You pushed, expecting no impact. And yet, and yet it rippled against your hand. The boundary was shifted, the wall rippled, the body moved.

Look for impact, expect impact, expect me to move. Did I not say I am on the move.

You feel the limit, you feel the restraint, you expect nothing, no movement! Don’t look at the wall, do not be in awe of the wall, do not be limited by the wall. Push against it.

“Up against it” you say. You are right.

Yet I say I am for you, so who can be against!

You define your movement by the restraint. No!

Define your movement by my command, by my movement, by your expectation.

Lift your expectation.

Judges 18:9-10 They said, Arise, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go and enter in and possess the land. When you go, you will come to people feeling safe and secure. The land is broad widely extended on all sides; and God has given it into your hands—a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.

What is it you see? Confinement or movement?

Align yourself with me.

I am growing, I am expanding you, I am birthing, I am multiplying.

Micah 7:11 In the day that your walls are to be built a day for building, in that day shall the boundary of Israel be far extended and the decree against her be far removed.

Look for the impact. As you push forward, look for the retreat, look for amplified impact, look for amplified movement. The easy push, the amplified acceptance. The single push, the amplified response.

Look for movement, for I am moving, expect movement and you shall have it.

Philippians 3:14-16 I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. So let those of us who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also. Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that.