A Prophetic Word from Gen. 22:6

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. 

As young "Isaac's" we have been redeemed with the fire and the knife of God's mercy. So why are we still on the Altar?

Some stay because it's familiar. We've grown accustomed to it's hard, stony surface. Others are afraid to get off the thing. Still others aren't quite convinced they have really been set free by the knife and purified in the fire. And God waits.

Here's what came to me in church yesterday:

"I have cut your cords with my knife. I have cleansed you with my fire. You are free to rise from the altar. But you do not. Why have you not risen in the Grace where in you can stand? You sin is behind you. Your shame is consumed in my Provision, the scapegoat of the Sacrificial Lamb, crowned in a thorny thicket. 

"Arise, my child, get off the altar of your past and I will lift you into your future. There is nothing holding you back from my end. My plans will formulate as you get off the altar.  Arise from the shame of your youth. It is over. Finished. Dance on its ashes in the power of my Provision."