It all started around the number 11. For five years I had seen on my clocks 11:11. No matter what time of night or day it was, there was always a digital clock some where showing me 11:11. Now, I know that sounds crazy, and I am aware of Brother Sam's exhortation on the crazy prophetic stuff but, never-the-less, this did happen to me for five years. What did I do about it? I searched the scriptures for the meaning of 11 or 11:11. Was it a scripture the Lord was trying to tell me about? Was it the eleventh hour? Was it judgment, disorder, confusion or was it something else? This is only the first scripture which backs up what I found out...
The first time the word 11 appears in the bible is in Genesis 32:22. This is talking about the 11 sons of Jacob as he took them and fled crossing the river Jabbok, which means to empty, to pour out, to depopulate. As you are probably familiar with, Jacob had done the dirty deeds to Esau and fled to stay with his uncle Laban. There he took two wives, had 11 sons, and had gotten very rich in stock (live stock that is). His life was naturally about as good as it could get, but it wasn't God's purpose for his life. An angel in a dream said... "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred (Gen 31:13). As said before, he passed over the river Jabbok after this command. He was ready to empty himself, to be poured out, to depopulate, as it may have cost him everything to go back and face Esau. And he was broken and poured out during this time of "transition" in which he wrestled with the Angel "until the break of dawn". The evidence was a crippling of the strongest part of his body, his thigh, but there Jacob transitioned into a new name because he prevailed. "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed" (Gen 32:28). If we also prevail during our time of transition, we too can get the reward of a name change! Name in scripture always speaks of character. Wrestle is defined as "to contend or struggle for mastery".
We too can leave behind our old life and nature, as good as it seems, and get the character and destiny that God has intended for us. If God has to touch us in the strongest part of ourselves in order to get there, then so be it! Uncle Arthur Burt says "that the best of our flesh is the worst of our flesh". It is our enemy! Don't settle for the best you can be. It will never be enough. Give up and let God take over and bring you into His Divine Order for your life. Transition into your destiny by holding on to God and not letting go until He blesses you with that new way of life and that new nature!
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