Making crooked paths straight. Isa 45:2 I am straightening out the beliefs in your heart And mind that have been foundational to your way of walking. Pathways are places that you fit your beliefs and systems into. You take your confessions and place them on pathways. You take your thought life and place them on pathways. Pathways receive everything that you are because they are foundations that you build your life upon. Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Whatever you are sensing is laid back on this foundation called a pathway. If the pathway is crooked or messed up than everything good you lay on the pathway gets distorted as you walk it out. Pathways must be dealt with in each individuals life. They are the light in the darkness that you view. Your viewpoint is based upon the pathway that you set your new thoughts upon. IAm has ways. Knowing the ways of IAm and prioritizing your ways over my ways will lead to the wrong destination. IAm makes streams in the desert. This means that the dry path the hardened ground the old places need new paths for you to walk on. The place where you experience the greatest trial by day and night needs provision and new paths. IAm provides streams in your desert, deserted, dry place. The dry place of thinking. Thinking thought that lay on wrong paths producing expected failing outcomes. You could succeed with the word of IAm that has come to you but you can’t succeed when you lay these scriptures on wrong foundations. Therefore IAm makes the crooked paths straight. Isaiah 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. The Fast As you move into this fast, IAm is going to prune your heart. This will help you grow where you have seemed to experience stunted growth. IAm will cut off and shave away the areas left dark so long that they have become a part of who you are, displaying a “you” contrary fo what IAm has ordained for you to be from the foundations of the earth. IAm will do some fine tuning as well. This will be areas that exist that should exist but could use a little Management. IAm Allow me to dress the vine. Allow IAm to go deeper. When you are willing and obedient you create a supply. Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land Deuteronomy 30:15-16 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Stream of income Willingness to do good and being obedient brings rewards. Doing the right thing brings rewards. Keeping His commandment over your life and following after His ways brings reward. Eating the good of the land This is a flow a stream of supply that comes to you to fill you and meet your need. In fact, Deuteronomy says so you can live and multiply which is blessing in your home your family. It’s blessing in the area of your need. The following things reap benefits for you. Love the Lord Walk in His ways Keep his commandments statutes and judgements He will bless you in the land you desire to possess. Verse 19, 20 clears up the absence of commandments etc… 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Love the Lord Obey his voice Hold onto the Lord Verse 20 Mssg Bible Love God Listen Obey Embrace Now you are in a position for blessing that is not momentary but sustainable blessing. It will move with your family in the places you go and through your generations. The blessing moves laterally and vertically. The blessing blesses you as you possess territory and blesses your kids. Today this promise means you are able to achieve similar blessing for your willingness and obedience. Me Ok so how do I walk this out in the places we travel to? IAm **Claim the area you desire Listen to IAm Obey IAm Embrace IAm ** You will inherit the good of the land. IAm says Don’t focus on the task just be willing and obedient as you walk and IAm remains the focus as you possess territory. IAm says I am giving you what you claim.