“You that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight, if you continue in the faith; grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel. . . (Colossians 1:21-23a).

Moved Away (Def): (Gr.): Metakineo from Meta and Kineo: Be stirred to go to another place, remove

The other day as I was praying for the Lord to speak to me, my mind wondered to when I was a thirteen year old playing left field in what was called Pony League Baseball. A ball was hit very high and hard into left field. I raced back looking over my shoulder to track the ball. I turn one way, then the other. I stopped, waiting to catch the ball, then saw that I had raced to deep and the ball was falling in front of me. I raced in and on the run caught the ball before it hit the ground. It was the third out of the inning so I continued running in to the players bench. My coach said, “Way to go, kid. You really stayed with it”. I then realized that was the word of the Lord to me, “Stay with it.” God speaks to us in so mamy different ways. He is a good Father.

So, that is now the word of the Lord to you, “Stay with it”.  Stay with your dream, your vision, the promise you received, the word of the Lord that came to you previously. Don’t be “moved away from the hope” within you. Let that resonate in your spirit, “Stay with it.”

Are you being stirred to go to another place? What circumstance is stirring you to move away from the hope that is within you. Things are not happening as you envisioned them? Your expectations are not being met? Obtacles are in your way? People are not cooperating with the plan?

Did Abraham give up on his hope?

“As it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’, before Him whom he believed, even God who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were.  Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, ‘So thall your seed be’. And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither the deadness of Sarah’s womb.  He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.  It was, therefore, imputed to him for righteousness” (Romans 4:17-22).

Abraham was able to Stay With It because of his faith which never wavered, was not stirred to move away from his steadfast hope in the promise of God. That is why he is called the Father of Faith.

The writer to the Hebrews speaks to us, thusly:

“Cast not away, therefore, your confidence which has great recompense of reward. You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:35-36).

Stay With It. Do not lose your confidence. Stay with your faith, your hope, your confession. It was true before and will be true to the end, regardless of the delay, obstructions, waiting, frustrations, and challenges. God is faithful and “able to perform it”.

The Apostle Peter could have stayed with it as he walked on the water, but was moved away from faith when he took his eyes off Jesus and saw the waves and began to sink into the water.

“Immediately, Jesus stretched forth His hand and caught Peter, and said to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?'” (Matthew 14:31).

Why are you doubting? Stay With It. It is going to happen if you are not moved away to another place, another situation, another person. You have too much to gain, then to cast it all away now. Pass the test for patience, and receive your great reward.

Stay With It. Then hear your Father say, “Way to go, kid”!

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