Come Up Higher!

“Beloved! Come up higher!  I have more for you.” 

Tommy Tenney says that God is calling you to a higher level of commitment.  Forget the plans you made for yourself.  Die to self.  (Jer. 50:14)

Claim your upgrade.  Perhaps you have been asked to move from the normal section of the airplane and have been upgraded to First Class.  Would you refuse the upgrade?  Come and accept a move to the upper level. 

Is 40:31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint. 

Eagles fly higher than any other creature.  As they catch the wind, it carries them even higher.  The eagles’ eyes are sharper and keener than any other.  Eagles are discerning.  Eagles know just how to make the wind currents work for them and they have the highest view of all that is happening below them. 

IS 43:18-19 Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.   Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 

As we embrace the beginnings of a new year, 2025, a powerful message from God resonates: God is urging us to embrace the new beginnings that lie ahead.  There are new dreams, new visions, new beginnings and new adventures with the Lord ahead of us.  But as Paul says in Phil.3:13-14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things with are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 

There it is “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God!”  God is calling us to come up higher.  This will require us unloading some of the baggage we have held onto for years.  Do we have hurtful words stored in our memory banks, unforgiveness, shame, unrepentant hearts, wounds and other heavy memories?  Our Lord says to cast our care on Him.  That will certainly lighten our load and set us free to accept the call to come up higher with Him. We can’t take the next step higher if we are loaded down with the burdens of the past. 

Accept the upward call of God.  Accept the upgrade.

There is an interesting story in the Bible in Judges 1:14 and Joshua 15:15-19.  Caleb’s daughter Achsah was offered as a pawn by her father.  She was offered in marriage to the man who could attack and capture Kiriath Sepher.  Caleb’s nephew Othniel captured Kiriath Sepher and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah in marriage to him.  One day she asked her father for a blessing.  She asked for the upper and lower springs of water on the field that he gave to them.  She knew she had her father’s favor and she did not see herself as a victim but as an heir of her father, a favored heir.  She had every reason to have the attitude of a victim.  But she had the attitude of an heir.  What if she asked only for the lower springs then the upper area would have been dry and unusable.  We can’t receive an upper springs inheritance with a lower springs mindset. 

Understand who you are in Christ.

“Come up higher!”  This is a word that has the power to pull you into the more God has for you.  We must know that we are heirs in Christ.  Rom. 8:17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory