There is a journey beyond salvation. When you are in bondage in Egypt, and you get saved, you are meant to leave Egypt and all its ways behind and move into the promises of God. It’s a journey. It’s the process of sanctification. It’s transformative. It is meant to challenge you so that you can grow spiritually and break free of all the sins, sorrows, and burdens that are holding you back from living the abundant life you were created to live.
This doesn’t just apply to individuals. Nations, too, are supposed to move from the bondage of Egypt to the blessings of the Promised Land.
The Divide
This is a word from the Lord I released on January 27, 2021:
As part of the church chooses to cower in darkness and ignorance, double-mindedness and spiritual erraticness has plagued them. There is a significant part of the church that is being shaken awake, who cannot operate in the address of oblivion anymore. They shall cry for holiness, repentance, renewing their covenants with God and standing in a boldness and power that shall make the corrupt visibly uneasy, including the corrupt in the church. The Korahs who are attempting to cause large deviations from the Word in their foolishness, thinking they have a better way than Moses, that those standing bold in their faith have no ability to lead, causing themselves to become an opponent of the will of God, shall find themselves at enmity with Me, the Lord their God. They shall attempt to lead astray back to the comforts of Egypt, for it is not the Spirit of the Lord leading them. For this you shall see what they have built, their churches gut wide open, and what has been festering underneath. I, the Lord, will make the matter plain, and from this, the public cries of holiness and sanctification shall become even louder. For I, the Lord your God, have the measuring rod in my hand and I am dropping upon both the leadership of this nation and the church. Events shall unfold simultaneously, for some have been holding hands in the dark. And now I, the Lord, shall bring it into the light, including the funneling of funds. Churches shall even be exposed for funneling money to terrorist groups, and so have funded their sprees of destruction and terror.
In the body of Christ today, I see people who are still in Egypt judging those who are already living in the Promised Land. Those who are stuck in dry places are judging the rivers of living water flowing from someone else. If you’re still in Egypt, you have no idea what the Promised Land looks like or how it operates. If you are in a dry place and you are willingly staying there, how could you ever correctly judge what rivers of living water are supposed to look like?
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This is not a new war. The battle to leave Egypt behind and move into the Promised Land has been going on for thousands of years. But I am seeing a new operation at work in the church—those who are still in the dry places of Egypt are attempting to sabotage those already in the Promised Land, flowing with rivers of living water.
This is a great divide in the church.
We are living in a time when it is necessary—even vital—to move out of Egypt. In this season every member of the body of Christ needs to move out of the dry places and toward the Promised Land. In order to do that, we must exalt the knowledge of God in our minds above all other knowledge.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
—2 Corinthians 10:4–5, NKJV
The knowledge of God has to be exalted above everything else in your mind in order for your vision to be expanded.
The church’s vision has become too narrow and one-dimensional. In order for the Lord to expand your territory, He must first expand your vision and get you to come into agreement with His plan. Your vision should come from the Lord, not from your own mind and heart.
In the middle of fighting a multidimensional war that crosses multiple realms, part of the church has built nothing more than a paper-doll fort as its defense against the sophisticated weapons the kingdom of darkness deploys. Their minds have not been renewed and transformed, and are not protected by the Word of God. Instead of meditating on the Word and writing it on their hearts, the Word goes in one ear and out the other—if it even goes in at all.
The enemy launches intense attacks and warfare against your mind because your mind controls your thoughts, and your thoughts determine who you are, how you act, how you speak, and so on. Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” If the enemy can get you to exalt your problems instead of dwelling on God’s promises, to focus on how you are feeling rather than what is true, to get you consumed by doubt instead of fueled by faith, then he can block your vision from being expanded. By getting you to exalt your problem above the knowledge of God, he has lured you into idolatry—and idolatry blocks vision.
The body of Christ must have expanded vision. We must be the Caleb-and-Joshua generation—our vision has to go beyond what we physically see. We need to have heaven’s perspective if we are going to effectively navigate the season we are facing.
Mind of Christ
First Corinthians 2:16 says, “We have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].” That’s where expanding your vision for the plans and purposes of God starts, with getting Jesus’ thoughts and plans into your mind and heart—but you have to be willing. Philippians 2:5 says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (NKJV). You need to allow Jesus to change your mindset and make it more and more like His.
The Word of God is a key component in this process. The journey from Egypt to the Promised Land includes the process of sanctification. As Scripture tells us, “Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God], so that [in turn] He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless” (Eph. 5:25–27).
So what is the mind of Christ? What does that mindset look like?
Even though Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords, He was also a servant. We need to have a mindset to serve. We are heirs through the covenant, but we are also servants through the covenant. That mindset will keep you walking in humility. “Through love serve and seek the best for one another,” for “it is the Lord Christ whom you [actually] serve” (Gal. 5:13; Col. 3:24).
It doesn’t matter whether you like your boss—bless your boss anyway. Say thank you for the privilege of working. Having that kind of mindset moves your ego out of the way. It puts you in the correct heart posture, positions you for promotion, and expands your vision. It removes the sense of entitlement and opens a path for you to obtain a greater territory.
Entitlement is like the devil’s virtual reality, causing you to believe you should have something for which the Lord has not opened the door. Entitlement puts you in opposition to God’s plan and gets you stuck on coveting what you think you should have, not what the Lord has willed for you to have.
Your mindset and your actions are forces and will draw people to you like a magnet—either people who are stumbling blocks sent on assignment from the kingdom of darkness to keep you on the wrong path, or people who will help elevate you and propel you down the path the Lord has for you.
The mind of Christ is also a mindset of grace. Grace is the Lord pouring an ability into us that equips us to endure and carry what we could not carry on our own. Grace is also the evidence that judgment is present, just as thunder is the announcement that lightning will strike. Thunder is grace warning you to take cover, use wisdom, and move out of the path of the storm.
Romans 12:2–3 (NKJV) says:
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
If you are conformed to the world, so is your mind. Your mind is conformed to the thinking, the mindset, and the ways of the world. Once your mind turns in that direction, so does your life, and the enemy can then stifle the expansion of your territory.
The Bible contains a collection of mindsets, and you need wisdom to choose the one you will embrace, because it will shape your life. The Bible is the living, active Word of God, and it has the power to impact every generation.
So what is your mindset? Are you letting the world define who you are, or are you letting God define who you are? Are you walking by faith, or are you walking by sight? Are you focused on your feelings, or are you fueled by your faith? Are you consumed by problems, or are you standing on promises?
Our Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10). He is ever present (Ps. 46:1). “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” (Ps. 24:1, KJV). We are made in His image (Gen. 1:26). We were bought with the highest price by the blood of Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 6:20). “By His stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5, NKJV). Man does not live by bread alone but “by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4, MEV). These things are the mind of Christ. These are the things that should shape your mindset.
The passion to continue in the face of adversity is a mindset. The determination to be an overcomer is a mindset. The decision to fully submit and surrender to the Lord and His way of doing things is a mindset. The decision to exercise discipline in all areas of your life—mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially—is a mindset.
All of these mindsets impact you in the spirit, which then affects the natural.
Why do you think the enemy has tailored and sculpted TV, radio, music, social media, other forms of entertainment, and AI to infiltrate the deepest parts of the mind?
Control the mind, and you control the generation.
We are facing giants in the land. The kingdom of darkness has been building altars and claiming territory. The position of the church within a nation determines how advantageous a position the kingdom of darkness is able to secure in that nation, which is why the enemy just loves lukewarm churches. Lukewarm churches are complacent, allowing the forces of darkness to easily advance. That is why the church needs vision. The church needs to be listening to the voice of the Lord in this hour. The church needs the right mindset to get into alignment with the plans and purposes of almighty God, so we can tear down those altars and take back the territory the enemy has stolen.
Amanda Grace is the founder of Ark of Grace Ministries, a prophetic voice with a fast-growing online presence. Her YouTube teachings reach hundreds of thousands of viewers monthly, and she is a frequent guest on Christian television and digital networks such as Elijah Streams, The Victory Channel, and Charisma Media platforms. Her new book, Brace for Impact, is available on Amazon.com.
