From Ravens to Camels - Shifting From Surviving to Thriving

 This is your time to shift from "Ravens to Camels":

God is shifting his people from surviving to thriving.  

A ‘Raven' situation is looking for a one-time miracle that reminds you that you are still in famine.   Example: as Elijah the prophet experienced at the brook Kerith and with the widow of Zarephath during the famine of 3 years he had decreed by the Word of the Lord.   Ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening and he drank from the brook.   Eventually, that provision dried up and the Lord directed Him to Zarephath to a widow (someone not of Israel-God's covenant people) through whom He also provided bread miraculously, both for Elijah and the widow and her son, for the rest of the famine.

A ‘Camel' situation is looking for a long-term solution for you and those around you where we learn to draw from "the Bank of Heaven", God's riches in glory provided for us in Christ, through which He supernaturally supplies every need we face.    A 'Camel' situation is a long-term solution because camels move together in long caravans through desert places; BUT!   those camel caravans are always loaded down with an abundance of varied items, foods, goods, valuable treasures and gifts that stretch throughout the long caravan.  

God our Father is offering 'camel' solutions that will take us into provision that is ongoing, developing, increasing, abundant and full of variety and which stretches out long-term across any and every desert time or survival mentality that surrounds us.    God is asking each of us as His children to look at what He has placed in us and to ask Him how to practically begin to develop, explore, step out in faith and attempt to use the various gifts He has created us with.    Other items in the 'caravan' may be relationships, connections, experiences, ideas (flowing by inspiration from the Mind of Christ in us) and the experiences and discoveries others have made in similar situations.

Listen for God's voice in all the areas of interaction, communication and interest He brings across your path...you just might be staring a camel in the eye that is loaded
with divine blessing and provision for you and your family, your current needs in business and work environments, or ministry support...and that camel is just the first one in a loooooonnnnngggg CARAVAN from the courts of Heaven where Psalm 36 tells us we are always invited to feast on the abundance of His House and drink freely from the River of His delights:

5Your unfailing love, O  Lord, is as vast as the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
6Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the ocean depths.
You care for people and animals alike, O  Lord.
7How precious is your unfailing love, O  God!
All humanity finds shelter
in the shadow of your wings.
8You feed them from the abundance of your own house,
letting them drink from your river of delights.
9For you are the fountain of life,
the light by which we see.

Do you see your camel caravan coming into view?   If you can see it in your spirit in the Unseen realm  (II Cor. 4:16-18), if you can picture what it might look like for you, you can reach out by the hand of faith and take hold of it as God's varied means of provision for you and bring it into the the earthly realm of your need  (Heb. 11:1, 5-6).    As we begin to experience our heavenly camel solutions coming into view and beginning to take shape in our lives and hearts and circumstances, our gracious, generous, loving and lavish Father will expect us to be open to being a channel of testimony and blessing to others' in their need for encouragement and renewed faith for thriving by sharing and giving freely as we have received...THAT WAY the caravan keeps on extending across every life, family, situation, need, circumstance, ministry and Kingdom community, no matter what is happening in the earthly economic realm around us.

Our Father will still use His 'ravens'  (read:  'angelic and miraculous help') at times as His long-term strategies are being prepared for us, but the times we are living in require more than miracles of immediate help and provision.    We are living in times similar to Joseph and Daniel's situations that require Heaven's supernatural gifts of divinely inspired thinking, wisdom and long-term/camel solutions and strategies that enable us to THRIVE rather than just SURVIVE!