Leaving the Place Called Stuck: Launching into Your New Season

By Dr. April Griseta

Are you stuck in your life journey and want to move forward? Do you want to learn why you are stuck and how to get out?

Come and explore the following:

The whys of procrastination

The secondary gains for staying in stuck

The forces of darkness thwarting your destiny

The spiritual paralysis binding you

The ungodly mindsets entrapping you

Leaving the Place Called Stuck is a book to awaken the bride of Christ out of her slumber. In this new awakening, she will be propelled into her God-given destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685702137

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Chapter 1

What Kind of Stuck Is It?

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them (Deut.1:2–3 NKJV).

The Unbelief Stuck

The children of Israel were supposed to go to the promised land, but most died off in the wilderness. They never received their promise, and it was not God’s fault. They had unrepentant hearts; they chronically complained and were lawless at times. Their hard-heartedness and unbelief kept them in the place called stuck.

While it is said: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. For whom, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So, we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief." (Heb. 3:15–19 NKJV)

People who are stuck often have a tendency to blame everyone else for their demise. The children of Israel were always blaming Moses and not believing God’s Word. They chose not to reflect on God’s goodness even though He always provided for them. They were not happy with God’s provision of manna and quail, and they were certainly not happy with Moses’s leadership.

Their discontentment came from within. They wanted their own will more than God’s will for their lives. So they walked in fear and grumbling rather than the peace that surpasses understanding. The Word tells us, Without faith it is impossible to please God (see Heb. 11:6 NKJV), and there is no peace for the wicked (see Isa. 48:22 NKJV). It is a wicked heart that has chosen not to believe God after He has spoken. It is an evil heart of unbelief.

The Israelites did not want to own up to their shortcomings and always looked to transfer blame. This unfortunately caused more skirting around the mountain (if you will). How often do we skirt around major issues in hopes they will go away, and how often do we blame others for our own stuff? Nevertheless, God was longsuffering toward them. He is the God of many chances.

The children of Israel refused to look at their own stuff. Moses would become their perfect scapegoat. He was the humblest man on the face of the planet. He would seem to be an easy target to bully. I don’t think they had the full realization that to buck Moses was to buck God. Moses was His appointed leader and the one privy to speak to God face-to-face as one does a friend.

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God (Rom. 13:1 NKJV).

You know what is really surprising? The children of Israel saw God’s miraculous power. He delivered them out of slavery, parted the Red Sea before their eyes, and led them by a literal cloud and fire. Yet in all this, they wanted to run back to bondage and refused to listen to God’s voice.

The Word says, Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (see 1 Samuel 15:23). I thought to myself, How can that be? Then the answer came—rebellion is witchcraft because there is a conjuring involved to invoke your own will over God’s will and the will of others. There is a trickery contained in it. Do you know that witches use spells and even good wishes to manipulate outcomes?

The children of Israel, so rooted in rebellion, erected a golden calf and gave it the credit for their liberty. Is there no fear of God? They hid accursed goods and outright disobeyed direct commands. They even brought back evil reports instead of the report of the Lord. Their hearts were full of