It is a fact that you can never have two homes. Just as how you can never serve two masters, it's either God or the devil...so, it's either heaven or hell.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24
A home is more than a place where you live, that is the definition of a house. There is a reason hosts tell their guests "make yourself at home" meaning, make yourself comfortable.
Your home is the place where you are most comfortable. A place where you can be yourself without being judged.
Therefore, when God is about to move you, your current environment will start to feel UNCOMFORTABLE or more uncomfortable then usual.
I have had this experience once in my life, at my first and last job. I had been working at this place for almost three years and after I got baptized, the Lord showed me in a dream that I would leave this job for ministry but at that time I had no full understanding of dreams, so I did not know what it meant.
A few weeks later, I heard my boss, who I thought loved me, talking behind my back. I was surprised considering how they would make me work overtime without being paid for it and how they would sometimes call me late at nights to design things for them for FREE. I could not understand how I heard this because I never heard it before that day nor did I hear it again after.
Now, of course, it was impossible to feel comfortable in that place afterwards. That one day gave me the push I needed to finally leave. It was shortly after that I left and became a full time entrepreneur and although there were ups and downs in business, I have been living my best life.
From this one instance, I noticed that there are times when God will protect you from the fire but sometimes He'll allow you to be thrown in the fire, long enough for you to realize that is not where you should stay.
The children of Israel got their taste of the fire. They became slaves in a place where their forefathers took up residence; a place they once called home.
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. Genesis 46:5-7
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. Exodus 1:8-11
Many of us do not know our worth or where we belong. We do not know the promises of God for our lives, like the children of Israel at this time. The promise of abundance was made to Abraham and the generations that kept that promise alive, died out.
Sometimes God has to remind us of His plans due to our own ignorance. And because His ways are not our ways, this reminder may not look like how we want it to. Sometimes God will put us in situations so that we can say "I do not like this", "there has to be better".
Because if we refuse to speak over our situation, God cannot send help.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exodus 2:23-25
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. Exodus 3:1-2
And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:4
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. Exodus 3:7-10
Don't stay in a situation longer than you should. If God instructs you to leave a place, be obedient. If He has not given you such an instruction, it is because He is at work behind the scenes, endure until He says otherwise, because you should also not leave a situation before time.
A lot of us were innocently thrown into dangerous situations because of something our parents or grandparents did or said. Saul is a good example. Saul, during his reign killed the Gibeonites and because of that his remaining children and grandchildren died.
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. 2 Samuel 21:1
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. 2 Samuel 21:6-9
A lot of people and places in our lives are just for transition. You are only there to learn some things and that's it. Kind of like a bus stop; a place where you wait for your ride to get to your next stop.
Egypt was a place a refuge. In times of famine, people would journey to Egypt for food. Egypt was meant to be a temporary place for the children of Israel. The promise land was meant to be their home. If the children of Israel did not become slaves, they probably would have made Egypt their permanent residence but that was not God's will for them. God needed to give them that push. He needed to bring them low enough, so they could cry out, so they understood that there was indeed better for them.
The reason your environment is suddenly becoming uncomfortable is because God does not want you to take up permanent residence in a place that is only supposed to act as an Airbnb. He does not want you to become attached to a place or it's people because that would make it harder for you to leave when He says it's time to go.
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