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But sometimes the uncomfortableness you feel is God doing a new thing but destroying the old thing to make room. It is god yanking away our complacency to motivate us to move forward. It is God saying, “Let’s go the promised land. You have been in the desert too long.”
Are you stuck? When God called the children of Israel out of Egypt, they left with great expectations. They had plundered their enemy with a simple ask, and set off toward their promised land. It was going to be marvelous. They were excited. They were expectant….Until trouble came their way. As soon as life got difficult they began to look back. They romanticized their past. They longed for the days...
The children of Israel had been in captivity for 70 years. God commanded them to prosper in their captivity. Now, they are headed home, back to their land. If you think about it, this generation returning had only known captivity. So going back to their promised land was scary, full of the unknown, some may have preferred to stay in captivity, after all, it was all they knew. Now, they...
It had been forty years since their last attempt to enter the promised land. But now was their time. Now was their season. What changed in forty years? God was still the same God. The God who promised to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, who had promised to deliver the inhabitants of the land into their hands, 40 years prior was the same. God had not...
Growing up, we sang a song with lyrics, “Let’s go up to the mountain. I’ve been in the valley too long.” Have you been in the valley? Depressed, discouraged, sick? Perhaps you are waiting for your circumstance to change. You are waiting for the child to return home, the marriage to get better, the job to come, the healing to happen. So you dwell in the valley. Waiting. Walking around...
God commanded the people, “Take possession of the land I have given you.” It was a land flowing with milk and honey. Huge fruit was in the land. The land was to be their refuge, thier place of rest. The only problem was before they found rest, they would need to fight. Fight giants. They measured themselves against the giants. They did not measure the giants against their God. Fear...
Joshua was about to take the job of a lifetime. He had trained well under the greatest leaders ever known. It had fallen upon his shoulders to take a wandering nation into the promised land. He knew he would face giants in the land but also the people he was leading had a reputation of moaning, groaning and rebelling. As he stood that day, a rebellious people behind him, giants...
“Moses, my servant is dead!” This was not news to Joshua, for they had mourned Moses’ death for thirty days. But it was a proclamation to Joshua. A proclamation to stop mourning what was and to anticipate what was about to come. Moses had lead well. The Bible tells us there had never been a prophet like Moses who God knew faced to face, or who had performed the miracles...
We hear our friends and speakers tell their stories. “Instantly I was healed.” “Suddenly a door opened.” “Immediately, my breakthrough came.” While those stories are told to impart faith, they can sometimes leave us feeling hopeless, unloved, undeserving when God does not answer us instantly, suddenly, immediately. I can tell you of a season in my life when suddenly our income increased dramatically. But that story would not be complete...
What we see is powerful! Jacob made a deal with Laban that he would be paid with all the black, streaked and spotted sheep. So when Laban’s herd mated, Jacob set before them streaked and black flock. The herd reproduced what they saw – streaked, spotted and black sheep. What do you see? Envision your promise coming to pass. Envision yourself doing what God has promised. See it! Let your...