1. BELIEVING GOD FOR YOUR PROMISED LAND

1. BELIEVING GOD FOR YOUR PROMISED LAND

Isaiah 43.10

Joshua 1:1-3; 3:1-5 – Consecrate yourselves for the Lord is about to be wonderful. God is about to reveal to you your Promised Land. God wants to position you in a deeper, more powerful place, where you are operating under a greater anointing of His Spirit than ever before. God is going to call you to an even greater and deeper faith than those who are earlier in their walk.

Genesis 15:18-21 – God cuts covenant with Abram. You can expect in advance that the enemy is sitting on the territory that I am about to give you.

Galatians 3:26-29 – Land is extremely important in the concepts of God’s Word. God wants to bring us victory wherever we step our feet in His name. God has given us a Promised Land; it’s a place He wants to take us, a place we are going to stand our feet at any given season of our lives, and He would give us that ground.

1 & 2 - Just as the Israelites Promised Land was on this planet for their lifetimes, so are ours. Where His promises are in His Word that is toward you, what is made directly and indirectly toward us, what does not apply to us at all.

We do a whole lot of talking, but our walk doesn’t look much like our talk. We have come to a place where we believe it’s basically theory, and something we will finally live out in heaven. It is true that heaven is the final reality, but we also have a Promised Land here on earth as well. These are your promises, your assurances, things that you are to know, victories that you are to have. The world knows when it is real and when a reality matches a theology. This is what the world is waiting for. The Word of God says that we have been chosen, blessed, supernaturally empowered, and profoundly gifted. This is your destiny as a believer in Christ; victory and authenticity in the Word of God.

3a – John 15:1-11 – At least 36 times in the Old Testament it talks about the people of God possessing the land. There are things in our Promised Land God wants us to possess.

John 15:7 – We are to possess Christ’s words in us. The logos is all of God’s Word; rhema is God’s specific words. When His Word abides in us, it is quicker on our tongue than anything else could possibly be in a time of crisis. Part of your destiny in Christ is that you would have a powerful prayer life. We are to pray within the will of God. We will see an explosion of answered prayer in our lives.

Our Promised Land will be a joy for us. God wants to bless you if you obediently follow Him. It is purpose in our lives. God is looking to see “Can I trust you with what I want to do with you?”

We see someone that we really believe is operating in the promises of God, and they are really beginning to see that their reality is starting to merge with their theology, and we sit back and whine and wish, instead of believing and receiving. All of the blessings of Christ are for every child of God.

3b – Deuteronomy 4:37-38 – We are the spiritual seed of Abraham. God has an inheritance for you, not only one waiting in heaven. He has an earthly inheritance that He wants you to receive from Him to operate on this earth.

Deuteronomy 7:7-9 – We are the ongoing generations of the seed of Abraham. The abiding place is all about the love of God.

3c – Deuteronomy 8:7-8 – God is not going to take you to a place where it is not good land, but He is going to define “good” differently than you are.

John 15:8 – If you are in Christ, it is to His glory that your life brings forth a major harvest that will come forth with the greatest abundance in the place that will become your Promised Land. That is where you begin to see your theology merge with reality.

Ephesians 2:10 – God fitted you for this particular generation. We are created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Ephesians 1:18-19 – There is an inheritance as a joint-heir of Christ assigned to this planet, in this particular dispensation for you now. Hope means anxious expectation. God is not about to force our calling and our productivity on any of us. We want to fulfill that calling which is in our Promised Land. That is where your heart, soul, and mind will be satisfied.

Hebrews 3:7-18 – Rebellion always involves a hard heart. We could live our whole believing lives through and never make it to the Promised Land. God insists that you cooperate with Him. The number one hindrance to our calling becoming a reality is unbelief. Jesus says “My bride is paralyzed by unbelief.” Revival always happens by faith.

4. We don’t sit back and receive conquests; we go forward and take them. God gives us the thrill of participating. There is so much more to see and experience in the life of Christ. There is a pretty side of church; there are some that are sound asleep in the faith. This is about hiking. Put aside the pretty shoes and wake up!

5. Joshua 3:5 – Get your enemy off of your Promised Land.

6. Learn the lifestyle of believing God. Trust Him to do something staggering in your life. Faith is what closes the gap between our reality and our theology.

Numbers 15:37-41 – I am the Lord your God. Step up your level of sanctification, believe God, couple it with a fresh sanctification, and ask God to make Joshua 3:5 a reality in the immediacy of our experience.

SHIELD OF FAITH:

1. God is who He says He is.

2. God can do what He says he can do.

3. I am who God says I am.

4. I can do all things through Christ.

5. God’s Word is alive and active in me.

Pray that God transforms your noun into verbs of believing.

I’m believing God!