You need faith to possess the land that you have yet to conquer. Have you have tried to possess the land in your mind or physically? If your answer is yes, did you see giants in the land? I have seen loads of giants in my own land as I let my mind roam over the land that I have to possess. I was about to give up for fear of the giants when I was reminded that giants are a normal part of the land that needs to be conquered. However, the land is ours; God has given it to us as a gift and He means for us to possess it.
The giants could be several different things; it could be little or no money for investments in a business, little or no skill to achieve a God given desire, negative medical report which is contrary to the word/promise of God, words of man that deliberately limit one from attaining unto heights that God ordained, fears in our hearts that keep us from the promises of God and such like. These are real or appear very real but in the same way the giants are real, the word of God is even more real. Caleb and his team of men actually saw giants in the land they went to spy out hence their report below.
Numbers 13: 32-33 NLT “the land we travelled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”
The key to success or failure however, is what we see and/or focus on. To possess the land of promise, we need to see only with our eyes of faith. We need to look beyond reality to what God is going to do in that situation which would be clearly expressed in His word. The word of God is God which makes it more real than any other reality. If we cannot see ourselves possessing the land despite the giants, we, most likely, would not possess the land. The only reason the children of Israel ended up possessing the land of Canaan was because in the midst of the team of men sent to spy out the land, there were some men that could see beyond reality which was reflected in their own report below.
Numbers 14: 8 – 9 NLT “if the Lord is pleased with us, He will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey. Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”
Faith gives reality to that word from God. When trials and tests come to remind you and I of the giants and make them even bigger than you thought, like Joyce Meyer says in one of her sermons I heard recently, “don’t’ run to the phone, run to the throne”. The reminder is meant to also cause fear which ultimately prevents us from possessing that which is ours.
It takes a little faith to please God & to enter into his promised land... 12 saw the land 10 said they are giants & only 2 believed... All 12 had seen what Lord had & could do for them, all 12 were given the same instruction to search the land, all 12 saw the goodness of the land, all 12 saw the giants but only 2 believe God IS bigger than any giant.
ReplyDeleteTherein lies the secret to success. Key word secret... I recently heard a word that has changed me, the only reason we KNOW that God is GOD, is because we do not know his secret.. Think about it, if you knew what made him God you would be God too. He kills, he makes alive, he blesses, he curses, in HIS time all things are made beautiful..
It about him.
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Refreshing read! Thank you for sharing,Sis. Clearly, with faith and by the Grace of God, one can go from; bitter to better, problems to possibilities, trials to testimonies, a victim to a victor, a setback to a setup, and last but not the least from adversity to university of lesson learned. So, we say it prophetically "We shall possess the land."
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Pastor B! In 2011, my Faith MUST kill the giants in Jesus Christ name! Amen!I WILL conquer the land given to me this year. I just will to the glory of God's name!
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe you are real.Are you? Bemigho Omayuku. Are yoo=u for real? I need someone like o=you in my life....someone real......
ReplyDeleteoh i am real, so very real with all my challenges and fears but as the bible says "thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph.
ReplyDeleteI know for certain that with faith, nothing shall be impossible becasue God says so. Amazingly, all we need is faith as a mustard seed.
Interestingly, when i think of faith, mustard seed appears really big in my mind though i know it is a very small seed. It just seems so difficult to get even that mustard seed faith but this year, we shall not only be full of faith, we shall conquer our land by the grace of God.
i am glad we have a God that is bigger and more powerful than any giant that has ever been known and will ever be known.