Egypt or Canaan
Lord help me walk in Your ways, I want to please You above all.
(Back to the giants in the land of milk and honey in which we are to possess.)
Egypt, everything we hold onto or want to go back to which enslaves us.Canaan, everything we move into to possess as an inheritance which frees us. Moses sent leaders of the tribes of Israel to spy on the land.They returned with pomegranates and figs and a cluster of grapes on a pole so heavy and large it took two to carry it. But....to claim the land there was a catch - to overcome fear of giants and take claim or to give into the fear and fall short. Thank God for people like Caleb, who see with eyes and a heart that says 'I CAN DO It' and help us 'see', 'WE CAN DO THIS!'
Numbers 13: 27 They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan." 30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it." 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
As we walk into a blessing it is inevitable that fear should rob us of the blessing ahead. What a lush land, everything we need to live an abundant life! And if we don't take our stand to walk into it and overcome the fear, who will do it for us? We cannot look or listen to any defeated attitudes. Some of our best friends and family and leaders could pull us down in our confidence, smash our paradigm and skew our perception of who we are. How can we overcome? The law was not perfect, but His love is perfect. And perfect love casts out all fear.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
So, go into the land which He has given you to possess and where you foot is there you will be blessed, claim it. A beautiful land, flowing with milk and honey.
Video & Song 'Heart of Worship'
Matt Redman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PH-snsXw1as&feature=related
Another without the words:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=30zlCcUfZfc&feature=related
Beautiful Creation!
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