The Promised Land - Canaan
As we walk along the Christian road following Jesus, there are many truths that we need to understand.
Possessing the Promised Land is a process. As we begin exploring how to enter the Promise Land, it important to find truths that will cause us to change from the inside out. It is only then that the ground that we gain will be growth that will remain.
Jesus came to give us life and that more abundantly. His promise is for all.
This week we will discover how renewing the mind, obedience, and warfare are important steps to conquering your own personal Canaan and entering into the Promised Land.
Deuteronomy 6:23-25 tells us:
“And He brought us out from thence, that He might bring us in, to give us the land which He sware unto our fathers. And the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He hath commanded us.”
God has brought us out of the world to bring us into the promised land. This is a place of spritual victory.
Verses 24-25 tells us that we cross over into our promised land by observing to do all His commandments. Observing means to pay close attention to. To look at something with observation. When we take heed to his word and follow his commandments then victory and success is what He has for us. Obedience to His will is key.
Deuteronomy 7:1 says,
“When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations befoe thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou.”
The Hebrew word for “possess” means “to occupy by driving out the previous tenants and possessing in their place, to seize, cast out, expel.”
Beginning this journey into the Promised Land begins in the mind. in the thought life. As we obey Romans 12 present ourselves as living sacrifices, wholly and acceptable to God and take time to renew our minds according to His Word. we walk on the road to victory.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 says:
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself agains the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
We must pull down the strongholds in our minds and cast down all unrenewed, unscriptural, ungodly thoughts that are there. Remember Jesus told us to take up our cross daily and follow Him.
Begin today to renew your mind according to the Word. The Bible tells us that His thoughts are not our thoughts. We have so many opinions. It’s time to look deep into God’s Word and make His truth our opinion.
Allow Him to take you through the process of change and be on your way into your Promised Land.
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