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Come and get it! |
20 Oct 11 |
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So many want to hear about what you’ve come out of – yeah tell me about
the drugs and sex and how you got released from all that stuff. There is
a place for that but I really want to tell them what I’ve come in to.
See, most Christians are content to have come out of Egypt. They are happy to have been saved, to have crossed through the Red Sea. And that is great, but that is not the end of the story, that’s a beginning. After the Red Sea comes the desert. But after that there is a place called Canaan. The promised land. Most Christians are not speaking from the promised land because they never reached it! They are still going round and around in the desert. They are saved but they are struggling. They have nothing good to say about the now so they talk instead about the then – for example what happened in Red Sea experiences of yesterday. See, if you are speaking from the promised land you talk differently. When you know you are living in a city you did not build and eating from a land you did not cultivate and drinking from a vineyard you did not plant (Josh 24:13), you are not so concerned about what the doctor or the lawyer or bank manager says over you, you are more concerned about what the one who brought you to Canaan has spoken over you. We came upon a simple truth: God never intended us to stay in the desert either physically or metaphorically. Check it out - God never planned for the children of Israel to stay in the desert but to pass through it and enter the promised land – what the New Testament calls ‘His rest’ – the place where everything was prepared for them. The only reason they stayed in the desert was because they did not believe that God was able to care for them in the promised land. (Num 13:30-) Many Christians are still in the desert and it’s tough in the desert. But the worst thing you can do is say that God has a purpose for you staying there – that is like blaming God for where you are or saying you’d be better off back in Egypt. The fact is He brought you out of Egypt in order to bring you in to Canaan. That was always His plan. If you’ve not entered it yet then it’s time to get moving. We speak about believing and receiving what God has prepared for us, we talk about victory because God intended us to be victorious. Come and get it! |
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Dave Scott-Morgan |
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