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Week 147.2 - Faith For Provision: Reason #16: The Promised Land - II (Tue)
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I've got the victory living inside of me I got the greater one I can overcome this ain't no time to turn back no bless the cross back I gotta keep pressing on Till every battle is wonder Good morning, class. Hi, I'm Keith Moore, and we welcome you to Faith School. Faith School is the place where my spirit is fed, where my faith grows stronger, and where I learn how to be an overcomer. The reason we say things like this is Scripture tells us that the Lord is the apostle and high priest of our confession. The Lord our Lord works with what we say in our life. Words matter. In fact, the enemy has wrong spirits to try to listen to you and follow you around and catch you in what you say, words that they can use against you. We should watch what's coming out of our mouth. It really, really matters. The proverb says life and death is in the power of the tongue. And so when we say words of fear filled words, doubt filled words, all this kind of stuff, cursing, cursing, profanity, all that kind of stuff, that's not just manners or not nice. The reason why it jars you when you hear some of these words is because they have spiritual content. And it's not good, it's bad stuff. When somebody is purposely trying to slander somebody, hurt somebody with words. The enemy is involved in that. Wrong spirits. And we're told that we're not to let any corrupt communication come out of our mouth. None, but only that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. And so the Lord wants you and I to be the opposite of the ungodly world. Instead of cussing and slandering and trying to hurt somebody and run somebody down, we put into people. Hallelujah. Words that build up, words that make you stronger, words that comfort you, console you, relieve you, heal you. Hallelujah. Deliver you. So, Father, we ask for such words today, for myself to minister, and for all of us as we go about our day, that we may speak youk words that yout spirit, you, angels, you, power, may affect them and confirm them and bring them to pass. We ask for the utterance, the anointing, the revelation, the direction. In Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Say it out. I refuse to speak evil words, words of death, words that harm. I speak words of faith, words of love, words of peace, words of joy, words of life come out of my mouth. Hallelujah. Speak that over yourself. You know, if you get up in the middle of the night and stump your toe on something in the dark. You do not go into a tirade of cussing. Blankety. Blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. Well, how bad do you want your toe to hurt? Why curse it when it's already got a problem? If we were smart, what would we do? I bless you toe. I bless you toe. Be healed, Be healed. Toe telling you this is this. I know we're laughing, but this is serious. This makes all the difference in the world. When you've already got an issue, you don't want to open the door and invite the enemy to come in and make it way worse. You want the door open to the Lord, the Holy Spirit, right, to help you. So that's why words matter. We've been giving words concerning faith for provision, God's words. And we're giving, one by one, 30 reasons why we are sure. Abundant provision is always God's will for us all. We started number one with the Lord being our shepherd. Rest of the verse says, and we've gone through now 15 different ones. So we're halfway in our study of 30 reasons. Do you think there's another 15 in the Bible? There's more than that, but one reason I do some of these things. I've heard people say, well, if there's anything in the Bible like that, I don't know it. Well, you're showing you haven't been in the Bible because it's there. It's all over the place. Have eyes to see it. And so we're down to number 16 in our study, the promised land. We're sure abundant provision is always God's will for us all because of the promised land. What God did for his people in choosing a land for them that's a good land, a rich land, a land that flows. Now go with me, if you would, to Deuteronomy 11 today, please. Deuteronomy 11. What we saw is that the Lord had said, yesterday's class, we talked about this, that the Lord said, I'm bringing you out from under the burden and bondage of the Egyptians, and I'm bringing you into land. Deuteronomy 6:23 said that he brought us out, that he might bring us in. Say that out. He brought me out so that he might bring me in. He's bringing you out of something into something else. The Scripture says in Colossians, what is it? 113 or so. He said, we've been delivered out of the power of darkness and translated into. Translated into the kingdom of God's dear son. Out of darkness, into light, out of death, into life. That's always God's plan, always his will. It was then. He never changes. But you'll see three distinct categories. You will see Egypt, the wilderness, and the promised land. And God could have done it any of a million different ways, but that's how he chose to do it. And the fact that it is recorded, and there's extensive detail recorded about this in scriptures, book after book. It's because important spiritual truths are revealed. Unchanging spiritual principles. This is how God deals with every one of us. First of all, you have to get out of jail. Is that right? How many of you aren't going anywhere until you get out of jail? And they were literally in bondage over 400 years, over four centuries. The descendants of Abraham had become the property of Egyptians. And they had grown from 70 people or so into close to 2 million in these four centuries. And this now labor force of Egypt. And they are forced labor. And Egypt was not about to let them go. There was no natural convincing them. There was no reasoning, there was no logic or deal to be made. The Lord himself said, he won't let you go. There's no way he's letting you go, but I'm going to do it. And he did. Through ten signs and wonders that nobody had ever heard of, he got them out of there. Hallelujah. And God can get you out too, is that right? Including jail, literal prison? Yes. Humble yourself. Now you have to quit lying and denying that you made mistakes. And you have to quit blaming it on everybody else, including your mama, your neighbors, the police, who really made you do that. You need to fall on your face and confess your sin and say, God, it was me. It was me. I didn't have to do that. I shouldn't have done that. Repentance is more than just feeling bad. You got caught. Repentance is a change of heart. Change of heart and a turning away from one thing, one direction to another. And so let your heart be affected and God can help you get out. And there's bondage of different kinds. There's the bondage of disease and sickness. Whether you were born with a malformity or deformity, or whether you're involved in an accident, incident, crime that left you hindered, limited, whatever the case may be. We serve a God who does miracles, absolute miracles. He can replace parts that have been destroyed. He can. He does. He has. He can fix things that men cannot fix. But you must not think he owes it to you because you exist. Because he doesn't owe it to you because you're on the earth. No, you have to humble yourself. And the first thing you want is not just the personal desires. You want to find out what he wants to do with you, what his plan is for your life. Make that your first priority. The other help comes with it. And provision is part of his plan. He said he brought them out to bring them in. And like we said, there's Egypt in the land of Egypt, the people of God had not enough. They didn't own a place of their own. They didn't own the rags on their back. They didn't own their own bodies. They were the property, like a cow or they were the property of these people. That's not enough. That's not enough. Now, they survived and lived for generations like that. But that's not real living. That's existing. Not enough. I want to hear you say it. Not enough is not God's will. He brought them out of that. Hallelujah. He shook Egypt. They got from saying no way, no how to going. Please leave tonight. Please, please leave. Here's some money. Take some more money. Go, get out. And they left with silver and gold. And there wasn't one feeble person among their tribes. And they went straight out of there into the wilderness, desert. No groceries, no food, no nice place to live. Nothing. Sand and hot and at night, cold desert. But God said, I'm with you. I got you. You're not going to starve. Brought them bread out of the sky, brought them water out of the rock. And like we said before, when they went out to gather the manna, he that gathered a lot, didn't have too much. He that gathered a little, didn't have too little. Just enough, right? So the wilderness is a type of just enough living. And that's one level of faith. That's a level of faith above not enough, right? I remember the days that Phyllis and my wife and I got faith to come out of not enough. Hey, happy day. Is that right? Celebration day. Not that we were living large, but we were coming out of being under and behind and lacking and having nothing, to have something, anything better than nothing, right? Or being behind or under. And so I'm not belittling wilderness faith. I'm rejoicing in that. But you're not home. In the wilderness, you're not home, you're on your way to somewhere else, right? In the wilderness, they didn't know. They could not see or naturally predict where their next water was coming from or where their next meal was. I mean, after a while, it's been there Every morning you can expect it. But based on what? You don't even know how it's happening. And even after all of your gathering and week after week and month after month, and in that case, year after year, it was still, gather a lot. Not too much. Gather a little. Not too little, everybody, just enough. So if your pay exactly matches your outflow by the end of the week or the month, sure beats not having enough, right? But you aren't in the promised land. You are wilderness. And thank God for being delivered from Egypt. Thank God. Thank God you're a free man or woman. Hallelujah. And at the wilderness point, they are healed. Oh, did you hear that or not? I mean, that's prosperity right there. Money you're not having to spend on doctor visits and surgeries and medicine and all that. You're healed. And they had some money, but, you know, there was nowhere to shop. No. Kind of frustrating, right? But God had a plan. He had a plan. He always had them on the way. Now here's something we need to really get settled. There's a lot of people, and, I mean, for generations it's been taught and preached. Promised land represents heaven. Have you ever heard anything like that? You know. Oh, by and by, when we get over yonder to the promised land. No. Wrong. No. In heaven, there are no giants to fight. Come, are y' all with me or not? It's. There are no giant walls to overcome. There are no battle after battle after battle to possess what's been given to you and resist, resist, resist all the false gods and temptations. Thank God that will not be the case in heaven. The promised land, as wonderful as it was, it was a fight. It was battle after battle after battle. Does that sound like here and now? Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold, lay hold, lay hold. Now, this is where a lot of people have really missed the mark. You'll hear people saying, no, no, what we got to do what we have to do, Just let go and let God see. It even got quiet here in the class. Well, think about it. Let go or lay hold. That's quite the difference now, isn't it? Which one are we doing? Letting go or laying hold? Now, if you're talking about casting all your worries and anxieties and cares over on the Lord and leaving it with him. Yeah, but if you're talking about leaving everything up to him in your life and trusting him to do everything that you're supposed to do, ain't going to work. He said, concerning this promised land, I've given It to you now what? Go up and possess it. You have to go get it. You have to go after it. There was great big hairy giants, is that right? Waiting to fight them, and walls. They said it looked like they reached up to heaven. It looked impossible. It looked impenetrable. It looked unreachable. But it wasn't. It was all part of living by faith and walking by faith, not being moved by what you see. And the thing is, there was only two out of that whole hundreds of thousands of fighting men that saw it right. Everybody else said, it's too big, it's too hard. There's no way we'll all die. Joshua and Caleb had a different perspective. They said, no, no, God is with us. Is that right? Their defense is right. They'll be bread for us. Let's go get our promised land. Let's go get it. And eventually they did, many years later, because the unbelief of the other folks delayed them. Now, that's a whole lesson within itself, right? The unbelief of other people, because they won't agree to go do the will of God. But it didn't stop them. I said it didn't stop them. Other people's disobedience, it can affect you temporarily. It can't stop you if you won't give up and quit. So Egypt living, wilderness living. And what's next? Come on, help me out. He brought us out to bring us into, in between. Out and into is through, right through the wilderness to learn valuable, valuable lessons. Now, in Hebrews 11:8, he talks about how different the living is in the promised land than in Egypt. Deuteronomy 11:8, he said, you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong and go in and possess the land. Whether you go to possess it, does it take some strength and some effort? Yes, it is my father in the faith, Kenneth Hagin used to say often he said, the blessings of God don't just fall on you like ripe cherries off a tree. Did you hear that phrase? They don't just fall? What does that mean? You have to get them. You have to go lay hold of. I mean, even when God rained manna out of the sky, you're talking about a spectacular miracle. You still had to get up off your chair and go outside and pick it up. You still have to pick it up or else you don't eat that day. So there's a godward side, there's a manward side, he said. In verse nine, he said and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them and to their seed. A land that flows with milk and honey. I want to hear you say it. A land that flows with milk and honey. That's God's will for me. Verse 10. He says, for the land whither you go in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt from whence you came out. Where you are going in is not like where you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot as a garden of herbs. They had to irrigate everything over there. I mean, today if you look at the country of Egypt, you got the river and stuff right beside it, but anything outside the bank of the river you have to bring the water out because it's just desert. And so he said, and of course back then they didn't have electric pumps, so what kind of pump did you have? Foot pump. Foot pump. And so whatever contraptions they had or moving of the water, it was foot powered and it was Hebrew feet that powered it. He said, this promised land is not like Egypt was, where you had to water it with your foot. Verse 11. But the land where you are going to possess it, he said, you're going somewhere. I got you headed on a course to a great place. It's a land of hills and valleys that drinks water of the rain of heaven. No irrigation required. A land which the Lord your God cares for. We read earlier that he said that God said, I espied the. I found it for you. I searched it out, I picked it out for you. A land which the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year. Wow. The Creator is watching over your land. Every month of the year. He's watching over it to keep it, take care of it. It's getting a little dry. Come here. Clouds. Oh, that's enough. Not too wet. Can you see what I'm talking about? I mean the pressures, the temperatures. It wasn't the Garden of Eden. It was still affected by what we have today. But it was an Egypt. It wasn't got to water it with your foot. It wasn't the wilderness. This is another level of living where you have God's direct involvement. This is as good as it gets on planet Earth. You have God's direct involvement watching over it. He said in verse 13, it will come to pass if you will hearken diligently. To My commandments, which I command you this day to love your God and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. That's something a lot of times people miss when they talk about commandments. This was the first and main commandment. Love God. Still a good idea. Yes, it is. That I will give you the reign of your land in his due season. The first rain and the latter rain. The Lord already said, I'm watching over it. I got you rain in the springtime to get your crop kicked off. And I got you latter rain when it needs to be finished off just in time for harvest. I got you covered so that you can gather in your corn and your wine and your oil, that your fields and your orchards and your vineyards and your and I will send grass in the fields for your cattle that you may eat and be full. That used to be the will of God for His people. It's still the will of God for His people. He goes on to say in verse 21, that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children in the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give them as the days of heaven. He said, you're going to have a taste of heaven on earth. You're going to have days. You'll have days now. It's not heaven, but there will be days where you look up and go, man, it's like heaven. It's not heaven, but it's like heaven. It's a taste of heaven. Is that still the will of God? Hallelujah. And that's where he went on to say in verse 26, I set a blessing and a curse before you. And you went on to say, choose that blessing. Our time is up again today. Say it out. I choose the blessing. I choose the good land. Thank youk, Lord, for bringing me out, bringing me through and into the good land. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Well, time's up again today. We'll see you soon. Tomorrow we're going to see more of this in Jesus name. Thank you for joining us at Faith School. Class is dismissed for today, but you can watch this and other episodes of Faith School free of charge@faithschool.org for more information, visit our website or call us at 941-702-7390.