Let There Be Light (OHR)

Let There be Light (OHR)  

By the Lord’s will, the last 4 years have opened our collective eyes to the level of corruption that has existed in our land and government for decades. We have been literally unaware of how the governing authorities were using their elected positions to enlarge their bank accounts at the expense of the governed they were elected to serve.

Just as Yahweh saw the hardship of His people in the land of Egypt, He has seen how this One Nation under His ruling authority has been systematically enslaved by powerful globalists and ruled by foreign actors in violation of the covenant we have with Him and each other: The Constitution of the United States of America is our covenant and rule of law.

 Last Year while in pre-service prayer and worship at my fellowship, I heard the Lord say, “Why are you not fighting harder for “your own kind?   This is a human genocide you are witnessing.”  I had been interceding for our Kingdom and humanity for years, but this gave me a sense of urgency for the Lord to point this out.

Then, He took me (again) to Ezekiel 22:30, as Yahweh was opining about the failure of the priests in Israel and their depravity, He said, “I sought for a man who could stand in the gap to oppose me on behalf of the land that I would not destroy it!  But I found no one!”  When I read this, I automatically respond “Here we are Lord, please see us as intercessors for the land”.   

For those who might not consider the call to intercede for the land as well as the people, this changed my perspective.  I have always been a strong patriot, but I began to look at the land as being important to Yahweh as part of His entire created universe. Somehow the earth is impacted by the bloodshed upon it. Remember the bloodshed began back when Caine killed Abel. The earth cries out and all creation groans. 

When the word tells us that all creation groans (Romans 8:22-23) it has to do with the fall, and everything is in need of redemption.  Back in the garden of Eden, we lost our regency role (due to rebellion) and authority to manage Yahweh's created world.  Ever since that epic failure by God's imagers, all creation has been out of Divine order, fails to operate in its original function and groans to be back in Divine order with humanity in ruling authority. 

 The directive was that the original pair: go forth, multiply, subdue the earth and rule over all that Yahweh created....AND....nothing has changed our mandate or creation's expectation of us. Our failure causes all creation to groan.....But GOD!

The Cross of Calvary, and the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus is the place and time when humanity was given the opportunity to be restored in relationship with our Creator God and re-instated in our original role as His regents (One who governs in the absence of the Monarch) with authority to co-govern the world He created.   

This wake-up call and revelation has brought many to intercede as never before, realizing what a powerful role we have to play in what many consider to be "end times". 

This year National Day of Prayer posted an article for the unity of Intercessors and here is the exhortation they gave so we can put our collective voices in agreement to these vital prayers for our nation.    

"Throughout the year, the NDP calls on Christians to pray for seven areas of influence in American society: government, military, media, business, education, church, and family. Each group felt the power of intercession at the D.C. gathering.  

“Jesus, we profess our faith in You. You are the Light of the world, and in You there is no darkness. For You are our lamp, O LORD, and our God who lights our darkness. Forgive us for fearing and focusing on the darkness around us instead of being filled with faith and shining like the city on a hill You have called us to be. Forgive us for the times when we have been the absence of light, allowing darkness to dwell in America. Lead us forward to dispel the darkness and bring light throughout the Church, Family, Education, Business, Military, Government, and Arts, Entertainment, and Media. 

“We are saved by grace through faith, released from the darkness that once held us captive and now free to walk in the newness of life in You. Light dispels darkness and exposes what is hidden and wicked, so we commit to rise and shine! For by You, Lord, we can take courage to run against the enemy, and by our God we can fight the good fight and keep the faith as living lampstands in our communities and country. We fear no evil for You are with us.

“Lord, Your way is perfect, You lead us on paths of righteousness for Your name’s sake. Your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Your Word is Truth, instructing and inspiring us to live in the abundant life You gave when You saved us from the death and destruction of the enemy. Fill us with Truth as we read, study, and live Your Word.

“God, You are a shield for all those who take refuge in You. As we abide in You and Your Word abides in us, we take up our shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and run boldly into the darkness to Lift Up the Word and Light Up the World! In the Mighty name of Jesus we pray, amen!"

May we stand together as intercessors and pray these prayers, make our Declaration of Yahweh's delegated authority given to us and see how He will intervene in our day and circumstances as we await the return of our King Jesus! 

** Months ago, when praying about the "Light", the Holy Spirit told me to go back to the beginning where we read that the Spirit of Yahweh was hovering over the darkness and He said, "Let there be "Light".  This Light was not the light of a celestial body such as sun and moon for they were created on the 4th day. Looking to the Hebrew word in context, this word light is translated from the word "OHR" and that is the word meaning:  "to bring order out of chaos."  Darkness is chaos and Yahweh's LIGHT brings order. Darkness is really just the absence of light! We can declare His Light over the darkness we perceive in this fallen world, just as He did back in the beginning and expect Him to bring forth order, and in His order there will come peace. 

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?

Can God's Plan Stand Even in Our Failures?

IMAGINE THIS: 

You were born with something…….. 

That has been called, “Free Will”……. 

It’s part of who you are……. 

Freedom is such a wonderful feeling…… 

There are so many choices to make…… 

And you want each one to count…… 

But you have been told about a garden…… 

Way back in the beginning of time…... 

A choice made…… 

That didn’t end so well. 

You have personal knowledge….. 

The story must have been real….. 

Because you, too, have made choices….. 

That didn’t end so well. 

You fight guilt and condemnation…… 

Always feeling the distance….. 

From the “One” you realize you must have offended….. 

By your awful choice….. 

That wrong road taken….. 

That wrong turn made..... 

But just……  

What if….. 

The “One” you know you have offended….. 

Already knew every bad choice you would ever make….. 

And loves you anyway? 

What if….. 

The “One” who resides….. 

Outside the box of our world and our humanity…. 

The “One” who knows the end of everything….. 

From the beginning of anything……. 

The “One” who created every cell in your body…. 

And knows every hair on your head….. 

Has a higher purpose in the bad choice that you made? 

What if…. 

Beyond the guilt and condemnation that you feel…. 

Lies a truth that the bad choice was, in reality….. 

Just a way to capture your attention? 

What if…. 

That guilt you feel…… 

Activates God’s Sovereign “Homing Devise” ….. 

Embedded in your DNA…… 

Calling you to Himself? 

And it really doesn‘t matter…. 

What the awful choice was back then….. 

So long as it gets you home. 

The “One” who created you for a love relationship with Himself…. 

Has proven His love…..His Forgiveness….. 

He died on a Cross…..for you…...His name is Jesus….. 

He is calling you…..to Himself….. 

And now another choice must be made. 

His voice tells you it really can end well….. 

Can you imagine that? 

Prayer of Intercession for Our Land

Calling all intercessors to stand in agreement, since we are promised by Yeshua that "if 2 of you agree about anything on earth, it shall be done for them by My Heavenly Father."     Matt 18:19-20.

 Abba Father, as intercessors of this great land called America, we are facing uncommon threats to our republic from without and now from within.  We know there is great blood guilt on the land and that according to Your Word, the murder of the innocents brings liability for a hard judgment and severe penalty to be paid.  

We confess the sins of past generations and even current ones and plead for Your mercy.  Your Ecclesia has been, in ways, neutralized by our self-centered “religious” agendas while the war rages against humanity and those we were assigned to represent You and our Kingdom to, we have allowed to languish for lack of the knowledge we possess about Your Son Yeshua (Jesus the Christ).  Forgive us Abba, we plead for Your Holy Spirit to fill us and flood the land with Your Presence.  

We plead that the Holy Blood of Yeshua cleanse this land and bring atonement for all the blood guilt that has polluted and fertilized the corruption we see all around us.  

You sent Your Son to defeat the evil that lies within the human heart and the devil who manipulates humanity to rebel Your wonderful Good and pleasant ruling authority.  Open the eyes and hearts of the blind Abba and let them see the One You sent to save us. 

On the matters of the enemies within our nation, planted here by those whose agenda it is to destroy the land and enslave us, thereby silencing our message, Your message, about the eternal future of a world without evil and a paradise beyond our imagination, we plead for Divine intervention and exposure of the plot and plan of this tyranny within along with righteous judgement and penalty for such wicked nefarious oppression.  

We declare:  LET THERE BE OHR...YOUR LIGHT....LET YOUR ORDER OUT OF CHAOS AND DARKNESS PREVAIL OVER THE LAND!!!!

WE ARE CALLED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  LET US AGAIN BE UNITED AS ONE NATION UNDER YAHWEH, GOD OF ALL CREATION AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK TO ENSLAVE US, DIVIDE US AND DESPOIL OUR NATIONAL DESTINY. 

Ultimate Justice is Yours to implement and according to our constitution, we acknowledge that You alone know the heart and motive of every one of us.  Therefore, we plead you enforce and bring accountability (save who can be saved) to any who violate the laws that lie at the very foundation of our Republic’s code drafted to protect our Sovereignty, represent the social order and provide the peace for all the people who form the legal citizenry of our nation in Yeshua’s (Jesus) name and for Your glory🙏🙏🙏☝️✝️💥. 

According to the law of the land it is written: 

‘Whoever, Owing Allegiance To The United States, Levies War Against Them Or Adheres To Their Enemies, Giving Them Aid And Comfort Within The United States Or Elsewhere, Is Guilty Of Treason And Shall Suffer Death.' 

18 U.S.C. § 2381 - Treason

The Holy Spirit is calling.   Can you hear Him?

Intercessors United 5-21-24

Being on a mission is the matter of the heart.  We as intercessors are on a heart mission for Yahweh to advance His Kingdom and follow in the footsteps of Yeshua who came to destroy the works of the devil and take back what belongs to Him.

I wanted to share with you the foundational authority that the Lord has shown me that we have and need to draw from to fulfill our mission as intercessors. 

Today He takes me to Rev 5 in the book of the Revelation of Jesus the Messiah.  John is weeping at the thought that there is/ was no one worthy to open the scroll and break the seals that kept it from being read.  But then it is revealed that Yeshua, the Lion of the tribe of Judah "won" the right to open the scroll and its seven seals.  

"You are worthy to take the scroll and break (dissolve) it's seals

because you were slaughtered; at the cost of blood, You ransomed for God 

persons from every tribe, language, people and nation.

You made them into a kingdom (that's us) for God to rule,

a Priesthood to serve Him

and they (that's us) will rule over the earth".

Here's our authority and our role.  We advance God's Kingdom with a divinely commissioned dominion and delegated authority to bring others into His kingdom and under His ruling authority.  When you know your authority (at its source) you will never doubt its power. The seals (IMO) represent the power Satan has used against and over humanity since the fall.   

History is cyclic and we have experienced the devil's attacks over and over .  At the Cross, Yeshua defeated the devil, broke his power over humanity and we now operate from the place of victory and not victimization.  The fallen elohim (celestial beings) have had their rulership taken away but their lives were prolonged for a time and a season. (Daniel 7:11).  

Exercising our dominion over these other-realm beings and their opposition of our Kingdom is our training for reigning here on earth. 

We do not war in the flesh, rather:  

2 Corinthians 10:4, "The weapons that we war with are mighty in God to the bringing down of strongholds, casting down arguments and everything that exalts itself against the "knowledge" of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ...."

Our words have power.  Thoughts become spoken words and spoken words create, just as God brought all things into existence through His spoken word.  As His imagers, we have similar power in our words to create good as we declare His love, His beauty, and His structure, His will over everything we see that is out of His Order.  Evil is chaos.  As we proclaim His Kingdom here on earth, order and peace overtakes chaos and confusion and darkness, thereby replacing it.  As we declare, like Yahweh did back in the beginning: "Let there be Light" over the darkness, the Hebrew word is OHR and that word for light translates to bring order out of chaos.  Where we declare His light, darkness recedes. Jesus IS the LIGHT of the world and so are we!   

The important point is that WE GET IT.  We have been restored to our rightful role as Yahweh's priests, to co-labor with Him in the government of His Created world.  "Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, subdue, and rule over all He created". (Gen 1:28) Now, it's up to us to take up the mantle of this authority and be the conduit for His Kingdom to come here on earth and His will to be done here, as in Heaven. 

This understanding lays the foundation we have as our justification, and is the baseline for our ordained assignment to make the proclamations, decree, and declarations of Yahweh's promises, precedents, and commands from His Word that we now speak out and over the world that touches our lives.

Remember we must stand in agreement for what we desire to see happen in our world (according to the Word) and proclaim it OUT LOUD.  That's the point and power of our declarations.  By the spoken word of Yahweh everything came into existence and we have that capability to create good works through our spoken words. We take claim to the word and promise Jesus spoke in Matt 18. 

I encourage you to grab a prayer partner and start with things that touch your heart and represent a burden to see the Kingdom of Heaven manifest in circumstances here on earth.  

Have a blessed day and remember:

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?   

 

 

Defeating the Darkness: Let there be Light!

Back in the very beginning of the recorded History of Man's days upon the earth, in the Bible, it is written in Genesis 1, that God created the Heavens and the earth.  we are told that at the time, earth was unformed, void and darkness was on the face of the deep. His Spirit hoovered over the surface of the water (like a hen brooding over her eggs). 

But then it says, God SAID, "Let there be light!".  

God saw that the light was GOOD and God divided the Light from the Darkness!  As the creation story continues, we read where the sun and moon were not created until the 4th day. So, what is this "Light" that came when He said Let there be Light?  

Looking back to the Hebrew word for this "Light", I find the word in Hebrew to be "OHR", and that word translates to mean, "to bring order out of chaos".  By inference then, "darkness' is chaos and 'light' is order. 

Jesus is described as "The LIGHT of the world".  He is the OHR and the one who brought and brings order out of chaos.  This is an amazing clue regarding how to intercede for what we see as chaos and evil controlling our world and where trust, belief, and faith enter the equation and lead to our victory. 

Given that we are to co-labor with Yahweh our Creator in the government of His created world and understanding that while the "battle belongs to the Lord", 2 Chronicles 20:15, we have a part to play.  What is our part and what are the weapons that we fight with that are not carnal but Divine? 2 Corinthians 10:4

Reading about Creation, God "said", and it was. In the earthly discussion of war and peace, it has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword.  The pen is used to write down "words" so in agreement with the God of all creation, we can agree "words" have power to create or destroy. "Life and death are in the power of the tongue".  Proverbs 18:21.

Jesus said in Luke 10:19, "I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you!"  "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal (worldly) but mighty through God to the bringing down of strongholds."  2 Corinthians 10:4 Our weapons are the truth of God's Word (the sword of the Spirit) against the lies of the enemy.  

Ephesians 6:10-18 tells us that our battle is not against flesh and blood humans, but rather against the rulers and authorities that govern the darkness in the world.  Darkness is, in reality, the absence of light.    

Given this expose of the true enemy and the truth that we have a part to play in the battle between the Kingdom of our God and the kingdom of the enemy, we can and must employ our powerful weapons:  our WORDS, declarations, proclamations that serve notice to the enemy that he and his wicked agenda are subject to our authority, as delegated to us by Jesus.  

Today and from here on we need to declare over our nation and our world:

LET THERE BE LIGHT !!! 

Abba Father, Let the Light of Your Holiness PIERCE the darkness that the evil fallen Elohim governs, exposing what wickedness lies within so necessary accountability and correction can take place.  May we take up the sword of the Spirit and use it powerfully for Your glory and our victory here on earth.  Please enforce the delegated authority you have given us as we declare our dominion over the power of the enemy and thereby enjoy the peaceful order Your ways and ruling authority brings to our lives.  In Yeshua's Name. 

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?

 

    

Be of Good Courage

 In the dark early morning hour just before dawn, the Lord conveys one word: COURAGE.

This is like a banner in my dream state.  As I come into the place of meeting with my Lord, the first thing I register is the account of Caleb in Numbers 13-14 and again in Joshua 14. 

Places of government and social influence have been invaded and dominated by the "giants" of pagan ideology, have corrupted our Godly heritage and all but decimated our once cherished values which are the foundational rights and responsibilities of our original covenant called the Constitution of our United States.

There are only 2 nations in all of history chosen by Yahweh to represent His Divine order in society:  Israel and America. Our constitution is based on Biblical values of freedom with law and order as the fundamental tenant of social order that brings such freedom to all our citizens.  

Globalists have found their way into the fabric of all these spheres of influence and pushed an agenda to "fundamentally change" America.  Most of us have been asleep at the switch and failed until recently to realize the depths of corruption and manipulation being executed against us by enemies both foreign and domestic. 

That said, The Lord has given a strategy whereby His people can once again operate and have victory in our One Nation under His ruling authority.  We can once again be THE UNITED STATES of America.  

The weapons that we fight with are not carnal but Divine (mighty through God) to the bringing down of "strongholds".  2 Corinthians 10:4-6.  "We demolish arguments and every pretention that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ."  

Since Yeshua came, lived among us, died our death, was resurrected to life and ascended to His Heavenly Throne of power and authority we have been given back our original assignment and with the Power (via His Holy Spirit unleashed at Pentecost) to subdue the earth.  Title deed of the earth has been re-claimed By Jesus when He went to the cross, and took back what belongs to Him. We are His regents with the delegated authority to manage and care for His created world. BTW, Regent: a person appointed to govern a state temporarily because the Monarch is absent. 

In the beginning, Genesis 1 tells us that the Spirit of Yahweh hovered over the darkness and said, "Let there be Light".  The original word "Light" is not the illumination light of the sun, created on the 4th day, but more specifically, OHR.  OHR is the word used and means: to bring order out of chaos.  Darkness is chaos.  Light is Order, and God's order was brought out from the chaos of the darkness.  Darkness is the absence of light.  Light pierces the darkness and brings order to the chaos. 

Interesting that in Ephesians 6:12, where we are given a clue about our earthly struggles, we are told, "for we are not struggling against human beings, but against rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers GOVERNING THIS DARKNESS, against spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly realms". (CJB) 

Then Paul tells us to take up every piece of our war equipment that Yahweh provides. Notice that our "armor" is our Godly character: Salvation is our helmet and protects our mind and conscience. Righteousness, truth, peace, readiness to share the Gospel, faith and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. The battlefield is the mind and the enemy's weapons in this kingdom battle is deception, lies and falsehoods about our Creator, God and Savior Jesus the Christ.    

Notice that these evil powers govern the darkness NOT THE LIGHT.  Who governs the Light?  The Light of the World!  Jesus IS the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. When He left earth, He gave to us mighty promises among them, that if we ask anything according to His will, that, He would do for us. 

To operate in our delegated Dominion as His "regents" here on earth takes confidence and courage and connection with Him trusting that as we petition, He hears and in that "hearing we have expectation of the supply for whatever we need. Such is our assignment to govern and bring the gospel (Truth) to all nations.

The Creation account reveals the source of our power to overcome the darkness: His spoken Word.  LET THERE BE LIGHT!   Bringing order to the chaos of evil is accomplished through His written word that breaks the lies that we (and others) have believed and demolishes arguments, pretensions and arrogance that has set itself up against the knowledge of God.  

This is the Word of our Testimony, and it is the Blood of the Lamb shed in our behalf that provides for our restored relationship with our Heavenly Father and Creator God with the restored assignment to:  Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth, rule over (take dominion) over the fish in the sea, birds in the air, and every creature that crawls on the earth.  I.E establish His ruling authority over all His created world. 

Jesus, before leaving Planet earth, restated our assignment:  Matthew 28:18-20,

And Jesus came and said to them, "all authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...."  The goal of our delegated dominion is to share the Gospel Good News of God's love and the future He has planned for all who call Jesus, Savior and Lord.  With this commission comes the Divine relationship with the One we can now call Our Father in Heaven, and through the power of the Holy Spirit Who dwells within our being, we can fulfill the commission He has given us. 

Jesus told us that "apart from Him (His Holy Spirit) we can do nothing.  But with Him nothing is impossible.    

Back to the message of Caleb.  Caleb was one of 12 scouts sent into the promised land and only 1 of 2 who came back with the encouraging word that while the giants in the land were big, the God of Israel's army was bigger. 10 of the team sent to scout out the land came back with a discouraging word that created fear, and a refusal to move forward in battle to take the promised land. Ultimately it caused the entire nation to wander for 40 years in the wilderness which should have been a 2-week journey into the promised land.  

Sadly, the worse penalty for this lack of courage and faithlessness in Yahweh's power was the inability for the older generation to even enter the promised land.  The giants in the land of promise were physically giants.  In our world today the "giants" can refer to the size of the opposition and the corrupt teaching of their ideology that so many have taken up and either capitulated to or fearfully chosen to appease and not resist.  

The message of today rings loudly in my ears as a prayer warrior with and for my Kingdom and my King. Words have power and the enemy knows this principle better that we do but uses the knowledge to speak destruction, corruption and chaos over our nation thru cooperative humans.  

Our responsibility and privilege is to speak Divine Creative words over all the darkness we find, but it takes courage to use our voices and declare:  Let there be Light (OHR) as our Creator did and then He proceeded to speak His ordered universe into existence.  

The Last words of Jesus before returning to His Heavenly Throne of all power, enforce the command, "In the world you will have tribulation, but take COURAGE, for I HAVE OVERCOME (defeated, gained victory over) THE WORLD (of darkness).  

As the Lord spoke the word "courage" to me this morning, He told me: "If you will exhibit the courage of Caleb, I will give you all you need to take the high country and defeat the giants in the land!"   What a promise, but it begins with "IF".......

Courage is contagious!  When we who trust in the promises of our Lord, continue to exercise the authority delegated to us when Jesus left planet earth, speak worthy words and reject the lies of an enemy, changes happen, and productivity occurs to the benefit of humanity. 

The battle for America is raging.  This is our "promised" land and we can see the giants with their pagan ideology in opposition to our Constitutional covenant with Yahweh and each other. Will we find the courage in trusting that:  with Yahweh, God of America, we can take (back) our land, restore the good life under His ruling authority and fulfill the destiny our founders envisioned, and Yahweh ordained at our foundation?  

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him? 

 

 

  

 

 

Into the Land of the Giants

The Holy One calls me this morning.  Nothing changes our early morning conference calls, and for that I am so thankful.  The Holy One has called to me every morning for years.  We are all on a learning curve and His lessons continue all the days of our lives.  Different seasons bring different applications of His Living Word. 

I am sure He was calling to me even before I recognized His voice or my need to respond.  That's the way it is with Holiness: He calls and then He waits.  Now I recognize His voice like a sheep does the Shepherd's and nothing is more important than listening to all He has to say to me.

The importance of our relationship has never been clearer than while my earthly husband was slipping away into eternity.  The Holy One never left me. In a supremely super- natural way, the Holy Spirit spoke to me throughout the dying process, and the one thing I could count on was His call to me each and every morning.....and then amazing grace for the moments flowed.

The last and most familiar season of my temporal life in 2012 was over.  It ended when my earthly husband crossed his finish line and went to be with our Lord.  Grief may last through the night, but joy comes with the rising of the sun, and the conference with Holiness at daybreak.

The whole earth is groaning with the need to see the return of our King.  He left here over 2000 years ago after having conquered the enemy of our soul.  Upon His resurrection and return to His Throne of Sovereign Authority, He released the power of His Holiness into the life of every person willing to follow Him into and through that death He suffered once and for all.

I am one of the grateful recipients of His gift because Holiness speaks to me.  Out of my thankful thoughts, He takes me to His Word and touches on the next phase of our journey.

The adventure now required me to go on alone.  Not alone in the sense of no fellowship, but alone without my physical companion of 31 years.  Not alone in the sense of no direction or grasp of a plan, but without the other guy providing his vision and his leadership over temporal circumstances.

I confess there was some fear associated with my loss.  And that fear is the point of today's meeting. The Holy One wants me to address the fear of the future.

I believe that in every season, there is a symbolic "out-of-the-wilderness and into-the-promised-land" scenario.  I believe the Word includes all the details of how God worked in the nation of Israel and all those individual lives for our education in Holiness.  I believe that if we look close and be honest about our personal life experiences and compare them to those detailed in God's Holy Word, we would see ourselves on every page.

The fear of the future and even entry into the "promised land" poses a battle.  We must go into the "land of the giants" to take possession of all God has promised us. My lesson today finds me in Numbers 13-14 with the Biblical account of the exploration of the promised land and the reports that came back.

The Holy Spirit speaks to my heart and mind, "going on into the promised land after the wilderness was not only permissible, but it was also a command".  Wow, now that puts it into perspective.  The refusal of the people to move forward into the land of promise, into the land flowing with milk and honey was not only ridiculous from a historic perspective, but it was rebellion in God's eyes.  Reading the account and report given by those sent to explore the "promised land", I understand why.

The faithlessness of 10 out of the 12 who were sent to explore the land, spread like a cancer among the people.  Fear replaced faith and rebellion ensued.  Joshua spoke into their rebellion words that we need to hear today.  Acknowledging that the land was "good", Joshua emphasized the fact that, in spite of the large inhabitants of the land, God was with them and God would lead them and God would give Israel possession of the land.

In Numbers 14:9, Joshua conveyed the point of the "test" for the nation then and for me today when he said, "Only do not rebel and be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up, their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us.  Do not be afraid of them".  It is apparent that the real obstacle to the people of Israel for going forward was the "fear" that was master over their faith.

We are told by the evil one that we are outnumbered and out gunned when it comes to our taking possession of the land.  The obstacles are too big, and any attempt to move forward in God's Will would be a suicide mission.   Turn back, return to what is comfortable, the risk is greater than the reward.  Faithlessness has many expressions.

The Voice of My Shepherd speaks clearly, "If you have the faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "move from here to there" and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you."  "Only do not be afraid". 

The Holy One has made His point to me today.  I can move out and into the "land of the giants" confident that the Sovereign God of all Creation is with me.  Faith vs. fear.  The only question is, "will I go?"  

This testimony of life in 2012 and where He has brought me to this day in 2025, is another season about finding the courage like Caleb to go to the "high country" and defeat the giants in our promised land. The next blog will speak of His calling for us today. 

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?