I feel as though we're reacting like the Israelites did after allowing ten spies to relate what they discovered in the Promised Land. In Numbers 13-14 (Amplified) we learn that twelve men went to spy out the Land God promised their people. Joshua and Caleb said the Land was exactly what the Lord described and confidently said, "We can take it." The other ten men agreed that the Land was exactly like the Lord said, but "There are walled cities, and giants in the Land that are stronger than we are. We look like grasshoppers to them and to us also."
The promise was there, the Lord was with them, and proof of the Land was brought back to them, but three million people were talked out of entering into His rest and promise, by the confession of ten people. The leaders of the tribes of Israel managed to talk all those people out of entering into their Promised Land. These people had never seen giants before, nor had they seen walled cities before. The only thing they had to go on was either God's Word or the word of the spies. They chose to believe the word of the tribal leaders and this kept them in bondage until their death forty years later.
The Holy Spirit gives an example of trusting in what God says, over the things men say in Hebrews 3&4. We see the promises of God (by faith) in the Word and we see (by our senses) what witnesses have said throughout the years. We've mostly had "grasshopper" vision, where the promises are concerned. We've all heard the excuses of "God no longer does these things" or "These things are for when we get to heaven" or "These things are not for everyone."
We haven't personally seen the land, because it is reached by faith, but we have all been told that, "It is there, but not for now." This leaves us in the wilderness, until we die. We've somehow, concluded that God no longer does things in this natural world, but had held back until we reach heaven.
Jesus made it very clear that God does, and can, meet our needs here (as well as there) in Matthew 6:33-34 (Amplified) saying, "But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be added to you besides." The "things taken together" include what we eat, the clothes we wear and where we live. "His way of doing and being right" or in right standing with Him, was the new birth, the new creation people. Jesus continues in Verse 34, "So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have enough worries and anxieties of its own, sufficient for each day is its own trouble."
God's way of doing and being right is understand the grace we've been given through Jesus, to become a new creation. All the spiritual blessing we've been holding out on, have now been made ours, through our new creation. All things that our senses can see, came from the Spirit that we cannot see. Everything was created by and through the Spirit and God's Word. Because we are once again in union with His Spirit, we have, through our faith in Him, access to His creative ability in our lives.
All these spiritual blessings, the actual blessing of Abraham, are now available to us while we are still in this natural environment. In Matthew 6:26 (Amplified) Jesus said, "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?"
We've allowed the voices of a few, to influence the masses of the Kingdom and we've possessed "grasshopper" vision about entering into the promise. All the promises must be appropriated by faith and not by the senses. The spirit realm, which is invisible, has produced everything that we can now see. It's still capable of doing the same things it did in the beginning, when it created everything. We've never been taught how to operate in "His way of doing and being right."
The Kingdom of God has a way of doing and being right with Him. The principles of heaven, work on spiritual laws and these principles must be adhered to, in order to make things work here in the natural world. Everything in God's Kingdom works by faith in Him and His Word. If you do not believe these principles, then they will not come to pass in our lives today.
Salvation, the new birth, became available to mankind after Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into God's presence. Everyone who believes this and confesses Jesus as his Lord, will be saved and born-again. Those who do not believe it, by faith, then will not be saved. What is it that activates this promise of God? Is it not faith in what we cannot see, but still believe? Why then, wold any other part of God's promise be any different?
We've been taught that "There are giants" in this doctrine of faith and fear has kept us from entering into the rest. Jesus had continuous faith in His Father and preached, walked and taught us to do the same. When the multitude needed bread and fish, Jesus simply went to His Father in faith of His promise and God supplied enough for the entire crowd. When Jesus needed money for His taxes, He simply believed His Father would supply and had Peter take it from the mouth of a fish. When people needed healing, Jesus called upon God's promise to Abraham and appropriated what God had already made available through it. Jesus said that, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work."
Jesus brought down from the Spirit, the things needed in the natural realm and the Spirit of God (the Word of promise) provided all that was needed in abundance. We've been trained to only believe by our senses and not by faith in God's promises. If we cannot see it, then we don't believe it. We've stumbled at knowing God's will for us and have never strove to seek out His Kingdom rule or principles.
In these last days, God is going to raise up a "Joshua and Caleb people" that will stop seeing themselves as "grasshoppers" and begin seeing themselves by faith, as new creation people. We will then bring the Spirit of God back into the earth like never before.
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