Fearless, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mountain, Possess, Possessions, Uncategorized

You must be fearless to possess your mountain

And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—saying, “You are a great people and have great power; you shall not have only one lot, but the mountain country shall be yours. Although it is wooded, you shall cut it down, and its farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

Joshua 17:17-18

Here Joshua was encouraging the house of Joseph – Ephraim and Manasseh that they should not be satisfied with one strip of land. He wanted them to possess the mountain country and to drive out the Canaanites even though they had iron chariots and were strong. There are several lessons about this advice that we can apply to our own lives:

You have great potential within you

Joshua told the house of Joseph – Ephraim and Manasseh that they are a great people and have great power. The Lord wants us to know that we are a great people and have great power and potential within us. He has made us in His own image and He has filled us, as believers in Jesus Christ, with His Holy Spirit:

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1 John 4:4 (KJV)

God doesn’t want you to just have a little piece of the land, He wants you to possess a whole mountain

Joshua told the house of Joseph that they were not to be satisfied with just the strip of land because the mountain country was also reserved for them. God is saying to you that whatever piece of land you now possess, there is a greater mountain for you to climb and attain. He is the God of enlargement, and He said we must ask of Him and He will give us the nations as our inheritance and the outermost part of the world as our possession:

Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.

Psalm 2:8 (NLT)

The mountain is inhabited by spiritual giants however you can drive them out

If the mountain was easy to conquer, the house of Joseph would have driven out its inhabitants and taken possession of it. However it wasn’t and that is why Joshua had to encourage them to take possession.

There are mountains that God may call you to climb; it could be a mountain of career, ministerial, business, finance, family, education, media, etc. As you begin to climb, you may find that there are spiritual giants standing in the way who are determined to prevent you from conquering and inhabiting that mountain. However Jesus Christ has already defeated Satan when He died on the Cross and He has given us the power to tread upon every spiritual serpent and scorpion and they shall not hurt us:

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Psalm 91:13 (KJV)

Prayer

Dear Lord, please help me to be bold so that I can possess the mountain You have laid out for me to climb in Jesus name, amen.

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Bold, Claim, God, Inheritance, Rightfully, Rulers, Uncategorized

You must claim what is rightfully yours

But Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. And they came near before Eleazar the priest, before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore, according to the commandment of the Lord, he gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers.

Joshua 17:3-4

In this story, the daughters of Zelophehad decided to go to the leaders of Israel and claim their father’s inheritance that they would have received if they were sons. What lessons can we learn from these daughters that we too can apply to our own lives?

We must know our inheritance

These daughters went up to Eleazar the Priest and Joshua the Leader and told them what the Lord had commanded Moses, which was to give them an inheritance among their brothers.

Likewise, we too must know what God has promised us through His Word. We get to know the promises of God when we read the Bible on a daily basis to remind ourselves of God’s promises because it is God that said we must bring things to His remembrance:

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Isaiah 43:26 (KJV)

We must be bold in claiming our inheritance

Once the daughters knew their inheritance, they took a bold action in going to the leaders of Israel and claiming what was rightfully theirs.

Likewise, we too must have the confidence to approach God boldly concerning His promises for our lives which has not yet manifested:

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)

We must be fearless when we stand before rulers

The daughters of Zelophehad did not consider that they were women and probably thus not allowed to stand before the Priest and the Leader. They did not care about their social standing but were instead determined to claim what was rightfully theirs.

We must therefore also disregard our social standing and instead claim all the promises of God, regardless of who we have to stand before. The Lord promised that when we stand before important people He will give us the right things to say:

You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Matthew 10:18-20 (NKJV)