Do you want to enter your own “Promise Land”?
Are you familiar with the story in the Bible about Joshua and Caleb and their reconnaissance mission into the territory God had led them to, The Promised Land…filled with milk and honey…a land full of promise, opportunity, and safety.
Joshua and Caleb were part of a group of 12 sent into The Promised Land to see if it could be taken as God had promised. The other 10 gave a bad report that instilled fear in the people. They had a spirit of fear, and the ultimate result of their fear-based actions was rebellion among the people and ultimate death of an entire generation; they never made it into and were never abel to enjoy The Promised Land. Joshua and Caleb, who are described as men who had a different spirit (the Spirit of the Lord), were the only two who gave a report saying that the land could be taken just as God had promised. They were the only two of their generation to enter The Promised Land.
Are you a person led by a spirit of fear or are you led by the Spirit of God?
God says of Caleb and Joshua, “because my servants have a different spirit and follow me wholeheartedly, I will bring them into the land they went into, and their descendants will inherit it.” God’s Spirit led Joshua and Caleb; they were not led by fear!
Fear is powerful. It can paralyze us. Many of us fail to enter into our own Promise Land because we have failed to be led by the Spirit and are instead led by fear. Fear prevents us from entering into what God has reserved for us…a life and an inheritance that is exceedingly good. God described The Promised Land as a land of milk and honey. Our own Promise Land is the same, but The Spirit must lead you in.
Romans 8:13-14 says it this way:
“For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
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