Tomorrow I will be on my way to Israel and I wanted to take yall with me so I decided to blog ahead about the places I would see. First I want to tell a little about this fascinating land. When God appeared to Moses at the burning bush he told him that he had come to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a land flowing with milk and honey. Which meant that the land was fruitful; full of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey where you will eat bread without scarcity, and you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of the hills you can dig copper. (Deut. 8:7-9) These promises were conditional on their obedience. The Promise Land wasn't like the flat land of Egypt but it had hills and valleys so they could have water continually. There was one problem and that was that there were inhabitants in the land and they would have to drive them out. God promised to do this for them if they obeyed his commands.
We have been given a promise from God called our destiny. It is a land of plenty and the only thing that is keeping us from conquering it is the occupants in our land. Our land is in our own body and our enemies are fear, rejection, our past, our family curses, etc. God told the children of Israel that he would drive them out little by little until they were large enough to occupy the land. That is what God does for us. As we allow him to drive out our enemies inside ourselves he occupies our land until he has totally taken over. Tomorrow we will go to the Jezreel Valley which was known as the "battlefield of empires" and "the prey and pasture of Arabs".
Lord, help us to occupy our land and take our destiny.
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