Wed.’s Devo - Occupying the Land

Read: Numbers 32-33
Today’s reading makes me sad. Reuben and Gad and half of Manasseh had lots of cattle and saw the land outside the promise land and wanted it. They didn’t trust that God would give them good land in their inheritance. Their faith stopped with their eyes. It is always easy to take the seen than to wait on what has not manifested yet but that alleviates faith. That is what Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh did.
As sad as that seems, we see this in our churches today. The Red Sea represents our salvation and the Jordan is the river we cross over into the spirit. We can be Christians and never walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is to abandon reasoning and trust God no matter what he says to do or leads us to do. We are suppose to be laying our hands on the sick and healing them, casting out devils, raising the dead and cleansing the leper. We will never do these things without learning to walk in the Spirit.
The only way God let them get away with not living in the promised land was because they promised to go over and help their brothers fight and get their land. When they crossed over they were to rid the land of idolatry. They were to take possession of the land and occupy it. God wanted the whole land filled with his people. His plan is still the same. He has placed us in families, businesses, churches, places of influence where he wants us to pray all the evil out and occupy it with the Spirit of God. This is true of our own bodies. We are to take possession of our bodies and not allow sickness or shame or condemnation to have a foothold. We are to be sanctified and holy.
Lord, help us to walk in the Spirit in health and total devotion to you. Help us to hear your every whisper and obey.