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Possess Your Promise Series
Contributed by Shine Thomas on Dec 20, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: Today as I was thanking God for the City Harvest Family all I could see was the hand of God that has brought us thus far. God has blessed us this
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INTRODUCTION
By the grace of God, we have come to the final minutes of 2012. Today as I was thanking God for the City Harvest Family all I could see was the hand of God that has brought us thus far. God has blessed us this year. Yes, some of you went through tough times, but I thank God He brought us safely to this moment. We had difficulties but God was with us. Let’s all give thanks to God for 2012. Tonight, I want to share with you the challenging theme of 2013: Possess Your Promise.
Every one of us here has a promise from God. God has promised us a life that is filled with His Presence and peace, a life that overcomes every sin. John 10:10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. God has promised us an abundant life – A life that is happy, joyful, and blessed. Now the question is, how do we ‘possess’ that life?
HOW DO WE POSSESS GOD’S PROMISES?
What does God expect us to do? You see, one of the groups of people who possessed the promise in the Bible is the Israelites. God promised them a land and God also enabled them to take hold of it. It was Joshua who led the Israelites from wandering in the desert into the Promised Land. Looking at the directions given by God to Joshua, we can take some valuable lessons tonight on how we can claim our inheritance.
Understand anytime you try to make progress toward your destiny, the devil does not like it. He is there out to frighten and put fear into you. It is how Satan keeps people from going forward. He puts the fear of the future into people. Joshua was one such man. When Moses died the mantle of leading the Israelites fell upon him.
Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I wore to their forefathers to give them.
Fear would have gripped Joshua when he had to take up the leadership responsibility. Can you imagine having to fill the shoes of Moses? Taking the place of a man who could speak to God through a burning bush, cast down his rod and have it turn into a snake, and then retrieve it and find it a rod again. Can you imagine being the predecessor of a man who could stretch out his rod and divide the Red Sea, a man who could bring water out of a rock when people died from thirst? It was tough to fit into the shoes of Moses. Joshua had a personal problem handling the leadership.
Joshua also had problems with the people. He now finds himself the leader of a group of people known for murmuring, complaining, backsliding, and wishing they were back where they came from.
YOU MAY HAVE PROBLEMS
Today maybe you are facing opposition in what God has called you for. Maybe you are sitting here with fear of what the future holds for you. Maybe you are carrying a big load. You are wondering how things will be in the next year. I want to tell you, that if God has called you, you have an inheritance. God will bless you. You can be successful. God looked at Joshua and said, “You are the Man I have chosen to lead these people. You have promises to possess.”
Can you imagine the thoughts that would have gone through the mind of Joshua? “Will people accept me, what will people say, I do not know the way, I am afraid of what will happen, there are so many battles to be fought.” Every thought that we think would have come to Joshua.
Some of you are overpowered by many thoughts about your career, children, finances, health, and thoughts about the future. Yet many of us think about these and are overwhelmed by fear; fear of rejection, fear of the future, and fear of people. I want to tell you; that by God, you can overcome every hindrance and finish what you have started.
How could Joshua go forward and possess the promise? See what God is telling Joshua:
1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. Look at the word ‘get ready.’
1. GET READY – POSSESS YOUR PROMISE
Look to the future. Stand up in faith.
