FROM MANNA TO FRUIT OF THE LAND PART 2

Exodus chapter 19







Today we are walking in: From Manna To Fruit Of The Land




Exodus 3:18


And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, H4057 that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.




Today we look to the word-WILDERNESS- H4057 midbar --wilderness, pasture, uninhabited land




The Torah testifies.......................................




Genesis 16:7


And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, H4057 by the fountain in the way to Shur.




Exodus 4:27


And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness H4057 to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.



Numbers 14:33


And your children shall wander in the wilderness H4057 forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. H4057




Deuteronomy 1:31


And in the wilderness, H4057 where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.





The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 42:11


Let the wilderness H4057 and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.



Isaiah 43:19


Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, H4057 and rivers in the desert.



Jeremiah 9:12


Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, H4057 that none passeth through?



Ezekiel 20:13


But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: H4057 they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, H4057 to consume them.






The Writings bear witness.............








Joshua 1:4


From the wilderness H4057 and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.




2Chronicles 1:3


So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. H4057




Nehemiah 9:19


Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: H4057 the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.



Psalm 65:12


They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: H4057 and the little hills rejoice on every side.



Psalm 78:15


He clave the rocks in the wilderness, H4057 and gave them drink as out of the great depths.









SECOND THING YOU NEED - WEAPONS TRAINING
Joshua had to walk the promise out. For hundreds of years, the children of Israel had their promise in their possession, since before Moses, since the time of Abraham, since the time Abraham walked on the land... their promise was written in stone. But not once did they eat the fruit of that land until one day Joshua picked up the sword, led them across that Jordan river, and took Jericho down. They had to fight for the land that The Most High had promised and it was in the days of Joshua that they saw the promise that The Most High had given to them fulfilled. You are saying, “Most High, why is my promise not fulfilled?” Last year, the year before, the year before that... The Most High had given you one promise after the other, and you are still saying, “Most High, where is my Promised Land?” Well, here is the thing - where is your sword? Do you want to survive on manna for the rest of your life, or do you want to take the land that The Most High has indeed given to you? Well, then you are going to have to pick up your sword. That is why this season that lies ahead of you is a season of spiritual warfare. Now, before you think it’s the kind of warfare where you are sitting at home and the enemy comes banging on your door, and you have to defend yourself, I want you to think again. The Israelites were bold, and they were courageous. They picked up their swords. They picked up their ram’s horn, their harps, their tabernacle, and everything else they had in their possession. They went into the land that belonged to the enemy, and they took it back. They didn’t accept the wilderness as their home any longer. They were determined to walk the promise out in obedience according to the rules The Most High had set with His power. This is a season of warfare and of faith. This is a season to pick up your sword in faith, stretch it out in hope, and to overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony.
YOUR FIRST STOP - OPPOSITION
Tell me child of The Most High, is your promise worth fighting for? What is the first thing that happens when we receive a promise from The Most High? You get so excited! You can’t wait to tell the whole world. You make plans. You make preparations. You start praying and quoting the Word, and getting in there. Then the first thing that happens is that a big, fat, wall called Jericho hits you right in the face, impossible to penetrate. The first thing that hits you is opposition, and the first thing that goes through your mind after that is, “I missed The Most High! Because surely, if The Most High is leading me in this way, wouldn’t the Gentiles and Philistines just have laid their swords at my feet? Would the doors not just have opened? Would the king of Jericho not have come, opened his big doors to his city, and said, ‘Come on in, take my house, feel free! Please, take over!’ If The Most High is leading me in this direction, why all the opposition?” It’s because the rules have changed. Now, you can stay in the wilderness, and you can have your little dish of manna every day and be content therewith, but then don’t complain to The Most High because you are not seeing the promises fulfilled in your life. Let me tell you, He is promising you this year of blessing. He has been promising it to you for some time now, in fact. Is it important enough for you to fight for? Because, the first thing that is going to happen when you actually allow the seed of faith to grow in your heart is that you are going to face the Philistines, the Amalekites, and everybody else that is going to come against you. Yet again, we have a strange doctrine that says, “Well, the doors didn’t open... I guess that direction wasn’t of The Most High...” Anything worth anything in this world is worth fighting for. It’s when you have fought so hard for something, that it has value. Tell me, what price did Yahashua pay for salvation? What price did Apostle Paul pay to give you the gospel today? What price did Peter pay to give you the gospel today? What price did Abraham pay to birth a new generation? So, was Abraham unled when he left his family, still with no son, and he faced one opposition after the other? His own cousin opposed him. Was he unled? Was Yahashua unled when the people turned against Him and spat in His face? So, when we face opposition after The Most High gives us a promise, why do we say that we are unled? Do we think that it’s just going to fall at our feet? Take a good look in the spirit and see that there is a sword in your hand - a double-edged sword that cuts the through the joint and the marrow, the light and the dark. You will see that there is a word of The Most High in your spirit that when it’s sent forth, it doesn’t return void. And you know, when I look at the journey that Joshua took with the Israelites, they didn’t just fight one little war, or two little wars... they fought until they had overcome. Here is the hard part - when the opposition comes from Kora, and the guys that are closest to you like your family, your loved ones. I have this promise from The Most High. This is what I believe The Most High wants us to do. They think, “Are you mad? Where did you get that from? You are in deception. You are crazy! That is never going to happen!” You get so discouraged. For a little while you try and cling to that promise, but then you end up fighting so much with everybody who is opposing you that you forget that you are meant to be fighting for your promise, not against everybody else who is opposing your promise. What just happened? Your hope got distracted. Now, instead of focusing day and night on the promises of The Most High, you are focusing day and night on what everybody has done to you. Then you say, “The Most High, why is your promise not being fulfilled?” He says, “Did you meditate on it day and night? Did you cling to it? Did you walk it out? Did you allow me to fulfill it through you?” The Most High wants to bless you. The Most High wants to meet every promise that He has given you. How many more years must it be written in stone, before you pick up your sword and take that land that He said He has given? Opposition doesn’t mean that you missed The Most High. Opposition means that you have to fight. Pick up that sword in the spirit once again, because you have begun to think, as the children of Israel began to think. “Perhaps, we thought amiss. Perhaps, I put too much emotion into it. Perhaps, I misunderstood The Most High and He didn’t really mean what He said...” You forgot to meditate. You forgot that you are meant to have that word on your mouth day in and day out until it’s all you know, until it’s all you think, until it’s all you feel. But, what have you been meditating on? What have you been speaking? What have you been confessing? “Well, I tithed, and then I took my favorite scriptures, and I paced up and down, up and down, up and down, and now my blessing is going to come.” Go watch the Law of Obedience. It takes a little bit of time. That might get you some manna, but if you want to take your Promised Land, it’s going to mean walking it out in obedience - step 1, step 2, step 3. What has The Most High asked you to give up? Where has The Most High asked you to go? What has The Most High asked you to take on? What load has He called upon you to carry? What character trait has He asked you to put on the cross? Because every instruction that He has given you, just like He gave to Joshua, leads you closer to your Promised Land. Didn’t it seem strange to walk around the walls of Jericho? Didn’t it seem strange to send the priests and the ark ahead into a flooded Jordan river? Yet, as he obeyed the letter of the law, The Most High was faithful. Just as it said there, “I will be with you wherever you go. I am the driving force. I am the power that brings down the walls. I am the power that parts the waters. I am the power that stops the sun in the sky. I just need you to fight. I need you to want it badly enough and to do according to what I have told you to do.”