A Prepared People Postured for the Promise

Abraham and his descendants were the smallest nation in the world, but God chose them as an example nation because of His love for them and so that they would be His representative to all other nations of the world(Deuteronomy 7:7).

Abraham was known as the friend of God (Isaiah 41:8) because he was obedient every step of the way of his calling and loved Father God relationally.

The call of Abraham was a call to the world back to God. God used the bloodline of Abraham in which Jesus our Savior was sent to redeem us to the Father. Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world to bring us back to right fellowship with our spiritual father and to bring us into our spiritual inheritance (Read Ephesians 1). So, just like Abraham was chosen by God, Ephesians 1 says that we were all chosen from the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before Him and to be His ambassadors in the earth.

As we are possessing the land and moving into new places in God, we must make sure we are posturing our hearts before God with humility. Even we have already been prepared for the prepared place, but God says we have to seek after the treasure He has put within us (2 Corinthians 4:7). This treasure is the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The earth was created for us to have dominion in it and manifest God’s will in the physical realm. Everything was made for Him and belongs to Him.

The unique journey you are on to the promised place is more about the development of your relationship with the Lord, than achieving some big thing in the earth. God is testing us to see if our heart is sincere toward Him and if He can trust us with His plans for the earth.

God showed Abraham the promised land (Canaan) before He ever inherited it and told him that he would be a father way before he ever had any children (Genesis 15). Still Abraham did not transgress the covenant between him and God before he saw those things come to pass. He definitely made mistakes, but He never lost faith in the words that God comforted him with…

God wants to use your life to fulfill His plans in the place He has promised you. This land has many great things for you, but you have to be found faithful to the God who promised it to you (Read Deuteronomy 30).

Let’s examine our posture and relation to God as we are contending for the promise. Jesus took time to pray every step of His journey and only did what the Father did. Let’s stay in step with the Holy Spirit as he navigates us through our journey.

6“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

Deuteronomy 7:6-11

5For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Corinthians 4:5-7

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind. Psalm 115:16