Morning by Morning, January 20 - The "Entire Nation" Crossed Over into the Promised Land
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me begin this day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
"While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan" (Joshua 3:17).
The "entire nation" of Israel crossed over the Jordan into the Promised Land. Forty years earlier, only Joshua and Caleb were ready and willing to cross over (Numbers 14:1-4). Filled with a heart of courage and faith in the goodness and grace of God for the people of his nation, Joshua and Caleb had pleaded with the people in those days to trust God and enter into the Promised Land He had for them: "The land that we went through as spies is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only, do not rebel against the Lord" (Numbers 14:6-9). "But the whole congregation threatened to stone them" (Number 14:10).
That generation died in the wilderness. They never entered into their Promised Land. Rebellion and fear, doubt and unbelief, mistrust and lack of faith were the enemies of their souls that keep them from trusting You and crossing over in faith (Numbers 14:20-23).
But You saw leadership in Joshua and servanthood in Caleb; in these two You saw the spirit of faithfulness, courage, and strength that prepared them to enter into the Promised Land in Your time and in Your way forty years later -- after the season of the wilderness. You said to Moses in his prayer and travail for the people, "My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it" (Numbers 14:24-25).
Like Caleb and his descendants, give us "a different spirit" than those who hold back and turn away from the challenges before them and never enter into all Your promises and provision and purpose. And in this day, may our "entire nation" enter in! May no one be left behind! May there be a mighty revival and great awaking such as we have never seen -- even since the days of the First Awakening, the Second Awakening, the Great Awakening, the Welsh Revival, the Azusa Street Revival, and so many more of the birth-pangs and foretastes of what is yet to come! You said there would be a great "harvest" at "the end of the age" and we are travailing in passionate prayer for that great "harvest" in our days! (Matthew 13:39) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be filled with a different spirit than those who hold back and turn away from all the promises of God, as you are filled with the Holy Spirit of the Living God to cross over into all the Lord has for you in this season ahead, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. And I join with you in prayer for our "entire nation" to come alive in Christ with great revival and awakening in our days! God bless you, my friend!
I'm excited to be teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries again this year, the first week of February -- February 3-7, 2020 in Goodlettsville, TN just north of Nashville. Register today and come join us! Please spread to word to anyone who may be interested in this week-long equipping and experience of healing prayer ministry:
I will be teaching based on my book Free to Be Like Jesus-Transforming Power of Inner Healing and Deliverance, which I'm excited by have endorsed by Max Lucado, Randy Clark, and Andy Reese.
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
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