This is “Three Secrets to Entering Your Promised Land”.
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numbers chapter 13. that’s where i want
to go numbers chapter 13
verse 28 nevertheless the people who
dwell in the land are strong the cities
are fortified very large moreover we saw
the descendants of giants there
and they go on and say and the land just
eats people up
caleb quieted the people verse 30 and
said let us go up and take possession
for we’re well able
to overcome it and now quickly i want
you to look at one verse of scripture in
the new testament hebrews chapter 3
hebrews chapter 3
and
the last verse says so
we see they could not enter in
because of unbelief
i want to talk to you for just a few
moments something very strongly the lord
laid on my heart i’ve never shared this
message but it’s for you
and i want to teach you today three
secrets to possessing
your possessions or entering
into your promised land
god has one for you
a land of promises
that he has made concerning you and
yours
i was thinking about how that
the night that god called me to preach
was such an encounter that i had with
the lord in that
room where i was
that i heard the lord say these words to
me if you will go i will go with you
if you will go i will go with you and
i’ll show you things
that you never dreamed
and all i had was that word from the
lord but i had been given a promised
land
and i knew that god had spoken it to my
spirit
and there are many of you here
this morning
or this afternoon who need to understand
the importance of your faith
i want you to notice what happened in
this story the bible said that the ten
spies came back
12 of them came back two of them had a
good report but ten came back
and they said
listen
there’s grapes there the size
of
of watermelons there’s there’s
incredible
productivity in the land
but then they started bringing up these
excuses the people are strong people
they gave four excuses four reasons why
they could not enter said the people
that are against us are very strong
and then they said and not only that
they have a superhuman
army
backing the strong people that they are
their sons of anak are sons of giants
they’re giants in the land also not just
that the people are strong but they’ve
got super warriors that are even
stronger than the strong people they’re
giants
and then they said there are walled
cities they’re thick walls around their
cities
and then they said and the land that
they inhabit eats people up
i want you to notice what they’re
focusing on on what they saw
not what god said
we need to be reminded and refresh and
renew our minds on what god has said
more than what we see
god said in deuteronomy 6 23 i brought
you out to take you in
to a land a promise flowing with milk
and honey
god didn’t bring you out to wonder in
the wilderness
god did not bring you out
to become stagnant
to become intimidated to become
frustrated to become without direction
but he brought you out to bring you in
if he saved you and brought you out of
sin
he didn’t just bring you out but he has
something he wants to bring you into and
my question to you this afternoon is
what’s keeping you out
well they said the walls the walls are
keeping us out the giants are keeping us
out the strong opposition of the people
that are coming against us are keeping
us out
and the
the territory the terrain is too too
difficult to overcome that’s what’s
keeping us out
and you know the more they hashed and
rehashed the walls and the giants and
the strength of their enemy and the and
the difficulty of the terrain
the the thicker the walls got the taller
the giants got the the more difficult
the terrain got and the people got
stronger but god
said i’m going you’ve heard man’s
appraisal of why they’re not entering in
they blame it on giants they blame it on
walls they blame bait on strong people
who are against them they blame it on
the terrain or natural circumstances
that they can’t overcome because they’re
not big and strong enough to do it
physically but god said you want my
appraisal of the situation here’s one
answer one answer hebrews chapter 3 the
verse that i started with and he said
they could not enter in because of
unbelief
god’s
observation
said
it’s because of their unbelief
the walls did not stop them
the giants didn’t have anything to do
with them not going in
the giants didn’t stop them according to
god the walls didn’t stop them the
strong people inhabiting the land did
not stop them the terrain did not stop
them god said all you had to do was
believe me
now you you’re giving excuses as and all
of us do this we all do this but the
truth is if we don’t enter into the
promised land for our families and our
children and our children’s children and
the destiny that god has for all of us
it will not be because the giants were
too mighty or the walls were too thick
or they were too big for our god to
triumph and overcome there’s only one
reason and he said it’s because you
don’t believe what i told you
r.w schambach who preached in this
church
and put me on tv he was an evangelist
and a pentecostal evangelist and he took
up an offering
back in the old old church
on a sunday night
and we didn’t have but you know a few
hundred people back then it wasn’t a big
massive church that it is now and he
took got up and said the lord told me
this boy supposed to be and i was a boy
then he’s supposed to be on tv and he
took up an offering and got a hundred
and forty something thousand dollars
cash and we bought tv equipments
the tv equipment that we needed but he
used to say you don’t have no problems
all you’ve got is faith in god
never forgot that saying
what’s keeping you out of your promised
land
number one unbelief will keep you out
if god said it it’s time to stand up and
believe it
as for me in my house we will serve the
lord he is jehovah rapha the lord that
healeth thee but my god shall supply all
my needs according to his riches in
glory through christ jesus has anybody
made up your mind that the lies and the
giants and the walls of resistance are
not going to stop you from inheriting
those promises if so give god a praise
right now
unbelief
must be conquered
i’m hurrying to get to the thing i
really feel i’m supposed to get to
the second thing that kept them out was
intimidation
intimidation
the bible said that
two of the spies said we can do it and
we all know their name joshua and caleb
but 10 said we can’t
and nobody knows their names
you don’t know why because nobody wants
to remember people
who tell us what we can’t do
if you want to be remembered
you better tell people what they can do
tell your family what they can do tell
your children what they can do don’t
just be a cant be a can
i i honestly
i couldn’t tell you the times
that god shoved me out
because he knew i was too intimidated to
step out and obey him and i got shoved
it’s like that little story i tell
sometimes about the multi-millionaire in
texas had a massive olympic-sized
swimming pool behind his mansion having
a barbecue invited all of his friends
over they went down to the swimming pool
and it was full of alligators
full of them
and they said why is your why is your
pool full of alligators he said well
the number one quality that i admire
above all others is courage
and he said it’s known around these
parts that anyone who’s willing to jump
in one end of my pool and swim to the
other through the alligators i will
write on the spot a million dollar check
they turned around and started walking
back up and all the sudden they heard
splash
they turned around and they watched a
man
swimming like an olympic swimmer and
almost walking on the water somehow he
came out they were chomping and somehow
he came out alive
and the millionaire went running and he
said oh my god i’ve never seen courage
on display like that and all my life
that was amazing but here who do you
want me to make the check to he said i
just want to know who pushed me in
sometimes you got to be shoved sometimes
you got to be pushed i can’t tell you
the times when i didn’t want to do it i
was scared to death they didn’t know if
they knew how intimidated i was they
would say poor pitiful thing but god has
a way of taking people who his hand is
on and shoving you out there and when
you get out there the gift will make
room for you the gift will start opening
doors no man can shut the gift will pay
the bills the gift will save your family
and the lord says get ready for a shove
women you’re about to have god push you
out into where he’s called you to go
everybody take a praise break and i’ll
keep moving
this is the last point
i mean
when you understand
that intimidation
and unbelief
kept them out of their promised land not
giants not walls
not
terrain not strong enemies that haters
that can’t keep you out
the only thing that can keep you out is
unbelief intimidation and here’s the
last one
a grasshopper complex
you know
they said we are as grasshoppers
in our own sight and so we are in their
sight talking about their enemy
we are and were as grasshoppers in our
sight
and so we were in their sight
how you see yourself
and how the in determines how the enemy
sees you
and if you have poor self-image of
yourself
the enemy is going to agree with you
we saw ourselves as grasshoppers
and they agreed when we said where’s
grasshoppers aren’t we and and they said
yes you are
but here’s what got me that i’ve never
seen this i’ve never heard this i’ve
never seen this
this messed me up
this is the whole sermon that i’ve been
hurrying to get to
here it is
they said we
were
in
our plural we plural
in our sight as grasshoppers the problem
was not only how i see me
but it’s how i see you
it’s how i see you
not just me
that can determine whether or not i get
into the promised land
it’s how if i see you
and you
and you
and you
and you as grasshoppers grasshoppers
that she’s not important she’s not
important she’s not important well she
doesn’t have that much money and she’s
not that she’s not this she doesn’t have
the right kind of red bottom shoes
she
and you and you and you and you and when
you start seeing
others that god has called you to be
grouped with
as insignificant
they had an improper respect
for each other
the grasshopper is just the little
insect that you step on
it makes no difference
there’s nothing special about a
a grasshopper
and god said the reason they can’t go in
is because they see each other as
grasshoppers
they see their children as grasshoppers
you might be talking to the next
president of the united states
you might be changing the diaper of the
next of the next senator from georgia
quit seeing those whom god has put in
your life as grasshoppers because your
children and your children’s children
are part of the plan of god’s destiny
for you and your life
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i’m telling you i’m so glad when i came
to this church 30 something years ago
and stood in that pulpit when i got up i
made crazy statements like
one of these days
we’re going to preach the gospel
to the whole world
from these red
hill clay these red clay hills of
northeast georgia
and maybe 300 people
did he say the whole world
but i didn’t see those people as
grasshoppers
oh i feel like shouting
when you hear your little child in there
having piano lessons don’t see them as a
grasshopper they may be the next
songwriter that brings a song that
touches the world when you see that
child and we need god to show us who we
are and who we have around us
there’s not a grasshopper in this
building this afternoon
because here’s the deal
they didn’t make it in
not because of the giants and the walls
but because of unbelief
because of intimidation
and because
they saw themselves and the others
around them
there were people in this church
who god would give me messages
and i would preach them like i believed
it
and i i knew it was going to take
millions and millions of dollars to do
everything god’s called us to do
and so i knew there wasn’t enough money
in that building right there to get it
done so i had to stop seeing those
people as grasshoppers
i’m not praising myself but god gave me
lenses of faith and i would see them as
some of them as multi-millionaires well
well well oh yeah i don’t believe that
that would happen that’s why grasshopper
why don’t you get a new revelation and
say you know what if that’s part of
god’s plan and i can’t shake it i might
as well just get under the blessing and
say god is no respecter of persons and
he doesn’t just have to have me maybe
the next trillionaire ought to be a
woman of god full of the holy ghost
why don’t we stop seeing ourselves as
grasshoppers you don’t need a man you
got a man his name is jesus and he’ll
supply all you need
and then get a man
i dare you to reach over and grab a
woman and link up with her and say let’s
march into the promised land together
i’m not asking are you a grasshopper
because i’m not one and i don’t want to
link up with no little pitiful poor me
pitiful me woe is me
he left me who gives a rip jesus said
i’ll never leave you i’ll never forsake
you
grab hold of a sister and say let’s do
this
we can do this
we can raise families in a demonic time
we can raise champions for the glory we
can see our sons and daughters prophesy
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