Second Call
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· 9 viewsAre you ready for the call to enter the promise land?
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It is not quite time yet, but it will be soon.
It is not quite time yet, but it will be soon.
Play Video: God speaks Samuel
How many times has God called people in the bible to do something again?
How many times has God asked people to believe even when being disappointed before?
What does God feel about people who doubt Him?
Moses had 12 people spy out the land for them.
Joshua had people spy out the land but this time they were not going to be stuck in the wilderness for 40 more years because of fear of the people and giants.
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”
9 “Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
These are important highlights.
We will overcome it, They will be our prey, Their protection has been removed, The Lord with with us...
11 “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.
Caleb hung on to these words, these promises for over 40 years.
We will overcome it, They will be our prey, Their protection has been removed, The Lord with with us...
Moses had 12 people spy out the land for them.
Joshua had people spy out the land but this time they were not going to be stuck in the wilderness for 40 more years because of fear of the people and giants.
The time will come again to take on the giants and receive an inheritance.
If you look at the names of the people who possessed the inheritance you will find counter-fits of what is destined.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6062 עֲנָק
Anakims = “long-necked”.
from = compass, furnish, liberally, serve as a necklace, adorn with a neck ornament, chain, necklace
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6002 עֲמָלֵק
Amalek = “dweller in a valley”.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 567 אֱמֹרִי
Amorite = “a sayer”.
said, speak, answer, command, tell, call, promised, to be called, to boast, self praise.
Vally and high places.
Victim and Anger
The promise land is full of milk and honey.
God is still speaking the language of a child to little children, but He left some things in the land that can help us grow up.
What is your prey?
Prey is what is trying to eat at you.
Prey is something that feels like it can kill you.
Prey is something in the way of you being made whole.
Prey is something in the way of your relationship with God being whole.
Milk is when you want someone else to fill that need in you.
When God does something for us we tend to just want more and more of that.
We want more of what we did not have to work for.
We just want the milk and honey.
Hunger is not your prey
Examples:
Wanting to look in shape = Hunger
Wanting to be loved = Hunger
Wanting to please God = Hunger
Wanting to make this place better = Hunger
Wanting to be more than your current state = Hunger
Wanting the promise land = Hunger.
Wanting to just take a pill or get prayed for to make you in shape = Milk
Getting in shape with hard work or overcoming the idea that eating whatever you want = Prey
Wanting everyone to love you just as you are and for God to make everyone love you = Milk
Letting Grace do its work in you to shape you into a loved child of God = Prey
Wanting God to be pleased with all of you even those bad traits that are hurting you and others = Milk
Letting God visit those places that are not pleasing, believing God even when you dont want to believe what He says about Himself, you, or others = Prey.
The need to pay your bills = Hunger
Feeling like everyone else or the government should do that for you = Milk
Feeling afraid to work or come up with a new business = Prey
Prey is often an expectation to fill a need in your life illegitimately. Or God just may not want to fill it that way.
Milk is when you want someone else to fill that need in you.
At times this can be even wanting God to do it for you when instead He wants to partner with you to take on the prey.
Sometimes God gives us a taste to show us a glimpse of that it can be.
He let us taste and see His goodness even in community.
He showed us the milk and the honey.
Then He says go make this happen on earth as it is in heaven.
He wants our hunger alive, because we need some motivation to kill the prey.
Some examples of God giving a taste:
The garden, the miracles in the first days of the wilderness, the disciples time with Jesus...
What is meat?
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
Food = 1033 βρῶμα [broma /bro·mah/] n n. From the base of 977; TDNT 1:642; TDNTA 111; GK 1109; 17 occurrences; AV translates as “meat” 16 times, and “victual” once. 1 that which is eaten, food.
solid food, including animal meat, contrasted with liquid (1Co 3:2; 10:3; Heb 9:10)
What is meat?
· To become the love of Father to others.
Take action on what God is saying.
Take steps of faith to be a demonstration of love and power to others.
Closing:
Caleb had been feasting on the words that kept him ready for the fight.
We are in that season.
Caleb hung on to these words, these promises for over 40 years.
We will overcome it, They will be our prey, Their protection has been removed, The Lord with with us...
Keeping taking action on what you heard.
Keep those muscles going by reaching out to those who God Highlights to you.
Are you ready for the call to enter the promise land?
Today’s Challenge:
Do you have places in your life your praying for God or other to fix for you that you know God wants to make you strong in?
Ask Jesus to remind you of what He has said?
Give up something this week and feast on what God has said.
Look for opportunities to do the will of Father. Has Jesus already highlighted some one to you?
Other Resources:
For the choir director; set to Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. 1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, For my soul takes refuge in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge Until destruction passes by. 2 I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me. 3 He will send from heaven and save me; He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah. God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth. 4 My soul is among lions; I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows And their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Let Your glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They dug a pit before me; They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah. 7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises! 8 Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. 9 I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations. 10 For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens And Your truth to the clouds. 11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Let Your glory be above all the earth.
25 When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days, 26 they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 “Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 “Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.” 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.” 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.” 32 So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. 33 “There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6062 עֲנָק
Anakims = “long-necked”.
from = compass, furnish, liberally, serve as a necklace, adorn with a neck ornament, chain, necklace
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6002 עֲמָלֵק
Amalek = “dweller in a valley”.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 567 אֱמֹרִי
Amorite = “a sayer”.
said, speak, answer, command, tell, call, promised, to be called, to boast, self praise.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 559 אָמַר, אָמַר
559 אָמַר, אָמַר [ʾamar /aw·mar/] v. A primitive root; TWOT 118; GK 606 and 607; 5308 occurrences; AV translates as “said” 4874 times, “speak” 179 times, “answer” 99 times, “command” 30 times, “tell” 29 times, “call” seven times, “promised” six times, and translated miscellaneously 84 times. 1 to say, speak, utter. 1A (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one’s heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend. 1B (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called. 1C (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly. 1D (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch.
607 II. אָמַר (ʾā·mǎr): v.; ≡ Str 559; TWOT 118—LN 33.368–33.373 (hitp) boast, i.e., speak words of improper self-praise about oneself or an improper object (Ps 94:4; Isa 61:6+, note: others parse Isa. as 3558 or 4614)
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6059 עָנַק
6059 עָנַק [ʿanaq /aw·nak/] v. A primitive root; TWOT 1658c; GK 6735; Three occurrences; AV translates as “compass” once, “furnish” once, and “liberally” once. 1 to serve as a necklace, adorn with a neck ornament. 1A (Qal) to serve as a necklace. 1B (Hiphil) to make a necklace.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 6060 עֲנָק
6060 עֲנָק [ʿanaq /aw·nawk/] n m. From 6059; TWOT 1658b, 1658a; GK 6736; Three occurrences; AV translates as “chain” three times. 1 necklace, neck-pendant. 2 (TWOT) neck.
1 Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 “Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel. 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. 8 “If the Lord is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land which flows with milk and honey. 9 “Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.” 10 But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.
8 Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion,
12 “I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.