From Struggle to Triumph: Part 3
From Struggle to Triumph: Part 3 || Day 2
Deuteronomy 11:8-32 NLT
“Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter. If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey! For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden. Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain— a land that the Lord your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year! “If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul, then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil. He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat. “But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship other gods. If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you. “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors. “Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the Lord your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him. Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land. Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you, for the Lord your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land. “Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse! You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today. But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the Lord your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before. “When the Lord your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal. (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.) For you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you take that land and are living in it, you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.”
God is gathering many because each one of us brings something to table for the plan of heaven to manifest. Spiritually speaking, some of you are Benjamites and Gadites because you know how to get down; You know how to do warfare in the Spirit.
Some of you are from Ephraim and Manasseh, because you are the ones that everyone looked over but now God is ready to use you.
Some of you are the sons of Issachar, because you have a keen understanding of the kingdom and what it needs to do right now.
Some of you are of Zebulun, because God has anointed you to take His glory across the seas and into other nations.
Some of you are Danites, because you are anointed to bring justice to the land. That’s why you can’t stand to see babies aborted and wickedness exalted in the land, because it’s not right.
Some of you are from Asher, because by God’s grace and favor He’s going to make you rich so you can give generously to the kingdom.
Some of you are of Naphtali, because God has ordained you to be extremely fruitful in the kingdom.
And some of you are of the tribe of Judah. You have been anointed, appointed, and ordained to bring praise and worship to the house.
Regardless of what He has placed in and upon you this one thing is true; He has gathered you, and is still gathering others to come together and possess the land. He brought you here to take you from struggle to triumph!