A Higher Position

A Higher Position

What are you gathering?

I gather from your situation?

No. You must possess it.

First you must apprehend it. Then you can possess it.

Step by step. Precept by precept. Line by line.

Possess. Step forward. Step up. Accept your promotion. Be elevated. No longer slave but “my chosen”

Delivered for a reason. Freedom!

But there is more! No longer slaves. A new position. A new role, new revelation. New responsibilities.

To view your subjects, your position must be higher than theirs.

Take a stand. Stand on the high tower. Overlook. Over look. Look over! For you are over it. Over them.

A position of authority is yours. Take up your position. Accept your position. Take my offer. Accept my offer.

Like Joshua. Today I will begin to magnify you in the eyes of the people.

Joshua 3:7-8 The Lord said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.

It is time to cross over. Place the rocks in the stream. Step on the rock as you cross over.

Step on the rock. Like a paver it is flat and smooth and solid. It will take your weight. It will TAKE your weight.

What is the point of taking the enemies plunder if you set up camp in the wilderness?

You must possess the promise. The promise is the plunder. The fruit of your faith. It is giant food. Prepared by Giants.

Numbers 13:23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two [of them]; they brought also some pomegranates and figs.

Fruit you did not attend to, I saw it was attended to, on your behalf. The slave possesses the food prepared for by the giant.

Numbers 13:27 They told Moses, We came to the land to which you sent us; surely it flows with milk and honey. This is its fruit.

It is the land of giants that you possess. No longer a grasshopper in your own eyes, but “my chosen” instrument. A threshing instrument. For shall winnow the soil and thresh the mountains.

Numbers 13:32-33 So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the Nephilim [or giants], the sons of Anak, who come from the giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Do you not see? Have you not heard. The grasshopper shall possess the food prepared by the giant. You shall take the food of the giant. You shall not be their food, but shall eat their food. Take it fresh from the orchard. Before it is put on their table. It shall be yours.

Numbers 14:8-9 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

They shall go looking for their fruit, but their cupboard shall be bare. They shall be cut off their land, their produce. They shall go hungry. They shall faint from starvation. They will whither and die. Then you shall possess their house, it shall be as new, it will not be neglected. It shall be as though they just built the house. But then something unexpected happened and they were no more!

Zephaniah 1:13 And their wealth shall become plunder and their houses a desolation. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink the wine from them.

Vacant possession. Possess that which is vacant. For I am moving them out. It shall have a picket fence.

Deuteronomy 6:10-11 And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities which you did not build, And houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,

How will you conduct yourself?

Be like a conductor, for I am composing something, a symphony. The discord you hear now, is just the orchestra warming up! Just wave your hands and there shall be order, there shall be a new song for my glory!

Tap the stick on the lectern to bring order, to bring pause.