Entering Your Promised Land
by Gloria Copeland
Since the days of Abraham, God has been promising His people a land of their own. It’s a promise that has captured the minds of the Jewish nation for generations. And it’s a promise that applies to you today as surely as it has ever applied to anyone.
Yes! God has promised to give you a land of your own. Not necessarily a piece of property, but a state of being that’s far more valuable than any plot of ground could ever be.
It’s a place where all the promises of God are “yea” and “amen” in Christ! It’s a land flowing with milk and honey—a land where your every need can be met. It’s a place where you keep sin underfoot, ruling and reigning as a king and a priest with Christ in this life. It’s a place where no weapon formed against you shall prosper. When you occupy your promised land, you are seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above principalities and powers—far from oppression.
As you study the Word of God, you’ll find that’s an accurate description of the kind of victory you should be experiencing in Christ. However, be prepared—there will be some giants along the way trying to keep you from entering into your promised land. But that’s no problem once you get God’s perspective—then those giants will become little more than grasshoppers in your sight.
You may say, “Yes, that sounds like a nice theory, but I’m dealing with reality here, and all I see is poverty, sickness, sin, oppression and fear everywhere I look.”
That’s to be expected—the devil isn’t going to lie down and play dead just because God has promised us the victory. Jesus said, “And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion]” (Matthew 11:12, "The Amplified Bible").
In order to have a share in the heavenly kingdom, you must get “violent” and seize it with ardent zeal! You must not take a passive attitude and mistakenly believe the devil is more powerful than you, because he isn’t! He does not have the power—you do!
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