The difference between one state and another, or one position or another, or one season or another is our own thinking.
The Israelites were on a journey to the promised Land., the land promised to Abraham for his descendants to inherit. The had been delivered out of the tyrannus hand of the most powerful king and nation in the known world-Egypt. They were brought to the brink of the Promised Land years before and had shown by their unbelief and rebelliousness that they couldn't inherit it. So, for 40 years, the Lord Jehovah leads them through the wilderness and reveals His nature and character to them.
As they are about to enter the Promised Land, Moses now unveils the intention of the past season and reveals the intention of God for their new season.
Deu 8:2 Remember how the LORD your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands.
Deu 8:3 He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the LORD says.
Deu 8:4 During these forty years your clothes have not worn out, nor have your feet swollen up.
In their old season that they were now about to leave behind, God had revealed Himself as God sufficient for every need. Just enough!
When they needed meat, He sent quail. When they needed water, He brought it out of the rock. When they needed bread, He sent manna. When they needed protection, He sent the cloud. And each time it was just enough for the day, time and need.
The wilderness was the land of "just enough" with miracles coming from the heart of God. Clothes didn't wear out and shoes grew with their feet. Sustained in every area, but "just enough".
Deu 8:7 The LORD your God is bringing you into a fertile land---a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills;
Deu 8:8 a land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey.
Deu 8:9 There you will never go hungry or ever be in need.
Deu 8:11 "Make certain that you do not forget the LORD your God; do not fail to obey any of his laws that I am giving you today.
Deu 8:12 When you have all you want to eat and have built good houses to live in
Deu 8:13 and when your cattle and sheep, your silver and gold, and all your other possessions have increased,
Deu 8:14 be sure that you do not become proud and forget the LORD your God who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.
Deu 8:15 He led you through that vast and terrifying desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. In that dry and waterless land he made water flow out of solid rock for you.
Deu 8:16 In the desert he gave you manna to eat, food that your ancestors had never eaten. He sent hardships on you to test you, so that in the end he could bless you with good things.
Deu 8:17 So then, you must never think that you have made yourselves wealthy by your own power and strength.
Deu 8:18 Remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because he is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors.
But now, as they are about to enter the land He had promised them,the Lord unveils what His heart and desire is for them. More than enough!
Bread without scarcity. No lack. Increase of business, silver and gold and possessions and power to become rich. It required a whole new state of thinking. He had taught them in the old season to know that its not their power or might or great strength that gets them this "more than enough" land, but to trust Him and His word -that is what sustains them.
The New Season is about a GOOD land, a FRUITFUL land that the Lord is bringing us into. But, if we do not change our thinking we could end up not possessing it, enjoying it or knowing the Lord of the "more than enough" in it. Our "just enough" thinking will keep us in "lack land", "the land of"just enough".
God's nature of abundance and increase is revealed in His Promised Land-the New Season.
We fight at times to keep the old state of affairs, simply because we refuse to change our thinking. "We can't afford!", "We never have enough!", "We are never going to be able to...!".
And so it goes, our mouths speaking out of the abundance of our thinking. In Ephesians Paul says we should be changed or renewed in the attitude and processes of our thinking, putting off the OLD and putting on the NEW.
We need a whole new mentality for this new land, that we may grasp the "Lord's will be done and kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven".
Dwell in the promise of the Lord for the new land. Spend time in it that you may see and enjoy this GOOD land (season) He is bringing us into.
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