Mobilizing God’s Army
Entering the Promise Land
A
new generation is emerging in the Body of Christ that will not settle for the
promises of the land flowing with milk and honey, but will pay whatever price
and make all necessary adjustments to step
into the substance and tangibility of this promise land. It is one thing to
be prophetic, but it is entirely another thing to be apostolic and work
powerfully with the Spirit of the living God to earth and manifest all the
prophetic speaking of God. Revelation and manifestation is becoming more and
more intertwined and one in a peculiar breed of Christian, an unusual military
force that is rising in the earth today. They hear clearly what God is saying
and with radical faith, sacrifice and obedience, they are entering into the
substance of these promises concurrently. The time between the divine
utterances of God and its manifestation is being removed because a generation
who is both prophetic and apostolic have arrived! It is a generation who hears
and obeys, receives and proceeds; whose actions in the earth are congruent with
the inner coordination of God’s voice in their spirit. In them, the speaking of
God instantly becomes ‘bodily’ and ‘physical’ because of the intense and
deliberate reconfiguration that they have undergone to be a medium for the
prompt conversion of spiritual matters into earthly ones. They are called the
promise land generation!
For
decades, the church has been teaching about the Christian pilgrimage in
relation to the physical journey of the Israelites from Egypt, through the
Wilderness to the Promise Land. Although
the patterns of the Christian walk and the Israelite’s journey bears great
similarities, many in the kingdom have adopted a more physical and natural
perspective to govern their spiritual pursuit and thus weaken the divine spiritual
impetus and faith to expect the swift incarnation of what they have received spiritually.
They fail to realise that in Christ, ALL the promises of God are “YES” and
“AMEN” and believing in Him means entering the promise land (2 Corinthians 3:8).
That as Christians, we no longer journey through a physical wilderness to get to the
promise land, but rather it is the wilderness of “the lack of knowledge” of the
land we have entered into that we have to contend with. It is because of the
lack of knowledge that people perish (Hosea 4:6). But the abundance of revelation knowledge
will suddenly catapult many from the ‘wilderness mentality’ to the abundance of
God’s blessings in the promise land. Our
promise land is Christ Jesus! It is not some journey that we have to take
from one end of the earth to the next, nor do we have to go through the rugged
terrain of life with its tests, trials and tribulations before we are
appropriated to enter the promise land. NO!
We enter the promise land the same day we receive Christ into our hearts. The
natural pressure and constriction we encounter while being in Christ is the
clamour and outcry of this physical world to keep us earthbound and so
interpret and define our spiritual standing and reality from a carnal position.
This explains the struggle and agony of many genuine Christians who are being
led to believe that the promise land is some distant future away and much human
effort must be employed to get there! Sadly, many have become so overwhelmed
with this corrupt earthly carnal thinking, that they have totally abandoned their
pursuit of God and His kingdom. It is time to set the record straight - that
CHRIST is our Promise Land and we entered into the fullness of God’s blessing
and promises on the day of our salvation. And the literal acquisition of all
that belongs to us in Christ hinges on the conversion of our mental wilderness into
the mind of Christ. It is the insufficient knowledge of the promise land in
Christ that is the down fall of many.
I
am seeing that as many begin to subscribe wholeheartedly to this truth and
concept, miracles and manifestations of the many things that they have hoped
and prayed for, begin to take place.
The Joshua Generation
The
Joshua Generation is known by many names, titles and descriptions. But there is one definition that is integral
to the life and ministry of Joshua, which is that THIS was a generation that
entered and tasted the substance and reality of a land flowing with milk and
honey. Before Joshua, this was only a
promise under the leadership of Moses. Moses was instrumental in bringing the
Israelites from Egypt, surviving and enduring the wilderness for 40 years.
During these times, the promise land was only a hope and dream which Moses
promised the Israelites. But it was under the leadership of Joshua that the
Israelites finally arrived at the reality of this promise that they had only
heard about for 40 years.
Interestingly, the name
Joshua is the same name as Jesus. From
the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshu'a) meaning "YAHWEH is salvation". The name Jesus comes from a Greek translation of the Aramaic
short form יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshu'a), which was the real name of Jesus. Here the name of Joshua and Jesus are the same
and carries the same meaning, mandate, purpose and intention of God. It is suffice
then to say, that just as Joshua put an end to the Israelites’ wandering in the
wilderness and dreaming of the promise land and took them to its actual
apprehension and possession; Jesus also ended the wilderness wandering of the
saints and brought us into the actualisation of all God’s promises. Surely all
the promises of God are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ in Christ Jesus!
“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to
the glory of God through us”
2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV
2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV
The
Joshua generation then only applies to
those who believe that in Christ they are in the promise land. Many in
the body of Christ are struggling with this belief and the result is a fruitless,
weak and defeated Christian life. As the Joshua mindset and faith continues to
rise and expand in the church, the power, authority and momentum of the church will
suddenly explode. The militancy of the church will greatly increase and a
generation hungry to possess the land and put the ‘Ites’ to flight will
dominate the very fabric of God’s house. It is truly time for a new mindset,
attitude and spirit to invade the saints and shift the disposition of God’s
house from casual warm, to radical hot! The Joshua generation is the Jesus
generation led by Christ Himself into the promises of the Father. They are
armed for battle and ready to dispossess and crush anything that hinders their
radical advance and forward progression.
Let
us now possess the faith to enter and be a true soldier of Christ in His army
that the Spirit of God is presently mobilizing in the earth!
