“Go Up and Possess the Land Which I Have

Given You”
Taking God at His Word

Deuteronomy 9: 23 Likewise when the Lord sent you from

Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I
have given you; Then ye rebelled against the commandment
of the lord your God, and ye believed him not, not hearkened
to his voice.

May God add his blessing to the reading of his word.

Here Moses is making intercession for Israel, again. God was going to
destroy the whole bunch and start over, but Moses stood in the gap.
That was the spirit of Jesus Christ in Moses making intercession. That
spirit of God in us is what makes us pray for our brothers and sisters
and our enemies alike. Only the spirit of God in you will make you love
your enemy. Only the spirit of God in us will make us truly forgive our
enemy. And I am talking forgiveness the way God forgives. It is easy to
speak forgiveness and then bring the event up a few weeks, or months
or even years later when that person does something to upset you
again. But when God forgives it is as though it never happened in the
first place. It is remembered no more.

The spirit of Christ was in Moses making intercession for Israel. But
why did Moses have to make intercession? Why was God so angry with
Israel?

They refused to take God at his word! God gave them promises, and
sent signs and wonders to vindicate his word to them, and they
refused to believe him. They rejected the word of God in favour of the
ideas, philosophies and ideologies of men. God not only gave them
promises, but he vindicated those promises to the people and the
people rejected both the word and the evidence. It is no different
today. God is working miracles among his children just like he always
had and people either refuse to believe the miracles, or simply deny
that they are miracles.

God showed them the physical evidence of the promised land. Moses
sent out 12 spies, one from each of the 12 tribes and they brought
back the evidence of the promised land. The people rejected it. They
saw it, they tasted it and they rejected it. Even seeing the evidence,
touching the evidence they still refused to believe or have faith in God.
Quite simply they did not trust God.

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What would we have done in their situation? It is easy to say we would
have been on Moses’ side. But would you, would I? In this situation
what would you have done? Where would you stand? Ten of the spies
said that the opposition was too strong. Ten out of the twelve said it
would be impossible to take the land. Only two of the spies, Joshua and
Caleb trusted in God and believed his word, and gave a testimony that
Israel would be more than able to overcome.

You see, when we look back at these stories, we already know who
Moses was and what the end result was. So we know going in that
Moses was right. We see the behaviour of Israel and think it foolish
because we know in advance that Moses, Joshua and Caleb were right.
But what if we didn’t know?

We have the history books to show us that in the end the minority was
right and the majority was very much wrong. We know in advance that
everything God told Israel about the promised land was absolutely
true. We know in advance that they marched into Palestine and took
over lock stock and barrel. But if we were there, if we were in their
shoes, if we were part of the 2,000,000 standing there at Kadesh
Barnea, if all we had to go on was faith, what the Bible says and what a
minority of preachers said, would we still believe? We are in that
condition today.

Let’s look at some other promises God made and kept. At how people
took God at his word and received the reward. Then lets look at what
God has promised for this day.

How many remember Brother Petit’s sermon? He showed us how God

kept his covenant to Noah, to Moses, to the Amalekites. It took 500
years before God kept that promise about Amelek but he none the less
kept it to the letter. God said he would destroy Amelek and he
destroyed him and his nation to the last man, animal etc. Nothing was
left standing. Do you think anyone believed it? Even Saul the king
could not believe it when God commissioned him to go do it, and
because Saul refused it, he was judged.

God has a land of milk and honey for us. Part of what is on my heart
today, and I will repeat if a few times this morning so it really soaks in.
It is a land of milk and honey, not one land of milk and another land of
honey, but one land of both Milk AND Honey. One land for Israel, one
atonement, one finished work at Calvary.

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John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there
ye may be also.

He is preparing a place, a house with many mansions and for each one
of us a mansion. Not a building, but a new body. We won’t need a
building there. We will have new bodies. We will have bodies like the
angels, perfect versions of ourselves. Do you believe it? Do you really
believe it? That is the promise that Jesus made to us.

It is in our land of milk and honey. The people in Moses day could not
believe even though they were surrounded with signs, wonders and
miracles. They could not believe even though they had vindication of
the message that Moses brought. They could not believe even though
they tasted of the treasures and had witness of the promise.

It is the very same thing today! People will not believe! We had a
vindicated prophet messenger. We have a five-fold ministry. We have
the nine spiritual gifts in operation. We have thousands of recorded
signs and wonders even to the speaking into existence and raising of
the dead. We have Holy Spirit anointed ministries. We have the fruits
of the spirit. We have the gifts of the spirit. We even have photographs
of supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit. We have the Bible.
We have an open revelation of the Bible and people will still refuse to
believe it. The denominations reject it. The world rejects it. And today
even “message people” reject it.

Would we believe Moses’ message in his day? The answer is simple. Do

you believe the message of this hour, in this day? I am not talking
about giving homage to it, but really truly believing it. Do we really
believe it? Do we really believe the revealed word of God for the hour?

Abraham is the father of faith. God gave a promise to Abraham. It was

an impossible promise. We all know the story. He was 75 and his wife
was 65 and God came to them and said he was going to give them a
son. And God waited 25 years before fulfilling that promise to them,
and today there are millions of Jews whose very existence proves that
every word was true. What did Abraham have? All Abraham had was
God’s word. He was already very old and his wife was equally ancient,
and they weren’t getting any younger. Every day they both got older,
day after day for 25 years. That is better than 9000 days. 9000 times
Abraham went to bed old and woke up older, he went to bed weak and

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woke up weaker and the Bible says he fainted not at the promise of
God. Then one day, he wasn’t old any more. Abraham trusted in God.

Look at this elderly couple in the front row here this morning. If I stood
here and told you that they were going to have another baby, and it
was not going to come for another 15 years, who here would believe
me. Think about it. Look at them and think about it. The thought goes
against every sane thought in your head. The idea would be the most
absurd thing you could imagine, that 15 years from now this couple,
who are already into their 80’s, would have another baby. But if God
said it was going to happen, then it would surely happen whether we
believe it or not. The question is would we be able to trust God?
Abraham did. We will look at Abraham a little more later.

God said the very same thing to Abraham and Sarah and God did it
and we say we believe that God did it. Is he not the same yesterday
today and forever? If God is the same then he could do the very same
thing today. This is going to cut a bit but it is the truth.

If we cannot truly believe that this 80 year old couple here could have
another baby 15 years from now then we do not really believe that
Abraham and Sarah had one when he was 100 and she was 90. That is
a fact! If you can’t believe it for today then you do not really believe it
for yesterday. And that is not only for this word, but for each and every
word of the scripture.

It has often been said that we point to what God did in the past, and
we point to what God is promising to do in the future, and we
completely miss what he is doing right at the moment. That is true.
The reason we miss what God is doing today is that we do not really
believe what he did in the past or what he is promising to do in the
future either. It is just a story, a legend, a tradition, or a fairy tale to us.
We ascribe to it, but deep in our hearts we do not believe it.

If we believed it, we would act upon it.

Hebrews 3: 18 And to whom sware he that they should not

enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we
see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Unbelief! What is sin? Smoking? Drinking? Lying? Stealing? What is sin?

Sin is Unbelief! The only sin is unbelief, all the rest that we tend to call
sin are really just the attributes or the fruit of sin. We do those things
because we do not really believe the word of God in the first place. If
we lie it is because we do not believe that God can reveal the truth.

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Every act of unrighteousness we commit, we do so because we first
rejected to believe the Word of God. We do not trust that what is
written is true or that it will come to pass.

What was the sin in Eden? Unbelief! Catch this. Before Eve could
receive the devil’s lie, she first had to reject God’s word. Is that Bible?
Before we can believe a lie, we must first disbelieve the truth. Let that
sink in. And once we reject the truth, we open ourselves up to believe
the most preposterous lies and we will believe those lies with all our
hearts, minds and souls. Want a scripture for it?

2 Thessalonians 2: 10 And with all deceivableness of

unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 and
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie. 12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Pay attention and see the order here? First they receive not the love of
the truth. They hate the truth, but they reject the truth, they willfully
disbelieve the truth, and then they receive a delusion to believe a lie.
Cause and effect in proper order. First we reject the truth, and then we
will receive a lie. And listen close, if we hear the truth and reject it, we
will turn around and start believing lies that we would have never
believed before.

If you reject the revealed word of God for the hour, there is no lie to
absurd for you to receive. Reject this revealed word of God for the hour
and you will be completely blinded to the truth. Reject the light and
you will receive utter darkness. Reject this revealed word of God and
you will open yourself up to insanity. Let’s take that one step further
for those who are used to a little meat.

When we reject the revealed word of God for the hour, we receive the
mark of the beast.

2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them

that are lost. 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them.

The god of this world is the devil, that we all know. He rules Cosmos,
the worldly system. When we reject the love of the truth the devil

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blinds our minds so that we can no longer see the truth. We become
blind to ALL light of the gospel. That is the strong delusion. That is the
blindness. When we receive that blindness from the devil we will be
blind to the Word, we will be blind to all revelation and we will be
totally blind to the signs, wonders and miracles that God uses to
vindicate his word.

We read the Bible of how Jesus was walking around, doing miracles,
healing the sick, raising the dead, etc and we say that the people must
have been completely insane not to recognize who he was simply by
the miracles that were in his ministry. And we are correct. Here was a
man, preaching a Word which they had never heard, and having God
back up that word with signs and wonders as were never seen since
the world began and the majority either could not see it, or accused
him of being “of the devil”. It sounds completely insane.

The book of Acts is being played out in the church today. God is
vindicating his revealed word with signs wonder and miracles just as
he did in Bible times. God sent us a message, delivered by a prophet,
and vindicated with miracles. God is performing those same miracles
today. He is healing the sick. He is delivering the oppressed. He is
bringing prophesy. He is bringing tongues and interpretation
messages. He is showing things to come. He is revealing the secrets of
the hearts. He is speaking into existence. And what is the result?

The world as a whole has rejected the truth. All of the denominations
have rejected the truth. The world has lost its mind. The American
Mental Health Association estimates that 24% of people walking the
streets have a diagnosable mental illness requiring treatment. Do you
understand what that means? If fully one quarter of the world is nuts
by the worlds standards of sanity, what is the real number? Would you
like to know? You would not believe me so I will save that for another
day.

So then what does God really require of us? Did you ever stop and ask
yourself that? It is so easy to quote a scripture, or jump on a favourite
doctrine, but deep down beneath all of that, what does God really want
from us? He wants us to trust him. He wants his children to trust him!
He wants us to believe that what he said is true, and that what he
promised to do, he will actually do.

Psalm 37: 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the

Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 and the
Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them
from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

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We sing the song:
Only trust him,
only trust him,
only trust him now.
He will save you,
He will save you,
He will save you now.

Come every soul by sin oppressed,

There’s mercy with the Lord,
And He will surely give you rest,
By trusting in his word.

God wants us to trust him. He wants us to take him at his word. Do you
trust him today? I’m going to go a little further. I don’t mean to offend
anyone, but a few things might come a little hard. Some may disagree
with me on this, and that is perfectly fine, disagree with me all you
want, just don’t disagree with this word.

Do we trust him? Do we really trust God with all our hearts, minds and
souls? To trust God is to believe his word, and to believe his word is to
act upon his word. Amen? Does everyone understand and agree with
that statement? If you trust God, then you trust that what he said is
the truth, and you trust that he will do exactly what he promised to do.
And if you trust God then you will act as though every word in the Bible
is the truth and you will act as though God will keep every promise that
is written in the Bible. Still with me?

So what are our actions? Do your actions in life demonstrate that you
implicitly trust the Word of God? God said to go and possess the land
that I have given you. Notice he doesn’t say that “I WILL give you” but
rather that I have given you”. He speaks here in past tense. He has
already given it to us and it is up to us to claim it.

What are his promises for today, what has he told us to go out and
possess today, and what are our actions in relation to those promises?
In other words, how much do we trust God? We all know his promise
for tomorrow for us and that is eternal life. But let us look at what
promises God has made for us right now. Let us look at what
possession God has already given to us for this life.

Isaiah 53: 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,

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he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Do we trust god this morning? The prophet Isaiah here, 700 years
before Christ, was prophesying of Jesus Christ, of what he did, and of
what it means to us. And the word of God comes to who? The word of
God comes to the prophets, so this is not a man’s word but God’s own
word. Do we trust God?

It says right here that he took our sins. So do we transgress? He took

it! Do you still have transgression in your life? Trust in God to take it
away, trust in him that he had already taken it, and it shall surely go. Is
that Bible? Do we trust that word? Are you acting upon that word?

It says that he healed us. Are we healed? Or are you sick? Is there
anyone here sick? God said that by his stripes you are healed. Do you
believe it? What are you looking at, your sickness or God’s promise.
What did Abraham look at? Sarah’s 90 year old withered body, or
God’s promise? What are you looking at? What are you trusting in? Are
you trusting in God’s promise, or in how you feel? Are you trusting in
God’s word, or in the doctor’s word?

Now we have nothing against doctors. Medicine is God’s live gift to the
unbelievers. He knew the people would not believe so in his great
mercy he gave them something to ease their pain. But as a Christian
we do not need them. The Bible gives us the prescription for every
sickness, the cure for every disease, all in one pill.

James 5: 14 Is any sick among you? Let him call the elders
of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him
with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Are there any sick here this morning? How long are you going to wait
before you trust in God to keep his promise? Your actions tell your
beliefs. If we believe this word of God, if we trust in God to keep his
promise to us, then we will act according to his promise as it is written
here. If we do not trust in God, then we will go somewhere else and do
something else. I told you it would get a little rough. If we trust in the
doctors more than in God, we will go to the doctor when we are sick. If
we trust God to heal us then we will not bother with the doctors. It is
according to your faith. God will deal with you according to your faith,
according to how much you trust him.

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Nothing against the doctors, thought of becoming one myself once, but
why do we need them? We need them because we do not trust in God.
God’s love gift to the believers was that by his stripes we are healed. If
we truly trust in God then we will not need doctors. But if you doubt
then you better get yourself straight to the doctor. Then go on your
knees and work it out with God so you don’t need to run to the doctor
the next time.

Would we have believed Moses if you had been an Israelite in Egypt

with him? Moses said if you are bitten by a snake to look at the brass
serpent and you would be healed. Today the Bible says to call the
elders of the church if you are sick. If you cannot believe and obey
James chapter 5 verse 14 today when you are sick today, then you
never would have believed Moses message 3500 years ago in the
desert. If you believe and follow James 5:14 today, then you would
have been a Joshua or Caleb in Moses day.

Healing is only one promise of God. And as I said it was not one land of
milk and another land of honey, but one land of milk AND honey. The
atonement paid for healing, AND salvation together. They are one and
the same. If we don’t have the faith for healing how can we expect to
have the faith for the rapture? If we do not have enough faith in God’s
word to believe that he can heal a disease in our bodies then how can
we expect to have enough faith to receive a body change at the
rapture?

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the word of God. If we don’t

have enough faith, then we need to hear more of the word of God. And
you don’t hear more of the word of God by skipping church. We get all
busy, we have to do this, we have to do that, but what if you die
tonight and you skipped church this morning because you had other
things that were more important to you? What if you are skipping
church one morning because you had to go visit a client and that
morning was the morning of the rapture? Would you be taken, or left
behind?

So lets here a little more of the word this morning. Lets take some
examples from scripture of how God keeps his word and of those who
trusted in him to do it. Lets get some faith.

Look to Abraham again for the Bible says that he was the father of
faith. God told Abraham to leave all and take a long journey to a
promised land. Abraham believed God and we know Abraham believed
God because he acted upon what he heard. Are we acting? Abraham
left everything and followed God’s calling for him. Abraham believed
God about the birth of Isaac. And after he was born, God told Abraham

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to go and sacrifice Isaac back to him and Abraham did it without
murmur or complaint. Why?

Hebrews 11: 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried,

offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises
offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said,
that in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that
God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from
whence also he receive him in a figure.

Abraham trusted God. He trusted God’s word and he trusted that God
would keep his word even though everything looked impossible. God
said in Isaac would his seed be called and yet God was asking Abraham
to kill Isaac before he had any children. Abraham trusted God so
completely that he knew that even if Isaac died, God would be able to
raise him back up. Do we have such trust in God?

God told Noah to build and Ark to save the planet. In Noah’s day it did
not rain at all. They had science equal to or possibly surpassing the
science of today. They had a population equal to or greater than today.
God told Noah that he was going to destroy the world by water that it
was going to fall from the sky. In Noah’s day that was totally absurd.
Water did not fall from the sky because there was no water up there to
fall. The earth was on a different orbit and the climate was completely
different.

So Noah was given a word of God that was completely contrary to the
science of the day, and Noah trusted in God and worked for 120 years
preparing for the impossible flood. And after he completed the
daunting task that took him 12 decades and was all ready to receive
the promise, got tested him again.

Genesis 7: 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain

upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of
the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that the lord
commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old
when the flood of waters was upon the earth 7 And Noah
went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with
him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of
clean beasts and of fowls, and of every ting that creepeth
upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two male and
female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to

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pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.

Notice here what it says about Noah. Noah did all that the Lord
commanded him. Noah trusted God. He believed his word and we know
that Noah believe because he acted as though he believed. God gave
Noah a promise and waited 120 years to fulfill that promise. Then
when the time was at hand, he made Noah wait another 7 days for the
fulfillment. I bet those seven days were a record heat wave too. Noah
marched the animals in and got ready and the people outside put on
sunscreen and came down to the ark to make fun of him. They
tormented him as he was loading the animals. They taunted him as he
raised the door. People have not changed. Imagine if it were today,
who would believe him? Today all the TV cameras would be present,
the tabloids would have a field day, and the talk shows would have no
end of jokes. For seven long days and nights Noah and his family sat in
the ark, sweating in the blistering heat, listening to the jeers of the
people outside.

Then on day seven a little cloud appeared and it grew and grew and
opened up and the entire sky was filled with storm from one end of the
earth to the other. What caused the flood? We don’t know, we can
speculate many things, but we do not know. This is what we do know:

Genesis 7: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in

the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

God made an impossible promise, Noah trusted in God and believed

and acted upon that promise, and God kept his promise. God will never
fail. We fail but God cannot fail. He cannot lie. Once he speaks a word
it is truth. God will keep his word every time regardless of
circumstance. God might make you wait it out to test your faith, but
God will ALWAYS vindicate his word and he will never be late.

Lets look at Gideon. He was a simple man but as the Bible says, he was
a man of valour. He was not a politician. He was not a prophet. He was
not a soldier. He was not a man of war and yet God chose him and sent
him to deliver the nation of Israel. And even with this already,
seemingly impossible task placed on his shoulders, God also greatly
diminished Gideon’s resources. Why would God do that? He took a man
that did not have the training or experience necessary, and gave him a

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task that he could in no way fulfill, then he made it even more
impossible.

The Lord wanted everyone to see that it was not Gideon who delivered
them but God who delivered them and with severely diminished
resources nobody could give the glory to man. God wanted them to
see that HE is the miracle God the same yesterday today and forever.
Not by might, nor by strength, but by my spirit saith the Lord.

Judges 7: 2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that
are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into
their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying,
Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to,
proclaim in the ears of the people saying whosoever is
fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from the
mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and
two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 4 And the
Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring
them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there:
and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, this shall go
with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I
say unto thee, this shall not go with the, the same shall not
go. 5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and
the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the
water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set
by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his
knees to drink. 6 And the number of them that lapped,
putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men:
but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees
to drink water. 7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three
hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the
Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go
every man unto his place.

Gideon started with 32,000 men, but if he had gone out with that huge
army they would have thought that they won by their own might. So
God pared them down to 300 men. He took Gideon’s army from
several battalions down to a single platoon. He gave Gideon an
impossible promise and Gideon trusted in God to keep his word and
God surely did and Gideon completely and utterly vanquished the
Midianites from the land.

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Would we be able to trust in God today in such a way? If a group of 300
IDF soldiers from Israel were to attack Iran’s millions, we would not
hold out a hope for them, but Gideon’s 300 attacked and destroyed
their enemy. If God told a platoon of Israeli soldiers to attach Iran,
those 300 men would be in control of downtown Tehran by morning.
Do you believe it? In fact if God took a group of 300 farmers and told
them to attack the United States, the White House would be taken in a
matter of days. Why can we not believe it for today? God is the same.
Man is the same. But the people cannot believe it. Neither could they
in Moses day. Neither could they in Gideon’s day, and neither could
they in Noah’s day.

One day God sent his prophet Elijah to challenge the denominations of
his day. They were being led by a woman preacher by the name of
Jezebel. She was married to the King at the time, Ahab. She led all of
Israel into idolatry. Elijah at that time had commanded, by the spirit of
God, that the rain would not fall for 3 years. This was at the end of the
3rd year. God told Elijah to go to Ahab and challenge the 450 prophets
of Baal and 400 prophets of the grove to a show down on Mount
Carmel.

Elijah was totally forlorn. He saw such abomination in the church that
he thought he was the only one left who believed and obeyed the word
of God. But God told Elijah, you’re not alone, I have reserved 7000 who
have not bowed knee to Baal. Sometimes we get to feeling alone too,
but don’t fear God has reserved unto himself in this day an elected
bride who has not taken the mark of the beast.

God promised Elijah to vindicate his message. Here was Elijah, one
man alone with all the world, all the denominations, all the politics, all
the law, all the society, all they culture completely against him. He was
a hated man, left alone, unwanted, and he came alone to challenge
450 trained preachers to a showdown on their own turf. He not only
challenged them but he gave them first go. Elijah took God at his word,
and proved that he trusted God by his actions and his words. We are
known by our actions and words too.

1 Kings 18: 36 And it came to pass at the time of the

offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet
came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel,
and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these
things at thy word. 37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this
people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou

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hast turned their heart back again. 38 Then the fire of the
Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood,
and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that
was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they
fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the
Lord, he is the God.

Who would we have sided with back then? Would we have trusted in
God or in Baal? Would we have been one of the 7000 minority, or of
the millions of majority? If you want the answer to that question, look
at your life today. Are you one of the few, or one of the many? Are you
part of the World Council of Churches or are you part of Jesus Christ?
Are you in a big organized denominational church or a sovereign local
assembly?

If a skinny little stuttering hillbilly came along with a message from

God that was totally accurate by the Bible and vindicated with signs,
wonders and miracles, would you be on the side of the one man? What
if his message ran contrary to the accepted creeds and dogmas of the
organized religions and still was proved out by the Bible, would you
side with him or with the side of the great churches that would be
against him?

Would you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ according to the

Bible, or in titles of father son and holy spirit according to the big
churches? We had an Elijah in our day, do you believe, or disbelieve?
God promised in Malachi 4:5-6 that he would send a man with the
Elijah ministry in our day. He has come and gone already. Do you live
the message? Elijah believed and lived the message from God, he did
everything that God had commanded, the way God had commanded.

Trust in God. He is not a respecter of persons. He made a promise to

Noah, and he kept it, not because of Noah, but because of his word.
God is obligated to his word. Everything God said he would do, he will
do. There is nothing that will stop the Lord from fulfilling his word. All
he requires from us is that we truly believe and trust his word and he
will do the rest.

Joshua looked up and said “sun stand still”. He had no clue how God
was going to make it happen. He had never heard the laws of
planetary motion. He did not understand classical or relativistic
physics. He didn’t really even know what the sun was. He just knew
that God was in charge and he trusted God and we know that because
he acted upon God’s promise.

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God made Gideon go out to battle hopelessly outgunned so that he
could show that it was God and God alone that provided the victory. He
put Gideon in an impossible situation so that he could show that there
is nothing impossible for God. Gideon believed and trusted God and we
know because his actions tell us.

He sent Elijah out into a hopeless, impossible situation with a promise

that he would overcome. And God fulfilled his word exactly. He never
fails. Nothing is impossible for him. He is God of all, Lord of all, over all.
He is the life giver. He is the healer. He is the redeemer. He is the
victory giver. He is the resurrection.

We worry so much about today. God is the same. Jesus Christ the same
yesterday today and forever. Do you realize what that means? Do you
really understand what that means? It means that each and every
promise, each and every act, each and every miracle written in the
Bible are for today, for you and for me if we will only trust in God to
perform it.

Daniel the prophet thrown into the lion’s den to be eaten. The three
Hebrew boys thrown into the furnace to be burned. John boiled in oil
for 24 hours. Samson. David. Isaac. Jacob. On and on and on. God
made promise after promise and he kept every one, and always on
time. He is never late and even when he seems late by our standards,
he is perfectly on time.

When Lazarus died, Jesus was out of town and he never came back to
town until 4 days after the fact. To the people he was 4 days late, but
he was right on time because he called Lazarus back from the dead
and out of the grave. Martha and Mary trusted in God. We should have
even more faith than Martha and Mary because we have their
experience to draw on. We have a risen saviour.

Look at David and Goliath. Goliath was over 9 feet tall and a trained
warrior with the most modern weapons. David was a young boy. The
entire army of Israel was cowering like scared little puppies at the
mere presence of Goliath. But this little David was ready, willing and
able to fight. Why? He trusted in God.

1 Samuel 17: 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou

comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46
This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the

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carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the
fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all
the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all
this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword
and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you
into our hands.

David had faith in God beyond all that seems reasonable. He was face
to face with a man that was close to twice his height, a soldier and a
warrior. Goliath was armed and armoured from head to toe. David had
only a sling with five stones. And when David went to meet him, he did
not walk, he did not slink, he ran as fast as he could because he was
fully persuaded and trusting in the Lord to perform what he promised
in his word.

We need to get persuaded. We need faith. We need experiences with

the living God. Look at the promises God has for us in our day. He
promised healing. He promised deliverance. He promised salvation. He
promised peace. He promised a rapture. The faith that brings healing is
the very same faith that brings rapture. How long do we have to wait
for God to fulfill his word? That is up to God. Noah waited 120 years.
Abraham waited 25 years. The 120 in the upper room waited 10 days.
Cornelius waited 3 days. Jarius waited a few moments.

To each a time but that time will be fulfilled. We have to trust in God
that what he said will come to pass. And in our day when we have seen
promise after promise, prophesy after prophesy fulfilled. How can we
help but to believe and trust in God. Are you sick? By his stripes you
are healed. The work is done all you have to do is believe and claim it.
It does not matter what the sickness is either. Nothing can stand
before God. Cancer, TB, AIDS, all are defeated before Jesus Christ.

Are you possessed, he hath already delivered you, just claim the
promise. Are you a sinner, claim his salvation that he accomplished for
you at Calvary. The devil is defeated. We already have the victory. Go
up and possess what God has already given you. It is yours free for the
taking.

We have a land of milk and honey right here on earth that God has
commanded us to go and take possession of. That land is the Kingdom
of God, that land is the atonement, that land is the token, the Holy
Spirit of promise, that land is our healing, that land is our deliverance,
that land is our peace, that land is our sanity, that land is our
overcoming power, that land is our salvation, that land is our
justification, that land is our sanctification, that land it Jesus Christ the

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same yesterday, today and forever. That land is every promise, every
miracle, every sign, every wonder, every move of God that is recorded
in the Bible, and that land belongs to you and me.

He made one atonement for all. The price has been paid completely.
There is nothing more to pay, nothing more to do. The atonement for
healing is the same atonement for deliverance and is the same
atonement for salvation. We all have needs. We all have fallen short.
We all have failed to trust him. Take God at his word. He is obligated to
his word. Whatever he said he is obligated to do.

If he said by his stripes you are healed then you are healed. Period.
Now let your actions and your words demonstrate that you trust his
word. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the high priest of our
confession. We must confess it. If we do not confess it, then that is a
sign that we do not believe it.

Don’t testify that you are sick, rather testify that you are healed.
Testify that you are delivered. Testify that you are saved. Live a life
that shows the whole world that you are believing and trusting in Christ
Jesus. We are known by our works and by our words. They are our
fruits and Jesus said by our fruits we shall be known.

Only trust him

Only trust him
Only trust him now
He will save you
He will save you
He will save you now.

Do you need salvation? Trust him and demonstrate that trust. He said
in Acts 2:38-39, repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Do you trust him? Then act on that trust. Believe his word and go forth
and possess the land. Take God at his word and possess his promises.

Do you need healing? Take him at his word and act according to his
word. Do you need deliverance? It is freely given for you today. Trust in
the Lord and he will deliver you for he has already delivered you 2000
years ago. It is just up to you to receive it. He is more willing to give
than we are to receive. Claim it and receive it in the Name of Jesus
Christ.

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