The time is now! This is the generation with the spirit of Caleb. He made the people shut their mouths when they were afraid to believe in the Lord. Let us go and take the land. The Lord is with us and He will make us go forward. We need to lift up our eyes and see our inheritance. “What is my inheritance? Which is my city? Which is my state? Which is my country? Which is my continent? I want to lift up my eyes.”
Genesis 13:14-15 says, “And Jehovah said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Now lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed forever.” Lot was a believer who wanted to have an easy life and cared only for his own things. Once he left Abraham, God was able to lift up Abraham’s eyes to see all that He had prepared for him.
Joshua was raised up to take God’s people into the land, but he was afraid. So Moses encouraged him and God encouraged him. He was encouraged and he conquered 31 cities with 31 kings. But then in five years he asked for retirement. But the Lord went to speak to him. Joshua 13:1 says, “Now Joshua was old and advanced in age; and Jehovah said to him, You are old and advanced in age, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.” Praise the Lord, the Lord raised Caleb to go and encourage Joshua.
Joshua 14:6-10 says, “Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh- barnea. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned such a word to him as was genuinely upon my heart. However my brothers who went up with me made the people’s heart melt, but I fully followed Jehovah my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God. And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old.”
Moses had called the leaders of the people to go to spy out the land. When they came back, they said, “Oh, the land is good, look! We need two people to carry this cluster of grapes. But there are giants everywhere. In their eyes we are so small. We cannot go into the land, we are so small, like grasshoppers. But Caleb made the people be quiet because in him there was a different spirit. This different spirit is the Spirit which today we can enjoy! The Spirit today is much more complete than the Spirit Caleb could enjoy. Verses 11-12 say, “Today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in. Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.”
I hope that today, you see your school, your college as a hill promised to you by the Lord. May you see today the city where you live as a hill of the promise. Even your country, can be an inheritance for you. But while there is an inheritance, the chance to possess it does not last long because the Lord is finishing His work through those who cooperate with Him. Jesus is the Lord. John 4:34-35 says, “Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest.” Saints, the Lord wants to entrust Himself to us, but He does not trust in human nature. He wants to see our waterpots broken. He wants to see our testimony, so people might believe. He wants to see us testify so that the Samaritans and the foreigners may believe in the Lord.
Verse 36, “He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.” Our crown is the fruit and the fruit is in the field which is already white for the harvest. Let us not wait anymore. There is no more time for us to wait. The Lord has an inheritance for us. Wherever the Lord sends us, this is the place that will be our inheritance. Do you know why? Verse 38 says, “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Everything is ready. The Lord has already prepared people’s heart. In some way most people have heard the name of the Lord; they have heard something of the word of the Lord. Their heart already has a seed. Some of them are facing a crisis or problems; they are fully ready to be reaped. Everything is prepared, so let us lift up our eyes and see the field. Amen! This field is our inheritance. This inheritance is our crown, our victory, but today the Lord wants to break our waterpots. I would like to end this meeting giving the opportunity for some brothers and sisters to come here and break their waterpots. Come and pour your heart out to the Lord. “I want to make a decision. Enough of staying in my situation!” This waterpots will break and the good smell will fill up the entire house. So let us pray and while we pray, some come to the front.
“Lord, we praise you! Lord, we praise you! And we glorify you for your word that is spirit, that is life. We want to believe into Your words, which are powerful to save us. Lord, how many things separate us from You. How many husbands! Even someone who is not our husband. Lord, our waterpots separate us from You. I want to break my waterpot, to receive You so that my innermost being may have a fountain gushing up to eternal life. When I come back to my city, I want to testify. I want my life to be a testimony that the Lord is good, that the Lord is powerful to save me. Lord, gain me fully. Lord I want your life. Lord, I want You to be able to trust in me because You are the One living in me. Lord, give me a hill, a hill as my inheritance where there is my prize, my crown! Jesus is the Lord.”
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