Have I learned the difference between wanting and wishing? humm…

I have a feeling that there are many unclaimed riches in Christ’s hands.  Lately I have been struck with my need to make every effort to possess the riches that are mine in Christ. Possessing my riches is very much like Joshua and the Israelites going into that place (the land) that God promised them – which is not a picture of salvation as so many have conjectured.  Going into the promised land and possessing it was meant to be a picture of the believer learning to possess what they have in Christ (something we call “growth” or in other words “being built up an established in your faith” – maturity).   In that place, the promised land (“that place in Christ”), there is victory over self, deliverance from sins of the flesh, a constant flow of the Holy Spirit, fruitfulness in service, awareness of the presence of God, growth in grace and an unbroken spirit of worship.

God says, “go in and possess the land!”  But we must remember these do not come automatically.

Here are four propositions:

1. You will get nothing unless you go after it -Joshua had to fight the enemies.

2. You may have as much as you insist upon having.  “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours…” Deuteronomy 11:24a

3. You will have as little as you are satisfied with.  God doesn’t make a person more godly than he or she wants to be. God doesn’t transform a person more than they are willing to be transformed.

4.  YOU NOW HAVE AS MUCH AS YOU REALLY WANT.  “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”  Matthew 5:6

Sunday I mentioned that you could go to the website and get a word study/ my  talk  on Colossians 2:4-15 on the website. Several of you have mentioned that you didn’t get a hard copy and are still working through those amazing ideas of “all the fullness of deity in bodily form”, circumcision, baptism, etc.

You can download that PDF by clicking here.

Press on to know the Lord…   Dan   hosea 6:3