Today, March 7, 2012 I had the opportunity to attend and participate at 2 Areas (Pendleton/Anderson and West Indy). Tomorrow will be the Martinsville Town Hall meeting. I will share the results of these meetings by the end of this week.
I have said that I will share Taking the land story; here it is:
In Numbers 13, Moses instructed the 12 people to explore the land of Canaan to find out what the “Promised Land” look like. Moses wanted to know what’s the kind of soil, is it a fortified and walled city, and to bring specimen of fruits from the land. They found out that indeed, the land was flowing with milk and honey as promised by God dozens of year ago. However, they all saw that there were giants in the land.
The explorers came back to report to Moses. All of them saw all what’s good in the land and they all saw the giants. The 10 of the 12 explorers told Moses and the people not to go there because they will be annihilated by the people. However, 2 of the 12 (Caleb and Joshua) said that they can take possession of the land.
Here’s the application in our modern time:
We have to come together to once again explore our neighborhoods. We need to identify the needs and the resources and to mobilize our people to take our neighborhoods back. God told the people in Moses time to “take the land”. We are to take the land before the enemy take total control of it. We don’t have to look far to see neighborhoods that are deteriorating because of many things, some of them are non-participation of the residents or because of neglect. Some of them are immobilized by the giants such as drugs, violence, immorality and the feeling of helplessness.
In Numbers 13 and 14, there were 2 camps of people:
- those who were afraid, those who did not want to take action and those who were not able to possess the Promised Land
- and, those who believed in God against all odds, those who took the courage to take and received the promise
Whose camp are you?
Our generation is responsible for the next generation. If we don’t take back our neighborhoods, we will be driven out from it (both spiritually and physically). We can be a generation that will leave it to the next or the generation that will not settle until the promise has been received. I am for the latter generation that will take action to “take” the land, a generation that will change the course of history and will leave a legacy for the future generation.
