I will give you every place where you set your
foot
Joshua 1:3
I love getting out my prayer lists and
sitting in my comfy oversized chair in the morning to pray for all God brings
my way. But I also realize I need to be out in the world, hitting the streets,
to claim my community for Christ. I want to pray for His will to be done here
as it is in heaven. And, as Sheila reminded us in the interview last week, I
need to see the world around me, up close, in order to do that.
That’s what God told Joshua and the
Israelites. They came a long way to get to the Promised Land—through plagues, forty
years of desert wandering, learning about God and His ways, sometimes the hard
way. And they learned to trust His promises and provision. But when they
finally got to the land He had promised to give them, He had to prompt them to go in and take it.
I can relate to that. It’s more
comfortable to sit at home and believe in Him. It’s easy to get together with church
family and talk about how wonderful God is, and jointly despair over the
problems in our community, our nation, and the world we live in. But God calls
us to go into all the world and see
what He sees, hear what He hears, do what He does. Then we can speak His will
over it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He told Joshua that He would give His
people the land—every place they set their feet. That applies to us as well, in
the spiritual realm. Where will your feet take you today? Will you listen to
God and pray for the needs He shows you? Will you claim your workplace, your
neighborhood, the park where your kids play, your church, the bars, marijuana
shops, casinos, and “adult” stores? All of these are places where people go to
fill the void only God can fill.
He will give us our land if we will
claim it. It’s scary. It means being in places where we may not feel
comfortable. We will see things that break our heart and hear things that make
us angry and tempt us to give up. But keep walking in confidence that God’s
presence and His power goes with you as you take each step of faith.
Do not be
overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21
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