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Date: Sep 06, 2004

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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               Possess Your Promised Land

Rise up child of Mine. Do not accept defeat and despair any longer.  For 
the enemy of your souls would torment you, he would kill and destroy and 
steal from you.  But I would give you life and victory and peace and joy. 
One or the other must rule over you.  Which do you choose?

If you choose life and victory, then you must rise up in obedience and 
you must walk in faith.  Yes, there are times that I go before you and 
fight on your behalf.  But most of the time I choose to involve you in 
the process, just as I involved the Israelites in taking their promised 
land.  Most of the time I will ask you to fight for your promised land, 
and I will be with you in the battle to support you and make you 
victorious.  That is why you must learn to depend on Me, that you might 
experience My faithfulness, so that as you step out, I step out with you. 
As you draw your sword in obedience to My command, I wield that sword 
with you, to defeat the enemy of your soul and to push aside any 
hindrances that keep you from walking in the destiny that I have prepared 
for you.

Do not be like the first generation of the children of Israel who I 
led out of Egypt to the border of the promised land.  For they were 
not willing to obey Me to go fight for their promise, and they did not 
receive it.  They chose to allow fear and disobedience to rule over them.  
And all that yielded them was useless wandering in the desert. They died 
without receiving their promise and they never walked in their destiny.  
That was because of what they chose to rule over them. 

Be like the second generation, who trusted Me enough to cross over the
Jordan and to enter into the promised land. They fought at My command 
and they experienced My faithfulness, for I fought with them.  I thrust
them into victory after victory and I gave them all that I promised
them, once they became involved in the process with Me.  And child,
I will do the same in your life as you rise up and walk in faith and in 
obedience to Me.  

As you obey Me, you will possess the promises that I have made to you --
but only as you obey.  For the closed doors will remain closed until you 
walk right up to them and command, "Open in the name of the Lord." If
you hang back and watch at a distance, the doors will remain closed. You
can pray and you can plead with Me, but I will not open those doors for 
you until you obey what I have already commanded you. You walk right up 
to those doors in faith.  

I am faithful to keep My promise, but I expect you to rise up in obedience 
and act on what I have instructed you to do.  You must do your part, you 
must obey Me and you must walk in faith.  And then, as you step forward, 
I will step forward with you.  And as you face any hindrance to My 
command, I will knock it aside and enable you to keep on walking forward.  
For when you obey Me, then I empower you and nothing can hinder you or 
prevent you from reaching the goal. Nothing can prevent My obedient ones 
from possessing the promises that I had made to them, for I will surely 
perform it on their behalf as they step forward in obedience.

So rise up, child of Mine. Hold back no longer. Go and possess your
promised land, for I will go with you and I will empower you.