Lord - Give me this Mountain!

Possessing your Mt Hebron

After the Children of Israel have wandered in the desert for 40 years, Caleb goes to Joshua and petitions him for Mt.Hebron. You can read the story in Joshua 14:10-13

In the book of Numbers, we are told that Caleb was one of the twelve spies that Moses sent into the Promised Land. He was one of the two that brought a good report concerning the Promised Land.

So - fast forward and we now find him in the Book of Joshua asking for a particular piece of land. One is left to wonder why - what is it that he knew about this Mt..that no-one else knew? And are there any lessons we can learn?

To make it even more difficult, Caleb is asking Joshua to possess the land where the sons of Anak the Giants lived. In fact Joshua 14:12 tells us that the cities where "great and fenced". However, Caleb trust that if the Lord be with him, he would conquer the giants and posses the Land.

You know why Caleb was asking for this land? Because this was the choicest / best piece of land!Read Numbers 13:22-23

BUT this is not what I want you to see. What I want you to consider with me today is that you and I have a Mt. Hebron that we are asking God for! For us to enter and possess our mountain, we have to deal with and overcome some of the following:

- The Anak giants of the land (Debt, Poverty, Lack)
- The Canaanites (Control, Manipulation)
- The Amalekites(Depression)
- The Hittites (Fear)
- The Jebusites (Rejection)
- The Amorites (Pride)

REMEMBER - GOD has ALREADY given you the Land! What he want from you is the Spirit of Caleb - bold, tenacious, an asker, willing to fight. God is looking for you and I to say what Caleb said - "If God is with me" I will POSSESS the land. For if God be for you, who can be against you?

Friends we should desist and resist this "Grasshopper syndrome". Instead of seeing the Giants, see the God greater than the giants..Remember what Jesus said? - "All(not some!)power and authority has been unto me in heaven and earth. YOU and I have this same power- through the name of Jesus. Whatsoever I bind on the earth is loosed in heaven (Matthew 28:18; 16:19)

I want to say this again - YOU and I are more that conquerors! in the face of Debt, Poverty, etc (add your ..tes and Giant here! No weapon (financial, physical, generational, name it!) formed against me shall prosper. This is MY HERITAGE as the servant of God (Isaiah 54:17)

So - now that we have established that we have possession of the land..HOW exactly do we conquer our giants, the ..ites and ...sites in our lives?

Prayer, Confessions of Faith, Getting out of debt (debt plans), replacing ungoldy, fearful thoughts with the word, money management etc... BUT here is what I want - YOU tell me your story....what steps are you taking / will you take to possess your Mt. Hebron?

Have you ever asked WHY?

Today I ask why? Have you ever asked why? Why do I exist? ah the question of all questions!

Why did I do what I did today? Go where I went today? Say what I said today?

Why did I have to meet those people that I met today? Why did I have to talk to the people that I talked to today?

Why was the bus late today? Why did she say what she said to me today? Why was he wearing the clothes he wore today?

why? why? Why?

To some life is just a series of coincidences - to others, life is what happens to them. To me life is ordained, purposed, decreed. Before I was, there was - or better still - He was. And when I begin to look at life that way - then I cease to ask why?

And if I do ask - like today, well then its just one of those days!