Ministering: Senior Pastor Shola Awobajo.
Text: Deuteronomy 1:19-25.
” 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye have come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.”
As we prepare our way as a Church into the Year 2022, preparation is very essential to making that Year successful for us. The shortest route between any two distances is a straight line. God does not desire His people to be walking in circles. When the Israelites cried to God in the land of bondage (Egypt), God heard their cry and came not only to deliver them but to us also bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey. The year 2022 can be seen as a Good Land God is desiring to take His people to, but we need to pay the price in the place of prayer and waiting on Him.
Kadeshbarnea means the desert of wandering. The year 2021 to many was like the land of Kadeshbarnea, but as a Redeemed of The Lord, He wants to deliver you from that wandering land. Regardless of your present situation, God is higher than that mountain.
Insight is very key to everything. Insight means the ability to understand the inner nature of anything. We need to see the insights of 2022, that the Year is pregnant with lots of greats for you. Be hopeful that in the Year 2022 wandering will never be your portion but rather you will eat the good of the land (The year 2022).
There is a spirit of discouragement & wandering that weakens people’s spirit, especially when at the threshold of something great. In 1 King 19, Elijah having slaughtered 900 prophets of Baal, got discouraged upon hearing Jezebel’s threat. Do not allow any negative reports to discourage and blind your eyes to the great things God wants to do in and through your life in the Year 2022. Confusion at the verge of moving forward is from this spirit of discouragement. This evil spirit also makes people not end whatever they have started.
This spirit of discouragement was what made Moses make a mistake that cost him from entering the promised Land. Deut.1:28 – Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Anytime a person is wandering in Kadeshbarnea, time, resources, and opportunities are wasted. I pray God will deliver you from every mountain of Kadeshbarnea. Deut. 2:14 tells us the people of God wasted 38 years in Kadeshbarnea, so much that all the men of war died.
Whatever you may have lost in the Year 2021, God is saying He will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you – Joel 2:25.
God Bless You!
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