Provision for the Promise

After I had written my devotional on “Receiving the Promise” and before I sent it out I received a note sent out by Rachel Tainsh, WH International Prayer Coordinator, with some Scriptures God had given her to use in prayer for the Global Council. These Scriptures dovetailed with and confirmed what the Lord had given me.

The first one was Deuteronomy 11:10-14 “For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; 11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

I shared last week that the challenges of entering into the promises seem oftentimes overwhelming and impossible. God intentionally makes His promises too great for us because He wants to fulfill the promises as we trust and obey Him. To receive the promise we must maintain faith that He who is faithful will fulfill the promise. It is only out of that position of faith that we can be led by the Sprit to walk out in obedience today what God wants us to do in order to receive the promise. In the above portion from Deuteronomy God gives us a glimpse of His provision for the promise.

In verse ten, God said that the land of promise is not going to be like Egypt where “you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden.” In Egypt they were limited as to how much they could grow because it had to be watered by hand. It took a lot of work with minimal results. But God said that in the land of promise He will provide “water from the rain of heaven.” This takes the limitations off of us. We are no longer bound by our ability to water what we have planted. In fact, we can plant as much land as we can possess. God says in verse fourteen, “I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.” The early rains were for planting, and the latter rain was for harvest. I believe we are entering the time of the latter rain of harvest. Our job is to plant as much seed as we can, for God has promised to provide the rain that will bring in the harvest.

I believe our response to this awesome promise of provision is in the second scripture Rachel gave, which is Philippians 3:13-14, “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” We cannot continue to do things as we have in the past. God by His Spirit wants to move us past the limitations of our past into His limitless provision. We must reach forward and press into the promises that God has given us in faith that God will provide. “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
1 Thessalonians 5:24

Andy Clark
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