Live Free with Josh Howerton - Keep Your Eyes On God's Promise • Christine Caine | Ep. 275 | Friday, February 23, 2024

Episode Date: February 23, 2024

Join us today as we wrap up our week in Joshua 5. God led the Israelites into the Promised Land, but it would not be easy. They faced the massive wall of Jericho and had to remember the promises of God. What promises of God can you focus on when you face walls in your life? For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's Word for your morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional. For more digital content to feed your faith, visit lakepoint.comit.combe.com slash daily drive. In this week's episodes, we will be hearing from our special guest. Christine Kane. And now let's dive into today's devotional. Hey, Lake Point Church, my name is Christine Kane, and I am so pumped up and fired up to be joining you this week on the Daily Drive with Lake Point Church podcast. Now, I hope that you've

journeyed with me this whole week. If you haven't, it's easy to go back and catch up, because today we're wrapping up our whole series we've done this week on what it is to go into your spiritual promised land and to lay a hold of all of that for which Christ Jesus has laid a hold of you. Now we've been in Joshua chapter 5 all week, we've talked about what it is to cut away the hindrances that would stop us from stepping into the plan and the purpose of God. We've talked about what it is to stop and heal before you step into what it is that God has for you, what it is to fill yourself with Jesus every single day, just like you're doing right now, listening to this podcast, what it is to move on, no matter how comfortable we are,

into the next phase of what it is that God has for us. And today, we're going to talk about, the fact that we've got to see what God sees. In Joshua, it goes on in Joshua chapter 6. We're going to pick it up right here. Verse 1. It says, now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. No one went out and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have given Jericho into your hand with its king and its mighty men of valor. Now, I love this. Can you imagine what this is like. Okay, so now they have gone through wilderness for 40 years. Now, a new generation has risen up. Joshua and Caleb are part of the old generation. The only two that are going now into the promised land. River Jordan's been pushed back.

They're in the promise land. And now they've had a cutting away. Ouch, if you're a guy. Then they've had a healing. Then they have had filling themselves with Jesus, keeping the pass over, then they've had to move on. So they've done everything the Lord said. So what do you do when you've done everything the Lord has said when you have been faithful to God? When you have had a consistent cutting away, when you consistently have been filling yourself with Jesus, when you've allowed time to heal, when you've moved on from what was to the new thing that God's doing, what do you do when you've done everything you know to do? When you've obeyed God in every way that you know that he's asked you to do that.

What do you do when you're expecting now to be eating things that are made with milk and honey? You're expecting to see the beauty of this promised land that has been promised to you. You've been dreaming about it. You've been talking about it. You've been singing about this promised land. What do you do when you're expecting milk and honey? But the first thing you see in your promised land is a wall. What do you do?

when you thought you were about to inherit the promise and suddenly there's that negative doctor's report, suddenly that marriage broke down, suddenly that child just didn't, you know, come into the house of God and you thought they were going to, you didn't get the promotion that you thought you were going to, that opportunity didn't open up. What do you do when you were expecting milk and honey? And you get a wall. Because can you imagine what they thought? They thought we're going into the promised land finally. They weren't expecting a Cherico wall.

I mean, these were the most impenetrable walls in ancient. in history. They were doubles, there was two lots of walls that they were 30 feet high and they were surrounded by enemies. They were expecting milk and honey and they got a wall. What do you do when you're facing a wall because we all face walls? We think, God, I don't know what else I could have done. I've been doing everything you've told me to do. I'm in your word. I'm obeying your word to the best of my capacity. I'm in church. I'm serving. I'm being faithful. I'm tithing. I'm doing everything I know to do. And the Lord, I thought we were going to see milk and honey. And now all I have. got is a wall. And here's what the Lord said to him. He said, Joshua, I want you to see. I mean,

we know that the city of Jericho was tightly shut up. We saw it in verse one. No one came out. No one went in. So the situation you're facing is absolutely impossible. No one's denying it. That doctor's report says terminal. It looks like that marriage is over. It looks like that kids never going to come back to God. It looks like that promotion is never going to happen. It looks like that financial situation is going to end in disaster. No one is denying the reality of the wall. No one came out and no one came in. The reality of that wall is right there in front of you, but this is what the Lord said to Joshua in verse 2.

He said, Joshua, I want you to see. I want you to see that I've given you this city. Joshua, I need you to see beyond the natural into the supernatural because we walk by faith and not by sight. I want you to see beyond the obstacles of the bricks and the mortar of this impenetrable wall. I want you to see beyond it to the promise. On the other side of this wall, I've given you a promise.

And all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen. So I need you to get your eyes off the wall and I need to get I need you to get your eyes onto the promise. So wherever you are today as we wrap up this week, I know that there are walls. I know that you are facing obstacles and hurdles. I know that you have faced disappointment or discouragement or disillusionment. I know the reality of the facts of your circumstances, but can I encourage you today to look beyond the bricks and mortar of the challenge of that wall in front of you and hold on to the promise of God for that child, hold on to the promise of God for that marriage,

hold on to the promise of God for that healing, hold on to the promise of God for that breakthrough. And I want you to see the promise and not the wall. And remember that in Christ, all the promises of God, Paul writes in Corinthians, all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen. If God said it, God will do it. All the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen. We are believers.

we walk by faith and not by sight. So today, as we wrap up this week, don't focus on that obstacle, don't focus on that hurdle, don't focus on that wall, focus on the promise and the goodness of the promise keeper in Jesus' name. Thanks for tuning in today. For more biblical teaching and worship, join us for our church online live weekend services on Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 9.30. and 11 a.m. Central Standard Time. For more information, visit lakepoint.combe. Church slash daily drive.