TOPIC: BREAKING OUT OF TERRITORIAL CONFINEMENT. JOHN BROWN

INFORMATON In the world of success, information is the greatest asset. That’s why the end-time Church will be given such unusual access into heavenly information, for earthly manifestations.
That is, the flourishing Word of life, showing you the way to the highways of life. I welcome you to that path, in Jesus’ name.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psalm 119:130

When you encounter God’s Word on any issue of life, darkness can no longer handle you in that area, because, "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not..."
God’s Word says, "Arise, shine, for thy light is come..." Nobody shines until his light comes and light can’t come until the Word enters. It is only after God’s Word has entered you that you can become an eternal (unending) excellency, the joy of many generations! (Isa. 60:15.)

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29

Heavenly secrets are God’s exclusive property. Until they are revealed, they don’t belong unto us. The Bible in Proverbs 25:2 says:

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

TOPIC: BREAKING OUT OF TERRITORIAL CONFINEMENT

JOHN BROWN

The strength of a football team is not determined by its ability to remain in its own half of the field but must be able to break out of every territorial confinement and exert dominance in the other half.

We must be able to break out of our familiar grounds or environment to make our influence felt beyond our environs.

Deut. 1:6-8

    The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: [7] Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. [8] Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

   

1.   They were confined and enjoyed the convenience of receiving manna from heaven, the protection and guidance of the pillar of cloud and fire respectively, water from the rock and the commandments of God.

2.   They began to compare themselves with their environment.

3.   They justified themselves with what they had. Self justification is the gate way to man’s frustration

4.   They feared to risk. There is no (future) place in success for the fearful. Only the brave ever become great.

5.   They became victims of contentment  

6.   God did not call them to the wilderness but to the Promised Land.

7.   It is time for us to seek God for fresh motivation to be released.

Jeremiah 4:3

    For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.   

Hosea 10:12

    Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

(Fallow ground means idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled ground.  Not only were the Jews commanded to break up the fallow ground of their hearts, but to take away the thorns growing therein so as to be ready to receive the Word of God and produce righteousness instead of sin.  The command was, Do not sow seeds of repentance in unfit soil; prepare the ground properly before sowing them; regard repentance as a serious matter requiring forethought and anxious labor.) 

REASONS FOR CONFINEMENT

Joshua 17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

1.   The Hill is not Enough – They said the hill was not enough for them. Their true failure was not the size of the land but their inability to drive out the former occupants of the land.

Joshua 17:12   Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

·       Many believe if they had more, they could do better. The question remains, how well have you taken care of what you have?

·       Understand that what you have is more than enough to take over and break out. “Great opportunities scarcely come in life. Most of the time what we have is a small opening and we have to force our way through that by the force of prayer and divine favour.”

Genesis 1:26-28

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

    We are a people born in due season! Not because we are smarter than the past generations, but because in God’s agenda, He has planned that success will be the garment of the end-time saints, and through it bring many into the city of refuge.

But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:1-2

Isaiah 2:2-3 carries a very similar prophecy:

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

The success of the end-time Church shall be a compelling attraction — "...People shall flow into it." It will be so clear to the outside world that these men are actually on the highways of life.
God’s Word shall blossom in the end-time, bringing supernatural ways of flourishing to the people of God, taking them to supernatural heights in life. Every sinner out there shall begin to pant and run after such Words, because they can see the difference!
The highways of God are what will place the Church on the highways of success; it shall always know what to do to succeed!

2.   The Canaanites are there –

Certain people see only evil not good.

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

 Take your eyes off the enemies.

Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

   

 Eccl11:4   He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.