Mensa Otabil - Step Into the Promise

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We’re in Joshua chapter 1, and this is verse number three: «Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you, as I said to Moses.»

God’s commission to Joshua was very clear; he had to lead God’s people to the Promised Land. This is land that God had promised his ancestors from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, and through their sojourn in Egypt. This Promised Land had been their hope and their dream. Moses was the one who led the endeavor, but Moses couldn’t go to the Promised Land. Now Joshua is the new leader. For 40 years, they had camped on the other side of the Jordan.

Now God says, «Cross over, move over to your Promised Land,» and God says to him, «Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given to you.» In other words, I’ve given you so much land; there’s so much potential, but what you occupy is what you tread upon. So, there is a possibility to take a lot of land, but you will go as far as what the soles of your feet will tread upon. That gives us quite an important picture: God can open a big door for you, but the only part you can take is what you step into. When God gives you something, what you possess is what you take action on. The soles of your feet speak to the steps you take.

So, even if you believe that God has blessed you with so much, what will be real to you will be determined by the steps you take. The soles of your feet must get somewhere, so each one of us must take steps to occupy, to possess, to actualize the dream that God has given to us. In doing that, we don’t have to underestimate what God can do with us. For one reason or another, people sometimes think that if God is going to do it, then really, God will do it. If God would do it, God would do it, but he says you have to take some steps.

Don’t underestimate what he can do with the feeble steps you take and the first steps you take towards the destiny that you believe he has for you. Whenever you are faced with a big idea, a big concept that seems so vast that you don’t think you have the resources for it, always match your desires against God’s riches and glory, because God is able to supply all our needs according to his riches and glory.

So, the steps you take may not seem like much, but they are backed by heaven; they are backed by God’s glory. God is with you; God is behind you; God is aiding you; his angels are on your side. So if you are Joshua, all you do is take one step at a time, one step at a time, and wherever you step, God brings it under your domain. That’s how we possess our destiny in life. We don’t do it in one big move at a time, when everything works for us, but one step at a time, working with the soles of our feet — taking a plan, writing a business plan, and all of that — just going methodically step by step, day by day, until you possess all the land.

And that is what God says to Joshua: «Yeshua, how far are you ready to go with God? How far will the soles of your feet go? How much action are you going to put into your dreams?» And God says, «If you act on it, I will give it to you.» That’s a good place to start working out the plans of God in your life.

Let’s share a word of prayer together. Say with me: «Heavenly Father, you are more than enough for me today. I take a step out into your infinite supply, and I receive it now in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.»