Footsteps to Zion

A “promise” is an assurance that one will do or give something. Have you ever experienced waiting for something promised to you to be fulfilled? What if it will take 45 years for that promise to come to pass? Will you be willing to wait that long? Caleb was a man of God who was able to do exactly that. God promised to give him Mount Hebron as an inheritance but he had to wait 45 years before it finally became his. Mount Hebron was a mountain in Canaan, the land that God promised to the Israelites. But before they could possess Canaan, they needed to face enemies who were dwelling in that land. To conquer Mount Hebron itself, they needed to defeat the descendants of Anak - strong giants whom the people feared. Caleb first saw Mount Hebron when he was sent by Moses to spy out Canaan with 11 others. After spying the land, 10 of them got so afraid of the enemies they discouraged the Israelites from conquering Canaan. But Caleb was not one of the 10. He had a very different respon...

Source: www.LumoProject.com All of us, in different ways, have been once lost and found; then lost and found again and again and again. Luke 15 has three parables that show man’s tendency to drift away from God. But they also show us the heart of God towards the lost because God is in the business of finding the lost. The Lost Sheep In Luke 15:1-7, Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep and the shepherd who is willing to leave the 99 sheep to search for one missing sheep. We are very much like sheep. We easily veer away from the Lord, the Shepherd of our souls. In Isaiah 53:6, God said that we all, like sheep, have gone astray. In 1757, a pastor and hymn writer named Robert Robinson penned the words of the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing." He was just 22 when he wrote the song yet at a young age he knew his own capacity to drift away from God (Source: Wikipedia). Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here’s my heart, O tak...

We are all called by God to obtain our inheritance – both in the natural and in the spiritual. It is very important for us to obtain the inheritance of God so we need to really prepare for it. God’s promises are secure. The first principle in obtaining our inheritance is that we need to believe that God’s promises are secure . The Word of God is faithful and true. Psalm 119:89-91 says that His Word stands firm in heaven. His faithfulness extends to every generation and His regulations remain true to this day. The Lord’s desire is to fulfill every detail of His plans and promises in our lives and the lives of the generations to come. Sometimes we forget what God has promised to us so we need to be very careful in guarding His promises in our hearts. Yet even when we forget, the One who made the promise does not forget. One thing that we need to remember is that the fulfillment of the promises of God requires waiting. During the time of Moses, the Israelites waited for 400 yea...