Bible Reading: Genesis 13:5-18
Perception is Crucial to gaining new grounds. We must begin to shift our thinking and align with God’s move in every season. You must see the way God wants you to see.
To gain new ground we must align your perception to God’s Purpose for you . Abraham had to align His perception of His purpose with God’s Perception. As far as your eyes can see you possess the Land. You can’t posses the New heights God desires for us until we lift up our eyes, Our Spiritual yes must be opened to see God’s purposes.
“And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee, and me and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”- Gen 13:5-9
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.”- Gen 13:10-11
“And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.”- Get 13: 14-18
We see in the Passage Lot Lift up His eyes and see the physical things and seemingly best areas. But God had a big idea for Abraham, His purpose for him to be a father of Nation, Abraham desire was to just choose a section. Lot goes His way and God instruct Abraham to lift his eyes,- in the realm of the Spirit to align His eyes with what God is seeing for Him. But there is a clause, its as Far as He sees, He possess, your eyes determine the new grounds you possess. What do we see as a church? What do we see in our families? what do we see in our Lives?. verse 17. God wants us to take action, begin to walk into purpose, begin to take prophetic steps.
“And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”-Numbers 13:30
“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.”- Numbers 13:33
“But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereunto he went; and his seed shall possess it.”-Numbers 14:24
“And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.”- Jos 14:10-12
Caleb understood what God’s promises for Him where, When he entered the Land to spy it He saw the Mountain top and knew God had given him that piece of Land. Before He entered it he had possessed it already. Mountain takers are risk takers; Mountain takers are Men who can perceive as God see it. To take the Mountain top you must shift your thinking.
Prayer
Lord may my thoughts align to your thought
Lord may I begin to see the new grounds you desire me to posses in every area of my life.