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Prepared to Possess Your Promise

Joshua 3:5 – 6 - “And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.”


In Joshua 3:4 the Lord told the children of Israel, “you have not been this way before.”  This is the year of the new thing.  Isaiah 43:19 says, “Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth …”  In Joshua 3 God is preparing the children of Israel to enter into their inheritance.  Like the children of Israel, we are poised to enter into a new day. God is leading us on a new path.  Psalms 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”


In Joshua 3:5 Joshua told the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”  The Christian Standard Bible reads, “Consecrate yourselves.” Why did Joshua instruct the children of Israel to sanctify yourselves?  He was preparing them for what He was getting ready to do in their lives.  We must prepare ourselves personally and corporately for a visitation of God’s Spirit.


God is calling His people to a new place of personal holiness to prepare us for a season of outpouring and revival.  Do you desire to have power with God? Do you want overcoming power over sin? Then you must understand the power of purity.  Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”  We must allow the Holy Spirit to deal with anything unclean, impure, or sinful in our lives.  We must allow Him to empower us to overcome anything that impedes our walk with God.  Hebrews 12:1-2 instructs, “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”


The Lord is calling His people to draw close to Him.  As you draw closer to Him, He will draw closer to you. The first part of James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” Joshua 3:5 says, “sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”








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