Claiming your inheritance /Dr Pat Holliday/Dr Sabrina Sessions/Marshall Perot

Claiming your inheritance requires having courage to confront the “giants” that seem to block your path and prevent you from possessing what God has already given you.

In Numbers 13, God instructs Moses to send out 12 spies to view the Promised Land before the Israelites would enter it. After 40 days, 10 of the spies return with a mixed report:“We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak [giants] there” (Numbers 13:27-28). These 10 spies saw that God had given them a fantastic land of abundance, but they saw no way they could actually possess such a land, for it was inhabited by strong enemies and impregnable fortresses.

You’ve heard about a place of victory and abundance that God has for you, but the obstacles seem too great…the enemies too intimidating…and the cost too high. If this is your mindset, you need to hear the challenge of the final two spies, Caleb and Joshua: “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it!” (Numbers 13:30-33) God’s people were at the very brink of the Promised Land. Yet they allowed fear and disobedience to keep them in the wilderness for 40 more years!.

Passivity and accommodation never will work.

Jesus spoke of the need to be on the offensive in our spiritual battles: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12). We will never grasp our full blessings in Christ without a fight!