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Dispossess to possess December 1997

There is an element of ruthlessness in the Kingdom that is vital in the

pursuit of excellence in matters pertaining to the Kindom. Kingdom

business is bloody business. Cursed is the man that keepeth back his sword

from blood (Jer 48:10). A quick reading through the old testament will

reveal that this was a great key towards victory. Dispossession is a Kingdom

principle that is powerful and ruthless. This is the word YARESH (3423)

which is to occupy by driving out previous tenants and possessing in their

place. It is to seize, to rob, to inherit. For one to possess they must expel,

inmpoverish the enemy and ruin him. You must cast out and conquer

before you occupy and inherit.

Num 33:53

"And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I

have given you the land to possess it.

It is very evident that dispossession is God's idea and His expressive will. A

reading of Numbers 33:50-56 reveals that not even the picture of the

enemy is allowed to exist. You can only dispossess individuals to

personalities and only then can you possess their land (Num 32:39, Judges

11:23). Possession can only follow dispossession. A land is dispossessed by

invasional forces who use heavy artillery. The occupational forces come injust to possess or or enforce a victory. You cannot fight a battle already

won. The christian does not fight for victory but enforces victory. In Luke

19:13 the message is very clear that we should go and be the occupational

forces till He comes. The church is in the business of discovering

dispossessed lands and going in to enforce what has already been finished.

That is why the fight of the believer is known as a good fight (1Tim 6:12)

We are in the time of life (Gen 18:10, 2Kings 4:16) and the time of life is a

time of possession. It is the time of bringing forth sons. It is a time of

maturity II Kings 7:3-16 gives the essence of a dispossession and the actualoccupation. The Lord has made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of

chariots. Dispossession is always a major activity. There was also a noise of

a great Host. The Syrians were struck with terror and they fled. When the

four lepers walked in they found food, drink, silver, gold, and rainment.

When the Syrians fled and left these treasures behind, they had


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relinquished their right on them. They had been dispossessed. The four

lepers were now the possessers!

Joshua and the 31 Kings

In Acts 7:38 we are made aware of the fact Israel in the wilderness was a

picture of one of the stages the church undergoes. Yet there comes a time

when the church will graduate from the wilderness, overcome carnality

cross their Jordan and enter into Canaan. (Rom 2:29, Joshua 5:2-9) Joshua's

name means Saviour, showing that He is a type of Jesus, the conqueror.

Canaan is a place of a soldier (Joshua) and not a Shepherd (Moses). In

Canaan there is a new mandate - taking over! When the captain of the Host

appears in Joshua 5:13-15, He has not come to take sides but to take over!

It does not matter which side, church or denomination you are in. It is a

time to take over! We should stop looking for sameness and begin to

identify a more vital likeness. Canaan has new food and new weapons. It is

time to exchange all our rods for swords. Joshua dispossessed all the Kings

of Canaan.

Joshua 21:43

And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which He sware to give unto their

fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therin.

Joshua's mandate was one of taking over. He was a soldier and not a

politician. He responded to orders and not to committees and negotiations.Committees rule by compromise since no one wants to take responsibility.

An order can either be right or wrong and one takes responsibility for it.

Committees usually take minutes and waste the hours ( no ofence meant),

but Joshua was a soldier. In Joshua 11:18 we see that he made war a long

time with all those Kings and with the edge of the sword. In Joshua 12:24

we see the vanquished 31 kings in total. This was real dispossession. Then

in Joshua 10:24 we see the picture of possession.

Josh 10:24

".....Joshua called for all men of Israel and said unto the captains of the men

of war which went with him, come near, put your feet upon the necks of

these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of

them.

Colossians 2:15 is very clear that Jesus disarmed and spoiled the enemy.

This was real dispossession. Our mandate is one of possession and


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occupation. We are to keep our feet on the neck of our enemy and enforce

the vistory. Once you lift your feet off, the enemy will take off only to be a

pain in the neck in the future. Keep your feet there and enforce the great

victory. Malachi 4:3 promises that we shall tread on the wicked; fir they

shall be ashes under the soles of our feet. This was to be accomplishedwhen Christ came. We are in those days now (Rom 16:20. Once

dispossession has taken place possession is meant to be progressive (Ex

23:29) As you discover new lands you recover and possess. As we continue

to discover the full aspect of the redemption miracle we recover all that is

legally ours.

Ease in Zion.

Whereas all things have been given in the redemption of man, once we lift

our feet from the neck of our enemy, he becomes a big pain in the back.

The lifting up of our feet is known as EASE. Once you ease the enemy you

will always be dis-eased. Ease is from an old French word - AISE - which

means convenience, comfort, effortlessness and contentment. It is a bad

sense of security. The church begins to grow so self confident and fails to

notice that their grasp on the enemy's neck (Gen 49:8) is loosening. It

begins to give the devil unwarranted undue authority and this is all he

needs. The Apostolic move of God is now unmasking the enemy's devices.

In II Cor 2:11, Paul says that we are not ignorant of the devil's devices.

Devices here literally means perceptions or purposes. We are not ignorant

of how he thinks. One sure way to defeat the enemy is to know how he

thinks. Jesus said that words were spirit and everything brings forth after its

kind (John 6:63, Gn 1:11) Words are voiced thoughts and thus thoughts can

automatically be categorized as spirits. God, man and the devil are all spirit

and therefore any thought that comes to man will have its origin from God,

the devil or man's spirit. The genetive element dictates origin and

character. When a thought is generated by God, It has it's origin from God,

and takes on the character of God's spirit. Therefore every thought is a

seed and our mind is the womb where it is conceived. The birth canal of

this thought is the mouth and the baby will always be words. What are you

giving birth to? Ease always begins as a thought and once conceived, it is

birthed in words. Ease is the most subtle of the enemy's devices; but praise

God, we know how the devil thinks.

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Woe unto them that are at EASE IN ZION, and trust in the mountain of

Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, o whom the house of Israel

came!

Ease will always produce a trust in the wrong things. Yet all things will be

shaken. The sin of Sodom was pride, fullness of bread and abundance ofidleness. (Ez. 16:49) Many at times ease will produce pride which is a false

sense of security. The key reason for Solomon's fall was EASE. There were

no wars or battles in his day and thus because of abundance of idleness and

fullness of bread, his fall was catalysed. He loved many women who drove

his heart from God. (I Kings 11:1-8). David's fall with Bathsheba was a

product of Ease. It is shameful for a man to sleep during the day!

Abundance of idleness (II Sam 11:1-5). An idle mind is the devils workshop.

Ease is dangerous. There is nothing so sweet as victory; but the enemy can

use victory to finish you. The day after the battle is more important thanthe day before the battle. Great generals are the victims of self confidence

and comfort. The early church had to be rudely awakened out of ease. God

had to allow the tool of persecution Which necessitated the preaching of

the Gospel. (Acts 8:1-8) The only sad note is that they had waited for eight

years to obey the great commission. The ease of Acts 2:46 was not so

attractive to God. In Joshua's day the same subtle enemy was lurking in the

shadows. He comes with excuses like, "you are entitled to enjoy your

victory" whereas we should never be burnouts and die from fatigues and

strokes, a balance needs to be struck between ease and burnout. Jesusnever fell into neither and so it is possible to please the Lord on a constant

basis. In Joshua 18:1, the whole congregation was rejoicing because the

land was subdued before them. There was eating, drinking and rejoicing. In

v.3, Joshua identifies EASE in its child called slack and questions on when

they intend to possess the land. This is the crucial question in the church

now! when will we ever move in and possess the land. Churches are full of

Lazy excited people. Ezekiel 33:30-31 points out that they will come Sunday

after Sunday. They will "Amen" and "halleluyah" They will set patiently as

the word is preached, but ease will escort them home and slothfulness willlullaby them them to sleep. They will not do it. Ease is the devil's natural

atmosphere. In matters 13:24, it is while men slept that the enemy planted

tares. In Rev. 3:17 we have the Laodecian compnay limited, which is rich,

increased in goods and have need of nothing. Yet this is a false security. In

Deuteronomy we have some others who say, "my power and the might of


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mine hand hath given me this". This are dangerous attitudes. In Isaiah 47:7-

9, we have individuals who are saying, I will be a lady for ever; I am and

none else beside me. This infuriates God to apoint He allows a double

portion of judgement - widowhood and loss of children. Ease visited Job

and God was not going to allow this alien in His servant's house (Job 16:12)In scripture anywhere his enemy appears we see destruction. He comes a

very innocent self-righteous vindicated friend, yet behind his mask is the

horrendous desire for destruction. We see Eli sitting and growing fat. We

never see him stand again. He just fell backwards. Samson was cushioned

by some philistine laps. His strength was taken from him. In this instance,

we see Delilah beckoning unto another man, who shaved Samson. Ease will

never work alone. It is used by the enemy as a dsipossessing tool while

other spirits move in to possess. It is only when the christian is at ease with

the seemingly innocent television programs that pictures of hate, violenceand unfaithfullness are drapped in their spirits. Listen Oh saint of God! if

the enemy can just get you out of the word, he will finish you. He will

therefore use all means available.

I Sam 13:19-22

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel .....But all

the Israelites went down to the phillistines to the Phillistines to sharpen

every man his axe... so it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was

neither sword nor spear in Israel.

The sword is the word of God (Eph 6:17). This weapon needs to be

constantly sharpened. The word sharpen is (3913) which has among many

meaning, the word instructor. The word is LATASH which also means to

inculcate. Inculcate is to progressively teach and impress a lesson in one's

mind and spirit by frequent repetition. If we go down to Philistia (the world)

for our instructor and inculcation, it is no wonder that in the day of battle

there will be no sword in our hands. We cannot spend 3-4 hours everyday

in front of an inanimate tube called a television, watching horror movies,

violence, murder and adultery; and obtain faith, zeal and might to fight the

enemy. There is a reason why God ordered Israel to destroy even the

enemy's pictures. (Num 33:52) what you continually see is what you

become. What you glance at, at once, will lodge itself in the subconcoscious

and it has an ability to reproduce itself. This was the mistake of Hezekiah.

He showed the King of Babylon (confusion) all his treasure. The principle

produced negatively too - what you see is what you get (Isaiah 39:1-8).


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the pressure of adversity (Prov 24:10 TLB). An empty stable (Prov 14:4 TLB)

it is time to be daring and get our stables dirty by bringing in the challenge

of rearing livestock. This spells work but without such, there is no income.

The same message is amplified through the word SCENT in Jer 48:1. Scent is

is RUWACH (7307) which is to percieve quickly or to be of quickunderstanding. The root word stands for the mind, Spirit or Wind. It is the

same word used in Ezekiel 37. The wind stands for understanding. The

picture is very grevious. We can prophesy and there is a noise and a shaking

bone to his bone. We cab prophesy again and the sinews came upon the

skeleton structure. More prophesy and the flesh comes on the sinews, then

the skin. But unless there is the breathe - the corpses cannot live. These

breathe or wind is perception or understanding. Only then can the army

live, stand on their feet and become an exceeding great army. Ease will

keep us from a change of taste and scent. It is this scent of water(understanding or grasp of the word) that gives life to cut tree in job 14:7-9.

The key to God's army isunderstanding. This virtue is a result of dicipline

and study. It involves a search and a running after. Understanding is teh

difference between water and wine in John 2. Understanding must be

drawn out (Prov 3:13, 20:5, 18:4) In 2 Kings 24:10-14 we see that confusion

(Babylon) is carrying away the smiths or the people who give

understanding. Ezra could not move on minus men of understanding. (Ezra

8:15, 16, 17, 18). The great provision that was given in the days of Daniel

was understanding. Dan 10:11," Understand the words that I speak untothee, and stand upright. Understanding will put a backbone into God's

people and restore dignity. It will make them upright as it breaks the yoke

of Bondage. Dominion, which is a product of understanding, will always

break the yoke (Gen 27:40) and only then can the anointing destroy the

yoke (Isaiah 10:27) A yoke must first be broken before it is destroyed. There

must be a dispossession before there is a possession. God had to bring

Israel out of Egypt (limitation) only to bring them into the promised land. As

they left dispossessed or spoiled the Egyptian (Deut 5:23, Ex 12:36) Egypt's

economy depended on the R. Nile and therefore they were neverconcerned with rain. Because of the self sufficiency and independence, they

thought that man lives forever and so they embalmed their ded into

mummies. In essence, they never looked up. As children of Israel left this

economy, God had to teach them to look up and expect the rain. They had

to get from a self sufficiency into an all sufficiency - on - God mentality.


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Change is coming and God is announcing that the Egyptian economy must

cease. The time for free things is over. (Num 11:5) Everything that becomes

profitable to the believer now must be paid for. It is for our taste to change.

Saul will keep you from tasting the honey. Honey is likened to the word (I

Sam 14:24-30, Ps 119: 103) But as soon as you taste a little your eyes will beenlightened. The key to enlightenment is to taste or understanding. The

great slaughter we are all waiting for is keyed to the Honey; but this honey

must first be tasted. I Sam 14:30) Saul will keep the inner man starving. The

outer man feeds on physical food while the soulish man feeds on the word

of God. Since he has no dimensions, his appetite is great. Many of us have

powerful mascular bodies but our inner man is on a stretcher. We need

food!spiritual food! we are in a day of reversals and it's time to deny the

outer man some food and give attention to the real man - the inner man.

Procrastination, Cares and Fear

Amos 6:3 gives still another device of the enemy. People who put off the

evil day - the device of procrastination. This is the greatest poison to

change alongside ease. In this verse we see that as one puts far something,

it causes a certain result. In this instance the putting far, caused violence.

Procrastination is the art of evading greatness. The future is what you make

it now. The three greatest enemies of man are ignorance, procrastination

and slothfulness. Ignorance comes from "Ignore" and you cannot ignore

what does not exist or not offered. For one to ignore something it must first

exist and then it has been offered . Ignorance does not exempt one from

consequencies. If someone steps off the top floor of a twenty - eight

storeyed building, his ignorance of God's law of gravity will not excuse him

from the consequencies. Procrastination is a robber. If you wait for perfect

conditions you will never get anything done (Eccl 11:4 TLB) It is time to live

behind our foolishness and begin to live (Prov 9:6 TLB) Procrastination will

always create problems since it will put you in the defence and not on the

offence. It will meake you a re-act-or instead of an act-or. Growth come

from building on talents, gifts and strength - not by solving problems. One

of the keys to life is time. Time is the thing that makes all thing not to

happen all at once, at the same time. Procrastination steals time. The

greater control we excercise over our time, willl give us greater freedom to

experience maximum potential. If you gain control of your time you will

gain control of your life. Postponing things will simply cowardice of not

making decisions and taking up responsibilities. Indecision is deadly. The


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truth is that the most dangerous place to be is in the middle of the road.

The more the procrastination in our lives, the greater degree of mediocrity.

Our will controls our decisions. If the devil controls our will, he controls our

destiny. In a world of thje normal, The mediocre and the average,

procrastination is low. Yet we need to remember that in the eyes ofaverage people, average is always considered outstanding. It is better to be

alone than in wrong conmpany. In the instructions given about battles,

Deut 20, we see that associations are very crucial. Lok careful at the closest

association in your life for that is the direction you are heading. Some had

the cares of a new house, others of a vineyard. Another had just married a

wife. Cares are contagious and this can be passed on by one who is

sharpening his sword in phillistia. Sharpening your sword in phillistia is

simply to be inculcated with the ways of the way. Cares will always choke

the word of God. (Matt 13:22) To choke is to die due to lack of enough air.there are people or things round about you who / which are producing the

wrong atmosphere thus choking the word. Fear was the other category. It

comes from what is around you - People, Book, Videos, etc. Some of us

need to change our closest associations. Fear causes others to faint (Deut

20:8). There are some people you need to contact on a regular basis and

others need to be avoided. Fear is one of the greatest hindrance to

disposession. Ease procrastination, cares and fear will keep us from

enjoying God's best. His best is portrayed in Joshua 21:43-45, 23:14 and I

Kings 8:56. All He has promiosed must come to pass. God is not mockedand this shows us that He does not also mock. He has the very best for his

people. He is waiting for the `Isaiah 62:1 company' - for zion's sake will I not

hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, untill the

righteousnes thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a

lamp that burneth!

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