Scripture:  Deuteronomy 1:1-8

God says to the children of Israel:

'You've stayed at this mountain long enough.' You can't live in the shadow of yesterdays anointing or experience. Soon your action becomes ROTE and that leads to a RUT if you stay there long enough. The RUT becomes a ROT.

'Break Camp.' Pull up the tent pegs that tie you to the past. There are 6 tent pegs - positive or negative experience; comfort; fear; guilt and failure; stubbornness; pride.

'move on.' God's people are always meant to be on the move. Don't be a tent dweller, be a promise seeker.

'Go to the hill country of the Amorites....' When we step into the promises of God there is blessing from every direction, even in the desert, the valley and in the land of our enemies.

'I am giving all this land to you!' God has already set aside the land for us. We spend a lot of time claiming through prayer what God has already promised by grace! This doesn't mean that stepping in to the promise is going to be easy.

'Go in and occupy it.' There is a difference between settling and occupying (possessing). Settling is to dwell; occupying is to take over. When we occupy the land we drive out the enemy who lay claim to the land and we build an inheritance for the next generation.

CONCLUSION: It's sad that the children of Israel settled again, this time east of Jordan.

(Next week: East of Jordan).