Once trust in THE LORD is settled, you can be entrusted with your Promised Land!
Each of us has a Promised land specific to our individual callings. What is preventing us from entering in? Trust. Trust is firm belief in the reliability, Truth, ability, and strength of The Lord God Almighty. You look nowhere else for your guidance and protection.
The children of Israel who left Egypt, except for two, did not learn their lesson. They went around the mountain for forty years in the midst of constant miracles and the Presence of GOD, yet they just didn’t get it! Their lack of trust caused them to die off in the wilderness, a few short miles from The Promised Land.
All growth is rewarded with pruning and all death is rewarded with resurrection.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 15:
1 “I am a True sprouting Vine, and the Farmer Who tends the Vine is My Father.
2 He cares for the branches connected to Me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest.
You and I are meant to progressively produce more fruit on behalf of The Kingdom of GOD.
3 The Words I have spoken over you have already cleansed you.
4 So you must remain in life-union with Me, for I remain in Life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the Vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to Mine.
If you don’t bear fruit, judgment will prevail in your life.
5 “I am the sprouting Vine and you’re My branches. As you live in union with Me as your Source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.
We are to be co-laborers with Christ in all that we say and do. He is our only Source of Life and power.
6 If a person is separated from me, he is discarded; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned.
Those who live separated from Christ will suffer a fiery judgment.
7 But if you live in Life-union with Me and if My Words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.
We must fully embrace the Words of Jesus to expect successful answers to prayer. When we are in Life-union with Him, we will not ask amiss.
8 When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are My Mature disciples who glorify My Father!
Our fruitfulness is a testimony to our maturity in Christ! When we fully trust His Words, good fruit will manifest, and He will prune us so that we produce greater fruit.
Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 14:
25 As massive crowds followed Jesus, He turned to them and said,
26 “When you follow Me as My disciple, you must put aside your father, your mother, your wife, your sisters, your brothers; it will even seem as though you hate your own life. This is the price you’ll pay to be considered one of My followers.
Are you willing to forsake all to follow Jesus?
27 Anyone who comes to Me must be willing to share My cross and experience it as his own, or he cannot be considered to be My disciple.
28 So don’t follow Me without considering what it will cost you. For who would construct a house before first sitting down to estimate the cost to complete it?
29 Otherwise he may lay the foundation and not be able to finish. The neighbors will ridicule him, saying,
30 ‘Look at him! He started to build but couldn’t complete it!’
31 “Have you ever heard of a commander who goes out to war without first sitting down with strategic planning to determine the strength of his army to win the war against a stronger opponent?
32 If he knows he doesn’t stand a chance of winning the war, the wise commander will send out delegates to ask for the terms of peace.
33 Likewise, unless you surrender all to Me, giving up all you possess, you cannot be one of My disciples.
The ultimate test of True discipleship is trusting HIM and forsaking all aspects of the world. When you fully commit to trust IN HIM, HE will progressively prune you and eliminate unproductive and needless aspects of your life. HIS pruning may be temporarily painful but is necessary to produce a greater harvest of fruit.