Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Deuteronomy 8:2

Do you know that our God is a faithful God?
He has promised, and He shall never fail.
We must pass through the wilderness before entering into the promised land.

Enduring the wilderness, the dry season, the loneliness is not always easy but it is most definitely worth it.
The promised land is a place of greatness.

We cannot reach that place of greatness unless we are also transformed into greatness.
There is long suffering before there is victory.

There is the cross before there is resurrection.

I feel that The Lord is directing me into this promised land message now.😀🙌

Do not despise the wilderness for in the wilderness He prepares His children for a great transformation!
Endure the wilderness, wait on Him in the wilderness, seek His face in the wilderness!
He says He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

Are we willing to diligently seek Him even in the wilderness?

We must look past the wilderness and keep our eyes fixed on God.
For He who is able to see us through in the wilderness, is definitely able to take us to our promised land.
Hallelujah!!

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; Deuteronomy 8:7

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; Deuteronomy 8:8

a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; Deuteronomy 8:9

Glory be to God for His faithfulness, praise be to God for His Word and for His revelation!🙌

Thank You Lord for preparing me in the wilderness and bringing me into Your promised land.

How can I not trust and believe you no matter what!

You have delivered me from sin.
Purified me in the wilderness, and now You are bringing me into Your promised land.

I trust and believe You Lord no matter what!

Delivered from sin.
Transformed in the wilderness.
Entered the promised land.❤️🙌

What is the promised land?
The promised land is His perfect predestined will for your life.
His will for your life is perfect because it flows with milk and honey!❤️🙌

In every situation never stop keeping your eyes fixed on God.

Your promised land is not far from the wilderness, but if you divert your attention from God then you will delay your arrival there.

He says.
Keep your eyes fixed on Me and allow Me to lead you.
For you are not far off from where I want you to be.
Just trust Me
Just believe Me.
I Am who I say I Am.
I Am Your Lord and King.
Just believe Me my daughter, my son.
Just believe Me.
For you are so close to your promised land.
I that delivered you my faithful servant shall surely reward you with My promises.
I love you.
I have seen your faithfulness and I shall reward you accordingly.
I have seen, and I shall surely reward you.

I have seen your faithfulness and I shall reward you accordingly.
I have seen, and I shall surely reward you.

But when you get to the land that I promised you, you MUST REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD who brought you there.

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. Deuteronomy 8:1

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Deuteronomy 8:2

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Deuteronomy 8:4

Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. Deuteronomy 8:5

Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. Deuteronomy 8:6

How many times have people denied Christ once they have entered their promised land?
Countless.
The amounts of people who have denied Christ being the reason and the source of their success are innumerable.

They have allowed the milk and the honey to flow through their hearts so much so that they have allowed it to rule over every part of their being.
They have put the milk and the honey before God, and have made made them idols.
And Now they worship milk and honey instead of reverently fearing and worshipping The Lord their God whom brought them into their promised land.

Putting milk and honey before God is the same as putting the flesh before God.
The flesh disallows The Holy Spirit to flow through us and rule over our hearts and minds.

Remember that milk and honey are the promises of God and every promise of God is good, but if we disobey, and reject God once we enter the promised land then we have allowed satan to change that good into bad.

For instance Adam and Eve were in the promised land The Garden of Eden until they disobeyed God which led them into eating the forbidden fruit, the milk and honey of satan, which not only cast them out of their promised land, but out of the presence of God!

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Genesis 3:6

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Genesis 3:7

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Genesis 3:23

After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24

Never eat of the fruit of satan!
Never drink the milk and eat the honey of satan.
For the milk and honey of satan are counterfeits, set out to destroy us.
The milk and honey of satan seems pleasing to the eye, it seems sweet but really it is bitter it is poisonous.
It may seem pleasing to the eye just like it did to Eve but really it destroys the soul.
And satan will come, satan will try to tempt us with his milk and honey just like he tried to tempt Jesus!

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Matthew 4:1

You see why I say the wilderness is not a bad place to be it is a place of preparation.
The Holy Spirit leads us there.
He prepares us in the wilderness and makes us ready for the promised land.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Matthew 4:2

Can you see the power of the Holy Spirit!
He sustains and He strengthens!
I would most probably be hungry after the first day!🙈

The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Matthew 4:3

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” Matthew 4:4

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. Matthew 4:8

“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Matthew 4:9

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ ” Matthew 4:10

Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. Matthew 4:11

Like Jesus we must rebuke satan with The Word!
For we do not live by bread alone, we do not live by milk and honey alone, we do not live by the flesh alone but by His Word, His Spirit and His Truth!

His Word is sweet!
His Word is power!

In the promised land we must never cease from eating of His Word.
For His Word brings total satisfaction.
His Word never lets us go hungry nor does His Word lets us go thirsty.
He fills us up, He causes an overflow, and He quenches our thirst!
He is The Bread of Life, and The Fountain that never runs dry.

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. Matthew 14:17

“Bring them here to me,” he said. Matthew 14:18

And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. Matthew 14:19

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. Matthew 14:20

The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. Matthew 14:21

So now that we are in our promised land who can we honestly say rules over us is it God, or is it satan?
How can we identify who rules over us?
Well if we never commune with God in the promised land if we never eat of His Word, if we never acknowledge His presence, and if we choose to do as our flesh desires then we have allowed satan to rule, and we have chosen to eat of his milk and honey.

So what exactly is the milk and honey of satan?
The milk and honey of satan are the pleasures of the world and not of the promises of God, the milk and honey of satan are the pleasures of sin of the flesh.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; Galatians 5:19

idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions Galatians 5:20

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:21

We should be careful of idolising the milk and honey of this world.
Lord forgive us for believing that it’s ok to indulge in the milk and honey of this world.
Lord forgive us for accepting the milk and honey of this world.
Lord forgive us for trying to combine the milk and honey of satan with the milk and honey of Your living Word.
Lord forgive us for even admiring the milk and honey of satan!
Forgive us Lord for idolising the things and the people that do not honour Your Name.
Forgive us Lord for bringing the milk and honey of satan into our churches and into our worship!
Forgive us oh Lord!

The milk and honey of God is the fruits of His Spirit.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Galatians 5:22

gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:23

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25

Let us keep feeding The Spirit with His Word with His milk and honey, and let us stop feeding the flesh with the milk and honey of satan which is sin.

Some of us have fed our flesh with sin way too much its getting out of control! It’s time to shed some weight!
It’s time to fast and pray!

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Galatians 5:26

We become conceited and envious when we idolise the things which are not of God. WATCH be careful, observe, restrain from, and PRAY.

Seek Him first in the promised land and every thing that is good, the blessings, all that is good shall be added unto us.

This morning God is saying yes I will take you to the land in which I have promised you but when you get there do not forget Me.
Do not forget what I The Lord did for you in the wilderness.
Do not forget that humbling season.
For if you forget My ways and if you forget My statutes, and if you forget My Word, you shall surely end up in Babylon.
We do not want to go back to Egypt we do not want to be cast out of His presence, we do not want to taste the promised land only to be exiled into Babylon, into hell.

Do not enter the promised land prematurely.
Enter the promised land when I tell you to enter.
For it is I who matures you and makes you ready for the promises in which I The Lord has prepared for you, but you have got to trust Me.
You have got to trust My Word in the wilderness, the more your trust Me in the wilderness the closer you will get to My promises.
Do not forget Me, and I will always remember You.

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. ” Luke 23:42

Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:43

When you enter the promised land remember just like in the wilderness that it is never about you, but it is always about Him our Lord and King Jesus.

Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.” Exodus 33:3

We must obey The Lord.