Saturday, May 24, 2014

5/25/14 - CONQUERING INTIMIDATION


CONQUERING INTIMIDATION

 

Numbers 13:21-33

21 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. 22 And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. 25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

26 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

 

30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

 

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/046/c/f/intimidation_tactics__superman_vs_hulk_by_portfan-d4puz59.png31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

 

Numbers 14:1-4

1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”

 

I.                 INTIMIDATION IS THE ENEMY’S WEAPON TO KEEP YOU OUT OF YOUR PROMISED LAND

       - Promises are obtained not received – Heb 11:33

1.   They feared strong people

 

2.   They feared walled cities

3.   They feared large cities

4.   They feared giants

5.   They feared people who were no longer worthy to possess what they had.


Rounded Rectangle: HAVE  NO  FEAR!
 

 

 

 


Genesis 15:12-16

12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

II.             REMEMBER THE POWER OF AGREEMENT

 

1.   Humans have _                 on this earth. Gen 1:26

2.   God rules the heavens but the earth he gives to men.  Ps 115:16

3.   Spirit beings need your                         to manifest in the earth.

4.   Agreement is all they need to gain entrance. Gen 3:1-7; Mat 16:21-23

 

III.         INTIMIDATION IS A SPIRIT

 

Intimidation is a spirit that gains expression through any person who will                                  to it, even through a believer! The Bible admonishes believers (Eph. 4:27).


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2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

 

When Israel agreed with the 10 spies and they embraced intimidation.

 

1.   They were discouraged – “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night”

2.   They began to complain and accuse – “And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron.”

3.   They began to                                 in their minds a future of defeat – “Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims?”

4.   http://www.azalaw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fear-and-intimidation.jpgThey decided to/agreed to limit themselves to their past life of defeat – “ So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”

 

IV.          HOW TO OVERCOME INTIMIDATION

 

1.   Deal with intimidation                                       

 

a.    Recognize the unrighteous agreement you have had with intimidation.

b.   Verbally                                        that agreement

c.    Verbally rebuke the spirit of fear

d.   Stand on the authority of the word of God

e.    Ask God to remove it from you

f.      Cast down all images you received from the spirit of fear

 

 

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

 

2.   Deal with intimidation                                        .

 

a.    Embrace                                  .

Josh 1:6-7

Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous…”

 

b.   Don’t be influenced by people who don’t want to go anywhere.

(i.e. 10 spies.)

-        At the average funeral only ten people will even cry for you after you are gone…

-        50% won’t even go to the burial site and number 1 reason why would be the weather

At whose funerals do thousands cry? For whom do the millions mourn? For those who will do what others are not willing to do: Martin Luther King, for Gandhi, for Mother Teresa, for Lincoln. Gigantic funerals are held and great crowds, even entire nations, mourn for those who spend their lives not worrying about what others thought.

 

c.    Stop playing it                                   all the time.

He who observes the wind will not sow

Eccl 11:4

Don’t be afraid of failure…Failure is one of the stepping stones towards success.

 

3.   Learn to see the unseen more than the seen.

Heb 11:1-3

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

 

 

Question: When something is promised to you by God, what does that mean?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hint:

Joshua 1:3-5

Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.

 

                   1 Kings 18:41-44

41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.” 44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand!” (rising out of the sea) And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.’ “

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