The Promised Land Prophetic Word

Hey guys today I want to talk about two things that I feel like the Lord really put on my heart for the body that's one faith and to surrender myself in this season I've just been in a place of having to say a lot of painful knows out of obedience to the Lord and I've been wrestling with him and saying god this doesn't make sense I don't understand you've promised me these things it's been so long why are you saying no and just wrestling with him and in that place I felt like a lot of the body is in a place of questioning and not understanding and having waited for a long time for certain promises and God began to speak to me in that place and said Nicole I want you to have faith for what I want to give you before I give it to you and I said oh that doesn't make sense why would you do that like I when I've seen nothing but the opposite in my life and had experience you'll you know lessons of the world saying that I'm not going to have this why would you tell me to have faith first and in that place he I actually just sat there and listened to him and wrote my journal what he was saying and I've never done this before but I feel like he told me to share it and that it's going to really encourage some people so he said faith is a substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen your faith is the substance of your promise your faith is a clay within my hands to create and to mould I'm allowing you to give me a substance that will endure and last when you receive your promise your faith still remains being given your promise without faith can be just as harmful and hurtful as never receiving it in fact more because you can't receive something in front of you that I've given you I want a place in your heart free of entanglements to place your promise so safely in so I feel like he's teaching us to have this pure faith where he can actually entrust the promise to us and we can fully receive it and shortly after that he gave me Psalm 12:6 in the passion translation it says for every word God speaks is short and every promise true and pure his truth is tested found to be flawless and ever faithful it's pure a sterling silver refined seven times in a crucible of clay seven can mean infinite or a perfect number so the footnote there says the clay furnace represents the heart of man we are the vessels he puts in his flawless words or he puts his flawless words in his word tests tries us and refines us seven times over until purified understood and absorbed fully into our spirits the fire of testing purifies us as vessels to carry his word within our hearts and that hit me because I said wow what if actually God asked me he said what if all of these things that look like tests or carrots that he's dangling before me of promises what if these things all these painful things were not actually tests but there were him preparing my heart to be able to truly believe and receive the promise that he's promised me and that shifted my thinking because I said wow God really isn't this you know he's not being malicious in any way and that's what enemy wants us to thank all he's withholding from you but instead he's actually preparing us to receive the very thing that we're asking him and asking him for and Hebrews 3 says unbelief actually leads us astray and I've seen that in my own life this place of where I just did not know and I could not believe for something I would settle where I would let my get confused and say well this seems like the promise and I would go with that and that actually led me in the belief it led me into sin and all these things and so I feel like the Lord is is having the body give him our hearts and allow him to like weed our garden of our hearts and say God search me and know me if there's any doubt if there's any unbelief remove it from me and replace it with true pure faith and then Hebrews 3 also says that he the people the Israelites he brought out of Egypt could not enter into their inheritance because of their inability to believe God's promises or their unbelieving hearts and so that's something he's really wanting to deliver us from unbelief and doubt for the things that he's promised and just restore within us a holy reverence and awe and respect for the dreams and the promises that he speaks to us in the Word of God Hebrews 4:3 also says that faith activates the promise so I just encourage those of us that are kind of sitting there and like it's been so long God I don't see any movement your faith actually activates his promise and faith is a gift that we receive from him so it's it's his faith within us and us like allowing him to activate his faith within us is actually what it's like it sets the promise in in motion and there was recently he's he was speaking me about how much breakthrough I'm going to have in this season and how things are going to start happening and I said okay god I I surrendered to him everything and I said I believe you I trust you for the things that you've told me and I just chose to have faith and in that place I saw when that happened a clock began to tick and he said now we can't get started and I feel like that's what he's wanting to do for those in the body is he I need to start now he's wanting the gift that we can give him of our faith and belief in surrender and and then he can start at what he's promised us so and not to say that that's been easy for me because I still even in that place I wrestled with him afterwards I said but God I just wanted these things for so long and and just talking to him about like the the pain that's in my heart for for Hope deferred and in that place my I was getting some counsel from a friend that always gives you a wise counsel and she said God is not withholding from you because that's a lie that I began to believe she said that's not in his nature that's not who he is and that is the same lie that Eve believed in the garden from the beginning of time Saint has been trying to convince us that God is withholding and and Eve saw something that looked really good and she thought God was withholding it from her so she grabbed it for herself and look what happened to Eve in the garden and my friend said do not be deceived by the same lie that you believe God's not withholding and it just really spoke to me because God began to say I never withhold what I do is I add to and I protect and so sometimes things can look really good but how we really want like a delicious apple from a tree that we think is gonna really be good for us but God has something better and there-there is good but there is best and that's biblical and he wants to give us the best so there shortly after that I went to a conference and there was this night where Holy Spirit just sovereignly came and everybody fell on their knees was weeping crowding out people are getting delivered screaming it was you could feel the presence of God in that place and that night the theme was all about surrender and I truly believe that that is a place that God is calling the body to just total and utter complete surrender before him and as I was surrendering I just got on my knees before I just filled with awe and Wonder for the and I said god I surrender everything absolutely everything to you every single dream that I know that you've promised me I break it at your feet and if I never receive a single promise I love you and I serve you with all of my life and all of my heart and in that place where I was just completely surrendering everything to him I heard the scripture no greater love has a man than this but to lay down his life for his friends and it hit me I we always think of that scripture has us with one another when it can also mean us with God and us with Jesus our friend and I I was like wow what an honor to call myself his friend what an honor to be his friend what a privilege to lay myself down for him and for his kingdom and that's what it is when we surrender we are true Friends of God when we lay down our lives for him for his sake and then as that was happening everything was just so spirit led a guy got on the mic and he just said a simple phrase over and over again and he was saying Jesus you are my dream Jesus you are my dream Jesus you are my dream and something in my heart clicked and it's something that I knew in my head but I needed it to click in my heart I said Wow all of these dreams on this earth that I have that could manifest you know in this lifetime those aren't my dreams Jesus is my dream those are types and shadows of Jesus Jesus himself is my dream excuse me and that that changed something in my heart and the way we you know the service went on and I began to think I I've always thought like the promised land is a physical thing on earth you know like the Israelites went into a physical place they were delivered out of a physical place into another physical place that was a promised land and it was their dreams the fulfillment of their dreams and I began to realize that my promised land is not my dreams happening on this earth it's not a physical tangible thing like a place that I reach in this realm my promised land is communion with the Lord its union with him it's sweet fellowship it's a giving and receiving of affection with Jesus that that is my promised land it's not a physical place on earth so everything was just shifting within me that he is my dream he is my promised land and I truly feel an invitation from the Lord to the body of Christ to lay down their lives it's an invitation to die and knowing God in this way and in receiving our inheritance and receiving our promised land will cost us everything it's cost me everything and it will it will cost you absolutely everything but it's worth it because we receive Jesus and in the same way that Jesus did he died he laid down his life for the joy set before him and it was us we can die for the joy set before before us and it's him and I that in that place of true surrender that is the only place where we will know him and receive our inheritance and everything he has for us that is beyond what we could ask thinker and man imagine it's beyond the promises we think he's already spoken it's it's so much better and that's that surrender is a place where our lives will truly be used of God so I just encourage you guys to lay yourselves down once again or completely if you never have before the Lord and say all my desires all my dreams I surrender them to you and then give him the faith that says what you've spoken I and I just see it being a domino effect of this faith and the surrender and God is ushering us into a time of really entrusting the promises to us that he's given us and and creating and molding a place within our hearts where he can give it to us and we can fully receive so I bless you guys I encourage you there's a lot of movement in this season and there's a lot of fullness that he's inviting us into I love you guys thank you for listening