Get Back on Your Feet!

Get Back On Your Feet || Day 3

Deuteronomy 11:22-28 NKJV

“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.”

Joshua 1:1-3 NKJV

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.”

Psalms 68:20-23 NKJV

Our God is the God of salvation; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death. But God will wound the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses. The Lord said, “I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, That your foot may crush them in blood, And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

Romans 16:20 NKJV

And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

I’ve observed some significant hindrances to the GO of the child of God. 

These are traps of the enemy to get you off of your feet and keep you off of your feet.

In the age in which we live, sadly, the most prominent thing I’ve seen take out the feet of the child of God is when they sit down.

In 1 Samuel 1, we are introduced for the first time to a wicked priest named Eli. He wasn’t wicked because he was overtly immoral or unethical. He was wicked because he was complacent, apathetic and lazy.

I Samuel 1:9 NKJV

So Hannah arose after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the tabernacle of the Lord.

Our first introduction to Eli finds him sitting. Throughout all of scripture, we have no record of him standing.

The irony of Eli always sitting down was that in all of the furniture of the house of God, there was only one chair, the Mercy Seat, reserved for Messiah to sit on when He subdues the kingdoms of this world.

There was no chair in the house of God, because the work of the priest was never done. In the following chapters we see that the doors of the house of God were closed, and the lamp of God, which was to be cleaned, refilled and tended every day was about to go out. 

This man, the high priest, whose inheritance in the earth was nothing, because the Lord Himself was his inheritance, sat down and watched the work of God go undone and wickedness prevail in the next generation, until the Lord couldn’t stand it anymore and took the priesthood from him.

I Samuel 3:11-14 NKJV

Then the Lord said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them. And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”

Two words that Jesus juxtaposed more than any other that I have observed are the words, “wicked” and “lazy”.

Why, because we are kings and priests before our God, and the work of this Kingdom is never done. The GOAL is reached in the GO! 

Get off of your seat of leisure. Get back on your feet and GO!

Let’s pray together…