Kim Potter: "The Time of Promise is Here! It's Time to Press!"

Av: the Month of Promise

A friend reminded me of a teaching I had written on the month of Av and, as I read it, I was reminded why it is so vital to press in during this month.

The month of Av on the Jewish calendar, historically, is the month when God showed His people the land He was giving them. It is the month Moses sent twelve spies into the land to spy it out. It is the month when ten of the spies said, "The giants are too big, we can't win here, and we will die." It is also the same month that two of the spies said, "No, God gave this to us. It is ours and we can take it. The giants may be big, but the Lord is greater. Let's take our land."

You know the story. The children of Israel wandered around in the wilderness until they did exactly what they said would happen—they died. What about the other two spies, the ones with the good report? The ones with faith in what God had said? They entered into their land and took it, just as they said they would.

God works in times and seasons. You can't read the Bible and not realize that times and seasons are vital and God's times and seasons do not change. Many years ago this was a month to enter into the Promised Land...and it still is today. So then what's the problem, you may ask? The problem is there are giants in the land.

How Do We Prevail Against the Giants in Our Promised Land?

Just like with the children of Israel, God has already delivered us from bondage through the Blood of Christ. Just like the children of Israel, God has given us our Promised Land. And just like the children of Israel, we must take it! We must face the giants in our life and take our land. However, many people are afraid of giants. I once wrote a teaching on the fact that the children of God feared the giants, but the giants were even more afraid of God's people. They constantly lived in fear of them, they knew the acts of God and they knew that if God was with them, which He was, they could not prevail against them.

It is the same with us today. Many of us are afraid to go up against the hard stuff, against our giants, but that hard thing, that giant, cannot prevail against the Word of God or the promise of God. If you go in to take your land, with God in you and beside you, you will prevail.

The Final Push!

I know some of you are beyond weary, I am too. I talked to God about this very thing this week, but I also know in my spirit that many of us are at that final push. You know the one when you are in labor and the doctors say, "I see the head, one more good push." We are there. It is time to press like never before, this is your time of promise. What will you do? Will you run in fear from the giants that are facing you or will you stand and declare, "God gave me this land, I am taking it, and nothing will stop me." For me personally, I have come way too far to stop now. I am taking my land, every inch of it.

As for me, this is a time of promise and I am entering in to take my land. The first thing I am going to do is give God an offering, the second thing I am going to do is to put my promises before my face, so that I see them every day and they become greater than the size of the giants. Next, I am going to speak God's Word out of my mouth like never before. I am taking my land. I will sow it with purpose. I will declare:

I am taking my land, I am sowing this seed and declaring that I enter into my promises this day. No giant can stand before me, nothing can stop me. God is with me and I am going in. This land is mine and I will not let go of ANY thing God has promised. I will declare His Word with purpose, knowing He will back up every word I speak in line with His Word. I will push with purpose, knowing it is TIME. I refuse to give into the weariness knowing I am in the stages of the final push. Praise God!

We have talked about the timing on God's calendar, now there is one more thing I want to mention. August is both a given name and surname developed from the Latin, Augustus. Derived from the Latin word augere, meaning "to increase," Augustus had the meaning "esteemed" or "venerable" and was a title given to Roman emperors.

What I see in this is (just like Av) August has godly meaning. It is a time of calling forth of those who have matured in God. It is a calling forth of the mature in Christ into the promises of God. It is time to lay hold of the promises and His glory. It is time!

May we all enter into the promises of God this very month. That is my prayer for you and for me. May we see the fullness of this month of promise. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

Kim Potter
A New Thing Ministries
Email: kim@anewthingministries.com
Website: www.anewthingministries.com

In 2005 Kim Potter founded A New Thing Ministries which reaches thousands of readers daily. In addition, Kim speaks at conferences and meetings nationwide. Kim's message is a message of hope, and she speaks to the heart of those who have become discouraged and disappointed by the circumstances they face in life. She encourages people to press into God and discover that He is who He says He is. Nothing is more precious to her than the times she spends in the secret place with her God; from this place of oneness with Him, her anointing flows. Kim has witnessed God's dramatic healing power, both in her own life as well as with her daughter and many others.

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