A Timely Promise

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given to you, as I promised Moses. Joshua 1:3

Today, the 20th of March 2021, as I was reading my bible, as usual, a verse caught my attention and upon careful study, it became a Rhema word to me from the Lord. It is the Lord's promise for all the ministry journeys He has been leading me and the brothers in coordination in the Body, with the Body, and for the Body.

In fact, of late I have been reconsidering the ministry literature journey that I had undertaken. Though the burden was to introduce and distribute the ministry literature to different people at different places, there also is a need for considerable sales as it cost money to undertake such journeys. Nothing is free, everything comes with a price, even a big price in terms of finance, time, and energy too. I just expressed my feeling about being more on the propagation of the ministry rather than the sales,  to the brother coordinating with me. Yes, initially there needs to be some investment in terms of money and time. Even as I reckon all the gifts of ministry books to some Christians as a foretaste for them, it was indeed a "time-bomb" spiritually to explode one day for the Lord's testimony through whom these books would sow the seed of the ministry and grow and develop. When in such mood and consideration, the word of God came as a timely reply to my concerns about the recent distribution journey where we gave out more books as gifts rather than sales.

The word of God is plain and clear. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given to you. As I recollected the names of the places that I undertook recently, they are very encouraging. It spans over four north Indian Hindi-speaking states, namely Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Bihar, so far this year. I believe the promise holds true for all the past journeys and the future journeys to happen as He leads on and on. So far the names of the place that we actually trod with the soles of our feet are Bilaspur, Khariar Road, Korba, Raipur, Ranchi, Khunti, Tatanagar, Patna, Dehri On Sone, Itwa, Bahuara, Talimpur, Rajewpur, and Sirhara. The Lord will raise up His testimony in all these localities. That's the promise of God, and He will do it in time!

Besides, the word of God further states:

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall muse upon it day and night so that you may be certain to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and take courage; do not be afraid or dismayed. For Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:8, 9

The condition for the fulfillment of the promise is to abide by the word of God, which today is the abiding in the Lord as the Spirit in my spirit, and my obedience to all His words. With such conditions fulfilled, the promised prosperity and success will be fulfilled. His word says, "you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success". Once in obedience I submit to His word, it is I who will make my way prosperous, and then I will have success. This is the principle of incarnation, God working with man, and man working with God. For God to gain what He wants to gain He must first gain man through whom He can gain what He wants to gain.

May the will of the Lord be done. May His promise be fulfilled. May He gain me to gain what He wants to gain through me.