Garden of the Heart Ministries - Teachings Waiting for Your Inheritance

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Teachings on Time Management Hearing God The Baptism of the Holy Spirit Praying your Prodigals Back Home The Master Gardener Jesus in the Garden Take Possession Cultivating Hearts and Planting Seed Waiting for Your Inheritance? View the Archive for PDF files	Waiting for Your Inheritance? “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.” Isaiah 40:31 Are you weary of the battle? Do you feel like giving up? Has God given you a promise from His word but you see no change in your circumstances? Be encouraged and take hold of God's covenant promises to you. They are your inheritance and rightfully yours. God has already qualified you to receive them. “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.” Colossians 1:12 He is offering it to you, but are you having difficulty receiving the fulfillment of it? “[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (TESTAMENT, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance.” Hebrews 9:15 AMP When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and live in obedience to Him, you become entitled to all of God's promises given to Abraham and Israel in the Old Testament, and all the greater promises in the New Testament. They are your inheritance. You don't have to die to receive the inheritance. Jesus already died to give you an inheritance, and He rose from the dead and made you a joint-heir with Him. "And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]" Romans 8:17 AMP These promises pertain to life on earth, and also to life eternally in heaven. Promises for protection, provision, favor, healing, and so on, are yours right now. All you must do is receive them by faith. The words “to inherit” in the Hebrew means “to seize, to take possession of and to occupy.” You must seize and take possession of the promises God has given you, expecting them to come to pass. You do not just sit around doing nothing. Your faith must be active as you patiently wait. When you take hold of God's promises and confess them--even before the answer is evident, your faith will be released and a confident hope will fill your heart. “but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth.” Psalm 37:9 AMP Check your heart to see if you are really waiting on God. The words “to wait” in the Hebrew means “to expect, to look for patiently, to hope and be confidant, to trust, to endure.” Waiting for the Lord is not passive. You must expectantly lay hold of God’s promises in confident trust. If you are biding your time day after day just wondering if God is going to come through, then you’re not waiting in the real sense of the word. Once God gives you a promise to stand on, there should be a sense of expectation in your heart. If there isn’t, then water your prayer promise with your faith by thanking God like this: Father, I believe Your promise to keep Your word to me, for Joshua 21:45 says that “Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.” If Your promises didn't fail for them, they won't fail for me either. Regardless of what my eyes see, I know Your word is truth. You cannot lie, therefore, I lay hold of Your promise and thank You for it, even before I see it. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. You may be saying, "But those promises were for Israel, not for me." I have good news for you! They're for you, too. Galatians 3:29 says, "if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." Abraham believed God and that is why he received the promise. He acted like it was a done deal and praised God for the answer yet unseen, because he was convinced God would keep His word to him. “ yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.” Rom 4:20-21 You must take hold of God’s word and don’t let go. Let the Word go deep into your heart until you know without a doubt that what He promised, He will fulfill, even though you see it far off. When my mother died a few years ago, my sisters and I settled her estate. We went through all of her things to divide them up amongst us. It was a tedious job because she was a frugal woman who saved everything. But it was our inheritance and it was all we had to remember her by. When we started rummaging through her meagerly belongings, we weren't too careful in our search and we casually laid aside boxes of stuff she collected for years, things like styrofoam meat trays that she washed and kept, old boxes she hoped to have use for again one day, and scores of old greeting cards dating back 50 years. But little surprises started popping up. We found several hundred dollars hidden in an envelope in an end table, so our sorting and searching became more meticulous. We painstaking took our time and looked through every book, every piece of paper and every greeting card. Nothing was left uncovered. What we found was that Mom had money stashed all over her house...in cabinets, envelopes, drawers and jars. After we had gone through and sorted everything, the estate was finally settled, and all the money and possessions were divided up amongst us. My sisters and I eagerly anticipated our inheritance as we foraged through it, even before we knew there was so much wealth there, because we each wanted to keep the precious keepsakes as memories of our mother. But even though we knew our inheritance was legally ours, it didn't benefit us until we actually took it and appropriated it for ourselves. A few months later, my sister, Jackie, bought Mom’s house and moved in. After a couple of weeks she called to tell us we had more money coming. Apparently, when she went to the basement to get an empty coffee can, she made another discovery. In our previous search, someone shook the can but never opened it because they didn't hear anything. So they assumed nothing was in it. But when Jackie pulled the plastic lid off, she found over three hundred dollars wedged inside. Being the woman of integrity that she was, she called each one of us to inform us of our portion...because it was something we were entitled to. In the same way, you must carefully search the scriptures to uncover the treasures the word of God holds in store for you. There is so much wealth and bounty that is rightfully yours, but you must lay hold of it and take it for your own. And when you think you've found all those promises, search again because there's sure to be some golden nuggets that you haven't discovered yet. “We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.” Hebrews 6:12 Print Page