What Have Your Soles Laid Claim To?
Joshua 1:3-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread,
that have I given to you, as I promised Moses. 4 From the
wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites
[Canaan]—and to the Great [Mediterranean] Sea on the west shall be your
territory.5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the
days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail
you or forsake you.
I love shoes.
I do not care if I have an outfit, if I like the shoes, the chances that
I will often make the decision to purchase them is high. I am not as obsessed with shoes as I once
was, but I still love them. There is
nothing like being able to walk out in some tough shoes that scream, they are “all
that,” and they make you look and feel as if you are million bucks and then
some. Have you ever noticed that the
right shoes can make an outfit and change your whole demeanor; it can cause you
to walk a little taller and even command a room when you enter it? It is something about the steps that we take
in the right shoes that make it seems that we can possess just about anything we
walk into.
What if it wasn’t the shoes, but the promises that really
were the thing that was causing us to be able to invoke change in an environment
and cause a shifting in the atmosphere? What if it wasn’t the shoes that made
the outfit, the person the position the posture, but the feet that were blessed
to bring change and lay claim to what God said was ours? Most of us regard our feet as dirty, smelly
and ends to a means to get us from one place to another. But in fact in Biblical times it was the
exchanging of a shoe that represented a promise or sealing a covenant. It was the place where your foot had rested
that possessed the authority to seal a promise. What was done at one time in
the natural is definitely an indicator of the spiritual. In Deuteronomy 11:24
God said this to Moses, “Every place upon which the sole of
your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from
the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea [the Mediterranean] your
territory shall be.” God was identifying to
Moses if your feet can be laid upon it, you can have it and it will be
yours. God reiterated that to Joshua, by
promising that He would give them every place the sole of their feet would
tread upon. So, what have we been
believing for that we have not laid foot on as of yet? What is that we have been walking around or
away from that should be ours, but it is not because we just have not laid our
feet on it, we have not walked towards it or even put a toe on it?
Many of us are placing our feet on some territories that
are not God’s best for us, and that is why we have some of the things, issues,
problems and messes in our lives, that we presently do. But there are other things that we have not
even begun to lay our feet upon that God has said could be ours if we would
just walk on the grounds, place our feet on them, or place our feet over it in
the authority that the promises of God has given concerning those situations
and things that we understand are ours to possess and dominate, to claim and to
become the owner of. Just as we feel the
confidence of a new pair of shoes, we should feel the confidence of God’s
promises as they go with us to possess the land that He has already said is
ours. Whether it is the call on our life,
the ministry He has called us to, our joy, our peace, our power, our giftings, the
new business, new career, the promotion, the outstanding marriage, the good
grades, the new territory, the new house, the better way of life, it is ours, we
only need to put our foot on it, to allow what God has anointed as our authority,
that thing that gives us the power to
take possession and claim all that He
has already said is to be. But it is the
footsteps that we are willing to take that will give us claim to what we are
walking on. Start walking, and remember
with every step you have the authority to possess it as you go!
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