Is This Your Season for Crossing Over?

Is this your season for crossing over? I’m asking because YOU are the one that must decide. You must get a vision of where you are going, establish it, believe for it, and trust God has given it to you. And yes, I said, HAS ALREADY GIVEN IT TO YOU. Remember what the Word of God says, “When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for.” (Mark 11:24)

The first chapter of Joshua lays out the blueprint for our success. God tells Joshua he had given him the land before He ever possessed it. And through God’s Word, He has told us things He has given us too. But will you be like Joshua? Will you believe Him? Will you arise and take possession of them BY FAITH, as all the greats in that glorious Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11) have done?

Can you even imagine how much Moses meant to these people? This is the man who had led them out of slavery, out of bondage and defeat, from their life of making brick and mortar. He came back for them when He could have stayed in His cush life in the wilderness with his family, but He didn’t. He listened to the Voice of God, and He trusted Him. He had courage, and He went back for His people, people He had never even met. But He did it. He led them out. And He was so much more than just their Deliverer. He was their leader, their confidant, their intercessor when they sinned and fell short. He had brought the instructions from the lips of God. He was there at the foot of Sinai, their pastor, their preacher, their priest, the one who called them to the alter to surrender their lives to God, that life-defining moment when they choose to live and not die and declare the works of the Lord, it was Moses that God has used to move upon their heart and bring through the waters, from death to life, from defeat to victory, and not just for them, but to their children, to their children’s children, to a thousand generations. He was the man who had beckoned them to the heart of God, to the ways of obedience. It says in the first verse of Joshua that Joshua himself had personally ministered to Moses, and so the people are grieving. They're grieving so deeply over the death of Moses that they’ve found themselves stuck and unable to move forward.

Have you ever been there? Maybe you’ve lost someone, maybe you’ve lost something valuable to you, maybe your marriage failed, maybe someone you loved died, maybe the success you’ve had in times past has dried up. And sometimes we can even mourn things that are incomparable to the grief these people must have been feeling at the opening chapter of Joshua. And yet, it was time. It was time to cross over. And I think a part of them may have known it. Deep inside, they knew from the moment of that surrender at Sinai; they believed. They believed a day was coming when they would enter the promise. But here they stand at the Jordan River, the day of crossing over. And the Lord God Almighty says to them, “Moses my servant is dead: now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan.”

Jordan was what was standing between them and the promise, the boundary between wandering in the wilderness and possessing the promised land. It was a place of cleansing, washing away the old, and making way for the new. The Word Jordan actually means " descender,” the one flowing downward. There is a descent before arising. That place where we have to let the dead bury the dead—that place where we have to let the past go. We have to let the dead places die. We have to let go of what is producing death in our life: habits, addictions, strongholds, mental patterns of thinking that have kept us small, that have kept us broken and defeated. We have to let the mind of Christ be in us. We have to stop listening to the serpent speaking in our ears, put off his voice, and put that part of ourselves to death.

Are you ready to step into the waters? Jesus started in the Jordan. Jesus said, “I am the way; follow me.” Will you follow Him into the waters, into the place of crossing over? Will we take a dip beneath the surface, and let the Holy Spirit descend like a dove upon us, washing away what needs to stay in the waters? Are you ready to advance? To enter the precious promises. Have you been wandering in that wilderness way too long? Let go. Take a step.

The Red Sea was leaving slavery behind; it’s what God brings you OUT OF

But the Jordan- this is where you enter the promise, what God is bringing you INTO.

Your walk with God was never supposed to stop at simply being forgiven and rescued from sin. It wasn’t just about being brought out of bondage. It was so much more. It’s being brought into Christ, into sonship, into inheritance, into purpose, into authority, into a brand new way of living; it’s entering into all that God has promised us. He delivered us from that kingdom of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Moses is dead now; therefore, arise, go over this Jordan…” Move. Move. Take action. now. It’s dead. The past is the past. What is lying in front of you that you must now fight for? God’s promises existed before the step, but the manifestation occurred when they took action, when the priest feet touched that River Jordan. They didn’t earn the promise. They just responded to it… by faith.

Come up from the old place.

Look at what’s in front of you.

Cross the boundary.

Follow His presence like they followed that Ark of the Covenant

And enter what God has already given you.