The Promised Land

Published on 11 June 2026 at 15:10

The Promise Series

Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord! (1)

Our Righteousness is to believe in Him. Believe in the work that He has started in us and will complete. He who started this work will finish until the day of Christ(2). This faith and revelation we receive is the Spirit of Faith. Faith in His Promise. Faith in His Word. His Word is Spirit and life. The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. The letter condemns but the Spirit gives hope of restoration through love and faith. Abraham believed and it was accounted to Him for righteousness (3). That even though He did not yet see nor received the Promise. It was accounted to him by God as being a man who was righteous. A man who loved. His righteousness was in His faith and trust in God. God's righteousness and character. Trusting that He who promised is faithful to fulfil (4). To transform. To save.

Most men claim to be good but who can find a faithful man. (5)

Our righteousness is to believe in God and keep the faith. That even if we do not see The Promise like Abraham we remain steadfast in the Promised land waiting patiently. Planting and sowing in that land while we wait (6). Until all is fulfilled and come to pass so that we may receive that which is Promised. While waiting surrendering, learning from mistakes, manifesting and expelling our iniquities that are hidden in us but manifested through time so that we may be cleansed and purified of our iniquities ready to receive the Promise.

As Abraham did, whilst he waited he confronted his inner demons, insecurities, bad character and even unbelief from the father of faith himself when he gave into his wife’s suggestion of mistrust in trying to conceive a heir from another woman from whom was not the Promise of God (7).

Yet Abraham became born of God when he obeyed the voice of God calling him from the idolatry of his family and the inheritance he would receive from his father. In accepting this conviction he died spiritually to the world; in this case the idols and lifestyle of his father in his decision to obey. To be born again is this decision of repentance upon the voice of God. It is to hear the voice of God and decide to convert, leaving the ways of the world to follow the way of God. Then by this action of leaving Haran and most likely crossing some form of water as a separation from one world to another. From Haran to Canaan the Promised land. This Process was the baptism in waters the action that followed that decision. The action of righteousness in believing and accepting the voice and conviction of God. Righteousness is to believe. A faith that believes, trust and perseveres even without seeing. Because the law condemns us. But if we believe in Him (8) there is faith assurance and hope that we will be saved. That we will be redeemed by Him. Simply because we believe we hope we trust. So that in the appointed time...

For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry. (9)

He will finish the work that He started in us (2). That we may gladly boast in our weaknesses (10). Weaknesses that the law identifies in us and condemns that by faith in Him we have the assurance and guarantee that we will overcome. That we will become strong. Because we know and believe that He is with us until the end and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen (11). Isn’t He dreamy 🥰. So as we keep moving forward remaining in this faith. In this Promised land of those things that are to come, though we do not yet see it. Those things that will be fulfilled in us. We then become justified by faith that we believe yet do not see and are not yet. We become justified in this hope of things yet to come. We become justified by faith because we believe and persevere waiting on the Promise from He who cannot lie (12).

We are accounted for righteousness in that we believe though we do not see and are not yet. This is the hope that fills us with joy and life rejoicing in the Spirit, full of faith and love that though we are not yet nor have those things we hope for. But it is this faith that makes our face shine with radiance, peace and joy even in the middle of a storm, a desert or even without the tender touch of a child yet to be born.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defence to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; (13)

Even full of soars, infirmities, left for dead with all hope lost yet still confessing my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth (14). This faith is the evidence of things hoped for but not yet seen (15). That though the law condemns us, cast us out so that we are counted as the despised. Faith does not look to the outward appearance to justify us according to the law. But the faith that burns in us awaiting the Promise, full of assurance of things yet to come for His glory. So that in this miracle and transformation He would be glorified and known throughout the earth (16).

God did not look at the outward appearance and weakness of Abraham a man without a heir to call him to become The father of many nations (17) God did not judge according to the law and expectations of men in those times. Nor the bareness of Sarah’s womb branding her as a woman accursed for not being able to bear a child for her husband. No but as a woman of faith though barren and not yet, who believed in the Promise and left all her security and inheritance upon the Word of God.

Her righteousness was not in who she was or where she came from. Her righteousness was in her faith of who she would become (18) because of her faith in the Word of God. She was not justified by the law of fertility that decided a woman's worth, that deemed her able. She was justified because she believed and waited. So that faith worked in her patience to form in her through her endurance and trust a womb worthy of bearing a child (19).

But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (20)

Not because she was but because she believed. That He who started this work was faithful to complete it (2). That though she was weak in that she could not bear a child. She was strong in God who strengthened her, kept her and prepared her in order to become. Her strength was not in her abilities but her faith. Her faith to remain in the Promised land and wait for the fulfilment of the Promise. Even though all seemed hopeless and nothing appeared to change.

Wait on the Lord be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart (1)

It reminds me of my youth where I was tested with this righteousness of faith and not of works. I was struggling in my faith. Having been in the church a while and was doing well at a certain season of my life. However, as I mentioned in previous blogs I developed a cancer to the soul and to the faith and became shipwrecked having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck (21). I had resentments, feeling sorry for myself, victimisation, depression leading to addictions. Unfortunately, I did not use of my weakness to become strong through my faith in Christ and His faithfulness in helping me.

Unfortunately, like Adam and Eve, I decided to leave this Promised land of faith and trust in God. Of this hope. I chose rather to eat that fruit of Pride and unbelief from the forbidden tree. To go out on my own from the Promised land to do as I pleased with no hope of overcoming the bareness of my soul. Forsaking the Promised land of restoration, forgiveness, healing and hope. The Promised land of the Salvation of the soul. I did not believe. I was accounted for unrighteousness not because of who I had become but that I did not believe in Him.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (22)

And you would not believe what happened. When I eventually returned back to Jesus and to my faith when I was expecting my son and married spontaneously to my husband who did not share my faith… As I returned to the Promised land of my faith and communion with God. I came to find a particular book written and shared by a pastors wife in my church that described in such a way that hit home, exactly the root of my difficulties that I was struggling with. When I had become weak in my faith in my youth and had shipwrecked losing the good conscience in giving up.

This root and weakness was the need for approval. To be accepted, wanted, admired or even appreciated. In the many times I had this need for attention and approval I was losing my oil slowly, slowly drained by this vanity. That my duty was not to serve to be approved but to serve and give because I had to give and only seek the approval in doing what was right regardless of whether it is seen, known or appreciated.

This resolution then made me to understand that God was, is and will always be faithful to those who remain steadfast and faithful to Him, His Word and His Promises no matter the season.

If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself. (23)

That though I judged myself unworthy according to the law that condemned me by my works and my weaknesses in that I had fallen and was struggling to overcome the resentments and grudges in my hypocrisy so that I even failed in my education. My unrighteousness was not in my works or who I had become. My unrighteousness was in my unbelief that He was willing and able to help me and that book was the evidence of this truth that awaited my return as proof.

He who is coming will come and will not tarry (9)

Even more, I observed that those who like me, faced many challenges and even that which was worse than myself. Yet they remained steadfast in the Promised land of their faith and communion with God despite the hardship. Despite the so called condemnation of the law towards their persons. That because they remained, they overcame… to he who overcomes (24). They kept the faith. They like Sarah saw the fulfilment of the Promise and justification that came by faith in Him despite their circumstances.

Our righteousness is not in who we are or what we have done. Our righteousness is that we believe in Him by the hearing of the Word that will form in us through faith and perseverance those things that are yet to come. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound... and we shall be changed. (25). To call upon Him. To wait on Him and to strive to obey His guidance and His Word. Then no matter our state of being, our circumstances with this faith and perseverance He who is coming will come and will not tarry (9). So that He may be glorified through this testimony and faith imbued in righteousness.

Yet like Abraham and Sarah, the time it takes for the Promise to be fulfilled depends on us. That His work in us, that is to be complete, will pass through tests, chastisements and discipline like the Axe. To confront, expose and expel those things in us that impede or delay the fulfilment of the Promise.

Abraham was confronted twice with his habit of lying (26) to save himself according to what was recorded. Sarah was confronted with her unbelief in growing weary and using her servant instead to bear a child. Then laughing when the Angel came to confirm the child to be born the following year.

Yet all of these tests and trials they passed through to test the material of their faith (27) whether it would endure the fire. Yet all the while they endured remaining steadfast in the Promised land. Depending on God. Waiting on God and allowing Him like the Potter to prepare in them the masterpiece that would be fulfilled as a guarantee through this faith and perseverance.

For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise (9)

We will always go through shaky seasons in the Promised land of our faith. Where we may even grow weak or even stumble but like Abraham and Sarah we must remain steadfast in the faith, in the Promised land of obedience, perseverance and faith in His Word. Abraham too stumbled, fell into sin, was unfaithful. Even in iniquity (26) to spare his life and his wife but not with a bad intention and was able to come to repentance in his journey of faith from his mistakes and wrong choices whilst abiding in the Promised land. Abraham was unfaithful, having a child with his servant Hagar at the request of a desperate, insecure Sarah, his wife. God did not speak to him for 13 years but Abraham bared his time with his mistake and waited there in the Promised land until God renewed His covenant with him.

Even King David fell into adultery, killed and deceived. Full of iniquity. Yet he remained in the Promised land of this hope of repentance and salvation unlike King Saul who despised the servant of God and God Himself. Yet David pleaded with God…Do not take your Holy Spirit from me (28). Abraham, David and many others, were justified not by the law or their works that condemned them and they paid the price. They were justified not because of who they were or did. They were justified by their faith in whom they believed, trusted, hoped and waited patiently to behold. That though they were not yet, nor were deserving. They waited, hoped, trusted and believed until the end. In the God of their Salvation.

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (29)

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law as it is written cursed is everyone who dies on a tree (8). So that through the law we are accursed by our sins or defects but by faith and perseverance in Christ we have the hope of redemption and transformation. By the law we are condemned but it is by faith that we wait for the Promise that will surely come and not tarry. That God suffers long waiting with us for that Promise to be fulfilled in us as He waited with Abraham and Sarah, the people of Isreal from Egypt, though many died along the way in their deep rooted unbelief. Yet the God who waits (30) so that His Word may come to pass. Heaven and earth may pass away but my Word will by no means pass away (31). So that those who believe and wait on Him will not perish. That He who promised is faithful and will do it until the day of Christ.

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith...For in Christ the law avails nothing but faith working through love. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh but through love serve one another. (32)

The law of the kingdom of God contrary to the law that condemns; is faith working through love. Through love we are able to walk in Spirit. Through love we receive power to give to serve. Through love we have the capacity, hope and conscience to grow and do or be better. The hope for righteousness. So to conclude we are not justified by the law though it is useful to judge and measure our state before God that we may not be ignorant. Yet justification comes by faith in Christ that He is able and willing. Through the Spirit. The Spirit that works in us through love. Forming in us through the hearing of the Word that child of God that is yet to be born.

Nonetheless the Spirit wars against the flesh and so it is the Spirit which allows us to remain in the Promised land waiting for this hope of righteousness by faith despite our challenges and weakness. To walk in the Spirit that keeps us steadfast in this Promised land is to walk in love and consideration to God and our neighbours. To keep a good conscience or else we will hinder, delay or impede the inheritance of that Promise. When we walk in the Spirit we walk in the Kingdom of God. Surrendered, faithful in full hope not departing but able to remain steadfast and not grow weary by this good conscience which is the Kingdom of God. Surrendered full of hope. That though outwardly, who we are yet to be is not yet complete in this faith and good conscience in the Kingdom of God, we hope and believe and will see the end of our faith, above all the salvation of our soul (27).