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Friend, wilderness to promise -- do not miss what is already in your hands!

Numbers 13:2  "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them." 

Luke 10:2-3  Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.  3  Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

The Lord never sends His people to evaluate what He has already declared. When God spoke to Moses, the language of heaven was already settled: “the land… which I am giving.” The spies were not commissioned to determine whether the promise was possible -- they were sent to witness what was already theirs by divine decree.

History offers a striking natural parallel. In the mid-20th century, Xerox rose to global dominance after pioneering the modern photocopier. By the 1970s, the company established one of the most advanced research centers in the world — PARC in Silicon Valley. Within those laboratories, Xerox engineers developed technologies that would shape the future of computing: the computer mouse, the graphical user interface, Ethernet networking, and laser printing. The future was not hidden from Xerox -- it was sitting in their hands. Yet leadership remained anchored to the success of their copier empire. They evaluated revolutionary breakthroughs through the lens of yesterday’s victories, and while others -- most notably Apple and later Microsoft -- seized the moment, Xerox hesitated. They saw, but did not possess. They pioneered, but did not pivot. They touched the future, but did not walk into it.

Beloved, this is the wilderness lesson before the body of Messiah today. Israel stood at the very edge of promise with the fruit of the land in their hands, yet wilderness thinking kept them from entering. The issue was never the clarity of God’s word -- it was the alignment of their mindset. It is possible to witness promise and still shrink back, to receive revelation and still hesitate, to stand at the threshold and still think like a wanderer. But the Spirit of the Lord is calling His people forward in this hour with unmistakable urgency.

The harvest of the nations has already been declared. God is not asking whether it can happen -- He has spoken it. This is not the season to measure new assignments by old comfort zones or past survival mindsets. The wilderness has indeed refined you, but it must not define you. Faith must now rise and take hold of what God has already prepared.

Friend, lift your eyes. The promise is before you, the harvest is ready, and the word of the Lord has already gone forth. Do not stand at the border of promise with a wilderness mindset. Agree quickly with what He has declared -- and step forward to possess it.

George & Baht Rivka (Melbourne, Florida)