God has empowered his people to boldly take ground and further His Kingdom in the world. He promises success—but that doesn’t mean there won’t be struggle. Walking into the land of milk and honey means wrestling with giants and wolves. Are you up for the fight? Are you prepared to step into the promises of God? Then bring on the conflict and the challenge—if God be for us, who or what can stop us!

We tend to think the “Promised Land” is where things are easy, and life is good. But in reality struggle and opposition are precisely what we should expect to find as we step into God’s promises for our life. Giants and wolves, not ease and comfort, are the indicator that we’re on our way to the land of milk and honey.

Message Notes

“It’s Not Supposed to Be Easy”

They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.”

Numbers 13:26-28

“but” (conjunction): used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned.

Don’t put a comma where God puts a period.

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.”

Numbers 13:31-32

He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”

Luke 10:2-3

Every “Promised Land” is pre-populated with giants and wolves.

God doesn’t promise prosperity.
He promises purpose.