Page 30 - Evidence of Things Unseen

He led them to the city with the biggest, strongest, widest and most impregnable walls. He
led them directly to Jericho. This was to be the first battle for the Israelites in the land, and
if they could capture Jericho then there would be nothing greater they would ever have to
face.
The history of Israel going in to possess the promised land is not just a bunch of
interesting stories given to entertain. They are parables of man taking possession of the land
in which he dwells. Our flesh was made from the dust of the earth. It is this ground we must
possess and rule over. We must drive out every enemy, tear down every stronghold, slay
every giant, subdue all the wild beasts, until the land is made into a habitation of peace and
righteousness. I had some real strongholds in my life, and the Lord Yahshua was preparing
to lead me in to conquer the land.
I mentioned that at this time I was serving as a minister among a local body of
believers, so there were actually a number of things the Lord was performing in my life. Not
only was He seeking to deliver this son of His from the bondage in his life, but He was
preparing me to be fit as a minister who could receive a much greater anointing. I was to
undergo a scourging for my waywardness, but I was at the same time to be fitted to enter
into a greater calling than I had yet known.
The Spirit of God began to impress the following verse upon me at this time.

Luke 16:10-11
“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is
unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. Therefore if you have
not been faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches
to you?”

The Holy Spirit spoke to me that I must become faithful in my stewardship of money
if I desired to receive true spiritual riches. If I could not be faithful in this unrighteous thing,
this carnal and natural area of my life, then God would not be able to entrust to me the
spiritual riches He desired to give to me. I yearned very much for true spiritual riches. I
wanted God to open up to me the mysteries of His word and to endow me with a high
calling, and an anointing to accomplish all that He would lead me to do. I wanted to be a
vessel of honor in God’s house as Paul described to his son in the faith, Timothy.

II Timothy 2:19-21
"The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the
Lord is to abstain from wickedness." Now in a large house there are not only gold
and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor
and some to dishonor. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he
will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good
work.

The Scriptures reveal that God has a high calling set before all of His children. He
desires all to be vessels of honor, of gold and silver. Yet God is able to use many of His
children only for common things, for they will not submit to His purging and purifying
work. They avoid the working of the cross in their lives, and because they are unclean God
must relegate them to being vessels of dishonor.
Consider for a moment that in a great house there are choice goblets of gold, encrusted