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one.
I found it ironic that a man who had been called as a minister of God would fall so far
from a walk of faith that he was now making a living by convincing others that they could
find security in the arm of the flesh. When he had been called to lead men and women to
trust God in their daily lives, declaring to them that God was a present help in time of
trouble, a refuge and a strong tower in time of need, he had now given up any pretense of
leading others to manifest such a faith in God. He was going door to door with his message
of trust in the security man offered.
Recently, God has shown me that my calling is the opposite of being a security
salesman. He has called me to be a vulnerability salesman. I am to urge men and women
to follow the Spirit into areas of great risk in the natural. I am to exhort them to cast all
upon God, and to lean entirely upon Him in times of need. The call of a minister is to lead
the saints to a walk of faith, where they trust in the words of an invisible God more than
they trust in the report of their senses.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever
would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the
rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].
(Amplified Bible)

God has set a good and pleasant land before each of His children. He must take us
through the wilderness to arrive there. He will test our hearts to see whether we will trust
in Him. If He finds faith in our hearts, even as He did in the hearts of Caleb and Joshua,
then He will certainly bring us into this good land. Even if the generation around us
perishes, those who trust God will enter into the promises of God by faith.
God has told us in His Word what this land before us is. He is Himself our inheritance.
His names describe the land before us. He is Yahweh Yireh, Yahweh our provider and
source of provision. He is Yahweh Rophe, Yahweh our healer and fountain of health. He is
Yahweh Shalom, Yahweh our peace. He is also salvation, and righteousness, and He invites
all of His children to know Him in fulness. He invites us to enter into the land before us, but
it can only be possessed by those who walk by faith, and who do not shrink back from the
giants in the land.
Many saints have viewed this land from a distance, but have not yet begun to enter in.
Many will not enter in because of unbelief. As the Psalmist stated:

Psalms 106:24-26
Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe in His word, but grumbled
in their tents; they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. Therefore He swore to them
that He would cast them down in the wilderness...

The church of which I spoke that would not accept God’s minister and leadership for
them, but chose instead a man who would not lead them in the way of faith, is no longer in
existence. In the space of a few short years it went from around one hundred and fifty in