Dear People Who Keep Company With God,
Crossing over your Jordan is miraculous. It is healing, restoration and the beginning of a new day in your life. The Presence of God is 
what and how we get across. He makes a way where there is no way (Is. 43:19). As impressive as crossing over is, it is just the beginning. Now we get to possess the land.
Here are a few parallels between Israel’s possession of the “Promised Land” and our possession of our “land of promises” that can help us on our journey.
Get rid of false expectations. God told Israel prior to crossing over that He wouldn’t give them the fullness of the land all at once. If He did, the beasts would become too numerous for them and they would be defeated (see Exod. 23:29; Deut. 7:22). Instead, they were to grow into possessing the fullness of their inheritance.
In the beginning. He gave Adam and Eve the entire earth to rule over, yet they only had possession of the Garden of Eden. The rest would be brought under their authority, as they were fruitful in what they possessed. They owned it all by promise, but they possessed only what they could properly steward. We have to grow into our inheritance.
Take the time to remember (Josh. 4). We journal, take photographs, or just recall the defining or special moments in life, so we can remember the beauty or the pain that makes our stories distinct. The Scriptures speak a great deal about remembering in both the trying times and good times.
Once, Paul told Timothy, “Remember Christ Jesus.” (2 Tim. 2:8) I think that is a reminder that the Presence of the Lord is with us always. And, I believe that it is important for us to understand that we see life through a filter. That filter either blinds us to all the beauty, wonder, and the possibility that surrounds us or it brings them to light. Paul, in essence, is telling Timothy, “Christ Jesus is the only reliable filter you have. Apart from Him, you can’t interpret life properly.”
Take the time to remember those particular and defining moments in your life and you will be surprised at what God will do.
Israel’s point of entry into the Promised Land was Gilgal. All the males who had been born since the exodus were circumcised there. It became the base of operations for the initial conquest of the land. Gilgal means roll away. It is a place we keep going back to from time to time in our life to have the layers of reproach cut off our hearts. God is rolling the reproach of the last season off people right now.
Learn kingdom thinking versus wilderness thinking. Wilderness thinking tends to wait for God to do everything; give you manna every morning, give you water from a rock and lead you with a cloud in the daytime and a fireball in the evening. When Israel crossed over into the Promised Land, all of that stopped. They lived in houses they did not build with gardens and vineyards they did not plant (Josh. 5). The point being God expected them to take what existed, cultivate and expand it, and prosper.
Kingdom thinking is illustrated in some of Jesus’ miracles. He took something that existed such as water and turned it into wine or five loaves and two fish and fed a multitude. He instructed a blind man to go and wash himself in a pool to receive his sight. It is the natural working with the supernatural to bring about God’s intended purpose. We have to take what God has given us, cultivate it, grow it, work it and at the end of the day know it was the grace of God working in and with us, and be thankful.
Many Blessings, BW