The spirit of the Lord is upon me today to serve you the diet of Canaan. You cannot eat the diet of Canaan until you get to Canaan. However, Canaan is a promise land for covenant people. If you are not covenanted to live in Canaan, you will be removed. Remember that some people were in Canaan before the children of Israel got there. They were removed from the land so that the children of Israel could occupy it. Canaan is not a promise land for everybody.
However, that a land is a promise land does not mean that there will be no challenges in the land. That you are a covenant child of God does not mean that you will be totally immune from the challenges of life. Abraham was a covenant child of God, yet he was faced with the challenges of famine right in the promise land.( Genesis 12: 10-11) Isaac also faced the challenges of famine in the promised land.( Genesis 26:1-2) The same thing happened to Jacob. He faced the challenges of famine.( Genesis 43: 1-3)
The truth we always fail to realize is that the solution to all the challenges of the promised land could also be found right within the promise land. The solution is not in Egypt or elsewhere. But when the people in the promised land decide to come out of the promised land in search of solutions, the bible says they "went down".( Genesis 12:10; 26:2; 43:3) However, when they came out of Egypt, the bible says they "went up".( Genesis 13:1)
Before we can really appreciate the spiritual nutritional value of the diet of Canaan, we need to examine and analyze the spiritual nutritional facts of the diet of Egypt and the diet of the Wilderness. This is what I hope to do in the part two of this series.
The diet of Egypt is a diet of slavery. Egypt represents the world system. Pharaoh represents Satan who is the ruler of the world system. Egypt solution is man own way of solving his problem. It is the flesh approach to solving serious spiritual problems. Egypt solution might look initially attractive and enticing. But it is a bait towards bondage.
A Joseph may be around to assure you that there is no cause for alarm. The Joseph may even make provision for a place of comfort for you at Goshen. But Goshen and Canaan are not the same. Goshen may be fertile for livestock farming, but it is still located in Egypt, the land of bondage. Canaan was the land promised the children of Israel. Goshen was never a promise land.
THE DIET OF CANAAN (2)
THE DIET OF EGYPT
But very soon the Joseph and the reigning Pharaoh will die and another Pharaoh who will not know Joseph and the children of Israel will occupy the throne. This is the time that Egypt will show you her true color. The true color of Egypt is slavery and bondage. The new Pharaoh turned the covenant people of God to slaves. You cannot blame God for whatever happens to you as a covenant child of God if you walk out of the covenant or if you are totally ignorant of the existence of the covenant. The Hebrews did not know anything about their past. They did not know that they are covenant people and that their original home was Canaan.
While in slavery, the Hebrews were fed with some fish, cucumber, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. (Numbers 11:5). The major characteristics of this diet is that it is not a balance diet. The modern name for this type of food is salad. This is not really a solid food that can sustain a healthy living for people that are engaged in laborious tasks reserved for slaves. This food is given to the Hebrews not to give them robust health, but to sustain them so that they could continue to work as slaves
Another feature of the diet of Egypt is the offensive odor it leaves in your mouth. Garlic and onions carry very strong and offensive odor which can remain with you all day.
My prayer for you today is that God will take from you every demonic odor that has stigmatized your destiny. Also, it is my prayer that God will serve you a balance diet that will give you a robust and healthy life.
THE DIET OF CANAAN (3)
THE DIET OF WILDERNESS
The diet of Wilderness is a monotonous diet. It is also a predictable diet. The children of Israel were fed with manna throughout their journey in the wilderness. They had no choice. The
Wilderness diet is not a three course meal. It is the same thing everyday. The diet of Wilderness lacks varieties.
The diet of Wilderness is manna, a bread from heaven that they did not know how it was baked. It cannot be preserved even for one day. All you get is your daily ration. If you attempt to make provision for the next day, it will breed worms and also produces an offensive odor.(Exodus 16:16-21)
By virtue of the nature of human beings, we do not like any thing that is monotonous. Monotony can cause frustration and depression, Most of the complaints of the children of Israel against Moses was as a result of frustration from the monotonous diet of manna.(Numbers 11:6; 21:5)
Each time the children of Israel complained about the monotonous diet, they were seriously punished for it. The first time they complained about it, telling Moses to give them meat, the Lord punished them by striking them with a deadly plague. The bible records, "But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people with a very great plague." (Numbers 11:33) The second time they complained, God struck them with serpent and they died in large numbers. (Numbers 21:5-9)
The diet of Wilderness is a monotonous diet. It is a diet of frustration and depression. To make it worse, you cannot complain about it. Your complaint will be met with severe punishment. I pray for you today that the Lord will take from your table every monotonous diet of Wilderness. The Lord will deliver you from every diet of frustration.
THE DIET OF CANAAN (Concluded)
The spirit of the Lord is upon me today to serve you the diet of Canaan. You cannot eat the diet of Canaan until you get to Canaan. However, Canaan is a promise land for covenant people. If you are not covenanted to live in Canaan, you will be removed. Remember that some people were in Canaan before the children of Israel could have their place there. They were removed from the land so that the children of Israel could occupy it. Canaan is not a promise land for everybody. However, being a land of promise does not mean that there will be no challenges in the land. You being a covenant child of God does not mean that you will be totally immune from the challenges of life. Abraham was a covenant child of God, yet he was faced with the challenges of famine right in the promise land. ( Genesis 12: 10-11) Isaac also faced the challenges of famine in the promise land.( Genesis 26:1-2) The same thing happened to Jacob. He faced the challenges of famine.( Genesis 43: 1-3)The truth we always fail to realize is that the solution to all the challenges of the promise land could also be found in the promised land. The solution is not in Egypt or elsewhere. But when the people in the promise land decide to come out of the promise land in search of solutions, the bible says they "went down".( Genesis 12:10; 26:2; 43:3) However, when they came out of Egypt, the bible says they "went up".( Genesis 13:1) Before we can really appreciate the spiritual nutritional value of the diet of Canaan, we need to examine and analyze the spiritual nutritional facts of the diet of Egypt and the diet of the Wilderness which I gave you last week, now we can see the real thing.
THE DIET OF CANAAN
Contrary to the diet of the Wilderness, the diet of Canaan is a balanced diet. Also, unlike the monotonous diet of the wilderness, the diet of Canaan is full of varieties. Unlike the diet of Egypt, which is served to keep the children of Israel alive so that they could keep working as slaves, the diet of Canaan is a full ration that you can take as many as possible.Let us consider what constitutes the diet Canaan. We can find this out in Exodus 3: 8. Here, it is recorded that Canaan is a land flowing with milk and honey. Milk and honey is part of the diet of Canaan. The diet of Canaan also consists of fruits and other produce, roasted grain, unleavened bread. (Joshua 5:11) This is the diet that children of Israel used to celebrate the feast of Passover. This is the first Passover after crossing the Jordan into Canaan. A day after the feast of Passover, Manna stopped from coming down. From that time, they began to eat the food of the land of Canaan. (Joshua 5:12)But before the children of Israel entered Canaan, they were circumcised and the reproach of Egypt was rolled away from them. You cannot enter Canaan with sin. That was why all the circumcised adults who sinned that left Egypt were destroyed before they got to Canaan. Before you can eat the diet of Canaan, you must first be in Canaan. In this sense, you have to be a Kingdom citizen. This means you have to refrain totally from sin. As you read this message, I charge you to come to Jesus to remove from you the garment of sin and roll away your reproach. Then He will feed you with the diet of Canaan.
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