Sermon by Bruce McCallum

2. Stop managing your crisis
Start managing your promise

3. Deuteronomy 1:8 (NIV)
See, I have given you this land.
Go in and take possession of the
land that the LORD swore he
would give to your fathers …

5. Genesis 37:5-9 (NIV)
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to
his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6
He said to them, "Listen to this dream I
had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain
out in the field when suddenly my sheaf
rose and stood upright, while your sheaves
gathered around mine and bowed down to
it." 8 His brothers said to him, "Do you
intend to reign over us? Will you actually
rule us?"

6. Genesis 37:5-9 (NIV)
And they hated him all the more
because of his dream and what he had
said. 9 Then he had another dream, and
he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he
said, "I had another dream, and this
time the sun and moon and eleven stars
were bowing down to me."

7. Genesis 41:41 (NIV)
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put
you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."
Genesis 42:6 (NIV)
Now Joseph was the governor of the land,
the one who sold grain to all its people. So
when Joseph's brothers arrived, they
bowed down to him with their faces to the
ground.

8. Joshua 1:1-18 (NIV)
After the death of Moses the servant of
the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son
of Nun, Moses' aide: 2 "Moses my
servant is dead. Now then, you and all
these people, get ready to cross the
Jordan River into the land I am about
to give to them - to the Israelites. 3 I
will give you every place where you set
your foot, as I promised Moses.

9. 4 Your territory will extend from the
desert to Lebanon, and from the great
river, the Euphrates - all the Hittite
country - to the Great Sea on the west.
5 No one will be able to stand up
against you all the days of your life. As
I was with Moses, so I will be with
you; I will never leave you nor forsake
you.

10. 6 "Be strong and courageous, because
you will lead these people to inherit
the land I swore to their forefathers
to give them. 7 Be strong and very
courageous. Be careful to obey all the
law my servant Moses gave you; do
not turn from it to the right or to the
left, that you may be successful
wherever you go

11. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law
depart from your mouth; meditate on
it day and night, so that you may be
careful to do everything written in it.
Then you will be prosperous and
successful.

12. Joshua 12:24 (NIV)
…. thirty-one kings in all.

13. Joshua 23:14 (NIV)
"Now I am about to go the way of all
the earth. You know with all your
heart and soul that not one of all the
good promises the LORD your God
gave you has failed. Every promise
has been fulfilled; not one has
failed.”

14. Stop managing your crisis
Start managing your promise

17. The Lord works from the inside out.
The world works from the outside in.
The world would take people out of the
slums. Christ takes the slums out of
people, and they take themselves out
of the slums. The world would mould
men by changing their environment.
Christ changes men, who then change
their environment. The world would
shape human behaviour, but Christ can
change human behaviour.
(Ezra Taft Benson)

19. Exodus 33:13 (NIV)
“If You are pleased with me, teach
me Your ways so I may know You
and continue to find favour with You.
Remember that this nation is Your
people."