Ekev (#2 of 4) POSSESS YOUR LAND!

"Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you." (Deuteronomy 7:16) In order to 'possess our land' we may need to 'dispossess' some 'inhabitants of the land'.  We have to root out those 'former inhabitants' from the Kingdom of Darkness and with God's help, destroy them in order to walk more and more in the Light.  But it wont' happen overnight - God says, 'little by little' we will drive them out.  There may also be relationships that need to go - people who drag us down or lead us astray.  We might have a Jonah in the boat that we need to throw overboard.  There is a time for compassion, patience and mercy; but there is also something called 'unsanctified mercy' where we are standing in the way of God's dealings with someone in our lives.  We need to stop enabling disobedience and stop allowing the enemy to use our hearts of compassion against us.