October 18, 2024 - Numbers‬ ‭33‬:‭51‬-‭52‬, ‭55

““Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: When you cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan, you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines. But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live.” Numbers 33:51-52, 55 NLT

Lord, when we gave our lives to you, we needed to drive out the things of the world that occupied our lives before you. We want to drive out anything in our lives that doesn’t bring you glory. Show us anything that is getting in the way of us receiving all that you have for us. We want to destroy anything in our lives that you don’t want there. Lord, we are not only talking sin specifically, but is there anything else that you are asking us to drive out of our lives? We want to give you full permission to do anything you want in our lives. We willingly surrender anything that you ask us to lay down, for we know you have a good reason for it. Our obedience will take us deeper in you and bring more freedom in our lives.

Lord, leaving things in our lives that you have asked us to remove will be like splinters in our eyes and thorns in our sides. They will cause us pain and limit our growth. Not only will they cause us issues, but they will cause our fruit issues. Whether it is our physical fruit or our spiritual fruit, they will have to battle the things that we failed to conquer, just like the Israelite children had to deal with any people and gods that were not driven out as you commanded, sometimes for generations. Lord, we don’t want that. Give us the desire and strength we need to walk in obedience to everything you ask of us.

In Jesus name, amen.