Let's Go Up

I'M GOING UP

Psalm 24:3-5 KJVS - 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

The life of the believer is meant to be one of continous movement, and upward progress.

There is no place in the life of the believer for stagnation, or standing still. The Bible says the path of the righteous is like the light that shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

Numbers 13:30-31 KJV

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. [31] But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Did you hear the words Caleb was saying? Let us go up at once, right now, for we are well able to overcome it.

So what does that tell us? It tells us that go up means to engage, to confront, to go on the offensive, to push, to advance.

But sadly even today here is where most of the church is... The people answered... We be not able to go up against the people.

Simply put they were saying, we are not willing to make the effort, or take the risk.

In essence they were saying, we would rather live in this desolate wilderness, and do without the blessings, the provisions and the promises of God, than leave what we're familiar with and have to make a change, and have to take a risk.

It should be understood that there is no such thing as bible faith without risk.

Risk is built into the equation of faith. That's why it's called faith.

By it's very definition faith is believing in someone you can't see, and taking his word against all concrete, natural, tangible, and conflicting evidence.

Judges 1:1-2 KJVS

Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall "go up for us against the Canaanites first," to fight against them? [2] And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Notice that the question is not who will go up for us in our place, but who will go up first, and who will lead the charge into the battle. And the Lord said... Judah shall go up, behold I have delivered the land into his hand.

Judah means praise. So God is saying that praise must go up. Praise must lead the charge. He said he has delivered the land into the hand of Judah.

Whatever battle you may be facing today, you need to send Judah out. Judah must go up. You need to lift up a hallelujah. Praise is not just something that slips out of my lips when something good happens. Praise is a weapon.

This is how I fight my battles, I lift up a hallelujah!

—Come on, right now just lift your hands, throw your head back and give him a hallelujah.

Now shout glory.

Shout thank you Jesus

Shout glory to God

Praise God, I feel something shifting in here.

Inherent, or self contained in the directive let's go up, is the principal of change.

In other words change is built into the directive let's go up.

It's a pretty simple concept... You can't go up and remain in the same place at the same time.

—So change is required.

—And change is a choice

—And change is an action

—Change is a requirement for growth.

The simple truth is, when you quit changing you quit growing.

—Change is a qualifier for more.

In other words you already have all that you can handle, or all that you can contain.

So to receive more change is required.

You need God to enlarge your capacity to receive.

Let's go up is an invitation to a higher life, it's an invitation to more, it's an invitation to the greater it's an invitation to see more, know more and be more.

Then the question would arise why does not everybody want to go up? And the answer would be.

— Because everybody is not willing to pay the price for graduation.

—Many people would rather remain the same, in the same place, in the same conditions, because it's familiar, and it's comfortable.

The truth is even that which is uncomfortable once it becomes familiar and you become adjusted to it, it becomes normal, and when something becomes normal people usually resist change, because it threatens their normal.