Possessing the Land in Your Mind

2 June 2014 by Natasha Kim CM-

 

Rev Danny Pollock, an evangelist from Brisbane who moves in the realms of prophecy, word of knowledge, and healing and deliverance, shared at a recent Full Gospel Businessman meeting at Summit USJ, on the 21^st of May, 2014. A healing miracle happened to him recently this year while he was in Malaysia, in the month of January. Excited about it, he began by sharing about his miracle.

 

 

Danny developed an ulcer on his leg about nine and a half years ago and he had to wear a medical boot on his left leg for the longest time to the point where people were used to seeing him with a boot on. His condition got worse, and the doctors mentioned amputation. Through intercessors speaking the Word of God and repeating Ezekiel 16:6, Danny no longer has to wear the boot now! He was miraculously healed by the middle of February this year. When the doctors checked his leg, they were astonished that they could not find the ulcer! The key to your prayers is speaking the Word of God, for the Word of God is powerful when you release it through your lips!

 

“‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!” (Ezekiel 16:6)

 

Danny began to share the Word and talked about the historical aspect in the Bible according to Numbers 13 in the scripture. Seven different troops of people (Deuteronomy 7:1) lived in the land of Canaan, and they did not worship the Lord but other Gods. The Lord wanted to give the Promised Land of Canaan to Moses as his land. The deal was that Moses would have to first drive the inhabitants out of the land before he could take possession of it. Now Danny understood this scripture but he wondered, “How could we interpret that teaching or that event for us today?”

 

 

Through this,you would probably come to the conclusion that the Bible is saying that we should possess the lands out there in the world. However, Danny received this revelation when he felt that God had more to show him about the renewing of the mind. “For the first time in my life, I considered the possibility that there is a land in our minds that needs to be possessed!” shared Danny. Through that epiphany he received, he quickly gathered his Bible, some paper and began to try to link up the land of Canaan with our minds. He realised that in the land of Canaan there are giants. “There can be giants in your minds, only we don’t call them giants, we call them strongholds. There is a thinking that provides problems for us. I believe that one of the biggest problems you have in your Christian walk is your mind!” he said.

 

 

The mind is the motor that drives everything.

In the new birth, your spirit is born again and made into a new creation. Your soul is undergoing a gradual process of restoration. “Your soul consists of your will, your mind, and your emotions. So, you could say your spirit is already a new creation where your soul is becoming a new creation and that includes the renewing of your mind,” he said. One of the best ways to break a bad habit is to select a new habit – a good habit. Replace something bad with something good.

 

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)

 

 

The system of the world is not of God. The scripture according to Romans 12:1-2 is telling us that the world is going one direction but we need to stop and go a different direction. “That is what the Bible calls repentance,” said Danny. The mind is such a powerful thing! If your mind can be renewed, then your life will be transformed! “With the sort of transformation God is doing in your life, what you are becoming does not resemble what you have been. God does not want you to stay in the wilderness. God wants you to come into the Promised Land,” he added. The perfect will of God will be revealed to you through the transformation in your life.

How do you get your mind renewed? The Bible verse according to James 1:21 tells us just that. So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. (James 1:21) “It’s a very simple verse. You and I would say, “Well I’m born again believer therefore my soul is already saved” I know what you’re talking about and I agree with you” shared Danny.

 

The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan. (Numbers 13:29)

 

 

However, he shared that the renewing of the mind occurs by the Word of God. The formula God gave Danny to share about the renewing of the mind is called I.C.E. (Identify, Conquer and Establish). “If you can find out the meaning of the names of the giants or strongholds, then you will find out their nature or their character,” shared Danny. Through his observation, he realised that each of the names of the seven troops living in Canaan had a meaning behind their name, the Hittites meant fear and Amorite meant blasphemous speech. “The Jebusites were the most difficult to defeat. Jebusites meant to means to tread down and to pollute. They ruled over the city of Jerusalem, and that therefore meant that they ruled over the Holy place. They were only defeated in the time of King David about 300 years after the Israelites went into Canaan,” he said. In our situation today, the Holy place is the body of Christ, the temple of God.

“In an individual level, your physical body is a Holy place and Jebusites aim is to tread down and to pollute us. Three major problems that we have today is fear, negativity and the spirit of intimidation,” shared Danny. God showed Danny that in order to get rid of any one of them, you would need to identify them like what we just did. Next, we need to conquer it through a simple two-part stated in 2 Corinthians 10:5. “In the name of Jesus, speak to that mentality of fear, negativity or intimidation and you it down in the name of Jesus. Any thought that is not of God cast it down in the name of Jesus. The next thing you do is bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. In other words, once you’ve cast it down you must replace it with the right thinking and I suggest to you to put in its place, what the Word of God has to say,” said Danny.

 

 

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own (1 Corinthians 6:19)

 

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. (Proverbs 18:21)

 

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthian 10:5)