Big Footprints

Every so often we see someone who comes seemingly out of nowhere and vaults onto a large stage. This person was heretofore unknown or known in a very limited realm or area. Suddenly, he or she becomes a celebrity (in the most general sense of the term) and becomes a household name practically overnight. We say that person "made a splash". This has happened, by my count, at least three times in American politics over the past couple years. You might guess whom I am talking about, but no names please, because any one, or all of them might become more than a splash. Any one of them may leave big footprints, for better or for worse. Time will tell. Am I being to cryptic? Here is a hint. The most recent one was this week. The newly elected, junior senator from Massachusetts made a very big splash onto the national scene. If you insist, the others I was thinking of are a former senator from Illinois, the previous Governor of Alaska, and perhaps even a former Governor of Arkansas who, in spite of being impeached by the United States Congress, just will not seem to go away. (Kind of gave my political views away there I guess.)

Sometimes people splash and no one even notices until the ripples get so far away that the person who started them can scarcely be remembered. For instance, I embrace and practice the teachings that came out of the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles in 1906. I just found out last weekend who started that. William J. Seymour was a black man in Los Angeles when that was not very popular. It is reported there were churches that would not let him into their services for that reason. Nevertheless, he persevered and became known as the father of that revival. He left some pretty big footprints in my life and the lives of many others.


I wear a size 9, narrow width shoe. I am probably not ever going to leave very big footprints. What I am going to do is combine those size 9 feet with a lot of other people's feet. God made a promise to Moses which He reaffirmed and transferred to Joshua. Remember, Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land because of his disobedience. That is a whole teaching in itself. The promise was that they would possess every place the soles of their feet would tread. (Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:3) It is interesting that this is one of the first things God told Joshua when he assumed the leadership of Israel from Moses.


By and large, The Church today does not have a very good concept of possessing our inheritance. We do not have time or space to do the complete teaching on that inheritance or who is entitled to it. May it suffice to say it belongs to everyone who has made Jesus Lord of his or her life. In so doing we become the children of God and the seed of Abraham who was the first man to put his faith in the one, true, almighty God. "And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:29) You may recall that when Abraham originally entered the promised land, God had him walk the entire length and breadth of the land and build altars at strategic places. In doing that, Abraham was putting God's mark on His land. We have the same authority. (Do not give up yet. Read the next paragraph.)

In the Old Testament we see physical representations of the spiritual truths in the New Testament. When Abraham and Joshua walked the physical ground of the promised land their literal feet were possessing the literal land. When we walk by faith now, we are dispossessing the spiritual forces that cover the land. In Santa Maria, those spiritual forces have blanketed the area with their diabolical schemes and have convinced most of The Church that this is as good as it gets. Oh please. The best estimate is that about 8% of the population in the Santa Maria Valley attends church, any church, on any given Sunday. That is as good as it gets? I think not. I think there is something keeping a lid on The Church in Santa Maria. That has to be obvious to anyone who has had his or her eyes opened to the real situation. It is time to do something about that. This is the time. We are the people. This stinking, religious spirit has had his way around here for much too long.

We have mentioned the Pentecost Walk ministry in these pages before. As far as we know, they are still planning to walk in the Santa Maria valley sometime this year. We plan to be there with them. We may even be doing something additional either before or after that event. We are waiting on the Lord for direction. In the meantime you will not want to miss the next couple posts.