THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN: THE HOUSE OF THE DESERT OR WILDERNESS

06/10/2023

"Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were...Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel." (Joshua 18:22-23)

The tribe of Benjamin is a type of the Church. And in Jacob's testimony about Benjamin he says, "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil” (Genesis 49:27). In Hebrew, Benjamin means the son of a father's right hand or the son of a father's choicest placement. In other words, you, who has been prophesied about, are to rule and reign by virtue of your identity and destiny as God's Benjamin, the Church that He has seated at His own right hand. In this light, you were born to win twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. 

This is why it is displeasing to God when your victory is not evident or noised abroad because rulership and the division of spoils is your birthright. The next thing to note is that cities in the Bible describe an assembly of people with a particular characteristic or quality. The Bible says that by faith, Abraham looked for a city with foundations whose builder and maker is God (see Hebrews 11:10). He was looking for a people with divine principles that were built and made by God. 

That said, the fourth city or quality of the tribe of Benjamin is that of a wilderness. Beth-Arabah refers to the House of the Desert or Wilderness. The Church is the epitome of a desert. What does this mean? It means that to manifest our destiny as a ravenous conquering force, we ought to be completely and utterly deficient of the ability and wherewithal to achieve anything by ourselves. Hear me, nothing grows in the wilderness without God. When God spoke through the Prophet Isaiah saying, "I will open rivers in desolate heights, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land springs of water, " He was describing you. He was saying that the only way to fulfill the destiny of God for your life is to embody the wilderness. 

Like Paul said, "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ." (Philippians 3:7-8). In essence, those who embody the wilderness do so by acknowledging that nothing they are or have accomplished is worth anything. 

In Christ, there is no self-sufficiency. The only way to be, for a believer, is to refuse to be self-sufficient. 2 Corinthians 3:5 says "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God." Therefore, the victorious Church is that assembly of folks whose sufficiency is Christ and they have no confidence in the flesh. 

If you have maintained confidence in anything; your job, gender, age, education, or bank account, begin today to embody a wilderness by counting them as dung. The destiny that God ordained for you only becomes attainable when you only are only listening to Him and executing His word without the distraction of self-sufficiency. You are a God-sufficient being.

Have a blessed day

Faith-Filled Confession 

My sufficiency is a God-sufficiency. I acknowledge that every token of self-sufficiency in my life is nothing but dung. My confidence is in God and His word and because of this, His presence and anointing are very evident as a river overflowing in a desert. Hallelujah!

One-Year Reading Plan: 2 Chronicles 29-31; John 18:1-23