It's Time to Break Manna Mentality
Pastor Erickson preaches from Joshua 5, where the manna ceased once Israel ate the fruit of Canaan, teaching that God's daily provision in the wilderness was grace but never his promise. He calls the church to break a just enough mentality through faith, a renewed covenant and real breakthrough in prayer, and to reach a lost world with the milk and honey God promised.
The message in 6 points
The manna ceased
He reads Joshua 5:10-12, where Israel keeps the Passover in Gilgal, eats the old corn of the land, and the manna stops. From verse 12 he draws his message: it is time to break the manna mentality.
0:50Murmuring in the wilderness of sin
One month after leaving Egypt with a high hand, Israel complained and remembered the fleshpots, fish and onions of Egypt. He says it is easier to get people out of the world than to get the world out of people, yet God still answered with bread from heaven.
4:15Provision is not the promise
Manna was a picture of grace, and Jesus is the living bread from heaven. But manna was not God's best; he promised a land flowing with milk and honey, things already produced in the land, so we must not let provision take the place of promise.
12:03Side effects of just enough
Using the long ingredient list on a box of honey buns, he names manna's side effects: complacency, idleness and contentment. He warns against a just enough God and a just enough faith, and says we must do whatever it takes to break through every time we pray and study the Word.
21:36How Israel broke the mentality
In Joshua 5 their faith made the enemy's heart melt, and they renewed their covenant with God, who rolled away the reproach of Egypt. They moved from a slave mentality to a manna mentality to a milk and honey mentality, where no giant is too tall.
31:32Milk and honey to reach the world
The food of the promised land lets us look past our own needs to a world of lost people. On this missions day he calls the church to stop being content, pray for breakthrough, and carry the name of Jesus to every nation.
40:23
In his words
“We don't need to settle for what God gives as a simple provision as if God gave it as a final promise. Don't let provision take the place of promise.”
“Our walk with God has got to be so much more than a just enough mentality. That's what manna breeds, is that just enough mentality.”
“You got to do whatever it takes to get through every time you pray. If your breakthrough requires weeping, well you better pray until you weep.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Joshua 5:10-12
10And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 11And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. 12And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
King James Version.
Exodus 16:2-3
2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
King James Version.
Numbers 11:5
5We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
King James Version.
Exodus 16:4
4Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
King James Version.
John 6:48-51
48I am that bread of life. 49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
King James Version.
Exodus 13:5
5And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
King James Version.
Joshua 5:1
1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
King James Version.
Hebrews 11:1
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
King James Version.
Joshua 5:9
9And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
King James Version.
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