You have to fight to own the land
Dr. Roberto MirandaMany times, we Christians believe that simply because God has told us that He is going to give us this or that, we can sit back and wait until the promise comes passively to us. I believe that efforts must be made; we have to do our part too.
In verse 17 of Numbers 13 he says regarding the Hebrews in the desert: 'So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, saying to them:' Go up from here to the Negev and go up the mountain. And observe the land how it is, and the people that inhabit it, if it is strong or weak, if little or numerous. How is the inhabited land, if it is good or bad and what are the inhabited cities like, if they are camps or fortified squares and what is the land like: if it is fertile or sterile, if there are trees in it or not '”.