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We used to be slaves to the devil, but after being freed from our spiritual Egypt, we may be tempted to develop a survival mentality. A survival mentality is a victim mindset. We must embrace the calling to be a good soldier of God. 

Israel couldn’t possess the promised land with a victim attitude. In fact, the people who were delivered didn’t really understand how God regarded them; they lived like slaves in their minds and died as victims in the wilderness. Of course, they blamed God for their failures. They waited on God to do everything for them. Because they failed to develop into soldiers, they died like slaves even though they were free from Egypt. 

• In Egypt, they were slaves; in the promised land, they had to be soldiers. 
• In Egypt, they got deliverance; in the promised land, they had to walk in dominion.
• In Egypt, God freed them from Pharoah; in the promised land, God entrusted them with Philistines. 
• In Egypt, plagues attacked the enemy; in the promised land, they were the plague - their presence brought terror on the nations. 
• In Egypt, they ran from the enemy; in the promised land, the enemy ran from them. 
• In Egypt, Moses used the staff; in the promised land, Israel followed the ark.
• In Egypt, they asked the Egyptians for things; in the promised land, they simply took them from the Canaanites. 
• In Egypt, they had bondage; in the promised land, they had battles.

Israel expected God to do in the promised land what He had done in Egypt. But God did not deliver them upon arriving in the promised land. 

Instead of moving from deliverance to deliverance, God intends for us to move from deliverance to dominion.