Pastor Paul Hohman

Entering Promised Land Overview

In this powerful sermon from April 25, 2022, Pastor Paul Hohman of NTC Ministries delivers a Word-centered message on what it truly means to enter your personal promised land. Drawing from the journey of the Israelites out of Egypt, Pastor Hohman challenges believers to break free from a slave mentality marked by fear, grumbling, and unbelief. Using Psalm 34:8-16, Joshua 1:6-9, Joshua 6, and Matthew 9:1-7, he unpacks the kingdom principles God has given us to live above earthly circumstances. He contrasts the forty years of wilderness wandering caused by complaint and doubt with Joshua’s bold obedience at Jericho, where silence, faith, and a great shout brought down impenetrable walls. Pastor Hohman also shares firsthand accounts of miraculous healings, including a man in Africa whose crushed skull was completely restored by God. This sermon is a stirring call to meditate on the Word daily, guard your speech, walk in the fear of the Lord, and believe that God’s promises of healing, provision, and abundance are available right now for every believer who chooses to apply them.

Entering Promised Land Outline

• 0:00 – Kingdom Principles and Living Above the World: Pastor Hohman opens by introducing the theme of kingdom principles and how God’s Word serves as practical instructions for believers to live above the earthly system while remaining in the world.
• 6:30 – Israel in Egypt: The Slave Mentality: A recap of the Israelites’ bondage in Egypt, used as a type and shadow of the spiritual slavery Jesus came to free us from, and the challenge of trusting God through prolonged trials.
• 15:00 – The Red Sea and the Danger of Complaining: The dramatic crossing of the Red Sea illustrates God’s power to deliver, yet the Israelites fell back into grumbling and fear for forty years, choosing bondage over the blessings God had prepared.
• 24:00 – Psalm 34: The Fear of the Lord and Its Rewards: Pastor Hohman breaks down Psalm 34:8-16, teaching the biblical meaning of fearing the Lord as reverence and love rather than terror, and explaining the promise that those who seek God will lack nothing.
• 33:00 – Matthew 9: Faith, Focus, and Seeing Miracles: The healing of the paralytic in Matthew 9 shows how Jesus responded to visible faith, while the teachers of the law missed the miracle by fixating on theological objections instead of God’s power.
• 41:00 – Joshua 1: The Word as the Key to Prosperity: God’s charge to Joshua to be strong, courageous, and to meditate on the Word day and night is presented as the blueprint for every believer to walk in good success and enter their promised land.
• 49:00 – The Battle of Jericho: Obedience Over Strategy: Joshua’s unconventional command to march silently around Jericho for seven days teaches that obedience to God’s instructions, no matter how illogical they appear, releases supernatural breakthrough.
• 56:00 – Guard Your Mouth and Walk in Joy: Pastor Hohman closes with Proverbs 17:22, Proverbs 13:3, and Psalm 19:14, exhorting believers to guard their speech, declare God’s promises aloud, and maintain joy as a daily act of faith.

Scripture References

Psalm 34:8-16, Psalm 34:19, Psalm 8, Psalm 19:14, Psalm 141, Joshua 1:6-9, Joshua 6:1-10, Joshua 6:20, Matthew 9:1-7, John 16:33, Isaiah 53, Proverbs 17:22, Proverbs 13:3

Key Takeaways

• God wants you to walk in healing, abundance, and blessing, and His Word contains over seven thousand promises that confirm this desire for your life.
• Breaking free from a slave mentality requires a deliberate daily renewing of your mind through meditating on and declaring Scripture.
• The fear of the Lord is not terror but reverent love and submission to God, and it carries the promise that those who fear Him will lack no good thing.
• Complaining and grumbling keep believers wandering in their own wilderness just as they kept Israel from entering the promised land for forty years.
• Guarding your mouth is not optional: the words you speak either preserve your life or open the door to destruction, making confession of God’s Word a critical spiritual discipline.
• Obedience to God’s instructions, even when they seem illogical, releases the supernatural power of God as demonstrated by the walls of Jericho falling flat at a shout.
• Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, and that truth must be the foundation of how you face every challenge, sickness, or financial pressure in your life.

Entering Promised Land Notes

Israel’s Journey as a Mirror for Believers

Pastor Hohman uses the Exodus narrative not merely as ancient history but as a living parable for the modern Christian experience. The Israelites were slaves who cried out for deliverance, received it dramatically through the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, and yet continued to live in fear and complaint for four decades. This mirrors the believer who receives salvation but never fully transitions out of a bondage mindset. The sermon insists that conversion is meant to produce a complete identity change, not just a legal transaction, and that remaining in grumbling after receiving Christ is a choice that forfeits the blessings God has already prepared.

The Jericho Principle of Silent Obedience

One of the most striking teachings in the sermon centers on Joshua’s command for the people to remain completely silent as they marched around Jericho for six days. Pastor Hohman explains that Joshua understood the people’s forty-year history of complaint and knew that open speech during this march would have produced doubt, mockery, and discouragement. The instruction to stay silent was an act of spiritual protection over the mission. When God calls believers to do something that defies natural logic, guarding the mouth becomes as important as performing the action itself. The shout came only at God’s appointed moment, and the walls fell flat.

Miraculous Healing Witnessed in Africa

Pastor Hohman shares a personal account from a mission trip to Africa that anchors the sermon in lived experience. A man riding a motorcycle to church was struck by a truck, and X-rays revealed his skull had been shattered like a puzzle. That very night the man attended a church service, pressed through intense pain during loud worship, and declared his faith in God as healer. By the next morning, all pain had vanished. New X-rays showed no trace of any fracture, which the doctor confirmed was medically impossible since bone injuries always leave permanent markers. The pastor presents this as evidence that signs and wonders remain normative for those who believe.

Meditating on the Word as Daily Practice

Drawing from Joshua 1:8, Pastor Hohman emphasizes that good success is not accidental but is the direct result of meditating on the Word of God day and night and then doing what it says. He encourages believers to memorize confessions of faith, speak healing scriptures over their bodies when sickness threatens, and declare financial promises when lack appears. He references confessional materials available at NTC Ministries and stresses that the goal is not merely reading Scripture but internalizing it so deeply that it becomes the automatic response when the enemy attacks. The Word spoken in faith is the believer’s primary offensive weapon.

Guarding Speech in a Negative World

Pastor Hohman closes with a practical and urgent warning about the power of spoken words, drawing from Proverbs 13:3, Proverbs 17:22, Psalm 141, and Psalm 19:14. He acknowledges the flood of negativity in news media and social media and urges believers to be intentional about what they consume and what they speak. A merry heart, he teaches, functions like medicine to the body, while a broken spirit dries the bones. The pastor is not calling for toxic positivity but for Spirit-led, Word-grounded declarations that align with what God has already said, trusting that those words carry creative power to shape circumstances.

Walking as Kings and Priests Right Now

Throughout the sermon, Pastor Hohman rejects the idea that God’s blessings are reserved for a future heavenly state. He declares that God has called believers kings and priests in this present life, not someday in the sweet by and by. This means rising up, acting on the Word, and expecting God to move in finances, health, relationships, and influence today. He challenges the congregation to stop entertaining thoughts of defeat, inadequacy, and Murphy’s Law, replacing them with the confidence that greater is He that is within us than anything the world or the enemy can bring against us.

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