Step Up!
Joshua 14:12 “…You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak (giants) living there in great, walled towns. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said.” (emphasis added).
Now pause, read the anchor scripture again, and pay attention to Caleb’s response. Why? It is because very often our response is, ‘if the Lord is with me, He will drive them out of the land’. Read the rest of this entry
Wholeheartedly
Matthew 5:8 “When you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right, then you can see God in the outside world.” (MSG, emphasis added)
Joshua 14:8 “…For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.” (emphasis added). The state of your heart determines the level of your access to God’s promises and God’s presence. It is all about the heart, Caleb’s heart was with God, so he followed God completely. Read the rest of this entry
Watch It!
Joshua 14:8 “but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.” (emphasis added).
Your Attitude Truly Determines Your Altitude. In many cases, it is your attitude that writes you off, not the opposition. It is the attitude that you have that determines whether you can take that mountain or not. The reason many people are not promoted is their attitude and not their skill. Read the rest of this entry
Attitude, Altitude
Joshua 14:11-12 “I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me…”
For us to take our mountains, our first lesson from Caleb is, A Promise Delayed Is Not A Promise Denied. Our second lesson is, Your Attitude Truly Determines Your Altitude. Read the rest of this entry
Personalized Promise
Joshua 14:11-12 “I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me…” (emphasis added).
Our first lesson from Caleb is that A Promise Delayed Is Not A Promise Denied. In fact, God gives us a promise so that that promise will keep us alive. And when you keep the promise alive, when you hold on to the promise,
Remember
Joshua 14:6 “A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea.” (emphasis added)
What has God promised you? What has the man of God said God has said? One of the beautiful things about God’s Favourite House and something I am extremely grateful to God for is that we are very responsive to the prophetic. Read the rest of this entry
Delayed, Not Denied
Joshua 14:9 “So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.’”
Our first lesson from Caleb is that A Promise Delayed Is Not A Promise Denied. Yesterday, we saw some of the things that cause delays, and we will pick it up from there today. Another thing that can cause a delay is disobedience.
Not Without Pain
Acts 7:56-58 “And he told them, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honour at God’s right hand!” Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him…”
Today’s anchor scripture is about Stephen (please read Acts 6-7). Do you know that fourteen million people a year die simply because they are Christians? And your pain is that your car broke down on the road and you are so upset that you have decided to stop going to church. You say, ‘Pastor, if I am serving a God of Miracles, Read the rest of this entry
The Promise
Joshua 14:10 “Now, as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old.”
For some of us, like Caleb, we can be in the Promised Land but not be on our Promised Land. Like Caleb, perhaps as an intercessor, we have helped all the other tribes take their lands. Read the rest of this entry
