January 24, 2015
LAND OF THE GIANTS
There
is a story In the book of Numbers when the Lord told Moses to send
twelve men, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel to spy out the
land of Canaan, which is also known as the Promised Land. Ten out of the
twelve spies came back with a bad report because they had seen the
giants in the land. These are the same men who had experienced great
miracles when the Lord recently gave them a cloud by day, a fire by
night, manna from heaven, and He miraculously provided for them for
forty years in the wilderness. He also parted the Red Sea for them and
six million of them walked through the sea on dry ground while He
destroyed their enemies. When they went into Canaan to spy out the land,
they were looking at the giants rather than remembering all that the
Lord had done for them. They returned to Moses with a cluster of grapes
that was so huge, that it took two men to carry, but they also returned
with a bad report saying that the land surely does flow with milk and
honey but the giants are too large for us to conquer. They also said,
"We were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their
sight."
The
Lord is showing me that many of you are facing giants in your lives and
you see yourself as grasshoppers rather than conquerors. You recognize
that the land ahead of you is flowing with milk and honey, but your
focus is on the giants. Jesus gave you a promise but you are not
trusting Him for the provision. Many of you are standing on the brink of
Canaan and Jesus has done so much in your life but now you are afraid
to pursue His plans because you came up against some giants. No matter
how impossible your situation looks, your future destination is not
determined by your present situation. For some of you it is sickness.
You may have even been diagnosed with an incurable disease in the
natural, but we serve a God of the supernatural. For some of you it is
financial difficulties and for others it is family situations. Two of
the twelve spies Joshua and Caleb didn't deny that there were giants in
the land, but they came back with a different report. They said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it."
The Lord said in Numbers 14: 24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a
different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the
land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it. As Spirit
fill believers, we are not limited to our senses, by our physical
conditions or by our present situations, but we could stand on Gods
promises. Fear looks at the giants, but faith looks at the promises.
The
Lord is saying not to allow the enemy to magnify the situations in your
life, and don't look at the giants as unconquerable. Do not see
yourself as inadequate but know that with Jesus you are able to take on
any assignment that He has called you to. Go forth as Joshua and Caleb
knowing that you are well able to possess this land. Go forth in what He
has commissioned you to do. Never forget that that as a believer,
through Jesus you have a better covenant, which was established on
better promises.
Numbers 13: 27 - 33
Then
they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It
truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the
people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and
very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. The
Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites,
and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the
sea and along the banks of the Jordan." Then Caleb quieted the people
before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for
we are well able to overcome it." But the men who had gone up with him
said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are
stronger than we." And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of
the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we
have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the
people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the
giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like
grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Numbers 13: 33
There
we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and
we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their
sight.
Numbers 13:30
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
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