In Search of God's Promises

What is the one thing we do when we feel out of control in a situation? We grasp onto something stable, something we can lean on, something that will hold us up. When the ground is shifting we want something solid to stand on. This is a journey through the Bible in search of God's promises for us today. Let's look together to see how many "boulders" He has in His quarry for us to stand on! "It is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants." Rom. 9:8

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Promise 17 from Numbers 14:27

Numbers 14:27 - "'But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different sprit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.'" - The Lord was telling Moses how all the people who refused to hear His voice will be denied access to the promised land. Then He said it is Caleb who will go into the promised land. The difference between Caleb and the others is their spirits. Caleb's spirit was different from the others. The others only thought about themselves, whereas Caleb kept his focus on the Lord. God said that Caleb followed Him fully. Which means, he never took his eyes off the Lord, he never put his own desires and his own agenda ahead of the Lord's. He didn't just watch the Lord or listen to Him from a distance but He stayed close to Him, He went where God went. Because God had already gone before them into the promised land and had already told them what it was like; flowing with milk and honey, and had already promised that He would be there with them, in Caleb's mind there was nothing more to question. It was a done deal and his spirit knew it. He had a spirit that believes in and trusts that what His God says, He will do, and that's final! Oh to have a spirit like Caleb's, to follow the Lord fully, to see what God sees and to go only where God goes!

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