DEVO 07.03.26

DEVO. 07.03.26

“But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.” (‭‭Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬)

- Your faith matters & your attitude matters.

- Moses sent 12 spies into the promised land to explore it.

- 10 of them came back with a bad report. They said, “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” (Numbers‬ ‭13‬:‭31‬)

- With their own words they said , “We even saw giants there… Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!” (Numbers‬ ‭13‬:‭33‬)

- But 2 men, Joshua & Caleb saw something entirely different and gave a different report.

- Caleb said, “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!” (Numbers‬ ‭13‬:‭30‬)

- Caleb had a very different attitude and Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

- Being “Loyal to the Lord” means that you are close to Him.

- And when you are close to the Lord, every other problem seems small!

- Gods power and might is so much greater than any obstacle that comes your way!

- When you are close to God your problems become small, but when you are far from God your problems will become magnified!

- The 10 Spies who said that “God couldn’t” and incited a rebellion against the Lord with a bad report, “were struck dead with a plague before the Lord.” (Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭37‬)

- It was their own attitude and words that kept them out of the promised land and cost them their life!

- The Lord said, “As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.” (14‬:‭28‬)

- God gave them what they wanted based on their words!

- That is the power of your words.

- Verse 38 says, “Of the twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.”

- ‭‭And only Joshua and Caleb entered the promised land.

- They said how great their God was, not how great the problems were!

- The same is true for you & me.

- Choose to look at your problems in light of the greatness of your God.

- If you say He can’t, then He won’t!

- But if you choose to say, “With God everything is possible...” (Matt. 19‬:‭26‬)

- Then you will walk into all the promises that God has for you!

- Have a great weekend!