| Num. 13:30-33
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"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." |
| Num. 14:1-9 |
"Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, 'If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?' So they said to one another, 'Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.' Then Moses and Aarone *fell on their faces (prostrated themselves) before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: 'The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, "a land which flows with milk and honey." Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.' ."
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 Note: The ten spies allowed the enemy, through fear, to control their minds, and they saw themselves as unable to fulfill God's purpose for them. Joshua and Caleb fully believed that God would go beroe them. |
| Num. 14:34-38 |
"According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. I the Lord have spoken this; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation murmur against him by bringing a bad report of the land, those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. But Joshua the sone of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land." |
| Deut 8:2-5 |
"And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, wheather you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years."
Note: While God led the people out to wander, He also provided for them. |
| Prov. 18:21 |
"Death and life are in the power of the
tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit." |
| Isa. 54:17 |
" 'No weapon formed against you shall
prosper,
And every tongue which rises against
you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of
the Lord,
And their righteousness is from Me.'
Says the Lord."
Note: I once shared this verse with a woman at a Billy Burke meeting after she had gotten miraculously healed, but instead of praising God for His grace she kept going back to what she had suffered, and saying, "I had, I had." Try as he might Billy couldn't get her out of the past to where she was so she would walk in healing. The Holy Spirit prompted me to go to her and I gently quoted this verse, saying, "Sometimes it's our own tongue that rises up against us. You need to praise God for this wonderful healing, and speak that you are healed." Praising God, she thanked me.
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| Rom. 8:1 |
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." |
| 2 Cor. 2:9-11 |
"For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices." |
| 2 Cor. 10:3-5 |
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare ae not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled."
Note: Oh, how my mind wanders. Over and over I try to focus on the things of God to see my situations as He would see them. It is only by the grace of God that the Holy Spirit brings my thoughts back to Jesus.
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| 1 Pet. 2:21-24 |
"For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
'Who committed no sin,
Nor was guile found in His mouth.' (Isa. 53:9)
who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed." |
| Jas. 3:6 |
"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell."
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| 3 John 2 |
"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers." |
| Rev. 12:10-11 |
"Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 'Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.' "
Note: Could it be that we wander in our minds, and believe we should suffer for Christ, when in fact He took our suffering on the cross so we may walk in health all our lives? Perhaps it is our own sins we need to forgive so we can see ourselves as God sees us. |
