Dear Friend,
Your prayers and support have helped to bring me to the edge of my spiritual wilderness and I thank you so very much! Over the next several months, I will be transitioning from "Radiant Sun Life Coaching" to "Body for Christ Ministries" as this is what the Lord has been calling me to for some time now. This will have little to no impact on the distribution of the weekly devotionals, but I wanted to keep you informed as I value your continued support and prayers for this transition. Thank you and God bless!
Your prayers and support have helped to bring me to the edge of my spiritual wilderness and I thank you so very much! Over the next several months, I will be transitioning from "Radiant Sun Life Coaching" to "Body for Christ Ministries" as this is what the Lord has been calling me to for some time now. This will have little to no impact on the distribution of the weekly devotionals, but I wanted to keep you informed as I value your continued support and prayers for this transition. Thank you and God bless!
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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 giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
-Numbers 13:31-33 (NKJV)
-Numbers 13:31-33 (NKJV)
Moses obediently sent a leader from each of the tribes of Israel to spy out the land that God had promised them. However, upon their return, ten of the twelve spies gave an unfavorable report to the people 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 giants; and were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:32 & 33) Only two of the twelve leaders sent as spies, Caleb and Joshua, had faith that the Lord would bring them into the land and give it to them. Because of their unbelief, the people of Israel were destined to wander in the wilderness for 40 years before coming in to the Promised Land.
With the bad report from the ten spies, the people of Israel once again wished they had stayed in Egypt and even wished they had perished there; rather than face a difficult battle with the giants that stood between them and the Land of Promise. I have been in this place for the past few months; I have scoped out the land ahead and I can see the giants I will need to face and conquer to enter the Land of Promise. While my giants aren’t a people large in stature, they are no less daunting and the thought of facing them causes me to wince in pain. So I have been wandering through my own spiritual wilderness these last few months; unwilling to face my giants, unwilling to step up to the challenge. But God is faithful and He has used this wilderness experience to prepare me and bring me to the place of total faith and trust in Him. Only by faith will He bring me into the Land of Promise that He has for me.
So often we shrink away from the battles that lie ahead; afraid of facing those giants in our life. Instead we willingly choose to walk through the spiritual wilderness; a place of dryness, lacking the living water of Christ. We may believe that God exists, that He is the creator of the universe; we may believe that Jesus Christ is our Savior, that He died for our sins; while we may believe all of this, we fail to have faith in Him if we shrink away from what God is calling us to do or who God is calling us to be. Only by faith will we conquer the giants that stand between the wilderness and the Land of Promise. We must trust in Him and His will for us, for it is not by our own strength that we will arrive in the Promised Land, but by the grace of God; by His power, by His strength.
With the bad report from the ten spies, the people of Israel once again wished they had stayed in Egypt and even wished they had perished there; rather than face a difficult battle with the giants that stood between them and the Land of Promise. I have been in this place for the past few months; I have scoped out the land ahead and I can see the giants I will need to face and conquer to enter the Land of Promise. While my giants aren’t a people large in stature, they are no less daunting and the thought of facing them causes me to wince in pain. So I have been wandering through my own spiritual wilderness these last few months; unwilling to face my giants, unwilling to step up to the challenge. But God is faithful and He has used this wilderness experience to prepare me and bring me to the place of total faith and trust in Him. Only by faith will He bring me into the Land of Promise that He has for me.
So often we shrink away from the battles that lie ahead; afraid of facing those giants in our life. Instead we willingly choose to walk through the spiritual wilderness; a place of dryness, lacking the living water of Christ. We may believe that God exists, that He is the creator of the universe; we may believe that Jesus Christ is our Savior, that He died for our sins; while we may believe all of this, we fail to have faith in Him if we shrink away from what God is calling us to do or who God is calling us to be. Only by faith will we conquer the giants that stand between the wilderness and the Land of Promise. We must trust in Him and His will for us, for it is not by our own strength that we will arrive in the Promised Land, but by the grace of God; by His power, by His strength.
COACH'S CALL TO ACTION
- What is God calling you to or who is He calling you to be?
- What are the giants that are standing in your path?
- What must you do to overcome, to conquer these giants?
- When will you take that step of faith?
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