Numbers 13:30
"Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, 'We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.'"
When you're walking by faith, the evidence can't always be counted on. Sometimes, the evidence actually lies.
Numbers 13 describes one of these situations. It says that as Moses approached the land of Canaan, God told him to send a group of spies to assess the situation that lay ahead. On their return, the spies described the foreign people as an impossible force to be reckoned with. Add that to the fact that Moses was leading a people that had lived their entire life under oppression, and all evidence pointed to failure and defeat.
That's what makes Caleb's claim — "we can certainly do it" — so surprising. Examining the same evidence as the other spies, Caleb reached a drastically different verdict. He realized that even though all the earthly evidence pointed to failure, God's power pointed to success. He realized that sometimes the evidence lies.
Most people, including myself, are guilty of evaluating the current evidence of their life and then deciding a verdict. Possible or impossible. Able or unable. Success or failure.
The problem with living life this way is that your potential will always be limited by your circumstances. If someone like David had let the evidence decide his end result, he would've never stood up against a giant or sat on a throne as a king. All evidence said he was just a small shepherd boy with no business being on the battlefield, much less being the King of Israel. Sometimes evidence doesn't tell the whole story.
Instead of deciding something is impossible before even starting, why not decide that all things are possible with God (Matthew 19:26)? Instead of looking at the current evidence of your life to reach a verdict, why not decide your verdict from the Word of God first, and then move forward towards your purpose?
Written By: Pastor Steven Furtick
"Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, 'We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.'"
When you're walking by faith, the evidence can't always be counted on. Sometimes, the evidence actually lies.
Numbers 13 describes one of these situations. It says that as Moses approached the land of Canaan, God told him to send a group of spies to assess the situation that lay ahead. On their return, the spies described the foreign people as an impossible force to be reckoned with. Add that to the fact that Moses was leading a people that had lived their entire life under oppression, and all evidence pointed to failure and defeat.
That's what makes Caleb's claim — "we can certainly do it" — so surprising. Examining the same evidence as the other spies, Caleb reached a drastically different verdict. He realized that even though all the earthly evidence pointed to failure, God's power pointed to success. He realized that sometimes the evidence lies.
Most people, including myself, are guilty of evaluating the current evidence of their life and then deciding a verdict. Possible or impossible. Able or unable. Success or failure.
The problem with living life this way is that your potential will always be limited by your circumstances. If someone like David had let the evidence decide his end result, he would've never stood up against a giant or sat on a throne as a king. All evidence said he was just a small shepherd boy with no business being on the battlefield, much less being the King of Israel. Sometimes evidence doesn't tell the whole story.
Instead of deciding something is impossible before even starting, why not decide that all things are possible with God (Matthew 19:26)? Instead of looking at the current evidence of your life to reach a verdict, why not decide your verdict from the Word of God first, and then move forward towards your purpose?
Written By: Pastor Steven Furtick
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