Spirit of Faith

April 20, 2017

Devotions:

        “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭13:30-33‬ ‭KJV‬‬

        This is the story of the first time that God tried to take the children of Israel into the promised land.  The twelve spies went in and spied out the land, ten came back with an evil report and two came back saying that with God's help they could take the land. 

        It is noted that throughout the prophets that when Israel came out of Egypt, they carried their idols with them and they never fully got rid of the idols. 

        The ten spies that returned an evil report and all the rest of Israel fixed their eyes on the natural even though they had seen all the mighty miracles that God had done to deliver Israel from Egypt and to supernaturally provide for them and protesct them from hunger, thirst, the elements and the wild beast in the land.  They saw and heard the report of the giants in the land and they also looked at their inability to perform.  In the natural there was no way that Israel could enter the land and drive out the inhabitants.  The inhabitants were more in number and stronger than thy were and there were also giants in the land. 

        Caleb and Joshua had also seen the miracles that God had done and it had built a spirit of faith in them.  They were confident of God's protection and provision and His supernatural working on behalf of Israel in battle.  The spirit of faith is confident in God's love for you and His willingness to move on your behalf to bless you and keep you.  The spirit of faith comes out of a continual intimate relationship with the Father.  When we are in need and call out to God in faith and see His miraculous wonder working power on our behalf we come to know God more intimately in the area of our deliverance. 

        Our goal then is to press into God and to know Him intimately more and more.