Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart.  They say, 'The people are stronger and taller than we are;the cities are large, with walls up to the sky...Deuteronomy 1:28


Where and what has God called you to?  Is it bigger than you? Is it impossible?
Good. 
It might just be about His glory and not yours.
Good.

Possessing the promise land for the Israelites was God's design, it wasn't their idea.
Their question therefore 'Where can we go?' or 'What way can we go up into the land?' was not based on what God desired but rather what man feared.

If the fear of what others think is louder in our hearts than what God desires we will lose heart.

What is it to lose heart?
To lose heart is to lose courage.
Courage is always coupled with the purpose of God.
Courage is always coupled with His glory.
Discouragement is always coupled with self, seasoned with victim mentality, blaming others for our lack of heart.

Courage.

Two spies came back with a positive report, ten negative...difference...faith.
Believing what God says is true. 
Faith always results in courage.
Its a gift because you know it is possible even though you have done nothing and logically it is totally impossible.

The cities we are called to reach are intense.
Its real.
It will eat you up and spit you out.
Its imposible.
Its too difficult.
Its too dark.
Its too large.
Its too...
Its too...
Its too...

It was His design not your idea.
He commanded you, you didn't ask.

It is not your fear driving you to reach a city it is His heart for humanity to know His glory.

You lose sight of His Glory you lose courage, you lose courage, you lose heart, you lose heart, you lose purpose, you lose purpose, you lose.

Our Heart His Courage.

Our Heart His Love.

Our broken hearts His unending Grace.

As we live for His glory courage comes like a flood.

Do not lose heart friend, lose your heart in His glory.


It all hangs on this...


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Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
Psalm 106:43

We have been given a set amount of time on earth.

God has delivered us from evil for a purpose.

Each day we must be focused on Jesus as our flesh is bent on rebellion towards God.

We will find ourselves wasting valuable time and wasting God's purpose for our lives if we are not in a constant position of submission to His will.

I watched today the Boston Celtics win a 1 point victory over the Orlando Magic, with under a second to go the Celtics focused and made the winning shot.  They took full advantage of that 1 second.

Time is not wasted when we focus. 

Take full advantage of the deliverance that God has given you.

Let us not waste away in our mistakes or rebellion but let us be those who cry out to God and act on the sound of His voice.

To see a city won for Him.


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