ARE YOU A CALEB?
25th Oct 2023
In Numbers 13 we read the account of 12 men being sent into Canaan to spy out the land which God had promised them. They all saw the same things - 10 came back filled with fear, Joshua and Caleb returned full of faith and excited by the potential that they has witnessed.
Caleb saw the possibilities and blessings of the promised land, he saw a mountain where he wanted to live, and Moses declared that what he had seen he would inherit. Caleb was 40 years old when he spied out the land, he carried the vision and destiny for 45 years and this is his testimony when he received what had been promised.
Joshua 14:10-12 says, “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
As believers, we are people of destiny, who have received promises from God, who wants us to fulfil all the potential that God has purposed for each of us. However, we are living in a negative world where our enemy wants to rob us of our future. At this time it seems that the medical world has a diagnosis for every situation, from the moment of birth, through childhood into old age, there is a name for every problem that we may face. The concern I have is that these names become a self-fulfilling prophecy over our lives, in fact they are like a curse, and can become a barrier to the destiny that God has spoken over us.
Paul describes the way God is outworking His purpose in his life. Philippians 2:12-13 says, “….continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you both to will and to act according to his good purpose.”
When writing to Timothy, Paul declares, “I know in whom I have believed and and convinced he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.” (2 Timothy 1:12)
Are you letting the enemy rob you of your destiny? Or, are you trusting in the God, who is at work in you and is able to guard your life and enable you to fulfil His purpose in you?
by Charles Sibthorpe
