Now Is the Time to Enter the Promised Land by Caleb Wampler
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By Caleb Wampler
Do you have promises from God that you are believing for that have not yet come to pass? As daughters and sons of the Most-High King, we stand in faith on what the Word of God says and the individual promises He has spoken over each one of our lives. Standing in faith isn't always easy, so I want to encourage you today from a specific passage in Scripture. In the Book of Joshua, right after Caleb and Joshua explored the land that God had promised them, they quickly started to face backlash from the Israelites.
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Do you have promises from God that you are believing for that have not yet come to pass? As daughters and sons of the Most-High King, we stand in faith on what the Word of God says and the individual promises He has spoken over each one of our lives.
Standing in faith isn't always easy, so I want to encourage you today from a specific passage in Scripture.
In the Book of Joshua, right after Caleb and Joshua explored the land that God had promised them, they quickly started to face backlash from the Israelites. The two spies had told the crowd not to be afraid of the giants but to trust in the Lord, despite what the other spies were saying. The Israelites started to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb, even in their faithfulness to the Lord!
As followers of Jesus Christ, we must trust and obey the Lord, even when everyone else is believing a report of fear. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. The Israelites were afraid of what they saw in the natural, a seemingly unmovable situation. Joshua and Caleb were probably nervous that their own friends would stone them, wondering if they would follow them into the promises of God.
Numbers 14:24 (NLT) says, "But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored." God looked at Caleb's heart and saw he had faith and trusted in his heavenly Father. Even though the Israelites saw the Red Sea part and their enemy defeated, they had already forgotten what God had done.
All throughout Scripture we read about the heroes of the faith setting up memorial stones in places where God had moved triumphantly. They would set up the stones to remind themselves and the generations to come what God had done. Can you imagine?
They didn't have Bibles to read and stories after stories written down to encourage them, so they used stones to memorialize what the Lord had done throughout the generations. How blessed are we to have the living and breathing Word at our fingertips each and every day!
While you are waiting and believing for the promises of God to come to pass, go back and look at your own memorial stones. Look at what God has done for you and your family over the years. In this season, with all that is going on in the world, don't bow down to the agenda of fear that is trying to discourage you. What does the Bible say? It says, "Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are?" (Matt. 6:26, NLT).
Caleb Wampler
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As the tensions in the world continue to increase around us, many Christians are abandoning their faith, no longer attending church, or staying plugged into any community. Agendas of fear are running rampant across the world, and many are succumbing to the pressures mounting around them. This is an hour of history like no other, with missionaries leaving the field due to lack of funding and thousands of churches shutting their doors. As the bride of Christ, when the fire starts getting hot, we need to get hotter. The trials are real, the pain, the sorrow - it is all real. It is what we do from those places that matters the most. I believe in this time we can glean a lot from the book of Ruth.
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The innate nature inside of all of us is to seek after and attain approval by man, to reach the bar of success that has been set by the world that is ultimately impossible to achieve. The desire to find approval in our work ability, hobbies, appearance, personality, intellect and so much more can leave one feeling inadequate based on a standard man has set. In the pop culture of the day, you may feel pressure to be, act or perform certain ways.
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The Savior and King of the Universe longs to know you intimately and through that relationship with Him, He will use you to impact the world for His glory. What a heartbreaking truth that many will operate in the giftings but won't know Jesus. We see this reality in Scripture, where in Matthew 7:21-23 it says, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and, in your name, perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"