"WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT" 2 corinthians,5:7

At church yesterday the pastor was talking about the spies who were sent to Cannan to check out the land and bring a report as to how is the land. 12 people was sent, a leader from each tribe of Israel. The land they were scouting out was the land God had given them.

When they went to spy out the land they were to look for the good that was there, the fruits and its abundance of milk and honey. When they came back to report on the land they brought a proof of God's promises, "A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY". God had already told them it was good: Only two people saw good, the ten others saw gianst, bigger than themselves, they saw themselves as grasshoppers and thought the people they called giants saw them that way also. They all saw the fruit but the ten focused on the giants, the walls, and the things that would keep them from giving a good report and encouraging the others.

You see, God had already given the land long ago, all these people had to do was to go take it. when we put out sights on what we see rather than what God said then surely we will be defeated.

Calab and Joshua stood up for what God promised. Numbers:14:8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us; a land flowing with milk and honey. verse 9 Only don't rebel against the Lord and don't fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence has left them and the Lord is with us: so dont' fear. you see, this land was prepared for them, everything they would need was there. They wouldn't let Faith lead them.

When we walk by faith instead of fear and sight,we can take what God has given us. What has God given you today? What giant do you see that is holding you from going and doing what God wants you to do. Has he given you a land to take today?

The Isrealites complained all the time of wanting to go back to Egypt where God had delivered them from slavery, they let the least little thing defeat them while walking through the desert. Ok, maybe the desert would make us feel bad at times too, but the drive to carry on is the vision of the promise God had given us. So why do we keep going back in to our old ways?

We have own desert to walk in today but the vision of eternal life, living in the very presents with God one day when we leave this world is a vision that gives power and energy to keep going and walking with God and listening to what he says. Read chapters 13 and 14 of Numbers,

We should not allow giants to intimate is,

Here is a saying from Barbard Johnson, I don't know her but this is good.

"Faith is what makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious". I know that as long as I remember to confess, rejoice, and lean on Christ, I can sing, "To God Be the Glory"--- and hit every note. Liz Curtis Higgs.

Go today and vision the promise land flowing with milk and honey and walking in the presents of Jesus every moment of the rest of your life, Eternal life.