In reference to Numbers 13, the Israelites were now saying that God was so senile that He did not know the children of Israel could not take the land that He promised them!  That is something!  Twelve men (I like to refer to them as preachers) went out, and they all SAW the same thing…ten… Read More »

Numbers 13, the Israelites hadn’t shot one arrow or threw one spear, and they were already confessing that the people in the land were stronger than they were. They were already confessing that they were unable to take the land, just like some people today say things like, “I can’t do that.”  “God probably won’t… Read More »

NEVERTHELESS sounds a lot like the word “but,” like what happened to Peter, “BUT, when he saw the ……….” Now Numbers 33:28-31, “Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.  The Amalekites dwell in the land of… Read More »

Moses sent the spies out, and they wandered through the land for 40 days.  They saw everything there was to see. they brough back some fruit of the land.  Look at what they said in Numbers 13:26-28, “And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children… Read More »

God told Moses, “I’ll tell you what I want you to do.  Pick one man from each of the 12 tribes and send them out into this land to spy it out.” God is so good and is so gracious that He does not just put you into something.  He lets you go in and… Read More »

Let’s look at another Scripture that will help us understand that concentrating on sense knowledge evidence can be detrimental to your faith and take away what rightfully belongs to them. Numbers 13:1-2, “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan which I give unto the… Read More »

Peter doubted because his focus was on the elements.  Where were these elements?  IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES!  Peter was captivated by sense knowledge evidence, and that evidence made him doubt that he could do what Jesus (the WORD) told him that he could do.  When Peter began to focus on the “senses” he… Read More »

Matthew 14:31, “And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?”  If Peter said, “Save me, Jesus,” it took some time for Jesus to move his arm.  Normally you are almost under the water before you can yell, “Save me,” and before somebody… Read More »

Back to Matthew 14, Think about this, God gave this man permission to walk on the water.  I have never read about anyone else in the Word walking on the water except Jesus and Peter.  You cannot say, “Jesus did that because He was the Son of god.”  Peter was not the son of God,… Read More »

Matthew 14:30,  “But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid…..”  Nothing was changed in this situation except the FOCUS of Peter who went from focusing on the Word he was given to focusing on his senses…he began focus on the circumstances rather than on the Word which was causing him to walk above the… Read More »