The ten spies also said that “……we were in our own sight as grasshoppers….” Solomon wrote in Proverbs 23:7,  “For as he [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  If a grasshopper is what you think you are a grasshopper is what you are going to be. BUT GOD tells us that WE… Read More »

Numbers 13:32-33, “And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof: and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. … Read More »

Remember what Jesus said in Mark 11:23,  “…….whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”  Ten of the spies said in Numbers… Read More »

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 »