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 »

In Matthew 22, Peter was in essence saying, “Give me permission to walk on the water Lord.”  Matthew 14:29, Jesus answered, “Come, and when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.”  Notice, Peter had DIVINE PERMISSION to walk on the water and he had the ABILITY to… Read More »

Matthew 14:22-28, “And straightway Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone But the ship was now in the midst of… Read More »

Remember God’s Word is the EVIDENCE.  We can’t be concerned about what we see, but we should take begin to develop and renew our minds to allow the EVIDNCE (God’ s Word) to be our focus.  Even though the circumstances may be true, God’s Word is TRUTH and TRUTH is greater than true!  We need… Read More »