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In the natural Abraham’s situation looked absolutely hopeless. Yet, he was so confident God would turn it around that he called things “...which be not as though they were. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:17, 19-21). Other people might have made fun of Abraham’s faith in God but in the end it paid off. The mountain moved and God did what He’d promised. He turned around the barren condition in Sarah’s body and renewed her and Abraham’s youth. They had a baby and their descendants have been multiplying ever since. If you want to see another scriptural example of the spirit of faith, read about the life of Caleb. One of Abraham’s descendants, he was among the 12 Israelites sent in by Moses to spy out the Promised Land. You probably remember the story. Caleb returned from Canaan with the other spies and gave the people of Israel a good news/bad news report. The good news was the land God had promised them flowed with milk and honey. It was a land so fertile that grapes grew so large, one cluster was carried on a pole between two men! The bad news was it was fortified with walled cities and inhabited by fierce enemies—the Amalekites, the Hittites, the Jebusites and the Amorites. That’s the way things always go. When it comes to receiving the fulfillment of God’s promises, there are always enemies arrayed against us. There are always “ites” of some kind trying to keep us out of our land. When we come up against them, we must choose either to go with faith or go with unbelief. Ten of the Israelite spies chose the latter. They decided the giants in Canaan were too big to be beaten. “The inhabitants of that land will devour us,” they said. “We’re as small as grasshoppers in their eyes!” Caleb, however, saw the situation differently. He wasn’t looking at the giants. He was focused on God and His Word, so he said, “Let us go up at once, and possess [this land]; for we are well able to overcome it. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not” (Numbers 13:30, 14:9). Moses and Joshua agreed with Caleb. But the rest of the Israelites didn’t. They kept looking at things in the natural. They got stuck in unbelief, so God sent them into the wilderness and said: “Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have…not hearkened to my voice; they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers…but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it” (verses 22-24). Sure enough, 45 years later what God had said about Caleb came to pass. He went into the Promised Land with a new generation of Israelites, still believing God and saying: “I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now.... Therefore give me this mountain [where the Anakim are and the cities are great and fenced]…then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance” (Joshua 14:11-13). Think about that! After 45 years of waiting, Caleb was still speaking by the spirit of faith. He was still believing God would turn things around in his life. As a result, at 85 years old he was defeating giants and taking mountains. If Caleb could do that, we can too. So, let’s follow his example. Let’s fill our hearts and our mouths with the Word and take whatever mountain we happen to be facing. Let’s say to that mountain, “Move!” and believe for the God of miracles to do the impossible in our lives. V 30 : BVOV

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