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Spirit in Caleb
Numbers 14:24
But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.
God rewards wholehearted devotion.
Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Hebrews 11:6
God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Caleb, being the only spy who concluded, “We can take the land”, he comes into agreement with God and God’s plan.
Having courage based on God’s word.
Circumstances didn’t intimidate Caleb. God’s word had supremacy over the issues around him. Caleb saw the same giants everyone else saw but had a different understanding of what God can do.
So we are more than Conquerors today as well. However, we don’t fight with literal swords, we fight for hearts and minds (starting with our own) wielding the gospel of the Kingdom facilitating the influence of the Holy Spirit by passionate, loving obedience to God and thus his commands.
Romans 8:35-37
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37 (Amplified)
37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
There are giants that will try and separate us from connecting with God’s love. This separation will cause us to stop being Godly culture changers and succumb to the world system.
God’s called us to be thermostats, setting the spiritual temperature; but many of us have become thermometers, responding to the environment instead of shaping or changing it.
More than conquerors in…
- Trouble
- Hardship
- Persecution
- Famine
- Nakedness
- Danger
- Sword
Trouble - To be agitated mentally or spiritually.
More than Conquerors In… Hardship - something that causes or entails suffering.
More than Conquerors In… Persecution – the act or practice of persecuting especially those who differ in origin, religion, or social outlook; being harassed or annoyed.
More than Conquerors In… Famine - an extreme scarcity of food
More than Conquerors In… Nakedness (destitution) - devoid of customary or natural covering : bare: lacking.
More than Conquerors In… Danger - exposure or liability to injury, pain, harm, or loss
More than Conquerors in… Sword – The malicious attack of others intended to kill.
The New Testament Promised Land
2 Peter 1:4
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Apprehending the New Testament promises equates to participating in the divine nature.
So in essence, much like with Caleb, we today have promises of a divine nature. We have a promise from God to think differently, have a different attitude, and thus live differently in this New Testament promised land. We must have vision to live in the divine nature.
One of the biggest strategies of the enemy to facilitate spiritual blindness, causing the Church to not see, and thus settle for less than what God has prepared for us.
Lovers of Truth
2 Thessalonians 2:9,10
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
Many in the body of Christ today accept a reality far below living in “the Divine nature”. They live in a state of sin consciousness stating that they are sinners saved by grace. I would agree that they WERE sinners saved by grace but the New Testament clearly calls Christians, Saints of God, righteous, and holy. I’m not advocating perfectionism in every area however I’m calling for victorious living in every way!
The Divine nature? What is that? In a very concise statement, it’s living the way Jesus lived, doing the things Jesus did.
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