It's A Matter Of Perspective

Josh 14:6-12

6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of

Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said

unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.

7Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from

Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine

heart.

8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt:

but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

9And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have

trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast

wholly followed the LORD my God.

10And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five

years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of

Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five

years old.

11As yet 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, for war, both to go out, and to come

in.

12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for

thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great

and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them

out, as the LORD said.

The bible talks about growing up in God

Talksabout this thang being a process,if you will

There are no , spiritual super men or no spiritual wonderwemen in God it is a

process.

When approached by nicodemas Jesus likend this exsperiance unto a new

birth ,Saying Marvel not ,i say unto you , you must be born again

i know , you like i , get nervous , when we see new converts ,talking bout all

they will do for the lord , bout running thru walls and saving the world

But saints you know there is a process , Development process

even as a baby has to be coddeled by mama, till it gains strenth to lift up it’s head

it’s a process, as he fights to crall ,you know if he keeps fighting , his leggs will gain

son elastisity and strenth and them as he begans to gain even more until ,finally he

begans to walk. PROCESS, scuffed up knee’s , bumps and bruses but , process

* I wanna ask you a question tonight concerning your last failure

wheather it be natural or spritual

PROVERBS 24-10 IF thou faint in the day of adversity thou strenth is flawded.

a man’s strenth is not measured by what he does on fairweater days

Strenth is not indicated by good conditions, sunshine & goodtimes

but what seperates the men from the boys and the wemen from the little girls is

when all hell is breakin loose, oh yeah , talk is cheap

but to stand up when all hell is breakin loose

I want you to fix a failure in your mind , wheather it be spiritual or natural

NOW , let me ask you concerning your failure

DID YOU STOP TRYING BECAUSE YOU FAILED

OR DID YOU FAIL, BECAUSE YOU STOPPED TRYING

I wager to say most of us fall into the latter

JOSHUA & KALEB the only 2 surviving members of that generation Moses led out

of Egyption bondage... we know of the great deliverance GOD wroth with signs and

wonders ,THEM BEING CAPTIVE SOME 430 YEARS

went in as free men , but in time the tables turned and became inslaved to a pharoe

* they then began to cry out in despair , by reason of their hard task masters

ONE THING I LOVE BOUT OUR GOD

he is touched with the fellings of our infimities

he will allow us for only so long to go thru a hurt ,but then he will come to see about

me

* YOU KNOW HOW MOSES WAS watchin his father in laws herds and

saw the bush burnning that was not consumed

* God told him go to pharoe ,tell him to let my people go

Thats another thing i like bout our God, if,he sends you on a mission

God will always back you up ......

* God got busy down in egypt and sent the plagues, lice , locust , the water to blood

and how still old pharohs heart got harder, the the death angel over the land of egypt

SHOWED FORTH HIS POWER AND MIGHT

THEN HE LET GO

* then again we see god LED THEM IN A CLOUD BY DAY