Part 3| “Finding Courage to Move Toward the Challenge”
The empty grave changes everything. The empty grave empowers transformation. The empty grave means your life does not have to stay the same. And that’s good news, because, one way or another, your life will never be the way it is right now. You can embrace that or you can fear it. The choice is yours. The simple fact that you cannot stay where you are is a fact of life we try to avoid until its inevitable reality catches us off guard. Then we are asking, “What happened to the good ole’ days?” or “Why is life suddenly so complicated?” Embrace the perspective God wants you to have. Change with the enablement that comes from God. You can move forward into the purposes He has planned for you. Let’s move!
From Joshua 14
📖 Numbers 13:26-28 (ESV) And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
FACT: Every comes with .
📖 Numbers 13:30 (ESV) But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
📖 Joshua 14:12 (NKJV) Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”
What Caleb had: .
Three secrets to a Christian’s Courage:
1. God’s , not determines my .
📖 Joshua 14:9 (ESV) And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
📖 Joshua 14:8 (ESV) my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
📖 John 4:34 (ESV) Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
We have His :
📖 Matthew 25:34 (ESV) Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
We have His :
📖 1 Corinthians 2:16 (NLT)For, “Who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
We have :
📖 John 14:6-7 (ESV) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Three secrets to a Christian’s Courage:
2. God’s can my life’s .
📖 John 14:10-11 (ESV) And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
What’s your 85?
Your “85” is whatever you could use for an or a .
📖 Isaiah 40:29 (ESV) He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Instead of looking for an , look for God’s for why you can.
📖 2 Chronicles 16:9 (NLT) The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
Three secrets to a Christian’s Courage:
3. God’s “ ” is better than my “ ”.
📖 Joshua 14:12 (ESV) So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”
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