DEUTERONOMY 1:19-46
“The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes….”
This week is a call to faith over fear. For believers who are faced with fear, we are called to respond in faith rooted in our belief. Our belief that God is good, that He is sovereign, and that He will provide all that’s needed. We are called to look back at all His goodness to give us hope in the prayers of the current goodness needed.
“If God was good to me then, why wouldn’t He be good to me now?”
“If God is truly sovereign, then what do we have to fear?”
We are to constantly ask ourselves such questions and remind others when they are faced with such fears. Point out all of God’s past victories and speak hope to others and ourselves when plague with doubt and fear. God is good, He is sovereign, and He will provide all that is needed.
In this week’s text, Moses attempts to pour these truths into the Israelites through a story of fear, faith, and failure. Much like last week, Moses uses the past in hopes to better guide their future. The children of the exodus were fearful to take the blessings of God out of the fear of worldly struggles. The promise land was filled with giants and heavily guarded. The fact that God had delivered them from slavery wasn’t enough to give them confidence in the next battle they faced. Even though God walked before them, the people needed even more assurance to overcome their fear. This type of lack of faith is what would lead the people into never reaching the blessings God had in store for them.
Today, many of us never reach God’s blessings out of the fear of worldly fears. We forget that God has walked before us and already won so many wars in our past. How many seas has God parted or giants has God slayed in our lives just to be forgotten in midst of the newest fear we face.
When fear is greater than faith, we always miss blessings.
God’s word tells us that not only does God walk before us, but that He will fight for us! These promises and truths have to be our rooted beliefs that give us confidence to press forward in wherever God has called us to! Let us not be like the Israelites who needed more proof, but like Daniel who faced lions or David who slayed giants. Let us look back to gain assurance to move forward in faith!
God is good, He is sovereign, and He will provide all that is needed.
Stay faithful church,
Pastor Hunter
“If God was good to me then, why wouldn’t He be good to me now?”
“If God is truly sovereign, then what do we have to fear?”
We are to constantly ask ourselves such questions and remind others when they are faced with such fears. Point out all of God’s past victories and speak hope to others and ourselves when plague with doubt and fear. God is good, He is sovereign, and He will provide all that is needed.
In this week’s text, Moses attempts to pour these truths into the Israelites through a story of fear, faith, and failure. Much like last week, Moses uses the past in hopes to better guide their future. The children of the exodus were fearful to take the blessings of God out of the fear of worldly struggles. The promise land was filled with giants and heavily guarded. The fact that God had delivered them from slavery wasn’t enough to give them confidence in the next battle they faced. Even though God walked before them, the people needed even more assurance to overcome their fear. This type of lack of faith is what would lead the people into never reaching the blessings God had in store for them.
Today, many of us never reach God’s blessings out of the fear of worldly fears. We forget that God has walked before us and already won so many wars in our past. How many seas has God parted or giants has God slayed in our lives just to be forgotten in midst of the newest fear we face.
When fear is greater than faith, we always miss blessings.
God’s word tells us that not only does God walk before us, but that He will fight for us! These promises and truths have to be our rooted beliefs that give us confidence to press forward in wherever God has called us to! Let us not be like the Israelites who needed more proof, but like Daniel who faced lions or David who slayed giants. Let us look back to gain assurance to move forward in faith!
God is good, He is sovereign, and He will provide all that is needed.
Stay faithful church,
Pastor Hunter
SCRIPTURE TO GO WITH THE MESSAGE
Read Numbers 13 & 14 this week as it will better give background to the story this week.
Posted in Deuteronomy