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Hallelujah, what an honor to be with you once again
to share the word of God with you.
Today, I'm speaking on 'Give Me This Mountain.'
'Give Me This Mountain.'
It's an interesting subject,
and actually, I need to give credits to
Caleb, Caleb in the Bible,
because he's the one who actually made the statement. So, I'm borrowing
his words as the theme or the subject for
this message, 'Give Me This Mountain.'
So, let's get into the scriptures and see
what Caleb said, what caused him to say it,
and what we can learn from it.
So, Joshua chapter 14, the verse number 6.
Joshua chapter 14, the verse number 6.
The Bible says, 'Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite
said unto him,
'Thou knowest the thing the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me
and thee in Kadeshbarnea.'
'Forty years old I was when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea
to espy out the land; and I brought him word again
as it was in mine heart.'
'Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me
made the heart of the people melt:
but I wholly followed the Lord my God.'
'And 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 has
wholly followed the Lord my God.'
'And 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.'
That's 85 years.
'As 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.'
'Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof
the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how
the Anakims were there, and 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.'
He says, 'Now therefore', verse 12, 'Now therefore,
give me this mountain.'
'Give me this mountain.'
So, it's important to appreciate
the back story,
okay?
So, this is Caleb at 85 years old.
85 years old, having a conversation with Joshua,
who had taken over from Moses
as the leader of the children of Israel.
And when they were 40,
when they were much younger,
Moses sent them out,
Caleb and Joshua, along with ten other people
from the various tribes of Israel,
and they were sent to
spy or to scout the promised land
that God had promised them, and that they were heading towards.
Now,
ten of those spies came back and gave a bad report concerning the land.
Caleb
and
Joshua
gave a good report. They said, 'We are well able to go up and take the country,'
and possess the land from Jordan to the sea, though the giants may be on our way to hinder. Our God
will surely give us victory. Despite all the challenges, they said
that they could go.
And Moses promised
Caleb that where his feet had stepped, he would be able to possess. Now, this is Caleb
45 years later. Moses was dead,
and Joshua had now taken over, and Caleb was
having a conversation with Joshua and reminding him of what Moses had said
concerning him and was ready to claim
his inheritance.
And he said, he said, 'Give me, now give me this mountain.'
'Give me this mountain.'
And that's the way he said it is very poignant, because
it highlights to us
that even at 85, this man was not backing down.
This man was interested in having a mountain.
Not everybody will go and say, 'Give me this mountain.'
You see, a mountain
represents challenges, represents difficulties. If you've ever seen a mountain before,
a mountain is imposing. It is tall. It's not easy to scale or to climb a mountain.
That's why some of the people who are greatly revered in the world are mountain climbers.
When we talk of the tallest peaks and all of that, Everest and
all kinds of things.
Because mountains are generally difficult things, hard things.
And the mountain can represent things when it comes to your finances, things when it comes to your personal life,
your relationships, there can be mountains.
Things that are difficult to scale.
Things that don't seem to make a way. They are not easy to handle. Mountains.
Mountains.
But Caleb at 85 was not afraid of mountains.
He came to Joshua and said, 'Now give me this mountain.' He was interested
in a mountain.
He was interested in a mountain.
You know, when you become a Christian, sometimes if you are not careful, you may think that
there are no challenges.
There are no difficulties. Remember, when he said, 'Now give me therefore this mountain,'
he was speaking about the promised land.
The promised land.
When God spoke to the children of Israel about the promised land,
he spoke to them about the land flowing with milk and honey.
So, a land flowing with milk and honey. When you hear the descriptions of the promised land,
you may think that it's just a place that you can go,
it's a, in fact, let me read the scriptures to you. Exodus chapter 3,
the verse number 8.
This is
God talking
to Moses.
This is God talking to Moses.
And
this is actually the story of the burning bush.
And in verse 8, God says to
to Moses,
God said, 'I've taken a good look at the affliction of my people in Egypt.
I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters. I know all about their pain.
And now I've come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt,
get them out of that country, and bring them to a good land
with wide-open spaces.' Wow, look at the beautiful descriptions, 'a good land'.
'A good land,' because the children of Israel were in bondage,
they were in slavery
in Egypt.
And God said, 'I've called them. I'm going to bring them to a good land,'
wide-open spaces.
'I'm bringing them to a land, lush,' I like how the Message Translation puts it, 'a land, lush,'
'a land filled with milk and honey.' Now, imagine
imagining walking in the land and just finding milk and honey. But of course, it was an expression to show that it was a fruitful land,
it was a prosperous land,
as grasshoppers. And so, were in their sight. We saw ourselves as grasshoppers in our own sight, and because we saw ourselves that way, we were also like that in their sight.
I mean, milk and honey is like things are so easy.
It's important how you see yourself. It's important how you see yourself.
But there's something else he said that sometimes we gloss over. He said, 'The land of the Canaanite,
the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite,
The ten spies saw themselves as grasshoppers. Imagine of all the things, grasshoppers.
the Hivite, and the Jebusite.'
A grasshopper is a teeny, tiny insect.
So, God said to Moses, 'I'm bringing
you and the children of Israel
Of course, it's bigger than some other insect, but it's not that big when you compare it to a human being, much more a giant.
into a land, a wide and spacious land flowing with milk and honey.' But here's the thing,
And that's how they saw themselves. And because they saw themselves that way, the sons of Anak also saw them as grasshoppers.
there were already people living on that land.
It wasn't an unoccupied land. You may think that it's just a land that you can
The way you see yourself is how others will see you.
waltz in and just take over and just reclaim. Actually, no.
You see, the way you see yourself will affect your conduct. It will affect your behavior.
You may come into spaces, you may feel like, 'I don't belong here'. You may feel like, 'I'm just a grasshopper here, I can't do much, I'm not good enough to be here, I don't have the strength, I don't have the wisdom, I don't have the grace, I don't have the right'. You may suffer from imposter syndrome. They were suffering from it. They felt like grasshoppers.
The promised land, the land that was flowing with milk and honey, had people already living
in it.
And not just any kind of people, but these were people who were mountaineers, these are people who were fighters.
They were not just going to give you the promised land easy.
Sometimes, God can give you a promise.
They felt inadequate. They felt that they could not do anything.
Sometimes, God can send a message your way.
They were grasshoppers. And because they saw themselves that way, the people, the sons of Anak, also saw them that way.
Sometimes, God can send a prophetic word your way,
and you may think that
it's just going to
When you see yourself in a certain way, very soon everybody else will also see you that way.
happen, just because God has said.
It's the way you see yourself that everybody will gravitate towards, and that's very important.
Or you may think that because God has said it, there are no challenges whatsoever.
There are no difficulties whatsoever.
But my emphasis is on the evil report that they brought.
But actually, the promised land was inhabited by all kinds of people.
So, the the the...
Let's look at the report of the twelve spies.
The promised land had challenges.
The ten spies, actually.
You see, it is not... the problem was not that they said that there were people there and all of that. The problem was their interpretation of it.
And then you'll notice some things about the promised land. So, in Numbers chapter 13,
Aha, that's what God was not happy about, their interpretation of it.
So, it's not that there are there are...
no challenges. Listen, the promised land that God has spoken to you about, there will be challenges.
Jesus said to his disciples in John chapter 16, the verse number 33, he said,
Moses,
not Moses this time,
yeah, Moses actually. Moses sent
spies to the promised land, twelve of them,
okay?
And they were supposed to take a good look at the land and present a report
about it,
'In this world, you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, be of good courage, I have overcomed the world.'
because they needed, God actually told Moses to do that,
okay?
So, as long as you are in this world, you will have challenges. There'll be difficulties.
And this is the report that they brought back.
There'll be challenges along the way. The Christian life is not devoid of challenges,
And they told him and said, 'We came unto the land whither thou sentest us,'
brothers and sisters in the Lord. The Christian life is not devoid of challenges.
and surely it floweth with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.' So they brought back some grapes and all of that to show how fruitful the land was.
Don't think that when you get born again, there'll be no difficulty. There'll be no challenge.
And then they said this, 'Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land.' So remember the groups of people we were talking about.
The Amplified of that version, of that verse in John 16:33 says that you'll face trials, you'll face frustrations, you'll face difficulties.
Yeah.
Yeah, and your interpretation is important. Don't be like the ten spies, be like Caleb and Joshua.
Your interpretation... It's not that the problems don't exist, but your interpretation of it.
Don't say we are not able. Don't say, don't say, 'Well, we cannot.'
I mean, I wonder what these ten people wanted the children of Israel to do. To turn back and go back to Egypt? What were they supposed to do? Or to settle for something less than what God had called them to?
The Hittites, the Amorites, all these people, all these, they said, they be strong that dwell in the land.
And their cities are walled, so there were cities on the promised land.
And these were walled cities. And it says, 'The cities are walled and very great.' Great cities on the promised land.
And moreover we saw the children of Anak there. So, not just the group of people that God mentioned,
but there were also the sons of Anak, the children of Anak.
'The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.' So these were many different groups of people scattered across the expanse of the promised land.
When you interpret challenges wrongly, you settle for something less than what God has called you to, or you run away from the very thing that is supposed to be a conquest and a victory march for you.
Across the expanse of the promised land.
Verse 30, 'And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'
'But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.'
So, there will be challenges. There will be challenges. There will be challenges.
Imagine, they had not even fought them, but just by the sight of the people, they said, the people are stronger than us.
But like Caleb said, we are well able, we are well able to go up and possess the land from Jordan to the sea, though the giant may be on our way to hither, our God will surely give us victory.
And they brought up an evil report. God called it an evil report.
God called it an evil report
Yeah, that should be your interpretation of the challenges.
You should not interpret challenges as God not being with you. Like, because God has given a word over your life, God has said something over your life, when there are difficulties and challenges and it seems like it's not happening, then you begin to think that, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God, is God there? Does God exist? Why am I going through this?' No, your interpretation matters.
of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, 'The land,
through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof.' Can you imagine? They said that this promised land, it eats up,
the inhabitants thereof.
'And all the people we saw in it are men of great stature.'
'And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants.' So, we, we are, we get to understand who the sons of Anak are,
okay?
Now, these were people who were descendants of giants, so they were
Your interpretation matters, because as for challenges, there will be challenges. One of the things you should know
huge.
is that God has an assurance guarantee when it comes to problems. He says that God will not allow us to be tried or tempted beyond what we are well able. It means that any challenge that comes to you, you are well able. You have the ability.
Historically, some of them were ten feet tall and all kinds of things. They were huge people.
Okay.
'Which come of the giants.'
You have the ability to handle it.
And then he said, 'And we were in our own sight,' so we saw ourselves as grasshoppers, 'We were in our own sight'
You know, as you are there, there are challenges that are not within your purview, they are not on your table.
Okay, for instance, you're not thinking about constructing the highway from Accra to Kumasi. It's not, it's not on your table.
It's not on your table, but it's on the table of the president of the country and the people who work with him along those lines.
Why? Because it's a challenge before them. They have the capacity, they can gather the resources and do what they are supposed to do.
There's nobody walking on the street who will stop you and say, 'Hey, why haven't you done the road from Accra to...?' It's not, it's not within your purview.
What it goes to say is that the challenges that come to you, God is saying that the challenges that he allows to come to you are challenges that you can actually handle.
Any mountain before you, it's a mountain that you can actually handle. Who art thou, oh mountain, before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt become a plain field. Every mountain before you can be a plain field because God has given you the grace, the capacity to handle it.
God is not a wicked father. He will not allow something to come to you that is well beyond your means. No, you are well able. Like Caleb said, 'For we are well able.' Not just able, 'We are well able to overcome it. We are well able to overcome it.'
Yeah, so your interpretation when it comes to challenges matters. Your interpretation when it comes to challenges matters.
Don't expect the promised land to be devoid of problems, to be devoid of issues. Don't expect the word that God has said over your life to be devoid of fights and difficulties, no.
In fact, challenges are an opportunity for glory.
Imagine that Jesus had not gone to the cross and suffered all the things he suffered.
We will not have the glory and he will not be glorified in the way that he has been, and we will not be enjoying the glory thereof.
Your glory is in the challenges you overcome. Your promotion is in the challenges you overcome. The goodness, your accomplishments are in the challenges.
Right? Imagine going to school and there are no exams. You just keep going to school and learning. No, there must be something that allows what you have learned to be tested,
to see how well you have been able to deal with whatever challenge is placed before you. To see how well you've been able to study. To see how well you've been able to overcome the difficulties of school, of time, of all of that.
So, you have an exam come to you every time, every time. Life also has its exams.
Can you see it? You'll be able to activate and receive it.
What a blessing, what a blessing. So don't forget what God has said about you.
These are the challenges of life. They come. They come. Difficulties of life.
Don't forget it. You know, life and challenges can make you forget.
Don't forget what God has said about you. Write it down somewhere.
Difficulties of life. But know that God is able to help you. God, in Christ, he leads you in a triumphant procession. He leads you.
Speak it, declare it, meditate on it
until it's on your heart. I can imagine how Caleb was meditating on these things over
So, maybe as you're listening to this message right now, you are at one challenge or the other.
and over and over and over again throughout the course of his life.
You are at one junction of a challenge or the other, and you are wondering, 'How can these things be? How can these things be?'
I can imagine, he was waiting for 45 years.
And eventually came to Joshua and made that demand. Don't forget what God has said to you.
You know, Mary asked that question. She said, 'How can these things be, seeing I know no man?'
What else can we learn from Caleb? What's the second lesson from Caleb?
Verse 7 says, "40 years old was I when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me." And then, in verse 10, he says, "And now, I'm 45 years..."
Sorry. And now it has been 45 years. So now Caleb was 85,
85 years.
Of course, she was talking about having intimacy, physical intimacy with a man. But it also relates to having...
not having any connections, not knowing anybody, not having all the opportunities and things that are physically available. 'Seeing I know no man, how can I get this job, seeing I know no man? How can I get this opportunity, seeing I know no man?'
Now, the second lesson we can learn from Caleb is that you are never too old
The Holy Spirit shall overshadow thee.
for what God has called you to do. You are never too old, my dear brother, my dear sister.
You are never too old.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so God helps you. God helps you. God helps you. God strengthens you, regardless of the mountain you are facing, regardless of the challenge you are facing, regardless of the difficulty you are facing. God helps you.
You notice that as you are going through life, at every stage, you may feel like you are too old.
Maybe as you are listening to me right now, you are feeling that you're too old. You're 22, you're 25, you're 30, you're 31, you're 40, you're 50, you're feeling like you are too old. But actually,
God helps you so that you can enjoy your promised land. So you can be victorious in your promised land. Hallelujah. What a blessing, what a blessing. Now, I want us to go back to Joshua chapter number 14, and I want us to pick
this is the youngest you will ever be compared to the years that are ahead of you.
This is the youngest you'll ever be. Tomorrow, you'll be older than you are today.
So actually, this is the time to enjoy your youth.
You may think you're old, but even in your oldness, in quotes, you are very young. This is the youngest you'd be.
If you are 30 and you're going to live till 90 or 100,
you still have about 60 good years ahead of you.
or glean a few lessons from the conversation that Caleb had with Joshua. So let's go back into it. A few lessons to learn from Caleb's life. Caleb is actually one of my favorite characters of the Bible, he's just such a wonderful person.
Verse 6. 'Then 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 Kadeshbarnea.'
You have about 70 good years ahead of you, so you're actually very young.
Even though by our standards or the people you are relating with, 30 may feel very old, or 40 may feel very old, or 50, or 60
may feel very old.
You see, but you are never too old for what God has called you to do.
Wow.
Now, this is Caleb reminding Joshua of what God had said through Moses, the servant of God, or the man of God.
You are never too old.
You're never too old. Don't let age limit you. Don't let age take you out.
Caleb could have said, "I'm 85. Come on, I've done my bit, I've done my part. Let me just re-recline and relax and just sit somewhere and just sleep and and, um, just enjoy some drinks and all that." No, at 85,
Okay, so the first thing we learn from Caleb is that remember what God had said concerning you, remember, remember, is very important.
Now, imagine Caleb had forgotten, or Caleb thought it was not important. Caleb premised his demand, or his request, on what God had said.
at 85, he was interested in new things, he was pushing for new things, new accomplishments, new heights.
You see, so don't let your age limit you. Don't feel like, "Oh, I should have been here by now," please.
Please.
The most important thing is that you're alive. And once you have life, you can get into whatever God wants you to get into. So focus on the present.
You can only enjoy the promised land, he may not have enjoyed the full benefit of the promised land if he was not conscious of what God had said. And it had been 45 years since God said it. Look at verse 7.
'Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.'
Focus on the future. The past should be a fodder of lessons.
You see, they are lessons.
'Nevertheless my brethren who went...' and then in verse 10 he says, 'And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years...'
But the past is not where you should live.
The past is not where you should live. Recently, I was reading about a city. It's now defunct. It's no longer in existence. But I was reading about a city. The name of the city was Regret.
So, he kept the promise of God for 45 years.
That's the name of the city, Regret. You can live in regret.
Wow.
Wow. Listen, what God has said about your life, the promises that have gone before you, the prayers that have been prayed over you, the things that your parents have said, the good things that your parents have said, or your guardians have said,
And there were people who were living in the city at the time. You can actually live in that city called Regret, you live there, you live in regret.
And when you live in regret, you can never move forward.
So rather than wasting your time regretting things, learn the lessons and ensure that today benefits from those lessons, tomorrow benefits from those lessons, your future benefits from those lessons. Imagine trying to walk,
but you're looking back. Nobody walks by looking back.
You're looking back, and you're trying to walk forward. You trip, you fall, you fall into a ditch. I mean, you can't even walk straight. You can't even walk well. You can only walk forward when you are looking forward.
the prophecies you received from men and women of God, the things that the Holy Spirit has ministered to your heart, the things that the Holy Spirit has whispered into your ears,
what he said to you,
all those things, do not gloss over them. Do not ignore them, that's why it's important to write them.
Write them. God says, 'Put me in remembrance. Put me in remembrance.'
So, it's important, it's important that you remember. Don't throw these things away, don't play with them, don't joke with them.
If Caleb had played with the word of God, he would not have enjoyed the promised land, he would not.
Paul said, "This one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind." You must learn how to forget those things which are behind.
He would not, he would not have his allotment of the promised land.
"I press on to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
It's important. Always remember what God has said concerning you, speak it, declare it, believe it, remind yourself of it.
You see, whatever mistakes you made were an opportunity for you to learn,
And that's how you'll be able to receive, activate and receive.
to learn. When you think about a child, when a child is learning how to walk, that child falls a lot of times.
The child falls a lot of times.
And you may think that the falling is a problem, but actually the falling is necessary because the child begins to learn their balance.
When they fall, they begin to steady their gait, they steady their walk, they know how to take the step next time. So actually, the more the child falls, the faster the child learns,
the faster the child learns. And it is this learning that has allowed us, all of us have experienced this, it is this learning that has allowed us to be able to walk
confidently the way we walk. We don't even think about it. It's hardwired into our subconscious, the way we walk, because there was a period where we learnt it, we learnt to balance our gait, we learnt, we learnt it.
Ah, we learnt it.
Can you see it? So, all the things you've experienced, the broken relationships, the heartbreaks, the issues, the difficulties, the applications that didn't go through, the this, the that, it was all a balancing act.
So now today, you can balance yourself better.
You should be better today than you were yesterday. You should be wiser today than you were five days ago,
one year ago, two years ago. That's how God has made it. As we grow in years, we also grow in wisdom, we grow in grace, we grow in God's ability. This is Auxano, it's all about growth. We grow.
We grow.
So don't let your age be a limitation. Don't say, "I'm this age, I'm not married."
No. Do what you're supposed to do, but don't let the age bog you down.
Don't let the age trouble you.
You can enjoy the promise of God regardless of your age. Remember Abraham and Sarah,
they enjoyed the promise of a child regardless of what was happening in their lives, and that's the next lesson we learn
from Caleb.
What's, what's the other lesson that we we learn? In verse 8, he says, "Nevertheless..." so he was talking about the people who said the wrong things, "Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt."
They made them afraid.
"But I wholly followed God." Caleb wholly followed God.
You must learn to wholly follow God.
And in this context, he was talking about what God had said. Wholly follow God. Follow God.
Follow God.
What God has said. The Bible says, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, because he knew that what God had said, he was also able to do, able to do."
Wholly follow God.
Caleb and Joshua followed God because they knew the word of God. They knew what God had said
these things. Give me this mountain. Give me this mountain.
There's another lesson we can learn from Caleb, and it's
to Moses, they knew it. And so, although they were looking at the challenges and the difficulties in their hearts, they chose to wholly follow God,
in this particular verse. He says, "Now therefore, give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spoke 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,"
wholly follow God. The other people were looking at the prevailing circumstances.
You know, when you look at the prevailing circumstances, you drown.
then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said."
You drown. Remember the story of Peter and Jesus. When Jesus called out to him, "Come,"
Wow. Caleb was so conscious about God being with him.
he began to walk. But as soon as he began to look at the waves, the turbulent waves, he began to sink and drown. When you look around, you drown.
We have God in us.
We also have God with us.
God with us.
You drown.
We have God for us.
The mountain will be surmounted. The mountain will become a plain field when you are conscious that God is with you. And indeed God was with Caleb, so he drove
them out. The last verse says, "And the land had rest from war."
He was able to take the promised land because God was with him.
You drown. Learn to wholly follow God.
Learn to wholly follow God
regardless of what is going on.
Follow God. Follow what God had said. Sometimes, God can tell you, "Start this business," wholly follow God. As you're starting, you're thinking, there are so many other businesses, there are Jebusites, there are Perizzites, there are Hittites, there are Hivites, don't, wholly follow God.
Whatever challenge, whatever mountain you are facing, know, be conscious of the fact that God is with you.
Wholly, what God has told you to do,
wholly follow Him.
And because of that, you will be able to take over and have victory and conquest. You know, when I think about
Wholly follow Him. He has told you to give, wholly follow Him. He has told you to pray, wholly follow Him. He has told you to read some books, wholly, always wholly follow
God.
this story, I think about, let's, let me give you an example.
Wholly follow God.
You start a business. There are all kinds of people in the business, Amorites, Hivites, Hittites, Jebusites.
Yeah, that's another lesson we learn from Caleb.
Now, in verse 10, we learn another lesson, which is that God keeps you alive for a purpose.
All these kinds of people. There are big people in the business, there are big, I mean, all kinds of things.
Caleb was 85, and he said, "And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive,
But you can take over. You can take over. That promised land is yours for the taking.
as He has said, these 40 and 5 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 85 years old, fourscore and 5 years old." God keeps you alive, God kept Caleb alive for a purpose.
It's yours for the taking. So whatever your scenario looks like,
whatever your situation looks like,
know that God is helping you. God with you means that God is helping you.
God is helping you.
You are not able just by yourself, but by God's help you are able to go up and take the country and possess the land from Jordan to the sea, though the giants
Every day is a new day. Every day you wake up,
you're alive because God has a...
You're a man on a mission.
You have a purpose to fulfill.
You have an assignment to accomplish.
are there.
Yeah, that's why God, God is not keeping you alive just to eat and sleep and go to work and come back and just to do run-of-the-mill activities, just go through the motions. No, you are kept alive because God's word upon your life has not been fully fulfilled, and God's word upon your life must be fully fulfilled.
And they are giant things, you see. They are giants in your field, in the things you want to accomplish. There are giants already there.
The sons of Anak, the Anakims,
they are there, but God is helping you.
God is strengthening you, and this you should be conscious of.
So you're kept alive for the fulfillment of purpose.
Listen, like Caleb, you should be able to say, "Give me this mountain."
Caleb knew why God had kept him alive.
Give me this mountain. Challenges are bread for you.
And you should too.
Don't be afraid of challenges. I know sometimes the challenges are painful, they are difficult.
Every day you wake up and see the sun, know that what God has said of your life is coming to pass. God is keeping you alive, and He uses the phrase, "keep, keep alive. He has kept me alive."
But that very difficulty, that very pain, that very discomfort,
is
what is taking you to your next level.
It's the mountain that you are climbing
for your next level.
Now, it's interesting because a lot of things in this natural world are trying to kill you actually.
Yeah.
Sickness is trying to kill you. Even the air you breathe, they say is polluted and all kinds of things.
They are trying to bog you down, challenges, difficulties, stress, all of these things, but God preserves you.
You know, you know we have the, the largest mountain, Mount Everest.
God keeps you.
Well, one day I said to someone that, even at Mount Everest, God is able to make you ever rest.
God helps you.
God helps you.
God helps you.
You can ever rest, even at Mount Everest.
God keeps you alive for His purpose. So if you're alive and you're hearing this message and you're hearing my voice,
It's the tallest, most difficult, but even there, God is able to
you're alive for a purpose. You're not alive just for the sake
make you ever rest,
of being alive. You're alive to fulfill God's purpose.
regardless of the mountain before you. I see you doing well, I see you accomplishing great things,
The words He has spoken to you years ago, months ago, days ago, you are alive
I see you having,
scaling mountain upon mountain, overcoming difficulty upon difficulty, and excelling and fulfilling your purpose, in Jesus' name. God bless you.
to fulfill that word by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, what a blessing, what a blessing. I like verse 11. He says,
"As yet, I am strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me." He was, he was 85 and he was saying, "I'm still as strong as I was at 40."
Don't grow too old too quickly. People grow old in their minds.
You know, you feel like, "I'm not able anymore, my time has passed, my season is..." No, don't think like that.
At 85, Caleb was thinking very differently.
He says, "Even so is my strength now, as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war." An 85-year-old man talking about war.
"Both to go out and to come in."
Wow.
What a blessing.
Yeah, so, regardless of your age, your challenge, your opportunities, you are well able.
You're well able.
You're well able. Verse 12 says, "Now therefore..." based on