Numbers 13:1, 2, 23, 27, 28, 32 (NIV)
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders." 23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs 27 they gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there." 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size."

When Israel was promised great things all of a sudden they saw the giants. Moses sent out the ten spies and they went down into the Promised Land. They said, "It's everything that you said it was and what God said but what He failed to tell us is that there were giants in the land". I see people, they get so excited, "I'm going to be a preacher of God. I'm going into business. I'm going to get married to this wonderful woman or this wonderful guy, you never told me I'd have problems. He never told me she had problems. I see all the good parts, it is the bad parts I'm worried about." We start to give this verbal consideration to the giants. We don't major on the goodness of God.

It takes courage to believe when there is something looking at you that seems real. It takes courage to believe that by His stripes you are healed. When they have the blood tests and everything else that says you have cancer. It takes courage to believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. It takes courage to say, "No this is not of God. Get out of here. You are a thief and a robber. I will not entertain you."
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