pWherever you go, you take your mentality with you. After four hundred years as captives in Egypt, the Israelites needed to adjust to their new freedom and learn to step into unfamiliar situations. Consequently when they approached the Promised Land and their leader sent twelve spies in to check it out, ten came back saying, ‘The inhabitants of the land are giants. We are like grasshoppers compared to them.’ But two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, knew God was with them so they reported, ‘The inhabitants of the land are like grasshoppers to us. We are well able to overcome them’ (see v. 30). Joshua and Caleb developed the capacity to see things from God’s vantage point, and it spelled the difference between success and failure. When you see every situation from a higher viewpoint, through God’s eyes, you learn to ‘mount up with wings’ like an eagle (Isaiah 40:31 KJV). You stop looking at the devil’s picture of defeat and focus on God’s portrait of success. Start speaking what you desire - not what you dread (see Psalm 107:2). Speak your expectations - not your fears. This isn’t mind-over-matter or pop psychology. It’s standing on God’s Word declaring, ‘I am what God says I am…I have what God says I have…and I can do what God says I can do!’ (Philippians 4:13)./p
pWhat Now?br /
Take a look at how Jesus takes flawed, scared human beings and makes them trustable. Follow Peter's ridiculous journey from Matthew 16:18 to John 18:17, and all the way to Acts 4:1-18./p