In the book of Numbers, when the twelve men went to check out the Promise Land you remember Joshua and Caleb who brought back a good report, but not the ten who brought an evil report.
The twelve men were listed along with their fathers name, so when you fail it’s on your father as well.
4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. (Numbers 13)
Fathers have a responsibility to their children spiritually.
There is always room for one more child of God.
Caleb said “let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it” (Numbers 13:30)
Your mind can be either your greatest enemy or your greatest ally.
The ten men who failed saw themselves as grasshoppers. “We were in our own sight as grasshoppers” Numbers 13:33. But, we are not grasshoppers because our Father is not a grasshopper. If you’re a parent teach your children they are not a grasshopper, you can do anything through God. Because, our God, our Father is mighty.
Take a minute and picture this situation in your mind…
Twelve men hiking through a foreign country for forty days and nights. Not just two, but twelve men, eating and collecting food from the land. “We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it” (Numbers 13:27). A beautiful land with delicious food and all we know about the big grapes.
“Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there”(Numbers 13:38). Oh, no they used the word Nevertheless. If the land was really that great, strong, and scarry how did all thirty men come back alive to tell about it?
They got right to the Promise Land and wanted to go back to Egypt.
They got right to freedom and wanted to go back to bondage.
