How big is your problem?

So you believe that God is your provision, but things of this world have beaten you down and made you tired and have stolen the Word that was so strong in you before.  Sometimes, it seems, it takes more than you have left, to fight and believe when the problem seems unsurpassable and beyond what you can see.

Moses was in that boat.  At one time, he on top of the world, spiritually; calling down plagues, leading the people from Egypt (with much of the wealth of the world), pillars of fire and smoke following him, striking the red sea and splitting it.  But, the people were rebellious and he had to continuously fight to keep them in faith.  By the time he got to the Jordan he was getting tired.  God aimed to encourage Moses and told him to send out spies into the promise land to see the provision that he is providing.  The spies came back with good reports of the provision and bad reports of the opposition. 

This is where many people are.  You know what the Word says and that God is on your side.  However, you’re looking at the bad report and the doom settles into your heart and steals your hope and desire to fight.  You’re at a crossroad, or a raging river.  If you decide not to fight, God will still be with you and bless you, but you may be eating mana for a while instead of experiencing God’s best.

Sometimes when you see the impossible in front of you, and your spirit withers, it is not that God has placed the impossible there so that the fight would be bitter and taxing and heavy.  It is because he wants to show you the mighty way he will work within you if you would only believe and take that step forward.  He wants you to lift your self up in the spirit and cross the Jordan to the promise land.  You see, you may think that you are headed for the battle of your life and that you may surely be beaten.  But, God may have something else planned for you. 

If Moses only knew what Rahab had shared so many years later:

“I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us,

    and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.

    For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt,

    and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan,

    to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

    When we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you;

    for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.”  (Joshua 2:8-11)

You see, God still blessed Moses as he wandered through the desert.  But it wasn’t what God had planned for him.  God intended Moses to step across the Jordan in the Might of the Father, wearing His Banner, and all whom stood before him would tremble with fear because they knew that God was with Moses.  Moses would possess the land and all the riches.  And then, who knows what else God might have had in mind for Moses;  what stories of the miraculous would have been passed down through the generations.  There could have been another book in the Bible about his walk with the Lord.  He could have walked in the power of Elijah and Elisha, calling down fire from the sky.

But instead, he let the bad report beat him and settled for the scraps at the table.

If you're tired and you don’t feel you have it in you to believe for God’s supernatural provision overcoming and defeating your obstacle, don’t give up and settle for the mana.  Step forward into the realm of the impossible and see what God has planned for you.  There is another book and testament of God’s Glory in your life that remains unwritten.  You just need to believe and keep walking towards His promises.