God Is Our Provider! / Give To Me That Kind of Inheritance [Jos 14:11-14]

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God Is Our Provider! 

/ Give To Me That Kind

of Inheritance

[Jos 14:11-14]

 

/ By Priscilla

 

 

What a lovely passage!

This passage is a big

challenge for me.

 

 

And it is  one of my

favourite Scriptures.

 

 

Caleb was a really positive,

faithful and godly man.

 

 

I found that he was

a humble man as well.

 

 

“I am still as strong today

as the day Moses sent me out;

I'm just as vigorous to go out

to battle now as I was then.

 

 

Now give me this hill country

that the LORD promised

me that day.

 

 

You yourself heard then

that the Anakites were there

 

 

and their cities

were large and fortified,

but, the LORD helping me,

I will drive them out just

as he said.”

 

 

Then Joshua blessed

Caleb son of Jephunneh

and gave him Hebron

as his inheritance.

 

 

So Hebron has belonged

to Caleb son of Jephunneh

the Kenizzite ever since,

 

 

because he followed the 

LORD, the God of Israel,

wholeheartedly.”

(Jos 14:11-14)

 

 

In verse 11,

 

 

God is the 

source of blessing!

 

 

Today, this Scripture tells 

me about God’s blessing.

 

 

he claimed he was still

as strong that very day

as the day Moses sent

him out;

 

 

He was just as vigorous

to go out to battle at that

time as he was them. 

 

 

He had faith in the

presence of God

 

 

and his inheritance

in fulfilment of God’s

earlier promise.

 

 

So, he said he felt as strong

and vigorous at 85 as he

 was at 40- it’s very 

interesting.

 

 

When he trusted God.

God sent his power to him-no

matter what, no matter where…

 

 

Furthermore,

he probably always

praised the Lord.

 

 

I just imagine that

he sang praise to the Lord

as long as he lived

 

 

because he was stronger

and had experienced many 

miracles and wonders.

 

 

He already knew that

God is Almighty! 

 

 

Therefore,

in the Bible it says,

 

 

”God is faithful, he will not

let us be tempted beyond

what we can bear.

 

 

But, we are tempted.

 

 

He will also provide a way 

out so that we can

stand up under it.

 

 

So, God says no temptation

has seized us except what

is common to man. 

 

 

“No temptation has seized

you except what is

common to man.

 

 

And God is faithful;

he will not let you be

tempted beyond what

you can bear.

 

 

But when you are tempted,

he will also provide a way out

so that you can stand

up under it.”

(1 Cor 10:13)

 

 

Finally,

 

 

“God Brough out his people

with rejoicing, his chosen ones

with shouts of joy

 

 

and he gone them the lands

of the nations and they fell heir

to what others had toiled for-“

(Ps 105:43-44)

 

 

Because,

God of the Sovereign Lord

and ‘in ancient of days’.

He is ‘Yahweh’

 

 

and He is our provider!

 

 

'Jusus' said to us today!

 

 

"Therefore I tell you,

do not worry about your life,

what you will eat or drink;

or about your body,

what you will wear.

 

 

Is not life more important

than food, and the body more

important than clothes?

 

 

Look at the birds of the air;

they do not sow or reap

or store away in barns,

 

 

and yet your heavenly

Father feeds them.

 

 

Are you not much more

valuable than they?

 

 

Who of you by worrying can

add a single hour to his life? 

 

 

And why do you worry

about clothes?

 

 

See how the lilies of

the field grow.

 

 

They do not labor or spin.

 

 

 

Yet I tell you that not even

Solomon in all his splendor

was dressed like one of these.

 

 

 

If that is how God clothes

the grass of the field,

which is here today

 

 

and tomorrow is thrown

into the fire, will he not

much more clothe you,

O you of little faith?

 

 

So do not worry, saying,

'What shall we eat?'

or 'What shall we drink?'

or 'What shall we wear?’

 

 

For the pagans run after

all these things,

 

 

and your heavenly Father

knows that you need them.

 

 

But seek first his kingdom

and his righteousness,

and all these things will be

given to you as well.

 

 

Therefore do not worry

about tomorrow,

 

 

for tomorrow will worry

about itself.

 

 

Each day has enough

trouble of its own.”

(Matt 6:25-34)

 

 

 

 

Amen

 

 

2022/05/30

 

/ By Priscilla