Friday, 6 September 2013

Defeating Giants: Mental Giants

Num 13:33 "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

When God had already told the Israelites to enter thePromised Land after years of wandering, they were already at the verge of the promise coming to pass. The above scripture shows us the report on how the promise land was. Indeed it was filled with milk and honey, yet the minds of the people faced Giants. The two opponents matched together were were Israel and the Giants, the conclusion of the stronger contender was already decided. They were not there yet, they were not contesting but already they saw themselves as unworthy. The Problem was not the Giants in Canaan. The scripture says "We saw ourselves and so did they" In other words they introduced themselves as grasshoppers. The bible tells us, the news of how God took them out of Egypt reached every nation. Their God was feared but in the contest they named two opponents, Israel and Anak, they forgot that the battles are not theirs, there was an Ark carrying eternal presence.

The bible doesnt tell us if they asked the people of Canaan what they think of them. It was their own mindset. They saw the stature of the Giants and based their challenge on appearance. Child of God you may be facing situations and circumstances that look bigger than your paycheck, bigger than your understanding, bigger than your normal challenges. The children of Israel were champions of exoding(exiting) but they had no skill in entrances, the minds of those who saw themselves incapable became an obstacle at the door of the promise. Sometimes we stop praying and believing when our answer is at the tip of our noses because how we see the whole situation gives us our reality. We are creative children of a creative God. Whatever we speak and believed we shall conceive.

There was once a man who was prisoned for 50 years and in his 50th year they visited him. They knocked and he answered "I dont have a key" they told him to open he kept saying "im locked up", eventually he turneed the knob and it opened, for 45 years the door was left open, but he imprisoned himself because he saw himself locked, in his mind he was locked even when in reality he was set free.

The children of Israel had God on their side with all his power but the fear to step into what God promised was blocked by a mental Giant. Throughout the scripture we hear of the Israelites defeating people but theres no were they entered combat with a nation of Giants, because caleb and Joshua changed the view of the people. He said "Giants were? they are bread for us" then suddenly the Giants started to turn into loaves of bread in the minds of the people who eat daily bread.Defeating them would be our daily bread. New confidence sprung up in the camp, the nation was determined to give Anak and his children a hidding. Saints change your mind = change your world. Change your world =maker the rules and overcome any mountain! See it, talk it and step on it!