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     Guaranteed success?--Who does not want to walk into every meeting, event, date, relationship, etc with the mindset of "I KNOW I've got this!"      For this post success is defined as the "accomplishment of a purpose" (Google) and I would suggest "the accomplishment of His purpose."      I have recently been meditating on Numbers 13 & 14.  The quick context is God is about to take the Children of Israel into His promise.  They had been victorious over slavery and were beginning to find their freedom.  They were experiencing a physical manifestation of God's leading with the pillar of fire and cloud.  Now, God was positioning them to fully embrace His promise of the land.  The spies came back with a bad report, with the exception of two, that accentuated all the reasons why the people would not be successful in this venture.      Then Caleb speaks up, "Do not rebel against the Lord! You should...

     This week I was re-reading through the book of Joshua. The message that stood out to me during this challenging and hectic new chapter I am currently living is-- "Joshua conquered...because the Lord God of Israel was waging war..." (Josh. 10:42). God was the one fighting the battles for Joshua and the nation.  At the same time, make no mistake, Joshua and the people had to use their weapons of warfare, strategy, and intentional walking by faith in the will of God in order to achieve what God intended.  There was no "rely and relax" kind of faith.      This week when I confronted situations that initially instigated fear, the Spirit continued to bring this message of God waging war on my behalf, just like He did for the nation of Israel, to mind. This renewed mindset in turn disabled the paralysis of fear and awakened the "fight" in my soul.  This message girded me with such a resolve to aggressively confront and defeat the things that s...