Chasing the Real Me (Week Two)
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
and be in health, even as thy . —3 John 1:2 (KJV)
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at
, but I on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I on toward to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. —Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV)
The LORD said to Moses, “
some men to the land of , which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.” —Numbers 13:1-2 (NIV)
When Moses sent them to
, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified? How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees on it or not? to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.) —Numbers 13:17-20 (NIV)
We
like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” —Numbers 13:33 (NIV)
What we think about ourselves (our identity) is more powerful than our concept of God.
Whenever a behavior or circumstance becomes part of your identity, you will keep that behavior in your life.
When you see yourself as weak and victimized you will submit to problems in your life and allow them to overtake you.
Change my
They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
Make
Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “
The plans of the
But the
Do not be misled: “Bad
I have to be willing to
And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we