These are tough questions but we need to consider them if we want to move in the flow of God’s best for our lives.

So today I want to show you some particular events in scripture to help us to see how we may need to change

First I want to suggest you read Numbers 13:1-25

In verse 2 of this narrative we see what God says to Moses to tell the spies going into the promised land. God is very specific in His words and tells Moses to spy out the land He is giving to the children of Israel.
In verses 17-20 Moses sends out the spies asking them to report on the land according to God’s word
In verse 27-29 they reported back as Moses had asked.
Then in verse 31 they make a statement not based on what God or Moses had said but on their old Egyptian mindset that the people were strong and huge so therefore they could not go in. They gave a bad report on this basis

When I read this passage preaching the Lord spoke to me.

God said “I never asked them to report on their ability to take it. I had already said the land was theirs”. Indeed He had said this in verse 2.

God will always speak the word based on what is already ours.He does not always speak of the circumstances that may get in the way or our feelings about it. In His eyes it was already a done deal.
However the 10 spies interpreted this in their mind rather than just noting it and trusting God and the word He had spoken

Yes, it would require faith to take hold of the promise and that required a change in their thinking. But for the 10 fear took over.

God does not say question it, analyze it,  just do it

Joshua and Caleb had already changed their thinking Their mindset was aligned to God and what He could do knowing what He had already done

However because the mind and voice of the 10 outweighed the 2 they did not go in. God knew that would happen time and time again with the majority of the people and they would be defeated if they went in to the land because in their mind it was impossible. So they had to wander round for 40 years what was in reality an 11 day journey until all those with that mindset had died.

It is interesting that the 10 based their report only on what they saw. However they did not have the whole picture of what was going on that God had. We can see what was really happening by looking at Joshua 2:9-11

What Rahab reported was that as soon as they heard about the Red sea crossing all the strength of the people in the land was gone. In effect they had spent 40 years in fear of what God was going to do through the Israelites.
The spies knew nothing of that. But God knew.

I want to ask you today. Has God been encouraging you to do something? Has something been on your heart to step out into? However are you holding back because circumstances do not look favourable in the natural? Does it seem like there will be opposition?

What this passage shows is you cannot necessarily trust the rumours and you need to change your mindset to what God is saying. It involves aligning your thoughts to kingdom thinking.

With God all things are possible. We have to rise up and see what God does.

Let me give you an example from the life of Jesus working with the disciples

Take a look at a familiar passage in Mark 6:35-44 and the feeding of the five thousand

We can pick up here on a comparison between natural and immediate thinking and eternal and kingdom thinking.

The disciples approach the problem that Jesus posed on feeding the multitude with natural worldly sight mentality.
First they think about what they can do based on money they already have, which is not enough
Then they base it on what someone else has 5 loaves 2 fish from a little boy.

Now take hold of what Jesus did. He based His reaction on what God has and what kingdom blessing by faith was able to do.
He had a different mindset linked in to his Father and what heaven could supply and so a miracle flowed.

That is a powerful thing for us to reflect on. Perhaps it enables us to see what our mindset has caught us in and held us in for years. The big question is can we change our mindset to align with His word so we can achieve all that is in God’s heart for our lives?