Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
March 22, 2022: SOAP #4492:  Joshua 12-14; 1Corinthians 7

SCRIPTURE:  Joshua (NIV) 14:9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’ [Deut. 1:36] 10 “Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 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. 12 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.”

OBSERVATION: It had been 45 years since Caleb received from Moses the promise of this special piece of land.  He had held that promise in his heart.  It was too special to forget.  It was more than a promise from Moses—it was a promise that the LORD gave Caleb!   

Verse 10: “Now then…”  Verse 12: “Now give me…”  It was time; and Caleb was making his claim.  It would not be easy, but the Promise Maker was a Promise Keeper and He wanted Caleb to have that land enough to be Caleb’s HELPER!!!  

APPLICATION:  Like Caleb, I have found that my Promise MAKER is also my Promise KEEPER!   I have also found that He is even more committed to fulfilling those promises than I am to receive them…so my Promise MAKER/KEEPER becomes Leon’s HELPER!  

PRAYER:  Lord, you have a plan.  You are working to fulfill that plan.  You want me to succeed in fulfilling my part of your plan.  More than keeping the promised you made, you are helping me establish those promises in my life.  Amen

Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!   
On Facebook:  Today’s SOAP from Pastor Leon