Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
February 23, 2024: SOAP #5195: Numbers 12-13; Psalm 90; Mark 2

SCRIPTURE:  What the 10 spies led the Israelites to believe about Canaan:  Numbers (NIV) 13:32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
What the people in Canaan believed about the Israelites:  Joshua (NIV) 2:9  [the lady who hid the spies] and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. 10 We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11 When we heard of it, our hearts sank and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

OBSERVATION:  It seems that the Canaanites had a greater awareness of Israel’s God than did Israel!   And Israel had just been delivered from Egypt by God’s hand in the 10 Plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea!  But now they doubted that God would give them His Promised Land.  

APPLICATION:  We can never rely on past experiences to keep our faith alive and active.  No matter how powerful our past experiences with God are, they have a common flaw.  They are past.  God wants us to have an up-to-date, current relationship with Him.  More than a great testimony from the past, God wants each of us to have a current experience that we are in the process of living. 

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, help me have a clear picture of what God is currently doing in my life.  May I rejoice in past victories, but even more, may I rejoice in that you are still working in my life.  There are still things that I can do for you!  Amen

Pastor Leon
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Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
February 23, 2024: SOAP #5195: Numbers 12-13; Psalm 90; Mark 2

SCRIPTURE:  What the 10 spies led the Israelites to believe about Canaan:  Numbers (NIV) 13:32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
What the people in Canaan believed about the Israelites:  Joshua (NIV) 2:9  [the lady who hid the spies] and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. 10 We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11 When we heard of it, our hearts sank and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

OBSERVATION:  It seems that the Canaanites had a greater awareness of Israel’s God than did Israel!   And Israel had just been delivered from Egypt by God’s hand in the 10 Plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea!  But now they doubted that God would give them His Promised Land.  

APPLICATION:  We can never rely on past experiences to keep our faith alive and active.  No matter how powerful our past experiences with God are, they have a common flaw.  They are past.  God wants us to have an up-to-date, current relationship with Him.  More than a great testimony from the past, God wants each of us to have a current experience that we are in the process of living. 

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, help me have a clear picture of what God is currently doing in my life.  May I rejoice in past victories, but even more, may I rejoice in that you are still working in my life.  There are still things that I can do for you!  Amen

Pastor Leon
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