CHILDREN WHO HAVE "ANOTHER SPIRIT".

This is my favorite point of all. We are not training children to conform to this world. We are raising children who are set apart for God’s service. Let’s look at the story of Caleb.

Caleb was one of the 12 spies who was chosen to go in and check out the land of Caanan. Ten of the spies brought back a negative report. Only Caleb and Joshua believed that they could face the giants and the walled cities. While the others gave in to the problems that they saw, Caleb stilled the people and said, "Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it…..neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not." Numbers 13:30-33; Numbers 14:6-10.

God was so upset with the lack of faith of the other ten spies and the rest of the children of Israel who believed their unbelieving report, that He said that not one of them would go in to see the promised land, "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirithath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." Numbers 14:24, with him, and Forty-five years later, after every one of those people had died in the wilderness, they come to the Promised Land.

Caleb is chafing at the bit. He has been waiting for 45 years to get into this land. Let’s feel his spirit as we read the account in Joshua 14:6-15. "Lo, I am this day 85 years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims (giants) were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said."

Do you get the picture of this man? He was ready for war! He was ready to tackle the mountain! He was ready to face the giants! He had "another spirit". He was different to everyone else. These are the kind of children we are to prepare for the Lord’s army. These are the children who will come forth from our homes, sharpened, polished, and trained and ready to bring godly change in the nation.

Oh mother, what a mighty task you have. God has commissioned you. It is your divine calling. While you train and disciple your children for God in the seclusion of your home, you are actually determining the destiny of the nation. You are shaping the future. You are cooperating with God to fulfil His purposes in these last days. Don’t despise your calling. Give it everything you’ve got.

HOW WILL YOU DO IT?

By God’s grace, His wisdom, His anointing, and His strength.

Don’t trust in your own resources.

Trust in His unfailing inexhaustible

resources that never run out.

Love from NANCY CAMPBELL, Above Rubies, PO Box 681687, Franklin, TN 37068

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