Are You 'Well Able'?

²⁹The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

³⁰And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

³¹But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. (Numbers 13:29-31, King James Version)

Are you 'well able'? Do you believe that despite the imposition of your enemies, life circumstances, or previous failures that are 'well able'? If not, begin today.

Consider the scriptures from Numbers 13:29-31. It indicates in verse 29 that the young nation of Israel was surrounded by enemies. In this kind of situation, most people will consider, if not, give up and surrender to their enemies hoping for mercy.

Instead Caleb, one of the solider spies Moses sent out to spy on the land God had promised the Israelites, calmed the people's troubled hearts and told his leader Moses that they (the children of God) are "well able" to overcome their surrounding enemies and posses the land.

This is the attitude we must have to face life's challenges: we are well able to overcome! Sure, it's hard a is likely impossible. Nothing is in your favor and odds are you will lose. But somewhere along this life's journey I read in I John 4:4 that:

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4, King James Version)

So see my friends, we must remember and believe who we and who's we are, against all odds, and that God can and through His divine grace will deliver us.

Verse 31 in Numbers 13 reflects what many of those who surround you feel. The men in verse 31 told Moses "...we are NOT able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." As my wife has taught me, a situation can be what you say and/or think it is. If you believe it's impossible, it likely is impossible. If you feel weak or inferior, you will be weak and inferior.

Caleb believed in the promise of God taught to him by Moses, a prophet/leader of God for the young nation of Israel. Because of Caleb's faith, he was rewarded the privilege of entering into the promise land later on while the others who did not believe in God's word died in the wilderness.

²⁹Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

³⁰Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³¹But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. (Numbers 14:29-31, King James Version)

Don't die in the wilderness of life. Make it to the promise land. Fight to believe against all odds. God has allowed us another chance to escape death in the wilderness by His grace and mercy.

Remember:

²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

³¹But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:29-31, King James Version)

We are 'well able' to possess all that God says we can and do all that God says we can do. Stand in faith and hold on.