Your FAITH needs to EAT! (so that it can grow) -Pastor Jerry McKinney

FEED YOUR FAITH

Hebrews 3:19 (GNB) – We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land (promise land),

because they did not believe.

Exodus 6:6–8 (NLT) – “‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from

your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will claim

you as my own people, and I will be your God… 8 I will bring you into the land I swore to give to

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the Lord!’ ”

1. Delivered from Egypt…bondage & oppression

2. Red Sea…baptized…old life is dead…new beginning

3. Cloud by day…Fire by night…..Presence of God with them

4. Manna…miracle provision…daily dependence

5. Mt Sinai… place of instruction & preparation for the Promise Land

Exodus 23:20,27 (NIV) – See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to

bring you to the place I have prepared. 27 I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion

every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.

Exodus 33:14 (NCV) – “I myself will go with you, and I will give you victory.”

6. Kadesh…entrance to Promise Land

10 Spies Report – the promise land is amazing…..BUT!!!

Numbers 13:27–29 (NLT) – This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to

explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of

fruit it produces. 28 But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We

even saw giants there… 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites

live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast …”

Caleb – speaks in faith

Numbers 13:30 (NLT) – But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at

once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”

10 Spies – speak in unbelief

Numbers 13:31–33 (NLT) – But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We

can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” 32 So they spread this bad report about

the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who

goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. 33 We even saw giants there…Next to them we

felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”

(NKJV) – we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

2 Corinthians‬

Unbelief speaks – “we are going to die and God doesn’t care”

Numbers 14:1–4 (NLT) – Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2

Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt,

or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. 3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to

have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better

for us to return to Egypt?” 4 Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go

back to Egypt!”

Faith speaks - “God is with us, we can take the land”

Numbers 14:6–9 (NLT) – Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb

son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing. 7 They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled

through and explored is a wonderful land! 8 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely

into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey. 9 Do not rebel against the

Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no

protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”

Results of Faith & Unbelief

 Unbelief Results – Entire generation did not enter promise land

 Faith Results – Only Joshua & Caleb entered Promise Land

Romans 10:17 (NKJV) - faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Hebrews 4:2 (NASB) – but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united

with those who listened with faith.

Hebrews 2:1 (TPT) - it is so crucial that we be all the more engaged and attentive to the truths that

we have heard so that we do not drift off course.

Hebrews 3:12 (NKJV) – Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in

departing from the living God.

Romans‬

Living by faith - simply believing what God said in his word…speaking it & acting o