Little by Little [Part 1]

Calibri using pastor Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless God with many, many spiritual battles for us by confusing the enemy excited for you to hear the teaching today.

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A land that he will most certainly give to them, but that will see he gives to them little by little Exodus chapter 23 verse 27. I will send my terrible for you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come and make all your enemies turn their backs to you and I'll send a harness before you which shall drive out to him eyes the Canaanites and the Hittites from before you. I will not drive them out from before you, and one year or less.

The land become desolate, and the wild beasts multiply against you little by little, I will drive them out from before you until you have increased and possess the land and I will set your border from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand and you shall drive them out before you, so huge promise I will drive them out and I'll do it little by little thing that would make little little later we all would like to live his life or not be, little by little. Would you like our successes that come playing. That's where my wants to win the lottery one gazillion chance that you could win the lottery I write a lot the way I will get my life going 1978, a trio of research and Western University and University of mass.

This is a very interesting they did a huge study in which they interviewed lottery winners Illinois state lottery winners and the also interviewed victims of recent accidents that left them paraplegic or even quadriplegic and astoundingly, they essentially found that the accident victims, many of them were by many standard happier than those it won the lottery. That's a stamp, especially when it came from reporting happiness about everyday pleasures like having a good talk with a friend or laughing at a good joke or just receiving a compliment so many stories you've heard before, Jack Whitaker, the West Virginia man.

He won the million $315 million in the Powerball jackpot West Virginia back in 2002. The first gave millions away to charity and set the foundation thing like things are going well, but then it is just hard headed south former briefcase with over 1/2 million dollars in cash and cashiers check was taken from his call. While it was parked outside of a strip club's office is home broken into the was arrested twice for drunk driving. His granddaughter died under suspicious circumstances and about 2007. It spent almost all the money and he told reporters that year. Quote I wish I'd torn that ticket up to Lord gave the Israelites a promise they would be given the land.

It was their inheritance. It was being occupied by enemies and it was their land and I was going to give it to them and he was going to make the way possible and they were deathly going to conquer. They would win by the would not be given to them in a day or even a year it would come battle after battle step after step, day after day, year after year promised land comes little by little, and I think this is a really important principle for anybody that wants to discover the power persevering religion you have in your mind that you all at one time is very very frustrating when it not happen that way and it sets false expectation and it also can make us idolize the sudden victory. I want to talk today about why God gives a promised land. Little by little instant success usually isn't good and want taken the land. Little by little is God's very best plan so his idea of the promise of God is like a vision like a faith statement of reality that comes from the very inmost nature of God is his word is so attached to his own assets. That is like when he sends his word.

He sent himself and his word is full of his own breath or spirit same same way my words right now are full of my breath.

God's will is his spirit infused and so his word to you is utterly 100% reliable and he gives words and gives promises and gives pictures of promised land and and promises that that's what you're going to have any make huge promises also about how much this battle belongs to him. So the vision is given upfront, but the Prague harass towards the completion of it is almost always incremental look again here.

Verse 27. I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I'll make all your enemies turn their backs to you and I will send hornets before you, so God will be the victory. I will do this and he's going to do this in here some lessons for spiritual warfare, at least in these ways he's going to send his terror before us. He is also and he has ways of showing himself to be God and you can count on that is not your own mind.

It is his that will defeat the enemy and throw into confusion all the people just unusual, so come back to that later but just keep that in mind, God wins many, many spiritual battles for us by confusing the enemy.

I think that we give far too much to the devil and forget who the devil is just a creature with limited understanding, and God is all wise and you put the God and the devil into the same chess match and there's no contest. The one who can see the future, knows all things always always wins and a promise is that I will make your enemies turn their backs to you, which means that there turn and flee at some point so there's your principles for spiritual warfare. God is mighty and he'll show himself to be that and in some point he brings confusion to the enemy and when we stand and resist eventually double place right will have more teaching moment from today's important series.

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We are happy to send this to you as I thanked him. Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and got work. Today's teaching now continues your once again is Alan writing James chapter 4 says this, he gives more grace. Therefore says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. To those that know how much they need God. That's that's humility who saw the Lord and know how much they need God humble. Then there's lots of grace that comes in other words, what what happens. Our pride when we think we don't need God that we don't hunger for God and so you don't receive from God. He says in verse seven of James four. Submit yourselves therefore to God. That is, trust him, worship him yield to his good plan, and resist the devil, that is just continue to persevere without giving up or giving in to the temptation and he will flee from you. This is this is the most important spiritual warfare principle. You could ever know Hal has limited resources and when the temptation is not working against you because too much time is going by your persevere in and you're just standing that eventually those resources are going elsewhere. The devil will flee from you.

We don't run from him.

He runs from us, he'll turn his back and that's the way the spiritual work so that the hornet reference it might be literal. There are some ancient references to place of hornets or Beazer wasp, but probably it is referring to armies in this case maybe Egyptian armies that had preceded the Israelite armies into Canaan and battered them.

Isaiah 7 verse 18 probably gives us a hint of that in that day. The prophet is proclaiming the world, the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt and for the BD that is in the land of Assyria is clearly references not to literal flyer be, but to the armies of those lands is one of things. What happened is before the Israelites ever got to Canaan that a lot of the Canaanite armies had been weakened by proceeding armies, especially the Egyptian armies that have been through the probably what is talking about verse 29. Again, I will not drive them out from before you in one year.

Little by little.

I'll drive them out before you until you have increased and possessed the land every instant success story that you might never think it was an overnight success. If you really go back and read the story in the true. It was a little by little we love the trophy moment and we don't pay much attention to the pathway to get there. I wish somebody had really drilled this into me when I was very young, little by little, because the quest for instant success. Shortcut to glory, grab the trophy without all of the incremental progress.

It not only doesn't work, but it usually leads us down a path that does the opposite waiting for Islam when I was only a moment where I will be able to weave in the illustration and now and now it comes basketball fans. How about Baylor Bears, mala Mayor, so our son Bennett went to mail and I remember I remember very well. We first begin even consider it because I'm thinking you know my whole school way and by the week, we began to notice Baylor and and and then began augmenting out of a really good academic scholarship and got my attention and and then we snarling as realize it was a Christian school is a Christian school. Not all the students are Christian, but by the faculty of description and we got really interested in it and started thinking little bit about about Baylor way out there in Waco, Texas well while we were thinking about at the end of December 2012 and I that same week got together with a friend I hadn't seen a pastor friend. I had met with literally years we had breakfast together caught and enjoyed our breakfast together, and as we were saying goodbye to each other as an opening talk about her kids. How is your daughter doing is gracious and I'm not in right now. So Waco what he said yes and finished her first semester Baylor as a way to think about that you call recently that we coffee and everything since I good it makes the you know our son were drop them off in Waco Texas now while we were considering and looking at Baylor one night where men are just flipping through the sports channels looking some lot and there is Baylor playing basketball. I look at their basketball heaven, you know, I mean we've grown grown-up here. We got Jim Duncan and Chris Paul grew up watching all the way can stay mean and we all have it around here. They know they played basketball Texas nightlife. We saw on TV is a minute I even got to see him play basketball sometime after we get to know we can watch it on Christian school and while Bennett was there. The football team was a crazy man to me there's a couple years that football that you in the top 10 editing of the playoffs and it was crazy really was a basketball time even getting people to go to ball games and I went to some of the ballgame. Sometimes it is this you know half empty and there and everything, but I mean, but this coach Scott Drew disk which in 2003, Baylor was looking for a new coach because they had just experienced one of the worst scandals in sports history. I mean just got put out there bluntly, a basketball player on Baylor see hidden murdered another teammate and one of the coaches was involved in a cover-up of the thing.

It was there was talk about Baylor suggest everyone play basketball again and nobody wanted to to go well. They start looking for new coach and president Sloan and others started traveling around interviewing some coaches and then went to Chicago to interview a 32-year-old man named Scott Drew and was fascinating is that when they met him at the airport. Drew had reserved a room at Chicago's Midway Airport and instead of a few chairs set up for an interview he had green and gold balloons and green and gold cr�pe paper all spread around president Sloan said it looked more like a pep rally, then interview room and there were tables listen to this. There were tables set out there and on the tables were mock front pages of newspapers that Drew had drawn up that said things like Baylor Bears in the final four people thought Scott Drew was crazy to even want to come by.

They were drawn to his faith in this 32-year-old came to be the coach and his opening press conference. You want to watch it sometime this young man is come into the scandalize program and says I haven't, just with the hope that we could make the NCAA tournament. I've come with belief that we could get to final fours and win a national championship that was 18 years ago.

He said, but is going to take some time. You know you say and I see a promised land. When you get there little by little Baylor had some self-imposed restrictions after the scandal. The NCAA came two years later, put some restrictions on president. They were allowed to play nonconference games for a while. They only had six scholarship athletes coach Drew said one night he and assistant coach were at an Italian restaurant in Waco is the season was beginning and looked over and saw a tall boy and I saw a very tall boy having some pretty at the restaurant, no tryout, no nothing.

Just needed some to play right in today's good news message is titled little by little the series 2nd wind asked rail his back with his in the studio shearing is sporting good news thought for the day. In just a moment with us down/heard about it with your ears, you believed in mind while experiencing hybrid Allen writes the left but never of myself as a love story from beginning to and spiritual bride of Christ, the perfect bike. The Bible tells about his time in March of the links to walk with me hand-in-hand for any man who is found. Remember, the woman tasted the sweetness but God's love for you is site for any woman who asserts for 25 inches long for can only be found fully in God Gary Chapman Amar Dr. the five love languages size incredible reality that God perceives us in life comes to my lover of myself. Ancient biblical accounts explode in the heart except Christ's proposal and showing his embrace of gravel in his love.

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But now it past rather than reporting good news thought for the day to take away the place to bookmark your and the stitch. I just can't think of anything more important for Christians at this season at this moment in history God has made a promise to us in Jesus Christ. God has issued its many wonderful assurances in his word. And just as he promised the people of God in Exodus, that he would give them the promised land. There is a principal in the heart of God because he's all wise and so kind that is, he told the people that were headed towards Canaan. I'm gonna give you the promised land but I'm not give it to y'all one time, I might give it to own a year, but I may give it to you little by little. There is a principal in life that issues from the very heart of God. And the sooner we can accept it, the better. And that is almost everything good from God that comes to us comes not instantly become step-by-step little by little, and I think Daniel that if we can just appreciate that it will encourage us it'll let us go hate don't despise the days of small beginning if you're just 1% further than you were yesterday. You are on the way God will give you your promised land. Little by little, you probably have some more steel in your spirit now than you did beforehand and you may not feel it yet but it's there and you may not feel like because you will have the whole promised land because you will have all of it yet drop making progress but you are God's taking you and it's okay if it's just 1% today and 1% tomorrow on the way, promised lands, the pilot thanks for listening today.

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