Jan 13,
“NO TURNING BACK, I’M GONNA FIGHT UNTIL I DIE IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD”
Luke 9:23-25 “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?
My friends lets go to Joshua 14:10-13 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, BECAUSE YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE LORD MY GOD FULLY.
Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I AM EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY.
I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in. Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out as the Lord has spoken.”
The voice of Caleb, such faith my friends we all should acquire, and I have no doubt this had been His attitude from His youth, as a slave in Egypt being taught by his parents about the only true God, and the battle between good and evil and the ARMOR of GOD needed to win each battle throughout his life, for his attitude was forever “NO TURNING BACK, I’M GONNA FIGHT UNTIL I DIE IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD.”
My friends a true WARRIOR and DISCIPLE of the LIVING GOD, and now at 85 his PASSION to continue the battle against the forces of evil never cease because he knew the power of his God. Because he witnessed the plagues in Egypt.
I’m sure it was his hands that took the blood of a Lamb, which represented the blood of our Savior that would one day 
die on the cross for the sins of all mankind and placed it over the door of his home Passover night, he was eye witness to Pharaoh’s army being consumed by the same red sea that his God had parted for His Children to walk across.
He walk along the path in the wilderness being lead by his God by a pillow of cloud by day and a cloud of fire by night. My friends it was Caleb who “quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”
This was the speech Caleb had made forty years earlier as he looked back over the Journey from Egypt, not forgetting the power of God’s WORD and SPIRIT that had lead them, OH WHAT FAITH. And now back at the threshold of the promise land at eighty five, and his FAITH, and PASSION for God, and what he will do for HIS FAITHFUL CHILDREN never wavered.
Yes my friends a true DISCIPLE, and SOLDIER in the Army of GOD. How easily it would have been to let Satan discourage him forty years earlier. BUT HIS FOCUSED REMAINED. HIS MISSION STATEMENT WAS SOLID “I’M A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD, “NO TURNING BACK, I’M GONNA FIGHT UNTIL I DIE IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD”, I WILL ONE DAY CROSS OVER INTO THE PROMISE LAND.
My friends God’s WORD is “inspired by God and profitable for TEACHING, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for TRAINING in RIGHTEOUSNESS; so that the man of God may be ADEQUATE, EQUIPPED for every GOOD WORK.”2 Tim. 3:16-17
OUR FAITH, GOD”S, WORD, and a willingness to allow the SPIRIT to TRANSFORM our CHARACTER into the LIKENESS of CHRIST while ENDURING until THE BATTLE IS OVER AND WE CAN CROSS OVER INTO THE PROMISE LAND is the only thing that will make a Caleb out of us. Age is irreverent my friends, only our commitment to Christ. So remain Focus on God’s PROMISES, VICTORY, and ETERNAL LIFE as you tell yourself “NO TURNING BACK, I’M GONNA FIGHT UNTIL I DIE IN THE ARMY OF THE LORD”
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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