Tuesday

Related Verses
Num. 14:9
9 Only do not rebel against Jehovah, nor should you fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has been removed from them, and Jehovah is with us; do not fear them.

2 Cor. 4:13
13 And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,

2 Cor. 3:16
16 But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

2 Cor. 1:20
20 For as many promises of God as there are, in Him is the Yes; therefore also through Him is the Amen to God, for glory through us to God.

Josh. 14:12-15
12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.
13 So Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
14 Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel.
15 And the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. (This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.

Num. 13:30
30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Related Reading
We are strong enough—not in ourselves but in Him; not in the flesh but in the Spirit. We will make it in the Spirit…Never think that you are too young. Yesterday you were too young, but not today. Believe with full assurance of faith. Christ is in you. You have been united with the almighty God. Day by day His Spirit transmits into you all that God is and all that God has. He will make it for you. As long as you maintain your fellowship with Him, you will be able to enter the land.

There will be some battles to be fought. But the battle is for the enemy; to you it will be a rest. The battle is a defeat to him but bread to you [Num. 14:9]…Daily manna is not good enough…The enemy will be our food, and to swallow him will be our satisfaction…You and I must have living faith to go on, to take up the battle, and to swallow the enemy…The defeated enemy is the best bread, the most tasteful bread. (CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” p. 329)

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Every time you meet a difficulty, every time you find yourself in an impossible situation, ask yourself this question: Am I going to starve here, or am I going to eat? If you are relying on the Lord for victory and allow His overcoming life to be manifested in you, you will find fresh nourishment and increased vitality, and you will be fed once again…Our bread is not only the word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also the Anakim—the difficulties that are in our way. Many people take the word of God as their bread and the doing of His will as their meat, but they have not eaten the Anakim…The more we eat the Anakim, the stronger we will become. Caleb is a grand illustration of this. Because he accepted the Anakim as “bread,”…his strength was the same at eighty-five as it was at forty…This is also true in the spiritual realm. Some brothers and sisters have met few difficulties, but it is obvious that there are many weaknesses in their lives. They are weak before the Lord because they have not consumed enough Anakim…Every difficulty and every temptation Satan puts in our way is food for us. This is a God-appointed means of spiritual progress. The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, “Here comes my food!” Praise and thank the Lord, all our trials, without exception, are bread for us. Every trial brings in growth after we have eaten of it.

In order to experience His salvation, and in order to have His keeping power, we must believe wholeheartedly in His promises…We must believe in God’s keeping power. Every morning when we rise we should say to Him, “God, I thank You for keeping me yesterday, and today You will still keep me. I do not know what temptations may befall me, and I do not know how I can overcome. I cannot do anything; but I believe You will keep me.”

If your life is truly in His hands, then the promise of Jude 24—“to guard you from stumbling and to set you before His glory without blemish in exultation”—will be fulfilled in you. To stumble is to slip and strike against something when we are unconscious of any obstruction in the way. Praise God, He will preserve us not only from falling but also from the slightest slippage…If we trust in His promises and commit ourselves utterly to Him, we will be kept from this day to the day of His return, and we will be kept without blemish. Thank God, we have a salvation which is worthy of our trust and which will withstand every trial. (Watchman Nee, God’s Keeping Power, pp. 6-8, 10-11)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1961-1962, vol. 4, “The All-inclusive Christ,” ch. 13; Watchman Nee, God’s Keeping Power (booklet)