June 7th 2020 Sermon Notes:

Speaker: Apostle Lucille Baird Theme: Giants or Grasshoppers Part 1 Text: Numbers 13:23-33

23 When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,[a] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there. 25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

They returned, they returned

26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

Despite who they say Calab said let us go up, we are well able
The language of the giant is ‘we can do it’
The language of the grasshopper is ‘we can’t do it’
The language of the giant is ‘I don’t care the size of the problem we see the size of God’
The language of the grasshopper is ‘they are bigger and stronger than us’
The language of the giant is ‘we are going up’
The language of the grasshopper is ‘we can’t go up’

31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

They saw themselves as a grasshopper. God had made a promise to the Israelite and when God says He is going to do it for you He is able and He will do it He is a promise keeper, He is a covenant keeper. The land of Cannan was given to the Israelites. They were going in as victors, they went into the battle that was already won. Start speaking to your mountain, if He says it I believe it and it will be.
The church of God are not grasshoppers our Giant died on the cross to make us giants.
When God gives you something you have to do something, you have to start checking out the situation the land etc.
Look at the grace of God on our lives, tell the devil I have looked back and seen what God has done for me in the past, the big grapes that He gave me in the past, and if He did it in the past He will do it in the future.
The word impossible is not in the mouth of a giant only a grasshopper.
Grasshoppers only life for a year, they are not born with their wings, they cannot take cold temperature
But giants can live in any temperature.
Grasshoppers do a lot of hopping, when you see people hopping, from one place to another that is the grasshopper spirit, but giants refuse to hop around in their belief and ideas.
Grasshoppers change their mind they are fickle hopping here and there, but giants don’t change their mind.

Out of 12 persons that went into the land but only 2 people had a positive report, they all saw the grapes but only two believed. The grasshoppers outnumbered the giants.

Keep your eyes on Jesus , listen to what God is saying to you.
If God has called you to it He will see you through it. Giants listen to the voice of God.

The giants see victory, they see great things happening,
Giants are motivators, they know they can do it
Grasshoppers discourage, giants are encouragers
Grasshoppers give bad reports, giants give good reports.
Grasshoppers are fearful but giants are fearless.