Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

Today's post is from our friend Gina Goldston.

She draws strong prophetic insight from the life of the great warrior Caleb,

applying it to our nation today.

I know you will be encouraged by this teaching.

The title is, we've come too far to stop now.

In Joshua 14, having journeyed hard and long,

holding to a promise from God,

the people of Israel finally stood in the land for which they had

been striving. Their long journey had been marked by many experiences that proved God was with them

and fighting for them. Every step they took had been necessary to position them in that place at that moment.

Past obedience had contributed to their present reality. Their courageous leap of faith in following

the priests as they carried the ark of the covenant across the Jordan River,

followed by victories at Jericho and elsewhere, had placed them at a momentous juncture.

And Caleb recognized it.

The land that had once been just a dream was now tangible soil under their feet.

Though it was connected to a promise that had long eluded them,

they were there now, and this shifted everything.

It was a moment worthy of celebration, but also one that demanded a shift in focus.

They now needed a deeper resolve to carry on with God's will and intentions.

They had come a long way, but they were not finished.

God had made them a promise, and that promise was not just that they would take a portion of the land. It was that they would possess the entire land

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