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Faith Sees What Fear Cannot

Numbers 13-14

In this message, Pastor Marcio opens the account of the twelve spies in Numbers 13. Ten of them came back afraid of the giants in the land. Only Caleb and Joshua came back believing the promise. His point is simple and searching: faith lets us see what fear cannot.

The message in brief

Every promise of God comes with a process, and every process has its difficulties. The ten spies saw only the problems. Caleb and Joshua saw the fruit God had already promised, and they were ready to go up.

Pastor Marcio tells stories from his own years of ministry and church planting. An uncle and a cousin who shared the same truck but not the same vision. A man who planned a large home and then shrank it to a single room. A woman who asked to be baptized before she knew the doctrine, and who went on to lead evangelism for twenty-six years. The thread through all of them is the same: God is not small, so do not bring Him a small plan.

He is honest that faith costs something. To step out is to risk. But, as he puts it, the defeated are those who never try. When we move, God moves with us.

Take it with you

  • Faith sees opportunity where fear sees only obstacles.
  • Do not shrink your plans to fit your fear. God is able to provide for what He has placed in your heart.
  • Take the step. God moves with those who move.
  • The real question is not whether the giants are there. It is whether you will believe the promise or the problem.

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