Worth Waiting On Joshua 14: 10-14

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V.10 1. The age of the believer or the time of trusting neither imperil the promise

of God.

(and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.)

v.10 2. The believer who is armed with God’s truth is sufficiently armed.

v.11 3. Disappointments are properly sealed in the abundant mercies of God.

(As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my

strength was then, even so is my strength now,)

v.11 4. That which is given of God is sustained by God.

(as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,)

v.11 5. With God there is no doing without; God provides what is needed, fully.

(I am this day fourscore and five years old.)

(is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.)

Caleb could still go to war if needed.  While he waited on the promises of

God, God sustained him in every way.

v.12 6. The promise of God never loses its content or worth with the passage of

time; its basis is still the same, believing God.

(Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; how

the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the

Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.)

v.13, 7. The wait ends in God’s time; His promises are true and possessable and

   14 genuinely rewarding.

(And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for

an inheritance.)

(Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the

Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed  the Lord God of Israel.)