“Finally”

[As I was preparing for today’s write-up, I pondered, “what’s today’s song??” Know what I got back..Cece Peniston “Finally”]🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

fi·nal·ly

adverb

1. after a long time, typically involving difficulty or delay.

Joshua 14 tells us about how Caleb makes a request for Joshua to honor the promise made between GOD and Moses that he and his people would get a specific part of the land and a reward for obeying and believing GOD when they were sent to spy out the land. He says it’s been 45 YEARS since the promise was made!

A reoccurring word(s) I’ve heard more and more recently has been: Put GOD in remembrance & [finally] it came to pass.

Now with the first about reminding GOD, I kinda struggled with. Why would I have to remind GOD about something He told me would happen?? Tbh I’m still working on fully embracing it, but I have come to understand that the reminding is mostly for us. “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind.” That’s Numbers 23:19 [these are the words Balaam - prophet for hire spoke to Balak! We just talked about these two yesterday, this is how intentional the Holy Spirit is when He speaks to us!🙌🏾] In other words the reminder is to is let us know if GOD said it, we’re gonna see it, as long as we remain obedient and remain firm in our faith in Him & His Word.

Speaking of obedience, it says that Joshua blessed him and gave the inheritance to Caleb “because he followed the Lord, GOD of Israel, completely”. Caleb was able to request (really it sounded like he demanded it, “so now, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke that day..”) because he knew he had been faithful with everything GOD said. So what’s the key to unlocking the promise(s) of GOD?? Simple: complete obedience!

𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴. 𝘈𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘢, 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 (𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘴). 𝘐𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘴, 𝘎𝘖𝘋 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 “𝘐 𝘈𝘮” 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. “𝘐 𝘈𝘮” 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 “𝘩ā𝘺á” 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴, “𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴”! 𝘎𝘖𝘋’𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚!✨🙌🏾