A Futile Invasion Attempt

well good morning good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions this where every weekday morning you and I we get together have a little bit of coffee getting God's word and we grow in our love for the Lord together in this year 2024 Lord willing you tell me Lord willing we're going to get through the books of Numbers Deuteronomy and he hey hey hey don't drink all my coffee boy we're well let's go ahead and have some coffee we'll pray and we'll get into God's word I'm drinking all my coffee boy can I have all of it no you may not Lord we thank you so much for this day we thank you for your word and we pray that you would please help us to understand your word we pray that your spirit would apply it to our lives we pray Lord that you would teach us to have faith and to walk before you in your ways in Jesus's name we pray amen all right so we are finishing up Numbers chapter 14 numbers 14 we'll start at verse 39 here let me get you to numbers 14 all right Genesis exell Leviticus numbers numbers 14 my NE and we'll pick up right here at the end of numbers 14 you see it all right how about you read verse 39 then Moses is told these WS to all the children of Israel and the people mned greatfully greatfully and they Rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain saying here we are and we will go up to the place which God has promised for we have sinned and Moses said now why do you transgress the commands of the Lord for this will not succeed do not go up L you be defeated by your enemies for Yahweh is not among you for the amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you and you shall fall by the sword because you have turned away from Jehovah and Yahweh will not be with you but they presume to go up to the mountain top nevertheless neither the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp then the amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountain came down and attacked them and drove them back as far as horma what do you think happens in that story God's not with him so that get thrown like bugs yeah right they try to repent on their own strength don't they mhm all right we've sinned so we're going to go take it by force force let's go boys but who's not going with them God Jes God and God the Lord the Lord's not going with them because the Lord can stop them yeah right the Lord told them no you're going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years but do they like that no they mour Wonder in the wilderness I know I know let's go conquer Canan Canan ourselves yeah why don't we and what does m say you're not going to do it you're not going to get it ain't going to work boys right no don't drink my coffee no it's not going to work and so they they ignore Moses the Lord doesn't go with them and what happens yeah they're defeated right away like like those people get the axes yeah get out of here yeah right and so doesn't go well for them does it go well for us when we don't want to obey the Lord you get spanked what if what if we're trying to do something that looks righteous but the Lord's not with us you you won't have enough strength to do it we won't have enough strength to do it yeah is the Lord going to let the good come out of it God needs God needs to give you courage to do it God needs to give us courage to do it courage and strength to do it yeah yeah right but more than just that he's got to be with us to do it right mhm yeah so we have to have faith but we also have to walk where the Lord tells us to walk you know I see people try to do this when they try to repent of sin they try to do it on their own strength and then guess what happens I can't yeah but did they try to do it God's way or their way their way well hey buddy I've tried to do this before right when we think oh I've listened to this great sermon it's like I'm really going to stop doing this today right can't yeah but we can't right we need the Lord to be with us we need to ask him to to lead us M okay you ready to pray yeah you want to pray or you want me to pray can I can pray okay let's pray God thank you so much that where you lead we can follow and father we pray that we would walk in your paths father please do not allow us to go off thinking we can do things on our own strength and in our own ways we pray that we would follow after you we pray that we would turn away from our sins by your strength we pray that we would be victorious not in our own strength but because our King goes before us so Lord please help us to have wisdom to know where to go that we may follow in your path we pray these things in Jesus's name amen well may the Lord bless you and keep you may you follow after Jesus Christ may you lean not on your own strength or understanding but may you trust in him for he is our strength and our Shield we'll see you next time bye you're silly thanks for listening to this week's message from God's word for you a Ministry of Sharon RP Church in rural Southeast Iowa we pray that the message would be used by God to transform your faith and your life this week if you'd like to get more information about us feel free to go to the website Sharon rc.org we'd love to invite you to worship with us our worship time is 10: a.m. every Sunday at 25204 160th Avenue Morning Sun Iowa 52640 may God richly bless you this [Music] week