About this episode

This episode discusses the tension between wanting God's promises and the fear of obstacles, using the biblical account from Numbers 13 as a reference.

Send us Fan Mail God can show us the promised land and we still hesitate on the edge. That tension is the heartbeat of this message: we want the promise, but we keep replaying the obstacles. We’re sitting in Numbers 13, where the spies see a land overflowing with fruit and still come back overwhelmed by giants. It’s a painfully familiar picture of what happens when fear becomes the loudest voice in our head. We talk about what a “bad report” looks like today: focusing on everything that coul...

People in this episode

Host: Colette Marie

Topics covered

• faith
• overcoming fear
• spiritual growth
• promises of God
• obstacles
• Christianity

Keywords

• God
• fear
• obstacles
• promised land
• spirituality
• faith
• bad report

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Numbers 13

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