Are you a conqueror?

I encourage you to read Numbers 13 and 14, if you are able.

In verse 2, Moses receives a message from God. "Send men to scout out the land of Canaan I am giving to the Israelites."

But starting in verse 27 we start to see human fear of the unknown begin to over shadow what God said. There are two different responses to the scouting party, I like to call them the Conqueror's and the Cowards.

The first thing that we see starting in verse 27 is that both groups saw the exact same thing.

• the good
• Both groups saw that the land was good for harvest
• the obstacles (verses 28-29)
• Both groups saw that the people were strong.
• The cities were large and fortified.
• The descendants of Anak, giants basically
• The Amalekites, Jebusites, Hittites, Amorites, and the Canaanites.

The greatest hindrances to church growth are not the problems of money, or direct opposition from unbelievers; the greatest hindrances has always been the cowards with their lack of faith, complaining, murmuring, sowing of discord, and dragging their feet.


The main difference between cowards and conquerors is not in what they see with the physical eye, but how they react and respond to what they see.

• Differences
• cowards follow the path of least resistance, while conquerors see resistance as an opportunity for God to manifest His power.
• Cowards
• After they saw all of the obstacles, they said to Moses "We can't go up against the people because they are stronger than we are.
• Conquerors
• In verse 30, Caleb said "We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it.
• Cowards listen to the voice of the majority. Conquerors listen to the voice of God.
• Every time I read this story, I can't help to think anything different than if there was some peer pressure.
• Only 2 scouts came back saying that they could conqueror Canaan.
• Maybe some of the scouts thought that they could conqueror the land, but feared the idea of war in and of itself, so they voted against going in.

We need men and women who will stand on the side of faith and trust in the Almighty God even when they stand alone. I would rather be a radical, lonely, conqueror, full of faith in God than to be numbered with a bunch of cowards that only did what the crowd said and did.

• Cowards are fueled by fear. Conquerors are fueled by faith.
• If the cowards, in this case, remembered the fact that God promised them the land, and that God never broke His promises. This little argument would have never surfaced to begin with.
• Cowards depend on their own works. Conquerors depend on the revealed Word of God and His omnipotence to fulfill it.
• Cowards see the negatives as greater than God. Conquerors entire focus is on God.
• Cowards are always looking back wanting to live in the past. Conquerors are always looking to the future for new ground to possess in the name of Christ.

So ask yourself a question today. Which am I? Who are you? A coward, or a conqueror? Are you somebody who sits to the side, or somebody who takes the lead? Are you defending the word of God every chance you get, or are you letting it slide by this one time? Are you standing up for God, even if nobody else is with you, or are you just following the crowd?

Basically the question is, Are you leading people to Christ, or sending them straight to Hell?