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Who’s In Your Circle - Who’s on your team
Who’s In Your Circle - Who’s on your team
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
Circle of friends - A number of close friends who usually do things together as a group.
Your circle/team needs to have criteria!
You have to have a standard for your Circle!
You have to clean house in your circle!
What happens when you have the wrong people on the team/in the circle?
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
Numbers
Moses sends 12 men from every tribe
Moses gives them direct instructions:
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
Numbers 13:
See what the land is (good or bad)
Are the people strong or weak
Whether they are few or many
Are the cities camps or strongholds
Is the land rich or poor
Are their trees?
Be of good courage!!!
#1
Circle Check #1 - Can they follow instructions?
The men came back with a report:
And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Circle Check #2 - I don’t need extra stuff!
However and besides
I don’t need your opinion - I need God’s perspective
Numbers 13:
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
Circle Check #3 - Low self esteem & Insecurities can’t fit into the circle!
We are not able to go up against the people
They are stronger than we
Negativity is transferable
10 people changed over 1 million people
We seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers
How do you view yourself!
“And so we seemed to them” - Stop thinking for other people!!!
Insecurities will drive you crazy
The requirements to be in the Circle:
Numbers 13:30-
Circle requirement #1 Can I trust YOU!
You have to have a Joshua in your circle
Amalekite attack
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
Exodus
Can I trust you to stand with me
Your choice reflects my choice
So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
Can I trust you to roll with me
from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:8
Can you be my eyes and ears!
Circle Requirement #2 - I Need Someone Full of the Holy Spirit
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Numbers
Remember this spirit did not indwell in the old testament but it does now!
I need people in my circle to know that they are God’s servant
They are different because they have the Holy Spirit!
I need people in my circle to that follow God fully!
When your are full of God’s Spirit your outlook is different!
“But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Circle Requirement #3 - I need Real and Transparent people
The first time around Moses sends 12 people -
The second time around Joshua knew to make the circle smaller. He knew the requirements for an effective team.
From 12 to 2
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
The two men were not judgmental
I need real and transparent people
I don’t need stuck up people around me
I don’t need funny acting people around me
I need people who I can trust
I need people fully of the Holy Spirit
I need people who will real and honest
Who’s in your circle?
You have to must to accomplish!