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Friend, face the giants and possess the promises!

Numbers 13:31-33 But 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." 32  And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33  There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

After forty days of exploring abundance, the spies returned carrying visible evidence of promise. The grapes were lush, the land was fruitful, and God’s word had proven true. Everything He had declared about Canaan was confirmed by what they held in their hands.

But then the tone shifted.

Yes, the land flowed with milk and honey—but there were giants. Fortified cities. Powerful armies. The sons of Anak. What God had declared as gift was now interpreted through fear. The giants were real—but so was the promise. The tragedy was not in what they saw; it was in how they processed it.

The ten spies did not deny the harvest. They doubted their ability to possess it. “We are not able,” they said, and then revealed the deeper issue: “We were like grasshoppers in our own sight.” Fear always attacks identity before it attacks opportunity. The land had not changed. The harvest had not disappeared. What changed was perspective. When fear interprets the future, giants grow larger and calling grows smaller. The moment you see yourself as insignificant, destiny begins to feel impossible.

This is the tension of every revival moment. The harvest is prepared, but opposition is visible. Cultural resistance, spiritual warfare, intimidation, unbelief—these are the giants that stand in the land today. But giants do not cancel prophecy. God never promised an empty land; He promised a given land. The presence of giants was not a contradiction of promise—it was confirmation that something valuable was there. The enemy fortifies what he fears losing.

The real battle was never against the giants themselves. It was against internal agreement with fear. Ten spies measured the giants against themselves and concluded defeat. Two measured the giants against God and concluded victory. Inheritance hinges on comparison. If you compare giants to your strength, you will retreat. If you compare them to God’s faithfulness, you will advance.

Revival always requires confronting something larger than comfort. The harvest is great, and resistance is real. The question is not whether giants exist—it is which voice will shape your destiny.

Friend, do not allow giants to reinterpret who you are. You are not grasshoppers—you are covenant carriers. The harvest before us is too significant to surrender to intimidation. Yes, there are giants of fear, doubt, and unbelief -- but they stand on land God has already declared ours. Measure opposition against His power, not your weakness. If faith rises now, the giants will not define this hour -- the promise will.

Shabbat Shalom ... have a great weekend! When you have a moment, I just released a new YouTube video — "Is war coming with Iran? Tucker - Huckabee Debacle", — that will be especially important in the days ahead.

George & Baht Rivka (Melbourne, Florida)