When you sincerely believe something, you will act upon that belief. Everyone knows when a person believes by what they do. Wholehearted believing produces wholehearted actions! It is interesting what wholehearted translates to in the eyes of God. What you believe and therefore do has the power to gain God’s attention.

A great example of this is Caleb. Caleb is one who obtained the favor of God because of his wholehearted obedience generated by faith. When the children of Israel came into the promised land under the leadership of Joshua, Caleb, by faith, confronted him, and here is what transpired.

Josh 14:6-9  Now the men of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8 but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly. 9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever because you have followed the LORD, my God, wholeheartedly.’

Wow! Caleb had a radical faith! When the other ten spies failed to trust God and brought discouragement to the nation of Israel, Joshua and Caleb were fully convinced in the power of God to deliver nations into their hands and give them the land he had promised! Because of this faith, at 85 years old, Caleb was just as strong and ready for war as he was when he was 40. So Caleb went on to say, “10 Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12 Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day.” Josh 14:10-12

Caleb knew what God had given him and was not about to give up on his promise! The Bible goes on to say, “Then Joshua blessed Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. 14 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.” Josh 14:13-14

I am praying for you today and believing that you, like Caleb, will believe and serve God faithfully and wholeheartedly. Yes! May the spirit of a conqueror also be upon you, and may you, like Caleb, be one whom God would declare as…

WHOLEHEARTED!