Just as contagious as faith is, so is cynicism.  

If you have cynical people holding up 
your mirror, you'll always feel small.  

You'll always feel smaller than your challenge, 
smaller than your giant, smaller than your  

addiction, because you're not looking at your 
God, but when your Maker is your mirror…344,  

345, 346… I'm still counting. God is not done yet. 
His mercies are new with every rising of the sun.

He who began a good work in me will be faithful to  

complete it. One thing about a mirror is 
it always shows you the image in reverse.  

God knows how your situation turns out. God knows 
how your story ends. God knows what he put in you.

When this message flooded into my heart, I was 
like, "It's going to change somebody's life,  

because they've been looking in the wrong 
mirror. They've been looking at their  

mistakes." When your mistakes are your mirror, 
you stay on the outside of Canaan even though  

you have the strength to go in, not because 
you are small but because you see small.

So, the spies came back, and they 
were like, "Hey, Moses." Remember,  

Moses has dealt with rejection his whole life.  

A lot of times, when people don't accept you 
it's because they have rejected themselves.  

Not all the time…a lot of times. 
This is a really important point:  

everybody's acceptance is not a blessing,  

because the majority might be the wrong mirror.

Ten out of 12 said, "We can't go in." Ten out 
of 12 said, "They're too big." This is what they  

said: "We went to the land, Moses," and they 
became the mirror for the millions of people  

who had a promise from God but hadn't 
possessed it yet. This is why it's so important  

who you're around, what you take in, what 
you look at. You become what you behold.

So the people are giving a 
report, and they're like,  

"It's a great place. The valleys are fertile. It's 
a rich land. We brought you back some grapes." The  

grapes were so big they had to carry them on 
poles. But then they stopped looking at God,  

stopped looking at grapes, and started talking 
about giants. When they looked too much at the  

giants as their mirror, they saw themselves 
as grasshoppers. That's what they said.

Numbers 13:33. They said, "[There 
were] the Nephilim (the sons of Anak,  

who come from the Nephilim)…" "There were 
giants in the land, big, strong adversaries  

that we would have to dispossess to take 
the land." "…and we seemed to ourselves  

like grasshoppers…" Not to God. "…we 
seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers…"

Most people see God really big. Even those who 
barely believe in God see him really big. It's not  

how big you see God; it's how much you believe 
that God is in you. "…we seemed to ourselves  

like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to 
them." Our reflection determined our reality.  

What got me about it is that they could have seen 
the exact same situation in reverse. Watch this.

They were like, "The giants are too 
big. God promised us the victory,  

but I guess we can't go in because of the size of 
the giants." Reverse it, because God always shows  

you the image in reverse. It's like this: 
God has already promised us the victory,  

and the giants are so big. If the giants are 
that big and God has promised us the victory…

If what is coming against us is that great, 
how much greater must God be within me?  

Greater is he that is within me 
than he that is in the world.  

The size of my giant is a proof of 
the size of my God. Thank you, Lord!  

If God is letting me experience a challenge 
this big… See, God is trying to use your enemies  

to show you how valuable you are in his kingdom.  

Why would you let your enemies hold your mirror  

anyway? Who cares what the sons of Anak 
think you look like? That's what Caleb said.

He was like, "Shut up! We can do it." It's 
in the Bible. Caleb said that. He said,  

"Shut up!" He silenced the people and said, 
"If God is with us…" My Maker is my mirror.  

I always thought it was funny, because he's 
like, "Hey, Joshua, I know you're rolling  

these little lots around on the ground to 
figure out who lives where, but remember,  

God gave me a promise that I 
would live in the high place.  

I want Hebron." Three thousand feet above sea 
level. You've been living at "see" level. You've  

been looking in the wrong mirror. You've 
been consulting the mirror for your flesh.

You put 20 minutes into your makeup today, 
but you didn't get in this mirror right here.  

This is a mirror too. You've been struggling over 
external issues, but what about what's in you?  

James said something curious. He said if 
you listen to the Word and don't do it,  

you're like a man who looks 
at himself in a mirror…

"In the beginning was the Word, and the 
Word was with God and the Word was God."  

My Maker is my mirror.  

I can't run around to people who are struggling 
with their own sense of self to determine mine,  

and I can't use a situation either. That's why I 
love Caleb. It's almost like he's lying. He's 85,  

and he's talking about, "I've still got it."

What mirror are you looking at? "I've still 
got it." I'm not talking about the flesh;  

I'm talking about faith. The wilderness can do 
one of two things to you. It can kill you or  

it can make you stronger. Caleb said, "All 
that I went through… I didn't get bitter.  

I didn't get the wilderness in me, even 
though I went through the wilderness.  

In fact, everything I went through over the 
last four and a half decades only served to  

convince me that much more that I've 
still got it. I mean, if God promised  

it to me back then and saw me through all this, 
I don't want to live at the level of feelings."

You settle too low. You settle for what you see. 
You settle for what people say. You settle for  

old templates. You settle for old scripts. 
You settle for emotions. When you are seated  

in heavenly places with Jesus, you have 
to settle up. You have to get up above  

what you see, above what you feel, 
and above what you've been through.  

He said, "I want to live where the blessings 
are. I want to live where the battles are."  

You can't have a victory without a battle.  

God is raising you up right now.  

He's doing it through a process. The level you 
will settle on is the level that you see yourself.

It makes me so sad to think of how many times 
you and I have gone to the wrong mirrors,  

so we see a grasshopper when we're really a giant. 
We see a failure when really it was a lesson.  

We see what's missing because we can 
only see through the filter of our fear.  

God said, "Let us make man in our image,  

in our likeness." You are not my 
maker. You will not be my mirror.  

When God said, "My name is I Am" to Moses, he 
was trying to get him to see "You are as I am."

That's what a mirror does. God says, "I want 
to see myself in you." When God sees you,  

he sees himself. He sees his Son. Christ 
is the image of the invisible God,  

and if he is in you, he is more 
than the world against you.

I want to pray for a few hundred people 
today. You will know who you are if the  

message resonated with you in a personal 
way. You've been going to the wrong mirror.  

You've been consulting physical, 
natural, relational elements, incomplete,  

fragmented elements, and you don't know who you 
are right now. You're stuck between two realities.

The message God gave me was your Maker is your 
mirror. And you know what's beautiful? You're his.  

He wants to use you to 
reflect himself to the world,  

so he's going to give you some stuff. Some 
of it's going to be giants in front of you.  

Some of it's going to be giants inside of 
you. David was good at killing giants as  

long as they were standing in front of him. 
It was the ones within him that took him out.

Some of them are going to be short-term. 
Some of them are going to be long-term. If  

you go to the wrong mirror, you'll always feel 
small, but if you will learn how to worship  

and get in the Word of God and believe 
the promise that he spoke over your life  

and get in this mirror… You are not 
going to win over insecurity looking  

in the mirror of Instagram. It is only going 
to show you what you're not, what you can't,  

and what you won't. But if you get in this mirror, 
the Word of God can do something for your spirit.

It can make you stronger in your spirit 
than your enemies are in your situation.  

Now stand up on your feet. I want to pray with 
you. I want to prophesy over you. I don't want  

anyone moving or leaving. The Lord said that 
this word would hit deep for the ones who needed  

it, who have been seeing themselves according 
to past experiences, have been looking in a  

rearview mirror at something that happened and 
are about to wreck in the face of their future.

He said that today he wanted to give you a  

different mirror. Caleb said, 
"I'm not just settling for  

my lot in life." "I'm not just settling for 
depression." I was hesitant to preach the message  

because I thought people would hear it like it was 
some "God, give me my BMW. God, make me famous."

That's not what Caleb said. He 
said, "I want the challenge.  

I want the altitude. I want the 
opportunity to prove God again.  

I want to live at the high place. I want to 
be my higher self. I'm still strong. I've  

still got it. My faith went through testing 
45 years and I survived. I've still got it.  

I'm not ashamed of what I went through. It 
proves that God was with me. I've still got it!"