Knowing Him Daily

24.April.2026

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, and for going out and coming in. Joshua 14:11

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 John 1:2

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31

They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flourishing. Psalm 92:14

Eighty-five years old and Caleb was not looking for a rocking chair, medication or his reading glasses. He was looking for his mountain.

After forty years of wandering, after watching an entire generation die in the wilderness because they did not believe God for what He had already promised, Caleb walked up to Joshua and said give me this mountain. The giants are still there, the cities are still fortified, and I do not care. I am as strong today as the day Moses sent me out, and I am ready. That is not the speech of a man winding down. That is the speech of a man who stewarded his body, his faith, and his fire across four decades of waiting and came out the other side ready to take new ground.

That is the vision behind every single post in this series.

Not a diet. Not a set of rules. Not guilt over what we ate last year or last Tuesday. Just a simple, steady, faithful commitment to honoring the body God gave us so we can still be bearing fruit when the society says we should be slowing down. Isaiah 40:31 tells us that those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, mounting up with wings like eagles, running and not growing weary, walking and not fainting, and that renewal is not just spiritual. It flows into the whole person, spirit > soul > body, including the physical temple we carry it all in.

Psalm 92 says they shall still bear fruit in old age, fresh and flourishing, and that is not a poetic exaggeration. That is a promise, and it belongs to us.

We started this series with a Star Trek reference and the prayer of John in 3 John 1:2, that we would prosper in all things and be in health just as our soul prospers. Notice that scripture places responsibility on the shoulders of the hearer. That verse has not changed. That prayer is still being prayed over us by the heart of God, and every small choice we make toward life is our agreement with it.

Swap one thing. Shop the perimeter. Choose the real fat. Put down the sugar. Read the label. Know your Dirty Dozen. Take the next step, not all the steps, just the next one, and trust that the God who led Caleb through forty years of wilderness and brought him out strong on the other side is more than capable of redeeming every year we did not know what we know now.

He redeems. He restores. He makes all things new, and that promise is as true for our bodies as it is for everything else in our lives.

Live long and prosper, friend. Caleb did.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.