There's a fine line between trusting God and taking Him for granted.
Whether you are more apt to fret and fail to trust God or more likely to drift and take God for granted, there is something for you to learn in this story from Joshua of Israel's presumption, sin, judgment, and renewal.
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
Joshua: From Grumbling to Shouts of Victory
There's something terribly damaging about a defeated, grumbling attitude. Satan loves for it to grow among God's people like gangrene, and it eventually destroyed the generation of the Exodus. When their children took over, they were much... like their parents (see the book of Numbers, chapters 20-21). But then something changed. When they reached Jericho, they had a faith that could celebrate and shout in victory before the first evidence that they had won. How did this transformation take place?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Joshua: Call to Courage
God prepared Joshua his whole life to take over for Moses. He gave Joshua the same promise he gave Moses. Now all that was left was for Joshua to have the courage to obey.
As we start our series on the life of Joshua, we look at the often-overlooked ingredient every believer needs to step into the life and calling that God has for each person. That ingredient is courage.
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