Today: [Joshua Chapter Fifteen]: Have Your Conquered Your Inner Jebusites? In this chapter the conquests specifically of the tribe of Judah are listed. One of the great challenges was to conquer the Jebusites. The name “Jebusite” means “Down Trodden”. This seems to be the last enemy to be conquered in the quest for Christian maturity. […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Fourteen]: Give Me My Mountain. In this chapter Caleb demands Joshua to give him Mount Hebron to conquer. Caleb was an old man but his zeal was unabated. The mountain was held by the Jebusites whose name means “down trodden”. Everyone of us has a Mount Hebron in our lives that tempts […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Thirteen]: Dividing the Inheritance. In this chapter Joshua is instructed by God to divide the lands that are yet unconquered. This set a vision before the people that was yet to be realized and would require effort on their part. God promises to drive out the inhabitants but it remains to the […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Twelve]: Moving from Conquest to Rulership. In this chapter we see that there are battles to win on the wilderness side of Jordan and battles to win on the Promised land side of the Jordan. This speaks of moving from your PROBLEM (the wilderness experience) to your POTENTIAL (the promised land experience). […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Eleven]: Entering into Generational Warfare. In this chapter Joshua joins battle with a great army headed by King Jabin. Jabin means “the intellectual”. Rationalism and secularism are the great enemy of the church today. Joshua defeated Jabin by following the instructions handed down to him generationally through Moses. As believers we fight […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Ten]: Picking Your Battles, Maintaining Your Focus. In this chapter Joshua is called upon to fight a battle that is not his to fight. In the midst of a distracting situation God fights for Israel sending great hail stones and causing the sun to stand still till the victory is secure. In […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Nine]: When You Do Foolish Things – Then What? In your life you will do foolish and costly things. You will set yourself at a disadvantage and cause problems for others because you didn’t listen to God. It is part of the human condition. In this chapter we learn from Joshua that […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Eight]: Gaining Ground and Taking the Spoil. In this chapter Joshua takes the city of Ai. Joshua is a type of Jesus and we can see the strategy of warfare Jesus adopted in how Joshua proceeded against the cities of Canaan. The army of Joshua was a type of the Ecclessia that […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Seven]: The Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope. In this chapter of Joshua we see a man named Achan held responsible for Israel being defeated before their enemies. He had a hidden sin in his life that affected all around him. He was brought before the people in the valley […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Six]: Bringing Down the Walls of Your Jericho. In this chapter we learn of the walls of Jericho being brought down by God. The people were to march around for six days. Six is a number that represents man. When you do what you can do God will do what he can […]
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