Joshua Chapter Eighteen: When Your Inheritance is Delayed. In this chapter Joshua helps the seven remaining tribes to receive their inheritance. They had struggled and settled into a pattern of waiting and hoping for things to change and nothing was happening. Is this where you are in your life? There are simple yet powerful steps […]
READ MORE Joshua Chapter Sixteen: Empowering Women in the Purposes of God. In this chapter a group of women is given inheritance in the land by Joshua. This was unheard of in ancient times when women were regarded as little more than livestock. Even today women are often not accorded the same standing the God conspicuously gives […]
READ MORE Today: [Joshua Chapter Sixteen]: Are You Bendable, Sendable and Spendable? In this chapter the tribes were assigned their inheritance by casting of the Urim and Thummim. Once the territory was promised each tribe had to go out and take their land. What has God promised you? Is it enough to believe that God promise or […]
READ MORE 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 […]
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