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You might be closer than you think to receiving the promise of God
God gives Joshua a message of promise for His people
I want to encourage you to see the promise as it is spoken to you from God
How do we know what God has promised us?
God will speak to you in a still small voice if we spend time to listen
the enemy will also speak to you so how can we tell the difference
Align it with Scripture
Check it with mature believers
Will it bring glory to God?
Learn to see what God has promised you and then go and get it
God told
I’ve been doing this long enough that I no longer get excited to see people start something but I have learned to be impressed when people will finish what they have started
Why do we stop short?
We lose sight
Promise started with Abraham
Moses carried it by leading the people out of slavery
now Jericho seems to be the next problem that is standing between God’s people and the Promise
there always seems to be a problem keeping us from the promises of God
situations that look impossible are not intimidating to God
What do you do when God delivers a message of peace & joy but your life looks like everything but?
Jericho was not a big city but it was well defended
High walls
sometimes to win the battle God’s way you have to be willing to do things that look ridiculous
look past what’s keeping you back and start looking into God’s promises
If you just see high walls you will never even start seeking God’s promises in your life
change perspective
stop looking at problems start looking to God
stop posting problems on FB & start honoring God
stop murmuring & complaining about how tough it is and start seeking God
spend the energy that we do complaining to make things right we may have more than we realized
we lose sight
2. I don’t automatically posses it because God promised it
when God called me to pastor a church
I was in my early 20s
had never read the Bible
and I had poor reading skills & even worse reading comprehension
never been to a Bible study
no understanding of ministry or how it worked
no public speaking skills
HS education that I took as a joke
literally living in a barn over 10 minutes from town
middle of no where
foggy day couldn’t see neighbors
God’s promise didn’t mean that someone called me that day and told me to come to their church to pastor it
walls were keeping me from it
Bible
education
Ways of the Master
online certificate
7 years at LU for a BS
No experience
started reaching the people in front of me
BS in our home from 2 to 25 to 2 nights a weeks with 50 people in our home a week reading and studying God’s word together
put me in a place to work with some amazing teenagers and opened doors for me to fulfill His call on my life for that season and to gain experience and knowledge
all the while still training horses
teaching horse clinics
public speaking skills
I remembered God’s promise and started trying to force it and found a position on my own even though all the signs said NO and many of the people in my life said no
in a short time it was clear that it was not where I was supposed to be
Shortly after Maggie got sick and we just stopped for a bit
seemed like the promise had drifted but about the time Maggie was finishing up treatment I got a call from BCC to fill in because we were without a pastor and the rest is history
There were many walls that tried to keep me out but I had to keep marching because my perspective of God remained larger than my view of the obstacles
some days this wasn’t the case and I would stop for a moment before I could pickup again —MAGGIE stare at walls
we lose sight
2. I don’t automatically posses it because God promised it
3. Progress isn’t always obvious
motivation in watching bricks fall on day 1 more on day 2
telling your loved one about Jesus
raising kids
paying bills
marriage
faith journey
walk by faith not by sight
even though you don’t see God moving it’s trusting
RAHAB story
promise to save her
left
If the moment that I prayed it came to pass
I would never stop praying driving running into cars
walking thru the mall bumping into people with my head down and eyes closed
sometimes I pray and I don’t see anything happen but He want’s to know if I will keep having faith even when I don’t see
This is for someone who’s progress isn’t obvious
keep walking
He may not show us yet so that we will be less focused on the outcome and more on obedience
God’s responsibility is the outcome
obedience is yours
listen to what Joshua told the people
Not to talk while marching
one complains they will all start to
in the instructions Joshua did not tell them how many days this was going on
no idea how this was going to play out
Leave for battle in the morning
come home and she asks how was it today?
maybe we are just scouting it out right now
by this point I’m sure the ladies are wandering if they are going to have a battle at all
with no clue how long
life doesn’t give us a count down
We feel like giving up because we don’t see
been around the walls 6 times
maybe if we didn’t have time to see how big the walls were we wouldn’t recognize how GOD did the work
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