God is going to accomplish His purpose. The only question is whether or not we are going to be involved in Him doing so.
Day 32 (Feb 1, 2022)
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Day 30 (Jan 30, 2022)
Day 29 (Jan 29, 2022)
Day 28 (Jan 28, 2022)
Day 27 (Jan 27, 2022)
Day 26 (Jan 26, 2022)
If you do not get it, it will get you. Living with unresolved sin in your life is like deciding to allow a dozen dangerous vipers to have free reign of your home. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but eventually things are going to turn out bad.
The Israelites find themselves living in a cycle of sin. This cycle is made worse when they fail to remember what God has done for them. This lack of remembrance led to them turning to worship other Gods, and forsaking the holiness that God had called them to walk out in their daily lives. Ultimately, this will cost them.
This all started with forgetting what God had done. How long has it been since you thought about the works of God in your life?
-Pastor Conley
Judges 2:6–3:6 (MEV)
6 When Joshua dismissed the people, each Israelite went to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works that the Lord had done for Israel.
8 Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.
9 They buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 That entire generation passed away, and after them grew up a generation who did not know the Lord or the deeds that He had done for Israel.
11 The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
12 They abandoned the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed after other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They worshipped them and provoked the Lord to anger.
13 They abandoned the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14 The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of those who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they were no longer able to stand against their enemies.
15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring disaster, as the Lord had said and as He had sworn to them. They were in great distress.
16 Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them from the hand of those who plundered them.
17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, for they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshipped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord. They did not do as their fathers had done.
18 When the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for their groaning before their oppressors and tormentors grieved the Lord.
19 When the judge died, the people turned back and acted more wickedly than their fathers, pursuing other gods to serve and worship them. They would not give up their practices and obstinate ways.
20 The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has violated My covenant that I commanded their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
21 I will no longer drive out from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
22 so that through them I may test Israel and see whether or not they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers did.”
23 So the Lord left those nations, not hurrying to drive them out; and He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
1 Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test those in Israel who had not experienced war in Canaan
2 (so that later generations of the children of Israel who did not know war before might know it, to teach them how to fight):
3 the five Philistine lords, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
4 They were to test Israel, in order to know if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
6 They took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Day 25 (Jan 25, 2022)
Day 24 (Jan 24, 2022)
Day 23 (Jan 23, 2022)
Wow today is the day. A historic day over 40 years in the making. Grandma was a young
woman when the Red Sea parted. My father was selected from our tribe to scout out this land
everyone says is ours but for some reason we have yet to possess it. I vaguely remember the
massive cluster of grapes my father and the other men carried back. The land is Incredible! But
there are cities with huge walls and big defenses. We have been so close for so long. Now 40
years and a whole generation lost to the wilderness, we stand on the cusp of the promise God
gave to Abraham. But Moses has passed. How ever will we go on? Joshua?
There comes a day when the pupil becomes the teacher. Where the servant must step up
and lead. God accomplished so much through Moses, however now Moses is gone and it’s the
next generations turn. God wasted no time reminding the next generation that His word extended
to them too. The same promises, the same rewards, also the same challenges and expectations
extended to their fathers would be afforded to them.
Joshua didn’t lead like Moses lead but he did so under the same anointing. The ESV called
Joshua Moses assistant at the time of Moses’ death. If you want to lead, follow. When it came
time to lead, Joshua was already prepared. Spending time with Gods anointed man for the hour.
Prepared Joshua for the practical job as leader. Talent will never replace anointing but God
doesn’t anoint lazy. The better you manage your life the better you’re able to serve God. Joshua
was an anointed leader not because he had everything figured out but because he waited on God
and learned all he could in the meantime.
-Pastor Neal
Joshua 1 (MEV)
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses:
2 “Moses My servant is dead, so now get up and cross over the Jordan—you and all this people—to the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
3 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot shall tread, as I said to Moses.
4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Mediterranean Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.
5 No man will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will not abandon you. I will not leave you.
6 “Be strong and courageous, for you shall provide the land that I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance for this people.
7 Be strong and very courageous, in order to act carefully in accordance with all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn aside from it to the right or the left, so that you may succeed wherever you go.
8 This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night so that you may act carefully according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way successful, and you will be wise.
9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
11 “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare food, for in three days you will cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’ ”
12 To the Reubenites, the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,
13 “Remember the word that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: ‘The Lord your God has given you a place for rest and will give this land.’
14 Your wives, your children, and your livestock may live in the land that Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan. But you must cross over with your brothers fully armed, your mighty men of valor, and help them,
15 until the Lord has given your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they also have possessed the land that the Lord your God is giving to them. Then you may return to your own land and possess what Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the east side of the Jordan where the sun rises.”
16 They answered Joshua, “All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, we will obey you. May the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses!
18 Whoever rebels against your command and disobeys your words, in all that you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”