Sunday Smash (Courage) S3E09

State Of Mind With Jb

We need courage to do everything in life. Without courage we cannot do anything as I said before we face a lot crisis in our everyday lives if you lack courage it is also a crisis because things are going to be difficult. Just like Moses did not have courage when God told him that he must go to Egypt and rescue the children of Israel from Phora. Even Jeremiah did not have courage when God sent him to speak to people who were older than him as he thought that they were not going to listen to him because he was still a child. God gave Moses and Jeremiah the courage after he spoke to them. After Moses passed away courage was highly needed because the children of Israel were in disbelief that Moses was no more. Let us look at the book of Joshua 1 as God gave Joshua courage to take over from Moses, Joshua 1, "1. After the death of the Lord's servant Moses, the Lord spoke to Moses's helper, Joshua son of Nun. 2. He said,"My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them. 3. As I told Moses, I have given you and all my people the entire land that you will be marching over. 4. Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, though the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. 5. Joshua, no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will always be with you;I will never abandon you. 6. Be determined and confident, for you will be the leader of these people as they occupy this land which I promised their ancestors. 7. Just be determined, be confident; and make sure that you obey the whole Law that my servant Moses gave you. Do not neglect any part of it and you will succeed wherever you go. 8. Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9. Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the Lord your God, am with you wherever you go. " 10. Then Joshua ordered the leaders to 11. go through the camp and say to the people,"Get some food ready, because in three days you are going to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that your God is giving you." 12. Joshua said to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, 13. "Remember how the Lord's servant Moses told you that the Lord your God would give you this land on the east of the Jordan as your home. 14. Your wives, your children, and your livestock stay here, but your soldiers, armed for battle, will cross over ahead of the other Israelites in order to help them 15. until they have occupied the land west of the Jordan that the Lord has given them. When he has given safety to all the tribes of Israel, then you may come back and settle here in your own land east of the Jordan, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you." 16. They answered Joshua,"We will do everything you have told us and will go anywhere you send us. 17. We will obey you, just as we always obeyed Moses, and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses! 18. Whoever questions your authority or disobeys any of your orders will be put to death. Be determined and confident."