Joshua
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A Single Campaign
Joshua 10:42“Joshua conquered all these kings and their land in a single campaign, for the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for his people.” I remember playing football in grade school at recess. Picking teams was always a little scarry because everyone knew the good players. There were the fast ones, the big ones, the tough
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Deceptions
Joshua 9:2-5 2 “they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel. 3 However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4 they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended. 5 They put worn and patched sandals on their
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All the Words of the Law
Joshua 8:34 “34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who
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Things Devoted to the Lord
Joshua 7:13 “…There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.” Have you ever felt as if everything you are doing just will not work? Maybe you have been trying and trying to achieve a goal at work or a fitness goal and it seems as if there is a
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The March
Joshua 6:15 “On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times.” The Oldtimers know a thing or two. When they tell us “young folks” to do this or that and we often look
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No Longer
Joshua 5:10-12 10 “On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. 11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped the day after[a] they ate this food from the land;
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The Returning Flood Waters
Joshua 4:18 “And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.” Driving in a large city, every morning and evening going
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Flood Stage
Joshua 3:15 “Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during the harvest.” I was sitting in class for the first time that year and I was listening to the teacher talk about her background and the class. During the introduction that morning she pulled out a huge text book more that 2 inches thick and
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Rahab’s Confession
Joshua 2:8-11 8 Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof 9 and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. 10 We have heard how
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I Will
Joshua 1:3 “I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.” When I am riding my mountain bike on a new trail, I always take my time and go slower than normal in order to notice all the scenery so I can remember it for future rides. Nothing beats the feeling of
Let It Go 