After
the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun,
Moses aide: Moses my servant is dead.
Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River
into the land I am about to give to them. I will give out every place where you
set your foot, as I promised Moses.
There
is a difference between God commanding us and God commissioning us. When God commands us, he tells us to do
something but when God commissions us he gives us the power to carry out that
which he has commanded us to do. Joshua
was the assistant to Moses and without his leader being present God had to
assure him three times to be strong and courageous. God had to assure him
because Joshua was use to being led now he had to lead. He had to become for the people of the Old
Testament what Jesus is to us in the New Testament. Whenever God calls us to do something he
enables us to accomplish it, the hard part for the believer is to keep our
spiritual eyes open to what God is doing and to have enough faith to go where
he tells us to go. God was enabling Joshua because there was a promise that God
gave him in verses 5 “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days
of your life. As I was with Mosses, so I
will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. , God was also
enabling Joshua through his word in verses 7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be
careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to
the right or to the left. Finally God was enabling Joshua through his presence
we see this in verse 9 “Have I not commanded you, Be strong and courageous. Do
not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you
wherever you go.
DIVA’s
when God is commanding you to do a work for him….you need to prepare, when he
is commissioning you to do a work for him, you need to move knowing that the
victory is already yours!
God
Bless you DIVA’s and remember go as far as God is willing to take you.
Pastor
Juanita
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