Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
When I was born again in 1975, Joshua 1, vv. 5-9, was called to my attention. I focused on these verses for many months, knowing they not only pertained to Joshua but are beneficial to our lives also as we live upon the this present earth.
"Hath not I commanded thee?" God asked Joshua.
This is a great anchor for faith for us, for God tells us to do something and we can come back to, "Did God command me to do this?" and if we answer, "YES", then we rest in the situation, being assured God is with us in what we did.
If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8
I love looking at the verses in Joshua 1 and examining my life by them.
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Joshua 1 (1-4)
Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
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(5-9)
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Have not I commanded thee?
Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
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Be strong:
Our strength is not in ourselves but in that word given us by God by HIS spirit. We gain our strength by focusing on that word which God told us to do. For the gates of hell will not prevail against that word God brings to our mind by HIS Spirit, by the Holy Spirit.
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of HIS might. (Eph. 6)
Be courageous:
- strength in the face of pain, grief, danger, or fear
- the ability to do something that frightens one
We endure as seeing HIM who is invisible.
Focus on that WORD day and night:
This enables us to "do" the Word. As we keep that word before us day and night, it grows and rises up and enables us to do what it says.
And then we will prosper and have good success in all that we do!
Psalm 1, is similar instruction and it says when we do this, we will be like a "tree" planted by the rivers of water. Our leaf will not wither and whatsoever we do will prosper (turn out well).
Very true!
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