Heart of a Conqueror Part 4: Preparation for New Victories
Romans 15:4 NIV
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
1. Motivated by What God Has Done
Joshua 4:21–22; 24 ESV
And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’… so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
Joshua 4:21 ESV
And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’”
Joshua 4:23 ESV
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over
2. Calls for Some Things to be Cut Away
Joshua 5:2–3 ESV
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
3. Committed to the Future than we are to the Past
Joshua 5:10–12 ESV
While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
