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A prayer to obey when faced with temptations by Chelsea de Mateus, read by Leah Martin.

Israel has sinned they have transgressed my covenant that I have commanded them. They've taken some of the devoted things, they've stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.

Joshua 7-11. I've absolutely loved my time studying the book of Joshua, in fact it's a current favorite book of the Bible with our almost five-year-old. It's convicted me and encouraged me.

Most of all, the Holy Spirit has prompted me to look at the areas of my life that I've set on the back burner. As I read through the book, my jaw dropped at all the events that unfolded in Joshua 7.

I love when God's Word does this, in this portion of Scripture we watch the Israelites set out to destroy I.E. However, that plan did not pan out the way Joshua had hoped, they were defeated and dismayed.

This sent Joshua to his knees in an outcry to God. He couldn't understand why God allowed them to lose this battle.

In Joshua 7-10-12 we read, God responded to Joshua, get up, why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned, they've transgressed my covenant that I've commanded them, they've taken some of the devoted things, they've stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.

Therefore, the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies, they turn their backs before their enemies because they've become devoted for destruction.

I will be with you no more unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

One man, named Acan, chose to keep several of the very things God commanded be destroyed when he gave Jericho to the Israelites.

Something we know about God and his character is he doesn't give commands as options, but as rules and boundaries that must be obeyed.

And when these commands are not obeyed, there will always be a consequence because we serve a holy and loving God.

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