Because Joshua faced incredibly challenging tasks, he needed time alone with God.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

And I believe what sustained Joshua through those difficult years, through those hard issues, those hard times, those times when he had to sort through all the problems that the people had, those times when he had to figure out, how do you take this walled city? That it was the vision of God's glory that sustained him.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, August 13th.

Well, imagine getting an invitation to meet with someone extremely famous, someone with a lot of wisdom and the ability to get things done.

You probably arrange your schedule to make that meeting happen.

Well, you have been offered that kind of invitation. Nancy will describe your chance to be alone with God as she continues in the

series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua Part 2, Learning to Be Teachable.

We're looking for secrets in the life of Joshua that helped him to stay

faithful to the Lord over the long haul of his life because I want to learn from those secrets.

I want to learn from his example. And because God has given us this example in his word,

it's no secret. And we've come in the last session in this one to what I think is one of the most

important keys in the life of Joshua,

and that is spending time alone with God. We're looking at Exodus chapter 24, the passage that

begins in verse 12, and let me just read the verse that we looked at in the last session,

The Lord said to Moses, come up to me on the mountain and wait there, or as some translation say,

be there, that I may give you the tablice of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have

written for their instruction. So God calls Moses up to meet him on the mountain so that God can

give him the tablice of stone on which he has written his commandments, and also God is going to give him instruction, detailed instruction, for the building of the tabernacle, a place where the people can meet with God.

And you read about those instructions God gave to Moses up on the mountain in Exodus 25 through 31, those several chapters.

So God says, come up to me on the mountain and be there.

Verse 13, so Moses rose with his assistant Joshua and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

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