Just because we are fully dependent on God's power does not mean God wants us to do nothing.

Nancy Lee DeMoss looks at the example of Joshua.

We have to fight, but God fights. We fight, but God gives the victory.

Joshua didn't just sit back and wait for God to wipe out the enemies.

He's actively involved in waging the warfare and leading the army into battle.

But there's that recognition that victory is the loss.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, October 24th, 2014.

Music 24th, 2014. Do you ever find it easier to start a project than to finish it? You're full of excitement and energy at the beginning, but you start to lose momentum at the end.

As he began his military command,

Joshua fought some exciting, dramatic battles. But as the years progressed, stamina

was required to finish the job he'd been called to tackle. We'll find out why in this series

Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 11, Waging and Winning Spiritual Battles.

Well, we spent quite a bit of time thus far in the early chapters of Joshua, which are the

exciting chapters. Those are the chapters that people read and are familiar with. And now we

come today to chapter 10, and from 10 almost to the end of the book, we have a segment of the

scripture that people are not as

familiar with, and it's kind of understandable because as you read these chapters, there are a lot

of lists, there are a lot of details, names of people and places that are not familiar to us.

They don't mean a lot to us. And these tend to be the pages of your Bible that stick together,

you know, especially if it's a newer Bible or you're not

accustomed to reading through the Bible. And there are passages that I will honestly say, I have a tendency when I get to them to read more quickly or to want to skip over to think, well, this isn't very exciting. There's not a lot of plot here. There's not a lot of drama. But there is a lot of plot. There is a lot of drama. And I found in recent

weeks as I've been meditating on this portion of the book of Joshua that there are a lot of

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