God spoke some important words to Joshua that give us hope as well.

Everything you could ever want or need for now, for the future, for time, for all of eternity is found in that promise.

I will never leave you or forsake you.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demoss for Monday, April 6th.

God is with you right now. It's a simple truth with some profound applications.

Gain a new appreciation for God's presence in your life as Nancy continues teaching on the

life of Joshua in the series Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 7, indispensable

ingredients for life.

If I say the phrase, don't leave home without it.

What am I talking about?

American Express Card.

You've seen the commercials, and you see people all over the world in strange situations

and out-of-the-way places, and they're left, they're high and dry,

if they don't have their American Express card with them. So the commercial tells us, don't leave home without it.

Well, I thought of that phrase in the American Express card as I've been meditating on the first couple of paragraphs of Joshua chapter one,

the first nine verses as we're seeing the changing of the guard, the baton handed over to Joshua from Moses,

and now Joshua has become the leader of God's people and is to take them into the promised land.

And as God speaks to Joshua in these opening verses, he tells them there are two things he had

better make sure never to leave home without. And as I read these verses, I want to ask you to pick

out what are the two essentials that Joshua had to have in order to succeed in his calling. These things are repeated in these

verses, so look for them as I read, beginning in Joshua 1.1. After the death of Moses, the servant of

the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of nun, Moses assistant, Moses, my servant is dead.

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