Sometimes Nancy DeMas Walgamuth needs to ask herself, where have I been planted lately?

My planted in worldly counsel and wisdom, in the counsel of the ungodly, the way of sinners or the seat of scoffers,

am I getting the input into my heart and mind from television, from books, from magazines, from the internet, from other people and sources

that are not pointing me in godly directions?

Or is my life planted in the Word of God?

Where are my roots?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of Lies Young Women Believe.

For June 24th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Advice and information are there everywhere. In fact, I'd say say since march of 2020 there's so much of it

that i have information overload and probably decision fatigue as i process all the opinions

all the data that the internet serves up in relation to our new kind of normal living.

Our problem these days isn't gaining access to information. It's knowing what information to trust.

And how. Nancy is going to help us sort it out as she continues in the series, indispensable ingredients for life.

Well, we're still parked with Joshua in chapter one, where he is being commissioned and charged by God and equipped with what he needs to lead the children of Israel into the promised land.

He has just received the baton from Moses,

and now he is the leader. Now it's his responsibility to provide leadership to these people.

And as he sets out to fulfill his life's calling, which is to lead the people in De Canaan,

God gives him words of encouragement. God equips him. And you know, we see in this life of Joshua that it is not so much natural, innate, or flashy leadership qualities that are what qualified Joshua for this incredible task. There are a lot of different leadership books available today for people who are leading organizations or ministries or churches, and there are a lot of different leadership books available today for people who are leading organizations or ministries or churches.

And there are a lot of different qualities, leadership qualities that are talked about.

And I think some of those can be valuable.

But what God gave to Joshua really bypassed a lot of that because God wasn't looking for natural qualifications.

And we don't read a lot about Joshua's natural qualifications.

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