Sometimes Nancy Lee-Demoss 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 for Friday, September 19th, 2014.

Advice and information are everywhere.

Our problem these days isn't gaining access to information.

It's knowing what access to information.

It's knowing what information to trust.

Nancy helps sort it out, continuing in the series,

Lessons from the Life of Joshua Part 7,

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 into 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 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.

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