After Joshua and the Children of Israel won several major battles, they encountered some con artists.

Nancy Lee DeMoss says they weren't prepared.

This is Joshua's first major mistake as a leader.

He evaluated the situation and he made a decision on the basis of what he could see.

He made a decision on the basis of what he could see. He made a decision on the basis of his own human understanding.

But he failed to seek direction from the one who could see beyond the visible appearance of things,

the one who knew men's hearts.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, October 22, 2014.

If deception were easy to spot, it wouldn't be very deceptive.

Unfortunately, those who would feed us lies are very tricky

and you need to be on guard. The Life of Joshua illustrates this, and Nancy will take you into

the scene as part of the series Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 11, Waging and Winning Spiritual

Battles. If you've been listening to Reviver part 11, waging and winning spiritual battles.

If you've been listening to Revive Our Hearts for a while, you've probably heard me talk about what I call the battle after the battle. That's something I talk about in my own life is I realize

that many times after I've been through a spiritual battle or a great victory that God has given in some area, I find that the aftermath can be where I struggle the most. And that's

why I have people who pray for me not only when I'm speaking or doing conferences or recording

radio, but afterwards as well. Because sometimes there can be that let down. You let down

your guard and you find out that you can be

more defeated in the battle after the battle than you were challenged in the battle itself. And I think

it's a principle of the Christian life that every spiritual victory in your life issues a challenge for the

enemy to launch another attack on your soul.

And sometimes those attacks can be pretty fierce.

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