Here's Nancy Lee-Demoss.

The spirit is like the wind.

You can't control it.

You don't know where it goes and when it goes.

God is in control of the dispensation and the bestowal of His Holy Spirit.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demoss for Friday, August 15th.

God establishes leaders. We need to decide how we'll interact with the leaders

he puts in place. Will we criticize, complain, and look for ways to advance our own agenda? Let's look at

Joshua's response. As Nancy continues in the series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua

Part 2, Learning to Be Teachable. Well, we're following the life of Joshua, and we're looking

at different snapshots in his life, and some of you are wondering, are we ever going to get

to the book of Joshua? Well, there are a lot of accounts that relate to Joshua's life that we

find in the books of Exodus and Numbers and Deuteronomy. So we're looking at those first. And these are the early years of his life, not his childhood, but his years of preparation and learning and training for leadership. Then when we get to the book of Joshua, which I'm still

studying, we'll get to the part where he leads the people of God, and then at the end of his

life we'll see him leaving a legacy. But he's still in training, still in preparation for

ministry. And a lot of the learning he's doing is from his mentor, Moses. Joshua is Moses

assistant. So the things that are happening concerning

Moses are things that are making an impression on Joshua's life. I hope you have godly, wise,

heroes in the faith. Now, don't put your trust in men because men will fail, and Moses did

have a major failure.

He never got to see the promised land.

You can learn from people's failures as well.

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