How about instead of focusing on problems today, we focus on possibilities.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Let me just exhort you to maximize and make the most of what God has given you.

Right where you are, whatever your situation, the land has to be tilled, the enemies are strong. They have to be defeated. But by

God's grace, you can do it. And you can make that place where you are to flourish. God can make it

to flourish as you partner with him. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, November 4th, 2014.

Nancy's picking back up in the series Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 12, leaving

a legacy.

I have a number of friends who have children

who are now young adults. And my friends are telling me that they thought parenting was hard

when their children were little, but that now their children are young adults, it's even harder

in some ways. One, because you don't have the kind of control that you did when they were three.

You can't just say, do this and they do it.

Or hopefully, you're bigger than they are when they're three.

But now that they're older, the decisions they're making are more significant and have more consequences.

And you see them making career choices and marriage choices and character and moral choices. And

sometimes as a mom, you feel like, how do I help my children walk through these issues?

And as we come to this latter part of Joshua's life, we see him with some situations that are

perplexing. He's been taking the children of Israel for years

through lots of circumstances, the birthing of a nation in Canaan and the entry into the promised land.

He has been with the nation since it was an infant nation. But now the nation has grown up to the point where it's got its own home. It's got its own homeland. And there are issues that surface, and I think sometimes these latter

issues can be even more complex and difficult to deal with. But God gives wisdom and God

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