Nancy Lee-Demaw says, even if you don't feel qualified, you have an assignment from the Lord.

The older women are to teach the younger women.

How to walk with God, how to love their husbands, how to love their children, how to be pure and keepers at home.

That's a task as we get older that we have a responsibility to take the baton and then to pass it on

to the next generation.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, September 10th, 2014.

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Nancy's continuing in the series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua Part 4, following God's lead to lead. If you've ever watched a relay race at a track and field

event or in the Olympics, you know that sometimes be like four runners, for example, and one will

run the first leg and then the second will run the first leg, and then second

will run the next leg.

And one of the most important things in a relay race, as you watch it, is the handoff

or the exchange of the baton, passing it from one runner to the next.

An entire team can be disqualified for the whole race by dropping the baton or by making an illegal exchange somehow improper baton exchange.

Moses, who had led the people of Israel for 40 years through those years of the wilderness, right up to the promised land, he understood the importance of the passing of the baton,

the passing of leadership from his generation to the next,

the choosing of a successor who would lead the children of Israel into the promised land

and would shepherd them in the next chapter of their lives.

And so this passing of the baton is something that he handled

carefully and prayerfully. I think Moses knew that his race wasn't finished until he had successfully

passed the baton on to the next generation. And so he asked God, as we saw in the last session,

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