Sometimes Nancy Lee DeMoss needs to ask herself, where have I been planted lately?

I 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 Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeDemoss for Thursday, April 9th.

Advice and information is everywhere.

Our problem these days isn't gaining 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 for 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 in De 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.

And we don't read a lot about Joshua's natural qualifications.

We read that God equipped him to do

the task by calling him to a lifestyle of meditation on the Word of God. And not just meditation,

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