Does your decision-making promote peace?

Nancy Lee DeMoss looks at the example of Joshua.

Be careful that you don't respond to hearsay, that you don't decide to go to war before you've even found out what's happening.

Be careful not to take sides or you will lose the ability to influence.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, November 5th, 2014.

Everybody experiences conflict.

Only a few learn to become peacemakers.

We'll learn to promote peace by looking at the example of Joshua.

Nancy's in the series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 12, Leaving a Legacy.

How many of you have been at the stage where you've had kids who've left

home or gone off to college already? Lots and lots of hands here. Do you remember what it was like

and how you were perhaps thinking, I hope they know everything they need to know? I had a mother

say to me today, she's got a grown young adult son, and she said, my son, he's just not

organizational at all, and he's getting ready to move to another adult son and she said, my son, he's just not organizational at all,

and he's getting ready to move to another state. And she said, I'm just having to help him with

some of these basic things to remember this. And as you send those kids off, you think, I hope

they know how to do their laundry. I think they know how, I hope they know how to balance their

checkbook. And mostly, don't you really hope that they've got it spiritually because you know

that you can keep influencing but not the way that you were able to when they were younger and as

you send those kids off to college for the first time take them maybe to the dorm as you're giving

parting words are you thinking about all the things you want

them to remember? Don't forget this. Don't forget that. Remember this. I think a verse in the New

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