Welcome to the Jesus Image podcast.

I really feel like this is a word for us.

And I want to talk about the life of Josiah

and how he picked up a battle that wasn't his

and what it did.

And we're going to go through scripture a little bit,

and Michael just touched on it brief this morning because we were talking me and him not too long

ago, and I've, because I read this years ago, and it was when I was wanting to just jump

into battle that I wasn't called to fight. And sometimes when we read the Word of God, you know, it hits us more than anybody.

Even when we're ministering, it hits us more than it does, even some of you guys, maybe.

I ministered to myself like half the time, which is awesome.

If you don't like it, it's okay.

I'm getting fed.

But it just, it baffled me when I was reading about, you know, you read through just all

these kings that just did everything wrong after David.

And you get so excited when you're reading the word, you're like, finally a king that's

doing it right, you know?

If you've read through the Old Testament, you see that time and time again.

It's like, okay, this one please the Lord, this one was see that time and time again it's like okay this

one pleased the lord this one was evil this one and it's like so many and then you get to to just

you're like thank you lord he's pleasing you but he did not in right because he took up an offense

of somebody else and oftentimes we do, we jump into war that we were

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