Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

If you've not learned to be a good follower and to be faithful and content in that role,

then chances are when it comes your time to be the leader,

you won't be as effective as you might have been had you learned to follow.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, August 12, 2014.

Sometimes we get letters from energetic, smart young women who are eager to minister like Nancy does, but they're

in a season of following rather than leading. Find out why being a faithful follower

could help you become an even more effective leader in the future. We're beginning the second

of many series we'll hear on The Life of Joshua through this fall. This series is called

Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 2, Learning to Be Teachable. Here's Nancy. I've lived long

enough now to see a lot of people start out well in the Christian life and not make it to the

finish line. And some even, sadly,

in ministry positions, some who started out really serving the Lord earnestly, faithfully,

effectively, but who have fallen out of the race. And some not in vocational ministry positions,

but who started out loving Christ and wanting to please

him and have not made it all the way to the end. Sometimes people drop out of the race because

of discouragement. They lose heart and just give up. Sometimes it's temporal values that distract them and where they once loved Christ with all

their heart. Now their heart and their affections are turned to money or position or prestige

or the world, worldliness, a lot of different reasons. But as we've been studying the life

of Joshua, the thing that drew me to this study in the first place was the fact that I was

struck by his faithfulness in the race over the long haul. I started this study, and I said this

at the beginning of the series, because my pastor was preaching on Joshua when he came to the end of his

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