Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, November 1st.

When you seek God's truth, you'll uncover the blessings promise to those who surrender to his will.

Here's more on the courage to obey from the Book of Joshua, Chapter 1.

Wherever you are, wherever you're listening, you'll want to take some notes today, because

whatever you're facing in life, you're going to come to those times when you need courage

to face them, whether it's with your family, your job, whatever it might be.

So listen carefully, and remember this, because the illustration happened several thousand years ago, it is just as

true today as it was then because God never changes. Principles don't change. So let's

take a few moments to look at the background of what's going on in Joshua's life at this point.

Moses brought the children of Israel to the brink of the promised land 40 years before.

They had a problem.

They had a faith failure.

They sent 12 spies to look at the land.

They came back and only two.

Joshua and Caleb were the ones who said,

we can take it. The rest of them said, oh, no, because they have walled cities and all the other excuses they gave. So now, 40 years later, after wandering in the wilderness for 40 long years,

and remember now, the people that we're talking about now grew up in the wilderness,

fighting to some degree and all kinds of rumblings that were going on and all the strife they

had with Moses, very, very bad time, 40 years.

Now here is Joshua at the same place with the same proposition before him.

How do you lead all these people into a promised land that God had given them and where there

are seven nations that they will have to fight in order to accomplish God's purpose for

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