Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Anyone can praise God when they can see the outcome.

If they can see a good outcome and say, oh, praise God, isn't God good?

That doesn't take faith.

It takes faith to praise God when you can't see a good outcome.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.

There are plenty of things around you that can cause fear. You can dwell on those fears today, or you can cultivate faith.

Nancy will show you how, in this series, Lessons from the Life of Joshua Part 3, trusting God for

the promised land. We'll be studying the life of Joshua in several teaching series from now through November. Here's Nancy.

I think we've all known people who seem to flounder in their Christian life. And you look back

over a period of years and they seem to deal with the same issues, the same struggles, year

after year. They never really seem to make much real progress. And that's a

burden. That's a concern. It's a frustration for them. And sometimes if you're trying to

disciple or help a person like that, you say, why don't they get it? And then you have other people

who are growing spiritually, they're maturing spiritually, they become more fruitful, they're

conformed to Christ.

What makes the difference? Why does some flounder and why are some fruitful? Well, we want to look

at another incident in the life of Joshua and the children of Israel, starting today, but over

the next several days, this is one of the most familiar accounts that

relates to the life of Joshua. And let me just summarize it for you here, and then we're going

to take the next several days to plumb into some of the depths of this passage. It's a story

that we read about in Numbers 13 and 14, and let me ask you to turn to Numbers Chapter 13,

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