As Christians, we spend a lot of our time reacting to the culture, reacting to the defeat and the loss and the discouragement and the hurt.

But Jonathan Evans says our acceptance of defeat is a mistake.

God is helping us reposition for the win.

I'm experiencing in my own life that it's better to be patient in prayer than it is to be hasty to your own defeat.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Sometimes life's defeats are the wake-up calls we need to break through our pride and remind us of our

deep dependence on God.

Today, special guest Pastor Jonathan Evans shares the story of a biblical figure who had to

learn that lesson the hard way and how we can avoid making the same mistake.

Let's join him as he begins.

Today, we're going to be talking about the pain of pride. In Joshua chapter 7, verse 5, it says,

The men of A.I struck down about 36 of their men and pursued them from the gate as far of

Shirabim and struck them down on their descent. And so the hearts of the people melted and became

like water. Then Joshua tore his

clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening. Both he and the

elders of Israel and they put dust on their heads. Joshua said, alas, oh Lord, why did you ever bring this people over the Jordan only to

deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only, we had been willing to dwell

beyond the Jordan. Here, Joshua is experiencing a whole lot of pain like many of us are experiencing right now.

He's experiencing that pain and he's before the Lord.

And I just want to say it backwards so that we can really feel the way that Joshua feels right now.

He's on his knees in prayer before the Lord and he's saying, Lord, it would have been better if we were not even in the promise.

It would have been better if we had been willing in the promise. It would have been better if we had

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