Joshua wasn't aiming for an early retirement. He finished fighting battles and established the new land laid into life.

Nancy Lee-Demoss reflects on his career. See the progression there? First the conquest, then the settlement, then the rest.

That's when you can put down your sword. That's when you can take off your armor

when the battle has been fought. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Monday, October 27. Do you feel engaged in a battle?

Your call to one, whether it's a battle in prayer on behalf of your family or a war against

your own sin.

Nancy will explain why it might be time to reenlist, continuing in a series called

Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 11, Waging and Winning Spiritual Battles.

Well, we're in Joshua chapter's 10 through 12, and we're seeing this, what some would consider

a pretty boring description and overview and summary of the battles that Joshua fought one after another.

He's most famous for the Battle of Jericho, but there were lots of battles to be fought, and we're looking in this passage to find some gems, some treasures that will help us in our spiritual battles, the battles we face with against Satan,

against this world's system, against our own flesh and indwelling sin. And we said in the last

session that although God gave the land to his people, they had to fight to take possession of it,

one square inch at a time, one city at a time. And there were many battles to be fought. And each battle was

different, and God gave different battle plans. So they had to follow the Lord through each battle.

They never could do this on their own. Now, I want to pick up in the same portion of the book of

Joshua with some other insights on this matter of spiritual battle, spiritual warfare that have been

helpful to me as I think about

my own walk with the Lord. The first one I want to point out today on the face of it will not be

very encouraging, but it's important to realize. And that is that in Joshua's case, as in ours,

the battles did not get any easier. In fact, they got harder. You see, the more victories they won,

the more intense, determined, and fierce, the opposition became. You can really see this pattern

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