Here's Nancy Lee DeMaz.

Our natural tendencies to want to be delivered from the battle.

I'm not ready for this.

God knows that.

And I believe he sometimes puts us right in the battle

so we can experience a supernatural power to defeat our enemies.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, August 4th.

If there's some big task looming over your day, take a few minutes to find out what the Bible says about handling it.

We'll do that by looking at the life of Joshua.

We'll be studying the life of this hero starting here in August and into the fall.

Our current series is called Lessons from the Life of Joshua Part 1,

Learning to Be Victorious. Have you ever been given a task that you felt totally unprepared

and ill-equipped to handle? Inadequate, not up to it. Maybe you got thrown into a job

that you didn't have the training or the experience

to handle, and you just felt I am way in over my head. Or maybe for you, it was marriage.

Did anybody wake up, you know, like within the first week of marriage and think, I am not ready for this,

but it's too late to be having this thought.

And if you didn't have it then, maybe you had it when you became a mother. And you thought,

oh, Lord, they didn't train me for this. I didn't study this in college. I'm not ready for this.

And you're holding this little thing and you're thinking how do you do this and maybe you weren't

really nurtured and raised in a godly environment and you're wanting to pass that on to your children

a godly environment a godly legacy and you're thinking i am clueless i do not know how to be

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