S222P4 – Lessons from Joshua: insight into possession

Jos. 6:2-5 And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.  You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once.  Thus shall you do for six days.  Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’…

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S222P3 – Lessons from Joshua: a common reason for his work

Jos. 4:20-24 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.  And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry…

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S222P2 – Lessons from Joshua: as He has done, so will He do

Jos. 3:14-16 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in…

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S222P1 – Lessons from Joshua: have strength and courage

Jos. 1:5-7 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.  Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.  I will not leave you or forsake you.  Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to…

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S221P6 – In his hands: our days

Psa. 139:13-16 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.  I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.  My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the…

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S221P5 – In his hands: time

Jer. 1:4-5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” If time were a set of train tracks starting at the beginning and ending at the end, we…

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S221P4 – In his hands: all the heavens

Lk. 21:25-28 And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world.  For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. …

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S221P3 – In his hands: fire

2 Kgs. 1:13-14 Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty.  And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious…

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S221P2 – In his hands: the waters

Jon. 1:15-17 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.  Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.  And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.  And Jonah was in the belly…

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S221P1 – In his hands: the sun

Jos. 10:12-14 At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until…

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