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Speaker 1: end each day with God's word in your mind and

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Speaker 1: we'll reflect on Tonight's scripture Joshua Chapter one. Tonight's scripture

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Speaker 1: reflection is written by Meg Booker and read by Leah Gerard.

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Speaker 1: Joshua chapter one, after the death of Moses, the servant

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Speaker 1: of the Lord. The Lord said to Joshua's Sun of noon. Moses' aid, Moses,

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Speaker 1: my servant is dead. Now, then you and all these

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Speaker 1: people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land.

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Speaker 1: I am about to give them to the Israelites. I

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Speaker 1: will give you every place where you set your foot,

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Speaker 1: as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the

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Speaker 1: desert to Lebanon, and from the Great River the Euphrates,

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Speaker 1: all the Hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

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Speaker 1: No one will be able to stand against you all

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Speaker 1: the days of your life. As I was with Moses,

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Speaker 1: so I will be with you. I will never leave

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Speaker 1: you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you

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Speaker 1: will lead these people to inherit the land I swore

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Speaker 1: to their ancestors to give them. Be strong and very

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Speaker 1: courageous to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you.

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Speaker 1: Do not turn from it to the right or to

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Speaker 1: the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

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Speaker 1: Keep this book of the law always on your lips.

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Speaker 1: Meditate on it day and night, so that you may

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Speaker 1: be careful to do everything written in it. Then you

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Speaker 1: will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you

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Speaker 1: be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, do not

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Speaker 1: be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with

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Speaker 1: you wherever you go. So, Joshua, order the officers of

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Speaker 1: the people go through the camp and tell the people

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Speaker 1: get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will

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Speaker 1: cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession

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Speaker 1: of the land. The Lord your God is giving you

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Speaker 1: for your own. But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and

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Speaker 1: the half tribe of Manassah. Joshua said, remember the command

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Speaker 1: that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you. After

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Speaker 1: he said, the Lord your God will give you rest

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Speaker 1: by giving you this land, your wives, your children, and

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Speaker 1: your livestock may stand in the land that Moses gave

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Speaker 1: you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men

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Speaker 1: ready for battle must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites.

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Speaker 1: You are to help them until the Lord gives them

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Speaker 1: rest as he has done for you, and until they

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Speaker 1: too have taken possession of the land the Lord your

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Speaker 1: God is giving them. After that you may go back

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Speaker 1: and occupy your own land which Moses, the servant of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, gave you east of the Jordan, towards the sunrise.

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Speaker 1: Then they answered, Joshua, whatever you have commanded us, we

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Speaker 1: will do, and wherever you send us, we will go,

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Speaker 1: just as we fully obeyed Moses. So we will obey you.

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Speaker 1: Only may the Lord your God be with you as

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Speaker 1: he was with Moses. Whoever rebels against your word and

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Speaker 1: does not obey it, whatever you may command them, they

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Speaker 1: will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous. Moses.

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Speaker 1: Would be a tough act to follow. We can certainly

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Speaker 1: understand Joshua's hesitation and lack of confidence here. Not only

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Speaker 1: was he trying to muster up the courage to obey

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Speaker 1: God in a very difficult calling, but comparison would be

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Speaker 1: impossible to resist given in his circumstances. God tells Joshua

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Speaker 1: to be strong and courageous several times. Repetition in scripture

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Speaker 1: is never coincidental, always important. Here God is telling Joshua

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Speaker 1: what to proclaim over himself, instructing him to adjust his

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Speaker 1: perspective and choose to see himself the way God sees him.

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Speaker 1: The following portions of tonight's text are worth repeating and

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Speaker 1: marinating in. Joshua one five through six says, no one

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Speaker 1: will be able to stand against you all the days

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Speaker 1: of your life, as I was with Moses, so I

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Speaker 1: will be with you. I will never leave you nor

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Speaker 1: forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead

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Speaker 1: these people to inherit the land I swore to their

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Speaker 1: ancestors to give them. Joshua one seven tells us be

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Speaker 1: strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the

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Speaker 1: law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn learn

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Speaker 1: from it to the right or to the left, that

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Speaker 1: you may be successful wherever you go. And Joshua one

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Speaker 1: eight through nine proclaims, keep this book of the law

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Speaker 1: always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night,

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Speaker 1: so that you may be careful to do everything written

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Speaker 1: in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have

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Speaker 1: I not commanded you be strong and courageous. Do not

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Speaker 1: be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your

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Speaker 1: God will be with you wherever you go. When we

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Speaker 1: remember who God is and what He's done both in

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Speaker 1: our own lives personally and historically through the pages of scripture,

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Speaker 1: or able to see differently through a Godly perspective that

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Speaker 1: allows us to be strong and courageous in obedience to God.

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Speaker 1: So much of this to pens on meditating on God's word,

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Speaker 1: just as he commanded Joshua, day and night. Father, God,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the instructions you provide through scripture. Your word,

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Speaker 1: as the Psalm says, is a lamp to guide my

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Speaker 1: feet and a light for my path. It illuminates the

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Speaker 1: direction of your will for every single day of my life,

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Speaker 1: and I could not survive without it. Help me to

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Speaker 1: remember your truth and see through your perspective as I

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Speaker 1: walk through my days. God, may the strength and wisdom

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Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit dwell in me through Christ Jesus,

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Speaker 1: give me courage and strength to accomplish Your purposes for

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Speaker 1: my life and bring glory to your name, in Jesus' name, Amen,

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