Faith and Humility: Joshua 3

Published: Feb. 9, 2014, 10 a.m.

b'Joshua: Be CourageousFaith and Humility: Joshua 3February 9, 2014Today\\u2019s Goal: To move us all beyond the idea of being saved from something into the greater reality of being saved to something.A Word of Faith (V 1-13)\\u2022(V 1-4): Officers Speak to the PeopleApp: We need eyes to see where God is leading.\\u2022Joshua Speaks to the People (V 5) App: Saturday Night Church Prep: "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you." \\u2022Joshua Speaks to the Priests (V 6)\\u2022The Lord Speaks to Joshua (V 7-8)\\u2022Joshua Speaks to the People Again (V 9-13) App: Come and listen to the words of the LordTrust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6\\u2026He brought us out from there to bring us in\\u2026 Deuteronomy 6:23A Walk of Faith (V 14-17): When a word of faith becomes actionApp: Sometimes we simply say a prayer and God moves, but other times we must step outApp: Until we\\u2019re willing to get our feet wet, we\\u2019re unlikely to see the kinds of blessings God has in store\\u2026we are God\'s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10b \\u201cYou did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.\\u201d John 15:16But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. 1Peter 2:9-12 What is God\\u2019s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?'