Through maintaining a deep and intimate communion with God we have the assurance of victory upon victory. We have the Spirit of God to overcome any obstacle or challenge. The same spiritual principles that clearly brought Joshua into the inheritance of his dreams...

The third principle Joshua pursued to receive victory upon victory is a deep confidence in God’s faithfulness to His promise. In Joshua 21:45 from the Berkeley version, notice what is written: “Of all the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of...

Joshua’s victory went far beyond his own ability. He continued to march onward to conquer every enemy with increased assurance. His successes would not come through human effort alone. He had become thoroughly convinced that he was not limited to his own strength....

Once we, as believers, begin to recognize and affirm in our own lives the conquering attitude the Holy Spirit has over our enemies, we will be lifted into enormous confidence. We can see clearly in Psalms 18:38-40 how the Lord wants us to put our foot on our...

As long as we depend on God’s courage and strength, we need not be defeated. “Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the...

David learned the lesson of courage and restraint after he returned from battle to Ziklag and found that the Amalekites had burned the city and taken their families (see 1 Samuel 30). David did two very important things in response to this crisis. First, he...

There are times when we are under attack that we must respond with a sense of spiritual violence. We must aggressively release the power of God that is stored up within us. Jesus said, “...the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force”...

When we come under attack by the enemy, we can tap into the same kind of courage that Joshua demonstrated when he conquered the city of Jericho. An easy way to understand courage is to associate it with a buoyant spirit, the kind of attitude that just will not be...

The success that Joshua experienced at Jericho demonstrated clearly that he had taken the position as the commander of Israel with an astonishing sense of leadership. There was no question that he was fearlessly following Jehovah’s command.One of the key...

We move toward our most dominant thoughts. When our thoughts harmonize with God’s Word, His power can work through us. Using mental pictures from God’s Word causes the reality of His promises to lodge deep into our hearts. We must plant the seed of His promise and...

Our minds are like a garden. We can cultivate our minds and plant the seeds we want to grow, or we can neglect it and allow the weeds to take over. Either way, it will bring a harvest into our lives. Galatians 6:7 declares a most important truth. Notice the...

When Israel reestablished their covenant of circumcision with the Lord, they returned to God with total abandonment. They didn’t want anything to stand in their way. They had witnessed the weakness of their fathers in the wilderness and now they only wanted God’s...