Day 16 of 90 - Joshua 7:1- Joshua 19:51

Day 16 - COMPLETE!

In the reading on Day 16, we read Joshua 7:1-Joshua 19:51. I received so many “one sentence sermons” but I can only share a few in this space. The first sentence was: your next season of connections will require critical conversations. The next one was: don’t get intimate without an interview.

These words were inspired by Joshua 9 because therein, the Gibeonites try to deceive Joshua into covering them and protecting them. Joshua engages them with a critical conversation and asks important questions in order to vet the voices. Who are you? And where do you come from? In the same way, we have to remember that some people are only approaching us because of the favor on our lives. They don’t want relationship with us; they want affiliation and association so they can appear “more godly, or more stable” than they really are.

Joshua asked the right questions, but asked the wrong people. He consulted with his peers but did not inquire of the Lord (Joshua 9:14). And like Isaac who gave Jacob the blessing after asking all the right questions but not trusting his gut, Joshua also made a bad decision. He made a treaty of peace with deceit. He allied with pretenders. He connected with counterfeit colleagues. Listen: be careful not to sign the dotted line with people who have come into your life to take advantage of you.

But because of this treaty in Joshua 9, Joshua finds himself in a bind in Joshua 10. The Gibeonites are under attack and they turn to Joshua’s people to rescue them. This is the chapter where the sun stands still and God vindicates on Israel’s behalf but can I tell you something I discovered today? This fight wasn’t even their fight, and they still won. This fight was between the Gibeonites and the surrounding kings. Nevertheless, Joshua won. And the one sentence sermon I heard today was this: God is going to help you win battles that aren’t even yours to fight.

Furthermore, in Verse 11- it wasn’t Joshua’s weapons that caused them to win; but God’s intervention. God’s hailstones were greater than their swords. And God’s weapons are greater than our words.

Lesson- sometimes we need to just trust God to win the battle for us, without us. He doesn’t need our weapons to win, so just submit to His process for your conquest.