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Pursuing Your Destiny Takes Work

Every once in a while I pick up the guitar. I say out loud to someone, I’m going to learn to play. So I will find some way to tune a guitar rich seems very tedious. So once I get someone else to do that for me I get to learn a chord .. then quickly come the “you pressing to hard, you pressing in the wrong place, you’re not pressing hard enough.” So then comes the next part. This is too hard, I quit.

Between you and your destiny is Strongholds.

Nay-sayers

How do you push through for your barriers to inhabit your promise?

The story{the first part}

Moses

He didn’t make it

Either way great leader parts the red sea

Joshua takes the helm

Be strong and courageous

Has to follow in Moses foot steps.

Looming question: will Joshua be as good as Moses

Big test at the river — passed

once on the other side of the river manna stops

Theres people in there - big walls ect.

The Obstacle

Jericho was a a horribly sinful place

Sin stands between you and your promise

love the lord your God, with all your heart, .... love neighbor

Sin is protected.

Big walls

After the one wall is another wall

God has promises us to set us free, why then are we not free

Faith

command from a stranger who coll himself a messenger.

Hebrews 11:1 NIV

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

a stranger who coll himself a messenger.

Matthew 21:21 NIV

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.

Mat 21

Galatians 2:16 NIV

know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Gal

Obedience

even if it’s blind, obey

if you love me obey ...

b.

even if you don’t understand why… obey

Deuteronomy 30:15–16 NIV

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

John 14:15 NIV

“If you love me, keep my commands.

Conclusion

When we look at this story in the Bible it’s possible to get many meaning out of it. But here is what is really going on for you and me.

God has given us great promises - both as individuals and as a body

We are to be strong and courageous when pursuing that promise

God will prove himself

we need to be obedient -even when it’s strange.

we need to have faith

God will fulfill His promise to us.