Joshua generation :victorious living in God 's promise (Part 1)

Joshua, Son of Nun, took up the mantle of leadership of the Israelites at the time of Moses death. Joshua was a strong and courageous young leader who led God's people fearlessly into the Promised Land… "Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses." Deuteronomy 34:9.
Our lives are a series of preparation. They are preparatory moments that prepare us for a moment. Each event in your life is didactic. It is training and development. There are lessons in each experience we go through. It is important to keep your spiritual radar on so you don’t miss what God is saying in this season. You have to be sensitive to every event happening.
Joshua 1:2 says Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. A new chapter is about to unfold in the lives of the children of Israel.  The leader they knew. . .the deliverer they followed … is dead. . .but the promise, the vision is not. 'Never base your pursuit of a vision on the man or woman of God who taught it but on our great God who promised it.' 
If you are going to manifest your time, you can’t spend time second guessing God. You got to be about moving the thing. When you are a successor, you just move when God tells you to. You can’t wait for affirmation from people. This subjects you to persecution just like Noah went through, but you are willing to do what God wants. When God says, “Arise”….it means start moving towards your goal…the thing you desire….the thing you’ve been believing for.
When you move forward in faith…you move with our great God Jehovah’s blessings.
In other words. . .get up and get going.  Do something. . .stop talking and start pursuing His promises.
Then the verse tells the children of Israel where to go to get the inheritance they’ve been promised
God’s Word reveals to us every day. . .where He wants us to go to manifest. . .the promises He has given to us.  He wants us to pursue with passion the inheritance He’s promised us as well.
If you have a pulse. . .you have a purpose. . .find it. . .live it.
There is also a very powerful transition in Joshua 1:2. 
“Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan. . .”
There is more than a shift of leadership taking place here. . .the Children of Israel are about to move from the promises of God leaving the sin of the past behind. . .and move into possessing the Promised Land.
I believe that’s where you are. . .ready to move from the promises of God to manifesting and possessing the blessings of God.
Get ready. . .take a stand. . .move from the promises to the Promised Land.  It’s time to “go over” and take what God has given you.


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