Be Strong: Be Courageous

Today's Reading:  Deuteronomy 33 - Joshua 2 "Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses …

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My Servant the BRANCH

"Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth My Servant the BRANCH. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, …

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040911 And I sent the hornet before you…

"And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.  And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from …

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040711 …The mountain shall be thine

"And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, 'Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?'   And Joshua answered them, 'If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and …

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040611 …Behold, the LORD hath kept me alive…

"Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, 'Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.  Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me …

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040511 Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand…

"And the LORD said unto Joshua, 'Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.'  Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.  And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at …

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040411 …They have also transgressed My covenant…

"And the LORD said unto Joshua, 'Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?   Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own …

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040311 …There stood a Man over against him with His sword drawn in His hand…

"And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a Man over against him with His sword drawn in His hand: and Joshua went unto Him, and said unto Him, 'Art Thou for us, or for our adversaries?'  And He said, 'Nay; …

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040211 …He is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath

"And before they were laid down, she [Rahab] came up unto them upon the roof; and she said unto the men, 'I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.  For we have heard …

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030311 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses…

"And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, …

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021311 Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still

"I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'  And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by …

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012311 …When Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed…

"Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.  And Moses said unto Joshua, 'Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.'  So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with …

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