"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9
And what always comes with a grace given command from the Lord is:
(1) authority to do His assignment, (2) strength from His word to fulfill His assignment, (3) courage to overcome the obstacles on His assignment that challenge what we see, hear and feel, (4) His presence to accomplish His assignment.
An Out of Season Word
When we surrender our rights to the Lord, there will be times when we are told to do things by Him that seem to be "out of season." He will have us say and do things that just don't make sense to us or to those whom we are ministering to. Joshua was instructed by God to march around a city and shout, and the walls would fall down. Gideon was told to reduce his fighting force down to three hundred men to fight several nations who were numerous as locusts. He was not only to fight with three hundred men, but he was also commanded to use a strange "weapon" of clay pottery with a candle on the inside to fight with on this dreadful night. It didn't make sense to him nor to any naturally-minded man. Jehoshaphat was led to send out the choir before his army because the battle was not theirs, but the Lord's. All these things are out of season events. None of them logically make any sense. Think about each of these historical accounts and find the four common denominators in each one. We must notice that each account is different. They were all told to do something different to fight. The result was that they all fought diff
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