Week 6 — Monday: Our Upstream Deliverer
Joshua 3:7-8, 14-16
We read in Joshua 3 not a story but a historical record of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River. I have paraphrased these verses (please read them in full):
“The Lord told Joshua…, ‘Give this command to the priests who carry the Ark of the Covenant…when you reach the banks of the Jordan River, take a few steps into the river and stop there.’ … And the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them…but as soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river’s edge, the water above that point began backing up a great distance away… And the water below that point flowed on to the Dead Sea until the riverbed was dry. Then all the people crossed over near the town of Jericho.”
Did you catch that? The “water above that point began backing up a great distance away.” God controlled the one thing over which the Israelites had no power or control. God once again was proving His authority over nature, in this case, upstream, to deliver His children.
What does that mean for you and me? God did it for them, and He still does it for us today.
It is futile for us to figure out solutions to our own problems. The promises of scripture and the historical proof of its accuracy gives us the confidence to release our trials and temptations to God.
1 Corinthians 10:13 provides us with this promise from God: He has already prepared a way out (“a great distance away”), which means He was working on our situations prior to the day they began.
Journey forward in your trials and temptations, trusting God. He is your Upstream Deliverer.
—CONTRIBUTED BY CINDY WATERSON—
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Christine Pence
October 9, 2023 at 8:08 pmI love the story of Joshua especially Joshua I think it’s five that talks about you know me and my household we shall serve the Lord that’s one of my favorite scriptures excuse me if I’m hashing it apologize I’m getting caught up on it late again in the evening but it’s in the same day so thank God I had a busier day than usual but I always do my best to try to make time for God daily and nightly could use some prayers against evil spirits hedge of protection I need please something I saw last night and heard at 3:00 a.m. so I need prayers and so do other saints cuz people are seeing things and experiencing demonic activity or paranormal activity please pray for all of us and and those who need it God bless also it is a really nice analogy of God’s property I feel that in the book of Joshua that I just read that it talks about that 2,000 cubic feet I believe instead that they have to stay away from the ark of the covenant because it talks about in the Bible about someone touching it and getting struck dead and the levitical priests I believe at the time were the only one allowed to touch the ark of the covenant and it’s basically a way if you think about it in a nutshell even though God is holy and he is holy and we should know that he has a right to protect his personal property like the ark of the covenant and what’s within it so it’s understandable that unless the Lord your God tells you to touch the ark of the covenant or anything that belongs to him it’s best to not mess with it and obey and do what he says also it reminds me of a dream I had in 2021 I’m not going to tell you all the details but I had a dream where somebody that we all know in this country and I won’t tell you who he is and I had a dream about him and they did something to God and the Jews in the dream and they stole something and in the dream God was very angry and I saw a crate in the dream and there were items missing that belong to the Jews and belong to the Lord and just like the ark of the covenant and the dream I was the only person allowed to touch specific items that remained and placed them back in the crate and lock it but the lock was missing and in the dream I could feel God’s anger mad at this certain individual we all know who this person is because they’re in charge of something big but I won’t say who it is I’ll be discreet and in the dream he was letting you know his anger and when I said something to God in the dream he had two angels kneeled down by him the Angels were dressed and black but they were on their knees and I saw Jesus there and he was nodding in agreement with what I was telling him and there was a bunch of crazy stuff happening in this dream and he had his arms crossed and he nodded in agreement about this person and how they’re not doing good for Israel and they’re not doing good with God and actually there’s been a lot of news about this person and people’s involved that have done a lot of bad things against Israel like trying to split Israel that’s in the Bible and many other things and God is not pleased it’s like a beautiful sister in Christ I know says in her YouTube videos and she’s like if you mess with God’s apple of his eye which is Israel his people it’s like don’t go there like you’re going to really take God off and people go by well God is love and Jesus is Love he is love but he also is the authoritative I had a dream about him several years ago when I saw God on a throne a gold throne he said to me in the dream that he was God and I was not he told me in the dream that he was the creator and I was the creation he said that we were under his feet and he he literally we literally are under God’s feet because the Earth is his footstool that’s biblical and he had an authoritativeness in the dream yes there was love there but he was letting me know when I was first coming back to him several years ago regardless of any mistakes I’ve made on my Christian walk I always do my best my best to repent and try again and ask God to help me but my point is God’s in charge and we as humans struggle in our flesh because we want to be in charge we want to do it like right now I have a friend who is fighting with a lot of turmoil in her life and her marriage and her life with her kids and I’m not going to say anymore and they know in their heart they have to surrender it to God and they they believe in God they’re a believer but I told them I’m like God wants you I can feel it in my my gut that night I said God wants you to surrender it all to him and they have not done so so they are continuing in their turmoil we have to learn to surrender to God myself included thank you for this I look forward to tomorrow’s PS please pray for me concerning me and my apartment manager there might be trouble tomorrow again please pray I pray not but God bless good night