Joshua

PREPARATION

Pastor Hope Flask

January 11, 2026

Main Scriptures: Joshua 1:1-10

Additional Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:3-4, Colossians 1:13-14, Matthew 16:24, Galatians 5:1, Hebrews 3:7-8, Numbers 14:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Hebrews 12:1-2, Joshua 3:13

POINTS:

• Trouble often dictates correction of direction.

• Direction matters more than speed.

• What God has done:

1. Delivered us

2. Takes us from deliverance into development

• Development is done in the wilderness

• The wilderness shows us everything we are still holding on to as we try to take up our cross.

• Why many never enter into the promised land:

1. People want a sure thing

2. A lack of gratitude

3. They don’t want to do the work

• “He is a Lion. He is not safe. But He is good.” -CS Lewis

• It is our self-righteousness, fueled by the self-righteousness of others, that will harden our hearts.

• God will let satan set it up so the saints can pick it up.

• 4 principles for entering the promised land:

1. We must leave yesterday behind

2. Seize our inheritance

3. Stay focused on God, not people

4. Stay tethered to God’s Word

• When it comes to yesterday, we need to have a Memorial Day.

• Joshua needed to be Joshua, not Moses.

• Whenever God does something significant in someone’s life in the Bible, it comes after they move.

• Fear and faith are both about perspective.

• God will confirm His Word with circumstances, the Holy Spirit, and other people, but he will never contradict His Word.

• We can’t know what Jesus would do until we know what He did.