1. SCRIPTURE READING
JOSHUA 1:6 6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

2. TAKE NEW TERRITORY

3. JOSHUA 1:6
6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

4. JOSHUA 1:9
9 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.”

5. JOSHUA 1:18
18 Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!”

6. GOD IS SAYING:
Be strong and courageous.

7. NUMBERS 13:30-33
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.” 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

8. WARNING TO HEED:
Don’t make people big and God small.

9. NUMBERS 14:29-30
29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

10. LIFE’S TRANSITIONS:
1. Remember God is with you.

11. JOSHUA 1:5
5 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

12. PROVERBS 15:17
17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

13. PSALMS 139:7-10
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

14. MATTHEW 27:50-51
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split

15. HEBREWS 4:16
16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

16. LIFE’S TRANSITIONS:
2. Turn up the volume of God’s Word.

17. JOSHUA 1:7-8
7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

18. PROVERBS 16:3
3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.

19. II CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

20. TAKE NEW TERRITORY