Transformed From The Inside Out: A Transformed/New Spine (Backbone)

 

God wants to give you a new SPINE (backbone).

What does the statement "that person has backbone" mean to you?

1.      Read Joshua 1: 1-5

There are promises for God’s people in this passage of scripture, NKJV fill in the blanks  using the word/phrase bank below

² “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the ________which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. 

³ ____________________________________ I have given you, as I said to Moses. 

⁴ From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. ⁵ No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so ___________________________________. ____________________________________________________.

I will be with you, Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon , land, I will not leave you nor forsake you. 

2.     Read Joshua 1: 5-9   God Gave Joshua instructions for success, list the instructions you see.

Passive defined Oxford Languages English Dictionary, dictionary.cambridge.org/

accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.not acting to influence or change a situation; allowingother people to be in control:

A lack of feeling, desire, general apathy, lukewarmness, and laziness (evil spirits are behind this feeling)

A passive person thinks he is doing nothing wrong because he is doing nothing. His analysis is correct, but his behavior is not.  The problem arose precisely because he did nothing.

Doing NOTHING is just as bad as doing the wrong thing.  The devil is so busy he will fill up our passive places with negative thoughts against our goals. 

God loves us passionately.  Jesus ministered passionately.

We are called to live passionate lives not lives of passivity. 

we must live a life that demonstrates the power of the resurrection….having a backbone not a wishbone.

Don’t wish things were different. Make different choices and then live a different, active, positive life filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.

3.    Why does Satan try to persuade us to become inactive?

4.     Read Eph. 6:11    How do we “stand against the wiles of the devil?”

1.      If we desire victory over our problems, and live the abundant life God has for us we must have (what kind of bone?) ____________      and not just wishbone.