Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly

I’m His. He’s God. It’s going to be OK.

Before a stone ever cascaded down Jericho’s wall, the Lord led His people to affirm their relationship with Him. And before Joshua led the battle cry, he met the Captain alone at ground zero. Who I am in Him always precedes what I do for Him.

If God is real, you’d better tell your kids.

Teaching the next generation is more than assigning verses to memorize or Bible lessons to complete. It’s relating the wonderful, exciting, and sometimes frightening narrative of what He has done in your own life! Your kids need to see the unique way God’s fingerprints have touched your life.

You can’t borrow someone else’s faith, but you can build upon it.

In today’s episode, God connects Joshua to Moses three times in five verses. God’s plan is so much bigger than one lifetime, but He loves to connect people together generation after generation to accomplish His incredible purposes. Whose baton have you grasped, and where are you running with it?

Don’t forget not to forget.

Sometimes we get the idea that God only does amazing things for other people. Nothing to be further from the truth. Our problem is our way-too-short attention span and short term memory loss. Guess what? God knows how we are! And He gave the people a couple of really practical ways to overcome spiritual amnesia.

When your next step seems irrational!

As if it weren’t enough that God told His people to step into a flowing river, He told them to do it at the worst possible time. God’s not interested in your comfort zone; He’s interested in your obedience.

Why does God make some people bigger?

Have you notices that some people have been given more talents than others? And the same could be said for a person’s influence… some simply have way more sway on other people’s lives. Why is that? In today’s podcast we will learn why God chooses to magnify some people for His purposes. But we will also discover the proper attitude of the one who has been magnified.

Move when God moves!

We have all heard the advice to, “keep your eyes on the Lord.” The podcast today makes that advice more than a general statement—it provides the practicality that so many Christians are looking for in following God. Listen and learn what it means to maintain a prioritized focus on God and His Word.

Jesus is hiding in our story.

Tucked away in the wonderful story of Rahab is an incredible picture of Jesus and the salvation He brings. The parallels are amazing and the story itself is compelling. God had the power to take a broken life and use it for exciting new purposes!

Don’t be afraid to double-check with God.

Forty years earlier, Joshua had entered Canaan as a spy. Now he sends two of his own spies on a reconnaissance mission. Some might view this as a lack of faith. But Joshua was not spying to determine IF he should obey God; he was spying to better determine HOW to obey God.

Help your leaders by keeping your promises.

On the launchpad of Joshua’s greatest challenge, he received a tremendous boost of encouragement from a group of people who simply vowed to keep their word. They had previously promised to help, and now that it was time to act, they committed to follow through. What commitments have you made? How are you following through?