The Intercessors Handbook by Jennifer Eivaz

Author:Jennifer Eivaz [Eivaz, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012080, REL099000
ISBN: 9781441230010
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-06T23:00:00+00:00

Joshua, born a slave in Egypt, experienced firsthand the wonders of God’s deliverance. He had watched the water turn to blood, the miracle invasions of frogs and insects, the death of all the firstborn in Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea, just to name a few. Was there anything God could not do?

These events built audacious faith in the heart of Joshua. He was ready to go after anything God said he could have.

On the borders of the Promised Land, however, disaster struck. It was the disaster of unbelief. Unbelief in this miracle-working God kept an entire nation out of the land of promise. But in the midst of this contradiction, Joshua did not flinch, and he did not lose heart. Joshua, now Moses’ assistant, trusted and waited on God for forty years through the wilderness.

Finally, it was time to move out. Joshua had received his divine orders to take the new generation into the Promised Land. It was a promise that required them to fight for new territory. Now full of faith, they went to war against the inhabitants and took the land, one city at a time.

The king of Jerusalem, Adoni-Zedek, and his people were alarmed. These Israelite invaders defeated strong cities, one after the other, and seemed invincible. Even the city of Gibeon, an important city full of good fighters, had made a peace treaty with Joshua to become Israel’s ally. So Adoni-Zedek appealed to the nearby Amorite kings, and they joined forces to fight against Gibeon.

The Gibeonites made a plea to Joshua for help.

“Come up to us quickly and save us!” they said. “Help us, because all the Amorite kings from the hill country have joined forces against us” (Joshua 10:6).

Joshua prepared his best fighting men to march all night toward the incoming armies.

Along the way, God gave Joshua a sure promise: “Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you” (verse 8).

At daybreak, Joshua and his army took the Amorites by surprise. The Lord helped Joshua by throwing the Amorites into confusion and raining killer hailstones on them as they tried to run away.

Joshua knew he would win the battle, but he needed more daylight to do it. The sun was going down, so Joshua did what had never been done before. In the presence of the Lord, he made this declaration before the people of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon” (verse 12).

Joshua commanded the sun!

These words were the words of Joshua, and yet God honored them as if they were His own. The sun stood still for almost a full day, and Joshua finished off the Amorites, just as God promised he would.

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