Binge the Bible - Joshua, Judges & Ruth

Finding Wholeness

When you’re in a car accident, you can power through the initial trauma because of adrenaline. It isn’t until months later, during the cascade effects, that you begin to notice things like headaches.

The pandemic was a global trauma that we all powered through using our emotional and spiritual reserves. Now that things have subsided, we are all searching to replenish ourselves. Yet nothing seems to work: vacations, rock concerts, eating out with friends… While these are fun events, *they don’t replenish us at the deeper level.

This is why Paul prayed in Ephesians 3, “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being.” Only the Lord can replenish what the pandemic squeezed out of our reserves.

This is why Psalm 1 talks about, “The person who is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.” God is the rushing water that replenishes our inner being. Ask the Lord to refill you daily and slowly, as your soul is renourished, you will see what God can do through you.

Joshua: “Be Strong and Courageous”

“Be strong and courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you.” —Joshua 1:7 (ESV)

The closer we walk with

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, the more we will feel His strength and courage

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Who we are, what we love, and how far we are willing to trust God are

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when we are truly

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Our biggest battle is with

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“Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.” —1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NLT)

We are all undergoing a spiritual process called

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Trauma reveals what our

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are full of: fear or

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or Jesus.
In Judges, there was a cycle: Israel

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the Lord, Israel falls into compromise and sin, Israel becomes

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of a foreign oppressor, Israel

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in repentance,

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is raised up to deliver Israel.

“The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of the day.” —Proverbs 4:18 (NLT)

“For by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.” —Hebrews 10:14

Sanctification is the process of becoming

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every day.
We are like

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– beautiful even in our brokenness, but made up of many fragments.
The Apostle Paul confessed in Romans 7: “Part of me

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God and part of me

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When we go through

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, it is part of the sanctification process where God

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some part of us not yet

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to Christ, so that it

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be united to Christ.

Final Verse: Judges 21:25

“In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” —Judges 21:25 (ESV)

Beware

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. “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” (Hebrews 2:1)
If you are not

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, you will be

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Anchor your

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. “Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flows the well-springs of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)

A Prayer for This Week

Oh Jesus, I pray for the salvation that is truly salvation.
I want to be permeated by Christ.
Oh Jesus, here I am, hateful, lustful, resentful.
I see it.
I feel it.
Now I open this part of me to you, Lord.
Save me here.
Unite with me here; permeate me here.
Jesus, unite with every part of me that is not yet united with You. Integrate my entire being into one, whole person united with You. I pray for complete union with You throughout my being. For You alone are my salvation, and I ask You for the salvation that is truly salvation right here. I ask for Your holiness here. In Your Name, Amen.