BOLD Ministry

When Joshua came to the Jordan River, he was looking at more than just another issue of moving people from one side of the river to the other. Once on the other side, everything that they had known would change forever. There would be no going back. The daily manna would cease, the pillar of fire and cloud covering in the day would stop. It would represent a new chapter, requiring Joshua to lead in a way that his predecessor never did. He would have to rely upon a new model for the new land. The new thinking would require a new perspective which he thankfully acquired after listening to what the Lord told him. Marketplace ministry is all about modeling this new kind of

Joshua 1:10-18
Joshua’s time with the Lord resulted in some new wineskins (mindskins).
Having spent time with the Lord, the effect upon Joshua was:
1. A new authority. Something happened to Joshua as a result of his time with God but also what was spoken to him. His conviction of the words spoken gave him a connection with the call and also with the called. When Joshua spent time with the Lord, the effect was his connectivity to people and connectivity to an overriding purpose. Authority is the other side of a coin called love.
2. A mandate to delegate. Joshua in 1:10, goes to the leaders and he communicates to the leaders the instructions that he received from God. There is an order to the delegation of the call. The call involved those heads of the tribes and they would be the ones that communicated this vision to the people.
3. A embedded plan. Joshua emerged from his time with the Lord with a sense of knowing ‘what to do next’ in this inheritance process. They knew that a. now was the time, b. a response was necessary, c. preparation was called for, purpose and reason that they had come to this time and place. Whereas kairos is the intersection of time and opportunity, Destiny is the intersection of time and obedience. There would be no destiny without their obedience.
4. Spending time with God, gets us ready to act at the right time. Joshua 1:11 this is the second Passover. The first Passover called for them to pass through the Red Sea, but entering into one’s inheritance is a separate passing over and would require another sacrifice. The first Passover called for the death of a sacrifice, this was the death of Christ; but the second Passover calls for the death of those entering; a death to self, and living to God. Jesus refers to this stage of spiritual growth as the second death (from this world’s point of view – it is a type and shadow of the entering into the eternal rest of God in eternity).
5. A partnership. Reubenites, Manasseh and the Gadites were called to help their brethren inherit the land that they were given, and to co-labor with them. No one is excused from co-laboring with the call of God.
6. A possession unpossessed This is perhaps the hardest thing to do, to see the big picture and then to hold on while you still don’t have it.
7. Possessing a peace that passes understanding Peace always precedes the possession of the land.
8. A Unity and community committed to moving forward together This is the eighth day.