Joshua 1:6 Joshua 1:9 Joshua 1:18

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Scripture

Joshua 1:6 Be strong and courageous, for you will lead my people to possess all the land.

Joshua 1:9 I command you— be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged.

Joshua 1:18 So be strong and courageous! Additional Scripture on Back >>

Week 1—April 14/15, 2012 Take New Territory (Jason Strand) Everyone of us goes through transitions in life. Some of those transitions leave us anxious, stressed, and scared. In this message we’ll learn that if you want to take new territory in life, you have to be strong and courageous in Christ. HOW YOU CAN REMAIN STRONG AND COURAGEOUS DURING LIFE’S TRANSITIONS: 1. Remember, God is __________ ________. 2. Turn up the _____________on God’s Word.

Scripture Numbers 13:30-33 Let’s go at once to take the land, we can certainly conquer it.” But the other ten spies say, “The land we explored will swallow up any who go to live there. All the people we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt like grasshoppers next to them, and that is what we looked like to them!

Numbers 14:29-30 You will all die here in this wilderness! None of you who are twenty years old or older will enter the land that I swore to give to you. The only exceptions will be Caleb and Joshua.

Joshua 1:5 For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.

Proverbs 15:17 A bowl of soup with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.

Psalm 139:7-10 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.

Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Matthew 27:50-51

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Then Jesus shouted out again and he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain in the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Hebrews 4:16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Joshua 1:7-8 Be strong and very courageous. Obey all the laws Moses gave to you. Do not turn away from them, and you will be successful in everything you do. Study this Book of the Law