cont: https://westpalmbeachchurchofchrist.com/old-testament/joshua/faith-to-stop-the-sun.html
Think about the message of Joshua 10-12. What did the first generation say that they could not do? What did they say was impossible? They told Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb that it was impossible for them to conquer Canaan because there are giants in the land and the cities are fortified to the sky. What just happened? God did what the people thought impossible. The only time they lost in the whole conquest of the land was at a little town of Ai because the people broke faith and did not do what God had told them to. The first generation told God that this could not happen. Because they thought that, they were left to wander in the wilderness. Nothing is too great for God. What are we not praying because we do not believe God can do it? What are we not praying because we do not believe God will do it? Do not hold back in your prayer life. Is this not the exact point that James is making?
The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. (James 5:16–18 ESV)
Elijah is not to be put into a different category in our minds and neither is Joshua. Do not indicate by your lack of prayer that you do not believe God can do something. I asked earlier, who would believe that the sun would stop in the sky for Joshua? The same people who believed that the walls would fall when walking around them. Who would believe that God would answer our bold prayers? The same people who believe God raised a dead person to life. Jesus is why we can pray those prayers.
Jesus is why we boldly approach God’s throne with our bold requests.
Nothing is too difficult for God.
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“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
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