21/08/2026
This morning during morning devotion, we read Joshua 1:1–9, and I couldn’t get past the number of times God told Joshua to be strong and courageous.
Verse 6, 7 and 9. Three times.
And I thought, God is not a talkative.
If He keeps repeating something, it means something.
Joshua wasn’t new to the assignment. This was the same Joshua who had gone into the Promised Land before and come back saying, essentially, there are no giants here that our God cannot handle.
He knew God.
He knew God’s promise.
He had been Moses’ aide. He had seen what God could do.
But now Moses was dead.
And suddenly, Joshua wasn’t just the man who had been following Moses.
He was the leader.
I believe that’s the weight of leadership.
You can be a person of faith. You can have seen God move before. You can know what God has said. And still find yourself standing in a season where the weight of what you’re carrying requires a different kind of courage.
And God knew Joshua.
He knew what was happening inside him, even if nobody else could see it.
People can see your competence.
God sees your internal condition.
People can see that you’re doing well.
God sees the places where you need reassurance.
And I love that God didn’t just say, Go.
He said, As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
In other words I’ve got you.
Be strong. Be courageous.
Don’t you just love this God? 😂
Perhaps God’s repetition isn’t because we didn’t hear Him the first time.
Maybe He knows something about what we’re about to carry that we don’t know yet.
So when He keeps reminding you, listen.
Be strong. Be courageous.
If you’re in a season where God keeps repeating something to you maybe it’s not that you didn’t hear Him. Maybe He knows what you’re about to carry.
No More Hiding.
