Chapter 1: Moses has died so God tell Joshua that he is the new leader. He promise Joshua that everywhere the Israelites walk, the land will be theirs and all nations will fear them. God will be the same with Joshua as he was with Moses. They will meditate on God and be prosperous. God tells them to be strong and courageous. Joshua gives command to the people and they obey.

Chapter 2: Joshua sends two spies into the Promised land and they go to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. She hides them and tells the people who are looking for them that they left through the gates just before dark. She tells the spies that she knows that God has promised the land to them and that she believes in God. She makes them promise to save her and her family because she hid them. They promise and then tell her that when they come to fight, to let the scarlet cord hang out of their window so they know to kill anyone in that house. Then the spies depart.

Chapter 3: Joshua tells the people that as soon as they see the ark of the covenant being carried by the Levitical priests they should follow it but stay 2000 cubits away from it. Joshua tells them to consecrate themselves because the Lord would be doing great things the next day. God tells the people that when the priests come to the Jordan river and stand still, the waters would go in a heap and the Israelites would walk across on dry land.

Favorite verse: Joshua 2:9: and said to the men, "I know that The Lord has given you the land , and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you." This is my favorite verse because the prostitute Rahab who has never heard of God before, heard about him and immediately she believed. If I were her I would've laughed like the others and wouldn't have believed.

Application: Its almost embarrassing that I have known God my whole life and I still don't have as much faith as Rahab. I really want to have faith like Rahab did and I'm going to do that by getting an accountability partner to help me with consistent devotional times so that I can grow in my faith and be like her.