What if God's word says you can achieve something and you think you can't, what do you do? This was the situation the children of Israel were faced with. In Christ, you can achieve what God says you can. You might not amount to much on your own, but with God on your side, you can do anything.

We see the lands given to Judah and Ephraim with a very important caveat at the end, they both could not drive out all the enemies; the Jebusites of Jerusalem in Judah's case and the people of Gezer for Ephraim. For us today, in Christ, we have won a complete victory over Satan...

The remaining unconquered lands are allotted to the remaining nine and a half tribes, and Caleb's faithfulness of 45yrs is rewarded.

Having conquered the southern armies, Israel led by Joshua, with a completely different strategy, takes on and conquers the northern armies.

God fights on behalf of Israel against an enemy they should naturally not have been able to take on. Lesson; when God is on your side, nothing the enemy throws at you can defeat you.

The children of Israel following God's instructions and strategy, take Jericho easily. Having obtained an easy victory, they matched on to the next town to take on Ai trying to employ yesterday's strategy and learned a big lesson howbeit with a bitter loss, God is not so big on methods, he instead has a different strategy for each situation, the methods that worked one time might be completely useless in the next, what counts are the strategies to employ and that will mean we have to walk with him daily.