God feels the pain that we go through. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, just like He was grieved for the misery of Israel.Judges 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Don't be discouraged at the sin and injustices that exist around you. At the end of the day, God will have His say. Vengeance belongs to Him and He WILL repay.Judges 9:56-57 - Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

We experience the power of God WHEN we willingly offer ourselves to Him. It was true for Deborah and the nation of Israel in the book of Judges and it is still true today!Judges 5:2 - Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

Joshua's testimony was that God fulfilled every single one of His promises..."all came to pass." As Christians, we can be assured the same thing; God's promises will not fail! "There failed not ought!"Joshua 21:45 - There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

If it's possible to wholly follow God, then it's also possible to partly follow God. Caleb wholly followed the Lord and was recognized and rewarded for it. God desires and deserves the whole... everything!Joshua 14:14 - Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.Joshua 14:8-9 - Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

The Israelites were deceived by the Gibeonites because they "asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord". We will also fail in our Christian lives if we forget to walk with the Lord and see His guidance in every thing we do.Joshua 9:14 - And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.

God calls us to serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of heart and that's not unreasonable because He has blessed us with an "abundance of all things!" If we choose not to serve Him in that way, we bring upon ourselves a curse just like the nation of Israel.Deuteronomy 28:47 - Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Too often we overlook and take for granted the good things that God has given us. Instead we should heed the command from Moses to the people of Israel, "Rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God giveth thee."Deuteronomy 26:11 - And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

God turned the attempted curse of Balaam into a blessing, because of His love for His people. Today God promises to do the same for the NT believer! Because of God's love for us, He promises that all things will work together for good to them that love God.Deuteronomy 23:5 - Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

Our blessings are because of Him not because of us! We need to be very careful that we don't claim credit for God's blessing in our lives. God told the Israelites to beware lest they say that it was their hand and their might that had brought God's blessing into their lives.Deuteronomy 8:17-18 - And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.