Jim Bakker Show - 3 Requirements for Joshua | Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin
Aired: 2022-12-13
Duration: 02:06


=== Mentorship and Mission (02:06) ===

[00:00:00]  The three requirements you talk about for Joshua that give success, do you have those that you could give us?
[00:00:07]  Yeah, let me, I'm going to answer this a slightly different way, but I know what you're asking, and I want to tell you what I think was important that really made Joshua the man that he was.
[00:00:19]  The first thing is that he had a mentor.
[00:00:22]  And men, I'm telling you, men, if you're a Christian man today, you better be mentoring somebody.
[00:00:28]  You better be mentoring somebody.
[00:00:30]  It could be your family.
[00:00:31]  It could be someone, a friend or something.
[00:00:33]  But Joshua had a mentor, and it was the great man, Moses.
[00:00:40]  And Moses, he walked in Moses' footsteps, and he watched Moses, and he saw what Moses did.
[00:00:47]  So he had a mentor.
[00:00:48]  Every man needs a mentor.
[00:00:50]  Number two, he understood history.
[00:00:56]  He understood the history of the Israelites.
[00:00:58]  He understood enough to make sure that they knew their history.
[00:01:02]  Jim, one of the things that's happening in America today is we're losing our way because we don't know our history.
[00:01:08]  We don't teach our history.
[00:01:10]  And we've got to get back to teaching American history and talking about the sacrifices that have been made and talking about the things that America has done.
[00:01:21]  And then finally, the third thing was that as far as Moses was concerned, he was a man on a mission.
[00:01:34]  He was a man who had only one mission, and that was to lead.
[00:01:39]  And he focused on that, and he didn't get distracted.
[00:01:43]  And he didn't go off on tangents.
[00:01:45]  Oh, yeah, he had some failures.
[00:01:49]  You know, when they lost the battle of AI, and he laid down on the ground and he said, God, why did you bring us out of Egypt?
[00:01:56]  And what did God say to him?
[00:01:58]  Get up off your face and get back in this battle.
[00:02:02]  I'm still with you.
[00:02:04]  And he understood that.