Big Healing Book - Joshua 1:7-8

Joshua 1:7-8:

Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Notes on Joshua 1:7-8:

You won’t get healed if you only read your Bible when you feel like it. God’s Word will make you prosper and have good success only when you commit to it. Notice that the Law was not to depart out of Joshua’s mouth – he was to meditate (you could also translate this word mutter) the Word constantly. (Obviously this did not mean that Joshua was to go around like a little doggie with a literal book in his mouth; it was the contents of the book that he was to speak.)

These days people complain as if this were some new idea that “extreme faith” people invented, but it’s been in the Bible all along. You must speak the Word out of your mouth. It is a lie to say that you can just believe it in your heart. If you really have the same spirit of faith as Bible people did, you will say with them, “I believe, and therefore I speak” (see 2 Corinthians 4:13). With your mouth confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:10). If you won’t say it, you don’t believe it. Period. You might mentally assent to it, but you don’t believe it and it won’t work for you if you’re not willing to say it in front of others. If you’re not willing to tell other people that you’ve received your healing, you’ve never really received anything. It is out of the abundance of your heart that your mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34).

Some people complain that this is using God’s Word as a mantra or a magic formula, but it is not. Note the reason that Joshua was to meditate on (mutter to himself) the Word constantly – so that he would do it! Only when you are a doer of the Word and not just a hearer does God have anything to bless. Just meditating on the Word will not make you prosperous. Meditating on and then doing the Word will make you prosper and have good success in the affairs of life. God told Joshua explicitly that the purpose of meditating on His Word is so that he would DO it and prosper. When you’re always thinking about the Word, doing it becomes more natural than doubting it.

How can you prosper in the affairs of life while you groan in your bed with a 105-degree fever? You can’t! Would being stuck in the hospital being poked and prodded at all hours of the night be your idea of prospering and having good success? NO! If you want to stay well and prosper, be sure that you are speaking God’s word to yourself and building yourself up in it. Then you will act on it and prosper.

Watching TV is not a sin, but if it is a higher priority to you than reading the Word and praying, then just forget about prospering God’s way. You won’t. How do you know if it’s a higher priority? If you go to bed contently and you didn’t read the Word or pray all day, but you found time to watch TV, then TV is your priority, not the Word. “Little children, keep yourself from idols” (1 John 5:21).