Exercising extraordinary faith for extraordinary results

I want to speak to extraordinary faith.

We return to Joshua Chapter 10, where when we last visited, Joshua’s enemy is on the run. And I don’t know about you, but I would have probably called it a day; after all, the enemy is demoralized, defeated and the men have fought a great fight; victory is theirs. But Joshua isn’t satisfied; he believed explicitly in what the Lord had said, in verse 8, “Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.” He seeks total annihilation of his enemy. That is the basis of his extraordinary faith.

So Joshua looks at the situation at hand and figures out a way that he can finish the plan that God has laid before him. From verse 12, “Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel” and can you say this last part with me, “Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” Now that is an exercise of extraordinary faith. And the results were exactly as Joshua desired, as the Amorites were seeking the cover of darkness, darkness never comes, verses 13-14, “So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.”