70 Seconds: Stop Wandering; Start Living & Leading!

By Dan Holland

What God shared in seconds took Joshua years to understand and apply what he learned.

What God shared with Joshua in seconds lasted Joshua a lifetime.   

Imagine being stuck in the desert with more than a million stiff-necked, grumbling people. Your mentor has just died and God tells you to take His people into the Promised Land—a land already occupied by people with no intentions of inviting you in.

This was Joshua’s predicament. Yet in 70 seconds, God gave him the wisdom and advice he needed to succeed. What God told Joshua would enable him to become one of the most famous military and social leaders who ever lived.

What Joshua learned you can learn too!

Whether you are leading in an office, at home, or in a church, this book will reveal for you…

• Develop the new mindset you need to lead successfully 

• 7 core beliefs that will change the choices you make

• How to handle adversity with faith not fear

• Language: English
• Publisher: HigherLife Publishing
• Release date: Mar 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9780999415641

Book preview

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Chapter 1

STOP WANDERING. ADVANCE.

Life has no remote…get up and change it yourself!

The Stuck-But-Predictable Life

FOR THE FIRST fifty years of Joshua’s life, one day looked very much like the previous one. Life became increasingly difficult as Pharaoh leaned into the Hebrew people. Joshua and the entire Hebrew nation had shelter, clothes, and food, but it was a hard life. Getting out of Egypt would prove to be more challenging than I’m sure any of them could ever have imagined. The new Pharaoh pressed God’s people down so far that they cried out to God to save them. And He heard them.

God sent Moses to deliver them. On the road leading from the stuck-but-predictable life to the promised life, things happened. As soon as the Israelites left Egypt, Pharaoh regretted letting them go. He sent his powerful, well-trained and heavily armed Egyptian army to bring them back. As the mighty Egyptian army approached from the west, Israel was facing the Red Sea in the east. They were in a pickle. To say they had doubts would be an understatement of mammoth proportions. Were there not enough graves in Egypt? the people complained to Moses, who, in turn, cried out to God and He delivered His people in a dramatic fashion, straight through the Red Sea into the promised life. Right? Not exactly. They wandered first.

And Joshua, son of Nun, was right there in the middle of it all. He was there in the enslavement, the deliverance, and the miraculous escape. He was watching, waiting, and following, long before he was called to lead the people into the Promised