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in Exodus 17, it was a minister who lead the fight. And the minister's name is Joshua. Israel's first battle was with Amalek. Amalek is a nation of people descendant from Esau. Esau is a brother of Israel. When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, oftentimes, the first fight with the kingdom of Darkness is within the family. Besides employment teams, there are family teams and other types of teams in life. If members of your own family cannot stop you from being saved, they will try to hinder you from moving out of the wilderness and moving into the promised land. Members of the kingdom of God grow. Salvation is birth. The wilderness is adolescence, and the promised land is maturity. Jesus Christ told us that He came to separate family members who do not belong to the same kingdom (Luke 12:51-53). Everyone in your family is not a member of the kingdom of God. If you are a member and they are not, you will fight against each other. Light and darkness are not harmonious.

Good leaders and good team members also possess faithfulness, fortitude and fearlessness. Webster's New World Dictionary defines "fortitude" as "patient endurance of trouble, pain, etc.; courage." Entering the promised land and living there is not pain free or trouble free. If you are looking for a pain-free and trouble-free life, you will have to wait until you enter heaven. Joshua lived to be 110 years old. During his earthly life he endured a lot of pain and trouble. In the book of Joshua chapters 10 and 11 the Israelites faced battle after battle, and they were in the promised land! The pain was not just physical warfare but mental warfare and spiritual warfare.

Joshua's first assignment upon facing the promised land was to do something relatively new and to change from second in command to fully in charge under the direct leadership of God. You cannot be afraid of new things or change. God calls us to grow. Growing involves newness and change. Joshua and the Israelites were not familiar with the promised land (physically represented by places like Canaan and Jericho in the Old Testament), so they had to check it out in the book of Joshua chapter 2. The fearful do not like new things or change. Submitting to the fear of anything other than God, will stop you from growing. Joshua feared God, not man or things. He did not let whatever emotions he was feeling about leaving the leadership of Moses and coming under the direct leadership of God cause him to shirk the commands of God.

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