True Victory Comes from God π| Joshua 8 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes
1. π Quiet Time
Pause.
Take a deep breath.
Ask God to give you a heart that worships Him after every victory and treasures His Word above all.
2. π November 25, 2025
Today’s passage reminds us:
True victory leads us back to worship and God’s Word.
3. ✝️ Joshua 8:24-35
After Israel defeats Ai, Joshua builds an altar to the Lord, offers burnt and peace offerings, and writes the Law of Moses on stones. Then he reads every word of the Law—blessings and curses—to the entire assembly, including men, women, children, and foreigners. Nothing Moses commanded was left unread.
4. π Key Verse
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. (vv. 34-35)
5. π Reflection
Joshua and Israel had just won a huge victory at Ai. But instead of throwing a party or boasting about their strength, they worshiped God and read His Word together. Why? Because the victory wasn’t about them—it was about God’s faithfulness.
This reminds us that success in life—whether in school, work, or relationships—is not just about our effort. It’s God who gives victory. And the right response is worship and obedience, not pride.
So, when you experience a breakthrough, pause and thank God. Go back to His Word. Let His promises guide your next steps. Because the greatest win is staying close to Him.
6. π¬ What does this passage speak to you today?
- How do I respond after a success—do I celebrate without God or turn to Him in gratitude?
- What would it look like to make worship and Scripture my first response after a victory?
- Do I believe that every win is God’s gift, not my achievement?
7. π Prayer
Lord, thank You for every victory You give.
Help me celebrate by worshiping You and listening to Your Word.
Keep my heart humble and focused on You always.
Amen.
Scriptures
π 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword. 25 And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai. 26 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction. 27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day. 29 And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
30 At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, 31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33 And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them (Joshua 8:24-35, ESV).


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