Sunday’s sermon at Wilkesboro Baptist is from Joshua 7 entitled “Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out.” Our current series is “More Grace: How God’s Interventions Make it Possible to Follow Him.” We’ve been exploring the gracious ways God intervened as Israel left Egypt and wandered in the wilderness toward the Promised Land.

• Pray against the two major sins found in Joshua 7 (self-reliance and self-obsession). 
• Pray for church elders, staff, and deacons to rely on God and not on self. 
• Pray for any and all of us to be convicted regarding self-obsession and to deny ourselves and follow Christ. 
• Pray that sinners would be warned, convicted, and repentant. 
• Pray that Christians would seek the Lord and rely on him only. 

Here is how you can prepare for worshiping with us on Sunday at Wilkesboro Baptist. Read Joshua 6 and 7 and compare Israel’s victory at Jericho with her defeat at Ai. Reflection questions: Why did Achan take what was forbidden? How did it affect the nation? What did it cost him?

The sermon for Sunday August 9, “Have Courage and Obey” is available here.