I want to discuss Joshua 10:12-14.

Gibeon made peace with the Israelites and this troubled many kings in the region, so they joined together and went to war with Gibeon. The people of Gibeon learned of their preparations and sent word to the Israelites to send aid. And so they came to defend the people of Gibeon and the Lord was with the Israelites and cast great stones from heaven to smite those enemy armies. That in itself was miraculous. 

But then in verses 12 and 13  we read, "12 Then spake Joshua 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, Sun, stand though still upon Gibeon; and though, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies ... So the Sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."

I have always been fascinated by this scripture. Can you imagine a day twice as long as it should normally be? And in our day and age we would be able to time it precisely and know exactly how much longer than usual it would be should this ever happen again.

This time when I read these versus I realized that it showed Gods complete control over everything He created. Since we know it is the earth that rotates around the sun we know that even though Joshua worded his command the way he did, it means that the rotation of the earth halted so that it looked as if the sun were stationary in the sky for about a days time.

The command was given by one of God's prophets, Joshua, so we also see that a servant of God can have just as much control as God over everything God created as long as it is the will of God that such a thing should happen. In this case it was the will of God that the day should be extended and that it should appear to everyone that the sun was stationary in the sky instead of appearing to move as it usually does.

May we all live our lives such that we know Gods will as well as Joshua did so that whenever the need arises to do anything great or small we will be ready to.