[SPEAKER_02]: Joshua chapter six versus one through seven, it'll be on the screen if you want to follow that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It says, now Jericho was strongly fortified because of the Israelites.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one leaving or entering.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Lord said to Joshua, look, I have handed Jericho.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's King, and it's fighting men over to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: March around the city of A.S.A.
[SPEAKER_02]: March.
[SPEAKER_02]: March around the city with all the men of war circling the city one one time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do this for six days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have seven priests carry out carry seven ramps horn trumpets in front of the arc.
[SPEAKER_02]: But on the seventh day March around the city seven times when the priests blow the trumpets.
[SPEAKER_02]: Verse five.
[SPEAKER_02]: When there is a prolonged blast of the horn, and you hear it sound, have all the people give a mighty shout.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then the city wall will collapse and the people advance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Each man straight ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Joshua set him down and summoned the priest and said to them, take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets in front of the ark of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said to the people move forward, everybody say move forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's the word march again, everybody say march.
[SPEAKER_02]: March around the city and have the armed troops go ahead of the arc of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message is move forward and march.
[SPEAKER_02]: Move forward and march.
[SPEAKER_02]: Father, we thank you for your word today.
[SPEAKER_02]: We thank you for what you have already started in this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: We thank you that your Holy Spirit is here, that the presence of you, Father, the very living God is in this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we acknowledge you, first and foremost,
[SPEAKER_02]: as Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: We acknowledge you as the King and the ruler of our hearts today, and we surrender this these next few moments to you, Father, and I pray, God, that you would just give us ears to hear what you would speak to us, that you would enlighten us with your Word, that the truth and the revelation of your Word would be revealed to us.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Lord, that we would fall more in love with you today, God, and that we would experience you at a grander level than ever before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just as we sang in that last song, Spirit of God, fall fresh on us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lord, that is our cry today, that is our prayer today, is more of you, more of your spirit today in our lives.
[SPEAKER_02]: Make it so evident today in the name of Jesus, that we would not leave here the same, but we would leave here radically transformed today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lord, we thank you for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We submit this time to you in Jesus' name, everybody said, Amen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, that should be an encouraging thing for us today already to hear.
[SPEAKER_02]: not that we can just say move forward in March, but that we can know that we can move forward in March.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one thing to say, it's another thing to believe it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe today that you are moving forward and you are marching out of the things that the enemy has tried to bind you up with, that you are moving forward and you're marching out of the out of the seasons and the situations and circumstances of life that you've recently found yourself in,
[SPEAKER_02]: a miracle and a work on your behalf, come on Sunday, say amen.
[SPEAKER_02]: How many of you understand that the Israelites, we started reading about this last week, but remember Moses had went home to be with the Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: He had died, and the Lord raised up Joshua, and the Israelites had been in the wilderness for 40 years, 40 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you imagine dealing with some of the stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: 40 years, that's a long time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of you haven't even been, you know, born that long, and that's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But 40 years, can you imagine dealing with the same thing?
[SPEAKER_02]: And here's the Israelite's dealing with all of the same stuff for 40 years in the wilderness wondering, when are we going to get to the Promised Land?
[SPEAKER_02]: And we know that the wilderness and the promised land are two different complete places, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're entirely different in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that the wilderness was a place of despair and a place of just always needing and just always longing for an answer and just lack of hope and lack of encouragement.
[SPEAKER_02]: All that kind of stuff, whereas the promised land was what the Bible says is the land flowing with milk and honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: In other words, the Bible clearly defines that it is a place that has everything that you need.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can be really close to the Promised Land, but even if you're close, you got to make up your mind that the wilderness is not where you belong.
[SPEAKER_02]: You may be on the absolute edge of walking into your promise and walking into the Promised Land, but still be in the wilderness.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one thing to be there, but it's another thing to know that you don't belong there.
[SPEAKER_02]: As a believer, as a son of God, as a daughter of God, my rightful place is not in the wilderness.
[SPEAKER_02]: My rightful place is in the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so when you begin to understand that truth and that reality and when you begin to position yourself in a way and make up your mind that says, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm in the wilderness right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm going through some stuff right now, but this is not where I'm gonna stay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not even going to set up camp here because I'm about to walk into the promised land.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey man, come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I love about our God is that if he commands us to move forward, most often than not, he always has a place in a purpose attached to our movement.
[SPEAKER_02]: If God says move, if God says do this, if God says do that, there is always a purpose in a plan behind why he tells us and what he tells us to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: We might not know it, when I say God, why are you leading me to do this?
[SPEAKER_02]: God, why are you taking me there?
[SPEAKER_02]: God, why are you moving me into this position and doing this?
[SPEAKER_02]: And in that, we might not know the reason, but God has the plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I taught you last week that we are called to Occupy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_02]: And remember, most of what we are dealing with in the world today and what we are dealing with in our families and in our personal situations and all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remember, it could have been prevented, had we gotten off the church, pee and occupied what God had called us to Occupy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So many things that we're dealing with today is because we decided not to get up.
[SPEAKER_02]: We decided to allow the stagnant parts of life to keep us back into hold us down.
[SPEAKER_02]: When God has called us to get up and move and occupy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I gave you, if you remember, I gave you just kind of recapping real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: I gave you three things last week, three important steps last week when it came to the promise and in occupying it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one is remember, we got to get full of the promises of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to get full of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, so full of the promises of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remember, we're all that we talk about is the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're not talking about the feet, and we're not talking about the doubt or the discouragement, or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what is coming out of our mouth is the promises of God because we're so full of the promises of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number two, I told you about is that we must continually to speak the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it goes hand in hand.
[SPEAKER_02]: If God's given you the promise of God's spoken that thing, then you've got to speak that out into existence as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got to constantly speak it out, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't say things like, well, God said this would happen, and I don't know if it's going to happen, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: If God said it, he's going to do it, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: If God's spoken, it shall come to pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you've got to change the way that you speak, which requires changing the way that you think.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we got to thank our self, we got to be full, we got to think our self's full of the promise so that we can speak continuously the promise of God, amen?
[SPEAKER_02]: And number three, remember, I told you that we can't stop preparing for the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: You never come to a point of time where you're like, that's it, I'm done preparing for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, there's a constant state of preparing for the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Constantly preparing for the promise of what God has called you to do and that might look different,
[SPEAKER_02]: more challenging in some seasons than other seasons.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so in Joshua chapter six, changes are happening amongst the people of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: And these changes are things that we must understand today because Joshua's six is a lot of like what we experience in our lives today.
[SPEAKER_02]: the decisions that the people of God are having to make or a lot of like the decisions that you and I have to make today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one of the things that we see that is taking place leading up into this point is the change of guard from Moses to Joshua.
[SPEAKER_02]: In other words, there's a change of leadership.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a change of leadership that's taking place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remember, for years Moses has been the headhonshow.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been the main guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been the leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now he's no longer with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has gone and Joshua has been raised up and has been called to take over and to take the people into the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what we see in this change of leadership that's taking place from Moses to Joshua is that we find when you look into the story we find that Moses was very administrative.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was an administrative type of leader like he knew what was going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: God would speak to him and he would communicate to the people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moses was like a leader of leaders.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was an administrator type of leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then it's handed over to Joshua.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Joshua was actually nothing like Moses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joshua was completely different, not that he's better, not that he's worse.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Joshua is a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a warrior.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a different way of leading.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moses was more kind of sit back and listen to the Lord and lead the people and demonstrate what is happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Versus Joshua, who is a warrior who says, okay, God spoke this to me, let's go fight, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's completely different in their leadership style.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've been talking about preparation and this season of preparation that we're in and listen, church, if we don't allow him to take us through this process of preparation, you will never be prepared for the next thing that he has taken you to in your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Joshua has been following Moses and following Moses leadership as they have been preparing for 40 years to get out of the wilderness and into the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Joshua has put into this position of authority.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he begins to lead.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we see that really Joshua becomes what we would say is the next generation leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is the leader of the next generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is the leader of the one that would lead the people into the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he wouldn't just be the one that would lead them into the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he would be the one that would keep them in the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would be the next generational leader that God has raised up to lead the people of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so this transition is very unique and it truly shows an example and a demonstration of God raising up somebody to lead the next generation and to carry out the purpose and the mission of the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, why does God raise up new leaders?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why does he do that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because New Land always requires new leaders.
[SPEAKER_02]: New Land always requires new leaders, new territory, always requires new leaders.
[SPEAKER_02]: And God will raise up a new leader in a new generation to take them into a place that they couldn't go before.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we see that with Moses.
[SPEAKER_02]: I told you this last week, you would have thought that Moses, the great Moses, would have been able to take them into the Promised Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he took one breath to short.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe that it was on purpose because I believe that the Lord needed a new
[SPEAKER_02]: Young, warrior, conquering type leader to be raised up in that hour to take them into the Promised Land because while the Promised Land sounded wonderful and while it was a place of all of these amazing things, remember I told you last week, the land was still full of giants.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the people of God needed a warrior, needed a new leader that can help them to conquer the things that they would have to conquer that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They hadn't had a worry about for the last 40 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what we see in Joshua chapter six is God raising up a new leader for a new land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the amazing thing that I love about God is that he will never leave his people without a voice,
[SPEAKER_02]: He'll never leave his people without a voice, but he will always raise up a leader with a voice for such a time as this to take the people of God into the place that he has for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so let me ask you this challenging question today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I want you to not just be something that you hear and you're like, oh, that's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I want this to sink down deep, but I want you to literally sit on this all week long.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is this, what if you're the one of those leaders?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if you're one of those next generation leaders that God is wanting to raise up in this hour, in this season, in this time?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if that's you?
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can't say, well, I'm too old or I'm too young.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't say I had all these experiences before or I have no experience at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what if?
[SPEAKER_02]: You're one of the ones that God is raising up in this hour as a next generational leader.
[SPEAKER_02]: What if you're a Joshua?
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, what if you're a Joshua?
[SPEAKER_02]: Now if I was sitting there in that seat right now, I would get excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'd say I'm a Joshua.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be a Joshua.
[SPEAKER_02]: What if you're a Joshua?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if God is calling you deeper in this hour?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if God is calling you great to a greater thing in this hour?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if God is trying to pull out the gifts at her inside of you that you may be hesitant about, but God wants to pull them out?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if God wants to raise you up as a leader in this church as a leader for the big seat church?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if God wants to raise you up?
[SPEAKER_02]: for the next couple of days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because, a whole Joshua did was be obedient.
[SPEAKER_02]: God said, hey dude, you're next.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said, okay, let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't say, hold on, hold on, Pastor Moses, you know, or hold on Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me just pray about this for a couple of weeks and I'll get back to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, God called him to do a thing and he immediately said yes to it and look at how the Lord used him.
[SPEAKER_02]: If God calls you to be the next, if God calls you to be raised up as a leader for the people of God and as a leader even in this house, would your answer be yes?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if you're one of the ones that God is raising up in this hour to help carry his presence into the next, to help be a carrier of his glory, to help be a carrier of a
[SPEAKER_02]: So not only has there been a transition of leadership that has taken place as we step into Joshua chapter six, but there's another transition that's happening simultaneously.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is this, there's a transition, there's a transition, excuse me, of operations taking place.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's an operational transition for 40 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Israel has been eating the same meal every single day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: For 40 years, in the wilderness, they've opened up their tents, stepped out, oh, you know, got out of the tent and looked down on the ground and there was mana laying there.
[SPEAKER_02]: For 40 years, 40 years God fed them, mana.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now, beginning in Joshua, chapter 5, and as we see in Joshua, chapter 6,
[SPEAKER_02]: They no longer as they're in the promised land now.
[SPEAKER_02]: They no longer wake up and step out of their tent and there's food provided.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they probably thought, oh, we're going into the promised land.
[SPEAKER_02]: The land flowing with milk and honey, I'm gonna have more than mana now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna have everything that I want.
[SPEAKER_02]: God says, nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: I raised up a new leader for a reason because now I'm not gonna just provide you the food, but you're gonna have to go eat off the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to have to go get the food for yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so there's an operational transition that has taken place.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what's interesting is that the Bible clearly tells us that as soon as they ate off of the land, the man has stopped falling from heaven.
[SPEAKER_02]: Change immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eat off the land?
[SPEAKER_02]: No more man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some people probably thought, man, it was really nice actually being in the wilderness as much as I hated it when I can just open up my tent and have the food right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even have to do anything, just fell from heaven.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I open up my tent and I have to go find my food.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or hold on, I've got to open up my tent and I've got to actually prepare some weapons so I can go kill something so I can actually have a meal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't had to do that for 40 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you imagine the 20 and 30 year olds who have never even known that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who've never seen that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who all of a sudden, all they've ever known their entire life is that I can just walk outside and eat, imagine being a child, just, you know, or college age student, come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, college students, man, it's ramen every day, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, here's these kids who have grown up, where all they gotta do is go outside and grab their men and come back in and eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now they go outside and they're like, where's the food?
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're having to be raised up now by a warrior type leader who is training them to go eat off of the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now in this season, God is teaching them a new way of operating.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a new method for a new season.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is where the body of Christ has got to begin to take culture by the horns instead of culture taking over us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we're not just called to live off of the miracles.
[SPEAKER_02]: But God is looking for a people who will receive the new operations for what he's trying
[SPEAKER_02]: Will you be the one that says, it's okay if it's not provided, I'll fight for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay if it's not right there in front of me, but I'm gonna go get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna make sure that my family is taking care of, that I'm taking care of, that I'm not just depending on a miracle.
[SPEAKER_02]: So many people are just living off of a miracle.
[SPEAKER_02]: And listen, miracles are great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't get me wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not bashing miracles.
[SPEAKER_02]: We love miracles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Miracles are wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm believing for our miracle for all of us, all the time, and every situation, but you can't live your life off of miracles.
[SPEAKER_02]: God, you gotta come through me now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You gotta come through me right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the only way I'm gonna make it, God is of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, another miracle, God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we can't live off of miracles.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm explaining that here in just a few minutes, but if you're taking notes,
[SPEAKER_02]: There's two things that I want to teach you this morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's two facts of moving forward into the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two facts of moving forward into the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one is this, is that God will always give you the tools to cultivate the soil.
[SPEAKER_02]: God will always give you the tools to cultivate the soil.
[SPEAKER_02]: Poor Israelites had nothing.
[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: what it would take and what it would require of them to be able to eat off of the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: God takes them into the promised land and if God takes them there then we know God's going to provide for them, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not going to be empty handed.
[SPEAKER_02]: So God's going to provide everything they need, but God is also going to provide the tools that they need to cultivate the new land that they're in.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's amazing when God does miracles, it's amazing when we can celebrate and rejoice for a miracle that He has performed.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what's even better is this is that when you can live without needing a miracle because you know the miracle worker, when you can live without needing a miracle because you know
[SPEAKER_02]: And they go, the Israelites go from living off of a miracle every single day, living on a miracle, living on a miracle, living on a miracle, to force to be put into a position where they can no longer live off of the miracle, but now they have to live off of the miracle maker, the miracle worker, the miracle keeper.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so there's this amazing transition that takes place in the Israelites and
[SPEAKER_02]: My question for us today would be, can you live off of, do you want to live off the miracle, excuse me, or do you want to live off the miracle maker?
[SPEAKER_02]: The maker, the creator of heaven and earth, the one that formed you, the one that created you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're a miracle in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a miracle in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for some of us in this room, it's a miracle that you're here this morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not saying because you had a hard time waking up today, or that you slept through your first alarm.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying as a miracle that some of you are even sucking up air today, because you should be dead.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you should be lost.
[SPEAKER_02]: You should be messed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You should be locked up or whatever it may be, and God rescued you, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And God bought you and he redeemed you and he set you free.
[SPEAKER_02]: Praise God for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's so amazing when you can transition in your life from depending on a miracle just to just to depending on the one who provides the miracle.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the people of God come out of the wilderness where they would step out of their tents and boom, there's the manna laying on the ground and they would wake up now to have to go and fight for it, have to go work for it, they have to go cultivate the land and have to use resources and things that they never had to do before.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so now they are in a land that now produces
[SPEAKER_02]: God was their source, and God was producing everything they needed, and now they're in a land that produces everything they need.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I believe today that God is taking us into a land to cultivate that land, and understand the power of stewarding that land.
[SPEAKER_02]: so that it can produce.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you don't know how to steward the land that God has given you, it will never produce for you a harvest.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you have got to go into a land with the mindset of, I've got to steward this land so that it can produce what it was created to produce for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we got to step out of, oh God, I'm just waiting on you to do something to stepping into a place where we are cultivating the land for him to do a thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And listen, church, God would never take you to a land and call it a promise land if it wouldn't sustain you in the first place.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not going to ever take you out of one place and put you into the next just for you
[SPEAKER_02]: to not be taken care of.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, when God calls you out of one thing and puts you into the next thing, he's gonna sustain you.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna take care of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It might look different now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe there's an operational transition that takes place in your life, much like the Israelites.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where you're living off a miracle off a miracle, and now all of a sudden you're living off of the one who makes the miracle.
[SPEAKER_02]: And God wants to make us stewards, not slaves.
[SPEAKER_02]: He wants us to stew it a land, not be a slave to the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: He wants us to learn how to stew it, that land well, and cultivate that land, so that we can see and produce a harvest on our behalf.
[SPEAKER_02]: What if we went from asking permission to change culture to just start changing culture?
[SPEAKER_02]: What if we went from stop asking permission to change legislature, and we just started doing it?
[SPEAKER_02]: We started stepping into those places.
[SPEAKER_02]: What if we stopped complaining and gripping about our government and our government leaders and we actually went and we did something about it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, somebody, just stepping into those God or Dane places and just begin to steward the land again.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think we do such a
[SPEAKER_02]: Job of complaining all the time about everything when God is, I mean, look at what he's blessed us with.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe God many times in heaven is like if you want to see that thing change, then go change it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Quick complaining about it and just go change it.
[SPEAKER_02]: In other words, go into the land and start working in the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go into the land and stop waiting for something to fall from heaven for you and actually go and work the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe that some of us in our lives, we've been waiting for manna to fall from heaven for certain people that we've gotten disconnected with.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been waiting for heaven to fall for restorations of relationships.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been waiting for manna to fall for our finances to be fixed.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all the while, God's saying, I'm not gonna make the manna fall.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm waiting for you to start working the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: Senate is waiting for God to do something while you start praying and interseeding.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, you start praying and interceding for those people in your life that you've been disconnected from or you start praying and interceding for the ones that have hurt you and your believe it for restoration.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever it may be, whatever the situations may look like, I believe that we're coming out of the time where we're just like, well, God, eventually you'll do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I have to wait 40 years, just like this real life did, I guess I will.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's a terrible way to live.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a terrible mindset.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you're going to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what kind of thinking is that?
[SPEAKER_02]: When God says, yeah, I know I can provide mana.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what if I can take you out of me providing mana, mana, mana, and put you into a land where you can start working for the thing that you're believing for?
[SPEAKER_02]: So number one, God will always give you the tools
[SPEAKER_02]: And you may say, well, what are those tools?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to look different in every season, within every person.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe just the tool for right now is just your prayer and intercession.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's you going and having conversations.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's you going and stepping up into places of authority.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: But God will always give you the tools to cultivate the soil.
[SPEAKER_02]: And number two is this.
[SPEAKER_02]: God will always raise up conquers to possess.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about you, but I wanna be a conquer.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, I wanna be a conquer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanna be able to conquer a thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanna be a warrior for the sake of the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to just be a bystander, I don't want to just be as they would say back in the day a not on the pew, come on now, but I want to be a warrior, a conqueror, right, and the beautiful thing about is that God's already made me a conqueror, it's just up to me whether or not I'm going to step into that or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not up to God.
[SPEAKER_02]: God says, I've already made you a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: As a matter of fact, my word says, I've made you more than a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're not just a conqueror, but you are even greater than that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're even more than a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: And say, oh, God, make me a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says, I already said it in my word, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: We just got a step into that place.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a step into that position, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so for 40 years, they have wandered in the wilderness.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they've literally been like, no meds.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they've been in the wilderness for 40 years, they're like, no meds, you know, and God looks down from heaven and he calls his people and he calls them an army, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: He calls them an army.
[SPEAKER_02]: and God calls this group of wanders out of wandering and he raises them up to be conquerors now.
[SPEAKER_02]: They go from being a wanderer to being a conqueror.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now that sounds really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to be a wanderer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be a conquerer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to just walk around and say, God, but I want to be like on the front line, like let's go, baby, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, let's take care of business.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they go from being a wanderer to a conquerer, and they go to being a people who know how to possess the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: They went into the Promised Land wondering how do I possess the land to all of a sudden now God has raised them up as conquerors, Joshua chapter 6, and they are now learning how to possess the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: and hear me loud and clear church it because I am talking to kingdom people this morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not talking to rich people, poor people, not just your skull, color of your skin or how big or smaller, whatever you are, I am talking to kingdom people today and no matter where you come from, no matter where you have came from and whatever you came out of, you have been washed by the blood of the lamb.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have been saved, you have been born again, you're redeemed, you are bought, come on somebody, you are purchased by the spotless lamb of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the devil, sure as heck, the devil sure as heck is not big enough to take what God has given to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're either a conqueror or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: You either understand all of those things that I told you or you don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe so many times we allow the devil to just come in and eat our sack lunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says, you've got a lunch bowl today, give it to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take every bite of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want all of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we literally hand him over our lunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here you go, devil.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we don't live like a conquer.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a conquer says, I've got my lunch, but you ain't gonna have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I've got what God has blessed me with, what God has provided for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got this promise that He has given to me, and you ain't sure I was heckin' to take that away from me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And let me say it a little bit differently.
[SPEAKER_02]: There ain't nobody else that you're gonna try to use to take it away from me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see, because so many times the devil comes knocking and we can sell him our lunch really easily, or he will use other people to try to come steal your lunch from you.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let me just be a gracious soul for the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll just give away my blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, I mean, come on, if God bless you with the thing, if God provided a promise to you, come on, it's for years to keep.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's for the keeping, hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's for the keeping.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's exactly what the enemy wants to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: The enemy wants to come and rob you of the blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: The enemy wants to come and rob you of the promise.
[SPEAKER_02]: He wants to steal away every good thing that God is doing in your life right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: But a conqueror says, I will not allow that.
[SPEAKER_02]: A conqueror says, I recognize that the devil is knocking, but I'm not going to give him a place of authority.
[SPEAKER_02]: A conqueror says, I know that he's trying to take this away from me, but I am a conqueror, I am a warrior, and I will do whatever I got to do to fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that I can keep what God has blessed me with.
[SPEAKER_02]: If God gave me the promise, the promise is for me, and as sure as heck it is where nobody else.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for you, devil, uh-uh.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ain't gonna steal away my joy.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ain't gonna steal away my peace.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you ain't gonna steal away my blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you'll change your mind and quit letting people dictate your future,
[SPEAKER_02]: and quit letting the devil lie to you all the time, then God is about to break you out of that mentality of slavery and into a mentality of occupation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then I can do exactly what we talked about last week.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can occupy and possess the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a slave to the things of this world.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a slave to the land, but I can possess the land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you will occupy and possess the land, like we talked about last week.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you will also begin to see how the Lord raises you up as a conquering warrior for his kingdom.
[SPEAKER_02]: A conquering warrior for his kingdom.
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll be gonna notice how the things that used to bother you.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't even bother you anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the things that used to literally take you out, you're not even phased by it anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: The things that used to make you all lonely or depressed or sad or miserable for several days, that don't even bother you anymore like it used to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on somebody.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because God has raised you up as a conquering warrior, you are so much further on the other side of so much junk that you've been through in your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_02]: God is so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is so faithful.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is so gracious.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has blessed you left and right.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are not who you used to be glory to God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, when you are a conquering warrior for the kingdom and when you understand that mentality and when you begin to live that lifestyle, in other words, you got to change the way you talk.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got to change the way you think.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got to change the way you act.
[SPEAKER_02]: Certain people that are around you, I mean, you got to make some changes in order to really live out being a conquering warrior for his kingdom, and when you do that, let me tell you the results that you'll get.
[SPEAKER_02]: There will be no more living defeated.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: There'll be no more living like you're on the edge of something all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: There'll be no more of getting caught back up in old cycles and bondages and things I've been trying to hold you down and weigh you down.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the God is raising up in this hour, kingdom warriors.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kingdom conquerors, come on somebody, who refuses to miss out on any kingdom opportunity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you should be clapping right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pastor, that was really, really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Glory to God, amen, amen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if I got to come down there and do it for you, I will.
[SPEAKER_02]: But my God, I mean, come on, do you know that you have the opportunity of a lifetime to possess the thing that God has called you to?
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, and no devil's going to hold you back.
[SPEAKER_02]: No devil's gonna hold you back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there are things that you have felt in your past where you have felt held back by certain things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it was just your past holding you back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what it's been, but God is breaking that all off.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're becoming a conquering warrior.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on somebody, for the kingdom of God, you will not be defeated, you will not be taken out, you will not be bothered by those things any longer, but you are raising up with this victory like you were talking about earlier that there's this victory that is coming over your life that you're going to step into this position where you truly understand that I am a kingdom, a kingdom conquerer, come on, and if God is for me, then who can be against me?
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine not being, imagine not being phased by when those certain people say those things that trigger you, imagine not being phased by that any longer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine not getting upset about the things that you've always got upset about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine not getting agitated by, you know, that one person that agitated, you know, imagine not getting agitated by them anymore, but having so much love coming out of your heart for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're in changes, everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I used to despise that person, but now I love them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, imagine getting into a place into a position where God begins to wreck every single aspect of your life, where you can go into places that used to scare you or that you can go into places that used to hold you back and you can actually be so confident that God is doing a work.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't go back there because it reminds me of something I went through, reminds me of my past.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now all of a sudden you're going in there and you're saying, I'm taking back this land for the kingdom of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is not going to hold me back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to even bring up a memory any longer, but praise God, I'm on the other side of that thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I am walking out this conquering mindset of conquering the land that God has called me to possess.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the devil would just love for you to have continued setbacks and continue to excuses for not cultivating the land that he is calling you to.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would love that for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're not, we're not going to be there.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, we're not going to be okay with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to recognize the attack.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to recognize the lie when it comes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to conquer that thing with the truth of God's Word.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to stand upon the truth of his Word.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if I remember correctly, my Bible says that his promises are yes and amen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, he doesn't withhold nothing good from me.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't take anything back because if he promised a thing,
[SPEAKER_02]: That which he has started.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe that God is taking us into a new place of victory.
[SPEAKER_02]: That God is raising us up as kingdom conquerors today.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not going to live in a place of defeat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are we going to go through stuff?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have to face challenges.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a part of life.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a part of being a believer.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna have to go through some stuff, but the stuff is not gonna take us out.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you're gonna go through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're not gonna stay in this stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna go through this stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will get on the other side of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you will get through.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I believe that God is in this moment, right now,
[SPEAKER_02]: He is breaking the mindset and the battle of defeat that you have dealt with for so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is breaking that off of your mind right now in Jesus' name.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, I'm declaring that over you right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm prophesying that over you.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're bold enough to say, yeah, that's me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, why don't you just close your eyes and lift your hands?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm declaring that over you right now in Jesus' name.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will no longer live in that place of defeat.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will no longer be in that position where that thing has been always been trying to defeat you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has defeated you in the past.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has tried to take you out, it did take you out, no longer, no longer in Jesus' name.
[SPEAKER_02]: Will you be in that place at the feet, but you are being raised up today as a warrior conqueror in Jesus' name, full of victory, full of power, full of authority, full of strength today in the name of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are not the same person any longer, you will not be bound to those things any longer.
[SPEAKER_02]: and the defeat is in your past, it's in your history, but it's not in your future, it's not in your present day.
[SPEAKER_02]: I speak healing over your mind right now, in the name of Jesus, I speak victory over your life right now, in Jesus mighty name, in Jesus mighty name.
[SPEAKER_02]: I declare whom the sun has set free is free indeed right now in the mighty name of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: So rise up, O conquering warrior.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rise up, O conquering warrior.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rise up O conquering warrior, take your place of victory, take your place of authority, take your place as a conqueror and the kingdom of God, you will possess the land again.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will possess the land again.
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