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Hello, a big welcome to the Via 
Zion Sermon podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived, and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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As we enter the year 2025, we 
are believing that God is 

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positioning us to possess our 
promise. 

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As you listen in, we hope that 
your heart is stirred up with 

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renewed hope and faith for the 
year ahead. 

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Like God commanded Joshua to be 
strong and courageous, we exhort

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you to be strong and courageous 
and to step into all that God 

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has got in store for you this 
year. 

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Hi Church, It's a joy and honor 
to be bringing God's Word to you

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even as we step into the new 
year. 

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As we've just on the verge of 
completing 2024 in a few hours, 

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and as we are heading into 2025,
I believe God wants us to align 

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ourselves to His Word and to see
everything through His lens so 

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that when we see things, it's 
different than what we've seen 

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before. 
And I believe and pray that God 

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has blessed us. 
In 2024, I know many things 

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wouldn't have happened as we 
want to happen, but I believe 

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that as we saw, the promise was 
for 2024 and the theme was set 

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apart. 
I just wanted to read that verse

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again from 1 Thessalonians 4-7 
and this is what it says. 

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For God has not called us to 
impurity, but to holiness, to be

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dedicated and set apart by 
behavior that pleases Him, 

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whether in public or private. 
I know it's been a hard year, 

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especially with this theme and 
practicing it out and living it 

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out. 
You know, many a times we have 

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this struggle within ourselves 
to live the same as your outside

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and inside. 
And this is where God has the 

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refining. 
Many times we act out in the 

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open, but when you come back and
we start reading His Word, God 

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is refining us, pruning us, 
shaping us, and setting us 

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different within first. 
And I believe that this work is 

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a continuous work. 
And so even as we step into 

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2025, there'll be areas in our 
lives that God will definitely 

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be working in US so that His 
plans will be fulfilled through 

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US. 
And so even right now, as we go 

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into God's Word, I just wanted 
to give you the theme for this 

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year, The theme for this year, 
for 2025 as a church is 

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positioned to possess the 
promise. 

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I'm going to repeat it again. 
It says positioned to possess 

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the promise. 
And so today in 2025, the worst 

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that we've chosen is from 
Hebrews chapter 6, verses 11 and

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12. 
And I'm reading it from the NIV 

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and this is what it says. 
We want each of you to show the 

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same diligence to the very end 
so that what you hope for may be

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fully realized. 
We do not want you to become 

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lazy, but imitate those who 
through faith and patience 

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inherit what has been promised. 
It says here, inherit what has 

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been promised. 
In other translation, it says 

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possess what has been promised. 
And I believe God wants us to 

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rise up today. 
There's a word of caution there.

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There's a word of encouragement 
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That's a word of action calling 
us to, you know, see others 

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who've run before us and imitate
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But even today, as we receive 
this word, I pray that you and 

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I, for those who are watching 
and listening, that we'll be 

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positioned to possess the 
promise. 

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So one of the things that we see
when we set apart by God is that

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we are not dependent on 
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We are wholly dependent on him. 
We also saw through the year, 

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you know, through different 
series that we did, that our 

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strength comes purely from the 
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And it's not our our own 
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You know, we think we've got it.
We think we think we can move 

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through this. 
We think we can, you know, 

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through endurance and 
perseverance, we can push 

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through it. 
But the Holy Spirit has made it 

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very clear. 
That's evidently because He is 

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working in and through US. 
And even as I read this verse 

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from Hebrews 6, you know, there 
are two words that popped out to

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me. 
One was diligence. 

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What does diligence mean? 
Diligence means effort, zeal. 

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There's a constant thing. 
You're going back to this very 

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act and saying, God, I want to 
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You know, as we start the new 
year, there are so many things. 

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We might make a list saying, 
this is what I want to do. 

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This is what I want to cut back 
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This is what I want to give up 
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But in the pursuit of all of 
that, I would ask, would we make

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a honest commitment to God and 
say, Lord, I want to be diligent

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when it comes to you. 
I don't want to be laid back 

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when it comes to you, but I want
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What does that look like to 
quickly obey what is revealed by

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God as a priority? 
In fact, if you look at the 

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Greek word and it mentions it 
means spelled SPOUDE, which 

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means that we are moving in a 
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I remember a couple of weeks 
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one of the points that I spoke 
on was the Holy Spirit gives us 

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this constant momentum. 
We many a times think we're 

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stagnant. 
In the world's eyes, it might 

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look like stagnant, but in the 
spiritual realm we are 

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constantly in a momentum. 
There's constantly a wrestle, 

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There's constantly this tug of 
war happening and God is wanting

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us to be diligent. 
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that we do this with earnestness
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we do it quickly. 
We don't, it's not a delayed way

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of doing it. 
And this reason is so that it is

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better than what was done 
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We always are trying to settle a
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bit over about what. 
But when we are diligent in God,

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we are actually pushing 
ourselves to what we've attained

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from God before, which means 
you're going back to him and 

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saying God in this. 
When I'm positioning myself 

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towards your promise, I'm not 
going to settle in from a 

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position and see from where I 
saw it two years back or one 

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year back or the time when I got
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No, I'm going to move forward. 
If you've called me to obey, if 

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you've called me to give up 
this, if you're calling 

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prompting me to take up this new
Christian habit of probably 

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fasting or diligently praying or
reading the word and meditating 

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on it. 
If I'm moving towards that, Lord

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help me to tune myself to do and
see it from that place. 

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There are two things we see 
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Obeying what God reveals is what
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The second thing, the word that 
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When you look at the Greek word 
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means to possess to receive and 
inheritance to possess it. 

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He talks mainly here with regard
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We possess eternity because 
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Because when we accept Jesus 
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into possession of eternity. 
Our future is secure. 

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We come into possession of the 
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We come into possession of 
certain things because no longer

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are we slaves, but we are sons 
and we become heirs to what God 

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is calling us to with regard to 
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When you look into the context 
of Hebrews, you know from 

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Hebrews chapter 1, the author 
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Jesus is. 
He starts off by saying Jesus is

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higher than the angels. 
A lot of them equated Jesus to 

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angels. 
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chapter 1, you'll see he's 
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He's higher than the angels, 
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he's not to be constituted as 
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Then in the 2nd chapter we see 
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Jesus being fully God and fully 
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Many times it's easy for us to 
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but the fact that he was fully 
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you don't real. 
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Many a times the fact that he 
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that's the beauty about our God 
is that when he became man, when

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he celebrated Christmas, when he
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feels what you feel. 
So today he's not distant from 

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what you feel, He rather saying,
son and daughter, I know what 

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you're feeling and I'm here for 
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So Jesus is fully God, fully 
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We saw also that in the 3rd 
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prophets were before him. 
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given to Abraham, Isaac and 
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all the other kings were there, 
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Isaiah, Jeremiah. 
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them combined because he was 
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He came here to fulfill the will
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And so when we see Jesus in 
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see also in the end, he's the 
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He's higher than the order of 
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And the reason why I think the 
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comparisons is because as we 
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we progressively also mature in 
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Yes, we initially accept him as 
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deeper, there are other 
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We suddenly are, you know, put 
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cultural themes. 
And then sometimes we think, oh,

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I think Jesus can't be related 
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He is above everything. 
What he stood for transcends the

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And so we have to come to this 
understanding that Jesus is just

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not a few aspects, but he's 
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And so this is where it happens 
where we see in Hebrews chapter 

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6 when he comes down, he says 
the the author says, till now, I

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would have loved for you to have
solid food, but you've been 

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stuck in the state of just 
taking milk because these are 

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the questions that you've been 
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Is he a prophet? 
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Is he a high priest? 
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He is God. 
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understanding of who Jesus is, 
we suddenly mature from just 

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receiving this weekly or 
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minute sermons of who Jesus is, 
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And suddenly we are dwelling in 
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We suddenly are seven days a 
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We are suddenly realizing that 
without His word we can't do 

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anything. 
You're suddenly realizing it's 

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through his word. 
We see everything happening 

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through our lives. 
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understanding that this 
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happy with knowing about Jesus 
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And even right now, I just want 
to draw a parallel between what 

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knowing about is and what 
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We've probably talked about it 
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the light of Jesus, we're happy 
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For a lot of you, Jesus can be 
an other real, another carousel 

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post, another, you know, social 
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talking about who Jesus, another
preacher or another account that

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you're following who exemplifies
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But rather than just knowing 
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knowing Jesus. 
This is what moves us from milk 

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to solid food. 
This is what moves us from a 

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sporadic understanding of Jesus 
to a daily relationship with 

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Jesus. 
What is knowing about looks 

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like? 
Knowing about is more of a 

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handed down information. 
You're happy getting a second 

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hand information from someone 
about who Jesus is, what he can 

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do, how he works, rather than 
you tasting it and seeing, you. 

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Know, one of the beautiful 
things about church and 

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community and the reason why we 
love gathering together is 

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because it's a confirmation of 
what God spoken to us privately 

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being confirmed in public. 
That tension that we are living,

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that set apart that we are doing
is that when we meditate on 

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God's Word privately and dwell 
on it and chew on it and becomes

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a sustenance, we automatically 
know what God is doing in the 

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public because we are able to 
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Knowing about is an indirect way
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I won't go around saying I know 
about my wife. 

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I would rather say I know my 
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her, I'm living with her, I'm 
sleeping next to her, I know 

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what her rhythms are. 
I know what aches her heart. 

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I know what brings her joy. 
It's not enough to know about 

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Jesus. 
We need to move towards knowing.

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The knowledge is indirect. 
What we receive about knowing 

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about someone, it's a factual, 
it's objective, it's it's 

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dispassionate, which means 
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You know it, it cannot affect 
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It's a moral is detached form 
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which means this is me that is 
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So knowing about comes down to 
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Knowing is a direct 
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You experience another human 
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in their uniqueness. 
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about knowing Jesus is that you 
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with him. 
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him. 
You when you invite him into 

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your heart, you're saying, God, 
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pile of things inside, you're 
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haven't dealt with this mess. 
You can come into my trauma. 

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You can come in. 
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person who you know move into 
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You suddenly are allowing this 
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your sacred spaces. 
You suddenly are allowing this 

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person who you know to come into
those cupboards where you've 

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kept things, where you're 
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nature. 
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allow this person who knows you 
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You're vulnerable. 
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am. 
This is the real me and Jesus 

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saying I'm here to work 
alongside with you. 

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I'm here to would you share your
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Can I bring breakthrough in this
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It moves. 
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You allow Jesus to come into 
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highs and lows, your likes and 
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No longer are they distant. 
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everything changes. 
So suddenly it's just not milk, 

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it's solid food. 
You're spending quality time. 

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You know that God, this is what 
you're doing in and through my 

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life. 
I'm confident with who you've 

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called me to do. 
I'm confident who you've called 

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me to be. 
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about that, that we move from 
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Jesus in Hebrews 5. 
It goes on to say in verse 11 to

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14. 
There is much more we would like

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to say about this, but it's 
difficult to explain, especially

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since you're spiritually dull 
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You have been believers so long 
now that you ought to be 

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teaching others. 
Instead, you need someone to 

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teach you again the basic things
about God's Word. 

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You are like babies who need 
milk and cannot eat solid food 

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for someone who lives on milk, 
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know how to do what is right. 
Solid food is for those who are 

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mature, who through training 
have the skill to recognize the 

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difference between right and 
wrong. 

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God wants us to rise up. 
Church, this 2025, God wants us 

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to rise up. 
I know many of us have been 

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comfortable knowing about Jesus,
but I want us to move to a place

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of knowing Him. 
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you won't be able to position 
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If you know about Jesus, you'll 
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But when you know Jesus, you'll 
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and you'll be able to see the 
promise that He wants you to see

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exactly how He wanted you to see
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And that's where we see when we 
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Him and when we get to know Him,
his will for our lives becomes 

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clear. 
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they always give you a general 
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They give you. 
You get a general information of

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what a report has read and what 
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But when you actually get to 
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heart is. 
You suddenly have a higher 

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degree of respect. 
You suddenly have a better 

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understanding of why they're 
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And even today, as we get into 
God's Word, you know, even 

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though we've been looking 
through Hebrews, I've taken my 

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passage of reference for us to 
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Joshua. 
You know, Joshua's one of these 

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characters which really 
encourages me and strengthens me

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time and again every time. 
And I have a doubt of stepping 

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into an unknown uncharted 
territory where there's no 

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forerunner before Joshua's life 
is 1, which I'm able to see as a

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reference point for me to move 
towards. 

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Imitate towards. 
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Because Joshua got his glimpse 
early on about what the promised

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land was. 
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the 12 spies, and he and Caleb 
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came, but what they reported was
one filled with faith. 

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What they reported was not to 
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after the promise, but rather to
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And one of the things to have 
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Joshua is that Joshua knew when 
his time had to come to position

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himself to possess the promise. 
Till then he was content waiting

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with Moses in the different 
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wait. 
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Exodus 2413 and this is what it 
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Verse 13 says Then Moses set out
with Joshua his aid and Moses 

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went up on the mountain of God. 
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battles, crossing the Red Sea, 
getting out of Egypt, moving 

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from place to place, Joshua Wiz 
with Moses and he proved himself

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time and again till a point when
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mountain to be with God. 
He took Joshua. 

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It says when he went to the 
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he went out with the glory of 
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It's so clear that Joshua knew 
and wanted to, you know, 

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understood who God was entirely 
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in Israel because there was 
something distinctively that he 

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really caught that Then it was 
taught. 

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He caught a lot from just being 
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And I want us to come to a place
like today when God's calling us

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into a place of positioning 
ourselves to possess the 

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promise. 
I want us to be in a place where

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we are able to say, God, I'm 
here to learn from you. 

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I want to catch more from you. 
Imitate from others who had that

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faith journeys. 
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the promise, you need to imitate
others who've gone before and 

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possess their promise. 
Because everyone's promise is 

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different. 
The promise for our church as we

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assign is entirely different. 
The promise over me, my life is 

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entirely different. 
The promise over my wifes life 

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is entirely different. 
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something we both work towards, 
but that is an internal clock 

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that is always causing us to 
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You might be like, you know 
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Getting the dream job. 
Getting a dream job is a dream 

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job because everyone in the 
world wants a dream job. 

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Everyone in the world wants a 
dream card. 

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Everyone in the world wants a 
dream home. 

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It's not about a dream home or a
dream card. 

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It's rather about God's promise 
over your life. 

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What is God wanting you to run 
after and possess? 

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Run after and possess? 
Probably the generational 

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breakthrough that your family 
needs has to come through you, 

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and then your generations to 
follow will have an entire 

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trajectory marked out because 
you are the sole purpose who 

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pivoted them to an entire 
different trajectory, what God 

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has planned. 
What if the promise that God has

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on your life is for you to rise 
up? 

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Because all this while, you are 
the sole person in your family 

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who received Jesus, and from now
on you're raising a godly 

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generation that's going to 
follow him with all of their 

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heart. 
You're telling me, you know 

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what, I've got my job. 
I don't have anything. 

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God has a God ordained purpose 
for you. 

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Wherever it is, whatever work 
you're doing, there is a God 

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purpose. 
There is. 

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The physical aspect of our work 
is very important Monday to 

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Friday. 
It puts food on our table. 

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God blesses the hands of our 
work. 

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Yes, but there is a God-given 
mandate for us to position 

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ourselves so we can possess the 
promise, so that we'll have 

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greater impact as to what God's 
calling us to do 'cause this 

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possessing the promise is US 
fulfilling the Great Commission 

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over our lives. 
It's nothing else. 

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A lot of us are thinking, you 
know what, it's probably making 

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sure my family's intact. 
Your family will be intact if 

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Jesus is at the center by you 
doing everything. 

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Nothing will happen to that. 
When you're trying to work it 

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out, it might crumble because 
nothing is within our hands. 

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But the more you leave it into 
God's hands and you pursue after

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what God's calling you to 
fulfill. 

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Yes, we are mindful of all that 
he's given. 

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We sometimes think, you know, 
it's, it's difficult for me to 

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balance, but God will give you 
the grace. 

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As we heard in the Christmas 
sermon, the truth when we've 

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received is interlaced with 
grace. 

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And what does that mean when we 
receive his promise? 

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It seems too good to be true. 
It seems too big for us, but 

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that's why He graces us. 
That's why He'll bring people 

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around and say, hey, how are you
doing this? 

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I've been struggling to do this 
and you'll be saying, you know 

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what? 
There was a season in my life 

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where I just held on to God. 
I meditated, He gave me clarity.

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He told me this is the step I 
need to take. 

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There was no one there who could
help me out, but I solely 

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dependent on God today. 
The promise you and I are called

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to step into and pursue and 
possess is one which will be a 

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testimony for ourselves and no 
one else, ourselves and no one 

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else. 
So even as we look into Joshua's

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life, you know, during the time 
period of Moses life, there were

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there's two big lessons which I 
wanted to take back, take out of

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that as we see how Joshua 
started this journey of 

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possessing the promise till then
we see they walk through the 

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wilderness. 
They wander through the 

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wilderness for 40 years and 
there's these two big lessons 

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that come out. 
And even as we start 2025, I 

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think they're very important. 
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The first thing is the spirit of
grumbling has to die with us 

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today. 
The spirit of grumbling. 

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If we want to position ourselves
towards a promise we need to 

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stop grumbling. 
What does that mean? 

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Which means situations around 
you won't be right. 

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The so-called friends around you
won't be right. 

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The people around you may not be
right. 

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The the very place that you 
gather and you do things may not

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be right. 
But God saying I am here, would 

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you keep quiet and just do what 
I'm asking you to do? 

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The Israelites constantly went 
back the the pathway that was 

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marked out for them was hard, 
but God knew their hearts and So

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what he wanted was them not to 
grumble. 

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When they grumbled, he gave 
them. 

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When they grumbled, he gave them
quail, and when they grumbled he

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gave them water from a rock. 
But grumbling even angered God 

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so much that he split the land 
open. 

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They fell through. 
He made sure that they went 

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around the in circles for 40 
years. 

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And so today at church, I want 
us to come to a place. 

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Can we enter 2025 and without 
grumbling? 

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Without grumbling. 
Why? 

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Because what He's done for us is
far bigger than what we want him

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to do. 
If we want the spoils of our 

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previous life, we are on the 
wrong Rd. 

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We would rather go back and live
that and say God, I don't want 

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you anymore. 
Rather we would say God, I'm 

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here, I'm content. 
Lord, give me the spirit of 

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contentment. 
Teach me humility, teach me how 

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to pursue you. 
Teach me how to do things Lord, 

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because I am here to worship 
you. 

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And so we humble ourselves to 
say, Lord, I don't deserve this 

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freedom, but I don't want to 
grumble about it. 

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Hardships will come, but God, I 
would see your hand through 

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that. 
Struggles will come, but I will 

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see through that. 
That is where we are going to 

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start this year from. 
Not one with grumbling, but one 

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which is of gratefulness. 
If Caleb and Joshua lasted that 

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40 years with Moses, Moses even 
didn't make it. 

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God said you can took him to the
mountain top. 

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He saw him the land that I've 
promised to Abraham, Isaac and 

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Jacob. 
He said he's a God of promise. 

453
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And so the beautiful thing that 
we see at the end of it is Moses

454
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,440
couldn't make it, but Joshua and
Caleb made it. 

455
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,800
I believe they were grateful for
everything. 

456
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,800
Why I'm saying grateful is when 
you're grumbling constantly, you

457
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,200
would see giants as giants. 
When you're grateful, you would 

458
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,040
see things with faith. 
You would see things with faith.

459
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,520
What does that mean? 
Which means the very two people 

460
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,400
who went into the promised land 
and saw land flowing with milk 

461
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,680
and honey, saw the fertility of 
the land, the wealth of the 

462
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,080
people, saw everything that they
came back saying. 

463
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,040
This is what God's giving us. 
It's far better than what we 

464
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:16,720
left. 
In came. 

465
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,120
This is where God who's faithful
till now. 

466
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:22,000
He's faithful then, He's 
faithful now. 

467
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,560
I believe today church is for us
to rise up with the eyes of 

468
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,840
gratitude that we'll be able to 
look through into the future 

469
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,840
with gratitude. 
No longer will we look through. 

470
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,880
Yes. 
Did bad things happen? 

471
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,600
Did did I lose so many things? 
Yes. 

472
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,920
But I'm looking with grateful 
eyes, not with grumbling eyes. 

473
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,160
I'm looking with faith filled 
eyes, not with eyes which are 

474
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,080
complaining and nagging God. 
Because at the end of the day, I

475
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,680
don't want God to be tired of 
me, that he's distant away from 

476
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,560
me. 
But I would rather be grateful 

477
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,280
so that he's closer to me. 
Because it says every time when 

478
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,640
I bring a tank offering before 
God, it's like a sweet aroma to 

479
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,160
him. 
A sweet aroma is in its closest.

480
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,080
He doesn't travel far long until
unless it's a closed room it 

481
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,680
gets trapped in. 
But a sweet aroma is like an 

482
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,320
incense that rises up, and I 
pray that the incense as it 

483
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,640
rises up will be one with God 
coming alongside with me. 

484
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,560
Numbers 26, verse 65. 
This is what it says. 

485
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,680
Now the Lord had told these 
Israelites they would surely die

486
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,280
in the wilderness, and not one 
of them was left, except Caleb's

487
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,800
son of Jeffrey and Joshua's son 
of none. 

488
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,200
So today, if you and me are 
going to possess the promise, we

489
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,200
are not going to look with the 
spirit of grumbling. 

490
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,440
You know, I need to confess this
last year there were so many 

491
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,720
seasons in my life where I was 
grumbling so much that middle of

492
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,800
the year I remember preaching a 
sermon, preparing to preach a 

493
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,400
sermon. 
And God worked in me that week. 

494
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,960
And I remember after I preached 
and, you know, we record our 

495
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,320
online sermons a couple of days 
before our church and me and 

496
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,880
Tina had just gone to get coffee
and we were sitting and talking 

497
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,160
and I said, you know what? 
I want to be accountable to you.

498
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:10,360
I want to stop grumbling. 
And you know, I, I, I, I was 

499
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,080
really convicted, you know, 
because many of many a times my 

500
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,920
disappointments, my 
disagreements, my, the things 

501
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,320
that I strongly feel come out as
grumbling. 

502
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,520
And I said, you know, hold me 
accountable. 

503
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,440
And towards the year end this 
year, it was really tough 

504
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,760
because I again went on that I 
was really, you know, having I 

505
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,120
felt like I had that spirit of 
grumbling, but I also realized 

506
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:39,000
it was like a lot of tension 
because I was preaching on this 

507
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,840
entire preparing to preach on 
this entire topic of possessing 

508
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,800
the promise that I realized, 
Lord, I'm trying to fight 

509
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,040
battles out of my own flesh. 
But the very evidence of you 

510
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,200
being with me in the wilderness 
with you journeying along with 

511
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,600
me is 1 to say that you are with
me. 

512
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,080
It's not about me. 
If the goodness in my life is 

513
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,360
happening so long today, if 
everything is intact, it's 

514
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:06,280
because of you and nothing else.
It's because of you. 

515
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,680
It's because of your sheer grace
over my life. 

516
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,040
It's because of your sheer mercy
over me. 

517
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,480
And so today I want to enter in 
with gratefulness. 

518
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,960
And I had to repent. 
And that's a beautiful thing 

519
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,880
about us. 
Parting of the Lord's Table week

520
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,920
on week is to go back to say, 
God, you did something which I 

521
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,880
didn't deserve, and I'm sorry if
I've grumbled today. 

522
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,640
And so today, even as we step 
into the next few points, as we 

523
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,440
meditate on it, I would ask that
even as we take some time, that 

524
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,200
our hearts will be filled with 
gratitude toward what God wants 

525
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,200
to do. 
Because you're maturing from 

526
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:45,760
knowing about Jesus to knowing 
Jesus, which means there only 

527
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,400
has to be thankfulness because 
if we keep grumbling, we'll move

528
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,960
him from the knowing zone to 
even knowing about zone. 

529
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,560
And that's scary. 
So today, as we see from the 

530
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,920
book of Joshua, we see one thing
very clearly is that Joshua is 

531
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,920
asked to lead the people of 
Israel after Moses time. 

532
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,240
And he knew because he already 
got a foretaste of what the 

533
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,600
promised land was. 
He knew what and where and how 

534
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,080
to go. 
But as human, as human as it 

535
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,560
gets, we sometimes are like, you
know what? 

536
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,320
But this is comfortable. 
You know, this is OK. 

537
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,280
You know, this is enough. 
And this is where God comes in 

538
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,080
and says do not be afraid. 
I am with you. 

539
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:34,480
And so today we see Joshua, who 
moves into his new season, being

540
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,600
strong and courageous. 
So even as we come to a 

541
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,120
conclusion of today, as we set 
the tone for what 2025 looks 

542
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,840
like, I want to leave these 
three points which I think are 

543
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,640
going to be very pivotal as we 
step into 2025 every day so that

544
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,040
we'll be able to step out being 
strong and courageous. 

545
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,120
The first thing is we need to be
strong and courageous to lead 

546
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,320
ourselves. 
We need to be strong and 

547
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,400
courageous to be to lead 
ourselves. 

548
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,560
Let's read from Joshua chapter 
one, verse 6. 

549
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,200
And this is what it says. 
Be strong and courageous because

550
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,680
you will lead these people to 
inherit the land I swore to 

551
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,400
their ancestors to give them. 
In fact, let's read it from the 

552
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:12,880
NLT also. 
It says be strong and 

553
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,640
courageous, for you are the one 
who will lead these people to 

554
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,400
possess all the land I swore to 
their ancestors I would give 

555
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,720
them. 
It's a promise. 

556
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,320
What is the promise today? 
What is your promise? 

557
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,440
What is the promise that God's 
spoken over your life? 

558
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,320
Yes. 
The promise for all of us is 

559
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,480
that we will see him face to 
face. 

560
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,760
The promise is that we will be 
in a place where there'll be no 

561
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,800
sickness, there'll be no pain 
there. 

562
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,720
We will all be. 
There'll be no night. 

563
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,000
In fact, it says, it says 
there'll. 

564
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,840
We will behold Him. 
We will worship him. 

565
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,680
That's what the promise of 
eternity looks like. 

566
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,840
But today you and I have a 
promise here on this side of 

567
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,240
eternity. 
What is what is this side of it 

568
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,960
only looking like? 
What are you and I called to do?

569
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,040
What are you and I called to do?
Yes, we all have a calling of 

570
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,080
all our lives, but many a times 
we've suppressed the God-given 

571
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,360
calling to the worldly calling. 
And that's good. 

572
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,760
The worldly calling is good. 
But God wants us to move to a 

573
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,400
place of realizing. 
This will aid this. 

574
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:16,440
My earthly calling will allow me
to pursue and fulfill my 

575
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,400
God-given calling. 
And so today, I don't know how 

576
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,000
many of you have been hesitating
to step into your God-given 

577
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,480
calling, but I want you to 
identify that promise for 

578
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,960
yourself. 
Because if you have to position 

579
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,520
yourself and possess the 
promise, I'm not talking about a

580
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,120
job. 
I'm not talking about a wife or 

581
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,840
a husband. 
I'm not talking about a home, 

582
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,000
Oregon, a car. 
I'm talking far bigger to what 

583
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,200
God wants you to possess because
what you possess is what you're 

584
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,360
going to set down for 
generations to come. 

585
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,720
Because let me come to a place 
where Joshua is encouraged. 

586
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,480
And at the end of Joshua, when 
you read, he says, As for me and

587
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,600
my house, we will serve the Lord
because he tasted and saw what 

588
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,080
God did through his entire 
lifetime, the second-half of his

589
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,280
lifetime. 
He's telling me we will serve 

590
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,520
the Lord all the days of our 
life. 

591
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,360
And I want that to be our 
prayer. 

592
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,880
I want that to be our end goal. 
I want that to be something that

593
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,040
we will leave behind for our 
future generations to say, As 

594
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,160
for me and my house, we will 
serve the Lord. 

595
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,280
Anything else that we leave 
behind will be fought over, will

596
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:22,400
be will will incur the wrath, 
will incur hate of our children.

597
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,600
But when we leave things with 
God intentions, there'll be God 

598
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,720
grace that is on that which will
allow them to pursue it and 

599
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,920
propel it 10 times more than 
what we've done in our lifetime 

600
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,040
for the generation that God is 
setting them up for. 

601
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,800
What does this look like? 
This looks like us opening our 

602
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,560
eyes and seeing things 
prophetically. 

603
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,040
When it when you have to go 
possess something, which means 

604
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,720
someone already has inherited 
it, which means someone already 

605
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,000
is holding back, which means 
some man that is the enemy. 

606
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,400
Each of us have a God-given call
on our lives which the enemy is 

607
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,720
sitting on and is not wanting us
to have. 

608
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,440
And so often times the problem 
that we are all going through is

609
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,280
the fact that He moves us to a 
place of being disgruntled and 

610
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,720
finding fault and us just 
kicking ourselves rather than us

611
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,320
kicking Him. 
Who's the enemy? 

612
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,160
We need to move towards 
possessing it. 

613
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,080
I want to read a verse from 
Proverbs 28 verses 18 and in the

614
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,440
ESV this is what it says where 
there is no prophetic vision. 

615
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,480
The people cast off restraint, 
but blessed is he who keeps the 

616
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,720
law, blessed is he who keeps 
hello. 

617
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,280
It says, I think in the message 
it says it talks about what God 

618
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,240
is doing. 
If people can't see what God is 

619
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,080
doing, they stumble all over 
themselves. 

620
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,320
But when they attend to what He 
reveals, they are most blessed. 

621
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,360
I love that word in ESP and it 
says prophetic vision because 

622
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,160
many a times the vision of our 
promise is blurry. 

623
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,160
And that's intentional because 
if that was clear, then we won't

624
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,440
be solely dependent on God. 
When it is blurry, we are 

625
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,080
holding on to His word. 
When it is blurry, we are 

626
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,240
holding on to His community. 
When it's blurry, we are holding

627
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,320
on to these moments that when 
the community comes together and

628
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,400
worships, God reveals time and 
again. 

629
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,480
That's what happens every week 
on week. 

630
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,440
I don't know about you, how you 
experience worship, but every 

631
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,760
time when I come into the four 
walls of our church and when we 

632
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,920
are worshipping God, it's a 
confirmation of what God is 

633
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,840
doing, what God is going to do, 
what's God revealed, what His 

634
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,159
Word says, and where we are 
headed. 

635
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,440
So today, if I don't have a 
prophetic vision, I won't be 

636
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,199
able to lead myself. 
If my wife doesn't have a 

637
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,480
prophetic vision, she won't be 
able to lead herself. 

638
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,320
What does leading ourselves 
mean? 

639
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,639
Which means what I'm called to 
do, what I'm given as in terms 

640
00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:46,600
of responsibility. 
All these things will fall in 

641
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,199
alignment with that. 
As a son, as a son-in-law, as a 

642
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,679
husband, as a father. 
All these things will come in 

643
00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:58,440
alignment, and so today we need 
to be strong and courageous to 

644
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,800
lead ourselves. 
What does strong and courageous 

645
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,560
look like? 
It looks like us being dependent

646
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,920
solely on God every step of the 
way. 

647
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,200
Us being dependent on God solely
because we want to say God. 

648
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,080
Without you we cannot do 
nothing. 

649
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,920
If we don't see through your 
eyes, we fall because we'll be 

650
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,240
pursuing something else. 
Today. 

651
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,960
What are our eyes locked in? 
For those of you who probably 

652
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,640
follow these trends, 2025, 
they're saying with regard to 

653
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,200
fashion, it's boho chick in 
suede. 

654
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,320
For those of you who are 
following the colour theme of 

655
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,000
2025, it's yellow. 
For those of you who are 

656
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,240
following finance, it's AI being
integrated into all your 

657
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:43,160
investments and you know that 
helping you to make things 

658
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,760
happen. 
With regard to design, they're 

659
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,560
saying textures coming back in, 
but it's interesting that we 

660
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,360
always are looking for the trend
of the coming year, not for the 

661
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:59,240
trend of our life. 
Trend of 2025 is solely for 2025

662
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,600
and today the prophetic vision 
that God's talking about is for 

663
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,720
your life. 
It's for your life. 

664
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:08,200
A lot of us are not pursuing it 
thinking that in the next 10 

665
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,080
years, I don't think it's 
important, but God's saying if 

666
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,280
you don't do it in the next 10 
years, the next 40 years won't 

667
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,720
make sense. 
And so today, if you want to 

668
00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:20,360
possess what God is calling you 
to do, rise up, be strong and 

669
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,120
courageous and lead yourself, 
you need a God vision. 

670
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,800
You need a God sized vision, you
need God eyes today. 

671
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,000
What is God asking you to see 
through your prophetic vision? 

672
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,360
What is God asking you to see 
through your prophetic vision? 

673
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,200
Yes, the word prophetic has been
misused or you probably it, it 

674
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,920
might be a trigger word, but I'm
just telling you today it's a 

675
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,880
God word because it's for God to
reveal himself to us. 

676
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,240
So what does this look like? 
Are we willing to go back to our

677
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:54,440
quiet places for us to see God 
and say, God, could you speak to

678
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,200
me? 
God, can you tell me what to do?

679
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,760
God, I'm waiting here for you. 
Can you tell me? 

680
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:03,800
The miracle cannot be a template
or cannot be a result. 

681
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,880
A lot of us are seeking for a 
miracle, but the miracle is just

682
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,320
a pit stop. 
The miracle is just a pit stop. 

683
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,640
When it happens, it's a pit 
stop. 

684
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,560
It refuels you and then it moves
you towards the possession. 

685
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,480
It moves you towards possessing 
the promise. 

686
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,360
So today, no, make the miracle 
the biggest stop of your life. 

687
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,320
Lot of you are waiting for the 
miracle to happen. 

688
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,640
The miracle will happen when you
see these races, which happen 

689
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,800
when in an F1 race, when they 
come into a pit stop, it's 

690
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,800
quick. 
That's what a miracle is like. 

691
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,840
It'll come. 
And then your eyes are set on 

692
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,400
saying, God, I've got this 
injection of adrenaline for the 

693
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,440
next wave that you're calling me
to run. 

694
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,480
The miracle received is going to
propel us to greater things. 

695
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,560
The miracle that you've received
is going to propel us to move 

696
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,960
closer to the promise. 
So today, first thing is for us 

697
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,440
to lead ourselves. 
So be strong and courageous to 

698
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,920
lead ourselves so that we can be
dependent on God. 

699
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,560
The second thing is we need to 
be strong and courageous to do 

700
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,280
what God says. 
Here is God encouraging Joshua 

701
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,040
to lead. 
Take his people and lead him. 

702
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,720
He gives him the command solely 
to him. 

703
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,120
And then he goes on to say, you 
need to do what the Word says. 

704
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,320
Joshua chapter 1, verses 7 to 8.
It says, be strong and very 

705
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,280
courageous. 
Be careful to obey all the law 

706
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,920
my servant Moses gave you. 
Do not turn from it to the right

707
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,080
or to the left, that you may be 
successful. 

708
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Wherever you go. 
Keep the book of the Law always 

709
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,720
on your lips. 
Meditate on a day and night so 

710
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,360
that you may be careful to do 
everything written in it. 

711
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,160
Then you'll be prosperous and 
successful today for you and me 

712
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,160
to position ourselves and to 
possess the promise is where we 

713
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,760
need to do what the Word of God 
tells today. 

714
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,440
More than us doing what a pastor
says or a man of God says or the

715
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,800
people around say, do what God 
says. 

716
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,240
It's a confirmation when they 
talk about what the Word says. 

717
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,920
A lot of us today are finding it
difficult to chew on that. 

718
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,320
If God says stay, and if others 
around you are encouraging you 

719
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,000
to stay, stay. 
It's a direct obedience towards 

720
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,200
God. 
God uses his people around. 

721
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,800
A lot of us are so hell bent on 
just fulfilling and doing what 

722
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,080
the people of God say rather 
than doing what the word of God 

723
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,640
says. 
Both work in tandem. 

724
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,680
If one is not right from the 
other, seek God more. 

725
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,320
Don't seek man more because man 
has. 

726
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,680
His intentions are not right. 
Our intentions are human, as 

727
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,240
human as it gets. 
Go back to God. 

728
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,440
There are a couple of things 
that it highlights from this 

729
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,920
passage. 
When Joshua's getting this 

730
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,360
command from God, it says 1 
Meditate. 

731
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,680
What does meditate mean? 
Meditate means you take captive 

732
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,200
your thoughts. 
You don't allow your thoughts to

733
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,080
wander. 
How many of you allow your 

734
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,400
thoughts to wander? 
You know, when I'm sitting in 

735
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,400
front of my workstation to work 
and do things, thoughts wander. 

736
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,520
Thoughts wander. 
I I'm I've opened my tab to 

737
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,240
write that e-mail and suddenly 
my thoughts are wandering to 10 

738
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,440
different other things. 
We've seen it evidently here and

739
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,760
every time you get to pray you 
suddenly are thinking of the 

740
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,200
next pressing thing you have to 
do. 

741
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:15,600
Our thoughts are need to be 
taken into captive witty and be 

742
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600
confined to say hey now it's 
time to meditate on God. 

743
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,200
What is God telling me about the
situation? 

744
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:26,120
Be made be on our minds day and 
night Because day and night 

745
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,200
there are things for us to 
worry, things that we see 

746
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,000
immediately catch our eyes and 
that starts we start meditating 

747
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,360
on earth. 
So let's take hold of those 

748
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,960
thoughts and capture it so that 
we don't allow it to wander and 

749
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,360
move us to a different place 
where we are not supposed to be.

750
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,640
Because when we start meditating
on it, it automatically comes 

751
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,160
down to a confession. 
What is that? 

752
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,520
Our lips so we don't speak 
death, we speak what the Word 

753
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,800
causes us to speak. 
Silence when we don't have 

754
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,880
anything to say. 
We need to move to a place of 

755
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:05,080
realizing what God is wanting us
to talk and our actions. 

756
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,320
It's a beautiful thing because 
when we read and meditate, we 

757
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:12,440
allow it to sink in. 
We speak faith out and we move 

758
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,160
towards possessing the promise 
when we read, if it doesn't sit 

759
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,320
in us, we speak death and then 
we're unable to move and we 

760
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,600
remain stagnant. 
And so today, as we meditate on 

761
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,080
God's word, let it sink in, let 
it take shape, let it work in 

762
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,240
and through US. 
May it become the confession of 

763
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,720
our mouth because our confession
show brings us the dependency on

764
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,200
God where we say God I'm solely 
depend on you and no one else 

765
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,760
and may move us to action 
because we see God come through 

766
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:48,840
every step of the way. 
A lot of times we are setting 

767
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,520
for one over the three things 
that God wants us to do, to 

768
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,040
meditate, to confess and to do 
our actions. 

769
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,520
But we need to allow all three. 
When we meditate our words and 

770
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,080
our actions everything to be In 
Sync, which comes to renewed 

771
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,040
mind cleansed lips and yielded 
hands. 

772
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,960
It comes down to a renewed mind 
cleansed lips, yielded hands. 

773
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,040
I want to read from 1 John 
chapter 5 verses one to five. 

774
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,000
It says every person who 
believes that Jesus is in fact 

775
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,960
the Messiah of God born. 
If we love the one who conceives

776
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:34,160
the child, we'll surely love the
child who was conceived. 

777
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,440
The reality test on whether or 
not we love God's children is 

778
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,720
this. 
Do we love God? 

779
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,320
Do we keep His commands? 
The proof that we love God comes

780
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:49,200
when he keep his commands and 
they are not at all troublesome.

781
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,040
Every God born person conquers 
the world's waste. 

782
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,240
The conquering power that brings
the world to its knees is our 

783
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,800
faith. 
The person who wins out over the

784
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,120
world's ways is simply the one 
who believes Jesus is the Son of

785
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,920
God. 
It's purely comes down to, if 

786
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,640
you love God, why did Joshua get
this command to stay within the 

787
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,240
confines of the laws that God 
had given today? 

788
00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:19,240
The extension of that is through
our New Testament. 

789
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:22,760
When we read, it's in fact far 
tougher than what was given 

790
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,200
during the time of Moses. 
And in a changing culture like 

791
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,960
ours, where the depravity of 
sin, the selfishness of man is 

792
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:34,480
at its peak, we need to move 
into an abundance of God's love.

793
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,600
How do you move is when we love 
God and you know that's where 

794
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,160
his commandments come from. 
When we love God, we know this 

795
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,360
is what God means for my God. 
If God's disciplining me, if 

796
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,520
God's pruning me, I've told it 
time and again, we feel God's 

797
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,880
closest only when he's pruning. 
And I believe that's where he 

798
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:59,000
wants to tell us. 
Son, daughter, hold on, I've got

799
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,400
you. 
We saw many a times that if 

800
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,040
we've concentrated a lot on the 
fruit that we are exhibiting 

801
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,920
that we forgot the health of our
leaves. 

802
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,800
But it's in that crushing of our
leaves we see healing bringing. 

803
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,640
And so constantly we are in this
momentum where if we are not 

804
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:20,880
meditating and we allow the 
world's trouble get to us, when 

805
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,440
we meditate, it is spoken out 
and it's dealt with in our 

806
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,280
actions. 
But when we have a renewed mind,

807
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,160
time and again, that's what the 
more we go back to God's word, 

808
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,960
the more our mind gets renewed, 
the more we are able to confess 

809
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,560
with our mouth where we have 
cleansed lips, where it says 

810
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Isaiah says, Lord, take the 
cold, cleanse my lips here. 

811
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,320
And that becomes a constant 
prayer because we know that many

812
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,480
a times we utter things which 
should not be said. 

813
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,760
And then we come back to God and
say, Lord, my hands are yours. 

814
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,720
I yield it to you. 
Do tell me what to do and I'll 

815
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:55,720
do that lot because whatever I'm
doing as a selfish motive, help 

816
00:44:55,720 --> 00:45:01,200
me to do it with your hands. 
So today to that promise that 

817
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:05,120
God's spoken over your lives, 
Would you have a renewed mind? 

818
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,440
Would you have a cleansed lips, 
which means you constantly are 

819
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,960
going back to God saying God, 
I'm sorry, I spoke death over 

820
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,240
the situation. 
But today I speak life. 

821
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,080
I speak life and yielded hands 
God all these while I was just 

822
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:23,680
concentrating on my soul dream 
thing, but I want to come back 

823
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,480
to your God-given promise which 
you're calling me to possess. 

824
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,000
Let me possess it, Lord, let me 
possess it. 

825
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,720
The third thing that we see from
Joshua's life when he encounters

826
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:38,560
God is God tells him to be 
strong and courageous to take 

827
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,400
the next step. 
I know a lot of us are probably 

828
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:46,360
stuck here. 2025 I want us to be
a place where we've taken a God 

829
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,440
step. 
The next step is a God step. 

830
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,080
Joshua 19 it says you, have I 
not commanded you? 

831
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,200
Be strong and courageous. 
Do not be afraid, do not be 

832
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,600
discouraged, for the Lord your 
God will be with you wherever 

833
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,080
you go. 
He will be with you wherever you

834
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:08,120
go. 
Discouragement said sin when 

835
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,920
there was no one around to 
encourage you. 

836
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,400
And I don't know how many of you
are going through discouragement

837
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,120
and I want to speak into that. 
God is with us. 

838
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,640
A lot of times you're thinking 
the people closest to us, the 

839
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:24,120
people we care about, my spouse 
or my children or you know, my 

840
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,320
friends are the ones who are 
supposed to encourage me. 

841
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,800
My girl gang or my, my, my gang 
has to be there. 

842
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,240
But God is there, the person who
can encourage you with words 

843
00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:39,080
that will bring life, the words 
that will bring strength, with 

844
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,560
words that will be portioned is 
there with you. 

845
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,440
So I pray today that we'll find 
encouragement in God and no one 

846
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,840
else. 
Because encouragement in God 

847
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:53,240
will only propel us towards the 
promise, which will help us 

848
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:56,360
towards possessing the promise. 
The encouragement will only 

849
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,240
cause us to take that step in 
the dark. 

850
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,840
We can, we can get the nice 
stickers, we can put the nice 

851
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,200
Wallpapers up. 
We can have everything around to

852
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,560
encourage, but still not take 
that first step. 

853
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:14,080
And I believe that's where we 
allow God to come and say God, 

854
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,200
can you please come with me and 
you'll say I am with you, I am 

855
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,720
with you. 
Don't be discouraged, for the 

856
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:21,720
Lord your God is with you 
wherever you go. 

857
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:27,200
Deuteronomy 31 was a 7 to 8. 
This is what Moses talks to 

858
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,680
Joshua. 
And then Moses summoned Joshua 

859
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,600
and said to him in the presence 
of all Israel. 

860
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,960
Be strong and courageous, for 
you must go with this people 

861
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,200
into the land that the Lord 
swore to the ancestors to give 

862
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,280
it to them, and you must divide 
it among them as an inheritance.

863
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:43,800
The Lord Himself goes before you
and will be with you. 

864
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,880
He will never leave you nor 
forsake you. 

865
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,920
Do not be afraid or do not be 
discouraged. 

866
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,080
And I had wondered why the word 
discouragement is there a lot. 

867
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,120
It is a real emotion. 
You know, one of the beautiful 

868
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,640
things about doing life is the 
fact that you find pockets where

869
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,320
you find discouragements. 
And many a times we make it all 

870
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,240
about ourselves. 
And this is where it's been very

871
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,440
true in my life. 
And I had to encourage myself in

872
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,160
the Lord. 
You know, I love that verse 

873
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,600
where it says in one Samuel 
chapter 30, verse 6, where David

874
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,400
and his entire gang are there. 
They are his mighty men are 

875
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,480
there, they are all there. 
And then suddenly they get his 

876
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,320
entire family, children, and all
of his people are captured. 

877
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,360
And the people were so angry 
with him that they wanted to 

878
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:27,600
kill him. 
They wanted to pelt him and they

879
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,000
want to hit him. 
And this is what it says in one 

880
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,400
Samuel 30 verse 6. 
David was greatly distressed 

881
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,800
because the men were talking of 
stoning him. 

882
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,720
Each one was bitter in spirit 
because of his sons and 

883
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,320
daughters. 
But David, strength in the Lord 

884
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,760
his God. 
So today even the closest people

885
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,000
be next to you, your spouse, 
your children, whoever it may be

886
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,560
might not be the one who's 
actually encouraging you, but 

887
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,960
rather discouraging you. 
They might not even they might 

888
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,440
they might look at you like a 
failure. 

889
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,880
They might look at you like 
someone else. 

890
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,160
You know what, Why did I trust 
this person? 

891
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,680
But today find your strength in 
God because this part that he's 

892
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,640
marked out for you is 1 where 
you need to go and possess 

893
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,400
possess I even as I said earlier
that a lot of us are stopped 

894
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,000
with our miracle is because we 
are afraid of being discouraged.

895
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,800
We're afraid of something not 
working. 

896
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,480
But the beauty about this is 
it's not on us. 

897
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,720
It's God. 
It's God. 

898
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:22,800
The one who's promised is God. 
The promise keeper is God. 

899
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,680
The one who's giving you the 
promise is God. 

900
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,000
And so even if you read through 
Hebrews, there's this beautiful 

901
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,840
way in which the the author 
concludes that chapter 6, he 

902
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,880
says, why does God give us the 
promise? 

903
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,000
Because God stands as a 
guarantor. 

904
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,560
No one else is standing. 
He's not causing another Angel 

905
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,360
to stand or another third party 
person to stand. 

906
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,600
He is standing as guarantor. 
So he's saying, yeshum, if you 

907
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,880
have to possess your promise 
today and you have to find it 

908
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,840
and take hold of it, I am with 
you. 

909
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,280
I am your guarantor. 
I will make it happen. 

910
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,360
But you need to take the step. 
You need to take that first step

911
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,640
because without you initiating 
it, I can't do it. 

912
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,640
God's not here like a robot 
controlling us. 

913
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,040
We're not robots here. 
He's given us free will and he 

914
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,120
wants us to trust Him and have 
faith and take that God's step 

915
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,000
today. 
So today, where is our 

916
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,280
discouragement? 
Is it on ourselves, the people 

917
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,200
around? 
Let's give it to God as we 

918
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,120
leave. 
Leave this verse with you even 

919
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,840
before I close as an 
encouragement. 

920
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:32,440
Isaiah 40 verse 31, it says, but
those who entwine their hearts 

921
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,240
with Yahweh will experience 
divine strength. 

922
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:41,240
They will rise up on soaring 
wings and fly like eagles, run 

923
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:45,640
their races without growing 
weary, and walk through life 

924
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,360
without giving up. 
You know, one of our church 

925
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,600
members daughter recently got 
married and she does this 

926
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,680
macrame and she gave it as a 
take away gift. 

927
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:54,920
I wanted to bring it, but I 
forgot. 

928
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,280
But the way she's intertwined it
is strength. 

929
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,680
So even if you pull it, it's 
really tight. 

930
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,720
You can't really pull it across 
different places. 

931
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,200
And that's what God's saying 
like he is with us in our 

932
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,600
weakness. 
He's joined together in our 

933
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,960
illness, he's joined together in
our in our insecurities. 

934
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,720
He's joined in saying, I'll make
you secure. 

935
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:21,720
I'll encourage you in your in 
your, in your feeling less than.

936
00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:27,160
He's saying I'm here with you. 
And I pray that you will find 

937
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:31,000
hope and strength in God because
he says he will renew. 

938
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,440
He will renew like you can't 
split it. 

939
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,880
He's saying you can't split. 
And so today you and I have to 

940
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,480
be intertwined like that. 
We need to be strong and 

941
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:44,640
courageous in the Lord as we 
lead ourselves, as we obey God's

942
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:51,320
word, as we take the next step. 
Because the promise is what we 

943
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,520
leave behind for the future 
generations to follow. 

944
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,560
Because if we don't possess it, 
someone else is already 

945
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,120
inheriting and it'll be a 
deterrent for the generations to

946
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,360
come. 
So today I would ask you, can we

947
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,600
be bold enough to take the next 
step? 

948
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,520
In fact, I had read on a few of 
these stories of people who had 

949
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,680
actually pursued God in 
possessing their promise. 

950
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:19,840
Just wanted to talk about one 
person, and his name is Doctor 

951
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:24,000
Nelson Bell. 
He was, he worked in China for 

952
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,240
25 years. 
He was serving as his people. 

953
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,080
He was serving the people that 
are both in the spiritual side 

954
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:31,960
and also in the physical needs. 
He was a doctor. 

955
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,360
He had his own clinic there and 
he served and used every 

956
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,840
opportunity to shine Jesus. 
He could have stayed back in his

957
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:43,520
hometown, run a clinic there, 
did what God called him, but 

958
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,040
there was definitely his calling
and a God calling. 

959
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,160
He fulfilled his calling of 
being a doctor, but the God 

960
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:51,560
calling is what gave him 
purpose. 

961
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,160
And so you see in this next 25 
years as he's done this 

962
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,640
faithfully in possessing that 
promise, He lived. 

963
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,880
He what happened over there was 
the impact was so much, but the 

964
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,880
immediate impact was on his 
children. 

965
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,640
One of his daughter's name is 
well known. 

966
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,200
His name is Ruth. 
Belgrim was the second child and

967
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,360
the parents example of faithful 
ministry and loving obedience to

968
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,480
Christ obviously shaped her life
in ministry. 

969
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,840
So today whatever we are called 
to do has greater repercussions.

970
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,680
What we are called to do has 
greater things for the future 

971
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,960
generations to follow. 
If we don't possess it, our 

972
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,560
generation misses it out. 
Hudson Taylor said this 

973
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,000
beautifully. 
He said all God's giants have 

974
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,280
been weak men who did great 
things for God because they 

975
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:46,880
reckoned on his being with them,
reckoned on his being with them.

976
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,960
We need to be intertwined with 
Yahweh. 

977
00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:54,240
And I want to conclude with 
that, that today, as you and I, 

978
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,280
as we make this decision, Lord, 
to keep you at the center of 

979
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:03,040
2025, as we move towards 
possessing the promise that we 

980
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:06,600
will have our vision very clear.
We won't just know about you, 

981
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,080
but we'll leave that aside and 
we'll move towards knowing you. 

982
00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:15,040
And as Joshua, who heard it from
you directly, was strong and 

983
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,800
courageous, constantly increased
to be strong and very 

984
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,440
courageous, we lead ourselves. 
We'll obey what God says and 

985
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,240
we'll be bold enough to take the
next step. 

986
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,800
Church, as we enter into this 
new year, I Commission you all 

987
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,400
that we all will fulfill, all 
that God's called us. 

988
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:35,080
Let's go and possess this 
promise that God has for us 

989
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,720
because I believe he's wanting 
us to set us apart as a 

990
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:41,560
testimony for the future 
generations ahead. 

991
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,680
Can I pray and close? 
Loving heavenly Father, Lord, we

992
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,960
thank you, Lord, for this time. 
Thank you, Lord, for all those 

993
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,680
who are listening, and Lord, 
that as they listen and they'll 

994
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,320
be charged right now, I pray 
Holy Spirit will move into their

995
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,520
hearts right now. 
Lord, I pray hearts which have 

996
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,360
been broken, which have been 
dissuaded, I pray which have 

997
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,360
been, which are in the verge of 
giving up, Lord will reckon with

998
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,120
the truth, Lord of your word, 
that you love them, You are 

999
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,080
their God. 
You have called them your own. 

1000
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,240
I pray that every situation they
have gone through will be laced 

1001
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,320
with your grace, Lord, to find 
fulfillment in You, 

1002
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,880
accomplishment in you. 
We thank you Lord, for your 

1003
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,680
word, Lord. 
Lord, we would be imitators of 

1004
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,320
those who've gone before. 
We'll boldly take the next step 

1005
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,560
because if you are with them, 
you are with us. 

1006
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,960
We declare this in the name of 
Jesus, that we'll be able to 

1007
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,440
conquer the promises. 
I pray for those who've settled 

1008
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,640
in their miracles that they 
would rise up now. 

1009
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,720
Lord Jesus, give them the 
infused strength to rise up and 

1010
00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:34,920
to move past. 
To move past. 

1011
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,280
We give you the glory, We give 
you the honour. 

1012
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,200
Be glorified, be honoured, take 
charge. 

1013
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,920
In your most holy name we pray 
Lord, Amen. 

1014
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:47,080
Amen. 
From the Via Zion family, from 

1015
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,480
both me and Tina, we want to 
wish you a blessed and a 

1016
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,240
prosperous New year. 
We continue to pray that God 

1017
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:53,720
will bless you and everything 
that you do. 

1018
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,960
Pray the food and water of your 
home will be blessed. 

1019
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,040
Pray that everything that you 
undertake this year will be a 

1020
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,680
blessing. 
I pray that we will be able to 

1021
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,480
hear testimony. 
Do reach out to us, do get to 

1022
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,120
tell us what God is doing and 
through your life we'd be 

1023
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,360
encouraged and we'd love to 
uphold you in prayer. 

1024
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,520
Also don't forget to get your 
calendars. 

1025
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,600
We also have some Magnus, follow
us on social media media. 

1026
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,560
We'll have some pictures up. 
You'll be able to order it 

1027
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,600
online. 
But more than anything, I pray 

1028
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,960
you'll also take this option to 
gift it to someone else because 

1029
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,800
I believe many, we need to raise
up many to possess the God-given

1030
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,720
promise over their lives. 
Amen. 

1031
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,960
I pray that you have a blessed 
year ahead. 

1032
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,560
God bless you and your family. 
Have a blessed week. 

1033
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,200
See you soon. 
God bless you. 

1034
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,720
Thanks. 
For listening to this message, 

1035
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,520
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1036
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,920
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1037
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1038
00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:50,800
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1039
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1040
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:58,680
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1041
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:03,840
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1042
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:04,880
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