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Hello and welcome to the Arise 
Church Podcast. 

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We are so glad you're here and 
want to thank you for joining us

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today for the audio version of 
our Sunday morning message. 

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We want to invite you to join us
in person at our Sunday morning 

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celebration every Sunday at 10 
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We are located on Old Jenks Rd. 
in Apex, NC. 

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Thank you, Lord. 
Well, as I was saying that, I 

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feel like this is prophetic. 
And when God is speaking, you do

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have to have ears to hear 
because the natural mind only 

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knows natural things. 
In other words, the thoughts 

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that you have, they're only 
going to know what you could 

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have known without God. 
But to know things that only God

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knows, you have to hear God. 
And for that you need spiritual 

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ears. 
You need spiritual eyes, and 

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most people on this planet as of
today do not have ears to hear 

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or eyes to see. 
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come into church that everybody 
even in this room today has ears

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to hear and eyes to see. 
It's why the same people, you 

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can be sitting next to somebody 
who hears God and is deeply 

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impacted by a service or by a 
message and the next person is 

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just thinking about what's for 
lunch. 

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Why? 
Because ears you have you have 

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two different ways of hearing. 
And so I'm imploring you this 

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morning here God, because this 
message to arise now, I think 

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it's urgent, it's urgent, it's 
urgent. 

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I mean, even what April was 
sharing, the tectonic plates of 

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this earth are shaking. 
And the Bible says that there is

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a time where everything that 
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will be shaken so that those 
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will remain. 
We're there. 

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Everything that can be shaken 
will be shaken so that 

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everything that cannot be shaken
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So we're there right now. 
And so to hear this from a place

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of urgency, I think is important
because that's why it's in our 

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mission statement is as we were 
praying and sensing Lord, what 

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are you saying the assignment on
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it was urgent. 
It wasn't lazy to tell you the 

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truth. 
It wasn't it wasn't generic. 

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You know, I don't even want to 
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because I don't want to blast 
anybody else's mission 

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statement, but wasn't generic. 
It wasn't one that we just 

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googled and find found out what 
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What would it make what, what 
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good about what we're doing. 
It was a prayerful Lord, we, we 

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know a bit of what you've 
assigned us to, but help us zero

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in on it so that we can remember
and and repeat it. 

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And this particular portion was 
one where it was like, once we 

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landed on it, it was like, 
that's it To arise now, 

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discipling generations to arise.
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remember that from one week to 
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change for any person in this 
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There have been moments where 
this reality comes full, full 

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face, whether it's a family goes
to a crisis or maybe someone 

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passes away or just whatever the
reason may be. 

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The call to arise now is 
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think. 
It's more time sensitive than 

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you realize. 
I was at a conference this last 

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week and every year the same 
kind of group of people get 

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together and it's people that 
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And this particular year was 
very sobering because there were

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a couple families that weren't 
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And it's not because they passed
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they had character things that 
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some of them leaving their 
families all together in, in our

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friend group, people that I 
love, people that I know, you 

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know. 
And so there's a sobriety that 

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comes when you start to realize 
not everybody's here that used 

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to be here. 
There's a reality that sets in 

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on you that that's not just to 
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like, I can't believe they did 
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That's that's a bit unhelpful. 
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impresses upon me the urgency 
that I have in my ministry for 

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today in in in me ministering 
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life, giving word of God, not 
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this, but in private 
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people. 
I realize the eternity is in the

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balance. 
Families are in the balance, 

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assignments and callings and 
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I mean, all the things are right
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And so I'm coming at today's 
teaching with a, a, a point of 

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may the Lord help you understand
why he has placed you in this 

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place in this time, and may you 
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May you fulfill your assignment 
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It reminds me when Lilia and JJ 
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Israel and they were there. 
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time, this was just a couple 
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They were there when the war 
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and Israel started to attack 
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And I remember not having fear, 
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my words with Lilia to tell her,
make sure you fulfill your 

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assignment. 
God has you there for a reason. 

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We prayed before you went. 
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you there. 
Make sure you fulfill. 

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Why did He send you there? 
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And a lot of it, though, was how
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My wife is not the same lady who
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Then when she came back, she's 
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diet that when directed at the 
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It's very powerful. 
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timing to that. 
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There was a an awareness of God 
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it's not something that can just
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future time. 
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And so I want to start with 
Joshua chapter 1 and I'm going 

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to hopscotch a bit through 
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himself in a very important 
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but in the the life of the 
children of Israel, the the plan

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that God had for his chosen 
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And I'm going to start in Joshua
chapter one, verse one, after 

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the death of Moses, the servant 
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that the Lord spoke to Joshua, 
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assistant, saying no notice that
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God spoke to him and he heard 
first step to arise is hear God.

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You must hear God. 
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I've never heard the Lord 
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Well, may you hear him for the 
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May you hear his voice. 
The Lord spoke to Joshua the son

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of Nun Moses assistant, saying, 
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Now therefore arise, go over 
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people, to the land which I am 
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Israel. 
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your foot will tread upon, I 
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As I said to Moses, this is very
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up for this assignment 40 years 
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all these other folks kept him 
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For 40 years he was faithful. 
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His friend. 
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ago who said God is able, He 
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And for 40 years they had to 
wait on all these other fools to

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get in line. 
This true, but yet there came a 

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moment when the God was like, 
it's time to fulfill that 

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promise that I spoke. 
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Even 40 years after waiting, 
nobody's hearing me this 

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morning. 
Do you understand what I'm 

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saying? 
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Day in, day out, day in, day 
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Mana disappears at night. 
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day out. 
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pillar of fire and the cloud. 
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out. 
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day in, day out, day in, day 
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And then Moses dies. 
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something has changed. 
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Joshua still has ears to hear 
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Disappointment didn't care keep 
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Frustration with an offense 
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God. 
He still had ears to hear God. 

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What did God say to him? 
I'm still going to fulfill what 

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I told Abraham, Isaac, and 
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I'm still going to fulfill the 
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And now it's your assignment. 
It's kind of like a race. 

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When the baton is being passed, 
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to run with. 
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assignment from God where he's 
saying now therefore arise, go 

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take what I told you I was going
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And I had a band teacher, 
Melanie Gonzalez, she's a band 

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teacher in Durham. 
And I told her my, my band 

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teacher taught me this. 
He would say excuses are lies, 

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excuses are lies. 
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that's true in every, every 
situation, but I think of that 

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today when I'm thinking about 
God's push on us again, I just 

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sense I'm pushing it to say it's
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It's time. 
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you'll let excuses, which are 
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Mr. Sparks was his name SE 
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If you're not careful, those 
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we're not able. 
I'm not able. 

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It's not my time. 
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all of this, by the way, is in 
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Israel. 
All those excuses were there and

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everybody who made those excuses
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That's reality and I don't I for
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Oh no, we're going to enter in. 
We're going to take everything 

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that God has put in our hand, to
take every place that the sole 

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of your foot will tread upon. 
I have given you every place, 

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every place, every place, every 
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You know, Jesus taught like 
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Fascinating since he's part of 
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Because when God speaks so many 
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comprehensive. 
The fact that he said every, he 

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didn't say some of the places. 
He didn't say, well, parts of 

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it, you know, it's a lot of 
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You know, some of those people 
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kind of grown over time. 
They've gotten bigger, they're 

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more in number, you know, they 
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And so, you know, maybe, maybe 
we'll give you about 1/4 of what

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I originally told you to do. 
Notice he didn't say that. 

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He said every place, every 
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And I feel like somebody needs 
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Time has passed and the 
circumstances probably seem 

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harder now than they would have 
if you if it would have been 

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fulfilled all those times ago, 
years ago. 

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And yet God is still saying all 
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This is this is what bumps up 
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worldly ways of thinking of 
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I'm going to, I'm going to use a
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so it can be plain. 
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about buying property, we'll 
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The best time to buy a house was
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Because 10 years ago it was a 
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But if you're not careful, 
you'll start to say out of your 

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own mouth that we just didn't 
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And so we, we got elbowed out or
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And I don't know how we're going
to be able to buy a house. 

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I don't know how we're going to 
be able to, to have that. 

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That's that's a worldly way of 
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Come on, that's just a worldly 
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It's a normal way that everybody
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But what if God said, but I 
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What if he said I still have 
lands and houses for you? 

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Well, Lord, we don't have any 
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We've only rented. 
We only have XYZ and you start 

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to give God all the reasons 
lies. 

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I got to say it's real country 
when I say it lies when you, 

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when you you're trying to 
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isn't possible anymore. 
Come on. 

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I'm breaking it down because 
many people talk like this and I

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hear it sometimes in our own 
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Reasons why it's probably not 
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Joshua facing amazing obstacles 
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his still was hearing God say 
every place that you put your 

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feet on it's yours every place, 
every place, every place, every 

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place for me when I think about 
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anchor in my my soul and my 
faith and stay committed that 

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every place he's promised to me 
I will step into and when I step

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on it, he'll give it to me. 
It's not for me. 

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It's not because I've got some 
sort of king and like my own 

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Kingdom that's trying to be 
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to make excuses and just back 
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everyone would just celebrate 
the level of fruit that we have 

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now and you know the consistency
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have now. 
No one would know that somewhere

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along the line I stopped 
believing God that every place 

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that I put my feet on, he'll 
give it to me. 

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And so when you hear God, it 
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places where you've settled. 
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Are we good? 
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bump down to verse 10, verse 10.
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commanded the officers of the 
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camp and command the people 
saying prepare provisions for 

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yourselves for within three days
you will crossover this Jordan 

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to go in to possess the land 
which the Lord your God is 

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giving you to possess. 
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and Joshua was putting a 
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It says 3 days, we're going 
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So get ready. 
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time to arise, it's time to 
move. 

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There are preparations, 
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preparations that are necessary,
but unbelief won't prepare. 

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Unbelief will sit back and say, 
well, we'll see. 

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Or I've heard that before or 
I've heard this message before 

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and all you know, I've heard 
Joshua chapter 1 to talk all 

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kinds of ways. 
OK, well you can sit in 

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unbelief, but I'm moving and 
anybody want that wants to come 

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along, we're going together. 
Amen. 

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But that means on today I need 
to make preparations. 

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And so faith, when you hear God,
you start to move, you start to 

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make preparations. 
You start to believe that in 

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three days God really is going 
to show up and in three days we 

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really are going to crossover 
into the things that God has 

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called us to crossover into. 
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yourselves. 
Prepare provisions. 

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Prepare provisions. 
There are practical steps that 

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God will tell you what to do. 
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to go. 
He's told us what provisions to 

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take or what provisions to make.
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weren't in faith. 
When God started to move, we 

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weren't ready. 
We missed it. 

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We missed the boat. 
Bummer. 

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But you know God doesn't want 
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He wants you to be ready. 
He wants you to have what you 

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need. 
He wants you, your tank, your 

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spiritual tank, your soul 
filled. 

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Why? 
Because there's going to be 

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energy necessary for what's 
next. 

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So we have the luxury of knowing
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Jordan, they're going to hit 
Jericho. 

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And after Jericho, they're going
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named AI. 
And then they're going to go 

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city by city by city by city, 
allowing God to use them to 

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fight his battles, to take out 
the enemies that were occupying 

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their land. 
See, we know all of that on this

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side, but at this point, they 
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Gear up. 
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people, they just live like like
a gas tank on 1/4 tank. 

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And so, you know, you go 1/4 
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that's not going to get you very
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So they had three days to fill 
up the tank, to get provisions 

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ready, to make sure their faith 
was strong, make sure their soul

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was good, make sure that for 
them it was just practical 

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provisions. 
But in my heart, I feel like the

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Lord saying there's things in 
front of you that you need to 

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make sure you're full, that your
faith, that you're full of the 

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word of God, that you're full of
the power of God, that you're 

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full of the Spirit of God. 
Because if you go up on this 

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fight on 1/4 tank, you will 
lose. 

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You will lose. 
And then you'll wonder what 

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happened. 
Why did I burn out? 

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Because you weren't full. 
God is gracious to us to give us

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a heads up to say there are 
preparations to make right now. 

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Because I see some things coming
up ahead and you're going to 

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need to have gas in your tank to
fight that battle. 

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See, there are many times in my 
own walk with the Lord. 

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Well, I want what I can see up 
ahead. 

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There are things that He's 
calling me into. 

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There's assignments that He has.
Right now is the time to make 

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provisions. 
So if I blow past the past days 

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of rest, or I blow past Sabbath,
or if I don't honor some of 

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those rhythms, I will pay for it
later on. 

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And then it'll be like, well, 
why am I so tired? 

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Why am I so burned out? 
Why, why, why do I feel so 

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stretched or why am I emotion 
emotions the way they are? 

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Why am I cranky at home or 
whatever? 

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It's because three months ago 
when God said make preparations,

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you ignored them. 
It's OK that I've been talking 

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like this. 
Some of it is going to identify 

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and you, oh, I have made that 
mistake before. 

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No problem. 
Just don't make it again. 

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And as the as here pastor, I'm 
telling you, especially some of 

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our leaders make preparations 
right now because the pace we're

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moving at, we're not even 
trotting yet. 

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Trotting, TROTTING, we're not 
trotting like we're not running 

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yet. 
So if this pace is wearing you 

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out, make preparations, get 
spiritually full, get your 

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rhythms nailed down, make sure 
you're finding ways to fill up 

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on a hurry. 
You know that. 

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Have you ever rented an electric
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It's the worst. 
It's the worst. 

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You know why? 
Because in a gas, it's sorry if 

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you're if you're, if you're 
whatever, you know, if this is, 

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I don't even know what to say. 
I'd let me just say what I want 

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to say. 
So. 

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A gas car I can fill up in 3 
minutes on the go in a hurry. 

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An electric car, if you don't 
get the right tank or the right,

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it's not even a tank, the right 
battery charger, It could take 

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you 45 minutes just to get your 
car to a place where it'll get 

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you to the next stop where you 
got to spend another 45 minutes.

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That's so dumb. 
That is so dumb. 

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And you know what the pace we're
about to move at is you need 

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quick fill, you need a rhythm 
where, you know, I, I just, I 

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know how to get refreshed by the
Lord quickly, quickly. 

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Like, and, and they're just this
week I met with a couple of 

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young adult guys for Bible 
study. 

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Nathan was there and Mason and 
Ben and we, we just before young

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adults, we had Bible study out 
in the lobby and we just opened 

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up the word. 
We're talking about, you know, 

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some things that we wanted to 
cover these weekly get 

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togethers. 
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to Ephesians. 
So we went to Ephesians chapter 

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2. 
We were first read the first 10 

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verses and then we started 
talking and we were only able to

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talk through 2 verses in an hour
and 15 minutes. 2 verses were so

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full of life for each of us and 
I left that hour and 15 minute 

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Bible study filled. 
That was a quick fill. 

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It didn't take me all night. 
I didn't need a big old prayer 

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worship meeting where everybody,
you know had all their stuff 

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together. 
It was just like fill me up, 

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look, look, look, look and I 
just ate of the word and I left 

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feeling so different that it can
be that quick. 

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It can be just like that. 
Prepare provisions for 

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yourselves for within three days
you will cross over this Jordan 

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to go in to possess the land 
which the Lord your God is 

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giving you. 
So what is their provisions for,

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for possession. 
So think through what has God 

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put right in front of you to to 
lay hold of, to possess, to step

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into, make provisions for that, 
make provisions for that, make 

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provisions for that. 
In other words, it's going to be

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unique to you and if you make 
the wrong provisions, you won't 

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be prepared for the thing that 
God called you to. 

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Are you hearing what I'm saying 
today? 

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There are unique things that God
will speak to you that I there's

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no way I could go around the 
room and call out each person's 

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provisions that you need to 
make. 

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You need to make provisions for 
you. 

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We're talking about food. 
Some of y'all are gluten free, 

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so you need gluten free 
provisions. 

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Some of it, some people are 
vegetarians. 

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You got to make vegetarian 
options. 

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Others you're, you're, you're on
the, the, the, the meat diet or 

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whatever the carnivore diet. 
Praise the Lord, I want, I'm 

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like, every time I hear that 
diet, I'm like, I'm joining that

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one. 
That's one, that one sounds real

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good. 
But you know, everybody has 

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unique provisions. 
Well, make provisions for that. 

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You know, when I'm going into a 
season of territory, taking 

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Joshua, Chapter 1 is a place I 
go to get my gas in the tank. 

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Why? 
Because I'm going to go 

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specifically to a place where I 
know that's speaking to where 

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I'm at. 
It's not when I'm going to Song 

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of Solomon, no offense. 
I love Song of Solomon and you 

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know what there's wonderful 
verses in there like, but love 

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that's for the winter has 
passed. 

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The spring has come like love 
all of those and those are 

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wonderful and they serve their 
place. 

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But when I'm in war, Joshua's 
talking my love language. 

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Come on, I hope you know your 
Bible. 

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All right, let's go to verse 12.
So he God keeps, or the Joshua 

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keeps speaking, he says, into 
the Reubenites, the Gadites, and

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the half the tribe of Manasseh. 
Joshua spoke, saying, Remember 

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the word which Moses the servant
of the Lord commanded you, 

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saying, The Lord your God is 
giving you rest, and is giving 

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you this land. 
Your wives, your little ones, 

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and your livestock shall remain 
in the land which Moses gave to 

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you on the right side of the 
Jordan or on the side of the 

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Jordan. 
But you shall pass before your 

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brethren armed all your mighty 
men of valor, and help them. 

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Until then, the Lord has given 
your brethren rest as He gave 

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you, and they also, and they 
also have taken possession of 

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the land which the Lord your God
is giving them. 

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Then you shall return to the 
land of your possession and 

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enjoy it, which the Moses, the 
servant of the Lord gave you on 

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the right on this side of the 
Jordan toward the sunrise. 

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I put this in this teaching 
because it's not all about you. 

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Arise now is not just for you to
get yours. 

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And we live in a super 
individualistic culture, and we 

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all have to fight against this. 
I've been very open that I grew 

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up an only child and so I have 
to buck against selfishness. 

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My wife really helps with that, 
and my children help even more. 

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And then now I live with my 
parents, so that helps with even

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more. 
So there's all kinds of bumping 

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up against the fact that we 
don't do this just for us. 

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So when you get yours, help 
others. 

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Help your brothers, help your 
sisters in the Lord, get theirs.

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Fight with them. 
Help fight their battles, 

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strengthen their hands, 
strengthen their arms, help make

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sure they get what God promised 
them to. 

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This isn't just about you. 
When I think about a Rice 

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church, it's not just about us. 
Part of our impact fund is we're

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going to sell to another 
ministry where the, the, the, 

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the couple, they used to be 
youth pastors here and they have

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a church in Kings Mountain, NC 
and they have still have a 

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mortgage on their church, about 
$16,000 left on their mortgage. 

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And I will want us to give a 
gift towards the balance of 

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their mortgage because I'm not 
OK biblically. 

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I'm not. 
I, I don't want us, I should 

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say, to sit over here 
celebrating a paid off mortgage 

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and not help our friends who 
also have mortgages still not be

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able to at least help with the 
paying off of theirs. 

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Why? 
Because they have land that God 

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promised them. 
They have ministry that God 

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promised them. 
There are missionaries that 

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regularly come through our 
church. 

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We'll have another couple here 
next week. 

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And guess what? 
Every time they come, we sew 

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into their ministry. 
Whenever they come, we sow into 

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their ministry. 
Why? 

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Because God has land for them. 
I'm committed to helping them. 

448
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,800
Hello. 
So we do this on multiple 

449
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,240
levels. 
We do it spiritually. 

450
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,800
Yes, we do it practically. 
Yes, we do it intentionally. 

451
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,320
We make sure we know what's the 
state of the people that are 

452
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,840
around us so that when they're 
fighting their battles to take 

453
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,880
the land God called them to take
the promises of God for their 

454
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,880
life, We can help fight for 
them. 

455
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,760
This is right here in scripture.
Are y'all reading this? 

456
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,280
This isn't here so that you can 
have a history lesson of what 

457
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,560
happened with the children of 
Israel. 

458
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,840
It's written there so that you 
and I know how to relate to one 

459
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,240
another and this current 
covenant that we have with God. 

460
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:42,680
And I just, I just feel a strong
I don't maybe correction is is 

461
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,640
too much, but I guess more of a 
of an encouragement. 

462
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,800
Do not let yourself become a 
selfish Christian. 

463
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,360
Part of the part of the, the 
shadow side of preaching about 

464
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:01,160
faith and encouraging people to 
take the promises of God is if 

465
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,960
it, if you don't check that 
flesh side of you, it'll cause 

466
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,200
you to become selfish. 
And you will, you will hear 

467
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,040
everything through the lens of 
me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. 

468
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,000
That's the worst choir ever. 
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. 

469
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,920
Like this, not the, that's not 
the song we want to sing, OK? 

470
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,680
Like there's this, this is a, 
this is the body of Christ. 

471
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,280
If I win, you win. 
If you win, I win. 

472
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,440
If you lose, we're losing. 
And so I want to come alongside 

473
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,680
of you and help you until you 
start winning again. 

474
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,120
This is important. 
This is a part of us arising 

475
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,280
right now. 
I was at a again at a conference

476
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,760
this week and the amount of 
people that came and 

477
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,520
congratulated us for our church 
paying off the mortgage was 

478
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,240
amazing. 
How all these people found out 

479
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,360
about it, I don't know. 
I think social media tells a lot

480
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,720
of our business and you know 
what I was thankful for is 

481
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,360
because many of them came and 
said that when they read or they

482
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,240
watch the testimony video, they 
wept because they're believing 

483
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,040
God for things. 
So watching that was a part of 

484
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,320
them receiving courage for them 
to do what God called them to 

485
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,680
do. 
Well, what if we delayed for a 

486
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,280
year or two? 
What if we just kicked that can 

487
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,960
down the the down the road? 
What if any step along the way 

488
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,880
of paying off our mortgage? 
Someone didn't obey, someone 

489
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,000
didn't step out of faith. 
Well, then this chain of events 

490
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,680
would not have happened. 
Well, that's true on so many 1 

491
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,160
so many of us for the life that 
God has called us to. 

492
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:46,560
Let's skip over to Joshua 
chapter 3, Joshua chapter 3, and

493
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,760
I'm going to read a few verses 
here starting verse 5. 

494
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,920
And Joshua said to the people, 
sanctify yourselves for 

495
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,240
tomorrow. 
The Lord will do wonders among 

496
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,240
you. 
So remember, it was 3 days, now 

497
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,760
it's tomorrow. 
Tomorrow, sanctify yourselves 

498
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,600
for tomorrow. 
The Lord will do wonders among 

499
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,240
you. 
Then Joshua spoke to the priest 

500
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,440
saying take up the Ark of the 
Covenant and crossover before 

501
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,560
the people. 
So they took up the Ark of the 

502
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,360
Covenant and went before the 
people. 

503
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,920
I want you to know something. 
The priests, of course, are a 

504
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,320
type of a pastoral ministry 
leadership role. 

505
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:24,800
I can tell you that for the last
four years, the ministry leaders

506
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,720
and the pastoral team of this 
church has been going before the

507
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,000
congregation. 
In other words, we've been 

508
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,320
taking steps behind the scenes 
so we can be where we are now, 

509
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,280
but that process won't Start 
Stop. 

510
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,560
We're going to continue to go 
out in front and all the things 

511
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,080
we're preaching to you about, 
we're doing ourselves. 

512
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,040
And so I would just encourage 
anybody who's on the ministry 

513
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,800
team or you're, you're whatever 
our pastors here. 

514
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,160
Don't forget, if we don't go, 
we're stopping what God wants to

515
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,000
do. 
And so we have to be obedient 

516
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,800
ourselves. 
We have to sanctify ourselves. 

517
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,200
We have to do all that God's 
told us to do. 

518
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,240
Why? 
So that the people can get what 

519
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,520
God's called them to get. 
If the priest hadn't obeyed and 

520
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,880
done this by faith, carried the 
ark and stood there in the in, 

521
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,320
in, in the water and believe God
he was going to stop up the 

522
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,040
river so that everyone could 
drive across a walk across dry 

523
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,480
land, then they would have been 
stuck in the wilderness. 

524
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,800
So these things take leadership,
but that's not just for 

525
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,560
ministry. 
That's at home too. 

526
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,120
That's at home too. 
That's particularly for men. 

527
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Now, I know that there are 
shared responsibilities. 

528
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,720
There are shared leadership in 
homes that have a a husband and 

529
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,480
a life. 
But if you're in a home where 

530
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,440
there's a husband and a wife, as
a man, we have a leadership role

531
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,520
that our wives cannot fill. 
And there are responsibilities 

532
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,440
that our wives have that men 
should not fill. 

533
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,240
I'm going to step on some toes 
today. 

534
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,400
That's OK. 
You know why? 

535
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Because again, culture has 
seeped in and culture has tried 

536
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,480
to blend responsibilities, blend
genders, blend all these things 

537
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,640
and the Bible doesn't do that. 
The Bible has clear expectations

538
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,200
among these different roles. 
And men, you have a 

539
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,720
responsibility and it and really
an honor. 

540
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,680
It's an honor to lead the honor 
of leading your family. 

541
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,560
And so when you go out first, 
the rest of your family can 

542
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,920
follow. 
And it's beautiful if you're in 

543
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,200
a home where you're, you're, 
you're single and whether you're

544
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,440
been widowed or you're, you're, 
you haven't been married yet, 

545
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,880
you're the leader of your home. 
And if you have children, you 

546
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,960
lead out. 
If it's you, praise the Lord, 

547
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,000
you lead you. 
And you also will have your 

548
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,800
friends and other distant 
relatives. 

549
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,720
They'll follow your lead 
sometimes too. 

550
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,680
But all of us have a 
responsibility. 

551
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Does this make sense? 
So when you're hearing these 

552
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,360
things from the Lord today, 
don't just make it church stuff.

553
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:03,000
Apply it into your life. 
Go first, sanctify yourself 

554
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,960
first. 
Very, very important, very, very

555
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,240
important. 
And I encourage you, you know, 

556
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,240
and I again, I know I'm, I'm 
stepping on some toes, but I'm, 

557
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,560
I really love everyone. 
But I would just say with men, 

558
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,400
make sure that your wife's not 
the one that's always initiating

559
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,640
spiritual conversations. 
There are times where you should

560
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,600
initiate it there. 
There are Sundays where you 

561
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,640
should be the first one in the 
car to say, hey, this is what I 

562
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,320
heard today from God. 
This is what I feel like our 

563
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,560
family should be doing from what
we heard today. 

564
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,520
I'm not saying it. 
I have to be dogmatic. 

565
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,720
You don't have to be religious 
about it or and the wives 

566
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,360
nagging is not going to help 
him. 

567
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,440
So let's just put that to the 
side, OK, I'm just messing. 

568
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,400
I'm messing in marriages today. 
Praise the Lord Wives thought 

569
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,920
they were safe for a minute. 
And I'm like, Nope, don't nag 

570
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:07,240
and I won't help you either. 
But in all honesty, you know, it

571
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,239
doesn't have to be dogmatic 
where it's always that. 

572
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,639
And you know what, again, if 
you're single, call up a friend,

573
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,239
call somebody and and, or, or go
to lunch with somebody and you 

574
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,360
initiate. 
Everybody can be a part of this.

575
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,440
No one has to be left out. 
I take this as a responsibility 

576
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,280
very seriously for our church 
that there there's a there's a 

577
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,320
responsibility that even comes 
on me that that I don't want to 

578
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,480
limit God here because I'm not 
willing to go into all the 

579
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,440
places God has called me to go 
into. 

580
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,719
What rivers is he asking me to 
step into? 

581
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,040
And so I have to be, I have to 
hold that with real respect and 

582
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,280
real fear of the Lord. 
Really. 

583
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,400
So they took up the ark of the 
covenant and went before the 

584
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,000
people. 
Verse 9 So Joshua said to the 

585
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,239
children of Israel, Come here 
and hear the words of the Lord 

586
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,120
your God. 
And Joshua said, by this you 

587
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,160
shall know that the living God 
is among you, and that he will 

588
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,000
without fail drive out from 
before you the Canaanites and 

589
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,040
the Hittites, and the Hivites, 
and the parasites of the 

590
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,960
Girgashites, and the Amorites, 
and the Jebusites and the 

591
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:12,720
Termites. 
No. 

592
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,880
And behold, the ark of the 
covenant of the Lord of all the 

593
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,560
earth is crossing over before 
you into the Jordan. 

594
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,440
The ark of the covenant really 
is the presence of the Lord. 

595
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,080
And so he's saying to them, he's
saying get ready and you're 

596
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:34,240
going to know that God is is 
going to without fail drive out 

597
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:37,800
all of the inhabitants. 
So they're literal people groups

598
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:43,120
in many parts of this land, this
country that God was calling 

599
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,640
them into. 
And he's saying God's going to 

600
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,360
do it, and he's going to do it 
by his presence. 

601
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,480
He's going to do it by his 
presence. 

602
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,520
His presence is going to go 
before you, and his presence is 

603
00:35:54,520 --> 00:36:01,240
going to drive out all enemies. 
Now this is how it works for us 

604
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:04,200
today. 
We may not have physical 

605
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,880
enemies, though there are there 
are people who are not for you. 

606
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,480
There are people who hate 
Christians. 

607
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,760
All of that still true, but the 
primary way I relate this and 

608
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,600
and you see it related in the 
New Testament and for the New 

609
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:22,600
Testament believer is there are 
spiritual squatters in the 

610
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,160
places that God has called you 
to and the presence of the Lord 

611
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,760
is the thing that'll drive them 
out. 

612
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,600
If you strive and toil and 
scheme and try to do it in the 

613
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,960
natural, you will lose. 
You want to be taken advantage 

614
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,600
of. 
You will take unnecessary 

615
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,120
casualties. 
You'll you'll experience 

616
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,800
unnecessary harm. 
Why? 

617
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600
Because you tried to do things 
in the flesh that only the 

618
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,360
presence of God will drive out. 
This is making sense. 

619
00:36:54,480 --> 00:37:01,480
I remember when we first came to
the church here, there were, how

620
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,480
can I say this? 
Well, I'll tell you what I said 

621
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,440
at the time, I felt like there 
were literal squatters on this 

622
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,520
property. 
Do you know what a squatter is? 

623
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,120
A squatter is people who go and 
they just set up and somebody's 

624
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,720
house or on somebody's property 
as if they own it, but they 

625
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:22,640
don't and they just squat. 
They're squatters. 

626
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,760
They and, and I remember we came
from California. 

627
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,440
So squatting was like a real 
thing. 

628
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,200
So like if you had a vacant 
house, more than likely it was 

629
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,360
going to get broken into and 
you're going to have all kinds 

630
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,880
of activity up in that house. 
And those, those were called 

631
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,120
squatters. 
They didn't have any legal right

632
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,760
to be there. 
Let me say it again. 

633
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,360
They had no legal right to be 
there. 

634
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,040
So when we came here, there was,
Lord help me if anybody knows 

635
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,800
these people, I hope you don't, 
but I remember coming and there 

636
00:37:53,800 --> 00:38:01,160
was a, there was a, a workout 
group like, you know, one of 

637
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,360
those boot camp type groups, you
know, they're like doing their 

638
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,360
exercises or they're literally 
squats. 

639
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,720
So they were squatters for sure.
They were doing all the things 

640
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,840
and they were like up on the 
parking lot and they would set 

641
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,440
up signs and they would chalk 
out their place and I would ask 

642
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,360
around them like, anybody know 
who they are? 

643
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,200
No. 
Do they have a written agreement

644
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,520
to be here? 
No. 

645
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,440
So does anyone know why they're 
here? 

646
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:31,760
No, they're squatters. 
They found they found a vacated,

647
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,960
we'll say leadership vacated 
place. 

648
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,600
And they literally set up a 
business to Leech off of our 

649
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,920
property. 
I have a problem with that. 

650
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,360
Not just as a business way. 
I have a problem with that 

651
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:51,000
spiritually. 
Our very first worship night, 

652
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:57,880
very first worship night, when I
came here, I remember we were 

653
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,120
setting up and you know, it was 
going to be worship from prayer 

654
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,640
night, very first one. 
And this group comes in and one 

655
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,400
of the ladies just starts going 
like, she's going to the back of

656
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,560
the church. 
And I said, hi, may I help you? 

657
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,720
And she's like, oh, we're here 
with such and such group. 

658
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,520
And I'm like, oh, well, we're 
not on our calendar. 

659
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,400
And you know, by this time, I've
been here several months and 

660
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,720
I've never heard of this group 
using our facility before. 

661
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:25,120
So I said, well, you're not on 
the calendar. 

662
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,520
And unfortunately we have an 
event tonight, but you could. 

663
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,200
And she's like, well, didn't you
get our money? 

664
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,280
I'm all. 
No, ma'am, we sure didn't. 

665
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,520
And by this time, the way she 
responded, I knew I found 

666
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,600
another squatter. 
No, I did. 

667
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,160
I knew I found another squatter 
in our church. 

668
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,040
And so in me, I knew you will 
never use this facility. 

669
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,840
Now I was nicer to her, but 
inside something just rose up in

670
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,360
me and I said no, that's not 
happening. 

671
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:01,680
So she, she, she, she was, she 
was very unkind. 

672
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,920
And I just let her know that we 
had an event and I was so sorry 

673
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,720
they wouldn't be able to use the
facility tonight. 

674
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,080
So she marches outside and she 
starts to set up her event right

675
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,240
outside those doors on the 
sidewalk. 

676
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,840
Now I thought, OK, I think I'm 
on candid camera. 

677
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,240
Like somebody is literally this 
is a test as someone's just 

678
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,200
wanting to know at what point 
will I lose my mind? 

679
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,680
And so I thought so I just, I 
remember walking outside and all

680
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,000
I could do is laugh. 
I'm like, man, like, and I just 

681
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,640
like this. 
I'm like, ma'am, we have an 

682
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,360
event you cannot set up right 
here. 

683
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,600
And she's like, well, where do 
you want us to go? 

684
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,720
I'm like, I honestly don't know.
I'm like, there's a public park 

685
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:45,160
across the street. 
You can go across the street. 

686
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:50,000
And eventually they left and I 
never heard from them again. 

687
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,560
Surprise, surprise, right? 
But never heard from them again.

688
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,840
But inside I knew I have an 
assignment. 

689
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,840
And my assignment is not to 
allow squatters on this 

690
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,280
property. 
That's not it. 

691
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,800
We're here to host the presence 
of the Lord. 

692
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,880
We're here to make. 
If we're going to make 

693
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,960
partnerships, they're going to 
be legal. 

694
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,160
They're going to be intentional.
They're going to be aligned with

695
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,080
our mission. 
I didn't care how much money 

696
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:16,920
they were going to pay. 
I'm not letting that spirit in 

697
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,200
this house. 
Do you hear me? 

698
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,360
We and God has honored us and 
blessed us because we didn't 

699
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,560
prostitute this church or this 
property to pay bills. 

700
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,560
You shouldn't do that either. 
Don't we don't make partnerships

701
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,800
so that we can appease other 
people with other motives. 

702
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,360
Not going to happen. 
And so when you come to these 

703
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,480
things, you, you, you have to 
make determinations and you have

704
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,160
to stick to it. 
Why? 

705
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,320
Because if you're not careful, 
you're going to make agreements,

706
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,920
you're going to allow people to 
stick around that God wanted to 

707
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,000
drive out. 
And for me, I wasn't mad at the 

708
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,640
lady, I wasn't mad at the group.
I just knew y'all that had that 

709
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,040
spirit that I'm like, that is 
what's been destroying this 

710
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:08,280
church. 
It's got to get out. 

711
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,160
And we did. 
It took us a few months, but we 

712
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,840
cleaned it all out. 
We got them finally had the 

713
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:19,200
conversation to the workout 
group said so sorry, but you 

714
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,880
know that we kind of own this 
property and nobody knows who 

715
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,880
you are, so maybe you should go 
somewhere else. 

716
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,760
And so we try to be nice about 
it, but we had to clean out. 

717
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,280
We had to clean out some of you.
You need to clean out. 

718
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,320
You need to clean out the house.
There's just been your own 

719
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,160
house. 
You need to clean out the things

720
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,880
that have been that God really 
said that should not be there. 

721
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,520
And the presence of the Lord 
through worship, through prayer,

722
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,560
inviting him in, does so much of
that work. 

723
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:50,760
It just cleans out the 
atmosphere. 

724
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,320
And what I noticed as well is 
when I'm in the presence of the 

725
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,800
Lord, I see clear. 
And so when I'm in the presence 

726
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,680
of the Lord, something will come
to mind. 

727
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,000
I'll say I need to address that.
I need to address that. 

728
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,680
I need to address that what's 
happening. 

729
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,480
He and His presence is helping 
me drive out what should not be 

730
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,800
a part of this ministry or part 
of my family. 

731
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,480
Verse 17 Then the priest who 
bore the ark of the covenant of 

732
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,920
the Lord stood firm on dry 
ground in the midst of the 

733
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:21,760
Jordan, and all Israel crossed 
over on dry land until all the 

734
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,960
people had crossed completely 
over the Jordan. 

735
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,160
This is, this is, This Is Us 
right there. 

736
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,080
We're going to stand and we're 
going to stand and we're going 

737
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,160
to stand until everybody crosses
over, until everybody crosses 

738
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,600
over, till everybody crosses 
over. 

739
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,320
And I just I feel that strongly 
for each of you. 

740
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,440
I just feel that for your 
marriages, I feel that for your 

741
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,480
children, I feel that for your 
families that may every person 

742
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:54,520
connected to you crossover with 
you in Jesus name, Amen. 

743
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,320
Thank you, Lord. 
Well, I'm going to go real quick

744
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,960
through a couple other elements 
that was really talking about 

745
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,520
arise, but I wanted to just talk
for a moment about the word Now 

746
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,200
Romans chapter 13 verse 11 says 
and do this knowing the time 

747
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,520
that now it is high time to 
awake out of sleep. 

748
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,920
For now our salvation is nearer 
than when we first believed. 

749
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:19,440
The night is far spent. 
The day is at hand. 

750
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,480
Therefore let us cast off the 
works of darkness and let us put

751
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,920
on the armor of light. 
Let us walk properly as in the 

752
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,960
day, not in revelry and 
drunkenness, not in lewdness and

753
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,040
lust, not in strife and envy, 
but put on the Lord Jesus Christ

754
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,920
and make no provision for the 
flesh to fulfill its lust. 

755
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Romans 13 has for a while been 
just seared in my spirit as a 

756
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,720
call for right now, for this 
generation, that now it is time 

757
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:48,560
to wake up. 
Now it is time to put on the 

758
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,920
Lord Jesus Christ and make no 
provision for the flesh to 

759
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,720
fulfill its lust. 
It's time to to to wake up. 

760
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,480
It's time to wake up. 
It's time to wake up. 

761
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,520
We have to do it and it's going 
to be continually that way and 

762
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,880
increasing. 
So until Jesus returns, Amen. 

763
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,040
That's that sense of urgency. 
That's why even with Joshua 

764
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,520
verse one where where we just 
read in chapter 1 where he says 

765
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,520
now therefore arise, now, 
therefore arise. 

766
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:22,040
There was a timeline that had to
be activated by Joshua's arising

767
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,120
and beginning to wake up the 
people. 

768
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,840
Abraham did this in Genesis 
chapter 13 verse 14. 

769
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,120
It says, and the Lord said to 
Abram, after light has separated

770
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,560
from him, lift your eyes now and
look from the place where you 

771
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,040
are northward, southward, 
eastward and westward. 

772
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,240
For all the land which you see I
give to you and your descendants

773
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,880
forever, and I will make your 
descendants as the dust of the 

774
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,160
earth, so that if a man could 
number the dust of the earth, 

775
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,480
then your descendants also could
be numbered. 

776
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,840
Walk, arise, walk in the land 
through its length and its 

777
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,200
width, for I give it to you. 
This was important because when 

778
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,880
he was standing in that place, 
God said, OK, now look, now look

779
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,280
in Genesis chapter 12, it was go
to the place that I will show 

780
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:06,920
you. 
Well, when he showed up to that 

781
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,760
place, he said, now's the time 
to look up. 

782
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,280
Now's the time to see because 
you're perfectly positioned to 

783
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,600
see what I had only told you 
about all those days before, 

784
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,560
before you started your journey.
But now you've made the journey 

785
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,480
and now you're, you're, you're 
standing here and you're in the 

786
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,480
place for you to look up and you
can look around and you can see 

787
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,320
this is what I promised to you. 
There's a timing to these 

788
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,400
things. 
And unfortunately, I've watched 

789
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,560
many times with with believers, 
especially when you're with The 

790
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,440
Walking with the Lord for a 
longer period of time, it's 

791
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:42,200
easier for you to miss timing. 
When you're a new believer, 

792
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,360
everything is so radical and 
you're just, I mean, you're just

793
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,160
turning. 
It takes a lot of intentionality

794
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,440
for a long term believer to be 
have a have an ear to the Lord 

795
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,920
to no timing to to still have 
urgency in your spirit. 

796
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,680
It's easy to get tired and worn 
out or disappointment may do it 

797
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,040
to you or whatever the reasons, 
life just goes on. 

798
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,800
And you know what, I've just 
determined, I never want to be 

799
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,040
that kind of Christian. 
I never want to have that 

800
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,760
relationship with the Lord where
I just become dull. 

801
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,640
Dull in my hearing, dull in the 
timing, not seeing that he's got

802
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,680
opportunities for me, that if I 
don't strike right now, I'll 

803
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,080
miss that opportunity. 
I want to have an understanding 

804
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,920
that this is important, that 
that, that, that sometimes I 

805
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,120
don't have till next week to get
it done. 

806
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,440
Some things I got to do today. 
There are some phone calls I 

807
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,720
need to make today. 
There are some text messages I 

808
00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:39,480
need to send today. 
So easy to just put off, put it 

809
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,120
off, not understand. 
No, right now is the time to get

810
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,040
on it and to do what God has 
called you to do. 

811
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,840
Thank you Lord. 
Here's 4 things that I want you 

812
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,400
to expect when you're arising. 4
things. 

813
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,840
Number one, movement. 
It always requires you to make a

814
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,640
move. 
Movement proves that you have 

815
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,800
faith, and faith will move 
mountains. 

816
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,400
When God's telling you to arise,
he, he means physically do 

817
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,480
something. 
It's change your appetite, fast,

818
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,560
pray, spend time in the word, 
call that person that you have 

819
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,120
unforgiveness towards and and 
get that resolved. 

820
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,240
I mean, there's always an action
item required. 

821
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:28,280
And when you act, it shows you 
really believe him #2 what to 

822
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:34,480
expect, Expect to be tested. 
Yeah, we love to ask. 

823
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,400
God is searching what is in your
heart. 

824
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,800
He is preparing you for the 
promised land. 

825
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,800
God got you out of Egypt, but 
you have to get Egypt out of 

826
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:49,640
you. 
Listen, I'll say it again. 

827
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:54,880
He delivered you out of 
darkness, out of sin, out of the

828
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,840
grip of Satan. 
You have to, through 

829
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,000
discipleship, have to get all of
that thinking, all of those 

830
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,040
habits, all of those patterns 
out of you. 

831
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,480
That comes through testing and 
God will look in and He will 

832
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,320
see. 
Have you been doing what I've 

833
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,600
asked you to do? 
If you get thrown a curveball to

834
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:19,080
all the sudden you back off the 
promises of God, you will be 

835
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,640
tested. 
The journey of the wilderness 

836
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,720
for the children of Israel was a
test. 

837
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,560
God called it a test. 
He sent them through the 

838
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,280
wilderness that He might test 
them to know all that is in 

839
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:31,760
their heart. 
That's the Bible. 

840
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:38,960
Also, what to expect enemies 
occupying your land where God is

841
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:43,640
calling you is already occupied,
yet God is still giving it to 

842
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,480
you. 
Hello. 

843
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:54,200
Where God is calling you, it's 
occupied currently, but he's 

844
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,440
still calling you into that to 
drive out whoever's inhabiting 

845
00:49:58,440 --> 00:49:59,920
it. 
And then you take it. 

846
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,040
Now this is all spiritual. 
So please don't get in mind that

847
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,080
you're going to go down to your 
neighbor's house, that you like 

848
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,200
their house better and be like 
God's driving you out. 

849
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,840
You got to go. 
You just might as well pack up. 

850
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,880
That's not what you know, 
obviously that's not what we're 

851
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,240
talking about. 
But there, there are things that

852
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:18,160
God has for you. 
There are things that God has 

853
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,240
for you that right now are being
occupied by enemy. 

854
00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:24,240
Some of you, it's your children,
it's relationship with your 

855
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:29,040
children and some this touches 
very, very sensitively and to 

856
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,200
different hearts because you 
know the enemy is at work, but 

857
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,160
you know the promises of God 
that God spoke over that child. 

858
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,320
You know what he has said to you
about that child and yet there 

859
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,920
are occupants seated in there 
for whatever reason, they're 

860
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:51,920
there and yet God is saying that
child belongs to me also. 

861
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,880
What to expect? 
You can expect breakthrough as 

862
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,520
you move, God will move and many
miracles will happen. 

863
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,040
Thank you Lord. 
Thank you Lord Tim, if you'll 

864
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,440
come, I'm going to land on this 
last scripture out of First 

865
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,040
Kings chapter 17. 
This is the prophet Elijah. 

866
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,760
First Kings chapter 17, Look 
upon the screen with me in verse

867
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,520
2. 
Then the word of the Lord came 

868
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,640
to him, saying, Get away from 
here and turn eastward, and hide

869
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,640
by the brook Cherith, which 
flows into the Jordan. 

870
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,520
And it will be that you shall 
drink from the brook, and I have

871
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,360
commanded the Ravens to feed you
there. 

872
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,440
So he went and did according to 
the word of the Lord, which went

873
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,520
for. 
For he went and stayed by the 

874
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,600
brook Cherith, which flows into 
the Jordan. 

875
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,160
The Ravens brought him bread and
meat in the morning. 

876
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,000
Ravens, literal birds. 
OK, this is not figurative, this

877
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,800
is literal. 
Literal birds brought him bread 

878
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,960
and meat in the morning and 
bread and meat in the evening, 

879
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,960
and he drank from the brook. 
And it happened after a while 

880
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,520
that the brook dried up because 
there had been no rain in the 

881
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,160
land. 
Then the word of the Lord came 

882
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,480
to him, saying, Arise, go to 
Zarephath, which belongs to 

883
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,600
Sidon, and dwell there. 
And see, I've commanded a widow 

884
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,600
to provide for you. 
So he arose and went to 

885
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:14,160
Zarephath, and when he came to 
the gate of the city, indeed a 

886
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,600
widow was there gathering 
sticks. 

887
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,120
I wanted to point this out 
because of a couple things. 

888
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:25,120
Number 1, he was in desperate 
need of provision and safety, so

889
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,560
God told him exactly where to go
and got it precisely timed the 

890
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,720
place. 
And he exactly, precisely timed 

891
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:35,480
it so that when he got there, 
there was water still there 

892
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:40,080
because they were in drought. 
So there was water still in that

893
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,400
brook enough to last him for a 
little while. 

894
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,920
And there was food that got 
delivered by the mouth of birds.

895
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,960
God will get you what you need, 
when you need it, where you need

896
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,240
it, regardless of the 
circumstances. 

897
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,760
I don't care what the economist 
say. 

898
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,840
I don't care what your friends 
say. 

899
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,760
I don't care what Google says. 
I don't care what the 

900
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,640
unbelieving believers say. 
When God assigns you to go to a 

901
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,400
place, you go there. 
And wherever there is, there is 

902
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,120
provision there. 
Are you hearing me this morning?

903
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:19,120
This will save our life. 
At times I wonder how many 

904
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:23,320
people didn't make it through 
tough seasons because they 

905
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,480
didn't obey the word of the Lord
that told them exactly where to 

906
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,080
go, exactly who to talk to so 
that they could find the 

907
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,360
provision that God had for them 
in that season. 

908
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,720
I wonder if many of us have 
gotten too caught up in a career

909
00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:43,960
mentality and we let the world 
tell us that you need to stay at

910
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,240
the same place for the same 
amount of time because that's 

911
00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:49,960
what we'll provide for you when 
your retirement instead of 

912
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,880
knowing that that is not what 
we'll provide for you. 

913
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:57,360
God is your provider and unless 
He tells you to stay there for 

914
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,560
40 years, you better listen to 
Him along the way. 

915
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,280
And if He tells you to flip your
career midstream, you better 

916
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,760
flip it. 
I think that Tim Goins, he told 

917
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:14,320
me the story of his career and 
how he did what everybody else 

918
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,560
thought was crazy. 
And yet as soon as he did it, 

919
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,840
where he was turned all the way 
upside down and he ended up 

920
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:27,640
being perfectly positioned for 
what his field of business is 

921
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,200
doing right now. 
Only God could have told him 

922
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:37,480
that he found the brook Cherith 
and that river still running for

923
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:38,600
them. 
And you know what? 

924
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,320
He still hears God. 
And if that brook ever dries up,

925
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:45,320
he'll know where to go, because 
he didn't buy the lie that you 

926
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,680
just do the career moves that 
everyone else says that you're 

927
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,280
to do. 
So when that brook dried up for 

928
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,760
Elijah, the Lord told him to do 
something crazy. 

929
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,840
Go to Zarephath. 
Go to Zarephath. 

930
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,160
And when you go there, there's a
widow that I commanded to 

931
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,280
provide for you. 
So what happens? 

932
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,320
Timing. 
As soon as he shows up, there's 

933
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:15,320
a widow gathering sticks. 
Now, what if God would? 

934
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,360
Or what if Elijah would have him
and hawed him? 

935
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,560
And like God, that is crazy. 
I'm not asking a widow to 

936
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,640
provide for me. 
We are in famine. 

937
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,600
Everyone's struggling. 
I'm not going to ask for help. 

938
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,240
I'm not going to accept help 
from a widow like I'm the 

939
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:32,920
prophet. 
I should be the one who's 

940
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,440
providing for people. 
But you know what, if he would 

941
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,960
have hem and hawed, he, he may 
would have missed seeing the 

942
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:43,960
widow gathering sticks. 
But because he obeyed God 

943
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,640
quickly, quickly, quickly 
listen, he obeyed God quickly. 

944
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,880
He showed up right on time and 
the woman was there gathering 

945
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,720
sticks so they could have the 
conversation. 

946
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:58,920
That ended up saving him and her
because God blessed her 

947
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,560
obedience blessed her for what 
she did for the prophet and 

948
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,520
everybody got saved. 
Are you here? 

949
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:12,720
Oh, this is important. 
This is important, this is 

950
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:15,400
important. 
And thank God for the widow. 

951
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,320
It was to her benefit. 
She was there gathering sticks. 

952
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:20,680
That's. 
Right. 

953
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,880
So everybody was aligned so that
this plan of God could go 

954
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,080
forward. 
You know, Zarephath, it means a 

955
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,720
workshop for the refining and 
smelting of metals. 

956
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,160
I think it's fascinating to me 
that where did God send the 

957
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:41,120
prophet Elijah but to a place 
where things get refined, where 

958
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,800
your faith is zeroed in on where
it's refined. 

959
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,720
Because there was going to be a 
time in the near future where 

960
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:51,520
Elijah was going to need greater
faith in this greater boldness 

961
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,240
than this. 
He was being refined. 

962
00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:56,680
He was being burned, He was 
being tested. 

963
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,360
And you know what? 
That's the place I find us. 

964
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,200
And I think many of us in this 
room were right there. 

965
00:57:04,720 --> 00:57:07,080
We're just right there. 
And there are some steps of 

966
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,960
obedience where God's saying, I 
need you to make this move and 

967
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:14,560
don't delay because if you don't
delay, it'll work out to your 

968
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,080
benefit way more than you ever 
would have realized. 

969
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,160
So I'm going to pray for us. 
Close your eyes right where 

970
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:27,680
you're at, and I pray that the 
Spirit of God would be speaking 

971
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:38,840
to you. 
To know how this relates to your

972
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:47,720
life, Father, I pray that right 
now, by your spirit, you would 

973
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,160
begin to minister to every 
person here, those watching in 

974
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,200
their house church, those 
watching online, Lord, that you 

975
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,280
would begin to buy your spirit. 
Minister, minister, minister. 

976
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:04,040
Speak, Lord, speak. 
Lord, pray for direction. 

977
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:09,280
I pray for next steps. 
I pray for clarity. 

978
00:58:16,110 --> 00:58:20,070
And Father, I pray that you 
would work in us both to will 

979
00:58:20,070 --> 00:58:24,510
and to do your good pleasure. 
I pray that you would help each 

980
00:58:24,510 --> 00:58:29,470
of us to understand the urgency 
to the timing of what is 

981
00:58:29,470 --> 00:58:33,070
happening right now. 
I pray that there would be a 

982
00:58:33,070 --> 00:58:36,590
supernatural movement of Your 
spirit across this church, 

983
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:42,640
supernatural grace to move into 
the will of God like never 

984
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,320
before. 
I pray specifically for young 

985
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:50,560
adults, Lord, that you would 
impart strength and boldness to 

986
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:55,120
them to do unusual things for 
you. 

987
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:59,800
Lord that you would move on many
young adult hearts to join the 

988
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,640
school of ministry and 
leadership to be trained and how

989
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:09,000
to arise and and move in this 
kind of faith and move in this 

990
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,840
kind of anointing. 
Lord, I pray over men today. 

991
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:17,160
As I mentioned earlier, may the 
men of Arise Church be the first

992
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:21,640
to arise, be the first to step 
out of faith, be the first to 

993
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:26,080
lead spiritually in their homes 
and even first here in this 

994
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,760
congregation. 
Lord, I pray over everyone 

995
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:36,080
that's the head of their 
household that you had anoint 

996
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,280
them for that leadership that 
you had caused them to go first 

997
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:43,400
so that the rest of the family 
could follow in Jesus name. 

998
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,080
Glory to God, let's stand to our
feet. 

999
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,400
We want to thank you again for 
joining us for the Arise Church 

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00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,520
podcast. 
We hope you were encouraged by 

1001
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,320
what you heard today. 
You can find 

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00:59:55,320 --> 01:00:00,120
us.online@arisechurchn-c.com and
on Instagram at Arise Church NC.

1003
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,520
If you need prayer or support or
are interested in learning more 

1004
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,200
about Arise Church, we encourage
you to connect with us online or

1005
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,240
in person at our Sunday morning 
service. 

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01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:10,800
Thank you and God bless.