Good evening. Good evening. God bless you wherever you are this evening. Thank you so much for joining us, wherever you are this evening as we just gather as we'd be still, God bless you and strength for you in the mighty name of Jesus as we just gather, at this moment in time as we just take a couple of moments. Wherever you are across the world, may God bless you and strength for you. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, God is with each and every one of us. I pray that you are well wherever you are at this moment in time. And as we can, as the volumes are just coming over just getting a few things set up. Hope you're well wherever you are. May God bless you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. God is for each and every one of us. And May God strengthen you tonight, wherever you are across the earth. Whatever your time is, across this world. It is 734. And we are going to be turning into the Old Testament in just a few moments. It is Monday evening. And we are broadcasting this out of this tiny studio here in Swanee and may God bless you and strengthen you. This is the day that the Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad we're going to be turning to the book of Joshua. Joshua in just a few moments as we just wait for a few people just to jump on the socials. Just be turret before we turn into the scriptures tonight, I hope you can hear me I can see people are just saying yes, we can hear you. God bless you. Thank you for letting us know that. But wherever you are, this evening, I pray that God will guide you and lead you and you will find his strength and his presence in your life like never before. We're just waiting a few moments for those that are in the world of podcasting that capture these podcasts a week later. Good evening. And whenever we push these out whatever time these get pushed out across Spotify, Buzzsprout, and Alexa and so many other different platforms that we used to podcast from, we thank God for your lives. But let's just get straight to the Scripture. Let's turn to the book of Joshua, chapter three, Joshua, chapter three, we will be pretty familiar with these texts. And it is really, really important that we just look at the scriptures this evening. And focus in the Scripture, you know, the UK is starting to see a new leader emerge, we're starting to see things happen. In the political agendas of life, we are seeing certain things happen in your life, my life, workspace, home life, children's life, every area of life, we are we are at the brink. The old King James Version talks about the brink, but the NIV that I'm reading from tonight talks about the water's edge, I believe that we are at the water's edge of life. So wherever you are, I pray. And I know that God will make a way where there seems to be no way you know, we are looking into the political agenda of things we're looking into the stocks, the markets, we're seeing how the capital is moving with our eyes are on, on what are happening, just weather in your culture, whatever's going on, you know, we can't help but capture certain things that are going on in our lives. You know, many might capture the stream of political stuff, many may capture the money markets depends what you've grown up in, and what your, what you seem to be looking at at the moment or the Word of God or whatever. But as human beings, we, we tend to look into to the actions of what the world is doing as well. But I really believe as we are standing on New Beginnings, as we sit where we sit within the UK, and wherever you are tonight, I pray that the hand of God will lead you and guide you and strengthen you. But we are at the water's edge, we are at New Beginnings. And I really believe that as we just wait, you know, the Bible made it very clear to the the Levitical priesthood, just to wait and wait and wait until God started the miracle. God started the miracle upstream. Very interesting. The Miracle wasn't right at their feet, the miracle started back up stream. So let's just see what the scripture says. So wherever you are this evening, if you're within the UK, and you might be looking at the news and following the media and everything has been going on through that over the last few days through we're looking for leadership, the leadership on the notion of parliament of number 10 Downing Street, whatever that case may be at this moment, you know, and however that looks, whatever your political viewpoint and whatever your standard is, wherever you are, whatever your cultural upbringing is, and whatever your been business acumen, whatever your theological press, whatever your understanding is on life. We have never been this way before and the scripture really makes that clear. You know, God said, You have never been this way before but you've got to go by faith. And I believe God is telling you and telling me tonight, the journey that is ahead of you, you've never walked this way, you've never looked this way. You've never tried this way, you've never gone this way before. So I pray tonight that as God gets ready and God has and God is always continually moving in our lives, and God is always moving in areas that we never thought to be possible to move in. I think that we are just like, the actions of the Levitical priesthood. They went and they stood in they had to stand for quite a while they had to stand in the issue that to stand in on the on the Jordans edge, you know, the Bible says go up to it, and stand in it. There are many people that are going up to it that are fearful of it. Worried about the next press, you know, what is next for me in life, what is next for us, as a church as a ministry, what is next for us as, as humanity, what else is going to come our way, but let's get straight into the Scripture. Let's turn to the book of Joshua, chapter three, and it's a long read, but I'm gonna just jump down to Let's start in verse 14. And it says in verse 14, of Joshua, chapter three, so it says, So then the people broke camp and get ready across the Jordan, the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them. Now, the children is at full flood stage during the harvest yet as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Jordan reach sorry, reached the Jordan edge, their feet touched the water's edge, the waters from upstream, stop flowing, it piled up, piled up at a great distance back. And it tells us what happened. So that it's like faith and actions. We hear what God is calling us to we understand in certain areas, what God is calling us to, but sometimes we come to a river Jordan experience in our lives. And we are faced with a tauren we are faced with a river that is, is at full flood stage, we are facing issues that are very full on very hard, very quick fired, you know, almost like seeing debris as well floating down before our very eyes. And I believe the UK has never gone this way before. We are stepping into unchartered waters, we've never gone. We've never walked this way. We've never sailed this way. But I believe God is leading you I believe the power of the Holy Spirit is leading you into new beginnings. I believe doors are opening that you never thought possible. I believe doors are closing of the past. And I honestly believe God is leading. But we are living at a time where we've literally got to go by faith. And that faith may take us up to a river Jordan experience. See, they was given instruction and the instruction took them up to a full flood situation. We are a full flood situation. The river is a torrent the river is up for flood, whether you're looking in the finance markets, whether you're looking in economics, obviously same if you're looking into the capital expenditure. If you're looking into the biblical viewpoint, if you're looking through the political eyes, if you're looking for educational lenses, whatever way you look at this life at this moment, we all come to the same narrative, we come to a same destination we have never been before we have never crossed over what lies ahead. And where you can almost say we're always facing we are always standing in the River Jordan, but the priests had to go and start. They was like the trigger point, even though they had the word they had to go and progress in the footsteps of being obedient to what God was telling them to do through the servant Joshua. So let's just read that scripture again. If you've got yourself a Bible, grab yourself a Bible. It's Holy Communion night, it's a quiet, it's a it's a calm night, I'm not jumping up and down like a Pentecostal preacher bouncing around on one leg, naming it and claiming it. But let's just take our time, in the mighty name of Jesus that says so when the people broke camp. It's quite interesting, isn't it inverse, we're in verse 14 of chapter three. There is a breaking of camp at this moment in time there is a break point, there is a move now, am I going to stay in this position that I'm in? Or am I going to break from from the crowd? Am I going to break out and and say Yes, I believe what you had for me, what you have for me what you had for me, what is for me? And what is around me, Lord, I believe that the Promised Land, I believe that the best is yet to come. I believe, Father, that I'm going to get through this situation. I believe God that you're going to make a dry pathway across this Jordan experience. But God is expecting us to go right up to right up to the situation right up to the door, right up to the brink, the non return position. Once the priests started walking, carrying the ark, we've got to remember what they carried was a presence of God, the Ark of the Covenant on their shoulders, but now because of the cross of Calvary, because of salvation, redemption, now we carry the word within us the word was carried on the outside, the presence of God was carried on the outside. The word had gone before very interesting that the word Word was going before the people, the word always goes before the people that word is in front of the people. The word is to the left and to the right. God's word is always before John, the Gospel of John says, chapter one, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. And the Word was God, the word is always at the beginning, the word is always going forward, the word is always progressive, the word is always gone. The word is always for, for time, the words before time came, even came into existence. But in verse 14 of Joshua, chapter three, it says, so when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, we are about to cross into an area we've never walked before. And I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, I believe in the power of the Comforter, the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe, you know, I believe in God, I believe from Genesis to Revelation, I believe in the word of God, I believe God's word is without error, that I'm the one with all the error, God's word is faithful, and just and true. And I honestly believe God is calling you and God is calling me and God is redirecting us. And the way that we are looking doesn't seem to be a normal set of footprints in the sand, because what we see is the River Jordan, so we automatically with our perception as a human being, look and what we see in front of us, if it's not achievable, our body's going to shut down. But the Bible says the just shall live by faith. If you're in a work experience, if you're in a cultural experience, if you're in a business experience, if you're in a political, whatever experience you're in, words, are encouraging a word to tear us down words will encourage us to move forward or words will encourage us to pause. So I want to encourage each and every one of us tonight to to rise up of off the mat of life, to break camp and to move forward. We have to move forward in faith we have to lift ourselves up. You know, the Bible says you will rise on wings as of eagles, you shall move forward. You know, looking at the eagle when you study the eagle the eagle soar so high, it soars at such a high altitude is such a powerful bird animal in flight, it sees such a distance, it sees its prey, it works things out the eagle you shall soar on wings, as of eagles, you shall rise up above the cloud, you shall rise up above your enemy, you shall rise up and it's very interesting that there is a breaking of camp, we've experienced a break in a camp for for quite a few days. So the breaking of Camp is very relevant to where we sit. In many areas of life, many layers of life, many levels of life meant many situations of life that but now is a time to break camp to What do you mean to break camp now, to move out from our normal position. Many of us live very robotic by the same motion by the same clock by the same heartbeat. By the same press Monday we do this Tuesday. We do that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So we have a plan, we have a situation in place we like to follow the plans, we like to follow the spreadsheet and the mathematical way that we work. We work things out by reason, philosophy and thinking, you know, and many look at just the physics of life and, and the way that we're wired and the way that we move. But I honestly believe that wherever you are tonight, The just shall live by faith. God is calling us to live like we've never lived before. But to live by His word and to live by faith not by living by what pastors and preachers and teachers are saying, not by living but what what the system of church is saying, but to live by the Word of God. Get ourselves a Bible, get in the Word of God, study the Word of God, walk, walk, faithfully, walk strong, walk in the presence of God walking in His Holy Spirit, and getting ready to cross into a land that we've never been before. Remembering that was about to cross over. And the crossing over can be very bleak looking. So as we look at what lies ahead, it can look bleak, but what lies ahead is better than what is behind. So the best is before us. The best is in front of us. But there is a river Jordan that needs to be crossed. So when you look at this scripture, there is there is a moment in your life or my life, in our church, in our denomination in our personal walk in our business, life in our whatever we do the circles of life in which we operate. There comes a point when we've got to break camp that we got to break the very traditional way that we've been living and we've been now they was there for three days about says consecrate yourself that's really really important to consecrate yourself to get yourself right before God and I'm always get myself right before God Father forgive me, for I've sinned and fallen short of your glory, but by the power of redemption by the power of grace by the power of the blood of Christ by his word by the glory of God, by His presence by his and for forgiving is forgiving ways, by the ways that he, he speaks, he leads, He guides, he nurtures, there is always a way forward. Now, there may be many sitting now in a camp position, just sitting there just waiting for instruction, there may be many at this moment that have broken camp, getting ready to start marching to going forward, there may be many that are actually marching at this moment walking by faith, there may be many just starting to see the sight of the Jordan River. But when you see what is ahead of you don't be fearful of water, a few elements of the River Jordan, it was a full flood stage. So it was noisy, it was loud, it was impossible to the human eye to achieve what had to be achieved. There are certain things in our lives that lie ahead of us, that are impossible through human nature, by human strength, by human understanding, by our natural ways. This is why we need God in our lives, because he makes a way when there is no way so as they was marching as they was walking up as there was progressive as I was walking forward towards there was walking towards the problem. But the problem was also a miracle. Sometimes it can be very, very difficult to work out. Is that a problem? Or is that a miracle? Because what I see before me, I'm not sure what is expected of me in this situation. But when when we let's just read the scriptures again, first 14th of Joshua chapter three, it says so when the people broke cramp camped across the Jordan, the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead. God always goes ahead, His presence is always ahead, His presence is going into the trouble, His presence is preparing me and you for the trouble, His presence is prone to prepare in a way away, in the trouble his presence has already prepared, follow the ark. That's what the instruction they had follow the priests follow now. Now, we understand very quickly what the Levitical priest hood was, what it was brought into existence for why it was brought into existence. And God brought it into existence, God created and birth and got the Levitical priesthood together. So when you understand that from the old all the way through to the new, and we see that, but remembering the priests were carrying the ark. Now, we have a high priest, who is the living word of God, who is the Redeemer, we have a high priest that has gone before. So in every circumstance in every area of life, in every fleeting moment of every situation, God has been in and God has gone through and God has made a way. Now God was not going to tell these to pick up the Ark of the Covenant, to go in front of the people and to go and stand in that to fall. God has not set us up to fall. God has set the enemy up to fall God has set Pharaoh up. God was setting up the the enemy to collapse in the miracle. Now, what is your miracle? What is your birthplace? What is your progressive position of greatness and seeing God move is where the enemy will be destroyed. When God blesses you, that's where the enemy will collapse because the enemy cannot get through the blessing the enemy was not and cannot and will never get through, into that space that you are about to go because God is for you. God will never leave you nor forsake you. But I believe that whoever you are this evening, you have to move out of that position. Literally. Whether that's thinking about it, making a logical move in your mind, making a physical change in life, literally making that step of faith and saying today, Lord, tonight Lord, at this moment in time, I am going to go and face this river Jordan, I cannot get through it, I cannot swim it the torrent is so strong it is up for flood stage, the UK is up for flood stage. We are in if you are if I am we are US whoever we are, are putting everything that we have into the political markets, the finance markets, the educational systems, if we are putting everything we got into the relying of what the world is offering, we will find that we will be swept away by the river Jordan because we are not carrying the word I am carrying what the world The world will drown us in the Jordan the world will will crush us with the weight. But I just want to let you know that that river Jordan was at full flood stage and no human being could stop what that river Jordan was doing. Only God can do what God is going to do If no human being can get you to where you got to be, no brother or sister, no prayer team can get you to where you got to be, because God has instructed through His word and the word is about obeying obedience, and trust. So as I look at this scripture from verse 14, in Joshua, chapter three, it says, so when the people broke, camped across the Jordan, the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is up for flood stage during the harvest. Yet, as soon as the priests county Ark, reached the river, Jordan, their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stop flowing. So there is a moment there is a moment where they had to stand in the problem. But they could not see the miracle that was upstream. They had to wait for the natural progressiveness of the water to run dry. They had to wait. Now it says as soon as they stepped into, you would have thought I would have thought maybe not you, but maybe me. So I think as soon as they would have touched that, God would have moved that way right there. And then, but the scripture says that the water stopped, up, stream back up. So there is a moment when we have been given a word of faith, we have been given a prophecy, we have got the word of God, we got clear instruction, however, that has come to us, through us, upon us around us, whatever that may be. We know where we have to go. And the area that we are walking in is unfamiliar territory. And we are required to go right up to the water's edge. The scripture says the water's edge. I believe the King James says that go to the brink. The Brink means no return. We spent many hours podcasting. We spent many hours seminars in Bible studies, line by line precept, we spent a lot of time in his book, in the book of Joshua. And as that scripture says, so so clearly go to the water's edge, I believe God is calling us to go to the edge of the water. What do you mean the water's edge go to that situation, that almost that you don't want to break camp for, and you don't want to put your toe into the situation. Because the situation looks big. It's noisy, it's uncontrollable. Now what I've got to remember what we got to remind ourselves off is that this river Jordan, was not able to be tamed by human hands. This was a full flood. This was a full stretch. It was powerful. It was strong. It was intimidating to the human I. But you've got to go and stand at the edge. But as soon as you stand in now, let's see what the scripture says. First 15. Now the Jordan is at full flood stage during the harvest. As soon as the priests who carry the ark of the reach the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up about a heaps of sorry, about about a mile a heap distance away. So what we clearly get from this scripture is that the priesthood that was under clear instruction, we are under clear instruction, have to walk towards the river Jordan, we have to walk to certain situations in our lives. And we have to look at that situation. Now. We understand who these priests was. They've come out of the Leviticus, they've come out of Levitical priesthood, they was anointed, they was cold, they was chosen, they had a purpose in their life. Now you are cold, you have a purpose in your life. Now just like those priests that was carrying the ark, as their physical being started to approach the Jordans river, you can imagine that they must have thought to themselves, I've had instruction, I'm operating in the instruction, but I don't know what's going to happen with the instruction. God has given the instruction, we are walking in the instruction and we are waiting to see what is going to happen through the obedience. Now we see this again, the obedience of instruction. Now the Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory so there is always a time in my life well I will always be in being some form of position some days great another day someone is better another month, a time I've got I've sent a folder falling short your glory. Lord, help me Father, I thank you for the power of redemption. I thank you for the breaking of the branding, and coming together as saints and being together and says same father, I've sinned and fallen short law my heart Lord, help me wash me cleanse me. So there's always that human element to walk in with God. We see that from the disciples. We see that in the prophets we See that for Elijah, we see very clearly when when he prayed for rain and it stopped. Then he prayed again and and rain fell with him. And then he ran down Mount Carmel. And then he done what he had done. And he's seen what it's seen with the great prophets of Baal. And he slayed every one of them, putting them to death by the sword. But then the word came to him the word from Jezebel, and the word completely Frou him and he, he ran into the miracle that he was praying for he was soaking wet in his miracle, but his mind started to play tricks on him, the mind is a very powerful thing, the mind can play tricks on us, the mind can take us to a to a dark, maybe a lonely place, the mind can confuse things. So now is a time when the Bible says the just shall live by faith, the book of Joe and the book of Acts as in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh, I honestly believe that we are sitting in the book of Revelation, I believe that we are quite a way in, in in the book of Revelation that we are in very interesting, very powerful times. And we can see that just through the changing of the guard the changing of what is happening around the political framework at the moment through the monarchy through for church, for religion, for education, for finance, for capital gain, through finance for every, but I believe that we are under clear instruction. And that instruction is to trust him. Because that's what the Levitical priesthood had to do. They had to trust, the instruction that they was given, and walk in the instruction and trust the instruction, and just go to that place now. It says the water's edge. Are you on the water's edge tonight, are you at that position in your life where you think to yourself, I could almost drown in this situation. This situation before me is very noisy. The situation before me is very quick and very fast. The situation before me is changing. The water is moving the water of life is very quick. It's deep. I can't cross it. But I'm going in instruction, I'm going through clear instruction, I'm going by faith. And I pray that wherever you are tonight, we're going to break bread in just a few moments. Give me about five minutes. so around about there. I believe God has given us clear instruction, and that is to trust him to trust him. Because if I fix my eyes on the torrent of the River Jordan, and that torrent represents a lot it represents the finance markets. It represents the monarchy represents church, it represents ministry, it represents life, that Jordan represents the political areas at this moment, the Jordan represents what's happening in Russia and Ukraine and across the world. It is rushing before our very eyes. It is rushing before us life is just rushing in front of us. But God is telling us to go up to that problem that you think that is impossible to get through impossible. You know, there are areas of our lives of what we would call impossibilities with human being. By being a human being by understanding I am a human being. But what is impossible for man is possible with God. God says that we serve a God that calls the things that are not as though they are. So when he gave the instruction to the Levitical priesthood. Through that great servant, Joshua, the River Jordan was at still full flood stage, when instruction was given, the Jordan was still flowing. When the instruction was received, the problem was still got growing. When they started to walk in faith and walk in instruction, the problem was still moving. The problem did not move. And the problem did not change until the Levitical priesthood, went to the edge of of the river went to the edge of the Jordan. And they actually engaged in the flow of what was happening in life. Sometimes I've got to engage in the flow of the river of life to actually receive the miracle. Because the physical May we'll look at the flow of life, we'll look at the River Jordan, and what it will see we'll see lots of issues and problems and frightening moments because the River Jordan must have been frightening to the human eye that we are carrying this arc, we are carrying something so powerful, so awesome. We are carrying this but we've given instruction. We don't know what God is going to do. But we are anticipating the only thing that God can do is either get us to levitate over this or literally he's going to have to park the waters. It would have been interesting what was in the mind of the Levitical priesthood. It would have been interesting to see how they face the issue. Did they go in trepidation? Did they go in power did they go in thought or authority was one on the left at the front? unsure if the one on the other side that he couldn't see what we're going to do what what we're going to do when we get ourselves to this situation? We're going on instruction. So it is very important that I understand what the answer struction of God is and to what find out what His perfect will is. But to find out His perfect will and to find out the instruction, that can take a lot of prayer that can take a lot fast. And that can take a lot of seeking, that can take a lot of time of almost making mistakes, trying to find out what the purpose is, you know, when you look back, when you have the backlog of life, and you look at certain things happening around. And you say to yourself, oh Lord, I, I've, I've, I've hit a situation here, God, I don't know if I made the right choice. I don't know what happened here. But Father, I pray for the power of the Holy Spirit, that you will move and you will lead me into new beginnings. But I honestly believe that there are many of us facing the torrent of the River Jordan, in many areas of our lives in our in the circle in which you live in the frustration of living as a human being, we have to go to that place, we have to go to that place of almost thinking, if this is not going to move, I am going to drown. If this situation does not change, and I have engaged in this situation, this situation is going to sweep me off my feet. But what I just want to bring us to a place to at this moment, before we come to the table is through the instruction and through the obedience of the instruction, all the time there was approach in the Jordan, it did not change. So all the way through and reaching the point that we are thinking that this has to change, or something drastic is going to happen to me. If God does not show up, I'm going to drown, I'm going to collapse, I'm going to financially break, I'm going to lose my home, I'm going to lose my job, I'm going to lose the plot, I'm just going to hit the wall and crash and burn. Because this Jordan that I face in front of me is too big for the physical me to deal with. Because I can't swim through it, I can't walk through it, I can't glide over the top of it. I can't even understand how I'm going to get through. So the power of obedience in instruction that just shall live by faith, the Bible says very clearly that we don't live and we don't walk. By sight we we go blind, we what we see is different to what is going to happen. So what we anticipate about the River Jordan, what I could have anticipated, if I was on the front, I would have I could have quite easily said I actually I don't want to be the first one, I'll catch the back of this one, I'll carry the back of this you you go first bill go on Sunday, or you go a little bit in front of me, I'll catch the back end of this because I'm interested to see what's gonna happen in this situation. So the two that was at the front, it'd be interesting if you could get in the mind of the two Levitical priesthood, the two that was at the forefront. They were seeing it, they was hearing it, they was walking through it. And they were told to go and stand in that. Have I got the faith to go up to the torrent of life, to stand in a situation and actually stand there for a while and see no change. Because the change did not happen. When they was physically looking at that water. They had to stand in the jaw, they had to go to the river's edge that to go in, they had to put their toe in, they had to touch it before that triggered the miracle. Not because the power of the miracle was in their hands, and God was saying I can't do anything without you. But what we have here is a clear understanding of obedience brings in the miracle obedience brings in the next stage obedience. But isn't it interesting what we are being asked and required to do? And to be expected of ourselves doesn't look like we've been this way before. There are many of us walking in a different direction. We've never walked it before. We've never done a scout run. We've never done a military style operation on it. We are literally going a different direction to what we thought we would go. I pray that as there are many of you across the socials. And as you capture this, whether you're breaking camp, the UK is about to break in some areas as broke camp. Church is about to break camp, some areas of broken camp. So we're in different stages to one another. Some are still in the camp formation. Some have broke camp, some have started walking in instruction. Some are almost at the point of the brink and some are like the first two Levitical priesthood that are already in the River Jordan. But the miracle didn't start the miracle the situation didn't change until the those two front runners stood in in the Jordan. That and that but then the A water did not disappear from their eyes straight away, it says that it heaped up, it was held back. So there is a certain time of the flow of life that will still flow that will still be progressive, it won't change the human eyes straight away. Because we got to get able to be strong to stand in the Jordan. Now, I'm trying to bring us to a place of breaking bread. Now, I pray for every one of you tonight, that the journey that you're on is not the journey that you expect it not the journey that you anticipated, not the journey that you was even thinking about, not the journey that you even articulated, that you thought up this morning about. We are about to break camp, you have broke camp, you may be still at camp, but wherever you are, there is a progressive move. And the only way that you and I are going to get to the promised land is to go and start this process of obedience. So wherever we are tonight, what have I got to be obedient to? I've got to be obedient to the Word of God. I've got to listen to what God is calling me away. God is using the way God is working the way God is speaking. How do I find out all this stuff? When there is such a noise around us? In in all areas of life, there is such a noise. It's so noisy with life. Everything's happening and changing. The Bible says to be still know that I'm God. Well, that that can be very difficult. When you've got busy lives, you've got families, you've got things broken out, just the circle of life, the circle of life is very hectic, it's very hajus. It's an endurance, just the circle of life. It's the word of God. It is Christ. It is the Holy Spirit. It is the eternal God. It is the God of Israel. It is through the cross of Calvary that you have access. Because Jesus says that I am the Way the Truth and the Life. No one comes to me except through the Father. So So Christ is the access point. Christ is the redemption point. Christ is the salvation point. Christ is the redeeming point, Christ is the place of peace point, Christ is that cross through Christ is that moment of change. See, everything is changeable. With Jesus, everything is possible with Jesus, everything is possible, in clear instruction with the Word of God. But the instruction that they was given, was to go through the most difficult journey that they probably face for a long time. And I believe that God has given us instruction and the instruction that he has given us is pretty simple, be faithful. Trust me, don't look at the situation that lies before you. Because if the Levitical priesthood, sat down and started to discuss the military style of operation that was required to get through the Jordan, their speech and their language, and their discussion would have brought them to a point of we can't go through this, but they was faithful to the instruction of the Word of God. And it's not about coming into church. It's not about meeting on a Sunday. It's not about coming under a ministry, we are living when the prophet Joel said that very clear. I've mentioned it earlier on. He says in the in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh. God is pouring out His Spirit on all flesh. We're talking about visions and dreams. We're talking about being faithful. God, God is faithful, God is faithful. And whatever you face in your life, it might look like the River Jordan, it might be impossible, it might be hajus. You might even be saying I cannot cross this area, this understanding of life, but by the power of instruction. Now, when they crossed over onto the plains of Jericho, what happened? They had to come under again, clear instruction. So as I walk as a believer, I am always coming under instruction all the time I live this earth as I walk this earth, as I progressed to this earth all the time that I am living here, I am coming under the instruction of the Word of God. Now, the River Jordan, they see the miracle, but the miracle didn't happen straightaway. They had to stand in the situation. They almost had to hold their strength in the situation, because they would have felt the pressure of the water of life pushing around them was up to their knees, standing in a situation that they could have been wiped out and taken out and destroyed remembering that they are carrying this arc, they are carrying the presence of they are carrying the command. They are carrying the Ark of the Covenant. It was heavy. It had a weight behind it. They had to be careful. So they had to go to the point Have a non return flight. And I believe as we come to the table, there are many of us approaching a situation, a certain area of life where we've got to have faith, to go up to it, to see it, to capture it with perception, our eyes, our speech, our hearing, see it in every human form that we can see it, not to embrace it, because if I embrace it to that degree, and if they had embraced it to that degree, it would have crushed them, but they was going under the instruction of God, and they got through to the promised land. I tell you, God will get you through. God will get you through into the Promised Land, God will get you through on dry ground, God will get you through to the next stage. When you look at the story of the Israelites through the ministry of Joshua, Joshua was given one stage at a time. They was told an overview, but they always focused on what was in front of them. At that point, the Bible in the New Testament makes it clear, do not worry about tomorrow. Just worry about the moment just concentrate in this window of Monday, don't look outside of the window of Monday, don't look into Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, don't look ahead, because looking ahead, will firstly take my eyes off of Jesus. And then it will look at the situations. Joshua had to deal with one city at a time they had to deal with one River Jordan, then they went onto the plains of Jericho, then they had to deal with Jericho. Then they had that. So you're always I'm always you and I, as individuals, as children of the living God brothers and sisters, as as the the movement as the body of Christ, we deal with things as the body of Christ. We deal with things as individuals, we deal with it as ministers of the gospel. So we deal with things and we should be doing things. One thing at a time, Joshua didn't have many plates spinning at the same time. But humanity at this time, we seem to be spinning so much, trying to control so much. When I'm trying to control it, plates will fall off of that, that post and hit the ground and crash. I've got to focus in the moment, I've got to focus to what God is calling you to, I got to focus to what God is calling me to. I've got to be in the moment because I've got to get across the River Jordan, if I looked across the river Jordan and started looking at Jericho, before I'd got through to Jordan, just the thought of getting to Jericho would have been another impossibility to have to add to the tickbox of being a human being. And if I look to the Jordan look to the Jericho and and look beyond Jericho to the next city and the next city in the next city and looked at the kings and looked at the fighting men, if I looked at all that and brought all that together and looked at that, in one thought that would have crushed me, and I wouldn't have had the strength and the energy just to face the Jordan, because the Jordan is enough to face at this moment. But the Bible says they broke camp. We really have broke camp tonight, today we are broke camp, I honestly believe that we will see a another leader in position. I honestly see that there will be another change very very soon. The air, the the the air, the the presence there. God is getting us ready. But there is a breaking of camp. So there is a quick concession of changing of leaders. And there will still be another switch. But I pray tonight that if you are looking at Jericho, before the Jordan, the Jericho and the Jordan suddenly become too big. But if I was to break it down into what lies ahead of me now, if I was to focus on Jericho, before I got through Jordan, but looking at the Jordan and then looking at Jericho, and then looking over into the city of a height and looking into the other fortified cities and started counting what I've got to do. I won't move out, map it because I won't break camp because I'm fearful of thinking that is exhausting. That is so much. But God will strengthen you when you come to your Jordan. Concentrate on the River Jordan. The Jordan at this moment in time represents the torrent of life. The quick concession of changing or switching of seasons now the Bible says it was at full flood it was at flood stage, it was in a hard season. We are in a hard season. The wind of season isn't going to change at the moment. So I've got to understand that I've got a cross. I've got to get through and focus on whatever this Jordan represents in my life. Because once I get through that, I will have a moment of breathing on the plains of Jericho. But don't get your sun lounger out at Jericho. Don't get your sun cream out, don't throw your towel out and get ready to some beef when you get on the plains of Jericho. Because when you get through and you have got through the River Jordan, God will prepare you on the plains of Jericho purely for the city to fall. So it comes down to obedience, obedience in crossing the Jordan, being prepared from the back end of the Jordan, across the plains of Jericho to the gateway of Jordan to the gateway of Jericho, and then come in under again, different instruction, a different type of instruction, verse, a different type of verbal instruction, but coming from the same God Of Israel, The Instruction always comes from God. The instruction is always in His Word of God. He His Word is power and His Word is just an amen. And we are going to break bread because it is 819. And I pray that wherever you are, whatever your timezone is now, I thank God that you have strength to get through the Jordan, not because you are strong physically, but because your God is going to make your way Father in the name of Jesus. We thank you as we break bread together tonight, Lord, as we stretch our hearts out as we stretch ourselves out to the eternal God, Lord, as we lay ourselves out as the disciple did, leaned into Jesus at the Passover Father, we lean into you tonight, Lord, we lean in to you. We lean into Jesus. Don't lean into me. Don't follow me don't follow Elam. Yes, it's great. We follow each other on the socials, we listen, we study together, we read together, we podcasts together, we do all that sort of stuff. But I am not the answer that you need. God is the answer that you need. I can guide I can help like you can help me I can. You know that's that's what the body is the body movement. You know, every one of us has giftings different areas of callings. So when the body works together, we go forward together very powerfully. So it's understanding our giftings and our callings. But I pray that wherever you are tonight, you just keep focused on what that Jordan represents for you. Don't look at Jericho because actually Jericho was bigger than the River Jordan. Father in the name of Jesus. Come, Lord, as we break bread together as brothers and sisters. And as we take this cup tonight, Lord, I thank you that your body was broken for me. In Jesus name, Amen. The Bible says in the same way after supper, he took the cup. And when He had given thanks, He took the cup saying, This cup is a new covenant. Do this in remembrance of me. So Lord, I do this in remembrance of you tonight Lord, as my Savior, as my God, as my Redeemer as my king, my Jehovah, My God, my supplier, you are worthy of all praise. And tonight Lord, I thank you that this this Jordan experience this this river Jordan, this circle in front of me the circle of life, I thank You, Lord, that you have equipped us you have strengthened us, lead us we pray every one of us, lead us to Jesus. Take us to the cross of Calvary. Take us deeper into your presence. Lord, let us walk at a greater level with you like never before Father, we thank him We bless you and we praise the holy name as the angels in heaven. Say Holy, holy, holy is the Lord. Most God of all praise washes and cleansers in Jesus name Amen. Remember in what we're saying? It's the Passover. We are remembering the Passover. We are remembering the passing over of God we are remembering the passing over a death we are remembering the passing over as we break bread as we take the cup we clearly understand that God day clear instruction, very clear in again instruction the word instruction is coming to the forefront of our our speech tonight. Instruction obedience, instruction obedience. But what's what's interesting throwings struction and obedience, it takes us on a unusual journey, a very different journey to what we might do. So I pray tonight, that you go by faith. But you've never been this way before. Because that's what the Bible says. You've never been this way before. Instruction brings Completion, Completion brings closure. Closure brings new beginnings. Have a wonderful evening, the time is 824 here within the UK, may God bless you and strengthen you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you so much for sharing out these podcasts wherever you are tonight. I pray that you will feel His presence and His love and His goodness and never give up. Wherever you are. Never give up God is with you. The mighty name of Jesus Christ, God bless. We'll see a very, very sad Wednesday evening for those that will join us Bible study Wednesday evening at Harper seven as we go live and as we progress and as we move forward. We will be having Bible studies as we see them now online also switching back to the church as soon as we possibly can. But we just want to say thank you to all those in the world of Spotify. I Heart Radio, Alexa, SoundCloud. All those areas where the podcasts and platforms are very, very strong. Amazon music you find us on Amazon music, and other multiple podcasts and platforms. God bless every one of you tonight and I pray that God will strengthen you. Keep walking, keep walking, even though you can see the joy of coming before you. You hear it. It's getting louder, louder and louder. So much getting more impossible. Impossible. Impossible. Because God is taking you to the impossible with man. The possibilities are endless. He who began a good work and you will bring it to completion.
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