SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So this is the third message on fear.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if this is going to be the last message.
SPEAKER_00: I just keep praying, and the Lord's like, keep hitting fear.
SPEAKER_00: And so in Joshua, who's been here the last two weeks or one of the last two weeks?
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: Have y'all been enjoying this message on fear?
SPEAKER_00: Has it been helping at all?
SPEAKER_00: Five claps.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: God is good.
SPEAKER_00: God is setting me free from fear, and God is setting all of us free from fear.
SPEAKER_00: This is profound.
SPEAKER_00: We become different when God sets us free from fear.
SPEAKER_00: We have the joy of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We have a peace that surpasses understanding, but we also have boldness and confidence.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: So this is the third message.
SPEAKER_00: We've been talking about and referencing Joshua chapter 1.
SPEAKER_00: This is the time where Joshua is transitioning in his life and his ministry.
SPEAKER_00: He has been a servant.
SPEAKER_00: He has been Moses' aide, helping him, serving.
SPEAKER_00: He's been very faithful behind the scenes.
SPEAKER_00: And now Moses, I mean Joshua's time to lead his come.
SPEAKER_00: Now we all know the story in the history, but let me hit it really quick is that God sets the Israelites free from Egypt, and all of a sudden they go through the wilderness, they come to the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: This is the place of destiny, purpose, this is the place of protection, provision.
SPEAKER_00: Well, they will be God's people.
SPEAKER_00: They will serve and love the Lord, and the Lord will be with them, He will be their king, and they come to the very edge of the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I want us to understand when we hear the story symbolically, we have our own promised land.
SPEAKER_00: We were set free from Egypt, our old life, that life of sin, that life that where we didn't know God, where he was not our God.
SPEAKER_00: We were in bondage to sin.
SPEAKER_00: He set us free by the power of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And then we go into a time of the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: We learn to trust God and follow him.
SPEAKER_00: I do not like wilderness seasons.
SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand if you like wilderness seasons.
SPEAKER_00: Rick, you're lying in church.
SPEAKER_00: You are too.
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know your name.
SPEAKER_00: She's over like, I like the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: I'm a walkabout Christian.
SPEAKER_00: But he takes them through the wilderness, and the wilderness can be a place of the desert.
SPEAKER_00: The wilderness can be a place where it doesn't seem like there's any way, there's any provision, there's any resources.
SPEAKER_00: It's the time where we trust the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He supernaturally took care of his people.
SPEAKER_00: I don't like to go through the wilderness season.
SPEAKER_00: I like to know, you know, I like to have a plan and I like the outcome to work the way I thought it was going to work.
SPEAKER_00: But then he takes them to the land of promise.
SPEAKER_00: This is where a lot of people miss it.
SPEAKER_00: This is where we stop short, okay?
SPEAKER_00: There was a thing.
SPEAKER_00: We hit this last week.
SPEAKER_00: This is amazing.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua said this the second battle they have in the promised land, they come to the town of AI and they and they lose their first battle because there was sin in the camp.
SPEAKER_00: But Joshua didn't know there was sin in the camp, and he comes to God and he said, I wish I would have just been content not coming in.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what I felt like has has affected so many people in this region.
SPEAKER_00: It's this idea of, you know what, I could go in the promised land, but I'd rather play it safe, and I'll just be content with just a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: I'll just be I'll learn to be content.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what stops us short of revival.
SPEAKER_00: It's what stops us short of revival in our marriages, our life, what we do, our endeavors, but even our personal walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We just learn to settle.
SPEAKER_00: We just think, hey, I'll be fine right here.
SPEAKER_00: And that's our heart at this church.
SPEAKER_00: We're content for more.
SPEAKER_00: Not just for our sake, but for the sake of others.
SPEAKER_00: So our lives could be a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Revelation.
SPEAKER_00: How does it say that we're going to beat the devil?
SPEAKER_00: This is going to say it's by the blood of the Lamb and the testimony.
SPEAKER_00: You know when Jesus would like heal someone or set them free, they would run to town and be like, hey, this guy help me.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what would minister to people, that's what would help other people be set free?
SPEAKER_00: Our lives are a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Like, how are you going to be able to testify of the goodness of God if you never take steps of faith and let God be faithful?
SPEAKER_00: How are we going to like if we're not responding, we're not continuing for healing?
SPEAKER_00: God, heal me.
SPEAKER_00: Come into these altar calls and saying, you know, God, will you please heal me?
SPEAKER_00: Continued in believing for it.
SPEAKER_00: Even if you pray a hundred thousand times, keep going.
SPEAKER_00: I've I listen, I prayed for many people that when I prayed for them, they didn't get healed right away.
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know if they still got healed, but I would rather just stand before the Lord at the end of my life and just say, hey, I believed.
SPEAKER_00: I would rather do that.
SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand if you agree.
SPEAKER_00: I would rather just believe.
SPEAKER_00: In the Bible, I see a God who heals.
SPEAKER_00: I see a God who was moved through compassion to heal people.
SPEAKER_00: And he is able to, right?
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the question.
SPEAKER_00: There are denominations and doctrines that are doctrines of demons.
SPEAKER_00: They're very wrong and honestly affect the majority of this area that say, oh, God doesn't heal anymore.
SPEAKER_00: God doesn't do any more miracles.
SPEAKER_00: That is such a farce.
SPEAKER_00: That is a lie from demons.
SPEAKER_00: And many people, you've been they've been raised in that, in those denominations that don't believe that.
SPEAKER_00: Here's my question.
SPEAKER_00: When did God stop being compassionate?
SPEAKER_00: This is something my wife preaches.
SPEAKER_00: When did God stop being compassionate?
SPEAKER_00: When did the stripes that he got, the cat of nine tails, where his flesh was mutilated?
SPEAKER_00: It says by his stripes we are healed.
SPEAKER_00: When did that stop applying to us?
SPEAKER_00: In this region in the south, the Bible belt, these denominations that don't believe in the gifts and the works of the Holy Spirit, you know what one of the main strongholds is?
SPEAKER_00: Is unbelief and doubt.
SPEAKER_00: It's unbelief in doubt.
SPEAKER_00: And so I want you to understand the demonic, what they want you to do is they want you to stay in that place of doubt.
SPEAKER_00: So they don't reveal themselves.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all hear this?
SPEAKER_00: If you go to Africa, they're very different.
SPEAKER_00: In Africa, they're way more spiritually.
SPEAKER_00: Their eyes are open to the spirit more.
SPEAKER_00: You can ask Michael Mwanza, my brother, he's in the back, he's from Kenya.
SPEAKER_00: And I've I talked to another lady, you know, she's the mighty woman of God, and she says, the American church is spiritually blind.
SPEAKER_00: They don't like their very and the enemy wants them that way, so they can take their stuff and they have no idea.
SPEAKER_00: Understand this region, okay, there's different regions have different like strongholds, demonic strongholds.
SPEAKER_00: Unbelief and doubt and religion is one of the strongholds in this thing.
SPEAKER_00: I don't really believe in that.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think you know God does that stuff.
SPEAKER_00: And that speaking in tons is so weird.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't think, you know, I've got prayed for one time I didn't get healed, so I don't think God heals anymore.
SPEAKER_00: Is it Naaman that he comes with the prophet and he wants to get healed?
SPEAKER_00: What does he tell him?
SPEAKER_00: Go wash how many times?
SPEAKER_00: Not one time.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, you know what?
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you gotta wash multiple times.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you gotta run run to God multiple times.
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
SPEAKER_00: You know what he says?
SPEAKER_00: He says, do this, knock at the door.
SPEAKER_00: And maybe you won't get an answer.
SPEAKER_00: But knock again.
SPEAKER_00: And maybe you don't get an answer, but keep knocking until you get an answer because you will.
SPEAKER_00: That's the promise.
SPEAKER_00: Don't stop.
SPEAKER_00: That's the heart of continuing.
SPEAKER_00: That's the heart of revival, church.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we're doing.
SPEAKER_00: When we're praying over our families, our loved ones, our prodigals.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna quit.
SPEAKER_00: I've resolved myself.
SPEAKER_00: I am not gonna stop.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna believe that God, the mighty King of Kings, is on the move.
SPEAKER_00: So we just come out of agreement with religion, doubt, fear, questioning God, deconstructing our faith, making simple things in the Bible complicated.
SPEAKER_00: We'll make simple things in the Bible complicated when it stretches our faith, when it stretches our understanding.
SPEAKER_00: God's bringing revival to this region, church.
SPEAKER_00: He's breaking up the grounds of religion.
SPEAKER_00: And this church, we're gonna get a lot of hate for it.
SPEAKER_00: Make no mistake.
SPEAKER_00: We've already got a lot of hate.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, bring it on.
SPEAKER_00: You know what Jesus says if people hate on you because of him?
SPEAKER_00: He says that's treasures in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, keep hating.
SPEAKER_00: Fill up my heavenly bank account.
SPEAKER_00: Bring it on.
SPEAKER_00: That's what Derek Prince says.
SPEAKER_00: He goes, if people are talking bad about you, accusing you, don't stop them.
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I think I'll do that.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you with social media, you can really get your bank account big up in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: One post, millions.
SPEAKER_00: So Joshua's at the stage where he's come to the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: He's supposed to leave.
SPEAKER_00: He has a major calling.
SPEAKER_00: Every single one of us are called by God.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord told me this months ago.
SPEAKER_00: He said, A lot of people in your church, David, don't feel qualified to be called.
SPEAKER_00: They've got rough past, they've done a lot of stuff, they've slept around, done drugs, even currently have addictions and stuff they're struggling with, and they just they are struggling with shame.
SPEAKER_00: We did this whole series on shame.
SPEAKER_00: God is, and I don't make all these plans up.
SPEAKER_00: I just asked the Lord, what do you want to do?
SPEAKER_00: But now looking back, I can see the progression.
SPEAKER_00: God has been leading us on a journey of freedom, but also he's leading us on a journey of calling.
SPEAKER_00: You're called.
SPEAKER_00: Your life matters to God.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of us come in, we think our life doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_00: We think we're alone, we think God's ignoring us.
SPEAKER_00: We compare ourselves to other people's lives.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm not as good as them, so God doesn't really care about me.
SPEAKER_00: Do you understand?
SPEAKER_00: This is doubt and unbelief.
SPEAKER_00: God has a calling, he has a plan and a purpose for your life, and part of his plan and purpose is to take care of you.
SPEAKER_00: Trust him, step out.
SPEAKER_00: Understand your life matters.
SPEAKER_00: The very season you're in right now.
SPEAKER_00: Today is was orchestrated by God.
SPEAKER_00: And we get fearful because we think mighty God is too bothered by other important matters.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't have time for me.
SPEAKER_00: It's not true.
SPEAKER_00: God is so huge.
SPEAKER_00: God is omnipresent.
SPEAKER_00: He's all-knowing.
SPEAKER_00: He's not like for me, I can only focus on like one thing at a time.
SPEAKER_00: Any other men like that in the room?
SPEAKER_00: Wives, you testify, your man like that.
SPEAKER_00: Now, women are different.
SPEAKER_00: They can focus on like 20 things at once.
SPEAKER_00: I have to ask my wife, what things are you thinking about?
SPEAKER_00: Well, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_00: And it's so random.
SPEAKER_00: It's like a spider web.
SPEAKER_00: For me, it's like one thing.
SPEAKER_00: And then she's talking, I have to focus on her.
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know where I was going with that.
SPEAKER_00: Do y'all know?
SPEAKER_00: See, it just happened.
SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh yeah, I'm preaching.
SPEAKER_00: So better get back to that.
SPEAKER_00: So this is what Joshua wants.
SPEAKER_00: It starts at 1.6.
SPEAKER_00: This is what God says.
SPEAKER_00: He tells them to be strong and courageous.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to tell them three times.
SPEAKER_00: Now, courage means doing something even when you're afraid to do it.
SPEAKER_00: That's what's scary.
SPEAKER_00: That God's going to call us to do things that we're afraid to do.
SPEAKER_00: That's why when we come into these church environments, we want to push you into those things that maybe you're uncomfortable and scared to do.
SPEAKER_00: We want you to push you into being activated in those spiritual gifts because the spiritual gifts are powerful.
SPEAKER_00: I have done this thing, I've tried to do this thing of like just really encouraging and trying to really help people, and that's needed.
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews tell us, you know, encourage each other to good works.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: But I have found that when I prophesy to someone, and the prophecy is correct, it moves people way better than a thousand of my encouragements.
SPEAKER_00: And trying to provide self-help books and all this stuff.
SPEAKER_00: Like the gifts are for real.
SPEAKER_00: But sometimes we gotta be pushed.
SPEAKER_00: We have to have like a healthy pressure.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, you gotta stay, you gotta stop, you gotta step out of the boat.
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
SPEAKER_00: Understand you're called, you're gifted, you're anointed, you're appointed.
SPEAKER_00: Your life matters to God, and He's called you, so your life could be a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Some of you struggle, you there we talk about this a lot.
SPEAKER_00: We talk about a uh what is it?
SPEAKER_00: It's the uh poverty mentality.
SPEAKER_00: That's another stronghold of this area.
SPEAKER_00: Poverty mentality, poverty mentality has nothing to do with how big your bank account is.
SPEAKER_00: The poverty mentality is this idea of I'm in it alone, and I've got to take care of myself and I've got to survive.
SPEAKER_00: And I've got to gather all this stuff, and I've got to like gather it up because I don't know if I'm gonna have enough tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't understand that you're a son and daughter of the king.
SPEAKER_00: The king, the one who has all cattle on a thousand hills.
SPEAKER_00: It's it's a lack of confidence.
SPEAKER_00: It's a survival thing.
SPEAKER_00: So everything that you do, you can be incredibly wealthy.
SPEAKER_00: But there's this fear of like, oh, I've got to do this, I've got to save this, I've got to protect myself.
SPEAKER_00: It's the survival, like I've I'm responsible for self.
SPEAKER_00: No one's gonna help me.
SPEAKER_00: It's a poverty mentality.
SPEAKER_00: And that could come from how we what the circumstances you were raised in.
SPEAKER_00: If your parents have this, they can transfer it to you.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna think like them, you're gonna live life through their lens.
SPEAKER_00: That can that can come generations.
SPEAKER_00: You can go back generations, generations, generations.
SPEAKER_00: It's when we break free of all of a sudden, I'm a son of the king that poverty mentality begins to break.
SPEAKER_00: That's why Jesus says, Hey, don't worry.
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about the how much if you have clothes, don't worry if you don't have food.
SPEAKER_00: He goes, the God, you know, who clothes the flowers, who takes care of the birds.
SPEAKER_00: How much more does he care about you?
SPEAKER_00: And he says, So don't worry.
SPEAKER_00: But what do we do?
SPEAKER_00: We don't believe that, so we fill our days with worry.
SPEAKER_00: I uh I want to go ahead and hit this real quick because with this fear stuff, I don't want you to misunderstand the point of it.
SPEAKER_00: The point of breaking free from fear is not so everyone can be rich or business owners.
SPEAKER_00: That's not the point.
SPEAKER_00: The point is understand whatever God has called you to do.
SPEAKER_00: Some people, he's called to be phenomenally wealthy.
SPEAKER_00: And they're gonna do a work and they're gonna help fund the move of God, okay?
SPEAKER_00: But not everyone's gonna be called to be a millionaire.
SPEAKER_00: But the point is that we live from a place of unlimited resources.
SPEAKER_00: The idea is that, okay, let me break this down.
SPEAKER_00: This is not my message at all, but uh maybe this is prophetic and someone needs to hear this.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: People that get really rich, the idea is that I can be secure in it.
SPEAKER_00: That, you know, all of a sudden, if things don't work out, I've got a backup, I've got security, I've got big bank accounts, right?
SPEAKER_00: If I need to get something or do something, I can afford to do it.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all following?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: They have a sense of security.
SPEAKER_00: That's the idea.
SPEAKER_00: And then people get powerful, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And what comes with riches, all of a sudden they start to network and then they start to gain influence.
SPEAKER_00: And it's like, I want to have power, and people want to have fame, okay.
SPEAKER_00: The idea is that if I want to accomplish something, then I have the means and the resources and the connections to do it, and then I've got the money to do it.
SPEAKER_00: If I need to be secure, I can afford to be secure, I can afford the things I need, right?
SPEAKER_00: But people that get these things, when they don't have Christ, they still don't feel secure.
SPEAKER_00: They don't still don't feel satisfied.
SPEAKER_00: This is the trick.
SPEAKER_00: When you put God into the equation, you can have no money in your bank account and still have the mindset of unlimited resources.
SPEAKER_00: If God has called me to do something, it doesn't matter circumstantially if I have anything.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if I know anybody.
SPEAKER_00: Joseph was in a prison and promoted to second in command.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't have to work his connections.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't have to have a good marketing campaign.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: This is where the mindset changes.
SPEAKER_00: If God is for me, then who can be against me?
SPEAKER_00: That is the mindset.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we're breaking off with fear of.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not a name it and claim it pastor, just so you know it.
SPEAKER_00: Now, if God has promised it, I'll claim it all day, but that it's all according to His will.
SPEAKER_00: What is the testimony of my life?
SPEAKER_00: What is it you want me to do for your glory?
SPEAKER_00: Then I know and I'm confident you'll make a way.
SPEAKER_00: Even if there's a mountain, Lord, you're gonna give me the grace to overcome the mountain or you're gonna move the mountain.
SPEAKER_00: That's the idea.
SPEAKER_00: Don't mistake the point.
SPEAKER_00: We are all phenomenally wealthy.
SPEAKER_00: No matter what size your bank account is, no matter what your job is, God has called you to do something He's already made a way.
SPEAKER_00: Trust and rest in that.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: So that's what he does with Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Calls him something that's crazy.
SPEAKER_00: Since I already preached stuff that was not this message, I'm not gonna preach this whole message, but I am gonna hit some main points because I did hear the Holy Spirit say something that surprised me yesterday.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit threw me a curveball.
SPEAKER_00: Has it the Holy Spirit anyone uh ever threw anyone a curveball?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, this was a curveball.
SPEAKER_00: The third command that God gives Joshua, he says this.
SPEAKER_00: He says, This is my command.
SPEAKER_00: Now he's already told him to be strong and courageous.
SPEAKER_00: God, be strong and courageous.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna lead my people.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's calling.
SPEAKER_00: This is what you're gonna do with your life.
SPEAKER_00: Second command, be strong and courageous, and then follow my word.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: That's who you are.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, a lot of those things we could say are kind of external, right?
SPEAKER_00: Fear will keep us from doing things with our life, being something.
SPEAKER_00: But this third one's very interesting.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Be this is my command.
SPEAKER_00: Be strong and courageous, and then he says, Do not be afraid or discouraged.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we live with this religious mindset that it's all about the actions.
SPEAKER_00: I'm I I struggle with this because I'm an I I'm naturally an achievements-based person.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know the psychological term for that.
SPEAKER_00: But I I view life through that achievements, outcomes.
SPEAKER_00: I struggle with this idea of my worth coming from what I achieve.
SPEAKER_00: If I only achieve and do stuff that is you know beneficial to you, then you'll love me.
SPEAKER_00: But if I don't, then you won't love me.
SPEAKER_00: That's one of my struggles.
SPEAKER_00: That could be a lot of our struggles.
SPEAKER_00: God takes Joshua, you're gonna lead my people, and you need to follow my word.
SPEAKER_00: But then he hits this third thing, and it something shifts.
SPEAKER_00: Because he says, I don't want you to be afraid or discouraged.
SPEAKER_00: Fear and discouragement, that's internal.
SPEAKER_00: That has nothing to do with Joshua's actions.
SPEAKER_00: This is beautiful what God does here.
SPEAKER_00: God is ministering to Joshua, He's ministering to Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua's life has been very hard.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua's life has sucked in a lot of ways.
SPEAKER_00: It has been awful.
SPEAKER_00: When you look at Joshua's life, he's a young kid and he sees the power of God free him and his people from Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: Massive.
SPEAKER_00: And he sees the power of God in the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: And Joshua is one of the two people when they come to the Promised Land.
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't even that long of a travel to the Promised Land.
SPEAKER_00: He's one of the two out of twelve that goes in to scout the land.
SPEAKER_00: And Joshua is this young kid who's faith-filled, excited about life.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, I think we can take it.
SPEAKER_00: I want to believe the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua does everything right.
SPEAKER_00: And because the people around him were fearful, because the people around him were sinful, it cost Joshua 40 years of his life.
SPEAKER_00: And it was not his fault.
SPEAKER_00: We come to God and we're paralyzed because we're so discouraged, because our life has been affected by others' faults and other people's sins.
SPEAKER_00: And we make excuses why we cannot do anything.
SPEAKER_00: Because you know what?
SPEAKER_00: I was just hurting church, and now I was walking in my call, but then I got hurt and I stopped.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua's at this moment.
SPEAKER_00: 40 years, I'm 42.
SPEAKER_00: That's like my whole life.
SPEAKER_00: Wasted because other people were fearful, other people were weak.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua's done everything right.
SPEAKER_00: And now he's at this moment.
SPEAKER_00: And he's watched his spiritual father, his mentor Moses, go through hell.
SPEAKER_00: Moses is just trying to obey God.
SPEAKER_00: And all these people the whole time complain, don't trust.
SPEAKER_00: They see miracle after miracle, yet still complain, want to kill Moses.
SPEAKER_00: Moses just trying to obey the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what Joshua's watching.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's the job I want to do.
SPEAKER_00: And then Moses messes up one time and now he can't go in the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: Which, by the way, can I take a detour real quick for a minute?
SPEAKER_00: Can I have permission?
SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand if I have permission.
SPEAKER_00: I heard this this week.
SPEAKER_00: This is not my stuff, but it was so good.
SPEAKER_00: I wish it was my stuff.
SPEAKER_00: I heard this pastor say this.
SPEAKER_00: He says that God told Moses no twice.
SPEAKER_00: Moses asked to see God's glory, to see his face, and God told him no.
SPEAKER_00: But then also God told him no, you can't go in the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: Two times, okay?
SPEAKER_00: They said, This is what's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus is on the Mount of Transfiguration, who comes there?
SPEAKER_00: Moses.
SPEAKER_00: In the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: What does he see?
SPEAKER_00: The face of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on.
SPEAKER_00: I'm so tempted to claim that.
SPEAKER_00: I had this revelation the other day.
SPEAKER_00: Where was I?
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you that tunnel vision.
SPEAKER_00: Miss Kim, do you remember what?
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: Don't be discouraged when Pastor forgets what he was talking about.
SPEAKER_00: No, before that.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, Joshua's hard life.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Got one person listening.
SPEAKER_00: Whoever that is, you can don't have to tithe this week.
SPEAKER_00: I don't tithe anyways.
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: Just kidding.
SPEAKER_00: Just joking.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I don't look at tithing records.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua's life has been hard.
SPEAKER_00: And he's up to this point.
SPEAKER_00: And I think that sometimes we look at these Bible heroes and we think that they're not people, that they don't have these struggles, that they're Fearful.
SPEAKER_00: God is talking to a man who's afraid and he's discouraged.
SPEAKER_00: He's afraid because the task at hand is bigger than what he thinks he's going to be able to do.
SPEAKER_00: He's afraid because they're about to go into this land that is full of giants, that is full of difficulties beyond himself.
SPEAKER_00: God is going when he calls you, not when how he's calling you, he's going to call you into things that's bigger than yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Things that frighten you, things that intimidate you, things that challenge you.
SPEAKER_00: Just go ahead and take it to the bank.
SPEAKER_00: If God's calling me, let me say it this way: if God's not pushing you to the edge, if you're not uncomfortable, if you're not intimidated, I want you to maybe ask God, am I actually hearing your call?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe sometimes maybe we need to increase maybe our level of faith and expectancy.
SPEAKER_00: I've getting to this point too.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to pray safe prayers.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to just pray prayers of things that might happen, probably will happen.
SPEAKER_00: I want to get crazy with it.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I want you to save 10,000 people next week.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua is also grieving, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: I believe that Joshua's grieving.
SPEAKER_00: His childhood friends.
SPEAKER_00: It's him and one other dude out of his whole generation that is still existing, that is still alive.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine that?
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine the grief?
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine the loneliness?
SPEAKER_00: You and a bunch of kids want to take on giants.
SPEAKER_00: They're all looking to you.
SPEAKER_00: So your life has been unfair.
SPEAKER_00: You've got this massive responsibility.
SPEAKER_00: You're grieving.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible doesn't share all those little back end details.
SPEAKER_00: All of his childhood friends, all the people he has memories with, celebrating together, singing the praises to God as they walked out of Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: All these wonderful memories.
SPEAKER_00: Those people are dead and gone.
SPEAKER_00: If you look up the modern definition of courage, it carries a twofold meaning.
SPEAKER_00: It says doing something that you're afraid of, but also being strong in the midst of pain and grief.
SPEAKER_00: Be strong and courageous.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua, I know you're hurting.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua, I know you're afraid.
SPEAKER_00: But I also know that you're discouraged because life has been awful.
SPEAKER_00: All your friends are dead.
SPEAKER_00: Forty years of your life wasted, and it wasn't your fault.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua, I don't want you to be afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want you to be discouraged, and I want you to see how God addresses, and this is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Because the Lord your God is with you.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to hear this today, church.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord is the term Yahweh, and that's what carries the meaning of master.
SPEAKER_00: We confess Jesus Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_00: It's the one, it's the He's the ultimate divine authority.
SPEAKER_00: He's bigger than everything.
SPEAKER_00: He's the one that we're we receive our commands from, and we say, Yes, Lord, right?
SPEAKER_00: We just obey.
SPEAKER_00: But then he says, Your God.
SPEAKER_00: This is the Father talking to Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: This is the Father.
SPEAKER_00: This is relational.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am the God that you need to trust, and yes, I am bigger than anything else.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am the one you need to obey, but I'm also your God who cares about you.
SPEAKER_00: Not just about your behavior, Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Not just whether or not you're gonna be successful, Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: I care how you feel through the process.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to have joy.
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to have peace.
SPEAKER_00: I want to heal you, Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: I I've gotten to a point where I've gotten better at just obeying the Lord even when I don't understand it, even when I'm afraid, even when it's gonna cause me to be rejected, be slandered.
SPEAKER_00: Become a pastor, it's very easy to get slandered.
SPEAKER_00: I found out.
SPEAKER_00: Wasn't ready for that part.
SPEAKER_00: I used to be everyone's friend.
SPEAKER_00: You become a pastor, it's like, oh my gosh, I got enemies now.
SPEAKER_00: Especially if you contend for a revival.
SPEAKER_00: Woo! Those demons don't like that.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not calling those people demons, I'm calling you know the demons and the people demons.
SPEAKER_00: God the Father is ministering to Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid or discouraged.
SPEAKER_00: Discouragement is loss of heart.
SPEAKER_00: Discouragement is when you've already experienced stuff.
SPEAKER_00: It's fear.
SPEAKER_00: Discourage.
SPEAKER_00: I tried stuff and I felt pain.
SPEAKER_00: When we feel pain, you know what?
SPEAKER_00: Some we'll make the rest of our life simply trying to avoid pain.
SPEAKER_00: I was hurt, and you'll hear people say this I can never trust again.
SPEAKER_00: Our life is this whole thing.
SPEAKER_00: I never you'll see issues with your parents.
SPEAKER_00: And the rest of your life is trying to avoid that very thing.
SPEAKER_00: You're always constantly, you're living from this place of survival, this poverty mentality.
SPEAKER_00: He's telling Joshua, he says, Joshua, I know this has been hard, but I'm still calling you to lead.
SPEAKER_00: I'm still calling you to be strong in the midst of your grief.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we use our grief, our heartbreak, as an excuse not to obey.
SPEAKER_00: I've been tempted to do that.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, this is not even worth it.
SPEAKER_00: This hurts too much.
SPEAKER_00: I tried so hard, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And things did not go my way.
SPEAKER_00: I threw myself in completely, devoted myself.
SPEAKER_00: This is what I get.
SPEAKER_00: Why even try?
SPEAKER_00: That response feels safer, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_00: That feels safer, but God says, in light of all of that, you're going to lead these people.
SPEAKER_00: In light of all that, I actually do care how you feel.
SPEAKER_00: I actually don't want you to be afraid.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want this to be hell.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want because we can we can obey God all day long with our actions, and internally we're always in a storm.
SPEAKER_00: We never have peace, we never have joy, we're never content, we're never full, we don't have the passion, the meaning of it, the purpose.
SPEAKER_00: And God's saying, my call is better than just simple obedience.
SPEAKER_00: My calling is fullness of life, is peace, and it's hopeful, it's joyful.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not just the Lord, I'm your God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm the Father who cares for you, Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Your well-being.
SPEAKER_00: You're not just a robot to achieve my will.
SPEAKER_00: I care about you.
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to be okay.
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to be healed, Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: Trust me.
SPEAKER_00: And he doesn't go through this laundry list of everything he's gonna do from Joshua, and Joshua can have 20 promises that he can just take into the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: God told me this, and God told me this.
SPEAKER_00: He says one thing, because I am with you.
SPEAKER_00: I am with you.
SPEAKER_00: Many areas of my life is bound by fear.
SPEAKER_00: Steals my joy, my peace.
SPEAKER_00: I live in dread.
SPEAKER_00: Do you want to know one of the ways that I'm getting set free from it?
SPEAKER_00: It's not, it's not the 20,000 words I could pray, the perfect prayer.
SPEAKER_00: It's not some self-help book, even if it is the Krishna self-help book.
SPEAKER_00: I've been doing this thing.
SPEAKER_00: I've been starting to pray this one prayer.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I thank you that you're here with me.
SPEAKER_00: Not even joking, I'm not lying.
SPEAKER_00: I promise.
SPEAKER_00: I've been doing this.
SPEAKER_00: When hard times come, Lord, I thank you that you're here with me right now.
SPEAKER_00: There's something about just knowing that He's here.
SPEAKER_00: He is here with me.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have the answers, you do, and you're here with me.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have the resources, you do, you're here with me.
SPEAKER_00: I can trust you.
SPEAKER_00: I don't see a way out, you do, you're here with me.
SPEAKER_00: Fear starts to break.
SPEAKER_00: There starts to be a joy.
SPEAKER_00: Daily, a peace.
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and stand.
SPEAKER_00: First John four says this beautiful passage, and and we all know this verse.
SPEAKER_00: Let me get to it.
SPEAKER_00: 1 John 4, and it says um that perfect love expels fear.
SPEAKER_00: Have you you've all heard that verse?
SPEAKER_00: Um, I personally have always thought that if I can just understand how much God loves me, if I can just get like in my mind, in my belief, how much God loves me, then I can that's how I can get rid of fear.
SPEAKER_00: And so when I'd be afraid, I would just, you know, I'd just do this thing like God loves me.
SPEAKER_00: He loves me.
SPEAKER_00: Like, think harder about his love for me.
SPEAKER_00: I would I would do that.
SPEAKER_00: I'm still afraid.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, afraid again.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I know you love me, and I know you died on a cross for me, and you have plans, you love me.
SPEAKER_00: Still don't work.
SPEAKER_00: There's something amazing that's in 1 John 4.
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: He goes on to say this.
SPEAKER_00: I think it's after where he's he says, perfect love expels all fear.
SPEAKER_00: He says, if we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his love.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to hear this.
SPEAKER_00: When we live a life bound with fear, when the fear of other things, the fear of man's approval, the fear of failure, the fear of this, the fear of this, the fear of this outweighs our fear of God, our simple trust and obedience.
SPEAKER_00: It can rob us from experiencing.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't just say believing information.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all catch this.
SPEAKER_00: God is calling Joshua into a calling of trust so that he can experience his faithfulness.
SPEAKER_00: When we say yes to God, when we let God pull us out of our comfort zone, when we be the man or woman of God that we need to be, even when it's hard, even when no one else is doing it, even when the pressure's on the line, when we're when we're the godly husband and the godly wife, even when the marriage is hard, and we don't want to show that godly love.
SPEAKER_00: When we press through, you know what we start to do?
SPEAKER_00: We begin to experience his love.
SPEAKER_00: And it's in the experience that expels fear.
SPEAKER_00: It's in the saying yes to God, even when it's hard that expels fear.
SPEAKER_00: Father, I thank you for this day, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Lord, for these sons and daughters here today, Father, who you've called, anointed and appointed in who you are here with, Father.
SPEAKER_00: And we offer up our lives to you, every single area, every every single part of it, even the parts we try to hide from others, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: You see it all, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We put our lives on display today, Father, and we ask that you would heal these areas of discouragement.
SPEAKER_00: And I thank you, Father, that you're a God who cares about his children.
SPEAKER_00: Your word says, cast your cares on the Lord, for he cares about you.
SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Lord, that you care about every single person here.
SPEAKER_00: That's what some of you need to hear right now.
SPEAKER_00: Your Heavenly Father cares about you.
SPEAKER_00: Not just your mission, not just how well you can perform, how many souls you can get saved, how many people you can minister to.
SPEAKER_00: God cares about you.
SPEAKER_00: He cares.
SPEAKER_00: Not just what you're doing, but what you're experiencing.
SPEAKER_00: He wants you to experience his perfect love.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, go to these areas and heal these areas, Lord, where there's been discouragement, where we've experienced hard things because of other people's sins.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I thank you that you're still the God on the throne, and I thank you that you're still leading us into that promised land, God.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord told me weeks ago when we went into this fear message that discouragement was a big thing in this church with people here.
SPEAKER_00: You're discouraged and it's paralyzed you.
SPEAKER_00: You've had failure, you've had betrayal.
SPEAKER_00: It's almost like hard to love after you've been hurt so bad.
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to open up your heart.
SPEAKER_00: Well, God's going to heal that.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like that.
SPEAKER_00: He wants you to be like, you know, overflowing with the love of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: In 1 John 4, the twofold thing there, you know what John what he shows here?
SPEAKER_00: He says that if you if we're not showing the love of Christ to others, it shows that we've not fully experienced his perfect love.
SPEAKER_00: It's a twofold thing, is that as I make my life about others, right?
SPEAKER_00: Some of us here today, you feel like your life's been wasted because you've been living for others.
SPEAKER_00: You've been putting others before yourself.
SPEAKER_00: You're discouraged.
SPEAKER_00: Understand, you've been answering the call of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: When I make my life about others, that also shows the experiential revelation of his love that expels fear.
SPEAKER_00: When I get concerned with myself and well-being, that's usually when I'm the most fearful.
SPEAKER_00: When I'm trying to fix my fear, that's usually when I'm the most fearful.
SPEAKER_00: When I make my life and calling about others for the sake of Christ, that's when that fear begins to go away.
SPEAKER_00: So thank you, Jesus, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I thank you that you've called these warriors.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I thank you that we're in the last days, and these are warriors here under the sound of my voice, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And I just say, rise up, mighty warriors of God, step into calling.
SPEAKER_00: And I want us to prophetically declare this over your life that you are going to go into the promised land, that you're stepping into your calling, that you're being governed by the Lord, led by his presence.
SPEAKER_00: And I thank you that overwhelming victory is yours.
SPEAKER_00: So we say those areas of hardship, those mountains in your life, that you're going to be an overcomer through the power of Christ in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And I just rebuke right now a spirit of a defeatism.
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know if that's a word, but if you always see yourself defeated, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I say get off of them, their mind and their hearts in the mighty name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And I plead the blood of Jesus over their lives, the blood of Jesus over their eyes, heal their eyes, Lord, the way they see life, the way they see themselves, the way they see others, the way they see their calling, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We say purify our eyes, God, that's so we can walk accordingly in step with your spirit in and out of season, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Even when trials come, just like Peter says, we're not gonna be surprised, but we're gonna be confident that the God of heaven and earth is with us.
SPEAKER_00: He is with you, he's with you, he's with you, even when no one else is with you.
SPEAKER_00: He's seen all the tears you cried.
SPEAKER_00: You know what his plan is?
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna wipe away those tears one day.
SPEAKER_00: Just keep going, my son.
SPEAKER_00: Just keep going, my daughter.
SPEAKER_00: I'm the one that's gonna heal you.
SPEAKER_00: Trust my heart and my your heart and my mighty hands.
SPEAKER_00: I have you.
SPEAKER_00: Keep going, don't quit, don't stop.
SPEAKER_00: Believe me, trust me.
SPEAKER_00: In the mighty name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody said, Amen, amen, amen.
SPEAKER_00: Go into your promised land this week.