Double Down

This sermon preached at RCCG Victory House encourages believers to embrace God’s word that this is a season to “catch up”—spiritually, financially, personally, and purposefully. It explains that people may fall behind either through their own mistakes or because of circumstances beyond their control, but God’s word brings power, direction, and deliverance. Building on the call to receive divine instruction, the message urges listeners to “double down” with renewed faith, persistence, and commitment, even when resistance comes.

Transcript

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Hallelujah. So, Pastor E has um already laid a foundation. And um God's word to us in this season is that we will catch up. Amen. God's word for us this season is that we will catch up. Amen. And the Bible says that to all who believed in him, he gave the power to become. Amen. All who believed in him, he gave the power to become. Thank you, sir. So as you believe the word of God on catching up, God will give you the power to catch up in Jesus' mighty name. So let's step back a little bit. The premise of catch up is that you are not where you're supposed to be. In order for you to desire to catch up, or in order for you to catch up, there's something that you're catching up to. That means that you have made uh progress, but the progress is not as desired, or the progress is not as required. Amen. So God is saying that maybe some of us haven't made any progress. I don't believe that uh um that's any of us in in this place. But the progress that we have made is not optimal, it's not where God wants us to be. Amen? And so that's why He is sending us a word. He's sending us a word that this is our catch-up season. So why may you, or what are the things that you may want to catch up on? For me, sometimes I want to catch up on sleep. Hallelujah. Sometimes it's it's true. Sometimes uh I want to catch up on sleep, especially on like Saturday morning. I always want to catch up on sleep. Another thing that you may want to catch up on is reading, right? Um, if you are in school or if you have ever been in school, and many of us have, then you realize that there are some times when the exam is tomorrow and you realize you haven't covered as much as you needed to, you want to catch up. Amen. Other times you want to catch up financially. I want to catch up financially in this season, amen. And I'm telling you, I am catching up financially in this season by the word of God. Hey! There's somebody else who has to catch up financially. Please, if you want to catch up financially, receive the word. Amen. Another area is spiritually. God invites us to come up. To come up. The Bible says that God's thoughts are not our thoughts, his thoughts are higher. But you know, he doesn't just stay stop there. He says, Come up, let us reason together. Catch up with me in your thinking. Ah, somebody needs to catch up with God in their thinking. Glory to God. So, what are the reasons why people fall behind? What are some of the reasons why people fall behind? Two things. Number one, sometimes we fall behind because we mess up. Sometimes we fall behind because it's our own fault. You didn't do what you were supposed to do. I played a little bit in high school, in O level. You guys, do you guys know what um O and A-level mean? Okay. Yeah, some people who were born in America do not understand that. I wasn't. But thank God. Um I played a little bit in especially A-level, because I I went to uh to a school and um it was my uncle's school, so he invited us as like um mercenaries. He wanted to get his school to uh reputable standards. Now I was a little bit bright, I wasn't always the first in the class, but I have ever been the first in the class. Glory to God. And interestingly, I was first in class um for a religious education test. I don't know. And this is when I was young, as like in P6 or something. I was the first in the country, ladies and gentlemen. If you want to be the first in the country at something, you can cheer that. Glory to God. I surprised myself. But I think you see, God gives us opportunities, Pastor was was sharing. And I think that maybe was something that would indicate my that my life would take this path. I thank God for it. Uh, but sometimes we we fall behind because we mess up. I I was just saying I played quite a bit in um A-level, and I didn't do as well. So I didn't uh go to um university in uh in Uganda. Uh I decided to do a short course, a short computer course. In fact, I was telling my wife that that may have been one of the really dumb decisions that we found made. I decided to do a short computer course, but anyway, we are here now. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Um, another reason why we fall behind is sometimes we fall behind because, ladies and gentlemen, you are kept behind. Sometimes situations keep you behind. Sometimes you are not promoted at work, not because you don't have the skill set, but because you are kept behind. If we look in scripture, we see that Israel was kept behind through and through slavery, they were enslaved by Egypt. It wasn't really a fault of their own, but somebody dominated them. Amen. Africa, Africa was colonized, and I don't care what what somebody said that the best thing that ever happened to Africa was colonization. That's a false fallacy. Africa was colonized and we were kept behind. It's the truth. But we are in a season where we need to catch up. Africa needs to catch up, and it's important that we or people that God has taken you out of that place, don't forget where you come from. Um, I'm not gonna say that again. Um, you can look in your own life. There may be certain things that you haven't gotten to because you have been kept from them. But ladies and gentlemen, God has no respecter of past circumstances. When God's word comes, it comes to deliver. Amen. So today I want to talk about, um, to just really build on what um Pastor E has been sharing. Um, I want to talk about double down. Double down. Pastor E last week said that we need an instruction. Right? We need an instruction that in order to catch up, you need an instruction. But ladies and gentlemen, every instruction from God comes with a challenge. From script, you can look through all throughout all scripture. Every time God spoke something, there was another that challenged what God said. Look at Adam. Adam was the only, Adam and Eve were the only people there at the time. And God told them, do not eat from this tree, do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But because God said that, there was another idea that came into play. The devil uses, the devil will always try to steal the word of God. Now I'm moving ahead of myself, um, but we will get to that. Amen. So, what does it mean to double down? To double down is to be even more tenacious in the pursuit of a goal, even in the face of adversity. To double down, it is to be even more committed to accomplishing something even when you are faced with resistance. It is to keep on keeping on.

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It is to keep standing. That is what it means to double down.

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Instead of faltering at at the site of adversity, you say no, we are still gonna do this thing. Amen. And ladies and gentlemen, in this time, when God is telling us that we should catch up, that we are catching up, we need to double down.

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Let's read. Um Joshua. Joshua chapter fourteen. Joshua chapter fourteen and verse six and verse seven.

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Joshua fourteen and verse six. That's our that's going to be our anchor scripture for today. Verse six and verse seven. Then the children of Judah came up, came unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb, the son of Jephune, the Kennesite, said unto him, excuse me, you know, can I have NIV? You know the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God, concerning me. You know that you know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God at Kadesh Baneah about you and me. I was 40 years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Baneah to explore the land, and I brought him back a report according to my convictions. Let's just stay there. Caleb comes up to Joshua and he said, Do you remember when Moses sent us out? When we went, I came back and gave him a report according to the word of God that was in my heart. Amen. Now I know many of us know the story of the 12 spies, but I would still want us to read it. Let's read numbers numbers 14. No, actually, let's read um Numbers 13 from verse 27 and to verse 33.

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Numbers 14.

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I don't have a Bible here actually. I can open my own Bible. Hallelujah. Numbers 14. Oh, Numbers 13, 27 to 33.

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I'm going to read.

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Then they told him and said, We went to the land where you sent us. Now, this is the spies after they had come back from uh um surveying the land, they brought a report back to Moses. And the Bible is saying, they told him and said, We went to the land where you sent us, and it truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. So we see a scenario where God had told them that I'm going to give you the land, and the land I'm giving you is the land that flows with milk and honey, right? So they went to see the land, they saw the land, they saw that actually what God said uh about the land was true, so they believed that part. But they come back with another version of uh of a report. Verse um 28 says, Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong, the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. I want you to remember this descendants of Anak, because we are going to see everywhere we will go, there will be descendants of Anak. There will be challenges. That's what I'm trying to say. But I want us to see how two different sets of people deal with these um descendants of Anak. So verse um Numbers 14. Oh, numbers 13, 27 to 33.

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I'm going to read.

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Then they told him and said, We went to the land where you sent us. Now, this is the spies after they had come back from uh um surveying the land, they brought a report back to Moses. And the Bible is saying, they told him and said, We went to the land where you sent us, and it truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. So we see a scenario where God had told them that I'm going to give you the land, and the land I'm giving you is the land that flows with milk and honey, right? So they went to see the land, they saw the land, they saw that actually what God said uh about the land was true, so they believed that part. But they come back with another version of uh of a report. Verse um 28 says, Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong, the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. I want you to remember this descendants of Anak, because we are going to see everywhere we will go, there will be descendants of Anak. There will be challenges. That's what I'm trying to say. But I want us to see how two different sets of people deal with these um descendants of Anak. So verse um verse 29, it says, The Amalekites dwell in the land of the of the south, the Hittites, the Jebusites, um, the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan. Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once. Let us go now, let us go today and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.

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Hallelujah.

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Verse 31 says, But but the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. Um, verse 33, I will read. I'll skip 32. There we saw the giants, the descendants of Anak came from the giants. That's uh an explanation, and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so were we, and so we were in their sight. Amen. So we see that when God had about the plight of the Israelites, when God, the Bible says that God had the cry of the Israelites, and so he sent Moses, he sent Moses and Aaron to be a deliverer. He sent Moses and Aaron, he sent Moses with a message for Pharaoh, and the message was let my people go, but he also sent them for a message for Israel, and that message was come, come out. Because you know God is not going to force you to do anything. God is not going to force you to do anything, He is going to tell you, come out. The land is flowing with milk and honey, and it is going to be up to you to believe Him and to move along. Amen. I believe that all of us here are moving forward and we are catching up in the name of Jesus. So God was telling Israel that this is your catch-up season. This is your catch-up time. This is your time now. I have had your cry. You have been in slavery for a long time. But now, all of that work that you did and you were not paid, it's time for you to come out, it's time for you to be freed. It's time for you to remove those shackles.

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Amen. And along the way, as they were, as they were on the process of going, they were met with resistance.

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I will tell you that ever since the start of the month, God has been telling us to catch her. And let me uh rephrase that. Many times we come to church and we are excited. I'm more of a teacher. I think Pastor E is more of a preacher. I like his preaching. When I was seeing him preaching on last Sunday, I was like, ah, how do I follow this? But thank God for different gifts in the body, amen. So Sunday morning, we are all charged up. It's it's it's it's it's easy to believe God on a Sunday morning because we are you are in the company of like faith people. You you you're you're charged up. But then Monday morning starts and you're pulling the cover over your head. All of a sudden you remember that, oh, this boss, I have to meet him again. I don't know about you, but sometimes that happens to me. Sometimes. Just in case one of my bosses is watching but. The difference between the fire on Sunday morning and the amber of Monday morning is doubt. It's because you another voice crept in. You started listening to something else. Amen. That shall not be our story in the name of Jesus. So the Israelites left and they were on fire. But they met, they, they, they, they met and they found the giants, and then for a for for some time they started thinking about other things. My question is, is that they believed God when God said that the land is uh flowing with milk and honey, and they saw it. Now, God said the same those two things within the same breath, I would say. He said, I will give you the land. The land I will give you is flowing with milk and honey. Now, they saw the land flowing with milk and honey, and that was right. They they they knew yes, it is.

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But how why did they forget the I will give you the land? They forgot that part.

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And then, and these were leaders. Every one of the spies that went out into the land was a leader of a family. God will give us stronger leaders in the name of Jesus. So they come back, and we read this earlier, and they say, Nevertheless, this is uh Numbers 13 and verse 28, nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong, the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

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We saw certain giants there.

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And as they as they brought this report, the Lord calls it an evil report, that report permeated all of Israel. Now I love democracy. I think Africa needs more democracy. Or I would say Uganda needs more democracy. But sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, democracy, the scale of the majority is not always where it seems. Because in the conversation of life, or in any conversation, God and man, the majority is God. It doesn't matter if everyone on the face of the earth, I don't know if we are seven billion or six billion or however many billion, it doesn't matter if everyone is on one side and God is saying something else. The scale of majority in that equation always tilts to God. Amen. And so when these guys come back, they bring an evil report, and the hearts of Israel, the hearts of the Israelites, they were discouraged. They were like, ah, why didn't we stay? Oh my God. You know, sometimes you are so tied up by circumstances that they become your normal.

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But God has come to break that normal in the name of Jesus.

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So if ever, and I I wrote this down. Let me just get to it and just um share it as I wrote it. Sometimes, as a child of God, it may seem like I like the word sin. I don't know. I I like it. Even when I'm when I'm writing, I like to write. Um I I like that word sin. Because what seems like is not always what it is. Sometimes there are appearances. Amen. Anyway, sometimes as a child of God, it may seem like your past circumstances were better than your present situation. But in God, the path of the righteous one shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day. So it doesn't matter how glorious your past was. It doesn't matter how you may have been a big shot yesterday. But if you remain in God, your path, your your destiny is going to be brighter and it's going to be better. Amen. And some of us maybe we were not big shots, maybe we were little shots. In God, your path shines brighter and brighter into the perfect day. And I believe that for you, that going forward, your path will shine brighter. That you will catch up to what God has spoken concerning you. In Jesus' mighty name. So the Israelites were first with giants. They were like, no, don't go, don't go. And Paul was like, Are you kidding me? I I have I have seen my destiny. I know that regardless of uh uh prison, regardless of lashing, regardless of beatings, I am going to be in the middle of God's will. God gave me a sermon uh that and the title was Faith to Face the Fire. Sometimes we need the faith to fest the fire. Amen. That way we won't run away from challenges. Praise God. So God had told Israel that it was their catch-up season. In the same way that God has told us it is our catch-up season. But when Israel was on the way to catching up, they were met with resistance. There were giants, and it seemed as if what God had said will not come to pass. And ladies and gentlemen, you and I, on our way to catching up, we will be met with challenges. Amen. And one of the biggest challenges that they um that we will face is found in Matthew 13 and verse 19. Let's read that scripture. Matthew 13 and verse 19.

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Excuse me.

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The Bible says, when anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, let me put that in our context. When anyone hears the message about catching up and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. When anyone hears the message about catching up, or uh, as the scripture says, the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. Now, I want to take us back a little bit to the uh the scripture we read in uh Joshua, I believe it was 14, uh, verse 7. It says that I brought along the report. This is Caleb saying, I brought along the report as it was in my heart, we have to commit the word of God to our hearts. Amen. If we are going to double down, we have to commit God's word to our hearts. And the Bible says that if anyone or when anyone hears the message and does not understand it, ladies and gentlemen, that's why it is important um to repeat what God has said. Whether it is um on prayer or um uh in a message, it is important to repeat what God has said. Because if you do not commit what God has said to your heart, you will forget it. The enemy will steal it from you. The enemy is not afraid of your um of you as a person. He is afraid with the word of God, he's afraid of the word of God over your life. If you were not to accomplish God's will for your life, the enemy will not you are his. But because the Bible says that anyone who desires to live righteously will suffer, um will will will yeah, will in uh parentheses will suffer. So if you desire to follow along with God's plan for your life, there are challenges that are coming. But first of and primary is the challenge that the enemy wants to do is to steal the word that God has spoken to you. So, ladies and gentlemen, be alert, be alert that your word will not be stolen in Jesus' name. The devil sowed a different seed in the ears of the Israelites. They were disheartened and discouraged from going in to possess the land. And do you know something? That generation was destroyed, that generation did not go to the promised land except for Joshua and Caleb.

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So the devil is true to his purpose.

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We have heard before that the devil the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy. He will steal your word, excuse me. He will steal your word, but he won't stop there, he will chew you until you are no more. That will not be our testimony in the name of Jesus. And why will that not be our testimony? Because we are believers of God's word and we are doers of God's word. Praise God. So, how do you keep in faith? This is where we were going. Our case study on how to catch up is Caleb. So, how do you keep in faith? How do you keep in faith? Let's read Joshua 14 and verse 6 and 7 again. Joshua 14 and verse 6 and 7 again. Let's read it again. Joshua 14, 6, and actually, I'm actually there. Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb, the son of Jephane, the Kennesite, said to him, This was uh Caleb talking with Joshua. He was like, You know the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me in Kadesh Bane. He was like, Do you remember? Do you remember what Moses said um to you and to me? He he just let me highlight this. Okay, we're um actually we're going to he say that I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Beneat and to spy out to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as was in my heart. Now, let's let's move forward. Verse 10. And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said, These 45 years, ever since the Lord spoke with spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness, and now here I am this day, 85 years old. Verse 11 says, As yet I am as strong this day as on that day that Moses sent me. Just as my strength was then, so is my strength for war, both going out and for coming in. Now, there's a lot in there, but a few points. Number one, Caleb believed God for forty-five years.

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Let that sink in. Very few of us are over 45.

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Um, a few years away. Not I'm still in the double figure. Glory to God.

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Caleb believed God 45 years. We haven't started yet. Amen.

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So, how do you keep in faith for 45 years? How do you keep believing God for the same promise for 45 years? How do you not faint? How do you keep believing? Maybe for you it won't be 45 years, maybe it will be four weeks, maybe it will be four days, maybe it will be four months. How do you keep believing God from today or from the day you heard it until the day you see it? I believe it's locked there in verse six, and he says, And Caleb the son of Jephane, the Kennesite, said to him, You know the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me. Caleb remembered, he remembered what God said, he did not forget what God said. Even when the evil report came in, he did not let the evil report corrupt what was stored on his hard drive. He kept the word of God. We if we go back, he says that I brought the report. When others were bringing an evil report, when I came to see the man of God who had sent us out, I brought a report that was of the one that was in my heart. So when God spoke to us, he spoke to us as 12 people. But I committed what God said to my heart. I committed what God said to my heart. When God said to Victory House that this is our catch-up season, Andrew committed what God said to his heart. Say your honor, man. That is how you are going to keep in faith. Pastor E yes last week said that you need one instruction. But, ladies and gentlemen, every instruction from God is going to come with challenges. So you have to catch that instruction and guard it. You have to guard it, you have to double down. The Bible says that the kingdom is like a man who found a treasure in a field. When he saw that the field had treasure, he went, he sold everything so that he could own the treasure. The Bible says that this the word or the kingdom is like a seed that when sown, it may be the smallest seed that is sown, but it grows up to be a big tree. Ladies and gentlemen, one word, that one word that God is going to speak to you, or that God has spoken to you, or that God is speaking to you, once you commit that in your heart, it will change your life, it will change your family's life, it will change your nation, it will change this world.

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But how do you keep in faith?

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You keep in faith by remembering. Remember the word, keep reminding yourself of the word. This is my supposition. It is possible that during the course of those 45 years, Caleb and Joshua often had conversations. They were like, ah, do you remember that land? Do you remember how big the grips were? Do you remember how the land was flowing with milk and honey? Because that's how you keep in faith. You associate with the word, you keep the word of God before your eyes, you keep your the word of God in your heart, and then you you associate with people of like faith. When I was writing this, I was gonna say people of like mind, but I was corrected on the inside because some the some the things of God, it's not just about the mind. Faith is of the heart. Amen. So it's not just about people of like mind. No, no, no, it's people of like faith. And I'm not talking about just the people that come to Victory House. No, no, no. It's people that God has connected you with. There may be a Joshua. There is a Joshua. There may be a Caleb that God has connected you with. That you you you can people that will tell you you'll make it, you will get there. Because 45 years is a long time. And if you're believing God for something, I I don't care what whatever you're being, if you are believing God for something, ah, any time is a long time. It may be one day, it's a long time. So you need people that will reinforce your faith. Amen. You need people that will reinforce your faith. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 13. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 13. Can we just read it? It says that it is written, I believe, and I have spoken. Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore we speak. So the spirit of faith, or the heart of faith, or the person of faith, it is about us speaking. You speak to yourself, to another, what you believe. So I'm not too far when I say that I believe that Caleb and Joshua got together and they were like men. Remember, those, those, those grapes, they were testy. I'm going for them. You remember that land, that that mountain, that is my mountain. And you need those kind of people. May God bring you in contact with those people in Jesus' mighty name. Abraham. Abraham is another example of a person that believed God for a long time. Another example of a person that believed God for a long time. Romans 4, verse 19 and verse 21. I am about to close, but I'm still going forward. Amen. Glory to God. You will catch up. Jesus' name. Romans 4 19. It says, Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead, since he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead. Excuse me. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God. Verse 21 says, Being fully persuaded that God had the power to do what he had promised. Can I hear a louder? Amen. God has the power to do what he has promised. Amen. So Abraham was fully persuaded. He was fully convinced. The Bible says that he first the fact, but he did not dwell on the fact. Maybe you're believing God to catch up financially, and the account is red. Somebody knows what an account being red means. But he did not dwell on the fact, he did not dwell on present circumstance. He did not dwell on what his body felt like. He said that I know that God who promised will fulfill what he says. And ladies and gentlemen, if we are going to catch up and if we are going to remain in faith, we have to be fully persuaded. We have to be fully convinced that God will do what he says. Every time the thought comes that you will never catch up. No. God promised, and so I receive his promises. I will be what God has said I am in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. So how else do you keep in faith?

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How else do you keep in faith?

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Let's read Joshua chapter 15. And I believe it's verse from verse 13. Joshua 15, verse 13. Yes. In accordance with the Lord's command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephane a portion in Judah. Kiriath Abba. That is Hebron. Abba was the forefather of Anak. Verse 14, let's go. From 14 through let's just keep going. I'll tell you where it stops. From Hebron, Caleb drove out the three Anakites. Remember earlier I say that remember the descendants of Anak. Remember that term. This is why. From Hebron, Caleb drove out the three Anakites. Oh, I've lost my screen. Okay. All right. From there, much. No. Let's go back to verse 14. I'm still trying to make a point. Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. Now these are names, but you can give your own challenges their own names. And the Bible says, Joshua, I mean, uh, Caleb drove them out. See, remember before Caleb saw the Anakites, saw the giants, the ten saw the giants. The ten said, Ah, we cannot do this. Uh Caleb said, We can do this. And the Bible says, in I think Numbers 14, something says, That as you have spoken in my hearing, so shall I do to you. That's God saying. What you have said that that I am to you, or if you do not believe me to be your deliverer, I won't be your deliverer. But if you come and as we are worshiping, you're saying, Oh God, you are my provider, oh God, you're my deliverer. That's what he is and what he will be to you. Amen. So Caleb drove them out. So, ladies and gentlemen, there is something that you are going to do. There are some fights that you are going to fight. I the first time I read a verse, Acts 7, verse 15. I mean verse 5. The first time I read this verse, I was like, oh wow. Let's see Acts 7 and verse 5. And I'm I'm about to round up, don't worry. I'm about to round up. Glory to God. It says he gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But listen to this. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land. Even at that time, Abraham had no child. When I read, when the first time I had that scripture, and every time I hear it, I'm like, oh, that's that's good. And this is what comes to my heart. There's some things that God will give you as a possession, not an inheritance. An inheritance is something that you pass down. You don't have to fight for it. A possession, you have to engage, you have to possess the land. So the Bible says that he promised Abraham and his descendants that they would possess the land. Ladies and gentlemen, there are some things that you are going to have to possess so that you can pass down. This is what I wrote down. Some of the challenges that you're fighting today are so that you can pass them down to your children. Pastor E has always said that that is really what parenting is about. It is about taking territory that the child, that the descendants after you shall be, shall have an easier life. But they will also possess their own lands, but they will also have an inheritance. Ah, somebody. That you will in turn pass it down to the people that God has placed under you. The Bible says that the secret things belong to God, but the things that He reveals, the things that He shows you, the things that you possess are for you and for your descendants. Praise God. So as parents, we are going to have to take territory for the sake of our children. And God is expecting you to take some territories. So when God declares that this is your catch-up season, number one, you believe the word. Number two, you keep and remember the word. You keep the word of God in your heart. But the cycle of faith is completed by action. So you act on the word. You go and start that business. You go and take that class.

SPEAKER_00 52:34

Amen. You go and do what God has called you to do. Amen. So we are going to have to take some risks.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

We are going to have to take some risks. We are going to have to start businesses. You're going to have to do it. I I remember earlier, um, I think two weeks ago, I was talking about the call to greatness, and I say that I haven't always liked to be at the forefront. I I said it wrong. I said I haven't always liked to be great, but actually, what I meant, I always never like to be at the forefront. I wanted to be in the background. I wanted to work in the background because I think there's a great deal of significance working in the background. Until God said something concerning me. He's given me a specific word, and part of it is what we are we are doing. Um with um Pastor E has talked uh about the worship camp here before, and part of it is that. Why did I say that? Maybe God is telling you to start something, maybe God is telling you to start an NGO, maybe God is asking you to start a pro a for-profit business. Maybe God is telling you to go to school. Amen. You are going to have to do some things. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. So I want us to remember that God, number one, when we receive God's instruction, when we receive the word God is speaking concerning us, the specificity of what God is saying concerning ketchup for your life, you're going to have to keep it in your heart. You double down by keeping it in your heart. It doesn't matter how long it takes, you keep it in your heart. Because every challenge, every word from God will come with a challenge. But you have to stand, you have to keep keeping on, and then you do what God says. Amen. And you will come into the fullness of that word to catch up in the name of Jesus. God has never failed, and he will not start with you. In Jesus' mighty name. Let us pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. We give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you for your word. Your word is true. We thank you because your word is forever settled in the heavens. Nothing about your word can change because there is no shadow of turning in you. You are the same God yesterday, today, and forever. And Father, we thank you for the word of the season that we, it is our catch-up season. And Father, we believe it. We believe it today. And we declare that we will become what you have said in the name of Jesus. We ask that you will guard that word in our hearts by your spirit, that you will cause us to remember in the name of Jesus. Give us the courage and the strength to do what you are asking us to do in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Hallelujah.