You are responsible for your own success. Larry Randolph puts it this way: “God fulfills all His promises, but He’s not obligated to fulfill your potential”. Bill Johnson teaches from Joshua 1 and the words God spoke to Joshua when he was appointed to lead the Israelites. In those words are keys to “making your way prosperous”. Listening to God’s Word and following it closely sets you up for great success in life and all that God wants to do in and through you.
they disqualified themselves for the
very thing God had promised
and there is a part of the promise over
your life and mine that actually takes
active Faith to fully apprehend and step
into
this is where the Lord speaks to Joshua
and says Moses my servant is dead his
job is not your job basically and here’s
something to uh to remind yourself of
Joshua is now leading the descendants of
the people who first received the
promise about the promised land they
didn’t get it although God promised it
to him
Larry Randolph
helped me to understand this much better
a number of years ago he said God
fulfills all of his promises but he’s
not obligated to fulfill our potential
as sometimes the Lord gives us a promise
that actually carries with it an
invitation to a potential a possibility
to a realm of maturity development
Conquest whatever it might be
and so the kingdom of God in the Old
Testament was a excuse me the promised
land in the Old Testament
was a type of the kingdom of God in the
new in the Old Testament of course it
was a geographical area that we’ll read
about in a moment and they to inherit
this vast piece of land they would
divide it up according to tribes then
divided up according to family that was
their inheritance it was a land that was
so prosperous so rich so so wonderful
that the Lord described it as a land
flowing with milk and honey in other
words it had abundance in everything
that was right and it was their
inheritance
when the 12 Spies went in to check out
the land they came back saying it’s true
it’s a land flowing with milk and honey
but there’s giants that are there
there’s a very well-equipped military
all through this land much more
equipment remember these are these are
the children of slaves that are now
supposed to go in and have military
conquests they have zero training
whatsoever
and so these folks are very very
intimidated they come back with the part
saying yes it’s a land flowing with milk
and honey the Giants are there and then
they said Uh something’s very
eye-opening it says and we are like
grasshoppers in our sight
in other words we we we are here and
they are there and there’s no way we can
measure this challenge
because of their unbelief they
disqualified themselves for the very
thing God had promised
and there is a part of the promise over
your life and mine that actually takes
active Faith to fully apprehend and step
into this notion that if it’s meant to
be it will just happen as nonsense
it’s absolute nonsense it’s it’s
absolute careless and lazy theology
there is a responsibility in this
relational journey to continuously
exercise faith
and pursuit of what God has promised
I feel better having said that all right
let’s just get into this and uh I’ll fix
whatever I break later all right let’s
go uh verse 1 after the death of Moses
the servant of the Lord it came to pass
that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of
nun Moses’s assistant saying Moses my
servant is dead now therefore arise go
over this Jordan you and all this people
to the land which I am going which I’m
giving to them the children of Israel
every place that the soul of your foot
will tread upon I have given to you as I
said to Moses from the Wilderness in
this Lebanon as far as the Great River
the river Euphrates and all the land of
the Hittites to the great sea toward the
going down of the sun shall be your
territory no man shall be able to stand
before you all the days of your life as
I was with Moses so I will be with you I
will not leave you nor forsake you stop
right there let me kind of connect the
dots concerning the kingdom and then
we’ll read verses 5-9 is actually the
part that I return to on a regular basis
it’s my cabin all right
when we talk about Old Testament
Promised Land it is in the natural a
picture of the New Testament
concept of the kingdom of God it is the
fact that when you enter a realm of
maturity a realm of of Conquest in some
cases
um it’s it’s like a territory that you
inherit when you experience Joy when you
experience Deliverance when you
experience healing whatever it might be
it’s always an invitation to a realm in
God that you actually inherit Kingdom
King’s domain it’s the Realms of God’s
Dominion that we step into Jesus
announced to us the kingdom is at hand
and then he would say
um if I cast a demon Out of You by the
spirit of God then the kingdom of God
has come upon you so he’s actually
describing Realms of personal
inheritance here’s somebody who’s
tormented at night they don’t sleep at
night because of abusive upbringing
whatever it might be they have a rough
time with their life Jesus comes along
or you come along and Minister them and
break off that power suddenly they sleep
at night what is that called that’s
called the kingdom of God that’s the
realm of God’s Dominion somebody I just
got a report this week of another person
that had throat cancer that was healed
here they came and they were delivered
set free of throat cancer what is that
that’s the kingdom of God the kingdom of
God the realm of God’s Dominion that has
no cancer Came Upon This person’s throat
and drove it from them we recently have
had five cases that I know of of Lyme’s
disease in the last I would say five
weeks it actually happened in a
three-week period five people with
Lyme’s disease that were healed 138
years 38 years 10 years mostly in bed
for 10 years and I watch as the spirit
of God it was it was actually like
um the Holy Spirit flooded
everything that was wrong flooded it out
of her body if you can imagine having a
vase and it’s got dirt in the bottom and
you just keep pouring water until all
the dirt is flushed out that’s exactly
what happened the spirit of God Came
Upon her and I have a video of her
running around her swimming pool which
she’s been incapable of doing uh 10 10
years bedridden and uh and as a result
of that two little girls that were
bedridden eight and eleven uh also a
juvenile arthritis were completely
healed I have a video of them doing
jumping jacks with their mom uh things
that they were incapable of doing so the
point is is we see the kingdom of the
Kingdom that has no Affliction come upon
their bodies and literally just flush
out everything that the enemy tried to
do to steal kill and destroy their life
that what is what is the kingdom it’s
all of that it’s all of that and that is
the promised land for the believer it
sometimes includes Financial blessing a
prosperity in a business but it’s we
never want to make the mistake of
equating spiritual
maturity with income and possessions
neither do we want to equate spiritual
maturity with poverty yeah let’s let’s
throw out both don’t both stupid ideas
and
um you know God wants to bless you more
than you can imagine uh
well let’s leave it there all right I’m
going to crawl into a hole and make a
mess I can see it all right verse 5. no
man
will be able to stand before you all the
days of your life as I was with Moses so
I will be with you I will not leave you
nor forsake you be strong now here’s
where we have the words of instructions
I want you to pay attention here be
strong and of good courage for this to
this people you will divide as an
inheritance the language I swore to
their fathers to give them only be very
strong or be strong and very courageous
that you may be able to observe all
according to the law which Moses my
children commanded you the law of Moses
was the word of God they had at that
time so we can put in its place that uh
the word of God the scriptures that you
now how many of you have your Bibles
with you let me see them let me hold
them high all right I’m just taking a
roll just just trying to see all right
we’re talking about the word of God now
okay so the the word of God uh in this
case the law which Moses my servant
commanded you do not turn from it to the
right or to the left that you may
Prosper wherever you go please notice
prosperity and success are biblical
terms we just can’t let wall Street’s
definition affect our our position
because real Prosperity starts on the
inside
so the target of the Lord is he wants
everybody in this room to be
ridiculously prosperous but his Target
is the inner world
it’s my emotional and mental health
all right verse 8.
the book this book of the law shall not
depart from your mouth but you will
meditate on it day and night that you
may observe to do according to all that
is written in it then you will make your
way prosperous and then you will have
success
then you will make your way prosperous
I thought the Lord did it now he gave
you the tools
foreign
then you will make your way prosperous
and then you will have good success say
this with me I am responsible
for my own prosperity
I am responsible
for my own success
yeah I’m so glad that you watched this
video I do pray that it’s a great great
strength and encouragement to you and
I’ve got a verse that it really is My
Cry for all of us and it’s Psalms 20
it’s verse 4. may he grant you your
heart’s desire and fulfill all your
plans
that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that
this would be the season of rich rich
fulfillment
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