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>> Bill Winston: This is the set
time of your deliverance.
God has a plan, and you are
behind his plan.
You are late.
He’s got to catch you up that
the enemy has been resisting you
with one thing or another.
It could be sickness, it could
be problems, it’s over.
But I’ve got news for you.
Everything Satan stole from you,
this is your year of recompense.
>> Bill: Hello, I’m Bill
Winston, and welcome to
another program.
The program that you’re watching
is called the “Believer’s Walk
of Faith,” where we walk by
faith and not by sight.
We have a really exciting
program to share with you today.
Now, this teaching is on
“Possessing Your Mountain.”
Now, we described a mountain as
a sphere of influence.
It’s like a mountain of the
government, a mountain of
education, a mountain of arts
and entertainment, and theater,
and music, different mountains.
And you and I, as believers, are
called to these different
mountains.
Somebody has a gift for acting
in Hollywood, somebody has
another gift for working in
politics.
We are called to these different
mountains.
Now, what God wants us to do is
to possess this mountain.
Possess means control it from
within.
Praise God, because we are
supposed to be the ones that are
influencing in that mountain.
Now, the Bible tells us in
Proverbs chapter 29 and verse
18, “Where there is no vision,
the people perish.”
So, what it’s time to do is to
dream again.
A lot of times, what the enemy
comes to do is shut down your
dreamer.
You think that you can’t go
anywhere, can’t accomplish much,
no.
God has big plans for you, and
he wants you to dream big,
praise God.
Well, let’s go right into it.
Today’s teaching is called
“Possessing Your Mountain.”
>> Bill: Now, let’s take the
Hivites for example.
Let’s go to Joshua, please, in
Joshua chapter 9.
Hivites.
Each one of these -ites is a
different strongman.
“And it came to pass, when all
the kings which were on this
side of Jordan, in the hills,
and in the valleys, and in all
the coasts of the great sea over
against Lebanon, the Hittites,
the Amorites, the Canaanites,
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, heard thereof, that
they gathered themselves
together to fight with Joshua
and with Israel, with one
accord.”
So now, the enemy is getting
together.
“Now, we can’t stop them
individually.
Let’s unite.”
And sometimes, the devil gets
several forces together because
one just won’t do it.
But he’s saying that they are
mightier than we are.
Now, I’m going somewhere.
So now I’ve got to fight
someone that’s mightier than me.
You got what I’m saying?
So God is sending me into the
impossible on purpose.
Now, why is that?
Because faith connects me with
the ability of God.
Now, I want to stay with that, I
want to stay with faith connects
me with the ability of God.
Stay with me.
So I’m going in here by faith
and I’m going to win.
I’m not going to lose.
I’m going to take whatever level
because God’s got to promote me.
He’s going to get me in there
and promote me.
The Bible says in Matthew
chapter 25, he said, “If you be
faithful over a few things, God
will make you,” what?
Ruler over many things, so he’s
a promoter.
I came here with nothing, but I
was faithful in what he gave me.
I had 40 members and I was
faithful with them.
Sometimes, people don’t want to
start with 40, they want to
start with 40,000.
And that is not the way God
works because you’ve got to
learn to work with 40 before you
work with 40,000.
Same thing about a business.
He’s not going to give you IBM
from the start.
Now, he may do that if you know
what you’re doing, but normally,
he starts you somewhere in the
ranks and moves you up.
Because then you’ve got to
display faithfulness to what
he’s given you.
All right, you with me?
So Hivites, so come back to
Joshua chapter 9, “Now when the
inhabitants of Gibeon heard what
Joshua had done unto Jericho at
Ai,” he just ran through them,
“they did work wilily, and went
and made as if they had been
ambassadors, and took old sacks
upon their donkeys, and wine
bottles, old and rent and bound
up, old shoes and clouted upon
their feet, and old garments
upon them, and all the bread of
their provision was dry and
moldy.”
So, they’re looking like they
came from a long ways.
“And they went to Joshua into
the camp of Gilgal, and said to
him, and to the men of Israel,
‘We be come from a
far country.'”
Now, they came from Maywood,
but they’re saying–now just for
those over television or
network, this is the street
right around the corner here.
But they didn’t come from a long
ways.
What were they working?
Deception.
The spirits of Hivites are the
spirits of deception.
They are sent to deceive you.
They deceive you somehow to
either get you to not use God’s
ability and try to use your own,
or deceive you into going into
some kind of unholy alliance, or
something.
Folks, look like I’ve been
through all of it.
I’ll tell you from experience.
Is my shirt torn up in the back?
Okay, no, I’m just kidding.
Okay, so, now, I saw a man do
that one time, he was kind of
comical, you know.
He’s coming out, he’s saying,
“Oh, I’ve been through it, man,
I’ve really been through it.”
And then this guy says, he says,
“Let me just take off my coat,
it’s kind of hot,” take off his
coat and he had nothing but
holes in the back of his shirt.
Well, anyway, deception, now
what did they do?
They made a league with Joshua.
He shouldn’t have made it
because he’s supposed to wipe
them out.
And now, once they made a league
with him, he couldn’t touch
them.
Deception.
Now, I’m talking about going
into the giants now.
And every one of these -ites is
a strongman.
It’s a spirit.
All right, let’s deal with
another one, Jebusites.
Now, Jebusites literally means
to stomp on.
These are spirits that have this
mission to prevent people from
growing up.
One man says from getting
taller.
They are spirits sent to make
others feel small.
They talk down at them.
They even will tell you to shut
up.
They concede that other people
are nobodies.
Now, who had this?
How about Gideon?
You recall Gideon?
These are spirits now that make
people feel small.
Look at what it says in Numbers
chapter 13 and verse 31.
I want you to look at this.
I’m just letting you know that
all these are in there, making
you feel inferior.
And they major on it, see,
because it makes them feel
taller.
“But the men that went up with
us said, ‘We be not able to go
up against these people, for
they are,'” what?
Stronger than we.
Keep going, now this is Israel
talking.
“And they brought up an evil
report of the land which they
had searched unto the children
of Israel, saying, ‘The land,
through which we have gone to
search it, is a land that eateth
up its inhabitants thereof, and
all the people that we saw in it
were men of,'” what?
Great stature.
“And there we saw the giants,
the sons of Anak.”
Now, this is the race that he’s
trying to get.
“Which come of the giants, and
we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so were we in
their sight.’
Notice, see themselves small.
So, that’s the idea.
And so, what happens when a
person sees themselves small?
Then they think small.
They begin to dream small.
Now, one of our speakers said
that a dream will produce
anything you are believing for.
A dream.
And how do you dream?
And what do you dream?
And so, there’s another spirit
called Perizzites.
And the Perizzites are spirits
that make people weak and unable
to walk.
Now, the word “walk” in the Old
Testament always symbolizes
maturity.
So, what these spirits want you
to do with the Perizzites is not
depend on God for yourself, but
try to get somebody else to do
all your praying for you, and
look at men more than you look
at God.
Now, let’s just go back to this
dream again because this is a
piece that I think I’m going to
have to finish up in this area
right here.
This dreaming, let me take a
person.
When Joseph had a dream, he told
it.
It wasn’t a small dream.
Because these spirits are
designed to have you and I to
think small.
Villagers some people call them.
But they have you to think in a
small way.
And it’s almost like when you
start getting your imagination
to rise, these spirits try to
close in on you, and make you
shrink back, and keep your
imagination small.
I put something down here in my
notes.
In your dream is your destiny.
Imagination will produce the
faith it takes to create that
dream.
If you can imagine it–remember
what he said over in Genesis
chapter 11, “Nothing will be
restrained from them which they
have,” what?
“Imagined to do.”
Here’s my point.
If you’re going to inherit the
world, then you’re going to
inherit the wealth of it.
If your thinking is small, there
ain’t no way, excuse my English,
that you’re going to inherit a
trillion dollar economy.
No way.
And the enemy is after your
dreaming.
See, that starts first.
Out of Acts, put it up, chapter
26 and verse 19, he said,
“Whereupon, King Agrippa, I was
not disobedient to the heavenly
vision,” that God dropped
something in your thinking.
And he does it on purpose.
Because he’s got to get a job
done.
And the stimulation from that
job is going–and for what
you’re going to do, it’s going
to come from him.
He’s the author and finisher of
your faith.
He’s the one that’s going to
give you the dream.
The Bible even talks about
“Without a vision,” come on,
“the people perish, but he that
keepeth the law, happy is he.”
That this vision will come from
God.
And I’m telling you, each one of
us has a vision.
And when Joseph got that dream
and talked about it, his
brothers even wanted to wipe him
out.
And look what God did with
Gideon.
He came to him and said, “Hail,
my mighty man of valor.”
Gideon said, “Who, me?
Who are you talking to?
I’m the poorest among this
tribe.”
It doesn’t make any difference.
Because once you get born again,
you are born of God.
You’ve got the same DNA that
he’s got, watch that.
And he’s got a big dream for
everybody.
So here is Gideon, and Gideon
doesn’t want to do anything with
his dream, and God had to prove
him because Gideon fleeced God.
Now, don’t try to fleece God
today because those days are
over.
He said, “God, if you are really
speaking to me, then make–when
I wake up in the morning, make
the ground dry around this, and
make this thing in the center
wet.”
And God did that.
Then he came again and fleeced
him again.
And pretty soon, he started
moving in the things of God.
My point to you is that the same
thing happened to this man named
Jabez.
And if you look at here, it’s 1
Chronicles, 1 Chronicles and
chapter 4, it says this in verse
9.
This is Jabez.
Now, the word “Jabez” means
pain.
His mother named him pain.
You see, I’ve seen that before,
folks naming their babies what
they’re going through.
You don’t need to name that kid
what you’re going through.
You need to go through it and
then name the kid.
And my point to you is–come on,
you tell what era somebody get
brought up in because they named
the kid that, and you know this
and that.
I ain’t going to call no names,
but some of them you can’t even
pronounce.
You’re looking at the paper and
I’m trying to pronounce these
names, and so I say, “Where did
they get this from?”
And I can almost guarantee you
it didn’t come from heaven.
This is something somebody
thought of.
But you don’t even know what
that means.
You name your kid something,
then that could be the worst
name that you ever gave your kid
in somebody else’s language.
Look what it says here over in
Jabez.
He said, “And Jabez was more
honorable than his brethren, and
his mother called his name
Jabez, saying, ‘Because I bare
him with sorrow.’
Jabez called on the God of
Israel, saying, ‘Oh, that thou
would,'” what?
“Bless me indeed.”
And what else?
“Enlarge my coast.”
And what else?
“And that thy hand might be with
me.”
And what else?
“And that you would keep me
from,” what?
Evil.
Now, check it out.
What Jabez was asking for, he
wasn’t asking God to change his
name.
He was asking God to change how
he saw himself.
He was asking God to give him a
greater capacity for receiving
what he might accomplish on
God’s behalf.
He was asking God that
things–thoughts were holding
him captive, and he needed to be
released from those thoughts.
And this prayer of Jabez, he is
saying, “Give me a greater
ability to think the thoughts of
God.”
Look what God says in Isaiah
chapter 55 and verse 8.
Here’s what he said.
He said, “For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith the
Lord.
For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways
than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts.”
You see, there are spirits that
are designed, when God wants you
to have hair salons all over
Chicago, those spirits will make
you do hair in your
kitchen.
That is not what God–come on
now, instead of–you might be
teaching school.
God didn’t want you to teach
school, he wanted you to have
schools.
My point to you is, it’s amazing
how we try to bring God’s vision
down to the level of our small
thinking, instead of taking our
thinking, enlarging it, and
going up to what God has called
us to do.
There are so many people sitting
in here right now, and what has
happened is the enemy has shut
off your dreamer.
He has tried to make you–see,
when any somebody tell you you
can’t do something, that’s when
you know you can.
Because with God, come on, all
things are possible.
And I’m telling you right now,
you need to dream again.
Martin Luther King said, “I have
a dream.”
And because of it, he went to
the top of the mountain and
affected nations in this
mountain.
I’m saying the same thing
happened to Booker T.
Washington.
He comes to Tuskegee in Alabama
with nothing, had nothing.
And he comes there, and a
picture was taken with him
eating lunch in an old wooden
church, who had a hole in the
ceiling, it was raining, and
somebody was holding an umbrella
over his head while he ate.
That’s where he started in 1885.
But by 1905, it is written up
that Booker T. Washington
graduated out of a slave group
of people, he graduated
more self-made millionaires
than Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton combined.
The president of Harvard came
down over and over again to
speak at his commencement.
President Roosevelt invited him
to the White House and ate with
him.
And it caused a stir throughout
the whole world.
Why?
Because the world and many
people didn’t want this group of
people to get up off their knees
and dream again.
But I’m here to tell you I came
through something.
And when I came here, oh yeah, I
started small, but I started
saying Jabez.
I began to say this prayer every
day, every day, “Oh Lord, bless
me indeed.
Enlarge my territory.
Keep me from evil.”
And God began to grow me over
and over.
And I’m telling you right now,
we are worldwide.
We are in every continent on the
face of this earth.
God gave me a Scripture, he
said, “I’m going to have you to
take the Word of God to the
earth as the waters cover the
sea.”
And let me tell you, he’s going
to protect you in that thing.
Now, notice what happened here.
I took you back to Genesis
chapter 20.
Now, in Genesis chapter 20, this
is when a man named–a king
named Abimelech, he took Sarah,
Abraham’s wife, in his harem.
He’s going to take her now, what
is he doing?
He just–Satan is after that
gene pool.
So, what happened?
Look what happened that night.
And it says in verse 3, it says
that, “God came to Abimelech in
a dream by night, and said to
him, ‘Behold, you are but a dead
man, for the woman which you
have taken, she is another
man’s wife.'”
Now, what happened then?
Abimelech came out of that, he
said, “Get this woman out of
here.”
Now, what am I telling you?
I’m telling you, you’re about to
go into the best time of your
life, that whatever has been
resisting your plan, come on,
for God’s plan for your life
shall be stopped today.
Whatever–now, don’t look at me
and say, “Somebody’s just saying
that.”
No, this is the set time of your
deliverance.
God has a plan, and you are
behind his plan.
You are late.
He’s got to catch you up that
the enemy has been resisting you
with one thing or another.
It could be sickness, it could
be problems, it’s over.
But I’ve got news for you.
Everything Satan stole from you,
this is your year of recompense.
Everything, I had it up there,
everything is going to have to
be skimmed back.
So whatever has been tampering
with your destiny in God,
whatever’s been afflicting you,
humiliating you, whatever’s been
against your peace, your
progress, against your career,
your business, your children,
your job, I command the
vengeance of the Lord, it is
coming on them today.
Say amen to that.
So everything contrary to the
rule and justice of God is going
to be dealt with.
You see, God has now got to get
the job done.
I’ll tell you, we’ve seen things
happen, we’ve seen laws made
that are ungodly, we’ve seen
babies aborted, we’ve seen
things.
But God is saying, “Enough is
enough.”
It’s time now for God to move.
And he’s got to do it through
his people.
Now, you give God a shout and
get ready to dream.
[congregation cheering]
You’re going to dream again.
You’re going to dream again.
And the dream is not going to be
a small dream.
It’s going to be the impossible
dream.
You’re going to dream the
impossible.
You’re going to dream things
that you say in your heart, “I
don’t know how this is going to
come to pass.”
You don’t need to know how it’s
going to come to pass.
It’s not your dream, it’s God’s
dream.
Let him dream through you.
Give the Lord a shout and a
praise.
Esther, Esther couldn’t hardly
believe it.
Her uncle came to her and said,
“Esther, now you’ve got to go
before the king.”
Esther said, “I haven’t been
invited.
How am I going to go in there?”
Said, “Esther, you have been
called for such a time as this.
Esther, you can’t miss your
calling.
There’s a timetable we’re
working here, where wicked Haman
has got an ungodly law to kill
all the Jews.
And so we need you, girl.”
See, you can’t look at yourself.
Because now you’ve got the DNA
of God.
He can dream through you.
Look what happened.
Esther fasted 3 days.
The Bible says she put on her
royal apparel, Esther chapter 5.
She went in there, went before
the king.
If the king doesn’t point his
scepter at you, your head goes
off because to come into the
king, you’ve got to be invited.
But the Bible says for you to
come boldly to the throne of
grace.
And watch this, no weapon formed
against you shall prosper.
The king pointed his scepter at
her, said, “Esther, tell me what
you want and I will give it to
you, up to half of my kingdom.”
You’re a joint heir with Jesus.
Whatever he gets, you got.
I want you to do something.
Dream again.
Make yourself dream again.
Refuse to stay small.
That’s not your calling.
Your calling is to inherit the
world.
That’s everything in it, from
the surface to the core.
You just don’t get the good
stuff now, you inherit the worst
places.
Why?
Because you’ve got something in
you that can clean it all up.
You’re blessed, you’re God’s
favorite, and God has saved the
best for last.
This is it, this is it.
I believe this in my heart.
So, what I want you to do,
prayer of Jabez, say it once a
day for 7 days.
And watch something happen in
your life.
Oh, he’s been trying, God’s been
trying to get it to you, but
it’s screened him out.
But this prayer is going to open
you up, give you more capacity,
so you can be and do and have
what Jesus died to provide.
If you agree with that, shout
amen.
Glory to God.
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