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to the right of the book of Joshua
chapter 1 verse 5 through 11 yeah let’s
do it
God is good to us and all the time we
are in the first chapter of the book of
Joshua we’ll begin in the fifth verse
and I think we read down to about the
eleventh verse of the chapter there
shall not any man be able to stand
before thee all the days of thy life
there should not be any man to stand
before thee all the days of our life as
I was with Moses so I will be with thee
I will not fail thee nor forsake thee be
strong and of good courage for unto this
people shall divide for an inheritance
the land which I swear unto their
fathers to give them only be thou strong
and very courageous that thou layest
observe to do according to all the law
which Moses my servant commanded thee
turn not from it to the right hand or to
the left that thou mayest prosper
whithersoever thou goest this book of
the law
shall not depart out of that mouth but
thou shalt meditate therein day and
night that thou may observe to do
according to all that is written Darien
for then thou shalt make by way
prosperous and then thou shalt have
check us out good success there’s a good
success there’s a bad success how many
want good success have not I commanded
thee be strong enough the courage be not
a friend neither be thou dismayed for
the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest ya then Joshua
commanded the officers of the people
saying pass through the host and command
the people saying prepare you victuals
says food for within three days she
surpassed over this Jordan to go in in
three days
three days she shall pass over this
Jordan to go in to possess the land
which the Lord your God giveth you to
possess it can you say man go back to
verse 5 for me and put the fifth verse
back up there the opening verse there
there shall not any man be able to stand
before thee all the days of our life
check this out as I was so I will be
as I was so I will be as I was so I will
be with thee I will not fail thee
nor will I forsake thee this morning for
the next few moments L want to talk to
you about the power of his presence the
power of his Renato presence the power
of his friends not your problems
presence the power of his presence let’s
pray spirit of the Living God fall
afresh on us now as we go into the Word
of God let the word of God go into us
let his transformative power illuminate
within us transfigure us move us and
motivate us fix us and change us be God
in the midst of this place establish
yourself in the hearts of your people
not just these that are here but to the
thousands and thousands that are
streaming online be God whether they’re
in the living room on the couch or
laying in the bed or whether they’re
looking at a television screen or
holding their phone in their hand be God
in the midst of your people I thank you
because you’re enough for whatever I got
our face you’re enough God to get me
through it in Jesus name
shout amen you may be seated in the
presence of God yeah let’s go to work
I love the book of Joshua I should warn
you before I get started it’s one of my
favorite books particularly in the Old
Testament is one of my favorite books
because this book is not for wimps it is
not for the faint of heart it is not for
the superficially religious the mundane
or the ritualistic this book is a book
of power to people who are coming to
take over this is a transformative book
it’s New Testament companion book would
be the book of Ephesians the book of
Ephesians starts out talking about God
has given us all things
the book of Joshua starts out talking
about God has given us all things and he
freezes all things that pertain unto
life and godliness in Christ Jesus
it’s spiritualizes what Joshua literal
Eliza’s in Joshua we’re inheriting land
it Ephesians were inheriting life both
of them take courage both of them take a
lot of courage let me set the text in
context so that you can understand what
is going on at the time because
scripture the strength of the scripture
is only revealed when you understand its
environment in which it was spoken
everything in this text is moving but
God everything is in the middle of
transition and transformation but God
the children of Israel are in transition
not only physically leaving their
nomadic history after having being slave
for in slave for 400 years in Egypt for
430 years they are now on the cusp of a
new beginning and while a new beginning
is a good thing it is also a scary thing
it is a difficult thing and it is a
challenging thing because now they must
go from being nomadic to be owners and
dwellers and
Zess is of land the land that they are
possessing is rightfully theirs but they
don’t remember it
they’ve come home but they’ve never been
there before their fathers their
ancestors had left their 400 years ago
and so this is a generation that has no
memory of what they’re about to possess
they have no history there that they can
look back on as a point of reference to
know that the future is good they just
know that it’s new now they are facing a
new future without their own leaders he
wasn’t just any leader he is Moses Moses
is a mighty man of power and authority
he is in a class of distinction all by
himself
God said other prophets have I’ve spoken
to through dreams and visions but of my
servant Moses when I speak face-to-face
God says Moses is in a category all by
himself
Moses I’ll show things true that I would
show nobody else Moses has been the man
for 40 years to these people it was
Moses rod that was stretched out over
the Red Sea that caused the Red Sea to
back up from Moses face going hither and
thither and the wind blew the waters
back for miles it was Moses that
established the Covenant of the law it
was Moses that brought down the plans
for the tabernacle it was Moses that
prayed to manna fell down from heaven it
was Moses and turn the bitter waters
sweet it was Moses that declared the
power of God until he was a pillar of
fire by night and a cloud by day it was
Moses that gave them shame it was Moses
that gave them covering it was Moses
that prayed until God said quail from
heaven it was Moses tell somebody say it
was Moses
it was Moses everything they knew about
God if come to Moses everything that
they understood about God and come
through Moses it was Moses who brought
down the Ten Commandments it was Moses
that showed them the power of God so
strong that the mountains shook and were
set on fire and not consumed it was
Moses that repeat the sins are for
Israel it was Moses that clinched the
leprosy off of his sister it was Moses
if you had a problem it was Mulder
whatever God sought to talk to somebody
it was Moses when God got ready to heal
somebody it was Moses when they got sick
it was Moses had lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness it was Moses the only
problem is Moses went up on the hill and
he didn’t come back and they’re trying
to figure out who am i without Moses
what will life be like Moses they don’t
really know what happened to Moses had
never got his body the Angels have taken
his body away God had to tell them that
Moses my servant is dead when they heard
that Moses was dead they started
screaming they ripped their clothes and
yelled and cried for days and days
turned to weeks and weeks turned to a
month they did nothing but lament the
death of Moses almost there
and now Moses is gone the worst things
in life can happen when you’re almost
there
the closer you get to your promises the
more you lose you don’t hear what I’m
saying
they have waited 40 years to get to this
place every step they’ve taken has been
my foot they didn’t call it boy
they had no bus service they had no
wagon train
they had no steam engine they had no
Tesla’s they had no automatic
transportation they had to walk this
thing step by step and foot by foot
every inch of the land had footprints on
it in the hospice Turing feet of the
desert they had walked with God
depending on him for their daily bread
when they woke up in the morning because
they were with Moses manna fell from
heaven in front of each tent within
their reach manna doesn’t fall in their
mouth it falls within their reach
somebody got it
somebody’s been sitting around like a
little bird with your mouth up and
waiting on God to sit it into your mouth
God never brings a blessing to your
mouth he brings it within your reach
touch your neighbor and say if you
stretch you can get it give us this day
our daily bread give us this day our
daily bread
give us this day our daily stretch
because even though God said it if you
don’t stretch for it
you don’t get it and now our Moses is
dead if you have to understand Moses
being dead it’s trouble to a people who
are already privatized I remember being
a little boy when when when the news
flash came on that dr. King was dead and
everybody closed down the schools and
the kids went home and everybody’s face
was stunned and shocked and we as a
people were traumatized we were as
traumatized by his death as we were
about the causes for which he fought
because he epitomized leadership true
leadership is a gift from God whether
it’s over a corporation or a church or
business truly I’m not talking about
titles I’m talking about leadership true
leadership is a gift from God if you’ve
ever had a real father or real mother
it’s a gift from God whether it’s in the
house or in the company or in the
business or in the country true
leadership is a blessing bad leadership
is occurrence
i’ma say that again bad leadership is a
curse the Bible said when the wicked
shall rule the earth shall mourn with
the wicked shall rule the earth shall
mourn with wickedness is in charge
everything under its uppers you cannot
make a man or a woman a leader you
either are or you are not giving them a
desk doesn’t make him a leader giving
them our office that make him a leader
giving them a title that makes him a
leader giving them a degree that it
makes them a leader a leader is a
perspective Moses was a leader Moses was
a man when Moses put down his rod
something happened with Moses raised his
hands their enemies were defeated
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who are we without Moses how can we go
forward without Moses life will never be
the same again without Moses and God let
them cry their eyes out for about a
month and then he says now now somebody
say now my grandmother didn’t say now
she said now I don’t know how you spell
now and then it’s probably a UGA
something like that but admit now you
know W now Moses is dead got it now
Moses is dead that’s enough crime
that’s enough weeping that’s enough
astonishment
that’s enough hysteria Moses my servant
is dead as I was
you see you see how that fits and I was
with Moses so should I be with you I
want you to see that everything is
changing and when everything starts
changing change is scary
change is discombobulating change brings
anxiety change brings tension change
brings stress in change you must have
faith because you don’t have facts to
stand or all of your facts are gone and
change you have to believe because you
can’t see and you don’t know and you’re
not sure now faith is the substance of
things hoped for now Moses my servant is
dead I need faith would stop death so I
could move into the unseen we know how
to wander but do we know how to build we
know how to survive at the desert but do
we know how to pick fruit in the
promised land we know how to drive back
other nomadic people but we don’t know
how to fight people that are dwelling in
the land
we have no point of reference for this
it is when everything is changing around
you that faith has its greatest
relevance it has its greatest power when
life is destabilizing and the future is
uncertain and the props you had up under
you are all giving away that’s when you
discover God when you run out of Moses
you run into God
somebody in here all you got is God
everything you was leaning on is giving
away all you got is God
all you know is God all you see is God
all you understand is God
all you can hold on to this God if God
doesn’t do it with this part as I was so
will I be because that’s the only thing
in the text is not changing the region
is changing the territory is changing
how they see themselves is changing
their requirements are changing their
leadership is changing their are
transitioning from Moses to Joshua
everything is destabilized everything is
saving a place of disarray and the only
thing that solid is as I was so will I
be social I be I’m still here I still
catch you I’m still with you in the city
but I got you your the new job but I got
you you hit a new relationship but I got
you you got a new devil to fight but I
guess as I was so Salaam
yeah
you don’t need that word if you’re not
gonna love it
you don’t need that word if you have
made up in your mind you will die in the
wilderness and have a pity party
and feel sorry for yourself and cry
yourself to sleep for the rest of your
life you don’t need this sermon you can
exit on any door this is for people that
are gonna go ahead but I’m going broke
but I’m going lonely but I’m good I’m
uncertain but I’m going
I gotta find a way to go ahead and so in
order to find a way to go ahead you have
to find an absolute in the middle of
variables when you’re living in
variables you must always find an
absolute the absolute is God in this
Texas I was so shall I be God says I am
Who I am no matter what season of life
you’re in no matter who walked away no
matter who went up on the mountain then
didn’t come back no matter who died in
the wilderness no matter who betrayed
you no matter who lied of you no matter
who divorce no matter who quits you
no matter who I will not fail thee I
will not forsake me that’s C I want you
to see the spirit of the text not just a
letter of the text the power ain’t like
a promise with you need one so I’m gonna
try to break it down into six principles
I will give you these principles these
principles are important number one I’m
gonna talk about the people because God
is talking about the people he’s telling
Joshua who is the new leader who has
been leader at he has been Moses jr.
he’s had leader techniques and
principles but now he has the full job
it’s one thing to be an assistant to the
leader it’s another thing to be the set
man
when you are the set man the buck stops
with you
Joshua has assumed this position and God
is telling him go amongst the people and
tell them what to expect because for God
it is about the people and if you ever
find a purpose that’s bigger than you
God will help you
i’ma turn around try that again if you
ever find a purpose that’s bigger than
you God will help you
God is not your manager he’s not here to
promote you he’s not here to make you
feel important he’s not here to give you
a back rub or massage God is here to
help you find your purpose then it’s
bigger than you and if you can find
something that’s big enough to pray
about are y’all ready for this morning
you should have went on the cruise got
some rest you can’t handle me this
morning see half of the stuff on our
list that we’re praying about is not big
enough to pray about stop bringing these
little penny any requests to God it’s an
insult to as a great man to do little
stuff God needs a challenge God needs a
big dream God needs something that’s
bigger than you Joshua I know you’re
nervous but this is not about you this
is about the people be strong over and
over and over and over again that
Almighty says the same thing be strong
and very courageous be strong and very
courageous be strong and very courageous
why does he keep telling us to be strong
and very courageous because we are
facing things that want to take our
strength and still our courage and we
have to be commanded it’s a commandment
it’s not a suggestion it’s not an idea
it’s not something you to vote about be
strong and very courageous is a command
from God in fact if you don’t do this
you can’t survive
you got no choice
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my mother was daring the vols Hartman’s
of us and it was in the early stages
where I could really talk to her really
good and I said mama city is so amazing
I know you know what’s going on and you
seemed so cool about it you seem so calm
I never ran into her crying or falling
apart or collapsing or looking worried
to look at nervous and I said you seem
so strong and you seem so courageous and
he seems so powerful and she said baby
mama ain’t got no choice sometimes you
have no choice it simply is what it is I
didn’t ask for it I don’t want it I
didn’t prefer it I’d rather not deal
with it but I have to face it with
strength he’s strong and very courageous
you have got to have something to pray
about this bigger than you that is
worthy of the attention of God because
the truth of the matter is God blesses
you for other people
I tell you a week ago those of you that
missed the worship service had only come
to hear the word miss the point
you don’t understand that God doesn’t
get anything out of preaching
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God already had his word you miss your
one chance to give something to God when
you worship you’re giving something to
God when I’m preaching God is giving
something to you so you are saying I can
miss giving something to God and expect
God to give something to me that’s not
hard what give and it shall be given
good manager
press down shaken together running over
shall men give up a table that’s why
every worshipper in here
when you praise him you are blessing God
when he speaks to you he is blessing you
reciprocity you got to learn reciprocity
you can’t expect to get something while
you give nothing hallelujah
you’re not praising God because you’re
emotional or not emotional or introvert
or an extrovert is not a black thing or
white P or Latino thing it’s not a
Pentecostal thing it’s a Bible faith let
everything that help
God said if you’re not dead give me some
place
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you’re the god
glory to God glory to God
glory to God if you are not dead
give me some faith
meaning that you are you Baptist are you
Methodist are you Pentecostal
are you glad are you white are you
Latino he said are you breathing if you
are breathing even if you Backson even
if you’re a sinner God said you still
owe me some praise
cuz I let you live with your praise
itself let everything that have
crap
let me go on you bet sir praise service
let me go
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you must understand that C D D the
camouflage of the text is the promised
land it is eye-catching it is amazing it
is wonderful it is what they were
waiting on but looking at the promised
land is only camouflage because the real
promise is not the land it’s the
presence that you think this is about
properly this is not about property this
is about presence you’re so busy trying
to get the property that you don’t
understand presence but the real gift is
I will not forsake you I will not leave
you as I was so shall I be you can I
give you the truth God never grieved
over Moses God never grieved over the
death of Moses the truth of the matter
is when Moses died God turned his head
to Joshua and kept right on top
as I was with Moses so shall I beat
see the promise myself one it’s a
promise the promises of God is it not
that you all have to fight not that you
all have to cry not that you all have
struggles his promise is that I will be
with you the promise is bigger than the
land the promise is that power is his
presence the promises his presence stop
coveting the property cometh the
presence if you get the presence you
will get the property all by itself what
good is a property if you don’t have
this presence the promises I will be
with you I’m not promising you you won’t
have to fight you will have to fight but
the fight will go better if you know I’m
with you
how many people in a fight right now the
Lord sent me to tell you that he’s in
the fight with you
but the battle is not yours it belongs
to God if you’re gonna draw comfort be
comforted by his presence not his
presence
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see we have been taught to ask God like
Santa Claus for presents give me give me
give me give me give me give me give me
but what we ought to do is seek his
presence because his presence is more
powerful than his presence
I hope I’m speaking clearly enough for
you to understand the distinction
between getting God’s gifts and getting
God’s glory the promise I want you to
see is not the land it suppresses let me
go let me go into it can go deeper young
person just breaking out trying to
figure out who am I do I have what it
takes can I do this am i any good at it
will I succeed I drop a good fight but
can I really fight I said I’m a great
man but am I really a great man I want
to be a good mother I don’t know I don’t
know I don’t know I know Gus he said all
God says all of that is I will be with
you
middle-aged person getting older don’t
even know what old he is running into a
change in your life not sure of yourself
out of your element so that you figured
out how to be a grown person now you’re
trying to learn how to be an old person
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they ought to teach a class on how to
get old it would be worth setting up a
curriculum for you for all the things
that happen to you that nobody tells is
going to happen to you
and you got to act like it don’t bother
you the only promise God gives you I
will be with you older person getting
ready for the grave what is that gonna
be laughs God doesn’t promise you you
will not die
the only thing God promises you is I
will be with you young lovers get ready
to get married
the only thing God promises you is I
will be with you
couples breaking up going through a
divorce only thing God promises you I
will be with you mainly not my leave
she may forsake you I will not forsake
you just cause he left that mean island
just because Sheila doesn’t mean how
there I’m still in the house I’m still
opening doors and still
wait European Auto giveth I don’t teach
until you get it the presence of God
Jack to your job
the presence of God is with you if you
lose your job
Darley been cited in the text
it’s a presence of God got you in the
hospital I got you in your college and
got you in your classroom I got you in
your marriage
I got you your divorce I got you your
strip I got you in your weakness
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I won’t forsake you when you’re falling
I won’t run out on you
when you failed I won’t back up when
you’re up against the wall I won’t run
away when you disappoint me I will be
with you as to me that’s the best part
of the text that is the promise if you
don’t take that to be your promise you
will lean on something that can be
stolen
you will label something that can be
taken away so one thing the devil can
never take away from me
he’s with me and if he’s with me he’s
more than the world
y’all can’t handle it y’all can’t have
this so I’ll talk to you about the
people talk to you about the problems
number three I want to talk to you about
the priority he says I want you to tell
the people to meditate in my word night
and day God says I want your priority to
be pleasing me delight yourself in it
and seek to obey it I want that to be
your priority no no no I tell you I say
this all the time no rich man is looking
for no Brook woman with a lot of bills
[Applause]
let me find somebody who’s got real bad
credit and they’ll owe everybody so I
can bail them out
[Laughter]
[Applause]
I mean you might end up with that but
you are not looking for that I say see
no golden
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[Laughter]
I’ll explain it to the old folks in the
white frozen later
meet me in the back how give me the
Residence Inn because nobody wants to be
loved for what they got they want to be
loved for who they are in fact if you
love me for who I am you can get what a
guy
the way to get one I got is love who I
am cuz I will trade you what I got
if you respect who I am that’s what God
is saying he he said I want to make sure
that you’re in this for the right reason
so in order to purify you I want you to
get in my word and I want you to seek to
obey my word outside of your promised
land
don’t wait till you get there to be
grateful I want to know can you be
grateful broke I want to know can you be
grateful sick I want to know can you be
grateful lonely I want to know can you
be grateful when I break your heart and
I hurt your feeling can you wipe your
face and say you’re still God I want it
I want to check your priority cuz I swam
don’t bless you if you get your priority
right don’t worry about the blessing I
got the property so the text talks to us
about the priority of having a devotion
do not know most people do not have a
devotion outside the church to have a
devotion most church people live close
to the edge of backsliding at any given
moment you just one honking horn away
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and the reason is yeah I keep it real so
if you don’t want to if you don’t want
read oh don’t come here the reason we
are not in touch with our spiritual
sales is that we have no devotion aside
from our stage
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I couldn’t remember when we didn’t have
to hire washer
I can remember where the church didn’t
have praise dancing everybody was a
praise dancing everybody wasn’t washing
her the problem is you don’t need me
you don’t need an organ you don’t need a
band you don’t need a drum you don’t
need all these people with all these
amazing voices you need a heart that’s
open to God you need a hard they can
sing out a tune in your kitchen that can
walk around in your office before
anybody gets there and you making coffee
and blessing the Lord and getting ready
for your day I’m talking about a
relationship with God
not with people not with Church not with
Fame not with fortune not with your idea
success because when you get whatever
you’re trying to get you will find out
it ain’t nothing
soon as you get it you gonna figure out
it wasn’t what you thought it was in the
first place they will be in your guard
[Applause]
y’all can handle it cuz you want to be
rich I know rich folk dis crazy
I’m a rich people never suicidal I know
rich people that have no sense and all
you want is rich
it’s paper baby
it’s just paper calm down it’s just
paper you can burn it instead lighter so
we’re just you need a devotional that
anchors you because things are gonna go
up they’re gonna go down your life is
gonna go up it’s gonna go down your
finances gonna go up they’re gonna go
down your friends gonna go up they’re
gonna go down your marital status gonna
go up and go down we’ve been happily
married for 50 years a liar liar pants
on fire
ain’t nobody been happy 15 years with
nobody I’m not even happy with me 50
years I get sick of myself
no way in the world even be happy to do
you stop line the tub we made it
we pin it
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the priority of a devotional stabilizes
you in a destabilized environment it is
it is the worship it is the breakfast of
champions it is some breakfast of
champions
there is nothing like walking up on my
white prayer and having to back up out
of her space and she had a whole room
lit up with glory and her relationship
with God is none of my business so I
back out of her stuff because that’s too
personal even for your husband she might
need to be talking about me
[Applause]
give us privacy so she can work it out
[Applause]
that’s how personal the priority of
consecrating yourself you know what you
stress having a little kiddin you have
no consecration this’ll last have you
had devotional by yourself without all
these fancy singing and all their selves
no wonder you get out they might sing
like this hey make you happy whether you
got the Holy Ghost about I’m talking
about you by yourself walking around in
your heart making up a song ain’t got no
2k5 no key nobody can play it but God
loves it he said make a joyful noise
serve the Lord with gladness come before
me with singing God’s telling you how to
please him he said come before me with
singing I’m like it when you say I don’t
care that you ain’t got no tool just
make some noise when you walk up in your
house in fact it’s easier to do it in
church when you do it at home the reason
you’re so slow to start up is that you
don’t do it at home
I just believe that where God is getting
ready to take you this message is
necessary he’s getting ready to put you
in the unstable environment out of your
element where things are uncertain and
the only stability you’re gonna have is
coming from his presence and you’ve got
to learn how to value his presence
enough to give him time
whatever you value you make time for
people who in the gym all the time value
looking like that they take time for it
they in the gym six hours a day they
look like the reason I look like this
it’s not that important to me if it was
that important to me I would do it for
six hours a day mine don’t have to do it
in 15 whatever God go do we gonna have
to do it quick
I want microwave ABS
you got to cook it quick Jesus cuz I got
stuff to do
whatever you’ve a you you make time for
how much time do you make the dog so he
said I’m telling you I want you to start
getting in my word and observe my role
as a part of your daily routine so in
order for you to possess I want you to
prioritize sweetie let me put it in New
Testament language seek ye first the
kingdom of God in His righteousness and
then all these things shall be added on
here
he didn’t tell you to seek the thing he
said seek the kingdom if you seek the
kingdom the thing will follow you
number four what this is really about is
the purpose of God Moses dad but God’s
purpose didn’t so when he says as I was
so will I be as I was with Moses so will
I be with you I’m gonna do the same
thing through you I would have done
through Moses because it wasn’t about
personality it was about purpose now
this I’m giving really on here is bad
you gotta be ready you gotta be able to
handle this to accomplish his purpose
God will use anybody
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see you think it’s a few little bless
people and if you’re not in God’s click
god cait use wrong God use focus y’all
don’t want me to talk to you
God use donkeys God use animals God use
fish god don’t care what it is when God
gets ready to accomplish something in
order to get it done he’ll use anybody
he used idolatrous Ruth were the more by
this she didn’t even know who God was
but when God gets ready to accomplish
his purpose
he’ll snatch anybody from anywhere in
order to get things done if you want to
survive getting the purpose
the safest place in the whole wide world
is in the purpose of God whenever you
get in the purpose of God God will
protect you to protect his promise
jianchi handle it ah things work
together for the good I did that love
the Lord who are the called according to
his God said if you get in my purpose
I’ll make it work out alright if you get
in my purpose I’ll fight your enemies
off for you I’ll whip anybody who stands
up against you if you do what I tell you
to do if I know I can count on you to do
my purpose your animation to come by in
abyss your battles become my battles
I’ll Drive back your diseases
I’ll heal your body if you hear my
purpose I’ll strengthen you in your old
age Hezekiah was getting ready to die
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he was ready to die he him laid up in
the bed he was sick and afflicted the
Prophet Eli prophet even told him he was
gonna die true prophet said he was gonna
head the cars turned his face to the
wall and told God he said if I die the
grave cannot praise God said if you
praise me I’ll add 15 years
touch three people say get into purpose
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get in the purpose getting the purpose
of God it is something bigger than you
get is something that’s not about you
getting something that lot about what
you had in mind giving something were
you willing to sacrifice the safest
place isn’t the purpose of God I am
Alive because of the purpose of God I’ve
seen my enemies die fighting me
because I was in the purpose of God God
didn’t help me because I was good God
helped me because I was obedient
oh my god
tells me people say get in the purpose
can I go deeper how many people getting
blessed through the word make some vow
how many people feel like you’re in the
purpose of God make some knowledge
how many people are going to be more
intentional about being in the purpose
of God dr. James are trying to let him
be able to use me anywhere anytime
anyplace so I was in the Caribbean and I
was meeting with the premier on one of
the hours and his father had just died
and it was a day after and I said sir I
don’t want to disrespect your face or
I’ll put you in an uncomfortable
situation but I know you’re hurting and
above any business and we were talking I
am at my core a pastor and I said let me
pray for you because I understand how
hard it is for people who are perceived
as big men to get real prayer
because everybody’s trying to impress
you and everybody wants to bow down
before you and they see you are so big
that they don’t know that you get weak
and they don’t know you get tired and
they don’t know that you’re hurting and
they don’t know that you just lost your
daddy and he burst into tears and I took
him and I pray for him because that is
my purpose now we were talking about
business and we were talking about
property and we were talking about
possibilities but I never let the
possibilities or the property or the
business drive me away from a purpose
because if I gotta leave my purpose to
get the promise then you can keep it
I will walk away in a hot minute you
have never seen anybody who can turn and
walk away like I can walk away my way
says this cancer I can walk away and
still be waving back angle check can
hold me and nothing else can hold it I’m
a grown man I got a grown God who does
grow stuff and I don’t have to go
through you to get nothing if God get
ready to bless me he’s already
sixty-two years you don’t let nothing
drive you away from your purpose because
the purpose of God is already blessed
all that praying you trying to do trying
to get God to bless your plan
stop it get it his plan it’s already
blessed you ain’t got to stand before no
fans God’s plan
he’s already blessed God’s plan is his
purpose
stop trying to draw God into your agenda
get in he is cuz he will protect that
which pertains unto him let me tell you
why you’re here because of the purpose
of God if you be honest you know it’s
not because of your righteousness now
you complete them but you can’t plead me
because I know don’t let me turn on my
prophetic gift and read you you know you
are not that holy
the purpose of God has protection are
you hearing what I’m saying
and when you are in the purpose of God
you ought to be knocking the door trying
to do something for God
Oh y’all go let me do something forgot I
don’t know I don’t know when I got it
sound what I got to do I got I got doing
I’m gonna be a bar and to do something
for God committee put me on to do
something for God committee right now
put me on to do something for God
committee because if I get on to do
something for God committee arthritis
came hold me sickness can hold me death
paint a holy disease can’t hold me
leukemia ain’t hold me haters can’t hold
me witches can’t a holy war lost ain’t
holy you know why I blessed
you can’t curse what’s already blessed
blessed cuz I’m in his purpose a blessed
cuz I’m in his wheel I’m blessed because
I showed up where he told me to show and
I said what he told me to say let me
hear y’all oh I feel the glory of God in
this place would you tell your name of
God is getting you ready for something
now I’m going deeper I’m going deeper
cards you going with me
you going with me so my fifth point is
the provision the provision now normally
when you talk about provision with God
it’s normally God provided okay this
time of smile God has been providing for
40 years all through the wilderness the
manor has fallen every morning with the
do early in the morning God baked the
bread fell right in front of the tent
they grabbed it they ain’t that’s why I
brought it up so you could remember your
blessing that God makes for you as
always within arm’s reach they pulled it
in according to their households some
more some less so don’t compare yourself
with each other because God is just but
he’s not fair
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where is everybody in here gets to just
it since you got more kids you get more
more capacity more provision that’s just
but she could say that’s my fare I don’t
have no kids here with me it’s not fair
but it’s just you mad at God because
he’s not fair God didn’t promise to be
fair he promised to be just so to the
beat big tent people who had a lot of
need more bread filled because they had
capacity people who have little need got
little bread that wasn’t fair but it was
just they have had 40 years of God
handing out the bread in our text for
the first time since they got out in the
wilderness God now says I’m through
handing you bread prepare your victuals
this is the first time that he has made
the Promised Land generation have to
prepare
he said I’m through giving you freebies
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he says prepare your victuals which is
food you gotta go out there and prepared
now this is a generation who never had
to cook all the bread was prepared but
God now says to them the manna has
ceased I could pull out Scripture I
didn’t the manna has ceased when the
manna ceases is society must prepare
it’s not a sign you can’t eat when it
ceases to be easy it doesn’t mean it
ceases to be it just means that in the
course of providing God changes
methodology that which comes easy as
always temple
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that’s so good I’m gonna get the CD pass
here
that which comes easy is always temporal
that’s like honeymoons that which comes
easy is always temporal if marriage was
honeymoons that’s right look at me like
you all know what I’m talking about that
which comes easy is always temporal
sooner or later you have to get your
hands in it you have to put some sweat
in it you have to put some effort in it
he said now I’m making you prepare your
victuals because you’re closer than
you’ve ever been before you’re closer
than you’ve ever been before
get your hands in who I felt I felt
unction like glory coming out of me like
God is saying specifically to somebody
get your hands in it I’ve been handing
these stuff that you didn’t have to put
your hands in now you got to get your
hands in it I’m gonna feed you but you
got to get involved in it you got to put
your hands in it comparing your victuals
cuz I’m getting ready to movie
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I’m getting ready to shift you prepare
your victuals cuz you got three days to
get ready for this shift
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Sunday to Monday Monday duties he teach
either with its three days to get ready
prepare your in three days
in three days you will cross into
something
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like you have never crossed into before
in three days somebody say three days at
three days three days
prepare your victuals for in three days
you shall cross this Jordan wait a
minute
I heard that three days before jesus
said if you destroy the temple in three
days I’ll raise it up
Jesus went into great death burial and
resurrection three days Hosea said in
two days I revived Ian the third day out
there’s some about God in three days
there’s something about God in three
days he were raised up Jesus on the
third day from the dead and Jesus is the
Living bread
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you heard me did you
Jesus is the Living bread get your hands
in it Thomas comes in and says unless I
get my hands in it I won’t believe get
your hands see you can go to church all
you want to but until you get your hands
into Jesus you prepare your victuals
because in three days I’m gonna bring
you into it
now watch this this is the kind of
message that is for people who are on
the cusp of change
I am staggering while I’m preaching at
the power of his presence as I sense
more prophetic than preaching that there
are people in this room that are on the
cusp of transition
and this is more than a cute message you
had to be here because everything in
your life is getting ready to shivers
and God is getting ready to bring you
into a place that you have never been a
state that you have never been and it is
in part because Moses my servant is dead
and you have been destabilized too in
order to become dependent so that with
which you normally would depend has gone
and now God has got you to himself and
he says prepare your victuals
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Who am I free to choose somebody
somebody somebody said marry my God my
God my God my God
Who am I preaching to where are you are
your kitchen are you in the house are
you in the front porch are you in your
car on your way to church are Union
golfing cold
where are you pinching the submatik I
don’t know what picture – whoever
picture – if I in the house makes
annoyed
the provision of God has now been placed
in the hands of the believer that is not
to be ignored God is saying I’m putting
it in your hands gunshot aah I’m putting
it in your hands I’m putting it in your
hands I’m through dropping stuff here
till 10:00 I’m putting it in your hands
get your hands in it get your hands in
it get your hands in it get it involved
in it I want to feel your DNA in it
I want your fingerprints in the bread
get your hands it feel it touch it
punching pulverize it me that need it
need it need it like dough get your
hands in everything that you’re about to
eat because you’re getting ready to
cross into another dimension talking to
somebody I feel it so strong my toes are
tingling every nerve in my body is
standing on edge glory to God there’s a
shift in this room there’s a shift
coming in this room little by little
back get out the way get out the way now
hold it go get out the way little by
little by little by there’s a ship
coming in the world there’s a ship
coming in the world there’s a ship
coming in the world do you hear what I’m
saying there’s a ship then I said
somebody’s has been destabilized
situation for a long time and you’re big
time I said if you’re big kind of heavy
and your boss has been on
and God says stop crime cuz I’m getting
ready to shift you stop crying cuz I’m
get ready to ship to stop crying because
I’m getting ready to ship you into
another dimension glory to God get your
hands in your brain
get your hands in your stuff get your
hands in your vision get your hands on
the glory get your hands on the power
get your hands in it get it do you hear
do you hear it y’all yeah I’m not gonna
do it for you the way I used to do it
for you I’m not gonna do it the way I
used to do it stop crying for me to do
what I used to do you’re in love with
yesterday your yesterday is over it’s
over let it go I’m not gonna do what I
used to do again I will do a new thing
in you the former things have passed
away stop craving for that which is over
stop crying after what’s over
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I rebuke the spirit of avoidance
I produced this fear to being
disconnected I revealed this rid of
depending on other people to handle your
stuff this is a season right now that
you got to get your hands in it you got
to have your mouth in it you got to get
involved in it you got to get involved
in it cuz of ship disk of blow ready god
I’m sorry
oh I can’t go to file help me Holy Ghost
whoo go Ritu God a shift is coming a
ship is coming a shift is coming the
shift to shift the shift the shift is
coming the shift is coming Oh Oh the
shift is coming your way to go me to do
what I used to do but I’m gonna do
something fresh glory to God in fact
you’ve wondered Who am I
if you don’t do what you used to do I
don’t have to do what I used to do I’m
gonna do something new in your life
get your hands in preparing the victuals
prepare your victuals for in three days
you will cross this Jordan in three days
I’m gonna make you another kind of
person in three days you will be a new
kind of people in three days you will
never wander again in three days you
will not be nomadic and here and there
and everywhere and unstable in three
days I will stabilize you in three days
I will organize you in three days I will
bring a new
deal out of the old deal in three days
and get ready to ship God said I’m gonna
yourself the whole direction of
your ship is about to shift in the winds
of God he says I have given you number
six I have given you the possession is
number six I have given you the land to
possess it which is an oxymoron it is an
oddity because if you’ve given it to me
why do I have to possess it God says
I’ve given it to you by permission but
you got to take it by force
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I have given you the land to possess it
you gotta possess it you’re gonna
possess it you’re gonna possess it
you’re not just gonna shout about it
you’re not just gonna sing about it
you’re not just gonna dream about it
you’re going to possess it you have got
to prepare your food the food you need
to eat for what’s in front of you is
different from the foods you needed to
eat for what was behind you do you hear
what I’m saying in order to be ready for
what God is going to do you gonna have
to change your diet for it what you got
time for who you listen to what you let
feed you to let poorni your spirit has
got to ship for this this egg that’s
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properly ready it’s really I have given
you the land
I have given you the land take it
ham I will take it I told you I will be
with you I will be with you when you
take it I will be with you when you take
it I will be with you when you possess
it you will win every battle not because
they’re strong but because I’m with you
the only battles they lost was when they
disobeyed God so his punishment was
their failure his reward was their
winning if you obey me I’ll make a
winner out of a loser I’ll turn your
life completely around I’ll turn your
mourning into dancing I’ll give you a
beauty for Ashes I’ll give you the
garment of praise for the spirit of
evidence I will lift you where it
matters most on the inside I won’t just
give you pretty stuff I’ll beautify the
meek with salvation I’ll make you pretty
where it counts I won’t just make you
look good I’ll make you good
I will restored unto you everything that
your enemies have taken out of you there
is a glory in this room
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because I obeyed him to preach the power
of his presence there is a glory in this
room right now oh my god I know you’re
getting it over the internet but I wish
you were in this room because there’s
something in this room right now there’s
an undercurrent in this room there’s a
flow in this room that I’m not sure that
all the fiber optics can convey the
glory of God because the glory of God
there’s something in the atmosphere that
shifted in this room and if you’re a
spiritual person you can feel it right
now I have given you the land I have
given you your future
now take it I have given you your
prophecy now take it I have given you
your destiny now take it giving you your
opportunity take it I have carved out a
place for you no man will withstand you
all the days of your life
nobody a behavior resistant
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i’ma bring you down to the banks of the
river i’ma bring it to the hedge and
your Jordan are you ready to cross over
he’s standing at the river
standing at the river I got a cross over
into my promised land this way before
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about 5,000 watts of us this is she
Templeton lost innocence wife
the chef
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there’s a move victory victory victory
victory victory victory victory victory
yes yes yes
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