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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

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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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