Don’t Forget Where You Come From

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.320 Let's give a warm welcome to our entire church family 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:29.360 and all of our campuses and online. Hey, welcome e fam. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.320 I haven't done an EPAM roll call in a while. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.280 Put your name and where you're watching from. Please in 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.920 the chat if you're watching online, and everybody in this 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.360 place today, be encouraged. The Lord has heard your prayers. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.919 The Lord has heard your prayers. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.800 Tell the person next to you he heard you. Tell him. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.559 Just because he didn't do it like you wanted him to. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.640 Doesn't mean he didn't hear you. We were singing a 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:58.600 song a moment. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.920 Ago called call God, and we said I call God, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.880 and he answered And some people were like, well you 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.840 hadn't yet. You know, I wish he would. But the 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.839 thing is he did so many times before, so many 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:12.640 times before. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.000 And I'm gonna preach a little bit about this today. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.160 But sometimes we adapt to our answered prayers and we 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.360 cease to appreciate them. But one thing I'm gonna be 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.760 very intentional about from this pulpit in this year is 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.280 to not let you just walk past stuff that God 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.959 did in your life without recognizing it, because that's how 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.480 the enemy weakens you. So you're gonna notice me a 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.560 lot more in my sermons and when I come up, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.280 just turning your attention not only to the things that 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.000 God has done, but who He is, because that's what 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.680 you can count on. If your wife divorces you, He'll 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.520 never leave you or forsake you. If your kids go 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:57.200 absolutely prodigal crazy, God is still going to keep you 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.000 in your right mind. If everybody and your company gets 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.240 together and votes you off the island, God will take 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:09.360 care of you. He will supply your needs. So I 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.799 want to connect you today through a scripture in Joshua 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.359 chapter seventeen. And let's do a shout out real quick. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:20.880 I told the people online, Hello from Kenya, Hello from 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.640 West Virginia. Now, how'd you feel for me if you 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.080 had to preach a message that applied in Kenya and 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.399 West Virginia all in English? 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.919 Today? We're glad to have you. What a robust church 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.920 we are. I love it. I love it. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:49.359 Welcome Dayton, Ohio. Welcome California, Welcome Cape Town, Welcome Cornelias, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.320 North Carol. Well, you should be in church. You shouldn't 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:57.480 be watching. You just told on yourself. I'm glad you're 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.079 here today. Welcome settle in. God has a word for you. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:06.880 You Joshua, what chapter seventeen? You ever notice you don't 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.119 hear many sermons passed around Joshua chapter three or four. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.480 All the exciting stuff happens kind of in the beginning 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:15.400 of the Book of Joshua. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.040 They're taking the land. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.920 And they're you know, they're going forward in the promise 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.240 of God and crossing the Jordan, and so we usually 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:24.760 preach from that. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.240 Well, I'm going all the way to Joshua seventeen today. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.400 See what happens after that. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.320 Now, listen to this because this is where we live 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.120 in our everyday life. Everyday life is not always exciting 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.800 new adventures and explorations on the opportunities that all wait you. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.480 Sometimes it's just three advil and a prayer and sorry, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.240 I'm five minutes late, but I'm here anyway, And we're 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.080 trying to deal with that. This year because I preached 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.880 you last week that there will always be wheat and 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.400 there will always be weeds in the garden of. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.640 Your life with God. And I was trying to get 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.560 you to watch the. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.200 Wheat, not the weeds, Not just looking at the things 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.040 you can't control and wishing they weren't there, but realizing 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.440 that what God planted in you is significant in every 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.200 season of your life, whether you can see the growth 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:16.360 or not. Now, in Joshua chapter seventeen, something interesting happens, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.200 and I'll read it and then we'll back into the context. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:19.960 But listen to this. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.080 The people of Joseph said to Joshua, why have you 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.000 given us only one allotment and one. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.960 Portion for an inheritance? 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.720 Remember, they possessed the land that God swore to Abraham 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.320 and Isaac and Jacob, and they got in the land 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.080 and they won the victory. And the people of Joseph, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.479 one of the groups from the nation, comes to Joshua 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.800 the leader, and says, why did you only give us 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.320 one allotment? Look, we are a numerous people and the 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.800 Lord has blessed us abundantly. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:57.960 Now watch Joshua's response. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.680 If you are so numerous, Joshua answered, since you're so 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.160 blessed like you say you are. And if the hill 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.400 country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.839 into the forest and clear land for yourselves. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.560 There in the land of the. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.919 Perizites and the Rephites, those are their enemies. And the 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.559 people of Joseph replied, the hill country is not enough 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.520 for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.760 plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in beth 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.080 Shahan and its settlements, and those in the valley of Jezreel. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.600 But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph, to Ephraim 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:45.320 and Manassa. To Ephraim and Manassa, you are numerous and 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:46.400 very powerful. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.320 You will have not only one. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:54.479 Allotment, but the forested hill country as well. Now lean 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.880 into this clear it and its farthest limits will be yours. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.960 Though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron, and though 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:13.120 they are strong, you can drive them. Ah, thank the 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.120 Lord for his word one time. Would you come on 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:22.080 right there? Thank him for his word. My message today 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.680 is called don't forget where you come from. Look at 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.640 three people say, don't forget where you come from. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.000 And man, you may be seated. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.960 Don't forget where you come from, Kenya or West Virginia, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.360 or like me, maybe you came from Monk's Corner, South Carolina. Boy, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.520 somebody said something to me the other day. I never 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.200 thought i'd hear. They said, the traffic is terrible in 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:51.800 Monk's Corner. It's changed a lot since I was there. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.560 Bad traffic in Monk's Corner when I was a boy 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.960 meant you had to wait through the red light once 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.599 at rush hour. My guess is growing, you know, is 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.160 really expanding, And it is, it is, it is. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.400 It's all the population that's pushed. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.719 Anyway, I won't tell you the geography of Charleston in 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.360 the low country of South Carolina. By the way, welcome 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.520 our newest campus in Somerville, South Carolina. And y'all know 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.640 I love Jesus because Somerville was our rival in high school. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.200 We were the Berkeley Stags and we hated the Somerville 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.680 Green Wave. And now God has prepared a table in 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.360 the presence of my enemies in Somerville, South Carolina. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.480 But we love you, no. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.480 No. The reason I bring up where you come from 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.200 is because everybody in here has a point of reference 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.720 for what you think is successful in your life. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:40.920 You have a point of reference. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.720 If you never had five hundred dollars in your bank 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.920 account before, the first five hundred feels amazing. It's a 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.680 point of reference if you're seventy three years old and 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.400 hoping to retire next year five hundred dollars. There's not 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.200 a prayer warrior in the world that can turn five 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.200 hundred dollars into a retirement account, but it's your point 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.520 of reference. I remember the first bonus that I got 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.320 when I was working at a church in Shelby, North Carolina, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.160 and Rick Bowling told me, by the way, we're giving 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.560 a five hundred dollars bonus to all of our employees 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.320 this Christmas. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.240 And I literally cried. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.720 Twenty two year old, twenty three year old men just 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:21.560 crying over. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:22.640 Five hundred dollars. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:28.480 Sometimes I wish I could still cry that easy, because 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.480 there was something about that stage in my life where 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.319 I wasn't expecting a bonus. I remember when he first 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.320 sat me down and explained my salary package to me. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.480 He was like, this is how much we're going to 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.920 pay you this year, and of course that doesn't include 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:41.720 the benefits. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.000 And I said, the what he said, the benefits. And 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.760 this is how when school I was because my dad 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.920 was self employed. I didn't even know what benefits were. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.839 I didn't know that that's something that you could negotiate 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.800 into a I wasn't negotiating. I was just thankful. I 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.160 was like benefits. He's like, yeah, that's going to be 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.040 additional to this amount. You know, it's been a while 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.559 since I praise God for my health insurance. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.120 Because I had it too long. I had it too long. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.280 Sometimes I let three days go by and don't tell 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.400 Holly how pretty she is. But that's wrong, because she's 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.320 pretty every day and she deserves to be told that 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.200 every day. And plus I spend too much on those 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.360 clothes she's wearing, not to compliment how she looks at 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.840 her and that two hundred and eighty dollars makeup that's 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.880 in her bathroom, whatever I'm spending over there at Sephora. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:40.800 I feel like she she deserves to hear it. When 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.120 we were dating, it was just constantly every day. But 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.000 one thing I noticed in the text that we read 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.400 is that when you forget how far you've come from 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.280 a certain point, it makes how far you have to go. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:55.960 The only thing that you're focused on. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.480 And when you forget the gifts that God has given you, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.560 it makes it impossible for you to access the power 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:03.640 that He put inside of you. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:06.600 Don't forget where you come from. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.320 Don't forget that there was a time that a five 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.080 hundred dollars Christmas bonus. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.000 Made you cry. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.240 Don't forget that there was a time when you prayed 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.559 that God would give you these children that you're praying 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.160 for Him to help you not to eliminate from the 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.840 face of the earth at this very moment. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.120 Don't forget where you come from. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.280 We see an interesting dynamic in Joshua chapter seventeen in 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.920 that these tribes the people of Joseph, it's actually two tribes. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.320 One is called Manassa and one is called Ephraim. Those 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.440 were Joseph's boys. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.760 Manassa was his first born, Ephram was his second, and 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.520 both of them were born in Egypt, in the place 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.240 where he suffered, in the place where he was falsely accused, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.560 in the place where he was thrown into prison, in 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.720 the place where God also raised him to prominence in Egypt. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:01.000 He had two boys, Manassa and Ephraim, and those boys 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.960 have now several generations later turned into tribes, and these 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.560 tribes have taken territory in the land of Canaan, And 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.200 not only have they settled into the land, but they've 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.520 started to grow and do what people do. You know, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.760 when two people love each other very much, so they've grown. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.160 I have to talk with you later. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.839 It's just that they're blessed so much that they are 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:33.280 experiencing the pressure of blessing. Many times in church we 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.600 only speak to the desperation of failure, but there is 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:42.640 a need to preach to the pressure of blessings because 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.880 blessings are heavy in your life. Sometimes when you're going 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.800 through all of the things that you're worried about, it's 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.560 not even so much that you're complaining about them or 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.000 that you don't appreciate them. It's that pressure has kept 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.120 your perspective from seeing the bigger picture of what's happening, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.120 so you get zoned in on only one thing and 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.840 you forget, like the tribes of Ephram and Manassa, that 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.760 just a few years ago you were wandering in the wilderness. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.480 That's kind of why when I read this scripture it 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.960 stood out to me because when I read it, I 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:15.960 wanted to say to them. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.080 You just left the. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.800 Wilderness, and now you're complaining that there's not enough room 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.160 for you. Did you notice what they said to Joshua. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.600 Why did you only give us one allotment? We're too 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:28.720 big for this place. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.480 We need more elbow room, we need new countertops, we 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.360 need hardwood floors, we need more space. We need a minivan. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.640 You know, we're a growing nation. We are. It's getting bigger. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.240 In Monk's corner. The traffic is terrible. In Monk's corner. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.160 Everything in the text is growing. And while everything is growing, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.680 their perspective is narrowing, and all they can see is 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.480 the space that they don't have. And so they come 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.320 to Joshua and the people of Joseph in Genesis or 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:03.920 excuse me in Yashawa, chapter seventeen, verse fourteen, say why 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.840 have you only given us one allotment? We're a numerous people, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.040 and the Lord has blessed us abundantly. But just because 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.520 he blessed us doesn't mean we don't have pressure. Just 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.880 because I have money doesn't mean I know how to 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:19.520 manage it. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.360 Just because God gave me. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.320 A job doesn't mean I don't get tired. Just because 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.120 God sent people to my ministry doesn't mean I always 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.120 have a message to give them when they show up. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.760 Blessings create pressure. If pressure is. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.600 Not dealt with, pressure can create self pity. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:36.920 Self pity, if not. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.840 Dealt with, can create a situation where you are in 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.520 this state of watch this. Too much and not enough. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.040 That's what they said in verse sixteen. They said, we 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.200 do not have enough land. The land that you gave 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.800 us is not enough for us, and the people are 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.000 too much for the land that is not enough. I 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.960 felt like when I I'd be preaching to somebody today 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.680 who would understand this tension of too much and not enough, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.720 Too much and not enough. This is why we toss 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.360 in turn, because it's too much and not enough. Too 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.840 much to do and not enough in my tank to 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.960 do it. That's called burnout. Too much of people calling 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.560 me and not enough patience to listen to their problems. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.240 Too much bills and not enough income to answer the 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:33.800 bills when they knock at the door. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.800 Too much on my mind and not enough in. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.080 My life that makes me feel happy and recharged. Too 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.960 much demand, not enough supply. Too many people sucking energy 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.280 out of me and not enough people supplying it. Too 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.480 many people asking and not enough people offering too many 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.920 things wrong and not enough things working out too much 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.600 and not enough. That's what they said. Look at verse sixteen. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.280 It's in the Bible. They said, the land you gave 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.240 us verse sixteen. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.480 Is not enough. It's not enough. All right, let's talk 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 about that for a minute. It's not enough. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.960 I'm not gifted enough, I'm not talented enough, I'm not 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.680 experienced enough. I told you during the Same Lives, New 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.880 Loop series that the devil only has two lives that 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.920 he puts on a loop in your mind, and one 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.280 is I'm not loved, and one is not enough. So 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.680 that's why you wake up in the morning feeling like, well, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.280 whats on my agenda for today? Is too much? And 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.040 the time I have to do it and is not enough. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.880 That's what I'm using this land to represent. If you 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.760 thought I was going to teach a real estate seminar 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.920 off of Joshua chapter seventeen, that's not my expertise. I'm 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.640 trying to teach a real life seminar about why you're 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:01.760 snapping at the wrong people. I'm trying to teach a 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.720 real life seminar about why you don't look forward to 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.480 some of the stuff that God actually gave you through 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.680 his favor. I'm trying to teach a real life seminar 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.840 about how you could be so blessed. Did you notice 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.920 the tribes they said, we're so blessed, And I dare 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.000 somebody to just say it by faith, Say I'm so blessed, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.640 I'm so blessed. Say with the headshakes, say I am 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.720 so blessed, matter of fact. Do this at every campus, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.760 and especially at Valentine. Look at the person on either 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.960 side of you and say you are so blessed. Tell 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.520 him I am so blessed, you are so blessed. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:41.400 Matter of fact. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.320 Start doing like this because I'm so blessed. I need 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.000 some elbow room. I'm so blessed. I need you to 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.280 scoot over a little bit. I'm so blessed. You better 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.480 get out of my way. I'm so blessed because if 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.600 I think for a minute about that five hundred dollars 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.040 bonus and how much God has done for me since, then, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.120 if I think for a minute about how He kept 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.400 me upright on my feet and in my right mind, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:09.360 you better give. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:09.960 Me some room. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.040 Because if I think for one minute about how I 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.080 called and he answered, and he came through like only 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.920 he could, just not. Your neighbors say, we're so blessed, 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.960 getting more blessed every day. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.200 I'm spreading out my tent in this season. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.680 I'm driving down my stakes in this season because I'm 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.719 so blessed. That's why I'm tired. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:41.560 Because God bless me. What a perspective. And now the 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.480 land I have is not enough? 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.520 And so now your prayer request is about all your 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:54.080 praise reports? Did that make sense? I prayed for it, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.959 I got it. It's a blessing. It creates pressure, and 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.160 the decision in this season of your life. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.880 Is this What do I do with the pressure? What 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.520 do I do about them? Not enough? Why do I 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:05.840 feel like it's not enough? 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.280 Why when God sends an opportunity into my life do 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.400 I reject it and send it away because I think 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.480 I can't do it? Why do I send people who 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.560 love me away and push people who care about me 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.760 away and reach for things that destroy me? 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.920 Why am I still in this season. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.679 Of my life struggling with something that I prayed about 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:41.560 since I was a teenager? 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.159 Is there not enough of God's power to deliver me? 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.479 Do I have not enough faith to receive it. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:57.760 What's the problem here, Well, Joshua. Joshua gets a real 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.960 I call this a dad energy with these tribes, and 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.119 me and Holly are totally different in our parenting approach, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:05.879 totally different. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:07.240 I told you. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.640 Last week, if my kids run out the house without 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:10.240 a coat. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.159 I'm like, cool. She's like, You're going to freeze. I'm like, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:16.520 they're not going to freeze. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:20.080 Like, first of all, first of all, they're not going 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.359 to freeze. Secondly, if they do, it will be a 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:29.240 memory in their life that will create maturity for their future. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.200 So I'm just building memories. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.560 I'm building memories of the time that your dumb self 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.480 left without your coat and almost froze to death. And 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.040 then maybe one day you'll give money to somebody who 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.000 doesn't have a coat so they can buy one. So 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:51.160 I'm promoting generosity. I'm teaching you good stewardship and responsibility 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.040 all by just letting you be an idiot. The other day, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.040 Holly was telling me her schedule for the day. I said, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.160 what do you have the rest of the day. She said, well, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.320 all three kids have a dentist appointment. I said, what 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.359 does that have to do with you? I understand abby, 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.600 she can't drive yet. But Graham's eighteen, Elijah's about to 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.720 be twenty one years old of age in the United 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.760 States of America. What does his dentist appointment have to 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.639 do with you at this stage in your life? And 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.399 she's like, if I don't remind them, they'll forget. And 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:27.240 I'm like, and then what well? And then the dentist 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.760 has to charge me. And I'm like, but can't you 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.240 take it out of their account? And she's like, well, yeah, maybe, 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:34.959 I guess. So I didn't think about it like that. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.160 And then I thought, well, if their teeth start falling out, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.240 I want you to let enough teeth fall out of 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:46.520 their mouth that they don't need you to follow them 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.040 to the dentist when they're forty seven years old. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:51.400 This is not a good. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.520 Path because if I got a sit of the dentist 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.880 office to make sure you're here, you got a beard, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.639 and I'm taking you to the dentist. Help me, Praise 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:10.560 the Lord. All the dad's in that house. Joshua was like. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.240 So you want more land, now, listen, how you to 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:14.240 tell you something? I forgot to tell you this. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.840 The land that they had it was the second biggest 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.080 piece given to all of the tribes, the only one 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:24.040 bigger was Judah. So when they come to Joshua and 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.760 they're like, hey, we don't have enough land, Joshua was like, 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.480 it's interesting you should say that, because I noticed that 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.280 when I gave you the land, there were some parts. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.160 Of the land that you did not occupy. 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:41.359 I noticed that when I assigned you the acreage, you 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.240 had the second biggest plot of land of any of 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:49.800 the tribes. So if you want more room, if you 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:55.040 really need more space, instead of asking me for more 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.600 land when you've already been given the second largest piece 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.320 of land, can I stop for a moment. Somebody else 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.760 would die to trade places with you in your life. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.280 Somebody else would give all the money in their bank 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.240 account to have the peace that you have in your home. 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.879 Somebody else would give their entire career just to have 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.679 the relationship that you have. And it is true that 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.960 when we are under pressure, we lose perspective. And it 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.359 is also true that God has given us a lot 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:33.399 more than we have occupied. So Joshua says, if you 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.879 are so numerous verse fifteen, and if the hill country 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.240 of e from the place where you are is too 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:42.560 small for you because when they settled in, some of 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.240 the land was already developed because Canaanites were living there. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.760 So when they moved in, they were like, cool, this 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.359 is great, this is great. 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.119 But then after a while, all the land that was 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.400 producing because it was a very fertile piece of land. 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.119 Don't get it twisted. They didn't get any land that 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.840 was like second rate. This was not scraps. This was 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:04.119 good land. But they got in there and they eventually 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.760 started to outgrow it, and then they eventually began to 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.080 grumble because they had grown, and so they started to 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:12.600 grumble about their growth, and they started to grumble about 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:13.920 the gift that God had given. 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:17.399 And you just want to slap them real quick, just 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:23.560 slap them real quick, like, really, you came from the wilderness. Really, 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.760 God gave you the second largest piece of land, and 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:31.280 all you can think of to say is I want more. Really, 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.240 sometimes I want to slap myself when I hear the. 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:38.480 Things that I complain about. And here's what I've noticed. 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.399 Without a constant focus on the goodness of God, Without 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.080 a constant focus on the goodness of God, it is 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:57.560 easy for me to go from inheritance to entitlement inheritance 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.680 to entitlement. Look at this that Paul prayed in Ephesians 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:02.800 chapter one. 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:04.520 Put it on the screen, please. 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:07.480 He said, I pray that the eyes of your heart 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:11.119 may be enlightened in order that you may know the 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.240 hope to which He has called you, the riches of 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:21.560 his glorious inheritance in his holy people. So Ephesians is 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:25.879 telling us spiritually what Joshua is showing us physically, that 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:29.760 you have an inheritance. But notice the verse again. Put 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:32.240 it on the screen for another moment, where he says, 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:35.919 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:40.760 enlightened to know the riches of the inheritance you already have. 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.560 Here is what Paul did not pray. Check the scripture. 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:48.720 He did not pray that God would give you an inheritance, 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:51.360 because you already have one. 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:54.760 What he prayed instead was so specific. 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:58.159 He said, I pray that you would be able to 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:01.840 see clearly what God has already given you freely. 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:08.000 So this is the shift. Inheritance says God gave me this. 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.679 God gave me this responsibility to preach today. 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:12.960 I get to do it. 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:18.639 Entitlement says I've got to do it. Inheritance says, God 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:23.000 has given me the privilege to minister to these precious people. 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:25.480 Y'all don't even know how much I love doing this. 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:27.800 Y'all don't even know how much it matters to me. 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:30.119 Y'all don't even know how much. I wake up at 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:32.760 two thirty on Sundays and say, go back to sleep, 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:33.520 You're gonna. 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:34.120 Need your energy. 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:36.520 And then it's two forty five, and it's three, and 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:38.840 it's three point fifteen, and it's three thirty and finally 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:41.320 say I can't sleep. I might as well get up 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.439 and start thinking about it. And then by about three 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.800 forty five, I'm appreciating it out loud. So I know 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.879 the kids think that's going crazy downstairs again, but I 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:52.960 don't care, because God gave me this mantle. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:55.160 And I'm gonna tell you something else. 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:59.200 I prayed hard for this, and I sacrificed for this, 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.919 but it was my sacrifice. It was his sovereignty that 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:04.800 gave it to me, because I could. 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:05.520 Not earn this. 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:09.240 And some of us know that it was not by Mike, 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:13.119 and not by power, and not by intelligence, and not 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:17.320 by connections and not by networking, and not by pedigree, 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.520 and not by GPA, and not by your skill, but 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:34.119 by his grace that I am what I am. Thank you, Lord, 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:38.840 thank you God, thank you. I've got kids to worry about, 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:42.600 thank you. I've got a spouse to fight with, Thank you. 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:44.720 I've got clothes to get dirty. 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:45.720 And have to wash them again. 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:49.000 Thank you. I've got dishes to yell at somebody for 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:51.679 leaving in the sink. Thank you, thank you, thank you, 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.639 thank you. I've got a toilet to get clogged up. 0:26:55.200 --> 0:27:04.760 I remember where I came from. Slap yourself and say, really, 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:10.080 you're fussing about this. You forgot where you came from. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.440 You were in a wilderness, you were in your sin, 0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:17.680 you were in chains. You beg God, God, if you'll 0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:19.160 take me, if you'll. 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.240 Use me, I'll do anything for you. 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:34.120 And has inheritance mentality become entitlement mentality in your life? 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:41.440 Fussing cause the coffee's cold, fuss and because it buffered 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.960 for twenty three seconds. Boy, you better remember that card 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:46.960 catalog you used to have to go through to find 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:51.200 out information. And now you're mad because chat GPT took 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:58.800 twelve seconds to think. Don't forget where you come from. 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:01.280 I come from Monks Corner, South Carolina. 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:03.920 That's why I cannot. 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:06.600 Be discouraged when I stand up in front of large crowds. 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:08.800 To preach, because when I look at the. 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:11.200 Size of the crowd and realize the town I came from, 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:15.560 I'm like, oh, yeah, it was you, guy, it was you. 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.760 I mean, this makes no sense. This is just absolutely stupid, 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:21.560 and I'm so grateful that you use the foolish things 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:23.360 of the world to confound the wise. Now I need 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.399 to rush past this point because. 0:28:25.119 --> 0:28:26.400 I have another point to make. 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.879 But maybe this would be a good challenge for you 0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:33.520 to put in front of your family this week. Have 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:38.200 we allowed inheritance what God gave us to be replaced with. 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:43.160 Entitlement because it's not enough and too much. Not enough. 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.000 You got the blood of Jesus. 0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:52.440 One drop of his blood is enough to cleanse you 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:56.959 from what you did Thursday. One drop of his blood 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.920 can erase the shame of how you spent the years 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:02.360 between twenty twenty and twenty twenty five. 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.959 One drop of his blood. 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:08.840 Holly said, they've been sending pictures around online of twenty sixteen. 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:10.720 She said, you need. 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:13.520 To know there's a trend all over Instagram, at least 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:17.000 for middle aged white women that everybody's sending around pictures 0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:20.440 of twenty sixteen, and something like twenty six is the 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:21.280 new twenty. 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:23.040 Sixteen or something. And then she was right. 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.920 Everybody started sending me pictures of where they were in 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:28.640 twenty sixteen. I started getting them randomly on my phone. 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:30.880 People are sending me. I'm not even on Instagram and 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.760 I'm getting pictures on my phone twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:36.400 twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, and I thought that's crazy. 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.560 Where was I twenty sixteen. I pulled something up. 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:42.840 This is the first Sunday grand opening in our Ballantine 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:53.719 building in twenty sixteen, and it was supposed to happen 0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:58.080 in twenty fourteen, but it was on a two year delay. 0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:00.280 The building I preached from, By the way, if you're 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:01.800 in Kenya, you probably don't know what talking about when 0:30:01.800 --> 0:30:04.280 I say Valentine. The building that I broadcast from, where 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:06.680 we reach into your home, and where we reach into prisons, 0:30:06.800 --> 0:30:09.160 and where we send messages into rehabs, and where we 0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:12.320 send messages into hospital rooms, and where we send podcasts 0:30:12.360 --> 0:30:15.440 into cars of parents driving their kids around all day 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:18.000 and athletes that are getting all the ministry. 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:19.120 It comes from right here. 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:22.080 Valentine to all of our other campuses, and we were 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.360 opening it twenty sixteen and. 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:26.200 We were having the best time kind of. But show 0:30:26.200 --> 0:30:26.920 them the other picture. 0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:28.600 This is the one that was next to it on 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:33.560 my phone, and there's me and Holly and she looks 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:34.640 like blessing. 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:42.760 And I look like pressure. Ain't that right? Would you say? 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:44.360 I captioned that correctly. 0:30:45.760 --> 0:30:48.960 Because for me, I was jet lagged that Sunday morning, 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:51.960 and for me, I had just gotten back from Australia, 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:55.880 and for me, the headlines were all about a potential 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.080 place of civil unrest in our nation. And for me, 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:02.520 my best friend was getting fired from pastoring his church, 0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:05.040 and so between the nine thirty and the eleven thirty 0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:07.320 I was talking to him on the phone before I 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:09.600 came out to preach again because I was scared about 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:12.280 whether he was in a safe place emotionally or not. 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:16.120 So now you understand, put the picture back up again. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:17.800 Why she's uh. 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:24.560 Smiling and I'm like, she's like, God is good all 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:28.680 the time, and I'm like, she's. 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:30.920 Like, this is an amazing day. Now. Obviously that's just 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:37.640 a really unfortunate capture of my face in that moment. 0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:38.200 I don't know I was. 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:41.320 Really thinking and we fired that photographer, by the way. 0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:42.640 Capture that moment. 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.120 I'm kidding, but I just want to give you a 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.080 visual for a moment here as we talk about Joseph 0:31:47.120 --> 0:31:50.680 and Ephraim and Manassa, and as we talk about your life, 0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:54.600 and as we talk about forgetting where you come from, 0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:57.000 and when we talk about your past, and when we 0:31:57.040 --> 0:31:59.880 talk about the things that you remember, and when we talk. 0:31:59.720 --> 0:32:01.760 About the challenge that you're facing. 0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:07.960 Remember, the people of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Manassa, 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:11.920 came to Joshua and said it's too much and it's 0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:12.480 not enough. 0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:15.000 And Joshua said, it is enough. 0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:18.760 There is all of this territory that you were given, 0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:24.320 but it's forest territory, and it's covered not only in trees, 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:27.400 but there are canaanites that are there, which represent the 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:30.280 enemies that you did not drive out of the land yet. 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:34.800 And so God has given you an inheritance. But to 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.200 develop in that it's going to take two things, work 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:43.440 and war. It's going to take work and it's going 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:48.320 to take war. I heard an old self motivation talk 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.960 parable about a farmer who had a beautiful piece of 0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:55.120 property and it was so lush man The gardens were 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:58.200 just beautiful and flourishing, and the cows were fat, and 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.840 the white gravel driveway was lined with the prettiest trees 0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:02.520 you ever saw. 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:03.640 And it didn't look like a. 0:33:03.600 --> 0:33:06.200 New farm, but it looked like a love farm, a 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.440 farm that had received a lot of attention. And a 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:11.479 preacher drove by the farm one day and he was 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:16.640 so absolutely enchanted with the farm that he had to 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:19.240 meet the farmer. And the farmer came over on the 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:21.800 tractor and turned off the tractor for a moment and 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:24.960 said to the preacher, can I help you? And the 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:27.760 preacher said, I was just admiring your property. What a 0:33:27.920 --> 0:33:32.400 beautiful piece of property the Lord gave you. And the 0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:35.800 farmer said, yes, it is very beautiful, and we're grateful. 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.840 But Preacher, you should have seen this place when the 0:33:39.880 --> 0:33:41.320 Lord had it all to himself. 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.200 In other words, I worked this thing. 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:53.160 In other words, the people that you're driving by and 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:57.080 envying their life, they. 0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:01.360 Didn't just get that marriage. They didn't just get that body. 0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:05.479 They didn't just get that financial situation. They didn't just 0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:07.040 get that influence. 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.960 They were in the field keeping sheep before Goliath ever 0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:11.720 showed up. 0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:13.759 They were developing it. 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:18.759 And the question is are you investing into what you 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:22.239 inherited in your life? If it's a gift, are you 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:26.080 investing in it? If it's a relationship, are you maintaining it? 0:34:26.360 --> 0:34:29.759 Are are you working with what God gave you or 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:32.640 simply complaining how it's not enough. Because I'm gonna tell 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:37.360 you it is enough. It is enough. It just hasn't 0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:40.759 had the time yet in your life to develop into 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:43.400 what it needs to be. So I came to declare 0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:46.680 a message today it is enough, but it is going 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:50.240 to take faith on your part. God is not simply 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:53.680 going to drive out every enemy in your life. God 0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:56.200 is not simply going to chop down every tree in 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:59.880 your life. God is not simply going to disrupt every 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:01.440 bad habit in your life. 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:03.000 We pray for deliverance. 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:06.720 I believe in deliverance, but I also believe in support groups. 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:08.839 I said. 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:11.799 I also believe in AA. 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:15.560 I said. I also believe in accountability. I said. I 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.600 also believe in Christian counseling. 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:22.160 I said, I also believe in starting to exercise. I said, 0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:25.800 I also believe in app deletion. See the thing about 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:28.440 some of us is we are praying for peace in 0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:33.640 areas where we are unwilling to clear out trees. How 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.800 can it grow? How can it grow? It has nowhere 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.680 to grow. And the problem is. 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:41.200 Not that I need more time. 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:45.359 The problem is that I need more priorities. Because God 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.719 gave me enough time for what he called me to do. 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:51.560 So I declare, in this year of my life, it's 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:54.080 the year that I do what Joshua told the people 0:35:54.080 --> 0:35:56.920 of Joseph to do. Listen to this. He said, you 0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:59.439 have enough doesn't feel like enough. You have enough doesn't 0:35:59.480 --> 0:36:02.920 look like another. There's all these trees, there's all these enemies. 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:05.880 There's all these things that you have not confronted yet. 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:09.880 But behind what you have been unwilling to confront is 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.480 the answer to the prayer that you see. I am 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:18.160 preaching prophetically to somebody give me Verse seventeen. Joshua was 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:21.440 said to the people to eat from in Manassa. You 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:25.720 are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only 0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:28.319 one a lot meant your two tribes, but you can 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.480 have the forested country too. There is more for you 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:34.840 to enjoy. There is more for you to experience in God. 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:38.319 There is more. You can be happy again. You can 0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:41.680 rejoice again. You can have meaning in your day again. 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:48.080 You can have it if you clear it. Somebody shall 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:51.839 clear it. Speak that over your mind this year. 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:52.799 Clear it. 0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:56.239 I gotta clear it. I'm praying for peace, but I'm 0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:58.920 not clear in my mind. How can I stuff my 0:36:59.080 --> 0:37:02.200 mind full of and then ask Jesus to fill the 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:08.040 space that's already filled with jump Somebody shall clear it. 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:10.319 It might have to be cleared in your life of 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:12.040 some unproductive. 0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:12.880 Relationships this year. 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:16.080 There are so many roots that can drink water in 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:19.040 your yard. But any more than those roots and you 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:21.840 are not going to have the rain you need for 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:26.879 what God is planting. Somebody shall clear it. And don't 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:30.160 even apologize to people. If you have to cut off 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:33.520 some communication this year, that's all right. It's not rude, 0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:37.520 it's righteous because I gotta clear it this year because 0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:42.680 God has more for me. Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:45.279 get back with you. I gotta get clear this year. 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:48.359 I'm sorry I didn't snap you back. I gotta get 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:52.200 clear this year because what God gave me, what God 0:37:52.320 --> 0:38:00.000 is doing through me, what God promised me. Clear it, 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:06.839 clear it, clear it, clear it. Clear your mind this year. 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.879 This may be the season for you to stop focusing 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:12.560 on what would have been. You are so full of 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:15.440 regret that you cannot see what is right in front 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:18.960 of you. Oh, yes, Lord, thank you for reminding me 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.879 the word of the Lord. He says, you still can. 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:29.680 You still can because the lie that starts to clutter 0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:32.560 up your mind is it's too late. Oh look at 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:34.440 the mistakes you may look if you would, how many 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:34.960 of you had that. 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:36.759 Going on in your mind in an area right now, 0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:37.319 like if. 0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:39.279 I would have just given it more attention. That may 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:42.680 be true. You may have missed the opportunity. You may 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:44.680 not have done it when you should have done it. 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:50.479 But you still can. Yeah, you still can. I wish 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:52.560 I would have lived for God in college. Well you 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:56.399 are seventy nine. Now you still can live for God 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:57.400 and leave the legacy. 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:02.600 Somebody shout, I still can. You can if you get clear. 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:05.759 But if you stay in what it was in the 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:09.560 previous season of your life, you will have more available 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:12.080 to you and you will die for the lack of 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:16.680 what Jesus died to put in your life. Clear it 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.239 clear it tell the devil we are not having this 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:22.400 conversation again. 0:39:23.440 --> 0:39:23.960 Clear it. 0:39:25.840 --> 0:39:27.760 Yes, I'm talking about your calendar. 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:29.439 You need to clear it up a little bit. 0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:32.160 It's got a little too much stuff on it that 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:33.600 you're doing to impress. 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:37.719 People, and it's not making an impact. Clear it. Clear it. 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.120 Let me talk to a leader, because pastors watched me 0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:42.879 preach some of the people that you are running around 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:45.399 trying to please by preaching the sermons that they want 0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:47.560 so bad. They're not supposed to be a part of 0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:50.080 your church in this season. And if you don't stop 0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:52.200 preaching to the people who are threatening to leave, you 0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:54.160 cannot reach the people that God has called you. 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:58.080 To reach, and they need Jesus. Clear it, you hear me, 0:39:58.760 --> 0:40:06.359 clear it? Clearing this might be. 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:08.920 A prophetic word about your shopping cart on Amazon. 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:12.160 Clear it. You ain't buying none of it this year. 0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:13.879 We're getting out of debt this year. 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:21.120 We're gonna use okay, lost all the shouts, ljay, no 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:23.200 organ necessary on that point. 0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:29.839 And if you can clear it, you can conquer it. 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:33.480 You remember I said we were two years late getting 0:40:33.480 --> 0:40:36.440 in this building. One of the reasons that we were 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:39.840 so far behind getting in on this building was because 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:44.200 the Environmental Protection Agency told us that there was a 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:50.480 possibility that a Carolina heel splitter clam was on the property, 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:54.640 and they said that this clam or muscle I think 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:56.319 it was, but I'm gonna call it a clam because 0:40:56.320 --> 0:41:00.640 it sounds better what I'm trying to say. One little 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.200 clam kept us from building this whole big church. 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:07.120 For six months. 0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:13.640 We could not clear the land because of a clam. 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.359 You realize how many times a little thing in your 0:41:16.360 --> 0:41:17.879 life keeps you from building. 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:20.560 A little thing. 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:26.160 One person you don't want to make mad, one thing 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:29.680 you don't want to be judged about, one uncomfortable moment 0:41:29.719 --> 0:41:32.200 you don't want to push through, one phone call you. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:32.759 Don't want to make. 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:34.920 So you're just gonna let dread eat you up like 0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:39.920 cancer for six months because of a clam. The devil 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:42.160 doesn't even really have to put a clam on your land. 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.240 He can just tell you there may be a clam. 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.880 They may laugh at you, it may not work, you 0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:50.480 may look stupid, this may backfire, your kid may end up, 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:52.439 your mom may it's not even there. 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:53.800 But you're not building. 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:57.120 And so we get to the heart of the issue. 0:41:57.160 --> 0:42:01.640 At this moment in the text tribes of Ephraim and Manassa. 0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:07.319 Ephram and Manassa, let's look at the moment that these 0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:12.000 boys were born. Now remember, just to be clear, it's 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:17.680 been generations since Ephram and Manassa were born to Joseph, 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:20.040 So these people didn't know Joseph. 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:23.200 They were Joseph's great great great great great great great. 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:26.120 Great grandchildren, and Ram and Manassa were his children. 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:30.320 Now look in Genesis forty one, verse fifty. 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:33.520 It's going back in time to when Joseph was in 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:37.080 Egypt and he was starting to serve as an administrator 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:39.200 in Pharaoh's palace. The Bible says he wrote in the 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.720 Second Chariot in command of Pharaoh. But it says before 0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:49.320 the years of Famine came, after everything Joseph had been through, imprisonment, accusation, abandonment, 0:42:50.239 --> 0:42:53.839 the people who were supposed to remember him forgetting him. 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:57.439 The Bible says, before the years of famine came, two 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.040 sons were born to Joseph by asa Out, daughter of Potiferah, 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:07.239 priest of Aughn. Joseph named his firstborn Nassa Nassa, and 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:09.399 he said, it's because God has made me. 0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.120 Forget all my trouble. 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:15.400 Everybody say forget, say it out loud, forget, put it 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:19.120 in the comments, forget forget forget the title of this messages, 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:23.879 don't forget where you come from. And when Joseph had 0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:27.320 his first baby, after all the suffering, after all the hardship, 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:31.040 after all the misdirection, after all the delay, after all 0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:32.920 of the things that went wrong in his life, and 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:36.000 finally God gave him an opportunity. 0:43:35.280 --> 0:43:37.919 In a child. He looked at the child, and he 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:38.440 held the. 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:40.960 Child in a place that he never intended to be, 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:43.040 in a place that he never planned to be, and 0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:44.280 that may be you right now. 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:45.680 I didn't plan to be here. 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:48.239 But he looked at the baby, and in deciding what 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.920 to name the baby, he named the baby Manassa, which 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:53.280 means to forget. 0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:59.520 He said, I'm naming this baby manassa. 0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:02.440 Because God has made me forget all my trouble and 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:05.960 all my father's households stop right there. He named the 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:11.399 baby manassa, which means forget. Not because the memory left 0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.960 him of the pain that he went through. It's just 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:17.480 that in that moment, what God was doing in his 0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:22.960 life was so significant that it made what he had been. 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:24.799 Through small in comparison. 0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:29.400 So he says, I'm gonna name this child forget, not 0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:33.160 because the memory left me. But because I'm choosing to 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:39.040 remember it different, I'm going to remember it different what 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:39.800 I've been. 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:41.480 Through, what I suffered from. 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:45.080 I no longer see it as being sold into slavery. 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:48.560 I see it as God sending me here, and I 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:51.920 am forgetting what is behind me so I can press 0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:53.480 toward what is ahead. 0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:57.920 The name Manassa means forget. How many of. 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:01.000 You have ever heard of something called the man Mandela effect? 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:02.879 Yeah, have you heard of this. 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:07.279 It's named after Nelson Mandela, of course, who was the 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:10.680 president of South Africa. But it's named because a group 0:45:10.719 --> 0:45:16.040 of people collectively were documented as remembering Nelson Mandela dying 0:45:16.080 --> 0:45:17.080 in the nineteen eighties. 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:20.040 So check this out. A woman did research and she 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:20.800 found out. 0:45:20.600 --> 0:45:23.360 That there were large groups of people in the thousands 0:45:23.920 --> 0:45:28.880 who remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the nineteen eighties. 0:45:29.400 --> 0:45:32.279 The problem with that was he didn't die until the 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:36.640 year twenty thirteen, but they remembered it as if he did. 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:42.400 They remembered somehow, some fragmented misinformation and they remembered Nelson 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:45.120 Mandela died in prison in the eighties. There were so 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:49.239 many people who remembered that wrong that they named an 0:45:49.440 --> 0:45:54.680 entire phenomenon psychologically, the Mandela effect and now the phrase 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:57.920 the Mandela effect is used to describe many things, some 0:45:58.040 --> 0:45:59.920 not as significant as the death. 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:00.400 Of a leader. 0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:04.520 For instance, how many of you remember the line from 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:09.400 the movie Star Wars when Darth Vader revealed his real identity? 0:46:09.680 --> 0:46:14.520 What did he say? What did he say? Now? 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:18.840 Thousands of you remember, Luke, I am your father. But 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:22.319 if you check the DVD Old school, if you check 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:25.720 the movie, he doesn't say Luke, I am your father. 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:28.920 He says, no, I am your father. That freaked me 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:31.279 out when I heard that. I thought, all these years, 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:32.120 I thought he said. 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.719 Luke, I am your father. He didn't say Luke, he 0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:35.080 said no. 0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:38.000 On how did I remember it so different than it 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:41.600 actually happened. It's the Mandela effect, or the peanut. 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:43.640 Butter that starts with the letter J. What's it called? 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:46.799 No, there's no why on it. It's just jiff It's 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:50.040 not Jiffy. You remember Jeffy. Don't I remember Jeffy too. 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:52.359 I thought it was Jiffy all my life. I thought 0:46:52.360 --> 0:46:55.799 it was Jeffy. It's not Jiffy. It wasn't Jiffy. It 0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:59.040 never has been Jiffy. Somebody just called it jeffy, like 0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:02.839 they call it Walmart Arts and revelations, and we all 0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:05.960 run around calling it jiffy, but it was never jiffy. 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:09.880 It's the Mandela effect. I remember it different than it 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:16.080 actually happened. I came to preach today about the Manassa effect. Now, 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:21.279 the Manassa effect is when you've been through hell, and 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:25.040 you've gone through some trouble and some people have let 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:28.239 you down, and life has put you in a crowded 0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:32.440 space and you feel like not enough and you don't 0:47:32.520 --> 0:47:37.120 know what's next, but you decide in your mind, I'm 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:41.600 gonna remember it different, and rather than focusing on how 0:47:41.680 --> 0:47:45.799 they forgot me, I'm gonna focus on how I have 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:46.879 a father. 0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:48.360 Who never did. 0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:51.600 Who never fails, who never can. 0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:56.640 Shove. 0:47:56.719 --> 0:48:01.640 Your neighbors say, remember it different. Bless the Lord, oh 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:06.280 my soul, and all that is within me. Bless the Lord, 0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:11.799 oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. 0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:13.279 I'm choosing to. 0:48:13.360 --> 0:48:17.200 Forget some things so I can clear out some space, 0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:21.960 so I can receive some things that God has given me. 0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:25.439 Clear it out, clear it out, clear it out, clear 0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:28.279 it out. It's the Manassa that here. It is. 0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:32.239 God can do one thing in your life. God can 0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:35.640 send one person in your life. God can send one 0:48:35.680 --> 0:48:39.640 opportunity in your life that will make you forget everything 0:48:39.760 --> 0:48:42.440 you went through to be in this place. Make you 0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:45.520 forget about how bad it hurt, every time they said no, 0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:48.319 make you forget about all the years you thought it 0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:51.120 was never going to happen. It'll make you thank him 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:53.600 for all the things that didn't come to pass, because 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:56.000 you'll say, if I wasn't here, I couldn't have had this. 0:48:56.520 --> 0:49:00.000 God is working in your life. His word does not return. 0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:03.440 He has given you more than enough. This is the 0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:07.160 Monassa effect. When you say, I remember when we open 0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:10.080 this building, and I remember that we were late, But 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:12.960 I choose to remember that even though we were late 0:49:13.040 --> 0:49:16.319 getting in, God did it. I choose to remember that 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:19.680 even though it didn't unfold according to my schedule, it 0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:21.960 unfolded according to his sovereign purpose. 0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:23.680 And I am preaching about. 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:28.719 The Nassa effect because now, generations later, the tribe that 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:32.680 is named after the boy who made Joseph. 0:49:32.239 --> 0:49:39.240 Forget has forgotten. They have forgotten. 0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:50.200 Joseph forgot his pain, but they forgot their power. And 0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:54.360 Joshua had to remind them. He said, you are very powerful, 0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:57.080 and I have to remind you of that every week 0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:58.480 that the Holy Spirit lives in you, and you are 0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:02.239 very powerful. I have to remind you that every week 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:05.200 that Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead, lives 0:50:05.200 --> 0:50:07.240 in you, and that power works in you. And because 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:10.680 of that, you are very powerful. Don't give me all 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:11.840 this self empowerment stuff. 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:13.520 I don't need any of it. I got the Holy Spirit. 0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:15.480 I got the Holy Spirit. 0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:18.680 You don't have to hype me up to believe I'm worthy. 0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:23.200 Jesus died for me. He's worthy. I'm very powerful. And 0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:29.520 it's a beautiful thing when you remember where you came from. Right, 0:50:30.520 --> 0:50:34.680 Because see they were complaining about the chariots. Right, they said, 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:39.680 we can't go into that land. They have chariots. Everybody 0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:44.040 say chariots. Come on, work with me, say chariots. This 0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:48.719 is the manassa effect. They have misremembered things because they 0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:52.000 are scared of chariots. But I seem to remember a 0:50:52.040 --> 0:50:55.840 time in the Bible where God dealt with some chariots. 0:50:57.960 --> 0:51:01.279 I seem to remember a time in the Bible when 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:05.040 God's people were coming out of Egypt and a red 0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:08.560 sea stood between them and their freedom. And I seem 0:51:08.640 --> 0:51:11.680 to remember that the chariots of Pharaoh were coming up 0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:15.120 back behind them. And I seem to remember that, just 0:51:15.280 --> 0:51:18.160 at the moment when it looked like the chariots were 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:22.360 going to overtake them, what's that, God closed the sea 0:51:22.920 --> 0:51:26.759 over the chariots. So God sent me to remind you, 0:51:27.160 --> 0:51:30.319 this is not your first time calling on his name. 0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:34.600 This is not your first time needing his help. Remember 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:38.719 where you come from. You come from a God who 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:42.319 opens red seas. You come from a faith where a 0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:46.000 stick can split a body of water. You come from 0:51:46.000 --> 0:51:50.040 a lineage of believers that can climb over walls and 0:51:50.239 --> 0:51:53.400 shout and they fall down. So let me remind you 0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:57.160 something about you today. You are very powerful, You are 0:51:57.280 --> 0:51:59.719 very capable, You are very strong. 0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:03.239 You defy the odds. You are not one of them. 0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:06.759 You are not like them. You are not subject to this. 0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:13.080 And don't let what you are facing make you forget 0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:22.120 who you are. High five three people say, don't forget 0:52:22.120 --> 0:52:30.120 where you come from. Don't forget where you come from. 0:52:30.280 --> 0:52:36.720 The tribe of Manassa stood before Joshua, and verse eighteen. 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:39.399 He said something that I've been declaring over our church 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:39.879 all week. 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:43.560 He said, if you clear it, you can claim it. 0:52:48.120 --> 0:52:49.800 That was for you, dude. 0:52:50.239 --> 0:52:52.799 If you clear it, you can claim it. 0:52:54.239 --> 0:52:58.359 Even though they have chariots, God says, I am an 0:52:58.480 --> 0:53:02.000 expert in overpowering chariots. 0:53:03.560 --> 0:53:04.560 Holly, do you hear. 0:53:04.440 --> 0:53:08.400 What I'm preaching, baby, Because I'm trying to say, after 0:53:08.600 --> 0:53:10.880 all God did for us up to this point in 0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:14.839 our ministry, how can we ever doubt him again. You're 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:21.120 talking about chariots. God doesn't care about chariots. God drowns chariots. 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:26.000 God will jam the wheels of a chariot. You're talking 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:30.279 about chariots. You're talking about the economy. God will make 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:32.799 it rain. If it's not raining anywhere else, he'll make 0:53:32.840 --> 0:53:34.160 it rain in Goshen. 0:53:35.120 --> 0:53:36.480 You're talking about chariots. 0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:42.319 God will make a way through the sea. And if 0:53:42.320 --> 0:53:45.319 you'll clear it, you can claim him. I came to 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:51.080 tell you today you can drive them out. 0:53:52.400 --> 0:53:53.120 Verse eighteen. 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:59.080 You can drive them. 0:54:00.480 --> 0:54:01.680 Stand to your feet and give. 0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:06.920 God a praise today. 0:54:07.960 --> 0:54:18.520 Thank you Jesus. Let me talk to you for a moment. 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:22.600 You still can? You still can? 0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:27.319 They said, we're in this land, We're crowded, We're surrounded 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:31.680 by enemies. And Joshua said, you still can't drive them out. 0:54:33.040 --> 0:54:37.320 You know, it's important for me to remember that every 0:54:37.400 --> 0:54:41.240 promise that God gives me comes with enemies still living 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:46.160 in it. All of the wheat that God gives me 0:54:46.920 --> 0:54:49.279 guarantees that there will be weeds all around it. 0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:51.959 But I came with the message from. 0:54:51.880 --> 0:54:53.160 The word of the Lord that you can do all 0:54:53.200 --> 0:54:57.440 things through Christ to strengthens you, and you can drive 0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:02.880 them out. Make a different decision. You can reach for 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:08.000 something other than that bottle. You can drive them out 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:09.840 because greater is He that is in you than he 0:55:09.960 --> 0:55:10.840 that is in the world. 0:55:11.040 --> 0:55:12.359 You can drive them out. 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:18.480 Now, what's happened to a lot of us is we've 0:55:18.480 --> 0:55:22.879 gotten too comfortable with the Canaanites, so we've gotten in 0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:30.239 small places. But you can drive them out. You can 0:55:30.280 --> 0:55:34.080 forgive that person who hurt you. You can drive them out. 0:55:35.120 --> 0:55:38.759 You can It's going to be a process, but you 0:55:38.800 --> 0:55:43.719 can drive them out. You can absolutely repair that relationship 0:55:43.719 --> 0:55:46.360 if God means for that relationship to be in your life. 0:55:46.560 --> 0:55:48.040 You can drive them out. 0:55:49.200 --> 0:55:51.960 You can get this health issue under control. You can 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:56.560 drive them out. You can't apologize. You can drive them out. 0:55:56.920 --> 0:56:00.680 But the problem with us becomes that we forget that 0:56:00.719 --> 0:56:06.239 we have a God who specializes in defeating chariots. The 0:56:06.400 --> 0:56:10.919 chariots won't stop you. They won't stop God. You can 0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:13.279 drive them out. 0:56:13.760 --> 0:56:16.880 Now. The challenge of this message, only you know what 0:56:16.920 --> 0:56:20.000 you're them is I don't. 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:23.319 All I can tell you is I know a God 0:56:23.360 --> 0:56:24.799 who is greater than any of them that. 0:56:24.760 --> 0:56:36.880 You can name. And this is the Manassa effect. 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:42.960 I'm praying that rather than misremembering something, I'm praying that 0:56:43.000 --> 0:56:47.160 you would remember it right today and remember how much 0:56:47.280 --> 0:56:49.920 God has done to bring you to this point and 0:56:50.000 --> 0:56:52.760 take that forward with you into your future. Because honestly, 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:55.600 I don't just want to preach another sermon and then 0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:58.720 you go live among Canaanites all week and don't believe 0:56:58.760 --> 0:56:59.080 you can. 0:56:59.040 --> 0:57:00.239 Drive them out. 0:57:01.760 --> 0:57:06.000 I want something for Monday, when that anxiety comes strong, 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:09.320 you hear the voice of God in your heart saying 0:57:09.640 --> 0:57:13.160 you can drive that out. You can breathe through that, 0:57:13.520 --> 0:57:16.640 you can move through that, you have other options for that. 0:57:17.040 --> 0:57:21.080 You can drive them out the next time you want 0:57:21.080 --> 0:57:24.040 to explode and go off and just freak out. I 0:57:24.080 --> 0:57:27.520 don't have to be a slave to anger. You can 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:29.480 drive them. 0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:32.480 Out because you're not in this by yourself. 0:57:34.360 --> 0:57:36.320 And I want to pray for you right now because 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.520 I know there are some things in your land and 0:57:39.720 --> 0:57:44.200 in your life where you have either become entitled or 0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:46.960 you have allowed your insecurity to keep you from being 0:57:46.960 --> 0:57:48.080 what God has called you to be. 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:50.320 And you know what I can. 0:57:50.360 --> 0:57:52.720 Always tell where I get to a point in a 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:56.320 message where you have a decision to make. Are you 0:57:56.520 --> 0:57:59.960 really going to believe what God is saying to you 0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:01.800 or are you going to go back home and talk 0:58:01.840 --> 0:58:04.640 to him about the chariots? For the rest of twenty 0:58:04.640 --> 0:58:11.000 twenty six, I want to pray for you. There is 0:58:11.080 --> 0:58:15.080 so much that Jesus Christ saved you for. There is 0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:17.080 so much that He sees in you, so much that 0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:22.560 you can't see in yourself, but if you can clear it. 0:58:21.240 --> 0:58:21.880 It's yours. 0:58:23.800 --> 0:58:23.960 Well. 0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:25.600 I'm praying that your mind would. 0:58:25.360 --> 0:58:30.760 Get peaceful right about now. Just the peace of God 0:58:31.080 --> 0:58:37.000 fill your heart and your mind, heads bowed, eyes closed. Father, 0:58:37.400 --> 0:58:39.520 thank you for the word that you gave us today. 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:43.840 Don't forget where you come from. Thank you for reminding 0:58:43.920 --> 0:58:47.360 us to be grateful. Thank you for encouraging us to 0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:47.920 be strong. 0:58:49.240 --> 0:58:49.479 Lord. 0:58:49.480 --> 0:58:51.360 If there's anything I've learned in my walk with you. 0:58:51.400 --> 0:58:53.440 It's that we can't drive it out without your help. 0:58:54.200 --> 0:58:57.480 And we try so hard, and we try everything but you. 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:01.479 But right now, in the name of Jesusus, I joined 0:59:01.560 --> 0:59:05.160 my faith with each and every man, woman, boy and 0:59:05.200 --> 0:59:08.160 girl who is living in a place today, and let's 0:59:08.880 --> 0:59:12.200 confess it together. We all have something. But God, you 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:17.600 are greater than whatever it is. So Father, in Jesus' name, 0:59:18.360 --> 0:59:22.880 I pray that there would be a remembrance in your 0:59:22.880 --> 0:59:25.920 presence today, not only of what you've done, but of 0:59:25.960 --> 0:59:26.520 who you are. 0:59:27.560 --> 0:59:27.800 God. 0:59:27.800 --> 0:59:29.760 I thank you for every way that you have made 0:59:29.800 --> 0:59:32.280 for us. I thank you for all the times that 0:59:32.320 --> 0:59:36.640 you have shown yourself strong. And now God, I. 0:59:36.680 --> 0:59:41.560 Declare over your people. They are very powerful. In your name, 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:44.680 they are very strong. God. 0:59:44.720 --> 0:59:46.520 I thank you for how you've blessed them and how 0:59:46.520 --> 0:59:50.960 you will continue to bless them. 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:52.120 Thank you for joining us. 0:59:52.400 --> 0:59:54.880 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:58.440 this ministry. 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