The Joshua Generation

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.800 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.880 We enjoy spending this time with you. I hope you'll 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:38.679 leave Inspire. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.959 Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.240 We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:58.440 Enjoy the message. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.160 Well, God bless you and it's a joy to come 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.240 into your homes. And if you're ever in. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:05.760 Our area, please stop buying. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.760 Be a part of one of our services. I promise 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.600 you we'll make you feel right at home. I let 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.920 you start with something funny. And I heard about these 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.400 three sons that left home and went out and prospered. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.320 They got back together to talk about the gifts they got. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.200 Their elderly mother. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.680 The first son said, I built mom a big house. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.880 The second one said, I got her a fancy car. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.160 The third son said, since mother loves to read the 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.800 Bible but can barely see, I got her a specially 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.960 trained parrot that can quote the entire Bible. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:40.640 A few weeks later, they. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.440 Received a letter from their mother said, Milton, the house 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.359 you built me is way too big. Gerald, the car 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.919 you got me is way too small. But my dearest Donald, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.919 your simple gift is my favorite. The chicken was delicious. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.520 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.320 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.880 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.840 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.200 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.040 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:17.040 God bless you. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.440 I want to talk to you today about the Joshua generation, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.720 when God delivered the Israelites out of slavery. Moses led 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.000 them through the desert toward the Promised Land, but because 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.880 they complained and had wrong mindsets, they never went in. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.680 They wandered around for forty years, and. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.400 They saw God's goodness. In part. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.320 He protected them, gave them manna to eat each morning, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.520 brought water out of a rock, and at times they 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.600 were grateful. They thanked God for what he had done. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.240 But they only saw the Promised Land from a distance. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.360 They only heard about the cluster of grapes so large 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.320 that it took two people to carry, how it was 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.440 a land flowing with milk and honey. They dreamed about it, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.920 they believed for it. They hoped it would happen, but 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.120 they died without ever seeing it come to pass. God 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.520 raised up a young man named Joshua to lead this 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.119 new generation, the children of the first group that had died. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.120 They had a different mindset. They didn't wander around another 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.240 forty years. They went into the Promised Land. They took 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.239 new ground. Their parents only made it up to the border. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.600 They camped next door. They could see the cluster of grapes, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.400 but Joshua and his people tasted the grapes. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:43.919 They didn't just hear. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.440 About the land of milk and honey. They lived in 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.080 the land of milk and honey. All their parents dreamed 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:56.360 about the provision, the peace, the abundance the Joshua generation experienced, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.240 and sometimes thoughts will tell you what you're dreaming about 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.200 will always only. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.880 Be a dream, just a hope, a wish. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.559 Others in your family tried to get ahead, they tried 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.840 to start the business, tried to break the addiction. They 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.120 couldn't do it, and neither will you. That would be 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.000 true if you were with Moses and the first group. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.400 The good news is you are a part of the 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.640 Joshua generation. You are not going to just dream the dream. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.360 You're going to live your dream. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:29.480 You're going to. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.000 Go where no one in your family has gone. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:33.840 They may have. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.279 Believed for it, they stood in faith, it didn't happen. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.200 They laid the foundation. You're going to be the one 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.960 to see the fulfillment. David said, Taste and see that 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.000 the Lord is good. You're going to taste the grapes, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.240 taste the abundance, taste the freedom. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.240 This is a year where you're going to take. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.520 New ground, new ground in your finances, new ground in 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.560 your health, of new ground in relationships, areas that look. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.320 Like you were stuck. Spend that way a long time, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.760 it will never change. Things are shifting. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.960 Favor is coming in a new way, breakthroughs. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.279 Promotion, the right people. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.640 God is about to do something that you've never seen, unprecedented, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.720 out of the ordinary. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.120 The scripture says. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.800 Stand still and watch the Lord show his mighty power. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.800 This is not going to be by your effort, just 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.440 your strength, your talent, your determination. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.200 It's going to be the hand of God. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.839 Stand still and watch him show out in your life. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.360 He's going to surpass anything you've seen. You are not 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.679 going to just believe for promises. You're about to see 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.520 promises come to pass. Now, just hope for breakthroughs. You're 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:56.919 gonna enjoy breakthroughs. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:57.560 Now. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.680 Just dream about the right person to meet the right person, somebody. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:03.720 Better than you imagine. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:11.640 But maybe you come from a family line of mediocrity, depression, divorce, addictions, poverty. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.080 It should continue with you. But you're the Joshua generation. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.000 There is a blessing on your life that will thrust 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.480 you ahead. Forces that have stopped your family are being 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.400 broken right now. What you couldn't make happen. God is 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.440 about to suddenly make happen. No more just wandering in 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.680 the desert, grateful that God is sustaining you. You can 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.200 see the Promised Land, but you don't think it will 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:45.000 ever happen. The Joshua generation has a conquering spirit. Not 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.080 just maintain, let me hold my ground, try not to 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.440 go backwards. Sometimes we have to do that. Just stand 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.160 in faith. But this is a year where you're going 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.240 to take new ground. Not maintain, but advance whole where 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.840 I am, but increase new levels, new opportunities. And the 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.120 people that have gone before you may have worked hard 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.200 and they did their best, but they always struggled. They 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.520 believed more, but they couldn't seem to get ahead. They 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.679 only solve the Promised land from a distance. Get ready, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.120 you're about to go in. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.440 You are not with Moses. You are with Joshua. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.840 God is going to open doors for you that didn't 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.000 open for others. You're going to go where your family 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.680 hasn't gone. You're going to set a new standard. You 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:39.240 are not going to spend your life constantly struggling, hoping 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.560 things will improve, believing, wishing that was for a season. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.600 But you showed God you would be faithful. You passed 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.040 the test. Now God is about to show his power. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 He's about to take you to a place. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.120 That you've never dreamed. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.120 You're going to take ground that you didn't think was possible. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.520 Have the qualifications. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.520 You weren't next in line the connections. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.520 But God is about to show out. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:11.720 You'll go to see the surpassing greatness of his favor. Well, Joel, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.520 this sounds encouraging today, but I don't know how it 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.640 could happen for me. That's what Joshua and his generation thought. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.199 All they had seen was wandering around in a desert. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.079 They were born out there. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.800 They grew up as nomads, people without a home, struggling 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.199 to survive, fighting off bandits. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.800 That was their way of life. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.240 When they came to Jericho, the city that stood between 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.040 them and the Promised Land, there was a thirty foot 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.480 high wall that surrounded the city. It was so thick 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.800 chariots would run on top of the wall to protect 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.559 the people and watch for enemies. The people of Jericho 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.200 were skilled warriors. They had the latest equipment inside a 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.640 fortified city. Joshua and his people had no military training, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.000 no equipment, no weapons. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.560 All the odds were against them. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.040 It looked like they would just dream about the promised 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.640 land like their parents. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.360 But when God is ready for you to take new. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.880 Ground, it doesn't matter how big the obstacles are, how 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.559 many people are against you, how long you've had the problem. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.200 One touch of His favor and walls will come down. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.640 God is not limited by what you don't have, by 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.320 the economy, by how. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.680 You were raised. He has supernatural power. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.000 The Israelites didn't have to break the walls down fight 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:41.920 their way through. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.199 They just walked around the. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.319 Walls, giving God praise, thanking him that he was on 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.600 the throne, that he was bigger than what they were facing. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.319 Seventh time around, those walls came tumbling down. They went in, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.640 took the city, went on to their promised land. You 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.520 may not see how you can make it into your 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:08.040 promised land. You have big obstacles in your path. The 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.559 odds may be against you, but the most high God 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:12.520 is for you. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.120 When thoughts tell. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.520 You that you're stuck, you've reached your limits, it will 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.720 never change. Just say no, thanks. I know a secret. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.319 I'm the Joshua generation. I am destined to take new ground. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.480 I may not see away, but God, I know you 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:29.120 have a way. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.720 Father thank you that walls are coming down, thank you 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.520 that new doors are opening, that breakthroughs, promotion. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.200 Healing is headed my way. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.920 The Joshua generation means you're not going to live like 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.680 those that have gone before you. They may have done well, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.400 but you're going to live better. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.840 Every generation is supposed to increase. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.880 You're going to live freer, live kinder, live, more generous, 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:03.040 more passionate, more blessed to live, more devoted, more consecrated, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:08.640 not compromising, letting the same negative habits keep getting passed down. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.360 You know, the buck stops with you. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.920 You are the one to set a new standard for 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.520 your family. Quit telling yourself that you can't do it. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.760 You've had the addiction too long. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.200 Everyone in your family is negative, depressed, angry. That was 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.480 the past, That was with Moses. The difference is you're 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.680 the Joshua generation. You wouldn't be hearing this if you 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.400 weren't about to take new ground. God is about to 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.479 catapult you to a new level. You are coming in 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:45.240 to generational blessings. There are people in your family line 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.560 that have gone before you that honored God, they prayed, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.240 they believed, they worked hard, but they didn't see the 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.959 fullness of what they were believing for. The scripture talks 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.559 about how some of the saints of old die in 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.840 faith without seeing the promise come to pass. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:05.320 And some of the. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.480 Things that your parents, your ancestors saw, it wasn't for 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.920 their generation. God put it in their spirit as a seed. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.560 They dreamed about it, they worked for it, but it 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.800 was all a part of the plan so. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.280 That you could step into it. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.320 You're coming into houses that you didn't build. You're going 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.000 to read from vineyards that you didn't plant, promotion that you. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:29.760 Didn't work for. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:35.079 It's God keeping his promise to your praying grandmother. It's 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.280 God rewarding your family that went before you. You're going 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.040 to see a harvest from seeds that you didn't sow. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.680 Business contracts, property books, movies, ministries. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.800 You didn't have to go after them. They came after you. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.120 It's a part of the new ground that God has 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.920 ordained for you. Deuteronomy six says the Lord will soon 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.240 bring you into the land that he promised your ancestors. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.000 It is filled with large cities that you did not build. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.000 The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.120 not produce. You will draw from wells that you did 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:19.440 not dig. It's talking about generational blessings. It says, soon you. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.880 Will come into what God promised. Soon you will take 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.160 new ground. Soon you will step into new levels. When 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.280 I look back over. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.960 My life, I can see these generational blessings fever that 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.400 I didn't work for. My parents started Lakewood in nineteen 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:41.160 fifty nine with ninety people. Those original members, and my 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.480 parents worked hard. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.320 They made sacrifices. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.280 They had a little building, an old Rundown feed store. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:49.880 They didn't complain. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:51.360 They were grateful. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.880 Through the years, the church grew and they saw God's blessings. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.440 But in one sense, it's like they made it up 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.840 to the mus Land. My father and many of them 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.440 went to be with the Lord. But when God gave 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.960 us the Compact Center, it's like we're the generation that 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.120 came into. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:10.760 The promised Land. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.880 We have seen increase in favor like they never saw. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.960 Fifteen years before my father died, he was speaking at 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.200 a friend of ours church. Out of the blue, he said, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.280 one day we're going to own the Compact Center. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.600 This building wasn't for sale. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.800 The Rockets basketball team had a long term lease. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:33.680 He'd never said that before. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.520 We had an eight thousand seat auditorium plenty of room. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.560 But God put that seed in his spirit, not for 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.600 his generation, but for our generation. He dreamed of it, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.560 but we're living it. There are things that your parents, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.880 those that went before you believe for they dreamed about. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.720 Some wonder why they didn't happen. Why the doors. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.960 Didn't open, It's because God ordained them to open for you. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.600 They laid the foundation. Now God is about to release 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.480 what he promised. You're about to step into favor that 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.480 you didn't work for. It's because you're the Joshua generation. 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.960 You're the one to take new ground. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.640 And when I heard the Compact Center was coming available, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.600 something came alive on the inside. I didn't know that 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.480 my father had talked about it until many years later, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.960 but that seed was in my spirit, just like it 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.280 was in my father's. Everything you need to take new 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.240 ground has already been lined up. And yes, we have 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.560 to do our part, pray, believe, stay in faith. But 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.920 what I'm talking about is not going to happen by 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.720 your own efforts, your own ability. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:51.160 If you can do it. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.200 By yourself, it's not the new ground. What God has 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.440 in store is too big, too expensive, too far out, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.960 too complicated, the Compact Center was far. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.800 Beyond what I imagined in my mind. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.520 It didn't make sense, but in my spirit I knew 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.119 we were supposed to pursue it. This building was owned 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.640 by the city, so I called the mayor. Here's how 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:22.280 amazing God is. Twenty years before, Lee Brown was the 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.639 mayor of Houston. He was the first African American police chief. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.840 When he came to town, my parents went to a 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.600 reception to welcome him. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:33.360 I was a teenager. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.119 I remember that night asking my parents where they were going. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.480 They said, to welcome the new police chief. I asked 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.880 when they had met him. They said they had never 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.159 met him. I asked who invited them. They said no 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.920 one had invited them. They were just going on their 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.240 own to make sure he felt welcome and to let 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.440 him know that Lakewood was praying for him. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.320 At eighteen years old, that made such an impressional man. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.520 I thought they didn't have to go. Nobody invited them. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:02.639 Why are they going? 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.600 They were simply sowing a seed of kindness. What my 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.159 parents didn't know that night was twenty two years later 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.919 I would call him now the mayor of Houston, and 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.800 ask about us purchasing the Compact Center when I did. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.240 Mayor Brown said Joel, I think Lakewood having the Compact 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:22.359 Center would. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.920 Be great for the city of Houston. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.439 But had my parents not made that connection, had they 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.439 not developed that friendship years earlier, maybe he wouldn't have 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.680 taken my call. Maybe he wouldn't have been favorable to us. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.240 Maybe we wouldn't be here. My parents sowed the seed 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.840 and I'll reap the harvest. What am I saying? God 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.320 has it all figured out. You're not going to have 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:50.240 to manipulate things, try to force doors to open. What 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.199 God has come in your way has been in the 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.160 works for a long time. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.439 Before you were born. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.040 It's so big, so amazing, you couldn't accomplish it on 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:01.600 your own. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:03.440 He's been working. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:08.439 Behind the scenes, generations back, getting everything lined up for 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.160 this time to take you into a place that you've 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:13.200 never imagined. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.359 Opportunity, bigger influence. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.720 Greater, blessed, prosperous, healthy, whole, so you can be an 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:25.040 example of His goodness, so you can shine brightly wherever 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:29.480 you go. God has been breathing on your family line. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:30.720 Even when you didn't know it. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.160 He has arranged things so that you can take new ground, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:36.400 step into. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.359 New levels set new standards. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:44.080 My father always built auditoriums, we had large sanctuaries. But 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.080 the Compact Center is new ground. I don't know of 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.880 any church that's bought a basketball arena. This is unprecedented. 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:53.920 What God is going. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.879 To do in your life is not going to be ordinary. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:02.000 It's going to be unusual. What you haven't well, Joel, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.520 this sounds kind of far out. It's because we serve 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:06.440 a far out God. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.600 It's far out to be heaving church in the Compact Center. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.240 It's far out that walls came down with no opposition. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.800 It's far out that my parents befriended a stranger and 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.800 years later he helped us. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:21.760 Get this facility. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.520 That's what happens when you're the Joshua generation. Far out 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.560 things chase you down. Watch and see what God is 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.679 about to do. Watch him show out in your life. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.879 Watch him connect the dots, direct your steps, take you 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.199 where you couldn't go on your own. God wants you 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.800 to not only take new ground in your family, but 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:45.480 to take. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:50.120 New ground in your field of work. New ground in medicine. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.640 It's time for someone to discover the cure for cancer. 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:54.920 Maybe it'll be you. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.439 New ground in technology, new ground in the arts and 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.040 entertain new ground in education. 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:03.000 In ministry. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.520 You don't have to be the smartest, most talented, most educated. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.800 Just dare to believe, dare to say, God, I'm ready 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:16.120 show out in my life. Use me to help mankind, 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.240 Use me to make the world a better place, to 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:23.880 lift people, to heal people, to feed people, to save people, 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.600 to leave my mark. My friend, doctor Todd Price and 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.320 his family have attended here for many years. Todd specializes 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.520 in infectious disease, has a very successful practice and as 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.560 a leader in his field. Every couple of months he 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.200 travels to Africa to treat the children and way back 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.719 in the villages, teaches them how to have good hygiene. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:51.240 Several months ago, doctor Price was about to leave for Uganda. 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.720 It was a Friday afternoon. He had already left the 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.159 hospital and was getting prepared for his flight. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.119 His office received a. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:03.399 Call about an executive that had returned home from overseas 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.600 and wasn't feeling well. He continued to get worse. Before 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.760 they knew it, his health had gone down so quickly 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.560 he was in a coma, couldn't speak or talk. His 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.920 organs were starting to shut down. Doctor Price rushed back 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.960 to the hospital. He discovered the man had malaria. The 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.679 infection was spreading so rapidly to the other cells that 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.359 another few hours and he would die. The problem was 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:34.160 doctor Price didn't have the stronger malaria medicine that he needed. 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.120 You have to get it from the Center for Disease Control. 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.399 He didn't have time to wait. The man literally had 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.480 a few hours to live. He prayed for God to 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.120 give him wisdom to show him how to treat the man. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:51.360 He decided to do what's called an exchange transfusion. That's 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:55.320 where you take all the patient's blood out and put new. 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:55.879 Blood back in. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.760 It's an unusual process, but he had no other options. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.880 The first time they exchanged the blood, the infection went 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.800 from twenty percent down to just over six percent, a 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.480 remarkable improvement, but anything over five. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.640 Percent is lethal. He had a long way to go. 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.360 Doctor Price stayed there all night. They did the exchange 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:22.640 two more times. That Wednesday, the man woke up from 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:23.320 his coma. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.119 His organ started functioning properly. 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.480 On Friday, a week after he was admitted, he not 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:34.080 only walked out of the hospital with no infection, but 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:38.240 he didn't have any further complications. Doctor Price said he 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.320 had never seen anyone recover from such a severe. 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:43.080 Case of malaria. 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.719 That was God helping doctor Price to take new ground. 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.959 When you're a part of the Joshua generation, you're going 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:56.960 to have wisdom that goes beyond your normal understanding, beyond. 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:58.080 What you learned in school. 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:05.280 Ideas, creativity, strategy, inventions that defy the odds. You're going 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:10.040 to have ability, opportunity, influence to where you know it's 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:13.399 the hand of God. You know it's his favor taking 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:16.520 you where you couldn't go on your own. Psalm one 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:21.400 ten says the Lord will extend your dominion from Jerusalem. 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.960 You will rule over your enemies. Jerusalem was their home. 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:29.880 They were used to having protection, favor, blessing there. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:31.000 That was normal. 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:35.720 But God said, I'm about to do something unusual, out 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:39.760 of the ordinary. I'm going to increase you beyond what 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.920 you're used to. I'm going to take you beyond what 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.359 you've seen in the past. I'm going to give you 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:49.639 new ground. God is saying that to you. I'm about 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:55.200 to extend your dominion, extend your income, extend your influence, 0:24:55.560 --> 0:25:00.560 extend your wisdom, extend your talent, extend your annointing. You 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:03.399 may have been blessed in the past, but you haven't 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:07.840 seen anything yet. God is about to enlurd your territory. 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:11.359 He is going to give you ground that you didn't 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:15.879 grow up with. It says, the Lord will extend your 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:18.840 dominion again. You don't have to make this happen in 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:23.119 your own efforts. Just keep honoring God, keep him first place. 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.240 And God is going to open doors that you didn't 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:28.880 see coming. You're going to think, how did I get here? 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:31.720 How did I take all this ground? How did we 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:34.520 end up in the compact center? It was the Lord 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:40.520 extending our dominion. Where you are is not your final destination. 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:44.440 It is not where you're staying. You're the Joshua generation. 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:49.000 New ground is coming, new opportunities, new levels. 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:50.720 Like Joshua. 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.639 You may have some walls in front of you, big obstacles. 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.080 Don't worry. It's no match for our God. 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:02.080 Keep praising, keep believing, and keep expecting, and the Lord 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.080 is going to extend your dominion. God is going to 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:09.320 bring walls down and take you further than you ever dream. 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:13.560 It goes on to say, you will rule over your enemies. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.760 It's one thing to defeat your enemies. That's good. But 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:21.240 an enemy can recover, get back up and come at 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:25.120 you again. You can beat an addiction and two years 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:29.040 later fall back. You can overcome an illness. There are 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:30.399 times when it comes back. 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:35.360 But God says about you, you will rule over your enemies. 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:39.000 That means you won't just defeat them, you will keep 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:42.840 them defeated. That addiction is not going to be on 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:44.960 and off, on and off. 0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:46.560 You're going to rule over it. 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:50.879 You're not going to live up and down depressed one week, okay, 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:56.520 the next. You're going to rule over depression, rule over anger, rule. 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.840 Over alcohol, rule over poverty. 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:03.760 God is putting an end to what's been hindering you. 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:06.280 You may have struggled with it in the past, but 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.520 this is a new day. You're about to rule over 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:14.720 every enemy. Walls are coming down. You are the Joshua generation. 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:20.320 You are not going to wander in the wilderness, defeated, lonely, 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:24.960 addicted poverty, or get ready to come into the Promised Land. 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:29.440 Get ready for freedom, get ready for abundance. You are 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:32.240 not going to be at this same place next year 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:35.840 as you are right now. God is about to enlarge 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:40.000 your territory. New doors are about to open the right 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:44.040 people are going to track you down. Generational blessings are 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:47.800 headed your way. What your loved ones dreamed about, you're 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.800 going to step into. God is about to show out 0:27:50.840 --> 0:27:51.560 in your life. 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:54.840 Now do your part and get in agreement with God 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:56.120 all through the day. 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:59.720 Lord, thank you that I'm a part of the Joshua generation. 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:04.480 If you'll do this, I believe and declare this year 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:08.760 you will take new ground, you will step into new levels, 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:12.960 and you will set new standards in Jesus' name. And 0:28:13.040 --> 0:28:15.720 if you receive it, can you save him in today? 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.360 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:23.280 the lord of your life. 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