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00:00Amen.
00:06Lift your hands.
00:11Spirit of the living god fall
00:16upon us. Eternal spirit is once
00:17again, we come asking for your
00:19permission to preach. Not to
00:22entertain but to proclaim that
00:25you are Jesus Christ. Use me
00:27and guide me. Order my steps in
00:29Christ. Cover me in your blood
00:31that they may see none of me
00:33but oh lord, all of you. I'm
00:35yours. Your mind. Use me as an
00:37instrument. Have me to play the
00:39tune of your choice. In Jesus'
00:41name, we pray. Somebody say
00:44amen. Let's go to the book of
00:48Joshua chapter number eight.
00:51Joshua chapter number eight.
00:53I'm going to read verse one and
00:55a few of the following.
00:59Joshua chapter eight. Verse
01:05number one. The Bible says, and
01:09the lord said unto Joshua, fear
01:11not. Neither be thou dismayed.
01:15Take all the people of war with
01:17thee and arise and go up to I.
01:20See, I have given into thy hand
01:24the king of I and his people and
01:27his city and his land. Sometimes
01:30when you read the Bible, you
01:32can't read it word for word. You
01:34have to hear what just happened.
01:36God literally just told Joshua,
01:39I've given you your enemy. So in
01:44order for you to enjoy scripture,
01:45you have to take yourself out of,
01:47you got to take the character out
01:48of the way and put yourself in
01:50their place. So God says, just
01:54say your name. I have given you
01:57everything that has tried to
01:59kill you, your enemy, its land
02:07and its king has now become your
02:09possession. And he says, I want
02:15you to do to them what you did
02:16to Jericho. Well, you know what
02:17happened at Jericho, don't you?
02:19They shouted in the walls came
02:22down. So here it is. He's
02:23saying everything that is
02:24standing against you. I want you
02:27to do the same thing here that
02:29you did at Jericho. What did
02:30they do at Jericho? They shouted
02:31in the walls. Some of y'all
02:34missed that. And instead of
02:38staring at it, would you just
02:39shout at it? Most people just
02:46stare at their problems. Just
02:47you just don't keep staring at
02:50show negative bank account. Are
02:52you going to shout it and say,
02:53be filled in the name of Jesus.
02:59And Joshua got up early in the
03:01morning and the people of war to
03:04go against I and Joshua chose
03:06out 30,000 mighty men of valor
03:10and sent them away by night and
03:13commanded them saying, behold,
03:14you shall lie in wait against
03:18the city. This is where I want
03:19to take my thought from. You
03:21shall lie in wait against the
03:23city, even behind the city, go
03:25not very far from the city, but
03:28but you got to be ready. And I
03:31and all actually, are you ready?
03:33Are you ready? He says, and I
03:35and all the people are with you
03:37will approach them to the city
03:38and it shall come to pass when
03:40they come out against us at
03:42first, they going to think we
03:44running. See, you can't be
03:48afraid to be quiet in battle so
03:52that your enemy thinks you're
03:53stupid. See, most problem most
03:57of us have is we don't want
03:58nobody to think we stupid, but
04:00see, sometimes your advantage is
04:02that they don't think you're
04:03intelligent and they think
04:05they're working against you, but
04:07they're actually working against
04:08your strategy. Tell your
04:10neighbor, I'm not dumb. This is
04:12just my strategy.
04:17Ain't nothing dumb about me. I
04:18like that. I'm just working my
04:22strategy. I don't have time to
04:24read all of this, but, but, but
04:26he splits the group into two.
04:30One gets to run in and be first
04:33and everybody loved to be first.
04:37But there's another group that
04:38didn't get to go in first. They
04:40had to wait until everything was
04:43done. I want to talk to the
04:44people who've been waiting.
04:51How many waiters do I have in
04:52the room? Been waiting. God told
04:55me to preach on this subject.
04:56I'm waiting on a win. I know
05:00you've been losing, but it's
05:02your season to win. Touch three
05:03people before you sit down and
05:04tell them I'm waiting on a win.
05:05I'm waiting on a win. I'm
05:07waiting on a win. You may be
05:09seated in the presence of the
05:11Lord. Before I get into this
05:15message, I want you to thank
05:16the first lady of this church.
05:18She has been working
05:19tremendously hard to get us
05:23somewhere. And she, she was
05:26doing it forever. They looked
05:27at about 50 venues and right at
05:29the last minute, she says, what
05:30if God wants us to go back where
05:32we came from? And so I want you
05:34to praise God for her one more
05:35time for her tireless energy
05:36effort. Thank you so much for
05:39all that you do. She said,
05:41they said, thank you for
05:42bringing us back home. So, so
05:47listen, I, um, recently, well,
05:51how many of y'all have people
05:52come over to your house for
05:53holidays? Okay. So, yeah. So
05:58I'm not sure if it was last
06:00Thanksgiving or the Thanksgiving
06:02before that, but my wife had
06:04cooked her birthday is right
06:06around Thanksgiving. And one of
06:08her friends, uh, came to the
06:10house and, and we sat at the
06:12table and she said, um, do y'all
06:16do y'all get massages? And we
06:17said, yeah. And she says, um,
06:20well, I go to this place and,
06:22and the lady there who owns it,
06:24she's a chiropractor. You
06:25should go. I mean, she, she
06:28works miracles and she works
06:29wonders. I said, okay, well,
06:31you know, those of us who
06:33inquisitive, I started asking
06:34questions. Well, where's that?
06:37And how much it costs? Come on
06:39y'all. How many y'all do y'all
06:40and how much it costs and do
06:42they take insurance? And, and,
06:44and I started asking all kinds
06:45of questions and she, she
06:46answered them all. So I, uh, I
06:48ended up going and I walk into
06:50the chiropractor and here is a
06:53lady this tall. So I walk in
07:12and I'm like, Lord have mercy.
07:14She didn't, she sent me over
07:16here. I'm sure she's going to
07:17be good for somebody, but she
07:18can't, what's she going to do
07:21to me? I'm, I'm 215 pounds.
07:24She's probably 115 pounds. I'm,
07:27I'm six four. She's four, six.
07:35When I tell you that little
07:36woman climbed up me like a tree
07:42and cracked my back, my neck,
07:45my neck and my back. She broke.
07:53It's a true story. And, and I
07:56asked her, I said, ma'am, how
07:59in the world did you do that?
08:03I said, you must, you must use
08:05to do this for a football team.
08:07You must be accustomed to
08:09working. She said, no, it
08:10doesn't have anything to do
08:11with that. Watch what she says.
08:12She says, I'm able to do it
08:13because I understand anatomy.
08:19She said, you don't have to be
08:20strong. You just have to
08:21understand. You have to
08:24understand what's connected to
08:25what you have to understand what
08:27moves what. And she says, I
08:29didn't need strength. I just
08:30needed understanding.
08:36The Bible says in all that
08:37getting, get understanding.
08:41You keep trying to get stronger
08:42and you just need to get, you
08:45trying to get stronger and you
08:46just need to get understanding.
08:47She says, I understand the
08:49quadrants of the body. I
08:50understand that this is
08:51connected to that. And that is
08:53connected to this. And she
08:54says, and what most people
08:55don't understand is that their
08:57pain is never from the source.
09:01She says you're in alignment
09:02and your disalignment in one
09:04area because you're in
09:05disalignment in another area.
09:07She says, most people don't
09:08understand it's their feet that
09:10hurts their back. It's their
09:12neck that hurts their feet. And
09:13most people don't know that
09:14back pain can be in the calf
09:16muscle.
09:20I said, are you serious? She
09:21said, yes, I just, I just
09:23understand anatomy. I
09:26understand what's connected. I
09:28understand that sometimes you
09:29have back pain, but it's your
09:30hamstrings being tight. She
09:32says, sometimes I understand
09:33that, that it's, it's how you
09:35stand. If you work all day long
09:37and you don't have the proper
09:38foundation or orthotics in your
09:40shoes and you're standing all
09:41day long, you know, a
09:42hairdresser, beauticians,
09:43they're standing on hard
09:44ground. You're supposed to have
09:45a mat to stabilize underneath.
09:46She said, you do all of this
09:47thing. So you preach all day.
09:49You're standing up. What most
09:50people don't understand is that
09:51you stand up doing praise and
09:52worship, but then when they sit
09:54down, you still standing up.
09:56And then when church is over
09:57and they're on their way home,
09:58you're still standing up, you're
10:00standing up four or five, six,
10:01seven, eight, nine, 10 hours on
10:03the Sunday, not to include if
10:04you're working during the week,
10:06you're always standing. You're
10:07always standing. And so I
10:08understand how to help a
10:10standard. It shocked me that
10:17she didn't have to be strong.
10:19She just had to understand
10:20anatomy. This is an anatomical
10:22conversation today. The body of
10:25Israel is out of whack.
10:27Something is causing pain, but
10:30we don't know the source of it.
10:32We don't know it up on first
10:34glance, something, something is
10:36out of whack. Something is, is
10:38not in its place. It's an
10:40anatomical decision and they end
10:43up going into a war against a
10:46city called I, and I'm just
10:49paraphrasing. So we can get
10:51through this message. They
10:52actually end up losing to an
10:55enemy. They should have
10:56defeated. The enemy was weaker.
11:00They were less than, and they
11:02were not the people of God and
11:04they still lost to them. Listen,
11:06they did not lose because of
11:09weakness. They lost because of
11:12meekness. You see, most of you
11:14won't lose a battle because
11:17you're not strong. You'll lose
11:20the battle because you have no
11:22strategy. You won't lose the
11:26battle because you can't hurt
11:28them. You'll probably lose it
11:30because you're not humble. You
11:34won't, you won't lose it
11:35because you're not smart. You'll
11:37probably lose it because you
11:39won't pray. It's never that
11:43you're not strong enough. But
11:45the question is, what is your
11:47strategy when you're in the
11:49battles of life? Ask your
11:51neighbor, what's your strategy?
11:53The strategy can't be to go
11:55off. The strategy can't be, oh,
12:02if you mess with me, it's a
12:03must that I mess with you.
12:06That's one strategy. But my
12:08question is, is how has that
12:10strategy been working for you?
12:13They were defeated. Watch this.
12:16Mostly because of
12:18mismanagement. How many of you
12:21will admit that in some form,
12:25fashion in your life, you knew
12:28you should have won the battle
12:30that you were in, but you did
12:32not have the courage or the
12:34patience to manage the moment
12:36properly. Sometimes you got to
12:40wait on the Lord and sometimes
12:41you got to fight. Sometimes you
12:43have to watch. Sometimes you
12:44have to pray. I don't always
12:46know which one to do, but I do
12:49know that mismanagement leads to
12:52more failure than weakness.
12:54Touch the neighbor and say
12:55manage it correctly. Israel
12:58failed to capture the city. Now,
13:00how many of you know it doesn't
13:02always take everybody to be
13:04wrong. They didn't lose this war
13:06because everybody was wrong.
13:07Most of them did right. They
13:10lost the war because of one man
13:12named Akin, who the Bible says
13:15that God told them when you win
13:17the war, I want you to burn all
13:20of the things. But he saw Gucci,
13:22he saw gold, and he was like, I
13:24ain't burning this. So the Bible
13:26says he took it and he buried it
13:28in his tent and nobody knew
13:30except for him, his father, his
13:32grandfather, and his great
13:33grandfather. So he thought, but
13:35there was another father that
13:37was watching, that he wasn't
13:40counting on, and that father was
13:42the father of all fathers. His
13:44name is Jehovah. Let me tell you
13:46something. When everybody else
13:48tells you, oh, it's okay. You
13:50don't have to worry about it.
13:51There is another father. Talk to
13:54me, somebody. There is another
13:55father. And God saw that he hid
13:58it, and God says, okay, I tell
13:59you what, since you mismanaged
14:02the season, I'm going to make
14:04everybody pay. What if I told
14:06you that if there are a thousand
14:11people in this room and a
14:12thousand of us know that God is
14:14good and 999 of us praise God
14:18because you got one mean person
14:20on your row? I ain't impressed.
14:26What if I told you that that
14:28one person is going to throw it
14:31all out of whack? So this is
14:32what I need you to do. I need
14:33you to make sure that there
14:34ain't no aching on your row.
14:35Look down, like, don't mess
14:36this up for us. Don't mess this
14:39up for us. I'm about to walk
14:40into a season and a dimension.
14:42Don't mess it. Look at them.
14:43Say, don't mess this up for me.
14:44Get that. If you ain't got a
14:46smile, take your lipstick out
14:47and put one on. Whatever you
14:49got to do, you better do it
14:51because you're not about to
14:52mess up my next dimension.
14:53You're not about to mess up my
14:55next season. You're not about
14:56to mess up. Look, tell them,
14:58tell them. If you don't tell
14:59them, I'm going to tell them
15:00you better do it right now. I
15:01need a pew captain. Tell
15:03everybody in your section,
15:04don't mess this up for me.
15:14Don't mess this up for me.
15:16My kids depending on me. My
15:17husband's depending on me.
15:18My wife's depending on me.
15:20My sister's depending on me.
15:21My brother's depending on me.
15:22God is depending on me. Don't
15:24mess this up for me.
15:31Y'all good over here?
15:33Y'all good over here?
15:35Y'all good over here?
15:37She like, I don't know.
15:38Look at Duke. You better get
15:40her together. She done told on
15:41you. Y'all good over here?
15:43She said, we good. We good.
15:45I like that hood in you.
15:46Y'all good over here?
15:48What about all the way at the
15:49end? All right, we going to
15:52find out.
15:58When I, when I heard it was a
15:59dude named Aiken that messed it
16:00up for everybody. How many of
16:01y'all know I can do this?
16:03Whenever you hear somebody
16:04mess it up, you start
16:05imagining what they look like.
16:09Like somebody you hear on the
16:10news, no person came in
16:11grocery store and, and, and
16:13did X, Y, Z like, oh yeah, I
16:15know exactly.
16:19Cause we don't do that.
16:20I know exactly.
16:22Come on y'all don't act like
16:23you don't do it.
16:25So it's just me. When you
16:26hear somebody voice that you
16:27don't see, you start
16:28imagining, you know, they
16:29tall, short, you just.
16:31So when I heard that this
16:32guy came in and stole all the
16:34stuff, I was like Dante done
16:38did it again.
16:40I knew exactly what he
16:41looked like.
16:42And I knew what he looked
16:47like, but you can judge a
16:50book by its cover and be
16:51wrong.
16:54Because the Bible says
16:55pastor Raymond, that he came
16:58from the tribe of Judah.
17:03He came from the tribe of
17:05Judah.
17:07Well, so this ain't, this
17:08ain't no, no felon.
17:10This is a guy that comes
17:11from the most prominent.
17:12Jesus comes from the tribe
17:13of Judah.
17:14He's a part of the same
17:15family as Jesus.
17:17In fact, when Moses parted
17:19the red sea, his daddy was
17:21there.
17:24When the 10 plagues came up
17:25on Egypt, his mother was
17:27there.
17:28He comes from aristocracy.
17:31So he's not here in Judah.
17:35He's here in trouble because
17:37he's poor.
17:38He's not stealing because
17:40he's impoverished.
17:41He's stealing because he
17:43doesn't have a strategy.
17:48Obviously there's some
17:49trauma that made him leap
17:51over his economical status
17:53and made him do something he
17:55didn't have to do.
17:56Can I tell you, there are
17:57some actions you take you
17:58don't have to take.
18:02You don't have to be
18:03desperate you to head and
18:04not to tail.
18:06You don't have to settle
18:07for less.
18:08You are God's elite.
18:10There are some things you
18:11settle for when you don't
18:13know who you are.
18:14Touch your name and say,
18:15you better find out who
18:16you are.
18:17I'm from the tribe of Judah.
18:18I'm a Jesus kid.
18:20I'm a Jesus girl.
18:21I'm a son of the Savior.
18:23I'm God's man.
18:25I'm God's woman.
18:26I don't have to settle
18:27for less.
18:28I'm not poor.
18:29I'm just waiting on a win.
18:36Akin almost messed it up
18:41for everybody.
18:47Taking things that didn't
18:48belong to him.
18:50God says, all right, well,
18:54I love you all so much.
18:55I'm going to give you
18:56another chance.
18:57I wish I could just shout
18:58right now for the God
19:00of another chance.
19:03Man.
19:06Is that not a sermon
19:08all by itself?
19:10I'm not even going to have
19:11you touch your neighbor.
19:12Just praise God that he's
19:13the God of another chance.
19:18He's the God of another chance.
19:21Watch what he says.
19:22He says in verse 1,
19:23I have given you the kings of I.
19:27I have given you the land.
19:29I have given you the property.
19:32I have given you the authority.
19:36You must not have heard
19:38what I just said.
19:41They haven't fought yet.
19:42The battle hasn't come.
19:45So they don't get this
19:46because they won.
19:48He says I've given you.
19:49Given is a past tense word,
19:51which means they don't have
19:52to win to get it.
19:57Joshua, before you go to fight,
20:00I've given you the king.
20:01Before you pull out your sword,
20:03I've already given you the land
20:05because you don't have to
20:06be able to afford it.
20:08You just have to be able
20:09to believe for it.
20:10This is not going to come
20:12by your strength.
20:13It's going to come as a result
20:15of the strategy.
20:17Tell somebody it's already yours.
20:20You don't hear me.
20:21It's already yours.
20:22You know that card that you have
20:23in your vision board?
20:25It's already yours.
20:26You know that house
20:27that you already believe for?
20:28It's already yours.
20:29Whatever you have,
20:30it's already yours.
20:31You got to understand
20:32that you don't fight for victory.
20:34You fight from victory.
20:36It's already yours.
20:38The debt-free thing,
20:39it's already yours.
20:41The marriage you've been praying for,
20:42it's already yours.
20:44The children that are achieving,
20:45it's already yours.
20:46God says I've already
20:47given it to you.
20:48Why?
20:49Because you're mine.
20:50I love you so much
20:51that in spite of what Achan did,
20:53I'm going to bless you
20:54in spite of it.
20:55In spite of your mistakes,
20:56I'm still going to give you
20:57another opportunity.
20:59Anybody want to thank God
21:00that yesterday is over
21:02and God is still a God
21:03of today forevermore.
21:05God is about to bless you.
21:06He's about to strengthen you.
21:08It's already yours.
21:13That's why we don't wait
21:14until the battle is over.
21:21See, most people walk around
21:22I don't want to get excited
21:23because if it don't happen,
21:25right there, you just messed it up.
21:28If it don't happen,
21:29then I won't have to.
21:30Well, if you don't walk by faith,
21:33then you'll walk by sight.
21:34And if you walk by sight,
21:36you'll never see it.
21:38You have to walk by faith.
21:40You have to say
21:41and speak those things
21:42that are not as though they were.
21:44And watch this.
21:45When you learn to speak things
21:47that are not as though they were,
21:49then everything that is and will be
21:51because your language
21:53will shift the atmosphere.
21:56I'm going to give you 30 seconds
21:57to shift your whole life right now.
21:59I'm rich. I'm blessed.
22:01I'm encouraged.
22:02I'm more than enough.
22:03I'm no longer insecure.
22:05I'm not jealous of nobody.
22:07I don't envy anybody.
22:08Everything I got,
22:09I'm supposed to have.
22:11I speak glory over my life.
22:19Now, some of y'all got people in your session.
22:21They ain't say it.
22:22That's your aching.
22:23They going to mess it up.
22:24They still chilling.
22:28Tell them,
22:29didn't I tell you not to mess my stuff up?
22:37You better tell them
22:38or I'll tell them.
22:44I got you.
22:48Just a few days,
22:49three days earlier,
22:50they were defeated by people
22:52that they should have beat
22:53in the area that they should have won.
22:55How many of y'all have that kind of fear
22:58when you have to go through something
23:01you've been through before
23:02and it didn't work?
23:04Anybody get that anxiety like,
23:07here we go again, man.
23:09I don't even want to go through this again.
23:12How many of y'all,
23:13if it's just me, it's just me,
23:14but anybody like,
23:15I just don't want to go through that.
23:17I don't even want to talk to them.
23:18Last time I tried to explain myself,
23:20they acted a fool
23:21and I know if I say something this time,
23:22I'm going to act a fool.
23:23So I'm just not going to say nothing this time
23:25because my guy like,
23:29yeah, yeah, just yesterday.
23:34How do you know my business?
23:39I don't know who this is for
23:41and it ain't deep,
23:43but God said try again.
23:49That work for you?
23:50Yeah, he just, he just,
23:51I don't know who that's for.
23:52Is that for you, sir?
23:53He said try again.
23:55Try again, try again,
23:57but you're going to look stupid,
23:58but try again.
24:01Your whole family going to talk about you.
24:04And only reason why they're going to talk about you
24:06is because you told them all your business
24:07the first time,
24:08but God said,
24:13try again.
24:16They didn't accept you for the position last time.
24:21Try again.
24:22Interview again.
24:24Don't give up.
24:25This isn't the season to give up.
24:29This isn't the season to give in.
24:31This isn't the season for you
24:34to decide that there is no more for you.
24:37This is the season just to try.
24:44I hear the Lord saying,
24:45don't become so discouraged
24:47that you forget to dream.
24:53Discouragement will have you
24:56losing a battle you should win.
25:00Discouragement will have you depressed
25:01when you have more to be happy about
25:04than you have to be sad about.
25:07So I don't know what this word is for,
25:09but just try.
25:11Again, what's the worst that could happen?
25:15What's the worst that could happen?
25:18Don't be afraid to fail.
25:20The people laughing at you are failures.
25:26See, people who know what it takes to try,
25:29they encourage you when it gets tough.
25:33I heard my old pastor say,
25:34he said eagles never take their flight itineraries
25:36from chickens.
25:38You talking to the wrong bird.
25:42You up here getting your advice
25:44from a bird that don't leave the ground.
25:46You got to find some other eagles
25:48so they can tell you it's turbulent up here.
25:50It's hard up here.
26:00I've already given you the kings.
26:02I've already given you the land.
26:03I've already given you the gold.
26:04I've already given you the silver.
26:06Now here's the strategy.
26:08Ambush them.
26:12Because I want to tell you this.
26:13See, y'all think God ain't about fighting,
26:14but sometimes Jesus will be like,
26:17knock if you buck.
26:18He like, he say, he say ambush them.
26:21And this is what I want you to do.
26:22Y'all ready for the sermon?
26:24He says, I want you to ambush them.
26:27I want you to fight.
26:28Now this is what happened the last time.
26:30And this is the revelation the Lord gave me.
26:31Remember, they have already fought these individuals.
26:35And they sent spies into the land.
26:37The spies came back and said,
26:39this is what it's going to take to win.
26:41So the Bible says that Joshua takes 3,000 men,
26:45goes into the city and fights them and loses.
26:54Well, he had an army.
26:55We read the scripture of 30,000.
26:58He took 3,000.
26:59And then the Lord told me to tell you
27:00that sometimes you lose
27:02because you underestimate what it's going to take to win.
27:09If you're going to win this war,
27:10you got to take everything.
27:12You got to take your fight.
27:13You got to take your prayer.
27:15You got to take your fast.
27:16You got to take your word.
27:18You got to take your education.
27:20You can't just take your emotions.
27:25Fighting this battle with your opinion and your emotions
27:28is like taking 3,000.
27:30God said, if you're going to win this battle,
27:31it's going to take everything you have.
27:33It's going to take all that.
27:35Touch your name.
27:36It's going to take everything.
27:37It's going to take everything.
27:40In order for us to get in this room, it took everything.
27:43Every volunteer, every staff, every dollar.
27:45It took everything.
27:46But if you're going to fight back,
27:47you got to have it all.
27:51Most of us lose
27:53because we underestimate what it takes to win.
27:56And we look at other people who win
27:58and we think that we can duplicate their win
28:00because we saw what they did.
28:02But you don't know what happens behind the scenes.
28:04Let me tell you something.
28:06You can have somebody's glory,
28:07but you can't get it without their story.
28:10Touch your name and say,
28:11baby, you don't know what's behind this smile.
28:13Let me tell you something.
28:15This smile is the product of therapy,
28:17counseling, books, podcasts.
28:20You don't know what it took for me to get here.
28:25You can't just look at me and think
28:27that all it took was a prayer.
28:29I prayed, I fasted, I cried, I stabbed, I shot, I cussed.
28:34It was a lot behind this.
28:42This is why so many people are depressed
28:44because they underestimate
28:47what it takes
28:50to win.
28:54You're underestimating
28:57what it takes to be rich like you keep professing.
29:01One day I'm going to be a millionaire.
29:02Okay.
29:04But don't underestimate
29:06what it takes
29:08to win.
29:10I'm going to start a business.
29:12Okay.
29:14God bless you, entrepreneur.
29:16But don't take for granted
29:18that just because you opened a business
29:21it means you can't turn your phone off
29:23and put it on Do Not Disturb at 8.15 p.m.
29:28By the way, why ain't all y'all got Do Not Disturb on?
29:30Just get rid of your phone if you don't want to talk to nobody.
29:34Now you got to call people three times to get through
29:36because they on Do Not Disturb.
29:37Take it off right now, I rebuke you.
29:41Everybody got to send a text notify anyway.
29:45Take that stuff off your phone.
29:51Bet your phone ain't going to be on Do Not Disturb
29:53when you need us.
29:55Now you calling them.
29:56Why they won't answer the phone?
29:58They told me if I needed them.
29:59Well, we need you too.
30:00Take it off.
30:02Got your phone on airplane mode
30:04and you on the ground.
30:05Take it off.
30:07You ain't flying nowhere.
30:14Ask your neighbor, show me right now.
30:16Show me what your setting is.
30:17Show me.
30:18Focus.
30:19You ain't focused.
30:32God says, this time take everybody.
30:36Somebody shout, bring it all.
30:38Say it again, bring it all.
30:40If you're going to win this battle,
30:42you're going to have to bring it all.
30:43If you're going to win this struggle,
30:45you're going to have to bring it all.
30:46If you're going to overcome this depression,
30:48you're going to have to bring it all.
30:49If you're going to get over this insecurity,
30:51you're going to have to bring it all.
30:52You're not a failing parent.
30:54You're just not bringing it all.
30:55You're not a failing wife.
30:57You're just not bringing it all.
30:58You're not a failing entrepreneur.
31:00You're just not bringing it all.
31:01Bring it all.
31:08God gave Joshua a strategy for the second time.
31:11He says, attack them.
31:12Approach the city.
31:14And when they see you proceeding to fight,
31:17when you approach them, they are going to run.
31:21So now you got to get out of the season
31:28where you're always waiting on the fight to come to you.
31:33Most people are defensive.
31:35God says, no, this time I need you to take the fight to the devil.
31:41Watch what he says.
31:44He says, and when you go into the city,
31:50I want you to go into the city and come to the front line.
31:55When they see you, watch this.
31:58I want you to turn around and run.
32:02Let me say it again.
32:04I want you to get your group.
32:05First group, I want you to go in.
32:09And when they see you, I want you to turn around and run.
32:13Now I already know, most of y'all ain't going to do this.
32:15I ain't running from nobody.
32:18How many of y'all already said that in your spirit?
32:20I don't run.
32:23I don't run.
32:24He said, I want you to go in, and I want you to run.
32:27Now, I'm going to split the church up into two groups.
32:30Everybody to my left, you're group one.
32:33Everybody to my right, you're group two.
32:36Group one, let me hear you.
32:43Group two, let me hear you.
32:50Two things I knew would happen.
32:52I knew they would scream louder than you
32:54because people very rarely try their best the first time.
32:58Now watch this.
32:59Group one, shout.
33:03My question is, why didn't you do that?
33:07You're underestimating what it's going to take to win.
33:11When God tells you to do something,
33:13you got to give it everything you have.
33:19Some of y'all wait too long to give it your best.
33:22Some of you wait until the second time to give it all,
33:25but you got to give God your all.
33:31So group one goes in,
33:34and when group one goes in,
33:37y'all going to turn around and run.
33:40Now, everybody in group two,
33:43let me tell you why they shouted.
33:45Why I didn't get to be group one?
33:49What make them better than me?
33:53But God always has a strategy
33:58for the people who had to wait.
34:05So that group one runs in.
34:07Look at group one now.
34:09Group one runs in,
34:13and they turn around and run out.
34:15But there is another group that God says,
34:17I want you to wait.
34:23They didn't wait.
34:24They wait in the ambush.
34:27The group two people don't get to go in.
34:29They don't get their name on the program.
34:31Nobody knows who they are.
34:32They're not known for the first infantry,
34:34but they still a part.
34:35They just...
34:39I just want to see anybody in here
34:41who's just been waiting.
34:42They that wait on the Lord,
34:45and they're just waiting.
34:47Look at group one.
34:48They're just like, okay, include us.
34:49Y'all see group one?
34:50So group one walks in,
34:56turns around and runs,
34:59and what you don't know
35:01is that some people have an anointing
35:03to draw things out.
35:09So what group one did
35:12was make the place ready for group two.
35:18Do I have anybody say,
35:19I go first because I'm strong enough to go first.
35:22I go first because I ain't scared.
35:24I go first because I have the strength to run.
35:28They go in.
35:30They draw the enemy out,
35:33and group two gets to walk in.
35:37They don't even have to fight
35:38because remember,
35:39they are running after group one,
35:42so group two just walked in.
35:48And they got what God promised
35:51without even having to throw a single blow
35:55because everybody who would fight them
35:58is chasing group one.
36:00Group two gets to walk in,
36:02and they get to fight.
36:04Watch this.
36:05And God says,
36:06this time you get to keep the spoils.
36:09I don't know who I'm talking to,
36:11but God said the first fight
36:14cost you everything,
36:16but the second fight
36:17going to pay for itself.
36:19I need everybody in this room
36:21to give your neighbor a high five
36:23and shout, God said,
36:24this is your payday
36:26because you survived the storm.
36:28God says,
36:29I'm about to give you everything
36:30you dreamed about.
36:31I'm about to give you everything
36:32you prayed about.
36:34I want you to grab three people
36:35and tell them,
36:36it's your season, it's your season,
36:37it's your season.
36:47This is for everybody watching online.
36:49This is for everybody in the room.
36:51Don't get depressed
36:52because they're not paying attention
36:53to you now.
36:56I'm not a loser.
36:59I'm just waiting
37:01on a win.
37:03You're not failing.
37:04God just puts you
37:05in an ambush position.
37:07You have to stay
37:09beneath the radar long enough
37:12so that you can develop the strength
37:13to handle the light
37:15because if God sends you too fast,
37:18your weakness will be exposed.
37:24So I know you're working
37:25on the business,
37:26but God ain't sending the customers
37:28because you don't have QuickBooks yet.
37:34So you'll get the customers,
37:36but you'll lose the business
37:37to the IRS
37:40because you don't know
37:41that you got to file a franchise tax
37:44and that you can't file
37:45a personal tax to substitute.
37:47See how quiet you got?
37:48You didn't know that.
37:49That's why you got to wait.
37:51There's some things you need to learn
37:52before you just walk up in there
37:53talking about I'm ready.
37:59They walk in
38:01and they take everything.
38:03Oh, I wish I had time
38:04to preach it all.
38:05They came in and they took everything
38:08and then Joshua does something incredible.
38:13The Bible says that instead of bragging,
38:17instead of posting,
38:19as you know,
38:20as soon as we get a new house,
38:21I got the keys.
38:25As soon as you get a new car,
38:26you're sitting on the hood.
38:32Joshua said,
38:33ain't nothing wrong with posting it.
38:36Ain't nothing wrong
38:37with telling everybody about it.
38:39But before you do any of that,
38:42there is something you need to do.
38:44He says you waited and you won.
38:50But there is one thing you got to do
38:52before you tell everybody.
38:53The Bible says that Joshua builds an altar.
38:59He says before you tell anybody
39:01what you have,
39:03you got to tell God,
39:04thank you for what you've done.
39:08Watch what he does.
39:09And the Bible says that he takes a spear
39:12and he sticks it out.
39:15And the Bible lets us know
39:16that he doesn't just stick it out
39:17and put it up.
39:19He holds it out and he sustains it.
39:21And as long as he has the spear out,
39:23they're supposed to keep fighting.
39:25What I'm saying is,
39:26is that we've got to have a season
39:29where we don't just clap and praise God
39:32and sit down and thank him.
39:34But there has to be a sustained worship.
39:37The kind of worship
39:38where we almost have to tell you
39:40the doors of the church have got to close
39:42because service has to be over.
39:44But you can't stop shouting
39:46because when you think of the goodness of God
39:48and all of the wins you've been waiting on,
39:50you just keep giving them glory.
39:52So when I hold out this microphone,
39:54I want you to think of it as a spear
39:56and I want you to worship God
39:58until I put it down.
40:00There you go.
40:09Keep worshipping.
40:13Keep worshipping.
40:16Keep worshipping.
40:18Come on, give him glory.
40:20It could have been worse.
40:22It could have gone the other way.
40:24I waited for this win.
40:26But before I tell anybody about it,
40:29I'm going to tell the Lord,
40:30thank you for all you've done for me.
40:32I need every soldier in this place today
40:35to lift your voice to the sound of your capacity
40:39and give God the glory
40:41that you did not lose in the battle.
40:50Give him glory.
40:53You should have been dead by now.
40:55Give him glory.
40:56You should be sleeping under a bridge right now.
40:58Give him glory.
41:00You should be in an insane asylum right now.
41:02Give him glory.
41:14Hallelujah.
41:16Hallelujah.
41:23Hallelujah.
41:25Hallelujah.
41:56Joshua built an altar.
42:02The thing about building an altar,
42:03you don't need wood.
42:06You don't need a saw.
42:07You don't need a hammer.
42:09You just build it right where you,
42:11just wherever you are,
42:12you just start worshipping him.
42:17Stand to your feet.
42:21The Bible says that the altar was made
42:24with uncut stones untouched by iron tools.
42:30Oh my God.
42:33Uncut stone that was not touched by iron tools.
42:37See, it's a shadow of what would happen
42:41when Jesus was crucified
42:44because the stone would be nailed with iron nails.
42:54But in the last day,
42:57as the old church was saying
42:58in that great getting up morning,
43:03the rock of ages
43:09will come and descend for those of us
43:13who've been just waiting on the wind.
43:19I know you have the courage to win.
43:23Do you have the courage to wait?
43:31If you're in this place today,
43:32if you never accepted Jesus Christ
43:33as your Lord and Savior,
43:36I want to extend this invitation to you.
43:40If you've never accepted him
43:41as your Lord and Savior,
43:42the Lord sent you here
43:43this first nine o'clock service
43:45on this new watch
43:46as we build our way back.
43:48And let me tell you,
43:49we'll be back.
43:52Don't even worry about that.
43:57Don't even fret not thyself.
43:59We'll be back.
44:00We're just waiting
44:04on this wind that God is going to send.
44:08If you're in this place
44:09and you've never accepted Christ
44:10as your Lord and Savior,
44:11or you've not joined a church,
44:15this is the time for you
44:16to unite because we're in the movement.
44:20That movement is leading to a momentum
44:22where lives will be changed forever.
44:26If you'll come.
44:27Come on.
44:28God bless them as they come.