Speaker 1: Hallelujah. We just thank you, Lord.
Speaker 2: We thank you God for what you are continuing to
Speaker 2: do in our minds today and in our hearts. Lord,
Speaker 2: I pray that there is a transformation, even radical transformations.
Speaker 2: God of the mind today, Jesus, Father, renew it, renew it,
Speaker 2: renew it. And Lord, I thank you God. We we
Speaker 2: give you our hearts today.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 2: Uh, I know that you are the only one who
Speaker 2: we can trust with our heart. And so God, I
Speaker 2: pray that you would you would continue to mend the
Speaker 2: hearts of the people, to continue to encourage the hearts
Speaker 2: of the people today through this word in Jesus's name. Amen, Amen, Amen.
Speaker 2: All right, Wow, there's a big topic for me. It's
Speaker 2: a big topic for me. Uh. The Lord gave me
Speaker 2: this word while I was having a conversation with Pastor Duane.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Pastor Dwayne. If he's out there listening,
Speaker 2: I know he probably is. We love you, Pastor. This
Speaker 2: is something that that has been kind of been downloaded
Speaker 2: to me, and I think part of it is because
Speaker 2: the scriptures that pertain to the to the Word also
Speaker 2: have been very changing and transforming for my own life
Speaker 2: and have led me to where I'm at and so
Speaker 2: this is like a very near and dear subject, right
Speaker 2: because I think I'm I don't know, I just I'm
Speaker 2: so passionate about this word expansion. Maybe maybe you guys
Speaker 2: can catch it this this this day, let's put up
Speaker 2: the title expansion Destroys Fear.
Speaker 1: And Joshua Chapter one.
Speaker 2: Moses had died and he left Joshua basically as the leader.
Speaker 2: He was his assistant. And so we're going to start
Speaker 2: reading the word at verse three Joshua chapter one, Verse three.
Speaker 1: Every place that.
Speaker 2: Just keep going as I'm done, Just keep going, every
Speaker 2: place that the sole of your foot will tread upon.
Speaker 2: I have given you, as I said to Moses, from
Speaker 2: the wilderness, and this Lebanon, as far as the Great
Speaker 2: River and the River Euphrates, all of the land of
Speaker 2: the hit Sites, and also the Great Sea towards the
Speaker 2: going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No
Speaker 2: man shall be able to stand before you all the
Speaker 2: days of your life as I was with Moses. So
Speaker 2: I will be with you. I will not leave you
Speaker 2: nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage. Say,
Speaker 2: be strong and of good courage, For to this people
Speaker 2: you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I
Speaker 2: swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong
Speaker 2: and very courageous, that you may observe to do according
Speaker 2: to the law which Moses, my servant commanded. You do
Speaker 2: not turn from it to the right hand or to
Speaker 2: the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
Speaker 1: This book of the Law.
Speaker 2: Shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate
Speaker 2: in it day and night, and that you may observe
Speaker 2: to do according to all that it is written in it.
Speaker 2: For then you will make your way prosperous, and then
Speaker 2: you will have good success. Have I not commanded you
Speaker 2: be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid
Speaker 2: nor dismayed, For the Lord, your God is with you
Speaker 2: wherever you go. At the beginning in Genesis, you know,
Speaker 2: he says that you should fill the earth and subdue it.
Speaker 1: He gives a command to mankind. Amen.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're gonna go with this thing in mind.
Speaker 2: Expansion destroys fear. He told him three times to be
Speaker 2: strong and courageous. Do you think that someone who's having
Speaker 2: this conversation with somebody else maybe know something about Joshua,
Speaker 2: that perhaps maybe he's a little bit afraid that maybe
Speaker 2: he needs a little bit of encouragement. So he had
Speaker 2: been walking around a mountain in the wilderness for forty
Speaker 2: years with a lot of disobedient people that were just
Speaker 2: slowly dying off, slowly dying off. He was living among
Speaker 2: a people who were just trickling down right because God
Speaker 2: said that they would not enter into that promised land
Speaker 2: because of their disobedience, because they feared the inhabitants of
Speaker 2: the promised land. They feared what was coming, they feared confrontation,
Speaker 2: and God didn't appreciate their lack of trust in him
Speaker 2: because it was God who gave the command. It was
Speaker 2: God who was leading. It was God who would go
Speaker 2: before them and not leave them or forsake them.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's see when we need to be courageous
Speaker 2: and strong in this in this uh, in these verses
Speaker 2: in verse six and verse seven and verse nine, there
Speaker 2: is definitely lack in what Joshua may be feeling, or
Speaker 2: doubts may be swimming around in his head, or maybe
Speaker 2: there's even outside sources that are telling him that you know,
Speaker 2: you are you sure this is what you're going what
Speaker 2: you're going to want to do? And what I mean
Speaker 2: by that is it could be the voice of the
Speaker 2: enemy coming against him. You know, it's not just his
Speaker 2: own inWORD man speaking. It could also be the voice
Speaker 2: of the enemy coming against the word of God. Right,
Speaker 2: And I want us to apply this to our own lives. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is why it's been taught. I want to apply
Speaker 2: it to our own lives, individually and corporately. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: So in the middle of each moment where God asked
Speaker 2: Joshua to be strong, he shows him when he will
Speaker 2: need strength. Right, I said that the first one is
Speaker 2: about provision. The first time that he speaks to him,
Speaker 2: God actually reveals to him I will provide something that Joshua,
Speaker 2: you cannot or will never produce for the people of
Speaker 2: Israel on your own. In other words, God brings provision,
Speaker 2: the provision of the land which Joshua had never known.
Speaker 2: Joshua was born in slavery. Joshua was in the wilderness
Speaker 2: all of his life, so he never owned a piece
Speaker 2: of land. He never was a homeowner. He was probably
Speaker 2: the most unqualified person to parcel out land that he
Speaker 2: has never experienced in his old entire life. So the
Speaker 2: most unqualified of people are being asked to be the
Speaker 2: ones to parcel out and divide land for over two
Speaker 2: million people. Wow, that's a I'm gonna need some strength
Speaker 2: and courage. I don't know about you. I'm going to
Speaker 2: need strength and courage for him, you know.
Speaker 1: But you know he tells him.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm going to I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: that strength and that courage so that that way you
Speaker 2: can divide it to this great peace people.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: So number one is provision number two. The second time,
Speaker 2: God tells him that he will need to be strong
Speaker 2: and take courage and when he needs to honor the
Speaker 2: word of God, who was that was handed down by
Speaker 2: his servant Moses. How well are we honoring the word of.
Speaker 1: The people of God? Right?
Speaker 2: How well do we honor up to the next generation.
Speaker 2: You need strength and courage to be able to trust
Speaker 2: that they want what is best for you, that they
Speaker 2: are leading you and directing you in the right direction.
Speaker 2: You need to have courage and strength, and God provides it. Amen,
Speaker 2: this is what he's saying you must have, and this
Speaker 2: is for us. You must have conviction that this is
Speaker 2: ultimate truth in our generation. You must be fully convinced
Speaker 2: that this gospel that we teach and we preach is
Speaker 2: the ultimate truth. You need strength to uphold it as
Speaker 2: ultimate truth, and you're going to need courage to live
Speaker 2: it out. That's why he says, do not depart from
Speaker 2: it to the left or to the right, but do
Speaker 2: everything that is written in it, and then you will
Speaker 2: have good Successah. Finally, the third time that he tells him,
Speaker 2: he says, you will need strength and courage when you
Speaker 2: feel fear and dismay. The answer to fear and dismay
Speaker 2: is the knowing that God will never leave you.
Speaker 1: Nor forsake you, and that He will be with.
Speaker 2: You wherever you go.
Speaker 1: That's the word.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the elimination of fear is what we're after. Fear
Speaker 2: of the unknown, fear of lack, fear of uncertainty, the
Speaker 2: fear of challenges and distractions which so easily can ensnare
Speaker 2: us right, the unknown. Fear of the unknown might be
Speaker 2: the most triggering thing of your imagination. Then you might
Speaker 2: know you might get most imaginative with the fear of
Speaker 2: the unknown then than any other time in your life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you start to get really creative with what with with
Speaker 2: what might happen that hasn't even taken place. Yet I
Speaker 2: can only imagine exactly what those people, when they were fearing,
Speaker 2: were actually thinking. Man, I'm about to get torn to
Speaker 2: pieces from those giants. They're gonna cook me and they're
Speaker 2: gonna eat me. Instead of going like Joshua and Caleb,
Speaker 2: these people are our bread. Come on, he prepares a
Speaker 2: meal for you in the presence of your enemies. He
Speaker 2: sets a whole table. Will the enemy be your bread? See,
Speaker 2: Joshua received strength and courage simultaneously. When the command came,
Speaker 2: he had already obtained it on this side of the Jordan,
Speaker 2: in the desert, in the wilderness. However, Joshua did not
Speaker 2: experience this until he crosses the Jordan. So God waits
Speaker 2: for the ark to go before him to stop the
Speaker 2: waters all the way to the city of Adam, right
Speaker 2: where Man ends, God begins come.
Speaker 1: That's Kye.
Speaker 2: So God takes them through that river and they walk
Speaker 2: on the other side, and when there's these great walls
Speaker 2: in front of him, he goes, Okay, I have no
Speaker 2: idea how I'm gonna get past these walls.
Speaker 1: But God knows He's with us. Amen.
Speaker 2: So it was during the expansion time that Israel. It
Speaker 2: was the through the expansion of Israel, that Joshua experiences
Speaker 2: victory and the conquest over fear.
Speaker 1: See, there's a there's a there is.
Speaker 2: A victory, and then there's victories.
Speaker 1: After the first one.
Speaker 2: So you first conquer it a little out of time,
Speaker 2: step by step, city by city, nation by nation, people
Speaker 2: by people. Right, fill the earth and subdue. It is
Speaker 2: what we're commanded to do. It is in our dna,
Speaker 2: it is our makeup, and as the children of God,
Speaker 2: it is it is the kingdom of Heaven that we
Speaker 2: want brought down right. So something that he told me. Actually,
Speaker 2: also as I was thinking about today, we oftentimes speak
Speaker 2: about God's will being done on earth as it is
Speaker 2: in heaven. But it happens after you begin conquering fear
Speaker 2: and moving into the promises of God for your life.
Speaker 2: You bring about His will through your actions. As you
Speaker 2: discover the will of God in prayer, your life begins
Speaker 2: to reflect that you understand that will by what you
Speaker 2: do next true true. So he takes that step, and
Speaker 2: he goes across the river, and they take Jericho and
Speaker 2: all of the enemies in the surrounding region. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is what and they say this, this is what
Speaker 2: Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai Wow, and they
Speaker 2: greatly feared. Oh God, I think an excuse me if
Speaker 2: this is going to sound a little bit you know,
Speaker 2: too manly or whatever you know, but it is what
Speaker 2: it is, Kay.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: A man can only know what it's like to win
Speaker 2: when he engages in combat or competition. David only knew
Speaker 2: how to kill a giant through the experience of fighting
Speaker 2: a giant. I think sometimes we get so afraid to
Speaker 2: move forward because of the fear of the unknown, rather
Speaker 2: than using the fear of staying exactly as you are
Speaker 2: to propel you into the direction that God has carved
Speaker 2: out before you. When he shows you the promise of
Speaker 2: things to come. It is not our job to respond with.
Speaker 1: What if good? What if you don't provide? What? What
Speaker 1: if the enemy defeats me? What if.
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: What if you're not there with me?
Speaker 2: We need that exact fear of staying and exactly as
Speaker 2: we are to propel us into killing that which is
Speaker 2: in front of us. Right, And it says, and here's
Speaker 2: the thing about the word. They stayed for forty days
Speaker 2: in that valley, looking fear in the face and being
Speaker 2: completely stopped an entire army of men who were backed
Speaker 2: by God. They said that it was the army of
Speaker 2: the Lord was completely stopped in fear, and that fear
Speaker 2: never departed until after that giant was overcome. Then they
Speaker 2: all charged into combat and battle. But it takes faithful
Speaker 2: action forward by even just one man of God. Imagine
Speaker 2: an army of God who would take a step forward
Speaker 2: in what God has called them to do, to fill
Speaker 2: the earth and subdue it, to edenize the world, to
Speaker 2: establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, to expand beyond
Speaker 2: what we think we are able to even do on
Speaker 2: our own. So we have a church, now we're expanding it.
Speaker 2: So it's growing, why because we need it for capacity.
Speaker 2: What happens when that one grows too big? Come on,
Speaker 2: come on. It's one conquest after the next until we
Speaker 2: fill up this earth and sub it until every single
Speaker 2: place looks like light and glory. We grow so that
Speaker 2: God can continue to pour in more glory, so that
Speaker 2: he can continue to fill it with more presence, so
Speaker 2: that he can continue to draw in the loss, or
Speaker 2: draw in the believer, so that they can come here
Speaker 2: and learn the word of God, so that they can
Speaker 2: be activated into the promises of God, so that they
Speaker 2: can be taught and brought and sent out into the
Speaker 2: pilot gad station, into Uganda, into Texas, into the prisons,
Speaker 2: and pulling out that which the enemy thought that he had,
Speaker 2: and driving them from darkness into God's marvelous light. And
Speaker 2: we can only do that through expanse. This has been
Speaker 2: the whole entire process of God from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: Do you know when he said to tend and to
Speaker 2: keep it, he was actually expanding, eat it. It continued
Speaker 2: to grow and to flourish. After the curse came, he said,
Speaker 2: he said, lets the wilderness overtake you, you know, so
Speaker 2: that way you can grow outward. You can grow outward.
Speaker 2: The intention is to grow in numbers, to feel it
Speaker 2: and subdue it. This applies to our own personal ministry expressions.
Speaker 2: This applies to what you do in your every day life.
Speaker 2: This applies to what you do in volunteering here. This
Speaker 2: applies to you in what the Lord has called you
Speaker 2: to do. As far as apostolic leadership in business, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of people of you who are in business,
Speaker 2: who owned businesses. And guess what if you know that
Speaker 2: that's your call and you know that that's part of
Speaker 2: you building the Kingdom of God. Then expand thedn't grow.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Be more afraid to stay the same. I love it.
Speaker 2: Be more afraid to stay the same because we preach
Speaker 2: a gospel that is continued all the time. It is
Speaker 2: always moving, it's always it's always changing us, transforming us.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: He's the foundation. Right, He's the cornerstone of our of
Speaker 2: our faith. Jesus is right. And we never expect Christians
Speaker 2: to stay exactly as they came in. We never expect
Speaker 2: that people say, come as you are, but allow God
Speaker 2: to transform you into he has called you to be.
Speaker 2: Don't come as you are and stay as you are.
Speaker 2: That don't work. Wow? Yeah, Yes, stay humble, Yes, stay contrite, Yes,
Speaker 2: stay stay raw in your heart for the Lord. Yes,
Speaker 2: stay stay in that posture of gratitude.
Speaker 1: Yes, stay in those things. Everything else though.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's push those weeds out. Yeah, let's let's plant
Speaker 2: a new garden, let's lay a new foundation, let's scrow. Aymen,
Speaker 2: I'm preaching today. I don't know about you, guys. I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm preaching today.
Speaker 1: H Mmmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go to let's let's use Zerubbyl as another
Speaker 2: example of this, because he was a man that had
Speaker 2: to expand something that he was coming up up against
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of opposition, and I got to hurry up,
Speaker 2: come on, let's do this, okay. So let's see ZERUBBYL
Speaker 2: was building and constructing the Second Temple after they destroyed
Speaker 2: the Temple of Solomon, after the Babylonians came, they leveled
Speaker 2: it out, and everything happened.
Speaker 1: Then Cyrus comes in, he freezes the Jews.
Speaker 2: Then Zerubbyl is now in play, Neamiah is now in play,
Speaker 2: Ezra's now in play, and they are going to start
Speaker 2: to rebuild the temple. But then say but then the
Speaker 2: naysayers show up, the complainers that live in the surrounding area,
Speaker 2: and they're like.
Speaker 1: You can't build that temple.
Speaker 2: Then the harassments show up. Oh, we're going to fight
Speaker 2: you over that. You guys got to stop building. And
Speaker 2: then the worst come out of all that group. The
Speaker 2: worst show up, say the lawyers. I'm sorry, if there's
Speaker 2: a lawyer in the building, they're redeemable to They're redeemable to. Hallylujah.
Speaker 2: We love our lawyers. They're the ones that are going
Speaker 2: to fight the fights that we need them to fight.
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, Amen.
Speaker 2: After a while, they simply grew weary, and then they
Speaker 2: started to build their own homes. They started to build
Speaker 2: up their own lives, and then they forget to build
Speaker 2: the House of the Lord. For ten years, it's.
Speaker 1: Just just sitting.
Speaker 2: House of the Lord's just sitting. You know, we face
Speaker 2: obstacles here too. They faced obstacles. They had to cast
Speaker 2: out basically numbers of demons just to get this church
Speaker 2: Bill Pastor Dwayne and Joel and the people that were
Speaker 2: with him. So hallelujah, Amen. Giants had the fall just
Speaker 2: for this place. We face challenges now expanding it, just
Speaker 2: like Rubable did. He faced challenges trying to just get
Speaker 2: that foundation finished. But here's the word of the Lord.
Speaker 2: For now and for then, let's go to Zachariah four
Speaker 2: six through ten. So he answered and said to me,
Speaker 2: this is the word of the Lord, tis Rubabyle, not
Speaker 2: by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says
Speaker 2: the Lord of Hosts, who are you, o great mountain
Speaker 2: before zerubebyl you shall become a plain, and he shall
Speaker 2: bring forth the capstones with shouts of grace.
Speaker 1: Grace.
Speaker 2: Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Speaker 2: the hands of Zerubabyl have laid the foundation of this temple.
Speaker 2: His hands shall also finish it. Then you will know
Speaker 2: that the Lord of Hosts has set me to you,
Speaker 2: for who has despised the day of small things. We
Speaker 2: have small beginnings, even for the size that we are.
Speaker 2: We have small beginnings. We have to look up and
Speaker 2: look further, and look bigger than this place. We have
Speaker 2: to broaden our vision. We can go further than Jericho
Speaker 2: and Ai. Yeah, for these seven rejoice to see the
Speaker 2: plumb line in the hand of Zerubabyl. They are the
Speaker 2: eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro throughout
Speaker 2: the whole.
Speaker 1: What earth, Come.
Speaker 2: On, we are we are, We have set people out,
Speaker 2: we have we have been into other countries, into other
Speaker 2: cities in the United States. Here right, we're going into
Speaker 2: dark places and bringing light. But this is expansion season.
Speaker 2: I think this is the word of the Lord for
Speaker 2: this season, is that it's an expansion season. Amount of time.
Speaker 2: Mm hm hmmm. Let's let's shout grace to some things
Speaker 2: you ready, black ops to goals, difficulties, naysayers, opposition lawyers,
Speaker 2: the unknown, the enemy's lies, fear, grace, grace, hallelujah.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's stand up. Let's pray.
Speaker 2: Father, We thank you for today. We thank you for
Speaker 2: your word.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: Lord, I pray that everyone received this personal invitation God
Speaker 2: to shot, grace, to.
Speaker 1: The mountain that stands before them.
Speaker 2: God in the personal, in the family area, God in
Speaker 2: the finances area of God, in the area of business.
Speaker 1: Lord, in the area of ministry. God.
Speaker 2: I pray that there's new ministers, even being birth right.
Speaker 2: Now Lord, impart it to them. God, give them a
Speaker 2: new vision. Lord. Let their eyes see how far you
Speaker 2: can take them and how fear has no place in them,
Speaker 2: for your presence goes with them. Lord, a thank you.
Speaker 2: We bless your holy name. Lord in Jesus, might nay amen.