We only go to Joshua chapter five verse one through fifteen.
That’s a little bit more reading than I normally do, but I’m going to, uh, read verses one through fifteen out of the book of Joshua chapter number five, when you have it say amen.
Now, when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Cainanite kings along the coast heard how the lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over their hearts melted in fear.
And they no longer had the courage to face the israelites. Stop right there.
I wanna go back and do that again.
Now, when the Amorite kings look at how everything is put in perspective based on the Jordan in itself.
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan, and all the canaanite kings along the coast heard how the lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over the hearts melted in fear.
And they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites because of what god did at the Jordan.
Come on. At that time, the Lord said to Joshua.
Joshua make flipped knives and circumcised the Israelites again.
So Joshua made flint knives Oh, it hurts to read this.
And and circumcise the israelites at Goliath. Now, this is why he did so.
All those who came out of Egypt, all the men of military age died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.
All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness during the journey from Egypt had not.
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died since they had not obeyed the lord.
For the lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land.
He had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us a land flowing with milk, a hidden honey.
So he raised up their sons. Oh my god.
The thing that he had for the fathers he gave to the sons because of their disobedience, he passed up that generation and dropped it to the next generation.
Oh my god. So he raised up their sons in their place.
And these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were bleeding, but they were blessed.
Oh, my god, from dying.
They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way. They were moving uncircumcised.
They were progressing uncircumcised, but there come you can only go so far before God has to correct what has been uncorrected.
They moved along the way on circumstance.
A lot of us move along the way, and we get a lot of things done.
But that doesn’t mean that god is totally pleased just because you have progress doesn’t mean that God has pleasure because you are moving, but you’re moving in an uncircumcised fashion.
And sooner or later it’s gonna catch up to you.
And god says, I gotta fix this before you cross over into your ultimate sacrifice I gotta get some of your flesh cut out of the way.
Oh, I don’t know who I’m talking to.
And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remain where they were in camp until they were healed.
Isn’t it funny how god will stop everything for you to get healed.
How god doesn’t want you to serve bleeding?
Serve wounded that god wants you to be healed and to recover so that he can get the fullness out of your life.
Then the lord said to Joshua, Today, I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.
The reposts of residue. The curse of Egypt has been rolled away.
Even though you weren’t born in it, you have reproach from it.
These were born along the way.
And yet the residue of the experience of their fathers had affected the sons.
And he said, this day, I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.
So the place has been called Gil Gal to this day.
I want you I want you to hear what I just said. They they they weren’t in Egypt.
They weren’t from Egypt.
They were born after Egypt, but the reproach of Egypt was still on them.
Can you say, man? Same man for the first lady. I see all y’all looking at her.
I can’t preach till you say something. Go ahead. Let’s get that out.
So the place has been called Gilgau to this day. Okay?
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgau, on the plains of Jericho, The Israelites celebrated the Passover.
Now they went they’ve gone from bleeding to celebration.
The day after the Passover, that very day they ate some of the produce of the land.
Eleven bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after. What did he do?
It stopped the day after they ate this food from the land.
There was no longer any manna for the Israelites.
But that year, they ate the produce of canaan just because god stops doing what you’re used to doesn’t mean he’s not with you.
You can’t hold god back to who he was.
While he’s trying to show you who he is, and you feel punished because the man has stopped, the man has stopped because it’s no longer necessary.
Sometimes god removes things out of your life because you don’t need them, like you used to need them.
And yet you’re crying out for what was at the expense of what he is. Uh, help me Jesus.
Now when Joshua was near jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a with a drawn sword in his hand.
And and this this is not a natural man.
This is a theophonic man station of god himself an angelica host of heaven.
I believe, uh, theophany within itself Joshua went up to him and asked, are you for us or for our enemies?
That’s one thing about it. Joshua will kinda like Peter, he would take you home.
He said, what’s up? And the angel spoke neither. He replied.
But as the commander of the army of the lord, I am the commander of the army of the lord, I have now come.
I didn’t come for your enemy. I didn’t come for you. I came for god’s purpose.
Then Joshua fell face down on the ground in reverence and ask him what message does my lord have for his servant?
The commander of the Lord’s army replied, take off your shoes for the place where on you are standing It’s holy.
It’s holy. Somebody shot holy. And Joshua did so. Can you say, man?
Take me back to the first verse for just a moment. I’ll take my thought out of there.
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Cainanite kings along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over their hearts melted in fear, and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.
My subject this evening, the power to stop.
The power to stop. Think about that.
The power to stop fill in the blank. Oh, what do you need?
The power to stop.
Type it on the line. The power to stop.
Put it in the text, the power to stop, put the power. The power. The power. The power to stop.
Spirit up for living god full fresh on us tonight.
Intoxicate us with your glory.
Inundate us with your presence, endow us with your word, open up the oracles of eternity and release truth to us in our innermost parts.
I thank you in advance for what you’re going to do.
I thank you because you’re god all by yourself. I thank you because you can do anything but fail.
I thank you because you have summoned us here tonight to hear what the spirit of the lord will say to the church.
We will give the utmost heat and, uh, to your word as you speak tonight.
We will heat it and obey it.
In Jesus’ name we pray at the top of your lungs, shout a man. Amen.
You may be seated in the presence of God. How y’all doing?
We are in the book of Joshua.
We are in the book of Joshua. We are in the book of Joshua.
We are in the book of Joshua. There is a parallel between Joshua and Joshua.
Yashua is Joshua’s pronunciation. Jesus reveals himself in the new testament.
Joshua, In the old testament, his shadow, it’s Joshua.
Where are you in the book of Joshua? This is not for the faint of heart.
This is not for the weak.
This is not for people who are fragile and sensitive This is the book for people who are going to take what the enemy stole from them.
This is not for those who cannot stand discomfort.
Or draw back a turbulence because this is a book of transition.
This is a book that comes right after the death of Moses.
It is at the end of grieving.
It is a benediction to that which was and the birthing of that which shall be as I was with Moses.
So shall I be with you?
I will be with you as I was, but you will not be him.
So this is a time of transition.
This is a time of discovery so that I might discover how to wear the glory of Moses in the authenticity of who I am. I cannot imitate him.
I must be authentically, Joshua.
But his anointing has come to rest upon me if I am sure of my own identity.
As I was, god says, as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you?
So don’t be him because I’m going to be the same, but you’re going to be you.
With my presence on you. Shashawa.
You’re going to possess the gate of the enemy.
I am going to use you to roll back the reproach of the Egyptians on a people who never met the Egyptians.
Oh my god. Are people who have not met the Egyptians but are affected generationally by their predecessors.
The trauma of Egypt has fallen on the children of the wilderness.
And I am going to pull the trauma off of them even though their trauma does not match their memories.
You do know you can inherit trauma without going through the things that your grandparents went through they can pass on their phobias, their fears, their traumas, their anxieties, and all of a sudden you’re acting in a way that you don’t understand, and you don’t know that it’s not even coming from your birthday forward.
It’s coming before your birthday here.
It happened way back to your grandparents, your parents in Egypt, and they left you in the wheel, their fear, their trauma.
Their perversion, their brokenness, their pain.
And god says to Joshua I’ve anointed you to roll back the reproach of Egypt from a people who had never been.
I wonder what’s on you that you never earned.
That was passed down to you that you became the beneficiary for something for which you did not labor and yet it’s all over you.
FX what you’re afraid of, affects how you react.
Affects your temperament, affects your moods, affects your disposition, affects what you can’t stand, what you can’t take.
And you don’t know why you can’t stand it, because you’ve never been to Egypt, but Egypt has been to you.
Are you hearing what I’m saying to you? So there we are with Joshua having this responsibility.
Not only cleansing their heart from the grief of Moses but cleansing their heart from the residual effect of the ancestral curse that has passed from generation to generation he has to do it with a sharp stone at Gilgau.
And it’s a bloody business. Sometimes getting free.
Is a bloody business.
That that’s why we don’t see the losing and deliverance that we used to see in the church because we don’t like we don’t like how messy deliverance is.
Yeah. Yeah.
In in the old church, we would roll the floor, but now we’re too cute to be rolling on the floor because because real deliverance, real breakthrough where you really turn into somebody new, not somebody who has a glaze over a sinner’s hard, real deliverance requires some bloodshed and some pain and some swelling and some suffering and a time of silence.
While you heal, real deliverance is painful.
It doesn’t accommodate your nervous system It’s not designed to make you feel good about yourself, and we live in a generation where everybody wants to make you feel good.
And if they don’t make you feel good, you leave and go to another church.
And if they don’t make you feel good, you leave and go to another church.
And if this husband don’t make you good. You’ll get you another one.
And if that one don’t make you feel good, you’ll get you another one because you keep feeling good, but you never get better.
Because sometimes in order to get better, you got to hurt and bleed and swell up and scab up and heal up and go through deliverance get to the place where you get the breakthrough that you really need.
But everybody’s so busy being soft in their parenting and soft in their pasturing and soft in their preaching that we’re producing soft leaders and soft men and soft women and everybody so soft that you ought to stamp Charmin on your head because you
too soft
to be a leader. Oh, you hear what I’m saying too.
You gotta take people’s temperature before you tell them the truth. They can’t handle the truth.
And so Joshua has this dubious complicated task of leading them through this this critical situation surrounded by the king of the canaanites.
Surrounded by enemies who are on both sides of the Jordan.
Let me spend some time with the Jordan because the Jordan is very, very important to the text.
If not the star of the texts, the Jordan is the impetus to which the heathens now respect the Israelites because of what god did through the Jordan.
Let us begin by understanding that the text does not tell us the topography of the jordan.
And if you don’t understand the typography of the Jordan, then the text loses its power.
Number one, I have been to Jerusalem, and I’ve been to Jordan, and I’ve been in the Jordan River, and I’ve seen it and I saw the sea of Gala leave, which is above it, which flows down into it.
And I understand that it goes all the way back to Mount Hebron.
You remember when the Bible said, uh, behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
It is like the oil that fell upon the head of Aaron onto his spirits and onto his scourge.
It is like the dude that fell on Mount Herman. The dude that fell on Mount Herman was famous.
Uh, many theologians think that Mount Herman and Mount the amount of transfiguration were the same mountains.
At the bottom of the mountains, the flowers were a result of the dew and the condensation that created a waterfall that contributed to the Jordan River that flow through the Sea of Galla Lee.
The Jordan River has many contributing forces that causes it to flow. It is fresh water.
Now notice I started on the mountain.
I started on the mountain, but it’s it slides down from the mountain.
To the Sea of Gallalee.
When I went to the Sea of Gallalee, it was after I had gone down the road to Jerico, and it was a winding road down.
Uh, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. See, anytime you’re at Jerusalem, you’re at a high place.
That’s why the Bible called it a city set up on a hill. That cannot be here.
Jerusalem is a high place, but on your way down to Jerico, you’re coming down like the water is coming down.
Uh, it’s coming down. It’s coming down.
And there, the sea of Gallalee was down at the bottom, and it was beautiful, and it was wonderful, and it’s fresh water, fresh fresh water, drinkable water, replenish it water.
That’s why the city is are built around water because water sustains life.
And in the early days, most cities were built around water so that they would have the sustenance that was necessary to support life.
Watch me. I’m headed somewhere. Now, we’re going down. Somebody say we’re going down.
As the Jordan begins to collect, all of its contributing factors and continues to flow.
It flows with such power and such grace until as it continues to go down, it goes lower and lower until it goes below.
Sea level. And eventually, if you study it out, the Jordan flows into what is called the Dead Sea.
And there is nothing that can flow. There’s nothing that can survive in the dead sea.
Because the Dead Sea is so salty that you could literally stand up and walk across it.
How did something start so fresh.
How could it be up on the mountain and be so fresh?
And keep going down and down and down until the fresh water has turned to salt water.
Are you following what I’m saying?
Now, the Jordan River in the in the early days and the historical days was about one point three billion cubic meters per year.
One point three billion is a lot of cubic meters just twenty to thirty million cubic cubic meters per year now, but originally the Jordan was a force to be reckoned with.
It was forceful, it was full, and during certain seasons, it would over flood the banks, and it was powerful.
And when Joshua crosses to Jordan, it is at the peak of his season where the banks are overflowing, but don’t let it be lost on you that the Jordan is coming down.
In fact, some scholars teach us that the Jordan’s little tr literal translation for the word Jordan means to come down.
To come down. The text doesn’t give us the topography.
You have to do your own research to get the topography, but the text is coming down.
So if the text is coming down, the the water is coming down, and the water is coming down.
I was having a conversation with the girl, uh, who’s a scientist, and I asked her what she thought about the rain forest in Brazil.
And she said, before we talk about the rainforest in Brazil, she said we have to deal with the sub Saharan uh, desert in Africa because it is a dust storm in the sub Saharan areas of Africa that creates the clouds that blow over to Brazil that causes the rain.
Calls and effects.
If there were no Mount Hebron, there wouldn’t be a Jordan.
If there wasn’t a sea of Gallaleed, there wouldn’t be a Jordan. It starts up here.
If it wasn’t fresh water, there wouldn’t be salt water, but as it goes down, that’s when it starts to get salty.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It gets salty when it goes down.
It gets salty because it goes below sea level. And when fresh water gets contaminated below sea level.
It becomes a dumping place for salt.
You remember that lot’s wife would have escaped, sodom and Gamora.
But she had to look back one more time, and her judgment was to become a pillar of salt.
And they went forward, but she went down. Yes. Jordan to go down.
I wanna spend some time on the Jordan river because the Jordan river is very important.
It’s very important for a whole lot of reasons.
It is it is the Jordan river that is the deciding the fault line between Jerusalem and what is now called Jordan.
It is the Jordan river that Jesus is to be baptized in.
He is to be baptized in.
And when he comes up out of the water, a voice speaks from heaven and says, this is my beloved son in whom I’m well pleased.
Why is it important that Jesus is baptized in the Jordan, Joshua?
Yah has to be baptized in the Jordan because he brings us into the promise just like Joshua had to go through the Jordan, uh, to bring us into a land that flows with milk and honey.
The Jordan is the fault line.
And when I saw it, I was amazed because everything on this side of the jordan is dry and parched and lifeless and sandy and desert.
And everything on that side of the Jordan is plush and green.
And alive and vibrant and flamboyant with all types of life, a land that flows with milk and honey, and a wilderness that’s dry and parched is only separated by the Jordan.
I’m still in the first verse. It’s only separated by the Jordan.
And what was water you could fish in, like, the sea of Galile Lee, has now ended up so salty because it kept going down.
The reason that you’re dealing with people that are salty is because they keep going down.
Oh, god. Uh, throw your hands up, say, stop me from going down.
Now you you’ve asked god to break the gravitational pull that is a part of the centrifugal force of a revolving earth because it is the movement of the earth that creates gravity that creates downward motion, and you’re asking god to break a law, but to stop me from going down.
Say it again. Stop me from going down. Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t come this far to go down.
I didn’t go through all the tests I’ve gone through to go down.
I didn’t survive all of these years to go down.
I didn’t endure all the pain I’ve been through to go down.
I didn’t go through this circumcision to go down. I didn’t bleed like this to go down.
I didn’t swell like this to go down. I didn’t scab up like this to go down.
Whatever you’ve got to do, stop me, Lord, from going down. Hallelujah to God.
I feel something in this place because you wouldn’t be on a Wednesday night at Bible class if you weren’t serious about this thing.
And you want the power to stop. Somebody say, give me the power to stop.
The gradiation of the mountain is against me. This focal force of the earth is against me.
The gravitational pull of the planet is against me, but you have the power to stop.
Y’all don’t hear me yet. Y’all don’t hear me.
That which pulls me cannot have me because if god gets ready to stop it, he can stop it even though nature is pulling it, even though gravity is pulling it, even though circumstances pulling it.
If god stops it, he will break a law to create a dry place for me to cross over, for me to cross for me to cross over.
Let me show you. Let me show you. Let me prove it.
Let me prove it since you, but some of you haven’t been there. Let me prove it by the scripture.
The Bible says that Jesus would baptize in the Jordan by John the Baptist and straightway the spirit sent him into the wilderness.
It’s because the wilderness is on this side of the Jordan. And Jerusalem is on that side.
So it went hard for him to go into the wilderness because the fault line between the two places It’s the Jordan itself.
Are you with me? This is Bible class. Come on. Come on. Let me know it’s Bible class.
So what does it mean to be on a gradiation where the current is is pulled by gravity to a place so low.
Jesus is baptized in the Jordan. Let me finish that.
Jesus is baptized in the Jordan to typify my sins being washed into the sea of forgetfulness not to be remembered in this world or the world to come.
Jesus is bypassing the Jordan to typify to me through shadows and types that my old man is as dead as the dead sea.
Jesus has bypassed in the Jordan River to let me know that everything, every curse, every reproach of Egypt, everything that was on me, every hex, every spell, every wicked device, every intimate thing has been thrown into the dead sea.
And that’s why he doesn’t want me talking about my past because he can’t see it anymore.
Is going into the dead sea where nothing can grow.
Nothing can grow. He’s turned to
Yeah. And nothing can grow. Are you with me?
Are you with me? The thing that caused the canaanites to become terrified is that god was so with the Hebrews, the Israelites, that he broke the flow.
He broke the flow. Somebody say break the flow.
I’m on a trajectory that doesn’t look good. I’m on a path that doesn’t feel good.
I’m in a situation that doesn’t feel good, but you have the power tonight to break the flow.
I’m in the third stage of cancer, but you have the power to break the flow.
I’m a diabetic, and I’m taking medication twice a day, but you have the power to break the flow.
I’ve been diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, but you have the power to break the float.
Do you hear what I’m saying to you?
There are some things that the enemy has set in place before you ever even got here.
And the odds are against you, and the environment is against you, and the terrain is against you.
And it looks like you’re headed for a dead place. But god is getting ready to break the flow.
Somebody how to
stop it. That’s how they knew
that god was with the Israelites because god stopped it.
Uh, that’s how they knew that God had anointed them because god stopped it. That’s how I know I’m
saved because I was headed for hell and god stopped it.
That’s how I know that the Lord is with me because the my enemies have not prospered over me because God stopped it.
Somebody else stop it. There are some things that should have killed you.
There’s some times you should have lost your mind. There’s some times you should have thrown in the towel.
And just when the enemy was coming in for the kill. God stop.
I don’t know who I’m talking to today, but god said he’s getting ready to stop some things.
I don’t know who I’m ministering to today because he’s getting ready to stop some things.
Some things that the devil meant for evil, but god’s gonna stop it. Type it on the line.
God’s gonna stop it. Somebody preys him just thirty seconds because God’s gonna break the flow.
He’s gonna break the current. He’s gonna break the curse. He’s gonna break the generational curse. He’s gonna stop it.
He’s gonna stop it. He’s pulling, but he’s gonna stop it. He’s drinking, but he’s gonna stop it. Come on.
You got ten seconds. Ten. Ten. Ten. Ten. Ten. Not. Not. Not. Not.
Eight eight eight eight eight eight seven seven seven seven seven seven seven six six six six six five five five five five five five five five five five five four.
Four, four, four, four, three, three, three, three, three, two, two, two,
one, one, one, one, one, one, somebody should stop it.
Sit down because I’m gonna try to act like I got some sis.
So so so there are three quick points.
I’m almost upset. I’m gonna get the three quick points.
I wanna talk about the moat, the manner, and the method. The moat, the manner, and the method.
The moat the manner and the method.
I I bring the moat to light because you must understand for Jerico, For the city of Jerichoco, the Jordan River is a bit of a moat.
You know what a motive is.
A motive is is when men would dig out a waterway as an extra layer of defense less enemies would be able to cross over easily they had to get through the moat.
In in the biblical days, cities were built around geographical terrain so that they would have strategic advantage in the times of war.
That’s where the high places comes from. That’s where the concepts come from about David climbing up the waterways.
That the the idea is to position the city so that you can be protected as much as possible, to put your city on this side of the Jordan was a layer of defense.
Because if they were going to get through the Jordan, especially at the swelling of the Jordan, they had to come through the waters which was difficult and what caused him to be terrified is that god stopped It’s one thing to stop a level flow of water.
But when the water is coming galing down off the mountainsides is coming with an intense amount of pressure and still got stopped.
It was shot dot cargoo. Y’all can’t hear what I’m talking about. Y’all can’t hear that.
You too busy worrying about how much is coming down off the mountain that you can’t understand that I don’t care how much force has got behind it.
If god gets ready to stop it, he can still stop it, glory to god.
That’s somebody’s word from the lord. I don’t care how much the impending danger is threatening to you.
God still has the power.
He stopped it.
He stopped it. This is different from the red sea, April.
It’s not the same as the red sea because the red sea was a a level seabed.
And I’m not saying it’s any less miracle, but it is it is more amazing because the terrain did not lend itself to stopping what was pouring down off of the mountains, but guts and and on both sides of the Jordan, the kings were afraid because they knew their hands were not big enough.
To break the flow. Yeah. God. Gosh.
When god gets ready to break the flow, no man’s hands are big enough to stop the flow of what god is going to break in your life.
I can’t hardly get away from that. Harley knew you to God.
By the same token when God’s got something for you, I don’t care how much water they got around it.
I don’t care how thick the moldy is. Uh, I don’t care how strong the obstacle is.
I don’t care what age you are. I don’t care what you feel like in your body.
When god says, I have given you the land. I have given you the land.
And goodbye. Most said.
No. Somebody said, God stopped it.
Not only did he stop it, but he dried it up.
He dried it up so that they could go cross on dry land.
Notice the specificity of the text says not only does god stop the water, but he dries up the mud.
He stops the water. He dries up the mud. He stops the water. He dries up the mud.
He stops the water. He dries up the mud.
God said when you walk through this, you’re not gonna have no sign.
You’re not gonna look like you’ve been through what you’ve been through.
You’re not gonna have no residue on your life.
I didn’t clean you up a reproach for you to have a residue on your life.
People not gonna believe your testimony.
So you might as well shut up about it because they’re not gonna believe it because I don’t intend for no mud to be left on your sandals when you come across.
You’re gonna walk across on dry ground.
And nobody will ever know.
So the Jordan The Jordan has sectioned off the wilderness from the promised land, but god said I’m going to give you access, write that down.
God said, I’m gonna give you divine access. I’m gonna give you access to something.
That you didn’t have access to before.
I’m gonna give you such access that not only am I stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground.
I’m gonna stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground. I’m gonna stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground.
I’m gonna stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground.
And all of this is done so that you can have unbridled access to what other people have enjoyed for years, and you’ve never been able to get.
And you always thought your destiny was to live in where you were born in because you were born in the desert.
You thought you’d die in the desert. But the devil is a lie.
God said it is possible to be born in a desert and die in the promised land.
God said, I’m getting ready to give you access. Who am I talking to?
I don’t know who I’m talking to. I’m talking to somebody. I’m talking to somebody. I’m talking to somebody.
Who am I talking to? I’m talking to somebody that’s somebody online. Is it somebody in central time zone?
Is it somebody in Easter time? Is it somebody in Pacific? Whatever time you’re in.
If I’m talking to you, holler at your boy, make some noise, blowing whistle, make a sound, put up an emoji.
Let me know. Let me go deeper.
Now, they have been eating. They they have passed the moat.
They have been They have terrified the enemy, and god has changed their diet.
What you ate in the wilderness?
You will not need in the promised land.
I fed you for where you were.
There is an association between the manner you ate and your clothes not wearing out and your shoes not wearing out.
I sustained you in the wilderness, but now I’m getting ready to deliver you out of the wilderness so you won’t have to eat what you used to have to eat because now I’m gonna give you such an abundance that you’re not gonna have to look up, you’re gonna have to look out to receive what I’m about to give next in your life.
You you’ve been looking it up. Everything you got. If god didn’t sit it, you didn’t get it.
But god said, I’m gonna bring you into a place of abundance, which was where I created you in the first place.
In the Garden of Eden where everything you needed was growing all around you.
And god said, I’m gonna stop you from looking up. You’re not gonna have to pray for your car payment.
You’re not gonna have to pray for your house payment. You’re not gonna have to pray for you.
You can pay your babysitter. God said, I’m a put you in a place where everything you need is within arms reach is all around you.
It’s everywhere. Who am I talking to? Who am I talking to? I’m talking to somebody.
I feel like I’m prophesying to somebody. I feel like I’m prophesying to somebody.
And god said, Once you taste of the food of what’s yours, the manner will cease.
The manner will cease.
The ceasing of the manor says there’s no going back to who you were.
Let me tell y’all because they didn’t hear the ceasing of the manor is god’s way of letting you know that the enemies you see today, you will see them no more There’s no going back to who you used to be.
Let me try y’all.
God says, I’m gonna give you such a stopping place in your life than all the things that sustain you while you were waiting on a stop, you’re not gonna need them anymore because I’m gonna completely mesmerize you and turn everything completely own in your life, your diet, your appetite, your disposition, your personality, the way you walk, the way you dress the way you think, what you eat, what time you get up, what time you go to bed, everything is getting ready to ship, everything is about to change in your life, God said, I’m bringing you to a stopping place.
I’m bringing you into a shift.
I don’t know who I’m talking to, but whoever I’m talking to, you better get this word.
This word tonight is not for your entertainment. It is for your deliverance. It is for your breakthrough.
God said, I am going to give you the power to stop.
Slap somebody and say I got the power to stop. You can’t threaten me anymore.
I got the power to stop. You can’t abuse me anymore. I got the power to stop.
You can’t control me anymore. I got the power to stop. Sin, you can’t have power over me.
I got the power to stop. Profanity, you can’t control me. I got the power to stop.
Leading you to come back in my life. I got the power to stop.
So you got no more negotiating power in my life. Because you I have the power to stop.
Somebody hell, I got the power to stop. Tell them drugs. I got the power to stop. Tell cocaine.
I got the power to stop. Oh, tell amphetamines. I got the power to stop. Tell white beaten.
I got the power to stop. My daddy did it.
My grand daddy did it, but I got the power to stop.
I can’t have this much holy ghost and not have the power to stop.
I feel a mighty rushing win about to hit this place right now. Because somebody in this room just recognized.
You’ve been waiting on the power, and you got the power right now. You got the to stop.
Hallelujah, they gotta type it on the line, type it by faith.
I don’t care if you feel it in your body and not tell them I got the power to stop.
I’m not gonna keep calling you because I got the power to stop.
I’m not gonna keep chasing you because I got the power to stop.
I’m not gonna keep begging you to come back because I got the power stop. You don’t need me.
I don’t need you. I can go on by myself. I got the power to stop.
You can’t use the same trick you used to use on me because that the power.
Slap three people say I got the power to stop.
Yeah. Yeah. I got the power to stop. Demons tremble when you talk like that.
He’ll get nervous when you talk like that. Hexes are broken when you talk like that.
Rutes don’t work when you talk like that. Vernon sage is not needed when you talk like that.
I got the power to stop. I got the power to stop. No man takes my life. I led down.
If I lay it down, I’ll pick it back up again. Because I got power coming back in my life.
I got the power to stop. I got the power to walk right. I got the power to talk right.
I got the power to think right. I got the power to move. I got the power to be all.
I got the power to climb. I got the power to go forward. I got the power to prosper.
I got the power to endure. I got the power to survive.
You left me, thought I was gonna roll crazy. You’re wrong. I got the power to survive.
Glory to god. God will feed me. God will bless me. God will move in my behalf.
Shout, yes, somebody. So So that I’m just talking a little bit.
I’m almost finished. This is Bible class. So I’m like, you know, yeah.
I don’t know what’s been barreling down that you said you can’t control it, but god said you got the power to stop.
You got the power. You got the power to stop.
You should know the truth and the truth shall you’re free. You got the power and stuff.
You got the power. You got the power. You got the power. Your your neighbor don’t have the power.
Your boyfriend don’t have the power. Your sugar daddy don’t have the power. Sweet mama don’t have the power.
You got the power to stop.
But where god is getting ready to take you, there’s some stuff that got a cease.
There’s some things that got the cease in your life. You cried last year yesterday.
God is a little oh, I gotta quit because I’m about to start some.
If I start some in this place, and I’m a mess up the whole Bible class because I feel the anointing of the holy ghost about to break forth in this room.
I the power to stop.
Give me my power back. Give me my testimony back. Give me my righteousness back.
Give me my voice bite. Give me my power bite. Give me my authority bite. Give me my prayer language.
Give me my loin tape. Give me my answer. Give me my glory. Give me my glory.
Give me my children. That’s for me and my out.
What’s this?
What’s this? Are are y’all getting anything out of this Bible class tonight?
What what drove me to the text it’s a continuity between the moat and the manor.
The moat and the manner both stopped.
Demote and the manner stop. Final verse.
Joshua runs up on a man.
And he says, are you on my side or the enemy side.
Now this is a profundity of this moment because what is on trial It’s Joshua’s method.
All my life I had to fight.
I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight all my life.
His old job was built around warfare.
So he runs up on the guy who wanted to know you wanna fight on who’s side are you on because he’s still thinking like who he was.
And god said if you keep thinking like who you were, you’re not gonna be prepared for who you are.
This battle is not gonna require your talent your method has got to change.
I don’t need your swords. I don’t need your shield.
In fact, I’m gonna send the captain of the host of the angels to come down to work this out in your life.
And all you got to do is walk around the wall, and the wall is gonna come tumbling down.
And god said he’s gonna give you a victory that does not require your own methods.
Uh, so if you were conniving, you don’t have to be conniving.
If you were nervous, you don’t have to be nervous. If you had to fight, you don’t have to fight.
God’s about to change your method. He’s gonna give you the victory without sweat.
Uh, he’s gonna give you the victory without labor.
See, I I need a handheld because when I get when I get something in my hand like this, I keep messing up.
Hallelujah to god. Your whole method has to change Joshua. Joshua, you are not who you were.
You are not a general in the army up under Moses. Moses is dead.
Your methods have got to change. You can’t think like you’re under Moses. Moses is dead.
You gotta pick like the leader you are.
And if you’re running around here with sorts of stuff You don’t understand the role I put you in.
You’re not gonna win. You’re not gonna win this battle with your hand.
You’re gonna win this battle with your head.
As a man thicker than his head, so is he get your head together?
The promotion of the lord is disruptive because it disrupts how you see your self.
And if you don’t change your methods, You look, if if you’re a dirty person and I move you in a nice house, it won’t be long before the nice house gets dirty.
Because you got a new house, but you got an old method.
If you are a mouthy person, everybody comes in your life.
You’re gonna run them off with your nasty mouth, even the nice people are gonna get tired of your mouth because you’re using your old method.
In fact, you’re talking to the man you got as if he was the man you had until he becomes what you call him because the power of life and death is in your tongue.
And until you learn how to treat what you prayed for, you’re gonna lose what god sends you because you gotta develop a method that fits where you are, not where you were.
So you gotta have enough faith to drop your sword and drop your hand and fall down on your face and humble yourself before god because god said that remorse.
God said if you humble yourself before him, He’ll show you how to get the victory.
You’re not gonna get the victory using your old weapons and your old tools.
God said I’m gonna show you how to get the victory, but you’re gonna have to lay on your face before god to get the victory.
Somebody throw your hands up, say victory. God said, I’m a break the curse off of your life.
I’m a break the struggle off of your life. I’m a break the back of death off of your life.
I’m a break depression off for your life. I’m gonna break suicide off for your life.
I’m gonna break drug addictions off for your life. I’m a break hormone ring off
your life. I’m gonna break it off
for your life. I’m gonna give you the power to stop, but you can’t get it standing on your feet.
You’re gonna have to lay on your face before god.
Had the bible said, take off your shoes for the crowd you
y’all got to stop because I
got some rest, and I’m ready to start. So up in this place.
The ground you’re standing on. The ground you’re standing on right now.
It’s not like the ground you was on before. The ground your spand on is holy ground.
And when you get on holy ground, you got to lay out on your face.
And Joshua said, The only thing I want is to hear what god is saying to me.
And if I have to stop being who I was.
If I have to stop being who I was.
Then I’m gonna take my shoes off and be barefoot.
I’d rather be barefoot and anointed then then be covered and be blind.
This anointing, I want it bad enough for to come out of my shoes.
I want it bad enough to come. Wait. Wait. Wait.
I want it bad enough to come out of my shoes.
I want it bad enough to come out of my habits.
I want it bad enough to come out of my lust.
I want it bad enough to come out of my habits.
I want it bad enough to come out of my struggle.
I want it bad to come out and have my temper I want it better.
Is there anybody in here that wants this anointing bad enough to come out of your shoes,
uh, for
the ground
you stay
dog. It’s holding.
Tell you, neighbor, I’m coming out of my shoes.
I’m coming out of my bag. I’m coming out of my attitude. I’m coming out of my habits.
Uh, I’m it out of my stuff.
Uh, I’m coming out of my disposition, uh, because this joy that I’ve had, uh, the world didn’t give it to me.
And the world can’t take it away.
Uh, and whatever I got to come out of tonight. Uh, tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight.
Tonight tonight tonight. I don’t mean next month. I don’t mean next week. I don’t mean next Sunday.
I don’t mean the fourth of July. God said you got come out of it tonight.
Uh, come out with your hands up. Uh, I got you surrounded.
Uh, the holy ghost is
all out here. And god said, if you come out tonight,
I will deliver you. Somebody’s shadowing to God.
So he gave him the power to stop the moat, the power to stop the manor.
But the most important power is to change the method.
Because once you get locked into a method, I can move you into a new place, but you’ll still use an old method.