The Power to Stop – Bishop T.D. Jakes
The Power to Stop – Bishop T.D. Jakes
How often do we find ourselves fighting against generational curses? Just like the Israelites faced back-to-back challenges, we, too, experience hardships that feel never-ending. But here’s the good news — God can stop those attacks just like a moat stops foot soldiers in a war! You can break free from inherited struggles and enter a place of abundance and fulfillment. Let go of the familiar and trust Him. Embrace the power to stop negativity, doubt, and fear. Will you allow God to break the chains weighing you down?
Hi.
And go to Joshua chapter 5 verse 1 through 15.
That’s a little bit more reading than I normally do, but I’m going to uh, read verses 1 through 15 out of the book of Joshua chapter number 5.
When you have it say a man.
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanites kings along the coast heard how the lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they were had crossed over their hearts melted in fear.
And they no longer had the courage to face this or light stop right there.
I wanna go back and do that again.
Now, when the Amyrite kings, look at how everything is put in perspective based on the Jordan in itself, Now when all the Amyrite 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 hogs 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 Flint knives and circumcise the Israelite again.
So Joshua made flip knives. Oh, it hurts to read this.
And and circumcise the Israelite at Gabeer, Harold off. 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 40 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 and honey.
So he raised up their sons Oh my god.
The thing that he had for the fathers he gave to the son 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 circumcise. They were bleeding, but they were blessed.
Oh, my gut 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 comes 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 unsuckumcised 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.
Uh, I don’t know who I’m talking to.
And after the whole nation had been circumscribed I say remain where they were in camp until they were healed.
Isn’t it funny how god was 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 reprocess 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, 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 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 it. I can’t preach till you say something.
So go ahead and get let’s get that out.
So the place has been called Gil Gal to this day. Okay?
On the evening of 14th day of the month, while camped at Gil Gal 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 Mana 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 Kanan 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 is.
Oh, 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 manifestation of god himself and angelica host of heaven.
I believe a theophany within itself Joshua went up to him and asked, are you for us or for our enemies?
Just one thing about it Joshua 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 asked 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 is 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 Canaanite 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 filling 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 to power where the power to stop. Spirit out the living godfall fresh on us tonight.
Indoxicate 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 heed it and obey it.
In Jesus’ name we pray at the top of your lungs, shout a man. Yeah.
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, yashua, in the old testament, his shadow is Joshua.
Where are you in the book of Joshua? This is not for the faint of heart.
This is not for the week. This is not for people who are fragile and sensitive.
This is a 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 been addiction 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 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 yashua, 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.
Joshua. 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.
Uh, 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.
Is 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.
Affects what you’re afraid of, affects how you react, affects your temperament, affects your mood, 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 Gil Gal.
And it’s a bloody business. Sometimes getting tree.
Is a bloody business.
That that’s why we don’t see the loosing 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 church 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 feel 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 and heal up and go through deliverance to 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 pastoring and soft in their preaching that we’re producing soft leaders and soft men and soft women and everybody’s so soft that you ought to stamp Charmin on your head because you
toss us
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 sir Jordan is very, very important to the texts.
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 topography of the Jordan, then the text loses its power.
Number 1, 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 Galilee, 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 spirit and onto his courage.
It is like the do that fell on Mount Herman.
The do that fell on Mount Herman was famous many theologists think that Mount Herman and Mount the amount of transfiguration, we’re 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 Galilee that Jordan River has many, uh, contributing forces that causes it to flow.
It is freshwater. 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 Galilee.
When I went to the Sea of Galilee, it was after I had gone down the road to Jericho, and it was a winding road down.
Uh, certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. See, anytime you’re at Jerusalem, you had a high place.
That’s why the Bible called it a city set up on a hill that cannot be here due to Jerusalem is a high place, but on your way down to Jericho, you’re coming down like the water is coming down.
It’s coming down. It’s coming down.
And there, the sea of Galilee was down at the bottom, and it was beautiful, and it was wonderful.
It’s freshwater, fresh freshwater, drinkable water, replenishing water. That’s why the cities 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 a cross 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 freshwater has turned to salt water. Are you following what I’m saying?
Now the Jordan river in the in the early days, in the historical days was about 1,300,000,000 cubic meters per year.
1,300,000,000 is a lot of cubic meters, just 20 to 30,000,000 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 a 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 rainforest in Brazil, and she said, Before we talk about the rain force 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 Galilee, there wouldn’t be a jordan. It starts up here.
If it wasn’t freshwater, 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 freshwater gets contaminated below sea level, it becomes a dumping place for salt You remember that lot’s wife would have his skates, Solomon 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 default 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, yashua.
Yashua has to be baptized in the Jordan because he brings us into the promise just like Joshua had to go through the Jordan to bring us into a land that flows with milk and honey the Jordan is the fault line.
Uh, and when I saw it, I was amazed because everything on this side of the Jordan is dry and perched 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 from the Jordan.
And what was water you could fish in like the sea of Galilee 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. Oh, pull 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 a 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. Uh, 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 said, give me the power to stop. The gradiation of the mountain is against me.
The centrifugal force of the earth is against me.
The gravitational pull of the planet is it gets me, but you have the power to stop.
Oh, 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 Scotch pops it, he will break a law to create a dry place for me to crossover for me to cross for me to crossover.
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 will baptized 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 He’s enjoying 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’ 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 is bypassed to the Jordan river to let me know that everything, every curse, every reproach of each of everything that was on me, every hex, every spell, every wicked device, every enemy 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.
He’s gone into the Dead Sea where nothing can grow. Nothing can grow. He’s turned to
Yeah. Me. 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 said, 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 3rd 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 schizophrenia, but you have the power to break the flow.
Do you hear what I’m saying to you?
There’s 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 has to
stop it. That’s how they knew
that god was with the Israelites because god stopped it That’s how they knew that god had anointed them because god stopped it.
That’s how I know I’m
saying because I was headed for hell and god stopped it. That’s how I know that the
lord is with me because my enemies have prosperate 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 into town.
And just when the enemy was coming in for the kill, gotcha.
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, but god 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 in just 30 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.
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Sit down because I’m trying to I like I got some sis.
So so so there are 3 quick points.
I’m almost up trying to get the 3 quick points.
I wanna talk about the mode, the manner, and the method. Demote, the manner, and the method.
Demote, the manner, and the method.
I I bring the mote to light because you must understand for Jericho, for the city of Jericho, The Jordan River is a bit of a moat.
You know what a moat is?
A moat 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 hot places comes from. That’s where the concepts come from. About David Climbing of the waterways.
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.
It’s one thing to stop a level flow of water.
But when the water is coming galing down off the mountain sides is coming with an intense amount of pressure.
I’m still got stopped. With shot dot coo. 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 forces 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 me 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 sea bed.
And I’m not saying it’s any less miracle, but it’s it is more amazing because the terrain did not lend itself to stopping what was pulling down off of the mountains, but god stopped it.
And and on both sides of the Jordan, the kings were Fred because they knew their hands were not big enough to break 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. Hallelujah to god. By the same token, when god got something for you.
I don’t care how much water they got around it. I don’t care how thick the Modi 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 had given you the land.
Not 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 across on dry land.
Notice the specificity of the text says not only does god stopped 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 of 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 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 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. I’m gonna stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground.
And all of this is done so that you can have unbridled acts says 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 die in the desert, but the devil is alive.
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 Eastern time?
Is it somebody in Pacific, whatever time you’re in, if I’m talking to you, Holly at your boy.
Make some noise. Blow whistle. Make a sound. Put up an emoji. Let me know. God.
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 up everything you got. If god didn’t send 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 that you can pay your babysitter.
God said, I’m a put you in a place where everything you need is within arms reaches 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 manner says There’s no going back to who you were.
Let me tell y’all because they didn’t hear it.
The ceasing of the manor It’s god’s way of letting you know that the enemies you see today, you will see them no more.
They’re 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 that 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 around 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 shift.
Everything is about to change in your life. God said, I’m bringing you to a popping 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.
Gushing, 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. Saying 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.
Needing 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 hello.
I got the power to stop. Telling 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 I’m not rushing to 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 power to stop Hallelujah. They gotta type it on the line. Type it by faith.
I don’t feel you’re feeling into 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 the power to 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 now I got the power.
Slap 3 people say I got the power to stop.
Yeah. Yeah. I got the power to stop. Demons’s tremble when you talk like that.
Hell gets nervous when you talk like that. Higgs is broken when you talk like that.
Roots don’t work when you talk like that. Vernon Sage is not needed when you talk like that.
I got the power to top. I got the power to stop. No man takes my life.
I lay it down. If I lay it down, I’ll pick it back up again.
Because 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 or 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 going wrong. 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 to him a little bit.
I’m almost finished. This is Bible class. So I’m like, you know, It’s 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 set you free.
You got the power to stop. 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 for where god is getting ready to take you.
There’s some stuff that gotta cease There’s some stings that’s got the cease in your life.
You cried your last tear yesterday.
God is a little oh, I gotta quit because I’m about to start some.
If I start I’m in this place and I’m gonna mess up the whole Bible player because I feel the anointing of the holy ghost about to break forth in this room got the power to stop.
Give him
my power back. Give him my testimony back. Give me my righteousness back.
Jimmy my boy’s bike, Jimmy my power bike, Jimmy my boy and Mike, Jimmy my prayer language, Jimmy my lord, take, give him my upsell, give him my goal, give him my goal, give him my children.
That’s for me and my house.
What’s this?
What’s this? Are are y’all getting anything out of this Bible past night?
What what drove me to the text It’s a continuity between the moat and the manor.
The moat and the manner both stopped.
Demo and Banana. 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 is 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 all your who 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 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 old methods.
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. Uh, he’s gonna give you the victory without sweat.
Uh, he’s gonna give you the victory without labor.
Oh, it’s See, 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
and dead. You gotta think like the leader you are.
And if you’re running around here with swords and 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 think of in his head so as he gets your head together.
The promotion of the lord is disruptive.
Because it disrupts how you see yourself.
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 it.
If you’re a mouthy person, everybody comes into 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 own 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 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 fold on your face and humble yourself before god because god said that no more shut down.
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 twos.
Uh, 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. Yes. God said I’m gonna break the curse off of your life.
I’m a break the struggle off of your life. I’m a break the back of dead off of your life.
I’m a break depression off of your life. I’m gonna break suicide off of your life.
I’m gonna break drug addictions off of your life. I’m gonna break hormone going off your life.
I’m gonna break it off
of 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.
Hanging the Bible said, take off your shoes for the crowd.
Y’all got to stop because I got some rest, and I’m ready to start something up in this place.
The ground you stand on, the ground you’re standing on right now.
It’s not like the ground you was on before. The ground you spend on is holy ground.
And when you get on holy round? You got to lay out of your face.
And Joshua.
Said, the only thing I want is to hear what god is saying to me.
And if I had 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 than be covered and be
blind. Disannointing, I want it bad enough to come out of my shoes.
Uh, I want it bad enough to come. Wait. Wait. Wait.
I’m I want it bad enough to come out of 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 of my pipper. I want it bad.
It’s handed out of here that wants this anointing bad enough.
To cut out of your shoes for the grab you stand on. It’s holding.
Tell your 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 coming out of my stuff.
I’m coming out of my disposition, uh, because this joy that I have, uh, the world didn’t give it to me.
Uh, and the world can’t take it away.
And what I got to come out of tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight 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 4th July. God said you got to come out of it tonight.
Come out with your hands up. Uh, I got you surrounded. I got you surrounded.
Uh, the Holy Ghost is all around you.
And god said if you’re coming tonight, I will deliver you. Somebody shout out 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.
And your method will cancel out newness if you don’t change your method.
If I hasten to a close, there’s somebody in this room. I don’t know who you are.
God is talking directly to you. There’s somebody watching over this
And go to Joshua chapter 5 verse 1 through 15.
That’s a little bit more reading than I normally do, but I’m going to uh, read verses 1 through 15 out of the book of Joshua chapter number 5.
When you have it say a man.
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanites kings along the coast heard how the lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they were had crossed over their hearts melted in fear.
And they no longer had the courage to face this or light stop right there.
I wanna go back and do that again.
Now, when the Amyrite kings, look at how everything is put in perspective based on the Jordan in itself, Now when all the Amyrite 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 hogs 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 Flint knives and circumcise the Israelite again.
So Joshua made flip knives. Oh, it hurts to read this.
And and circumcise the Israelite at Gabeer, Harold off. 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 40 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 and honey.
So he raised up their sons Oh my god.
The thing that he had for the fathers he gave to the son 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 circumcise. They were bleeding, but they were blessed.
Oh, my gut 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 comes 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 unsuckumcised 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.
Uh, I don’t know who I’m talking to.
And after the whole nation had been circumscribed I say remain where they were in camp until they were healed.
Isn’t it funny how god was 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 reprocess 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, 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 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 it. I can’t preach till you say something.
So go ahead and get let’s get that out.
So the place has been called Gil Gal to this day. Okay?
On the evening of 14th day of the month, while camped at Gil Gal 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 Mana 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 Kanan 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 is.
Oh, 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 manifestation of god himself and angelica host of heaven.
I believe a theophany within itself Joshua went up to him and asked, are you for us or for our enemies?
Just one thing about it Joshua 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 asked 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 is 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 Canaanite 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 filling 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 to power where the power to stop. Spirit out the living godfall fresh on us tonight.
Indoxicate 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 heed it and obey it.
In Jesus’ name we pray at the top of your lungs, shout a man. Yeah.
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, yashua, in the old testament, his shadow is Joshua.
Where are you in the book of Joshua? This is not for the faint of heart.
This is not for the week. This is not for people who are fragile and sensitive.
This is a 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 been addiction 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 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 yashua, 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.
Joshua. 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.
Uh, 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.
Is 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.
Affects what you’re afraid of, affects how you react, affects your temperament, affects your mood, 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 Gil Gal.
And it’s a bloody business. Sometimes getting tree.
Is a bloody business.
That that’s why we don’t see the loosing 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 church 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 feel 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 and heal up and go through deliverance to 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 pastoring and soft in their preaching that we’re producing soft leaders and soft men and soft women and everybody’s so soft that you ought to stamp Charmin on your head because you
toss us
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 sir Jordan is very, very important to the texts.
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 topography of the Jordan, then the text loses its power.
Number 1, 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 Galilee, 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 spirit and onto his courage.
It is like the do that fell on Mount Herman.
The do that fell on Mount Herman was famous many theologists think that Mount Herman and Mount the amount of transfiguration, we’re 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 Galilee that Jordan River has many, uh, contributing forces that causes it to flow.
It is freshwater. 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 Galilee.
When I went to the Sea of Galilee, it was after I had gone down the road to Jericho, and it was a winding road down.
Uh, certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. See, anytime you’re at Jerusalem, you had a high place.
That’s why the Bible called it a city set up on a hill that cannot be here due to Jerusalem is a high place, but on your way down to Jericho, you’re coming down like the water is coming down.
It’s coming down. It’s coming down.
And there, the sea of Galilee was down at the bottom, and it was beautiful, and it was wonderful.
It’s freshwater, fresh freshwater, drinkable water, replenishing water. That’s why the cities 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 a cross 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 freshwater has turned to salt water. Are you following what I’m saying?
Now the Jordan river in the in the early days, in the historical days was about 1,300,000,000 cubic meters per year.
1,300,000,000 is a lot of cubic meters, just 20 to 30,000,000 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 a 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 rainforest in Brazil, and she said, Before we talk about the rain force 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 Galilee, there wouldn’t be a jordan. It starts up here.
If it wasn’t freshwater, 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 freshwater gets contaminated below sea level, it becomes a dumping place for salt You remember that lot’s wife would have his skates, Solomon 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 default 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, yashua.
Yashua has to be baptized in the Jordan because he brings us into the promise just like Joshua had to go through the Jordan to bring us into a land that flows with milk and honey the Jordan is the fault line.
Uh, and when I saw it, I was amazed because everything on this side of the Jordan is dry and perched 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 from the Jordan.
And what was water you could fish in like the sea of Galilee 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. Oh, pull 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 a 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. Uh, 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 said, give me the power to stop. The gradiation of the mountain is against me.
The centrifugal force of the earth is against me.
The gravitational pull of the planet is it gets me, but you have the power to stop.
Oh, 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 Scotch pops it, he will break a law to create a dry place for me to crossover for me to cross for me to crossover.
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 will baptized 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 He’s enjoying 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’ 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 is bypassed to the Jordan river to let me know that everything, every curse, every reproach of each of everything that was on me, every hex, every spell, every wicked device, every enemy 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.
He’s gone into the Dead Sea where nothing can grow. Nothing can grow. He’s turned to
Yeah. Me. 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 said, 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 3rd 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 schizophrenia, but you have the power to break the flow.
Do you hear what I’m saying to you?
There’s 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 has to
stop it. That’s how they knew
that god was with the Israelites because god stopped it That’s how they knew that god had anointed them because god stopped it.
That’s how I know I’m
saying because I was headed for hell and god stopped it. That’s how I know that the
lord is with me because my enemies have prosperate 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 into town.
And just when the enemy was coming in for the kill, gotcha.
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, but god 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 in just 30 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 10 seconds. 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 55, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3,
3, 3,
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2. 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, somebody’s not stopping.
Sit down because I’m trying to I like I got some sis.
So so so there are 3 quick points.
I’m almost up trying to get the 3 quick points.
I wanna talk about the mode, the manner, and the method. Demote, the manner, and the method.
Demote, the manner, and the method.
I I bring the mote to light because you must understand for Jericho, for the city of Jericho, The Jordan River is a bit of a moat.
You know what a moat is?
A moat 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 hot places comes from. That’s where the concepts come from. About David Climbing of the waterways.
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.
It’s one thing to stop a level flow of water.
But when the water is coming galing down off the mountain sides is coming with an intense amount of pressure.
I’m still got stopped. With shot dot coo. 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 forces 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 me 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 sea bed.
And I’m not saying it’s any less miracle, but it’s it is more amazing because the terrain did not lend itself to stopping what was pulling down off of the mountains, but god stopped it.
And and on both sides of the Jordan, the kings were Fred because they knew their hands were not big enough to break 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. Hallelujah to god. By the same token, when god got something for you.
I don’t care how much water they got around it. I don’t care how thick the Modi 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 had given you the land.
Not 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 across on dry land.
Notice the specificity of the text says not only does god stopped 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 of 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 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 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. I’m gonna stop the flow. I’m gonna drive the ground.
And all of this is done so that you can have unbridled acts says 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 die in the desert, but the devil is alive.
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 Eastern time?
Is it somebody in Pacific, whatever time you’re in, if I’m talking to you, Holly at your boy.
Make some noise. Blow whistle. Make a sound. Put up an emoji. Let me know. God.
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 up everything you got. If god didn’t send 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 that you can pay your babysitter.
God said, I’m a put you in a place where everything you need is within arms reaches 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 manner says There’s no going back to who you were.
Let me tell y’all because they didn’t hear it.
The ceasing of the manor It’s god’s way of letting you know that the enemies you see today, you will see them no more.
They’re 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 that 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 around 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 shift.
Everything is about to change in your life. God said, I’m bringing you to a popping 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.
Gushing, 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. Saying 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.
Needing 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 hello.
I got the power to stop. Telling 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 I’m not rushing to 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 power to stop Hallelujah. They gotta type it on the line. Type it by faith.
I don’t feel you’re feeling into 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 the power to 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 now I got the power.
Slap 3 people say I got the power to stop.
Yeah. Yeah. I got the power to stop. Demons’s tremble when you talk like that.
Hell gets nervous when you talk like that. Higgs is broken when you talk like that.
Roots don’t work when you talk like that. Vernon Sage is not needed when you talk like that.
I got the power to top. I got the power to stop. No man takes my life.
I lay it down. If I lay it down, I’ll pick it back up again.
Because 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 or 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 going wrong. 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 to him a little bit.
I’m almost finished. This is Bible class. So I’m like, you know, It’s 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 set you free.
You got the power to stop. 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 for where god is getting ready to take you.
There’s some stuff that gotta cease There’s some stings that’s got the cease in your life.
You cried your last tear yesterday.
God is a little oh, I gotta quit because I’m about to start some.
If I start I’m in this place and I’m gonna mess up the whole Bible player because I feel the anointing of the holy ghost about to break forth in this room got the power to stop.
Give him
my power back. Give him my testimony back. Give me my righteousness back.
Jimmy my boy’s bike, Jimmy my power bike, Jimmy my boy and Mike, Jimmy my prayer language, Jimmy my lord, take, give him my upsell, give him my goal, give him my goal, give him my children.
That’s for me and my house.
What’s this?
What’s this? Are are y’all getting anything out of this Bible past night?
What what drove me to the text It’s a continuity between the moat and the manor.
The moat and the manner both stopped.
Demo and Banana. 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 is 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 all your who 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 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 old methods.
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. Uh, he’s gonna give you the victory without sweat.
Uh, he’s gonna give you the victory without labor.
Oh, it’s See, 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
and dead. You gotta think like the leader you are.
And if you’re running around here with swords and 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 think of in his head so as he gets your head together.
The promotion of the lord is disruptive.
Because it disrupts how you see yourself.
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 it.
If you’re a mouthy person, everybody comes into 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 own 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 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 fold on your face and humble yourself before god because god said that no more shut down.
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 twos.
Uh, 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. Yes. God said I’m gonna break the curse off of your life.
I’m a break the struggle off of your life. I’m a break the back of dead off of your life.
I’m a break depression off of your life. I’m gonna break suicide off of your life.
I’m gonna break drug addictions off of your life. I’m gonna break hormone going off your life.
I’m gonna break it off
of 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.
Hanging the Bible said, take off your shoes for the crowd.
Y’all got to stop because I got some rest, and I’m ready to start something up in this place.
The ground you stand on, the ground you’re standing on right now.
It’s not like the ground you was on before. The ground you spend on is holy ground.
And when you get on holy round? You got to lay out of your face.
And Joshua.
Said, the only thing I want is to hear what god is saying to me.
And if I had 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 than be covered and be
blind. Disannointing, I want it bad enough to come out of my shoes.
Uh, I want it bad enough to come. Wait. Wait. Wait.
I’m I want it bad enough to come out of 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 of my pipper. I want it bad.
It’s handed out of here that wants this anointing bad enough.
To cut out of your shoes for the grab you stand on. It’s holding.
Tell your 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 coming out of my stuff.
I’m coming out of my disposition, uh, because this joy that I have, uh, the world didn’t give it to me.
Uh, and the world can’t take it away.
And what I got to come out of tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight 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 4th July. God said you got to come out of it tonight.
Come out with your hands up. Uh, I got you surrounded. I got you surrounded.
Uh, the Holy Ghost is all around you.
And god said if you’re coming tonight, I will deliver you. Somebody shout out 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.
And your method will cancel out newness if you don’t change your method.
If I hasten to a close, there’s somebody in this room. I don’t know who you are.
God is talking directly to you. There’s somebody watching over this
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