Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for
Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take
Speaker 1: it a little deeper.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message.
Speaker 1: Let me know.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Don't you let the enemy tell you any different.
Speaker 2: You have a future. God knows the plans he has
Speaker 2: for you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
Speaker 2: There's laughter in your future. There's connection in your future.
Speaker 2: There's friendship in your future. There's joy in your future.
Speaker 2: There's growth in your future. There's creativity in your future.
Speaker 2: There's fruit in your future. Say that out loud, there's
Speaker 2: fruit in my future. Here, lebo, I feel the anointing.
Speaker 2: I must stay right in this flow. You know there's
Speaker 2: a flow in the Jordan river that was cut off
Speaker 2: when God spoke. There's a flow right now of the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. And I decree every doubt, every dysfunction, every
Speaker 2: destructive tendency caused by sin that works in you against
Speaker 2: the purpose of God that is greater, must be stopped
Speaker 2: now in the name of Jesus. I declare it, I
Speaker 2: believe it, I stand for it, because watch this in
Speaker 2: the future when you're living in Canaan and you've wiped
Speaker 2: out these these Hittites, Amorites, Parizites, Jebuzides, and so you lights.
Speaker 2: I always like to put that in and see if
Speaker 2: you're paying attention. In the future, he's framing you know
Speaker 2: how powerful this is. He's framing their their current uncertainty.
Speaker 2: How are we going to get through this? Jordan, you
Speaker 2: just got through it. He's framing their current confusion. How
Speaker 2: are we going to beat these giants? They're stronger on us.
Speaker 2: All those questions are going through their mind, but he
Speaker 2: gives them a different frame in the future. Now, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about when I get through this, which means I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get through this. Now, I'm thinking about what God
Speaker 2: has on the other side of this, not just how
Speaker 2: much it hurts while I'm going through it. And we
Speaker 2: can get too focused on the future, where we start
Speaker 2: doing the opposite of what Jesus said in Matthew six,
Speaker 2: where we're concerned about tomorrow, not knowing that our father
Speaker 2: knows where to put the worm so that the bird
Speaker 2: can find it as it flies with its instinct. God's
Speaker 2: gonna guide us by his spirit to the provision that
Speaker 2: we need for the season that we're in it. All
Speaker 2: that is true, but Joshua knows what we're about to
Speaker 2: fight is so big that we need a preview of
Speaker 2: the future. So we said, go get a stone. That's
Speaker 2: something that God just did. You need to get a
Speaker 2: hold of something that God just did. Wow. God just
Speaker 2: helped me sleep through the night. And I was in
Speaker 2: so much pain. I didn't sleep the night before. God
Speaker 2: just did that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: God just gave me the eighty four dollars that I
Speaker 2: needed for that bill.
Speaker 1: God just did that.
Speaker 2: God just gave me another sunrise. And when I saw it,
Speaker 2: I was reminded that He's not gonna leave me in
Speaker 2: this low place forever. God just did that. Say it
Speaker 2: out loud. God just did that. God just did that.
Speaker 2: God just did that. We just went through something that
Speaker 2: was a mile wide, the Jordan River, and God stopped
Speaker 2: it twenty miles away in a town called Adam. God
Speaker 2: just did that. My God did that. My personal savior,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ just forgave me of that sin. He just
Speaker 2: did that. It wasn't possible for me, but it's possible
Speaker 2: for him. God just did that. And once you get
Speaker 2: that in your spirit, begin to think about in the future,
Speaker 2: watch this, here comes the question, because this is the
Speaker 2: frame he's showing them. God just did that. That's a
Speaker 2: present awareness. He's showing them that there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: future that is a hope and an expectation. And he says,
Speaker 2: in the future, when your children ask you, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a question in my future that
Speaker 2: is going to be asked by a generation that has
Speaker 2: yet to ask the question. They don't know the answer yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer yet. But God has already
Speaker 2: gone into your future. How am I gonna recover from this?
Speaker 2: Who is going to love me? How is God going
Speaker 2: to send it? When is God going to do it?
Speaker 2: Don't know. But in the future, when your children ask you,
Speaker 2: what do these stones mean? Tell them? Verse seven. Are
Speaker 2: y'all following along in the scripture, because this would be
Speaker 2: better if you follow along. I'm about to frame it
Speaker 2: a different way. Tell them. Oh man, it was horrible.
Speaker 2: We spent so many years in the wilderness, and the
Speaker 2: water was at flood stage and the month of May
Speaker 2: and we had to cross over, and we didn't know how.
Speaker 2: We've never been this way before, and it was so
Speaker 2: confusing and Oh man, it was so hard because we
Speaker 2: knew we had to fight these big giants and we
Speaker 2: were an anxiety attacks and panic attacks and we didn't
Speaker 2: have any pills for it. We just had to get
Speaker 2: through it. And then Joshua called us and we were
Speaker 2: trying to get onto the next place because we've been
Speaker 2: in the wilderness so long, and we got through the George.
Speaker 2: But man, we made us go back and get these stones.
Speaker 2: Those stones were heavy. Man. That's why I still got
Speaker 2: this burse Sidis today. I don't know Brethsidis could be
Speaker 2: in the shoulder, but nah, I don't say none of that.
Speaker 2: That's why I want you to pull it up and
Speaker 2: fact check me. When they ask the question questions that
Speaker 2: direction in the future, that means you're headed somewhere. I
Speaker 2: can't get that out of my heart. You're headed somewhere.
Speaker 2: God is taking this thing somewhere, not where you expected it.
Speaker 2: Never it's not how you expect it, not when you
Speaker 2: expect it, but what he saw all along. When you're
Speaker 2: in the middle of it, it is very difficult to
Speaker 2: know what it means. I thought I knew why my
Speaker 2: dad was lashing out of our family when he was
Speaker 2: dying of als I didn't know that the doctor had
Speaker 2: upped his prescriptions to the point where it was causing pair.
Speaker 2: I thought it was wrong for him to talk to
Speaker 2: me and my mom the way he did, and it was.
Speaker 2: But now that I reframe it with the information that
Speaker 2: I have, maybe I could have done something different. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe why is he acting like that? I wondered so
Speaker 2: many times, why would he act like that? After all
Speaker 2: I've done for him? But the question I never really asked,
Speaker 2: or never knew to ask, was what's going on that
Speaker 2: I don't know that's causing it that we can control
Speaker 2: because he had a horrible disease and I couldn't control that.
Speaker 2: But what can I do? How might he be right
Speaker 2: even though what he's doing is wrong. I know that's
Speaker 2: a tender topic for many of us, but when we're
Speaker 2: in the middle of a relational conflict, when we're in
Speaker 2: the middle of a crisis, and many of you are,
Speaker 2: and look, man, I'm not trying to explain your experience.
Speaker 2: Only God can do that by his spirit for you.
Speaker 2: Paul says that the mind of God knows, the spirit
Speaker 2: of God knows the mind of God, and God's spirit
Speaker 2: is in you. And why has seen you know he
Speaker 2: reserved neither's in her an hard man. Things God has
Speaker 2: prepared for those who love him. We always stopped there.
Speaker 2: Why I think his first Corinthians two nine. Forgive me
Speaker 2: if I got it wrong. God has revealed him by
Speaker 2: his spirit. For the spirit of a man knows the
Speaker 2: thoughts of a man, and God knows his thoughts towards you,
Speaker 2: even when you don't. God's thoughts towards you are holy, pure, loving, wise, kind.
Speaker 2: His intentions are good. His purpose is always working. Now
Speaker 2: when the Bible says that Joshua called them for a conversation,
Speaker 2: and he didn't frame the situation with the fight that
Speaker 2: they were about to face. He framed it with the
Speaker 2: faithfulness of God and expectation for what God was going
Speaker 2: to do in their future, and an appreciation of what
Speaker 2: God just did. I think those are two great frames.
Speaker 2: Frame your day, frame your season, frame your struggle. Even
Speaker 2: with two things. Expectation God is going to do a
Speaker 2: great work in my future. Appreciation God has been faithful
Speaker 2: in my past. I love the hmn. Great is that faithfulness,
Speaker 2: Oh God, my Father? There is no shadow of turning
Speaker 2: with THEE Thou changes not that compassions They feel not
Speaker 2: as though husband, though forever will be pardon for sin.
Speaker 2: God did that, A peace that endure. God just did that.
Speaker 2: You follow me. I know you're feeling this because I am.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's for you. I don't feel like
Speaker 2: God gave me this today just to record it for me.
Speaker 2: I feel like God gave it to me for you,
Speaker 2: for your situation, for your tears, for your trauma, that
Speaker 2: the Lord still wants to help you frame this current
Speaker 2: situation with appreciation for what he's doing, even as you
Speaker 2: do with the frustration for what he won't do. Paul
Speaker 2: had some of that too, didn't he. I asked the
Speaker 2: Lord to remove this thorn, and he wouldn't, but he
Speaker 2: gave me his grace. That's all right. Frustration and grace
Speaker 2: can coincide. Just don't frustrate the grace of God by
Speaker 2: refusing to receive his love, his peace, pardon for sin,
Speaker 2: a peace that endure your own, dear presence, to cheer
Speaker 2: into God's strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's what God wants to give you. That's your frame,
Speaker 2: bright hope, bright hope for all of your tomorrows. So
Speaker 2: get those stones, put them up on your shoulder. You're
Speaker 2: strong enough. You're stronger than you think you are. You
Speaker 2: keep framing the way that you see yourself by the
Speaker 2: things that you say about yourself. I'm weak, I'm inexperienced.
Speaker 2: Jeremiah tried to do this. I am only a youth.
Speaker 2: Moses tried to do it. I am not eloquent. Gideon
Speaker 2: tried to do it. I am the least in my tribe.
Speaker 2: In the Luis sundtple Go, I say, you, mighty warrior,
Speaker 2: what does God see within you that he wants to
Speaker 2: reframe by his spirit through faith in the future. When
Speaker 2: your children ask you what do these stones mean? Tell
Speaker 2: them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off
Speaker 2: before the ark of the Covenant of the Lord. That
Speaker 2: arc represents God's presence. That arc represents God's presence present,
Speaker 2: the present moment, the middle of it. The miracle that
Speaker 2: God is going to do in your future is contingent
Speaker 2: upon your recognition of His presence here and now. God
Speaker 2: knows what you're in the middle of. God knows what's
Speaker 2: ahead of you, and he knows what's behind you. But
Speaker 2: Joshua gives us a lesson, and he frames the conversation
Speaker 2: not by the fight that's ahead of them, but by
Speaker 2: the future that God has prepared for them. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: going to have to fight for it. Yeah, you're going
Speaker 2: to have to get help for it. This isn't the
Speaker 2: whole story. It wasn't just that easy. But we are
Speaker 2: going to choose to focus on the faithfulness of God.
Speaker 2: That's why you've got to get a notebook or you
Speaker 2: can write down your gratitudes. Sometimes the little ones take
Speaker 2: a stone out of the middle of each day and go,
Speaker 2: God helped me today. I remember when Abby smiled at me,
Speaker 2: the things she said, Thank you God, Oh that was
Speaker 2: so nice. Hollymade me that sandwich on that low carb bread,
Speaker 2: Thank you Lord with bacon, but the bread was low carb.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: God, it was such a blessing to get to watch
Speaker 2: Graham Russell. It was such a blessing to get to
Speaker 2: be with my son today. And sometimes it's not as
Speaker 2: easy because we're also processing pain. But even as you're
Speaker 2: processing pain, you can frame your life with faith. Hey,
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