Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter nine. You'll want a little bit of chapter
Speaker 1: eight too, you do, Let's do chapter eight. Then let's
Speaker 1: do chapter eight, verse fifteen through Deuteronomy nine, verse five.
Speaker 1: I studied all of it, and I just want to
Speaker 1: be faithful to share with you what God spoke to me. Hey,
Speaker 1: congratulations today, You're like, what are you congratulating me for?
Speaker 1: That you made it to the end of another year.
Speaker 1: Congratulations that you came to church the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: What that means is God will give you an automatic
Speaker 1: calorie deficit. So it's gonna be amazing because you're gonna
Speaker 1: eat everything you want at Thanksgiving, and none of it
Speaker 1: is gonna go to the fat cells. It's all gonna
Speaker 1: go to places where it is going to produce a
Speaker 1: better physique. Okay, I'm a false prophet. I need to
Speaker 1: stop this and read the Bible. The Bible doesn't say
Speaker 1: any of that. But I am glad you're here, and
Speaker 1: I prophesied nobody's gonna fight at your Thanksgiving me all
Speaker 1: because you're gonna keep your mouth shut when they say
Speaker 1: stuff that makes you mad. A little tongue biting practice today.
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter eight, verse fifteen, listen to this. What God did.
Speaker 1: He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, the
Speaker 1: thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions.
Speaker 1: He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave
Speaker 1: you manna to eat in the wilderness. None of y'all,
Speaker 1: God never fed any of you. I thought we were
Speaker 1: talking about some historic group, pastor Steve, and now I'm
Speaker 1: talking about you. What God did for you in seasons
Speaker 1: of your life. You didn't see a way, but He
Speaker 1: made a way. Okay, we're on the same page now, huh,
Speaker 1: Because we've all been in a wilderness, but we've seen
Speaker 1: God's provision in those hard places. So that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness,
Speaker 1: something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test
Speaker 1: you so that in the end it might go well
Speaker 1: with you. You You may say to yourself, my power and
Speaker 1: strength have produced this wealth for me. But remember the
Speaker 1: Lord your God, for it is he who gives you
Speaker 1: the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant
Speaker 1: which he swore to your ancestors, as it is this day.
Speaker 1: If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow
Speaker 1: other gods and worship and bow down to them. I
Speaker 1: testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed
Speaker 1: like the nation's the Lord destroyed before you. So you
Speaker 1: will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: Now Verse one, chapter nine, Here Israel, you are now
Speaker 1: about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess
Speaker 1: nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that
Speaker 1: have walls up to the sky. The people are strong
Speaker 1: and tall. Anekites. You know about them and have heard
Speaker 1: it said, who can stand up against the Anekites? But
Speaker 1: be assured today that the Lord your God is the
Speaker 1: one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire.
Speaker 1: He will destroy them. He will subdue them before you,
Speaker 1: and you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly,
Speaker 1: as the Lord has promised you. After the Lord your
Speaker 1: God has driven them out before you, do not say
Speaker 1: to yourself, the Lord has brought me here to take
Speaker 1: possession of this land because of my righteousness. No, it
Speaker 1: is on account of the wickedness of these nations that
Speaker 1: the Lord is going to drive them out before you.
Speaker 1: It is not because of your righteousness. Touch your neighbor
Speaker 1: and say you're not that good. It is not because
Speaker 1: of your righteousness or your integrity. Don't be offended. They
Speaker 1: just said what the Bible said. It is not because
Speaker 1: of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going
Speaker 1: to take possession of their land. But on account of
Speaker 1: the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will
Speaker 1: drive them out before you to accomplish what he swore
Speaker 1: to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Let's say
Speaker 1: amen to the word of God. The title of this
Speaker 1: message is been here before, been here before. Speak your word, Lord.
Speaker 1: We're listening in Jesus' name. Amen. Touch somebody on your
Speaker 1: way to your seat, say this is not my first time,
Speaker 1: been here before. Amen. Your kids sometimes tend to remember
Speaker 1: stuff you wish they would forget, forget stuff that you
Speaker 1: really thought they would remember. There's this one thing that
Speaker 1: happened on vacation, like eight years ago that my kids
Speaker 1: will never let me live down. I lost a little
Speaker 1: not an AirPod, but it was. It was called a
Speaker 1: j bird, a little headphone day, a little earphone thing.
Speaker 1: I lost it, and I lost it. I lost my
Speaker 1: mind because I lost this little thing. So stupid I
Speaker 1: was fried. I didn't burn out. You know how it is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're like, why this is not about the jaybird,
Speaker 1: this is about something else, and they remember it. I
Speaker 1: didn't throw any of them across the room, but they
Speaker 1: remember when Mom had to pull them aside and say,
Speaker 1: let's give dad some space. Wally works this out. They
Speaker 1: remember that. They remember it comes up about once a week.
Speaker 1: Remember that time with the j bird, not the time
Speaker 1: we went to Singapore, the time with the J bird.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. And then one of my boys, I
Speaker 1: don't really remember which one would I would totally call
Speaker 1: him out if I did. But we went to an
Speaker 1: NFL game and somebody asked, is this your first NFL game?
Speaker 1: First time going to an NFL game? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is my first game, and I like, yank him
Speaker 1: by the arm. I'm like, this is your third NFL game.
Speaker 1: He'd been to two games before or two NFL games,
Speaker 1: went into the locker room of one and wrestled with
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and met the quarterback. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: my first game. I'm like, so this is how it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. I'm gonna just do crazy crap for you.
Speaker 1: Your whole life just amazing stuff that kids only dream of.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna talk about the jay bird that I
Speaker 1: got freaked out about one time, and forget about meeting cam. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: the thing that I want to bring to our attention
Speaker 1: from this text is that God's kids do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Did they put niquill in a communion cup before y'all
Speaker 1: came in? Today? I feel kind of foggy. God's kids
Speaker 1: tend to remember the wrong things forgetting his faithfulness and
Speaker 1: focusing on things that really, in the big scheme of things,
Speaker 1: don't matter much. And this scripture Deuteronomy chapter nine, verse
Speaker 1: one is to me very bittersweet because you have the
Speaker 1: man of God, Moses, who of course has led them
Speaker 1: this far, and he's preparing them to go into a
Speaker 1: land that God has promised them, but he's not going
Speaker 1: with them. Two things I want you to notice from
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy nine, verse one. Put it on the screen. Police
Speaker 1: here Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan.
Speaker 1: In some ways, that's exciting, you are now about to
Speaker 1: cross the Jordan. But there's something about this that's very
Speaker 1: sad too. The word you and the word now. See
Speaker 1: when he says you, he's not saying we because he
Speaker 1: can't go, because he had the opportunity to go, but
Speaker 1: he didn't have the faith to go, because he had
Speaker 1: the chance to step into it, but he didn't believe
Speaker 1: God enough to step into it. You are going, He's
Speaker 1: telling the next generation. You're going into this land that
Speaker 1: God promised. You're going into this land that's flowing with
Speaker 1: milk and honey. You're about to see God do amazing things.
Speaker 1: You're about to witness miracle after miracle. You're about to
Speaker 1: settle into something that God spoke centuries before you were
Speaker 1: even born. You're about to go into the land. Now.
Speaker 1: See that word is said to me too. It's the
Speaker 1: word now because they could have been in the land
Speaker 1: forty years earlier and in a terrible thing. To get
Speaker 1: to a place in your life where you say, you know,
Speaker 1: I had the chance to do that. I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. I remember talking to him, man
Speaker 1: who fell into deep sexual sin, and he said, I
Speaker 1: remember the moment that God spoke the word to me,
Speaker 1: and I was standing right on the edge and God
Speaker 1: was trying to snatch me from it, but I stepped
Speaker 1: into it anyway. It was twelve years later after wrecking
Speaker 1: much of his life and family. That he stood at
Speaker 1: the place of regret, realizing God gave me that chance
Speaker 1: and I didn't take it. God gave me that word,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't hear it. God opened that door, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go through it. You know, the Bible says
Speaker 1: that God will make a way of escape for you,
Speaker 1: but he won't push you through the hatch. God will
Speaker 1: send people. God will send provision, God will send promises.
Speaker 1: Everybody say promises. I'm thankful for the promises that God
Speaker 1: has spoken over my life. It's not just about land
Speaker 1: and territory and geographical things like it is here in
Speaker 1: the Old Testament. But for me, I'm thankful that God
Speaker 1: has promised me some things, and whatever he speaks, he
Speaker 1: intends to accomplish. And nothing can stop it. Nothing can
Speaker 1: stop it. I mean nothing, No body, no devil, no
Speaker 1: genetic nothing can stop it. No cancer, sell nothing can
Speaker 1: stop it. Nothing, not even the dumb thing I did,
Speaker 1: can stop it from coming to pass. If God promised
Speaker 1: that he will perform it. If God promise, he will
Speaker 1: bring it to pass. David said, delight yourself in the Lord,
Speaker 1: and he will give you the desires of your heart. Now,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? What does that mean? Because sometimes
Speaker 1: God has to show us that not everything we want
Speaker 1: is something that he promised. A lot of us lose
Speaker 1: our confidence in God because we confuse our want with
Speaker 1: this promise. This won't take long. But teach this part
Speaker 1: and then I appreach so good. You'd be so inspired.
Speaker 1: But let me dig into this for just a moment.
Speaker 1: I said something last week. I said it so quick,
Speaker 1: and I moved so fast, and I was talking about weasels,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about the weasel and the word
Speaker 1: and the seed and the dead thing, and you're not
Speaker 1: dead yet, and God's seeds are still in you, and
Speaker 1: don't give up on it. Just because something died on
Speaker 1: you doesn't mean God isn't real in you. So I
Speaker 1: was preaching all that last week and I said something
Speaker 1: like the flash, and I don't know if you heard it,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was really good. Okay, confidence in
Speaker 1: God's promise? How many of you are confident in God's promise?
Speaker 1: I am setting you up, dude. I am about to
Speaker 1: knock you out with this hook. Confidence in God's promise
Speaker 1: without commitment to his process is not dependence. It is delusion.
Speaker 1: I want you to write that down. So it just
Speaker 1: came up on the movie screen. You're not going to
Speaker 1: do it. Huh, you're not going to write it down?
Speaker 1: Write it down? Yeah, for real, with on your phone
Speaker 1: or on your notes or whatever. Write it down, because
Speaker 1: I want that to be ringing in your head the
Speaker 1: next time you think, why didn't God do it? Why
Speaker 1: didn't he answer? Why didn't He do it? Why don't
Speaker 1: I have it? Confidence in God's promise? Oh, Moses in
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy is really reliving some of his own regrets. He
Speaker 1: is reminding the people not only what God did while
Speaker 1: they were in the wilderness, but how they disobeyed him.
Speaker 1: And he is warning them that when God brings you
Speaker 1: into this land, be careful that the you that he
Speaker 1: brings into this land doesn't think that you are the
Speaker 1: reason that you're there, because you'll become arrogant, prideful, and
Speaker 1: the moment that you forget, you will lose the war.
Speaker 1: Not because God isn't great, but because you forgot how
Speaker 1: to fight your battles, and you did it in your
Speaker 1: own strength. So the promises of God are sure. The
Speaker 1: promises of God are yes and amen, the promises of God,
Speaker 1: no matter how many of them he has spoken, he
Speaker 1: will bring them to pass. The promise of God can
Speaker 1: come from a barren womb. The promise of God can
Speaker 1: come from a stable in Bethlehem. The promise of God
Speaker 1: can come in the darkest season of your life. And
Speaker 1: yet there is so much of what God has promised
Speaker 1: me that I don't possess yet. There's so much more
Speaker 1: that God has promised me that I don't possess yet.
Speaker 1: I can make your list. Let's do it as an exercise.
Speaker 1: Do you believe God has promised to give you peace?
Speaker 1: Wave at me. If you believe God has promised to
Speaker 1: give you peace, So how are you gonna get it?
Speaker 1: That's the question, right, God promised them this land. How
Speaker 1: are you gonna get it? You're gonna start chanting peace, peace, peace,
Speaker 1: Give me peace, give me peace, Give me peace, Give
Speaker 1: me peace. Pretty please give me peace, Give me peace, peace, peace.
Speaker 1: These these peace pieces. There is a process by which
Speaker 1: God gives me peace, and it's found in Philippians chapter four.
Speaker 1: Look at this on the screen. I want to bring
Speaker 1: this into the New Testament from the Old Testament, where
Speaker 1: the apostle Paul says, do not be anxious about anything,
Speaker 1: but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: present your requests to God and the peace of God.
Speaker 1: The peace of God. Wait a minute, that's the verse.
Speaker 1: I like. I don't like the first one because I
Speaker 1: don't really feel like pray and I don't really feel
Speaker 1: like being thankful. I don't really feel like asking God. Okay,
Speaker 1: you do realize that in the original manuscripts of the Bible,
Speaker 1: there was not a verse seven and a verse six.
Speaker 1: It was just all one thing. So what he says
Speaker 1: in verse seven follows from what he said in verse six.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds the basic, but I think sometimes
Speaker 1: we forget that that he says, the peace of God,
Speaker 1: which transcends all understanding, will guard your heart and your
Speaker 1: mind in Christ Jesus. So there it is, the promise,
Speaker 1: the peace, the process, prayer, petition, thanksgiving, not sitting around
Speaker 1: thinking about everything that could go wrong, would go wrong,
Speaker 1: did go wrong, might go wrong, possibly could go wrong
Speaker 1: went wrong twenty three years ago. That process will not
Speaker 1: get you peace. I don't care. You can't cancel out
Speaker 1: a bad thought life with a good prayer life and
Speaker 1: get peace just because you really really want it. Okay,
Speaker 1: how many have you been praying for God to give
Speaker 1: you peace? Are you doing the process that brings to peace?
Speaker 1: That's the question. Go to verse eight. I'm a really
Speaker 1: hammer to this home. I'm not playing with you all today. Finally,
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever
Speaker 1: is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,
Speaker 1: if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.
Speaker 1: Then what happens. Whatever you learn received from me or
Speaker 1: seeing in me, put into practice, and the God of
Speaker 1: Peace will be with you. Well wait, I thought God
Speaker 1: was gonna be with me no matter what. That's a promise, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: He'll be with you, But you will not receive his
Speaker 1: peace if you don't want to think his thoughts. You
Speaker 1: just won't. You can't fill your head with whatever and
Speaker 1: then faith your way out of what you filled your
Speaker 1: head with. You can't just binge whatever and then quote
Speaker 1: a Bible verse on top of stuff that you binge
Speaker 1: and ask God to cancel it out because he can't
Speaker 1: because it's a prime. It's not automatic. But God promise,
Speaker 1: but it's not a one time. I like to tell
Speaker 1: stories about my kids. They were they had their hands
Speaker 1: under this faucet. This was when they were real little.
Speaker 1: I think it was Graham and he was waiting for
Speaker 1: the water to come on, and there was a knob
Speaker 1: and I stood there and watched him for a good
Speaker 1: I don't know about thirty seconds, because I wanted to
Speaker 1: see how long will you stand there and wait for
Speaker 1: something to come out and not do anything to produce it.
Speaker 1: He could have concluded there's no water because a five
Speaker 1: year old boy doesn't want to wash his hands anyway,
Speaker 1: so he could have walked away. The water doesn't work.
Speaker 1: I see people all the time who come to church
Speaker 1: and go that didn't work. That didn't work. You know what,
Speaker 1: there's no water. That didn't work. I tried. I tried
Speaker 1: to do it. You didn't try to do it. You
Speaker 1: took the promise out of context and pop like a
Speaker 1: pain pill. It made you feel better for four hours,
Speaker 1: but it didn't produce what it could have produced in
Speaker 1: your life. Because the Word of God is not a
Speaker 1: pill to be ingested. It is a seed to be planted,
Speaker 1: and if you planted, the process will begin of producing
Speaker 1: the potential of the seed now. But we give up
Speaker 1: too easily. The first time that we feel fear, we
Speaker 1: let go of faith. The first time that we get rejected,
Speaker 1: we start expecting more rejection. So now we don't want
Speaker 1: to go now, we don't want to try. Now, we
Speaker 1: don't want to do it now. It's just too hard. Now.
Speaker 1: I guess God didn't really say that. I guess God
Speaker 1: didn't really mean for me to have it. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just never going to come into it. That's one
Speaker 1: way of looking at it. But maybe another way of
Speaker 1: looking at it is you have not fully allowed the
Speaker 1: process to complete its perfect work in your life, and
Speaker 1: if you get back in the process, you see the
Speaker 1: promise come to pass. Because what's crazy about it is
Speaker 1: nothing has changed about the promise in the forty years
Speaker 1: since Moses last spoke it. He's been here before, he's
Speaker 1: been in this exact spot. But now because he struck
Speaker 1: the rock twice, instead of speaking to it like God
Speaker 1: told him to, God said, you don't trust me enough
Speaker 1: for me to take you in. It wasn't that he
Speaker 1: wasn't enough to go in. He did not trust God
Speaker 1: enough to go in. You see the difference. One is
Speaker 1: I just don't have it, and the other is I
Speaker 1: just won't do it. Now we're living in a time,
Speaker 1: because this scripture is not good for snowflake culture, where
Speaker 1: everybody wants God to bring everything that he spoke to them.
Speaker 1: And this is why the generational correction is appropriate in
Speaker 1: the scripture. This scripture is generationally appropriate because only those
Speaker 1: who were twenty years of age or younger get to
Speaker 1: go into the Promised Land. Everybody else either died off
Speaker 1: in the wilderness or is staying there. So Moses, this
Speaker 1: is so sad to me. He's preparing them for something
Speaker 1: that he won't get to participate in. And as he's
Speaker 1: doing it, you can hear that he's giving them words
Speaker 1: of faith, but I hear the tone of regret, resentment.
Speaker 1: He's mad at them. There's three different speeches recorded in Deuteronomy,
Speaker 1: and all of them he said all this stuff before,
Speaker 1: but he's saying it again, and now he's saying it
Speaker 1: to them to let them know that even though you've
Speaker 1: been at this place before, it's going to be different
Speaker 1: this time. You are going to do what we couldn't
Speaker 1: do because you are gonna believe what we wouldn't believe.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see what we didn't see. But we
Speaker 1: had the same promise, but you're gonna do with the
Speaker 1: promise what we could not do with the promise, what
Speaker 1: we would not do with the promise. If you keep
Speaker 1: your eyes on God, and if you go forward believing
Speaker 1: that God is with you, you're gonna see it. In fact,
Speaker 1: he basically assumes that they're going to take the land.
Speaker 1: He just cautions them that when they do, they need
Speaker 1: to remember who brought them into it. I love it,
Speaker 1: he said. You've been in the wilderness for a long time.
Speaker 1: And it's funny about the wilderness because a wilderness is
Speaker 1: a place, like I said last week, between places where
Speaker 1: God teaches you things that you need to know for
Speaker 1: where you're going. The wilderness. The wilderness is the place
Speaker 1: where God gets you ready for what he has next
Speaker 1: for you. The wilderness where He brings you manna to
Speaker 1: your tent every morning because you don't have farmland yet.
Speaker 1: The wilderness where He brings you water out of a
Speaker 1: rock and there's not even a knob for the faucet.
Speaker 1: It just starts flowing out. The wilderness. There are wonderful
Speaker 1: things about the wilderness. There are wonderful things about loneliness.
Speaker 1: When you're lonely, God will feel closer to you. If
Speaker 1: you'll call on him than when you're real busy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are wonderful things about when people tell you no,
Speaker 1: Because when people tell you no, God has this way
Speaker 1: of putting a yes in your spirit that you can't
Speaker 1: even explain. It's a wonderful thing about certain tears that
Speaker 1: we cry because God drives them and you feel his
Speaker 1: touch like you never did before. It's a wonderful thing
Speaker 1: sometimes about you know, when you've done all that you
Speaker 1: can do and you can't figure anything, and God just says,
Speaker 1: I got this one. Watch this man, woo, open your tent. Whoo.
Speaker 1: Every morning it's gonna be there, brand new mercies with
Speaker 1: every rising of the sun. It's a wonderful thing. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been fed by the hand of God where
Speaker 1: God just dropped something off from you and you said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is wonderful. I didn't even know how, but God
Speaker 1: did that for me. I didn't even know that person.
Speaker 1: They paid for my gash at the pump. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that person. They stopped me and encouraged me.
Speaker 1: It's some wonderful things that happen in the wilderness. God
Speaker 1: just drops stuff on you in the wilderness. God just
Speaker 1: gusts stuff for you. In the wilderness. God just makes
Speaker 1: sure that you have clothes to wear. In the wilderness,
Speaker 1: you don't outgrow it. It just keeps stretching with you.
Speaker 1: In the wilderness. He makes sure your feet don't swell.
Speaker 1: In the wilderness. It is a place of supernatural provision.
Speaker 1: But if you stay there too long, you will become passive,
Speaker 1: waiting for a promise that God wants to give you
Speaker 1: the power to possess by faith. I am gonna break
Speaker 1: that down, but first I need your help. Shot this
Speaker 1: God is bringing me into my promise, and that sounds selfish.
Speaker 1: I don't like talking about what God is doing for me,
Speaker 1: see becomes Pastor Stephen. I think that the Bible says
Speaker 1: that it's not about me, it's not about my desires.
Speaker 1: You were just saying a moment ago that it's not
Speaker 1: what I want that God promised, and so I would
Speaker 1: refer you back to earlier in your sermon, around nine
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty two seconds, and you're preaching really good,
Speaker 1: but you've gone off course now because now you're saying
Speaker 1: God is bringing me into my promise. And I'm not
Speaker 1: comfortable with that, because, after all, it is all for
Speaker 1: his glory, and I don't really like all these worship
Speaker 1: songs that are like me, me, me, and God's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for me. And that's one of the thing
Speaker 1: about God, how great he is and how awesome he
Speaker 1: is and all of the wonderful things that He has
Speaker 1: done in an abstract way, so that I don't have
Speaker 1: to bring the historical context into my life and make
Speaker 1: application and get better so that I can go forward.
Speaker 1: I just kind of zoned out for a minute. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I just said. It's it's a thing
Speaker 1: that you need to believe. You need to believe. God
Speaker 1: is bringing me into my promise, not her promise. She's
Speaker 1: got a different color hair, she's got a different family situation,
Speaker 1: she's got a different set of struggles that she does
Speaker 1: not show anybody on TikTok. God is bringing me into
Speaker 1: my promise. So I'm good with whatever God does for
Speaker 1: other people. I'm not jealous. I'm not envious. I'm not
Speaker 1: in a hurry. I am not gonna break my neck
Speaker 1: running in lanes that God did not clear for me.
Speaker 1: God is bringing me. Be careful, y'all. I might start preaching.
Speaker 1: I might start preaching. I just want to teach you
Speaker 1: this so you can know that God is bringing you
Speaker 1: through the wilderness season through the heart parts. And the
Speaker 1: wilderness is important because that's where God sifts you. The
Speaker 1: wilderness is where God sifts the wheat of his promise
Speaker 1: from the chaff of what I want. The wilderness is
Speaker 1: a threshing floor where God gets me really clear about
Speaker 1: what really matters. The wilderness is a place that He
Speaker 1: teaches me that I can do without a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that I think I need. The wilderness is
Speaker 1: there to teach me that if my mother and father
Speaker 1: forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. The
Speaker 1: wilderness is there to teach me that there might not
Speaker 1: be a fountain, but there's a rock, and God can
Speaker 1: bring water out of hard places, that God can bring
Speaker 1: blessings out of barren places. The wilderness is wonderful, but
Speaker 1: there is one problem with the wilderness. If you stay
Speaker 1: there too long, you will get so used to God
Speaker 1: bringing it to you that you might be tempted to
Speaker 1: forget that sometimes God brings it to you, and sometimes
Speaker 1: He brings you to it. This is for the five
Speaker 1: people who you have been wondering what in the world
Speaker 1: is going going on? In my life right now. I
Speaker 1: don't have the same friends I used to have. I
Speaker 1: don't feel the same I used to feel. I can't
Speaker 1: depend on what I used to depend on. It's not
Speaker 1: working like it used to work. And you've been tempted
Speaker 1: to lose confidence in God. But don't lose your faith
Speaker 1: over this, Nah, just switch your focus. It isn't that
Speaker 1: God left. He's just sifting you so and he brings
Speaker 1: you into the next thing that he wants you to do.
Speaker 1: You will be ready for it. It's preparation, baby. This
Speaker 1: is my training camp. This is my getting ready word.
Speaker 1: This is my getting ready season. This is my foundation
Speaker 1: building season. So something strong to stand on. Oh God,
Speaker 1: I feel it. I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready. Now.
Speaker 1: Here's my learn here's my learn. So when you don't
Speaker 1: get what you want from God, how many of you
Speaker 1: had that happen some point in twenty twenty two? Everybody else,
Speaker 1: come pray for me. You didn't raise your hand, you
Speaker 1: come pray for me. I need that annoyingt than you
Speaker 1: have of everything happens right, sales right goes on sale
Speaker 1: when you want to buy it. Oh God, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. You have a choice to make like
Speaker 1: they had a choice to make. When it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: like you want it, raise your hand again. If there
Speaker 1: was something that you wanted God to do, something you
Speaker 1: wanted God to give, here's your options. You can either
Speaker 1: lose confidence or to a number two, you can either
Speaker 1: lose confidence. I love to play would you rather games
Speaker 1: for people. My rule of thumb is when I say
Speaker 1: would you rather? And I say the first thing, If
Speaker 1: they go with that before they hear what was coming next,
Speaker 1: I will make the second thing so horrible it'll be
Speaker 1: our rated man. I'll tell you, I will take it
Speaker 1: as far as I need to. So would you rather?
Speaker 1: Would you rather lose confidence in what God promised? Or
Speaker 1: gain clarity to really see? Oh? This is what matters. Oh,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do it. They just there's
Speaker 1: no water. I'm out of here. Oh I don't have peace.
Speaker 1: I'm just going back. And I chose this text because
Speaker 1: a very unusual line, a very unusual line in verse two.
Speaker 1: You know, he says you're about to cross over. They're
Speaker 1: going to be greater and stronger than you. Look at this.
Speaker 1: How bad of a motivational speech. Moses gave no wonder
Speaker 1: he didn't go into the promised land. Man, this beech sucks.
Speaker 1: Let's do the whole speech. Let's just at least do
Speaker 1: the first three verses. Go to verse one. Listen, how
Speaker 1: bad this is. Moses is not a motivator. He not.
Speaker 1: He's a liberator. God used him. But he's always doubting himself.
Speaker 1: He's always mad at them. He's always like, God, these
Speaker 1: people that you won't do what you want them to do.
Speaker 1: And God's like, that's because I gave them you as
Speaker 1: a leader, so go get them to do it. And
Speaker 1: he doesn't do it. And that's why he's not going
Speaker 1: in and you have that option. So now he's telling
Speaker 1: them what they're going to do. Here Israel. You are
Speaker 1: now about to cross the Jordan, go in and dispossessinations.
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to eat grapes. You are,
Speaker 1: but before you eat grapes, you're gonna have to fight giants.
Speaker 1: No shouts Lord, did I pick the wrong verse? Or
Speaker 1: this is what? This is the process? You are about
Speaker 1: to crossover promise and you will dispossess nations process. That's
Speaker 1: where God's got you right now. Doesn't mean he isn't good,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he didn't call you, doesn't mean he isn't
Speaker 1: with you, doesn't mean you don't have it. It just
Speaker 1: means that there are some problems that come with the promise,
Speaker 1: and God saw them all. We'll see I can't do
Speaker 1: it because see I have this thing in my life
Speaker 1: and God didn't know that. So God didn't know that
Speaker 1: you struggled with that. God did not know that you
Speaker 1: would succumb to that addiction. God didn't know that about you.
Speaker 1: You trust him or you don't. He knew it or
Speaker 1: he didn't. He's sovereign or he's not. He's God or
Speaker 1: he's not here. Israel, you are about to go in
Speaker 1: and dispossessinations. And watch what he said. They are greater
Speaker 1: and stronger than you. Wow. Imagine telling your team this
Speaker 1: before you went out. Large cities that have walls up
Speaker 1: to the sky. That's a little foreshadowing of Jericho. We're
Speaker 1: about to shout those walls down after seven days. But
Speaker 1: that's not yet. Verse two. The people are strong and tall.
Speaker 1: Now here's the message. Here's the message. Anna Kites. Just
Speaker 1: the name alone strikes fear into every Israelite's heart, like
Speaker 1: when they used to say Mufussa on the lion came.
Speaker 1: That's what that sounded like to them. They came from
Speaker 1: the Nephilum. Genesis six. Look it up as creepy as weird,
Speaker 1: as strain just twisted. It said that the sons of
Speaker 1: God came to the daughters of men, and the Nephelum
Speaker 1: were born, and the nephelm had descendants called the Anakites.
Speaker 1: And when they went into the land to spy it out,
Speaker 1: they came back forty years earlier saying there's Anakites. So
Speaker 1: as Moses says it, it is an accusation against his
Speaker 1: generation for what kept them out of what God was
Speaker 1: bringing them into. And he said they're still there, and
Speaker 1: that a shame. Those Anachites should be long gone. You
Speaker 1: should have killed them forty years ago. God would have
Speaker 1: helped you. He wanted to help you. He was helping you,
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't do it because you got in that moment,
Speaker 1: you got the wrong voices and the ten spies that
Speaker 1: said we can't do it, and you stayed in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: But look at this, this is the good part. Everything
Speaker 1: I said was so I could say this. Don't you
Speaker 1: hate when a preacher says that you're like did you
Speaker 1: just waste thirty five minutes of my life saying stuff
Speaker 1: that you didn't mean. No, no no, no, I want you
Speaker 1: to hear what they said. Anechet everybody say Anakites. That's
Speaker 1: thirty three percent participation. I need the whole community to
Speaker 1: say it. Anecheist say like you're scared anachees, lions and
Speaker 1: tigers and bears and ane geist. You know about them.
Speaker 1: That's what Moses said. You know about them and have
Speaker 1: heard it said. Who can stand up against the Anakites?
Speaker 1: Now that's a weird saying. When he says you have
Speaker 1: heard it said, that means it was in their vernacular.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you heard it once or twice. That
Speaker 1: means it's a common saying. My dad had a bunch
Speaker 1: of sayans growing up. My mom had a bunch of
Speaker 1: sayans growing up in the South. We have a bunch
Speaker 1: of sayings that we really can't explain to you exactly
Speaker 1: what they mean, but we've been hearing them all our life.
Speaker 1: My dad used to say when he saw somebody stuck up,
Speaker 1: he'd go, I wish I could buy them for what
Speaker 1: they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's cold. That's cold, that's coal. My mom used to
Speaker 1: rewatch the news and they'd be talking about injustice or
Speaker 1: murder or something. She'd say, God's gonna cut a hole
Speaker 1: in the middle of the earth and swallow this whole
Speaker 1: world up, and he's gonna start in California. Why y'all clapping?
Speaker 1: That's so funny. You said that all the time. God's
Speaker 1: gonna cut a hole. That's terrifying for us, old oh man.
Speaker 1: The first time I went to California Illow PTSD, I
Speaker 1: was thirty years old, and I was still scared. I
Speaker 1: heard all my life. I heard all my life. I
Speaker 1: heard all my life. Now, now, isn't that a weird
Speaker 1: thing to have as a saying? Who can stand up
Speaker 1: against the Anakites? Put it back on the screen, who
Speaker 1: can stand up against the Anakites? I guess you had
Speaker 1: to kind of be from there to get it, because
Speaker 1: this doesn't sound like something you just say unprovoked, you know,
Speaker 1: like we say what's up? Or how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Which doesn't mean how are you doing? I really don't
Speaker 1: want you to answer that question. I'm just saying something polite.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying how you're doing? But if you actually
Speaker 1: answer me, I'm gonna be bored. Okay, So I don't
Speaker 1: really mean how are you? This is not casual, and
Speaker 1: this is not unprovoked. This is an answer to a
Speaker 1: question that must have been asked at some point. Put
Speaker 1: it back up. It's so important. Have you seen this?
Speaker 1: Who can stand up against the Anakites? You don't just
Speaker 1: say that randomly? You know how you doing? Who can
Speaker 1: stand up against the Anakites? That's not something you say unprovoked? Right,
Speaker 1: like something came before that? What was it? Why is
Speaker 1: this such a common saying? That before Moses dies, y'all
Speaker 1: he's weeks away from dying. Well, he's gonna be buried.
Speaker 1: God's gonna take him up, hide him from the Israelites
Speaker 1: so they won't go back to where Moses was, so
Speaker 1: that they'll move forward. Because God will do whatever he
Speaker 1: has to do in your life to get you to
Speaker 1: move forward into what he is bringing you into. He'll
Speaker 1: do that. And Moses says, you have heard it said,
Speaker 1: who can stand up against the Anakites? Why would you
Speaker 1: say that unless you were asked, hey, why didn't we
Speaker 1: go into the Promised Land? Got to imagine that a
Speaker 1: conversation happened at some point between these children who were
Speaker 1: very little when they originally had the opportunity, and the
Speaker 1: generation that died in the wilderness because they did not
Speaker 1: have the faith to enter. And maybe you kid ask
Speaker 1: you one day, Hey, didn't God tell Abraham and Isaac
Speaker 1: and Jacob that he was going to bring us into
Speaker 1: a land flowing with milk and honey? Yes, he did, Son,
Speaker 1: Then why aren't we there Anakites? Well, why didn't you
Speaker 1: fight the Anakites? Isn't God greater than any other enemy?
Speaker 1: And maybe they would have said, who can stand up
Speaker 1: against the Anakites? It had become an ingrained answer for
Speaker 1: a faithless generation. It had been becomes such an embedded
Speaker 1: excuse that it was now a popular saying. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: who can stand up against the Anakites? Who can stand
Speaker 1: up against these giants? It's too big, it's too strong,
Speaker 1: it's too crazy. Nobody can do it, y'all. I want
Speaker 1: to say something from a pastoral heart, so lean in
Speaker 1: when I say this, like if we were talking one
Speaker 1: on one. I'm very concerned that we slap labels on
Speaker 1: things to avoid having to work toward overcoming them, especially
Speaker 1: in this day we live in. It's like, just because
Speaker 1: we give it a name or a diagnosis, we give
Speaker 1: it permission to stop us from becoming the person God
Speaker 1: made us to be. And I apologize to you because
Speaker 1: many times in this pulpit I have refrained from saying
Speaker 1: things like what I'm about to say because of people
Speaker 1: who would say, well, you don't know what I'm struggling with.
Speaker 1: You know you preach about this, but you don't know
Speaker 1: that I'm going through that, So don't tell me this
Speaker 1: when I'm going through that. That's fine. There's no place
Speaker 1: in the family of God to shame people for what
Speaker 1: they struggle with, right. You know me better than that.
Speaker 1: I am not one of these preachers who teaches you
Speaker 1: that if you have a dark day, it's because there's
Speaker 1: an unconfessin in your life. If I appreach that to you,
Speaker 1: God would smack me. I fall off this stage and die.
Speaker 1: I'd have a cracked, open skull on the floor. Because
Speaker 1: God knows I've had dark days. God knows I've had
Speaker 1: seasons that I couldn't figure out. God knows sometimes I've
Speaker 1: done exactly what I thought He wanted me to do
Speaker 1: and it failed, and I wondered why so I will
Speaker 1: never do that to you. I will never accuse you
Speaker 1: of saying like, if you struggle with anxiety, you don't
Speaker 1: trust God. That's just not what I believe. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that if you struggle with anxiety, don't trust God.
Speaker 1: But I am concerned that you will accept anxiety as
Speaker 1: the norm of your life just because you can name
Speaker 1: it that. And it's becoming really popular for us to
Speaker 1: just say, oh, I have anxiety. I can't go there. Well,
Speaker 1: if you do have anxiety, let's get treatment, Let's get help,
Speaker 1: let's get therapy, let's learn mechanisms, let's start studying, let's
Speaker 1: get let's get through it, little by little, bit by bit.
Speaker 1: I'll be here for you. I'll talk you through it.
Speaker 1: You can cry to me about it, but that's not
Speaker 1: gonna stop me from possessing the peace that God promised me.
Speaker 1: Just because I can say I struggle with it, struggle
Speaker 1: is not surrender. Struggle me. I'm coming. I'm out of this.
Speaker 1: I'm moving forward from this. I'm gonna do this for
Speaker 1: my kids, for their kids. I'm gonna break it in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. That's where the power is in
Speaker 1: that process where you get down in it, and they say, no,
Speaker 1: I won't die in this. If God didn't bring it
Speaker 1: to me, he one must want to bring me to it.
Speaker 1: And in the neighbor of the living God, go down
Speaker 1: Goliath anarchist, Yeah, I got it. I got it. You're
Speaker 1: anointed for the Anakites. That's what the spirit is for,
Speaker 1: That's what the grace is for, that's what the prophecy
Speaker 1: is for. That's what the word is for. Surrender to
Speaker 1: something just because you struggle with it. I talked to
Speaker 1: a guy one time. He said, I just like Porn'll
Speaker 1: sit down, I just like it. Like who wouldn't begin
Speaker 1: to love something that was planted in their life they
Speaker 1: short circuited their brain to a pleasure center, tapped in
Speaker 1: to dopamine, unknown amounts of dopamine, and flooded with hormones.
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't. I just like it. That does not give
Speaker 1: you permission to lose to it for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. You can beat it, you can do it.
Speaker 1: You can you can. There are certain things, man, we
Speaker 1: just give ourselves permission. Young couple was telling me, I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you what people tell me, but I won't
Speaker 1: tell you who they are, so it'd be it'd be
Speaker 1: all right, you know, I'll just protect the names to it.
Speaker 1: How does it say change the names to protect the guilty?
Speaker 1: Said said, uh? Preaching like this is old fashioned sexual purity.
Speaker 1: You can't stay sexually pure in this day and age.
Speaker 1: It's too much, you know, we see too much on
Speaker 1: TikTok and this and that, and it's just not even
Speaker 1: these values don't even apply anymore. Anach who can stand
Speaker 1: up against the Anakites? I mean, come on, you can't
Speaker 1: possibly expect me to stay sexually pure, can you? Well?
Speaker 1: That depends whose power are we tapping into? Is it
Speaker 1: you or is it him? Is he God or is
Speaker 1: he not? Is he faithful or is he not? Does
Speaker 1: he bright chayse or did he get tired? Does he
Speaker 1: make ways or does he stand still? He is still God.
Speaker 1: I don't care what culture says you can do it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your parents said you can do it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your friend said you can do it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you've been saying to yourself. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta stand up to yourself. Anakies Anakites who can
Speaker 1: stand against the Anakites? I asked to have you one
Speaker 1: time you won't remember this. You're very small, precocious as
Speaker 1: you are now, she said. Uh, I said, how'd you
Speaker 1: get so beautiful? She goes, Uh God? I almost wanted
Speaker 1: to call this message God because I was trying to
Speaker 1: answer that question that they had. Who can stand up
Speaker 1: against the Anakites? Uh? Try a real quick, try, real quick,
Speaker 1: try real quick? Who can set you free from this
Speaker 1: body of death? Uh God? Who can take the prejudices
Speaker 1: that have been in you all your life and show
Speaker 1: you a new way to be human? Uh God? Who
Speaker 1: can make sure, no matter what recession, depression, oppression is
Speaker 1: coming next, that God's people always have a place to eat.
Speaker 1: Uh God. I feel the spirit of a breakthrough coming
Speaker 1: through this room. You've been looking at Anakites, but you
Speaker 1: need to get back to the promise. God can do
Speaker 1: that for me. God can do that for me. God
Speaker 1: can do it through me. Yes, he can. You know.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, that's the wrong question, who
Speaker 1: can stand up against the Anakites? Especially when we have
Speaker 1: Romans chapter eight, verse thirty one, where the apostle Paul
Speaker 1: suggests an infinitely superior question. If God is for us,
Speaker 1: who can't be against us? If God is foot, who
Speaker 1: can stand against God? Who can fight against God? So
Speaker 1: that's why I'm going toward it, That's why I'm moving
Speaker 1: through it. That's why I'm progressing through this season because
Speaker 1: I have a better question, not who can stand against
Speaker 1: the anarchist? Who can stand against the purpose of a
Speaker 1: mighty God, who spoke nothing into something, who multiplied something
Speaker 1: into something else, and who is touching and redeeming every
Speaker 1: life that is surrendered to him today. Who can take
Speaker 1: five loaves and two fish and feed an entire Smorgasborg
Speaker 1: in the wilderness, Who can bring manna to the tent,
Speaker 1: who can bring water from the rock? Uh? God, here's
Speaker 1: what he said I'm gonna do. Here's what he said
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. You're ready. You've been intimidated, You've been insecure.
Speaker 1: You've been going round and round in this wilderness, telling
Speaker 1: about well, who can possibly overcome this? How could I
Speaker 1: possibly do it? He said? It's not your righteousness that
Speaker 1: brought you here to begin with. It's never been about you.
Speaker 1: I didn't choose you. I didn't put my hand on
Speaker 1: you because of something good in you. I put my
Speaker 1: hand on you because of something that I purposed for
Speaker 1: your life, that you didn't even understand. See, this is
Speaker 1: your first time being here, but this is not God's
Speaker 1: for the Bible said that God will go before you.
Speaker 1: So when I wake up tomorrow morning, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff I'm stressed about. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I got some challenges I can't figure out.
Speaker 1: I got some questions I can't answer. I've got some
Speaker 1: difficulties that I haven't overcome yet. But God says, when
Speaker 1: you wake up tomorrow morning, don't think I'm waking up
Speaker 1: when you do, because the Bible says that he then watcheth.
Speaker 1: Israel does not sleep nor slumber. So when you wake up,
Speaker 1: God has been awake. God goes before you. Say it.
Speaker 1: God goes before me. So God doesn't follow me into challenges.
Speaker 1: God doesn't follow me into situations. God doesn't follow me
Speaker 1: into seasons. He says, when you get there, I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for you. I've been preparing a place for you.
Speaker 1: I will prepare the table for you in the presence
Speaker 1: of your enemies. Even if you walk through the valley
Speaker 1: of the Shadow of Death. When you got to church
Speaker 1: this morning, God was already here. You don't have to
Speaker 1: ask him to show up He was waiting to hover
Speaker 1: and break like a wave, and move like a wind
Speaker 1: and speak like a voice from the mountain. God was
Speaker 1: already here. When you get to this next season that
Speaker 1: you keep trying to plan, but you're worried about tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so you're not trusting today, realize God is already in
Speaker 1: your tomorrow. God is already in it. He said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go before you, and I'm gonna take those Anakites,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna like a devouring fire. Watch this subdue them.
Speaker 1: Give me verse three. Verse three is the juice. Verse
Speaker 1: three is the juice. I gotta give you this juice
Speaker 1: right here. God said, I'm gonna go before you, across
Speaker 1: ahead of you, like a devouring fire. And WA's what
Speaker 1: God will do. He will destroy him who he who he?
Speaker 1: He will subdue them before you who he and you
Speaker 1: and you will drive them out. I thought you were
Speaker 1: going to do it. The word of the Lord says
Speaker 1: he will go before you, but he won't do it
Speaker 1: for you. You You will drive them out, not in your
Speaker 1: own strength, not in your own power, but in His process.
Speaker 1: I decree in the clare today, tonight, tonight, today. I
Speaker 1: don't know when you're watching this. Y'all watch my sermons
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. Sometimes you can't get
Speaker 1: anything else going on. You plaus to play on that
Speaker 1: sermon and you listen to it, and I'll wake you
Speaker 1: up screaming after about twenty minutes, because God said, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna always bring it to you. I will bring
Speaker 1: you to it. And now you must decide. You must
Speaker 1: decide whether to go forward. And when you're kids ask
Speaker 1: you about your anakites, how will you answer when your
Speaker 1: kids say, how did you stay alive and keep trusting
Speaker 1: God through what you went through? How will you answer
Speaker 1: the question about your anakites? Well, you know, I just
Speaker 1: gave up. It was too hard. I just quit going
Speaker 1: to church because they hurt me at that church. I
Speaker 1: just quit trying because I felt so unworthy. I just
Speaker 1: quit trying because everybody else was stronger and taller and
Speaker 1: better than me. Or are you going to tell him
Speaker 1: a story that he brought me manna in the wilderness
Speaker 1: water from a rock, and he led me to a
Speaker 1: promise And I had to fight for it. I had
Speaker 1: to fight for it. I had to fight every day
Speaker 1: to have joy. I had to fight to put food
Speaker 1: on the table. People. I had to fight to overcome
Speaker 1: what was spoken about me. I had to fight to
Speaker 1: overcome the diagnosis. I had to fight by the hospital bed.
Speaker 1: I had to fight for every inch we God go.
Speaker 1: We're living in it because if God is for you,
Speaker 1: who can be against you? For the giants that you're facing.
Speaker 1: There is a God who is greater. I impart the
Speaker 1: faith of the Living God to your soul today, Lift
Speaker 1: your hands and receive it. Who can stand against depression?
Speaker 1: Who can stand against the record of sin and shame?
Speaker 1: Who can stand against the grave, Who can stand against
Speaker 1: the feet? Who can stand? God can? And you can
Speaker 1: do all things through Christ, who strengthens you. Because you've
Speaker 1: been here before. Baby, You've been here before. You've had
Speaker 1: to trust God before, You've wondered if it would work
Speaker 1: out before, you felt this before, and your faith only
Speaker 1: God stronger. You're not dying in this. You've been here before.
Speaker 1: And when you get to your future, God is going
Speaker 1: to say I got here before you did, before He
Speaker 1: knows the plans he has for you. The Lord has
Speaker 1: directed me to pray for those who are in a
Speaker 1: wilderness season. It is a time of sifting from what
Speaker 1: you thought you wanted and what God really promised. It
Speaker 1: is a time that you learn to trust. It is
Speaker 1: a time that God gets you ready, or, as one
Speaker 1: preacher said, he prepares you for what He is preparing
Speaker 1: for you. Thank you, Lord for the tables that you've set.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for the victories that you've planned. You
Speaker 1: said you're gonna You're gonna drive them out quickly. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since some of us quickened
Speaker 1: our faith. God. Today, I thank you that you gave
Speaker 1: me a word that you will go before him. You
Speaker 1: will go before her. Put your hand on the shoulder
Speaker 1: of the person on either side of you, and just say,
Speaker 1: very softly, God will go before you. Say it again,
Speaker 1: God will go before you. Tell him. Don't worry, He's
Speaker 1: already there. Oh. To believe this God, to believe it,
Speaker 1: to receive it, to live like it, to step in it,
Speaker 1: to walk in it. If I delight myself and you
Speaker 1: you will give me the desires of my heart, That
Speaker 1: means you'll put the new desires in the you desires in.
Speaker 1: So we thank you for the wilderness where you sifted
Speaker 1: some stuff. You sifted relationships, you sifted priorities, you sifted
Speaker 1: beliefs and We thank you for that, because if we
Speaker 1: didn't go through it, we wouldn't be ready. Now, Lord,
Speaker 1: as we stand on the precipice of the promises that
Speaker 1: you've made that we have not yet possessed in our life,
Speaker 1: we want you to have your good, imperfect work in
Speaker 1: us that we may trust you your promise, your word,
Speaker 1: it shall come to pass. Well. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: today for the message, and we trust that God spoke
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