Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin.
Speaker 2: This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
Speaker 2: for you to break it down.
Speaker 1: A little more, to take it a little deeper. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know, let's go.
Speaker 2: I think it's crazy inspiring that in the Word of
Speaker 2: God they listed the victories that God gave the Israelites.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the fact that it wasn't just Joshua
Speaker 2: who won these victories. When we start the book at Joshua,
Speaker 2: it's like you and all these people are going to
Speaker 2: enter the land, and nobody does it by themself. Nobody
Speaker 2: who makes any progress, or who sees any success or
Speaker 2: who get forward momentum does it by themselves. And anybody
Speaker 2: who says that they do is delusional.
Speaker 1: And nobody does it without God.
Speaker 2: However, there's something that I've learned about myself in the
Speaker 2: last year particularly, and it gave language to why I
Speaker 2: get so discouraged, why I get so defeated feeling, and
Speaker 2: why I can even be winning in my life but
Speaker 2: feel weak inside. You know, God's done a lot of
Speaker 2: great things for me, things I can't take credit for,
Speaker 2: and I know He's done the same for you. If
Speaker 2: you look at where your life is today, there are
Speaker 2: some things that aren't where you want them to be.
Speaker 2: There are some things that are much further along than
Speaker 2: you ever thought they'd be. In some sense, you might say, man,
Speaker 2: I thought i'd be furthered by now, But there's some
Speaker 2: sense in which you're like, I can't believe that I'm here.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that I get to be a parent.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that I get to be married to
Speaker 2: this person. I can't believe that I recovered from that
Speaker 2: that devastation. I can't believe I've been forty days without
Speaker 2: a drink. I can't believe it. I can't believe that,
Speaker 2: you know, I made it through that that trauma, survived,
Speaker 2: lived to tell about it. I can't believe that I'm,
Speaker 2: you know, even even reading my Bible, studying my Bible today,
Speaker 2: praying I'm having a better relationship with God.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: For some of us, though, it's easier for us to
Speaker 2: see how far we have to go than it is
Speaker 2: for us to see how far we've come.
Speaker 1: It has a lot to do with personality.
Speaker 2: It has a lot to do with background, It has
Speaker 2: a lot to do with early childhood templates.
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert in that.
Speaker 2: What I came on here to tell you is that
Speaker 2: I got happy when I saw the list of victories
Speaker 2: that God gave Joshua, realizing that just before in Joshua thirteen,
Speaker 2: he starts dividing up the land, because Joshua is really
Speaker 2: a book about battles chapters one through twelve, and boundaries
Speaker 2: chapters thirteen up until it's farewell speech battles and boundaries.
Speaker 2: And I want to teach that one day too, So
Speaker 2: I'll come back and do a session on battles and boundaries,
Speaker 2: I'm sure in next few sessions. But before we get
Speaker 2: to that, he goes, he before you divide up the
Speaker 2: land that God gave you, I want you to record
Speaker 2: in the record.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I understand that this list was put in later, I
Speaker 2: know that, but it was put in for a reason
Speaker 2: before they started dividing up all the land that was
Speaker 2: conquered in giving each person their inheritance. They start with Jericho.
Speaker 2: They then go on to remember I. It spelled AI, not.
Speaker 1: Like artificial intelligence, but it's pronounced I.
Speaker 2: They were defeated the first time, but then they went
Speaker 2: back in and beat them the second time where it's interesting.
Speaker 2: It says that Joshua and Israelites conquered I you see it,
Speaker 2: and I say nothing about the time that they got
Speaker 2: beat because it's not talking about that. And this is
Speaker 2: a list of victories, and it goes on and on
Speaker 2: in each one of these. The King of Jerusalem who
Speaker 2: ganged up on them because they had made an alliance
Speaker 2: with the Gibean knights, and they weren't supposed to make
Speaker 2: an alliance with the Gibea kniights, but God gave them
Speaker 2: the victory. Anyway, Well, it's this is a list of victories,
Speaker 2: remembering who they conquered, not a list of the conflicts,
Speaker 2: not a list of their vulnerabilities. There's a time for that.
Speaker 2: It's called self awareness to know like, this is where
Speaker 2: I'm weak, ah, this is where I need to get better.
Speaker 2: This is how I need to be stronger. This is
Speaker 2: how I could have done it different.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom boom boom. I got a lists my
Speaker 1: vulnerabilities all day long.
Speaker 2: I like to say that, you know, if many of us,
Speaker 2: who are more pessimistic in nature, had been Ezekiel in
Speaker 2: the valley of dry bones, and the Lord said, can
Speaker 2: these bones live. We would have started listing the bones
Speaker 2: instead of speaking the language of faith and saying bones live.
Speaker 2: So it takes faith to say to the bones live.
Speaker 2: It doesn't take faith to list the kinds of bones
Speaker 2: that are in the valley.
Speaker 1: There's the pot.
Speaker 2: I remember when Abby was learning all the bones in
Speaker 2: the human body, as she would just go through the list,
Speaker 2: and it was so cute because she had a little
Speaker 2: lisp if you would talk about the patella, and it
Speaker 2: was so cute how she did it.
Speaker 1: But man, it doesn't take any theology.
Speaker 2: To list your problems. All that takes is anatomy to
Speaker 2: list the bones. All that takes is you know, hey,
Speaker 2: even even honesty.
Speaker 1: Go like, yeah, I'm not good at that. I didn't
Speaker 1: handle that right.
Speaker 2: We do that all day long. Confession is good. Confess
Speaker 2: your sinds one to another that you may be healed.
Speaker 2: You know, present your request to God, make your needs
Speaker 2: known to him, cry out to him for mercy. Have
Speaker 2: broken into contract heart. You will not despise. I am
Speaker 2: not diminishing the value of coming before God.
Speaker 1: In repentance when you get it wrong.
Speaker 2: But there are moments where you have to take inventory
Speaker 2: of your victories and say Look what God did for me,
Speaker 2: Look what he's given me, Look how he.
Speaker 1: Won the battle for me. List your victories. One.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of how to define this guy.
Speaker 2: I don't like to define people. But he does personal
Speaker 2: development and I mentioned him in one of my sermons
Speaker 2: and developed a friendship with him. His name is Brendan Burchard,
Speaker 2: and I like how he phrases this idea of listing
Speaker 2: your victories. He does it from a psychological standpoint. He
Speaker 2: talks about integrate your wins, and maybe he says it
Speaker 2: different than that. That's how I remembered it. I didn't
Speaker 2: look at my notes before I got on here. Integrate
Speaker 2: your wins. He's saying, look at the things that you
Speaker 2: have progressed in, look at the things you have accomplished.
Speaker 2: And specifically, when somebody is a high achiever, wired for
Speaker 2: wanting to get better and better and better, which you
Speaker 2: probably are if you're listening to teach the Bible right now,
Speaker 2: you want God to make you better. You're sitting there
Speaker 2: going like, ah, yeah, but I could have done it
Speaker 2: this way.
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, but I just.
Speaker 2: You know, like I had a nine point nine, not
Speaker 2: a ten, you know, Ah, man, I just I want
Speaker 2: to give you a little bit of an idea of
Speaker 2: how much of a perfectionist I can tend to be,
Speaker 2: so you don't think I'm just like fussing at you
Speaker 2: about this idea and tell you, you know, be more grateful,
Speaker 2: be more positive, make lemonade. This is not a cliche.
Speaker 2: It's for me, a real, really convicting thing. It's like
Speaker 2: when I don't appreciate the victories, I don't acknowledge the
Speaker 2: giver of the victories, and to just move from battle
Speaker 2: to battle to battle to battle to battle to battle,
Speaker 2: and to never go Okay, hey, look what I did yesterday.
Speaker 2: I went to this meeting that was difficult. I showed
Speaker 2: up for it in a present way. Boom boom. I
Speaker 2: actually sat and listened to my kid tell a long story,
Speaker 2: and I didn't act bored. You know, I did a
Speaker 2: deep bruh when I wanted to say something and I
Speaker 2: bit my tongue, or even bigger stuff like this week,
Speaker 2: I got a song back that we worked hard on
Speaker 2: and I had to take a moment and go, hey,
Speaker 2: this is just like it's like the final mixed, mastered
Speaker 2: version of a song that we're.
Speaker 1: Going to release soon.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, before you release this to other people,
Speaker 2: before you send it into the world, and like, chart
Speaker 2: its performance, take it personally, and remember the moment that
Speaker 2: you push through and set up the songwriting session and
Speaker 2: it got canceled, so you rescheduled it the same people,
Speaker 2: and you sat down and you pushed in, and you
Speaker 2: pushed into this particular part to write this with these
Speaker 2: particular people, and you put it together and you weren't
Speaker 2: sure about it, but you.
Speaker 1: Tried it out and you moved it.
Speaker 2: You did it, and boom boom boom, boom boom, and
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, man, that song belongs on a
Speaker 2: list of victories that God gave us that resulted from
Speaker 2: battles that we fought. I told you on one of
Speaker 2: these videos.
Speaker 1: I've told it in the Pulpit. I track I'm so
Speaker 1: embarrassed about this.
Speaker 2: I track every workout that I do with a little
Speaker 2: star on a chart, because we used to have charts
Speaker 2: with your bench press and stuff in high school, and
Speaker 2: the idea of like a workout chart like that would
Speaker 2: hang on the wall. So when the volleyball team, the
Speaker 2: girls volleyball team be working out, they'd see the charts
Speaker 2: with the boy's name on it and how much we
Speaker 2: bench pressed. And I'm sure they never even looked at it.
Speaker 2: But as the a fourteen year old boy, you think
Speaker 2: that the bench presses to some total of your masculinity.
Speaker 2: So something about that's like.
Speaker 1: A positive mental trigger for me. Light.
Speaker 2: And now you know, I got a star chart on
Speaker 2: the wall, gold stars actually used blue stars.
Speaker 1: Just not important.
Speaker 2: The point is just that little thing of going light.
Speaker 2: Hey man, I did my workout today. I do a
Speaker 2: lot of check marks. I am better personally day to
Speaker 2: day when I make a list of things I need
Speaker 2: to do. But I also need just like a I
Speaker 2: need a to do list. I need a God did list.
Speaker 2: You need a God did list. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You need a God did list. That's what this is.
Speaker 2: I promise you that if most of us read this
Speaker 2: little list right here, just this came up as our
Speaker 2: daily reading on our U Version Bible reading plan, we
Speaker 2: would go SKIPI kip for the people.
Speaker 1: Who fought the battles.
Speaker 2: Every one of these names Era, Libna, Adulam, Mackaida, Bethel,
Speaker 2: these kings of these these places, uh, the kings of
Speaker 2: uh Hazor and Asscaf, the ghetto. You know these are
Speaker 2: actual places. Some of them are named differently today. These
Speaker 2: were real kings, these were real battles. This was real blood,
Speaker 2: this was real fear, this was real action. These were
Speaker 2: real swords, This was real heat, this was real endurance.
Speaker 2: This was this was real. This list for them and
Speaker 2: your list is real to you. And I made a
Speaker 2: meal for my family this week, put my heart in it.
Speaker 2: I burned the potatoes, but nobody even knew. I threw
Speaker 2: them away. Smelled kind of funny in the kitchen, but
Speaker 2: I did it. You know, You're like, well, that's not
Speaker 2: that doesn't belong on the list, doesn't it. There's thirty
Speaker 2: one kings, Joshua defeated. There's thirty one days in certain months.
Speaker 1: What's this month?
Speaker 2: Okay, February twenty eight, this different month, so okay, But
Speaker 2: that's not the point. There was thirty one in January? Right,
Speaker 2: is that right? Fact checkers out there, is that right?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: Thirty one days last month. I bet there was a
Speaker 2: victory every one of those days. Did you take it in?
Speaker 2: When Brendan, my friend Brennan talks about integrating your wins,
Speaker 2: he talks about stop pause, feel grateful for it, and
Speaker 2: this is where I want to challenge our religious talking
Speaker 2: about can you list it and without taking credit for it,
Speaker 2: feel a sense that God is proud of you for it,
Speaker 2: that he's not impressed by you because he knows like
Speaker 2: without him you're nothing, but that he'd like a father
Speaker 2: over a child, looks at you and says, yeah, I
Speaker 2: like put that on the list. Yeah, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: It's been three days and you didn't cuss. Put it
Speaker 2: on the list. Whatever, you know. I think we need
Speaker 2: little lists, big list. I think we need mental lists,
Speaker 2: written list. I think we need help with this because
Speaker 2: if we don't list our victories, we don't strengthify our battles.
Speaker 2: And now you find yourself going into next month going like, okay, man,
Speaker 2: I'm like going to work, paying bills, going to school,
Speaker 2: getting it done. I have to start many of my
Speaker 2: days from a baseline of feeling deficient. I've got to
Speaker 2: do enough today. I know not everybody's like this, but
Speaker 2: I'll bet you know somebody who is. You love somebody
Speaker 2: who is, maybe this will help you understand them. Sometimes
Speaker 2: by listing the things that the Lord has done in life,
Speaker 2: and can I say this, listing the things that you
Speaker 2: have done because He was with you listening the things
Speaker 2: he did through you. Wow, God did this yield your body?
Speaker 2: But you went to the doctor, you did the rehab.
Speaker 2: Both are important.
Speaker 1: What's your God did list?
Speaker 2: I started praying a very specific way before I went
Speaker 2: out to preach each night at our last Elevation Nights tour.
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Speaker 2: I love doing these. I would pray every time before
Speaker 2: I went out. God, tonight it's gonna be different than
Speaker 2: last night. I'm gonna try to flow in the Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit and give everything I have to these people and
Speaker 2: Minister best I can. At the end of the night,
Speaker 2: I want to feel good about what you and I
Speaker 2: did together, and that felt really good. I want to
Speaker 2: feel good about what we did together. I want to
Speaker 2: please God. I know you're not gonna say the words.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna pick me up and carry me physically
Speaker 2: to the stage. I'm gonna say the words. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: hold the microphone, it's gonna be in my hand. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna move my lips and use my mind. We're doing
Speaker 2: this together.
Speaker 1: I need you. And at the end of it, I
Speaker 1: want to feel good about what we did together. Isn't
Speaker 1: that a good goal for preaching.
Speaker 2: I love that it helped me. I shared it with
Speaker 2: a friend or two. I'm sharing it with you now. God,
Speaker 2: at the end of this day, I want to feel
Speaker 2: good about what we did together. Now, can you build
Speaker 2: in some reflection to go all right, I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: my hand. I'm gonna dopy on a computer. I'm doing
Speaker 2: on my phone. I'm gonna do three right now. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna list everything. And for those of you love list,
Speaker 2: grocery listing list, Amazon carts, this is a new list
Speaker 2: for you to make. List your victories. You're like, I know,
Speaker 2: count your blessings. Don't talk to don't cown sheep, count
Speaker 2: talk to the shepherd.
Speaker 1: You're not hearing me.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about I'm a little bit different. There's a
Speaker 2: little distinction here, isn't there. It's owning the fact that
Speaker 2: there are victories God has given you that you haven't
Speaker 2: stopped yet to celebrate.
Speaker 1: I am the world's worst at this.
Speaker 2: So when I coach you or teach you, or preach
Speaker 2: you or mentor you on it, I'm coming from the
Speaker 2: place of telling you I need to see that list
Speaker 2: just to remember that. Yeah, man, we got to fight
Speaker 2: the battles and we can't get complacent. There is a
Speaker 2: thing in football called excessive celebration, and this is when
Speaker 2: you lose two pounds so you eat a dozen doughnuts.
Speaker 2: That's the wrong way to celebrate. I taught a sermon
Speaker 2: years ago called win a battle, take a bite. Put
Speaker 2: that in the chat, when a battle, take a bite.
Speaker 2: That sermon was all about, Hey, you need the strength
Speaker 2: of the savoring of this victory to build the faith
Speaker 2: to fight the next battle.
Speaker 1: So list your victories today. Listen them.
Speaker 2: When the devil tells you you're nothing, you'll never be
Speaker 2: and you never have been.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I got some wins. Man.
Speaker 2: Feel I feel David coming in the room right now,
Speaker 2: Shepherd boy, David, you can't kill Goliath. Well, the God
Speaker 2: who's delivered me from the Paula, the lion, paul the bear. Ah,
Speaker 2: what you're doing listing your victories and let them become
Speaker 2: a part of you. I think we're so identified with
Speaker 2: our weaknesses that we are.
Speaker 1: Blind to our strengths. List your victories.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, yes, confess your weaknesses, but list your victories. Listen them,
Speaker 2: Thank God for them, save them to the Lord. Thank
Speaker 2: you Lord that you brought me through. Thank you Lord
Speaker 2: that you gave me the ability today that felt good
Speaker 2: to do that. Thank you Lord that you helped me
Speaker 2: to organize this and that and to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord that I made the decision. And then
Speaker 1: let them become a part of your heart.
Speaker 2: Let them become a part of your sense of seeing
Speaker 2: yourself the way God sees you.
Speaker 1: He sees all the little victories. Other people won't. That's
Speaker 1: the problem.
Speaker 2: Nobody is gonna come by and patch you on the
Speaker 2: butt good game because you showed up on time.
Speaker 1: That might be a big building deal to you. Showing
Speaker 1: up on time.
Speaker 2: That might be the one of the hardest things in
Speaker 2: your life. Showing up on time, or leaving your phone
Speaker 2: in another room so you can actually focus on a conversation.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna congratulate you for that.
Speaker 1: That's why you've got to list it with God for yourself.
Speaker 2: So I think This is a wonderful, wonderful thing for
Speaker 2: us to think about today, not only the battles we
Speaker 2: fight and the blessings, but think of it in terms
Speaker 2: of this list in the Book of Joshuba, a book
Speaker 2: where he said, be strong and courageous. I'll be with
Speaker 2: you wherever you go. And then we get to chapter
Speaker 2: twelve and there's thirty one victories in a list, and
Speaker 2: there's one for every day of the month of January,
Speaker 2: and there's one for every day of the next month,
Speaker 2: and the next month, and the next month and the
Speaker 2: next month. I want you to make big lists of
Speaker 2: things God has done in your life that represent a.
Speaker 1: Year, a season, a week.
Speaker 2: I want you to make little list of things that
Speaker 2: God did helped you through even in the next hour
Speaker 2: of your day. And I want you to be in
Speaker 2: to open that file in your mind, God, where am
Speaker 2: I winning? And then you can deal with and God,
Speaker 2: what do I need to work on? When you come
Speaker 2: from a place of God where am I winning? It
Speaker 2: helps you appreciate His grace, tap into it and move
Speaker 2: forward by faith. We come from a place of what
Speaker 2: do I need to work on?
Speaker 1: First?
Speaker 2: Doesn't really give you much momentum, does it, so that's
Speaker 2: what I want you to do today. List your victories,
Speaker 2: put a few down right now.
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