Get Ready | Christine Caine

What if the greatest thing you could become isn't a leader, but a servant? Through Joshua 1, we discover that God honors servitude, prepares us long before He promotes us, and often does His deepest work in the seasons no one else sees. If you've ever wondered whether God sees your faithfulness, this message is for you.

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Transcript

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We're believing that God's gonna do some great things today. Welcome to all of our locations, our online fam. We love you so very much. We even have some people from our online campus that are in the room with us today, which is incredibly exciting. Uh, here in Dallas and some of our other locations. We're doing baptisms today, and I know some people are getting baptized. It's gonna be absolutely wonderful. Hey, I want to bring your attention to a couple of things that'll be really, really important for us. Number one, number one, this summer. Everybody say summer strong. Summer strong, right here, summer strong. We are now beginning summer strong. It starts today. Oh, yeah, you can clap for that. You're like, what is it? I don't even know what it is. I'll clap. What summer strong? This is us being intentional with the summer. That our summer is not gonna be a weak summer. Our summer is going to be a strong summer. I'm talking June, July, and August. We're gonna be fitter spiritually, we're gonna be fitter financially, we're gonna be fitter emotionally, we're gonna be fitter relationally. That at the end of the summer, all of us would have taken steps forward, closer to God, not further away. So we got a whole game planned for this, fam, and I want everybody jumping in. And we started this summer strong off with our cultivate women's conference that just happened this past weekend. Wow. If you aren't there, it's okay. Jesus still loves you, no doubt about it. But it was a special, special time. I want to say thank you to all the guys that served. Some were serving at home, watching kids, some are serving uh in the room. Thank you so very much. I want to say thank you to all the behind the scenes that happened, but I also want to say thank you to Jesus for showing up in such might and power and meeting the daughters of God in such a powerful way. It was remarkable, it was so incredibly special. And I can't wait for next year. We already started selling tickets for next year. Over 500 tickets for next year have already been sold. So if you want to be a part of next year, go ahead and get your ticket this weekend. Would encourage you uh to do that. And if you got enough to buy your own ticket, maybe want to buy somebody else's ticket too, that'd be a beautiful uh thing to do as well. Uh, but that is it was it was so holy and remarkable in the best way possible. My wife and I went out to dinner last night together to celebrate. So we went to El Molina, and it was a great time. I'd never been there. Woo, it was good, y'all. Come to find out, the manager goes to Shoreline. She was like, here's my card. Let me know when you want to come in. We're like, thank you. Favorite fair. So put that right in our pocket. It was such a such a great time. But just to celebrate all that God, all that God did, it was really, really special. Okay, I got one last housekeeping item for us, but so so tune into this. This is uh this is big. This is for San Antonio and all of us at all of our locations. Uh we uh about four weeks ago, we told you all about the our San Antonio building that we currently meet in. This building, it's in the prime part of town. I mean, it is where we were praying to be. God opened the door for us to lease the space, and it it came up, it came for sale. And we were like, okay, um, let's go. And uh somebody else came in and they were they were gonna buy it. Uh we were interested in buying it, but they were they were gonna buy it. Well, they're moving towards closing, and we get a voicemail from the people that are buying it. And they say, I can't get Shoreline City off my mind. They keep coming to my head. We're willing to step away from the deal and give Shoreline City this deal. That's what they say. So we're like, what? Okay, but here was the caveat. We had to raise $500,000 in four weeks at our San Antonio campus. So we started this four weeks ago, and I y'all, I mean, I'm a man of faith, but I was like, Lord, I don't know how you're gonna do this. Went down to San Antonio, we talked with the team down there, talked with the campus, and um shared the vision and so much faith, so much enthusiasm, and uh so the four weeks have have ended. We had a great miracle night down there just a couple of weeks ago, and uh we raised about $125,000, you know, in these four weeks. So yeah, we clap for that. That was a miracle. I was like, wow, it's not half a million. So we said, hey, we'll use that money to find our new location because we're not gonna be able to, you know, stay where we are. So we let them know, hey, thank you so much for your generous offer, but we're we're gonna have to say no. And uh then they come back to us. And they say, what if you had another 30 days? And what if we took $125,000 off of the price of the building? Let's go! And I'm not great at math, but I know, you know, 500 minus 125 is 375. So we got four weeks to raise $375,000, and we're believing that this miracle is going to happen. So our San Antonio campus will do $500,000. All of our other campuses will pitch in another $500,000 so we can buy this building, stay where we are, be a city on a hill, a light in the darkness, and make it on earth as it is in heaven there in San Antonio. This is what we get to be a part of. I want you praying, family, and I want you taking these steps of faith, and I cannot wait to see what God is going to do today, though. I get the privilege to welcome to the platform. I mean, she is filled with fire, vision, hope, and strength. She's not a guest speaker, has been in this church from the very beginning. Yes, she leads A21, yes, it's propel, yes, there's books being written, but man, her heart for Jesus and for his kingdom to advance is second to none. Would you put your hands together for the one and the only Christy Kinding? God's word with her.

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I am so fired up to be here. Thank you. You are so hang on, just before you sit down, turn to your neighbor and say you are the best looking human being I've seen today. Alright, hang on, hang on. Just before you sit, turn to your second choice, the person on the other side, and say you are better looking than the other person. That's the You can be seated. I am so excited. I I mean I feel since really the women's conference, and it just keeps getting better and better. How many know with God things start good and then they just get gooder and then gooder, and then apparently this is the most spiritual service at Shoreline. Like it's just the anointing in the 10 what o'clock? 9.30. 99. Very American. That was 9:30. In the 9:30 o'clock, is uh you because you were up already at 5 a.m. and you were praying for the heathens in the 8:05 a.m., weren't you? So I I could feel that I could feel the anointing. And we we have just had a ball uh if you're wondering, I'm your you know, just your your auntie from down under, okay? So um can I just say for San Antonio, I was down there with my spiritual mama Joce Meyer very recently, and Catherine and I were seeing the uh building, and we were just like rejoicing in that location. I want you to know because um we're so grateful for your gift to A21, and we are launching in conjunction with FIFA, you know, the World Cup's coming, um, that in San Antonio, our national the USA part of the um this uh Can You See Me campaign. And um, you know, at the moment that might not mean much to you, but it will very soon because you're gonna see it all the way through the media, airports, all through America, um, train stations, gas stations, but it's gonna be launched right there in San Antonio with the government and the Department of Transport and everywhere you can move for people, um, that will be done. And so we're being woven right into the whole of FIFA and the Olympics that's coming up. So I and I want to thank you for your incredible gift because um Nick just told me I I gave the incorrect number in the first service that in the last 14 days in uh here in um Dallas, just this uh DFW area in 14 days, we've had both 13 children and seven adults that have been rescued just here in DFW. That's just in this area. And so with A21, um globally, we're in 10 countries. Um, you have been uh supporting us right from day one. So I want to say thank you. And for you, it's it is very close to home. Pastor Earl was not at all um exaggerating in that sense. And if you just think in 14 days, 20 people um is just huge. That's just you, and that's just who's been rescued and going through the legal system, let alone um all the others. And so, you know, it is huge, and I want to say thank you, but one life at a time, we are making a difference. And so your giving is making a difference, your support is making a difference. And I just want to say this because I don't even know what we've got left. But the reason I'm telling you about this book is I've I've been writing obviously for a really long time. I think I've written a dozen books and they're oh, the Lord's blessed all of them, but I have never had a New York Times bestseller. I'm not looking for you. I want to make a point with this. So why I think part of the reason that the Lord did that with this book is because there has needed to be an awakening in the church again. That God has called us to flourish because too much of the spirit of the world, which is the spirit of victimhood, the spirit of the fact that I can't get ahead because of what's happened to me. And look at the state of the world, and there is war, war, and there is political instability, there's economic instability, there's environmental instability. And what has happened is even the church has forgotten that the fact that we were created to thrive in the midst of barrenness, in the midst of darkness, Jesus said there's an enemy that comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But remember, I came for one reason that you might have life and life more abundant. And so the fact is woven into the very DNA of us as creator beings in the image of God is fruitfulness and multiplication. And somewhere along the line, we've sold out to the lie that we can only go as far as the system lets us go, or as far as what we that our our flourishing in the kingdom of God is determined by what is happening externally. And it's been a big 10 years. And so, you know, looking at the life of the olive tree, and um, I'm unpacking the fact that God has created us to flourish no matter what your background was, no matter where you have come from. And no, you all know my story, many of you, that I was left in a hospital unnamed and unwanted when I was born, that I was sexually abused at the hands of several men for a decade of my life, and I grew up in the poorest zip code in my state. Now, the fact is that by the grace of God, that Jesus saved me 40 years ago, and the fact is though Jesus could have saved me, and I could have been like many, many other Christians that still would sit here at 60 years old and be talking about what happened to me. And by God's grace, that sitting in the front row is my husband of 30 years, which you've got to understand with my background is a miracle of God, that I could have a flourishing marriage in 30 years, that one of my two daughters, the other one's in the air. She's studying in Paris and she's coming home uh today for summer break. So the other ones coming home, both love the Lord, but my youngest was just in Bulgaria shooting the new can you see me film and writing the script, and so both very involved in life. You've got to understand with my background that is a miracle. And I want to tell you, because we're kicking off a series today out of the book of Joshua, and so it's gonna be a miracle greater than the resurrection of Jesus if I get through my 10 points. So um the reason I'm telling you this is I I pre-signed because of your parking lot. I I can't even get out. I wanted to meet you or I have just a pre-signed box, so get them on your way out and keep going to your car, okay? So that is the issue. So it's gonna happen and we're not gonna hold anything back. But this when I say it's a message, it's not a pump up thing. And we're kicking off the book of Joshua. And um it is you know, there are there are lots of ways you can preach this book, but this is what I want to say to you that the promises of God, we new covenant believers. I'm gonna go to the Old Testament, I'm gonna talk about possessing a spiritual promised land, possessing a literal physical land, the land of Canaan, that for 430 years the children of Israel were in bondage, they were in slavery, they were in captivity. But God promised them. He said before that he said to Abraham that I am giving you land for you and your descendants. God made a promise. Now you have to understand this that God is not us. So he doesn't lie. If he says something, he is going to do it. So he made them a promise, and you would be thinking, when you're in slavery, God's a liar. But God doesn't lie. This is what we're gonna discover. God promised them a land. And of course, I'm gonna unpack hopefully however many verses I get through of chapter one. Come back next week. The rule pastor will be here. He'll take you right through everything. Exegetically, it'll be great. In Hebrew, he's gonna do that. And so the fact is that you and I are new covenant believers. So I'm not talking about things per se today. I'm not talking about a physical land, but what I am talking about that there is a spiritual promise land that God has for each and every one of us as a born-again new covenant of believers for us to possess. Now the thing is that so many Christians live so far beneath the promise that God has for them. And it could be in any realm of life. So you could have a background like mine, and so much of the narrative in the 2026 is a victim narrative that says if you were abused, you're gonna be limited, that if you don't know who your biological parents were, you're going to be limited, that if you grew up in a particular zip code, you're gonna be limited. If you didn't go to the right school, you're gonna if you messed up and made mistakes, you're going to be limited. And so many Christians live so far beneath the promises of God. And yet, Paul writes in Corinthians that all the promises of God are what? In Christ Jesus, yes, and amen. So every single one of us has the same access to the same promises, but why do only some Christians seem to fulfill and others don't? Well, Christine, I'm not your personality type. Christine, I'm not an Enneagram, whatever. Pick your number, Christine. You know, that uh I don't have, I'm not a high D on the disc profile. It's not my strength finder, it's not my love language. I need you to know freedom and possessing the promises of God is not a personality type, it's a blood type. It's the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. That's the whole deal. So, whatever Enneagram number you think you might be, whatever, wherever you fit on the disc profile, whatever your strength finder is, the promises of God, because of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross, are available to each and every one of us. But not everyone fulfills it. Now I'm gonna tell you something that is still like less than 12 hours old almost. That really, I wondered whether I was gonna share it because I haven't yet processed all of this, but here we are, we're families, so you're about to get it. You know, don't do anything in my proximity because I'll be preaching it the next day. So that's all I'm saying. You know, um I haven't known who my biological mother or father is all of my, you know, ever since I found out it was 26 years ago that I found out that I was adopted, which that's a whole story of its own. But recently in the last couple of weeks, we found out, you know, that my biological mother is still alive. She's 83. And yesterday, my best friend in Australia went to visit this woman. There's been a bit of cool communication prior to that, so don't freak out that we're, you know, they're older tick all the boxes. But this is why I'm I'm using this illustration now. This woman is 83. Now I would consider her a hero, but that in 1966 to be a single woman giving birth in abject poverty as an immigrant in Australia when she maybe could have had another option is miraculous. And here I am today. And look at the fruitfulness of the life that Jesus has given me. But here is the difference with this woman. She was very ungrateful on one hand and said, You know, I've been praying, but for the whole 30 minutes that my friend was with her, she almost had her hand over her face, and she just kept saying, I have so much shame, I have so much shame, I have so much shame, and she found it very difficult to talk about and I won't say too much else. But the whole time was for 60 years, I'm 60 this year, this woman has just been bound by shame. Same God had a promise available for her, but because she didn't access it for many, many reasons, she lives so far beneath what God has it at 83, still carries so much of that shame. But because of Jesus, not because of my personality, not because I am any more deserving, but because of the blood that was shed at Calvary, where Jesus said, shame off you. Not only did he lift it off me, there's not a trace of it on my children. So it doesn't just affect you, it affects the generations that are to come after you. And a generation of Christians need to believe this stuff again. Needs to believe this stuff. So as we kick off into Joshua, I want you to understand the importance of possessing your spiritual promised land because it's not just about you, it's about the generations that have come to come after you, whether you have biological children or not. It's the spiritual legacy that we are leaving, and so the church has to wake up. That God is calling us to possess the promises of God. It has real life implications in every sphere of life. In every sphere of life. So with that, take a deep breath and go, I can't believe she just said that. I said I want you to go to Joshua chapter 1. This is the word of the Lord. It says, After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses' assistant. Moses, my servant, is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land I'm giving the Israelites. I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads, just as I promised Moses. Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the Great River, the Euphrates River, all the land of the Hittites and west into the Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you just as I was with Moses. I will not leave or abandon you. Be strong and courageous. For you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance. Above all, be strong and very courageous. To observe carefully the whole instruction, my servant Moses commanded to you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth. You are to meditate on it day and night. Why? So that you may carefully observe everything written on it. Not just so that you can learn it inside out, so that you can actually do it. There's a concept. For then, for then, you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. Haven't I commanded you be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. What a pivotal, pivotal moment in the history of the children of Israel. Everything Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the whole Pentagon has been leading to this moment. Going in to possess the land. And it's so interesting that as he starts after the death of Moses, isn't it? It's fascinating to me that Joshua obviously was not trying to push Moses out of a job. Because God had to go to him, hey, hey, Joshua, Moses, my servant, is dead. I I need you. I need to tell you that he's dead. No, you didn't have to try to kick him out. Obviously, you won't. Because I've now actually got to stir you. Moses, my servant, is dead. I could just spend the rest of my time there and you'd be like, what do you mean? Because it's fascinating to me that right here it says Moses my servant. Of all the things he could have called Moses. If you just go look in your Bible, one page back, one page. In Deuteronomy chapter 34, last book of the last chapter of Deuteronomy, verse 10, I want you to hear this about Moses. No prophet, no prophet has arisen. Again in Israel, like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. He was unparalleled. Imagine being written in scripture, he was unparalleled. For all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do against the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land. You haven't seen anything on Instagram or TikTok compared to what Moses did. And for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all of Israel, I mean, this is the end of Deuteronomy. We are hearing, he's unparalleled. Signs, I mean, seriously, none of us has seen a Red Sea split. We weren't there for the ten plagues. We weren't there for manna coming out of heaven. We weren't there for seeing water come out of a rock, quail. I mean, I mean, seriously, no matter what scammer you've got trying to scam you something online, no one has come close to Moses. And yet we turn the page, and this is what God says of him. This is the highest honor God could ever give you. He says, Moses, my servant. Servant. Moses, my servant, is dead, and you and I are living in such an individualistic culture where we're like, I don't want to be anyone's servant. How dare you use me? How dare you use that word? I'm not coming under anyone. Because, especially in our culture, everything's got an individualistic spirit, everything is me, my, and the Lord's like, well, basically, if you've if I've even used you to do what's never been done before, the highest place you can get to is my servant. And we have despised servanthood in the last decade. As if somehow, well, you know, I don't want to put myself under any toxic leadership. They're just so narcissistic. You just need to know no one's gonna do that. And I'm like, do you read your Bible? Moses, my servant. Why am I saying this? Because keep going. He says, Moses, and sorry, the Lord after the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses' assistant. So when he went looking for the person that was going to fulfill the promise of going, I mean, what a job! You are going to get it to lead people into the promised land. He goes, where am I gonna get a look at? Let me come and scroll through TikTok and Instagram. Who's got the best? And who's got the most following this? Who's got the biggest brand? Who's got the most likes? And who's being the most coming? Who's gonna? Because we're gonna like the numbers. That's not the one God was looking for. Because let me go and see who was most assistant. The woman may be number one in the most numbers. When I walked in, and when I could remember being in a torrential damant tour at 7:30 this morning, maybe that girl that came out without a raincoat and moved the cone. I'm wondering if God was looking at her this morning thinking, I could use her for something. I just think so. The person right now that's in the nursery that we can't even see. I'm just wondering whether the Lord's like, whoo, assistant. I got some promised land for you. I've got some promised land for you. Do you realize Joshua is 24 chapters? And Joshua saw incredible signs and wondering, I mean, they possessed the promised land. But do you know it's not until Joshua 24, 29 that God calls him his servant? If we put it up in Joshua 24, 29, I'm sure that's gonna go up somewhere in the screen. Excuse my pants here. My daughter's probably freaking out. Is it coming up? No? Yeah, there it is. After these things, the Lord's servant, that's when he's called the Lord's servant, at the end of the book of Joshua, after he had done everything God had called him to do, the only time Moses got called servant was when he had finished everything God had called him to do. You won't even beget to the servant status until you've done everything that God has called you to do on the earth. We don't even get to that status. After these things, the Lord's servant Joshua, son of Nun, died at 110. I wonder what it is that you're aspiring to in the kingdom of God. Because when God's picking someone to take you into possess the next part of the spiritual promise land, he's looking for assistance before you even graduate to servant. He went to the assistant. He was the one that lingered in the tabernacle when in Exodus 33, 11. But you know what he was learning as he was the assistant? It's amazing what you learned about that. He was in proximity to Moses, speaking face to face to God. He was there when Moses brought back down the Ten Commandments. I mean, he was there when they went in to spy out the land. He was one of the twelve. And he got to see Moses' response at the fear, doubt, and unbelief of everybody else. He got to see how Moses processed leading people. He got to understand the ways of God because Moses knew the ways of God, not just the acts of God. Where do you learn that sort of stuff? You don't learn it on TikTok. You don't learn it on Instagram. But if we're not willing to be anyone's assistant, how do you think we're going to learn the ways of God? Oh, you can learn to monetize your Christianity online, no problem. But learning the ways of God, that's a different thing. And so the issue is God's looking for a generation to go in and possess their spiritual promised land. But if you're not willing to be an assistant, you can't even be a servant of the Lord. You could be a famous celebrity Christian. That doesn't make you a servant of the Lord. And the only thing that is ever going to matter in light of eternity is being a servant of the Lord. And when the Lord wants to elevate you, he doesn't really even talk about what you've done. He says, unparalleled, my servant Moses. So the Lord's not looking at all the things I've done for him. It's like, will you be my servant, Christine? And we need a generation of people in the church, and I don't care if you're a CEO. Are we a servant of the Lord? Full-time stay-at-home mother, are we a servant of the Lord? Are we a doctor, a lawyer, a nurse? I'm not talking about full-time vocational ministry. I'm talking about servants of the Lord. In whatever it is that you do. I mean, I could go on and on and tell you the only reason I am here is not because of my gift or talent. That really doesn't tell you anything. Not at all. That's God gives his gifts there without repentance. But the issue is at 60 by the grace of God. Is when I was called. I remember going to church and I was just like everyone. I was serving, I was, I was just attending the youth ministry, and the only reason I went, I was 22, was because I I didn't know which way was up. And so I didn't want to be out with all my friends Saturday night doing what they were doing. So there was like a youth meeting. So I went. I didn't feel any call. And then they had a church cleanup day. And the youth pastor said, you know, come to the church cleanup day. So I went to the church cleanup day, and I was the only one that went. And so there was like in from that youth ministry. And so this is what I always say if you're willing to do what no one else will do, God has no other options. It's like tag, you're in. You're gonna have to have a go. And so in that moment, the assistive youth pastor said, You know, you're Christine Carry on for someone. You're like, you know, I started a youth center. I said, What's a youth center? He said, I'm gonna remember Pastor Brunner, I'm gonna go on a missions trip for six weeks, and when I come back, I'm gonna need a youth center. So did I pray? No, how about pastor? Didn't I even know what youth ministry was? I didn't even know where the books of the Bible was, and I thought job was job, and then suddenly, what anything was, but I turned up to clean up to me, and then suddenly I'm running a youth centre, and then when I'm running a youth centre, I was driving for Tim Ramsey, I'm gonna give them a seven year old. What needed to be built was my character. That's why I'm still here at 60. That's why I'm still here at 60, but we're so busy monetizing our gifts that we're not developing our character, and then we're like a shooting star, and five years later we're deconstructing. Where are we? Because we've never put our roots down deep, and allow God to bring healing and to bring wholeness. So the fact is that the Lord said to him, You're my servant, and I'm gonna go look for your assistant. That's who I'm looking for. I'm looking for the assistant of the servant, not the most gifted, not the most anointed. And then the reason God could use Joshua was because Joshua was already ready for when God said get ready. See, a lot of us we're not already ready, so God can't say get ready. We want the position and we want the title and we want the followers and we want the accolades, and then we start getting ready. And the Lord's like, now see, see all those cones in the rain that you moved in the parking lot. Oh, you were getting ready. Every time you were you were running a small, every time you were tithing, every time you were giving, you were getting ready, you were exercising, you were getting ready, so now I can give you more things to carry. We want to get ready when we get the title. And the Lord's like, I'm looking for people that are getting ready so that I can tell them to get ready. And so if we understood that, the Lord would give us more assignments for his glory on the earth. But the fact is, there's a lot of battles to be fought between now and you fulfilling the promises of God. So you have got to build resilience and tenacity and strength, and you have got to build endurance, and that only comes by getting ready because you've got battle after battle after battle ahead of you to possess your promised land. So, unless you're getting ready, you're never gonna get ready to fulfill what it is that God has for you. You know, and the fact is it's never only about you. He said in verse 2, Joshua, you and all these people. It's not just about you. We're bringing other people in with us. In our individualistic culture, we just think, man, I just want it to be about me. And the Lord's like, no, no, no, it's never about you. I want you to see in verses 12 to 15 what he actually says. He says, Joshua said to the Rubbinites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manesseh, remember what the Lord's servant commanded you when he said, The Lord will give you rest. He will give you this land. Your wives, dependents, and livestock, they may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your best soldiers must cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers and help them. Until the Lord gives your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they too possess the land the Lord has given them. Basically saying, Don't settle. I love that you've got this campus and it's beautiful and it's pretty, and you've got your lights, and you've got but you know what this no more of the DF America that has to be reached. This is women women's common. This is women we've got women. This is women win a woman, this is women away, and the place this is woman women in the child. This is woman women and some promise to this woman. You can get to the settlement, and every woman and the promise of the lemon and present the lemon. That's why we're still here. That's why we're still here. He says, Joshua, you can do it, but don't you just yes, you can eat of the blessing. Yes, you can go out to dinner and find out the manager's giving you a meal. I'm coming next time. I stayed home so that I could prepare my message. But anyway, praise the Lord for my reward. And so the issue is, but the deal is you enjoy it and then get back to work. Keep going. Keep going. Too many of us think it's the destination. It's like enjoy it, but get back to work. Some of you need to go and go, you know what? Me and my family were going to Dallas Fort Worth to help plant that campus. We are going to be the ones that are going to help. We're going to serve, you know what? We've been coming. I'm going to be one of the people in the wet, you know. And if you're worried about your hair girls, put a cover on. Okay, I'm going to go and move the cones. I'm going to start serving in the kids' ministry. I'm going to start going above my tithe. I'm going to start until everybody has their portion of land, I'm going to go and do it. It is not just about me. It is not just about me. And so the fact is that if it's not you, it'll be someone else. He says, I am giving you this land. I'm thinking when the Lord said that to me in verse 2, that he would have had a deja vu thinking, oh, we were here like 38 years ago. It was like 40, but they had walked across a couple of years. And when they were right on the edge of the land, do you remember in Numbers chapter 13? There were 12 spies. The Lord said, I'm giving you the land, go in and check it out. And now he's saying it to him again. What does this teach us? Because we've been molycodling the church over the last few years. God couldn't do it without you. Oh, yes, he can. And he will. Because he will fulfill his covenant with or without us. He says, I'm inviting you to co-labour with me in my harvest field. It is the highest honor. And if you don't do it, Shoreline, he'll wait 38 years and raise up another generation. They were exactly standing where they stood 38 years ago. They could have had it then. I don't know how many churches have come before you. Died in the wilderness. Didn't go in and possess all that God has. Your choice. But do make do not make any mistake. God will do it without us. Don't listen to He can't do it without you. He's not losing sleep. He doesn't sleep or slumber anyway. So there you go. So the issue is if it's not us, it's someone else. And I'm like, oh, don't don't let it be anyone else. I want it. He says, every place your foot treads. Your foot. Do you realize every place that the Israelites did not step on, the Canaanites got? Go and read it. Can I just say it's the same? You get a choice. Where are you going to put your foot? What are you going to take for your family? What are you going to take for your finances? What are you going to take for where you're going in the future? Because a lot of us, we're waiting for God to drop it out of the sky like fairy dust. They're saying, Where's your foot going to tread? I'm so grateful to my biological mother for giving birth to me, but she stopped at that point, hasn't moved beyond it really, for existed but not really lived. For 60 years. But 40 years ago, I made a decision. My foot's gonna tread in the land of freedom, in a shame-free land, in an abundant land, in a land that is full of milk and honey. My foot's gonna tread. You get a choice. Where I was born didn't determine it. How I was born didn't determine it. The zip code I grew up in didn't determine it where my foot tread determined it. We need to remember this in the church again. Where your foot is gonna tread. And he says, I will be with you. It's the greatest promise in the Bible is that God promises to be with us. We take that for granted. He says, I'm gonna be with you. You just need strength and courage. He didn't say bring your gift and talent, he said bring your strength and courage. In 2026, for you and I to do what God's called us to do, listen, you need our gift and talent is about fifth on the list. Strength and courage is number one. Only be strong and very courageous. Because there is an enemy, there are giants. The Canaanites are in the land. You need strength and courage more than gift and talent. Your gift and talent is gonna take you to the point of failure that your strength and courage can't sustain you. You're gonna need more strength and courage than anything else. And he says, I will not leave you. Listen, I can take the criticism and the disapproval of people. But I could not bear the absence of the presence of God to do what God's called me to do. Neither should you presence in our AI Chat GPT clawed little economy. People can't even tell the difference between what's real. When no one even goes to God, it's like Alexa, what do I want to eat? Siri, how do I feel today? We think it's God. Chatty, how do I feel? And we're not even going to him. So we don't even understand if his presence is with us or not. And you can't. The only thing that distinguishes the people of God is the presence of God. That's it. In 2026, with AI, especially us in the West, with so many goods and services and things and houses, and people are gonna think I'm really good Christian because my house is as good as theirs. They'll see that God just blesses us too. The Lord's like, oh model, anyone, if they work hard enough, can have a good house. They can have a good car, they can wear a nice watch. I mean, do it. I feel I like it too. But that's not the issue. But that's not gonna distinguish you. The presence. The presence. That's what distinguishes us. So many of us were just so unwilling to get up and possess. Deuteronomy chapter 2, verse 31. He says, Go in and possess that you might inherit. The inheritance comes from God. I could leave an inheritance for my daughter, but it's worth nothing to her if she doesn't actually go and possess it. And that's where most Christians live. But what happens to a generation is they say, Christine, I want what you I want to do what you do, but I don't want to do what you did to do what you do. And that's where we're at. I'd rather just go viral. But you won't do what we do if you're not prepared to do what we did. To do what we do. A generation has to understand that. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. He didn't say I'm gonna do the same thing with Moses that I did with you. One gift mix needs to be to come out of slavery, and another gift set needs to go in and possess the promised land. Two different types of leaders. But as I was, so I will be. So, Shoreline, here we are. I'm gonna answer, Pastor Oak, and wrap this up. Here's the deal. God will fulfill his covenant promise over the DFW and greater area, San Antonio, Guatemala, and wherever else he calls you to go. With or without you. I'm not here to plead on behalf of God and say he's not gonna do it without you. I'm saying he is. My issue is will you go in and possess the promise that God has for you? Will you do it? And here is my thing: if you say, here I am, Lord, whatever that might be, in your sphere of influence, in your season of life, but I'm willing just to take that next step. Then I want you to stand to your feet. I'm gonna pray, and then Pastor's gonna come and close this up because I'm believing this is a holy Sunday. Every Sunday is, but that's something it's just it's a line marker. Nothing comfortable or convenient about what I'm doing right now. So please, if you want that, stay seated. But I believe if we're gonna move forward, and and you're called to be a prophetic church, you're called to be at the forefront of this. And as you take ground, you're gonna give strength and courage to others to be all in for Jesus. Because that's what we need more than anything else. We need a generation of people that are willing to be all in. And the Lord will send us in. It's his promises anyway. He says, You will have great success. But the only way to have great success is to die to self and say, I'm willing to do what you want me to do, Lord. So if you're able, I want you to raise your hands to Jesus. And I simply want you to say to him, wherever you are in your own way, I surrender.

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So Lord you're seeing your people, we're your people, Father. Lord, we say we're yours.

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We thank you for giving us the spiritual promised land. Lord, we say we're willing to go in and possess what it is that you have for us, knowing it's not only for us, but it's for everyone in our sphere, and then for the generations that are to come after us. Lord, we're not gonna be like the numbers 13 generation that never went in. We're saying, don't pass us by, Lord. We we're not gonna wait for another generation to arise after us. We say we will go. We will go. And Lord, we will spend every day getting ready to get ready. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name.