 And so let's enter into the word of God with an open mind and open heart to receive what he has to say tonight What do you say father? We thank you right now for the blessings of the Lord Thank you for your word that give a gives to us guidance and leadership and the principles that We need to know if we'll operate if we lord if we'll operate in the keys and in the principles of your word We can see your glory and that's what we desire So help us to be a people prepared and I pray that you had blessed this lesson tonight to our Understanding and to our hearts may it grow and mature in our spirit in Jesus name and everybody said a good. Amen Joshua chapter number one tremendous book of the Bible And it is a mirror of the book as We've studied before the book of Ephesians it has a lot of mirror image to it and The book of Joshua is a powerful book. He is the successor to Moses and Moses By God's design and God's word is talking to Moses and talking to Moses about Joshua In the book of Deuteronomy and we come to the first chapter of the first verse of the book of Joshua and Here's what the Bible says now after the death of Moses The servant of the Lord it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of none Moses minister say Moses my servant is dead Now therefore arise Go over this Jordan Thou and all this people unto the land which I do give to them even to the children of Israel Every place that the soul of your foot shall tread upon That have I given unto you? I want to make sure you get that right there Every place that the soul of your foot shall tread upon that Have I given unto you? Not that I'm going to give it to you it's already yours and Even to the children of Israel as I said unto Moses From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river the river Euphrates all the land of the Hittites and unto the great sea to where the going down of the Sun shall be your coast There shall not any man be able to stand before the all the days of thy life as I was with Moses so I will be with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake thee I'll stop right there this lesson series that I'm picking up tonight is in a three-part and We're beginning this series the title of it the series navigating the next season and Tonight I want to talk to you a little bit about charting the course There is no better book in the Bible to be able to see what that looks like and how we should respond Then the book of Joshua. Let me give you just a little bit of background Here's Moses who has come as the great deliverer and after 400 years gone into Egypt and By the order and the hand of the miracle power of God released the people came out deliver them out of bondage out of Egypt's bondage and Took them through the wilderness They were only supposed to be in the wilderness for 11 days to start with But because of their rebelliousness when God said cross over and take the land They sent the spies in came back with the report to Joshua and Caleb came back with the report We are well able we can do it God said we can and we can do it The other the majority Got together and said we can't we see giants in the land and we are in their eyes Look at this perception. We are in their eyes like grasshoppers Now the Giants didn't even open their mouth and say you guys are looking like grasshoppers to us it was their perception and Fear that caused them not to inherit the land and God was so upset with them With that entire generation that he said none of you are going to see the promised land Joshua and Caleb will be the only two and For 40 years they walk around what a horrible Repeat of a horror story in their life as they drop in the wilderness One by one dying with bleached out bones passing by the same place Where they could have crossed over and possessed the land, but they're disobedience They're refusal to take God at his word because they were afraid I want to tell you the enemy Satan has been using the negative emotion of fear since the day of the garden and To this very day. He has no new tools in his toolbox. He's using fear to control the masses That's the reason why God comes back with an emphatic fear not And he lets them know you're going to take the land. This is yours for the taking So Moses walks around with them God allows him to see over into the promised land But he said you're not going to take this land You're not going to see it now when I was standing at the Dead Sea and our guide was telling us a few years ago about there in Israel and he was talking about how Moses he said this Mountain right over here is what is believed to be the location that Moses stood on the top and was able to see into the promised land which would have been Israel where we were and He asked the question how many of you how far can you see and So we we you know all of us looking there and it was quite a hazy day Anyway, we couldn't see all the way in well this terminology here where Moses is standing on the mountain is not that he physically Saw it the Bible says that he lifted up his eyes and he saw So what God did is he opened a vision up for Moses to see down the span of time And he was able to see what the promised land was going to be and the description of that land is Far greater than what you see as a nine mile wide Israel is today in a very small portion of property He goes all the way to the Euphrates River all the way north up to Turkey all the way down into Egypt all the way into the negative desert and and Parsons of Saudi Arabia and even into the Egypt location It's a much broader place that God promised to Abraham in the beginning That was the land that he was going to inherit for him and for his children and his children's children That's the promise of God. So Moses comes to this place He's walked them around in the wilderness for 40 years a whole generation dies off And there's a group of desert babies that are born in the wilderness and they know nothing of The Egyptian bondage they know nothing of the leeks and the garlics and the pain of the past All they know is is that there's been a promise that's been given that they heard from their fathers and grandfathers that they didn't possess and They don't know Much about all that happened in the past They just know they've been walking around in the desert now for 40 years and their clothes hasn't worn out and their shoes are Remaining on their feet and growing with them and they get to the place where Moses goes up into the mountain and God Takes Moses and buries him up in the mountain. He dies up in the mountain They don't get to celebrate or honor his death with a grave or anything because God knew that if they saw where Moses went down They would not move from where they are So he takes him up into the mountain and he disappears out of their sight and the Ordination of his second in command Joshua comes on the scene God had told Joshua through the man of God Moses that God is going to be with you Joshua And you're going to possess the land. I don't get to possess it but you're going to possess it and You're going to be the one that's going to lead this group of desert babies into the wilderness into the promised land to see them Be able to possess the land and the land belongs. You know it. You were in there. You saw it Joshua saw it never follow a leader who hasn't already been there Somebody tells you about something they've never experienced. They don't have the anointing to get you there Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shout of death. I'll fear no evil for thou art with me Why because Jesus already been there. He knows the way through This is important for us to get a hold of because as we are entering in and this is the thought behind this entire series Because I'm just telling you and we've been working on this working on the calendar for the church and so forth These past two years since since COVID took place has changed the structure of church and what's going on and Families and business and everything to such a degree that I was going through some of my church growth material in fact the business today While I was preparing and getting everything ready. I look and there is my file Staring me in the face. I hadn't even picked it up since then because we spent so much time and and and and energy and effort and and and prayer and all of that into preparing this Incredible vision 2020 some of you were here and we got the books together and I cast the vision and then the next thing You know it gets shot right in the head by cove it and I picked that file up for the first time in two years and I opened it up and I saw all these things that we had planned Things that I related to you things that I didn't even get to relate to you that was still just visions and dreams I wrote it down so it could be in my memory and I thought man the enemy Unstole something But it's my intention in 22 to get it back Seven times over is anybody with me right there That's the reason why I'm bringing this to you tonight because and I I could say to you are I Get the vision and go after it, but I found out that in getting the vision And writing it down and then putting it in a book and getting it ready for you and then it only took one event To take it completely off the track So I've titled this series navigating the next season Because at this moment we've had our first Variant of from South Africa that has opened up today And we don't even know and I don't believe even our leaders know what 22 is going to be only God does So as the people of God, we must get a fresh vision chart our course But be prepared to navigate through the next season a navigator Does not just start off and say well, let's just go All right, and you'll see this I think it's at the end of your paper I'll remind you of it at the conclusion of this but but anyone can steer a ship But it takes a leader to chart the course and it takes a navigator The navigator does not just get up and some of you got good navigators sitting beside you in the car when you go on a trip somebody called them your little helper whatever and so The navigator is the one who says okay. We need to check the weather conditions. I Mean we know where we want to go We've got a vision for where we want to go but between here and there there could be Adjustments that we have to make but we must make it from here to there and Navigating that could mean that I have to go through storms. I have to go through troubles I have to go through bless places and not let it stop me. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Navigating it means that I've got to spend time planning the trip a Navigator won't say all right. Let's just go to Colorado in a couple of months. All right. Well, that's great What do y'all want to wear t-shirts are fine just get in the car. Well, I Have a feeling that could be some cool weather on the other side of the mountain What am I saying to you? I'm saying you can't just jump right off into 2022 You got to get your plan together. You got a you got to start seeing what kind of resources All right, somebody texts me today and said hey I'm really kind of up to here with this thing because I went to get my oil change today And and they had no oil and no oil filters What am I gonna do I? Mean it might require me to walk at some point Look at some of y'all right now. God forbid walk I'm just saying you've got to be prepared For whatever but if you've got your navigation and your resources and the plan together and you know who you're following Then whatever comes I've got a compass in my hand. That's taking me true north So I'm charting the course and I'm lifting from the scripture here in Joshua chapter number one This very vital information over the next couple of weeks Tonight charting the course So God buries his workmen But the work Still goes on. I'm gonna tell you if I was following after Moses I might want to just die with Moe Why is that because he's the guy who came and got me out of bondage? He was the guy who who threw his staff on the ground and miracle signs and wonders took place And we we love Joshua, but we're not quite sure of we went we went through one battle with him fighting the fighting Amalek And Moses was up on the mountain and Joshua was down in the valley And we were there with our swords and God gave us the victory and that's the only real time We've seen Joshua except the fact that we've heard Moses say Here's the next guy Follow him into the promised land. I will not be able to go with you Israel had Finished its morning period for Moses and now God's speaking to Joshua and Joshua Joshua chapter one And he's concerning and these are the things I'm going to talk to you tonight and the next couple of weeks about concerning change concerning his responsibility and The needed courage for him to take on a new season that he has never seen before He went into the promised land and saw the grapes and he saw the fruit of it And he saw the Giants too, but it's been 40 years I'm gonna tell you something, you know I'm years old right now and about 20 years ago. There was some things I could do Like here's a real simple one and there's some of the youth that can relate to me Jumping off of the tailgate of the truck. I didn't think anything about it Jump right off of there and I mean fly off and just keep on going now Ages taught me to ease off of that thing Because something hurts when I hit that floor just right so things have changed and You cannot sometimes people because they don't like change They love change, but they don't like change. I Want everybody else to change, but I want me to stay the same they say it like this My how you've changed Well, let me turn that around my how you change and The question is this what they're saying is I see that you've you've grown But I want you to know there's a difference between Changing and growing and changing and maturing. I've changed, but I have matured Some folks change, but they never mature So you can be 80 years old and if you haven't got the right mind It's not It's not What's between the years? 2021 and 2022 It's what between the years That is the only thing that stopped the children of Israel from taking a step of faith into the Promised Land and Navigating the course of direction and change is a constant for us We live our lives in a state of constant transition in the past 24 hours things have changed And I will just tell you based upon what I've just all you got to do is just read a little news Whatever by this time tomorrow night things could be very changing very much changing too Now what am I gonna do with that? I can either be the victim of change and we just roll on down the line and whatever comes Which is the majority of people that's what Jesus called the Broadway But the narrow way is a people who have made up their mind and chartered their course for heaven Now between here and there I'm gonna run into some problems and some Giants and Sometimes people want to classify the Promised Land as heaven, but it is not the comparative to heaven There are no Giants in heaven But there are Giants in your promised land, but God has given you the land already The Giants in the land their squatters They don't belong there and The only reason why you haven't driven them out is because you've believed the report that is evil and fear has gripped your heart and You're afraid to take a step because it means sacrifice When you change Means you're gonna have to give something up to go up Means that if you want Your blonde hair back again, and it's gray Change is one of the most important fact this has been one of my prayers all of my life and ministry is this Lord help me to be able to Adapt to the change that's going on not adopt it adapt Because change is a constant You hear what I'm saying Too many people wind up as victims of unwanted change instead of people who are change makers I turned another year old so did you Now I May not be able to jump off the truck like I used to but I can still drive the truck And if you mess with me, I'll go buy me some cowboy boots and get me a great big buckle and a cowboy hat and That cowboy for a day because I will not be scared The moment I scare the woman the moment I drop into unbelief our fear unbelief comes Let me give you some things to write down. You need this real bad Change There's four types of change change happens to us If you don't believe that ask your spouse as somebody sitting beside you and we won't change, but we don't want to change That's the reason why so many of you sit in the same seat in this building every week And if that seat isn't there because we put a Christmas tree in the middle of it I Am going home bless God Change happens around us In the world changing It's changing faster than what you and I have ever seen in our lifetime. That is a prophetic a prophetic Statement that I've just made because because the Bible says as we get closer to the coming of the Lord that changes Are going to take place knowledge is going to increase faster and faster Okay How many of you have it how many of you have adapted to the change of not having an actual Person to check you out at Walmart Now I just want to let you know. I Just want to let you know if you want groceries. I Don't like your skin and I don't like and bar. I don't like all that. Well, you don't like it if you want to But you're not gonna get your captain crunch until you learn how to work at machine because changes happen and around us I love how you shot me down Change that happens within us Now you can you can change on purpose or you can change by force, but you will change Let me make this abundantly clear Jesus himself or Paul wrote it down in first Corinthians 15 He said this mortal shall put on immortality when Jesus come there will be a you will be changed In a moment in the twinkling of an eye So you can you can embrace change or you can stay here How many of you up for change on reps or more than right there? All right We got half the congregation and then there is the change we initiate so why is it so important because Because we're talking about principles here tonight from the Word of God Because I don't have time and neither does the word take each Individual situation that's sitting here and the seven billion people on this people planet and and specifically design The word in here you take principles you learn the principles and apply them to whatever is going on in your life That's the Word of God. So what are the five principles of change? Well, here they are number one Nothing on earth is permanent as change We're changing right now as the clock continues to click We're moving towards midnight Now while you thought it was midnight and it was still night at Midnight it changes to morning even though the Sun is not shining outside And we change from Wednesday to Thursday Well, I like Wednesday Wednesday was good. I think I'll stay in Wednesday. I want all of you to know You're all going to Thursday Change is continual. It's continual. That's the reason why you need to embrace it Pastor I love my car So did I I Had an incredible Monte Carlo. I had incredible Monte Carlo It went zero to 60 when I wasn't even sitting in the seat But I had to change it because one day it stopped loving me number three Everything changes say that with me everything changes Now I know you married him when he was a hundred and eighty five pounds Lean mean fight machine He wore size 29 pants, but now As time goes by Things have expanded Why do you think all the pants and all the shirts and all got that spandex material in them now? Changes happen in my body in my interests There's things I used to not eat that I eat now Come on somebody relationships change People get messed up because they think those relationships are going to be forever I've got some wonderful relationships, but I'm not being close to them now anymore, but we're still friends But but our but our interaction has changed Are you understanding me? I'm trying to tell you tonight that if you don't embrace change and look for God and God opportunities in that change Change will leave you rolled up in a small ball Crying your eyes out wondering where did everybody go? Are you hearing me? Change is inevitable It's gonna happen whether you like it or not and I'm glad about that Because if God did not put seasons into place Cleasiasties Times and seasons he put it in the book of Genesis as long as earth remains seed time and harvest There's going to be season spring summer winter fall And I'm glad about that because if we were stuck in in internal season If it was a good season for you it would wind up turning into a bad season Watch what I'm telling you. Why does he give us? Why does he give us 24 hours in a day? Because he knows that you get the opportunity that if you messed up today, I feel like preaching right here if you mess up today The Holy Ghost put this in the book of limitation for you to be remembering this that his mercies are New every win Morning now when did I tell you morning started at midnight? So go ahead and wake up at 2 o'clock You're already two hours into the next day and God said whatever's going on in your life Does not have to be permanent because I put change in there so that you could change your mind Come on somebody change your shirt. Come on Change your attitude Thank God for that if Adam and Eve been even stuck in a permanent location without change taking place Then whatever you are is what you will be eternally. That's the reason why he told him. Don't you eat from the tree of life? You eat from the tree of life and it makes it permanent. So if I had a backache, it would be a permanent backache but I change and God gave me change so that if I will endure the season that I'm in There is another season coming. That's gonna be better Now when I heard Pastor Jason say a few moments ago that it's gonna be better in 2022 and Some of you say well, I don't know and others say I don't think so and others of you say yeah I believe that well, let me just tell you every bit of that is about attitude Well pastor, what are you seeing that? I don't see I'll tell you what I see I see God already in 2022 And whatever changes that are going to be taking place. He's gonna do it for my good So if he tells me that the end of the thing is gonna be better than the beginning Then go ahead and do the change because when I get to the end, it's gonna be better than it was yesterday That's God And here's the beautiful thing about it get this Change is a principle of life and creation So what's the point the point is from Matthew our Malachi chapter 3 verse number 6 here's what God said I am the Lord and I change not Now everything else is changing But God said I don't change with the world spinning right now on its axis Millions of miles an hour and we're not getting dizzy and everything's changing Everything's changing. There is a constant. I'm gonna go ahead and give you the punchline true north That wherever I land my compass if I get lost in Navigating my way through 2021 through 2022 or ever how long God gives to me All I've got to do is flip that compass around to true north and it will let me know exactly where I need to be Are you with me here tonight? God is the one Unchangeable constant Regardless of everything else Remember this that nothing is permanent except God and his promises Nothing is permanent except God in his promises. So when God says I'm gonna do this thing I'm gonna bring you into a land Abraham. You're gonna be in bondage They're gonna your people are gonna be in bondage for 400 years But I'm going to send a deliverer after 400 year Daniel your people are gonna be in bondage for 70 years But after 70 years, I will visit you and bring you back into what into the land and who gets to do that God the unchangeable God While everything is changing on earth God declares I don't change Get this God created change, but God does not change in nature character or in integrity So what does that mean pastor? That means that I can trust his word when he says to me Surely blessing I will bless thee and multiplying. I will multiply thee Now what is left to happen with that? For me to change my mind to believe the the constant Unchangeable God and take him at his word Not a matter of God if See, this is what people don't understand about faith They think faith is the second window at Wendy's. I put my order in and less than 15 minutes later I want the burger. I Want the promise. I want whatever it is Faith is not a guarantee that you're gonna get it the way you think you're gonna get it But faith in God is a guarantee that at the moment that he gets ready you keep your faith in him He will bring it to pass just like he said and Ladies and gentlemen, let me go on record to tell you here tonight that if God has failed in one of his Promises, then we are wasting our time here tonight But I can say with absolute assurance through all of time and age that God is a God of his word and God will not Fail you that's a good place to give God some praise right there To know God will remain the same Gives me great confidence in the middle of unsettling times So I say what variant God already knows What war God already knows what trouble God already knows now the question is am I gonna trust God? Who is unchangeable with all these changes? He's unchangeable with all these changes He's unchangeable while I'm losing my own mind. He's unchangeable Two things that are constantly moving time and change I just wish I had more time I wish I had more time pastor well You're not getting any You're just not all of us have the same amount of time. I don't care if you live in Russia China Yugoslavia Iran Iraq, I don't care where you live. We all have the same time God set the clock You get that the question is what are you going to do with the time that you've got that's navigating into a new season I Told my wife this afternoon that and you well know that that we have dealt with things all this past year and and trying to push through and we've done whatever we could do and God's been gracious and helped us But I said to her this afternoon. We're not going into 2022 Expecting the same thing we had in 2021. I have a I want to let you know pace assembly I have already moved the bar And I haven't looked listen to me your pastor has not lowered the bar I have raised the bar and I have raised the bar out of my reach and your reach so that it takes God for us to reach where we need to reach Otherwise we can paint the bathrooms without God But what I do need for revival to come it's just outside of my reach all gone So I'm going to use time and I'm going to use change to my advantage Otherwise it will run over me and I can complain about not having time or I can use time To the advantage The greatest security against dismay and disruption in our life and change is a firm reliance upon an unchanging God Seasons have their own inerrant blessings right now Right now the leaves are falling off and things are getting cold and the saps drawing down in the tree and all that kind of stuff But you know what you wouldn't have that firewood to warm you if you didn't cut down that old tree There's an inherent blessing in every season There's an inherent blessing in every scene while I just can't see it. Well, you're not looking in the right place You're looking to yourself. You're not looking to God because God has blessings in every season Pastor I've been through a hard season. I get that There's not a person in this building who hasn't been through hard seasons and it's not to compare one with another Because God knows what our season is, but he also knows the season. He brings us into I Just want to remind you something. I think I heard this one time He knows what you don't look at your neighbor and tell him he knows what you don't He knows when the next season is coming Come on somebody he knows when the next season is coming He knows when the next blessing is coming and the enemy's tool and trick is to try to get us All messed up in the season. We're currently in but God said hold fast. There's another season coming Turn the page. There's another season coming That's what got Joshua back To the beginning place to say, you know what God? I'm here. I'm available So in Numbers chapter number 27 God instructs Moses to ordain Joshua to be the next leader Deuteronomy 31 verse number seven Moses gives the final word of blessing and encouragement to Joshua He says I'm going God said he's gonna be with you and I'm going Moses checks out and You have to know that your mentor giving you the word that God is gonna strengthen you and God Is gonna be with you was strength and help for Joshua and it's one thing ladies and gentlemen to hear it from someone else But when you get a download direct from God, there's something supernatural That ignites inside of your spirit. I want to share these Encouragement and vision to you that Joshua God because this is what God does God shows you in a vision What it possibly can be what it can be by his word So he says this I'm gonna give you the promise of a land that's flowing with milk and honey I'm gonna promise you a land that's flowing with milk and honey. I have a picture that I got from From the from They call it that the cardio the heart of Jerusalem in the old city and There is a there is a Artist that is there who does a lot of paintings and pictures things like that His he has the only shop that is still owned By him by from his father and his father's father and so forth who were the very first ones to come in When Israel was made a state and I have a picture and you can look it up on the internet of the very first entrance of them coming into Jerusalem and into Israel and What we see now as a matter of fact I was reading just today that Tel Aviv has become one of the greatest economical locations on all in all of the world just recently and so What you see now? I took a picture us flying in and took a picture of Tel Aviv and it is it's an incredible city And then then we take the drive down to go through the Dead Sea and you look on the left and the right and There's date palm trees and mangoes and apple orchards and all this kind of stuff, but when they first arrived There was a handful of Jews in a barren desert that if you threw a seed in the ground the seed would probably jump back up and say I don't want to be buried here But now in the prophetic of God's Word who over the process of time and change said I'm gonna make watch this the desert bloom again So when God is speaking I'm about to come out of my skin when God is speaking to Joshua that I'm gonna I want you to go in and possess the land and Joshua remembered it's a land flowing with milk and honey I saw it with my own eyes. Ladies and gentlemen It was not some fertile Piece of property with all the trees all the vineyards and everything that they've got going on right now What was he saying? He was speaking prophetically even into the future That this land that looks desolate right now is going to bloom into future generations It will always be a land flowing with milk and honey How many got an iPhone? How many got a droid whatever you know those little chips that are in there guess who made that? Israel guess who holds the majority of the Nobel Peace Prize Jewish individuals Guess who came up with the first vaccines Guess who came up with the with with with the vaccine for for All them it was a desolate place But God's word prophetic through the land through the time said Joshua this land and Land is not just what we see on the ground The land he's referring to here. Yes, it is the place that we would know is Israel and beyond that today But when he says I'm giving you the promised land it was actually not just the land But it was the assurance that your descendants are going to inherit this personal property to be their own It also constituted their wealth and Their peace of mind are you following I'm saying so it wasn't just a piece of dirt It's not only the piece of dirt But it is the God concept of what's taking place now What does that have to do with navigating God said to the Jewish people I'm gonna give you the land now tonight They're not inheriting. They don't have all of the land. In fact in one location It's only nine miles wide and we navigated on our tour the majority of the entirety of the state of Israel But God said I don't care what it looks like right now There's giants in the land called Hamas and Hezbollah But I'm gonna if you will not be afraid Israel then God said I'm gonna give you the land as far as you can see Well, somebody said well praise God for Israel praise God for you Because what you value is not just a piece of property It happens to be the inheritance of your children and your children's children to the third and fourth generation God is saying to you. I've given you the land Don't let the enemy keep you out of it in the 2022 Navigate your way chart your course and everywhere you put your foot in 2022 I'm gonna give you the land wherever it is Favor Are you with me? Not only that but he said I'm gonna give you the promise of my presence I'm just gonna tell you something That'll make you bow up on anybody if you got God on your side I'm gonna tell you what it will do here's the navigating into 2022 because right now I Mean I fully expect tomorrow for there to be an announcement of another lockdown going down. I Fully expect that I could be wrong, but I fully expected People are gonna be afraid and This and this and this and all those kind of spirits are gonna jump on top of you But let me tell you what God gave to you all the way back in the book of Joshua chapter 1 He said I'm giving you the promise of my presence now wherever God is. There's peace All there may be war going all around and there may be giants in the land But wherever God is there is peace Now what kind of it's not your average peace Jesus said this is not peace like the world has Where we sit down on the negotiating table and everybody comes out on the wind side No, no, no God said it's my peace that I give to you not as the world gives Furthermore, it's a piece that has the ability to pass all of your own Understanding that's come on somebody. He told Joshua. I'm gonna give you my presence is gonna go with you now Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care what comes in 2022 I am navigating with the Prince of peace and the Lord of lords and wherever I am There may be COVID all around me, but I'm standing in peace There may be war on the left and right, but I'm gonna stand in peace. Come on now You got to get a hold of this You got to get a hold of this because let me just jump ahead in a few chapters When all 12 of these tribes should have gone in and possessed the land two of them said, you know what? We really are not interested in going over in the promised land. We want to live over here and You read their history and it's all messed up Are you hearing what I'm saying? You'll want to go to the promised land. Are you with me out here? Look at this the promise that God would keep his word, which is his power His word is his power verse number six through nine tells us be strong and of good courage For under this people shall I divide for an inheritance the land look at that under this people? I will divide an inheritance Wait a minute. You don't get to divide the inheritance unless you own it God said I own the land and I'll divide it how I want to and I will divide it as an inheritance under my people Be strong be of good courage now. I'm gonna tell you if I could tell you anything going into this next season Because we're already on day one of December the exit month Okay, you don't need to be waiting till the 31st to try to figure out what what I'm gonna do and how I'm gonna live And what I'm gonna do You need to start writing a plan for you and your house Right now. How are we gonna live? What are we gonna do? What am I gonna do to make sure that I can be a blessing to other people? Am I gonna keep on being as afraid as everybody else is running around biting their fingernails? I want you to know something God is not sitting on his holy throne tonight biting his holy fingernails worried about another variant God is very much in peace very much in control and anybody that's connected to him is very much at peace and very much in control Don't lose your mind God gave you think Think about what God has in store navigate yourself and don't listen to all the other voices When I was writing this lesson preparing for this lesson The thought that came into my mind and the illustration is is about and I'm not laughing at it But it is it was a tragedy all the way around especially after you analyze the Titanic Look at the arrogance of those smart people Compared to today They said this is the unsinkable ship in fact one of them was so bold to say Not even God can sink this ship and on its maiden voyage Unseen to their eyes and people that were not paying attention just along for the ride They were supposed to measure the depths and how cold the water was problem The rope was too short Read the story the rope was too short. It didn't even make it to the water. So he just made the numbers up I don't know if dr. Fauci was on that ship or not, but I'm just saying Sorry I'm not gonna ride on the same boat With somebody making up the numbers I'm not gonna ride on the same boat. I mean like if you failed one time two time three time One time shame on me two time Three time Come on somebody. This is a life and death. Are you hearing what I'm saying Everything that's going on and we've got to come out of Dumbville. I don't know. I just made that up We got to come out of Dumbville where we're allowing everybody else to don't listen all these other voices What did they tell everybody on the ship on the Titanic? Hey, it's all good going back to partying While they played nearer my God to thee on the on the deck of the boat and the and the chairs are shifting from one side to the other You mean you're gonna sit at the table and keep on drinking I'm gonna tell you even in the middle of That crisis if you'll stay with God God will deliver you There was a man on that boat. I can't remember the full story, but the story goes like this There was a man on that boat Who was praying and he was swept off of the boat and into the water and when the ship was going down He wound up getting in the vortex of one of those great massive Pillars where the smokestacks and And the vortex of that was pulling him down and he started crying out to God And when that thing went down under the water the pressure from that boiler blew him out of that stack and way out beyond the ship and he survived to tell his story Let me tell you something when it gets hot remember Shadrach Meshach and Abednego when the storm stopped raging You've got a navigating book right here and an unchangeable God who promised you and if you If you if what you see is not what you saw in your vision Then what's going on is only temporary keep on keeping on God is gonna bring you to your land. Come on say a man somebody I'm almost done here tonight as God was with Moses I'm gonna tell you I'm thankful for the promise of the land and his peace And I'm thankful for the fact that he's going to give us possessions But I want you to know according to the scripture God said I'm not gonna leave you and I'm not gonna forsake you Joshua as I was with Moses now watch this this is where we try this is where we don't understand change Because we look at and we go as I was with God said as I was with Moses so I will be with you Okay, that's great. And in our mind we go religious We go okay. Let me get me a staff Let me get me a rope like Moe and Some shoes like he took off up there on holy ground and when I throw this stick down it's gonna turn into a snake You don't read that with Joshua You don't read the same things that happened with Moses happening with Joshua and yet God said as I was with Moses So shall I be with you? You know what he's saying to all of us here tonight No matter what I did for somebody else I am the unchangeable God that whatever you have to deal with Joshua. I will be with you just like I was with Moses Because Joshua is gonna go in and fight Jericho. He's gonna fight a I he's gonna fight all these places and drive the giants out And he's finally gonna get fed up and tell everybody hey if you will stay over there stay over there But as for me in my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. That's the kind of leader you want who is principled That's the kind of leader you and I need to be with our own homes. God said I'll not leave you. I'm not forsake you so this past weekend I shared with you just a little bit of this passage of Scripture and Let me go back in Proverbs 16 verse 1 through 3 says to this is an IV to man belongeth I'm almost done to man belongeth the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue Now you may have plans in your heart, but God said I've got the last word Well pastor you said for us to navigate and chart our course. That's exactly right, but I'm telling you don't be so don't be so rigid with it That if things change and God says turn right Let's call I'm going straight. This is what I see today with people driving cars and I don't get it if You're going through the intersection and somebody else is coming to the intersection, but they're violating The intersection and you have the right-of-way Stop before you get killed It makes no difference when you're upside down in the car whether you were had the right-of-way or not Be willing to be flexible with the God who's gonna say I see this coming turn to the right Are y'all with me? He says verse 2 all a man's ways Seem innocent to him But motives are weighed by the Lord See that's the real deal. In fact, that's one of the five things God's gonna judge every one of us every thought every deed every motive The motive of the heart Well Lord Lord didn't we cast out devils? He said yeah But your motive is wrong get away from me Come on somebody This is the key verse 3 commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed What are you planning on doing for the Lord in 2022? What are you planning on doing period? Because the last thing you want to do is do it without the Lord I don't care if you're a nurse or a truck driver or electric or whatever you are whatever you do The Bible says in Proverbs 3 trust in the Lord with all that heart lean not to that own understanding Who in the world? It's a foolish person in the world We're living in right now who does not consult with the divine intelligence of God Almighty on a daily basis God help me through the day. You know what today's gonna hold. I've got a plan, but if you need to change my plan Change it. Here's five key words quickly for you navigators the navigators Check the source of your wisdom. Where are you getting wisdom from? Where are you getting wisdom from the view MSNBC Fox News? I don't care who it is Well, I believe this well, you better stop being so rigid You better get your wisdom from the one who has all wisdom and Stop asking people who are resources and not the source Consult the Word of God. Where's the wisdom? Secondly check your motives Check your motives. Why are you doing it? Well, you know I'm doing this, but I might get a deal out of it Yeah, you might get trouble Come on somebody Check your commitment Give your plans to God. He says and he'll then you'll be successful Check your commitment. How committed are you if you're not committed to it? How can you ask God to be committed to it? That's the problem I have with people saying oh you pray pray for my soul and so pray for this Well, have you prayed? Because you better learn how to pray cuz cuz listen to me now I'm gonna have church whether it's in this building or under that oak tree or out in the yard or wherever it is Okay, we're not not locking down No mo I don't care what they say tomorrow. God bless them and all their endeavors, but that's worldly thinking This is spiritual thinking right here. This is survival for me. Are you here? What I'm saying It's not a weekend trip. This is not a midweek service. This is life to me. Are you have I got any help in here? I got about six. That's all right. That's a rapture crowd. I just want to let you know This is not something I'm doing on the side. That's not a career move It's not something I thought about living for the Lord. This is a lot to me in him I live and move and have my being I'm not doing this because it's I'm looking for a religious exemption I am religiously exempt because I trust in the Lord with all of my heart I'm fully committed Let me just go ahead and drop this on you right here cuz this is a mic drop statement All of you that want me to sign some kind of rid of religious exemption You better be coming to church on a regular basis and I better see you here About oh, you need to sign this right here. Well, how long you been here? Well, I show up I don't know. How do you spell your last name R-O-D-G-E-R-S? You don't know me You better get on the front row and get saved. Then we'll talk about it. Come on somebody religious exemption Hey, I'm all about it But here what I'm telling you it's this listen very carefully. This is this this is the download I got this week. It's not about signing religious. This is not a religious exemption form This is a statement of faith for you finally had to put up or shut up And everybody's gonna have to do it sooner or later. He had to write your name on the line It said yes, I am fully committed to Jesus Christ He is the Lord of my life and I follow the Bible as the written holy word of God and now your boss knows and now the Government knows and God bless them all because it was time that some Christians started coming out of the closet Everything else has it's not about my exemption. It's about me stepping in and possessing the land Man, I feel like preaching right now. Did you hear what I said? God said possess God's been waiting on the church to get up out of its seat of nothing and declare the sayeth the Lord It's either do or die ladies and gentlemen. This is not a time for you to come in here play church It's time for you to rise to the occasion and possess the land I'm almost done. Here's five key words for you for the navigators in the next season number one process Nobody likes it, but everybody loves it The closest analogy I bring to you is what my wife does with a roast in a crock pot. I've tasted it out of the microwave Crockpots better She put it in there early in the morning on Sunday by the time we get home all the neighbors cats dogs deer and everybody else It's standing out smelling that stuff. I want you to know I even know how to make that thing now Don't obey you know why The process let me talk to you about chicken and dumplings Come on. Oh my god. Some of y'all been shouting now ain't said nothing all service long goal that I got Let me tell you about chicken and dumplings. They're good on the first day, but the second and third day Jack Come on. I know who Jackie is but Jack knows Jack knows that second third day on them dumplings By the time that mama gets six cups of butter in that thing right there them dumplings are floating on the top You know why because we love the process But we're in a such a quick snap it grab it society that we are not willing to let God have his way wait upon the Lord Wait patiently upon the Lord. It's a process. I don't like the process either. I Don't like the process of a red light, but it is to my detriment to go through it Anybody with me and call it the will of God That's what I love Call it. That's so you know I feel God said I don't care how you feel if you run over this speed bump and all these barricades that I've got up You're in your own flesh and you're gonna get something like an ishmael. I'll preach that on another day How many of you know that's for a Sunday morning crowd right there and Sunday morning centers They need that second one is purpose. What have I been created for in this next season? Now I'm gonna give you a little hint right now If you're a believer you've been created to be an evangelist in 2022 Don't you call yourself saved and you're not telling nobody about Jesus in this coming season? Because I'm telling you right now the Arc door is closing rapidly. Are you hearing what I'm saying? And and there's no time to play around with this There's no time for you to act secret. Oh, I go to church. I might be Pentecostal. You better get all the way God's got a purpose for your life and he wants to know can I use you in this next season? Are you gonna be a boat anchor to me? God needs some people to rise up in 2022 and Step out in faith and possess the land. You know what some of your land is some of your relatives in 2022 I prophesied the name of Jesus Christ. They're gonna come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ Whether they come to Pace assembly or not is irrelevant to me I want to know are you in the Ark? Are you in the kingdom? I call you from the north the south the east and the west I don't care where you are what you done where you been what kind of lifestyle my purpose is to get the gospel to as many people as possible That's what God created me for he created me to be a worshiper and a witness number three potential What gifts and talents has God placed inside of you that he has preserved you for this next season What gifts and talents what gifts and talents do you have that in this next season? God wants to pull the cover off and use those gifts and talents Somebody said I haven't used I haven't I've never used that gift before You know why because God's preserved you for such a time as this Esther You've been brought to the kingdom you've been kept alive Don't you be a waste of air and body parts here on this earth you've been kept alive for such a time as this Do you realize that you could have already been dead something could have already happened to you But God kept you alive so that you could be what he's called you to be and he placed those gifts hidden in The anointing of the Holy Ghost on the inside of you to be revealed in the last day Rita went gutter Nails done today got them nails done One day I'm gonna get my nails done If I do that y'all throw me right out on the street you hear what I'm saying Got our nails done and the lady sitting there Looked at her and said you know We go this church down here down the street, but we couldn't make it to our service last Sunday So he turned on pace assembly With our Baptist selves and she said she's only seen me one time Only met her one time dropped her off one day with that foot See you got to get out of this nail place as fast as I can for anybody sees me in here Have I got any real men in the house right here? Okay? All right. All right All right She said I tuned in this past Sunday Hey man Your past your your husband Come in here pretty calm But watching he's really passionate She said yeah, he's pretty passionate about Jesus He's pretty passionate about his preaching Well, I asked the question. Why not? Have I got any Alabama fans in here? Oh? Come on have I got any Auburn fans in here and he gave her fans he rolled tied up in here How passionate to that do you see a hundred thousand people standing there while the ball's going up and down? No, you don't because whatever you love you're passionate about and I came to tell you God's getting ready to stir up the gift of God Is with inside of every one of you in this house? You better get ready to put some passion on and let people know it's not a weekend thing with me I got something to tell you and I'm excited about what Jesus has done inside of my life Number four. I'm almost done prioritize You're gonna be a navigator you better prioritize So if you're going to a location, it's gonna be cold you better carry a coat Are not complained about cold when you get there How many of you've gone on a trip before and say man, I wish out of did you check the weather? Did you check the street? I? Mean we got every tool under the Sun We got ways out now that it tell us what Constructions going on and where the police are sitting there with radar and a whole bit and you're still getting out of the House and going any way you want you better stop and organize and prioritize and use your time and your and change and your energy Prioritize some thing. What's important to you in 2022? Getting another dollar or getting a soul say now. I know that's a trick question, but it really isn't Because I think the Bible tells me that the only thing that's gonna last is eternal things Prioritize what's your priorities number five? Then God says proceed Joshua Proceed Joshua there comes a time when God is going to require you to start and stop praying about it and Stop wishing about it stop planning about stop hoping for it all that kind of stuff It's time for you Joshua To be strong and of good courage and get up and take these people over the Jordan This is the time when we've got to be prepared in this season That no matter what this season may bring That we are prepared to walk it out and still maintain the level of God's anointing inside of our life and not let distractions and opinions and voices and everything else Dictate how and what we're going to do I'm on a mission And I'm gonna tell you as long as I've been preaching as long as you've been saved many of you've been safe for a long time I'm just gonna tell you you know, and I know that it's never been like this before And if you don't see that your head is in the sand I'm gonna I'm gonna bring some things to you in the month of January the Lord tearing on the forecast on Wednesday night with Bible prophecy that I'm gonna tell you right now that years ago I would have never I would have never thought that I would have ever seen it in my lifetime as a believer But now my dear friends, it's not only out there The Antichrist spirit is so bold to put it right out on the table And you know what if the kingdom of darkness is going to be bold and prioritized and try to take the land the church better rise in this occasion And possess the land I'm just gonna tell you and close this here tonight And I remind you of this last statement that's so very very vital because in 2022 storms are gonna come Troubles gonna come, you know, hey, hey, hey, here's some good news It's December 1 Hurricane season's over Did you think about that? I only way I thought about it was somebody put it on Facebook. I saw it on Facebook today I stopped reading I say hey Hurricane season's over Guess what? Season's gonna change Are you gonna be ready? I Am I'm gonna get this church ready the best that I know how and if you want to see something great for God There as far as I'm concerned and I and you can know that as the pay if I didn't feel this way You need to kick me out get another one, but I'm just gonna tell you right now Pace assembly has the greatest potential to see the greatest move of God in any church in America or around the world in my soul of souls Not because of me and not even because of you But the atmosphere of God's presence is hovering. How many of you sense what I'm talking about It's hovering over the top of our head and God said when the time is right. I'm gonna Windows of heaven on you If I've had one I've had several pastors that just out of the blue text and said hey get ready for a move of God It's coming to pace Now you can believe it or not believe it, but I'm just gonna tell you when it or some of you'll be going What was that and I'll tell you that'll be me crossing over the Jordan going into the Promised Land and kicking some Giants down How we gonna get there pastor what's gonna happen when the storms and the clouds come and and trouble comes and difficulties come I'll tell you how hmm. I Got my compass Got my compass. I'm not looking I'm not looking at the calendar. I'm looking at the compass. I'm not looking at my watch I'm looking at the compass. What's the compass say? compass says Singing to the Lord a new song For he had done marvelous thing. I just dropped it into Psalm 98 right there for you His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him the victory. That's a good one. I've lost my way Will you forgive me? Oh, yeah, I'll forgive you. I'm abundant in mercy. Well, which way do I go? Just turn north Let me just tell you when I looked up the North Star on Wikipedia Today the North Star It is the star that is unchangeable set That whether the Sun's up or the Sun goes down or what takes place It is the one constant that is always shining all Dear in the day and all dear in the night so on your compass You don't have to wonder which direction if I can find north I can find my way back home Anybody with me here tonight? Keep your compass towards the Lord Jesus Christ. He will never fail you father in the name of Jesus I pray that you would give every person here and those that are watching the spirit of navigation in this hour If there is such a thing to be able to know what to do Let us ask you and be led by the Holy Spirit to navigate in this next season What what may be coming that we have no idea, but you know you know which direction to go You know the way that I take you know the road that I'm stepping on right now And I pray God you would lead us and direct us lead pace assembly into 2022 Lord as we enter into it. I don't want Lord. I'm asking you. Don't let this church enter in in a slothful lazy Undirected position, but I pray that you would give us fire shut up in our bone that when we take the first step Into the new season that we are ready Because you have created in us Lord that spirit of readiness and the quickening power of the Holy Ghost I give you praise for that tonight touch your people. I pray that you would lead every family in this place Every person in this place into the next season with victory Already playing for them in Jesus mighty name. Everybody believes it shot a great big amen Anybody receive anything out of this word here tonight. All right, do something about it now take it and work it and get you