 The Ark must replace the rod. In the wilderness, the rod was used by Moses to do miracles. The rod did most of the miracles. It did the miracles of splitting the Red Sea. It did the miracle of, when he would, you know, lift it, the enemy Amalekites would be defeated. When he would hit it, the water would come out. It seemed like the rod was like this magic stick that got used. And only Moses had it. No one else had the rod. Nobody else's rod worked. Moses rod was like this, this tool that God used. Everyone else's rod wasn't working. But when the promised land comes, I want you to notice in the book of Joshua, you don't see one miracle with the rod. Every miracle in the book of Joshua was done with the Ark. And it wasn't Joshua carrying the Ark. It was the priest carrying the Ark. See, in the wilderness, it was just about Moses. In the promised land, it was about the priests. In the wilderness, it's about the rod. The Ark was there, but the Ark seemed to not play a central, central figure in the miraculous of the wilderness. In the promised land, the Ark plays as a central figure in the miraculous. I genuinely believe, you know, like even with us when we pray with the anointing water, I believe it's like the rod. It's a medium that God uses when we pray with the anointing oil. And sometimes when you see miracles happening, and you see these people on the pedestal, or you see this man of God on the big stages, you know, and there is a season for that, and God gives those men to us all the time. But the season shifts in our church and in your life when you recognize, you can also be used by God as a person to do miracles, even if you don't have a rod, because you already have the Ark. It's called the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is on your shoulder. As long as the Holy Spirit is on your shoulder, God can use you in this season to do exactly the same thing, sometimes even in a greater way than he would use those great men in the wilderness with the rods. There's somebody saying, man, in our church we value prophets. We value great men of God. We invite them. We show their clips. We encourage you to read their books, listen to their podcasts. But you must understand one thing. All of that is not to replace you taking on the Ark of God to move in your world to see the miraculous. You don't need to be Joshua in your house for you to experience healing. You don't need John Shee with his water in your family for you to experience a miracle. There has to be a time where a shift happens in your mind to recognize, this is so awesome Moses and the stick that he had. This is incredible. This is awesome. You know, if we have that in our church, I'm going to go that anytime Moses is praying with the stick. But when I leave the church, the Ark is on my shoulders. That means the same power that lives inside of them walks inside of me and the Holy Spirit is waiting on me to step in and then his power steps in. Can somebody shout, amen? See with Moses, with Moses, Moses had to wait on God to move first and then Moses went in with Joshua. Joshua said to the priest, you go in first and when your feet touch the Jordan, see with Moses it was when God splits the Red Sea, then you go. They always waited on God. Joshua, God says, it's going to be different now. I'm going to wait on you. When the priest step in, it's when the water is going to split. See, no longer, no longer you have to wait on God when it comes to healing, when it comes to deliverance and breakthrough. God has already said, it is his will and God has already said he wants to do it. Now you have to step in with the power of the Holy Spirit and say, God, I trust you. God, I know, you hate this demon as much as I do. You hate this sickness as much as I do. You hate this poverty as much as I do. I trust you God and I step in in your promise in Jesus name. Can somebody shout, hallelujah? Don't wait just for the rod. This coming year, this coming week, be the person who recognizes the Holy Spirit is on your shoulders. Where you go, he goes. What you say, he says and he will do. But the key here is this, is the ark has to be on your shoulders. Means you got to be conscious that the Holy Spirit is on you. Many people are walking around conscious of demons on them all the time. Oh, something is oppressive, something sits on me and it's fine. If it's maybe you're going through something very difficult, but if you've been a Christian for the last five, six, seven years, okay, if you've been a Christian for the last six months and you've been coming to this church and constantly something sits on your shoulders, do this. You tell the spirit of depression, go to hell where you came from. You say, this is a wrong address and if you need to do this, you do, but you gotta, if you come to church, you're like, but I'm sick. Shake that off. You come to church and you're feeling down, shake that off. Why? Because Holy Spirit cannot sit on you if you allow all these ravens, all these snakes to sit on your shoulders and you're asking their permission, how long are you going to sit them? No, you tell them you got two seconds. Get off of my back right now. This is not just a preacher's talk. I cannot tell you how many times in the service, when I was younger, I had this problem. When I would come to service and I feel down, you know, it would just literally take me down for the whole service and pastor would come to me and he would say, he said, what's wrong with you? And I said, well, I just feel down. He said, why are you being like a little girl? Oh man, that offended me so mad. And I was like, man, he's not like, I got struggles here. I have a weight of the world on my shoulder, 16 and a half. Don't have a bill that I'm paying for. My parents are covered for everything in their world is on my shoulders. And he's not a sympathetic to it. And pastor would always say, it's a very powerful revelation to me. Very powerful. It changed my world. This is the revelation. Snap out. Just like that. I remember I was like, no sympathy, no nothing. But I realized one thing is that the devil had more power over me, not because of any legal door. It's because I was lazy and because I was an emotional roller coaster. And because I allowed that drama spirit to just get inside. Well, I just don't feel good. I'm not going to lift my hands. I don't feel good. So I won't sing. I won't feel good. So I don't pray. You know, I don't feel good today. So I'm just not going to come to church. I had that seat in me as a teenager, but because I had a good pastor who always said, snap out. It doesn't matter how you feel. Right now, you step on that thing. Now, when it happens, sometimes I come to service like on Wednesday or on Sunday. And I have an excruciating headache. Literally, headache that I can't even open my mouth. And I think of those words the pastor said within a second song, I start jumping better than any of you. Not because I feel it. Because every time I jump, I feel like I jump on that headache. And I'm not going to lie to you how many times nobody prayed for healing. When the service was over, the headache was gone. And the worst, the most important part is this. I found my victory in Jesus' power, in Jesus' spirit. Check that off and get the spirit of God on your shoulders because somebody is saying, man.