 I want to invite you to open your Bible to Joshua 3. I'm going to have one of our creative leaders, Anna Rittering. She's going to read the chapter for me. We're going to kind of read for a while. And here's the deal. Sometimes when you read long chapters, it's easy to just kind of like zone out and be like, yeah, I'll listen again when the preacher starts. Again, I just want to encourage you to just kind of lean in as Anna leads and just kind of listen to the scripture with fresh ears. Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan. He and all the children of Israel and lodged there before they crossed over. So it was after three days that the officers went through the camp and they commanded the people saying, when you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God and the priests, the Levites bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. Yet there shall be space between you and it, about 2,000 cubits by measure. Do not come near it. That you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before. And Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. Then Joshua spoke to the priests saying, take up the Ark of the Covenant and cross over before the people. So they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people. And the Lord said to Joshua, this day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel. That they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. You shall command the priests who bear the Ark of the Covenant saying, when you have come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan. So Joshua said to the children of Israel, come here and hear the words of the Lord your God. And Joshua said, by this you shall know that the living God is among you. And that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Parasites and the Gurgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites. Behold the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan. Now therefore take yourselves, twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe, and it shall come to pass as soon as the souls of the feet of the priests who bear the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the water of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from the upstream, and they shall stand as a heap. So it was when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan with the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people. And as those who bore the Ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the Ark dipped in the edge of the water for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of the harvest, that the waters which came down from upstream stood still and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is besides Zeritan. So the waters that went down into the sea of Ereba, the salt sea, failed and were cut off. And the people crossed over opposite Jericho. Then the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel crossed over dry ground until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan. Great job. Not going to lie, I was planning on skipping that verse if I read it, so nice work. I believe that this chapter is prophetic right now for the body of Christ, and I felt this personally, but that's shifted to I'm seeing something happen in the body of Christ right now where I believe there is a transition from the wilderness, which I'm going to talk about tonight, into the Promised Land. This chapter is so full of goodies. It's almost painful because I can only pick a couple of them to really talk about tonight, but there's so much meaning to this, but I want to kind of jump into this story a little bit because we really focus on the Exodus and the Lord kind of saving Israel, and then we start tapering off interest as the journey goes along, and we really miss the importance of this moment, and I kind of want to put before you Israel and where they're at in the story, and we all know the Exodus story. The Lord delivers them miraculously. For what? Why did He deliver them? Because He felt bad for them? No, they cried out. Israel really didn't do anything other than complain, and they complained and cried out, and the Lord heard them, and He says, I'll free you so that you can worship me, and we know the story of Israel coming out of the land and the sea splits, and Israel crosses over, and then we got a lot of stories in succession about Israel being really crappy. We have all kinds of complaining. We have rebellion. We have Moses goes up on the mountain. It has an encounter. They see this encounter happening, and he comes back down, and they've already melted down their own gold. Who does that anyway? If you're making an idol, if I was an idol maker, I'd use something a little more inexpensive than my own personal gold, but they melt down their own gold, and they're worshiping this idol, and Moses comes down and says, I leave for 40 days. 40 days, people, and you are already worshiping a golden calf, and they complain that they're not going to have water, and they complain that they're not going to have food, and then they complain they have too much of that food, and they complain they have a different food, and you just see all of, basically these signs, they're just insanely immature. They're a nation of slaves. They didn't know what to do or how to live their life, and through all of that, the Lord still, even with all of that immaturity, has them continue the path to the Promised Land. There's only one point when Israel crossed the line where God says, nope, you can't go into the Promised Land. There was one sin. They had sexual sin. They had idolatry. They had complaining, rebelling against their leaders, lying. I mean, all of these things happened, and they still were actually on the trajectory to the Promised Land, but when they came to the edge of the Promised Land, the Lord said, okay, now it's time to take the land, and they said no. Doubt and unbelief rose in their heart, and that's when the Lord said no. The sin of unbelief was the sin that kept Israel out of the Promised Land. We see them wandering for 40 years, and a lot of times we think this is God like trying to really punish them, but what I believe is happening here is the Promised Land represented, we're going to dive in a little bit more, the Promised Land represented them stepping into the fullness of maturity that required them partnering with God and faith when everything before that just simply required them following with no action. Like in Egypt, they didn't partner with God to be liberated. They kind of just sat and did nothing, and all these plagues came, and God swings the door open, and all they have to do is walk out, and then they don't even pick their own path. They follow a cloud and a fire. They come to a red sea, and God doesn't have them build boats. God doesn't have them swim. They literally just sit there, and God splits the rock. They go on the other side of the sea, and there's literally food for them every morning when they wake up. They get to a rock or a pond, and water miraculously comes forward, and then they don't even have to, they don't even have to map out their own way. They just have to follow what's happening. And Israel had gotten used to that and comfortable to that, and the Lord said, okay, now it's time to take the land that you promised. And Israel's like, awesome, how's it going to work? Are we going to stay over here on this side of the Jordan, and then you're just going to kind of send fire down from heaven, and those 10 cities are all going to burn, or are we going to cross the Jordan, and then, you know, everyone just kind of like evaporates, like an Avengers movie. Like, how are you going to do it, God? And he's like, here's how I'm going to do it. You're going to take the land, and I'm going to be with you. And Israel goes, we're out. Unbelief rises in their heart. Was the unbelief that God couldn't do it? I don't think so, because at that point, they have to be pretty freaking stupid not to know that God could do that. Or was it when God said, no, you take the land, but I've given it to you. When it required stepping into faith. And the symptom that was under the surface came out that there was doubt. And sometimes we can look like we have a lot of faith when we're just following the cloud, when the Red Seas are partying, and we're like, you split the sea, and I'm just dancing through, and you're doing everything. And I got so much faith in my heart, and God's like, awesome. Now go slay some giants. And then all of a sudden, all that unbelief and doubt that we thought was gone just comes right to the surface. And God said, you can't take the promised land. And here's the thing, if we look at that as God being like just wanting to really stick it to him for rebelling against him, I think that was God's kindness, because if they tried to take the land in unbelief, they would have died. They would have been routed. And so the next generation passes, and it comes to a new day, and a new leader steps up, and there's been 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. And God speaks to the leader, it's time. And he speaks this phrase, and I hear this echoing in my spirit. He says, you have not gone this way before. You have not gone this way before. I feel that for us tonight. I feel that we are so used to stepping through the patterns of how God leads us. But I believe we're stepping into an hour that requires a greater faith, a greater victory, where we're stepping into our promised land of what God has called for us, but it requires us going away we haven't gone before. He says, it's a way you haven't gone before. However, you still don't make it yourself. You still follow the presence of God. And this is the faith that it would require. It's such a new aspect of what they were used to, and they couldn't have learned it through anything. It had to be given supernatural see. Wandering in the wilderness, you can go ahead and put that on the screen. Wandering in the wilderness requires no work to be fed. I mean, food literally shows up every single morning. Same for me, but that's because I have lots of Captain Crunch in my pantry, but different situations scenario. But it also requires no responsibility. It requires no leadership to move forward. Everything is handed to you, and no enemies are attacking you. It requires no work to be fed because you're being fed, no responsibility because you're being told what to do, no leadership to move forward because God's taking care of that. Everything's handed. There's no enemies attacking you because your land sucks. There's nothing there. And so Israel's just kind of getting fat and sassy on manna, wandering around, and there's got to be something in them that's like, man, I've heard stories about the promised land, but man, this is nice. You know, it's the 25-year-old who still wants to live in his basement. It's like, yeah, marriage and kids is cool, but you know, no work, no responsibility, no leadership, everything's handed to me. Like, ah, maybe the parent's basement's cool for a while. And the promised land, on the other side of things, you can switch that up to the next slide. The promised land requires faith in what God spoke. He says, hey, this is your land, but I'm not going to just hand it to you. You have to step out a new faith. It requires confidence in your calling. You got to know, when you're going against ten cities that are all bigger and badder and have better walls and machinery and armies than you, you better know that you're called. It requires fighting for what God gave you. Previously, all you've known is God, the God who fights for you. You've never met the God who fights with you. It requires planting and building. And I'm going to talk about it a little bit more, but when did the manna stop? When they crossed over the Jordan, it was actually, it wasn't the second they crossed over the Jordan, it was actually a much more painful moment. They crossed over the Jordan, and the Lord says there's one more thing. You still have a last reproach of Egypt. You need to be circumcised. And when the men had healed from circumcision, when the healing of the final reproach of slavery had left them and they were fully healed from the oppression of slavery, the manna stopped. So it required planting and building. The Promised Land provided clear borders. And hold on to that last one for a second, because here's the thing. When you look at those two lists, you're like, I mean, man, food's given to you, first you have to work for it. Leadership is given to you, first you have to lead. One risks your life. The other one is super safe. What's the big deal with the Promised Land? And that leads us to our last one. The Promised Land positions you for overflow. The only difference I propose between those two plots of land. One was just enough for what you needed. And one contained everything possible for you to not only have enough for you, but to overflow. I want to read a passage from Genesis 22, 15. This is the passage where he's promising the land and inheritance to Abraham. This is the start of the nation of Israel. And the angel of the Lord said to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this without your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and I will multiply your offspring and the stars of the heaven and the sands of the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies and in your offspring shall the nations of the earth be blessed. In your offspring the nations of the earth shall be blessed. When Israel crossed over into the Jordan, they weren't just inheriting a better land, they were stepping into their identity as a people. And the identity as a people was a God who never intends for you to have just enough, but a God whose heart is to position you for overflow. See God, he's not like us. Everything in our life is limited. Our money, our energy, our time. We have a number on how much we have and how much we don't. We deal in limit. God doesn't deal in limit. God only deals in abundance. See God doesn't have a, you know, when I was a kid it was like, you know, how much money does God have as a bank account? Like 100 million, 500 million, 500 billion? Because that's the only way you can comprehend. And it's like, well God, I guess he kind of has a bank account, but it's endless. His love, endless. Joy, peace, patience, endless. Everything God has is in abundance. And to truly be a representation of his heart, we have to be a people that live for overflow. And I want to say this with kindness, but I feel that there's so many in the church that we're so content to live off manna. We're so content to just eat what's handed to us, to go wherever everyone else is going, to not have any enemies, and given the choice between having to step across the Jordan and take what God has promised so that we could bless the world around us. We're like, man, good. Because God didn't make it a salvation issue. You can live and wander in the wilderness for 40 years, and Jesus loves you. You can have great God time. And you can love life. You can enjoy what's happening. And you'll get to heaven. This is not a salvation issue. And you can live in that place. But I believe the Lord is starting to call his people and say, hey, America, I didn't design you to wander in the wilderness, eating manna, not stepping into what God had for you. It's time for the message. It's time for the revelation of God's heart to flow outside of the four walls of the church. It's time for it to flow outside the walls of our home because there is a hurting and a dying world that they are starving for what we are feasting on tonight. What we have in this room, what God is doing in our midst, what he's been doing all week, and I'm starting, and I've never been this person. I've always been the person of, like, you know, I just want that for me, and if I'm going to be really honest, I've never been that massive evangelist guy, but something is happening in me where I'm like, this has got to begin to overflow. It's got to be more than just for us. Because I'm seeing what's happening in the world around me. And so I want to talk about overflow tonight. I'm going to talk about two aspects of it. And we're going to spend some time in prayer at the end. So I got, by the way, the sermon title is called Overflow. Very creative. We're at a creative conference. These points are also going to sound very, very creative. I want to talk about overflow in you, because this is going to blow your mind. It requires inflow. I know that's pretty amazing. Yeah, you can clap for that. Okay, you don't have to. It's fine. I want to read John 737. On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will flow rivers of living water. This is kind of off the theme of what Lee spoke about. But I want to highlight something. It says, come and drink. It doesn't say, come and think. And the mind is a very important part of our walk with the Lord. But here in the West, we have elevated the mind above the other aspects of who God has created it to be. And in elevating it, we have choked the stream that God has intended for us to drink. See, we are made in the image of God. That doesn't mean that God looks like he's 6'3". I don't know, whatever is my long torso and looking like a meerkat. I don't think it has to do as much with physical appearance. Yeah, I know. And you're also, I know, I'll just say it for you. You're thinking, who's this guy who looks like Julian Smith and talks like David Spade? So yeah, I'm a nice... If I had those two guys had a baby, that would be me. So when I talk about being made in the image of God, I don't think as much appearance. But God is comprised of Father, Son, Holy Spirit, a reality of three that are individual but are actually just one reality. One is not greater than the other. They serve one another and they have different leadership roles. You are body, soul, and spirit. You are also comprised of three components of who you are. One is not greater than the other, but there's moments for each part of who you are to lead and there's times for it to serve. And the mind has a very important role when it comes to truth. When the mind is not submitted, when the mind is either elevated or de-elevated, we can lose track of truth. But what has happened in the West is we have allowed the mind to actually be elevated over the spirit in the heart, which has choked off the flow of the spirit. And we have done that by letting information and knowledge rule over what God has simply said. When God says something, there's something in the West where our mind... If our mind likes it, then we'll kind of receive it. And Jesus likened truth to a seed. And he told a parable about a sower who threw seed, and some of the seed went into the ground and produced life, and some seed did nothing. The seed represents truth. Hearing truth and comprehending it in your mind is not the seed going into the ground and bringing out life. It's just like having a seed in your hand. For the seed to give birth to life, it has to go into the ground and die, which is the part of it. If anyone thirsts, they have to drink of me and take me into their spirit, and then they have to obey it, and when they obey it, that truth then transforms their life, and then it produces a river of living water. And here's what's happened. We're carrying around packets of seeds, packets of truth, and because we've heard them, because we have it in our hands, we think we have a harvest. We think we have fruit. Hey, I got the fruits of the Spirit because I got the truth. I know all the scriptures. I know all the concepts. I know all the songs. I know all the theology. I know all the doctrine. I know how it works. But we've never actually allowed it into our life, and we've never believed it and let it produce the fruit and the life. And then when something offends our mind, we say, no thanks. And Jesus says, take it in, and then it says, out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Listen, he does not say, out of your mind will flow rivers of living water. He's speaking to your spirit. He's saying, your mind's job is to listen, to hear it, and then to pass it on to your spirit and let him do something supernatural and then let him then pull it back out of you, and on its way out it brings transformation and it liberates the mind to think. But if the mind is in charge and says, no thanks, it shuts it down. And the Lord over and over and over again, the work of the Spirit is purposely offensive to the mind. The gift of tongues is on purpose supposed to not make sense to your mind. Well, what's happening? What am I saying? Your mind doesn't know. Well, I don't like that. Why don't you like that? Well, one of the fruits of Spirit is self-control, absolutely. For sure. Is your mind not in control in that moment? Well, no, but my mind doesn't know what's happening. Okay? But the Holy Spirit is speaking through you? Yeah, but my mind doesn't understand it. Okay? What's the problem here? We have put self-control with the mind being in control all the time. Guess what? We've elevated the mind and the Lord wants to baptize the mind along with the soul and the Spirit and rise all of it in newness of life. And that takes obedience, and that means taking in truth and letting it affect your heart. And here's what happens. Obedience. I just got back from... I was traveling for about 60 hours. I was there for 38 hours. I was with 50 leaders in the church and I ran. And it was one of the most life-changing 38 hours I've ever had. And some of the testimonies were absolutely insane. And these people, it's the fastest growing church in the world. In this room of 50 people represented, they had personally led 10 to 50 to 100,000 people to the Lord themselves. And it's amazing what God is doing in the Middle East, by the way. The media wants to just show you the negative and the fear. Guys, the mosques are being emptied out. Christianity is rampant. Revival is happening. And even through oppression, let me...the level of faith of these leaders. I had this woman, she was sharing her testimony on camera. I got to sit in on it. And they said, what does suffering in the gospel mean to you? And she grabs the mic and she goes, well, suffering in the gospel means it. And I ran, you know, if you continue to share your faith, you'll get caught. And if you get caught, you're going to be raped. And she said, I have... I'm going to try to get through this. She said, I have made the decision that I'm probably going to be raped. But Jesus sacrificed his body for me, and this is my sacrifice. And it's my honor to sacrifice my body for him. And, man, I heard that and I thought of this promised land speak. She's like, I know what it costs, but I'm not willing to keep this gospel to myself. And I watched how they loved each other, and so many things provoked me. And then some of these pastors and leaders, I started talking to the leader, and he's like, yeah, they don't have Bibles, they're not allowed to have Bibles. I said, a lot of these guys know 5, 10, 15 verses. I was like, what? And this guy, I met with the leader of the church and I ran, and he basically just ripped me a new one for about an hour. It was beautiful, amazing. Yeah, he's like, here's the problem, Caleb. He said, in America, you measure maturity by knowledge. He said, you'll elevate any leader that knows how to communicate, that knows doctrine. He's like, you know why all your leaders are following in sexual immorality and all these things? He's like, because if someone has knowledge, you say they're a leader. And they go, we don't measure maturity by knowledge, we measure it by obedience. If their life is fully submitted to the Lord, if they are fully laid down, that is a mature life. They said, Jesus did not come to the disciples and say, memorize the Bible, memorize every command. I'm gonna give you a thousand commands and when you learn those, then you can follow me. He gave them one command, what was it? Follow me. And then as you obey, I'll give you more and more and more and more and more. I realized, man, how backward do we have it? It's because we have elevated the place of the mind. And again, I don't want to, the reason I'm hammering that is not because the mind is bad. No, no, no, it's a very important part of our body and our spirit and who we are. However, I'm trying to hit something where when we are talking about the issue of drinking something in and letting something flow out of us, we can't let our mind rule everything. There has to be a place where we just receive the simple commands of Jesus, whether we like it or not, and let it go down where we say, God, I will obey, I will listen, and then let the transfer happen from there. It's like we have these seeds of truth because we have more knowledge, guys, than any group of Christian in history. The problem is, it's not that we need to know more, we don't need more information, we need more revelation and revelation, like Lisa last night, it's disclosed. It's given to us by a person. And I feel that we've seen in our Christian art, we've taken the seeds, and we're like, okay, if I just take these seeds of truth and just put it in some type of art formula, we'll have power. I'm like, okay, if I just write a cool, let's just rip some cool Coldplay melody and if I just take Scripps or verbatim, if the scripture is powerful, if I just take it, then it's going to transform lives. And the art goes nowhere. Why? Because you have to plant the seed somewhere. You have to let the truth go into your heart. You have to let it fester. You have to submit to it. You have to obey it. You have to wrestle with it. And then let the revelation come out and the revelation is what brings transformation and power. So we take Him in. We drink deeply. And then out comes the rivers of living water. We need, guys, we need people that are just rivers of living water just explodes out of them. You take it in like a drink. I love that. It's our time in the morning. We take in that phrase. God highlights a phrase and we sit under it. And it's like, oh man, that's a nice. And then later on in the day we write this song or we preach this message or we share this person. And what was just like a nice moment suddenly becomes like this raging torrent of power because God says that that's the power of the truth. But I'm not going to just blow people away with the truth. I'm going to use you, but I'm not going to use you to just throw seed packets at people, to throw information and things that are true. People don't want to hear things that are true about God. They want to experience a life who has encountered a person and let that truth do something and release that power of God through them. Remember what? We need, we need inflow. And it needs to be more than just taking in knowledge. We need to encounter Him in His presence. Number two is let Jesus bring the increase. I want to read this parable to you. Matthew 14, 13. Now, when Jesus heard this, He withdrew from the boat to a desolate place by Himself. When the crowds heard it, they followed Him on foot from the towns. And when He went ashore, He saw a crowd and He had compassion on them and healed the sick. Now, when it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, This is a desolate place and the day is now over. Send the crowds away for they need to go home and buy food. But Jesus said they need not go away. They need to give them something to eat. They said to Him, We only have five loaves and two fish. He said, Bring them to me. Then He ordered the crowds to sit down in the grass and taking the five loaves and two fish. He looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and He gave them to the disciples. And the disciples gave them to the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied. And they took up the twelve baskets of broken pieces. And there's twelve baskets left over. And those who ate were about 5,000 men besides women and children. Now, the miracle of 5,000 was several things. One is not, sorry, having not enough is not excuse for not operating an overflow. And Jesus commanded the disciples to feed them. And the disciples thought they had nothing, but what did they have? They had a command. When Jesus gives you a command, the power to fulfill that command exists within the command itself. And they offered what was in their hands with faithfulness believing there was more. Supernatural multiplication was right around the corner. Twelve baskets. What did the twelve baskets represent? Jesus was teaching the disciples something. This was not just about feeding people that were hungry, because the disciples were the one who had brought this issue to Jesus. And Jesus goes, well, you're the one who spotted the problem. Why are you coming to me? And what Jesus is trying to train them, look, I could snap my fingers and fill their bellies in a moment. But Jesus is trying to teach them something. He's saying, good, you notice the need. Bad, you're just wanting me to fix it and you to do nothing. What do you have in your hands? Well, we have five loaves and two fish. Okay. You feed them. And there was a supernatural multiplication when they poured out. What they took in like a drink transformed into a river. And they fed them. And here's what the twelve baskets mean. And I feel like this small point is for some of you in this room is Jesus is saying, listen, when you pour out and you give and you serve, you'll pour out, but I will always, always, always have enough for you. There's twelve baskets, one for each disciple. When you pour yourself out, when you overflow, God says, I'm not a God who just wants to spend you and use you. I want you to be full too. I want you to have revelation. I want you to live a life. I'll just use you. Jesus was saying, if you pour yourself out, it'll be enough for you. The feeding of the five thousand wasn't about five thousand as much as it was convincing the future apostles. Jesus is enough for you. The need for the food, it was impossible. It was immediate. And they had no answer. And they only had five loaves and two fish. Boy, that seems fitting, right? That seems like the church right now, right? We look at what's happening in the world around us. Holy crap, everything's getting wild. People are angry all the time. Everything's political. There's murder happening everywhere. People seem to hate Christians more than ever. And gosh, the people are hungry and in need. And we don't have enough. Jesus goes, perfect. What do you have? I'm going to bless what you have, and I'm going to supernaturally multiply it. And then I'm going to leave more than enough for you. I love the last thing on this point. Jesus turning the water into wine. I'm feeling that picture because I think we love the Jesus party animal angle, right? Like, Jesus loves party. Like, wow, he would turn everything into Bud Light now because he loves the party. I do think there was something about breaking the religious spirit that Jesus particularly enjoyed in that moment. So I don't want to fully discount that. But Jesus is doing something a little bit deeper, too. He's saying, I am the God who can turn water into wine. What is he saying? He's saying, if you let me into the circumstances of your life, what you take in as pain, these moments that are really difficult and hard. You know, I got to go back. Tonight was traumatic for me, and I have to go back and spend some time with the Lord, and I could shut that off, and the Lord, I feel like the enemy came at me. I felt exposed. I felt this was because I was serving. I felt like this was true north. And I opened my heart up, and I drink in that pain, and I let him in. He says, good. And then supernaturally, what goes in as water, he goes, let me transform that water to wine. Let me heal your heart, and then what was once pain is joy. What was sorrow is now laughter. See, we're not supposed to be this fake expression of joy. We're supposed to let God into the most painful, difficult circumstances of our life. He says, let me in, let me heal you, and let me turn you from that water vat that was worthless at the wedding. That water vat represented the failure and the inability to plan. He says, let me turn it to wine, and let me turn it to a source that's more than you could ever fill. Overflow. We have to be drinking him in. We have to be receiving more than just the truth of what he's saying, but the encounter of what he's doing around us. So that's the first part of overflow. The second part of overflow is overflow around us. Here's, let's take us back to the story. So here's Israel. Israel is about to cross the Jordan. And if you've ever been to Israel and you know that in seasons of harvest, the Jordan River goes from just a nice little stream to a massive river that can destroy you. And if you were thinking, wait, when's the best time for me to cross over? You'd pick the time where the Jordan River is like a little trickle, right? And God says, oh, I'm watching the Jordan River. It's time to cross. And Josh was going, what? The Jordan. The Jordan is, the Jordan is overflowing. And what does the scripture say? That the Jordan River overflows in a time of what? Harvest. I want to read this passage from Revelation really quick. Don't have to turn there, Revelation 14. And I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud sat one, sat the son of man having a head. Having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle. And then another angel came out to the temple crying with a loud voice. Thrust the sickle and reap. For the time has come to reap a harvest. For the earth is ripe. Do you know what's happening in the scripture? Chaos is happening. People are shaking their fists at God. There's demonic locusts. There is the most evil that the world has ever seen. And God calls that season harvest. We're getting to a time in the church where we're looking at the world around us. And we're being like, man, the world is so messed up. Like, whew. You know, the Jordan River is starting to really overflow. That thing that represents, you know, our enemies like, man, things are getting crazy. Sexual immorality is out of control. Pop culture is this. There's violence. Nobody seems to care for Christianity. And most people are looking with the eyes of doubt and saying, man, I guess it's time to hunker down and just stay over here in the wilderness. And God is looking for an army of people that are saying, no, no, no, don't you understand? The banks of the Jordan overflow in the season of harvest. This, God has not fallen off his throne like Corey was singing earlier. God is the one who's bringing these things into fruition. And he's saying, I know if I pull the things that are under the surface and I pull them to the surface, my leaders and my church will recognize that this is the season of harvest. And when the overflow in them meets the overflow around them, they walk through the opposition and step into the promised land and they provide overflow for the world around them. We have to look at the signs of the times. We have to see the overflow and stop being overwhelmed by it. And start partnering with the heart of the Lord that says, now is the time to harvest. Guys, the fish are not going to jump into the boat. Salvation is not just going to happen in the building. But we're so afraid because we don't know what to do intellectually because we don't have the argument for, there's so much noise on social media and everybody has the argument of what to say. And God's like, that's exactly the point. I don't need people that are a little bit better presenting the gospel on intellectual level. I need people, when people come in with arguments and words and strongholds that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God, they say, hey, that's a great argument. But I got a river inside and that river is life and power and they open their mouth and simple words are released and peace, joy, love, the life of a Christian that is encountered, the fruit of the spirit comes out and there's no argument that can stop that flow. There's no intellectualism that can stop the kingdom of God being released, but it takes a people that notice this is the time of harvest. The banks of the Jordan are overflowing. That's not the time to cower, guys. It's the time to cross. And here's why we don't have to be afraid because we don't have to cross ourselves. We haven't gone this way before, it's scary, but his presence is going first and his presence is leading us. And he's saying, guys, it's time, it's time to step out of the place of comfort of just enough in the wilderness where we're in our own camps while there's a world dying around us because on the other side of that river there are fields that are ripe for the harvest. If we can plant that truth on the other side and, guys, that river, I feel it in my spirit, there's things that we have been afraid of. Sexual immorality. The church is terrified of the homosexual agenda. I have felt that too. I've felt overwhelmed by the, I don't have the right argument on the right words and it seems like we don't have power in this area. The Lord is giving us a new authority through his leadership. If we will follow him to the Jordan River, I believe on the other side of that river, there is a gospel. You can't convince me there's somebody so lost in sexual brokenness that they can't get healed. There isn't somebody who has such an agnostic spirit that they can't encounter God, but it requires somebody, somebody who's willing to look past that and peer with eyes of faith and see that there's more force than against us. God says he doesn't do anything unless he reveals it to his friends, the prophets, right? Saul had an encounter. What does that mean? It means maybe everyone was afraid of Saul before he was Paul, but it means there was at least one Christian who looked at the life of the most religious zealot, the most hateful man, the man with the most anger who was doing nothing but slaughtering Christians and somebody stood in the presence of God and says, Lord, I know that all anybody sees is this, but God, I choose to look with your eyes. God, this Saul guy. God, he's so smart. God, what if he was an apostle? What if he, what if he wrote? What if he could lead churches? God, I ask that you, I don't know, one day would you appear to him on a road? Would you knock him off his horse and you give him an encounter? A man with an encounter is never at the mercy, or sorry, a man with an opinion is never at the mercy of the man with an encounter. And a man with a billion opinions and a billion religious ideas, one encounter and become the greatest apostle that wrote so much in Scripture. What if that person, we're so afraid of that celebrity that we hate so much, we see stuff and we're so surprised that unbelievers are doing unbelieving things like, oh my gosh, this person who doesn't love Jesus just said this thing that shows they don't love Jesus and this movie is dark and bad and how could they do that? They don't love Jesus. They haven't tasted the light. And we need to switch our thinking. When we see those things instead of being afraid or isolating or pushing them away, we're saying, you know what, I think the banks of the Jordan are overflowing and it's about to be harvest time. And I'm gonna step up my prayer game and I'm gonna step up my faith game and I am going to walk forward knowing I have something they need. I drank something they haven't drank yet. And what I took in as a little drink that didn't seem to do anything is a raging torrent, is a river of transformation, transformational power in life that is ready to reach every person. I want to invite the worship team to come forward tonight. The overflow of His presence touches the overflow of the world around you. Transformation happens all around you. As the worship team comes forward I want to take some time. I know that we started late but some of the reason we wanted to do this format and everything was to take moments to be able to pray. And I feel that there's many of you in here that you feel like you're not a raging river in you. Or you have felt that, man, I feel there's so much in me but something is choking it. There's this fear, there's this intimidation, there's no opportunity or outlet. There was a young girl about a year ago who I was praying with and she was feeling the Holy Spirit and she's a member of this community here. And when I laid hands on her the Lord saying hey, right now there has been things inside of you and the enemy has stopped those things from coming out and he has stopped you from being a mother. It took a little bit of risk on my part because I knew this girl had been struggling with infertility for about three, four years. I said what's happening in the natural is happening in the spirit. The enemy is choking out you are meant to be a mother, in you rivers of living water you carry within you revelation like a baby but it's just stayed inside of you the enemy has choked it out and he's choked it out because there has been an area of fear that you haven't laid down before the Lord. And we began to pray and she was feeling the Holy Spirit and there's a long word with that but long story short she released there was a moment and there was a thing and she just released what was inside of her and it was a sweet prayer moment and then in about a week I got a text we're pregnant I figured she conceived about two nights after that happened and it wasn't the power of my prayer she there was something in the natural and the spiritual where the enemy even though he the enemy couldn't stop what she took in and she was taking in revelation and had spent so much time with Jesus but through fear and other circumstances it had stopped up that well that was inside of her and was closing her mouth and so if the enemy can't stop revelation from going in he'll grab your neck to try to stop it from coming out and I felt tonight that the Lord was like man there's some people in here they feel like that they're like man I got songs inside of me I got evangelism inside of me I got art inside of me I got sermons I got teaching I got prophecy I got encounter but it's just stock it's just in there and I don't know how to get it out I believe the Lord is knocking a hole in that dam that has stopped the rivers of living water to come out and the first one that I want to pray for Cassie actually had a word I want to invite her to come up and share it and I got a second one I'll pray after that but the first way I believe the enemy where he wants to bring healing tonight is through the issue of pain and wounds and unforgiveness so Cassie if you just share that word yeah it was last year April it took three weeks just to get before the Lord and just have seen a lot in my lifetime mid-30s and processing a lot of things and it took about two and a half weeks to even just honestly open the word I just had to be with him and just talk with him but I felt his kindness and like it's okay you know and I do have a heart for the 30s generation but finally like the last two days he took me to 12 and I read the passion translation which I really love and this just really stuck out to me and we know it but I want to expound on it because as for us we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds so we must let go of every wound that has pierced us in the sin we so easily fall into that we'll be able to run life's marathon race with passion and determination for the path has already been marked up before us and so the footnote so we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and it says my Kindle but the implication is like the wound is like an arrow that has been shot into your heart and that the arrow tip has stayed there so like the wound is still present and so there's times where I think as believers we've taken the arrow kind of out and we're like we believe you're good we believe you're good and declare the promises but there's an arrow tip still remnant into in our hearts that we've kind of just shoved into the back and there's disappointment and potentially bitterness and offense and just like well I don't really know what to do with that I don't know how to conversation with you there so I'm just going to tuck it over here and just kind of keep charging but any time we come to those places we're like okay I want to believe again there's this weight behind us that keeps us like I'm not sure if you're good here though I can believe you're good here but I don't believe that you're good here and so I just re-engaging with the Lord on those conversations of real pain and real brokenness that he's not scared to have those conversations but often times I think we feel like it's not okay to go into the real honest places like Caleb's saying he's going to have an honest conversation with the Lord tonight like what the heck happened like you know but to actually take him into the most painful places and to feel his healing and exchanging lies for truth and all of those things to go like I can actually stand on this promise that you were good here and to remove the arrow tip that's in our hearts in different spaces so that was the the word I felt