The Pathway To Success Pt. 12

Amen, we're in part 12 of our series called the pathway to success Yeah We go on with the Timberlands today in light of the snow Well, if you from the deep there's those are Timberlands, but if you from around here they call it Timberlands And on that note if you know Tim's Timberlands back in the day They was a staple in the DMV for real. I ain't never seen an orange bed. Oh But that's the color of our of our shoe for this series. And if you're new to us, we change shoes every week It's just part of the graphic. It's just something to talk about. That's all Alright with whatever shoes you have on or don't have on if you can physically stand if you're here tonight There's some people that serve in our church that we wanted to make possible for them to just have church without having to serve I can't tell you how happy the extreme kids people look right now. I See the joy of the Lord all over them because they ain't got the wrassle no kids today and more or less stuff So we just we didn't we didn't we just wanted them to be able to have an experience But we all gonna you know, we're all grateful to be here. All right, let's go to our scripture for this series Joshua chapter 1 verse 8 Which says in the New King James Version Well, we should have it memorized I guess I have to because they ain't putting it up this book of the law Shall not depart from your mouth But you shall meditate in a day and night that you may observe to do According to you may observe to do you may observe to do that shows that this is not an ordinary book This is not a book that we take lightly We we're in a day and night because we plan on doing it Amen, too many people. This is why people miss out on the level of success They can have because they don't they read the book the Bible as if it's a piece of literature That's on the part of equality with every other thing they read But this book is a book you're supposed to obey Amen, even when it's hard. It'll have you say you sorry to somebody and you don't want to say it Amen it'll have you love people you don't like

Yeah, it'll have you give money when you type I'm sorry. Y'all this is a wild group here. I can already tell it So so I don't want to lose you, but I'm you know This is this is why this book is important you observe to do According to all that is written there and we're gonna be good here Richard According to all that's written in it for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success Everybody say good success You may be seated. That's why I want to talk about tonight. Good success It is nighttime. Here's not nighttime where you are probably but I'm acting like it's daytime, but it's nighttime Good success Good success. Everybody say good success Put it in the chat. Good success. Good Good success. In fact, my subtitle is the requirements for good success That's what I want to talk about now when I say we're talking about the requirements of good success Certainly, there are going to be more requirements for good success that I'm able to elaborate on in this message Time does not permit us to talk about all that goes into good success So this this topic that we're going to cover is not exhaustive, but it is prescriptive There are things I'm going to say tonight that are critical to what God considers good success This God's standard for success is not always the same as the standard in the world So the first point I'm going to make in fact, I think it's important that we first bring definition and distinction between good success and other types of success and that goes to my first point and that is the fact that when you're talking About good success. Good success is not just personal in nature. It is tribal in nature It's both personal and tribal by that. I mean that when you have good success, it's not just exclusive to you It's not that it excludes you but it's not exclusive to you when you have good success it expands beyond you To the people you're called to help What I mean by that is if you're going to be successful in life It can't just your success cannot end begin and end with you It's got to include those whom God has called you to lift up because a part of your calling to a pathway to success is Always about lifting up other people

In fact, if you've only got a vision that will prosper you then that's not a dream from God. That's a scheme from you That Sound like lot stuff I know I know this is part 12 and we try not to blink bleed over into other parts But we looked in part 11 about a man named lot. He didn't have a dream from God He had a scheme for himself and when you're a schemer You don't care about other people You don't you don't but good success always takes other people up with you You're supposed to make opportunities for other people. You're supposed to create income for other people You're supposed to create jobs for other people. You're supposed to give wisdom and insight to other people You're supposed to form a pathway for other people. That's a part of your calling to good success Always it never stops with you. It was never God's intention intention just to make Joshua successful It was also God's intention for Joshua to be a blessed. You are blessed to be a blessing and And watch this the full measure of your success must include other people. Are you listen to me? Let me show you how it works in Joshua's life in Joshua's life. If you go back to verse 3 of Joshua chapter 1 Part of his good success was personal to him because God says to him in verse 3 in the Contemporary English Bible. I think that he is right there. He says I'm giving you every place where you set foot Exactly as I promised most I'm giving you every place where you set foot. That's personal. That's exclusive That God says brother Josh. This is what I'm gonna do for you Because good success does not exclude you See some of y'all some of y'all are of this opinion that if I'm successful for God, I'm gonna be broke I'm gonna be busted. I ain't gonna have nothing but the world gonna be a better place. That's not God's success God is not trying to bypass you and blessing you He wants to bless you so much that your goodness and your resources spill over and other people That's a mindset. That's a mindset. You got to shift your mindset. It is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom He says I'm gonna do something for you. I'm gonna do something for you I'm giving you every place where you're you're you set your feet, but then down in verse 6 He says this which is a transition He says to be brave and strong because you are the one who will help this people help this people Help this people see see see good success doesn't just get you blessed. You're gonna have to help some people I

Want to know in your in your vision plan on your vision board in your dream page Whatever it is, who are the people you're supposed to be helping if you only see yourself you got the wrong vision He says I'm calling you to have bravery and strength to help this people take possession of the land Which I pledge to give to their ancestors I got something for them and they're not gonna get to what I have for them without you See good success finds a way to get people to what God has for them. Am I making sense to anybody? But then you get to verse 7 and I'm gonna come back to that verse 7 This is one reason why I love verse 7 so much because it has my favorite One of my favorite lines and it be very brave and strong as you carefully obey all of the instructions That Moses my servant commanded you watch this all the instruction that Moses my service commanded you That's not just what Moses said to him. I want you to be familiar With what Moses wrote, you know, Moses is the one that wrote the book of the law So I want you to be familiar what he said and what he wrote Don't deviate even a bit from it either to the right or the left And this is my favorite phrase in this whole series. Then you will have success wherever you go Wherever you go, I ain't supposed to be on this mic. I'm supposed to be on the other one Can I switch this mic? Amen. Let me keep it over here in case I need it So, so so you will have success wherever you go, can y'all hear me If you can hear me online put a thumbs up online I'm not getting that light. So should I move on if you put a thumbs up in the chat, uh You will have success wherever you go, wherever you go I I can I've been harping on this for weeks now I've been harping on this for weeks now I've been harping on this for weeks now I've been harping on this for weeks now I've been harping on has anybody has anybody laid hold on that? That god is trying to give you success wherever you go Oh, you you don't just have local leverage You have a global gift

I'm trying to teach you something here You you you got national nuances and and you you have national niches Does anybody receive that that i'm talking to today you you have an international idea You you have international impact you got to stop limiting yourself to just around here and just local stuff Wherever you go if god leads you somewhere you supposed to expect success I said you supposed to expect success Wherever god takes you you're supposed to expect success if he sends you to dallas expect success in dallas If he sends you to new york expect success in new york if god sends you to idaho To wyoming it doesn't matter if he sent me there. There is something that belongs to me there There's an audience there that i'm anointed to help As a product that I have, your inventory will work internationally. That's what I'm trying to say to somebody and everybody doesn't get that because you just land over Larry and you just you just Southeast Susie. But if you get your mind, if you ever break out of your mind, if you ever break out of the limitations of your mind, that there's no geographical limit on what God can do in your life, that anywhere he takes you, he will blow you up. Are you understand what I'm saying? You can't be limited like that. Somebody that knows what I'm talking about, just thank God for the things you haven't even seen yet. I'm not hearing my. Let me just go on back to this. Amen. Wherever you go, I don't want to get stuck there because I'm talking about good success because I need to go back to verse six and go back to verse six, your good success will always help people. Joshua, I made a promise. I made a promise to Abraham. Go away. Abraham.

I say your descendants are going to have land. They're going to they're going to live in houses they didn't build. I don't read the Bible. They're going to have vineyards that they didn't plant. They're going to have blessings that they didn't even write. They're going to watch it. They're going to win wars without swinging a knife, without without battling, because the battle is not yours. It's the Lord's. There are some things I'm going to give your descendants, Abraham and Joshua. I want you to know that you are the one. Part of your assignment is is to help them get to it. So watch this. So God is saying to Joshua, I need you to understand that part of your assignment is to uplift others. That's why what I can't get past is those four words in that verse which says you are the one. Yeah, because you're just saying that you are the one, you are the one. You don't have to search no more. I'm the one you're looking for. You are the one. See, Joshua had to understand that he was the one. And when I when I got to this part of my study, when I was studying this, my spirit leap, because God let me know that I don't know where you are, but there are going to be thousands of you who can relate to this, that God has called you to be the one. I said you are the one. I don't even know who you are, but I'm telling you, what do I mean by that? You are the one in your family. You are the one in your circle.

You are the one in your network. You are the one amongst your sisters. You are the one amongst your brothers. And the thing about being the one is you have to embrace it because some of you are so busy trying to be amongst the others that you're not walking in your assignment to be the one. But if you know that I'm talking to you already, I just need you to put the word one, O-N-E, put it in the chat right there. Just put one in there. If you're in here, write it on your phone right now. Just say one. Just say one. I'm the one. I'm the one. It's not boastful. You just got to understand who you are. I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the one. You don't have to look no more. When you call me, I will respond. That's what I'm here for. Whatever you need, Lord, I'm available to you. My will I give to you. My life I give to you. Use me, Lord. I'll serve you because I'm the one. What does that mean when you're the one? Stop acting normal. Stop acting normal. Stop acting like Jane Doe and John Doe and acting like you're just the masses. See, when you don't understand that you're the one, you start acting like everybody else.

But because you're the one, you're called to deliver other people. You're called to raise up other people. There are people in your family that needs you to be the one. There are people in this church that need you to be the one. There are people in your community that needs you to be the one. You've got an idea that makes you the one. You've got a mentality that makes you the one. You've got a creativity that makes you the one. Somebody, if you know I'm preaching to you, just put the one up in the chat. Who am I talking to in here? I'm the one. I'm the one. I'm the one. What does that mean? The reason why you can't walk in your oneness is because you're so busy trying to not offend anybody. You don't act like you're the one. You act like you're the many. But one is exclusive and one comes with responsibility. And the reason why you're not doing is because you're scared. You try to make it seem like you're humble, but you ain't humble. You're scared. You're not humble. You don't want to ruffle any feathers. You're not humble. You just don't want to offend anybody. You're not humble. You just don't want haters. You're not humble. You just don't like people being jealous of you. But you've got to be tough enough with haters hating on you and jealous people,

jealous of you. Envious people envious of you and people don't like that you shake up the status quo and that you disturb Processes and that you come to make a difference you got to stand on that anyway. Why cuz you're the one God has always been looking for the one He's always searching for the one But he needs somebody to have the courage to say that's who I am whoever I'm preaching to right now It's hitting you. It's clicking in your spirit because you know, there's something different about you It's always been something different about you the stuff you've survived that would have killed other people The stuff he brought you through that you shouldn't have made it out of the stuff You have to overcome that you should have been dead. You should have died in it. It's because you're the one I talk it Turn me up. It's because you're the one if you know, you're the one just give them five seconds of praise I don't know why you did it. I Don't know why you chose me. I Don't know why you love me. I Don't know why you gave me these ideas But I'm no, I'm no, I'm no one You don't have to look no more I'm the one you're searching for and when you call When you call me you won't get a busy signal, I will respond Because this is the day That the Lord has made He's looking for one He's looking for one All he needs is one One can chase a thousand That's enough right there That's enough right there one is all he needs Joshua You're the one and Guess what? He's always been looking for one He's always been looking for this ain't new

Travis Green didn't start that God's been looking for one for Millennials. Oh Can I tell you something in Isaiah chapter 6 No, Isaiah said in the year the King Uzziah died I Saw the Lord I Think it's interesting that he said now don't put the verse. Oh, I ain't there yet I think it's interesting. He said when King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord Some people need somebody to die before they see the Lord I Don't I don't mean you know It's just true. It's like maybe Uzziah was in his way And Uzziah was his idol, I don't know he said I saw the Lord He was high and lifted up and his train filled the temple and he talked about everything He saw in that moment. And this is what he said. It's frightened him so much. He says, you know what? I'm unworthy What he saw made him feel inadequate I'm gonna pick it up in verse 5. I'm gonna start reading verse 5 in verse 5 He says when I see says then I say it's all over. I'm doomed. I'm a sinful man, and I have filthy lips He said I'm a sinful man, then he then he got specific he said my mouth is my problem Who I feel it in here right now He said my mouth is my problem. If that's you just put a little finger up in the chat Say yeah, probably I got a problem with my mouth. I got a problem. I got a cussing problem I'm cussing Calvin. I'm profane Jane. I'm keeping a buck slim You got a problem with your mouth he said I got a mouth problem He said and it ain't just me everybody around me like that the people around me to live among me got all our mouths dirty Said yeah, I've seen the King the Lord of Heaven's armies. So watch what happens in verse 6 He says then one of the seraphim blue flew to me with a burning coal He had taken from the altar With a pair of tongues and then the Bible says he touched my lips with it and said see this coal has touched your lips Now guilt is removed Now he gives removed and your sins are forgiven guilt removed

sins forgiven That's verse 7 when he started off because God watches God is looking for the one He's and he's looking for Isaiah, but Isaiah can't hear him because Isaiah is blinded by his own flaws Because in the presence of God he feels unworthy But when he found out that his sins had been forgiven and that he didn't have to live with guilt and condemnation You still gonna have to work on your mouth, but you don't have to live under guilt and condemnation about your mouth Something shifted in verse 8 then it says in verse 8 then I heard Then I heard the Lord asking everybody say asking that means he had been doing it, but Isaiah didn't hear it because it's hard to hear from God when you live in shame, when you live in guilt. He says, now I hear the Lord asking, whom shall I send as my messenger to this people? Who shall go for us? Who is the one? And not only could he hear it after the guilt had been lifted, and not only could he hear it after he'd been forgiven, but he could answer it and said, I'm the one. Here am I, send me. And I came to preach to somebody today because your excuse for not being the one is what they call, what's that they call it? Is your excuse is your guilt and your shame. And so you think you're not worthy to be called because of your sin. Well, let me let you in on a little secret. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Your righteousness can't make you right. Your behavior is not what qualifies you. It's your availability.

Amen. You know what that also reminds me of? This is another reason why people don't respond to being the one, because he's got an assignment for you. He's got a calling for you. What does it mean, pastor? It's bigger than you. It's bigger than you. It's bigger than you. Whatever you do, it's bigger. The idea is bigger. The audience is bigger. So stop playing small. Stop shrinking. Stop, stop truncating. Stop acting like Saul. Do y'all remember Saul in 1 Corinthians? No, no, 1 Samuel chapter 10, verse 22. You know, the Israelites asked for a king and say, we want a king. And they picked Saul. Saul is, what is it? The day of his coronation. The day he's supposed to be sworn in as king of Israel. Everybody's waiting. Cause what Saul was, was tall. He was handsome. He's the best looking guy in town and the tallest. And Saul, at his coronation,

people are waiting to celebrate him. And 1 Samuel 10, 22 says, they don't know where he is. Guess where he was y'all? King James Version said, he was hiding in the stuff. I promise you, that's what it says. This man is hiding in the stuff because he doesn't want to be the one. And some of y'all are hiding in stuff. Cause you don't want to be the one. What kind of stuff? Imposter syndrome. I don't meet the expectations. I don't come from that kind of family. I don't have that kind of background. Women ain't supposed to do this. People of color never did this. You got all of your excuses and limitations why you can't be the one. So he's hiding. Oh, I'm so glad you're here tonight. He's hiding in the stuff. And the Bible says in chapter nine that he's the tallest man in Israel. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. Now, let's stay right here. Y'all stand around him. Now, everybody up here is a pastor. But when you look at particularly these two, what I'm trying to get you to say is they said about Saul, he stood head and shoulders

above everybody in the land. Do y'all read the Bible? That's how tall he was. Head and shoulders sort of look like this. What I'm trying to say is how can you be this tall? Let me ask y'all something. Do any of you who are here, put the camera on them. Do any of you online, yes or no in the chat. Do any of you have a difficult time seeing Pastor Shemon Smalls? What a name. His height makes him easy to see. How can you be that tall on your coronation and nobody see you? That means he had to do extra work of hiding himself. In order for him to hide in stuff, he's got to stoop down and bend down and duck down. And I'm tired of some of y'all shrieking down, lowering down, being small, reducing your vision, reducing who you are so that nobody knows who you are. But I come to put the spotlight on you today. I come to put the spotlight on you today. You are the one. You are the one. You got to come out of hiding. You're not humble, you're hiding. You're not humble, you're hiding. Come out wherever you are and watch this, watch this. And the reason why, I'm not even mad at you. The reason why I want you to come out

is because there are masses that are waiting on Joshua. There are masses that are waiting on Saul. There are masses that are waiting on Isaiah to come out and come up. When you're the one, people get excited about that because they say, help is coming. This is somebody we can get behind. This is somebody we can follow. But if you keep trying to not embrace the one that he called you to be, you can't be successful. You can't be successful. Because good success means you got to accept that. Let me hurry up and get to my last point because we're running out of time. This is the second thing I want to say. When it comes to good success, when it comes to good success. It's also going to require hard work. Now I'm going to add to that parenthetically that that's not without rest. You do have to rest because if you don't rest, you won't be available. Insufficient rest makes you vulnerable to stuff and then you're not available. But it does require hard work. Proverbs 22, 29, it's all throughout scripture, but it says, do you know a hardworking man? What do we know about? He shall what? Be what? He will be successful and stand before kings. But it requires hard work. There is no pathway. There's no exit on the pathway to success called lazy.

You can't be allergic to hard work. And I'm saying this because there's some people to believe. If I ever find my sweet spot, professionally, as Max Likado calls it, if I, if I ever find my, my, the intersection of my ergonomic design and what I was created to do, you think it's going to be easy. But even if you do what you were born to do, it's still hard work. I said, it's still hard work. Look at Joshua. Look at Joshua. Even in chapter one, look at all the work he's got to do. He says, you've got to spend day and night learning your book. What's your book in your field? How can you be doing something and you don't know, you don't know nothing about it. You don't continue to educate yourself. You shame the call of God on your life when you are uneducated in the field you claim to be working in. Joshua had to know his book day and night. It's a part of your speech. It's a part of your language. It's what you talk to yourself. You understand what I'm saying? That's hard work. That's mental work. He was a leader of the army. That's physical work. He had to be, he had to lead people. That's work right there. That's work right there. Entitled people, complaining people, comparison people. Why she get that?

Why he get that? He had to deal with all that when he was distributing the land. But let me just show you. I'm going to go to chapter 11. I'm going to go to chapter 11 and I'm going to show you some of his hard work. In chapter 11, verse 16, it says, so Joshua would conquer the entire region. That's a lot of work right there. It's over 6,000 square miles. From the hill country, the entire Negev, the whole area around the town of Goshen, the Western foothills, the Jordan Valley, the mountains of Israel, the Galilean foothills. Verse 17, Israelite territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir in the north, as far north as Balgad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. Watch this. Joshua would kill all the kings in those territories. Now, let me tell you how hard that is. The kings of this time, like today, are insulated. They're protected by security. For him to even get to the kings was hard. You know how they went in there and got that man from Venezuela and then y'all ... I don't want to start nothing. I promise you that was complicated. I promise you that was risky. He was doing this every way he stopped. The king going up. That's hard work. That's focus. Verse 18, waging war for a long time and accomplishing war after war, fight after fight after fight. Give me verse 19. No one in this region made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon.

All the others were defeated. In other words, every place they went, there were only two groups, the Hivites and the Gibeonites. Only those two groups said, we don't even want to fight. You got us. Everybody else, they had to fight. That's work. Amen. You're not going to be successful without hard work. Go down to verse 23. Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession, dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war. When he divided the land among the tribes, by the way, it took him five to seven years to do all that. Then another two to five years to divide the land. That's tenacious commitment to hard work. Why am I bringing that up? Because you're not going to be successful without working hard. You have to work hard. Give me Proverbs 14, 23. Proverbs 14, 23 says, work brings profit. Talk brings poverty. Think about that for a minute. You know what I mean? If talk brings poverty, talk really is cheap. You know why talk is cheap? Because you ain't got to do nothing when you talk. I call this talk is cheap with people who go to Starbucks and they go sit down and for

breakfast and they always talking business, but they ain't never making no money or doing nothing. And they say, yeah, child, we could do this. And we got this. And the data is there. The data is right there, girl, brother, man, the stuff is right there. All we got to do is, is Gemini that thing and GP chat. We got all of it. And then they, they hug and they leave the restaurant and they haven't moved a needle one inch, but talk for two hours. talk is cheap and people feel good psychologically after they've talked about something or they told other people what they're going to do or what can be done but talk leads to poverty yeah that's that's what it leads to you got to do something and Joshua what I love about Joshua's he didn't just talk and he finished he verse he he finished the work he didn't just start the work he finished the reason why a lot of people unsuccessful because you don't finish you don't finish you don't finish and you don't finish on time even even if you do finish something and you leave a lot of stuff unfinished when you when you do finish it you don't finish on time and what that makes you is it makes you unreliable we don't we don't have to soften it up address it up you underpin and you watch this you cannot be elevated if you cannot be trusted somebody say finish give me John 17 for Jesus said this when he was praying because this is really the Lord's Prayer in John chapter 17 he says to the Lord he says Jesus saying to God the father he said I brought glory to you here on earth how did you do it Jesus by completing the work you gave me to do it matters that you finish yeah I didn't give you glory by praying about the work or strategizing around it prayer and strategy is important but what brought glory to the father is when Jesus said in John 19 30 it is finished what do you keep you keep leaving stuff unfinished one project after another project and it's always excuses finish finish finish is valuable finishing is valuable and

finishing on time I used to say I used to say pastor Joe I used to say ministry is a marathon not a sprint and that sounded good for years till I started doing it and I realize it's both your your your your life's work your success work is a sprint and a marathon it ain't just one thing sometimes sometimes you gotta work you got to run sprints sometimes you have to work in what I call work bursts where it's a compressed timeline and you got to get something done fast this whole service case you know it this whole service was a sprint we had to do two and a half days earlier than we normally do this service without losing quality see people don't want to talk about that as soon as you give them something they said we ain't have enough time to work on it if we had enough time but wouldn't have that many errors you got a sprint sometimes without losing quality y'all ain't ready for this job what y'all want some easy preaching ain't he all right ain't he been good can you work fast and precise when it has to be done see when you're part of an organization that can't move quickly you can't get stuff done you can't respond you can't react because everybody need bunch of time when you're a marathoner sometimes you got to do marathons too you got to work on big picture stuff you got to work on big projects that like Joshua that might take years to get done it's both but here's the thing you got it's all hard work whether you sprinting or running long distance it's all hard work and you got to take care of your body while you're doing it I got two more verses than we done in Joshua chapter I won't read that but write down Joshua chapter 19 verse 51 we don't have time but that's when he finished distributing the land you distribute land you know how much work he had to do we had to have meetings and back-and-forth conversations with people and people saying what about the Benjamites and would we get done like all that stuff you got to deal with he had to deal with all that because he was dealing with people 6,000 square miles 603 thousand men alone not including the children that's a lot of work but he finished somebody say he finished can you can we trust you to finish and can we trust you to finish on time even had to stay up late to get it finished I'm preaching to somebody here today that's

why see you think people judge you think people being mean to you no people can't trust you and when you can't trust somebody to finish and finish on time what happens is you don't see the church we don't get rid of people we work around them so now everybody else got to do more because we can't rely on y'all ain't y'all don't like that y'all like that do you you don't like that it just hurts your little feelings but you think everybody's just supposed to feel sorry for you and keep up with your incompetence and your inability to execute let me read the next verse cuz I might say too much hey please yes he's 910 everybody say work hard use all your strength to do the work that you're doing work. Work with all your might. Why? One day, you'll die. You don't go into your grave. Yeah. And you won't have any work, ideas, or knowledge, or wisdom. So, do your work well while you're alive. That's kind of straightforward, ain't it? Let me give you some good news. That's old covenant. We got a better covenant. Paul says in first Corinthians chapter one, first, I mean, Colossians one he says, this is why I work very hard. How do you do it, Paul? How do you work very hard? Christ works powerfully in me to make me strong for this difficult work. It's going to be hard work, but he

says, I'll give you the strength to do it. You ever looked at a deeply devoted Christian and wonder how they get it all done and how they keep doing it? That's it right there. Christ is working in them to make them strong for the difficult. If you're doing the work he calls you to do, it's going to be hard, but he'll give you the strength to do it. Amen. Everybody stand up, please. Who are here? If you're here, if you stand up at home, you really do. I'm really your pastor. You stood up at home. Yeah, I'm just you, you're doing your all right, but I want to give you two opportunities to respond today. The first opportunity to respond is to this grace of God that is done for us. The same thing he did that the angel did, the seraphim did for Isaiah. Jesus did for us. He removed the guilt. His sacrifice paid for our sins so we can be forgiven. The

difference between us and Isaiah is a better covenant. When Jesus forgave us through his work, it's forever. When when he removed the guilt, he removed it forever. There is therefore now no condemnation to them. Satan's the accuser of the brother. Anytime you feel condemned, know that that's the enemy. There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. And if you're watching the service or you're here in this service and you want to receive that love and receive that gift today, just put your hand up or you can come to the front where we are tonight. The second group, I want to give you a chance to respond to. Maybe you have never seen yourself or looked at yourself as the one. But something clicked in you today. Something clicked inside of you to say, that's me. There's something about my life that's supposed to make a huge difference. But I gotta be

willing to, I gotta watch this, I gotta be willing to step up even when people don't think I'm qualified. I'm talking about the people whose opinion matters most to you. Sometimes it ain't just haters, it's people who minimize your capacity. I'm talking about people whose words are so powerful. What you doing? Who you think you are? Their voice is stronger than his. But if I've been talking to you tonight, whatever's holding you back, whatever's holding you back, it could be your own shame. It could be your own guilt. It could be, it could be your own feelings insufficient. Joshua never felt sufficient. God didn't tell Joshua, get up. Get up. Moses is dead. I can never be Moses. I don't need you to be Moses. In fact, I'm gonna get you to do something that Moses couldn't do. He saw the land. I'm gonna let you walk in it and give it to the people. If

I've been preaching to you tonight, I want to join my faith with you. You come on up to the altar and say, I'm the one. I'm willing to own that. If you can't own it in here, when you get around the people you gotta be the one for, I'm talking about, I'm talking about you the one in your family. The change you're supposed to make, you cannot make. If you don't, you can't just be the one. You gotta act like it. You gotta behave like it. You gotta think like it. You gotta walk like it. I'm chosen for this. I said, I'm chosen for this. I don't, I don't know why he chose me. Oh, can I tell y'all something? Step up, please. Step up, please. Put your hand up in the chat if I'm talking to you. Let me tell you something. I want to tell you something about people who operate as the one. When you operate as a Joshua or even as an Isaiah, the difference is not that they're,

they're not exceptional people necessarily. What they are is available people. I promise you it's not that there's, it's not that they're special. They're surrendered because God doesn't always use people who are exceptional, but he always uses people who are available and That's something you can control. You can't control your talent and all that. How he made you is how he made you. What you can always control is how available you are. You can always control how surrendered you are. And in my journey, the people who are most surrendered are the people who get used the most. The people who are most surrendered are the people who had the most impact. Have you ever seen people who are super talented, super creative, but they have no discipline and no surrender to the assignment and their impact is lower? And the person you say, oh, I didn't even know he had a 2.0. I feel it's strong to my right here. It's deedless, right? You know, it's not a slight on people who are smart and who get good grades. I'm just saying, that's not what wins in the kingdom necessarily, it's availability.

It's when he calls you, will you respond? I'm the one, I'll do that. That's right up my alley. If that's what you're calling me to do, I'll do that. I'll use my success to make the world better, to raise up a generation. Some of you have something that you have to offer that's going to change the game in your whole industry. If you stop acting low. Amen. Amen. I wanna join my faith with you now. Lift your hands wherever you are right now. Father, I pray for those first and foremost who come forward, who came forward or raised their hand to receive your love and your forgiveness over their life. I thank you, Lord Jesus, that your death, your burial, your resurrection, your sacrifice has made forgiveness possible and has made guilt disappear. I thank you for it in Jesus' name. And I pray for everybody who's opening up their heart to you right now and inviting you in and receiving you as their savior. We rejoice in their redemption right now in the name of Jesus. And we thank you for it. Seal it by your Holy Spirit. Fill them with your Holy Spirit and guide them in their life for the rest of their life. And as Pastor Page would say,

may they follow you even when it hurts. And we thank you for them now. And Father, I join my faith now to all of those who are saying, I hear God calling me. I am the one. I'm willing to step past my limitations, my failures, my bad mouth, my bad decisions, my bad habits, all of my brokenness. And I break through right now to get to your best. I'm willing to be used to change this world with the ideas and the gifts and abilities you've given me. I am yours, Lord. Everything I've got, everything I'm not, I'm yours, Lord. I'm here to serve you. And I surrender to you right now. Use them, Lord. Anoint them. Order their steps now. And cause them to walk righteously with you and to walk confidently in what you called them to do. I pray that they'll erase the old ideas that are limiting and see what you can do that's above and beyond anything that they've written before. Thank you for breaking barriers. Thank you for breaking barriers in the name of Jesus. Yes, Lord. Geographical barriers. Gender barriers. Yeah, yeah.

Thank you, Lord, for bringing people in the rooms where they don't even have the relationships. They just got favor with you. Thank you, Lord. I prophesy to you right now, God's gonna let people like you that don't even know you. It's just something about you. Lift your hands. It's just something about you that makes me wanna give you this money and give you this contract. It's not because you're not great at what you do. People haven't met you yet. But I decree right now that the shell is about to be broken. That the wall is about to be broken around you. You've been operating low. You've been operating below your gift. You've had a low frequency. You've had a local thing going on. You've been cooking for a small group. You're about to go on a whole different level because you know you're the one. You gotta know you're the one. I don't have to deserve it. It's true. I said, I don't have to deserve it. It's true. I've been chosen. I've been selected. I've been predestined to do what I do.

So I release them into your fullness of your blessing right now. And everywhere they put your land, everywhere they go, the blessing of the Lord will be on your life in Jesus' name. Because when you call on me, I will, I will respond. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. ♪ When you pull me out of the spine ♪ ♪ When you pull me out of the brine ♪ Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Walk in there, walk in there. Expect success. Expect success. Expect success. Expect success. Expect success. If you knock on a door and it don't open, knock on another one. If you knock on a door and it don't open, knock on another one. Hallelujah. Because God's going to open up something that nobody can close. In Jesus' name, generations are on the line. Your family's on the line. Your resources are on the line. You got to walk in it. You got to walk. Who am I talking to in it? You got to walk in it. ♪♪

Christ is born.