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Greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world.

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You see, my mindset about me hasn't changed.

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I know who I am, and because of that no matter what the devil throws at me, I know that

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I got to have the strength.

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You know what kept him strong?

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He had a promise that he would not let go of.

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It was given 45 years ago, but I'ma keep praying like it was given yesterday.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that

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he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

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that citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already

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working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God.

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You are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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I'm honored to be here.

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Let's get right into this word.

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By this time, I've been here three weeks.

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I'm not a friend of this church anymore.

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Stop calling me that.

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I'm family.

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If I hear, he's a great friend of this church.

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I'm not coming back.

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I am family now.

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I'm uncle.

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You can call me uncle Nate, all right, so let's get into it.

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Joshua chapter 14, can you just do one thing as they're putting the verse up on the

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screen?

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Can you just clap your hands and just give God thanks for your pastor?

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I know they don't use the term first lady, but I'm old school church, the first lady

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of this church.

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Thank you guys.

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Thank you guys.

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Let's get into it.

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Joshua chapter 14, we're going to read verse 6.

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Then I want to read the scripture in Luke 116.

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I want to read in the NIV, though, if that's okay.

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I know that's kind of last minute, and I have a couple of verses that are last minute.

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But don't be mad at me, please.

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All right, uncle Nate, uncle Nate, all right, all right, I'm that uncle.

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We supposed to eat at three, no, we're eating at four today.

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Bear with me, all right, Joshua chapter 14, we're going to look at how people have been having

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fun the last few weeks.

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Can I be honest with you?

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I woke up with a headache, but I was so excited to come.

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I woke up like, man, I don't feel the best, and I was like, no, I'm going into the house

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of the Lord, into an on fire church with believers ready to receive the word.

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That got me, I'm telling you, it gave me the jump that I needed.

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If I was going to some dead church, I don't know if I'm like, my head would have been

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now, but I knew I was coming on up to an on fire.

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Powerful, Holy Spirit church, ready to receive the ramour word of God.

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So I came, I'm excited now.

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That had it just left me, I feel good.

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It says, Joshua chapter 14 verse six, then the children of Judah came to Joshua and

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Gilgau and Caleb, the son of Jafuna, the Kennesite, said to him, you know the word which the

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Lord said to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me and Kadesh Burnham.

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I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Burnham

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to explore the land, and I brought him a report according to my convictions.

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My fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.

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I however followed the Lord, my God, wholeheartedly, look at verse nine.

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So on that day, Moses swore to me the land on which your feet have walked will be your

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inheritance.

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My God.

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And that of your children forever because you have followed the Lord, my God, wholeheartedly

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verse 10.

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Now then, just as the Lord promised, he kept me alive for 45 years, now 45 years had passed

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by.

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45 years, he received a promise, 45 years before, and this is what he says, he says, 45

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years since the time he said this, while Israel moved about in the wilderness, so here

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am I today, 85 years old, and I'm still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out.

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I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle, now as I was then, verse 12, now give me this

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hill country.

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I like the way the the new King James says, give me this mountain that the Lord promised

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me that day, you yourself heard then that the Antichites were there, and their cities

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were large and fortified, but the Lord helping me, I will drive them out, just as he said,

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may God bless the reading of his work.

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Let's do that last verse, verse 13, can we do that?

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Then Joshua bless Caleb, the son of Jafunya, and gave him, he brawn as his inheritance.

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May God bless the reading of his word, oh, we could do 14.

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So he brawn belonged to Caleb, the son of Jafunya, the cousin night ever since, because

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he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.

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The title of my sermon is, in audacious ask, in audacious ask, father, I thank you right

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now for your word, I pray that it will go out with power, will go out with authority,

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will go out with ease and simplicity, Lord, that people would be able to receive fully

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everything that you're speaking, everything that you're saying, and everything that you're

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delivering, Lord, let it not be me hiding behind the cross, and you speak clearly, Lord,

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if I let people be edified, let people be transformed, in the name of Jesus, we pray, amen.

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Y'all with me?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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So, as verse in Joshua chapter 14 is a verse about two main characters, Joshua and Caleb.

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And when the children of Israel in the book of Numbers were giving a command, they were

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giving a commission to go into the promised land, you know, God told them, there's a land

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that I'm giving you that's flowing with milk and honey, but he, but even though the Lord

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had commanded them to go into the land, he commanded them to go into Canaan, he said,

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12 spies before they would possess the land.

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And Joshua and Caleb were part of the 12 spies that were sent into the land to see if the

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land was a good land.

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And when Joshua and Caleb went out into the land, the Bible says that Joshua and Caleb came

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back with a good report while all the other spies came back with a bad report.

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They looked at their situation and they looked at themselves and they said, we are like

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grasshoppers in our own sight.

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They saw their own limitations, they saw their own shortcomings, they saw the areas where

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they faltered and they failed and they looked at that and said, that's the level that we

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can receive from God, the level based off how we see ourselves.

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Can I just say something to someone in the house right now that can encourage you that

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the way you look, the way you talk, who you are is not determined your victory.

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Your victory is determined in how big your God is.

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They go into the land and when they go into the land, the Bible says they see giants

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in the land.

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The land looked good, but there were giants and they got afraid because of the giants.

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They saw themselves as small and insignificant compared to the giants that were in the land.

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How can we take this land when there's giants in the land?

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The Bible says that 10 came back with a negative report, 2 came back with a good report and

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God says all the people who came back with the bad report, they'll die in this wilderness

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and they end up going in a circle for 40 years until Moses dies and that generation dies.

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And when Moses dies and that generation dies, Joshua comes on the scene and the scripture

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says that the children of Israel were literally waiting outside the Promised Land.

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They were able to see the Promised Land, but they were not able to taste of the fruit of

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the Promised Land.

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They were able to see the goodness, but they were not able to experience the goodness.

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Can I just speak to someone right now who you're right at the edge of your destiny, but

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your faith is so low that you're not able to believe that God can take you into bigger

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and better things.

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You're still content with the manner and the quail, I'm not content with manner and quail.

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I need to step into the promise of God that He spoke over my life.

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I don't care how long it takes to get there.

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If God spoke a word, He's going to manifest the word.

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I don't care how long it takes to get there.

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He's the same yesterday, today and forever.

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If He promised you something, I don't care if it takes 45 years to manifest it will manifest

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in your life, because God is true and every man is alive here.

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I'm looking at this story and I'm looking at Caleb in particular.

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Caleb intrigues me, Caleb speaks to me, Caleb, because the Bible says a few things about

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Caleb.

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And this is why Caleb was able to claim his promise and walk in his inheritance.

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And I tell you the first thing the scripture says about Caleb, why he was able to walk

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into his promise and claim what God told him that he was going to walk into.

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The first thing is that even though Caleb was born a slave, even though Caleb was wandering

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in the wilderness, his heart was already in Canaan.

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His heart was already in the promised land.

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His heart was already on the promise of God and thinking about the promise of God.

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Some of you, your heart is stuck on where you're at and not where you're going.

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Your heart is stuck on, man, I just feel like I can't make it, I just feel like I don't

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have the resources, I just feel like I don't have the money, I just feel like no one supports

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me, I just feel like I can't finish my education, I just feel like my family will never get

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out this situation.

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Stop living by feelings and start living by faith.

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Your feelings will trick you, your feelings will deceive you, your feelings are fleeting.

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One moment you'll feel good, next moment you'll feel depressed.

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One moment you've got to speak to yourself, why are you downcast on my soul?

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Why are you sad?

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Why are you downcast?

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Hoping God, trusting God, believe the Word of God, I rather stand on the promise of God

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and look crazy, they believe the report of man.

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I feel this in my spirit, because some of you are living a life based off feelings, but

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feelings and faith sometimes contradict each other.

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And guess what, Caleb was not living by feelings, because can I tell you the feeling was there's

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actual giants in the land.

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Oh, the reality was there were people way bigger than them, way stronger than them, had

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more resources than them, had more, these were slaves that were coming out of a land and

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literally walking around for 40 years in a circle, wearing the same exact clothes, eating

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the same exact food, going to the same exact place over and over.

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It seemed crazy that Caleb thought that these little misfits could actually take on giants,

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but that's what made him who he was.

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He wouldn't look at the children of Israel, like they were a bunch of misfits.

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He looked at them like they were the promise, people of God, the covenant, people of Israel,

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they got something that's greater than the nations, they may not have the height, they

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may not have the weapons, they may not have the strength, but they got the Lord on their

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side.

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There's something with God's with you.

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I'm looking at Caleb and his life intrigues me, because Caleb's heart, the Bible says he

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wholeheartedly followed the Lord.

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Some of you want to be leaders, but you're not a good follower.

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I realize, oh that was good, I was a shot, people, it wasn't meant to be a shot, it was

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just meant to be the truth.

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But the only way you can be a good leader is if you're first a good follower.

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Caleb and Joshua, you know what the Bible says, they wholeheartedly followed the Lord.

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One scripture says they had a different spirit.

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And I looked up that word, different spirit in the Hebrew, you know what it means, it

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means a following spirit.

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They followed the Lord, Lord, okay, you're going in this direction, I'll go in that direction.

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God, you're moving like this, then I'm going to move like this.

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God, they said the church is going on a 21 day fast, I'm going to go on a 21 day fast.

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They said they need people to volunteer, I'm going to volunteer.

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I'm preaching good.

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They said sign up for life groups, I'm going to sign up for life groups, I'm going to

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do it.

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Because I have a following spirit, I'm not following man, I'm following God.

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I'm not led by the crowd, I'm led by the crowd.

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I'm following after Jesus, whatever he goes, I go, whatever he says, I say, however

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he tells me to do it, I'll do it.

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Even if it makes me look a little bit crazy, Jesus, I'm going to follow you wholeheartedly.

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That was Caleb's commitment.

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I've got to follow God all the way.

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Some of you have been doing the half step, okay, God, I'll go this far.

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But if you tell me to give this much, that's just way too much, God.

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This is good preaching.

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God, I'll do this much, but a mischievous trip, I can't do that.

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God, I'll do this much for getting baptized, that's for the super saved people.

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I'll go this far, but God, I won't volunteer, God, I'll go this far, but I won't really

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read my word during the week.

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Some of you have half committed to God.

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The Bible says Caleb half committed.

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He holy follow the Lord, which means every part, his mind, body and soul, were so attentive

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to doing God's will, that every part of him did it.

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Some of you, there's a disconnect between your mind and your spirit, and so you're doing

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certain things and don't even realize what you're doing it.

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That's what the Bible says, you need to renew your mind.

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Then you'll know what the good and perfect and acceptable will of God is.

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You want to know God's will, start changing the way you think.

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Your mind, many of you, is the reason why you don't know what God wants you to do, how

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he wants you to do it, and how he wants you to live.

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You still got an old mindset, you still got old mindskins, you still got an old way of

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thinking, and the Holy Spirit right now wants to purge your mind, so that you start thinking

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like heaven thinks.

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The Bible says, my God, can I go to the next point, because I took way too long on that

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point, wholeheartedly followed God, right, he had a different spirit, here's my second

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point, my God, my God, this is going to be good.

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My second point is this, so Caleb, different spirit, he moved completely different, but

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then Caleb is presented with something, a mountain, he brought, he sees the mountain,

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and is what made Caleb completely different, because some of you look at mountains, and you

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see it as a problem, Caleb saw the mountain, and he saw it as his portion, he got two different,

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and a mountain comes, you can either see it as a problem, or you can see it as, this

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is what God promised me, you got a decision to make, either you complain about the mountain,

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or you conquer the mountain, either you complain about how big the giants are, and how difficult

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it is, and how no one in this world is going through what I'm going through.

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No one's facing the challenges I'm facing, no one's going through family issues like I'm

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going through, no one's dealing with financial issues like I'm dealing with, no one dealing

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with faith issues like me, it's only me, you got an Elijah mindset, it's only me, I'm

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the only one, and God says there's 450 hiding out in a cave who got the same mindset you have.

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You got to see this, you got to see this, Caleb looks at the impossible situation, and

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doesn't see it as impossible, he sees it as, this is my food, this is my food, these enemies

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here, they're for the taking, 45 years before he had that mindset, 45 years later he got

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the same mindset, the Bible says Caleb was as strong as he was 45, you know what kept him strong,

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having the same mindset about the enemy, that the enemy was already a defeated foe,

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you know what's going to keep you strong, when you have the same mindset about you and the same

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mindset about the devil, see my mindset about the devil hasn't changed, he's still aligned,

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disgusting thief, he still comes to kill, steal and destroy, and my mindset about me hasn't changed,

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I'm more than a conqueror in Jesus, greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world,

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he sees my mindset about me hasn't changed, I know who I am, and because of that no matter what

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the devil throws at me, I know that I got to have the strength, you know what kept him strong,

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he had a promise that he would not let go of, it was given 45 years ago, but I'm gonna keep

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praying, like it was given yesterday, it was given 45 years ago, but I'm gonna keep myself strong

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and in shape, at least I still got the same strength for battle, which means I've been practicing,

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I'm ready, some of you get ready when they call on you, you don't stay ready,

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oh can I talk right now, preachers do this all the time, can I speak?

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they get ready, oh they asked me to preach for a month from now, let me, you can't get ready,

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you gotta stay ready, if I call you the night before and you gotta minister the next day,

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you gotta be ready, they gotta be a word that's burning in your spirit,

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some of you are not ready, the investor calls you and you don't even have a presentation ready,

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they're ready to actually pour millions of dollars into your business, but your lack of

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preparation is why you can't conquer that mountain, this is good, your lack of preparation in life,

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a lot of the times they're calling you, hey I want you to play here, I want you to do this,

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you haven't been practicing, Caleb's like nope 45 years, I'm ready, let's go,

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I got my boxing gloves at 45 years, I'm still in the same position, 45 years later,

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I'm still ready to get everything God has for me, 45 years later, I'm still as strong as I was,

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45 years ago, because I believe the promise of God, you know what keeps you strong when you got

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certain to fight for, you know a lot of men have nothing to fight for anymore, they've become

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content with life being the way that it is, I don't mean to pick on men but I gotta pick on men a

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little bit, because I've seen a bunch of weak pusillatimists men in this generation, men with no

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backbone, men who just let the culture tell them how they should live and what they should do,

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instead of living by what the scripture say and the word says, as a man you have to be strong,

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you can't be led by emotions and feelings, you have to be led by the spirit of the living God,

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we need men who are gonna lead their families and be strong, I know the culture says,

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it's 50, 50, no, man the scripture says you are the head, you are the leader of the household,

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then you need to lead with boldness and with strength, with prayer and perseverance,

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with love and grace, the Bible says you need to look at your wife as the weaker vessel

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and lead through grace and compassion, this is good stuff right here,

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I believe God's raising up strong men in this generation, men who are not waver when attack comes,

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when trials come, their feet will be flat footed and firm, their face will be turned like flint and

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they'll say, God, I will die for the cause of Christ. Come on, where are the bold men?

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I don't hear you, where are the bold men? Where are the lions in this place?

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People shout for the mints and the nicks and the jets and the Yankees louder than they

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shout for Jesus. They are the worst, they're all my teams, I know them.

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He said those are the worst teams.

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You gotta start seeing the mountain and not seeing it as what's hindering you, you have to start

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seeing it as this is my food, this is what God's promised to me. Can I tell you the third thing?

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I won't be too long. Good preaching is like, let me not say it. Look at this, oh this is good.

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Caleb, if you actually do some research on Caleb, Caleb was actually not qualified for inheritance.

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Caleb's name actually met dog. Caleb, the Bible says that Caleb's was the son of

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Jafunya, the Casanite. They have a complex political and social history with Israel.

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They were actually the descendants of Edom, which is Esau, which means he technically was not part

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of the promise. He technically was not part of the lineage, he technically was not part,

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his family were actually postulates. He technically was not part of that elite status of the Abraham

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seed. But he looked at the promises that it's mine. But your resume don't look right, it's mine.

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But you sin yesterday, it's mine. But you're not an Israel life. I'm grafted.

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This man got grafted before grafting was even a thing. Oh man, you can step into realities of things

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that aren't things yet because of faith. Faith will make you step into things that you weren't

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even supposed to have any type of inheritance to gain. Faith will make you step through doors that

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was supposed to be open three years from now. Faith will let you walk into territories that was

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supposed to be for someone else, but because you have faith, you can step into doors and see things

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manifest. I promise I now you're going to step into areas that people couldn't even step into

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because it was reserved for your faith. You try to see this. He technically wasn't part of the promise

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and he goes, I've been waiting 45 years for this. Moses, the prophet, if you know anything,

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my Moses, the Bible says I'm a prophet. The prophet gave me a word. What's interesting is he

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doesn't say God gave me a word. He always sees the prophetic word and I'm not moving until my

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prophetic word comes to pass God. I'm not going to stop praying until that prophetic word comes to

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pass God. You got to be audacious. Show me Luke chapter 11 verse 8. You got to be audacious. Show

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me that scripture in the NIV. I tell you even though he will not get up and give you bread because

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of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity. This talking about the person who goes to

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their friend's house, knocks on the door at midnight. It says I need bread for one of my friends

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who came on a long trip and he's like, I'm not opening the door. My kids are sleeping. I'm not.

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He says, even though he won't get up and give you the bread because he's your friend,

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because you keep shamelessly knocking on the door. You say it doesn't matter. How many times I get

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a note? It doesn't matter how many times I prayed about it. You ever seen them take down a house

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and they use that wrecking ball? Sometimes the first hit nothing happens. The second hit a

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couple of bricks come on. You've got to be like that wrecking ball in the spirit and you've got to

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keep one hitting against it and hitting against it and hitting against it and hitting against it.

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Yep, yep. As soon as you do it, the floodgates are going to start opening up. As soon as you do it,

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one family member is going to get saved and the second family member is going to get saved and

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the third family member then ask for me in my house. We shall serve the Lord. You see, you got to keep

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on hitting it because the first time the miracle may not happen. You still may have the kids

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ourselves in your body but keep on keep on praying. Keep on praying. Keep on praying that second time

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something is shifting. The third time the doctor says something looks different. The fourth time

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we can't find a trace of cancer in your body. You've got to keep praying.

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I won't stop. I won't stop. See, this is Caleb's mentality. Caleb had the kind of mentality.

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Even though I'm not qualified for this, even though I'm not qualified to get everything God

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has, I don't have the right qualifications but I got to promise. I don't have the right

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qualifications but God spoke to me. He said it and if he said it, he's going to do it.

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I love that. I love how God doesn't care. All he cares about is faith.

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There are people who are at the front of the line. Think about it. Caleb was at the back of the line

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and Caleb made it to the front of the line because of faith. God literally was like this is the

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back of the line. All right, everyone turn around. Can I give someone a word? God is about to do

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that turn around for you in your life. Where you at the back of the line but faith is going to

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bring you to the front of the line. I dare somebody to give God a shout if that is your story.

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If you believe that as soon as you leave this place, you are at the back of the line for

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a miracle but God just said I'm expediting your miracle. I'm expediting your open door. I'm

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expediting. Oh somebody better give God a shout like you really believe it.

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All right, I'm almost done. Here's what made Caleb different. He didn't ask for a small thing.

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He asked for the biggest thing. Okay, Caleb could have asked for any land. Caleb asked for the land

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that he actually spied out which was he brought. That was the land he actually spied out. That's the

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land he went to because everyone had their responsibility to go to a specific part of the promised land.

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His land he stepped on was he brought. You have to understand something about he brought. He

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brought has a deep history in the Jewish culture. He brought was the place Abraham was buried. Isaac

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was buried. Jacob was buried. Sarah was buried. And you have to understand about Jewish people.

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Barrio sites are super significant. They have so much meaning for Jewish people. People who

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Jewish people will literally go travel for miles just to go to burial sites. It was a significant

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thing. And this was he brought. This was the place where in Genesis chapter 13 the first place

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God said hey Abraham where you're standing on right now. He brought. I've given it to you as an

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inheritance for your family. I've given it. So this was a holy place. This was a place of encounter.

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This was a place of the spirit of God. And Caleb could have asked for any little small morsel. He didn't

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deserve the best. He didn't deserve to get anything. But he said I don't want any small territory.

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I don't want any insignificant plot of land. Give me he brought. Give me the

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big. He brought was the land of giants. He went there. He's a bunch of giants. He said I don't want

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the land of shrimp. I want the land of giants. This was the land where the Bible says two people

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had to carry one piece of fruit. He said that's the land I want. Now that's bonus. That's

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audacity. I want the best not because I'm the best but because he's the best. I want what's good

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not because I'm good but because he's good. And if I serve him then everything that's in his

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kingdom is allotted to me as inheritance. Oh you got to start fighting for what belongs to you

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as a believer and stop letting the devil tell you to settle for the job that's not paying you

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what you deserve. Settle for the apartment that's I won't settle in life. I server God is too big to

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settle. I server God is too big to still be collecting welfare checks my whole life. And it's not

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a knock. Sometimes people need it for a season but it's not going to be my lifestyle. I don't

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need the government. I got a God who provides. I felt that in my spirit some people got quiet.

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But you got to you got to go after what's big. I'm not going to settle for the small Monday. I'm

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going to ask God for the big. And when I move to my house the Holy Spirit says I'm going to give you

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multiple properties on this block. I started asking for big. Six months later after I moved

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this to my house. Guess what? I brought the house right next door because I'm asking for big.

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See some of y'all are still asking for small. You know I don't just want a house. I want to own a

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community. You see I don't want a house. I want to be a I want to be a lender and not a borer.

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Come on somebody. I want to be the head and not the tail. I don't want to just settle in life and

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be content in Monday. Now there's more for my life than this. You got to start asking big.

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Asking you to receive, seeking your fire, knocking the door will be open. You haven't asked enough.

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If you ask you'll get it. Amen. All right.

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Oh Jesus thank you. This is the point where I was like

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can I say one last thing before my last point please? All right.

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You know the Holy Spirit started speaking to me and he started saying he's not telling me

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just talking to me about wealth and inheritance and possessions and then the Holy Spirit was telling

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me he's like wealth and prosperity isn't just about possessions. It's about perspective.

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He said it's not just about money. It's about mentality. At this point Caleb had nothing

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except for a mindset. Caleb had nothing except a perspective. Caleb was a slave who was walking

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around in a wilderness for 40 years. At this point he had nothing except for the clothes on his back

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but he had a perspective. And so his prosperity began here before it began before it started

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here before it started affecting here. It had to start with him changing this. I know who I am.

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I know what God's given me. I know the intelligence he's given me. I know the wisdom he's given me.

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I know that I'm not just a grasshopper. I'm not just limited in my thoughts. I'm not just limited

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in my life. And guess what? This started to change after this started to change. The problem is a

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lot of us try to do the opposite way around. We try to get a bunch of money in my pocket.

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But you still got to say mindset. And that's why people they got big, big statements.

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Let me not go there. I'm gonna say it. They got big, big statements but they got a small state of

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mind. That's why 90% of people who win the lotto guess what? They end up broke.

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Because this filled up but this didn't. Y'all with me? I cannot give you on my last point.

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So I had so much more to say. Second service. I'm gonna try to say all of you. But everything I

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need us to be said today was said. You're only very ministered. Wherever needed to be said.

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Here's my last point. Caleb goes. He possesses the land. He gets what God has for him.

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Because Caleb said whoever could take this land, they'll have my daughter as an inheritance.

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I give my daughter to them marriage. And so his daughter was about to get married.

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And she's like, Dad, I know you have this land for me. And the land that Caleb was gonna give her

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was a desert land. No water. And guess what? She said, I want the upper springs.

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And I want the lower springs. Teasing that culture. A woman did not have the audacity.

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Can I talk right now to ask for certain things? She said, I don't care what the culture says.

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That's when the Holy Spirit began to speak to me and say, you know why she had the audacity?

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She got it from her daddy.

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She got the audacity from her father. She got the audacity to ask for big things from her dad.

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And then that's when God saw us speaking to me and said, Jesus, you're my father.

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And Jesus, you asked for big things.

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And I have your DNA on the inside of me.

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Which means if you live inside of me and I have your DNA, I have an audacity to ask for big things.

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Devil, get your hands off my stuff.

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And then God, give me the upper and the lower springs.

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I just don't want a little bit God. I need a double portion. I just don't want a small amount.

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I need a double portion. How many double portion people we have in the house?

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Who believe that? This is your season of double portion. This is your season where God is not just

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giving you the rain. He's giving you the rain on top of the rain. He's not just giving you

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a promotion. He's giving you the CEO position. I believe this is your season where everything

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you been believing God for is going to come to pass in your life. If you believe it, lift up your

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hands and give God a shout. Come on, shout, shout. Come on. I've got this audacity for my daddy.

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I've got this audacity for my father. I've got to ask big things. I serve a big God. I can't

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act a big God for small things. Stand to your feet. We're about to go. Lift up your hands. Father,

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I thank you for every person in this room. I thank you for the anointing over their lives.

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The anointing to believe you for big. They will not put any limitations on you and limitations

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on what you want to do in their lives. I thank you for audacious askers. I thank you for audacious

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askers. People who are going to believe you for healings, believe you for miracles, believe you

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for restoration, believe you for family salvation, believe you for healings, believe you for breakthrough,

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believe that you are the same God yesterday, today and forever. If you did it for Caleb,

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you'll do it for us. We say give us our mountain. Give us our place. Give us the thing you promised

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us. The mountain of entertainment. Give it to us. The mountain of business. Give it to us. The

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mountain of industry. Give it to us. Give us this mountain. We claim it and we receive it

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in Jesus' name if you believe it. Give God a shout. Come on. Give God a shout of victory.

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This is the CityLight Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message,

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anytime. We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today,

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that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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