I want to share with you about a season shift.
A season shift is 10 things that I want to share with you about a shift of seasons. Now one of the
things that I have is a message that I actually, this is not the first time I've
shared this, okay. I share it at different times, different ways, in different
places. But this has become really my, one of my core teachings that I've been sharing, and right
now we are in a very unique season where a lot of people are going through different shifts and
seasons. But I think it's not only right now, it's always happening with somebody. And so I want to
share with you those 10 shifts or 10 things that you need to keep in mind about a season shift.
I do believe God structures our life in seasons. The Bible talks about it. I do believe that God
controls seasons, and I do believe that we have to also be aware of the season that we are in and
act accordingly to the season that we are in. Like for example, if it's winter you probably don't
want to be you know wearing flipflops and wearing shorts. And if it's a summer and it's really warm,
you probably don't want to be wearing a huge coat, amen. So God wants to bring a shift in our
season and God wants to change us as the shift is happening in our season. So let me just mention
to you these 10 things. I want you to get ready, take some notes. We're going to go into school
right now, we're going to learn some things, and I believe these things will equip you
and these things will also establish you so that you can process things and walk through
things better and with wisdom. And I'm going to go through these 10 ones quickly. They will come
from the story of Joshua. I believe one of the greatest stories in the Bible that presents to
us how God works with people in taking them from one season to another is the story of Joshua.
In the New Testament, the Bible tells us that they, these people who went before us, Joshua,
Moses. They are examples for us. So we're not just you know taking Scripture out of context when
we take Joshua's story and put some application into our life. We are actually following the
Scripture because they, they, what they did, how God worked with them. It carries timeless
principles for generations after them, amen. First thing that I want to highlight is a new season
brings a new shaking. When I say a new shaking, I mean sometimes in a new season you experience
a shaking that usually comes from the fact that people that were in your life before exit your
life. Or sometimes, as it happened with Joshua, his hero, his mentor, a guy he looked up to, a
guy that really kind of helped him to rise up, stepped aside, actually he died. And Joshua had to
step into his shoes, and that was, that was scary, that was a bit shaky. In fact God had to kept
telling Joshua not to be afraid, which tells me he felt afraid, he felt insecure, he felt unsure
and uncertain. So it is totally normal to step into that season. You know a season shifted if
you're kind of shaken, if you're kind of scared, if you're kind of unsure of what's going to
happen. Especially if you're taking in, you're stepping into shoes of someone, you're stepping
into a season of something you've never done before. You're totally unexperienced. So when your
hero falls, it's time for you to rise up. When you step into an area you've never been in before,
it's time for you to trust in God and to remember, though your season has changed, the source, your
God is with you. Though you're stepping into what you have no experience in, your God is going to
supply the needed grace to make up for what you are lacking. God will give you strength in this
new season. So a new season sometimes brings a new shaking. Joshua 1:2, it says, "Moses My servant
is dead. Now therefore, arise, and go over the Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which
I am giving to them -- the children of Israel." So the Lord is saying, hey I know you're shaken,
you're grieving. I know it's hard for you because this guy that's been such a great example to you,
who is not entering the promised land because of his sin because he didn't show holiness of God
when he needed to. And now you're stepping in, you're not like him, you're not better than him,
you're not more powerful than him. Yet you're going to fulfill a job that he failed to fulfill,
and I'm going to give you grace. When you step into a season, why the shaking comes in is because
sometimes the load is greater than our ability, sometimes the challenge is greater than our
experience, and so what do we do? We lean on God and we trust for the grace to make the
difference, to supply the strength where we lack that strength. The second thing in the season
shift that I want to share is a new season brings a new supply. New season, comma new supply. When
the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land, the children of Israel no
longer had manna but they ate the food of Canaan, of the land of the Canaan that year. Joshua 5:2.
Joshua 5:12, I apologize. New season brings a new supply. When God removed the provision which was
manna, He wasn't doing that so He can punish them. He was doing that so He can prepare them for the
new supply. His promise has always been milk and honey, but milk and honey and manna don't go
together. Sometimes one supply of Gods stops for another one to come, and I want to encourage
you that maybe you are in between jobs right now, perhaps you're in between jobs right now. You,
you're actually in a shift. One of the things that you know the season is shifting is when
God changes manna. He removes manna off of the menu because he's about to bring milk and honey.
Now some of us when we lose manna, when we lose God's provision in our life, we get frustrated. We
start to doubt God, we become afraid or we worry, what's going to happen tomorrow? Am I going
to be able to pay my bills? Do I have enough? Did God forsake me? You know is the devil
attacking me? It's normal to feel these things, but as Christians we also must understand that the
Lord constantly tells us, not to be afraid and not to worry. And these two commands, instructions,
apply to our finances. When you enter a new season your supply will shift. Sometimes
that supply that you had before dries up, like the brook that God fed Elijah with, and the
ravens that he provided for Elijah. They stopped, raven stopped coming, the brook up, and that meant
that his place at this brook has come to an, his time at this brook has come to an end. So do not
be frustrated and do not doubt God. Do not freak out if the manna that was a blessing of God in one
season comes to an end in this season. And don't pray for God to bring good old days. Ask God to
bring new opportunities, ask God for His favor. Don't constantly pray for things to be "fair".
Some Christians are so obsessed with fairness that they miss God's favor. Don't say, Lord why
did you remove the manna? Instead, step in by faith into the milk and honey. Step In by faith
for His promise. Milk, milk and honey has been God's promise for you. Manna was God's temporary
provision on the way to the promise. So when you step into a new season, you most likely will step
into a new supply. Open yourself up to God's new ideas, God's new provisions and God's new ways by
which He wants to supply for your needs and for His purpose in your life. Drop this in the chat.
New season brings a new supply. Somebody needs to hear this. New season brings a new supply.
If you're ready for that new supply to come into your life, drop number one in the chat. Now
let's go to number three. A shift in the season. what does this mean? The third thing that happens
is a new season requires a new spirit. A new season requires a new spirit. I'm going to say
that again, maybe it'll give you a little bit of time to write this down or drop this in the chat.
A new season requires a new spirit. Numbers 14:24, it says the following, "But my servant Caleb,
because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into
the land where he went and his descendants shall inherit it." Now I want you to notice that you
cannot enter a new season with an old mindset. Otherwise you will bring your old season into the
new season and never really walk into what God has for you. The Lord said about this guy named Caleb,
He says the reason why Caleb will enter the land, he will move from Egypt, to wilderness and into
the promised land. The reason why Caleb is going to enter what I've promised him, the reason
why Caleb is going to inherit that is because of this one thing. He has a different spirit.
He has a new spirit. Now when I say spirit, I don't mean right now Holy Spirit. I don't think
that's what this refers to because it's a small "s" and it's not talking about a demon spirit.
This is talking about your attitude. This is talking about your perspective. This is talking
about your mindset. Now what was so different about Caleb that God took notice of that and said,
this guy is different. He has a different spirit. What was different about that? Now few things I
want you to keep in mind, one of them is this. The word Caleb means a dog. So when you read the
Bible and it says, My servant Caleb, My servant. His parents called him dog. Now I don't know if
they run out of names. I don't know if maybe he was born and they didn't think about his name, or
perhaps a dog was next to him when he was born. I don't know what the circumstances were but it's a
pretty interesting name for a baby, a dog. And you will find something very interesting about Caleb
that He had that dogs have. Now for example, the Bible keeps talking about Caleb and He uses this
word, He followed Me fully. And another instance it says, He followed me wholeheartedly, he
followed me fully. Now, I have a dog. If you have a dog, you'll probably notice this thing about
dogs. Dogs follow their masters everywhere their masters go. Like sometimes you have a dog that
will just sit at your feet, and get so comfortable and falls asleep. And you get up and guess what
the dog will do? He will follow you, everywhere you go. Does not matter how uncomfortable it is,
it doesn't matter how annoying it is, it doesn't matter how deep his sleep was. He will follow you.
Another thing about dogs is they love being around their masters. They just love being around them.
Cats are like you know they don't, they don't care. You know they just kind of have, they mind
their own, they mind their own business. Like you come from work, a cat is not going to greet
you. Guess who's going to greet you? Your dog because they're excited about their masters.
Another thing about a dog is dogs have an acute sense of smell. In fact, they're led more more
by their nose than their eyes. Their eyesight is okay but their smell is incredible. Their sense
of smell is through the roof. That's how they find things is through their smell. They're led by
their senses, by their smell more than by their sight, and that's what Caleb was. He was near
God, he had a different attitude, and he was led more by his faith than by his sight. New season
requires a new spirit. What does this mean? You got to have an attitude of a conqueror. You got to
have an attitude of a victor, not a victim. Caleb goes into the promised land and he's sees giants.
He's not freaked out. He doesn't ignore them, he doesn't bury his head in his hand and pretend
that they don't matter. He just doesn't think that he is a grasshopper that's about to be squashed
by giants. He's not surprised that promised land has problems. He's not surprised and he's kind of
excited to fight. All other guys were freaked out. They were like spineless snowflakes. They were
so scared, their attitude was so negative. They were so pessimistic. They always found a problem
in God's promise, but Caleb found a promise in a problem. They found obstacles. They said, man this
is hard. Caleb found opportunities, and he said, our God is with us. If we overcome this problem
we will have a great reward, we will possess the promised land. You cannot enter a new season
with an old mindset. A new season, you're not going to like to hear what I'm about to say. It's
going to bring new challenges that will overwhelm you. It will require new skills from you that you
currently don't have. It'll require new things out of you that you currently don't have, and if your
mindset is always a victim mindset, poor little me, you find a problem in every solution, you
find an obstacle in every opportunity, your cup is always half empty. It's just the way you are, just
kind of negative, always pessimistic, always find something wrong with everything. Just, just kind
of always this annoying attitude. You probably will not enter the new season, and if you will,
it'll squash you. It will hurt you. You need to have a different spirit. New season requires a new
spirit. That means you got to choose your attitude today. Develop a conquering positive attitude.
Is it hard? Yeah, but then you will have a reward. Is this helping somebody? Drop this in
the chat if this is helping somebody. Don't be negative Nancy, as somebody said in the chat.
Be positive Caleb. I'm not talking about being positive for the sake of being positive. I'm not
talking about here you know to think positive thoughts and practice mental gymnastics. I'm
talking about being so confident that God is with you, He's not bringing you into something
to drown you. He's taking you into something to, to elevate you, but He can't do that if you don't
win battles. You can't have victory if there's no battles. You can't have spoil if there's no
struggle. You can't have promise land if you don't kill giants. You can't have that. This is not like
a free gift. This is a reward for fighting. And so when you're freaked out because of the challenges
but you constantly hold on to the promise, Lord, You promise You will bless me. But God will
cause certain burdens to come, for you to find solutions, for you to you know breakthrough them,
for you to overcome them. And if your mindset is a victim mindset, negative and bad attitude. You're
just not going to make it. What God is looking is a different spirit. So a new season requires a
new spirit. That means a new season requires a new mindset. I got to shift my thinking. I got
to shift my attitude. I got to shift my dominant thoughts toward the Lord is with me. Positivity
for the sake of positivity is not going to get you very far. You know Goliath was very positive.
He still died and was defeated. But David was with God. His positivity was rooted in the Holy Spirit.
The Lord is with me, He brought me to this place, He'll bring me through this place. I'm positive.
I'm optimistic. I'm going to see miracles. I'm going to see the glory of God. Stand still, stand
still and see the salvation of God which He will accomplish for you. That's kind of my attitude
is whatever is coming against me is greater than me but it's not greater than God. I don't
have what it takes but I have what God takes, and God's going to take the little that I
have, He's going to multiply. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I'm than
the conqueror through Him who loved me. My God, He will supply all of my needs according to His
riches and His glory. I will never leave you, I will never forsake you, says the Lord. The
Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He will lead me beside the still waters, He will restore
my soul, for His righteousness sake He will lead me in a righteous path. Even if I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I'm not scared because He's going to comfort me. He will
anoint my head with His oil, my cup will run over, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of
my life. See that that's an attitude of gratitude, that's an attitude of a different attitude. So let
me ask a question. What kind of attitude do you have because you will need to change your attitude
if God is to change your altitude. See many of us want a better altitude in life but you can't get
there without the attitude in your mind. Change your attitude, change your perspective, change
your spirit, your mindset. Caleb had a different spirit, a positive spirit, positive outlook, a
positive perspective toward the challenges that he was facing, and God took note of that. And in fact
God complimented him on that and said, because of that Caleb will enter this new season. Number
four. New season means new sacrifice. Drop this in the chat. New season means new sacrifice. Joshua
6:19 says, "But all, all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to
the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord." So new season requires new sacrifice. When
Israelites were in Egypt, they didn't sacrifice because everything was stolen from them. In the
wilderness they were tempted because when they received possessions from Egyptians, instead of
giving those to God, you know they made some very poor Investments, demonic Investments because they
build an idol. They entered the promised land, finally the land of the dreams, and the Lord is
saying, I want you to destroy the whole city of Jericho. But the good of Jericho, silver, gold
and vessels of bronze and iron, consecrate it to God's Tabernacle, consecrate it to the Lord.
Meaning they're not yours. It's almost like God was saying, I want the first of the promised land
to belong to me. And I think it's very important to recognize is when you enter a new season, you
have to develop these new structures in your life, new systems in your life. And the system is you
have to put God first. You have to put God first. That's what the sacrifice comes from. When I say
put God first, I mean put God first in your day. Spend time with Him, not on social media. Put God
first in your week. Go to church on the first day of the week which is Sunday, with your family,
and then put God first in your finances. Take the first 10%, 15%. Whatever that is. You know the
good starting point that everybody talks about is 10%, and then give that to God, give that to
God's work, give that to the local church. Why would you want to do that? It's because a new
season requires a new system. New season will require a new structure in your life, and what
was that structure? God comes first, which is sacrificial. It was painful. If it wasn't painful
Achan probably wouldn't be tempted to take what belonged to God and eat it for himself and take
it for himself. Learn to honor God in your season by structuring your day, structuring your week and
structuring your finances in the way that God is first. Even if that comes at some inconvenience,
sacrifice or discomfort. Seek first the kingdom of God, everything else shall be added you. See
the rest of the cities that they conquered, God not only let them have the spoil, He
helped them to have the spoil. God is not wanting to steal anything from you. Sacrifice is
not God stealing things from us. Sacrifice is us developing new structures, new systems in our
schedule, in our finances and our stewardship, where God is first, amen. So new season requires
new sacrifice, why? Because new season requires new structures and new systems. Number five.
New season requires new sanctification. Sanctification. You heard me correct. The
Bible says, Joshua 3:5, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders." And then
Joshua 5:2, "At that time the LORD said to Joshua, 'Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise
the sons of Israel again the second time.'" So today's consecration is tomorrow's conquest.
Drop this in the chat. Today's consecration is tomorrow's conquest. Well let me say it another
way. Today's purity is tomorrow's power. Today's fasting is tomorrow's fire. Today's prayer
is tomorrow's provision. Today's righteous, walking with God in private is tomorrow's reward.
The Lord said to Joshua, "Sanctify yourself, for tomorrow I will do wonders among you." In the new
season you have to learn to delay gratification. Where you put in work today, you don't experience
results today, you experience results tomorrow. Now the Lord expects us to put in work toward
sanctification. Now salvation is a gift from God. Sanctification is a process of God to develop us
into His image and likeness. Like I said earlier, that spiritual discipline is the way to godliness,
to being more like Jesus, and fasting is one of those spiritual disciplines. Now it's important
to highlight this particular sanctification they were involved in. It was called circumcision. The
Lord asked Joshua to circumcise the sons of Israel so that they can now conquer the promised land. So
they can be people of covenant. Circumcision, few things I want to highlight without going too deep
or to gross for the sake of children watching and other people. circumcision deals with something
that's private, nobody sees it and reproductive. I'm going to say that again. Circumcision dealt
with something that was private. It wasn't cutting your hair. It was cutting the foreskins of
someone reproductive organ. So this was invisible, it was private and secondly it dealt with
the part of a body that was a reproductive organ. That tells me, if you want to walk in
sanctification, it's less about trimming, cutting, removing things that are visible. It's things
that are private. It's things that people don't see. It's things that are not public. Those are
the areas the Lord wants to put His flint knife towards. He wants to put His conviction toward.
It's maybe things we watch, things we listen, things we spend our time on. Perhaps thoughts
that we entertain. Things that are private. But those private things, if they're not taken
care of, they can become public struggles and sometimes public scandals. Today's private sin is
tomorrow's public scandal. Today's private purity is tomorrow's public pleasure. Today's prayer is
tomorrow's power. Today's fasting is tomorrow's fire. So new season, new sanctification. It's
almost like God says you cannot conquer in the promised land if you don't get circumcised, and
circumcision is cutting something that's private and reproductive. I wonder how much more we can
bear fruit if we are pruned, if we are clipped, if we are trimmed, if we are cut back. If we are
pruned, we bear more fruit. If we are circumcised, it's an establishment of our covenant with God
that we are sanctified. Jesus says, no one can follow after Me who doesn't deny himself and pick
up his cross. So this tells me that godliness is achieved through the path of spiritual discipline.
Spiritual discipline always involves some kind of a death or some kind of a denial. And God is far
more interested with the areas that are private, than the areas that everybody knows about. The
reason why is because we naturally want to make our life more pleasing to people. We naturally,
you know if you're struggling with sin most likely you won't do it on live stream, you won't do it
in front of people. You will do it privately. So the Lord is far more interested that in your
new season, the shift in the new season where the Lord wants you to really pay attention to the
things that are in your private life. The things that nobody sees, nobody knows. You know, your
conscience knows, Holy Spirit knows and maybe one person knows who lives with you, but everybody
else is completely oblivious. It's those areas God wants to circumcise. Meaning God wants those
areas to be pruned for greater effectiveness and greater fruit because it's the reproductive organs
that were circumcised. It's in pruning that we experience greater fruit, and it's in pruning that
we are confirmed as His branch. The Bible says, His children, God disciplines, and if you are
not His child, He won't discipline you. But if you are His child, there's discipline there. That
means that you don't have to wait for the Father to discipline you, you can discipline yourself
today. I would submit to you that many of us would not experience a lot of discipline
from God if we would practice discipline of God. Drop this in the chat. Many of us will
not experience discipline from God if we would simply discipline ourselves for God. That's why
Jesus says, deny yourself. So today's discipline is tomorrow's destiny. Today's consecration is
tomorrow's conquest. Today's prayer is tomorrow's power. Today's purity is tomorrow's pleasure, but
the other way is also around the same. Today's sin is tomorrow's scandal. Today's prayerlessness is
tomorrow's powerlessness. Today's compromise is tomorrow's problem, and so new season requires
new sanctification. Are you guys still with me? Is this helping anybody? Can we go a little
bit further or is everybody done already? Okay, I'm assuming I'm going to go a little bit further.
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Just keep on listening, we appreciate you and number six. New season requires new strategy.
New season requires new strategy. Joshua 8:2, "And the Lord said, 'And you shall do to Ai and
its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty
for yourself. Lay an ambush for the city behind it." So I want you to notice, the Lord says I'm
going to give you a new strategy for the new battle. The city of Jericho, you circled it around
seven times, seven days and in a seventh day, seven times in one day. Now this next city, God
says it's going to be a little bit different. The cattle, the spoil and everything that you see
there, is yours. You're not going to bring it to me, it's yours. And then the Lord says, I want you
not to circle around, I want you to lay an ambush for the city. Now why is this important? I want
you to drop this in the chat. Yesterday's success cannot be today's strategy. What worked yesterday
might not work today. People that are not led by the Holy Spirit usually try to repeat what worked
yesterday, and that's what Joshua did mistakingly. He saw the breakthrough in Jericho and just went
on the assumption, the next city will be piece of cake. He consulted his board, his committee,
his war generals. They said, yeah, let's not sent everyone. We got this. And they went and
experienced defeat, and then of course Joshua now went to God, and the Lord dealt with the problem
and then gave him a different instruction. And from that point on you saw many battles Joshua
would take, he would wait on God's instruction. Why am I sharing this? When you step into a new
season, don't try to be led by principles. Be led by God's presence. Live by God's principles,
but be led by God's presence. Let the Holy Spirit guide you because what worked yesterday might not
work today. Today's strategy cannot be yesterday's success. Meaning, let's just copy and paste
everything that happened yesterday. You might have to change things, and the Holy Spirit will
give you wisdom in that. You might need to change how you do things, and the Holy Spirit will give
you wisdom in that. Yesterday's success is a lousy teacher. It makes up for a terrible strategy
because you're in a different season, and while you can glean faith from yesterday's victory, it
most likely not be like it happened yesterday. The way David killed Goliath, and bear, and a lion was
different. You know the lion and the bear were not Goliath. Goliath was a gigantic, huge man. Jesus
will do things differently. When He encountered disciples who couldn't catch fish, He told them
to launch into the deep in the Gospel of Luke. But at the end of His ministry He told disciples to
flip their nets on the other side. So same result, different strategy. So our goal is to be in tune
to the Holy Spirit and to understand, you can't rely on yesterday's breakthrough for today's
strategy. Ask God for the new strategy, ask God, wait on God to give you a new method. Mission
remains the same, the method is different. Let God supply a strategy. If you rush to just repeat
what you did before, you might find yourself with a deep disappointment. If you copy somebody else's
strategy, you also might find it backfire against you. Pharaoh went into the Red Sea because it
worked for Israel, but see God led Israel into the Red Sea. He didn't lead Pharaoh there. So Pharaoh
went thinking it will work for me. It didn't work for him. It destroyed his army. Be very careful to
copycat everyone. It's okay to imitate someone's faith. Where it becomes dangerous is to copy their
works of faith. You can be inspired by someone's generosity, commitment to God. But the way that
will be translated in your life should depend on you and the Lord. You shouldn't take what somebody
else is doing and just copy and paste. You should take that into prayer and see which parts can be
duplicated and which parts God will give you brand new ideas on what you must do. You know when I
look at the way I do ministry you know I learn from other men of God. 100%. I leaned, I learned
from men of God I don't agree with, you know and because a wise person learns from other people.
Smart person learns from their mistakes, and foolish person doesn't learn at all. So I got to
be a student all the time. And I've made mistakes before where I just took some what's worked for
somebody, and I said, well this is going to you know work in my life, and it didn't. And I had to
go into the secret place and say, Lord, what would You guide me? And then take risk, because when God
speaks it requires faith to trust that there was God speaking instead of your own head. So you test
to see. You know you take risk, and then I would see God bless that. You know like even let me
just give you one of the big changes is you know I offer my books for free. You know it's not a good
strategy for finances to come into the ministry, in a sense that you know people just download it.
And I offer the e-courses for free. You know I've had quite a few people say, man that's not, how's
that even working for you? He's like, well how do you have funds coming in so that you can do that?
And but that's the way that the Lord has led me. This doesn't mean that every person needs to
do that. This doesn't mean that you need to be copying me. You can be inspired, but you still
have to go to the Lord and have Him guide you. And I've seen God's favor and grace on that because I
believe in my heart that this is God's direction for me. This is God's strategy. I have my other
reasons for that as well but I sense in my spirit this is the strategy, and I really sensed
that. And in fact when that became the strategy, it's when things kind of went to a different level
in my ministry about three or four years ago. So don't rely on somebody else's success, don't rely
on your past success to be today's strategy. Stay in tune with the Holy Spirit and He will give you
new strategy. In the new season He will give you new strategy. Drop this in the chat. In the new
season, God might give you a new strategy, amen. Let's go to number seven. Excuse me, yes number
seven. So I mentioned number six, new strategy. Number five, new sanctification. Number four, new
sacrifice. Number three, new spirit. Number two, new supply. Number one, new shaking. Number seven,
new subduing. New subduing. What I mean by that is in the new season you have to subdue. A lot of
times what happens is we go to a new season and we want God to begin to subdue for us. We want
God to begin to do things for us, for example, in Egypt Israel was delivered. So in the
Promise Land the Lord didn't deliver them. He delivered the enemies to them. Let
me read it to you, Joshua 1:3. It says, "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread
upon I have given you, as I have said to Moses." So in the previous season which was Egypt, God
was having His power delivering them. But now in this new season what happened is God allowed
the enemy to be under their feet so that they will tread upon them, so that they will conquer
them and so that they will experience dominion. In other words, in the new season you will have
to move from deliverance to dominion. Drop this in the chat. In the new season you will have to
move from deliverance to dominion. In deliverance God works for you. In dominion God works through
you. Let's drop this in the chat. In deliverance God works for you, in dominion God works through
you. So in Egypt, God worked for them. All they had to do was nothing, all they had to do at the
end is just kill the lamb but really it was God's work. In the promised land they had to fight. In
Egypt they were in bondage. In the promised land they were in a battle. In Egypt they were slaves,
in the promised land they were soldiers. So this new season you have to subdue, not just survive.
So many people go into a new season to "survive." God doesn't want you to survive, God wants you to
subdue. Meaning, God wants you to fight. God wants you to conquer. God wants you to fight for what He
has promised. You don't get what you promised in the promised land. You get what you fight for. So
if you have a victim mentality, if you have this thing where you just hope for God to deliver you
in the promised land, instead of God to empower you in the promised land to drive out the enemy.
You might not see what you've been promised. When God delivers you He takes the demons out of you.
But when God empowers you, He gives you power to resist the devil. May I submit to you that
some of you have been going from deliverance to deliverance, but you have not went from
deliverance to dominion. You've been asking God to deliver you from Pharaoh and He did. But now
you're asking God to deliver you from Philistines, and He's not because He's empowering you to drive
out those Philistines. He will deliver you from your bondage but He will never deliver you from
your battle. Otherwise the Bible wouldn't tell us submit to God and resist the devil. If God removes
the devil, why do I have to resist him? Because in the new season you're no longer a survivor,
a slave. You're a soldier and you must subdue. You must fight. So when the enemy comes and
attacks you, there's a difference between needing deliverance and God waiting on you to practice
dominion. The Bible says, through the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace. We are
called to reign in life through Christ Jesus. The Bible says, against principalities, powers of
this world, we stand. We put on the armor of God, we have the sword of the Spirit. Meaning we stand,
we subdue, we keep walking forward. I believe that sometimes God gives us deliverance but then we
still have to exercise dominion if we really want to walk in the fullness of what Jesus died for us.
Now how would you do that? You may say, well Vlad, okay so what is one of the things that I can do
to subdue. And this is my point eight. In the new season you have to develop a new speech. New
season must lead to development of new speech. I believe it's one of the ways we subdue is with
our speech. God said to Joshua 1, Joshua 1:8 and He said the following, "This Book of the Law
shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night." So I want you to
notice, not depart from your mouth. Your mouth, your mouth. What a sword was for Joshua, your
word is for you. Joshua conquered with the sword, you conquer with the word. What does this mean?
Let me give you a statement that I believe is very important. Your mouth should set the atmosphere
in your life, not just describe it. Your mouth should set the atmosphere in your life, not just
describe it. Your mouth should not just be a thermometer. Your mouth should not be the one
that just measures the temperature, your mouth should be the one that changes the temperature.
Now I am not in any way advocating that you can speak things into existence that are not there.
That power is given to God. But God does release His power in our life by affecting our mouth. God
created this world with His words, and we must understand that the life or death is in the power
of a tongue. You can use your mouth every day to describe your sickness, or you can use your mouth
every day to speak God's healing Scriptures. You can use your mouth every day to describe your
financial situation, or you can use your mouth to set atmosphere of faith in your situation.
You can use your mouth to say how you are weak, how you are a sinner. Or you can use your mouth to
say that you are righteous who's fighting sin, you are a son who's overcoming challenges. You see how
a slight adjustment, but one decreases your faith, depletes your faith if you only describe your
situation. The other one changes it, sets the, sets the temperature in your environment
by using your word to speak God's Word. The way you subdue in the promised land is
with your mouth. Jesus overcame the devil, not by fist fighting him. He wasn't doing a
wrestling match, He was speaking God's Word. Joshua conquered the land with the sword, you
conquer your land with your Word. Drop this in the chat. Joshua conquered the land with the
sword, you conquer your land with your Word. Speak God's Word. Speak God's Word and that is how
you will subdue God's promise. Now, number nine. New season, new step. What does this mean? In the
old season there was a lot of waiting on God to take you somewhere. In the new season you have to
renew your mind and understand that God has given you the green light, and you must take the step
of faith in obedience and the signs will follow you. New season, new step. New step of faith that
signs will follow. Signs are waiting for your step of faith. Drop this in the chat. Signs are waiting
for you to take the step of faith. Signs of God, the supernatural of God is waiting
for you to take the step of faith. Sometimes I see us praying these prayers,
I've prayed them as well in my hunger and pursuit of God. I don't think they're wrong, I just don't
think they're complete, and we take that from Exodus where Moses said, Lord I will not go if You
don't go with me. We mean well. We simply mean, God we just want Your presence. We value
Your presence in our life. But that prayer could actually contradict God's promise in the New
Testament, why? Because Jesus promised to be with you. I don't think you need to ask Him to fulfill
that promise. I don't think you need to beg Him to fulfill the promise of His Spirit living in you.
What you do need to do, what I need to do is act by faith as though that promise is true. Joshua
3:13, the Lord said to Joshua, once the priests step into the Jordan, the Jordan will be cut
off. And the waters will come down from upstream, they will stand like a heap. So pretty much in
the Red Sea, they were waiting. In the Jordan, God was waiting. In the Red Sea, God split the Red Sea
and they walked. In the Jordan River, they stepped into the Jordan and God's power stepped there as
well. Why is that important? Because many of us wait on God where we were not commanded to wait on
God. We were commanded to work with God. We wait where we should work, and we ask for things that
we should take by faith. That those things are ours, and step in faith and the signs will follow.
If you wait for the sign, you might wait too long and it might never come. But if you work with the
faith you have, believing it's true what God has said, He is with you. Jesus made it very clear,
if you go, meaning you got to take a step. See new season, new step. If you go, make disciples of
all nations, what did the Lord say? He says, lo, I am with You. Meaning He says, I'm going to back
you up. What does Mark 16 tell us? These signs will follow. So they'll follow those who believe.
So as you believe, as you step out in faith, signs will follow. What if the reason why signs aren't
stepping in is because the soles of your feet are not stepping in? How does that look practically?
Take the small step of faith. Pray for the sick, give a call to salvation in your church,
invite your friends and family to church, pray for deliverance, give like you believe that
God will meet you at the point of your need, start that business that God told you to start, launch
that ministry that God told you to launch. Oh but, but I need more faith. You know how faith grows?
It's like a muscle. It only grows with use. It's not going to grow if you just wait, wait and you
keep hearing, hearing, hearing. It will grow, yes faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word
of God. 100%. But it will reach a certain plateau, until you start exercising it, until you start
stepping in faith. They stepped in faith and God stepped in power. Drop this in the chat. When I
step in faith, God will step in power. When I step in faith, God will step in power, amen. So we've
shared a lot already about seasons, and I can still talk to you for maybe one more hour about
you know 20 more S things that you can do, but I'm just going to leave you with one more thing and
that is, new season, new stewardship. New season, new stewardship. What I mean by that is this. The
Bible says Joshua conquered the promised land. So he defeated the enemy. That's first half of the
Book of Joshua. The last part of the Book of Joshua was Joshua dividing the land. Joshua 18:10.
Joshua dividing the land. What I mean by new season, new stewardship is this. God is the reason
revival starts. We are the reason why it stops. God is the reason why breakthrough comes. We are
the reason why breakthrough stops. God is the reason why miracle comes. We are the reason why
that miracle never turns to anything else in our life. What I mean by we are the reason? Through
our lack of management and stewardship is why what we conquer never turns to anything great, just
kind of comes to an end and then we're back at where we started. If you don't develop stewardship
in your life over what you have received from God, you will lose it. God is why you got it
and you'll be the reason why you lost it. How you handle your miracles and your breakthrough
matters. If you handle your hard times with care, they will turn into good times. If you handle your
good times carelessly, they will turn into bad times. If God multiplies the loaves and the fish,
God also instructs that you gather the fragments. Meaning you steward the supernatural, you manage
the miraculous, you have to learn to budget the blessings. What many of us do is we take this
blessing the new season brings, and instead of increasing in our stewardship, for example let
me just deal with finances for a second. Instead of paying down debts, not buying things we don't
need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't even like. Instead of learning how
to invest, we quickly buy new toys, upgrade our house to a better zip code, quickly upgrade
into brand clothes, flashiness. And then that breakthrough comes to an end and all of the things
we purchased are repossessed, and we lose them, and we develop another disappointment that good
things don't last. That's true good things don't last. But people who are wise, they take good
things and they steward them. Joshua divided the land. He didn't just defeated the enemy, he
learned strategy. He learned systems. He learned stewardship. If you receive a breakthrough in
your finances and you do not develop stewardship, your breakthrough is not going to last. Joseph
had seven years of plenty, and Joseph, he set aside 20%. 20%. I mean who saves 20%? You could
just buy bigger houses, build bigger buildings, right? Nicer chariots. Joseph knew, good times
don't last and when they come to an end, I want to be positioned in the place for greater prosperity.
How? Through wisdom. See faith wins battles, wisdom develops structures and stewardship.
And Joseph through wisdom from God, led Egypt through a very good time and made Pharaoh the
wealthiest person in a very difficult time, why? Because when good times came, he stewarded
them. He managed them well. When I see people who get a breakthrough, whether it's in the
ministry, or I see people who get a breakthrough in their finances, or they get a breakthrough in
their life. And I see how sometimes they treat that breakthrough like prodigal son treated his
inheritance. They waste it with wasteful living, wasteful living. How when pastors get a
breakthrough and how they treat their people, and how they don't develop systems, they
don't raise leaders and everything is on hype, everything is on this guy on the stage and
everything. And then something happens to the guy on the stage and everything is gone because
it was never built on organization, culture, vision, a team. No stewardship, no management.
They know how to pray but they don't know how to plan. They know how to move in miracles
but they don't know how to manage anything, and through mismanagement lose everything. God
can get it but you and I will be the reason why we lose it. Mismanagement will be the cause why it
never becomes anything. So when God blesses you, don't rush to increase your lifestyle.
Increase in wisdom, delay gratification, build systems, structures and become a better
steward, pay down your debts and remember, this blessing has an expiration date. But
if you treat this blessing carefully, this blessing can become a breakthrough. If you treat
this blessing carelessly, once this blessing comes to an end and it will, it will be the end. New
season, new stewardship. Raise your stewardship, raise your management, become frugal, become
careful, know where your money is going, manage your time well because you can't make more time.
You can always make more money but not more time. Manage your resources well, manage your energy
well, manage your health well. It's good that God healed you but I don't think you need to be
eating ice cream every single day or putting sugar into your body because if you mismanage your body,
divine health is as important as divine healing. Manage what God has given you really well, and
as you do that and you're faithful with little, you're faithful with that blessing, you're
faithful with that breakthrough. You manage it well, you steward it well. God will now qualify
you for greater things, amen. I know some of you didn't see that coming about the season but I
believe it's essential and it's very important. So let's review. A season shift. A new season can
bring a new shaking. It's when shifts happen with people. For Joshua it was Moses dying. A new
season brings a new supply. It's when God can remove provision because he's preparing us for His
promise, prosperity. A new season requires a new spirit. Joshua had a friend named Caleb who had
a different spirit. Meaning a different mindset, optimistic, who sees challenges and thrives on
them, instead of being pessimistic and negative. New season requires a new sacrifice. In which way?
Because you're going to have to put a structure in your life where God is first. They had to give
Jericho to God and we have to put God first in our day, in our week and in our finances. New season
brings about new sanctification. Meaning they had to be circumcised because today sanctification is
tomorrow's supernatural. And that circumcision is kind of like what God wants to do. He wants to
bring purity and cleanliness in our private life and in our reproductive organs. Meaning as
we're being pruned, we're set up for greater fruitfulness. Sixth, new season requires a new
strategy. Meaning you got to wait on the Holy Spirit to give you the next step. Don't rely
on yesterday's success to be today's strategy. Number seven is new season requires you to subdue.
The Bible says that God gave them every piece of real estate that their foot stepped on. So you
got to subdue. You got to move from deliverance to dominion. You don't get what you promised,
you get what you fight for. The way you subdue, number eight is new season requires you to have a
new speech. Don't use your mouth to describe the situation. Use your mouth to change the atmosphere
in your situation by speaking what you believe to be true, not what you feel. Number nine is new
season requires you to take a step. This means that while maybe previously you've been kind of
always waiting. In this season God is waiting because signs are waiting for you to take a step
of faith, and lastly is new season will require a new stewardship. We said God is the reason you get
the breakthrough, mismanagement will be the reason why that breakthrough stops. Learn to manage
what God gives you, become a better steward, become like Joseph, learn to steward things well.
You don't need just faith to win battles, you need wisdom to steward the spoil. Was this helpful for
anybody? I know there was a lot of wisdom that was given here, as well as faith that was encouraged,
so drop that fire emoji and let's begin to pray right now. I want to get ready to pray for you
today, that the Lord is going to bring wisdom, increase your faith, and strengthen you in this
journey in Jesus name. Lord, I thank You for Your grace, I thank You for Your mercy today and
I thank You for the favor that You have shown to us Lord. I thank You right now for the word
that You have released, and I pray for all of my friends. I pray right now for all of my family
members that are watching, spiritual family, the Fast Forward Challenge group that is watching
right now. People from the telegram group, people that are participating in fasting and prayer,
people that are taking a step today to strengthen their prayer life by participating in this fast
challenge, Lord. I ask You in the mighty name of Jesus that as You are shifting things in our life,
would You begin to give us the necessary faith and wisdom to walk in a way that pleases You. Lord, I
ask you for faith through be strengthened. I pray for people who have fear, that that fear will
be broken. People who lost jobs, lost people, people who have maybe had people walk away from
their life, people that got laid off, people maybe who had to downsize, people who have maybe
come under heavy attack of the enemy. Lord, help them to fight back. Lord, help them to find hope
that you will bring them into the place of milk and honey, even if manna stopped. Help them Lord
God to submit to God and resist the devil. Help them to raise the level of consecration in their
life, and Lord I ask You that You will increase their faith. Help them to walk by faith, be like
Caleb who had a different spirit. Help them to walk in optimism, help t to walk in a positive
outlook on the challenges in their life rooted in deep confidence in the Lord. But Lord I ask
You for wisdom. Sometimes we have so much faith, Lord, and we lack so much wisdom. We lack wisdom.
Give us wisdom. Give wisdom to every person that is watching, that we will be as innocent as doves
but as wise as serpents. Help us to have purity, to have faith but to have wisdom and how to
steward, how to manage our time, how to steward our resources and how to manage our energy that
we can be most effective for you. So that we can turn the blessings You give us and work with them
to become breakthroughs for generations after us, in Jesus name, amen. Put that word "amen" in the
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