The Transitional Place | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection worship is not wasting time God says I want people who claim to be my leaders to spend time with me worshiping me take your shoes off stay a while Joshua chapter 5 I want to begin reading with verse 12 then the man is ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land and the children of Israel no longer had manna but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year and it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man opposite him with a sword drone in his hand and Joshua went to him and said to him are you here for us or our adversaries and he said no but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come and Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him why does my lord what does my lord say to his servant then the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua take your sandals off your foot for the place where you stand is holy and Joshua did so and now one more little phrase in verse chapter 6 of verse 1 now Jericho they didn't say didn't start out talking about but the noun means there's some timing connected here after you've done what after you've been through what you just heard in the previous chapter now Jericho now it's time to move and cross over into the promised land I want to talk to you today about what to do when you're in a transitional place I really felt like as I tried my best to get the heart of God for this congregation the people that are watching those of you online those of you by television I believe that there are millions of people perhaps who are hearing me today who are in transitional places and you've got to understand that when you're in a transitional place it means that God is going to move you from where you are into what he has for you but in that transitional place it can become very very frustrated because when you're at the same level for a long time we weren't built I believe I believe we weren't built to be at the same level all the time I believe something in us yearns for more something in us yearns to go from faith unto faith from glory unto glory I know as this church has grown when we would hit a certain level I would get and it seems like we would be there for a while and I would get this uneasiness this this restlessness that would almost drive me out of my out of my comfort zone I guess that we've got to break through and we've got to grow and we got to reach more people and I believe that frustration is from God but when you've been at the same level of whatever it is that your experience and in God and you can't seem to get father and what he's called you to do you're in a transitional place the word of the Lord came if you read it in this chapter it came to Joshua and he said you and this people will cross over this Jordan to a land that I will show you there's a place of crossing over a separation from the wilderness a separation from the dry spell a separation from the struggle of just getting by just having enough just going through the same wilderness experience that's not God's best and that's not God's plan for your life that the wilderness has a purpose to teach you to trust God but he has a place of crossing over for your life and notice that it took a Joshua it took a power relationship without a power relationship Israel could not get to their promised land without a relationship with Joshua Joshua is a beautiful type and picture of Jesus and there's no way that you're gonna get in to what God has for you without going through Jesus in side of you there are things that cannot be unlocked to you get around the right folks and Joshua could take them where Moses could not Moses represented the law and the reason that God didn't let him take them into the Promised Land I've heard people say because he struck the rock and I understand that that was a part of it but really he made it into the Promised Land because he ended up talking to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration but the reason he didn't let them lead he didn't let Moses lead them into the Promised Land is because he wanted us to understand the law can't get you there it's going to require Joshua Jesus to take you into the promises you can't earn it you can't deserve it it comes only through Jesus Christ through his blood through his cross through his resurrection through his name you enter in to the promises give me a big Amen right there and so it matters whether or not you get power relationships in your life first of all with Jesus but then with leadership that God puts in your life if they had not connected with Joshua then they would have never entered in there's a difference folks between showing up at church and joining up with the vision of the house join up with powerful people join up with anointed people join up with people who have a touch of God in a dream and a vision and if you don't have a dream get around somebody who's dreaming and God has a way of using them to spark something in you that will cause you to come out of the mediocrity that you've been in and begin to walk into the promises God has for you the scripture said and God began to magnify Joshua in the eyes of the people now listen to me very carefully when a new move of God begins to happen you either ignore it or you make friends with it notice that when God is taking you somewhere and transitioning you you'll see this in the Old Testament God constantly three times changed the diet of the people the children of Israel had three specific diets in the Old Testament in Egypt it says over and over and over they ate leeks and garlic and onions I'm gonna call that the food a bondage when you're in bondage you eat certain things that everybody around you can tell what you've been eating it's not hard to tell what some people have been eating cost their attitude stinks what comes out of their mouth stinks and we can tell what you're consuming in your diet if you're consuming offense if you're consuming bitterness if you're consuming unbelief if you're consuming doubt and fear and worry and depression it always comes out in a stinking attitude and in words that come out of your mouths if you're ever gonna get out of bondage you've got to start eating something you've never eaten before the Bible puts it this way do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind instead of taking in a diet of things that gives you a stinking attitude you have to begin to take in the Word of God listen to it worship with it feed on it listen to CDs listen to preachers get the word in you because God is bringing you out of bondage out of and off of the food of a bondage and he's saying I want you to move in to a new place and the scripture said that he changed their diet and then that they get into the wilderness and they had the second diet guess what it was it was called manna and the word manna in Hebrew means what is it what is it for 40 years they ate the bread of uncertainty what is it it's the bread that sustains you while you're wandering through the wilderness and you don't understand where you're going or where you're at and you're just kind of holding on and God is teaching you things and when you first get saved take you off of the stinking attitude stuff and he'll say come on out and he'll plant you in a church and at first it's exciting but then you may go through a little wilderness time but that wilderness is just going to equip you with something called manna you don't know quite what you've gotten into but church is a what is it to you I heard I'm supposed to get baptized what is it it's what is baptism what is the Holy Spirit what is the baptism in the whole it's all a big what is it that's okay God has you right where he wants you and then there came the place of the cross over and and that's where I read where the scripture said and the manna ceased and they ate of the fruit of the ground the third diet final diet that he put his people on now their diet had to change again and he said now you can have whatever you're willing to break the ground for you've got to become a ground breaker and whatever you're willing to so for that's what you can eat whatever you want to eat you decide whatever you want to get out of your walk with God now that you've been saved and I've taught you what it is to be a believer what it is to be an intercessor what it is to be a witness for Jesus Christ what it is to be a spirit-filled believer now it's up to you now the man is gonna cease and what you get out of your Christian walk is not up to God whatever you sow you will reap a demand is placed on your faith now now listen this is a big point your comfort level in a place of transition your comfort level must be challenged that's why I change their diet because it's uncomfortable you're faithful you're fruitfulness is linked to your discomfort zone that's why I said they that sow in tears it's uncomfortable will reap in joy that's why there's a verse that said he that will not plow by reason of the heat it's uncomfortable will have no heart service in the winter your fruitfulness is linked to your discomfort zone your fruitfulness is tied to being in a place of discomfort just about the time you're ready to write and print your 1,001 ways to prepare manna recipe book God will come along and he will say I'm changing everything and you become in a place of discomfort what is it is over now go get it yourself it's called the food of freedom it's not a handout you have to take a plow and you have to sow and you have to read your diet has to switch when you cross over a woman giving birth the first sign that she's entering fruitfulness is discomfort when a woman's gonna have a baby the first thing she will do is feel discomfort and get to the hospital and she's got one thing on her mind are the drugs ready because this is extremely uncomfortable but notice that discomfort is always connected to fruitfulness I'm saying to you today that God has you right where he wants you in a transitional place now notice what happened Joshua then sees the angel of the Lord and he asked him a question he's standing there with a sword in his hand the angel is they said have you come for us are you for our adversaries and I love this angel he's a bad angel he said neither if you want God on your side you better get on God's side because he's not on your side and he's not on their side he's on his side and if you want him you better get on his side people take the word that like he's on our side he's God's Word even façades God's word is what it is and you either get in line with it or he just ignores you I like this angel because this angel said it don't matter to me I've come to do the will of God I'll whip you I'll whip them I'll whip all of y'all I don't care I'm on assignment for the will of God to be done it's not about people it's not about churches it's about the will of God and God's glory and you can't just grab the word and act like you can fight somebody with the word God has his own agenda and we have to get into his agenda now notice this I'm just gonna do some more teaching here now Joshua surrenders leadership to the angel of the Lord Joshua was captain of the people but the angel of the Lord was the captain of the hosts of the Lord you see everybody's not a leader everybody has the potential to be a leader but not everybody's a leader if you don't believe everybody's not a leader put them over your stuff let's put them over your stuff leadership is identified by two things leadership is not titles leadership is not positioned leadership is not what you call yourself I'm a leader leadership has to do with two things number one results don't tell me you're the best mechanic in town if I just had you work on my car and they're pulling me up in a tow truck I don't care how big your yellow page aunt is if you don't get results you're not a leader it's about results in the world knows this the world will hire people and if they don't get results they say take you a little title and leave goodbye secondly leadership is about fruitfulness leaders have the ability to produce fruit the biblical example of that is Moses the Bible said that he was ready to find the first High Priest for the nation of Israel and so God told him what to do he said I'll tell you how you vindicate and know who I choose as the leader he said tell him to take a stick a dead stick cut it a stick down each tribe is the write their name of their leader on that stick and bring a stick representing the tribe and the leader of that tribe twelve of them bring it into the holy place and put it on the Ark of the Covenant and leave it in there and the stick that was dead and comes back to life is the way that you will know the one that I choose is the stick that was dead will begin to produce fruit and that is the one that you are to follow that is the one that you are to go to with your sins that is the one you are to go to to get the blessing and the Bible said they all brought dead sticks all twelve of the tribes and there was one that Aaron had and he laid it down they came back all the sticks were dead but one of the sticks came alive and it was budding and it was fruitful it was Aaron's rod the scripture said and God said the one that's fruitful that's the leader you are to follow that's the leader you are to follow that's what God did when he did the same thing when he wanted somebody to lead the world to salvation every religion said our founder is the right one Islam said Muhammad is the right one Buddhism said Buddha's the one Confucius is the one all the religions of the world our leader is the one God says fine let's kill them all Jesus he claims to be the one let's kill them all kill them all and lay them in the tomb and the one that's dead like a stick and comes back alive again fruitful he's the firstfruits of them which sleep well I Got News for you Muhammad stayed like a dead stick and Buddhists stay like a dead stick but on the des he's alive again his name is Jesus there's no other name there's no other way to life and there's no other one who can lead you into the Promised Land he's our fruitful leader will you give it Jesus a big praise the mighty name of Jesus whoa whoa I'm almost done hallelujah and what got me about this story is the scripture said when the angel said who's on the Lord's side Joshua said I'm with you and then I love this part Joshua fell on his face and worshiped he fell on his face he's at a transitional place that he has long to be and his people have loaned to B for 40 long years he's there but I love the fact that before you get to Joshua 6 and 1 word says now Jericho right before it a man in a place of transition fell on his face and the angel said take off your shoes when the message Bible says take off your shoes and stay awhile in other words I know you're busy I know you got stuff pushing on you I know the people are anxious I know they're all packed up and ready to go they've been waiting for generations to get across this river I know a lots going on I know you're a busy leader but fall down on your face take your shoes off stay a while and worship God because when you worship it sets you up for the transition leaders ought to be worshipers you've got time to worship no matter what's pushing on you worship is not wasting time God says I want people who claim to be my leaders to spend time with me worshiping me take your shoes off stay a while another thing about taking your shoes off is have you ever walked around barefoot you feel everything your feet are sensitive so take your shoes off where I'm taking you I'm gonna need you to be sensitive I'm gonna need you to really be in tune and leaning on me where I'm taking you you've never been before and I need you to be worshipful I need you to be in a spirit of dependency leaning on me worshiping me look to me as your source not man and I conclude with this point your Bible said now Jericho was straightly shut up walls of resistance they heard they were coming have you ever seen in the movies you know when back in the back in the old days you know when they had the the cities they when they hear the enemy's coming the drawbridge starts so that's what it means it was straightly shut up nobody was going in nobody was coming out watch this walls of resistance the Lord had somebody inside where they were trying to go God had somebody for Joshua that was where he was trying to get to already and here's the thing that the Lord told me to tell you that there's somebody that's gonna help you get into your promised land and here's the catch it was Rahab and she was a prostitute if you think that he's only got to use your people and your kind of folks and everybody that you think like you and act like you and agree with everything that's not how God takes you into the Promised Land he will use whoever he wants to use when he wants to use them and if you're sensitive if you can hear him if you're worshiping you're humble enough to say I know you're not a prophet you're a prostitute but God said come to your house and she was the one that helped them get into the Promised Land the Lord said to tell you that there is someone coming in your future that you are going to have to connect with they are a power relationship and they may not even be saved stand up on your feet no one moving no one walking around just real steel and real quiet for just a moment I want you to take 30 seconds all over this room and all of our campuses in the overflow wherever you are lift your hands up high and I want you to do what Joshua did as busy as he was as Presonus things were on him he took time to worship throw your hands up turn the volume up on your voice box get a praise phrase in your lips open your mouth and if you're in a place of transition begin to worship Jesus he's the Good Shepherd he leads you into green pastures beside the still waters goodness and mercy are following you and you need to worship you need to take your shoes off a little while you need to say god I'm just gonna settle right here and I'm gonna give you the glory that I might the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord I've been frustrated I've been at a place of transition but I know you're taking me in I know you're leading me in I know you're taking me God where I've never been before and the walls of resistance are coming down the walls of resistance are coming down in Jesus mighty name and in the name of Jesus I speak power relationships the most unlikely people you're gonna set at the table in the room with the most unlikely people you're gonna pinch yourself and say I'm I really here how did this happen and you're gonna know that as you spent time in worship he opens doors no man can shut when he announces favor on your life nobody's curse can stop the blessing

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Length: 24min 12sec (1452 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 24 2018