"Unstoppable" - Touré Roberts

[Music] go ahead and have a seat I just want to quickly I want to draw your attention to Joshua chapter 9 and we're just gonna look at the first two verses I'm gonna tell you right now I'm just going to encourage you to read chapter 9 and chapter 10 and chapter 11 all the way through revelation and then go back to Genesis and catch up but but it's such this this book in particular is such an incredible work and it's a truth that allows us to really understand what God has in store for us and what he will do in the life of someone who sold out for him don't have any people who are sold out you like you know I'm sold out and others or you you're selling out you will get in their lists and I get it but I'm telling you there's that there's the the relationship that Joshua has with God and how he was able to access the power of God in unprecedented ways is just mind-blowing so you got a study and it's amazing but I wanted to zero in on these first two verses we'll talk about it a little bit we'll pray and we'll be out it says and it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side of the Jordan in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Lebanon the hittite the amorite the Canaanite the perizzite the hivite and the jebusite heard about it say heard about it mmm-hmm that they gathered together to fight with Joshua and Israel with one Accord I'll stop right there all of the kings of the land the God was giving to Joshua and his people when they heard it when they heard it they they heard it they perceived it they felt the sound of it they felt the river of doom when they heard the sound of Joshua and his army marching in to dispossessed them to take territory to be all that God called them to be and to lay hold of all that had been assigned to them when they heard it they gathered themselves together on one Accord these were Kings who oftentimes had beef amongst themselves oh I feel the Lord but because of Joshua and because of who was with him and because of what was on him and because by now it was obvious that he was unstoppable because of that all of a sudden all of the Kings assembled themselves together made a pact against Joshua and rolled up on him that had to have not been Pleasant I don't care how much faith you got I don't care how many times I feel Lord how many times you seen God bring you out it is not a good day when all of your enemies roll up on you and I'm not talking about one by one let's take our turn I'm talking about in one week's time this comes against you that comes against you this falls apart this relationship dies this financial difficulty arises this opportunity seems to be in jeopardy has anybody ever been there before where you are troubled on every side and and you thought that you were on the brink of your blessing [Music] because all of the prophetic words that you heard said you're moving into the next dimension who can I talk to two or three people in need today all of the recent prophetic words said it's your time trying to keep this in every prophetic word you heard says it's your season it's your time it's on 2017 is the year of this and and this mountain and you're like yes yes and you look around and all precisely and all hell breaks out and your enemies are surrounding you and it looks like you are outnumbered have you ever been in a season where it looked like difficulty outnumbered blessing in your life in a season when you were supposed to be overtaken by blessing and then the preacher tries to encourage you with the best of intentions and say that's because you're getting ready to break through and you like yes yes yes him not realizing that he's actually wrong the trouble does not come when you're getting ready to break through the trouble comes when you have broken through are you tracking with me I came here to tell somebody tonight that the reason why is turned up is because you have stepped into it you are in the promised land you're here it ain't gonna happen you are in it this is what it looks like it looks like difficulty it looks like struggle it looks like war why because you are in the enemy's camp you are in his territory you are gathering the promise and he hears you he he wasn't on the other side of the Jordan he was across it some of you think you're in the wilderness but you're not there anymore I feel God you are in the promised land and that's why all hell is breaking out in your life you are there you are reported you're in it you're in it I feel the Lord you're in the space of the promised you don't need no breakthrough you've already broken through that's why it's so difficult that's why there's so much opposition you are in the enemy's camp and he is afraid so much so he's like [Music] you don't call for help for something that's not greater than you oh I feel the Lord you're in it that that story you got to study it that's a story unfolds some interesting things first of all right after it says that it seems to take this weird turn and it goes into talking about how the Gibeonites who were inhabitants of the land that joshua was supposed to be dispossessing had ultimately schemed him and tricked him and he said you got to study it i'm not going to teach it all the way through but you got to study it they basically pretended like they were from a different land they disguised themselves and they had trickery and and shiki Nury and and and they went to him and said oh no no we're from a far place and we've come to serve you please make a covenant with us that you won't destroy us and so unbeknownst to the children of israel they make a covenant with a a group that they were actually supposed to dispossessed from the land one of the things that said to me was that the reason why it's so critical to recognize where you are and ultimately who you are is because if you don't know who you are then people know who you are we'll take advantage of you and make you miss I feel the Lord I gotta say this right everybody knows who you are oftentimes except you the reason why the attack comes so strong is because they've heard of you I feel the Lord somebody in high places has heard of you and so when you step into not when you're trying to break through I'm telling you you're in it when you step into it you have to recognize the weight of who you are and you have to shun and resist all of the voices that try to make you believe that you're less than what you are you've got to know going in regardless of what you have or what you don't have you've got to know going in that you are valuable and since you are valuable they're always going to be schemes and tricks to get you to make a decision that if you knew who you were you would not make are you tracking with me it's important it's important it's important that you know who you are one thing that I love about Joshua and this is important is that the reason why Joshua was in the promised land and there was so much Grace on him and so much favor on him and it was just God was just he was with them and powerful things happen you know and the story he's just so full of God and God is so backing him up he basically says one day I want the Sun to stand still and the Sun Stood Still for like a whole day it didn't go anywhere I'm sorry I can't just read over that this man is in such step and cadence and alignment with God that one day he just decides that he wants to look at the Sun and say you know what son don't go nowhere for 24 hours and he wasn't crazy and the Sun stays there the Sun literally stands still because of his voice he knew he was but but I think that that what allowed him to walk out who he was in the promised land is what he worked out in the wilderness I wish I can say that better that's why that's why I was saying earlier that some of us have to work it out now we have to get to a place where we're like you know what this is who I'm going to be this is the stand I'm gonna take concerning my life I'm a child of God I love Jesus I'm gonna follow him I'm gonna walk with Him and if it cost me everything I'm gonna do it this is the same Joshua when when the when Moses sent out two twelve spies I preached on this in Denver this past weekend when he sent out two twelve spies ten of them came back with a negative report Joshua and came back Joshua and Caleb came back with the positive report and said we can take it it was like in the wilderness he made a decision he made a decision Britney he says you know what I got two choices I can either either be like everybody else and take the scraps that are thrown at me and murmur and complain and walk around in fear and be a robot and a bus and a butt kisser hoping that I can kiss my butt all the way to the top or I'm gonna have a different spirit I'm gonna believe God I'm gonna trust in God I'm gonna take my chances with God and you've got to make that switch it is black and white not everything in life is black and white a lot of things are gray but one thing that is black and white is belief or unbelief are you tracking with me there's no gray when it comes to believing God cousin he doesn't mess with people who have gray belief he has people who have either either you believe or you don't believe he said I'd rather you are hot or cold but since you are lukewarm can't do nothing with you I realized something belief is or it ain't it's one or the other either you're in man I'm trying to help somebody tonight either you are in or you're not and when you're not don't try to pretend like you're in you just say God I'm not but I want to be will you please help me to be in because I don't want to be out because there's a destiny on my life there's a call on my life there are promises over my life and if I know that if out I can't get in so help me get in Joshua worked out in the wilderness that which allowed him to walk out in the Promised Land you've got to see yourself right another thing that happened and another thing that we need to really pull away from this text again as you study it is see when you don't know when you still think you're trying to break through and you don't realize that you have already broken through you neglect tightening things up do you let me say this right this is a really important point when you think see most people procrastinate about tightening things up the promised land in the Promised Land things have to be a little tighter than they did in the wilderness so alright let me make it personal so like I've got a crazy calling and it takes me all over the country and I'm just doing stuff I got this and in order for my life to work I got a wife I've got kids right I got campuses that I'm responsible for in order for my life to work my team is everything and every dimension that God takes me to necessitates a tightening of my team because the altitude has changed and the level of security and safety and tightness on at 10,000 feet is different from that which is needed at 30,000 feet so what happens is oftentimes we move to the next dimension and we assume that the tightness of the last dimension is going to work here the spiritual disciplines of the last dimension are gonna work here might up the prayer life the prayer life from the last dimension is gonna work here everything gets upgraded you've heard it before new levels new Devils you can't fight new devils with old disciplines can I talk to you like this for real and so what happened then the text was because they didn't tighten things up they didn't they couldn't see themselves right and as a result of it they didn't tighten things up the Gibeonites were able to come in and trick them it should have been tighter when you're in the next dimension you got a watch differently I can recognize my Judas's on that level but but the Judas's on this level are craftier are you checking with me I'm trying to land playing the second and like it's like 2 seconds but but but but the things here are different so I gotta tighten it up and I've got to learn how to function on this new level what do I want to say to you come play something no I'm done I want to say to you a couple things one I want to see you walking like Joshua I believe that that that what we read about concerning Joshua wasn't just for Joshua I believe that Joshua is an example of the type of relationship and the resources that you and I will have and walk in if we have the same commitment level of faith and absolute belief that Joshua had secondly I want to tell you that you're in it don't think the enemy is coming against you because my blessing is if no your enemy is coming against you because you're in his territory let me rephrase that you're in what used to be his territory and what we have to do is keep pushing see you look at that verse and it says that they all gathered around it came against him and you look at that verse and it looks like wow he was in a difficult situation but if you keep reading he tore him up and then tore up some more people he was unstoppable and so are you I don't want you to think it is strange thing when stuff comes at you I don't want you to be distracted by it I want you to understand what it communicates to you it communicates to you that you have broken through already I feel that for some father so strongly you have broken through and all you've got to do is keep walking and all you've got to do is see yourself right and all you've got to do is tighten things up what in my life should be tighter shed my prayer life be tighter what's my prayer life like am I too busy to pray I'm in the new dimension and in the new dimension comes more opportunities to be busy which means that there are ample opportunities to have a decrease in your prayer life in a season where you need to be praying all the more because you've never been on that level before and you don't know where the Devils are you don't know where the pitfalls falls are and that's why the Gibeonites were able to come in and trick them is because the Gibeonites understood they did not you're in it and fight dig into it press into it God's gonna be with you he's gonna back you up I want to pray for you go on stand with me if you would if you're here and you sir ma'am son daughter felt God speaking to you and explaining to you the season that you're in and you want a prayer covering for this season I want you to meet me right here at this altar if you're here and you are struggling to believe and you're saying like the disciples said in one point of Scripture they said lord I believe help my unbelief cuz belief how you see God and and you believing in God changes everything about your life your whole walk is predicated upon how you believe it's not like you know I got my relationship with God and then I got my belief but I got to work on my belief no your belief is your relationship with God that that's how we relate to God faith there's our means of exchange with God so when God sees you of course he loves you regardless he loves us all but when it comes down to business it's about your faith because if you don't have faith you can't do business with God we can't do business the the children of Israel he sent the spies out to spy out the land ten of them came back with an evil report basically saying we can't do it they didn't see themselves right two of them came back and said we can do it and God did business with the two he did not do business with the ten God is a businessman I feel God he's a businessman your life is business its business hallelujah that's why you can't play with it that's that that's why you have to be serious your life is not a game you can't just be funfun funfunfunfun some thun thun have some fun to balance the business but it can't be all fun your life is business and it's serious business and the only way that God will do business with you is if you have faith that's what you can't that that's what you negotiate with faith that's why in the scripture often times it says if you I will that's negotiation and so you say God I will and then God says and so shall I that's negotiations if you don't have belief you have nothing to come to the table and do business with God with and you and God can't make powermoves hallelujah God wants to do business with you he wants to do business with you he's got you who and we're busy trying to do business with people that's wonderful do business with God first dude business with God first look at what he says about Jesus and Luke 2:52 it says the child Jesus grew in wisdom in stature in favor with God and with man in that order if you do business with God God will attract the right men for you to do business with in the natural trust me you and the only way to do business with God is belief hmm thank you Jesus as a since this is a special moment it's a holy moment hallelujah there's an alignment minute I wish I could sing if I was saying man I tear this place up right now tear this place up y'all lucky a feel man I feel like this is such a special moment like like an aligning moment like what things just just start making sense you know what I'm saying and it's not even all that deep but it's in here yo to be its truth truth is not deep it's just truth and we when we align with it powerful things start happening and it's on you man blessed you're so blessed I just there's this moment that Jesus he says he rejoiced and he said god I thank you that you hid these things from the wise and the prudent and you have revealed them unto babes and he was looking out and obviously he was looking out that I don't believe that they were all necessarily young but they were young at heart babes willing to be they were teachable willing to be taught and nurtured and he was like man I'm so excited about what you're getting because he knew the value of the words and he knew the power of their receiving of the words and I feel that in this moment right now I feel testimonies are gonna spring out I felt a lot of new things coming a lot of new things a lot of good things coming new I know we're excited about a new year I'm excited about the new things they're coming coming away good things good things coming your way and nothing can stop it nothing can stop it that's the whole theme of the book of Joshua he was unstoppable there was only one hiccup in his ministry that got resolved later and the hiccup was there was someone in his camp that wasn't tightly you studied that it's in I think that's in the second or third chapter but it's when he had the battle against a I spelled ai-ai-ai-ai and God was saying your camp has to be tight for where I'm taking you and once he got Aiken was the family that weren't tight that wasn't tight with him once he got them out he went back to that same battle and was unstoppable but the whole book of Joshua is about victory and I believe that that's the anointing and the grace and the understanding that's being poured out in his house tonight and it's on you I see new things I say new beginnings I see restoration I see recovery I see powerful things I sees doors opening I see favor I see favor I see favor with God and then with men and when God brings you in favor with man you don't exchange God's favor for man's favor you remember that it was God's favor that brought you into favor with man so if you maintain God's favor you will always have man's favor so Lord here we are standing in your presence declaring that we are your sons and your daughters declaring that we believe we're at this altar saying yes to you we're saying yes God and father where we are unbelieving help our unbelief I pray God that you would give your sons and daughters signs show them tonight I pray tonight when they step out and they look at the Stars and they see the moon they're almost since a wink you winking at them letting them know that you've got them and if you can put those stars in the sky you can bring the pass every promise that you've spoken to them father there have been many things set tonight by your spirit and every single one orchestrated by your spirit I pray God that you would impress in the hearts and the minds of your children let it not just be notes taken down on a page but that they would be engrafted on the table of their hearts that it would become a part of their relationship with you that it will become that which they meditate on day and night so that they can make their way prosperous and have good success I cover each and every single one of these your sons and daughters and I plead the blood of Jesus Christ the blood that grafts us in to the glorious covenant of our forefathers I believe that blood over them and may that blood repel and drive away everything that is negative may that blood heal them from every area of brokenness in their lives and God made that covenant blood also attract favor and grace and goodness and resources and may that blood heal and oh by the way since there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus I pray that every thought that would attempt to bring shame or to disqualify your sons and daughters from the promise would be broken right now God and that they would have a sense of adoption a sense that that you Lord God have begotten each and every single one of them and that your spirit will give them the power to say Abba Father to say daddy there's some in this room who have never been able to say that and I pray because of their relationship with you and your relationship with them and the truth that you speak to their heart perhaps for those for the very first time they'll be able to say daddy and fill your love and your grace and your healing we love you seal this moment in our hearts that we might be changed forever I just want you to repeat after me Heavenly Father I thank you for your love I receive it Holy Spirit I thank you for these words I receive it I thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine all of my weakness all of my failure all of my shortcomings all of my limitations you placed in his body nailed it to the cross and once and for all put it to death but just as he was raised up free and victorious because I'm in him I'm raised up to and nothing can stop me my past is behind me my future is amazing and I'm on my way unhindered and unstoppable to everything that you've promised me I claim it now in Jesus name Amen amen amen god bless you love you very much hey my friend I pray that that message blessed your life it blessed me for sure I want to also encourage you to pick up wholeness winning in life from the inside out this book is gonna change your life god bless you I'll see you next time

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