Moses Is Dead

We have a very special guest. The Lord connected this man of God with me about.

Three years ago or so, two, three years ago. I had heard of him before and I always wanted to meet him. And our barber introduced us. And so we've developed a friendship. I respect this man of God. I respect the anointing on his life, the experience. This man knows God. And so when you hear from the Lord today, you're going to hear through Apostle Terrell Murphy. Give him a hand as he comes. Hallelujah. I'm going to set him up. I'm going to set him up. Here we go. Anointing. Music.

I need to be drenched. That I may know you better. That I may walk with you better. That I may discern you better. Anoint my mind, God. Anoint my very soul. Just begin to make your request of the Lord. How you want Him to drench you where you need His presence. It's in my thinking. It's in my relationship. Those of you that are viewing and streaming just right where you are, just begin to open yourself up to the Lord. Presence of the living God. Rest on me. Consume me.

Fill me. Change me. Change me. Change me. Anointing for transformation. Yeah anointing for transformation anointing for healing anointing for strengthening, let thy kingdom come and your perfect will be done, oh no. Music.

We expect your glory, your presence. We expect your personhood. We expect everything that you are. Everything that you are, God. You are our first love. We return to you with fasting and weeping and mourning. Until every hindrance is removed. Until all fellowship is restored. We long for you and we desire you. And we thirst for you. Just tell about three people he's here today. He's here. He is here. He is here.

Wow, what a great day in the kingdom of God. It's good to see everyone, those of you that I know, those of you that I don't know. And such a joy to be with men and women who love God and want to seek God. It's amazing that people will go to work in the rain, but they won't come to church in the rain. I'm not talking about true life. I'm sending a message to my home church. You know, we can kind of tell when we're videoing how people are coming in.

And it was a long time before we could really expand the camera. And I said, somebody's home sleeping. But thank God for all of you just being in the place of the Lord this morning. I really love your man of God. I love your woman of God. I knew her before him. And it's been quite a joy to be able to build relationship with with them over the last couple or three years. But just give God praise for Pastor Devon and Stacey. They are just tremendous.

They love God and they love you very, very much. We were back in the green room and I told us to turn to Susan and I said they bought us back something from vacation. And I said, she said, what was it? I said, the same thing they got us last year, which I was nothing. But we're just glad to be with them. I'll make him pay for lunch the next time that we hang out.

But it's good to be here. Thank God for you. Thank God for this house and who you are in the kingdom of God and what we stand for in the kingdom of God as well. And my wife, Susan, is with me. We've been hanging out for 40 years.

We've been married for 36 years and uh and we dated for four years well she chased me for four years and i finally stopped and turned around what have died to do with thee and she said if you got any sense dine will do a lot with you and so uh thank god for you hanging out with me today She's been taking care of me the last few weeks of my back's been attacked but she's been been very faithful and making sure that everything continues to move as it needs to and so thank God for you and my

youngest son Jonathan and his wife Alexis are here and my first grandbaby Elia. When nobody's looking, she calls me king. But thank God for them and brought some of our millennials over from Life Center. We just put out a, Jonathan oversees that group and we just put out a quick text. Pop's leaving if you want to come and hang out. The first, what did you say, the first 12 or so did and they responded. I think some people sold their space, but they responded.

And thank you all for coming. I appreciate it. Does my heart good to see our young people either hungry for God or just wanted to get out of the house today.

But either way, thank you for being. Let's be seated in the presence of the Lord. I'm very excited about the things that I believe the Lord wants to say today. And I'm going to move through them pretty quickly because I'm just one that believes that faith comes by hearing and by hearing and by hearing. by hearing. And so I'm encouraging you to go to your website or to your streaming address and just listen to this word over and over again.

Pastor, I'm not just speaking to true life, but it is a word that was stirred because of true life. But it's for everyone under the sound of my voice, people that are streaming. The young men and women that came over from our ministry as well. I believe it's a word for the body of Christ. And so I just, you know, I was totally thinking of moving in one particular way and then moving. I woke up early this morning and the Lord said, well, this is what I want you to speak.

And I was like, well, what about what I wanted to speak? You know, but he said, no, this is what I want you to say to this house. And so this is a fresh word. Anytime I go anywhere, I try to administer a fresh word. I don't take messages from Life Center and then take them to other places and try and hook them up. I like to hear clearly what the Lord is saying. and he sends some real good stuff to this house.

And so not only will I speak to this house, I'll speak into this atmosphere that any that come into it, we believe that the residue of the knowledge of that word as it fits your culture will attach itself to them. And so I pray that you hear clearly what the Lord is saying. So Father, this is your day. These are your people. You are our God. We're the sheep of your pasture. I'm here for you and for the purposes that you ordained before the foundation of the world.

So Lord, not by power or might, but by your spirit, preach, minister, lead, direct, guide, transform, inform, do everything that needs to happen inside of your sons and daughters that they hear from, What the spirit is saying to the church, God, I pray that by your spirit, there'll be transformation that is exceedingly abundantly above anything they could ask and or think of God. Take them beyond who they see themselves as.

Take them beyond what they even imagine that you could do with their lives. And God, bring this ministry into a place that your glory is revealed, that all would know it. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. In Jesus's name we pray. Amen. Is it OK if I slide this table back a little bit? I just want to because I don't want to trip over this and and then fake and prostrate like like that's part of that was part of the message.

Just want to get you into the presence of God. But I do want to encourage this house today. The Lord's given me a prophetic word for you. He's given me a prophetic word for everyone that's under the sound of my voice to hear this word and begin to move in it. Now, I'm not talking about spooky prophetic where you got or, you know, we got so much going on in the body of Christ today.

But I'm speaking something that I really believe in my spirit, Devon and Stacey, that the Lord is really up to with this with this house. And I'm grateful to be a to be a part of it. Turn your Bibles to Joshua one and Joshua three. And I'll be reading a lot of those scriptures.

But I just want to get some things into your into your spirit. A lot of times we change by just being in the right atmosphere to hear what changes our thinking, what changes our doing, our being. And that's what I believe the Lord is going to do today. And so I'm going to be lifting up Joshua one quick part of it, a good part of Joshua three. And what I want to do is convey God's heart to this house today. We have to be mindful that the eyes of the Lord go to and fro in the earth,

looking for someone that he may show himself strong in on their behalf. Say my behalf. God has no problem prospering his people. God has no problem enlarging you and enhancing you. He has no problem getting you into things that no one's ever been into before. He has no challenges with taking you into places, dimensions, spheres that no one's dared to go into before. I think that we often look at the things of God and approach them in a way that

God's done all God's going to do. How many of you know that God's not finished? And he's not finished with you. He said, before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. He said, I know the plans that I have for you and their plans to prosper you, to give you a hope, to give you a future. And then I love when he says, but if you seek me, you'll find me if you seek me with all of your of your heart. So I pray that you don't try and pin everything that I'm saying to David.

But they're going to be these certain things that the Lord is going to download to you that will again shift your thinking. The context of Joshua one is that God has appointed something new for the children of Israel. There's a lot that's going on in this season right now. And I'm so frustrated when I hear about sad Christians, sad believers because of who's in the White House and who's not in the White House, what's going on and what's not going on.

That challenges me because we're not a people that are of the donkey of the elephant. We're of the lamb. And to be consumed by worldly affairs to the point that it bothers us that we can't work. We can't sleep. We can't eat. We can't enjoy people that that's called the need for deliverance. That ain't got nothing to do with who is president or who's not. As a matter of fact, we serve a kingdom that is above the kingdoms of this world.

And so it challenges me when the people of God don't realize that as things get more challenging, the grace of God increases. That as we come in the more challenging situations, the more we'll act to see the glory of God, to see the power of God. God loves the good mess. That's why he calls us into obedience, because obedience will always create a mess. When God tells you to do something, it's going to bother somebody.

Sometimes it's going to bother us. Sometimes it's going to bother the people that we're around, the places where we live and move and have our being. But more than anything, God wants men and women who are going to walk in the obedience of him. But God wants us to know that in this season, God says, I'm doing new things.

I'm doing new things. And as I shared at Life Center, that from 20 to 24, it was a time that God was revealing to the people of God what you really carry, how you really act, what you really like. And he showed us our shortcomings. He showed us our hindrances. He showed us our sin, our iniquity, showed us all these things that go on in our lives that many of us didn't even want to deal with.

But moving from 25 to 29, because this decade is supposed to be a tremendous decade for the people of God from 25 to 29, you're going to see the glory of God. You're going to see how phenomenal God is if you stay the course. I celebrate this church because I know this man of God is after the heart of God. He's after the mind and the will of God. And he's looking to push that out, not just in this body, but in this region.

And so when we talk about the fact that God is doing something new in this text. God's appointed something new for the children of Israel. What's happened? Their leader, Moses, has died. And in that, the Lord has made his mind known to them. And then Joshua three reveals the risk that is associated. And you said it, woman of God, with going deeper with God. There's a risk in going deeper with God, but it's the greatest risk that you

could ever take from Joshua one. A part of what I want to share with you is that hear me clearly.

Your past leader is no longer who God is using to bring you into your promises. Now, stay with me here because this is going to come together and make sense in a few moments. Your past leader is no longer the person God is using to bring you into your promises. In fact, God tells Joshua that the leadership, the reign, the government that was once over you is now dead.

Let me tie this together in modern Christianity. In an age where people really will easily depart a ministry and then hitch their wagon to another ministry, people do it so easily, not realizing that they're often still very connected to where they came from. And the disconnect has them seeing their present leader as their past leader. Oftentimes we wait for the present leader to do something that the past leader did so we can have something to hold about them or hold above them.

We look for them to say the same things or make the same mistakes or handle situations the same way, which often waters down our journey in God.

There's a disconnect that should be but often it doesn't happen and when we come into new places we often serve the present leader in the ways that we serve the past leader treat them the same way approach them the same way listen to them the same way and etc we just believe we move from one place into another place and for some of you that might have been three months ago for some of you it might have been three years ago.

It might have been 30 years ago that you got connected to the man of God or the woman of God. But there are these tendencies that we have to see the old person like we see the new person or to make the new person like the old person, to make the new thing they're doing like the old thing. I've seen that before, been in that before. I've heard that before this and that. And these things actually become a hindrances to our journey in the kingdom of God.

It can actually be a number of years that go by where you look at Joshua the same way you looked at Moses. This is your Joshua and you cannot look at your Joshua the same way as you look to where you came from, what you did, where you were plugged in. You can't look at in the same way. And a hindrance to doing that is the simple fact that you end up getting in places where you see your leader and minimize the glory that's upon their lives.

You can be so close to them that when the oil flows, you miss it. You can be so connected to them that they begin to become familiar to you. As I tell a lot of our leaders in the ministry, it's to your detriment if you make me common. It's to your detriment simply because I have a responsibility to see you for who you are and you should see me for who I am. And as we see each other in honor toward one another, it allows us both to ascend in the things of God in new, different and better ways.

Say this, say Moses is dead. And I don't know who your Moses was before you're where you are right now. But as I was saying, if you look at Joshua the same way you looked at Moses, you're going to miss what God's doing in your present and with your man of God. In our journey of God, we sometimes don't realize things like the mindsets we carry, the attitudes that we have towards where we are or the leader that we have. Sometimes we don't pay attention to paradigms we walk in and activities.

Religious activities that we do and postures that we carry. And we go from one place to the next in our journey or we move from one season to the next in our journey, not thinking anything's going to be different, not thinking anything's going to be changed, that as I come into the church, it's going to be like it was the last time. I believe God's a God that goes from glory to glory and from level to level.

There should be a greater anointing every time you come into the building because the residue of the anointing from the last time you were there is carrying over to the time that you're here now.

And it hits you into a place or moves you into a place where you don't even have to wait on the worship team I'm already worshiping you don't have to wait on prayer I'm already praying you don't have to wait on the instructions from the man of God because the spirit of the Lord is already moving with you And you're doing things and saying things and moving in ways that is real evident that the spirit of the Lord is here I don't need a worship leader. I'm worshiping and leading myself.

I don't need somebody to play for me I can sing and do everything I need to do and make a song unto the Lord. The Lord tells us to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs unto the Lord. I don't need a whole lot of fabrication to help me see God because I'm already seeing him. There's just a way that we approach the things of God that again, minimalizes them and waters them down into the place that our mindsets and our attitudes about where we are become the same thing.

Well, what are you doing? I'm just going to church. No, I'm going to have an encounter with God. As a matter of fact, my whole row is going to have an encounter with God. My whole section is going to have an encounter with God. We're going to encounter God all the way to church. We don't have time to fuss. We don't have time to have problems. We don't have time to be dealing with this and that. I don't care if a piece of your hair fell out. God's still God.

But I'm not coming in to get what I got last week because God's the God of increase. He's a God of acceleration and enlargement. And I want to come in and get into the greater, say greater thing. I want to come and get into the greater thing that God is doing. You can't carry stuff you picked up last week and bring it into this week. You can't carry what you're dealing with in life and feel that I'm coming into

a place with woe is me. I'm coming into a place to serve God, not to be served by God. That's one reason we don't even use the word service, because I think in religious circles, it so makes people believe, okay, sing for me, dance for me, pray for me, sing to me, take me to my children, do this for me, find me a parking lot. You just want to be served. And so much of the body of Christ all over the world wants to be served.

They don't want to gather together to experience God for perhaps the Lord is in this place and I didn't even know it because I came in this week the way I came in last week, sang the same songs, did the same things quoted the same scriptures, went through the motions the same way one thing that we love about Life Center is nobody ever knows where we're going and what we're going to do we're the church of order but no order,

because it's all about finding God and moving with him into what it is that God is doing. So God here is telling Joshua that Joshua, Moses is dead. And God is saying to each of you, just as he said to Joshua, the former things that led you are dead. The former way you've done church is dead. The former way that you've approached the things of God is dead.

Where you came from, what you did, it might have worked back then, but God's doing a new thing and will you know it because there are so many things that we're giving life to and God's already left them. But because we get caught up in religious activity and religious occurrences over and over, we miss the very presence of God. And Joseph, I forgot who he was, but he said, God is in this place and I didn't even know it.

Jacob didn't even know that God was in this place, but he was there with him, but he didn't even know it. God is saying that I'm moving you out of things inside of you that are dead, that are keeping you from seeing me the way I really am. God, it's important to us because there's going to be a supernatural shift for this house today. God's wanting to be free in here to express himself in new ways. This season, the Lord says, you're moving into true life.

The former things of your church experience are going to find it hard to move in the environment the Lord is wanting to construct here.

Hear me life sinner hear me everyone under the sound of my voice hear me true life the lord is up to new things with the body he ain't dancing the same way he ain't preaching the same way he's not leading the same way he's not doing the same things that we've gotten comfortable in and cause god to leave the building more than he's come in the building the house of joshua is going to be greater than where Moses led you. So you have to let go of the old leadership.

You have to let go of the old things you've learned. We don't realize the layers of religion and church that are consuming our lives. And the Lord is saying, I'm ready to move you from all of this. Hear this. Any believer that advances has to realize that God himself is causing you to divest of many things that were good. But they're not good enough to get you where the Lord wants you to go.

Can you make amends with that? He's he's he's saying that you've got some good things, but they're not good enough to get you to where it is that I'm trying to take you. And so there has to be a divesture of some things. Even Jesus tells the disciples who are later apostles that I must go away so that the comforter can come. Can you imagine that, Pastor D? Can you imagine walking with God himself for three and a half years? And he says, but look, bro, I got to go.

So that the comforter may come can you imagine they had built their entire life on jesus and now jesus is telling them that i've got to go and he was speaking from a place that i've got to go because there's something bigger and better that is going to come so you can more fulfill the ways of the kingdom. They thought they were living with the advantage. And he said, I've got to go so the advantage can come.

Some of us are so locked in the things that we've done that we think that's the best way to do it. And but we've got to move out of the way, even in the year that King Uzziah died, then Isaiah finally saw the Lord. There's times in our lives where we've got to look at everything we're doing, everything we're putting our hands to, every way we're approaching God and saying,

is this the only way that there is to approach God? I'm not talking about leave a church and go to another church to find another way. But within myself, am I giving God everything? Am I giving him my yes? Am I giving him my praise? Am I giving him my consecration? Am I giving him my desire, my heart, my will?

Am I giving him every single thing about myself, which changes my praise, changes my worship, changes the way I do my business, changes the way I do my job, changes me as a husband and a wife? Because I'm living, I'm giving up every single thing to God and saying, have your way in me. And he changes me into a person that's walking straight when I was walking crooked. He changes me into a person that when I used to look at valleys, I felt like I could not accomplish them.

But now I'm moving and looking at a valley and saying, is that the best you've got adversary? Is that the best thing you can shoot at me? Is this the only thing you can bring at me? God is saying, I'm looking for some people that want to do some new stuff in a new way. I want to share with you where you are individually and corporately, and I hope you'll see what God is up to with you. Say with me. The days are over of hoping that your neighbor hears the word.

The days are over for hoping that somebody you got a problem with hears the word. God is saying, no, I'm speaking directly to you. I want to show you where you really are. I hope you'll see through this text what God is up to with you. As a matter of fact, just turn over to chapter three of Joshua. And I feel strongly that the Lord has sent me here, Pastor, to sow this seed. For those who hear me, it's going to be a confirmation.

I'm just going to be speaking into what you've already been feeling, but maybe not been able to articulate. And for others, God's going to prove that this word will be made manifest in days to come. Verse 1, it says, Joshua rose early in the morning and they removed from Shittim and came to Jordan, he and all the Israelites, and lodged there before passing over. Listen, your Joshua, Pastor D, has taken you out of Shittim.

Shittim signifies the last place or the last encampment before crossing over. What many of you haven't understood in your journey with God as he's moved by the spirit, just to move with Joshua, how he's moving with this man of God, how he may be moving where you're from. What you haven't understand is that he has to get all the shit out of you to cross you over. Somebody said, oh, shit.

See, it takes great courage to lead a people from where they are into where they should be, especially when many people are unaware of where they should be or don't understand that the church, it's people, it's to be a living, moving organism, not a stoic, dead institution of practices and people who bore God.

I think God is bored with most believers. Because when you compare our lives and the activity of our lives to what we see from Genesis to Revelation, those folk were always active, moving with God, touching things, moving into things, shifting, realigning, reordering, changing atmospheres, changing environments. It even says that those that turn the world upside down have now come here.

And that's just what pastor was talking about, is that every day that I go out, I'm looking for an opportunity to move in the life of somebody, because that's what the spirit of God is doing. That's what he's up to. And we can't be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ because we don't know somebody. I look at it like this. I ain't going to probably see you again, so I might as well drop this on you.

I might as well might as well drop this on you why because i'm not ashamed of this kingdom that's inside of me and i want it to match the kingdom that's in you and root out pull down destroy and throw down that kingdom that's inside of you that's creating the challenges in your life but the church is supposed to be living and moving not stoic it's not a dead institution where people are practicing things that God doesn't even have anything to do with.

The people of God are the most necessary people of any culture. In whatever place that God plants them, you are the most important person there. I was on a panel yesterday at a conference and after the panel we were talking just about the importance of the people of God. And I just begin to share what happens when all the people that work at B of A that are believers understand they're not there because of their qualifications on their resume or where they went to school.

They're there because they should be coming together with an agenda to advance the kingdom of God in B of A. What happens when everyone with Novant and Atrium, all the believers realize we ain't just here to hang out in the break room and talk about what my pastor wore Sunday and what my pastor drives. We're here to strategize and come together and figure how we can bring the kingdom of God to bear where we are right now. Every building, in every city where the ministry of the saints are.

There's so much that can be done. There's so much that can be turned around and dealt with, but often the people of God don't understand why I'm really there. But wherever God plants us, we become the most valuable person that is there. And we're there to bring a visual demonstration of the invisible God to everyone that's there. So Joshua, like your pastor said he rose early in the morning and they removed from Shittim and came to Jordan.

He and all the true life of lights and lodged there before passing over before passing over. Let me explain the delays in your life. You're you're lodged at the place of crossing over. You're lodged at the place of crossing over and while you feel like the new things should be breaking forth in your life there's still some residue from your past journey. Your past spiritual experience can't accompany you where you're going.

And you're going to have to step into this in a new way, in a new mind, in a new spirit, because this man of God is changing. He's not changing to leave you. He's changing to lead you.

See the leading and the praying and the teaching that pastor has done has moved you out of shittim physically but what happens is is is that we stay in shittim mentally and we stay in a place soulishly and we stay in this place spiritually even though we're out of that place, let me make this declaration to the house this morning you you are out of where you have been, let me let me say it again you you are out of where you've been, well what's the problem the problem is you just haven't broken

the lifestyle you adopted while you were there which has now become the norm or a stronghold see see we often return to that to that to that to that place or that person or that or that thing we we often return to that when things get tight in our lives i mean look at the disciples what did they do they went back to fishing see see we got stuff we go back to and the lord told me this morning he said murphy he said your backward step is hindering

your forward advancement he told me that i'm just letting y'all eardrop like Sarah, you might get pregnant. See, we often live cyclically and we live habitually attached to ways and means that we gathered somewhere along the way. Somewhere along the way, this attached itself to me. Somewhere along the way, I was okay with it and let it set up residence in me. Somewhere along the way, it began to dictate the way I saw and heard and talked and did this and did that.

And we don't often understand it's keeping me from experiencing God at the greater level that God wants me to experience him in. But listen, sooner or later, this is what happens. You come to a place where you can't get into the better or best and God will hold you up. It ain't a devil this is Jesus Christ, it ain't a principality it ain't a power it ain't a ruler of darkness it ain't a crazy uncle it ain't a half-saved mom this is Jesus Christ.

That is holding you up, but I'm confident that the Lord wants to take this congregation deeper. You said it earlier, and further. What I've been teaching since the end of December of 24 has been in Isaiah 118. The Lord says, come now, let us reason together. He's saying here that there are some sin places in your life that need to be dealt with. Though they're red as scarlet, I can make them white as snow.

And then God goes on to say in his love and mercy, if you're willing and if you're obedient, you will eat the good of the land. What's going on? God has you lodging at the Jordan. Seeing, imagining what life could be, visioning, dreaming of your promised land. He's letting you see. He's showing you a better land, better relationships. He's showing you better health. He's showing you a better economic picture. He's showing you so many things that are better than where you are.

But you can't go because he's lodging you here at the Jordan where you can peek over and see it But you can't step into it You're closer to it than you've ever been in your life But it just doesn't seem like the dots will connect It just doesn't seem like it won't jump off and become what you know it should become You know you're more qualified than any and everybody else And how does she get the job? Praise the Lord.

So much is going on around you and you know and I know I should be in a better place by now. But the Lord has me lodging at the Jordan, visioning and dreaming about what it should really, really be like. But not allowing you to enter until he and you do some reasoning.

Where are you? You're at a place of transition. You're at a place of transition. And here's what the good news is. The Lord wants to get you over.

The Lord wants to get you listen true life you're in a place here this is quick key now you're in a place hear me where the instructions of the Lord are very important for this next level he's taking you into it's very important for the next level that he's taking you into in Joshua 3 verse 2 says after three days the officers went through the camp everyone say officers. It's important now that the pastors and caregivers here that are in the house are checking on people.

So after three days, the officers just went through camp. They were just connecting with people about what was going on. In verse three, it said they were commanding the people. They gave them instructions and said, when you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when you see the Spirit of God being born by the Levitical priests, the worship arts team, then set out from where you are and follow that sound. See, praise and worship is not a warm-up for the day.

It's not, I hope that's over when I get there. No, it's not a warm-up for the day. Look at what the Lord is saying. When you see the presence, something should jump off in your life. When you see the presence, things should start happening in you. When you see the presence, then set out from where you are and follow the presence. Praise and worship is going to become more vital in this crossing over because it's from there that the presence of the Lord is going to erupt in this house.

So not only does the Lord want you checking on each other, enhancing your personal and your corporate worship experience at home and in here, but also he's communicating things out of Joshua's mouth.

He's communicating out of Joshua what needs to be communicated to each other look at what Joshua says in verse four he says yet a space must be kept between you and it Joshua's saying don't get so familiar with the Holy Spirit that you think that you can be him he says but you need to keep some distance between you and him because he's so mighty and he's so powerful and so holy that his holiness could eat you up in a heartbeat so you keep back about 2 000 cubits but

don't let him get out of your sight god's saying to this house now that i'm bringing the presence of the spirit of god in here and i'm wanting you to open up your eyes and see who i am open up your ears and hear what i am saying open up your mouth and begin to speak what i am saying because i'm bringing him right here that you would be able to experience the ark.

And know the way that you must go your answer is in the holy ghost he's already solved the problem he already knows what you need to do and how you need to do it but you've got to be in the right place to keep the right view of him i don't care what's coming on my left and on my right i don't care what's going on in the government i don't care what's going on with crazy people on my job with my crazy boss i get out of my way I've got to keep my eye on the Spirit of God because he's trying to

take me into another place somebody say that's me. And he's saying that you got to watch me now. Watch me, watch me, watch me now. Because I'm taking you in a way that you've never gone before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I grew up in the Methodist church in Granite Falls, North Carolina, near Hickory. Came into New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia with Bishop Long, my wife and I did. And there were more people in one section than was in our towns in that building.

And then and then the lord moved moved us from there into charlotte to to plant that work and on the first day there were 700 people there after one year there were 1200 and i think 1212 people were members in four years we built a 20 million dollar sanctuary that is still in in huntersville that the lord but the lord transitioned me out of all of that but my point is i was stepping in the stuff that i'd never been that way before and often when

we see something the lord is telling us to step into that we've never been in before we turn and go back to what we know what you know is disqualified in this season so you need to lay aside every weight of what you know lay aside every sin that's accomplishing what you know and realize that pastor's giving some very important instructions right now verse 5 and joshua said to the people sanctify yourselves that is separate yourselves from a special holy purpose

for tomorrow the lord will do wonders among you yeah i heard that before and it didn't work maybe you misinterpreted tomorrow.

See god will do a thing right now but it won't show up for six months, how does he do it according to your faith he'll do it right now now faith i'll do it now but you ain't ready for it to show up i'll do it now so that everything is in order and everything is in line the angels know what i'm doing the spirit of god knows what i'm doing there's seers that around you to know what i'm doing because i did it right now but you just ain't ready to step into it he says tomorrow

i'm gonna be doing wonders among you, no i got about 14 that understand that he said tomorrow whether you know it or not see it or not feel it or not experience it not i'm gonna be doing wonders among you you need to be walking around tomorrow and say there's a wonder right there there's a wonder right there i prophesied there's a wonder right there there's a wonder breaking forth in my life right now i might not be able to see it but there's a wonder and baby i'm a wonder.

Because the Lord wants to work in your life in a new, fresh, special, unique, unlike before way. But there needs to be a measure of sanctification. See, as we journey, we pick up residue. And it's not always confessed. Therefore, it's not forgiven. The Lord says, confess your sin. The Lord says, if you confess your sin, I'm faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you. Do you know that a lot of people just say, Lord, forgive me, but they never confess their sins.

He didn't say confess them just to say it. He said it because that's an order. That's a principle. Why? Because in heaven, heaven is set up like a courtroom. And the courtroom has God Almighty as the judge. It has Jesus, the advocate, who is your defense attorney. And it has Satan who is over here coming at you. And the Bible says that he is persecuting the believers day in and day out.

Accusing you day in and day out. And if you have committed sin and you don't report to the courtroom to confess your sin to the judge, then the judge finds you guilty. Don't raise your hand. You ever had a warrant you didn't respond to? If not, try it. And see where you end up. in a court of law facing a judge with somebody accusing you and you better have an advocate.

Daniel says it's set up like a courtroom. And so when you never come into court to confess what you've done, then the case stays open. And if the case is open, it's an open door for the adversary to have a legal right to jack your life up. And he can mess this up and mess that up. Why? Because he's got a legal right and he's always going to do more than the way he came in.

And so we have to confess our sins. Why? So that the advocate for us can say, I forgive you and let the blood flow and the gavel of God come down and say, deliver. And Satan gets more angry. There are keys to the kingdom, weapons for our warfare. But if we never confess, then we wonder why we can't move past this and can't move past that. I never confess my sins. I only said, Lord, forgive me. Lord, you know, Lord, you know, ain't in the Bible.

It don't work. Lord, you know, don't don't work. Yeah, I do know. I know you need to confess so we can be right aligned so I can get you back into how you need to be living in me. Get these hindrances removed and get this broken fellowship restored now we can get into your promise and we thought somebody else was the problem. The Lord is saying true life, sanctify yourselves, confess your sins, your position, holy, your position, righteously.

However, there still must be the pressing into confession. There must be repentance, which leads into reflecting Jesus's nature and character and maturity. Verse four, verse five, verse six, verse eight are all instructions that were then given because they needed a leader to get them into the next place. He's not just your pastor. He's your apostolic leader to get you into places you never could get into if you didn't have the leadership.

Church ain't a place that I just come to to hear a word and feel good about myself.

It's a place where I come and get trained and equipped and get aligned with the presence and the spirit of God and the voice of God so I can begin walking out everything that God is saying by the strategies, the intel, the insight, the intelligence that God has given me that will turn cities or regions that will turn families, your child's bedroom that's really an apartment upstairs in your house upside down. Verse nine, Joshua said to the Israelites, to all the people, come near.

Hear the words of the Lord. You can celebrate because you have a leader. You have leaders who hear the word of the Lord. And Joshua said, hereby, you shall know that the living God is among us. I love this. And he will surely drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and Jebusites. God's up to something in your life. Well, Apostle Terrell, that don't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Well, all these ites represent what's called in cultural the seven mountains. Arts and entertainment, education, family, media, religion, business, government. Those are the seven mountains. And those seven mountains are what is creating the problems and the challenges in your life. Arts are messing you up because you think, oh, it's just a movie. It ain't a movie. It's filled with demonic symbols that are making their way into your house.

Oh, it's just entertainment. It's just Beyonce. I say, she's a witch. Did you know one of the lowest nights of Bible study in Charlotte in recent years was the Wednesday that she came to town? I done told you, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Uh-huh. Because sometimes we're more ethnic than we are Christian. Sometimes we're more ethnic than we are Christian, Oh that's my girl Your girl is practicing demonology. I'm going to leave that alone, because I'd love to come back in a couple years.

But all these ites were enemies of God. You've got enemies, and the man of God wants you to know, hereby you shall know that the living God is among you. Listen, and he will surely drive out from before you the ites, your bloodline, what mom and them didn't deal with, what didn't get destroyed, what didn't get rooted out, what didn't get overcome, what didn't get overtaken by the power of God. God is saying my grace is coming now because I've got to get you into your promise.

I've got to get you into another view of me and I'm coming after every ite that's bothering you. I'm coming after every high thing that is exalting itself against the knowledge of God in your life. I'm coming after everything that's keeping you from being the mother, the father, the child that you're supposed to be. There ain't an ite that exists that I'm not really ready to pull down in your life if you're ready to cross over.

And somebody's got to say, God, I'm tired of being at the Jordan lodging and not getting into what you've got for me. God, kill the ice. Destroy the ice. Go ye therefore. Make a mockery out of the ice, God. Whatever's holding my bloodline, whatever held me back for all these other years, whatever got me addicted to this and addicted to that, whatever threw me off, God, deal with it like you said you would in your word. Somebody shout to the Lord.

You got to be tired Even sick and tired Of things that are destroying your destiny Some knowingly and some unknowingly, If I was a Baptist preacher I'd hoop you out right now But I'm not So I'm going to kindly ask you to sit down I.

Because that'd be a good place to just take the house, wouldn't it? And everybody shout and not know nothing when it's over. Hear me. The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, he says in verse 11, you got to internalize this for you. God's wanting to take you somewhere. The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.

It's past the spirit of god is passing over before me and it's not on the bank like i am it's getting into where i'm supposed to be going it's not just looking at it god's going by his spirit into where he's taking you so that when you get there the first place you encounter will be God. He's sitting down in your promise. He's sitting down in the space that he's calling you to occupy.

He's sitting down at the table that you're supposed to be at, but nobody thinks you're qualified for it, but God's going to work a miracle on your behalf and open a door that nobody will ever be able to shut on you and take you in to conversations where you will carry an apostolic kingdom mind and bring shiftings to your company.

You're not there just to be there. you're the antidote you're the solution they might not know it yet but I tell you now the Lord's getting ready to pull back the covers and while this is a season of exposure is a season of good exposure as well you're ready to be exposed. So Joshua keeps giving instructions. We OK? I know your stomach's rubbing. I can hear it. So now he says, take 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. Hear this.

I'm going to take I'm going to take a liberty, Pastor. I believe in modern day teaching, this is to be recognized as the heads of households.

He says verse 13 when the souls of the feet of the priests we are new testament priests you are the head of your household some of you are when the souls of the feet of the priests who bear the presence of god of all the earth shall rest in the jordan soon as you step into where you've got to start going the waters of the jordan coming down from above shall be cut off and they shall stand in one heap.

What is one heap? It means this is what's happening. He says, when you step in the waters, the avalanche of what has been blocking you and stopping you is gonna stop right where it is and it's gonna raise up. It's gonna be a large amount of adversarial combativeness. It's gonna be a large amount of things that have tried to steal, kill, and destroy your destiny. It's gonna be a large amount of things that have been heaped up that are right

there where you are. But hear this, those things are not going to work against you. They're going to work for you because God is saying, you saw the scripture. I'm cutting some things off that have kept you from crossing. Drop that number out of your phone right now because I'm cutting off some things that are keeping you from crossing. Well, I don't feel like I need to tie. I'm cutting off some things that will keep you from crossing. Well, I think it's okay to watch this.

I'm cutting off some things that have been keeping you from crossing. It's time to look for and expect miracles in your home and miracles in your life and miracles in your business. Why? Because God's cutting off what's been blocking the breakthrough. Somebody hear what the Spirit is saying up in this house. Verse 14. So when the people set out from their tents, tell somebody, you got a tent. So when the people set out from their tents to do what? To pass over the Jordan. Hear me.

God wants you out of what you're in so you can pass into what he's got for you. Come out of your tent. Come out of hiding. Come out of fear. Come out of shame. Come out of doubt. Come out of insecurity. Come out of hopelessness. Come out of victimization. Come out of the things that you have been living under. He says, so when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priest bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people, that's what they see.

When I come out of my tent, I see God. It's hard to see God when I'm focused on what has to be weighed down in my tent. My tent can be a dangerous place because I can get in my tent and get isolated. I can get in my tent and do what I want to do and nobody even know that I'm doing it. I can get in my tent and I don't have to talk to anybody. I can do business the way I want to do it and show up to church with a huck buck. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And a tongue.

Because I'm hiding out in my tent. And the Lord is saying the people have got you got to set out from your tent. That's why as apostolic believers, and she said it when she came up here, you are people who live going. You are people who live sent. You are people who live going into things to make them look like Jesus.

That's the whole business behind the apostolic. It's about going into a region that doesn't look like God like the chief apostle Jesus did and turning what doesn't look like God into heaven. That's what Adam and Eve were there for, was to make the entire earth look like heaven. But they got sidetracked and then Adam hides in a tent with a fig leaf and doesn't get honest about God and blames it on his wife. Adam come out of your tent. We got business to do. You don't have to lie to me.

The ark is the presence of the Lord here in this house. And the Lord said to me, it's time to activate the spirit of the Lord in a new way here as this ministry is passing from one dimension into another. It's all over you, sir. It's all in you, sir. It's boiling inside of you. And I'm declaring clarity to know how to articulate it, clarity to know how to lead in it, clarity to know how to do it.

And I'm saying to the people of God of this house, I'm declaring the spirit of understanding as an anointing that all of you are able to move with the man of God as he begins to bring you into a greater level of destiny and purpose and calling. Because you have not just come here to be good little church boys and church girls. You've come here to be kingdom ambassadors. You've come here to upset the rule of the world. You have come here to be something that has never been seen before.

You are the interruption in your bloodline. You're the only one that God can trust right now in the bloodline to bring to pass what he ordained the bloodline to be. Your bloodline had an assignment, but everybody got sidetracked. But whoa, look at you in the house of God, worshiping God in spirit and in truth. Not because you know where the church is, but because there's something you're supposed to do that nobody else would do. And when those, I got two more sprishes.

And when those who bore the sky, I mean who bore the ark, and when those who bore the ark say, I'm carrying the presence of God. Now I want you to say it like you believe it. Say, I'm carrying the presence of God. Say it like a devil needs to know it. I'm carrying the presence of God now.

And when those who bore the ark, who realized what they were carrying, when they came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were in the brink of the water for the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. Then the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heath far off at Adam, the city that is Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of Araba, the salt dead sea, were wholly cut off. And the people passed over opposite the Jericho.

Didn't come to church to stay in the same condition I'm in. I didn't come to church to act like my unsaved family members. I didn't come to church to be like everybody else that's walking around doing their own thing.

No, I came because there's land I'm supposed to take, territory I'm supposed to take, things I'm supposed to step into, ingenuity I'm supposed to carry, industry that I'm supposed to be walking in that nobody else has ever walked in, witty inventions that nobody's ever seen, creative things that haven't manifested yet. I didn't come into the body of Christ just to be another believer. I came in to be a point of difference. I'm not trying to be better. I'm trying to be a difference.

Hear me heads of households. If you're a head of household, I want you to stand.

If you're a head of household, I want you to stand. Heads of households, the Lord says in this season God is requiring of you to deal with whatever is in your tent. Deal with whatever is in your tent. I mean, he's telling you to run to it, not run away from it. It's amazing how things can just stay and just be there and nobody say anything or do anything about it. There's an anointing on your life in this season, David, not to run from the giant, but to run to it.

We don't see David running from the giant. We see David running to it. I train people to run to problems don't run away from problems, I've always told my two sons the people who make the most money in the world are the people who solve problems People think that people who do the most work are the ones that solve problems should make the most money No, it's the people that that solve the problems, Or who is being looked to Confront the Jordans in your life.

Even if they're at flood stage level Just because they overtook mom and them don't mean they're going to overtake you Just because they wipe somebody else out doesn't mean they're going to wipe out you this is me this time. I ain't nobody else that's ever been. I'm what they're going to want to be when they read about me in my own epistle, in my bloodline. I'm talking up here.

God is going to grace you to wholly cut off some generational sin areas, adjutants, bends, proclivities, and iniquities that have been holding the whole bloodline back. Hear what the Spirit is saying to this house.

Leaders in this ministry and heads of households i heard the lord clearly say it's time to stir up the spirit of the lord in the life of this ministry and in your life to another level by the greater activation of the spirit of the lord this community is going to pass over into things that is going to be saying that eyes have not seen ears have not heard nor they entered into the hearts of man what's coming out of this ministry and not only

this ministry what's coming out of the people sheba is going to be more impressed with you than she is with solomon, because of what solomon has built you up into and trained you and to be in the marketplace what i'm training you up to be in life i ain't training you up to be good little church goers i ain't training you up to learn all the church antics i'm training you up to give hell, hell. Got time to keep doing church and getting nowhere fast.

Somewhere we believe that church is going to change the world, that preaching rather is going to change the world. If it was going to, it would have already. What's going to change the world are men and women who take up their rightful place in the kingdom of God and begin to live as ecclesias realizing I'm a government person. I carry government in me. For unto us a child was born, a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders. That ain't a Christmas card.

That's a declaration of who we are as believers that we carry government in us and whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatever we loose on earth is loosed in heaven. That's my governmental authority. So I look for stuff that needs to be realigned. And while all Israel passed over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan. God is calling you to make watered places dry.

To resurrect things from what they've been into what He wants them to be that you and those who are with you would be able to stand in them and begin to proclaim, decree, declare, manifest, clear out, set up, build territory for the Lord God Almighty. That's the kingdom of God. He goes on and says, they stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan until all the nation finished passing over Jordan. There are people who are depending on you to get in your place so they can pass over.

There's a neighbor somewhere in your community it's depending on you to get in your place of understanding who you are in the kingdom of God and the economy of God that they and their family can be rescued healed delivered strengthened poured to bought into a house like this where men and women get to experience a true leader a true woman of God true believers as you are and have their entire lives changed. That's what we do. God wants this whole community passing over, not just a few.

We've made church about a few when it's really the ministry of all the saints. I skip verse 4, 5, 6, 8 through 17. I told you to study, read, and look at. Then there's verse 7. Devon and Stacey, can you stand? and can I have some piano so they believe we're going to leave. Key word there was believe.

Can you take it down just a little bit just a little bit, in verse 7 I skipped over that and wanted to bring it for the end and I believe with every single thing inside of me I wouldn't be here I haven't been in Life Center pulpit in probably six weeks. And all I did today was leave my video. Said I'm at your house. And I wouldn't be here on a Sunday like this. I've canceled one engagement, but I said, Lord, I can't cancel this one because I know what's going on in here.

Whether the house can realize it or not or sense it or not, those aren't empty seats. Those are opportunities. The Lord said to Joshua, the Lord said to Devon and Stacey, this day, I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel. God said I'm going to raise you up in front of the church. Not just this church but in the church. You've been a loyal and faithful woman. You've been a loyal and faithful man.

You have pushed through things that you can't even talk about and describe but you've stayed steadfast both of you immovable and always aboundly. And you have refused to get on some of the church bandwagons that are out there where people are more concerned with how many butts they can get in the seats, instead of working a shit amount of people, so they can live their lives full of power and anointing and glory and be everything God's called them to be.

And the Lord says, this day I will begin to magnify you. This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel so they will know that just as I was with Moses, just as I was with other leaders, I'm with you. House recognize God's with him. See, the church is dealing in mega mentalities to prove the worth of a preacher. I built a mega ministry to 13,000 people. I did that. $20 million building. I did all that. And most of the people couldn't bust a grape in a food fight.

No power. A lot of knowledge, but no real power. And the kingdom of God is not in words. It's in power. It's in demonstration. And now I have far less people who carry enough dunamis in them, to turn a city upside down, to turn a region upside down, to bring change wherever they go, wherever the soles of their feet touch, they bring life to people. Stop. The new mega in God is not numbers of people. It's level of spirit. Everybody's out here trying to build a mega church. For what?

Most mega churches, I don't know who's streaming. You might have some preachers on there streaming and they may not like me, that's okay. Pray for me till I get healed.

But megachurches for the most part, the only thing they're changing are traffic patterns in front of their buildings on Sunday mornings. Show me where a megachurch has flipped the city upside down, including the one that I built. We don't do it because mostly what we are doing is managing the movement of people instead of building people. And God told me, he said, Murphy, you know how to build the crowd, but you don't know how to build people.

And I'm going to cut you back. And God took me back all the way down, transitioned me out of that ministry. We went to Alderkell High School, cut our ministry down to 67 people one morning. 67 people. 67 people. That was like my ministry core. 67 people. And then he said, now we can get started. But on the day one of that, because people were still addicted to mega and mega

was still all over me. on the first meeting of the second ministry I started there were like 1100 1200 people on the first day so the Lord cut that down from 1200 to 67, And then he showed me where Jesus lost 280 people, 380 people in a 40-day period. He ministered to 500 after he was resurrected. That 500 became 120 in the upper room. Most pastors would have clocked out if they lost 380 people in 40 days. And he said, you're on the right path because you're following the pattern of

the word of God. It ain't in numbers. It ain't in buildings. It's in the glory that is in the people of God. And you stay connected right here.

You're going to see the glory of God begin to manifest on your life in new and excellent and more powerful ways if you'll plug in and so he says to him as I was with Moses I'll be with you, for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan this is Joshua 4 23 and for you until you passed over as the Lord your God did so to the Red Sea please stand up which he dried up until we passed over.

What does God want to do here? God wants to make this a house of testimony of his presence and his power. And God's going to give you the ways to do it. Just everyone stretch your hands towards your leadership. And you just pray your own prayer. He's going to give it to them. He's going to give them the way to manifest the presence and power here beyond what's already happening here. He's going to do it because he has chosen and called you both and set you apart.

But such a time as this is the work and the hand of the Lord that is moving mightily. Two things the Lord wants coming out of here. Number one, that all the people of the earth will know that the hand of the Lord is mighty. Pray that toward them that God, they would not be ever caught up in themselves, but they would be caught up in the fact that they have the opportunity to show the mighty hand of God along with all of us. We all are showing the mighty hand of God.

And number two, that you may reverence and fear the Lord your God forever. God wants to establish a new house and a new people here. Not because you're a bad people. Not because it's a bad house. But there are things that God's placed in the two of you and things God's placed into this membership. That he does not want it to fall to the ground. Things inside of you that you cannot afford to let go to waste because legacy group, you're caught up in church.

God says, I don't want you caught up in church. I want you caught up in me to bring things to pass that have never happened before. And Father, we declare in the name of Jesus, every word is yes and amen. And it shall be done for the glory of your great name. If you believe that, give the Lord a wonderful and awesome hand to pray. Amen and amen.