You are responsible for your own success. Larry Randolph puts it this way: “God fulfills all His promises, but He’s not obligated to fulfill your potential”. Bill Johnson teaches from Joshua 1 and the words God spoke to Joshua when he was appointed to lead the Israelites. In those words are keys to “making your way prosperous”. Listening to God’s Word and following it closely sets you up for great success in life and all that God wants to do in and through you.

they disqualified themselves for the

very thing God had promised

and there is a part of the promise over

your life and mine that actually takes

active Faith to fully apprehend and step

into

this is where the Lord speaks to Joshua

and says Moses my servant is dead his

job is not your job basically and here’s

something to uh to remind yourself of

Joshua is now leading the descendants of

the people who first received the

promise about the promised land they

didn’t get it although God promised it

to him

Larry Randolph

helped me to understand this much better

a number of years ago he said God

fulfills all of his promises but he’s

not obligated to fulfill our potential

as sometimes the Lord gives us a promise

that actually carries with it an

invitation to a potential a possibility

to a realm of maturity development

Conquest whatever it might be

and so the kingdom of God in the Old

Testament was a excuse me the promised

land in the Old Testament

was a type of the kingdom of God in the

new in the Old Testament of course it

was a geographical area that we’ll read

about in a moment and they to inherit

this vast piece of land they would

divide it up according to tribes then

divided up according to family that was

their inheritance it was a land that was

so prosperous so rich so so wonderful

that the Lord described it as a land

flowing with milk and honey in other

words it had abundance in everything

that was right and it was their

inheritance

when the 12 Spies went in to check out

the land they came back saying it’s true

it’s a land flowing with milk and honey

but there’s giants that are there

there’s a very well-equipped military

all through this land much more

equipment remember these are these are

the children of slaves that are now

supposed to go in and have military

conquests they have zero training

whatsoever

and so these folks are very very

intimidated they come back with the part

saying yes it’s a land flowing with milk

and honey the Giants are there and then

they said Uh something’s very

eye-opening it says and we are like

grasshoppers in our sight

in other words we we we are here and

they are there and there’s no way we can

measure this challenge

because of their unbelief they

disqualified themselves for the very

thing God had promised

and there is a part of the promise over

your life and mine that actually takes

active Faith to fully apprehend and step

into this notion that if it’s meant to

be it will just happen as nonsense

it’s absolute nonsense it’s it’s

absolute careless and lazy theology

there is a responsibility in this

relational journey to continuously

exercise faith

and pursuit of what God has promised

I feel better having said that all right

let’s just get into this and uh I’ll fix

whatever I break later all right let’s

go uh verse 1 after the death of Moses

the servant of the Lord it came to pass

that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of

nun Moses’s assistant saying Moses my

servant is dead now therefore arise go

over this Jordan you and all this people

to the land which I am going which I’m

giving to them the children of Israel

every place that the soul of your foot

will tread upon I have given to you as I

said to Moses from the Wilderness in

this Lebanon as far as the Great River

the river Euphrates and all the land of

the Hittites to the great sea toward the

going down of the sun shall be your

territory no man shall be able to stand

before you all the days of your life as

I was with Moses so I will be with you I

will not leave you nor forsake you stop

right there let me kind of connect the

dots concerning the kingdom and then

we’ll read verses 5-9 is actually the

part that I return to on a regular basis

it’s my cabin all right

when we talk about Old Testament

Promised Land it is in the natural a

picture of the New Testament

concept of the kingdom of God it is the

fact that when you enter a realm of

maturity a realm of of Conquest in some

cases

um it’s it’s like a territory that you

inherit when you experience Joy when you

experience Deliverance when you

experience healing whatever it might be

it’s always an invitation to a realm in

God that you actually inherit Kingdom

King’s domain it’s the Realms of God’s

Dominion that we step into Jesus

announced to us the kingdom is at hand

and then he would say

um if I cast a demon Out of You by the

spirit of God then the kingdom of God

has come upon you so he’s actually

describing Realms of personal

inheritance here’s somebody who’s

tormented at night they don’t sleep at

night because of abusive upbringing

whatever it might be they have a rough

time with their life Jesus comes along

or you come along and Minister them and

break off that power suddenly they sleep

at night what is that called that’s

called the kingdom of God that’s the

realm of God’s Dominion somebody I just

got a report this week of another person

that had throat cancer that was healed

here they came and they were delivered

set free of throat cancer what is that

that’s the kingdom of God the kingdom of

God the realm of God’s Dominion that has

no cancer Came Upon This person’s throat

and drove it from them we recently have

had five cases that I know of of Lyme’s

disease in the last I would say five

weeks it actually happened in a

three-week period five people with

Lyme’s disease that were healed 138

years 38 years 10 years mostly in bed

for 10 years and I watch as the spirit

of God it was it was actually like

um the Holy Spirit flooded

everything that was wrong flooded it out

of her body if you can imagine having a

vase and it’s got dirt in the bottom and

you just keep pouring water until all

the dirt is flushed out that’s exactly

what happened the spirit of God Came

Upon her and I have a video of her

running around her swimming pool which

she’s been incapable of doing uh 10 10

years bedridden and uh and as a result

of that two little girls that were

bedridden eight and eleven uh also a

juvenile arthritis were completely

healed I have a video of them doing

jumping jacks with their mom uh things

that they were incapable of doing so the

point is is we see the kingdom of the

Kingdom that has no Affliction come upon

their bodies and literally just flush

out everything that the enemy tried to

do to steal kill and destroy their life

that what is what is the kingdom it’s

all of that it’s all of that and that is

the promised land for the believer it

sometimes includes Financial blessing a

prosperity in a business but it’s we

never want to make the mistake of

equating spiritual

maturity with income and possessions

neither do we want to equate spiritual

maturity with poverty yeah let’s let’s

throw out both don’t both stupid ideas

and

um you know God wants to bless you more

than you can imagine uh

well let’s leave it there all right I’m

going to crawl into a hole and make a

mess I can see it all right verse 5. no

man

will be able to stand before you all the

days of your life as I was with Moses so

I will be with you I will not leave you

nor forsake you be strong now here’s

where we have the words of instructions

I want you to pay attention here be

strong and of good courage for this to

this people you will divide as an

inheritance the language I swore to

their fathers to give them only be very

strong or be strong and very courageous

that you may be able to observe all

according to the law which Moses my

children commanded you the law of Moses

was the word of God they had at that

time so we can put in its place that uh

the word of God the scriptures that you

now how many of you have your Bibles

with you let me see them let me hold

them high all right I’m just taking a

roll just just trying to see all right

we’re talking about the word of God now

okay so the the word of God uh in this

case the law which Moses my servant

commanded you do not turn from it to the

right or to the left that you may

Prosper wherever you go please notice

prosperity and success are biblical

terms we just can’t let wall Street’s

definition affect our our position

because real Prosperity starts on the

inside

so the target of the Lord is he wants

everybody in this room to be

ridiculously prosperous but his Target

is the inner world

it’s my emotional and mental health

all right verse 8.

the book this book of the law shall not

depart from your mouth but you will

meditate on it day and night that you

may observe to do according to all that

is written in it then you will make your

way prosperous and then you will have

success

then you will make your way prosperous

I thought the Lord did it now he gave

you the tools

foreign

then you will make your way prosperous

and then you will have good success say

this with me I am responsible

for my own prosperity

I am responsible

for my own success

yeah I’m so glad that you watched this

video I do pray that it’s a great great

strength and encouragement to you and

I’ve got a verse that it really is My

Cry for all of us and it’s Psalms 20

it’s verse 4. may he grant you your

heart’s desire and fulfill all your

plans

that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that

this would be the season of rich rich

fulfillment

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