What are you talking yourself out of right now that God is trying to bring you into?
Let me ask you a question what have you talked yourself out of that God is trying to bring you into
What are you talking yourself out of right now?
That God is trying to bring you into
in your relationships
What are you talking yourself out of that God is trying to bring you into in your
Personal life and I don’t care what category you use
We’ve all got something that we we’re talking ourselves out of
The message God gave me today is that you can talk yourself into it
Just like you’ve been talking yourself out of it
You can talk yourself
into it one thing I noticed about myself from an early age is that I can be persuasive when I need to be and
So sometimes in school and I would need an extension on a paper
I knew I could usually get one because I have this way of talking myself out of things. Do you understand?
It comes in handy as a preacher to be persuasive because you have to get people to do things that they need to do that
They don’t want to do
And so you’re trying to tell people to trust God in their finances in problem with that is they already feel broke and so now?
That you tell them that they want to trust God with their finances if they need to trust God with their finance and they don’t
Want to trust God with their finances because they don’t have many finances
But you want to get them to see that the reason I don’t have any finances is because you’re not trusting God with your finances
If you trust God your finances
It would open your eyes to the supply that he has available for you
And if you seek him first as this kingdom and his righteousness all these things, I’m preaching in my watch off my wrist
That’s how excited I am about the word of God. Just hold it rough. So I don’t even want it bad
I don’t even care what time it is. I might preach through lunch
Cuz there’s some things in your life that you’ve been talking yourself out of one time my senior year of high school
They put me in a AP English class with Eunice Cox and Eunice
Cox was rumored to be a tough teacher, but it’s no problem for me
I got this cuz I got the gift and
So I came upon my first book report and I wasn’t gonna finish it on time
I knew wouldn’t finish it on time, but I wasn’t worried about it cuz I could talk my way out of it
I’ve always talked my way out of things speeding tickets and oh
Of things I’ve talked myself out of why not this paper – but Eunice Cox was waiting for me at the door
and she said I noticed you didn’t turn your
Assignment and and I smiled real sweet cuz I got some southern charm I grew up in a small town
I know how to talk to people I said miss Cox
I saw I was gonna talk to you about this and she said I don’t want to hear it and
She said she said
Steven Furtick you have met your match in Eunice parks. I
Said but Miss Carr, she said now I said I was gonna no I
Said I said well, uh, what can I do?
She said well you if I were you I’d try to get a good grade on all the other ones because you get a zero
on this one
And you might wanna bring up your average
So now I want you to understand something when God called Moses
Moses was reluctant to do what God had called him to do and
Moses had a million excuses
And so do you why you can’t be it why you can’t do it why you can’t go forward in it?
Come on, how many of you are good at talking yourself out of things
How many of you about the time I get done preaching sometimes and you’ve even had your lunch?
You’ve forgotten what the sermon is even about shame on you. It looks good
It’s how it works
We are so quick to talk ourselves out of things
But when Moses started telling God, you know
I can’t speak and I can’t do it and I’m not eloquent and I’m not trained and I’m not equipped and I’m not
Able God said to Moses you have met your match in
Eunice Cox
You have met your match in the Lord your God
Have I not commanded you I don’t even want to hear it out of your mouth. Why you can’t I am the
I am the power within you. I am the one who calls you by name
I know what you got cuz I put it in you I know what you don’t have cuz I left it out and I
Command you to be courageous
So it occurs to me that
maybe the reason that God is speaking to Joshua on this level is
Because Joshua has seen firsthand the devastation that it causes
when God’s people talk themselves out of
What God is trying to bring them into?
You know those five said to Moses we can’t do it. They’re stronger. They’re bigger and
Joshua spoke up and he got everybody’s attention. The Bible says in numbers 14:6
that he tore his clothes and
Said to the entire Israelite Assembly
Hey
Come on guys
The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good
If the Lord is pleased with us
He will lead us into that land a land flowing with milk and honey and will give it to us only do not rebel
Don’t do this. Don’t die outside of your destiny
Don’t let your fear keep you from your future
Don’t be
Discouraged don’t repel if the Lord is pleased with you
Listen later slow milk
and I know give it to us only to not repel against allure and do not be afraid of the people of the land and
Stop get forfeiting your future for your fear of people
Stop forfeiting your future for your fear of failure. You hear me?
Stop forfeiting your future because of what they might think about you. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us
I mean, you gotta believe down deep in your soul that God is with me in this moment
He’s with me when I feeling he’s with me when I don’t he’s with me when I’m faithful. He’s with me when I’m faithless
He swift me when I’m right. He’s with me when I’m wrong. He’s with me when I’m home
He’s with me when I’m broken. Somebody stopped honest with me
touch your neighbor say he’s with you – he’s with you –
No matter how hard
Joshua tried he couldn’t talk Moses into it. You know why because
nobody can talk you into your destiny, but you
But your neighbors say talk yourself into it
Talk to yourself into it. It is interesting that when God speaks to Joshua
He tells him what to do lead these people to inherit the land now the problem with a lot of us is that we have
Shrunk our lives down to the size of our own personal interest
We don’t have anything bigger than us worth fighting for
So it doesn’t take much to discourage eyes
If I didn’t preach every time I don’t feel like preaching you would hear from me three times a year you
Know how I preach every week. I talked myself into
it and
I tell myself
There’s somebody coming to church today who’s suicidal?
There’s somebody coming to church today whose kid is on drugs
There’s somebody coming to church today that has been told all their life
They’re worthless and you get to tell them God loves them and maybe you could smile at him and make them feel through your countenance
That God has not forgotten them that he knows them by name
But by the time I stopped talking to myself, I’m ready to talk to you
Now we can preach now we can do it now we can go
But see you’ve got to talk yourself into
Your purpose. I have a purpose. I don’t need to ask God to give me a purpose
I have a purpose. You have a purpose to glorify God to be
Transformed into the image of Christ to be conformed into the image of Christ
It’s not that you don’t have a purpose
It’s that everytime God tries to bring you into it you talk yourself out of it
And so he says this is not just about you Joshua there are people depending on you
Your destiny is connected to something much bigger than you
so go do it and be strong and courageous but
God is a good coach and a good coach doesn’t just motivate you he instructs you
And so he gives him the mechanics and this is what I was excited about
I mean that part I was excited about that part too, but I
Really want to show you this he said in verse a keep this book of the law always on your lips
This this stood out to me
In Deuteronomy 31. I told you how the last scripture today
In that kind of what you came for though
Okay
In Deuteronomy 31 before Moses died and climbed up on Mount Nebo and he died and God didn’t let the Israelites find his body because
He knew that if they found his body they would continue to worship his bones because sometimes the only way for God to get you
To move past something in your life is completely take it away
But before he died, he called the nation together. He said
And he gave a little speech he gave him a little talk to give him a little
He said I’m not going into the land
But you are Joshua’s gonna lead you he pulls Joshua beside him and he tells him be strong and courageous
For you must go with this people and the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them and you must divide it
Among them as their inheritance
not you may but you must
Not you should but you must
And and and you must do it and as you do it know that the Lord Himself
Goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you do not be afraid
Do not be
So when God speaks to Joshua after the death of Moses Joshua has heard this speech before
It’s not his first time here yet
But when God gives the speech he adds one thing that Moses left out
See Moses told him what to do
Told him widen to it
God showed Joshua Hal
Would you like to know how to keep yourself encouraged?
Because you need to know
They aren’t always going to text you encouragement when you need it. That’s part of being a grown
You need to learn to encourage yourself
I
gotta tell you touch your neighbor and say I can encourage myself if
You encourage me. I appreciate it. If you’re nice to me. I appreciate it. If you say kind things to me, that’s cool
but I need you to know that even if you don’t if you get too busy or if you forget about me or if you
Don’t know what to say to me. I need you to know I can encourage myself
Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world
I learned to encourage
Myself cuz I can’t always count on a text and I can’t always count on a hug and I can’t always count on a man
And I can’t always even count on my own friends, but I can encourage
Myself. So so God tells Joshua he says I’m not always gonna speak to you like this
You know you have moments in your life where God Himself will speak to you and they’re awesome one time
I was coming home to Charlotte when we were first starting the church and I was nervous and I was afraid and
discouraged I was
discouraged because
People weren’t showing up yet
And I was afraid because I didn’t know if they ever would
And so I was afraid and discouraged and those are two states
You cannot fulfill your destiny and then let me let me show you something if you are afraid right now
It is not because the devil is making you afraid
There is somebody on your road that has more to be afraid of than you and yet the confession of their life is I
Have fear but fear doesn’t have me if you are discouraged. It is not because of your conditions or your circumstances
They may have been a contributing factor, but they are not the deciding factor
Discouragement is a decision that I make
Discouragement is a conversation that I have with myself
Discouragement is that thing inside of me that says this is the way it will always be see it’s not getting in better
See that woman right there doesn’t like your sermon look how she’s looking at you and that guy’s asleep
Discouragement is that little voice inside of your head that you listen to and our problem. Dr
Martin lloyd-jones the great Welsh preacher once said our problem is that we spend too much time
listening to ourselves and
Not enough time talking to ourselves
Now y’all are about to think I’m crazy
But I talk to myself all the time. How many of you talk to yourself all the time?
Well sure you do you’ve been doing this since you were three?
boo
Boo boo boo boo boo
But somewhere along the the way between putting together Legos
And the big one goes here and the little one goes hit and you talked yourself through it now
Somewhere along the way you turned against yourself
And so now you’re listening to yourself like the psalmist in he was having a bad day and
So he started talking about the day he was having and he said in psalm 42 verse 4
he said these things I remember as
I pour out my soul how I used to go to the house of God
Under the protection of the mighty one with shouts of joy, you know right before this
She said my tears have been my food day and night
And he’s he’s in this cycle, but he did something in verse 5 it’s kind of a strange technique and and
And if you do this people might think that you’re crazy
But if you don’t do it you really will be crazy
So you can decide whether you want people to think you’re crazy or whether you really want to be crazy
Because he’s been listening to himself for four verses. He’s been listening to his tears. He’s been listening to his trials
he’s been listening to his past but in verse 5, he totally shifts and
Instead of listening to himself
He starts preaching to himself
It’s very powerful
Why?
My soul are you so downcast?
What did you see the ship he’s like I’m done with this
If I wake up in the morning and ask myself how you feel?
I’m gonna be 50/50 at best
So I’m a wake up in the morning and tell myself
This will change your life and tell myself
Today we’re gonna be blessed today. We’re going to be favored today
We’re going to be a blessing today. We’re gonna take new ground today. We’re gonna encourage somebody else today
We’re gonna see the fitness of the court Lord in the land of the living today. Why are you so downcast on my soul?
Why so disturbed in me and then he does something very powerful. He puts himself in his place
What’s your hope in God for I will yet praise Him
Sometimes you gotta put yourself in your place
sometimes you gotta make
Discouragement bow its knee in the presence of God and fear must bow to faith in the presence of God
Somebody give him a brace right now
Hey, hey Joshua, here’s how you do it
Keep this book of the law always on your lips
There’s a land I’m taking you to there’s a promise that I’m leading you to
But you’re gonna have to talk yourself into it
Meditate on the law day and night the law was five books of the Bible
That we have now Genesis Exodus a little bit. His numbers Deuteronomy Torah
It was a Bible that Joshua had God said
Your life will follow the direction of your conversation your courage
Comes from your conversation so does your fear
So does your discouragement?
Not just your conversations with others
but your conversation with your
self
So keep this book of the law on your lips
Not just in your mind on your lips
the Hebrew word for meditate is
Haga and
It means to mutter
Because there was a Hebrew tradition that while they studied the text and reflected upon it they would mutter
It’s not enough to read the Bible you have to rehearse the Bible
Come on Gaston campus
It is not enough for you to hear this word
It is not enough for you to listen to me speak
If you are going to live in that place what place I’m not going to the land of Canaan no, no
But God has promised you his peace
If you are going to have his peace in your life, you’re going to have to talk yourself into
peace
God has given you his courage if you are going to live in courage and fulfill your purpose. You’re gonna have to talk yourself
into your purpose
Keep it on your lips
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