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The Audacity of Faith: Claiming God's Promises Through Caleb's Journey

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  1. Greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world.

  2. You see, my mindset about me hasn't changed.

  3. I know who I am, and because of that no matter what the devil throws at me, I know that

  4. I got to have the strength.

  5. You know what kept him strong?

  6. He had a promise that he would not let go of.

  7. It was given 45 years ago, but I'ma keep praying like it was given yesterday.

  8. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

  9. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that

  10. he has for us.

  11. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

  12. that citylightnyc.com.

  13. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already

  14. working in our hearts and minds.

  15. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God.

  16. You are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

  17. I'm honored to be here.

  18. Let's get right into this word.

  19. By this time, I've been here three weeks.

  20. I'm not a friend of this church anymore.

  21. Stop calling me that.

  22. I'm family.

  23. If I hear, he's a great friend of this church.

  24. I'm not coming back.

  25. I am family now.

  26. I'm uncle.

  27. You can call me uncle Nate, all right, so let's get into it.

  28. Joshua chapter 14, can you just do one thing as they're putting the verse up on the

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  29. screen?

  30. Can you just clap your hands and just give God thanks for your pastor?

  31. I know they don't use the term first lady, but I'm old school church, the first lady

  32. of this church.

  33. Thank you guys.

  34. Thank you guys.

  35. Let's get into it.

  36. Joshua chapter 14, we're going to read verse 6.

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  37. Then I want to read the scripture in Luke 116.

  38. I want to read in the NIV, though, if that's okay.

  39. I know that's kind of last minute, and I have a couple of verses that are last minute.

  40. But don't be mad at me, please.

  41. All right, uncle Nate, uncle Nate, all right, all right, I'm that uncle.

  42. We supposed to eat at three, no, we're eating at four today.

  43. Bear with me, all right, Joshua chapter 14, we're going to look at how people have been having

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  44. fun the last few weeks.

  45. Can I be honest with you?

  46. I woke up with a headache, but I was so excited to come.

  47. I woke up like, man, I don't feel the best, and I was like, no, I'm going into the house

  48. of the Lord, into an on fire church with believers ready to receive the word.

  49. That got me, I'm telling you, it gave me the jump that I needed.

  50. If I was going to some dead church, I don't know if I'm like, my head would have been

  51. now, but I knew I was coming on up to an on fire.

  52. Powerful, Holy Spirit church, ready to receive the ramour word of God.

  53. So I came, I'm excited now.

  54. That had it just left me, I feel good.

  55. It says, Joshua chapter 14 verse six, then the children of Judah came to Joshua and

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  56. Gilgau and Caleb, the son of Jafuna, the Kennesite, said to him, you know the word which the

  57. Lord said to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me and Kadesh Burnham.

  58. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Burnham

  59. to explore the land, and I brought him a report according to my convictions.

  60. My fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.

  61. I however followed the Lord, my God, wholeheartedly, look at verse nine.

  62. So on that day, Moses swore to me the land on which your feet have walked will be your

  63. inheritance.

  64. My God.

  65. And that of your children forever because you have followed the Lord, my God, wholeheartedly

  66. verse 10.

  67. Now then, just as the Lord promised, he kept me alive for 45 years, now 45 years had passed

  68. by.

  69. 45 years, he received a promise, 45 years before, and this is what he says, he says, 45

  70. years since the time he said this, while Israel moved about in the wilderness, so here

  71. am I today, 85 years old, and I'm still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out.

  72. I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle, now as I was then, verse 12, now give me this

  73. hill country.

  74. I like the way the the new King James says, give me this mountain that the Lord promised

  75. me that day, you yourself heard then that the Antichites were there, and their cities

  76. were large and fortified, but the Lord helping me, I will drive them out, just as he said,

  77. may God bless the reading of his work.

  78. Let's do that last verse, verse 13, can we do that?

  79. Then Joshua bless Caleb, the son of Jafunya, and gave him, he brawn as his inheritance.

  80. May God bless the reading of his word, oh, we could do 14.

  81. So he brawn belonged to Caleb, the son of Jafunya, the cousin night ever since, because

  82. he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.

  83. The title of my sermon is, in audacious ask, in audacious ask, father, I thank you right

  84. now for your word, I pray that it will go out with power, will go out with authority,

  85. will go out with ease and simplicity, Lord, that people would be able to receive fully

  86. everything that you're speaking, everything that you're saying, and everything that you're

  87. delivering, Lord, let it not be me hiding behind the cross, and you speak clearly, Lord,

  88. if I let people be edified, let people be transformed, in the name of Jesus, we pray, amen.

  89. Y'all with me?

  90. Yes.

  91. Okay.

  92. So, as verse in Joshua chapter 14 is a verse about two main characters, Joshua and Caleb.

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  93. And when the children of Israel in the book of Numbers were giving a command, they were

  94. giving a commission to go into the promised land, you know, God told them, there's a land

  95. that I'm giving you that's flowing with milk and honey, but he, but even though the Lord

  96. had commanded them to go into the land, he commanded them to go into Canaan, he said,

  97. 12 spies before they would possess the land.

  98. And Joshua and Caleb were part of the 12 spies that were sent into the land to see if the

  99. land was a good land.

  100. And when Joshua and Caleb went out into the land, the Bible says that Joshua and Caleb came

  101. back with a good report while all the other spies came back with a bad report.

  102. They looked at their situation and they looked at themselves and they said, we are like

  103. grasshoppers in our own sight.

  104. They saw their own limitations, they saw their own shortcomings, they saw the areas where

  105. they faltered and they failed and they looked at that and said, that's the level that we

  106. can receive from God, the level based off how we see ourselves.

  107. Can I just say something to someone in the house right now that can encourage you that

  108. the way you look, the way you talk, who you are is not determined your victory.

  109. Your victory is determined in how big your God is.

  110. They go into the land and when they go into the land, the Bible says they see giants

  111. in the land.

  112. The land looked good, but there were giants and they got afraid because of the giants.

  113. They saw themselves as small and insignificant compared to the giants that were in the land.

  114. How can we take this land when there's giants in the land?

  115. The Bible says that 10 came back with a negative report, 2 came back with a good report and

  116. God says all the people who came back with the bad report, they'll die in this wilderness

  117. and they end up going in a circle for 40 years until Moses dies and that generation dies.

  118. And when Moses dies and that generation dies, Joshua comes on the scene and the scripture

  119. says that the children of Israel were literally waiting outside the Promised Land.

  120. They were able to see the Promised Land, but they were not able to taste of the fruit of

  121. the Promised Land.

  122. They were able to see the goodness, but they were not able to experience the goodness.

  123. Can I just speak to someone right now who you're right at the edge of your destiny, but

  124. your faith is so low that you're not able to believe that God can take you into bigger

  125. and better things.

  126. You're still content with the manner and the quail, I'm not content with manner and quail.

  127. I need to step into the promise of God that He spoke over my life.

  128. I don't care how long it takes to get there.

  129. If God spoke a word, He's going to manifest the word.

  130. I don't care how long it takes to get there.

  131. He's the same yesterday, today and forever.

  132. If He promised you something, I don't care if it takes 45 years to manifest it will manifest

  133. in your life, because God is true and every man is alive here.

  134. I'm looking at this story and I'm looking at Caleb in particular.

  135. Caleb intrigues me, Caleb speaks to me, Caleb, because the Bible says a few things about

  136. Caleb.

  137. And this is why Caleb was able to claim his promise and walk in his inheritance.

  138. And I tell you the first thing the scripture says about Caleb, why he was able to walk

  139. into his promise and claim what God told him that he was going to walk into.

  140. The first thing is that even though Caleb was born a slave, even though Caleb was wandering

  141. in the wilderness, his heart was already in Canaan.

  142. His heart was already in the promised land.

  143. His heart was already on the promise of God and thinking about the promise of God.

  144. Some of you, your heart is stuck on where you're at and not where you're going.

  145. Your heart is stuck on, man, I just feel like I can't make it, I just feel like I don't

  146. have the resources, I just feel like I don't have the money, I just feel like no one supports

  147. me, I just feel like I can't finish my education, I just feel like my family will never get

  148. out this situation.

  149. Stop living by feelings and start living by faith.

  150. Your feelings will trick you, your feelings will deceive you, your feelings are fleeting.

  151. One moment you'll feel good, next moment you'll feel depressed.

  152. One moment you've got to speak to yourself, why are you downcast on my soul?

  153. Why are you sad?

  154. Why are you downcast?

  155. Hoping God, trusting God, believe the Word of God, I rather stand on the promise of God

  156. and look crazy, they believe the report of man.

  157. I feel this in my spirit, because some of you are living a life based off feelings, but

  158. feelings and faith sometimes contradict each other.

  159. And guess what, Caleb was not living by feelings, because can I tell you the feeling was there's

  160. actual giants in the land.

  161. Oh, the reality was there were people way bigger than them, way stronger than them, had

  162. more resources than them, had more, these were slaves that were coming out of a land and

  163. literally walking around for 40 years in a circle, wearing the same exact clothes, eating

  164. the same exact food, going to the same exact place over and over.

  165. It seemed crazy that Caleb thought that these little misfits could actually take on giants,

  166. but that's what made him who he was.

  167. He wouldn't look at the children of Israel, like they were a bunch of misfits.

  168. He looked at them like they were the promise, people of God, the covenant, people of Israel,

  169. they got something that's greater than the nations, they may not have the height, they

  170. may not have the weapons, they may not have the strength, but they got the Lord on their

  171. side.

  172. There's something with God's with you.

  173. I'm looking at Caleb and his life intrigues me, because Caleb's heart, the Bible says he

  174. wholeheartedly followed the Lord.

  175. Some of you want to be leaders, but you're not a good follower.

  176. I realize, oh that was good, I was a shot, people, it wasn't meant to be a shot, it was

  177. just meant to be the truth.

  178. But the only way you can be a good leader is if you're first a good follower.

  179. Caleb and Joshua, you know what the Bible says, they wholeheartedly followed the Lord.

  180. One scripture says they had a different spirit.

  181. And I looked up that word, different spirit in the Hebrew, you know what it means, it

  182. means a following spirit.

  183. They followed the Lord, Lord, okay, you're going in this direction, I'll go in that direction.

  184. God, you're moving like this, then I'm going to move like this.

  185. God, they said the church is going on a 21 day fast, I'm going to go on a 21 day fast.

  186. They said they need people to volunteer, I'm going to volunteer.

  187. I'm preaching good.

  188. They said sign up for life groups, I'm going to sign up for life groups, I'm going to

  189. do it.

  190. Because I have a following spirit, I'm not following man, I'm following God.

  191. I'm not led by the crowd, I'm led by the crowd.

  192. I'm following after Jesus, whatever he goes, I go, whatever he says, I say, however

  193. he tells me to do it, I'll do it.

  194. Even if it makes me look a little bit crazy, Jesus, I'm going to follow you wholeheartedly.

  195. That was Caleb's commitment.

  196. I've got to follow God all the way.

  197. Some of you have been doing the half step, okay, God, I'll go this far.

  198. But if you tell me to give this much, that's just way too much, God.

  199. This is good preaching.

  200. God, I'll do this much, but a mischievous trip, I can't do that.

  201. God, I'll do this much for getting baptized, that's for the super saved people.

  202. I'll go this far, but God, I won't volunteer, God, I'll go this far, but I won't really

  203. read my word during the week.

  204. Some of you have half committed to God.

  205. The Bible says Caleb half committed.

  206. He holy follow the Lord, which means every part, his mind, body and soul, were so attentive

  207. to doing God's will, that every part of him did it.

  208. Some of you, there's a disconnect between your mind and your spirit, and so you're doing

  209. certain things and don't even realize what you're doing it.

  210. That's what the Bible says, you need to renew your mind.

  211. Then you'll know what the good and perfect and acceptable will of God is.

  212. You want to know God's will, start changing the way you think.

  213. Your mind, many of you, is the reason why you don't know what God wants you to do, how

  214. he wants you to do it, and how he wants you to live.

  215. You still got an old mindset, you still got old mindskins, you still got an old way of

  216. thinking, and the Holy Spirit right now wants to purge your mind, so that you start thinking

  217. like heaven thinks.

  218. The Bible says, my God, can I go to the next point, because I took way too long on that

  219. point, wholeheartedly followed God, right, he had a different spirit, here's my second

  220. point, my God, my God, this is going to be good.

  221. My second point is this, so Caleb, different spirit, he moved completely different, but

  222. then Caleb is presented with something, a mountain, he brought, he sees the mountain,

  223. and is what made Caleb completely different, because some of you look at mountains, and you

  224. see it as a problem, Caleb saw the mountain, and he saw it as his portion, he got two different,

  225. and a mountain comes, you can either see it as a problem, or you can see it as, this

  226. is what God promised me, you got a decision to make, either you complain about the mountain,

  227. or you conquer the mountain, either you complain about how big the giants are, and how difficult

  228. it is, and how no one in this world is going through what I'm going through.

  229. No one's facing the challenges I'm facing, no one's going through family issues like I'm

  230. going through, no one's dealing with financial issues like I'm dealing with, no one dealing

  231. with faith issues like me, it's only me, you got an Elijah mindset, it's only me, I'm

  232. the only one, and God says there's 450 hiding out in a cave who got the same mindset you have.

  233. You got to see this, you got to see this, Caleb looks at the impossible situation, and

  234. doesn't see it as impossible, he sees it as, this is my food, this is my food, these enemies

  235. here, they're for the taking, 45 years before he had that mindset, 45 years later he got

  236. the same mindset, the Bible says Caleb was as strong as he was 45, you know what kept him strong,

  237. having the same mindset about the enemy, that the enemy was already a defeated foe,

  238. you know what's going to keep you strong, when you have the same mindset about you and the same

  239. mindset about the devil, see my mindset about the devil hasn't changed, he's still aligned,

  240. disgusting thief, he still comes to kill, steal and destroy, and my mindset about me hasn't changed,

  241. I'm more than a conqueror in Jesus, greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world,

  242. he sees my mindset about me hasn't changed, I know who I am, and because of that no matter what

  243. the devil throws at me, I know that I got to have the strength, you know what kept him strong,

  244. he had a promise that he would not let go of, it was given 45 years ago, but I'm gonna keep

  245. praying, like it was given yesterday, it was given 45 years ago, but I'm gonna keep myself strong

  246. and in shape, at least I still got the same strength for battle, which means I've been practicing,

  247. I'm ready, some of you get ready when they call on you, you don't stay ready,

  248. oh can I talk right now, preachers do this all the time, can I speak?

  249. they get ready, oh they asked me to preach for a month from now, let me, you can't get ready,

  250. you gotta stay ready, if I call you the night before and you gotta minister the next day,

  251. you gotta be ready, they gotta be a word that's burning in your spirit,

  252. some of you are not ready, the investor calls you and you don't even have a presentation ready,

  253. they're ready to actually pour millions of dollars into your business, but your lack of

  254. preparation is why you can't conquer that mountain, this is good, your lack of preparation in life,

  255. a lot of the times they're calling you, hey I want you to play here, I want you to do this,

  256. you haven't been practicing, Caleb's like nope 45 years, I'm ready, let's go,

  257. I got my boxing gloves at 45 years, I'm still in the same position, 45 years later,

  258. I'm still ready to get everything God has for me, 45 years later, I'm still as strong as I was,

  259. 45 years ago, because I believe the promise of God, you know what keeps you strong when you got

  260. certain to fight for, you know a lot of men have nothing to fight for anymore, they've become

  261. content with life being the way that it is, I don't mean to pick on men but I gotta pick on men a

  262. little bit, because I've seen a bunch of weak pusillatimists men in this generation, men with no

  263. backbone, men who just let the culture tell them how they should live and what they should do,

  264. instead of living by what the scripture say and the word says, as a man you have to be strong,

  265. you can't be led by emotions and feelings, you have to be led by the spirit of the living God,

  266. we need men who are gonna lead their families and be strong, I know the culture says,

  267. it's 50, 50, no, man the scripture says you are the head, you are the leader of the household,

  268. then you need to lead with boldness and with strength, with prayer and perseverance,

  269. with love and grace, the Bible says you need to look at your wife as the weaker vessel

  270. and lead through grace and compassion, this is good stuff right here,

  271. I believe God's raising up strong men in this generation, men who are not waver when attack comes,

  272. when trials come, their feet will be flat footed and firm, their face will be turned like flint and

  273. they'll say, God, I will die for the cause of Christ. Come on, where are the bold men?

  274. I don't hear you, where are the bold men? Where are the lions in this place?

  275. People shout for the mints and the nicks and the jets and the Yankees louder than they

  276. shout for Jesus. They are the worst, they're all my teams, I know them.

  277. He said those are the worst teams.

  278. You gotta start seeing the mountain and not seeing it as what's hindering you, you have to start

  279. seeing it as this is my food, this is what God's promised to me. Can I tell you the third thing?

  280. I won't be too long. Good preaching is like, let me not say it. Look at this, oh this is good.

  281. Caleb, if you actually do some research on Caleb, Caleb was actually not qualified for inheritance.

  282. Caleb's name actually met dog. Caleb, the Bible says that Caleb's was the son of

  283. Jafunya, the Casanite. They have a complex political and social history with Israel.

  284. They were actually the descendants of Edom, which is Esau, which means he technically was not part

  285. of the promise. He technically was not part of the lineage, he technically was not part,

  286. his family were actually postulates. He technically was not part of that elite status of the Abraham

  287. seed. But he looked at the promises that it's mine. But your resume don't look right, it's mine.

  288. But you sin yesterday, it's mine. But you're not an Israel life. I'm grafted.

  289. This man got grafted before grafting was even a thing. Oh man, you can step into realities of things

  290. that aren't things yet because of faith. Faith will make you step into things that you weren't

  291. even supposed to have any type of inheritance to gain. Faith will make you step through doors that

  292. was supposed to be open three years from now. Faith will let you walk into territories that was

  293. supposed to be for someone else, but because you have faith, you can step into doors and see things

  294. manifest. I promise I now you're going to step into areas that people couldn't even step into

  295. because it was reserved for your faith. You try to see this. He technically wasn't part of the promise

  296. and he goes, I've been waiting 45 years for this. Moses, the prophet, if you know anything,

  297. my Moses, the Bible says I'm a prophet. The prophet gave me a word. What's interesting is he

  298. doesn't say God gave me a word. He always sees the prophetic word and I'm not moving until my

  299. prophetic word comes to pass God. I'm not going to stop praying until that prophetic word comes to

  300. pass God. You got to be audacious. Show me Luke chapter 11 verse 8. You got to be audacious. Show

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  301. me that scripture in the NIV. I tell you even though he will not get up and give you bread because

  302. of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity. This talking about the person who goes to

  303. their friend's house, knocks on the door at midnight. It says I need bread for one of my friends

  304. who came on a long trip and he's like, I'm not opening the door. My kids are sleeping. I'm not.

  305. He says, even though he won't get up and give you the bread because he's your friend,

  306. because you keep shamelessly knocking on the door. You say it doesn't matter. How many times I get

  307. a note? It doesn't matter how many times I prayed about it. You ever seen them take down a house

  308. and they use that wrecking ball? Sometimes the first hit nothing happens. The second hit a

  309. couple of bricks come on. You've got to be like that wrecking ball in the spirit and you've got to

  310. keep one hitting against it and hitting against it and hitting against it and hitting against it.

  311. Yep, yep. As soon as you do it, the floodgates are going to start opening up. As soon as you do it,

  312. one family member is going to get saved and the second family member is going to get saved and

  313. the third family member then ask for me in my house. We shall serve the Lord. You see, you got to keep

  314. on hitting it because the first time the miracle may not happen. You still may have the kids

  315. ourselves in your body but keep on keep on praying. Keep on praying. Keep on praying that second time

  316. something is shifting. The third time the doctor says something looks different. The fourth time

  317. we can't find a trace of cancer in your body. You've got to keep praying.

  318. I won't stop. I won't stop. See, this is Caleb's mentality. Caleb had the kind of mentality.

  319. Even though I'm not qualified for this, even though I'm not qualified to get everything God

  320. has, I don't have the right qualifications but I got to promise. I don't have the right

  321. qualifications but God spoke to me. He said it and if he said it, he's going to do it.

  322. I love that. I love how God doesn't care. All he cares about is faith.

  323. There are people who are at the front of the line. Think about it. Caleb was at the back of the line

  324. and Caleb made it to the front of the line because of faith. God literally was like this is the

  325. back of the line. All right, everyone turn around. Can I give someone a word? God is about to do

  326. that turn around for you in your life. Where you at the back of the line but faith is going to

  327. bring you to the front of the line. I dare somebody to give God a shout if that is your story.

  328. If you believe that as soon as you leave this place, you are at the back of the line for

  329. a miracle but God just said I'm expediting your miracle. I'm expediting your open door. I'm

  330. expediting. Oh somebody better give God a shout like you really believe it.

  331. All right, I'm almost done. Here's what made Caleb different. He didn't ask for a small thing.

  332. He asked for the biggest thing. Okay, Caleb could have asked for any land. Caleb asked for the land

  333. that he actually spied out which was he brought. That was the land he actually spied out. That's the

  334. land he went to because everyone had their responsibility to go to a specific part of the promised land.

  335. His land he stepped on was he brought. You have to understand something about he brought. He

  336. brought has a deep history in the Jewish culture. He brought was the place Abraham was buried. Isaac

  337. was buried. Jacob was buried. Sarah was buried. And you have to understand about Jewish people.

  338. Barrio sites are super significant. They have so much meaning for Jewish people. People who

  339. Jewish people will literally go travel for miles just to go to burial sites. It was a significant

  340. thing. And this was he brought. This was the place where in Genesis chapter 13 the first place

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  341. God said hey Abraham where you're standing on right now. He brought. I've given it to you as an

  342. inheritance for your family. I've given it. So this was a holy place. This was a place of encounter.

  343. This was a place of the spirit of God. And Caleb could have asked for any little small morsel. He didn't

  344. deserve the best. He didn't deserve to get anything. But he said I don't want any small territory.

  345. I don't want any insignificant plot of land. Give me he brought. Give me the

  346. big. He brought was the land of giants. He went there. He's a bunch of giants. He said I don't want

  347. the land of shrimp. I want the land of giants. This was the land where the Bible says two people

  348. had to carry one piece of fruit. He said that's the land I want. Now that's bonus. That's

  349. audacity. I want the best not because I'm the best but because he's the best. I want what's good

  350. not because I'm good but because he's good. And if I serve him then everything that's in his

  351. kingdom is allotted to me as inheritance. Oh you got to start fighting for what belongs to you

  352. as a believer and stop letting the devil tell you to settle for the job that's not paying you

  353. what you deserve. Settle for the apartment that's I won't settle in life. I server God is too big to

  354. settle. I server God is too big to still be collecting welfare checks my whole life. And it's not

  355. a knock. Sometimes people need it for a season but it's not going to be my lifestyle. I don't

  356. need the government. I got a God who provides. I felt that in my spirit some people got quiet.

  357. But you got to you got to go after what's big. I'm not going to settle for the small Monday. I'm

  358. going to ask God for the big. And when I move to my house the Holy Spirit says I'm going to give you

  359. multiple properties on this block. I started asking for big. Six months later after I moved

  360. this to my house. Guess what? I brought the house right next door because I'm asking for big.

  361. See some of y'all are still asking for small. You know I don't just want a house. I want to own a

  362. community. You see I don't want a house. I want to be a I want to be a lender and not a borer.

  363. Come on somebody. I want to be the head and not the tail. I don't want to just settle in life and

  364. be content in Monday. Now there's more for my life than this. You got to start asking big.

  365. Asking you to receive, seeking your fire, knocking the door will be open. You haven't asked enough.

  366. If you ask you'll get it. Amen. All right.

  367. Here's my last point.

  368. Oh Jesus thank you. This is the point where I was like

  369. can I say one last thing before my last point please? All right.

  370. You know the Holy Spirit started speaking to me and he started saying he's not telling me

  371. just talking to me about wealth and inheritance and possessions and then the Holy Spirit was telling

  372. me he's like wealth and prosperity isn't just about possessions. It's about perspective.

  373. He said it's not just about money. It's about mentality. At this point Caleb had nothing

  374. except for a mindset. Caleb had nothing except a perspective. Caleb was a slave who was walking

  375. around in a wilderness for 40 years. At this point he had nothing except for the clothes on his back

  376. but he had a perspective. And so his prosperity began here before it began before it started

  377. here before it started affecting here. It had to start with him changing this. I know who I am.

  378. I know what God's given me. I know the intelligence he's given me. I know the wisdom he's given me.

  379. I know that I'm not just a grasshopper. I'm not just limited in my thoughts. I'm not just limited

  380. in my life. And guess what? This started to change after this started to change. The problem is a

  381. lot of us try to do the opposite way around. We try to get a bunch of money in my pocket.

  382. But you still got to say mindset. And that's why people they got big, big statements.

  383. Let me not go there. I'm gonna say it. They got big, big statements but they got a small state of

  384. mind. That's why 90% of people who win the lotto guess what? They end up broke.

  385. Because this filled up but this didn't. Y'all with me? I cannot give you on my last point.

  386. So I had so much more to say. Second service. I'm gonna try to say all of you. But everything I

  387. need us to be said today was said. You're only very ministered. Wherever needed to be said.

  388. Here's my last point. Caleb goes. He possesses the land. He gets what God has for him.

  389. Years later, his daughter gets married. It's about to get married. She's engaged.

  390. Because Caleb said whoever could take this land, they'll have my daughter as an inheritance.

  391. I give my daughter to them marriage. And so his daughter was about to get married.

  392. And she's like, Dad, I know you have this land for me. And the land that Caleb was gonna give her

  393. was a desert land. No water. And guess what? She said, I want the upper springs.

  394. And I want the lower springs. Teasing that culture. A woman did not have the audacity.

  395. Can I talk right now to ask for certain things? She said, I don't care what the culture says.

  396. That's when the Holy Spirit began to speak to me and say, you know why she had the audacity?

  397. She got it from her daddy.

  398. She got the audacity from her father. She got the audacity to ask for big things from her dad.

  399. And then that's when God saw us speaking to me and said, Jesus, you're my father.

  400. And Jesus, you asked for big things.

  401. And I have your DNA on the inside of me.

  402. Which means if you live inside of me and I have your DNA, I have an audacity to ask for big things.

  403. Devil, get your hands off my stuff.

  404. And then God, give me the upper and the lower springs.

  405. I just don't want a little bit God. I need a double portion. I just don't want a small amount.

  406. I need a double portion. How many double portion people we have in the house?

  407. Who believe that? This is your season of double portion. This is your season where God is not just

  408. giving you the rain. He's giving you the rain on top of the rain. He's not just giving you

  409. a promotion. He's giving you the CEO position. I believe this is your season where everything

  410. you been believing God for is going to come to pass in your life. If you believe it, lift up your

  411. hands and give God a shout. Come on, shout, shout. Come on. I've got this audacity for my daddy.

  412. I've got this audacity for my father. I've got to ask big things. I serve a big God. I can't

  413. act a big God for small things. Stand to your feet. We're about to go. Lift up your hands. Father,

  414. I thank you for every person in this room. I thank you for the anointing over their lives.

  415. The anointing to believe you for big. They will not put any limitations on you and limitations

  416. on what you want to do in their lives. I thank you for audacious askers. I thank you for audacious

  417. askers. People who are going to believe you for healings, believe you for miracles, believe you

  418. for restoration, believe you for family salvation, believe you for healings, believe you for breakthrough,

  419. believe that you are the same God yesterday, today and forever. If you did it for Caleb,

  420. you'll do it for us. We say give us our mountain. Give us our place. Give us the thing you promised

  421. us. The mountain of entertainment. Give it to us. The mountain of business. Give it to us. The

  422. mountain of industry. Give it to us. Give us this mountain. We claim it and we receive it

  423. in Jesus' name if you believe it. Give God a shout. Come on. Give God a shout of victory.

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