Entrepreneurs, Creative People, &
Marketplace Warriors,
Break
Down the Walls
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This weekend, I shared about the
new generation the Lord is releasing - the Joshua Generation.
I feel there are many of you who are working in the
marketplace, and you are full of creative ideas that have not
been fulfilled yet, so I am sharing more of this with you
today.
In short, this message centers around the point
that Moses is dead and the Lord is releasing a Joshua
Generation. Please read the following scriptures:
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Joshua 1:2-3
"'Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go
over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am
giving to them—the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of
your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to
Moses.'"
Joshua
6:1-2 "Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the
children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the LORD
said to Joshua: 'See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king,
and the mighty men of valor.'"
A
Church Without Walls
I feel that the Lord is
releasing many new movements on the earth and one of the movements
is called “The Third Day Movement.” I feel the Lord wants to release
a church without walls. He wants to mobilize the men and women to do
exploits in the name of the King. There needs to be a cry inside of
us that we will be ones who will do exploits for the King of Glory.
Amen?
When we remember Moses, it says
he lived to be 120-years-old. His eyes were not dim, but because of
his disobedience, he was only able to see the Promised Land and not
go into it, but he prayed for Joshua and gave him
wisdom.
Are you a giant-killer or
a grasshopper?
Now, I want to go back into Moses'
time a little. We all know the story about the twelve spies. We know
how they went into the Promised Land, and they saw the giants. They
came back and they said, “There are giants in the land - and we are
like grasshoppers.” The only ones who had faith to go into the land
were Joshua and Caleb.
I feel
that the Lord wants to stir faith inside of us that we are not
grasshoppers. I think there is something in us that says, "The
giants are so big, and the strongholds of Jericho are so huge. Would
God ever give us divine strategies to take down these strongholds in
our lives, and in the lives of our families and friends?" There
needs to be a switch to something inside us faithfully saying,
"Lord, You will give us divine strategies. We just have to take one
step at a time."
Do you have the
faith for the radical things of God?
You see,
they weren’t able to go into the Promised Land because of their
unbelief. They wouldn’t believe their God, so they were willing to
continue in the wilderness and in a place of familiarity. Often in
the church, we are used to what is comfortable and familiar. I feel
the Lord is saying, "I want to use fresh strategies and fresh
impartations of my Spirit. I want you to break out of My old
familiar wineskins."
There
needs to be a cry inside of you that you are willing to be
forerunners – revolutionists – that you are willing to take the
glory of the Lord outside the walls of the church into the
educational and political systems, the music industry,
entertainment, the marketplace, and that you are willing to move in
the radical things of God.
Do you
cry for a visitation?
There needs to be a cry in
you that says, “Lord, I want you to break out in the marketplace.” I
feel that the Lord is saying, “Are you willing to move in the
times and the seasons… like Daniel, like Joshua." Is your cry,
"Lord, I want to get the fresh strategies in our world for what you
are doing in our lives." There needs to be that cry that says,
“Lord, I want more of you.”
They were
willing to live in the miracles. Moses had radical 40-day and
-night visitations. There needs to be a cry in you that says, "I
want those visitations. I want an encountering and a gripping. I
want to meet my Jesus face-to-face."
There
needs to be a cry in you that says, "Lord, the platform of the
church is too small; but Lord, where can you radically use me to
impact my world in everyday life, as a prophet, evangelist, teacher
and preacher with prophetic words and words of knowledge that can
impact my world and bring a shaking of the kingdom of
God?"
Be fearlessly radical among
the rich
I want you to not only be able to move
in the church, but to be able to have “suddenly’s” of the Lord. Be
able to have sounds in the secular world that can start to bring the
presence of Jesus Christ into stadiums for the purposes of God.
Why not
have a dream? Why not develop radical inventions? Why not move in
the medical community with radical intelligence to bring cures of
leukemia and cancer? Some of you have been gifted in the medical
field - you’ve been gifted in science - you’ve been given a
sharpness.
I think
so often in the church we say, “Yes, Lord, we should get everyone
ministering to the streets.” We talk about the inner city, and I
feel that the Lord says, “It’s not just the inner city. It’s not
just the poorest of the poor. I want you to be able to go to the
rich. I want you to be able to go to the influential. I want you to
be able to go to the educational and political systems and impact
your world radically." |
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Why not dream big?
Why do
we only sanction that we take a tract and go to the street corner,
when many of you are so gifted? You need to move in your gifting and
use your education to activate radical strategies that will break
open the King of Glory to move in your midst.
You
have more than you may realize!
You see, some of
you are saying, “I don’t have anything”; but if you have a word of
God, it will open up doors, and you can go into the courts of kings.
The Lord is going to change how the prophets are used. We
have gotten into a conference mentality.
More and more, the most radical
prophetic voices are going to move almost like invisible men and
women behind the scenes to go and talk to kings, prime ministers and
leaders in the world. Many of them you would never know on the
platform of a church, and many of them you would never see on a
conference itinerary; yet, they are used radically as brokers for
the King of Glory.
It is
big.
Whatever your gift is, the Lord will use it.
Whatever your talent is, the world will use it. Many times, the
5-folders have sinned against the business and education system.
They've said that the only place to use your gifts is from the
platform, instead of empowering you to sit at corporate board
tables, as stock brokers, as educators, where you can give the
prophetic word of the Lord and change the course of an entire
corporation for Jesus Christ.
We need to stop being envious
and pining away for the church platform and start being about the
business of Jesus Christ. "Arriving" does not mean standing on the
platform of a church. We are in a prophetic journey our whole lives.
We need to carry the presence and love of Jesus wherever we go. In
one place, you will give a word, in another, one person will get
saved, and in another, delivered. That is part of moving in the
gospel of Jesus. We need to bring the kingdom of God into everyday
life. It is not enough to just sit in conferences.
If you give it away, He will multiply it over
and over again.
When did you last dream and ask
for prophetic revelation of inventions that would change the world
trends in music? How about songs that would change history? How
radical do you want to be? How entrepreneurial? In everyday life,
are you radical for Jesus? Is your cry, "Lord, let me see the
broken, let me see the weak, let me see the despised." You have to
be willing to let God customize your own death. Now, when Joshua was
going to go into Jericho, he sent two spies. They went into Jericho
and they met Rahab, a prostitute.
When you
go into the music or computer industries, you are going to meet
Rahab. You are going to meet the gentiles. You are going to meet the
prostitutes. You are going to meet the ones who say with terror in
their hearts, “I heard about your God," and you are going to bring
salvation for their whole generation. Did you know that Rahab is in
the line of Jesus Christ – she is the great, great grandmother of
Jesus!
Are you willing to meet Rahab? Are you willing to meet
the prostitutes? Not just the prostitute on the street corner – that
radical gentile, that sexually perverted person in the music,
entertainment, or computer industry? Is there something in us that
says, "Give us a radical word in season that will break open their
sin, bring deliverance and bring them to Jesus Christ?" You see, if you really loved
Him, you would give Him away. If He is your first love, what else
would you do but talk about Him?
For Joshua, the Jordan was
in flood season. They had to believe for a miracle. Many times when
God breaks you out of the old familiar things and brings you to the
new, you have to go through the flood waters. There were wild lions
around the river, there was a cry for strategies. And the Lord said,
“On the third day, have the priests carry the ark. Where their
feet touch the water, the waters will recede.”
The ark
carried the glory and the presence of God. There needs to be a cry
in us that as we start to transition from the old to the new, we
carry the glory and the presence of God. There needs to be a cry in
us to press into the face of Jesus with hunger and passion, no
matter what crosses our path.
How hungry are you? You can’t
do it without Him. The Jordan symbolized death, the Lord is going to
kill a lot of old wineskins. It is not enough to just remember the
miracles of years past. Are you moving with signs and wonders now?
Are you moving with a fresh anointing of the presence of God now?
Are you seeing people healed and saved? Are you crying out, saying,
“Lord, I want you?”
Or are we
barren with no salvation?
You see, it is not
enough to just have a fire party. The presence and the fire of God
come to grip us with that radical first love so that everybody will
get healed, saved and delivered. There is an empowering fire, and it
is not just for you.
See the Lord is saying, “Wake up
Bride.” I want the sleeping giant of the church to wake up.
Come on. "Arriving" is not the platform of the church. If you just
look up at people there and don't take what they're offering to get
equipped and do the things of God, it is idolatry.
Idolatry is self-seeking, it is not
God-seeking.
So, they get to the other side, and
their enemies are afraid. The Lord could have said, “Joshua, now
is the time to take out Jericho.” What did He say? "Now is
the time to call a meeting with all the warriors." And Joshua
called all the men forward and took a flint knife and circumcised
them!
Ladies, we can relate to this because the Lord
circumcises our hearts, too. We get the easier deal on that one. Why
would the Lord take a whole army and put them in a place of radical
weakness and dependability on the King of Glory? They could have
gone on their own strength.
In
approaching Jericho, the men of war were already terrified. They had
terror because they remembered the miracles that took place with the
Red Sea. They knew that the God of Jehovah was in their midst. He
wanted them circumcised. He wanted a fresh covenant, because they
were moving into a holy war.
Will you let the Lord circumcise your
heart?
I believe the Lord is saying, "Many of
you need to be circumcised with a fresh anointing and a fresh
repentance to move into that place of a fresh covenant, to move into
that place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to be able to go in and
take the land."
Joshua is on a faith journey, it is not
any different than ours. Suddenly, we have the flood waters. We have
to follow the Lord. There is nothing else that we can do besides
follow the Lord. Then our hearts are circumcised. The enemy could
have come in and wiped them out, but from a great place of
vulnerability and for weeks in recovery, they had to trust in their
God.
From a place of humility,
visitation comes
Then the Lord came with a divine
visitation. The Captain of the Hosts showed up, and he gave them
divine strategies to take down Jericho. How does He give you
strategies to take down the strongholds in your own life? Do you ask
the Lord for divine visitations and strategies, or is your knowledge
of the Lord simply, "If I come, I will get into the
river."
I tell
you people, getting in the river is not enough. Getting a little
warm feeling is nice, but it is not enough. There needs to be a
radical gripping of God. A gripping in the depths of who you are. No
one can make this happen because there is a sovereignty of God.
There is a place that you can position your love and your hearts.
Each one of us is
Moses!
Each one of us is moving in the old
familiar ways. We are in a season where the Lord wants to break you
out of your old familiar paradigms and break you into a place to be
a militant Joshua Generation. Each one of you is at a crossroads of
the Jordan. God is inviting you to die.
The Jordan
represents the cross. We die to our selfishness; we die to just us
getting it and not giving it away. You want a multiplication of the
prophetic. You need to start prophesying. You want a multiplication
of the gift of healing, then to pray for the sick. You want a
multiplication of moving in wisdom, then to counsel people and to
ask God to give you wisdom and strategies for their lives. If you
start to move into the kingdom, He will give you more. If you just
go home, and say that we had a radical, wild conference, but you are
not on fire, starting to give away Jesus, then you missed
it.
Is Moses
dead?
Are you just a little grasshopper? Or, is
there something in you that says, "We have a big God. We have a God
who can take down giants. We have a God who can take down every city
and every stronghold. We can go before Him. We have a God who can
move on our behalf."
This is a word of freedom. It is a
word to get you mobilized. It is a word to get you to say, “Go for
it!” Move in God! Go for it! Be radical, fiery brides for the King
of Glory! Take the land! Take the territory for God."
I want
there to be a jealousy – a holy jealousy, so you say, "Why not me?
Lord, you could use a Gideon, why not me? Lord, you could use a
David; why not me? Lord, you could use a little girl named Esther
and made her a Queen. Lord, why not me? Lord, you could use my life.
You used a Mary; why not me? Why can’t you use my life?"
You
see, He can use YOU!
Are you a Moses? Or a
Joshua? Ladies, are you grasshoppers? Do you think only the men can
be generals? Do you think that you can hold things in the Spirit?
Can the Lord use you to move armies and come up with radical
strategies for the King of Glory? Or, is it only the guys, and we
get to be their shadows? Are you guys saying, "This little light of
mine, a little flicker?" Or are you a blazing torch?
There
needs to be a cry that you are willing….
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