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GLORY DAYS
GLORY DAYS
THESE ARE GLORY DAYS.
MY PAST IS PAST
MY FUTURE IS BRIGHT,
GOD’S PROMISES ARE TRUE AND HIS WORD IS SURE.
WITH GOD AS MY HELPER:
I WILL BE ALL HE WANTS ME TO BE,
DO ALL HE WANTS ME TO DO,
AND RECEIVE ALL HE WANTS ME TO RECEIVE.
THESE ARE THE GLORY DAYS
CANAAN
CANAAN
CANAAN PROMISES US:
HOPE
LIFE
PASSIONATE FAITH
FERTILE RELATIONSHIPS
WE WENT FROM:
EGYPT
WILDERNESS
CANAAN
SAVED YES
EMPOWERED NO
OUT OF EGYPT BUT NOT IN CANAAN?
OUR INHERITANCE
OUR INHERITANCE
WE SPOKE ABOUT THE I CAN’T - ITES
AND SOMETIMES THE I CANT ACTUALLY MEANTS I WON’T
I CANT RESIST THAT DRINK
PORNOGRAPHY
DRUGS
LYING
CHEATING
UNFORGIVING
JERICHO
JERICHO
YOUR JERICHO
ANXIETY
INSECURITY
ADDICTION
PROPENSITY TO LIE OR GOSSIP
UNFORGIVENESS
REFUSAL TO SURRENDER
YOUR FEAR OF FACING THE NEXT STEP
GLORY DAYS - PRAYER
GLORY DAYS - PRAYER
THE PEOPLE OF GIBEON HEARD ABOUT JERICHO AND AI
THEY ARE AFRAID NOW
THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE UP AGAINST
THEIR HEARTS ARE MELTING
SO THEY DEVISE A PLAN
THEY DRESS UP AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING FOR MANY DAYS AND HAVE OLD PATCHED CLOTHES AND SHOES
OLD WINESKINS AND STALE BREAD
THEY SPIN A GREAT TALE OF HOW THEY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE ISRAELITES AND THEY CAME FROM AFAR AND WANT TO MAKE A COVENANT WITH THEM
JOSHUA MADE PEACE WITH THEM
AFTER THEY MADE THE COVENANT
FOUND OUT THEY WERE NEIGHBOURS
FAIL!!!
At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.
WHAT WENT SO VERY WRONG?
JOSHUA 9:16
So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the Lord.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
2 COR
PRAY CONTINUALLY
AND SOMETIMES THE I CANT ACTUALLY MEANTS I WON’T
ASK GOD EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
ALL DAY
GOD ARE YOU IN THIS
IS THIS FROM YOU GOD
HELP ME TO DISCERN WHAT TO DO NEXT PLEASE GOD
SHOW ME YOUR WAY
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
I THINK WE LIKE TO HAVE THE WHOLE STORY OUT IN FRONT OF US SO WE CAN MAKE A DECISION
GOD DOES NOT OPERATE THAT WAY
HE GIVES US ENOUGH LIGHT TO SEE THE NEXT STEP WE NEED TO TAKE
GLORY DAYS ARE KEEP IN TUNE WITH GOD
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
ISAIAH 30:
KEY IS KEEPING IN TUNE
KEEP AN OPEN LINE
PRAY THOSE BOLD AND DARING PRAYERS
WAIT UNTIL GOD SPEAKS BEFORE YOU ACT
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
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HOW DO WE KNOW GOD IS TALKING TO US
YOU WILL GET A CHECK IN YOUR SPIRIT
ASK GOD FOR CLARIFICATION
WE CAN LOOK AT JOAHUA AND SAY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!
BUT WE HAVE DONE THE SAME
WE GET TO SURE OF OURSELVES AND WE KIND OF TELL GOD WE GOT THIS
ANOTHER THING WE NEED TO DO IN THIS GLORY DAY IS CALL ON GOD FOR GREAT THINGS!
JOSHUA DID
YOU SEE THIS ALLIANCE HE MADE WITH THE ENEMY BECAME A REAL BIG PROBLEM IN A VERY SHORT TIME.
THERE WERE 5 OTHER KINGS THAT HEARD THAT THE GIBEONITES HAD MADE A COVENANT WITH THE ISRAELITES
THEY DECIDED THEY WOULD GO AND ATTACK THEM
THE GIBEONITES CALLED ON JOSHUA AND HIS ARMY
JOSHUA HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ENGAGE THEM AS HE MADE A PACT AND HAD TO SEND HIS TROUPS TO THE RESCUE
ENTER JOSHUA AND THE GANG
So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
JOSHUA BEING AN ASTUTE SOLDIER REALISED THAT IT WOULD SOON BE NIGHT HOURS AND THAT WOULD GIVE THE ARMIES TIME TO REGROUP AND HE KNEW THAT WAS DANGEROUS
JOSHUA PRAYED A VERY BOLD PRAYER
JOSHUA
At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
NOTE THAT THERE IS A FURTHER REFERENCE TO THIS INCIDENT IN THE SCRIPTURES
THE AUTHOR KNEW PEOPLE WOULD FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE SO HE BACKED IT UP WITH FURTHER EVIDENCE
THIS WAS AN EXTREME PRAYER
WE DON’T PRAY ENOUGH OF THEM
PRAYER STRATEGY
WE NEED TO LEARN NOT TO PRAY ABOUT OUR STRATEGIES BUT TO MAKE PRAYER OUR STRATEGY
WHAT IS FACING YOU RIGHT NOW?
DISCOURAGEMENT
DECEPTION
DEFEAT
DEATH
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THEY CHASING YOU DOWN WATING TO CONSUME YOU LIKE A RAGING FIRE - SENDING YOU SCATTERING BACK INTO THE WILDERNESS - LIVING IN FEAR NOT FREEDOM
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
MARK 11
WHAT IS YOUR MOUNTAIN
WHAT IS YOUR MOUNTAIN?
WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE YOU ARE FACING NOW
CRY OUT TO GOD
CALL OUT FOR HELP
TELL HIM EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED
WILL HE DO WHAT YOU WANT?
I CANT SAY THAT HE WILL ANSWER YOU EXACTY THE WAY YOU WANT BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS
HE WILL DO HIS BEST!
HE WILL DO WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU
DON’T LET THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY BE LOUDER THAN THE VOICE OF GOD.
CALL ON HIM AND SEE IF HE DOES NOT ANSWER YOU IN A WAY THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
COME EXPECTING
AND HE WILL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
MAT
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
MATT
YES THE BATTLE WILL BE THERE BUT YOU DO NOT FIGHT IN VAIN CONSULT GOD IN ALL THINGS
THE DAY OF VICTORY WILL LAST LONG INTO THE NIGHT
YOU
YOU
YOU ARE HEAVENS FIRST AND FINAL ATTEMPT AT YOU
THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU
UNIQUE
ONE OF A KIND
I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE THAT I AM SO AMAZED THAT GOD CREATED ME UNIQUELY AND SO MUCH SO THAT NO ONE HAS MY DNA
YET WE ALL SPEND OUR LIVES TRYING TO BE LIKE THE NEXT PERSON
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
TALENTED
,
SKILLED
GIFTED
ANOINTED
YOU GIVE IT THE LABEL YOU WANT
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. ( MSG)
YOU WERE MADE TO DO EXACTY WHAT YOU DO
SOME ARE TEACHERS
SOME ARE DOCTORS
NURSES
ACCOUNTANTS
PREACHERS
STAY AT HOME PARENTS
OFTEN WE TRY AND DO WHAT OUR PARENTS TELL US TO DO
I WANTED TO DO ONE THING AND MY DAD WOULDN’T LET ME
SO WHAT DO WE DO
WE FIT IN
SETTLE IN
NEVER MAKE OUR CALLING
NOW YOU MAY SAY IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU
NOPE ITS NOT
GOD CAN USE YOU EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE AND THEN IF YOU FIND YOUR PASSION IS RENEWED AND YOU ARE LOOKING AROUND WHATCH GOD OPEN THE DOORS FOR YOU
IN JESUS CHRIST WE ARE NEW CREATURES AND GOD WILL USE US AS HE HAS EQUIPPED US
BUT IM TELLING YOU YOU CANT DO IT WITHOUT HIM
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.
For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
THE BOOK OF JOSHUA IS TELLING US THAT THIS IS OUR TERRITORY AND WE NEED TO TAKE IT
YOU SEE WHEN JOSHUA TOOK CANAAN
HIS INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOD WERE TO NEUTRALISE THE AREA
THEN EQUIP EACH PERSON WITH THEIR OWN TERRITORY
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YOU ARE STANDING AT PROMISED LAND AVENUE AND GLORY LAND BOULEVARD
YOU HAVE AN ASSIGNED TERRITORY TAKE IT AND LISTEN TO WHAT GOD IS CALLING YOU TO DO WITH IT
YOU SEE PAUL REMINDS US IN
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
JESUS CAME TO EQUIP YOU TO LIVE A VICTORIOUS LIFE
JOSHUA INSTRUCTED THE ISREALITES
TRIBE OF JUDAH TAKE THE HIGH COUNTRY
MANESSEH OCCUPY THE VALLEYS
PEOPLE OF GAD INHIBIT THE LAD EAST OF JORDAN
JESUS IS SAYING TO YOU
JOE WORK IN YOUR DOMAIN OF MEDICINE
MARY WORK IN THE ACCOUNTING FIELD
SUSAN USE YOUR GIFT OF HOSPITALITY
SARAH USE YOUR GIFT OF COMPASSION
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EVERYBODY HAS A GIFT
WE ARE ALL GIVEN SOMETHING THAT SHOWS WHO GOD IS
WE ALL INHERIT AND IT IS GRACE BASED WE DO NOT NEED TO EARN IT
AND WE ARE ALL EQUAl
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU?
START BY LOOKING AT WHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO DO
WHAT DO YOU DO WELL?
WHAT DO PEOPLE AS YOU TO DO AGAIN AND AGAIN?
WHAT COMES EASILY TO YOU?
WHAT KEEPS YOUR ATTENTION?
THERE IS A STUDY THAT INDICATES THAT ONLY 13 % OF PEOPLE DO A JOB THEY REALLY LIKE
FIND WHAT MAKES YOU TICK AND DO IT SO WELL THAT PEOPLE PAY YOU TO DO IT
WE ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE NEXT PERSON IS DOING WE SOMETIMES MISS THE BOAT
YOU DO YOU AND DO IT WELL AND DO IT TILL YOU EXCELL
THE NATURE OF YOUR GIFTS IS WHAT GOD HAS ALLOCATED BUT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOU USE THEM
YOU SEE THERE WHERE SOME ISRAELITES THAT NEVER TOOK THIER INHERITANCE SERIOUS AND THEY NEVER FOLLOWED WHAT GOD ASKED OF THEM
THEY DID NOT LIVE IN PEACE AND PROSPER TO THE EXTENT THAT GOD HAD INTENDED.
JUST KEEP READING IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA AND YOU WILL SEE.
WELL WHEN YOU FIGURE IT OUT - SHARE IT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE
WELL WHEN YOU FIGURE IT OUT - SHARE IT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE
STAND ON THE PROMISES OF GLORY DAYS
GOD CENTRED MIND
GOD CENTRED MIND
WE WILL NEVER LIVE A TROUBLE FREE LIFE. EVER.
PROBLEMS HAPPEN TO ALL PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
YOUNG, OLD, RICH, POOR
SINGLE, MARRIED, BLACK, WHITE, ETC
NOT ONE OF US ARE EXEMPT FROM THE TROUBLES OF THIS WORLD
WE ALL HAVE PROBLEMS
BUT WE DON’T ALL PROCESS PROBLEMS THE SAME WAY
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WE CAN LEAVE BITTER OR BETTER
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WE CAN FACE OUR CHALLENGES WITH FEAR OR WITH FAITH
WHEN YOU CENTRE YOUR MIND ON GOD YOU WILL WIN THE BATTLES
YOU WILL ENJOY THE INHERITANCE
WE HAVE SUCH A MAN RIGH IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA
Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”
Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
CALEB
CALEBS STORY STAND OUT TO US BECAUSE HIS FAITH DOES
CALEB IF YOU CAN REMEMBER WAS ONE OF THE SPIES THAT MOSES SENT TO CHECK THINGS OUT
HE WAS THE ONE ALONGSIDE JOSHUA WHO SAID YES THERE ARE BIG PROBLEMS BUT WE HAVE A BIGGER GOD
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”
DID YOU PICKUP HOW MANY TIMES CALEB USED THE PHRASE THE LORD
CALEB FOCUSED ON THE LORD
SOMETIMES WE FOCUS ON THE PERSON OR THE PROBLEM OR THE SITUATION
THIS YEARS LATER ACTUALY 45 AS CALEB IS NOW A MAN OF 85
HE KEPT THE FAITH AND REMEMBERED THE PROMISE GOD HAD MADE TO HIM
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
IT IS NOT AN EASY LIFE WE LIVE WE FACE MANY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
BUT IF WE KEEP OUR EYES FOCUSED ON JESUS WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS
STRESS OR TRUST
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
GOD IS ABOVE ALL OF OUR MESSES
“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
ISAIAH 6
PAIN DOES NOT WORRY HIM
ECONOMY DOES NOT FAZE HIM
THE WEATHER DOES NOT DISTURB HIM
ELECTIONS DONT DEFINE HIM
DISEASE DONT INFECT HIM
DEATH CANNOT CLAIM HIM
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
YOU KNOW THAT SHOW THAT WAS ON TV WITH THE FIXING UP OF HOMES FOR PEOPLE WHO NEEDED IT
THEY WOULD ALL SHOUT - MOVE THAT BUS
WE CAN SHOUT MOVE THAT MOUNTAIN
WE CAN SPEAK TO OUR MOUNTAINS
IGNORE THE NEGATIVITY
JOSHUA 14:6-15
TURN A DEAF EAR TO THE DOUBTERS
CALEB AND JOAHUA WHERE OUTNUMBERED 10 TO 2
CALEB CHOSE TO BELEIVE ANYWAY
HEBRON HELD A SPECIAL SPOT IN THE HISTORY OF THE HEBREWS
IT WAS WHERE ABRAHAM WAS BURIED
ISAAC
REBEKAH AND JACOB
IT WAS A SACRED SITE
SO CALEB HAD ASKED MOSES FOR HEBRON
CALEB COULD HAVE ASKED FOR ANY OF THE OTHER PRIME REAL ESTATE
HE SAID JUST GIVE ME HEBRON ILL TAKE CARE OF IT
JUST GIVE ME ________________ I’LL TAKE CARE OF IT
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WHAT IS YOUR HEBRON?
A PERSON TO ENCOURAGE
SOMEONE WHO NEEDS A LITTLE HELP CLEANING
THERE ARE DIVORCEE AND WIDOWS WHO NEED CHORES DONE AROUND THE HOUSE
MAYBE ITS AND OVERSEAS MISSION YOU NEED TO SUPPORT
READING TO SENIORS
THE LIST IS ENDLESS
WE NEVER TOO OLD OR TO YOUNG OR NOT GOOD ENOUGH
GOD MADE US ENOUGH
BECAUSE HE IS ENOUGH
JESUS LOVED US SO MUCH THAT HE DIED FOR US
ALL OF US
NOT JUST SOME OF US
PERHAPS YOUR HEBRON IS TAKING THAT STEP PF FAITH OUT OF THE WILDERNESS INTO CANAAN
THESE MY FRIENDS ARE THE GLORY DAYS
NOT THE GLORY DAYS THAT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SINGS OF
THOSE ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO HOPE AND ARE NOT ABLE TO LIVE IN THE FREEDOM OF THE GIFT OF JESUS CHRIST
BUT THE GLORY DAYS THAT GOD HAS CARVED OUT FOR US
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.