August 25, 2025 • 39 mins
What does it truly mean to live wholeheartedly for God? In this powerful message, Pastor Randall Duperval takes us on a journey through the story of Caleb to reveal that arrival is not enough, survival is not inheritance, and wandering is not progress. God calls us to live with undivided devotion, resilient faith, and full surrender.
In this sermon you’ll discover how to:
- Break free from the cycles of half-hearted living that keep you wandering in circles
- Build resilience that prepares you for God’s restoration
- Silence fear, trauma, and negative voices so faith can rise
- Leave behind selective obedience and embrace undivided loyalty to God
- Walk in the legacy of restoration that blesses generations after you
When we choose a wholehearted walk, God not only brings us into His promises, He establishes a legacy of faith and restoration for our families and our future.
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And I love you.
I'm a say it up front.
But I love you so much thatI've got to deliver this message.
And we are going to talk abouta wholehearted walk.
A wholehearted walk.
And you know, as Christians,we hear those words wholeheartedly.
We're like, oh, yeah, okay,this is a good word and things of
that nature.
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But do we really know what itmeans to be wholehearted?
I'll tell you what.
During this week, as I waspreparing for this word, I didn't
know, I realized I didn't knowwhat it meant to be wholehearted.
And so I'm ready to deliverthis word.
And my question is, are you ready?
All right, that was two people.
Thank you.
I'm so proud for you.
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Thank you, Nadab.
I appreciate you.
Thank you, Chilliwack Canada.
I really appreciate you.
However, I want everyone to beready for this word.
Because here's the thing.
If I'm gonna deliver a lifeshifting mess, the question is, are
you going to receive it?
Okay?
And so I am a part of, like, Icome from an educational background.
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Like, meaning I was in theeducation system working and things
of that nature.
And one of the things that Ipicked up from there is call and
response.
And so my question to youagain is, are you ready to receive
a life shifting word?
All right, thank you.
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A wholehearted walk.
I'm gonna take you through ajourney of this man named Caleb,
all right?
And if for those of you thatdon't know Caleb, we're gonna learn
about him today.
And the thing is, Caleb waswith the Israelites, Caleb and Joshua.
You know, there was 12 spies,Caleb and Joshua.
They walked through, walked inthe wilderness.
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They.
They went to spy out the land.
Moses sent them out, and allthese things happened.
But prior to the Israeliteswere praying for someone to come
and deliver them.
And then they get Moses tocome and deliver them.
And then from there, Moseswalks them through the Red Sea, which
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is crazy.
Amazing that that even happened.
But then here's the thing.
I believe what happened withthe Israelites was they thought that
a rival was enough.
You thought that arrival intoyou being a Christian is enough.
You thought that, man, God,you answered my prayers.
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That is enough.
You thought surviving was enough.
You thought that living outthe dreams, that some of the dreams
that God gave you is enough.
But I want to let you knowthat arrival is not enough.
And surviving is not inheriting.
I want to let you know thatthere is more.
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There is more.
It's not just the more of more.
There's more for God to giveyou, but there's also more that you've
got to give a wholehearted walk.
So what I'm going to do hereis I'm going to take you on a journey,
okay?
I'm going to give you thebeginning, the end first and then
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I'm going to walk you through.
Because here's the thing,there's restoration, that is the
reward.
But in order to get torestoration, you've got to walk into
resilience.
You've got to build thecharacteristic of resilience.
But in order to get toresilience, you have to walk wholeheartedly.
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So it's wholeheartedness andthen resilience, then restoration.
So many of us are trying tofight for restoration, but we're
not willing to live a lifethat's wholehearted.
So many of us are trying tofight for restoration, but we're
not willing to be resilient inthe process.
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And so, but here's the thing.
In order for you to know whatit's gonna take to be resilient and
get to restoration, you alsohave to know that half heartedness
is the opposite of wholeheartedness.
And you know what happens whenyou're half hearted?
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You end up being in a placewhere you're wandering.
Anybody ever feel that, that?
Anybody ever feel like, man,I'm just kind of like going through
the same thing over and overand over again.
It's the same situation, thesame thing.
You ever have a friend thatyou talk to and it's like, man, ain't
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we just talk about this like amonth ago or maybe a year later?
Let me not give your friendthat much, like slack, like not slack,
but let me not come for yourfriend that much.
And the friend is probably you.
But anyway, maybe about ayear, right, maybe a year later you're
on the phone with them and youlike you messing with that same guy.
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Didn't we, didn't you break upwith him?
Didn't you break up with her?
What do you mean?
Oh, you, you with somebodyelse now.
But the characteristics soundthe same, bro.
You, you going throughsomething, what's going on?
And it's not just inrelationships and it's in so many
different things.
And I'm, I'm a tell on myselfin a little while, so get ready for
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that.
I felt everybody kind of leanin because they're like, oh, he about
to give some tea.
But half hearted, right?
You get now, now it's half hearted.
That half hearted walk getsyou wandering, that wandering, you
know, where it leads you.
Not just not receiving yourdreams, not just not inheriting your
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legacy, but it receives you death.
Pastor Randall, you wildinglike it's not that serious.
Oh, yes, it is.
Oh, yes, it is.
And I'm going to.
I'm going to explain to youhow serious it is.
A wholehearted walk is notabout arriving.
It's about surrendering.
It may cost you more, but italways gives you more.
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It always gives you more.
So let's define wholeheartedand half hearted, okay?
Because I want you to knowwhat it means to be wholehearted.
But I also want you to knowwhat it means to also be half hearted.
Because the thing is, if youdon't know, if.
If you want to.
If you want to do something,you must first know what not to do.
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All right?
So really quickly, I want youto turn to numbers, chapter 14, verse
22 to 24.
Numbers 14, 22 to 24.
And once you have it, you cansay amen.
Or if you're on your way, youcan say amen.
Numbers.
Numbers 14, 22 to 24.
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It says, not one of those whosaw my glory and the signs, this
is God speaking, okay?
And signs.
And the signs I performed inEgypt and in the wilderness, but
who disobeyed me and tested me10 times, not one of them will ever
see the land I promised onoath to their ancestors.
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No one has treated me withcontempt will ever see it.
But because my servant Calebhas a different spirit and follows
me wholeheartedly, I willbring him into the land he went into,
and his descendants willinherit it.
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You know, as I was readingthis just now, I just saw something.
I will bring him into the landhe went to.
You know, there's.
When you read Numbers and youread this scripture and you read
like the scriptures after it,there's a part in the Scripture where
even after God said this outloud to the people, he said it to
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Moses, but then Mosesdelivered it to the people.
You know, the people still tryto go and fight all these other people
and all these other tribes andthings of that nature.
And Moses even told them, hey,God's not with you.
You going to lose.
And they ended up losing.
So many of us are trying tofigure things out ourselves when
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we have a God that we can leanon, so many of us, I will bring him
into the land he went to.
And the beautiful thing isthat it's.
After he said that Caleb has adifferent spirit and he follows me
wholeheartedly that he stillsays, I will bring him.
So for some of you.
Even when you get this wordtoday, you're still gonna think that,
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oh, there's something that I'm doing.
No, it's not something you're doing.
It's something that God'sgoing to do for you and through you.
Can you just receive it?
Are you able to just receive it?
And I'm going to summarizethis portion, but numbers 14, 36,
38, it goes on to explain that.
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So the men Moses had sent toexplore the land, who returned and
made the whole communitygrumble against him by spreading
a bad report about it.
These men who were responsiblefor spreading the bad report about
the land were struck down anddied of a plague before the Lord.
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Of the men who went to explorethe land, only Joshua, son of Nun,
and Caleb, son of Jepunah, survived.
Be careful who you're talking to.
Be careful what you're talking about.
Oh, man.
You know, I can't believe wegotta park all the way down the block
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and then get into this shuttleand whatnot.
Man, this is annoying.
I can't believe that I seesomebody laughing.
Cause they probably was sayingthat just a moment ago.
Don't worry, you got theability to repent.
Man.
I can't believe we don't gotour own building yet.
What's happening?
I can't believe we're still ina revival home.
Didn't they make Jersey a revival?
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Didn't they make Jersey into a campus?
Come on.
I'm gonna speak to some things.
I don't know who's saying it.
I haven't heard anything, butI told God, I'm a listen to you,
Lord, and I'm going to speakto what it is, because listen, we've
got to talk about these things.
You see, wholehearted meansfull surrender, undivided devotion.
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Whereas half hearted meansselective obedience.
A divided loyalty.
How many parents I got in thehouse right now?
How many parents actually receive?
You hear from your children,Tell you what, Half of what you said,
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not the full thing.
How many parents have selective.
Have children with selective hearing?
I'm putting all my feet up andeverything because I got, you know,
I got four kids, so I got toput everything.
My hands, my.
My hands, my legs and everything.
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Selective obedience, divided loyalty.
Well, you know what?
God's a dad.
God's a father, and we're children.
How many of you guys?
How many of us?
Because I'm in this too.
Oh, Lord, telling you I gotrocked this whole week.
Selective obedience.
Hey, God.
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Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
But you know what?
I'M gonna do it this way.
Hey, God.
Yeah, man.
God, please tell me what Iought to do.
Okay, son, I want you to do this.
And then you hear him and thenyou're like, okay, but.
But what?
You just asked for a word, youjust heard from God.
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And.
But come on now.
Divided loyalty.
Is it possible that we decideto have selective obedience and divided
loyalty because we don't trulytrust God?
Oh, we say we do.
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Oh, we sing the songs.
You know, we all come up here,we come up onto the front, we lift
our hands and all of this stuff.
I told you I was going slap y'all like two times.
I'm gonna hug y' all in alittle while.
But like, we will do it.
But we're not willing to walk wholeheartedly.
We're willing to do thingshalf hearted.
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But I want you to know thatthat half hearted walk is going to
lead you to death.
It's going to lead youwandering around over and over again.
How do I know this?
Because the consequence ofhalf heartedness is wandering.
In Numbers 32, Verse 13.
In Numbers 32, Verse 13, itsays, the Lord's anger burned against
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Israel and he made them wanderin the wilderness 40 years until
the whole generation of thosewho had done evil in his sight was
gone.
What?
Man, I'll tell you something.
When I read that this week, Iwas just like, wait a minute.
You mean to tell me this wholeentire time I thought the Israelites
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were the one that just weren'tlistening, that just decided to go
left when God was saying go right.
Did I do that right?
Right.
Okay, and go left when God wassaying go right.
But then what was actuallyhappening was.
Numbers 32 13.
Turn to it if you.
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If you don't believe me.
Like it says, the Lord's angerburned against Israel and he made
them wander in the wilderness40 years until the whole generation
of those who had done evil inhis sight was gone.
We're not talking about goneinto another land.
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No, we're talking about goneinto death.
Dang, God, I thought you werea loving God.
Yeah, I corrected you 10 times.
You tested me 10 times.
You asked me for a word 10 times.
And I gave you the word 10 times.
But yet you chose to do what?
What it was that you wanted to do.
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Numbers 14, verse 22 says.
I read that already.
Sorry.
Half hearted people wasteyears in circles.
They waste years in circles.
Wandering feels like movement,but produces no progress.
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Half hearted people, it's whenyou're in a forest, imagine you're
in a forest.
And you're walking and you seethis tree and you're like, all right,
hey, you know what?
I feel like we came here already.
So what I'm gonna do is I'mgonna pick up this rock and I'm gonna
put my initials.
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That way I know that this isdefinitely the tree we walk by so
we can go past another treethat is my initials.
It's been four days.
You mean to tell me I've justbeen walking around in a circle for
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four days?
It's been four months.
It's been four years.
You mean to tell me I'm in thesame place?
Same still half hearted peoplewaste years in circles wandering
feels like movement butproduces no progress.
You know how I know this is true?
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Because recently it was mybirthday the other day, and my wife
surprised me with an apple watch.
And I was just like, what?
I was really shocked.
I didn't think she would get that.
I just, you know, I waswishful thinking I would ask her,
I'd be like, hey, I need anapple watch.
And she actually got it for me.
And so I was just like, oh,thank you so much.
I was excited.
And then, so I have a dog.
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His name is Tuxedo.
And when you see him, you'llsee why.
And as I'm walking him, I tookhim on this long walk.
And as I was walking, all of asudden my apple watch goes off and
says, would you like to recordthis walk?
It seems like you're doing anoutdoor walk.
I was like, dang, this is.
I was like, God or AI, like,what's going on?
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I was like, this is amazing.
How did it figure that out?
And so as I'm walking, I'mthinking about it, I'm like, how
did it know that I was walking?
And it was like an exercise.
And I began to realize thatthe reason why is because of the
GPS in the watch, it was ableto track the fact that I was walking.
But not only was I walking,but I was walking from one distance
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to the next.
There was movement and progress.
Not just movement, because Icould be in my house.
But then while I'm home, evenwhile I'm here right now, I could
be walking over and over.
Not once I've been here since8 o' clock and not once did my watch
tell me, hey, it seems likeyou're on a workout.
Would you like me to record it?
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You know why?
Because I'm still in the same place.
I haven't moved, I haven'tgone anywhere.
I'm still in this House.
It's not as if I traveled fromone place to the other, but let me
start walking home.
My watch is gonna tell me,hey, the satellite that's tracking
you, the God that's trackingyou recognizes there's movement going
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on.
And so therefore you must beprogressing into something new.
You must be progressing into anew place.
You must be going someplace else.
So wandering does not meanthat movement does not mean that
you are progressing.
Half hearted walk will causeyou to wander and make you feel like
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you're moving, but you're not progressing.
I know you're not clappingright now because you're recognizing.
Oh, shoot.
This is me.
Oh, man, this is me.
This is what I've been going through.
This is why I keep coming backto the same prayers.
This is why I keep reading thesame scriptures.
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This is why I open up my bookto what God told me a few years ago.
And I look at it now and I'mwriting down the same thing he told
me years ago.
You have not progressed, young people.
I'm talking about you chasingsuccess without surrender.
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Adults, I'm talking about youof cycles of death and broken relationships.
Elders, I'm talking about yourbitterness, your regret and clinging
to what was, as opposed tolooking to what is stagehand.
Can you just get my car?
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Because I'm gonna have to runout of here and I hope they don't
know where I parked because Imight have slashed tires.
My GPS is gonna start askingme, my phone, my watch is gonna ask
me, are you, Are you taking anoutdoor walk?
Yeah, because I don't have a car.
But here's the thing.
Caleb, in the same wilderness,in the same years, lived differently.
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It's interesting to me, right?
Caleb was amongst theIsraelites that wandered in circles
for four years.
I mean, for 40 years.
The Israelites, we all knowthat, right?
That the Israelites, theywandered in circles and then they
died off because of the factthat they were just going in, going
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in circles.
But then Caleb was part of that.
Joshua was a part of that.
Why?
How come Caleb was able to seethe promise, but yet he was not able
to, but yet the people aroundhim was not.
You see, remember I told youthat there's restoration, resilience,
but before we got to do that,there's a wholehearted walk.
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Joshua 14:1011 says, now then,just as the Lord promised, he has
kept me alive for 45 years,since the time he said this to Moses
while Israel moved about inthe wilderness.
So here I am today, 85 years old.
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I am still as strong today asthe day Moses sent me out.
I'm just as vigorous to go outto battle now as I was then.
In the same 40 years they werewandering, Caleb was withstanding
in the same 40 years where theIsraelites were going around in circles,
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seeing the same tree, lookingat the same mountain, figuring out
what to do next, if this isgoing to work or if that is going
to work.
You know what Caleb was doing?
He was withstanding.
He was withstanding.
What was he withstanding to?
You see, what Caleb did is thesame thing what Caleb did in the
wilderness was the same thinghe did the moment his his peers,
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that he was supposed to go andconquer the land with the same thing.
He did the same thing then.
Later, then.
And he then, excuse me, he didthe same thing later than what he
did then, and that's silencedthe people.
It says in Numbers 13, Verse 30.
Then Caleb silenced the peoplebefore Moses and said, we should
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go up and take possession ofthe land, for we can certainly do
it.
How many of you are going tosilence your friends?
Silence your family members?
Silence your peers?
Silence those that are talking?
Silence your negative self.
Talk.
Silence the trauma, silencethe emotions.
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How many of you are going tosilence what is around you?
I want you to know that faithbegins when fear is silenced.
Faith begins when fear is silenced.
You see, I just want to addsome auxiliary scriptures to you
as well.
We see.
Proverbs 4:23 says, above allelse, guards your heart, and for
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everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 18, verse 21 says,the tongue has the power of life
and death, and those who loveit will eat its fruit.
What did Caleb say?
He said we should go up andtake possession of the land, for
we can certainly do it.
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Proverbs 1:20, 21.
Out in the open, Wisdom calls aloud.
She raises her voice in thepublic square on top of the wall.
She cries out at the city gate.
She makes her speech.
So here's your decision.
Moment.
My question is, will yousilence the noise?
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Will you silence the noise?
You see, the marketplace isloud, but you are loud too.
You have the ability to beloud as well.
Think about it.
You got one man standing infront of 11 other, no, 10 other people,
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but not only standing beside10 other people that are looking
at him, saying, nah, we can'tdo it.
And then you have a wholeentire nation standing in front of
you waiting to hear whateveryone would say.
And they grabbed on to whatthe 10 said instead of listening
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to what Caleb was saying.
Caleb said, we can certainlydo It.
And you know how I know he did it?
Because it says.
And I'll read to you in alittle while what it said.
But restoration is where we'reending up.
And I'm going to define whatrestoration is in a second.
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But I want you to know thatthe noise in your life is social
media.
The noise in your life isnegative self talk.
The noise in your life is shortcuts.
I'm a shortcut king.
I'm always trying to find amore efficient way to do things.
I'm always trying to find even driving.
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I'll take a shortcut.
And Pastor Mary sitting besideme, and she'll look at me and be
like, can you just follow the gps?
And I'm like, nah, I thinkthere's a better way.
I tried that yesterday.
I had to go to New Jersey forBlitz the Block, and I drove because
I live in Long Island.
For those of you that don'tknow Long island people.
Can y' all make some noise?
Yeah.
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And so I'm driving.
I'm driving.
And I was listening to 1010 WINS.
I don't know.
It was on.
I'm not that old, but that'show my parents raised me.
But I was listening, and I washearing the traffic that was in certain
areas, and I was like, allright, you know what I'm gonna do?
I'm go this way.
I'm gonna go that way.
Then I look at the GPS.
Originally, it told me I wasgonna get there 10 minutes before
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I actually did get there.
Why?
Because I decided to take a shortcut.
Noise.
1010 wins in that moment was noise.
But shortcuts is noise.
Your emotions are noise.
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Your trauma, it's noise.
Listen, I know you wentthrough it, but listen.
And I'm talking to you in Indiana.
I'm talking to you in Brooklyn.
I'm talking to you online.
That's watching.
I validate the fact that youwent through it.
We validate that.
We understand.
But you went through it.
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That is the past.
Let's move on into where Godis calling you to.
You know, it's interesting, right?
How many of you know RJ fromNew York and V1 Brooklyn?
He's the production leadthere, and he's.
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He's a phenomenal man of God.
I love rj.
He has a place near and dearto my heart because, you know, we
just.
We just kind of went throughlife together and seeing him become
who he is today and.
But there was a moment, rightnow, we see the highlight reel of
RJ standing next to his wife.
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And graduating and walkingacross the stage with his wife Crystal.
And they went through V1college year one, but their marriage
was definitely on the rocks.
We heard their testimony forthose of you that were at the marriage
conference.
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And there's all of thesethings that kind of took place in
their lives.
But there was a moment afterall the prayers, after God gave them
what they wanted, after heprayed to just be back in the life
of his children and his wife,like a father should be, There's
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a moment where he was rockedonce more.
And I asked rj, I was like,man, rj, I'm so proud of you, man.
I see what God's doing in yourlife is so amazing, but what did
it take to be resilient?
He's like, pastor, you know, Iwasn't always resilient.
Even after I got what I askedfor, there was a moment in my life
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where I kind of stepped alittle back.
I stepped back a little, and Iwas like, you know what?
I'm not gonna go to church as much.
You know, God gave me what I want.
I'm not.
I'm just gonna.
You know, just.
There's just these moments inour lives where things kind of, like,
just.
We just kind of push somethings under the rug or we push it
behind us, and we're like, youknow what?
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I'm good now.
That's what the Israelites thought.
Oh, I went through the Red Sea.
Now I'm out.
Egypt is no longer chasingafter me.
I'm good now.
And so what happened to rj?
There was a moment.
Now they're about to have ababy, a baby girl, and all of a sudden,
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the baby dies.
It was a couple of weeks in,and they were excited.
A couple months in, actually,and they were excited about what
God had in their lives.
And they.
They looked at it, and it waslike, there's our restoration story.
There it goes.
But rj, he didn't know how toget through that.
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He didn't know what he would do.
You know, some people have ascripture that they hold on to.
Some people, they decide tojust open up the word, and they walk
daily in where God is callingthem to.
But for him, it was a song.
The song do it Again came onthe radio, and he remembered what
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God did before, and he said,God, if you can do it then, you can
do it now.
And that was about two, threeyears ago.
And then he kept on walking inthat daily and saying, God, do it
again every day, Lord, renewme again.
Do it again.
And now, two, three, Yearslater, you've seen RJ just catapult
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into a whole notherstratosphere of who God is calling
him to do.
Why is that?
Because he decided to walk inwhere God is calling him.
He decided to silence thenoise of everything around him and
say, I'm going to walk wholeheartedly.
I'm going to walk awholehearted walk.
I'm going to walk inresilience and I'm going to receive
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the restoration that you havefor me.
Here's what I want you to doreally quickly.
And here's the thing.
I'm going to tell you thisright now.
Don't stand up.
I'm going to invite you tostand up.
But don't stand up if you'renot ready to walk a wholehearted
walk.
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If you're okay with being halfhearted, that's okay for now, I'll
tell you that.
Just know what I said.
You heard what I said.
You were paying attention.
But I don't want you to standup because everyone else around you
is standing up.
I want you to stand up becauseit's a declaration that you're making
that God, even when it's hard,I'm gonna walk wholeheartedly.
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So if you're ready to silencethe noise and walk a walk wholehearted,
I want you to stand as adeclaration before God right now.
And I'll tell you right now,we're not gonna judge you if you
don't.
You see, when you silence thenoise and walk wholeheartedly, here's
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what God promises.
Long Island.
I want to let you know this, Brooklyn.
I want to let you know this, Indiana.
Listen closely online ifyou're standing.
The reward of a wholeheartedwalk is restoration.
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In Joshua, chapter 14, 1314,the Bible says, then Joshua blessed
Caleb, son of Jephunneh, andgave him Hebron as his inheritance.
So Hebron has belonged toCaleb, son of Jepunah, the Kenizzite,
ever since because he followedthe Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.
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Remember, restoration meansnot just getting back what was lost,
but receiving the fullness ofwhat God always intended.
A wholehearted walk blessesnot just you, it also blesses your
legacy.
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You see, the thing is, you're gonna.
You're gonna have a legacyeither way.
The Israelites had a legacy.
It was wandering in death.
But Caleb and Joshua, Calebhad a legacy.
And it was somewhere, it wasone that we can talk about even to
this day, that were willing toscream out from the rooftop.
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A wholehearted walk breeds.
Breeds a characteristic, acharacter A characteristic of resilience.
And eventually you receive areward of restoration.
But half hearted will lead youto wandering in circles trying to
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figure it out on your own andeventually die.
Don't just survive the wilderness.
Inherit the promise.
It's time to walk awholehearted walk.
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Recently I was, a couple ofyears ago, I moved into my house
and Pastor Mary and I, we, youknow, our finances were where it
was supposed to be and everything.
But then, you know, you startlooking at your neighbors, you see
the things they have.
You look at the houses, youwalk the neighborhoods.
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And so I was like, man, I liketheir curb appeal.
I want to get curb appeal likethat too.
You know, we did somerenovations in our home and everything
like that.
And in the process of usgetting a house, we also got a financial
coach.
And the financial coach knewwhat our situation was then.
And a couple of years, acouple of weeks, months ago, actually,
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I spoke to my financial coachagain and we opened up the books.
He looked at everything and helooked at it and said, you guys don't
look like you went anywhere.
You look like you didn't do anything.
It's been years.
Your finances look worse thanwhere it was before.
By now you should have beenway past this half hearted.
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And the thing is, what youhave to understand, you gotta be
willing to die daily.
You gotta be willing tosilence the noise of everything around
you, of what you're seeing,your perspective and all of these
things, and say, God, I knowwhere you're calling me to, and I'm
going to receive thatrestoration that you have for me.
I'm gonna walk in resilience.
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And so for each and every oneof you that are standing today, for
each and every one of you thatare standing right now in this moment
and saying, I'm willing towalk a wholehearted walk, I'm going
to ask you to do me a favor.
I want you to close your eyesand I want you to actually do yourself
a favor and allow me to praythis prayer over your life.
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I want you to listen to everysingle word, close your eyes so that
way you can truly hear thewords that are coming out of my mouth.
Father, today we choose awholehearted walk.
We silence every voice offear, every lie of comparison, every
chain of addiction, everywhisper of the enemy.
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Lord, we crucify our flesh,our pride, our self made plans.
And we say, not my will, butyours be done.
God, raise up a resilient generation.
Let a Caleb spirit fall onyour, on these people, Lord God,
on your people.
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Strong at 25 but strong at 45and even stronger at 85.
Still declaring.
Give me this mountain.
Lord, we declare restorationover families, over marriages, over
generations.
What the enemy stole, you will restore.
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What trauma broke, you will mend.
What fierce silence, Lord, youwill awaken with faith.
Father, make us a people witha whole hearted walk.
One that says nevertheless inour faith, in our families, in our
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finances, in our future, Lord,we die daily so you can live fully
in us.
In Jesus name, let V1 church awhole hearted walk generation say
Amen.
And I love you.
I'm a say it up front.
But I love you so much thatI've got to deliver this message.
And we are going to talk abouta wholehearted walk.
A wholehearted walk.
And you know, as Christians,we hear those words wholeheartedly.
We're like, oh, yeah, okay,this is a good word and things of
that nature.
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But do we really know what itmeans to be wholehearted?
I'll tell you what.
During this week, as I waspreparing for this word, I didn't
know, I realized I didn't knowwhat it meant to be wholehearted.
And so I'm ready to deliverthis word.
And my question is, are you ready?
All right, that was two people.
Thank you.
I'm so proud for you.
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Thank you, Nadab.
I appreciate you.
Thank you, Chilliwack Canada.
I really appreciate you.
However, I want everyone to beready for this word.
Because here's the thing.
If I'm gonna deliver a lifeshifting mess, the question is, are
you going to receive it?
Okay?
And so I am a part of, like, Icome from an educational background.
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Like, meaning I was in theeducation system working and things
of that nature.
And one of the things that Ipicked up from there is call and
response.
And so my question to youagain is, are you ready to receive
a life shifting word?
All right, thank you.
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A wholehearted walk.
I'm gonna take you through ajourney of this man named Caleb,
all right?
And if for those of you thatdon't know Caleb, we're gonna learn
about him today.
And the thing is, Caleb waswith the Israelites, Caleb and Joshua.
You know, there was 12 spies,Caleb and Joshua.
They walked through, walked inthe wilderness.
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They.
They went to spy out the land.
Moses sent them out, and allthese things happened.
But prior to the Israeliteswere praying for someone to come
and deliver them.
And then they get Moses tocome and deliver them.
And then from there, Moseswalks them through the Red Sea, which
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is crazy.
Amazing that that even happened.
But then here's the thing.
I believe what happened withthe Israelites was they thought that
a rival was enough.
You thought that arrival intoyou being a Christian is enough.
You thought that, man, God,you answered my prayers.
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That is enough.
You thought surviving was enough.
You thought that living outthe dreams, that some of the dreams
that God gave you is enough.
But I want to let you knowthat arrival is not enough.
And surviving is not inheriting.
I want to let you know thatthere is more.
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There is more.
It's not just the more of more.
There's more for God to giveyou, but there's also more that you've
got to give a wholehearted walk.
So what I'm going to do hereis I'm going to take you on a journey,
okay?
I'm going to give you thebeginning, the end first and then
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I'm going to walk you through.
Because here's the thing,there's restoration, that is the
reward.
But in order to get torestoration, you've got to walk into
resilience.
You've got to build thecharacteristic of resilience.
But in order to get toresilience, you have to walk wholeheartedly.
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So it's wholeheartedness andthen resilience, then restoration.
So many of us are trying tofight for restoration, but we're
not willing to live a lifethat's wholehearted.
So many of us are trying tofight for restoration, but we're
not willing to be resilient inthe process.
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And so, but here's the thing.
In order for you to know whatit's gonna take to be resilient and
get to restoration, you alsohave to know that half heartedness
is the opposite of wholeheartedness.
And you know what happens whenyou're half hearted?
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You end up being in a placewhere you're wandering.
Anybody ever feel that, that?
Anybody ever feel like, man,I'm just kind of like going through
the same thing over and overand over again.
It's the same situation, thesame thing.
You ever have a friend thatyou talk to and it's like, man, ain't
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we just talk about this like amonth ago or maybe a year later?
Let me not give your friendthat much, like slack, like not slack,
but let me not come for yourfriend that much.
And the friend is probably you.
But anyway, maybe about ayear, right, maybe a year later you're
on the phone with them and youlike you messing with that same guy.
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Didn't we, didn't you break upwith him?
Didn't you break up with her?
What do you mean?
Oh, you, you with somebodyelse now.
But the characteristics soundthe same, bro.
You, you going throughsomething, what's going on?
And it's not just inrelationships and it's in so many
different things.
And I'm, I'm a tell on myselfin a little while, so get ready for
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that.
I felt everybody kind of leanin because they're like, oh, he about
to give some tea.
But half hearted, right?
You get now, now it's half hearted.
That half hearted walk getsyou wandering, that wandering, you
know, where it leads you.
Not just not receiving yourdreams, not just not inheriting your
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legacy, but it receives you death.
Pastor Randall, you wildinglike it's not that serious.
Oh, yes, it is.
Oh, yes, it is.
And I'm going to.
I'm going to explain to youhow serious it is.
A wholehearted walk is notabout arriving.
It's about surrendering.
It may cost you more, but italways gives you more.
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It always gives you more.
So let's define wholeheartedand half hearted, okay?
Because I want you to knowwhat it means to be wholehearted.
But I also want you to knowwhat it means to also be half hearted.
Because the thing is, if youdon't know, if.
If you want to.
If you want to do something,you must first know what not to do.
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All right?
So really quickly, I want youto turn to numbers, chapter 14, verse
22 to 24.
Numbers 14, 22 to 24.
And once you have it, you cansay amen.
Or if you're on your way, youcan say amen.
Numbers.
Numbers 14, 22 to 24.
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It says, not one of those whosaw my glory and the signs, this
is God speaking, okay?
And signs.
And the signs I performed inEgypt and in the wilderness, but
who disobeyed me and tested me10 times, not one of them will ever
see the land I promised onoath to their ancestors.
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No one has treated me withcontempt will ever see it.
But because my servant Calebhas a different spirit and follows
me wholeheartedly, I willbring him into the land he went into,
and his descendants willinherit it.
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You know, as I was readingthis just now, I just saw something.
I will bring him into the landhe went to.
You know, there's.
When you read Numbers and youread this scripture and you read
like the scriptures after it,there's a part in the Scripture where
even after God said this outloud to the people, he said it to
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Moses, but then Mosesdelivered it to the people.
You know, the people still tryto go and fight all these other people
and all these other tribes andthings of that nature.
And Moses even told them, hey,God's not with you.
You going to lose.
And they ended up losing.
So many of us are trying tofigure things out ourselves when
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we have a God that we can leanon, so many of us, I will bring him
into the land he went to.
And the beautiful thing isthat it's.
After he said that Caleb has adifferent spirit and he follows me
wholeheartedly that he stillsays, I will bring him.
So for some of you.
Even when you get this wordtoday, you're still gonna think that,
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oh, there's something that I'm doing.
No, it's not something you're doing.
It's something that God'sgoing to do for you and through you.
Can you just receive it?
Are you able to just receive it?
And I'm going to summarizethis portion, but numbers 14, 36,
38, it goes on to explain that.
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So the men Moses had sent toexplore the land, who returned and
made the whole communitygrumble against him by spreading
a bad report about it.
These men who were responsiblefor spreading the bad report about
the land were struck down anddied of a plague before the Lord.
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Of the men who went to explorethe land, only Joshua, son of Nun,
and Caleb, son of Jepunah, survived.
Be careful who you're talking to.
Be careful what you're talking about.
Oh, man.
You know, I can't believe wegotta park all the way down the block
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and then get into this shuttleand whatnot.
Man, this is annoying.
I can't believe that I seesomebody laughing.
Cause they probably was sayingthat just a moment ago.
Don't worry, you got theability to repent.
Man.
I can't believe we don't gotour own building yet.
What's happening?
I can't believe we're still ina revival home.
Didn't they make Jersey a revival?
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Didn't they make Jersey into a campus?
Come on.
I'm gonna speak to some things.
I don't know who's saying it.
I haven't heard anything, butI told God, I'm a listen to you,
Lord, and I'm going to speakto what it is, because listen, we've
got to talk about these things.
You see, wholehearted meansfull surrender, undivided devotion.
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Whereas half hearted meansselective obedience.
A divided loyalty.
How many parents I got in thehouse right now?
How many parents actually receive?
You hear from your children,Tell you what, Half of what you said,
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not the full thing.
How many parents have selective.
Have children with selective hearing?
I'm putting all my feet up andeverything because I got, you know,
I got four kids, so I got toput everything.
My hands, my.
My hands, my legs and everything.
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Selective obedience, divided loyalty.
Well, you know what?
God's a dad.
God's a father, and we're children.
How many of you guys?
How many of us?
Because I'm in this too.
Oh, Lord, telling you I gotrocked this whole week.
Selective obedience.
Hey, God.
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Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
But you know what?
I'M gonna do it this way.
Hey, God.
Yeah, man.
God, please tell me what Iought to do.
Okay, son, I want you to do this.
And then you hear him and thenyou're like, okay, but.
But what?
You just asked for a word, youjust heard from God.
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And.
But come on now.
Divided loyalty.
Is it possible that we decideto have selective obedience and divided
loyalty because we don't trulytrust God?
Oh, we say we do.
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Oh, we sing the songs.
You know, we all come up here,we come up onto the front, we lift
our hands and all of this stuff.
I told you I was going slap y'all like two times.
I'm gonna hug y' all in alittle while.
But like, we will do it.
But we're not willing to walk wholeheartedly.
We're willing to do thingshalf hearted.
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But I want you to know thatthat half hearted walk is going to
lead you to death.
It's going to lead youwandering around over and over again.
How do I know this?
Because the consequence ofhalf heartedness is wandering.
In Numbers 32, Verse 13.
In Numbers 32, Verse 13, itsays, the Lord's anger burned against
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Israel and he made them wanderin the wilderness 40 years until
the whole generation of thosewho had done evil in his sight was
gone.
What?
Man, I'll tell you something.
When I read that this week, Iwas just like, wait a minute.
You mean to tell me this wholeentire time I thought the Israelites
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were the one that just weren'tlistening, that just decided to go
left when God was saying go right.
Did I do that right?
Right.
Okay, and go left when God wassaying go right.
But then what was actuallyhappening was.
Numbers 32 13.
Turn to it if you.
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If you don't believe me.
Like it says, the Lord's angerburned against Israel and he made
them wander in the wilderness40 years until the whole generation
of those who had done evil inhis sight was gone.
We're not talking about goneinto another land.
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No, we're talking about goneinto death.
Dang, God, I thought you werea loving God.
Yeah, I corrected you 10 times.
You tested me 10 times.
You asked me for a word 10 times.
And I gave you the word 10 times.
But yet you chose to do what?
What it was that you wanted to do.
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Numbers 14, verse 22 says.
I read that already.
Sorry.
Half hearted people wasteyears in circles.
They waste years in circles.
Wandering feels like movement,but produces no progress.
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Half hearted people, it's whenyou're in a forest, imagine you're
in a forest.
And you're walking and you seethis tree and you're like, all right,
hey, you know what?
I feel like we came here already.
So what I'm gonna do is I'mgonna pick up this rock and I'm gonna
put my initials.
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That way I know that this isdefinitely the tree we walk by so
we can go past another treethat is my initials.
It's been four days.
You mean to tell me I've justbeen walking around in a circle for
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four days?
It's been four months.
It's been four years.
You mean to tell me I'm in thesame place?
Same still half hearted peoplewaste years in circles wandering
feels like movement butproduces no progress.
You know how I know this is true?
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Because recently it was mybirthday the other day, and my wife
surprised me with an apple watch.
And I was just like, what?
I was really shocked.
I didn't think she would get that.
I just, you know, I waswishful thinking I would ask her,
I'd be like, hey, I need anapple watch.
And she actually got it for me.
And so I was just like, oh,thank you so much.
I was excited.
And then, so I have a dog.
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His name is Tuxedo.
And when you see him, you'llsee why.
And as I'm walking him, I tookhim on this long walk.
And as I was walking, all of asudden my apple watch goes off and
says, would you like to recordthis walk?
It seems like you're doing anoutdoor walk.
I was like, dang, this is.
I was like, God or AI, like,what's going on?
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I was like, this is amazing.
How did it figure that out?
And so as I'm walking, I'mthinking about it, I'm like, how
did it know that I was walking?
And it was like an exercise.
And I began to realize thatthe reason why is because of the
GPS in the watch, it was ableto track the fact that I was walking.
But not only was I walking,but I was walking from one distance
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to the next.
There was movement and progress.
Not just movement, because Icould be in my house.
But then while I'm home, evenwhile I'm here right now, I could
be walking over and over.
Not once I've been here since8 o' clock and not once did my watch
tell me, hey, it seems likeyou're on a workout.
Would you like me to record it?
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You know why?
Because I'm still in the same place.
I haven't moved, I haven'tgone anywhere.
I'm still in this House.
It's not as if I traveled fromone place to the other, but let me
start walking home.
My watch is gonna tell me,hey, the satellite that's tracking
you, the God that's trackingyou recognizes there's movement going
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on.
And so therefore you must beprogressing into something new.
You must be progressing into anew place.
You must be going someplace else.
So wandering does not meanthat movement does not mean that
you are progressing.
Half hearted walk will causeyou to wander and make you feel like
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you're moving, but you're not progressing.
I know you're not clappingright now because you're recognizing.
Oh, shoot.
This is me.
Oh, man, this is me.
This is what I've been going through.
This is why I keep coming backto the same prayers.
This is why I keep reading thesame scriptures.
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This is why I open up my bookto what God told me a few years ago.
And I look at it now and I'mwriting down the same thing he told
me years ago.
You have not progressed, young people.
I'm talking about you chasingsuccess without surrender.
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Adults, I'm talking about youof cycles of death and broken relationships.
Elders, I'm talking about yourbitterness, your regret and clinging
to what was, as opposed tolooking to what is stagehand.
Can you just get my car?
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Because I'm gonna have to runout of here and I hope they don't
know where I parked because Imight have slashed tires.
My GPS is gonna start askingme, my phone, my watch is gonna ask
me, are you, Are you taking anoutdoor walk?
Yeah, because I don't have a car.
But here's the thing.
Caleb, in the same wilderness,in the same years, lived differently.
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It's interesting to me, right?
Caleb was amongst theIsraelites that wandered in circles
for four years.
I mean, for 40 years.
The Israelites, we all knowthat, right?
That the Israelites, theywandered in circles and then they
died off because of the factthat they were just going in, going
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in circles.
But then Caleb was part of that.
Joshua was a part of that.
Why?
How come Caleb was able to seethe promise, but yet he was not able
to, but yet the people aroundhim was not.
You see, remember I told youthat there's restoration, resilience,
but before we got to do that,there's a wholehearted walk.
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Joshua 14:1011 says, now then,just as the Lord promised, he has
kept me alive for 45 years,since the time he said this to Moses
while Israel moved about inthe wilderness.
So here I am today, 85 years old.
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I am still as strong today asthe day Moses sent me out.
I'm just as vigorous to go outto battle now as I was then.
In the same 40 years they werewandering, Caleb was withstanding
in the same 40 years where theIsraelites were going around in circles,
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seeing the same tree, lookingat the same mountain, figuring out
what to do next, if this isgoing to work or if that is going
to work.
You know what Caleb was doing?
He was withstanding.
He was withstanding.
What was he withstanding to?
You see, what Caleb did is thesame thing what Caleb did in the
wilderness was the same thinghe did the moment his his peers,
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that he was supposed to go andconquer the land with the same thing.
He did the same thing then.
Later, then.
And he then, excuse me, he didthe same thing later than what he
did then, and that's silencedthe people.
It says in Numbers 13, Verse 30.
Then Caleb silenced the peoplebefore Moses and said, we should
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go up and take possession ofthe land, for we can certainly do
it.
How many of you are going tosilence your friends?
Silence your family members?
Silence your peers?
Silence those that are talking?
Silence your negative self.
Talk.
Silence the trauma, silencethe emotions.
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How many of you are going tosilence what is around you?
I want you to know that faithbegins when fear is silenced.
Faith begins when fear is silenced.
You see, I just want to addsome auxiliary scriptures to you
as well.
We see.
Proverbs 4:23 says, above allelse, guards your heart, and for
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everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 18, verse 21 says,the tongue has the power of life
and death, and those who loveit will eat its fruit.
What did Caleb say?
He said we should go up andtake possession of the land, for
we can certainly do it.
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Proverbs 1:20, 21.
Out in the open, Wisdom calls aloud.
She raises her voice in thepublic square on top of the wall.
She cries out at the city gate.
She makes her speech.
So here's your decision.
Moment.
My question is, will yousilence the noise?
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Will you silence the noise?
You see, the marketplace isloud, but you are loud too.
You have the ability to beloud as well.
Think about it.
You got one man standing infront of 11 other, no, 10 other people,
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but not only standing beside10 other people that are looking
at him, saying, nah, we can'tdo it.
And then you have a wholeentire nation standing in front of
you waiting to hear whateveryone would say.
And they grabbed on to whatthe 10 said instead of listening
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to what Caleb was saying.
Caleb said, we can certainlydo It.
And you know how I know he did it?
Because it says.
And I'll read to you in alittle while what it said.
But restoration is where we'reending up.
And I'm going to define whatrestoration is in a second.
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But I want you to know thatthe noise in your life is social
media.
The noise in your life isnegative self talk.
The noise in your life is shortcuts.
I'm a shortcut king.
I'm always trying to find amore efficient way to do things.
I'm always trying to find even driving.
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I'll take a shortcut.
And Pastor Mary sitting besideme, and she'll look at me and be
like, can you just follow the gps?
And I'm like, nah, I thinkthere's a better way.
I tried that yesterday.
I had to go to New Jersey forBlitz the Block, and I drove because
I live in Long Island.
For those of you that don'tknow Long island people.
Can y' all make some noise?
Yeah.
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And so I'm driving.
I'm driving.
And I was listening to 1010 WINS.
I don't know.
It was on.
I'm not that old, but that'show my parents raised me.
But I was listening, and I washearing the traffic that was in certain
areas, and I was like, allright, you know what I'm gonna do?
I'm go this way.
I'm gonna go that way.
Then I look at the GPS.
Originally, it told me I wasgonna get there 10 minutes before
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I actually did get there.
Why?
Because I decided to take a shortcut.
Noise.
1010 wins in that moment was noise.
But shortcuts is noise.
Your emotions are noise.
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Your trauma, it's noise.
Listen, I know you wentthrough it, but listen.
And I'm talking to you in Indiana.
I'm talking to you in Brooklyn.
I'm talking to you online.
That's watching.
I validate the fact that youwent through it.
We validate that.
We understand.
But you went through it.
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That is the past.
Let's move on into where Godis calling you to.
You know, it's interesting, right?
How many of you know RJ fromNew York and V1 Brooklyn?
He's the production leadthere, and he's.
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He's a phenomenal man of God.
I love rj.
He has a place near and dearto my heart because, you know, we
just.
We just kind of went throughlife together and seeing him become
who he is today and.
But there was a moment, rightnow, we see the highlight reel of
RJ standing next to his wife.
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And graduating and walkingacross the stage with his wife Crystal.
And they went through V1college year one, but their marriage
was definitely on the rocks.
We heard their testimony forthose of you that were at the marriage
conference.
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And there's all of thesethings that kind of took place in
their lives.
But there was a moment afterall the prayers, after God gave them
what they wanted, after heprayed to just be back in the life
of his children and his wife,like a father should be, There's
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a moment where he was rockedonce more.
And I asked rj, I was like,man, rj, I'm so proud of you, man.
I see what God's doing in yourlife is so amazing, but what did
it take to be resilient?
He's like, pastor, you know, Iwasn't always resilient.
Even after I got what I askedfor, there was a moment in my life
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where I kind of stepped alittle back.
I stepped back a little, and Iwas like, you know what?
I'm not gonna go to church as much.
You know, God gave me what I want.
I'm not.
I'm just gonna.
You know, just.
There's just these moments inour lives where things kind of, like,
just.
We just kind of push somethings under the rug or we push it
behind us, and we're like, youknow what?
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I'm good now.
That's what the Israelites thought.
Oh, I went through the Red Sea.
Now I'm out.
Egypt is no longer chasingafter me.
I'm good now.
And so what happened to rj?
There was a moment.
Now they're about to have ababy, a baby girl, and all of a sudden,
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the baby dies.
It was a couple of weeks in,and they were excited.
A couple months in, actually,and they were excited about what
God had in their lives.
And they.
They looked at it, and it waslike, there's our restoration story.
There it goes.
But rj, he didn't know how toget through that.
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He didn't know what he would do.
You know, some people have ascripture that they hold on to.
Some people, they decide tojust open up the word, and they walk
daily in where God is callingthem to.
But for him, it was a song.
The song do it Again came onthe radio, and he remembered what
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God did before, and he said,God, if you can do it then, you can
do it now.
And that was about two, threeyears ago.
And then he kept on walking inthat daily and saying, God, do it
again every day, Lord, renewme again.
Do it again.
And now, two, three, Yearslater, you've seen RJ just catapult
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into a whole notherstratosphere of who God is calling
him to do.
Why is that?
Because he decided to walk inwhere God is calling him.
He decided to silence thenoise of everything around him and
say, I'm going to walk wholeheartedly.
I'm going to walk awholehearted walk.
I'm going to walk inresilience and I'm going to receive
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the restoration that you havefor me.
Here's what I want you to doreally quickly.
And here's the thing.
I'm going to tell you thisright now.
Don't stand up.
I'm going to invite you tostand up.
But don't stand up if you'renot ready to walk a wholehearted
walk.
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If you're okay with being halfhearted, that's okay for now, I'll
tell you that.
Just know what I said.
You heard what I said.
You were paying attention.
But I don't want you to standup because everyone else around you
is standing up.
I want you to stand up becauseit's a declaration that you're making
that God, even when it's hard,I'm gonna walk wholeheartedly.
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So if you're ready to silencethe noise and walk a walk wholehearted,
I want you to stand as adeclaration before God right now.
And I'll tell you right now,we're not gonna judge you if you
don't.
You see, when you silence thenoise and walk wholeheartedly, here's
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what God promises.
Long Island.
I want to let you know this, Brooklyn.
I want to let you know this, Indiana.
Listen closely online ifyou're standing.
The reward of a wholeheartedwalk is restoration.
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In Joshua, chapter 14, 1314,the Bible says, then Joshua blessed
Caleb, son of Jephunneh, andgave him Hebron as his inheritance.
So Hebron has belonged toCaleb, son of Jepunah, the Kenizzite,
ever since because he followedthe Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.
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Remember, restoration meansnot just getting back what was lost,
but receiving the fullness ofwhat God always intended.
A wholehearted walk blessesnot just you, it also blesses your
legacy.
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You see, the thing is, you're gonna.
You're gonna have a legacyeither way.
The Israelites had a legacy.
It was wandering in death.
But Caleb and Joshua, Calebhad a legacy.
And it was somewhere, it wasone that we can talk about even to
this day, that were willing toscream out from the rooftop.
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A wholehearted walk breeds.
Breeds a characteristic, acharacter A characteristic of resilience.
And eventually you receive areward of restoration.
But half hearted will lead youto wandering in circles trying to
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figure it out on your own andeventually die.
Don't just survive the wilderness.
Inherit the promise.
It's time to walk awholehearted walk.
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Recently I was, a couple ofyears ago, I moved into my house
and Pastor Mary and I, we, youknow, our finances were where it
was supposed to be and everything.
But then, you know, you startlooking at your neighbors, you see
the things they have.
You look at the houses, youwalk the neighborhoods.
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And so I was like, man, I liketheir curb appeal.
I want to get curb appeal likethat too.
You know, we did somerenovations in our home and everything
like that.
And in the process of usgetting a house, we also got a financial
coach.
And the financial coach knewwhat our situation was then.
And a couple of years, acouple of weeks, months ago, actually,
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I spoke to my financial coachagain and we opened up the books.
He looked at everything and helooked at it and said, you guys don't
look like you went anywhere.
You look like you didn't do anything.
It's been years.
Your finances look worse thanwhere it was before.
By now you should have beenway past this half hearted.
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And the thing is, what youhave to understand, you gotta be
willing to die daily.
You gotta be willing tosilence the noise of everything around
you, of what you're seeing,your perspective and all of these
things, and say, God, I knowwhere you're calling me to, and I'm
going to receive thatrestoration that you have for me.
I'm gonna walk in resilience.
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And so for each and every oneof you that are standing today, for
each and every one of you thatare standing right now in this moment
and saying, I'm willing towalk a wholehearted walk, I'm going
to ask you to do me a favor.
I want you to close your eyesand I want you to actually do yourself
a favor and allow me to praythis prayer over your life.
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I want you to listen to everysingle word, close your eyes so that
way you can truly hear thewords that are coming out of my mouth.
Father, today we choose awholehearted walk.
We silence every voice offear, every lie of comparison, every
chain of addiction, everywhisper of the enemy.
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Lord, we crucify our flesh,our pride, our self made plans.
And we say, not my will, butyours be done.
God, raise up a resilient generation.
Let a Caleb spirit fall onyour, on these people, Lord God,
on your people.
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Strong at 25 but strong at 45and even stronger at 85.
Still declaring.
Give me this mountain.
Lord, we declare restorationover families, over marriages, over
generations.
What the enemy stole, you will restore.
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What trauma broke, you will mend.
What fierce silence, Lord, youwill awaken with faith.
Father, make us a people witha whole hearted walk.
One that says nevertheless inour faith, in our families, in our
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finances, in our future, Lord,we die daily so you can live fully
in us.
In Jesus name, let V1 church awhole hearted walk generation say
Amen.
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