January 22, 2024 • 46 mins
"Moving Into Supernatural Increase"
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Episode style the Standing Right, Everyone, and welcome to the Lucius McDowell's Living
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Right podcast. Tonight is going tobe a fantastic night. It's going to
be a journey of faith. It'sgoing to be a moment of being invigorated
by the Word of God. I'lltell you, if you want to be
invigorated motivated, that's the best wayto get motivated and invigorated by balliable teacher,
the Word of God. We gotto jump into the Word of God
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tonight as pertains to Living Right,because there are some things that God wants
to do and I miss as wejourney into the year of twenty twenty four.
I want you to make a goodnote tonight because we're moving forward for
more. We're moving forward to tapinto some of the supernatural increases that God
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has that's made available to us.Secord Timothy the third chapter, the sixteenth
to seventeen verse. It says it'san all scripture given by inspiration of God,
and its profitable probably before what profitfor doctrine, profitbal for reproof,
for corrections, for instructions in righteousness, that the Man of God may be
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perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good work. I know about you, but we
said it's every time we on theair. You know, we want to
be we want to be thoroughly furnishedunto all good works. And we want
you to understand that. You know, you can get that way if you
get into the world and you divedeeper. However, people are perishing because
of the lack of knowledge of finproverse for seven sins. So is the
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principal thing. Therefore, get withthem and with all by getting get understanding.
For you gotta get some understanding,because I tell you God, the
needed or ignorant people run around here, you know, act like they don't
know what they're acting like they knowbetter, and they are not doing better.
To know better means that you'll dobetter. And not only that,
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it means that you would better.So tonight we're going to jump into a
teacher that we started a couple ofweeks ago. Was it which your last
week? Because I had to doan opening with my Bible Training Institute and
uh Bible Institute training program that isdesigned for two years from men and women
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that person, contact our office andwill be able to connect with you so
that you'll be able to get allthe information that or you can go on
to my website at www dot theaga in gtail in God for and a
lot of application gets the application inwe get you interviewed, will see exactly
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what we can do to help youmove in the next direction that God will
are to move. The other theLord said that the steps of the righteous
men are ordered of the Lord.But even if those steps are ordered of
the Lord, we have to makea decision that we will walk in the
way that God would have us towalk, not outside it, not behind
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the lines, but directly in tuneto what God would have us to do.
Not only does he says that hissteps of a righteous man or order
the Lord, that another scripture saysthere's no good thing that God will hold
from those that walk up right.Notice what I'm doing doing the action things
called walking. I'm moving. I'mmaking some strides. I'm making some strides
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to get into a place that Godwould help me to get. Why am
I getting it? Because God hasand he has he has some great things,
for He has some great things foryou. And as he has those
things for you, he wants youto get pupet in the direction so that
you can't move toward your goal thathe has in mind. Yeah, God
has a gold in my specially,fu does there's something with your name on
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it that does not have my namemy name on it. There's definitely something
that's my name on it that doesn'thave your name on it. But guess
what. There are things that wemust do in terms of exercising faith to
get to those places, to accessthat scenes of the Lord. So let's
jump right on there too. Theteacher to not, I tell you that
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be pretty exercising. So we're gonnajump into doud Unomy the thirtieth chapter number
sixteen. He says, for Icommand you today to love the Lord your
God, to walk in obedience tohim, and to keep his commands,
degrees and laws. Then you willlive in increase, and the Lord your
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God will bless you in the landyou are entering to possess. I don't
know about you, but I wantyou to understand that there is a land
that you are about to enter intoand possess. But in order for you
to enter in and possess, orshould we say, live in the increase
in order for you to get theblessings that you're supposed to. You know
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the word of the Lord, anddo the right. He says, I
command you to love the Lord,your God. Now I wonder just how
many people love the Lord. Ididn't just words only, But indeed,
I wonder how many people are gonnawalk in obedience jams. And I'm gonna
tell you obedience is one of thethings that will help you get to that
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place of God. Now, obediencegonna test and try you. But the
reality is, you gotta trust Godto get you there. You gotta trust
the world will give instructure and sothat you can walk directly smack into the
blessing plans of God the Almighty.You know first Isaiah the first chapter,
the eighteen versus says, if weare willing and obedient, we will eat
the good of the land. Let'sbreak it on Donna Lucian's McDonald's translation.
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If you listen and obey the instructionof Gun, He's going to bring you
into a wealthy place. He's gonnabring you into a place of increase.
It's going to bring you into aplace of a plea. People. I
believe that you know most folks whoare just fairly getting along right now,
want to take that. Buddha said, I'll take that about you, but
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I'll say I'll take that justice willwell. The Lord spoke to us concerning
twenty twenty three being the year ofsupernatural transformation, and this year he said
that we are going to move.He's going to move. He wants us
to move into the supernatural increase thathe has provided for us. Now,
that means that we have to beable to make sure that you know that
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we stay in faith, we stayin peace, we stay in love and
stay in fellowship, and we keepshowing cease for the sake of the avancements,
the Kingdom of God and the Earth. And when we do this,
we will experience a supernatural power thatwill cause us to be unmoved, unshaken,
and well provided for and to walkin a much needed divine assurance,
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divine peace, divine power, divinein supernatural victory. Get those who stay
in faith, in peace, inlove and fellowship, and keep so and
seize for the sake of the kingdom. They will be blessed, it will
be empowered, it will joy,feel and supense, and they will miraculously
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miraculously ride even if the world aroundthem seemed tossed with the tendence. You
know, that's a great thing toknow that, regardless of what's going on
around you, that God is sayingthat He's going to bless you. But
I want you to understand that blessingcomes to as a result of us doing
what He is instructing for us todo. As It's kind of made it
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that, you know, everybody wantsthe blessings of the Lord. Everybody do
what the Lord is asking to do. I want you to understand obedience is
a big piece in this picture,and you got to come to this place
of understanding that if you partially obeyGod, you are in disobedience. Obedience
plus obedience equal obedience. Obedience pluspartial or delayed disobedience, obedience is still
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considered disobedient. You want to cometo the place of being in an obedient
situation with our God. When hesaid keep his command those things that he
tells us, he commands us todebark experiences, not feel the less of
the pression. You got to workat making sure that you are doing the
very things that he's asking of youto do. I love this because he
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says that you keep his decrees involvesthat's just his word and his things.
Just then you will live an increase. Now I've noticed it did not say
you will live in increase, andthe Lord your God will make you,
will bless you and the land youare entering to possess. It gives you
the things that's going to give youa defferent formula to get there. I
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think that we have to go backand understand that there is always going to
be repercussions for you know what itis that we're supposed to do. If
we don't do it, If Idon't do the things so he's asking me
to do, the repercussion would bethat I will not get the increase,
I will not get the blessed life. I will not get the land that
I'm about to possess. In fact, there will be no possession at all,
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because I will not have a hereto the sins of God. Now
let me give you some words herefor some definitions. We said this is
a year of moving into supernatural increase. The word moving is defined as a
self motivated action based on intrinsic goods. It's a desire to change what is
into what could be. In otherwords, if I want to change my
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situation, got to move out ofone thing into toward the goal of the
desired place that I would like tobe. The word into is defined as
in the direction, so that meansI got to be self motivated based on
an intrinsic goal in the directions inwhich my goal is trying to in which
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my target area would be. Thesupernatural word is defined as operating above and
beyond the world system. And thatsays a lot of that because if I'm
operating above and beyond the world system, that things that God has to be
in it. God must be incontrol, God must be empowering me to
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get it all done. It's superis unmine natural to make things work out
for me. Now, the wordincrease, it means to become progressively greater,
greater in signs, greater in amountof greater in numbers, and definitely
greater in intension. So that meansthat I have our responsibility to move and
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I should have a self motivated actionbased on an intrinsic goal moving in that
direction. And the direction I'll movein will be above and begun this world
system, so I'll be operating underthe poverty, Almighty done. If I
do those things, the greater getto be progressively greater things in size and
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amounts and numbers and intensity. Whenthat be a mighty move of God.
To experience that all of a suddenyou it the one way today, Then
all of a sudden you keep listeningto the word of God and get that
word of God in you, andyou stay with it, and you stay
with it, and you say withregardless of what's going on in society,
because guess what, as the wordof the Lord came this year, that's
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going to be things that's going toshake a lot of folk. But when
you are in that word, thesebaying saying, you will end not being
touched, not being moved, notbeing even shaken by what is going on,
because your eyes are fixed on God. And when you have to fix
on God, Come on, now, how think you look at God?
Look at other things? So thatyou got to keep your eyes straight ahead
when I mean straight ahead, andyou gotta look to the heels, which
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comes your health. Your health comein from the Lord. So this is
a year and we're going to bemoving in faith. We're going to be
moving up to be just like him. To adapt his ways of doing things,
and we're going to move out withconfidence, knowing that the power of
God is resting on us and wehave accomplished the very thing that He has
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given unto us. In other words, we're moving in, we're moving up,
and we're moving out into confet.This is the very thing that happened
with mod. You don't get intosome challenges with the people of Israel,
but the children of Israel. Buthe was the deliverer at the right time.
He was able to move in faithto get the people moving. And
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not only that, everything that everytime that came into situations where they were
troubled, God always gave them instructions. And as he followed those instructions,
as he began to listen to thedecrees of our God, as he began
to honor God with obedience, andhe followed the commandments, and he continued
to follow in the decrees and thelaws. He ended up living in a
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land of increase. And not onlydid he live in a land of big
creat but he also was blessed toenter into the pedestrial of a plan.
Although he did not get into thepromised land, he did lead them out
of one place into another place.And I want you to know that I
just would like to submit to youthat that was considered movement. God allowed
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Moses to move the people forward,and I'm gonna telling you something. He
moved the people forward to the placethat you know, we got in the
wilderness, and even while they werein the wilderness, supernatural things began to
have I want you to understand itwas a move of God. But then
to move out of Egypt. ButGod really showed out in the wilderness.
And I want you to understand thatwhen you get into this place of moving
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into the supernatural places that God wouldhave to you, you'll get the increase.
Now, let me share this withyou that the children are visual.
They had nothing to want for becauseGod was meeting their needs the whole time.
You know, there was a momentwhere in the daytime, you know,
there was a cloud, a cloudypillar that was always cooling them off.
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And at my time, when itgot too cold in the wilderness,
there was a fiery of cloud thatwas always there to give them warmth.
Every day that they got ready toeat that was fresh of food flit from
heaven. I mean, they hadto have nothing, but to move in
faith and to stay in faith.But they got to a place where they
begin to burmit and complain and comparethe very things that they had experienced fact
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easy to what they were presently experiencing. But what they failed to remember that
God was meeting their needs the wholetime. We take something when God is
meeting your needs the whole time.To understand that, you've got to begin
to take your get your mind outof the gutter in terms of that God
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is not moving and that God isnot doing anything because God is at work
on your behalfs. Remember we walkby faith and not by sighting. Because
we walk by faith and not bysight, we have to set our our
sections on things above which are nottemporal, but those things that are eternal
and lasted. I want you tounderstand that as Moses began to move to
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people, they were making motions,and they were making movement in terms of
Gold leading Egypt getting to the placewhere God would have them to get to
and over and next Senus the fourteenthchapter, the fifteenth through the sixteenth.
First they got to a place wherethey could not move anymore because of Red
Sea was in their ways. ButI want to let you know that even
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when you see things, circumstances,situations in your way, it does not
mean that you cannot move. Itdoes not mean that you cannot go forward.
What it means that you need totrust God for instructions in terms of
moving in the direction that He wantto have you to move in. I'm
gonna read this is the fourteenth chapterfifteen and sixteen person partt it just for
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a minute, and the Lord said, in the most is where for Christ,
thou wanted to speaking through the childrenof Israel that they go forward.
Otherless, thou was saying, goforward. Tell the children of Israel you're
moving forward. No stand still,he said. But lift up, he
said, Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out by hand over the
seats and divine it. And thechildren of Israel shall go on dry ground
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through the midst of the See ifthat's not supernatural. Come on, folk,
tell me something, he said,Lift up thou, thyroh, and
stretch out thine hand over the sea. Let me say his team. Moses
knew that there was some power inthat rod, that the staff that God
had given him, because when hehad gone to Pharaoh and the Lord told
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him to tell Pharaoh to let hispeople go. There was a showdown right
there in the palace, in Pharaoh'spalace. So Moses knew that what he
was working with, he had everythingthat he needed. But I guess he
needed God's instructions of the day.And remember what we said over the Aeronomy,
very chapter the sixteen verse. Itsays, or I command you today
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the love Lord your God, towalk and obeed his in other words,
obey his instructions, keep his commandsand decrees and laws. Then when you
live, an increase and the Lordyour God will bless you in the land
you are entering too possess. Soguess what Moses did. Moses followed the
instructions of the Living God. Andas a result of following the instructions of
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the Living God, Mose have liftedup that rod, and he stretched out
of cross the sea. And guesswhat, all of a sudden, the
sea designed it. Now. Idon't know about you, but I do
believe that if a lot of uswas probably the feed the children of Israel,
we would have been so amazed andso in wonder of what would have
just taken place. Can you imaginea sea where was strong winds blowing,
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and see that there was just somuch happening that all of a sudden you
began to tap into the power ofGod that used to see all of a
sudden frozen walls. I mean,just everything just freezes all at one time.
I want to go back and reada little bit more of just because
that was something that I want youto get. I want you to hear
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what the Lord says in the wordsright here in the Exitus fourteen, blow
over to God, how they Louliah, bless you Jesus. So I'm gonna
pick up right at the sixteen firsthe says, but I looked up iron
and stretch out by hand over thesea and divided, and the children of
Israel shall go on dry ground throughthe midst of the sea. Now how
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many had can the children of Israelgo on dry ground in the midst of
the sea? When it was mud, it was solved, it was it
was third at the very bottom ofthe base of the ocean. So that
means that it should have been reallymunky. Marrid. Let me show you
the miracle. So this is whatverse seventeen says. And I'm behold,
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I will heartened the hearts of Egyptiansand the Egyptians, and they shall follow
them, and I would get me. I would get me honored upon Pharaoh
and upon all his hosts, uponthe chariots, and upon his Hortsmens,
and the Egyptians shall know that Iam the Lord when I have gotten me
honored upon Pharaoh, upon the chariots, and upon the hustband. So check
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this out. Looking at verse nineteen, the age of God, which went
before the canal Bistraph, removed andwent behind him. And the pillar of
the cloud went from before their faceand stood behind him. And it came
between the camp of Egyptians and thecamp of Israel. And it was a
cloud of darkness to them, butit gave light tonight. It gave light
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by night to these so that theycame not one near the other all night.
In other words, they could noteven see him. And Moses stretched
his hand over the sea, andthe Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all thenight. Wow come on now in the
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middle of the night, when hewas making the israel lights warm, he
used a fiery cloud of pillar thereto help them. In the daytime,
he used a cloud of uh,it was, it was. It was
not a fire, but it wasa cloud that covered them and gave them
the shade. But now, ifyou notice here in verse twenty one,
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he says, Moses stretched out hishand over the sea, and the Lord
caused the sea to go back bya strong east wind all the night and
made the sea dry, while allthe night the wind was blowing. All
the night, the wind was blowing. And while the wind was blowing,
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it made the sea dry land,and the waters were divided, and the
children of Israel went into the midstof the sea upon the dry ground,
and the waters were a wall untothem on the right hand and on their
left. And come on now,on the right hand and on the left.
So that means that that wall,I'm sure was so tall that it
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really could have put fear in allof the children of Israel. But they
continued to move forward because God toldhim, moved the people forward. Ooh,
the people forward. Most moved thepeople forward. Now even as they
that look in verse twenty three.And the Egyptians pursued and went in after
them to the mist to see evenall Pharaoh's horses is chariots and his harshment
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that came to vance that in themorning watched the Lord looked into the hosts
of the Egyptian through the pillar offire and of the clouds, and trouble
the hosts of the Egyptians, andtook off their chariots of wills, that
they drave them heavily, so thatthe Egyptians said that a flee from the
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faith of Israel for the Lord fightingfor them against the Egyptians. And the
Lord said on the Moses stretched outbehind hand over the sea, that the
warders may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horses.
It seemed like it was set up, y'all, because it seemed like
they got in the middle of itall of a sudden, Multius was on
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the other side, and God wasstill speaking instructions. Well, those same
instructions that God was speaking in termsof if you love your Lord, you
know, you know you got towalk and obedience. I mean, you
can't be waited a while. Well, maybe I'll just since I'm over here,
I ain't got a worry about themcoming. No, the Lord told
him to wave, He said,go back, and with the gass he
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he and the Lord said that hemode the stretched out thy hands over the
sea, that he had to stretchedout his hand over the sea, that
the waters may come again upon theEgyptians, upon their chariots and upon their
horsemens, and molded this stretch forcedhis hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to his strength. Whenthe morning appeared, and the Egyptians then
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against it, and the lords overthrewthe Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
In the other lords, Pharaoh's armygets drowned into the sea, and
the waters returned and covered the chariotsand the horsemen. In all the hosts
of Pharaoh that came into the seaafter them, there remained not as so
much as one of them that wasnot one of them remaining. But the
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children of is Room walked upon dryground drive in in the midst of the
sea, and the waters were awall unto them on their right hand and
on their lift. Thus the Lordsave Israel, that they out of the
hand of the Egyptians. And Israelsaw the Egyptians did upon the seashorees,
and Israel saw that great work whishthe Lord did upon the Egyptians, and
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the people filled the Lord and believethe Lord and his servant Moses or you're
talking about enough to convince the peoplethat this is about something that's really going
down here. I mean they wereable to literally cross the Red Sea.
They were really able to watch theirenemies be taken out by the Lord.
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Our God, Our God is biding. Our God is faithful, he is
mighty to save his people. OurGod will do exactly what he said he'll
do. If God says that he'sgoing to do something. Our job is
to trust to him and to walkin his ways, to be obedient so
that we will live and increase.And I'm just telling you today God just
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want you to live and increase.He's already made the provisions for you.
But you've got to tap into thesupernatural place to let me say to you
right now, when your fact isagainst the wall, that's really when you
are really knowing shit. Know thatGod is the only one that can give
you the extension. He's the onlyone that can help you to move forward.
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Most people think that when they're backis against the wall, they have
no room, they have nowhere togo. But let me serve notice to
you tonight that when your back isagainst the wall. I'm talking to somebody
out there tonight. God has wiggleroom. Low where to God. And
not only wiggle room. God hasinstructions for your next step. But your
next step is not to retreat.Your next step is to move forward.
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Move forward how in faith? Infaith knowing that if God said a faith,
He's going to bring it to past. You know, earlier before when
they really recognize that the Isram,that the Egyptian was coming at them.
You know, most something, thosewho you see today you will never ever
see them again. You won't seethem again. So I guess they was
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trying to figure out how we won'tsee them again. I'll tell you how
you want to see them again.They are going to be taken out as
they tried to cross the Red Sea. God's people cross the Red Sea,
but the enemy got drowned it inthe sea. Lower it to God.
That is something to really just rejoiceabout it, because there's something about movement,
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something about the end of faith.It's something about moving up to the
waves of our God. And it'ssomething about moving incompetence, moving out in
competence, knowing that regardless of whatis going on, you know, without
a shadow of doubt that God passshipped back. You can imagine having a
confidence to even put your foot onthe ground of the Red Sea, knowing
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that it was at once upon atime very soft and money. Not one
of the Israelites got stuck in themood, but I tell you what.
The Israelites did not get stuck inthe mood, but I tell you the
Egyptians got drowned it in the sea. I think that that's something that we
need to rejoice in. The Godis always making ways out of no wage
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so that we will be able tocontinue our journey. God wants us to
enter in. He want us topossess the land that He has given unto
us. God wants to increase us. He wants us to live. He
wants to bless us to the placethat we will be flowing in the blessings
of God, and not only fallingthe blessings of God, but that we'll
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be able to actually be a blessinginto the Kingdom of God. Remember,
God wants you to be able tohit your target goals, and you can't
hit those target goals by standing steal. Wants to be self motivated with the
self motivated action plan based on theinstructions of all our God, who wants
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to get you into an intrinsic goal. Remember the steps of the righteous man.
They are ordered of the Lord.And when they are ordered of the
Lord, that means that God knowshow to get you to it. He
can get you around it, hecan even take you over it, and
he can even take you on it. Whichever way he chooses, you have
to follow the instructions so that youcan move, move, move, move,
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move. But remember faith moves,Faith moves, fear stands still.
Faith move and fear stands still.So that means that if I've got the
supernatural power of God on me andI'm move it into God's supernatural increase concern
in my life, then that meansthat if I make the connection come on,
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God's super going to get on mynatural and the increase is going to
come. I love it because hesays, then you will live and increase.
I want to live and I wantto increase. I want to be
very good. I want to increaseas I increase. I want to be
able to enter into the land orthe place where God has blessing me.
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And I'm telling you I don't wantto allow nothing to get me distracted to
the place where I end a messingof the possession of what God wants me
to have. You know, Jeremiahtwenty nine and elevens I love that too,
because you know He's good, andthen you know that you want to
see you prosperous. He wanted tosee you growth, He wanted to see
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you do everything that he said thathe was. I'm going to read it
right to Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. Sometimes we just need to go back
and reflect on the word he saystsfor I, well, I'm going to
reverse your first number. I'm gonnado verse number ten. And it says
farther though said the Lord. Butafter seventy years be accomplished at bebl and
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I will visit you and perform mygood toward you in causing you to return
to this place. For I knowthe thoughts that I think towards you,
said the Lord, thoughts of peace, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you, and expecting it. I have an expectation that God
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is going to do exactly what hesaid he's going to do. And if
he's going to do what he says, he's going to do. That means
that I will walk into the abundanceof what my God has in store for
my life. I guess what IfI'm gonna walk in that abundance, I've
gotta be assured in knowing that I'vegot to remain into a place called faith.
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Got to stay in faith. IfI get out of faith, that
means that I've allowed fear to gripme. And we know the scripture for
God that's not giving us the spiritof fear, but love, power and
sound. Monment is something about andjust not only knowing it, you got
to be able to walk it out. You got to move in. You
gotta move up, and you gotto move out with confidence and knowing that
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if you're going to walk by faithand not by sight, you cannot get
caught up into looking at everything thatyou're seeing in the natural. Now,
I just want to go back andremind you of what happened over in Joshua,
very very very similar things that happenedin Joshua. I love this because
you know, Joshua was Moses isunderstudy, and Joshua learned so much from
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Moses. Joshua saw how the peoplecomplaining and murmured and did all that stuff
when Moses was leading, and Imean the people got Moses in trouble because
they kept, you know, murmurand complaining. That got been so frustrated
that he ended up hitting the rockwhen he should have spoken to the rock.
And as a result of it,you know, God had to honor
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his own words. I literally knowthat he was not going to be eligible
to take the people into the promisedwell, those people that was under Moses'
authority in the dying in the wilderness, so much so that Joshua took over.
In that first chapter of Joshua,you know, the Lord began to
just tell Joshua. You know,he said, Hey, Moses, my
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servant is dead. Therefore arise,go over this Jordan, thou and all
this people unto the land which Ido give them, even to the truth
of Evistror. Now going back againto do the learn of min the thirtieth
chapter sixteen verse he said, fora CoA man you today the love Lord
to God to walk in obedience tohim. So that means if he tells
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you to go over Jordan, evenbefore you get to Jordan, your mind
said, is you gotta go overJordan? Not under Jordan, but over
Jordan. Glory to God. Andhe says, and to keep his commandments,
his secrees and laws, then youwould live, live, live,
live, live, live, andincrease. And the Lord your God will
bless you and the land you areinjured to possess. Now Here, he
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tells, Joshua, you know Moses, my services dead and second version now
therefore arrives. Go over this Jordannow, and all these people are to
the land which I do give tothem, even to the land and to
the tchipren of Israel. He says, every place that the souls of your
foot should dread upon that I havegiven unto you, as I said onto
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Moses. Here again over in Deuteronomy, he says, in the Lord your
God will bless you in the landyou are entering to possess. And here
over in Joshua, he says,every place, that the soul of your
foot shall trail upon that I havegiven under you, as I said that
to Moses. From the wilderness andthis Lebanon, even to the great river,
the river Euphrating, and all thelands and Hittites, and onto the
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great seat to wards the going downon the sun. It's gonna be your
coast. There shall not any manbe able to stand before me all the
days of that by men you're talkingabout amazing when you get a word of
the Lord that tells you nobody's goingto be able to stand against you all
the days with your life, orfill yourself up in faith and receive that
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word. He says, as Iwas with Motus, so will I be
with THEE. I will not sellTHEE, nor for sake be Going back
to Jeremiah, now he's got goodthoughts for us. That means that he's
he has a plan for us toprossly. He has a plance to see
has come to I expect it.In for verse six, over he and
Josh, he says, be strongand of a good courage for your people,
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for unto this people, without dividingthe heros the land which I swear
their father to give THEE. Onlyde thou strong and very courageous. Here
again he's giving command. But youcan give you can you can God to
give a command, but you gotto be able to keep the command.
And you got to keep the commandand the decrees and laws. He says,
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Only be thou. He says,be strong and a good courage,
for unto this people shaout dividing theheroes unto the land which I swear to
them to the Father's to give this. He goes again in verse epic and
says, only be thou strong andvery very courageous. He said, be
very courageous, that that thou maystobserve to do according to all the law
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which most thy serving commandity. Hetells them instructions, turn not from it
from the right hand or to theleft, that thou mayst prosper, whether
where whether it's whoever thou goest.This book of the Law shall not be
part out of thy mouth, butthou shalt meditate Therein twenty minutes, going
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back to do the runny, hesays, I command you today to love
the Lord your God, to walkin obedience to him, and to keep
his commandments to the trees and thelaws. And he's telling now, Joshua,
you know, you know this bookof the Law shall not depart out
of your mouth, but thou shaltmeditate therein day and night. Wow,
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that thou mayst observed to do accordingto all that is written therein, For
then thou shall make thy way prospersand then thou shalt have good, good
success. Wow. So now hegoes to do the right. He said,
when you do these things, you'regoing what you're gonna live, and
you're gonna increase. How am Igonna get my increase? I gotta do
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the book. I gotta get theword in me. I gotta meditate that
day and night. And if Imeditate on the dead, that I am
going to prosper according to the wordof God. I look at first of
the night, he says, HaveI not commanded, he'd be strong and
a good courage, be not afraidnot to be dismayed. For the Lord,
thy God is with thee. Whithersoeverthou goest. Now he says that
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WI the server, thou goerst morethan one time. So when God starts
saying things two times or more,that means that he's trying to get your
attention. So here is he says, whethersoever thou goest. Then Josha commanded
the officer of his people, saying, pass through the host. Command the
people, saying, prepare yours yourvictuals forward in three days you show you
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shall pass over the Jordan. ThisJordan's I notice what Joshua did. He
spoke the words, the very wordthat God spoke. God told him that
they were going to go over theJordan up in the earlier chapter, in
the early verses of this chapter,and now he goes back and tell the
people we're going over Jordan's whether thepeople knew what Jordan was going to be
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like or not. He was like, we are going over Jordan. And
I wonder, just this evening,how many have you made up in your
mind that when the Lord tells youto do something, you're gonna say.
I'm going to do exactly what he'stelling me to do. In fact,
I'm gonna repeat it the same way, and he told me to do it.
If God told me to move forward, then I gotta move forward.
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If God tell me you know thatI need to go over here and stand
for it little bit and then moveout, I'm gonna go there, stand
for a little bit and move forwardand do what needs to be done.
But the reality here is is Idon't get the blessings of the Lord if
I partially obey him. I mustfully obey God in order to live and
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increase. I must fully obey Godin order that God bless me in the
land, and he's promised me thatI'm supposed to be possessing. And I
just truly believe that there is aGod today, thank God yesterday, to
Dend forevermore, who is still honoringhis words, who is still working miracles,
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who are still doing wondrous in thelives of the people. But we
must ask ourselves, as people offaith, what are we doing to make
sure that we're able to walk intothis place to live and to increase?
So praise the Lord. So ifyou go over to chapter three of Joshua's
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once they rose up early in themorning and they began to move again,
and there was still movement. Whoup moving out? They kept moving and
they got to the place where JordanRiver was in front of them. They
couldn't go around it. I guessthey could have gone around it, but
you know, it would have beena longer journey. But the Lord said,
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you know, he was going tomake it possible for them to do
whatever they needed to do as longas they obeyed the command his commandment.
Raised the Lord, raised, theLord, raised the Lord. Praise the
Lord. So as he obeyed hiscommandments, they continued to do exactly what
the Lord had them to do.So as they began to walk in that
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God began to open. He toldthe priest to put their foot down in
the water. And as they beganto put their foot in the water,
the priests in obeying God. Andas a result, Jordan River opened up,
just like the Red Sea. Andnot only did it open up,
but the children of Israel was ableto pass straight through it. And I'm
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telling you, they passed through it, and it got them closer to the
land that God had promised him.They were on there way to Jericho.
And let me tell you, whenthey got to Jericho, that was still
movement. And they watched marched aroundJericho six days. And on that seventh
day, when the priests had thetrumpet to be sounded, all of a
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sudden they shouted with the voice oftriumph. And when they shouted, Jericho
walls fell. And as Jericho waswass fell. Guess what, They went
in and they possessed the land.They went in and possessed the land.
Now before that time, now theywere moving, but they did not speak
one word. They were moving thefirst day, the second day, the
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third day, the fourth day,the fifth day, the sixth day and
they were silenced. He sometimes yougotta move, but you can't be all
doing everything when you're moving. Yougotta still follow the instructions of our God.
Well, on that seventh day,when he shouted, when the trumpets
sounded, and he said, shallbecause God has given us the city,
they shouted, and the Bible saysthat the walls of Jericho fell, and
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when they fail, they went inand possessed the land. And I just
want to tell you tonight, yougot to come to this place where you
were. Recognize that God is stillperforming miracles, miracle signs and wonders.
But it's going to be your responsibilityto make sure that you are obeying him
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in all things, that you're keepinghis commands, that you are walking into
the decreed and it's laws. Andwhen you do those things, it causes
you to live and increase. Now, the children of Israel, come on,
they walked out of Egypt with abundance of blessings. They were in
the wilderness. Come on, andthen afterwards you know they got many of
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them died in the wilderness. However, on the Joshua's leadership, they continued
to move forward and they were abundantlyblessed. And I want you to know
to I had that not only isGod in the business of blessing of the
children of Israel, he is inthe business of blessing all those who make
quality decisions to make sure that theycan move forward the way that He would
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like for them to move forward.To number one, I want to just
say to you before I close tonight, five quality decisions and moving forward.
You got to make Number one,you got to make a quality decision to
get your spiritual life in shape.If you're out of shape, you got
to get in shape. You gotto get into a place where you can
allow the blessings of the Lord toovertake you and do those things that need
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to be done in your life.Number two, you got to make a
quality decision to choose the blessing.Choose the blessing. You know there are
blessings and curses, but you gotto make sure that you make the right
decisions when it comes to then youwant to be blessed. And if you
want to be blessed, that meansyou gotta obey God. You got to
keep his commandments and you got towalk up rightly before him. Remember then
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you'll live and increase. Number threeto make quality decisions to prosper your soul.
Script says Beloved, I wish aboveall things that doubt may is prosper
even in health, even as Godsoul prosperous. So that means that you
know your mind, your will,and emotions. It's got to be in
a place where you are renewed daily. Our souls the definers, our minds,
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our wills, and emotions. Andthe question become is what are you
doing to prosper each of these areasin your life. You got to get
that mind right, because that thatmind is right, you will be able
to win in so many ways.Number four, make a quality decision for
your health, because in order foryou to move, you got to be
good and healthy. Glory to God. You got to be good and healthy.
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And I really believe that you haveto make a decision that you know
I'm gonna live. I gotta alignmyself with the word. Not only that,
I got to watch how I takecare of my body. I got
to watch what I do to strengthenit so that I'm able to walk in
this very thing that God is callingme to walk in. And that's what
not least is my last one fortonight. Make a quality decision. You
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know that you can get into abetter place in terms of being out of
debt, because sometimes that can holdyou down to the point where you will
be able if you won't be ableto make any move because you don't you
don't have any freedom. You know. Roma's the First thirteen, chapter eight
versus this, Oh, no mananything but to love one another, for
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he that loved one another has fulfilledthe law. And I'm just saying,
if you're dropt down writing a lota lot of debt, you don't want
to be that because you want tobe in a place where your load is
lighter and you can do what needsto be done so that the Kingdom of
God can be advanced through you andthe people around you. So as I
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leave tonight, I just want youto know that this has been a wonderful
time with you. I pray againthat you know you got something from the
word of God. Remember that youknow this is year of moving into the
supernatural increase. That means that Igotta walk in obedience to His words,
his commandments, and his decrees andlaws. And when I do those things,
I will live. And not onlywill I live, but I'm going
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to increase and I watch God blessme as he moved me into the possessions
that He would have for me.Will God bless you and we will see
you this time on next Monday nighton the Lucia mcdonwald Living Ride, a
podcast lu listen to tors my podcast
Episode style the Standing Right, Everyone, and welcome to the Lucius McDowell's Living
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Right podcast. Tonight is going tobe a fantastic night. It's going to
be a journey of faith. It'sgoing to be a moment of being invigorated
by the Word of God. I'lltell you, if you want to be
invigorated motivated, that's the best wayto get motivated and invigorated by balliable teacher,
the Word of God. We gotto jump into the Word of God
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tonight as pertains to Living Right,because there are some things that God wants
to do and I miss as wejourney into the year of twenty twenty four.
I want you to make a goodnote tonight because we're moving forward for
more. We're moving forward to tapinto some of the supernatural increases that God
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has that's made available to us.Secord Timothy the third chapter, the sixteenth
to seventeen verse. It says it'san all scripture given by inspiration of God,
and its profitable probably before what profitfor doctrine, profitbal for reproof,
for corrections, for instructions in righteousness, that the Man of God may be
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perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good work. I know about you, but we
said it's every time we on theair. You know, we want to
be we want to be thoroughly furnishedunto all good works. And we want
you to understand that. You know, you can get that way if you
get into the world and you divedeeper. However, people are perishing because
of the lack of knowledge of finproverse for seven sins. So is the
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principal thing. Therefore, get withthem and with all by getting get understanding.
For you gotta get some understanding,because I tell you God, the
needed or ignorant people run around here, you know, act like they don't
know what they're acting like they knowbetter, and they are not doing better.
To know better means that you'll dobetter. And not only that,
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it means that you would better.So tonight we're going to jump into a
teacher that we started a couple ofweeks ago. Was it which your last
week? Because I had to doan opening with my Bible Training Institute and
uh Bible Institute training program that isdesigned for two years from men and women
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who are called with the College ofGod wants to go to bycause you are
that person, contact our office andwill be able to connect with you so
that you'll be able to get allthe information that or you can go on
to my website at www dot theaga in gtail in God for and a
lot of application gets the application inwe get you interviewed, will see exactly
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what we can do to help youmove in the next direction that God will
are to move. The other theLord said that the steps of the righteous
men are ordered of the Lord.But even if those steps are ordered of
the Lord, we have to makea decision that we will walk in the
way that God would have us towalk, not outside it, not behind
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the lines, but directly in tuneto what God would have us to do.
Not only does he says that hissteps of a righteous man or order
the Lord, that another scripture saysthere's no good thing that God will hold
from those that walk up right.Notice what I'm doing doing the action things
called walking. I'm moving. I'mmaking some strides. I'm making some strides
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to get into a place that Godwould help me to get. Why am
I getting it? Because God hasand he has he has some great things,
for He has some great things foryou. And as he has those
things for you, he wants youto get pupet in the direction so that
you can't move toward your goal thathe has in mind. Yeah, God
has a gold in my specially,fu does there's something with your name on
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it that does not have my namemy name on it. There's definitely something
that's my name on it that doesn'thave your name on it. But guess
what. There are things that wemust do in terms of exercising faith to
get to those places, to accessthat scenes of the Lord. So let's
jump right on there too. Theteacher to not, I tell you that
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be pretty exercising. So we're gonnajump into doud Unomy the thirtieth chapter number
sixteen. He says, for Icommand you today to love the Lord your
God, to walk in obedience tohim, and to keep his commands,
degrees and laws. Then you willlive in increase, and the Lord your
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God will bless you in the landyou are entering to possess. I don't
know about you, but I wantyou to understand that there is a land
that you are about to enter intoand possess. But in order for you
to enter in and possess, orshould we say, live in the increase
in order for you to get theblessings that you're supposed to. You know
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the word of the Lord, anddo the right. He says, I
command you to love the Lord,your God. Now I wonder just how
many people love the Lord. Ididn't just words only, But indeed,
I wonder how many people are gonnawalk in obedience jams. And I'm gonna
tell you obedience is one of thethings that will help you get to that
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place of God. Now, obediencegonna test and try you. But the
reality is, you gotta trust Godto get you there. You gotta trust
the world will give instructure and sothat you can walk directly smack into the
blessing plans of God the Almighty.You know first Isaiah the first chapter,
the eighteen versus says, if weare willing and obedient, we will eat
the good of the land. Let'sbreak it on Donna Lucian's McDonald's translation.
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If you listen and obey the instructionof Gun, He's going to bring you
into a wealthy place. He's gonnabring you into a place of increase.
It's going to bring you into aplace of a plea. People. I
believe that you know most folks whoare just fairly getting along right now,
want to take that. Buddha said, I'll take that about you, but
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I'll say I'll take that justice willwell. The Lord spoke to us concerning
twenty twenty three being the year ofsupernatural transformation, and this year he said
that we are going to move.He's going to move. He wants us
to move into the supernatural increase thathe has provided for us. Now,
that means that we have to beable to make sure that you know that
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we stay in faith, we stayin peace, we stay in love and
stay in fellowship, and we keepshowing cease for the sake of the avancements,
the Kingdom of God and the Earth. And when we do this,
we will experience a supernatural power thatwill cause us to be unmoved, unshaken,
and well provided for and to walkin a much needed divine assurance,
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divine peace, divine power, divinein supernatural victory. Get those who stay
in faith, in peace, inlove and fellowship, and keep so and
seize for the sake of the kingdom. They will be blessed, it will
be empowered, it will joy,feel and supense, and they will miraculously
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miraculously ride even if the world aroundthem seemed tossed with the tendence. You
know, that's a great thing toknow that, regardless of what's going on
around you, that God is sayingthat He's going to bless you. But
I want you to understand that blessingcomes to as a result of us doing
what He is instructing for us todo. As It's kind of made it
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that, you know, everybody wantsthe blessings of the Lord. Everybody do
what the Lord is asking to do. I want you to understand obedience is
a big piece in this picture,and you got to come to this place
of understanding that if you partially obeyGod, you are in disobedience. Obedience
plus obedience equal obedience. Obedience pluspartial or delayed disobedience, obedience is still
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considered disobedient. You want to cometo the place of being in an obedient
situation with our God. When hesaid keep his command those things that he
tells us, he commands us todebark experiences, not feel the less of
the pression. You got to workat making sure that you are doing the
very things that he's asking of youto do. I love this because he
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says that you keep his decrees involvesthat's just his word and his things.
Just then you will live an increase. Now I've noticed it did not say
you will live in increase, andthe Lord your God will make you,
will bless you and the land youare entering to possess. It gives you
the things that's going to give youa defferent formula to get there. I
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think that we have to go backand understand that there is always going to
be repercussions for you know what itis that we're supposed to do. If
we don't do it, If Idon't do the things so he's asking me
to do, the repercussion would bethat I will not get the increase,
I will not get the blessed life. I will not get the land that
I'm about to possess. In fact, there will be no possession at all,
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because I will not have a hereto the sins of God. Now
let me give you some words herefor some definitions. We said this is
a year of moving into supernatural increase. The word moving is defined as a
self motivated action based on intrinsic goods. It's a desire to change what is
into what could be. In otherwords, if I want to change my
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situation, got to move out ofone thing into toward the goal of the
desired place that I would like tobe. The word into is defined as
in the direction, so that meansI got to be self motivated based on
an intrinsic goal in the directions inwhich my goal is trying to in which
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my target area would be. Thesupernatural word is defined as operating above and
beyond the world system. And thatsays a lot of that because if I'm
operating above and beyond the world system, that things that God has to be
in it. God must be incontrol, God must be empowering me to
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get it all done. It's superis unmine natural to make things work out
for me. Now, the wordincrease, it means to become progressively greater,
greater in signs, greater in amountof greater in numbers, and definitely
greater in intension. So that meansthat I have our responsibility to move and
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I should have a self motivated actionbased on an intrinsic goal moving in that
direction. And the direction I'll movein will be above and begun this world
system, so I'll be operating underthe poverty, Almighty done. If I
do those things, the greater getto be progressively greater things in size and
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amounts and numbers and intensity. Whenthat be a mighty move of God.
To experience that all of a suddenyou it the one way today, Then
all of a sudden you keep listeningto the word of God and get that
word of God in you, andyou stay with it, and you stay
with it, and you say withregardless of what's going on in society,
because guess what, as the wordof the Lord came this year, that's
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going to be things that's going toshake a lot of folk. But when
you are in that word, thesebaying saying, you will end not being
touched, not being moved, notbeing even shaken by what is going on,
because your eyes are fixed on God. And when you have to fix
on God, Come on, now, how think you look at God?
Look at other things? So thatyou got to keep your eyes straight ahead
when I mean straight ahead, andyou gotta look to the heels, which
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comes your health. Your health comein from the Lord. So this is
a year and we're going to bemoving in faith. We're going to be
moving up to be just like him. To adapt his ways of doing things,
and we're going to move out withconfidence, knowing that the power of
God is resting on us and wehave accomplished the very thing that He has
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given unto us. In other words, we're moving in, we're moving up,
and we're moving out into confet.This is the very thing that happened
with mod. You don't get intosome challenges with the people of Israel,
but the children of Israel. Buthe was the deliverer at the right time.
He was able to move in faithto get the people moving. And
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not only that, everything that everytime that came into situations where they were
troubled, God always gave them instructions. And as he followed those instructions,
as he began to listen to thedecrees of our God, as he began
to honor God with obedience, andhe followed the commandments, and he continued
to follow in the decrees and thelaws. He ended up living in a
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land of increase. And not onlydid he live in a land of big
creat but he also was blessed toenter into the pedestrial of a plan.
Although he did not get into thepromised land, he did lead them out
of one place into another place.And I want you to know that I
just would like to submit to youthat that was considered movement. God allowed
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Moses to move the people forward,and I'm gonna telling you something. He
moved the people forward to the placethat you know, we got in the
wilderness, and even while they werein the wilderness, supernatural things began to
have I want you to understand itwas a move of God. But then
to move out of Egypt. ButGod really showed out in the wilderness.
And I want you to understand thatwhen you get into this place of moving
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into the supernatural places that God wouldhave to you, you'll get the increase.
Now, let me share this withyou that the children are visual.
They had nothing to want for becauseGod was meeting their needs the whole time.
You know, there was a momentwhere in the daytime, you know,
there was a cloud, a cloudypillar that was always cooling them off.
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And at my time, when itgot too cold in the wilderness,
there was a fiery of cloud thatwas always there to give them warmth.
Every day that they got ready toeat that was fresh of food flit from
heaven. I mean, they hadto have nothing, but to move in
faith and to stay in faith.But they got to a place where they
begin to burmit and complain and comparethe very things that they had experienced fact
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easy to what they were presently experiencing. But what they failed to remember that
God was meeting their needs the wholetime. We take something when God is
meeting your needs the whole time.To understand that, you've got to begin
to take your get your mind outof the gutter in terms of that God
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is not moving and that God isnot doing anything because God is at work
on your behalfs. Remember we walkby faith and not by sighting. Because
we walk by faith and not bysight, we have to set our our
sections on things above which are nottemporal, but those things that are eternal
and lasted. I want you tounderstand that as Moses began to move to
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people, they were making motions,and they were making movement in terms of
Gold leading Egypt getting to the placewhere God would have them to get to
and over and next Senus the fourteenthchapter, the fifteenth through the sixteenth.
First they got to a place wherethey could not move anymore because of Red
Sea was in their ways. ButI want to let you know that even
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when you see things, circumstances,situations in your way, it does not
mean that you cannot move. Itdoes not mean that you cannot go forward.
What it means that you need totrust God for instructions in terms of
moving in the direction that He wantto have you to move in. I'm
gonna read this is the fourteenth chapterfifteen and sixteen person partt it just for
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a minute, and the Lord said, in the most is where for Christ,
thou wanted to speaking through the childrenof Israel that they go forward.
Otherless, thou was saying, goforward. Tell the children of Israel you're
moving forward. No stand still,he said. But lift up, he
said, Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out by hand over the
seats and divine it. And thechildren of Israel shall go on dry ground
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through the midst of the See ifthat's not supernatural. Come on, folk,
tell me something, he said,Lift up thou, thyroh, and
stretch out thine hand over the sea. Let me say his team. Moses
knew that there was some power inthat rod, that the staff that God
had given him, because when hehad gone to Pharaoh and the Lord told
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him to tell Pharaoh to let hispeople go. There was a showdown right
there in the palace, in Pharaoh'spalace. So Moses knew that what he
was working with, he had everythingthat he needed. But I guess he
needed God's instructions of the day.And remember what we said over the Aeronomy,
very chapter the sixteen verse. Itsays, or I command you today
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the love Lord your God, towalk and obeed his in other words,
obey his instructions, keep his commandsand decrees and laws. Then when you
live, an increase and the Lordyour God will bless you in the land
you are entering too possess. Soguess what Moses did. Moses followed the
instructions of the Living God. Andas a result of following the instructions of
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the Living God, Mose have liftedup that rod, and he stretched out
of cross the sea. And guesswhat, all of a sudden, the
sea designed it. Now. Idon't know about you, but I do
believe that if a lot of uswas probably the feed the children of Israel,
we would have been so amazed andso in wonder of what would have
just taken place. Can you imaginea sea where was strong winds blowing,
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and see that there was just somuch happening that all of a sudden you
began to tap into the power ofGod that used to see all of a
sudden frozen walls. I mean,just everything just freezes all at one time.
I want to go back and reada little bit more of just because
that was something that I want youto get. I want you to hear
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what the Lord says in the wordsright here in the Exitus fourteen, blow
over to God, how they Louliah, bless you Jesus. So I'm gonna
pick up right at the sixteen firsthe says, but I looked up iron
and stretch out by hand over thesea and divided, and the children of
Israel shall go on dry ground throughthe midst of the sea. Now how
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many had can the children of Israelgo on dry ground in the midst of
the sea? When it was mud, it was solved, it was it
was third at the very bottom ofthe base of the ocean. So that
means that it should have been reallymunky. Marrid. Let me show you
the miracle. So this is whatverse seventeen says. And I'm behold,
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I will heartened the hearts of Egyptiansand the Egyptians, and they shall follow
them, and I would get me. I would get me honored upon Pharaoh
and upon all his hosts, uponthe chariots, and upon his Hortsmens,
and the Egyptians shall know that Iam the Lord when I have gotten me
honored upon Pharaoh, upon the chariots, and upon the hustband. So check
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this out. Looking at verse nineteen, the age of God, which went
before the canal Bistraph, removed andwent behind him. And the pillar of
the cloud went from before their faceand stood behind him. And it came
between the camp of Egyptians and thecamp of Israel. And it was a
cloud of darkness to them, butit gave light tonight. It gave light
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by night to these so that theycame not one near the other all night.
In other words, they could noteven see him. And Moses stretched
his hand over the sea, andthe Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all thenight. Wow come on now in the
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middle of the night, when hewas making the israel lights warm, he
used a fiery cloud of pillar thereto help them. In the daytime,
he used a cloud of uh,it was, it was. It was
not a fire, but it wasa cloud that covered them and gave them
the shade. But now, ifyou notice here in verse twenty one,
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he says, Moses stretched out hishand over the sea, and the Lord
caused the sea to go back bya strong east wind all the night and
made the sea dry, while allthe night the wind was blowing. All
the night, the wind was blowing. And while the wind was blowing,
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it made the sea dry land,and the waters were divided, and the
children of Israel went into the midstof the sea upon the dry ground,
and the waters were a wall untothem on the right hand and on their
left. And come on now,on the right hand and on the left.
So that means that that wall,I'm sure was so tall that it
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really could have put fear in allof the children of Israel. But they
continued to move forward because God toldhim, moved the people forward. Ooh,
the people forward. Most moved thepeople forward. Now even as they
that look in verse twenty three.And the Egyptians pursued and went in after
them to the mist to see evenall Pharaoh's horses is chariots and his harshment
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that came to vance that in themorning watched the Lord looked into the hosts
of the Egyptian through the pillar offire and of the clouds, and trouble
the hosts of the Egyptians, andtook off their chariots of wills, that
they drave them heavily, so thatthe Egyptians said that a flee from the
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faith of Israel for the Lord fightingfor them against the Egyptians. And the
Lord said on the Moses stretched outbehind hand over the sea, that the
warders may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horses.
It seemed like it was set up, y'all, because it seemed like
they got in the middle of itall of a sudden, Multius was on
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the other side, and God wasstill speaking instructions. Well, those same
instructions that God was speaking in termsof if you love your Lord, you
know, you know you got towalk and obedience. I mean, you
can't be waited a while. Well, maybe I'll just since I'm over here,
I ain't got a worry about themcoming. No, the Lord told
him to wave, He said,go back, and with the gass he
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he and the Lord said that hemode the stretched out thy hands over the
sea, that he had to stretchedout his hand over the sea, that
the waters may come again upon theEgyptians, upon their chariots and upon their
horsemens, and molded this stretch forcedhis hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to his strength. Whenthe morning appeared, and the Egyptians then
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against it, and the lords overthrewthe Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
In the other lords, Pharaoh's armygets drowned into the sea, and
the waters returned and covered the chariotsand the horsemen. In all the hosts
of Pharaoh that came into the seaafter them, there remained not as so
much as one of them that wasnot one of them remaining. But the
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children of is Room walked upon dryground drive in in the midst of the
sea, and the waters were awall unto them on their right hand and
on their lift. Thus the Lordsave Israel, that they out of the
hand of the Egyptians. And Israelsaw the Egyptians did upon the seashorees,
and Israel saw that great work whishthe Lord did upon the Egyptians, and
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the people filled the Lord and believethe Lord and his servant Moses or you're
talking about enough to convince the peoplethat this is about something that's really going
down here. I mean they wereable to literally cross the Red Sea.
They were really able to watch theirenemies be taken out by the Lord.
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Our God, Our God is biding. Our God is faithful, he is
mighty to save his people. OurGod will do exactly what he said he'll
do. If God says that he'sgoing to do something. Our job is
to trust to him and to walkin his ways, to be obedient so
that we will live and increase.And I'm just telling you today God just
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want you to live and increase.He's already made the provisions for you.
But you've got to tap into thesupernatural place to let me say to you
right now, when your fact isagainst the wall, that's really when you
are really knowing shit. Know thatGod is the only one that can give
you the extension. He's the onlyone that can help you to move forward.
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Most people think that when they're backis against the wall, they have
no room, they have nowhere togo. But let me serve notice to
you tonight that when your back isagainst the wall. I'm talking to somebody
out there tonight. God has wiggleroom. Low where to God. And
not only wiggle room. God hasinstructions for your next step. But your
next step is not to retreat.Your next step is to move forward.
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Move forward how in faith? Infaith knowing that if God said a faith,
He's going to bring it to past. You know, earlier before when
they really recognize that the Isram,that the Egyptian was coming at them.
You know, most something, thosewho you see today you will never ever
see them again. You won't seethem again. So I guess they was
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trying to figure out how we won'tsee them again. I'll tell you how
you want to see them again.They are going to be taken out as
they tried to cross the Red Sea. God's people cross the Red Sea,
but the enemy got drowned it inthe sea. Lower it to God.
That is something to really just rejoiceabout it, because there's something about movement,
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something about the end of faith.It's something about moving up to the
waves of our God. And it'ssomething about moving incompetence, moving out in
competence, knowing that regardless of whatis going on, you know, without
a shadow of doubt that God passshipped back. You can imagine having a
confidence to even put your foot onthe ground of the Red Sea, knowing
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that it was at once upon atime very soft and money. Not one
of the Israelites got stuck in themood, but I tell you what.
The Israelites did not get stuck inthe mood, but I tell you the
Egyptians got drowned it in the sea. I think that that's something that we
need to rejoice in. The Godis always making ways out of no wage
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so that we will be able tocontinue our journey. God wants us to
enter in. He want us topossess the land that He has given unto
us. God wants to increase us. He wants us to live. He
wants to bless us to the placethat we will be flowing in the blessings
of God, and not only fallingthe blessings of God, but that we'll
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be able to actually be a blessinginto the Kingdom of God. Remember,
God wants you to be able tohit your target goals, and you can't
hit those target goals by standing steal. Wants to be self motivated with the
self motivated action plan based on theinstructions of all our God, who wants
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to get you into an intrinsic goal. Remember the steps of the righteous man.
They are ordered of the Lord.And when they are ordered of the
Lord, that means that God knowshow to get you to it. He
can get you around it, hecan even take you over it, and
he can even take you on it. Whichever way he chooses, you have
to follow the instructions so that youcan move, move, move, move,
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move. But remember faith moves,Faith moves, fear stands still.
Faith move and fear stands still.So that means that if I've got the
supernatural power of God on me andI'm move it into God's supernatural increase concern
in my life, then that meansthat if I make the connection come on,
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God's super going to get on mynatural and the increase is going to
come. I love it because hesays, then you will live and increase.
I want to live and I wantto increase. I want to be
very good. I want to increaseas I increase. I want to be
able to enter into the land orthe place where God has blessing me.
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And I'm telling you I don't wantto allow nothing to get me distracted to
the place where I end a messingof the possession of what God wants me
to have. You know, Jeremiahtwenty nine and elevens I love that too,
because you know He's good, andthen you know that you want to
see you prosperous. He wanted tosee you growth, He wanted to see
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you do everything that he said thathe was. I'm going to read it
right to Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven. Sometimes we just need to go back
and reflect on the word he saystsfor I, well, I'm going to
reverse your first number. I'm gonnado verse number ten. And it says
farther though said the Lord. Butafter seventy years be accomplished at bebl and
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I will visit you and perform mygood toward you in causing you to return
to this place. For I knowthe thoughts that I think towards you,
said the Lord, thoughts of peace, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you, and expecting it. I have an expectation that God
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is going to do exactly what hesaid he's going to do. And if
he's going to do what he says, he's going to do. That means
that I will walk into the abundanceof what my God has in store for
my life. I guess what IfI'm gonna walk in that abundance, I've
gotta be assured in knowing that I'vegot to remain into a place called faith.
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Got to stay in faith. IfI get out of faith, that
means that I've allowed fear to gripme. And we know the scripture for
God that's not giving us the spiritof fear, but love, power and
sound. Monment is something about andjust not only knowing it, you got
to be able to walk it out. You got to move in. You
gotta move up, and you gotto move out with confidence and knowing that
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if you're going to walk by faithand not by sight, you cannot get
caught up into looking at everything thatyou're seeing in the natural. Now,
I just want to go back andremind you of what happened over in Joshua,
very very very similar things that happenedin Joshua. I love this because
you know, Joshua was Moses isunderstudy, and Joshua learned so much from
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Moses. Joshua saw how the peoplecomplaining and murmured and did all that stuff
when Moses was leading, and Imean the people got Moses in trouble because
they kept, you know, murmurand complaining. That got been so frustrated
that he ended up hitting the rockwhen he should have spoken to the rock.
And as a result of it,you know, God had to honor
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his own words. I literally knowthat he was not going to be eligible
to take the people into the promisedwell, those people that was under Moses'
authority in the dying in the wilderness, so much so that Joshua took over.
In that first chapter of Joshua,you know, the Lord began to
just tell Joshua. You know,he said, Hey, Moses, my
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servant is dead. Therefore arise,go over this Jordan, thou and all
this people unto the land which Ido give them, even to the truth
of Evistror. Now going back againto do the learn of min the thirtieth
chapter sixteen verse he said, fora CoA man you today the love Lord
to God to walk in obedience tohim. So that means if he tells
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you to go over Jordan, evenbefore you get to Jordan, your mind
said, is you gotta go overJordan? Not under Jordan, but over
Jordan. Glory to God. Andhe says, and to keep his commandments,
his secrees and laws, then youwould live, live, live,
live, live, live, andincrease. And the Lord your God will
bless you and the land you areinjured to possess. Now Here, he
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tells, Joshua, you know Moses, my services dead and second version now
therefore arrives. Go over this Jordannow, and all these people are to
the land which I do give tothem, even to the land and to
the tchipren of Israel. He says, every place that the souls of your
foot should dread upon that I havegiven unto you, as I said onto
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Moses. Here again over in Deuteronomy, he says, in the Lord your
God will bless you in the landyou are entering to possess. And here
over in Joshua, he says,every place, that the soul of your
foot shall trail upon that I havegiven under you, as I said that
to Moses. From the wilderness andthis Lebanon, even to the great river,
the river Euphrating, and all thelands and Hittites, and onto the
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great seat to wards the going downon the sun. It's gonna be your
coast. There shall not any manbe able to stand before me all the
days of that by men you're talkingabout amazing when you get a word of
the Lord that tells you nobody's goingto be able to stand against you all
the days with your life, orfill yourself up in faith and receive that
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word. He says, as Iwas with Motus, so will I be
with THEE. I will not sellTHEE, nor for sake be Going back
to Jeremiah, now he's got goodthoughts for us. That means that he's
he has a plan for us toprossly. He has a plance to see
has come to I expect it.In for verse six, over he and
Josh, he says, be strongand of a good courage for your people,
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for unto this people, without dividingthe heros the land which I swear
their father to give THEE. Onlyde thou strong and very courageous. Here
again he's giving command. But youcan give you can you can God to
give a command, but you gotto be able to keep the command.
And you got to keep the commandand the decrees and laws. He says,
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Only be thou. He says,be strong and a good courage,
for unto this people shaout dividing theheroes unto the land which I swear to
them to the Father's to give this. He goes again in verse epic and
says, only be thou strong andvery very courageous. He said, be
very courageous, that that thou maystobserve to do according to all the law
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which most thy serving commandity. Hetells them instructions, turn not from it
from the right hand or to theleft, that thou mayst prosper, whether
where whether it's whoever thou goest.This book of the Law shall not be
part out of thy mouth, butthou shalt meditate Therein twenty minutes, going
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back to do the runny, hesays, I command you today to love
the Lord your God, to walkin obedience to him, and to keep
his commandments to the trees and thelaws. And he's telling now, Joshua,
you know, you know this bookof the Law shall not depart out
of your mouth, but thou shaltmeditate therein day and night. Wow,
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that thou mayst observed to do accordingto all that is written therein, For
then thou shall make thy way prospersand then thou shalt have good, good
success. Wow. So now hegoes to do the right. He said,
when you do these things, you'regoing what you're gonna live, and
you're gonna increase. How am Igonna get my increase? I gotta do
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the book. I gotta get theword in me. I gotta meditate that
day and night. And if Imeditate on the dead, that I am
going to prosper according to the wordof God. I look at first of
the night, he says, HaveI not commanded, he'd be strong and
a good courage, be not afraidnot to be dismayed. For the Lord,
thy God is with thee. Whithersoeverthou goest. Now he says that
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WI the server, thou goerst morethan one time. So when God starts
saying things two times or more,that means that he's trying to get your
attention. So here is he says, whethersoever thou goest. Then Josha commanded
the officer of his people, saying, pass through the host. Command the
people, saying, prepare yours yourvictuals forward in three days you show you
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shall pass over the Jordan. ThisJordan's I notice what Joshua did. He
spoke the words, the very wordthat God spoke. God told him that
they were going to go over theJordan up in the earlier chapter, in
the early verses of this chapter,and now he goes back and tell the
people we're going over Jordan's whether thepeople knew what Jordan was going to be
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like or not. He was like, we are going over Jordan. And
I wonder, just this evening,how many have you made up in your
mind that when the Lord tells youto do something, you're gonna say.
I'm going to do exactly what he'stelling me to do. In fact,
I'm gonna repeat it the same way, and he told me to do it.
If God told me to move forward, then I gotta move forward.
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If God tell me you know thatI need to go over here and stand
for it little bit and then moveout, I'm gonna go there, stand
for a little bit and move forwardand do what needs to be done.
But the reality here is is Idon't get the blessings of the Lord if
I partially obey him. I mustfully obey God in order to live and
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increase. I must fully obey Godin order that God bless me in the
land, and he's promised me thatI'm supposed to be possessing. And I
just truly believe that there is aGod today, thank God yesterday, to
Dend forevermore, who is still honoringhis words, who is still working miracles,
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who are still doing wondrous in thelives of the people. But we
must ask ourselves, as people offaith, what are we doing to make
sure that we're able to walk intothis place to live and to increase?
So praise the Lord. So ifyou go over to chapter three of Joshua's
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once they rose up early in themorning and they began to move again,
and there was still movement. Whoup moving out? They kept moving and
they got to the place where JordanRiver was in front of them. They
couldn't go around it. I guessthey could have gone around it, but
you know, it would have beena longer journey. But the Lord said,
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you know, he was going tomake it possible for them to do
whatever they needed to do as longas they obeyed the command his commandment.
Raised the Lord, raised, theLord, raised the Lord. Praise the
Lord. So as he obeyed hiscommandments, they continued to do exactly what
the Lord had them to do.So as they began to walk in that
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God began to open. He toldthe priest to put their foot down in
the water. And as they beganto put their foot in the water,
the priests in obeying God. Andas a result, Jordan River opened up,
just like the Red Sea. Andnot only did it open up,
but the children of Israel was ableto pass straight through it. And I'm
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telling you, they passed through it, and it got them closer to the
land that God had promised him.They were on there way to Jericho.
And let me tell you, whenthey got to Jericho, that was still
movement. And they watched marched aroundJericho six days. And on that seventh
day, when the priests had thetrumpet to be sounded, all of a
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sudden they shouted with the voice oftriumph. And when they shouted, Jericho
walls fell. And as Jericho waswass fell. Guess what, They went
in and they possessed the land.They went in and possessed the land.
Now before that time, now theywere moving, but they did not speak
one word. They were moving thefirst day, the second day, the
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third day, the fourth day,the fifth day, the sixth day and
they were silenced. He sometimes yougotta move, but you can't be all
doing everything when you're moving. Yougotta still follow the instructions of our God.
Well, on that seventh day,when he shouted, when the trumpets
sounded, and he said, shallbecause God has given us the city,
they shouted, and the Bible saysthat the walls of Jericho fell, and
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when they fail, they went inand possessed the land. And I just
want to tell you tonight, yougot to come to this place where you
were. Recognize that God is stillperforming miracles, miracle signs and wonders.
But it's going to be your responsibilityto make sure that you are obeying him
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in all things, that you're keepinghis commands, that you are walking into
the decreed and it's laws. Andwhen you do those things, it causes
you to live and increase. Now, the children of Israel, come on,
they walked out of Egypt with abundance of blessings. They were in
the wilderness. Come on, andthen afterwards you know they got many of
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them died in the wilderness. However, on the Joshua's leadership, they continued
to move forward and they were abundantlyblessed. And I want you to know
to I had that not only isGod in the business of blessing of the
children of Israel, he is inthe business of blessing all those who make
quality decisions to make sure that theycan move forward the way that He would
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like for them to move forward.To number one, I want to just
say to you before I close tonight, five quality decisions and moving forward.
You got to make Number one,you got to make a quality decision to
get your spiritual life in shape.If you're out of shape, you got
to get in shape. You gotto get into a place where you can
allow the blessings of the Lord toovertake you and do those things that need
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to be done in your life.Number two, you got to make a
quality decision to choose the blessing.Choose the blessing. You know there are
blessings and curses, but you gotto make sure that you make the right
decisions when it comes to then youwant to be blessed. And if you
want to be blessed, that meansyou gotta obey God. You got to
keep his commandments and you got towalk up rightly before him. Remember then
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you'll live and increase. Number threeto make quality decisions to prosper your soul.
Script says Beloved, I wish aboveall things that doubt may is prosper
even in health, even as Godsoul prosperous. So that means that you
know your mind, your will,and emotions. It's got to be in
a place where you are renewed daily. Our souls the definers, our minds,
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our wills, and emotions. Andthe question become is what are you
doing to prosper each of these areasin your life. You got to get
that mind right, because that thatmind is right, you will be able
to win in so many ways.Number four, make a quality decision for
your health, because in order foryou to move, you got to be
good and healthy. Glory to God. You got to be good and healthy.
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And I really believe that you haveto make a decision that you know
I'm gonna live. I gotta alignmyself with the word. Not only that,
I got to watch how I takecare of my body. I got
to watch what I do to strengthenit so that I'm able to walk in
this very thing that God is callingme to walk in. And that's what
not least is my last one fortonight. Make a quality decision. You
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know that you can get into abetter place in terms of being out of
debt, because sometimes that can holdyou down to the point where you will
be able if you won't be ableto make any move because you don't you
don't have any freedom. You know. Roma's the First thirteen, chapter eight
versus this, Oh, no mananything but to love one another, for
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he that loved one another has fulfilledthe law. And I'm just saying,
if you're dropt down writing a lota lot of debt, you don't want
to be that because you want tobe in a place where your load is
lighter and you can do what needsto be done so that the Kingdom of
God can be advanced through you andthe people around you. So as I
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leave tonight, I just want youto know that this has been a wonderful
time with you. I pray againthat you know you got something from the
word of God. Remember that youknow this is year of moving into the
supernatural increase. That means that Igotta walk in obedience to His words,
his commandments, and his decrees andlaws. And when I do those things,
I will live. And not onlywill I live, but I'm going
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to increase and I watch God blessme as he moved me into the possessions
that He would have for me.Will God bless you and we will see
you this time on next Monday nighton the Lucia mcdonwald Living Ride, a
podcast lu listen to tors my podcast
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