Full Transcript for Eliminating Small Talk // Pastor Vince Thomas, Jr. // Supersize ME Series (Part 2)

of a great size." Let's 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.670 focus in on verse 33. They kept on 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.390 talking. And they said, "There we saw 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:35.670 the Nephilim, the Anakites come from the 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.270 Nephilim, 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:39.749 and to ourselves 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.189 we seemed like grasshoppers, 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.110 and so 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.390 we seemed to them." 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:53.030 So they had a promise, ran into a 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.550 problem, 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.110 but everyone but Caleb, Joshua, the 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.950 other 10 then kept talking and allowed 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:02.950 themselves through their words, even 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:04.790 though they were confronted with a real 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.150 problem to then go off the deep end into 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.710 negative speech. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:12.790 But if we're going to walk into the 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.830 promises of God in each of our lives, 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:17.590 we're going to have to make it a 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.150 concerted effort each day that we are 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.270 going to be on a mission to eliminate 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:25.189 small talk. And that's the title of 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.909 today's message, eliminating 00:05:27.919 --> 00:05:30.629 small talk. So last week to bring you 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:32.469 all back up to speed, we talked about no 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:34.390 more playing small. So there's two 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:35.749 things. We're not going to play small 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.510 anymore and we're not going to talk 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:40.310 small either. So, I'm not shrinking back 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:43.029 and I'm not gonna speak things that have 00:05:43.039 --> 00:05:47.029 no basis in the truth of God's word. 00:05:47.039 --> 00:05:49.430 Those two things have to come together. 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:51.430 But playing small means deliberately 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:53.029 minimizing your presence, your 00:05:53.039 --> 00:05:55.110 abilities, your goals, and your voice to 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.469 stay safe, avoid conflict, or to fit in. 00:05:58.479 --> 00:06:00.870 It's the habit of making yourself less 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:03.670 than you actually are so you don't risk 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.510 failure, judgment, or discomfort. At its 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:10.550 core, playing small is using self-p 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.950 protection as an excuse for 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:14.469 self-sabotage, 00:06:14.479 --> 00:06:16.790 where you're trading potential growth 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.670 for guaranteed comfort. 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.110 But we want to take it now a step 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:22.710 further 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.270 with our words. 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:27.029 See when you live with

negative selft 00:06:27.039 --> 00:06:30.309 talk long enough you develop a form of 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.909 what I call spiritual stockhol syndrome 00:06:33.919 --> 00:06:36.150 where you start building an emotional 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.629 bond with the very thoughts that are 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.390 keeping you held back from being all 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:42.870 that you were created to be instead of 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:45.430 driving out and taking hold of these 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:48.629 strongholds. You maintain this small 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.270 talking and you actually defend your 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:54.150 small talking by saying things like I'm 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.790 just keeping it real 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.909 or this is just who I am or if I don't 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:04.629 expect anything good if I expect the 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.790 worst at least I won't get hurt. That is 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.230 small talk. 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.070 >> And I want you all to hold on to this. 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:17.430 The smaller we talk, the greater our 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:19.510 limitations. 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:23.270 The bigger we talk, the smaller our 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:24.950 limitations. 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:27.510 So sometimes the difference between you 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:29.189 being everything that God has created 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.150 you to be and you staying status quo is 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.309 how we think and how we allow it to 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.510 inform how we speak and order our life, 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:41.830 not the actual obstacle. 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:43.749 As it said, it been said many times, 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:47.990 sometimes the biggest enemy is the inner 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.309 me. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:55.430 So, let's go back to verse 27 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:58.390 because I want to help 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:01.749 people not get into what I call toxic 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:06.309 positivity. Toxic positivity is you see 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.990 a fact right in front of you. You see an 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.390 obstacle right in front of you. But 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:14.469 because I want to stay in faith, I'm 00:08:14.479 --> 00:08:16.790 going to deny the reality and I'm going 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.830 to deny the facts. That is toxic 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:23.189 positivity. That is not faith. Faith 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:26.309 acknowledges the circumstances it's up 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.670 against. But faith does not say because 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.310 I'm up against these circumstances, I 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.630 refuse to try. Faith says, "In spite of 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:39.909 every single reason not to move forward, 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.310 I have a peace. SO THEREFORE, I WILL 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.949 MOVE forward knowing what I'm dealing 00:08:44.959 --> 00:08:47.030 with." 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:48.949 And I want to show this to you in in 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:51.990 Numbers 13 and 27. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.670 And it says, "And they reported, the 10 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:56.870 spies reported to him and said, we came 00:08:56.880 --> 00:08:59.750 to the land which you sent us. Here's 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:02.550 the truth about where God sent them. it 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:06.070 flows with milk and honey. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:07.829 And then they said, "And this is the 00:09:07.839 --> 00:09:10.470 fruit." So, not only do they have a 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.110 report of the goodness of God and the 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:14.870 faithfulness of God and the promises of 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:17.269 God, but they also have proof that 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.030 they're able to show others of God's 00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:20.550 goodness and his faithfulness that was 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:22.630 leading them. 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:25.269 Then we get into the reality. Watch this 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:29.430 next verse in verse 28. Yet 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.750 the people who live in the land are 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:36.870 strong, and the towns are fortified and 00:09:36.880 --> 00:09:39.990 very large. And besides, we saw the 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.990 descendants of Anoch there. The 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:43.910 Amalocites live there, live in the land 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:45.430 of the Ngev. The Hittites, the 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.590 Jebusites, and the Amorites live in the 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.910 hill country. And the Canaanites live by 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:53.829 the sea along the Jordan. I want for you 00:09:53.839 --> 00:09:57.590 all's learning in verses 28 and 29. I 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.910 want you to know that as the 10 spies 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:02.310 were reporting those facts, they did not 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.750 do anything wrong. Those reporting of 00:10:05.760 --> 00:10:09.590 facts was not an absence of faith. Facts 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:11.509 are neutral. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.150 You have to know what it is that you're 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:17.190 up against. The will of God cannot be 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.230 enacted beyond what is known. And so 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.550 that's why it's important sometimes, 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:25.509 hear me, to research what you need to 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.230 pray for and ask God for wisdom on how I 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.550 should pray. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.190 BECAUSE OFTEN WHEN WE DON'T understand 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.350 what we're dealing with, we don't know 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.710 what to ask God to help US WITH. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.030 SO SOMETIMES BECAUSE WE GET SO 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:43.190 discouraged by what WE'RE UP AGAINST, WE 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.190 don't want to face it and call it what 00:10:45.200

--> 00:10:48.150 it is. We want to play games and say, 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:50.310 "Well, I know God has called me to do 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.790 this and God has called me to do that." 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:55.190 And then you end up using antiquated 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.190 methods to deal with things that he 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.389 could have gave you supernatural 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.590 strategy on. So, it's important for you. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.509 This is what the doctor said. This is 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.509 the report. This is what my financial 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.509 records say. This is what the trends 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.389 say. You need TO BE AWARE AND NOT PUT 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:12.870 YOUR HEAD in the sand. 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:14.870 But you then need TO SAY, "BUT GOD, IF 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:17.269 YOU YOUR WORD SAYS THAT I'M the head and 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.030 not the tail, if your word says I'm 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:21.829 above and not beneath, EVEN THOUGH THE 00:11:21.839 --> 00:11:24.550 FACTS SAY THIS, GOD, I NEED YOUR WISDOM 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:26.470 AND HOW TO BRING YOUR WORD INTO THIS 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.910 REALITY." 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:33.269 So the facts are neutral until you 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:36.790 decide what to do with the facts. 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:40.870 So sometimes we substitute facts for the 00:11:40.880 --> 00:11:42.870 truth of God's word. and the two are 00:11:42.880 --> 00:11:45.590 different. So just because there's a 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.670 fact doesn't mean that you're defeated. 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:49.829 It means that now I have something that 00:11:49.839 --> 00:11:53.670 I have to grow through. 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:55.670 But let's see how the 10 spies took the 00:11:55.680 --> 00:11:58.870 facts. Verse 32. 00:11:58.880 --> 00:12:00.630 So based off the facts that we just read 00:12:00.640 --> 00:12:03.509 in verse 32 of Numbers 13, it says, "So 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.990 they brought to the Israelites 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.269 an unfavorable report of the land that 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.230 they spied out. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.269 So they said it flowed with milk and 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.230 honey. They were holding fruit. Yet they 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:19.990 took the facts of the land and then 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.069 decided to turn it into an unfavorable 00:12:22.079 --> 00:12:25.269 report. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.790 And they said the land that we have gone 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:32.629 through as spies is a land that devours 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.590 its inhabitants. And so let me help you 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:37.910 all in how I study the Bible. So when I 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:41.190 read devours its inhabitants, I 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.190 literally because it was Old Testament 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.190 had to ask did the land eat the people? 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:48.949 I wanted to know cuz sometimes the land 00:12:48.959 --> 00:12:50.470 opened up and you know folks fell right 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:51.990 in. I needed to I needed to know was 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.350 that the case when when I looked at the 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:59.190 phrase uh uh uh the land that where is 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.829 it up there? Devour its inhabitants. 00:13:01.839 --> 00:13:06.949 It's an exaggeration for life is lifing 00:13:06.959 --> 00:13:13.990 in the promised land. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.870 So God sent them to a land 00:13:16.880 --> 00:13:18.710 and they went to a land and said, "God, 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.629 where you sent me, I still got to deal 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:22.710 with stuff. And every day I still have 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.949 to fight to maintain WHERE YOU SENT ME." 00:13:24.959 --> 00:13:26.949 I NEED TO DEAL WITH THIS MINDSET that we 00:13:26.959 --> 00:13:28.629 have in church that JUST BECAUSE GOD 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.310 SENT YOU SOMEWHERE DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.069 NOT going to have some trouble. 00:13:34.079 --> 00:13:36.629 >> In fact, welcome to football season. A 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.069 good team, even if they have a GREAT 00:13:38.079 --> 00:13:40.069 RUNNING BACK, THE OTHER TEAM IS TRYING 00:13:40.079 --> 00:13:43.190 TO TACKLE THE RUNNING BACK before he 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.069 gets to the end zone. 00:13:46.079 --> 00:13:49.430 And so often in our prayers, we get to a 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.590 point where we're we're envisioning 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:54.710 holding the promise, but then have this 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.030 selective ignorance of not realizing 00:13:57.040 --> 00:13:59.110 that there's problems connected to your 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:04.949 promise. 00:14:04.959 --> 00:14:05.990 [laughter] 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.069 Hallelujah. 00:14:08.079 --> 00:14:10.710 When God blesses you and let's just say 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.350 you elevate, you grow, your business 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.269 grows. It starts off where it's just 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.790 you. You're your only employee. You're 00:14:18.800 --> 00:14:20.470 the only one you had TO THINK ABOUT. 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.310 YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT NEEDS TO GET 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.790 PAID. BUT GOD blesses the business like 00:14:24.800 --> 00:14:27.910 you prayed for. And now you need to hire 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:31.990 other people. Guess what? More money, 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.990 more problems. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.430 So 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.829 You have to know THAT WHEN GOD BLESSES 00:14:39.839 --> 00:14:42.790 YOU, I now need wisdom IN HOW TO 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:44.550 NAVIGATE THE PROBLEMS THAT COME WITH 00:14:44.560 --> 00:14:47.110 BLESSINGS HERE ON THIS EARTH. 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.269 BUT I CAN'T TAKE THE FACT that now that 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.990 I've got to

believe God for the the 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.550 livelihood of other people and believe 00:14:54.560 --> 00:14:57.189 God to be able to operate something 00:14:57.199 --> 00:14:59.350 bigger than I ever imagined. I can't 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:00.949 say, "Oh no, then you must not have 00:15:00.959 --> 00:15:04.150 called me to this." No. Even in the 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:09.910 promised land, life lives. 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:11.509 SO WHEN LIFE HAPPENS, IT'S NOT AN 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.590 INDICATION THAT MAYBE GOD'S not with me. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.670 No, when life happens, you need to 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:18.150 remind yourself that God is for me even 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:22.870 in this. 00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:27.590 But instead, they said, "I thought that 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:28.870 when you brought me out of the 00:15:28.880 --> 00:15:30.790 wilderness, I wasn't going to have any 00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:34.389 more problems." No. 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.949 He says, "And all the people that we saw 00:15:36.959 --> 00:15:40.310 in it are of a great size. And there we 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.710 saw the Nephilim, the Anakites come from 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:47.350 the Nephilim and to ourselves." 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.069 I took what I SAW AS A PROBLEM AND MADE 00:15:50.079 --> 00:15:53.030 A DETERMINATION ABOUT MYSELF BECAUSE OF 00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:56.230 THE PROBLEM. SO I HAVE SELECTIVE MEMORY 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.389 ON EVEN THOUGH I'M HOLDING THE FRUIT OF 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.550 THE PROMISE, I THINK MY WORTH IS BASED 00:16:00.560 --> 00:16:03.749 OFF THE PROBLEM. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.150 HE SAYS, "AND TO OURSEL WE SEEM LIKE 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:08.310 GRASSHOPPERS. AND EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.710 DO A SURVEY IN ALL OF THE LANDS, TO THEM 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.269 THEY FELT THE SAME WAY. 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:14.870 And so because OF HOW THEY SAW 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:17.189 THEMSELVES, THEY CANCELED themselves out 00:16:17.199 --> 00:16:19.189 before they even had a chance to stand 00:16:19.199 --> 00:16:21.910 and see God work on their behalf." How 00:16:21.920 --> 00:16:24.870 many of you HAVE DECIDED TO NOT MOVE 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:26.870 FORWARD BECAUSE YOU canceled yourself 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:28.870 out, NOT BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING 00:16:28.880 --> 00:16:31.350 ACTUALLY STOPPING YOU? And so you need 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.189 to make a decision that right now I'M 00:16:33.199 --> 00:16:35.829 GOING TO ELIMINATE ALL SMALL TALK. IF I 00:16:35.839 --> 00:16:38.310 HAVE A PROMISE FROM GOD, EVEN IF I HAVE 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.629 A PROBLEM, I'M GOING TO MAKE A DECISION 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.629 THAT I'M GOING TO ANCHOR ON GOD'S WORD 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:47.030 VERSUS THE FACTS. 00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:49.350 >> OH, we have PEOPLE WHO HAVE SO MUCH 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.910 GIFTING AND SO MUCH PURPOSE AND SO MUCH 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:55.189 TALENT. YES, EVEN AT YOUR AGE, IF YOU'RE 00:16:55.199 --> 00:16:57.749 STILL BREATHING, THERE IS STILL MORE FOR 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.990 YOU TO UNCOVER. GOD ISN'T JUST GOING TO 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.069 POUR out his best mercy and grace in 00:17:02.079 --> 00:17:03.829 your first 30 years of living and then 00:17:03.839 --> 00:17:06.470 just let you struggle the next 50 OR 60. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:10.069 NO, HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY SINGLE 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:12.549 MORNING. AND EVERY SINGLE DAY, YOUR 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.949 SPIRIT is being renewed MOMENT AFTER 00:17:14.959 --> 00:17:16.710 MOMENT. WE'LL FAST FORWARD FOR the 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.630 purpose OF ILLUSTRATION, BUT CALEB GOT 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.630 TO THE POINT WHERE HE WAS 85 AND SAID, 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.630 "I'VE GOT MORE STRENGTH AT 85 THAN I did 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.990 at 40." SO THAT IS A SIGN THAT I'M NOT 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:33.990 GETTING OLDER, I'M GETTING BETTER. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.590 >> Because when you're older, you learn 00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:37.669 some stuff. You've been through some 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:39.270 things. You've been able to DEVELOP SOME 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:42.310 PATTERNS THAT GOD, YES, HE IS FAITHFUL. 00:17:42.320 --> 00:17:44.710 I'VE SEEN HIM WORK. I'VE SEEN WHEN IT 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.870 LOOKS BARE. I'VE SEEN WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.870 I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT. BUT YET, I'VE 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:53.029 SEEN GOD SHOW HIMSELF TIME AFTER TIME 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.950 AFTER TIME AFTER TIME. IN FACT, I'M NOT 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.909 HOLDING PROOF. I AM THE PROOF. COME ON, 00:17:59.919 --> 00:18:06.630 SOMEBODY. 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.270 SO, we can't have selective memory ON 00:18:09.280 --> 00:18:11.830 HOW GOOD GOD HAS BEEN OVER YOUR ENTIRE 00:18:11.840 --> 00:18:15.430 LIFE. 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.430 SO, SO THE THE 10 SPIES ARE SHOWING US 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:18.630 THAT YOU CAN KNOW THE TRUTH 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.029 INTELLECTUALLY, but your inner voice 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.390 will still keep contradicting it. So, I 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.789 know God is good, but my inner voice 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.750 asks, "Well, is he? 00:18:29.760 --> 00:18:32.070 I mean, I know I got I got stories. I 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:36.070 got testimony." But is he? 00:18:36.080 --> 00:18:39.350 So, our thoughts influence our speech. 00:18:39.360 --> 00:18:42.710 Our speech influences our perceptions 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.029 and our perceptions then influence our 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:49.430 actions. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.190 But but but let me can I can I break it 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.390 down just a little bit further y'all cuz 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.230 your boy had some questions studying 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.909 this out and I want to share with you 00:18:57.919 --> 00:19:01.430 the answers from my

questions. So as an 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:04.870 avid coffee drinker I saw they had a 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:06.950 land that flowed with milk and honey. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:14.789 So, I was wondering 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:16.310 what that be like right there. Like, I 00:19:16.320 --> 00:19:18.310 just want to know like, is the promised 00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:20.789 land filled with the best lattes ever? 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:25.270 Like, I was curious. 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:27.110 So, I did some digging because you got 00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:30.150 to ask, the Bible was not written in 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.789 America. The Bible was not written in 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:35.590 for Western civilization. So our western 00:19:35.600 --> 00:19:37.750 concepts fail in comparison to what 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:39.669 we're reading. But our western 00:19:39.679 --> 00:19:41.669 civilization and our western upbringing 00:19:41.679 --> 00:19:44.150 informs what we're reading. So I have to 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.870 inform myself with the context of the 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:49.350 text to get the meaning of the text. So 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:51.029 milk 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.029 today we we we can go to a grocery store 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.230 and we can see milk for days. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.310 If you go on to a a food pantry or 00:19:58.320 --> 00:20:00.150 giveaway, you see crates and cartons of 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.470 milk for days. So a land flowing with 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.950 milk doesn't mean anything to really 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.870 anybody. 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.950 But milk in their time was a rare 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:14.630 delicacy and a life sustaining miracle 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.830 of abundance that signaled long-term 00:20:17.840 --> 00:20:20.789 security and survival through lean 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.470 seasons. 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.590 So when they said, "We see a land 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:29.909 that has an abundance of life sustaining 00:20:29.919 --> 00:20:33.750 miracles. We see a land THAT FLOWS WITH 00:20:33.760 --> 00:20:37.110 WHAT I need to survive through lean 00:20:37.120 --> 00:20:40.230 seasons." And and here's the proof. But 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.310 the next word, honey. 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:47.830 In my mind, I said, "Who care about 00:20:47.840 --> 00:20:51.029 dealing with some bees?" 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.029 Because hearing that land flows with 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.710 milk and honey in my western mind says 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.870 it's a land flowing with bees. Ain't 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.390 nobody got time for that. 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:04.710 That's not honey. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.230 Honey 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.870 is not from a beehive, 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.070 but it's syrup from a date tree or a 00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:14.149 grape vine. 00:21:14.159 --> 00:21:17.990 The presence of a date tree

or a grape 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.110 vine meant that there was somebody 00:21:21.120 --> 00:21:24.950 around 7 to 10 years prior to when you 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:29.430 found it. not only planting the tree and 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:31.590 the vine, but they were then for the 00:21:31.600 --> 00:21:36.070 last 7 to 10 years keeping the vine 00:21:36.080 --> 00:21:40.070 healthy 00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:42.950 >> BEFORE THEY SHOWED UP TO THE PROMISED 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:45.669 LAND. And we saw last WEEK THEY SHOULD 00:21:45.679 --> 00:21:47.110 HAVE SHOWED UP A LONG TIME AGO, BUT 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:49.110 THEIR disobedience kept them longer than 00:21:49.120 --> 00:21:51.110 they were SUPPOSED TO. SO, WHILE THEY 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:53.350 WERE DELAYED doing all these things that 00:21:53.360 --> 00:21:55.110 they weren't supposed to do, murmuring 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:57.190 and complaining, wondering is God still 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.029 there, wondering why God would take THEM 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:01.270 OUT OF EGYPT, GOD HAD ALREADY GONE 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:04.149 BEFORE THEM TO WHERE THEY WERE PREPARING 00:22:04.159 --> 00:22:06.549 THINGS THAT THEY WOULD WALK IN. AND SO, 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:09.110 WHILE THEY WERE GETTING THEIR ACT 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:11.830 TOGETHER, GOD WAS MAKING SURE THAT WHEN 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:13.909 YOU DO GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, WE'RE 00:22:13.919 --> 00:22:15.110 GONNA PICK UP RIGHT WHERE YOU'RE 00:22:15.120 --> 00:22:16.710 SUPPOSED TO BE. AND MAYBE THAT 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:18.950 ENCOURAGES SOME OF US OUT HERE WHO HAVE 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:21.510 BEEN HARDHEADED, DOING STUFF OUR OWN 00:22:21.520 --> 00:22:23.990 WAY, WONDERING WHY GOD, WHY IS IT TAKING 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:25.750 SO LONG? WELL, WHEN YOU GET YOUR 00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:28.070 ATTITUDE TOGETHER, YOU'LL THEN SEE THE 00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:30.070 WHOLE TIME YOU WERE COMPLAINING, HE WAS 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:32.470 PREPARING WHERE HE WAS SENDING YOU. HE 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.789 WAS irrigating where he WAS SENDING YOU. 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:36.950 AND HE WAS KEEPING TOGETHER EVERYTHING 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.990 HE HAD FOR YOU. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:44.149 SO THEY CAME BACK TO THE PEOPLE AND 00:22:44.159 --> 00:22:47.110 SAID, "I'M HOLDING A MIRACLE THAT I 00:22:47.120 --> 00:22:49.990 COULDN'T PRODUCE. I'M HOLDING DATE SYRUP 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.630 THAT I COULDN'T DRAW. AND HERE IS THE 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.190 FRUIT, Y'ALL. BUT WE got some problems 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:00.710 in the promised land." 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:04.310 The lesson for them should have been, 00:23:04.320 --> 00:23:06.630 I've got an abundance of a life 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:08.950 sustaining miracle 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.430 and I've got a fruit from something that 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:13.750 you just don't get without being there a 00:23:13.760 --> 00:23:16.950 long time. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.909 Meaning

there is someone else 00:23:19.919 --> 00:23:23.190 making a way where there is no way. Now 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.909 you understand that in order to have a 00:23:27.919 --> 00:23:30.789 tree, you had to have water. Now you 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:32.470 understand about him making when he 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:35.190 says, "I made a river in the desert." 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.110 See, God says, "Wherever I'm sending 00:23:37.120 --> 00:23:39.590 you, I'mma send everything you need to 00:23:39.600 --> 00:23:43.590 make it a reality. 00:23:43.600 --> 00:23:45.990 >> And I'mma keep it going 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:47.669 long enough for you to get your act 00:23:47.679 --> 00:23:52.310 together." 00:23:52.320 --> 00:23:54.789 But how many of us are sitting on the 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.909 outside of what he called us to because 00:23:57.919 --> 00:24:00.630 we don't think that we he can when the 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:09.750 fact of the matter is he already did. 00:24:09.760 --> 00:24:13.110 So negative self-t talk minimizes the 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:15.590 proof of the miraculous you've already 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:18.789 experienced. 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:22.070 So we need to win this war against 00:24:22.080 --> 00:24:24.470 negative selft talk. 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.710 Y'all still doing good? 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.171 >> Cuz I done preached myself happy. 00:24:29.181 --> 00:24:30.070 [laughter] 00:24:30.080 --> 00:24:33.350 Let's go back to numbers 13 and 31. 00:24:33.360 --> 00:24:36.149 Glory to God. 00:24:36.159 --> 00:24:41.350 Oh, I'm having so much fun. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:44.630 Let's dissect again. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.710 For when they said, "And to ourselves," 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.029 in verse 33, 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:51.110 "to ourselves," Thank you. Thank help me 00:24:51.120 --> 00:24:53.990 preach this thing. To ourselves 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.430 we seem like grasshoppers. 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.190 And so to ourselves, we seem like that 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.789 to them. 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.430 Negative self-t talk 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:08.310 is the internal dialogue, 00:25:08.320 --> 00:25:11.029 the subtle overt stream of thoughts that 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.710 you have about yourself that's critical, 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.549 pessimistic, and self-limiting. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.190 It's the practice of mentally framing 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.950 circumstances, 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.510 your abilities, and your worth in a way 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:28.390 that minimizes your strengths and 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.510 amplifies all of your flaws and your 00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:34.789 fears. 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.230 It's on the screen here. This next point 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.870 that I want you to take home, negative 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:42.630 self-t talk is the internal inner critic 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:46.230 that magnifies your fears and minimizes 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.110 your godgiven potential. 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:52.230 It's when you talk to yourself in a way 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:55.110 you would never allow anyone else to 00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:59.750 talk to you. 00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:02.630 I wish some my toxic trait is I wish you 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.990 would tell me what I can't do. I want to 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:08.950 hear what I won't be. That's my toxic 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:10.789 trait because I'm about to not only KEEP 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.190 YOUR QUOTATION, I'MMA RUN UP THE SCORE 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:16.549 JUST TO SHOW THAT'S MY TOXIC TRAIT. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.669 YET, 00:26:19.679 --> 00:26:21.350 I'm questioning my abilities every 00:26:21.360 --> 00:26:23.430 chance I get. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:30.470 Me, 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.190 let me break this thing down, y'all. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:35.990 So, negative selft talk has these four 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:37.590 main traps. So, I'm going to give you 00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:39.430 all the traps and I'm going to give you 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.990 the cycle. So, that 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.190 when I studied this message, I started 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:47.510 applying it to my life and say, there 00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:50.710 you go. Stop. Now you see now you know 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.470 how to break free from the trap. You 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.630 know how to get out of the cycle and you 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:57.110 can keep moving forward. 00:26:57.120 --> 00:26:59.190 So, four main traps. So, when negative 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:01.990 selft talk comes up, it shows up as cat 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.830 catastrophizing. 00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:07.990 Is that that word? Did I say that word 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.990 right? Thank you. Because I have a 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.070 problem. I I was work like Ashley was 00:27:12.080 --> 00:27:13.510 like, "What are you doing? I need to get 00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:16.070 this word catast." She said, "Boy, you I 00:27:16.080 --> 00:27:17.350 said, listen, I'm expanding my 00:27:17.360 --> 00:27:19.473 vocabulary. 00:27:19.483 --> 00:27:20.390 [laughter] 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.990 Always catastrophizing. Catastrophi. Is 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.190 that I said it right. That C word up 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.029 there. 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:32.470 Always assuming the absolute worst will 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:35.750 happen. 00:27:35.760 --> 00:27:39.029 Or you get into filtering 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.310 where you focus on one mistake while 00:27:42.320 --> 00:27:45.990 ignoring the 99 successes. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.950 It's selective attention to what's wrong 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.190 that erodess your confidence in God. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.750 Or number three, 00:27:55.760 --> 00:27:59.110 you you you start personalizing things 00:27:59.120 --> 00:28:01.190 when

you're blaming yourself for things 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.389 completely outside of your control. 00:28:04.399 --> 00:28:07.110 You're taking responsibility for 00:28:07.120 --> 00:28:10.950 circumstances you didn't create. 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.590 And then there's polarizing 00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:16.389 where you view yourself as a total 00:28:16.399 --> 00:28:20.149 failure. If you aren't 100% 00:28:20.159 --> 00:28:27.029 perfect, you have a all orno mentality. 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:29.350 So, let me tell you how these four traps 00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:32.950 work. Okay, here's the cycle. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.789 Step one, there's a triggering event. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.590 There's an external circumstance or you 00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:40.950 have an internal moment of 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:42.870 vulnerability. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.710 That triggering event then has produced 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:49.750 a subconscious or an automatic thought 00:28:49.760 --> 00:28:53.510 and that activates your inner critic and 00:28:53.520 --> 00:28:56.789 your inner critic falls within one of 00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:59.029 those four traps of catastrophizing, 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.350 filtering, personalizing or polarizing. 00:29:03.360 --> 00:29:05.510 From the trap, you then develop an 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:08.149 emotional response. And typically that 00:29:08.159 --> 00:29:10.950 response is connected to fear, shame, 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:15.029 inadequacy, or watch this, paralysis. 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:21.990 So you freeze 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.950 from your emotions. You then have your 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.110 behaviors 00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:30.549 where either you shrink back. 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:32.789 You you play small, you try to fit in, 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.750 try not to make any waves, 00:29:35.760 --> 00:29:37.750 or you don't even attempt what you're 00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:42.470 supposed to be doing at all. 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.990 And then five, there's a reinforcement 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.990 of this cycle 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.950 over and over and over again. 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:55.029 It's that inner critic that says, "See, 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.110 that's why you'll never dot dot dot. 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:03.269 See, that's why dot dot dot. See, that's 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.310 the danger that comes from this is that 00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:09.510 this cycle is the first stronghold you 00:30:09.520 --> 00:30:12.789 need to cast down with the word of God. 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:15.190 It's a stronghold. It's not something 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.870 that you're just going to break just 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:19.909 because you have to be intentional with 00:30:19.919 --> 00:30:22.630 it." and the depth of how long you've 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:24.789 been doing negative selft talk. Some 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:28.149 things will not be broken but by fasting

00:30:28.159 --> 00:30:31.350 and praying. 00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:33.590 This is the giant that you first have to 00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:35.830 deal with before you walk into your 00:30:35.840 --> 00:30:43.110 promised land. 00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:47.029 But I'm so glad in this same context, 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:50.310 we saw how someone dealt in a healthy 00:30:50.320 --> 00:30:54.070 way with the facts, and that's Caleb. 00:30:54.080 --> 00:30:57.350 So, I want to close today doing a small 00:30:57.360 --> 00:31:01.110 case study on Caleb. Y'all see I'm back 00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:02.870 in my semester mode with these case 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:09.590 studies. Go to Numbers 13 and 30. 00:31:09.600 --> 00:31:14.950 actually. 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:26.149 I want to back up a little bit. 00:31:26.159 --> 00:31:29.909 I want to go back to verse 27 00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:34.230 because now I want to show you that 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.110 when you have the promises of God, you 00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:40.549 then need to have an informed response. 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.310 So, they're going to then cast the 00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:45.029 facts, but then we're going to see in 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:49.750 real time how Caleb deals with the facts 00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:51.990 of the situation. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:53.590 Verse 00:31:53.600 --> 00:31:58.389 27. 00:31:58.399 --> 00:32:00.870 Verse 26. 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.350 Let's do verse 26. I want everybody to 00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:05.029 read this together or not out loud, but 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:06.789 I want you all to follow along with me. 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.110 Verse 26 says, "And they came to Moses 00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:12.470 and Aaron and to all the congregation of 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.149 the Israelites in the wilderness of 00:32:14.159 --> 00:32:16.389 Piranakadesh." 00:32:16.399 --> 00:32:19.110 Watch this. They brought back word to 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:22.070 them and to all the congregation. 00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:25.110 And what did they do? You all showed 00:32:25.120 --> 00:32:28.789 them the fruit of the land, the milk and 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.350 honey we were talking about. And they 00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:34.950 reported to him and said, "We came to 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.549 the land which you sent us. It flows 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.990 with milk and honey, and this is the 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:43.990 fruit." 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.070 Verse 28. Now, we're going to get into 00:32:46.080 --> 00:32:48.789 the facts. Yet, the people who live in 00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:50.950 the land are strong, and the towns are 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.710 fortified and very large. And besides, 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.789 we saw the descendants of Anoch there. 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:57.430 The Amalocites live there in the in the 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.950 land of Ngev. The Hittites, the 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:00.789 Jebusites, the Amorites live in the hill 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.389 country, and the Canaanites live by the 00:33:02.399 --> 00:33:06.549 sea along the Jordan. Here we go, y'all. 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:13.509 After all of the facts, verse 30. But 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.509 but 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.430 you can get all the reports you want and 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:18.870 some of y'all need to stay off of AI 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:20.230 trying to diagnose yourself. It's just 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:21.830 going to confirm whatever foolishness 00:33:21.840 --> 00:33:25.350 you put in. You're going to leave out 00:33:25.360 --> 00:33:27.029 buying all kind of creams and stuff you 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.230 ain't supposed to have no business 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:31.909 putting inside of your body [laughter] 00:33:31.919 --> 00:33:34.710 after all the information. Man, I'm just 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:35.990 thinking about it right now. AI think 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.310 you about to hang up this AI and call 00:33:38.320 --> 00:33:40.688 911. you're about to die. Like, 00:33:40.698 --> 00:33:41.830 [laughter] 00:33:41.840 --> 00:33:47.110 be careful. Um, get all the facts. 00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:50.310 But, 00:33:50.320 --> 00:33:53.509 not even before Caleb, just one word. 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.029 But, 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.470 I hear what you're saying. I hear what 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.470 I'm up against. But 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.230 in the English language, but means 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.829 cancel out everything before. And I want 00:34:09.839 --> 00:34:12.149 you to focus on what's about to come. 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.430 Caleb quieted the people before Moses. 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.510 Sometimes when you get all the facts, 00:34:17.520 --> 00:34:19.589 now you're all up and franticy and and 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.470 and all. Quiet yourself. Be still and 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.669 know that I am God. 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:27.750 And so even though they had the facts, 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.790 Caleb then said, "Let us go up when we 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:33.270 get a little better, 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.790 when the time is right, 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.829 when our resources are a little more 00:34:39.839 --> 00:34:42.310 restocked, 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.270 when we feel like it's a more opportune 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.669 time." 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:50.629 That's right. No, 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:54.790 he said, "Let us go up at 00:34:54.800 --> 00:35:00.870 Delayed obedience is still disobedience. 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:03.990 And not only am I going to go up at once 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.790 and obey, but then I'm going to occupy 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.950 it. 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:12.550 For we are well aable. Not in of 00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:14.630 ourselves because we didn't call 00:35:14.640 --> 00:35:17.270 ourselves to this promised land. The God 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.069

who sent us made us wellable 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.470 to overcome it. 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:26.069 verse 31 or let's let's not do 31 yet. 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:31.990 Let me let me look at Caleb now. 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.190 Why was Caleb's report unlike the 00:35:35.200 --> 00:35:39.109 others? Go over to Numbers 14. So, 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:41.430 another chapter open. 00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:44.870 And these are going to be the two core 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:46.550 competencies 00:35:46.560 --> 00:35:48.630 that I want you to take from this 00:35:48.640 --> 00:35:50.710 message today. So, when we're 00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:54.069 eliminating small talk, when we're not 00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:56.790 playing small, I want you to take these 00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:59.910 two core competencies with you when you 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:02.630 find yourself shrinking back, not doing 00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:04.870 what you know to do, or beginning to go 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.270 into this spiral of negativity. We'll 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:09.030 learn it directly from Caleb. Numbers 14 00:36:09.040 --> 00:36:12.870 and 24 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:16.390 says, "But my servant Caleb, 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:19.670 because he has a 00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:23.990 different spirit and has followed me 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.750 wholeheartedly, 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:28.790 two things. He had a different spirit 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:33.589 and he followed the Lord wholeheartedly. 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:36.230 I will bring into the land into which he 00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:40.390 went and his descendants shall possess 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:44.950 it. So the two core competencies 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.270 different spirit 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:50.710 following the Lord wholeheartedly 00:36:50.720 --> 00:36:51.829 those are the two things that you're 00:36:51.839 --> 00:36:54.069 going to need to work on for the rest of 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:56.069 your life. 00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:59.109 Different spirit means a person's core 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.190 disposition, 00:37:01.200 --> 00:37:03.750 a person's mindset, 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:08.550 and someone's driving motivation, 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:11.670 their frame of mind is totally in 00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:16.550 alignment with God's will and his way. 00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:19.270 So all of my thoughts 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:23.030 are submitted to the plans and purposes 00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:26.710 of God, not what I want or how I think I 00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:31.750 should go about something. 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.950 Faith doesn't get real 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.910 until you take your desired outcome and 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.670 say, "Even if I don't get the desired 00:37:39.680 --> 00:37:41.829 outcome, I'm still going to obey you 00:37:41.839 --> 00:37:45.829 nonetheless. 00:37:45.839 --> 00:37:48.790 That's having a different spirit 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.430 that I don't care about what I want. My 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.190 mindset is God and everything. I want 00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:56.310 what you want. 00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.950 And your wilderness 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.589 is what knocks all of that selfish 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.950 ambition out of you. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.870 I can tell you there were things in my 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.750 life that I thought I wanted prior to 00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:12.710 going through my in between season 00:38:12.720 --> 00:38:14.550 that when I went through my in between 00:38:14.560 --> 00:38:18.550 season and was stripped down to nothing, 00:38:18.560 --> 00:38:21.270 I realized the things I was praying 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.190 before I submitted them to the father I 00:38:23.200 --> 00:38:24.870 was praying a miss because they weren't 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.150 a part of his will. 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:32.870 Glory to God. 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:37.190 Amen. 00:38:37.200 --> 00:38:38.950 I'm tempted to kind of sit and talk 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:42.390 about that uh 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.190 because 00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:50.550 a lot of what we are praying for has a 00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:53.190 gross attachment to materialism and not 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:59.021 the kingdom of God. 00:38:59.031 --> 00:39:01.670 >> [crying] 00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:04.390 >> So then we get disappointed 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:08.630 when God doesn't deliver our materials 00:39:08.640 --> 00:39:10.630 when the whole time he was delivering 00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:24.150 fresh mana in your wilderness. 00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:26.550 That's got to be another message because 00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:29.670 we have to properly 00:39:29.680 --> 00:39:32.390 bring back into 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.230 center 00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:39.030 the understanding of biblical prosperity 00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:41.109 and the gross negligence of the 00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:43.430 prosperity movement. 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.190 We've got to bring them back into 00:39:45.200 --> 00:39:50.790 alignment because when you when again 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.270 God did not and this is what messes 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.030 people up. 00:39:55.040 --> 00:39:57.910 Our calling card should not be get saved 00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:59.829 so that God can give you the blessed 00:39:59.839 --> 00:40:02.470 life. 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.270 No, our calling card should be get saved 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:07.750 because there is no life apart from 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:15.002 following Christ. 00:40:15.012 --> 00:40:15.030 [sighs] 00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:16.790 >> I don't I don't have time to get in. I'm 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:21.430 I'm I'm I don't but just know a lot of 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:25.030 the stuff we pray for is not the will of 00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:29.030 God as in this is directly from him. 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:30.790 There are things

because of your free 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.870 will he will permit you to experience 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:35.750 but they also have some risk that he 00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:44.390 didn't call you to work through. 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.550 So, is God against people having wealth 00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:49.510 and nice things? Absolutely not. But the 00:40:49.520 --> 00:40:51.910 question is, if he calls you to, are you 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.750 willing to lay all of those things at 00:40:53.760 --> 00:41:00.630 his feet? 00:41:00.640 --> 00:41:02.390 Amen. 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:03.670 All right, let me end with this one 00:41:03.680 --> 00:41:06.309 thing, y'all. So, we did different 00:41:06.319 --> 00:41:08.069 spirit, but then we have wholly 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:11.270 dependent. So the second core competency 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:15.030 it means fully preoccupied with God's 00:41:15.040 --> 00:41:17.349 presence. 00:41:17.359 --> 00:41:21.349 It carries the imagery of walking in the 00:41:21.359 --> 00:41:25.349 exact visual path or physical footsteps 00:41:25.359 --> 00:41:28.630 of a leader or shepherd. 00:41:28.640 --> 00:41:30.230 Anybody ever been around where there's 00:41:30.240 --> 00:41:32.150 been just a healthy heaping amount of 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:34.069 snow that just fell where you were at 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:39.510 that time? Amen. I'm born in Michigan. 00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:42.870 And I can remember going sledding with 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.990 my father when we were younger. And the 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:47.750 only way that we could get up to the top 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:51.750 of the hill is we had to step where he 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:54.309 stepped. 00:41:54.319 --> 00:41:56.470 Holy dependence says, "God, if you 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.910 didn't go before me, I'm not going 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.349 there. 00:42:01.359 --> 00:42:03.430 If you don't go before me, Lord, I'm not 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:05.910 going there." But what you'll notice is 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.430 when he goes before you, he makes your 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.309 path straight. 00:42:12.319 --> 00:42:16.710 Stand to your feet. 00:42:16.720 --> 00:42:19.270 Hallelujah. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:27.314 core competencies 00:42:27.324 --> 00:42:30.309 [applause] 00:42:30.319 --> 00:42:34.790 where you have a different mindset. 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:36.630 Everything I do, God, I needed to be in 00:42:36.640 --> 00:42:40.550 full alignment with you. 00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:42.390 But then two, wholly dependent. I'm not 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:43.910 moving where you're not where you're not 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.470 at. 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:50.950 I'm not moving where you're not at. 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:54.390 Y'all, I have had decisions that were 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:57.829 worth millions of dollars that had I 00:42:57.839 --> 00:43:03.030 made a premature step because of a need, 00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:05.750 I would not be in the position that I'm 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:09.109 in today. It's that important where God, 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:11.670 if you're not there, I'm not moving. 00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:14.150 Even if it seems like the right thing to 00:43:14.160 --> 00:43:17.910 do, 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:21.599 that's the decision we need to make.