You're glad to be in the Lord's house this morning. Let's give the Lord a hand clap of praise as we enter into praise and worship today. The resurrection, how be shaken, amen. Says it's not before me, who can be against me, hallelujah. You can take comfort this morning, brother. You can be strong this morning, sister, knowing that you're not standing alone though a host in camp up in space. This one thing I will be confident God is fighting for me. He is on my side. Worship you, we your people. Come into your house today. We thank you that it is not my mind. And it is not the sails of the Lord. And I don't know what is setting itself against us today. But no weapon formed against us shall prosper. We declare your victory this morning. It is all in your hands and in your cause. You will never leave us and you will never forsake us. You will go with us all the way even to the end. That is my hope this morning. Is that your hope this morning, brother and sister? It doesn't matter what happens to us in this world. We are looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. That is our hope this morning. Thank you, Lord. We bless you today. Let's lift our hands and worship God this morning. We are going to go into worship and just exalt him for he is worthy of all glory and all honor. Hallelujah. Your voice should sing with a sing. The saints in heaven are singing that are in the throne this morning. Lift your highest praise. The voices sing hallelujah. Join with the angels and the saints. You reign. You reign. We sing hallelujah. Let me fill you in on the future. Declaring the holiness of God going to be very uncommon in heaven. In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah said, I saw also the Lord. He was high and lifted up and his glory filled the temple. And he said, I saw seraphim, those heavenly creatures. And they called to each other. And they didn't say he is good. They didn't say God is wonderful. They didn't even say God is glorious. They echoed back and forth. Holy. Holy is holy. And what that means for you and me today, my friend, is there is none like him. He sits and occupies the throne of heaven alone by himself. He is good and he only does good. He is holy. My Lord, I feel the presence of God in this house today. Before we sing another note or move to another song or do anything else right now, I want every hand to be raised to the Lord. God, it's not about me. It's not about you. It's not about anyone on this platform. The God of heaven is in this place today. And so we join with the seraphim and we say, Holy. Holy. You are pure. You are perfect. You never fail. You will not lie. You're not a man that you should lie, God. You have spoken your word and you will do every bit of it. You'll fulfill it to the last period, God. Let faith arise. I don't know who needs that here this morning, but know that they're in the presence of a holy God. You said, I am God and I change not. You don't have to worry, brother or sister, this morning, whether you woke up, God changed his mind about you. Whether he says, I don't think I love that one as much as I love the other one, or I don't think I'm going to keep on dealing with him like I did. He loves you the same today. I don't know what you're going through.  You may have lost a friend or a loved one. You may have lost your job carrying a heavy load. I don't know it, but I know that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh, I saw a total of so-total about dead enemies. Let's sing it again. I was saying that key. I want to sing it one more time. And lifted up the redeemed of the Lord. Say so this morning in his house. And worship him today. He is a great God. And greatly to be praised, hallelujah. He's as to his name. It's wonderful, mighty, everlasting God. Name be glorified in this house. It's the beautiful name.  We bless you. We thank you for your mighty presence that's in this room. Wonderful counselor, mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the bride and the morning star under this morning.  Tell them you've come too far to stop believing now. If you believe that, say amen, somebody. I want us to go to the Lord in prayer because we're going to need your belief. When people put together their faith in agreement, things happen. I know that God is able to minister to every need. I know there's many across this place. They're watching this morning from Pakistan. And somebody needs to come into agreement across the seas. I want you to lift up the needs of those families that are certainly needing your prayers at the loss of their loved ones. Our services for this coming week for Paul Nelson will happen on Tuesday, visitation on Monday night. I want you to pray for the Easterwood family at the loss of their granddaughter, newborn, and also I want you to be praying for the Burke family. Last night, Jack Burke would normally be standing up in that choir this morning singing, but last night he was found in his front yard and went home to be with Jesus. And I want you to be sure to hold up this entire family in your prayers that God would give strength. I know that the Lord is able. He loved this church. He loves singing in the choir. He loved worshiping God with all of his heart. And he did that this past Thursday night. He was here at rehearsal and complaining in his body for some pains he was feeling. And today he's singing in the choir in heaven. I want you to understand. I want you to understand today that for the believer, for the child of God, heaven is not a loss. It is very much a gain. And now if we don't believe that, then everything we're doing right now is for zero. So why all these things happening? I'm going to tell you, I'm going to share something with you in just a few moments from the Word of God. I believe God's going to give us that touch today. But what we need to do right now is just stretch out our faith just like the man with the withered hand. Just let the man who was blind and stretch out our faith on the behalf of every need. Gerald King needs prayer this morning. He's been dealing with some kidney issues. They had to take him back in the hospital for some infection going on. I believe God's able to send the healing power right where he's at right now. Everybody stand if you possibly can. And I want every one of you in this building, you say we're pastor. I don't even know who they are. I'm brand new here, whatever. It makes no difference. Are you hearing what I'm saying?  I wish I had some help in here. I didn't care what your label was. Can you get a prayer from earth into glory? And that's all I want to know. Can anybody in this building believe that God is going to take your prayer and meet it there? Stretch those hands towards heaven and let's do that right now. Pray all over this building, Father in the name of Jesus. We thank you for the mighty power of God that is flowing through this building. We recognize your presence, Lord. We acknowledge you right now. And we ask you to just send your word to wherever people are needing a healing touch in this building. God, people that are needing healing in their body. Well, those that are watching right now, all around the world, let them feel faith coming out of this house to join with theirs for healing in their body, soul, and spirit. I pray, God, you wrap your arms of love around those that are grieving in their spirit today over God, their loved one, not being here. And we know, Lord, that it is grievous and it is painful and it's a hurtful place. And Lord, it seems like there's no answers, but you are that answer today. And if we don't have you, we don't have anything. But if we've got you, we've got everything. Eternal life, strength, and help that comes from above. And we give you praise for that today. Move administered in this place as only you know how. And we believe you right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Everybody believes God today. I want you to shed a great big amen. I want you to find about 12 people and shake hands with somebody. Let them know how glad you are to see them in the house of the Lord today. Come on. Well, I greet all of you that are watching online. What a blessing it is to have you joining us. Welcome, Pakistan. We're glad to have you joining us here. Washington state, Texas, and all around the world. It's live at Pace Assembly and we're glad you're here. I pray that the Word of the Lord and the worship that goes up would just captivate your life. In a moment, you're going to get the privilege of being able to give into the kingdom of God. And I just want you to stretch your faith out today because there's no distance where you are right now. God is where you are. Wherever a worshiper is, let it happen right there and let God's presence touch your life. In the mighty name of Jesus, praise his name. Praise his name. Praise his name. You love the Lord this morning? Say a good amen.  If it is your first time, slip your hand up right where you are. We want to welcome you. Amen. All there, there, there. Amen. Come on. Give them a great big God bless you. So glad to have you in service with us today. I'm really thankful just getting a picture back from what was taking place in the starting point class, overflow class in there this morning. A brand new people coming into the church excited about that. The brand new Israel class. If you want to be a part of either one of these, you can still do that.  They've already started today, but you can do that next week. So get in those classes and it's a blessing to be able to have you join us here and online. Praise His name. I just went ahead and made a declaration this past Friday around here. I just kind of started it. Started at the daycare because I'm like sick and tired of COVID and people having to deal with it. So I just made Pace Assembly and Pace Christian Academy a COVID free zone Friday. I did that on Friday, today's Sunday. So if you got something, you got a cold. Let's just go ahead and pass it by because we already know, and I've already told you that those that are in places where they could declare it are not going to declare it. So I decided to declare it and let's just go on and worship God. If your nose is running, wipe it and keep on praising. Amen. If you got a cough in your arm or your elbow or in your hair or wherever you got to do it, do what you got to do. But whatever you do, just worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. Amen. And I want you to get ready. That's the reason why I said that is because today we're going back and there's buckets up underneath the seats of the end of each pew. And instead of you taking your offering and dropping it off in the back and then some of you forgetting about the black buckets of offerings and all that kind of stuff that's sitting in the back of the auditorium, we're just going to pass it.  Are you glad to be a giver in the kingdom of God? Let me ask you this. How many of you have been receivers of the blessings of the Lord? Amen. Now those of you who didn't raise your hand, take a nice breath. That one came from God. And then let everything that has breath praise the Lord. We're glad for you to be able to be here. Those of you that are watching online to participate in what is worship as well. Giving is worship. I said giving is worship. When you give your, you're never more like God than when you give. And it's not the amount, but it's where your heart is at. And people have been so wonderfully responding. I've talked to several pastors and you would expect that in this, this time of pandemic and 2020, 2021, that giving and maybe in certain places there are, the pastors that I've spoken to have said, you know what pastor, our giving has increased exponentially during this season. And it would not have been expected. But you know, isn't that just like God?  God just flips the script and goes ahead and blesses you in such a way you say, well, look here what God has done.   It's based upon his word, not a base upon mine. Amen. Father, thank you for the privilege we have to give into the kingdom today. We pray Lord Jesus that you would bless not only the gift, but the giver and let your anointing flow like a mighty stream into their life. If they are at a place, God, where they need a job, give them a job. If they're at a place where they've become complacent and they are not wanting to work, stir up that work ethic in their life so that they have value in themselves and in the kingdom. And we give you praise, God, for every good and every perfect gift in Jesus' mighty name. And everybody believes it, shout a great big amen. Amen. God bless you ushers as you receive this morning. Just to mention to you, and there's some information on the wall behind me of different things that are happening. Today is Mission Sunday. I should have mentioned that. Every first Sunday of the month is Mission Sunday when we are able to reach out further and bless the missionaries that we're supporting from this church. There are many missions that are taking place all around the world that are being supported by Pace Assembly, not to mention even in the United States where we are sending funds to places that are needing help during this time. And so we thank you for your faithfulness there and may God bless you for that. Don't want you to miss. Listen, if you have been missing Wednesday nights, the forecast, a study in Bible prophecy and what's taking place, I'm going to pick up part two of the lesson from this past week. It's happening right before your very eyes. The Bible is always right. Where's my crowd here this morning? Y'all froze? Amen. I said the Bible is always right. This past Wednesday night, if you weren't here, you missed this, but you need to be here this coming Wednesday night. I'm going to pick up from it because the Bible says in Ezekiel 38, verse number 10, that there's a group of people in the Bible identified as Sheba and Dian and the merchants of Tarshish. Two years ago, there was the Abrahamic Accords that went into place and certain nations signed those Accords with agreements with the nation of Israel. In fact, it is so wonderful to see what's taking place. It could not have been done unless God put His hand right in the middle of it. Up to that point, these characters that are written about in Ezekiel 38 would not have had at least that identifier specifically. But just this past week, Israel, because of the Abrahamic Accords, flew planes into locations and bombed people that were doing terrorist hits into Oman from Yemen. And because of that agreement now, Israel is in the relationship and partnership with this. Well, the Bible says that before what would be the Ezekiel 38, 39 war, the War of Gog and Magog, where Russia comes down thinking an evil thought with all of the Arab states, there would be a protest put up by these nations called Sheba, Dian and the merchants of Tarshish. Well, who are they? Well, what do you know? What do you know? They happened to be named in the Bible the very nations that signed the Abrahamic Accords that have come into an agreement with the nation of Israel and they would not have said these things and done these things prior to this. Now, what it tells me is that we're closer to the coming of the Lord than what you and I ever believed. But we can also see Russia, Sabre rattling and the United States helping that with the Ukraine, sending troops in there and all that's taking place. Ladies and gentlemen, these nation states are all identified in Ezekiel 38-39. This wins the night. I'm going to deal with that specifically. I don't want you to miss it. It is going to happen and what you don't need to be is ignorant concerning what's taking place, like the world. Who several years ago sent the TV crews over here when the Gulf War was taking place, walked in the back door and asked the pastor, is this Armageddon? Well, we knew it wasn't Armageddon because things were not in place. You need to be here to know what's taking place so that you can speak. Because I'm going to tell you, if you want to draw a crowd at the restaurant, just start talking about Bible prophecy, the Book of Revelation, and Jesus coming back again. If you want to keep them away from your table, just start coughing and all that kind of stuff, they'll stay. But I'm going to tell you, God's people need to be talking about the thing that is on the horizon, the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Not enough preachers and churches are talking about the return of Jesus Christ. And if in this world we only have hope, we are of all men most miserable, the Bible says. But you see, the key is for Jack Burke and others that have gone before him, and all those of us who are alive and remain need to know Jesus is coming in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. And I just want to tell everybody in this building and everybody watching around the world, way out in Pakistan, he's coming ready or not.  Amen. So don't miss that this coming Wednesday night. And then I want you to make sure you mark your calendar appropriately for the upcoming night to honor Israel. This is so critical for us in this particular time to honor and to establish that relationship with our Jewish community and let others know that there are Christians. Let the Jewish community and the state of Israel know that there are Christians that are standing with the state and with the nation of Israel. On that night, our special guest, Pastor John Hagee, and based upon our current activity on social media, it promises to be an overflow crowd. We're preparing for that in the chapel for a closed circuit. There are not reserved seats, so it will be first come, first served. So you'll need to be sure to make plans to be here. It's going to be an exciting time in the presence of the Lord to honor the nation of Israel. And here's one thing I do know, ladies and gentlemen, whenever this church, every time this church has ever honored the nation of Israel, you can always know that there will be a struggle that takes place, but there will also be blessings that will fall upon any people. Because this is what he said, I will bless them that bless them. I will curse them that curse them. I'm only being the blessed place with the nation of Israel and with the apple of God's eye. Amen? So don't miss that. And it's going to be a great time. And all the other announcements are there for you to be able to get ahold of. I don't want you to miss them. If you will this morning, I would like for you to turn with me over to the book of Joshua chapter one. Joshua chapter one. Joshua chapter number one. And before I have you stand to read this word, I will tell you that I have been in my own and I didn't really have plans to state this this morning. I did say it to our early morning meeting. But I will tell you that I've had my own time with the Lord this week in what you might call a crisis of faith or whatever you want to call it. And I know that there's some people that would like to say, well, you're not supposed to question God. You're not supposed to ask why. But I found Jesus asking why on the cross. So I'm not afraid to ask why. As long as I'm satisfied with the answer God gives, then I'll be all right. And I feel the presence of God coming into this room in a powerful way. Because there's some people sitting here today who have watched loved ones pass. You've seen what's going on. You feel like on the inside of your own heart that somehow things are so out of control that I don't know what to do or where to go. And most of the time, most of the time, people when they get in a crisis, the first one they want to opt away from and opt out of is God. When 9-11 happened, everybody wanted to know where is God? That's always the question. And you know, he's big enough and faithful enough. In fact, Psalm 103 says, he knows our frame. He knows how prone we are to let our faith dip. Let me make it plain. He knows what it's like when he watches us and our faith has a free fall. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Have you ever had your faith do a free fall? Some of you do. And so I was praying this week and today if the Lord allows, I'm going to bring this message and it will be a series over the next few weeks because I believe that there needs to be an assurance in your spirit that regardless of what you've had to deal with and what you're currently dealing with, there is a promise for me that supersedes every other promise in the Bible. I mean, there's over 3,000 promises that are found in the Word of God, but this one for me and I heard him reminding me in my spirit this week. In fact, I began to sing this little chorus. I wrote, text the writer of this song. Just let him know what it was doing in ministering to my spirit. I needed this and so whenever I need something, I feel like that the congregation needs it. So we're about to read the Word of God but first I want to say this is what the Spirit of the Lord said. I'll never leave forsaken. This is what you need to know. I'm singing it for you. I'm singing it for me now. One verse of Scripture this morning that I want to share with you and preach from. I believe that there's a Word that needs to come today and you need to hear it. If I had a church, I'd like for you to say amen right there. Someone was sharing with me this week that they appreciated the presence of God that pays assembly. I can't speak for every church but I'm thankful for the presence of the Lord that's in this place today. It's the surviving presence of God. It is the thriving presence of God. It is the renewing and refreshing and reviving presence of God. Anybody know what I'm talking about? I need a refuge.  This past week I don't know about you but I need to know I just needed to know that you're with me. Oh, now I don't know about you but if I've got God who says He's with me then I appreciate all this crowd that is here. What a wonderful crowd here today. But all of you can walk out the door but if I have the Lord with me I feel my help coming here today. Joshua chapter number one and verse number five and this is the word of the Lord directly to Joshua there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life as I was with Moses. See, what you don't read is the parentheses there. The parentheses says the man you've been looking to as your leader is not going to be with you. The parentheses says you fought battles but you're about to fight some really rough battles. The parentheses says is that it's going to get so bad that a whole generation is going to die off and that you're going to wonder where I'm at when things go south and you're not winning the battles but I want to let you know directly Joshua at least three times in this passage of scripture as I was with Moses so I will be with thee and if you don't get something in your spirit now and for the days ahead I hope you get this God said not AT&T not the government not the preacher not the assemblies of God God said I will not fail thee I will not forsake thee somebody ought to give him glory right there I will not fail thee and I will not forsake thee now there are people here and people that are watching right now who say well pastor that's not where I'm at I'm up on the mountain and I'm doing good and I can tell from some of your faces you might not think you need this message but I'm just going to ask you if you would just tuck it somewhere inside write a few notes down because sooner or later you're going to come to a place where everything around you is going to fall to the ground and you're going to wonder God are you even there and you need to be reminded I'll never leave forsake you says the Lord and that's his promise to you if you believe that raise your hand right where you are and ask the Lord today to confirm that in your spirit that God you promised you'd never leave me you'd never forsake me I just need to know it for myself I appreciate pastor Rogers and all that but that's Moses I want to know for myself what do you say to me and I will praise you now for every trial that I might face in the future you'll never leave me or forsake me father in heaven this is an awesome word thank you for your assurance your divine assurance that you'll never leave us or forsake us and because of that I believe today people are going to find strength inside of your life in Jesus mighty name and everybody believes it shout a great big amen turn to your neighbor and tell him he won't leave you and he won't forsake you these are days when all we really want is assurance that everything is going to be all right we see everything that's been happening around us and sometimes sometimes I know I'm talking third person here but maybe there might be somebody here watching who feels so out of control that they wonder if everything is going to be all right again there are some things facing some of us and in fact the entirety of the world it makes no difference if you're in Pakistan or in the United States the uncertainties that we wake up with every day cause as many times to just clench our teeth and say alright let's go we know that the most persuasive doubts that we can experience are those of insecurities and failures and and ultimately death and from what I've seen in this season people are facing a lot of destructive thoughts to their faith man to such a degree that people are falling away from their faith because they feel like that somehow everything's out of control and nobody is steering the car thoughts like I'm all alone and no one is going to help me and I'm going to tell you I don't know that in the 15 years that I have pastored this church but I've ever had a feeling like I felt this past week I'm supposed to be the shepherd and you that call yourself in my church my sheep but can I just be real with you here for a minute when I get a phone call last night went to the store to get a little milk for the grand babies we're keeping and on the way back I get this phone call for one more of my sheep and I'm not a career preacher and I'm not an angel sent from heaven to pastor this church because angels cannot be touched with the way you feel that's the reason why God didn't put angels in the pulpit to pastor you he put human beings so that we could feel what you feel to the best of our ability and I'm speaking not just for me I'm speaking for a lot of pastors even that might watch this that I've spoken to that I've heard from and that I've watched taking place in different places where they feel like that they are so alone and I've watched many of you and God bless your faith and strength because I've watched you have to tell me or stood there with you whenever you look through the window and you were told you can't get in one of the crimes against humanity for me right now is to know that you can't stand beside your loved one COVID or no COVID and that helpless empty feeling has brought people to a place well if this doesn't happen then somehow God is not in this and I'm just telling you as I looked at it from a shepherd's point of view my soul like a knife was carved I said okay God okay God some that are feeling that this is happening because maybe God doesn't love me I'm too flawed I'm too damaged, I'm too rejected the economy is going south and I don't care what anybody who tries to spin this stuff you and I both know that all you got to do is fill up your tank buy a piece of meat and you'll find out that it's not what it was just a year ago so the lies I really believe we're at a place in this nation and I know that the truckers in Canada are already there where they're saying the lying is over with we're about to take over call me insurrection or whatever you want to call me stop lying to me when I'm looking into the face of what's going on stop putting your hand up on me and telling me that I can't live I have no future I'm trapped some of you feel that way I'm so powerless that I have no idea what to do pastor honestly if I was honest with you today I would tell you that my fears are such a level that I don't even think I can survive and I will tell you that this past week the John Hopkins study that came out multiple studies and if we're going to follow the science then let's follow the science they said that this past week that the lockdowns and the isolation and all that's taking place has not only not helped but it's actually hurt and these things my dear friend at the core move all the humanity and all the mess and the voices and all that out of the way at the core of this is a spiritual battle that unless you are that unless you are on the edge of understanding that there is a God in heaven that he is in control of all things you like many others will succumb to the fear that many the statistics prove that people have died of fear not covid fear but I came to tell you the perfect love cast us out all fear and I came to tell you in this month of February that I'm going to be preaching on this and I'm going to be like a guy with a hammer and drive this thing so deep that it countersinks into your life because if things and I can't tell you that everything is going to work out just like you and I think it should I've got a plan you've got a plan but all you got to do is find out that there's some other some other plans some other ideas been tossed out that's put the nation or people or your own self in a place of insecurity with social distancing and isolation and making people feel alone these are the spirits of the last day that are trying to isolate people one from another to try to capitalize upon that same old ancient first negative emotion of eating fear but I came to tell you today that whenever I had a young bully in middle school who came up to me and before it was ever before it was ever popular to have a bald head intimidating people he came up to me and said when this bus pulls up out here and you get off the bus I'm going to tear you up I'm going to fight you down to the ground and all the time didn't have no cell phone didn't have nobody else to help me but I can tell you I just stayed on the bus until bully man went on down the road and then I went home and told my elder brothers of which I'm the baby that I got a problem over here and I'm going to need some help I came to tell you today unequivocally you have an elder brother in the one Jesus Christ and it's about time you call on the Lord of a ghost today the devil is a bully but greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world broken promises will affect the heart the Bible says does heart damage Proverbs 13 and 12 says the hope deferred maketh the heart sick when you steal hope from a young person put them behind some kind of mask and tell them you can't come in like a vice principal said this week or we will arrest your child in Virginia you won't have to worry about arresting my child and I coming back to your devil class I'll teach them at home with a curriculum I'll do whatever I need to do but I will not let their hope be deferred and let them fall in the dirt and come behind simply because you want to dictate and let me say those children belong to you not the state that's alright I'll only get a quarter of you but it'll be alright Proverbs 13 and 12 says this in the living Bible like the way it reads hope deferred makes the heart sick but when dreams come when dreams come true the Bible says there at last there is life and joy God takes vows and promises seriously Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 9 says this know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations everything for the believer in Scripture comes in the form there are over three thousand promises made in the Bible and they all apply to the child of God do you know more than two you should investigate and find out about these promises because the devil is stealing, cheating and robbing you from what God said you could have the Bible said in Psalm 37 39 salvation is a promise the Bible said in Galatians 3 13 and 14 that the Holy Spirit is called the Holy Spirit a promise in Luke he tells us very clearly Jesus his own self says go back in Jerusalem and wait for the promise Psalm 103 verses 2 and 3 says healing is a promise it is the children's bread he delivers me from all of my sin and he heals me from all of my problems all of my diseases according to Joshua chapter 1 verse 8 prosperity is a promise here's what the Bible says in Joshua 21 45 and I want you to make sure you make note of this because we've read Joshua chapter 1 and in Joshua 21 verse 45 the conclusion of Joshua's reign and leadership the Bible says not one of all the Lord's good promises to the house of Israel failed fulfilled that's Joshua 21 45 why is that so important because what God told Joshua and Joshua chapter 1 by being with him did not mean that he would not fail did not mean that he wouldn't go through problems what it meant was is at the end of your story Joshua there won't be one word that I promise to you that will fall to the ground I will be faithful to my people I promise is only as good as the ability and willingness of that person to complete what they're committed to that's the reason why when people tell you I'll be there and they don't show up you're not so disappointed because you already know human beings cannot keep their word come on somebody we're living in a time when people can't keep their word but God said I keep my promise to a thousand generations a lawyer is the only one who can have 200 pages and call it a brief and that's keeping your word you got to have six signatures notification and all that kind of information why because people do not keep their word today their word is not their vow but I want you to know God oh God God is not human he's not structured in time he is not held in the confines of human ability or mentality when God says I promise you this will happen don't worry about taking it to the bank take it straight to your heart and say if God said it it shall come to pass I wish I had some help in here he says in Philippians 1 and 6 being confident of this very thing that he which began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ meaning this my dear friends God said he's going to bring it to pass you may be going through the process but don't opt out don't flip out don't fall out don't say God you're not on my side God's still working his work and when he gets through it will happen all the way to the very end so I say Lord keep working on Joey Roger don't you take I'm like David take my Holy Spirit from me I need your presence every hour every day every promise has a problem every promise has a problem and every problem has a process if thou will confess with thy mouth and believe in thy heart thou shalt be saved I promise you to save you but your part is confess with your mouth and believe in your heart come on now the promises are laid out there the problem is many times we don't want to take that step of faith because we're not sure what you can say you're not sure about people sitting beside you I'll be there at four o'clock and they don't show up I'll do this and I'll do that and they're not there you just write that off well that's the way they've been but when God says I'm going to be there thank you Holy Ghost I just want to let you know he's coming back well when's he coming back I don't know exactly the day nor the hour not even the angels in the heaven understand the moment that he's coming back all I know is he said I'm coming back he said I'm coming one time and you're not going to recognize me then I'll be wrapped up in swaddling clothes laying in a manger and you're going to walk right past the end but I promise you God said I will return don't let your heart be troubled pray I will return just like I said keep watching, keep waiting keep faithing, keep believing whatever you do don't turn loose but now it's too close to the time of the promise fulfilled this is God's Word and so he says to Joshua through the servant Moses in the book of Deuteronomy multiple times Moses you tell Joshua that I'm going to be with him and I'm going to take care of him and I'm going to make sure things happen but you Moses are not going in I'm talking about the Moses that stood face to face with God and saw the burning bush collected the 10 commandments and walked back down Mount Sinai I'm talking about Moses who raised his rod and the seas departed I'm talking about the 10 plagues from Egypt that Moses walked in and declared upon Pharaoh let my people go I'm talking about the miracles that Moses was standing in the middle of and declared you want water there it was millions of water gushing out of a rock you want you want meat here comes meat flying through the air grab it you want bread bread falling down like a honeycomb just reach out every day and pull it in but don't be greedy go after it one time every day for six days and on the sixth day get two parts because God's going to take the off on the seventh he's going to say I'm Chick-fil-A I have shut it down you don't read the Bible but you understand Chick-fil-A alright God said to Joshua through the prophet Moses through the through the man of God the type and symbol of Jesus Christ he said God said to tell you he's going to be with you now it's one thing for me to say God is with you apparently the God who is omniscient omniscience all knowing I'm going to have to deliver this in a personal speech to Joshua because what he's going to have to endure and go through he's not going to be able to understand it through the voice of another I need to let him know personally the way it is so God after talking to Moses in the book of Deuteronomy you flip the page and get this picture the very first verse tells us exactly the transition and why God is going to speak to Joshua and why God is going to speak to you personally he says Moses my servant is dead now for me to read that to you right now and quote that to you that may not mean a whole lot to you but please please get this image for just a moment this portrait Moses who stepped in after 400 years and commanded to Pharaoh let my people go can I say that Moses was the only daddy that the children of Israel understood and had the only one who stood up and said you will let my people go that they may worship God in the wilderness and what happens after 10 plagues Moses takes his rod and takes millions of Jews out of the Hebrews out of Egypt's bondage out into the wilderness and they get out to the Red Sea and Moses is standing there and they turn behind and see Pharaoh and they see the Red Sea and they say what have you done for yet Moses by the command of the Lord raise get this picture I'm talking about Moses raises up his rod and suddenly God makes a way where there is no way puts Pharaoh behind a wall of fire until 3 million Jews can make it across on dry ground don't let anybody tell you it was mushy ground or swampy ground God sucked the water up and they went over on dry ground when they got all the way to the other side Marym grabs a tambourine and begins to lead the worship service that the horse and the rider has been drowned into the sea and they saw Moses as the great deliverer that he was it's Moses that takes them to Mount Sinai please and goes up to the mountain to hear from God because we don't want to be able to hear God's voice and for us daddy you go Abba you go up there and God speaks to Moses he comes back down they're playing around an orgy and around a golden calf he throws down the tabulets breaks those tablets goes back and gets another set people die and the Bible says the fear of the Lord fell upon the Hebrews and they marched out from Mount Sinai past this mountain long enough and who is it that's leading them the same one who disciplined them the same one who gave them a whipping I have anybody in here who understands a whipping who don't understand whipping anymore but the Bible said if you love your child you'll discipline your child otherwise you make them a bastard child they run all over the place burn buildings down and then you go bailing them out of the jail and they start small that's when things need to get right that's just a little parental advice for you and they looked at Moses and said you're only Abba you're the one you represent God to us and he led them through the wilderness and what do you know he gets down instead of striking the rock or speaking to the rock he strikes the rock and suddenly Moses who deserved that God said you're not going in you look over it you'll see it but you're not going in now I don't understand that I said I don't understand that but I don't care if I don't understand it or not when God said you're not going in you're not going in and here's the nation of Israel and they're sitting around there waiting what are we going to do what are we going to do and all of a sudden they hear Moses saying I'll see you I get a picture of this I'm trying to help you understand something right here because God's Word transcends generations and times and people that's the reason why you must instruct your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren in the ways of the Lord that are no longer there physically to be seen the Word of the Lord will continue to work inside of their life Moses goes up in the mountain and he doesn't even get a funeral service they stayed there for a few days and the next word comes from Joshua 1 Joshua Moses my servant is dead what are we going to do my loved ones did they were the ones carrying the Bible the ones that was teaching us that was grandpa that was grandma what are we going to do and this is the reason why we're in the dilemma and the struggle that we're in today because generations started passing off the scene but they did not pass what was needed for them to survive in the evil day that we're in right now took me to church maybe just dropped me off I don't know all I'm telling you is this there's trouble and there's blessings and you need to know how to operate in it because Moses my servant is dead please get a picture now of the children of Israel and then I'm hurrying to get out of your way because the only one they've ever seen and known as their helper their deliverer the Word of the Lord that came out of his mouth the tablets of stone the miracles the signs and the wonders were all wrapped up in Moses but now Moses my servant is dead and we don't even get to go to the grave side and have a service what am I going to do well this sounds a little bit like today Moses my servant is dead now verse 2 now therefore Joshua arise arise this has beat me down arise is there a word in the house for you today from God yes arise is it hard yeah but you got to arise arise and do what and go over this Jordan I don't feel like going over Jordan it'll be alright you and all the people into the land that I give you you know there are certain events that takes place in your I'm just preaching a little bit right here there's certain things that happens in your life you don't care if the promise that you've been told about ever comes anyway I'm just going to suck my thumb and sit here and wait and all the while the enemy said now this one got him I've got him at the tipping point now now we're going to find out if all that shouting and screaming and lifting their hands and dancing what all that meant Moses my servant is dead arise get these people and go across that Jordan because your promise is not on this side it's on the other side and Joshua I want you to know just like I told Moses we want another confirmation don't we sure just like I told Moses every place that you put your foot I'm going to give it to you it's already your somebody it's already yours look at your neighbor and tell them it's already yours God's not waiting to do anything God is already there that's how he can say these words to Joshua Joshua don't be afraid be of good courage in the face of everything you've got to face there been your loved ones watch Joshua walking around in that wilderness and every few days he's burying another loved one out of his family and generation Caleb's walking around and they're the only two that believe they can get into the promised land and here's Joshua saying I don't know is this thing going to come to pass you got to understand this thing is not about just one generation or one preacher or one church this thing is transitioning all the way through from generation to generation that's the reason why he said in the book of Deuteronomy my promises will go to a thousand generation because after you're dead and gone my word is so established that it will rise up and walk across its own Jordan how can you get that confidence here's your one liner for the day God said not your mama, not your daddy not the preacher God said I will never leave you nor forsake you now if you can't go on that you won't go on anything but if God before me I'm just giving you what I ate up this week I needed the Lord to tell me it's going to be alright not because everything works out like you thought I just want to let you know Joey Rogers you keep on doing what I told you to do I said I will never leave you and I will never forsake you Moses is dead I almost wanted to kick my own self this week because mama died on the 29th of January 37 years ago and I went past that date this past week and looked at my wife's face after it rolled into February 1 and I said I didn't even remember I said what's wrong with me you know one of the hardest things is for people to take responsibility and sit in the front seat and have to drive the car when Moses my servant is dead that's a hard reality except that I sat across the table from my father after mama had gone and I was feeling this pull to preach and I'm just going to tell all of you in here that's got the urge that you want to pastor and preach you can do anything else do it because when you have to look into the faces of loved ones in that congregation and you watch your sheep go through pain the shepherd should already be feeling that but I said to my daddy it was one of those days that stands out in your mind we sat there at Arby I didn't care what I was eating I said dad can the anointing of God be transferred from one generation to the next you'll see daddy had the call on his life and pastors some of these little churches up here Spring Hill and Indian Ford and Roeville church and a few others he preached around Niceville and so forth but because he had to take care of those kids all four of us he kept his job for 36 years at Gulf Power Company and he was still working and I caught him at lunch that day and I said dad can the next generation because you didn't do full-time ministry even though you gave yourself to it he said son the anointing of God is upon you and you're going to do greater than I ever thought about there's a man in this church right now who worked I'm just going to say Gulf Power because Florida power and lighting got a good name right now so Gulf Power he came to me just a few days ago brother Charlie I'd never heard this story before in my life but it helped me because my daddy said I didn't hear it from someone my daddy said I was born at Fort Walton Beach 1963 and I'm laying in that hospital and my dad this gentleman relayed to it coming to this church he said he said my coworker that I ran into said he said come on down here I want to show you something took him down to the hospital and pointed inside of that glass where all the babies you know they used to line them up in there didn't know whose baby was what but you just hope you got your right one and he told that man you see that boy right there told my me he said that right there is a champion now when you begin to prophesy over your children of what God's destiny it wasn't me there but it's me now I don't say that I am doing so wonderful in that so I'm such a great preacher great champion all I can tell you is I heard my daddy say now daddy's been gone now for several years but the anointing has never diminished it only gets greater if you'll plug into the fact that what God said about a past generation he will fulfill it in the next generation if you believe it so what did he say he said get these people and get up that's the hardest thing right now isn't it I'm going to have three funerals this next week and I got to tell everybody get up I want to get up I know but we can't stay here now can we it's hard I know but we still got a journey it's still a process and I came to tell you this the promise is I've already given you the land wherever you put your foot it belongs to you pastor I'm not talking about physical dirt I need my son and daughter fine put your foot on the head of the devil and claim the land that belongs to you God said I'm going to give you the land that I promised you and then he said number two this is a three point sermon here it is number two he said I promise you that you're going to conquer all of your enemies well wait a minute wait a minute I read the Bible didn't they have a little bit trouble over there at AI where 30,000 of them died yep you know why because somebody in that congregation accepted the whole congregation by holding back their ties and offering come on and say amen for somebody locked up right side of you right now you mean to tell me in an hour when inflation and everything else is going on that you're going to hold hold back hold back a little something something for you just in case God don't come through I promise you this ladies and gentlemen if you'll obey he said you'll eat the good of the land that's it when others are starving to death God said I'll fly it in on a ravens bee come on now well they're telling you that the water is bad and contaminated God said I'll show you where there's a new well of living water come on now I don't know if you understand this is not a trust me on Sunday thing this is a trust me on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and you get up and possess the land God said I'm going to give you all of your enemies somebody shout right there God's already defeated all of your enemies well then why do I need to fight good question cause it's your battle isn't it well you said the battle is not mine the battle is the Lord I understand but how many of you had a faith fight this week Paul gives us the insight into this he said you're not supposed to be getting involved in skirmishes if you're fighting over sin you're fighting over the thing that's already been committed to it's death Jesus has already had victory over sin at the cross why are you going to other places other than the cross to find your victory did you hear what I said well pastor has been so hard my faith I get it but you know where I went to right back to the cross this week I started singing songs about the cross I started listening to messages about the cross you know why at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith that I received my sight why would I go anywhere else when I was open-eyed at the cross Paul Paul said you fight the good fight of faith 30,000 people go down God said Joshua you got sin in the camp I want you to be able to have victory so what you're going to have to do is go through the camp and cleanse this thing he goes through the camp and what takes place the next place they go victory that was the last time God had to teach him that lesson come on talk to me somebody well I don't know it happened again it only takes listen it only takes one time have you ever had God discipline you over disobedience before don't raise your hand everybody in here they're having both hands up I'm going to tell you I'd much rather have the Lord with me than to be able to have the world out there with me because they'll kill me but God will preserve my life and he'll teach me something in the process and they'll say now go out and fight the battle again because I am with you here's the third thing and I'm done he says in Joshua 1 and 5 I promise you I will not fail you I will not fail you I will not fail you I will not fail you I will not fail you I've had some people fail me before anybody know what I'm talking about I've had some circumstances that have failed me before and left me by the side of the road I've had to look in the face of certain things and walk away from it and bury it and say I can't do that anymore but God said I will he said now that's all those other people talking out there but God said I will never fail you let me teach you something real fast and I'm out of your way when God says I will never leave you or forsake you in Hebrews 13 and 5 it's a double negative used to convey the strongest language of never that's possible in the Greek so whenever God is saying I will never leave you that's the way it literally reads I will never never ever leave you and I will never never ever forsake you now let me help you here because God's about to heal in this building right now when you read I will never leave you and forsake you or forsake you to us it's the same thing the word of God and how it is in context to leave means to leave the physical presence of someone to forsake means to emotionally abandon them in other words you can forsake somebody but not leave them if I leave you I'm taking my physical presence and going away from you but the worst thing in the world is for someone to forsake you while they're still there marriages that are suffering today because they haven't left they've just forsaken but God said let me tell you what David said first David said I've sinned a horrible sin before you oh God but whatever you do take not thy Holy Spirit whatever I've got to go through whatever I've got to deal with whatever you do don't leave me now you know why you are sitting in this building experiencing the presence of the Lord like you've been doing this morning and you've been understanding that the third person of the Godhead has been walking around in his power and without anybody touching you there you are basking in the very presence of God when he's in the room he don't have to stay in this room when I leave here because I am the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit he's going to get in my car with me and drive all the way through somebody said pastor I was working on my job and suddenly I felt the presence of God I know that you suddenly felt the presence of God but I came to tell you he was there all the time you may have just come into the reality of his presence in the room but I came to tell you he was standing beside you when the phone call came he was right there with you when you had tears rolling down your face he was there all the time all the time I will not leave you and I will not forsake you I will not emotionally abandon you okay I'll be your God but I'm but I'm not thinking about you you know what a disappointment that would be to know that God has put us out of his mind a pastor are we out of his mind oh you haven't read the book you should read the book the book says that we are always come on before the country singer ever wrote a song about it we are always on his mind come on somebody in fact he said I'm thinking a thought about you pastor what kind of thought is he thinking I'm thinking a thought about you that is better than any thought you ever thought about yourself he said my thoughts about you are higher than your thoughts and my ways are greater than your way I want to let you know that you're always on my mind in fact God said never ever never never never will I forsake you and when God commits himself he said it isn't over until I have finished what I started so I thought about this week I thought about it this week it's 2022 I don't know about you but you know I had another birthday last year and years see young people don't understand this but older folks understand are y'all with me what I'm talking about where's my helping here older folks begin to understand that days merge how many of you know what I'm talking about don't even break the cake out anymore just give me a slice and I hope to be with you this time next year come on somebody and I start to think brother George about how God said see sometimes you can't get perspective until you look backwards this a little bit because that promise is waiting on me but it's already been given to me how can I say this how can I say it without offending somebody alright here we go you know that grandpa has a million dollars and you are the soul heir to that land and that house and all that stuff come on go with me some people want grandpa to die early so I can get the promise here's the problem if you get the promise before you've gone through the process you will waste away what God's promise see you gotta walk through you gotta walk through you gotta walk through AI and realize I've lost something here to teach me that when I do inherit it don't give it away don't lose my faith because when God commits himself to you whether you're committed to him or not he said I will never leave you nor for say I'm gonna mess with you theology and then we're gonna go to communion hear me we think that those rotten sinners out there they're the here we go here's that offended thing they're the unvaxxed but we're the vaxxed we're the saved and they're the lost and it's true but I want to tell you what God's thinking because see when God makes covenant somebody told me the other day premarital counseling they walked in and said hey pastor I just want you to know I got the contract I've already got the contract I said hold it time out it's a marriage license and it's a covenant because if it's a contract one or the other one of you can cancel it at any time no money back guarantee he said oh yeah okay yeah yeah covenant see we don't understand about covenant because covenant says you're in the kingdom and all the promises of yours elder brother but the one that in the while they were yet a sinner I died for is yet to get in the kingdom and time is getting close the other day they moved the doomsday clock closer to midnight because all the warfare going on in the world you know what God said I got it all in the control you know what he says to his church today with all this stuff that's going on this is what he says don't leave me don't backslide on me but you need to know even if you backslide I got a covenant and I will never stop thinking boy I don't know whose daughter is watching right now but God has been on your trail I hope mama and granddaddy to stop praying for you but they're not going to stop doing it and the Holy Ghost is not going to stop working on you because you felt the touch of God and you've experienced the presence of God and you can run but you can't hide because God said I got a covenant your mom and daddy stood here and gave you as a champion to me when you were a child and I held to that promise and covenant I will not leave you and I will not forsake you come on lift your hands right now you may not feel like you need this message today but just hold on to it I'll never leave forsake through every trial, through every conflict I was with Moses you can be seated for a moment we're going to receive communion if you're not saved today I give you the greatest invitation that's ever been given to human beings come and meet Jesus come and meet Him right there online come and meet Him in this auditorium pastor I don't know the Lord but I want to know Him before I walk out of this building if that shoes slip your hand up right where you are I want to pray with you right now thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus now I'm going to just tell you something if you believe that Jesus Christ is coming back so soon then I want you to get busy my church to go out there in the highways and hedges and compel them to come in and I don't care what they look like what they act like, what they smell like come on somebody I want you to begin to persuade people come on to church with me sit beside me come on start reaching out into the places where God's got a covenant and with every soul that comes into the kingdom we're possessing the land come on somebody and a lot of things I promise you and I'm just being very transparent with you the past few weeks with as many people that I have seen that have gone to heaven I know heaven's real I'm excited about that and I'm just telling you the more things are going down here the more it makes me want to say even so come Lord Jesus God forbid that I'm so tied down here that I want the Lord to wait on me while I get another boat ride but I'm just going to tell you from my perspective it's been some tough walk how many of you know what I'm talking about now some of you may not know what I'm talking about because you're not real close to the situation but you let one of your loved ones and it'll make you question everything about your faith and the enemy would want you to feel guilty and sit down on this side of the Jordan and suck your thumb and say this is the way some people are doing I think I'll just stay here and watch online pastor you're not watching online you've made your own little covenant pact with God that this is far as I'm safe in this faith zone right here but I'm going to tell you when Jesus comes rapture takes place he's not going to leave the church here he's taking the church out of here so one way or another if you belong to him there's going to be a change happen how many of you know what I'm talking about pastor you don't need to talk like that I mean you're our pastor you're supposed to be God's man of faith and power believing all the time no if I don't feel what you feel I don't deserve to preach to you but I feel you I feel you oh I've got to offer you today I'll never leave you I won't forsake you you need to know I'm with you over this household my hand that's what he said to me my grace you just need to know now whenever I started thinking about this service I was thanking God we were going to receive communion today so you have the bread in your hand because I'm going to tell you my friends there's nothing that physically could set you in a place to know that he's with you always like the receiving of communion and when he sat with his disciples think about it he was telling them I'm going away but I promise you I'm coming again let not your heart be troubled he said to them Father let it be afraid for in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I would have told you how can we know the way Jesus Jesus said I am the way the truth the life and if you're taking you'll take an eat of me he said you're taking part of me and you you have that bread in your hand it's the bread of presence that's what they call it that's what it's called in the Word of God the bread of presence and when David was running from his enemies he ran into the tent and said can I just have some bread from the table of the Lord and the Bible said when he took the bread he received strength in his body I want you to get ready for an infusion of the strength of the Almighty for whatever trial whatever situation you're going through whatever crisis of faith I want you to know I don't know exactly how it all is going to work out but I heard him tell me he'll never leave me and he'll never forsake me hold that bread up before the throne thank you that you gave your only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life today reveal your presence to your people like they have never experienced before people that are watching this morning online I pray that you would transcend this place and go to where they are in hospital rooms wherever they're watching in their homes wherever they're watching let the transcendent omnipresence of God captivate every heart here today that no matter what I face God said I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you you may receive this bread I'd like for you to stand on this as we conclude this service today to hear the Word of the Lord Joshua how strong and very courageous that thou mayest observe to do according to the law which Moses my servant commanded thee turn not from the right hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper whether so ever thou goest this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth thou shall meditate therein day and night thou shall observe to do according to all that is written therein thou shall make thy way and then thou shall have good success why? because I will never leave you and I will never forsake you Lord Jesus I thank you for this cup that represents your precious blood it flows through my veins right now because there is sinless perfection in you Lord Jesus and you took upon yourself the sins of the whole world and no matter where there may be failures in this room and watching online where there may be trials where there may be questions and crisis of faith you understand it all so I am asking you to let the life of Christ flow through every person that is in this room and watching online Spirit of God revive us renew us infuse us from all unrighteousness this I pray in the name that is above every other name you may receive this cup together the first week of January I was in a meeting at 4 and one of the friends of this ministry who has preached here many times sister Martha Tennyson she had just she is in her 80s I am not going to disclose exactly what she said powerful woman of God she will still jump higher than most Pentecostal churches and preachers will ever try to do in fact she was wearing a watch that monitors her heart it sends an alarm to 9-1-1 and they come so she took the watch off and handed it to somebody and kept on jumping but I am going to give you a scripture that she quoted in this sanctuary many years ago it is found in the book of Deuteronomy because she faced one of the greatest trials that still to this day people contact her for help when a drunk driver hit a bus carrying all of their young people and killed so many of them it is a tragic story and they survived it and kept trusting God they kept trusting God and she quoted this passage of scripture that has never left me she said the Lord says as thy days so shall thy strength be God is not going to kick out on you one day before you make it to glory every day you may receive strength that comes from God as thy days so shall thy strength be I want to pronounce God's blessing upon you today lift your hands here today would you now the Lord bless you and may the Lord keep you and may the Lord make his face shine upon you and may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you his peace from this day forward now and forevermore in the name of Jesus Christ our loving Savior and Lord who promised I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you if you receive it today shout amen somebody I want you to shake hands with somebody he'll never leave you and he'll never forsake you I'll never leave you