Celebrate the Preparation
Pastor David T. Elms Preached on 11/1/2026
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms encourages believers to celebrate the season of preparation, using the Israelites' crossing of the Jordan River to show that God often uses impossible obstacles to display His glory and power. When we sanctify ourselves and focus on His presence, God transforms our 'impossible' into a path of dry ground.
Key points
- •Preparation is not just a precursor to the goal but a process to be celebrated and embraced as part of God's work.
- •God often positions us at the edge of the 'impossible' (like the flooding Jordan River) to ensure we recognize that the eventual breakthrough is by His power alone.
- •The transition from the wilderness to the promise requires sanctification; we must separate ourselves today so that God can work wonders tomorrow.
- •Following God often involves 'hurry up and wait,' where His timing (Kairos) overrides our human schedules (Chronos) to fulfill His divine purpose.
- •The miracle at the Jordan was a collective experience where leaders (priests) had to step into the raging water first, holding God's presence steady until everyone crossed over.
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Life application
This week, identify one 'impossible' situation in your life and spend time 'staring it down' in prayer, acknowledging that while you cannot cross it alone, you will consecrate yourself and trust God to make a way.
Reflection questions
- What 'roaring river' or impossible obstacle are you currently facing that God might be asking you to pause and observe?
- In what ways have you been impatient with God's timing, and how can you shift from focusing on the destination to celebrating the preparation?
- What 'victuals' or unnecessary baggage do you need to leave behind as you prepare to move quickly into what God has next for you?
- How can you be a 'priest' in your current environment, holding the presence of God steady for others who are struggling to cross over?
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Full transcript
0:00Jesus, thank you for your help. Let me say something that makes sense, something that
0:05is helpful. I've not come to fill time, oh God. I want to say something
0:10that is powerful, that has a handle on it. something that they can
0:16carry away from this place and Help them on their journey
0:22because you're a great God and you're doing great things Annoying
0:28our ears to hear in Jesus precious name. I pray amen
0:33You may be seated in the name of the Lord. You
0:39heard the text read It is a pivotal moment in the
0:45history of the entire Bible because we are reading where we
0:51know about the amazing Passover and where God set Israel
0:57free from bondage in Egypt it's renowned there's holidays that celebrate this but
1:02after they got out of Egypt they went to Canaan land this was
1:08the promised land and when they got there the Lord promised it to
1:14them but they sent in spies to spy out the land to see
1:20what was there And when the spies came back, 10 of them said, we cannot
1:26do it. We are but grasshoppers in the sight of the giants that are on
1:31that land. There were two who said, we are well able to take this land.
1:37But you know the story because of the unbelief. One of the statements that came
1:42out of the mouth of the doubting spies is that our children will be the
1:48prey or the victims of that country. If we go, it will be our children
1:53that has to pay the price. So God told him, he said, "Okay, after all
1:59I've done for you, if you're going to believe that, I'm going to take you
2:05back to the wilderness. And the children that you say will be the
2:11victims of that nation will be the people I use to go
2:16into that nation. So now 40 years have passed. This nation has
2:22had funeral after funeral until all of the doubting Israelites died in
2:27the wilderness. Moses was also one that was not allowed to cross
2:33over. Because he had doubted the word of God in the controlling of the rock.
2:39And that's another whole sermon. But Moses died. And of course, now God says, it's
2:44time for you to go into the land that I promised I would give you.
2:50It still had the giants in it. It still had all the trauma and the
2:55trials. It still had a mountain where the giants lived. The Anakim is what they
3:00were called. There was still a place where Jericho had its walls 33 feet high
3:06and 11 feet deep. They could conduct. Back then, the chariots were not real broad.
3:11The chariots could be essentially a one-man chariot. It was the width of about
3:17five feet. And they could race chariots on the top of Jericho's walls because
3:23of the thickness of that city's walls. Now, it's time for them to go
3:29over. And God told them, through Joshua, take the people down to the River
3:35Jordan and their camp. Now listen, you got to hear the sound
3:41of a roaring river. It's night on the eastern bank of the Jordan
3:46and the camp has come down and set up camp near the water.
3:52The text says they lodged there before they passed over. And so there
3:58are several nights that God has told them to sit there. And of
4:03course, fires are burning low. Children are asleep. And under it all is
4:09the roar of a wild river. River that has swollen beyond its banks
4:15in fact the Bible tells us the Jordan was in its flood and
4:20it tells us that the Jordan had literally overflowed all his banks at
4:26the time of harvest this Propelling snow is melting from the high mountains
4:32in Assyria the feed of tributaries and streams from the high mountains Melting
4:37with the fervency coming down to pass This river full beyond its
4:43banks and the snow, the river has climbed out beyond its channel and
4:49it's like a bulldozer, fast and loud, breaking trees and snapping limbs and
4:55carrying mud that's not normally a part of its story. And I imagine
5:01sleeping next to that roaring river. It just put fear and terror into
5:07the reality of a river gone rogue. Most of what the
5:12things that matter in our life, ladies and gentlemen, require some preparation.
5:18So God is preparing these people by parking them next to a
5:24rogue river gone out of control. We have celebrated all year this theme of
5:30revival and in it we have broken it up into quarters. And each quarter had
5:35three components. The remembrance of consecration, the remembrance of training and preparation, and the remembrance
5:40of harvest. And this last three segments of this fourth quarter of the year, we
5:46are not just remembering consecration, but we celebrate it last month. We are not just
5:51remembering preparation, but this month we're going to celebrate preparation. We're going to laugh and
5:56dance about preparation. We're going to sing because of preparation. We're going to testify because
6:02of preparation. And the last month we're going to celebrate the harvest. but in that
6:07process here we come to this last month and we have had preparation and we
6:12will prepare more and it is that understanding that we are going to see things
6:16that god has never shown before now listen i'm not deaf dumb nor blind to
6:21the fact that much of the time when we see a promise of god we
6:25have not seen it unfold as we imagined it might And hell mounts the pulpit
6:31and preaches its oldest sermon. The oldest sermon hell has ever preached is a sermon
6:35of unbelief. And every time you think you've seen revival, there's a voice somewhere close
6:40by telling you it's not as big as what it was promised. It's not as
6:45good as what you thought. It's not as powerful as what they had declared. And
6:50that same old sermon is mounted in the voice of Satan to tell you that
6:55God can work no wonders. That's the reason I've come here to tell you today
7:01that if you expect God to come just the ways that you think You know,
7:06he's going to come then you will miss God coming round another way Because you
7:11don't have God mapped out and you don't have God pioneered down and you don't
7:17understand that God is Multifaceted his ways are so far above our ways. His thoughts
7:22are far above our thoughts if you thought that You knew which way he was
7:27going to come and you've always been glancing down that road Be careful that you
7:31don't miss him coming some other way round about if you thought he was coming
7:36over He might be coming under if you thought he was coming from beneath. He
7:41might be coming from overhead Don't think you've got God figured out that person that
7:46you thought God could never use might be the one who speaks the word that
7:51sets you into a dimension of deliverance that Family member you thought never had hope
7:56might be the one that with one testimony from you turns it around, turns it
8:01upside down and changes the trajectory of their life. Don't think you've got God figured
8:07out because the Lord told Israel, he said, I will work today. You shall prepare
8:13today. You are to sanctify yourself. But tomorrow I will do wonders among you. And
8:18so as a church, we're continually pressing for wonders and pressing for miracles and signs
8:23and pressing for visions and dreams. But the one thing that the Lord wants you
8:29to understand is that there is a celebration of preparation that you don't just embrace
8:34the destination. You embrace the preparation. You've got to somewhere learn that the process is
8:39the joy. It's not the matter of gonna cross the finish line. You've got to
8:44learn to enjoy the process of getting there. Because what God is doing for us
8:49right now, he said, I am working a work on the potter's wheel. And while
8:54you are on that potter's wheel, I'm going to shape you and make you and
8:59formed you. And the question that always comes to us all is why here and
9:04why now? What's going on with this choice of this time
9:10at this place? Because God following God, if you've lived for him very
9:16long at all, you know, it's a whole life of hurry up and
9:22wait. Pardon me. Oh Lord. One of the great desires, desires of my
9:27growth in God was my wife teaching me out of weight. I wasn't
9:33all that good at it. I'm still trying to grow. It's just one
9:39of those things. Her clock and my clock for some reason are different.
9:46It's so amazing that when I'm in a hurry, she's not and then on Sunday
9:52mornings when she's in a hurry here I think we could swing by Starbucks and
9:57she said would you please drive Following God is a lot of hurry up and
10:03wait I want to pray and then it's wait somebody once saw wrote a song
10:09that said I don't mind waiting I don't mind waiting. Yeah, why does that have
10:14to be said because I do mind waiting I
10:20I don't like to wait. I don't want to wait. When I have to wait,
10:24you know what it tells me? It tells me you are disrespecting my time. If
10:28I'm waiting on you and you told me we were supposed to do it at
10:32a certain time and you think your time is more important than mine because you
10:36told me the wrong time. You got me there 30 minutes early, but in your
10:40head it was 30 minutes later and so you thought I had a bunch of
10:44nothing time to sit around and wait on you. No, I got things I can
10:48feel in that 30 minutes while I'm waiting.
10:55Some of you women just need to hear the way us men think. It's not
11:01just women. That's right, Sister Elms. That's exactly right. It's some of us men. Not
11:07me. But what I'm saying today is that serving God is you've got to understand
11:13his time and your time are not always the same time, but your time and
11:18his time. He will always be on time, even though it doesn't always match your
11:24Kronos. His Kairos will show up and mess up your Kronos. And I'm not trying
11:30to go greek on you i'm just telling you chronos is the tick tock of
11:35your clock but kairos is the season of his visitation that may come at 10
11:400 5 but it may come at 1102 it may come at 104 and it
11:45might come at two o'clock in the morning but it's when god shows up and
11:51you feel that that shield won't come up your back no it's not the preacher
11:56that you love so much It's not the church you're so in love with.
12:02It's not that they chose the right song. It's just you know somewhere down in
12:07your soul that the creator of your eternal purpose, the creator of the destiny of
12:13your roadmap, the God who knows your name and has the numbers up here on
12:18your head numbered. He just showed up and he sat down beside you. And he
12:24breathed in your heart and you know no one can take this moment
12:30from me. It's not a matter of the sound of my clock. God
12:35just showed purpose into my destiny. And I'm in this place and it's
12:41the now of God. It's not the now of my worldview. Hurry up
12:47and wait. See, let me tell you something, folks. I haven't seen revival
12:52like I'm going to see it. I've seen amazing revival. I've seen miracles.
12:58I haven't seen a lot of... miracles where they've got out of the wheelchair
13:04I've had one race from the dead but I wasn't all this drama thing it
13:09was just like it happened it's like whoa and everybody's just they're living now a
13:14lot of miracles are so amazing you don't even know how miraculous it is because
13:20it's not yours You know, this is one thing they say about football players, that
13:25they have to go get hurt. And when the football team is missing them, everybody's
13:29thinking, well, they ought to be back on the field in two weeks. Oh, they
13:33had a little surgery. And I heard one say that, say, all surgeries are little
13:37until it's your surgery. When it's your surgery, all of a sudden, it's not like,
13:41oh, I got a week and a half to be done. It's a whole different
13:46animal. It's my surgery. Well, here's the thing about God. When it's not on our
13:51time, we can get impatient. And the particular, peculiar, permanent good news of God is
13:56he's going to get the last word. And I want to declare you quietly so
14:01you will hear me. That the Lord is going to work wonders in South Florida.
14:06That's gonna blow Miami for Lauderdale Palm Beach's mind He is
14:12going to work wonders that people are gonna gawk and stare
14:18and say look what the Lord has done I'm gonna say
14:23it again. It's gonna be wonderful majestic holy mighty glorious he
14:29loves this place he's gonna walk the coral sand of this place and show
14:35his might and they're gonna say mighty is his name they're gonna stand and
14:41wave with tears streaming down their face and they'll have beyond words they will
14:47not have the words to say it so all they'll do is shout for
14:52joy They won't speak for joy. They'll shout for joy because whenever
14:58they go pull out their lexicon to try to find a
15:04word that fits the moment there won't be one in their
15:09dictionary and so they'll just say there's no word for what
15:15I'm feeling so all they'll do is say glory to his
15:20name. But wait just a minute the river's overflowing the water's
15:26roaring Moses my servant is dead. The man who stood between them
15:32and God is now gone. And now Joshua has to say to the camp, prepare
15:37your victuals for within three days you shall pass over this Jordan. In other words,
15:43victuals means take as little as you have. Get it packed up and not
15:49everything because when it's time to move we're gonna have to move quick and bring
15:54what you need But leave what you don't need so the first thing that he
16:00was saying was pause at the water and that water was a symbol of cleansing
16:05and a symbol of washing but it was also a symbol of the impossible because
16:11they had to park their carcasses at the the edge of a roaring river and
16:16for three days consider the possibilities of them getting over that waiting within view
16:22of the promise but the sights and sounds of the impossible was filling the
16:28atmosphere was Seeing the promise of God in the walls of Jericho, but
16:33between them and Jericho was this unstoppable force of a river in flood
16:39season. God, why now? Why here? No land bridge, no boat ferry to
16:45usher them back and forth. Just a roaring silence. A sight of a
16:50river that was anything but tranquil. It was popping trees and breaking branches and
16:56sometimes God lets you sit at the edge of something long enough so you
17:02can see all the ways it cannot be done. He makes you sit there and
17:08see how it's impossible. How it won't work this way, that way, or another way.
17:13You've exhausted your mind trying to find out how it's going to happen. And he's
17:19saying you sit there and listen to the sounds of impossibility. You sit there and
17:24stare at something too surging for you to get across. And after three days, he
17:30wants you to know that when you get across it, It wasn't because of your
17:35ingenuity. It wasn't because of your spirituality. It wasn't because of your
17:41giftedness. But because of him. Some trust in chariots. And some trust
17:47in horses. But we will remember the Lord our God. David said
17:52you can't. Come to me with sword and shield and spear But I come
17:58to you in the name of the Lord of hosts Be not afraid nor
18:04dismayed by reason of this great multitude For the battle is not yours The
18:10battle is God's When we get across that which is impossible staring us down
18:16We are going to look back at it and say not by might nor
18:21by power But by my spirit said the Lord of
18:27hosts, "Possibility, I'm gonna stare you down. When you tell
18:33me we can't, I'm gonna say I know we can't.
18:38But, but, but, he can." In the history of America,
18:44the geopolitical preparation of this land, the government determined in
18:50the 19th century that one of the places that needed
18:56to be scientifically topographically mapped was the Middle East. And so in
19:021848 the United States Navy commissioned Lieutenant William Lynch to the Holy Land. And there
19:07he was to ride the Jordan from the top where the water headwaters began and
19:13to map it out all the way down to the Dead Sea. And even to
19:19this day when you pull up the records of the research of the mapping of
19:25the Jordan Basin It is the most accurate geophysical, ethnographic, botanical, and
19:30zoological record that we have. It has stood as the baseline of understanding
19:36of that region. Militaries still understand it even though the route of the river
19:42has adjusted. It blended naval professionalism and scientific curiosity. But not only did it
19:48do that, but this was a man who knew God and he knew that
19:53somewhere would be the record of Sodom and Gomorrah. And he found a spot
19:59of unnatural dips where the sulfur in the soil spoke of a thundering
20:05something from the sky that burned cities up. And he found another
20:11spot known as a salt pillar and he mapped them. Those secularists of this
20:17day have dismissed the part where he found the dips in the ground where
20:23Sodom and Gomorrah may have been. And it has dismissed the idea that this
20:29man with skewed vision has mapped a salt pillar where Lot's wife may have
20:34turned back. but they also except all up his other findings as the
20:40baseline for water quality analysis the modern water infrastructure has reduced the
20:46flow according to the measurements of that day 90 to 98% if
20:52you know the Jordan today it is 90 to 98% weaker than
20:57it was in its initial period Syria has a set of built
21:03three dams to stop some of the headwaters from getting to the
21:08Jordan they have Piped an infrastructure of feeding the dry desert roundabout from the Jordan
21:14so that now and I went there at a time where the spring waters were
21:20booming it was tough and it was hard moving and fast flowing the cold of
21:25the Jordan I baptized re-baptized Reconsecrated several people in that sister Noel's one. She's about
21:31the only one that's still working on but uh, no, I'm joking. I The difference
21:37was I learned how to respect John the Baptist that day because while everyone was
21:41coming down into that water and I was baptizing them they also got to go
21:46back out of that thing and I'm sitting there waiting for next to come down
21:51and all this time my body heat is going down down down down I was
21:56about to freeze to death in the River Jordan baptized and I think we Where
22:00you consecrated 20. How many did that day? 20 plus people in the river Jordan
22:06that day. And it was around this time of the year. But you've got to
22:12stop. Stop. You mamas. You grandmothers. Stop. You dads who have got to shepherd herds
22:18across that cannot be left behind. Stop. They're listening to a river that's roaring. That
22:24is 90% stronger than anything we've seen right now. Maybe even 98%. And
22:30of course, this man who went down knew that the boats he had were inaccurate,
22:35so he employed the technology of the Navy. He brought a wooden boat that didn't
22:40last a day. He put together another boat made of copper, and he built another
22:45boat made of galvanized iron, and the wood was lost the first day. He said,
22:50the river humbled me. It was the most fearful rapids. He said it took us
22:55eight days to get down from the headwaters to the Jordan. I mean the Dead
23:00Sea 65 miles as the crow flies they mapped it out because of twists and
23:06turns to over 200 miles and And while I may have given you an awful
23:11lot of details, all I'm trying to tell you is the science proves that the
23:17river was a frightening, roaring force that was a challenge for anybody to think they
23:22might could get across. But this is what God said, go down to the edge
23:27of that which is impossible and for three days stare at it, hear it and
23:32feel the force because this is where I'm going to show you who I am.
23:37The next time you think you're facing something that's impossible, you may need to stare
23:42at it and say, I know I don't have the power. I know I don't
23:48have the ability. I know I don't have the wisdom to take care of you
23:53But I want you to back up and watch God because this is where God
23:59shows you that that which you think is impossible And I'm closed and musicians come
24:05the strange part was when he got down to there. Here's the thing. I the
24:11lord told him said joshua you take the priests and have them go down to
24:16the edge of the water and i want the people to watch and they shall
24:21not watch by a space of about 2 000 cubits there's a gap that's there
24:27it's an air gap it's a gap that's almost so curiously strange why would god
24:32say you can't go but about a half mile before you watch The reason why
24:38was number one, it says that you may know the way by which you should
24:43go. Everybody's got to stay back a half a mile for you have not passed
24:49this way here before. In other words, the reason I want you to stand back
24:55is so that everybody can see. When you have a crowd and everybody's crowded close,
25:01everybody can't see because the crowd blocks. but when you force them to stand a
25:06mile or a half a mile away everybody gets to see it. If you think
25:11life has dealt you blows that you are forced to walk with the weakness no
25:16one else seems to have. If you think that because you were born with little
25:21bank account or you have had setbacks financially that has caused you to have an
25:27economic crippling if you think because of some diseased body that you were given on
25:32this earth that God has forgotten about you. If you're one of those that do
25:37not have the ability, talent, or knowledge to know how to squeeze up to the
25:43front, I want to tell you, God makes everybody stand back just so you can
25:48see. He wants everybody to know there is a way to go, for you have
25:53not passed this way before. And the thing he said you've got to focus on
25:58is you better watch the presence of God. When you see that ark of the
26:04covenant, which was the symbol of God's presence. When you see that ark go, that's
26:09how you're supposed to know to go. And that is going to happen only after
26:14you've watched the impossible by being pausing at the water. And secondly, because you purified
26:20yourselves. You washed your garments. You dedicated your heart. You consecrated your
26:26mind. You purified yourself for the wonder. I'm telling you, your paws
26:32out. the water but you purify for the wonder because today you
26:38sanctify yourself but tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you get
26:44ready right now because tomorrow's already on God's schedule I said wonders
26:49are unstoppable but you got to get sanctified right now That's the
26:55reason I'm gonna praise him even when I don't feel like
27:01it's winning day I'm gonna shout even though I don't feel
27:07like it's blessing time I'm gonna prepare even though I don't
27:13think there's any evidence that God is close by I'm gonna
27:19get ready now because tomorrow I will do wonders among you
27:25You know what sanctify means? Sanctify means to separate yourself
27:33You set apart for the Lord. And that word for wonders,
27:39for tomorrow will do wonders among you. Sanctify yourselves today because
27:45tomorrow I'll do wonders among you. You know that word wonders,
27:51it's things too hard. I was praying at Wynn's conference this
27:57past week. And you know, I don't want to admit to
28:02any of you all that sometimes I have pity parties. I
28:08don't want to admit that. Did I say that out loud?
28:14The only place I've really had a pity party
28:19Maybe Melanie's seen one. I've never shown her a
28:25full pity party. Have you ever seen me in
28:31full pity party mode? No, not really. A few
28:37times. Y'all are all so spiritual, you don't have
28:42these things. But those lament psalms are written for
28:48me because sometimes I feel like I am forgotten.
28:54The only place I used to have real pity
29:00parties was with my daddy. He would let me
29:05talk and not correct me.
29:12He would let me put it all out stuff that may not have even
29:18felt good for him to hear He just let me go and look at
29:23me with loving brown those beautiful brown eyes that raven black hair He'd let
29:29me talk and when it was all over he still believed in me. He
29:35didn't stop me from getting it all out He he almost had a way
29:40of discerning. There's more there. Just let him talk He'd just breathe and let
29:46it go and at wins conference. I told the lord I said lord
29:52The only safe place I really had a pity party was with my
29:58daddy. Can you let me have one just for a minute? We know
30:04how to see impossible. When you have to sit at the edge of
30:10the Jordan in its flood stage with the roaring and the cracking of
30:15limbs and the color of mud and cold because of snow water that's
30:21melted with the fervency of a bulldozer dragging down through that valley. Jordan
30:27cutting a swath. This is what you're going to cross to get away.
30:34Don't see how God well if you follow the presence the Bible
30:40said the Lord told Joshua tell the priests to go down and
30:46when they get down to Jordan don't stop at the edge no
30:51get and if you notice closely the the language said and when
30:57you stand in Jordan to the brim of Jordan that is above
31:03the ankles around the calves. It's surging. It's freezing. It's raging. It's
31:09Branches are under the surface that you can't see that had been ripped
31:15from their banks. It's dangerous It's impossible. The Bible said they didn't see
31:21it But somewhere way up the hill at a city it kept surging
31:27toward the Dead Sea until the water piled up It was the wonder
31:33it was the hard thing because here's the scripture says you pause at
31:38the water to stare at the impossible you purify yourself because wonders on
31:44its way and but then you proceed into the promise and when you come to
31:50the brink of the water of jordan you shall stand still in jordan those priests
31:55went down to the middle of the river and as it stopped as it went
32:00down they went down further and when it went below their calves they went down
32:04further they just kept going down only half deep the ark never got wet their
32:09thighs never got wet they would just adjust as the water went down Until all
32:14of the land was dry and the Bible said all Israel passed in a day.
32:18It was the closest they had ever been to the ark. They were commanded to
32:23be a half a mile away, but not. when they were in the middle of
32:28their miracle because the priest could not keep walking the priest had to stop in
32:34the midst of the river and stand there I wonder when it's gonna break when
32:39is the dam gonna break and thinking it could be broken any moment it could
32:45be dangerous I'm carrying God's presence I can't believe it is it gonna hold and
32:50then they also had some other thoughts some people bought some crazy things I don't
32:56have Bible for this, but I... What's your victuals? I imagine like most people you
33:01wonder and you analyze what just walked past. Those guys can't go anywhere. They're not
33:06talking in tongues the whole time. They're trying to keep their legs from locking. They're
33:11staying in the presence of the Lord, but they got to hold that box all
33:16day in the middle. And people are running by and then there's some kind of
33:21slowly walking and one of the priests wants to kick him. Come on, hurry up.
33:26There's more people coming. I'm standing here. This is what the preachers think. Don't
33:31tell anybody. I can't believe they came to church looking like that. Good
33:37night. What's going on? Look at that dance. I never saw a dance
33:43like that. Hallelujah. We all think fun thoughts. Listen, don't think it's all
33:48sanctified. Did you see her dance in those hills? How in the world
33:54is that possible? That's an impossibility right there.
34:00Mean he's holding the holy box in the presence of the Lord and all the
34:05people go by and when it was over Joshua said I want every tribe leader
34:09reach down and get a stone when you come through Because on the other side
34:14at Gilgal we're gonna pack these stones up in a pile and we're gonna remind
34:19our children the generations to come when they come back by and see that pile
34:24stones they're gonna say what mean these stones and And they're gonna say, oh, see
34:29that flooded Jordan. See that impossible thing right there. This rock was dead in
34:34the middle of all of that in flood season. And God brought us through
34:40on dry ground. God's gonna give a revival so great. That we're
34:46gonna drive by this building and say that's where God started this thing because
34:52revival is gonna be so great we'll not even imagine we were ever in
34:57this place. We won't even imagine this was was ever our home but we're gonna
35:03have to say that's where his wonders were poured out shall we stand all
35:09over this building some of you have been like the priests and you have
35:15walked into people's storms and stood and you've not left some people in the
35:20hospital room You didn't know why you were so compelled to go to the hospital
35:25room But you adopted their case until they got through it all the way You
35:30know what you were doing you were doing the work of a priest They could
35:34not leave with they just because it was uncomfortable They had to stand there until
35:38the last one had crossed over Somebody is carrying the presence of God into the
35:43hospital rooms. Some of you carry the presence of God into your workplace. It looks
35:49impossible. It looks like it's a flood of hell. It looks like everything there is
35:54back biters, whisperers, and gossipers. But God said, go stand in the middle of that
36:00chaos and stand with my presence and just wait because there's somebody that's gonna come
36:05out of that because you were willing to get up in that. Oh, Lord! Help
36:11us know the preparation comes first and then the wonders come afterwards the preparation
36:16comes first and then the wonders come afterward Who am I preaching to today
36:22that God is calling you to step into the next? dimension of preparation and
36:28he's wanting you to say don't only live for the destination why don't
36:34you understand stare at that which is impossible and get up next to
36:39the impossible river And prepare for the wonder because it's on the way
36:45because when I come tomorrow I will do wonders among you It doesn't
36:51matter who you are God wants to use you God wants to use
36:56you God wants to use you. God wants to use you. Will you let Him
37:01use you? Are you gonna let Him use you? Are you gonna be willing to
37:06get out of your comfort zone? Are you gonna be willing to just take some
37:11victuals with you? Everything is not gonna make the trip. Everybody's not gonna make the
37:15trip but somebody who needs a breakthrough has been staring at every report from hell
37:21that said oh you don't know how to pray you'll never be a Pentecostal you'll
37:26not ever be an apostolic you've seen some that are really that and that's not
37:31what you're wired to be I come to tell you in Jesus name every one
37:37of you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy That you should be
37:42called out of darkness into his marvelous light Show forth the praises of him who
37:48had called you out who had called you out You want to prepare? I'm opening
37:54this front for a season of prayer. It is what we do at the cathedral.
38:00We embrace preparation We embrace the preparation some of you need to come and stare
38:06at your impossibility for just a moment and And you need to tell it God's
38:12about to do wonders among you. You need to tell it. So it's hard. It
38:17seems hard. Oh, there's is there anything too hard for the Lord? Oh, no What's
38:22hard? What seems hard? Do you have an addiction that you've been trying to shake?
38:28Nobody knows what you've been carrying, but you But you know it's not helping you
38:33You've been trying to shake free from it I want to tell you in the
38:37name of Jesus Christ Staring what the world tells you is impossible The world tells
38:42you you'll never get over it And I'm telling you in the name of Jesus
38:47Christ You will be delivered from Egypt and you will be delivered from
38:52the wilderness and that impossible river that's between you and your
38:58promised land God's gonna start it and you're gonna walk into
39:04that land on dry ground join in the Holy Ghost join
39:10in the spirit join in the spirit call out to the
39:16mighty King call out to the mighty King
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