We have to be those people that are so full of courage,
so full of the peace of God, so full of joy,
so full of love that whatever's going on
in the darkness around us doesn't affect us.
There'll be no effect
because we will not allow our hearts to melt.
God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.
Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring,
we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Buss.
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You know, a little while ago, a few weeks ago,
maybe it's been a month or more,
I had a picture in my mind of melting butter.
And I think we did a podcast about something to do with that,
or at least it was mentioned then.
But today we're going to talk about how fear makes the heart melt.
And we should take courage.
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So this vision that I had, a mental picture,
I'm not sure you'd call it a vision,
was just a picture of butter melting.
And, you know, butter just melts under,
it doesn't take a whole lot of,
doesn't take a lot of heat to make it happen.
But there are some things in our lives and some things that are described in the Scripture
about causing the heart to melt.
And I find it interesting that the word for courage
comes from a word meaning heart.
So when we're discouraged,
there's something that's missing in our heart, you know?
Or if we're encouraged, our heart is strengthened, right?
Yeah.
Encourage thyself in the Lord.
Exactly.
David did that many times.
Exactly.
And so there are a number of places in the Word of God
that talk about the melting of the heart.
And it's usually caused by fear.
Moses, when he was on the shore of the Red Sea,
he's prophesying as they have gotten through to the other side
and Pharaoh's armies have been drowned in the sea
and they're all celebrating on the Red Sea shore
and, you know, Miriam gets her tambourine and is dancing and singing songs.
And one of the things that he prophesies,
he declares, who is like you?
Oh, Yehovah, oh Lord among the gods.
Who's like you?
Yehovah among the gods.
You know, all the gods have names.
And that's why we keep using his name
because that's what it says in the original scripture.
It says Yehovah. It doesn't say Lord.
But the translators have followed the protocol
that was given to them by the Jewish people
who understood the Hebrew language.
And they had been given orders because years and years ago
under the Greeks and again under the Romans,
they were forbidden to use the name
and they would be executed if they used the name.
So they decided it would be better to say it's just much too holy to use.
So Moses is saying, who is like you, oh Yehovah, among the gods?
Who is like you?
Majestic in holiness, awesome and glorious deeds, doing wonders.
You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them. Talking about Pharaoh and his army.
You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed.
You have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
The peoples have heard, they tremble.
Pang's have seized upon the inhabitants of Philistia.
Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed.
Trembling seizes the leaders of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
Terror and dread fall upon them because of the greatness of your arm.
They are as still as a stone.
Till your people, oh Yehovah, pass by, till your people pass by whom you have purchased,
you will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain.
The place, oh Yehovah, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, oh Lord,
which your hands have established, Yehovah will reign forever and ever.
Amen.
That's from the English Standard Version.
And you can see how Moses is prophesying.
As soon as these people hear that Yehovah has split the Red Sea
and caused all the Pharaoh's armies to drown,
they probably have already heard from the traders the stories of the ten plagues that have hit Egypt.
Yeah, and when we were studying those plagues,
it wasn't something that happened maybe all in one week.
Yeah.
Because the cattle were destroyed and all of a sudden they have cattle.
Right.
Maybe they got them from the Israelites.
So it's not like there was a plague every day.
There was a measure of time between them and what we don't know.
Yeah.
So can you imagine the traders, going on the trade routes from Egypt?
They would pass through the land of Canaan.
Yeah.
And they would pass the Moabites and the Edomites, the Canaanites,
are all going to hear these stories of the things that the God named Yehovah has done for his people.
Wow.
Yeah.
And they have their gods and their gods have names and so on.
And they're comparing the powers of the gods, right?
And the plagues were all designed to show that the gods of Egypt had nothing on Yehovah.
Yeah.
That's what Rahab said in Jericho.
Right.
And we've heard what happened to the Egyptians.
Yeah.
And so you know that only could have come by the traders.
Sure.
So it caused the hearts of all of these nations to melt.
Melt.
OK.
So in this case, it's the fear of Yehovah that's causing their hearts to melt.
Well, you know, let's think about in these days that we're living in right now,
we need to have that fear of the Lord reestablished.
Oh, my, yes.
Yes.
And it's probably going to take some stuff happening to get the fear of Yehovah back to us.
You know, we don't know what it's going to take.
But if you read the Book of Revelation, there's a whole lot of stuff.
Yeah.
And I don't know that we're quite there yet, but we are certainly in a place where we are close to some stuff happening.
Now, the question is, is your heart going to melt when stuff happens?
Because when you see the things that Yehovah does and you are in right relationship with him,
you have nothing to fear.
Absolutely nothing.
I remember it was Bruce Allen and Bruce has a lot of visitations.
He has a real relationship with the Lord.
And he mentioned something that he says, you know, all these characters that you see,
you know, like ET and all the gremlins and that little green thing with the pointy ears,
you know, all this stuff, maybe cabbage patch.
I don't know.
But he says all this a lot of this stuff is demonic.
Absolutely.
It's people, you know, a lot of these creators, they've been on drugs, cocaine,
and they see these or they get visited by these things.
Right.
And what Bruce had said, he said, the day is going to come when these beings are going to appear
and they're going to be there and people's hearts will melt for fear.
Yeah.
Because this is something that, you know, you're used to seeing it on a page, on a kind of book
or on your TV, but all of a sudden, if you see something like happen in front of you,
and he may not have a smile on his face either.
You know, and this is real tribulation stuff.
Right.
We probably won't be here for that.
Well, I don't know what we're going to be here for, but I'll tell you this experience.
I mean, you know about it, but I'll tell it for our listeners that our daughter wanted us
to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies.
And I wasn't particularly interested in watching those things, you know.
Because we don't watch a lot of movies anyway.
We don't hardly watch any movies, but she wanted us to see it.
And I knew that Tolkien was a Christian.
And so there's probably something good in it.
And I'll, okay.
Okay.
I'll sit down and watch it.
So we're watching the first one and we're sitting there.
If you know the story of the first Lord of the Rings movie, they're in this mountain,
all these characters that are trying to do what they're trying to do.
I won't go into all those details, but they're in this corridor inside of a mountain
and a cave and they see this red light and they hear this kind of sounds.
They hear these horrible sounds and they're looking at each other.
And all of a sudden, one of them says, it's a Balrog run for your life.
And I'm thinking, I do not want to put my eyes on whatever this is.
And I got up to leave the room.
Do you remember that?
You remember that?
And all of a sudden I heard the Holy Spirit say, sit down and watch this.
You're going to see worse things than this before it's all over.
You're going to see worse things than that.
Yes.
So the point here is, are we going to allow our hearts to melt at the things that are
shown to us by dark powers that have an agenda?
We hear all about their agendas, but it doesn't mean they can do all of their agendas.
A lot of things depend on how much we pray and how much we stand on the word of God and
our relationship with our Father, with the Lord Jesus, with the Holy Spirit.
So are we going to let His presence in us maintain our hearts?
Are we going to have strong, courageous hearts, brave hearts?
Or are we going to have melting hearts?
This is something we need to look into.
We need to pay attention because this is equipping.
Because when the Holy Spirit said to me, what's coming is going to be like the book of Acts
on steroids.
And so we think about, oh, wow, the day of Pentecost.
Oh, wow, the miracles.
The lame man getting up and running and leaping and praising God and all of the miracles and
miracles and the shadow of Peter healing people.
And all of these amazing things that go on.
But you have to also remember that there was extreme persecution at the same time.
So if it's the book of Acts on steroids, the Lord didn't specify that it was just the miracles.
Yeah, glory and judgment go together.
Yes, they do.
They surely do.
And we shouldn't be afraid of judgment because judgment from God is really bringing justice.
It's going to bring righteousness.
It's going to bring order.
We've been praying for ever since Jesus taught His disciples to pray, thy kingdom come, thy
will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Well, in heaven, there's perfect order.
In heaven, there's perfect righteousness.
In heaven, there's perfect glory.
There's peace.
There's joy.
There's love.
Everything is in order.
So we're asking God to bring His kingdom here.
The kingdom of God is so close.
And the problem is that time itself is the countdown for the devil until he's done.
He's done.
He's almost done.
And he's so close to being in this place where he is, you know, he's upset because his time
is short.
Yeah.
And in Isaiah, chapter 26, verse 9, and who knew judgment is like Isaiah?
I mean, oh, the...
He prophesied it.
Oh, my.
But in 26, verse 9, with my soul have I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within
me will I seek thee early.
That's the key right there.
That is the key.
You know, that's the key.
For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will earn righteousness.
Exactly.
So the question is whose hearts are going to melt in this time?
Is it the enemies of God?
Yes.
That's what it should be.
It should be that we are so filled with the presence of God that our being is so yielded
to His glory that He can do anything He wants to do through us.
That's the part of the book of Acts that we want to see.
Yeah.
Okay.
That we're so full of light.
We're so full of glory.
We're able to stand because He is operating in us and we have learned to yield to Him.
Yeah.
When we let Him have His way and we just go with Him, we're working in tandem with Him,
and it will cause the hearts of the enemies to melt.
Yes.
You know, the folks that have been trying to do witchcraft and they come up to believers
who are really walking in the things of God and they try to do things to us, we need to
have that amount of the glory of God that they don't have any power against us.
Kind of like in Egypt when the Egyptian magicians couldn't do those same things that God did
when Moses did whatever he was going to do with his rod.
We have to be those people that are so full of courage, so full of the peace of God, so
full of joy, so full of love that whatever's going on in the darkness around us doesn't
affect us.
There'll be no effect because we will not allow our hearts to melt.
I remember in all of these scriptures that I was looking up, one of them that stood out
to me, because there's a couple different words in Hebrew for this idea of melting,
and they both kind of mean to melt or to faint or dissolve or to vanish, to drop off or to
be discouraged or faint.
One of them is this word that is used when Samson was bound in Judges 15.
Let's just look at that.
So Samson had just, he had just caught 300 foxes and tied two of them together and put
a torch in between their tails and lit the torch and sent them out into the Philistines
grain fields.
They were not happy.
And he was busy trying to take out the economics of the Philistines by doing that.
That's how you do it.
You destroy the crop.
But the way he did it.
And so then the men of Judah, when the Philistines came up, this is in Judges 15 verse 9, it
says the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi, or
Lehi.
And the men of Judah said, why have you come up against us?
And they answered, we have come to bind Samson to do to him as he has done to us.
Then 3000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rocky tom, which is where Samson was,
and said to Samson, have you not known that the Philistines are rulers over us?
What is this that you've done to us?
He said, as they did to me, so have I done to them.
Well, they tricked him out of his wife.
You know, he had a Philistine bride and that didn't go well.
Won't take time for that.
And they said unto him, we've come down to bind you that we may deliver you into the
hands of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.
And they said unto him, no, we will bind you fast and give you into their hand.
But surely we will not kill you.
So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
And when he came to Leahy, the Philistines came shouting to meet him.
Here's the verse and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon Samson and the ropes on
his arms became as flax that had caught fire and his bonds melted off his hands.
Okay.
So yeah, they melted.
So here's the picture.
When the anointing comes on you, whatever has been binding you is going to fall off.
So if you have some fear that's melting your heart, what you need is for the anointing
to come down on you.
So how do you get the anointing to come down on you?
What do you do when you're discouraged?
Just worship, praise God.
Exactly.
Praise God.
Wow.
Worship, praise, dance, dance, spend time quietly in his presence.
He will encourage you because he's inside of you.
If you've allowed him to be in you.
As you have studied his word, his word begins to come up inside of you.
And it comes up to give you a word that you can use to go to battle against the darkness
because you are a light in the world listener.
You are a light.
You are the child of the father of lights.
He put you here.
He lit you.
He has a purpose and he wants you to be a light.
And you can't be a light when you're hidden under.
Well, you're still a light, but you don't hide under a bushel basket.
Yeah.
You know, in James chapter four, verse eight says, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh
to you.
Cleanse your hands.
He sinners and purify your hearts.
He double minded.
So don't be double minded.
Yes.
How would you describe double minded?
Well, I would describe double minded as when you're trying to figure out, do I do this?
Do I do that?
Do I do this?
Do I do that?
You're weighing the pros and the cons and you know, part of you wants to do this and
part of you wants to do that.
And you have to let go of the flesh that is fighting with your spirit.
Yeah.
It's like you have one foot in the world and one in the kingdom and it's going to fight
against each other.
It's true.
So if you're double minded in all your ways, your thinking is going to be double minded.
Yes.
And you're not going to be full focused.
Yeah.
During the World War II it was, there was a particular ship and the guy in the radar
fell asleep, you know, and all of a sudden woke up and all of a sudden they're within
range of, you know, an enemy ship or something like that.
You know, because, you know, he fell asleep and missed, you know, they did get out of
it, but if you fall asleep at the wrong thing, it could take you out.
Right.
You can't fall asleep at the wheel.
Yeah.
I did that once.
What happened?
Yeah, I was doing 65 miles an hour and going down 294, you know, Chicago, it's a toll
way.
It was a big mile long bridge.
Oh my.
I'm in the middle lane.
I remember it was raining.
I had a big car.
It was a 72 Chevy.
That's back when they made them big.
And I drifted off and I went into the rear wheels.
It was a double trailer.
You know, the 18 wheelers, I have another trailer on the back of it.
I went into the back wheels, you know, the door and it bounced the car back.
So I was able to maintain control.
And I'll tell you what, I woke up real quick.
So what do I do anymore if I get real tired when I'm driving?
I kind of think about that.
I do something about it.
You know, don't wait until you fall asleep at the wheel, you know, if you're tired, do
something.
Right.
Get out, run around the car or let somebody else drive.
Right.
You know, because when you pray, when you, before you go out on a trip, we were in Scotland,
we were coming back and I'm in the back seat, which with Sharon and our founders, Sister
Gwen and Colonel Jim, Colonel Jim was driving and I was just sleeping in the back and it
was just the Holy Spirit just woke me up.
My eyes popped open and I'm looking at Colonel Jim and he's bobbing.
I mean, he's already, you know, and I look at the speedometer.
His head was bobbing.
And we're doing about 135 kilometers an hour, you know, and I just go, I do a real loud
cough and he wakes up and, you know, after five minutes, he says, do you want to drive?
I didn't want to because the steering wheel is on the other side of the car and we're
on the other side of the road.
That was my first experience, but at least it was an automatic.
Yeah.
But it was the Holy Spirit was faithful to wake me up.
So even if you fall, you know, if maybe that you're falling asleep or something, then the
Holy Spirit alerts somebody else to, you know, to kind of jerk the slack out of you.
Right.
And this idea of melting hearts, I mean, your heart was kind of melting when you saw him
falling asleep at the wheel.
Yeah.
Like, what do we do now?
Okay.
Clear your throat.
You know, if you want to have a melting heart, you know, come down in an airplane on a real
tough landing, you'll feel, you know, a praying in tongues.
Yeah.
You know, there's something that you read.
I don't know if you read it on the podcast, but you read it in the message that you gave
a few weeks ago.
That was Reese Howells.
When he was talking about praying through regarding the air raids that were happening,
and they were happening in Wales as well.
It wasn't just in England.
It was the whole UK.
And what he was saying, I can't quote it exactly, but it was something about you have to know
that you have the protection of the Lord.
You have to be so secure.
It's not that you just say, well, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want, I'll be okay.
The Lord's going to watch over me.
You have to know.
And I think in that prayer too, is like when you go to sleep at night, you know, is when
the air raids or something, you know, are you going to be able to withstand it?
Yes.
I'll give you enough God in you to withstand this.
And that's really the point that we're trying to make here is that we have such a relationship
with our Father and that we are listening for His voice.
And He is giving us the word of the Lord of what to do next or what not to do next, that
we're hearing Him giving us instructions.
And if we don't hear anything, we don't do anything.
Sometimes we get presumptuous and it's time for us to stop presuming.
And I'm not saying anything against repeating scriptures because we need to repeat the scriptures.
We war with the word of God.
We use the word of God as a sword in our battles.
But the idea is that we become so confident in the word of God that we know it so well
and we know that this is the word of the Lord.
Now we were in preparation for this podcast.
We were talking about a moment when your heart melted.
Oh, we were in, we were in Tibet and we were leaving Tibet.
We were in three old land cruisers when we were on our going through the mountains of
Tibet.
And so now we're in Nepal and just crossed the border and we picked up a, it was like
a 25 seat Mercedes bus.
It was just so really nice.
You know, I thought, wow, this is really good.
It was comfort compared to the land cruisers.
And we didn't get, get real far, maybe 45 minutes.
And all of a sudden we're stopped.
There's this line of traffic ahead.
So I wonder stopped completely stopped.
We went down, you know, walked about a little ways there and crossed over a little hill
and looked down and down in the bottom of the road is like a hill in this down little
valley.
Here is a truck blocking the road.
I mean, why didn't transport truck, a big truck and go, cause this is a narrow two lane.
He's right smack in the middle of the road and he's broke down and I get out and I looked
underneath and they have the gears, you know, the, the, the rear axle pulled apart and my
mechanical buying my heart melted because my mechanical knowledge told me, you know,
this isn't something that you fix in an hour or two.
This is a major, major breakdown on a vehicle and they can't even move it.
You know, and our heart just kind of melted.
I thought, man, what do we do?
How do we even go back?
Do we go back, cross the border back in a Tibet where the last hotel was?
And you know, we're responsible for the team of 12 that we have.
We're the tour leaders on this, right?
You know, and then Sharon just pipes up with this word.
We are going to be in Kathmandu.
That's the capital of Nepal on the 4th of July.
And it was the 4th of July and I didn't have faith for that.
Okay.
But we had a word of the Lord because our accountant, Sandy Baldwin told us before we
left, she had a dream.
Yeah.
She says, I had a dream and in my dream, I don't remember if she saw it or she heard
it or whatever, but the message of the dream was that our team was going to be in Kathmandu
on the 4th of July.
Well, we actually planned our journey based on that word.
We set up the whole itinerary so that we would be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July.
So to me, that was a proceeding word of the Lord.
So I was determined and in full expectation that no matter what this looks like, we're
going to be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July.
So you know, the story goes that we went beyond there and somehow I got the idea that there's
buses that are trying to get to the border that can't get to the border because of this
truck, but they could turn around and go back to Kathmandu.
Yeah.
And this gentleman in a car, he was English, so he spoke English and Nepali and he saw
a predicament and his car was narrow enough.
They dug part of the bank of the road out so the small cars could get by and he went
up and negotiated with a bus that was up there and he came back and he says, yeah, they will
take you to Kathmandu.
So we just hired a bunch of guys.
They came and just got all of our luggage for trouble bus, carried it on their head
past the broken vehicle.
Then we got onto this, I've always wanted to get one of these big buses they have in
India.
It's manufactured by Tata, T-A-T-A and they have these abrasive air horns that are far
worse than any train you've ever heard and it just rattles your eardrums.
And I've always wanted to ride one of those things and God gave us the desire of our hearts
and we got to ride one of those and we pulled into Kathmandu at 9.15 in the evening.
On the 4th of July.
So having a word of the Lord gives you courage and it causes that melting heart to stop melting
because we're going to see the word of the Lord come to pass.
Now sometimes the word of the Lord comes to us in scripture.
If you have immersed yourself in scripture then a phrase from the scripture will come
into your spirit and give you guidance.
It happens to me all the time.
It's not like I'm always hearing the voice of the Lord giving me a prophetic word.
It doesn't happen often.
Sometimes it does.
But many, many, many, many times I get a phrase from the scripture that comes into my mind,
comes into my spirit and I go look up that scripture and it gives me the next step.
That's often how we get the leading for what to do in a podcast.
In a podcast, yes.
Yeah.
I just get a word, a phrase and as I go and look it up and there's the word of the Lord.
So we can be guided by the word of the Lord that's in our spirit.
The Holy Spirit that's inside of our spirit will bring up those words and we'll find that
there is something that is giving us courage to go forward even when the enemy is trying
to do something to cause us to fear.
Yes.
Oh, that's right.
So we don't let our hearts melt.
We make the enemy's heart melt because of the glory of the Lord that he's working in
our lives.
All of these things that the devil tries to put on us, when we recognize who it is, that's
when we start to go to battle and we win because the word of the Lord always works.
The word works.
Yes, that's right.
The word works.
So we stand with Samson in those moments and let the spirit of the Lord come upon us and
all those things that are trying to bind us up and keep us from moving forward.
Those things are going to be melted.
So there's another scripture that talks about being melted with fervent heat.
That phrase came to me when I was preparing all these notes and that's in 2nd Peter chapter
3 verses 10 to 12 it says, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night
in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat.
The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved.
What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation or all holy lifestyle
and godliness looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God where in the
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Well, it sounds like the book of Revelation and tribulation.
Exactly.
You know, I spoke with Dean Braxton about this, about, you know, what is this going
to be like?
Because, you know, he went to heaven, spent an hour and 45 minutes there.
He saw lots of things.
So earth time and our 45 minutes.
Yeah, our earth time and you get outside of time and it's like a long time.
That's without limit.
A day of the Lord is like a thousand years.
Right.
So it was like he spent years there.
So anyway, I was asking him, what is this going to be about?
Because I was a little scared of it.
You know, where are we going to be?
And what he explained was that everything that's out of order is going to be burned
up so that that which is kind of like the shaking that's talked about in Hebrews, that
everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that that which cannot be shaken will remain.
The things of the kingdom of God will remain.
I think didn't Dean say the Lord just loves his earth so much to destroy it like that?
Was that Dean that said that?
It wasn't Dean that said that.
That was Howard Storm when he was with Jesus after he died and he came back into his body.
He asked Jesus, will the earth be destroyed by nuclear armaments?
And Jesus said, no, I love my earth too much to let that happen.
Wow.
So that gives you a great yeah.
I think that's a word of the Lord that we can hang on to.
We do not have to fear these things.
And if you think about the atomic bombs that went off in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I mean,
those were horrific.
The people that were at ground zero were completely vaporized and all that was left of them was
their shadow.
But there were the group of, I think they were maybe just priests.
It was a monastery or a group home of priests, Catholic priests that were right at ground
zero or near ground zero and everybody else all around them died and they were unharmed
because they were living in the presence of God.
Wow.
So radiation just bounced off them.
See they were radiating the glory.
They were living in prayer.
That prayer was their thing.
And so it's the presence of the Lord that will protect you from those kinds of fervent
heats that will melt the enemy, that will melt things that don't belong.
Please I'm not saying anything about the innocent Japanese people that were wiped out.
I'm not saying that they were the enemy, but the Japanese military was, the Japanese government
was that started the war.
They were the enemy and why they chose to knock out a city, I don't understand.
But anyway, the point is that when you are in the presence of God, when you are walking
where you're supposed to be, it doesn't matter how bad the circumstances get, the presence
of God is with you and everything else will melt, but you don't have to melt.
That's good.
Okay.
That is the point.
And we just need to be so in our trust in God.
And you know, sometimes we get faced with things that are scary.
Sometimes we get faced with, like look at Joshua, at the beginning of the book of Joshua,
at the end of Deuteronomy, God tells Moses to bring up Joshua, set him in front of everybody
and say, okay, this man is going to take you in.
The Lord says, I can't go because I lost my temper and hit the rock when he told me to
speak to the rock and it's all your fault because you made me mad.
He kind of did a little blame shifting there, but he was angry with the hardness of their
hearts.
And he says, Joshua, you be strong and courageous and lead this people in.
So after Moses dies and the people are there waiting, they spend 30 days in mourning in
honor to Moses.
And then God says to Joshua, Moses, my servant is dead.
And I'm reading from Joshua chapter one, verses one through three says, after the death of
Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,
Moses, my servant is dead.
Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land that
I'm giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you just as I
promised to Moses.
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.
Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
I will not leave you nor forsake you.
Be strong and courageous for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore
to their fathers to give them only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according
to all the law that Moses, my servant commanded you.
Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left that you may have good success wherever
you go.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day
and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.
For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous?
Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever
you go.
Yes.
Be strong.
So how, so in this scripture we are given some keys to how to be strong and courageous.
First of all, you just take it into your heart to do what God said to do.
But it also said, take hold of this book that I've given you.
These instructions that I gave to Moses, that word law there means instructions.
These instructions that I gave to you, just do them and nobody's going to be able to stand
against you.
Just take courage, be strong, do it and meditate on this word day and night.
It's the meditating on his word that gives us the strength and it gives us the heart.
It gives us the courage to do what the Lord is telling us to do because every single one
of us has an assignment on this planet.
It may be being a plumber.
It may be being an airline pilot.
It may be being a lawyer.
It may be being a pastor or a missionary, but it may be being a teacher.
It could be any job on the planet, but you are to be so filled with the Holy Spirit and
so filled with the word of God that the glory that's on the inside of you will cause you
to be able to stand and be strong and be courageous in this time.
Psalm 57 says, my heart is fixed, O God.
My heart is fixed.
I will sing and give praise.
When we have a courageous heart, a strong fixed heart, a set heart, a steadfast heart,
giving praise and singing is going to give us strength.
The fixing of our heart and the singing of praise goes together.
This word, my heart is fixed.
It could be steadfast, confident, set.
Psalm 112 verse seven says, he shall not be afraid of evil tidings.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
It's our trust that comes from knowing him.
When we have seen him do stuff and we've seen him do plenty of stuff, we've lived long enough
to see him be faithful over and over and over.
Maybe you haven't lived long enough or maybe you haven't walked with the Lord long enough
to know that he's faithful.
We're telling you, we've seen it.
He is faithful and you can anchor your soul in him.
You can put your trust in him.
This word fixed means to be stable, to be established, to be set up.
And it comes from a root word that means to be erect or stand perpendicular.
In other words, you're standing up.
It gives you the strength to stand.
When you have a fixed heart, you are ready to stand.
And so you can be as strong as a lion.
The anointing that melts your bonds like it melted Samson's gives you the strength to
stand in front of the enemy.
And it's like standing up to a bully.
We heard a story the other day from apostle Bobby Hogan where he was fed up and he told
how when he was in sixth grade, these boys would bully him and chase him home every day
running down the railroad tracks and chase him and chase him.
He was running with fear.
They were older than him.
They were bigger than him and he would just run.
And so one day he got fed up and he borrowed his daddy's knife and he was ready for them
this day and they start chasing him.
He starts running and all of a sudden he says, if I don't do it now, I'll never do it.
And he stopped and he turned around and he pulled out that knife and he threatened them
and they looked at each other and turned and went the other way.
Yeah.
It never bothered him again.
Never bothered him again.
You got to get fed up.
You got to get that courage.
You've got to get that knowing that God has put you on this planet for a purpose and you
will stand in his anointing.
That Spirit of the Lord will come upon you and cause those bondages to break off of you
and you will be filled with the light of God and cause darkness to flee.
Yes.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.
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