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that we are in the right place at the

on the precipice

on the precipice of an absolute Revolution

Revolution [Applause]

[Applause]

it's time out for doing events just to

do events

if they're not Purpose Driven

if they're not revelational

if they're not empowering

if they're not relevant

we don't have time to waste our energy

in things that are not congruent with

our destiny [Applause]

[Applause]

because the Holy Spirit has confirmed to

it's it's going

to be big

every farmer knows when he plants a seed

that he does not expect to reap a seed

from a seed whatever went in the ground

is going to come out bigger

when it comes out than it was when it

went in

if it's in good soil

it's going to flourish

lay your hands on yourself and say I am

good soil

yeah anybody who invested me is going to

be blessed

anybody who loves me is going to be

blessed anybody who befriends me is

going to be blessed I am good sore if

you plan an idea in me I'll create a

product around it come on if you're

playing a seed in me I'll produce a

harvest behind it anybody who invests in

me lay your hands on yourself I am good soil

soil

that's why God made Adam from the dust

of the Earth

because he wanted to make sure that he used

it's going to be big y'all [Applause]

[Applause]

it's gonna be big

let me go to work

Joshua chapter 1 verse 9 through 17

there you will find my assignment for

this morning

I asked God what would you have me share

with your people

after 46 years of preaching I am blind

without your leadership

incompetent without your direction

insufficient without your instructions

incapable without your anointing Floyd

Floyd

for thy servant here

what would you have me say to this people

people

at this time in their lives

and he drove me to Joshua chapter 1.

verse 9 I said Joshua

yeah go to Joshua chapter 1 verse 9.

I said Lord but Joshua is is a

tempestuous book

at a transitional time

with transformative leadership

with the fierce urgency of altercation

so that there might be infiltration

listen closely at me altercation so that

there might be infiltration

should I use Joshua Lord

Joshua is not a book for wimps [Applause]

[Applause]

Joshua is not a book for those who are

faint of heart

Joshua is a book that is designed for

people who have to who have survived the desert

desert

made it through the dry places

and still have enough strength to embark

on what it's about to happen

in their life

Joshua is for the remnants of people

that the Desert tried to take out and it

Joshua

it is the beginning of a beginning again

it is a fresh start it is the recycling

of a covenant people who have been

recycled in the midst of transition it

is the place of discomfort

it is a place of disruption you want me

to take them to Joshua Lord

yes take them to Joshua Joshua is the

the Book of Joshua is the repast

after the funeral of Moses foreign

foreign

it is the the closing of one door

and the opening of the next

the Book of Joshua is synergistic with a

total transformation of the way the

people think

who have been trained in 40 years

of survival training

but have not been taught in success

for the last 40 years they have

developed the techniques that the

techniques that were necessary to

sustain them in dry places

but the drought is over [Applause]

[Applause]

the trout

is over

and now they are stepping into a new

transformative experience with a new

leader requiring new skills which means

that they must be Shameless plug disruptive

disruptive [Applause]

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in their thinking because if they hold

on to their old thinking if you go into

new places with old thinking the

wineskins burst because they don't have

the flexibility to deal with expansion

it's going to be big

yeah and if it's going to be big I've

got to be pliable

I'm in the Book of Joshua let me read it

to you I'm excited

here God speaks to Joshua

having just

eulogized Moses

he opens his mouth and clears his throat

and says now

Moses my servant is dead

as I was with Moses so shall I be was

and shall

was and shall we are right in between was

was

and shall as I was with Moses so shall I

be with Joshua

now we eavesdrop

on God commanding his General

teaching him how to lead

not as though he is not LED before

he has led in a subordinate level up

under a leader

but he has never LED where he is fully

in charge and the buck stops with them

and so even though he has some

experience and Preparatory resolution

that abides in him based on that past experience

experience

deal he's not ready for this

so God says to him be strong

and I want to say that to you

be strong

I've seen a lot of people who were angry

but not strong

who talk tough but cracked easy

and God says for what I'm getting ready

to do you must be strong

have not I commanded thee

I command you to be strong I'm not

asking you I command thee to be strong

and of good courage

be not afraid

neither be thou dismayed

yeah that settles it right there the

Lord thy God is with thee

whether so ever thou growest

now when God commanded Joshua then

Joshua commanded the officers see we

have people commanding people who have

we have people leading people who have

not been LED

then Joshua commanded the officers he

didn't bring it to the officers until

God brought it to him the officers of

the people saying

passed through the hosts go through the

crowd and command the people you cannot

command people until you can be commanded

commanded

you can't give orders if you can't take them

them

pass through the hosts and command the

people saying prepare your victuals hmm

prepare your victuals

prepare your food your sustenance your

Necessities your needs

the equipment that is necessary for sustainability

sustainability

I charge you I know I command you

to prepare your virtuals

ye shall pass over this Jordan

to go into a land to go into possess

the land

which the Lord your God giveth you

to possess it

he he gave it to you

but you got to possess it [Applause]

[Applause] and

and

and plus

in addition to

the rubinites and the getites

and the half tribe of manessa spake

Joshua saying

here's the challenge to you remember the

word which Moses the servant of the Lord

commanded you saying the Lord your God

hath given you rest and have given you

this land

meaning this land on this side of the Jordan

Jordan

your wives your little ones and your

cattle shall remain in the land which

Moses gave you on this side of Jordan but

but

you cannot sit comfortably

in what has already been allocated to you

you

while your brothers remain in lack

ye shall pass before your brethren armed

all the Mighty Men of Valor and

help them question who are you helping [Music]

[Music]

I know you've been blessed I know you

got knowledge I know you got degrees I

know you got opportunities I know you

got influence I know you got a nice car

I know you got a Gucci bag I know you're

until the Lord has given your brethren rest

rest

as he hath given you

and they also have possessed the land

with the Lord your God have given them

then ye shall return unto the land of

your possessions and enjoy it

you can't celebrate while your brothers suffer

suffer [Applause]

which Moses the Lord's servant gave you

on this side of Jordan toward the Sun rising

rising

and they answered Joshua saying all that

thou command is us we will do and

whether so ever thou sendeth us we will go

we will not sit down on the land that

we've already possessed and build our

houses and sit up under shade trees and

drink Tall Glasses of iced tea with mint

leaves on the top while our brother's

skin is throat is parched and skin is

burnt and they are wandering trying to

figure out how to figure out how to

according as we hearken unto Moses and

all things

so will we hearken unto thee

only the Lord thy God be with thee

as he was with Moses

my subject this morning

is prepped

prep before the problem why did you use it

prepare your victuals

for in three days

we will cross this Jordan you may be

Spirit of the Lord God Falls fresh on us

as we break into the word of God today I

thank you for the word of God being made

flesh thank you for what you're about to

do thank you for all that you've

invested in us I believe you for a

blessing in Jesus name amen

I just concluded on yesterday my annual

strategy meeting

where various influencers companies

corporations and our entire staff

surrounded the room

just to ruminate

in the possibilities

of what our combined strength could achieve

achieve

I have come to learn that we are better together

together

then we are apart

I have come to learn that if you can

fulfill your dream on your own it is too

small for you

so we Galvanize the best of the best

from every Walk of Life from all types

of business

from travel and Leisure to Wells Fargo

to Bank of America they were all in the

room to McDonald's they were all in the

room to learn and glean and and to contemplate

contemplate

how we could increase our force and our impact

impact

not on our church

our church has received its Promised Land

Land

but our Brethren and our community have not

not

and so we deliberated on it with great

contemplation of strategic Alliance that

was necessary in order to fulfill

the closing of the gap of equity

of home ownership

of job creation

of the kinds of things that are

necessary to reduce crime

and frustration

and murder and mental health

because the truth of the matter some of

us have worried ourselves to death

over survival

we have not possessed the land

God commanded us

to possess land

the command of God is to possess land

not money possess land

they are printing money while I'm

talking to you

so when you start talking about the risk

of the market you must understand that

the market has its risk but if the land

is well bought it is absolute distinct

distinct

and completely Irreplaceable

artificial intelligence were not created

it will not replace it it is in a

category all by itself

and so as we prepared for our leadership

conference and for our good soil

initiatives for our foundation for our future

future

we spent hours and hours and hours with

bright Minds

in preparation

and the preparation didn't just start

two days ago the preparation has been

going on for years

so we prepped for the prep

preparation is underrated

in a world raised by the click of a

button and touching on an icon and a

whole world opens up we expect life to

work like Apple

just touch it and it opens

face recognition it's me

and it opens for you

but there are certain doors set in order

to be ready for them you have to be

prepared for them

I cook and many of you know that I like

to cook and I have been cooking for

since I was about 13 years old but I

cook the old-fashioned way

often where you

prep and cook on the same day

my son has a tendency to prep ahead

okay he talks about brining and

soaking and saturating and so I have adapted

adapted

a new methodology

to Old School cooking

because I found out that when you prep

it when you don't prep in advance you

flavor the food now my goal is to flavor

so when I cook my ribs I'm not

interested in flavoring the meat I I

think ribs are best when the bone

tastes as good as the meat

and if you're going to get the flavoring

to escape the exterior facade

and the elusiveness of sauce

then you must permeate it with seasoning

early enough that the seasoning can

saturate down past the exterior skin

through the meat down to the bone

and you won't really know that you've

done it right until you're eating it and

the bone

as meat

this text that I want after all that I

read is really summed up in a few words

prepare your rituals

and to a novice reader

this is a footnote an incidental irrelevant

irrelevant

not specific

not important

after all

they have survived the desert

and the walls of Jericho are in front of

them walls so high that they could not

scale them and so wide the Chariots rode

across the top of them

and why would we not talk about the

magnitude of the walls the fierceness of

the obstacle in front of them

or maybe perhaps talk about the grief of

the dying Moses who went up in the

mountain like he had off gone before

only this time he did not return

no wonder the Apostle Paul in the New

Testament says reckoned your flesh to be dead

dead

it will not confirm it for you you just

have to

reckon it to be dead

they had to reckon Moses to be dead

having only God's word as an absolution

Moses my servant is dead they they all

they knew is that he didn't come down

he had often gone up on the mountain but

this time

he did not come down

now to lose people they had been losing

millions of people as they traveled and

sojourned through the Wilderness they

were used to the Wilderness being

littered with bodies along the way

but this time was different

because you could lose people

Moses

was God sent

and God breathed

and God equipped

and every

single solitary Miracle they had

witnessed since slavery had been

and the Wailing sounded like thunder

at the bottom of the

because to lose Moses is to lose direction

Moses was the guide who guided them

through the wilderness

and it wasn't just so they lost leaders

one that had been tried and true and

absolute that had proven himself to be

effective at leading them forward is now

dead just when they were almost there

just when they were on the precipice of

a new beginning just when they were

man lost Moses

and it seems appropriate that if we were

going to talk about something we would

talk about the loss of Moses

or maybe the gaining of Jericho

that a 400 plus promise

was about to come to pass

that God had promised to a dead man

named Abram

and many times along the way God had

made up his mind I will destroy them but

then he remembered

his promise

and stop justice

for from executing judgment

though they were deserving of judgment

because God kept his word

to a corpse

hence Canaan is called

now God is saying to them as they are

wrestling with the intermediate place

of not quite being in the desert

and not quite being in the Promised Land

he disrupts their pattern

as they had survived the desert off of

the food that fell from heaven called manna

manna

in Egypt they had eaten from the hands

for 400 years

they had eaten out of the hand of a

slave master

once liberated from the slave master

they were freed from the whip but they

were also

and they missed the leeks and onions of Egypt

Egypt

they didn't miss the whip

but they missed the food

so God catered for them in the wilderness

wilderness

manna that fell from heaven every morning

but Manna prepared for them

that all they had to do was reach out

fell every day like clockwork

early in the morning with the Dew the

Manna appeared also

each man according to his house

where there is little appetite there

were small loaves where there were huge

appetite there were large loaves don't

compare yourself with one another

to your appetite if you don't want much

he won't drop much but if you've got a

great need and a great void he will drop

according to your need

so don't look over at your neighbor's

tent and worry about what God has given

them because they may have the capacity

to absorb more provision than you do and

God doesn't want his provision to be

wasted God gives seed to the sower and

bread to the eater God does not give

blessings to people that will not

consume it

whereas you want blessings just so you

can brag about that you got them God

gives blessings to people who will take

action and if you're not going to use it

why would God give it to you and so he

designed it that if you didn't use it by

a certain time the worms would eat it up

because you were forbidden

from hoarding

yesterday's bread for today's battle [Applause]

[Applause]

and as they were joining through

Wilderness the closer they got to the

promised land there is a small minute

phrase in the text that I started to

pull up but you can look it up whenever

you want to it's a simple little

sentence but it has great impact

it has the force of a sledgehammer it

says and then

the manna ceased

what do abruptly halted [Applause]

[Applause]

there was no warning there was no

prophecy there was no preparation

without any warning at all it just stopped

and some of us think that we have lost

the favor of God

and Moses there died

and they cried at the bottom of the mountain

because everything

that they had become accustomed to

had been disrupted

I would have reach to somebody in this

room that everything that you were

custom to

and now you have to move forward without

any Playbook without any rules without

any guarantees without any certainties

if you take another step you got to take

it by faith because the manner has

ceased and the Moses is dead but the

movement continues what do you know well

you got to keep movement

you got to keep movement but Moses is

dead you got to keep moving it but the

and Joshua almost as if it were a

footnote at the bottom of an elaborate

literary work that says

prayer your rituals

this is a revolutionary idea

to people who only had to gather

now God says

I won't make it happen anymore without you

I will require

your investment

in your provision

you have gone as far as you can go

your next meal is going to require your involvement

involvement

oh I don't I don't know if you're ready

for this I don't know if you're ready

for this

to being interdependent [Applause]

[Applause]

I'm really I'm winning you

from Easy [Applause]

[Applause]

I know you wrote books on how it works I

know you wrote 12 steps to a blessing in

a dry place I know you've grown all

kinds of books about water coming out of

rocks I know you wrote books about me

lifting up serpents in the wilderness I

know you wrote a lot of books about a

lot of stuff but I'm changing the Playbook

Playbook

and I don't know who I'm preaching to

today but the Lord sent me here to tell

you he has changed the Playbook

what used to work will not work right

now he told me to tell you what brought

you here or will not take you there

the systems the structures there's going

to be a massive paradigm shift and if

you don't have liquidity and if you

don't have dexterity and if you don't

have pliability and if you don't have

intellectuality you will not be able to

evolve into the next Dimension because

the manner has ceased and the Moses is

and right nestled cradled in this

beautiful text

is the command

to prepare

so Dexter when he could see he

Cuts up all his onions and grapes all

his cheeses and and Flash balls all his

food and brines all this meat and does

all of that a couple of days ahead of time

because the prep time

than the cook time

now I know this is a hard message to

preach because I'm preaching about prep

it's difficult to talk to you about

really good dining because what you eat

is not really food it's just it's it's

it's a biological experiment it's it's a

it's it's something that if you looked

at it with a microscope it would be

crawling because you took it out of the

freezer you popped it into the microwave

and you heated it up for five minutes

and you lifted the lid and it almost

scalded your hand and you eat it and you

call it food but that's not food

that's not food that's bacteria

prep time [Laughter]

[Laughter]

look at your neighbor and say I'm in the

prep time

I'm not I'm not acting funny I'm in prep

time I'm not ignoring your phone calls

I'm in prep time I'm not disregarding

our relationship I'm in prep time I I

haven't got the big head I'm in prep

time I'm not arrogant I'm in prep time I

know I seem distracted and I don't seem

like the person I used to be but I'm the

same person but I'm in a different place

I'm in prep time I'm getting ready for

something and more is required of me in

this season than what was required of me

in my last season in my last season we

could play around we could fool around

we could mess around we could date

around but I got to break up with you in

this season because I'm in prep time in

my last season we could breathe on the

phone for an hour and a half but in this

season in order to get where I gotta go

I'm in prep time and yes I still

appreciate everything that you used to

be but I recognize your Manna has ceased

in other words you are not the source of

my sustenance you are no longer the

place where I eat and I love you and I

appreciate you but I can't be on the

phone for hours and hours talking about

people because I've been prep time

people who can spend hours on the phone

talking about people aren't going

anywhere and I can't afford to spend

another year talking about what other

people are doing while I'm not doing

anything at all I'm in prep and I'm

wondering if there's anybody in this

room in this place I'm wondering if

there's anybody streaming online who's

on being prep time you're chopping up

stuff and dice and stuff and preparing

stuff and wrapping it it ain't happening

yet but you in prep time the door hasn't

opened yet but you're in prep time the

way it hasn't been made yet but you're

in prep time if I am preaching to the

right people Set It Off in here

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

I proved by faith because I'm prepping

for something that hadn't even happened

yet I haven't mixed it together it

hadn't come together I haven't placed it

in the oven I didn't put it in the crock

pot I haven't put it on the smoker yet

but I'm in prep time I'm laying it out

I'm getting it ready I'm bringing

structure to what I believe I'm not just

believing it I'm bringing structure to

it because without structure and

strategy I won't be prepared to succeed

in the area of my destination I'm in

prep time nurse three people in Salmon

prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep

time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time

I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in

prep time I got to get it in prep time I

got to get it in the right shape I gotta

get it in the right form I gotta get it

in the right size I gotta get it at the

right temperature I gotta get it in the

right order because I'm in prep time I

can't put cold butter into a pound cake

because it won't cream I gotta get it

room temperature everything's got to be

right because I'm in prep time and when

I'm in prep time I have to do stuff that

don't make sense to you why you got the

buttermilk sitting on the stove why you

got the butter just laying out why don't

you go ahead and use it no it's not the

right temperature yet but I'm in prep

time I'm calling things that are not as

though they were because I'm in prep

time I'm getting my outfit ready I'm

getting my wardrobe ready I'm getting my

language ready I'm getting my speech

ready I'm learning the right

terminologies not for the room I'm in

but for the room I'm about to walk in

I'm learning the language of my future

I'm preparing myself for what God is

you don't understand it because you

don't have enough Faith you say when I

get there I'm gonna prepare the vigil

it's gonna be too late when you get

there you got to prepare for it before

you get there you got to prepare three

days in advance cause in the next three

days things are about to change in your

life in a radical way this is prep time

this word is a prophetic word going out

to somebody you're in prep time there's

about to be a release in your life if

God is talking to you right here right

now make some noise in this place any

kind of noise any kind of noise any kind

of noise [Applause]

foreign [Applause]

[Applause]

at you saying what are you doing going

through a leadership conference you

ain't even a leader shut your mouth I'm

in prep time I'm calling those things

that are not as though they were I'm

getting ready for what's next I want to

learn the language of the rule I want to

be in the place where people are

thinking forward I can't keep hanging

out with desert babies I got to get with

somebody that's ready to go into the

promised land and I gotta get into the

room that I'm gonna be in one day no

they don't know me right now but I'm

prepping for the future you can't

understand that if you're not a product

of Faith but faith will make you get

ready for something that hadn't happened

yet faith will make you borrow vessels

when you're broke faith will make you

take a lunch and tell everybody to sit

down some kind of way God is going to

turn it into a smorgasbord faith will

make you get ready for a child when the

doctor said you can't have no baby faith

will make you call those things that are

not as though they were faith gets into

your attitude and your disposition faith

will make you rebuild a room on a house

for a prophet that hadn't come by yet

faith will make you get ready for

something that hasn't even there yet

faith will make you start laying out

plans and diagrams and getting ready and

setting up situation for some of you

can't even pay for faith will make you

move out on something that makes you

look like a full faith will make you

build an ark and it hasn't been a drop

of rain faith will get you ready for

something that had even started to break

loose in your life I want to talk

through some radical people in this room

that are willing to build a boat in your

backyard and it hadn't even rained yet

and all your neighbors are laughing at

you but you are in prep time if you're

in prep time holler at your boy [Applause]

[Applause] foreign

this basically

is not just a change

of how you cook

you were raised by people who didn't

have to prepare

so you cannot take

into your moment

because your fathers did eat Banner in

the wilderness

but the Manna has ceased

so that means you have to have a

different mindset

you might have the moral equivalent the

equivalency I can't say it but you

cannot have the same mindset

because if you have the mindset of your

fathers you will be looking up every

morning waiting on something to fall

down that is never going to fall down

again and you will be waiting on

something to happen so you can move

nothing else is going to happen

prep time means mindsets

if I cannot get it in your mind

I cannot get it in your life

if your mindset is still looking up for manna

manna

then your hands won't prepare your eventuals

and prep time

it's dangerous dubious task

task

it's not that the preparation for the

food is not available to you

you won't have the asset

if you have a mindset of waiting on

something to fall in the morning

you won't prepare your rituals in the day

every time there's a major change in

your life

or move in your life

or you move into a new region or a new

occupation or a new situation or you

become a single parent

or you get married

it's not enough to get a new ring if you

come on with me come on with me come on

with me don't jump off now don't jump

you can't be a married woman with a

because all of your single girlfriends

will mess up your marriage with their

advice about what they would do if they

was you and they don't have nobody and

you listening at them and carrying that

Spirit home and it's tearing up your

house brother you can't be a husband

with a single man's mindset

because you will be physically present

but emotionally unavailable because you

are physically and legally married but

not emotionally present or connected and

because you have not developed language

for anything beyond anger your wife

becomes a sparring partner [Applause]

because you are better at expressing

anger than you are anything else

with a change of mindset can I go just a

little bit deeper I know I'm taking up

some time but I want to show you how

powerful mindset is the prodigal son is

down in the whole pen

he has estranged himself from his father

and his brother

he has gradually lost the dissipation of

friendship the erosion of connectivity

he is in a place of total isolation

surrounded by swine

he is out of money he is out of friends

he is out of family he is out of identity

identity

he has no name in the text he is a

nameless person in a deplorable situation

situation

and the only thing that changed no

Angels Came no visitations from God came

no Bible dropped down out the sky the

only thing that changed the Hawks were

still the Hogs the slop was still the

slop the Gentiles were still the

Gentiles his family was still as strange

his friends had all ran away the only

thing chained to mine his mind changed

the Bible said that with mud in between

his toes and gnats around his head he came

came

to himself the only thing you have to do

to get out of the situation you're in

right now is change your mind you don't

need her to come back you don't need him

to come back you don't need them to pay

your way you don't need anything else

but to change your mind as a mind

thinketh in his heart so is he and the

moment you change your mind Can't Nobody

Hold You Down this is a change of

mindset I'm not gonna keep standing out

here in the morning waiting on something

to fall it ain't falling no more what

used to work is not working anymore I'm

changing my mindset if I got to get my

hands messy if I got to get up early in

the morning if I gotta beat the wheat

till it turns to flower I will beat

whatever I've got to weep until I make

it turn into what has got to turn to

because my hands are a reflection of my

mindset if you want to know what I'm

thinking watch what I'm doing and if I'm

if you see me out here doing it it means

I'm not waiting anymore I came here to

tell you tonight that God said stop

waiting on somebody to come rescue you

from your situation they're not coming

you need to change your mindset and

start beating that wheat up until you

see bread there will be no more bread

falling from Heaven you're in a prep

season for a promise that's about to

take your life if I'm preaching right at

you if I'm preaching right to you if I'm

preaching about where you at right now

if you know you got to change the game

if you know you got to shift the

strategy if you know you got to get a

new playbook if you know you got to

break out of the box if you know you

gotta disrupt something if you know God

is challenging you that if you've always

done what you've always done you will

always be where you've always been if

you're ready to be radical Reckless and

break loose and break out if you're

ready to break some rules and do

something you've never done before if

you read it a beep wait till it comes

out as loaves of bread Make some noise

because somebody saying it's yours but

you gotta take it

I'm gonna move from preparation to

possession it's yours but you got to

take it it's not gonna come up on your

front porch it's not gonna ring the

doorbell it's not going to respond to

you the way you expected it to respond

to you ain't no more manner coming down

to your door ain't nobody coming to your

house begging you for a position you got

to possess it it's yours but you got to

take it you gotta take it you gotta take

it because it's yours it's yours but you

got to take it you got to take it while

somebody else is living in it you got to

take it while somebody else thinks it's

there there's going to be an altercation

but you got to take it by four so that I

ever said that the kingdom suffered

violence and the violent taken by force

I want to raise up some radical people

I'm sick of church people I need some

radical people the Bible said that the

kingdom suffered violence and the

violence taken by force is everybody

anybody in here that's ready to take it

by force God told Joshua I have given

you the land but you still got fight for

it slap three people and say fight for it

don't just pray for it but fight for it

don't just ask for it but fight for it

you gotta fight for it I've given you

the land to possess it you gotta drive

out the Canaanites and the ammonites and

the jeopard sites and the garroshites

because that's yours somebody is living

in your house

driving your car somebody is sitting at

your desk I heard the Bible say I'll

give you houses that you didn't build

and then you said you didn't grow but

you gotta take it by force you gotta

come out of your passive little quiet

sit back wait and Johnny come lately

Smith and you gotta take whack what God

gave you take back what the enemy stole

from you take back what they said what

yours take back what they said what

happened in your life you gotta possess

it huh is there anybody in here that's

getting rid of them possess something

I'm ready to move people out call U-Haul

I want my staff to call U-Haul so I can

move out all of these vagrant people

that are living on my territory give me

a U-Haul truck huh cause I'm gonna move

you out of my job out of my position and

out of my place because I'm gonna

possess what God promised me [Applause]

[Applause]

walk up to somebody and slap him and say

possess it

stop praying for it and possess it stop

crying about it and possess it stop

worrying about it and possess it stop

fretting about it and possess it stop

asking for it and possess it stop

waiting on it by possess it if you don't

hire me I'll hire myself if you don't

give me a job I'll make a job if you

won't give me a seat I'll create a table

I'm ready to possess the promise of God

this ain't for everybody this is for

radical people huh this is for people

who've suffered enough I've been through

enough hell in the wilderness that if

you don't make a way for me I'll make a

way for myself God said I've given you

the land to possess it I shake your name

and say take it back [Applause]

[Applause] foreign

take it

take us

take it

I don't think we gotta take night

classes I don't care if you gotta fix

your credit score I don't care if you

gotta turn around and do double time to

get where you're trying to go take it

before you lose respect for yourself

take it why you got enough strength to

go after your dream take it while your

talent is in place you gotta take it by

force how can I take it somebody else is

foreign [Applause]

[Applause]

I want all you people that don't

normally say nothing in church run over

about it and look at somebody and say

I'm getting ready to take it

now I know you don't expect me to be one

of the kind of people that'll take it I

know I'm normally quiet and I haven't

said nothing to you all service but I'm

getting ready to take it by force I'm

getting ready to bust a move I'm getting

ready to go into another dimension I'm

getting ready to make 2023 count since

Kobe it didn't kill me since the flu

didn't kill me since the cancer didn't

take me out since the car wreck didn't

destroy me since I made it out of the

hospital I'm gonna redeem the time I'm

getting ready to take it back if I had

died I couldn't take it out but I'm

still here I'm gonna let hell know that

I'm still here because I'm taking give

me my stuff back give me my stuff back

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