Courage for What’s Next | Get In Position

``Success here is not wealth. It's not a standing ovation. It's not ease. It's the one thing that we've been talking about all week on the prayer line, 6AM and 6PM. It's alignment. God's success is measured by obedience, not outcomes. God calls you successful when you obey, not when you impress. Hear me good. Heaven celebrates obedience long before the world even takes notice of the results. [00:29:29] (69 seconds)  #ObedienceOverOutcome

Strength is required because the assignment is heavy, but also courage means move even when fear is present. How many people feel like god is calling them to do something, but you're just scared? You're just fearful. He says, be strong and courageous. God doesn't tell Joshua to remove fear. He tells him to move anyway. And that word is a word for somebody listening to me today because the assignment might cause you to fear, but I'm encouraging you to do it anyway. The assignment might cause you to fear, but do it anyway. The assignment might be bigger than what you think you can handle, but be courageous and do it anyway. [00:12:11] (73 seconds)  #CourageMoveDespiteFear

Some of us, we keep praying for God to take the weight away. When God is saying, I'm trying to make you strong enough to carry it. If God assigned it, it's supposed to feel heavy. Did y'all hear what I just said? If God assigned it, it's supposed to feel heavy. Courage, hear me good, is not hype. It's obedience, watch this, underweight. And this is why God didn't say Joshua feel brave. He said, be strong and courageous. Because what's next requires shoulders, not slogans. [00:02:09] (69 seconds)  #StrengthForHeavyAssignments

If God assigned it, strength is required. But let me tell you this, but fear doesn't disqualify you. Fear never disqualifies you. See, I need us to break this whole thought pattern, this, this this this theology that tells us, you know, that if that if you're scared, then you're not qualified to do what god has called you to do. Mm-mm. God never makes the assignment easier. He makes the leader stronger. Your calling doesn't remove the pressure. Your calling gives purpose to the pressure. [00:07:59] (60 seconds)  #FearDoesntDisqualify

What God has called you to do is not light work. First two words in the entire verse of of verse six says, be strong. Be strong. Be strong. God does not minimize the weight of leadership. He acknowledges it. God is essentially telling Joshua, Joshua, what I'm calling you to do, I know it's not light work. Strength is not optional when the assignment, watch this, involves people. [00:06:04] (43 seconds)  #LeadershipRequiresStrength

I saw her a little while ago when she said to me, you were the only pastor that was present with us. See, sometimes when when when god is god is assigning you for something, you may think you have to be qualified in this area, but all he wants you to do is just be present. And he begins working out all the other details. He begins working out all the other pieces of the pie that you feel that you may not have, but god is saying, just show up. [00:11:33] (37 seconds)  #JustShowUpBePresent

And I remember sitting there in the war room, and I asked I was like, should we move forward? Some of us were saying, man, we we should just put this off to next year. And I heard the I I I heard in that moment, just just not loud, but just within my heart. Heard the holy spirit say, move forward. Now here's the thing. Here's the thing that you have to understand. I was scared but obedient. It was a leap of faith, watch this, where clarity on the why didn't come until after the obedience, not before. [00:16:40] (48 seconds)  #ObeyBeforeYouUnderstand

Sometimes you won't even understand why you are doing it, but you are just but you know that the holy spirit, god, has spoken to your heart, and you are to be obedient to that. So my question for you today, hear me good, what did God already say go that keeps that that that fear keeps asking you to reconsider? Sometimes fear keeps keeps coming to you and say, hey. Yeah. Maybe you should just and, I mean, gives you good wisdom and reason too. But you have to know and be resolute with the voice of the lord. And when he's speaking to you and saying move, you've got to move. Are you hearing what I'm saying today? [00:17:29] (52 seconds)  #HearAndMove