God has called you to move forward and possess the land He has promised for your life. This real estate includes unclaimed promises, unrealized potential, and unfulfilled visions that require you to climb a little higher. Whether it is a relationship needing restoration or a career yet to be launched, taking this ground is not for the casual observer. It requires a spiritual aggressiveness and a heart that refuses to live on the outside of God’s best. You are invited to step into this season with the strength and courage necessary to lay hold of your inheritance. [39:09]
“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.” (Joshua 1:7)
Reflection: What is one specific "unclaimed promise" or "unrealized potential" in your life that you have felt hesitant to pursue, and what would it look like to take one courageous step toward it this week?
Courage is more than a feeling; it is the capacity to outlast the enemies that stand in the way of your progress. True determination is found in the simple act of continuing to show up even when the battle feels long. As you keep showing up to prayer, serving, and community, a quiet strength begins to arise within your spirit. You will be surprised by what God can accomplish in your life through steady faithfulness. This resilience allows you to stand firm until every obstacle is overcome. [42:34]
“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.” (Joshua 1:9)
Reflection: When you think about a challenge that has felt particularly draining lately, how might God be inviting you to simply "keep showing up" rather than trying to resolve everything all at once?
There are often spiritual enemies that attempt to claim squatting rights within the real estate of your heart. While God promises to drive these influences out, He also invites you to put on your armor and participate in the displacement. We often learn to coexist with things like anger, greed, or lust, allowing them to occupy "spare bedrooms" in our lives. However, God’s plan is for total freedom and the establishment of His kingdom in every corner of your existence. Refuse to settle for a peace treaty with the very things meant to be eradicated. [01:01:53]
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall perplex you in the land where you dwell.” (Numbers 33:55)
Reflection: Is there a "Jebusite"—a stubborn habit or attitude—that you have allowed to coexist in your life, and what is one practical way you can begin to displace it today?
The key to establishing the land God has given you is found in a heart of complete obedience. While failure is a part of the human experience, it does not have to disqualify you from God's purposes. What truly hinders progress is partial obedience, where we hold back pieces of ourselves from His leading. A heart that is willing to repent and say "yes" to God in every area is one that He can use to change the world. True righteousness is not about a spotless record, but about a heart that continually kneels before the Lord. [01:06:55]
“And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’” (Acts 13:22)
Reflection: In what area of your life have you been practicing "partial obedience," and what would it look like to fully surrender that specific area to God's direction this week?
To walk in prosperity and success, the Word of God must move from the pages of a book to the meditation of your heart and the speech of your lips. It is not enough to merely hear the truth; you must slow down and let it saturate your mind until it becomes your natural conversation. When the battles of life intensify, you do not fight with intellect or emotion, but with the spoken Word. By speaking "it is written," you wield a powerful weapon that shifts the atmosphere around you. Let the breath of God’s Word be the primary influence over your thoughts and actions. [01:09:07]
“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.” (Joshua 1:8)
Reflection: Which specific promise or verse from Scripture do you need to "keep on your lips" today to help you navigate a difficult conversation or situation you are currently facing?
The congregation is exhorted to seize the “new ground” God has promised by combining divine provision with human resolve. Using Joshua as the pattern, the speaker frames spiritual real estate as everything God intends for a life — relationships, callings, careers, and literal property — that sometimes remains unclaimed because enemies have taken root. God promises the land, but believers must also fight: strength and courage are essential, defined as determination plus perseverance that outlasts opposition. The message names the spiritual adversaries—Amalekites, Canaanites, Jebusites—and emphasizes that some enemies are stubborn and resilient, requiring sustained spiritual aggression to remove.
The church’s identity as an apostolic hub is presented as a lived theology: training, sending, church planting, and a commitment to global mission and the gifts of the Spirit. Practical realities of sending leaders are celebrated alongside the honest costs involved—financial, relational, and emotional—while trusting that when the church sends its best, God raises new leaders to fill gaps. The example of upcoming church plants is used as both encouragement and a rehearsal of the biblical pattern of going in and possessing land.
Two theological pivots anchor the call to action. First, God’s promise does not excuse passivity; divine promise and human responsibility coexist. Second, the pathway to occupying promised ground is not moral perfection but complete obedience beginning with genuine repentance. The spoken and memorized Word becomes the believer’s weapon: meditation leads to confession, and confession becomes the sword that is used in real spiritual conflict. The concluding homework is straightforward — study the Word diligently, speak it continually, and obey everything God reveals — and the congregation is invited into prayerful decisions and to support forthcoming church plants.
Even if you've been in a season of delay and postponement or failure or addiction or whatever you've gone through, I wanna announce this over your life today. God's not done with your life. If you're breathing, he's still working. Is anybody hearing me today? Here's the definition of the land yet to be taken. It includes unclaimed promises. Anybody got any of those in your life? You're still waiting for the prophetic word? Unrealized potential. I think that applies to all of us in unfulfilled vision.
[00:39:25]
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#UnclaimedPromises
In order to take ground, the ground that God has for you, it's gonna take strength and courage. Because here here's the big idea. There's some enemies still left on the real estate that God has intended for you to possess. He tells Joshua, hey. I'm giving you the land. Go on in. Take it. It's yours. Oh, by the way, there's the Amalekites and the Canaanites and the Jebusites and the Parasites and the termites and all the ises. You gotta drive those suckers out because they're they're in your real estate.
[00:40:49]
(30 seconds)
#TakeGroundWithCourage
Some of you have probably left some giants or some enemies in your real estate, and we learn as believers how to coexist with some enemies that God never intended to have your real estate. We signed detente with a few enemies who are like, hey. I I love God, and I'm gonna serve him, but, you know, I got kind of an anger issue. You know, I got some rage that surfaces, and I don't know. I just I I have got the therapy and all the stuff. Haven't been able to deal with it, so we're just gonna keep that back there in the spare bedroom at the at the back of the house.
[01:02:46]
(32 seconds)
#EvictHiddenEnemies
If you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live. Get a visual. Splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. And we know this that enemies at the beginning, they don't seem like that much of a threat. Goliath was probably cute as a toddler. He's five foot tall as a toddler, but he was cute.
[01:04:14]
(29 seconds)
#DriveOutTheThorns
He's a man about whom God said, I found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do. And this is a long time after his long list of sins, and I want you to hear this today. The key to obtaining the land is not a spotless record or a or a life without failure, it's complete obedience which starts with complete repentance.
[01:05:25]
(24 seconds)
#ObedienceOverPerfection
You simply have a heart willing to say, God, every time you reveal anything in my life that's out of obedience to you, I will repent and say, God, I'm gonna do my best to obey everything. And then here's the promise, you'll be prosperous and successful in everything you do. Is that even possible? Prosperity and success in everything? According to the scripture, it is. But the key is complete and total obedience. Then he says, have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid. Don't be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
[01:08:49]
(37 seconds)
#CompleteObedience
How to drive out your enemies and take the land? You gotta study the word diligently. You gotta speak the word continually and obey everything that God reveals to you. There's a lot in those three statements, but if you'll apply those, write them down, begin to think through, pray through, here's what God's gonna do. He's gonna show you how to drive out some Jebusites, And the most precious real estate in your life will be yours in Jesus' name. Amen.
[01:11:25]
(26 seconds)
#StudySpeakObey
But I want you to ask, Lord and many of you already know, but what is the ground left to be taken? And what is the step and the obedience I need to see the Jebusites eradicated? What is the step? What is the obedience that you're looking for in my life as a key? And I believe God's gonna speak to some people.
[01:12:24]
(19 seconds)
#AskAndObey
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