In Joshua 3:5, the message centers on consecrate yourselves for what god will do. Explore Joshua 3 and the call to consecrate ourselves, follow God’s presence, and prepare for what He wants to do in us and through our families. Rather than treating the passage as abstract theology, the sermon traces what these truths reveal about God, the gospel, and the way followers of Jesus are called to live.
The sermon follows the biblical text into practical discipleship, connecting doctrine with identity, character, and daily obedience. It challenges listeners to examine the assumptions shaping their lives and to allow the truth of Scripture to renew the way they think and respond. The emphasis is not merely on understanding the passage, but on becoming the kind of people whose lives are formed by it.
Along the way, the message engages themes including Joshua 3:5, consecrate yourselves for what god will do, follow presence, family. These ideas help place the primary passage within the larger story of Scripture and show how its theology speaks to real spiritual formation. At its heart, the sermon helps answer questions such as: What does Joshua 3:5 teach about consecrate yourselves for what god will do? It also considers how should consecrate yourselves for what god will do shape the way Christians live?
For someone studying this passage, exploring the Christian faith, or looking for practical biblical teaching, this sermon offers a clear path from the text to everyday discipleship. The invitation is to hear what Scripture says, receive it with humility, and take the next faithful step in following Jesus.
What does Joshua 3:5 teach about consecrate yourselves for what god will do? | How should consecrate yourselves for what god will do shape the way Christians live? | How can believers apply Joshua 3:5 in everyday life?
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So family matters. Uh and it and it's so fitting that we're starting this series at the start of doing baptisms, baptizing two fathers >> because families matter and fathers matter. And if you look at statistics, I think there's a 90% likelihood or 86% likelihood of your entire family following Christ if the father is following Jesus. And so when we when we baptize men, when we baptize fathers, we're making a statement to the enemy that my home is not going to be yours anymore. >> And so I'm I'm all about it. And if you want to get baptized after service, too, like we'll we'll I'm going to be outside of the thing and dunk you, but it'll be Yeah. So, but your family matters, church. And and it's not just like your immediate family, but your church family matters. Amen. >> Your brothers and sisters in Christ all around you matter. Being in unity as a family and fighting for your family in this day and age has has really become more challenging than it ever has been in history. Everyone online is is constantly telling us how to raise our kids, how to date, how to be married, how to treat our parents, how to create boundaries between people we in our family that we may not like or agree with, how to be friends, even what the world thinks about how the church should be a family and how the church should operate. And it can feel impossible to have a godly family. But God makes all things possible. Amen. >> Amen. Even in the dysfunction and imperfect relationships, God is a God of the impossible. Hudson Taylor said this, "When God has an impossible task, he finds an available person." >> Amen. >> If godly family, if godly uh family matters to us, it starts with us. It starts with me. Somebody say, "I'm available today." >> Put me in, coach. Come on, somebody. Leonard Ravenh Hill said this. Before God can do a great work through you, he must do a deep work in you. >> In order to be a leader in your family, in your church, in your community, be who Jesus saved you to be, you're going to have to allow God to do a deep work in you. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Like you can be saved in a moment, but there's sanctification and consecration that's going to take place for the rest of your life >> where you're becoming more and more like Jesus every single day. That's what sanctification and consecration is all about. Like like I I so wish, you know, baptism is a powerful thing. I so wish that when I dunk these boys underwater, they come up and they're just like brand new people, right? and all of the temptation and all the things that they've they've struggled with and dealt with are just gone completely. But no, this is a a public declaration and saying, you know what, I'm standing on God's word from this point forward and I'm going to work in everything with everything I have to become more like Jesus. >> That's what it's all about. We make these decisions and we stand on it and we're faithful to it. If we have yet to surrender our families to the Lord, then does our family really matter to us when it comes to the kingdom of God? Like what are we really fighting for if not for one another? If not for our family, like what are we actually believing for? What are we shooting for? Because as a church and as as a family of God and as leaders in our family, surrender should be the standard. for every one of us. We're going to be looking at the story of Joshua all throughout this series. And normally I'm I'm very expository. Like I I like to go verse by verse and go through, but I'm going to be bouncing around. Is that okay? >> Can just say somebody say bounce around. >> It's going to be great. Joshua had a had a difficult task bringing an entire generation of people, the family of Israel, into a new land, into the promised land, into a new season. He was writing a brand new story leading the people into the promise of God. If you remember just quick history lesson, God chose Abraham and then his family became the people of Israel who were then enslaved in Egypt and then Moses came in and God rescued Israel out of Egypt. Made a covenant with them Mount Si. He brought them through the wilderness and then Israel, they camped outside of the promised land. I think I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. They sent in all these spies into the land. 10 spies came back and they're like, "There's giants in the land. We're not going." And then two spies were like, "No, we can do this." And then God said, "You know what? You're all living in fear." And they he allowed an entire generation of people to just die out because there was still Egypt in their heart and they weren't ready to step into the promise. And so here we are like Moses has died and Joshua is now becoming the leader to step into the promise. He was one of the spies that went in and saw the land. And so he's been waiting all this time for this promise. This can be really heavy if if you will go with me here. Maybe you feel like your parents or your grandparents or the people in your life that have led you, maybe they got it wrong. Or maybe they didn't meet your expectations of what you were wanting. When it you think of family and godly family or when you look at scripture and then you look at your family in your life, you go, "This ain't it." Or you wish things had been different. But now you have a chance. You as a church, me as a as a as a pastor, as a father, as a as a husband, have a chance to enter the promise of God and live differently. Not in spite of how I was raised or in spite of my upbringing, right? But we have a chance to enter the promise of God. And I and I know even thinking about this, you may grieve the fact that things weren't the way that you wanted them to be. But today, I I I want to tell you, the Holy Spirit wants to comfort you in this >> and meet you in that place. Because when you begin to step into this promise, we can't fall back into what was >> again. Joshua is the new leader. He had the promise, but now it was time to go possess the promise. Somebody say, "Possess the promise. Joshua 3:5. Mark this down in your Bible. It says, "Consecrate yourselves." It might say, "Sanctify yourselves in your translation. For tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you." Can we bow our heads and pray? Father God, we love you. We thank you for your word here today. Lord, I pray for all of the the family dynamics within this church. I ask that you bless every single one of us. That you would begin to lift us up out of our grieving, out of our expectations, out of our disappointments, and begin to set us firm on the rock of your truth and salvation. Lord, that you would help us to take this word and apply it to our lives like never before. Would you begin to shift our hearts and even as my wife said, "Would you realign our hearts with you today? Be that be that chiropractor in Jesus name." Amen. I love that my wife said that, a spiritual chiropractor. That's awesome. That's a job title right there. My prayer today is that through this teaching and preaching that we would learn how to consecrate our families because our families matter. Amen. Family first of all is God's idea. The world has tried to redefine it. The devil has tried to destroy it. And we don't take our definition from deception. We get our definition from God. Amen. >> Our definition of family is from God. The one who created it is the only one who can define it. And this applies for you individually as well. Whether whether you're you're single, married, you've got kids, no kids, grandkids, doesn't matter where you are. We are all a part of the family of God. >> Don't let pressure of this culture try to redefine what family is. And don't allow the pressure of this culture to redefine who you are as a son and daughter. God created family and family is good. Your family may not be good, but the idea of family from God is good. In Genesis 1 and two, God creates the first family and commands them to multiply. Somebody say, "Amen." Multiply. Genesis 12, he takes Abraham's family and says, "You will be a father to many nations." Again, father, family. Exodus 20, in the Ten Commandments, there's two commandments that have to do with family values. Honor your father and mother and do not commit adultery. Deuteronomy 6 and7 it teaches uh it says teach this to your children and your children's children oppress this on their hearts. Again it's the passing of the generational faith from one generation to the next. Matthew 19 Jesus affirms God design for family by saying a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. Right? Leave this family and and now you create your own family. and no man should separate what God has joined together. The idea of family, it's not new. It's ancient. The idea of family isn't cultural. It's biblical. And it's very important that we know this and not try to redefine it or allow all these outside voices to speak to what it's supposed to be. Let's let's get God's design for family today. Acts 16:31-34, it actually says, "Entires came to faith." Why is that important? It's important that a house, a family would come to faith alto together. And even in Ephesians 2 19 and Galatians 6:10, it says the church actually became aware of the fact that the church is also a family. >> We today are a family. And and and again, if you're if you're single today and you don't you feel like you don't have a family, guess what? You came to the right place. You're a part of the family of God here today. Welcome to the full life family. >> Not only does God create the family, but he also calls us to consecrate it. And for those of you that don't know, like consecration, it's kind of an old school term. It's biblical term. Um, if you're new to church, consecration means to set something apart for God's use. And so when we look at consecration, when we look at sanctification, it's talking about setting us apart, setting something apart in our life for God's use. I want my family to be consecrated. If that's the definition of consecration, like I want this for my family. I want us to be set apart so that God can use us. Amen. And this isn't like a us against the world mentality that I I I I feel like I see so many times on on social media where it's just like, "All right, we're selling everything and we're going to go have this land out in the middle of nowhere because the demons control everything, right?" And maybe they do, but like like I'm not knocking it if you're going to go homestead it up right now. But it it it shouldn't be this like it's only us in our little bubble and and we're we're just going to be this this family separate from everyone else because what happens with with that attitude is it actually creates this elitist mentality that I see often where it's just like we don't do that because we're better. And God's not calling us to to go into this compare and contrast deal. He's just calling us to live set apart in our actions and in our words and in our lifestyle. We want to be set apart so that God can use us. And again, we see this, we saw the idea of family in scripture, but we also see the idea of family consecration in scripture as well with Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. Abraham went to to consecrate Isaac to the Lord. Hannah and Samuel. Hannah consecrated Samuel before the Lord in 1st Samuel 1:10. Mary and Joseph consecrated Jesus, our Lord and Savior in the temple. Lois and Ununice, they were the mom and grandma to Timothy who laid their hands on him and blessed him. Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist, consecrated their child to the Lord. So, what does this prove? Consecration isn't simply individual. Consecration is generational. >> Consecration is a generational blessing that you can pass on to your children and to your grandchildren, to your friends and the family of God that you are intertwined with today. Living set apart extends beyond just your own heart. It extends to the hearts of those who matter to you. The people that you lead, the people that you rub shoulders with. It's important that we realize that God honors a surrendered and consecrated family. God honors set aart families. Our children should be set apart. Our marriages should be set apart. Our friendships should be set apart. Like what is the difference between a godly family and a worldly family? When you when you look in the world today, it's hard to tell the difference sometimes because consecration is not just, oh, I'm going to go, you know, baptize my kid or or or sprinkle them or do whatever. Like, I love doing baby dedications, but like I'm going to call out Abby and Ryan. We just dedicated the most the most beautiful baby that we have in our church right now. that just like Sorry, there's there's other beautiful babies here, but I see one over there. Yeah, but this one's really beautiful. Um, little M. Yeah. Yeah, this one's handsome. Okay, got it. Got it. Got it. But nothing that we did in dedicating your child is like going to make them special for the rest of their life. It was the dedication that you guys made. >> I'm dedicating this child to the Lord. We're making a decision moving forward that this is how we're going to raise our child. >> Amen. >> Again, I said this earlier, but you are saved in a moment, but you get consecrated in a lifetime because consecration is a daily decision. Today, I'm going to live set apart. I may not have done it yesterday, but today is a new day. Today is a day where I'm going to create an atmosphere, an environment in my house that allows for a lifestyle of being set apart, a lifestyle of consecration. You and you may think, you know, I can't live consecrated. I've got generational curses. You know, I've got therapy that I got to go to and deal with all these different things. I got the trauma drama daddy mama. You knew I was going to say that. But we've got all these stories and we got all these issues. Hear me. My wife said it and I'm I'll say it, too. Your past does not define your future under the blood of Jesus. >> Today's a new day. It's a new opportunity to be set apart. It's a daily decision that we make. It's not some magical pill that you swallow and everything changes. Turn with me to We're bouncing around now to Joshua 1 one. We're starting right at the beginning of it. It says again after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses's aid, Moses, my servant, is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready, somebody say, get ready. >> To cross the Jordan River into the land I'm about to give them to the Israelites. I will give you every place. Somebody say every place. >> Every place where you set your foot as I promised Moses. Again, notice the the generational promise that's happening right now from Moses to Joshua here in this moment because consecration is generational. >> Joshua 1 verse4, your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the great river, the Euphrates, all the Hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Somebody say that. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Come on. >> Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left that you may be successful wherever you go. Somebody say successful. >> Successful. >> Keep this book of the law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? I love this. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Somebody say, "Amen." >> Amen. >> I love that he said in verse 9, "Have I not commanded you?" Because a command is something for us to obey. And I don't know about you, but I would rather miss the mark trying to obey than be paralyzed by fear and miss out on the promise. Joshua again, he's in this transition season. This is his responsibility now. But in order for for him, in order for us to conquer the new land, to step into the new season, God requires consecration. The land was already promised, but now they had to possess it. If you want to possess what's promised to you and your family, the first thing you need to do is consecrate yourself. Write it down. Number one, consecrate yourself. You can't lead your family where you're not willing to go yourself. This is so good. What one generation deems as optional, the next generation will deem unnecessary. Let me say it again. What one generation deems as optional, the next generation will deem unnecessary. And I'm not trying to call anybody out, but when church is optional, >> it's going to seem unnecessary to the next generation. And how many of us have have already seen that take place across the church, >> not just here, but across the United States, across the world? >> Following God is is really just an optional thing for a lot of people that call themselves Christians. And then you wonder why your children are no longer desiring to follow the Lord because it was optional in our homes. So again, it's on us to decide. And I understand every situation is different, but it's on us to decide what are the things that matter in my life today. What are the things that matter to my family today? What are the things that I I need to decide are non-negotiable in my life? Going back to verse seven here, be strong and very courageous. It says be careful to obey all the law. Doesn't say some of the law. It says all of the law. And then I love the next part. That you may be successful wherever you go. When you obey the law, there is a a prospering and a success that takes place. And it's not prosperity gospel that I'm I'm teaching here. This is just Bible. >> When you obey God, there are open doors for you. There is blessing and prospering and and so many opportunities that he has for us. And there's really four values that are mentioned here. Before God gave Joshua the the victory or success, he gave him this instruction. If you want to have success and victory as a fighter, you got to do these four things. The first one is be strong. Second is be obedient. Third is stay in the word and the fourth is don't be afraid. Ian bound said God is not looking for better methods. He's looking for consecrated men. The first step to walk in these values to be strong, be obedient, stay in the word, and don't be afraid is to consecrate yourself and choose to live set apart. Let God speak to you and show you the way to walk out your life. And he speaks to us through the word of God. It shouldn't shock you that God speaks to you when you're consecrated. God speaks to consecrated set aart people. Like like early in my Christian life, I was amazed to hear the voice of God. Like I' i've heard the audible voice of God. I've seen scripture come alive and and and speak to me. I've had visions and dreams and all these different things. I've I've I've felt him impress upon my heart something to go and say and speak. And I've heard from him. Anybody hear from Jesus lately in the church today? Come on, somebody. It shouldn't shock you. It shouldn't concern you to hear from God. But if you're walking with God and you've been walking with him for years and he's silent, that should concern you. >> Because God speaks to consecrated people. If God isn't speaking to you, I would ask, one, are you listening? And two, are you consecrated? Are you actually living set apart? Are you making decisions beyond just going to church? Are you making decisions in your day-to-day life that cause you into a place of being set apart? Men and women who say, "Before I do anything or go anywhere, I'm going to make sure that I'm living set apart." are going to hear from God. Like I I'm a I'm a really big advocate for for counseling. I'm a big advocate for like having a sounding board and and and speaking with somebody and getting wise counsel. Scriptur is very clear on this. I and I love counseling people. I love getting counsel. Uh but many times before I I I go and have a counseling session with somebody or before I sit down with somebody and they're going to share some wisdom with me, I will sit and just begin to take an inventory of my own life. I start to audit. Am I really am I making all the right decisions right now to hear from God in this moment? Because there's many times where I I'll I'll say I'll I'll I'll stop and go like, I'm just not hearing from God on this. like I just don't have clarity. I'm I just don't know. And that should be a sign to us in that moment to stop and go, what isn't consecrated in my life? >> What isn't set apart in my life? >> Is there is there a thought pattern that I'm engaging in? Is there a sin that I'm holding on to? Is there a temptation that's distracting me in this moment? And I'm more fixated on on those things. And instead of consecrating and saying, "No, I'm not going to engage with this. I'm not going to live this way. I'm not going to make these decisions to follow that pathway. Instead, I pause and go, God. Not today. And it's really funny. I actually, this actually happened recently. I had a I had a counseling session with one of my coaches because I just wanted to talk through something and I actually canceled the counseling session because I sat for a second and I heard from God because I took a moment to consecrate my heart. like like I'm ready to see it happen where like y'all want to meet with me and then God speaks to you and you're just like I'm good pastor love you but God is speaking to me like like just just you don't need my voice you need God's voice in your life >> we need a bigger amen for that come on [laughter] you don't want me talking to you Romans 12:1 it says present your bodies as a living sacrifice Tim 2 Timothy 2:21 says if anyone cleanses himself, he will be a vessel of honor. It doesn't say the pastor cleanses him. It doesn't say my spouse cleansed me. It says you cleansed yourself. It's a decision that you can make to step into. And this is why I want to be cleansed. It's why I want to be a vessel of honor. It starts with me. It starts with you. So, consecrate yourself. The second thing today, consecrate your stuff. Somebody say stuff. [laughter] >> Joshua 111, it said, "Prepare your provisions. Prepare your stuff." Do you have things in your life right now that you need to surrender that you're carrying around? And I and I mean quite literally carrying around. Are there things that are needing to be consecrated in your life that you can't take into the promised land that you that if you continue to engage with, you're not going to be able to receive the promise that God has for you? Our stuff can block the voice of God. Devices, vices, and distractions. Could it be that we're carrying other voices in our life? Horoscopes and zodiac signs, social media that's not rooted in scripture, TV shows with sinful stories, maybe chat GPT is the sage of wisdom that you go to before you even talk to the God or talk to the Holy Spirit. like like like I think it was John Piper that that made a really funny video recently where he he put in a a a prompt to chat GPT and it was actually like he was trying to say like could you emulate this speaker or this you know uh philosopher theologian whatever and it came out and it sounded exactly like the dude and it and and if if I had like probably preached it with with a a crazy Pentecostal voice y'all would be like woo Holy Spirit you know but it was a mean, >> no heart, no spirit, >> just just words. See, the the beauty of of human existence is you're not just a bunch of coding and and words, >> right? >> You are heart, you are soul, you are spirit, you are flesh, you are created in the image of God. All all social media and AI, all they can do is create words, >> but God creates life. >> And for many of us, we're going to all these other creators, creators of content, >> writers, people on the news, all these other creators, rather than going to our creator. If you want a consecrated home, if you want a consecrated life, you need to audit your stuff. >> Like, this is this is a big deal right here. Maybe your children are participating in things that you don't even know about. >> Are you checking their phones? Do you know who their friends are? Do you know who they're talking to online when they're streaming on that video game? >> Like one of the things that we're going to be doing, it's coming out in the next month. Well, it'll be available to every parent here in the room. We had an amazing missionary who we support. Um his name is actually I don't know if I can say his name. He he works with an incredible foundation uh where he actually helps rescue children who have been groomed by predators and then trafficked. and the the is a three video series that he created on how to protect your children and how to find and see the signs of your child potentially being groomed. >> It's powerful like and it's so like and and and I remember the first time I was I'm sitting there I'm filming it and I'm just crying because the whole time I he's sharing all these things. I go this could happen to anyone. Yeah. >> It's not just like, oh, the the bad homes, you know, the the the the kids that were in low poverty or whatever. No, no, no. This can happen to anyone. >> Amen. >> It can happen to any family whose parents just fall asleep >> and are not consecrating their home. So, please remind me. I'm I'm going to make sure this is available to all of you. Um because the enemy wants to reach you and your family in any way that he can. Yeah, >> if you don't audit and consecrate your stuff, it's going to create mixture within your life. And God is not a God of mixture. >> I mean, go go look at the Old Testament. Like anytime the people would go and worship another God, God's like, "No, that's not going to happen today." >> You can't be consecrated and in sin at the same time. >> Your house shouldn't be a place of of chaos, of competing volume like like this is a big thing for us like parents. We are the primary disciple makers in the home. >> It's not the church >> that's supposed to disciple your kids. >> Like we we would we might see your kids for three hours a week, four if you come on Wednesday night, too. You're with them three to 16 hours a day when they're not sleeping. And I can't, as your pastor, I can't consecrate your home for you. >> That's right. So we need to be intentional about prayer, intentional about sitting with our children and engaging with them, engaging with our friends in conversation around the dinner table. Like this is something that we've started doing for the last few months since we were in Israel. Every single Friday, we do kind of like a Shabbat dinner. You all know what Shabbat is? It's kind of a it's a Jewish practice. Um, we're not we're not lighting candles and drinking wine or anything like that, but we we take a moment to pray over each one of our kids. And, you know, we pray every night around the dinner table, but this is like a special thing that we do where I invite both of my sons into my arms and I pray over each of them. I prophesy over each of them and who they're going to become. I bring my daughters in close and I pray for strength and honor and peace and kindness over them. I speak these things into them. And then we pray Proverbs 31 over this beautiful woman right here. >> And we get to the end of it. This is so cool. My kids know the words now and they start speaking these things over their mother. >> It's powerful. And it's so simple. I'm literally just reading off of a piece of paper. It's not some holy, you know, heaven coming down thing. It's it's intentionality, >> right? >> It's choosing to say, YOU KNOW WHAT, as for me and for my house, we will serve the Lord. >> It's a it's a choice and a decision that that we make together. And it's acknowledging that God is at the center of our home. I would encourage all of you to do it. I can send you the piece of paper that has it. You don't have to pray it in Hebrew. You can pray it in English. It's great. Baroo Adonai. Yeah. Okay. No, this isn't like religious church. >> This is this is trying me trying to protect my house from the attack of the enemy. >> Reminding my children of the God that we love and the God that we serve. When you know that things are happening in rooms in your house that you have to say no to, say no. Say no. That's not allowed. This this house is set apart. >> Consecrate your home, your stuff. Consecrate your finances. Like, stop getting into debt to impress people that you don't even like, >> right? >> Like, why why'd you buy that shirt? Like, oh, I was trying to impress. Do you like that person? No, I hate this guy. Like, it's my boss, you know, whatever. Why'd you buy this car? Oh, you know, I thought it would look really cool. Like, okay. Why aren't you giving to church? Oh, because, you know, I just can't. I'm spending all my money on stupid stuff. >> That's right. >> Like, I get the economy is in a tough spot, but let me tell you, when you give to God first, he takes care of everything else. >> Amen. >> When you give your 10%. Not to not to some, you know, charity or nonprofit. When you give it to the church of God, he blesses the 90%. >> Again and again and again. And and and I know it for a fact because there are testimonies in this room >> where we we we've had people that could barely pay their rent begin to tithe and God has now blessed them abundantly. >> It's happening. >> And it's honestly wild for for me or for anyone to ask God to bless what we're unwilling to give him. >> That's right. Yeah. >> Like, God bless my house. God bless my family. GOD BLESS ME. But I'm not going to serve you. I'm not going to be obedient to you. That's prosperity gospel. God, give me give me give me all the things, but I'm not going to live for you. >> Like, it's it's it's funny that we ask God to bless our finances when we don't give him our tithe. when I never give him my time, never give him my money, never give him my worship except for on Sundays. We need to consecrate our stuff. >> Number three, consecrate your schedule. My wife just went, [laughter] she's like, "This is for you, baby." I know. I know. Again, Joshua is a great leader, but he's got like these timestamps and receipts of all of the moments in time where he knows when to go and when to stay, right? It said in Joshua 35, "Consecrate yourself for tomorrow time. The Lord will do amazing things." Joshua 6:10, "Don't shout until I tell you." Like, this is good, too. Like Joshua knows when to go, when to stay, when to shout, and when to remain silent. >> Joshua 10, if you go and read the whole chapter, just a summary of it, there's this amazing miracle where they're in the middle of a battle and Joshua basically commands the sun to stand still. >> And it does. >> How cool is that? >> Because he's consecrated time. He's consecrated his life. Wouldn't it be wild if God just started giving you more hours in your day because you lived consecrated >> or you had greater focus? Esther's like, "Yeah, give me more hours of the day." [laughter] Like we have we have chaotic schedules instead of consecrated ones. And this one hurts. This one hurts me because the the the busyiness of our life leaves us bound. >> We're bound to the calendar. We're bound to the schedule. We're bound to the clock. Don't ask God to bless your calendar. Give him the calendar. >> Don't ask God to bless your schedule. Give him the schedule. If we don't have margin built into our time, if we don't have a Sabbath, intentional time with God, again, the Sabbath was was God's resting on the seventh day of creation, and he asks us to do the same. It's not about you trying to get more work done in that weekend time that you have. It's saying, "No, I trust God and he's going to work while I'm resting. God is going to work while you're resting. When I spend time in prayer, when I spend time in his word, when I'm holding his truth in my heart, when I'm falling asleep, while watching the masters, which I did yesterday, God is working, trusting that God is in control because God can do way more in your resting than you can do in your striving. >> And some of us haven't rested in a lo
