VICTORY STARTS INSIDE | PAUL DAUGHERTY

Summary

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Episode Overview

Title: Victory Starts Inside | Paul Daugherty
Date: January 11, 2026
Host/Speaker: Pastor Paul Daugherty (Victory Church, Tulsa, OK)

Main Theme:
This message explores how true victory in life originates internally—within one's heart, mind, and spirit—before it manifests outwardly. Drawing from the story of Joshua leading the Israelites into the Promised Land (Joshua 1, 6), Paul Daugherty encourages listeners to leave the past behind, embrace God’s promises, develop a victorious mindset, and consistently walk forward in obedience and faith. The episode is rich in practical steps, biblical principles, personal stories, and direct encouragement for a transformative new year.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Victory Begins Internally (00:00–04:50)

• Foundational Point: “Victory starts inside. Before you can have victory on the outside, you have to have victory on the inside. If you don’t win in here, you won’t win out there.” (Paul, 00:16)
• Identity precedes activity; knowing who you are (your God-given identity) matters more than what you do.
• Paul contextualizes the episode with Joshua’s story, emphasizing preparation, character, and God’s personal affirmations as the prerequisites for breakthrough.

2. Letting Go of the Past (04:50–10:00)

• God’s words to Joshua after Moses’ death serve as a metaphor: “At some point, you have to detach from the past. You can’t take hold of your destiny if you’re still holding onto your history.” (Paul, 05:44)
  • Quoting: “Your past is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. Kung Fu Panda.” (Paul, 06:38)
• Personal anecdote: Paul shares about visiting an old movie theater and how neglect keeps people stuck in past victories instead of pursuing new ones.
• Key Quote: “Just because you had a victory in 1991 doesn’t guarantee you’re gonna have a victory in 2026.” (Paul, 09:13)

3. Obedience Unlocks God’s Promises (10:00–12:20)

• “Outcome is God’s job. Obedience is our job.” (Paul, 11:36)
• God calls Joshua (and listeners) to show up with faith, reminding them the victory is already won, but it requires participation and obedience.

4. Receiving God’s Presence and Strength (12:21–18:00)

• “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” (Paul, 13:54 & 14:33)
• Paul’s emotional story about his father’s passing and stepping into new leadership. “The same God that was with Moses was with Joshua... and he’s with you.” (Paul, 15:34)
• “If you got God on your side, you got the victory.” (Paul, 12:23)

5. Power of Words and Repetition (18:01–22:35)

• Importance of repeating God’s truth: “You can’t walk in victory if you talk in defeat. You can’t expect a positive life with a negative mouth.” (Paul, 19:44)
• Parents are encouraged to consistently speak life, blessing, and identity over their children.

6. Facing Your Jericho: Identifying Goals and Obstacles (22:36–32:36)

• Analogies and prompts: “What is your Jericho in 2026?” and “What stands in the way that you need to overcome?” (Paul, 26:00)
• Modern illustration: Underdog sports stories demonstrate that internal belief precedes external victory.
• “You can’t win out here until you believe it in here.” (Paul, 27:36)

7. Three Reasons We Forfeit Victory (32:37–36:00)

1. Critical Spirit – “A critical spirit causes you to forfeit the victory.” (Paul, 28:43)
2. Defeated Attitude – “Attitude determines altitude.” (Paul, 29:50)
3. Bitter Heart – “If you don’t get bitter, you’ll make it. It’s hard to take ground when you’re always taking offense.” (Paul, 31:09)

8. How to Get the Victory (36:01–40:47)

Paul presents 7 steps:

1. See It

• “God says to Joshua: ‘See, I have given Jericho into your hands.’” (Paul, 36:13)
• Must envision victory even when circumstances appear impossible.

2. Say It

• “Life and death is in the power of the tongue.” (Paul, 38:46)
• “Stop cursing your future. Change the narrative. Speak life.” (Paul, 39:19)
• Example: Paul recites and encourages the confession: “I am here on purpose because I have a purpose... My best days are right in front of me and I have victory because Jesus lives in me.”

3. Stop It

• “You need to stop making excuses... stop listening to the lies of the enemy... stop doing bad habits you keep going back to.” (Paul, 40:04)

4. Start It

• “Start marching. Start doing the thing God’s called you to do.” (Paul, 41:14)
• Celebrates every beginning of a new habit, change, or step toward God.

5. Stick with It (Consistency)

• “Consistency brings the breakthrough.” (Paul, 42:39)
• “Sometimes you gotta march in the dark... wake up and pray when nobody’s watching... do it again.” (Paul, 43:08)
• Reference to Joshua’s daily, patient obedience marching around Jericho.

6. Don’t Stop on Six

• “So often people stop and they stop short of their miracle.” (Paul, 42:59)
• “Six is the number of man, but seven is God’s number. Consistency brings the breakthrough.” (Paul, 43:41)

7. Stay Surrendered

• “The most important point... Stay surrendered to God for continual victory.” (Paul, 45:44)

9. Memorable Illustrations and Stories

• Donkey in the Well Story (16:29):
  “It starts to get buried by the dirt... But the donkey decides: I still got breath in my lungs, I still got a purpose. And every time he feels the dirt, he shakes it off and steps on top of it. Everything the enemy sent to bury you can become a stepping stone for you to get your victory this year.” (Paul, 17:36)
• Sports Story—Indiana Football: The transformation from the most losing program to champions, illustrating belief and identity as central to victory.
• Personal Moments: Paul's own battles with loss, leadership, and affirming his children speak to the message’s authenticity.

10. Closing: Surrender and Call to Action (48:25–57:08)

• Reflective prayer and altar call: “Some of you are so close to Jericho’s walls falling... you’re one lap away from your breakthrough. Don’t stop short.” (Paul, 50:41)
• Encouragement for those struggling: “There is someone at our church right now, it was a step of faith to even come today... the battle is worth fighting.” (Paul, 54:07)
• Congregational affirmation of personal surrender, forgiveness, and embracing God’s vision for the year.
• Closing Confession:
  “Jesus, I surrender. I’m all Yours. My heart, my mind, my life, I give to You... My best days are right in front of me and I have victory in my life because You live in me.” (Paul, 56:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Victory starts inside. Before you can have victory on the outside, you got to have victory on the inside. If you don’t win in here, you won’t win out there.” (00:16)
• “You can’t take hold of your destiny if you’re still holding onto your history.” (05:44)
• “Outcome is God’s job. Obedience is our job. Your obedience unlocks God’s outcome.” (11:36)
• “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (13:54)
• “You can’t walk in victory if you talk in defeat. You can’t expect a positive life with a negative mouth.” (19:44)
• “You can’t win out here until you believe it in here.” (27:36)
• “If you don’t get bitter, you’ll make it. It’s hard to take ground when you’re always taking offense.” (31:09)
• “Stop cursing your future. Change the narrative. Speak life.” (39:19)
• “Consistency brings the breakthrough. Don’t stop on six.” (43:41)
• “Stay surrendered to God for continual victory.” (45:44)
• “This is your year for victory. It starts right here. It starts right now.” (51:20)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–04:50: Introduction, theme, “Victory starts inside”
• 04:51–10:00: Joshua’s story, importance of leaving the past
• 10:01–12:20: God’s promises, obedience, encouragement to church
• 12:21–18:00: God’s presence in transitions; personal story of loss
• 18:01–22:35: Power of words, affirmations for family and self
• 22:36–32:36: Facing “your Jericho”—clarity of purpose, modern illustrations
• 32:37–36:00: Reasons for forfeiting victory: critical, defeated, or bitter spirits
• 36:01–40:47: Seven steps to victory (see it, say it, stop it, start it, stick with it, don’t stop on six, stay surrendered)
• 40:48–45:44: Consistency, faith, “Don’t stop on six”, celebration and action
• 45:45–48:24: Staying surrendered, ongoing victory, not resting on past wins
• 48:25–57:08: Prayer, personal surrender, call to action, blessing for the year

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Flow & Tone

Pastor Paul’s tone is energetic, heartfelt, vulnerable, and filled with practical encouragement. He uses vivid metaphors (e.g., donkeys, sports, movie theaters), accessible language, and frequent audience engagement ("Everybody say..."). Stories of personal loss and triumph blend seamlessly with biblical teaching, making the spiritual principles real and accessible for listeners.

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Summary for Listeners Who Haven’t Heard the Episode

This episode is a passionate call to move beyond past victories and defeats, anchoring your identity and victory in God as you start a new year. Drawing on Joshua’s story, Pastor Paul unpacks how internal transformation—through surrender, belief, obedience, consistent positive confession, and releasing bitterness—precedes and empowers external breakthrough. Packed with scriptural backing, real-life stories, and actionable steps, the message is both a spiritual charge and a practical blueprint for anyone wanting to experience genuine victory in every area of life this year.

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For in-depth biblical teaching, actionable spiritual steps, and inspiration to claim lasting victory this year, this episode is a must-listen.

Transcript

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If you got a Bible open to Joshua, chapter one. Joshua, chapter one. I got a word stirring in my heart for you, and I'm going to give you the title of this message. If you're taking notes, note takers are history makers, world changers, culture shapers. The title of the message today is Victory starts inside. Victory starts inside. Before you can have victory on the outside, you got to have victory on the inside. If you don't win in here, you won't win out there. If you don't win between the ears, you won't win outside of your body. Here's the key that we see in the story of Joshua is that God is gonna speak first to Joshua's mind, his heart, his spirit, before he speaks to his feet. God is gonna remind Joshua who he is and what he's called to do. Because identity precedes activity. Who you are is more important than what you do. The man of God that you are, the woman of God that you're becoming. That's why this year, the most important thing you can do is get faithful, founded in the word of God. Get your life in church. Get your life in his presence, around God's people. Those of you that were here last week, you already got perfect attendance this year. You're killing it in 2026. Those of you that joined us this week, come on, this is your year. This is your year to have victory. You didn't step foot into victim church. You stepped foot into victory church. This is not your defeated year. This is not your losing year. This is not surviving year. This is your victory year. And victory starts here. Victory starts on the inside. Victory starts inside. Joshua, chapter one, verse one. God speaks to Joshua. He says, after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of none. I think this is really important. Just because you might be the son of none doesn't mean you're the son of no one. Just because you're the son of an anonymous dad or someone you don't even know, or maybe he was absent, doesn't mean you don't have a heavenly father who has marked you with a purpose, who has put the anointing on you, who said you are here on purpose because you have a purpose. You may not know your earthly father, you may not have seen your earthly dad around, but you have a heavenly father that's cheering you on. And God begins to speak to Joshua. Now here's the interesting thing. The book of Joshua is not the beginning of Joshua's story just because Joshua, chapter One sounds like it's the start of Joshua's story. Joshua was alive all the way back in the book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible. Joshua was a teenager when God sent Moses to Pharaoh to let his people go, right, to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt. God had sent Moses on this assignment. He said, I want you to go and set my people free and lead them to the promised land. Take them to the promised land. Well, Joshua was a teenager. He was like 16, 17, 18. Watching God do these miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, watching God part the Red sea. And this 18 year old Joshua, whose book had not started yet, whose story wasn't really on the spotlight, like he wasn't in the front row. No one knew who he was, but he was following Moses. He was watching. He was looking at his mentor, his pastor, his shepherd. Don't underestimate the power of your preparation time. Preparation time is never wasted time. The Bible says that Joshua would sit in the tent of the tabernacle and he would stay in the presence of God. When Moses would leave, Joshua would stay and he would worship and he would pray. And he was one of the spies that was sent in the Book of Numbers to go and spy out the land, to see what the promised land looked like. And he came back with a good report. Him and Caleb said, man, this is a land flowing with milk and honey. We can take this land. We are well able. God is with us. But 10 other guys talked themselves out of the victory. They talked themselves out of the miracle. They said we look like grasshoppers in our own eyes. That's why victory starts inside. How you see yourself will determine how you see what God can do through you. Your self image and your God image. How you see God inside you. So Joshua waits for 40 years. By this time, he's 60 years old when his book starts. He's not a teenager. He's not in his 20s, not in his 30s. He's not 40. This man is 60. And he has been waiting for this moment. But I love what God says. Next in verse 2, Joshua 1, verse 2, he says, Moses, my servant is dead. Hold up. Joshua knows this. Moses died in the book of Deuteronomy, like Joshua saw Moses die. Why is God telling Joshua something he already knows? Because it's not just a physical sentence, it's a metaphor. What God is saying is, Joshua, the past is over. Goodbye yesterday. He died a long time ago. He died months ago. But it's almost as if you're carrying his corpse with you at some Point. You have to detach from the past. You can't take hold of your destiny if you're still holding on to your history. You can't grab hold of the victory in front of you if you're still dwelling on the victories behind you. It wasn't even that Moses was bad. Moses was great. But for this moment in Joshua's life, God was trying to tell Joshua, Joshua, Moses season is up. His generation died in the wilderness. They missed out on the promise. It's time for you to rise up. It's time for you to let go of what you can't change. You can't relive 2025. You can't rewind it. You can't go backwards and fix anything. You can't change anything about the past. The past is dead. Your past is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. Kung Fu Panda. So open it up and celebrate it. Seize the day. Carpe diem. Victory starts in here. God was trying to tell Joshua, stop living in the past. If you keep your eyes on the rearview mirror your whole life, you're going to crash into cars that are in front of you. Look up. Look forward. Be here. Be right now. Victory starts. And by the way, the past was good. And a lot of people live on the victories of their past. They build museums, and they're like, oh, the glory days. When Moses was alive, the Red Sea parted. The ten Commandments were written. He went on Mount Sinai. We saw the ten plagues unleashed in Egypt. It was incredible. And people camp out in the past when God has so much more in their future. So much more in front of them. During Christmas break, I took my kids to go see the David cartoon movie. Did anyone see this movie? So good. I cried. It was so good. But I took them to a theater I hadn't been in a while. And as I'm driving there, I was like, guys, this was the premier movie theater when I was a kid. In 1991, my mom took me to go see Beauty and the Beast at this theater. And so they were kind of like, okay, cool, you know? And we're pulling up, and Liam goes, dad, are you sure about this being the premier theater? He's like, this looks a little shady. And I go, well, Listen, in the 90s, it was incredible. He goes, we're not in the 90s anymore, dad. It's 2026. He's like, Somewhere along the line, they stopped taking care of it. And those words kind of stood out to me. Somewhere along the line, they stopped taking care of it. Somewhere along the line, this marriage stopped paying attention to each other. They stopped dating each other. They stopped going to church. Somewhere along the line, people got stuck in the past. They hung on the glory days. Just because you had a victory in 1991 doesn't guarantee you're gonna have a victory in 2026. This is why God was telling Joshua, joshua, Moses had his victory. Moses had his moment. He's gone. He's dead. You need to wake up and move forward. And that's hard to hear. I remember when my father passed, and I didn't want to run forward. I didn't want to take another step forward. I was still thinking about him being where he was. I was still missing that. He was gone. And God was like, Paul, your dad served his generation. His body is in the grave. His spirit is in heaven. But you need to live right here, right now. Don't live off of his moments in the past. Don't build a museum and just celebrate the glory days of Billy Joe. You have a calling right now. In this season. Everybody say, right now. Right here. God says, moses is dead. Now you. Everybody say, now you. Now you. And all these people, get ready. Somebody say, get ready. Get ready. Get ready. In other words, this is preparation time. I'm about to take you somewhere. You're going to cross over the Jordan river into the land I'm about to give. God was giving the Israelites the land that he had promised to their great, great, great grandfather, Abraham. By the way, the promises of God don't expire. God promised this land to Israel, to Abraham, and the land still belongs to Israel. Like God didn't change his promises from the river to the sea, God gave this land to the Israelites. And God was telling Joshua, as I promised Abraham, as I promised Isaac, as I promised Jacob, as I told Joseph when he was in the pit and when he was in the palace, as I told Moses, I'm telling you, Joshua, this land is yours for the taking. But you gotta take it. I'm giving it to you. The fight has been fixed. But you gotta get in the ring. You got the victory. The victory is yours. But you gotta possess the land. Friends, half the battle is just showing up to something that God's already fought for you. If you'll just show up to church, if you'll show up to your job, show up to the relationships, show up in the discipleship class, show up to the counseling session, show up to the things that God's asking. Like, outcome is God's job. Obedience is our Job, God says, I've taken care of the outcome. I've already given this to you. But I'm waiting on your obedience, friends. Your obedience unlocks God's outcome. Man, I'm preaching to y'. All. I need to hear a little bit better from you guys this morning. He says, get ready. I'm giving it to you. Now watch verse three. He says, I will give you every place where you set your foot. As I promised Moses, I'm giving it to you. Your territory will extend from the desert, from the great river, from the Hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one, verse five. No one will be able to stand against you. No weapon formed against you will prosper. God was saying, no one will steal the success from you. No one will stop the victory that I put inside you. I just speak that prophetically over someone this year. God has already given you the victory. All you have to do is show up to the fight. All you have to do is announce to the enemy, I'm here. And the enemy is already trembling. The enemy is already afraid that you might find out who you really are, who your dad really is, who's really on your side. Come on. When the enemy is talking, you should hear what the enemy's saying behind your backs. What Joshua didn't know is that everybody in Canaan had been talking about Israel. He hadn't heard about it yet, but they were trembling. The walls of Jericho were tall, but everyone inside the city was afraid of Israel. God was telling Joshua, I will be with you. No one will be able to stand against you, as I was with Moses. So I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Now, when I read this verse a few months after my dad passed, we were in a really hard season as a church. People had been leaving our church by the thousands in this moment, not because of anything that was wrong with victory, but they missed my dad. And I missed him, too. And my mom missed her husband. And it was hard. It's just a hard season. And I remember opening this Bible verse in Joshua, chapter one. And I want to give it up for my mom, who has been one of the greatest pastors and leaders and pioneers and trailblazers, who has stayed faithful, who has fought through the hardest seasons as a widow to keep our church strong, and has prayed and stayed here fighting with me and Ashley. But I remember taking this verse. Joshua, chapter one, verse five. And I sat on this stage, and the lights were out, and all I had was my phone. I don't know where my phone is right now, but I had my phone, and I had that flashlight on my phone, and I was holding that flashlight and I looked at that verse, and tears are coming down my eyes. And it says, as I was with Moses, and I wrote down. I pulled out a pen and I wrote down, as I was with Billy Joe, so I will be with you. Now, those of you who don't know who Billy Joe is, you're like, who's Billy Joel? The singer? No, it was my dad who pastored Victory. And in my eyes, he was like Billy Graham. He was like Lester Sumrall. I mean, he was like Peter, Paul, James, John. He was like a mighty apostle, warrior, pastor, preacher for God. And I heard the Lord say, as I was with him, so I will be with you. And some people in the room, you might go, well, I don't know if God's going to be with you the exact same way he was with Billy Graham. Well, what Bible are you reading? Because the same God that was with Moses was with Joshua, and the same God that was with Joshua was with Esther, and the same God that was with Esther was with Gideon, and the same God that was with David was with Solomon, and the same God was with Solomon was with Peter.

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James, John, he's with you.

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Somebody say, he's with me. You plus God is the majority. If you got God on your side, you got the victory. So God looks at Joshua. He says, listen, you need to get strong on the inside. He says in verse six, be strong and be courageous because you will lead these people. You will have victory. You will be their leader. You will take charge. You will. You will inherit the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them. But he says these words again in verse seven, be strong. He repeats it, and there's something important about the power of repetition. God understood that in order to get something deep inside your spirit, you need to hear it over and over and over again. Parents, don't underestimate the power of repeating the same words over your kids. You're blessed. You're strong. You're a mighty man of God. You got what it takes. You're beautiful. You're handsome. You're here on purpose. You have a purpose. Some people go, why do we say the same confession every week? Because the power of our words changes the outcome of our lives. You can't walk in victory if you talk in defeat. You can't expect a positive life with a negative mouth. So you got to get your words in front of you, and you got to hear God's word speaking over you. Be strong, be courageous. Why? Because the Lord is with you. When I was a kid in nursery we used to sing this song. Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho. Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the yes, we know the outcome. We know the walls are going to fall. Joshua doesn't know yet. He doesn't have a Bible. All he has is a past manuscript from his his pastor Moses who told him what God did for him, parted a red sea, fed them in the wilderness, took care of their needs. But Joshua has not lived his miracles yet. God has miracles for you to live. Not just what your parents lived through. God wants you to experience your momentum, not just somebody else's momentum this year. So God looks at Joshua, says be strong, be courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn, do not turn to the left or to the right. The power of focus this year last week I talked about fixing your feed. What are you focusing on? What are you feeding? Your spirit. He says stay focused. Don't turn to the right or to the left. That you may be. I love this right here. Successful friends. Success didn't originate from a business book or from a self help book. Success originated from God. God does not want his church miserable. He wants his church successful. God did not put you on the earth to eke your way through life and survive and I'm not gonna make it and I'm gonna be poor for God and I'm gonna be miserable and depressed for God and the most defeated Christian. No, God wants his church victorious. God wants you to prosper. God has good plans for you. Where'd you read that? Jeremiah 29:11. I just happened to read my Bible and I go, wait a minute, wait a minute. God doesn't want us walking into victim church every week. He wants us walking into victory. God doesn't want us like decreasing in number and not bearing any fruit. Jesus said, remain in me and you will bear much fruit. You will be successful. But the key to your success is not your salary. The key to your success is not what car you drive or house you live in or your personality or your parents last name or what connections you have. The key to your success is your obedience to God. God is not impressed with what man is impressed with. Someone could come to me in the service and go, hey, you see that guy over there? He's worth $100 million. He's the wealthiest man. You told me how much money he has, but you didn't tell Me that he's successful. Just because someone has a certain amount of money doesn't make them successful. What makes you successful is your obedience to God. It doesn't matter how much money you make. It matters. Are you obeying God? He says this is the key. If you will obey. If you will obey what I've called you to do. Go to the next verse, verse eight. He says this. Have I not commanded you? Be strong. Oh, here it is. Verse 8. Keep this book of the law always on your lips. In other words, repeat it. Repeat it to your kids. Tell your kids kids the stories, the miracles, the breakthrough. Meditate on it day and night. Get it inside you, even if it feels boring. Read the word. Go through the Bible reading plan so that you may be careful to do. Everybody say do. God cares more about what we're doing than what we're just hearing or thinking. We gotta turn it into the doing part, right? Be doers of the Word and not just hearers. Only so that you will do what God has called you to do. Then you will be prosperous. There it is right there. Prosperous and successful. God wants you to prosper and succeed. But the key to seeing this happen is your obedience to God's word. Now watch verse nine. I love this verse nine, right here. 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 everywhere you go. Everybody say, victory starts inside. Lord, I pray you would speak to us today and that we would leave changed, refreshed, renewed, encouraged by your word. In Jesus name, everybody said, amen. I remember hearing this story about this donkey. True story. He was getting old at one season in his life. He was a really strong donkey. He did a lot of work. He carried all the labor that this farmer needed. And this donkey was reliable, dependable. But he was starting to get old. Starting to get a little bit, like, losing his memory, not knowing what was going on and making bad decisions at times. And the farmer felt bad because the farmer liked this donkey. The farmer thought to himself, I can't put this donkey down. I don't want to see this donkey die. So he thought, I'm going to lower him into an old abandoned well. Just kind of lower him down there. And then I'm going to shovel some dirt, and that way I don't have to look at his face and I'll just bury him alive. So sad, right? So he starts lowering the donkey, and the donkey's looking at him, Donkey Kong. Just looking at this farmer as he's going down into this well, and he's going into this abandoned well, and it's a dry well, and it's getting darker and darker, and he doesn't see the farmer anymore. And then he hits the ground. And all of a sudden, he feels a pile of dirt hit his head. And the farmer is shoveling dirt, and he's burying this donkey down in this well. And the donkey starts thinking, hold on. I still got breath in my lungs. Hold on. I still got a brain. Hold on. I still got a reason to live. I still got a purpose. I'm not finished yet. God's not done with me. Come on. When a donkey gets it, you can get it, too. So what does he do? He shakes the dirt that's on his head off. Everybody say, shake it off. And then he steps on top of it, and another pile of dirt comes on his head, and he starts thinking, hold on. This dirt is not going to bury me. Shakes it off, and he steps on top of it. Everything the devil sent to bury you can become a stepping stone for you to get your victory this year. Some of you are six feet under the dirt, and today is a reminder. Climb out of that dirt, and every pile the enemy throws on you, shake it off and step on top of it. When Joshua was told by his friends, you're never gonna see that promised land. You're 40 now. You're 50 now. You've been in this wilderness. You've been stuck in a cycle, walking in circles in the wilderness. And Joshua's listening to all of this, and it's almost like he's just feeling the dirt hit his heads, right? He's feeling the dirt of a previous generation who did not believe they could take the promised land. And he shakes it off. So back to the donkey. The donkey keeps shaking it off, stepping on top of it. All of a sudden, his eyes are level with where the farmer's at. He's like, I see you. You tried to kill me. You know, this donkey's about to take back. You know, he's about to grab that shovel, okay? You're like, donkey can't grab the shovel, Paul. Okay? But here's. Here's the point. Donkey shakes his head, steps on top of it. Finally, he is now at the same ground level as the farmer. That donkey takes off running, and he never looked back at that farmer. Some of y' all have been getting buried by what the enemy has thrown at you, and it's time to shake it off. Step on top of it and run towards your victory. So Joshua decides he's going to do this. And Joshua starts getting this revelation. I've got the victory, I've got a promised land. It's my season, it's my time, this is my year to walk out the dreams and the promises that I have been waiting to fulfill. And the first thing that God calls them to do is to cross the Jordan River. To cross this Jordan river and to prepare to consecrate themselves. He begins to tell all the Israelites, get ready for what God's about to do. Get ready. God's about to take us. And the first city we're going to conquer is a city called Jericho. Go to Joshua, Chapter six, verse one. It says now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. The gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went in, no one went out. Jericho was not a huge city, but it was a medium sized city with a huge wall, 40 foot tall wall, and then a 10 foot wall in front of that. And then before that city was a massive river. We're not talking about the Arkansas river, that's dry half the year. We're talking like the Jordan river at flood stage. This was wide and it was deep. Deep and wide, Deep and wide. There's a river. Here's the point. This river, not a river, there's a fountain, but there's a river right here in Israel that they got across. And this river, for Joshua, could be just like the Red Sea. I mean, it's impossible to take a million people across this river. I at flood stage, deep, wide, difficult. You got babies, you got children, you got animals, you got your livestock, you got all this stuff. And so Joshua has to contend for it. And there's two questions I want to ask you today. Number one, what is your Jericho? What is your Jericho? And number two, what stands in the way that you need to overcome? What is your Jericho? What is the dream, the purpose, the plan, the goal that God is stirring in your heart for this year to fulfill? And sometimes we overestimate what we can do in a year. We underestimate what we can do in a decade. And I hear God saying, I want you to focus on one thing this year. Focus on one, focus on Jericho. What is your Jericho? If your life was a movie and people were sitting in the theater watching your life, what would they be screaming and shouting and throwing the popcorn? Like, what, break up with this guy? You know, that's not a word for someone in the room. You're like, I guess we're breaking up. No, don't do it unless God tells you to. But what is the thing that the crowd is cheering like put your phone.

[B]

Down and be present.

[A]

Maybe the crowd is cheering. Be consistent. Get better this year at walking in self control. Maybe the crowd is cheering. This is your year to stop beating yourself up, putting yourself down, feeling like you're not good enough, feeling like you're not doing enough. Maybe this is your year to practice, rest. Maybe this year is your year to get better at a rhythm of going to church, reading your Bible, praying, doing the things you know to do what it but most importantly not. What is the crowd cheering in the theater? What is God saying in the theater? What is God saying? If you would just see what I see, you would have the victory this year. If you would just do what I've asked you to do, if you would just follow the word that I've called you to follow, you would have victory. What is your Jericho number two? What stands in the way? What is that thing you need to overcome this year? Where have you stopped short? I was watching this last week as Indiana University went 150 in college football. On paper, this is the most Cinderella story in sports history ever told. The once losing EST program in the history of the sport is now playing for the college football national championship. The coach showed up two years ago, Signetti, and when he walked into a locker room with a group of people that were used to losing, losing was kind of their motto, like we just lose. We're the losingest program in the history of college football. He looks at these players now. Signetti is not a 10 year old or a 20 year old or a 30 year old or a 40 year old or even a 50 year old football coach with some long track record of a bunch of success. Signetti's like in his 60s and this is the first college that people are actually hearing about this guy's name as a success story. But he's been around for a while. He's been studying the sport, he's been watching, he's been looking at other head coaches. He's been watching as all the attention was on Saban and all the attention was on this coach and that coach and this university and he was getting this strategy. I'm telling you, God has something in store for some of you in the room that have written yourself off, some of you that haven't been in the spotlight. God's flipping the script in college football, but I think he's flipping the script in the church. I think he's Flipping the script in your story right now. Come on. Some of y' all that have been under the dirt, this is your year to step on top of it. As Signetti was watching the whole drama of college football and how much these athletes are getting paid to play college football now. And these universities that have a ton of money, they have a ton of draw, and they got these legacy universities like Notre Dame and these other big universities like Texas and ou, come on. I like ou, but he's watching all this stuff happen, and he's looking at his school, and he walks into the locker room two years ago to the most losing program in sports history, and he says, we're gonna win. And they look at him, they kinda laugh. And he says, no, I need you to believe it in here. Everybody say, believe it in here. See, you can't win out here until you believe it in here. What God knew for Joshua is he's not going to possess Jericho or AI or any of the other cities that are in front of him until he possesses his own mindset. The battle is between the ears. Man, if I'm preaching the sermon just to me, I need to hear it. But I think there's at least three people in the room that need to hear it today. If you don't win in here, you won't win out here. The coach looks at his players, he says, we're going to win, but I need you to believe it. And so their first season with their coach, last year they went like they won 11 games. It was a big deal for them. But this year they haven't lost a game. And right now it's almost looking insane, like they're. Someone said they're not just David versus Goliath. David has become Goliath this year. He's traded places. He used to be the underdog, but now he's the unbeatable team in college sports. I just feel like God's about to change something for somebody in the room. And I think there's three reasons why people forfeit the victory. Three reasons why we give up in the land that God's called us to possess. Number one, a critical spirit causes you to forfeit the victory. A critical spirit. I remember I was playing on an intramural team at ORU when I was in college. And we showed up to the game and we had four guys, and the referee was like, well, technically you can still play the game, but the other team will have five players. Five, verse four. And the guys around me, they were like, no, no, we're not even gonna try. Like, there's no way. They had already talked themselves out. They're like, we don't even have five players. This is insane. And the referee was like, it's intramural sports. It doesn't really matter. And we were like, no, it's a big deal, you know? And so I was talking to our players, but they were already convinced. They were like, we're not even gonna try. They had already seen the glasses half empty. They had a critical spirit. The difficulties, the Giants, everything was distorted. And they just felt kind of frustrated, and they were mad, and they were complaining. And God said, I'm gonna let your critical spirit keep you locked in a cycle where you walk around with that critical spirit for the next 40 years. One of the worst things God will let happen in your life is to let you get what you deserve. That's why I'm so thankful for the mercy and the grace of God, that even when we miss it, even when I've been critical, even when I've been negative and pessimistic and don't believe in the goodness of God, the promises of God, and I'm watching someone else get blessed, and I'm like, well, God forgot about me. God's not doing it for me. That God will oftentimes send people across my path or a sermon across my path to wake me up as a sign of mercy, to say, break that critical spirit off you, Paul. Maybe this is the mercy of God right now, waking some critical spirits up in the room. It's time to get rid of that poison that talks you out of the promises of God Number two. I think the reason why we forfeit the victory is a defeated attitude. Attitude determines altitude. Attitude determines your approach to not just the dreams of God, the promises of God. Attitude determines your approach to a new year. You're like, it's not a new year. It's just another day. Okay, well, I'm gonna make this new year a year of momentum for me. I'm gonna use January to my advantage. I'm gonna use the sense that I'm in a fast, and it's hard, and a fast breaks you down before it builds you up. And even though I got some withdrawals this last week from not drinking the pop that I wanted to drink and not eating the sweets I wanted to eat, that in the midst of all of that, God is up to something, and I am convinced this is my winning year. This is not my defeated year. This is not my I'm gonna be overwhelmed year. This is my Overcomer year. This is my year where I walk in victory. Come on. I am not defeated. I am not defeated. Depressed. I am not staying down. And sometimes you got to talk yourself into it. Number three. The third reason why people forfeit the victory is a bitter heart. My dad used to say this when I was younger and all the way up until he passed away, he would say, if you don't get bitter, you'll make it. If you don't get bitter, you'll make it. It's hard to take ground when you're always taking offense. And by the way, one of the best ways you could take ground this year in your own life is write the vision down. Habakkuk Chapter two says, write down the goal, write down the dreams. Research proves that people are 100% more likely to succeed in their goals if they just write their goals down, get it on paper, write the vision down. But here's one of the reasons why I think people don't fulfill the dreams, the goals, the vision is they get bitter. They get bitter at God. They get bitter at their boss. They get bitter at their pastor. They get bitter at other church members. I'm not going back there. I'm not talking to those people. They forgot my name. They didn't thank me. They didn't write a thank you card for all the things I've done for them. They didn't appreciate me the way I need to be appreciated. How many all in this room need mercy sometimes in your life? How many of y' all need some grace like you miss it? You don't always remember every single detail and every single thing you're supposed to do. Husbands, if you didn't raise your hand, your wife will gladly raise your hand for you. And husbands will raise their wife's hand for them. Maybe not. We're trying to score brownie points today. Okay, here we go. The reality is we all need mercy and grace. And just as much as we need it, we need to give it to others. Give grace to people, give grace to yourself. Stop being so hard that it makes you bitter. Maybe the walls that need to come down this year aren't out here. Maybe they're in here. Maybe you've built up walls around your heart, walls around your own spirit that God's trying to tear down this year. Maybe those walls were formed by who you didn't forgive. Bitterness talks people out of the victory. Now I've told you what forfeits the victory. Let me tell you how to get the victory this year. Number one, how to get the victory. How do we see this in Joshua's life? Number one, you got to see it. Joshua 6, verse 2. The Lord brings Joshua to Jericho. I love this. The Lord says to Joshua, I want the band to come out. The Lord says to Joshua, see? Everybody say, see it. I love this word right here. He says, see, see, see? I have given Jericho. Into your hands. I've delivered Jericho. Now, the verse. This is kind of funny. The verse right before this was Jericho is locked. It's. It's impenetrable. It's impossible. It's difficult. Give God your impossible situation and watch what God will do, right? So, like, verse one is like, no one's going to be able to get into Jericho. Verse two, I've given you Jericho. And Joshua's like, except for the fact that I don't have it there yet. I'm not in there yet. I'm still behind the walls of a city that looks impossible to conquer. And God says, that's the problem, Joshua, is that you're seeing what's in front of you. I need you to see beyond the walls. I need some help. I need four tall men. Strong tall men, mighty men of God. Even if you're not tall and strong. Just come up here. I'll take four men, whatever I can get. Okay, here we go. I'll take the birthday boy, Ty Barker. It's his birthday today. Happy birthday, Jeff. Come on up here. Okay. All right, so here's the key. Look, all of us have walls. All of us have something that's blocking our vision. I call these vision blockers. You got another bill from the doctor. How in the world are you supposed to have financial victory this year when the bills keep stacking up higher and higher? And then you just found out in that relationship, this person is mad at you. You can feel it. It's like something is off.

[B]

There's.

[A]

There's just more pain in that relationship. And then you're looking at, like you stood on the weight scale, and you're like, oh, goodness, I gained way too much weight over Christmas break. And you're like, I gotta deal with this. And it's like staring you in the face and all these reasons, and then your health, and then all these things that are making you feel like what's in front of you is blocking what God is trying to help you to see. And so your vision is blocked. Everybody say, see it. It's hard to see it when all you see is what's wrong and what's broken and what's missing and what's lacking? And you didn't grow up with the dad like that. And you didn't have the advantage that some kids have. You didn't have the opportunities that someone else and someone else got a promotion. The economy's this, and this person just made this law. And it just looks like all that's in front of you is blocking the Victory. But this is what I love about Victory Church. Victory Church elevates your vision so you're no longer looking at what's right. Like, when you come to church on Sunday, you get God's pov. You get a point of view that's a little bit different. You go, hold up. Yeah, I do have some bills. Yeah, I do have some. This is what worship and prayer does. This is what reading the Bible. This is what being around believers at Victory Church does. All of a sudden you go, hold up. There are more for me than those who are against me. I got more on my side than the haters on Instagram that leave comments. I got more people that are cheering me on than people that are trying to derail my dad destiny. I got more. I got the God of angel armies surrounding me. I got Jehovah Jireh's provision this year.

[B]

I got Jehovah Nisi, the banner of victory.

[A]

I got El Shaddai on my side. I got the protector with me. You got to see beyond the walls. Give these guys a big hand. Thank you so much. Everybody say, see it. I remember sitting down with one of my kids and they started saying, man, I just feel like a failure. I feel like I just missed it. I feel like I miss it so many times, and I just feel this way, and I wish I was a little bit more like this. Fill in the blank. And as I was listening to them, I was like, I've been there before. I maybe wasn't as bold enough to say what they're saying to me out loud to somebody else, but I felt it on the inside where I'm like, man, I just feel like I'm not ever good enough. I feel like I just come up short. I feel like I'm not as good as my dad. I feel like I'm not as liked as my brother. I feel like I'm not as whatever as someone else. And all these other things that just try to cloud. And I'm telling you, the most important relationship you have outside of your relationship with God is your relationship with you. And you're like, that sounds a little schizophrenic and bipolar. What's Going on, Paul. What I'm saying is, how do you see you and how do you talk to you and how do you treat you? Some of you are so hard on yourselves. Some of you are just always cursing yourself, calling yourself unworthy of failure, not good enough. And you're discouraging your spirit. You're canceling your victory. If there's one thing. If there's one subscription you should cancel this year, it's the subscription to the Devil's Lies, like, along with Netflix or whatever else, you need to cancel. But stop letting the lies of the enemy tell you you're unworthy. You know what? I looked at my child and I said, you are so amazing. You're brilliant. You're amazing. You know what I see inside you? I see greatness. I see greatness all over you. You got what it takes. You're more than a conqueror. You could do all things through Christ who strengthens you. You're the head and not the tail. You're the lender and not the borrower. You are not defeated. You're more. More than a conqueror. You need to hear what God is saying about you. You need to see what God sees. Number two. You got to say it. Don't just see it. You got to say it. Proverbs 18 says that life and death is in the power of the tongue. One thing I learned at a young age is to speak life. Joshua hears the word of God that he's going to take Jericho, and he goes and he starts telling all of the other Israelites. He's like, we got this. We got this. Everybody say, we got this. This, we got this. Tap. Somebody say, we got this. We got this. We got the victory. Oh, yeah, we got this. TW we got this. It's in the back. It's a W already. TW Shannon. Hey, give it up for TW Shannon. Being in church today on the second row, this man is mighty, man of God, a voice to our generation, voice to our state and our city and our nation. But you got to speak it out. You got to prophesy. I hear God asking Ezekiel, can these dry bones live? Ezekiel's like, I don't know. You're the only one who knows God. God says, no. I want you to prophesy. Nothing moves until you speak. Imago DEI lives inside you. What's that? That's the image of God. Genesis chapter one says, he made us in his image. What does that mean? God created. First thing God does is let there be light. And there was light. How did the light show Up. He spoke it into existence. What are you speaking into existence right now? What are you speaking into? Your future. I remember when I wrote the victory confession on a napkin. I wrote it down on a napkin when I was weeping because I was cursing my future. I said, our best days are behind us. God's finished with the Daugherty family. This is an accident. I'm not even supposed to be here. And I heard the Lord say, stop cursing your future. Change the narrative. Speak life. Speak life. Everybody say, speak life. So I wrote down those words. I'm here on purpose because I have a purpose. My heart is open, my mind is ready to receive, because God's not finished with me yet. My best days are right in front of me. And I have victory in my life because Jesus lives in me. You gotta see it, you gotta say it. Here's the third thing. You gotta stop it. You gotta stop it. There's some things you need to stop this year. You need to stop making excuses. You need to stop talking yourself out of the dreams and the obedience that God's called you to walk in. You need to stop learning, listening to the lies of the enemy. You need to stop doing some bad habits that you keep going back to. First thing God tells Joshua to do after they cross the Jordan river and he has them stack these stones and they got all this momentum and they're pumped and they're like, let's take Jericho. God says in Joshua, chapter five, verse two, make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again. And like, the 40 year old men are like, excuse me, if you told me you were going to circumcise me, I would run from you. You are not my friend. I'd be like, get those scissors out of here. Snip, snap. Get those. Get that knife away from me. We'll talk about it later. Kids, let me tell you something. Circumcision is a cutting thing. It's a. It's a process of cutting. It's. And what God was saying is there's some stuff that needs to be cut off you. You are still holding on to your past. You got soul ties to that girl. You got soul ties to that old season. You got soul ties to that old leader. And you will never step into the right now as long as you're still tied to yesterday. You will never accept who God has for you right now as long as you're still tied to yesterday. And that goes for every single one of us in this room, including me and every staff member. You will never embrace the Right now, if you're still obsessed with yesterday, God says, you can't put new wine into old wineskins. It's gonna burst, it's gonna break. I gotta cut you. I gotta cut some things out of you so that I can lead you into victory. Now, that's not like God saying, I'm gonna hurt you or do something. He's not the author of sickness or disease or cancer or divorce or abuse or painful things that happen in your life. But God will use the discipline and the correction and the conviction of the Holy Spirit to stop some stuff. Necessary ending, so that you can, number four, start it. Every say, start it. So you gotta see it, you gotta say it, you gotta stop it, and you gotta start it. Where's number four? There it is. Start it. What do you got to start? You gotta start marching. You gotta start doing the thing God's called you to do. Joshua, chapter 6, verse 3. God says, March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Everybody say, start it. God loves a good start. God loves a good beginning. Zachariah 4, verse 10 says, he loves to see the day of small beginnings. He loves a good start. Don't underestimate starting something. Some of you just look down on people that have just started. Well, you just started. At least they started. At least they started coming to church. At least they started. Some guy over here is one hour sober from doing drugs and drinking alcohol.

[B]

Come on. He started a new life. Can we celebrate?

[A]

When somebody starts making better decisions with their life, they start getting free from some stuff. God loves a good start, my friends. And you're like, well, he only celebrates the finish line. No, no, no. The angels rejoice when one sinner repents and starts living for God. God loves a good start. So they started. And number five, stick with it because here's what happens. Can I preach a little bit? I know I've been preaching, but let me just. Let me. Let me get to where I gotta go. Consistency brings the breakthrough. God tells Joshua, I want you to march around the city once. I'm a march. I'm not marching this way, but thank you. I'm a march around this whole room for a second. You're like, this feels silly. This feels ridiculous. Can you imagine what Joshua and all these Israelites lights felt as they're marching around the wall? And sometimes you gotta march in the dark. Sometimes you gotta march where the cameras can't see you. Sometimes you gotta wake up and pray when nobody's watching. You gotta get up in the early part of the day when it's still dark outside, and you go, this feels silly. I don't even know what's happening right now. And Joshua says, we're gonna do this again tomorrow. You know what's interesting? Joshua doesn't tell him when this is going to stop. He doesn't say, hey, we'll stop this in seven days. He says, we're going to do it again tomorrow, but say, do it again. Do it again tomorrow. Joshua said, I want us to become boringly predictable, boringly predictable this year. Because if we keep doing the right thing every single day, eventually we'll see the outcome that we've been obeying and believing God for. Eventually, we'll see the breakthrough. Come on, mighty men of God. Everybody say, do it again. So often people stop and they stop short of their miracle. They go, this isn't working. No, bricks have fallen. You told me things were going to.

[B]

Change, and nothing's changing.

[A]

I've been tithing, I've been praying, I've been reading. I've disciplined my kids. Spank them again. I've been doing all the right things. I've been forgiving people. And Paul, I just feel stuck in these circles. Around the same city, around the same wall. Keep marching, keep praying, Keep going, keep going. Somebody said, keep going. Come on. I feel Nemo coming on.

[B]

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Swimming. Just keep praying. Just keep praying. Just keep worshiping. Just keep worshiping. Just keep trusting. Just keep going. Just keep doing what God's called you to do.

[A]

Number six. Don't stop on six. So God tells Joshua, on the seventh day, I want you to get up and I want you to march around the city seven times. Now, six is the number of man. And a lot of people stop at what makes sense in their own mind. Six is man's number. That's why the mark of the beast is 666. Right? It's the number that represents man's logic, man's understanding, man's power, man's pride. All about you. But seven is God's number. God created the earth in seven days. He worked for six days, but on the seventh day, he rested and he said, it is very good. Everybody say, don't stop on six. Consistency brings the breakthrough. And on the seventh day, after marching around it seven times, I want you to tell the Israelites to shout like they've already won. Won the war. I want you to shout prophetically. Come on.

[B]

This is a victory shouting moment. Yes. Come on. He already gave you the victory. He already Brought the walls down. He already gave you what you're believing for. Oh, Holy Spirit, he's given you the city. Broken Arrow, he's given you the city.

[A]

Tulsa.

[B]

He's given you the state. TW he's giving you the Holy Spirit.

[A]

Yeah. Stand your feet all over this place. When the Israelites shouted, the walls came down, and it was incredible. And Shastra said, we're going in. Every say, we're going in. Don't just watch the walls fall down. Go in, go in.

[B]

Take.

[A]

Take the city. It's yours. It's ripe for the plucking. Carpe diem. Seize the day. This is your moment. Church. The seventh point, I think, is maybe the most important point, and that's this. Stay surrendered. Stay surrendered to God for continual victory. I preached on the story of Joshua in 2016, which, it's crazy to me. That was 10 years ago. I was like, this is five years ago. And I was like, no, that's actually 10 years ago. And I'm coming up on 12 years of pastoring this church. But when I preached this message in 2016, I didn't use these points. I just preached on the story of Joshua. And I built a fake wall on stage made of cardboard boxes. We've come a long way. Some of my props were super cringy, but I had cardboard boxes. And I wrote on those cardboard boxes, like, lack, fear, doubt, debt, shame, pastor regrets, sin, addiction, strongholds. And. And I came from the back, and I did. When everyone shouted, I did a running power team move. And I was like, yes, we can. I broke through the walls, and the cardboard boxes fell down, and people were like, nice. And after. After the service, my mom was down at the altar, and she was like, hey, Paul, can I. Can I have a moment with you? I was like, yes, Mom. She goes, the. The whole wall didn't fall down. She was like, there's still several blocks standing over there. She was like, should you knock them down tonight? I was like, well, the service is over. And it was Saturday night. She was like, maybe tomorrow you should knock the whole wall down. I go, good idea, Mom. Thank you for that feedback. Aren't you glad when your mom gives you the feedback that no one else will give you, but you need to hear it. Just honest feedback. I was like, yeah, I'll knock that wall down tomorrow. Don't put off for tomorrow what needs to get done today, but also recognize that even the battle you win today is not the final battle. And what I realized is when Joshua took Jericho, it was amazing. I Mean, they were celebrating. Confetti's going off in the air. They're giving each other high fives, right? They're having sparkling grape juice and popping the tide. You know, it's like, awesome, awesome. You know? And God's like, this is just the beginning. I need you to conquer AI. I need you to conquer Canaan. I need you to conquer. There's others, there's more giants, there's more. Like, don't. Don't just stay right here in this big moment where you accomplish one dream. I got more for you. Everybody say, he's got more. He's got more friends. This is just the beginning. I want you to just close your eyes and just put your hand on your heart. Let the Holy Spirit just speak to you right now. He's talking to you this morning. He's talking to you, sir. He's talking to you, ma'.

[B]

Am.

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Oh, Lord, help us to be in tune with your voice. I hear the Lord just speaking to some of you. This fast you've been on, and these things you've been given up and this new season that you find yourself in. God says, this is all a stirring to see what he sees. God says, I want your eyes to be in alignment with my eyes. I want you to see my point of view this year. I hear the Lord saying, I want you to hear my voice like never before. I want you to be sensitive to the voice of God. I hear the Lord saying, I've got more for you. I got more I want to do in you and through you and for you. And I hear the Lord saying, I want to heal some areas where you've been wounded. You brought some wounds into this year. You brought some burdens into this year that you've been holding on to. And God's saying, that verse where the Lord spoke to Joshua, make flint knives. That verse where the Lord spoke to Joshua, leave this behind. That's for you. Some of you need to today leave some stuff behind. You need the Lord to rewire your identity. Some of you have been in a crisis trying to figure out who you are and what season you're in and how to be present right now and how to hear God's voice on the one thing he's wanting you to focus on right now? What is your Jericho? What is that thing he's called you to just go after this year with heads bowed and eyes closed, your hand on your heart? Just let the Holy Spirit lead you in this moment to a surrender, to a humble place to say, God, I need. I Need your help to forgive some people that really hurt me, that really hurt my family. God, I need your help to not be so bitter, critical this year. I need your help not to be so defeated on the inside. God, I need your help to start speaking life and believing life over me. God, I need your help this year to stop some stuff that I've been doing and to start some stuff that I need to be doing. God, I need your help to be consistent in the areas where I have been inconsistent, to stick with the practices, the obedience of just being boringly predictable in the same direction of obeying you for the long haul. And God, I this year I need to not stop at 6. I need to not stop short. Some of you are one like you are one lap away from your breakthrough. You don't even realize you're actually like you're so much closer to the finish line on some things that you don't see. God says you don't realize how the bricks are about to fall. You are so close to Jericho's walls falling down. You're on the seventh day, on the sixth lap, God says this final lap is the final push. You need to see the change you have been contending for. Don't stop here. If I'm speaking to any of you right now that needed to hear what this is about, I want you to leave your seat. Just come and meet me at the altar. I won't even have you raise your hand. If God has been speaking you throughout this message, I want you to just respond with surrender right now. Just come down to the altar. Just find a place between you and God. He wants to mark this day for you. He wants to mark this moment for you.

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You.

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He's saying, bring it to me. Bring it to me. This is your year for victory. It starts right here. It starts right now. And we're just going to worship. Go ahead, Van. Just lead us into that worship song. Holy spirit. Holy Spirit.

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Again. You made a way where there was no way. God, I thank you, Lord. This is their year. God, to break every bad habit, to break every addiction, every stronghold.

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God, every mindset is not from you.

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In Jesus name I believe. I see you doing again. I see you move. You move mountain.

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You are a child of God. You are made in his house.

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You are anointed and appointed.

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You've done what it takes. In Jesus name, victory. In Jesus name. Lord, I thank you, God. This is a year where he sees victory. You're closer than you think. You're closer than you think.

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That miracle is closer Than you think In Jesus name. You, you move the mountain and I. Believe I'll see you do it again I'll see you do it again I'll see you do again I'll see you to it again.

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Now, church, I don't know if y' all can hear me out there, but I know not everyone out there is. Is feeling like this word was for you, but maybe it was for someone you know. But there are some people at this altar that are hanging on by a thread. And I felt it this morning. I was like, there is someone that's at our church right now that it was a step of faith to even come today. And it's like their last chance. They're giving God just this one last time to speak to them, to help them hang in the battle. And so I want us to stretch our hands out to this altar call, because you never know who at this altar needs to know that God has a purpose for their life and life is worth living and the battle is worth fighting. There's someone who's hanging on by a thread down here, here. So, God, I just pray. Whoever that is, I pray, God, that you would intervene in their life, Lord, you know the power of prayer, where two or more come together in agreement. Anything is possible. So, God, we come in agreement with you. Lord, we believe that walls are going to fall on the outside and the inside. Someone who's got walls around their heart, someone who has walls around areas in their life where they would not let anyone in. I thank you. This. This is the year, God, where bitterness breaks, where that defeated critical spirit breaks down. God. This is the year where humility emerges, God, in their life. And it leads to promotion. You oppose the proud, but you give grace to the humble. I pray this is their year where they step into victory as they surrender to you. And I pray, God, for a miracle in someone's life, financially, a miracle in someone's life, God, relationally. I pray, God, for healing in the mind. Someone who's been battling feelings of suicide and feelings of just defeat and feelings of unworthiness that today, God, you're healing their mind. Just pray this with me. Say, Jesus, I surrender. I'm all yours. My heart, my mind, my life. I give to you. I repent of my sin. Sins. And I receive your forgiveness. I confess you as my Lord and Savior. Holy Spirit, renew my mind. Help me to see what God sees. Help me to say what God says. Help me to stop what God wants me to stop. Help me to start what God wants me to start. Help me to be consistent this year, to stick with it, to not give up. Help me not to stop at six but to keep going until I see the breakthrough. I'm all yours, God. I believe my best day are right in front of me. And I have victory in my life because you live in me. In Jesus name, amen. And Amen.

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I love you.