Faith Leaves A Legacy Week 6 Text: Joshua 4:6–7:

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

Joshua 4:7 - Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

Week 1 Building Your Faith Series Faith Begins With A Foundation

Week 2 Building Your Faith Series Faith Is Built On Remembering

Week 3 Faith Must Be Spoken

Week 4 Faith Is Strengthened Through Testing

Week 5 Faith Begins With Obedience

Week 6 Faith Leaves a Legacy

So, after crossing the Jordan, Israel builds stone memorials so that future generations would ask, What do these stones mean?

What we must understand is that Faith must be remembered and not just experienced.

You see Testimonies preserve faith.

Stories help sustain future believers.

Here it is Memory becomes ministry.

What you survive today becomes someone else’s hope tomorrow.

How many times has your mother or father told you some stories about how they made it through the storms and the rain, and how some of them same testimonies, have now become your testimony, and a legacy for you to pass along to your children.

What I have learned is that My faith. Will speak after me.

My testimonies Will help build others.

So let’s look at this. Israel has just crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.

And God tells Joshua to have twelve men take twelve stones from the middle of the river and set them up as a memorial.

That this may be a sign among you.

Faith is Visible: God told them to build something physical to represent a spiritual miracle.

May I tell you that Faith is not just internal it leaves evidence.

God does things in your life that become signs.

Your survival, your ministry, your church, your assignment they are all signs of Faith and miracles.

Come on look at verse six again, it says That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

It says: When your children ask what does this mean?

God did not say if your children ask.

He said when.

That means: There will be a next generation.

There will be curiosity.

There will be a moment of spiritual inquiry.

Look at this: God was already planning for Israel’s future before they even finished celebrating their miracle.

It tells us that what God does in one season is meant to speak into another season.

Notice the phrase your children.

This is covenant language.

God is saying: What I did for you is not just about you.

Your breakthrough is connected to your bloodline.

Your miracle has generational implications.

Faith Must Be Transferable

God was thinking generationally.

Watch this: Real faith creates questions.

Real miracles provoke curiosity.

Real deliverance looks for an explanation.

When the next generation sees stability in chaos, favor in famine, peace in pressure — they will ask: What mean ye by these stones?

Faith should be so strong in your life that it makes people inquire.

The waters of Jordan were cut off.

Faith Stops What Should have Drown You

Jordan was at flood stage (v.15).

It wasn’t a trickle.

It wasn’t ankle-deep.

It was overflow season.

And God cut it off.

Faith does not deny the flood, but instead it declares authority over it.

There will be some floods:But faith says: “It may be overflowing, but it will not overtake me.

Before the Ark of the Covenant faith was there.

The water stopped because the Ark (God’s presence) went first.

Faith is not positive thinking.

Faith is positioning yourself behind God’s presence.

The priests stepped in first, THEN the water moved.

Movement follows obedience.

Breakthrough follows bold steps.

Then miracles follow alignment.

These stones shall be for a memorial forever.”

Faith Remembers

But the enemy loves when we forget about what God did.

But memorial stones say:

God brought me out before.

God made a way before.

God healed before.

God sustained before.

Faith grows by remembering victories.

Just like David remembered the lion and the bear before facing Goliath.

Israel needed stones to remember Jordan.

You need reminders of what God already did.

Joshua 4:6–7 teaches us:

Build something that reminds you.

Tell your story boldly.

Expect the next generation to ask.

Trust God in flood season.

Follow His presence into the impossible territory.

May I tell you one more thing?

Faith Mode Declaration

Say this:

The flood will not define me.

The Presence will lead me.

The miracle will mark me.