I’m Stepping In
Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall step in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
The children of Israel are standing in a familiar place (40 years prior, their parents had stood in this same place) On the brink of a breakthrough, they had a breakdown. They had a Faith Failure
They forfeited their promise, they were still Gods people, He cared for them and sustained them for 40 more years in the wilderness till all the doubters died.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to live and never discover your destiny, but worse than that, is to discover your destiny and forfeit it.
I want to talk to some people who know they have a destiny over their lives, who know there is a reason and a purpose for their existence. I want to talk to the ones who want everything God has ordained for your life and you refuse to let go, give in or give up. I want to talk to some people that have a fight in your spirit; the kind of fight that won’t be denied.
Is there anybody who wants all that at God has promised you? Is there anybody who refuses to settle for less than what God said you can have? Is there anybody who has their mind made up that whatever it costs you’re going to get what God has promised you?
Shout, It’s Time to Step In, Shout, It’s Time to Step In
Now if you’re satisfied with where you are, with what you have, seeing what you’re seeing, and doing what you’re doing and experiencing what you’re experiencing, (then this message is not for you.)
But if you happen to be one of those rare people called dreamers, and if something inside of you is kicking, and if your spirit is divinely dissatisfied, and if you know God has destined you for more ( then you’re the one I’m talking to). Shout, It’s Time to Step In.
Every promise comes with a price. If you obey.
If you diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD
If you love me, If you keep my commandments.
If you believe, If my people which are called….
There is no victory without a fight, and there is no testimony without a test. There’s no crown without a cross and there’s no resurrection without a crucifixion. There’s no healing without a sickness
There’s no deliverance without a fire. Somebody…
Shout, It’s Time to Step In, Shout, It’s Time to Step In
There is something you will have to go through
to get your promise, before Joseph went to the Palace he went to the Pit and then he went to the Prison. Before the three Hebrew boys were promoted
they went through the fiery furnace.
And between the children of Israel and their Inheritance (their promise land) there was a river called Jordan. Jordan means, descender or the one that takes you down, that’s what Jordan intends to do, to take you down, kill your dreams, drown your faith.
There is a Jordan for every one of us. Your Jordan may be different from mine, but what’s the same is, the fact, that, it stands between me and my promise.
It stands between you and your promise. And the only way we can get through it, is by faith in Jesus Christ.
You can’t float over on feelings, feelings won’t get you across, and you can’t run over on past experiences, and you can’t get through on second hand knowledge.
Religion won’t get you through it. Mama and Daddy can’t get you through it, the Preacher can’t get you through it. The only thing that can conquer Jordan
is a living faith in a living God, and His Name is Jesus.
As Israel stood at the edge of a raging river, at flood stage, Joshua gave the Priest a strange order.
He says (start walking) (Step into the water)
Start moving in the direction of your promise.
You can’t go by what you’re seeing or what you’re hearing or what you’re feeling or what other people are saying. You can’t go by what your mind is saying or the economy is saying, you have to move because God says move. You can’t wait until you can see a break in the waves, you can’t wait until it makes sense or it feels good to your emotions. You can’t wait until you see the waters open up in front of you. Step in.
Maybe the first time, God did it the easy way for you, But now you’ve got some time in with God, and now he is requiring more faith. You’ve got to move on.
God says it time to take the training wheels off.
It’s time to get rid of the pacifier.
It’s time to get rid of the crutches
It’s time to move from sight to faith
It’s time to move from I hope so to I know so.
It’s time to move from the milk to the meat.
This time you have to get your feet wet.
You’ve got to have enough vision and enough faith in God to get you off your blessed assurance and Step in.
Tell your neighbor: I’m stepping in, I’m stepping in.
I know it sounds crazy, I know it don’t make sense
I know this Jordan is at flood stage and I know that people are saying it won’t work, but I’m stepping in.
I know that the circumstances are against me and the odds are against me, but it really doesn’t matter,
as long as God is for me, who can be against me?
Look at somebody and say, (I’ve Got a Word)
That’s all you need is a Word, say, I’ve got a Word
When you’ve got a Word from God you can sleep like a baby in a den of lions, you can walk through a fiery furnace, you can do the impossible. You can bring down goliath with a piece of leather and a rock,
you can have your meal barrel full and your cruse of oil full in the middle of famine. All it takes is a Word.
Peter Had a Word: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. (Lord we’ve worked hard all night long and haven’t caught a thing)
Not a crappy, not a red breast, not even a minnow.
I just want to stop right here and ask you, how long are you going to keep doing what doesn’t work?
How long are “you” going to keep trying to make something happen before you turn it over to God,
and do it His way? “IF, you hearken diligently.”
Finally Peter Says: Nevertheless at Thy Word we will let down the net. And when Peter obeyed the word of the Lord he went into overflow. One word from God changed Peter’s circumstances and his very life.
He went from nothing, to too much in one step,
from emptiness to overflow in one step, from broke busted and disgusted, to blessed happy and wealthy in one step. He had such an abundance of fish it almost sank his boat; he had to call his brothers to come and help bring in the blessings. And it was such an abundance that it almost sank their boat too.
Though weeping may endure for the night,
Joy cometh in the morning, Shout, It’s Time to Step In
Peter went from a night of wearied, toilsome, and fruitless endeavor, to a morning of overflow and joy and blessings in one step. Shout, It’s Time to Step In
Let me prophesy to somebody who has the faith to reach out and grab it: Somebody is One step away from your miracle, one step away from your breakthrough. One step away from a too much blessing. You’ve put in your time of struggle, and crying and praying and confessing, and waiting and watching. But I just came to tell you (Your one step away from what you’ve been believing for).
Nu 23:19 God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent, if he said it he will do it, if he hath spoken it he will make it good.
When they stepped in, the waters rolled back.
As they walked on, the water parted before them.
Ps 114:5 What ailed thee O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan that thou wast driven back?
The Message Bible says it like this:
What’s wrong with you sea, that you ran away
and you river Jordan that you turned and ran off.
I want to prophesy to someone right now: There are some things that have been chasing you, in fact, threatening to drown you and take you under.
It may be debt, it may be sickness, it may be fear,
it may be a bad relationship, it may be torment.
I don’t know what it is that’s chasing you, but there’s a turn around in the atmosphere and God is getting ready to flip the script and that thing that’s been running after you, that thing that’s been nipping at your heels, is now going to run from you.
But you have to stop where you are, turn around
and face it, stomp your feet in faith and command it to go in Jesus Name, and when you do you are going to bring on a Miracle. Poverty and lack are going to run from you, Sickness and disease are going to run from you, Hopelessness and discouragement are going to run from you. Worry and anxiety are going to run from you, Fear and confusion are going to run from you. Depression and distress are going to run from you
Deut 28:7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee, to be smitten before thy face: They shall come out against thee one way but they shall flee before thee seven ways.
One step of Obedience: The willing and Obedient shall eat the good of the Land. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. The miracle is not in the knowing or even the believing, the miracle is in the doing. Step in.
When Ezekiel obeyed the Lord and prophesied over the dry bones, things started changing; it was a process that continued until the full manifestation.
Tell your neighbor: I’m a miracle in the making.
The bible says that the priests that were baring the ark kept moving until they were standing in the middle of the Jordan River. Tell your neighbor: Keep moving, keep praying, keep sowing, keep on coming to church.
Keep on confessing, keep tithing, and keep believing.
Keep praising, when you don’t feel like it, and when you don’t see anything to praise him for, praise him just because He’s God and Just because he’s worthy.
Tell your neighbor: Take a good look at me, cause I’m getting ready to do the impossible, I’m getting ready to go where they said it was impossible to go and do what they said it was impossible to do. I’m stepping in.
With God all things are possible to him that believeth.
Tell your neighbor: My faith is making a way for me.
I just want to tell you today: Somebody’s breaking through on your praise, somebody that wasn’t going to make it, is going to make it, because you praised God in the middle of your Jordan. That’s why it’s so important that you lift him up, and praise him and magnify him even in the prison, even in the lion’s den, even in the fiery furnace, lift up the Name of Jesus.
Anybody can praise God on the other side of Jordan, after you’re out of the lion’s den, when you get out of the fiery furnace, after you get out of the prison.
The Priests stopped half way through to praise Him.
There’s something about a midway praise, a midnight praise, an in the middle praise, a half-time praise,
that gets Gods attention and breaks things open.
Joshua erected a pillar of Stones in the midst of the Jordan where the priest’s feet stood firm on dry land. What was that pillar, Joshua? What does it mean?
Joshua said: This is my “going through it” praise.
I’m going through the worst trial of my life, but I’m going to praise him anyway. I’m going through hell in my finances, but I’m going to praise him anyway.
I’m going through the valley of the shadow of death, but I’m going to praise him anyway. I’m stepping in.
I’m going through it with my family, I’m going through it on my job, they’re trying to destroy my ministry but I’m going to praise him anyway.
This is my testimony, that God has been faithful, and somebody else, sometime is going to come this way and in the middle of their fiery trial they’re going to see this pillar of praise and it’s going to remind them of the faithfulness of God and it’s going to tell them, that someone else has passed this way before them and they didn’t drown, they didn’t burn up in the fire. The lions didn’t eat them and the prison couldn’t hold them.
Somebody else, who wouldn’t have made it, is going to make it, because of your praise. Somebody is coming out of depression because of your praise; somebody is being set free from a spirit of suicide because of your praise. Somebody is coming off of drugs because of your praise, somebody’s marriage is being restored because of your praise, somebody’s prodigal son or daughter is coming home because of your praise.
And at Midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto the Lord and the prisoners heard them.
And suddenly there was an earthquake that shook the foundations of the prison and every door flew open and every prisoner’s bands were loosed. Praise Him.
Tell somebody, This praise is for you, keep praising.
I love this part: And all the Israelites passed over on Dry Ground, this is the greatest part of the miracle, not just that they made it through, but that there was no evidence, no residue, not a sign, that they had been through what they had been through, they didn’t even have any mud between their toes. It’s Time to Step In.
Just like the three Hebrew children, when they came out of the furnace, their clothes were not burned, their hair was not singed, and there was not even the smell of smoke on them. I’m prophesying to somebody today: God is going to get you out, you’re coming out, and when you get out you’re not going to look like what you been through, when you get out, there’s not even going to be any evidence left of the hell you went through. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And it all started when the priests obeyed the Lord and stepped into the water. There’s somebody waiting for you to step in, you could be the key to someone else’s miracle. If you really believed that One step on your neighbors part would release your miracle, how would you talk to them? Give them a little nudge and tell them, let’s get this miracle started. Grab somebody by the hand, tell them: I’m stepping into my miracle.
Tell 'em, It’s Time to Step In in the Waters of Jordan
This is where you decide if the dream is worth it.
Its one thing to dream it’s another thing to take possession of that dream. Every dreamer will come to this place, it is here that dreamers go over or go under
Jordan is a dividing line; it’s the place where we are forced to trust in the living God, or are we going to trust in the arm of the flesh and self-efforts?
What does it take to get across Jordan?
#1 Sanctification: sanctify yourselves,
for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you
Anything that would offend the spirit of God in our lives can keep us from crossing Jordan. So many have started across Jordan, but because of some in ordinate affection, some hidden sin, some secret self-love,
they have come up short and were swallowed up
by waves of despair, guilt, condemnation.
Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you: How much of Gods power do we forfeit when we allow our lives to become cluttered with things of the flesh. It is clear that the shortage and the failure is not on Gods part, he is ready, he is willing, he is able. But we must clear the way,
open up the channel, (Sanctify ourselves)
#2 We must have a clear vision of something greater:
No one will let go of what they have, until they catch a vision of something greater. Moses had a vision of something greater, Joshua had a vision of something greater, Joseph had a vision of something greater Jesus had a vision of something greater.
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
#3 Total Dependence upon God: This where we are holding onto the ark, the presence the power, and the glory of God, we know that we can’t cross in our own power. (Not by might nor by power but by my spirit sayeth the lord of hosts) Trust Him with all your heart
#4 Bare feet: Bare feet means, no personal agenda. Every dream must have the glory of God, at it’s core. The promotion of the kingdom, if it is selfish in nature it is not from God and it will drown in the Jordan.
Before God commissioned Moses to bring his people out of bondage, he first ordered him to take off his shoes, When Joshua came into the presence of the captain of the lords host, he took off his shoes.
#5 Wet feet: It wasn’t until the priests feet touched the water, that it began to recede, nothing happened until they stepped in and got their feet wet, they had to have enough vision of the promise, and enough faith in God to get them off the bank into the water. Then as they walked, the waters fled before them. One of our biggest problems is, we want to see victory before we ever get into the fight, We want to see the end before we ever start, The problem is God operates on a need to know basis, he only gives you what you need to know, enough to get you started, then faith takes over
#6 Trusting Gods timing (waiting on God): It didn’t make sense to try and cross this river at flood stage, this season of the year the Jordan always floods, didn’t God know this? God knows when things are in position. It may not look like the time, or feel like the time or sound like the time, but God knows what we don’t know, He has inside information, so when He says do it, you can be sure His power will be available to bring it to pass. And if we are willing and obedient we will eat the good of the land. It’s Time to Step In.
Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall Step in the waters of Jordan, It’s Time to Step In
It’s Time to Step In in the Waters of Jordan
Thanks to my good friend Terry Sisney.
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