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Possession the Land Series – Week 8

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful message takes us deep into Joshua chapter 3, where we witness the Israelites crossing the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land. What makes this passage so profound is that it mentions the Ark of the Covenant—representing God’s presence—14 times in just 17 verses. This isn’t coincidental. When we face our own ‘Jordan Rivers,’ those seemingly impossible barriers in our lives, the message is clear: pursue the presence of God, not just the people who carry it. We’re challenged to examine whether we’re chasing after anointed individuals or after the Lord Himself. The instruction was simple yet transformative: ‘When you see the ark, go after it.’ We learn that moving from where we are comfortable is essential to pursuing God’s presence. There’s a critical distinction made between God’s omnipresence—His being everywhere at once—and His manifest, tangible presence that we can experience personally. Just as God dwelt differently in the Most Holy Place than anywhere else on earth, He invites us into that same intimate encounter. The blood of Jesus has torn the veil and consecrated the path into God’s presence. We don’t need to clean ourselves up first; we come as we are, and in His presence, He sanctifies us. This message stirs a hunger to rediscover what it means to draw near to God individually, not just corporately, and to let His character transform ours through genuine fellowship with His Spirit.

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A Shout From Heaven

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This powerful message challenges us to reconsider what missions truly means by exploring the very nature of God himself. We discover a stunning pattern throughout Scripture: when a cry goes up from earth, God sends a shout from heaven—a message of hope—followed by a person to deliver it. From Moses at the burning bush to Gideon facing the Midianites, we see God consistently responding to human suffering and the condition of sin. But here’s the revolutionary insight: the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus didn’t change God’s nature or mission—it invited us into covenant relationship so we could participate in that very nature. We’re not just called to believe in missions as something distant or specialized; we’re called to recognize that being Christian means being missionary by definition. The message expands our understanding beyond traditional missionary work to include every cry that reaches God’s throne—loneliness, fear, depression, unworthiness—all effects of sin’s condition. Through vivid demonstrations and real-life stories of divine appointments, we learn that faith must lead to action, powered by the Holy Spirit, or it dies. The question isn’t whether God is calling us to join his mission, but what false identities and limiting beliefs are we holding onto that prevent us from stepping forward? What cloaks do we need to remove to fully embrace the freedom and purpose God has for us?

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Possession the Land Series – Week 7

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful message challenges us to reconsider where we actually stand in our spiritual journey by asking a provocative question: Are we standing in the land to possess right now? Drawing from the Israelites’ entry into the Promised Land, we’re confronted with the reality that stepping into God’s promises isn’t about waiting for perfect faith or ideal circumstances—it’s about recognizing we’re already on the battlefield. The sermon identifies three critical signs that we’ve entered this promised territory: we want more than what the world offers, conflict has become unavoidable in our lives, and we’re facing giants. What’s particularly striking is the reframing of our spiritual position—we may think we’re not ready, but the enemy wants us perpetually stuck in a ‘not yet’ mindset. The truth is more radical: if we’ve separated ourselves from worldly satisfaction and hunger for something deeper, we’ve already crossed over. This isn’t about comfort or balance; it’s about maintaining a war footing. The message culminates in a beautiful revelation about our authority as believers—we carry the name of Jesus, and that alone makes us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. We don’t need to be experts in spiritual warfare; we simply need to recognize that our very presence, carrying God’s Spirit, changes atmospheres and opens possibilities. The call isn’t to wait until we feel qualified—it’s to engage with what we already have.

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Alive – Easter 2026

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This powerful Easter message challenges us to examine the very foundation of our faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We’re reminded that even those closest to Jesus, the women who came to the tomb with spices, didn’t expect Him to be alive. They came with good intentions but without faith. This reveals something profound about our own spiritual journey – we can go through religious motions with sincere hearts yet miss the transformative power of belief. The angels had to remind them of what Jesus had already told them multiple times. The resurrection isn’t just a nice story; it’s the central pillar of Christianity, the guarantee of our own future resurrection. What makes this message particularly compelling is how it addresses the human condition of sin – not just sinful actions, but the inherent condition of spiritual death we’re all born into. We learn that Jesus didn’t just die for us, He died as us, becoming fully human to be our substitute. His sinlessness, not His divinity alone, defeated death. The message confronts two common misconceptions: that living a good life is enough, and that we’re beyond God’s reach. Neither is true. We’re called to recognize that we can’t fix ourselves, that we need a Savior who offers not just forgiveness but complete transformation from the inside out

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Possessing the Land Series – Week 6

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful message takes us on a journey through the Israelites’ 40-year wilderness experience, revealing profound truths about how we respond to God’s promises and the obstacles we face. At the heart of this teaching is a sobering reality: God brought His people out of Egypt not just to free them from slavery, but to bring them into something far greater—the Promised Land. Yet despite witnessing incredible miracles, from the parting of the Red Sea to daily provision of manna, the Israelites tested God ten times through grumbling, complaining, and ultimately rejecting His promises. What’s striking is that God describes their manna—their daily supernatural provision—as His glory, yet they saw it as monotonous. This reveals a critical spiritual principle: how we respond to trials and waiting periods determines whether we enter our inheritance or wander in circles. The message emphasizes that God never allows tests to destroy us, but always to propel us forward. Every temptation, every hardship, every unanswered question is an opportunity to deepen our trust rather than turn negative. We’re reminded that God has sworn an oath through Jesus Christ to save us completely, and just as He fulfilled His promises to Abraham despite human failure, He will fulfill His promises to us. The challenge before us is clear: will we cultivate gratitude and declaration even in the desert, or will we allow grumbling to set our hearts on evil things and miss what God has prepared?

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Possessing the Land Series – Week 5

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful exploration of the Book of Numbers reveals three essential principles for possessing God’s promises in our lives. We journey alongside the second generation of Israelites who, after forty years in the wilderness, finally stood ready to enter the Promised Land. Their story illuminates timeless truths: first, that the enemy is actually afraid of us when we walk in obedience to God. When resistance comes, it’s often not a sign we’ve done something wrong, but evidence that the enemy fears what God will accomplish through us. Second, we face the seduction of worldly influence precisely at critical moments before breakthrough. The enemy offers false affection to replace God’s presence in our lives, sending lies that look appealing but are designed to snatch the praise from our mouths and rob us of intimacy with God. Third, and perhaps most challenging, we must fight for our brothers and sisters. The principle is clear: someone fought for us through prayer, fasting, and encouragement, and we’re called to do the same for others. This isn’t optional—it’s essential to walking into our own promises. The beauty of covenant community is found in the 59 ‘one anothers’ scattered throughout the New Testament, reminding us that we were never meant to journey alone.

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Possessing the Land Series – Week 4

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful exploration of faith challenges us to move beyond a superficial understanding and embrace what it truly means to walk by faith in a culture saturated with unbelief. Drawing from Hebrews 11 and the story of Joshua and Caleb in Numbers 13-14, we discover that faith isn’t about denying reality or pretending problems don’t exist. Instead, biblical faith acknowledges the giants in the land while choosing to trust in God’s character and promises anyway. We learn that faith is anchored not merely in Scripture as words on a page, but in the very person of God himself—His faithfulness, His goodness, His unchanging nature. The message beautifully addresses the wounds many of us carry from misapplied faith teaching, reminding us that a walk of faith isn’t a perfect walk. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11—Noah, Abraham, Moses, David—all had significant flaws and failures, yet God commended them because despite their struggles, they continued to trust Him. Faith pleases God because it says, ‘Even when I don’t see, even when I don’t understand, I choose to trust You.’ This isn’t about having more faith, but about placing our faith in the right person. Like Abraham who left everything without knowing his destination, we’re called to step out based on what God has spoken to our hearts, understanding that faith is an outward demonstration of an inward relationship with our Creator.

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Possessing the Land Series – Week 3

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful exploration of Numbers 13-14 confronts us with a sobering reality: the difference between seeing God’s promises and actually possessing them. We discover two generations of Israelites standing at the same crossroads—one paralyzed by unbelief despite witnessing countless miracles, the other empowered by faith to step into their inheritance. The message challenges us to examine what promised land we’re standing before in our own lives. Are we like the first generation, acknowledging God’s goodness from a distance but unable to believe it’s truly for us? Or are we ready to step forward in faith? What makes this teaching particularly compelling is its systematic breakdown of how unbelief takes root—not all at once, but through five interconnected pillars: loss of hope, grumbling and complaining, doubt about God’s heart, deception, and ultimately rebellion. We learn that biblical hope isn’t wishful thinking but a confident expectation of good based on God’s character. The antidote isn’t found in trying harder to believe, but in returning to God’s presence where hopelessness dies and strength is renewed. This isn’t just ancient history—it’s a mirror reflecting our own struggles with trusting God’s promises about healing, provision, purpose, and abundant life.

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Possession the Land Series – Week 2

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Possessing the Land Series

This powerful message takes us into the wilderness with the first generation of Israelites who stood at the edge of God’s promises but failed to enter. Drawing from Numbers 13-14, we encounter a sobering truth: being saved and set free is just the beginning. God desires more for us than merely escaping Egypt—He wants to remove Egypt from within us. The twelve spies sent to scout the Promised Land returned with two drastically different reports. Ten saw giants and fortified cities; two saw God’s faithfulness and opportunity. What made the difference? Not their circumstances, but what overwhelmed them. The teaching challenges us to examine what shapes our thinking: Are we overwhelmed by problems or by God’s promises? The wilderness of Paran, where they camped, means ‘to adorn the bride’—revealing God’s heart to beautify and bless His people. Yet this generation wandered forty years in the desert because they spent forty days touching God’s promises without the faith to live there. We’re reminded that God commands us to look at His promises because we don’t naturally pursue them. Faith isn’t passive wishful thinking; it’s actively taking hold of what God has already given. The question confronting us is profound: Will we be a generation that merely visits God’s promises, or will we possess them?

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The Three Chairs

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In this powerful message, Leif Hetland challenges us with a bold truth: the greatest crisis in the world today is not economic, political, or social—it’s spiritual. The world has become a worldwide orphanage.

Through the framework of the “Three Chairs,” he unpacks three ways people live: the Kingdom of God (sonship), the kingdom of self (orphan spirit), and the kingdom of the world. At the root of fear, division, addiction, insecurity, and even dysfunction in the church is a deep father wound—a loss of identity as beloved sons and daughters.

This message traces God’s original design from Genesis, where humanity’s first experience was seeing the Father’s face, hearing His voice, and living from His love. When that connection was broken, the orphan spirit entered—but through Jesus, we are restored back to sonship.

You are not called to perform for approval.
You are not defined by what you do.
You are not what others say about you.

You are a beloved son. You are a beloved daughter.

This teaching calls the church to move from orphan mentality to family culture—because only a healthy family can transform culture. When we live rooted and grounded in love, we reflect the Father correctly to the world.

It’s time for the orphan spirit to be removed and for the Father’s blessing to be restored.

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