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TD Jakes — Pecking Order



Hello, everybody. I'm excited to have this opportunity to share the Word of the Lord with you today. We're going to take you into "Woman, Thou Art Loosed." This is powerful. It's nostalgia for me as we go back and look at how God moved in a powerful way.

Many of you will remember this message. It's called "The Pecking Order" out of Joshua, verse. Let's hear it. The book of Joshua is not for people who are still wandering or wondering. Therefore, people who are through wandering and they're about to step into their destiny and purpose. There's new leadership in Joshua.

Moses, my servant, is dead. Somebody shout, "Moses is dead." That means the former grace of enduring and surviving is over. Moses had an anointing to help people survive the bleak terrain of a desert. He led them through the wilderness. When he got to the end of the wilderness, he died, and a new leader took over named Joshua, who's anointing was not to wander, Joshua was a fighter, he was a warrior, and he was a possessor of the promises of God.

Moses was dead. God gave them a certain amount of days to weep for Moses, and when the day of mourning was over, God said, "Moses, my servant, is dead. As I was with Moses, so shall I be with you, Joshua. Dry your face. Stop crying. It's time to cross over." I wanna pronounce--listen, listen clearly. I wanna pronounce a benediction on every grieving, weeping, depressed, lonely, frustrated, tired spirit. Your period of mourning is over. Touch your girlfriend, your sister-girl, your cousin, or Meemaw, and tell her, "I cried my last tear yesterday, yesterday. I cried my last tear yesterday".

You can send them flowers back, you can give that sympathy card back, you can stop lookin' at me all pitiful, you can stop seeing me as charity. I got my strength back, I got my fight back, I got my drive back. Glory to God,

I'm forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those things which are before. I got some press down in me. Yeah, yeah, shake your sister-girl and say, "I got some press in me." That's how I got in here tonight, I got some press down in me. That's why I'm watching on television. I got some press down in me. I got some fight in me.

If you don't believe I got some press in me, look back at my history and ask the folk who fought me. Ask the people who said I would never make it. I got some press in me. I made it without 'em, I made it in spite of 'em. You know the story.

Joshua sends out a couple of spies and sends them in to spy out the land before he ever takes it. He sends 'em over there to spy out the land. And it's interesting that he would send the spies out to spy out the land. It's very interesting that he did that considering he had been one of Moses's spies. So, he really didn't need them to go over there to spy out the land, 'cause he didn't know what was there, 'cause he'd been there.

So why did he send them? Why did a man who had been to Jericho himself now send these spies over to the Promised Land? You remember Joshua had been there before with the spies. Now he sends these two spies over there and says, "I want you to scope out the land."

Because you cannot lead people into anything that they don't have a vision for. That's number one. Number two, God wants you to be excited about your destiny so that you can endure the process that brings you into promise. Uh-huh, because there is a process before promise. And if you don't have at least a vision of the promise, the process will discourage you.

But every time discouragement is trying to get you to give up the process, remember the vision you have of the promise and keep on walking around the wall. Keep on walking around.

The book of Joshua is not for people who are still wandering or wondering. Therefore, people who are through wandering and they're about to step into their destiny and purpose.

There's new leadership in Joshua. Moses, my servant, is dead. Somebody shout, "Moses is dead." That means the former grace of enduring and surviving is over. Moses had an anointing to help people survive the bleak terrain of a desert. He led them through the wilderness.

When he got to the end of the wilderness, he died, and a new leader took over named Joshua, who's anointing was not to wander, Joshua was a fighter, he was a warrior, and he was a possessor of the promises of God.

Moses was dead. God gave them a certain amount of days to weep for Moses, and when the day of mourning was over, God said, "Moses, my servant, is dead. As I was with Moses, so shall I be with you, Joshua. Dry your face. Stop crying. It's time to cross over."

I wanna pronounce--listen, listen clearly. I wanna pronounce a benediction on every grieving, weeping, depressed, lonely, frustrated, tired spirit. Your period of mourning is over. Touch your girlfriend, your sister-girl, your cousin, or Meemaw, and tell her, "I cried my last tear yesterday, yesterday. I cried my last tear yesterday."

You can send them flowers back, you can give that sympathy card back, you can stop lookin' at me all pitiful, you can stop seeing me as charity. I got my strength back, I got my fight back, I got my drive back, I got my focus back. Glory to God,

I'm forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those things which are before. I got some press down in me. Yeah, yeah, shake your sister-girl and say, "I got some press in me." That's how I got in here tonight, I got some press down in me. That's why I'm watching on television. I got some press down in me. I got some fight in me.

If you don't believe I got some press in me, look back at my history and ask the folk who fought me. Ask the people who said I would never make it. I got some press in me. I made it without 'em, I made it in spite of 'em.

You know the story. Joshua sends out a couple of spies and sends them in to spy out the land before he ever takes it. He sends 'em over there to spy out the land. And it's interesting that he would send the spies out to spy out the land. It's very interesting that he did that considering he had been one of Moses's spies.

So, he really didn't need them to go over there to spy out the land, 'cause he didn't know what was there, 'cause he'd been there. So why did he send 'em? Why did a man who had been to Jericho himself now send these spies over to the Promised Land?

You remember Joshua had been there before with the spies. Now he sends these two spies over there and says, "I want you to scope out the land." Because you cannot lead people into anything that they don't have a vision for.

That's number one. Number two, God wants you to be excited about your destiny so that you can endure the process that brings you into promise. Uh-huh, because there is a process before promise.

And if you don't have at least a vision of the promise, the process will discourage you. But every time discouragement is trying to get you to give up the process, remember the vision you have of the promise and keep on walkin' around the wall. Keep on walkin' around. "I'm tired, Lord, but I'm gonna walk around this wall.

I'm frustrated, Lord, but I'm gonna walk around this wall. I'm lonely, Lord, but I'm gonna walk around this wall. Ministry's not growin', but I'm gonna walk around this wall. Thought I'd be married by now, but I'm gonna walk around this wall. Lost the first house, applyin' for the second house, but I'm gonna walk around this wall.

Credit's all jacked, Lord, but I'm gonna walk around this wall. I'm trusting you when I can't trace you, I'm gonna walk around this wall. And Lord, I am crazy enough to stand in front of a solid wall and shout as if it had already come down." Let's try that one time. Let's shout as if the walls had already come down!
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