✗ Hillsong Conf 2014: "Don't stop on six" by Steven Furtick ✗

• It really impresses you when someone has the fortitude to finish it
• You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you have received when He has promised
• Joshua 6:14
• If you are not careful, conference can become a walk through for you
• Life is not a walk through, and the point of all of this is not marvel at what they did in conference, that you will receive something in here, that will unable you to release in faith in what you do back there 
• You can forfeit your position in ministry as you have lose your passion in what you're doing
• “See I have delivered Jericho into your hands” (In other words, I got this, so you got this)
• God is speaking in past tense to Joshua about a battle that he has not fought yet
• Tim 1: “Who has destroyed death and brought life...”
• God speaks in past tense about the battle that you are currently fighting -- that is His heavenly perspective in what you're facing
• Three reasons people stop short


1. Your perspective gets obstructed (Blocked) 

• What do you do when what you see in your situation, doesn’t look anything like what God is saying in your spirit
• God sees beneath our situation and see what we can’t see
• The intensity of the opposition in your life is prove of the power of God's promise in your life
• The reason the gate were locked; the walls were high, is because the enemy was intimidated
• As we praise God, and sing the songs until we are singing them in our sleep -- walking around singing them
• Praise has a way of lifting your perspective, and getting you above walls and helping you to see past problems
• Praise will lift your perspective and show you what God sees beneath the situation that you can’t see past
• That the eyes of your heart might see, know, comprehend and be reminded of what God have for you


2. Our progress isn’t obvious

• It took 40 years of wondering, and then when Joshua thought he finally got to go in, and then God had a meeting of taking 7 days of exercise
• God is a master motivator as He made us and knows what He wants and plans for us
• First you can't see God, and this feels silly, you are not even going to knock them down but shout them down
• For seven days, nothing moved – Not a brick fell. Nothing. Nothing.
• We want the progress of the work we are doing to be apparent immediately -- we think that would be so helpful
• But we walk by FAITH and NOT by sight
• Will you keep walking even when it doesn’t seem to be working? -- This is the question of faith
• When you pray and nothing moves, this is the question; Can you believe that God is moving even if the wall hasn’t moved at all? When the situation hasn’t change a bit? Can you keep preaching when the church isn’t growing? Can you keep forgiving (and it would be great they immediately reciprocate), and the person does it again?
• Why would God make them march, and not give them a little sign that they are on the right track, or not crazy, or not just hearing things, or is really doing what they are told to do or see a little bit of progress?
• "Obedience is your responsibility, outcome is Mine"
• Will you have the faith to believe that God is working, even if IT isn’t working?
• It is obedience, the steadfastness
• Sometimes we are consumed and obsessed about the battle, that we want God to win for us, and we forget about the most important battle which is what He wants to win IN us
• Maybe there is a battle He has to win IN you, before he can win the battle FOR you
• Because it is in the walking, wondering, weakness, and in the how much longer that your faith is developed that God is doing stuff in you
• Just because your progress isn’t obvious, doesn’t mean your faith isn’t working
• It doesn’t mean your love isn’t working, or your giving isn’t working, or you didn’t hear from God
• The promise still stands
• Even when some things has happened, and cause you to questioned, the promise still stands ("I meant what I said")
• The promise still stands. It still stands. Even if the wall is still standing between you and the promise, and after six laps, if God is for you, who can stand against you?
• God said to Jericho, "Six times nothing, but seven times BAM and you will all go straight in"
• But Jericho told his men nothing about the 7 times nor the wall tumbling down
• Vs 1 (Taking Jericho) against Vs 7 (Advance and march) against Vs 14 (They did this in 6 days)
• 6 is your number (man), 7 is God’s number (perfection)
• You can go really hard if you know it is going to happen 


3. The process is open ended

• How long Lord? That is the burning question.
• I don’t mind walking, God I’ll serve you, but I am limping now, and I didn’t know it will take this long, how long it is going to hurt like this? How many people are going to leave me? how long?
• I don’t mind walking, but I just need to know this is working, I just need to know why I am going around this walls, continuing to show up, walking and it is not walking
• “Because if I let you in on the first lap, you would think it is your walking that let you in, your shot to bring the wall down, and I need you to take the faith to have just another lap"
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if life would wave a white flag to let you know you have one lap left, just one more month, if you can push through one more time?
• But life does not wave its white flag, so we wave our white flag, and say God we can’t do this anymore
• And God says good now you’re ready to go in, and now you know, it wasn’t because you walked so good that you walked so much, but it is He who begun a good work in you will be faithful to complete it to the day of Christ
• Take another lap, take another lap, you’re closer than you think you are, its working more than you think it is, it is doing stuff you can’t see, don’t stop, this might be the day
• “Cause the enemy has been defeated / And death couldn’t hold You down / Gonna lift our voice in victory / Gonna make Your praises loud / Shout unto God with the voice of triumph / Shout unto God with the voice of praise / Shout unto God with the voice of triumph / We lift your name up / We lift your name up.
• Wouldn't it be a shame for you have come this close, to fight this hard, only to quit?
• Somebody is on six, and you don’t even know it, you are so close
• You are growing, you are changing, it is working, this might be your last lap
• But what if it is not? Walk, like every lap is your last, and one day, you’ll be right
• “Except on that day... they circled the city seven times, and the seventh time around"
• Don’t stop on six