WHAT KIND OF CHURCH IS THAT? WEEK 1 – A CONSECRATED CHURCH.
Joshua 3:1-5 NIV 1 Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. 2 After three days the officers went throughout the camp, 3 giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between you and the ark; do not go near it.” 5 Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”
PRAYER – Connection to God
FASTING – Disconnection from the World and Flesh
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”’ -MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
LET OUR CONSECRATION INCLUDE A FOCUS ON
I. His Presence Joshua
3:3 NIV 3 giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
Joshua 3:4 NIV 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between you and the ark; do not go near it.”
The distance was essential so that the largest possible number of this great population could see the ark.
Jesus never said “If you fast…” He said in Matt 6:16 and 6:17 “When you fast…” He expected you to do this.
LET OUR CONSECRATION INCLUDE A FOCUS ON…
II. OUR POSITION
Joshua 3:3 NIV 3 giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
Mark 9:28-29 NKJV 28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”
LET OUR CONSECRATION INCLUDE A FOCUS ON…
III. NEW PLACES
Joshua 3:4 NIV 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between you and the ark; do not go near it.”
TO GO WHERE YOU’VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS YOU’VE NEVER DONE!
Without God, man cannot. Without man, God will not. -John Wesley Joshua
3:5 NIV 5 Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”
My Beginning. My Forever. 
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