Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
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Speaker 1: Almighty God, We've got the Word of Almighty God, and
Speaker 1: we've got God's people together. And when you get all
Speaker 1: that together, anything can happen. Clap those hands if you
Speaker 1: believe anything can happen in God's presence. Always awkward to
Speaker 1: clap holding the mic like that. You hit it too hard.
Speaker 1: One time I hit it too hard. The whole mic
Speaker 1: just went out. So now I go tap those fingers,
Speaker 1: praise the Lord. One more sermon on Gideon, and I
Speaker 1: promise I'll leave Gideon alone. Y'all got one more Gideon sermon,
Speaker 1: and then open your Bible to Judges chapter seven, or
Speaker 1: pretend to open your Bible as you flip through your
Speaker 1: phone and get that last round of candy crush so
Speaker 1: you can pay attention to me. I want your mind
Speaker 1: free and clear today because this message is just so
Speaker 1: rich good news. I'm going to read so much scripture
Speaker 1: is going to make up for all the ones you
Speaker 1: didn't read.
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to judge you, but I know you've
Speaker 1: been busy, so I'm gonna put them all in on
Speaker 1: this one. Judges chapter seven, Verse one. How about that
Speaker 1: from the English Standard version of the Bible. Then Jerube
Speaker 1: bel that is, Gideon and all the people who were
Speaker 1: with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harad,
Speaker 1: and the camp of Midian was north of them by
Speaker 1: the hill of Moreh In the valley. The Lord said
Speaker 1: to Gideon, somebody say out loud, speak to me. Lord.
Speaker 1: Don't just talk to Gideon. Just don't leave it back
Speaker 1: there in the past. Speak to me, Lord, I need
Speaker 1: to hear you too, the Lord said to Gideon. Now
Speaker 1: you asked the Lord to speak. Listen what he said
Speaker 1: to Gideon. The people with you are too many for
Speaker 1: me to give the Midianites into their hand. That's their enemy,
Speaker 1: the Midianites. The Lord said, I'm gonna give you the victory,
Speaker 1: but the people with you are too many for me
Speaker 1: to do it. Lest Israel boast over me, saying my
Speaker 1: own hand has saved me. Now therefore proclaim in the
Speaker 1: ears of the people, saying, whoever is fearful and trembling,
Speaker 1: let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.
Speaker 1: Then twenty two thousand of the people return and ten
Speaker 1: thousand remains. Yeah, that's backwards going into a battle, But
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in a moment. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Verse four. And the Lord said to Gideon, the people
Speaker 1: are still too many. Take them down to the water,
Speaker 1: and I will test them for you there. And any
Speaker 1: one of whom I say to you this one shall
Speaker 1: go with you, shall go with you. And any one
Speaker 1: of whom I say this one shall not go with
Speaker 1: you shall not go. Hey it's a good idea to
Speaker 1: let God decide who belongs in your life in every season,
Speaker 1: just a little seminar breakout session. That's not my sermon.
Speaker 1: But let God do that recruiting for you and the removal.
Speaker 1: He's a good He'll balance it out for you in
Speaker 1: the end, all right, verse what vers of mile on
Speaker 1: Tim five? Tim was the last one answer, And he's
Speaker 1: the one whose name I call him youth pastors uh five.
Speaker 1: So he brought the people down to the water, and
Speaker 1: the Lord said to gid him. Everyone who lapsed the
Speaker 1: water with his tongue as a dog lapse, you shall
Speaker 1: set by himself. Likewise, everyone who kneels down to drink.
Speaker 1: So put them on two different sides. God's sortain things
Speaker 1: out now, getting getting ready for the battle. He's got
Speaker 1: a five. And the number of those who lapped, putting
Speaker 1: their hands to their mouth like dogs, was three hundred men.
Speaker 1: But all the rest of the people knelt down to
Speaker 1: drink water, had their face down in it, couldn't even look.
Speaker 1: I'll seef anybody's coming. And so you know, he got
Speaker 1: ninety seven hundred of the ten thousand that are left
Speaker 1: on one side, three hundred on the other side, and
Speaker 1: if I'm Giddeon, I'm like so I get the ninety
Speaker 1: seven hundred right over here, right And no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Lord said, with the three hundred men, the number
Speaker 1: was three hundred men knelt down to drink like a doll.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Gideon, with the three hundred
Speaker 1: men who lapped, I will save you and give the
Speaker 1: Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go.
Speaker 1: Every man to his home. So the people took provisions
Speaker 1: in their hands and their trumpets, and he sent the
Speaker 1: rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained
Speaker 1: the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was
Speaker 1: below him in the valley. A few more verses. That
Speaker 1: same night, the Lord said to him, arise, go down
Speaker 1: against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.
Speaker 1: I have given it. Who else but God can speak
Speaker 1: in the past tense about a battle that hasn't even
Speaker 1: happened yet, who else? What? God? Let me keep reading, y'all,
Speaker 1: stop distracting me. Behave. I have given it into your hand.
Speaker 1: But if you are afraid to go down, go down
Speaker 1: to the camp with Pura, your servant, and you shall
Speaker 1: hear what they say. And afterward, your hands shall be
Speaker 1: strengthened to go down against the camp. And then he
Speaker 1: went down with Purer, his servant, to the outpost of
Speaker 1: the armed men who were in the camp, and the
Speaker 1: Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the
Speaker 1: east lay along the valley like locusts in abundance. What
Speaker 1: a contrast. Gideon's got three hundred dogs, and they got
Speaker 1: so many enemies that it looks like locusts, a lot
Speaker 1: of them. And their camels were without number, as the
Speaker 1: sand that is on the seashore in abundance. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of them. It's a lot of them. Say it's
Speaker 1: a lot of them. It's a lot of things I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with right now. It's a lot of people getting
Speaker 1: on my nerves right now. It's a lot of bills
Speaker 1: falling up right now. It's a lot of things I'm
Speaker 1: trying to sort out right now. Now, watch this. When
Speaker 1: Gideon came verse thirteen, Behold, a man was telling a
Speaker 1: dream to his comrade, and he said, behold, I dreamed
Speaker 1: a dream, And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled
Speaker 1: into the camp of Midian and came to the tent
Speaker 1: and struck it so that it fell, and turned it
Speaker 1: upside down, so that the tent lay flat. And his
Speaker 1: comrade answered, this is no other than the sword of Gideon,
Speaker 1: the son of joe Ash, a man of Israel. God
Speaker 1: has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.
Speaker 1: As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream
Speaker 1: and its interpretation, he worshiped, and he returned to the
Speaker 1: camp of Israel and said, a rise, for the Lord
Speaker 1: has given the host of Midian into your hand. Clap
Speaker 1: those hands and celebrate God's word. Clap those hands. Today,
Speaker 1: I want to preach to you about a very specific
Speaker 1: subject that the Lord told me to mention today. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about instruments of victory. Instruments of victory.
Speaker 1: And on your way down to your seat, just say,
Speaker 1: I've got what it takes to win. You may be seated.
Speaker 1: I've got what it takes to win. High five the
Speaker 1: person next to you, say, you've got what it takes
Speaker 1: to win this one. You've got what it takes to
Speaker 1: win this one. When I say that, do you believe it?
Speaker 1: I've got what it takes to win. Gideon didn't for
Speaker 1: a long, long while. It took him a while. It
Speaker 1: took him a while to reconcile what he had inside
Speaker 1: of him with what he saw all around him. It
Speaker 1: took him a while to reconcile what God said about
Speaker 1: him with what he saw in himself. It took him
Speaker 1: a while to realize, if I could say it this way,
Speaker 1: what kind of instrument he was in God's eyes? What
Speaker 1: kind of instrument he was in God's eyes? See in
Speaker 1: the Book of Judges, you have this constant cycle of
Speaker 1: God's people getting in trouble and then God stepping in
Speaker 1: and bringing them out of trouble. And he did it
Speaker 1: through if I can say it this way, some interesting instruments,
Speaker 1: like one time you ever heard of Samson, got a haircut,
Speaker 1: lost his strength, ate his finish. No, that's another guy,
Speaker 1: all right. Sorry, I get mixed up sometimes, But Samson Samson.
Speaker 1: One time he took the jawbone of a donkey. And
Speaker 1: if it was a men's conference, we do the King
Speaker 1: James the jawbone of an ass in the King James
Speaker 1: version of the Bible, and beat back a thousand Philistines
Speaker 1: with the jawbone of a donkey. And then he did
Speaker 1: a disc track to the Philistines about it, with the
Speaker 1: jawbone of a donkey. I have slain a thousand men
Speaker 1: with the jawbone of a donkey. I have made donkeys
Speaker 1: of them. Samson interesting guy, interesting instrument for God to us,
Speaker 1: you know, because he wasn't very self controlled or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but he was strong and God used him.
Speaker 1: One lady in the Book of Judges. I won't go
Speaker 1: through all of them, it's fresh on my mind because
Speaker 1: we were reading through it a few weeks ago. But
Speaker 1: one woman in the Book of Judges, she wanted to
Speaker 1: kill an evil king, and he snuck in her tent
Speaker 1: and she said, oh, poor baby, let me give you
Speaker 1: some milk. And she gave him some milk and he
Speaker 1: got sleepy, and then while he was dozing off, she
Speaker 1: got a tent peg. You ever read the Bible, y'all,
Speaker 1: don't read the good stuff. I gotta show you where
Speaker 1: the good stuff is, because you're over there rejoicing the Lord.
Speaker 1: She took a tent peg because sometimes you fight the devil,
Speaker 1: you gotta fight the devil dirty. Sometimes you do, sometimes
Speaker 1: you do, sometimes you do. Sometimes you don't have time
Speaker 1: for all of that transcendence and otherness and God the
Speaker 1: dustness of thine in presence is. Then she grabbed a
Speaker 1: tent peg. I don't think it was meant for this purpose,
Speaker 1: but she was multipurposing, and she took the tent peg
Speaker 1: put it through his skull. Look her up in the
Speaker 1: Bible J L J A E L. It means uh,
Speaker 1: the one God chose. That's what at least that's what
Speaker 1: the girl told me at the restaurant. I met a
Speaker 1: girl at a restaurant in Greensboro Friday, and she said,
Speaker 1: mister Verday. I said yes, She said, I watch your servants.
Speaker 1: I said great. What's your name? She said Jayl. I
Speaker 1: said that's a great name. Do you know that story
Speaker 1: in the Bible? She said, oh yeah. And so she
Speaker 1: was a server in the restaurant. So every time she
Speaker 1: came close to me with like a instrument of any sort,
Speaker 1: I was a little bit nervous, but she was sweet
Speaker 1: in Somebody say, interesting instruments that God used to deliver
Speaker 1: his people? Can we agree? Jobbone of a donkey, tent
Speaker 1: peg through the skull of a king, after a nice
Speaker 1: warm glass of milk. It's interesting the things God uses.
Speaker 1: But stranger than the objects that God uses are the
Speaker 1: characters that he raises up to us as his instruments.
Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, you are an interesting instrument.
Speaker 1: Just just just just tell him, tell him, tell him
Speaker 1: by faith, because you promise you don't know. You don't
Speaker 1: know the half of what you just said to them.
Speaker 1: You really have no idea how God put them together.
Speaker 1: And you've been married to her for eighteen years and
Speaker 1: you still don't know how to play that instrument just
Speaker 1: exactly right and keep it in tune. It takes a
Speaker 1: little while to figure out the instrument, and and and
Speaker 1: and and For Gideon it's even more difficult because he
Speaker 1: is seen as I don't know what the coolest instrument is,
Speaker 1: maybe drums or something like that, maybe electric guitar. Gideon
Speaker 1: is the instrument that nobody wants. Gideon is like the
Speaker 1: recorder in his own mind, in his own mind, and
Speaker 1: when God comes to him and calls him out of
Speaker 1: the wine press, he's down there threshing weed in a
Speaker 1: wine press. Because the Bible says that the hand of
Speaker 1: the Midianites was against the Israelites. And so when God
Speaker 1: comes to Gideon and he says, get up, go in
Speaker 1: the strength that you have, I'm gonna use you to
Speaker 1: bring my people out of the hands of the Midianites.
Speaker 1: Gideon really doesn't get it at first because it takes
Speaker 1: him a while to figure out what kind of instrument
Speaker 1: he can be. And here's why he's been in the
Speaker 1: wrong hands for so long that he doesn't even realize
Speaker 1: who he is anymore. The whole nation, not just Gideon,
Speaker 1: has been in the hands of the Midianites. And let
Speaker 1: me show you what that looks like from the New
Speaker 1: Testament and bring it into our lives. From Romans chapter six,
Speaker 1: verse thirteen. Can we go over and see the apostle
Speaker 1: Paul for a moment. Let's go see the Apostle Paul
Speaker 1: for a moment, because this verse will really bring this
Speaker 1: message to a practical place for us where we can
Speaker 1: understand what Jesus has done for us, and where we
Speaker 1: can understand what the Holy Spirit is inside of us,
Speaker 1: so that we don't just shout that God has given
Speaker 1: us the battle, but that we actually get to go
Speaker 1: back into the battles that we face in our lives
Speaker 1: with something practical where we can take it and where
Speaker 1: we can triumph over the enemy that Jesus has already defeated.
Speaker 1: Somebody shout, I've got what it takes to win all right. Romans,
Speaker 1: chapter six, verse thirteen. Listen to this. Paul cautions you
Speaker 1: do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness,
Speaker 1: but present yourselves to God as those who have been
Speaker 1: brought from death to life. That's what he did for you,
Speaker 1: as those who have been brought from death to life.
Speaker 1: You are a living instrument. And so since you are
Speaker 1: a living instrument, you put your life. Watch this in
Speaker 1: the hands of a living God. Put your life in
Speaker 1: the hands Look at the second part of that verse,
Speaker 1: your members to God as instruments for righteousness. Present yourselves
Speaker 1: to God as those who have been brought from death
Speaker 1: to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Speaker 1: In other words, take it back. You have been presenting
Speaker 1: yourself as an instrument to the enemy for long enough.
Speaker 1: You have been presenting your mind to the enemy long enough.
Speaker 1: You have been presenting your mouth to the enemy long enough,
Speaker 1: just saying whatever comes out, just saying what everybody else says,
Speaker 1: just saying whateverything you happen to think of that moment,
Speaker 1: not checking it to see it. If he's even true,
Speaker 1: if it's where you want to end up in your life,
Speaker 1: and setting the direction by your tongue, and steering your
Speaker 1: life with the rudder of your tongue and your words
Speaker 1: and your speech. You have let the devil have your
Speaker 1: instruments long enough take it back. You may not understand
Speaker 1: the value of the instrument that is you yet, And
Speaker 1: in case you don't, let me set the record straight.
Speaker 1: The way that you were brought from death to life
Speaker 1: is that Jesus went from life to death back to
Speaker 1: life again. Somehow the Savior of the universe thought Alex
Speaker 1: was an instrument worth dying for. Somehow the creator of
Speaker 1: the cosmos thought Charlie was worth bleeding for. Somehow the
Speaker 1: maker of heaven and Earth thought Heather was worth setting
Speaker 1: his blood for. You are an interesting instrument. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you part two. You are an expensive instrument.
Speaker 1: You can't get this in a pawn shop. This is
Speaker 1: not a secondhand instrument. This is not a hand me down.
Speaker 1: This isn't the tuba that your brother never played. This
Speaker 1: is an expensive instrument, the first guitar that I ever
Speaker 1: bought that cost a lot of money. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. Do you know what I'm gonna say?
Speaker 1: My mom and my best friend from isaacall Are both
Speaker 1: on the second row. I can't tell any lies about
Speaker 1: my childhood or exaggerator embellish any facts about my life
Speaker 1: with these two fact checkers right here. But the first
Speaker 1: guitar that I ever bought, my mom bought me some
Speaker 1: and then I wanted this one specific one. It was
Speaker 1: a Paul Reid Smith. What if I had it in
Speaker 1: the back right now? Bring it out, Jared, bring out
Speaker 1: my Paul Reid Smith. Jared Olson, everybody, Jared, you were
Speaker 1: shaken when you brought it out. You a little nervous.
Speaker 1: Excited me too. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this. Paul Readsmith. Oh, I was excited about this.
Speaker 1: I worked all summer to buy this Paul Reid Smith.
Speaker 1: And if Paul is watching, a sponsorship would be greatly
Speaker 1: appreciated for elevation worship. A lot of people watch these
Speaker 1: sermons Paul Reid Smith. Everybody say, Paul Reid Smith, any
Speaker 1: guitar players in the house, you sound like you just
Speaker 1: started six months ago. The way he said, well, you
Speaker 1: don't sound like you toured with Journey. Let me put
Speaker 1: it that way. I told him, bring it out. In
Speaker 1: the case and everything. Just bring it out. How many
Speaker 1: memories does this bring back? I saved all summer working
Speaker 1: for pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation service. That was my
Speaker 1: first job. I say, all summer, every Saturday, me and Fox. Now,
Speaker 1: Fox was a bass player. I should tell you this.
Speaker 1: When Paul says instruments of righteousness, he's talking about weapons.
Speaker 1: But I never fought in the army. So when I
Speaker 1: see instruments, I think, I think Paul reads Smith. I
Speaker 1: think about this, Paul reads Smith guitar that me and Fox.
Speaker 1: Now remember, me and him had a band together, but
Speaker 1: we didn't Well, Okay, I shall say it. I should
Speaker 1: say this, and I'll tell you I've been making up
Speaker 1: bands since I was twelve years old. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I would give a band a name, and then I
Speaker 1: would tell all my friends they were in my band,
Speaker 1: even though they didn't play an instrument. I'd be like, Lee,
Speaker 1: you're my drummer. I don't have drums. It's fine, you're
Speaker 1: my drummer. We've got a band, and I would name
Speaker 1: the band, and I would make albums around those bands
Speaker 1: that didn't have any instruments or musicians. All that, I
Speaker 1: promise I'm gonna gave it to the Bible in a minute.
Speaker 1: It is just to set up. This guitar was about
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars when I bought it, which in today's
Speaker 1: money is seven point three million. Google it and look
Speaker 1: inflation is crazy and watch us. I would go every
Speaker 1: Saturday with Fox, and Fox was my first friend who
Speaker 1: actually had an instrument. My friend Michelle said, hey, you
Speaker 1: should meet Fox. He's got a bass. He's got a bass,
Speaker 1: he plays bass. I play guitar. We start playing together,
Speaker 1: We put bands together. His brother started playing drums. Now
Speaker 1: I finally had friends with instruments. Y'all run around talking
Speaker 1: about friends with benefits. What you need is some friends
Speaker 1: with instruments, huh. Some friends who can help you grow
Speaker 1: and go where you need to go and have the
Speaker 1: gift of incur man. You need some friends with instruments.
Speaker 1: If you can't play, don't play me in this season.
Speaker 1: Because I'm looking for somebody who's got something, who's going somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for somebody who's gonna turn back when
Speaker 1: the battle gets hard. I need some friends. That's what
Speaker 1: God said to get in. You got too many men
Speaker 1: who don't have any instruments, and in this season of
Speaker 1: your life, let me get rid of everything that isn't
Speaker 1: serving a purpose. You sit down. This is my party. Smith.
Speaker 1: Every Saturday I went, I looked at it. I drooled
Speaker 1: over it, I lust it over it. I prayed for it.
Speaker 1: I did to hell Mary, I've prayed in pentecostal tongues
Speaker 1: until I finally got it. Until I finally got it.
Speaker 1: When Mike on the store, we picked this up and
Speaker 1: play it. This sounded so good when I got it home.
Speaker 1: It didn't sound like Mike when Mike played it. Mike
Speaker 1: was a great guitar player. I think he's still there
Speaker 1: running that shop. Am I telling the truth? All summer?
Speaker 1: I saved up for this instrument. It's expensive. Come here, Eric,
Speaker 1: this is my friend I was talking about. Aren't you glad?
Speaker 1: He ironed that shirt today before he came to church.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan it this, y'all. Mask you come on
Speaker 1: the stage, all the way on the stage, all the
Speaker 1: way on the stage. I texted him five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I said you're here today, right? He said, fron center.
Speaker 1: I said good, But I didn't tell him this play something.
Speaker 1: Come on now, this is a Paul Reed Smith it
Speaker 1: should be beautiful. Yees see, we all knew this was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's trying to play plush by Stone Temple Pilots,
Speaker 1: but he can't. He didn't know it. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show you something. I'm gonna show you something. This will
Speaker 1: be so some stop playing. That's distracting. My best friend
Speaker 1: from high school, he would. He would drive me down
Speaker 1: there a lot of saturdays to look at the guitar,
Speaker 1: because he had his license before I did. We go
Speaker 1: down there to yell music and look at the thing.
Speaker 1: All right, watch this, watch this. That guitar is expensive,
Speaker 1: but in the wrong hands. Sorry, its potential is limited.
Speaker 1: E take that over to E. Come here, y'all give
Speaker 1: it up for this. E. Come on, it's E Edwards.
Speaker 1: Everybody you know him from albums such as This is
Speaker 1: the Gospel. E. See what you can do with the
Speaker 1: instrument that that he had. Come here, come here, get
Speaker 1: in the shop. Do you think in his hands it
Speaker 1: will be the same as it was in your hands? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: go sit down. All I needed him for was to
Speaker 1: put it in the right hands. I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: You can go sit down, you can sleep, you can
Speaker 1: take notes, you can shout, you can pray, you can
Speaker 1: practice plush on the air guitar. I don't care what
Speaker 1: you do. E show him what that instrument is.
Speaker 2: Whoop man, Why didn't it sound like that.
Speaker 1: In his hands? What changed about the instrument? We didn't
Speaker 1: give it new strings. The only thing we did was
Speaker 1: put it in the right hands. And God says, you
Speaker 1: don't need more strings. You don't need to be smarter
Speaker 1: than you are. Shocker.
Speaker 2: Oh you need.
Speaker 1: Is to put put it in the right hands. I'm
Speaker 1: making this up on the spot, this whole thing, this
Speaker 1: is spontaneous. Now that you seem the illustration, let me
Speaker 1: make the application. Some of you started playing with sin
Speaker 1: in your life a long time ago. It was fun
Speaker 1: at first, but then it became a sort of cycle.
Speaker 1: The lust of the flesh, just doing what you feel
Speaker 1: like doing. The lust of the eyes, just basing everything
Speaker 1: off of your senses in life, the pride of life,
Speaker 1: thinking it's all about just what I can accumulate and
Speaker 1: never what I can distribute. And you play with things,
Speaker 1: and eventually the things that you play with start playing you,
Speaker 1: and before long you might find yourself like Gideon or
Speaker 1: the Israelites in a season where you are a stringed
Speaker 1: instrument in the hands of a skilled enemy. That's what
Speaker 1: the Midianites represent him. They were a skillful enemy. They
Speaker 1: knew how to play the Israelites, so that the Israelites
Speaker 1: were pressed in and hard pressed and pressed down and
Speaker 1: depressed and anxious and fearful and shrinking and small, so
Speaker 1: that by the time God finally said to Gideon, mighty warrior,
Speaker 1: Gideon didn't even believe when the Angel said, I see
Speaker 1: you as mighty, I see you as strong, I see
Speaker 1: you as capable. I made you for purpose. I put
Speaker 1: an assignment on your life. And Gideon says, who me,
Speaker 1: Are you talking to me? Yeah, Gideon, you are an
Speaker 1: interesting instrument. You are an expensive instrument. You have been
Speaker 1: invested with the kind of divine resources that are very
Speaker 1: necessary for this exact assignment. Gideon, I feel God coming
Speaker 1: into somebody's wine press today. I feel God coming into
Speaker 1: somebody's weakness today. I feel God coming into somebody's dysfunction today,
Speaker 1: saying you are an expensive instrument. But you've been played
Speaker 1: by the devil. But today we came to take back
Speaker 1: from the enemy what never should have been.
Speaker 5: In his hands.
Speaker 1: To begin with, high five your neighbors say, snatch it back,
Speaker 1: snatch it back, snatch what back your instruments you gotta,
Speaker 1: Paul reed Smith. No, but I got a sanctified mind.
Speaker 6: I got an imagination that was gived it to me
Speaker 6: by Almighty God.
Speaker 1: Why would you take something as amazing as your mind,
Speaker 1: an instrument much more than fourteen hundred dollars worth in
Speaker 1: your mind, this irreplaceable, indispensable part of you called your soul,
Speaker 1: your mind, your will, your emotions. And you're just gonna
Speaker 1: give all those gifts over to an enemy, just gonna
Speaker 1: give all those gifts over to an instagram.
Speaker 6: I mean an enemy, I mean a Midian night.
Speaker 1: And it's not just social media. The Lord spoke to
Speaker 1: me recently saying, I'm gonna help you reclaim your imagination.
Speaker 1: I gave you an instrument called imagination to serve the
Speaker 1: purpose of faith, but you use it too many times
Speaker 1: to go down roads of fear. So what the enemy
Speaker 1: has done is he has he got my instrument called imagination.
Speaker 1: Everybody in here who is really good at worrying could
Speaker 1: be really good at prayer if you get it in
Speaker 1: the right hands, if you get your instrument back, come on,
Speaker 1: if you stay in this zestful of lust and say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's nothing but the dog and me. A man's gotta
Speaker 1: have what a man's gotta have. Then you are going
Speaker 1: to entrust your mind and your heart to an enemy
Speaker 1: that does not have a good intention for you. But
Speaker 1: if you get that instrument back, it can become true intimacy,
Speaker 1: so that the God, who knows what he put inside
Speaker 1: of you, can release everything that was meant to be
Speaker 1: sent into the world that he called you to if
Speaker 1: you get your life in the right hands. So the
Speaker 1: first thing that God had to do for get in
Speaker 1: was he had to get him to let go of
Speaker 1: some things. In gideon specific case, I guess it was
Speaker 1: kind of like a post twenty twenty world where they
Speaker 1: had the Great resignation. Everybody I know who owns a
Speaker 1: business right now is saying, man, it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to find. They don't say good people. They say people.
Speaker 1: I got used to the thing that's good. Help is
Speaker 1: hard to find. Now they're like, horrible help is hard
Speaker 1: to find. I'll take some horrible help, Lord, because hell, now, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not praying that God would downsize anybody's life. I'm
Speaker 1: not praying that, but I am saying, it's not always
Speaker 1: the devil. When your life is downsized, there will be
Speaker 1: moments that God, to get you ready for the space
Speaker 1: he's taking you into, will need to thin out some
Speaker 1: things that you were depending on that kept you from
Speaker 1: depending on him. This is Giddy, This is Gideon that
Speaker 1: the Lord said. And I noticed how the Lord gave
Speaker 1: him an instruction. He said, everyone who's trembling, send them home.
Speaker 1: So Gideon's like, everybody who's trembling came and two thirds
Speaker 1: took him up on it, and probably he's like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean you could tremble a little bit, little trembles,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, if you're trembling. Oh God, did
Speaker 1: I do it wrong? Ah, you did it right. The
Speaker 1: only problem is you didn't do it enough. So now
Speaker 1: I remember when we met Gideon in a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he was threshing in a wine press, and
Speaker 1: now God is threshing sifting. Not sifting for the purpose
Speaker 1: of subtraction, sifting for the purpose of strategy. Is that
Speaker 1: word for somebody here? Quit giving the devil credit for it.
Speaker 1: Quit giving the devil credit for it. Oh, the devil
Speaker 1: took this, and the devil took that and the devil
Speaker 1: took the other, and the devil did he? Or is
Speaker 1: God getting room ready for your life? I know I'm
Speaker 1: ministering to one person right now, right now, right now,
Speaker 1: right now, right now, right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1: There will always be someone who will take this message
Speaker 1: out of a context that I mean it in and
Speaker 1: just use this as an excuse to be horrible to
Speaker 1: people in relationships and say that you weren't one of
Speaker 1: my three hundred. But those of us who are mature
Speaker 1: enough to know understand that this is not permission for
Speaker 1: us to be that at relationships and blame it on faith.
Speaker 1: What it is for me is a promise from God
Speaker 1: that what I've got in my hand in this season
Speaker 1: is what He meant to give me for where I'm going,
Speaker 1: And I've got what it takes to win. I've got
Speaker 1: what I want, not necessarily. I would really like to
Speaker 1: have thirty two thousand more if you ask me, But
Speaker 1: God didn't ask you. He's doing the math. You got
Speaker 1: to put this in his hands now, and I say, God,
Speaker 1: I am going to let go put up Verse seven,
Speaker 1: Judges seven. You'll hardly believe how clear it is he said,
Speaker 1: let all the others go, you see that ninety seven
Speaker 1: hundred on one side, three hundred on the other, and
Speaker 1: the three hundred are dogs, And God says, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do You're gonna do this with those three hundred dogs.
Speaker 1: I got that doll. I got that doll. I got
Speaker 1: that dog. The ones that were drinking like this, hand
Speaker 1: them out, I got that dog. And God says, that's
Speaker 1: what you want. Now you want? You want the stuff
Speaker 1: in this season that you can actually depend on, not
Speaker 1: the stuff you've been pretending with. Can I go a
Speaker 1: little further with this message? I'm gonna have to put
Speaker 1: this the part two on YouTube this week because there's
Speaker 1: too much. I've been putting these extra teachings on my
Speaker 1: YouTube channel from the Basin, and you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do while I'm on tour. I'm gonna put the
Speaker 1: Basin from the bus. I'm gonna go on the bus
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put some sermons on there and I
Speaker 1: will finish this. But I can't not tell you this
Speaker 1: next part because it's really what led me to the message.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, I've got what it takes to win. God
Speaker 1: leads him to the three hundred they have already sent
Speaker 1: home over thirty thousand and so the Lord says, let
Speaker 1: all the others go, every man to his home verse eight.
Speaker 1: So the people took provisions in their hands and their trumpets.
Speaker 1: That's an instrument. Unplug it real quick. I'll bring you back,
Speaker 1: I promise now, a trumpet. I never played a trumpet,
Speaker 1: so I used the guitar because I thought it was
Speaker 1: more appropriate. But the trumpet is not like an electric
Speaker 1: guitar because it doesn't have to be plugged in. A
Speaker 1: trumpet is a different kind of instrument. A trumpet. How
Speaker 1: many of you played trumpet in the band at one
Speaker 1: point for six months because your mom made you or
Speaker 1: something like that, or you love it and you're great
Speaker 1: at it, okay great? A trumpet is a what kind
Speaker 1: of instrument? A wind instrument. A trumpet is a wind instrument.
Speaker 1: So a trumpet needs two things. Somebody who knows where
Speaker 1: to put their hands. These musicians are getting excited because
Speaker 1: they know something about instruments. Somebody who knows where to
Speaker 1: put their hands, and someone with breath control. So Gideon
Speaker 1: has been let me get this back to you real quick.
Speaker 1: Gideon has been in the wrong hands for years, like
Speaker 1: some of you, just like in his mind, go to
Speaker 1: this place of misery, predictable misery, enslavement, entanglement, entrapment, and
Speaker 1: everything that comes along with the strategy of the enemy.
Speaker 1: That might be for you a state of addiction. That
Speaker 1: might be for you a state of low self worth
Speaker 1: where you have forgotten who you are some of you.
Speaker 1: If you talk to somebody else the way that you
Speaker 1: talk to yourself, they would punch you in the nose.
Speaker 1: And you use your self talk to beat the crap
Speaker 1: out of yourself. And I came today with a message
Speaker 1: from Almighty God to let you know that you are
Speaker 1: a very expensive instrument. And watch this. He paid too
Speaker 1: much for you to stay in a dead place. So
Speaker 1: that when Paul gets ready to say it, he says,
Speaker 1: you have been brought from death to life. Well, what
Speaker 1: does it take to go from death to life? Breath?
Speaker 1: So what does God do when he gets ready to
Speaker 1: raise some body up to do something significant for a
Speaker 1: purpose that they didn't even see themselves? For? God said,
Speaker 1: I brought you to church today. You didn't just go
Speaker 1: to church today. I brought you to church so that
Speaker 1: I could blow into you the wind of the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit for this second season of your life, because the
Speaker 1: best is still ahead.
Speaker 6: Come on, receive the prophecy, Receive the prophecy, receive the bread.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a wind instrument. Somebody say it's a
Speaker 1: wind instrument. The trumpet can sit there all day and
Speaker 1: it won't do anything if somebody doesn't breathe into it.
Speaker 1: You know why you hadn't had power. You know why
Speaker 1: you hadn't had joy. You know why you hadn't had peace.
Speaker 1: You haven't been letting him breathe in to you. Oh
Speaker 1: but if he breathes casts the bones on the valley floor,
Speaker 1: What happens when God breathes past the bones on the
Speaker 1: valley floor. What happens when He breathes.
Speaker 7: Past the bones on the valley floor?
Speaker 6: What happens when God, Great God said, live, Live, Live, Live, Live,
Speaker 6: Come on.
Speaker 7: Easter isn't over.
Speaker 1: He's still alive.
Speaker 4: And slowly.
Speaker 7: And so I am.
Speaker 1: You are an expensive instrument, an exquisite instrument in the
Speaker 1: hands of the master. There's no telling what might come
Speaker 1: out of you.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, oh.
Speaker 1: Let everybody who wants to leave for lunch leave for lunch.
Speaker 1: Everybody who wants this word makes some noise, Open your
Speaker 1: mouth wide and let God fill it because I believe
Speaker 1: I got something great to do with his name. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't have a trumpet, buttil.
Speaker 4: You have a void till you have a ground, do you?
Speaker 1: I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't
Speaker 1: take it. I might have to pick this up in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: I might have to pick this up in Minneapolis. I
Speaker 1: might have to pick this up and take it to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. We might have to get on the road
Speaker 1: because watch this, watch this, watch us, watch us, watch us,
Speaker 1: stop us, us stop up. He said, everybody this trembling,
Speaker 1: Send them home. Every who's trembling, send them home. Everybody.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy about that? Look at verse nine.
Speaker 1: Then after he sent all of them home and took
Speaker 1: their trumpets from him, he said, you go leave your trumpet.
Speaker 1: You go, leave your trumpet. You go, but leave your trumpet.
Speaker 1: You go, but leave your trumpet. And all the three
Speaker 1: hundred are going, what are we gonna do with these trumpets?
Speaker 1: Can you get them to leave their sword? Because we
Speaker 1: need a sword. Get in. I know you're new to
Speaker 1: this Mighty Warrior thing, but you might have wanted to
Speaker 1: read the Mighty Warrior Handbook before you start rounding up supplies.
Speaker 1: But something in Gideon said, we're gonna need some weird
Speaker 1: weapons for this battle. If we go about it in
Speaker 1: a worldly way, we will be weakened. If we go
Speaker 1: about it in a worldly way, we will be defeated.
Speaker 1: But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
Speaker 1: they are mighty through God. For the pulling down a strongholds,
Speaker 1: I feel strong holds coming down.
Speaker 4: Right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, Lord, I got some weird weapons, and I am
Speaker 1: a weird weapon. I'm a little bit I'm a little crazy,
Speaker 1: I'm a little traumatized, I'm a little stuck, I'm a
Speaker 1: little short, a little toe, I'm a little tea pot.
Speaker 1: But what's what happens when you pour me out?
Speaker 5: I've got it annoyting.
Speaker 1: Something on the inside. See I'm pretching from the inside
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't know who this is for.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who he's calling to.
Speaker 7: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why he walked me up at two am. But it's
Speaker 1: me to tell something. Body, you've got what it takes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, now, come on, come on, let's have a
Speaker 1: Code Orange revival on a Sunday morning. Why not let's
Speaker 1: have a Code Orange revival on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: High five? Somebody say, I got what it takes, and
Speaker 1: I know it now. I got confused for a little while.
Speaker 1: I let the devil play me, But I know it now.
Speaker 1: I thought my life was over, but I found out
Speaker 1: as long as I've got breath, as long as there
Speaker 1: is a breathing, there is a reason. So so I promise,
Speaker 1: this is a close. This is the cloth, this is
Speaker 1: the clothes, This is the close. This is the close.
Speaker 1: High five. Somebody else to say, you've got what it
Speaker 1: takes to win. You got what it takes to win.
Speaker 1: He's about to breathe in you so so so so
Speaker 1: so so. The Bible said that same night, the Lord
Speaker 1: verse nine. I'm in verse nine. The Lord said, arise,
Speaker 1: go down against the camp, for I have given it
Speaker 1: into your hand. He removes them. But watch this, if
Speaker 1: you are afraid to go down, first in, if you
Speaker 1: are afraid to go down, go down. Lord. I think
Speaker 1: we need a translator, because you are ways are not
Speaker 1: my ways, and your thoughts and not my thoughts. And
Speaker 1: apparently we speak differ languages. They have an army of locusts.
Speaker 1: I have an army of dogs. You told me to
Speaker 1: send them away because I had too many. Really, they
Speaker 1: have too many. This is you making all the reasons
Speaker 1: up in your brain why you can't do what God
Speaker 1: called you to do. This is you. I just want
Speaker 1: you to see that God is speaking to you. Greg
Speaker 1: not just get in This is you. So you get
Speaker 1: in your head. You get in your head and things
Speaker 1: die there because you give the instrument of your mind
Speaker 1: to the enemy. The Lord says, if you are afraid,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. He just sent all the men away
Speaker 1: who were trembling. But he's trembling too, and God knows it.
Speaker 1: So God says, you can tremble, but you can't turn back.
Speaker 1: It's so okay for you to feel afraid. It's so
Speaker 1: okay for you to feel those feelings of unworthiness, but
Speaker 1: you must not surrender to them. Before. We have a
Speaker 1: great high priest who can sympathize with us that he
Speaker 1: was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.
Speaker 1: It's okay to be tempted, don't give into it. It's
Speaker 1: okay to slip up, get up. It's okay that you
Speaker 1: go off, apologize and taper it next time. For God's sake.
Speaker 1: You can tremble, that's the feeling, but you can't turn back.
Speaker 1: That's the commitment. If you want to see the victory,
Speaker 1: you will see it whin wh eton when you have
Speaker 1: felt the fear, when you have felt the discouragement, and
Speaker 1: you press through it, and you breathe through it, and
Speaker 1: you loved through it, and you forgave through it, and
Speaker 1: He brought you through it. Because it's his hand that
Speaker 1: gives the victory. It's his hand. Say it's his hand.
Speaker 1: You think he's running out of mercy, it's his hand.
Speaker 1: You think he gave you somebody else's gift on accident,
Speaker 1: or didn't give you. You got everything that, every little thing
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I believe in God, sovereign God, a wonderful,
Speaker 1: masterful God who handbuilt this instrument. Made me weird where
Speaker 1: he made me weird. I'm about to get weirder. Warning
Speaker 1: to all of the people who live with me. I'm
Speaker 1: about to get weirder. I did something the other day.
Speaker 1: I did something Holly never saw me do. I backed
Speaker 1: into a parking space. She said, a back in kind
Speaker 1: of guy. All of a sudden, huh, I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't even know me yet, you have it even
Speaker 1: met me. Yeah, I'll back in, I'll back out. I'll
Speaker 1: do this thing now. Watch watch, watch, watch watch. Can
Speaker 1: you truly say that you have put your life in
Speaker 1: God's hands? Or are you holding on to things that
Speaker 1: you think you need to know and trying to control
Speaker 1: things that are the sole dominion of the King of
Speaker 1: kings and Lord of lords? Because I saw it in
Speaker 1: the message. I saw God said, if you're afraid to
Speaker 1: go down to the camp, go down to the camp
Speaker 1: with Pura, your servant. Verse eleven is so annoying, and
Speaker 1: you shall hear what they say. Remember, God's been talking
Speaker 1: to Gideon for an entire chapter. You're a mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: Go in the strength you have. I will use you.
Speaker 1: I will be with you. Okay, I'll light a rock
Speaker 1: on fire. I'll make the goat that you brought out
Speaker 1: catch on fire. I'll help you build an altar. I'll
Speaker 1: help you smash altars. Gideon says, can I lay out
Speaker 1: a fleece and you make the fleece wet and the
Speaker 1: ground ground around it dry? This is all in Judges
Speaker 1: chapter six, And God's like, yeah, sure, I'll make the
Speaker 1: fleece wet and the drowned ground around it dry to
Speaker 1: show you that if everything around you dries up, I'll
Speaker 1: still give you a spirit inside of you that'll make
Speaker 1: you ready for what I've called you to do. And
Speaker 1: then he does it. And then Gideon is like, okay,
Speaker 1: how about the other way. Can you make the fleece
Speaker 1: dry and everything around it wet? And God say yeah,
Speaker 1: because when you feel dry, I'm gonna put enough encouragement
Speaker 1: around you in seasons of your life where you can
Speaker 1: get by on somebody else, this his faith. And after
Speaker 1: God does all that, Gideones is still trembling until the
Speaker 1: Lord says, okay, Verse eleven, go there, face what you fear.
Speaker 1: Say it out loud, face what you fear, and you'll
Speaker 1: hear what they say, and afterward the hands your hands
Speaker 1: shall be strengthened after you hear not what God says,
Speaker 1: after you hear what the enemy says. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something you've never had a preacher tell you before.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to listen to your enemy. They're gonna
Speaker 1: come take our Baptist papers away after this sermon. For sure, Pastor,
Speaker 1: I've heard you preach a lot of sermons, but you're
Speaker 1: always telling me not to do that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he said, go down and hear what the enemy is
Speaker 1: saying about you. And when you hear what the enemy says,
Speaker 1: if you don't believe what God says about you, maybe
Speaker 1: you'll believe what the enemy says about you, Which raises
Speaker 1: a question. If you're worthless, why is the devil fighting
Speaker 1: you so hard? Think about that. The enemy is not infinite.
Speaker 1: Only God is infinite. He only has so much artillery.
Speaker 1: So if it's been coming against your mind lately, and
Speaker 1: it's been coming against your marriage lately, and it's been
Speaker 1: coming against your bloodline lately, and it's been coming against
Speaker 1: your heart lately, what does your enemy believe about you
Speaker 1: that you don't believe about you. He must believe that
Speaker 1: you are a very valuable instrument. That's why you've been
Speaker 1: having shortness of breath, panic attacks, barely get through the day,
Speaker 1: because the devil knows if you keep breathing much longer,
Speaker 1: there is a breakthrough with your name on it. You
Speaker 1: are so close and just about the time. Look at God,
Speaker 1: Look how sovereign he is, Look how he puts you
Speaker 1: here at this time for this message. Look how he
Speaker 1: gave you this word for when you needed it, for
Speaker 1: got what it takes to win. How did Gideon know
Speaker 1: because the moment he got to the camp, give me
Speaker 1: Verse twelve. This is so good, we'll stop it. Verse
Speaker 1: I promise. I'm closing. Somebody shout I've got, I've got,
Speaker 1: I've got what it takes to win. Now watch this,
Speaker 1: And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people
Speaker 1: of the east lay along the valley. They're in abundance.
Speaker 1: The enemy is in abundance, and Gideon's strengths are few.
Speaker 1: And I know you feel that way, but listen to
Speaker 1: the enemy. Verse thirteen, he says, dude, I had a
Speaker 1: dream last night. It was kind of weird. It was
Speaker 1: a you're not gonna believe me, but behold I dreamed
Speaker 1: the dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled
Speaker 1: into the campa media and it came to the tent
Speaker 1: and it struck it, so it fell and turned it
Speaker 1: upside down, and the tent lay flat? Is that the
Speaker 1: whole dream? You know when people try to tell you
Speaker 1: they d and you're like, I'm sure this was interesting
Speaker 1: when you were asleep, but this is really can you
Speaker 1: speed this along, and then I was wearing glasses, but
Speaker 1: they weren't glasses, they were headphones. But then they were
Speaker 1: air pods. And then the left one died, what do
Speaker 1: you think that means? Bro saw some bread rolled through
Speaker 1: the camp and it smashed everything. Give me verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: Look what his friend says back, this is the weird part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't heard the weird part. Yeat And the comrade answered,
Speaker 1: this is none other than the sword of Gideon, the
Speaker 1: son of Joe asher Men of Israel. God has given
Speaker 1: into his Anmdian all the camp. You got all that
Speaker 1: from a loaf of bread, barley bread, No doubt, that's
Speaker 1: the cheap bread. That's the moldy bread. And something snapped
Speaker 1: in Gideon when he heard that. Look at verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream
Speaker 1: and its interpretation, he worshiped. What do you do when
Speaker 1: you worship? You throw your hands up? What did God
Speaker 1: say he had given Gideon the victory? Where did he
Speaker 1: tell me put it in his hands? So he put
Speaker 1: those instruments of victory up in there and realized that
Speaker 1: the hand of Midian is strong, but the hand of
Speaker 1: God is greater. And he returned to the camp. Who
Speaker 1: is this word? For? This thing has been burning a
Speaker 1: hole in me. I can't even move right now. I'm
Speaker 1: glued to the floor till I finished this. And Gideon
Speaker 1: went back down, not from what he heard from God,
Speaker 1: what he heard from his enemies. He realized, if they
Speaker 1: are that intimidated by me, then God must if they're
Speaker 1: dreaming about me, if the devil is waking me up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, it must be a sword.
Speaker 1: And he said to his men, arise, for the Lord
Speaker 1: has given the host of Midian into your hand. And
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something. If a barley bred
Speaker 1: loaf can be a weapon to destroy an army that's
Speaker 1: as abundant as a swarm of locusts, how fast does
Speaker 1: the barley have to be moving to knock down a
Speaker 1: whole camp. So now you get it. It wasn't about
Speaker 1: the weapon. It was about the wind. That's why, a
Speaker 1: child of God, you can hold your head high when
Speaker 1: you leave this church today, because you can know, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a weapon. He's the wind. When the angel said
Speaker 1: mighty warrior, Gideon said me. When the enemy said moldy bread,
Speaker 1: Gideon's like, oh, that's me. Sometimes what you need to
Speaker 1: believe is in how much you know. You don't need
Speaker 1: more information, you need more belief in God. It was
Speaker 1: an amazing thing for the enemy to see something as
Speaker 1: common as you rolling at him picking up momentum now,
Speaker 1: and Gideon said, all right, now that I've let go
Speaker 1: of my excuses, let's go. Let go, So let's go.
Speaker 1: That looks like bread coming. Oh no, I just saw
Speaker 1: whose hands were behind it. Oh God, I know what
Speaker 1: happens when you put it in the master's hands. Ask
Speaker 1: the five thousand, what happens when you get the bread
Speaker 1: in the right hands. Yeah, but it was broken. You
Speaker 1: know what you didn't know? I didn't show you.
Speaker 5: Give me that back.
Speaker 1: Two weeks after I got this guitar, I dropped it.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, isn't it just like God that something so
Speaker 1: broken in the right hands it can still play something
Speaker 1: so beautiful in the right hands. In the right hands,
Speaker 1: You've got what it takes. You just need to put
Speaker 1: those burdens. Would you just lift your hands to them
Speaker 1: right now? Put it in the right hands and get in.
Speaker 1: Put a trumpet in every man's right hand and a
Speaker 1: torch in the left hand. Lift your hands. You've got
Speaker 1: what it takes to win, because the wind is behind you,
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, who is with you. How could something
Speaker 1: so broken produce something so beautiful? Everyone who has a
Speaker 1: broken praise lift your voice to the Lord right now.
Speaker 1: Tell him, thank you for the bread, Thank you for
Speaker 1: the bread, Thank you for the bread, Thank you for
Speaker 1: a new beginning. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord. Come on,
Speaker 1: open your mouth, that's your trumpet. Use your words, use
Speaker 1: your breath. Tell him. I give you this situation. I
Speaker 1: give you this lawsuit, I give you this custody battle.
Speaker 1: I give you this bill, I give you this diagnosis.
Speaker 1: Come on, I need a worship team. Let's let the
Speaker 1: wind of God sweep through this place. We've eaten the bread,
Speaker 1: we perceived the word. But here comes the wind. Here
Speaker 1: comes the wind. Beautiful sounds from broken instruments, a beautiful
Speaker 1: song from a broken vessel. Lift your hands, lift your hands,
Speaker 1: lift your.
Speaker 2: Hands, spearing comments.
Speaker 1: Let him have it, let him happen, let him have it.
Speaker 2: Does it.
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Speaker 7: Spell comment?
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Speaker 7: I won't.
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Speaker 7: Believe me standing, believe so now it's how.
Speaker 5: You should have added bes your weapon.
Speaker 7: With your hand.
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Speaker 7: You won't ever believe. He's stray gondy.
Speaker 2: He's week is so big.
Speaker 7: You tie my bad.
Speaker 1: He know what's going on.
Speaker 2: You goin.
Speaker 5: See her, you go take the tools.
Speaker 7: Take Oh God, it jo coming due spirit comments read.
Speaker 5: On us, we breathe, subody into it and.
Speaker 4: Read a.
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