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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I want you to give out ten hugs all around you.

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Speaker 3: Make everybody in your section feel so welcome. Tell them

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're in church today.

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Speaker 1: Roll call who made it online? Right now?

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Speaker 4: Let us know your name, your country. I'm pulling out

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Speaker 4: my phone. I'm checking the role. Hey, Rai's in the

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Speaker 4: house front row.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you, a ray man. What are you

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Speaker 1: doing over there? That's not your seat? He never sits there.

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Speaker 5: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? How'd you get over there?

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Speaker 3: It is gonna throw off the entire cosmic balance of

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Speaker 3: my preaching if you are sitting there instead of there.

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Speaker 3: I'm not telling the person down there to trade seats

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Speaker 3: with you.

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Speaker 1: But you got big shoes to fill right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in the jersey in the Washington Commander's jersey.

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Speaker 1: Big shoes to fill. That's my guy right there.

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Speaker 3: But apparently he's holding a town on this side today.

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Speaker 3: So who do I have over here on this side

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Speaker 3: of the road. Come on, who came to worship God?

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Speaker 3: Get a word from him, hear from him, Worship him,

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Speaker 3: glorify him, put our attention on him.

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Speaker 1: Feels good to give God all the glory, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: I have a tattoo on my back that says cavad.

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Speaker 3: It's the Hebrew word for weight w e i g ht,

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Speaker 3: and it also means glory. And I found out when

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Speaker 3: I try to take the glory for myself, I have

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Speaker 3: to carry the weight myself. But when I give God

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Speaker 3: the glory, I feel like I can move better.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I can stand longer. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I can make him all right. A few shout outs

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Speaker 1: for online, y'all remain standing.

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Speaker 3: Forgive us if we're a little loopy. Kind of goes

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Speaker 3: along with my series. We're talking about same lies, new loops.

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Speaker 3: We're a little loopy because we just recorded thirteen songs

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Speaker 3: of brand new worship melodies and anthems. I'm so excited

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Speaker 3: that's one of them. Call God, Jesus be the Name.

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Speaker 3: Just so much good stuff we're gonna be putting in

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Speaker 3: your ears, in your heart, in your life, in your car,

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Speaker 3: gonna be playing these songs in your kids nursery. Some

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Speaker 3: of y'all got a kid on the way in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six. I got some anthems coming for your baby.

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Speaker 3: Some of y'all gonna be pushing that baby out to

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Speaker 3: one of these new songs. Not prophesia right now gonna

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Speaker 3: be good too.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be calling God and call him on. Everything

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Speaker 1: is going to be really good, all right.

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Speaker 3: Shout outs from Adam from Oklahoma, Priscilla from Texas, Someone's joint.

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Speaker 1: Someone came to church from Kenya today. Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Kenya, Cape Town, Palestine, Madagascar, Cape Co, Chicago. Of all

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Speaker 3: the places I've said, which one would you most like

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Speaker 3: to go to if you could be transported?

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Speaker 1: Right now? I read a few more where else. Somebody said,

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Speaker 1: just not here, that's horrible out here.

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Speaker 3: Lewis, Hello, Lewis, Hello from Maryland. Anyway, you get the point.

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Speaker 3: Let's welcome our Epham all.

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Speaker 1: Over the world.

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Speaker 3: Post watching it a later time, I want to get

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Speaker 3: right into the word.

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Speaker 1: If it's all right with you, Raise the Lord.

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Speaker 3: The Lord spoke something to my heart for our next

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Speaker 3: installment on same lies, New Loops.

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Speaker 1: Soh on my graphic real quick.

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Speaker 3: It kind of looks like an infinity loop and zoom

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Speaker 3: out so everybody can see it at the campuses. Please,

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to get you out of these things that

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Speaker 3: go on in your mind that keep you from meeting

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Speaker 3: with God and keep you from believing what He says

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Speaker 3: about you. And to do that, we got to get

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Speaker 3: you out of the thought patterns. The renewal of your

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Speaker 3: mind is not a one time event. Salvation is Jesus

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Speaker 3: saves you as done, is paid for, it's finished. But

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Speaker 3: the renewal of your mind is not a one time event.

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Speaker 3: It is a moment by moment decision. So when we

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Speaker 3: get into God's word, when we worship God like you've

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Speaker 3: done today, go ahead and give yourself a hand, because

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Speaker 3: you made a new loop today. As you were worshiping God,

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Speaker 3: you were joining the angels around the throne of God,

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Speaker 3: singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And today for this installment, the

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Speaker 3: Lord led me to Psalm one hundred and twenty. We've

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Speaker 1: The heart such a unique way.

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Speaker 3: This is one of fifteen songs that is categorized as

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Speaker 3: a song of a sent a sent meaning going up,

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Speaker 3: because literally they would be sung as the people were

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Speaker 3: going up to Jerusalem for their pilgrimage to worship the

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Speaker 3: Lord for all of the different feasts that they would celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Some were written by David, some by his son Solomon,

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Speaker 3: and some by an unknown author. They were designed to

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Speaker 3: be sung not only along the way, but on those

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Speaker 3: that God has given us a song for every season,

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Speaker 3: and this is a song of a sin. And go

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Speaker 3: over them, say you're going up today. Put it in

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Speaker 3: the chat, say I'm going up today. Yeah, A song

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Speaker 3: of a sense. How many of you have your Bible?

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Speaker 3: And it says that over the heading, it says a

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Speaker 3: song of a sense. Right, So here's what he says.

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Speaker 3: In my distress, I called to the Lord and he

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Speaker 3: answered me, y'all, don't have anything you're happy that God

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Speaker 3: answered you about, not one thing, not even just you

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Speaker 3: it tasted real good, and it didn't get stuck on

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Speaker 3: at least one thing that God.

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Speaker 1: Did for you? Praise the Lord, he said.

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Speaker 3: In my distress, I called to the Lord, and he

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Speaker 3: answered me, I'm going to read the full psalm for context.

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Speaker 3: He says, deliver me, o Lord, from lying lips from

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Speaker 3: a deceitful tongue. Same lies new loops. Verse three, What

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Speaker 1: You deceitful tongue.

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Speaker 3: A warrior's sharp arrows with glowing coals of the broom tree.

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Speaker 3: Woe to me that I sojourn in meshek, that I

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Speaker 1: Wow? Does that, Firse mean you should delete Instagram? I

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Speaker 3: Too long have I had my dwelling among those who

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Speaker 3: they are for war. Now go back to verse one.

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Speaker 3: Now that you've heard the whole thing, and let's make

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Speaker 3: the lie that the devil has been telling you.

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Speaker 1: This message is called not here, not here.

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Speaker 3: Just reach around and tell seven people on your way

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Speaker 1: You may be seated not here.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I want to tell you why I'm here today,

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Speaker 3: Why I'm in the pulpit today.

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Speaker 1: You like, isn't it? You're well? Not every single Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I would have scheduled this Sunday off because of all

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Speaker 3: of the intensive labor around our songwriting. But number one,

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Speaker 3: I thought, if the team's gonna be here, I'm going

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Speaker 3: this next word in the series. And I didn't want

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Speaker 3: because I really feel like we've got some momentum, and

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Speaker 3: I'm really here in testimonies, and I really feel like

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Speaker 3: there's something special that he's doing in some of our

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Speaker 3: But thirdly, I'm here because it's my son Graham's eighteenth

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Speaker 3: birthday today. Occasionally I tell a little bit about our

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Speaker 3: family because of a scripture that Paul said, we were

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Speaker 3: but our lives as well. And in this pulpit a

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Speaker 3: I can never get it real. So I also share

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Speaker 3: from my own heart and my own life of the

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Speaker 3: things that I'm processing, as well as what the Bible

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Speaker 3: says about other people's process. And Graham found out that

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Speaker 3: And he said, wait a minute. Sunday the twenty eighth

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Speaker 3: is my birthday. And Mom said we can get a guest,

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Speaker 3: and Graham said, no, guest, it's my birthday. And we

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Speaker 3: started naming some of his favorite preachers and said, well

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Speaker 1: And we named him and he said no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: And Holly even said, how about if I preach and

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Speaker 1: I want Dad. I want Dad.

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Speaker 3: So Graham, you got me. Whatever happens, we're in this together.

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Speaker 1: He wanted me and he got me.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing to pray for your kids. It's another

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Speaker 1: And we all can relate to that, either as a

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Speaker 3: Mom? I am God's God said I could come home

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Speaker 3: But I was sitting down one Saturday to prepare a

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Speaker 3: just that transitional season. Remember I taught you last week,

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Speaker 3: When you vent about a situation without God in it,

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Speaker 3: nothing was really even wrong. Yet there was just the

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Speaker 3: started to possess my mind. Right now, the Lord spoke

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Speaker 3: It was an impression that was louder than a conversation.

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Speaker 3: It was an impression that was deeper than a text message.

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Speaker 3: And all I felt from God was that he said,

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Speaker 3: knew I heard it. I've got Graham. Immediately a flood

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Speaker 3: I can't say that, but it's funny. You said, I

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Speaker 3: They are both ordered by the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Bring me my teaching, scream.

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Speaker 3: I gotta teach you about this because the enemy wants

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Speaker 3: you to think that God is here but not here.

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Speaker 1: But without here here does not happen.

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Speaker 3: So this message is designed to help you with your

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Speaker 3: mind today because you keep thinking, what's wrong with me

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Speaker 3: that it keeps dropping out? What's wrong with me that

446
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Speaker 3: I keep having to fight for this? What's wrong with

447
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Speaker 3: me that I keep having to relearn the same lessons.

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Speaker 3: The transformation and renewal of your mind is not a

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Speaker 3: one time event.

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Speaker 1: You have to walk this out. You have to walk

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Speaker 1: this out. You have to walk this out one moment

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Speaker 1: at a time.

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Speaker 3: Because another thing I found out put the chart back up, yeah,

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Speaker 3: is that not only are both of those important for

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Speaker 3: my heart to be Not only are both of those

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Speaker 3: important for me to know God as my shepherd in

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Speaker 3: the valley so I can praise Him as my provider

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Speaker 3: on the mountain, But all of those things are happening

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Speaker 3: at the same time. We used to talk about seasons

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Speaker 3: of blessing and seasons of burdens, right like, praise God

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Speaker 3: on the mountain and call God on the mountain, and

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Speaker 3: then when God's blessing you in season, and then when

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Speaker 3: you're in the valley season. If I went around the

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Speaker 3: room today and asked, are you in a mountain season

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Speaker 3: or a valley season?

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Speaker 1: The only answer that would be appropriate is yes. So

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Speaker 1: let's try it. Class.

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Speaker 3: Are you in a mountain season or a valley season?

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Speaker 3: You mean you can go from the valley to the

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Speaker 3: mountain in a moment with a text, with a thought,

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Speaker 3: Because there is something to be said for seas where

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Speaker 3: God answers your prayers and you're looking at it. There's

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Speaker 3: something to be said for seasons when you see no

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Speaker 3: proof that He heard your prayer.

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Speaker 1: And you're going by faith not sight.

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Speaker 3: But what I realized looking at that heartbeat is that

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Speaker 3: those events are not months apart.

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Speaker 1: Those are moments apart.

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Speaker 3: See, I thought, God will bless you real good for

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Speaker 3: about a month, and you'll be on the mountain for

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Speaker 3: a month. But God doesn't bless you a month at

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Speaker 3: a time. He blesses you a moment at a time.

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Speaker 1: And it is not.

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Speaker 3: Only the seasons that we need to celebrate, and not

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Speaker 3: only the seasons.

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Speaker 1: That we need to be strategic.

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Speaker 3: The Lord said to tell you think seconds, not seasons, seconds,

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Speaker 3: not seasons.

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Speaker 1: Seconds.

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, this chart that is on

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Speaker 3: the screen right now, this chart is showing you what

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Speaker 3: happens not in one second in your heart, but in

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Speaker 3: a millisecond.

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Speaker 1: I had to study that. I know some certain things.

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Speaker 3: I know that a season is made up of about

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Speaker 3: three months. I know that a month is made up

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Speaker 3: of about four weeks. I know that a week is

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Speaker 3: made up of about seven days. I know that a

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Speaker 3: day is made up of well not about seven days,

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Speaker 3: exactly seven days, let's be clear about it. And those

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Speaker 3: days are made up of twenty four hours, and an

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Speaker 3: hour is made up of sixty minutes, and a minute

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Speaker 3: is made up of sixty seconds. But to get to

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Speaker 3: a millisecond, I had to find out that is one

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Speaker 3: one thousandth of a second that makes up a minute,

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Speaker 3: that makes up an hour, that makes up a day,

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Speaker 3: that makes up a week, that makes up a month,

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Speaker 3: that makes up a season. And you keep trying to

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Speaker 3: handle things a season at a time. When God says

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Speaker 3: I am a God who beats insight of your heart,

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Speaker 3: not every second.

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Speaker 1: Take that second and slice.

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Speaker 3: It down to a thousand, and I am in every millisecond.

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Speaker 1: So the reason I praise.

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Speaker 3: Him isn't because I'm on the mountain non stop, but

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Speaker 3: it's that God can do a miracle in a millisecond.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, said it. I got a millisecond miracle working way.

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Speaker 6: Making, coming in, keeping, never.

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Speaker 1: Leaving, never forsaking God.

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Speaker 3: Give your neighbor five high fives and tell him he

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Speaker 3: could do it in a millisecond.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't this make sense to us? Don't we know now?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: Wow? I could go from the mountain.

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Speaker 3: Up here to the valley, and for everybody who's self righteous,

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Speaker 3: I bliss the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: His phrase shall continually be on my mouth. Okay, Moses, when.

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Speaker 3: You come off the mountain, make sure you cover your

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Speaker 3: face because.

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Speaker 1: You're not always shining.

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Speaker 3: And I can interview your family members and find out

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Speaker 3: more details if I need to, But please be honest.

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Speaker 3: I'm on the mountain for a minute, but most of

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Speaker 3: us are one spilled cup of coffee on our khaki

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Speaker 3: breeches away from saying the name of the Lord in

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Speaker 3: a different way, because it.

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Speaker 1: Is not a one time event.

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Speaker 3: And if you can go from the mountain to the

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Speaker 3: valley in a millisecond, I wonder, can God bring you

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Speaker 3: from the valley. Come on, let's turn this thing around.

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Speaker 3: Let's turn this thing around. Think of the goodness of

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Speaker 3: Jesus and oh that He's done for you, and command

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Speaker 3: your soul cry out Hollah, thank you God for saving me.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, baseball team, praise God with me.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you are in the house. You had to

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Speaker 1: be here. God wanted you to get this word. So

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Speaker 1: what it is? When you're here, you're like, oh, that's God.

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Speaker 3: The psalm is back to some I am not going

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Speaker 3: to get to all this all week unless.

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Speaker 1: Y'all would like to.

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Speaker 3: Stay until about three pm.

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Speaker 1: That did not sound convincing. I'll plan on wrapping.

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Speaker 3: Up, he said. First one. In my distress, I called

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Speaker 3: to the Lord and he answered me past tense circle,

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Speaker 3: answered justin.

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Speaker 1: How did he do that?

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Speaker 3: He not even here in this room, but he hears

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Speaker 3: what I said, and even though I can't see him,

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Speaker 3: he can do what I asked him to do from

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Speaker 3: a room where I cannot see him.

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Speaker 1: With my eyes, he said.

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Speaker 3: I called to the Lord and I couldn't see him,

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Speaker 3: but he answered me, tastings. Well, if he answered you,

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Speaker 3: then what is verse two all about? Deliver me, o Lord,

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Speaker 3: from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. Why does he

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Speaker 3: say in verse one he answered me, and go on

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Speaker 3: through the next six verses to describe a problem that

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Speaker 3: is still waiting.

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Speaker 1: For him at home.

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Speaker 3: I tell you next week, y'all want it today, all right.

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Speaker 1: I'm not like the Lord. I won't make you wait,

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Speaker 1: all right. The lie is this. You know, God is

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Speaker 1: with you, but the devil wants you in this loop.

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Speaker 1: Not here now.

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Speaker 3: In the Old Testament, the temple was in Jerusalem, right,

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Speaker 3: we are the temple of the Spirit of God. Now,

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Speaker 3: God is not in this room until you show up.

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Speaker 1: Yes he is.

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Speaker 3: He's in the empty room. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: God does not fill buildings, He feels people. But in

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Speaker 3: the Old Testament, construct the glory of the Lord would

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Speaker 3: fill the temple, so they had to go to a.

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Speaker 1: Location to worship. So now get the contrast with me.

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Speaker 3: He's going, I'm headed here to worship, but I'm holding

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Speaker 3: some stuff as I do, and I'm in between.

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Speaker 1: I'm in between a battle and a blessing all in

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Speaker 1: one heart beat. You keep thinking the season is going

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Speaker 1: to change, It's going to be all mountains.

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Speaker 3: I hope not, because then you're dad right, then your

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Speaker 3: faith will flat line. And God's going to give you

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Speaker 3: some of these and He's gonna give you some of

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Speaker 3: these and you will have to learn to praise him

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Speaker 3: and worship him in the same heartbeat that your heart

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Speaker 3: is broken, and praise him and call him holy anyway.

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Speaker 1: And the enemy will say, not here.

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Speaker 3: You can't praise him here, not in this hospital, not

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Speaker 3: in this prison, No, this rehab. When you get out, yeah,

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Speaker 3: when you get out, you can give a testimony. You

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Speaker 3: can give a testimony right now. Because he's the master

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Speaker 3: of the millisecond. When I put it online, I might

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Speaker 3: call it the master of the millisecond. He doesn't just

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Speaker 3: command the times and the seasons and creation from eternity.

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Speaker 3: Not only is call and response built into the cadence

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Speaker 3: of creation, but.

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Speaker 1: In this moment, in this heart, he's showing.

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Speaker 3: Me gooka gooker, I'm all of ita, go goa. I

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Speaker 3: reveal myself in the rhythms of the ups, the downs,

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Speaker 3: the ebbs, the flows, the yes, the nose, the leavings,

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Speaker 3: the comings. I'm in all of it.

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Speaker 1: It's all me.

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Speaker 3: I'm in all of it. And the devil will say, well,

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Speaker 3: God is not in this, not here, not here. And

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Speaker 3: when he says not here, have your confidence like the

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Speaker 3: Psalmist did, because it's so beautiful about the psalm is

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Speaker 3: that he says, God answered my prayer. But he doesn't

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Speaker 3: even see the proof yet. The answer is in past tense,

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Speaker 3: but the trouble is in present tents.

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Speaker 1: But he knows.

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Speaker 3: Watch, just here's your new loop. The devil is telling

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Speaker 3: me God is not here. But I tell the devil,

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Speaker 3: he heard last week I preached on he answered, And

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Speaker 3: in that wonderful when the Lord answers, when you see

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Speaker 3: your kid leading the Bible study, it's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 3: But between the prayer and the Bible study is a

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Speaker 3: stage called he heard. And I don't have the answer yet.

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Speaker 3: It's not here. The answer isn't here. I'm speaking to

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Speaker 3: somebody today and the answer isn't here. The healing isn't here,

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00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 3: the result isn't here, the reconciliation isn't here, the proof

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Speaker 3: isn't here, and the enemy keeps trying to tell you

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Speaker 3: what's not here. But in this moment it is so

631
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Speaker 3: vital and important for the health of your heart and

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Speaker 3: the life of your faith that every time the enemy

633
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Speaker 3: points to an area and says God didn't do that yet,

634
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Speaker 3: how can you trust him?

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Speaker 1: That hasn't happened yet. And you are not whole.

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Speaker 3: This is not complete yet, and so you cannot call

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Speaker 3: yourself a real Christian.

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Speaker 1: Every time he says not here, you remind yourself.

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Speaker 3: But he hears me. When I pray, he heard me.

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Speaker 3: When I prayed, he heard me. He's not hard of hearing.

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Speaker 3: God hears me. He heard me. There is a space

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Speaker 3: between prayed and answered, called heard.

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Speaker 1: And when you know God hears you, you have confidence.

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Speaker 3: First John chapter four, verse fourteen and fifteen says something

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Speaker 3: very interesting that if we know Verse John chapter five,

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Speaker 3: verse fourteen says something very interesting. This is the confidence

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Speaker 3: that we have in approaching God. If we ask anything

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Speaker 3: according to his will, shout it.

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Speaker 1: He hears us. Let's read it again.

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Speaker 3: And if we have confidence in approaching God, we ask

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Speaker 3: anything according to his will, he hears us. I can't

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Speaker 3: hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us.

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Speaker 3: Better than Siri. He hears us better than the people

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Speaker 3: advertising to you on your phone. When you're talking about

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Speaker 3: lawnmowers and all of a sudden, a weed eater shows

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Speaker 3: up on your phone, he hears us. That's why God

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Speaker 3: spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've

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Speaker 3: got Braham. But he did not tell me the timeline,

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Speaker 3: and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows.

660
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,959
Speaker 3: And nobody knows what the future holds, and nobody knows

661
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 3: what there will be in the next season. But I'm

662
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 3: not serving God's season by season. I'm serving him step

663
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 3: by step, second by second. And since he's the master

664
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: of the millisecond, I can trust him right now and

665
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 3: know that he heard me.

666
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: Tell three people he heard you. Tell him he.

667
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 3: Heard you the first time. I'm gonna say that again,

668
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 3: he heard you the first time. Sometimes you keep asking

669
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 3: him to take things away, and he leaves them he

670
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: heard you. He just isn't gonna take it away right

671
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 3: now because he's gonna teach you something with it, and

672
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 3: after he gets done teaching you with it, you will

673
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 3: thank him for it. But that does not mean that

674
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 3: it's fun to go through the season called heard have

675
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 3: you ever left somebody on red on a text message?

676
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: Have you ever left somebody unheard? In a common My

677
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: family picks on Holly all the time.

678
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: They'll say, Mom will leave you unheard, meaning that they're

679
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 3: just asking her what they want, telling her what they

680
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 3: want like she's an uber driver, telling her what they want,

681
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 3: like she's some kind of servant to their every desire.

682
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 3: And she's just looking right back at him. And they'll say,

683
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 3: Mom will leave you unheard. And I'm thinking to myself,

684
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 3: it's not that she didn't hear you, it's just that

685
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 3: she doesn't have to. She doesn't have to do everything

686
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 3: you ask. Look at first John five, verse fifteen.

687
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: This is powerful. The Bible says, if we know that

688
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we

689
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 1: have what we ask of him.

690
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: But verse fourteen gives a condition. It says, if we

691
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 3: ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And

692
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 3: this is the part we don't know because we think

693
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 3: this is always his will. What if this is too.

694
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You don't know how much I

695
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: needed that encouragement. I'm gonna get your.

696
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: Seat on the front road next week, all right, He

697
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 3: says he heard me and I can't really describe it

698
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 3: to you like I want to.

699
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: But another one of our songs says I sought the Lord.

700
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 3: And he answered. But there is a part that says

701
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 3: I sought the Lord and he heard, and he heard,

702
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 3: serve me so hot. I'm dropping stuff over here. And

703
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 3: I realized that when he hears my prayer, when he

704
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 3: hears my needs, when he hears my do you know

705
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: the Bible says that God even speaks the language called groaning.

706
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 3: One scripture says that God can interpret your groans in

707
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 3: the Holy spirit, will turn them into a prayer. God

708
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: hears all those sounds you make. One Psalmis said, I

709
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 3: love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know

710
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: that God speaks grief, God speaks grown, God speaks pain

711
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 3: that you can't express in a word.

712
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: God gets in that stuff too. And the devil will say.

713
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 3: Not here, And God will say, right here, in your tears,

714
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 3: in your fears, in your sorrow, in your worry, in

715
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 3: your anxiety, right there.

716
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,479
Speaker 1: I'm coming right here, right here, right here, new loud,

717
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: because he hears.

718
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 3: And what I learned while I'm waiting for the answer

719
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 3: is to trust that what he hasn't answered, he's holding.

720
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: He's holding the Bible says the Lord to keep your

721
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 3: tears in a jar. He's holding the Bible says that

722
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 3: he will keep your prayers in a like incense, like

723
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 3: a fragress. He's holding it, and he heard you. And

724
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: sometimes he's holding it because he's got two hands. And

725
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 3: sometimes he needs to do this for you, and he will.

726
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: And sometimes he needs to do this for you, and

727
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 3: he will. And he's the same whether the hand is

728
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 3: like this or like this, that's all. And we don't

729
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 3: like to be left unheard. We definitely don't like to

730
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 3: be left on hold? How long will you give somebody

731
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 3: before you hang up on hold?

732
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: But you don't really have that option with God, do you.

733
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 3: You can't press star one three to speak to a supervisor.

734
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 3: He ain't gotten a supervisor. You ask for God's supervisor.

735
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 3: You're gonna get God beside him, there is no other.

736
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 3: So what are you gonna do? I'm trusting that he's

737
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 3: holding I got Graham. What else are you gonna do

738
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 3: with your kid? But give him back to God? What

739
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 3: else are you going to do with this thing? You

740
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 3: can't control it.

741
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: In any way?

742
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 3: You might as well give it to him. I promise

743
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 3: you can walk up better if you let him hold

744
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 3: it at the bottom. You can go to work better,

745
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 3: even if you don't like the job, if you let.

746
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: Him hold the part you can't control.

747
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 3: So I realize everybody say he heard Do you believe that?

748
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: Do you believe he heard you? He heard you?

749
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 3: And I don't profess to know why God does what

750
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: he does. He's my supervisor. I can't speak to that.

751
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 3: But what I can see is times in my life

752
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: that he was holding a problem for me. And I

753
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 3: cannot only see times where he was holding a problem,

754
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 3: but I can look back. If I look back, I

755
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: can't always see it when I'm in it, because it's

756
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 3: this and it's that. But if I look back over

757
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 3: my life, sometimes I see how he used a problem

758
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 3: to answer a prayer.

759
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: Because he's holding both. He's holding both.

760
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 3: Sometimes the stuff I was asking him to take away, Hey,

761
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 3: it's the stuff that he used to give me grace

762
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 3: for the thing that I didn't know what I was

763
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 3: gonna do about.

764
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: Am I right about it?

765
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 3: Sometimes God sends a problem to answer a prayer.

766
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: But if you can.

767
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 3: Realize that he is big enough to hold both and

768
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 3: you're not, and.

769
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: You don't have to be. But I called to.

770
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 3: The Lord and he answered my prayer. And the proof

771
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 3: that he answered it isn't that.

772
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: The problem went away.

773
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 3: The proof that he answered it is that he came.

774
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: He came. He didn't just give the answer. Get ready

775
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: to shout. He is the answer.

776
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: So not only am I saying, listen to me, Not

777
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 3: only am I saying to every person who's praying about

778
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 3: a situation that.

779
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: He heard everybody's shout he heard.

780
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 3: And not only am I saying that he's holding everybody

781
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 3: say he's holding Yeah, he's whole, he's holding it.

782
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: He holds it all together.

783
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: Not you. When Chad was up here earlier, I know

784
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: you didn't get to see it online, but he said

785
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 3: those exact words to you. I was like, thank you

786
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 3: for the confirmation. God, this is the word somebody needs.

787
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 3: You're not holding it together.

788
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: He is. And all things work together for the good

789
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: of them that loved the Lord.

790
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 3: So it's this and it's this, and it's this, and

791
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 3: it's this and it's this and it's this. And they're

792
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 3: not a season apart, and they're not a month apart,

793
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 3: and they're not.

794
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: A minute apart.

795
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 3: It is second by second bless the Lord. It is

796
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 3: second by second the Lord has been good to you.

797
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: It is second by second his mercy endures forever.

798
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 3: That's why I couldn't believe when I told you after

799
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: your dad's death. I didn't know what to say to you,

800
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 3: and all I could think of to say was you

801
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: have one job breathe next breath.

802
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: When your son.

803
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 3: Died and I cried on the porch, and I felt

804
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 3: so incompetent to advise you at that moment because what

805
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 3: would I do, And through my tears, I told you

806
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 3: one job, next breath.

807
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: I got off the phone.

808
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 3: With him, and I left your house feeling like such

809
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 3: a failure because that's all I could think of to say.

810
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 3: But he told me, and he told me that that

811
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 3: simple thing next breath.

812
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: Was enough to get them through.

813
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 3: The hardest season of their life, one millisecond at a time.

814
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: I thought I failed when I told him that.

815
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 7: But he heard, he heard, he heard, he heard, he

816
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 7: heard what you didn't say, he heard what you don't.

817
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: Know how to say.

818
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 3: Still, he heard how disappointed you were and how they

819
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 3: responded to you and didn't reciprocate after all you did

820
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 3: for them. He heard what they said about you that

821
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 3: wasn't true. He heard, he heard what they said about

822
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 3: you that was true that you wish wasn't. He heard,

823
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 3: he heard what you said about yourself that wasn't so.

824
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 3: He heard, he heard what you said about yourself that

825
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 3: was so. But he speaks a better word. He heard.

826
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 3: I'm here to remind somebody today that he heard, and

827
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 3: he's holding. The God of seasons is the god of

828
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 3: seconds and milliseconds. And I realize why I'm alive now

829
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: because my first point is he heard, and my second

830
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 3: point is he's holding, and my third point is it's him.

831
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 3: Y'all can't decide whether to write that down or clap

832
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 3: your hands. I see a lot of conflict in the

833
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 3: and the crowd is him, and sometimes you don't recognize

834
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 3: as him.

835
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: Because it feels like this.

836
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 3: The Salmist said, man, I got some stuff waiting for

837
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 3: me back home, don't we all? I hate when y'all

838
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 3: go fake on me. Don't we have some stuff waiting

839
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 3: for us at home? Every bed is not going to

840
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 3: be made up in your house when you go home,

841
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 3: just because you made up your mind to worship God today,

842
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 3: and everybody that's around you didn't hear this message.

843
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: Like you did, and they are not going to encourage

844
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: you in your dream. Go for it. The Lord is

845
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: with you.

846
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 3: He said, I got some lyon tongues, and if God

847
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 3: doesn't step in, but see he did. Now I realized

848
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 3: why he said answered in past tense, because the answer

849
00:48:48,120 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 3: to his prayer wasn't it The answer was him. Remember

850
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 3: what Graham said, He said, I want Dad on my birthday.

851
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 3: He didn't ask for a cake, but he's gonna get

852
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 3: a cake. He didn't ask for any of those things

853
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 3: that I've got wrapped back there. Let's be honest that

854
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 3: Holly's got wrapped back there. See, I am the gift today.

855
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 3: I don't have to wrap anything. Just put on a

856
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 3: black hoodie and preach. But since you called for me,

857
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 3: if you need something, I got it. And since I'm here,

858
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 3: and since you're here, what do you need, you can

859
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 3: have it. Oh I'm not saying God to give you

860
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 3: everything that you greed.

861
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying He.

862
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 3: Will meet all your needs according So if you need

863
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 3: another one, I got you because I'm here.

864
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: Because when you said I.

865
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 3: Want Dad, you got everything that Dad has with Dad.

866
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 3: This is the confidence, not that the answer came, but

867
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 3: the one who is the answer.

868
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: Pastor Mickey used to.

869
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 3: Say, I went to school, and when you know the answer,

870
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 3: you raise your hand. I wonder, is there anybody in

871
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: here who.

872
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: Knows the answer. And his name is God. His name

873
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: is el Sha died, his name.

874
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 3: Is Ellllyd, his dame is Jehovah Shirah, and your father

875
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 3: has what you ask for. It's him that is the

876
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 3: answer to this. It is not when it goes away

877
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 3: that you can say he answered me. It's when he

878
00:50:56,080 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 3: shows up to remind you that if you make your

879
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 3: bet in hell, I will be your bunk mate. If

880
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 3: you make your bet in a bad decision, I'll start

881
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 3: breaking prison doors to.

882
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: Get you out.

883
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,399
Speaker 3: If you make your bet in depression, I'll give you.

884
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: A birth deploy.

885
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: In this moment, and as long as you're breathing, I

886
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 3: want you to know that God's got Graham, God, Scott, you.

887
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: God's got this.

888
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 3: Oh. I thought, chills on my what do you call

889
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 3: these traps? When I said it Gods, God, this no

890
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 3: pastor not here. I made too many mistakes. Yeah, it's

891
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 3: Him that shows up in this and in this it's

892
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 3: Him that's what life looks like. How can I ride

893
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 3: the spiritual high.

894
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: I don't know.

895
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Speaker 3: When you figure it out, write a book, we'll all

896
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 3: buy it. We will make you a New York Times

897
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 3: bestselling author every day for the rest of our life.

898
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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, most of us have to look for.

899
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Speaker 3: God in the lows, wow and to praise Him with

900
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 3: the next breath. Yes, he said, I'm going to worship,

901
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,479
Speaker 3: but I'm dealing with some things back home.

902
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: I wonder is that you today? It's to your feet.

903
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: I'm here to worship. I'm here to worship.

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Speaker 3: How many of you are here to worship today?

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Speaker 1: Hey, don't raise your hand.

906
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Speaker 3: If you didn't come to worship, if somebody made you come,

907
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 3: don't raise your hand.

908
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Speaker 1: It's all right. But even in the chat say I'm

909
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: here to worship.

910
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 3: Okay, what you have to do is get this work

911
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 3: to go, because what good is it for you to

912
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 3: go to Jerusalem for a minute if you're not going

913
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 3: to invite God into the low places too. I remember

914
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 3: a Bible story. It's normally for Easter, but it doesn't

915
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 3: have to be where this woman named Mary Magdalene who

916
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Speaker 3: had had seven demons and Jesus had cast them out

917
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Speaker 3: of her mind. Tradition says she was a prostitute. There's

918
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Speaker 3: no textual evidence for that. The tradition will label a

919
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 3: lot of things wrong on it. Bible says that she

920
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 3: went to the tomb of Jesus early in the morning

921
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Speaker 3: while it was still dark and Peter and John were

922
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 3: having his arm wrestling match to see who could see

923
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 3: him first, and he wasn't there. What would be like

924
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 3: to get to the tomb and an angel tell you

925
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 3: not here? And what do you do when you look

926
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 3: for Jesus in the last place you saw and you

927
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 3: feel like he's not here? What do you do when

928
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 3: you experienced God in one season of your life and

929
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 3: it was so high and now he's got you down here.

930
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Speaker 3: I love the Word of God because it helps me

931
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Speaker 3: get a new way of thinking about those moments for myself.

932
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Speaker 1: Hey, I go through them too.

933
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Speaker 3: I got flipped off on Friday on the road.

934
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Speaker 1: In my jeep within the roof. Doown you know what

935
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: the roofdown means? That means easy access for reciprocation. Man,

936
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: the Lord helped me so much. Holly said, don't look

937
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: at this guy, because here what happened.

938
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Speaker 3: But that was such a tender moment and I feel

939
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 3: like I need to tell you.

940
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: This real quick, to make it practical.

941
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Speaker 3: He's driving this big pickup truck right, and I already

942
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 3: let two people out ahead of him, and it's a

943
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 3: busy intersection. Now. I don't know how you feel about

944
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 3: good Samaritan rules on the road, but I think if

945
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 3: you more than two people go out and I have

946
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 3: to stop behind you and the light is green, you

947
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 3: are no longer a good Samaritan.

948
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Speaker 1: You are overdoing it.

949
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 3: Okay, you just do what the light says and let

950
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 3: the Lord work out when they get out. You can

951
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 3: let one, maybe two out, but two is the max. Okay,

952
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 3: you're not helping anymore. You're overdoing it.

953
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: That's the loudest show shout it all day. So now listen.

954
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 3: I let not one, but two people out, but he

955
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 3: thought he should get out too, But no, I can't

956
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 3: do that.

957
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: We got to go.

958
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 3: The light's green, is busy, so I go, and Holly said, ooh,

959
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 3: don't look over there at him.

960
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: He is mad at you. I said, don't look over

961
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: at who.

962
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 3: And he had that middle finger up in his truck

963
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 3: and the Lord. I called on the Lord and he answered,

964
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 3: and he told me what to do.

965
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: I stuck my finger back up at him this arm

966
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: right out my top of my roof. You know how

967
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: good that fell?

968
00:55:54,320 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 3: I said, hey, yeah, praise the Lord, and I drove

969
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 3: on to my house and I checked to make sure

970
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 3: he wasn't following me, because sometimes the Lord will call

971
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 3: you to answer something a little different than you normally

972
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 3: would have and take but a milliseconds just to go

973
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 3: from what you wanted to do to hey, boy, I

974
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 3: even can see you walking around this week just doing

975
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 3: this to situations.

976
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: I can see it. I can see it in my mind,

977
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: putting up, turned to three people say hey, hey buddy.

978
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, the renewal of your mind is moment by moment.

979
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 3: It is not on this row on Sunday. It is

980
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 3: on the road on Monday that it will be tested.

981
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 3: Did you get this message? And it is sometimes in

982
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 3: the place where you expected God to be that he

983
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 3: is not, that he shows you the greatest revelation of

984
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 3: who he is. So the Bible says in John chapter twenty,

985
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 3: verse eleven that if she's there at the tomb crying,

986
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 3: and as she wept, she bent over to look into

987
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 3: the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus'

988
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 3: body had been past tense. He's not here, he's not here.

989
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 3: There was one at the head, the other at the foot.

990
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 3: They asked her, woman, why are you crying? She said,

991
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 3: they're taking my Lord away, and I don't I don't

992
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: know where he is. I don't know where's God in this.

993
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 3: I don't know where the answer is. I don't know

994
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 3: what the right thing to do is. I don't know

995
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 3: what doctor to talk to next.

996
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about it. I don't

997
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: know if I should call him. I don't know if

998
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: I should block him. I don't know what to do.

999
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what God wants me to do.

1000
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of like, honestly, I thought faith was

1001
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 3: like this all of my life, trying to get God

1002
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 3: to do what I want him to do, and now

1003
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 3: realize it's more like this.

1004
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.

1005
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 3: And in the dark outside the tomb ass she's weeping.

1006
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 3: She turned around and saw Jesus standing there. Oh wait,

1007
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 3: it's him, but she doesn't realize that it was Jesus,

1008
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 3: and he asked her, woman, why are you crying? Not

1009
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 3: only a savior who speaks the language of tears can

1010
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 3: ask a question like that, who is it you are

1011
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 3: looking for Jesus, is so funny who you're looking for?

1012
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 3: Thinking he was the gardener, and he kind of is.

1013
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 3: She said, sir, if you have carried him away, tell

1014
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 3: me where you have put him, and I will get him.

1015
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 3: And Jesus said to her Mary, and she turned toward

1016
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 3: him and cried out in air meg rabb o'e eye,

1017
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 3: which means teacher. And Jesus said, do not hold on

1018
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 3: to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.

1019
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 3: Go instead to my brothers and tell them I am

1020
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 3: ascending to my Father and your father, to my God

1021
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 3: and your God. This is the gospel that God in

1022
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 3: human form died for your sin, descended to the grave,

1023
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 3: defeated death, and Hell awoke, holding the keys to death,

1024
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 3: Hell and the grave. And he heard when you called

1025
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 3: to him for salvation. And he's holding the keys of death, hell.

1026
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: And the grave.

1027
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 3: And it is him in life, in death, on the mountain,

1028
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,479
Speaker 3: in the valley, it's him.

1029
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: It's him. Yes, it's God. You're called on him. He's here.

1030
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: That's God making your heart beat.

1031
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 3: That's God giving you the next breath.

1032
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: That's God holding your tomorrow.

1033
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 3: That's God taking care of your knees.

1034
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: That's God, that's him. Give him a praise like.

1035
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 6: You would give him if you knew he was here,

1036
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 6: if you knew he was worthy, if you knew he

1037
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 6: was holy, if you knew he was holding your life.

1038
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 3: So now you know why it says I call God

1039
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 3: on the mountain, I call God in the valley.

1040
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: I call God.

1041
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 3: It's all God, Oh God, don't even need anything.

1042
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: Lord. I just love you because you love me first.

1043
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 3: And I'm so thankful that you're here with me, that

1044
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 3: you got up out of that grave. God.

1045
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: So I call you when it's gone.

1046
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 6: I call y'all here, I call you down there.

1047
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 3: You're God with is gone her god.

1048
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: Win is hard.

1049
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 6: So I'm calling today has to say I love you, concerned,

1050
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 6: I just to say I love.

1051
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 3: You, O God.

1052
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 6: Now listen, I don't know to got a frocking heart,

1053
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 6: but he's a healer, poor God's and I know what

1054
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 6: you need. But he's a provider. And I don't know

1055
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 6: what to fight, but he's a defender.

1056
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 5: I need every hit the name fuck God. So yeah, okay,

1057
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 5: so hey, yeah, you're.

1058
01:01:47,200 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: God, saying sir, baby surd So thank you for joining us.

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01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,640
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1060
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,200
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01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,840
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1062
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:25,080
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1063
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,880
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