1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 3: I'm standing on the promises of Christ, my King. I'm 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 3: standing on the promises of God. How about you? 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: How about you? The storm came, but. 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 3: My house stood because it was built on the rock. 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 4: And I come to the end of this year saying 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 4: thank you Lord. 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 3: I could complain, but I won't. 15 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. I could be afraid, but I refuse. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 5: I refused the spirit of fear. 17 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 3: I have faith. 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 4: Hi, run. 19 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: In God. 20 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 4: Wow. Kind of caught me off guard, right there. Now, 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 4: a little praise service. It is good, in fitting for 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 4: the upright. 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: To praise him. 24 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 4: It is appropriate for you to praise him. 25 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: It's appropriate for you to praise him. Grab a hand 26 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: next to you. Would you repeat after me? 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 4: Father, I pray for the person on my right and 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 4: on my left. Bless them today, Bless them so good 29 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 4: that it makes every curse irrelevant. In the name of Jesus. 30 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 4: Bless them so good that they have faith and confidence 31 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 4: for whatever they're facing. Jehovah, Jirah, meet their need. Jehovah 32 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 4: Nissi fight their battle. Jehovah Shahlom be there peace. Thank 33 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 4: you Jesus. Amen, Amen, Amen again clapped us as in 34 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 4: the house. 35 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: It's offering weekend. I have a break giving sernon prepared 36 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: for you. 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 4: Today, and today you're gonna help me preach in just 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 4: a few moments. 39 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: Those who are here physically and those who are online 40 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: are going to be bringing their offering. And whether you're 41 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: doing that online or whether you're doing that in person. 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, the first fruits belong to the Lord. 43 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: We are stewards, not owners of anything. 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 4: I have my offering ready as I have prepared this 45 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 4: offering for every twenty years. I never prepared the offering 46 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 4: and God didn't tell me to bump the number up 47 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 4: a little bit. I didn't tell Holly yet, but that 48 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 4: happened again this morning. There are two checks in this envelope. Man, 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: I'll talk to you about it later. There was the 50 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 4: one that I planned and then the one that God spoke. 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: You know, God will speak to you. 52 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 4: I have never asked anyone in this church to give 53 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 4: a specific amount of money. I just told you to 54 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 4: ask God and do what he tells you. And that's 55 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 4: what I'd like to talk to you about for a 56 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 4: few moments today, remain standing and turning your Bible to 57 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 4: John chapter two. I need to be a little bit 58 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 4: quicker today, So y'all listen fast. We're going to have 59 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 4: bonus worship at the end. You picked a great day 60 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 4: to come today. These people are going to help me 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 4: preach God's word. What a privilege it is. In John 62 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: chapter two, the Bible says, on the third day, a 63 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 4: wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus's mother was there, 64 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 4: and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to 65 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 4: the wedding. 66 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: When the wine was gone, Jesus's mother said to him, 67 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: they have no more. 68 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 4: Wine, woman, Why do you involve me Jesus for great 69 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 4: mother's day? 70 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: Verse Hall, you might want to preach that my hour 71 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: has not yet come. 72 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 4: And his mother said to the servants, do whatever he 73 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 4: tells you. Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind 74 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 4: used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from 75 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: twenty to thirty gallons Jesus said to the servants, fill 76 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 4: the jars with water. 77 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them. 78 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 4: Now draw some out and take it to the master 79 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 4: of the banquet. 80 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: They did so, and. 81 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 4: The master of the banquet tasted the water that had 82 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 4: been turned into wine. 83 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: He did not realize. 84 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 4: Where it had come from, though the servants who had 85 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: drawn the water new. Then he called the bridegroom aside 86 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 4: and said, everyone brings out the choice wine first, and 87 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 4: then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too 88 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 4: much to drink. Look at this verse for the end 89 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 4: of our year. But you have say the best till now. 90 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 4: What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the 91 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 4: first of the signs through which he revealed his glory 92 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 4: and his disciples believed in him. I read you eleven 93 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 4: verses just for the sake of reading you one. Go 94 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 4: back to verse five, and I'll give you my message today. 95 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 4: His mother said, to the servants, do whatever he tells you. 96 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 4: Do whatever he tells you. I want to use as 97 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 4: a subject today for this sermon. Mary's prayer. Mary's prayer. 98 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: Father, I ask now that you would answer this prayer. 99 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: Speak to your people give them courage to obey in 100 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 4: the name of Jesus. 101 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: Amen, you may be seated. 102 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 4: That's not exactly a Christmas scripture I read you, but 103 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: it features the main character of Christmas, so it counts Mary. 104 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 4: And Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was, in many ways, 105 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 4: you could say, the initiator of the first miracle that 106 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 4: he did. Let's give it up for Mary. Everybody clap 107 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 4: those hands and thank God for Mary. Now we don't 108 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 4: pray to Mary. We pray to God the Father through Jesus. 109 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 4: But Mary's prayer is what I want to talk to 110 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 4: you about today. 111 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: Not to hail Mary or anything like that, but I 112 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: want to talk to you about Mary's prayer today. 113 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 4: In order to illustrate this, I want to tell you 114 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 4: two unusual things that happened to me this week. Now, 115 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 4: I not only study the scriptures, but I study my life, 116 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 4: and I think that sometimes God preaches through ordinary events. 117 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 4: One thing that happened to me this week that was 118 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 4: kind of unusual. The Lord prompted in my heart to 119 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 4: give a specific amount of money to a church that 120 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 4: is just getting started, a brand new church. I know 121 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 4: what that feels like. And I saw the budget for 122 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 4: their launch of their church. And I know the pastor 123 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 4: pretty well, and I knew how hard it was going 124 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 4: to be to transport all of the families that are 125 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 4: going to start and all of that, and I said, 126 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 4: you know what, I want our church to help their church, 127 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 4: because when you're starting out, every little bit matters. And 128 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 4: so what we did we sent ten percent of their 129 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 4: entire budget from our church to help them start their 130 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 4: church this week. 131 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: Now we do that all the time. Millions of dollars 132 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: go out through this ministry. There are pastor after pastor 133 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: after pastor. 134 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 4: Who would stand on this stage and tell you thank 135 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 4: you for your faithfulness and your generosity. 136 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: But what made this one unusual was. 137 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 4: I got a text from the pastor after I told 138 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 4: him the gift was on the way, because I wanted 139 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 4: him to know. I wanted to know he could count 140 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 4: on us, and I thought that might help him sleep 141 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 4: better at night if he knew he was just at 142 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 4: least moving towards the goal. And I sent him the 143 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 4: number and he text back and said, this is insane. 144 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: You are not going to believe this. 145 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 4: And he sent me a voice memo that he had 146 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: sent me back in March. 147 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: Now it's December so back in March, he had sent. 148 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 4: Me a voice memo, and on the voice memo, I 149 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 4: listened to it again and I checked the date in 150 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 4: the timestamp. And this was before he knew he was 151 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 4: starting a church. This was before, definitely before we decided. 152 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: To give him any money. 153 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,599 Speaker 4: And he had left me a voice memo saying, I 154 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 4: had the craziest dream. I dreamed that you gave me 155 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 4: the exact It was the exact amount of money that 156 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 4: we did give him. 157 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: And I didn't remember the voice memo, and. 158 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 4: Maybe he like did a mind game on me and 159 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 4: planted that, like maybe it was inception, maybe he's. 160 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: Just that smart. 161 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 4: But even so, I thought it was crazy. It was 162 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 4: the exact amount, and it wasn't a round number. You're like, 163 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 4: it was probably like twenty thousand dollars or fifty thousand. No, 164 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 4: it was fifty five thousand dollars. So who just why 165 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 4: fifty five? Why did he dream fifty five in March? 166 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 4: Unless he's the biggest manipulator of all time. I think 167 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 4: sometimes God will prompt your heart in order to provide 168 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 4: for somebody in a way that you can't predict. 169 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: And I'll give you the second story. 170 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 4: The second story is not quite as dramatic, but it's 171 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 4: still kind of cool. I was on a date night 172 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 4: with Holly over at Lomma's the other week. 173 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: We ordered the mozzarella. We ate the appetizer. 174 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 4: The warm mozzarella is very, very worthwhile for all of 175 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 4: the calorie counters. You definitely should spend some now between 176 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 4: the appetizer and the main course. I got up just 177 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 4: for a quick bathroom break, and on my way back 178 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 4: from the bathroom, I don't know what told me to 179 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 4: do it, but something was like check Graham location. I 180 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 4: knew where Abby was, I knew where Elijah was, but 181 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 4: it was like, check on Graham, where's Graham at tonight? 182 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 4: Not because I don't trust him, I was just curious. 183 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 4: So I pulled up on my phone checked his location. 184 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 4: He was at a Mexican restaurant just right next door. 185 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 4: So I told Holly, I'll be right back. I'm gonna 186 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 4: go see Graham real quick. I'm gonna surprise him. 187 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,479 Speaker 1: And it worked out so great because. 188 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 4: I saw through the window as I was walking by 189 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 4: this neon yellow beanie that he wears, so I knew 190 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 4: it was him. 191 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: So I sneak around. There's five guys sitting. 192 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 4: At the booth, and I just popped my head right 193 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: over the booth and I say, what's up? And his 194 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 4: face looked like like I had been off at war 195 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 4: for a year and he gotn't seen me, and he's like, 196 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 4: what are you doing here? I'm like, I'm on a 197 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 4: date with Mom, just st the mozzarella. 198 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: Want to come check on you? Saw you on the phone. 199 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: How'd you know I was here? I checked you on 200 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: the phone. Don't you ever forget I can find you anywhere. 201 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 4: But then just something prompted me as I was leaving 202 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: the restaurant. 203 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: And it's a small thing. 204 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's huge, but it was just like, hey, hey, 205 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 4: for their meal, and I had some cash, so I said. 206 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: Have y'all paid yet? They had already eaten. I said, 207 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: have y'all paid yet? 208 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 4: After I adapted everybody up, have y'all paid yet? 209 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: No, sir, and I just put. 210 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 4: The money down on the table, probably twice as much 211 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 4: as they needed, and said, here you go, love. 212 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: You see and going back to see Mom, I walked out. 213 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 4: I came back home later and I'm gonna let him 214 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 4: tell you the rest of the story. Come on up here, son, 215 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 4: y'all give it up for Graham. Now, this is kind 216 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 4: of crazy. This is kind of crazy. See what you think, 217 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 4: he fan, But to me, this was kind of crazy. 218 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 4: Grab that mic and tell them. When I got home, 219 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 4: I said, what did you think when I popped up 220 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: at the restaurant. He said it was crazy. I said, 221 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 4: you didn't expect me. And then you said, no, there's 222 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 4: even more to it. 223 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 224 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 6: The reason why it was so crazy is because I 225 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 6: guess probably won't even believe it. But when we were 226 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,719 Speaker 6: there at the restaurant, you can ask Evan. We were 227 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 6: talking about generosity and one of my friends was talking 228 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 6: about how one of his favorite things that he's been 229 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 6: preaching about telling people about his generosity, and it just 230 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 6: sparked that conversation. We were talking about how if you 231 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 6: don't if you're not generous, if you don't trust God 232 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 6: with your money, what you're really saying is that and 233 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 6: we said this, Exactly we were saying is that you 234 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 6: don't view God as a father because everyone knows that 235 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 6: a father provides for his children. And so as we're 236 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 6: saying that, we have that whole conversation and then we 237 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 6: wait a little bit, and then a couple of minutes later, 238 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 6: we just see a head top above the booth and 239 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 6: we were tapping him up. It was crazy. And then 240 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 6: he puts the money on the table and he walked away, 241 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 6: and we kind of paused for a second. We were like, 242 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 6: when we're just talking about a father providing for his children, 243 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 6: and so we just thought it was really cool that 244 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 6: we got an in real life illustration of how a 245 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 6: father provides for his children. 246 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm a good good father. Who you are? That's 247 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: who I am? Who were the Jeane Jacket better vote 248 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: on line? I thought that was crazy. I thought that 249 00:12:59,280 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: was crazy. 250 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 4: Actually going into our Giving weekend, in just a few moments, 251 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 4: thousands of people all over this church are going to 252 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 4: come forward and make a declaration. 253 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: I have a father. He's faithful, he cares for me, 254 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: he provides for me. I just want to remind you 255 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: for two seconds. 256 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 4: Or maybe like twenty five minutes, two things about God. 257 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 4: One is God provides for you, and the second is 258 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 4: God prompts you. God provides for you, and God prompts 259 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 4: for you. God prompts you. God provides for you, and 260 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 4: God prompts you, so you may be surprised where God 261 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 4: provides for you and how God provides for you. He 262 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 4: might pop up at a Mexican restaurant. Next time, he 263 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 4: might do it at a Chinese buffet. He could do 264 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 4: it anywhere. Tell somebody he could do it anywhere. And 265 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 4: now look at your other neighbor. You've ignored every time 266 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 4: I've said, touch your neighbor today and tell him. He 267 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 4: can do it through anyone. 268 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: You don't believe me. 269 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 4: God prompted Elijah in the Bible to go to the 270 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 4: brook and prompted a bird to bring him bread. God 271 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 4: can do it anywhere. He can do it through anyone. 272 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 4: A bird isn't even a person. And God is my provider. 273 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 4: I want to build your faith a little bit today. 274 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 4: Just say it out loud. God is my provider. Say 275 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 4: God provides for me. He's a good father. He provides 276 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 4: for me. He provides for me in the strangest of places. 277 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 4: If it takes him bringing water from a rock in 278 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 4: the wilderness, God provides for me. If it takes him 279 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 4: sending a shepherd with a stone to bring down a 280 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 4: giant because the whole army is too afraid, God provides 281 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 4: for me. If it takes him using a stick over 282 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 4: a red sea to make a way for me to 283 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 4: my freedom. God provides for me. Put it in the 284 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 4: chat for me. God provides for me. If it starts 285 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 4: with a little bit of oil and I borrow a 286 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 4: few jars, the capacity will never be on God. The 287 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 4: capacity will be on me because God provides for me. 288 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 4: You're saying, is this prosperity theology. No, this is just 289 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 4: gospel belief, faith in a God who gave his son 290 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 4: for me. How should he who gave his son not 291 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 4: also freely give us all things. 292 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: God provides for me. He meets my needs. 293 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 4: He opens doors for me, He closes doors for me. 294 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 4: He brings people into my life. He shows people out 295 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 4: of my life. He yanks stuff out, he plants stuff in, 296 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 4: He waters stuff, he calls forth stuff. 297 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: God provides for me. 298 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 4: I'll know who is for But you got a lot 299 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 4: of needs at the end of this year. But your 300 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: needs are not greater than Jehovah Nissi. 301 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: God provides for me. Shout it out loud. God provides 302 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: for me. 303 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 4: Now we're used to sermons about God providing for us 304 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 4: in the wilderness, that is the drastic, dramatic situations in 305 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 4: our life. But here we find the first demonstration of 306 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 4: the provision of Jesus in the Gospels is not in 307 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 4: the wilderness, but at a wedding. 308 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: He can do it anywhere. 309 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 4: He can bless you just as good in the high 310 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 4: times as the low times. The Bible says that they 311 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 4: were at a wedding and the wine ran out, but 312 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 4: Jesus was on the scene. And you'll notice that Mary 313 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 4: prompts Jesus to do. 314 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: Something about it. 315 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 4: She doesn't exactly pray to him, She just makes him 316 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 4: aware of the situation. Have you ever just made God 317 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 4: aware of a situation? Like? 318 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: God, you see how they're treating me right. 319 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 4: And I'm not saying you should smite them or anything 320 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 4: like that or give them a hernia, But God, you 321 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 4: see how they're treating me. 322 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: Right. I'm not telling you to give them a flat tire. 323 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 4: But you see how they just cut me off right? 324 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: And you saw it and flip I'm off right. God, 325 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 4: I'm not trying to give you any ideas. But Mary 326 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 4: says to Jesus they have no more wine, and he says, woe, 327 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 4: and why do you involve me? 328 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: My hour has not yet come. But the Bible says 329 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,640 Speaker 1: in verse five that his. 330 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 4: Mother watched this interesting strategy, said to the servants, do 331 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 4: whatever he tells you. Now she's talking to Jesus. They 332 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 4: have no more wine. Jesus talks to her. That has 333 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 4: nothing to. 334 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: Do with me. She turns away from Jesus to the servants. 335 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 3: And says, do whatever he tells you. 336 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: God provides. 337 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 4: So if God provides, why didn't Jesus say yes when 338 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 4: she asked him the first time? 339 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: So here's what I think about it. 340 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 4: I think a lot of times in my life recognizing 341 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 4: that God is my provider and that he is my father. 342 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: I mean, you heard Grandma here, I'm his father. 343 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 4: When I showed up with my head over the booth, 344 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 4: he didn't know what blessings I brought. 345 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: With me, but I was happy to do it. 346 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 4: Yet, isn't it true that sometimes you treat God more 347 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 4: like your phone. 348 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: Than your father. I hope y'all got all your shout. 349 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 4: And done before I got to this point, because I 350 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 4: realized that many of us. 351 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: Treat God like chat gpt on our phone. 352 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 4: And when we say I sought the Lord and he 353 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 4: heard and he answered, what we mean is I told 354 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 4: God what he needed to do for me, and he 355 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 4: did it. 356 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 1: And so we end up. 357 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 4: How many of you use chat GPT regularly and you 358 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 4: out of shame to admit it. But you would never 359 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 4: use it in a class. You would never use it illicitly. 360 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 4: You would never use it to prepare a sermon. I 361 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 4: would never do that, but I might ask chat GPT, Hey, 362 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 4: what's the weather going to be like in Charlotte tomorrow? 363 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: You know, oh, it's going to be cold tomorrow. It's 364 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: going to be real. How cold? Give it to me 365 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: in degrees not celsius fahrenheit. 366 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 4: I heard of one student, not a student who goes 367 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 4: to this church, but I heard of one student who 368 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 4: regularly uploads their math worksheets to chat GPT and tells 369 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 4: chat GPT answer these problems for me. 370 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: Give them all in number form. 371 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 4: Don't show your work, don't try to teach me how 372 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 4: to do it. 373 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: Just give me answers. Not a student in this church. 374 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: This is a revival generation in this church. But think 375 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 1: about it. 376 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 4: When you talk to chat GPT, you prompt chat GPT 377 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 4: according to your preference to meet your purpose. 378 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: I would demonstrate it for. 379 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 4: You right now, but I don't trust chat GPT. 380 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,719 Speaker 1: Enough to say the right things back. What I am 381 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: telling you is that when. 382 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 4: We begin to think that we prompt God like we 383 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 4: prompt chat GPT, because some of us do our entire 384 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 4: prayer life is pretty much like we're just prompting God. Hey, God, 385 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 4: I need you to provide for me. I got this 386 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 4: meeting at nine o'clock. I need you to help me 387 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 4: through this meeting. In Jesus name, Amen, God, I need 388 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 4: you to give me a new job. I don't like 389 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 4: my job and I need a new job and when 390 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 4: that's not going to be really hard, but it's going 391 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 4: to pay really well. 392 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: And I don't be gone from my family very much. 393 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 4: Lord, But if you could give me a job that 394 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 4: will provide for me above the amount of time that 395 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 4: I'm willing to spend working in it. 396 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: And God, I would like to have a lot of. 397 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 4: Authority, but I don't want to lead any people because I. 398 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: Don't really like people. 399 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 4: So I'd like to be able to be an introvert 400 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 4: but still have a lot of authority within the organization. 401 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: God in Jesus' name, Chat God. 402 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 4: But God is not GPT. 403 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 7: You don't prompt God. God prompts me. God prompts me. 404 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: I mean the disciples were always having to learn this 405 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 4: check it out. They were in a remote place. Jesus 406 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 4: was teaching people. The disciples go up to Jesus and 407 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 4: they say, hey, Jesus, you've been teaching a long time. 408 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 4: You need to shut this down. The people are hungry. 409 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 4: They didn't care about the people. They were hungry. So 410 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 4: what are they doing? They are prompting Jesus. 411 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 3: It'd be a good idea for you, Jesus, if you'd. 412 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 4: Send the crowds away. They can go get something to eat. 413 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 4: Send them away, Jesus said, they don't need. 414 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: To go away. You give them something to eat. Now, 415 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: this is what's interesting about the disciples. 416 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 4: They already knew that Jesus could do the supernatural. 417 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 1: They had seen demons. 418 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 4: Come out of people, They had seen the best. 419 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: They went forth in the ministry. Great miracles happen. But 420 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: just because you've been discipled once doesn't mean that you're 421 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: fully developed. 422 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 4: I was talking to my friend the other day about 423 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 4: somebody that they discipled back in college. And when they 424 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 4: discipled this person back in college, it's been like thirty 425 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 4: years now, and the person that they discipled, I don't 426 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 4: know if. 427 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: Y'all have ever heard that term before. 428 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 4: It's like we use it to say, mentored them spiritually. 429 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 4: You know, they disciple this person, and this person is 430 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 4: so far off the map. 431 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: Now this person is a mess. 432 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 4: And I looked at the person who was bragging that 433 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 4: they discipled the other person. I said, you discipled them, 434 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 4: and they said, yeah, I discipled them. And I said, 435 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 4: I think you need to reciple them, huh, because sometimes 436 00:22:53,640 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 4: we need to be recipled. Sometimes we forget who our 437 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 4: source is and where our help comes from. And sometimes 438 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 4: we pray and God provides, but we start prompting God 439 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 4: for what we want. And I came to say today 440 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 4: God is. 441 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: The prompter, not you, not me. 442 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 4: We don't get to tell Jesus who to snd away. 443 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 4: We don't get to tell God what to do, even with. 444 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: Our own lives. I will preach this whether you like 445 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 1: it or not. 446 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 4: God is not your phone, He is your father. You 447 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 4: don't give the commands he does. We don't draw the 448 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 4: lines around our life. We don't get to tell God 449 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 4: what we will and won't do with our gift. He 450 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 4: gave the gift, it's his to use. We don't get 451 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: to tell God when it should happen. We have to 452 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 4: trust him with the tithing. If the timing and the 453 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 4: tithing little slip right there. Why would we say we 454 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 4: trust in God when we won't even bring him what 455 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 4: he gave to us to begin with. I feel annoyted 456 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 4: to break the spirit off of people today who are 457 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 4: saying I'm seeking the Lord, But all I'm really doing 458 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 4: is telling the Lord what I think he needs to do, 459 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 4: when maybe he has a command that contradicts my own 460 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 4: preferences that he is trying to bring forth in my life. 461 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 4: So all that to say, I trust in God more 462 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 4: than I trust in myself. And that's why Mary's prayer 463 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 4: wasn't Jesus, do whatever I tell you? 464 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: It was verse five, Do whatever he tells you. 465 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 4: Most of us do the exact opposite with God. God 466 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 4: chat God, do whatever I tell you, and I'll say 467 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 4: it real nice and everything like that. But what I'm 468 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 4: really saying is, God, do send me a husband. Make 469 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 4: him not too tall, not too short, not too busy, 470 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 4: not too lazy. God, make him able to sing, but 471 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 4: not arrogant about his singing ability. God, as we're good 472 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 4: Amen in Jesus' name, spin around three times, yabad abad you. 473 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: Do it, Jesus, chad geot. 474 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 4: But see see you're not holding God in your hands. 475 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: He's holding you in his hands, and we. 476 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 4: Need to be recifled. Come on, help me preach, Rosalind. 477 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 4: You are not holding him, He's holding you. That's why 478 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 4: I've never felt like I was doing God a favor 479 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 4: when I gave. I never felt like I was doing 480 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 4: God a favor. 481 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: When I praised. 482 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 4: I never felt like I was doing God a favor 483 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 4: when I preached. God, you mean you would let me 484 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 4: open your word, as filthy as I am, as flawed 485 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 4: as I am, as unfinished as I am, you would 486 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 4: let me open your word and preach. 487 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: You would let me lead a church that's reaching the world. 488 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm honored to do it. I'm privileged to do it. 489 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 4: You don't know me anything, God, If you never do 490 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 4: anything else for me, just your salvation is enough. You 491 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 4: provide for me, and you prompt me, and I don't 492 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 4: prompt you. 493 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: You don't have to do what I want you to do. 494 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 3: You know the plans you have for me, You know 495 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 3: the hope you have for me. 496 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: And I trust in God. 497 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 4: I trust in God, like Abraham trusted in God. God 498 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 4: prompted Abraham, he said, go to the land, I'll show you. 499 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 3: You would say, God, show me and I'll go. 500 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: God said, go and I'll show you. I'm not gonna 501 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: give you all the details. You don't prompt God. God 502 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: prompts you. Come on. Can I talk about Moses. 503 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 8: God told Moses go to Pharaoh and say, let my 504 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 8: people go. Moses didn't tell God what to do to Pharaoh. 505 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 8: God told Moses what to say. God prompts me say it. 506 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 8: God prompts me. I don't prompt God. I don't give 507 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 8: God my ten year plan. I don't even tell God 508 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 8: what I'm supposed to preach about. 509 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: I ask him, what do your people need? 510 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 4: What is the fresh word from heaven that you want 511 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 4: to deliver? What is that brother, that sister dealing with 512 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 4: this week? 513 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 7: That if a word comes from heaven and you prompt 514 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 7: their heart and they follow in obedience, if you will 515 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 7: do whatever he told you, you will see him do 516 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 7: exceedingly unbuttonedly. I'm preaching, Graham, ah bah bah, you ask 517 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 7: or think or imagine high five three people say I've 518 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 7: got a father, and he'll stick his head over the 519 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 7: booth and he will pay for your meal. 520 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: He's my provider and he's my prompter. And come back, Graham. 521 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: I got to show you something. 522 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 4: This boy every Sunday night is living in the blessing 523 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 4: of the faithfulness of the ministry of the people in 524 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 4: this church. 525 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: Because see, I want to tell you something the next meal. 526 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 4: I want you to buy for somebody that you're sitting with. 527 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 4: Because God is a provider, but he's also a prompter. 528 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: So how can we always just want the provision if 529 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: we don't want to be prompted? 530 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 4: And I'm not saying you're cheap, and I know you're 531 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 4: kind of broke, and that's all right for another couple 532 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 4: of years, because I got you for. 533 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: A minute, but not for that long. 534 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 4: But every Sunday night, this boy is teaching a Bible 535 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 4: study at this church. 536 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: And I'm proud of all of my kids, but. 537 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 4: I just wanted to use him because he has the 538 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 4: gene jacket on. Look, this boy is preaching a Bible 539 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 4: study every Sunday night, and it started with God prompting him. 540 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 4: Everybody's say, God prompts me. Pray it like a prayer. 541 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 4: Say God, prompt me, Prompt me what to do about 542 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 4: this issue with my parents, Prompt me what to do 543 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 4: about this situation with my kids? Prompt me what to 544 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 4: do about this situation with the company. Prompt me, God 545 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 4: prompt me, not like Chad, GPT like Lord, show me 546 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 4: which city to move in, and make sure it has 547 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 4: a good climate, and make sure it also has good 548 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 4: economic opportunities. And God make sure there's also good friends 549 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 4: there in a good church there. 550 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: And when I get to. 551 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 4: The church there, God make sure that the services are 552 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 4: long enough really touch me deeply, but short enough to 553 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 4: get me out in time for lunch, and deep enough 554 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 4: where I can be disciple, but wide enough and broad 555 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 4: enough so I can invite my own church friends and 556 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 4: they can understand. 557 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: This is not GPT, this is g B. God prompts me. 558 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 4: And God prompted you to start a Bible study for 559 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 4: your friends. And we did it upstairs in the playroom 560 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 4: on Sunday nights. 561 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: And I would watch this. 562 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 4: Boy, and sometimes it would be five people, sometimes. 563 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: It would be ten. 564 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 4: Let me show you what a big group looked like. 565 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 4: This was just this past summer. A big group. Look 566 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 4: at that screen. A big group the other one look 567 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 4: at that screen. A big group was nine kids. God prompted, 568 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 4: and he was passionate for his friends to know Jesus. 569 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 4: I related to that because I remember when God prompted 570 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 4: me to run the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at our school. 571 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 4: I said, athletes kind of slow because it stood for FCA, 572 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 4: and some of them weren't. 573 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: Living right, so they used to make fun of it. 574 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 4: They would call it FCA Fellowship of Christian Alcoholics. 575 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: But I did not endorse that. That was not good. 576 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 4: I was trying to get them saved, and I would 577 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 4: teach Bible studies. And so when I saw you doing that, 578 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 4: I was like, that's good, that's good. And then one 579 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 4: week I don't know, but twenty people came. 580 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: And see. 581 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 4: When God prompts you with something, he will give you 582 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 4: a small prompt with a big purpose. The Lord's doing 583 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 4: the work in this place today. The hearts are receptive. 584 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 4: You can feel it. There's faith in the room. You 585 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 4: can feel it. God's presence is here, you can sense it. 586 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: It's the prompting of the Holy Spirit. 587 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 4: It may not be in regards to an offering, or 588 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 4: it may it may be a Bible study. 589 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: He was prompted to start a Bible study. He was 590 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: patient as week after. 591 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 4: Week as friends wouldn't come, they would come, they wouldn't come, 592 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 4: they would come, maybe only Austin would show up, maybe 593 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 4: only Evan would show up, maybe only Colton would show up. 594 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: It would just be week after week. 595 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 4: But God was prompting him and he was faithful, and 596 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 4: I watched him do it. 597 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: One week when they had that big crowd. 598 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 4: There was a kid there who was a part of 599 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 4: our residence program for worship, kind of like an apprenticeship 600 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 4: or discipleship program we have for worship leaders. And they 601 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 4: were finishing Bible study and Graham said, Dad, do you 602 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 4: have an acoustic guitar that Daniel can play? And I 603 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 4: have a few guitars, and some of them are real nice, 604 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 4: So I got one of the other ones. 605 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: You know, there's a bunch of boys up there. I 606 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: don't really trust him like that, And I handed Daniel 607 00:31:59,160 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: the guitar. 608 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 4: Within two weeks, Look what was happening in the same 609 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 4: playroom from a prompt. 610 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: I show them the. 611 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 9: Video, remember that, Yeah, y'all. 612 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 3: That's the room over the kitchen. 613 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: In our house. The floor was shaking so hard in. 614 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 4: The kitchen I thought they were about to come through 615 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 4: the roof. Remember in the Bible, when they tore off 616 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 4: the roof to get the man to Jesus. 617 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 5: I was like, y'all are not coming through my roof. 618 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 5: This is not the Bible. I do not have homeowners 619 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 5: insurance for that. Can y'all see that in the news. 620 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 5: Wouldn't that be in news for three weeks straight? If 621 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 5: if fasterferred? It killed the kids at the e group 622 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 5: at the Elevation Church. 623 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 4: But the floor didn't give way because it was built 624 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 4: on the rock. 625 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: Come on, it was a solid foundation. 626 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 4: We were standing on the promise and the floor was shaken, 627 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 4: and I said, Graham, this is good, but y'all gotta move. 628 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 4: Y'all gotta go. I don't know where we're gonna go. 629 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 4: But see, there are some people in this church who 630 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 4: were prompted years ago. And what you don't understand is 631 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 4: every Sunday night now, hundreds of these kids get together 632 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 4: showing my next video. 633 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: Please at our. 634 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 4: Matthew's location and watch these kids. 635 00:33:42,160 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 3: And how they're praising, and that. 636 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: That praise, that praise y'all with me church. That praise 637 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: started with a prompting Graham. Look out here. 638 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,280 Speaker 4: Everybody whoever gave to this ministry or serves in this ministry, 639 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:26,319 Speaker 4: stand up. 640 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: Now. 641 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 4: What y'all are doing is amazing, and I thank God 642 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 4: for it. But y'all's praise started with their prompting, and 643 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 4: they said, yes, y'all's praise started with their prompting. And 644 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 4: I wonder what God's going to prompt today, And I 645 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 4: wonder who is going to be praising God. 646 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: I read the strangest verse, y'all. 647 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,359 Speaker 4: I read a verse from Galatians one twenty four where 648 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,800 Speaker 4: Paul said something so unusual. He said, and they praised 649 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 4: God because of me. What a thing to say. Every 650 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 4: single one of you who gives today, somebody is going 651 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,240 Speaker 4: to be praising God. 652 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: Some mom is going to. 653 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 4: Be praising God because their kid came. 654 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:25,720 Speaker 1: Back to Christ. 655 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 4: Somebody is going to be praising God because of you. Now, Graham, 656 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 4: you can go sit down, and you can sit down 657 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 4: for a moment to get out your offering card and envelope. Please, 658 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit is in this place, and the only 659 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 4: instruction from the Holy Spirit is do whatever he tells 660 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 4: you to do. 661 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: How long have we been trying to get God to 662 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: do what we want him to do? But have we 663 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: asked him? God? 664 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 4: Out of all the gifts you've given me, out of 665 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 4: all the resources you've given me, you are the source. 666 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: You are g o D. You are my God. Mary's prayer. 667 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 4: You remember what Mary said when the Angel told her 668 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 4: that she was going to give birth to Jesus in 669 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 4: Luke chapter one, verse thirty seven. He said, no word 670 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 4: from God will ever fail. And Mary said, I don't 671 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 4: see how it's going to happen. I don't really understand it, 672 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 4: but I am the Lord's servant. May your word to 673 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 4: me be fulfilled. That was Mary's prayer. You know, we 674 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 4: do just the opposite. Sometimes we say, God, may my 675 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 4: word to you be fulfilled. 676 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: Here's what I want you to do. 677 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 4: Lord. But no God can do immeasurably more than you 678 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 4: ask or imagine. I didn't want a hundred kids jumping upstairs. 679 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:56,800 Speaker 1: In my house. 680 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 4: That's a nightmare. But what I thought was a nightmare 681 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 4: God turned into a revival. May your word to me 682 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 4: be fulfilled. God is a provider. God is a prompter. 683 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 4: He prompted Peter to go to a man named Cornelius's house, 684 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 4: and the Gospel came to the Gentile world. He prompted 685 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,399 Speaker 4: a man named Anaius to lay his hands on brother Saul, 686 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 4: and brother Saul became Paul, and the Gospel went forward 687 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 4: to the Roman Empire. What is God prompting you to 688 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 4: do what's the word that you want to choose? As 689 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 4: one year ends and another begins. And oh, by the way, 690 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 4: I'm not just speaking to people in the room, those 691 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,359 Speaker 4: of you all over the world who are blessed by 692 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,320 Speaker 4: this ministry. Now you have been blessed to be a blessing. 693 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 4: Is God prompting you to make a difference. I believe 694 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 4: the next twenty years of our ministry are going to 695 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 4: make the first twenty years of the ministry look like 696 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 4: a startup in. 697 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 1: A garage somewhere. 698 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,800 Speaker 4: I believe God is about to do something so amazing 699 00:37:59,080 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 4: that we'll be talking. 700 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 1: Do you remember when we only. 701 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 4: Had twenty campuses? Do you remember back in twenty twenty five, 702 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 4: back in the old early days. God is about to 703 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:14,840 Speaker 4: blow our mind. And it starts with the prompting Graham. 704 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 4: You're at the living room tonight because Greg and Autumn 705 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 4: said yes to a prompting. Eighteen years they've given to 706 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 4: this offering. Chunks and Amy, twenty years they've given to 707 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:25,320 Speaker 4: this offering. 708 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 1: Twenty years. Eric and Nicole have given to this offering. 709 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: Nine years. 710 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 4: Jonathan Joseph's and Anna Joseph's have given to this offering. 711 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: God has been faithful to us, and. 712 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 4: When you don't give, you say I don't trust that 713 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 4: I have a father who can provide for me. But 714 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,400 Speaker 4: if you've ever seen him pop his head up behind 715 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 4: your booth and take care of your needs, now is 716 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,279 Speaker 4: an opportunity for you to tell him, thank you. 717 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:59,439 Speaker 1: What more could we do? He's done everything for us. 718 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 4: So our word for this year is going to be 719 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 4: the word light. Jesus said, my yoke is easy and 720 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 4: my burden is light. And a lot of times I 721 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 4: realized that I take on things like they're all on 722 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 4: me and not on God. 723 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 1: And that's a sin, y'all. 724 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 4: So this year I'm going to take Jesus at his word, 725 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 4: and I'm going to hook up in the harness with 726 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 4: him a little bit more, and I'm going to ask 727 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 4: him to make my burden light this year. How many 728 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,319 Speaker 4: of you will agree with me this year that the 729 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 4: Lord will make my burden a little lighter? Yeah, and 730 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 4: I'm doing good. Don't worry about me. It's not like 731 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,280 Speaker 4: I'm on the verge of burnout. But that's an example. Jonathan. 732 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,880 Speaker 4: You said your word was come up and say it 733 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 4: with me. Stirred. Stirred I love that word. Say it 734 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 4: in the microphone. Jonathan's word is stirred. What a great 735 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 4: word to talk about the water into wine. They took 736 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,400 Speaker 4: the water, poured it in the jars Jesus told him to, 737 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 4: and somewhere when they stirred. 738 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: It, it became what it could never be. What a 739 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,400 Speaker 1: great word. We ain't even plan this. Look how in 740 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,320 Speaker 1: tune with God? You are a mighty man of valor. 741 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,799 Speaker 4: In just a moment, all of our campus pastors are 742 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 4: going to share with you, and I. 743 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: Want you to take a moment and pick the word. 744 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 1: First of all, that's the first thing I want you 745 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: to do. 746 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 4: And then campus pastors, you come right now as everyone seated, 747 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,279 Speaker 4: as everybody's preparing to worship. We've saved time. I am 748 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 4: on my clock. Miracles do happen. But will you pray 749 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:41,359 Speaker 4: Mary's prayer today? Do whatever he tells you, and then 750 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,840 Speaker 4: get ready, because when you do what you can do, God. 751 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,839 Speaker 1: Will do what you cannot do. Somewhere they stirred that 752 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 1: water and it became wine. 753 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 4: You hear me, Abby, When you do what you can do, 754 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 4: God will do what you cannot do. 755 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:57,440 Speaker 1: Pick your word? 756 00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,760 Speaker 4: Anybody got one? 757 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: Holler it at me? 758 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,959 Speaker 4: Do it Lord, all that put it in the chat 759 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 4: right now online you're giving give us the word that 760 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 4: you're believing God for. As a matter of fact, before 761 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 4: I turn it around, let's read some of the ones 762 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 4: that are coming through online right now. 763 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,479 Speaker 1: JJ. This is an amazing moment. Tell somebody the Lord 764 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:22,879 Speaker 1: is here. 765 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 4: Lord, is. 766 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: That you love This weekend, I can feel the faith. 767 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,960 Speaker 4: And generosity of so many people, so faithful, fearless, helped 768 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 4: faith gez Vessel. 769 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, restore, move free light. That's my word. I can't 770 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: take my. 771 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,879 Speaker 4: Word, bill a Boo twenty three. 772 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: You can't have my word. That's to use your name, 773 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,279 Speaker 1: bill a Boo twenty. 774 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 4: Three, Get off my word, move a blaze yield Provider 775 00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,400 Speaker 4: is coming through so fast. 776 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: What's your word? What's your word? 777 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 4: May your word God to me be fulfilled, not just 778 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 4: whatever I think. I want you to do what you 779 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 4: want to do through my life, what you want to 780 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 4: do through this church. 781 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 1: This is your church. We are your people. You are 782 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: our father, God. I bring the needs of all of 783 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 1: these people. 784 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,799 Speaker 4: Before you today from every nation that is watching right 785 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,359 Speaker 4: here in this local community. 786 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: You have been good to us. God. 787 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,320 Speaker 4: You are Jehovah Jirah and in this place this sees, 788 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,319 Speaker 4: in this moment of their life. Would you meet every 789 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 4: need as we do what you tell us to do 790 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:38,719 Speaker 4: in Jesus name. 791 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: Amen, Thank you for joining us. 792 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 793 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,840 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 794 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 795 00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash popodcast for 796 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 2: more information and if you enjoyed the podcast. 797 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: You can subscribe. You can share it with your friends. 798 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,719 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 799 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,879 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 800 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:11,759 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 801 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:18,480 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.