1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: Hey Siri, are you ready for the word? Hey, tif 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: are you ready for the word? Hey Joey, are you 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: ready for the word? Hey? Fam are you ready for 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: the word? Stay standing? Stand up? Stay standing or stand up? 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: Just make sure you're standing. I want to read to 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: you from One King seventeen. There's something that the Lord 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: was showing me today that I think is really going 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: to speak to your situation. Please take a moment and share. 14 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, make sure to let us 15 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: know in the chat where you're watching from. It was 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: so cool last week that after the sermon was posted, 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: everybody who watched the sermon went and said, here's where 18 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: I'm watching from, and they said, I'm here for it. 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: And it was so cool to see all the places. 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: And our team then gets to go through and they 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: get to pray for you by name that God would 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: speak to you. So put it in the chat. But also, 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: don't just be blessed today, be a blessing. Be a blessing. 24 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: What if you took a moment right now to share 25 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: this experience with someone and it lifted them out of depression. 26 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: What if you took a moment to share this with 27 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: someone right now and it helped them to breathe deeply 28 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: and not have a panic attack later this week. What 29 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: if you shared this message with someone right now and 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: God spoke a word that kept them from doing something 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: stupid that was going to mess up their life. I'm 32 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,479 Speaker 1: telling you the Word of God is powerful and you're 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: going to see that in the text. But by faith, 34 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: right now, share it. Hit the share button or text somebody. 35 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: You know how to do it, and you know who 36 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: God puts on your heart. And let's move into the 37 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: Word of God together. We've already had an awesome time 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: of worship. We've already praised God, We've already been singing 39 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: to Him. We spent this week serving and now let's 40 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: go to the Word and see what God will give 41 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: us to sustain us for these crazy days we live 42 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: in One Kings chapter seventeen. Now Elijah the tishbite from 43 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: Tishby in Gilead said to ahab As the Lord, the 44 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: God of Israel, lives whom I serve, there will be 45 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: neither do nor reign in the next few years except 46 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 1: at my word. Then the word of the Lord came 47 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: to Elijah. Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the 48 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: Careth Ravine east of the Jordan. You will drink from 49 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply 50 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: you with food there. We talked last week about unschedulable blessings. 51 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: Unschedulable blessings. It's a word I made of It's a 52 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: thing you can't put on your calendar. But God is 53 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: going to come through for you. He's going to come 54 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 1: through for you sometimes after you've given up. But this 55 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: is an unusual way for God to provide for his servant. 56 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: It's an unusual source. So he did what the Lord 57 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 1: had told him verse five, and he went to the 58 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: Karath Ravine east of the Jordan and stayed there. The 59 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and 60 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from 61 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: the brook. Sometime later, the brook dried up because there 62 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: had been no rain in the land. Then the word 63 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: of the Lord came to him. Go at once to 64 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: Zerapath in the region of Sidon, and stay there. I 65 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: have directed a widow there to supply you with food, 66 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: and I watch this. So he went to Zarapath, and 67 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: when he came to the town gate, a widow was 68 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, would 69 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: you bring me a little water in a jar? Just 70 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: slow water? Uh uh uh uh oh, hang on, let's 71 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: see if we can get that fixed, little water. Isn't 72 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: it weird? Come on out, tech support, How many out 73 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: real quick? Because I know we can get this fixed. 74 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: Isn't it weird? Come check this out? I'm broadcasting right now. 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: Can you can you fix it? Isn't it weird? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no, 76 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: no no, yeah. See if we get fixed, you can't 77 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: fix it. No, fix it in the back and bring 78 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: it back in the weird. Look, look, we're broadcasting to 79 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: the whole world. Why can't you don't leave me hanging 80 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: in We're broadcasting to the whole world. Isn't it weird? 81 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: How something so little, I mean, we're broadcasting all over 82 00:04:54,800 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: the world. Isn't it weird? How something so little can 83 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: control something so big. Bring that back to me on stone. 84 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,559 Speaker 1: We see if we can fix it. He said, bring 85 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: me a little water? How much water? A little? So 86 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,679 Speaker 1: let me have a dream. And as she was going 87 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: to get it, he called, and bring me, please a 88 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: piece of bread. As surely as the Lord, your god lives. 89 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: She replies, I don't have any bread, only a handful 90 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: of flour in a jar, and a little how much 91 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: a little olive oil in a jug. A little flour 92 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. 93 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: I am gathering a few sticks to take home and 94 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: make a meal for myself and my son, that we 95 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: may eat it and die. Now here's the word of 96 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: the Lord. Elijah said to her. Don't be afraid. Go 97 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: home and do as you have said, But first to 98 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: make a small loaf of bread for me from what 99 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: you have, and bring it to me, and then make 100 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: something for yourself and your son. For this is what 101 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, says. The jar of 102 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: flower will not be used up, and the jug of 103 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: oil will not run dry until the day the Lord 104 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: sends rain on the lands. So she went away and 105 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: did as Elijah had told her. So there was food 106 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: every day for Elijah, and for the woman and her family, 107 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: For the jar of flour was not used up, and 108 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: the jug of oil did not run dry. In keeping 109 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah, a 110 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: little olive oil in a jug, A little olive oil. 111 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 1: Here's what the Lord sent me to tell you today. 112 00:06:54,680 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: Take the lid off a little, you ready, Father, We 113 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: stand under an open heaven, thanking you for your blessings. 114 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: We thank you for rain in due season. We thank 115 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: you that you speak what we need when we need it. 116 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: And when you speak, there's nothing the enemy can do 117 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: to snatch what has sown. Our hearts are good soil. 118 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: We are open to your word. We are open to 119 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: the possibility that in this season you are leading us 120 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: like never before into a place that you prepared for 121 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: us before the world began. We give you praise for 122 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: it in Jesus' name. Everybody who receives this word, clap 123 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: your hands. Amen, you may be seated. Take the lid 124 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: off a little. That's crazy, Zach, how a little thing 125 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: you'll be seated. How a little thing, something so little 126 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: can affect something so big. I mean, this word I 127 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: just told you is going all over the world, and 128 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: one little wire wires. We were in a church one 129 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: time and the sound guy said, quit on hooking my wires. 130 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: We had our little sound system we were setting up 131 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: that he said, quit messing with my wires, my wires. 132 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: Isn't it weird? One little, one little thing? And in 133 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: the text I was reading, they're gonna think we worked 134 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: this out ahead of time, but we did it. Isn't 135 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: it crazy? In the text we read, the Bible says 136 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: it didn't rain for three years because of the word 137 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: that came from Elijah's mouth. How can the word from 138 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: one man's mouth control the weather? How can something so 139 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: little affect something so big? What happens all the time 140 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: in your life, I mean, the littlest thing in your 141 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: day can set you in a direction that you don't 142 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: even realize until it is so depressing. I mean, my 143 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: die and didn't even realize something so little. That's why 144 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: I have to be so very careful. What the first 145 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: thing I look on my phone for when I get 146 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: up in the morning. Because it doesn't take much. It 147 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: doesn't take much. And I don't care who you follow 148 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: on Instagram, they find a way into your feed. The 149 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: people you unfollowed, they find a way back in. The 150 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: algorithm will attack you. Somebody said. The devil is a 151 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: Lauren Ryan Lyon. So is the Instagram algorithm. It is 152 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: looking for someone to devour. That's why they call it 153 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: a feed. I figured this out. He's looking to eat 154 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: you alive. Ah, something so little. It said that the 155 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: word from Elijah's mouth controlled the weather system. How could 156 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: something so small? How could how could a wet market 157 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: on the other side of the world have you shut 158 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: down and grounded from traveling. There's never been a better 159 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: time for me to p this message that I want 160 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 1: to appreciate today because everybody has to agree in this moment. 161 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: If you've never agreed before that the littlest thing in 162 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: your life or the littlest thing in someone else's life 163 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: can affect you in a way, I'm telling you right 164 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: now that the littlest things in your life right now, 165 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: if you can receive this word from the Lord today, 166 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: are controlling the things. And maybe we can help make 167 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: this connection through studying Elijah little bit controlling the things 168 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: that you have no control over, And I'll do my 169 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: best to break it down as we move. I've always 170 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: read Romans eight twenty eight with a very specific categorization. 171 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: Romans eight twenty eight is my favorite Bible verse because 172 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: it gets me through anything. It says that all things 173 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: work together for the good of those that love God 174 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: and are called according to His purpose. How could I 175 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: have quoted it for so long and only seen it 176 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: through the lens of good things and bad things. I 177 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: always read Romans eight twenty eight that all things, whether 178 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: good or bad, work together for the good for those 179 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: who are called according to God's purpose. Now I realize 180 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: that Romans eight twenty eight doesn't just apply to good 181 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: things and bad things. It applies also to big things 182 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: and little things. Turn the lights on and wake them up. 183 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: I can't get I can't get any help out here. 184 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: It said all things turn the lights on and wake 185 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: them up. Do something, pull the lights up because it's 186 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: sleep Yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, that's better. I need to 187 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: see y'all sleeping. Y'all are sleeping on me. I'm about 188 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: to clear out the whole room. It doesn't just mean 189 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: good things and bad things. It means that the big 190 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: things and the little things. And that's why you cannot 191 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: despise the day of small beginnings, because everything little leads 192 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: to something big. That's how you got here. I'm gonna 193 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: give y'all a minute for the for the YouTube delay. 194 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: That's how you got That's how everything you see got here. 195 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: It started with somebody's thought, an impulse in the brain 196 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: that you cannot even see with the human eye. A 197 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 1: virus has shot down the world. Show me a coronavirus. 198 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: You can't show me the effects of it. You can't 199 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: get away from it. How can something so little affect 200 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 1: something so big? How can something that happened to you 201 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: when you were twelve still be haunting you when you're 202 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: forty two? How can something so little control something so big? 203 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: And that's the lens at which I was looking at 204 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: the prophet Elijah's life. I was say he controlled the 205 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: weather with his word, And I thought about how our 206 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: words control the weather. How when we speak things, when 207 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: we say things, when we say them, not even out loud, 208 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: but to ourselves, it affects the weather of our heart. Yeah, 209 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: how can a little thing like a thought lead you 210 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: down the track? I mean, it's such a little thing. 211 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: By little things lead the big things. Little things lead 212 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: the big things. So the prophet Elijah prophesies at drought, 213 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful story, and we could elaborate on 214 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: it for days, but we just want to talk about 215 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: this little instruction that God gave them in verse to 216 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, leave here, 217 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: turn eastward and hide in the care of Ravine east 218 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: of the Jordan. Okay, that verse right there. It kind 219 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: of sounds on the surface like like God will tell 220 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: you everything that you need to do in your life. 221 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: But I want to show you something very interesting about 222 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: how God spoke to Elijah. One time someone asked me, 223 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: what do you mean when you say God spoke to me? 224 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: And he asked it very innocently. He said, I hear 225 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: you preaching and say God spoke to me. I'm not 226 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: sure God ever spoke to me. What do you mean 227 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: when you say God spoke to me? And the challenging 228 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: thing about it was he was hearing that as a voice, 229 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: but really I meant it as a thought. I don't 230 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: experience God through my ears. I experienced him through my thoughts, 231 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: and then I call it God spoke to me, but 232 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: I didn't hear a voice. And here's what's interesting about 233 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: how how God was leading Elijah. Because you got to 234 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: you got to pay attention to the small things in 235 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: the text, because the little things matter. It said he 236 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: told him leave here, turn eastward and hide into care 237 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: of Thravinis to the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, 238 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: and I have directed the ravens to supply you with 239 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: food there. Whoe? Can we stop for a minute and 240 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: talk about how ridiculous? How's this gonna work? We just 241 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: read it, right, we just skip right past it. Yeah, yeah, 242 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: you go down there in the birds, bring him the birds. 243 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: Get ready for God to explode your box of how 244 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: you think He's going to provide for you. Huh. We 245 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: have all these limitations on ways that we think God 246 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: can take care of us. We have all these limitations 247 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: on ways that we think that God can take care 248 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: of our family. We have all these limitations on ways 249 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: that we think God can use us. We have all 250 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: these limitations on ways that we think that God can 251 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: order our life and ways that we think. But God said, 252 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: get ready for me to take the lid off and 253 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: start blessing you through birds. And not just birds, not 254 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: just any kind of birds. But I'm gonna use ravens, 255 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: unclean birds, dirty birds. Have you ever had God bless 256 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: you through a dirty bird. I need you to put 257 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: a dirty bird bless it in the chat. If you 258 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: ever had God use something just ridiculous, didn't make sense, 259 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: didn't see it coming, didn't even like it. God has 260 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: used people I didn't even like to bless me before 261 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: dirty birds. The ravens were dirty birds. God said, I'm 262 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna use a dirty bird to feed you 263 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: by the charath ravine. And he does this for a while. 264 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: He does this for a while. If I could tell 265 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: you the whole story, I would, because Ahab Now he 266 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: needs to see that God controls the rain, not bail. 267 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: He needs to see that God controls the rain, not bail. 268 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: He needs to know that that God is in control, 269 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 1: that God is not only in control of the big 270 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: things in our life, but the small things in our life. 271 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 1: Follow me, I promise you. This is a powerful, profound 272 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: word for those who can receive it. And so he 273 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: takes Elijah to a place where he feeds him what 274 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: he needs in that season. Now, E've been in a 275 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: season lately where God hasn't been feeding you the same 276 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: way he used to feed you. And the word is 277 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: so relevant right now because up until now you had 278 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: a certain way of how you thought it had to be. 279 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: I had a certain way I thought church was supposed 280 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: to be. I thought in order to have church, you 281 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: had to let people in the building. But God took 282 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: the lid off of that. Come on, God is trying 283 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: to take the lid off of that just to show 284 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: me that church is not just going to be contained 285 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: to a physical location. And now I'm setting you up. 286 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: God is trying to show you the same thing. In 287 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: your life. You've had some people leave you because God 288 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: wanted to show you that you don't need them to 289 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: make it less. Claps, y'all were clapping when I talked 290 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: about closing the church. That was weird. You just left 291 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: me because what's what the Bible says. It says that 292 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: every day the birds brought him bread in the morning 293 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank 294 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: from the brook. But in verse seven, verse seven, it 295 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: says that sometime later the brook dried up because there 296 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 1: had been no rain in the land. Let's talk about 297 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: cause and effect. The brook dried up because there had 298 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: been no rain in the land. Why had there been 299 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: no rain in the land, Because Elijah spoke, there will 300 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: be no rain in the land. So now he is 301 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: the victim of the consequence of his own obedience. It's 302 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: causing effect. And every day he goes out to get 303 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: some water from the brook, there's a little bit less. 304 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: And every day he goes out to get water from 305 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: the brook, it's a little bit less. And every day 306 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: he goes out to get water from the brook is 307 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: a little bit less. And you gotta be wondering right 308 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: about now, when is God gonna stop it from going down? 309 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: Have you been wondering that lately? Like when is God 310 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: gonna stop it from decreasing? And this is not a 311 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: message for everybody. If you're living in a time of overflow, 312 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: it's wonderful. I'll see it next week. I'll preach next week, 313 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: I'll live it in the overflow. But this message is 314 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: about the little bit every time he came to the brook. 315 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: This did happen all at once. It's just a little 316 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: bit less, a little bit less, a little bit less, 317 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: a little bit less until the point where one day 318 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: it comes to the brook and there's nothing there and 319 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: he has to move to the next mealracle. So how 320 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: does God move you to your next miracle? Let me 321 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: ask you a question. It's a conversation. Now, do you 322 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: want God to lead you? How did God lead Elijah 323 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: from the brook to the widow's house. How does God 324 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: get us from where we are to where he's taking us? 325 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: How does he get us from the good work he 326 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: began to the good work he wants to finish. It 327 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: may not be the way that you think, because the 328 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: Bible says that God led Elijah to his next assignment 329 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: through a limitation, give him a teaching stool. We often 330 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: say things like, where God guides, he provides, and he does. 331 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: He'll put a dirty bird to feed you by a brook. 332 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: He'll show you a secret stash that nobody else in 333 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: the neighborhood even knows about. How many know I'm right 334 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: about it. God will encourage you in ways that are 335 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: specific to you. But just as sure as that is true, 336 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 1: this is also true. Sometimes God will lead you through 337 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: what you lose. And this is the more painful thing 338 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: to talk about, but I think it's very important. Is 339 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: God trying to lead you by limitations? And is God 340 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: trying to lead you just as much by the doors 341 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: that he closes as the doors that he opens. If 342 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: the brook had kept flowing, miraculously, Elijah never would have 343 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: left that spot. If Elijah never would have left that spot, 344 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: he never would have met that widow. If he never 345 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: would have met that widow, that widow and her family 346 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: would have died of starvation. If he never would have 347 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: gone to Zaraphath, which was right in the heart of 348 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: Bail territory, he never would have got to Mount Carmel, 349 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: where he called down fire and the whole nation repented. 350 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,959 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy how a little thing can lead to 351 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 1: a big thing. Isn't it weird how something can go 352 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: all over the world but start with one little connection. 353 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy how God can can use something in 354 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: your life that you thought it was bad, but later 355 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: you look back and say, no, it wasn't a bad thing. 356 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: It was just a thing that led to a thing. 357 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,719 Speaker 1: It's just a thing that leads to a thing. So 358 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: all things work together for the good. So if the 359 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: brook doesn't dry up, Elijah doesn't move on. If they 360 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: didn't break your heart, you wouldn't have learned the lesson 361 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 1: that you learned. If you didn't go through Goliath, you 362 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been ready to be a king. If you 363 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: hadn't been thrown in a pit, you wouldn't have been 364 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: positioned in eg to feeds the aerations. You met it 365 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: for evil, but God used it for good. Put it 366 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: in the chat. Take the lid off. Take the lid off. 367 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: You know we have all of these lids, or I 368 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: could call it all of these limitations on the ways 369 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: that we think God can move. And if it feels good, 370 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: we think it's God. And if it feels bad, we 371 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: think it's the devil. But God is calling us to 372 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: recategorize in this season of our life. I prove it 373 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: to you. David came to Goliath and saw him as 374 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: a meal ticket. The rest of the nation saw him 375 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: as an enemy. The king said, if you kill Goliath, 376 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: you never pay taxes again, and you can marry my 377 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: heart daughter, the hot one. David said, what now, let 378 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: me do the math on this. Okay, how big is he? 379 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. What's this because a little thing I'm 380 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: waiting on. I'm to catch up. You look like you 381 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: look like you know the power of a little thing. 382 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: A little thing. Saul said, you're only a boy. You 383 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: can't fight him. He's nine feet tall. You think somebody 384 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: as little as you can kill somebody as big as him, 385 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: and David said, no, no, no, I only look little. 386 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: See the reason I look little is because I have 387 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 1: to be hidden. I'm a secret weapon. A secret weapon 388 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: can't be real. Big. God had to sneak me to 389 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: the battle line. And how did he get there? How 390 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: did he get there through bringing a lunch to his brother? 391 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: That's a little thing. What did he see when he 392 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: got there? A nine foot tall giant? That's a big thing. 393 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy how a little thing can lead to 394 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: a big thing? How you coming through Monk's Corner South 395 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: Carolina could lead to lead me to Christ? Isn't that 396 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: crazy that I went to North Greenville and met my 397 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 1: wife because you came through Monk's Corner, because you signed 398 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: up for the ministry and you obedience, little thing, Take 399 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: the lid off a little, because I found out that 400 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: what you call little might be the thing that God 401 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: leads you to. What is exceeding abundantly above or beyond 402 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: what you could ask her imagine? So he gets there, 403 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: Let's look at this a little deeper, y'all want to 404 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: keep going? Man, the Lord has been speaking to me. 405 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: It says that when he got there, he saw a 406 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: widow who was working on her last meal. She was 407 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: made the final arrangements for her and her son to eat. 408 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: And I think the reason Lord led me to this 409 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: text is because so many of us are worried about 410 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: our families these days, you know, on every level. And 411 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: I'm hearing it from people who have young children, I'm 412 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 1: hearing it from people who have elderly parents. We're worried. 413 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: It's it's hard for us right now to trust God 414 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: with the things that we can't control. And as some 415 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: of the parents here in Charlotte are getting ready to 416 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: try to figure out how am I going to homeschool 417 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: my kids another year? You know, when I barely got 418 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: out of high school myself, and and we're all in 419 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: this thing together. In a sense, the whole nation was 420 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,239 Speaker 1: going through a drop. But now, notice Elijah was not 421 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: led to somebody that was likely, and he was not 422 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: led to somebody who was rich or wealthy. He was 423 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: led to somebody that, in the world's eyes, was little. 424 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: Be careful what you labeled little. When you label it little, 425 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: it becomes a lid. And some of us have so 426 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: compartmentalized how God works in some of us have even 427 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: belittle ourselves. Now you're going to see the woman coming 428 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: to Elijah and she needs a big miracle. How many 429 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: would agree that for God to provide for you in 430 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: a time of famine, that's a big miracle. And I'm 431 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: just going to take it one step further, if you 432 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: don't mind being honest. How many of you need God 433 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: in a big way in this season of your life, 434 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: whether it's direction or comfort or energy or any of that. 435 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: Raise your hand. I need God in a big way 436 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: in this season of my life. So I was surprised 437 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: when God led me to preach on little in a pandemic. 438 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: It felt obscene to preach about a little when some 439 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: of us need a lot right now. And the prophet 440 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: comes up to the woman and asks her for a 441 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: little everybody say little, say it in falsetto a little 442 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: little water. And as she was going to get it, 443 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: he called and a piece of bread, and that triggered 444 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: her because she has a little. When you feel limited, 445 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: you operate in fear. This took me a while to 446 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: realize because I thought people sometimes were being selfish. Beneath 447 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: what appeared as selfish behavior was really that they were scared. 448 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: And it's easy to mistake. Scared for selfish. The woman 449 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: sounds selfish on the surface because instead of giving hospitality 450 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: to the man of God, she says, I don't have 451 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: any bread verse twelve, only a handful of flour and 452 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: a jar and a little olive oil. So watch this, 453 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: she says, I don't have any bread. I only have 454 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: a little bit. And notice what the prophet tells her 455 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: to do. He says, take the little that you have, 456 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 1: and if you'll make something out of what you have, 457 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: God will make sure that you have enough. Okay, this 458 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: is the word of the Lord. Take the lid off, 459 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 1: a little little bit of oil, all right, take the 460 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: lid off a little because you say this a little. 461 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: But the thing about God is God likes little. He does. 462 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: How did he send his son to the earth as 463 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: a what you mean, not as a superhero, but as 464 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: a baby? Say it? God likes little? Wait, joy, this 465 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: is your word. God likes little. Come on, God likes little. 466 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: I'll prove it to you. I'll prove it to you. 467 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: Who does God choose to start a nation with one man? 468 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,479 Speaker 1: Yell and believe me, yell, don't believe me. God likes little. Okay, 469 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: how about this? He wants to deliver the nation from 470 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: Midianite oppression. Who does he come to Gideon? Look it 471 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: up in Judges chapter six in the Holy Bible. In 472 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: Judges chapter six, he comes to Gideon. And who is 473 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: Gideon the smallest in the least? Why God likes little? 474 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just I'm sorry. 475 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: I'm just over here. God likes little. I'll prove it 476 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: to you. When get and got ready to fight, he 477 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: had a big army. God took him from twenty two 478 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: thousand to ten thousand. Why did God do that? God 479 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: likes little? Then God sets something really crazy. You still 480 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: got too much. You still will take credit if I 481 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: do it with ten thousand, you'll think it was you. 482 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: So God had to take Giddy in all the way down. 483 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: Get ready to shout to three hundred. This message is 484 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: for somebody who has been reduced. You don't have what 485 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: you used to have. You don't feel strong and sure. 486 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: You used to know so much. Now you don't know 487 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: as much. But God likes it when you come to 488 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: him with a little bit. It gives him something to fill, 489 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: It gives him something to prove, It gives him something 490 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: to work with. It gives him a canvas to pain on. 491 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: God said, I want to get you down to the 492 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: point he must become greater, I must become less. Take 493 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,959 Speaker 1: your little get, your little get, your little get, your 494 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: little I feel God on this. Get your little get, 495 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,239 Speaker 1: your little get, your little get, your little praise, and 496 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: give it to God right now. Yeah, that's a little praise. 497 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: That's a little praise exactly because some people right now 498 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: you can't give God a big praise. Give him a 499 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: little praise, Give him a little praise, Give him a 500 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: little under your breath. Uh you give a little thank you, Jesus, 501 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: Give me a little thank you, Jesus with the attitude, 502 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: because God likes little despise. Not the day of small beginnings. 503 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you what's gonna happen. If you start 504 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: getting grateful, if you start magnifying what God means to you, 505 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: if you start giving God a little praise, watch out, 506 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: it's about the snowball. It's about to get Come on 507 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: and try it. Some of you have not praised God 508 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: all week, So right now, give him a little praise 509 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: in your little apartment watching me preache on your little iPhone. 510 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: God likes little give sim something to expend, give him 511 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: something to grow, get zim something to get glory. F 512 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: take the lid off a little. Come on, come on, 513 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: just a little, just a little, just a little, just 514 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: a little, just a little, take the lid off just 515 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: a little. Come on. You don't have to run around 516 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: the house or anything like that, just a little. Just 517 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: take the lid off a little. Just look up a little. 518 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: Just give God a little praise. Just lift your hands 519 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: right here, just to right here. Just lift your fingers, 520 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: lift your thumb, lift your pinky, give God a pinky praise. 521 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: I promise you God likes little. God likes when you 522 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: take your little bit and take the lid off and 523 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: start pouring out praises and dry places. God said, I'm 524 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: gonna visit you, but you gotta take the lid off 525 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: a little. Will you give them a little? Will you 526 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: give God a little faith? You have to have a great, 527 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: big faith. You don't have to. You know, we get 528 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: so caught up on big things. God doesn't need you 529 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: to have such a big faith. He said, if you 530 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: have faith like a like a little seed, like a 531 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,439 Speaker 1: little seed. You see how high my voice is. That's 532 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: how little of a seed is. No no, no, no, no, 533 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: He said, don't be afraid take the little that you have. 534 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: I'm not saying this a little, but I'm saying take 535 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: the lid off a little, take the lid off a little, 536 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: and take the lid off a little. Why do we 537 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: belittle what God gave us? Why do we do that? What? 538 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,399 Speaker 1: Why do we see ourselves as grasshoppers when God has 539 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 1: given us a promised land called Canaan. You ever thought 540 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: about the reason that the nation didn't go into Canaan 541 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: was because they made themselves small. We're too little, We're 542 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: too little. Okay, all right, let's sit down. Let me 543 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: tell you a story. I got in a fight with 544 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,359 Speaker 1: Holly yesterday. My fault wasn't a huge fight, but we 545 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: don't even fight that much. I mean, it's been it's 546 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: been a minute. But she was trying to encourage me 547 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 1: yesterday and I couldn't receive it. That's the bottom line, 548 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: you want to know the bottom line. This is what 549 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,439 Speaker 1: I had to go back and tell her an hour 550 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,959 Speaker 1: later because the Holy Spirit, you know how the Holy 551 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: Spirit will speak to you in that little voice. He's 552 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: not real loud, just a little voice told me. Now 553 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: you know that she was trying to help you, and 554 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: you know that the reason that you really got angry 555 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: is because you were really afraid. I'm gonna tell you 556 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: the story behind it. This will be my marriage therapy 557 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: for the I've been writing for a few months. I've 558 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: been working on a book, but I won't call it 559 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: a book. I haven't called it a book. All I'll 560 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: say is I'm writing, and I've been writing and revising 561 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: and writing and revising. And it's been about five years 562 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: since I've put a book out. The reason it's been 563 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 1: five years since I put a book out is because 564 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 1: something got in my head and say, you're not an author, 565 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,279 Speaker 1: you know, And isn't it crazy how a little thought 566 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: can get in your head? And then something little little 567 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: and five years later then I hadn't put a book out. 568 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,000 Speaker 1: And turning forty this year got me thinking, Like we 569 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: were talking about this the other day, I felt some urgency. 570 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,760 Speaker 1: And when we were creating songs for our last album, 571 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: they just kept coming, they kept flowing, kept flowing just 572 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 1: right till the last minute, and I decided I was 573 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 1: going to try to write a book this year. And 574 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: yesterday I took the book through its second revision and 575 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: with my finger shaking. I put it, put the mouse 576 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: over sind on an email and sent it to the editor, 577 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,919 Speaker 1: and Holly was trying to tell me congratulations. I didn't 578 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: want to hear it because if I acknowledged that it's 579 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 1: a big deal, then it means that it could fail. 580 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: I shouldn't be telling you all lot all this. Yeah, y'all, y'all, 581 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: really y'all, really, y'all really don't deserve to know all 582 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,880 Speaker 1: this about my marriage and all this is this is ridiculous. 583 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: And I got mad angry because really I was afraid, 584 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: and in the process of analyzing why, I was basically 585 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: telling her, don't try to encourage me. She said, she said, 586 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: congratulations on sending your book off. I said, it's not 587 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: a book yet, It's just a document. You see what 588 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm doing. Belittle it because the moment I call it 589 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,239 Speaker 1: a book, the moment I call it a book, that 590 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 1: means others are going to read it. If others read it, 591 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: that means they can judge it. So as long as 592 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: I keep it little, it's a fear move. It's just 593 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,919 Speaker 1: a little oil, right, what she was trying to get 594 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: me to do, and she was right, you hear that 595 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: you were. You're right, she said. At some point you 596 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: have got to start speaking what you want to see. 597 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,240 Speaker 1: She said, it's a whole chapter in your book. Speak 598 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: what you want to see. I'm not even doing the 599 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: chapter I wrote because if I speak it, that makes 600 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 1: it real. But if I make it little, I can 601 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: hide it. Now, do you see why you put yourself down? 602 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: Because if you, if you, if you ever come out 603 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: and say you know God can do this. I'm walking 604 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: on the water, say the word Jesus and I'll come. 605 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 1: But if I come, that means I can slip. So 606 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: I'd rather know. It's more than a good word, this 607 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,279 Speaker 1: power of God coming through right now. This is a 608 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: great word, because this word is helping you to see 609 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: sometimes why you talk to yourself the way you talk 610 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 1: to yourself only got a little oil. Take the lid 611 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 1: off a little. God likes little. God. God likes little 612 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,720 Speaker 1: so much that when he wanted Naming to be healed 613 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: of leprosy, he used a little servant girl in his 614 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:34,240 Speaker 1: house to send him to the prophet. God likes little. 615 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something, if you take the 616 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: lid off the little bit that you have, it won't 617 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 1: be little for long. Baby praises grow into big, groom big, 618 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,319 Speaker 1: just wopping praises. I dare you to say it, by faith, 619 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,239 Speaker 1: it won't be little long. It won't be little long. 620 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: I see a cloud the size of a man's I 621 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: see a cloud the size of a man's hand. Now 622 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 1: see At first, Elijah heard the sound of rain. Right, 623 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 1: this is first King's chapter eighteen. I moved on from 624 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,279 Speaker 1: chapter seventeen. I'm moving to chapter eighteen. He said, I 625 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 1: hear the sound of the abundance of rain, but I 626 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: can't see it yet. I can't see it yet. And 627 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,840 Speaker 1: then when the servant went to look for it, he said, 628 00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,479 Speaker 1: I see it now, but it's little. But Elijah knows. 629 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:34,239 Speaker 1: God likes little. God likes little. God likes it when 630 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,120 Speaker 1: you're untrained. God likes it when you're the when you 631 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: feel like you're the only one. God likes it when 632 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,719 Speaker 1: you need him. God likes it when you're not arrogant. 633 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 1: God likes it when you humble yourself under his mighty hand. 634 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,160 Speaker 1: Would you take the lid off a little, just go 635 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 1: look again, and say, God, you know, I know I 636 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,680 Speaker 1: don't have much strength right now, but you have given 637 00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,960 Speaker 1: me some strength. God, I know I don't have every game, 638 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,760 Speaker 1: but you have given me some gift. It's only little 639 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: if you look at it next to something bigger. By 640 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:13,040 Speaker 1: the way I found this out flying on airplanes, everything 641 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: looks little if you get up above it, high enough everything. 642 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 1: If you get up high enough above it, everything looks little. 643 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,640 Speaker 1: Some of the things that look so big to you 644 00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 1: today that you don't see how you're going to overcome 645 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:37,239 Speaker 1: them when you get the altitude, when you begin to 646 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: worship God, when you begin to trust Him in this moment, 647 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 1: and take the lid off. Come on, put it in 648 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 1: the chat. Take the lid off, Take the lid off, 649 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,800 Speaker 1: take the little If you get up high enough, that's 650 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 1: what worship does. That's what coming too, the word of 651 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,120 Speaker 1: God does. It takes the lid off. And if you 652 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 1: get up high enough, I promise you you're the problems 653 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: are not going to look as big as they look 654 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 1: right now. And I'm speaking by the spirit of the 655 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: Lord to somebody who is about to run out. I mean, 656 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: you're about to run out of ideas to save your business, 657 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,959 Speaker 1: You're about to run out of ways to get through 658 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,360 Speaker 1: to your kid, You're about to run out of patience, desire, 659 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,200 Speaker 1: passion you're about to run out. Here's the miracle. It 660 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,840 Speaker 1: does not say that when the woman did what Elijah 661 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,799 Speaker 1: told her to do, that she got more flower and 662 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,960 Speaker 1: more oil. It says that what she had didn't run out. 663 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,480 Speaker 1: So here's what God showed me. It'll always look little, 664 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:45,920 Speaker 1: but it will never run out. As I close this message, 665 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,600 Speaker 1: I want to know, are you willing to take the 666 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:57,279 Speaker 1: lid off of your little and stop putting limitations on 667 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: what God can do through you? Right now? I know 668 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 1: it looks little. I know the little bit that you 669 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,239 Speaker 1: have to offer seems so insignificant in the face of 670 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:11,720 Speaker 1: the challenge that you're up against. But God likes little. 671 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 1: In fact, the scripture says that the sufferings of this 672 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,520 Speaker 1: present time are not worthy to be compared with the 673 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,400 Speaker 1: glory that will be revealed. What God is going to 674 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: do through your life in this season is going to 675 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,280 Speaker 1: lead to something that will outweigh everything you've been through 676 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,160 Speaker 1: to get through. Stand on your feet in the room 677 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,400 Speaker 1: as I close. The Lord sent me here today to 678 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: get your altitude up higher so that you can see 679 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: things like he seesed. And what that woman had wasn't much, 680 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: but it was enough and This is the tension that 681 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,840 Speaker 1: we live in. It's not much, but it's still enough. 682 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,160 Speaker 1: And if you can hold those two tensions, then you 683 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:08,440 Speaker 1: can live by truth and not by sight. Father, your 684 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:13,560 Speaker 1: word is powerful. Your word controls the weather. And not 685 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,920 Speaker 1: only that, but your word commands birds to feed us 686 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,799 Speaker 1: in places along the way. We stand before you right 687 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: now as a global community in the middle of a 688 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,840 Speaker 1: situation that we have no frame of reference for. Not 689 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,520 Speaker 1: only is that true of our nations, that's true of 690 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:37,160 Speaker 1: our households, that's true of our plans. And as we 691 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,719 Speaker 1: stand before you in this place, God, what we have 692 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:46,880 Speaker 1: seems so little in comparison to what we need. But 693 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: I hear you say and take the lid off, and 694 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 1: I think that means you want to exceed our expectations 695 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,800 Speaker 1: in this season. And I want you to know the 696 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,640 Speaker 1: Lord that I'm open to it. And for everybody who 697 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,000 Speaker 1: will come into agreement with this word, I join my 698 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,399 Speaker 1: faith with them that it may look little, but it'll 699 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:13,320 Speaker 1: always be enough. It will always be enough. The miracle 700 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: is not that it overflowed all at once. The miracle 701 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,520 Speaker 1: is that it never ran out. And I speak over 702 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,040 Speaker 1: your life, and I speak over your family and I 703 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,799 Speaker 1: speak over your finances. It will always be enough. I 704 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,640 Speaker 1: know it doesn't look like much, feel like much, and 705 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 1: seem like much, But come on up here and get 706 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,920 Speaker 1: abuffet for a minute, Come on get up here above 707 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,600 Speaker 1: it for a minute where we are seated in heavenly 708 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:50,239 Speaker 1: places with Jesus. God always uses little things to lead us. 709 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,000 Speaker 1: And I'm going to stay in this moment, Father, because 710 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,879 Speaker 1: I feel you telling me too. For somebody who has 711 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,200 Speaker 1: just a a little bit of faith, a little bit 712 00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:09,880 Speaker 1: of strength, a little bit of hope, I got a 713 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:15,000 Speaker 1: little bit left. The woman said. Elijah said, all right, 714 00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 1: take the lid off of your little and watch God 715 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:30,839 Speaker 1: keep supplying. And that's exactly what God did. God has 716 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:37,360 Speaker 1: been using our problems to position us for his purpose. 717 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,040 Speaker 1: We are not here by accident, and we are not 718 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:51,440 Speaker 1: in sufficient Thank you Lord for the little. As I 719 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 1: go through my week this week, I want to see 720 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: the little miracles You're doing. How am I going to 721 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,640 Speaker 1: around and wait when something be When these little miracles 722 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,000 Speaker 1: just keep happening all around me, even right now? What 723 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,000 Speaker 1: a wonder that I could reach around the globe and 724 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,960 Speaker 1: speak a word that could reach somebody right in the 725 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,400 Speaker 1: middle of what they're going through. Somebody right now is 726 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,160 Speaker 1: hearing this word in the darkest season of their life. 727 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,920 Speaker 1: Somebody in the midst of their confusion. Somebody just needed 728 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,080 Speaker 1: in encouragement to keep going today. And your word controls 729 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:34,120 Speaker 1: the weather. Thank you, Jesus, Your word controls the weather. 730 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:42,799 Speaker 1: Help us to help us to speak and see like 731 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:47,840 Speaker 1: you speak, and like you see. We might feel like 732 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,680 Speaker 1: Moses sometimes I just got a little staff in my hand. 733 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,959 Speaker 1: What am I against so many? But Lord, I believe 734 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,680 Speaker 1: you like little things. I really believe you little things. 735 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:02,600 Speaker 1: I think you like it when we do the little 736 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: things with excellence. I believe you are pleased with the 737 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,440 Speaker 1: people who are doing the little things. You who could 738 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:13,160 Speaker 1: be faithful with little will be faithful and much. We 739 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,799 Speaker 1: thank you for it. Right now, in this moment, God, 740 00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:21,480 Speaker 1: I believe you're drawing somebody to yourself. God. I pray 741 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,439 Speaker 1: for those who have felt far away from You during 742 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,320 Speaker 1: the season. I pray for those who have felt dislocated 743 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,799 Speaker 1: and maybe even in their spirit, they have felt like 744 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,080 Speaker 1: giving up on themselves. They still believe in You, but 745 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,840 Speaker 1: they don't believe in them. They feel little, be little. 746 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,080 Speaker 1: The voice inside of them is telling them so much 747 00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:47,080 Speaker 1: they've started to believe it. But now, God of all Grace, 748 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 1: we invite you to come into those places and fill 749 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,279 Speaker 1: those spaces that are empty with your glory. You can 750 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,120 Speaker 1: do that as we lift our hands in your presence today. 751 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,520 Speaker 1: Go ahead and get them up. We're taking the lid off. 752 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,280 Speaker 1: We're taking the lid off. You can come through the ceiling, 753 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,960 Speaker 1: you can come through the internet, you can come through YouTube. 754 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,920 Speaker 1: We're taking the lid off. You can bless us through 755 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,799 Speaker 1: a bird, you can bless us through a widow. You 756 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,360 Speaker 1: can bless us in zero fat. You can do anything. 757 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,880 Speaker 1: You can do all things. The only thing you can't 758 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,240 Speaker 1: do is fail. So God, we have faith to believe 759 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,840 Speaker 1: that the flower won't run out and the oil won't 760 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,000 Speaker 1: run dry until the day you sin rain. God, you 761 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,840 Speaker 1: control the weather. We obey the word. Where you speak 762 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,880 Speaker 1: will go. I thank you, Lord. This is a turning 763 00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: point for somebody. This is a turning point for someone's heart. 764 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:47,680 Speaker 1: And we worship you in this moment. We worship you 765 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:51,000 Speaker 1: for who you are. We thank you that according to 766 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:56,000 Speaker 1: your word, it will be done in Jesus' name. Come 767 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:03,320 Speaker 1: on and give God the praise wherever you are. Wow, 768 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,680 Speaker 1: take the lid off a little. I might need to 769 00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,160 Speaker 1: do a part two on that. I pray you received it. 770 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,400 Speaker 1: It's so important right now that we open ourselves to 771 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,960 Speaker 1: all the ways that God wants to bless us and 772 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,880 Speaker 1: all the ways that God wants to use us. And 773 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: I just pray, like He provided for Elijah with the birds, 774 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,040 Speaker 1: like he provided for the lady in's air fat through Elijah, 775 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,799 Speaker 1: that He would just meet every need in your life 776 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,280 Speaker 1: right now. I don't know whether that's emotional or physical, 777 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,719 Speaker 1: but I know that God is the one who can 778 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,160 Speaker 1: control the weather. And I just pray this week that 779 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,840 Speaker 1: you would see God's provision all around you in unusual ways, 780 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,000 Speaker 1: coming from unusual sources. Maybe God's going to speak a 781 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,440 Speaker 1: word of encouragement through you this week to somebody, but 782 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,719 Speaker 1: whatever it is, just know that we love you. Thank 783 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,600 Speaker 1: you for doing the little things. You know, those of 784 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,759 Speaker 1: you who give, that's no little thing. We're able to 785 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,760 Speaker 1: continue to preach the gospel. Man. The world is dark 786 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,680 Speaker 1: and times are uncertain, but Jesus Christ never changes. And 787 00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,200 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for those of you who 788 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,280 Speaker 1: tied regularly and give to this ministry. You're the reason 789 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,719 Speaker 1: that the Word is going for thank you, we love you. 790 00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,640 Speaker 1: I'll see you next time. Take the lid off.