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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: If He walk you up this morning, give him praise. Hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it good to be together? However we have to

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Speaker 1: get together. Let's just let's keep coming together, you know,

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Speaker 1: forsake not the assembly of ourselves together. And it's a

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Speaker 1: difficult time to do that. But you know, when that

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Speaker 1: Bible verse was written, they were being persecuted for their faith,

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Speaker 1: cast out of their community. And so I'm just so

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Speaker 1: grateful that we live in a time where God has

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Speaker 1: enabled us to share the message with you. And I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to share God's word today, honestly, sincerely, not

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Speaker 1: in that preacher kind of way. Oh, I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: share the you know, not in a formal way. I

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Speaker 1: really really have something today that I want to share

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Speaker 1: to speak it. Of course, I want to do a

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Speaker 1: few shout outs real quick before we transition. If I

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Speaker 1: would have known we were going to break it down

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Speaker 1: like that, I wouldn't have worn this flannel it is.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to sweat up your praise the Lord. Where

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Speaker 1: are you coming from today? I know church is coming

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Speaker 1: to you. You aren't coming to church today, but church

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Speaker 1: is coming to you. Somebody, tell me where you're watching

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Speaker 1: from today? Okay, I see somebody from northeast Pennsylvania. Tell

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Speaker 1: we be friends. And tell me where you're watching from,

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Speaker 1: your first name or your nickname if it's appropriate, and

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Speaker 1: where you're watching from. And if it's hard to say,

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Speaker 1: give me a pronunciation God, because I'm really bad at that.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get through this, but it's coming really fast.

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Speaker 1: I see Hong Kong, Jamaica, the UK, Boston, India, London.

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Speaker 1: Even if you're watching this later, put it in the

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Speaker 1: and when i'm bored, it'll give me something to pray for.

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Speaker 1: I can pray for you, I can look at your

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Speaker 1: that'd be cool. Michigan, Oklahoma, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Romania.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a pearl Jen song? Let's see we got

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Speaker 1: Todd from Orlando. Heybody, do me a favor. I want

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Speaker 1: you to say Happy birthday to Chunks. Corbin. He goes

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Speaker 1: by Chunks and he's not overweight. That's the thing about it.

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Speaker 1: mohoo flexer. But everybody say Happy birthday, Chunks because it's

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Speaker 1: holly Amy and Chunks are out here. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: So Happy birthday, Chunks. They're saying it from all over

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday? Man, Come on, I'm not going to sing

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Speaker 1: it to you. Chunks. You still got joy even though

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Speaker 1: What kind of joy? Oh, that's Bible joy, Chris, Yes, joy,

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Speaker 1: of Lord Joy. Father, we thank you for your love.

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Speaker 1: some kind of closet theologian, some kind of armchair rookie,

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Speaker 1: amateur theologian. Keep your day job. God is God, so

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna try to be God. That's his job.

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Speaker 1: You remember Holly's story that she preached one time. She

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Speaker 1: told about these boys that were fighting. This is a

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Speaker 1: good quarantine story, all right, for all of y'all that's

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Speaker 1: got real kids that don't have you know, halo's and

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Speaker 1: harps and all that. And they fight sometimes even though

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Speaker 1: you pray for him, they fight sometimes. They were fighting

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Speaker 1: two brothers and if I mess it up, you can

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Speaker 1: you can fix it for me. And the mom said,

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Speaker 1: what are y'all fighting about, and one of them had

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Speaker 1: a sandwich and wouldn't cut it in half and share it,

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Speaker 1: and she said, y'all need to share. Be like Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Jesus would share. And the boy that had the sandwich

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Speaker 1: looked at it and he took a bite out of

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Speaker 1: it and said, you be Jesus, you can share. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take a bite. But when my wife preached that message,

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Speaker 1: her message was let God be God. Let God be God.

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Speaker 1: You be Jesus, you be humble, you be trusting. Jesus

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Speaker 1: had a nevertheless attitude toward his relationship with his father.

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Speaker 1: He was like, I don't want to go to the cross.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to drink this cup. Nevertheless, not my will,

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Speaker 1: but yours be done. So you be Jesus. But what

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Speaker 1: I won't do in this situation is just as important

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Speaker 1: as what I will do. So the Holy Spirit is

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Speaker 1: on that statement right now. Reflect on it. What won't

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Speaker 1: you do? What were we gonna do? What won't you do?

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Speaker 1: I won't live in fear. I may feel fear, I

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Speaker 1: won't live in it. I may experience sensations of fear.

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Speaker 1: I felt my breath getting short the other day before

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Speaker 1: I stood up to preach. Somebody asked me, how long

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Speaker 1: were you preaching before you stopped feeling scared. I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm still scared every time I preach. I was shaken

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Speaker 1: before I came out here today. Now I know how

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Speaker 1: to control my shake so you don't see it, but

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Speaker 1: my hands still shaking when they're in my pockets. I

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Speaker 1: mean this important to me. Somebody is discouraged, depressed, somebody's

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Speaker 1: on the on the edge, and I get to preach

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Speaker 1: the word like that's important to me. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be the weak link of what God

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Speaker 1: wants to give to you. I don't want to come

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Speaker 1: out here and miss the mark of what God wants

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Speaker 1: to say. I'm still scared, but it doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: stop me. So what I'm saying is not that I

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Speaker 1: won't feel fear, not that I won't have questions, not

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Speaker 1: that I won't Sometimes in my mind, when I'm praying prayers,

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Speaker 1: I'm praying prayers that really don't even sound like prayers.

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Speaker 1: I'm praying prayers like oh crap, I'm praying prayers like

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Speaker 1: please God. I'm praying prayers. I'm not walking around the

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Speaker 1: house all the time with my hands lifted. But I

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Speaker 1: won't stop worshiping. I won't stop praising. Put it in

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Speaker 1: the chat. I won't stop. I won't stop. I won't

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Speaker 1: That's what I won't do. I won't stop. I won't

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Speaker 1: back down. I will not give in. I will not surrender.

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Speaker 1: I will not give away my joy. I will not

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Speaker 1: give away my peace. My peace was purchased with the

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Speaker 1: blood of Christ. It's too expensive. You can't have it.

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Speaker 1: It's too valuable. It's the only treasure I've got. It's

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Speaker 1: the only thing that moths can't eat up and that

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Speaker 1: thieves can steal. I might be scared, but I'm still

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Speaker 1: gonna stand on the word of the Lord. I won't

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Speaker 1: bow to your statue, nebukanesser, I won't bow. Put me

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Speaker 1: in a fire. If you have to put me, tie

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Speaker 1: up my hands and throw me in a furnace. This

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Speaker 1: is shad wrack, Mishak and Abed and Ago. They said,

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Speaker 1: the God that we serve is able to deliver us,

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Speaker 1: and we know that he will. But even if somebody say,

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Speaker 1: even if even if he doesn't, I will not bow.

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Speaker 1: And the only thing the fire what's gonna do is

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Speaker 1: burn off what you tied me up with God said,

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Speaker 1: I'm setting you free in this season. I'm gonna use

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Speaker 1: the fire to set you free. I'm gonna set you

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Speaker 1: free from addiction. I'm gonna set you free from bad priorities.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna set you free from distractions. So that's what

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Speaker 1: the man said. He said, don't be afraid. You can

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Speaker 1: feel fear. It can ride in the car, but it

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Speaker 1: can't drive. I can't wait to hear testimonies on this

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Speaker 1: message because you have been letting that joker drive. You

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Speaker 1: have been letting you have been letting that crook, that robber,

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Speaker 1: that thief, that devil have your life and your peace

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Speaker 1: and your joy. And so he said, here's what we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna do. He said, don't be afraid. Now who

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Speaker 1: says it is just as important as what it said.

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Speaker 1: How many will agree. So if my fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: says to me, don't worry, dad, God's got this, I'm like, eh.

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Speaker 1: When my mom says it, it has more weight because

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Speaker 1: of who said it. So Elisha's ministry, you have to remember,

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Speaker 1: was a prophetic ministry. Was a prophetic ministry. It's not

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Speaker 1: about telling the future. It's about seeing. It's about seeing.

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Speaker 1: It's about seeing the invisible. Would you agree with me

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Speaker 1: that one of the lessons God is trying to get

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Speaker 1: us to learn right now. I'm sure there are many

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Speaker 1: lessons that will understand because of what we're going through

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Speaker 1: as a society, But would you agree with me that

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Speaker 1: one of the lessons he's trying to get us to

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Speaker 1: learn is that sometimes what we can't see is more

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Speaker 1: important than what we can see. I mean, just even

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Speaker 1: thinking about it, Like how I stood on the stage

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Speaker 1: last week and preached, and what was happening on the

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Speaker 1: other side of what I could see was significant. And

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Speaker 1: at the same time, the entire economy is rocking and

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Speaker 1: reeling because of an invisible virus. And so the Bible

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Speaker 1: started to get real to me when I thought about,

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Speaker 1: you know, scriptures that used to sound good, but now

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Speaker 1: they make more sense. We wrestle not against flesh and blood,

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Speaker 1: but against spiritual wickedness, principalities, rulers. What he's trying to

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Speaker 1: say is that, like what we're fighting, that we can

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Speaker 1: see has to first be approached to the level that

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Speaker 1: we can't see. And God is trying to show us

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Speaker 1: some things today because watch this. Not only does he

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Speaker 1: tell him, don't be afraid. And this is not coming

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Speaker 1: from a man who has never had to face fear before.

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Speaker 1: This is coming from a prophet who had to walk

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Speaker 1: into a widow's house. If you want to do a

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Speaker 1: Bible study this week, you know, if you just get

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Speaker 1: tired of what's that show that everybody on my staff

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Speaker 1: is watching with the tigers, Tiger King. If you get

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Speaker 1: tired of Tiger King, I'm gonna be looking for a

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Speaker 1: Netflix sponsorship check out of this. But if you get

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Speaker 1: tired of watching that, read Second King's four or Elisha.

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Speaker 1: This is the same guy that said don't be afraid

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Speaker 1: to the servant when they were surrounded by the armies

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Speaker 1: of Aaron, who came to lock him up because of

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Speaker 1: what he could see. He had to walk into a

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Speaker 1: woman's house who said, I'm about to go into debt.

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Speaker 1: My husband is dead, I have nothing to pay it with,

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Speaker 1: and I have nothing in my house at all except

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Speaker 1: a little oil. Now, this prophet Elisha, had the ability

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Speaker 1: to see in a little bit what the woman could

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Speaker 1: not see because she was looking through a different lens.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us have thought of faith as being

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Speaker 1: this way that we manipulate God. But now we find

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Speaker 1: ourselves in a season where we can't control almost anything.

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Speaker 1: We can't control what's open and what's closed. We can't

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Speaker 1: control at some level what happens in foreign markets that

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Speaker 1: affects us at home, what happens in foreign places. So

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Speaker 1: in the season of what we can't control, we have

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Speaker 1: to read the fine faith right, Because I thought I

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Speaker 1: thought faith was like a lever. Picture this, and like

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Speaker 1: when we pull the lever, you know, have faith, give

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Speaker 1: him a phrase, give him a praise. You know when

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Speaker 1: praises go up, blessings come down. It's like transactional, right,

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Speaker 1: It's like jack pot Jesus. It's like yes, Lord, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna pray, my kid's gonna make straight a's

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray, and I say, I'm gonna stop my

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Speaker 1: headache's gonna go away. I'm gonna pray and pray. But see,

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Speaker 1: faith is not a lever. Faith is a lens, a

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Speaker 1: way of seeing your situation. And sometimes faith changes the situation.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes faith changes the way you see the situation. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: God changes it, sometimes he changes me. But either way,

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Speaker 1: even when I don't see it, even when I don't

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Speaker 1: feel it, come on, you're supposed to say to line,

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Speaker 1: y'all are the worship team after all, especially when I

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Speaker 1: don't see it, even when I don't feel it, especially

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Speaker 1: when I don't feel it, and when I don't know

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Speaker 1: what do I do. Don't be afraid. So what the

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Speaker 1: prophet told the woman in Second Kings four is what

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Speaker 1: he's practicing in Second King six. Some of us are

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Speaker 1: getting to put into practice for ourselves what we preach

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Speaker 1: to others. We preach about peace, we preach about God's power.

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Speaker 1: Now we get to prove that what God showed us

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Speaker 1: in the light is true in the darkness, that what

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Speaker 1: God showed us on the mountain is true in the valley,

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Speaker 1: That what God showed us the night before is still

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Speaker 1: true the next morning. And when that woman went around

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Speaker 1: to her neighbors and she got all these jars right,

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Speaker 1: and the oil started flowing, and the only limitation to

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Speaker 1: what God could provide was her capacity to receive it.

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Speaker 1: And that's still true. And so now Elisha knows that

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Speaker 1: if this man's heart is filled with fear, he can't

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Speaker 1: operate in faith because you can't be you can't be

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Speaker 1: strategic when you're scared. And so that's why it's so

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Speaker 1: important what He says next that we have a perspective.

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Speaker 1: Put that in the chat perspective. This is a prayer

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Speaker 1: for perspective. This is a prayer for perspective. I put

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Speaker 1: it on Instagram the other day because the Lord told

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Speaker 1: me that tewod King six seventeen is a prayer for perspective.

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Speaker 1: Watch this. The servant was asking for protection. What do

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Speaker 1: we do? God gave him perspective. What do you see?

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Speaker 1: What do I do? Starts with what do you see?

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Speaker 1: And if the enemy can keep you from seeing, if

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Speaker 1: he can keep you from seeing them the blessings, he

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Speaker 1: can keep you stuck in a place of brokenness. If

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Speaker 1: he can and keep you from seeing the advantages or

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Speaker 1: the opportunities, he can keep you running. That's That's a

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Speaker 1: very important thing. Is that when you're when your vision

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Speaker 1: of who God is is obscured by what you're going through,

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Speaker 1: something very small can block out something much bigger. Can

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Speaker 1: I stay here a minute? Like you're gonna say no,

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Speaker 1: something very small can block out something much bigger. How

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Speaker 1: could I illustrate this? I'm gonna try to illustrate this

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Speaker 1: real quick. I know y'all aren't prepared for this. So

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Speaker 1: for just a minute freaking out the camera people. But

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Speaker 1: something very small. This is very small, but you're what

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to see you can't see. Pray for me, y'all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: something very small. This is very small, right, it's very small.

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Speaker 1: Something very small can block out something much bigger. Now

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Speaker 1: you can't see anything that's supposed to be seen something

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Speaker 1: very small. Maybe it's no coincidence that I'm using this

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Speaker 1: iPhone that's got some of y'all with stomach ulcers because

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Speaker 1: you won't come off of it and see what's right

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Speaker 1: around you, or you won't use that Bible. Laugh. You

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Speaker 1: got that other app open? What's it called Insta Insta

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Speaker 1: What huh? Insta insta instat It's not Instagram right now,

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Speaker 1: it's like Insta gross. It's like it just makes me

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Speaker 1: feel if I stay on it too long. It's just

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Speaker 1: like I'm in an alternate reality and now I can't

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Speaker 1: see what is invisible. Something small can block out something bigger. Okay,

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Speaker 1: is that camera on, y'all? We didn't plan any of this,

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Speaker 1: So pray for your preacher right now. Pray for the cameraman.

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Speaker 1: I'm still six feet apart. By the way, I want

635
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Speaker 1: you all to know that. But I'm just showing you

636
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: this illustration how something small. And this is what First

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Speaker 1: King's nineteen says about it, that eli Jah, who was

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Speaker 1: the great Man of God, who taught Elisha in Second

639
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Speaker 1: King six everything that he knows, because as this is

640
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: nothing new, because the same God that delivered me from

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Speaker 1: the Paul the Lion and the Paul the Bear will

642
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: deliver me from this uncircumcised philistine too. The only reason

643
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: Elisha knew what to see in the situation that he'd

644
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: never been in before, he had followed the great Man

645
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Speaker 1: of God, Elijah, the prophet, the one who called down

646
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Speaker 1: fire on Mount Carmel. Remember that Bible story Sean. I mean,

647
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: he said, if God is God, serve him. If Bail

648
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: is God, serve him. Choose this day who you will serve.

649
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: And God answered by fire eight hundred and fifty false prophets,

650
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: the prophets of Astrara had to bow their knee. And

651
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: then when Elijah got done with that miracle, he went

652
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Speaker 1: up on a mountain and prayed, Now, listen to this

653
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: about perspective. From a perspective, he said, I hear the

654
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: sound of the abundance of rain. I hear something that

655
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: I can't see. I know something that I can't see.

656
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: And when a servant went to check the sky, he said,

657
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 1: I know you said you heard something, but there's nothing there.

658
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: And Elijah said to a servant, what we need to

659
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: say to our soul. Go back and look again, Go

660
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: back and look again. Rejoice in the Lord always. I

661
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: will say it again. Rejoice. I will say it again. Rejoice.

662
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: Say it again. Say it again, Say it again, Check

663
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: it again, look again, go again, look again. Say it again.

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Speaker 1: Say it again. In the chap say it again. In

665
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: the comments, say it again. Say it again. Say it again.

666
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: God is good. Say it again. The Lord is my shepherd.

667
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: Say it again. God is with me. Say it again.

668
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: He has not left me. Say it again. I've never

669
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Speaker 1: seen the righteous forsaken. Say it again. He is the

670
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: bread of life. Say it again. He's a waymaker. Say

671
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: it again. He's a miracle worker. And when he checked

672
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: the seventh time, he saw something very small, a cloud

673
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Speaker 1: the size of a man's hand, something so small. Three

674
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: and a half years of drought came to an end.

675
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Speaker 1: Because it's something very small. But you know what's weird.

676
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 1: When jezebel Ahab's wife, AaB was the wicked king. Jezebel

677
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: was the one really running the show. One preacher said,

678
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: the last decision Ahab ever made was I do because

679
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: after that Jezebel took over and she would kill the prophet.

680
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: She was much more ruthless than Ahab was. But when

681
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: Jezebel heard what Elijah had done, she said, we'll put

682
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Speaker 1: it up there on the screen one King's nineteen. She

683
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: sent a messenger to Elijah to say, may the gods

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Speaker 1: deal with me, be it ever so severely. If by

685
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Speaker 1: this time tomorrow I do not make your life like

686
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Speaker 1: one of them, I'm gonna kill you. But she couldn't.

687
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Speaker 1: She couldn't. There's certain things the devil can't do to you.

688
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: But if he can get you to believe that, he

689
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to do it. If he can get

690
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: you to get so blocked by something small, are you

691
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: on this camera? Go back to this camera something? How

692
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: could something so small? Look what Elijah, the Great Man

693
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Speaker 1: of God did in verse three. So Elijah was afraid.

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Speaker 1: He was afraid, so he fled and he ran, and

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Speaker 1: he ran and he ran because Jezebel couldn't kill him.

696
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: So since she couldn't kill him, all she could do

697
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: was convince him. And so I believe this message is prophetic,

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Speaker 1: not pathetic, prophetic in the sense that you are allowing

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Speaker 1: something small to block out something bigger. And I promise

700
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: you right now, God's calling is bigger than any crisis.

701
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Speaker 1: Trust me on that and read your Bible if you

702
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: don't believe me. That's how I can go through it,

703
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: because I know that God's calling is bigger. And so

704
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 1: why would I let something small block out something big?

705
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: When he hung the stars and name them, why would

706
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: I refuse to lift my eyes to the hills when

707
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: I know where my help comes from. So there is

708
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: something bigger, there is something greater. There is something other

709
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: on the other side of this. I wonder what's on

710
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: the other side of this that is so big that

711
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: the enemy sent a storm to disrupt your peace, to

712
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: destroy your joy. God is with us in this place

713
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Speaker 1: right now. Do you feel that? And so the prophet said,

714
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Speaker 1: those who are with us are more than those who

715
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Speaker 1: are with him. He must have went to public school.

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Speaker 1: This dude is bad and mad. Elijah is bad and mad.

717
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: And the servant is like, huh, because he's counting right,

718
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: He's like those with us or more than those with them,

719
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: all right, so one, two, and then he starts counting

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Speaker 1: enemy one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, twelve

721
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: because I know somebody sitting there listening, Well, preacher, this

722
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: is this is this is cool, this is neat. But

723
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Speaker 1: have you seen the news. I'm like, but yeah, I

724
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: saw it. I see the statistics. But what good is

725
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: it going to do for me to be afraid? Like

726
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: I want to be aware, but there's a fine line

727
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: between aware and afraid. And let me just say this

728
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: and we can edit it out if it's too strong.

729
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: I think it's dangerous when we start watching a death

730
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: count on a ticker like it's a score in a

731
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: baseball game, I think that kind of crosses a line.

732
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: I think it puts us in a state where we

733
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: have made entertainment out of misery, and then we become

734
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: addicted to being afraid and it kind of feels comfortable.

735
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, this is normal. You know. One of

736
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Speaker 1: the reasons Elijah ran from Jezebel he was used to running.

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Speaker 1: He had been hiding for three and a half years,

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Speaker 1: so he did what came natural. And a lot of

739
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: us when we get in a fierce state it's because

740
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: it feels familiar to us. This is like group therapy,

741
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: isn't it to know that sometimes we feel more familiar

742
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: in a state of fear than we do in a

743
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: state of faith. And what the prophet gave him was

744
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: a different way to do math. I wrote in my notes,

745
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: I said, this is miracle math. Somebody put it in

746
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: the comments, this is miracle math. Miracle math is like this,

747
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Speaker 1: you're ready, there's more of us than them. Huh. Close

748
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: your eyes and you'll see it. Because I'm not talking

749
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: about what you can see. I'm talking about what's more

750
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: real than what you can see. Close your eyes and

751
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: you'll see it. This is miracle math. It's a miracle math.

752
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,959
Speaker 1: It's like Gideon, you have too many men. Too many men.

753
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to fight a battle. That's exactly what I

754
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: need is soldiers. No, you got too many because if

755
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: you go in with this many men, you will think

756
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: it was you that won the battle. So when he

757
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: gets down to three hundred, God says, now go in

758
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: the strength that you have, Now go. It's miracle math.

759
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: It's like Jesus, there's five thousand men and women and children.

760
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: What do you have? Five loaves? Into fish. It's not enough, right,

761
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: depends on whose calculator you're using. This is not Texas instruments.

762
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: This is the Son of God. Put it in my

763
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: hands once you got in your house. A little bit

764
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: of oil, a little bit of time, a little bit

765
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: of sanity, a little bit of praise. Just a weak

766
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: Wi Fi connection, But I'm hooked up, hooked in to

767
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: the presence of God. And God is a multiplier, and

768
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: God is enough, and God is with me. This is

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Speaker 1: miracle math. How long has he been dead? Three days?

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00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: That's just right, this miracle mad God said, do a recalculation.

771
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: I thought I was out numbered, but I'm not. I

772
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: thought it was over, but it's not. I thought it

773
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: was done, but it's not. This is miracle math. Y'all

774
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: say something in the chat while I button my shirt.

775
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: Miracle math preaching so hard I snapped my button opened.

776
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's all right, because the word of the

777
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: Lord came to the servant and said, there's more with

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00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: us than with them. And then here's the prayer. And

779
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Speaker 1: I'm closing kind of. This is closing number one, closing

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Speaker 1: number one lowercase eight. Look at this miracle math. Miracle math,

781
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: how many praise God for this word, because we really

782
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: need this in our life right now. We really need

783
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Speaker 1: this in our life. He prayed. After he encouraged him,

784
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Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Then he said, open my eye, eyes,

785
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 1: open my eyes. There's the prayer. And that's that's really

786
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: not a physical statement. Right. His eyes were working just fine.

787
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: That's why he was scared. He's like, my vision is

788
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, bro, I don't know what you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: He's like, no, no no, no, no, no, open his eyes.

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Speaker 1: Paul called it the eyes of your heart perspective. Now,

791
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: when the servant looked again verse seventeen, and this is

792
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: the whole message. Okay, he opened his eyes after the

793
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: Lord granted Elisha's request, and he looked and saw the

794
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. Now,

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00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: let me tell you what's really wonderful about that verse

796
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: is that when Elishah prayed, help did not come. Help

797
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: was already there. So when Elisha prayed, your Goodness, when

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Speaker 1: he prayed, open his eyes, Holli, so that he may see.

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Speaker 1: The Lord only had to show him what was already there.

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00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: And we can pray for provision. And that's wonderful. We

801
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: can pray for healing, and we should, and we really

802
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: need to pray for everybody who's a nurse or a doctor,

803
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: or a clerk, or a law enforcement officer, our first responders,

804
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: like all of it. We need to pray for each other.

805
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 1: But the thing we need to pray for more than

806
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: anything else is perspective. We're coming into a time where

807
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: what is invisible is more valuable than what is visible,

808
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: when everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so

809
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: that that which cannot be shaken will remain. We're coming

810
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 1: to a time where peace is more profitable than bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: We're coming to a time where joy cannot rest on

812
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: external circumstances. And when he looked, he saw the hills

813
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: full of horses, they were already full. He just couldn't

814
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: see it. He saw the hills full of chariots of fire.

815
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: The fire was already burning. But you know what didn't

816
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: happen when he prayed. And I don't know if you

817
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: want to hear this or not. And LJ, we're not

818
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: going to be able to put a B three on this,

819
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: but it's true and I need to say it. God

820
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: did not answer Elisia's prayer by eliminating the enemy. Instead,

821
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: he illuminated his presence. So faith is not a lever

822
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: that I pull, God, make it stop. God is a lens.

823
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: Faith is a lens that I look through to see

824
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: that God has been there the whole time. He's with

825
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: you right now. But I'm still scared. At you said,

826
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Speaker 1: I'm still scared, Then just stay with me. Just stay

827
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 1: with me, and whatever is going on up there, whatever

828
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: is going on out there, you need to stay with

829
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: your Father right now. And you need to stay in

830
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: faith right now. And the only way that we can

831
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Speaker 1: really deal with fear, because if we stay in fear,

832
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: and then we stay in frustration, and then we get

833
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: stupid because you are not very strategic when you're scared.

834
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Speaker 1: So don't be afraid. Watch this. The only way to

835
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Speaker 1: do that is to change the focus. To change the focus. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the situation did not change in Second King six, The

837
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,439
Speaker 1: focus did. The only way I know to stop being

838
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: afraid is to change what I'm focused on. And so

839
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Speaker 1: I just need us right now to begin to ask

840
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: the Lord to illuminate, not eliminate. God, take the fear away.

841
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Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that. Oh God, give me all

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Speaker 1: the answers, tell me the plan. I need the strategy.

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Speaker 1: God said, before I give you the strategy, I want

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Speaker 1: to give you your sight and shine light on your situation. Lord,

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Speaker 1: shine your light in our hearts, to show us who

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Speaker 1: you are, not who we thought you were. Show us

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Speaker 1: what it means to believe that you are able to

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Speaker 1: do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask, or imagine.

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Speaker 1: Just right now in the chat or in the comments,

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Speaker 1: as a prayer, say open my eyes, open my eyes

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Speaker 1: to see that there's more for me than against me.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, pastor, that's really cute, but that cliche

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Speaker 1: is not very comforting. Right now I feel alone. I

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Speaker 1: know you feel alone, but you're not alone. And even

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Speaker 1: if you're alone physically, and even if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to provide for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: right now, many of us are. I'm right there with you.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, if God is for you, who can

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Speaker 1: be against you? So the math goes like this, Me

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Speaker 1: and God is greater than anything. I face us and God,

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Speaker 1: the Church and God. We're not alone, like right now,

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Speaker 1: we're together, right now, in this moment, together, right now,

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Speaker 1: we're fighting together worshiping together, spreading the word of the

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Speaker 1: Lord together. Right now, We've got more reasons to trust

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Speaker 1: God than we do to doubt him. Come on, We've

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Speaker 1: got more victories behind us then we do reasons to

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Speaker 1: fear in front of us. You hear me. We've got

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Speaker 1: more reasons to be grateful right now than we do

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Speaker 1: to be afraid right now, So come on in less,

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Speaker 1: just with a perspective of praise, and with wide open eyes,

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Speaker 1: and even with lifted hands. Come on, let your kids

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Speaker 1: see you worshiping God. Let your kids see how you

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Speaker 1: fight your battles. Let your kids see how you make

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Speaker 1: it through a storm. Let a generation behold that we

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Speaker 1: are that generation that will declare the works of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: And there are more for us than against us. He

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Speaker 1: is a mighty God, a present help, a prophesy over

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Speaker 1: your life. Today. You might be scared, but that doesn't

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Speaker 1: stop the presence of the Lord. Thank you Jesus, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Jesus. And he is doing the most when we

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Speaker 1: feel it the least. And I come to you today

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name from Elevation Church to let you know

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Speaker 1: you're not alone. You are not alone. God is with you,

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Speaker 1: and we are with you, and you are not alone.

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Speaker 1: But I'm still scared. But you're not alone. But I'm

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Speaker 1: still scared. But He's got you in the palm of

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Speaker 1: his hand. How do you know that? How do you

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Speaker 1: know he's got me? How can you say that? I

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Speaker 1: say it by faith, not by feeling. And I thank

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Speaker 1: God for his presence with us in this moment. If

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Speaker 1: you receive this word right now, just say right there,

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Speaker 1: I receive it. I receive it, I receive it, I

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Speaker 1: receive it. I receive it by faith. I receive joy, peace, wisdom. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of

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Speaker 1: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

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Speaker 1: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description to give now, or visit Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church dot org slash podcast for more information and if

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share

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Speaker 1: God bless you.