1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. Worship has been awesome. The presence 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: of God is here. The presence of God is there 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: wherever you are. And right now it is time for 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: the preaching of the Word. We have the honor of 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: Pastor Darius Daniels being with us this weekend. He is 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: the lead pastor of Chase Church. He's been with us 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: before and I believe God's given him a message for 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: our Elevation family. So right now, put your hands together, 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: put your praise hands up in the chat, put the 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: hearts in the chat, put the prayer hands together, the 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: clap hands. Welcome Pastor Daniel. Well, come on better than that, 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: and let's give a great God, great praise wherever you are, 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: in your living room, in your kitchen, in your card let, 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: it everything that has breath, praise the Lord. It doesn't 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: matter what it is, It couldn't change who he is. 21 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: Let's give a great God, great praise. Well, let's pray together. Father, 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: we love you today. Our presence wherever we are is 23 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: evidence of your faithfulness. Your faithfulness is great. You've kept us. 24 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: We recognize it, and our response is worship. It's appreciation, 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: it's gratitude. Thank you that you love us enough not 26 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: to leave us without direction, and that direction comes through 27 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: your word. So we pray for that today. I pray 28 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: for the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, your annoying 29 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: to equip and empower me to teach not just the 30 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: message from the Bible, but to release a word from 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: the Lord. For you're the only one that can speak 32 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: to all of us and say something different to each 33 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: of us at the same time. So may this message 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: be your love letter to us. Let us know that 35 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: you see us rite where we are, and that you 36 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: love us enough to speak with specificity to give us 37 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 1: strength to run on to see what the end would be. 38 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: Thank you for this house, the spiritual weapon of mass destruction. 39 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: Thank you for the assignment that you've given it to 40 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: see people far from God raise to life in Christ. 41 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: Thank You for the lives that will be raised to 42 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: life today as a result of what you're doing through 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: this incredible spiritual family called Elevation Church. Knowing you like 44 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: we know you, we already have what we've asked you for. 45 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: So we thank you for these things in the name 46 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: of the one who saved our life. That name is Jesus. 47 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: If you agree, come on, put a man in the 48 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: chat wherever you are. We're excited to be in the 49 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: house today. Well listen, it is my extreme honor to 50 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: be here. First of all, I have just such great 51 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: respect and admiration for one of the greatest leaders on 52 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: the planet, one of the most incredible communicators on the planet, 53 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: and one of the greatest men personally off stage that 54 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: I know. And so the scriptures teach us that honor 55 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: is a kingdom ethic. It is the way we manage 56 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: relationships as followers of Jesus. So wherever we are in 57 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: the chat, in the room, we're just gonna make some 58 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: major noise. And thank God for my friend, my brother 59 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: passed the Stephen erdet so excited to be here with you, 60 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: and listen. If you're at home, you're probably already sitting down. 61 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: If you're in the room, you can have your seats. 62 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: What matters is the Pasha of our heart. There's something 63 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: on my heart I kind of want to share today, 64 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: and so I want you to meet me in the 65 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: second book of the Bible, the Book of Exodus. Y'all. 66 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: I'm dealing with some mixed emotions today. This morning. This morning, 67 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,559 Speaker 1: six thirty am, had to drop off my firstborn son 68 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: for college. He's playing football at west Point University west 69 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: Point Military Academy, and drop them off this morning. So 70 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm young but I feel old, and I'm old but 71 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: I feel young. I don't know, but I got mixed 72 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: emotions and excited about all that God's domed in the 73 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: life of my family, and glad to be here with 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: this incredible spiritual family. EXETERU, Chapter thirteen, verse seventeen. I'm 75 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: going to read a few verses here, one verse here, 76 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: and then we're going to use as a launch and 77 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: path to leap into our lesson today. This is what 78 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: it says. It says when Pharaoh let the people go, 79 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: God did not lead them on the road through Philistine country, 80 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: though that was shorter. See what he says. For God 81 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: said if they faced war, they might change their minds 82 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: and return to Egypt. So God led the people verse eighteen, 83 00:05:54,360 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: around by the desert road, toward the Red Sea. Israelites 84 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: went up out of Egypt ready for battle. I want 85 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: to end the reading the God's word right there, and 86 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: I want to tag a title to this text. I 87 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: want us to think around this thought and our time 88 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: together today. I didn't see that coming. I didn't see 89 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: that coming the family. There are a number of interesting 90 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: adjectives that can be used to describe the nature and 91 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: the character of God. For the purpose of our time 92 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: together today, I want to lift up one that I 93 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: think is extremely important and at the same time extremely unsettling, 94 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: and that is God is unpredictable. Please don't read what 95 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: I'm not writing. Please don't hear what I'm not saying. 96 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: I am not saying in any way that there is 97 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: any inconsistency in God's character. That's not what I'm saying. 98 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: God is consistently consistent. He's reliably reliable. He is what 99 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: the writer of Hebrews calls it calls immutable. He is unchanging. 100 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. He was a waymaker, 101 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 1: he is a waymaker. He will be a waymaker. He 102 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: was a door opener, he is a door opener. He 103 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: will be a door opener. He was a healer, he 104 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: is a healer, he will be a healer. As a 105 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: matter of fact, the only reason that many of us 106 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: are saying in the membrane in the midst of a 107 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: pandemic is because God's been consistent. Corona's been unpredictable, but 108 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: God's been consistent. The economy's been uncertain, but God's been consistent. 109 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: The only reason we're here is because God is consistent. 110 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's any inconsistency in his character, but 111 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: I am saying there isdictability in his activity. In other words, 112 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: we can predict who God will be, but we cannot 113 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: always accurately anticipate what God will do. We see instances 114 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: in scripture in the New Testament, specifically where people found 115 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: themselves in dilemmas and in situations and circumstances and Jesus 116 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: responded immediately. And then we look in the same New 117 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: Testament and we see examples of instances like John eleven 118 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: with a dude named Lazarus. Jesus gets word that Lazarus 119 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: is sick, and instead of going immediately, he delays himself intentionally. 120 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: He says no I'm a wait until about four days 121 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: before I get there, because the Sadducees had the teaching 122 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: that the spirit of a man didn't leave until after 123 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: three days, and so when he got there on the 124 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: fourth day, they knew that it was undeniably inexplain a miracle. 125 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: See you can predict who he'll be, but you can't 126 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: always predict what he'll do. See See, there are some 127 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: instances where he healed. Jesus healed people by touching them. 128 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: Then there are instances like in Mark five, where someone 129 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: got healed by touching the hem of him. She didn't 130 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: even touch him, she touched what was touching him. She said, 131 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: if I could touch the hem of his garment, I'll 132 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: be made whole. There are times where he spoke the 133 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: word and healed, and then there are instances where he 134 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: spit in dirt, made mud, put mud on a person's 135 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: eyes and they got healed. And then there are instances 136 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: where individuals like the apostle Paul said, because of the 137 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: abundance of revelation given to me, there was given me 138 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of saying to 139 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: buffet me this thing. I saw the Lord three times 140 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: that it might be removed from me. And on the 141 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: third time, God say, nah, my great sufficient, it's God. 142 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: You're not gonna change this. No, I'm not gonna change that. 143 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: But God the devil Sinnate say yeah, the double sentate. 144 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: But I like it, so I'm gonna leave it. God, 145 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: I've never been things have never been worse. Yeah, but 146 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: spiritually they'd never been better. God, I've never been in 147 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: this much pain. You've never been in this much prayer. 148 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: So instead of altering this, I'm gonna give you grace 149 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: to endure it. There's no inconsistency in his character, but 150 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: there is unpredictability in his activity. Life then will be 151 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: full of surprises. So listen to me, family. This means 152 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: that the course and the quality of our life is 153 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: going to be determined by our ability to handle what 154 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: you didn't see coming. Oh. And I know this is unnerving, 155 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: and this is unsettling for those of us who are 156 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: like me, who prefer the predictable. It's uncomfortable for those 157 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: of us who do not like disruption. But if I 158 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: want to be used by God, I must be willing 159 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: to be disrupted. If I want to be used by God, 160 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: I must be willing to be disrupted, because God is 161 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: the god of disruption. You'll be minding your business, tending 162 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: to sheep, and then all of a sudden he'll start 163 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: setting burning bushes on fire. And you thought you were 164 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: out of Egypt for the rest of your life, Moses. 165 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: And then he starts telling you to take your shoes 166 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: off your own holy ground, and he says, I know 167 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: you thought you were going to do one thing with 168 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: your life, but I'm getting ready to disrupt it. I 169 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: don send you back to the place you said you'd 170 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: never go back to get you in minding his business 171 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: threshing weed in a wine press. Disruption. So the course 172 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: in the quality of my life, it's going to be 173 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: determined by my ability to handle what I did see coming, 174 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: because God in life are full of surprises. This means 175 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: the people who live well must be willing to relinquish 176 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: what many in our culture are addicted to holding on to, 177 00:12:53,040 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: and that is control. Control. And what's weird is we 178 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: need to relinquish what we really don't have. So we're 179 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: relinquishing the illusion of something for peace's sake, because the 180 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: idea that we have control is an illusion because we 181 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: don't we have responsibility, but not control. We have influence, 182 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: but not control. Control is an illusion. Control is reserved 183 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: for the sovereign one. And when you attempt, you and 184 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: I attempt to take on the responsibility and the weight 185 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 1: of control, we're taking on God weight. And then we're 186 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: carrying weight we're not conditioned to carry. And then our 187 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: mind and our body begins to respond in inappropriate ways 188 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: to send you a message that you weren't designed to 189 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: carry this. You've been designed to focus on today. You 190 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: haven't been built to worry about tomorrow. Because while you're sleeping, 191 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: I'm the God that never sleeps a sumberus. While you're 192 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: trying to figure it out, I'm the God that's already 193 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: working it out. That's God weight. You get today, I 194 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: got tomorrow control. It's an illusion. It's now try to 195 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: take control. I'm taking God weight, and our bodies and 196 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: our minds respond in a way letting us know that 197 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: we have not been created to carry I have responsibility, now, 198 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: I got influence, but I do not have control. So 199 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: here's the question. Here's the question, especially for people who 200 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: have already made the decision to become a follower of 201 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: the person and the principles of Jesus. Here's the question, 202 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: do you only trust God with your past or do 203 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: you trust him with your future? Because this means I 204 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: must be willing. If I trust him with my future, 205 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: I must be willing to wrap my head around and 206 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: experience that we see here in this text. This text 207 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: teaches us how to manage these surprise seasons. This text 208 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: here in Exodus offers us some insight on how to 209 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: handle seasons and situations that we didn't see coming. It's interesting, right, 210 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: this book of Exodus, which captures Israel's exodus out of Egypt, 211 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: it shows us something really interesting to me. It shows 212 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: us this. It shows us that we may be able 213 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: to ladies and gentlemen look at God's promises and get 214 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: a sense of where He's taking us. But the text 215 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: teaches that we might be surprised when it comes to 216 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: the way he takes us there. Right, because this text 217 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: is God's fulfilling of a promise that he makes to 218 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: Moses in private. God tells Moses in private, I'm sending 219 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: you back to Egypt, and you're going to tell Pharaoh 220 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: to let my people go, and you're going to take 221 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: my people to a land I promised them it's inhabited 222 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: by the Canaan Knites. It's called Canaan Land. It's a 223 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: promised land in the Old Testament. It's a New Testament 224 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: picture of the life that's available to us in Christ. 225 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: And God says to Moses, I'm gonna usual to take 226 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: Israel from e to the Promised Land. Those were the 227 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: only two destinations in the conversation, Egypt and the Promised Land. 228 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: Only two destinations in the conversation, Egypt and the Promised Land. 229 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: Only two destinations in the conversation, Egypt and the Promised Land. 230 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: So when Moses goes to Israel, he starts preaching God's promise, 231 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: and God is gonna take us from Egypt and get 232 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: us to the Promised Land. Somebody shout, promise, man, look 233 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: at your neighbor and say promised land. Smell the heron, 234 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: say I smell Promised Land. And he's preaching, and the 235 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,360 Speaker 1: people are excited and they're screaming, and then finally at 236 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: God is making good on the promise. The Bible says 237 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: when Pharaoh lets the people go, God did not leave 238 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: them on the road through Philistine country, though that was shorter. 239 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, now, Jesus, wait a minute. You said 240 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: I was going from Egypt to the Promised Land. You 241 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: ain't saying anything about this other route here. No, no, no no, 242 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: It's interesting. It says when Pharaoh let him go, God 243 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: did not leave them through the Philistine country. Listen to me, family, 244 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: though that was shorter. I'm gonna say that again. He 245 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: didn't leave them through Philistine country, though that was shorter. 246 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: Because the assumption is we're going to have a straight 247 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: path to the promise. God said, no, no, no no, no, 248 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: even though that's shorter, I can't lead you the short way. 249 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: Watch this because if they face war, they might change 250 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: their minds and return to Egypt. Don't miss this, family. 251 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: God knows what battles, right, we are not ready to fight. 252 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: Did you hear what I just said? He says, Now, 253 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: I could take you that way, but if I take 254 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 1: you that way, you're going to be exposed to some 255 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: adversity that you're not quite developed for us, and it's 256 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: gonna set you back. It would have set them back physically, 257 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: but sometimes it set us back spiritually, and it sets 258 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: us back emotionally. And God knows what battles. We are 259 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: not ready to fight this way. Mark Batterson puts it, 260 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: He says, that's a backside to every blessing. Did you 261 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: hear what I just said? So here this They were 262 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: ready to get out of Egypt and get into Canaan, 263 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: but they were not ready to deal with the adversity 264 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: that a short path required. Are y'all following me here? 265 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: He says? He says, I know that's shorter, he says, 266 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: but it's a backside to that. And you're ready for 267 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: the front side, but you're not ready for the backside. 268 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: Because to whom so hother much is giving, much is required. 269 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm not holding you up because you're not 270 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: ready for the front side. I'm holding you up because 271 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: you're not ready for the backside. Yes, I'm holding I'm 272 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: not holding you up because I'm not going to give 273 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: it to you. I'm holding you up because when I 274 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: give it to you, I want you to be mature 275 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: enough to handle it so that you can keep it. 276 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: I don't know who this is far, but I want 277 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody who feels like you're 278 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: experiencing a divine delay. I want you to know it's 279 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: just delay, it's not denial, because God knows how to 280 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: put you in the right place at the right time. 281 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: Maybe you ready for it, but you're not ready for it. 282 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 1: Did you hear what I just said. Maybe you're ready 283 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: for it, but you're not ready for it. You know, 284 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: you can be ready for the promotion but not ready 285 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: for pressure. You can be ready for elevation but not 286 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: ready for haters. You can be ready for responsibility but 287 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: not be ready for being liked. God's like, I got 288 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: to make sure that your heart is as good as 289 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: your gift. I've got to make sure that your soul 290 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: is as whole as your gift is, because if not, 291 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: your gift will lead you and put you in places 292 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: and spaces that your heart is not mature enough to handle. 293 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: And a blessing will feel like a curse if you 294 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: get it too early. I want somebody to just pause 295 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: right now and just thank God for every time he 296 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: delayed something. Thank God not for every open door, but 297 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: for the doors he closed that he knew I wasn't 298 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: ready to walk in. God says, no, no, no no, they 299 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: face war. They might change their mind and return to Egypt. 300 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: So what was the text say? It says something. In 301 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: verse eighteen, it says, so God led the people around 302 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: by the desert road toward the Red Sea. Listen to 303 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: this family. This, this is this is really interesting to me, 304 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: at least it's interesting to me. It's it's interesting because 305 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: one version of the scripture translates this as desert. Some 306 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: others translate this as the wilderness. So this is a 307 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: destination God left out of the conversation because if you 308 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: go back and you look at God's conversation with Moses 309 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: and Moses's conversation with Israel, there's no mention of a 310 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: desert or wilderness. This means, God, are you all ready 311 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: for this? If you're ready to put, I'm ready in 312 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: the chat. If you're ready, put I'm ready in the chat. 313 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: It means God, God intentionally withheld information from Israel until 314 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: they were out of Egypt. I want to make sure 315 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: you heard what I just said. It means stay with me. 316 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: It means that He intentionally withheld information from them until 317 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: they were too far into it. They thought about going back, 318 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: they talked about going back, but they were too far 319 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: into it to go back. And I want to see 320 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: if we can relate to Israel's experience, because I believe 321 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: that sometimes God intentionally withhold's information from us. He says, 322 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: because if you knew everything you were saying yes to, 323 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if you would give me a yes. 324 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna wait until you too far away from Egypt, 325 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: until you recognize everything that you got yourself into, because 326 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: if I let you know in the beginning, you would 327 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: have never left your starting point. Yeah, it takes them 328 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: through this this place wilderness. Now, when I first saw that, 329 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, like, Yo, that's that's negative. I 330 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: don't want the wilderness. I don't want that. That's negative. 331 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: Then some said to me, it's necessary, and I'm saying no. 332 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: So sometimes I get in my head, I'm like, no, 333 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: it's it's negative. No, it's it's necessary. It's negative. It's necessary. 334 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: It's negative, it's necessary. And then this thought came to 335 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: my mind. There's the wilderness is only negative when you 336 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: stay there longer than you have to. Okay, it's it's 337 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: it's the wilderness represents surprise seasons. It represents what you 338 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: didn't see coming. It represents what you cannot predict and 339 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: what you cannot prefer. And God says, this is interesting, 340 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 1: that wilderness seasons are not necessarily negative and then necessary. 341 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: Listen to this because these seasons, although we don't prefer them, 342 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: are seasons of preparation. And it's weird because it is 343 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: preparation that God keeps you uninformed about, because God's the 344 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: only one that will take you to school, and you 345 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: not even know you in class. You didn't even know 346 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: you went to school until it was over. Is there 347 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: anybody that can look back over your life and say, 348 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: I didn't understand while I went through certain things when 349 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: I was in the middle of it, But then once 350 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: I got on the other side of it and I 351 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: look back, I realized and recognize God was teaching me something. 352 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: And if I didn't learn what I needed to learn 353 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: back then, if I wasn't developed in the ways I 354 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: needed to be developed back then, I wouldn't be in 355 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: the position to handle where I am right now. I 356 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 1: want to pause for the cause and tell somebody that 357 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: God is not just your savior, He's your teacher and 358 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,479 Speaker 1: he's got you in school right now teaching you some 359 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: things you need to learn. So just sit back, dig 360 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: the scene with the student, lean whoop, whoop, and get 361 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: the lessons so that you can receive the blessing somebody 362 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: praise them on your couch praise them in your living room. 363 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's it's interesting here. He sets them 364 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: in this, this wilderness, this desert, says, Yeah, this is 365 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: a place of preparation. And wherever listen to me, family, 366 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: Wherever there's preparation, there pruning. Wherever that's preparation, that's pruning. 367 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: Meaning forward movement is not just attached to what we 368 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: start doing. It is attached to what we stop doing. 369 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: It's pruning. Jesus puts it this way in John fifteen. 370 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: He says, every branch that bears fruit, God prunes so 371 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: that it can produce more fruit. And when I look 372 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: at Israel's experience in the wilderness, I see there's a 373 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: lot of pruning going on. Like, first of all, there's 374 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: pruning of issues. The wildness becomes like an airport hub 375 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: where certain things get dropped off that can't go to 376 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: the final destination. Because sometimes the enemy is not the enemy, 377 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: it's the enemy. And sometimes God drops us in these 378 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: surprise seasons, he says, because I want to give you 379 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: an opportunity to deal with some of the things that 380 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: can't go with you where you're going. Because old new seasons, 381 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: we keep feeling like old seasons if we don't deal 382 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: with old issues. This might be one of the reasons 383 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: why when David defeated Goliath, he went up to him 384 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: and cut off his head. Because sometimes we knock the 385 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: giant down and we think it's dead, and then we 386 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: turn our back on it and try to move forward 387 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: in a new season, and then an old problem rears itself, 388 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: rears its head back up and follows us into a 389 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: new one. Pruning issues. This is really really uncomfortable. People 390 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: get uncomfortable when I talk about this one. But it's 391 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: also a time where there's pruning of individuals. It is 392 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: so important. See Prover thirteen and twenty says walk walk 393 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: with wise men and become wise. But a companion of 394 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: fool suffers harm. Listen to this family. It didn't say 395 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: a fool suffers harm. It says a companion of foolslfs home, 396 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: which means I don't have to be a fool to 397 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: be hurt. I just got to hang out with them. 398 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: The scriptures for doing this don't be deceived. Bad company corrupts, 399 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: good character issues individuals. It's a time where God purgaes 400 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: us of attitudes. Notice the text says they might see 401 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: war and go back to Egypt. Why because for hundreds 402 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: of years they've been slaves, their minds had not been 403 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: conditioned to think like soldiers. So they were out of Egypt, 404 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: but Egypt was not out of them. So God needed 405 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: to adjust their attitude so that they could see themselves properly. 406 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: Because you're always behave in a way that is consistent 407 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: with the way you see yourself. And God' say, I 408 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: gotta get you to see you the way I see you. 409 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: And this is why I spend so much time telling 410 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: you who you are in scripture, because I want you 411 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: to see yourself the way I see you, so that 412 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: you can behave in a way that's consistent with who 413 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: you've been born to be, not who you think you 414 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: really are. So I want to do all of this 415 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: in some of these surprise seasons. And I think when 416 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: you look at Israel's experience, we can see a connection 417 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: to some of ours. And I think it really answers 418 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: the quintessential question when it comes to dealing with surprise seasons, 419 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: y'all passadaris, what do I do with these seasons? Here? 420 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: It is what do I do what I can't with 421 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: what I can't control? And what I didn't predict and 422 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: what I don't prefer. What do I do? You manage them? 423 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: What do I do when I can't control it? I 424 00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: manage it? And what does this mean for us? It 425 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: means for us, what it meant for Israel? Practically, when 426 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: seasons cannot be avoided, they must be managed, it managed, 427 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: and how it is managed determines whether or not it 428 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: is prolonged or made permanent. And I want to give 429 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: a few ways to manage seasons like this because I 430 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: feel like it's really important. Okay, this is really important 431 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: because the season itself listen to me, The season itself 432 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: is a surprise. But then once you get in the season, 433 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: you're going to experience some things that are surprised also. 434 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: And this is exactly what happened to Israel. So they 435 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: get in this in this wilderness season and they start 436 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: getting hungry. They like, we want some bread, we want 437 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: something to eat. And then all of a sudden, the 438 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: Bible says and Nexitus, chapter sixteen, verse number thirty one. 439 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: It says that the people of Israel called watch this 440 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: called the bread manna. It was like white coarameter seed, 441 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: and taste it like wafers made with honey. Don't miss this, y'all. 442 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: So they are in the middle of this surprise season. 443 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: They're asking their savior for provision, and they wake up 444 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: one morning and they see this coorander seed spread on 445 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: the ground like do and they called it manna because 446 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: mana means what is it? So they ask God for bread? 447 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: And they wake up and they see this frost like 448 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: carander seed substance spread out like do and they say 449 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 1: mana because mana means what is it? God? I ask 450 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 1: you for bread? What is this? I ask you for wisdom? 451 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: What is this? I ask you for strength? What is this? 452 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: I ask you for a blessing? What is this? I 453 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: ask you for more? What is this? Here it is 454 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: family because here manna represents three things. I'm get all 455 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: your waye Manter represents first of all the times when 456 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: God's performance doesn't match your expectation. Listen to this. They 457 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: asked for bread, and I guess they thought they were 458 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: gonna get I'm originally from Mississippi, some kind of country. 459 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: I guess they thought they were gonna get some jiffy 460 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: corn bread, some hot water corn bread, right, some wonderbread. 461 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: But here it is the Bible says they saw something 462 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: on the ground that looked so different from what they 463 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: anticipated in their head. They didn't even recognize that God 464 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: had answered their prayer. He just answered their prayer in 465 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: a form that was different than what they expected. So 466 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: this is what some biblical historians say. They say that 467 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: Israel took that seed, and when they took that seed, 468 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: they grinded it. And when they grinded it, grinded the seed, 469 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: the seed became green and they were able to take 470 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: the and make bread. Don't miss this. It means that 471 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: God's provision came in the form of a project. Did 472 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: you hear what I just said? And you got to 473 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: be willing to grind to turn it into what you 474 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: know it could be. I don't know who I'm preaching 475 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: to and here today, but I want you to know 476 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: it's grinding season for you. When God gets you a seed, 477 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: you've got to be willing to grind and if you're 478 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: grind you can turn it into what you know it's 479 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 1: been created to be. It's when God's performance the match 480 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: your expectations. Okay, here it is number two number two manna. 481 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: What is it? It represents? Uh oh? Times when God 482 00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: supernaturally suffocates your supply. This is what was interesting about 483 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: their experience with manna. The manna would only last twenty 484 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: four hours except for the day before the Sabbath. It 485 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: will spoil, which means that every day they woke up 486 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:29,320 Speaker 1: they had to depend on God to provide. It wouldn't 487 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: be like that always, but for that season for them, 488 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: God says, yep, and everybody's going to hit a season 489 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: where in some area of your life, you will hit 490 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: a season where God supernaturally suffocates your supply and say, 491 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: every day you're going to have to look to me 492 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: for this, because watch this. There are things you're having 493 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: to ask me for in the wilderness that you're going 494 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: to have an overflow of in Canaan. Canaan is a 495 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: land that was agriculturally rich. He was flowing with milk 496 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: and honey. And God says, before you get to Canaan, 497 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: I want to make sure you are crystal clear on 498 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,839 Speaker 1: who your source is. That I condition you properly so 499 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: that when you get to Canaan you don't get the 500 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 1: grapes and forget about God. I want to know, is 501 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: there anybody watching me right now, anybody that's willing to 502 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: admit that I will not get the grapes and forget 503 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: about God, because God was there holding me in the 504 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: midnight hour. God was there coaching and counseling and consoling me. 505 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 1: God was there teaching and training me that He's my 506 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: sores and I've got to depend and rely on him. 507 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,840 Speaker 1: Is when He supernaturally suffocates your supply. He says, no 508 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: in this area right now, in this season, I'm going 509 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: to teach you a different type of dependence. And finally, 510 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 1: manner represents listen to this. It represents seasonal supply here. 511 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 1: It is. This is one of my favorite scriptures in 512 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: the Old Testament. It says, and the manner ceased it 513 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: was temporary. They probably were getting all up in arms, 514 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: experienced and extreme anxiety, and God's like, this is just temporary. 515 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: This is just what I'm doing right now to hold 516 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: you over until I get you to where I'm taking you. 517 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: This is just temporary provision that I'm making until I 518 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,000 Speaker 1: provide in a way that is more permanent. It is 519 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 1: a temporary supply here. It is. So instead of feeling 520 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 1: anxiety with the manner listen to this, they should have 521 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 1: expressed appreciation for the manner because they didn't reckonize that 522 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: the manner was a miracle. Sometimes we can be so 523 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: busy looking for a miracle that we miss the one 524 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: we're experiencing. And God's greatest critique of Israel was their 525 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,759 Speaker 1: unappreciation for his benevolence and generosity to their life. He's like, 526 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: I've done all of these miracles, and they're still infected 527 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: with entitlement, and they don't know how to properly respond 528 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: to what I've already done in life, in their life? 529 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 1: What more do I have to do to prove I 530 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: got them now? Passadarius? What's the proper response to miracles? 531 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: It's appreciation. What's the word that we use for that 532 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: in Christian context? It's praise. Praise it just noise. Praise 533 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: is good manners. Praise is a recognition of God's divine 534 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 1: provision in my life, and it is my organic and 535 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: automatic response. It is an expression of gratitude, and gratitude 536 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 1: is the seed for more. The more you so praise God, 537 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,799 Speaker 1: God starts sowing back into you. And I feel like, 538 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,360 Speaker 1: in the midst of a pandemic, yes we've lost a lot, 539 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: Yes we're going through a lot, but I think we 540 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: need to pause for a minute and reflect on the 541 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 1: manner we've experienced, the miracles he's already performed and refused 542 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 1: to be infected with entitlement and say, I've got to 543 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 1: praise God for what he has done, and I'm gonna 544 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: praise God in expectation for what he's getting ready to do. 545 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 1: I want somebody to praise him right now. Yes, I'm done. Listen. 546 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: Israel mismanaged this season, so what was intended to be 547 00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:03,480 Speaker 1: temporary turned out to be forty years. Forty years they 548 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: wandered in the wilderness. They didn't have to because they mismanaged, 549 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: but they didn't see coming. Listen to me, this is 550 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: the word that's on my heart. Just because you're surprised 551 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:33,440 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're not prepared. You may not feel prepared. 552 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: But just because you've been surprised by what is coming 553 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: your way, does it mean that God has not been 554 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: preparing you for it? And your management of it is 555 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 1: tied to your recognition and your revelation. God has prepared 556 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:04,800 Speaker 1: me for this. I didn't see it coming, but I'm ready. 557 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: I was caught off guard, but I'm ready. I don't 558 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: prefer this, and I wouldn't have picked it. But if 559 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,920 Speaker 1: God allowed me to experience it, I'm ready for it. 560 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: You know what happened when those plagues hit Egypt. God 561 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: was getting them ready. You know what happened when he 562 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: split that red sea and they walked through on the 563 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 1: right ground. God was getting them ready. And there's some 564 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: red seas he's split in your life? What was he 565 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:46,560 Speaker 1: doing getting you ready? Cat you prepared? Taking you through school, 566 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 1: not even letting you know you've been in class. Now, 567 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,759 Speaker 1: here's the question in a season like this, are you 568 00:41:53,840 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 1: going to apply what your teacher has taught you? This 569 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,839 Speaker 1: is what I learned, this is this is hard. It's 570 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,560 Speaker 1: hard for me. I struggle with it practically, but when 571 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: I think about it cognitively, it helps me at least 572 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: a bit that when I look at God's track record 573 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 1: in my past, doubting him in my present is actually illogical. 574 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,879 Speaker 1: So when it seems it would seemed like faith would 575 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: be illogical, But like when you look at how faithful 576 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: God has been, it's like, no, doubt is actually illogical 577 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: because there hasn't been a time He hadn't come through. 578 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,479 Speaker 1: Now he doesn't always sometimes he comes through, and I'm like, man, 579 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,960 Speaker 1: what is it? What is this, but there has not 580 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: been a time He has come through. And if He 581 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,080 Speaker 1: didn't give me what I thought I needed, he taught 582 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: me how to live without it. Yes, you didn't see 583 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:14,600 Speaker 1: it coming, but God got you ready for it. And 584 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,840 Speaker 1: today I'm getting ready to close out Today, I just 585 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,000 Speaker 1: want to pray for some people who feel like you've 586 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,479 Speaker 1: been knocked off of your feet and caught off God. 587 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,680 Speaker 1: I want to pray for some people who like pass 588 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:41,640 Speaker 1: it there as I didn't see this coming. I'm so thrown. 589 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,239 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I don't I don't 590 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,399 Speaker 1: know where to turn. I'm telling you just because you're 591 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:58,600 Speaker 1: surprised doesn't mean you aren't prepared. Your God it's been 592 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: getting you ready. If you're willing to manage this manner, 593 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,920 Speaker 1: he will show you that what's on the other side 594 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: of this wilderness experience is a canalin that flows with 595 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:27,200 Speaker 1: milky honey, where God makes good on his promises. So 596 00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,239 Speaker 1: I don't think we necessarily need another revelation now, but 597 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,239 Speaker 1: we do need resilience, and some of us need a 598 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,719 Speaker 1: divine deposit of that. I'm going to pray that God 599 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:43,400 Speaker 1: will give it to you wherever you are. So Father, 600 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: right now, I thank you that your word says it 601 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: is you who works in us to will and to 602 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,839 Speaker 1: do your good pleasure. And I pray right now that 603 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: you would grant and bless your people with divine will 604 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:02,400 Speaker 1: of power. I pray for supernatural resilience. I pray for 605 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,520 Speaker 1: strength beyond our own. I pray for a set fastness 606 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,799 Speaker 1: that is beyond our own human capability. I pray that 607 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,440 Speaker 1: you would strengthen us, that we might be strong in 608 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,960 Speaker 1: the Lord. And I give you praise right now that 609 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,800 Speaker 1: the weak are being made strong, that bowed down heads 610 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 1: are being lifted up, and people who were about to 611 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 1: throw in the towel are receiving a second wind, the 612 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:41,800 Speaker 1: wind of the Holy Spirit blowing and breathing on them. 613 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:47,560 Speaker 1: I thank you for strength to the weak and resilience 614 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,960 Speaker 1: to the weary. We receive it in the name of 615 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 1: the one who saved our life. That name is Jesus. 616 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:02,319 Speaker 1: It's in his name we pray. Amen, thank you for 617 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,960 Speaker 1: joining us special thanks to those of you who give 618 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,920 Speaker 1: generously to this ministry. 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