Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the message in just a moment. If you're standing
Speaker 2: at one of our campuses, stay standing for a moment,
Speaker 2: because we got a very special message today. You may
Speaker 2: be wondering, yes, is Holly gonna preach?
Speaker 1: Kind of? And so am I? So today this message?
Speaker 1: Did you ever used to watch not wrestling, but wrestling?
Speaker 2: Did you ever used to see tag team wrestling like
Speaker 2: the Legion of Doom, the Steiner Brothers, stuff like that,
Speaker 2: And then when you would when you would be tired,
Speaker 2: you tag your partner in the corner. Today, Holly and
Speaker 2: I are going to tag team a message as we
Speaker 2: continue our series called Do the New You would you
Speaker 2: look at your neighbor and say, I.
Speaker 1: Barely recognize you. You've been changing so much?
Speaker 2: Is that now?
Speaker 1: Put it in the comments, say is oh man?
Speaker 2: God has been doing an amazing work through this book,
Speaker 2: through this message series, through these mindsets, and today we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna change it up.
Speaker 2: You may be wondering, why is there furniture behind you?
Speaker 2: Good question, Uh Holly, We're gonna have a little chat.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna chat.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some stuff. I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: talk to you about some stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you said you said we were gonna tag team,
Speaker 4: and in my mind it was less wrestling and more
Speaker 4: like volleyball, you know, like where I don't know my
Speaker 4: you know, like the person and then you yeah, so
Speaker 4: I'm spiking or your spiking, your spiking.
Speaker 3: OK maybe I'm a setter, you know, you go like that,
Speaker 3: that's what it is, and then you spike it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say, knew more about sports.
Speaker 4: But I have been wanting to interview you for really.
Speaker 4: I have been begging him, babe, please let me interview you.
Speaker 3: Let's sit down on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: And because there's nobody I would rather talk to than you,
Speaker 4: thank you. And sometimes our conversations are so I mean,
Speaker 4: they're so good and they go I just love the
Speaker 4: way you think, and so I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: I've got questions.
Speaker 2: I'm ready, and y'all y'all pray for me, because she's prepared.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I made a deal that I wouldn't look at her questions.
Speaker 2: She left her notebook on the kitchen table, and I
Speaker 2: was very tempted because I like to prepare. But in
Speaker 2: this mindset we're going to share about Christ is in me.
Speaker 2: Everybody say Christ is in me.
Speaker 3: Christ is in me?
Speaker 1: I am enough. I am enough, And.
Speaker 2: I thought, what better way to put that to the
Speaker 2: test than let her ask me whatever she wants in
Speaker 2: front of We've got about a thousand E Group leaders
Speaker 2: here helping us share this message. And these are the
Speaker 2: real MVPs of Elevation Church, along with our volunteers, our givers,
Speaker 2: our staff, and you know this is what they do
Speaker 2: every week as they open their homes and opened their computers.
Speaker 1: And whether it's in the room where.
Speaker 2: It happens or the zoom where it happens, so many
Speaker 2: great discussions happen. And one of my passions in this
Speaker 2: year is to get God's word deeper and deeper and
Speaker 2: deeper into your heart so the enemy can't snatch it.
Speaker 1: So if you're ready for.
Speaker 2: A conversation, but I could go anywhere and make some
Speaker 2: noise all right, y'all be seated as we are seated.
Speaker 2: Let's go Holly. When they were playing, it made me
Speaker 2: remember how we used to sing. When I think of.
Speaker 3: That, out the Lord, you can't make me sing.
Speaker 2: How he saves me, how he raised me, how.
Speaker 1: He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me.
Speaker 5: Judie termost when I think about the Lord, how he
Speaker 5: picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my.
Speaker 2: Feet from side brown, it makes me na shout.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jeez, I know it.
Speaker 5: Lord, You're worthy of all the glory and and.
Speaker 6: Olua, thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: That was our song in college. I think I think
Speaker 2: that's part of the reason you married me. Not because
Speaker 2: of my singing, but she was scholarship. We met before college,
Speaker 2: Hollie and I met before college. I promise this won't
Speaker 2: just be story time. I'm gonna preach your minister to
Speaker 2: work out. But I want to tell them this because
Speaker 2: when people see you like later in your journey, it's
Speaker 2: like walking into the middle of a movie and they
Speaker 2: can be really confused. And one time somebody said to me,
Speaker 2: I don't really like megachurch pastors. As if I came
Speaker 2: out of the womb with a megachurch like push, there's
Speaker 2: a there's a there's a mega church inside of you faith.
Speaker 2: But as far as our relationship and our ministry, we've
Speaker 2: been doing this together since we were kids, since the
Speaker 2: church just turned eighteen.
Speaker 1: We started doing ministry when we were eighteen, and.
Speaker 2: Then the summer we were nineteen, we traveled together and
Speaker 2: she was on scholarship to this singing group called Joyful Sound.
Speaker 1: But she was the sound person. But I knew she
Speaker 1: really wanted to sing.
Speaker 4: You didn't know I was had a background in Yes,
Speaker 4: she has a background in running JBL eons.
Speaker 1: She can set up a tent revival anywhere if you
Speaker 1: need her to. I'm good with the snake and you
Speaker 1: should start it.
Speaker 2: You should start a sound company for worship events called
Speaker 2: holly Lujah.
Speaker 1: That'd be good anyway.
Speaker 2: I'll turn it over to you in a minute because
Speaker 2: I know your interview and we're gonna preach and teach today,
Speaker 2: not just tell stories. But so I made a choir
Speaker 2: and guess who I recruited to be my alto section
Speaker 2: leader holle Lujah.
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, I have to interject, because you he was
Speaker 4: casting this vision like he does we were nineteen years old,
Speaker 4: and he.
Speaker 3: Was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna start a choir. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have a choir and a band.
Speaker 4: There's be just we're just gonna sing gospel songs. And
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't okay, and he was like,
Speaker 4: and I want you to help, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know. And there was this other girl, I
Speaker 4: tell the truth, there was this other girl and she
Speaker 4: was like that sounds awesome. I mean, how can I help?
Speaker 4: And I was like, I didn't say it wasn't gonna help.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. Hold on a second, the healthy competition.
Speaker 1: So what are we talking about? Ali? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: You called this meeting?
Speaker 3: I did? I called this meeting. First of all, I
Speaker 3: am so.
Speaker 4: I love this book so much and it's very special
Speaker 4: to me. I matched my jacket to the book today.
Speaker 3: It's so special to me because.
Speaker 4: You haven't released a book in eight years. And what
Speaker 4: a lot of people don't know is about a year
Speaker 4: ago we had to fight. Well a conversation, yea, a
Speaker 4: rather heated conversation, and I was saying, because we don't fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, as the Baptist say, intense fellowship, intense fellowship.
Speaker 4: So we have this intense conversation where I am saying
Speaker 4: like there's I just feel like there's more inside of you.
Speaker 4: I feel like there is a huge group of people
Speaker 4: who need your words in written form. And he was
Speaker 4: telling me how his sermons don't translate into books. He said,
Speaker 4: my sermons, my idea is, Holly.
Speaker 1: I've tried.
Speaker 4: He actually, you actually wrote a book in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: that we never released.
Speaker 3: And he said, I tried to wrote a book in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. I'm done. I don't want to write. My
Speaker 3: sermons don't translate.
Speaker 4: And we went back and forth, and I felt like
Speaker 4: I had pushed too hard, you know, like that wife pushing,
Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, okay. So I decided I
Speaker 4: was going to let it go and I was.
Speaker 3: Going to push the Lord. It's so much more effective,
Speaker 3: And this is the answer to my prayers.
Speaker 2: Right here.
Speaker 1: She finds starting. She finds y'all think she's sweet.
Speaker 4: So we're talking about mindset too today.
Speaker 3: But before we get to it, okay, I.
Speaker 4: Have just like I just want to keep you loose
Speaker 4: and keep you on your toes, and so I have
Speaker 4: a little fun lightning round situation.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna play ten seconds of a song of an
Speaker 4: artist that we.
Speaker 1: Love, and it's gonna get copyrighted.
Speaker 3: Ten seconds. We checked ten ten seconds. I think you
Speaker 3: have up to twenty.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna play a little clip of a
Speaker 4: song and you're going to pretend like that song title
Speaker 4: is your sermon title for this series, do the new you,
Speaker 4: and I want you to tell people how you would
Speaker 4: preach that title.
Speaker 3: Okay, got it, all right? Roll the first song. First song,
Speaker 3: it's just again.
Speaker 7: Got stuck again.
Speaker 2: I see the Israelites standing on the shore of the
Speaker 2: Red Sea. I see Moses telling the Israelites, why are
Speaker 2: you crying? God's about to deliver us. Stand still, you'll
Speaker 2: see the salvation of the Lord. And I hear God
Speaker 2: saying back to Moses in Exodus fourteen, why are you
Speaker 2: crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
Speaker 2: And since the song is called stuck in a moment,
Speaker 2: I hear God saying to Moses and to you, you're
Speaker 2: not stuck because that stick in your hand, if you
Speaker 2: stretch it over the red sea that you're so afraid of,
Speaker 2: and get your eyes off of the water and begin
Speaker 2: to walk in faith.
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 4: I did not give him a heads up about this.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you righty for the next one.
Speaker 2: The last time a game like this was played on
Speaker 2: this stage, Bishop td Jakes was doing the answering, this
Speaker 2: is really really wrong of you to do this to me.
Speaker 3: No, it's not, no, it's not all right.
Speaker 7: Here we go.
Speaker 1: You're the next one. Okay, you can't think so.
Speaker 8: In a world keep side pushing me around, got up,
Speaker 8: spam back down.
Speaker 2: There was a king who made a treaty with an
Speaker 2: enemy king in the Old Testament, And after he made
Speaker 2: the treaty, the enemy said, well, I actually want your
Speaker 2: children too. He said, all right, and then he said
Speaker 2: actually I want all your livestock too. And at some
Speaker 2: point the king had to say, that's it. I'm drawing
Speaker 2: a line the deal off. I know I said you
Speaker 2: could have my children, and I know I said you
Speaker 2: could have our treasury, and I know I said you
Speaker 2: could have the lamb. But I met with God and
Speaker 2: I realized that if I give you an inch, you'll
Speaker 2: take a mile. And if I give you a corner
Speaker 2: of my life, you want to take the whole room.
Speaker 2: And if I give you my thoughts, you want to
Speaker 2: take my behaviors.
Speaker 1: And if I give you my behaviors, you're going to
Speaker 1: want to take my patterns.
Speaker 2: And if you take my patterns, you can have my life.
Speaker 2: So I see somebody like that Old Testament king going
Speaker 2: back to the enemy and saying that deal's off.
Speaker 1: I changed my mind.
Speaker 2: I remember what King David said to a giant, the
Speaker 2: Philistine that stood nine feet tall.
Speaker 1: And all of the other Israelites.
Speaker 2: Said he's too big to fight, but David said he's
Speaker 2: too big to miss.
Speaker 1: Who is this uncircumcised for listening? Send him a message?
Speaker 2: Tell them I won't Somebody shout, I won't want back down,
Speaker 2: back down, high five three.
Speaker 1: People say, don't back down now. You come too far
Speaker 1: to back down now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hear Tom Petty say, don't do it.
Speaker 1: Don't be petty, don't come around here. No more?
Speaker 2: Can we do another one, Holly, We gotta get to
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 4: When the book all right, one more, one more, one more.
Speaker 7: So I can see you.
Speaker 1: New life so viby.
Speaker 2: I feel like we need a vibe Bible character for
Speaker 2: New life love the Angel the Lord showing up the
Speaker 2: glory of the Lord shown around about them, and they
Speaker 2: were terrified. And Angel said, and them fear not, for
Speaker 2: be old. I'll bring you good news of great joye
Speaker 2: beat all people from the youth born in stan City.
Speaker 1: David say, which is Christ the Lord?
Speaker 2: So the new light appear in the valley of the shadow.
Speaker 2: And sometimes we want God to remove us from valley
Speaker 2: situations where the shadow has made us unable to see
Speaker 2: the provision that He's given us. We look around and
Speaker 2: always see his shadow, always see his darkness, always see
Speaker 2: his uncertainty, always see his fear. But God sometimes doesn't
Speaker 2: take you out of the place. Sometimes he gives you
Speaker 2: his presence in the place in.
Speaker 1: A new way. So maybe God's got you right where
Speaker 1: he wants you. Maybe the greenest grass is in the valley.
Speaker 2: Maybe the growth opportunities happen in the low places, in
Speaker 2: the uncertain places, in the strange places. And maybe sometimes
Speaker 2: when we're asking God to give us a new life,
Speaker 2: instead he wants to shine a new light come.
Speaker 1: And the life that He's already given us. Do you
Speaker 1: want to bring a podium out?
Speaker 2: In the beginning, God said, let there be light, and
Speaker 2: light was And when the light shines, you begin to
Speaker 2: see what was there all along. And I'm praying that
Speaker 2: today God would shine his light on your life to
Speaker 2: show you everything He's given you, and that you may
Speaker 2: have a fuller understanding of every good thing that we
Speaker 2: have in Christ Jesus, and you would see your inheritance
Speaker 2: and Jesus in a new light.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you think that there's something wrong with you. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with you, there's just something wrong with your
Speaker 1: view of you.
Speaker 2: So today, as we discussed this mindset, Christ is in me,
Speaker 2: I am enough. I hope that you see yourself who
Speaker 2: you are in the light of who He is.
Speaker 3: I think we should bring the podium out instead. Okay,
Speaker 3: I love you so much.
Speaker 1: Please don't send that to Bishop Jakes.
Speaker 3: Oh I am okay.
Speaker 4: So we're talking about out this mindset Christ is in me.
Speaker 3: I am enough.
Speaker 4: We opened up by talking about how you said I'm
Speaker 4: not a writer, basically, I'm not enough. I don't have enough.
Speaker 4: So how did you Where did this come from? How
Speaker 4: did you get from I'm not enough to I have
Speaker 4: enough to give.
Speaker 2: One word at a time, followed by some commas periods.
Speaker 1: Other words, somebody told me you never have to write
Speaker 1: a book.
Speaker 2: You just have to write a word, then a word,
Speaker 2: then a word, then a word, and then when you
Speaker 2: said enough of those, you put a.
Speaker 1: Period exclamation point.
Speaker 2: If the point is weak, put an exclamation point to
Speaker 2: compensate for the weakness of the point, and then move on.
Speaker 2: In all seriousness, though, you know how we say that
Speaker 2: God's word is a lamp into our our feet, a
Speaker 2: light into our path. I guess I'm still thinking about
Speaker 2: light because everything that God used me to do up
Speaker 2: to this point in my life, he never gave me.
Speaker 1: A floodlight that I could see one hundred yards away.
Speaker 2: He never even gave me headlights where I could see farther.
Speaker 1: Down the road. In Bible times, they had.
Speaker 2: A light that you would wear that would just light
Speaker 2: your feet. And so when the Bible says your word
Speaker 2: is a limpun to my feet, a light into my path,
Speaker 2: it means that God will give me enough light to
Speaker 2: take the next step by.
Speaker 1: And to see that there's a hole and I should
Speaker 1: step around it.
Speaker 2: But he won't show me everything that's down the road,
Speaker 2: because then I would trust the path, not the person.
Speaker 1: And this book was like that. You know, this church
Speaker 1: is like that.
Speaker 2: Every sermon that I preach every time I write a
Speaker 2: song and everything that that you're doing, because I don't
Speaker 2: really want this conversation today to be about how I
Speaker 2: wrote a book or how I'm enough. I really want
Speaker 2: to get inside of your soul if we're able to
Speaker 2: do that through a conversation and just begin to think
Speaker 2: about what are the ways that not enoughness keeps you
Speaker 2: from showing up? What are the ways that not enoughness
Speaker 2: keeps you from even finding out? One thing about not
Speaker 2: enough is it's partially true. It's partially true. If you
Speaker 2: were just starting to work out and you said, I
Speaker 2: want big quads like Sam Sulik, and I said, all right,
Speaker 2: let's put four five on the squad rack. You would
Speaker 2: not have enough muscle for four h five on the
Speaker 2: squat rack if you haven't been in the gym this year.
Speaker 2: But however, if I put you under the bar, which
Speaker 2: is forty five pounds, and we got you to ten reps,
Speaker 2: twenty reps, got you comfortable with the motions, and we
Speaker 2: built and built and built and built and built and built, and.
Speaker 1: Got you some steroids, got your little gear.
Speaker 2: Kidding about the steroids, but not kidding about the growth process,
Speaker 2: is that you have to start with the bar in
Speaker 2: your spiritual life. You know, I really want to be
Speaker 2: a person of prayer. Don't book a three week prayer
Speaker 2: retreat in Ireland and say I'm going to do that
Speaker 2: in ten years when the kids are out of the house.
Speaker 1: I found some of my best prayers.
Speaker 2: I have a little chair right next to where I
Speaker 2: get dressed, and just plopping down in that chair for
Speaker 2: thirty seconds sometimes and saying Ooh God, Ooh God, yep,
Speaker 2: Ooh God, Jesus, Holy Ghost, Mother, Mary, Tom Petty. You know,
Speaker 2: because every prayer doesn't start pretty. Yeah, and this project
Speaker 2: didn't start pretty. I mean it was me with voice,
Speaker 2: memos and kind of not having much confidence in myself.
Speaker 2: I remember one day in particular where my conversation with
Speaker 2: Holly was like ringing in my ears and I had
Speaker 2: the whole afternoon free, I'd finished everything for the morning,
Speaker 2: and it was like her voice and God's voice were
Speaker 2: singing in harmony. When we call her the Holly Spirit,
Speaker 2: we're obviously just kidding around. She doesn't think that she's
Speaker 2: God's voice, but God's really used her as an instrument
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 1: And by the way, sometimes.
Speaker 2: God will speak to you through the people who are
Speaker 2: right in front of you. So all of us who
Speaker 2: want to know, well, how do I hear from God?
Speaker 2: Sometimes is through something that sounds annoying to you, from
Speaker 2: somebody who loves you. Oh and so I'm not saying
Speaker 2: I was annoyed with you. Wait a minute, Well, anointed
Speaker 2: and annoying can sometimes feel the same. So sometimes the
Speaker 2: most annoying things that you've said to me I have
Speaker 2: been the most annoying on the surface because it challenges
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 1: Well, she doesn't get it, and she doesn't know.
Speaker 2: But one day in particular, I had this feeling like,
Speaker 2: if you're going to start this book, you need to start,
Speaker 2: and you feel that it's time for you to give
Speaker 2: another book, And these are a lot of the things
Speaker 2: when when you get this book, and if you're in
Speaker 2: this book, I wrote it.
Speaker 3: To myself, Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wrote it to myself to challenge myself from
Speaker 2: the old mindset, and then I wrote it for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But before I wrote it for you, I wrote it
Speaker 1: to myself. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You just I want to verify that all of the
Speaker 4: mindsets are things that I saw scribbled on legal pads
Speaker 4: next to your bedside table next to your desk. These
Speaker 4: are all things that you wrote for yourself to coach yourself.
Speaker 2: This mindset, Christ is in me, I Am Enough was
Speaker 2: like a breathing exercise I started doing ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Christ is in me.
Speaker 2: Will feel like the breathing in remind me that I'm
Speaker 2: filled with His spirit. Yeah, And that Jesus isn't just
Speaker 2: a historical figure who died a long time ago. He
Speaker 2: is a historical figure who died a long time ago,
Speaker 2: but he's a very present help in the time of trouble.
Speaker 2: And the power of Him that raised Jesus from the
Speaker 2: dead lives in me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when I say Christ is in me, I'm saying
Speaker 2: resurrection power is in me. When I'm saying Christ is
Speaker 2: in me, I'm saying healing is in me. When I'm
Speaker 2: saying Christ is in me, anybody on this side realize
Speaker 2: that when you say Christ is in me, somebody shall
Speaker 2: Christ is in me.
Speaker 1: Christ is in me. I am enough.
Speaker 3: I am enough.
Speaker 2: It's a truth and a consequence because He's in me.
Speaker 1: I am enough. And so one.
Speaker 2: Day I'm sitting there going like, you can't write this book.
Speaker 2: You tried in twenty twenty you wasted time, you wasted money,
Speaker 2: you hold yourself up doing it, and I just got
Speaker 2: overwhelmed by this idea. You need to do something now
Speaker 2: the first mindset, do the new us. I'm not stuck
Speaker 2: unless I stop. And sometimes God will give you something
Speaker 2: stupid to do seems stupid to you to get you unstuck.
Speaker 2: Raising a staff over the Red Sea looks stupid.
Speaker 1: But I saw a.
Speaker 2: Commercial one time that says it's only weird until it works.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people think we're weird as
Speaker 2: Christians because we praise God, we lift our hands, and well,
Speaker 2: I'm not one of those hand lifting, out loud singing Christians.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I found It works for me.
Speaker 2: Worship works for me when nothing else can help me.
Speaker 2: So on this particular day, I did something that felt
Speaker 2: so stupid. I set up an appointment with my literary agent,
Speaker 2: who hadn't heard from me in quite a while because
Speaker 2: I was duck in her because I want to write
Speaker 2: a book. I put on a suit, went to the
Speaker 2: office in a suit, y'all. I don't even suits on
Speaker 2: Easter most times in church. And I went to the
Speaker 2: office to let the devil know I meant business now
Speaker 2: I know what you're thinking. You just wanted to impress
Speaker 2: your agent. No, she wasn't on a zoom call. It
Speaker 2: was a phone call. She didn't even see me. She
Speaker 2: didn't even see me. I wasn't dressing so she would
Speaker 2: see me in a suit. I wanted the devil to
Speaker 2: see me in a suit, to let him know. Just
Speaker 2: look at the person next to you and say, I'm
Speaker 2: doing it this time, doing it this time.
Speaker 1: Put it in the chat, I'm doing it this time.
Speaker 2: And that was a day that I sat down and
Speaker 2: wrote the whole book in that day.
Speaker 1: No, that's the story we want.
Speaker 2: And God healed my marriage that day, and my kid
Speaker 2: got off drugs that day, and the business was out
Speaker 2: of the red that day, and the breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Concept went to and we had an IPO that day.
Speaker 2: And I never struggled with wanting to drink alcohol again
Speaker 2: that day.
Speaker 1: But it was my one day when for that day.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you my favorite phrase that I
Speaker 2: learned in therapy. Okay, yes, I go to therapy because
Speaker 2: I'm crazy. No you're not, and I want to help
Speaker 2: you with your crazy in case you don't get to
Speaker 2: the therapist. All right, all right, So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to charge you for this, but we worked through a
Speaker 2: phrase in therapy.
Speaker 1: This was a game changer for me.
Speaker 2: When you talk about enough, everybody shout enough enough, put
Speaker 2: it in the comments, enough enough, sit again, enough enough
Speaker 2: for now, for now who. That was big to me, babe,
Speaker 2: because you know how I am. I'm projecting so much
Speaker 2: into the future, and and I operate sometimes from a
Speaker 2: fear of running out. But then I remember Jesus taught
Speaker 2: his disciples to pray this, give us this day our
Speaker 2: daily bread. Don't you wish he would have said, this
Speaker 2: day our monthly bread, so you could have the whole
Speaker 2: closet full of paper towels that you need. But God's
Speaker 2: not like Costco like that and not giving it to
Speaker 2: you in a pack of forty eight.
Speaker 1: He's going to give you the strength when you.
Speaker 2: Need it, one word at a time, one apology at
Speaker 2: a time, one day of sobriety at a time, one
Speaker 2: day of coming to church at a time, one day
Speaker 2: of going to E group at a time. And so
Speaker 2: I don't want you to think that now that I've
Speaker 2: written a book, I live in a place of perpetual enoughness.
Speaker 2: We're in the abundance of God never leaves the forefront
Speaker 2: of my imagination, causing me to triumph over every doubt
Speaker 2: an obstacle. I just trust that He's going to give
Speaker 2: me enough for now and when I need the next step.
Speaker 2: This is for somebody who's making a decision and you
Speaker 2: feel like you're not intelligent enough to make it, or
Speaker 2: you don't have enough facts to make it. You have
Speaker 2: enough for now, Suit up and see it. Okay, did
Speaker 2: I talk too long?
Speaker 3: No, I'm talking. I do. I have plenty of questions,
Speaker 3: But you say it comes out.
Speaker 2: If we run out of time, we'll put a bonus session.
Speaker 2: I'm running back, walk it out.
Speaker 3: I love it all right. This is.
Speaker 4: My top one of my top two quotes in the
Speaker 4: entire book, and I'm going to just read it for you.
Speaker 4: You say this, what's been a lot harder for me
Speaker 4: than accepting Jesus is accepting Even accepting Jesus took a moment.
Speaker 4: Accepting me is taking a lifetime to accept.
Speaker 3: Then you go on to say to accept.
Speaker 4: Jesus but not accept Stephen is to miss the gift
Speaker 4: of salvation where it matters most.
Speaker 3: You can't just accept Jesus by faith. You have to
Speaker 3: accept yourself by faith too. This quote like.
Speaker 4: Let off the page for me because I grew up
Speaker 4: Southern Baptist and Baptists, we love the phrase accept Jesus
Speaker 4: into your heart. I mean that is like a core
Speaker 4: belief of mine. Yeah, you have to accept Jesus into
Speaker 4: your heart.
Speaker 9: It's a it's a moment, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 9: a it's a it's a monumental decision in your life.
Speaker 9: But when I read this, I was like, oh, I
Speaker 9: think I missed half of it.
Speaker 3: Where did this? How do you do this?
Speaker 4: How do you practically grow in accepting Stephen?
Speaker 3: Give us some how.
Speaker 1: You help you do?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if you remember saying this,
Speaker 2: but you've heard me say that. You said it a lot,
Speaker 2: and so trust me you said this. We're sitting at
Speaker 2: Firebirds on a date night. This is maybe twelve years ago,
Speaker 2: maybe even longer than that. But the church was growing.
Speaker 2: I remember the day that the church got bigger than
Speaker 2: Monk's corner of the town I grew up in.
Speaker 1: That was kind of a scary thought for.
Speaker 2: Me, like, wait a minute, talk about I'm not enough
Speaker 2: the town I grew up in. It was wonderful, but
Speaker 2: there were less people that lived in that town when
Speaker 2: I grew up in it than are coming to church now.
Speaker 1: So not only have I never seen anything.
Speaker 2: This big and let it, but I lived in a
Speaker 2: town that was smaller than what I'm responsible to lead.
Speaker 2: And one day I wanted to fire everybody, and most
Speaker 2: of all, wanted to fire myself, because I'm like, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, if the whole team is messing up, they
Speaker 2: fire the coach, right, So you don't just trade players.
Speaker 1: If every player is bad, you get a new coach.
Speaker 2: So I'm telling her this, I'm like, if the oh,
Speaker 2: the team is bad, then you thaw the new coach.
Speaker 2: I just don't feel like I'm the leader that our
Speaker 2: church needs. Without hesitation, she leans across the bread at Firebirds.
Speaker 2: You'll know that bread at Firebirds. She leans across the bread.
Speaker 2: She's got the butter knife in her hand. It's a
Speaker 2: big old knife. So maybe what she said more powerful
Speaker 2: she said.
Speaker 1: I said, I.
Speaker 2: Don't feel like I'm the leader we need. She said, well,
Speaker 2: you're the one we've got.
Speaker 10: With a knife. The firebirds knives are big. That helps.
Speaker 1: You tell me.
Speaker 2: When I was walking out the door when the kids
Speaker 2: were little, you've got what it takes, and again, almost
Speaker 2: hearing that would make me angry, I didn't go but
Speaker 2: her there buckeroo.
Speaker 1: I would be like, hey, yeah, you don't know how
Speaker 1: heavy it is.
Speaker 2: And then you were carrying your own pressures of trying
Speaker 2: to figure out who am I And I think we've
Speaker 2: worked through this together, yeah, because we started in ministry
Speaker 2: as kids together. And the part of the story that
Speaker 2: I didn't tell earlier is that before we went to college,
Speaker 2: Holly was traveling with a ministry team through Monk's Corner
Speaker 2: and I grew up in a Methodist church with a
Speaker 2: heritage from that church because my grandfather was a Methodist pastor,
Speaker 2: and so we went every week. But then when I
Speaker 2: was in high school, the Baptist church revival, when I
Speaker 2: went over there, I met this guy named Jody, who
Speaker 2: ended up being my.
Speaker 1: Brother in law. So it's a whole story.
Speaker 2: Right, like God is always working everything together in.
Speaker 1: Our lives for his glory.
Speaker 2: But at that revival, I went down to the altar
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to accept Jesus into my life.
Speaker 2: And it was transformative, Like what an amazing deal that is?
Speaker 2: I give him my sin, I get his grace. I
Speaker 2: give him my shame, I get his justification. I give
Speaker 2: him my broken pieces. He begins to build my life
Speaker 2: into a bigger picture story that he's telling.
Speaker 1: For his glory. Who wouldn't want to accept that?
Speaker 2: It'd be like giving away the Apple Goggles thing today,
Speaker 2: the thing that's going to make us all robots and
Speaker 2: send us all to the mark of the beast, the
Speaker 2: new thing that just came out, the End Times Goggles.
Speaker 1: I get, Apple's going to take this sermon down if
Speaker 1: I keep going.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it'd be like giving something away Like here
Speaker 2: you go, and and God is a giver and so
Speaker 2: there's no strings attached. You leave your sin, you leave
Speaker 2: your shame, but you don't leave yourself.
Speaker 1: I need to get this.
Speaker 2: I need to get this through because one of the
Speaker 2: ways that we are taught salvation is actually destructive to
Speaker 2: our sense of self worth.
Speaker 1: And it's this God doesn't like you.
Speaker 2: God, in fact, is so angry with you that the
Speaker 2: only way he could deal with it was sending his
Speaker 2: son to die for you. Now, did God send Jesus
Speaker 2: to die for us.
Speaker 1: Because we couldn't pay the penalty?
Speaker 2: Yes, because sin demands a price, and the price is perfection,
Speaker 2: and you couldn't pay it. So Jesus did. How many
Speaker 2: are grateful that he did.
Speaker 1: Come on, all of my.
Speaker 2: Fellow perfectionists, that you don't have to get it right
Speaker 2: all the time. That he got it right. He lived
Speaker 2: as if he had sinned, so I can live as
Speaker 2: if I never did, so I can hold my head
Speaker 2: up so I can belong to Jesus.
Speaker 1: But here's the part that got me.
Speaker 2: I started hearing it described in certain classes that I
Speaker 2: took for Bible College, and all of that almost like
Speaker 2: a group insurance policy.
Speaker 1: Jesus died for you. God really doesn't like you. He
Speaker 1: really can't stand you.
Speaker 2: Because he knows all about you, and he sees you
Speaker 2: at three in the morning, and he knows where.
Speaker 1: You were last night, and he knows what you did
Speaker 1: last summer and last fall.
Speaker 2: You're so funny, thank you. And because he can't stand you,
Speaker 2: he sinned his son. And now when he sees you,
Speaker 2: he doesn't see you. He sees his son. And because
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to look at your terrible, worthless self,
Speaker 2: he loves you.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: It's like I have a pre existing condition called sucking.
Speaker 1: But I pray to prayer accepted Jesus.
Speaker 2: I got in on the policy and I'm good and
Speaker 2: God has to forgive me. But he really doesn't want
Speaker 2: to remember this whenever you are tempted to think that way. Yes,
Speaker 2: we're all sinners in need of a savior. No, there's
Speaker 2: nothing in me that can save myself. And yes, I
Speaker 2: need Jesus in order to be right with God.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but just that.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Now from that? Did the Bible start in Genesis three?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Come on, when we sinned and became separated from God?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Or did the Bible start with let us make man
Speaker 2: in our image? And when God made snakes, he said
Speaker 2: it's good. Everything he made he said it's good.
Speaker 1: When he made you, he said very good.
Speaker 2: So I know you got some very bad things you
Speaker 2: struggle with and some y ugly parts of you that
Speaker 2: you're working on, and I know you have some very
Speaker 2: deep issues that go really deep, but remember that it
Speaker 2: started out with a God who made you.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good.
Speaker 2: And God is trying to get me back as Steven
Speaker 2: Larry Stevens Fredick Jr.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get me back to very good.
Speaker 2: He's trying to give me a vision of his very
Speaker 2: good for my life. He's trying to get me back
Speaker 2: to the seed of Stephen. He's trying to shine light,
Speaker 2: give water and yes, even fertilizer to your life to
Speaker 2: bring you back to what you put inside of you.
Speaker 1: So holly for me.
Speaker 2: The whole way that this message do the New Youth
Speaker 2: starts and I won't review it long because we've already
Speaker 2: covered it, but it talks about do you do you
Speaker 2: as possibly being the worst advice that anyone could ever
Speaker 2: give you, because.
Speaker 1: If I just do me, but I don't develop me, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to be a perpetual, emotional two year old if
Speaker 2: I just do me, if I.
Speaker 1: Don't grow into who God made me.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if you're one of these people
Speaker 2: who's very driven in you're like, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: just do me, I'm going to do future me. Future me, Well,
Speaker 2: that's a treadmill that will leave you exhausted and you'll
Speaker 2: collapse trying to chase something that you think you're supposed
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Usually what we're chasing when we say.
Speaker 2: Oh, my future self that's patient and ripped and rich,
Speaker 2: and patient and ripped and rich but can still enjoy
Speaker 2: a nice dessert. But I'm ripped and I'm not uptight,
Speaker 2: but I am driven and focused. Stop that, because you
Speaker 2: are comparing your behind the scenes to everybody else's highlight reel.
Speaker 1: Come on, and what you're chasing is.
Speaker 2: A compilation of what other people have shown you of
Speaker 2: their life that you've cobbled together and think you need
Speaker 2: to be that for God to bless you.
Speaker 1: And you don't wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So accepting Stephen means that when I show up to
Speaker 2: preach to you, or when I show up in a
Speaker 2: tough moment with one of our kids, or when I
Speaker 2: show up to try to be the husband that she needs,
Speaker 2: and I know that I'm still under development, that I
Speaker 2: believe that if God would have needed somebody else to
Speaker 2: do it, he would choose someone else to do it.
Speaker 1: And the fundamental component of my belief.
Speaker 2: System about this is that if there are eight billion
Speaker 2: people in the world, God had options. Yeah, and He
Speaker 2: put you in that house, He put you in that business,
Speaker 2: he put you in that ministry, he put you with
Speaker 2: that woman, he put you with those kids. God chows
Speaker 2: you say it to your neighbor.
Speaker 1: God shows you.
Speaker 2: Now look right back at him and ask him a question,
Speaker 2: Will you come on, come on? Will you choose you,
Speaker 2: that's the decision you're making every day, yep. Or are
Speaker 2: you going to feel the need so much to measure
Speaker 2: up to something called perfection that God knew you were
Speaker 2: never going to be? Or can you be cool in
Speaker 2: the process when you say to yourself, well, I did cuss,
Speaker 2: but I didn't say the real bad words this day,
Speaker 2: next week, I'm a dial it all the way down
Speaker 2: to heck. And every step you make towards heck, you
Speaker 2: got to be like, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: You saw where I came from. It wasn't heck.
Speaker 2: And I'm passionate about this because I am a perfectionist.
Speaker 2: I don't know what version I think God is looking
Speaker 2: for when I come through the door. But sometimes I
Speaker 2: just have to sit myself down and be like, dude,
Speaker 2: you grew up in a small town, you stepped out,
Speaker 2: you met this woman.
Speaker 1: God's me good to you. You're doing all right.
Speaker 2: I always wondered, though, Holly, I want to read you
Speaker 2: think about this. Where's the line between being content and
Speaker 2: being complacent?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's tough because.
Speaker 2: I want to be content, yeah, in every circumstance, but
Speaker 2: I don't want contentment to turn into an excuse.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whereby I can just accept immaturity in my life.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 2: The first step of growing into who God knows you
Speaker 2: are is to accept who you are. Accept it, accept it, accept.
Speaker 1: It, and step into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get you from this bar, and we'll
Speaker 2: put some plates on it, and some more plates on it,
Speaker 2: and some more plates on it, and you'll barely recognize yourself.
Speaker 2: This is the process of transformation.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Okay, you open up this section, this mindset crisis in me.
Speaker 4: I'm enough with this story that you tell about dropping
Speaker 4: a class in college and the professors say to you
Speaker 4: it's something they imply that they knew you weren't a
Speaker 4: serious enough student. And then you say this later in
Speaker 4: that chapter, you say, I'm constantly fighting a voice that
Speaker 4: tells me I'm not deep enough as a preacher, or
Speaker 4: that I'm not serious enough, or I'm not a hard worker.
Speaker 4: And then all that defensiveness is going to come out
Speaker 4: in how I preach and teach. I'll subconsciously think, oh,
Speaker 4: this needs to be deep.
Speaker 3: I need to be deep. I can't get on that
Speaker 3: platform and be shallow.
Speaker 4: I've got to prove to the people wrong who said
Speaker 4: I'm not deep. And then you talk about you go
Speaker 4: on to talk about performing.
Speaker 3: For the wrong voices in our lives.
Speaker 4: So how do you catch yourself when you find yourself
Speaker 4: living for the wrong voice?
Speaker 3: Says? And how do you get yourself back?
Speaker 1: Can we do it in stages?
Speaker 2: The answer to that, yeah, if it's a sermon, I'll
Speaker 2: put Eric on the front row while I'm studying.
Speaker 1: Eric's been my best friends since we were fourteen.
Speaker 2: We did Green Day shows together, Pearl Jim shows together,
Speaker 2: and now we spread the gospel together. And then when
Speaker 2: I put him on the front row, I realized, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, ericting thinking about me like a seminary professor
Speaker 2: judging if I said I'm aphibischev right. And then I say,
Speaker 2: and nobody's going to know in your church if you
Speaker 2: mispronounced my aphibichev either, because they can't say.
Speaker 1: It right either.
Speaker 2: And once I lock in through a lens of love
Speaker 2: somebody that I love and somebody that loves me, it
Speaker 2: frees me up.
Speaker 3: That's good. Lock into the lens of love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lock into the lens of love. Even in your
Speaker 2: Bible reading. When you're reading the Bible, start explaining it
Speaker 2: after you read it to somebody you love.
Speaker 1: Wow, Try any group.
Speaker 3: It's not too late.
Speaker 1: It's not too late.
Speaker 2: And I wish it were that easy in our lives,
Speaker 2: because when you're performing for somebody else's approval. There's one
Speaker 2: story about Jesus that I want you to go back to.
Speaker 2: I want you to go down to the Jordan and
Speaker 2: almost like picture if you can put yourself there. Jesus
Speaker 2: is being baptized. Why to be cleansed from his sin? No,
Speaker 2: he had no sin, to be obedient to his father.
Speaker 2: And as he's coming up from the water, I'm about
Speaker 2: to blow your mind. If you've never heard this before,
Speaker 2: this changed my life. As he's coming up out of
Speaker 2: the water, a voice, everybody say, a voice, A voice,
Speaker 2: a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: Well, he was proud of his son. Okay, now I
Speaker 1: haven't blown your mind yet.
Speaker 2: I you're like, that's nice, it's nice, and it's cool
Speaker 2: until you put it in context, and then it becomes
Speaker 2: a game changer. What if I told you that, at
Speaker 2: the moment that the voice from heaven said, this is
Speaker 2: my son whom I love, I am well pleased with him.
Speaker 2: What if I told you that at that moment Jesus
Speaker 2: had not yet performed a single public miracle, right wow,
Speaker 2: And God said, already love him. Had not opened a
Speaker 2: single blind eye. God said, I'm proud of him. That's
Speaker 2: my boy, that's my girl. He had not fed the
Speaker 2: crowds a golden corral buffet from a happy meal.
Speaker 1: And God said he's enough. Right. So, when Jesus went.
Speaker 2: To do all of those things, Lazarus come forth. When
Speaker 2: he went to do all of those things, Pharisees shut up.
Speaker 2: He wasn't trying to prove anything to the Pharisees. He
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to prove anything to Lazarus because his starting
Speaker 2: place was the.
Speaker 1: Love of his father.
Speaker 2: Now, every day, I need you to find a way
Speaker 2: to be baptized in that lovey. I don't mean you
Speaker 2: have to go get into jacuzzi, get slipped, get over
Speaker 2: the fence and your neighbor's jacuzi.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about physically.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about spiritually, letting God baptize you in the
Speaker 2: enoughness that is Him incredible, so you can come from abundance. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't mean just material abundance. There will be times
Speaker 2: where you'll say, Paul, I've learned to be content in
Speaker 2: every circumstance, whether with plenty or with little, but one
Speaker 2: thing you will never lack a day in your life
Speaker 2: is his love and his guidance. How many of you
Speaker 2: struggle with a scarcity mindset? I tell one little embarrassing
Speaker 2: story in the book. I wan to share it with
Speaker 2: you right now. Elijah, when he was about nine or ten,
Speaker 2: was grabbing napkins at dinner one day, and he grabbed
Speaker 2: like twenty napkins.
Speaker 1: It's probably five, but let's call it twenty.
Speaker 2: It makes it a little more justified what I did,
Speaker 2: because when he grabbed the napkins, I start freaking.
Speaker 1: Out, like, you don't need that many napkins.
Speaker 2: And I gave him the greatest lesson on napkin conservation
Speaker 2: in the history of parenting. And I don't think he
Speaker 2: should have wasted the napkins. And I think it's good.
Speaker 2: But I remembered, Mom. Do you remember how how Dad
Speaker 2: when he was growing up, he was very poor, and
Speaker 2: so when he had his own house and his on
Speaker 2: napkins and paper towels. Sometimes he'd walk around and he
Speaker 2: would tear the paper towels in half, and.
Speaker 1: He'd go, you don't need a whole paper towel. You
Speaker 1: think you' some kind of prints.
Speaker 2: Coming in here taking a full paper towel.
Speaker 1: Now I'm bringing this up.
Speaker 2: It sounds so small because when we make it too big,
Speaker 2: and we think like when.
Speaker 1: You stand before the Red Sea, stretch out your staff.
Speaker 1: You're probably not going.
Speaker 2: To lead a nation of millions Monday, but you will
Speaker 2: walk around your house and ask the question is it enough?
Speaker 2: And the way you answer that question is not just
Speaker 2: tied to is God enough? But it's how you answer
Speaker 2: the question did He make me enough? And here's where
Speaker 2: I think the gap is. I'm fired off.
Speaker 1: Now I'm glad they got a bounc chair. You can
Speaker 1: swivel while I preached this. Get a little kinetic motion.
Speaker 2: As I preached this, because what you're talking about, in
Speaker 2: the process of those professors telling me we knew you
Speaker 2: weren't a serious student, That's how I saw myself. What
Speaker 2: they say about you only has the power you give
Speaker 2: it by the way you see yourself. I want to
Speaker 2: break this victim mentality off of Christians, like that if
Speaker 2: somebody spoke something.
Speaker 1: Over you, you just have to believe it like it's your birthright.
Speaker 2: No, your father spoke over you, and whoever spoke over you.
Speaker 1: What wasn't true. Your father is over them. So watch this.
Speaker 1: I have a better word over my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have a second opinion for God.
Speaker 2: I have a truth from him. I have a revelation
Speaker 2: from him. I know the truth of the Gospel. Come on,
Speaker 2: He's not against me. I am enough.
Speaker 1: He is with me. I can't do all things through Christ.
Speaker 1: High five. Your neighbors say you got what it takes.
Speaker 3: What it takes, so.
Speaker 1: We gotta listen to that voice.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people speak a lot of
Speaker 2: things over us.
Speaker 1: It happens to all of us. They say stuff about
Speaker 1: me all the time.
Speaker 2: But I got somebody else I can go to and say, Father,
Speaker 2: is what they said true? And if it's not, and
Speaker 2: if what they spoke contradicts what he is saying, go with.
Speaker 1: What your father spoke.
Speaker 5: God.
Speaker 1: I love this stuff.
Speaker 2: Because I see you breaking free from this idea of
Speaker 2: what they told you you couldn't be.
Speaker 1: They didn't make you.
Speaker 2: If they didn't make you, and they don't own you,
Speaker 2: they don't get to label you.
Speaker 1: God is my label maker. I'm mating his image.
Speaker 2: I'm redeemed by the blood of his son, and it's precious,
Speaker 2: and so am I.
Speaker 3: Got time for one morning just talking. No, you're not,
Speaker 3: you're preaching, Okay.
Speaker 1: I hope y'all are getting this at Riverwalk.
Speaker 2: I hope y'all are getting this at University City. I
Speaker 2: hope y'all are getting this at Ballad Hide. I hope
Speaker 2: you're getting this in Greenville. I hope you're getting this
Speaker 2: in Raleigh. I hope you're getting this Epham.
Speaker 1: All over the world. I hope you're receiving this word in.
Speaker 2: Your college norm me receiving the calling I've been almighty God.
Speaker 10: Yeah, people can't cancel what God calls.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Come on, Christ is in me. I am enough. Now,
Speaker 1: don't leave that first part out. You just run around.
Speaker 1: I'm enough. I'm enough. It's kind, I'm as smart, I
Speaker 1: as important.
Speaker 2: Like that's great for a movie, but you get into
Speaker 2: real life on Monday, you're gonna need something hire to
Speaker 2: point too. And so that's where it comes from from me, babe,
Speaker 2: because if I did the self acceptance thing without.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I'll hit it dead end. I've got to know
Speaker 1: that he's with me, and I got.
Speaker 2: To know that he didn't make mistakes when he made
Speaker 2: me and I'm gonna tell you one more thing before
Speaker 2: we get to your final question, and we got to
Speaker 2: do a part.
Speaker 3: Two of this, Yes, two, three, four or five.
Speaker 1: I like to tell you the's a little behind the
Speaker 1: scenes stories.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't holler when we talk about
Speaker 2: these things when it's just me and her.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be weird? Holly touch your neighbor.
Speaker 2: It's like high five in bo.
Speaker 1: But we do this. This is what we do.
Speaker 2: Some of the best sermons I ever preached were our
Speaker 2: three point two mile walk after Sunday when we start
Speaker 2: talking and then you start sharing, and I think you
Speaker 2: really need somebody that you love in your life, whether
Speaker 2: in the E group or whether it's somebody that you
Speaker 2: love where you can unpack the word of God. Because
Speaker 2: if God speaks a word over you, but then you
Speaker 2: don't water it, yep, it'll die and you'll think it
Speaker 2: didn't work.
Speaker 1: But it just needs water.
Speaker 2: And I think what we're trying to model today, and
Speaker 2: I know it's a little different way to do it,
Speaker 2: but that God is a conversationalist. And when I say
Speaker 2: do the new you, sometimes the only way for you
Speaker 2: to do the new you singular is to do the
Speaker 2: new you plural in the South. We don't say you all,
Speaker 2: We say yeah yeah. So one day I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: a group study called do the New y'all y'all. And
Speaker 2: the reason I'm gonna do it is because I want
Speaker 2: you to see that if you keep hearing at the
Speaker 2: level of what God says, but you keep relating to
Speaker 2: people who are at the level of what they feel,
Speaker 2: you will come down to them time after time. And
Speaker 2: so this this core belief for me. We were in
Speaker 2: a songwriting session a few years ago. You know a
Speaker 2: lot of people will ask me sometimes, what's the best
Speaker 2: song you ever wrote that was underrated in your mind?
Speaker 2: I think one that I really like and I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's underrated, but nobody ever talks about it.
Speaker 1: Makes me mad.
Speaker 2: It's called the one you Love. When we were writing
Speaker 2: that song, well, why aren't y'all streaming it? There's no
Speaker 2: streams on Spotify for that song? Y'all clap them and
Speaker 2: stuff of it. The song was a journey with some
Speaker 2: other great writers, and I don't say this to insult
Speaker 2: any of them, but at one point during the writing
Speaker 2: session there were several writers and we're working on the
Speaker 2: song and the second verse began to come out in
Speaker 2: a way where it said, I know you're proud of me,
Speaker 2: even though I don't deserve it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not a perfect child, but I still make
Speaker 2: my father smile. I know you're proud of me. And
Speaker 2: then the chorus said, you take me just as I am.
Speaker 2: You would choose me all over again. I am the
Speaker 2: one you love. You know that's what John called himself
Speaker 2: in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves the one he loves.
Speaker 2: And somebody in the room said, I don't know if
Speaker 2: theologically I can really vibe with the fact that God
Speaker 2: is proud of me. And I said, then you don't
Speaker 2: have to sing it, but I've got to because I
Speaker 2: deal with so much self critical internal dialogue. And maybe
Speaker 2: you don't. And if you don't, I'm happy for you,
Speaker 2: and I hope you never do. But God sent me
Speaker 2: to reach a few people that you don't know how
Speaker 2: to hear that voice saying, this is my child. I
Speaker 2: saw you go out of your way for that person,
Speaker 2: even though they didn't thank you.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 2: I see you giving what you have even though you
Speaker 2: feel like you blew it. And you yelled at the
Speaker 2: kids six times today. The reason you're yelling with them
Speaker 2: is because you're with them.
Speaker 3: To say that again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sometimes the Lord will say I'm proud of you
Speaker 2: that you were so caring to your kids today.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it'll say I'm so proud of you that
Speaker 1: you didn't kill your kids today.
Speaker 2: Now I realize that people will take this to the
Speaker 2: extremes sometimes and just justify behavior that frankly, God wants
Speaker 2: to rescue you from. But even if you're going to
Speaker 2: grow out of that, you're going to do it by
Speaker 2: accepting that you make your father smile even though you're
Speaker 2: not a perfect child, and you've accepted Jesus.
Speaker 1: If you haven't, you ought to do it today. But
Speaker 1: you also ought to accept you. Yeah, because he did.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, he accepted you, and
Speaker 2: you don't you have a higher standard than God.
Speaker 3: Well, WHOA.
Speaker 2: So I just want you breathing in this thought. Christ
Speaker 2: is in me. I am enough. Say it again, Christ
Speaker 2: is in me. Christ in me, I am enough.
Speaker 3: I am enough.
Speaker 2: That's the most powerful revelation I think in the whole book.
Speaker 1: Yep, not, I'm going to be enough?
Speaker 2: Ye boy, God's really going to want to hang out
Speaker 2: with me when I'm no longer dealing with this man.
Speaker 2: He's really gonna use me when I get smart. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: he's going to use you, stupid.
Speaker 1: Ask Peter all these Bible characters we read about.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you wanted to close, Holly, but
Speaker 2: I have one more thing I wanted to share in
Speaker 2: order to solidify this. Is there any question that if
Speaker 2: you didn't get to ask it, you're gonna fuss at me,
Speaker 2: like because I didn't let you ask the question? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll talk about one more song line and we're going
Speaker 2: to sing and worship and just close this time by
Speaker 2: reflecting and responding on what God has spoken.
Speaker 1: How many feel that God has spoken something to you today?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think this is one of those
Speaker 2: messages that you do need to get in with your
Speaker 2: E group or sit down with your notebook and your coffee.
Speaker 1: And watch it back and listen to it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we talked about so many things, but there
Speaker 2: was something specific that God wanted to speak to you.
Speaker 2: So let me just bring it back to the entire
Speaker 2: revelation that Christ is in me. I am enough in
Speaker 2: a way that you can hold it in your heart
Speaker 2: because I don't want you going well, there was a
Speaker 2: lot of good stuff. Now I want you to remember
Speaker 2: one thing today. The song Gyra, which literally Jira means
Speaker 2: will see see.
Speaker 1: It means that God will see to it.
Speaker 2: So when he called the place Jehovah Jira, he was
Speaker 2: calling the place Jehovah Jirah where God provided. This is
Speaker 2: from the Abraham and Isaac story. Anyway, that's not important.
Speaker 2: I don't even know why I said that, probably just
Speaker 2: to show that seminary professor, I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Here's the point again, in a songwriting room, is that
Speaker 2: song began to take shape. It was very beautiful song
Speaker 2: with our friends Chandler and Naomi and Chris and we
Speaker 2: sat there and we'd never all written together. And I
Speaker 2: threw out a line that said, I'll never be more
Speaker 2: loved than I am right now. And as Chandler began
Speaker 2: to sing that, and then we begin to sing, I
Speaker 2: wasn't holding you up, So there's nothing I could do
Speaker 2: to let you down. It doesn't take a trophy to
Speaker 2: make you proud, because I'll never be more loved than
Speaker 2: I am right now. Jira, you are enough. And as
Speaker 2: the song begin to flow with different verses. It came
Speaker 2: to a point that crescendoed in saying, I'm already loved,
Speaker 2: I'm already chosen, I know who I am, I know
Speaker 2: what you've spoken, I'm already loved more than I could imagine,
Speaker 2: and that is enough. We sang it over and over.
Speaker 1: Again, that is enough, that is enough.
Speaker 2: But as we sat in that writing room that day,
Speaker 2: it went to a different place. We begin to say,
Speaker 2: you are enough, You are enough, because my sufficiency is
Speaker 2: in Him.
Speaker 1: Not in myself. You are enough, You are enough.
Speaker 2: But what happened next is a life message that I
Speaker 2: want to give to you, because immediately after we sang
Speaker 2: that is enough, the truth and you are enough, the
Speaker 2: God that speaks truth and is truth, we begin to sang,
Speaker 2: you are enough, So I am enough.
Speaker 3: Come on, so good.
Speaker 2: When we recorded the song, it was eighteen minutes long
Speaker 2: right in this empty room, back when we couldn't have
Speaker 2: everybody together for church.
Speaker 1: And in that collaboration, some of the songs.
Speaker 2: Had to be edited way down because the Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: bro out in such a powerful way. We had to
Speaker 2: get Gyra to under ten minutes because we couldn't put
Speaker 2: it out on the digital streaming platforms if it was
Speaker 2: one second more than nine point fifty nine. They sent
Speaker 2: me back several options. We could edit this, we could
Speaker 2: edit that. But one option they sent was unacceptable because
Speaker 2: it said that is enough, the truth, and it said
Speaker 2: you are enough to God. But in order to save time,
Speaker 2: they had cut out so I am enough.
Speaker 1: I said, whatever we have to cut out to put
Speaker 1: that back in. I need that back.
Speaker 2: In because if you just say that is enough, the
Speaker 2: truth is enough, you are enough. God is enough, it
Speaker 2: hasn't become personal to you yet.
Speaker 1: I want it to be personal for you that He
Speaker 1: is enough.
Speaker 2: So I am enough, and you'll never be more loved
Speaker 2: than you are right now, right now, clap your hands about.
Speaker 1: We'll do that just right here where you are.
Speaker 2: So beatison, i can't hear what key we're in. I'm
Speaker 2: waiting to hear a piano so we can sing together.
Speaker 1: Thank you God that you are enough. So I am enough.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Lord, you are enough. Thank you Si.
Speaker 6: You are.
Speaker 1: Shy, thank you you are.
Speaker 2: S.
Speaker 11: You know so he.
Speaker 2: Now sing Gira, think about how He's provided for you.
Speaker 1: You Yes, Lord h.
Speaker 7: C S will be consent, Sun said.
Speaker 8: Jia.
Speaker 1: Cure, No, clap those hands like you love it. Let
Speaker 1: you know he loves you.
Speaker 12: Well, Jo.
Speaker 1: You singing out church.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 12: Every son said, shop you right choice, say.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm don't want you to say thank you. I'm lay.
Speaker 7: Hold if that.
Speaker 2: Jo said, I.
Speaker 12: I know you walk.
Speaker 2: You a you know, take you that you.
Speaker 6: It's you.
Speaker 1: Quee yan. Now we're singing that to the father. You
Speaker 1: are enough.
Speaker 2: What if he's singing it right back over us? Thank
Speaker 2: you Jesus, who you are, how you were made.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 2: I pray for each person who will hear this message.
Speaker 2: May they receive it in the place where they doubt
Speaker 2: the most deeply, where they need it the most. May
Speaker 2: every insecurity meet the presence of Jehovah Jirah. Every past trauma,
Speaker 2: every failure, every mistake be overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Yes, by the presence of El Shadai.
Speaker 2: I thank you for your presence with us today, Lord,
Speaker 2: and thank you for how this ministry will go forth
Speaker 2: and touch those all over the world who need.
Speaker 1: To hear it at just the right time.
Speaker 2: Yes, in Jesus' name, would you hug eight people and
Speaker 2: tell them you've got what it takes.
Speaker 1: Got what it takes, and men, thank you for joining us.
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