Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for
Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take
Speaker 1: it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message.
Speaker 2: Let me know.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Hey, if you saw the sermon Sunday, I
Speaker 1: told you that I would try to teach a little
Speaker 1: bit more and I would put it on YouTube. So
Speaker 1: guess what I'm doing. I'm picking up my sermon from Sunday.
Speaker 1: The message was called Instruments of Victory. I'm in the basin.
Speaker 1: This is a place where God gives me overflow. That's
Speaker 1: why I named it the Basin. Great things flow from
Speaker 1: this place for me, and I'm hoping to do a
Speaker 1: few of these as we get out on Elevation Nights
Speaker 1: Spring twenty twenty three. The Lord was speaking to me
Speaker 1: this morning. I was seeking him on what to do
Speaker 1: over these next eight cities we're going to. Let's see Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Minneapolis. I don't have the list in front
Speaker 1: of me other places to eight cities that we're planning
Speaker 1: to be in. You can still get tickets to some
Speaker 1: of them. Elevation Nights Dot com and I would love
Speaker 1: to be with you in person if that's a possibility,
Speaker 1: even if you have to fly in I think I
Speaker 1: think it will be worth it because there's something special
Speaker 1: God is doing. I feel it in my spirit. I
Speaker 1: know our team does too. I'm talking to several of
Speaker 1: them over the last week and we just sense it.
Speaker 1: We sense that we're in a season of integration. And
Speaker 1: don't worry, I'm not going to sing, although you love
Speaker 1: my singing. Right one of these days, I want to
Speaker 1: put out a project where I sing different hymns and
Speaker 1: old choruses that I used to sing when I was
Speaker 1: a worship leader, and we'll auto tune my voice and
Speaker 1: they'll make it sound great. Maybe they'll put some AI
Speaker 1: on my voice and make me be able to sound
Speaker 1: like justin Vernon. Maybe they can combine it where I
Speaker 1: sound like justin Vernon meets Chris Stapleton meets Eddie Vedder
Speaker 1: meets Darius Rucker.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing.
Speaker 1: Meets Billy Joe Armstrong meets Marvin sap meets John Peakey
Speaker 1: That's what I really want in life meets Chandler Moore
Speaker 1: meets Brandon Lake meets Chris Brown, The real Chris Brown. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't have long because we're about to journey and
Speaker 1: hit the road. And I told Holly today, what an
Speaker 1: amazing privilege to do ministry. You know that girl is
Speaker 1: the same girl that was by my side when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen years old, nineteen years old, singing, Lord, I
Speaker 1: lift your name on high. And every move I make,
Speaker 1: every on the straps in a way a little rush
Speaker 1: to hear y'all. Every move I make, I'm making you.
Speaker 1: You make me move, Jesus. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: copyright strike, so I'm not gonna sing it. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: get copyright a one four or five chord progression. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But it's just amazing that when we were
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen years old, we were in little churches. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, twenty people in the church was packed a
Speaker 1: lot of the places that we went. We had four
Speaker 1: other people on our team. The first summer we ministered together.
Speaker 1: We were eighteen, like just a little older than Elijah,
Speaker 1: and we were out there, you know, leading the ministry
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's crazy to think about, and really wanted
Speaker 1: God to use us. I remember back then, twenty five
Speaker 1: years ago, man twenty five years ago. This is even
Speaker 1: before we were dating. But I was working my angles.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, come be on my summer ministry team,
Speaker 1: and yeah, and come get on this bus with me
Speaker 1: and let's go glorify the Lord. And maybe just maybe,
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe the residual effect of that will be
Speaker 1: you'd be my girlfriend, maybe be my wife. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: would lead worship and preach the word and our theme.
Speaker 1: I remember that first summer was run to win, and
Speaker 1: we got to the first church and there were no
Speaker 1: kids signed up for the event. Hampton Heights was that
Speaker 1: the name, Hampton Heights. I believe that was the church.
Speaker 1: So we end up recruiting kids all week, you know,
Speaker 1: knocking doors and putting flyers on when shields in the
Speaker 1: Walmart parking lot of true story, By the end of
Speaker 1: the week, we had something like twenty thirty kids and
Speaker 1: it felt like we had a Billy Graham crusade. And
Speaker 1: she was by my side during that. On the last
Speaker 1: elevation nights to where we were at the Forum in
Speaker 1: La getting ready to do ministry, and it was sold
Speaker 1: out at the Forum, and you know, it's just amazing
Speaker 1: because you walk up and down the halls of the
Speaker 1: Forum that kind of iconic venue. And there's all the
Speaker 1: people that have been there. Oh there's Mick Jagger okay,
Speaker 1: and right beside, and there's Madonna okay, and whoever. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying names here, but it's just halls and
Speaker 1: halls of all the people who have played there. And
Speaker 1: you know, there's only one reaction to that, all right,
Speaker 1: When you're a kid from Monkst Corner, South Carolina and
Speaker 1: you grew up in a town that at the time
Speaker 1: I've had six thousand people, you just go, what the
Speaker 1: heck am I doing here? You know, we started our church.
Speaker 1: Many of the people who started with me are still
Speaker 1: with me. My friend Eric, who I brought up on stage,
Speaker 1: that's my best friend in high school. You know, he
Speaker 1: started the church with me. He was one of the
Speaker 1: families that came here in Nicole. And you know my
Speaker 1: main guy, his name is Chunks. He's kind of famous
Speaker 1: in our church. He's a physical therapist. Started with me.
Speaker 1: And there's Chris Brown. And I've known Chris, our main
Speaker 1: worship leader for elevision worship. I've known him since we
Speaker 1: were boys. We were playing at a club called p
Speaker 1: S one fifty for Psalm one fifty and the owner,
Speaker 1: the guy named Ross. I remember. I remember his name
Speaker 1: was Ross. That's about all I remember about. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's a sense in which me and Holly and Chris
Speaker 1: and Chunks and Eric flies out. I think he's flying
Speaker 1: out to see me on this tour two and we
Speaker 1: just look at each other and look at God. Isn't
Speaker 1: God amazing? And yet there's this sense of fear. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you know I've done this a bunch of times. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this since I was in my twenties. But
Speaker 1: I still always feel and I want you to hear this,
Speaker 1: I still always feel a lot of fear when I
Speaker 1: get ready to step into the moments that God has
Speaker 1: called me to step into. And maybe you do too,
Speaker 1: and Gideon certainly did. And that's why I was preaching
Speaker 1: about Gideon over the past several weeks. And I believe
Speaker 1: that God is going to call me to take that
Speaker 1: same spirit of faith that I've been preaching in our
Speaker 1: church over the last month from the life of Gideon
Speaker 1: and take it into the cities and impart faith to you,
Speaker 1: those of you who will be there for Elevation nights,
Speaker 1: as as well as those of you who have been
Speaker 1: listening to the messages and hearing the messages all right,
Speaker 1: Because the idea behind the life of Gideon, in your
Speaker 1: life and my life, and the things God has called
Speaker 1: each of us to do, is that we are instruments
Speaker 1: who need to be put in the right hands. And
Speaker 1: yesterday when I was preaching, I don't know when you'll
Speaker 1: be watching this, but I preached yesterday on how Gideon
Speaker 1: was an instrument who had been in the hands of
Speaker 1: the Midianites, the people who were oppressing the Israelites, and
Speaker 1: he had started to believe his insecurities more than his potential.
Speaker 1: And that's what happens when you put your instruments in
Speaker 1: the wrong hands. What are your instruments? Two that come
Speaker 1: to my mind, your mind, So that comes to my mind,
Speaker 1: your mind, and your mouth. I'm using right now, I'm
Speaker 1: using two instruments. I'm also using a computer. I'm also
Speaker 1: holding a guitar. I also know there's some Wi Fi
Speaker 1: signal that is making this all go to you. But
Speaker 1: there are instruments involved in this communication right now, and
Speaker 1: I'm using my instrument, my mind, and my mouth so
Speaker 1: I can speak encouragement to you. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: these instruments on your end, how you manage them, how
Speaker 1: you care for them, and what you allow to control.
Speaker 1: The instruments that God has given you will determine where
Speaker 1: you end up at the end of this day, at
Speaker 1: the end of this week, at the end of this month,
Speaker 1: at the end of this year, and ultimately where your
Speaker 1: life goes. So that's why we need a word from
Speaker 1: God to renew our minds, and that's why we need worship.
Speaker 1: Worship coming out of our mouth. It purifies our atmosphere,
Speaker 1: It resets our intention, it realigns our motives. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm going out with our whole team over the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. That's why we show up each week
Speaker 1: and invite people into the presence of God and honor
Speaker 1: what He says from his word. And that's why we
Speaker 1: sing songs of declaration of truth when we don't feel it,
Speaker 1: when we do feel it, by faith, we declare what
Speaker 1: God says. We use our instruments instruments. So what was interesting?
Speaker 1: Interesting instruments? What was interesting? Touch somebody right now and
Speaker 1: say you are an interesting instrument. I had everybody do
Speaker 1: that in church yesterday, but just put it in the
Speaker 1: comments right now. I am an interesting instrument. That means
Speaker 1: God has given me. This is a hollow body guitar.
Speaker 1: That's how I can pick it up so easy. I'm
Speaker 1: not that strong. A guy sent me this. This is
Speaker 1: a gretch guitar. A guy sent me this from California.
Speaker 1: He said, Pastor Ferdick, I want you to have this guitar.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your ministry. I hope somebody will write a
Speaker 1: song on it one day to glorify God. A few
Speaker 1: weeks later, I took it into an appointment with Chris
Speaker 1: and Brandon and Tiffany, and we wrote the song Graves
Speaker 1: into Gardens. That song was in this guitar, and the
Speaker 1: man from California he sent me the guitar and we
Speaker 1: took it in and we collaborated together, and God sent
Speaker 1: a song, Graves into Gardens that has now gone around
Speaker 1: the world to touch people. How grateful am I that
Speaker 1: he sent me this instrument. Something in him new and
Speaker 1: I need to thank him again. I hope you're watching this.
Speaker 1: I hope he's watching this. I don't want to make him.
Speaker 1: I don't want to publicly say his name, but you
Speaker 1: know who you are. It wasn't that I needed a
Speaker 1: new guitar. I had guitars, we have guitars here. But
Speaker 1: and then cool that he sent the instrument and the
Speaker 1: song came out. And I wonder what instrument God is
Speaker 1: trying to send to you today, An idea that he
Speaker 1: wants to put in your mind, and encouragement that he
Speaker 1: wants to put in your mouth. You go, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not a songwriter, I'm not a preacher. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about that. I'm talking about how God uses you in
Speaker 1: your daily life. Nobody can encourage your best friend like
Speaker 1: you can. Nobody can encourage your husband like you can.
Speaker 1: Nobody can speak the word of life and faith over
Speaker 1: your family like you can.
Speaker 2: Nobody.
Speaker 1: The instrument is in your hands. And yesterday I called
Speaker 1: my buddy Eric up and the only thing he knows
Speaker 1: on guitar is one half song intro from the nineties,
Speaker 1: and I knew that, so I handed him my first guitar,
Speaker 1: not this one, the first one I bought, the Paul
Speaker 1: Reid Smith that I bought when I was about fourteen
Speaker 1: for about fourteen hundred dollars, and I said play it,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't plugged in, and he didn't really know anything.
Speaker 1: And then we handed it to E, which is funny
Speaker 1: because in my phone there's E, my best friend from
Speaker 1: high school. And then E who's one of our guitar
Speaker 1: players at Elevation, very gifted. Look him up. He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of guitar tutorials out as well. All the
Speaker 1: musicians at Elevation Worship are to me, world class, no
Speaker 1: argument about it. And when I put the instrument in
Speaker 1: his hands, you should have heard it. Go watch the sermon.
Speaker 1: It's available right now. You can go watch it. It's
Speaker 1: called Instruments of Victory and man, when we got it
Speaker 1: in his hands, it sounded like clapped and it sounded
Speaker 1: like John Mayer. Probably I'm probably embellishing a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it's how really good. It sounded really good. Same guitar.
Speaker 1: It still had six strings, not eight. Nothing changed, but
Speaker 1: it got plugged in and it got put in the
Speaker 1: right hands. And I think that's sometimes what has to
Speaker 1: happen in our life is that we feel defeated, we
Speaker 1: feel deflated, we feel discouraged, we feel depressed. Remember that's
Speaker 1: just a state. That's not your true self. God calls
Speaker 1: you what more than a conqueror an overcomer. He calls
Speaker 1: you precious He proved that because he paid for your
Speaker 1: life with his blood. Remember Romans six thirteen from yesterday,
Speaker 1: that he has brought you from death to life. How
Speaker 1: did he do that? How did Jesus bring you from
Speaker 1: death to life? He I went from a perfect sinless life,
Speaker 1: shed his spotless blood, the spotless lamb shed his blood
Speaker 1: and brought you from death to life. Because he went
Speaker 1: from life to death, He died for you, rose again,
Speaker 1: sent his spirit to live in you. And now he
Speaker 1: wants to make you an instrument of victory. But for
Speaker 1: that to happen, there are two things I want to
Speaker 1: point out and just picture all day as you go
Speaker 1: through that you're not a hollow body, gretch guitar. You
Speaker 1: are a wind instrument for the Holy Spirit. What I
Speaker 1: mean wind instrument? Well, I shared yesterday that in the
Speaker 1: passage where Gideon gets the victory over the Midianites, I
Speaker 1: didn't get time to get all the way to the
Speaker 1: end of Judges chapter seven. But the enemy turns against
Speaker 1: itself the Midianites. That they were so afraid of Midianites
Speaker 1: that outnumbered each other. They got confused when Gideon told
Speaker 1: his men to do two things. Okay, remember that only
Speaker 1: three hundred men stayed, only three hundred men who lapped
Speaker 1: water like dog. I got that dog. Put it in
Speaker 1: the chat. I got that dog. I don't have to
Speaker 1: be fancy with my faith. I got that dog. I
Speaker 1: don't have to be proper with my praise. I got
Speaker 1: that dog. Put both of those in the comments. That's good.
Speaker 1: I don't have to be fancy with my faith. I
Speaker 1: don't have to be proper with my praise. I got
Speaker 1: that dog. Man. I thought about that woman who said,
Speaker 1: even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the
Speaker 1: master's table. Jesus said, go, your daughter is healed. Don't
Speaker 1: be too dignified to fight the devil back man, Praise
Speaker 1: God in your current situation. Praise God with what you've got.
Speaker 1: Take your trumpet and blow your breath and praise God.
Speaker 1: See when I say Gideon is a wind instrument, wind
Speaker 1: represents the Holy Spirit a lot of times in the scriptures.
Speaker 1: So I think the reason God loves the instrument of
Speaker 1: the trumpet as a symbol is because it signifies how
Speaker 1: he breathes the breath of life into us. And sometimes
Speaker 1: we're so busy trying to figure out solutions to situations
Speaker 1: when really we need to get in the spirit by
Speaker 1: being grateful, by spending time with God's Word, by aligning
Speaker 1: our day just those three things along by getting grateful
Speaker 1: starting from that place I've been teaching lately on that
Speaker 1: here in the basin. You can go find one of
Speaker 1: those teachings too. I'll load you up, man, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you ready this week. It's gonna be a good week.
Speaker 1: You're gonna worship God this week. But you're gonna start
Speaker 1: from a grateful place, right, And then you're going to
Speaker 1: start from a place of God's word. A chapter a day,
Speaker 1: a little passage a day. I want you reading more
Speaker 1: than one verse a day. Though a verse you can
Speaker 1: focus on a verse, but I want you to get
Speaker 1: enough context to understand what this meant originally, so then
Speaker 1: you can say, well, what does it mean to me?
Speaker 1: Gives you more accuracy. Let's the word penetrate a little deeper.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to be a whole book of
Speaker 1: the Bible. Be a few verses, but you're going to
Speaker 1: get that going in your life. And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, the gratitude to God for what He's already
Speaker 1: given that gives you breath. The Word of God, which
Speaker 1: is going to speak to you. The spirit of God
Speaker 1: will never contradict the Word of God, and then aligning
Speaker 1: each day. And that's the image that I didn't get
Speaker 1: to in my sermon. That I may come back and
Speaker 1: preach a little bit here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: We'll see, but I want to share it with you today,
Speaker 1: and you can think about it and we come back
Speaker 1: to it another time, all right. I hope I get
Speaker 1: to do some more of these from the tour bus
Speaker 1: the basin on the bus, somebody on my team needs
Speaker 1: to make me a little sign that I can take
Speaker 1: on the road. It could say the bustin the bustin.
Speaker 1: Somebody make me a little sign. I'll put it up
Speaker 1: and I'll come on here and teach you.
Speaker 2: While we're out and about this week.
Speaker 1: God willing no promises, but I'll try pray for us.
Speaker 1: But listen to this. And there's this one cool part
Speaker 1: where Gideon tells the Israelites in verse seventeen. This is
Speaker 1: Judges seven, verse seventeen. I'm back into NIV. Watch me,
Speaker 1: he told them. Follow my lead. When I get to
Speaker 1: the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.
Speaker 1: Now this takes guts. Gideon has come a long way.
Speaker 1: He's seen how God works. You recognize that song, you
Speaker 1: put it in the comments. If you recognize it, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be singing that on elevation nights. I promise you
Speaker 1: that he's come a long way. He's seen how God works.
Speaker 1: And he just heard the enemy saying, oh, no, Gideon
Speaker 1: is coming. Gideon is coming, and he's like, wait, the
Speaker 1: enemy is intimidated by me. Yeah, he's gone from an
Speaker 1: army of twenty thousand men who were trembling and turned back,
Speaker 1: and he himself is trembling. And you might be too,
Speaker 1: You might be kind of trembling on the inside, like, oh,
Speaker 1: another week of this job.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. Oh the meeting today, I can't
Speaker 2: do it. I'm not going to be able. I got
Speaker 2: to be here at four o'clock. I gotta be there
Speaker 2: at six o'clock. Ah, my knee is still. Man, I
Speaker 2: can't even get up out of this chair without it.
Speaker 1: Heard it.
Speaker 2: And every time I think about this, it just gets
Speaker 2: a fest to me. I can't do it. I can't
Speaker 2: do it. Gideon was there, But then he has a flip.
Speaker 1: He reinterprets the the intact what's the word when somebody
Speaker 1: antagonizes you, he rethinks, let me say it this way.
Speaker 1: He rethinks, the intimidation of the enemy, because the enemy
Speaker 1: will try to intimidate you. You can't do that. You're
Speaker 1: the smallest, you're the least, you're the worst, You're terrible.
Speaker 2: You tried that already.
Speaker 1: Nobody's everybody's gonna laugh you, nobody saying attention to you.
Speaker 2: Just go do what God called you to do.
Speaker 1: Right, And he thinks to himself, Wait a minute, if
Speaker 1: the enemy is talking about me, if the enemy is
Speaker 1: focused on me, the enemy must know something about me
Speaker 1: that I don't even believe. So if all hell is
Speaker 1: coming against you, that might be because Heaven, all of Heaven,
Speaker 1: has an agenda for you, and the enemy doesn't want
Speaker 1: you to realize that that you are an instrument in
Speaker 1: the hands of a god whose power is infinite. Say
Speaker 1: it in the comments. I am an instrument in the
Speaker 1: hands of a god whose power is infinite. Again, i
Speaker 1: am an instrument in the hands of a god whose
Speaker 1: power is infinite. I'm in his hands. I'm in his hands.
Speaker 1: And not only that am I in his hands? But
Speaker 1: I'm a wind instrument. And he breathes the breadth of
Speaker 1: life into me, and He's put something in my hands today.
Speaker 1: What I want to ask you as I close this
Speaker 1: little teaching today, and not a little teaching, it's a
Speaker 1: big teaching. This could change your life, is since you
Speaker 1: are in his hands, right, God, renew my mind, it's yours.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry God that I've spent so much time thinking
Speaker 1: like you don't exist, worry in like you don't exist,
Speaker 1: trading my imagination where there should be faith for thoughts
Speaker 1: of fear that lead me to dead ends. God, I
Speaker 1: repent of that way of thinking. Thank you that you
Speaker 1: forgive me. And I'm moving forward and I'm putting all
Speaker 1: these situations I can't control in your hands. I'm putting
Speaker 1: all my gifts in your hands. I'm believing that you're
Speaker 1: enough and I'm trusting in your enoughness and that you
Speaker 1: breathe into me and I can make it one step
Speaker 1: at a time. Watch this giddy and says to all
Speaker 1: the people, do what I do. And man, that really
Speaker 1: touched me because I realize in this season of my life,
Speaker 1: I need to be a leader, and so do you.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're sixteen or sixty, somebody in
Speaker 1: your life needs to watch you win today. They need
Speaker 1: to watch you win so that they can believe that
Speaker 1: God can do it for them. Don't be selfish and
Speaker 1: just think about Oh man, I don't have enough and
Speaker 1: I can't do enough. I realize now I got a
Speaker 1: teenage daughter. Oh she's going to be a teenager next year.
Speaker 1: Two teenage boys. I can't play around with this stuff.
Speaker 1: I got to come into the truth. You got to
Speaker 1: come into the truth of who God says you are.
Speaker 1: My teenagers are watching. My teenagers need to see me win.
Speaker 1: They need to see me win over any battle that
Speaker 1: I am facing that tries to keep me from being
Speaker 1: who God has said that I can be and doing
Speaker 1: what He called me to do. And the same is
Speaker 1: true of you, even those little battles. Your daughter needs
Speaker 1: to see you blow your trumpet. Your son needs to
Speaker 1: see you blow your trumpet to rise up, mighty warrior
Speaker 1: and watch you win so you can say to your
Speaker 1: kids one day, watch me win. I'm not doing it
Speaker 1: in my own strength. This is God. He gives me
Speaker 1: the victory. Watch God help me. He'll help you too.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times in certain religious traditions
Speaker 1: we get into this thing. I'm like, oh no, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. It's all God is great, and I'm terrible.
Speaker 1: The Great I am put his name on you, and
Speaker 1: you say terrible after that, I'm terrible. I'm horrible, I'm worthless,
Speaker 1: I'm a loser, I'm an idiot, I'm stupid. Stop stop.
Speaker 1: Gideon said, all right, the Lord has given them into
Speaker 1: our hands. Now let's go. And then he's going from
Speaker 1: letting go of how he saw himself, letting go of
Speaker 1: things and people that he thought he needed. That God
Speaker 1: is now saying it's that season is over. Send them home.
Speaker 1: And some of you have been in a season of
Speaker 1: a great letting go. Well, now he goes from letting
Speaker 1: go to let's go, and the Bible says, you're ready.
Speaker 1: The Bible says Gideon, and the hundred men with him.
Speaker 1: So he's got thirty two twenty three hundred. Now he
Speaker 1: takes one hundred from the three hundred and reaches the
Speaker 1: edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle
Speaker 1: of watch, just to say, it changed the guard, and
Speaker 1: this is what I want to challenge you to do today.
Speaker 1: They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were
Speaker 1: in their hands. They blew their trumpets, everybody put that
Speaker 1: in the comments. They blew their trumpets. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: God led me to do this bonus teaching. Holly's the
Speaker 1: one who told me. She said, get on the basin
Speaker 1: and do the stuff you didn't get to do Sunday.
Speaker 1: I said, I got a lot to do. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have time. She's like, okay, she planted
Speaker 1: the seed and the Lord told me to do it.
Speaker 1: So I know this word is ministering. I know it.
Speaker 1: They blew their trumpets and broke the jars. Remember, the
Speaker 1: trumpets were what they took when they had ten thousand,
Speaker 1: and they only kept three hundred out of the ninety
Speaker 1: seven hundred that left, there were three hundred trumpets enough
Speaker 1: for every man. You've got enough. You've got enough. Now.
Speaker 1: You can't beat the enemy to death with a trumpet.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you can, but probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: There's too many of them. But it wasn't that God
Speaker 1: wanted him to use the trumpet in order to defeat
Speaker 1: the enemy. He wanted him to confuse the enemy. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you've just got to come from within. And whether
Speaker 1: it's anxiety, fear, greed, lust, any of the things that
Speaker 1: we struggle with, each and every one of us. You
Speaker 1: blow your trumpet, and watch the second one break the jars.
Speaker 1: Because the Bible says he put a trumpet in one hand.
Speaker 1: Gideon told the man, come here, three hundred I got left. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's who I've got left. He put a trumpet in
Speaker 1: their right hand and a torch in their left, and
Speaker 1: it was a jar with a light under it, and
Speaker 1: he said, blow the trumpet. When I blow it, break
Speaker 1: the jar. Blow the trumpet, break the jar. When they
Speaker 1: broke the jar, it created a light all around the camp.
Speaker 1: Because this is like two in the morning, and they're
Speaker 1: they're looking at a big enemy, numerous enemy, but they've
Speaker 1: got a greater God. Remember that your enemy is numerous,
Speaker 1: but God's name is greater. So whatever your enemy is, fear, depression, disease,
Speaker 1: you know a name that is greater. We have this
Speaker 1: treasure in earth and vessels. The New Testament says that
Speaker 1: the excellency of the power might be of God and
Speaker 1: not of us. So we have weird weapons. Right, they
Speaker 1: broke the jars, and they blew the trumpets, and the enemy,
Speaker 1: you're not going to believe this turned on the enemy.
Speaker 1: So the enemy had swords, and Gideon and his boys
Speaker 1: and his dogs. Ohoo, his dogs had a torch and
Speaker 1: a trumpet. When they took what they had in their hands,
Speaker 1: God took his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, and he
Speaker 1: took what was in the enemy's hands. Remember, he takes
Speaker 1: what the enemy means for evil and turns it for good.
Speaker 1: And the enemy wiped itself out, and they started running.
Speaker 1: I see your enemy starting to flee. As you take
Speaker 1: a step of faith and make a sound of praise.
Speaker 1: Two things. The broken jar. Boom, that's a step of faith.
Speaker 1: What do you mean to break the jar? It means
Speaker 1: that you're gonna go in the light that you have
Speaker 1: right boom. I don't know how God's going to do this, boom,
Speaker 1: but I'm going in the knowledge I have. Go in
Speaker 1: the strength that you have. You say, when I know,
Speaker 1: I'll go. No, when you go, you'll know how's God
Speaker 1: going to do it. You'll know as you go. Remember
Speaker 1: what God told Gideon. He said, if you're afraid to
Speaker 1: go down to the camp, you have to watch the
Speaker 1: sermon to get this. If you're afraid to go down
Speaker 1: to the camp, go down, and when you see the
Speaker 1: enemy you're gonna hear they're talking about you.
Speaker 2: And if the enemy is trying to.
Speaker 1: Discourage you, he must know he's already.
Speaker 2: Defeated, and he is. He's defeated by the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's defeated by the cross of Christ.
Speaker 2: He's defeated by the word of your testimony. So there's
Speaker 2: the step of faith.
Speaker 1: What is that in your life today? The call, the appointment,
Speaker 1: the apology, the prayer, the commitment.
Speaker 2: The next thing, the step of faith. The light that
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 1: His word is what a lamp unto our feet and
Speaker 1: a light unto our path enough for the next step.
Speaker 1: Say that out loud. He has given me enough light,
Speaker 1: enough revelation, enough grace, enough strength. His grace is sufficient,
Speaker 1: His strength is enough for today. I can't get out
Speaker 1: in tomorrow. I can't control tomorrow. I can break the jar,
Speaker 1: and I can blow the trumpet. The trumpet is the
Speaker 1: sound of praise.
Speaker 2: I don't just mean shot ja das Jada.
Speaker 1: There's always an elevation nights. Every night, somebody who waits
Speaker 1: till it gets quiet and goes.
Speaker 2: We love you, Jadas.
Speaker 1: And I always look at holland there he is always
Speaker 1: every time. It never fails. Probably, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: ninety seven percent of the time, there will be that guy.
Speaker 1: I don't mean that, I mean you can do that whatever.
Speaker 1: It's also a sound that comes from within. And when
Speaker 1: you get those two together, what do you get an
Speaker 1: instrument of victory? Now, go watch the sermon from Sunday.
Speaker 1: Go watch the sermon Instruments of Victory. Read that passage
Speaker 1: again where it says break the jar, blow the trumpet,
Speaker 1: and watch the part where I said that the guitar
Speaker 1: that I bought when I was fourteen, Oh, I love
Speaker 1: that guitar. I had to empty out my bank account
Speaker 1: to by that guitar business. As a fourteen year old have
Speaker 1: buying a fourteen hundred dollars guitar. You say, well, were
Speaker 1: you a drug dealer? No? I actually worked for the
Speaker 1: pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation service. I had a beeper,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't a drug dealer. When it would beep,
Speaker 1: I would have to come run the crematory. Don't judge me.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, you did you kill dogs? I kill dogs.
Speaker 1: I lovingly help people say goodbye to their dogs. It
Speaker 1: was a great job. Actually, Thank you Diane for giving
Speaker 1: me that job, an amazing job, and I saved up
Speaker 1: and I bought the guitar. And two weeks after I
Speaker 1: bought it. You can see it if you go watch
Speaker 1: the sermon. I dropped it and it cracked all down
Speaker 1: the back. I took it to one guy, I said,
Speaker 1: I can't fix it. I took it to another guy.
Speaker 1: He glued it together. You can see the cracks down
Speaker 1: the back to this day, but you can't hear it
Speaker 1: when he plays it, because when I get it in
Speaker 1: the right hands, a broken instrument can still make a
Speaker 1: beautiful sound. Is that why a broken jar and a
Speaker 1: blown trumpet are side by side in the passage? Is
Speaker 1: God trying to get you to see that, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: places in your life that are broken. We all have
Speaker 1: those broken places his cough being human. But in his hands,
Speaker 1: your life has still got songs in it, melodies. After all,
Speaker 1: he turns graves into gardens. It's cool. I'm holding the
Speaker 1: guitar that he sent me about to travel around different
Speaker 1: parts of the country, telling people that God can do
Speaker 1: something very beautiful out of something that you think is broken.
Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen said, ring the bells that still can ring.
Speaker 1: Forget your perfect offering there's a crack in everything. That's
Speaker 1: how the light gets in, and that's how the sound
Speaker 1: comes out too. You're a wind instrument. God is breathing
Speaker 1: new life into you as we speak. Receive it. Receive it.
Speaker 1: Everything you can't control, let it go, put it in
Speaker 1: his hands. And after you've put it in his hands,
Speaker 1: let's go. You got a jar to break today, you
Speaker 1: got a trumpet to blow. You got something to thank
Speaker 1: him for.
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 1: Use your mouth to thank him. You got something to
Speaker 1: think about, something he's calling you to do. Get those
Speaker 1: instruments and glorify God with them. I appreciate your prayers.
Speaker 1: What an amazing day we live in that I can preach.
Speaker 1: I ran out of times Sunday, I said, I got
Speaker 1: to finish this, and the Lord really did speak to us,
Speaker 1: didn't He let me know in the comments. I think
Speaker 1: y'all like these teachings hearing from people, They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we love the basin. Not everybody knows about it yet.
Speaker 1: It's just our secret for now. But it's a real
Speaker 1: privilege to minister to you. And I appreciate your prayers.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you come into elevation nights, if
Speaker 1: you're anywhere near the cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot
Speaker 1: com go check out the sermon from Sunday. Let's stay connected,
Speaker 1: let's encourage each other. I'll check in here on the
Speaker 1: comments and you can let me know what spoke to you.
Speaker 1: And you can just say in the comments right now,
Speaker 1: I'm in his hands. You are, I promise you, and
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