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Speaker 1: the Elevation Nights. So that's amazing. Favorite Pastor, we will

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Speaker 1: Courage is mine. I'm gonna face this thing head on,

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Speaker 1: believing that the storm has its purpose. You take courage.

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Speaker 1: Watch God what God will do. I've just seen it.

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Speaker 1: I can testify about it over and over again. God

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Speaker 1: comes through. Take courage. What is courage? Does that mean

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Speaker 1: I don't have any fear? Nah? Courage is simply the

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Speaker 1: ability to face your fear. I'm done running from it,

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Speaker 1: I'm done carrying it. Today's day I'm gonna walk through it.

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Speaker 1: He's taking you to the other side, but you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to go through some stuff. This scripture says that

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Speaker 1: Jesus says, take courage. It is I don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: And then the Bible says he gets into the boat

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Speaker 1: and immediately the storm settles. See, I think the purpose

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Speaker 1: of the storm is not just to ride us that

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Speaker 1: we're under control. The purpose of the storm is always

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Speaker 1: at a give way to new revelations. Oh, if you

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Speaker 1: could get this today, Bible says, immediately the storm settled.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think we've got it Matthew, chapter fourteen,

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Speaker 1: because I just want to cross references. This is important.

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Speaker 1: This is like the first time that the disciples even

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Speaker 1: realize that Jesus is divine Matthew fourteen, verse thirty two.

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Speaker 1: And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down,

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Speaker 1: and those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, truly,

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Speaker 1: you are the son of God. It took a storm.

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Speaker 1: It took a storm for the disciples to realize Jesus

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Speaker 1: is divine. Immediately the wind and the waves died down.

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Speaker 1: You ever notice that we're obsessed with suddenly and immediate

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Speaker 1: type of things. That's what's going on, bro, Like right now, God,

453
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Speaker 1: do it now. You know I want it now suddenly.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Pentecost church suddenly, and I'm all

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Speaker 1: for suddenly. I'm all for immediate. Fact. God could do

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Speaker 1: something immediate in your life today. But what I have

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Speaker 1: learned more often than not is that God, who does suddenly, immediate,

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Speaker 1: right now type of things, is usually on the heels

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Speaker 1: of people who are patiently, slowly, faithfully, consistently pursuing him.

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Speaker 1: God moved suddenly for those who pursue him patiently. Why

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Speaker 1: because this is what nobody told me when I was

462
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Speaker 1: eighteen getting into the ministry, is that God is slow fast.

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Speaker 1: This is so important. God is so slow. It's like

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Speaker 1: slow bro, slow bro, so slow. It's just like it's

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Speaker 1: so slow following God. Like here I am at church again.

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Speaker 1: My call time an hour before here we go. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna sing some songs so we can get the offering.

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Speaker 1: Were a word, okay, imitation and e group and you

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Speaker 1: know watch online and slow slow ho hum ho hum

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Speaker 1: slow slow slow and then boom whoa whoa immediate. I

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Speaker 1: remember the first time I met down Stree. I'm just

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Speaker 1: slowly following slow front row kind of a service like this,

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Speaker 1: look up, immediate boo, who's that? I saw her? I

474
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Speaker 1: choose you. In one moment, I changed all of my doctrine.

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Speaker 1: I named it and claimed I choose you because following God,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get This is so slow, and then it's immediate,

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Speaker 1: and then it's breakthrough and the it's wow, there's the idea.

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Speaker 1: Oh there's the song. Oh that's the word I was

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Speaker 1: looking for. Oh that's what I needed. Oh there's my healing.

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Speaker 1: Oh there's my promotion. Oh I got to the other side.

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Speaker 1: Because God is slow, come on somebody, and then he's fast.

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Speaker 1: You need God do something immediate, Just slowly pursue him,

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Speaker 1: faithfully follow him, because the scripture says, these guys are

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Speaker 1: straining at yours. We are not in control in all

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Speaker 1: of our mic, with all of our flesh, I cannot

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Speaker 1: get to the other side. But thank God for Jesus,

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Speaker 1: here he comes walking on the water. Don't take control,

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Speaker 1: take courage. Face the storm gets in the boat, and

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Speaker 1: immediately the storm settles, and then they start worshiping him.

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Speaker 1: I think these guys kind of got some of it right,

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Speaker 1: Like it's good to worship Jesus. But I want to

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Speaker 1: be a person and I want to build a church

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Speaker 1: that doesn't worship Jesus on the other side of the storm.

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Speaker 1: Come on, I want to worship him like I'm in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the turbulence, believing that he is the

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Speaker 1: Son of God, that at any moment, even though the

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Speaker 1: ground beneath me is shaking, my faith is being fortified

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Speaker 1: and solidified. And I'm gonna worship you for who you

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Speaker 1: really are. I got a revelation that you're in control

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Speaker 1: of the storm. Somebody give God some praise. Let's bring

501
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Speaker 1: some turbulence in the room today. The storm has its purpose,

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Speaker 1: and the Bible says. The Bible says that when the

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Speaker 1: storm sets, then they worshiped him as the son of God. Wow,

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Speaker 1: now I know who you are. In fact, look at

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Speaker 1: this Mark chapter six, verse fifty one. Then he climbed

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Speaker 1: in the boat with them, and the wind died down.

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Speaker 1: They were completely I love this, completely amazed Ah, for

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Speaker 1: they had not understood this is so good about the loaves.

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Speaker 1: Their hearts were hardened. You gotta see that, because some

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Speaker 1: of you day you think if you could see some

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Speaker 1: miraculous sign, You think if you could just wow, then

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Speaker 1: you would be worshiping. Remember the context just a few

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Speaker 1: verses earlier. He feeds thousands of people with five loaves

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Speaker 1: and two fish, but the disciples had already forgotten about

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Speaker 1: maybe one of the most ethnic miracles the humanly has

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Speaker 1: ever seen. How may'all know our faith suffers when we forget,

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Speaker 1: and this is we could I could come back into

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Speaker 1: a five week series here at Elevation Church because God

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Speaker 1: has been faithful to this house. God has moved in

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Speaker 1: ways that many of us have never ever seen. And

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Speaker 1: some of us we think we need a new word

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Speaker 1: from God. But in reality, and you just need to

523
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Speaker 1: get back to that old revelation of awe in wonder.

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Speaker 1: I know what He's done in the past. My faith

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Speaker 1: suffers when I forget. And there they are in the

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Speaker 1: storm and their hearts have become hardened because they forgot

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Speaker 1: about the loaves. And just so we get some clarity,

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Speaker 1: because this is really important, because there's always more to

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Speaker 1: the story. The scripture says that he feeds five thousand,

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Speaker 1: or like probably fifteen thousand people, and then if you

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Speaker 1: can remember, the scripture says that there was leftovers. Your

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Speaker 1: mama did not invent that at Thanksgiving. Jesus is lord

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Speaker 1: of the leftovers. He's not the god of enough. Whoever's

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Speaker 1: watching online right now, he is the god of more

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Speaker 1: than enough. Can somebody give him some praise if you

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Speaker 1: believe He's got everything you need, more than enough. Any

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Speaker 1: Bible nerds in the house, remember exactly how much more

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Speaker 1: enough there was? There was twelve baskets left. Any other

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Speaker 1: Bible nerds, how many disciples did Jesus have? Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a miracle over here. It's for all the masses.

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Speaker 1: What was one to let you know you're about to

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Speaker 1: enter into a storm. Don't worry. I've packed you lunch.

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Speaker 1: You've each got a basket full of food, so that

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Speaker 1: when you get into that storm. I want to remind

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Speaker 1: you I've already got a solution to the problem you

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Speaker 1: didn't even know existed. I want you to worship God

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Speaker 1: to day in faith. Maybe you're in the middle of

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Speaker 1: turbulence right now. Maybe you're in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: storm right now, But there is more to the story.

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Speaker 1: The storm has its purpose. Storm has its purpose. Many

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Speaker 1: of us we would never know he's a healer until

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Speaker 1: we got sick. Many of us would never know he

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Speaker 1: was a restorer until our heart was broken. You want

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Speaker 1: to know he was a deliver unless you got addicted.

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Speaker 1: We can go through it. The storm is revealing something

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Speaker 1: about his character and nature that you need on your journey.

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Speaker 1: It has a purpose. I was in Chicago this summer

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Speaker 1: and we preachers. If you don't know, just everywhere we go,

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Speaker 1: even on vacation, we're just collecting sermons. And I was

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Speaker 1: taking this tour of Chicago, which is notably one of

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Speaker 1: the best or most impressively designed cities in all of

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Speaker 1: the world. It wins architecture and all sorts of awards

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Speaker 1: every year. They have a three layered highway. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's remarkable stuff. And I'm on this tour with my

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Speaker 1: family and this tour guide is just she's blowing my mind.

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Speaker 1: She's up there just she's like an art history major

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Speaker 1: and she's just dropping truth. I'm like, dang, this is

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Speaker 1: She said. You know, Ko has more skyscrapers than any

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Speaker 1: other city. And what's amazing about skyscrapers, if you don't know,

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Speaker 1: is that they're built in such a way that they're

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Speaker 1: made to sway so they don't snap. I was like,

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Speaker 1: you want to preach it? My church. This Sunday got

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Speaker 1: that sway annoying, not going snap sway, sway with it

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Speaker 1: in the storm. You gotta sway. But she told me

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Speaker 1: to look at somebody all love that calm down. She

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Speaker 1: told the story of if you don't know about it,

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Speaker 1: eighteen seventy one was the Great Chicago Fire. It's like

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Speaker 1: the largest urban fire recorded ever and it burned up

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Speaker 1: about three square miles. Three hundred buildings destroyed, or seventeen

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Speaker 1: thousand buildings destroyed, three hundred some people lost their life.

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Speaker 1: It's a really, really wild story because the fire began,

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Speaker 1: but then it jumped into the river, and the river

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Speaker 1: was so polluted that it kept burning through the river

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Speaker 1: and it ended up hitting a paper mill. That's not

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Speaker 1: a good place for a fire to hit, and with

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Speaker 1: it it just spread and it devastated and destroyed the city.

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Speaker 1: I mean, complete annihilation, complete destruction. But what's fascinating as

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Speaker 1: you study the history of Chicago is that devastation probably

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Speaker 1: became the reason for all of its innovation, because would

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Speaker 1: you believe that just fifteen years later the skyscraper was invented.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where it was invented? Chicago? Why? Because

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Speaker 1: so often in devastation. When all of a sudden things

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Speaker 1: come through. I get a new revelation, I get a

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Speaker 1: new idea. I discover who my God is. And I

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Speaker 1: just felt it in my spirit today that God has

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Speaker 1: big things in store for you. There is more to

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Speaker 1: the story, but you need to lean into this moment

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Speaker 1: right now. You're not in a storm. You're in between

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Speaker 1: two miracles. He's taken you from glory to glory. He's

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Speaker 1: taken you from miracle to miracle. But you've got to

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Speaker 1: go through the storm. I don't know what awaits you

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Speaker 1: on the other side, but God has something good if

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Speaker 1: you believe, as somebody puts your hands together all over

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Speaker 1: this room, the storm has its purpose. The storm has

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Speaker 1: its purpose. As the worship team makes their way up here,

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Speaker 1: it's just storms their mindus. We're not in control. Storms

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Speaker 1: give away to new revelations, but storms also create the

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Speaker 1: perfect stage for an audacious response. I just I know

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Speaker 1: this is a word for some people here today. Problems

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Speaker 1: are platforms for God to show off. We all want miracles,

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Speaker 1: but we don't want problems. Problems are a prerequisite to

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Speaker 1: a miracle. Your storm is a stage for God. He's

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Speaker 1: going to show off. We wouldn't never have the story

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Speaker 1: of Jesus walking on water if there wasn't a storm.

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Speaker 1: But what's amazing about March chapter six is you fourteen

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Speaker 1: tells the same story, but there's some other information given

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Speaker 1: to us in Matthew fourteen. We see it. It's not

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Speaker 1: just Jesus who walks on the water, but so does

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Speaker 1: Peter Peter. Some of you are like he. Peter ain't

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Speaker 1: smarter than you. Peter's not more theologically sound than you. Peter,

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Speaker 1: Peter sin just as bad as you. Sin isn't amazing.

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Speaker 1: Peter and Judas same sin? What if Judas is just

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Speaker 1: what a wait is one more day. Peter goes back

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Speaker 1: to community, he's back to fishing. That cures him. Judas

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Speaker 1: goes into isolation and it just intensifies his pain. Takes

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Speaker 1: matter and he takes control. Scripture says that throughout on

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Speaker 1: that water and Jesus walks out on the water, take courage.

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Speaker 1: It is I do not be afraid some of you

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Speaker 1: that you gotta take courage. And that's the right word.

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Speaker 1: That's aggressive language. You gotta take it, you gotta put

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Speaker 1: it on, you gotta choose it. I gotta take I

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Speaker 1: gotta take it on Monday. I gotta take it on

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Speaker 1: I gotta take courage. Bible says, as Jesus is out there,

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Speaker 1: Peter sees it, and Peter's in the boat. And when

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Speaker 1: Peter season, Peter gets the idea, Lord, is that really you?

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Speaker 1: And Jesus says it's me, And Peter goes, well, if

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Speaker 1: it's you, tell me to come to you on the water.

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Speaker 1: I love it because here's the gospel in one word,

639
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Speaker 1: those of you that are watching online. Jesus says, come, come,

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Speaker 1: everybody needs saving. Get to all who received him and

641
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Speaker 1: believed in his name. He gave them the right to

642
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: be called children of God. Come to me, all you

643
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Speaker 1: are weird and heavy burden, and I will give you rest. Come.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you're caring today, whatever your face to day, whatever

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Speaker 1: you're walking with today, just come to Jesus. And Peter

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Speaker 1: he doesn't think about it. He just listens to Jesus

647
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Speaker 1: and he steps out, and my man starts walking on water. Peter,

648
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Speaker 1: the cussing sailor is walking on the water. The scripture

649
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Speaker 1: says that when he started looking at the wind and

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Speaker 1: the waves, he started to sink. And that's fascinating you

651
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: can't even see wind. That's how this world works. The

652
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Speaker 1: devil wants you to focus your attention on things that

653
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Speaker 1: are not real, things that you can't even see. Imagination's

654
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: in your mind, thoughts that he put in your brain.

655
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Speaker 1: Here's how the Kingdom of God works. Close your eyes

656
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Speaker 1: and open up your ears. Faith comes by hearing and

657
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: hearing the word of the Lord. Seventeen years of age,

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Speaker 1: I got a word from God and I have been

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Speaker 1: clinging to it now for twenty plus years. Get a

660
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: word from God. Don't let anyone get in the way

661
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Speaker 1: of that. I hear you, Jesus. I hear you, Jesus.

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00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: I hear you, Jesus. I can hear Jesus. Peter, the

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Speaker 1: water is liquid, but my word is solid. One step

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Speaker 1: out of time, and the scripture says, he starts looking

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Speaker 1: at the wind and the waves, and he begins to sink.

666
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Speaker 1: You see, adversity is always a great time for audacity,

667
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Speaker 1: and Peter started right, WHOA, I'm in a storm, but

668
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Speaker 1: maybe this storm could be a stage for the glory

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Speaker 1: of God. He starts walking and as he starts sinking,

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Speaker 1: he's freaking out. You gotta love Jesus because it's the

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Speaker 1: picture of grace. He comes on over there and he

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Speaker 1: puts his hand to him, and he helps him back up,

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Speaker 1: and he says, Peter, you of little faith, why did

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Speaker 1: you doubt? It's amazing because I've heard that preach so

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Speaker 1: many times in church. You gotta have great faith. Peter

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00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: had little faith on my whole Tell me you ever

677
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: walk on water? And good news to everybody who's here

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Speaker 1: today who's not churchy, who doesn't know how to speak

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Speaker 1: in Christianese. According to Jesus, Peter walked on water with

680
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: little faith. What could you do today with some average faith.

681
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: It's never been the size of your faith. It's always

682
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: been about the size of your God. It's not the

683
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: strength of your faith, friend, it's the object of your faith.

684
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: My faith is attached to Jesus. Adversity is a great

685
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: moment for audacity, and storms create a wonderful stage for

686
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Speaker 1: an audacious response. We're still telling the story of Peter.

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Speaker 1: My kids were in Voot Kids last week in Miami.

688
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: Whyt came on. I said, what'd you learn to church?

689
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: He said, I heard about the man and walked down

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Speaker 1: the water. I want to say when I get to heaven, Hey, Peter,

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Speaker 1: I know that storm was scary, But man, what a

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Speaker 1: story it turned out to be. What's the story without

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Speaker 1: a storm? What's the story without some struggle? Some of

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Speaker 1: you curse in every struggle. God, just get me through this.

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Speaker 1: Why not pray? God, give me faith, give me a

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Speaker 1: capacity to face the storm, to keep moving. God, there's

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Speaker 1: a purpose in the storm. There's a purpose in the storm.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's amazing to me. I didn't see this till

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Speaker 1: just recently. We're not reading Matthew fourthy, we're reading Mark

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Speaker 1: chapter six. Just important for all the Bible people out there.

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Speaker 1: Mark was not a disciple of Jesus. Mark was a

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Speaker 1: disciple of Peter. Almost all scholars and theologians believe that

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00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: Peter dictated to Mark. The Gospel of Mark. Say, which,

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00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: why is this important? I'm saying because in Matthew's Gospel,

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Speaker 1: Matthew remembers that night, not just Jesus walking the water.

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Speaker 1: He also says, Yo, I was there, and Peter walked

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Speaker 1: on water too. I think was wild to me is

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Speaker 1: that if I'm Peter, i won't be you. I'll be me.

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00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: And I'm telling this story to my disciple. I'm like, yo, bro,

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Speaker 1: night was crazy. Everyone was afraid. I was a little,

711
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 1: but everyone was freaking out. I was. I was little,

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Speaker 1: but not as much as the rest of the guys.

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Speaker 1: You'll see in a second. Why So we're out there

714
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Speaker 1: and everyone's rowing so hard. I was praying, I was praying,

715
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: was worshiping, and all of a sudden there came to

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Speaker 1: celestial being. I knew, I knew it was Jesus. I

717
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: just know God is good all the time, and all

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Speaker 1: the time He's good, all right. And I saw Jesus

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Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, Jesus, what you say I

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Speaker 1: come out there and hang out with you? And he

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Speaker 1: said come. And so it was just, you know, one

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Speaker 1: small step for humanity, but one giant step for the

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Speaker 1: global Church of Jesus Christ. If I was Peter, that's

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Speaker 1: how I would have told the story. Jesus is awesome.

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Speaker 1: WHOA you should have seen me that night. But somehow

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Speaker 1: we don't know for certain. Somehow, when we read the story,

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Speaker 1: it seems as if when Peter starts telling his side

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Speaker 1: of the story, it seems like he leaves out the

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00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: most important part. But maybe, just maybe, to Peter, the

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Speaker 1: most important part wasn't him walking on water? Maybe just

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Speaker 1: ab Peter had a revelation that the most important part

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Speaker 1: was solely and simply Jesus walking on water. Can I

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Speaker 1: tell you something today. Some of you are in a storm,

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Speaker 1: You are in a crisis, you are in a challenge,

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00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: you are facing real difficulty. But something tells me, if

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Speaker 1: you will faithfully follow Jesus, you're gonna get to the

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00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: other side of this thing. And one day you will

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Speaker 1: testify from your experience in the storm. And when you

739
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: look back, you're not going to talk about your great faith.

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00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: You're going to talk about the great grace of Jesus Christ,

741
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: the God who came to you and found you and

742
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: met you right there in the middle of your mess.

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Speaker 1: The storm has its purpose, and it's the glory of God.

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00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 1: It's the grace of God. I love preaching about faith

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00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 1: from this text, but can we just all be honest.

746
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Speaker 1: It is impressive that Jesus walked on water, but if

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Speaker 1: he is God, don't we all believe he can walk

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Speaker 1: on anything. He says, not a story about walking on water.

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Speaker 1: This is the gospel right there before your eyes, that

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Speaker 1: when I was dead in my sin, when I was

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Speaker 1: at my darkest moment, when I was hating God, he

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00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: saw me in all of my depravity, in all of

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Speaker 1: my mistakes. And he said, there's no mountain too high,

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Speaker 1: there's no valley too low. I'k on water just to

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Speaker 1: get to you. He's taking you through. He's taking you through.

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Speaker 1: He's taking you through. He'll walk over the failed marriage,

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00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: He'll walk over the broken business. He'll walk right through

758
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: the addiction. He'll walk right on top of your anxiety.

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00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: Your depression does not scare him. He can walk on

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Speaker 1: top of things. He's on the way to you. He's

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00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: coming to you because he wants to take you through.

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00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: Storm has its purpose. The storm has its purpose. The

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00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: storm has its purpose. The storm has its purpose. The

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00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: storm has its purpose. If I can just get you

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00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: to think that way tomorrow at work, we have one today.

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00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: If we get to Friday and you are still facing something,

767
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: but you could just tell yourself, I got a little message.

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00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: I don't remember all the message. I don't remember all

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00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: the Bible verses, but I know this. The storm has

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Speaker 1: its purpose. There's more to the story. Every story has

771
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: a storm, and every storm has a purpose. We've won.

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00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: See when you're in a storm and we're closing how mey, No,

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00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: it's hard to see and you start forgetting who you are.

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00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: You know you're in a storm when you start praying

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00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: prayers like God, I need a sign. You ever negotiate

776
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: with God. God, if you'll just do this, I promise you,

777
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: that's when you know you're desperate. This past summer, I

778
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: was on a break and I needed I needed a sign.

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00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: I don't pray this prayer as much, but I was

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00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: on this vacation. There was some stuff going on with

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00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: our staff and our team back home, and I just

782
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: know they needed their pastor. I know they needed a

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00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: word from God. And I'm just sitting there on break

784
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: watching Netflix shows, going God give me a sign. For

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Speaker 1: three days, I prayed, God give me a sign. God

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00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: give me a sign. And after like day three, I

787
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, we're just blind to stuff. This.

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00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: I was renting this house and this is the sign

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00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: that was above the television. We pulled it up. So

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00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: I'm praying this prayer, God give me a sign. God

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00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: give me a sign, and above the TV. It's like

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00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: took me three days. Like you know, sometimes I'm like,

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00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: God is like, how dull are you? You know? He

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00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,959
Speaker 1: calls us sheep, study sheep, not smart animals. You know. Ah,

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Speaker 1: God give me a sign. God give me a sign.

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Speaker 1: Three days, God give me a sign. God give me

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Speaker 1: a sign. Finally, day three, I'm like, there's a sign

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00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: above the television. Wow, look at God. I didn't. I

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Speaker 1: had no idea what it meant. To my knowledge, I

800
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: had never really seen it. But it's crazy because I

801
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 1: was watching some TV show this summer about some navy seal.

802
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: I spare the details, and in the background of the show,

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Speaker 1: Day two is that exact same sign. I'm like, gott

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Speaker 1: ever do that? Who? The next day, I'm on the lake,

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Speaker 1: I'm at some restaurant and hanging on the wall is

806
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: the sign. I'm like, WHOA. Day three. Sometimes I'm like,

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Speaker 1: is Apple listening to me? Or is this the spirit

808
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Speaker 1: of God? Is this technology or prophecy? Because I gotta

809
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: tell you this, because this is I got an email

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00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: that popped up from twenty sixteen from my good friend

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Speaker 1: Levi Leus goes it there, so I'm like it was

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Speaker 1: an email he sent me that I had screenshot it

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Speaker 1: because I liked it. I had done something with this.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what is in the world. While I

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00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: was finishing my vacation and I was actually scheduled to

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Speaker 1: go preach in Montana. I walked into Levi Leusco's office

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00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: and look what's hanging on the wall. Can we go

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00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: to the next one? Watch this? So this is what

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00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: Pentecostal is doing this moment. I called our general manager

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Speaker 1: because I was flying back for staff retreat, and I said,

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Speaker 1: for staff retreat, by one hundred mugs that say, don't

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Speaker 1: give up the ship. My guy goes pastor what does

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Speaker 1: it mean? I said, I have no idea, but it's gone.

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Speaker 1: After we had ordered the mugs, that decided what does

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00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: this mean? And I found out the history of it.

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Speaker 1: In the War of eighteen twelve, Captain James Lawrence, they

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Speaker 1: had been attacked and their ship was going down and

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Speaker 1: he was dying on the ship. In his last and

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00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: final dying words were don't give up the ship. That's cool.

830
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: That's a good battle cry, you know. I guess today

831
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: now it's become an anthem in the Marine Corps, Navy seals.

832
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Speaker 1: You'll see it all over the place, and that's very,

833
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: very meaningful. But I didn't understand, God, what do you mean,

834
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Speaker 1: don't give up the ship? Don't give up the ship, Lord,

835
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Speaker 1: don't give up the ship. What am I? Are we

836
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: going to battle this year? What's happening like? I don't

837
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: know what are we talking about? And I just kept praying,

838
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: kept thinking, don't give up the ship. Don't give up

839
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Speaker 1: the ship. Don't give up the ship. Don't give up

840
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Speaker 1: rich this year. Don't give up. Every story has a storm,

841
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 1: Every story has a struggle. Don't give up the ship.

842
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Speaker 1: Don't give up the storm. Don't give up the storm.

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Speaker 1: Don't give up the storm has Don't give up. The

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Speaker 1: storm has its purpose. Don't give up the ship. Don't

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Speaker 1: give up the storm has its purpose. So we have

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Speaker 1: who church. We just started looking at each other and say,

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Speaker 1: you're struggling, if you're struggling, if you're in a challenge.

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Speaker 1: You can be struggling and becoming all in the same sentence.

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Speaker 1: Are you in a storm, you are on your way

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Speaker 1: to the other side. Do not forget who you are.

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Speaker 1: Don't give up the ship, don't give up the storm

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Speaker 1: has its purpose. There's a purpose in your struggle. There's

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Speaker 1: a purpose in your storm. And if I was at

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Speaker 1: my church and I was preaching to my congregation, I

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Speaker 1: would just get fancy with it. I just start saying

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Speaker 1: all sorts stuff. I would say, don't give up the discipleship.

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Speaker 1: I would say, don't give up the stewardship. I would say,

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Speaker 1: don't give up the friendship. I would say, don't give

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Speaker 1: up the worship, because you are a worshipper no matter

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Speaker 1: what you're facing. And as you start to worship of God,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be made aware of his presence. He is

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Speaker 1: with you in every store. He is with you in

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Speaker 1: every storm. And if he told you he's getting you

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Speaker 1: to the other side, you not doubt in the storm

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Speaker 1: what he talks you on top ground. Maybe you'll get

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Speaker 1: through this thing. You're coming through this thing. There's all

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Speaker 1: the story. There's a bigger mirror of flat place. Don't

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Speaker 1: give up the ship. Don't give up. Come on, somebody

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Speaker 1: give gone some place him, him, some morning him. Come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, you hold my laughs, you about myself. Come on, Church,

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Speaker 1: You have called me for it. You dese sea. This

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Speaker 1: makes your sight you He has his purpose. You take

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Speaker 1: current these sept side. You report me for you God.

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Speaker 1: This is because you're ready with me. You're working through

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Speaker 1: me finely for me. God. It's not it's not you.

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Speaker 1: You're reading with me. You're working to me. Finely tall me. God,

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Speaker 1: he started dancing you reading with me. You're working to me.

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Speaker 1: It's finding tall me. God, it's not against me or

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Speaker 1: me erase me. You're working through me. Fine for me. God,

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Speaker 1: it's you, didn't me. You're ready with me, working through me.

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Speaker 1: Find grass. He's not against you, he's not against you.

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Speaker 1: He's for you. He's for you. He's for you. He

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Speaker 1: has a plan, he has a purpose. There's purpose to

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Speaker 1: the pain. This storm has a purpose. Don't give up

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Speaker 1: the ship. Don't give up this week. Don't give up.

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Speaker 1: This storm has its purpose. It has its purpose. You're

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Speaker 1: not in control, but you could take courage. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: learn something about God. You're gonna see something about him.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna discover something about him. The intimacy of your

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Speaker 1: relationship is gonna grow because of this pain, because of

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Speaker 1: this suffering, because of this heart ache. Oh, this is

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Speaker 1: a perfect moment right now for an audacious response. You

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Speaker 1: want that type of faith that walks on water. Then

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Speaker 1: you gotta get out there in the middle of the storm.

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Speaker 1: But you watch as your God shows up. He will

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Speaker 1: never leave you, he will never forsake you. God. I

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Speaker 1: pray over every person in this room right now. God,

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Speaker 1: who's struggling. God, any person who's in this room today,

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Speaker 1: that walked in today watching online, about to give up

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Speaker 1: on the brink of quitting God, may we hear it

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Speaker 1: from heaven. There's more to the story. You're the God

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Speaker 1: who does more than we could ever ask, think or imagine. God,

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Speaker 1: we don't need faith for tomorrow. We need faith for today.

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Speaker 1: Give us our daily bread. We're dependent upon you. If

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Speaker 1: that's you, if you're just desperate for God, sometimes a

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Speaker 1: ward just has to unlock something inside of you. Just

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Speaker 1: lift your hands right there, Just lift your hands with there, Receive, receive, receive.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't encourage you in your strength. He encourages you

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Speaker 1: in his strength. He says, I'm with you, I'm for you.

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Speaker 1: No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Read the verse.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't say the weapon won't be formed. It just

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Speaker 1: declares mightily it will not prosper. I got a sense

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Speaker 1: in my spirit that the enemy's coming to attack some people.

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Speaker 1: But hear the prophecy of the Lord that when the

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Speaker 1: enemy showed up at your house, there is a sign,

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Speaker 1: and it says, beware of God. This house is protected,

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Speaker 1: this house is covered, This house he's fighting for you. God.

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Speaker 1: We received, We receive, We receive, God, We receive, We receive,

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Speaker 1: We receive. God. We cannot stop the storms, but Lord,

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Speaker 1: may we prepare today, May we build on a solid rock.

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Speaker 1: You're here today and you've never met Jesus. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you what this is the gospel. For God so loved

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Speaker 1: the world that he gave his only begotten son, that

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Speaker 1: whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

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Speaker 1: For God to not send his son in the world

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Speaker 1: to condemn the world, but to save the world. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what somebody told you, but God is not

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Speaker 1: mad at you. He is madly in love with you.

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Speaker 1: He's the God who got up out of heaven, came

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Speaker 1: down to this earth, walked in the middle of our mess,

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the your sin, just to save us.

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Speaker 1: He's for you. He's for you. He's for you, but

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Speaker 1: he gives you the opportunity to receive. If that's you today,

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Speaker 1: all over the world today you might be in a storm,

935
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Speaker 1: but maybe this storm has a purpose that you would

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Speaker 1: meet your savior. If you're desperate today, if you're hurting today,

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Speaker 1: he's here on the count of three and that you say, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I need Jesus. I want to commit my life to Jesus.

939
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Speaker 1: I recognize my sin and my mistakes. You don't need

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Speaker 1: a preacher to tell you how bad you are. You

941
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Speaker 1: need a preacher to remind you about how good your

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Speaker 1: God is. He's bigger than your sin. If that's you

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Speaker 1: on the kind of three, just be bold. On the

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Speaker 1: three you just lift your hand of high enough and

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Speaker 1: long up just so I can see it. I want

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Speaker 1: to include you in this prayer of solvation. If that's you,

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Speaker 1: that's me, Rich, I want Jesus to be the load

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Speaker 1: of my life. Online. Ready one, the Bible says, today's

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Speaker 1: that day. Two. Don't look at your neighbor. It's not

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Speaker 1: about your neighbor. It's between you and Jesus. Ready one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: that's you looked up. That's me, Rich, that's me. That's me.

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Speaker 1: That's me. Thank you, Thank God, thank you, don good,

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Speaker 1: thank you done, thank you Jersus, thank you Gene. Come

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Speaker 1: on church. Can we all lift our hands towards heaven.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray this prayeric say, dear Jesus, today, I give

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Speaker 1: you my life. I repent forgive me. I believe you

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Speaker 1: are who you said that you are today, I choose

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Speaker 1: to follow you. Thank you for loving me. I confess

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Speaker 1: that my storm has a purpose. I'm not going to doubt.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna quit. I'm gonna follow you. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: Come on, everybody said, come on, Elevation Church. Can we

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Speaker 1: go ahead and get gone a big shadow grace? Come

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Speaker 1: on somebody. Hey, thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I want you to subscribe. That way you can know

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Speaker 1: when we go live and post new content. Make sure

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Speaker 1: leave me a comment, let me know what spoke to

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Speaker 1: you today, where you're watching from, and what we can

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Speaker 1: pray for you about. And if you'd like to support

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Speaker 1: the ministry financially, you can click the give button now

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Speaker 1: and help us continue reaching people around the world for

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Thanks again, I'll see you next time.