Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 2: You God, how.
Speaker 1: You praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: God is good all the time. God is good all
Speaker 2: the time. In the valley, he's good.
Speaker 1: Say Amen. On the mountain, he's good. Say Amen.
Speaker 2: In the morning, he's good. In the evening, he's good.
Speaker 2: I will bless the Lord at and his praise shall
Speaker 2: be in my mouth.
Speaker 1: O magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his
Speaker 1: name together.
Speaker 2: Today I want to move right into our sermon. I
Speaker 2: want to move right into the Word of God. Grab
Speaker 2: your Bible, open your heart, stand up on your feet,
Speaker 2: and get ready to re from the Lord. Tell your
Speaker 2: neighbor I'm ready. Tell them you need to get ready too.
Speaker 2: I can't sit next to a lazy neighbor today. Come on,
Speaker 2: if your neighbor looks hateful, you still got a minute
Speaker 2: to move before I start preaching.
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Speaker 1: I know you only got one hand.
Speaker 2: Because you're holding your Bible, but clap a little better
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Speaker 2: good and so faithful, got one for you today. The
Speaker 2: Lord has been speaking to me. You mind if I
Speaker 2: pray before I read the scripture?
Speaker 1: And I don't really care if you mind or not.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray before I read the scripture. Lord.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed so much as you showed me this message.
Speaker 2: It helped me, administered to me and gave me that
Speaker 2: it helped my mindset. It really gave me something to
Speaker 2: hang on to in my own life this week, and
Speaker 2: something to encourage those I love with. And now I'm
Speaker 2: standing before thousands of people that I love with your love.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know them personally, most of them, but
Speaker 2: you know each of them intimately. And I pray that
Speaker 2: you would help me in these moments that we have
Speaker 2: together that are so precious and so rare, just undistracted,
Speaker 2: unencumbered moments in your presence where hearts have been tilled
Speaker 2: by the truths that we've sang through the praise that
Speaker 2: we've lifted to your wonderful name. And now we're ready
Speaker 2: to receive a word from you. Help me to show
Speaker 2: them what you showed me. I believe if that happens,
Speaker 2: they'll be helped. I believe if that happens, they'll be
Speaker 2: set free. I believe that happens, stronghold will break in
Speaker 2: this place, not just one stronghold, but stronghold after stronghold
Speaker 2: after stronghold, be broken by your word. I thank you
Speaker 2: in advance for testimonies that I will receive from this
Speaker 2: word that you will release through me today in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Psalm thirteen is our passage for today.
Speaker 2: We're in part four of a series called That's What
Speaker 2: I Thought. We're trying to take some of these patterns
Speaker 2: that are in our lives that are paralyzing us, the
Speaker 2: patterns that keep causing us needless pain, and to replace
Speaker 2: those patterns with God's promises in God's processes for our thinking.
Speaker 2: And so far we've looked at this from several different angles,
Speaker 2: but today's will be the most practical one so far.
Speaker 2: The Psalmist in Psalm thirteen has a prayer to lift
Speaker 2: to God, and it starts like this, How long Lord
Speaker 2: will you forget me forever? How long will you hide
Speaker 2: your face from me. How long must I wrestle with
Speaker 2: my thoughts, and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
Speaker 1: How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Speaker 2: Look on me and answer, Lord, my God, give light
Speaker 2: to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and
Speaker 2: my enemy will say I have overcome him, and my
Speaker 2: foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in
Speaker 2: your unfailing love. You see how that just lifted. The
Speaker 2: sum is a lament. It's a cry for help. It's
Speaker 2: filled with anguish. That's in the tone of sorrow. But
Speaker 2: there is a lift within the lament. There is a
Speaker 2: lift within your lament today when you cry to.
Speaker 1: God, he won't just leave you crying.
Speaker 2: For weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes
Speaker 2: with the mourning. Somebody say, good morning. But I trust
Speaker 2: in your unfailing love. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
Speaker 2: I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been
Speaker 2: good to me. Go ahead and clap your hands for
Speaker 2: the word of God. I want to give you my
Speaker 2: title in a special way today, and I need you
Speaker 2: to turn to your neighbor one more time. You know
Speaker 2: i't to talk to him again after this. You don't
Speaker 2: want to, but start by asking them a question. It's
Speaker 2: gonna set up my subject for today. Tell your neighbor
Speaker 2: first things first, Just tell them I know you've been
Speaker 2: going through some trouble.
Speaker 1: Look at them and say I can tell now.
Speaker 2: Now, look back at them and ask how long do
Speaker 2: you think it's gonna last?
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Look back at them and answer that question. They just
Speaker 2: ask you. Look them right in their eyes and tell them,
Speaker 2: not as long as.
Speaker 1: My song.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to preach you about today. Not
Speaker 2: as long ask my song Father. Make it plain and
Speaker 2: powerful and personal. In Jesus' name, I give you praise. Amen,
Speaker 2: you may be seated, Give three hugs before you sit down, and.
Speaker 1: Then be seated. God is good all the time. God
Speaker 1: is good four times.
Speaker 2: In the Psalm, the Psalmist asked the question that every
Speaker 2: parent has heard on a road trip.
Speaker 1: How long.
Speaker 2: We had a pretty rainy week of weather in Charlotte,
Speaker 2: North Carolina. Holly looked at me Friday and said, am
Speaker 2: I ever going to see the sun again?
Speaker 1: How long? Lord? Doesn't take long, does it?
Speaker 2: It doesn't take long for us to get gloomy, doesn't
Speaker 2: take long for us to buy into a narrative that's
Speaker 2: very negative, at least for me, doesn't take long. And
Speaker 2: I have discovered that even the strongest faith only can
Speaker 2: hold on so long through certain situations. And I have
Speaker 2: discovered that the human will has its limits even when
Speaker 2: you're in the will of God. Now I know I'm
Speaker 2: starting early, but that would have been worth writing down
Speaker 2: had you had your notebook ready, had I given you
Speaker 2: a moment to get situated. Every human will has its limits,
Speaker 2: even when you're in the will of God. Even when
Speaker 2: you're doing what God called you to do, there is
Speaker 2: a place that you hit a wall. So today I
Speaker 2: want to talk from the subject how long Lord, But
Speaker 2: I want to talk about three l's that I think
Speaker 2: will help you. I'm going to give them to you
Speaker 2: up front and we'll review them at the end. And
Speaker 2: you've heard of lions and tigers and bears, right, this
Speaker 2: is modeled after that, But it's not exactly that. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about limits and levels and loops. Limits
Speaker 2: and levels and loops. Put those in the chat please,
Speaker 2: if you're watching online or the comments, limits and levels
Speaker 2: and loops.
Speaker 1: Oh my.
Speaker 2: Amen, limits and levels and loops. Amen, you say, I
Speaker 2: say amen. My mind went to a personal experience that
Speaker 2: we had this summer, which I mentioned briefly, but my
Speaker 2: oldest son, Elijah, spent the very first weeks after he
Speaker 2: graduated college in the hospital, and the first part of
Speaker 2: it was planned because he had an issue with his
Speaker 2: spine that we've been monitoring with the neurosurgeon for five years,
Speaker 2: and upon the neurosurgeon's advice, we decided that he needed
Speaker 2: to have the surgery.
Speaker 1: And the surgery was not going to be easy.
Speaker 2: No surgery is minor, No surgery is minor, and this
Speaker 2: surgery wasn't even billed as minor, and so we were expecting.
Speaker 1: A pretty rough recovery.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not saying Elijah is not tough, but after
Speaker 2: his surgery, it.
Speaker 1: Was amazing to me how good he kept his attitude.
Speaker 2: Because part of the surgery where they operated on him,
Speaker 2: it was at the and I'm about to say stuff,
Speaker 2: I don't really know what it means, but I heard
Speaker 2: a doctor say it, and I'm regurgitating it to you. It
Speaker 2: somehow affected his nausea, and so for the first four
Speaker 2: days after his surgery he was just throwing up. He
Speaker 2: couldn't need anything, but he didn't complain much and it
Speaker 2: was amazing that he didn't complain much, because I've lived
Speaker 2: with this kid twenty years, and I'm like, who are
Speaker 2: you from? Whence cometh this strength and power and self
Speaker 2: control and positive mental attitude. You've been watching David Goggins
Speaker 2: and reading the Bible or something like that.
Speaker 1: You're not complaining, You're just ugging it out. And he
Speaker 1: did that for.
Speaker 2: Several days, and I tried to keep him company in
Speaker 2: those days, and just any way I could think I've
Speaker 2: spent time with him since he couldn't really eat, and
Speaker 2: we watched entire seasons of Better Call, so I mean
Speaker 2: the chosen and you know, right about the time when
Speaker 2: it looked like his body was bouncing back, his fever
Speaker 2: went up. And Holly is our family doctor, and so
Speaker 2: she knew, I think that it's become infected, and she
Speaker 2: took him to the er and it.
Speaker 1: Had become infected at the sight of the surgery.
Speaker 2: And so while we thought we might be able to
Speaker 2: get him on any biotics, when he developed how do
Speaker 2: you say it, Holly brunt bacterial meningitis. They came to
Speaker 2: get him and said, we're going to have to do
Speaker 2: the whole surgery over again. That was the moment where
Speaker 2: his positive mental attitude left the building. And I got
Speaker 2: it because I thought, remember the series, that I was
Speaker 2: getting better, and I thought that this was almost over.
Speaker 2: And I set a clock for myself that I am
Speaker 2: not going to complain on this clock.
Speaker 1: But that clock has run out.
Speaker 2: And even the strongest human will has a limit, even
Speaker 2: the strongest resolve has a limit when your win has
Speaker 2: no inn in sight come because after the surgery, not
Speaker 2: only was it worse the second time, but he stayed
Speaker 2: in the hospital that time for the better part of
Speaker 2: a week, went home. They put a pick line in
Speaker 2: him to give him as antibiotics, and then what they
Speaker 2: were putting in his body to keep him from becoming
Speaker 2: infected and to get the infection out of his body
Speaker 2: was making him nauseous again. So now I can't eat again.
Speaker 2: And when I can't eat, I am not very happy
Speaker 2: about anything. And don't tell me to praise the Lord,
Speaker 2: because I praised the Lord for the first week, but
Speaker 2: I wasn't planning on the second week or to have
Speaker 2: these tubes for thirty days in my arms. And I
Speaker 2: know there are people who are going through a lot
Speaker 2: worse than that. And your condition is a lot more
Speaker 2: serious than what I'm describing.
Speaker 1: But perhaps we can agree together that.
Speaker 2: Even the strongest human will has a limit, and it
Speaker 2: seems like the person who wrote Psalm thirteen has hit
Speaker 2: his limit. He doesn't start the beginning of the psalm
Speaker 2: with praise or glory be or hallowd He says how long?
Speaker 2: Not hallelujah, but how long Alujah.
Speaker 1: It's a different kind of prayer.
Speaker 2: And I'm choosing these psalms throughout our series to show
Speaker 2: you that you can come to God honestly and sincerely
Speaker 2: with your problems, but not focus on your problems and
Speaker 2: not remain in the same place that you came when
Speaker 2: you brought your problems to God. By the way, Elijah
Speaker 2: is doing so well, he's doing so incredibly well.
Speaker 1: He's actually working for me now, clipping my sermons for TikTok.
Speaker 1: That's right. He's on the front road today.
Speaker 2: They gave him today off, but he said, if you
Speaker 2: get preaching too good, I might have to run to
Speaker 2: the back and clip you real quick.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing about the psalmist complaint that ends in
Speaker 2: praise but that starts with complaint is he says.
Speaker 1: How long you forget me? Lord? How long? Are you
Speaker 1: going to hide from me? I can't find you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: It's like you keep telling me God.
Speaker 2: To do something, but then I do what I thought
Speaker 2: you told me to do, and I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: that's what you told me to do because I don't
Speaker 2: feel you. I moved because I thought I was moving
Speaker 2: in obedience to the will of God.
Speaker 1: For my life.
Speaker 2: But even when you're in the will of God, the
Speaker 2: strongest human will can only hold on so long. And
Speaker 2: when you get in that place of how long, how long?
Speaker 2: I think I should say it like this. You can
Speaker 2: only be strong for so long. You can only feel
Speaker 2: forgotten for so long, you can only feel taken for
Speaker 2: granted for so long. You can only do for others
Speaker 2: so long, and say, well, I'm doing it for the Lord.
Speaker 2: I'm doing it for the Lord. I'm doing it for
Speaker 2: the Lord. I'm doing it for the Lord. Think you
Speaker 2: would be nice, but I'm not doing it for thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing it for the Lord. And then you explode
Speaker 2: on us because even the nicest, most polite, most servant
Speaker 2: hearted person can only serve strong for so long before
Speaker 2: you start wondering how long till they reciprocate for me?
Speaker 2: Don't say amen. They'll know you're agitated with them and
Speaker 2: you're about to explode any minute, and they need to duck.
Speaker 2: How long will you forget me? How long will you
Speaker 2: hide from me? He actually says something that I know
Speaker 2: we've all felt in here. How long will my enemy
Speaker 2: triumph over me? In other words, how long till I.
Speaker 1: Get a win.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm winning anywhere. Maybe you felt
Speaker 2: that way as a husband this week. If I'm winning
Speaker 2: as a provider, I'm not winning as a parent. I'm
Speaker 2: paying for stuff, but I don't have time to play
Speaker 2: with my kids, because if I play with my kids,
Speaker 2: I can't pay for the stuff, and they don't want
Speaker 2: to play with nothing. But if I'm going to pay
Speaker 2: for it, I gotta work for it. If I'm working
Speaker 2: for it, I can't be with them. I can't win anywhere.
Speaker 3: How long.
Speaker 1: I can retire?
Speaker 3: How long?
Speaker 1: Lord?
Speaker 2: And I'm making light of it, although there is nothing
Speaker 2: light about the feeling, just to bring us into the thought,
Speaker 2: how long will you forget me? Lord? How long will
Speaker 2: you hide from me? How long will it be till
Speaker 2: I feel you? How long will it be.
Speaker 1: Till you confirm for me that this is the right
Speaker 1: thing to do?
Speaker 2: How long Lord, till I get this thing out of
Speaker 2: my arm?
Speaker 1: How long till I can.
Speaker 2: Eat again, smile again, breathe deeply again and not feel
Speaker 2: that shallow, crippling anxiety that I've been managing for three months.
Speaker 2: And I can't tell anybody, But how long you expect
Speaker 2: me to smile at them while I'm stressed inside of myself?
Speaker 1: How long is my enemy gonna win?
Speaker 2: And I know you're mighty, and I know you're great,
Speaker 2: and I know you're awesome, and I know you're wonderful,
Speaker 2: But when are you going to do something about what
Speaker 2: my enemy is doing to me? Do you see how
Speaker 2: they're talking about me? Do you see how they're taking
Speaker 2: advantage of me? Do you see how they're walking all
Speaker 2: over me?
Speaker 1: How long until you rise up and defend me? Lord?
Speaker 4: How long?
Speaker 2: But the one that felt so personal to me, and
Speaker 2: perhaps it will feel personal to you as well, was
Speaker 2: the one sandwiched right in the middle of all of that,
Speaker 2: where he said in verse two. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if you ever had an experience where you thought that
Speaker 2: the Lord wrote a special verse in your Bible because
Speaker 2: he's been following you around. And the Lord just took
Speaker 2: a verse that wasn't there before and put it in
Speaker 2: there for you. I felt that way when I read thirteen,
Speaker 2: verse two, how long must I wrestle.
Speaker 1: With my thoughts?
Speaker 2: I totally get that question, How long will I wrestle
Speaker 2: with my thoughts? You know, whoever wrote this song, he
Speaker 2: must not be very tough, because if he was tough,
Speaker 2: he would just buck up buckaroo, He would just get
Speaker 2: over it. When life gave him lemons, he would just
Speaker 2: make some lemonade. He must not be very strong in
Speaker 2: the Lord this man.
Speaker 1: Look in your Bible, Abby.
Speaker 2: Verse not verse one, but right before verse one, and
Speaker 2: you will see above Psalng thirteen the attribution of who
Speaker 2: wrote this song. Although it does not mention what the
Speaker 2: situation was that inspired the song, it gives us the
Speaker 2: name of the person who wrote the song, and he's
Speaker 2: a man named David. So I take back everything I
Speaker 2: just said a minute ago about he must be a whimp,
Speaker 2: he must not be very strong. I would never say
Speaker 2: that about David, and I definitely wouldn't say it to
Speaker 2: his face, even if I thought that David was an
Speaker 2: emotional basket case. I wouldn't say it to David because
Speaker 2: if David could find a rock. I might comment it
Speaker 2: in the YouTube section about David, I wouldn't say it
Speaker 2: to his face. Internet courage. That's what some people have
Speaker 2: comment courage. But David had strong courage and strong faith,
Speaker 2: which is why we are surprised to hear him talking
Speaker 2: this way. Most scholars tell us that David wrote this
Speaker 2: at the time of his life that he was no
Speaker 2: longer a kid but not yet a king. Those transitional
Speaker 2: moments in life, and in his specific instance, the king
Speaker 2: who was king was trying to kill him because he
Speaker 2: was threatened by him, and it is highly likely that
Speaker 2: David wrote some thirteen. David wrote some thirteen in this
Speaker 2: transitional moment of needing to trust God. But I'm stuck
Speaker 2: on the fact that it was David, because when he
Speaker 2: says how long must I wrestle with my thoughts? It
Speaker 2: occurs to me that David was really good at wrestling.
Speaker 2: I'll take you to the moment that David's name became famous. Now,
Speaker 2: this is the one that put David on the map.
Speaker 2: You've heard it, you know it, you love it. It
Speaker 2: involves an uncircumcised Philistine named Goliath. He hails from Philicitia
Speaker 2: nine foot three inches tall, weighing in at three hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty pounds, carrying a bronze spear, a javelin, and
Speaker 2: a shield that's bigger than David. Here comes Goliath, and
Speaker 2: for forty days he taunts the nation of Israel. For
Speaker 2: Samuel seventeen, David shows up one day with cheese and bread,
Speaker 2: disguised as a door dasher, but coming in as a deliverer.
Speaker 1: You hear what I just said? Did you hear what
Speaker 1: I just said?
Speaker 2: He's disguised like door dash, but he's carrying deliverance, and
Speaker 2: he hears the giant taunting the people of God and says,
Speaker 2: how long has he been talking to you all like this?
Speaker 2: How long are you gonna let him keep talking trash
Speaker 2: when you have the truth? Well, see, David, he's a
Speaker 2: big giant and you're a little boy. And the king
Speaker 2: that was threatened by David, that didn't even really know
Speaker 2: his name yet, says to David, you can't fight against him.
Speaker 1: He's too big for you.
Speaker 2: Now, I just want to remind you of David's resume
Speaker 2: pick up in First Samuel seventeen, verse thirty four. But
Speaker 2: David said to Saul, that's the king that's the kid
Speaker 2: talking to the king. Your servant has been keeping his
Speaker 2: father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and
Speaker 2: carried off a sheep from the flop, I went after it.
Speaker 2: I struck it. I rescued the sheep from its mouth.
Speaker 2: Checked this phrase. When it turned on me.
Speaker 1: I seized it by its hair, struck and killed it.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He didn't just kill.
Speaker 2: The lion from a distance or say a prayer over it,
Speaker 2: and God gave it a tumor and it died. He said,
Speaker 2: I grabbed it up close, and I wrestled with a lion.
Speaker 3: And tore the sheep out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: That's David. That's what he did.
Speaker 2: And when Saul heard what he was capable of doing
Speaker 2: with the mane of a lion, he sent him to
Speaker 2: the battle line to fight the lion, and with one
Speaker 2: smooth Stones had five ready, but only needed one. Smooth
Speaker 2: Stone knocked the giant down, cut off his head, and
Speaker 2: the Bible says with a sling and a not a
Speaker 2: sword in his hand, he triumphed.
Speaker 1: Over the giant in verse fifty.
Speaker 2: But the moment that I realized that David was very
Speaker 2: good at dealing with a lion that turned on him.
Speaker 2: Is the moment that I realized that this time in
Speaker 2: Psalm thirteen, he is not dealing with a lion. He
Speaker 2: is not dealing with a bear. And the problem in
Speaker 2: Psalm thirteen is that David knows what to do with
Speaker 2: an external threat. I can rip it apart. Give me
Speaker 2: a challenge, I'll figure it out. If there was a problem, yo,
Speaker 2: I'll solve it. David Newt as a saw. I'm also
Speaker 2: if there's a lion in front of me, I know
Speaker 2: what to do with the lion. I have a reliable
Speaker 2: strategy for a lion. I can beat a bear. But
Speaker 2: this time, David says, I am wrestling with my thoughts.
Speaker 2: I'm not wrestling with a lion this time, I'm wrestling
Speaker 2: with my mind.
Speaker 1: How long can I.
Speaker 2: Wrestle with something that isn't coming from the outside. I
Speaker 2: can deal with that, not with a to do list.
Speaker 2: I can deal with that, not with a challenge that
Speaker 2: I'm facing that I can plan for in an appointment,
Speaker 2: or something that I can prep for with my knowledge
Speaker 2: and my intellect and my skill. I've been able to
Speaker 2: do that on several levels throughout the years. But now
Speaker 2: now I'm dealing with something and it's not a bear.
Speaker 2: It's my brain. It's not a lion, it's my mind.
Speaker 2: So it bets the question what do I do when
Speaker 2: the enemy moves the fight to the inside where I
Speaker 2: can't leave it at the office where I can't leave
Speaker 2: it in a location where I can't leave.
Speaker 1: It for a nine to five And he hits his limit.
Speaker 2: And he says, how long I could deal with this
Speaker 2: until they had to operate again?
Speaker 1: I could deal with it.
Speaker 2: You know what I was saying to the Lord the
Speaker 2: other week, I said, I thought I was through with this,
Speaker 2: And you.
Speaker 1: Ever felt that way about something?
Speaker 2: I thought I was through with this because you already
Speaker 2: praise the Lord for all your progress publicly at your group,
Speaker 2: and you don't really know how to go back and
Speaker 2: tell the group that I got bad news, it got infected,
Speaker 2: and I got to do it again because the first
Speaker 2: time they prayed me through it, but this time they
Speaker 2: might judge me because of it. Y'all, getting quiet, Preacher
Speaker 2: is preaching truth. This is Holy goes truth.
Speaker 1: Right now. I am on your case right now, how
Speaker 1: long I could deal with it?
Speaker 2: If you just give me a dumbbell, I can curl
Speaker 2: a dumbell, But when I am a dumbbell, when I'm
Speaker 2: dealing with stuff that's happening on the inside. You remember
Speaker 2: last week we talked about Paul saying I put.
Speaker 1: The ways of childhood behind me.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful. You can put certain ways of childhood behind you.
Speaker 2: I sold all my wrestling figures, all my lex Luger
Speaker 2: and Sting and Ultimate Worrying Halkog, and I sold them all.
Speaker 2: Wish I hadn't. They're worth a lot more money now.
Speaker 2: But I put all that behind me.
Speaker 1: But I still wrestle with the ways of childhood. And
Speaker 1: so it begs the question, what do you do when
Speaker 1: you hit your limit?
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to somebody today and you feel like I have.
Speaker 1: Hit my limit.
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty strong person, but I've hit my limit.
Speaker 2: I can carry a lot, but I have hit my limit.
Speaker 2: I have dealt with this, and I have coped with this,
Speaker 2: and I have managed this, and I have managed not
Speaker 2: to make everybody else crazy around me. But I'm going crazy.
Speaker 2: I have hit my limit. How long will you forget me?
Speaker 2: How long will you hide?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 2: I can go a little while without feeling your presence,
Speaker 2: but I haven't felt you in months. God, I can
Speaker 2: go a little while without confirmation and just stay obedient
Speaker 2: to the last thing that I heard.
Speaker 1: But I need a side.
Speaker 2: How long I can't believe I'm going through this again?
Speaker 2: I thought I was through with this. I thought I
Speaker 2: was done with this. Why am I more tempted than ever?
Speaker 2: Why am I more angry than ever? Why am I
Speaker 2: having bitterness flashbacks?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I thought I forgave them. I thought they cut it
Speaker 2: out of me. I thought they fixed it, and I
Speaker 2: went back and they put me back into ICU. How
Speaker 2: long am I gonna be here? I can only pretend
Speaker 2: to be strong. So long I can't wear this uniform
Speaker 2: home and wear it to work and pretend to be strong.
Speaker 2: So David opens up to the Lord, and he realizes
Speaker 2: that when you have hit your limit, and you can't
Speaker 2: kill this with your hands, and you can't kill this
Speaker 2: with your biceps, and you can't kill this with your
Speaker 2: rational thinking, and you can't kill this with your college degree,
Speaker 2: and you can't kill this with your willpower, and you
Speaker 2: can't kill this with your focus determination, and you can't
Speaker 2: kill this with your vitamins, and you can't kill this
Speaker 2: with your collagen and your health routine and your cold plunge,
Speaker 2: and I'll keep doing the stuff I'm supposed to do,
Speaker 2: but it's not fixing the real problem I have. And
Speaker 2: David realized that when you hit your limit, it's a
Speaker 2: sign that you need to change your level. So whoever
Speaker 2: I'm preaching to, when you hit your limit, change your level.
Speaker 2: When you hit your limit, when you feel that in
Speaker 2: the course of a twenty four hour period, in the
Speaker 2: course of your college career, in the course of you
Speaker 2: trying to raise your own family, in the course of
Speaker 2: you feeling your way through the forest of your emotions
Speaker 2: and your feelings of forsakenness.
Speaker 1: When you hit your limit, change your level.
Speaker 2: Limits and levels and loops, Oh my lions and tigers
Speaker 2: and bears, Oh my. Wrestling with my thoughts of depression,
Speaker 2: Wrestling with my thoughts of insecurity, Wrestling with my old
Speaker 2: ways of handling situations, Wrestling with things that were passed
Speaker 2: down to me or exemplified, Wrestling with my sin nature,
Speaker 2: which is crucified with Christ but keeps trying to have
Speaker 2: a resurrection. Wrestling with the things that I thought drowned
Speaker 2: in the red sea. But why are they swimming after
Speaker 2: me when I am wrestling with something that I can
Speaker 2: tear apart with my hands.
Speaker 1: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: But sometimes the Bible says in Ephesians chapter six, verses
Speaker 2: eleven and twelve, You've got to put on the whole
Speaker 2: armor of God for the king. James says in verse twelve,
Speaker 2: for we wrestle not against flesh and blood. This is
Speaker 2: not a lion you're wrestling with. For we wrestle not
Speaker 2: against flesh and blood. This is not a bear this time.
Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with my thoughts. I'm wrestling with some secrets.
Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with some shame. I'm wrestling with some strong temptation.
Speaker 2: I'm wrestling with some not me. I'm wrestling with some
Speaker 2: why me. I'm wrestling with some what about me? Well,
Speaker 2: I am not wrestling anymore with flesh and blood, but
Speaker 2: I am wrestling against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
Speaker 2: of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness.
Speaker 1: In high places.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 2: I understand something about wrestling, not because I watched Taul Hogan,
Speaker 2: but because I have a son who is a wrestler.
Speaker 2: Not WWF, but the kind of wrestling where they put
Speaker 2: you on a mat for six minutes and.
Speaker 1: You've got to outscore or pin the other person.
Speaker 2: Now, in wrestling, I have a little experience because I
Speaker 2: was a state champion in the eighth grade in a
Speaker 2: freestyle tournament where there were no other entries in my
Speaker 2: weight class category.
Speaker 1: But Graham is pretty good.
Speaker 2: And I took him to see the National Championship where
Speaker 2: all the greatest college wrestlers were wrestling, and Carl Perry
Speaker 2: was sitting next to me, who was a former national champion,
Speaker 2: and I said, tell me what to watch when they wrestle.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what to watch. I understand wrestling,
Speaker 2: but not at your level. I said, what do you
Speaker 2: look for at your level? He said, at this level,
Speaker 2: all of the guys were out there know how to
Speaker 2: change levels. I said, I know what that means, but
Speaker 2: pretend like I didn't. Then explain it to me so
Speaker 2: I could explain it to somebody.
Speaker 1: Else who doesn't know what it means.
Speaker 2: He said, Well, when you stay too still too long,
Speaker 2: you become predictable. But what you got to do at
Speaker 2: this level, you got to change levels so quick that
Speaker 2: I can't tell if you're about to pop me on
Speaker 2: my head or pop me on my head to set
Speaker 2: me up to grab my ankle, and the devil will
Speaker 2: come at you so many different ways.
Speaker 1: And have you standing still.
Speaker 2: So long talking about how long am I gonna feel
Speaker 2: like this? And how long is it gonna be like this?
Speaker 2: And how long are they gonna forget about me?
Speaker 1: And how long till they recognize me?
Speaker 2: But if you have hit a wall called how long today,
Speaker 2: and you have hit your limit and you don't see
Speaker 2: a way to win this fight, the spirit of God said,
Speaker 2: change levels. If you've been down too long, stand up
Speaker 2: and praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: Wake up the.
Speaker 1: Lion inside your lungs.
Speaker 5: You've been sitting there thirty four minutes thinking about my sermon,
Speaker 5: But change levels for ten seconds. Jump up on your feet,
Speaker 5: stick your chest out, and tell the devils I'm saved.
Speaker 3: Say it, I'm saved. Change levels.
Speaker 6: Before we wrestle none against low things.
Speaker 3: We wrestle against high things. And if I'm.
Speaker 5: Wrestling against the high thing, I know a higher thing
Speaker 5: that can't bring it down.
Speaker 2: I cast down strongholds, I cast down depression, I guess
Speaker 2: out fear, I cast out padding, I guess out say,
Speaker 2: I cast out suicide, hot castings.
Speaker 1: Sit today that is above.
Speaker 3: Every day help me live this day high five fourteen.
Speaker 3: People say I'm changing levels. I'm changing levels.
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Oh, there he goes, Oh there he goes,
Speaker 6: there he goes, there she goes.
Speaker 3: I can't predict her.
Speaker 6: When I think I got her down, said gets back up.
Speaker 6: When I think just getting browned, she starts to pray.
Speaker 3: I'm facing.
Speaker 1: David, said, I don't know how long this is going
Speaker 1: to last. I don't know how long I'm going to
Speaker 1: be hurting like this. I'll know how long I'm going
Speaker 1: to have to push through this without any evidence that
Speaker 1: God is working. I'll know how long. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you one thing, not as long.
Speaker 2: As my.
Speaker 1: Song.
Speaker 2: And I talked about lions, and I talked about bears,
Speaker 2: and I talked about limits, and I talked about levels,
Speaker 2: But I want to talk about loops. Because when you
Speaker 2: get to verse five, David has disrupted his own despair.
Speaker 1: And prayer for deliverance. Y'all are sitting down like you're
Speaker 1: not in a.
Speaker 2: Hurry to get out of here and go back to
Speaker 2: whatever hell you've been fighting.
Speaker 1: I ain't not waiting at home, but a lion and
Speaker 1: a bear for you.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: You might as well go ahead and get this Bible lesson.
Speaker 2: But what happens so many times and an experience like
Speaker 2: this that we won't admit is we get the lesson
Speaker 2: and we leave.
Speaker 1: And we don't get in the loop. Because David said
Speaker 1: something so powerful in verse four.
Speaker 2: He says, if you don't do something soon, God, I'm
Speaker 2: going to fail, and my foes will rejoice when I fall. Now,
Speaker 2: I told the Lord that I would share this with
Speaker 2: you if the atmosphere fell open to it, and so
Speaker 2: I will. There was a season of my ministry where
Speaker 2: Holly and I were so paralyzed by the nature of
Speaker 2: public ministry, public criticism in the age of AI, when
Speaker 2: people can make up things that you said and make
Speaker 2: it sound like you say it, and make it look
Speaker 2: like you were standing there with Oscar the Grouch if
Speaker 2: they want to. It's no longer to photoshop you into anything.
Speaker 2: There was a time where I was so consumed with
Speaker 2: the fear that something in ministry would cause me to fail,
Speaker 2: or that my best had been behind me and it
Speaker 2: was only going to get worse from here. So if
Speaker 2: you're struggling with that in your own way, the fear
Speaker 2: of failure or the fear of looking like a fool.
Speaker 1: Listen to what the Lord gave me. And it really
Speaker 1: parallels the thought process of David.
Speaker 2: Not to compare myself to David, but I do relate
Speaker 2: to the resistance and the wrestling that he felt. And
Speaker 2: I thought for many years that the wrestling meant that
Speaker 2: something was wrong with me. I thought that the fact
Speaker 2: that I wrestle with this means that I am this.
Speaker 2: I thought the wrestling meant that something was wrong with me.
Speaker 2: I need to slow down before I show you what
Speaker 2: I want to show you. In verse four, he says,
Speaker 2: my foes will rejoice when I fall.
Speaker 1: You see that. And there was a loop in my
Speaker 1: mind that.
Speaker 2: Went on for months and months and months. It's going
Speaker 2: to end in failure. It's going to end in failure.
Speaker 2: It's going to end in failure. I couldn't pinpoint why.
Speaker 2: I did see other things that were happening to other
Speaker 2: people all around me, and I thought, oh, man, you know,
Speaker 2: I I'll know how long can I keep preaching and
Speaker 2: you know, writing songs and doing ministry.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it in the flesh. I
Speaker 1: want to do it in the spirit. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: get tired.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get tired too, and you wonder is this
Speaker 2: going to end in failure?
Speaker 1: So one day the Lord gave me a thought and
Speaker 1: it busted me out of the prison.
Speaker 2: That I was in that came from the loop of
Speaker 2: thinking that I had entertained what if it is in failures?
Speaker 2: Can infaiures can in failures, can in failure? And the
Speaker 2: way he gave it to me was something that I
Speaker 2: could latch onto. And I give it to you exactly
Speaker 2: as he gave it to me, and I wrote it down.
Speaker 2: He said, I want you to start confessing this over
Speaker 2: your life, and I did it out loud every day
Speaker 2: for a year. It may end in failure, but I
Speaker 2: will not live in fear. And I've struggled to hold
Speaker 2: to that and I've struggled to live it out.
Speaker 1: But he gave it to me. It was one line.
Speaker 1: He gave me, one line to deal with the lie.
Speaker 2: Because see, the lie I was in the loop was
Speaker 2: that if something fails, I'm a failure. But when I
Speaker 2: realized that he loved me before I started a church.
Speaker 2: He loved me when y'all got here. He'll love me
Speaker 2: if you leave, He'll love me if I preach good.
Speaker 1: He'll love me if I stand up here in stammer
Speaker 1: and stutter and ud.
Speaker 2: He knows what I'm trying to say, and he'll even
Speaker 2: take his spirit and interpret and you'll tell me, Pastor,
Speaker 2: that was awesome when you said this, And I won't
Speaker 2: even have said that, and you'll have heard that because
Speaker 2: God wanted to get it to you. So even if
Speaker 2: it fails, watch this. It may end in failure, but
Speaker 2: I will not live in fear. And that has done
Speaker 2: more for me than all of my resistancy. Because you
Speaker 2: try to wrestle at a certain level, You're like, oh, no, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna study you and I'm gonna do take my
Speaker 2: creatine and I'm gonna do you know. But but even
Speaker 2: that has his limits, So I change the level, change
Speaker 2: the level. And David can't figure out how to battle
Speaker 2: his thoughts because this is not something he is fighting
Speaker 2: that is turning on him on the outside. His own
Speaker 2: mind is turning on him. We are do when your
Speaker 2: mind turns on you? And why did David's mind attack
Speaker 2: him so viciously? Is it possible that the minds that
Speaker 2: are under the most vicious attack are also carrying the
Speaker 2: most brilliant potential.
Speaker 1: Think about what David went on to do David went on.
Speaker 2: To become not only a king, but he became the
Speaker 2: designer of the temple that was the house of God,
Speaker 2: for which he gave the plans to his son Solomon.
Speaker 2: And when he gave him the plans for the temple,
Speaker 2: he said something very interesting in First Chronicles twenty eight.
Speaker 2: He said, well, that says he gave him the plans portico, building, storems,
Speaker 2: upper parts, enterans, place of Atomas. So he had all
Speaker 2: that mapped out verse twelve. And he gave him the
Speaker 2: plans of all that the spirit had put in his
Speaker 2: mind for the courts of the Temple of the Lord,
Speaker 2: and all the surrounding rooms, treasuries, Temple of God, treasures
Speaker 2: of the dedicated things. It goes onto lists in the
Speaker 2: most specific detail, everything that God put into David's mind.
Speaker 2: Now we understand why in Psalm thirteen he was wrestling
Speaker 2: with his thoughts, because that mind was under attack by
Speaker 2: the enemy, because it was the place that would conceive
Speaker 2: something awesome for God, that mind from which the temple
Speaker 2: would come, where the people would worship. That mind, that beautiful,
Speaker 2: brilliant mind. It wasn't a broken mind. It was a
Speaker 2: brilliant mind. The level of your battle tells you something
Speaker 2: about the level that God is calling you to build.
Speaker 1: The level of your battle.
Speaker 2: See, when you have an overactive imagine nation, you can
Speaker 2: build a temple. But if you have an overactive imagination,
Speaker 2: you can also call Bathsheba to come and sleep with you,
Speaker 2: even though she's not your wife, and make a plan
Speaker 2: for her husband to get killed on the front lines
Speaker 2: of battle.
Speaker 1: And that is why it's important.
Speaker 2: In this season of your life that you win the
Speaker 2: battle for your mind, because there is something that God
Speaker 2: wants to bring forth from your mind. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: say that the place of the blueprint is always the
Speaker 2: place of the battle. I'll say it again when God
Speaker 2: is going to give you a blueprint. Some of you
Speaker 2: are creating generational change. Some of you are doing it
Speaker 2: different than your family ever did. Some of you are
Speaker 2: setting a new direction, a new course for everybody with
Speaker 2: your last name or maiden name in the future. And
Speaker 2: the reason the battle has been so fierce in your mind.
Speaker 2: There is so much material in your mind. There is
Speaker 2: so much potential in your mind. David's mind would go
Speaker 2: on to lead armies. His mind was capable of navigating
Speaker 2: through the most arid terrain he can find water in
Speaker 2: places that the troops that were chasing him would not
Speaker 2: even dare to follow him into that mind. Of course
Speaker 2: it was under attack. Of course it was a battle
Speaker 2: that was the place of a blueprint. Of course you're struggling.
Speaker 2: Of course you're dealing with issues. There's nothing wrong with you.
Speaker 2: You're just a real one. You are resisting the enemy.
Speaker 2: You are wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against
Speaker 2: spiritual wickedness.
Speaker 1: And isn't it amazing that the mind that created.
Speaker 2: Something so magnificent as the Temple experienced so much misery?
Speaker 2: And doesn't it give you hope to know that the
Speaker 2: misery that you've been going through is just a clue
Speaker 2: to the magnificence.
Speaker 1: Let me say it like the Bible says it.
Speaker 2: For our light and momentary afflictions are achieving for us
Speaker 2: a far exceeding weight of glory. It will way everything
Speaker 2: you've been through when you see what God builds. And
Speaker 2: I'll prove it to you right now. Psalm thirteen is
Speaker 2: written by David about a situation that we don't even
Speaker 2: know what it was, and whatever situation he was going
Speaker 2: through when he wrote it.
Speaker 1: The situation is over, but we're still preaching about what
Speaker 1: he wrote.
Speaker 2: I said, the situation only lasted so long, but the
Speaker 2: song was longer than the situation.
Speaker 1: Because I'm standing.
Speaker 2: Up in front of you thousands of years after he wrestled,
Speaker 2: and I'm reading what he wrote, because he went through
Speaker 2: what he went through. I came to tell you that
Speaker 2: what you are going to see on the other side
Speaker 2: of this will make what you're going through feel like
Speaker 2: a short.
Speaker 3: Time, a little while, just a little while, just a
Speaker 3: little while.
Speaker 1: And it all starts with verse five. I'm wrestling.
Speaker 2: How long I'm forgotten, how long I'm forsaken, how long
Speaker 2: you're hiding, how long I'm losing?
Speaker 3: How long?
Speaker 2: Verse five comes out of nowhere? But I trust, I trust,
Speaker 2: But I trust you know how we love the shout
Speaker 2: in church about but God. Yeah, sometimes it's not but
Speaker 2: God that you're waiting on is but I Because sometimes
Speaker 2: when you're asking God how long, he's asking you the
Speaker 2: same question I see on that Sunday. But the Lord
Speaker 2: wants you to know I've been wondering the same thing.
Speaker 2: I've been wondering, how long you.
Speaker 3: Gonna let the devil just tell you anything he wants
Speaker 3: to tell you.
Speaker 2: Unchallenged before you rebuke him and plead the.
Speaker 6: Blood of Jesus for everything concerning your life.
Speaker 3: How long, Oh I love it. I'm happy. Don't think
Speaker 3: I'm mad. I'm not mad at you. I'm happy for you.
Speaker 3: Because God said he's about to butt in. God said, you're.
Speaker 2: Wrestling with some stuff that's unclean, unfamiliar, unmanageable, overwhelming. But
Speaker 2: I trust in your unfailing love. My heart rejoices in
Speaker 2: your salvation. Put me in f sharp verse six. I
Speaker 2: will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: So watching.
Speaker 2: When you have hit your limit, Blessed to the porn spirit,
Speaker 2: for there's kingdom of heim.
Speaker 1: Blessed those who home and thirst that for ushless they feel.
Speaker 1: When you have hit your limit, Come to the waters,
Speaker 1: all you who are.
Speaker 2: Thirsty and by, come by bread and milk without why
Speaker 2: without price? You can get it for free if you
Speaker 2: come on your knees. He said, you need a new loop.
Speaker 2: You've been in the How long till it gets better?
Speaker 1: Loop?
Speaker 2: How long till it changes loop? How long am I
Speaker 2: going to be like this loop? How long are they
Speaker 2: going to ignore me?
Speaker 1: Loop? And I want to get you in a new
Speaker 1: loop of how good God has already been to you.
Speaker 2: Something just shifted in David in verse five. I can
Speaker 2: tell it he realized, I can't fight this like a lion.
Speaker 2: I can't fight this like a bear. I can't fight
Speaker 2: this like my previous fights. I gotta fight this by
Speaker 2: getting in a new loop, like when I killed the
Speaker 2: lion and when I killed the bear, and I started
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, how great my God was, not how
Speaker 2: big my giant was, but I trust.
Speaker 1: And when he said but when God butted in, he
Speaker 1: ends his song.
Speaker 2: Not singing about the struggle, but singing about the goodness
Speaker 2: of God, for he has.
Speaker 1: Been good to me.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you get this message, and sometimes you watch
Speaker 2: these videos, and sometimes you listen to this podcast and
Speaker 2: you get the lesson.
Speaker 1: But you don't get in the loop. You don't get
Speaker 1: in the loop. You think worship is over because.
Speaker 2: You've got to get out to your car, and you
Speaker 2: think you got to get to your car, because you
Speaker 2: got to get to your lunch, and you got to
Speaker 2: get to your lunch, because you've got to get back
Speaker 2: home and take your nap.
Speaker 1: And you got to take your.
Speaker 2: Nap so you can still wake up tired and go
Speaker 2: into another week talking about God.
Speaker 1: How long? How long?
Speaker 2: David said, I don't know, but not as long as
Speaker 2: my song, because I'm gonna outsing my struggle.
Speaker 1: Hear me, if you can, I am gonna out praise
Speaker 1: this problem. Let me go deeper.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna out trust this trouble. And it's a sign
Speaker 2: that I can't fight it in my own flesh. I
Speaker 2: wrestle not against flesh and blood. I'm wrestling against.
Speaker 1: A high thing.
Speaker 2: But I have a higher thing, So I will sing
Speaker 2: and praise for he has everybody say he has been
Speaker 2: good to me, and then then you might even get convinced.
Speaker 2: You might, you might say he's been so good to me.
Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Three, we were having a recording and we got together
Speaker 2: to write some songs before the recording, and me and
Speaker 2: Brandon and Chandler wrote a song one night called Ben
Speaker 2: so Good and the chorus just said, you have been.
Speaker 4: So good to me, God, I can't believe how you.
Speaker 1: Love me, What a friend you have been.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And you see what happened, how you just started singing
Speaker 2: it again and you almost can't stop singing it.
Speaker 1: That's because we wrote it be a loop and here's
Speaker 1: what that means.
Speaker 2: The first line of that chorus, which we ripped off
Speaker 2: from Song thirteen, verse six, which we got from David,
Speaker 2: who felt like God had left him, but he sang
Speaker 2: a song that lasted longer than his trouble.
Speaker 1: This trouble is not gonna last as long as my song.
Speaker 2: If the devil thinks he's gonna outlast me, he's got
Speaker 2: another thing called Me and the devil are having a
Speaker 2: staring contest right now, And I'm looking unto Jesus, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking I'm taking.
Speaker 1: My eyes off the wind in the waves. So I
Speaker 1: don't know how long this storm is gonna last. For
Speaker 1: somebody shout, not as long as my song. So is
Speaker 1: it possible that God doesn't always deliver us from it?
Speaker 2: But he calls us to decide in it? David said,
Speaker 2: But I trust in your unfailing love, and I'll sing.
Speaker 2: If the trouble lasts seven days, I'm gonna sing eight.
Speaker 1: I will sing.
Speaker 2: If this illness lasts three months, I'll sing three months
Speaker 2: and fourteen hours. Because I'm gonna outsing this struggle. I'm
Speaker 2: going to outsing this doubt. I'm gonna outsing this issue
Speaker 2: with my prodigal child. I'm going to outphrase that you
Speaker 2: understand because I'm changing levels.
Speaker 1: And the way it works is this. The first line
Speaker 1: of the chorus leads into the last line of the chorus.
Speaker 1: I'll show you how you love what a friend you
Speaker 1: have been? First line?
Speaker 4: So to me, God, I can't believe how you love me.
Speaker 1: What you have been.
Speaker 2: You can't stop singing, can you? You can't stop praising,
Speaker 2: can you? Because you got in the loop. See see
Speaker 2: that's the loop.
Speaker 1: I want you living in this week, not how hard
Speaker 1: it's been, but you have been so good to me.
Speaker 4: God, I can't.
Speaker 1: Stop singing just a second. I got to tell you something.
Speaker 2: When we sang the song at the recording, it literally
Speaker 2: went eighteen minutes in the room and the church had
Speaker 2: never heard it before.
Speaker 1: You don't believe me.
Speaker 2: I took a screenshot of the voice memo of the
Speaker 2: front of house mixed from the night we recorded.
Speaker 1: Look at the timestamp on this. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can see it.
Speaker 2: Eighteen minutes and forty seven second guests of a song
Speaker 2: that the church had never sang. Why because it took
Speaker 2: a line and made it a loop. Ye, And that's
Speaker 2: what needs to happen in your heart. You understand, So
Speaker 2: you just start thanking him. Now, be careful. The devil
Speaker 2: will attack your thankfulness. He will attack your gratitude, because
Speaker 2: if he can keep you down here fighting, he can
Speaker 2: keep you down here losing and gasping for breath and
Speaker 2: feeling sorry for yourself.
Speaker 1: Because if I start.
Speaker 2: Thanking him for the new day, I might start thinking
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And if I start thanking.
Speaker 2: Him that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow, I might
Speaker 2: start thinking that he has a hope in a future
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: And if I start thanking.
Speaker 2: Him that he has a hope in a future for me,
Speaker 2: I might get some friends and make a plan to
Speaker 2: move my life for her. And if I start thanking
Speaker 2: him for the new people he brought in my life,
Speaker 2: I might start thinking that.
Speaker 3: I don't have to do this by myself. And if
Speaker 3: I start thinking him that.
Speaker 6: I'm not in this by myself, I might start praising him.
Speaker 6: At the midnight hour, Hey Paul, Hey.
Speaker 3: Silas, how long you're gonna be in this prison? How
Speaker 3: long is your sentence?
Speaker 6: Silace said, I don't know, but not as long as
Speaker 6: my song I got a song in midnight.
Speaker 3: I gott a song through the age. How why? And singing.
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 3: Oh God? Again? Lift your head here.
Speaker 2: You hell.
Speaker 1: Job you sing?
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's gonna last, but sing
Speaker 1: it again. Not as long. H get that stuck in
Speaker 1: your head for a minute. See what happens. Say it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And when the doctor's report doesn't look good. And
Speaker 2: when you don't think you have what it takes to
Speaker 2: move on, keep singing. If the storm keeps raging, keep singing.
Speaker 1: And when you start.
Speaker 2: Thinking, and you start thinking, don't be surprised.
Speaker 1: If the enemies you see today you will see.
Speaker 3: Them no more.
Speaker 7: Because when I praise, when I praise, when I praise,
Speaker 7: come on bad. I need to sing it one more time.
Speaker 7: When peace like a river attended my way, When.
Speaker 3: Sorry slight sea billows roll, I gotta song, I gotta praise.
Speaker 5: Keep singing, can't singing, can't singing.
Speaker 6: Fire through the stupe.
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