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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message right now. Join hands with the person

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Speaker 1: next to you.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching this in your home, grab somebody and

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Speaker 2: snatch them and say, pray with me.

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Speaker 1: And speak this out loud.

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Speaker 2: Say in the name of Jesus, the Savior of the world,

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Speaker 2: all things are possible, every need is met, every sin

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Speaker 2: can be forgiven.

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Speaker 1: His blood is enough.

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Speaker 2: Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Glory to God.

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Speaker 1: Bless your name.

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Speaker 2: Lord.

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Speaker 1: I believe in you, Lord.

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Speaker 3: I've seen you move in my life. I've seen you

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Speaker 3: change in possible situations. I've seen you in the fire.

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Speaker 3: I've felt your hand and heard your voice on raging waters.

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Speaker 1: I come to you.

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Speaker 2: Now because there may be somebody today who needs a

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Speaker 2: word from you, something that only you know about, something

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Speaker 2: that only you can fix, something that only your grace

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Speaker 2: can cover. And maybe, just maybe, Lord, that you would

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Speaker 2: use this time in your presence whether they're in the

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Speaker 2: building or whether they're watching online. It really doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: to you. You can reach anywhere, and you can touch anyone.

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Speaker 2: You could do anything. There's nothing too hard for you.

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Speaker 2: And it may just be God of all creation, our redeemer,

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Speaker 2: that you would reach through eternity into time and snatch

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Speaker 2: somebody off the bad path.

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Speaker 1: It may just be that you would.

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Speaker 2: Reach from eternity into time and turn somebody back toward home.

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Speaker 1: It may just be that you would call their name.

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Speaker 2: Today you called Lazarus name, and by all accounts, he

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Speaker 2: had no business getting up and running because he had

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Speaker 2: been dead four days. But when you said his name,

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Speaker 2: his legs started pumping, his heart started working, and he

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Speaker 2: started running. Father, today, would you do that kind of

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Speaker 2: thing in this place? Physically, emotionally, spiritually. We surrender this

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Speaker 2: time to you, and I thank you.

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Speaker 1: For your word.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah fifty five says that it never returns void. It

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Speaker 2: accomplishes the purpose that you sent it to do. I

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Speaker 2: believe your word is going to work today, and I give.

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Speaker 1: You praise because it's already done. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: I pray and we love you, Lord, and we're not

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Speaker 2: ashamed to be seen praising you.

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Speaker 1: You did it all for us. Come on, let's give

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Speaker 1: God a great praise. Hey, everybody on life.

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Speaker 2: I told them to give God a great praise, but

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Speaker 2: they gave them.

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Speaker 1: A halfway praise. So I'm gonna give you a chance.

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Speaker 4: Give your God, hey.

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Speaker 1: A great praise. It's a great day to be alive.

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Speaker 2: I was glad when they said, unto me, let us

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Speaker 2: go to the House of the Lord. I was sad

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Speaker 2: when they said, unto me, we're having snow again, and

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Speaker 2: I thought, we gotta find a way to get the

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Speaker 2: word out to the people once again. And so for

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Speaker 2: the second week in a row, we got here a

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Speaker 2: little early.

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Speaker 1: We rounded up all of.

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Speaker 5: The people who are going to be the first ones

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Speaker 5: taken in the rat shirt, and we're here today to

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Speaker 5: minister the word of God to you. Somebody put it

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Speaker 5: in the chat, say this one's for.

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Speaker 1: Me, Hi.

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Speaker 5: Five twelve people say it's for you too.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. God is good.

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Speaker 2: Everybody who's grateful to be here, makes some noise and

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Speaker 2: thank the Lord. If you are watching online and you

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Speaker 2: regularly attend one of our campuses, I expect your butt

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Speaker 2: back in church next week. We're celebrating two decades of divide,

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Speaker 2: miracle of sin, the faithfulness of Almighty God. Y'are not

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Speaker 2: gonna take me back to twenty twenty and put me

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Speaker 2: in an empty room for six months.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 2: Also, we'll have the best opportunity to gather with those

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Speaker 2: Elevation Nights tour is coming quickly. I want you to

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Speaker 2: get your tickets right now. Go to Elevation Nights dot com. Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn,

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Speaker 2: New York, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids. It'd be nice and

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Speaker 2: March fifth Elevation Nights dot com. We also want to

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Speaker 2: celebrate our Orlando campus. We envy your weather, and we

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Speaker 1: Six years.

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Speaker 2: Let's give it up for Elevation Orlando. I believe I'll

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Speaker 2: preach now that's the part where y'all are supposed to

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Speaker 2: get so excited that it's just like Electro. Last week,

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Speaker 2: my message was it's worth the dirt, and it is.

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Speaker 1: It's in the unseen places of our life that God

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Speaker 1: does the greatest work.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes the messiest moments are the most magnificent and

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Speaker 2: the most miraculous. Today, I want to share with you

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Speaker 2: from a foundational scripture in Matthew chapter seven.

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Speaker 1: You'll se why I call it a foundational scripture.

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Speaker 2: In just a moment Matthew chapter seven, verses twenty four

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Speaker 2: through twenty nine. To be specific, full disclosure. I was

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Speaker 2: not ready to preach yet. I got a phone call

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Speaker 2: from our chief of staff here at the church, who said,

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Speaker 2: be tomorrow. It might not be safe, or we might

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Speaker 1: It after that. And so I told the Lord, I'm

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Speaker 2: You and I both know that I had set aside

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Speaker 2: the next few days to study. And Lord, since you

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Speaker 2: going to be bad to the days where we're not

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Speaker 2: gathering in your name? Like, are we not on the

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Speaker 2: same theme here? Of course, I understand that there are

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Speaker 2: far more pressing issues to the Lord than when my

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Speaker 2: study day is. But I was praying like that, and

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Speaker 2: he gave me my message title while I was praying

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Speaker 2: about my message, and the title that I want to

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Speaker 2: use for this message, and I actually want you to

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Speaker 2: say it to your neighbor. Look at him and say,

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Speaker 2: you are more ready than you recognize. You're more ready

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Speaker 1: And then the Lord said, you've already got your scripture.

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Speaker 1: I said I do.

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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, you memorized it because you've been preaching

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Speaker 2: it since you were sixteen Matthew seven, Verse twenty four. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: everyone who hears these words of mind and puts them

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Speaker 1: Yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation

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Speaker 2: But everyone who hears these words of mind and does

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Speaker 2: When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were

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Speaker 2: amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who

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Speaker 1: Teachers of the law. Verse twenty five is my assignment.

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Speaker 2: The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds

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Speaker 2: because it had its foundation on the rock.

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Speaker 1: So now tell your other neighbor.

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Speaker 2: Tell me you're more ready than you recognize.

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Speaker 2: You're more ready than you recognize. As I consider the

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Speaker 2: memories of ministry that I've experienced from my vantage point

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Speaker 2: over the last twenty years, one stands out that surprises

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Speaker 2: me the most. Everywhere that I go to minister God's Word,

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Speaker 2: when I meet people, they tell me a different report

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Speaker 2: of how this ministry has touched their life.

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Speaker 1: I live for those moments. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's one thing to write a book, write a song,

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Speaker 2: speak with someone that that word touched personally. That's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful thing. Sometimes people start crying. Sometimes people apologize. They say,

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Speaker 2: I hadn't been to church in three years, but I

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Speaker 2: used to really like it over there at Elevation. And

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Speaker 2: I always tell them you know where to find me

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Speaker 2: when you need me. There's one thing that I've heard

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Speaker 2: over and over again, people will say thank you for

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Speaker 2: your ministry. Your church got us through COVID as a family.

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Speaker 2: Your church got us through the pandemic as a family.

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Speaker 2: Your church got us through a very dark time in

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Speaker 2: that season as a family. The reason that surprises me

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Speaker 2: is because I've never felt less ready or prepared to

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Speaker 2: And the time that represented the greatest test for me

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Speaker 2: I remember the first sermon that we did not to

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Speaker 2: let's go there a little bit of a flashback, perhaps

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Speaker 2: to help us set the foundation for the message. When

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Speaker 2: we came in here in an empty room, you were there.

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Speaker 1: You were there. I love you so much. You weren't there.

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Speaker 2: And I remember putting them on the stools and I

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Speaker 2: just said, I need to have some people that love

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Speaker 2: But what's so amazing about it, and this is kind

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Speaker 2: of what I want to get across for your life

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Speaker 2: is that just because I wasn't prepared doesn't mean that

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Speaker 2: God had not already provided. And that's a very important

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Speaker 2: principle that I want you to get today. Just because

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Speaker 2: not telling you to apply that logic to your ape

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Speaker 2: not see coming, the storms that you didn't see coming,

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Speaker 2: for us to preach about because Jesus said there were

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Speaker 2: storm on these two different houses. Now understand, when Jesus

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Speaker 2: is teaching, he's teaching people who live in a very dry,

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Speaker 1: It could change so quickly from a nice, warm day

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Speaker 1: to an absolute gully washer. How you like that?

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Speaker 2: For a monk's corner South Carolina vocabulary word, And it

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Speaker 2: could happen so fast to a crowd who was familiar

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Speaker 1: Help me preach Southerners.

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Speaker 2: Somehow we ended up with seven dozen eggs in our house.

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Speaker 2: they had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf

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Speaker 2: they had with them in the boat, be careful, Jesus

449
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 2: warned them, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees.

450
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: And that of Herod.

451
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 2: They discussed this with one another and said this because

452
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Speaker 2: we have no bread. Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them,

453
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Speaker 2: why are you talking about having no bread? Do you

454
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Speaker 2: still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do

455
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Speaker 2: you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but

456
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Speaker 2: failed to hear?

457
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Speaker 1: And don't you remember when I.

458
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Speaker 2: Broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many

459
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Speaker 2: basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?

460
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Speaker 1: Twelve? They replied. And when I broke the seven loaves

461
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Speaker 1: for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did

462
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Speaker 1: you pay? They answered? Seven?

463
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Speaker 2: He said to them, And this is what I want

464
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Speaker 2: to ask myself sometimes. Do you still not understand? Do

465
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Speaker 2: you still not understand that just because you're not prepared

466
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean God didn't provide?

467
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Speaker 1: Do you not.

468
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Speaker 2: Understand that just because the storm was sudden to you

469
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean God stop being sovereign over the storm. Don't

470
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Speaker 2: you recognize that God, who has called you by name,

471
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Speaker 2: will keep you through every season of your life. Now

472
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Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but I want

473
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 2: to minister to you because something has taken you by surprise.

474
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: You did not expect that medical report. You did not

475
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 2: expect to have to be in the principal's office keeping

476
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: your kid in school every other week.

477
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Speaker 1: You did not.

478
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Speaker 2: Expect to still be doing fertility treatments three years into

479
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Speaker 2: this journey. You did not expect to still be single

480
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 2: in this season of your life. You did not expect

481
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: for your marriage to be coming to an end at

482
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Speaker 2: this young of a place in its inception. You did

483
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Speaker 2: not expect to be this far behind in your finances

484
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Speaker 2: at this age and stage.

485
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Speaker 1: You did not expect to be this.

486
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Speaker 2: Many years away from being able to retire. You did

487
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Speaker 2: not expect to still be struggling with this issue that

488
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: you have laid on the altar over and over again.

489
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 2: You did not expect for the panic attacks to start again.

490
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Speaker 1: They've been gone for three years.

491
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Speaker 2: You did not expect for yourself to be reaching for

492
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 2: the pills again because you thought you had moved on

493
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: from that dependency. You did not expect that person to

494
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Speaker 2: walk out of your life.

495
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Speaker 1: In fact, they told you.

496
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Speaker 2: I'll never leave you, even if everybody else does. You

497
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Speaker 2: did not expect in this season of your life to

498
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Speaker 2: be feeling distant from God. You did not expect in

499
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 2: this season of your life to feel so confused about

500
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Speaker 2: what your next step is. I just want to remind

501
00:28:52,720 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 2: you that you can be confidently confused, confidently confuse used.

502
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: That is, I did not expect this, But just because

503
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: I wasn't prepared for this does not mean God hasn't

504
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: provided for this. So now I'm just looking for the

505
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: loaf that's in the boat that I did not see

506
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Speaker 2: with my human eyes, because I'm more ready than I recognize.

507
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: Because if God put the crowd in front of me

508
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Speaker 2: to feed, he will give me the bread to pass out.

509
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: In their hands. You understand what I'm saying.

510
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: If God gave me the challenge to meet, God will

511
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Speaker 2: give me the resource to meet it.

512
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Speaker 1: Somebody say I've got resource. I dare you to shout

513
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: that again. I've got resource. Even if your bank account

514
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: number says a different story. Say I've got resource.

515
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 5: Even if your cars in the shop say.

516
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: I've got resource, I've got resource.

517
00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: Because number two shout this, I've got relationship. Time you've

518
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: got relationship with somebody who's got resource, you've got resource.

519
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: Anytime you've got relationship with somebody who is the source,

520
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about the bread you forgot,

521
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: or the mistake that you made, or the wrong turn

522
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: that you took, or the stall out that you've encountered,

523
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: or the wisdom that you lack. If anyone lacks wisdom,

524
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: let him ask to God, who gives to all men liberally,

525
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: and upbraid it. Not so somebody say.

526
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Speaker 7: I've got it. I don't feel it, but I've got it.

527
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 7: I can't prove it, but I've got it. You can't

528
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 7: see it, but I've got it. I'm not wear of

529
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 7: it yet, but.

530
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Speaker 1: I've got it. I don't even feel it, but i've

531
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Speaker 1: got it.

532
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Speaker 5: And I'm practicing for where God is taking me because.

533
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: He's not done with me yet. A fellow outline starting

534
00:30:59,080 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: to form there.

535
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 10: I've got resource, I've got relationship. Do you know what

536
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 10: David did for his son Solomon when he was called

537
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 10: to build the temple in First Chronicles, chapter twenty nine.

538
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 10: He got all the people together, right, the great King

539
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 10: David got up in front of all the people and

540
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 10: he said, my son is going to build a house

541
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Speaker 10: for the Lord. It's going to be magnificent because God is.

542
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 10: It's going to be great because God is.

543
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 2: It's going to be spectacular because God is. It's going

544
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: to be made of the best stuff because God is.

545
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: And watch what he said.

546
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: He said, my son, Solomon, the one whom God has chosen,

547
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 2: is young and inexperienced and not ready. The task is

548
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 2: great because this palatial structure is not for men, but

549
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: for the Lord God.

550
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Speaker 1: With all my resources, I'm gonna just preach this like

551
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: I feel it. I saw a weird connection in the text.

552
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: I did not expe this connection, but he said, with

553
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 2: all my resource, I have provided for the temple of

554
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: my God, gold for the gold work, silver for the silver,

555
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood

556
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 2: for the work. Would so he said, I'm gonna give

557
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: my son something to work with. Is gonna be gold

558
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: for the gold work, silver for the silver work, bronze

559
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 2: for the bronze work, iron for the iron work, and

560
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: wood for the woodwork, as well as onyx for the settings,

561
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: turquoise stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine

562
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: stone and marble, all of these in large quantities. He said,

563
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you everything you need to build, because

564
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: I know you don't feel ready yet, and you will

565
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 2: have to work with it, and you will have to

566
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 2: form it, and you will have to develop it.

567
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Speaker 1: I hear the Lord saying to somebody, build with it.

568
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: Build with it. Stop saying I'm not ready, Stop saying

569
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Speaker 1: I don't have it, and build with it. You have

570
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Speaker 1: resource because you.

571
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: Have relationships, And David said, I have given it to

572
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: my son. How much more will your father in heaven

573
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: not give you everything you need?

574
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: For the season that you're in.

575
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: Somebody receive that word right now online.

576
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: Repeat after me.

577
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: I have everything I need for the season I'm in.

578
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you have.

579
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: Everything you need for the season you're in. Tell them

580
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: you have resource. Tell them you have relationship. Now, somebody say,

581
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: I've got resource, I've got relationship, I've got rocks.

582
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: David said, I.

583
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: Have stored up for my son Solomon everything he needs

584
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Speaker 2: to build what God has called him to build. And

585
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: one of the things he mentioned at the very end

586
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 2: was precious stones or rocks. Now, if you remember anything

587
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 2: about David, you know that a significant season of his

588
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 2: life involved a rock. It wasn't precious stones, it was

589
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 2: just a rock. As a matter of fact, I want

590
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 2: to call Graham up to the stage right now.

591
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,959
Speaker 1: Give this boy a microphone.

592
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: I did not prepare him for this, But give this

593
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: boy a microphone in his hand.

594
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to him about this, but he's ready.

595
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 2: Graham, take them all the way up to First Samuel

596
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 2: sixteen and tell them in thirty seconds the background of

597
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: First Samuel sixteen.

598
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: Even though you weren't prepared to do this.

599
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 11: I did not tell you to wear a sweater over

600
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 11: a collared shirt. Watch God, I did not tell you

601
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 11: to wear your best fit that you have worn in

602
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 11: your entire teenage life, looking like a high school senior

603
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 11: chosen by God. I just called you up here, and

604
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 11: I gave you an assignment. Give us quickly the background

605
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 11: of the man.

606
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: David, from first Samuel sixteen, all the way up until

607
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: he met Deliath.

608
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 12: Please in thirty seconds, go for Samuel sixteen. We got David,

609
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 12: and he's just a shepherd boy. He's out in the field.

610
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 12: His brothers are out working in the military, and he's

611
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 12: out there in the field taking care of the sheep.

612
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: But one day this dude named what was his name,

613
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: the prophet came. He pulled up.

614
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 12: He was like Samuel. Samuel pulled up. He was saying, y'o,

615
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 12: God wants a king. It's gonna be.

616
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: One of y'all. They lined them up. It was none

617
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: of the older brothers. They're like, we got that older

618
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: We got the.

619
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Speaker 12: Younger brother, David. David pulled up. He was like, Yo,

620
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 12: you're gonna be the king.

621
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: David King. David was the king, but.

622
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Speaker 12: He had to go back out to the field.

623
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Speaker 1: So he's a king.

624
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 12: He's in the field he's got oil, but he's in

625
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 12: the field. And then one day, one day, one day,

626
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 12: this giant name Goliath pulled up to the front lines

627
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 12: of the military and he was taunting them.

628
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 1: He was saying, where's your God? You guys are weak?

629
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Speaker 1: What the heck's when he send them? Someone?

630
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 12: Come one v won me. We're gonna run it. If

631
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Speaker 12: you win, then your God's real.

632
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: Whatever.

633
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 12: They're like, I don't know who it's gonna be. But

634
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 12: then David, his dad told him, Yo, go deliver these

635
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 12: cheese pizzas to your brothers.

636
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: They're in the military. They need the cheese pizzas.

637
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 12: So David, with a good attitude, he woke up early

638
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 12: and he ran to his brothers in the field and

639
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 12: he pulled up and he saw the giant standing on

640
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 12: the front lines, and he was like, who is this

641
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 12: guy to be taunting and making fun of my God?

642
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: And why are you.

643
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 12: Guys standing back there and not doing anything about it?

644
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: And his brother's got out of him. They're like, bro,

645
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: who are you pulling up?

646
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Speaker 5: Which brings me to first Samuel seventeen thirty three, And

647
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 5: David said, I'll kill him, and Saul replied.

648
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Speaker 1: You are not able to go out against this philistine

649
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: and fight him.

650
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 2: You are only a young man, and he has been

651
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Speaker 2: a warrior from his youth.

652
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: So Saul said, you're not ready for Goliath.

653
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 5: And David said, Nah, Goliath isn't ready for me.

654
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: But David said.

655
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Speaker 7: To Saul, your servant has been keeping his father's seat.

656
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: When a lion or.

657
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 7: A bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock.

658
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: I was practicing. I went after it. I struck it.

659
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:56,959
Speaker 1: I've been practicing.

660
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 5: I've been working, I've been praying, I've been raising.

661
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 1: I've been studying. I've been seeking. I've been on my spot.

662
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: I've been on my post. I've been in my back,

663
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Speaker 1: i've been in my field. I've been in my anointing.

664
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Speaker 12: I've been in my role.

665
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 13: I've been doing dead.

666
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Speaker 1: Give me the verse. I went after it.

667
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 2: I struck it, and I rescued the sheep from its mouth,

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00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 2: And when it turned on me, I seized it by

669
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Speaker 2: its hair, and I struck it and I killed it.

670
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 2: And your servant has killed both the lion and the bear.

671
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Speaker 2: This uncircumcised philictine, this fear, this insecurity, this addiction, this

672
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: generational curse, this storm, This philistine will be like one

673
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Speaker 2: of them, because he has defied the armies of the

674
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Speaker 2: Living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw

675
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Speaker 2: of the lion and the paw of the bear, will

676
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Speaker 2: rescue me from the hand of this philistine.

677
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Speaker 1: I've been practicing. Saul said to David, go and the

678
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Speaker 1: Lord be with you. And David said, that's right. I'm

679
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: more ready than.

680
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: You recognize, because I look like.

681
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Speaker 14: A shepherd, but I'm really a king. I look like

682
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 14: a boy, but I'm really a bad man. I'm a

683
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 14: bad dude.

684
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 7: Next verse then saw dressed David in his own tunic.

685
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Speaker 1: He put a coat of armor on him.

686
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Speaker 2: And a bronze helmet on his head, and David fastened

687
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 2: his sword over the tunic and tried walking.

688
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: Around because he was not used to them.

689
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Speaker 5: I cannot go in these, he set the saw, because

690
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 5: I'm not used to them, so he took them off.

691
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: Then he took his staff in his hand, chose.

692
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 2: Five smooth stones stones from the stream, put them in

693
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 2: the pouch of his shepherd back, and with his sling

694
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Speaker 2: in his hand, approached the Philistines. The only thing wrong

695
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 2: with David is he was wasteful. Four of those stones

696
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Speaker 2: were unnecessary.

697
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Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to say to you today.

698
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Speaker 2: In a way that maybe you can apply to your life,

699
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 2: is you've got a rock, and you're more ready.

700
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: Than you recognize.

701
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Speaker 2: I would not have called him up here if I

702
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Speaker 2: were not confident.

703
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: He could do it. The calling proves my confidence.

704
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: God would not call you to do it if he

705
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Speaker 2: was not confident that you could. Why am I confident

706
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 2: that he can do it? Because he's been practicing this sermon,

707
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 2: because he was going to preach it this Sunday night

708
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: to his Bible study. But it's going to get canceled

709
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 2: because of the storm. But God knew before the storm

710
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 2: was announced on the weather channel that I would need

711
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 2: an illustration in this moment.

712
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: So God gave him the word to bring into.

713
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,919
Speaker 5: This situation for your life today, so I can let

714
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 5: you know.

715
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: You've got a rock. You've got a rock.

716
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 5: What did Jesus say? Everyone who hears these words of mine.

717
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 7: Is like a wise man who built his.

718
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: House on the rock. I got a rock. When the

719
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: wind blows, I got a rock. When the rain comes,

720
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: I got a rock. When the flood rises.

721
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 11: I got a rock.

722
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: When the doctor says I won't live, I got a.

723
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: Rock with a learning disability.

724
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: I got a rock when they fire me.

725
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 15: I got a rock when the storm comes, because I've

726
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 15: got a God who is not only above my storm,

727
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 15: but he is the crown beneath my feet on Christ,

728
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 15: the solid raw.

729
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: I stand. All other ground is sinking. San How you

730
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: been building your house? You're good? You preached better than me.

731
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: Get off the stage, just making me intimidating. He was ready.

732
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 16: He was ready, and so are you. So are you.

733
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: You're more ready than you realize.

734
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: You're more ready than you recognize, more ready than you

735
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 2: feel like you are. Have you been building your house

736
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 2: on the sand of situations and circumstances? Have you been

737
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: running around, Oh, the devil's attacking me, trying to do warfare,

738
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 2: whereas really just weather. This is not some proof that

739
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: you're not in the will of God. It's just proof

740
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 2: that you are.

741
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 1: On planet Earth. It's weather. It's weather.

742
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 2: Have a lot of our staff in the room, and

743
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: I wanted to share this because we are coming to

744
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 2: our twenty year anniversary. Many times in the work of

745
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 2: the ministry, I've heard people complain and say, Wow, ministry

746
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 2: is just so draining, and it can be.

747
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: But you know, what else can be adulthood?

748
00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: Huh, don't blame it on the Lord Jesus Christ, your savior.

749
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: That is draining. You know what else can be draining?

750
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: Being a school teacher.

751
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: You know what else can be draining? Being unemployed? You

752
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 2: know what else can be draining? Wishing that your job

753
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 2: did make a difference, but you feel like it didn't.

754
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: And so I always say, let's not complain about what

755
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 2: God gave us. And for twenty years I've seen time

756
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 2: and time again that whatever winds blew against this ministry,

757
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 2: whatever storm came, whether it was an attack from the

758
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: enemy or whether it was just weather, that God uses

759
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 2: these moments in your life to reveal. And that's what

760
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: I want you to realize about the house that was

761
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 2: built on the rock.

762
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't ruined, Its foundation was revealed.

763
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 2: Here's what I learned about building my life on the

764
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: rock of Jesus Christ. I learned that things will come

765
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: and I won't feel ready. Things will come that I

766
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: didn't pray for it. Things will come that I would

767
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: not wish for. Right, that's the wind, and.

768
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: It will challenge the word that I believe Jesus said.

769
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 2: Everyone who hears these words, why I put them into practice.

770
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: Be like wise man who build his house on the rock.

771
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 2: Rands came, winds rose, streams blew getting us the house.

772
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 2: Streams don't blow winds to But you know what I'm

773
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 2: trying to say, All that happened all at once, and

774
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 2: now think about that. That's three separate things happening at

775
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 2: once that you have to deal with, and only one

776
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: rock you have to stand on to get through it.

777
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: So what happens, please remember this for the rest of

778
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: your life, for the rest of your life. And maybe

779
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: God just sent a snowstorm so that I would be

780
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 2: led to this passage about storms to remind you that

781
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 2: you're ready, to remind you that the house was built

782
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 2: before the storm came.

783
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: God put you there before the storm came. They won't

784
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:10,479
Speaker 1: leave you now.

785
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 2: But the second thing I've learned that God does in

786
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: my life is that the Lord reveals his truth, and

787
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 2: the storm reveals my trust.

788
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: The Lord reveals the truth. He's your provider. The Lord

789
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: reveals his truth. He's your healer. The Lord reveals.

790
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 2: His truth. He is your righteousness. The Lord reveals his truth.

791
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: He is more than enough for you. The Lord reveals

792
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: his truth. He is holy the Lord reveals his truth.

793
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 2: He's worth living for. He is the treasure in the field.

794
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 2: He is the bright and morning star.

795
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: He is he reveals the truth. And then the storm

796
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: reveals your trust.

797
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 2: Some of the things that we have been going through

798
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 2: were not attacks from the enemy to destroy us. They

799
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: were storms that the Lord allowed to show us what

800
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 2: we're building on.

801
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 1: Now.

802
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: The important thing about a storm is not that you

803
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: figure out who scent it. It's that you decide what

804
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: you're going to stand on.

805
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: In the middle of it.

806
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 2: Because God knows, you could spend the rest of your

807
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 2: life beating yourself up over decisions that you could have

808
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 2: made differently and things that maybe you could do differently.

809
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: But you've got a rock.

810
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 2: The house didn't stand because the walls were painted the

811
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 2: right color. The house didn't stand because the countertops were

812
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 2: picked out perfectly. The house did not stand even because

813
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 2: of the plumbing.

814
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,479
Speaker 1: And the house did not stand because of anything that.

815
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 17: You could see. It stood because of something that you

816
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 17: could not see. The rocket was built on and I

817
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 17: want this church. I want my life.

818
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: I want your life to be built on a solid rock,

819
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: so you can know I'm ready for whatever comes to know.

820
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 2: I've got resource, and I've got relationship because I've got

821
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: a rock, and you're ready for this.

822
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: You're ready for this.

823
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 2: Everyone standing, who's physically present, and everyone bow your head

824
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 2: in prayer, who's watching online. Doesn't God deserve just a

825
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 2: few moments of your unbroken focus? Haven't you paid enough

826
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 2: attention to the wind? Isn't it time for you to

827
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 2: give attention to the word. You've heard the word of

828
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 2: the Lord today, and everybody got something different out of it.

829
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: Some people just simply heard, Hey, for that giant that's

830
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 2: in my life, I've got a rock to take him down.

831
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 2: I don't need more experience. God gave me what I need.

832
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 2: And maybe that'll be your word, just to get you

833
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 2: to go back in the strength of the Lord.

834
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: But for some people, the Word was saying something much deeper.

835
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 2: It was saying, Hey, dude, you are building on stuff

836
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 2: that is not stable. You are building on stuff that

837
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 2: will not withstand the storm. But it's not too late

838
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 2: for you. It's not too late for you. I'm going

839
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: to tell you how.

840
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: I know that. One of the disciples that Jesus.

841
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 2: Was training was named Peter. One time Jesus asked the disciples,

842
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 2: who do you say that I am. And Peter said,

843
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: you are the Christ, the son of the Living God.

844
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: And Jesus said, blessed her you, Simon, son of Jonah.

845
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: For flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you,

846
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 2: but by my Father in heaven. And Jesus said, I

847
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 2: tell you you are Peter, And on this rock I

848
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 2: will build my church, and the gates of Hades, the

849
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 2: gates of Hell.

850
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: The storms of life will not overcome it.

851
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: He said that to Peter, knowing that Peter would go

852
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 2: on to deny him at the fire on the eve

853
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: of his crucifixion. But see, Jesus knew that sometimes the

854
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 2: best place to build from is rock bottom. I told

855
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 2: the Lord, I'm not ready to preach it. He said,

856
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 2: you're more ready than you realize.

857
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: And you've been.

858
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 2: Telling the Lord. I can't handle this. I'm not ready

859
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: for this. I can't do it. He said, I wouldn't

860
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 2: have called you if I wasn't confident that you could.

861
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 2: And not only this, he said, I wouldn't have called

862
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 2: you if I wasn't going to do it with you.

863
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: Bow your head and close your eyes. The Lord is

864
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: in this place. Father.

865
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 2: I thank you for the word that you have given today.

866
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 2: It is greater than the wind that blows, the streams

867
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 2: that rise, or the rains that fall. It is greater

868
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: than our emotions and our fears and our failures.

869
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 1: You are our rock.

870
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 2: Now, Lord, I commit to your hands the ministry of

871
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: this word for those today God who needed to hear

872
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 2: a message because they are in a secret storm. Can't

873
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: tell anybody about it, can't point to a pattern on

874
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 2: a map, can't even really sometimes describe the effects of it,

875
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 2: don't even really know where it's coming from or when

876
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 2: it's going to end. I wanted you to remind them

877
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 2: today that.

878
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: They have a rock.

879
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: That after all that you've done for them, after all

880
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 2: that they have survived, the reason that they're here today

881
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 2: is because.

882
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: They have a rock.

883
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 2: That rock cannot be moved, that rock cannot be altered.

884
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: That rock is you in God today.

885
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 2: In your presence, I want to commit each person who,

886
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 2: maybe in this season of their life, has been hearing

887
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 2: the taunt you're not ready for this. I prayed that

888
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 2: they would reach into their life and grab something out

889
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Speaker 2: of their bag that You've given and trust in the

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Speaker 2: one who put them in the position to begin with. Now, God,

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Speaker 2: in agreement, with the great hymn writer who said, my

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Speaker 2: hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood. In righteousness,

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Speaker 2: I dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy lean

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Speaker 2: on Jesus's name. When darkness seems to hide his face.

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Speaker 2: I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and

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Speaker 2: stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil.

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Speaker 5: When he shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I

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Speaker 5: vin in him be found dressed in his righteousness alone,

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Speaker 5: faultless to stand before the throne.

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Speaker 1: On Christ, the solid rock guy stand.

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Speaker 13: All lother ground is sinking, saying.

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Speaker 2: Other ground is sinking, saying if you know it, sing

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Speaker 2: it on.

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Speaker 13: Christness all is sick, All other ground.

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Speaker 1: Seeking save. Everything else will let you down.

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Speaker 2: Everything else will let you go, but Jesus never will.

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Speaker 2: Right now, there's somebody hearing this message who needs to

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Speaker 2: give your life to Jesus. I'm telling you storms are

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Speaker 2: gonna come. I'm telling you winds are gonna hit. I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you that the Savior is greater than all of

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Speaker 2: those things, and he is able to keep you from

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Speaker 2: falling and present you faultless before the presence of His glory.

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Speaker 2: But you've got to trust him, and maybe God allowed

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Speaker 2: a storm in your life so that you could see

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Speaker 2: that He needs to be your firm foundation. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I want to pray with you, every single person who's

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Speaker 2: watching this online, who has an appointment today to receive

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Speaker 2: the grace of Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul.

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Speaker 1: I want you to repeat this prayer after me.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth

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Speaker 2: that Jesus's Lord, and believe in your heart God raised

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Speaker 2: him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Speaker 1: And it is by grace that you are saved through faith.

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Speaker 2: It is the gift of God, not of work, so

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Speaker 2: that no one can boast you come to Jesus like

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Speaker 2: you are. You build your life on his love. You

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Speaker 2: build your life on what He did for you on Calvary.

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Speaker 2: You build it on his acceptance of youth. And you

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Speaker 2: do it now before it's too late. You do it now,

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Speaker 2: before your house falls down. You do it now while

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Speaker 2: the blood is still running warm in your veins.

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Speaker 1: You do it now, while there's still breadth in your lungs.

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Speaker 1: You do it now. He is here now. Today is

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Speaker 1: your day of salvation.

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Speaker 2: Repeat after me out loud, everybody, in the Church, Heavenly Father.

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Speaker 2: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

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Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

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Speaker 2: and the savior of the world. And today I make

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Speaker 2: Jesus the.

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Speaker 1: Lord of my life.

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Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 2: rose again to give me life.

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Speaker 1: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

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Speaker 1: I am a child of God.

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Speaker 2: If you just prayed that on the count of three,

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Speaker 2: shoot your hand up in the air, one, two, three

947
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Speaker 2: and put it in the comments right now, just say

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Speaker 2: I'm receiving Jesus.

949
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Speaker 1: Just say that in.

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Speaker 18: The comments right now. Come on, just type it in

951
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 18: right now. We're here to pray for you. I'm receiving Jesus.

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Speaker 18: The best decision you'll ever make.

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Speaker 2: And you will have an anchor in the storm, and

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Speaker 2: you will have a help in the time of trouble,

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Speaker 2: and you will be able to confidently.

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Speaker 1: Say I've got a rock. Would you just high five

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Speaker 1: to twenty people all around you and say, I got

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Speaker 1: a rock, I got a rock. I got a rock.

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Speaker 1: I got a rock. Can't be shaken, can't be moved,

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Speaker 1: I got a rock, I got a rock. I got

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Speaker 1: a rock. This is the rock that moses strength from.

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Speaker 1: I got a rock. I got a rock. This is

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Speaker 1: the rock that brought water in the wilderness. I got

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Speaker 1: a rock.

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Speaker 2: This is a rock in a dry and weary land.

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Speaker 2: I got a rock. This is a rock that I

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Speaker 2: can stand on in the storm.

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Speaker 1: I got a rock. This is a rock I can

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Speaker 1: sling at a giant and take his sword. I got

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Speaker 1: a rock.

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Speaker 12: I got a rock.

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Speaker 2: When the storm comes, I got a rock when the

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Speaker 2: stone from I got a rock.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for

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00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,840
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