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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 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 3: Right now, join hands with the person next to you.

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Speaker 3: If you're watching this in your home, grab somebody and

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Speaker 3: snatch them and say, pray with me and speak this

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Speaker 3: out loud.

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Speaker 1: Say in the name of Jesus, the Savior of.

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Speaker 3: The world, all things are possible, every need is met,

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Speaker 3: every sin can be forgiven.

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Speaker 1: His blood is enough.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: I've seen you move in my life. I've seen you

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Speaker 4: 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 3: Now because there may be somebody today who needs a

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Speaker 3: word from you, something that only you know about, something

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Speaker 3: that only you can fix, something that only your grace

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Speaker 3: can cover. And maybe, just maybe, Lord, that you would

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Speaker 3: use this time in your presence, whether they're in the

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Speaker 3: building or whether they're watching online. It really doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: to you. You can reach anywhere, and you can touch anyone.

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Speaker 3: You can do anything. There's nothing too hard for you.

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Speaker 3: And it may just be God of all creation, our redeemer,

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Speaker 3: that you would reach through eternity into time and snatch

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Speaker 3: somebody off.

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Speaker 1: The bad path.

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Speaker 3: It may just be that you would reach from eternity

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Speaker 3: into time and turn somebody back toward home. It may

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Speaker 3: just be that you would call their name. Today, you

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Speaker 3: called Lazarus name, and by all accounts, he had no

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Speaker 3: business getting up and running, because he had been dead

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Speaker 3: four days. But when you said his name, his legs

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Speaker 3: Father, today, would you do that kind of thing in

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Speaker 3: this place? Physically, emotionally, spiritually. We surrender this time to you,

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Speaker 3: and I thank you.

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Speaker 1: For your word.

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Speaker 3: Isaiah fifty five says that it never returns. It accomplishes

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Speaker 3: the purpose that you sent it to do. I believe

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Speaker 3: your word is going to work today.

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Speaker 1: And I give you praise because it's already done. In

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Speaker 3: I pray and we love you, Lord, and we're not

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Speaker 3: 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 3: I told them to give God a great praise, but

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Speaker 3: they gave them a halfway praise. So I'm gonna give

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Speaker 3: you a chance give your God a.

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

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Speaker 1: was glad when.

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Speaker 3: They said, unto me, let us go to the House

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Speaker 3: of the Lord. I was sad when they said, unto me,

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Speaker 3: we're having snow again, and I thought, we gotta find

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Speaker 3: a way to get the word out to the people

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Speaker 3: once again. And so for the second week in a row,

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Speaker 3: we got here a little early. We rounded up all

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Speaker 3: taken in the rapture, and we're here today to minister

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Speaker 3: the word of God to you. Somebody put it in

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Speaker 3: the chest, say this one's for me, high five twelve

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Speaker 1: It's for you too. Praise the Lord. God is good.

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Speaker 3: Everybody who's grateful to be here, makes some noise and

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Speaker 3: thank the Lord. If you are watching online and you

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Speaker 3: regularly attend one of our campuses, I expect your butt

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Speaker 3: back in church next week. We're celebrating two decades of

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Speaker 3: dividing miracles sent.

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Speaker 1: The faithfulness of Almighty God.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna take me back twenty twenty and put

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

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Speaker 3: Also, we'll have the best opportunity to gather with those

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Speaker 3: around the country who are part of our EFAM for

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Speaker 3: Elevation Night's tour is coming quickly.

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Speaker 1: I want you to get your tickets right now. Go

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Speaker 1: to Elevation Nights dot com.

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Speaker 3: Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, New York, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids.

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Speaker 3: Knoxville, Tennessee, Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois.

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Speaker 3: March fifth, Elevation Nights dot com. We also want to

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Speaker 3: celebrate our Orlando campus. We envy your weather, and we

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Speaker 1: Six years. Let's give it up for Elevation Orlando. I

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Speaker 1: believe I'll preach now.

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Speaker 3: That's the part where y'all are supposed to get so

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Speaker 3: excited that it's just like electrum. Last week, my message

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Speaker 3: the unseen places of our life that God does the

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Speaker 3: greatest work. And sometimes the messiest moments are the most

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Speaker 3: magnificent and the most miraculous. Today, I want to share

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Speaker 3: with you from a foundational scripture in Matthew chapter seven.

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Speaker 3: You'll see why I call it a foundational scripture in

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Speaker 3: just a moment Matthew Chapter seven, verses twenty four through

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Speaker 3: twenty nine. To be specific, full disclosure. I was not

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Speaker 3: ready to preach yet. I got a phone call from

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Speaker 3: our chief of staff here at the church, who said,

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Speaker 3: And so I told the Lord already to preach. You

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Speaker 1: Set aside the next few days to study.

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Speaker 3: And Lord, since you do rule the universe, could you

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Speaker 3: days where we're not gathering in your name? Are we

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Speaker 3: not on the same theme here? Of course, I understand

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Speaker 3: that there are far more pressing issues to the Lord

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Speaker 1: But I was praying like.

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Speaker 3: That, and he gave me my message title while I

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Speaker 3: was praying about my message and the title that I

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Speaker 3: want to use for this message, and I actually want

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Speaker 3: you to say it to your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Look at them and say you are more.

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Speaker 1: You're more ready than you recognize.

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Speaker 3: 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 3: He said, yeah, you member, because you've been preaching it

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Speaker 1: Matthew, Chapter seven, verse twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mind and puts

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Speaker 1: Built his house on the rock.

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Speaker 3: The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds

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Speaker 3: the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that.

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Speaker 3: When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were

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

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Speaker 3: So now tell your other neighbor. Tell me you're more

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Speaker 3: As I consider the memories of ministry that I've experienced

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Speaker 3: tell me a different report of how this ministry has

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Speaker 3: touched their life. I live for those moments.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing to write a book, write a song,

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Speaker 3: speak with someone that that word touched personally. That's a

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Speaker 3: beautiful thing. Sometimes people start crying. Sometimes people apologize. They say,

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Speaker 3: I hadn't been to church in three years, but I

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Speaker 3: I always tell them you know where to find me

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Speaker 3: when you need me. There's one thing that I've heard

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Speaker 3: although I thought it would be over by now, Just

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Speaker 3: over and over again. People will say thank you for

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Speaker 3: your ministry. Your church got us through COVID as a family.

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Speaker 3: Your church got us through the pandemic as a family.

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Speaker 3: So I remember the first sermon that we did, not

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Speaker 3: perhaps to help us set the foundation for the message.

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Speaker 1: When we came in here in an empty room, you

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Speaker 1: You weren't there. Where were you? And you were there.

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Speaker 3: And I remember putting them on the stools and I

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Speaker 3: just said, I need to have some people that love

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Speaker 3: me behind me. And they did that, and we did that,

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Speaker 3: and LJ did that, and some of you did that.

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Speaker 3: But what's so amazing about it, and this is kind

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Speaker 3: is that just because I wasn't prepared doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: And that's a very important principle that I want you

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Speaker 3: Just because I'm not prepared doesn't mean God hasn't provided.

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Speaker 1: Where you don't feel prepared.

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Speaker 3: did not see coming, the storms that you didn't see coming,

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Speaker 1: And this would be a good.

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Speaker 3: Thing for us to preach about because Jesus said there

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Speaker 3: When the disciples were in the boat with Jesus and

450
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 3: they had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf

451
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 3: they had with them in the boat, be careful, Jesus

452
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: warned them, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees

453
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 3: and that of Herod. They discussed this with one another

454
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 3: and said this because we have no bread. Aware of

455
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 3: their discussion, Jesus asked them, why are you talking about

456
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 3: having no bread?

457
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: Do you still not see.

458
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 3: Or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes

459
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 3: but fail to see? And ears but failed to hear?

460
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 3: And don't you remember when I broke the five loaves

461
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 3: for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did

462
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Speaker 3: you pick up? Twelve were applied, And when I broke

463
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 3: the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls

464
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 3: of pieces did you pick up? They answered seven, he

465
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 3: said to them. And this is what I want to

466
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 3: ask myself sometimes. Do you still not understand? Do you

467
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: still not understand that just because you're not prepared doesn't

468
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 3: mean God didn't provide? Do you not understand that just

469
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: because the storm was sudden to you doesn't mean God

470
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: stop being sovereign over the storm. Don't you recognize that God,

471
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 3: who has called you by name, will keep you through

472
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 3: every season of your life. Now I don't know who

473
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: this is for, but I want to minister to you

474
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 3: because something has taken you by surprise.

475
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: You did not expect that medical report. You did not

476
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: expect to have.

477
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 3: To be in the principal's office keeping your kid in school.

478
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: Every other week.

479
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 3: You did not expect to still be doing fertility treatments

480
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 3: three years into this journey. You did not expect to

481
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: still be single in this season of your life. You

482
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 3: did not expect for your marriage to be coming to

483
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: an end at this young of a place in its inception.

484
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: You did not expect to be this far behind in

485
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: your finances. At this age and stage. You did not

486
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 3: expect to be this many years away from being able

487
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 3: to retire. You did not expect to still be struggling

488
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 3: with this issue that you have laid on the altar

489
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 3: over and over again. You did not expect for the

490
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 3: panic attacks to start again.

491
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: They've been gone for three years. You did not expect

492
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: for yourself to be reaching.

493
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 3: For the pills again because you thought you had moved

494
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 3: on from that dependency. You did not expect that person

495
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 3: to walk out of your life.

496
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Speaker 1: In fact, they told you.

497
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Speaker 3: I'll never leave you, even if everybody else does. You

498
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 3: did not expect in this season of your life to

499
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 3: be feeling distant from God. You did not expect, in

500
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 3: this season of your life to feel so confused.

501
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: About what your next step is.

502
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Speaker 3: I just want to remind you that you can be

503
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 3: confidently confused. Confidently confused, that is. I did not expect this,

504
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: But just because I wasn't prepared for this does not

505
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 3: mean God hasn't provided for this.

506
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: So now I'm just looking for.

507
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 3: The loaf that's in the boat that I did not

508
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 3: see with my human eyes, because I'm more ready than

509
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 3: I recognize.

510
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: Because if God.

511
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: Put the crowd in front of me to feed, He

512
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 3: will give me the bread to pass out in their hands.

513
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying.

514
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 3: If God gave me the challenge to meet, God will

515
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 3: give me the resource to meet it. Somebody say i've

516
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: got resource. I dare you to shout that again. I've

517
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: got resource. Even if your bank account number says a

518
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 3: different story.

519
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: Say I've got resource.

520
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 3: Even if your cars in the shop say i've got resource,

521
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 3: I've got resource number two, shout this.

522
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: I've got relationship.

523
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 3: Now, anytime you've got relationship with somebody who's got resource,

524
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 3: you've got resource. Anytime you've got relationship with somebody who

525
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 3: is the source, you don't have to worry about the

526
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: bread you forgot, or the mistake that you made, or

527
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 3: the wrong turn that you took, or the stall out

528
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: that you've encountered, or the wisdom that you lack.

529
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: If anyone lacks wisdom, let him.

530
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 3: Ask to God, who gives to all.

531
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Speaker 1: Men liberally, and upbraid it.

532
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 3: Not so somebody say I've got it. I don't feel it,

533
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 3: but i've got it. I can't prove it, but i've

534
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 3: got it. You can't see it, but I've got it.

535
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 3: I'm not wearing it yet, but I've got it. I

536
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 3: don't even feel it, but I've got it. And I'm

537
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 3: practicing for where God is taking me because he's not

538
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 3: done with me yet.

539
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: A fellow outline starting to form there.

540
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 3: I've got resource, I've got relationship.

541
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: Do you know what David did.

542
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: For his son Solomon when he was called to build

543
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 3: the temple in First Chronicles, chapter twenty nine. He got

544
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: all the people together, right, the great King David got

545
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 3: up in front of all the people and he said,

546
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 3: my son is going to build a house for the Lord.

547
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 3: It's going to be magnificent because God is.

548
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: It's going to be great because God is.

549
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 3: It's going to be spectacular because God is.

550
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: It's going to be made of the best stuff because

551
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: God is. And watch what he said.

552
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 3: He said, my son, Solomon, the one whom God has chosen,

553
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: is young and inexperienced.

554
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: You're not ready.

555
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 3: The task is great because this palatial structure is not

556
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 3: for men, but for the Lord God.

557
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: With all my.

558
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: Resources, I'm gonna just preach this like I feel it.

559
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: I saw a weird connection in the text. I did

560
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: not expect this connection.

561
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 3: But he said, with all my resource, I have provided

562
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Speaker 3: for the temple of my God, gold for the gold work,

563
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 3: silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for

564
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 3: the iron, and wood for the work.

565
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: Wood. So he said, I'm gonna give my son something

566
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Speaker 1: to work with.

567
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: Is going to be gold for the gold work, silver

568
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 3: for the silver work, bronze for the bronze work, iron

569
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 3: for the iron work, and wood for the woodwork, as

570
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: well as onyx for the settings, turquoise stones of various colors,

571
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: and all kinds of fine stone and marble, all of

572
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 3: these in large quantities. He said, I'm going to give

573
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 3: you everything you need to build because I know you

574
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: don't feel ready yet, and you will have to work

575
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 3: with it, and you will have to form it, and

576
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 3: you will have to develop it. I hear the Lord

577
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 3: saying to somebody, build with it. Build with it. Stop

578
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 3: saying I'm not ready, Stop saying I don't have it,

579
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 3: and build with it. You have resource because you have relationships,

580
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 3: And David said, I have given it to my son.

581
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: How much more will your father in heaven not give

582
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: you everything you need for the season that you're in.

583
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: Somebody receive that word right now online.

584
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: Repeat after me.

585
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 3: I have everything I need for the season i'm in.

586
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you have.

587
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 3: Everything you need for the season you're in. Tell them

588
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: you have resource, Tell them you have relationship.

589
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Now, somebody say.

590
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: I've got resource, I've got relationship, I've got rocks.

591
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: Yes, David said, I.

592
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 3: Have stored up for my son Solomon everything he needs

593
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 3: to build what God has called him to build. And

594
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: one of the things he mentioned at the very end

595
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 3: was precious stones or rocks. Now, if you remember anything

596
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 3: about David, you know that a significant season of his

597
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 3: life involved a rock. It wasn't precious stones, it was

598
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 3: just a rock. As a matter of fact, I want

599
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 3: to call Graham up to the stage right now. Give

600
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 3: this boy a microphone. I did not prepare him for this,

601
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 3: But give this boy a microphone in his hand.

602
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to him about this, but he's Graham.

603
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 3: Take them all the way up to First Samuel sixteen

604
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: and tell them in thirty seconds the background of First

605
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: Samuel sixteen, even though you weren't prepared to do this.

606
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: I did not tell you to wear a sweater over

607
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: a collared shirt. Watch God.

608
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 3: I did not tell you to wear your best fit

609
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 3: that you have worn in your entire teenage life, looking

610
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 3: like a high school senior chosen by God. I just

611
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 3: called you up here and I gave you an assignment.

612
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 3: Give us quickly the background of the man David, from

613
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 3: first Samuel sixteen, all.

614
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: The way up until he met Deliath.

615
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 7: Please in thirty seconds, go for Samuel sixteen.

616
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: We got David, and he's just a shepherd boy. He's

617
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: out in the field.

618
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 7: His brothers are out working in the military, and he's

619
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 7: out there in the field taking care of the sheep.

620
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 7: But one day this dude named what was his name,

621
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 7: the prophet came.

622
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: He pulled up.

623
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Speaker 7: He was like, yo, Samuel. Samuel pulled he was like, yo,

624
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 7: God wants a king. It's gonna be one of y'all.

625
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 7: They lined them up. It was none of the older brothers.

626
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 7: They're like, we got that older We got the.

627
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: Younger brother, David. David pulled up. He was like, yo,

628
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the king, David.

629
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 3: King.

630
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 7: David was the king. But he had to go back

631
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 7: out to the field. So he's a king. He's in

632
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 7: the field. He's got oil, but he's in the field.

633
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 7: And then one day, one day, one day, this giant

634
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 7: name Goliath pulled up to the front lines of the military,

635
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 7: and he was taunting them.

636
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: He was saying, where's your God? You guys are weak?

637
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: What the heck's when he send them? Someone?

638
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 7: Come one v one me. We're gonna run it. If

639
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 7: you win, then your God's real.

640
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: Whatever.

641
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 7: They're like, I don't know who it's gonna be. But

642
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 7: then David, his dad told him, Yo, go deliver these

643
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 7: cheese pizzas to your brothers.

644
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: They're in the military. They need the cheese pizzas.

645
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 7: So David with a good attitude, he woke up early

646
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 7: and he ran to his brothers in the field and

647
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 7: he pulled up and he saw the giant standing on

648
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 7: the front lines, and he was like, who is this

649
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 7: guy to be taunting and making fun of my God?

650
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 7: And why are you guys stinning back? They're not doing

651
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 7: anything about it.

652
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: And his brother's gotten out of him. They're like, bro,

653
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: who are you pulling up?

654
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 3: Which brings me to first Samuel seventeen thirty.

655
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 5: Three, And David said, I'll kill him, and Saul replied,

656
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 5: you are not able to go out against this philistine

657
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 5: and fight him. You are only a young man, and

658
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 5: he has been a warrior from his youth.

659
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 3: So Saul said, you're not ready for Goliath. And David said, Nah,

660
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: Goliath isn't ready for me. But David said to Saul,

661
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 3: your servant has been.

662
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: Keeping his father's seat. When a lion or a.

663
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 3: Bear came and carried off a sheep from the flot,

664
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 3: I was practicing.

665
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: I went after it. I've been practicing. I've been working.

666
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 3: I've been praying, I've been praising.

667
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: I've been studying. I've been seeking.

668
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 3: I've been on my spot, I've been on my post.

669
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: I've been in my back I've been in my field.

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00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: I've been in my annointing.

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Speaker 7: I've been in my role.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing that.

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

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Speaker 3: I struck it, and I rescued the sheep from its mouth.

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Speaker 3: And when it turned on me, I seized it by

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Speaker 3: its hair, and I struck it and I killed it.

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Speaker 3: And your servant has killed both the lion.

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Speaker 1: And the bear.

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Speaker 3: This uncircumcised philistine, this fear, this insecurity, this addiction, this

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Speaker 3: generational curse, this storm.

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Speaker 1: This philistine will be.

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Speaker 3: Like one of them, because he has defied the armies

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Speaker 3: of the Living God, the Lord who rescued me from

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Speaker 3: the paw of the law, and the paw of the

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Speaker 3: bear will rescue me from the hand of this philistine.

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Speaker 3: I've been practicing. Saul said to David, go and the

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Speaker 3: Lord be with you. And David said, that's right. I'm

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Speaker 3: more ready than you recognize, because I look.

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Speaker 1: Like a shepherd, but I'm really a king.

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Speaker 3: I look like a boy, but I'm really a bad man.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bad dude.

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Speaker 3: Next verse then saw dressed David in his own tunic.

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Speaker 3: He put a coat of armor on him and a

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Speaker 3: bronze helmet on his head, and David fastened his sword

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Speaker 3: over the tunic and tried walking around because he.

696
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Speaker 1: Was not used to them.

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Speaker 3: I cannot go in these, he said to Sault, because

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Speaker 3: I'm not used to them. So he took them off.

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Speaker 3: Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five

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Speaker 3: smooth stones stones from the stream, put them in the

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Speaker 3: pouch of his shepherd bag, and with his sling in

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Speaker 3: his hand, approached the Philistines. The only thing wrong with

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Speaker 3: David is he was wasteful. Four of those stones were unnecessary.

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Speaker 3: So what I'm trying to say to you today, in

705
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Speaker 3: a way that maybe you can apply to your life,

706
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Speaker 3: is you've got a rock and You're more ready than

707
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Speaker 3: you recognize. I would not have called him up here

708
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Speaker 3: if I were not confident.

709
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Speaker 1: He could do it. The calling proves my confidence.

710
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Speaker 3: God would not call you to do it if he

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Speaker 3: was not confident that you could.

712
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Speaker 1: Why am I confident that he can do it?

713
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Speaker 3: Because he's been practicing this sermon, because he was going

714
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Speaker 3: to preach it this Sunday night to his Bible study.

715
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Speaker 3: But it's going to get canceled because of the storm.

716
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Speaker 3: But God knew before the storm was announced on the

717
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Speaker 3: weather channel that I would need an illustration in this moment.

718
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Speaker 1: So God gave him the word to bring into.

719
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Speaker 3: This situation for your life today, so I can let

720
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Speaker 3: you know.

721
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Speaker 1: You've got a rock.

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Speaker 3: You've got a rock.

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Speaker 1: What did Jesus say? Everyone who hears these words of mine.

724
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Speaker 3: Is like a wise man who built his house on

725
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Speaker 3: the rock. I got a rock when the wind blows,

726
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Speaker 3: I got a rock when the rain comes. I got

727
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Speaker 3: a rock when the flood rises. I got a rock

728
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Speaker 3: when the doctor says I won't live.

729
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Speaker 6: I got a.

730
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Speaker 1: Rock with a learning disability. I got a rock when

731
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Speaker 1: they fire me.

732
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Speaker 7: I got a.

733
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Speaker 1: Rock when the storm comes.

734
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Speaker 3: Because I've got a God who is not only above

735
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Speaker 3: my storm, but he is the crown beneath my feet.

736
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Speaker 1: On Christ, the solid rock I stand. All other ground

737
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Speaker 1: is sinking.

738
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Speaker 8: Sand.

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Speaker 3: How you been building your house? You're good, You preached

740
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 3: better than me. Get off the stage, just making me intimidating.

741
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Speaker 3: He was ready, He was ready, and so are you.

742
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Speaker 1: So are you.

743
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Speaker 3: You're more ready than you realize. You're more ready than

744
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Speaker 3: you recognize. You're more ready than you feel like you are.

745
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Speaker 3: Have you been building your house on the sand of

746
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Speaker 3: situations and circumstances? Have you been running around, Oh, the

747
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 3: devil's attacking me, trying to do warfare, whereas really just weather.

748
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Speaker 3: This is not some proof that you're not in the

749
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Speaker 3: will of God. It's just proof that you are on

750
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Speaker 3: planet Earth. It's weather. It's weather. Have a lot of

751
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Speaker 3: our staff in the room, and I wanted to share

752
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Speaker 3: this because we are coming to our twenty year anniversary.

753
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Speaker 3: Many times in the work of the ministry, I've heard

754
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 3: people complain and say, wow, ministry is just so draining,

755
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Speaker 3: And it can be.

756
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Speaker 1: But you know what else can be? Adulthood? Huh. Don't

757
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Speaker 1: blame it on the.

758
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Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ, your savior, that is draining you know

759
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: what else can be draining being a school teacher. You

760
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Speaker 3: know what else can be draining? Being unemployed? You know

761
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Speaker 3: what else can be draining? Wishing that your job did

762
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Speaker 3: make a difference.

763
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Speaker 1: But you feel like it didn't.

764
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Speaker 3: And so I always say, let's not complain about what

765
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Speaker 3: God gave us. And for twenty years I've seen time

766
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Speaker 3: and time again that whatever winds blew against this ministry,

767
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Speaker 3: whatever storm came, whether it was an attack from the

768
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Speaker 3: enemy or whether it was just weather, that God uses

769
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Speaker 3: these moments in your life to reveal.

770
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Speaker 4: And that's what I want you to realize about the

771
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Speaker 4: house that was built on the rock.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't ruined, Its foundation was revealed. Here's what I

773
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Speaker 3: learned about building my life on the rock of Jesus Christ.

774
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Speaker 3: I learned that things will come and I won't feel ready.

775
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Speaker 3: Things will come that I didn't pray for it. Things

776
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Speaker 3: will come that I would not wish for. Right, that's

777
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Speaker 3: the wind, and it will challenge the word.

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Speaker 1: That I believe Jesus said. Everyone who hears these.

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Speaker 3: Words, why I put them into practice, be like wise

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Speaker 3: man who build his house on the rock. Rands came, winds, rose,

781
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Speaker 3: streams bleuw, getting us the house. Streams don't blow winds

782
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Speaker 3: to But you know what I'm trying.

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Speaker 9: To say, all that happened all at once, And now

784
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Speaker 9: I think about that, that's three separate things happening at

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Speaker 9: once that you have to deal with and only one

786
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Speaker 9: rock you have to stand on to get through it.

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Speaker 1: So what happens, please remember this for the rest of

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Speaker 1: your life, for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 3: And maybe God just sent a snowstorm so that I

790
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 3: would be led to this passage about storms to remind

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Speaker 3: you that you're ready, to remind you that the house

792
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Speaker 3: was built before the storm came. God put you there

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Speaker 3: before the storm came.

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Speaker 1: They won't leave you now.

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Speaker 3: But the second thing I've learned that God does in

796
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Speaker 3: my life is that the Lord reveals his truth, and

797
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 3: the storm reveals my trust. The Lord reveals the truth.

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Speaker 3: He's your provider. The Lord reveals his truth. He's your healer.

799
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Speaker 3: The Lord reveals.

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Speaker 1: His truth.

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Speaker 3: He is your righteousness. The Lord reveals his truth. He

802
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 3: is more than enough for you. The Lord reveals his truth.

803
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 3: He is holy. The Lord reveals his truth. He's worth

804
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Speaker 3: living for. He is the treasure in the field. He

805
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Speaker 3: is the bright and morning star. He is he reveals

806
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Speaker 3: the truth, and then the storm reveals your trust. Some

807
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 3: of the things that we have been going through were

808
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Speaker 3: not attacks from the enemy to destroy us. They were

809
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 3: storms that the Lord allowed to show us what we're

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Speaker 3: building on.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: The important thing about a storm is not that you

813
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Speaker 3: figure out who scent it. It's that you decide what

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Speaker 3: you're going to stand.

815
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Speaker 1: On in the middle of it.

816
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Speaker 3: Because God knows, you could spend the rest of your

817
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Speaker 3: life beating yourself up over decisions that you could have

818
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 3: made differently and things that maybe you could do differently.

819
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Speaker 1: But you've got a rock.

820
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Speaker 3: The house didn't stand because the walls were painted the

821
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Speaker 3: right color. The house didn't stand because the tops were

822
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Speaker 3: picked out perfectly. The house did not stand even because

823
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Speaker 3: of the plumbing. The house did not stand because of

824
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 3: anything that.

825
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: You could see. It stood because of something that you

826
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Speaker 1: could not see. The rocket was built on And I

827
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: want this church, I want my life. I want your

828
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Speaker 1: life to be built on a solid rock. So you

829
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Speaker 1: can know I'm ready for whatever comes to know.

830
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Speaker 3: I've got resource and I've got relationship because.

831
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Speaker 1: I've got a rock, and you're ready for this. You're

832
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Speaker 1: ready for this.

833
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Speaker 3: Everyone standing who's physically present, and everyone bow your head

834
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Speaker 3: in prayer.

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Speaker 1: Who's watching online?

836
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Speaker 3: Doesn't God deserve just a few moments of your unbroken focus.

837
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Speaker 3: Haven't you paid enough attention to the wind? Isn't it

838
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Speaker 3: time for you to give attention to the word. You've

839
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Speaker 3: heard the word of the Lord today, and everybody got

840
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Speaker 3: something different out of it. Some people just simply heard, Hey,

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Speaker 3: for that giant that's in my life, I've got a

842
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Speaker 3: rock to take him down. I don't need more experience.

843
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 3: God gave me what I need. And maybe that'll be

844
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Speaker 3: your word, just to get you to go back in

845
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Speaker 3: the strength of the Lord.

846
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Speaker 1: But for some people, the Word was saying something much deeper.

847
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Speaker 3: It was saying, hey, dude, you are building on stuff

848
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Speaker 3: that is not stable. You are building on stuff that

849
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Speaker 3: will not withstand the storm.

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Speaker 1: But it's not too late for you. It's not too

851
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Speaker 1: late for you. I'm going to tell you how.

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Speaker 3: I know that one of the disciples that Jesus was

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Speaker 3: training was named Peter. One time Jesus asked the disciples,

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Speaker 3: who do you say that I am? And Peter said,

855
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Speaker 3: you are the Christ, the son of the Living God.

856
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Speaker 3: And Jesus said, blessed her. You Simon, son of Jonah.

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Speaker 3: For flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you,

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Speaker 3: but by my f in heaven. And Jesus said, I

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Speaker 3: tell you you are Peter, and on this rock I

860
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Speaker 3: will build my church, and the gates of Hades, the

861
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Speaker 3: gates of Hell. The storms of life will not overcome it.

862
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Speaker 3: He said that to Peter, knowing that Peter would go

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Speaker 3: on to.

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Speaker 1: Deny him at the fire on the eve of his crucifixion.

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Speaker 3: But see, Jesus knew that sometimes the best place to

866
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Speaker 3: build from is rock bottom. I told the Lord, I'm

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Speaker 3: not ready to preach it. He said, you're more ready

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Speaker 3: than you realize. And you've been telling the Lord I

869
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Speaker 3: can't handle this. I'm not ready for this. I can't

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Speaker 3: do it. He said, I wouldn't have called you if

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Speaker 3: I wasn't confident that you could. And not only this,

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Speaker 3: he said, I wouldn't have called you if I wasn't

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Speaker 3: going to do it with you.

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Speaker 1: Bow your head and close your eyes. The Lord is

875
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Speaker 1: in this place. Father.

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Speaker 3: I thank you for the word that you have given today.

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Speaker 3: It is greater than the wind that blows, the streams

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Speaker 3: that rise, or the rains that fall. It is greater

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Speaker 3: than our emotions and.

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Speaker 1: Our fears and our failures. You are our rock.

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Speaker 3: Now Lord, I commit to your hands the ministry of

882
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Speaker 3: this word for those today God who needed to hear

883
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Speaker 3: a message because they are in a secret storm. Can't

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Speaker 3: tell anybody about it, can't point to a pattern on

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Speaker 3: a map, can't even really sometimes describe the effects of it,

886
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Speaker 3: don't even really know where it's coming from or when

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Speaker 3: it's going to end.

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Speaker 1: I wanted you to remind them today that they have

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Speaker 1: a rock.

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Speaker 3: After all that you've done for them, after all that

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Speaker 3: they have survived, the reason that they're here today is

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Speaker 3: because they have a rock. That rock cannot be moved,

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Speaker 3: that rock cannot be altered.

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Speaker 1: That rock is you, God, Today.

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Speaker 3: In your presence, I want to commit each person who,

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Speaker 3: maybe in this season of their life, has been hearing

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Speaker 3: the taunt you're not ready for this. I prayed that

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Speaker 3: they would reach into their life and grab something out

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Speaker 3: of their bag that You've given and trust in the

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Speaker 3: one who put them in the position to begin with. Now, God,

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Speaker 3: in agreement with the great hymn writer who said, my

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Speaker 3: hope is built.

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Speaker 1: On nothing less than.

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Speaker 3: Jesus' blood in righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

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Speaker 3: but holy lean on Jesus' name. When darkness seems to

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Speaker 3: hide his face. I rest on his unchanging grace. In

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Speaker 3: every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil.

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Speaker 3: When he shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I

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Speaker 3: then in him be found dressed in his righteousness, alone

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Speaker 3: faultless to stand before the throne.

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Speaker 1: On Christ, the solid rock.

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Speaker 8: Guy stand all lother ground is sinking, saying other ground

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Speaker 8: is sinking, saying if you know it, sing it on Christness.

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Speaker 1: All is say es Ah on the ground seeking said.

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Speaker 3: Everything else will let you down, everything else will let

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Speaker 3: you go, but Jesus never will.

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Speaker 1: Right now, there's somebody hearing this message who.

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Speaker 3: Needs to give your life to Jesus. I'm telling you

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Speaker 3: storms are gonna come. I'm telling you winds are gonna hit.

920
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that the Savior is greater than all

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Speaker 3: of those things, and he is able to keep you

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Speaker 3: from falling and present you faultless before the presence of

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Speaker 3: his glory.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to trust him.

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Speaker 3: And maybe God allowed a storm in your life so

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Speaker 3: that you could see that He needs to be your

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Speaker 3: firm foundation. Right now, I want to pray with you,

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Speaker 3: every single person who's watching this online, who has an

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Speaker 3: appointment today to receive the grace of Jesus Christ for

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Speaker 3: the salvation of your soul. I want you to repeat

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Speaker 3: this prayer after me. The Bible says that if you

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00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 3: confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe

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Speaker 3: in your heart God raised him from the dead, you

934
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Speaker 3: will be saved. And it is by grace that.

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Speaker 1: You are saved through faith.

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Speaker 3: It is the gift of God, not of work, so

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Speaker 3: that no one can boast. You come to Jesus like

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Speaker 3: you are. You build your life on his love. You

939
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Speaker 3: build your life on what He did for you on Calvary.

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Speaker 3: You build it on his acceptance of youth. And you

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Speaker 3: do it now before it's too late. You do it now,

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Speaker 3: before your house falls down. You do it now while

943
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Speaker 3: the blood is still running warm in your veins. You

944
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Speaker 3: do it now, while there's still breadth in your lungs.

945
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Speaker 1: You do it now.

946
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Speaker 3: He is here Now, Today is your day of salvation.

947
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Speaker 3: Repeat after me out loud, everybody in the church. Heavenly Father,

948
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Speaker 3: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

949
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Speaker 3: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

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Speaker 3: and the savior of the world. And today I make

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Speaker 3: Jesus the life lord of my life. I believe he

952
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Speaker 3: died that I would be forgiven and rose again to

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Speaker 3: give me life. I receive this new life. This is

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Speaker 3: my new beginning. I am a child of God. If

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Speaker 3: you just prayed that on the count of three, shoot

956
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Speaker 3: your hand up in the air one, two, three and

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Speaker 3: put it in the comments right now, just say I'm

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Speaker 3: receiving Jesus.

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00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: Just say that in the comments right now. Come on,

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Speaker 1: just type it in right now. We're here to break

961
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: for you. I'm receiving Jesus.

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Speaker 3: The best decision you'll ever make, and you will have

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Speaker 3: an anchor in the storm, and you will have a

964
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 3: help in the time of trouble, and you will be

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Speaker 3: able to confidently say I've got a rock.

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Speaker 5: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

968
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

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00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as

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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation,

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Speaker 2: whether you support us financially or serve with us, or

973
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Speaker 2: just share these messages. It's because of you that we're

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00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world.

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Speaker 1: And if you want more information on how to be

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Speaker 1: a part of Elevation, click the link in the description.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message, and subscribe.

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Speaker 3: God bless you.