1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Hello Evams, especially our West Coast family. We have an 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: announcement for you, Elevation Nights twenty twenty two West Coast. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? October twenty fifth through November third, 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: We're coming your way so exciting. You can get your 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: tickets right now at Elevation Nights dot Com. It's gonna 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: be me Holly, Elevation Worship. It's going to be amazing, 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: unbelievable these nights. Don't want to miss So if you're 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: in Glendale, Arizona, Las Vegas, Sacramento, California, Eugene, Oregon, Seattle, Oakland, California, 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: San Diego and La or anywhere near those areas, we 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: want to see you. Elevation Nights dot com. Don't miss it. 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: Elevation Nights dot com. Get your tickets Elevation Nights dot Com. 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: See there, let's go to the message today. I want 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: to have a conversation with you about a conversation that 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: God had with Moses in Exodus chapter four. You know what, 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: I just got to jump in right here. I was 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: going to back up and catch a little bit of 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: chapter three, but I want to be a little bit 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: conscious of the time. I don't want to be obsessed 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: with it, but there is parking issues at Valentine. Sometimes 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: I got long winded during COVID and I never fixed it. 21 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: So y'all can pray that the Lord would help me 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: get back to these forty minute thirty minute messages. Okay, 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: y'all are sweet, But for the sake of time, let's 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: jump into Exodus four. Verse one, Moses answered, what if 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: they do not believe me or listen to me and 26 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: say the Lord did not appear to you. And then 27 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: the Lord said to him, what is that in your hand? 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: A staff? He replied. The Lord said, throw it on 29 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: the ground. And Moses threw it on the ground, and 30 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: it became a snake, and he ran from it, because 31 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: that's what you do, no matter how much faith you have. 32 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: Some stuff you should run from. Boom pull sermon, go home. 33 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: See you be blessed. Some stuff you should run from. 34 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: But then, in most encounterintuitive way, the Lord said, in 35 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: verse four, reach out your hand, take it by the tail. 36 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: So reach for what you were just running from. So 37 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: Moses reached out, took hold of the snake, turned back 38 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: into a staff in his hand. This said the Lord 39 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: is so that they may believe that the Lord, the 40 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God 41 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. 42 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: Give me my two key verses on this big screen 43 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: real quick, and let's work on this for a moment. 44 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: Versus one and two big screen. Moses answered, what if 45 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: they do not believe me or listen to me and 46 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: say the Lord did not appear to you? Verse two. 47 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to him, what is that in 48 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: your hand? A staff? He replied, We're gonna work on 49 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: this a little bit today. Give me my next slide. 50 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: I want to talk about from what if to what is. 51 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: We're gonna go on a little journey today, from what 52 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: if to what is? Spirit of God, have your way 53 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated. From what 54 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: if to what is? The Lord said, We're gonna deal 55 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: with this spirit of what if that has been making 56 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: you an insomniac, that spirit of what if that has 57 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: been running the show in your imagination. The Lord said, 58 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: We're going to deal with it today. In the Word 59 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: of God. I confess to you that I am a 60 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: world class what if, a world class what ifer. In 61 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: the beginning of this ministry, it worked for me to say, Man, 62 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: what if we started a church in Charlotte. What if 63 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: by faith we launched a worship ministry. What if we 64 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: did a second campus, What if we did a third, 65 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: What if we did a fourth. What if we dropped 66 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: eggs out of a helicopter on Easter? What if? What 67 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: if we baptize people and had bathing suits and toothbrushes 68 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: and tooth paste and sports bras so they had no 69 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: excuse and we called on them and said, get baptized 70 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: right now, Not after seventeen weeks of class, not after 71 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: you memorize Augustine and Spurgeon, and not after you can 72 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: quote the Book of Romans, but right now, get up 73 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: here and get baptised. What if what if you just 74 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: did it? What if you just got up today and 75 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: gave your life to Christ. What if you just raised 76 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: your hand in the middle of the prayer that they 77 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: pray at the end and said, I'm coming just as 78 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: I am. What if it's kind of a recklessness that 79 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: can serve you well in certain seasons before you know 80 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: all the reasons to answer what if with a whole 81 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 1: lot of why nots? And I now find that what 82 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: if is a weapon that the devil uses to keep 83 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: me from doing things that I know good and well 84 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: in my spirit. God has called me to do so. 85 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: For the five people who are like me in church today, 86 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: and this what if thing has been really grinding in 87 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: your mind, we are going to have a talk just 88 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: me and the crazy people. The rest of you will 89 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: have more Bible verses by which you can pray for 90 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: us when we're finished with this twenty two minute sermon. 91 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: But I went all the way back of the book 92 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: to the Book of Exodus and introduced this character named 93 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: Moses to talk about what to do with the what ifs, 94 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: just so I can see if I heard from the 95 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: Lord or if I was off track this week when 96 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: I was praying, how many of y'all been wrestling with 97 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: some what if scenarios that have been messing with you? 98 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: And how many of you feel like it's getting worse 99 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: the older you get. Because Moses said, watch this, He said, 100 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: what if they don't believe me? And he had good 101 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: reason to ask that, because chances are they won't because 102 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: God just appeared to him in a bush and said, 103 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: I want you to go tell the most powerful person 104 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: on the face of the earth, the Pharaoh of Egypt 105 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: to let my people going to release his entire slave labor, 106 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: which will decimate his economy, and do it. Do it, 107 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: by the way, while you while you're at it, do 108 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: it at age eighty and most said, well, if it 109 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,239 Speaker 1: don't work, and I get it, because it probably won't. 110 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: I mean, by human standards, right, this is not gonna work. 111 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: So what if? What if? What if? Now? Holly, Holly 112 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: is a great I'm gonna just say this, She's the 113 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 1: best person I know, No, for real, She's just she's 114 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: less petty than me, she has more energy than me, 115 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: she's more definitely more optimistic than me. When we were 116 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: going on our twenty year trip, we went to northern 117 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: California and she was like, can we just make a 118 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: rule before we go on this trip that whatever happens 119 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: will just make it a part of the journey and 120 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,679 Speaker 1: you won't like freak out too much because our whole 121 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: trip was to go, you know, drive to pch and 122 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: get out there and see stuff. And she's like, and 123 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: we're probably gonna get lost, and I need you to 124 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: commit to me before we buy these plane tickets that 125 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: that's gonna be okay, and we just be lost together, 126 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: and that'll be part of the day, is that we 127 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: got lost, and be part of the story later that 128 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: we got lost. Yeah, but what if what if we 129 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: get where there's no cell signal? What if we can't 130 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: get unlost? What if we starve out there? Did you 131 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: see that movie Wild with Reese Witherspoon where she got 132 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: out there? What if my feet get banged up in 133 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: my shoes? And what if I can't walk? And what 134 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:33,839 Speaker 1: if you got carried me out? And what if you're 135 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: not able to do that? And what if you get 136 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: a hernia trying to carry me out? And then we 137 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: have to tell the whole church that you're the new pastor, 138 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: but you have to pastor with a hernia? What if? 139 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: And she's like, can we can? We just go and 140 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: we'll figure that out, because horrible, because I can't even 141 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: let my phone get below eighty percent. I have issues. 142 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: I always pray before I preach, you, God, help me 143 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: tell them enough where I can be relatable, but not 144 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: so much that they've become distracted by how ridiculous I 145 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: am and can't receive the word that I'm going to preach. 146 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: And so you know, you read about Moses and you 147 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: hear about the great things that he did. And I 148 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: want to take this apart for just a moment today, 149 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: because you know, God has been speaking to Moses for 150 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: an entire chapter of scripture about all the awesome things 151 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: that he will do. Not Moses, but God. He said, 152 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: I have seen the misery of my people. I have 153 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: heard their cries, and I will compel Pharaoh to let 154 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: them go. If he doesn't let them go, I'll put 155 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: a plague on him. If he still doesn't let them go, 156 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 1: I'll put another plague on him. And if he still 157 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: doesn't let him go, I have more plagues than Pharaoh 158 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: has patience. I'll kill everything that matters to him until 159 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: what matters to me he is accomplished. I will do it. 160 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: So Moses is like, all right, well who are you? 161 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: Because we hadn't heard about you much since Jacob and 162 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: Joseph and since a pharaoh died. Who didn't you know 163 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: who you were? And the pharaoh that rose now doesn't 164 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: really understand who you are. And God said, I am 165 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: that I am, that you are that I am. So 166 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: this is an amazing conversation. You know, you got Moses, 167 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: who's eighty hearing from a God who's eternal about something 168 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: that God has seen, that he has promised to do, 169 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: that he will do, not might do, not thinking about doing, 170 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 1: not flipping coins. He's gonna do it. Somebody shout, He's 171 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: gonna do it. Shouted, like you're convinced about it. He's 172 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: gonna do it. Now. I'm not talking about somebody that 173 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: you work with. I'm not talking about I'm talking about 174 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: somebody who started this whole thing called the human experience, 175 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: who speaks into what he starts to tell you what 176 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: he intends to do. And Moses is like, cool, but 177 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: what if? What if? And I want you to notice 178 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: something very key. He doesn't really doubt God, he says 179 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: Verse one. Moses answered, what if they do not believe 180 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: me or listen to me? And what if they say 181 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: the Lord did not appear to you? Oh this is 182 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: so good because most didn't say what if you can't 183 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: do it? What if you aren't great? What if you 184 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: run out of plagues? What if you run out of strength? No, 185 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: it's not it's not about Moses's doubt directed toward God. 186 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: He said, what if they Now, as I was studying 187 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: this text, it was very interesting to me that Moses 188 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: is afraid of the Israelites, and he has called to 189 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: deliver the Israelites. And he said, what if they? Who 190 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: are they the Hebrews? Who is he afraid of the Hebrews. 191 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: Who's he supposed to help the Hebrews? Who is he 192 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: delivering the Hebrews? Who does he doubt the Hebrews. Isn't 193 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: it interesting how the thing that you're most afraid of 194 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: can be a clue to the thing that you're assigned 195 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: to think about it the deepest insecurity in your life 196 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: reveals something about the assignment that God has given you. 197 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: The thing that the enemy resists most about you is 198 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: often the greatest thing that God has put inside of you. 199 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: I feel like preaching, but I need to teach a 200 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: little bit so you can underst stand what I'm hollering about. 201 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: He said, what if they? What if they? This is 202 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: the crazy part about life. Not wondering about what if 203 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: God can't or what if God won't, but what if 204 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: they don't. What if the thing that you're speaking to 205 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: me about doesn't want to hear what I have to say? 206 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: What if the thing that you're calling me to? Now, 207 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: this is something I've come to believe that when God 208 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: calls you to something, he sees everything about it at 209 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: the moment that he's speaking to you about it. So 210 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: there is nothing that God did not see about you 211 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: when he spoke to you. There is nothing that God 212 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: does not know about you when he placed you where 213 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: he put you to do what he called you to do. 214 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: So when we doubt our capacity to do what God 215 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: called us to do, it is not us we doubt, 216 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: but it is God who made us and placed us 217 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: that we doubt. But we don't want to say we 218 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: doubt God, so we say what if? They? What if 219 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: I can't do it? But it's not really me that 220 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm doubting, because I didn't manufacture me. And if I really, 221 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: for one moment, believed that God made me how he 222 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: wanted me, gave me what he wanted, did inside of 223 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: me what he wanted to do inside of me, put 224 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: me where I needed to be, planted me by what 225 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: I needed to be planted by. If I believe that 226 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: for one moment, it would kill my What if before 227 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: it got out of my mouth? Any view of God's 228 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: sovereignty that does not make room for your struggle is 229 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: a false claim. Any view of God's will that is 230 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: not wide enough to accommodate your mistakes. It's too narrow. 231 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: Any any belief about God that you have that is 232 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: not big enough to take into account all the flaws 233 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: inside of yourself is too small. Certain times, asking what 234 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: if can be productive, But then it gets past the 235 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: point where you're making plans. I mean, there's good thing. 236 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: I'm just breaking down real quick, like before I come out. 237 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: I have a whole check all right. What if my 238 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: zipper is down? Okay, let me check that. What you know, 239 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: I got my undershirt, so I put my hands up. 240 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: I don't want anything to be showing that's not supposed 241 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: to be showing. You came here to see the Lord's glory, 242 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: all right, not to see nothing else other than the Lord. 243 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: So I gotta get this down. Okay. What if? What 244 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: if my mic isn't on? Okay, Okay, I gotta turn 245 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: it on. What if? But then it comes to a 246 00:15:51,960 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: point where I stop solving problems and I still shrinking God, 247 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: cause I get caught up in my what if. What 248 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: if I get up to preach this and they don't 249 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: like it. What if I get up to preach it 250 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: and it doesn't go good? What if I get up 251 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: there to preach it and I forget what I'm supposed 252 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: to say. It takes faith for me to preach. I 253 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: preach because I don't look at notes. I mean, I 254 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: guess I could. I don't think the Lord would strike 255 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: me with anything if I looked at notes. I don't 256 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: think it's bad to look at notes. But I want 257 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: to be in the moment with you, and I want 258 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: to see what God has to say. And it takes 259 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: faith because what if I forget? What if I get 260 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: to a point I can't even maarif I'm preaching on 261 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: Moses or Abraham. What if I say something in this 262 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: sermon and they clip it and they put it online 263 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: and take it out of context to make me look 264 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: like I said something I never said before. Oh, that 265 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: would never happen. That doesn't happen. Now, I gotta get 266 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: up here and think about not only what I'm gonna say. 267 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: It's not only what if I don't hear from God 268 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: and say it to you? What is I hear from God? 269 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: I say it, somebody takes what I said, puts it 270 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: where I didn't say it, says something around it I 271 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: didn't say it. It's enough to make you want to 272 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: stay back there and suck your thumb and sing Waymaker 273 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: by yourself. Then, But I gotta get through the what 274 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: if so I can get to what is and what 275 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: is today. Let me remind you if somebody is here 276 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: who is going to hell if they don't give their 277 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: life to Jesus. Somebody is in here who is living 278 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: in hell and they have given their life to Jesus. 279 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,199 Speaker 1: Somebody is in here today who doesn't really feel like 280 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: going on next week and their life might be on 281 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: the line. So the big question isn't what if I 282 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: got up here and preached and said something wrong? Is 283 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: what if I didn't give you what God gave me 284 00:17:46,800 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: and you didn't make it because I didn't show up? Well, 285 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: what if I do it and fail? That's what God 286 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: gave you grace for to begin with. That's not the 287 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: real fear. See, the real fear is it what if 288 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: I fail? It's what if I'm not enough to recover? 289 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: What if they the moment Moses said they, he's in trouble. 290 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: Because there are few things in life that you can't control. 291 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: The weather is one, and just put your hand on 292 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: the shoulder of the person next to you real quick 293 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: would you do that. That's another one. Uh huh uh 294 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: huh mm hmmm mm hmm. But you had faith to 295 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: drive here. You had faith to drive here with all 296 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: of the bad drivers that you passed on the way here. No, 297 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: not you, the other drivers. That's what you tell your 298 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 1: kids when they're learning to drive. It's not you I'm 299 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: worried about. It's the other you know, good and well. 300 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: It is them that you know. I have no business driving. 301 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: But I want you to think with me, because what 302 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: if is a game that you can't just play a 303 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: little bit. Once you start playing the what if game, 304 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: and I mean, you get in, you get in that 305 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: you know, well, what if? Let me think of one 306 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: from your life this week? Okay what if? Okay, okay, 307 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: I got one. I got one. Uh. You text somebody. 308 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: They start texting back, and you see bubbles. The bubbles 309 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 1: go away. What happened? Aren't they mad at me? You 310 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: go back and read the text. You start looking maybe 311 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: I should have put hard after the text. I'm not 312 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: going about that. Then you start sending a follow up 313 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: text to make sure you start learning at lol. Haha. 314 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: They hate me? I think they hate me. If they 315 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: hate me, if they never text me back, but nobody 316 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: ever texted me back. Well, if I die alone right 317 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: here in this, in this, it's been three minutes, it's 318 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: been five minutes. And the more you love something, the 319 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: more opportunity the enemy has to get in it and 320 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: make you afraid about it. This is why every parent 321 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: wave at me. This is why at some point we 322 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: got we got to give our kids to God. No, No, 323 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: I know you got seven steps to raise in a 324 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: world changer, and I want you to do all of it. Man, 325 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: I promise you'd like. I think all the time about 326 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 1: what experiences I want to give my kids, how I 327 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: want them to be a parent, I mean, how I 328 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: want them to be, how I want them to talk 329 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: about me. Not when I'm dead, but when they're a 330 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: little bit older. I'm dead, I don't care I'm gone. 331 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: But I think about even more than what I want 332 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: them to say about me, what I want them to 333 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: see in me, What I want them to see in 334 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: me that they can emulate later in their life when 335 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: they have their own struggles. The other day, I was 336 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: parenting one of them and the thought came to my mind, 337 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: what if you're being too easy on them? You know 338 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: you need to prepare them. The world is hard if 339 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: you don't come down on them. A prison warden is 340 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: going to one day like, is it really this serious 341 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: a prison warden? Yeah, because my mind, I promise you. 342 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: It's that quick too. It's that quick. My kid is 343 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: not doing their homework. They're in prison all in the 344 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: space of three seconds. It don't take long. And then 345 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: so I went and then corrected him. I left, and 346 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: the same voice that said to me, what if you're 347 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: too easy, I'm said, what if you were just too 348 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: hard on him? What if you just scarred them for life? 349 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be emotionally available to their own 350 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: children one day. The other day, Elijah was going fishing, 351 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: and I was like, God, I saw I never taught 352 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: him to fish. Now his friends are having to teach 353 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: him to fish. What if because his dad didn't teach 354 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: him to fish. What if he finds comfort in the 355 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: wrong friends. You know, what if those same friends that 356 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: introduced him to fishing introduced him to hard drugs, Like 357 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: what happened just now that my kid went fishing. What 358 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: if the same way that the hook was in that 359 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: fish's mouth, what if there's a hook from the enemy 360 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: and my child's knowing why he's fishing. He's happy. Pray 361 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: for me, Pray for me. It happens that fast. What 362 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: if what if you said too much in your sermon today? 363 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: What if you didn't say enough? What if you mess 364 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: it up? If you know what you go? What is? 365 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: What is? What if? What if? What if? What if 366 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: God is bigger than any of the things you just listened? 367 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: What if Moses, the man who God called to deliver 368 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: his people, is a murderer who's been a fugitive for 369 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: forty years? What if God picks that? God? You know 370 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: how you can tell if you have what it takes 371 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: to do what God called you to do. If He 372 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: called you to do it, you have what it thanks. 373 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's kind of if he's not. If 374 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: he nor if he God's not iffy. Let me tell 375 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: you why God chose you. He had no other options. Yeah, 376 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: God was scraping the bottom of the barrel. He said, 377 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: who shall I send and whom shall go for us? 378 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: I guess Eric will do? You are shrinking God to 379 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: the size of the scenario that you can understand because 380 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: because watch God, God, Watch God? What's God? God? God says? 381 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: He says what if they will listen to me? And 382 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: God says, what is that in your hand? Now, this 383 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: is this is what got my attention. In the text, 384 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: Moses says, what if God doesn't answer him because they're 385 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: not gonna listen to him, right, because they're rebellious, because 386 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: they're stubborn. Now here's what God will not do when 387 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: you start worrying. He will not calm you down by saying, Oh, 388 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: nothing bad is ever gonna happen. That's not gonna happen. 389 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: Just just trust in me. Nothing bad is ever gonna happen. 390 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: You're gonna You're gonna go to the right place, You're 391 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: gonna meet the right people. You're never gonna get it wrong. 392 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 1: You're never gonna make any bad decisions. There's always gonna 393 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: be angels clearing out of parking space so that you 394 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: will never have to walk even when you go to 395 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: the gym to exercise. God is good. Instead, give me 396 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: my two big verses again, because this is the lesson. 397 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: Moses says, what if they don't believe me or listen 398 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,959 Speaker 1: to me? And then the Lord said to him, what 399 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: is that in your hand? So here's what the Lord 400 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: will do to help you break this cycle. If you 401 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: will let him. If you want to stay in what if, 402 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: you will wander in the wilderness. If you want to 403 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: say what if? Hypothetical scenarios will have hypothetical baby scenarios, 404 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: and you'll have hypothetical baby, grand baby, grand baby, grand baby, 405 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: grandchildren scenarios. God moves Moses from what if? To what is? 406 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: Is that good? Isn't that good? God gave it to 407 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: me just that simple. This week, he said, I want 408 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: to move you from what if to what is? None 409 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: of your stress is in the present moment what if? 410 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: Now Moses is having a conversation with God, and he's 411 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: thinking about people. He's already playing out why this is 412 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: not going to work. Some of you are in church 413 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: already thinking about what comes after this today, and it's fine. 414 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm not here to rebuke you for that. I'd be 415 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: doing the same thing I already told you. I'd be 416 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: wondering is that his color? Does that really match your 417 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: skin tone? I'd be thinking a thousand things if I 418 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: were you. But you are not going to receive what 419 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: you could receive if you will not be fully where 420 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: you are. Moses is in Midian. He is in Midian 421 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: because he made a mistake. He made a mistake by 422 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: killing an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew. It was an 423 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 1: honest mistake. He had a passion in his heart, he 424 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: had a calling in his life, but he had to 425 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: flee when he was found out. He's been hiding for 426 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: forty years and God shows up one day and tells 427 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: him you're gonna do something great. Now it's time. I 428 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: want to use you. Now it's you. And Moses said 429 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: what if? They and God said, what is that? I 430 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: love it. It's two mentalities contrasted your mentality what if? 431 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: And God's mentality? What is? God to bring you back 432 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: to what is when you find yourself lost in what if? 433 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: A couple months ago, my nephews and nieces came over 434 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: and they taught me a game. We were swimming in 435 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: the pool and they took a watermelon and they put 436 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: vasoline all over the water melon, and they said, the 437 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: object of the game is to get the watermelon with 438 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: vasoline on it from one end of the pool to 439 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: the other, and we're going to do it in the 440 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: deep end, and everybody in the pool can try to 441 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: stop you on the other team, and then you can 442 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: pass it to your teammate. You know, that's about what 443 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: it feels like to try to get a word from 444 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: God about your life and then navigate the deep waters 445 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: of your real life experience. You ever felt like you're 446 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: holding onto something but slippery by design? And look, the 447 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,239 Speaker 1: watermelon was already heavy when I'm trying to swim with it. 448 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: I don't need it to be heavy and slippery. And 449 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: I certainly don't need people clawing and scratching and climbing 450 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: on my back trying to drown me. This is not 451 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: a game anymore. This is a lawsuit. I think like 452 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: that too. I know they're my relatives, but I don't 453 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: mean they won't sue me. I need you all to 454 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: sign a waiver before we play. I mean, there's more 455 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: to worry about now, especially with cancel culture, y'all. Especially. 456 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: You know how much I think about when's gonna be 457 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: the day I'm gonna say something in this pulpit and 458 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: everybody's going like, all right, we're out. You shouldn't have 459 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: said that. And yet at the same time, it is 460 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: not you or them that I really need to fear. 461 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is, now, receive this for yourself, 462 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: If God be for you who can be against you, 463 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: if God be for you, if it really came from him, 464 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: if this is really God speaking to Moses, that question 465 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: is irrelevant. What does it matter what they say? When 466 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: the Great I Am is the one speaking to you, 467 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: What does it matter what they think about it? God said, 468 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: that is not The important issue is what they say. 469 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna answer about what they say, because 470 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: it is not about what they say. It's not a 471 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: the problem that you're up against. It's not about the 472 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: age or the stage of life. It's not about any 473 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: of that. It's about what is that in your hand? 474 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: What is the thing that God has given you right now? 475 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: And will you trust that when you get to the 476 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: next challenge of your life, it will be enough, because 477 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: He is enough, it will. God said, I know you 478 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: got some doubts, so let me do a little product demonstration. 479 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: You have been seeing this stick as a staff to 480 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: shepherd sheep, and that's what it has been up until now. 481 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: But throw it down on the ground and watch it 482 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: change into something else. The moment you let go of 483 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: it is going to transform. The moment you release it, 484 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: it's going to become something you've never seen before. The 485 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: moment you take it out of your hand, I'm gonna 486 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: turn it into something. God is doing a product demonstration, 487 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: you see, Because Moses doesn't even know who he is yet. 488 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: Moses doesn't even know what he can do yet. You 489 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: hadn't even seen what God put inside of you yet. 490 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: You haven't even met your gifted self yet. You haven't 491 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: even met your free self yet. You haven't even met 492 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: the leader inside of you yet, because you've been wandering 493 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: in the wilderness of what if? What if they leave me? 494 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: So now you won't love anybody because what if they 495 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: leave me? So I'll withdraw my love from them before 496 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: they can take their love from me. So I'm living 497 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: in what if. And I'm lonely in what if. And 498 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: I'm dying of thirst and what if? And I'd rather 499 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: be in changed in what if because he as comfortable. 500 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: As long as you're worrying, you're still the one controlling it. 501 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: You think you can plan enough, and do enough and 502 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: fix enough. But the real things that hit your life 503 00:31:54,120 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: you won't even see coming. The moment, the moment that 504 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: Moses focuses on what is in his hand, God starts 505 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: dealing with what's not in his hands. Here's the word, 506 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: Give it to God and he will give it to you. 507 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: Give it to God. That situation, Give it to God, 508 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: that issue. Give it to God and he will give 509 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: it to you. The strength you need, the direction you need. Yeah, 510 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: that next step that you're asking him about, Give it 511 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,719 Speaker 1: to God and he will give it to you. I'll 512 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: tell you where you won't find your strength in the 513 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: wilderness of what if but that staff man if Moses 514 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: only knew that staff was something else. I want to 515 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: appreciate this to you, but I want to prophesy it 516 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: to you. So let me just say it. Your staff 517 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: is something else. Yeah, your staff is something else, common object. 518 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: But put it down and God will show you something else. 519 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: And pick it up and God will show you something else. 520 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: I almost wish God would have done it like they 521 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: do when we bought the Rainbow vacuum cleaner, when we 522 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: bought the knives that time, when we were buying it, 523 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: they bring it in and show you everything it could do. 524 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 1: This man came in my house to sell me some 525 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: cook where he did a whole demonstration. He was cooking stuff. 526 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: And God only showed Moses one thing his staff could do. 527 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: God didn't even tell him about Oh, Yeah, once you 528 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: get the people out of Egypt, they're going to have 529 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: to cross the Red Sea. But what is that in 530 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: your hand? See, when you need it to be something else, 531 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: it'll be something else because I am that. I am, 532 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: So when I need that staff to part water, it'll 533 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:20,439 Speaker 1: part water because I am that. I am. Moses said, 534 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,320 Speaker 1: what if they? What if it? What if I can't? 535 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: What if? What if? God said? What is now? What 536 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: it is right now is not all it's going to be. 537 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: Stop measuring your future problems by your present strength. When 538 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,399 Speaker 1: you get to that stage, you'll have strength for it. 539 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: When you get to that challenge, you'll have strength for it. 540 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 1: God didn't make the staff part waters. Moses didn't need 541 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: it to part waters yet. If it hadn't happened yet, 542 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: it didn't have to happen yet. You gotta get out 543 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: of the future and get into his presence and say, God, 544 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: what is it my hand? This is the same stick 545 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: that's gonna make water come from a rock. This is 546 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: the same stick that's gonna hydrate in nation. This is 547 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: the same stick that's gonna be something else. When you 548 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: get to the next stage from what if to what is? 549 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: And if all of that fails you. And what is 550 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: isn't enough? Remember who is? Y'all want to have church 551 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: for a moment, follow me all the way to the wilderness. 552 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: Moses has led the people out of Egyptian slavery. They're 553 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: coming upon a journey that's only supposed to take approximately 554 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,240 Speaker 1: two weeks, but they're gonna get stuck for forty years. 555 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna show you why. And I'm gonna show 556 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: you why you've been stuck in your own head. And 557 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you why you've been stuck in your 558 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,959 Speaker 1: last missa. And I'm gonna show you why you can't 559 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: give God the last two years so you can't walk 560 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,040 Speaker 1: into the next two years. I'm gonna show you why 561 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: you've been worrying about things that you have no control. 562 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you why the devil keeps making you 563 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 1: put a down payment on problems you're not even gonna face. 564 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: Watch this. In the Book of Numbers, Moses sent out 565 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: twelve spies to see about the land that God had 566 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 1: called them into. You know this story. Ten of them 567 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: come back talking trash, not about God, not about Moses, 568 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: but about the people they have to defeat to take 569 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: the land. That God promised. So they start talking. I 570 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: want you to notice something about this speech. Give me numbers. 571 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen or is it fourteen? They came back to 572 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron, and the whole is their like community. 573 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: You ready for this this thing. You've heard this before, 574 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 1: But there's something you never noticed. They reported to them, 575 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,240 Speaker 1: and the whole assembly showed them the fruit of the land. 576 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: They gave Moses this acount. We went into the land 577 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: which you sent us, and it does flow with milk 578 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: and honey. Here is this fruit. But the people who 579 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,800 Speaker 1: lived there powerful cities, are four to five, very large, 580 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,959 Speaker 1: and not a word of a lie. Nothing they said 581 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: wasn't true. We even saw the sentence of anak there. 582 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: The Amalekites living the Thegether, the Hittites Jepuzides, Amorites live 583 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: in the hill country. The Canaanites lived near the sea 584 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: along the Jordan. And Caleb silenced the people before Moses 585 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 1: and said, we should go up and take it, for 586 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: we could certainly do it. But the men who had 587 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: gone up with them, so we can attack those people 588 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: there stronger than we are. They turned a two week 589 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:45,720 Speaker 1: journey into a forty year wilderness. You know, Why because 590 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 1: nobody in all of those verses that I just read 591 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: you said one thing about God. Not one time was 592 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: his name mentioned, not one time with his power considered, 593 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: not one time with his arm invoked, Not one mention 594 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,239 Speaker 1: of God. I'll read you the whole thing again. Put 595 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: the scripture back up. Let's go back through it. Make 596 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: sure I didn't miss it. They came back, showed them 597 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: the fruit. Next verse, we went into the land which 598 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 1: you sent us it we you it milk, honey, fruit. 599 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: But the people who live there and the cities are 600 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,880 Speaker 1: fortified and very large. We saw descendants of anac keep going, 601 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 1: keep going, Malachis, hit ties, Jesusides, amrids, cellulites, canaanitis. And 602 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: then even Caleb, look, man, he had great faith. He 603 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 1: got to inherit the land. Caleb's a bad dude. But 604 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,239 Speaker 1: even he didn't have the good sense to say we 605 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: should go up and take possession, for God is with us. 606 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: He just said we, and that wasn't enough to convince 607 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 1: him to go. Where is God in your What if? 608 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 1: Where does God factor at? Where is the great I 609 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: am in your? What if? You know? I understand all that? 610 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,799 Speaker 1: What if my kids meet the wrong friends. What if 611 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 1: God loves your kids more than you do. How about that? 612 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: What if I get up to me say I can't 613 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: say it? What if God shows you what to say? 614 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 1: What if God gave you the weakness to show his strength. 615 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: What if God knows stuff you don't know. What if 616 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: God sees something you don't see. What if God has 617 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: something that you need but you don't need it yet. 618 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 1: What if the staff is going to park the waters 619 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 1: when you get there. What if the thing you're worrying 620 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:51,239 Speaker 1: about is already taken care of. Where is God in 621 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:56,760 Speaker 1: your What if so God said, we got to interrupt 622 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,040 Speaker 1: this thing today before it stops you from go I 623 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,480 Speaker 1: went into what he promised you. We got to interrupt 624 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,680 Speaker 1: this cycle today all this. What if at least Moses 625 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: was having a conversation with God when he said, what 626 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: if most of us have that conversation with ourself. And 627 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: so now you're in the wilderness, the wilderness of what 628 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: if or or the wilderness of what was? And God says, 629 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: what is that in your hand? In other words, I 630 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 1: gave you what you need for now. Oh that's not 631 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,800 Speaker 1: me free just now when I said it, because I 632 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,239 Speaker 1: keep thinking about what I'm gonna need for later. I 633 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: keep thinking, I think it's going to take us. I 634 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,360 Speaker 1: don't know, the official staff one hundred and ten billion 635 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,160 Speaker 1: dollars to retire by the year twenty thirty. With the 636 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: way inflation is going to go up, I think that's 637 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,320 Speaker 1: going to be the target retirement. But you're not retired yet. 638 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,280 Speaker 1: You're not retired yet, so now you're working on something 639 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: out here or you're resenting something back there. And the 640 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: Lord said, I want to take you from what if 641 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:24,279 Speaker 1: to what is? So when I was at I'm not 642 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,279 Speaker 1: going to say in the name of the person, but 643 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: I was at their house and they had just they 644 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 1: had just lost as There was a son who had 645 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,400 Speaker 1: just lost his father, a wife who had just lost 646 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,800 Speaker 1: her husband, and I wanted to give them some counsel 647 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: to say how to get through this. And all that 648 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: I could think to tell them is the only responsibility 649 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 1: that you have right now is to take the next breath. 650 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. You don't have to make peace 651 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,280 Speaker 1: with what you lost, you don't have to feel okay 652 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: about it. Just keep breathing. I left that day. I 653 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 1: felt so inadequate. I said, God, they needed a word 654 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: from you, and all I could tell them was keep breathing. 655 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 1: How I failed them, God, How I wish I could 656 00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: have told them something. How I wish I had an 657 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,440 Speaker 1: experience I could have drawn from that would have been 658 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:31,400 Speaker 1: more helpful. And I saw him again two years later, 659 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: and they said, remember when you told us just keep breathing. 660 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:41,719 Speaker 1: That got us through. I said it did. They said yeah, 661 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 1: because it just kept bringing us back to We're still here. 662 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: We're still here. When my dad was diagnosed with ALS, 663 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,280 Speaker 1: I thought he was going to kill himself. He got 664 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,359 Speaker 1: very angry with us. His medications were out of whack, 665 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,760 Speaker 1: was out of his mind. And I called a professional 666 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,200 Speaker 1: Christian counselor and I said, I think he's gonna kill himself, 667 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,640 Speaker 1: and I don't think I can stop him. I'm scared 668 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,879 Speaker 1: to death he's gonna kill himself and I'm not there, 669 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: so I can't do anything about it. And he asked 670 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,400 Speaker 1: me a question that sounde callous. He said, what if 671 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: he did? I said, I couldn't take it. To know 672 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 1: that I couldn't stop him. I couldn't take it. And 673 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: he started to tell me that even if the worst 674 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:37,719 Speaker 1: thing happened, God would be with me in that too, 675 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do everything I can to stop it. I'm 676 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: gonna do everything I can to change it. But see, 677 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:53,640 Speaker 1: even if it happens, I am it is still with 678 00:43:53,719 --> 00:44:01,360 Speaker 1: me that look at me, look at Him. That is 679 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:07,839 Speaker 1: an unshakable faith. The enemy cannot defeat you when your 680 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:13,120 Speaker 1: faith is built on the foundation of nothing less than Jesus' 681 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:19,000 Speaker 1: blood and righteousness, that even in I, like Paul, Paul said, 682 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,360 Speaker 1: what shall separate us from the love of God that 683 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:27,720 Speaker 1: is in Christ Jesus our Lord? Shall height, shall death, shall, 684 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,919 Speaker 1: angels shall demons, shall the present, shall the future? Shall 685 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,239 Speaker 1: any other power? No, none of these things shall be 686 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,960 Speaker 1: able to separate us from the love of God that 687 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 1: is in Christ Jesus. So I came to tell the 688 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:51,800 Speaker 1: enemy God can and he will. But even if he didn't, 689 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 1: he still God. Even if they gets seven times hotter. 690 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:07,760 Speaker 1: He's in this furnest too. Give God the what if. 691 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,080 Speaker 1: He knows the future. You don't. Give God the what if. 692 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 1: He'll show you where to partner and where to shut up. 693 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 1: Give God the what if, and he'll show you what's 694 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 1: in your hand and what's not in your control. So God, 695 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,839 Speaker 1: Everyone's standing God, whoever it is today, who needed to 696 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,000 Speaker 1: release something. I pray they won't wait another second to 697 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:38,359 Speaker 1: do it. Remind them that you've got this, Remind them 698 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,360 Speaker 1: that they got they got what they need on the inside, 699 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: that you're going to bring them what they need on 700 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,440 Speaker 1: the outside. That they will never meet as see that 701 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,799 Speaker 1: your power won't be able to park. They will never 702 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,760 Speaker 1: meet a giant that your spirit can't bring down. And Father, 703 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 1: I thank you today for the promise that we have 704 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:09,320 Speaker 1: in you to be with us even if. Now, Lord, 705 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 1: by the power of your spirit, today and in the 706 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:26,239 Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ, your Son, we declare that there 707 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:32,919 Speaker 1: will be freedom in the hearts of your people from 708 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 1: everything that has been terrorizing and tormenting them and destroying 709 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:45,000 Speaker 1: their joy, and destroying their peace and making them wonder 710 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,080 Speaker 1: if they're going to make it. We declare that nothing 711 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,200 Speaker 1: will be able to separate them from the love of 712 00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,520 Speaker 1: God that is in Christ. I want to pray a 713 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,760 Speaker 1: special prayer for those of you who have been wandering 714 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,239 Speaker 1: around into what if. And I want you to lift 715 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,919 Speaker 1: both of your hands. If that's you, Father, you see 716 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: your kids, You see their stretched hands, you see their 717 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: open hands, you see their uplifted arms. I thank you 718 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,680 Speaker 1: for a fresh feeling of your grace. As you lift 719 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: your hands right now, just be giving it to God. 720 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,960 Speaker 1: Be giving it to God. Give it to him right now. 721 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,960 Speaker 1: Give it to him right now. If you made a 722 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,040 Speaker 1: bad decision, given that, ask him to redeem it. If 723 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,240 Speaker 1: you did a dumb thing, give it to him right now. 724 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,920 Speaker 1: If you fell back, you were walking forward and you 725 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,000 Speaker 1: fell back, give him your setback right now. Give it 726 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:36,200 Speaker 1: to him right now, and he will give it to you. 727 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:43,319 Speaker 1: I receive your strength, Lord, I receive your wisdom. I 728 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:48,960 Speaker 1: receive your power. I receive it by faith, not working 729 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,000 Speaker 1: for it, not striving for it. I receive it. Somebody say, 730 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:56,120 Speaker 1: I receive it right now in the name of Jesus. 731 00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:01,279 Speaker 1: It's mine. It belongs to me. God gave it to me. 732 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: It's a supernatural peace. Peace over your life right now. 733 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,960 Speaker 1: Peace over your mind right now, Peace over your business 734 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,600 Speaker 1: right now, Peace over your decisions right now. I speak peace, 735 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:17,040 Speaker 1: the peace of Almighty God, the presence of God the Great. 736 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:23,000 Speaker 1: I am Jehovah, Jirah, your provider, Jehovah sid Canoe, your righteousness, 737 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:31,520 Speaker 1: Jehovah Nissi, your banner, Jehovah Shalom the Lord give you peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, 738 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:36,279 Speaker 1: not panic peace, just breathe in the peace of God. Well, 739 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,720 Speaker 1: if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple things 740 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,080 Speaker 1: I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, 741 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,359 Speaker 1: and review this podcast. 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