Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. Let's praise the name of
Speaker 1: Jesus together.
Speaker 2: Come on, lift up every voice to the Great I Am.
Speaker 2: If you know God is great and greatly to be praised,
Speaker 2: come on, lift.
Speaker 1: Your voice right now. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: A great God deserves a great phrase.
Speaker 1: Let's give him a great phrase.
Speaker 3: That's an okay praise, but he's not an okay God.
Speaker 3: Let's give a great God a great praise. Open your
Speaker 3: mouth and give him praise.
Speaker 1: If you go up your room, give him praise. If
Speaker 1: he's good to you, given phrase, if he kept you,
Speaker 1: if he blessed you, if he led you, if he
Speaker 1: fed you, if he's been.
Speaker 4: By your side, hid him a great phrase, A great
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: Let's lift up one more? Shall come on corporately, Let's
Speaker 1: lift up one horse shout for the King is among us.
Speaker 2: It is such a powerful thing to call him the
Speaker 2: Great I Am. It means that there is nothing that
Speaker 2: you need in your life right now that he cannot
Speaker 2: provide nothing.
Speaker 1: We have come.
Speaker 2: Together today to worship His great name all over the world.
Speaker 2: We're joining now as a global church fan. Let's welcome
Speaker 2: our Epham all over the world.
Speaker 1: Right now, where are you joining from? Put it in
Speaker 1: the chat.
Speaker 2: Let me know. Turn to your neighbor and tell them
Speaker 2: where you came from today to come to church. Do
Speaker 2: that in a room too, Tell him I drove four
Speaker 2: four miles. This gas is expensive. And check in on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Y'all stay standing. God is going to speak a word
Speaker 2: to us today.
Speaker 1: You believe that? Do you believe it?
Speaker 2: This is fun to do every once in a while.
Speaker 2: Just to put it in perspective. I just told them
Speaker 2: in the chat. Let us know where you're joining from now.
Speaker 2: If you don't believe this is a global ministry, listen
Speaker 2: to some of this. South Africa, West Virginia, Well those
Speaker 2: are different.
Speaker 1: Don't you feel sorry for me?
Speaker 2: I have to preach a mess that applies to South
Speaker 2: Africa and West Virginia. Thank God that the Word of
Speaker 2: God can travel through time, zones, accents, backgrounds.
Speaker 1: All right, slow down, slow down, slow down?
Speaker 2: How do you make it stop? I can't stop it?
Speaker 2: Try and put my thumb on it. Won't stop. God
Speaker 2: is unstoppable. Phoenix, Arizona, Alabama, Dubai, Buffalo, Brazil. Just say
Speaker 2: Brazil or rock Hill, Welcome Brazil. I was watching some
Speaker 2: UFC this morning getting ready for church. I recorded it
Speaker 2: so I could get a good night's sleep. Then I
Speaker 2: played it so the Lord will fire me up to
Speaker 2: fight his battles. When I was praying this morning, it
Speaker 2: was a good one too. Barbados, Yukonda.
Speaker 1: If you would have.
Speaker 2: Told me, I'm just trying to put this in context twenty.
Speaker 1: Years ago, one day you'll be preaching and you'll be.
Speaker 2: Standing a few miles from your home, looking in the camera,
Speaker 2: touching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ all over
Speaker 2: the world, I would have said, no way.
Speaker 1: But God, God.
Speaker 2: Who is amazing and incredible and superfluous. And you know
Speaker 2: how we call people extra, but we mean it like
Speaker 2: we're kind of putting them down. We're like, man, she's
Speaker 2: kind of extra. God is extra in a good way.
Speaker 2: He does exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we could ask,
Speaker 2: are imagine, and He has made a way for me.
Speaker 2: In fact, that's what I want to preach to you
Speaker 2: about today. And I'm going to go to Isaiah forty
Speaker 2: three sixteen through nineteen. Holly was trying to do a spoiler,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't let her. She said, are you giving
Speaker 2: us another installment in this series? This God of series?
Speaker 2: We talked about how God is the great I Am.
Speaker 2: We spend the rest of our lives, you know, in
Speaker 2: the blank. Because when God told Moses his name, he said,
Speaker 2: my name is Yahweh, which is I am.
Speaker 1: That's what the name means.
Speaker 2: And then so you can't confine God to one certain
Speaker 2: designation or label. As much as we want to make
Speaker 2: God like us and just put him in a box,
Speaker 2: he will not be boxed. I said, he will not
Speaker 2: be boxed. So we spend our entire lives, if you
Speaker 2: could say, this kind of unboxing God in our hearts,
Speaker 2: as we encounter different battles and blessings and we come
Speaker 2: to know Him in different ways. Well, so for a
Speaker 2: few weeks now, we've been going through some unique ones,
Speaker 2: not just the normal ones that you hear. Jehovah, Jirah,
Speaker 2: Jehovah shalom. Jehovah is the Latin for Yahweh. So if
Speaker 2: that ever confuses you, you're like.
Speaker 1: Is he Yahweh? Is it Jehovah? What is the name? Well,
Speaker 1: the name means I am.
Speaker 2: And then God tells us to get busy finding out
Speaker 2: who he is, getting to know him, and we get
Speaker 2: the privilege in our lives of just discovering that one
Speaker 2: phase at a time. Now, this today is going to
Speaker 2: be I want to say the last in this series,
Speaker 2: but I don't know yet, because he's the god of. Also,
Speaker 2: he's the god of again, He's the god of already.
Speaker 1: What did I do last week?
Speaker 2: I already forgot it after Okay, So.
Speaker 1: He's all of those things. And then watch this.
Speaker 2: I got one more for you today in Isaiah forty three,
Speaker 2: And man, do I love this scripture? And boy did
Speaker 2: God confirm this word. When I was not sure if
Speaker 2: I should preach this today, he confirmed it three different ways,
Speaker 2: so I know it's him.
Speaker 1: Listen to this.
Speaker 2: Isaiah forty three, verse sixteen in the English Standard version,
Speaker 2: thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea,
Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot
Speaker 2: and horse, army and warrior that represents your enemies. He
Speaker 2: brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior. They lie
Speaker 2: down they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a
Speaker 2: wick y'all must not be fighting anything.
Speaker 5: Just me gets excited about that.
Speaker 1: Now he says something else, very interesting.
Speaker 2: He says, remember not the former things, nor consider the
Speaker 2: things of old. Behold, I am whose name is that?
Speaker 1: That's God's name. So I'm paying attention. Now.
Speaker 2: Behold, I am doing a new thing.
Speaker 1: Now it springs forth? Do you not perceive it?
Speaker 2: I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers
Speaker 2: in the desert. Can we double down on that verse?
Speaker 2: That's the one right there? Behold, God says, I am
Speaker 2: doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you
Speaker 2: not perceive it? I will make a way. So I
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about the God of Away Away.
Speaker 1: Do you need him.
Speaker 2: To clear some space in your life today? Do you
Speaker 2: need him to come through in a way that only
Speaker 2: he can? I got good news. He's the God of.
Speaker 1: Away. Father.
Speaker 2: Your word is already blessed, So just open us up
Speaker 2: to receive it. That's all I ask. What you're already
Speaker 2: doing in this place, continue it. I step into alignment
Speaker 2: and agreement with your spirit concerning each person here in Jesus' name. Amen,
Speaker 2: He's already doing it. Take your seat, Take your seat.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's the god of.
Speaker 1: Away.
Speaker 2: Holly does this thing for me, and it really helps me.
Speaker 2: I think it's her way of encouraging and rebuking me.
Speaker 2: All with one stroke and two birds with one stone,
Speaker 2: as they say, even that a horrible little saying.
Speaker 1: By the way, why are you killing birds? To start
Speaker 1: with birds not hurting you?
Speaker 2: But anyway, she does this thing for me from time
Speaker 2: to time when I'm in a moment that's really wonderful.
Speaker 2: But I think she senses that I'm taking it for granted.
Speaker 2: She'll ask me a question, what would eighteen year old
Speaker 2: Stephen say about this? See, that's how long we've known
Speaker 2: each other. She met me when I was eighteen. I
Speaker 2: was wearing a Superman shirt and some yellow tinted glasses
Speaker 2: running around North Greenville College double x L Superman shirt.
Speaker 2: I was chopping at Goodwill back then and enjoining it too,
Speaker 2: And she fell in love with me, not for my
Speaker 2: Superman shirt, but for my spiritual acumen. So we started
Speaker 2: traveling together do a ministry together, and we've known each
Speaker 2: other pretty intimately since that time.
Speaker 1: And so she knows.
Speaker 2: The dreams I had and the things that I used
Speaker 2: to pray for, and she knows how big of a
Speaker 2: deal a lot of the things that God has done
Speaker 2: for us would be to that guy. She also understands
Speaker 2: the dynamic that happens that while God is doing those
Speaker 2: things that you dreamed about, you often don't realize them because, well,
Speaker 2: you're doing it, and when you're in something, it can
Speaker 2: be easy to miss something that you're in. Does this
Speaker 2: make any sense when I'm saying like, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: because I used to think it meant I wasn't grateful,
Speaker 2: But I was talking to one of my friends and
Speaker 2: I realized, I don't think it's that I'm not grateful
Speaker 2: for the great things God has done for me.
Speaker 1: I think it's that the pressure.
Speaker 2: Of trying to maintain the ministry God has given me,
Speaker 2: the marriage that God has given me, even the money
Speaker 2: that I need to live in this world and to
Speaker 2: reach people around the world. You know, all of that
Speaker 2: pressure can cloud your perspective. So she'll just from time
Speaker 2: to time she doesn't do it that much because he'll
Speaker 2: probably lose its efficacy if she did it too much.
Speaker 2: You like that twenty dollars word, She'd go, what would
Speaker 2: eighteen year olds Stephen think right about now. Let me
Speaker 2: give you a few examples, not to brag or anything
Speaker 2: like that, but just to help you, because I believe
Speaker 2: there are some things in your life that are just
Speaker 2: like this today, and if we can get you to
Speaker 2: think about them, I think it will help you so
Speaker 2: much for whatever you're up against right now. Okay, So
Speaker 2: one night I was talking to one of my heroes
Speaker 2: on the phone. This is just like a month or
Speaker 2: two ago, and it was my preaching hero. And so
Speaker 2: I'm talking to my preaching hero on the phone on
Speaker 2: a Saturday night and she walks in and she sees it.
Speaker 2: And when I get off the phone, she goes, what
Speaker 2: would eighteen year olds Stephen say if I came up
Speaker 2: and told him that he was going to be talking
Speaker 2: to his preaching hero on the phone on a Saturday night,
Speaker 2: just swapping sermon titles before Sunday in the pulpit, the.
Speaker 1: Guy he used to watch on TV.
Speaker 2: And I said, what would eighteen year old Stephen say
Speaker 2: if you told him that? She said yeah, and I said,
Speaker 2: he'd say, no way. Here's another one we were.
Speaker 1: We were this is kind of crazy. We were in Toronto.
Speaker 2: I mean eighteen year old Stephen had been on one
Speaker 2: plane in his life, so even being in Toronto was crazy.
Speaker 2: Let alone fourteen thousand people were there for elevation nights.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it amazing?
Speaker 2: Hey, LJ is Toronto's finest. Y'all, forget Drake, we got LJ.
Speaker 1: I would trade three Drakes for one LJ. But that's
Speaker 1: just me. So she just said, turn to me in Toronto.
Speaker 2: What would eighteen year old Stephen say that the songs
Speaker 2: from this church, this ministry that God has given are
Speaker 2: being sung tonight by fourteen thousand people? Was it fourteen
Speaker 2: thousand people in Toronto? And I just looked back at
Speaker 2: her and he would say, no way. But it does
Speaker 2: the trick because it helps me realize that what I'm
Speaker 2: standing in in that moment is something that I never
Speaker 2: would have even had the mind or the perspective to
Speaker 2: imagine in the past. Let me say that again, sometimes
Speaker 2: what you're standing in in the moment is something that
Speaker 2: you couldn't even have imagined in the past. Y'all don't
Speaker 2: want to help me preach, but it's true in your
Speaker 2: life too. There are some things if I could pass
Speaker 2: around the mic today and I'm not going to because
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Trust all of y'all.
Speaker 2: There's way too many people watching in West Virginia and
Speaker 2: South Africa for me to freely pass this microphone around.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get canceled off of something you said
Speaker 2: because I was stupid enough to pass the mic around.
Speaker 2: But if we could pass it to the right people,
Speaker 2: there would be something that you could say that today,
Speaker 2: somebody shout today that God is doing in your life.
Speaker 2: That if I told you, little boy you I don't
Speaker 2: know what age, maybe twelve year old officer van Allmen,
Speaker 2: maybe ten year old. But if I said this is
Speaker 2: where you're gonna be, and this is how it's gonna be,
Speaker 2: and this is what you're gonna be dealing with, this
Speaker 2: is what you're gonna be managing, you would say.
Speaker 1: But now.
Speaker 2: What you would say, no way about yesterday is actually
Speaker 2: today just so normal. And that is why it is
Speaker 2: good for Holly to turn to me every once in
Speaker 2: a while and say, you need to talk with eighteen
Speaker 2: year old Stephen, because this forty three year old Stephen
Speaker 2: is grumpy. This forty three year old Stephen is complaining
Speaker 2: about stuff.
Speaker 1: That he prayed about yesterday. You missed it. He prayed
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: Thing yesterday, God did it. Now he's praying, complaining about
Speaker 2: what he prayed for, and he's standing in now what
Speaker 2: he said in no way about and he's worried about
Speaker 2: what's ahead, when if he could just look back a
Speaker 2: little bit. I'm getting warmed up too soon. Let me
Speaker 2: get to this scripture. Isaiah has a difficult task, y'all.
Speaker 1: He's prophesying to the nation.
Speaker 2: Of Jerusalem just before they are carried away into exile.
Speaker 1: It won't be long.
Speaker 2: They'll be taken from their homeland, They'll be taken from
Speaker 2: everything that they know.
Speaker 1: They'll be taken by.
Speaker 2: Not only the Assyrians, but the Babylonians after that. And
Speaker 2: no matter how he warns them, they will not listen.
Speaker 2: Up until Isaiah forty, there's not much hope to be
Speaker 2: found in this prophetic record. But something shifts in Isaiah
Speaker 2: chapter forty, and he starts looking toward the future that
Speaker 2: even after they are carried away. Did not just preach
Speaker 2: last week something about after, and am I.
Speaker 1: Preaching today about away? So even after.
Speaker 2: They are carried away, God will still be faithful in
Speaker 2: order to give them this picture. He tags back to
Speaker 2: the past and says thus says the Lord verse sixteen,
Speaker 2: who makes away in the sea, a path in the
Speaker 2: mighty water, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior.
Speaker 2: They lie down, they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched
Speaker 2: like a whig. This is a very familiar framework for
Speaker 2: Isaiah's audience, maybe not so much for us, but this
Speaker 2: refers to the Egyptian army that God drowned in the
Speaker 2: Red Sea centuries before Isaiah would write these words, and
Speaker 2: he reminds them of the past. And then in verse
Speaker 2: eighteen check this out, he tells them remember not the
Speaker 2: former things. So it's kind of confusing because he's telling
Speaker 2: them in a sense, God made a way in the past.
Speaker 2: Now forget the past and trust Him in the present.
Speaker 2: Now you're clapping, But I'm confused because it's kind of
Speaker 2: like stand on your right foot, stand on your left foot.
Speaker 2: I'm like, at the same time, I can do with
Speaker 2: both at the same time. No, do both, you know.
Speaker 2: I think what Holly's trying to get me to do,
Speaker 2: what the Holy Spirit wants us to do today, and
Speaker 2: what Isaiah wants his audience to do as well, is
Speaker 2: to find a way to tap into the past. That
Speaker 2: will cause you to trust God in the present. There's
Speaker 2: somebody here today who needs God to make a way.
Speaker 2: That way could be financial, that way could be physical,
Speaker 2: there could be something in your family. I mean, I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with you when I list those categories. I
Speaker 2: think we're all just a week away from needing any
Speaker 2: of those things in our life, one text away from
Speaker 2: needing something you don't know you need right now. The
Speaker 2: beauty of God's word for me is in the fact
Speaker 2: that he teaches me how to tap into my past
Speaker 2: in order to find my faith. To talk to eighteen
Speaker 2: year old Stephen, and just remember that many of the
Speaker 2: things that you are standing in today you said no
Speaker 2: way about yesterday, somebody say no way. If I would
Speaker 2: have told some of you that you would be in
Speaker 2: church this morning, like actually sitting in church this morning
Speaker 2: listening to a guy opened a Bible and talk, you
Speaker 2: would have said. And you know, some of y'all heard
Speaker 2: that elevation was a cult. So if I told you
Speaker 2: that you'd be at elevation, I'm gonna wave at me.
Speaker 1: I know they say stuff about us. I don't scare
Speaker 1: me a bit. I don't care anything about it.
Speaker 2: If they said you're gonna be going to that church
Speaker 2: with the orange little arrow that you saw on all
Speaker 2: those cars on the sticker driving around all those cars
Speaker 2: you were cussing at on the on the freeway, You're
Speaker 2: gonna be sitting with them on a Sunday morning. I mean,
Speaker 2: there were people who were baptized last week that if
Speaker 2: I would have told you, In fact, can I say
Speaker 2: this if you would have told me when we started
Speaker 2: the church and this was not that long ago, this
Speaker 2: was less than twenty years ago when we were trying
Speaker 2: to find one person to baptize that in one Sunday
Speaker 2: we would baptize over a thousand people. See, you weren't
Speaker 2: there then, so it doesn't mean so much.
Speaker 1: But if you would have.
Speaker 2: Been there in the yesterday, you be standing in today saying.
Speaker 1: What in the world.
Speaker 2: I would have said, No way, if you would have
Speaker 2: told me. Not only in Toronto, ya. One time I
Speaker 2: got up in front of our church when we had
Speaker 2: two hundred people, I said, what are y'all gonna do
Speaker 2: when we have two thousand people every week?
Speaker 1: And they look back at me like, no way, you'd
Speaker 1: have told me there were gonna be two.
Speaker 2: Thousand last week in our church just in Toronto. Should
Speaker 2: I go back and take a nap and come back
Speaker 2: and see y'all later.
Speaker 1: I would have said, no way.
Speaker 2: But I'm standing in now what I said no way
Speaker 2: about then, and I'm not bragging, and I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that everything in my life has exceeded my expectations. Because
Speaker 2: on the other hand, if you would have told me
Speaker 2: some of the stuff that I would still struggle with
Speaker 2: today that I thought I would have been passed by now,
Speaker 2: I would say, no way.
Speaker 1: You mean I'm.
Speaker 2: Still gonna pick out my wardrobe some weeks like a
Speaker 2: fifth grade boy trying to figure out what the cool
Speaker 2: kids wear, like, I won't care about that when I'm
Speaker 2: in my forties. If you would have told me these
Speaker 2: baggy jeans would be back in style when we were
Speaker 2: all get a wide shot for the cameras, when we
Speaker 2: were all cutting off our circulation with skinny jeans about
Speaker 2: five minutes ago, now past, the boot cut's gonna come back,
Speaker 2: I would have said, So, I'm trying to bring a
Speaker 2: variety of dimension to this concept so that we can
Speaker 2: set the context for whatever it is in your life
Speaker 2: where you are standing now, where you're saying no way,
Speaker 2: Because if I tell you sometimes that the depression actually
Speaker 2: can lift and you can come into a greater season,
Speaker 2: and that your best days may be ahead of you.
Speaker 2: There will be a little devil to tell you, no way,
Speaker 2: no way. You've already been to the doctor three times
Speaker 2: about this. You've already tried three different prescriptions for this.
Speaker 1: So when we say.
Speaker 2: Things like this, that we say he's the god of away,
Speaker 2: you have an enemy who says no way. That's why
Speaker 2: I love the very first four words of Isaiah forty
Speaker 2: three sixteen.
Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord.
Speaker 2: You could get happy off those four words if you
Speaker 2: knew what hung on those words, because when you read
Speaker 2: thus says the Lord, it's tagging into his name, the
Speaker 2: Lord Yahweh, And it is saying that what Yahweh says
Speaker 2: about your situation is greater than any past indicator of
Speaker 2: your potential.
Speaker 1: Now follow me.
Speaker 2: Here, because it's important that you really tag into your past.
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't.
Speaker 2: Ever tap into your past like Isaiah's doing here, he
Speaker 2: says he makes away in the sea a path in
Speaker 2: the mighty waters. If you don't ever tap into what
Speaker 2: God did in your past, do right now, just close
Speaker 2: your eyes, Just close your eyes. I promise nobody's gonna
Speaker 2: steal your purse. These are good Christian people. Close your
Speaker 2: eyes right now where you are.
Speaker 1: I'm watching on the confone and my roommate is gonna
Speaker 1: think I'm weird. Your roommate's weird. They need to be watching. Okay,
Speaker 1: close your eyes, all right, close your eyes.
Speaker 2: I want you to think and tap into something and
Speaker 2: then your past, and when you got it, say I
Speaker 2: got it something that God.
Speaker 1: Did that you would have said no way about.
Speaker 2: Something that God did that you would have said in
Speaker 2: no way, and say I got it.
Speaker 1: When you got it, all right, that was quick? Do
Speaker 1: another one, Do another one, do another one.
Speaker 2: For some of you, it's the fact that your kid
Speaker 2: is in church with you today.
Speaker 1: Your kid didn't want to.
Speaker 2: Come to church, and then all of a sudden, somehow,
Speaker 2: some way got well, maybe you dragged them and maybe
Speaker 2: you bribed them, and maybe you had to pay them
Speaker 2: twenty dollars, but some way God got them here. For
Speaker 2: some of you, it is a physical illness that you
Speaker 2: thought you wouldn't recover from.
Speaker 1: If that's your testimony, shout that's me. Okay.
Speaker 2: It's a physical illness that you thought you wouldn't recover from.
Speaker 2: You recovered from it, and you're strong by the grace
Speaker 2: of God God made away.
Speaker 1: For some of you, it is.
Speaker 2: An addiction that crippled you, and now you find yourself
Speaker 2: gaining momentum a little bit stronger every day. Some days
Speaker 2: is harder than others. Some days it seems like you
Speaker 2: might not make it today. But even when you slip
Speaker 2: off the path a little bit, you feel him pulling
Speaker 2: you back.
Speaker 1: God is making a way. If that's you, shout, that's
Speaker 1: me okay.
Speaker 2: For some of you, it is something in your life
Speaker 2: that God provided in the resource realm. You didn't know
Speaker 2: how you were gonna come up with that money. You
Speaker 2: didn't know how you were gonna do it by that date.
Speaker 2: You didn't know how you were gonna make it through
Speaker 2: that unemployment season. You didn't know how your industry was
Speaker 2: gonna collapse all around you. And God was gonna send
Speaker 2: ravens to feed you by the brooke call Karen. But
Speaker 2: God did not take a vote to see how he
Speaker 2: could bless you. He just tapped a bird on the
Speaker 2: shoulder and dropped something off for you and did something
Speaker 2: for you. And He did it just in the nick
Speaker 2: of time, not early, not late, And you found out
Speaker 2: He's an on time god who makes a way where
Speaker 2: there is no way.
Speaker 1: At just the right time.
Speaker 2: As you abided him, you bore much fruit. For some
Speaker 2: of you, it's the revelation that God gave you of
Speaker 2: the strength that you didn't know you had. You walked
Speaker 2: through the valley of the shadow of depth. But is
Speaker 2: rotting his staff.
Speaker 1: They comforted you.
Speaker 2: So now you're standing looking at another wolf saying, I
Speaker 2: will fear no evil, for thou.
Speaker 1: Art with me, Thou art always with me. Great Toaha
Speaker 1: guid me.
Speaker 2: South he made away, So I gotta tap into that.
Speaker 1: Now watch this. This is the important thing.
Speaker 2: Isaiah said, tap into that, but don't get trapped in that,
Speaker 2: because you know where I'm going with this. The way
Speaker 2: that he made yesterday may not be the way that
Speaker 2: he makes today. So there's two ways to approach the past.
Speaker 2: One you tap into and you trust God in the present.
Speaker 2: The other way is you get trapped in it and
Speaker 2: you doubt God in the present because he isn't guaranteeing
Speaker 2: that he will do in the future what he did
Speaker 2: in the past. Breaking down pastor I think I follow you,
Speaker 2: but I'm a little bit confused. I can do that
Speaker 2: the relationships that God used to support you in one
Speaker 2: season may not be the same relationships he uses to
Speaker 2: support you in the next. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: sometimes the removal of a relationship is an opportunity for
Speaker 2: a revelation, because some of the things that I trusted
Speaker 2: in were a trap holding me back from trusting in God.
Speaker 1: Who is my supply? Who is my provider? Who is
Speaker 1: my help? How don't look for the hills for my help?
Speaker 1: My health comes frum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Jesus is my health, and he is the
Speaker 2: same yesterday, today, and forever.
Speaker 1: So here's the dance.
Speaker 2: I gotta tap into yesterday, but not get trapped in yesterday.
Speaker 1: I gotta tap.
Speaker 2: Into what he did enough to trust what he's doing,
Speaker 2: and I gotta move through what he's doing, even though
Speaker 2: I cannot predict where it ends up. Who am I
Speaker 2: preaching to five people who need this message? I keep
Speaker 2: no secrets from you. We are family. I am preaching
Speaker 2: from a personal place. I just dropped my oldest son
Speaker 2: off at college this week. I'm not okay. I miss him.
Speaker 2: That's my dude. Who else am I going to listen to?
Speaker 2: Guns and roses in the pound and lift weights with
Speaker 2: I don't know, happy are you available? But here's what
Speaker 2: I'm learning about this, this whole process.
Speaker 1: You talk to these parents who.
Speaker 2: Dropped their kid off at college and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we dropped them off and they graduated in their doctor.
Speaker 1: Hmm, thank you, Mike. I felt better.
Speaker 2: Mike Mitchell said, it's not easy.
Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. Cause you know what, Mike, when.
Speaker 2: People talk about we dropped our kid off and they
Speaker 2: were the salutatorian and they went to Harvard and then
Speaker 2: they did the post graduate Yale and then they operated,
Speaker 2: they'd have.
Speaker 1: Invented a cure to cancel culture.
Speaker 6: And yeah, uh, I just don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I didn't didn't even go that far.
Speaker 2: And I'm just saying, we're still gonna talk every day,
Speaker 2: but let's to just miss him.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to trust God with that.
Speaker 2: And people would just tell you their own testimony like
Speaker 2: it was just a clean.
Speaker 1: Miracle, you know, And this is how I read the Bible.
Speaker 1: This I read the Bible, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you read the Bible like this.
Speaker 2: When I read it like that, and it sounds too clean,
Speaker 2: like this is the clean version.
Speaker 1: Of what happened in Exodus fourteen. Thus says the Lord.
Speaker 2: Isaiah's like reminding them God was faithful because that was
Speaker 2: something they didn't experience, that was hundreds of years before
Speaker 2: they lived. But he's trying to get them ready for
Speaker 2: something going through now, so he taps into the past
Speaker 2: to teach them to trust in the presence. So he says,
Speaker 2: Thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea,
Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters?
Speaker 1: And how good that.
Speaker 2: Sounds, and how easy that sounds, who brings forth chariot
Speaker 2: and horace, army and warrior. They lie down, they cannot rise.
Speaker 2: You got to put verse sixteen up there because it
Speaker 2: just sounds so good. Who makes away in the sea
Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters? Show you what that
Speaker 2: doesn't say? Leave it up so I can prove it.
Speaker 2: And I feel like Moses wants me to tell you this,
Speaker 2: because Moses was the one who.
Speaker 1: Was actually there.
Speaker 2: Moses be like, hey, hey, are y'all shot about that
Speaker 2: God who makes away in the sea a path in
Speaker 2: the mighty waters? It does not say, because I don't
Speaker 2: know what y'all are shotting about.
Speaker 1: Because it doesn't say he makes a way around the
Speaker 1: sea in that good This is Moses.
Speaker 2: I'm speaking on behalf of Moses, not a path around
Speaker 2: the mighty waters.
Speaker 1: You see that little word in Oh, when you're in it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come to this side. There's a little bit
Speaker 2: of they're judging me over there. They're like, just trust
Speaker 2: God when you're in it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come down there. I'm coming down there. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of this. I'm sick of y'all.
Speaker 2: Because it's like and they crossed over on dry ground.
Speaker 1: They went through the red sea, and the.
Speaker 2: Waters went back, and they crossed through on dry ground.
Speaker 2: How dry I speculate. I'm not a scientist or a meteorologist.
Speaker 2: I speculate that if there was a sea, and God
Speaker 2: sent a wind and split the sea and told them
Speaker 2: to go in the middle where the water had just
Speaker 2: been and was still standing up on the right and
Speaker 2: the left as they walked through it.
Speaker 1: If they stepped into the middle of.
Speaker 2: Where water had just been, let me check your shoes
Speaker 2: real quick. I'm thinking it was muddy.
Speaker 1: Let me check y'all real quick. I'm checking the seed.
Speaker 2: Because you're quick to hear about other people's miracles.
Speaker 6: But I found out, no mud, no miracles, chick, check
Speaker 6: those are nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm checking. I'm checking to see. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: just checking to see. I know, I know, this kind
Speaker 2: of weird thing to do. I'm checking to see if
Speaker 2: there's anything in your life right now, this kind of
Speaker 2: money where you're in it.
Speaker 1: I mean in it.
Speaker 2: Because in church it's a time for us to remember miracles,
Speaker 2: it is also a time for us to accept the
Speaker 2: mud that comes with the miracles.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you.
Speaker 2: The truth about everybody that sits on your row. If
Speaker 2: they have a miracle, they also have some mud.
Speaker 1: And I just need you to know it.
Speaker 2: So you don't feel judged by all the perfect families
Speaker 2: that you thought were perfect. You just haven't gotten close
Speaker 2: enough to see their mud yet. They just keep their
Speaker 2: shoes clean enough when they're around you.
Speaker 1: But if you ever saw what was really underneath, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't feel.
Speaker 2: So bad about the stuff you struggle with either.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I got miracles, Yeah I got.
Speaker 2: Testimonies, Yeah I got open doors, Yeah I got victories.
Speaker 2: Yeah I got songs, Yeah I got praise report. Yeah
Speaker 2: I got miracles. But I also got mud. What I'm
Speaker 2: trying to say to you today is that if you
Speaker 2: are in a money situation, if you are in the
Speaker 2: money middle of a transition in your life, if you
Speaker 2: are in the money middle of begetting a recovery process,
Speaker 2: if you are in the money middle of trying to
Speaker 2: figure out who am I now in my life?
Speaker 1: If you are in the money middle.
Speaker 2: Of sending your kid off or having your kid back,
Speaker 2: or trying to have a kid but can't have a kid,
Speaker 2: or trying to raise a kid and not kill a kid,
Speaker 2: or trying to finish a degree, or trying to start
Speaker 2: a degree, or trying to go back or trying to
Speaker 2: get away. If you've got some money, I gotta word
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Mud means ye come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 2: This is for the money ones, the ones I see
Speaker 2: it kind.
Speaker 7: Of forcing for the flow down day. Whoa check your
Speaker 7: neighbor's shoes, say you got mud, You got mud.
Speaker 1: We better tell them, We better tell the team.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to clean the church a little extra today,
Speaker 2: because today is not a day for you to walk.
Speaker 1: In church and walk out unchanged.
Speaker 2: Today is today that you can come into the presence
Speaker 2: of the Lord Mud and all hurting, all brokenness.
Speaker 8: And all doubts and all questions.
Speaker 1: And all failures and all mistakes and all and this
Speaker 1: is a miracle moment. Give it thirty seconds of phrazy break.
Speaker 2: Money, messy, ridiculous praise.
Speaker 1: Waymaker praise.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: You're ready When I say this show from beat after
Speaker 8: me saying it's money, but I'll make you get his mind.
Speaker 2: The mean here that.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's money, yes, because it feels like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that kind of sor But I know one thing
Speaker 4: he make song Why.
Speaker 1: What's his name?
Speaker 4: Yr way y'r.
Speaker 1: Way yah way say yah wah, the sess lord. So
Speaker 1: with the devil.
Speaker 2: Says no way, you'll say.
Speaker 1: What with the devil says, Oh, it's gonna catch on
Speaker 1: in a minute. You don't get it yet.
Speaker 9: But when the devil says no way you're ever gonna
Speaker 9: pay off this stint.
Speaker 2: No way you're ever gonna sick on this burden, No
Speaker 2: way you're ever gonna make it through this lowly season.
Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, we say we sid
Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, you'll side. When the
Speaker 1: devil said no say, you say I'll get it?
Speaker 10: Pray how few that when the devil says, no way,
Speaker 10: we say.
Speaker 5: When the devil says, whoa?
Speaker 9: When the devil said, what do you say? Again with
Speaker 9: the devil said, I say, y'all, wag.
Speaker 1: Let's make a live recording right now. Let's put this
Speaker 1: on kiktok.
Speaker 2: To let every Sarian know, to let every Babylonian know,
Speaker 2: to let everything seese no, to let every bad report no.
Speaker 9: To let that table with a table say hey, we
Speaker 9: say I love it.
Speaker 1: With a table, say what do you say? Let's do
Speaker 1: it for real? Let's do it for real?
Speaker 4: He say, with a devil says no. See how he said,
Speaker 4: we say how we say, y'all do it?
Speaker 1: You say, y'all right, do a man ather you see.
Speaker 2: It? Plea?
Speaker 1: Nobody say that, says the Lord. Give me nineteen and
Speaker 1: I'll shut off.
Speaker 11: Somebody shout no way, now, shout yeah a way. I'm
Speaker 11: on fire on the inside. I'm on fire on the inside.
Speaker 11: I'm on fire on the inside.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring a bustload of Pentecostals to help me
Speaker 2: preach part two.
Speaker 1: Of this next week.
Speaker 2: I see yeah, way behold, I am.
Speaker 1: I am doing new thing. He's gonna do a new thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's gonna do a new thing.
Speaker 2: So tap into the past, but don't be trapped in that.
Speaker 1: Because he said, I.
Speaker 2: Am the God of also, I am.
Speaker 1: The God of again, I am the God of already.
Speaker 1: I am the God of.
Speaker 2: After all the hell you've been through, you mean you
Speaker 2: don't want to stick around and see what God can
Speaker 2: do through you.
Speaker 1: You want to go through all that suffering for nothing,
Speaker 1: not me, devil. You want to stand in front of.
Speaker 4: This goliath for nothing, not me, devil, because I say, go.
Speaker 5: Mad, Behold, I am doing a new thing.
Speaker 2: Is this word for you or just for me? I'm
Speaker 2: talking to forty three year old Steven. I'm talking to
Speaker 2: eighteen year old you. I'm talking to sixty seven year
Speaker 2: old you. I'm talking to broke you, discouraged, you, down, you, anxious, you,
Speaker 2: panic attack you. I'm talking to all of them, and
Speaker 2: I'm giving you an instruction that you can carry in
Speaker 2: your heart by the Holy Spirit this week.
Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, you.
Speaker 2: Say, He's the God of away. Now, that might mean
Speaker 2: some of the things from your past aren't going to
Speaker 2: happen again.
Speaker 1: But look at this, he said, I'm doing a new thing. Shot.
Speaker 2: The next word now, Oh, a new thing, now, a
Speaker 2: new thing now. For you to stay trapped in your
Speaker 2: past would be like you're trying to send effects when
Speaker 2: you got an iPhone. See, because God has given you
Speaker 2: new tools. God has given you new opportunities. God has
Speaker 2: given you new wisdom. God has given you new strength.
Speaker 2: God has given you new experience. God has given you
Speaker 2: new No.
Speaker 12: How so when the devil says no way, you say,
Speaker 12: I think this is the part that makes us really
Speaker 12: want to scream.
Speaker 2: Where he says, do you not perceive it? And a
Speaker 2: lot of us want to say, no, I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm doing. I think that's what Moses
Speaker 2: would say standing in the mud in the middle of
Speaker 2: the Red Sea. You know, there's an interesting verse about
Speaker 2: Moses in some way three verse seven.
Speaker 1: It says that.
Speaker 2: God made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to
Speaker 2: the people of Israel.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: That means that Moses, who led them through the Red Sea,
Speaker 2: got to know God in a way that none of
Speaker 2: them did, in a way that you can only know
Speaker 2: God when you have to move through the muddiness of
Speaker 2: not knowing how to manage your own self. Can we
Speaker 2: be honest we're going to eGroups this week. Marriage is money.
Speaker 2: Marriage is money. All the men make some noise. Holly
Speaker 2: was having the women shout earlier for reflect all the men.
Speaker 2: Manhood is money. Manhood is money. You're supposed to be
Speaker 2: some tender warrior. What left foot, right foot? What is muddy?
Speaker 2: It's muddy, man, I get it. I got mud on
Speaker 2: my white shoes too. I should have wore different shoes today.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have worn the white ones because I got
Speaker 2: mud all over my shoes. Money is money. Trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how to trust God with your stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: you don't need God. You don't need money. You just
Speaker 2: need God. Okay, take me the cracker barrel on a
Speaker 2: pretty saw.
Speaker 1: You can't do it. You can't sing for your supper
Speaker 1: at cracker barrel.
Speaker 2: But I want to say this to a lot of you,
Speaker 2: and the Lord wants me to encourage you. It's muddy,
Speaker 2: but you're making it. No, no, no, he said, He
Speaker 2: made his ways known to Moses and his deeds to.
Speaker 1: The people of Israel. Now watch this. Israel saw everything
Speaker 1: that God did.
Speaker 2: Moses was the one who had to stand there in
Speaker 2: the muddiness and wonder will this really work? Well, I
Speaker 2: really have what it takes. Did I really do it right?
Speaker 2: Did I really get it right? Am I getting it right?
Speaker 2: It's muddy in the middle. That doesn't mean there's no miracle.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the more mud you walked
Speaker 2: in here with, the more miracles you're a candidate for,
Speaker 2: because that means you're walking through stuff, praying through stuff,
Speaker 2: pressing through stuff. I don't mean we continue in sin
Speaker 2: that grace may abound and just start celebrating our shame.
Speaker 2: What I do mean by that is that gives God
Speaker 2: something to show you through the mud that he can't
Speaker 2: always show you if you just stand on this side
Speaker 2: of it. He made not his ways to Moses.
Speaker 1: Yahweh.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's not going to happen your way.
Speaker 1: Maybe you need to say, yahweh, how.
Speaker 13: You want to do this? Try and do this on
Speaker 13: my own. I'm trying to figure this out on my own.
Speaker 13: I'm trying to do this in my own strength. I'm
Speaker 13: trying to calculate it with human reasoning. Lord, I don't
Speaker 13: want to get stuck in the way I thought it
Speaker 13: was supposed to be done.
Speaker 1: He said, behold, I'm doing a new thing.
Speaker 2: And look at nineteen Now it springs forth. Now it
Speaker 2: springs forth. Somebody shout, Now it springs forth. You whispered it.
Speaker 2: I meant for you to shout it. Now it springs forth.
Speaker 2: Say it again.
Speaker 1: Now it springs for Yeah, no way to now? Way now?
Speaker 1: And you know what's beautiful about the picture?
Speaker 2: Oh God, I see the Lord all over this message today.
Speaker 2: If a spring comes forth from the desert, what does
Speaker 2: it make?
Speaker 1: It makes mud at first.
Speaker 2: Every change God makes in your life will be muddy
Speaker 2: at first. Everything He accomplishes through your life, it will
Speaker 2: be muddy at first. Every miracle starts with mud. It
Speaker 2: springs forth now from the desert. Do you not perceive it?
Speaker 2: Sometimes we miss what God is doing because it's muddy
Speaker 2: and we don't see it.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's not doing it. Whatever is your
Speaker 1: no way?
Speaker 2: I know a name, Yahweh who can make a way
Speaker 2: where there is no way. What are you standing in
Speaker 2: front of today? What are you needing from God? Right now?
Speaker 1: He said? Now it springs forth, and.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be what it was, and it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be what you think. But if you can perceive
Speaker 2: it in this moment, you can receive it in your future.
Speaker 1: Give God praise.
Speaker 2: If you know the waymaker, give him praise right now,
Speaker 2: because let me.
Speaker 1: Tell you what I learned. Worship is my way.
Speaker 2: It's my way through defeet, it's my way through despair,
Speaker 2: it's my way through fear.
Speaker 1: This is how I fight my battles. Y'all.
Speaker 9: I throw up my hands and I call on your way,
Speaker 9: and I tell.
Speaker 2: Him You're a miracle worker, so work a miracle.
Speaker 1: You're a promise keeper, so fulfill your word. I need
Speaker 1: a now word for a now situation. I gotta now God,
Speaker 1: I gotta now faith. I gotta now praise. Let's get
Speaker 1: in ten seconds a praise in the life. Come on
Speaker 1: giving praise now, getting.
Speaker 4: Down the money, getting praise, you, get down the benson
Speaker 4: your praise.
Speaker 1: Come on in.
Speaker 4: Hey.
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