WEBVTT - The God Of A Way

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280
<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000
<v Speaker 1>Be sure to.

0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720
<v Speaker 2>Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:21.439
<v Speaker 1>I hope you're blessed today. Let's praise the name of

0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.320
<v Speaker 1>Jesus together.

0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:30.160
<v Speaker 2>Come on, lift up every voice to the Great I Am.

0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.120
<v Speaker 2>If you know God is great and greatly to be praised,

0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:33.960
<v Speaker 2>come on, lift.

0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.520
<v Speaker 1>Your voice right now. That's it. That's it.

0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.960
<v Speaker 2>A great God deserves a great phrase.

0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.440
<v Speaker 1>Let's give him a great phrase.

0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.800
<v Speaker 3>That's an okay praise, but he's not an okay God.

0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:53.760
<v Speaker 3>Let's give a great God a great praise. Open your

0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.000
<v Speaker 3>mouth and give him praise.

0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.600
<v Speaker 1>If you go up your room, give him praise. If

0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.640
<v Speaker 1>he's good to you, given phrase, if he kept you,

0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.960
<v Speaker 1>if he blessed you, if he led you, if he

0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.680
<v Speaker 1>fed you, if he's been.

0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.119
<v Speaker 4>By your side, hid him a great phrase, A great

0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:23.319
<v Speaker 4>I am.

0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.119
<v Speaker 1>Let's lift up one more? Shall come on corporately, Let's

0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.640
<v Speaker 1>lift up one horse shout for the King is among us.

0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.440
<v Speaker 2>It is such a powerful thing to call him the

0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:44.120
<v Speaker 2>Great I Am. It means that there is nothing that

0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.440
<v Speaker 2>you need in your life right now that he cannot

0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.040
<v Speaker 2>provide nothing.

0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:53.480
<v Speaker 1>We have come.

0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.440
<v Speaker 2>Together today to worship His great name all over the world.

0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.680
<v Speaker 2>We're joining now as a global church fan. Let's welcome

0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.080
<v Speaker 2>our Epham all over the world.

0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.120
<v Speaker 1>Right now, where are you joining from? Put it in

0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:06.640
<v Speaker 1>the chat.

0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.680
<v Speaker 2>Let me know. Turn to your neighbor and tell them

0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.680
<v Speaker 2>where you came from today to come to church. Do

0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.400
<v Speaker 2>that in a room too, Tell him I drove four

0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:23.359
<v Speaker 2>four miles. This gas is expensive. And check in on YouTube.

0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.360
<v Speaker 2>Y'all stay standing. God is going to speak a word

0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.079
<v Speaker 2>to us today.

0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.600
<v Speaker 1>You believe that? Do you believe it?

0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.919
<v Speaker 2>This is fun to do every once in a while.

0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.840
<v Speaker 2>Just to put it in perspective. I just told them

0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.920
<v Speaker 2>in the chat. Let us know where you're joining from now.

0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.760
<v Speaker 2>If you don't believe this is a global ministry, listen

0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:55.399
<v Speaker 2>to some of this. South Africa, West Virginia, Well those

0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:55.960
<v Speaker 2>are different.

0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.200
<v Speaker 1>Don't you feel sorry for me?

0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.560
<v Speaker 2>I have to preach a mess that applies to South

0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.080
<v Speaker 2>Africa and West Virginia. Thank God that the Word of

0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:11.480
<v Speaker 2>God can travel through time, zones, accents, backgrounds.

0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.519
<v Speaker 1>All right, slow down, slow down, slow down?

0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.480
<v Speaker 2>How do you make it stop? I can't stop it?

0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.560
<v Speaker 2>Try and put my thumb on it. Won't stop. God

0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:31.560
<v Speaker 2>is unstoppable. Phoenix, Arizona, Alabama, Dubai, Buffalo, Brazil. Just say

0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:37.200
<v Speaker 2>Brazil or rock Hill, Welcome Brazil. I was watching some

0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.560
<v Speaker 2>UFC this morning getting ready for church. I recorded it

0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.040
<v Speaker 2>so I could get a good night's sleep. Then I

0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:44.800
<v Speaker 2>played it so the Lord will fire me up to

0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.880
<v Speaker 2>fight his battles. When I was praying this morning, it

0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.840
<v Speaker 2>was a good one too. Barbados, Yukonda.

0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:54.840
<v Speaker 1>If you would have.

0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.040
<v Speaker 2>Told me, I'm just trying to put this in context twenty.

0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.080
<v Speaker 1>Years ago, one day you'll be preaching and you'll be.

0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.680
<v Speaker 2>Standing a few miles from your home, looking in the camera,

0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.560
<v Speaker 2>touching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ all over

0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.360
<v Speaker 2>the world, I would have said, no way.

0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.360
<v Speaker 1>But God, God.

0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.280
<v Speaker 2>Who is amazing and incredible and superfluous. And you know

0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.520
<v Speaker 2>how we call people extra, but we mean it like

0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.800
<v Speaker 2>we're kind of putting them down. We're like, man, she's

0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.400
<v Speaker 2>kind of extra. God is extra in a good way.

0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.480
<v Speaker 2>He does exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we could ask,

0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.359
<v Speaker 2>are imagine, and He has made a way for me.

0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.040
<v Speaker 2>In fact, that's what I want to preach to you

0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.159
<v Speaker 2>about today. And I'm going to go to Isaiah forty

0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.400
<v Speaker 2>three sixteen through nineteen. Holly was trying to do a spoiler,

0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.480
<v Speaker 2>but I wouldn't let her. She said, are you giving

0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.360
<v Speaker 2>us another installment in this series? This God of series?

0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.200
<v Speaker 2>We talked about how God is the great I Am.

0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.240
<v Speaker 2>We spend the rest of our lives, you know, in

0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.799
<v Speaker 2>the blank. Because when God told Moses his name, he said,

0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.160
<v Speaker 2>my name is Yahweh, which is I am.

0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:08.520
<v Speaker 1>That's what the name means.

0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.280
<v Speaker 2>And then so you can't confine God to one certain

0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.320
<v Speaker 2>designation or label. As much as we want to make

0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.320
<v Speaker 2>God like us and just put him in a box,

0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.320
<v Speaker 2>he will not be boxed. I said, he will not

0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.200
<v Speaker 2>be boxed. So we spend our entire lives, if you

0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.960
<v Speaker 2>could say, this kind of unboxing God in our hearts,

0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.960
<v Speaker 2>as we encounter different battles and blessings and we come

0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.839
<v Speaker 2>to know Him in different ways. Well, so for a

0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.119
<v Speaker 2>few weeks now, we've been going through some unique ones,

0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.560
<v Speaker 2>not just the normal ones that you hear. Jehovah, Jirah,

0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.720
<v Speaker 2>Jehovah shalom. Jehovah is the Latin for Yahweh. So if

0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.080
<v Speaker 2>that ever confuses you, you're like.

0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.760
<v Speaker 1>Is he Yahweh? Is it Jehovah? What is the name? Well,

0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.000
<v Speaker 1>the name means I am.

0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.279
<v Speaker 2>And then God tells us to get busy finding out

0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.520
<v Speaker 2>who he is, getting to know him, and we get

0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.840
<v Speaker 2>the privilege in our lives of just discovering that one

0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.600
<v Speaker 2>phase at a time. Now, this today is going to

0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.800
<v Speaker 2>be I want to say the last in this series,

0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.680
<v Speaker 2>but I don't know yet, because he's the god of. Also,

0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.680
<v Speaker 2>he's the god of again, He's the god of already.

0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:16.479
<v Speaker 1>What did I do last week?

0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.840
<v Speaker 2>I already forgot it after Okay, So.

0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.400
<v Speaker 1>He's all of those things. And then watch this.

0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.360
<v Speaker 2>I got one more for you today in Isaiah forty three,

0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.240
<v Speaker 2>And man, do I love this scripture? And boy did

0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.080
<v Speaker 2>God confirm this word. When I was not sure if

0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.000
<v Speaker 2>I should preach this today, he confirmed it three different ways,

0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:35.680
<v Speaker 2>so I know it's him.

0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:37.560
<v Speaker 1>Listen to this.

0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.599
<v Speaker 2>Isaiah forty three, verse sixteen in the English Standard version,

0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:45.800
<v Speaker 2>thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea,

0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.680
<v Speaker 2>a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot

0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:56.080
<v Speaker 2>and horse, army and warrior that represents your enemies. He

0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.320
<v Speaker 2>brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior. They lie

0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:07.160
<v Speaker 2>down they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a

0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.720
<v Speaker 2>wick y'all must not be fighting anything.

0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.200
<v Speaker 5>Just me gets excited about that.

0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.120
<v Speaker 1>Now he says something else, very interesting.

0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:22.080
<v Speaker 2>He says, remember not the former things, nor consider the

0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:30.720
<v Speaker 2>things of old. Behold, I am whose name is that?

0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.559
<v Speaker 1>That's God's name. So I'm paying attention. Now.

0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.760
<v Speaker 2>Behold, I am doing a new thing.

0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.200
<v Speaker 1>Now it springs forth? Do you not perceive it?

0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.760
<v Speaker 2>I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers

0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.280
<v Speaker 2>in the desert. Can we double down on that verse?

0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:56.040
<v Speaker 2>That's the one right there? Behold, God says, I am

0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.280
<v Speaker 2>doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you

0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.640
<v Speaker 2>not perceive it? I will make a way. So I

0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:09.600
<v Speaker 2>want to talk to you about the God of Away Away.

0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:11.400
<v Speaker 1>Do you need him.

0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.400
<v Speaker 2>To clear some space in your life today? Do you

0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.000
<v Speaker 2>need him to come through in a way that only

0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.480
<v Speaker 2>he can? I got good news. He's the God of.

0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Away. Father.

0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.920
<v Speaker 2>Your word is already blessed, So just open us up

0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.600
<v Speaker 2>to receive it. That's all I ask. What you're already

0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.520
<v Speaker 2>doing in this place, continue it. I step into alignment

0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:38.319
<v Speaker 2>and agreement with your spirit concerning each person here in Jesus' name. Amen,

0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.000
<v Speaker 2>He's already doing it. Take your seat, Take your seat.

0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, he's the god of.

0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Away.

0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.840
<v Speaker 2>Holly does this thing for me, and it really helps me.

0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.840
<v Speaker 2>I think it's her way of encouraging and rebuking me.

0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.680
<v Speaker 2>All with one stroke and two birds with one stone,

0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.440
<v Speaker 2>as they say, even that a horrible little saying.

0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.160
<v Speaker 1>By the way, why are you killing birds? To start

0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.480
<v Speaker 1>with birds not hurting you?

0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.960
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, she does this thing for me from time

0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.520
<v Speaker 2>to time when I'm in a moment that's really wonderful.

0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.240
<v Speaker 2>But I think she senses that I'm taking it for granted.

0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.480
<v Speaker 2>She'll ask me a question, what would eighteen year old

0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.439
<v Speaker 2>Stephen say about this? See, that's how long we've known

0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.200
<v Speaker 2>each other. She met me when I was eighteen. I

0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.600
<v Speaker 2>was wearing a Superman shirt and some yellow tinted glasses

0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:40.880
<v Speaker 2>running around North Greenville College double x L Superman shirt.

0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.600
<v Speaker 2>I was chopping at Goodwill back then and enjoining it too,

0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.080
<v Speaker 2>And she fell in love with me, not for my

0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:54.760
<v Speaker 2>Superman shirt, but for my spiritual acumen. So we started

0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.800
<v Speaker 2>traveling together do a ministry together, and we've known each

0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.800
<v Speaker 2>other pretty intimately since that time.

0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.320
<v Speaker 1>And so she knows.

0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.600
<v Speaker 2>The dreams I had and the things that I used

0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.400
<v Speaker 2>to pray for, and she knows how big of a

0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.600
<v Speaker 2>deal a lot of the things that God has done

0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.160
<v Speaker 2>for us would be to that guy. She also understands

0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.800
<v Speaker 2>the dynamic that happens that while God is doing those

0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.880
<v Speaker 2>things that you dreamed about, you often don't realize them because, well,

0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:28.760
<v Speaker 2>you're doing it, and when you're in something, it can

0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:30.920
<v Speaker 2>be easy to miss something that you're in. Does this

0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.520
<v Speaker 2>make any sense when I'm saying like, okay, okay, okay,

0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.480
<v Speaker 2>because I used to think it meant I wasn't grateful,

0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:37.680
<v Speaker 2>But I was talking to one of my friends and

0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.840
<v Speaker 2>I realized, I don't think it's that I'm not grateful

0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.720
<v Speaker 2>for the great things God has done for me.

0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.959
<v Speaker 1>I think it's that the pressure.

0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.079
<v Speaker 2>Of trying to maintain the ministry God has given me,

0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.400
<v Speaker 2>the marriage that God has given me, even the money

0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.160
<v Speaker 2>that I need to live in this world and to

0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.520
<v Speaker 2>reach people around the world. You know, all of that

0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.640
<v Speaker 2>pressure can cloud your perspective. So she'll just from time

0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.160
<v Speaker 2>to time she doesn't do it that much because he'll

0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.559
<v Speaker 2>probably lose its efficacy if she did it too much.

0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.760
<v Speaker 2>You like that twenty dollars word, She'd go, what would

0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.920
<v Speaker 2>eighteen year olds Stephen think right about now. Let me

0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.720
<v Speaker 2>give you a few examples, not to brag or anything

0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.720
<v Speaker 2>like that, but just to help you, because I believe

0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.400
<v Speaker 2>there are some things in your life that are just

0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.000
<v Speaker 2>like this today, and if we can get you to

0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.680
<v Speaker 2>think about them, I think it will help you so

0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.760
<v Speaker 2>much for whatever you're up against right now. Okay, So

0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.400
<v Speaker 2>one night I was talking to one of my heroes

0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.679
<v Speaker 2>on the phone. This is just like a month or

0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.599
<v Speaker 2>two ago, and it was my preaching hero. And so

0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking to my preaching hero on the phone on

0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.080
<v Speaker 2>a Saturday night and she walks in and she sees it.

0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.400
<v Speaker 2>And when I get off the phone, she goes, what

0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.080
<v Speaker 2>would eighteen year olds Stephen say if I came up

0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.240
<v Speaker 2>and told him that he was going to be talking

0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.439
<v Speaker 2>to his preaching hero on the phone on a Saturday night,

0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.640
<v Speaker 2>just swapping sermon titles before Sunday in the pulpit, the.

0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.240
<v Speaker 1>Guy he used to watch on TV.

0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.040
<v Speaker 2>And I said, what would eighteen year old Stephen say

0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.160
<v Speaker 2>if you told him that? She said yeah, and I said,

0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:11.360
<v Speaker 2>he'd say, no way. Here's another one we were.

0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.439
<v Speaker 1>We were this is kind of crazy. We were in Toronto.

0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.360
<v Speaker 2>I mean eighteen year old Stephen had been on one

0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.400
<v Speaker 2>plane in his life, so even being in Toronto was crazy.

0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.200
<v Speaker 2>Let alone fourteen thousand people were there for elevation nights.

0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:30.840
<v Speaker 1>Wasn't it amazing?

0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.680
<v Speaker 2>Hey, LJ is Toronto's finest. Y'all, forget Drake, we got LJ.

0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.280
<v Speaker 1>I would trade three Drakes for one LJ. But that's

0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.160
<v Speaker 1>just me. So she just said, turn to me in Toronto.

0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.720
<v Speaker 2>What would eighteen year old Stephen say that the songs

0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.720
<v Speaker 2>from this church, this ministry that God has given are

0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.360
<v Speaker 2>being sung tonight by fourteen thousand people? Was it fourteen

0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.959
<v Speaker 2>thousand people in Toronto? And I just looked back at

0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.320
<v Speaker 2>her and he would say, no way. But it does

0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.200
<v Speaker 2>the trick because it helps me realize that what I'm

0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:13.360
<v Speaker 2>standing in in that moment is something that I never

0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:20.560
<v Speaker 2>would have even had the mind or the perspective to

0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.599
<v Speaker 2>imagine in the past. Let me say that again, sometimes

0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.560
<v Speaker 2>what you're standing in in the moment is something that

0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.199
<v Speaker 2>you couldn't even have imagined in the past. Y'all don't

0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.839
<v Speaker 2>want to help me preach, but it's true in your

0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.840
<v Speaker 2>life too. There are some things if I could pass

0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.720
<v Speaker 2>around the mic today and I'm not going to because

0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:40.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't.

0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:40.720
<v Speaker 1>Trust all of y'all.

0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.160
<v Speaker 2>There's way too many people watching in West Virginia and

0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.440
<v Speaker 2>South Africa for me to freely pass this microphone around.

0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna get canceled off of something you said

0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.040
<v Speaker 2>because I was stupid enough to pass the mic around.

0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.839
<v Speaker 2>But if we could pass it to the right people,

0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.200
<v Speaker 2>there would be something that you could say that today,

0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.839
<v Speaker 2>somebody shout today that God is doing in your life.

0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.360
<v Speaker 2>That if I told you, little boy you I don't

0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.960
<v Speaker 2>know what age, maybe twelve year old officer van Allmen,

0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.480
<v Speaker 2>maybe ten year old. But if I said this is

0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.880
<v Speaker 2>where you're gonna be, and this is how it's gonna be,

0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.559
<v Speaker 2>and this is what you're gonna be dealing with, this

0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.200
<v Speaker 2>is what you're gonna be managing, you would say.

0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.040
<v Speaker 1>But now.

0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:31.680
<v Speaker 2>What you would say, no way about yesterday is actually

0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.840
<v Speaker 2>today just so normal. And that is why it is

0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.920
<v Speaker 2>good for Holly to turn to me every once in

0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.080
<v Speaker 2>a while and say, you need to talk with eighteen

0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.840
<v Speaker 2>year old Stephen, because this forty three year old Stephen

0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.520
<v Speaker 2>is grumpy. This forty three year old Stephen is complaining

0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:50.560
<v Speaker 2>about stuff.

0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.880
<v Speaker 1>That he prayed about yesterday. You missed it. He prayed

0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:55.800
<v Speaker 1>about this.

0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:01.480
<v Speaker 2>Thing yesterday, God did it. Now he's praying, complaining about

0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:07.040
<v Speaker 2>what he prayed for, and he's standing in now what

0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.000
<v Speaker 2>he said in no way about and he's worried about

0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.240
<v Speaker 2>what's ahead, when if he could just look back a

0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.720
<v Speaker 2>little bit. I'm getting warmed up too soon. Let me

0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.280
<v Speaker 2>get to this scripture. Isaiah has a difficult task, y'all.

0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.840
<v Speaker 1>He's prophesying to the nation.

0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Of Jerusalem just before they are carried away into exile.

0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:29.520
<v Speaker 1>It won't be long.

0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.960
<v Speaker 2>They'll be taken from their homeland, They'll be taken from

0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.640
<v Speaker 2>everything that they know.

0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:36.720
<v Speaker 1>They'll be taken by.

0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.520
<v Speaker 2>Not only the Assyrians, but the Babylonians after that. And

0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.800
<v Speaker 2>no matter how he warns them, they will not listen.

0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.360
<v Speaker 2>Up until Isaiah forty, there's not much hope to be

0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.840
<v Speaker 2>found in this prophetic record. But something shifts in Isaiah

0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.520
<v Speaker 2>chapter forty, and he starts looking toward the future that

0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:03.400
<v Speaker 2>even after they are carried away. Did not just preach

0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.920
<v Speaker 2>last week something about after, and am I.

0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.320
<v Speaker 1>Preaching today about away? So even after.

0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.680
<v Speaker 2>They are carried away, God will still be faithful in

0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.800
<v Speaker 2>order to give them this picture. He tags back to

0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.400
<v Speaker 2>the past and says thus says the Lord verse sixteen,

0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.440
<v Speaker 2>who makes away in the sea, a path in the

0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.320
<v Speaker 2>mighty water, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior.

0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.880
<v Speaker 2>They lie down, they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched

0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.840
<v Speaker 2>like a whig. This is a very familiar framework for

0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.960
<v Speaker 2>Isaiah's audience, maybe not so much for us, but this

0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.160
<v Speaker 2>refers to the Egyptian army that God drowned in the

0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:52.600
<v Speaker 2>Red Sea centuries before Isaiah would write these words, and

0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.720
<v Speaker 2>he reminds them of the past. And then in verse

0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.680
<v Speaker 2>eighteen check this out, he tells them remember not the

0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.800
<v Speaker 2>former things. So it's kind of confusing because he's telling

0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:11.400
<v Speaker 2>them in a sense, God made a way in the past.

0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.240
<v Speaker 2>Now forget the past and trust Him in the present.

0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.720
<v Speaker 2>Now you're clapping, But I'm confused because it's kind of

0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.399
<v Speaker 2>like stand on your right foot, stand on your left foot.

0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, at the same time, I can do with

0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.639
<v Speaker 2>both at the same time. No, do both, you know.

0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.000
<v Speaker 2>I think what Holly's trying to get me to do,

0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.280
<v Speaker 2>what the Holy Spirit wants us to do today, and

0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.040
<v Speaker 2>what Isaiah wants his audience to do as well, is

0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.240
<v Speaker 2>to find a way to tap into the past. That

0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.120
<v Speaker 2>will cause you to trust God in the present. There's

0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.320
<v Speaker 2>somebody here today who needs God to make a way.

0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.919
<v Speaker 2>That way could be financial, that way could be physical,

0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.720
<v Speaker 2>there could be something in your family. I mean, I'll

0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.280
<v Speaker 2>be honest with you when I list those categories. I

0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.240
<v Speaker 2>think we're all just a week away from needing any

0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.600
<v Speaker 2>of those things in our life, one text away from

0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.000
<v Speaker 2>needing something you don't know you need right now. The

0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.080
<v Speaker 2>beauty of God's word for me is in the fact

0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.840
<v Speaker 2>that he teaches me how to tap into my past

0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.240
<v Speaker 2>in order to find my faith. To talk to eighteen

0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.639
<v Speaker 2>year old Stephen, and just remember that many of the

0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:30.359
<v Speaker 2>things that you are standing in today you said no

0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:39.120
<v Speaker 2>way about yesterday, somebody say no way. If I would

0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.080
<v Speaker 2>have told some of you that you would be in

0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:48.240
<v Speaker 2>church this morning, like actually sitting in church this morning

0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.159
<v Speaker 2>listening to a guy opened a Bible and talk, you

0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.600
<v Speaker 2>would have said. And you know, some of y'all heard

0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.560
<v Speaker 2>that elevation was a cult. So if I told you

0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.760
<v Speaker 2>that you'd be at elevation, I'm gonna wave at me.

0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.879
<v Speaker 1>I know they say stuff about us. I don't scare

0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.920
<v Speaker 1>me a bit. I don't care anything about it.

0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:06.960
<v Speaker 2>If they said you're gonna be going to that church

0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.680
<v Speaker 2>with the orange little arrow that you saw on all

0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.200
<v Speaker 2>those cars on the sticker driving around all those cars

0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.919
<v Speaker 2>you were cussing at on the on the freeway, You're

0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.680
<v Speaker 2>gonna be sitting with them on a Sunday morning. I mean,

0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.719
<v Speaker 2>there were people who were baptized last week that if

0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:29.120
<v Speaker 2>I would have told you, In fact, can I say

0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.000
<v Speaker 2>this if you would have told me when we started

0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.080
<v Speaker 2>the church and this was not that long ago, this

0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.960
<v Speaker 2>was less than twenty years ago when we were trying

0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:43.240
<v Speaker 2>to find one person to baptize that in one Sunday

0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:52.119
<v Speaker 2>we would baptize over a thousand people. See, you weren't

0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.040
<v Speaker 2>there then, so it doesn't mean so much.

0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:57.040
<v Speaker 1>But if you would have.

0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:02.080
<v Speaker 2>Been there in the yesterday, you be standing in today saying.

0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:04.919
<v Speaker 1>What in the world.

0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:07.960
<v Speaker 2>I would have said, No way, if you would have

0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.119
<v Speaker 2>told me. Not only in Toronto, ya. One time I

0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:12.600
<v Speaker 2>got up in front of our church when we had

0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.440
<v Speaker 2>two hundred people, I said, what are y'all gonna do

0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.720
<v Speaker 2>when we have two thousand people every week?

0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:23.720
<v Speaker 1>And they look back at me like, no way, you'd

0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.200
<v Speaker 1>have told me there were gonna be two.

0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:38.159
<v Speaker 2>Thousand last week in our church just in Toronto. Should

0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.520
<v Speaker 2>I go back and take a nap and come back

0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:41.359
<v Speaker 2>and see y'all later.

0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.160
<v Speaker 1>I would have said, no way.

0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:50.840
<v Speaker 2>But I'm standing in now what I said no way

0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.960
<v Speaker 2>about then, and I'm not bragging, and I'm not saying

0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.280
<v Speaker 2>that everything in my life has exceeded my expectations. Because

0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.000
<v Speaker 2>on the other hand, if you would have told me

0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.400
<v Speaker 2>some of the stuff that I would still struggle with

0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.760
<v Speaker 2>today that I thought I would have been passed by now,

0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.440
<v Speaker 2>I would say, no way.

0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:12.360
<v Speaker 1>You mean I'm.

0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.720
<v Speaker 2>Still gonna pick out my wardrobe some weeks like a

0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.120
<v Speaker 2>fifth grade boy trying to figure out what the cool

0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.360
<v Speaker 2>kids wear, like, I won't care about that when I'm

0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:25.360
<v Speaker 2>in my forties. If you would have told me these

0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.600
<v Speaker 2>baggy jeans would be back in style when we were

0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.920
<v Speaker 2>all get a wide shot for the cameras, when we

0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.280
<v Speaker 2>were all cutting off our circulation with skinny jeans about

0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.840
<v Speaker 2>five minutes ago, now past, the boot cut's gonna come back,

0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:49.280
<v Speaker 2>I would have said, So, I'm trying to bring a

0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.600
<v Speaker 2>variety of dimension to this concept so that we can

0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.199
<v Speaker 2>set the context for whatever it is in your life

0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:05.360
<v Speaker 2>where you are standing now, where you're saying no way,

0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.639
<v Speaker 2>Because if I tell you sometimes that the depression actually

0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.000
<v Speaker 2>can lift and you can come into a greater season,

0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.240
<v Speaker 2>and that your best days may be ahead of you.

0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.920
<v Speaker 2>There will be a little devil to tell you, no way,

0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.680
<v Speaker 2>no way. You've already been to the doctor three times

0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.560
<v Speaker 2>about this. You've already tried three different prescriptions for this.

0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:30.640
<v Speaker 1>So when we say.

0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:34.680
<v Speaker 2>Things like this, that we say he's the god of away,

0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:41.080
<v Speaker 2>you have an enemy who says no way. That's why

0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:46.000
<v Speaker 2>I love the very first four words of Isaiah forty

0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:46.800
<v Speaker 2>three sixteen.

0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:54.160
<v Speaker 1>Thus says the Lord.

0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.879
<v Speaker 2>You could get happy off those four words if you

0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:03.280
<v Speaker 2>knew what hung on those words, because when you read

0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:10.000
<v Speaker 2>thus says the Lord, it's tagging into his name, the

0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:16.040
<v Speaker 2>Lord Yahweh, And it is saying that what Yahweh says

0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:23.159
<v Speaker 2>about your situation is greater than any past indicator of

0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:23.960
<v Speaker 2>your potential.

0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:27.040
<v Speaker 1>Now follow me.

0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.960
<v Speaker 2>Here, because it's important that you really tag into your past.

0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:32.640
<v Speaker 1>If you don't, if you don't.

0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.840
<v Speaker 2>Ever tap into your past like Isaiah's doing here, he

0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.560
<v Speaker 2>says he makes away in the sea a path in

0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.239
<v Speaker 2>the mighty waters. If you don't ever tap into what

0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:42.840
<v Speaker 2>God did in your past, do right now, just close

0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:44.840
<v Speaker 2>your eyes, Just close your eyes. I promise nobody's gonna

0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.320
<v Speaker 2>steal your purse. These are good Christian people. Close your

0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:49.080
<v Speaker 2>eyes right now where you are.

0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm watching on the confone and my roommate is gonna

0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.480
<v Speaker 1>think I'm weird. Your roommate's weird. They need to be watching. Okay,

0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.159
<v Speaker 1>close your eyes, all right, close your eyes.

0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.040
<v Speaker 2>I want you to think and tap into something and

0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.399
<v Speaker 2>then your past, and when you got it, say I

0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.359
<v Speaker 2>got it something that God.

0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Did that you would have said no way about.

0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.159
<v Speaker 2>Something that God did that you would have said in

0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:12.040
<v Speaker 2>no way, and say I got it.

0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.040
<v Speaker 1>When you got it, all right, that was quick? Do

0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.720
<v Speaker 1>another one, Do another one, do another one.

0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:20.960
<v Speaker 2>For some of you, it's the fact that your kid

0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:22.880
<v Speaker 2>is in church with you today.

0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:24.600
<v Speaker 1>Your kid didn't want to.

0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:27.240
<v Speaker 2>Come to church, and then all of a sudden, somehow,

0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:30.360
<v Speaker 2>some way got well, maybe you dragged them and maybe

0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:31.639
<v Speaker 2>you bribed them, and maybe you had to pay them

0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:35.240
<v Speaker 2>twenty dollars, but some way God got them here. For

0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.359
<v Speaker 2>some of you, it is a physical illness that you

0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:40.040
<v Speaker 2>thought you wouldn't recover from.

0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.320
<v Speaker 1>If that's your testimony, shout that's me. Okay.

0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.160
<v Speaker 2>It's a physical illness that you thought you wouldn't recover from.

0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:49.679
<v Speaker 2>You recovered from it, and you're strong by the grace

0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:51.760
<v Speaker 2>of God God made away.

0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:53.920
<v Speaker 1>For some of you, it is.

0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.320
<v Speaker 2>An addiction that crippled you, and now you find yourself

0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:01.320
<v Speaker 2>gaining momentum a little bit stronger every day. Some days

0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:03.800
<v Speaker 2>is harder than others. Some days it seems like you

0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:06.159
<v Speaker 2>might not make it today. But even when you slip

0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.359
<v Speaker 2>off the path a little bit, you feel him pulling

0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:08.879
<v Speaker 2>you back.

0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:12.440
<v Speaker 1>God is making a way. If that's you, shout, that's

0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:13.640
<v Speaker 1>me okay.

0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:15.840
<v Speaker 2>For some of you, it is something in your life

0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.239
<v Speaker 2>that God provided in the resource realm. You didn't know

0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:21.560
<v Speaker 2>how you were gonna come up with that money. You

0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:24.080
<v Speaker 2>didn't know how you were gonna do it by that date.

0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:26.520
<v Speaker 2>You didn't know how you were gonna make it through

0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.920
<v Speaker 2>that unemployment season. You didn't know how your industry was

0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.800
<v Speaker 2>gonna collapse all around you. And God was gonna send

0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.040
<v Speaker 2>ravens to feed you by the brooke call Karen. But

0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:38.199
<v Speaker 2>God did not take a vote to see how he

0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.639
<v Speaker 2>could bless you. He just tapped a bird on the

0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:44.160
<v Speaker 2>shoulder and dropped something off for you and did something

0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:46.480
<v Speaker 2>for you. And He did it just in the nick

0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.080
<v Speaker 2>of time, not early, not late, And you found out

0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:52.960
<v Speaker 2>He's an on time god who makes a way where

0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:54.200
<v Speaker 2>there is no way.

0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:55.760
<v Speaker 1>At just the right time.

0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.760
<v Speaker 2>As you abided him, you bore much fruit. For some

0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:02.520
<v Speaker 2>of you, it's the revelation that God gave you of

0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:05.760
<v Speaker 2>the strength that you didn't know you had. You walked

0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.440
<v Speaker 2>through the valley of the shadow of depth. But is

0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:09.639
<v Speaker 2>rotting his staff.

0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:10.639
<v Speaker 1>They comforted you.

0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.320
<v Speaker 2>So now you're standing looking at another wolf saying, I

0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:16.880
<v Speaker 2>will fear no evil, for thou.

0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.760
<v Speaker 1>Art with me, Thou art always with me. Great Toaha

0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:21.439
<v Speaker 1>guid me.

0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:31.600
<v Speaker 2>South he made away, So I gotta tap into that.

0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:33.800
<v Speaker 1>Now watch this. This is the important thing.

0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:39.080
<v Speaker 2>Isaiah said, tap into that, but don't get trapped in that,

0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:46.800
<v Speaker 2>because you know where I'm going with this. The way

0:26:46.840 --> 0:26:52.240
<v Speaker 2>that he made yesterday may not be the way that

0:26:52.320 --> 0:26:58.399
<v Speaker 2>he makes today. So there's two ways to approach the past.

0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:02.359
<v Speaker 2>One you tap into and you trust God in the present.

0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.520
<v Speaker 2>The other way is you get trapped in it and

0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:10.880
<v Speaker 2>you doubt God in the present because he isn't guaranteeing

0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:13.720
<v Speaker 2>that he will do in the future what he did

0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:17.320
<v Speaker 2>in the past. Breaking down pastor I think I follow you,

0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.280
<v Speaker 2>but I'm a little bit confused. I can do that

0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:23.040
<v Speaker 2>the relationships that God used to support you in one

0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:27.560
<v Speaker 2>season may not be the same relationships he uses to

0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:33.879
<v Speaker 2>support you in the next. As a matter of fact,

0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:40.560
<v Speaker 2>sometimes the removal of a relationship is an opportunity for

0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:45.800
<v Speaker 2>a revelation, because some of the things that I trusted

0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:51.080
<v Speaker 2>in were a trap holding me back from trusting in God.

0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:56.320
<v Speaker 1>Who is my supply? Who is my provider? Who is

0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.800
<v Speaker 1>my help? How don't look for the hills for my help?

0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:08.600
<v Speaker 1>My health comes frum.

0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:13.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, Jesus is my health, and he is the

0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:17.400
<v Speaker 2>same yesterday, today, and forever.

0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:19.000
<v Speaker 1>So here's the dance.

0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:23.679
<v Speaker 2>I gotta tap into yesterday, but not get trapped in yesterday.

0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:25.280
<v Speaker 1>I gotta tap.

0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:27.920
<v Speaker 2>Into what he did enough to trust what he's doing,

0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:31.000
<v Speaker 2>and I gotta move through what he's doing, even though

0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:34.760
<v Speaker 2>I cannot predict where it ends up. Who am I

0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:39.920
<v Speaker 2>preaching to five people who need this message? I keep

0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:43.200
<v Speaker 2>no secrets from you. We are family. I am preaching

0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:46.240
<v Speaker 2>from a personal place. I just dropped my oldest son

0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:55.440
<v Speaker 2>off at college this week. I'm not okay. I miss him.

0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.600
<v Speaker 2>That's my dude. Who else am I going to listen to?

0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:01.840
<v Speaker 2>Guns and roses in the pound and lift weights with

0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:10.040
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, happy are you available? But here's what

0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:12.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm learning about this, this whole process.

0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.480
<v Speaker 1>You talk to these parents who.

0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:19.200
<v Speaker 2>Dropped their kid off at college and they're like, yeah,

0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.240
<v Speaker 2>we dropped them off and they graduated in their doctor.

0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:30.320
<v Speaker 1>Hmm, thank you, Mike. I felt better.

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:32.840
<v Speaker 2>Mike Mitchell said, it's not easy.

0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:39.200
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for saying that. Cause you know what, Mike, when.

0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:41.040
<v Speaker 2>People talk about we dropped our kid off and they

0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:43.880
<v Speaker 2>were the salutatorian and they went to Harvard and then

0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:46.360
<v Speaker 2>they did the post graduate Yale and then they operated,

0:29:46.400 --> 0:29:46.960
<v Speaker 2>they'd have.

0:29:46.840 --> 0:29:49.360
<v Speaker 1>Invented a cure to cancel culture.

0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:55.480
<v Speaker 6>And yeah, uh, I just don't even know.

0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:57.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know. I didn't didn't even go that far.

0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.680
<v Speaker 2>And I'm just saying, we're still gonna talk every day,

0:29:59.680 --> 0:30:00.760
<v Speaker 2>but let's to just miss him.

0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:02.440
<v Speaker 1>And I'm trying to trust God with that.

0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:08.200
<v Speaker 2>And people would just tell you their own testimony like

0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:09.680
<v Speaker 2>it was just a clean.

0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:15.640
<v Speaker 1>Miracle, you know, And this is how I read the Bible.

0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:16.840
<v Speaker 1>This I read the Bible, And I don't know if

0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:17.600
<v Speaker 1>you read the Bible like this.

0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:21.120
<v Speaker 2>When I read it like that, and it sounds too clean,

0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:22.880
<v Speaker 2>like this is the clean version.

0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:29.520
<v Speaker 1>Of what happened in Exodus fourteen. Thus says the Lord.

0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:31.760
<v Speaker 2>Isaiah's like reminding them God was faithful because that was

0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:34.400
<v Speaker 2>something they didn't experience, that was hundreds of years before

0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:35.760
<v Speaker 2>they lived. But he's trying to get them ready for

0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:37.960
<v Speaker 2>something going through now, so he taps into the past

0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:39.640
<v Speaker 2>to teach them to trust in the presence. So he says,

0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:41.240
<v Speaker 2>Thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea,

0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:42.600
<v Speaker 2>a path in the mighty waters?

0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:43.840
<v Speaker 1>And how good that.

0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:45.960
<v Speaker 2>Sounds, and how easy that sounds, who brings forth chariot

0:30:45.960 --> 0:30:47.960
<v Speaker 2>and horace, army and warrior. They lie down, they cannot rise.

0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:49.720
<v Speaker 2>You got to put verse sixteen up there because it

0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:51.960
<v Speaker 2>just sounds so good. Who makes away in the sea

0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:55.960
<v Speaker 2>a path in the mighty waters? Show you what that

0:30:56.000 --> 0:30:57.520
<v Speaker 2>doesn't say? Leave it up so I can prove it.

0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:00.640
<v Speaker 2>And I feel like Moses wants me to tell you this,

0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:02.000
<v Speaker 2>because Moses was the one who.

0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:02.600
<v Speaker 1>Was actually there.

0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Moses be like, hey, hey, are y'all shot about that

0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:16.080
<v Speaker 2>God who makes away in the sea a path in

0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:20.680
<v Speaker 2>the mighty waters? It does not say, because I don't

0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.040
<v Speaker 2>know what y'all are shotting about.

0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:25.920
<v Speaker 1>Because it doesn't say he makes a way around the

0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:32.880
<v Speaker 1>sea in that good This is Moses.

0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:37.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm speaking on behalf of Moses, not a path around

0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:38.800
<v Speaker 2>the mighty waters.

0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:45.960
<v Speaker 1>You see that little word in Oh, when you're in it.

0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:52.479
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna come to this side. There's a little bit

0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:54.680
<v Speaker 2>of they're judging me over there. They're like, just trust

0:31:54.720 --> 0:32:00.200
<v Speaker 2>God when you're in it.

0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:05.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna come down there. I'm coming down there. I'm

0:32:05.560 --> 0:32:08.560
<v Speaker 1>sick of this. I'm sick of y'all.

0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:10.640
<v Speaker 2>Because it's like and they crossed over on dry ground.

0:32:10.640 --> 0:32:11.800
<v Speaker 1>They went through the red sea, and the.

0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Waters went back, and they crossed through on dry ground.

0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:25.680
<v Speaker 2>How dry I speculate. I'm not a scientist or a meteorologist.

0:32:25.960 --> 0:32:30.120
<v Speaker 2>I speculate that if there was a sea, and God

0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:34.120
<v Speaker 2>sent a wind and split the sea and told them

0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:37.320
<v Speaker 2>to go in the middle where the water had just

0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:41.400
<v Speaker 2>been and was still standing up on the right and

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:44.160
<v Speaker 2>the left as they walked through it.

0:32:45.080 --> 0:32:47.560
<v Speaker 1>If they stepped into the middle of.

0:32:47.480 --> 0:32:51.000
<v Speaker 2>Where water had just been, let me check your shoes

0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:54.840
<v Speaker 2>real quick. I'm thinking it was muddy.

0:32:56.680 --> 0:32:59.320
<v Speaker 1>Let me check y'all real quick. I'm checking the seed.

0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:05.400
<v Speaker 2>Because you're quick to hear about other people's miracles.

0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:20.240
<v Speaker 6>But I found out, no mud, no miracles, chick, check

0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:22.520
<v Speaker 6>those are nice.

0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:28.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, man, I'm checking. I'm checking to see. Yeah, I'm

0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:29.880
<v Speaker 2>just checking to see. I know, I know, this kind

0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:33.880
<v Speaker 2>of weird thing to do. I'm checking to see if

0:33:33.880 --> 0:33:37.600
<v Speaker 2>there's anything in your life right now, this kind of

0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:41.640
<v Speaker 2>money where you're in it.

0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:44.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean in it.

0:33:45.920 --> 0:33:49.760
<v Speaker 2>Because in church it's a time for us to remember miracles,

0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:55.440
<v Speaker 2>it is also a time for us to accept the

0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:58.680
<v Speaker 2>mud that comes with the miracles.

0:34:00.960 --> 0:34:03.280
<v Speaker 1>And I will tell you.

0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:08.040
<v Speaker 2>The truth about everybody that sits on your row. If

0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:15.000
<v Speaker 2>they have a miracle, they also have some mud.

0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:19.200
<v Speaker 1>And I just need you to know it.

0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:25.040
<v Speaker 2>So you don't feel judged by all the perfect families

0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:29.880
<v Speaker 2>that you thought were perfect. You just haven't gotten close

0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:34.839
<v Speaker 2>enough to see their mud yet. They just keep their

0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:37.279
<v Speaker 2>shoes clean enough when they're around you.

0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:40.960
<v Speaker 1>But if you ever saw what was really underneath, you

0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:42.120
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't feel.

0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:44.680
<v Speaker 2>So bad about the stuff you struggle with either.

0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:51.360
<v Speaker 1>So Yeah, I got miracles, Yeah I got.

0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:56.080
<v Speaker 2>Testimonies, Yeah I got open doors, Yeah I got victories.

0:34:56.600 --> 0:35:00.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah I got songs, Yeah I got praise report. Yeah

0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:05.759
<v Speaker 2>I got miracles. But I also got mud. What I'm

0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.520
<v Speaker 2>trying to say to you today is that if you

0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:11.640
<v Speaker 2>are in a money situation, if you are in the

0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.920
<v Speaker 2>money middle of a transition in your life, if you

0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:17.839
<v Speaker 2>are in the money middle of begetting a recovery process,

0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:19.840
<v Speaker 2>if you are in the money middle of trying to

0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:21.600
<v Speaker 2>figure out who am I now in my life?

0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:23.560
<v Speaker 1>If you are in the money middle.

0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:26.120
<v Speaker 2>Of sending your kid off or having your kid back,

0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:29.320
<v Speaker 2>or trying to have a kid but can't have a kid,

0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:32.480
<v Speaker 2>or trying to raise a kid and not kill a kid,

0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:35.560
<v Speaker 2>or trying to finish a degree, or trying to start

0:35:35.600 --> 0:35:38.600
<v Speaker 2>a degree, or trying to go back or trying to

0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:42.320
<v Speaker 2>get away. If you've got some money, I gotta word

0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:43.400
<v Speaker 2>for you.

0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:46.400
<v Speaker 1>Mud means ye come.

0:35:49.239 --> 0:35:57.520
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

0:35:56.239 --> 0:35:56.560
<v Speaker 1>Come on.

0:35:56.719 --> 0:36:00.959
<v Speaker 2>This is for the money ones, the ones I see

0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:01.600
<v Speaker 2>it kind.

0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:09.400
<v Speaker 7>Of forcing for the flow down day. Whoa check your

0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:13.200
<v Speaker 7>neighbor's shoes, say you got mud, You got mud.

0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:16.959
<v Speaker 1>We better tell them, We better tell the team.

0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:20.320
<v Speaker 2>They're gonna have to clean the church a little extra today,

0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:24.400
<v Speaker 2>because today is not a day for you to walk.

0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:26.440
<v Speaker 1>In church and walk out unchanged.

0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:31.280
<v Speaker 2>Today is today that you can come into the presence

0:36:31.600 --> 0:36:36.279
<v Speaker 2>of the Lord Mud and all hurting, all brokenness.

0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:38.640
<v Speaker 8>And all doubts and all questions.

0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:41.880
<v Speaker 1>And all failures and all mistakes and all and this

0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:48.160
<v Speaker 1>is a miracle moment. Give it thirty seconds of phrazy break.

0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:52.320
<v Speaker 2>Money, messy, ridiculous praise.

0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:54.120
<v Speaker 1>Waymaker praise.

0:36:54.920 --> 0:37:01.480
<v Speaker 4>Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

0:37:03.000 --> 0:37:09.439
<v Speaker 8>You're ready When I say this show from beat after

0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:16.279
<v Speaker 8>me saying it's money, but I'll make you get his mind.

0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:17.319
<v Speaker 2>The mean here that.

0:37:21.320 --> 0:37:25.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah it's money, yes, because it feels like.

0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:31.120
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that kind of sor But I know one thing

0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.880
<v Speaker 4>he make song Why.

0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:38.000
<v Speaker 1>What's his name?

0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.240
<v Speaker 4>Yr way y'r.

0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:49.000
<v Speaker 1>Way yah way say yah wah, the sess lord. So

0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:50.160
<v Speaker 1>with the devil.

0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:55.440
<v Speaker 2>Says no way, you'll say.

0:37:56.840 --> 0:38:02.640
<v Speaker 1>What with the devil says, Oh, it's gonna catch on

0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:04.640
<v Speaker 1>in a minute. You don't get it yet.

0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:07.080
<v Speaker 9>But when the devil says no way you're ever gonna

0:38:07.120 --> 0:38:08.320
<v Speaker 9>pay off this stint.

0:38:08.440 --> 0:38:11.120
<v Speaker 2>No way you're ever gonna sick on this burden, No

0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:13.840
<v Speaker 2>way you're ever gonna make it through this lowly season.

0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:21.360
<v Speaker 1>When the devil says no way, we say we sid

0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:26.360
<v Speaker 1>When the devil says no way, you'll side. When the

0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:30.560
<v Speaker 1>devil said no say, you say I'll get it?

0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:43.239
<v Speaker 10>Pray how few that when the devil says, no way,

0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:45.600
<v Speaker 10>we say.

0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:53.520
<v Speaker 5>When the devil says, whoa?

0:38:54.080 --> 0:39:00.400
<v Speaker 9>When the devil said, what do you say? Again with

0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:05.920
<v Speaker 9>the devil said, I say, y'all, wag.

0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:11.440
<v Speaker 1>Let's make a live recording right now. Let's put this

0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:12.360
<v Speaker 1>on kiktok.

0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:17.440
<v Speaker 2>To let every Sarian know, to let every Babylonian know,

0:39:18.239 --> 0:39:22.680
<v Speaker 2>to let everything seese no, to let every bad report no.

0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:28.919
<v Speaker 9>To let that table with a table say hey, we

0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:31.120
<v Speaker 9>say I love it.

0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:39.680
<v Speaker 1>With a table, say what do you say? Let's do

0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:41.080
<v Speaker 1>it for real? Let's do it for real?

0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:47.840
<v Speaker 4>He say, with a devil says no. See how he said,

0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:53.280
<v Speaker 4>we say how we say, y'all do it?

0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:57.240
<v Speaker 1>You say, y'all right, do a man ather you see.

0:39:59.040 --> 0:39:59.719
<v Speaker 2>It? Plea?

0:40:01.120 --> 0:40:24.120
<v Speaker 1>Nobody say that, says the Lord. Give me nineteen and

0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:24.839
<v Speaker 1>I'll shut off.

0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:34.239
<v Speaker 11>Somebody shout no way, now, shout yeah a way. I'm

0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:37.080
<v Speaker 11>on fire on the inside. I'm on fire on the inside.

0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:39.720
<v Speaker 11>I'm on fire on the inside.

0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:43.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna bring a bustload of Pentecostals to help me

0:40:43.320 --> 0:40:44.160
<v Speaker 2>preach part two.

0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:44.840
<v Speaker 1>Of this next week.

0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:52.919
<v Speaker 2>I see yeah, way behold, I am.

0:40:54.120 --> 0:41:06.040
<v Speaker 1>I am doing new thing. He's gonna do a new thing.

0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:12.319
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's gonna do a new thing.

0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:21.080
<v Speaker 2>So tap into the past, but don't be trapped in that.

0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:23.640
<v Speaker 1>Because he said, I.

0:41:23.560 --> 0:41:30.520
<v Speaker 2>Am the God of also, I am.

0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:34.279
<v Speaker 1>The God of again, I am the God of already.

0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:36.560
<v Speaker 1>I am the God of.

0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:41.759
<v Speaker 2>After all the hell you've been through, you mean you

0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:45.759
<v Speaker 2>don't want to stick around and see what God can

0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:47.680
<v Speaker 2>do through you.

0:41:48.000 --> 0:41:50.520
<v Speaker 1>You want to go through all that suffering for nothing,

0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:53.759
<v Speaker 1>not me, devil. You want to stand in front of.

0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:58.640
<v Speaker 4>This goliath for nothing, not me, devil, because I say, go.

0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:12.040
<v Speaker 5>Mad, Behold, I am doing a new thing.

0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:18.239
<v Speaker 2>Is this word for you or just for me? I'm

0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:20.680
<v Speaker 2>talking to forty three year old Steven. I'm talking to

0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:23.879
<v Speaker 2>eighteen year old you. I'm talking to sixty seven year

0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:27.799
<v Speaker 2>old you. I'm talking to broke you, discouraged, you, down, you, anxious, you,

0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:31.560
<v Speaker 2>panic attack you. I'm talking to all of them, and

0:42:31.640 --> 0:42:34.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm giving you an instruction that you can carry in

0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:36.320
<v Speaker 2>your heart by the Holy Spirit this week.

0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:41.480
<v Speaker 1>When the devil says no way, you.

0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:51.319
<v Speaker 2>Say, He's the God of away. Now, that might mean

0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:54.239
<v Speaker 2>some of the things from your past aren't going to

0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:54.799
<v Speaker 2>happen again.

0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:58.520
<v Speaker 1>But look at this, he said, I'm doing a new thing. Shot.

0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:04.239
<v Speaker 2>The next word now, Oh, a new thing, now, a

0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:08.640
<v Speaker 2>new thing now. For you to stay trapped in your

0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:15.000
<v Speaker 2>past would be like you're trying to send effects when

0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:18.360
<v Speaker 2>you got an iPhone. See, because God has given you

0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:20.600
<v Speaker 2>new tools. God has given you new opportunities. God has

0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:23.040
<v Speaker 2>given you new wisdom. God has given you new strength.

0:43:23.040 --> 0:43:25.239
<v Speaker 2>God has given you new experience. God has given you

0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:25.560
<v Speaker 2>new No.

0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:33.360
<v Speaker 12>How so when the devil says no way, you say,

0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:36.239
<v Speaker 12>I think this is the part that makes us really

0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:37.000
<v Speaker 12>want to scream.

0:43:37.120 --> 0:43:41.920
<v Speaker 2>Where he says, do you not perceive it? And a

0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:48.319
<v Speaker 2>lot of us want to say, no, I don't. I

0:43:48.320 --> 0:43:52.560
<v Speaker 2>don't know what I'm doing. I think that's what Moses

0:43:52.600 --> 0:43:56.279
<v Speaker 2>would say standing in the mud in the middle of

0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:59.080
<v Speaker 2>the Red Sea. You know, there's an interesting verse about

0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:00.960
<v Speaker 2>Moses in some way three verse seven.

0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:03.120
<v Speaker 1>It says that.

0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:09.040
<v Speaker 2>God made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to

0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:09.960
<v Speaker 2>the people of Israel.

0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:12.160
<v Speaker 1>What does that mean?

0:44:13.719 --> 0:44:15.879
<v Speaker 2>That means that Moses, who led them through the Red Sea,

0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:18.360
<v Speaker 2>got to know God in a way that none of

0:44:18.360 --> 0:44:21.960
<v Speaker 2>them did, in a way that you can only know

0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:25.040
<v Speaker 2>God when you have to move through the muddiness of

0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.560
<v Speaker 2>not knowing how to manage your own self. Can we

0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:33.520
<v Speaker 2>be honest we're going to eGroups this week. Marriage is money.

0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:39.560
<v Speaker 2>Marriage is money. All the men make some noise. Holly

0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:42.319
<v Speaker 2>was having the women shout earlier for reflect all the men.

0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:55.719
<v Speaker 2>Manhood is money. Manhood is money. You're supposed to be

0:44:55.800 --> 0:45:01.320
<v Speaker 2>some tender warrior. What left foot, right foot? What is muddy?

0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:05.279
<v Speaker 2>It's muddy, man, I get it. I got mud on

0:45:05.320 --> 0:45:07.879
<v Speaker 2>my white shoes too. I should have wore different shoes today.

0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:09.799
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't have worn the white ones because I got

0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:16.520
<v Speaker 2>mud all over my shoes. Money is money. Trying to

0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:18.359
<v Speaker 2>figure out how to trust God with your stuff. Well,

0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:20.239
<v Speaker 2>you don't need God. You don't need money. You just

0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:27.960
<v Speaker 2>need God. Okay, take me the cracker barrel on a

0:45:28.000 --> 0:45:28.480
<v Speaker 2>pretty saw.

0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:31.720
<v Speaker 1>You can't do it. You can't sing for your supper

0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:32.640
<v Speaker 1>at cracker barrel.

0:45:34.400 --> 0:45:39.840
<v Speaker 2>But I want to say this to a lot of you,

0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:45.600
<v Speaker 2>and the Lord wants me to encourage you. It's muddy,

0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:55.200
<v Speaker 2>but you're making it. No, no, no, he said, He

0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:59.560
<v Speaker 2>made his ways known to Moses and his deeds to.

0:45:59.520 --> 0:46:03.280
<v Speaker 1>The people of Israel. Now watch this. Israel saw everything

0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:04.279
<v Speaker 1>that God did.

0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:07.600
<v Speaker 2>Moses was the one who had to stand there in

0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:12.640
<v Speaker 2>the muddiness and wonder will this really work? Well, I

0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:15.399
<v Speaker 2>really have what it takes. Did I really do it right?

0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:18.279
<v Speaker 2>Did I really get it right? Am I getting it right?

0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:24.000
<v Speaker 2>It's muddy in the middle. That doesn't mean there's no miracle.

0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:29.160
<v Speaker 2>As a matter of fact, the more mud you walked

0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:32.799
<v Speaker 2>in here with, the more miracles you're a candidate for,

0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:36.920
<v Speaker 2>because that means you're walking through stuff, praying through stuff,

0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:41.080
<v Speaker 2>pressing through stuff. I don't mean we continue in sin

0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:43.800
<v Speaker 2>that grace may abound and just start celebrating our shame.

0:46:44.600 --> 0:46:47.680
<v Speaker 2>What I do mean by that is that gives God

0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:52.040
<v Speaker 2>something to show you through the mud that he can't

0:46:52.080 --> 0:46:55.439
<v Speaker 2>always show you if you just stand on this side

0:46:55.480 --> 0:47:01.240
<v Speaker 2>of it. He made not his ways to Moses.

0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:03.200
<v Speaker 1>Yahweh.

0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:06.680
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe it's not going to happen your way.

0:47:08.920 --> 0:47:12.000
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you need to say, yahweh, how.

0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:14.640
<v Speaker 13>You want to do this? Try and do this on

0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:16.040
<v Speaker 13>my own. I'm trying to figure this out on my own.

0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:17.520
<v Speaker 13>I'm trying to do this in my own strength. I'm

0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:20.799
<v Speaker 13>trying to calculate it with human reasoning. Lord, I don't

0:47:20.840 --> 0:47:22.560
<v Speaker 13>want to get stuck in the way I thought it

0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:23.760
<v Speaker 13>was supposed to be done.

0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:27.399
<v Speaker 1>He said, behold, I'm doing a new thing.

0:47:28.400 --> 0:47:32.560
<v Speaker 2>And look at nineteen Now it springs forth. Now it

0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:36.759
<v Speaker 2>springs forth. Somebody shout, Now it springs forth. You whispered it.

0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:39.040
<v Speaker 2>I meant for you to shout it. Now it springs forth.

0:47:40.239 --> 0:47:40.880
<v Speaker 2>Say it again.

0:47:40.960 --> 0:47:49.000
<v Speaker 1>Now it springs for Yeah, no way to now? Way now?

0:47:49.360 --> 0:47:51.000
<v Speaker 1>And you know what's beautiful about the picture?

0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:54.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh God, I see the Lord all over this message today.

0:47:56.160 --> 0:48:00.319
<v Speaker 2>If a spring comes forth from the desert, what does

0:48:00.360 --> 0:48:00.680
<v Speaker 2>it make?

0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:03.480
<v Speaker 1>It makes mud at first.

0:48:05.719 --> 0:48:09.280
<v Speaker 2>Every change God makes in your life will be muddy

0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:14.279
<v Speaker 2>at first. Everything He accomplishes through your life, it will

0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:20.279
<v Speaker 2>be muddy at first. Every miracle starts with mud. It

0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:23.799
<v Speaker 2>springs forth now from the desert. Do you not perceive it?

0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:27.080
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes we miss what God is doing because it's muddy

0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:28.880
<v Speaker 2>and we don't see it.

0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:38.239
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean he's not doing it. Whatever is your

0:48:38.880 --> 0:48:40.040
<v Speaker 1>no way?

0:48:40.719 --> 0:48:45.120
<v Speaker 2>I know a name, Yahweh who can make a way

0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:49.239
<v Speaker 2>where there is no way. What are you standing in

0:48:49.239 --> 0:48:52.800
<v Speaker 2>front of today? What are you needing from God? Right now?

0:48:53.360 --> 0:48:56.000
<v Speaker 1>He said? Now it springs forth, and.

0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:58.520
<v Speaker 2>It's not gonna be what it was, and it's not

0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:01.600
<v Speaker 2>gonna be what you think. But if you can perceive

0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:05.320
<v Speaker 2>it in this moment, you can receive it in your future.

0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:07.600
<v Speaker 1>Give God praise.

0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:12.080
<v Speaker 2>If you know the waymaker, give him praise right now,

0:49:14.000 --> 0:49:14.640
<v Speaker 2>because let me.

0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:17.720
<v Speaker 1>Tell you what I learned. Worship is my way.

0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:22.080
<v Speaker 2>It's my way through defeet, it's my way through despair,

0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:24.040
<v Speaker 2>it's my way through fear.

0:49:24.520 --> 0:49:26.800
<v Speaker 1>This is how I fight my battles. Y'all.

0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:30.600
<v Speaker 9>I throw up my hands and I call on your way,

0:49:31.160 --> 0:49:31.840
<v Speaker 9>and I tell.

0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.920
<v Speaker 2>Him You're a miracle worker, so work a miracle.

0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:39.160
<v Speaker 1>You're a promise keeper, so fulfill your word. I need

0:49:39.200 --> 0:49:43.720
<v Speaker 1>a now word for a now situation. I gotta now God,

0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:47.920
<v Speaker 1>I gotta now faith. I gotta now praise. Let's get

0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:51.920
<v Speaker 1>in ten seconds a praise in the life. Come on

0:49:52.040 --> 0:49:54.839
<v Speaker 1>giving praise now, getting.

0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:58.440
<v Speaker 4>Down the money, getting praise, you, get down the benson

0:49:58.560 --> 0:49:59.280
<v Speaker 4>your praise.

0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:00.719
<v Speaker 1>Come on in.

0:50:03.960 --> 0:50:04.160
<v Speaker 4>Hey.

0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:06.520
<v Speaker 2>I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:09.680
<v Speaker 2>make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:12.319
<v Speaker 2>get you all of these new messages as soon as

0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:15.120
<v Speaker 2>they're available. I also want to take a moment and

0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:17.000
<v Speaker 2>thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:20.839
<v Speaker 2>Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:23.960
<v Speaker 2>just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

0:50:23.960 --> 0:50:26.920
<v Speaker 2>able to reach people all around the world and if

0:50:26.920 --> 0:50:29.640
<v Speaker 2>you want more information on how to be a part.

0:50:29.440 --> 0:50:33.359
<v Speaker 1>Of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:33.800
<v Speaker 1>for listening.

0:50:33.880 --> 0:50:37.239
<v Speaker 2>Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe.

0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:46.920
<v Speaker 2>God bless you.