Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope
Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in
Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, everybody.
Speaker 3: Listen, Let's clap our hands and thank our Savior today.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: If you're grateful to God, if God's been good to you,
Speaker 3: come on.
Speaker 1: If you can.
Speaker 3: Testify of the faithfulness and the goodness, come on, if
Speaker 3: you've tasted and you've seen that.
Speaker 1: The Lord he is what, come on, clap and give
Speaker 1: him a.
Speaker 3: Shout of thanksgiving, give him your highest praise today. Come on, Elevation.
Speaker 3: I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise
Speaker 3: will continually be in my mouth. Go ahead and take
Speaker 3: thirty seconds and just clap and thank him. Say thank
Speaker 3: you God, Never have you left me, never have you
Speaker 3: forsaken me. Hallelujah. I want to pray for some people today.
Speaker 3: There's such a spirit and an atmosphere of faith today
Speaker 3: and we just want to welcome all the campuses, everybody online.
Speaker 3: Come on, clap and welcome everybody, Come on, welcome everybody
Speaker 3: in New York City joining us today.
Speaker 1: Why don't we pray together?
Speaker 3: Why don't we believe for miracles, signs and wonders? Why
Speaker 3: don't we believe that our God is the same yesterday, today,
Speaker 3: and how long forever? And so if you need a miracle,
Speaker 3: good news, you came to the place where we believe
Speaker 3: still that God is still moving, God is still healing bodies.
Speaker 3: Come on, clap of you believe it. He's still shutting
Speaker 3: the mouth of the lion. Anybody believe He's still partner
Speaker 3: the Red Sea and making away where there seems to
Speaker 3: be no way. So, if you need a miracle today, financially, physically, emotionally,
Speaker 3: while you lift a hand to Heaven right now, come
Speaker 3: on church, let's pray together.
Speaker 1: We just thank you God. We thank you in advance.
Speaker 3: God. We don't wait for the check to show up.
Speaker 3: We don't wait for the doctor's report. We already in advance,
Speaker 3: give you the glory and give you the honor for
Speaker 3: what you're about to do. We thank you God that
Speaker 3: if you can take care of the grass, and if
Speaker 3: you can take care of the birds, how much more
Speaker 3: can you take care of us? So right now we
Speaker 3: confess with our mouth what we believe in our heart,
Speaker 3: that you're seated on the throne, that you're sovereign, and.
Speaker 1: That you rule. We thank you God.
Speaker 3: By faith we declare that all these things will be
Speaker 3: accomplished in the name of Jesus. Come on, clap and
Speaker 3: give God a praise today if you believe it. Come
Speaker 3: on clap like you believe it today.
Speaker 1: Amen and amen.
Speaker 3: Just stay standing just for a moment. It's an honor
Speaker 3: to be here today. And I'm gonna jump into the
Speaker 3: word in just a moment, but while we're standing, I
Speaker 3: just want to make sure we take a moment to
Speaker 3: honor the pastors of this church for twenty years, have
Speaker 3: led so faithfully, so diligently, with so much character, so
Speaker 3: much integrity, and I just want to thank Pastor Stephen
Speaker 3: and Hally for their leadership because not only have their
Speaker 3: lives touched all the campuses and just America, but God
Speaker 3: has breathed on these efforts to touch the earth. And
Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you to Pastor Stephen
Speaker 3: and Holly.
Speaker 1: For your faithfulness. Come on clapping.
Speaker 3: Thank God that they keep saying yes to the call
Speaker 3: of God on their life, And I just think in
Speaker 3: twenty years, In twenty years, all the continual yes is
Speaker 3: they've had to walk in and all all the things.
Speaker 1: They've had to say no to.
Speaker 3: Pastor Steven ain't had a dessert in twenty years, Hallelujah,
Speaker 3: Glory to God. Ain't missed the day in the weight
Speaker 3: room in twenty years. But I just can't believe what
Speaker 3: God has done in them and through them, and we
Speaker 3: honor them. The Bible says to share good things with
Speaker 3: those that teach us the word, to be a blessing
Speaker 3: to those that are over us, that oversee our life.
Speaker 3: And so you know, to translate that today, it really
Speaker 3: means send them a Starbucks gift card.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: But come on, clap one more time and thank God
Speaker 3: for our pastors.
Speaker 1: Pray for your pastors, love.
Speaker 3: Them, Thank God for them.
Speaker 1: Do me a favor.
Speaker 3: Before you sit down, turn and give three people a
Speaker 3: church high five next to you. Tell them how good
Speaker 3: it is to see them in church today. Tell them
Speaker 3: how awesome it is to have them in the House
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 1: Clap for the worship team in every life location.
Speaker 3: Clap for everybody leading us in worship, My God, How
Speaker 3: good is the worship today. If you have a Bible,
Speaker 3: go to two Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen.
Speaker 1: My name is Chadveach. In Spanish, that's Shad.
Speaker 3: Beach, and I'm half Mexican.
Speaker 1: Are there any Latins in the house?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: There we go, And I come from Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 3: and I just want to say thank you so much
Speaker 3: to the EPHAM because in January, fires broke out in
Speaker 3: our city in two main areas, on the west side
Speaker 3: and the Palisades and on the east side in Altadena,
Speaker 3: and our city was literally on fire for a few days.
Speaker 3: And by the time we're able to start our outreach ministry,
Speaker 3: fifteen thousand people displaced from homes. And by the time
Speaker 3: we're able to start our outreach ministry, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: who showed up in force was the EPHAM of Southern California.
Speaker 3: And they showed up in their shirts, They showed up
Speaker 3: with smiles, they showed up with faith and honor, and
Speaker 3: I just I say it is a tribute. It is
Speaker 3: a representation of the leadership of this house. So could
Speaker 3: we clap for everybody online, If you're in Riverside today,
Speaker 3: if you're in Orange County today, thank you for being
Speaker 3: a part of helping us serve our city. We love
Speaker 3: you and we thank God for you today, and so
Speaker 3: thank God. Anybody excited for serve week, coming up, excited
Speaker 3: to serve uh and help the city. It's gonna be awesome. Okay,
Speaker 3: go there in your Bible. Second Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna jump in. Anybody believe in the Bible today,
Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna jump in. Two Timothy three sixteen.
Speaker 3: It says, all scripture is given by the inspiration of God,
Speaker 3: and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
Speaker 3: instruction in righteousness, so that the man or the woman
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 1: Come on, all the ladies in the house, whoa, whoa, so.
Speaker 3: The man or the Woman of God may be complete,
Speaker 3: thoroughly equipped for every good work. Let me read that
Speaker 3: same verse. Now, let's go to the NIV, same scripture,
Speaker 3: same verse. All scripture is God breathed. Let me just
Speaker 3: pause there. All of the Bible is from Heaven. All
Speaker 3: of the Bible. I don't know how you grew up.
Speaker 3: I'm a pastor's kid, and after church, my dad used
Speaker 3: to take us to the Golden Corral. Come on, somebody
Speaker 3: ain't nothing like church in Golden Corral, nothing like life change.
Speaker 3: And then lunch, and we used to go the Golden Corral.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what. Dad was too tired to
Speaker 3: pay attention to our plates. So we're not putting on
Speaker 3: any of the meats or any of the veggies. Were
Speaker 3: going straight to the dessert. Who am I preaching to
Speaker 3: you right now? I love going to the gold crowd.
Speaker 3: When it comes to the Bible, you can't just have
Speaker 3: the desserts. Don't just get stuck in Psalms and Proverbs
Speaker 3: and the Gospels. You gotta get some of the epistles
Speaker 3: in there. You got to have some of the prophets,
Speaker 3: major minor prophets. Get you some pentituke in there. All
Speaker 3: scripture is God breathed. The Greek there is fail nusas
Speaker 3: fail meaning God, Nusus means the breath of God. God
Speaker 3: breathed on these pens through different authors and gave us
Speaker 3: all of the Bible. Anybody believed, from Genesis to Revelation,
Speaker 3: all scriptures straight from God. And it's useful in your life.
Speaker 3: Come on, clap like you believe that all authority is
Speaker 3: in that word right there.
Speaker 1: All scripture is God breathed and.
Speaker 3: Is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness,
Speaker 3: so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped
Speaker 3: for every good work. I want to preach a message today.
Speaker 3: Write down the titles called this is my Bible. This
Speaker 3: is my Bible. I'm trying to channel my best Joe
Speaker 3: old Sting. This is my Bible. I can do what
Speaker 3: is said I could do. I can have what is
Speaker 3: said I could have. I'm about to grow a moment
Speaker 3: as I say it. Come on, this is my Bible.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Do you love the Bible today? There's something about the
Speaker 3: b I b l e yes, that's the book for me.
Speaker 3: I stand alone on the word of God. Look at
Speaker 3: all the clap for everybody that grew up in church
Speaker 3: and still here. A lot of people left us, but
Speaker 3: y'all are still here. I love the Bible. There's something
Speaker 3: about the scriptures. There's something about reading the Bible. I
Speaker 3: fell in love with the Bible two times in my life.
Speaker 3: The first time I fell in love with the Bible
Speaker 3: is when I was sixteen years old. When I was sixteen,
Speaker 3: I went to an event called Promise Keepers.
Speaker 1: Promise Keepers.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, men fill in stadiums around America
Speaker 3: worshiping God. And I encounter God at Promise Keepers. This
Speaker 3: is back in the day when we used to have
Speaker 3: tape cassettes. How many y'all remember tape cassettes. If you're younger,
Speaker 3: google it. And I'll never forget. Man. When I went
Speaker 3: to Promise Keepers, I got rocked by Jesus, and I
Speaker 3: came back to my house and they gave us a
Speaker 3: little Bible, and they gave us a cassette of worship.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget. I'd wait for my whole house
Speaker 1: to go to bed.
Speaker 3: I didn't want them to know us this in love
Speaker 3: with God yet, And I wait for my whole house
Speaker 3: to go to bed, and I'd kneel beside my bedside,
Speaker 3: put my walkman on, and I'd take out my Bible
Speaker 3: beside my bedside, and I'd read the Bible and listen
Speaker 3: to worship sixteen.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what the Bible was saying, but I
Speaker 3: just try and circle anything that made sense. So I
Speaker 3: started circling the word every time I saw the word,
Speaker 3: the that's good the in the beginning, yes, it was
Speaker 3: the the second time I fell in love with the
Speaker 3: Bible when I was nineteen years old. When I was nineteen,
Speaker 3: I was in Bible College and I had long hair.
Speaker 3: Don't care like your boy, just trying to get our
Speaker 3: brand in lake On. Put us in some tank tops,
Speaker 3: let us sing. All right, God did.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So that was not planned anyways, So I never got nineteen.
Speaker 3: And this gentleman, he ended up being my best friend
Speaker 3: in Bible Collasus. His dad developed a Bible reading plan,
Speaker 3: so he took us one day. We're in Bible College
Speaker 3: the beginning of the semester. He took us to Starbucks. Said, boys,
Speaker 3: I want to teach you how to read the Bible.
Speaker 3: So he took us to Starbucks. He allowed us to
Speaker 3: order whatever we wanted, and we sat there and he
Speaker 3: taught us how to do a Bible reading plan and
Speaker 3: how to choose a verse, and he called it soap scripture, observation,
Speaker 3: application and prayer. And he said, every day, boys, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go he's from Hawaii. I'm gonna fly back to
Speaker 3: where God lives. And I want you guys to every
Speaker 3: day come meet at this Starbucks and I want you
Speaker 3: to open up your Bibles and I want you to
Speaker 3: read and grab a verse, and I want you to
Speaker 3: write down your scripture, put in a little observation, write
Speaker 3: a little application, how does it apply to your life?
Speaker 3: And finish it with a prayer. And so he taught
Speaker 3: us how to do it, and he went home. And
Speaker 3: then for about four years, me and this guy, we
Speaker 3: would get up every morning at six am. We drive
Speaker 3: to Starbucks. For about four years, I ordered every morning.
Speaker 3: This is embarrassing. Is before we counted calories. I would
Speaker 3: order a grandevid and latte and a scone. You couldn't
Speaker 3: pay me to order that today. But we would sit
Speaker 3: there together and we'd read the Bible. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: I fell in love with the Bible. This is my Bible.
Speaker 3: I started to read it. I started to memorize it.
Speaker 3: I started to understand it. You know, there was a
Speaker 3: study that recently came out that said reading the Bible
Speaker 3: once a week does nothing in your life. Reading the
Speaker 3: Bible two times a week, though, does nothing in your life.
Speaker 3: If you read the Bible and expose your eyes to
Speaker 3: God's word three times a week, it does nothing in
Speaker 3: your life. But the moment you get to four times
Speaker 3: a week, God's words starts to do something in your
Speaker 3: heart and in your life. Come on, anybody want to
Speaker 3: be encountering the love of Jesus, not just once a week,
Speaker 3: but anybody believe that you can get a word every
Speaker 3: single day from God. I want to give you a
Speaker 3: few things to write down today, a few things to
Speaker 3: encourage your faith. Write down number one. This is about
Speaker 3: God's word. This is God speaking directly to me. Oh,
Speaker 3: I love this about the Bible. God speaking directly to me.
Speaker 3: Jesus said, my sheep will recognize my voice and a
Speaker 3: stranger's voice.
Speaker 1: They will not follow.
Speaker 3: The more I open God's word, I'm telling you, when
Speaker 3: I start to understand what his voice sounds like, when
Speaker 3: I start to understand how he operates, his character and
Speaker 3: his nature, the way he moves. I'm telling you today
Speaker 3: God speaks loudest, He speaks clearest and most consistently through
Speaker 3: the scriptures. When you open up God's word. If you
Speaker 3: want a word from God, good news, He gave you
Speaker 3: the Word of God. You don't need somebody on TikTok
Speaker 3: to prophily to you. You can open Oh, I'm coming
Speaker 3: for somebody. He woke up and shows violence when I
Speaker 3: start reading the Bible, God himself starts speaking directly to me,
Speaker 3: and I wreck. The more I read it, the more
Speaker 3: I recognize that wasn't just a word on paper. That's
Speaker 3: a word in season. That's a word for my situation.
Speaker 3: That's a word for my circumstance. That's a word for
Speaker 3: what I'm going through. That's a word that I needed today.
Speaker 3: Today I needed daily bread.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I love that part in the Lord's prayer when he says,
Speaker 3: give us our bread, our daily bread. Any bread fans
Speaker 3: in the house today. I want to make it clear.
Speaker 3: I'm pro gluten. I voted gluten. When I get to Heaven,
Speaker 3: I'm eating gluten. But it is God speaking directly to me.
Speaker 3: Jeremiah fifteen sixteen. Your words were found, and I ate them,
Speaker 3: And your word was to me the joy and the
Speaker 3: rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name,
Speaker 3: Oh Lord, God of Host.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you there's something about when you find God's word.
Speaker 3: You want to chew it. You want to marinate in it,
Speaker 3: you want to sit in it. You want to just
Speaker 3: study it, you want to understand it. Why Because it's
Speaker 3: God speaking directly to me. And I want to tell you,
Speaker 3: when you read God's word, all of a sudden, you
Speaker 3: start to understand. Oh, God's talking to me about my attitude.
Speaker 3: God's talking to me about my finances. God's talking to
Speaker 3: me about my character. God's talking to me about my future.
Speaker 3: God's talking to me about my children. Come on, anybody
Speaker 3: thankful today that we don't serve a God that's mute.
Speaker 3: We serve a God that speaks. Come on, give him
Speaker 3: a praise today. And he's speaking directly to me. And
Speaker 3: the more I read God's word, the more I sense
Speaker 3: I hear. I train my ear to hear that's God.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like you know when you listen to radio,
Speaker 3: you can just right away know, Oh, that so and
Speaker 3: so singing, that so and so singing.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: Pastor Steph was so kind he sent me an early
Speaker 3: release of New Thing Coming. He said, I got one
Speaker 3: for you, hallylujah. He did, and I'll never forget. I
Speaker 3: was in my car driving like this. I was lost
Speaker 3: in the sauce, But when Pastor Stephen came on, I
Speaker 3: had to hold my steering wheel cause I knew that voice.
Speaker 3: I've listened to that voice. I've been trained on that voice. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm thankful today that the more you open God's word,
Speaker 3: You're going to recognize that's not a word for them,
Speaker 3: that's a word for me. It's God speaking directly to
Speaker 3: my heart, directly to my life.
Speaker 1: Oh I love Psalm one nineteen, verse eighteen.
Speaker 3: Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in
Speaker 3: your law. See, I'm telling you today God's Word is
Speaker 3: alive and active. And when I read this book, this
Speaker 3: book is not a dead book. This book isn't a
Speaker 3: live book. And when I start reading it, God starts speaking, Oh,
Speaker 3: we're dropping money up in here. My wife put money
Speaker 3: in my Bible yesterday. That's a true story. But God
Speaker 3: is speaking directly to my heart. And just look here,
Speaker 3: put it on the screen. I love this thought. You
Speaker 3: can't see wonderful things about God without God showing you.
Speaker 3: This is the only book in the history of the
Speaker 3: world where the author himself comes to sit down with
Speaker 3: you to teach you what he was trying to say.
Speaker 1: That when you read.
Speaker 3: God's Word, God himself and the Holy Spirit starts trying
Speaker 3: to open your eyes to see what's going on in
Speaker 3: that story. See, it's not just a story about Noah
Speaker 3: and the Ark. It's a story about a man of
Speaker 3: God that was set apart, the preparedest life for whatever
Speaker 3: would come his way. And God was looking for a
Speaker 3: man of righteousness, and so he chose Noah to be
Speaker 3: mightily used, even without Noah even asking.
Speaker 1: To be used that way.
Speaker 3: See, God will show you things in the scriptures, from
Speaker 3: Noah to Moses, from Abraham to Elijah to the woman
Speaker 3: at the well. God will show you marvelous things. And
Speaker 3: it's God speaking directly to your heart. I can't tell
Speaker 3: you how many times I sat with my Bible, sitting
Speaker 3: there with a coffee, no scone, and I'm sitting there
Speaker 3: and God starts to download. God starts to help me.
Speaker 3: God starts to speak to me. Anybody thankful today that
Speaker 3: you don't got to get a word from somebody else.
Speaker 3: Come on, clap, if you believe it, you can get
Speaker 3: a word for you.
Speaker 1: And what I find is that we need to stop putting.
Speaker 3: Our Bibles on our shelves, start putting God's word in
Speaker 3: our heart. Thy word have I hidden in my heart
Speaker 3: that I might not sin against thee? You got to
Speaker 3: grab the Bible. What did Jeremiah say When I found
Speaker 3: your words? I ate them like I was at the
Speaker 3: Golden Corral, and they became the delight of my heart
Speaker 3: all sudden.
Speaker 1: I love reading the Bible.
Speaker 3: It's not religious, it's relationship, it's not labor. It's delightful.
Speaker 3: It becomes the delight of my life. Why because when
Speaker 3: I meet with God. In fact, when the pastor from
Speaker 3: Hawaii taught us how to read the Bible, he says,
Speaker 3: I want you to make an appointment with the King
Speaker 3: every day. Don't be late, and don't miss it. And
Speaker 3: so I started to make an appointment with the King
Speaker 3: of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and I started
Speaker 3: to sit down so he could.
Speaker 1: Speak directly to my life.
Speaker 3: Because I knew I was a young man devoid of understanding,
Speaker 3: and I knew I needed to grow in wisdom. I
Speaker 3: knew I needed to grow in understanding. I knew I
Speaker 3: needed to grow in knowledge. Now I knew I needed
Speaker 3: to grow in insight. And so I need to sit
Speaker 3: down with the Maker. Can you believe that the Maker
Speaker 3: of heaven and Earth comes to sit down with you
Speaker 3: to teach you what he put.
Speaker 1: In this book?
Speaker 3: Come on, anybody believe today the grass may wither, the
Speaker 3: flower may fade, but the word of the Lord will
Speaker 3: last forever.
Speaker 1: It's God speaking direct to me. It's God. You don't
Speaker 1: know how many times I've went you. See.
Speaker 3: The funny thing about the Bible is you think you're
Speaker 3: studying it. It's studying you. It's reading your mail. It's
Speaker 3: saying no, don't be anxious. Do not be anxious about anything,
Speaker 3: but in everything, through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
Speaker 3: your requests be made known to God, and the peace
Speaker 3: of God, which surpasses all understanding. Regard your heart. God
Speaker 3: speaking directly to me. I've got a direct line to heaven.
Speaker 3: As I open up the Bible, and so write down
Speaker 3: number two today. If it's useful, I should use it
Speaker 3: if it's you. Because what did he say here? He said,
Speaker 3: all scripture is God breathed and is useful. I love
Speaker 3: that word useful. I love that word useful. It's useful.
Speaker 3: It's useful, useful, and he starts to list It's useful
Speaker 3: for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.
Speaker 1: It's useful.
Speaker 3: I just want to give you a few things that
Speaker 3: the Bible is useful for in your life today. Here's
Speaker 3: the first thing that's useful for It's useful for content.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to use the word content, because I
Speaker 3: know we live in the area of content.
Speaker 1: But let me just speak to the parents.
Speaker 3: It's if you want good things to say to your kids,
Speaker 3: start opening up.
Speaker 1: The Bible and let God feel your heart.
Speaker 3: If you want to say good things to your spouse,
Speaker 3: any married people here today, we're the married folks. If
Speaker 3: you want to say good things to your spouse, open
Speaker 3: up God's word. Oh I love this scripture right here.
Speaker 3: Put it on the screen. Look here in Matthew. I
Speaker 3: love this Matthew twelve. For out of the abundance of
Speaker 3: the heart the mouth speaks.
Speaker 1: A good man, out.
Speaker 3: Of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good things,
Speaker 3: and an evil man, out of the evil of his heart,
Speaker 3: brings forth evil things. You know what the Bible is saying.
Speaker 3: Whatever you put in, that's what's coming. The content you
Speaker 3: consume becomes the content you create. So if you put
Speaker 3: evil things in your heart, don't you expect for good
Speaker 3: things to come out. I'll never forget when I the
Speaker 3: first time I fell in love with God's word sixteen
Speaker 3: I went to promise keepers. God started to deal with
Speaker 3: my music. And God, y'all remember case logic, and they'd
Speaker 3: hold all our CDs and I'll never forget. God said,
Speaker 3: I want you to get rid of all your CDs.
Speaker 3: I said, Lord, are you sure? Say yes, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: So I went to this place that had a cliff,
Speaker 3: and I took out my big case logic fill with CDs,
Speaker 3: and every rapper that started with ice, iced tea, ice,
Speaker 3: c any ice, spice, ice, vanilla, any ice had to go.
Speaker 3: Any pops one or two had to go small or
Speaker 3: Biggie had to go. Damn, they all had to go
Speaker 3: cast out outcast had to go.
Speaker 1: Why because I.
Speaker 3: Knew every single word to every single song. Don't think
Speaker 3: for one second that you can turn.
Speaker 1: You can learn lyrics, but you can't learn the Bible.
Speaker 3: If you can memorize about Ryah carry, you can memorize
Speaker 3: God's word. Clap like you want to store it up.
Speaker 3: Clap like you want to eat it up. Clap like
Speaker 3: you want to memorize it. Clap like you want a
Speaker 3: word in season. I'm hiding God's word. It's the delight
Speaker 3: of my heart. What did he say? Out of the
Speaker 3: abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, So he said,
Speaker 3: the good man stores up good things, and an evil
Speaker 3: man stores up evil things. If you want good stuff. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'll never forget. I was in Biba College and he
Speaker 3: was my buddy at the time. He was my best
Speaker 3: friend until he married my little sister. Changes a relationship,
Speaker 3: change the whole relationship, change the dynamic.
Speaker 1: Okay. But we worked at a church in East.
Speaker 3: La in the hood in the body of about look
Speaker 3: us for Arrahns And we worked at this.
Speaker 1: Church East La.
Speaker 3: So we go to Biba College in the morning and
Speaker 3: then we drive to the church to work in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: And on the way from class to the church, we
Speaker 3: had flash cards and we are trying to memorize God's word.
Speaker 3: And so one guy would be driving and the other
Speaker 3: guy would have the flash cards and we try and
Speaker 3: test to see if he's got God's word. So we
Speaker 3: sit there and go like Galatians two twenty, I'll be
Speaker 3: like I have been crucified with Christ. For it is
Speaker 3: no longer I that live, but it's Christ that lives
Speaker 3: through me. And the life that I now live I
Speaker 3: live by faith in the Son of God, who gave
Speaker 3: himself as a ransom for me. Try me again, Isaiah
Speaker 3: forty Ooh, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew
Speaker 3: their strength. They shall rise on the wings of an ego,
Speaker 3: they will run or not grow, they will walk in
Speaker 3: that enough faith. Try me again, Psalm one, nineteen verse nine. Ooh,
Speaker 3: how can a young man cleanse his ways by taking heat?
Speaker 3: According to his word? And we started to memorize and
Speaker 3: memorize and memorize. And I'm telling you today, when I
Speaker 3: go to visit somebody in the hospital, I don't have
Speaker 3: to google the scripture when somebody is going through depression,
Speaker 3: I don't have to check chat GPT to find out
Speaker 3: what God's saying in the situation. Come on, somebody clamp
Speaker 3: like you want to hide it and store it and
Speaker 3: build a well.
Speaker 1: Come on, build a.
Speaker 3: Well in your life. Let God's word reside.
Speaker 1: Let it shame. It's God speaking directly to me.
Speaker 3: Give him a praise today. Content content, Content. By the way,
Speaker 3: you gotta be careful because whatever.
Speaker 1: You're around gets on you.
Speaker 3: Whatever's on you gets in you, and whatever's in you come.
Speaker 1: Out of you.
Speaker 3: You gotta be careful the atmosphere of where you walk.
Speaker 1: That's why I was glad.
Speaker 3: When they said, unto me today, let us go into
Speaker 3: the house of the Lord, because when I get around
Speaker 3: the people of God and I get around the.
Speaker 1: Atmosphere of faith.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, that gets on me, and whatever's on
Speaker 3: me gets in me, and whatever's in me comes out
Speaker 3: of me. Anybody thankful today that I've got feet running
Speaker 3: to the righteousness of God. I've got feet running to
Speaker 3: the House of God. I've got feet running to the
Speaker 3: atmosphere of faith. Whatever you're around gets on you, whatever's
Speaker 3: on you gets into you, and whatever's in you comes
Speaker 3: out of you. That's why when I was growing up,
Speaker 3: we walk in the mall and I see that one
Speaker 3: store top of hot I said, uh, no, Surrey, were
Speaker 3: not going in there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but we're not going
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 3: Because whatever you're around gets on you, and whatever's on
Speaker 3: you gets into you. That's why I love elevation, because
Speaker 3: every time you get around, every time we gather every Sunday,
Speaker 3: come on, we lift up holy hands. Come on, we
Speaker 3: stir up our faith and our expectation. Come on, we say,
Speaker 3: if God before us, who can be against us? The
Speaker 3: Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
Speaker 3: Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength and
Speaker 3: the stronghold.
Speaker 1: Of my life.
Speaker 3: And whenever I drove up to Starbucks. I wasn't just
Speaker 3: around some Starbucks from some coffee from Seattle. I was
Speaker 3: opening on my Bible. I was hanging around Jesus, and
Speaker 3: Jesus in the atmosphere got on me. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: God's word got in me, and God's words start to
Speaker 3: fall out of my life. When you get God's word
Speaker 3: in your heart, it will fall out of your mouth.
Speaker 3: You just walk around. You won't have to look up something.
Speaker 3: It'll just fall out of your mouth. You know, the
Speaker 3: Bible says, well, you know the Bible says, well, you
Speaker 3: know the Bible says. I found in life. People are
Speaker 3: not interested in what I say. People are interested in
Speaker 3: what God says.
Speaker 1: Well, you know the Bible says, Well, that's cool. That's
Speaker 1: a great opinion.
Speaker 3: But you know the Bible says, and so if it's useful,
Speaker 3: we should use it for content. How about number two?
Speaker 3: How about for success? Anybody here by short hands, cross
Speaker 3: all the campuses. If you would like to be successful
Speaker 3: in life, let me see your hand.
Speaker 1: You liked, Yes, wouldn't that be awesome?
Speaker 3: If you're a Panther fan, you better really raise both
Speaker 3: your hands. You were to pray in the tongue and
Speaker 3: the spirit Joshua one A. The Book of the Law
Speaker 3: shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate
Speaker 3: in it day and night, that you may observe to
Speaker 3: do according to all that is written in it, For
Speaker 3: then you will make your way prosperous, and then you
Speaker 3: will have good success.
Speaker 1: I like that good success. This Book of.
Speaker 3: The Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you
Speaker 3: shall meditate in it both day and night. So the
Speaker 3: Bible says we should meditate on the word of God
Speaker 3: both day and night. I'm all for the verse of
Speaker 3: the day, and thank God we got the Verse of
Speaker 3: the day on your lock screen. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: when I go to brush my teeth, I don't swipe
Speaker 3: one time and think my mouth's clean. When I brush
Speaker 3: my teeth, I get them all up in there. We
Speaker 3: need more than the Verse of the day to make
Speaker 3: it today. This Book of the Law shall not depart
Speaker 3: from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it both
Speaker 3: day and night, that you may be careful to observe
Speaker 3: all that is written in it, and then you will
Speaker 3: make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Speaker 1: So you know what the scripture is teaching you.
Speaker 3: The more you study this book, the more God will
Speaker 3: make you a success. You know, the more you study
Speaker 3: God's word, the more God will for your life. Why
Speaker 3: because I'm not walking in the wisdom of myself. I'm
Speaker 3: walking in the wisdom of God. I'm not leaning on
Speaker 3: my own understanding. I'm acknowledging God's understanding. And when I
Speaker 3: do that, God, Come on, anybody believe it today. The
Speaker 3: steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. God
Speaker 3: will lead me, and he will guide me. He will
Speaker 3: show me his path. So if I want to be
Speaker 3: a success or, I want my children's children to be blessed.
Speaker 3: Anybody believing that your children's children are going to be blessed,
Speaker 3: anybody believing to be believed to leave a legacy. Let
Speaker 3: me say it this way. It ran in your family
Speaker 3: until it ran into you. Whoa And you know who
Speaker 3: stopped it? The man or the woman that God in
Speaker 3: God's word. Because the Bible says whom the son sets free,
Speaker 3: and you shall know the truth, and the truth will
Speaker 3: set you free.
Speaker 1: So if I.
Speaker 3: Study and marinate, And by the way, meditation is not
Speaker 3: a hot yoga idea. Meditation is God's idea. God told
Speaker 3: us to meditate on his word. God told us to
Speaker 3: get some flash cards. God told us to walk around
Speaker 3: our kitchen and declare the word of the Lord. This
Speaker 3: book of the Law will not depart from my mouth.
Speaker 3: But I will meditate on it both day and night.
Speaker 3: I will be careful to observe all that is written
Speaker 3: in it. And then I'm going to be prosperous, and
Speaker 3: then i will be successful.
Speaker 1: Anybody want to be a blessing.
Speaker 3: You cannot be a blessing and tell your blessed.
Speaker 1: So I love God's word.
Speaker 3: It gives me content for my reality, for my business,
Speaker 3: for my children, for my marriage. It gives me success
Speaker 3: right down. The third thing, it shows me my motives.
Speaker 3: It deals with my intentions. These are my intentions. You
Speaker 3: guys are so unsaved. Thank God you're in church, for
Speaker 3: the Word of God is alive and it's active, sharper
Speaker 3: than any double edged sword. It penetrates even to the
Speaker 3: dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the
Speaker 3: thought and the attitudes of the heart. Other translations right
Speaker 3: there say exposes us for who you really are. It
Speaker 3: exposed and you know what. We live in a culture
Speaker 3: of shame and hiding. We don't want anybody to know
Speaker 3: what's lurking. All that jealousy, all that greed, all that manipulation,
Speaker 3: all that envy, all that stuff that's lurking, all that judas, Judas,
Speaker 3: why we give the money? We could have used it
Speaker 3: in all that stuff that's lurking. But when you get
Speaker 3: into God's word, everything is exposed and God starts to
Speaker 3: deal with my motives.
Speaker 1: So good news.
Speaker 3: If you've got bad motives like mine, can get off
Speaker 3: sometimes just the same. We are all sinners saved by grace.
Speaker 3: When I get into God's Word, it corrects my motives,
Speaker 3: It aligns my motives. It gets me back to live
Speaker 3: for the glory of God, not for the glory of me.
Speaker 3: So it deals with my identity. You cannot know who
Speaker 3: you are until you know who you are, And my
Speaker 3: prayer for you today is strong identity. The more you
Speaker 3: read the Bible, the more i'm I'm confident in God.
Speaker 3: I can do all things through Who, through Christ. That
Speaker 3: strengthens me. So you need some confidence in your life.
Speaker 1: The more you get in that word, the more it's
Speaker 1: like I might.
Speaker 3: Have weakness, but the power of Christ rests on my life.
Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna be bold. The righteous are as
Speaker 3: bold as a lion. I'm gonna be bold. Why because
Speaker 3: I know who I am. Remember, the devil came to
Speaker 3: tempt Jesus three times after he was in a fast
Speaker 3: for forty days, and three times he tempted Satan, and
Speaker 3: he tempted Jesus.
Speaker 1: And every single time he tempted him.
Speaker 3: What did Jesus use to rebuke the temptation? The word
Speaker 3: He's In fact, he stood on dude Roonomy six, Deuteronomy six,
Speaker 3: and Deuteronomy nine every single time the enemy came to
Speaker 3: tempt him. What do they say today, ten toes down
Speaker 3: or something? Yeah, ten toes sounds so gangster when I
Speaker 3: say it's so fun. He just stood there and said,
Speaker 3: you know the Bible says, and then you try to
Speaker 3: mess with him again? And what did he mess with him?
Speaker 3: Identity motives? If you really are the son of God?
Speaker 3: And he said, well, you know the Bible says, well,
Speaker 3: the Bible says, why did he stand ten toes? Because
Speaker 3: he had put God's word in his heart that he
Speaker 3: might not sin against the Father. And I want to
Speaker 3: encourage you today. You got to get your motives right.
Speaker 3: The word of the Lord is alive and active. It
Speaker 3: is sharper than any two edges sword. It pierces the
Speaker 3: bone and the marrow. It separates the soul and the spirit,
Speaker 3: and it exposes us for who we really are.
Speaker 1: And in other.
Speaker 3: Words, not that just the negative, but the positive. I
Speaker 3: am the righteousness of God God. I am the head
Speaker 3: and not the tale. I am a chosen generation, a
Speaker 3: royal priesthood, a marvelous light. I am more than a
Speaker 3: conqueror in Christ Jesus. I am blessed beyond measure. Come on,
Speaker 3: clap today if you believe that you're understanding your identity
Speaker 3: because you found it.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: You didn't find it on social media. You didn't find
Speaker 3: it in your bank account. You didn't find it by
Speaker 3: what somebody else said about you. I found it by
Speaker 3: what God says. Come on, give them a praise today.
Speaker 3: I know what God says.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: Stop living for the audience of man, start living for
Speaker 3: the audience of one.
Speaker 1: I want to know what God says about me.
Speaker 3: So it helps me with content, It helps me with success,
Speaker 3: It helps me with motives, it helps me with movement.
Speaker 1: Movement. Oh I love this next verse PSNG one nineteen.
Speaker 3: Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a
Speaker 3: light unto my path. These are dark days on the earth,
Speaker 3: these are dark days in culture, these are dark days
Speaker 3: in these patterns.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, when.
Speaker 3: I get God's word, all of a sudden, it shows
Speaker 3: me what do I do in my home? What do
Speaker 3: I do in my marriage? What do I do with
Speaker 3: this child? What do I do in this circumstance? What
Speaker 3: do you want me to do with my gifting? What
Speaker 3: do you want me to do with my money? Anybody
Speaker 3: thankful that God's word will illuminate your path. It'll show
Speaker 3: you what to do, It'll show you where to go.
Speaker 3: Come on, clap a little bit louder and just have faith.
Speaker 3: Then it's gonna light up your path. You know, the
Speaker 3: Bible actually teaches us that the path of the righteous
Speaker 3: shines brighter and brighter. So the more I'm in this thing,
Speaker 3: the more it's like I'm not living in the dark.
Speaker 1: I'm living in the light.
Speaker 3: And it feels like the more I don't get into
Speaker 3: this work, the more I don't study it, the more
Speaker 3: I don't read it, the more my life just ebbs
Speaker 3: and flows into the darkness. But the more I'm in
Speaker 3: this thing. The more it's like God is showing me
Speaker 3: what to do and where to go. I'll never forget
Speaker 3: where I grew up on a small island in the
Speaker 3: state of Washington, and whenever people would come to visit
Speaker 3: my family and visit my parents, we would take them
Speaker 3: to Fort Casey and we would take them through where
Speaker 3: there once was a war. We'd take them through the barracks.
Speaker 3: And there was this one barrack that we go through
Speaker 3: and there was no light, no electricity.
Speaker 1: It was so dark in there.
Speaker 3: And I'll never forgets kids, we'd love to run through
Speaker 3: this darkness just to see if we're gonna make it
Speaker 3: out alive. He would see if there was a boogeyman.
Speaker 3: We just as kids, we just love to run through it.
Speaker 3: And I'll never forget the first time we were trying
Speaker 3: to do it and my mom came through with a
Speaker 3: flashlight and I was like, Wow, this is crazy. We
Speaker 3: didn't know what it looked like in there, we didn't
Speaker 3: know what was happening in there. We didn't know any
Speaker 3: of the potholes we could have stepped into. But when
Speaker 3: that flashlight hit we were safe. And I just want
Speaker 3: to encourage somebody today, you walking through a season where
Speaker 3: you don't know what to do. I want to encourage
Speaker 3: you to open up God's word and let it be
Speaker 3: a lamp to your feet and a light unto your path.
Speaker 3: I love the Bible write down number three. Not only
Speaker 3: is it God speaking to me, not only is it useful,
Speaker 3: but one of the things I love about God's word
Speaker 3: is it will set me straight.
Speaker 1: Man, it will get me right.
Speaker 3: All scriptures God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting,
Speaker 3: and training in righteousness.
Speaker 1: Let me translate that to you.
Speaker 3: God's word will show you what to do, what not
Speaker 3: to do, and what to do what you haven't been.
Speaker 1: Doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3: God's word shows me, this is what you should do,
Speaker 3: this is what you are not to do. Like if
Speaker 3: you're a cowboy fan, hear the word of the Lord,
Speaker 3: really you say you love God. God's word will show
Speaker 3: you what to do, what not to do, and what
Speaker 3: to do when you.
Speaker 1: Haven't been doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3: It's it's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training.
Speaker 1: I have yet to meet the person that's like.
Speaker 3: One of the things that's really great about me is
Speaker 3: I just love being rebuked. It's one of my superpowers.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you've learned this about me,
Speaker 3: but I'm just like, ah, correction, it's my favorite. And
Speaker 3: like when my spouse corrects me, I'm like oohs you know,
Speaker 3: and just like my kids correct me my boss.
Speaker 1: Oh when my boss corrects me. Dude, I'm nailing it.
Speaker 3: And I think God knows this about us, so he's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: so maybe you don't like them correcting you, so I'll
Speaker 3: correct you. So when I open this thing up, listen,
Speaker 3: If your Bible's not messed up, your life will be.
Speaker 3: When I read this thing. This thing cuts me to
Speaker 3: my core. It not a he teaches me, but it
Speaker 3: rebukes me and corrects me and trains me. This is
Speaker 3: the best school of training you'll ever go through for parenthood,
Speaker 3: best thing you need for your marriage. Come on, men
Speaker 3: of God, let's be men of the word and get
Speaker 3: our lives and our parenting and our marriages right. Come on, clap,
Speaker 3: men of God. This right here will train you, rebuke you,
Speaker 3: correct you. Otherwise you'll morph into the world's standards. Look
Speaker 3: at Romans twelve, verse number two, and do not conform
Speaker 3: to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
Speaker 3: your mind, that you may prove what is the good
Speaker 3: and acceptable and perfect will of God. Don't morph into
Speaker 3: what culture says. Don't go by what the world's standards are.
Speaker 3: If the world says it's okay, it doesn't mean God
Speaker 3: says it's okay. I'm not going by what man says.
Speaker 3: I'm going by what God says. I don't care about
Speaker 3: their opinion. I care about God's opinion. And every time
Speaker 3: I read God's words, it aligns my values, it aligns
Speaker 3: my attitude, It aligns my heart to God's will and
Speaker 3: God's way and God's truth. I don't care about what
Speaker 3: I want. I've got to live for what God wants.
Speaker 3: Whenever Julie and I get real real, like you know,
Speaker 3: like you ever take a red eye plane and He's
Speaker 3: just like.
Speaker 1: And people like you good, yeah, good.
Speaker 3: And if it comes to desperate measures, Julian and I
Speaker 3: go to this chiropractor. We don't want to go, but
Speaker 3: if it gets bad, we go to the chiropractor and
Speaker 3: we're like, well, you gotta help us. This is a
Speaker 3: chiropractor right there, like we got you gotta help us.
Speaker 3: Out and then he gets us right. Every time I
Speaker 3: read God's word, it gets me right. It aligns me
Speaker 3: back to say, hey, remember this is not about you.
Speaker 3: This is all about Him. Don't bring yours thinking thinking here.
Speaker 3: I want you to think like you are blessed and
Speaker 3: you are faith and you are loved by God. Come on,
Speaker 3: I need you to live, not for your own success,
Speaker 3: but I want you to live to build the.
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God.
Speaker 3: Every time I read the Bible, it aligns me back.
Speaker 3: That's why I like to read the Bible in the
Speaker 3: morning I wake up in my house. I need I
Speaker 3: feel like God speaks loudest before my children are awake.
Speaker 3: Once once my children are up, God's voice is silent.
Speaker 3: I wake up in my house early, and I make
Speaker 3: me a French press and I walk out. I will
Speaker 3: do the same thing every morning. I walk out to
Speaker 3: my sidewalk and I walk back in. Just getting outside
Speaker 3: helps me get my day going. And I make me
Speaker 3: a coffee, and I sit at my in my kitchen
Speaker 3: counter and I sit there with my coffee in my Bible.
Speaker 3: The same thing I learned in nineteen ninety nine is
Speaker 3: the same thing that I do today. I don't have
Speaker 3: another move. I don't have another option. All I have
Speaker 3: is the b I bl e and the every day
Speaker 3: I love. And I'm not reading it for y'all. I'm
Speaker 3: reading it for me. This man of God needs to
Speaker 3: get right, this parent needs to get right, this husband
Speaker 3: needs to get right. And I read it. Oh, I've
Speaker 3: been reading the same plan since nineteen ninety nine. And
Speaker 3: I read it and I find it and you know what,
Speaker 3: I've never read it and been like, oh I heard
Speaker 3: that one. Oh that was last year. Oh that was
Speaker 3: so nineteen ninety nine. No, every time I read it,
Speaker 3: something jumps into my heart, something leaps into my spirit.
Speaker 3: Because his word is alive, and his word is active
Speaker 3: and is training me and is teaching me.
Speaker 1: Come on, clap and give him a praise.
Speaker 3: Last thing today, write down the last one. God's word
Speaker 3: points me straight to Jesus. Oh, I love this about
Speaker 3: the Bible. John five, last verse. You study the scriptures
Speaker 3: diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.
Speaker 1: These are the very.
Speaker 3: Scriptures that testify about me.
Speaker 1: You refuse to come to me to have life.
Speaker 3: See the problem is most of us, we think that
Speaker 3: it's about reading the Bible. Can look spiritual or we
Speaker 3: can quote scripture. No, we read the Bible because we
Speaker 3: want to know Jesus.
Speaker 1: We read the Bible because we want to know Christ.
Speaker 3: And he said to the religious people, the problem with
Speaker 3: y'all is you think that you're so great because you
Speaker 3: study the scriptures. But the scriptures are all about me,
Speaker 3: and I want to just get our hearts right. As
Speaker 3: we study God's word, we don't read it so we
Speaker 3: can sound powerful. No knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
Speaker 3: And the more I read the Bible, the more I
Speaker 3: fall in love. Not with the Bible alone. I fall
Speaker 3: in love with Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God.
Speaker 3: Come on, the one that was crucified, the one that
Speaker 3: died and rose again. Anybody loved Jesus today. So I'm
Speaker 3: reading about Joseph, and Joseph and his deliverance he led
Speaker 3: his brothers that sold him into a pit, and I'm
Speaker 3: understanding that the greater deliverance and the greater forgiveness was
Speaker 3: not just Joseph, it was Jesus. And my prayer is
Speaker 3: that we would not fall in love with the Bible,
Speaker 3: so we can fall in love with the law, but
Speaker 3: we fall in love with God's word so we can
Speaker 3: know Jesus. Paul the Apostle says, oh, that I might
Speaker 3: know him, know him? How can you expect to get
Speaker 3: to know Jesus without reading the book that's all about Jesus?
Speaker 3: How can you expect to get cleaned with only one
Speaker 3: swipe every single day? And I'm grateful that I got
Speaker 3: that soap in nineteen ninety nine because every morning since
Speaker 3: then try not to miss any appointments with my King.
Speaker 3: I've been getting up and soaping because I notice how
Speaker 3: quickly I can get dirty. It's kind of like my
Speaker 3: kids when I say you need to take a bath.
Speaker 3: I'm not dirty dead, I don't need a beth.
Speaker 1: Son.
Speaker 3: You've passed dirty. You're disgusting, And a lot of us
Speaker 3: are like, I'm good, I'm straight. Come get a word,
Speaker 3: live my life, do my thing. When was the last
Speaker 3: time you let God speak directly to you? It's the
Speaker 3: last time you let God get you straight? When was
Speaker 3: the last time God's word was a lamp unto your
Speaker 3: feet and a light unto your path? I pray that
Speaker 3: you wouldn't just fall in love with the scripture, but
Speaker 3: you'd fall in love with the one that the scriptures
Speaker 3: are all about.
Speaker 1: His name is Jesus. And I don't know when you're
Speaker 1: gonna need God's word.
Speaker 3: I don't know when you're gonna go through a circumstance
Speaker 3: when you're gonna need the Bible. But I'm believing that
Speaker 3: you're gonna store it up for the right time. We
Speaker 3: have a lady in our church this last week was
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 1: In March, she let us know.
Speaker 3: That she has stage four cancer that the doctors were
Speaker 3: saying was incurable. And she let our church know, and
Speaker 3: she let our team know. And every Sunday i'd look down,
Speaker 3: I'd see this lady who the doctors say are is
Speaker 3: about to die. I'd see her worship better than everybody else.
Speaker 1: I'd see her dance more than anybody else.
Speaker 3: When I was preaching, she would amen better than about
Speaker 3: ten people. And she kept just standing on God's word.
Speaker 3: God's gonna heal me. God's gonna heal me. I don't
Speaker 3: know how the doctors are saying this. I'm in pain,
Speaker 3: she say, But I'm standing on God's word. I'm standing
Speaker 3: on the verse that my God's a healer. Come on,
Speaker 3: anybody believe today that by his stripes we are healed.
Speaker 3: Isaiah fifty five. So shall my word be that goes
Speaker 3: out from my mouth. It shall not return to me
Speaker 3: empty or void, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
Speaker 3: and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Speaker 3: I want to show you a picture of my friend Fabiola.
Speaker 3: This is at our all church prayer meeting. We're praying
Speaker 3: over Fabiola a few weeks ago. We're praying that God
Speaker 3: would touch her life. We're praying and we're standing on
Speaker 3: God's word. See, when you go through hardship and you
Speaker 3: go through trial, You're gonna have to stand on God's word.
Speaker 3: Come on, you go through when you go through pain
Speaker 3: and tragedy, You're not gonna be able to stand on
Speaker 3: a on a tweet. You gotta be able to stand
Speaker 3: on God's word. And this Tuesday, she zoomed into our
Speaker 3: staff and she said, I want to let you know
Speaker 3: and just got back from the doctors, and she held
Speaker 3: up a certificate in the zoom and she said, the
Speaker 3: doctors want to check on me today and they can't
Speaker 3: find any cancer in my body. I've been completely and
Speaker 3: totally healed by the grace of God. Come on clapping
Speaker 3: like you believe that God is not a man that
Speaker 3: he would lie. Come on, clap like you believe that
Speaker 3: God is a promised giver and a promise keeper. Come on,
Speaker 3: clip like you believe that God is not a man
Speaker 3: that he would change his mind. Come on, Lets pray today, Jesus,
Speaker 3: We thank you, We praise you today for your grace
Speaker 3: and your favor.
Speaker 1: In our life.
Speaker 3: We pray that your word would run through our homes
Speaker 3: and run through our lives and our marriages. And we
Speaker 3: say out loud, we're gonna be like Jeremiah. We're gonna
Speaker 3: find your words, and we're gonna eat them, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna marinate on them, and they're gonna become the delight
Speaker 3: of our hearts. We pray that as we study your word,
Speaker 3: and as we memorize it and hide in our heart, Lord,
Speaker 3: that we not just fall in love with the scriptures,
Speaker 3: but we'd fall madly in love with you.
Speaker 1: Jesus.
Speaker 3: We have nothing whom have eye. On heaven and and earth,
Speaker 3: and on earth. There's none that I desire beside thee.
Speaker 3: So Lord, once again, become the premium. Lord, once again,
Speaker 3: become the priority. Once again, become the first thing in
Speaker 3: my life I'll seek first. The Kingdom of God and
Speaker 3: your righteousness.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift a hand to heaven. Lord.
Speaker 3: I pray that we would not be lukewarm, we would
Speaker 3: not be cold, but we would be hot. We'd be
Speaker 3: zealous for the things of God. And I pray today
Speaker 3: we'd open up our Bibles, and we're praying today.
Speaker 1: As we open up your word.
Speaker 3: Show us marvelous things from your word, Show us who
Speaker 3: you are, show us how you move. We love you
Speaker 3: today and we live for you. Oh, come on, elevation,
Speaker 3: Come on, let's worship God. Come on, lift it up,
Speaker 3: Come on lifting us. I called you no matter what
Speaker 3: I facelie.
Speaker 1: I call you faithful. I just want to fit you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your savation in your words.
Speaker 1: You pay the price good. I call you faithful and
Speaker 1: Dodds Lord, thank.
Speaker 4: You, thank you, Oh, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Your word is that the last egg. She's a word
Speaker 1: from you changes every day. Your word, never fast, never
Speaker 1: richards for.
Speaker 4: So I call you faithful, Indad just wanna thank you,
Speaker 4: just sing that sing call.
Speaker 1: You faithful and doad just wanna.
Speaker 4: One more time seeing sing n cale you faithful and
Speaker 4: Doad just wanna thank you. I call you faithful and
Speaker 4: that just wanna thank you.
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