WEBVTT - This Is My Bible (Chad Veach) 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.959 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.000 it gives your perspective to see God is moving in 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:18.919 your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, everybody. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.120 Listen, Let's clap our hands and thank our Savior today. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:23.520 Come on. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.520 If you're grateful to God, if God's been good to you, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:29.319 come on. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:29.960 If you can. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:34.760 Testify of the faithfulness and the goodness, come on, if 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.360 you've tasted and you've seen that. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.519 The Lord he is what, come on, clap and give 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:42.919 him a. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:49.400 Shout of thanksgiving, give him your highest praise today. Come on, Elevation. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.400 I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.760 will continually be in my mouth. Go ahead and take 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.440 thirty seconds and just clap and thank him. Say thank 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.920 you God, Never have you left me, never have you 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:11.679 forsaken me. Hallelujah. I want to pray for some people today. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.839 There's such a spirit and an atmosphere of faith today 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.319 and we just want to welcome all the campuses, everybody online. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.480 Come on, clap and welcome everybody, Come on, welcome everybody 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.520 in New York City joining us today. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.399 Why don't we pray together? 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.800 Why don't we believe for miracles, signs and wonders? Why 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:38.880 don't we believe that our God is the same yesterday, today, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.280 and how long forever? And so if you need a miracle, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.080 good news, you came to the place where we believe 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.880 still that God is still moving, God is still healing bodies. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.160 Come on, clap of you believe it. He's still shutting 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.640 the mouth of the lion. Anybody believe He's still partner 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.760 the Red Sea and making away where there seems to 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:07.919 be no way. So, if you need a miracle today, financially, physically, emotionally, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.560 while you lift a hand to Heaven right now, come 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.080 on church, let's pray together. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.240 We just thank you God. We thank you in advance. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.480 God. We don't wait for the check to show up. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.320 We don't wait for the doctor's report. We already in advance, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.800 give you the glory and give you the honor for 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.520 what you're about to do. We thank you God that 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.720 if you can take care of the grass, and if 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.720 you can take care of the birds, how much more 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.520 can you take care of us? So right now we 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.400 confess with our mouth what we believe in our heart, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.840 that you're seated on the throne, that you're sovereign, and. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.800 That you rule. We thank you God. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.639 By faith we declare that all these things will be 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.600 accomplished in the name of Jesus. Come on, clap and 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.040 give God a praise today if you believe it. Come 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.840 on clap like you believe it today. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.360 Amen and amen. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.280 Just stay standing just for a moment. It's an honor 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.720 to be here today. And I'm gonna jump into the 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.600 word in just a moment, but while we're standing, I 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.200 just want to make sure we take a moment to 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.880 honor the pastors of this church for twenty years, have 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:23.560 led so faithfully, so diligently, with so much character, so 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.000 much integrity, and I just want to thank Pastor Stephen 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.720 and Hally for their leadership because not only have their 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:37.040 lives touched all the campuses and just America, but God 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.680 has breathed on these efforts to touch the earth. And 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.480 I just want to say thank you to Pastor Stephen 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.560 and Holly. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.200 For your faithfulness. Come on clapping. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.400 Thank God that they keep saying yes to the call 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.160 of God on their life, And I just think in 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.840 twenty years, In twenty years, all the continual yes is 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.640 they've had to walk in and all all the things. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.400 They've had to say no to. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:07.920 Pastor Steven ain't had a dessert in twenty years, Hallelujah, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.520 Glory to God. Ain't missed the day in the weight 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:16.680 room in twenty years. But I just can't believe what 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.680 God has done in them and through them, and we 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.240 honor them. The Bible says to share good things with 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.080 those that teach us the word, to be a blessing 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.039 to those that are over us, that oversee our life. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.360 And so you know, to translate that today, it really 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.000 means send them a Starbucks gift card. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:35.279 Amen. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.080 But come on, clap one more time and thank God 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:38.960 for our pastors. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.240 Pray for your pastors, love. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.039 Them, Thank God for them. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:47.080 Do me a favor. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.440 Before you sit down, turn and give three people a 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.960 church high five next to you. Tell them how good 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.560 it is to see them in church today. Tell them 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.400 how awesome it is to have them in the House 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:57.920 of God. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.440 Clap for the worship team in every life location. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:05.400 Clap for everybody leading us in worship, My God, How 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.520 good is the worship today. If you have a Bible, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.920 go to two Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.600 My name is Chadveach. In Spanish, that's Shad. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:22.839 Beach, and I'm half Mexican. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.119 Are there any Latins in the house? 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:25.480 All? 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:25.800 Right? 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.320 There we go, And I come from Los Angeles, California, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.679 and I just want to say thank you so much 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.360 to the EPHAM because in January, fires broke out in 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.000 our city in two main areas, on the west side 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.880 and the Palisades and on the east side in Altadena, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.760 and our city was literally on fire for a few days. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.680 And by the time we're able to start our outreach ministry, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.120 fifteen thousand people displaced from homes. And by the time 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.280 we're able to start our outreach ministry, I'll tell you 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.800 who showed up in force was the EPHAM of Southern California. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.080 And they showed up in their shirts, They showed up 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.120 with smiles, they showed up with faith and honor, and 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.640 I just I say it is a tribute. It is 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.040 a representation of the leadership of this house. So could 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.880 we clap for everybody online, If you're in Riverside today, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.960 if you're in Orange County today, thank you for being 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.440 a part of helping us serve our city. We love 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.840 you and we thank God for you today, and so 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.160 thank God. Anybody excited for serve week, coming up, excited 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.719 to serve uh and help the city. It's gonna be awesome. Okay, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.920 go there in your Bible. Second Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.560 I'm gonna jump in. Anybody believe in the Bible today, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.719 All right, We're gonna jump in. Two Timothy three sixteen. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.520 It says, all scripture is given by the inspiration of God, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:59.200 and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.240 instruction in righteousness, so that the man or the woman 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:04.680 of God. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:11.160 Come on, all the ladies in the house, whoa, whoa, so. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.000 The man or the Woman of God may be complete, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.480 thoroughly equipped for every good work. Let me read that 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.120 same verse. Now, let's go to the NIV, same scripture, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.320 same verse. All scripture is God breathed. Let me just 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.920 pause there. All of the Bible is from Heaven. All 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.320 of the Bible. I don't know how you grew up. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.520 I'm a pastor's kid, and after church, my dad used 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.440 to take us to the Golden Corral. Come on, somebody 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.440 ain't nothing like church in Golden Corral, nothing like life change. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.160 And then lunch, and we used to go the Golden Corral. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.160 And I'll tell you what. Dad was too tired to 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.360 pay attention to our plates. So we're not putting on 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.320 any of the meats or any of the veggies. Were 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.800 going straight to the dessert. Who am I preaching to 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.720 you right now? I love going to the gold crowd. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.240 When it comes to the Bible, you can't just have 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.560 the desserts. Don't just get stuck in Psalms and Proverbs 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.600 and the Gospels. You gotta get some of the epistles 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.880 in there. You got to have some of the prophets, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.480 major minor prophets. Get you some pentituke in there. All 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:25.280 scripture is God breathed. The Greek there is fail nusas 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.280 fail meaning God, Nusus means the breath of God. God 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.040 breathed on these pens through different authors and gave us 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.679 all of the Bible. Anybody believed, from Genesis to Revelation, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.800 all scriptures straight from God. And it's useful in your life. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.160 Come on, clap like you believe that all authority is 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.480 in that word right there. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.600 All scripture is God breathed and. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:57.559 Is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.400 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.640 for every good work. I want to preach a message today. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.839 Write down the titles called this is my Bible. This 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.959 is my Bible. I'm trying to channel my best Joe 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.440 old Sting. This is my Bible. I can do what 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.199 is said I could do. I can have what is 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.720 said I could have. I'm about to grow a moment 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:28.600 as I say it. Come on, this is my Bible. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:30.319 Man. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:34.559 Do you love the Bible today? There's something about the 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:40.080 b I b l e yes, that's the book for me. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.760 I stand alone on the word of God. Look at 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.600 all the clap for everybody that grew up in church 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.880 and still here. A lot of people left us, but 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.520 y'all are still here. I love the Bible. There's something 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.400 about the scriptures. There's something about reading the Bible. I 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.880 fell in love with the Bible two times in my life. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.280 The first time I fell in love with the Bible 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.960 is when I was sixteen years old. When I was sixteen, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.880 I went to an event called Promise Keepers. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:11.120 Promise Keepers. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.400 Back in the day, men fill in stadiums around America 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.319 worshiping God. And I encounter God at Promise Keepers. This 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.319 is back in the day when we used to have 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:26.520 tape cassettes. How many y'all remember tape cassettes. If you're younger, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:32.240 google it. And I'll never forget. Man. When I went 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.280 to Promise Keepers, I got rocked by Jesus, and I 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.080 came back to my house and they gave us a 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.760 little Bible, and they gave us a cassette of worship. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.320 And I'll never forget. I'd wait for my whole house 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:44.120 to go to bed. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:45.840 I didn't want them to know us this in love 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.240 with God yet, And I wait for my whole house 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.800 to go to bed, and I'd kneel beside my bedside, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.040 put my walkman on, and I'd take out my Bible 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.439 beside my bedside, and I'd read the Bible and listen 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:58.600 to worship sixteen. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:10:59.960 And I'll never forget. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.520 I didn't know what the Bible was saying, but I 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.240 just try and circle anything that made sense. So I 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.440 started circling the word every time I saw the word, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:13.000 the that's good the in the beginning, yes, it was 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.880 the the second time I fell in love with the 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.560 Bible when I was nineteen years old. When I was nineteen, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.760 I was in Bible College and I had long hair. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.360 Don't care like your boy, just trying to get our 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.760 brand in lake On. Put us in some tank tops, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:37.920 let us sing. All right, God did. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:41.880 Okay. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:48.360 So that was not planned anyways, So I never got nineteen. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.120 And this gentleman, he ended up being my best friend 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.480 in Bible Collasus. His dad developed a Bible reading plan, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.640 so he took us one day. We're in Bible College 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.080 the beginning of the semester. He took us to Starbucks. Said, boys, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.800 I want to teach you how to read the Bible. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.240 So he took us to Starbucks. He allowed us to 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.760 order whatever we wanted, and we sat there and he 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.040 taught us how to do a Bible reading plan and 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:17.280 how to choose a verse, and he called it soap scripture, observation, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.439 application and prayer. And he said, every day, boys, I'm 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.480 gonna go he's from Hawaii. I'm gonna fly back to 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.160 where God lives. And I want you guys to every 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.440 day come meet at this Starbucks and I want you 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.000 to open up your Bibles and I want you to 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.800 read and grab a verse, and I want you to 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.560 write down your scripture, put in a little observation, write 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.440 a little application, how does it apply to your life? 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.640 And finish it with a prayer. And so he taught 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.080 us how to do it, and he went home. And 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.960 then for about four years, me and this guy, we 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.400 would get up every morning at six am. We drive 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.000 to Starbucks. For about four years, I ordered every morning. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.480 This is embarrassing. Is before we counted calories. I would 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.800 order a grandevid and latte and a scone. You couldn't 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.200 pay me to order that today. But we would sit 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.760 there together and we'd read the Bible. And I'm telling you, 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:13.079 I fell in love with the Bible. This is my Bible. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.199 I started to read it. I started to memorize it. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.760 I started to understand it. You know, there was a 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.240 study that recently came out that said reading the Bible 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.040 once a week does nothing in your life. Reading the 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.760 Bible two times a week, though, does nothing in your life. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.320 If you read the Bible and expose your eyes to 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.680 God's word three times a week, it does nothing in 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.680 your life. But the moment you get to four times 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.600 a week, God's words starts to do something in your 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.280 heart and in your life. Come on, anybody want to 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.920 be encountering the love of Jesus, not just once a week, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.760 but anybody believe that you can get a word every 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.240 single day from God. I want to give you a 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.240 few things to write down today, a few things to 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.720 encourage your faith. Write down number one. This is about 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.920 God's word. This is God speaking directly to me. Oh, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.840 I love this about the Bible. God speaking directly to me. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.800 Jesus said, my sheep will recognize my voice and a 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:16.920 stranger's voice. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.239 They will not follow. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.440 The more I open God's word, I'm telling you, when 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.840 I start to understand what his voice sounds like, when 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.720 I start to understand how he operates, his character and 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.920 his nature, the way he moves. I'm telling you today 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:37.680 God speaks loudest, He speaks clearest and most consistently through 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.520 the scriptures. When you open up God's word. If you 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.880 want a word from God, good news, He gave you 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.720 the Word of God. You don't need somebody on TikTok 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:51.960 to prophily to you. You can open Oh, I'm coming 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:58.720 for somebody. He woke up and shows violence when I 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:04.360 start reading the Bible, God himself starts speaking directly to me, 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.920 and I wreck. The more I read it, the more 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.520 I recognize that wasn't just a word on paper. That's 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.000 a word in season. That's a word for my situation. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.520 That's a word for my circumstance. That's a word for 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.960 what I'm going through. That's a word that I needed today. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.360 Today I needed daily bread. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:23.720 Oh. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.200 I love that part in the Lord's prayer when he says, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.680 give us our bread, our daily bread. Any bread fans 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.000 in the house today. I want to make it clear. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.200 I'm pro gluten. I voted gluten. When I get to Heaven, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:41.680 I'm eating gluten. But it is God speaking directly to me. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:47.000 Jeremiah fifteen sixteen. Your words were found, and I ate them, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.800 And your word was to me the joy and the 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.520 rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.280 Oh Lord, God of Host. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:56.680 Oh. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.960 I'm telling you there's something about when you find God's word. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.080 You want to chew it. You want to marinate in it, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.320 you want to sit in it. You want to just 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.040 study it, you want to understand it. Why Because it's 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.600 God speaking directly to me. And I want to tell you, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.640 when you read God's word, all of a sudden, you 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.000 start to understand. Oh, God's talking to me about my attitude. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.080 God's talking to me about my finances. God's talking to 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.040 me about my character. God's talking to me about my future. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.960 God's talking to me about my children. Come on, anybody 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.640 thankful today that we don't serve a God that's mute. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.680 We serve a God that speaks. Come on, give him 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:37.280 a praise today. And he's speaking directly to me. And 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.040 the more I read God's word, the more I sense 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.200 I hear. I train my ear to hear that's God. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.640 It's kind of like you know when you listen to radio, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.200 you can just right away know, Oh, that so and 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.280 so singing, that so and so singing. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:54.440 I'll never forget. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.840 Pastor Steph was so kind he sent me an early 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.800 release of New Thing Coming. He said, I got one 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.680 for you, hallylujah. He did, and I'll never forget. I 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:16.919 was in my car driving like this. I was lost 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.919 in the sauce, But when Pastor Stephen came on, I 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.960 had to hold my steering wheel cause I knew that voice. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.639 I've listened to that voice. I've been trained on that voice. Oh, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.320 I'm thankful today that the more you open God's word, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.840 You're going to recognize that's not a word for them, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.800 that's a word for me. It's God speaking directly to 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.600 my heart, directly to my life. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.040 Oh I love Psalm one nineteen, verse eighteen. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.960 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.239 your law. See, I'm telling you today God's Word is 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.080 alive and active. And when I read this book, this 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.520 book is not a dead book. This book isn't a 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.720 live book. And when I start reading it, God starts speaking, Oh, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.080 we're dropping money up in here. My wife put money 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.960 in my Bible yesterday. That's a true story. But God 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.960 is speaking directly to my heart. And just look here, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.879 put it on the screen. I love this thought. You 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.480 can't see wonderful things about God without God showing you. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.439 This is the only book in the history of the 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:29.159 world where the author himself comes to sit down with 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.680 you to teach you what he was trying to say. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:33.879 That when you read. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:38.120 God's Word, God himself and the Holy Spirit starts trying 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.000 to open your eyes to see what's going on in 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.199 that story. See, it's not just a story about Noah 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.359 and the Ark. It's a story about a man of 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.480 God that was set apart, the preparedest life for whatever 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.919 would come his way. And God was looking for a 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.119 man of righteousness, and so he chose Noah to be 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.240 mightily used, even without Noah even asking. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:58.800 To be used that way. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.680 See, God will show you things in the scriptures, from 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.800 Noah to Moses, from Abraham to Elijah to the woman 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.040 at the well. God will show you marvelous things. And 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.280 it's God speaking directly to your heart. I can't tell 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.320 you how many times I sat with my Bible, sitting 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.280 there with a coffee, no scone, and I'm sitting there 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.680 and God starts to download. God starts to help me. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.240 God starts to speak to me. Anybody thankful today that 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.280 you don't got to get a word from somebody else. 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.280 Come on, clap, if you believe it, you can get 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:31.000 a word for you. 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.600 And what I find is that we need to stop putting. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.639 Our Bibles on our shelves, start putting God's word in 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.280 our heart. Thy word have I hidden in my heart 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.520 that I might not sin against thee? You got to 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.240 grab the Bible. What did Jeremiah say When I found 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.879 your words? I ate them like I was at the 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.280 Golden Corral, and they became the delight of my heart 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:00.439 all sudden. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:01.959 I love reading the Bible. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:07.240 It's not religious, it's relationship, it's not labor. It's delightful. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.040 It becomes the delight of my life. Why because when 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.879 I meet with God. In fact, when the pastor from 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.240 Hawaii taught us how to read the Bible, he says, 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.320 I want you to make an appointment with the King 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.560 every day. Don't be late, and don't miss it. And 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.520 so I started to make an appointment with the King 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.760 of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and I started 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.159 to sit down so he could. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.439 Speak directly to my life. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.400 Because I knew I was a young man devoid of understanding, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.919 and I knew I needed to grow in wisdom. I 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.200 knew I needed to grow in understanding. I knew I 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.560 needed to grow in knowledge. Now I knew I needed 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.720 to grow in insight. And so I need to sit 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.359 down with the Maker. Can you believe that the Maker 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.960 of heaven and Earth comes to sit down with you 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:47.760 to teach you what he put. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:48.439 In this book? 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.840 Come on, anybody believe today the grass may wither, the 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.920 flower may fade, but the word of the Lord will 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.240 last forever. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.480 It's God speaking direct to me. It's God. You don't 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.560 know how many times I've went you. See. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.680 The funny thing about the Bible is you think you're 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.520 studying it. It's studying you. It's reading your mail. It's 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.360 saying no, don't be anxious. Do not be anxious about anything, 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.679 but in everything, through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.640 your requests be made known to God, and the peace 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.680 of God, which surpasses all understanding. Regard your heart. God 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.280 speaking directly to me. I've got a direct line to heaven. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.600 As I open up the Bible, and so write down 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.639 number two today. If it's useful, I should use it 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.359 if it's you. Because what did he say here? He said, 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:39.440 all scripture is God breathed and is useful. I love 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.720 that word useful. I love that word useful. It's useful. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.919 It's useful, useful, and he starts to list It's useful 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.680 for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:50.359 It's useful. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.000 I just want to give you a few things that 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.560 the Bible is useful for in your life today. Here's 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.120 the first thing that's useful for It's useful for content. 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.280 I'm just going to use the word content, because I 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:00.800 know we live in the area of content. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:02.439 But let me just speak to the parents. 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.919 It's if you want good things to say to your kids, 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:05.960 start opening up. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:07.640 The Bible and let God feel your heart. 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:09.639 If you want to say good things to your spouse, 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.159 any married people here today, we're the married folks. If 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.320 you want to say good things to your spouse, open 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.880 up God's word. Oh I love this scripture right here. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:18.879 Put it on the screen. Look here in Matthew. I 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.560 love this Matthew twelve. For out of the abundance of 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.000 the heart the mouth speaks. 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:25.560 A good man, out. 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.479 Of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good things, 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.600 and an evil man, out of the evil of his heart, 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.160 brings forth evil things. You know what the Bible is saying. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:42.399 Whatever you put in, that's what's coming. The content you 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:47.840 consume becomes the content you create. So if you put 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.680 evil things in your heart, don't you expect for good 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.119 things to come out. I'll never forget when I the 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.080 first time I fell in love with God's word sixteen 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.120 I went to promise keepers. God started to deal with 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:04.880 my music. And God, y'all remember case logic, and they'd 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.120 hold all our CDs and I'll never forget. God said, 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:09.960 I want you to get rid of all your CDs. 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:18.040 I said, Lord, are you sure? Say yes, I'm sure. 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.560 So I went to this place that had a cliff, 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:23.840 and I took out my big case logic fill with CDs, 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:28.160 and every rapper that started with ice, iced tea, ice, 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.439 c any ice, spice, ice, vanilla, any ice had to go. 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.879 Any pops one or two had to go small or 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.080 Biggie had to go. Damn, they all had to go 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:43.080 cast out outcast had to go. 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:46.280 Why because I. 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:50.560 Knew every single word to every single song. Don't think 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:51.920 for one second that you can turn. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.400 You can learn lyrics, but you can't learn the Bible. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:58.280 If you can memorize about Ryah carry, you can memorize 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.800 God's word. Clap like you want to store it up. 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:03.399 Clap like you want to eat it up. Clap like 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.720 you want to memorize it. Clap like you want a 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:09.760 word in season. I'm hiding God's word. It's the delight 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.840 of my heart. What did he say? Out of the 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:18.080 abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, So he said, 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:20.879 the good man stores up good things, and an evil 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.560 man stores up evil things. If you want good stuff. Oh, 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.320 I'll never forget. I was in Biba College and he 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:28.480 was my buddy at the time. He was my best 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.240 friend until he married my little sister. Changes a relationship, 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.400 change the whole relationship, change the dynamic. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:40.520 Okay. But we worked at a church in East. 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.400 La in the hood in the body of about look 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.000 us for Arrahns And we worked at this. 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:46.120 Church East La. 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:48.240 So we go to Biba College in the morning and 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:50.760 then we drive to the church to work in the afternoon. 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:53.959 And on the way from class to the church, we 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.000 had flash cards and we are trying to memorize God's word. 0:24:57.280 --> 0:24:59.560 And so one guy would be driving and the other 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:01.679 guy would have the flash cards and we try and 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.040 test to see if he's got God's word. So we 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.639 sit there and go like Galatians two twenty, I'll be 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:09.800 like I have been crucified with Christ. For it is 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:11.720 no longer I that live, but it's Christ that lives 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:13.439 through me. And the life that I now live I 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.400 live by faith in the Son of God, who gave 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:19.000 himself as a ransom for me. Try me again, Isaiah 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:22.000 forty Ooh, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:24.480 their strength. They shall rise on the wings of an ego, 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.000 they will run or not grow, they will walk in 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:31.040 that enough faith. Try me again, Psalm one, nineteen verse nine. Ooh, 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.800 how can a young man cleanse his ways by taking heat? 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:36.840 According to his word? And we started to memorize and 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.159 memorize and memorize. And I'm telling you today, when I 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:42.399 go to visit somebody in the hospital, I don't have 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:45.400 to google the scripture when somebody is going through depression, 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:48.399 I don't have to check chat GPT to find out 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:51.480 what God's saying in the situation. Come on, somebody clamp 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.359 like you want to hide it and store it and 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:55.240 build a well. 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:56.280 Come on, build a. 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:59.040 Well in your life. Let God's word reside. 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:03.679 Let it shame. It's God speaking directly to me. 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:10.000 Give him a praise today. Content content, Content. By the way, 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:12.320 you gotta be careful because whatever. 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.040 You're around gets on you. 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.840 Whatever's on you gets in you, and whatever's in you come. 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:18.520 Out of you. 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:20.920 You gotta be careful the atmosphere of where you walk. 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.040 That's why I was glad. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.120 When they said, unto me today, let us go into 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:27.520 the house of the Lord, because when I get around 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.080 the people of God and I get around the. 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:31.080 Atmosphere of faith. 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:33.600 Oh, come on, that gets on me, and whatever's on 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.800 me gets in me, and whatever's in me comes out 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:40.640 of me. Anybody thankful today that I've got feet running 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.040 to the righteousness of God. I've got feet running to 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:47.000 the House of God. I've got feet running to the 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:56.520 atmosphere of faith. Whatever you're around gets on you, whatever's 0:26:56.560 --> 0:26:59.800 on you gets into you, and whatever's in you comes 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:01.840 out of you. That's why when I was growing up, 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.000 we walk in the mall and I see that one 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:10.520 store top of hot I said, uh, no, Surrey, were 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:11.359 not going in there. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:17.600 I don't know what it is, but we're not going 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:18.000 in there. 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:24.880 Because whatever you're around gets on you, and whatever's on 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.640 you gets into you. That's why I love elevation, because 0:27:28.680 --> 0:27:31.360 every time you get around, every time we gather every Sunday, 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:33.800 come on, we lift up holy hands. Come on, we 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:36.840 stir up our faith and our expectation. Come on, we say, 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:40.000 if God before us, who can be against us? The 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.520 Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.199 Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength and 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:47.760 the stronghold. 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.040 Of my life. 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:51.840 And whenever I drove up to Starbucks. I wasn't just 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:57.520 around some Starbucks from some coffee from Seattle. I was 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:01.040 opening on my Bible. I was hanging around Jesus, and 0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:03.840 Jesus in the atmosphere got on me. But I'm telling you, 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.119 God's word got in me, and God's words start to 0:28:06.160 --> 0:28:08.160 fall out of my life. When you get God's word 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:09.800 in your heart, it will fall out of your mouth. 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:12.280 You just walk around. You won't have to look up something. 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:14.080 It'll just fall out of your mouth. You know, the 0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:16.240 Bible says, well, you know the Bible says, well, you 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:18.480 know the Bible says. I found in life. People are 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:20.800 not interested in what I say. People are interested in 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:21.560 what God says. 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:26.440 Well, you know the Bible says, Well, that's cool. That's 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:27.040 a great opinion. 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:31.000 But you know the Bible says, and so if it's useful, 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:34.119 we should use it for content. How about number two? 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:38.560 How about for success? Anybody here by short hands, cross 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:41.520 all the campuses. If you would like to be successful 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:42.920 in life, let me see your hand. 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:45.160 You liked, Yes, wouldn't that be awesome? 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:48.400 If you're a Panther fan, you better really raise both 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:52.400 your hands. You were to pray in the tongue and 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:57.440 the spirit Joshua one A. The Book of the Law 0:28:57.560 --> 0:29:01.600 shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate 0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:05.320 in it day and night, that you may observe to 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:08.360 do according to all that is written in it, For 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:12.320 then you will make your way prosperous, and then you 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:14.840 will have good success. 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.080 I like that good success. This Book of. 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:18.960 The Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you 0:29:19.000 --> 0:29:21.680 shall meditate in it both day and night. So the 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:24.160 Bible says we should meditate on the word of God 0:29:24.400 --> 0:29:26.360 both day and night. I'm all for the verse of 0:29:26.360 --> 0:29:27.960 the day, and thank God we got the Verse of 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:30.000 the day on your lock screen. But I'm telling you, 0:29:30.040 --> 0:29:32.080 when I go to brush my teeth, I don't swipe 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.280 one time and think my mouth's clean. When I brush 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:36.239 my teeth, I get them all up in there. We 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:38.360 need more than the Verse of the day to make 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:42.920 it today. This Book of the Law shall not depart 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:45.040 from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it both 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.120 day and night, that you may be careful to observe 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:49.200 all that is written in it, and then you will 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:52.640 make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:54.120 So you know what the scripture is teaching you. 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.320 The more you study this book, the more God will 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.680 make you a success. You know, the more you study 0:29:58.680 --> 0:30:01.280 God's word, the more God will for your life. Why 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:03.880 because I'm not walking in the wisdom of myself. I'm 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.240 walking in the wisdom of God. I'm not leaning on 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:09.880 my own understanding. I'm acknowledging God's understanding. And when I 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.240 do that, God, Come on, anybody believe it today. The 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:16.760 steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. God 0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:19.200 will lead me, and he will guide me. He will 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:21.560 show me his path. So if I want to be 0:30:21.600 --> 0:30:25.280 a success or, I want my children's children to be blessed. 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:28.400 Anybody believing that your children's children are going to be blessed, 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:33.560 anybody believing to be believed to leave a legacy. Let 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.240 me say it this way. It ran in your family 0:30:36.320 --> 0:30:42.920 until it ran into you. Whoa And you know who 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:45.400 stopped it? The man or the woman that God in 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:49.680 God's word. Because the Bible says whom the son sets free, 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:53.000 and you shall know the truth, and the truth will 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:54.120 set you free. 0:30:54.240 --> 0:30:55.040 So if I. 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:58.680 Study and marinate, And by the way, meditation is not 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:02.600 a hot yoga idea. Meditation is God's idea. God told 0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:05.000 us to meditate on his word. God told us to 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:07.480 get some flash cards. God told us to walk around 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:09.840 our kitchen and declare the word of the Lord. This 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:11.880 book of the Law will not depart from my mouth. 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:14.000 But I will meditate on it both day and night. 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:16.280 I will be careful to observe all that is written 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:18.280 in it. And then I'm going to be prosperous, and 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:19.560 then i will be successful. 0:31:19.640 --> 0:31:21.360 Anybody want to be a blessing. 0:31:21.160 --> 0:31:24.240 You cannot be a blessing and tell your blessed. 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:26.600 So I love God's word. 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:30.200 It gives me content for my reality, for my business, 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:33.480 for my children, for my marriage. It gives me success 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:36.600 right down. The third thing, it shows me my motives. 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:43.920 It deals with my intentions. These are my intentions. You 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:49.200 guys are so unsaved. Thank God you're in church, for 0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:52.680 the Word of God is alive and it's active, sharper 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:56.160 than any double edged sword. It penetrates even to the 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:59.680 dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:06.040 thought and the attitudes of the heart. Other translations right 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:10.600 there say exposes us for who you really are. It 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:12.720 exposed and you know what. We live in a culture 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:16.840 of shame and hiding. We don't want anybody to know 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:21.880 what's lurking. All that jealousy, all that greed, all that manipulation, 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:26.360 all that envy, all that stuff that's lurking, all that judas, Judas, 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:28.120 why we give the money? We could have used it 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.680 in all that stuff that's lurking. But when you get 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:33.880 into God's word, everything is exposed and God starts to 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:35.040 deal with my motives. 0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:35.880 So good news. 0:32:35.880 --> 0:32:38.160 If you've got bad motives like mine, can get off 0:32:38.200 --> 0:32:41.560 sometimes just the same. We are all sinners saved by grace. 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:45.000 When I get into God's Word, it corrects my motives, 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:47.720 It aligns my motives. It gets me back to live 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.240 for the glory of God, not for the glory of me. 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:58.600 So it deals with my identity. You cannot know who 0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:07.560 you are until you know who you are, And my 0:33:07.640 --> 0:33:11.640 prayer for you today is strong identity. The more you 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:14.880 read the Bible, the more i'm I'm confident in God. 0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:22.560 I can do all things through Who, through Christ. That 0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:25.920 strengthens me. So you need some confidence in your life. 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:29.280 The more you get in that word, the more it's 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:30.400 like I might. 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:35.080 Have weakness, but the power of Christ rests on my life. 0:33:35.240 --> 0:33:37.400 And so I'm gonna be bold. The righteous are as 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:39.480 bold as a lion. I'm gonna be bold. Why because 0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:42.160 I know who I am. Remember, the devil came to 0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:45.720 tempt Jesus three times after he was in a fast 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:49.080 for forty days, and three times he tempted Satan, and 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:50.280 he tempted Jesus. 0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:52.520 And every single time he tempted him. 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:58.080 What did Jesus use to rebuke the temptation? The word 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:01.760 He's In fact, he stood on dude Roonomy six, Deuteronomy six, 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:04.920 and Deuteronomy nine every single time the enemy came to 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:08.319 tempt him. What do they say today, ten toes down 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:12.160 or something? Yeah, ten toes sounds so gangster when I 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:16.520 say it's so fun. He just stood there and said, 0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:20.560 you know the Bible says, and then you try to 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:23.399 mess with him again? And what did he mess with him? 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:30.160 Identity motives? If you really are the son of God? 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:33.640 And he said, well, you know the Bible says, well, 0:34:33.680 --> 0:34:38.239 the Bible says, why did he stand ten toes? Because 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:40.920 he had put God's word in his heart that he 0:34:41.000 --> 0:34:43.000 might not sin against the Father. And I want to 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.279 encourage you today. You got to get your motives right. 0:34:45.840 --> 0:34:47.759 The word of the Lord is alive and active. It 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:50.560 is sharper than any two edges sword. It pierces the 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:53.120 bone and the marrow. It separates the soul and the spirit, 0:34:53.280 --> 0:34:55.600 and it exposes us for who we really are. 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:56.600 And in other. 0:34:56.520 --> 0:34:58.680 Words, not that just the negative, but the positive. I 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:01.399 am the righteousness of God God. I am the head 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:04.279 and not the tale. I am a chosen generation, a 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:08.040 royal priesthood, a marvelous light. I am more than a 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:11.799 conqueror in Christ Jesus. I am blessed beyond measure. Come on, 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:15.120 clap today if you believe that you're understanding your identity 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:16.520 because you found it. 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:17.080 Come on. 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:20.279 You didn't find it on social media. You didn't find 0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:22.839 it in your bank account. You didn't find it by 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:25.480 what somebody else said about you. I found it by 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:28.120 what God says. Come on, give them a praise today. 0:35:28.360 --> 0:35:29.600 I know what God says. 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:32.960 I am. 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:36.520 Stop living for the audience of man, start living for 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:37.640 the audience of one. 0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:40.520 I want to know what God says about me. 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:43.880 So it helps me with content, It helps me with success, 0:35:44.040 --> 0:35:46.840 It helps me with motives, it helps me with movement. 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:49.480 Movement. Oh I love this next verse PSNG one nineteen. 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:52.719 Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:55.800 light unto my path. These are dark days on the earth, 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:59.000 these are dark days in culture, these are dark days 0:35:59.040 --> 0:35:59.840 in these patterns. 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:01.120 But I'm telling you, when. 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:03.280 I get God's word, all of a sudden, it shows 0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:05.480 me what do I do in my home? What do 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:07.560 I do in my marriage? What do I do with 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:10.200 this child? What do I do in this circumstance? What 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:12.000 do you want me to do with my gifting? What 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:14.040 do you want me to do with my money? Anybody 0:36:14.040 --> 0:36:17.479 thankful that God's word will illuminate your path. It'll show 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:19.719 you what to do, It'll show you where to go. 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.680 Come on, clap a little bit louder and just have faith. 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:28.799 Then it's gonna light up your path. You know, the 0:36:28.840 --> 0:36:31.560 Bible actually teaches us that the path of the righteous 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:35.600 shines brighter and brighter. So the more I'm in this thing, 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:37.880 the more it's like I'm not living in the dark. 0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:39.919 I'm living in the light. 0:36:41.520 --> 0:36:43.879 And it feels like the more I don't get into 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:46.040 this work, the more I don't study it, the more 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:48.960 I don't read it, the more my life just ebbs 0:36:49.000 --> 0:36:52.879 and flows into the darkness. But the more I'm in 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.279 this thing. The more it's like God is showing me 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:57.880 what to do and where to go. I'll never forget 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:00.120 where I grew up on a small island in the 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:03.640 state of Washington, and whenever people would come to visit 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:06.200 my family and visit my parents, we would take them 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:10.080 to Fort Casey and we would take them through where 0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:13.440 there once was a war. We'd take them through the barracks. 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:15.800 And there was this one barrack that we go through 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:17.640 and there was no light, no electricity. 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:18.680 It was so dark in there. 0:37:18.960 --> 0:37:21.319 And I'll never forgets kids, we'd love to run through 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:24.000 this darkness just to see if we're gonna make it 0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:26.680 out alive. He would see if there was a boogeyman. 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:29.000 We just as kids, we just love to run through it. 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:31.480 And I'll never forget the first time we were trying 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:33.640 to do it and my mom came through with a 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:39.040 flashlight and I was like, Wow, this is crazy. We 0:37:39.080 --> 0:37:41.120 didn't know what it looked like in there, we didn't 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.799 know what was happening in there. We didn't know any 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:46.279 of the potholes we could have stepped into. But when 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:49.560 that flashlight hit we were safe. And I just want 0:37:49.560 --> 0:37:52.279 to encourage somebody today, you walking through a season where 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:54.760 you don't know what to do. I want to encourage 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:56.840 you to open up God's word and let it be 0:37:56.880 --> 0:38:00.680 a lamp to your feet and a light unto your path. 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:05.959 I love the Bible write down number three. Not only 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.400 is it God speaking to me, not only is it useful, 0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:10.560 but one of the things I love about God's word 0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:12.480 is it will set me straight. 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:13.919 Man, it will get me right. 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:20.360 All scriptures God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.240 and training in righteousness. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:24.799 Let me translate that to you. 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:28.200 God's word will show you what to do, what not 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:30.319 to do, and what to do what you haven't been. 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:31.239 Doing what you're supposed to be doing. 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:35.480 God's word shows me, this is what you should do, 0:38:36.400 --> 0:38:41.160 this is what you are not to do. Like if 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:43.160 you're a cowboy fan, hear the word of the Lord, 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:53.439 really you say you love God. God's word will show 0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:57.560 you what to do, what not to do, and what 0:38:57.719 --> 0:38:58.440 to do when you. 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:00.720 Haven't been doing what you're supposed to be doing. 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:07.040 It's it's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training. 0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:09.279 I have yet to meet the person that's like. 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:11.960 One of the things that's really great about me is 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:18.440 I just love being rebuked. It's one of my superpowers. 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:21.600 And I don't know if you've learned this about me, 0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:25.359 but I'm just like, ah, correction, it's my favorite. And 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.840 like when my spouse corrects me, I'm like oohs you know, 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:30.520 and just like my kids correct me my boss. 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:33.080 Oh when my boss corrects me. Dude, I'm nailing it. 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.520 And I think God knows this about us, so he's like, Okay, 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:43.359 so maybe you don't like them correcting you, so I'll 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:48.160 correct you. So when I open this thing up, listen, 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:52.160 If your Bible's not messed up, your life will be. 0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:57.840 When I read this thing. This thing cuts me to 0:39:57.920 --> 0:40:01.120 my core. It not a he teaches me, but it 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:06.719 rebukes me and corrects me and trains me. This is 0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:10.120 the best school of training you'll ever go through for parenthood, 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:12.880 best thing you need for your marriage. Come on, men 0:40:12.920 --> 0:40:15.880 of God, let's be men of the word and get 0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:19.040 our lives and our parenting and our marriages right. Come on, clap, 0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:22.960 men of God. This right here will train you, rebuke you, 0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:28.319 correct you. Otherwise you'll morph into the world's standards. Look 0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:31.319 at Romans twelve, verse number two, and do not conform 0:40:31.560 --> 0:40:36.200 to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of 0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:38.800 your mind, that you may prove what is the good 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:42.399 and acceptable and perfect will of God. Don't morph into 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.000 what culture says. Don't go by what the world's standards are. 0:40:46.400 --> 0:40:48.759 If the world says it's okay, it doesn't mean God 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:51.800 says it's okay. I'm not going by what man says. 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:55.160 I'm going by what God says. I don't care about 0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:58.840 their opinion. I care about God's opinion. And every time 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:03.200 I read God's words, it aligns my values, it aligns 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:07.719 my attitude, It aligns my heart to God's will and 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:11.080 God's way and God's truth. I don't care about what 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:13.560 I want. I've got to live for what God wants. 0:41:16.080 --> 0:41:19.040 Whenever Julie and I get real real, like you know, 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:21.560 like you ever take a red eye plane and He's 0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:21.879 just like. 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:26.600 And people like you good, yeah, good. 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:31.719 And if it comes to desperate measures, Julian and I 0:41:31.760 --> 0:41:34.520 go to this chiropractor. We don't want to go, but 0:41:34.680 --> 0:41:37.400 if it gets bad, we go to the chiropractor and 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:38.719 we're like, well, you gotta help us. This is a 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:42.920 chiropractor right there, like we got you gotta help us. 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:47.040 Out and then he gets us right. Every time I 0:41:47.120 --> 0:41:50.520 read God's word, it gets me right. It aligns me 0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:53.279 back to say, hey, remember this is not about you. 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:57.120 This is all about Him. Don't bring yours thinking thinking here. 0:41:57.360 --> 0:41:59.440 I want you to think like you are blessed and 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:01.920 you are faith and you are loved by God. Come on, 0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:04.719 I need you to live, not for your own success, 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:06.560 but I want you to live to build the. 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:07.440 Kingdom of God. 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:11.520 Every time I read the Bible, it aligns me back. 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.120 That's why I like to read the Bible in the 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:15.799 morning I wake up in my house. I need I 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.640 feel like God speaks loudest before my children are awake. 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:23.840 Once once my children are up, God's voice is silent. 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.520 I wake up in my house early, and I make 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:32.600 me a French press and I walk out. I will 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:34.799 do the same thing every morning. I walk out to 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:37.440 my sidewalk and I walk back in. Just getting outside 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:40.319 helps me get my day going. And I make me 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:43.160 a coffee, and I sit at my in my kitchen 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:46.040 counter and I sit there with my coffee in my Bible. 0:42:46.080 --> 0:42:49.560 The same thing I learned in nineteen ninety nine is 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.880 the same thing that I do today. I don't have 0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:56.040 another move. I don't have another option. All I have 0:42:56.200 --> 0:42:58.480 is the b I bl e and the every day 0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:01.359 I love. And I'm not reading it for y'all. I'm 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:03.719 reading it for me. This man of God needs to 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:07.080 get right, this parent needs to get right, this husband 0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.080 needs to get right. And I read it. Oh, I've 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:12.160 been reading the same plan since nineteen ninety nine. And 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:14.000 I read it and I find it and you know what, 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:15.959 I've never read it and been like, oh I heard 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:18.440 that one. Oh that was last year. Oh that was 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:21.560 so nineteen ninety nine. No, every time I read it, 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.960 something jumps into my heart, something leaps into my spirit. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:27.800 Because his word is alive, and his word is active 0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:30.040 and is training me and is teaching me. 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:31.440 Come on, clap and give him a praise. 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.720 Last thing today, write down the last one. God's word 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:40.879 points me straight to Jesus. Oh, I love this about 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:44.239 the Bible. John five, last verse. You study the scriptures 0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:48.600 diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:49.760 These are the very. 0:43:49.680 --> 0:43:52.480 Scriptures that testify about me. 0:43:53.480 --> 0:43:56.000 You refuse to come to me to have life. 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:58.239 See the problem is most of us, we think that 0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:01.440 it's about reading the Bible. Can look spiritual or we 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:05.200 can quote scripture. No, we read the Bible because we 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:06.400 want to know Jesus. 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.040 We read the Bible because we want to know Christ. 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:15.719 And he said to the religious people, the problem with 0:44:15.800 --> 0:44:18.239 y'all is you think that you're so great because you 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:21.759 study the scriptures. But the scriptures are all about me, 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:24.400 and I want to just get our hearts right. As 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:26.960 we study God's word, we don't read it so we 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:30.840 can sound powerful. No knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:33.040 And the more I read the Bible, the more I 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.600 fall in love. Not with the Bible alone. I fall 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:38.360 in love with Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God. 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:40.880 Come on, the one that was crucified, the one that 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:50.640 died and rose again. Anybody loved Jesus today. So I'm 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:58.040 reading about Joseph, and Joseph and his deliverance he led 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:03.319 his brothers that sold him into a pit, and I'm 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:08.160 understanding that the greater deliverance and the greater forgiveness was 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:13.279 not just Joseph, it was Jesus. And my prayer is 0:45:13.280 --> 0:45:16.040 that we would not fall in love with the Bible, 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:20.080 so we can fall in love with the law, but 0:45:20.200 --> 0:45:23.239 we fall in love with God's word so we can 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:29.839 know Jesus. Paul the Apostle says, oh, that I might 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.799 know him, know him? How can you expect to get 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:38.960 to know Jesus without reading the book that's all about Jesus? 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:45.439 How can you expect to get cleaned with only one 0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:51.440 swipe every single day? And I'm grateful that I got 0:45:51.440 --> 0:45:56.439 that soap in nineteen ninety nine because every morning since 0:45:56.480 --> 0:46:01.000 then try not to miss any appointments with my King. 0:46:02.920 --> 0:46:08.080 I've been getting up and soaping because I notice how 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:12.440 quickly I can get dirty. It's kind of like my 0:46:12.560 --> 0:46:14.040 kids when I say you need to take a bath. 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:19.120 I'm not dirty dead, I don't need a beth. 0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:21.879 Son. 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:29.480 You've passed dirty. You're disgusting, And a lot of us 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:35.359 are like, I'm good, I'm straight. Come get a word, 0:46:36.600 --> 0:46:41.319 live my life, do my thing. When was the last 0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:46.239 time you let God speak directly to you? It's the 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:52.080 last time you let God get you straight? When was 0:46:52.120 --> 0:46:54.120 the last time God's word was a lamp unto your 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:58.319 feet and a light unto your path? I pray that 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:00.200 you wouldn't just fall in love with the scripture, but 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:02.840 you'd fall in love with the one that the scriptures 0:47:02.840 --> 0:47:04.160 are all about. 0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:08.920 His name is Jesus. And I don't know when you're 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:09.960 gonna need God's word. 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:12.080 I don't know when you're gonna go through a circumstance 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:15.480 when you're gonna need the Bible. But I'm believing that 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:18.520 you're gonna store it up for the right time. We 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:20.400 have a lady in our church this last week was 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:20.959 pretty cool. 0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:23.960 In March, she let us know. 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:28.160 That she has stage four cancer that the doctors were 0:47:28.200 --> 0:47:34.279 saying was incurable. And she let our church know, and 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:38.040 she let our team know. And every Sunday i'd look down, 0:47:38.080 --> 0:47:40.960 I'd see this lady who the doctors say are is 0:47:41.000 --> 0:47:45.000 about to die. I'd see her worship better than everybody else. 0:47:46.200 --> 0:47:48.319 I'd see her dance more than anybody else. 0:47:49.280 --> 0:47:51.879 When I was preaching, she would amen better than about 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:57.359 ten people. And she kept just standing on God's word. 0:47:58.280 --> 0:48:01.200 God's gonna heal me. God's gonna heal me. I don't 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.480 know how the doctors are saying this. I'm in pain, 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:07.880 she say, But I'm standing on God's word. I'm standing 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:10.000 on the verse that my God's a healer. Come on, 0:48:10.040 --> 0:48:13.840 anybody believe today that by his stripes we are healed. 0:48:16.920 --> 0:48:19.800 Isaiah fifty five. So shall my word be that goes 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:22.759 out from my mouth. It shall not return to me 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:26.320 empty or void, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:30.000 and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:33.320 I want to show you a picture of my friend Fabiola. 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:35.560 This is at our all church prayer meeting. We're praying 0:48:35.560 --> 0:48:38.680 over Fabiola a few weeks ago. We're praying that God 0:48:38.719 --> 0:48:42.239 would touch her life. We're praying and we're standing on 0:48:42.280 --> 0:48:44.560 God's word. See, when you go through hardship and you 0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:47.160 go through trial, You're gonna have to stand on God's word. 0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:49.919 Come on, you go through when you go through pain 0:48:49.960 --> 0:48:52.160 and tragedy, You're not gonna be able to stand on 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:54.720 a on a tweet. You gotta be able to stand 0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:58.480 on God's word. And this Tuesday, she zoomed into our 0:48:58.480 --> 0:49:00.400 staff and she said, I want to let you know 0:49:00.400 --> 0:49:02.600 and just got back from the doctors, and she held 0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:04.920 up a certificate in the zoom and she said, the 0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:07.720 doctors want to check on me today and they can't 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:13.040 find any cancer in my body. I've been completely and 0:49:13.200 --> 0:49:18.200 totally healed by the grace of God. Come on clapping 0:49:18.560 --> 0:49:20.960 like you believe that God is not a man that 0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:24.279 he would lie. Come on, clap like you believe that 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:28.360 God is a promised giver and a promise keeper. Come on, 0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:30.879 clip like you believe that God is not a man 0:49:30.920 --> 0:49:36.840 that he would change his mind. Come on, Lets pray today, Jesus, 0:49:36.840 --> 0:49:40.600 We thank you, We praise you today for your grace 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:42.560 and your favor. 0:49:42.200 --> 0:49:42.800 In our life. 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:45.840 We pray that your word would run through our homes 0:49:45.880 --> 0:49:48.719 and run through our lives and our marriages. And we 0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:51.640 say out loud, we're gonna be like Jeremiah. We're gonna 0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:53.680 find your words, and we're gonna eat them, and we're 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:56.280 gonna marinate on them, and they're gonna become the delight 0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:59.120 of our hearts. We pray that as we study your word, 0:49:59.200 --> 0:50:02.040 and as we memorize it and hide in our heart, Lord, 0:50:02.040 --> 0:50:04.120 that we not just fall in love with the scriptures, 0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:06.160 but we'd fall madly in love with you. 0:50:06.320 --> 0:50:06.800 Jesus. 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:10.160 We have nothing whom have eye. On heaven and and earth, 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:13.040 and on earth. There's none that I desire beside thee. 0:50:13.280 --> 0:50:16.880 So Lord, once again, become the premium. Lord, once again, 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:19.880 become the priority. Once again, become the first thing in 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:22.799 my life I'll seek first. The Kingdom of God and 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:23.719 your righteousness. 0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:25.279 Come on, lift a hand to heaven. Lord. 0:50:25.320 --> 0:50:28.120 I pray that we would not be lukewarm, we would 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.799 not be cold, but we would be hot. We'd be 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:33.480 zealous for the things of God. And I pray today 0:50:33.480 --> 0:50:36.319 we'd open up our Bibles, and we're praying today. 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:37.560 As we open up your word. 0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:41.359 Show us marvelous things from your word, Show us who 0:50:41.440 --> 0:50:44.239 you are, show us how you move. We love you 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:47.640 today and we live for you. Oh, come on, elevation, 0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:50.719 Come on, let's worship God. Come on, lift it up, 0:50:54.320 --> 0:51:01.000 Come on lifting us. I called you no matter what 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:03.680 I facelie. 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:16.200 I call you faithful. I just want to fit you. 0:51:16.280 --> 0:51:21.960 Thank you for your savation in your words. 0:51:22.080 --> 0:51:27.400 You pay the price good. I call you faithful and 0:51:27.719 --> 0:51:29.879 Dodds Lord, thank. 0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:39.320 You, thank you, Oh, thank you Jesus. 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:43.840 Your word is that the last egg. She's a word 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:51.040 from you changes every day. Your word, never fast, never 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:51.920 richards for. 0:51:57.719 --> 0:52:02.400 So I call you faithful, Indad just wanna thank you, 0:52:03.000 --> 0:52:05.040 just sing that sing call. 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:09.640 You faithful and doad just wanna. 0:52:08.960 --> 0:52:13.160 One more time seeing sing n cale you faithful and 0:52:13.360 --> 0:52:19.719 Doad just wanna thank you. I call you faithful and 0:52:19.960 --> 0:52:22.360 that just wanna thank you. 0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:26.399 Thank you for joining us. 0:52:26.680 --> 0:52:29.160 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:52:29.239 --> 0:52:32.719 this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 0:52:33.160 --> 0:52:35.359 You can click the link in the description to give 0:52:35.440 --> 0:52:39.600 now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:43.400 information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:45.040 You can share it with your friends. 0:52:45.320 --> 0:52:47.600 You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:49.759 share it on your social stories and tag us at 0:52:49.760 --> 0:52:50.640 Elevation Church. 0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:52.360 Thanks again for listening. God bless you