1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Be sure to. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 3: Let's go back to our scripture in Second King's Second 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: Kings chapter three. If you're seated, stand real quick for 8 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 3: the word of God all of a sudden, put that 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 3: little phrase in the chat if you're joining us online, 10 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 3: or look at the person next to you and say, 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: all of a sudden the scripture that we were singing 12 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 3: about a little bit. And by the way, that song 13 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 3: is not released, so no, you can't get it. Guess 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: if you screen recorded, I can't stop you. But if 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 3: you put it on YouTube, we will take it down 16 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 3: because it's not out yet. And the scripture, one of 17 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 3: the scriptures that we were singing there in Second Kings 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: chapter three, pretty amazing Bible story. I would say one 19 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 3: of my top ten favorites. It it really I want 20 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 3: to go to verse thirteen, y'all. I gave them verse 21 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 3: thirteen just in case that we need it for context. 22 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: Then Elisha said to the King of Israel, what have. 23 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: I to do with you? 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 3: Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets 25 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 3: of your mother. 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: But the King of Israel said to him. 27 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 3: No, for the Lord has called these three kings together 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 3: to deliver them into the hand of Moab. 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: And Elisha said, as. 30 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: The Lord of Hosts lives before whom I stand. Surely, 31 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 3: were it not that I regard the presence of Jehasaphat, 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 3: King of Judah, I would not look at you nor 33 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 3: see you. And this is what I was preaching about 34 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 3: a little bit last week. But now bring me a musician. 35 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 3: Then it happened somebody shall Then when when the musician 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 3: began to play, Then it happened when the musician. 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: Played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him. 38 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: And he said, thus says the Lord, make this valley 39 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: full of ditches. For thus says the Lord, you shall 40 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: not see wind, nor shall you see rain. 41 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 4: Yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that 42 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 4: you, your cattle, and your animals may drink. 43 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 3: Just start pointing to everything in your house right now 44 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 3: and say, everything around me gets to drink from this blessing. 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: And this is watch a simple matter in the sight 46 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 3: of the Lord. He will also deliver the Moabites into 47 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: your hand. Also, you shall attack every fortified city and 48 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, 49 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: and stop up every spring of water, and ruin every 50 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: good piece of land with stones. Now it happened in 51 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: the morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly 52 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 3: water came. Who suddenly you heard it? You like that, 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: You like that sudden stuff. We're gonna talk about that 54 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 3: sudden stuff today. Suddenly water came by way of edom, 55 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 3: and the land was filled with water. So it's kind 56 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: of appropriate that I didn't get to my second point 57 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: last week, because my first point was you'll know when 58 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 3: you need to and then my second point. Check this out. 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 3: How ironic is this that I didn't get to this point. 60 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 3: My second point was it will flow when it's supposed to. 61 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? 62 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: The part I didn't get to that I was supposed 63 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 3: to say was it will flow when. 64 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: It's supposed to. 65 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 3: And guess what, I couldn't preach it until right now, 66 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: because this is the word that God wants spoken. 67 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 4: In this moment, somebody shout, it will flow when it's 68 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 4: supposed to. 69 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 3: High five five people on your way to your seat, 70 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 3: say let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow. 71 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: Let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow. 72 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: It's not Christmas time. Not let it snow. Let it flow, 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: Let it flow. 74 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 3: Suddenly, kind of re establishing something that I said last week, 75 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 3: say a little different hearing, get up the top. 76 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: By the way, I want. 77 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 3: You to understand something about all of the things that 78 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: you see in life that just seemed to come out 79 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: of nowhere, They don't come out of nowhere. Most of 80 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 3: the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows 81 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 3: from something that wasn't all of a sudden. Most, not 82 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 3: all of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, 83 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. 84 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: When I stood in. 85 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 3: Front of the mirror about twenty years ago and realized 86 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: that Holly had made me fat in our first year 87 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 3: of marriage, my realization that my waist slide had gone 88 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: from a collegiate thirty eight or thirty thirty two to a. 89 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:03,799 Speaker 1: First year of marriage thirty eight. That six sizes didn't 90 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: happen suddenly. 91 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 3: That six size expansion project on my stomach wasn't sudden. 92 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: But I did walk in front of the mirror one 93 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: day with my shirt off and suddenly realized, So most 94 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, Wow, I. 95 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: Look more pregnant. 96 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 3: My wife is not pregnant, and if any of us 97 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 3: is going to be pregnant, it needs to be heard. 98 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 5: But this is bad. 99 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: So the way I am wired, I went on a. 100 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 3: Sudden Atkins diet and it was delightful because through bacon, 101 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 3: peanuts and the power of diet coke, I got it 102 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 3: back down slowly, not suddenly. And so just kind of 103 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 3: saying it in a playful way that most of the 104 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 3: stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows from 105 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 3: something like a steady diet of pasta doritos. I didn't 106 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 3: suddenly eat seven hundred bags of doritos. 107 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: I just date to a day for a year. 108 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 3: And so when we shout about suddenly, we want to 109 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 3: take just a moment to recognize that while certain things 110 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 3: come into our life all of a sudden that are desirable, 111 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 3: other things I could call these the other suddenly. It's 112 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 3: where you wake up and realize, all of a sudden, 113 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: I don't like the. 114 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: Person that I'm living with anymore. 115 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: All of a sudden, this thing in my life has 116 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: gone from something that I can control to something that 117 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 3: I can't all of a sudden, I'm drinking not just 118 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 3: for the sake of winding down but getting through each day. 119 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:04,679 Speaker 3: Suddenly something that was helpful to me all of a sudden, 120 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 3: it feels like something. 121 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: That is holding me now. 122 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 3: I don't want to be negative about this beautiful scripture 123 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 3: in Second King's three because it is such an exciting scripture. 124 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 3: But understanding that we will often find ourselves in sudden 125 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 3: situations that were created through gradual decisions can help us 126 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 3: to go back in our lives and allow the Holy 127 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 3: Spirit of God to begin to reverse some of the 128 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 3: things that our routines created. And the Holy Spirit is 129 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 3: speaking to me about the things all of a sudden 130 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 3: in our lives that he can change. 131 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: But it has to start somewhere. 132 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 3: So if there is something in your life like these 133 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 3: kings in this passage that I read to you, the 134 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: King of the Northern Kingdom, the King of the Southern Kingdom, 135 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: and the King of Edom have all gathered together and 136 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 3: on their way to a war, they run out of water, 137 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 3: and they have marched seven days through the desert, and 138 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 3: suddenly they realize, we need a word from God or 139 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 3: we're not going to make it. We need God to 140 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: intervene or we are not going to survive. And they 141 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 3: realized that suddenly, But what had started before their moment 142 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 3: of realization was subtle. It was a turning away from 143 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 3: God that resulted in them being in a vulnerable spot. 144 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 3: And so a lot of times in my life I 145 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 3: have recognized something suddenly that built slowly. One of my 146 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 3: buddies told me about a line in a book. I 147 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 3: think he said it was a heming Way book. I 148 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 3: didn't read the book by like the quote. One character 149 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 3: said to the other, how did you go bankrupt? And 150 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 3: the other character said, two ways gradually? Then suddenly, how'd 151 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 3: you get divorced? 152 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: Two ways gradually? 153 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 3: Then suddenly a sudden moment to realize something that had 154 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 3: started long before, all of a sudden. So most of 155 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 3: the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, That's 156 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: what we were singing a minute ago, all of a sudden. 157 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 3: Most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, 158 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 3: flows from something. Maybe it wasn't caused by one thing, 159 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 3: but it flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. 160 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 3: And touch somebody next to you and say it wasn't sudden, 161 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 3: showed up sudden, but it wasn't sudden. 162 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: The same could be said for success. 163 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 3: All right, let's turn this real quick, because it feels 164 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 3: kind of dark. 165 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: In here, all right, and it feels kind of feels 166 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: kind of negative in here. I want to shift this 167 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: energy real quick. 168 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 3: I'm calling on the God of Jacob, the God of Jolostine. 169 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm going some positivity in here real quick. All right. 170 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: Success isn't really sudden. Now. If it is sudden, that's 171 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: troublesome as well. 172 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 3: Because if the success is too sudden, it won't be sustainable. 173 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: But most success that God gives will take you up 174 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 3: the stairs. Very few elevators to this our church is 175 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 3: called elevation. But to really grow through this ministry, or 176 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 3: any ministry through the Word of God, there will be 177 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,239 Speaker 3: steps that God. 178 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: Will use to strengthen you. 179 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 3: And they won't all feel like they're going upward. 180 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes it will feel like you are going down, down, down, 181 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: down down. 182 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 3: But if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, 183 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 3: one scripture said, in due time, he. 184 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: Will lift you up. And the lifting might happen. 185 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 3: Suddenly, but there are layers beneath every sudden lifting that 186 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: unless you peel them back and see you will misunderstand 187 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 3: the nature of success, just like you can misunderstand the 188 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 3: nature of struggle. Struggles don't ingrain themselves all of a sudden. 189 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 3: They happen slowly, and so do successes. One of my 190 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: friends was telling me about I'll tell you who he was, 191 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 3: because it'd be a little bit better if I make 192 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 3: it specific. He's one of the greatest songwriters that I've 193 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 3: ever written with. His name is Jason Jason Ingram. I've 194 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 3: written I don't know twenty thirty songs with him in 195 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 3: the last few years, and I love getting in a 196 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 3: room with him because he has this ability to just 197 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 3: spit out a bridge for a song that will blow 198 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 3: you away. 199 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: I saw him do it one time. 200 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 3: We were writing this one song and he just goes, 201 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 3: you take what the enemy ment for evil, and. 202 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: You turn it for good? 203 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 5: Do you turn it for good? 204 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: And then he goes or something like that all of 205 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: a sudden. 206 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 3: So when we finished writing that particular song, he looks 207 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: at me and goes, that's the song that you write 208 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 3: three hundred other songs to get to that one song. 209 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: And I realized. 210 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 3: Something about his skill set as a songwriter. Watch me 211 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 3: that what he did suddenly in that moment was the 212 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 3: result of stuff that he did steadily. A steady hand 213 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: brings a sudden blessing. 214 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: Now asked him a little bit more about his story. 215 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 3: And he's one of the most successful songwriters, not only 216 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 3: one of the best songwriters, but one of the most 217 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 3: successful songwriters. He's won Grammys and Dove Awards and probably 218 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 3: Stellar Awards, and he's probably on his way to an 219 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: Emmy or a Tony or an Oscar that I don't 220 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 3: know about at this moment. But he told me that 221 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 3: when he first started as a songwriter. And I'm going 222 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 3: to get back to Second King's chapter three, but just 223 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 3: let me get there slowly and then suddenly, when it 224 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 3: hits it'll mean more, because if it starts slow, when 225 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: it hits sudden, it'll mean more. When it starts slow 226 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 3: and it hits sudden, it'll mean more. I am preaching, 227 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: and you don't know that I'm preaching because if it 228 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 3: starts slow, when it hits sudden, it'll mean more and 229 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 3: it can last longer. So is it bad luck or 230 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 3: was it God's design that when he first started writing 231 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 3: songs and went to Nashville, every publisher that he met 232 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 3: with rejected him in town. His wife had quit her 233 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 3: job and had moved with him to start his career, 234 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 3: and he couldn't find one publisher that said yes. 235 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: Many of them said you just don't have it. 236 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: One woman named Cindy was willing to give him a 237 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 3: publishing contract. It wasn't much money, but it was enough 238 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 3: to live off of with a newborn bab So he 239 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 3: began to write songs off of that publishing advance from 240 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 3: one woman that believed in him. 241 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: For a year, he wrote. 242 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 3: He turned in one hundred and fifty songs in the 243 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 3: first year. At the end of the first year, not 244 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 3: one of them had been recorded. Not one had been 245 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 3: recorded other than on his demo machine. It was probably 246 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 3: like a task scam portas Studio four to fourteen before 247 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 3: we were doing it on our voice memos on our iPhone. 248 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: I didn't ask him that detail. 249 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 3: But it was probably something arka like that. And even 250 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 3: if it wasn't, let me tell the story that way 251 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: because it makes it better. The second year, for some reason, 252 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: Cindy decided to renew his contract for another year. 253 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: He wrote one hundred and fifty more songs. 254 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 3: One got recorded, but before you shout about the one 255 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 3: that got recorded and you think I'm going to tell 256 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 3: you it was, I can only imagine and it went 257 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 3: on to be a smash movie. 258 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't. That song was put as a secret track. 259 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: Now half this room. 260 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 3: Doesn't know what a secret track is because the secret track. 261 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: Is not available in the digital age. 262 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 3: A secret track was on the compact disc when after 263 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 3: the last song had finished playing, it would go about 264 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: four minutes and then another song, a throwaway song, a 265 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 3: bonus song that nobody ever heard. 266 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: Because they turned the CD off. That's where his song went. 267 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 3: We got three hundred songs, one recorded, and that's a 268 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 3: secret track. 269 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: And in the third year, when he was nominated for 270 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: a Grammy. 271 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 3: A lot of people said, where did this guy come from? 272 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: Secret to sudden? 273 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 3: When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites and go 274 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 3: out and go hey, does anybody see me serving? 275 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: Does anybody see the three hundred songs in our road? No, 276 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: we don't want to hear them. They suck. Keep writing songs, 277 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: and then maybe one. 278 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 3: Day, if you're doing enough in the secret place, I'll 279 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 3: know why I'm preaching this heart twenty minutes in. But 280 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 3: one day, what is secret? God can make it sudden. 281 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 3: But we live in a day where nobody has any 282 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 3: time to be shut up in the secret place. 283 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: Everybody wants the sudden. 284 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 3: Thing, but it is the secret things that produced the 285 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,479 Speaker 3: sudden things. Now I feel the Holy Spirit, Now I 286 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 3: feel the wind. Now I feel it blowing. Somebody shouts 287 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 3: secretly then suddenly, and whether whether it is our secret 288 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 3: struggles that we need to bring to God and say, God, 289 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 3: help me deal with this, help me process this, help 290 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 3: me deal with this with you, just me and you, 291 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 3: before something that you could have secretly healed becomes suddenly exposed. 292 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: God, I want to get this done in. 293 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 3: The secret place, where you can minister, where you can touch, 294 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 3: where you can uproot, where. 295 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: You can make it right. 296 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 3: Because everything that we realize suddenly started secretly and built 297 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: slowly a secret track. 298 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: And the next year he's at the Grammys. 299 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 3: And I'm not saying you'll win a Grammy, and I 300 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 3: don't even think you really care as much as you 301 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 3: thought you would if you did. But I am saying 302 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 3: that it can happen suddenly, and when it does, when 303 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 3: it does, when it does, what you have done secretly 304 00:18:52,800 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 3: will be the treasure of the process. 305 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: In our story. 306 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 3: Not only is there a sudden need that they bring 307 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 3: the prophets to speak to these three kings who are 308 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 3: I just want to make sure you know the situation. 309 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 3: They went through the desert and they ran out of water, 310 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 3: and they're getting ready for a war. And that is 311 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 3: definitely familiar to me, is that sometimes you go through 312 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 3: you go through desert seasons on your way to fight battles, 313 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,959 Speaker 3: and what it takes for you to get to the 314 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 3: battle takes so much out. 315 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: Of you. 316 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 3: That you definitely don't have what it takes to fight 317 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 3: the battle. And so the prophet comes and he begins 318 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 3: to prophesy, and he prophesies about a few different things. 319 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 3: And I'm going to show you the contrast here. He says, 320 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 3: first of all, the Lord came on him, and in 321 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 3: verse sixteen he said, thus says the Lord, make this 322 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 3: valley full of ditches. 323 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: For thus says the Lord. 324 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 3: Verse seventeen, you shall not see when, nor shall you 325 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 3: see rain. Yet that valley shall be filled with water, 326 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 3: so that you, your cattle and animals may drink. Now, 327 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 3: let's break that down a little bit. What is he 328 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 3: saying in these two verses. Well, the first thing that 329 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 3: he is not saying is what he is seeing. Before 330 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 3: we get into what he says, let's get into what 331 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 3: he isn't saying. He doesn't say the ground is dry. 332 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 3: He doesn't say this battle is hopeless. He doesn't say 333 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 3: this situation is desperate, although it is. And it makes 334 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 3: me wonder if one of the reasons that we get 335 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: dry inside is because we need to stop saying so 336 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: much about what we see and start saying more about 337 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 3: what God says. The structure of this is really helpful 338 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 3: for your daily life, because there's what He sees, and 339 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 3: there's what God says. And twice he says, thus says 340 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 3: the Lord. In verse sixteen, he said it, Thus says 341 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: the Lord. In verse seventeen, he says, Thus says the Lord. 342 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 3: Just put that in the comments, Thus says the Lord, 343 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 3: Thus says the Lord. And so you might be in 344 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 3: a situation where you're like, this is terrible, but thus 345 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: says the Lord. This is painful, but thus says the Lord. 346 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 3: Are teaching us to live in denial. No, I'm just 347 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 3: teaching you not to live in dryness, because it only 348 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 3: makes it feel drier. To drive down and dig down, 349 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 3: deep into the things that you see. When what you 350 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 3: see doesn't match what God says. Now, this is where 351 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 3: I lose a lot of people. And I can always 352 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 3: feel I lose a lot of people here because they 353 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 3: think this is the abracadabrajocus pocus part of the preaching 354 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 3: of the Word of God, and it's not. This is 355 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 3: the greatest skill that I would get you to learn 356 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 3: in regards to dealing with the disappointments in your life, 357 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 3: the dry places in your soul, and even the needs 358 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 3: that you have that you tend to meet in all 359 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,959 Speaker 3: of the wrong ways. Is to begin to Okay, I 360 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 3: didn't plan any of this, but this flows how it's 361 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 3: supposed to when it's supposed to. 362 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: And I told you to let it flow, so I'm 363 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: gonna let it flow. This is the says, that's a 364 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: shift I want you to begin to make. 365 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 5: This is. 366 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: The says. 367 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 3: Both are important. This is in aables you to deal 368 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 3: with where you are. Thus says when you get a 369 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 3: word from God and hold on to it and believe 370 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 3: God for it, and walk. 371 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: In it and work with it. 372 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 3: The Thus says the Lord is what gets you from 373 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 3: this is to what can be. And I believe there 374 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 3: are some people who are sitting under this message today, 375 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 3: who have been so stuck, And this is that you forgot, 376 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 3: Thus says. When you don't feel like a conqueror and 377 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 3: you make yourself a victim and you forget that he 378 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 3: called you a victor, it is just a matter of 379 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 3: time before you feel very dry. So this is the 380 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 3: switch you have to make. This is unfair victim language, 381 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 3: thus says the Lord. He will reach pay me double 382 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 3: for my trouble. And no weapon. I can't do it. 383 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 3: No organ yet, no organ yet, stead of your hand. 384 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 6: Because the thing about God is he will tell you 385 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 6: to do crazy stuff that completely contradicts what makes sense in. 386 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: Your logical mind. I'll prove it. This is what the 387 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: Lord says. 388 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 3: Everybody say, Thus says the Lord. 389 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: Verse sixteen. Put it up on the screen, because they 390 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 1: won't believe. 391 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 3: It if I don't show it to him with their 392 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 3: own eyes, Thus says the Lord. Make this valley full 393 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 3: of ditches a ditch for what is dry. I don't 394 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 3: need a ditch in a dry place. Not yet, but 395 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 3: thats says, now be three. 396 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: This is a getting ready moment for you. 397 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 3: The salsed, Lord, I love the word of God. 398 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: How about you? 399 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 3: Because it's what God uses to dig in my spirit 400 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 3: to prepare me to receive what he's bringing by his 401 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 3: hand into my life. And no, digging doesn't feel good, 402 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 3: not for the digger or the dirt. 403 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: Trust me, I know. 404 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 3: Don't you remember my story from a few weeks ago 405 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: how I used to dig graves for dogs. Did you 406 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 3: hear that story? 407 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: Were you here? 408 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 3: I had a job digging graves for dogs and cats, 409 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 3: and that prepared me for ministry. 410 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: I believe it did. It prepared me for parenting. I 411 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: told Abby the other day, I said, Hey, I want 412 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: you to memorize this. 413 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 3: So if a boy ever wants to date you, here's 414 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,239 Speaker 3: your opening speech. Hey, before you date me, you just 415 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 3: need to know my dad has experience doing weddings and 416 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 3: digging grave because I'm that dude, So tell him, oh 417 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 3: when he shows up, before we start this relationship, you 418 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 3: need to know either way it goes, my dad can do. 419 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: What needs to be done. I'm the man for the job. 420 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 3: So I told her that when you start dating in 421 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 3: about thirty five years, tell your first boyfriend that when 422 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 3: you turn fifty. Now, listen, it's amazing what God speaks. 423 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 3: He says, there's gonna be, there's gonna be water flowing 424 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: from the land to beat them In't that a crazy 425 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,959 Speaker 3: place for water to flow from the same desert that 426 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 3: they march through to begin with? Is it crazy how 427 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 3: sometimes God will bring the greatest blessings from the driest places. 428 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 3: The same desert that you just marched through for seven 429 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 3: days and became dehydrated as you did, is the same 430 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 3: place that the blessing is going to flow from. 431 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: Thus, as the Lord, the same. 432 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 3: Comfort with which God is comforting you through this crisis 433 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 3: in your life is going to be the same comfort 434 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 3: that you are going to give to others when you 435 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,959 Speaker 3: get to your place of service. The same lessons that 436 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 3: you're learning through this breaking seasons are going to be 437 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 3: the same lessons that turn into blessings for the people 438 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 3: that you help when you get through it. 439 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: That's amazing. 440 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 3: It's amazing what he told him to do dig ditches 441 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 3: in the valley. It's debatable whether he meant it literally 442 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 3: or figuratively. 443 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: I really don't care. 444 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 3: It speaks to a mindset for me, whether they really 445 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 3: started digging all night to get ready for the rain, 446 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 3: or whether he was just kind of saying it, like 447 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 3: fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride. 448 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 3: That doesn't necessarily mean that there is a actual seatbelt involved. 449 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 3: It's a saying, and I think maybe dig ditches in 450 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 3: the valley was a saying, but I know for a 451 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 3: fact it was an expectation. And he tells them to 452 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 3: do that. For thus, as the Lord, you shall not 453 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 3: see wind, nor shall you see rain. Yet that valley 454 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 3: shall be filled with water. He also tells him what 455 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 3: God intends to do. The thing that he doesn't say 456 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 3: that I found almost as interesting as what he did 457 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 3: say is how it would happen and when it would happen. 458 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 3: That's interesting because if you went seven days without water, 459 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 3: that's long enough to be desperate. 460 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: Seven days is a long time. 461 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 3: I don't even know how they've stayed alive these seven days, 462 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 3: if they passed through their rations. But we're talking about water, 463 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 3: not Wi Fi. How many of you think that you 464 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 3: would go on a fast Seven days without Wi Fi 465 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 3: would be enough to drive you to sackcloth and ashes, 466 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 3: just seven days without the internet connection. 467 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: We have to really realize how weak they were in. 468 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 3: This moment to really appreciate the value of the word 469 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 3: that God gave. There's always this part of us that 470 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 3: will listen to a little faith message like this and go, yeah, 471 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 3: but my situation, huh huh. We're talking about water, no water, 472 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 3: And I don't care how many awards you win. I 473 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 3: don't care how many great things you accomplish. I don't 474 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 3: care what number your network says. No water, it's over. 475 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 3: That's how bad it is. And so if it's that bad, 476 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 3: in God's word comes the way we would expect to 477 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 3: read this verse is the hand of the Lord came 478 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:42,959 Speaker 3: upon Elisha, and he began to prophesy. And when the 479 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 3: hand of the Lord came on Elisha and he began 480 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 3: to prophesy, make this valley full of ditches, all of 481 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 3: a sudden water came. That all of a sudden, the 482 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 3: thing that I need will be released in my life. 483 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 3: But the Bible doesn't say that the water suddenly came. 484 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 3: The Bible says that an instruction was given. Now sometimes 485 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 3: before the intervention of God. There is an instruction to you. 486 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 3: And I'm wondering, what is God calling you to dig today? 487 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: I thought about this sermon from multiple levels. 488 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 3: My buddy who wrote three hundred songs, who showed up 489 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 3: and dug every day, my friends who sold a business 490 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 3: for over one hundred million dollars last year, who had 491 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 3: to go back to being a substitute teacher and was 492 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 3: waking up at five in the morning and going to 493 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 3: sleep at two thirty in the morning to build his 494 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 3: company in the beginning in order to get to the 495 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 3: point where he sold the company. 496 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: When I see somebody who God did. 497 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 3: Something great for them, now I've learned to ask a 498 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 3: second question, not only what God did for them, that's 499 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 3: my first question. The second question that I ask is 500 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 3: I wonder what they dug for God to do that. 501 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 3: I wonder what God dug for them to be able 502 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 3: to have that kind of relationship. 503 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: When I see families that. 504 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 3: Are really happy, and I don't just mean like happy 505 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 3: in the picture. I mean like families that are really 506 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 3: together and they've survived some tough seasons and one of 507 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 3: their marriages ended, and one of their kids is in 508 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 3: a bad spot, but they're praying for it and all 509 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 3: coming back around. 510 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: I don't just wonder what God did for them anymore. 511 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 3: I wonder what did they have to dig through to 512 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 3: get to this kind of family strength. And you do 513 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 3: yourself a real favor when you see somebody that God 514 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 3: did something great for, and you want God to do 515 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 3: that for you. If you get a chance, ask them, 516 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 3: what did. 517 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: You have to dig for God to do that? 518 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 3: Because the water came suddenly, and if you only showed 519 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 3: up in the sunlight of the next day, you would 520 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 3: have mistakenly believed that the water just came when the 521 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 3: word came. And if you just think that everybody who's blessed, 522 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 3: and everybody who has peace, and everybody who's free, and 523 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 3: everybody who's walking in. 524 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: A measure of the favor of God. 525 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 3: And everybody who has influence, if you just think that 526 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 3: God did it, then you missed the point. 527 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: God did it when they dug it. 528 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 3: That's why I loved this passage because it means. 529 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: That God is sovereign. He did it. 530 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 3: Nobody else can make it rain, Nobody else can tell 531 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 3: the come up now, nobody else can drive back the darkness. 532 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 3: But God, God did it. But they dug it. God 533 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 3: didn't write three hundred songs for Ingram. 534 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: If he did, all of them would have been smash hits. 535 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: They would all been. 536 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 3: Number one first day out. Can you imagine God writing 537 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 3: the song. It would dominate the charts. You could dance 538 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 3: to it, you could sway to it, you could cry 539 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 3: to it, you could laugh to it. No, he wrote 540 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 3: three hundred songs, he dug it, and God did it. 541 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: In that order. 542 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 3: It didn't flow the moment the prophet spoke about it. 543 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord, water flow. No water will flow 544 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: when you dig dig where this valley? 545 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 3: Wait, A valley that's dry, A valley that's low, a 546 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 3: valley that's painful, a feeling that I can't shake. Yes, 547 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 3: the lower and the deeper the valley, the more the water. 548 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: It can hold. 549 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 3: I am telling you that this is not your breaking 550 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 3: this is your breakthrough. 551 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 5: This is it. 552 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 7: This valley shall. 553 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: The says the Lord. 554 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 7: Hot fog. 555 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 3: At least three people in say, Thus says the Lord, 556 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 3: this is a valley. But thus says the Lord, he 557 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 3: is my shepherd. I shall not walk, This, says the Lord. 558 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: He's making a. 559 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 7: Table right now. 560 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 5: Yeah. 561 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 3: And the only thing what the devil can do, says 562 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,879 Speaker 3: he can't take the word of God away from you, 563 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 3: is to get you so weary and discouraged that you 564 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 3: stop digging because it's dry. You can't dig your dry 565 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 3: That's why I'm digging cause I'm dry. That's why I'm 566 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 3: praising because I'm dry. That's why I'm doing it. Because 567 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 3: I'm dry, digging or drought. 568 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 1: Digging or drought. 569 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 3: You will have to decide in this moment of your life, 570 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:39,760 Speaker 3: digging or drought. 571 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:45,280 Speaker 1: I'll be digging. 572 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, because I didn't drought and I didn't like it, 573 00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 3: I throw a pity party. Nobody are svp'd. They surely 574 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 3: didn't bring presents. I did bitterness. I did bitterness. I 575 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 3: got down to the bottom of the bitterness, and guess. 576 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: What I found dry. 577 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 3: Once I drank all that bitterness, I was dry. I 578 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,359 Speaker 3: did blame. Y'all want me to dig or do y'all 579 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 3: want me to dance up here? I can just dance 580 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 3: up here. I can just dance up here. 581 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: See. 582 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,840 Speaker 3: I noticed a lot of preaching is like we're dancing 583 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 3: around what's really happening rather than digging through what's really 584 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 3: causing it. And so this happens in parts, right, the 585 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 3: word comes suddenly. The musician started playing, and the word 586 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,439 Speaker 3: came suddenly. But since we talked about the steady hand 587 00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 3: of the musician last week who. 588 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 1: Played the harp, we should also talk. 589 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 3: About the steady hand of the diggers who held the shovels. 590 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 3: That's where sudden blessings come from, constant digging. Are you 591 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 3: saying I have to work my way into a relationship 592 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 3: with God because I got set free from that because 593 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,799 Speaker 3: I grew up in that church and that burned me out. Man, 594 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 3: So don't you start telling me I got to read 595 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 3: seventeen chapters of the Bible today because I tried the 596 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 3: seventeen chapters of the Bible to today plan and I 597 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,880 Speaker 3: hated the Bible because I couldn't have pronounced Methusalam and 598 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,160 Speaker 3: methisiafact and all these people that you got me reading about, 599 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 3: and I got real, real born in Litlemiticus, I'm not 600 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:36,399 Speaker 3: talking about working your way to God. I'm talking about 601 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,280 Speaker 3: digging your way to water where the grace can flow, 602 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 3: where the joy can flow. And let me tell you 603 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 3: when it's gonna flow when it's supposed to, when it's 604 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 3: supposed to. Let me tell you when they're gonna take 605 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 3: you off the secret tracks and bring you to the 606 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:06,640 Speaker 3: stage when they're supposed to, And let me tell you 607 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,839 Speaker 3: what you can do in the meantime until it does. 608 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 3: Because I think a lot of us are really confused 609 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 3: about what we need to surrender in our lives. We 610 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 3: don't need to surrender the desires God has put in 611 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 3: our heart, if God put them there. What we need 612 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,400 Speaker 3: to surrender in this season of our life is the 613 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,279 Speaker 3: way we thought it was supposed to go. 614 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: Did you say say that again? 615 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 3: All right? Just for you let go of how you 616 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 3: thought it was supposed to go, And while you're at it, 617 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 3: let go of when you thought it was supposed to 618 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 3: get there. Because the issue isn't will God, it's when God. 619 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 3: It's not will God, it's when God. And it doesn't 620 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 3: just depend on what he wants to do. It depends 621 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 3: on what you are willing to do until God does. 622 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,440 Speaker 3: I shared with one of the people that I'm mentored 623 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,919 Speaker 3: the other day. They were needing clarity, and I said, 624 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 3: the issue isn't whether God will reveal this or not. 625 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,720 Speaker 3: The issue is what will you do until God does 626 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,279 Speaker 3: give you clarity? Because if you flail right now, and 627 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 3: if you thrash right now, and if you act nasty 628 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 3: right now, and if you cope with stuff that's going 629 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 3: to put you in a cage later right now, then 630 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 3: when God gives you clarity, you won't even be able 631 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,759 Speaker 3: to act on it because you will be so constrained 632 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,520 Speaker 3: by the decisions that you made while you were waiting. 633 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: The issue is not will God. The issue is. 634 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 3: Not his sovereignty. It's you're supposed to. Let me ask 635 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 3: you a question when it flows. Are you going to 636 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 3: be where you're supposed to be. 637 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:19,000 Speaker 1: In the valley? 638 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 3: Big and bitchous in the valley transporting? 639 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, that's a lot of times what parenting is. 640 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,719 Speaker 3: It's just taking your kids back and forth and back 641 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 3: and forth and back and forth, and in certain seasons 642 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 3: they won't talk to you. How is your day fine? 643 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 3: If you get a fine out of them, that's a 644 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 3: grade eight response, that is a premium response in this 645 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 3: season I'm talking about. And then they're going to be 646 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 3: in your room at twelve thirty in the morning. Now 647 00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 3: they want to talk. You're asleep. And part of being 648 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 3: a parent is being able to flow with all of that, 649 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,439 Speaker 3: because you know, if you pick them up and drop 650 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,040 Speaker 3: them off enough, eventually they open up enough and you 651 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,040 Speaker 3: get to have the conversation. 652 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,040 Speaker 1: But if you don't show up when they say nothing, 653 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,600 Speaker 1: when they open up, you won't be there. Everything is 654 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: like that. Everything is like that. 655 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 3: Everything God did in my life was something that I 656 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,759 Speaker 3: was digging in a dry place when he was doing it, 657 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,000 Speaker 3: and the same thing for Holly. 658 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,000 Speaker 1: The same thing for Holly. 659 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 3: Usually when we meet people and we're meeting them for 660 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 3: the first time and they're a part of the ministry, 661 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 3: they'll go, oh, Pastor Stephen, Hey, Holly, doesn't bother me 662 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 3: a bit. Doesn't bother me a bit. I'm like I 663 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 3: like her more than I like me too. Hey, trust me, 664 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 3: I'm in her fan club. I'm the president. Would you 665 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:54,040 Speaker 3: like a picture of her? And I'm exaggerating a little bit, 666 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,719 Speaker 3: but just to make a point that I remember when 667 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 3: Holly felt completely useless in this ministry. I remember the 668 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,799 Speaker 3: season when the kids were very little, that I would 669 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:14,400 Speaker 3: take them out on a Wednesday night and she would 670 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 3: invite maybe like twelve women. I don't know if it 671 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,719 Speaker 3: would be smaller or larger than that, but she would 672 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 3: have them into our home and she would walk them 673 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:30,000 Speaker 3: through a Bible study. But it wasn't just a Bible study, 674 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 3: because she didn't really feel like she had that much 675 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 3: to teach for the Bible. But she would show them 676 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,960 Speaker 3: how to cook, how to cook quick meals, because she 677 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 3: would say, when you have little kids, you have to 678 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,120 Speaker 3: cook quick meals. So I'm gonna show you quick meal stuff 679 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,759 Speaker 3: you can do, real easy stuff that doesn't take much 680 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,880 Speaker 3: brain power, stuff that'll take your husband's waist size from. 681 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,439 Speaker 1: A thirty two to a thirty eight. 682 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 3: That class should have been called Project thirty eight. And 683 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,439 Speaker 3: so so I watched it expand, like my waistline from 684 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,400 Speaker 3: when she did the Bible study in our house. So 685 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 3: then I watched they said you need to do that 686 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,000 Speaker 3: for all the ladies of our church. And she made 687 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,440 Speaker 3: a little study called missus betterhef. 688 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:12,840 Speaker 1: You know how many. 689 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,239 Speaker 3: People I have overheard while they're getting their selfie with 690 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,399 Speaker 3: her while I'm standing over in the cornersuck of my thumb, 691 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 3: say it saved our marriage. But it means more to 692 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:27,759 Speaker 3: me because I saw where it started real slow, and 693 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,200 Speaker 3: I saw that it was out of her personal dryness 694 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,440 Speaker 3: of where she could have felt sorry for herself. 695 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:34,279 Speaker 1: What do I do? 696 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 3: What's my job? What's my value? Where's my Grammy? Where's 697 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:48,399 Speaker 3: my oscar? For best supporting role? I watched what she did, 698 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,520 Speaker 3: and I watched how she did it at such a 699 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,000 Speaker 3: level it was almost like a decimal, like you know, 700 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,720 Speaker 3: like you got the number, then the decimal It's almost 701 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:04,799 Speaker 3: like I watched what was behind the decimal move and 702 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,880 Speaker 3: I watched God add zero's to it where it was 703 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,360 Speaker 3: ten women, and then it was one hundred women, and 704 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 3: then it was a thousand women. I feel God enlarging 705 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,360 Speaker 3: somebody's vision right now. 706 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 1: Not your waistline, your vision, your vision, your vision, your vision, 707 00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: your vision. 708 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,920 Speaker 3: Come on, can you see it by the spirit? Because 709 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,880 Speaker 3: you won't see wind and you won't see rain. And 710 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,439 Speaker 3: nobody came to her with a publishing in advance and said, 711 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 3: would you make. 712 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,759 Speaker 1: A study about Wife Them? She never got the Wife 713 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:34,920 Speaker 1: Them publishing advance. 714 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 3: But when the pandemic hit and everybody was trapped in 715 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:44,360 Speaker 3: their homes, hating each other, hating each other a little 716 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,200 Speaker 3: bit on each other's nerves, we were taking a walk 717 00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,680 Speaker 3: and I said, you know what, you've got better half. 718 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,320 Speaker 3: I want you to release better half into the world 719 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,520 Speaker 3: right now so we can help families get through this 720 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:04,400 Speaker 3: challenging time. She did that, and she did that, and 721 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,759 Speaker 3: it wasn't ten anymore. It wasn't even a hundred, it 722 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,920 Speaker 3: wasn't a thousand. It wasn't just our church, it was 723 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,480 Speaker 3: all over the world. I watched as women all over 724 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,160 Speaker 3: the world were gathered saying, can we drink some of 725 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,719 Speaker 3: that water that you started digging. 726 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:23,920 Speaker 1: For a decade ago. 727 00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,600 Speaker 3: That's why God did it, because you dug it. 728 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 1: You dug it. 729 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 7: God did it. You dug it. 730 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,160 Speaker 1: God did it. This is gonna be your testimony, so practice. 731 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,279 Speaker 1: I dug it. 732 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:46,760 Speaker 7: God did it. I dug it. God did it. 733 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:47,960 Speaker 1: Too heavy flat with me. 734 00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:48,960 Speaker 7: You dug it. 735 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: God did it. You dug it. God did it. You 736 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 1: dug it. God did it. 737 00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,920 Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna be telling people a little bit 738 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,080 Speaker 3: from now, secret track, after three hundred songs. 739 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,320 Speaker 1: I had a secret prayer life, I had a secret 740 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 1: reading plan. 741 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 7: I had a secret ambition. But I surrendered it to. 742 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,080 Speaker 1: Him and I gave up on what others were gonna. 743 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,640 Speaker 3: Think, and I got serious about service. 744 00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:19,160 Speaker 7: I dug it. 745 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:21,359 Speaker 1: God did it. 746 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:23,799 Speaker 7: I dug I'm getting hurty now. 747 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,040 Speaker 1: I dug it. 748 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:27,799 Speaker 7: God did it. 749 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 8: We're gonna be looking back on something not many days 750 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:33,399 Speaker 8: from now. 751 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:39,000 Speaker 7: Tom up dung it about I dug it. God did it. 752 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,359 Speaker 1: Now, let's get into this a little bit. Say, when 753 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:46,000 Speaker 1: I dig. 754 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:53,439 Speaker 3: It, God can fill it when I feel it. When 755 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:58,200 Speaker 3: I dig it, when I don't feel it, God will 756 00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:58,719 Speaker 3: fill it. 757 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:05,760 Speaker 9: And this my friend is the word of the Lord. 758 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,920 Speaker 9: Why is it not here yet? 759 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:24,319 Speaker 3: Imagine the digging that took place with people who were 760 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:30,879 Speaker 3: already dehydrated because they dug all night. They waited all night. 761 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,120 Speaker 3: That's a long time to dig with nothing to drink. 762 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,400 Speaker 3: Trust me, I've dug. 763 00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,240 Speaker 1: I've dug. Come on, take it from the grave, digger, 764 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,640 Speaker 1: I've dug, and. 765 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,480 Speaker 3: I'm not filling the valley with ditches and i had 766 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:52,240 Speaker 3: better tools. So digging while you're dry, right, that sounds 767 00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,799 Speaker 3: so inspirational, but it can be so difficult. 768 00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,520 Speaker 1: So they need water right now. 769 00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:08,120 Speaker 3: Why didn't God make it flow the moment Elisia spoke it? 770 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,600 Speaker 3: Why do we have to go all the way to 771 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,120 Speaker 3: verse twenty for the water to come? 772 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:21,000 Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. Because the sun wasn't up yet. 773 00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:23,400 Speaker 1: The sun wasn't up yet. 774 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,920 Speaker 3: Some of the things that make you want to give 775 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,120 Speaker 3: up and think it's never coming. The sun isn't up yet. 776 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,879 Speaker 3: The sun isn't up yet. Say not loud, the sun 777 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:42,719 Speaker 3: isn't up yet. The sun isn't up yet. Imagine them 778 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:47,640 Speaker 3: digging all night, and they're dry, and they're desperate, and 779 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:53,239 Speaker 3: in many ways they're defeated. They've already expressed that the 780 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,080 Speaker 3: Lord has brought us here to hand us over. 781 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,640 Speaker 1: So they've completely. 782 00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:02,080 Speaker 3: Lost their confidence, but they're digging anyway. Verse seventeen says, 783 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,200 Speaker 3: thus says the Lord. You shall not see wind, nor 784 00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,200 Speaker 3: shall you sea rain. Yet that valley shall be filled 785 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 3: with water. So every time they check to see, hasn't 786 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:17,160 Speaker 3: happened yet? Somebody says, no, I want to talk for 787 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,920 Speaker 3: a moment about what to do when you're navigating a No. 788 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,600 Speaker 1: Is there wind yet? 789 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:26,440 Speaker 7: No? 790 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,960 Speaker 1: Do you feel the mist yet? No? 791 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:33,879 Speaker 3: No, I'm not talking about a thunderstorm. 792 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,759 Speaker 1: Do you even feel a drop yet? 793 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:36,719 Speaker 3: No? 794 00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:39,080 Speaker 1: Are you this? 795 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,840 Speaker 3: Some people love to ask me, are you ready to preach? 796 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,680 Speaker 3: I never answer that with a complete yes, because the 797 00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,000 Speaker 3: truth of the matter is there's no real way to 798 00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:54,719 Speaker 3: be ready to release the word of God. It flows 799 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,640 Speaker 3: when it's supposed to. God gives me what I need 800 00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:04,440 Speaker 3: as I preach it. So shall it be in your life? 801 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,239 Speaker 3: I want you to receive this. I want you to 802 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,840 Speaker 3: receive this. I don't know if you're getting it. Every 803 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,920 Speaker 3: time they asked, did God do it yet? 804 00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,600 Speaker 1: While they're digging, it was a no. 805 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 3: Sometimes, when you get enough nos, you make know your 806 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:35,959 Speaker 3: emotional home no when, no reign, no body to talk 807 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:41,400 Speaker 3: to about this, no one that you really trust, no 808 00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,040 Speaker 3: end in sight to this battle. 809 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:51,000 Speaker 1: No good news. Lately I can make it really good. 810 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,520 Speaker 3: No deposits in the account, no matter how many times 811 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 3: the day you check it. You ever just check, wondering 812 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,520 Speaker 3: if something happened overnight, like. 813 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:05,239 Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. God is big, Maybe the bank 814 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:05,879 Speaker 1: made in error. 815 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,040 Speaker 3: Maybe Y two K will be twenty three years late 816 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,279 Speaker 3: and it is all get wiped out. Let me just 817 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:16,200 Speaker 3: check this one more time. No, I see youse refreshing 818 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:23,719 Speaker 3: your phone. No, maybe they text No, well, maybe they know. 819 00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 3: And the way you negotiate that no, which is a 820 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:30,800 Speaker 3: type of value of its own, is intent. 821 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:36,880 Speaker 1: It's so important. Do you make that know your home. 822 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:42,959 Speaker 3: Or do you dig through it to find what God 823 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:48,359 Speaker 3: will do? If you don't, let the know that life 824 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:55,040 Speaker 3: has told you become the final word over your life. 825 00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:02,200 Speaker 3: In verse twenty, we get a very different word. And 826 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,000 Speaker 3: what we've basically done is we've gone from no wind, 827 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,480 Speaker 3: everybody say no wind, say. 828 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,600 Speaker 1: That la, to say no wind. Put it in the chat, 829 00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,320 Speaker 1: say no wind. 830 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,640 Speaker 3: The refreshing that you wanted didn't come. The momentum that 831 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,880 Speaker 3: you wanted didn't come. How many can relate to this? 832 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,279 Speaker 3: Just put a raised hand up in the room or 833 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:21,640 Speaker 3: in the chat. I don't care how you do it, 834 00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,279 Speaker 3: but put it up. Say yeah, no, Wind, I don't 835 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,600 Speaker 3: feel it right now. No rain, that's the resource that 836 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,839 Speaker 3: they need. So sometimes it's going to come in this way. 837 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,080 Speaker 3: You are not going to get the feeling that you want, 838 00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,560 Speaker 3: the resource that you want, and it's going to be 839 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:34,000 Speaker 3: a no. 840 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:34,160 Speaker 1: Now. 841 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:39,560 Speaker 3: The way that you negotiate this no has everything connected 842 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,920 Speaker 3: to what is next. It does not just depend on 843 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:48,720 Speaker 3: what God can do. It depends on what you will 844 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,880 Speaker 3: do until God does. 845 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,040 Speaker 1: That's what it depends on. 846 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:58,600 Speaker 3: Right now, what will you do until God does? 847 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:01,759 Speaker 1: And I've got another. 848 00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,399 Speaker 3: Confession of faith that God gave me, And it might 849 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,880 Speaker 3: be for somebody that I may have doubts, and I 850 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,320 Speaker 3: may have disappointments, and I may have a lot of knows. 851 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,759 Speaker 3: There may be three hundred of them. There may be 852 00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,320 Speaker 3: three hundred more. There may be rejections in my futures 853 00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,680 Speaker 3: and failures in my future. I'm sure that there are. 854 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,400 Speaker 3: If I keep living, there will be. There may be 855 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,919 Speaker 3: people who don't like me. There may be people who 856 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:28,280 Speaker 3: turn on me. There may be dryness in my future. 857 00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:33,160 Speaker 3: And I don't know exactly how God is going to 858 00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,360 Speaker 3: do this, but I'll tell you what I have decided 859 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:43,080 Speaker 3: in my spirit that I'll be digging until God does it. 860 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,680 Speaker 3: That's all I can control. That's all I can do. 861 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,160 Speaker 3: I can't make it rain. I can't make people change 862 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,960 Speaker 3: their minds. I certainly can't control things that are beyond 863 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,319 Speaker 3: the sphere of the domain that God has given me. 864 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,160 Speaker 3: I can't make that person love me. I can't make 865 00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,880 Speaker 3: that person like me. I can't make this situation change. 866 00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,600 Speaker 3: I can't make them see my value. But I know 867 00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:17,640 Speaker 3: one thing. I'll be digging until God does because he knows. 868 00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:20,399 Speaker 1: Somebody shout he knows. 869 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,440 Speaker 3: I don't, But he knows Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. 870 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:31,640 Speaker 1: For I know the plans I have for you. He knows. 871 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,080 Speaker 3: He knows what he's gonna do, who he's gonna do 872 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,040 Speaker 3: it through, at the exact time he's going to do it. 873 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:39,839 Speaker 1: And until he shows me. 874 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,960 Speaker 3: How it's gonna happen, I'll be digging put this on 875 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:48,000 Speaker 3: the screen until God does it. So I believe He's 876 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,560 Speaker 3: gonna give me the joy. I believe he's gonna give 877 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,080 Speaker 3: me the second chance. I believe he's gonna show me 878 00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,480 Speaker 3: the next chapter. But until he does, I'll be digging. 879 00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:01,839 Speaker 3: Cause guess what, when they dug it, God did it. 880 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,360 Speaker 3: Shout it when they dug it, God did it. 881 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,759 Speaker 1: So give me my next lie. This is what I mean. 882 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:15,680 Speaker 3: I'll be digging until God does. That's why I doug 883 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,520 Speaker 3: because he puts something in me. That's why I dug 884 00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,480 Speaker 3: because He has something for me. Don't you get it? 885 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,359 Speaker 1: Hi has not seen and he has not heard. 886 00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,400 Speaker 7: And neither has an answer. 887 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,440 Speaker 1: It's to your heart what God can do? 888 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:44,120 Speaker 7: So what's he gonna do? While be digging until God does? 889 00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:46,840 Speaker 7: And if it takes. 890 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:51,480 Speaker 3: Another night, and if it takes another year, and if 891 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,200 Speaker 3: it takes another prayer, and if. 892 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,839 Speaker 1: It takes another song, and if it. 893 00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,600 Speaker 10: Takes another step back, that's all right. 894 00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:04,080 Speaker 7: Dig it down deep, mock bill, dump strong. I will 895 00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:05,080 Speaker 7: not fool. 896 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,040 Speaker 3: High five everybody you feel like high five minutes say 897 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:19,000 Speaker 3: Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't. 898 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:21,480 Speaker 1: You need water? 899 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:22,000 Speaker 5: All right? 900 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,479 Speaker 1: Weeping may endure for a knife, but Jo. 901 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:38,160 Speaker 11: Sho soush put it in the chap with fourteen os 902 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,000 Speaker 11: sho shun. 903 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,000 Speaker 7: You can dig it this right. 904 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:47,160 Speaker 3: Now, open your mouth and pray him jo. 905 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,720 Speaker 1: Like coming, shot I come, or shoot like come him 906 00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,520 Speaker 1: and streaks come suddenly. 907 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:11,360 Speaker 3: Verse twenty. We went from no to watch this now 908 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:17,720 Speaker 3: that's just no, with something after it now, No. 909 00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:25,439 Speaker 10: No, now now now now now now, I'm digging now 910 00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:27,680 Speaker 10: for what I will see later. 911 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:43,560 Speaker 3: Now I need three people I can freach too, God said, no, 912 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:51,520 Speaker 3: is just now waiting for what's next. When you get 913 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:57,040 Speaker 3: done digging, you know how strong your foundation is gonna be, 914 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,720 Speaker 3: and when it gets there, you'll be ready for it. 915 00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,680 Speaker 1: That's why I'm getting my spending under control. 916 00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,320 Speaker 3: So when God wants to make me a steward to 917 00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:20,720 Speaker 3: bless more people than just my family. I started budgets 918 00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,440 Speaker 3: when we were broke. You didn't hear a word. I 919 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,880 Speaker 3: just said for the last hour. I started my budget 920 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,240 Speaker 3: when we were broke. Because if God moves the zero 921 00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:32,960 Speaker 3: to the other side of the decimal, what am I 922 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:33,560 Speaker 3: going to do with it? 923 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:36,680 Speaker 1: That's a ditch. 924 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,840 Speaker 3: Now there is a decision to be made on your part. 925 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,840 Speaker 3: And then there is a destiny that has been created 926 00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:54,640 Speaker 3: in God's heart. Because the Bible said, what now it 927 00:59:54,760 --> 01:00:02,200 Speaker 3: happened when in the morning, Why did God wait all night. 928 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:08,080 Speaker 3: Why didn't God make it happen right when you needed it? 929 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:09,160 Speaker 1: Why? 930 01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 3: Well, the Bible said, Now, it happened in the morning 931 01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,480 Speaker 3: when the grain offering was offered. That suddenly, but it's 932 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,200 Speaker 3: not sudden. We've been digging all night. 933 01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:27,960 Speaker 1: It looked sudden if you were watching it, but it 934 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:32,760 Speaker 1: was steady if you were digging in. Isn't that the truth? 935 01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,800 Speaker 3: Suddenly water came by way of eating, and the land 936 01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,120 Speaker 3: was filled with water. I still don't know why would 937 01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,960 Speaker 3: God wait until the morning when they were about to 938 01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:47,240 Speaker 3: die through the night. 939 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,760 Speaker 1: But I read the next verse. Watch what happened next. 940 01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,280 Speaker 1: When all the mobites. 941 01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,160 Speaker 3: That's the enemy, heard that the kings had come up 942 01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:01,160 Speaker 3: to fight against them. All the enemies who were able 943 01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,240 Speaker 3: to bear arms and older were gathered. They stood at 944 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,040 Speaker 3: the border. They thought they were about to kill the 945 01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:11,680 Speaker 3: people of God. But get ready to shout shout now, no, no, no, no, 946 01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,560 Speaker 3: I want you to shout the word now now, yeah, yeah, okay, 947 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:21,560 Speaker 3: I'll be clear in the future. When they saw oh 948 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:26,760 Speaker 3: oh oh. By the way, edom means red. When they 949 01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,400 Speaker 3: saw the water on the other side, the enemies, they 950 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:34,720 Speaker 3: thought it was blood because it was red. Why was 951 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:40,720 Speaker 3: it red because the sun came up. When the amber 952 01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:46,840 Speaker 3: son kissed the sudden flood, it looked like blood to 953 01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:51,360 Speaker 3: the enemy. So watch what they did next verse, please, 954 01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,160 Speaker 3: And they said, this is blood. 955 01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:55,800 Speaker 1: The kings have. 956 01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,320 Speaker 3: Surely struck swords and have killed one another. Now therefore 957 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,320 Speaker 3: moab to the spoil. So the enemy rushes in. But 958 01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,160 Speaker 3: it wasn't blood. It was the meeting of the flood 959 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:11,560 Speaker 3: and the sun that came together. So I picture God 960 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:14,240 Speaker 3: all night long that the prophet spoke there will be 961 01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,320 Speaker 3: a flood, and God is saying, not yet, flood. 962 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,440 Speaker 1: The sun isn't up yet. 963 01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,800 Speaker 3: See, you can't flow just yet, because when the sun 964 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,520 Speaker 3: comes up, the sun is going to hit the flood 965 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,479 Speaker 3: in just the right way, at just the right time, 966 01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:37,800 Speaker 3: to confuse your enemy, at just the right place, at 967 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:39,000 Speaker 3: just the right time. 968 01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,600 Speaker 1: And God says it. 969 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:45,560 Speaker 3: Will flow when it's supposed to. 970 01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,400 Speaker 1: You're right on schedule. God has not abandoned you. 971 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,920 Speaker 3: The sun is coming up over your life, and God says, it's. 972 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:59,280 Speaker 12: Time for you to dig again. It's time for you 973 01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:05,240 Speaker 12: to sing again. It's time for you to rejoice again. 974 01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:10,040 Speaker 3: Let's take twenty seconds and do it now, begin to praise. 975 01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:16,920 Speaker 11: Him all of a sudden, like a flood, all of 976 01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:22,520 Speaker 11: a sudden, All of a sudden, God said the sun. 977 01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:27,000 Speaker 7: You can rise, waters, you can flow. 978 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:32,520 Speaker 1: I release healing in your life. I release joy in 979 01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,240 Speaker 1: your life. I release freedom in your life. 980 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:49,400 Speaker 5: Now, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all 981 01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:50,320 Speaker 5: of a sudden. 982 01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:59,800 Speaker 13: But even if it doesn't, I'll be digging until he doesn't. 983 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:01,640 Speaker 5: All of a sudden. 984 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:05,280 Speaker 1: Whoa all of a sudden. 985 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:14,320 Speaker 13: But even if it doesn't, I'll still be digging until 986 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:15,040 Speaker 13: he doesn't. 987 01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,560 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Son works. 988 01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:23,919 Speaker 14: On a cycle, scene of facada, but he then when 989 01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:30,280 Speaker 14: it doesn't, I'll still be digging until he doesn't. 990 01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:31,640 Speaker 5: Oh of a. 991 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:38,480 Speaker 1: Sada cats, all of a suda, leave it in buddy 992 01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:47,160 Speaker 1: it he doesn't, I'll still be digging. I still Hollo Sun. 993 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,240 Speaker 1: I ensure you're in the name of the Lord the Sunny. 994 01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:53,959 Speaker 1: Dig until my God. 995 01:04:54,400 --> 01:05:04,960 Speaker 8: He doesn't dig until God, by Signy's sign, he. 996 01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,520 Speaker 5: Does, and. 997 01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:23,760 Speaker 8: He's gonna do. 998 01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:35,320 Speaker 2: Hear me, He's good. 999 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:37,400 Speaker 7: Hey. 1000 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,760 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1001 01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:42,960 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1002 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,600 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 1003 01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,320 Speaker 2: they're available. 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