Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
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Speaker 3: Let's go back to our scripture in Second King's Second
Speaker 3: Kings chapter three. If you're seated, stand real quick for
Speaker 3: the word of God all of a sudden, put that
Speaker 3: little phrase in the chat if you're joining us online,
Speaker 3: or look at the person next to you and say,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden the scripture that we were singing
Speaker 3: about a little bit. And by the way, that song
Speaker 3: is not released, so no, you can't get it. Guess
Speaker 3: if you screen recorded, I can't stop you. But if
Speaker 3: you put it on YouTube, we will take it down
Speaker 3: because it's not out yet. And the scripture, one of
Speaker 3: the scriptures that we were singing there in Second Kings
Speaker 3: chapter three, pretty amazing Bible story. I would say one
Speaker 3: of my top ten favorites. It it really I want
Speaker 3: to go to verse thirteen, y'all. I gave them verse
Speaker 3: thirteen just in case that we need it for context.
Speaker 3: Then Elisha said to the King of Israel, what have.
Speaker 1: I to do with you?
Speaker 3: Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets
Speaker 3: of your mother.
Speaker 1: But the King of Israel said to him.
Speaker 3: No, for the Lord has called these three kings together
Speaker 3: to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
Speaker 1: And Elisha said, as.
Speaker 3: The Lord of Hosts lives before whom I stand. Surely,
Speaker 3: were it not that I regard the presence of Jehasaphat,
Speaker 3: King of Judah, I would not look at you nor
Speaker 3: see you. And this is what I was preaching about
Speaker 3: a little bit last week. But now bring me a musician.
Speaker 3: Then it happened somebody shall Then when when the musician
Speaker 3: began to play, Then it happened when the musician.
Speaker 1: Played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.
Speaker 3: And he said, thus says the Lord, make this valley
Speaker 3: full of ditches. For thus says the Lord, you shall
Speaker 3: not see wind, nor shall you see rain.
Speaker 4: Yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that
Speaker 4: you, your cattle, and your animals may drink.
Speaker 3: Just start pointing to everything in your house right now
Speaker 3: and say, everything around me gets to drink from this blessing.
Speaker 3: And this is watch a simple matter in the sight
Speaker 3: of the Lord. He will also deliver the Moabites into
Speaker 3: your hand. Also, you shall attack every fortified city and
Speaker 3: every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree,
Speaker 3: and stop up every spring of water, and ruin every
Speaker 3: good piece of land with stones. Now it happened in
Speaker 3: the morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly
Speaker 3: water came. Who suddenly you heard it? You like that,
Speaker 3: You like that sudden stuff. We're gonna talk about that
Speaker 3: sudden stuff today. Suddenly water came by way of edom,
Speaker 3: and the land was filled with water. So it's kind
Speaker 3: of appropriate that I didn't get to my second point
Speaker 3: last week, because my first point was you'll know when
Speaker 3: you need to and then my second point. Check this out.
Speaker 3: How ironic is this that I didn't get to this point.
Speaker 3: My second point was it will flow when it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3: The part I didn't get to that I was supposed
Speaker 3: to say was it will flow when.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to.
Speaker 3: And guess what, I couldn't preach it until right now,
Speaker 3: because this is the word that God wants spoken.
Speaker 4: In this moment, somebody shout, it will flow when it's
Speaker 4: supposed to.
Speaker 3: High five five people on your way to your seat,
Speaker 3: say let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow.
Speaker 3: Let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow.
Speaker 1: It's not Christmas time. Not let it snow. Let it flow,
Speaker 1: Let it flow.
Speaker 3: Suddenly, kind of re establishing something that I said last week,
Speaker 3: say a little different hearing, get up the top.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want.
Speaker 3: You to understand something about all of the things that
Speaker 3: you see in life that just seemed to come out
Speaker 3: of nowhere, They don't come out of nowhere. Most of
Speaker 3: the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows
Speaker 3: from something that wasn't all of a sudden. Most, not
Speaker 3: all of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: When I stood in.
Speaker 3: Front of the mirror about twenty years ago and realized
Speaker 3: that Holly had made me fat in our first year
Speaker 3: of marriage, my realization that my waist slide had gone
Speaker 3: from a collegiate thirty eight or thirty thirty two to a.
Speaker 1: First year of marriage thirty eight. That six sizes didn't
Speaker 1: happen suddenly.
Speaker 3: That six size expansion project on my stomach wasn't sudden.
Speaker 3: But I did walk in front of the mirror one
Speaker 3: day with my shirt off and suddenly realized, So most
Speaker 3: of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, Wow, I.
Speaker 1: Look more pregnant.
Speaker 3: My wife is not pregnant, and if any of us
Speaker 3: is going to be pregnant, it needs to be heard.
Speaker 5: But this is bad.
Speaker 1: So the way I am wired, I went on a.
Speaker 3: Sudden Atkins diet and it was delightful because through bacon,
Speaker 3: peanuts and the power of diet coke, I got it
Speaker 3: back down slowly, not suddenly. And so just kind of
Speaker 3: saying it in a playful way that most of the
Speaker 3: stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows from
Speaker 3: something like a steady diet of pasta doritos. I didn't
Speaker 3: suddenly eat seven hundred bags of doritos.
Speaker 1: I just date to a day for a year.
Speaker 3: And so when we shout about suddenly, we want to
Speaker 3: take just a moment to recognize that while certain things
Speaker 3: come into our life all of a sudden that are desirable,
Speaker 3: other things I could call these the other suddenly. It's
Speaker 3: where you wake up and realize, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I don't like the.
Speaker 1: Person that I'm living with anymore.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, this thing in my life has
Speaker 3: gone from something that I can control to something that
Speaker 3: I can't all of a sudden, I'm drinking not just
Speaker 3: for the sake of winding down but getting through each day.
Speaker 3: Suddenly something that was helpful to me all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it feels like something.
Speaker 1: That is holding me now.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be negative about this beautiful scripture
Speaker 3: in Second King's three because it is such an exciting scripture.
Speaker 3: But understanding that we will often find ourselves in sudden
Speaker 3: situations that were created through gradual decisions can help us
Speaker 3: to go back in our lives and allow the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit of God to begin to reverse some of the
Speaker 3: things that our routines created. And the Holy Spirit is
Speaker 3: speaking to me about the things all of a sudden
Speaker 3: in our lives that he can change.
Speaker 1: But it has to start somewhere.
Speaker 3: So if there is something in your life like these
Speaker 3: kings in this passage that I read to you, the
Speaker 3: King of the Northern Kingdom, the King of the Southern Kingdom,
Speaker 3: and the King of Edom have all gathered together and
Speaker 3: on their way to a war, they run out of water,
Speaker 3: and they have marched seven days through the desert, and
Speaker 3: suddenly they realize, we need a word from God or
Speaker 3: we're not going to make it. We need God to
Speaker 3: intervene or we are not going to survive. And they
Speaker 3: realized that suddenly, But what had started before their moment
Speaker 3: of realization was subtle. It was a turning away from
Speaker 3: God that resulted in them being in a vulnerable spot.
Speaker 3: And so a lot of times in my life I
Speaker 3: have recognized something suddenly that built slowly. One of my
Speaker 3: buddies told me about a line in a book. I
Speaker 3: think he said it was a heming Way book. I
Speaker 3: didn't read the book by like the quote. One character
Speaker 3: said to the other, how did you go bankrupt? And
Speaker 3: the other character said, two ways gradually? Then suddenly, how'd
Speaker 3: you get divorced?
Speaker 1: Two ways gradually?
Speaker 3: Then suddenly a sudden moment to realize something that had
Speaker 3: started long before, all of a sudden. So most of
Speaker 3: the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, That's
Speaker 3: what we were singing a minute ago, all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: Most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: flows from something. Maybe it wasn't caused by one thing,
Speaker 3: but it flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: And touch somebody next to you and say it wasn't sudden,
Speaker 3: showed up sudden, but it wasn't sudden.
Speaker 1: The same could be said for success.
Speaker 3: All right, let's turn this real quick, because it feels
Speaker 3: kind of dark.
Speaker 1: In here, all right, and it feels kind of feels
Speaker 1: kind of negative in here. I want to shift this
Speaker 1: energy real quick.
Speaker 3: I'm calling on the God of Jacob, the God of Jolostine.
Speaker 1: I'm going some positivity in here real quick. All right.
Speaker 1: Success isn't really sudden. Now. If it is sudden, that's
Speaker 1: troublesome as well.
Speaker 3: Because if the success is too sudden, it won't be sustainable.
Speaker 3: But most success that God gives will take you up
Speaker 3: the stairs. Very few elevators to this our church is
Speaker 3: called elevation. But to really grow through this ministry, or
Speaker 3: any ministry through the Word of God, there will be
Speaker 3: steps that God.
Speaker 1: Will use to strengthen you.
Speaker 3: And they won't all feel like they're going upward.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it will feel like you are going down, down, down,
Speaker 1: down down.
Speaker 3: But if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God,
Speaker 3: one scripture said, in due time, he.
Speaker 1: Will lift you up. And the lifting might happen.
Speaker 3: Suddenly, but there are layers beneath every sudden lifting that
Speaker 3: unless you peel them back and see you will misunderstand
Speaker 3: the nature of success, just like you can misunderstand the
Speaker 3: nature of struggle. Struggles don't ingrain themselves all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: They happen slowly, and so do successes. One of my
Speaker 3: friends was telling me about I'll tell you who he was,
Speaker 3: because it'd be a little bit better if I make
Speaker 3: it specific. He's one of the greatest songwriters that I've
Speaker 3: ever written with. His name is Jason Jason Ingram. I've
Speaker 3: written I don't know twenty thirty songs with him in
Speaker 3: the last few years, and I love getting in a
Speaker 3: room with him because he has this ability to just
Speaker 3: spit out a bridge for a song that will blow
Speaker 3: you away.
Speaker 1: I saw him do it one time.
Speaker 3: We were writing this one song and he just goes,
Speaker 3: you take what the enemy ment for evil, and.
Speaker 1: You turn it for good?
Speaker 5: Do you turn it for good?
Speaker 1: And then he goes or something like that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden.
Speaker 3: So when we finished writing that particular song, he looks
Speaker 3: at me and goes, that's the song that you write
Speaker 3: three hundred other songs to get to that one song.
Speaker 1: And I realized.
Speaker 3: Something about his skill set as a songwriter. Watch me
Speaker 3: that what he did suddenly in that moment was the
Speaker 3: result of stuff that he did steadily. A steady hand
Speaker 3: brings a sudden blessing.
Speaker 1: Now asked him a little bit more about his story.
Speaker 3: And he's one of the most successful songwriters, not only
Speaker 3: one of the best songwriters, but one of the most
Speaker 3: successful songwriters. He's won Grammys and Dove Awards and probably
Speaker 3: Stellar Awards, and he's probably on his way to an
Speaker 3: Emmy or a Tony or an Oscar that I don't
Speaker 3: know about at this moment. But he told me that
Speaker 3: when he first started as a songwriter. And I'm going
Speaker 3: to get back to Second King's chapter three, but just
Speaker 3: let me get there slowly and then suddenly, when it
Speaker 3: hits it'll mean more, because if it starts slow, when
Speaker 3: it hits sudden, it'll mean more. When it starts slow
Speaker 3: and it hits sudden, it'll mean more. I am preaching,
Speaker 3: and you don't know that I'm preaching because if it
Speaker 3: starts slow, when it hits sudden, it'll mean more and
Speaker 3: it can last longer. So is it bad luck or
Speaker 3: was it God's design that when he first started writing
Speaker 3: songs and went to Nashville, every publisher that he met
Speaker 3: with rejected him in town. His wife had quit her
Speaker 3: job and had moved with him to start his career,
Speaker 3: and he couldn't find one publisher that said yes.
Speaker 1: Many of them said you just don't have it.
Speaker 3: One woman named Cindy was willing to give him a
Speaker 3: publishing contract. It wasn't much money, but it was enough
Speaker 3: to live off of with a newborn bab So he
Speaker 3: began to write songs off of that publishing advance from
Speaker 3: one woman that believed in him.
Speaker 1: For a year, he wrote.
Speaker 3: He turned in one hundred and fifty songs in the
Speaker 3: first year. At the end of the first year, not
Speaker 3: one of them had been recorded. Not one had been
Speaker 3: recorded other than on his demo machine. It was probably
Speaker 3: like a task scam portas Studio four to fourteen before
Speaker 3: we were doing it on our voice memos on our iPhone.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask him that detail.
Speaker 3: But it was probably something arka like that. And even
Speaker 3: if it wasn't, let me tell the story that way
Speaker 3: because it makes it better. The second year, for some reason,
Speaker 3: Cindy decided to renew his contract for another year.
Speaker 1: He wrote one hundred and fifty more songs.
Speaker 3: One got recorded, but before you shout about the one
Speaker 3: that got recorded and you think I'm going to tell
Speaker 3: you it was, I can only imagine and it went
Speaker 3: on to be a smash movie.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. That song was put as a secret track.
Speaker 1: Now half this room.
Speaker 3: Doesn't know what a secret track is because the secret track.
Speaker 1: Is not available in the digital age.
Speaker 3: A secret track was on the compact disc when after
Speaker 3: the last song had finished playing, it would go about
Speaker 3: four minutes and then another song, a throwaway song, a
Speaker 3: bonus song that nobody ever heard.
Speaker 1: Because they turned the CD off. That's where his song went.
Speaker 3: We got three hundred songs, one recorded, and that's a
Speaker 3: secret track.
Speaker 1: And in the third year, when he was nominated for
Speaker 1: a Grammy.
Speaker 3: A lot of people said, where did this guy come from?
Speaker 1: Secret to sudden?
Speaker 3: When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites and go
Speaker 3: out and go hey, does anybody see me serving?
Speaker 1: Does anybody see the three hundred songs in our road? No,
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear them. They suck. Keep writing songs,
Speaker 1: and then maybe one.
Speaker 3: Day, if you're doing enough in the secret place, I'll
Speaker 3: know why I'm preaching this heart twenty minutes in. But
Speaker 3: one day, what is secret? God can make it sudden.
Speaker 3: But we live in a day where nobody has any
Speaker 3: time to be shut up in the secret place.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants the sudden.
Speaker 3: Thing, but it is the secret things that produced the
Speaker 3: sudden things. Now I feel the Holy Spirit, Now I
Speaker 3: feel the wind. Now I feel it blowing. Somebody shouts
Speaker 3: secretly then suddenly, and whether whether it is our secret
Speaker 3: struggles that we need to bring to God and say, God,
Speaker 3: help me deal with this, help me process this, help
Speaker 3: me deal with this with you, just me and you,
Speaker 3: before something that you could have secretly healed becomes suddenly exposed.
Speaker 1: God, I want to get this done in.
Speaker 3: The secret place, where you can minister, where you can touch,
Speaker 3: where you can uproot, where.
Speaker 1: You can make it right.
Speaker 3: Because everything that we realize suddenly started secretly and built
Speaker 3: slowly a secret track.
Speaker 1: And the next year he's at the Grammys.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying you'll win a Grammy, and I
Speaker 3: don't even think you really care as much as you
Speaker 3: thought you would if you did. But I am saying
Speaker 3: that it can happen suddenly, and when it does, when
Speaker 3: it does, when it does, what you have done secretly
Speaker 3: will be the treasure of the process.
Speaker 1: In our story.
Speaker 3: Not only is there a sudden need that they bring
Speaker 3: the prophets to speak to these three kings who are
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure you know the situation.
Speaker 3: They went through the desert and they ran out of water,
Speaker 3: and they're getting ready for a war. And that is
Speaker 3: definitely familiar to me, is that sometimes you go through
Speaker 3: you go through desert seasons on your way to fight battles,
Speaker 3: and what it takes for you to get to the
Speaker 3: battle takes so much out.
Speaker 1: Of you.
Speaker 3: That you definitely don't have what it takes to fight
Speaker 3: the battle. And so the prophet comes and he begins
Speaker 3: to prophesy, and he prophesies about a few different things.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to show you the contrast here. He says,
Speaker 3: first of all, the Lord came on him, and in
Speaker 3: verse sixteen he said, thus says the Lord, make this
Speaker 3: valley full of ditches.
Speaker 1: For thus says the Lord.
Speaker 3: Verse seventeen, you shall not see when, nor shall you
Speaker 3: see rain. Yet that valley shall be filled with water,
Speaker 3: so that you, your cattle and animals may drink. Now,
Speaker 3: let's break that down a little bit. What is he
Speaker 3: saying in these two verses. Well, the first thing that
Speaker 3: he is not saying is what he is seeing. Before
Speaker 3: we get into what he says, let's get into what
Speaker 3: he isn't saying. He doesn't say the ground is dry.
Speaker 3: He doesn't say this battle is hopeless. He doesn't say
Speaker 3: this situation is desperate, although it is. And it makes
Speaker 3: me wonder if one of the reasons that we get
Speaker 3: dry inside is because we need to stop saying so
Speaker 3: much about what we see and start saying more about
Speaker 3: what God says. The structure of this is really helpful
Speaker 3: for your daily life, because there's what He sees, and
Speaker 3: there's what God says. And twice he says, thus says
Speaker 3: the Lord. In verse sixteen, he said it, Thus says
Speaker 3: the Lord. In verse seventeen, he says, Thus says the Lord.
Speaker 3: Just put that in the comments, Thus says the Lord,
Speaker 3: Thus says the Lord. And so you might be in
Speaker 3: a situation where you're like, this is terrible, but thus
Speaker 3: says the Lord. This is painful, but thus says the Lord.
Speaker 3: Are teaching us to live in denial. No, I'm just
Speaker 3: teaching you not to live in dryness, because it only
Speaker 3: makes it feel drier. To drive down and dig down,
Speaker 3: deep into the things that you see. When what you
Speaker 3: see doesn't match what God says. Now, this is where
Speaker 3: I lose a lot of people. And I can always
Speaker 3: feel I lose a lot of people here because they
Speaker 3: think this is the abracadabrajocus pocus part of the preaching
Speaker 3: of the Word of God, and it's not. This is
Speaker 3: the greatest skill that I would get you to learn
Speaker 3: in regards to dealing with the disappointments in your life,
Speaker 3: the dry places in your soul, and even the needs
Speaker 3: that you have that you tend to meet in all
Speaker 3: of the wrong ways. Is to begin to Okay, I
Speaker 3: didn't plan any of this, but this flows how it's
Speaker 3: supposed to when it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: And I told you to let it flow, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let it flow. This is the says, that's a
Speaker 1: shift I want you to begin to make.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 1: The says.
Speaker 3: Both are important. This is in aables you to deal
Speaker 3: with where you are. Thus says when you get a
Speaker 3: word from God and hold on to it and believe
Speaker 3: God for it, and walk.
Speaker 1: In it and work with it.
Speaker 3: The Thus says the Lord is what gets you from
Speaker 3: this is to what can be. And I believe there
Speaker 3: are some people who are sitting under this message today,
Speaker 3: who have been so stuck, And this is that you forgot,
Speaker 3: Thus says. When you don't feel like a conqueror and
Speaker 3: you make yourself a victim and you forget that he
Speaker 3: called you a victor, it is just a matter of
Speaker 3: time before you feel very dry. So this is the
Speaker 3: switch you have to make. This is unfair victim language,
Speaker 3: thus says the Lord. He will reach pay me double
Speaker 3: for my trouble. And no weapon. I can't do it.
Speaker 3: No organ yet, no organ yet, stead of your hand.
Speaker 6: Because the thing about God is he will tell you
Speaker 6: to do crazy stuff that completely contradicts what makes sense in.
Speaker 1: Your logical mind. I'll prove it. This is what the
Speaker 1: Lord says.
Speaker 3: Everybody say, Thus says the Lord.
Speaker 1: Verse sixteen. Put it up on the screen, because they
Speaker 1: won't believe.
Speaker 3: It if I don't show it to him with their
Speaker 3: own eyes, Thus says the Lord. Make this valley full
Speaker 3: of ditches a ditch for what is dry. I don't
Speaker 3: need a ditch in a dry place. Not yet, but
Speaker 3: thats says, now be three.
Speaker 1: This is a getting ready moment for you.
Speaker 3: The salsed, Lord, I love the word of God.
Speaker 1: How about you?
Speaker 3: Because it's what God uses to dig in my spirit
Speaker 3: to prepare me to receive what he's bringing by his
Speaker 3: hand into my life. And no, digging doesn't feel good,
Speaker 3: not for the digger or the dirt.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I know.
Speaker 3: Don't you remember my story from a few weeks ago
Speaker 3: how I used to dig graves for dogs. Did you
Speaker 3: hear that story?
Speaker 1: Were you here?
Speaker 3: I had a job digging graves for dogs and cats,
Speaker 3: and that prepared me for ministry.
Speaker 1: I believe it did. It prepared me for parenting. I
Speaker 1: told Abby the other day, I said, Hey, I want
Speaker 1: you to memorize this.
Speaker 3: So if a boy ever wants to date you, here's
Speaker 3: your opening speech. Hey, before you date me, you just
Speaker 3: need to know my dad has experience doing weddings and
Speaker 3: digging grave because I'm that dude, So tell him, oh
Speaker 3: when he shows up, before we start this relationship, you
Speaker 3: need to know either way it goes, my dad can do.
Speaker 1: What needs to be done. I'm the man for the job.
Speaker 3: So I told her that when you start dating in
Speaker 3: about thirty five years, tell your first boyfriend that when
Speaker 3: you turn fifty. Now, listen, it's amazing what God speaks.
Speaker 3: He says, there's gonna be, there's gonna be water flowing
Speaker 3: from the land to beat them In't that a crazy
Speaker 3: place for water to flow from the same desert that
Speaker 3: they march through to begin with? Is it crazy how
Speaker 3: sometimes God will bring the greatest blessings from the driest places.
Speaker 3: The same desert that you just marched through for seven
Speaker 3: days and became dehydrated as you did, is the same
Speaker 3: place that the blessing is going to flow from.
Speaker 1: Thus, as the Lord, the same.
Speaker 3: Comfort with which God is comforting you through this crisis
Speaker 3: in your life is going to be the same comfort
Speaker 3: that you are going to give to others when you
Speaker 3: get to your place of service. The same lessons that
Speaker 3: you're learning through this breaking seasons are going to be
Speaker 3: the same lessons that turn into blessings for the people
Speaker 3: that you help when you get through it.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's amazing what he told him to do dig ditches
Speaker 3: in the valley. It's debatable whether he meant it literally
Speaker 3: or figuratively.
Speaker 1: I really don't care.
Speaker 3: It speaks to a mindset for me, whether they really
Speaker 3: started digging all night to get ready for the rain,
Speaker 3: or whether he was just kind of saying it, like
Speaker 3: fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Speaker 3: That doesn't necessarily mean that there is a actual seatbelt involved.
Speaker 3: It's a saying, and I think maybe dig ditches in
Speaker 3: the valley was a saying, but I know for a
Speaker 3: fact it was an expectation. And he tells them to
Speaker 3: do that. For thus, as the Lord, you shall not
Speaker 3: see wind, nor shall you see rain. Yet that valley
Speaker 3: shall be filled with water. He also tells him what
Speaker 3: God intends to do. The thing that he doesn't say
Speaker 3: that I found almost as interesting as what he did
Speaker 3: say is how it would happen and when it would happen.
Speaker 3: That's interesting because if you went seven days without water,
Speaker 3: that's long enough to be desperate.
Speaker 1: Seven days is a long time.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how they've stayed alive these seven days,
Speaker 3: if they passed through their rations. But we're talking about water,
Speaker 3: not Wi Fi. How many of you think that you
Speaker 3: would go on a fast Seven days without Wi Fi
Speaker 3: would be enough to drive you to sackcloth and ashes,
Speaker 3: just seven days without the internet connection.
Speaker 1: We have to really realize how weak they were in.
Speaker 3: This moment to really appreciate the value of the word
Speaker 3: that God gave. There's always this part of us that
Speaker 3: will listen to a little faith message like this and go, yeah,
Speaker 3: but my situation, huh huh. We're talking about water, no water,
Speaker 3: And I don't care how many awards you win. I
Speaker 3: don't care how many great things you accomplish. I don't
Speaker 3: care what number your network says. No water, it's over.
Speaker 3: That's how bad it is. And so if it's that bad,
Speaker 3: in God's word comes the way we would expect to
Speaker 3: read this verse is the hand of the Lord came
Speaker 3: upon Elisha, and he began to prophesy. And when the
Speaker 3: hand of the Lord came on Elisha and he began
Speaker 3: to prophesy, make this valley full of ditches, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden water came. That all of a sudden, the
Speaker 3: thing that I need will be released in my life.
Speaker 3: But the Bible doesn't say that the water suddenly came.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that an instruction was given. Now sometimes
Speaker 3: before the intervention of God. There is an instruction to you.
Speaker 3: And I'm wondering, what is God calling you to dig today?
Speaker 1: I thought about this sermon from multiple levels.
Speaker 3: My buddy who wrote three hundred songs, who showed up
Speaker 3: and dug every day, my friends who sold a business
Speaker 3: for over one hundred million dollars last year, who had
Speaker 3: to go back to being a substitute teacher and was
Speaker 3: waking up at five in the morning and going to
Speaker 3: sleep at two thirty in the morning to build his
Speaker 3: company in the beginning in order to get to the
Speaker 3: point where he sold the company.
Speaker 1: When I see somebody who God did.
Speaker 3: Something great for them, now I've learned to ask a
Speaker 3: second question, not only what God did for them, that's
Speaker 3: my first question. The second question that I ask is
Speaker 3: I wonder what they dug for God to do that.
Speaker 3: I wonder what God dug for them to be able
Speaker 3: to have that kind of relationship.
Speaker 1: When I see families that.
Speaker 3: Are really happy, and I don't just mean like happy
Speaker 3: in the picture. I mean like families that are really
Speaker 3: together and they've survived some tough seasons and one of
Speaker 3: their marriages ended, and one of their kids is in
Speaker 3: a bad spot, but they're praying for it and all
Speaker 3: coming back around.
Speaker 1: I don't just wonder what God did for them anymore.
Speaker 3: I wonder what did they have to dig through to
Speaker 3: get to this kind of family strength. And you do
Speaker 3: yourself a real favor when you see somebody that God
Speaker 3: did something great for, and you want God to do
Speaker 3: that for you. If you get a chance, ask them,
Speaker 3: what did.
Speaker 1: You have to dig for God to do that?
Speaker 3: Because the water came suddenly, and if you only showed
Speaker 3: up in the sunlight of the next day, you would
Speaker 3: have mistakenly believed that the water just came when the
Speaker 3: word came. And if you just think that everybody who's blessed,
Speaker 3: and everybody who has peace, and everybody who's free, and
Speaker 3: everybody who's walking in.
Speaker 1: A measure of the favor of God.
Speaker 3: And everybody who has influence, if you just think that
Speaker 3: God did it, then you missed the point.
Speaker 1: God did it when they dug it.
Speaker 3: That's why I loved this passage because it means.
Speaker 1: That God is sovereign. He did it.
Speaker 3: Nobody else can make it rain, Nobody else can tell
Speaker 3: the come up now, nobody else can drive back the darkness.
Speaker 3: But God, God did it. But they dug it. God
Speaker 3: didn't write three hundred songs for Ingram.
Speaker 1: If he did, all of them would have been smash hits.
Speaker 1: They would all been.
Speaker 3: Number one first day out. Can you imagine God writing
Speaker 3: the song. It would dominate the charts. You could dance
Speaker 3: to it, you could sway to it, you could cry
Speaker 3: to it, you could laugh to it. No, he wrote
Speaker 3: three hundred songs, he dug it, and God did it.
Speaker 1: In that order.
Speaker 3: It didn't flow the moment the prophet spoke about it.
Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord, water flow. No water will flow
Speaker 1: when you dig dig where this valley?
Speaker 3: Wait, A valley that's dry, A valley that's low, a
Speaker 3: valley that's painful, a feeling that I can't shake. Yes,
Speaker 3: the lower and the deeper the valley, the more the water.
Speaker 1: It can hold.
Speaker 3: I am telling you that this is not your breaking
Speaker 3: this is your breakthrough.
Speaker 5: This is it.
Speaker 7: This valley shall.
Speaker 1: The says the Lord.
Speaker 7: Hot fog.
Speaker 3: At least three people in say, Thus says the Lord,
Speaker 3: this is a valley. But thus says the Lord, he
Speaker 3: is my shepherd. I shall not walk, This, says the Lord.
Speaker 1: He's making a.
Speaker 7: Table right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the only thing what the devil can do, says
Speaker 3: he can't take the word of God away from you,
Speaker 3: is to get you so weary and discouraged that you
Speaker 3: stop digging because it's dry. You can't dig your dry
Speaker 3: That's why I'm digging cause I'm dry. That's why I'm
Speaker 3: praising because I'm dry. That's why I'm doing it. Because
Speaker 3: I'm dry, digging or drought.
Speaker 1: Digging or drought.
Speaker 3: You will have to decide in this moment of your life,
Speaker 3: digging or drought.
Speaker 1: I'll be digging.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, because I didn't drought and I didn't like it,
Speaker 3: I throw a pity party. Nobody are svp'd. They surely
Speaker 3: didn't bring presents. I did bitterness. I did bitterness. I
Speaker 3: got down to the bottom of the bitterness, and guess.
Speaker 1: What I found dry.
Speaker 3: Once I drank all that bitterness, I was dry. I
Speaker 3: did blame. Y'all want me to dig or do y'all
Speaker 3: want me to dance up here? I can just dance
Speaker 3: up here. I can just dance up here.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: I noticed a lot of preaching is like we're dancing
Speaker 3: around what's really happening rather than digging through what's really
Speaker 3: causing it. And so this happens in parts, right, the
Speaker 3: word comes suddenly. The musician started playing, and the word
Speaker 3: came suddenly. But since we talked about the steady hand
Speaker 3: of the musician last week who.
Speaker 1: Played the harp, we should also talk.
Speaker 3: About the steady hand of the diggers who held the shovels.
Speaker 3: That's where sudden blessings come from, constant digging. Are you
Speaker 3: saying I have to work my way into a relationship
Speaker 3: with God because I got set free from that because
Speaker 3: I grew up in that church and that burned me out. Man,
Speaker 3: So don't you start telling me I got to read
Speaker 3: seventeen chapters of the Bible today because I tried the
Speaker 3: seventeen chapters of the Bible to today plan and I
Speaker 3: hated the Bible because I couldn't have pronounced Methusalam and
Speaker 3: methisiafact and all these people that you got me reading about,
Speaker 3: and I got real, real born in Litlemiticus, I'm not
Speaker 3: talking about working your way to God. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: digging your way to water where the grace can flow,
Speaker 3: where the joy can flow. And let me tell you
Speaker 3: when it's gonna flow when it's supposed to, when it's
Speaker 3: supposed to. Let me tell you when they're gonna take
Speaker 3: you off the secret tracks and bring you to the
Speaker 3: stage when they're supposed to, And let me tell you
Speaker 3: what you can do in the meantime until it does.
Speaker 3: Because I think a lot of us are really confused
Speaker 3: about what we need to surrender in our lives. We
Speaker 3: don't need to surrender the desires God has put in
Speaker 3: our heart, if God put them there. What we need
Speaker 3: to surrender in this season of our life is the
Speaker 3: way we thought it was supposed to go.
Speaker 1: Did you say say that again?
Speaker 3: All right? Just for you let go of how you
Speaker 3: thought it was supposed to go, And while you're at it,
Speaker 3: let go of when you thought it was supposed to
Speaker 3: get there. Because the issue isn't will God, it's when God.
Speaker 3: It's not will God, it's when God. And it doesn't
Speaker 3: just depend on what he wants to do. It depends
Speaker 3: on what you are willing to do until God does.
Speaker 3: I shared with one of the people that I'm mentored
Speaker 3: the other day. They were needing clarity, and I said,
Speaker 3: the issue isn't whether God will reveal this or not.
Speaker 3: The issue is what will you do until God does
Speaker 3: give you clarity? Because if you flail right now, and
Speaker 3: if you thrash right now, and if you act nasty
Speaker 3: right now, and if you cope with stuff that's going
Speaker 3: to put you in a cage later right now, then
Speaker 3: when God gives you clarity, you won't even be able
Speaker 3: to act on it because you will be so constrained
Speaker 3: by the decisions that you made while you were waiting.
Speaker 1: The issue is not will God. The issue is.
Speaker 3: Not his sovereignty. It's you're supposed to. Let me ask
Speaker 3: you a question when it flows. Are you going to
Speaker 3: be where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: In the valley?
Speaker 3: Big and bitchous in the valley transporting?
Speaker 1: You know, that's a lot of times what parenting is.
Speaker 3: It's just taking your kids back and forth and back
Speaker 3: and forth and back and forth, and in certain seasons
Speaker 3: they won't talk to you. How is your day fine?
Speaker 3: If you get a fine out of them, that's a
Speaker 3: grade eight response, that is a premium response in this
Speaker 3: season I'm talking about. And then they're going to be
Speaker 3: in your room at twelve thirty in the morning. Now
Speaker 3: they want to talk. You're asleep. And part of being
Speaker 3: a parent is being able to flow with all of that,
Speaker 3: because you know, if you pick them up and drop
Speaker 3: them off enough, eventually they open up enough and you
Speaker 3: get to have the conversation.
Speaker 1: But if you don't show up when they say nothing,
Speaker 1: when they open up, you won't be there. Everything is
Speaker 1: like that. Everything is like that.
Speaker 3: Everything God did in my life was something that I
Speaker 3: was digging in a dry place when he was doing it,
Speaker 3: and the same thing for Holly.
Speaker 1: The same thing for Holly.
Speaker 3: Usually when we meet people and we're meeting them for
Speaker 3: the first time and they're a part of the ministry,
Speaker 3: they'll go, oh, Pastor Stephen, Hey, Holly, doesn't bother me
Speaker 3: a bit. Doesn't bother me a bit. I'm like I
Speaker 3: like her more than I like me too. Hey, trust me,
Speaker 3: I'm in her fan club. I'm the president. Would you
Speaker 3: like a picture of her? And I'm exaggerating a little bit,
Speaker 3: but just to make a point that I remember when
Speaker 3: Holly felt completely useless in this ministry. I remember the
Speaker 3: season when the kids were very little, that I would
Speaker 3: take them out on a Wednesday night and she would
Speaker 3: invite maybe like twelve women. I don't know if it
Speaker 3: would be smaller or larger than that, but she would
Speaker 3: have them into our home and she would walk them
Speaker 3: through a Bible study. But it wasn't just a Bible study,
Speaker 3: because she didn't really feel like she had that much
Speaker 3: to teach for the Bible. But she would show them
Speaker 3: how to cook, how to cook quick meals, because she
Speaker 3: would say, when you have little kids, you have to
Speaker 3: cook quick meals. So I'm gonna show you quick meal stuff
Speaker 3: you can do, real easy stuff that doesn't take much
Speaker 3: brain power, stuff that'll take your husband's waist size from.
Speaker 1: A thirty two to a thirty eight.
Speaker 3: That class should have been called Project thirty eight. And
Speaker 3: so so I watched it expand, like my waistline from
Speaker 3: when she did the Bible study in our house. So
Speaker 3: then I watched they said you need to do that
Speaker 3: for all the ladies of our church. And she made
Speaker 3: a little study called missus betterhef.
Speaker 1: You know how many.
Speaker 3: People I have overheard while they're getting their selfie with
Speaker 3: her while I'm standing over in the cornersuck of my thumb,
Speaker 3: say it saved our marriage. But it means more to
Speaker 3: me because I saw where it started real slow, and
Speaker 3: I saw that it was out of her personal dryness
Speaker 3: of where she could have felt sorry for herself.
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 3: What's my job? What's my value? Where's my Grammy? Where's
Speaker 3: my oscar? For best supporting role? I watched what she did,
Speaker 3: and I watched how she did it at such a
Speaker 3: level it was almost like a decimal, like you know,
Speaker 3: like you got the number, then the decimal It's almost
Speaker 3: like I watched what was behind the decimal move and
Speaker 3: I watched God add zero's to it where it was
Speaker 3: ten women, and then it was one hundred women, and
Speaker 3: then it was a thousand women. I feel God enlarging
Speaker 3: somebody's vision right now.
Speaker 1: Not your waistline, your vision, your vision, your vision, your vision,
Speaker 1: your vision.
Speaker 3: Come on, can you see it by the spirit? Because
Speaker 3: you won't see wind and you won't see rain. And
Speaker 3: nobody came to her with a publishing in advance and said,
Speaker 3: would you make.
Speaker 1: A study about Wife Them? She never got the Wife
Speaker 1: Them publishing advance.
Speaker 3: But when the pandemic hit and everybody was trapped in
Speaker 3: their homes, hating each other, hating each other a little
Speaker 3: bit on each other's nerves, we were taking a walk
Speaker 3: and I said, you know what, you've got better half.
Speaker 3: I want you to release better half into the world
Speaker 3: right now so we can help families get through this
Speaker 3: challenging time. She did that, and she did that, and
Speaker 3: it wasn't ten anymore. It wasn't even a hundred, it
Speaker 3: wasn't a thousand. It wasn't just our church, it was
Speaker 3: all over the world. I watched as women all over
Speaker 3: the world were gathered saying, can we drink some of
Speaker 3: that water that you started digging.
Speaker 1: For a decade ago.
Speaker 3: That's why God did it, because you dug it.
Speaker 1: You dug it.
Speaker 7: God did it. You dug it.
Speaker 1: God did it. This is gonna be your testimony, so practice.
Speaker 1: I dug it.
Speaker 7: God did it. I dug it. God did it.
Speaker 1: Too heavy flat with me.
Speaker 7: You dug it.
Speaker 1: God did it. You dug it. God did it. You
Speaker 1: dug it. God did it.
Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna be telling people a little bit
Speaker 3: from now, secret track, after three hundred songs.
Speaker 1: I had a secret prayer life, I had a secret
Speaker 1: reading plan.
Speaker 7: I had a secret ambition. But I surrendered it to.
Speaker 1: Him and I gave up on what others were gonna.
Speaker 3: Think, and I got serious about service.
Speaker 7: I dug it.
Speaker 1: God did it.
Speaker 7: I dug I'm getting hurty now.
Speaker 1: I dug it.
Speaker 7: God did it.
Speaker 8: We're gonna be looking back on something not many days
Speaker 8: from now.
Speaker 7: Tom up dung it about I dug it. God did it.
Speaker 1: Now, let's get into this a little bit. Say, when
Speaker 1: I dig.
Speaker 3: It, God can fill it when I feel it. When
Speaker 3: I dig it, when I don't feel it, God will
Speaker 3: fill it.
Speaker 9: And this my friend is the word of the Lord.
Speaker 9: Why is it not here yet?
Speaker 3: Imagine the digging that took place with people who were
Speaker 3: already dehydrated because they dug all night. They waited all night.
Speaker 3: That's a long time to dig with nothing to drink.
Speaker 3: Trust me, I've dug.
Speaker 1: I've dug. Come on, take it from the grave, digger,
Speaker 1: I've dug, and.
Speaker 3: I'm not filling the valley with ditches and i had
Speaker 3: better tools. So digging while you're dry, right, that sounds
Speaker 3: so inspirational, but it can be so difficult.
Speaker 1: So they need water right now.
Speaker 3: Why didn't God make it flow the moment Elisia spoke it?
Speaker 3: Why do we have to go all the way to
Speaker 3: verse twenty for the water to come?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. Because the sun wasn't up yet.
Speaker 1: The sun wasn't up yet.
Speaker 3: Some of the things that make you want to give
Speaker 3: up and think it's never coming. The sun isn't up yet.
Speaker 3: The sun isn't up yet. Say not loud, the sun
Speaker 3: isn't up yet. The sun isn't up yet. Imagine them
Speaker 3: digging all night, and they're dry, and they're desperate, and
Speaker 3: in many ways they're defeated. They've already expressed that the
Speaker 3: Lord has brought us here to hand us over.
Speaker 1: So they've completely.
Speaker 3: Lost their confidence, but they're digging anyway. Verse seventeen says,
Speaker 3: thus says the Lord. You shall not see wind, nor
Speaker 3: shall you sea rain. Yet that valley shall be filled
Speaker 3: with water. So every time they check to see, hasn't
Speaker 3: happened yet? Somebody says, no, I want to talk for
Speaker 3: a moment about what to do when you're navigating a No.
Speaker 1: Is there wind yet?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Do you feel the mist yet? No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not talking about a thunderstorm.
Speaker 1: Do you even feel a drop yet?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Are you this?
Speaker 3: Some people love to ask me, are you ready to preach?
Speaker 3: I never answer that with a complete yes, because the
Speaker 3: truth of the matter is there's no real way to
Speaker 3: be ready to release the word of God. It flows
Speaker 3: when it's supposed to. God gives me what I need
Speaker 3: as I preach it. So shall it be in your life?
Speaker 3: I want you to receive this. I want you to
Speaker 3: receive this. I don't know if you're getting it. Every
Speaker 3: time they asked, did God do it yet?
Speaker 1: While they're digging, it was a no.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, when you get enough nos, you make know your
Speaker 3: emotional home no when, no reign, no body to talk
Speaker 3: to about this, no one that you really trust, no
Speaker 3: end in sight to this battle.
Speaker 1: No good news. Lately I can make it really good.
Speaker 3: No deposits in the account, no matter how many times
Speaker 3: the day you check it. You ever just check, wondering
Speaker 3: if something happened overnight, like.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. God is big, Maybe the bank
Speaker 1: made in error.
Speaker 3: Maybe Y two K will be twenty three years late
Speaker 3: and it is all get wiped out. Let me just
Speaker 3: check this one more time. No, I see youse refreshing
Speaker 3: your phone. No, maybe they text No, well, maybe they know.
Speaker 3: And the way you negotiate that no, which is a
Speaker 3: type of value of its own, is intent.
Speaker 1: It's so important. Do you make that know your home.
Speaker 3: Or do you dig through it to find what God
Speaker 3: will do? If you don't, let the know that life
Speaker 3: has told you become the final word over your life.
Speaker 3: In verse twenty, we get a very different word. And
Speaker 3: what we've basically done is we've gone from no wind,
Speaker 3: everybody say no wind, say.
Speaker 1: That la, to say no wind. Put it in the chat,
Speaker 1: say no wind.
Speaker 3: The refreshing that you wanted didn't come. The momentum that
Speaker 3: you wanted didn't come. How many can relate to this?
Speaker 3: Just put a raised hand up in the room or
Speaker 3: in the chat. I don't care how you do it,
Speaker 3: but put it up. Say yeah, no, Wind, I don't
Speaker 3: feel it right now. No rain, that's the resource that
Speaker 3: they need. So sometimes it's going to come in this way.
Speaker 3: You are not going to get the feeling that you want,
Speaker 3: the resource that you want, and it's going to be
Speaker 3: a no.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The way that you negotiate this no has everything connected
Speaker 3: to what is next. It does not just depend on
Speaker 3: what God can do. It depends on what you will
Speaker 3: do until God does.
Speaker 1: That's what it depends on.
Speaker 3: Right now, what will you do until God does?
Speaker 1: And I've got another.
Speaker 3: Confession of faith that God gave me, And it might
Speaker 3: be for somebody that I may have doubts, and I
Speaker 3: may have disappointments, and I may have a lot of knows.
Speaker 3: There may be three hundred of them. There may be
Speaker 3: three hundred more. There may be rejections in my futures
Speaker 3: and failures in my future. I'm sure that there are.
Speaker 3: If I keep living, there will be. There may be
Speaker 3: people who don't like me. There may be people who
Speaker 3: turn on me. There may be dryness in my future.
Speaker 3: And I don't know exactly how God is going to
Speaker 3: do this, but I'll tell you what I have decided
Speaker 3: in my spirit that I'll be digging until God does it.
Speaker 3: That's all I can control. That's all I can do.
Speaker 3: I can't make it rain. I can't make people change
Speaker 3: their minds. I certainly can't control things that are beyond
Speaker 3: the sphere of the domain that God has given me.
Speaker 3: I can't make that person love me. I can't make
Speaker 3: that person like me. I can't make this situation change.
Speaker 3: I can't make them see my value. But I know
Speaker 3: one thing. I'll be digging until God does because he knows.
Speaker 1: Somebody shout he knows.
Speaker 3: I don't, But he knows Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: For I know the plans I have for you. He knows.
Speaker 3: He knows what he's gonna do, who he's gonna do
Speaker 3: it through, at the exact time he's going to do it.
Speaker 1: And until he shows me.
Speaker 3: How it's gonna happen, I'll be digging put this on
Speaker 3: the screen until God does it. So I believe He's
Speaker 3: gonna give me the joy. I believe he's gonna give
Speaker 3: me the second chance. I believe he's gonna show me
Speaker 3: the next chapter. But until he does, I'll be digging.
Speaker 3: Cause guess what, when they dug it, God did it.
Speaker 3: Shout it when they dug it, God did it.
Speaker 1: So give me my next lie. This is what I mean.
Speaker 3: I'll be digging until God does. That's why I doug
Speaker 3: because he puts something in me. That's why I dug
Speaker 3: because He has something for me. Don't you get it?
Speaker 1: Hi has not seen and he has not heard.
Speaker 7: And neither has an answer.
Speaker 1: It's to your heart what God can do?
Speaker 7: So what's he gonna do? While be digging until God does?
Speaker 7: And if it takes.
Speaker 3: Another night, and if it takes another year, and if
Speaker 3: it takes another prayer, and if.
Speaker 1: It takes another song, and if it.
Speaker 10: Takes another step back, that's all right.
Speaker 7: Dig it down deep, mock bill, dump strong. I will
Speaker 7: not fool.
Speaker 3: High five everybody you feel like high five minutes say
Speaker 3: Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't.
Speaker 1: You need water?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Weeping may endure for a knife, but Jo.
Speaker 11: Sho soush put it in the chap with fourteen os
Speaker 11: sho shun.
Speaker 7: You can dig it this right.
Speaker 3: Now, open your mouth and pray him jo.
Speaker 1: Like coming, shot I come, or shoot like come him
Speaker 1: and streaks come suddenly.
Speaker 3: Verse twenty. We went from no to watch this now
Speaker 3: that's just no, with something after it now, No.
Speaker 10: No, now now now now now now, I'm digging now
Speaker 10: for what I will see later.
Speaker 3: Now I need three people I can freach too, God said, no,
Speaker 3: is just now waiting for what's next. When you get
Speaker 3: done digging, you know how strong your foundation is gonna be,
Speaker 3: and when it gets there, you'll be ready for it.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm getting my spending under control.
Speaker 3: So when God wants to make me a steward to
Speaker 3: bless more people than just my family. I started budgets
Speaker 3: when we were broke. You didn't hear a word. I
Speaker 3: just said for the last hour. I started my budget
Speaker 3: when we were broke. Because if God moves the zero
Speaker 3: to the other side of the decimal, what am I
Speaker 3: going to do with it?
Speaker 1: That's a ditch.
Speaker 3: Now there is a decision to be made on your part.
Speaker 3: And then there is a destiny that has been created
Speaker 3: in God's heart. Because the Bible said, what now it
Speaker 3: happened when in the morning, Why did God wait all night.
Speaker 3: Why didn't God make it happen right when you needed it?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Well, the Bible said, Now, it happened in the morning
Speaker 3: when the grain offering was offered. That suddenly, but it's
Speaker 3: not sudden. We've been digging all night.
Speaker 1: It looked sudden if you were watching it, but it
Speaker 1: was steady if you were digging in. Isn't that the truth?
Speaker 3: Suddenly water came by way of eating, and the land
Speaker 3: was filled with water. I still don't know why would
Speaker 3: God wait until the morning when they were about to
Speaker 3: die through the night.
Speaker 1: But I read the next verse. Watch what happened next.
Speaker 1: When all the mobites.
Speaker 3: That's the enemy, heard that the kings had come up
Speaker 3: to fight against them. All the enemies who were able
Speaker 3: to bear arms and older were gathered. They stood at
Speaker 3: the border. They thought they were about to kill the
Speaker 3: people of God. But get ready to shout shout now, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I want you to shout the word now now, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I'll be clear in the future. When they saw oh
Speaker 3: oh oh. By the way, edom means red. When they
Speaker 3: saw the water on the other side, the enemies, they
Speaker 3: thought it was blood because it was red. Why was
Speaker 3: it red because the sun came up. When the amber
Speaker 3: son kissed the sudden flood, it looked like blood to
Speaker 3: the enemy. So watch what they did next verse, please,
Speaker 3: And they said, this is blood.
Speaker 1: The kings have.
Speaker 3: Surely struck swords and have killed one another. Now therefore
Speaker 3: moab to the spoil. So the enemy rushes in. But
Speaker 3: it wasn't blood. It was the meeting of the flood
Speaker 3: and the sun that came together. So I picture God
Speaker 3: all night long that the prophet spoke there will be
Speaker 3: a flood, and God is saying, not yet, flood.
Speaker 1: The sun isn't up yet.
Speaker 3: See, you can't flow just yet, because when the sun
Speaker 3: comes up, the sun is going to hit the flood
Speaker 3: in just the right way, at just the right time,
Speaker 3: to confuse your enemy, at just the right place, at
Speaker 3: just the right time.
Speaker 1: And God says it.
Speaker 3: Will flow when it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: You're right on schedule. God has not abandoned you.
Speaker 3: The sun is coming up over your life, and God says, it's.
Speaker 12: Time for you to dig again. It's time for you
Speaker 12: to sing again. It's time for you to rejoice again.
Speaker 3: Let's take twenty seconds and do it now, begin to praise.
Speaker 11: Him all of a sudden, like a flood, all of
Speaker 11: a sudden, All of a sudden, God said the sun.
Speaker 7: You can rise, waters, you can flow.
Speaker 1: I release healing in your life. I release joy in
Speaker 1: your life. I release freedom in your life.
Speaker 5: Now, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all
Speaker 5: of a sudden.
Speaker 13: But even if it doesn't, I'll be digging until he doesn't.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Whoa all of a sudden.
Speaker 13: But even if it doesn't, I'll still be digging until
Speaker 13: he doesn't.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Son works.
Speaker 14: On a cycle, scene of facada, but he then when
Speaker 14: it doesn't, I'll still be digging until he doesn't.
Speaker 5: Oh of a.
Speaker 1: Sada cats, all of a suda, leave it in buddy
Speaker 1: it he doesn't, I'll still be digging. I still Hollo Sun.
Speaker 1: I ensure you're in the name of the Lord the Sunny.
Speaker 1: Dig until my God.
Speaker 8: He doesn't dig until God, by Signy's sign, he.
Speaker 5: Does, and.
Speaker 8: He's gonna do.
Speaker 2: Hear me, He's good.
Speaker 7: Hey.
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