1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message now going over in your Bible the 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 2: Second King's thirteen fourteen through twenty. Yes, we're still in 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: the same passage we started in and I'm gonna read 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: it again Verses fourteen through twenty. Part A. Week one 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: our study was on the power of precision. 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: Was kind of a. 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: Double meaning to that. We were saying aim at something. 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: Don't just waste all of your arrows and ammunition fighting 14 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: worthless battles that don't matter anyway. 15 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: Have you ever just warned yourself out fighting over stuff 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: that was imagined. 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 2: It either wasn't going to happen or was going to 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: happen no matter what you did about it. You were 19 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: so worn out by the time you actually fought it 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 2: that you lost because. 21 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: You were swinging, just wasting your energy. So we were. 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: Saying aim at the thing that God shows you, and 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 2: that was Week one, But we were also saying, precide, 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: don't wait till you get discouraged to decide whether or 25 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: not you're going to continue. Make a decision about it 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: a precision amen, decide before the battle begins that I'm 27 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: still going to be standing at the end of it. 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: And I might be. 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: Bloody, and I might be bruised, and my body might 30 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: be sore, but I won't stop. And that's what we 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: were talking about in week one. We talked in week 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: two about preparation, and we talked about those plowing seasons 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: that prepare the ground for the great things that God 34 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: wants to do in your life. And then we talked 35 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: about the power of potential. And that a really powerful 36 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: message for me because I discovered that the pain of 37 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: falling short is nothing compared to the shame of stopping short. 38 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors say, don't stop short, because there's nothing 39 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,679 Speaker 2: worse than to wonder what would have been, could have been. 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: And that's kind of why we're frustrated with this King 41 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: Jehoesh in tewod Kings thirteen fourteen through twenty is because 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: of what could have been, and we see the potential 43 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 2: that was unfulfilled in his life, and it reminds us 44 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: of ourselves, and it makes us a little afraid, and 45 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: it challenges us. 46 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: And so we've had a lot to think about. 47 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: In this fourth installment, I want to speak about the 48 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: power of provision, declaring over your life that God's got 49 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: what you need and it's a matter of you receiving 50 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: it and opening yourself to it. Because in the scripture, 51 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 2: the image of a window symbolizes both perspective because it's 52 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 2: what you look through, and sometimes what you're looking through 53 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,119 Speaker 2: is just as in is what you're looking at. 54 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: Okay, I can prove this. 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 2: I don't even need the Bible, and I will read 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: the Bible in a minute. But those are not my glasses. 57 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 2: If you give them to me right now, WHOA You 58 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: got problems? We need to pray for her miracles of 59 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: recovery of sight to the blind man. You look funny 60 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: now before I put these on you look, you looked awesome. 61 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: But what I was looking through. 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 2: Changed the dimensions of what I'm looking at because it 63 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 2: wasn't meant for me. 64 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: Amen, I'm preaching all my recap. 65 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: But another thing that a window represents is provision. Like 66 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: in Malachi three, where God challenges his people if you 67 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: will release what's in your hand. I will release what's 68 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: in my heart. I want to bless you. But the 69 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: windows are close. And that's why we have these power windows. Okay, 70 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 2: the power of preparation. It opens the window of provision. 71 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: God's provision often awaits our preparation. And so this week, 72 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: as we talk about provision and perspective, I want to 73 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: ask the question, is it possible that provision and perspective 74 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 2: are one and the same. I'll make the case as 75 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: we go here. But I'm excited about what God gave 76 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: me to teach you today. And by the way, I 77 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 2: always pray before I preach, Like I was writing up 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: this morning to church, and I looked out my window 79 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 2: and before the first worship experience. 80 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,239 Speaker 1: There are people lined up to get to church. 81 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: And I always get excited when I see that, just 82 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: amazed at all the people who are coming. And I 83 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: also get kind of terrified by it because my. 84 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: Greatest fear in life is disappointing people. 85 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 2: I'm always scared I'm gonna be a disappointment, and then 86 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: people put a complex on me because when they meet me, 87 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: they say, you look coller on, like they're disappointed that 88 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 2: I'm short or something like that. 89 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: So I stay in my house till Sunday, and. 90 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 2: But I see the people lining up, and I always 91 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 2: go through this conversation with God. God, you got to 92 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 2: speak to these people that you sent because they need 93 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 2: something that I don't have. And furthermore, I don't even 94 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 2: know exactly what they need. You do, God has a 95 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 2: surveillance system on your situation. How many believe he can 96 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 2: speak the specific thing. 97 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: That you need today. 98 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 2: I mean from the front of the room to the 99 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: back of the room to the overflow. 100 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: God has got what you need. 101 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 2: And I don't even worry about it anymore because I 102 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 2: look at myself like an Amazon dot Com drone that 103 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: just drops it off at your doorstep and flies away, 104 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: all right. So I always pray that God, they need 105 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: something that I don't have. I feel like the disciples 106 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 2: who had five thousand men and women and children to 107 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 2: feed and no bread, and yet God said, bring what 108 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: you have to me, even if it seems to be 109 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: too little, and. 110 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: Watch what I will do through you. 111 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: It's interesting, isn't it that to provide for the people, 112 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: Jesus did not bypass the meager supply of the disciples. 113 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: He multiplied it. 114 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 2: So the whole process of provision starts when you offer 115 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: what you have, regardless of whether or not it seems 116 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: to be enough to you. The little bit of time 117 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: that you do have, that's the window the perspective of provision. 118 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 2: I wonder if provision is a matter of perspective. Elisha 119 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 2: seems to think. So, this great prophet is dying, and 120 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: this new king has one chance to get what he 121 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: needs from the mouth of the man of God. Let's 122 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 2: see what happens. Tewod King's thirteen fourteen. Now Elisha had 123 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 2: been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoesh, 124 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 2: King of Israel, went down to see him and wept 125 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 2: over him. 126 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: It's one thing about pressure. 127 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 2: Pressure will cause you to seek provision and get. 128 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: Your priorities in order. 129 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: There was no seeking of Elisha's advice until the Aramians 130 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: started to oppress the people of God. And when it 131 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: got to that point, the king went down to see 132 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: the prophet. I don't know what brought you to church today, 133 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: but I sure am glad you're here. 134 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: Tush. 135 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 2: Your neighbors say, I'm glad you're here. Don't even care 136 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 2: what brought you here. You might have heard there were 137 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: pretty girls of elevation. But I'm glad you came. Might 138 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 2: get a valentine and a word from God. 139 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: Amen. 140 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 2: All at the same time, God is good, supplies all 141 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: my needs according to his glorious riches. That's not a 142 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: pickup line, that's a scripture, all right. So he went 143 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: down and he wept over him, and I understand why 144 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 2: he's weeping. He's weeping because what he's losing is so significant. 145 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: Elisha was more than just a preacher. 146 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 2: Elisha represented the entire defense system of the nation of Israel. 147 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: He was their win, not only the window through. 148 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: Which they saw the activity of God, but the window 149 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 2: through which God would give them many times the protection 150 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: from their enemies. 151 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: He had a unique. 152 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: Ability to strategically cut off the enemy's advances, and he 153 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: would tell the kings where the enemy was going to 154 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: attack so that they could be ready for it. Note 155 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: that it did not prevent the attack from happening. It 156 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 2: provided the strength to withstand the attack. 157 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes we get. 158 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: Confused about the provision of God because we mistakenly believe 159 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 2: that the provision of God will mean the prevention of problems. 160 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 2: And when we ask God to provide for us what 161 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 2: we're actually asking him to do, truth be told, is 162 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 2: to eliminate the need. In other words, God create a 163 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 2: life for me that will make you unnecessary, and. 164 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: He won't do it. 165 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 2: He's weeping over what's leaving, and Elisha is pointing to 166 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 2: what's left in every season. 167 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: Of my life, I have the choice. 168 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 2: Watch this, my father, my father, the chariots and horsemen 169 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 2: of Israel. Elisha is about to leave the building, but 170 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: before he goes, he points to the provision. He points. 171 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: To the provision. 172 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: I believe God wants to point out the provision that 173 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: He's placed in front of you in your life today, 174 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 2: and I've been asking him to do that. Watch this, 175 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: Elishah said, verse fifteen, get. 176 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: A bow and some arrows. 177 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 2: Now, the arrows did not magically appear at this point. 178 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 2: The bow didn't fall down out of the sky. It 179 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 2: had been there all along. He is simply instructing the 180 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: king to locate what has been there all along, what 181 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: was in the house when he came. Now he instructs 182 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: him to take it in his hands. And notice that 183 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 2: he does not tell the king to study the composition 184 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 2: of the bow in the arrow, or to browse a 185 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 2: catalog of bow and arrow, or to read the history 186 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: of bows and arrows, because you know, sometimes when we 187 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: come to church, we want to learn stuff about trivial 188 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 2: historical details that don't require us to do anything. But instead, 189 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 2: after statement, get a bowt touch your neighbor, say do 190 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 2: something with it, do something with this word. Make up 191 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 2: your mind in advance. Even if I don't like that preacher, think, sir, 192 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: if he says one thing that I can apply in 193 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: my life today, I'm gonna use it. Get a bow 194 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: and some arrows. And he did so. He was the 195 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 2: original Nike advertisement. 196 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: He did so. 197 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: Just dude, take the boat in your hands, he said 198 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: to the King of Israel. And when he had taken it, 199 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. This message 200 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: is for somebody at gassed and today. Get ready, it's 201 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: gonna come. And then verse seventeen is our theme verse 202 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 2: where he says, open the east window, and he opened it, shoot, 203 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: Elisha said, and he shot, and then he declared, Wat's 204 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 2: his promise, the Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of 205 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: victory over Aer. 206 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: If Paul were writing, he. 207 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 2: Would say that I am more than a conqueror through 208 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 2: him who loved me. 209 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, if John were writing, he. 210 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: Would say, this is a victory that overcomes the world. 211 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 2: The arrow of victory, the Lord's arrow of victory. God 212 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 2: is the source of my supply. God is the source 213 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: of my strength. It's the Lord's arrow of victory. 214 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: But he put it in your hands. 215 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 2: God gave the victory, but you must take the shot. 216 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: Now. 217 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 2: Feel the spirit of Wayne Gretzky coming on me. I 218 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 2: don't even like hockey. But he said, you miss one 219 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: hundred percent of the shots you don't take, and he 220 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 2: shot the arrow. But what happened next This tragic because 221 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: he had the opportunity of a lifetime to completely defeat 222 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 2: the enemy that was oppressing him, and he missed it. 223 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 2: He missed it. He missed it because he didn't do 224 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 2: Watch this verse eighteen. The prophet said, take the arrows, 225 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 2: and the king took them. Strike the ground, and he 226 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: struck it three times and stopped. The Man of God 227 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 2: was angry with him and said, you only did half 228 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: of what you should have done. You had more arrows 229 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 2: that you didn't use. And this is where I want 230 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 2: to key in today. It is significant that it was 231 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 2: not a lack of arrows or artillery that caused the 232 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: King to miss the potential victory. It was not the 233 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: lack of weapons. It was the lack of will. If 234 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: you would have used every arrow that you had, you 235 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: would have completely defeated this thing. And now you only 236 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 2: defeated three times the. 237 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: Power of provision. 238 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 2: God has given me what I need for the season 239 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: that I'm in, and I have a choice to make 240 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 2: today and every day. Will I weep over what I'm losing, 241 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: or will I wield the weapons that are left provision perspective. 242 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: The two are connected. 243 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story I didn't tell any of 244 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: the other worship experiences because I'm kind of partial to 245 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: you guys, because after you I'm done. 246 00:13:58,880 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 1: Were a vacation this summer. 247 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 2: I turned on the windshield wipers and Graham was sitting 248 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: in the passenger seat. 249 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: The windshield was dirty. 250 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 2: That's what I noticed, he said, Daddy, when you turn 251 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: on the windshield wipers, I pretend there's. 252 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 1: A race, he said. 253 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 2: The dirty triangle that the windshield wipers don't get to. 254 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: That's the shark's fin. 255 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 2: The part of the windshield that the wipers clean, that's 256 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: a whale. The wipers are the dolphin, and when you 257 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: turn them on they're jumping. 258 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: Here's why I told you that story. 259 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 2: I was looking at a dirty windshield. He was looking 260 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: into the windshield. I saw a dirty window. He saw SeaWorld. 261 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 2: And here's my premise. It's about perspective. Repeat after me. 262 00:14:50,760 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: What I see is up to me. Elisha was a seer, 263 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 2: and when he saw something, he spoke, and he spoke 264 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: something and he saw something and the needs of the 265 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 2: people materialized because of Elisha's ability to see and to speak. 266 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: There is a connection between your vision and your victory. 267 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 2: Your perspective is connected to your provision. But my mind 268 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: plays these tricks on me. I only see the dirty windshield. 269 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 2: Here's the thing that my mind is always noticing. I'm 270 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: always noticing and asking myself the question. And I have 271 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 2: the ability to work in any situation, to walk in 272 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 2: and I automatically notice what I'm missing. That's what my 273 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 2: brain tends to think when I walk into a situation. 274 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: And I want you to pray for me, because this 275 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 2: is a terrible question just to walk in. Do you'll 276 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: have that question because I want. 277 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: It on the screen. 278 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: My brain is constantly asking the question walking into any 279 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 2: situation flow with me. 280 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: What am I missing? What am I missing. 281 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: I'm really good at weeping over what isn't there or 282 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 2: worrying over what isn't there. My brain is trained to 283 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: do it. It's almost as if I feel like somewhere 284 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 2: along in my life, I took a class on how 285 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: to walk into any situation and notice what I'm missing, 286 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: what I don't have, what I can't do, what I 287 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 2: can't control. Now, I'll give myself a little credit, because 288 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: some people don't even notice the need. 289 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: They just walk by it. 290 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: It amazes me sometimes what my children will not even 291 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: see that needs to be done. 292 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: It's not that they didn't. 293 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 2: Do it, it's that they didn't even see that it 294 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: needed to be done. One of my children asked Holly 295 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: the other day, you mean I have to take a 296 00:16:51,760 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: bath every day? He doesn't see the need because he 297 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: doesn't smell the stitch. You know, you can get to 298 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: a place in your life where you've been in a 299 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 2: situation and condition so long that everybody else smells it, 300 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:21,479 Speaker 2: but you, I mean, you can get to the place 301 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 2: where you don't even see the need. I remember a 302 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 2: few years ago, I took a whole group of staff 303 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 2: members and the trash cans and the office were just overflowing, 304 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 2: not kind of full overflowing. And I walked a group 305 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 2: of staff around, and I said, to answer me a question, 306 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 2: did you not take this trash out because you didn't 307 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: you didn't want to. 308 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: Take it out? Or did you not notice? 309 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: And you know what, honest to God, they didn't even 310 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: notice the need, or at least that's what they told me. 311 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: And some people don't even notice. 312 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: Worse yet, sometime don't see the need because all we 313 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 2: see is the symptom. Can I preach a little bit 314 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 2: in your body? This is called referred pain. It's when 315 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 2: you have something wrong in your chest, but you feel 316 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: it in your neck, so you're trying to fix it 317 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 2: in a place that it is not coming from. And 318 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 2: when David said the Lord is my shepherd, I shall 319 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,719 Speaker 2: not want, he is also implying that God is the 320 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 2: only one who knows what I really need, what I 321 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 2: really need when I pray, give me this day my 322 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: daily bread. As Jesus taught his disciples to pray, I 323 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 2: no longer pray God give me what I think I need, 324 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 2: but give me what you know I need. God is 325 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 2: the only one who has been in my tomorrow. So 326 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 2: he's the only one who knows what I'm gonna need 327 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 2: when I get there, and if he knows, I need 328 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 2: to fight a lion, so I'll be ready for Goliath. 329 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 2: I want to fight the lion. I don't want him 330 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 2: to prevent the fight. I want him to provide the 331 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: faith so that I will because if I don't fight Goliath, 332 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: I can't get his sword. And if I don't get 333 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 2: his sword, it won't be in storage when I need it. 334 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 2: God knows what I need. He is my source. Somebody shop, 335 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 2: God is my source. Tell it to the person sitting 336 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 2: next to you. You're not my source. My job is 337 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: not my source. My boss is not my source. 338 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 3: See. 339 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: There are some things in life that are nice to have, 340 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 2: but I don't really need them to survive. I love 341 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: when Holly says this to me. And Valentine's Day is 342 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 2: coming up, so maybe she'll say this to me on Tuesday. 343 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 2: She'll say, I appreciate everything you've given me because I 344 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 2: try to take care of her. I really do, and 345 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 2: always the best of my ability. Sometimes that meant water 346 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 2: and we eat chips at the Mexican and share a 347 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: speedy Gonzales. 348 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: But sometimes that meant I. 349 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: Could take her to Mortons, But whether it was Mexican 350 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 2: or Mortons, it didn't matter. I was always giving her 351 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 2: what I could. But every once in a while she'll 352 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 2: tell me. She'll tell me something like this, it's not 353 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 2: the things that you gave me, and I think she 354 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 2: means it. It's not the things, because she was there 355 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: with me when there weren't any things. 356 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: It's not the things. 357 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 2: She loved me in Juniper Terrorists Apartment C fifteen. She 358 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 2: loved me in the Duplex. I don't love you for 359 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 2: the Dnali, I love you in the duplex. It's not 360 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 2: what you gave me. Our love is not contingent upon 361 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: a material possession. 362 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: And I wonder. 363 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 2: Have I come to that place in my relationship with 364 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 2: God that I really believe that if He didn't give it, 365 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 2: I don't need it. My brain tells me differently. My 366 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 2: brain tells me, even while I'm preaching this sermon, that 367 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 2: I am not intelligent enough, articulate enough. When I go 368 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 2: to tell my little jokes, I'm not comical enough because 369 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 2: my brain picks out the people. 370 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: Who look hateful in the crowd every time. 371 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 2: I don't know how I find y'all, but I find 372 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 2: you somehow. And my brain will pick out what's missing. 373 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 2: There could be a thousand people standing. 374 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: Up preach, pastor, but my little brain. 375 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 2: You too. 376 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I can walk in a. 377 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 2: Situation and find what's wrong in a minute. Notice who 378 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 2: wasn't nice to me? 379 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,719 Speaker 1: In a minute. 380 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 2: Always notice what I'm missing, Always notice what I lack, 381 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 2: Always notice what I've lost. But if I only notice 382 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 2: what I lack and what I've lost, I won't use 383 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 2: what I have left. And what God wants to do 384 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 2: through my life next is not contingent upon. 385 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: What I lack or what I've lost. 386 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 2: Come on, you better help me preach, Get a bow, 387 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 2: get some arrows, punch your neighbor in the arm, and say, 388 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 2: what you have is what you need. What you have 389 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 2: is what you need. What you have is what you need. 390 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 2: What you have is what you need. What you have 391 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: is what you need. God should have made me taller. 392 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: I didn't choose to be five foot nine. Five foot 393 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 2: nine is all I need. That's all I need. I 394 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 2: don't need any extra inches. Praise the Lord. One time 395 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: I called a guid to thank him forgid contributing to 396 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: the church, and he said, I appreciate your call. It's 397 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: nice but I want you to know it's not needed. 398 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 2: And I thought it was needed because he gave a 399 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 2: million dollars to the church. I thought, if you gave 400 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 2: a million dollars, you ought to get a phone. 401 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: Call from the headman. 402 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 2: He said, I appreciate it, and it's nice to hear 403 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 2: from you, but it's not needed. 404 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: I never forgot what he said. 405 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: This was years ago, and this week I was reminded 406 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 2: of one time when Paul he was in prison. 407 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: Right he's writing to the church. 408 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: At Philippi who just contributed toward his legal defense. And 409 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: so Paul writes to them to thank them and express 410 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: his gratitude. He says, hey, I got your gift, and 411 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: I was happy for it. In fact, I rejoiced greatly. 412 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 2: This is Philippians four, verse ten. That you renewed your 413 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 2: concern for me at last. It took a while, but 414 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 2: I know that you were concerned but had no opportunity 415 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 2: to show it. Now that's important too, because Paul's problem 416 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 2: created their opportunity. Sometimes we miss God's provision because it 417 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 2: is disguised as. 418 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: A problem, and we. 419 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 2: Don't receive the provision because it's wrapped in a package 420 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: that looks like a problem, and we keep sending back 421 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 2: the gift that God is trying to bestow upon us 422 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: because it doesn't feel good. Sometimes God will send correction 423 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 2: into your life to make you better. You've been praying 424 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: for God to make you better, but he didn't do 425 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 2: it through somebody telling you how good you are. He 426 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 2: sends somebody to correct you. But you don't like the 427 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 2: way correction feels. So rather than receive the correction, which 428 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 2: is a gift to take you where God is calling 429 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 2: you to, you get offended and quit. And God's provision 430 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 2: comes rapped in strange packages. And so for Paul, he's 431 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 2: in prison and God provides for him through the church, 432 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 2: and he's writing back to them, and he said, thank 433 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 2: you for the gift. 434 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: I received it. 435 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 2: I was happy about it, and I appreciate it. But 436 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 2: watch what he says in the next verse. He said, 437 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 2: I'm not saying this because I'm in need for I 438 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 2: have learned this is something that you are not born with. 439 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 2: You don't know what you need. I mean, you are 440 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 2: born just screaming. You don't know what you need. You 441 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 2: just know that you need to eat. You don't understand 442 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: the process. But life is the process of God teaching 443 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: you that he is the one who feeds you. Sometimes 444 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 2: he'll do it over here, Sometimes he'll do it over there. 445 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 2: Sometimes he'll do it for nobody at all. Sometimes he'll 446 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: do it when you're all alone. But when God is 447 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 2: your source, you will never lack supply. Therefore, do not 448 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 2: worry about tomorrow saying what shall we eat or what 449 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: shall we drink? 450 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: Or what shall we wear? 451 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 2: For your father knows you need these things. 452 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: He knows what I need. 453 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 2: Paul says, it's nice, but I don't need it. 454 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: It's nice, but I don't need it. 455 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 2: I appreciate what you bought for me. Holly said, it's nice, 456 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 2: but I don't need it. I like it, but I 457 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: don't need it. Even let me tell you something right 458 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: right here, to stay my cough. I appreciate your passion. 459 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: I was watching you in worship and here I am 460 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 2: preach it and you are standing up like you are 461 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 2: ready to charge the devil with a nurse bow and arrow. 462 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: And I love it. I love it. 463 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 2: I love your response to the word to God. It's nice, 464 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 2: but I want you to know I don't need it. Okay, 465 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 2: I'm gonna preach this if you stand up and shout 466 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 2: me down. I'm gonna preach it if you sit there 467 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 2: and sleep, because I can't hold it in. 468 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: It's my calling, it's my assignment. 469 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 2: See if you want to respond, that's nice. But even 470 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 2: if you don't respond, I gotta word from God and 471 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 2: I gotta get it out. This is for all of 472 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 2: you who have been underappreciated in the position you're in. 473 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: You gotta come to the place where you say, you know. 474 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 1: It's nice when. 475 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 2: People think me, it's nice when people notice me. 476 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: But God is my rewarder. 477 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 2: God is my source. 478 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: God is my supply. 479 00:27:54,800 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 2: I don't need it. It'd be nice to have a 480 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 2: date on Valentine's Day, but I don't need it. I'll 481 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: take myself out of Bosta, buy my own shrimp. Okay, 482 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 2: I find somebody to say I don't need it. If 483 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 2: God didn't give it, I don't need it. 484 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: If it's not in my reach, it's not for this season. 485 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 3: And if he let it go, I will too, because 486 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 3: I find out. 487 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: The deeper the valley, the greener the grass, and He. 488 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: Will never lead me to a place that he will 489 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: not feed me, and he will never send me into 490 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: a situation that he does not supply for so Elisha 491 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 2: had the unique ability to go into the same situation 492 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: that others had walked into and seen only. 493 00:28:52,320 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 4: Shortage and see God's supply. Who is this for today? 494 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: You know who I'm worried about. 495 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 2: The one who pretends like they have no need, or 496 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 2: the one who has become so calloused in your heart, 497 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 2: the one who has become so dependent on dysfunctional systems 498 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 2: that cannot feed you in a sustainable way that you 499 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 2: have lost your ability to. 500 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: Come before God and say I need you a broken 501 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: in a contrite heart. 502 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 2: He will not despise, but the arrogant and the proud 503 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 2: he will cast down. 504 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: The prerequisite for supply is that you know your need. 505 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 2: I need you, God, I need you if I see you, 506 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 2: if I seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, all 507 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: these things, these things, see, they're not needs, their things. 508 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 2: All I need is Him and He will supply. 509 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: Oh my needs. 510 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 2: So I've been I've been switching my question a little 511 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 2: bit instead of asking the question what am I missing? 512 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 2: Because I can stay stuck there forever. I'm a broken person. 513 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 2: There are skills I do not have, there are talents 514 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 2: I cannot employ, there are resources I cannot access, and 515 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 2: if I focus on that my whole life, it will 516 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 2: feed my fear and starve my faith, and I will 517 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 2: not receive what Jesus died to give me for every 518 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 2: needy person in the place today, let me give you 519 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 2: a better question. Instead of walking into the situation and 520 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 2: asking the question what am I missing, walk into the 521 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 2: same situation and, instead of asking the question, asked the 522 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: question what am I missing? 523 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: What am I not seeing? 524 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: What is it that God has put in front of me? 525 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 2: What are the weapons that are within my reach that 526 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 2: I am not. 527 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: Seeing? Pro vision in this. 528 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 2: Message freedom, I'm telling you man, because you have been 529 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 2: so stuck in what was weeping at the feet of Elisha. 530 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: He's gone. 531 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 2: Now you have been so stuck in what's not what 532 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 2: you don't have, what you can't do. 533 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: Sweetheart, If I would have made a list. 534 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 2: Of everything I can't do and everything I'm bad at, 535 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 2: there would not be an elevation Church. 536 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,479 Speaker 1: I'm serious, I'm serious. 537 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 2: The Devil's gonna beat me up for preaching to you 538 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 2: like this, because when it gets real like this, I 539 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 2: open myself and sometimes it feels like I'm just opening myself. 540 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 2: But there is so much I wish I could take 541 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: some time and talk to you about my weaknesses. I mean, 542 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 2: there are so many weaknesses that I have, but I 543 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 2: have never allowed my weaknesses to prevent me from using 544 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 2: my weapons. Who am I preaching to? I got a bow, 545 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 2: I got an arrow. I intend to use every arrow 546 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 2: in my quimper. 547 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 548 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 2: So Peter and John are going to the gate called Beautiful. 549 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 2: They're just going to church one day, and along the 550 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: way to church, because destiny will all often disguise itself 551 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 2: as a distraction, that was too quick, they were walking 552 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 2: to church and there was a beggar at the gate 553 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 2: called Beautiful asking them for alms. He was shaking a 554 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 2: cup in their face, asking them for some spare change. 555 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: But how many. 556 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 2: No, God doesn't always give you the kind of change 557 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 2: that you ask for. See, God knows the need beneath 558 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 2: the need, beneath the need, beneath the need, beneath the need, 559 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 2: beneath the need. So this man has been lame since birth. 560 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 2: He's never been able to walk. He's doing the best 561 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 2: that he can. He's in the only place that he 562 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 2: thinks he can get any kind of provision or assistance 563 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 2: at all. And here comes Peter and here comes John, 564 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 2: and apparently they look like the kind. 565 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: Of people who would. 566 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 2: Be willing to help a little bit, And so he 567 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 2: asks him boldly. In fact, the Bible says in verse 568 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 2: two that he saw Peter and John going up to 569 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 2: the temple. Now, if he hadn't in the right place, 570 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 2: he wouldn't have seen his provision. That's why I gotta 571 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 2: come to church, because if I don't get in the 572 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 2: right place, I might miss the provision. I might miss 573 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 2: the word that God wants to give me to fight 574 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 2: the battle that I don't even know about yet. So 575 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 2: I gotta get there. And as he's sitting there, he 576 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 2: sees he sees verse three, he sees Peter and John. 577 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: He sees provision vision. 578 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay right here, provision. And the wipers are 579 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 2: the dolphins, and the dirt is the shark. What do 580 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,479 Speaker 2: you mean, boy, it's a dirty windshield. No, I see 581 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 2: something in it. I see something. I see something. Maybe 582 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 2: that's why he said we need to have faith like 583 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 2: a child. I stopped being so blind to our supply. 584 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: The enemy. 585 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 2: If he can't keep you from seeing the need, then 586 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,439 Speaker 2: he will keep you blind to the supply. And when 587 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 2: he saw Peter come and he said, hook a brother up. 588 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 2: And Peter said, I got good news and bad news. 589 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 2: The good news is I see you look at it. 590 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,959 Speaker 2: It says that not only did the man see Peter 591 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 2: and John, but Peter looked straight at him. I wonder 592 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 2: how many people had passed by him. I wonder how 593 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,319 Speaker 2: many people had stepped over him. I'm not saying that 594 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 2: to make you feel bad. I mean, we all get 595 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 2: in a hurry, and we're never going to be able 596 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 2: to do everything for everyone. 597 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: That's not my point. My point is. 598 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 2: That in this particular passage, the miracle was sitting there 599 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 2: in the form of something that everyone else walked past, 600 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 2: and Peter looked. 601 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: At him, and he was there. 602 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 2: I don't think Peter was the first one to church, 603 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 2: nor was he the last one. But he looked at 604 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 2: him and he saw something. He saw an opportunity disguised. 605 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 2: That's a problem. God is an optometrist. He wants to 606 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 2: fix the way. You see. You've been asking will I 607 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 2: have what it takes? And God is asking will you 608 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 2: take what you've got? Get a bow, get some arrows. 609 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 2: It's right there, it's right there. I mean, God will 610 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 2: hide your provision in plain sight to cause you to 611 00:36:53,800 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 2: seek for him. Sometimes, as men, we God to give 612 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 2: us wisdom, and He hides it in our wives. 613 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: If we'll listen. 614 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 2: I thought I would get some female support and endorsement. 615 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 2: Hidden provision, something you've been walking past. That's what Elisha 616 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 2: was able to do. That's what the window is for, 617 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 2: to see God is working. To see God at work 618 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 2: beneath the surface. God, show me where you're working in 619 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 2: this situation. That's my prayer. I assume that you are. 620 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 2: You're always working. Now open my eyes to see the 621 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 2: miracle already in progress. Touch my eyes so I can 622 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 2: see some of y'all I see around this church have 623 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 2: been with me a long time. 624 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: I've never preached a more annointed sermon than this one. 625 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 2: Right now, God is doing corrective eye surge. This is 626 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 2: like lasick for the soul. Right now, God is trying 627 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,439 Speaker 2: to get you back. You've been looking at situations through 628 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 2: the lens of limitation. But God said today, I'm not 629 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 2: gonna change your situation. 630 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take off. 631 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:19,440 Speaker 2: Your spectacles so you can see your situation through the 632 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 2: lens of my provision. I would have despaired unless I 633 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 2: believe that I would see the goodness of the Lord 634 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 2: in the land of the Living. 635 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 1: You're looking at it wrong. 636 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 2: It's not a dirty windshield of sheam MoU. You've been 637 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:45,760 Speaker 2: praying for patience God sent you preschoolers. Is provision wrapped 638 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 2: in pampers. Y'all better talk to me. I'll preach all day. 639 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,439 Speaker 2: There ain't no parking lot for me to clear. Right now, 640 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 2: I feel on fire with the word of God. Peter 641 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 2: looked at the man, and where others saw an inconvenience, 642 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 2: he an opportunity. And he looks straight at him. Open 643 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 2: the east window, looks straight at the thing that's in 644 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 2: your way. 645 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: Don't divert your. 646 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 2: Attention, don't distract yourself. Look at it, see it for 647 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 2: what it is, see it for what it can be. 648 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 2: And then he spoke to it. First he saw it, 649 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,839 Speaker 2: and then he spoke to it. And Peter looked at 650 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 2: the man, and then Peter told the man, look at us. 651 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 2: You see a common theme in this passage. Every good 652 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:40,280 Speaker 2: thing that happened happened by virtue of perspective provision for 653 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 2: the vision, pro vision vocabulary lesson pro for vision sight. 654 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,359 Speaker 2: I want to see how God is working this for 655 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,440 Speaker 2: the good of those who love him. God is for me, 656 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 2: not against me. I just got to open my eyes 657 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 2: to see it. And the man was expecting something that 658 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,759 Speaker 2: was much less than what God was willing to give. 659 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:21,919 Speaker 1: Could that be you notice what happened? Man? 660 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 2: This part got good to me when I was preaching 661 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 2: it over at the nine point thirty. 662 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: And I hope I can do it right now. I'm closing. 663 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 2: I really am closing kind of, that's sort of in 664 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 2: my own little way. 665 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 1: Oh man, if I could get you. 666 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,319 Speaker 2: To see this, God, help me say it like I 667 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 2: see it, because I see it. 668 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 1: I see it. 669 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 2: I see that he wanted to get something, but first 670 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 2: he had to give something. Look at verse five, the 671 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 2: man gave them his attention. What if it's not about 672 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 2: what you're not getting that is causing you to live 673 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,239 Speaker 2: in a state of shortage. What if the windows are 674 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 2: closed because you wouldn't open them. 675 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: And God will test you on this. 676 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 2: He will test you on this because He does not 677 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 2: want you dependent on sources of energy or affirmation that are. 678 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 1: Not connected to his heart. 679 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,120 Speaker 2: And he will let a brook dry up so that 680 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 2: you'll move on and realize it wasn't the birds that 681 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 2: were feeding you to begin with. 682 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: It was him. 683 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,800 Speaker 2: It was him. He is my supply in every season 684 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 2: for whoever the three people are that I'm preaching this to. 685 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 2: When he gave them his attention, God exceeded his expectation. 686 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 2: He expected to get something from them. And I don't 687 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 2: know what you're expecting God to do in the season 688 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 2: of your life that he won't do yet, because usually 689 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,440 Speaker 2: when we ask God for change, what we really want 690 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 2: him to change is the situation, not ourselves. Sometimes when 691 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 2: I preach, I don't feel anything. Sometimes I feel something. 692 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,600 Speaker 2: And the times when I didn't feel anything, I used 693 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 2: to think something was wrong, and God spoke to me 694 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 2: really very clearly. It's louder than out loud. It's not 695 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,479 Speaker 2: out loud, it's louder than that. You know what I'm saying. 696 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 2: It's like the sense that you know. God said, the 697 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,480 Speaker 2: reason you don't feel anything is cause I want to 698 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 2: set you free from the need to feel it. To 699 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:43,239 Speaker 2: do it, I don't need you to feel. I need 700 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,719 Speaker 2: you to preach. I want you to depend on the 701 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:52,360 Speaker 2: feeling of my presence. I want you to see it 702 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:53,880 Speaker 2: when you can't feel it. I want you to know 703 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:59,120 Speaker 2: it when the sensation of your emotions do not confirm it. 704 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,080 Speaker 2: And sometimes God will bypass. 705 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,120 Speaker 1: What you want. 706 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 2: To give you what you need now in Him who's 707 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:11,800 Speaker 2: able to do measurably more. 708 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 1: Than we ask or imagine. 709 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,359 Speaker 2: We always think that that versus pointing upward, he's able 710 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 2: to do exceeding abundantly beyond all we ask or imagine. 711 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: And I believe it is that the aral victory is 712 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,360 Speaker 1: flying over Aaron. But what if that verse works both ways? 713 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,800 Speaker 2: What if he wants to do something deeper than what 714 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:36,040 Speaker 2: I'm asking him to do? Deep work? I want to 715 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:41,759 Speaker 2: do a deeper work. I don't just want to give 716 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 2: you people in your life to encourage you. I want 717 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 2: to teach you how to encourage others. 718 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,279 Speaker 1: I learned how to fight the devil. If nobody texts. 719 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,439 Speaker 2: Me to encourage, I go to work on my own 720 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,760 Speaker 2: contacts and I start finding people. See I'm teaching the devil. 721 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,640 Speaker 2: Don't mess with me, because I'll cut off your head 722 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:19,839 Speaker 2: with your own sword. You discourage me, and I'll encourage them. 723 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: And Peter said, I'm not going to give you what 724 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,719 Speaker 1: you want. I don't have it. 725 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:29,080 Speaker 2: I don't have what you think you need. But such 726 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:34,960 Speaker 2: as I have, I give unto you. In the name 727 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:43,680 Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Get a bow, get some arrows, 728 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,680 Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The name 729 00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,879 Speaker 2: above every name, the name above every need. 730 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:53,280 Speaker 1: Who's this message? 731 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 2: For God is reaching his hand. 732 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: Out to you. 733 00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 2: God is reaching his hand out to you. 734 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:00,960 Speaker 1: Will you receive it? 735 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 2: Right now? In the name of Jesus Christ, the Master. 736 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:07,720 Speaker 1: Get up and walked. 737 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,560 Speaker 2: The man wanted a meal, but he got a miracle. 738 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:16,760 Speaker 2: Now unto him who is able to do impassably walk 739 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:33,200 Speaker 2: it shall provide, shall supply all my needs, the ones 740 00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:38,239 Speaker 2: I see, the ones I don't see. The Spirit of 741 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 2: the Lord is in this place today to meet every need. 742 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:41,799 Speaker 1: I said. 743 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 2: The Spirit of the Lord is in this place today. 744 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,120 Speaker 1: Rock Hill, the spirit of the Lord. 745 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 2: Blaytney Balentide Matthews. 746 00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,880 Speaker 1: The Spirit of the Lord is in this place. 747 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,680 Speaker 2: God's hand cannot bless your clenched fist. 748 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:15,240 Speaker 1: God, What am I walking past? What am I walking past? 749 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:21,120 Speaker 2: I keep talking about my limitation? What am I walking past? 750 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:25,560 Speaker 1: Silver and gold? Have I none? I keep weeping over 751 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,760 Speaker 1: the season that is behind me? What am I missing 752 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 1: that's right in front of me? Can we flip it? 753 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: This week? 754 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,080 Speaker 2: Faith flips the question to know that God has placed 755 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:39,880 Speaker 2: his provision. 756 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: That's what it means, provision for before you even got there. 757 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,680 Speaker 2: He put the supply in the situation, and you have. 758 00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,880 Speaker 1: To see it. I got a close. 759 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,440 Speaker 2: If you receive this message today, lift both your hands 760 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,759 Speaker 2: in the air. Just lift your hands to your Father, 761 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,640 Speaker 2: our Father who art in heaven. Halloween, be your name, 762 00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,200 Speaker 2: your Kingdom. Come, Your will be done on earth as 763 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,359 Speaker 2: it is in heaven. And give us this stay, our 764 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,120 Speaker 2: daily bread. Give us this stay, our daily bread. We 765 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 2: believe that you will feed us what we need for 766 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,320 Speaker 2: the season that we're in. Pray that after me, feed 767 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:20,080 Speaker 2: me what I need for the season that I'm in. 768 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,680 Speaker 1: God, we trust you in this moment. 769 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,040 Speaker 2: We receive in this moment the grace that we need 770 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,840 Speaker 2: for the calling that we have received. 771 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:35,640 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 772 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,400 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 773 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,960 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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