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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these.

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Speaker 1: New sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, it's good to see you.

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Speaker 1: I want to do something kind of interesting today. I

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Speaker 1: want to preach off of that song we were just singing.

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Speaker 1: I want to preach on trust in God. Would it

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Speaker 1: be all right if I expound a little bit on

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Speaker 1: what we were just preaching. I'm gonna show you where

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Speaker 1: that came from what you were just singing. And that

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Speaker 1: is such a great confession to make. I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and he heard and he answered. I want you to

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Speaker 1: put all of that right now in your heart. I

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Speaker 1: sought the Lord and he heard and he answered. And

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Speaker 1: if you're watching online, I want you to put it

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Speaker 1: in the comments.

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Speaker 3: Does anybody have a phone?

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Speaker 1: I can pull up YouTube and make sure they're doing

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Speaker 1: what I'm telling them to do. Cole, go to the

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Speaker 1: Elevation Church YouTube make sure they're following instructions. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: our epham around the world. Let's thank God for our

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Speaker 1: family all around the world joining us right now. I

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Speaker 1: think that that was like a six out of ten welcome.

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Speaker 1: I think we could give them a better welcome than that.

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Speaker 1: Let's warm it up.

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Speaker 3: You got it, you got the comments. There is my

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Speaker 3: marketing director right there. He was on it.

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Speaker 1: He was ready. Wasn't elevation? Night's incredible cold? Yeah, just incredible.

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Speaker 3: Everybody in here is a little salty.

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Speaker 1: They're jealous they didn't get to come out to Toronto

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Speaker 1: or Kansas City one day. I'm going to load the

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Speaker 1: whole church up. You remember how Oprah used to take

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Speaker 1: everybody to Australia one day. I'm gonna load the whole

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Speaker 1: church up. Take y'all all eight nights, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to quit your job and believe God for a paycheck,

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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna take you away for two weeks. I

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Speaker 1: almost took today off to rest. I just got in

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Speaker 1: late last night. But the Lord wanted me to release

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Speaker 1: this word today, so I came on to church to preach.

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Speaker 1: I know his voice. I've been doing this a long time.

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Speaker 1: I know when he wants me to preach, and he

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Speaker 1: wanted me in my pulpit today, so I came over.

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Speaker 1: It's good to see you. I love y'all. If I

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Speaker 1: say anything inappropriate, blame it on the sleep deprivation. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's my explicit sermon, moarning like they have on the

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Speaker 1: album explicit. Yeah, they're doing it all right, there go

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Speaker 1: things cool. I just had to make sure y'all were

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Speaker 1: there because this is gonna be very powerful from one

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Speaker 1: of the most beautiful psalms in the Bible, Psalm thirty four.

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Speaker 1: And hey, I'm doing it in the King James version.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh. I just wanted to warn the devil I'm

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Speaker 1: coming from King James today so he can go ahead

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Speaker 1: and clear the building. This is.

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Speaker 3: This is the psalm. I'm gonna give you eight verses

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Speaker 3: of it.

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Speaker 1: Say it. I sought the Lord, and he heard, and

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Speaker 1: he answered, I will bless the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: His praise shall continually. Don't get ahead of me on

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Speaker 1: the scripture, follow the preacher. His phrase shall continually be

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Speaker 1: in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in

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Speaker 1: the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Oh,

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Speaker 1: magnify the Lord with me. Come on, don't watch me

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Speaker 1: like I'm a movie. Magnify him with me. There's no

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Speaker 1: popcorn here today. This is not big. George Foreman this

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Speaker 1: is a house of God. Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

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Speaker 1: and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

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Speaker 1: They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces

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Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord in campeth round about them that

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Speaker 1: fear him, and delivereth them. Oh, taste and see that

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Speaker 1: the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about trust in God.

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Speaker 1: Father. Our faith is in you, our hope is in you,

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Speaker 1: our confidence is in you. You will never fail. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I thank you that as high as the heavens are

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Speaker 1: every need in this room, at our campuses all over

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Speaker 1: the world. As this word goes forth, thank you in

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Speaker 1: advance for answering the prayers of your people, even the

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Speaker 1: We expect miracles today in your name, in your presence,

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Speaker 1: by your word, by your hand, in Jesus' name, I pray.

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Speaker 1: Everybody said together, Amen, Amen, you may be seated. I

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Speaker 1: trust in God. I trust in God. I love watching

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Speaker 1: you worship. I love it. I'm sorry if that sounds creepy,

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Speaker 1: like I'm a stalker, but I just it's one of

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Speaker 1: sing to your God, so much so that I spend

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Speaker 1: half of my time in my job writing songs for

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Speaker 1: you to sing with our team. The song that we

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Speaker 1: just put out, called trust in God, was a song

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Speaker 1: that came quickly and then slowly quickly in the initial draft,

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Speaker 1: slowly in the revisions. But to hear you sing it,

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Speaker 1: it was worth every rewrite. It's really beautiful when you

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Speaker 1: take something straight out of scripture. And I think I

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Speaker 1: told you a few weeks ago, or I don't remember

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Speaker 1: if I just said this on one of my basin recordings.

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Speaker 1: I do these little recordings that I only send to

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Speaker 1: don't remember where I said this, or if you know

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Speaker 1: this or not but my job is to put God's

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Speaker 1: word in your heart. That's my job. And sometimes it'll

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Speaker 1: have a melody to it. Sometimes it'll be nice and calm.

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Speaker 1: I just finished making you another one of those tracks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll remember when I used to

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Speaker 1: do these hype tracks that you could listen to at

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Speaker 1: I just finished this new one. It's lethal you're going

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Speaker 1: to be able to do eighty five close script pushups

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Speaker 1: when you listen to this consecutively.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 1: But then when God gives our church a song that

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Speaker 1: comes straight from the Word of God, I think that's

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Speaker 1: wonderful because if I tell you go memorize these scriptures, you're.

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Speaker 3: Like a a lank homework. I'm not good at memory.

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Speaker 1: You memorize every single football player that was on your

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Speaker 1: pretend lineup, but you can't memorize the Bible. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not mad about it. I didn't mean for that

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Speaker 3: But I didn't mean it mean.

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Speaker 1: If we put it in a way that you can

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Speaker 1: sing it, I sought the Lord, and he heard, and

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Speaker 1: he answered, Well, you were singing scripture, so you did

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Speaker 1: scripture memory today. So gold star A plus. If you

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Speaker 3: You memorize that scripture.

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Speaker 1: I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered,

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Speaker 1: he delivered me from all my fear. And this is

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Speaker 1: not only a little verse, but it's from one of

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Speaker 1: the most poetic pieces of literature that you could ever study.

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Speaker 1: You see, Psalm thirty four is an acrostic poem where

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Speaker 1: the Hebrew alphabet. You don't get that from the English

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Speaker 1: because we don't speak Hebrew. So I mean, it's still beautiful,

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Speaker 1: But imagine how we would be shouting if we really

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Speaker 1: think it's David. I mean, who can do this? Every

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Speaker 1: how to trust God in our own situations. While the

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Speaker 3: Like to trust in God.

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Speaker 1: So whenever this was written, it was not written while

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Speaker 1: the author was going through his struggle, because nobody can

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Speaker 1: pray in alphabetical order when they're going through hell. You

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Speaker 1: don't pray alphabetical prayers when you have three different bills

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Speaker 3: And you can't pay any of them.

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Speaker 1: You don't pray alphabetic prayers when your kids are acting

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Speaker 1: You don't say words like I sought the Lord when

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't say I trusteth the Lord. In

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Speaker 1: that I bequeathed my trust unto the divine. But when

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Speaker 1: So it brings me to the question what does it

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Speaker 1: Let me teach it just a little bit. When he

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Speaker 3: Instead, he is.

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Speaker 1: Probably talking about a type of seeking God that doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to do with going to a phsy location. But

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Speaker 1: mind is not a singular state of mind, because he says,

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Speaker 1: give me verse four again, let's take it apart. Let's

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Speaker 1: break it down. Let's find out what we were singing about.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing to sing it, but I don't need

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Speaker 1: you just to sing it. I need you to really

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Speaker 1: get it in your spirit. Kill those monitors back there,

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Speaker 1: because I can hear it. It has given me a little

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Speaker 1: I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered

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Speaker 1: he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. Well,

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Speaker 3: Show you what it looks like to really trust God.

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Speaker 1: David took these words to heart and was very much

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Speaker 1: afraid of Akish. Akish is not a name, Akesh is

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Speaker 1: a title. It's like Pharaoh or something like that. For

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Speaker 1: the Philistine rulers. He was very much afraid of Akish,

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Speaker 1: King of God. Watch what he did. He sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: so he pretended to be insane in their presence. Repeat

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Speaker 1: after me. David went crazy. I will bless the Lord.

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Speaker 3: At all times. If this is David.

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Speaker 1: Blessing the Lord, watch, watch, watch King David. Back up

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Speaker 1: on the screen, y'all. He pretended to be insane in

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Speaker 1: their presence, and while he was in their hands.

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Speaker 3: He acted like a madman, making marks on.

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Speaker 1: The doors of the gate and letting saliva run down

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Speaker 1: his beard. I thought about acting this out. I prayed

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Speaker 1: about it. The Lord said, let them use their imagination occasionally.

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Speaker 3: But you get the picture. He's running from Saul.

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Speaker 1: And he's seeking the Lord, with saliva running down his beard,

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Speaker 1: scratching the door, trying to get out of a situation

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Speaker 1: that he really doesn't have an answer for yet. I

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Speaker 1: felt compelled to show you that picture for several reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: you feel like you're going crazy right now, not everybody,

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Speaker 1: but some of you. So when we sing I sought

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Speaker 1: the Lord and he heard. You are not yet sure

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Speaker 1: about he heard yet, And to be honest, you're really

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Speaker 1: not sure if you're seeking him because sometimes you don't

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Speaker 1: feel like you're seeking him. Because not everybody that listens

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Speaker 1: to me preach has a three hour prayer time every morning.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody who listens to me preach quotes the Bible

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Speaker 1: in Hebrew across tics. Not everybody that listens to me

463
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Speaker 1: preach goes home and listens to elevation worship as they

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Speaker 1: walk around the kitchen, blessing the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: Even this morning, I was pretty tired, so on my

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Speaker 1: way to church, I listened to Metallica. Sorry, I needed

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Speaker 1: something to wake me up, just one song and then

468
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Speaker 1: I switched to worship. But I needed James Hetfield to

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Speaker 1: get me started. I'm sorry, I just needed energy. It

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Speaker 1: was early and I'm low on sleep, and it helped me.

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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you that because sometimes we talk so

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Speaker 1: fancy about faith. I soaped the Lord, did you? Or

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Speaker 1: it's guilty? And me? He's like, you're not seeking God.

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Speaker 7: You don't pray enough, you don't worship enough, you don't

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Speaker 7: praise Him enough, you don't really love him.

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Speaker 1: David's got spit in his beard in enemy territory and

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Speaker 1: he's talking about I sought the Lord. So before you

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Speaker 1: get ashamed of the fact that sometimes it feels like

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Speaker 1: you're losing your mind, can we celebrate the fact that

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Speaker 1: at least you're losing it in church. At least you're

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Speaker 1: losing it in a room with some other crazy Christians

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning when it was raining just enough

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Speaker 1: to tell you I'm not going, but just said, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm going.

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Speaker 7: I'm not going crazy without God. Don't you love knowing that?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, technical difficulties trying to stop me from preaching today.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, sometimes in my life I have

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Speaker 1: found that it is when I am in the sloppiest,

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Speaker 1: most scramble. They used to say that I preached better jetlagged,

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Speaker 1: and I said, I wonder why that is because my

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Speaker 1: mind wasn't in the way so much, because I would

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Speaker 1: just let it come from the spirit. And then they say, well,

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Speaker 1: just let the spirit flow through you. Easier said than done.

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Speaker 1: And I think seeking God is like that sometimes, because

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Speaker 1: the question becomes when we say I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: what to sought? Even mean? It doesn't mean just that

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Speaker 1: I went to church. It doesn't mean just that I

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Speaker 1: sung a song. It doesn't sang a song. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean just that I quoted a Bible verse. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean just that I had a wish. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: just that I made it a prayer request. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean just that I had a desire. It means something

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Speaker 1: very different to David, because he wrote that about a

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Speaker 1: situation where spit was running down his beard and he

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Speaker 1: had no idea what was next. That's where some of

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Speaker 1: you are today, and when you go to pray about it,

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Speaker 1: you don't really feel like you.

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Speaker 3: Get a clear answer.

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Speaker 1: And there are some things that you're singing. I sought

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Speaker 1: the Lord, and he heard and he answered, And there

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Speaker 1: are some things that you're singing. I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and I hope he heard. But right now now I

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Speaker 1: don't see any evidence to support the conclusion that he heard.

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Speaker 1: Because when Jesus was asleep on the boat and they said, Master,

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Speaker 1: don't you care? It lets me know that there will

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Speaker 1: be times in my life where it will appear that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't hear me, and I will conclude that he

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Speaker 1: doesn't care. But in some of these spaces, your seeking

519
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Speaker 1: is defined by what you do in the space between.

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Speaker 3: When you seek him and when he says yes.

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Speaker 1: So if you are there today and it's not a

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Speaker 1: pretty situation, the psalmist wants you to know that one

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Speaker 1: of the most beautiful psalms in the Bible came from

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Speaker 1: one of the ugliest situations and some of the most

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Speaker 1: beautiful testimonies that you will have in your life. Where

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Speaker 1: you will be singing two years from now. I sought

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Speaker 1: the Lord back in April twenty twenty three, I was

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Speaker 1: standing in church singing. I sought the Lord, and I

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Speaker 1: was seeking him, but I couldn't see him, and I

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Speaker 1: was groping but I couldn't feel him, and I was

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Speaker 1: stretching my hands in faith, but I didn't feel it.

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Speaker 1: And I sought him, and there was a space for David.

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Speaker 1: There was a seven year space. Did you hear what

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Speaker 1: I just said, Not seven minutes, not seven months, seven

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Speaker 1: years that Saw chased him, seven years that he made

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Speaker 1: his home in caves, seven years that he dealt with depression.

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Speaker 1: You say David wasn't depressed. He blessed the Lord at

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Speaker 1: all times. Thank God, I've got a Bible. I don't

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Speaker 1: just have to go off of one little verse. Look

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Speaker 1: what David did. One time he ran to the King

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Speaker 1: of Death. He lets spit run down his beard, so

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Speaker 1: the king let him go. A period of five more

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Speaker 1: years elapses, Saul is still chasing him. Three times. David

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Speaker 1: has the opportunity to take matters in his own hands

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Speaker 1: and kill Saul, but he won't do it because he

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Speaker 1: trust in God. Three times he could take him out,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't do it because he said I trust

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Speaker 1: in God. He's not saying I trust in God meaning

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Speaker 1: I never feel fear. He told you I had fear.

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Speaker 1: That disturbed me to my core. It wasn't a feeling

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Speaker 1: of trust. It was a decision of trust. It was

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Speaker 1: a decision to keep doing it God's way despite the

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Speaker 1: evidence that God's way wasn't working. So David has It's

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Speaker 1: been seven years he's been running from this guy. It's

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Speaker 1: been three times he was close enough to kill him.

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Speaker 1: One time he caught Saul going to the bathroom in

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Speaker 1: a cave. That is a vulnerable position to be in.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, for me, I probably would have

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Speaker 1: just ended it right there. If I see the king

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Speaker 1: who's been trying to kill me, and he's in the

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Speaker 1: process of relieving himself. I am going to relieve him

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Speaker 1: of his duties as king and kill him so I

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Speaker 1: can get some relief from the situation. But David said,

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Speaker 1: I trust God. It's got to be his timing. It's

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Speaker 1: got to be his way, it's gotta be his route,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be his means, it's got to be

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Speaker 1: his strength, it's gotta be his power. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: do this David's way. I'm gonna do it God's way,

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Speaker 1: because if it's God's will, if it's God's hand, if

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Speaker 1: it's God's favor, then I can have God's strength to

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Speaker 1: support me as I go through each season. Trust in God.

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Speaker 1: Talk about ugly trust. You're in a cave with a

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Speaker 1: king who is defecating while he is trying to decapitate you,

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Speaker 1: and you have the opportunity to kill him, but you

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Speaker 1: walk away. One time, he stole Saul's water jug and

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Speaker 1: his spear just to show him I could kill you,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't leave me alone. Why do you keep

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Speaker 1: messing with me? Why do you keep doing this? And

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Speaker 1: Saul shouts back to him. He says, oh, David, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for sparing my life. You're gonna do

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Speaker 1: great things. Nothing like encouragement from somebody who tracked you

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Speaker 1: out into the desert to kill you. That'll bless you.

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Speaker 1: God's gonna do great things through you, David. And look

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Speaker 1: what the Bible says about David who trust in God. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to bring you into a conversation today to

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Speaker 1: let you know that this trusting God thing is trickier

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Speaker 1: than it sounds on the surface, and that none of

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Speaker 1: us totally trust God all the time like we wish

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Speaker 1: we did. That all of us have this back and

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Speaker 1: forth battle. If I can't get you to see anything

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Speaker 1: other than that, today I did my job because when

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Speaker 1: you go into those moments where you toggle between trusting

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Speaker 1: God and having a I don't know what you call

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Speaker 1: these moments, but I call these moments humanity. I don't

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Speaker 1: call these moments moments of weakness anymore. I call them

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Speaker 1: moments of humanity. And they don't mean I don't love God.

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Speaker 1: And these moments don't mean I don't trust Him. But

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Speaker 1: we're in a world where we're having to figure things

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Speaker 1: out by step and faith is not always fancy. I

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Speaker 1: don't always seeketh him, if I don't always have a

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Speaker 1: king James courage. Sometimes I'm caught in conflict this or

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Speaker 1: that or the other. Okay, God, maybe it's option. See so, David,

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Speaker 1: I just want to bring you up to date with

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Speaker 1: what it means when he says I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and he heard and delivered me from all my fears.

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Speaker 1: When Saul told David after seven years of David running,

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Speaker 1: he said, God's going to do great things for you. David,

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Speaker 1: You're a better man than me. Thank you for not

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Speaker 1: killing me. Look what David did for Samuel twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: verse one. But David thought to himself, one of these

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Speaker 1: days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul.

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Speaker 1: Read it again, He thought to himself, Saul's gonna kill me.

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Speaker 1: The same guy who said I sought the Lord and

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Speaker 1: the answer thought to himself, I'm gonna die. What have

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Speaker 1: you been thinking to yourself? I am not done with

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Speaker 1: that verse. Put it back on the screen. They're trying

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Speaker 1: to take me out of this scripture so quick today.

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Speaker 1: Let's stay here a minute. I'm not scared of the

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable silence, are you?

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Speaker 3: Y'all?

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Speaker 1: Don't intimidate me looking at me like you always seek

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Speaker 1: the Lord.

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Speaker 3: I know you don't I know you seek some other

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Speaker 3: stuff too, in some other places. Don't make me prophesy.

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Speaker 1: I will get specific. The Lord will show me. You're

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Speaker 1: seeking some food in the pantry, stress eating at night,

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Speaker 1: seeking some comfort on some different websites, stuff too. But

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Speaker 1: I want you to know something about all of that.

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Speaker 1: I don't say that to shame you. I say that

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Speaker 1: to show you that famous David spear dodging. David got

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Speaker 1: to a point of seven years of waiting where he

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Speaker 1: thought to himself, one of these days I will be

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Speaker 1: destroyed by the hand of Saul, and this phrase, Oh God,

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Speaker 1: this is why I got up here today. This is

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Speaker 1: why I flew in Layton, got up early and listened

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Speaker 1: to Metallica to appreciate you. Y'all didn't like that I

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Speaker 1: listened to metallic I got. I could tell you a judgment.

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Speaker 1: I don't care sought the Lord. Watch me, watch me,

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Speaker 1: watch me, watch me. David thought to himself. One of

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Speaker 1: these days I will be destroyed. I will bless the

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Speaker 1: Lord and Author. David thought to himself, one of these

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Speaker 1: days a praise shall continually. It's kind of hard for

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Speaker 1: God's praise to continually be in my mouth when this

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Speaker 1: God keeps trying to kill me. It's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: for God's praise to be in my mouth when my

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Speaker 1: life keeps going backwards. It's kind of hard for God's

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Speaker 1: prayse to be in my mouth right now? That's okay,

648
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Speaker 1: David thought to himself. One of these days, and I

649
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: know we have a lot of thoughts about the future.

650
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Speaker 1: You know, one of these days this is gonna catch

651
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Speaker 1: up with me. I can't keep doing this. I can't

652
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Speaker 1: keep going like this. I can't keep holding out like this.

653
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Speaker 1: I can't keep I can't keep I can't I'm doing

654
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: pretty good right now, but I can't keep running like this.

655
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: I can't keep pretending like everything's okay. David thought to himself,

656
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: This does not end well for me. How could you

657
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: think that, David, you have the promise of God? How

658
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: could you think that, David, you had the oil of

659
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: the annoying thing from the prophet Samuel that was on you.

660
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: Don't you remember he said he would raise you up?

661
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: How can you think that, David? Because seeking God doesn't

662
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: mean you will never think fearful thoughts. Seeking God does

663
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: not mean that you will never feel like you're going crazy.

664
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: The truth is Nobody knows what you really go through.

665
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what you really pushed through. Nobody knows all

666
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: the things that you didn't say that would have been

667
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: worse than the thing that you said that you had

668
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: to apologize for. Nobody really knows how crazy it is,

669
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: how close you came to quitting, how much you struggle

670
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 1: with feeling like enough, how much, how hard it has

671
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: been for you to fight for these fourteen months of sobriety,

672
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: how hard it has been for you to continue to

673
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: go home to a situation where you're underappreciated, at a

674
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: job where you're undervalued. Nobody knows. But he heard.

675
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 8: He heard when you cry, he heard when you prayed,

676
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 8: He heard when you said I can't He said I

677
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 8: can't heard.

678
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: What a word for somebody who has felt like you're

679
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: going crazy. You're not going crazy. You're building faith. See

680
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: you're building faith. You're getting strong in your spirit, You're

681
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: getting strong in your beliefs. You're learning to walk not

682
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: by what you see, but by what God spoke. Jesus.

683
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find five people who really need this word.

684
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find five people. Now give me my

685
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: verse one more time and David thought to himself, one

686
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: of these days I will be destroyed by the hand

687
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: of Saul.

688
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 3: The fear is real.

689
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: When he said he delivered me from all my fear,

690
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't mean he kept me from feeling it.

691
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 3: It was on a loop in his head.

692
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: He thought to himself that the language means he continued thinking.

693
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: If he didn't think this once, he thought it so

694
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: many times that he began to believe that the lie

695
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: was true. Because Saul couldn't kill him, because God had

696
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: crowned him. Who needed to hear that Saul can't kill you.

697
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: God called you.

698
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 3: You know what the Bible says.

699
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 1: It says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God,

700
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: that He may lift you up in due time. But

701
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: it's been seven years and David doesn't see a clear

702
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: path to what God has committed to him.

703
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 3: So he thought to himself, one day, Saul's.

704
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: Going to kill me. And here's the phrase, the best

705
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: thing I can do. Everybody say that the best thing

706
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: I can do. What this means is David's situation is

707
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: not ideal and yours may not be either. That you're

708
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 1: looking at a range of options where you really want

709
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: God to do this but it's not happening. So David says,

710
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: the best thing I can do is escape to the

711
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: land of the Philistines. It's not where he wanted to be,

712
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: It's just the place he had to go. For now,

713
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: everybody say, next, I don't know how God is going

714
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: to deal with Saul. Some of you are awaiting legal

715
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: verdicts right now. Some of you are awaiting resolution to

716
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: relational situations. Some of you are waiting to see if

717
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: you're going to have to move or not. Some of

718
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: you are waiting to see what the doctor says in

719
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: three weeks, and you're waiting for that. So I wanted

720
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: to get this in your spirit as a new way

721
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: to look at what it means to seek the Lord.

722
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: To seek the Lord doesn't mean that you will know

723
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 1: exactly what He's going to do every step along the way.

724
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: David said, the best thing I can do is to

725
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: go to the land of the Philistines and to escape there,

726
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: and then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere

727
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: in Israel and I will slip out of his hand.

728
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 3: Is it possible that.

729
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 1: David in this moment isn't even really sure where God's

730
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: hand is working? But all he knows is I've got

731
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: to get out of here. And when he says I

732
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: sought the Lord, he's referring back to this incident where

733
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: he had to go to the Philistines, the enemies that

734
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: he wanted to kill, and live with them for a

735
00:49:56,120 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: season while he waited for God to do what he

736
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: had promised to do. And is it possible that you

737
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: are in a season right now where you're seeking the Lord,

738
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: but he hasn't exactly shown you what's going to happen

739
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: in a sequence of events that you can logically understand.

740
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: So the word of the Lord for you is what

741
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: is the next best thing for you to do? The

742
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: next best thing? Because for David, what he really wanted

743
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: was to be the leader of Israel. But sometimes you

744
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: can't do exactly what you want to do, and sometimes

745
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: the will that God has for you is still in

746
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: the process of unfolding. And sometimes the person that you're

747
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: supposed to marry hasn't even moved to Charlotte yet. And

748
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: sometimes the job that you're supposed to have isn't even

749
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 1: opened yet. So you get rejected three times for jobs

750
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: that you think you'd be a perfect fit for. But

751
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: the truth is if you got that job, it would

752
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: become a snare to you for the door that God

753
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: is going to open. I'm talking about trusting him. I'm

754
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: talking about trusting him. I'm talking about I sought the

755
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: Lord and there was a space and I didn't know

756
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: if he heard. So what did David do? The next

757
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: best thing. I would love to be fighting Sauls battles

758
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: right now. I would love to be killing Philistines like

759
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: I did with Goliath. I would love to be taking

760
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: my kids to school every day, but I only get

761
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: to see him every other weekend right now. So when

762
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: I get him every other weekend, I'm gonna make that

763
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: count because that's the next best thing. I would love

764
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: to have somebody to take long walks on the beach with,

765
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,720
Speaker 1: but I don't have somebody and I don't have a beach,

766
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get on this treadmill and get a

767
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: podcast and take myself on a walk, because that's the

768
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: next best thing. I would love to have a heeled

769
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: body right now, so I could be in church with

770
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen. But right now I can't leave the house

771
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 1: because I'm confined to this bed. But I'm gonna lift

772
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: my hands because even though I can't get out of

773
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: this bed, I'm gonna do the next best thing.

774
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 7: I would love to be further along in.

775
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: My finances by now, but I did just say it

776
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: in that season because nobody taught me. But I'm trusted God.

777
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: Can I've ever see.

778
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 7: The rights forsaken nor seed begging bread. So I'm gonna

779
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 7: do the next best thing. I'm gonna get.

780
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: In what I'm I can't trust him with one of

781
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: them knocks, I will bless the law.

782
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 7: That all God, good times bad God.

783
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: As fall in silence. I'd love to be out of

784
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: this prison, but they didn't release me yet. So let's

785
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: do the next best thing. You praise him on the

786
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: first first, I'll raise him on the second. First. You

787
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: sing the chorus, I'll sing the bruise. I'm gonna do

788
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: what he gave me to do with what I've got

789
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: to do with Yes, sir, the next best thing for you,

790
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: that's all you gotta do. You have to figure out

791
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: the next fifty things. That's God's job. He said, you're

792
00:53:54,800 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: fired from trying to be God. And I just want

793
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: you to think about it. I just want you to

794
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: think about it. What's the next best thing you can do.

795
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: Go complain about it, or praise him like he already knows.

796
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: What's the next best thing. I sought the Lord. Oh

797
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: it wasn't pretty. My fears were terrible. The word fears

798
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: that he uses is only used three other times in

799
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: the Bible. It is a state so intense that it's

800
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: only used three times in the Bible.

801
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 3: It means horror.

802
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: He said, I was in a horrible place, a lonely place,

803
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: an isolated place. I was talking to a brother yesterday.

804
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: He said, I'm creative, but I can't find anybody to

805
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: collaborate with. I wanted to tell him, well, the next

806
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: best thing is going to be you got to open

807
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: up some kind of app on your phone and just

808
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: start collaborating with your phone. Y'all don't want me to

809
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: teach this because we just want. We want, We want magic,

810
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: wand God.

811
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:14,720
Speaker 3: We want.

812
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: I sought the Lord any hurt? I saw the herd?

813
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: But sometimes should I do it? Should I do it?

814
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: I can save it. I can save it. I plan

815
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: to be here next week. I can save it. I

816
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: can say that you want to now, you want to

817
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: next week? Do you want it now? Or do you

818
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: want to next week? Do you want it right now

819
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: while I'm freshly annointed with this holy sphory to break

820
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: a saint off of you going I can't go here,

821
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: I can't go there. I don't have a degree. I

822
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: can't start the business. I can't get out of the contract.

823
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have signed the lease. Why don't you just

824
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: turn the apartment you're in into a habitation of a

825
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: holy God while you wait on another one.

826
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 4: Because the next best thing for you to do is

827
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 4: connected to the next thing that God is going to

828
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 4: do that you don't even know about yet.

829
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: God killed Saul. David didn't have to. Oh, oh, oh,

830
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: it's better than that. You don't even know how good

831
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: God is. Saul fell on his own sword. So you

832
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: do the next right thing. You have integrity, you have character.

833
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: You just move on. You forgive you be bigger than that.

834
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: You look back and forth with Saul. What a word?

835
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: What a word? What a word? It's hard for me

836
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: to preach it to you while the Holy Spirit is

837
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: still giving it to me. I'm just trying to decide, Lord,

838
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: what should be said out loud and what should I ponder?

839
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: Because he said they don't know what they're singing the

840
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: power of it. When they say I sought the Lord,

841
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: they think that's what they're doing only in church right now.

842
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: But this seeking the Lord thing is sometimes gonna look

843
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: like you spitting and scratching. Nobody really knows what it's

844
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: like to be on those tours except Holly. Nobody knows

845
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: what it's really like to look up at an arena

846
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: full of people and go, Jesus, this is wonderful. And

847
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm terrified, except the woman that was back there with

848
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: me two hours before. When I'm saying, it feels like

849
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: razor blades in my vocal chords, and I don't want

850
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: these people to feel cheated tonight. I don't want it

851
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: to feel stale tonight. And I don't feel like I

852
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: have the energy. And sometimes before you preach, you feel

853
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: like you get the flu, but it's not in your body,

854
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: is in your mind. And for her to be with me,

855
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 1: she'll say come over here, and sometimes she'll just put

856
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: her hand on my shoulder, and sometimes she'll press strength

857
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: into my mind. I know we're supposed to be better

858
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: than that, We're supposed to float on the stage on

859
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: a cloud of Chicaina glory. But sometimes I'm scribbling and

860
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: scratching and spitting, just like you.

861
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 5: But I'm seeking him. David thought to himself, Saul's going

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Speaker 5: to kill me. But he kept seeking God even while

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Speaker 5: he was thinking crazy stuff to himself.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I want you to do, Church. I

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Speaker 1: want you to say, I sought the Lord and I

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Speaker 1: saw him again. And I saw him even as I

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Speaker 1: thought he didn't hear me, even as the devil told me,

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Speaker 1: you're never gonna be free from this. Your dad did it.

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Speaker 1: His dad did it, and you will die an alcoholic too.

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Speaker 1: Even while you are thinking that to yourself, you do

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Speaker 1: the next best thing. That's all you gotta do.

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Speaker 3: I promise you.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you a testimony. I saw it in my family.

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Speaker 1: I saw it when my dad was dying of als.

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Speaker 1: I wanted God to heal him. God didn't heal him.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to take care of him. That didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: For two years, I couldn't take care of him. My

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Speaker 1: mom was taking care of him. He became abusive toward her,

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Speaker 1: so we had to put him in a nursing home.

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Speaker 1: And he was way too young to be in that

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Speaker 1: nursing home. I was crushed the day I walked in

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Speaker 1: and he was calling bingo in a nursing home when

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Speaker 1: I knew I wanted him down the street with my mom,

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Speaker 1: but they couldn't be together. It wasn't safe for her.

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Speaker 1: So why were we doing a Thanksgiving dinner in a

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Speaker 1: nursing home with my dad while he was dying with

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Speaker 1: an uncertain time limit left? And why were we eating

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Speaker 1: off of paper plates a microwave meal in a nursing

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Speaker 1: home with a man who was in his sixties. That

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Speaker 1: wasn't what I wanted. It was the.

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Speaker 4: Next best thing.

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Speaker 1: That's what it means to seek him.

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Speaker 3: It's oh, it's such a good quote.

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Speaker 1: He said that faith doesn't show you the whole styse,

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Speaker 1: just enough to take the next step, the next best thing.

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Speaker 1: My camera operators are usually better in this. I want

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Speaker 1: them to show you the stairs. Can y'all not get

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Speaker 1: that shot? I'm gonna buy some more cameras before next week.

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Speaker 1: Come over to this side. I wanted that illustration. But

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Speaker 1: let me do the next best thing. I use this

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Speaker 1: side of stairs. Yeah yeah, yeah, just like that, Just

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Speaker 1: like that, Just like that, just like that, just like that,

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Speaker 1: And watch this, watch this.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be ugly. It's gonna be ugly. Sometimes it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be ugly.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes every prayer is not gonna be pretty.

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Speaker 3: Every prayers are gonna happen in church.

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Speaker 1: Every faith experience isn't gonna happen in a controlled environment.

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Speaker 1: But the Bible says to humble yourself under his hand,

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Speaker 1: because Saul's hand is nothing compared to his hand, and

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Speaker 1: one Peter five us. In due time, he will lift

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Speaker 1: you up, one next best thing at a time. That's

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Speaker 1: how he's going to bring you out. Ugly, trust, spitty beard,

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Speaker 1: trust trust in your eyes, but went anyway, tears on

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Speaker 1: your pillow, sleepless nights. But I'm not giving up on God.

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Speaker 1: Ugly trust. You know what that means to me, ugly

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Speaker 1: Put it on the screen, y'all. It means trusting God

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Speaker 1: until God lifts you.

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Speaker 3: In due time.

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Speaker 1: He raised David up, but in the meantime, David had

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Speaker 1: to go to a place that he didn't want to be.

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Speaker 3: Who is this I'm preaching to that you are in and.

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Speaker 9: Until God lifts you, Until God lifts you, humble yourself.

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Speaker 1: And seek him.

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Speaker 3: Stand all over the room, lift your hands to your father.

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Speaker 3: He said, I will bless the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: When salt spears are flying when my heart is breaking,

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Speaker 1: when answers don't come easy, I will bless the Lord

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Speaker 1: at all times. This is ugly trust. Some of you

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Speaker 1: need to have, you know, they have ugly cry. Some

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Speaker 1: of y'all need to have ugly praise. Just say, God,

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Speaker 1: this is what it looks like for our family right now,

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Speaker 1: even right now.

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Speaker 3: My whole family isn't in church with me.

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Speaker 1: Even right now, I can't get everybody together, even right now,

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Speaker 1: I can't get everything worked out. But my hands are lifted.

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Speaker 1: Lift him up, Lift him up, Lift them up, lift

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Speaker 1: him up, Lift him up. This is ugly trust because

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Speaker 1: he said, I will bless the Lord at all times. Oh,

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Speaker 1: magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt. What does

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Speaker 1: exalt mean? To lift him up? So until he lifts

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Speaker 1: you up? What do you do? What do you do?

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Speaker 1: Lift him up? I want you to begin to lift

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Speaker 1: him up right now in your heart. I want you

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Speaker 1: to begin to praise him right now with your own mouth.

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Speaker 10: I will bless the Lord at all times. I trust

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Speaker 10: you God. I trust you with my future. I trust

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Speaker 10: you with my family. I trust you with my children.

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Speaker 1: God.

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Speaker 11: I trust you with this decision. I trust you with

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Speaker 11: this economy. I trust you with this move. I trust

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Speaker 11: you with this transition. Come on and lift him up,

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Speaker 11: Lift him up, Lift him up.

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Speaker 1: This is ugly trust. It doesn't have to be pretty.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be in an alphabetical order. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be King James English. Just say, I

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Speaker 1: need you God. I trust you God.

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Speaker 10: Here's my life, Lord, here's my dreams, Lord, here's my heart.

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Speaker 1: Lord, it's yours. Lord.

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Speaker 4: I saw the Lord and the her I sought the Lord.

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Speaker 1: That's why.

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Speaker 3: Look at me.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust him because of how long it took

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Speaker 1: him to answer it. I don't trust him because he

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Speaker 1: answered it when I wanted him to answer it. I

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Speaker 1: don't trust him because he answered it how I wanted

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Speaker 1: him to answer it. I trust him because he is God.

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Speaker 12: And he is the highest, and he is the greatest,

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Speaker 12: and I'm gonna seek him as long as it takes

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Speaker 12: is and I'm not letting God of the word that

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Speaker 12: he's fall.

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Speaker 1: That's why. That's why, just that's why, that's why, just

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Speaker 1: because he's solely and hear because he's great. Lit up,

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Speaker 1: fine cats fly see thank God for you. Make God

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Speaker 1: tell over you.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

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Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

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Speaker 1: I also want to take a moment and thank all

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Speaker 1: of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

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Speaker 2: able to reach.

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Speaker 1: People all around the world. And if you want more

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Speaker 1: information on how to be a part of Elevation, click

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Speaker 1: the link in the description. Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message, and subscribe.

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