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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: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do exactly what I said I would

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Speaker 2: do last week, and I'm going to continue in the

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Speaker 2: stream of teaching that we started. And I'd like to

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Speaker 2: read you a scripture and then I'll sit you down

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Speaker 2: and then I'll tell you a story. And then you

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Speaker 2: get excited, you'll stand up, You'll be shouting, throwing stuff

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Speaker 2: at the stage, and the Lord will be glorified. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to exegete this verse, but just to

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Speaker 2: set the table. From Revelation, chapter three, Verse twenty, Jesus said,

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Speaker 2: here I am. I stand at the door and knock.

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Speaker 2: If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I

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Speaker 2: will come in and eat with that person, and they

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Speaker 2: with me. I want to teach you a skill today

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Speaker 2: that I know is going to help you to pursue

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Speaker 2: everything that God has put in your heart in the

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Speaker 2: coming year. In the days ahead, and it's something that

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Speaker 2: I've had to apply to my life. So such as

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Speaker 2: I have, I give unto you. I want to teach

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Speaker 2: you about the skill of knocking through the know.

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Speaker 1: Knocking through the know.

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Speaker 2: And let's pray one more time that God would saturate

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Speaker 2: our hearts with his word.

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Speaker 1: Today you said you were here. Lord, We take you

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Speaker 1: at your word.

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Speaker 2: Whatever mountain we're standing on, whatever valley we're going through,

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Speaker 2: you're with us.

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Speaker 1: We thank you.

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Speaker 2: Emanuel made flesh, make this word flesh.

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Speaker 1: Today. I offer myself to you. Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm just five foot eight and a half and I

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Speaker 2: don't know that much, but you can have my vocal cords,

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Speaker 2: my lips, my tongue, my mind. I offer it to you.

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Speaker 2: I prayed that every person who logged on today or

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Speaker 2: came to church would get exactly what they need from you,

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Speaker 2: maybe not even what they asked for, but what they

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Speaker 2: need from you. I trust you to do it. I

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Speaker 2: thank you in advance in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you

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Speaker 2: may be seated one day when I finished my preaching

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Speaker 2: ministry and go to take my rest with Moses and

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Speaker 2: Elijah and Charles Spurgeon and Billy Graham.

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Speaker 1: I know that probably I won't be in all.

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Speaker 2: These books as a preacher where they're quoting my sermons

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Speaker 2: one hundred years from now. I don't even really feel

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Speaker 2: like that's my intention. I'm satisfied, honestly, as a preacher,

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Speaker 2: not if they put me in a book for one

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Speaker 2: hundred years from now. I'm not saying anything that deep

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Speaker 2: up here, and I'm not making any of this up

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Speaker 2: up here before people have already said it. I'm satisfied

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Speaker 2: just if I can get you to put it on

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Speaker 2: a sticky note and put it on a mirror in

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Speaker 2: your house and it can get you through Monday. And

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Speaker 2: I know that might sound like a low goal, but

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Speaker 2: let's be honest, with all the voices, opinions and insights,

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Speaker 2: insights that are flooding our phones and our minds and

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Speaker 2: our lives, even if we could just get a word

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Speaker 2: to get us through the week, that's a powerful thing.

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Speaker 2: And last week I did something that was so simple

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Speaker 2: it felt almost silly. I did notice, though, that the

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Speaker 2: simpler stuff is stickier sometimes so in order to get

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Speaker 2: the message to stick sometimes not because I don't respect

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Speaker 2: your intelligence. There's nothing I hate more than a preacher

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Speaker 2: who will just pander to the audience, trying to get

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Speaker 2: of substance. I'm not aiming to be that either, trust me.

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Speaker 2: But just so we can have a handle to carry

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Speaker 2: the suitcase out with, I'll try to give you something

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Speaker 2: think about where in your life have you been saying

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Speaker 2: one day when and I held up this very note card,

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Speaker 2: one day when I get a bigger house, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have some people over. We're gonna make some friends one

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Speaker 2: day when we get a bigger house, because we don't

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Speaker 2: have a big enough house right now for them. But

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Speaker 2: one day when we get we're gonna entertain. One day

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Speaker 2: when we get these kids out the house, that's when

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Speaker 2: we're gonna start making some friendships and everything. And then

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Speaker 2: and because you have to step out in order to expand,

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Speaker 2: order to see what it can be. I am preaching already.

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Speaker 2: Let he who have an ear to hear hear what

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Speaker 2: the to saying to the church. I want you to

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Speaker 2: have a vision for your life beyond today and so

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Speaker 2: does God. That's why he said in Jeremiah twenty nine

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Speaker 2: to eleven, I know the plans I have for you,

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Speaker 2: plans to give you a hope and the future. So

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Speaker 2: it's wonderful to dream about that bigger house, or the

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Speaker 2: resources to really be able to do the things God

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Speaker 2: has put in your heart, or the things you would

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Speaker 2: enjoy doing, or create the experiences that you want your

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Speaker 2: family to have to send them to college and they

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Speaker 2: don't have to pay it off until they're ninety seven,

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Speaker 2: to be able to step into a season of your

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Speaker 2: life that's not just such a struggle to survive all

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Speaker 2: the time. I join my faith with yours for all

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Speaker 2: the things you're believing God, for all of them that

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Speaker 2: He put in your heart, in accordance with Psalm thirty

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Speaker 2: seven to four. May He give you the desires of

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Speaker 2: your heart as you delight yourself in Him. I am

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Speaker 2: convinced that the way we will get to this one

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Speaker 2: day when you are free of the addiction, This one

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Speaker 2: day when you are capable of expressing yourself with greater clarity,

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Speaker 2: This one day when you will feel a closeness and

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Speaker 2: a nearness to God that is unencumbered by the demonic

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Speaker 2: oppression that has been haunting you these last six months.

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Speaker 2: That the way we will get to the one day

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Speaker 2: when is through the power of the one day win.

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Speaker 2: Everybody who woke up this morning with a new twenty

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Speaker 2: four makes some noise a new twenty four, you know,

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Speaker 2: like an offensive rebound in basketball, and the shot clock

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Speaker 2: would go all the way back to twenty four. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's what happened when you woke up this morning. You

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Speaker 2: got a new twenty four. Yeah, but I really messed

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Speaker 2: it up yesterday. We're not here praising the God of yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, here I am. I stand at the door

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Speaker 2: in knock. Did not just read you the scripture Revelation

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Speaker 2: three twenty He said, here I am. Not there I was.

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Speaker 1: You should have been there. You missed it.

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Speaker 2: Not there I'm gonna be one day when. But here

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Speaker 2: I am. Somebody shout, God is here. Tell your neighbor,

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Speaker 2: God is here, Give me some room. Scoot over a

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Speaker 2: little bit. God is with me in this seat. God

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Speaker 2: is with me in this marriage. God is with me

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Speaker 2: in this singleness. God is with me in this transition.

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Speaker 2: God is with me in this tent. God is with

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Speaker 2: me in this custody battle. God is with me. Tell

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Speaker 2: him I need some room. God is with me. So

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Speaker 2: building upon that concept of the one day win, just

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Speaker 2: to let you know that God has given you the

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Speaker 2: strength you need for today and the faith you need

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Speaker 2: for tomorrow, let's go a little deeper into this principle.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready all right? If you'd like to take notes,

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Speaker 1: you might want to write this down.

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Speaker 2: The doors of tomorrow's opportunity swing on the hinges of

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Speaker 2: today's obedience.

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Speaker 3: Shall I repeat it for those in the back, The

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Speaker 3: doors of tomorrow's opportunity hinge on today's obedience.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Not from my life or your life, but lessen them

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Speaker 2: shoon Him. Shun Them is a city in the Old

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Speaker 2: Testament where the prophets would stop by and often receive

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Speaker 2: their word from God. If you were a prophet in

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Speaker 2: the Old Testament, it was different than being a preacher today.

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Speaker 2: You weren't just trying to stand up in a sermon,

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Speaker 2: holding up some note cards and hoping people will remember

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Speaker 2: what you preached.

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Speaker 1: About on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: You spoke a word from God, and it could literally

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Speaker 2: rout the enemy in another direction, the military enemy, not

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Speaker 2: the enemy like sadness or something like that. Elisha is

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Speaker 2: a prophet. I want to tell you about it, because

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Speaker 2: he would speak to the king and tell the king

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Speaker 2: king could avoid it or prepare for it and obliterate him.

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Speaker 2: He was a very valuable He was an MVP. He

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Speaker 2: was a most valuable prophet. And for that reason he

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Speaker 2: lived a lonely life. Now when he would get to

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Speaker 2: shun him. The Bible says the Second Kings chapter four,

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Speaker 2: In fact, let's pick up the story right there, Second

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 2: He went to shun him one day, and a well

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Speaker 2: And I urge you pay every bit of attention you've

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start that verse over so you can

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Speaker 2: One day Elisha went to shun him, and a well

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Speaker 2: that this man who often comes our way is a

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Speaker 1: That's what Holly says about me. When you'll learn around.

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Speaker 2: Let's make verse ten.

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Speaker 1: I got an idea.

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Speaker 2: Let's make hey, let's make go down to Ikea. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be fancy, but let's make a small

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Speaker 2: room on the roof. We don't need more square footage

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Speaker 2: to do this. We just need more simple faith. We

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Speaker 2: don't need more square footage to do this. We already

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Speaker 2: into a room. Why well, I want to put a

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Speaker 1: That's getting expensive, and.

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Speaker 2: I want to put this room together for this prophet, Elisha.

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Speaker 2: Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.

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Speaker 2: This is a different day, so the technology would not

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Speaker 2: enable Elisha to give them a heads up. She said,

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Speaker 2: I believe in what this man is speaking so much,

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Speaker 2: and I feel compared well to do something for him.

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Speaker 1: I can't preach like him.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a whole lot of space. But there

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Speaker 2: is a room on the roof, and what I'd like

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Speaker 2: to do is for simple things. I like a chair

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Speaker 2: and a bed, and a table and a lamp.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to set it up so.

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Speaker 2: That whenever he comes, however he comes, for whatever.

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Speaker 1: He comes, he can stay there.

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Speaker 2: And she did that. Bible says in verse eleven. One

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Speaker 2: I'm hungry for it. One day when it was blocking

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Speaker 2: I might not be a profit, but I say word

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Speaker 2: doors at home. I can't tell that when you come

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Speaker 2: in my doors on Sunday. I don't know what the

441
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Speaker 2: conversations are like in your house. I don't know what

442
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Speaker 2: the thoughts are like in your mind. I don't know

443
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Speaker 2: what the doubts are like in the darkness. I don't

444
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Speaker 2: know any of that. But this woman who was so

445
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Speaker 2: great and so generous, and so wealthy and so proactive,

446
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Speaker 2: the Bible says in verse eleven, one day, when Elisha came,

447
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Speaker 2: he went up to his.

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Speaker 1: Room and laid down there. Verse twelve.

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Speaker 2: Please, he said to his servant Geheesi, hmm, call the Shunamite.

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Speaker 1: That's the woman who built the room. You don't even

451
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Speaker 1: know her name.

452
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Speaker 2: She apparently wasn't in it for the credit. She wasn't

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Speaker 2: in it for the glory, wasn't in it for the

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Speaker 2: approval of people. She was in it for the purpose

455
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Speaker 2: of God. But how many know even if they don't

456
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Speaker 2: call your name, God can Even if they don't say

457
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Speaker 2: thank you, God can fill you with a blessing, good measure,

458
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: pressed down, shaking together and running over. God doesn't need

459
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Speaker 2: them to call your name to know where to drop

460
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Speaker 2: the package. He knows your name, he knows your neighborhood,

461
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Speaker 2: he knows your zip code. What he has for you,

462
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Speaker 2: it is for you, and nothing in heaven or Hell

463
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Speaker 2: can hold it back. When he says it's tod I'm

464
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Speaker 2: gonna show you that. Now I'm gonna prove it to

465
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Speaker 2: you from the text. Don't take my word for it.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this, he said, call the Shoonomite. So he

467
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Speaker 2: called her, and she stood before him. Elisha said, tell her,

468
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Speaker 2: you've gone to all this trouble for us. Appreciate chair,

469
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Speaker 2: appreciate lanp, appreciate the bed, appreciate table. Now what can

470
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Speaker 2: be done for you? Now that you did all of

471
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Speaker 2: this for us? What can be done for you? Help

472
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: me say this right, Holy Spirit, because I feel like

473
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: the whole message is going to hinge on this for

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Speaker 2: somebody that question. Put verse twelve up again that question

475
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Speaker 2: or verse thirteen, what can be done for you?

476
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Speaker 1: That question?

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Speaker 2: And the answer to it hinges on what she did

478
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Speaker 2: in verses eight and nine. What God can do for

479
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: you is not limited to who he is, because he's infinite.

480
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Speaker 2: There's nothing he can't do for you because he's God.

481
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Speaker 2: There's nothing he can't accomplish because he's God. So the

482
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Speaker 2: question is never can he do it for you? The

483
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Speaker 2: question becomes have you given him room to do it?

484
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Speaker 2: Or is your roof so cluttered with past hurts and expectations?

485
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: Are you even hearing me preach this message today? Or

486
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: are you so bitter about the last church where you

487
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 2: got your feelings hurt that you can't even receive the

488
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Speaker 2: word of the Lord because somebody hurt you in church

489
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Speaker 2: one time? And yet I know you ate at a

490
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 2: bad restaurant once in your life and you still eat.

491
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Speaker 1: So are you really never going to enter Heaven's.

492
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Speaker 2: Restaurant again because of something that happened back then?

493
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Speaker 1: Now, talk about disappointment.

494
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Speaker 2: I want you to differentiate in your life that there

495
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: is a big distinction between disappointment and bitterness. Disappointment does

496
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Speaker 2: not stop God from producing in your life. Bitterness will.

497
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Speaker 2: Bitterness will choke the seed of the Word of God

498
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Speaker 2: before it has been Bitterness will choke the seed of

499
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Speaker 2: your hope and your potential before it has been developed.

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Speaker 2: So I want you to watch a picture of this woman,

501
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: because this is what I want you to.

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Speaker 1: Be in twenty twenty four.

503
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Speaker 2: Whatever happens, whatever doesn't happen, whatever, yes you get, whatever

504
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: no you get, Whoever likes you, whoever can't stand you,

505
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: whoever likes you that you think can't stand you because.

506
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Speaker 1: You read too much into people.

507
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 2: Whatever happens this year, whenever it happens, watch this woman

508
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Speaker 2: who is disappointed but not bitter. Watch what happens to

509
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Speaker 2: this woman who is disappointed but not bitter. Can you

510
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: forgive it? Can you move past it? Can you give

511
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Speaker 2: God room to move through it?

512
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Speaker 1: What can we do.

513
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 2: For you? And he even has a specific idea. How

514
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: about I talked to the king for you. He owes

515
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 2: me one the king had just been in a drought,

516
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: and Elishah said, you hear no wind and you'll see

517
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 2: no rain. But dig these ditches in the valleys, and

518
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: your troops will drink and they did. He owes me one.

519
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 2: I just saved his butt. Let me go talk to

520
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: the king for you what you need? And he said,

521
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 2: you know, essentially, do you need anything? And she said no.

522
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: Look at verse thirteen. I have a home among my

523
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Speaker 2: own people. I don't need anything from you. You need

524
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Speaker 2: something from me, And I go back up to your

525
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Speaker 2: room and lay down and take a nap and sleep

526
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Speaker 2: at all. I'm good. You know how guarded you are.

527
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: You know how you won't let anybody give you any encouragement.

528
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: The next time they start telling you you're good at it,

529
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 2: just shut up and say thank you. Oh no, I'm

530
00:32:58,600 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: not that good.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you.

532
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: I can't stand to compliment a singer in church. You say,

533
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 2: you sound it so great. It wasn't me, it was

534
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: the Lord, And I just want to say, it wasn't

535
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Speaker 2: that good, honey. If it was the Lord, it would

536
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: have been a little bit better. Well that's good. Now

537
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: we're about to find out why she wouldn't let him,

538
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: and you're about to find out why you.

539
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Speaker 1: Won't let it in either.

540
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Speaker 2: Because I hear God standing at the door of somebody's

541
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and he's knocking here I am. I

542
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Speaker 2: stand at the door and knock. I stand at the

543
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Speaker 2: door and knock. I always heard that verse preached when

544
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 2: people were about to get saved. If you want to

545
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: bring Jesus in your heart, here he is. He stands

546
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Speaker 2: at the door and knocks. But that verse was actually

547
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Speaker 2: written not to sinners who didn't know Jesus. It was

548
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Speaker 2: written to a church who had forgotten how powerful he

549
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: really was. And God said, I'm standing at the door

550
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 2: of your religious heart, your scripture quoting heart, your good

551
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: doing hard. I don't need anything hard. You're barely getting

552
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: by just surviving. It's another day, it's another year. What

553
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: are you gonna do about it? He said, I stand

554
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 2: at the door and I knock. That's God knocking. That's

555
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: your heart beating in your chest. That's God knocking to

556
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: let you know that if you are not in fact

557
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: dead and sleeping in the grave, he is not in

558
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: fact done with you yet. And you would be accurate

559
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: to say that if I'm not dead, God's not done.

560
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 2: And you would be accurate if you said.

561
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Speaker 1: That this is my year.

562
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Speaker 2: And you would be accurate if you were to say

563
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Speaker 2: that this is the day that the Lord has made.

564
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Speaker 5: That all things are possible to the lives.

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Speaker 1: Who believes. Are you open.

566
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 2: The doors of tomorrow's opportunity? You want to tell your

567
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: kids a testimony and leave a legacy to your children's children.

568
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 2: The doors of tomorrow's opportunity swing on the hinges of

569
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Speaker 2: today's obedience.

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Speaker 1: Are you open? Are you open? She said no?

571
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: How are you like this?

572
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: A prophet says you want a blessing? And she says no.

573
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Speaker 2: Everybody say no, I need nothing. Dinner's ready at thirty minutes.

574
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Speaker 2: Lay down, I make the room, I make throws. I

575
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Speaker 2: don't think she was arrogant at all. I think she

576
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: was disappointed. I learned something about God's opportunities, about the

577
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 2: love he'll bring into your life, about the blessings, about

578
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 2: the extensions that He will give to you of a

579
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Speaker 2: new season of purpose. I learned something. I learned that

580
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Speaker 2: hope and disappointment swing on the same hinges. And this

581
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: is why you're guarded. To open your door to hope

582
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: is to open your door to disappointment. But let me

583
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: give you this, Like a friend, okay, are we friends? Okay?

584
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 2: I want to be a friend from a man. Avoiding

585
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: disappointment is not a strategy for happiness. It's a recipe

586
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Speaker 2: for resentment. Avoiding disappointment is not a strategy for happiness.

587
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: Now, maybe this is just for all the middle aged

588
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: men like me.

589
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: Maybe the youth can take a nap while I preach this,

590
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: But for everybody who dragged two or three disappointments through

591
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 2: the door with you today, I need you to know

592
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 2: that the way to deal with the disappointments is not

593
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: to close the door of hope. It is not just

594
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 2: to accept that I'm always going to be an addict.

595
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: It is not just to accept that I guess I

596
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: ruined that relationship and I don't deserve another one. It

597
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: is not to accept.

598
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: That my family has always been treading water. I'm just

599
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 1: lucky not to drown.

600
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 2: The grace of God is here, and Jesus is standing

601
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 2: at the door and knocking, And you think Jesus is

602
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 2: knocking on the door just so your house won't burn down.

603
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 2: He wants to come in.

604
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: He wants to eat with you, he wants.

605
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: To cook for you. He wants to create with you.

606
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: He wants to collaborate with you. He wants to guide you,

607
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: he wants to fill you. He wants to reconcile you.

608
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: He wants to make you a masterpiece according to his blueprint.

609
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: He wants to do it. Are you open?

610
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: And she said, Noah, I don't, I don't, I don't.

611
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 2: My door is always open to you if you want something,

612
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 2: but my door is closed if you want to do

613
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: something for me. And Elisha gives us a picture of

614
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 2: the persistence of God, the persistence of this presence. Here

615
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 2: I am, I stand at the door and knock a

616
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 2: scripture that was written to disobedient lukewarm churches.

617
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Speaker 1: Here I am, I'm still here. Boom boom.

618
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: Your heart beat is telling you he's still here. Boom boom.

619
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Speaker 2: This word is telling you he's still here. Boom boom.

620
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Speaker 1: That person that came into.

621
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Speaker 2: Your life last week and you already tried to shut

622
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: him out.

623
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Speaker 1: That was God at the door.

624
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 2: That was God knocking. That thing inside of you that

625
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 2: flutters a little bit and flickers a little bit when

626
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: you get under a good word and you put Facebook

627
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 2: off of your phone for fifteen minutes and let this

628
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: word come into your heart, that's God knocking. He still is?

629
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Speaker 2: He still is? Somebody say, he still is? He is

630
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: the Alpha and the Omega, he who was and is

631
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Speaker 2: and is to come and Eli Chalai's there for a

632
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: minute and she tells him, no, I don't want anything.

633
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Speaker 1: And that's like those of you who have said.

634
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 2: I don't make resolutions, I don't make plans, I don't

635
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Speaker 2: set goals.

636
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: I don't do anything. I don't leave me alone.

637
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: I went to the dental hygienis ten years ago and

638
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: I said, I need you to know something about me

639
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: before you start working on my teeth. You can say

640
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: anything you want to say. You can give me anything

641
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: you want to give me. You can knock me out

642
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 2: and put me to sleep. But when I go home,

643
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: I'm not flossing. You could give me a sponsorship for flossing,

644
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 2: and I'm not flossing.

645
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: I'd rather bring my teeth to you in an ash.

646
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: Tray and ask you to put them back in and

647
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: floss in. Amazing what we already decided we won't do

648
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: before the word even went forth today, And we're not

649
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: talking about a lazy lady. She already built a room.

650
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: Yet there is one thing in her life. There's one

651
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 2: thing in your life that she will not mention, and

652
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: Unlessa's about to find out about it. Now, that's the

653
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 2: thing that God is looking for today in your heart.

654
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: That's the thing that God is looking for in your heart.

655
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Speaker 2: Elisha said, man verse fourteen, What can be done for her?

656
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Speaker 2: Persistent little prophet, isn't he I'm not a free loader.

657
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Speaker 2: I won't do something for her. Well, hey, they can

658
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Speaker 2: do it for She built her a room.

659
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Speaker 1: I don't even live here.

660
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: I can't cook for a nigga Gehzi. The servant said, well,

661
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: she has no son and her husband is old. I mean,

662
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: did you see him carrying the table up the store?

663
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 2: That was sad? And Elia said, all right, now this

664
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: is the turning point of the text. We got to

665
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Speaker 2: get here together.

666
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 1: Elija said, call her.

667
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 2: You're like he already called her no, no, no the first

668
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: time she came to Geheese. But this time he called

669
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: her back. And I believe God is calling somebody back

670
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 2: today because last year this time you had some things

671
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: in your heart. You thought they would have happened by

672
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 2: now they didn't. You have allowed your timeline to cause

673
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: your faith to die.

674
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: You have allowed your timeline to become the throne at

675
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: which you worship.

676
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 2: You have allowed your heart to become so crowded with

677
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 2: disappointment that you cannot receive what God is doing today.

678
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: And Elisha says, and God says, call her, tell her,

679
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: I want her to come back. So he called her.

680
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 2: And all the years I've been preaching this scripture, since

681
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 2: I was seventeen years old, since I was seventeen years old,

682
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: I have preached about what that woman did, how she

683
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 2: was obedient. I have preached about when she did it,

684
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 2: just whenever he came by. But I have never preached

685
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 2: about where she stood when he spoke the word that

686
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 2: changed her life. And I saw it this week like

687
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: it was a word for each and every one of us,

688
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: on every continent, in every county, wherever life finds you. Today,

689
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 2: the Bible says he called her, and she came and

690
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: put the verse on the screen. She stood in the doorway. Now,

691
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 2: just a few months ago, this was not a room

692
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 2: at all. It was just an open space on the roof.

693
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: But one day somebody out one day, one day she decided,

694
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: one day she committed. One day she intended and did it,

695
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: and she built a room. And now she is standing

696
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 2: not in the room that she built, but in the

697
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 2: doorway of the room that she built. And I believe

698
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: somebody is standing in the doorway. Today, you are standing

699
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 2: between two things, and there is a voice calling you forth.

700
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: It is the voice of the Lord.

701
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 2: Calling you forward into freedom, calling you forward into movement,

702
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: calling you forward into legacy, calling you forward into purity,

703
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 2: calling you forward into abundance, calling you forward into generosity,

704
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 2: calling you.

705
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 1: Forward into your future.

706
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 6: And the hinges of the door that swing open to

707
00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 6: Elicia's chamber were on the same little hinges that were

708
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Speaker 6: just a simple.

709
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: Act of obedience days earlier.

710
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get you to see that you keep

711
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 2: waiting for God to open a door. Maybe He wants

712
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: you to make your own door. Hallelujah, hallelujah. This is

713
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: going to help somebody from dying in the wilderness of

714
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 2: one day, when, oh, when God opens the door. There

715
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: was no door at the beginning of Second King's four

716
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 2: There was no room at all. There was just a

717
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: woman with a heart for God to do something, for him,

718
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 2: to be obedient and to be open. Can God have

719
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: your heart? We keep saying, I surrender it to God.

720
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 2: But surrenders shouldn't keep you from taking initiative. Surrenders should

721
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 2: give you initiative to find a way to be a

722
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: blessing to find a way to be free to all

723
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 2: one of the counselors whose cards you've been looking at

724
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 2: for years, there was no door. I wish I could

725
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: preach this message, I'm happy to be here.

726
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: I wish I could preach.

727
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 2: It at the Matthews campus that literally used to be

728
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: a shopping center. And when we went to least forty

729
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: two thousand square feet circa two thousand and seven, two

730
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, we were told by one of the

731
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: tenants in the strip mall no. Everybody shout no, no.

732
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 2: Can't put a church here. No, can't have a religious

733
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 2: institution here. It'll strike business down. So for a minute

734
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 2: I thought, well, maybe we can't put a church there,

735
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 2: because when you are told no from the outside or

736
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: the inside, and.

737
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: Everything you try to do to move it forward doesn't

738
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: work or makes it worse. You get to a place.

739
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: Watch she's standing in the doorway verse sixteen. I gotta

740
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: give you this. I gotta give you this.

741
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 2: And Elisha calls her and says, about this time next year,

742
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 2: where do you want to be this time next year?

743
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: What are you looking forward to having the victory over,

744
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,959
Speaker 2: or at least incremental leverage over this time next year?

745
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 2: Do you want to know a few scriptures you can quote?

746
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: Do you want to be able to.

747
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 2: Say, I'm leading a group of middle school boys now

748
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 2: and helping them not to be as dumb as I was?

749
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 2: Where you want to be this time next year? And

750
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: Elisha says, I know you didn't ask, and I know

751
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: you said no, but about this time next year, you

752
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 2: will hold a son in your arms. And her response,

753
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 2: this woman of great faith.

754
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: Was no, No.

755
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 2: The devil didn't say no, she did. The devil isn't

756
00:46:52,000 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: blocking you. You are, thanks mom. No, no, because I've

757
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: been here before.

758
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: Me and Holly had a real big fight. And my

759
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: third point is.

760
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: You gotta be obedient, you gotta be open, and you

761
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 2: gotta be obnoxious.

762
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: Me and Holly had a fight. Oh y'all are paying

763
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: attention now.

764
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: You want to see where is he going with this pastor?

765
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 2: Stephen might be sleeping on a room in the roof

766
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: in my house just tonight. Holly's gonna kick him out.

767
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: We had a fight at the end of last year,

768
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 2: not twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty three, we had no fights.

769
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two. It was a fight about her. Oh God,

770
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm sharing this witch.

771
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: Trying to get me to see that God input more

772
00:47:58,719 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: in me than I was getting.

773
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: Not in a nagging way, not in a way that

774
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 2: was saying like you're not doing enough making me feel bad.

775
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 2: It wasn't shame based. There was something that I because

776
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 2: we're talking in the text about a woman who couldn't

777
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 2: have a baby, but it could represent anything that you

778
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 2: can't have that is a.

779
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: God given desire.

780
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 2: I am not talking about all the stuff you want

781
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 2: because you spend too much time shopping. I'm talking about

782
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 2: the stuff that you can't have, but it is a

783
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 2: part of your future and you can't have it yet.

784
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: And so.

785
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 2: While I'm doing this, go get that box out of

786
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 2: my office. It's on the where the counter in my

787
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: little Go get it, Josh, Thank you just as quick

788
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 2: as you can, because I want to show you something

789
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: to help you understand what I'm talking about. One of

790
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 2: the things that she was getting me was she was

791
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 2: kept telling me there are more messages in you now.

792
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: The thing that you don't know.

793
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 2: We keep promoting and we're going to promote it even

794
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 2: more that I'm putting a book out in a couple

795
00:48:59,280 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 2: of weeks.

796
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: A week before my birthday.

797
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: I appreciate your enthusiasm. And Holly was trying to get

798
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 2: me to see reveal it too soon, mess up my

799
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: illustration of the boxes open officer. When she was yelling

800
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: at me, I mean, when she was exhorting me, she

801
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 2: wasn't yelling no, Holly.

802
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: Holly can yell in a whisper. It's annoying, it's obnoxious.

803
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: But she was just speaking to the part of me

804
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 2: that knew that I was supposed to put out a book.

805
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 2: But I wrote a book in twenty twenty, and when

806
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 2: I went to publish it, even my own agent said no,

807
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 2: wasn't it. And for nine months of writing a book

808
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 2: and then for it to just sit there to bind her,

809
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 2: I told the Lord, I will preach for THEE, and

810
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 2: I will post Instagram clips for THEE, and I will

811
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: be a blessing to those that you've called me to

812
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 2: intersect in life.

813
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm not writing another boat.

814
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: And so I was preparing this message, and I wasn't

815
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 2: thinking about me. I was thinking about the thousands of

816
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: people who will hear this message. And you're holding a

817
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: disappointment that's so heavy that you have no room to

818
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: receive the thing that God is speaking in your life.

819
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 2: What is that thing for you? Would you identify it?

820
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: Because the Holy Spirit will do a whole lot better

821
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: job than I could that thing. And while I was

822
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 2: getting this message ready, and I read what the prophet

823
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 2: said to the woman verse sixteen, Please, about this time

824
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 2: next year, you will hold a son in your arms.

825
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: And she said no, Please, Man of God, don't mislead

826
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: your servant.

827
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 2: You think maybe that's because she'd inc a few false

828
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 2: prophets before. You think maybe some other prophets had stopped

829
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 2: by and ate her food and slept in her guest

830
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 2: room and made her promises. We've all been disappointed. We've

831
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: all been let down, and now life has let you

832
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 2: down so many times you won't even let hope in

833
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 2: when it comes to avoid the disappointment. But I love God,

834
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 2: and I treasure him, and I honor Him as the

835
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 2: God of my life. Because of Revelation three point twenty

836
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 2: is true. That means that while my voice is saying no,

837
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 2: his hand keeps knocking. The Bible says in verse seventeen

838
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: that even though she said no, and even though in

839
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 2: this area of her life she didn't believe it was possible.

840
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 2: The woman became pregnant. And I read that text over

841
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: and over. I was looking for the point where she said,

842
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 2: I believe you, but she never even said it. And

843
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 2: even though she didn't believe it was possible, the Bible

844
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 2: says she became pregnant. Why because she didn't have the

845
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 2: faith to become pregnant, but she had the faith to

846
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 2: build a room. And I came to say to you

847
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 2: today that you don't have to know how God is

848
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 2: going to do it. You don't even have to completely

849
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 2: believe that He will do it. You don't have to

850
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 2: quote all of the right responses back to God.

851
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: But God keeps knocking through your no.

852
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 2: And God is faithful even if you're faithless.

853
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: And I declare and decree over.

854
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,479
Speaker 2: Your life this day that about this time next year,

855
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 2: I said, about this time next year, I said, about

856
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: this time next year, I said, January twenty twenty five,

857
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 2: I set about this time next here you will.

858
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 7: Hold a promise in your arms and in the cool

859
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 7: how Holly was right, and there was.

860
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: Another book in me.

861
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: And the book came in the mail this week as

862
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 2: an announcement to you. Then whatever disappointment weighed you down,

863
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: drop it, God said, I got another box with your

864
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 2: name on it, and if you'll give me some room

865
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 2: on the roof. Come on, we're knocking through the note.

866
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 2: We're knocking through the doe. We're knocking through the note.

867
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Speaker 2: I feel a stir of good, like a flood, raising

868
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 2: up a standard against the enemy.

869
00:53:58,520 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: He's knocking through your note.

870
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 2: Oh. One voice is calling you forward, one voice is

871
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: pulling you back. One voice is saying.

872
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: Yes and amen.

873
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 2: One voice is saying no. And you're standing in the

874
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 2: doorway deciding. It is truly a matter of life and death.

875
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 2: You are standing in the doorway deciding.

876
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: And the door.

877
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: Was there because she made room. She didn't even say yes,

878
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 2: but because she said yes yesterday. I'm telling you what,

879
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 2: when we talk a year from now, and I know

880
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 2: all of y'all are gonna still be in this church

881
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 2: a year from now, because you're not a church hopping

882
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: little baby bottle tote and Christian.

883
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 8: You're gonna be right here a year from now, and

884
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 8: you're still gonna and you're gonna be stronger in the

885
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 8: faith a year from now, and you're gonna have Holkogan

886
00:54:56,440 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 8: biceps in the spirit. A year from now, they're going

887
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 8: to be secure and people aren't going to be able

888
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 8: to tell you no and put you.

889
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: In depression for a week. A year from now, you

890
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 2: are going to be holding something because you decided today

891
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 2: to let hope in the door. I know the devil

892
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 2: has a way of getting you down and discouraged, and

893
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 2: I know you have good reasons that you said no.

894
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 2: But let me bring you back to my title. God

895
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 2: is knocking through the no. And at our Matthew's campus

896
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 2: today where they told us no, everybody say no. And

897
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 2: we went out there and prayed in the bargain lot,

898
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, businessmen and khaki pants in the parking lot,

899
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: littling the loading dock of that building. And not only

900
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 2: did we end up getting those forty two thousand square feet,

901
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 2: but eventually we knock down all the walls.

902
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: Because God is known for knocking.

903
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 2: Through the n You will be sitting in tomorrow what

904
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 2: you will open your heart to God for today? Agisa

905
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: here I am.

906
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,760
Speaker 1: I stand at the door. You are standing in a doorway.

907
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: Do I go back to it? Or do I go forward?

908
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 2: Do I go back to these familiar patterns another year?

909
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 2: Or do I go forward into uncomfortable freedom? Do I

910
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 2: go back to that horrible relationship, just so I can

911
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 2: pretend like I have somebody, or do I go forward

912
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 2: into learning what it means to have a friend that

913
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 2: sticks closer than a brother.

914
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: I see you.

915
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 2: I saw you when I was studying, so I know

916
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 2: the word is right. I see you standing in the

917
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 2: door like the woman. And there's one door, and there's

918
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: two voices. Which one will win. That's the decision of

919
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 2: the day, isn't it. God's gonna put an open door

920
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 2: before you every day. Maybe the tiny door might be

921
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 2: a great big door. But I know this the doors

922
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 2: of what God is calling you into, hinge on your

923
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 2: obedience to Him. Today, I like you to bow your

924
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 2: head because I don't want you to look around. I

925
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 2: want you to look inside for the answers to what

926
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 2: I'm about to ask you. In what area of your

927
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 2: life have you told God no? In what area of

928
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 2: your life have you told God no? I would suggest

929
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 2: to you that it often has to do with who

930
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 2: he calls us to become, not even just what he

931
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 2: calls us to do, and the way that works. Just

932
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 2: like He called the shot of mite and said come here,

933
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 2: and she stood in the door. God will call you

934
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 2: something and then you will stand in the door, and

935
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 2: the decision is, will you believe that voice when he

936
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 2: calls you holy?

937
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: Will you receive that?

938
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 2: Now? I want to minister to somebody who's been dealing

939
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 2: with crippling guilt.

940
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: He called you holy, and every.

941
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 2: Time that thing inside of you says, no, I'm not,

942
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not, I'm just a piece of trash.

943
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 2: I'm just You don't even know you're talking to that

944
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 2: thing that gets on you, that tells you that stuff

945
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 2: to drag you out of the doorway and back into

946
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 2: the past. I come against that spirit of condemnation today

947
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus and buy his blood to

948
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 2: tell you that there is therefore now no condemnation for

949
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 2: those who are in Christ. Jesus he is the door.

950
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 2: Don't you see it? That everything you need is in Him?

951
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: And today you're in his presence.

952
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 2: And I leave you now with exactly where we begin

953
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 2: this message. Here, I am. I stand at the door

954
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 2: and knock. And if you'll open the door, that's just

955
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 2: as simple as I know how to make a church,

956
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 2: if you will open the door. I don't know if

957
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 2: that's a Bible reading plan. I don't know if that's

958
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 2: a support group. I don't know if that's to tell

959
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 2: somebody what's really going on.

960
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: If you will.

961
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 2: Open the door and make room on the roof, I'm

962
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 2: believing a year from now you're going to hold something awesome.

963
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 2: Your arms come on, You're going to accommodate something amazing.

964
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: In your life.

965
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 2: And Father, we thank you in Jesus's name that for

966
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 2: all the times we told you no, you knocked again.

967
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 2: At this moment, I want to give an invitation for

968
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 2: all of those who need to receive Jesus Christ into

969
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 2: your life and have a new beginning with him.

970
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 9: The Bible says that it is by grace we're saved

971
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 9: through faith is the gift of God, not of word,

972
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 9: so that no one can boast that if you confess

973
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 9: with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, and believe in your

974
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 9: heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

975
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: This is an open invitation to anyone who says today.

976
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 9: Was for me.

977
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 2: I'm giving my life to God today. I'm not living

978
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 2: another year my own way. I'm not going to be

979
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 2: half in, half out. Today. I'm walking through this door

980
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 2: to make Jesus Christ the lord of my life and

981
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 2: receive his provision for my life and receive His forgiveness.

982
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 2: If that's you and this is your word, I'm going

983
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 2: to pray a prayer with you, and we'll pray it

984
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 2: out loud for the benefit of those who are coming

985
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 2: to God for the first time or back to.

986
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:12,919
Speaker 1: God as a rededication.

987
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 2: And I want you to repeat this after me with

988
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 2: confidence in your voice. Say, Heavenly Father, today is my

989
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 2: day of salvation. I believe that Jesus Christ died for

990
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 2: my sin that I could be forgiven and rose again

991
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 2: to give me life. I receive this new life. This

992
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 2: is my new beginning. On the counter of three, raise

993
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 2: your hand if you pray that one, two three, I

994
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 2: want to celebrate with you. I want to celebrate with you.

995
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: The doors are open. Welcome in, man, Welcome in to

996
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 2: all those online. Just put it in the comments. I

997
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 2: receive Jesus.

998
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: Today is my day.

999
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 2: This is my door.

1000
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 6: Hallylujah.

1001
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 2: Let's give God the greatest twenty four seconds of praise.

1002
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 2: We can thank you piesus God Lord, how many no praise?

1003
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: Open prison doors play? Why have you heavenly cakes got The.

1004
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 2: King of lowry Man turns, hallylujah, you got seven seconds

1005
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 2: last six five. I pray that you are open to

1006
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 2: what God said today. Hey, y'all with dismiss in a minute,

1007
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much, close the doors.

1008
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: If that word had your name on it, let me

1009
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: know right.

1010
01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 2: Now, if that box had your name on it, I

1011
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 2: know it's tricky. I told God I didn't want to

1012
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 2: preach a message of hype, but a message of hope,

1013
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 2: and not a hopepothetical message either, because I don't know

1014
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 2: if it's going to happen just like you want it.

1015
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: But about this time next year, about this time next year,

1016
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 2: if we win one day at a time, I believe

1017
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 2: you're carrying something awesome.

1018
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: I believe He has something amazing for you.

1019
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 2: Would you stand and give God praise as our campus

1020
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 2: pastors come to close us. I love you, Thank you

1021
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 2: for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who

1022
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 2: give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that

1023
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 2: this ministry is possible. You can click the link in

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01:03:56,400 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: the description to give now or visit Elevation Church Slash

1025
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01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 2: you can subscribe. You can share it with your friends.

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