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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Enjoy the message.

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<v Speaker 1>Today.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to do exactly what I said I would

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<v Speaker 2>do last week, and I'm going to continue in the

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<v Speaker 2>stream of teaching that we started. And I'd like to

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<v Speaker 2>read you a scripture and then I'll sit you down

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<v Speaker 2>and then I'll tell you a story. And then you

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<v Speaker 2>get excited, you'll stand up, You'll be shouting, throwing stuff

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<v Speaker 2>at the stage, and the Lord will be glorified. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to exegete this verse, but just to

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<v Speaker 2>set the table. From Revelation, chapter three, Verse twenty, Jesus said,

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<v Speaker 2>here I am. I stand at the door and knock.

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<v Speaker 2>If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I

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<v Speaker 2>will come in and eat with that person, and they

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<v Speaker 2>with me. I want to teach you a skill today

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<v Speaker 2>that I know is going to help you to pursue

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<v Speaker 2>everything that God has put in your heart in the

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

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<v Speaker 2>I've had to apply to my life. So such as

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<v Speaker 2>I have, I give unto you. I want to teach

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<v Speaker 2>you about the skill of knocking through the know.

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<v Speaker 1>Knocking through the know.

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<v Speaker 2>And let's pray one more time that God would saturate

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<v Speaker 2>our hearts with his word.

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<v Speaker 1>Today you said you were here. Lord, We take you

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<v Speaker 1>at your word.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever mountain we're standing on, whatever valley we're going through,

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<v Speaker 2>you're with us.

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<v Speaker 1>We thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>Emanuel made flesh, make this word flesh.

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<v Speaker 1>Today. I offer myself to you. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just five foot eight and a half and I

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

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<v Speaker 2>my lips, my tongue, my mind. I offer it to you.

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<v Speaker 2>I prayed that every person who logged on today or

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<v Speaker 2>came to church would get exactly what they need from you,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe not even what they asked for, but what they

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<v Speaker 2>need from you. I trust you to do it. I

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<v Speaker 2>thank you in advance in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you

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<v Speaker 2>may be seated one day when I finished my preaching

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<v Speaker 2>ministry and go to take my rest with Moses and

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<v Speaker 2>Elijah and Charles Spurgeon and Billy Graham.

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<v Speaker 1>I know that probably I won't be in all.

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<v Speaker 2>These books as a preacher where they're quoting my sermons

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred years from now. I don't even really feel

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

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<v Speaker 2>not if they put me in a book for one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred years from now. I'm not saying anything that deep

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<v Speaker 2>up here, and I'm not making any of this up

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<v Speaker 2>up here before people have already said it. I'm satisfied

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<v Speaker 2>just if I can get you to put it on

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<v Speaker 2>a sticky note and put it on a mirror in

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<v Speaker 2>your house and it can get you through Monday. And

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<v Speaker 2>I know that might sound like a low goal, but

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<v Speaker 2>let's be honest, with all the voices, opinions and insights,

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<v Speaker 2>insights that are flooding our phones and our minds and

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<v Speaker 2>our lives, even if we could just get a word

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

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<v Speaker 2>And last week I did something that was so simple

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<v Speaker 2>it felt almost silly. I did notice, though, that the

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<v Speaker 2>simpler stuff is stickier sometimes so in order to get

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<v Speaker 2>the message to stick sometimes not because I don't respect

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<v Speaker 2>your intelligence. There's nothing I hate more than a preacher

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<v Speaker 2>who will just pander to the audience, trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>a laugh or a shout and really not saying anything

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

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<v Speaker 2>But just so we can have a handle to carry

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<v Speaker 2>the suitcase out with, I'll try to give you something

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<v Speaker 2>to think about. Last week I was getting you to

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<v Speaker 2>think about where in your life have you been saying

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<v Speaker 2>one day when and I held up this very note card,

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<v Speaker 2>one day when I get a bigger house, We're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>have some people over. We're gonna make some friends one

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<v Speaker 2>day when we get a bigger house, because we don't

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<v Speaker 2>have a big enough house right now for them. But

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<v Speaker 2>one day when we get we're gonna entertain. One day

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<v Speaker 2>when we get these kids out the house, that's when

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna start making some friendships and everything. And then

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<v Speaker 2>you die lonely and with a clean house, a small one,

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<v Speaker 2>and because you have to step out in order to expand,

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<v Speaker 2>and you have to start with what you have in

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<v Speaker 2>order to see what it can be. I am preaching already.

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<v Speaker 2>Let he who have an ear to hear hear what

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<v Speaker 2>the to saying to the church. I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>have a vision for your life beyond today and so

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<v Speaker 2>does God. That's why he said in Jeremiah twenty nine

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<v Speaker 2>to eleven, I know the plans I have for you,

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<v Speaker 2>plans to give you a hope and the future. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's wonderful to dream about that bigger house, or the

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<v Speaker 2>resources to really be able to do the things God

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<v Speaker 2>has put in your heart, or the things you would

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<v Speaker 2>enjoy doing, or create the experiences that you want your

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<v Speaker 2>family to have to send them to college and they

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

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to step into a season of your

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<v Speaker 2>life that's not just such a struggle to survive all

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<v Speaker 2>the time. I join my faith with yours for all

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<v Speaker 2>the things you're believing God, for all of them that

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<v Speaker 2>He put in your heart, in accordance with Psalm thirty

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<v Speaker 2>seven to four. May He give you the desires of

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<v Speaker 2>your heart as you delight yourself in Him. I am

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<v Speaker 2>convinced that the way we will get to this one

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<v Speaker 2>day when you are free of the addiction, This one

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<v Speaker 2>day when you are capable of expressing yourself with greater clarity,

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<v Speaker 2>This one day when you will feel a closeness and

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<v Speaker 2>a nearness to God that is unencumbered by the demonic

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<v Speaker 2>oppression that has been haunting you these last six months.

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<v Speaker 2>That the way we will get to the one day

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<v Speaker 2>when is through the power of the one day win.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody who woke up this morning with a new twenty

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<v Speaker 2>four makes some noise a new twenty four, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like an offensive rebound in basketball, and the shot clock

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<v Speaker 2>would go all the way back to twenty four. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what happened when you woke up this morning. You

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<v Speaker 2>got a new twenty four. Yeah, but I really messed

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<v Speaker 2>it up yesterday. We're not here praising the God of yesterday.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus said, here I am. I stand at the door

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<v Speaker 2>in knock. Did not just read you the scripture Revelation

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<v Speaker 2>three twenty He said, here I am. Not there I was.

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<v Speaker 1>You should have been there. You missed it.

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<v Speaker 2>Not there I'm gonna be one day when. But here

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<v Speaker 2>I am. Somebody shout, God is here. Tell your neighbor,

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<v Speaker 2>elbow them a little bit, say give me some room.

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<v Speaker 2>God is here, Give me some room. Scoot over a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit. God is with me in this seat. God

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<v Speaker 2>is with me in this marriage. God is with me

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<v Speaker 2>in this singleness. God is with me in this transition.

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<v Speaker 2>God is with me in this tent. God is with

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<v Speaker 2>me in this custody battle. God is with me. Tell

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<v Speaker 2>him I need some room. God is with me. So

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<v Speaker 2>building upon that concept of the one day win, just

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<v Speaker 2>to let you know that God has given you the

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<v Speaker 2>strength you need for today and the faith you need

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>you might want to write this down.

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<v Speaker 2>The doors of tomorrow's opportunity swing on the hinges of

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<v Speaker 2>today's obedience.

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<v Speaker 3>Shall I repeat it for those in the back, The

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<v Speaker 3>doors of tomorrow's opportunity hinge on today's obedience.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about that for a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>Not from my life or your life, but lessen them

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<v Speaker 2>all the way out and go to a place called

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<v Speaker 2>shoon Him. Shun Them is a city in the Old

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<v Speaker 2>Testament where the prophets would stop by and often receive

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<v Speaker 2>their word from God. If you were a prophet in

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<v Speaker 2>the Old Testament, it was different than being a preacher today.

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<v Speaker 2>You weren't just trying to stand up in a sermon,

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<v Speaker 2>holding up some note cards and hoping people will remember

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<v Speaker 2>what you preached.

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<v Speaker 1>About on Tuesday.

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<v Speaker 2>You spoke a word from God, and it could literally

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<v Speaker 2>rout the enemy in another direction, the military enemy, not

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<v Speaker 2>the enemy like sadness or something like that. Elisha is

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<v Speaker 2>a prophet. I want to tell you about it, because

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<v Speaker 2>he would speak to the king and tell the king

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<v Speaker 2>where the enemy had set up camp, so that the

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<v Speaker 2>king could avoid it or prepare for it and obliterate him.

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<v Speaker 2>He was a very valuable He was an MVP. He

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<v Speaker 2>was a most valuable prophet. And for that reason he

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<v Speaker 2>lived a lonely life. Now when he would get to

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<v Speaker 2>shun him. The Bible says the Second Kings chapter four,

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<v Speaker 2>verse eight through seventeen, that there was a woman in Shunham.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, let's pick up the story right there, Second

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<v Speaker 2>King's four, verse eight on the screen.

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<v Speaker 1>Please.

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<v Speaker 2>He went to shun him one day, and a well

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<v Speaker 2>to do woman was there who urged him.

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<v Speaker 1>To stay for a meal.

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<v Speaker 2>And I urge you pay every bit of attention you've

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<v Speaker 2>got to every word that comes up here, because all

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<v Speaker 2>of them matter. Some of these little words in this

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<v Speaker 2>text are hinges for you to understand what God wants

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<v Speaker 2>to do in your heart.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm gonna start that verse over so you can

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<v Speaker 1>really listen.

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<v Speaker 2>One day Elisha went to shun him, and a well

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<v Speaker 2>to do woman was there who urged him to stay

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<v Speaker 2>for a meal, So whenever he came by, he stopped

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<v Speaker 2>there to eat. She said to her husband, I know

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<v Speaker 2>that this man who often comes our way is a

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<v Speaker 2>holy man of God.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Let's make verse ten.

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<v Speaker 1>I got an idea.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's make hey, let's make go down to Ikea. It

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

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<v Speaker 2>room on the roof. We don't need more square footage

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<v Speaker 2>to do this. We just need more simple faith. We

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<v Speaker 2>don't need more square footage to do this. We already

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<v Speaker 2>have room for it on the roof. We just need

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<v Speaker 2>to take the roof we already have and turn it

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<v Speaker 2>into a room. Why well, I want to put a

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<v Speaker 2>bed and the table and the chair and the lamp.

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<v Speaker 1>That's getting expensive, and.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to put this room together for this prophet, Elisha.

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<v Speaker 2>Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a different day, so the technology would not

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<v Speaker 2>enable Elisha to give them a heads up. She said,

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<v Speaker 2>I believe in what this man is speaking so much,

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<v Speaker 2>and I feel compared well to do something for him.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't preach like him.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have a whole lot of space. But there

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<v Speaker 2>is a room on the roof, and what I'd like

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<v Speaker 2>to do is for simple things. I like a chair

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<v Speaker 2>and a bed, and a table and a lamp.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just want to set it up so.

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<v Speaker 2>That whenever he comes, however he comes, for whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>He comes, he can stay there.

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<v Speaker 2>And she did that. Bible says in verse eleven. One

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<v Speaker 2>day when I've been holding this since last week, y'all,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm hungry for it. One day when it was blocking

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<v Speaker 2>it down, there wasn't it. I do my own special effects.

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<v Speaker 2>I might not be a profit, but I say word

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<v Speaker 2>of the Lord. One day when Elisha came, he went

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<v Speaker 2>up to his room. Whose room?

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<v Speaker 1>A few days ago it was her roof. But now with.

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<v Speaker 2>The power of an idea, the power of an initiative,

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<v Speaker 2>the simple response of a woman and a trip to

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<v Speaker 2>the store, it's his room. And one day when everybody say,

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<v Speaker 2>one day, when one day when he came to shun

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<v Speaker 2>him and he was doing whatever he was doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember, he's already eaten several of her meals.

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<v Speaker 2>Now she has expanded the offer and given him an

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<v Speaker 2>open door policy to be able to say whenever you

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<v Speaker 2>stop by, whenever you need to rest, whenever your travels

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<v Speaker 2>bring you through Shunam. We know that you have options,

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<v Speaker 2>but there will always be. You don't need an airbn be,

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<v Speaker 2>you don't need a uh, what's the other one called VRBO?

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<v Speaker 2>You can you when you when you pass through, you

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<v Speaker 2>can stay here. And I wonder does Jesus have that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of open invitation in your life, that Lord, when

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<v Speaker 2>you're looking to encourage someone, when you're looking to make

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<v Speaker 2>a difference, when you're looking to right or wrong, when

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<v Speaker 2>you are looking to meet a need, whenever you want

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<v Speaker 2>to come through, you can stay here.

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<v Speaker 1>I made a room for you now for all of

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<v Speaker 1>the things.

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<v Speaker 2>That you want God to do in your life this year,

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<v Speaker 2>and all the things I want him to do in mind,

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<v Speaker 2>because I got my list too. The question is have

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<v Speaker 2>you made room for him to do it? And whatever

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<v Speaker 2>the answer is to that, it's okay. That's where we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to start. Remember it started as a room and

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<v Speaker 2>it turned into a room. And I think that's a

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<v Speaker 2>revelation in itself, don't you that the roof can become

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<v Speaker 2>a room? And I think it's significant that a roof

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<v Speaker 2>is the highest part of the house. And I think

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<v Speaker 2>it is significant that if she had looked all around

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<v Speaker 2>in the house, she would not have had a place

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<v Speaker 2>for the prophet to stay. But how many knows, sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>you have to go higher in order to see the

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<v Speaker 2>opportunity that God has given you.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got to go higher. Somebody say higher.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell your neighbor, I appreciate your opinion, but sometimes I

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<v Speaker 2>got to go higher. I know you don't think I

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<v Speaker 2>can do it, but you don't have to think I

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<v Speaker 2>can do it. I know I don't look capable of it,

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<v Speaker 2>but I don't have to look capable of it. Man

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<v Speaker 2>looks at the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.

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<v Speaker 2>So for everybody who is still dealing with the root

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<v Speaker 2>of rejection from somebody who didn't see your potential or

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<v Speaker 2>an opportunity that wasn't extended to you because you didn't

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<v Speaker 2>fit the bill, I came with a word, go higher.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a room on the roof.

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<v Speaker 2>I almost preached the whole message called there's room on

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<v Speaker 2>the roof. And what is impossible with man is possible

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<v Speaker 2>with God because his ways are not your ways, and

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<v Speaker 2>his thoughts are not your thoughts. So I'm going higher

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<v Speaker 2>this year, going to the top floor in twenty twenty four.

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<v Speaker 1>On the spot LJ all right.

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<v Speaker 2>And one day when Elisha came, he went up to

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<v Speaker 2>his room and lay down there.

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<v Speaker 1>The room that she.

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<v Speaker 2>Built for him with no ulterior motive motives matter, the

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<v Speaker 2>room that she built with him for him because it

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<v Speaker 2>was the right thing to do. The room that she

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<v Speaker 2>built for him, completely fat flexible to the schedule of

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<v Speaker 2>the purpose of God, and when the purpose of God

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<v Speaker 2>would pass through. Some of us cannot be used by

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<v Speaker 2>God because we want to stipulate all of the times

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<v Speaker 2>that He can do the things that He wants to

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<v Speaker 2>do in our life for when we are ready and

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<v Speaker 2>refreshed and reset. But she had a different kind of

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<v Speaker 2>obedience to God. And the very first thing, I've got

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<v Speaker 2>three things for you to take notes on. The very

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<v Speaker 2>first thing that you are going to have to be

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<v Speaker 2>to be the kind of person who can see the

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<v Speaker 2>kind of things that you are dreaming about God doing

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<v Speaker 2>in your spirit, not in your flesh, in your heart

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<v Speaker 2>of hearts, not in your habits. But the first thing

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<v Speaker 2>is you're going to have to be obedient. I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>expect a shout on that and you didn't deliver one

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<v Speaker 2>good thing. We were on the same page. I expected

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<v Speaker 2>your stank face and you gave me one, so we're good.

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<v Speaker 1>I was ready for that response.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet there's nothing in the text that says God told

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<v Speaker 2>her to build the room.

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<v Speaker 1>The Lord didn't say build a room. Please build a room,

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<v Speaker 1>which please build a room.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm to tell you why God didn't tell her build room,

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<v Speaker 2>because God had options. Anybody could have built that room.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a privilege to obey God. Sometimes when I stand

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<v Speaker 2>up and greet you, I want to say thank you

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<v Speaker 2>for coming to church, But then that doesn't even feel

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<v Speaker 2>right because on a human behalf, I am thankful because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm really glad you're here. Don't get me wrong, like

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<v Speaker 2>so thank you. But we know we didn't do God

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<v Speaker 2>a favor when we came today, right, we know that, right,

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<v Speaker 2>just so we know that God wasn't Like, if Teresa

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<v Speaker 2>would worship me today, I could have all power. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>if Jimmy would just give me the praise today, I

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<v Speaker 2>could really get it done into word. I just need

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<v Speaker 2>a Jimmy praise today. If Peter would pray, No, God

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't need any of that. And so the kind of

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<v Speaker 2>obedience that I'm talking about in your life is very

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<v Speaker 2>different than the human definition of obedience, and words do

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<v Speaker 2>change over time. Phone used to mean something that you

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<v Speaker 2>talk to somebody else on when I was a kid. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>if my phone rings for somebody to call me, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>annoyed because they interrupted the video I was watching on

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<v Speaker 2>the phone. Phone is very different now. Now listen to me,

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<v Speaker 2>you follow me. Obedience was different back then. Obedience to

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<v Speaker 2>the word of God was different back then. We don't

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<v Speaker 2>do well with obedience to God in our culture. We

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<v Speaker 2>are drowning in too many opinions to respect the power

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<v Speaker 2>of simple obedience to God. I will not lie to

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<v Speaker 2>you and tell you that I always know what God

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<v Speaker 2>is telling me to do. I will say that every

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<v Speaker 2>time I know he's telling me to do it and

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<v Speaker 2>I don't do it, it blocks me up inside and

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<v Speaker 2>I start blaming everything around me. But what I'm blaming

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<v Speaker 2>on the outside is usually a result of what I'm

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<v Speaker 2>blocked from on the inside. Help me preach the word.

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<v Speaker 2>If there are three Pentecostals in this room, identify yourself. Ah,

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<v Speaker 2>I need to establishe that this obedience that the woman

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<v Speaker 2>demonstrated was not to the word of a man or

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<v Speaker 2>the suggestion of a TikTok influence, Sir. Her obedience was

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<v Speaker 2>directed by her inner compulsion for what God was calling

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<v Speaker 2>her to do. And she says to her husband, now

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<v Speaker 2>he's the real obedient one, right, go get a table,

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<v Speaker 2>Go get a chair. We always preach about wives, obey

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<v Speaker 2>your husband's Well hear the husband obeyed the wife and they.

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<v Speaker 4>All got blessed. I'll preach this a reflect next year. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 4>she said, let's just do it.

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<v Speaker 2>But the word that unlocked it for me wasn't that

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<v Speaker 2>God said, you know, on January what's today's date, January fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever time you have to be watching this in

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<v Speaker 2>the future. On January fourteenth, I want you to start

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<v Speaker 2>new business and fill the papers of incorporation. On January fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>when you'd ask her out see her third row in

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<v Speaker 2>the back. I want you to join the welcome team

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<v Speaker 2>next year and give her a special welcome with your

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<v Speaker 2>phone number. There's there's no specific there's no specific word

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<v Speaker 2>from God that tells her to do this. She did

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<v Speaker 2>it to accommodate the purpose of God. And you're about

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<v Speaker 2>to be very impressed with this woman. If you're not already,

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<v Speaker 2>because she said verse ten, he can stay there whenever

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<v Speaker 2>he comes. That's an open door invitation for the prophet

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<v Speaker 2>who preached the Word of God with power and rain

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<v Speaker 2>came to the valleys in Second King's three, the prophet

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<v Speaker 2>of God who spoke the word and a widow's oil.

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<v Speaker 1>Flowed in Second King's four, and she.

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<v Speaker 2>Says to the prophet, Hey, I want you to stay,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want you to eat something, and I want.

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<v Speaker 1>You to know that whenever somebody shout.

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<v Speaker 2>Whenever, stop trying to tell God the timeline.

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<v Speaker 1>Stop trying to tell God when.

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<v Speaker 2>It should have happened by, stop trying to control the timeline,

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<v Speaker 2>and start trusting the eternal God who sits on a throne.

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<v Speaker 2>Here I am, said Jesus, I stand at the door

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<v Speaker 2>and knock.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. What God has been teaching me lately in my

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<v Speaker 2>life is that closed doors are important too, because sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>what was behind that door that he closed would have

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<v Speaker 2>killed me if he would.

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<v Speaker 5>Have opened it before I was ready for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Is this your word today? Is the Lord taking you

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<v Speaker 2>up on the roof of your resources, the roof of

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<v Speaker 2>your relationships. Well, I don't have anybody in my life

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<v Speaker 2>and so I feel very lonely, and I feel very lonely.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I check your whole.

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<v Speaker 2>Text thread for everybody that you asked and reached out.

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<v Speaker 1>To, or did you not even reach out and call

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<v Speaker 1>it rejection?

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<v Speaker 2>If I understand this text correctly, she opened the room.

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<v Speaker 1>She said it apart. It wasn't apparent on.

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<v Speaker 2>The surface, but she took the space she had. God

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<v Speaker 2>will not hold you accountable for what he didn't give you.

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<v Speaker 2>God will not hold me accountable to preach Billy Graham's servants.

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<v Speaker 2>God will not hold you accountable to raise somebody who

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<v Speaker 2>goes to Harvard.

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<v Speaker 1>If your kid is just supposed to graduate high school.

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<v Speaker 2>He knows the plans he has for you and for them.

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<v Speaker 2>And I believe one of the reasons we can't see

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<v Speaker 2>God do what he wants to do in our life

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<v Speaker 2>is there's no room for him.

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<v Speaker 1>To do it because our hearts are so crowded with.

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<v Speaker 2>What we think he should be doing, because of what

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<v Speaker 2>we've seen him do through others. I was impressed by

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<v Speaker 2>her obedience, but I was also impressed. This is the

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<v Speaker 2>second thing you got to be I was impressed because

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<v Speaker 2>not only was she obedient, but she was open. Are

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<v Speaker 2>you open? Are you open if God wants to do

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<v Speaker 2>it through you? And I know I'm being vague because

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<v Speaker 2>in this woman's specific situation, we're about to see.

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<v Speaker 1>What was that thing.

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<v Speaker 2>That she needed that she didn't even know how to

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<v Speaker 2>articulate anymore, I feel that way. I know I need

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<v Speaker 2>something right now, and I would reach out and I

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<v Speaker 2>hear you on that I don't even know how to

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<v Speaker 2>articulate it. In besides that, when I came into church

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<v Speaker 2>today and I walked through those doors, you couldn't see it,

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<v Speaker 2>Pastor Stephen, but I was dragging disappointments behind me a

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<v Speaker 2>mile long, from every time I've had a new year

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<v Speaker 2>and thought it was going to be different than it wasn't.

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<v Speaker 2>From every time I told my friends I'm gonna get clean,

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<v Speaker 2>and now they kind of laugh at me when I

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<v Speaker 2>say it, Yeah, we'll catch up with you in February

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<v Speaker 2>and see how you're doing. For every time that I

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<v Speaker 2>promised God, no, I'm really gonna read my Bible this year.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in Pastor, I hadn't made it past Genesis twelve,

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<v Speaker 2>and I've been saying that every year, and Genesis is

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<v Speaker 2>the first book in the Bible. In case you were

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<v Speaker 2>slow catching onto that that would be twelve days. In

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<v Speaker 2>case that's where you are today, let me give you

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<v Speaker 2>this woman's story is an encouragement. It's amazing story for

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<v Speaker 2>those of you who are holding a disappointment in your

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<v Speaker 2>heart as I speak to you right now. And I

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<v Speaker 2>never can tell what you carried with you when you

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<v Speaker 2>came to church. I never can tell what you really have.

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<v Speaker 2>I really don't know what happens when you close the

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<v Speaker 2>doors at home. I can't tell that when you come

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<v Speaker 2>in my doors on Sunday. I don't know what the

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<v Speaker 2>conversations are like in your house. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>the thoughts are like in your mind. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>what the doubts are like in the darkness. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know any of that. But this woman who was so

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<v Speaker 2>great and so generous, and so wealthy and so proactive,

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says in verse eleven, one day, when Elisha came,

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<v Speaker 2>he went up to his.

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<v Speaker 1>Room and laid down there. Verse twelve.

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<v Speaker 2>Please, he said to his servant Geheesi, hmm, call the Shunamite.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the woman who built the room. You don't even

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<v Speaker 1>know her name.

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<v Speaker 2>She apparently wasn't in it for the credit. She wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>in it for the glory, wasn't in it for the

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<v Speaker 2>approval of people. She was in it for the purpose

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<v Speaker 2>of God. But how many know even if they don't

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<v Speaker 2>call your name, God can Even if they don't say

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<v Speaker 2>thank you, God can fill you with a blessing, good measure,

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<v Speaker 2>pressed down, shaking together and running over. God doesn't need

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<v Speaker 2>them to call your name to know where to drop

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<v Speaker 2>the package. He knows your name, he knows your neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 2>he knows your zip code. What he has for you,

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<v Speaker 2>it is for you, and nothing in heaven or Hell

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<v Speaker 2>can hold it back. When he says it's tod I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna show you that. Now I'm gonna prove it to

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<v Speaker 2>you from the text. Don't take my word for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Listen to this, he said, call the Shoonomite. So he

0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:52.400
<v Speaker 2>called her, and she stood before him. Elisha said, tell her,

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<v Speaker 2>you've gone to all this trouble for us. Appreciate chair,

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate lanp, appreciate the bed, appreciate table. Now what can

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<v Speaker 2>be done for you? Now that you did all of

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<v Speaker 2>this for us? What can be done for you? Help

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<v Speaker 2>me say this right, Holy Spirit, because I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>the whole message is going to hinge on this for

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<v Speaker 2>somebody that question. Put verse twelve up again that question

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<v Speaker 2>or verse thirteen, what can be done for you?

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<v Speaker 1>That question?

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<v Speaker 2>And the answer to it hinges on what she did

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<v Speaker 2>in verses eight and nine. What God can do for

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<v Speaker 2>you is not limited to who he is, because he's infinite.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nothing he can't do for you because he's God.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nothing he can't accomplish because he's God. So the

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<v Speaker 2>question is never can he do it for you? The

0:29:53.400 --> 0:29:56.960
<v Speaker 2>question becomes have you given him room to do it?

0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:05.920
<v Speaker 2>Or is your roof so cluttered with past hurts and expectations?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you even hearing me preach this message today? Or

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<v Speaker 2>are you so bitter about the last church where you

0:30:12.440 --> 0:30:15.160
<v Speaker 2>got your feelings hurt that you can't even receive the

0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:18.040
<v Speaker 2>word of the Lord because somebody hurt you in church

0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:21.040
<v Speaker 2>one time? And yet I know you ate at a

0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:24.160
<v Speaker 2>bad restaurant once in your life and you still eat.

0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:28.800
<v Speaker 1>So are you really never going to enter Heaven's.

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<v Speaker 2>Restaurant again because of something that happened back then?

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<v Speaker 1>Now, talk about disappointment.

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to differentiate in your life that there

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<v Speaker 2>is a big distinction between disappointment and bitterness. Disappointment does

0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:53.880
<v Speaker 2>not stop God from producing in your life. Bitterness will.

0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.560
<v Speaker 2>Bitterness will choke the seed of the Word of God

0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.960
<v Speaker 2>before it has been Bitterness will choke the seed of

0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:06.200
<v Speaker 2>your hope and your potential before it has been developed.

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<v Speaker 2>So I want you to watch a picture of this woman,

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<v Speaker 2>because this is what I want you to.

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<v Speaker 1>Be in twenty twenty four.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever happens, whatever doesn't happen, whatever, yes you get, whatever

0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:18.880
<v Speaker 2>no you get, Whoever likes you, whoever can't stand you,

0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:21.720
<v Speaker 2>whoever likes you that you think can't stand you because.

0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:22.920
<v Speaker 1>You read too much into people.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever happens this year, whenever it happens, watch this woman

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<v Speaker 2>who is disappointed but not bitter. Watch what happens to

0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:41.560
<v Speaker 2>this woman who is disappointed but not bitter. Can you

0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:47.080
<v Speaker 2>forgive it? Can you move past it? Can you give

0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:50.560
<v Speaker 2>God room to move through it?

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<v Speaker 1>What can we do.

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<v Speaker 2>For you? And he even has a specific idea. How

0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:11.920
<v Speaker 2>about I talked to the king for you. He owes

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<v Speaker 2>me one the king had just been in a drought,

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<v Speaker 2>and Elishah said, you hear no wind and you'll see

0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:21.920
<v Speaker 2>no rain. But dig these ditches in the valleys, and

0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:24.400
<v Speaker 2>your troops will drink and they did. He owes me one.

0:32:24.440 --> 0:32:27.560
<v Speaker 2>I just saved his butt. Let me go talk to

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<v Speaker 2>the king for you what you need? And he said,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, essentially, do you need anything? And she said no.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at verse thirteen. I have a home among my

0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:42.040
<v Speaker 2>own people. I don't need anything from you. You need

0:32:42.040 --> 0:32:43.200
<v Speaker 2>something from me, And I go back up to your

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<v Speaker 2>room and lay down and take a nap and sleep

0:32:44.640 --> 0:32:47.960
<v Speaker 2>at all. I'm good. You know how guarded you are.

0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:51.880
<v Speaker 2>You know how you won't let anybody give you any encouragement.

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<v Speaker 2>The next time they start telling you you're good at it,

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<v Speaker 2>just shut up and say thank you. Oh no, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not that good.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you.

0:33:00.080 --> 0:33:02.960
<v Speaker 2>I can't stand to compliment a singer in church. You say,

0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:05.520
<v Speaker 2>you sound it so great. It wasn't me, it was

0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.760
<v Speaker 2>the Lord, And I just want to say, it wasn't

0:33:09.800 --> 0:33:12.640
<v Speaker 2>that good, honey. If it was the Lord, it would

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:18.640
<v Speaker 2>have been a little bit better. Well that's good. Now

0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:22.280
<v Speaker 2>we're about to find out why she wouldn't let him,

0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:23.480
<v Speaker 2>and you're about to find out why you.

0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:24.160
<v Speaker 1>Won't let it in either.

0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:30.080
<v Speaker 2>Because I hear God standing at the door of somebody's

0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:36.600
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four and he's knocking here I am. I

0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:40.200
<v Speaker 2>stand at the door and knock. I stand at the

0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:42.920
<v Speaker 2>door and knock. I always heard that verse preached when

0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.680
<v Speaker 2>people were about to get saved. If you want to

0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:49.240
<v Speaker 2>bring Jesus in your heart, here he is. He stands

0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:52.640
<v Speaker 2>at the door and knocks. But that verse was actually

0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:57.760
<v Speaker 2>written not to sinners who didn't know Jesus. It was

0:33:57.840 --> 0:34:02.240
<v Speaker 2>written to a church who had forgotten how powerful he

0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:06.720
<v Speaker 2>really was. And God said, I'm standing at the door

0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:11.040
<v Speaker 2>of your religious heart, your scripture quoting heart, your good

0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:14.880
<v Speaker 2>doing hard. I don't need anything hard. You're barely getting

0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:17.759
<v Speaker 2>by just surviving. It's another day, it's another year. What

0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:20.120
<v Speaker 2>are you gonna do about it? He said, I stand

0:34:20.200 --> 0:34:24.879
<v Speaker 2>at the door and I knock. That's God knocking. That's

0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:28.080
<v Speaker 2>your heart beating in your chest. That's God knocking to

0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:30.920
<v Speaker 2>let you know that if you are not in fact

0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:34.640
<v Speaker 2>dead and sleeping in the grave, he is not in

0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:38.080
<v Speaker 2>fact done with you yet. And you would be accurate

0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:42.239
<v Speaker 2>to say that if I'm not dead, God's not done.

0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:44.960
<v Speaker 2>And you would be accurate if you said.

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<v Speaker 1>That this is my year.

0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:48.839
<v Speaker 2>And you would be accurate if you were to say

0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:51.759
<v Speaker 2>that this is the day that the Lord has made.

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<v Speaker 5>That all things are possible to the lives.

0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:02.040
<v Speaker 1>Who believes. Are you open.

0:35:03.200 --> 0:35:07.480
<v Speaker 2>The doors of tomorrow's opportunity? You want to tell your

0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:11.520
<v Speaker 2>kids a testimony and leave a legacy to your children's children.

0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:16.960
<v Speaker 2>The doors of tomorrow's opportunity swing on the hinges of

0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:18.560
<v Speaker 2>today's obedience.

0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:24.400
<v Speaker 1>Are you open? Are you open? She said no?

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<v Speaker 2>How are you like this?

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<v Speaker 1>A prophet says you want a blessing? And she says no.

0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:36.080
<v Speaker 2>Everybody say no, I need nothing. Dinner's ready at thirty minutes.

0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:42.400
<v Speaker 2>Lay down, I make the room, I make throws. I

0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:44.640
<v Speaker 2>don't think she was arrogant at all. I think she

0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:51.640
<v Speaker 2>was disappointed. I learned something about God's opportunities, about the

0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:54.760
<v Speaker 2>love he'll bring into your life, about the blessings, about

0:35:54.760 --> 0:35:58.279
<v Speaker 2>the extensions that He will give to you of a

0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:00.759
<v Speaker 2>new season of purpose. I learned something. I learned that

0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:12.080
<v Speaker 2>hope and disappointment swing on the same hinges. And this

0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:15.960
<v Speaker 2>is why you're guarded. To open your door to hope

0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:25.160
<v Speaker 2>is to open your door to disappointment. But let me

0:36:25.200 --> 0:36:30.120
<v Speaker 2>give you this, Like a friend, okay, are we friends? Okay?

0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:33.560
<v Speaker 2>I want to be a friend from a man. Avoiding

0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:40.279
<v Speaker 2>disappointment is not a strategy for happiness. It's a recipe

0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:47.640
<v Speaker 2>for resentment. Avoiding disappointment is not a strategy for happiness.

0:36:47.800 --> 0:36:50.040
<v Speaker 1>Now, maybe this is just for all the middle aged

0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:50.719
<v Speaker 1>men like me.

0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:54.480
<v Speaker 2>Maybe the youth can take a nap while I preach this,

0:36:55.200 --> 0:36:59.239
<v Speaker 2>But for everybody who dragged two or three disappointments through

0:36:59.280 --> 0:37:01.640
<v Speaker 2>the door with you today, I need you to know

0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:04.839
<v Speaker 2>that the way to deal with the disappointments is not

0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:08.480
<v Speaker 2>to close the door of hope. It is not just

0:37:08.560 --> 0:37:11.880
<v Speaker 2>to accept that I'm always going to be an addict.

0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:14.640
<v Speaker 2>It is not just to accept that I guess I

0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:17.920
<v Speaker 2>ruined that relationship and I don't deserve another one. It

0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:19.640
<v Speaker 2>is not to accept.

0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:22.040
<v Speaker 1>That my family has always been treading water. I'm just

0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:23.280
<v Speaker 1>lucky not to drown.

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:26.320
<v Speaker 2>The grace of God is here, and Jesus is standing

0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:28.600
<v Speaker 2>at the door and knocking, And you think Jesus is

0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:31.359
<v Speaker 2>knocking on the door just so your house won't burn down.

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<v Speaker 2>He wants to come in.

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<v Speaker 1>He wants to eat with you, he wants.

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:38.319
<v Speaker 2>To cook for you. He wants to create with you.

0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:42.120
<v Speaker 2>He wants to collaborate with you. He wants to guide you,

0:37:42.520 --> 0:37:46.080
<v Speaker 2>he wants to fill you. He wants to reconcile you.

0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:50.520
<v Speaker 2>He wants to make you a masterpiece according to his blueprint.

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<v Speaker 1>He wants to do it. Are you open?

0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:00.000
<v Speaker 2>And she said, Noah, I don't, I don't, I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>My door is always open to you if you want something,

0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:06.560
<v Speaker 2>but my door is closed if you want to do

0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:13.120
<v Speaker 2>something for me. And Elisha gives us a picture of

0:38:13.200 --> 0:38:19.560
<v Speaker 2>the persistence of God, the persistence of this presence. Here

0:38:19.640 --> 0:38:23.759
<v Speaker 2>I am, I stand at the door and knock a

0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.920
<v Speaker 2>scripture that was written to disobedient lukewarm churches.

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<v Speaker 1>Here I am, I'm still here. Boom boom.

0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:37.120
<v Speaker 2>Your heart beat is telling you he's still here. Boom boom.

0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:41.560
<v Speaker 2>This word is telling you he's still here. Boom boom.

0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:43.360
<v Speaker 1>That person that came into.

0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:46.359
<v Speaker 2>Your life last week and you already tried to shut

0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:46.960
<v Speaker 2>him out.

0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:48.480
<v Speaker 1>That was God at the door.

0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:53.439
<v Speaker 2>That was God knocking. That thing inside of you that

0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:56.319
<v Speaker 2>flutters a little bit and flickers a little bit when

0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:59.120
<v Speaker 2>you get under a good word and you put Facebook

0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:02.319
<v Speaker 2>off of your phone for fifteen minutes and let this

0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:07.600
<v Speaker 2>word come into your heart, that's God knocking. He still is?

0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:11.880
<v Speaker 2>He still is? Somebody say, he still is? He is

0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:16.560
<v Speaker 2>the Alpha and the Omega, he who was and is

0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:20.880
<v Speaker 2>and is to come and Eli Chalai's there for a

0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:24.080
<v Speaker 2>minute and she tells him, no, I don't want anything.

0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:26.800
<v Speaker 1>And that's like those of you who have said.

0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:28.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't make resolutions, I don't make plans, I don't

0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:29.120
<v Speaker 2>set goals.

0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:31.839
<v Speaker 1>I don't do anything. I don't leave me alone.

0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:34.600
<v Speaker 2>I went to the dental hygienis ten years ago and

0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:35.840
<v Speaker 2>I said, I need you to know something about me

0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:37.759
<v Speaker 2>before you start working on my teeth. You can say

0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:39.120
<v Speaker 2>anything you want to say. You can give me anything

0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:40.239
<v Speaker 2>you want to give me. You can knock me out

0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:41.440
<v Speaker 2>and put me to sleep. But when I go home,

0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:53.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm not flossing. You could give me a sponsorship for flossing,

0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:54.400
<v Speaker 2>and I'm not flossing.

0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.640
<v Speaker 1>I'd rather bring my teeth to you in an ash.

0:39:57.440 --> 0:39:59.440
<v Speaker 2>Tray and ask you to put them back in and

0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:07.120
<v Speaker 2>floss in. Amazing what we already decided we won't do

0:40:07.320 --> 0:40:13.040
<v Speaker 2>before the word even went forth today, And we're not

0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:17.640
<v Speaker 2>talking about a lazy lady. She already built a room.

0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:19.560
<v Speaker 2>Yet there is one thing in her life. There's one

0:40:19.560 --> 0:40:21.960
<v Speaker 2>thing in your life that she will not mention, and

0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:24.239
<v Speaker 2>Unlessa's about to find out about it. Now, that's the

0:40:24.280 --> 0:40:26.759
<v Speaker 2>thing that God is looking for today in your heart.

0:40:27.840 --> 0:40:30.080
<v Speaker 2>That's the thing that God is looking for in your heart.

0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:36.719
<v Speaker 2>Elisha said, man verse fourteen, What can be done for her?

0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:40.840
<v Speaker 2>Persistent little prophet, isn't he I'm not a free loader.

0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:45.239
<v Speaker 2>I won't do something for her. Well, hey, they can

0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:46.839
<v Speaker 2>do it for She built her a room.

0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:47.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't even live here.

0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:55.640
<v Speaker 2>I can't cook for a nigga Gehzi. The servant said, well,

0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:58.480
<v Speaker 2>she has no son and her husband is old. I mean,

0:40:58.520 --> 0:41:00.000
<v Speaker 2>did you see him carrying the table up the store?

0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:06.080
<v Speaker 2>That was sad? And Elia said, all right, now this

0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:08.480
<v Speaker 2>is the turning point of the text. We got to

0:41:08.480 --> 0:41:09.120
<v Speaker 2>get here together.

0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:13.760
<v Speaker 1>Elija said, call her.

0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:16.280
<v Speaker 2>You're like he already called her no, no, no the first

0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:21.200
<v Speaker 2>time she came to Geheese. But this time he called

0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:24.759
<v Speaker 2>her back. And I believe God is calling somebody back

0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:29.879
<v Speaker 2>today because last year this time you had some things

0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:32.279
<v Speaker 2>in your heart. You thought they would have happened by

0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:36.600
<v Speaker 2>now they didn't. You have allowed your timeline to cause

0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:37.680
<v Speaker 2>your faith to die.

0:41:38.120 --> 0:41:41.160
<v Speaker 1>You have allowed your timeline to become the throne at

0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:41.960
<v Speaker 1>which you worship.

0:41:42.320 --> 0:41:45.279
<v Speaker 2>You have allowed your heart to become so crowded with

0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:49.400
<v Speaker 2>disappointment that you cannot receive what God is doing today.

0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:54.920
<v Speaker 1>And Elisha says, and God says, call her, tell her,

0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:59.200
<v Speaker 1>I want her to come back. So he called her.

0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.879
<v Speaker 2>And all the years I've been preaching this scripture, since

0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:08.720
<v Speaker 2>I was seventeen years old, since I was seventeen years old,

0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:12.360
<v Speaker 2>I have preached about what that woman did, how she

0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:16.359
<v Speaker 2>was obedient. I have preached about when she did it,

0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:20.720
<v Speaker 2>just whenever he came by. But I have never preached

0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:25.480
<v Speaker 2>about where she stood when he spoke the word that

0:42:25.600 --> 0:42:29.880
<v Speaker 2>changed her life. And I saw it this week like

0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:34.040
<v Speaker 2>it was a word for each and every one of us,

0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:39.000
<v Speaker 2>on every continent, in every county, wherever life finds you. Today,

0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:42.759
<v Speaker 2>the Bible says he called her, and she came and

0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:50.080
<v Speaker 2>put the verse on the screen. She stood in the doorway. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>just a few months ago, this was not a room

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<v Speaker 2>at all. It was just an open space on the roof.

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<v Speaker 2>But one day somebody out one day, one day she decided,

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<v Speaker 2>one day she committed. One day she intended and did it,

0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:13.080
<v Speaker 2>and she built a room. And now she is standing

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<v Speaker 2>not in the room that she built, but in the

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<v Speaker 2>doorway of the room that she built. And I believe

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<v Speaker 2>somebody is standing in the doorway. Today, you are standing

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<v Speaker 2>between two things, and there is a voice calling you forth.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the voice of the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>Calling you forward into freedom, calling you forward into movement,

0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:41.520
<v Speaker 2>calling you forward into legacy, calling you forward into purity,

0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:46.800
<v Speaker 2>calling you forward into abundance, calling you forward into generosity,

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<v Speaker 2>calling you.

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<v Speaker 1>Forward into your future.

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<v Speaker 6>And the hinges of the door that swing open to

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<v Speaker 6>Elicia's chamber were on the same little hinges that were

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<v Speaker 6>just a simple.

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<v Speaker 1>Act of obedience days earlier.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to get you to see that you keep

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<v Speaker 2>waiting for God to open a door. Maybe He wants

0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:21.400
<v Speaker 2>you to make your own door. Hallelujah, hallelujah. This is

0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:25.000
<v Speaker 2>going to help somebody from dying in the wilderness of

0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:28.480
<v Speaker 2>one day, when, oh, when God opens the door. There

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<v Speaker 2>was no door at the beginning of Second King's four

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<v Speaker 2>There was no room at all. There was just a

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<v Speaker 2>woman with a heart for God to do something, for him,

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<v Speaker 2>to be obedient and to be open. Can God have

0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:48.279
<v Speaker 2>your heart? We keep saying, I surrender it to God.

0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:53.400
<v Speaker 2>But surrenders shouldn't keep you from taking initiative. Surrenders should

0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:56.880
<v Speaker 2>give you initiative to find a way to be a

0:44:56.880 --> 0:45:00.319
<v Speaker 2>blessing to find a way to be free to all

0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:03.319
<v Speaker 2>one of the counselors whose cards you've been looking at

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<v Speaker 2>for years, there was no door. I wish I could

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<v Speaker 2>preach this message, I'm happy to be here.

0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:12.440
<v Speaker 1>I wish I could preach.

0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:16.800
<v Speaker 2>It at the Matthews campus that literally used to be

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<v Speaker 2>a shopping center. And when we went to least forty

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand square feet circa two thousand and seven, two

0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.319
<v Speaker 2>thousand and eight, we were told by one of the

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<v Speaker 2>tenants in the strip mall no. Everybody shout no, no.

0:45:34.280 --> 0:45:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Can't put a church here. No, can't have a religious

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<v Speaker 2>institution here. It'll strike business down. So for a minute

0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:45.239
<v Speaker 2>I thought, well, maybe we can't put a church there,

0:45:46.120 --> 0:45:49.120
<v Speaker 2>because when you are told no from the outside or

0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:50.279
<v Speaker 2>the inside, and.

0:45:50.239 --> 0:45:52.480
<v Speaker 1>Everything you try to do to move it forward doesn't

0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:56.120
<v Speaker 1>work or makes it worse. You get to a place.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch she's standing in the doorway verse sixteen. I gotta

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<v Speaker 1>give you this. I gotta give you this.

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<v Speaker 2>And Elisha calls her and says, about this time next year,

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<v Speaker 2>where do you want to be this time next year?

0:46:07.840 --> 0:46:10.560
<v Speaker 2>What are you looking forward to having the victory over,

0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:13.959
<v Speaker 2>or at least incremental leverage over this time next year?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you want to know a few scriptures you can quote?

0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:18.279
<v Speaker 1>Do you want to be able to.

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<v Speaker 2>Say, I'm leading a group of middle school boys now

0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:23.400
<v Speaker 2>and helping them not to be as dumb as I was?

0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:27.560
<v Speaker 2>Where you want to be this time next year? And

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<v Speaker 2>Elisha says, I know you didn't ask, and I know

0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:35.520
<v Speaker 2>you said no, but about this time next year, you

0:46:35.600 --> 0:46:39.960
<v Speaker 2>will hold a son in your arms. And her response,

0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:41.600
<v Speaker 2>this woman of great faith.

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<v Speaker 1>Was no, No.

0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:52.000
<v Speaker 2>The devil didn't say no, she did. The devil isn't

0:46:52.000 --> 0:47:09.000
<v Speaker 2>blocking you. You are, thanks mom. No, no, because I've

0:47:09.000 --> 0:47:10.320
<v Speaker 2>been here before.

0:47:12.560 --> 0:47:14.040
<v Speaker 1>Me and Holly had a real big fight. And my

0:47:14.080 --> 0:47:15.040
<v Speaker 1>third point is.

0:47:18.000 --> 0:47:20.440
<v Speaker 2>You gotta be obedient, you gotta be open, and you

0:47:20.520 --> 0:47:21.839
<v Speaker 2>gotta be obnoxious.

0:47:21.880 --> 0:47:24.919
<v Speaker 1>Me and Holly had a fight. Oh y'all are paying

0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:25.600
<v Speaker 1>attention now.

0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:29.920
<v Speaker 2>You want to see where is he going with this pastor?

0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:32.319
<v Speaker 2>Stephen might be sleeping on a room in the roof

0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:35.799
<v Speaker 2>in my house just tonight. Holly's gonna kick him out.

0:47:37.040 --> 0:47:40.680
<v Speaker 2>We had a fight at the end of last year,

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<v Speaker 2>not twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty three, we had no fights.

0:47:46.520 --> 0:47:51.399
<v Speaker 2>Twenty twenty two. It was a fight about her. Oh God,

0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:52.960
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe I'm sharing this witch.

0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:58.640
<v Speaker 1>Trying to get me to see that God input more

0:47:58.719 --> 0:47:59.920
<v Speaker 1>in me than I was getting.

0:48:01.920 --> 0:48:04.640
<v Speaker 2>Not in a nagging way, not in a way that

0:48:04.719 --> 0:48:06.640
<v Speaker 2>was saying like you're not doing enough making me feel bad.

0:48:06.640 --> 0:48:11.080
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't shame based. There was something that I because

0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:13.080
<v Speaker 2>we're talking in the text about a woman who couldn't

0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:18.520
<v Speaker 2>have a baby, but it could represent anything that you

0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:20.799
<v Speaker 2>can't have that is a.

0:48:20.680 --> 0:48:21.520
<v Speaker 1>God given desire.

0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:22.719
<v Speaker 2>I am not talking about all the stuff you want

0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:26.080
<v Speaker 2>because you spend too much time shopping. I'm talking about

0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:27.840
<v Speaker 2>the stuff that you can't have, but it is a

0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:29.760
<v Speaker 2>part of your future and you can't have it yet.

0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:30.440
<v Speaker 1>And so.

0:48:33.600 --> 0:48:36.360
<v Speaker 2>While I'm doing this, go get that box out of

0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:39.239
<v Speaker 2>my office. It's on the where the counter in my

0:48:39.280 --> 0:48:42.719
<v Speaker 2>little Go get it, Josh, Thank you just as quick

0:48:42.760 --> 0:48:45.200
<v Speaker 2>as you can, because I want to show you something

0:48:45.440 --> 0:48:48.640
<v Speaker 2>to help you understand what I'm talking about. One of

0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.239
<v Speaker 2>the things that she was getting me was she was

0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:54.759
<v Speaker 2>kept telling me there are more messages in you now.

0:48:54.840 --> 0:48:55.880
<v Speaker 1>The thing that you don't know.

0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.799
<v Speaker 2>We keep promoting and we're going to promote it even

0:48:57.800 --> 0:48:59.279
<v Speaker 2>more that I'm putting a book out in a couple

0:48:59.280 --> 0:48:59.640
<v Speaker 2>of weeks.

0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:01.000
<v Speaker 1>A week before my birthday.

0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:11.440
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate your enthusiasm. And Holly was trying to get

0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:15.840
<v Speaker 2>me to see reveal it too soon, mess up my

0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:22.600
<v Speaker 2>illustration of the boxes open officer. When she was yelling

0:49:22.640 --> 0:49:26.120
<v Speaker 2>at me, I mean, when she was exhorting me, she

0:49:26.239 --> 0:49:28.239
<v Speaker 2>wasn't yelling no, Holly.

0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:32.879
<v Speaker 1>Holly can yell in a whisper. It's annoying, it's obnoxious.

0:49:34.200 --> 0:49:36.680
<v Speaker 2>But she was just speaking to the part of me

0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:38.720
<v Speaker 2>that knew that I was supposed to put out a book.

0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:41.759
<v Speaker 2>But I wrote a book in twenty twenty, and when

0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:44.919
<v Speaker 2>I went to publish it, even my own agent said no,

0:49:46.680 --> 0:49:50.359
<v Speaker 2>wasn't it. And for nine months of writing a book

0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:52.040
<v Speaker 2>and then for it to just sit there to bind her,

0:49:52.520 --> 0:49:57.040
<v Speaker 2>I told the Lord, I will preach for THEE, and

0:49:57.080 --> 0:50:01.640
<v Speaker 2>I will post Instagram clips for THEE, and I will

0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.160
<v Speaker 2>be a blessing to those that you've called me to

0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:05.120
<v Speaker 2>intersect in life.

0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:07.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm not writing another boat.

0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:13.000
<v Speaker 2>And so I was preparing this message, and I wasn't

0:50:13.000 --> 0:50:15.759
<v Speaker 2>thinking about me. I was thinking about the thousands of

0:50:15.760 --> 0:50:21.080
<v Speaker 2>people who will hear this message. And you're holding a

0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:27.239
<v Speaker 2>disappointment that's so heavy that you have no room to

0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:30.640
<v Speaker 2>receive the thing that God is speaking in your life.

0:50:30.680 --> 0:50:33.600
<v Speaker 2>What is that thing for you? Would you identify it?

0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:35.560
<v Speaker 2>Because the Holy Spirit will do a whole lot better

0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:40.600
<v Speaker 2>job than I could that thing. And while I was

0:50:40.640 --> 0:50:43.720
<v Speaker 2>getting this message ready, and I read what the prophet

0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:47.040
<v Speaker 2>said to the woman verse sixteen, Please, about this time

0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:52.239
<v Speaker 2>next year, you will hold a son in your arms.

0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:57.080
<v Speaker 1>And she said no, Please, Man of God, don't mislead

0:50:57.120 --> 0:50:57.560
<v Speaker 1>your servant.

0:50:57.880 --> 0:51:00.800
<v Speaker 2>You think maybe that's because she'd inc a few false

0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:05.680
<v Speaker 2>prophets before. You think maybe some other prophets had stopped

0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:09.160
<v Speaker 2>by and ate her food and slept in her guest

0:51:09.239 --> 0:51:14.080
<v Speaker 2>room and made her promises. We've all been disappointed. We've

0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.480
<v Speaker 2>all been let down, and now life has let you

0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:20.000
<v Speaker 2>down so many times you won't even let hope in

0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:25.560
<v Speaker 2>when it comes to avoid the disappointment. But I love God,

0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:29.440
<v Speaker 2>and I treasure him, and I honor Him as the

0:51:29.520 --> 0:51:33.600
<v Speaker 2>God of my life. Because of Revelation three point twenty

0:51:33.760 --> 0:51:38.120
<v Speaker 2>is true. That means that while my voice is saying no,

0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:46.440
<v Speaker 2>his hand keeps knocking. The Bible says in verse seventeen

0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:51.000
<v Speaker 2>that even though she said no, and even though in

0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:53.719
<v Speaker 2>this area of her life she didn't believe it was possible.

0:51:54.840 --> 0:51:58.520
<v Speaker 2>The woman became pregnant. And I read that text over

0:51:58.560 --> 0:52:02.160
<v Speaker 2>and over. I was looking for the point where she said,

0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:06.759
<v Speaker 2>I believe you, but she never even said it. And

0:52:06.880 --> 0:52:10.160
<v Speaker 2>even though she didn't believe it was possible, the Bible

0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:15.799
<v Speaker 2>says she became pregnant. Why because she didn't have the

0:52:15.880 --> 0:52:20.239
<v Speaker 2>faith to become pregnant, but she had the faith to

0:52:20.320 --> 0:52:23.520
<v Speaker 2>build a room. And I came to say to you

0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:26.480
<v Speaker 2>today that you don't have to know how God is

0:52:26.520 --> 0:52:29.759
<v Speaker 2>going to do it. You don't even have to completely

0:52:29.800 --> 0:52:32.640
<v Speaker 2>believe that He will do it. You don't have to

0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:35.520
<v Speaker 2>quote all of the right responses back to God.

0:52:36.360 --> 0:52:39.200
<v Speaker 1>But God keeps knocking through your no.

0:52:40.360 --> 0:52:43.359
<v Speaker 2>And God is faithful even if you're faithless.

0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:46.000
<v Speaker 1>And I declare and decree over.

0:52:45.840 --> 0:52:49.479
<v Speaker 2>Your life this day that about this time next year,

0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:54.400
<v Speaker 2>I said, about this time next year, I said, about

0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:59.120
<v Speaker 2>this time next year, I said, January twenty twenty five,

0:53:00.080 --> 0:53:05.239
<v Speaker 2>I set about this time next here you will.

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<v Speaker 7>Hold a promise in your arms and in the cool

0:53:15.840 --> 0:53:18.319
<v Speaker 7>how Holly was right, and there was.

0:53:18.280 --> 0:53:19.279
<v Speaker 1>Another book in me.

0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:23.279
<v Speaker 2>And the book came in the mail this week as

0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:28.880
<v Speaker 2>an announcement to you. Then whatever disappointment weighed you down,

0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:34.520
<v Speaker 2>drop it, God said, I got another box with your

0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:39.279
<v Speaker 2>name on it, and if you'll give me some room

0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:44.760
<v Speaker 2>on the roof. Come on, we're knocking through the note.

0:53:45.640 --> 0:53:49.200
<v Speaker 2>We're knocking through the doe. We're knocking through the note.

0:53:49.320 --> 0:53:52.800
<v Speaker 2>I feel a stir of good, like a flood, raising

0:53:52.960 --> 0:53:57.680
<v Speaker 2>up a standard against the enemy.

0:53:58.520 --> 0:53:59.960
<v Speaker 1>He's knocking through your note.

0:54:00.120 --> 0:54:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Oh. One voice is calling you forward, one voice is

0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.680
<v Speaker 2>pulling you back. One voice is saying.

0:54:06.600 --> 0:54:07.440
<v Speaker 1>Yes and amen.

0:54:08.000 --> 0:54:11.440
<v Speaker 2>One voice is saying no. And you're standing in the

0:54:11.480 --> 0:54:18.200
<v Speaker 2>doorway deciding. It is truly a matter of life and death.

0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:22.400
<v Speaker 2>You are standing in the doorway deciding.

0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:25.680
<v Speaker 1>And the door.

0:54:27.080 --> 0:54:33.160
<v Speaker 2>Was there because she made room. She didn't even say yes,

0:54:34.560 --> 0:54:38.759
<v Speaker 2>but because she said yes yesterday. I'm telling you what,

0:54:39.840 --> 0:54:42.360
<v Speaker 2>when we talk a year from now, and I know

0:54:42.440 --> 0:54:44.080
<v Speaker 2>all of y'all are gonna still be in this church

0:54:44.120 --> 0:54:45.920
<v Speaker 2>a year from now, because you're not a church hopping

0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:48.400
<v Speaker 2>little baby bottle tote and Christian.

0:54:48.560 --> 0:54:50.920
<v Speaker 8>You're gonna be right here a year from now, and

0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:53.239
<v Speaker 8>you're still gonna and you're gonna be stronger in the

0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:56.359
<v Speaker 8>faith a year from now, and you're gonna have Holkogan

0:54:56.440 --> 0:55:00.279
<v Speaker 8>biceps in the spirit. A year from now, they're going

0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:02.759
<v Speaker 8>to be secure and people aren't going to be able

0:55:02.800 --> 0:55:04.480
<v Speaker 8>to tell you no and put you.

0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:07.759
<v Speaker 2>In depression for a week. A year from now, you

0:55:07.840 --> 0:55:15.720
<v Speaker 2>are going to be holding something because you decided today

0:55:18.200 --> 0:55:22.840
<v Speaker 2>to let hope in the door. I know the devil

0:55:22.880 --> 0:55:26.520
<v Speaker 2>has a way of getting you down and discouraged, and

0:55:26.560 --> 0:55:28.480
<v Speaker 2>I know you have good reasons that you said no.

0:55:28.840 --> 0:55:33.480
<v Speaker 2>But let me bring you back to my title. God

0:55:33.560 --> 0:55:40.840
<v Speaker 2>is knocking through the no. And at our Matthew's campus

0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:47.279
<v Speaker 2>today where they told us no, everybody say no. And

0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:50.439
<v Speaker 2>we went out there and prayed in the bargain lot,

0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:55.520
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, businessmen and khaki pants in the parking lot,

0:55:55.960 --> 0:55:59.560
<v Speaker 2>littling the loading dock of that building. And not only

0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:02.440
<v Speaker 2>did we end up getting those forty two thousand square feet,

0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:05.680
<v Speaker 2>but eventually we knock down all the walls.

0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:12.280
<v Speaker 1>Because God is known for knocking.

0:56:12.600 --> 0:56:18.400
<v Speaker 2>Through the n You will be sitting in tomorrow what

0:56:18.600 --> 0:56:27.880
<v Speaker 2>you will open your heart to God for today? Agisa

0:56:28.040 --> 0:56:33.880
<v Speaker 2>here I am.

0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:36.760
<v Speaker 1>I stand at the door. You are standing in a doorway.

0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:40.360
<v Speaker 1>Do I go back to it? Or do I go forward?

0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:44.120
<v Speaker 2>Do I go back to these familiar patterns another year?

0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:51.880
<v Speaker 2>Or do I go forward into uncomfortable freedom? Do I

0:56:51.960 --> 0:56:54.839
<v Speaker 2>go back to that horrible relationship, just so I can

0:56:54.920 --> 0:56:59.320
<v Speaker 2>pretend like I have somebody, or do I go forward

0:57:00.560 --> 0:57:02.560
<v Speaker 2>into learning what it means to have a friend that

0:57:02.640 --> 0:57:03.920
<v Speaker 2>sticks closer than a brother.

0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:06.560
<v Speaker 1>I see you.

0:57:06.600 --> 0:57:08.440
<v Speaker 2>I saw you when I was studying, so I know

0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:10.520
<v Speaker 2>the word is right. I see you standing in the

0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:14.960
<v Speaker 2>door like the woman. And there's one door, and there's

0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:21.160
<v Speaker 2>two voices. Which one will win. That's the decision of

0:57:21.200 --> 0:57:23.880
<v Speaker 2>the day, isn't it. God's gonna put an open door

0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:28.520
<v Speaker 2>before you every day. Maybe the tiny door might be

0:57:28.560 --> 0:57:31.760
<v Speaker 2>a great big door. But I know this the doors

0:57:31.800 --> 0:57:37.680
<v Speaker 2>of what God is calling you into, hinge on your

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<v Speaker 2>obedience to Him. Today, I like you to bow your

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<v Speaker 2>head because I don't want you to look around. I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to look inside for the answers to what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm about to ask you. In what area of your

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<v Speaker 2>life have you told God no? In what area of

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<v Speaker 2>your life have you told God no? I would suggest

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<v Speaker 2>to you that it often has to do with who

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<v Speaker 2>he calls us to become, not even just what he

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<v Speaker 2>calls us to do, and the way that works. Just

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<v Speaker 2>like He called the shot of mite and said come here,

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<v Speaker 2>and she stood in the door. God will call you

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<v Speaker 2>something and then you will stand in the door, and

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<v Speaker 2>the decision is, will you believe that voice when he

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<v Speaker 2>calls you holy?

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<v Speaker 1>Will you receive that?

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<v Speaker 2>Now? I want to minister to somebody who's been dealing

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<v Speaker 2>with crippling guilt.

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<v Speaker 1>He called you holy, and every.

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<v Speaker 2>Time that thing inside of you says, no, I'm not,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not, I'm not, I'm just a piece of trash.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just You don't even know you're talking to that

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<v Speaker 2>thing that gets on you, that tells you that stuff

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<v Speaker 2>to drag you out of the doorway and back into

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<v Speaker 2>the past. I come against that spirit of condemnation today

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<v Speaker 2>in the name of Jesus and buy his blood to

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<v Speaker 2>tell you that there is therefore now no condemnation for

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<v Speaker 2>those who are in Christ. Jesus he is the door.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't you see it? That everything you need is in Him?

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<v Speaker 1>And today you're in his presence.

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<v Speaker 2>And I leave you now with exactly where we begin

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<v Speaker 2>this message. Here, I am. I stand at the door

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<v Speaker 2>and knock. And if you'll open the door, that's just

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<v Speaker 2>as simple as I know how to make a church,

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<v Speaker 2>if you will open the door. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>that's a Bible reading plan. I don't know if that's

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<v Speaker 2>a support group. I don't know if that's to tell

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<v Speaker 2>somebody what's really going on.

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<v Speaker 1>If you will.

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<v Speaker 2>Open the door and make room on the roof, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>believing a year from now you're going to hold something awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>Your arms come on, You're going to accommodate something amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>In your life.

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<v Speaker 2>And Father, we thank you in Jesus's name that for

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<v Speaker 2>all the times we told you no, you knocked again.

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<v Speaker 2>At this moment, I want to give an invitation for

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<v Speaker 2>all of those who need to receive Jesus Christ into

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<v Speaker 2>your life and have a new beginning with him.

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<v Speaker 9>The Bible says that it is by grace we're saved

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<v Speaker 9>through faith is the gift of God, not of word,

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<v Speaker 9>so that no one can boast that if you confess

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<v Speaker 9>with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, and believe in your

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<v Speaker 9>heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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<v Speaker 1>This is an open invitation to anyone who says today.

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<v Speaker 9>Was for me.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm giving my life to God today. I'm not living

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<v Speaker 2>another year my own way. I'm not going to be

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<v Speaker 2>half in, half out. Today. I'm walking through this door

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<v Speaker 2>to make Jesus Christ the lord of my life and

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<v Speaker 2>receive his provision for my life and receive His forgiveness.

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<v Speaker 2>If that's you and this is your word, I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to pray a prayer with you, and we'll pray it

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<v Speaker 2>out loud for the benefit of those who are coming

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<v Speaker 2>to God for the first time or back to.

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<v Speaker 1>God as a rededication.

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<v Speaker 2>And I want you to repeat this after me with

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<v Speaker 2>confidence in your voice. Say, Heavenly Father, today is my

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<v Speaker 2>day of salvation. I believe that Jesus Christ died for

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<v Speaker 2>my sin that I could be forgiven and rose again

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<v Speaker 2>to give me life. I receive this new life. This

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<v Speaker 2>is my new beginning. On the counter of three, raise

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<v Speaker 2>your hand if you pray that one, two three, I

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<v Speaker 2>want to celebrate with you. I want to celebrate with you.

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<v Speaker 2>The doors are open. Welcome in, man, Welcome in to

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<v Speaker 2>all those online. Just put it in the comments. I

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<v Speaker 2>receive Jesus.

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<v Speaker 1>Today is my day.

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<v Speaker 2>This is my door.

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<v Speaker 6>Hallylujah.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's give God the greatest twenty four seconds of praise.

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<v Speaker 2>We can thank you piesus God Lord, how many no praise?

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<v Speaker 1>Open prison doors play? Why have you heavenly cakes got The.

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<v Speaker 2>King of lowry Man turns, hallylujah, you got seven seconds

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<v Speaker 2>last six five. I pray that you are open to

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<v Speaker 2>what God said today. Hey, y'all with dismiss in a minute,

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, thank you so much, close the doors.

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<v Speaker 1>If that word had your name on it, let me

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<v Speaker 1>know right.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, if that box had your name on it, I

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<v Speaker 2>know it's tricky. I told God I didn't want to

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<v Speaker 2>preach a message of hype, but a message of hope,

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<v Speaker 2>and not a hopepothetical message either, because I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if it's going to happen just like you want it.

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<v Speaker 2>But about this time next year, about this time next year,

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<v Speaker 2>if we win one day at a time, I believe

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<v Speaker 2>you're carrying something awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe He has something amazing for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Would you stand and give God praise as our campus

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<v Speaker 2>pastors come to close us. I love you, Thank you

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<v Speaker 2>for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who

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<v Speaker 2>give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that

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<v Speaker 2>this ministry is possible. You can click the link in

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