1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: I know y'all don't want to stand up anymore, but 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: will you stay standing for this scripture because God gave 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: us a good one today. Ah, God gave us a 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: good one today. You know how you were debating whether 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 1: to come or not? Can I go or not? You 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: did the right day, You did the right day, You 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: did the right thing. God gave us a good one today. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: I shared on this topic with our kids Tuesday night, 14 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: and I was glad to and I thought it was 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: just for them. And I went back after I preached 16 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: and a few of my friends were here and all 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: my friends were crying and they're grown ups, and they 18 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: all said, that was for me. That was for me. 19 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: That was for me. And then when I prayed what 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: the Lord would have me share with our church today, 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: he told me to give you this. So I'm going 22 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: to share this with you today from Exodus chapter three, 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: and well, okay, okay, okay okay. Exodus chapter three, verse nineteen. 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: Are you ready? But I know that the King of 25 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and 27 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will 28 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: perform among them. After that, he'll let you go. I 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: will read this again and you will respond or appropriate letter. 30 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: So'll make me come through that screen. I'll come through 31 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: that screen and snatch you right out of your pajamas 32 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: and make you shout. But I know the Lord says 33 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: it's to Moses. Moses is eighty years old, and I 34 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: appreciate this to the youth because I'm hoping they can 35 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: get early when it took Moses his whole lifetime to understand. 36 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: And he's telling Moses the ambiance of a burning bush 37 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: that isn't burning up. It's on fire, but it's not consumed. 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: And he's telling him, I want to use you to 39 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: set my people free, and have an assignment in mind 40 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: with your name on it. But I know that the 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: King of Egypt will not let you go unless a 42 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my 43 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that 44 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: I will perform among them. After that, he will let 45 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: you go. Now, if you have something in your life 46 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: today and it feels like it's got a hold of 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: you and you need God's help, it could be it 48 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: could be depression, it could be anxiety, it could be 49 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: a situation that's out of your control, but something that's 50 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: got a hold of you, like Pharaoh had a hold 51 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: of the children of Israel, and you need God's help 52 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: with it. If something's got a hold of you, we 53 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: don't have to say what. I'm not going to make 54 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: you say it on the microphone. Don't be nervous. I'm 55 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: not going to ask you to name it. But if 56 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: there's something that has a hold of you and it 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: feels like it won't let go, and you need God's 58 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: help today, I want you to raise your hand right now. No, 59 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: the other hand, the other hair. That's actually what I 60 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: want to preach to you about today. This message is 61 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: called the other hand, the other hand. God, I thank 62 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 1: you that your arm is not short. You can reach 63 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: everybody under the sound of my voice. Do it now, 64 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: Lord in Jesus' name, Amen, Maybe see it. Oh, I 65 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: was thinking, Chris, you know how we did in quarantine 66 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: where y'all woud stay up here on the stools, and 67 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: so I wouldn't fill a lonely up here preaching where 68 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: to go by myself? Can y'all come like for y'all 69 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: where you can bring with you? Are the stools still 70 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: back there? Did the youth X steal it and throw 71 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: them through windows for a segment or something like that. 72 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: I don't know what they've been doing right here. Just 73 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: bring some people back. You want to come to Scott, 74 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: you should come, he should come, Skot coming fresh. I 75 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: did it during quarantine. I don't know if you're watching 76 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: it online. Did y'all stay connected during quarantine or just 77 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: watching that flips? And I would always have the worship 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: leaders stay up here. And it wasn't an aesthetic. It 79 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: was just survival, man, because y'all are so good to 80 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: look at while I'm preaching, most of y'all and then 81 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: I would say, well, I can't just do this without 82 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: someone to talk to. I can't talk to a camera. 83 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: So they became they replaced you for a little while, 84 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: but now y'all are back. But I thought it'd be 85 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: cool if y'all came out, so come on. We won't 86 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: wait for him. We'll just get started by ourselves. I 87 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: want you to go back in your mind, you're sixteen 88 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: years old. Close your eyes, you're sixteen. I do this 89 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: when I'm preaching to the youth. Before I preach to 90 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: the youth, I always put on the music I listened 91 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:27,799 Speaker 1: to when I was sixteen, Pearl Jam, No Code and Okay, 92 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: so now open your eyes. So sixteen years old, you're 93 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: sixteen years old. I like to tell this story when 94 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: I speak to the students about one of the most 95 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: significant things that was spoken to me when I was 96 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: that age. Now, the coolest thing that ever happened to 97 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: me when I was a teenager is when Billy Joe Armstrong, 98 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: the lead singer of Green Day, called me on stage 99 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: to play his guitar at the North Trustan Coliseum. And 100 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: my best friend is here to verify that that really happened. 101 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: That was the coolest thing, Georgia, your dad was freaking out. 102 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: But the most important significant thing that happened to me, 103 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: at least this would be in the top three, was Well, 104 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: it's been twenty five years and I'm still telling you 105 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: about it. This is how big of a deal this 106 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: is that somebody saw something in me. Pastor Mickey, Pastor 107 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: Mickey White, I called him the other day and I said, 108 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm still telling this story of when you came over 109 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: to our house twenty five years ago when I was sixteen, 110 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: because Pastor Mickey had just taken the job as the 111 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: pastor of Santie Circle Baptist Mission and he needed a 112 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: youth pastor, and he asked me to come work with 113 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: his youth And I think my mom kind of thought 114 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: that Pastor Mickey's church might be a cult. Oh y'all 115 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: have thought the same thing about elevation. You're sitting right 116 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: in a church you used to think that about, So 117 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to look at me like that. But Pastor 118 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: Mickey said, well, I'll come over and talk to your mom. 119 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: And he used to be in the autoparts business, so 120 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: he was a good salesman. So he has to convince 121 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: my mom for me to leave the Methodist church and 122 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: come over to the Baptist church and be his youth 123 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: pastor at this little church that was meeting in a 124 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: Woodman of the World building. And what made it more 125 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: dramatic is big, big guy pastor Mickey's what six six 126 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: sixty seven, he's in his seventies now. But he sat 127 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: down on the middle of the floor. There's like plenty 128 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: of seats open in the house, so I guess he 129 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: can at a Gandhi flow going on the floor. So 130 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: and he sits down, big old guy, and he tells 131 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: my mom, I've worked with youth, I've worked with kids 132 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: for twenty years, and God has his hand on Stephen 133 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. I can see it, can you. 134 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: I can see him sitting on the floor saying, God 135 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: has his hand on Steven. He said in a way 136 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: I've never seen his hand on any of the kids 137 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: that I've ever worked with. And it did the trick. 138 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: My mom let me do it, and I served as 139 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: his youth pastor. And I'm thinking at the time, like, 140 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: and this is a little thick. You're laying it on 141 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: a little thick right now? Does it really take all 142 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: that you know the most? But but what I felt 143 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: when he said that, I mean, on one hand, that 144 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: felt cool, But on the other hand, it kind of 145 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: was kind of scary. It felt like maybe it felt 146 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: maybe like I'm special, Like, oh, God's hand is on 147 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: your son. But on the other hand, I'm like, and 148 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: what exactly does that mean? And yet when he said it, y'all, 149 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: I can't exactly explain this to you, But inside I thought, Oh, 150 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: that's what I'm feeling. That's what I'm feeling. Because I 151 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: had made my personal commitment to Christ, not the one 152 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: where your parents make a commitment to raise you so 153 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: that you can meet Christ, but where you decide to 154 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: follow Jesus for yourself. I had to make that commitment, 155 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: and I sensed, you know, something is different. And so 156 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: here's this man who has been in ministry for many years, 157 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: and he says something like God's hand is on Stephen. 158 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: And when I told this story to the young people Tuesday, 159 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: I looked right at him as many of them as 160 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: I could in the eyes, and I said, God has 161 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: his hand on you. Because a lot of them never 162 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: had Pastor Mickey sit on the floor chrisscross applesauce and 163 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: say that when they were sixteen, and maybe a lot 164 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: of them never even had anybody say something like I 165 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: believe in you, you know. And I think, what a 166 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: difference would it make if they get the revelation right now, 167 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: not that they're going to be a preacher or a 168 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: pastor one day. That's not what Pastor Mickey meant. That 169 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: was a part of my pack. But he meant something 170 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: different when he said God has his hand on Stephen. 171 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,719 Speaker 1: I want you to say that out loud, or put 172 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: it in the chat, whatever the case may be. But 173 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: say God, Wait, hold on, don't say my name, say 174 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: your name God, God has his hand on y'all said 175 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: that so quiet. It was terribly unconvincing how you said it. 176 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: You said it with the wrong voice inflection. Say it again, 177 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: God has his hand on God has his hand on Graham. 178 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: One more time. This time, get the name of the 179 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 1: person next to you. This might be good for like 180 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: little Starbucks after church if you're single or whatever, but 181 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm not using it for that music for illustration. Get 182 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: their name real quick, and now say their name. Look 183 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: I'm right in the eyes, and say God has his 184 00:10:51,000 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: hand on Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. You need to hear that. 185 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: You hadn't been feeling like that lately. I know you 186 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: hadn't been feeling that lately. It doesn't make it any 187 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: less true. He wasn't talking about a feeling. He wasn't 188 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: talking about something that necessarily has a physical sensation. I'm 189 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: seeing it in the chat. God has his hand on Dawn. 190 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: God has his hand on Leanna. God has his hand 191 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: on Esther. God has his hands on Say. God has 192 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: his hands on Adam. God has his hand on Peter. 193 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: God has his hand on me. It's his hand on me. 194 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: It's his hand on me. I'm glad Paster Mickey took 195 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: time out of his very busy life to sit down 196 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: on my floor and say something that bowld. I wonder 197 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: where would I be if I didn't believe that God 198 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: had his hand on me? And now I know he 199 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: was right, because now I know that the things that 200 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: I've seen God do through me had nothing to do 201 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: with me. So I don't mean to preach this early, 202 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: and I plan to pace myself, but I'm excited to 203 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: have some of y'all back in the room with me 204 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: my testimony that it was his hand. I didn't know 205 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: what he meant. It sounded good, it sounded profound. God 206 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: has his hand on Stephen. I thought that many just 207 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: wanted me to come over and be talk to the 208 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: youth and work with the youth. But twenty five years later, 209 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: I don't have to just believe it. I've seen it. 210 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: I've seen it, and sometimes it was confusing because God's 211 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: hand didn't always feel like a Swedish massage. Do you 212 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. God's hand didn't always feel like 213 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: you know, I've experienced God's hand in so many different ways, 214 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: like the hem we growing up. Great is thy faithfulness, 215 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: Oh God, my Father, There's no shadow of turning with thee. 216 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: All I have needed, Thy hand has provided. And so 217 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: many times I've seen God's hand like this, offering me 218 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: what I needed in the moment. All I have needed, 219 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: all I have needed, Thy hand provided. You'll know I'm 220 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: gonna come out of retirement and do a hymns project 221 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: one day. Great is our faith on this I know 222 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: all four verses of every hemn zeke you can sing harmony. 223 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the lead on those. Great is our 224 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 1: faith on us. All I have needed, not all I wanted, 225 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: not all asked for. Thank God. One of the things 226 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: I've become grateful for in the last twenty five years. 227 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: Did he said, God's hand is on you is for 228 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: what he withheld. You know, you start off thanking God 229 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: for when his hand does this, and then you live 230 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: a little while and you learn to trust in Him 231 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: with all your heart, so you appreciate when He does 232 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: this too. I'm talking about his hand, because yes, He's 233 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: provided for me. I can tell you days and I 234 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: bet you've had them too. We're down to the dollar. 235 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: God came through for me, down to the dollar. I'm talking. 236 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: God didn't even round down. It was down to the dollar, 237 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: down to the decimal. There have been times in this 238 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: ministry where down to the decimal God has provided. And 239 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: it's not just money, and it's not just stuff. And 240 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: if you still think it's about bags and sneakers, you 241 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: need to be back at youth x because you haven't 242 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: grown up enough yet to realize that some of the 243 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: greatest things God will give you in your life. God 244 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: better not preach me on this front. Row some of 245 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: the greatest things. Now we're talking about God's hand. And 246 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: sometimes it's like this, and he'll bring the right person 247 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: into your life at the right time, and you'll think, 248 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: how did God know that that's who I needed to 249 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: meet at this point in my life. And yet the 250 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: same hand that did this, well sometimes do this. They 251 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: stopped shouting Scottie hand like job said he gives and 252 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Have 253 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: you realized that God's hand that does this, it's just 254 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: as capable when he's doing this. I was on the 255 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: front road of the Lord told me, make sure you 256 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: tell him I'm a gardener, and that the same hand 257 00:15:51,760 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: that plants also prunes. Make sure you tell them that 258 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: the same hand that plants the seed of all that 259 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: you're meant to be and all that your life is 260 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: meant to contain and do for his glory. It's for 261 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: his glory. It's for his glory. That's why Pastor Mackey said, 262 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: God has his hand on you. Don't you think that 263 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: God gave you a gift so that you could use 264 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: it for your glory. It's God's hand on you. So 265 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: it's God's glory through you, and it's God's purpose. But 266 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: the same hand that plants do you all know the 267 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: scripture John fifteen, It says that every branch that bears 268 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: fruit he prunes same hand. The same hand his hand 269 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: does this. His hand sometimes does this taking opportunities that 270 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: you you thought, well, that's it right there, and then 271 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: God goes, nah, I know stuff all right, So praise him. 272 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: How you praise him when he does this, when he 273 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity praising him. Now, I'm gonna lift 274 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: your hands like you lift your hands. Can you lift 275 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: him when he does this? God's hand. Say it again. 276 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: God's hand is on say your name, God's hand. And 277 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: that's what the Lord told Moses. He said, I see 278 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: my people suffering. It's been four centuries, and I've chosen you, 279 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 1: the fugitive murderer who has forgotten who he really is, 280 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: if he ever really knew. But I've seen my people suffering, 281 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: and I know that it's not going to be easy. 282 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna stretch out. I'm going to show you 283 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: the verse again because I learned a few things about 284 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: God's hand. I learned that God's hand is provision. I 285 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: learned that God's hand is protection. But I also learned 286 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: God's hand is power. He said, I know that he 287 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: will not let you go unless a mighty hand Verse nineteen. 288 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: A mighty hand compels him, A mighty hand, and the 289 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 1: mighty hand of God in the judgment of the Ten 290 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: Plagues against Egypt, was what God used to release his 291 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: people into ultimate freedom. A mighty hand. And the Lord 292 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: tells Moses, it's not going to happen in your own strength. 293 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen in your own intellect. It's 294 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: not going to happen in your own ability or your strategy. 295 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen even in the leadership gifts 296 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: that I've given you. It's going to take another hand. 297 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, this is what God 298 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: showed me. I was looking at the passage, and I 299 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: looked at it again a few times after I ap 300 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: preached it the other night, and the Lord said, you 301 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: miss something. I said, what did I miss? And he said, 302 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: you missed the other hand? I said, what's the other hand? 303 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: Look at him verse nineteen. He said, I know that 304 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: the king of Egypt, that's Pharaoh, will not let you go. He' 305 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: see it. I didn't see it either. He won't let 306 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: you go. That means your enemy thinks he has you 307 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: so strong in his grip, and he won't let go 308 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: unless unless there is another hand that has stronger than 309 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: his hand. So while you feel like the devil has 310 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: you like this, you know, let's be honest. A lot 311 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: of the chains in this room are forty two years old. 312 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: These are not saplings anymore. These are oak trees that 313 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: go down deep. I mean there's some real deep stuff 314 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: that's holding you in here. It's got you like this. 315 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: I mean by the throat, I mean it's got you. 316 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: It won't let you breathe. You try to move, you 317 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: can't move. You try to move up, you can't move up. 318 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: You try to step into a new opportunity, you can't 319 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: do it with a free heart. It's got you like this, 320 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: It's got you so strong. But God's to tell you 321 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: about the other hand. And this is what Moses needed 322 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: to know. It's no different for everybody in the room 323 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: today that your father is stronger than your pharaoh. So 324 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: like with Graham. With Graham, he wrestles me. In fact, 325 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: since you're here, you want to do it real quick, 326 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: just illustrated. Come here, real quick, come here, Come go ahead. 327 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. He hates when I do this 328 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: because he's strong. Graham is so strong. He's thirteen. He 329 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: won the state championship for hold on for freestyle wrestling. 330 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: It was a small tournament, but it was still state championship. 331 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 1: And I won a state championship when I was in 332 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: eighth grade too, But there was nobody else in the 333 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: weight class, and so I won the state championship. So 334 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: we'll have battles, and I'll say old man versus young man, 335 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: South Carolina versus North Carolina state champions And he's so 336 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: quick and he's so good. But what I do. I 337 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: got old man moves. I got old man moves. I 338 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: got pressure points I can do right here, see right there, 339 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: right there, that spot right there, right there, in my hands, 340 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: I can stop him. All I need is this anointed 341 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: forty one year old thumb, and all of a sudden, 342 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: watch this. It doesn't matter how much youth you have. 343 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: I will put my thumb in his tech right there. 344 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,239 Speaker 1: If he now, I'll let him wrestle me. But if 345 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: it gets too rough, because he's getting too strong for 346 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: me to play with him, I can't play with him anymore. 347 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: He'll get on my legs so quick, and I'm not 348 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: gonna go out like that. I don't know who's videoing this. 349 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is Instagram live. So sometimes 350 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: I got fup. Just put him right there, all right, 351 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 1: all right, you're done, go back down there. They want 352 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,239 Speaker 1: to fight right now. I saw it. I saw him 353 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: getting in his status. I'm not getting taken down in 354 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: front of the world. Ah ah, God said, I know 355 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: where to put the pressure. See that's why I'm God. 356 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time, and I'll see 357 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: your enemy shoot it in on you. But when I 358 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: use my hand, I got a mighty hand. I got 359 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: a strong hand. I don't even have to flex I'm God. 360 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: So Pastor Mickey didn't tell me that part. He told 361 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: me God's hand was on me. I thought it meant 362 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: God is my provider. I didn't know that the same 363 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: hand that brings provision also brings pressure. And how God 364 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: will use the pressure of life to bring me into freedom. 365 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: I know it won't let you go unless a mighty cant. 366 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: A mike can't mighty hand. Twenty five years later, I 367 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: can tell you that God has a mighty hand. Ten 368 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: plagues later, Moses and Pharaoh knew it's a mighty hand. 369 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 1: It's a mighty hand. It's a mighty hand. It's a 370 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: mighty hand. It's a hand that you can't always feel it, 371 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: you can't always see it. But see, Moses was well 372 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: acquainted with this hand, whether he knew it or not, 373 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: because when he was a baby, all the little Hebrew 374 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: boys were getting killed by Pharaoh, not him. His mom 375 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: made a basket and put him in the Nile River. 376 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: This is ect of this chapter two, and the Bible 377 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 1: says that that basket floated to the daughter of Pharaoh, 378 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 1: and she saw the basket and she drew it out, 379 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: and she felt sorry for Moses because he was crying, 380 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: and she took him and God raised him. As a 381 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: matter of fact, as I thought about that basket floating 382 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: down the Nile River, I thought about your life and 383 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: my life, because what are the chances did a basket 384 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: could float down the Nile River and miss all of 385 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: the alligators unless there was a hand. I'm grateful for 386 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: God's hand how he guided me past certain attacks. You know, 387 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: the same hand that did this sometimes does that, and 388 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: sometimes God just did that with his hand. Anybody grateful 389 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: for the times God did that and anxiety came for 390 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: your life. You thought about ending your life, and the 391 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: gators almost got you, but God's hand died that. We 392 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: don't really even know how to praise God. When I 393 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: say praise God, and I say, you know, what do 394 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 1: you have to be thankful for? You don't even know 395 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: the things that God did this and if he didn't 396 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: do this, you wouldn't be here. I'm thankful that he provided. 397 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: I'm thankful that he pruned and took some things out. 398 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: I'm thankful that he protected with his mighty hand and 399 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: an outstretched arm. God said, I see your struggle, and 400 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: I know that it won't let you go easily. And 401 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: so since you've been doing it in your own strength, 402 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,199 Speaker 1: making bricks without straw, doing everything that you know to 403 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: do to be free, but never finding freedom, it's time 404 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: for my hand to work in your life. In fact, 405 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: the scripture says something powerful in Peter. He says, humble yourself. 406 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: What a thing for Peter to say. He's not exactly 407 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: mister humility and the senior superlatives if you read the yearbook, 408 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: but he's learned. Now humble yourself under God's mighty hand. 409 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: Say that phrase, God's mighty hand. How's Pharaoh gonna let 410 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: you go? God's mighty hand. How in the world is 411 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: it gonna happen this time? You don't even know the 412 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: mess I'm in. I know you feel like Moses right now, 413 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: But God came to reveal to you that his hand, 414 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: what is it? It's a mighty hand. God's mighty hand. 415 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: Pharaoh's got a strong hand. God's is stronger. God's mighty hand. 416 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: How many praise God for his mighty hand. God doesn't 417 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: try to do anything. God does not intend to do anything. 418 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: He can't do God's mighty hand. But that's not what 419 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: I came to preach about today. I want to preach 420 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: about the other man. See, it seems like Moses didn't 421 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: have a lot of trouble believing that God was mighty. 422 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: He didn't argue with God at all. God said, I am, 423 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: the God of Abrahan, the God of Jacob. And all 424 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: Moses wanted to know is what's your name? And God 425 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: said I am. And I'm sure Moses waited around for 426 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: a little bit more detailed, but God said, you better 427 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: leave it blank, because I'm gonna do so much you 428 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: will not be able to quantify me by one word, 429 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: not a agative, not a verb, not an adverb, not 430 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: a So the Lord, the very essence of true presence 431 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: and being, says I am. And after he gets on 432 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 1: telling Moses what he's gonna do and how he's gonna 433 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: set the people free in a mighty hand and all 434 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: of that. See, Moses doesn't argue with God about what 435 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: God can't do. Now here's where I need to just 436 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: talk to you. Can we just talk like we've known 437 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: each other all our life? How many of y'all you'll 438 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: feel sometimes when I'm preaching like we know each other. 439 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: I feel that too. So I was praying about this message, 440 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: and God said, it's not me. They doubt most of 441 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: the time. They believe I'm big, they believe I'm powerful, 442 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: and they believe I can do great things through others. 443 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: Moses didn't say, how will I know that your hand 444 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: is strong? How will I know that you're great? How 445 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: will I know that you're stronger? How will I know? No, 446 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: he didn't doubt God at all. And that's what I 447 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: want to preach to you about. Because after God told 448 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: Moses what he would do, Moses answered, And I'm only 449 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: sharing this with you because I relate to Moses, not 450 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: in the sense that I can deliver a nation or 451 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: anything like that. I don't want to change jobs with Moses. 452 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: I'm just saying how he feels I felt, because you 453 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: can know that God's hand is mighty. But watch this, 454 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: he answered Verse one Exodus. For what if they do 455 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: not believe me or listen to me? And what if 456 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,959 Speaker 1: they say, the Lord did not appear to you, Let 457 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: me give you a a little hand. When he's talking about they, 458 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: it's not really their doubt that he's dealing with a 459 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: lot of times when we try to identify what the 460 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: obstacles are of us being who God called us to be. 461 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: Because look what the Lord asked him Verse two. The 462 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: Lord said to him, what is that in your hand? 463 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: Whose hand? We talked about God's hand. We shout about 464 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: God's hand. We need God's hand. It's a mighty hand. 465 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: See for me, it's not that hand that gets me 466 00:29:48,800 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: in trouble. It's the other hand, my hand, the mighty hand, 467 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: that one my hand. That's a different story, because what's 468 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: just Moses said, how are we going to do this? 469 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: And God said, what is that in your hand? So 470 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,959 Speaker 1: now after God tells him what he's going to do 471 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: with his hand, he points to Moses's hand. Now I 472 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: think this is where I think this is where we 473 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: should spend a little time today talking about the other hand. 474 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: Oh God is awesome, and he's so great? And how 475 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: great does our God? Sing with me? How great is 476 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: our God? And all will see how great, how great 477 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: is our God? That's not the part I have a 478 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: problem with because twenty five years ago, when Pastor Mickey 479 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: said that God's hand was on me, he only told 480 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: me half of it. You know, God's hand can be 481 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: on you in a great way, but if you don't 482 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: believe it, if you don't receive it, do you know 483 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: God can put you in position. That's one thing about 484 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: his hand. The Bible says that if you humble yourself 485 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: under the mighty hand of God, he will listen you 486 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: up in due time. You don't have to do it yourself. 487 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: You don't have to position yourself. You don't have to 488 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: show off what you can do. God will do amazing 489 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: things through your life if you stay under his hand. Yet, 490 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: the hard thing for me has not been God's hand. 491 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: I can trust his hand, I can believe in his hand. 492 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: I can see the evidence of his hand. Only he 493 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: listen to me. I'm from Monks Corner, South Carolina. The 494 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: things God has done for me in my life, the 495 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: places He has taken me are so far from where 496 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: I started. I know it had to be him. In fact, 497 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: even the people that mistreated me, they didn't know it, 498 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: but God was using their hands to get me where 499 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: I needed to be. Y'all don't believe me, Joseph. Joseph 500 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: told his brothers, you intended to harm me, but God 501 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: meant it for good. You sold me, but God sent me. 502 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: How's that possible? Even what their hand did, even what 503 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: they did to you or did not do for you, 504 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: has to pass through God's hand. By the time it's over. 505 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 1: It's not his hand I struggle with. It's the other hand. 506 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: Are you all really on my second week back from 507 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: vacation on the summer gonna look at me like you 508 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: don't have another hand? What you're talking about here, Pastor, 509 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: for me is pretty like I just you know, I 510 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: am called, I am chosen, I am anointed, I am 511 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: blessed and highly favored. You got another hand? I know 512 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: you got it in your pocket right now. Oh, Jesus 513 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: went to church one day. You'll know this. Jesus went 514 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: to church one day. In Matthew chapter twelve, Jesus went 515 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: to church one day, and while he was there, he 516 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: noticed something nobody else saw. This is an amazing scripture, 517 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,959 Speaker 1: and I'm bringing it right now because I think it 518 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: represents how a lot of us came to church or 519 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: logged on this morning. It says, going on from that place, 520 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: he went into their synagogue. Next verse, police and a 521 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: man with a shriveled or some version say withered hand 522 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: was there and looking for a reason to bring charges 523 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: against Jesus. They asked him, is it lawful to heal 524 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: on the sabbath? Now? He said to them, if any 525 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: of you as a sheet and it falls into a 526 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: pit on the sabbath, will you not take hold of 527 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: it and lift it out? So Jesus is saying that, 528 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: just like you would take your hand and something that 529 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: was valuable, you would pull it out. That's what he 530 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: wants to do for this man. He wants to take 531 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: you where you are, in the place that nobody else 532 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: can see that you struggle. Because here's the problem. All 533 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: of us have one hand that looks just fine. All 534 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: of us have one hand, and it's an amazing miracle 535 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: because Jesus skips over the hand that's working to get 536 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: to the one that won't work. He said to the man, 537 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: this is such a crazy thing to say to somebody. 538 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 1: Stretch out your hand. So he stretched it out and 539 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 540 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: The Lord showed me something in this sermon it's kind 541 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: of warm to wear a jacket, but I needed it 542 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: to show you this that a lot of us walk 543 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: around showing people the hand we want them to see it. 544 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: I am coming for your other hand today, the one 545 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:47,240 Speaker 1: that won't work. And don't feel bad about it, because 546 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: everybody that you're sitting next to has another hand. There's 547 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: the one that they show you, and there's the one 548 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: that they know about and God knows about, but they've 549 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 1: learned how to keep it very carefully contained. So nobody 550 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: other than the ones who live with them know about 551 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: their anger issue because they're nice to the server at 552 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,879 Speaker 1: the restaurant. The other hand, nobody knows about the thing 553 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: that they struggle within their own emotions because they make 554 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: a lot of money. Nobody knows about the tears that 555 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 1: they cry over, the things that they can't get straight 556 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: in their mind, because in their life everything looks fine. 557 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: But Jesus didn't want that hand. They wanted the other hand. 558 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: And when the man stretched his hand out, the Bible 559 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: says that it was completely restored. His hand has always 560 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: been on you. It was his hand. How you just 561 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you felt like you could stand 562 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,359 Speaker 1: after thinking you had collapsed and something picked you up. 563 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: That was his hand, That was his hand. It was 564 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 1: his hand. But now it's time to stretch your hand 565 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: because you still don't believe that. You still don't believe 566 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: that you're the one He chose for that situation. You 567 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: still don't believe you have what it takes. You still 568 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,399 Speaker 1: don't believe that He in you is more than nom. 569 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: You still don't believe that you have a spirit without measure. 570 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: You still don't believe that the gifts that you have 571 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,400 Speaker 1: are the ones that you're meant to have, and if 572 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 1: you will grow and develop those, you will be able 573 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: to accomplish everything God's called you to accomplished. You still 574 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: don't believe that you still in the other people's hand, 575 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: but you're looking at their good hand comparing it to 576 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:41,400 Speaker 1: your bad hand. The way this works in scripture is 577 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: that Jesus is healing a man on the Sabbath, which 578 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: is work, who has a condition that renders him unable 579 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: to work. His entire identity has been consumed by this 580 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: one issue, and God did a miracle for him. Can't 581 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 1: he do the same thing for me? The other hand? 582 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: The other hand, I said, Lord, let's talk about the 583 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 1: mighty hand. But then he told me to talk about 584 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: my hand, because to sit here and tell you, oh, 585 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 1: God has had his hand on me, that makes it 586 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: sound like God just makes it easy, like he just no. 587 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: You know how many times I've almost called Larry Bride 588 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: on a Saturday night to tell him, I'll bet you 589 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 1: got to hope you got your backup sermon ready. And 590 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: you think like, oh, well, you don't have much faith, 591 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: you don't trust God. I trust God. This what's in 592 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 1: my hand? I'm so glad y'all are up here. They're 593 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: real judgmental, they're on judgment level ten today. What's that 594 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: in your hand? He said, a staff. I'm kind of 595 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: going back and forth between the man and the synagogue 596 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: and God, and I know it's kind of confusing as 597 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 1: I'm moving here. But you got to see Moses on 598 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,480 Speaker 1: the far far side of the wilderness, tending sheep for 599 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 1: his father in law named Jethro, with a staff in 600 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: his hand. And God said, what's said in your hand? 601 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: And he said a staff? But when he set a staff, 602 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: there's more symbolically contained in this answer than on the surface, 603 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: because this is more than a stick. The only reason 604 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,279 Speaker 1: Moses is even holding a staff to begin with, is 605 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: because of what he did forty years ago when he 606 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: killed an Egyptian for beating one of his brothers. Because 607 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: God's hand was on his life then, but he did 608 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:39,240 Speaker 1: not handle it. Yet. You understand that when God wanted 609 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 1: to show Moses who he was and what he could do, 610 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: he points to something that is in his hand that 611 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: is a symbol of the mistake that he made that 612 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:52,359 Speaker 1: landed him in this place. And watch what he does, 613 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 1: because this is the hand we need to talk about. 614 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,839 Speaker 1: You're holding on the stuff so tight. Some of you 615 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 1: have such a death grip. Your knuckles are white, holding 616 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,440 Speaker 1: on to your staff, holding on to your identity that 617 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,719 Speaker 1: you've told yourself this who I am, This who I'm 618 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 1: gonna be. This is what I did. Yeah, you did it. 619 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: Nobody's hands are cleaning here. None is righteous, no, not one. 620 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: Nobody lifted their hands because they don't have any blood 621 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,239 Speaker 1: on them. I lifted my hands because his blood will 622 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: cleanse me of all unrighteousness if I confess it and 623 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: own it and give it to him. So it's not 624 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,479 Speaker 1: about God's hands. You've got more than enough aptitude, You've 625 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,839 Speaker 1: got more than enough experience, You've got more than enough height. 626 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: You got the right feet, the right inches, you got 627 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: the right genetics. It's all right there. It's never been 628 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: about his hand. Before you were born, he knit you together, 629 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: before you were conceived, he set you apart. It's never 630 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 1: been about his hand. God said, what's in yours? Before 631 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:02,280 Speaker 1: God could use him, I really wanted to use him. 632 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,000 Speaker 1: He had to do what we all have to do. 633 00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: He had to take what was in his hand, not 634 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: God's hand. God's hand is already He's already got the 635 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 1: plagues loaded. He's already ready to unleash. That's not the 636 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:22,120 Speaker 1: question anymore. But when Moses said his staff, God told 637 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: him what to do. Throw it on the ground. And 638 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,680 Speaker 1: he threw it and it became a snake. And he 639 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 1: ran from it because he wasn't an idiot. I heard preachers. 640 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: I heard preachers here say, and Moses ran because he 641 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: still had not recognized the sovereignty of God. No, he 642 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: ran because it's a snake, and run from snakes. How 643 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,120 Speaker 1: stupid do we have to be to think that? Now, 644 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 1: this makes it even more powerful with what God tells 645 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,080 Speaker 1: him to do next. Right, So he has to release 646 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: what's familiar, and then he ass to watch this. Reach 647 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:14,080 Speaker 1: out Who's hand? Come on, y'all. I put it on 648 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 1: the screen. Reach out your hand. And I know you're 649 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 1: praying about God's hand, but God is saying, reach out 650 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: your hand. Do you know there's nothing God's hand can't do. 651 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,960 Speaker 1: But there are some things God's hand won't do. God 652 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: did not pry Moses's fingers from the stick. He didn't 653 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,000 Speaker 1: do it. He won't do it. It's in your hand. Now. 654 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,520 Speaker 1: There are some things that need deliverance. There are some 655 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,560 Speaker 1: things that need discipline. God will let you use your 656 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: hand to lift a spoon with ice cream on it, 657 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,920 Speaker 1: or you can curl a dumbbell. It's in your hand 658 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,880 Speaker 1: at that point, there are some things God will not. 659 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:02,279 Speaker 1: Come on Moses. He throws it down, and then after 660 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,200 Speaker 1: he releases what's familiar. This is the process for me, 661 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,799 Speaker 1: for me because God has his hand on me, and 662 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: I know that that's not the question. It's a mighty hand, 663 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: but my hand. Sometimes what's in my hand? And now 664 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:21,200 Speaker 1: you have to release what's familiar, and he has to 665 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:26,800 Speaker 1: reach for what he's afraid of. And in whose hand 666 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:33,719 Speaker 1: Moses's hand a miracle happens. So what are you telling 667 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,359 Speaker 1: me preacher, you said the other hand, You said God's hand, 668 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:45,760 Speaker 1: then you said my hand. All right, well, the Lord said, 669 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 1: everybody in here is going to need both hands in 670 00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: order to move forward. But the problem is the problem 671 00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:04,080 Speaker 1: is you won't bring God. What's really wrong with you? 672 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:08,200 Speaker 1: You keep stretching out that good hand. You know what 673 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:13,880 Speaker 1: I never noticed after Moses' stick became a serpent, and 674 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 1: then the serpent became a stick, and all these awesome 675 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,960 Speaker 1: things that happened when we let go and God transforms 676 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,040 Speaker 1: our greatest fears into instruments of faith, that he would 677 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,720 Speaker 1: go on to part the Red Sea with that staff. 678 00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,560 Speaker 1: I know, I know all that I appreciate before. But 679 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,759 Speaker 1: watch what God told him to do next, because he's saying, 680 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,160 Speaker 1: what if they don't believe me? What if I don't 681 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: believe me? God, I believe you? What if I don't 682 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 1: believe me? What if they don't believe me? Look what 683 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:41,560 Speaker 1: the Lord said, verse six, Please be nice to detect people. 684 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: They're tired. What's just most holding his staff? Remember it 685 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 1: was a snake a minute ago. Ah, it's a staff. 686 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,080 Speaker 1: Now it's going to part waters. Wow, watch what God 687 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,880 Speaker 1: can do. He could change your greatest mistake into the 688 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:57,640 Speaker 1: instrument of your greatest miracle or no pastor. I've heard 689 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,839 Speaker 1: these cliches before. Your setback is sit up, shout all 690 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,840 Speaker 1: this stuff. Now I'm telling you what daily I have 691 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,120 Speaker 1: to experience in my life is picking up the thing 692 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,160 Speaker 1: I was afraid of. After releasing the thing I was 693 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:15,080 Speaker 1: familiar with, what is in your hand? But then he tells, Moses, 694 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,759 Speaker 1: put your hand inside your cloak. So how's he going 695 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,920 Speaker 1: to do this? He's got the staff in his hand. 696 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: How's he gonna ohi's the other hand. The staff represented 697 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,680 Speaker 1: what he did, but the other hand represents who you 698 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:44,239 Speaker 1: think you are. Put your hand in your cloak, he said. 699 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: Moses put his hand in his cloak, and when he 700 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:53,759 Speaker 1: took it out, the skin was lepros. What do you 701 00:44:53,800 --> 00:45:01,680 Speaker 1: know about leprosy? Keeps you isolated, makes you ashamed, just 702 00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 1: like Moses has been for these forty years because of 703 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:17,840 Speaker 1: what he did. The other hand, nobody touches lepers. Remember 704 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,399 Speaker 1: the leper in scripture. Everybody would tell him six feet back, 705 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 1: six feet back, six feet back. But one day when 706 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,560 Speaker 1: Jesus walked up, it was the first time that he 707 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 1: saw this. See, because nobody touches lepers that's what I 708 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,839 Speaker 1: see God doing. We're all standing at a distance from 709 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 1: what God gave us to do. I don't know if 710 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,439 Speaker 1: it's raising your kids. I don't know if it's fully 711 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,160 Speaker 1: entering into the life that God has given you right 712 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,520 Speaker 1: now or being content. But God said, put your hand 713 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,239 Speaker 1: back in your cloak and pull it out. And when 714 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,520 Speaker 1: he pulled his hand out next verse, it was restored 715 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,560 Speaker 1: like the rest of his flesh. God wants to restore 716 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:08,360 Speaker 1: your other hand. Your other hand, you know the one 717 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,759 Speaker 1: nod at me if you know the hand, and you 718 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: hope I don't mention your specific issue in front of 719 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:19,280 Speaker 1: this whole August body of believers, know the one stretch 720 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 1: that one forth. I see God restoring your hand today 721 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:30,640 Speaker 1: because His hand has always been on you. Holly preached 722 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,440 Speaker 1: an amazing message about the voice of God last night 723 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,120 Speaker 1: to our youth. But let me tell you something that 724 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,719 Speaker 1: she said that I really believe, and I wrote a 725 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: song about it when I was sixteen. It was the 726 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,840 Speaker 1: first Christian song I ever wrote. Before that, I was 727 00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:49,239 Speaker 1: writing some songs that well, let's just say we won't 728 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 1: be singing them on the arena tour and putting it 729 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,400 Speaker 1: on a project on Spotify. It was some songs that 730 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,759 Speaker 1: never need to be heard by anybody, but I wrote 731 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,279 Speaker 1: one that said out of someone thirty nine, if I 732 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,000 Speaker 1: take the wings of mourning, or dwell within the sea, 733 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:09,160 Speaker 1: even there, your hand will lead me and your right 734 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:15,120 Speaker 1: hand will hold me fast. Who is it for today 735 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,240 Speaker 1: that the Lord said, I want to restore your hand? 736 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,080 Speaker 1: Did I see what you're grabbing onto that you identify 737 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,440 Speaker 1: yourself with? And the signs that God gave Moses were 738 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,200 Speaker 1: for God's glory, not for Moses. But before God's glory 739 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: could be revealed, Moses had to release something, and so 740 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,040 Speaker 1: do you. And when he brought his hand back out, 741 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:46,920 Speaker 1: it was restored. It was restored. God wants to give 742 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,000 Speaker 1: you your hand back today. God wants to give you 743 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,360 Speaker 1: your hand back today. God wants to enable you to 744 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,920 Speaker 1: do by faith what you can't do in your own effort. 745 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,879 Speaker 1: God's hand is still on your life. And in case 746 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,319 Speaker 1: you have something in here that is bigger than you, 747 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,480 Speaker 1: I want you to know that is a job for 748 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,879 Speaker 1: God's hand. But God has given you a hand, and symbolically, 749 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,680 Speaker 1: right now, I want you to see the hand of 750 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,960 Speaker 1: God that has always been on your life in your 751 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,160 Speaker 1: hand that is holding onto What if you don't let 752 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,960 Speaker 1: go of it, you are never going to receive what 753 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,560 Speaker 1: you need for the season that you're in. And all 754 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: over this auditorium, I want you to lift your hands 755 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 1: to God, both of them. In fact, stand up on 756 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 1: your feet. We started this way, We're going to end 757 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:48,719 Speaker 1: this way. What is that in your hand? We can 758 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,600 Speaker 1: stand here the rest of our life on the far 759 00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:55,600 Speaker 1: side of the desert, Lord, clutching onto mistakes we made 760 00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,400 Speaker 1: and things we did. But like you do for that 761 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,040 Speaker 1: man who has mentioned in Matthew chapter twelve, I believe 762 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: you want to do for men and women under the 763 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,880 Speaker 1: sound of my voice today and restore their hand just 764 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:14,440 Speaker 1: like the other one. I thank you for the signs 765 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,200 Speaker 1: of your provision and faithfulness and protection on my life today. 766 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: But I believe God that there are some people that 767 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,600 Speaker 1: because of shame, they're hiding in isolation. They feel like 768 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,879 Speaker 1: a leper themselves. They don't feel like they can do it. 769 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,799 Speaker 1: In fact, they've considered giving up. Today. You sent your 770 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,839 Speaker 1: word to heal them and restore their hand. With your 771 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,440 Speaker 1: hands lifted, just pray it out loud, God, restore my hand, 772 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,719 Speaker 1: restore my hand. I'm stretching it out now. I'm stretching 773 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:47,359 Speaker 1: it to you no other help. I know. I need 774 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,240 Speaker 1: your hand God for what has me in it script. 775 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,239 Speaker 1: I need your hand God for what I can't get 776 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,239 Speaker 1: away from from the memories and the thoughts and the fears. God, 777 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,000 Speaker 1: you know what they are. But I need your hand. 778 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:06,160 Speaker 1: Here's my hand. Here's the one I don't show anybody else. 779 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,359 Speaker 1: Here's the resentment I can't get let go of. Here's 780 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,560 Speaker 1: the thing I can't forgive. Here's the thing for which 781 00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:20,200 Speaker 1: I can't forgive myself. That hand. Stretch it out right now, 782 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:26,879 Speaker 1: in God's presence. I believe God is restoring hands. He's 783 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,920 Speaker 1: gonna give you the ability to take hold of your 784 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:33,359 Speaker 1: calling again. Looks like a snake right now, but it's 785 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:40,080 Speaker 1: gonna turn back into a staff in your hand. I'm 786 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,719 Speaker 1: telling you, man, I'm telling you, you reach out and 787 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,400 Speaker 1: take that by the tail, and you trust him, and 788 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna watch it transform in your hand, in your hand, 789 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,200 Speaker 1: in your hand. The miracle is in your hand, not 790 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,680 Speaker 1: the good hand, not the look how great I am, 791 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,839 Speaker 1: how smart I am, how together I am? That other 792 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,680 Speaker 1: hand and that we can't that hand that hasn't been 793 00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:06,279 Speaker 1: able to do it God said today, I'm touching that hand, 794 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:16,520 Speaker 1: that hand, that hand. Thank you Lord. When you showed 795 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,000 Speaker 1: me this message, I cried God, because you showed me 796 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,720 Speaker 1: that somebody is going home with the other hand working. 797 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,759 Speaker 1: I don't know who it is, God, but you do. 798 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,200 Speaker 1: You brought them here today. You wanted them to know 799 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 1: they don't have to hide their head. You wanted them 800 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,160 Speaker 1: to know that your hand is still on them. You're 801 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:57,480 Speaker 1: not afraid to touch them. You wanted them to remember 802 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:02,160 Speaker 1: that you have a mighty hand and that even if 803 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,480 Speaker 1: their hand is withered, if they will stretch it out, 804 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:13,120 Speaker 1: then it'll be made home. Oh God, I feel so 805 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 1: stupid right in front of these people right now. Oh God, 806 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,160 Speaker 1: And I know what it feels like to believe that 807 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,120 Speaker 1: your hand is strong, but to know that my hand 808 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:39,720 Speaker 1: is weak. And yet you've taught me that what Pastor 809 00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:49,800 Speaker 1: Mickey told me, it's true God's hand. It's all my life. 810 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,880 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us special thanks to those of 811 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,920 Speaker 1: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 812 00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,800 Speaker 1: you that this ministry is possible. 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