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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdeck. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Come on, everybody feels comfortable, just lift your hands. Everybody

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Speaker 1: who doesn't feel comfortable, lift your hands. King of King's,

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Speaker 1: Lord of lords. Jesus is your name. We bless you,

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Speaker 1: honor you, respect you, admire you, and adore you. But

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Speaker 1: really we want you to know that we need you.

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Speaker 1: We know that for the things that we encounter as

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Speaker 1: human beings that we cannot understand on the level of

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Speaker 1: our existence, we need divinity. Would you direct the paths

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Speaker 1: of each of the precious people that you assemble together today. See.

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Speaker 1: I know that we think we decided to come to church,

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Speaker 1: but really you brought us to this place something that

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Speaker 1: you want to remind us of, something that you want

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Speaker 1: to show us, something that you want to reveal, and

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, clear out the debris of disappointment that

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Speaker 1: has accumulated in our souls this week a place for

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Speaker 1: your glory and your presence to dwell. We are your temple,

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Speaker 1: and we reverence you, and we worship you, and we

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Speaker 1: praise you in Jesus' name, and the whole church set together. Amen. Amen,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's show the Lord that he's important to us. Well,

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Speaker 1: look at the person next to you and tell them

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Speaker 1: I love you so much. Tell them I love you.

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Speaker 1: Come on, tell them I love you like Homer loves

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Speaker 1: donuts on the Simpsons. Come on, tell them I love

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Speaker 1: you like Kanye loves Kanye. Tell them you're my number

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Speaker 1: one with the lemonade. Tell them right now, see if

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Speaker 1: they're saved. How many of you are saved delivered on

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Speaker 1: your way to heaven? Glad about it? God is so faithful.

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Speaker 1: We want to welcome all of our campuses. Let's do

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Speaker 1: that right now, Valentine. Let's welcome all of our locations

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Speaker 1: all over the Charlotte area Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, Toronto, Canada, Melbourne, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's thank God for Raleigh more a man.

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Speaker 1: Should we see who's watching on our epam our extended

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Speaker 1: family around the world. There's always many different cities in

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Speaker 1: states and nations watching somebody pull it up for me.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and pull it up on the Elevation Church YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you go on the Elevation Church one because

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Speaker 1: it'll have the most viewers. You go over to Elevation Worship,

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Speaker 1: it's not as popular. So good, are you all gonna

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Speaker 1: get that new song? You never lost a battle? Are

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Speaker 1: you gonna get that on Friday? Make sure you get

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Speaker 1: that stream that that's gonna be so good. You can

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Speaker 1: just get it stuck in your head all the time.

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Speaker 1: Now how many you'll have that song stuck in your head?

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Speaker 1: We didn't sing it today, but which seems like a

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Speaker 1: strategic misfire that we're releasing it Friday and we didn't

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Speaker 1: sing it today. But anyway, it's a good song to

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Speaker 1: get stuck in your head. But I promise you your

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Speaker 1: wife would rather hear Tiffany and Chris sing it than you.

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Speaker 1: You can't sing, So download it, stream it and play it.

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Speaker 1: Let the professionals do it. You can sing along. Tell

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Speaker 1: me where you're watching from on the comments of YouTube. Oakland, California, Wisconsin, Seattle, Nigeria, Rockwell,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. You have been to Rockwell? Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of it? I had neither. Uh Indiana Charlotte supposed to

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Speaker 1: be at church. You better have the flu and measles,

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Speaker 1: the mumps, the shingles or something. Uganda, Atlanta, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: It's so fast, it's scrolling so fast. Guatemala, Dominican, Indonesia.

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Speaker 1: Ask somebody, where did you come from? And what are

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Speaker 1: you cooking for lunch? Cannot come over? Ask them that

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Speaker 1: real Quie way, hey man, welcome our Epham around the world.

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Speaker 1: Let's give out. Let's give out seventeen hunks on our

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Speaker 1: way down to our seat? Can we do that? Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for the Word of God? Come on list?

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Speaker 1: Thank God for the worship team. It's the reason I

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Speaker 1: said that I don't know how else to transition them

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Speaker 1: you can be seen. I want to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about something today that came up. In a creative team meeting,

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Speaker 1: I was asked the question about songwriting and sermon writing,

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Speaker 1: which one do I enjoy more, to which I responded,

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Speaker 1: it depends on what part of the process you catch

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Speaker 1: me during, because there are certain times where a sermon

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Speaker 1: idea will come to me and I will feel enlightened

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Speaker 1: gather the people. I have something to say from heaven.

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Speaker 1: Then five minutes later, I look at the same idea

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Speaker 1: And I basically tell y'all everything I know every week.

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Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on you to actually do it one time.

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Speaker 1: But it's like the process of creativity. It has certain

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Speaker 1: That's the title of my message, is called the sticking point.

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Speaker 1: Because everything that you love in life is going to

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Speaker 1: have a part of the process that you don't like

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Speaker 1: and a part that is going to tempt you to quit.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean you don't love it. I don't

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Speaker 1: know when we started thinking that we have to love

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Speaker 1: you feeling indoor plumbing? Go back to work and pay

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Speaker 1: your bills, and I have to love everything all the time,

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Speaker 1: you know, because everything that you love is going to

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Speaker 1: have a part. I called it the sticking point. It's

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Speaker 1: going to have a part or parts that you don't prefer. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I can't tell if you're with me yet. Let me

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Speaker 1: take this a level deeper. Every person that you love,

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Speaker 1: you don't prefer. I'm gonna say it that way. It's

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Speaker 1: gentler than saying that you don't like or that you

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Speaker 1: every person. And there's a parable about this. Jesus said

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Speaker 1: that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who

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Speaker 1: found a treasure and was excited, and so he liked

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Speaker 1: want the treasure, you've got to buy the field. This

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Speaker 1: isn't going good. We want the treasure, not the dirt

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Speaker 1: that comes around it. We want the treasure or the blessings,

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Speaker 1: or sometimes we want those thosefo moments. But even if

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Speaker 1: you love your marriage, there will be sometimes where you

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Speaker 1: just want to control the TV without any voting. You know,

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Speaker 1: never actually done that. For the record, I'm getting hate mail.

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Speaker 1: But everything you love. Even preaching, there's times when when

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Speaker 1: times where I look at the wrong person in the

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Speaker 1: while you're preaching, and I called it when I was

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Speaker 1: talking to them, the sticking point. It's the moment where

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Speaker 1: you start to doubt what you were so secure in.

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Speaker 1: It's the moment where your mood doesn't match your mission,

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Speaker 1: but you've got to push through anyway because you've got

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Speaker 1: something important to do. It's the moment where, oh, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know that about you. When I said I'd do well,

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Speaker 1: a scriptural example, I thought of no better passage than

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Speaker 1: the classic Exodus, where God led his people out of

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Speaker 1: sticking point. I don't know if it is a state

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Speaker 1: but in our state of mind. Even recently, Holly pulled

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Speaker 1: dramatic effect on the story, creative license. But it was late,

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Speaker 1: got stuck in Chicago. Well, why were we stuck in Chicago?

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Speaker 1: Technically American Airlines. But if you take it apart a

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Speaker 1: little bit more, the city of Chicago is a city

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Speaker 1: that we like. We had visited there by choice before

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Speaker 1: when I preached for Steve Munsey and Jmatt. We stayed

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with Chicago. It wasn't. It wasn't Chicago. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't like it was Des Moines. I loved Yll so much.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't the situation that we were stuck in. The

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Speaker 1: our schedule. You better get to the text. Verdict Exodus,

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Speaker 1: God heard their cry. They were stuck as slaves for

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Speaker 1: four centuries serving Pharaoh, who had taken away their building materials.

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Speaker 1: Increasing their requirements while reducing their resources. So they're stuck,

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Speaker 1: to do it, he knew all about Moses's brokenness, and

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Speaker 1: he knew all about Moses' reluctance. And he led them out,

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Speaker 1: and he compelled Pharaoh to let them go, not the

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Speaker 1: first time, not the second time, but after ten plagues

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Speaker 1: of negotiation. You know, sticking point is a negotiation term.

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Speaker 1: They talk about it in business. Well, we almost had

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Speaker 1: the deal done, but then the asking price was a

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Speaker 1: sticking point because they wouldn't let me finance it over

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Speaker 1: five years. They wanted me to pay it off in

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to dig it out and take it

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Speaker 1: with me. We hit a sticking point. You know, you

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Speaker 1: hit a sticking point in your faith, you hit a

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Speaker 1: sticking point in a relationship, You hit a sticking point

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Speaker 1: can come. And then God comes down and he sees

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Speaker 1: you struggling, and he does for you what you cannot

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Speaker 1: something that wasn't on your schedule. Exitus fourteen, verse ten,

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Speaker 1: I preach on half of a verse? Y'all got anything

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Speaker 1: to do after this? Or should we just? Okay? Complete

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Speaker 1: the sentence? If you grew up in church, complete the sentence.

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Speaker 1: everybody else in the church is feeling the same way.

425
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Speaker 1: And then I got to preach to y'all. So, like,

426
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Speaker 1: you know, I grew up in the Low Country or

427
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: South Carolina. You don't know where I'm going with this yet,

428
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: hang on. They used to take their trucks out on

429
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Speaker 1: Friday night and get stuck on purpose, called it muddon.

430
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: But I found out something now. You don't get stuck

431
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Speaker 1: in anything shallow. If you feel stuck, that means you're

432
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Speaker 1: in the deep stuff. Maybe God is doing something deep

433
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 1: in your life when you feel stuck. Maybe when you

434
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Speaker 1: feel stuck, you're building strength. I mean that's the only

435
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: way you really build strength, right, is to get to

436
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: that sticking point, to get to that point where you

437
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: can't push through. I know you lift weights all the time, pe,

438
00:30:55,200 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: how about you bench press five thirty five? All right,

439
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: five thirty five. I'm making this up. I didn't hear

440
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: what he really said, but he's big, and you know

441
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: he's in there. I used to have this spotter in

442
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: high school. I didn't bench press five thirty five, but

443
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: he would stand over me and the moment I started

444
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: to struggle, he would just lift the whole weight off

445
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: of me. I thought, well, man, that's not a good spotter.

446
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: That's not a good God to never let you have

447
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: any weight. That's not a good God to never let

448
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: you have any challenge. How would he grow your faith? No,

449
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: see a good spotter. You're on Rep. Eleven right, five

450
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: thirty five Rep eleven Ah, And I'm just a little stuck.

451
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: And God is standing over your life. I need you

452
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: to know this. And he sees where you're stuck, that

453
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Speaker 1: sticking point, and he says, I'm not gonna take it

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Speaker 1: off of you. I'm gonna give you a lift. Have

455
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Speaker 1: you ever had God be your stutter? I declare, the

456
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: God of angel armies is standing over your life, and

457
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: if you feel stuck, he will do what you cannot do.

458
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: He is your strength. He knows how to get me

459
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Speaker 1: past the point where I'm stuck. But now watch this.

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Speaker 1: You may not like this. The first sticking point that

461
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: Moses encountered was not Pharaoh. The first sticking point that

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00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Moses encountered, and maybe the greatest one, is that he

463
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: tried to negotiate with God and he got stuck. He

464
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: got stuck at the Burning Bush before he got stuck

465
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Speaker 1: at the Red Sea. God's like, I chose you. Now

466
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: he's already stuck sheep for his father in law, Jethro.

467
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: He's been doing that forty years because he got mad

468
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: at somebody and killed him. Because when you get stuck,

469
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: you get stupid. And so now he's doing some things,

470
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: doing something that's the consequence of his decision. And then

471
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Speaker 1: the Lord speaks to him. He's like, I chose you

472
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Speaker 1: go to Pharaoh and tell him let my people go

473
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Speaker 1: with the hand motions. You go to Bible school, Pharah Pharaoh, okay,

474
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Speaker 1: And so Moses is stuck. He's like, give me chapter four,

475
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Speaker 1: verse one, Exibus four, verse one, and he showed this

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Speaker 1: because you might be stuck in yourself. He said. But behold,

477
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: they will not believe me. But you hadn't even talked

478
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Speaker 1: to them yet, or listen to my voice, for they

479
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: will say. They will say the Lord did not appear

480
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: to you. Know, there's two things about this that are wrong.

481
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: One is on other people, and two it's about a

482
00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: future event you can't control either. So he's stuck, and

483
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: he's stuck for good reason. It's because he knows himself.

484
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: He knows Moses, you know you, and to negotiate with

485
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: God is usually like nah, I better not try that.

486
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: So I'm stuck in myself and he's already. Isn't this crazy?

487
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: He's telling himself a story of what's gonna happen. You've

488
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: been stuck in a story of what's going to happen?

489
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: Wake up in the middle of the night sometimes just like, Ah,

490
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm in a king's eze bed. Everything's good, got the

491
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: beautiful woman in the world sleeping next to me. Ah,

492
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm screaming. I'm stuck in a story of what might

493
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: happen tomorrow or what has happened before. You ever been

494
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: stuck in a story? Have you ever been stuck in yourself?

495
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: Have you ever been stuck in a story about yourself?

496
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: I mean, rejection is painful, but Moses takes it to

497
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Speaker 1: a new level. This is not rejection. He rejects himself

498
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Speaker 1: before anybody else has the chance to. This is like

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Speaker 1: advanced level. This is prejection. Huh, Well, I'm not even

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Speaker 1: gonna try. It's a story of my life. Everything always

501
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: goes wrong. I mean, I see this. I don't want

502
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: to do a dating seminary. We already did a negotiation

503
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: seminar when you ask her out on a date like,

504
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: I know you've got don't mine too. I mean you

505
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: gotta have some confidence to it. Man walk up to

506
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Speaker 1: her like, hey, I didn't know if you wanted to

507
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: go Tuesday or Wednesday. Come on, I'm helping you. Name

508
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: your kid Larry, that's my legal first name. But Moses

509
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: is like, I can't do this. I know me, I

510
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: don't have it. I can't do it. He's stuck in

511
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: a story about himself. Now, the bigger story does not

512
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: revolve around you. Remember that. When we get stuck in ourselves,

513
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: we miss the whole point that God is doing something

514
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: that is bigger than you. It's bigger than what's wrong

515
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: with you. It's bigger than what you didn't do. It's

516
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Speaker 1: bigger than the time you waste it, and is certainly

517
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Speaker 1: bigger than the opinions of others. So God makes this

518
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: kind of like pep talk. He's like, what is that

519
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: in your hand? What is that in your hand? Which

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00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: this wouldn't make me feel any better if I've got

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Speaker 1: to lead a whole nation until the most powerful man

522
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 1: in the world let my people go uh yeah, yeah,

523
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. It's like, what is that in your hand?

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00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: And Moses says, give me the verse a staff. The

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00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: ESV calls it a staff, but technically it's a stick

526
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: for every sticking point in your life. God has given

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Speaker 1: you a stick, and you've got one right now. In

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Speaker 1: order for Moses to see what that instrument could be,

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00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: he had to release it and throw it down on

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Speaker 1: the ground. When he released it on the ground, it

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Speaker 1: became a snake. Until you surrender it, you will never

532
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: see what it could be. I'm gonna bridge this thing.

533
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm going home in a minute. But let me tell

534
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: you something right now. If you will release it, if

535
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: you will put it before God, if you will say,

536
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: here's my intellect, here's my will, here's my understanding, here's

537
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: my ability, you will watch it transform. It will transform.

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00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: It became a snake to become a sign because Moses

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00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: needed to know this is really God, because he was

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00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: stuck in himself. And when you need to get out

541
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: of yourself, you have to release what God has given

542
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Speaker 1: you so he can show you what it can become.

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00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: But then he had to do something crazy. He had

544
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Speaker 1: to do something that I would never do. He had

545
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: to do something that you only do if you really

546
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: love nature. He had to pick up the snake because

547
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: when he first released it and it became a snake,

548
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: he ran from it because he was smart, not because

549
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: he didn't have faith, but because he had intelligence. But

550
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: then God called him to reach for what he had

551
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: been running from. I promise you, I feel the Holy

552
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: Spirit so strong right now. And when he did it,

553
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: it turned back into a stick. A stick is something small,

554
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: but it would be that same stick. I need you

555
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: to know this because you've never been through this challenge before.

556
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: You've never been twenty four before. You've never been sixty

557
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: one before. You never been a wife before, you never

558
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: been a mom before. I never been a dad before.

559
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 1: This is my first rodeo. You've never been through this before.

560
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: This wasn't on my schedule. And I don't feel like

561
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm what I'm supposed to be for what I'm up against.

562
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Speaker 1: Can I tell you what God told Moses by the

563
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit, that when you stand in

564
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 1: front of those red seas in your life, God took

565
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: him back and showed him the same stick, the same

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00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: stick that God had changed into a snake and back

567
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: into a stick that same stick, and he told him

568
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: an Exodus fourteen, verse sixteen, I want you to take

569
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: your stick and point it at what you're going through.

570
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: I want you to take your stick, and I want

571
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: you to point it at what you can't get over.

572
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: I want you to take your stick. Keep the verse up,

573
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: because this is right from the Bible, and raise your staff.

574
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: I know as small, it always feels small. I know

575
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: that some of you are visited by the perpetuable spirit

576
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: of a never enough. But it becomes enough. When you

577
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: stretch it. It becomes enough. When you use it, it

578
00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: becomes enough. This is the miracle of faith. Why because God,

579
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Speaker 1: God changes things. Say it. God changes things. That's what

580
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: he does. God changes things. He turns mourning to dancing.

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00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: He changes things. He gives beauty for ashes. He changes things.

582
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 1: He turns shame into glory. He turns crosses into empty tombs,

583
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Speaker 1: he turns graves into gardens, He turns phones into armies,

584
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: he turns sees into highways. And if you will stretch

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00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 1: what He gave you over what's your going through, You're

586
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: gonna get through that. I declare it, I decree it.

587
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: God said it. That sells it back up Pharaoh. I've

588
00:41:50,080 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: come it through. Oh, I know it feels small, and

589
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: I know for many of your energy has been diminished

590
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: by what you've gone through. And I know some of

591
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: you feel too young, and some feel too old, and

592
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: some feel too in between, and some feel too Shut

593
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: up and trust your stuff. Don't do something stupid like

594
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: give up and quit just because you feel tired. I

595
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: felt tired from the nine thirty and I came out

596
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: and preached this one, and I had to get in

597
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: a freezing cold shower to wake up. Because you need

598
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: this word. So I grabbed my stick and preached it

599
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: because I can't stop doing what I'm called to do

600
00:42:53,680 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: just because I'm tired. But you will have to trust

601
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: that it is enough, not that God is enough, but

602
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: that what He gave you is enough for where he

603
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: put you. This is a sticking point, and if you

604
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: sit there and try to negotiate with God, you will

605
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: miss it. Saddest thing in the world is that Moses

606
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: never even went into the Promised Land. He got stuck.

607
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 1: He hit a rock with his staff, the same staff

608
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: that he raised over the sea, and the water's parted

609
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: and they got through. He took that staff because he

610
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: was tired of the people, and he struck the rock twice,

611
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: and God said, now you can't go in because you

612
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: don't trust me enough. Everything you love will have a

613
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: part of the process that you will not like, including

614
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: following Jesus. Did Jesus love the Father? Then why did

615
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: he ask in the Garden of Gothsemone if there's any

616
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: other way? I don't want to do it, because everything

617
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: that you love will have a part that you don't like.

618
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: I'm so sick of my generation thinking that we always

619
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: have to feel happy to move forward. Sometimes we can

620
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: do it because we love God enough, and we love

621
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: people enough, and we're called and because we have a style.

622
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: I gotta stick I gotta stick it out, I gotta persevere.

623
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Speaker 1: I have a purpose, I have a reason, I have

624
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: a calling. And no, you can't have me back, Pharaoh. No,

625
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: come too far to get stuck here. Some of you

626
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: came from broken homes and broken families and busted situations,

627
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: and God would not bring you out here to drown you.

628
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: He's dealing with your enemies. Stretch your stick and trust

629
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: your stuff and go forward and stand there. It's a

630
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: small thing. And if you trust him enough to stretch

631
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: the small thing over the bigger thing. I don't know

632
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: what that is for you. I'm going slow because I

633
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: need you to imagine and I need you to see

634
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: yourself on the other side of this, what it's going

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Speaker 1: to be like when you're helping somebody else and all

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Speaker 1: the hell that you went through isn't wasted, but it's invested.

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Speaker 1: It's the dumbest thing. But I just saw a picture

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Speaker 1: like Popeye or something of you just getting strong in

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Speaker 1: let it fall on you. But you got to imagine. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I will rejoice again, I will sing again. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. But but you will have to commit.

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Speaker 1: You will have to You will have to walk through it,

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Speaker 1: and that means you'll have to walk through something that

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Speaker 1: feels like it could collapse on you at any time.

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Speaker 1: The story goes that he stretched the staff, he trusted God,

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Speaker 1: and God made a Don't you love this? An interstate

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Speaker 1: highway through the sea. Who else can do that? Who

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Speaker 1: else can turn a sea into a highway, a stick

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Speaker 1: into a sake, a great only God can do it.

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Speaker 1: So the ability to walk through something that God is

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Speaker 1: holding up for you. You can't stick your right foot

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Speaker 1: in and your right foot out. You can't hokey pokey

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Speaker 1: through the red sea. It's going to mean saying that God,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to see this through. Must stay in this

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable place. I would rather stay stuck and have you

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Speaker 1: deal with what you need to deal with. I would

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Speaker 1: rather stay stuck and see your purpose for my life fulfilled.

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Speaker 1: Because when you're standing in front of something you've never

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Speaker 1: seen before, hold on to what you know. You got

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Speaker 1: to stick. You got to stick. And when it happens

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Speaker 1: this week, when you hit the sticking point, if it's

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Speaker 1: say this, but if it's a mother in law, or

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Speaker 1: or if it's something real, deep and dark that we

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Speaker 1: can't talk about out loud, when you hit it, use

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Speaker 1: your stick. Small, Trust, imagine, commit and know that spells stick. Small.

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Speaker 1: Trust God. It doesn't feel like much, but it's enough. Trust, Imagine,

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Speaker 1: commit and know, Father, as your word has gone forth

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Speaker 1: today I have experienced such a joy of seeing these

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Speaker 1: people receive this personal word, and on the other side

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Speaker 1: who needed this message, and sitting in this room is

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Speaker 1: someone who is at a sticking point, and what they

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Speaker 1: do next will determine so much about whether they stay

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Speaker 1: no one leaving. Thank you, Lord, Glory to your name,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus, Blessed be your name. Holy is your name?

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Speaker 1: Worthy is your name? Worthy is your name? Worthy is

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Speaker 1: your name? When they got through to the other side, y'all,

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Speaker 1: they started singing. But sometimes you got to sing on

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Speaker 1: to sing when you feel pain, and you've got to

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Speaker 1: offer God the sacrifice of praise. And I wish there

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Speaker 1: were about one thousand people in Elevation Valentine, and a

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Speaker 1: few hundred at Blakeney, and a few hundred of Gaston

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Speaker 1: that would just lift your hands and begin to worship gods.

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Speaker 1: Begin to thank him that he turns seas into highways,

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Speaker 1: you servles. Begin to thank him that he turns mourning

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Speaker 1: and only he deserves you give beauty for his name

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Speaker 1: tr balls it too, Dorcy Jody, Thank you for joining us.

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