1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 3: Come on, let's get Jesus the best phrase if you've 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 3: been saving it all day. 9 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: Come on, let's lift up the name that's above every name. Wow. 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: I'm so honored to be here. And just while you're standing, 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: I want to first of all think my friend and 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: my big brother, Pastor Stephen Ferdick, not only for this opportunity, 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: but you know, God uses people. How many know that? 14 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: Can I get an amen? Somebody? God uses people, and 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: God use your pastor to change my life. And I 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: am honestly where I'm at today because of his wisdom, 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: his friendship, his care and just the way his sermons, 18 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: his songs. And I want to just say to God 19 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: be the glory for a man that is so important 20 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: to everyone in this room, every location, every e fam member, 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: to the world. And I want to honor Pastor Steven 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: and Pastor Hollifredick today just for the gift that they 23 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: are to all of us. Can we put our hands 24 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: together let them know we love them? Amen, And it 25 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: is such a huge honor to be with you today. 26 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Before you're seated, find at least three people. Tell them 27 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: it looks like you're losing weight. Come on, tell them, 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: tell them it looks like you're All the epham around 29 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: the world looks like you're losing weight. 30 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 3: You're looking good. All of our locations, you're looking good. 31 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow. I don't know what. I don't know 32 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: if it's keto or oh sim pick, I don't know 33 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: what it is, but you're looking good. Hey, thank you 34 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: to uh. I feel like was that elevation rhythm? I 35 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: don't know? But or am I just old? Am I 36 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: just old? 37 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 2: Now? 38 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: Where it all looks like kids leading worship, But make 39 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 1: some noise for that amazing worship. That is wow. Great job, Tim, 40 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: great to see a great job with man. The youth 41 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: ministries just incredible. Let's go right to the word. I'm 42 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: I'm I'm fired up. We're gonna go to First Kings seventeen. 43 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: I got a lot to say, so I want to 44 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: go to the word First King Chapter seventeen. While you're 45 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: turning there. If you don't have a Bible, don't worry 46 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: to come up on the screen. But if you do, 47 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: go ahead and turn with me. I do want to 48 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: bring greetings from Las Vegas. We started City Light Church 49 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: six years ago and God is just really blessing and 50 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: breathing on that work. And I'm grateful. And if you're 51 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: if you're ever in Vegas, don't laugh. Hey, y'all guilty. 52 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what happened at every other location, but 53 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: it's a real little naughty smile that just filled the whole. 54 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: I don't know why you come to Vegas. I think 55 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: you come to Street of Angelism. Amen. Uh, you're you're, 56 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: you're all the people with the signs right on the 57 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: strip preaching you reach out to the blackjack dealers, Amen 58 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: and to. I don't know why you come, but if you, 59 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: if you're ever in Vegas, come say hi. I'd love 60 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: to see you and uh to uh love to see 61 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: you in church on a Sunday morning, First King's Chapter seventeen. 62 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Elijah, anybody grateful that God 63 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: speaks Hallelujah, go and live in the village of Zaraphath, 64 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: near the city of Sedon. I've instructed a widow there 65 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: to feed you. So he went to Zarafath. As he 66 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a 67 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: widow gathering sticks there, and he asked her, would you 68 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: bring me a little cup of water? And as she 69 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: was going to get it, he called to her, I love, 70 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: this is the most man move in the Bible. Y 71 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: Already every husband and wife knows this move right here. 72 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: And can you get me a little snack? Jesus gamelo, babe. 73 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: Can you get me a little a little bread, Get 74 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: me a little sandwich, babe? She said, I swear by 75 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: the Lord your God, I don't even have a single 76 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: piece of bread in this house. I only have a 77 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: handful of flour left in a jar, and a little 78 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: cooking oil left in the bottom of this jug. I 79 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: was just gathering sticks to cook the last meal, and 80 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: then my son and I will die. Elijah said to her, 81 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Go do what you've said, but make 82 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: a little bread for me first. This is amazing that 83 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: God did not say, make one big piece of bread, 84 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: cut it three ways, and we'll all have a peace. 85 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: He said, make mine first, because when you put God 86 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: first in your life. I have to believe that every 87 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: time I put God first in my life, a miracle 88 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: is happening in the kitchen. So he said, make mine first, 89 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: then use what's left over to prepare a meal for 90 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: you and your son. For this is what the Lord, 91 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: the God of Israel, says. There will always be flour 92 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,239 Speaker 1: and olive oil left in your containers until the time 93 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again. 94 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: So she did as Elijah said. She and Elijah and 95 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: her family continue to eat for many days. There was 96 00:05:58,640 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: always enough. Man. 97 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 3: I love this about God. There was always enough flower. 98 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: And olive oil left in the containers, just as the 99 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: Lord had promised through Elijah. I want to just look 100 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: at verse twelve very quickly, and then we're gonna We're 101 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: going to dismantle a lie that she believed. I'm gonna 102 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: eat this meal and die. And it's here that Elijah 103 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: comes with a different word, faith word, hope word, God word, 104 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: a prophetic word. And I want to come with that. 105 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: I want to I want to contradict the devil. Today. 106 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: I've come to disagree with the demons that have been 107 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 1: lying to you. I've got good news for you today, 108 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 1: and I want to I want to speak from this idea. 109 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: It's not over, It's not over. Can you can you 110 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: just maybe elbow who's next to you, make them a 111 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: little uncomfortable, tell them it's not over. Come on, tell 112 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: a come on online around the world. 113 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 3: Tell him it's not over. It's not over. Do y'all 114 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 3: believe it today? 115 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: Give the Lord one more shout of praise, and we're 116 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: going to get into this word. Bless your word, Lord, 117 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: in Jesus's name, Amen and Amen. Prophets in the Old 118 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: Testament are called seers, seers see r s. They are seers. 119 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: They see. We think of prophets as speaking, and they do. 120 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: But before they would say a thing, they would see 121 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: a thing. God would take them up into the spirit realm. 122 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: Pastor preached about trainces last week and about Peter getting 123 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: caught up into the spirit. He would he would take 124 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: prophets up into the spirit, and he would say, Ezekiel, 125 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: what do you see, Jeremiah, what do you see? Isaiah? 126 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: What do you tell me what you see? And then 127 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: they would say what they saw. Because it was very 128 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: important for God to communicate that there is more going 129 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: on than meets the natural eye. Oh, I'm trying to 130 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: slow down already, but I'm I already feel like preaching, 131 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: and I just started. He's trying to tell them that 132 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: there's more than the five senses, There's more than the natural, 133 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: There's more than what your eyes can see. There is 134 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: a spiritual realm, there is a spiritual place, there is 135 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: an element called faith. In that place, in the Kingdom place, 136 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: in the God place, nothing is impossible. So he has 137 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: to get them to see that there's more to see 138 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: than what they see, and then they are to say 139 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: what they see in the spirit realm because God knows something. 140 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: God knows that if you can get a vision from 141 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: God and a word from God, you become unstoppable. That 142 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: when I get a vision from God and a word 143 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: from God, nothing is impossible. That though the giants are great, 144 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: I have a word from God, and though the mountains 145 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: are high, I have a word from God. And though 146 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: my kids are acting crazy right now, I got a 147 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: word from God. And though I don't even know where 148 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: my spouse was last night, I got a word from God. 149 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: And though I don't know how I'm gonna pay the bills, 150 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: I got a vision from God. And what I see 151 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: right now with my eyes does not look like what 152 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: I saw in the spirit. But if I can get 153 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: a vision, I can make it. Because without a vision, 154 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: the people perish, They lose control, they lose hope, they 155 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: lose all of their hope. But with a vision, I 156 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: can make it. This is what happened to Elisha and 157 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: second Kings when the enemy surround Elisha and his servant, 158 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: and his servant comes to him and says, my Lord, 159 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: we're surrounded by enemies. And Elisha prays, and Elisha does 160 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: not pray, God help us. Elisha does not pray, God, 161 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: where are you. Elisha does not pray, God, we need 162 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: a vis Elisha prays, not for himself or against his enemies. 163 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: Elisha prays for his servant. And here's his prayer. And 164 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: I don't think his servant was expecting it. Lord, open 165 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: his eyes, because he thinks we have an enemy problem. 166 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: But he has a vision problem. You think you got 167 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: a devil problem. You got a vision problem. You think 168 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: you got a demon problem. You got a vision problem. 169 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: You might think you got a boss problem. Maybe you 170 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: have a vision problem. You might think you got a 171 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: wife problem, Sir, Maybe you have a vision problem because 172 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: once God opens my eyes. I can now see what's 173 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: God open my eyes, so I don't live my entire 174 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: life sing with these but never see what You're doing 175 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: in my life, or I will end up praying the 176 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: wrong prayers, go into the wrong places, hang in with 177 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: the wrong people, singing the wrong songs. But if God 178 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: can open my eyes, I can do everything what God's 179 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: called me to do. I think we ought to give 180 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: God a praise right there, because that's the power of 181 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: this church. That's the power of every song we sing. 182 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: That's the power of doing a new You is that 183 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: I can now see from Heaven's perspective. I remember the 184 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: first time my little daughter realized we were in an 185 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: airplane as she looked out the window and the world 186 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: started to get his own small And she goes, Dad, 187 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: the car the people are small, Dad, the mountains are small. 188 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: And I go they didn't get any smaller, You just 189 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: got higher. I'm telling you, God, God can take you 190 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: somewhere where you see and where you hear, and where 191 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: you say something radically different. And it's here that God 192 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: helps this woman to see. It's here that God helps 193 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: this woman to hear a better word, It's it's here 194 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: that she catches a vision for herself or her family 195 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: and for the famine that she finds herself in it. 196 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: I believe today, this is a vision day. I believe 197 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: God's gonna release sight today. Firstly, you have to see 198 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: your future. You have to see your future. The woman says, 199 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat this meal and die. Wow, put that 200 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: on your dream board. Huh, that's a that's an awkward 201 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: Instagram post. But this is what she believed. This is 202 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: what she thought. Let me let me let me say 203 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: the obvious that maybe even ever thought about. She did 204 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: not know that. She didn't know it'd be her last meal. 205 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 1: She didn't have a weather app on her phone. She 206 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: didn't know if God was in the sin rain tomorrow. 207 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: She didn't know if someone was gonna bring her food 208 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: in the morning. She didn't know she was in the 209 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: presence of a prophet. She had no idea about her future, 210 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: but she was predicting her future based off of the 211 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: worst case scenario. I'm gonna eat this meal and die. 212 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: She didn't know that. And every time we speak from 213 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: a spirit of fear, we are declaring the worst case scenario, 214 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: even though we don't know. See, this is fear. Fear 215 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: is not always frighted. Fear is not always this feeling 216 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: of panic like we think. Fear is it's over. Fear 217 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: is I guess the famine wand Fear is I tried 218 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: and failed. Fear is I guess this is my last meal. 219 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: Fear doesn't feel like what you think is gonna feel like. 220 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 4: Now. 221 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: I know this because since i'veted our church six years ago, 222 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: I've had three panic attacks. Now, I didn't have panic 223 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: attacks before I planted the church. Before I planted the church, 224 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: I was an evangelist, I preached, I traveled, and I 225 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: lived in Newport Beach, California. Amen, it was just you 226 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: don't have panic attacks in Newport Beach. You just everybody's 227 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: a Christian. The dolphins are saved. You go see them 228 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: out swimming, speaking in tongues, you know. I mean, it's 229 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: like it's anointed. Everybody's smiling, or at least has enough boatox. 230 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: It looks like they're smiling the other everybody's happy, everybody's 231 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: got tan. Life was good. And then I moved to 232 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: Sin City and I planted this church. I thought I 233 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: was having a heart attack. Three times I thought I 234 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: was having a heart attack. I'd go into the emergency room. 235 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: Hi are you good? Good good? I'm good. I see 236 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: a sign in sir, what's wrong. I'm dying. I'm having 237 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: a heart attack. Man, they freak out. They get you 238 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: to the front of the line. I mean it goes 239 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: into code ight. By the way, if you ever want 240 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: to get to the front of an ear no, never mind, 241 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: don't do that. But I was just telling you. I mean, 242 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: they get you. I mean it's like it's twenty minutes 243 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: in Mayhem. They're taking blood, they're putting a little electrical things 244 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: all over. I mean it's they're freaking out for twenty minutes, 245 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, boom, they're gone. And there 246 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: I am just sitting there in a in a gown 247 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: for an hour in a cold room. The breeze is 248 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: blowing in places I didn't know I had, and the 249 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: doctor walks in. 250 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 3: Mister Tavis, I got good news and I got bad news. 251 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: The good news is you are not having a heart attack. 252 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: The bad news is you're having a panic attack. You're depressed, 253 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: I said number one, I am having a heart attack. 254 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: I feel like a like an elephants on my chest. 255 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: I can I can feel my heart. I can't breathe. 256 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: I know because you now you have a panic. All 257 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: the numbers are good grabbing a panic attack, and it 258 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: felt like I was dying. But really I was just 259 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: so fearful of my future that I told myself this 260 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: must be it. But I've come to declare to somebody 261 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: at Elevation Church today, it's not over. This is not 262 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: your last meal. This is not the end of the 263 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: road for you. This is not how it ends, This 264 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: is not your last year. This is not how it 265 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: ends for you. God is still writing your story. Oh 266 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: can I get a good amen? In the House of 267 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: the Lord. See fear lies, Fear lies to you, and 268 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: fear assumes and declares the worst case scenario you. Fear 269 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: tries to predict my tomorrow by the challenges of yesterday. 270 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: She judged her future by the drought that she's been in, 271 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: and she cursed her tomorrow based off of the pain 272 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 1: of her past. I understand there's challenges in this room. 273 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: I understand there's pain in this room. I understand there 274 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: are very hard seasons in this room, in every room, 275 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: people watching all over the world and you going. But 276 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: you don't know what what I'm going through but I 277 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: want to declare a truth over you. Your past is 278 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: not your prophecy. Oh I felt that, am I sanctified soul. 279 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: Just because it's been one way doesn't mean it will 280 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: always be that way. Just because I've been in a 281 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: season doesn't mean that sea and last. Every season changes. 282 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 1: The storm can't last forever. Eventually God will make it 283 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: rain again. Eventually, the trout ends. Eventually things can chain. 284 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: Your past is not your prophecy, It is not my prediction. 285 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: It is a real part of my story, but it's 286 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: not the end of my story. It's a chapter in 287 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: my book, but it's not the final chapter of my book. 288 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: Let me tell you some about about the enemy of 289 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: your soul. Let me tell you some about the devil. 290 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: The devil is a is a present devil. Let me 291 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: say it like this. He is. He roams around like 292 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,719 Speaker 1: a lion seeking whom he made divide. He is, he is, 293 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: He's present. This is radically different than the God that 294 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: you serve. They're not in some crazy cosmic battle. They're 295 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: not armor sling for your soul. Don't don't worry about it, 296 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: because because God is radically different. God is everywhere. Oh 297 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: God was, do I have a scholar in the house, 298 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: and he and he is and he is to come, 299 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 1: which means that God is in your past. God is 300 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: working in your future, and God God is preparing you 301 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: in your present. God is all places at once. Paul 302 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 1: said about Jesus that he feels time and space, that 303 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: he's here, and he's there, and he's everywhere, all at 304 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: the same time. This is good news because see, when 305 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: the enemy speaks to you, he can only speak to 306 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: you in your present. I'm going somewhere. He doesn't know 307 00:19:53,280 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: your future. He speaks to you in your today, and 308 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: he lies to you about tomorrow, and he hopes you 309 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: believe it. 310 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 3: But his guess is as good as yours. So he 311 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 3: whispers in the woman's ear, this is your last meal. 312 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 3: You're gonna die. You go listen my last meal. I'm 313 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 3: gonna die. He don't know that, just like she don't 314 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 3: know that. This is radically different than God. God establishes 315 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: the end. 316 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: From the beginning. He starts in your future. He doesn't 317 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: guess about your tomorrow. Oh, this is good news. This 318 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: means that when God gives you a promise, he's not guessing. 319 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: Am I helping anybody right now? He doesn't go. I 320 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: hope it works out. I got good plains for you. 321 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: Let's see, he said, as I know the plans that 322 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: I have for you, they are plans to give you 323 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: a hope. Can we get a little rowdy at this 324 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: first service of the day. I'm talking to somebody of 325 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: what God talks to you. He talks to you. 326 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 5: From your future into your present, and he says. 327 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 6: Come on over to this side. 328 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 3: I've got good plans. I've got a good and he's 329 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 3: not hoping it happens. He knows it'll happen. Oh, this 330 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 3: is so different. This is the God you serve. This 331 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 3: is the God who gives you promises. This is the 332 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 3: God we sing about. He knows exactly what he's doing 333 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 3: and he's got good plans for you. Jesus talks about 334 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 3: a spirit. 335 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: In the last Day. He talks about a mentality that 336 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: would fill the earth in the last days. Luke twenty 337 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: one says that the people will be terrified. How you know, 338 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: that's just like the spirit of the world just scared. 339 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: It is the world scared today that it was one 340 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: hundred years ago. I'm not sure. But now we got 341 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: these little phones, y'all know what I'm saying, and you 342 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and you turn them on 343 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: and it tells you. That phone tells you the worst. 344 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: So we're terrified because one hundred years ago, they didn't 345 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: know there was a tornado in Nebraska and an earthquake 346 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 1: in Japan and a war in the Middle League. They 347 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: didn't know. They were just living their life. But now 348 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: we have twenty four hour access to news, and good 349 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: news doesn't sell, only bad news sells. So it's constant 350 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: bad news, and we are feeding and it become addicted 351 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 1: to bad news. We've become addicted to concern, we become 352 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: addicted to panic, and now we feed on it twenty 353 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: four hours a day. And Jesus said, this would be 354 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: the tone, this would be the spirit, this would be 355 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: the stronghold, this would be the mentality of the world's system. 356 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 3: That fear would grip us. We would be terrorized, terrified. Oh, 357 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 3: but there is another spirit. For the child of God. 358 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: I want to declare to you that the opposite of 359 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: fear is not faith. The opposite of fear is the 360 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Ha ha. Because the Spirit of God is 361 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: not a spirit of fear, but he is power, love, 362 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: and a sound mind. And there is another spirit for 363 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: the people of God. At chapter two, verse seventeen, God says, 364 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: in the last days, see this is the last day scripture. 365 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: Preachers don't preach about. But this is my favorite Last 366 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 1: Day scripture. And by the way, it's the clearest Last 367 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: Day scripture in the Bible. In the last days, i 368 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: will pour out my spirit on all flesh. I'm gonna 369 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: pour out my spirit on your sons and your daughters. 370 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: I've got a plan for your children. I've got a 371 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: plan for families. I've got a plan for your six 372 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: year old, and I've got a plan for your sixteen 373 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: year old. I've got a plan for your mayor. I 374 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: got a plan for families. 375 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 3: I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, and. 376 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: You will prophesy, and you will see dreams, and you 377 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: will have visions. And when the spirit of God comes 378 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: upon you, he he removes the fear. You will not 379 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: allow it in your soul. God can turn it around 380 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: for you. It's not over. This is not your last meal. 381 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: I want you to see. I want you to see 382 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: your future. I want you to see like God sees it. 383 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: They shall prophesy, he said, prophecy. That's not that's not 384 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: just closing your eyes and speaking in King James English. 385 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: It's talking like God talks. It's getting a word for 386 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: your family. It's getting a word for your future. It's 387 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: getting a word for your business. It's speaking about tomorrow 388 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: like God speaks about tomorrow. Number two, you have to 389 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: see your calling. I have I have instructed, I have 390 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: commanded a widow there. I have I have commanded a 391 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: widow there, I have instructed a widow there. I don't 392 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: know if you if you think about this language, but 393 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: it feels like it feels like Elijah is going to 394 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 1: walk into the village and and say, hey, I'm here, 395 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: and she's gonna go, omg, it's you. You're the guy. 396 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: I was in prayer and the Lord talked to me 397 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: about you. He's given me an instruction. He's given me 398 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: a commandment. Come on in. I got bread, bacon, I 399 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: got water in the jug. Let's go, come on, come 400 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: in heat. God's been talking to me. That's what happens. 401 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: He walks into town and she has no idea who 402 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: he is. And I think the reason is this because 403 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: this word instructed isn't the best English word, the better 404 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: word from the Hebrew language that it was written in. 405 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: Is I have appointed a woman there, I have chosen 406 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: for special use. I have anointed a woman there, and 407 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: she thinks she's gonna die, but she's anointed. She's given 408 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: up on her future, but she's appointed. She has no 409 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: more hope, but my calling is on her. She thinks 410 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: it's the end for her and for her family, but 411 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: she has no idea that my hand is upon her. 412 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: Some of you are in a very low place right now. 413 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: Some of you think this must be the end of 414 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: the road. I've tried everything, but I guess the drought 415 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: want No, there's an annoying on your light. There's a 416 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: calling on your life. You have been chosen for special use. Hey, 417 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: you don't even know it. Because see, Elijah had an 418 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: anoying on his life that she needed. But listen, she 419 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: had an annoying on her life that he needed. They 420 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: both had oil. 421 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 7: Why do you always asking me to serve in this 422 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 7: church because you have oil? Why do I got to 423 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 7: lead an e group because you have oil? Why do 424 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 7: you want me serving in the house because you got oil? 425 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 7: Why are they pushing next year ministry? I don't feel 426 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 7: I hold in a baby. You got oil? We need 427 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 7: you in the youth ministry. 428 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,959 Speaker 1: We need we need you in the children's ministry, we 429 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: need you serving in a ministry. We need you using 430 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: your gifts telling. And I know you're at a low point, 431 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: but we need you in the. 432 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 3: House of God, because there's actually oil that this house needs. 433 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: She thought it was over. God was anointing her. Oh, 434 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: and I've been there. I have been at places where 435 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: I've been so lone, but I said yes to my gift. Anyway, 436 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: one time I was preaching for my friend, and I 437 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: preach preacher preaching. I preach pretty good. I gotta be honest. 438 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: I don't like all my sermons. I like that one. 439 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: And I was in a low place. I didn't want 440 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: to be there. I wanted to cancel, but I preached, 441 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: and we got off. We got off the stage, and 442 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: we went to dinner, and my friend looked at me 443 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: and said, boy, you must be going through it. I said, 444 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: say last, I said no, I said what I said, 445 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: What Why lest I be going through it? He goes 446 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: because you preach good. He said. 447 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 3: You preach like you were dying. You preach, you preach 448 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: like this was your last servant. You preach like you 449 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 3: were giving. 450 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: It your all. I said, I am going through it, and. 451 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 3: I'm so grateful that even in my lowest moments, I've 452 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 3: got oil on my life. There's a gift on my life, 453 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 3: and there's a gift on your life. 454 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: And if we need you right now, it is not 455 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: time to quit. It's not time to leave. It's not 456 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: time for you to die. God's oil is on your 457 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: Come on, somebody's out. I'm anointed. Come on, sap somebody 458 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: a high five. Tell them you're anointed. They needed each 459 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: other's annoying to be sustained through the trought I've appointed. 460 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: It was almost like God knew that if she got 461 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: in the atmosphere of the prophetic. Sorry, my pentecostal just 462 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: showed I try to keep it. I know I'm that 463 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: all of a I'm trying to behave right now. That 464 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: organ doesn't help. It's like he knew that if she 465 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: could just get in the atmosphere of the prophet, something 466 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: would come up. And so why I try not never 467 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: to miss church, whether I'm in, whether I'm in person, 468 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: whether I'm have to be online, whether I'm traveling. I 469 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: just tried to be in the house of God, because 470 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: you never know You never know when God's gonna dry. 471 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: You never know when you're appointing and your annoying, it's 472 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: gonna rise up, and he goes, that's for me. I'm 473 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: gonna make it. I got a calling. I remember twenty sixteen, 474 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: sitting right over that. This is the anointed section. 475 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 3: If there, if the if the rapture happens, you go first, 476 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 3: because that's where I was sitting, right here with this 477 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: woman pointing at me. 478 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: That's where I was sitting. And I was at inside 479 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: an elevation. I was sitting right there and they were 480 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: doing a conference for pastors. And it was there that 481 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: I got the green light from heaven to plant my church. 482 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: It was there that God said, don't plan an elevation church. 483 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: Don't don't try to be like Pastor Stephen be. You 484 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: go plant that church, go do what. It was there 485 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: that I got permission. It was there that God said 486 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: yes to my dream. I'm just telling you never know 487 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: when you come, Well, there's gonna be a lot of people, 488 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of crowds, and I 489 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: don't know, and there's a night of worship. I'm gonna 490 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: have to wait and wait a lot ring a bottle 491 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: of water, ring a protein bought, bring a banana, get 492 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: the get to the House of God, because you just 493 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: never know. And by the way, some of you are 494 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: like when you when you really don't want to come 495 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: to church, that's when you need to come to church. 496 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: My best sermons are the sermons I don't want to preach. 497 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: And my most powerful encounters with God in the House 498 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: of God is when I didn't want to go, but 499 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: I chose to get into his presence, and that appointing 500 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: rows up. Two men I want to tell you about 501 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: very quickly, Victor Frankel and Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was 502 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: a brilliant philosopher. He was an atheist. Sigmund Freud believed 503 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: that the chief end of man, the highest expression of man, 504 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: the thing that every man wants is they just want pleasure. 505 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: That if they can find pleasure and sexual pleasure, they're good. 506 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: That's all they want. And Frankel disagreed, and I disagree, 507 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: And I think you can look at our culture right 508 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: now and disagree, because we got a lot of pleasure, 509 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: not a lot of happiness. So so Frankel said, no, 510 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: I don't I don't think it's pleasure, he said. I 511 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: actually think what people want and what people really need 512 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: is purpose. But if you can't find your purpose, walking 513 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: your purpose, step into your purpose, you will numb yourself 514 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: and medicate yourself with pleasure. And I'm not against pleasure, 515 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: but you can't fall in love with it, because if 516 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: you make pleasure you're god. You'll never have enough. How 517 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: do I know I love it? You can't give it away? 518 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: This is my fifth time here. Can I just be 519 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: a little more? I said, all right? Can I just 520 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: let me just push you a little bit? Get the house, 521 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: drive the car, get the boat. I want you to 522 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: have a boat. I don't want a boat. I want 523 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: you to have a boat. And when I visit Charlotte, 524 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: I want to go on your boat for free. So 525 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: I want you to have a boat, but don't fall 526 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: in love with it. Give it a beautiful female name. 527 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: She won't love you back. You don't get because it's 528 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: not ultimately. Your life is not ultimately about pleasure. It's 529 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 1: about purpose. Can I say it this way? She could 530 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: have made her bread, and she would have died with 531 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: a full belly and an empty heart. She could have said, 532 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: knock on the next woman's door, and she could have 533 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: resisted her calling, but instead, in the presence of God, 534 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: she said yes. And it was in that yes that 535 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: the miracle began to happen. Lastly, you have to see 536 00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: the possibility. See the possibility. The story starts with Elijah 537 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: walking into town and here's his request. Hey, Sis, that's 538 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: how it says in the Hebrew language, he says, Sis, 539 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: in the Hebrew. Y'all need to learn Hebrew. He says, hey, Sis, 540 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: can I have a piece of bread? Can I have 541 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:33,720 Speaker 1: some bread? And she says, you already, I don't have bread. 542 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: Watch watch And she wasn't lying. She didn't have bread yet, 543 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:58,800 Speaker 1: but she but she did have the ingredients for bread. 544 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,839 Speaker 1: I don't have exactly what God's asking of me yet. 545 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 1: I don't have my miracle yet. I don't have the 546 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: answer yet. But maybe I have the ingredients for the miracle. 547 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: Can say it? Can I say it like this? Let 548 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: me say it like this. I preached forever that God 549 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: will never ask you for something you don't have, and 550 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 1: I still kind of believe that, and I kind of 551 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: disagree with that now because he asked for bread and 552 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:40,879 Speaker 1: she didn't have it. But maybe what God wants from 553 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 1: you is not a thing. Maybe he wants a yes. 554 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,439 Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't need you to have bread, to ask 555 00:36:53,480 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: you for bread. Maybe you just give it your oil. 556 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: Because this is in this, in this is in this, 557 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 1: and I want to give God this. I want to 558 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: be all ready and I want to be all mature, 559 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: and I want to have it all worked out. And 560 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: I want to pray enough and fast enough, and talk 561 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: that tongues enough and not cuss anymore, and not that 562 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: I do. Don't judge me over here. I want to 563 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: I want to have every elevation worships song memorized, and 564 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,720 Speaker 1: I see. I want to come into elevation when pastor 565 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,720 Speaker 1: invites me, and I want to come in with bread. 566 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 3: Oh I'm glad you called. I got a word for 567 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 3: your church. But I ain't there yet. 568 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: I'm forty years old and I've been preaching for twenty 569 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: years and I'm still not there. Every time I get 570 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,879 Speaker 1: the text, I look at God and I go, God, 571 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: you got a problem. So I walk up See, y'all, 572 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: you might think I walk up here feeling like Elijah. 573 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: I don't. I feel like the widow woman. I walk 574 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: up here, going God, can you do something with this. 575 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Clay, Go ahead, Clay. 576 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 3: God, I don't I don't have what I feel like 577 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 3: I need, but here's my oil. I don't have what 578 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 3: I feel like I need to raise these kids. 579 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: But here's my oil. I don't know how to run 580 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: this business in this economy, but here's my oil. 581 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 3: I don't know how our marriage is gonna make it, 582 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 3: but here's my oil. I don't know how I'm gonna 583 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 3: start this business, but here's my oil. And God, I 584 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,919 Speaker 3: don't feel like I have what I need to do 585 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,520 Speaker 3: what you're requiring of me. 586 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: But I but I do have some flower, and I 587 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: do have an annoying a And if you'll take what 588 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 1: I got, I'll just trust you to do something with it. 589 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: See God, God doesn't need what you need to get 590 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 1: you what you need. Man, God's asking this on me, 591 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:40,960 Speaker 1: but I don't, So give him a yes. While you're 592 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: waiting on the thing you've told yourself you need, can 593 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: I prove it? Jesus. Jesus shows up to a wedding 594 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: with his with his best friends. They showed to a 595 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 1: wedding John chapter two, and and uh pretty much immediately, 596 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: pretty much immediately, Mary comes to Jesus and says, they're 597 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 1: out of wine. Jesasd go, why are you making this 598 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 1: my problem? I think she's making it his problem. Now, Okay. 599 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is my sanctified imagination or 600 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: if I've just been in Vegas too long, but something 601 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,719 Speaker 1: in me feels like Mary went. You know, we had 602 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,360 Speaker 1: we had plenty of wine for the wedding until Judas 603 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:27,839 Speaker 1: showed up and John got a little emotional and Peter 604 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 1: had to be the life of the party and fix it. 605 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,160 Speaker 1: You know what Jesus does. Jesus does not say, you know, Peter, 606 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,879 Speaker 1: go go grab some grapes from the local vineyards, bring 607 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: them to me. Hey, Judas, you got the money, go 608 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,240 Speaker 1: go go over to Walmart and grab grab some cases 609 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,360 Speaker 1: of wine. Jesus doesn't do that. Jesus says, can I 610 00:40:51,400 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: have some water? Can somebody get me some water. I 611 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: know nothing about fermentation. I know nothing about red wine, 612 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: but I do know this. I know that this can't 613 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: become red wine. But I ain't Jesus, because if you 614 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 1: want wine, you need time, and if you want wine, 615 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: you need grapes, and if you want wine you need 616 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: wooden berrels. But if Jesus wants wine all he needs 617 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: his vessels. I'm come to ask elevation. 618 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:42,120 Speaker 5: Can you see the wine in your water? Can you 619 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,320 Speaker 5: see the super in your natural Can you see God's 620 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,880 Speaker 5: abundance and you're not alone? Can you see what God 621 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 5: to do through a yes, through a surrender? Because maybe 622 00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,719 Speaker 5: God does not need Why do you need to get 623 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 5: to what's your name? 624 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:06,839 Speaker 4: Oh? 625 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 5: I wish somebody would shut right now. I might not 626 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 5: have greats, I might not have barrels. I've run out 627 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,320 Speaker 5: of time. But God, here's my water, here's my oil, 628 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 5: here's my flower. 629 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 6: God, do something with the life. Well, come on, give 630 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,439 Speaker 6: and praise everybody. 631 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:44,480 Speaker 4: Please passing post all, So who am I to deny anything? 632 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,239 Speaker 8: My Skillo lives up your hands every location de fam 633 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 8: around the worlds Oh he sound to Heaven to say anything? 634 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 4: Many please passing in the home? 635 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: Who am to den Come on? Any is possible. 636 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 4: Any day? 637 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:08,919 Speaker 5: Or take what the hell? 638 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:16,320 Speaker 4: Yes, it's for your glory and me take my lossing off? 639 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:27,200 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, just stay standing. Yeah, thank you Lord, 640 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:35,360 Speaker 3: I thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody shout 641 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 3: it's not over. 642 00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,799 Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, there's 643 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,799 Speaker 1: a young preacher, pastor Larry. There's a young preacher name 644 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,960 Speaker 1: Bobby Schuler. Bob. 645 00:43:54,520 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 9: Little Bobby was a pastor in Iowa, David, and he 646 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,680 Speaker 9: wanted to come to Orange County, California and start a 647 00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:05,759 Speaker 9: work for God. 648 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 1: So he wrote a letter to a friend in his 649 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: denomination and said, I feel like the Lord has put 650 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: it on my heart to start a church nineteen fifty five. 651 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,719 Speaker 1: Could you help me find a location I would love? 652 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,879 Speaker 1: Maybe a school, gym, or a Seventh Day Advantaged church, 653 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: maybe a Jewish synagogue, maybe a church that doesn't meet 654 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Maybe a movie theater, maybe a drive 655 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: in theater, maybe a school that we could rent. Could 656 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,319 Speaker 1: you help me find a location? And a young Bob 657 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:45,240 Speaker 1: Schuler's friend wrote this letter back, Boh, this is not Iowa, 658 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 1: this is Orange County, California. It is impossible to find 659 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:00,000 Speaker 1: a church location in Orange County, California. Bob received that letter, 660 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,320 Speaker 1: crumpled it up, he threw it in the trash. He 661 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: grabbed a fresh piece of paper, and he wrote down 662 00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 1: these words impossible quotation marks. What an irresponsible word, Bob, go, 663 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:26,239 Speaker 1: that's gangster Bob and a young Bob Schuler would move 664 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:31,239 Speaker 1: to Orange County with nothing. He ended up starting a 665 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,399 Speaker 1: church in a drive in movie theater where he would 666 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:38,359 Speaker 1: stand on the snackshack preached to a microphone, and then 667 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,600 Speaker 1: it would go to all the cars. And that church 668 00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:45,200 Speaker 1: grew in the fifties to two thousand cars a Sunday. 669 00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:50,080 Speaker 1: He would end up buying property all over that Anaheim 670 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:54,440 Speaker 1: area near Disneyland, with property upwards of over a billion 671 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:59,560 Speaker 1: dollars of real estate. He started the Crystal Cathedral the 672 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:06,359 Speaker 1: Hour of Power every Sunday morning. He became the late 673 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:20,160 Speaker 1: Great Doctor Robert Schuler. Impossible What an irresponsible word. I 674 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,720 Speaker 1: don't know what you're facing, but I've come to declare 675 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 1: anything is possible. I don't know what the doctor said, 676 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 1: but I've come to tell you all things are possible. 677 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what the school counselor told you about 678 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,720 Speaker 1: your child, but I've just come to tell you. Impossible. 679 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: What an irresponsible word. What could God do if you 680 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,239 Speaker 1: would invite him into your famine? What could God do 681 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 1: if you would invite him into your drought? What could 682 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,960 Speaker 1: God do if you would give him your water? If 683 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,520 Speaker 1: you would give him your flower if you would give 684 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,440 Speaker 1: him your oil. Can we just say this. 685 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,120 Speaker 6: One more time all over the room and let's the 686 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:01,880 Speaker 6: clearing with all of our heart. 687 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:14,000 Speaker 8: Anything, anything is possible, Cliver, Look, anything is possible. 688 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:25,520 Speaker 4: Anything anything up? Am I? 689 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:26,279 Speaker 1: Jo? 690 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:41,239 Speaker 3: You're not done with me? Yeah, you're not done with me? Yeah, 691 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:49,920 Speaker 3: because there's so much more to the store. You're not 692 00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,080 Speaker 3: done with me. 693 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,440 Speaker 1: You're not done with me. 694 00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:03,640 Speaker 3: I dare you to prophesy right now with me? Every husband, 695 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,520 Speaker 3: grab your white's hands. Tell them God's still working on me. 696 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,520 Speaker 3: God still gotta playing park family. 697 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,760 Speaker 1: So you are marine you to this that He's not done. 698 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,240 Speaker 4: You're not done. 699 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:30,279 Speaker 6: I feel my God is wiving gonads. Just Jo're not 700 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:31,080 Speaker 6: done with. 701 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:33,880 Speaker 4: You're not done. 702 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:35,600 Speaker 7: You're not done with me? 703 00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:45,360 Speaker 4: Whoa you're not doing with me? There's not. 704 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:54,279 Speaker 1: So Jo're not dun me. I just want to ask, 705 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,959 Speaker 1: at every location which you close your eyes about your heads, 706 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: thank you Lord, every location, even if you can epham 707 00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 1: around the world, would you just settle your heart for 708 00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: a moment. I want to ask you the most important 709 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,239 Speaker 1: question you've ever been asked in your life. Do you 710 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:17,680 Speaker 1: know Jesus? Are you right with God? Do you know 711 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,960 Speaker 1: Him for yourself? I know you know about him. I 712 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,600 Speaker 1: know you know him through Pastor Stephen, but do you 713 00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:31,760 Speaker 1: know him. I know you know him through the songs, 714 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,759 Speaker 1: and I know you know him through this ministry, But 715 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,000 Speaker 1: do you know him? Have you had a moment where 716 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:39,960 Speaker 1: you've said, Jesus, I need you in my life. I 717 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:45,200 Speaker 1: need forgiveness of sin. I need to be born. I 718 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:51,200 Speaker 1: can't not to become a better version, but a brand 719 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:58,279 Speaker 1: new creation. The scripture says anyone who calls on his 720 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,480 Speaker 1: name would be saved. Anyone who would say, Jesus, I 721 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 1: believe you died for me. I believe you rose again 722 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,680 Speaker 1: for me. I believe that you are Lord. Anyone who 723 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:13,240 Speaker 1: would call on his name right now, would you surrender 724 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,800 Speaker 1: your heart? Javon, I'm gonna. I'm gonna work on this 725 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,600 Speaker 1: and I'll come back at the end of the summer. No, 726 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,520 Speaker 1: let me, let me let me stop drinking, let me 727 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,600 Speaker 1: stop cussing, let me let me stop, let me get 728 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,120 Speaker 1: this hatred out of my heart, let me let me 729 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,120 Speaker 1: get off drugs. Let me let me work it out 730 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,239 Speaker 1: with my wife, and then I'm gonna come back and 731 00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna and I'm gonna make it right with God. No, no, no, 732 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,560 Speaker 1: you can't. If you could, you would have. But you 733 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:41,360 Speaker 1: you cannot do it. But God can do it. I 734 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: need Jesus. You're about to pray the prayer I pray. 735 00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,600 Speaker 1: June ten, nineteen ninety eight, in Del Rio, Texas. I 736 00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,040 Speaker 1: was fifteen years old and I gave Jesus my life. 737 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:55,359 Speaker 1: And when I did, everything changed. All over this room, 738 00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:00,600 Speaker 1: every location, Pray with me from your heart. These aren't 739 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,839 Speaker 1: magic words, I promise you. This is not an incantation. 740 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:10,080 Speaker 1: This is not this is not some abracadabra say something that. No, no, 741 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,759 Speaker 1: this is your heart. Cry to Heaven. Pray with me, 742 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,399 Speaker 1: say Jesus, I believe in you. I believe you died 743 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:23,960 Speaker 1: for me. Then he rose again. Forgive me of my 744 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:31,240 Speaker 1: sins for the things I've done, and make me brand new. Jesus. 745 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:37,160 Speaker 1: I make you my lord and my savior. I surrender 746 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:42,880 Speaker 1: all today. Thank you, Lord, Jesus. Keep your eyes closed 747 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,719 Speaker 1: all over this room, all over this rooms, keep your 748 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,880 Speaker 1: eyes closed. I can't call you forward, I can't have 749 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:55,399 Speaker 1: you moved from your seat. I've run out of time. 750 00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:00,000 Speaker 1: But right where you're standing, at every location and even online, 751 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna want you to go into the chat and 752 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,120 Speaker 1: make a commitment to Christ. But at every location, on 753 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,759 Speaker 1: the count of three, I'm gonna ask you to raise 754 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,799 Speaker 1: your hand. If that was your prayer, Jabin, today, I'm 755 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:15,040 Speaker 1: giving my life to Christ. Jabin. Today, I'm recommitting my 756 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,080 Speaker 1: life to Christ. I've walked away from God. I've turned 757 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:22,680 Speaker 1: from God. I got distracted, I got discouraged, I got tempted. 758 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,719 Speaker 1: I went through a trial and a tribulation, and I 759 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,200 Speaker 1: walked away from the Lord. But today I'm coming home. Today, 760 00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:33,359 Speaker 1: I've come back. Today, I'm running back to the God 761 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,480 Speaker 1: who's been chasing me. I'm giving my life to Jesus. 762 00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:40,320 Speaker 1: Or I'm recommitting my life to Christ. If that's you, 763 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,640 Speaker 1: on the counter of three, right here at Valentine and 764 00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,359 Speaker 1: at every location and around the world, you're gonna say 765 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,200 Speaker 1: yes to Jesus. Right now, I'm giving my life to Christ. 766 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,320 Speaker 1: Rededicating my life to Christ. On the counter three, I 767 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,759 Speaker 1: want to see your hand one, two, three, shoot your 768 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,359 Speaker 1: hand uf all over, all, over, all over, I see him. God, 769 00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: bless you, God, bless you. Hold on, hold on, God, 770 00:52:58,520 --> 00:52:59,400 Speaker 1: bless you, God, bless you. 771 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,319 Speaker 3: God bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you, God 772 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,120 Speaker 3: bless God, bless you guys. 773 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,759 Speaker 1: All back here. God, let me just see your hand. 774 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,120 Speaker 1: I want to see you. God bless you, God bless you. 775 00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,759 Speaker 1: If I didn't see your hand, let me see it. 776 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:09,120 Speaker 1: I see you. 777 00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,799 Speaker 3: God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Here 778 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,120 Speaker 3: all over here, anybody else, I see you. 779 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,080 Speaker 1: God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God 780 00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:17,480 Speaker 1: bless you. 781 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:17,839 Speaker 8: Wow. 782 00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:18,480 Speaker 1: Wow Wow. 783 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,640 Speaker 3: Come on, letsten give God praise for all bees that 784 00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,000 Speaker 3: are given their lives to Christ. 785 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:29,560 Speaker 1: Oh, come on, you can do better than that. Let's celebrate. Amen. Amen, 786 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:33,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 787 00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,680 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 788 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,240 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 789 00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,160 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 790 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,120 Speaker 2: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 791 00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,799 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 792 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:52,520 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 793 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 794 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,279 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 795 00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:58,160 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 796 00:53:58,280 --> 00:53:59,840 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.