WEBVTT - It’s Not Over (Jabin Chavez) 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.880 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.480 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.880 Come on, let's get Jesus the best phrase if you've 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.160 been saving it all day. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:30.800 Come on, let's lift up the name that's above every name. Wow. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.159 I'm so honored to be here. And just while you're standing, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.080 I want to first of all think my friend and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.000 my big brother, Pastor Stephen Ferdick, not only for this opportunity, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:54.240 but you know, God uses people. How many know that? 0:00:54.240 --> 0:01:00.080 Can I get an amen? Somebody? God uses people, and 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.360 God use your pastor to change my life. And I 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.600 am honestly where I'm at today because of his wisdom, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.720 his friendship, his care and just the way his sermons, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:19.080 his songs. And I want to just say to God 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.920 be the glory for a man that is so important 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.040 to everyone in this room, every location, every e fam member, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.000 to the world. And I want to honor Pastor Steven 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.680 and Pastor Hollifredick today just for the gift that they 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.800 are to all of us. Can we put our hands 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:46.480 together let them know we love them? Amen, And it 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.040 is such a huge honor to be with you today. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.800 Before you're seated, find at least three people. Tell them 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.680 it looks like you're losing weight. Come on, tell them, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:02:02.440 tell them it looks like you're All the epham around 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.040 the world looks like you're losing weight. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.320 You're looking good. All of our locations, you're looking good. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.280 Wow, wow, wow. I don't know what. I don't know 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.880 if it's keto or oh sim pick, I don't know 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:26.120 what it is, but you're looking good. Hey, thank you 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.160 to uh. I feel like was that elevation rhythm? I 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.080 don't know? But or am I just old? Am I 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:33.560 just old? 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:33.760 Now? 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.720 Where it all looks like kids leading worship, But make 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:42.119 some noise for that amazing worship. That is wow. Great job, Tim, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.320 great to see a great job with man. The youth 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.680 ministries just incredible. Let's go right to the word. I'm 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.280 I'm I'm fired up. We're gonna go to First Kings seventeen. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.919 I got a lot to say, so I want to 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.440 go to the word First King Chapter seventeen. While you're 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.000 turning there. If you don't have a Bible, don't worry 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.600 to come up on the screen. But if you do, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.600 go ahead and turn with me. I do want to 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.239 bring greetings from Las Vegas. We started City Light Church 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.720 six years ago and God is just really blessing and 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.240 breathing on that work. And I'm grateful. And if you're 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:23.160 if you're ever in Vegas, don't laugh. Hey, y'all guilty. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.440 I don't know what happened at every other location, but 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.240 it's a real little naughty smile that just filled the whole. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.320 I don't know why you come to Vegas. I think 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:41.000 you come to Street of Angelism. Amen. Uh, you're you're, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.800 you're all the people with the signs right on the 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:48.360 strip preaching you reach out to the blackjack dealers, Amen 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.480 and to. I don't know why you come, but if you, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.680 if you're ever in Vegas, come say hi. I'd love 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.360 to see you and uh to uh love to see 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.360 you in church on a Sunday morning, First King's Chapter seventeen. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.520 Then the Lord said to Elijah, anybody grateful that God 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.920 speaks Hallelujah, go and live in the village of Zaraphath, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.320 near the city of Sedon. I've instructed a widow there 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.279 to feed you. So he went to Zarafath. As he 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.520 arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.280 widow gathering sticks there, and he asked her, would you 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.839 bring me a little cup of water? And as she 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.039 was going to get it, he called to her, I love, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.280 this is the most man move in the Bible. Y 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.600 Already every husband and wife knows this move right here. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:43.599 And can you get me a little snack? Jesus gamelo, babe. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.560 Can you get me a little a little bread, Get 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.920 me a little sandwich, babe? She said, I swear by 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.640 the Lord your God, I don't even have a single 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.599 piece of bread in this house. I only have a 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.440 handful of flour left in a jar, and a little 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.560 cooking oil left in the bottom of this jug. I 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.520 was just gathering sticks to cook the last meal, and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.720 then my son and I will die. Elijah said to her, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.160 don't be afraid. Go do what you've said, but make 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.600 a little bread for me first. This is amazing that 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.680 God did not say, make one big piece of bread, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.400 cut it three ways, and we'll all have a peace. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.120 He said, make mine first, because when you put God 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.159 first in your life. I have to believe that every 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.919 time I put God first in my life, a miracle 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:38.280 is happening in the kitchen. So he said, make mine first, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.479 then use what's left over to prepare a meal for 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.560 you and your son. For this is what the Lord, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.640 the God of Israel, says. There will always be flour 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.239 and olive oil left in your containers until the time 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.440 So she did as Elijah said. She and Elijah and 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.479 her family continue to eat for many days. There was 0:05:58.640 --> 0:05:59.560 always enough. Man. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.760 I love this about God. There was always enough flower. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.719 And olive oil left in the containers, just as the 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.920 Lord had promised through Elijah. I want to just look 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.480 at verse twelve very quickly, and then we're gonna We're 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:19.760 going to dismantle a lie that she believed. I'm gonna 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:26.360 eat this meal and die. And it's here that Elijah 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:32.200 comes with a different word, faith word, hope word, God word, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.719 a prophetic word. And I want to come with that. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.400 I want to I want to contradict the devil. Today. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.400 I've come to disagree with the demons that have been 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.239 lying to you. I've got good news for you today, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.799 and I want to I want to speak from this idea. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.760 It's not over, It's not over. Can you can you 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 just maybe elbow who's next to you, make them a 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.280 little uncomfortable, tell them it's not over. Come on, tell 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.520 a come on online around the world. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.240 Tell him it's not over. It's not over. Do y'all 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.040 believe it today? 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.800 Give the Lord one more shout of praise, and we're 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.240 going to get into this word. Bless your word, Lord, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:20.120 in Jesus's name, Amen and Amen. Prophets in the Old 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:26.680 Testament are called seers, seers see r s. They are seers. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.640 They see. We think of prophets as speaking, and they do. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.160 But before they would say a thing, they would see 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.840 a thing. God would take them up into the spirit realm. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.880 Pastor preached about trainces last week and about Peter getting 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.280 caught up into the spirit. He would he would take 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.040 prophets up into the spirit, and he would say, Ezekiel, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.680 what do you see, Jeremiah, what do you see? Isaiah? 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.400 What do you tell me what you see? And then 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.880 they would say what they saw. Because it was very 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.000 important for God to communicate that there is more going 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:06.520 on than meets the natural eye. Oh, I'm trying to 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.040 slow down already, but I'm I already feel like preaching, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.920 and I just started. He's trying to tell them that 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.080 there's more than the five senses, There's more than the natural, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.720 There's more than what your eyes can see. There is 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.760 a spiritual realm, there is a spiritual place, there is 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.400 an element called faith. In that place, in the Kingdom place, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.240 in the God place, nothing is impossible. So he has 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.199 to get them to see that there's more to see 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.560 than what they see, and then they are to say 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.160 what they see in the spirit realm because God knows something. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.040 God knows that if you can get a vision from 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.840 God and a word from God, you become unstoppable. That 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.079 when I get a vision from God and a word 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.880 from God, nothing is impossible. That though the giants are great, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.120 I have a word from God, and though the mountains 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.000 are high, I have a word from God. And though 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.520 my kids are acting crazy right now, I got a 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.120 word from God. And though I don't even know where 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.839 my spouse was last night, I got a word from God. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.680 And though I don't know how I'm gonna pay the bills, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.560 I got a vision from God. And what I see 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.640 right now with my eyes does not look like what 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.280 I saw in the spirit. But if I can get 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.800 a vision, I can make it. Because without a vision, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.040 the people perish, They lose control, they lose hope, they 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.040 lose all of their hope. But with a vision, I 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.680 can make it. This is what happened to Elisha and 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.320 second Kings when the enemy surround Elisha and his servant, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.480 and his servant comes to him and says, my Lord, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.920 we're surrounded by enemies. And Elisha prays, and Elisha does 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.480 not pray, God help us. Elisha does not pray, God, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.680 where are you. Elisha does not pray, God, we need 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.240 a vis Elisha prays, not for himself or against his enemies. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.520 Elisha prays for his servant. And here's his prayer. And 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.400 I don't think his servant was expecting it. Lord, open 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.199 his eyes, because he thinks we have an enemy problem. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.360 But he has a vision problem. You think you got 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.600 a devil problem. You got a vision problem. You think 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.280 you got a demon problem. You got a vision problem. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.840 You might think you got a boss problem. Maybe you 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.120 have a vision problem. You might think you got a 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.880 wife problem, Sir, Maybe you have a vision problem because 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.320 once God opens my eyes. I can now see what's 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.120 God open my eyes, so I don't live my entire 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.120 life sing with these but never see what You're doing 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.120 in my life, or I will end up praying the 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.600 wrong prayers, go into the wrong places, hang in with 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.880 the wrong people, singing the wrong songs. But if God 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.360 can open my eyes, I can do everything what God's 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.839 called me to do. I think we ought to give 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.640 God a praise right there, because that's the power of 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.960 this church. That's the power of every song we sing. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.760 That's the power of doing a new You is that 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.679 I can now see from Heaven's perspective. I remember the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.120 first time my little daughter realized we were in an 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.800 airplane as she looked out the window and the world 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.600 started to get his own small And she goes, Dad, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:34.440 the car the people are small, Dad, the mountains are small. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.720 And I go they didn't get any smaller, You just 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:45.360 got higher. I'm telling you, God, God can take you 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:50.120 somewhere where you see and where you hear, and where 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.480 you say something radically different. And it's here that God 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.440 helps this woman to see. It's here that God helps 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:06.320 this woman to hear a better word, It's it's here 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.720 that she catches a vision for herself or her family 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.480 and for the famine that she finds herself in it. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.880 I believe today, this is a vision day. I believe 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:22.720 God's gonna release sight today. Firstly, you have to see 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:28.120 your future. You have to see your future. The woman says, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:35.000 I'm gonna eat this meal and die. Wow, put that 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.240 on your dream board. Huh, that's a that's an awkward 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:44.480 Instagram post. But this is what she believed. This is 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.120 what she thought. Let me let me let me say 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.640 the obvious that maybe even ever thought about. She did 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:55.720 not know that. She didn't know it'd be her last meal. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.199 She didn't have a weather app on her phone. She 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.120 didn't know if God was in the sin rain tomorrow. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.480 She didn't know if someone was gonna bring her food 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.280 in the morning. She didn't know she was in the 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:13.520 presence of a prophet. She had no idea about her future, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.120 but she was predicting her future based off of the 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.920 worst case scenario. I'm gonna eat this meal and die. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.240 She didn't know that. And every time we speak from 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.280 a spirit of fear, we are declaring the worst case scenario, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.280 even though we don't know. See, this is fear. Fear 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.720 is not always frighted. Fear is not always this feeling 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:43.960 of panic like we think. Fear is it's over. Fear 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.480 is I guess the famine wand Fear is I tried 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.280 and failed. Fear is I guess this is my last meal. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.320 Fear doesn't feel like what you think is gonna feel like. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:57.520 Now. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.600 I know this because since i'veted our church six years ago, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.240 I've had three panic attacks. Now, I didn't have panic 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.440 attacks before I planted the church. Before I planted the church, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.400 I was an evangelist, I preached, I traveled, and I 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.120 lived in Newport Beach, California. Amen, it was just you 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:21.920 don't have panic attacks in Newport Beach. You just everybody's 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.760 a Christian. The dolphins are saved. You go see them 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.680 out swimming, speaking in tongues, you know. I mean, it's 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.600 like it's anointed. Everybody's smiling, or at least has enough boatox. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.720 It looks like they're smiling the other everybody's happy, everybody's 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.320 got tan. Life was good. And then I moved to 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.840 Sin City and I planted this church. I thought I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.440 was having a heart attack. Three times I thought I 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.400 was having a heart attack. I'd go into the emergency room. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.920 Hi are you good? Good good? I'm good. I see 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.080 a sign in sir, what's wrong. I'm dying. I'm having 0:14:55.120 --> 0:15:00.840 a heart attack. Man, they freak out. They get you 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.520 to the front of the line. I mean it goes 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.800 into code ight. By the way, if you ever want 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.360 to get to the front of an ear no, never mind, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.520 don't do that. But I was just telling you. I mean, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.840 they get you. I mean it's like it's twenty minutes 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.240 in Mayhem. They're taking blood, they're putting a little electrical things 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.720 all over. I mean it's they're freaking out for twenty minutes, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.600 and all of a sudden, boom, they're gone. And there 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.320 I am just sitting there in a in a gown 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.920 for an hour in a cold room. The breeze is 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:36.040 blowing in places I didn't know I had, and the 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:36.920 doctor walks in. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.320 Mister Tavis, I got good news and I got bad news. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.440 The good news is you are not having a heart attack. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.840 The bad news is you're having a panic attack. You're depressed, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.920 I said number one, I am having a heart attack. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.920 I feel like a like an elephants on my chest. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.680 I can I can feel my heart. I can't breathe. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.840 I know because you now you have a panic. All 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.920 the numbers are good grabbing a panic attack, and it 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:11.520 felt like I was dying. But really I was just 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:16.720 so fearful of my future that I told myself this 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.520 must be it. But I've come to declare to somebody 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:25.600 at Elevation Church today, it's not over. This is not 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.800 your last meal. This is not the end of the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.400 road for you. This is not how it ends, This 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.720 is not your last year. This is not how it 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:42.240 ends for you. God is still writing your story. Oh 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.360 can I get a good amen? In the House of 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:55.960 the Lord. See fear lies, Fear lies to you, and 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.960 fear assumes and declares the worst case scenario you. Fear 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:07.720 tries to predict my tomorrow by the challenges of yesterday. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.520 She judged her future by the drought that she's been in, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.000 and she cursed her tomorrow based off of the pain 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:25.120 of her past. I understand there's challenges in this room. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.280 I understand there's pain in this room. I understand there 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.240 are very hard seasons in this room, in every room, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.399 people watching all over the world and you going. But 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.240 you don't know what what I'm going through but I 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.440 want to declare a truth over you. Your past is 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:50.000 not your prophecy. Oh I felt that, am I sanctified soul. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.280 Just because it's been one way doesn't mean it will 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.440 always be that way. Just because I've been in a 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.920 season doesn't mean that sea and last. Every season changes. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:07.479 The storm can't last forever. Eventually God will make it 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.160 rain again. Eventually, the trout ends. Eventually things can chain. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:17.400 Your past is not your prophecy, It is not my prediction. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.240 It is a real part of my story, but it's 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.760 not the end of my story. It's a chapter in 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.560 my book, but it's not the final chapter of my book. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.600 Let me tell you some about about the enemy of 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.440 your soul. Let me tell you some about the devil. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:37.320 The devil is a is a present devil. Let me 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:42.919 say it like this. He is. He roams around like 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.719 a lion seeking whom he made divide. He is, he is, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:53.760 He's present. This is radically different than the God that 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:59.440 you serve. They're not in some crazy cosmic battle. They're 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.080 not armor sling for your soul. Don't don't worry about it, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:11.040 because because God is radically different. God is everywhere. Oh 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:17.480 God was, do I have a scholar in the house, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.800 and he and he is and he is to come, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.919 which means that God is in your past. God is 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.639 working in your future, and God God is preparing you 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.720 in your present. God is all places at once. Paul 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.959 said about Jesus that he feels time and space, that 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.000 he's here, and he's there, and he's everywhere, all at 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.280 the same time. This is good news because see, when 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.080 the enemy speaks to you, he can only speak to 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:53.159 you in your present. I'm going somewhere. He doesn't know 0:19:53.280 --> 0:20:01.320 your future. He speaks to you in your today, and 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:05.240 he lies to you about tomorrow, and he hopes you 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:05.840 believe it. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.040 But his guess is as good as yours. So he 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.800 whispers in the woman's ear, this is your last meal. 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.280 You're gonna die. You go listen my last meal. I'm 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.680 gonna die. He don't know that, just like she don't 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:27.640 know that. This is radically different than God. God establishes 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:28.760 the end. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:37.520 From the beginning. He starts in your future. He doesn't 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.000 guess about your tomorrow. Oh, this is good news. This 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.240 means that when God gives you a promise, he's not guessing. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.320 Am I helping anybody right now? He doesn't go. I 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.760 hope it works out. I got good plains for you. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:03.000 Let's see, he said, as I know the plans that 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.199 I have for you, they are plans to give you 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.240 a hope. Can we get a little rowdy at this 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.480 first service of the day. I'm talking to somebody of 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.200 what God talks to you. He talks to you. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:20.440 From your future into your present, and he says. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.159 Come on over to this side. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:28.680 I've got good plans. I've got a good and he's 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:34.280 not hoping it happens. He knows it'll happen. Oh, this 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.560 is so different. This is the God you serve. This 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.439 is the God who gives you promises. This is the 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:47.960 God we sing about. He knows exactly what he's doing 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.359 and he's got good plans for you. Jesus talks about 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.040 a spirit. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:05.679 In the last Day. He talks about a mentality that 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.720 would fill the earth in the last days. Luke twenty 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:14.119 one says that the people will be terrified. How you know, 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:19.520 that's just like the spirit of the world just scared. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:22.359 It is the world scared today that it was one 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.480 hundred years ago. I'm not sure. But now we got 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.800 these little phones, y'all know what I'm saying, and you 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:29.399 wake up in the morning and you turn them on 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.280 and it tells you. That phone tells you the worst. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:37.800 So we're terrified because one hundred years ago, they didn't 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.480 know there was a tornado in Nebraska and an earthquake 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.199 in Japan and a war in the Middle League. They 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.720 didn't know. They were just living their life. But now 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:53.040 we have twenty four hour access to news, and good 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.000 news doesn't sell, only bad news sells. So it's constant 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.920 bad news, and we are feeding and it become addicted 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:04.640 to bad news. We've become addicted to concern, we become 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.960 addicted to panic, and now we feed on it twenty 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.480 four hours a day. And Jesus said, this would be 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:13.960 the tone, this would be the spirit, this would be 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:18.440 the stronghold, this would be the mentality of the world's system. 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:24.720 That fear would grip us. We would be terrorized, terrified. Oh, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:27.040 but there is another spirit. For the child of God. 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:33.600 I want to declare to you that the opposite of 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.760 fear is not faith. The opposite of fear is the 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:43.199 Holy Spirit. Ha ha. Because the Spirit of God is 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.960 not a spirit of fear, but he is power, love, 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.800 and a sound mind. And there is another spirit for 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.960 the people of God. At chapter two, verse seventeen, God says, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.400 in the last days, see this is the last day scripture. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.440 Preachers don't preach about. But this is my favorite Last 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.400 Day scripture. And by the way, it's the clearest Last 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.159 Day scripture in the Bible. In the last days, i 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.480 will pour out my spirit on all flesh. I'm gonna 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.560 pour out my spirit on your sons and your daughters. 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.359 I've got a plan for your children. I've got a 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:17.600 plan for families. I've got a plan for your six 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:19.720 year old, and I've got a plan for your sixteen 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.119 year old. I've got a plan for your mayor. I 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:23.720 got a plan for families. 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:27.640 I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, and. 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:31.280 You will prophesy, and you will see dreams, and you 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:38.440 will have visions. And when the spirit of God comes 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:44.679 upon you, he he removes the fear. You will not 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:48.359 allow it in your soul. God can turn it around 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:54.400 for you. It's not over. This is not your last meal. 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:58.000 I want you to see. I want you to see 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.119 your future. I want you to see like God sees it. 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.879 They shall prophesy, he said, prophecy. That's not that's not 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:10.119 just closing your eyes and speaking in King James English. 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.000 It's talking like God talks. It's getting a word for 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.080 your family. It's getting a word for your future. It's 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:23.359 getting a word for your business. It's speaking about tomorrow 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:29.159 like God speaks about tomorrow. Number two, you have to 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:37.320 see your calling. I have I have instructed, I have 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:44.240 commanded a widow there. I have I have commanded a 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:46.760 widow there, I have instructed a widow there. I don't 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.399 know if you if you think about this language, but 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:54.800 it feels like it feels like Elijah is going to 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:59.400 walk into the village and and say, hey, I'm here, 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:04.360 and she's gonna go, omg, it's you. You're the guy. 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:07.639 I was in prayer and the Lord talked to me 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:09.840 about you. He's given me an instruction. He's given me 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:14.159 a commandment. Come on in. I got bread, bacon, I 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:16.680 got water in the jug. Let's go, come on, come 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:18.639 in heat. God's been talking to me. That's what happens. 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:20.560