1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: I want you to stay standing while I read the scripture, 9 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: and I promise you after that. It's your prerogative as 10 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: to whether or not you want to sit down or 11 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 2: stand up for the whole time that I've preached, but 12 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: I'd like you to stand while I read this. Just 13 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: give your attention to Philippians, chapter four, verse ten through nineteen. 14 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 2: And this message ministered on the subject of needs and 15 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: the needs in our life in a powerful way when 16 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: I preached it last night. So I'm expectant that it'll 17 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: even go to a higher level today because God has 18 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: been speaking to me throughout the night and even this 19 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: morning about how to share this with you, and I 20 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: believe that it's going to be effective in your life. Now. 21 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: I want to put a scripture from the New Testament 22 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 2: up alongside a scripture in the Old Testament, and in 23 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 2: that space between that there's something God wants to reveal 24 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 2: to you today. Philippians, Chapter four, verse ten. The apostle Paul, 25 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: writing from house arrest in Rome, says, I rejoiced greatly 26 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern 27 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no 28 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: opportunity to show it. I'm not saying this because I'm 29 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: in need, for I have learned touch. 30 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,119 Speaker 1: Somebody say it's a process. 31 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 32 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: We know that this is true. 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 2: Of Paul, and it's not just a Christian cliche because 34 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 2: he's writing it. 35 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: While he's in the middle of a trial. 36 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: Yet this letter, which was written to the Philippian Church 37 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 2: was the first church he established in Europe, is called 38 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: by many the happiest book in the Bible. It is 39 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 2: proof that your surroundings don't have to dominate your spirit. 40 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: Your spirit, and I'm. 41 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 2: Saying, is proof that my state of affairs doesn't have 42 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: to determine my state of mind. And Paul is talking 43 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: about that very thing, and he's not only saying it, but. 44 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: He's living it as he writes it. 45 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: He says, I know what it is to be in need, 46 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 2: and I know what it is to have plenty. I 47 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: have learned the secret of being content in any and 48 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: every situation, whether well fed, whether hungry, whether living. 49 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 3: In plenty or in wan. 50 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: I can do all this through Him who gives me strength. Yet, 51 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: it was good of you to share in my troubles. 52 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of 53 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: your acquaintance with the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, 54 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: not one church shared with me in the matter of 55 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: giving and receiving except you only, for even when I 56 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 2: was in Thessalonika, you sent me aid more than once 57 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: when I was in need. 58 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: Not that I desire your. 59 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: Gifts touch somebody say I'm good, I'm. 60 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: Good, I'm good. 61 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: What I desire is that more be credited to your account. 62 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: I have received full payment and have more than enough. 63 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: I am amply supplied now that I have received from Epaphroditis. 64 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: Baby name anybody, anybody pregnant looking for something to name 65 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: your kid a Paphroditis. Paphroditis, join it out there for suggestion. 66 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: Name that kid a Paphroditis. None of the kids in 67 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 2: kindergarten will be raising their hand when the teacher calls 68 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: that name, except. 69 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: Yours, epatrid you call them pappy for short. 70 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to spell the paphridies, he said, 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: now that I have received. 72 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: From Epaphroditis the gifts you sent. 73 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: They are a fragrant offering and acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. 74 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: And My God will meet all your needs. 75 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: This is one of the coolest verses in the Bible. 76 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: This is one of the most misunderstood versus in the Bible. 77 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: And My God will meet all your needs. 78 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: We're gonna work on this today, according to the riches 79 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: of His glory in Christ, Jesus. 80 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: Amen, say a louder, Amen. 81 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 2: Now look at Joshua chapter five, verse twelve, just one verse. 82 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 2: The mana stopped the day after they ate this food 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: from the land. There was no longer any manna for 84 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: the Israelites. But that year they ate the produce of canaan. 85 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: Test nobody say this is the year. This is the year. 86 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: That year they ate the produce of canaan. The man 87 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: of stopped the day after they ate this food from 88 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 2: the land. I want to preach to you today from 89 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: this title, this subject. He took the mana off the menu. 90 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: Come on, somebody he took the mana off the menu. 91 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 2: And he did it for a reason. Father, illuminate your word. 92 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 2: Drive it deep in our hearts to a place where 93 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 2: we couldn't get it out without acting on it if. 94 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: We wanted to. 95 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, everybody shout eight men one more time. 96 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 2: He may be seated in the presence of God. Took 97 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: the man off the menu. Key took the man off 98 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 2: the menu. Stephen Webb, he took the mana off the menu. 99 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: Are turkhursed? 100 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 2: It's like chicken nuggets coming off the menu at Chick 101 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 2: fil a? 102 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: What's he doing? Do you know this phrase? 103 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: Supply side economics? 104 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: Have you heard this phrase? 105 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: I was a I'm not trying to brag, but I 106 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: was a business administration minor in college. I'm minored in 107 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: business administration, So if you ever want my expert advice 108 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: on any of your business plans, I'll be in available 109 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 2: to advise you. I do have a minor in business administration, 110 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: and they taught me an economics class about supply side economics, 111 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 2: very controversial theory, macroeconomic theory. And I could read your 112 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: technical definition, but let me make it a little simpler 113 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: than that, because I'm not an economist, and that's not 114 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: my goal here today. But it's really a theory that 115 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 2: tries to explain the phenomena based on explanations. It's been 116 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: called trickle down policy or Reaganomics. It's controversial, to say 117 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 2: the least, but the single idea behind the pillars of 118 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 2: supply side economics is that the production or the supply 119 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 2: of the goods and the services is most important in 120 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: determining economic growth. In other words, by investing in capital 121 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: and breaking the barriers, whether through tax cuts or other measures. 122 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 2: The more goods are available to more consumers at a 123 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 2: cheaper rate, the better off an economy will be. Again, 124 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: this is a controversial economic theory, and I'm not here 125 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: to espouse it or to contradict it, but I bring 126 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: it up as a sort of analogy for the kind 127 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: of spirituality that Paul is a proponent of in Philippians 128 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: chapter four, where he states that. 129 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: I have needs, but I'm not needy. I have needs, 130 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: but I'm not needy. 131 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: And in the Book of Philippians you get perhaps the 132 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 2: most personal glimpse of Paul. It seems that this letter 133 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 2: is not marred with some of the corrective measures, say 134 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: when Paul is addressing the Corinthian Church. There's so much 135 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 2: he has to straighten out with them, he's not able 136 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: to really let his guard down. You know, there are 137 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: certain people that you can't share certain components of yourself 138 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: with because you can't trust them in that way. And 139 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: the Philippian Church, after once again supporting Paul in a 140 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: practical way, have warmed the affection of his heart so 141 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: that he writes them in a way that we really 142 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: get to see the apostle share. I believe some of 143 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,239 Speaker 2: the secrets that he won't share it with anybody else 144 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 2: to the way that he has lived his life that 145 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: have enabled him to be so faithful. I think you 146 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 2: hear it even in his language. He said, I'm going. 147 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: To tell you this secret. 148 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 2: Did you hear him say, I've learned the secret of 149 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: being content. You don't tell secrets to anyone who's not 150 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: your friend. And these people, by renewing their concern for 151 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 2: Paul in a difficult time in his life, have earned 152 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 2: his trust to the point where. 153 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna let you in on something. 154 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: I'm not only going to let you in on how 155 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: I do it, but I'm going to let you in 156 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 2: on a little bit on the need side. I'm going 157 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: to tell you a little bit of what it's. 158 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: Been like to be me. 159 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 2: And he's not afraid with this group of people to 160 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: express his needs, to make his needs known. 161 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: He makes his needs known. 162 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: And he says to the church at Philippi, who he's 163 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: been estranged from through circumstances, he would like to be 164 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: with them in person, but says he can't. He just says, 165 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: you know, it meant a lot that you sent something 166 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: to help me out. It meant a lot. You can 167 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: almost hear him saying I needed that. I needed that. 168 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: I realized recently that. 169 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 2: The number one thing that people say about Twitter, Instagram, 170 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: different social media posts that we try to put out 171 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: to inspire people, that just put needed that, because you 172 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: never know what somebody's going through in their life and 173 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: it can just hit them at a certain time where 174 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: they're like, I was just thinking about that. I was 175 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: just I was just praying about that. I was just 176 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 2: wondering how that was going to work out. And it's 177 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 2: like wow, And the only thing that can say is 178 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 2: needed that needed that. And Paul seems to take a 179 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 2: supply side view of spirituality. That is see he seems 180 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 2: less focused on the needs, though they're great than the supply, 181 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 2: because it's greater. 182 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: Talk to me, somebody. You've got to decide. 183 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 2: Are you going to live your life from the need 184 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 2: side or the supply side? This is faith's greatest question. 185 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: Do I see my needs through my supply? Or am 186 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 2: I always missing my supply because all I see is 187 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 2: my needs. God wants to invite you over today to 188 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 2: the supply side of spirituality. But when you pray, he says, 189 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 2: I'm hearing you talk so much about your needs. And 190 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,599 Speaker 2: I don't mind hearing about your needs. But if you 191 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: would devote at least as much time to acknowledging my 192 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 2: supply as you do to listing your needs, I could 193 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 2: release my supp lie through the portal up your faith 194 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 2: and your brains. We seem to operate from this philosophy 195 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: that God's greatest goal is to put us in a 196 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: place of no need. That God wants to get us 197 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 2: to the place where we don't have any needs. But 198 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 2: he's not going to do it. He's not going to 199 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: do it because if you didn't have any needs in 200 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 2: your life, it would be just a matter of time 201 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 2: before you thought you didn't need him talk back to me. 202 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 2: You know, you would get so prideful. 203 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: People wouldn't even be able to be around you. You'd 204 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: be so cocky, you'd be so. 205 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 2: Judgmental, you would solve everybody's problem. So the need that 206 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: you're asking God to eliminate in your life is the 207 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 2: very space that he wants to show his supply. 208 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: Now, once you see it that way, once. 209 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 2: You see it from the supply side, everybody shall cross over. 210 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 2: This puts you in a state of contentment. I have 211 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 2: learned the secret of being content in any and every situation. 212 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 2: I know what it is to be in need, Paul says, 213 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 2: and I. 214 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: Know what it is to have plenty. 215 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 2: Now. I used to think that Paul was describing two 216 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: different seasons of his life, and perhaps he is. He's saying, 217 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: you know, I've had times when I was up. I've 218 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 2: had times when I was down. I've had times when 219 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: I had to pay a lot of taxes, and I've 220 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 2: had times when I couldn't. 221 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: Pay the rent. I've had times where I. 222 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: Had so many people to call back that I didn't 223 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: know who to start with. And I've had times where 224 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: I was so lonely. I wondered that everybody forgotten about me. 225 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: This is the essence of the emotional core of Philippians four. 226 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: And you missed this. If you just hit thirteen and nineteen, 227 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 2: I can do all things through prist too. Gives me strength, 228 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: like Paul was about the bench press three oh five before. 229 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: He said that, talking about how strong he was. But 230 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 2: it is against the backdrop of his great struggle that 231 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 2: he declares the supply and the strength of God, so 232 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: that by the time he gets to nineteen. 233 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 3: He says, I've been in need. 234 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 4: I've been flat level, I've been a pandon, I've been betrayed, 235 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 4: I've been forgotten about. I've been depressed, I've been accused, 236 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 4: I've been broke, I've been sick. 237 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: But my God is still joholfa Chira. He'll still supply. 238 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 2: I told you we were gonna have some good church today. 239 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 2: I figure, if you're gonna make the effort to come, 240 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna short change you. High five three people 241 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: tell him God. 242 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,359 Speaker 3: Is my supplier. God is my supplier. God is my supplier. 243 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: He's my need meeter, he's my weightmaker, he's my streaming 244 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: the tesser. 245 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 3: He's my rock and a trying, weary lamb. He is 246 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 3: my water, my God. 247 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: But I had some needs. Now I had some needs, 248 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 2: and I have learned how to meet those needs in 249 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 2: an appropriate way. That's what marriage is, by the way, 250 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 2: is it's a combination of needs between two people from 251 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: different planets. Now, if you understand that context for marriage, 252 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: your expectations will be set. They write books about this. 253 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: It's called his Needs, Her Needs. By the book, put 254 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 2: it on Amazon, and the Amazon thing on your iPhone, 255 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 2: down a little walk preaching his needs, her needs, five 256 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: love languages, all these ways to say that. You know, 257 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 2: you could actually be trying to meet somebody's needs, but 258 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: meeting them in a way that they can't receive because 259 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 2: you don't. 260 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: Know what they really need. 261 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: You can wreck a whole marriage trying to meet needs 262 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 2: that you have in another person. You can ruin a 263 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: whole friendship projecting your needs on another person and trying. 264 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: To give them what you would want. 265 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 2: Understanding the needs of your wife is critical. 266 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: Understanding the needs of your husband. 267 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 2: I can talk to you about that on another series. 268 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 2: Sometimes when the well send to make sure none of 269 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 2: the kids get in here, and we'll talk about his needs. 270 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 2: It won't take me long. It'll be the shortest sermon 271 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 2: at elevation, shirts be out in time for breakfast. 272 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: Watch this needs everybody, say needs Now. 273 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 2: I need you to turn the person next to you 274 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 2: and tell them something you're not gonna want to tell them, 275 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 2: especially if you're married to him, because it's not like 276 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: an insult, but you need to tell them because it's 277 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: something you need to understand. 278 00:15:53,040 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you can't meet my needs. You can't, 279 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: You can't, you can't. 280 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 2: Another problem people make going into relationships is expecting that 281 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 2: you're going to meet my needs, expecting that you are 282 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: going to be y'all just got married. Caroline and Sina. 283 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you can't be a conduit in 284 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: meeting her needs. I'm not saying you can't be her 285 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 2: superman in some ways. I'm not saying that there aren't 286 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 2: some of her needs, but she has some needs that 287 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: if she doesn't learn how to let God meet those needs. 288 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 2: Caroline works in my office and see. One of the 289 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 2: things about having people who are in your life on 290 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: a day to day basis is you can fall into 291 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 2: the trap of expecting one person to meet all of 292 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 2: your needs. 293 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: Then you violate the nature of the. 294 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: Relationship because you're trying to get somebody to deliver something 295 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 2: to your doorstep that they're not authorized to carry. So, 296 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 2: quite honestly, as your pastor, there are certain needs that 297 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 2: I will be able to meet for you that she 298 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 2: can't meet. I'm gonna tell you the flip side of that, 299 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 2: which is much more important. There are certain needs that 300 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 2: I am never gonna meet of yours. I'm not even 301 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 2: gonna think about them. This is a gross illustration. Everybody 302 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 2: shall needs and learning who God has put in your 303 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 2: life to meet certain needs, and learning how God sends 304 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 2: what you need in your life. See, people will say 305 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: all the time, God is all I need, and God 306 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: is shaking his head in Heaven saying no, I'm not, No, 307 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 2: I'm not. 308 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: I have all that you need. 309 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 2: But the only way I can get you what you 310 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 2: need is to distribute it through the people that I 311 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 2: put in your life. So when you isolate yourself and. 312 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: Call it spirituality, that's why I. 313 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 2: Worry about people who don't come to church. I don't 314 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: need to come to church. I just have my own 315 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 2: relationship with God. 316 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: That's fine. But the church is the trucks and the 317 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: funnels and the tracks through. 318 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: Which God gets his supply to your life. So before 319 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 2: you cut yourself off from church, you better realize that 320 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: God is the need meeter, but the church is the distribution. 321 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 3: System through which God meets needs. 322 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: In the world. 323 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 2: My God will meet all your needs, and Paul is heard. 324 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 2: You can hear him hurt if you listen for it. 325 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 2: If you just go, I can do all things through 326 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 2: Christ strengthens me. If you just go, my God will 327 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 2: meet all your needs. If you don't read all that 328 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 2: other stuff that I read, you miss the essence of 329 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 2: Paul speaking of God's supply from a place of great need. 330 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 2: He said, no other church helped me, but you, a 331 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: man who gave his life for the Gospel, and in 332 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 2: his time of need, he says. 333 00:18:58,359 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: You are the only ones there. 334 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 2: You can hear him fighting self pity if you listen 335 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 2: for it. You can hear him processing through all of 336 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: the other lists of churches, the places where he served 337 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 2: for free. And he was bivocational because he didn't want 338 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 2: to burden them. But when he got in trouble, and 339 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 2: when he was appealing to Caesar under house arrest and 340 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 2: no longer able to function in the same ways, he's 341 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 2: wondering Where are all the people that I invested in 342 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: at the time where I need dividends. 343 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: That's a painful thing, he said, But you were there 344 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: for me. They sent him a little money. 345 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 2: They sent a paphroditis along with the little money to 346 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 2: meet his needs, and Paul said, I appreciate that. That's 347 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 2: going to be a big help. My trial is very expensive. 348 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 2: I'm mounting a legal defense and I don't know how 349 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 2: long this is going to drag on, and so this 350 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: will come in very usefully. But it's not even the 351 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 2: money that meant the most to me. What meant the. 352 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: Most to me is that you shared in my troubles. 353 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 2: Sometimes people don't want your solutions, they just want solidarity 354 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: with someone who can be there for them. Paul said, 355 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 2: I appreciate the money that you sent me. I'm going 356 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: to use it. But what really mattered to me was 357 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 2: that you were there for me. I'll tell you there 358 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 2: is something about people who are there for you in 359 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 2: your time of need that you will never ever forget them. 360 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 2: I can tell you to a person, to a person 361 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 2: who came to my dad's funeral that I didn't expect 362 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 2: to see there, and when I saw him, I was like, 363 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: you didn't have to come, but inside. 364 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: I was thinking, I'm sure glad you did. The people 365 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: who canceled vacations to be there, I'll never forget them. 366 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 2: I'll never forget Buck sitting at my mom's house and 367 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 2: my dad's house for four days. 368 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: I don't think he left. 369 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 2: He was like chained like a junkyard dog to the 370 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: front porch for four days while my dad died, while 371 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: hospice was in and out. I'll never forget that, never 372 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 2: forget the team that was there in the early days 373 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 2: of the church. I appreciate everybody who's calm sence then, 374 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: but you know, the people who were there when we 375 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 2: needed it the most. 376 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: Let me tell you a secret. 377 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: If you really want to invest in relationships by low. 378 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: By low. 379 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 2: When you invest in the stock market, they teach you 380 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 2: don't always try. 381 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: To invest in something that's like way up here. 382 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 2: The time you want to buy in is when it's low, 383 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: because then when it shoots up, you have a good 384 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 2: stake in it. 385 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 1: Relationships are a lot like that. 386 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 2: If you will be the kind of person who says, 387 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there with you. 388 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: What did Oprah say? I always like to quote Oprah 389 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: once a month. 390 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 2: What did Oprah say, anybody will ride with you in 391 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 2: the limousine. What I need is somebody to ride with 392 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 2: me when the limousine breaks down and we got to 393 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: take the bus. 394 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 3: I'm looking for some bus friends. I'm looking for some people. 395 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 2: Who will be on my side when I. 396 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 3: Don't have anything to give. I'm looking for some people 397 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 3: who are it. 398 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 2: So Paul says, I appreciate that. I appreciate that you 399 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: couldn't be here with me. So you did what you could. 400 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 2: And you know, you've got to value I know this 401 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 2: is a practical teaching, but I want to get it 402 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: across to you because God has really been speaking to me. 403 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 2: You got to value what people can give you and 404 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 2: not resent what they can't. You can't hold people hostage 405 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 2: to the needs that you have that they can't meet. 406 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 2: So he says, I appreciate what you're doing for me. 407 00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I appreciate you. 408 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: And then Pappy over, but we need to talk about Pappy. 409 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 2: Because Pappy, Pappy was kind of sickly And the heart 410 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: of my message is really derived from a scripture I 411 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 2: didn't get to read you over in two twenty five, 412 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 2: go to the screen. He said, I think now it's 413 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 2: necessary to send back to you a paphroditis. He's my brother, 414 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,719 Speaker 2: he's my coworker, he's my fellow soldier. I bet he is. 415 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 2: I bet you do appreciate him. He traveled eight hundred miles. 416 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 2: If Paul was in prison where we think he was, 417 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: over eight hundred miles to bring the. 418 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: Gift to him, I bet you do appreciate him. This 419 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: guy came a long way to help me. 420 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 2: You sent me a messenger, not only with money, but 421 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 2: you send me a messenger with encouragement. You sent him 422 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 2: to take care of my Say it again, my. 423 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: You sent a. 424 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 2: Paphroditis to take care of my needs. But I got 425 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 2: to send him back for he longs for you all. 426 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 2: He's homesick, and he's distressed because you heard that he 427 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 2: was ill. 428 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: He's in trouble, and he needs you. 429 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: And that really touched me because I thought, here's Paul 430 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 2: awaiting what would eventually be a verdict of death, and 431 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: his very life is in the balance, and yet he's 432 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 2: developed enough spiritually where he still has the presence of 433 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: mind to consider the needs of the church that he 434 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: started above his own. That touched me because in that 435 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 2: I realized that the secret that Paul spoke of to 436 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 2: being content, the secret to saying God can meet all 437 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 2: my needs, is that even when I have a great need. 438 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: My focus is on yours. 439 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 2: What a perspective that Paul would say, A Paphroditis misses you, 440 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 2: and I know you miss him, And here I am 441 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 2: in need, and I know you send him to take 442 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 2: care of me. And he did and it was helpful 443 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 2: and I got what I needed from a Paphroditis. 444 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 3: But now I'm sending him back. See, Paul understood something. 445 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: About the provision of God. And this is where Joshua 446 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: comes in because Joshua centuries earlier. 447 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 2: Now this is centuries earlier. This is in the Old Testament. 448 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: Joshua is leading the people of God into Canaan. Canaan 449 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: is the land that God promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, 450 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 2: and Jacob. Canaan is the land that God was leading 451 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 2: the Israelites toured through Moses. 452 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: Moses brought them. 453 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 3: Out of Egypt. 454 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 2: Joshua took them trans Jordan, across the Jordan into the land. 455 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: And the day that they're on the border, the Bible 456 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: says something interesting happened. God served an appetite. God brought 457 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: some edemamee out to the table. God brought some chips 458 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: and SAUCEA what do you like? 459 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: What do you like? 460 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 2: God brought some hot bread from Canaan. God brought a 461 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 2: fruit tray from Canaan, and he said, eat this. And 462 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 2: in Joshua five, verse twelve, after the men were standing 463 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 2: on the border of their promise, I need you to 464 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 2: get this. 465 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: This is so powerful. This is where some of you are. 466 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 2: And you've been asking questions, and you've been feeling needy, 467 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 2: and you've been wondering why certain sources of supply have 468 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: been cut off. 469 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: In your life. 470 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 2: The Bible says that the day they eat ate of 471 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 2: the fruit of the land of Canaan, the manna stopped. 472 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 2: The mana stop. Well, now, Pastor Stephen, I know what 473 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 2: mana is, But why don't you just tell me what 474 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 2: you think it is so I can make sure we're 475 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 2: on the same page. 476 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: Everybody shall what is it? What it is? 477 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 2: No, that's what manna means. That's what it means. So 478 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 2: the Israelites come out of Egypt. Can I take you 479 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 2: through a history lesson? 480 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: Real quick? 481 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 2: They come out of Egypt. That's where they were slaves, 482 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: and they come into the wilderness, that's where they were survivors. 483 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: You do understand that when you were a slave to sin, 484 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 2: there were certain pleasures that you enjoy. 485 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: There were certain ways that you got your needs met. 486 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: Come on, talk to me now, don't start looking at 487 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: me like that. 488 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 3: I will get so direct. 489 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 2: I will make you and your mom blush that you 490 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 2: brought the church with you. The best thing to do 491 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 2: is nod at me. There are certain ways that you 492 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 2: got your needs. 493 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: Man. But when they. 494 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 2: Left Egypt, they started missing the types of meals that 495 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 2: they got in Egypt. Now, they didn't miss the whips 496 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 2: of their slave masters, they didn't miss the labor of 497 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,959 Speaker 2: brickmaking with not enough mortar. 498 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: In fact, they had cried out to God to get 499 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: them out of the land. But watch what happened when 500 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: they got out. 501 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 2: In Edjudus sixteen, verse three, because freedom is an acquired taste, 502 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 2: they said, Moses, it would have been better if only 503 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt, because 504 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 2: there we sat around pots of meat and ate all 505 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: the food we wanted. 506 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: You brought us out in this desert, starved to death 507 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: and they see, here's here's what happens. Here's what happens. 508 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: He let him out and they got to a new place. 509 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: But they were addicted to the means. 510 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 2: So when they got here and they felt hungry, they 511 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: it is the place they used to eat from, and 512 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 2: so their assumption was God must have brought us here 513 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 2: to die. 514 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,479 Speaker 1: I have this restaurant that I like to take call 515 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: it to. 516 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 2: It's a very nice restaurant, very proper, and I like 517 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: to take her there as much. 518 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: As I can. 519 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 2: There was a time we couldn't go there, you know, 520 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: we couldn't afford to go there. But now we can 521 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: go there, and so I like to go there. And 522 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 2: I like to not even look at some of the 523 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: prices sometimes, just order whatever you want, just to do 524 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: it just because I like her, just because she's my girlfriend, 525 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: just because I'm. 526 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: Trying to impress her. Just act like it's the prom 527 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: Just act like this is my one shot to make 528 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: her like me. 529 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 2: And so we go in and order and they have 530 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 2: this squash soup that I like, this squash soup. And 531 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 2: I never thought I would like squash soup, but you 532 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 2: haven't tasted it, this squash soup. This is a different 533 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: kind of squash soup and it's got bacon in it. 534 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: And so that's all I had. You had me at 535 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: bacon and so it's. 536 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 2: A squash soup with the bacon in it, and I 537 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 2: like it. I went to order it the other day 538 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 2: and I said, I said, I'll have the squash soup. 539 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 2: Because we go in there quite a bit, as I 540 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 2: was saying, and the people know me in there, hip 541 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 2: will and everything. So I get good service and kind 542 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 2: of importing around there. And so I walk in, I said, 543 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: I have the squash soup and he shook his head. 544 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 2: He said, oh, pastor is off the menu, he said, 545 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 2: he said, that's a seasonal item. That's a seasonal item. 546 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 2: There are some things in your life that God provided 547 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 2: and now they're not there anymore. And you've been walking 548 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: around worried because you think now you're gonna starve. But 549 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: God said, no, no, no, it's just a new season. 550 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 2: And that's what new season means, lose the why my God. 551 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: So so you gotta know, you gotta I know some 552 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 2: things about God's provision. I'm a hasten to a close, 553 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 2: but I gotta give you a quick outline God's provision 554 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: is seasonal. 555 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: Everybody say seasonal. Write these down real quick. 556 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 2: So the next time you're leaving Egypt and you feel 557 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: those hunger pangs and you wish you were back over here, 558 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 2: and you feel like, oh, I don't know what God 559 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: is doing and I'm trying to do his will, but 560 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 2: I'm gravitating back over here, you can say, no, devil, 561 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,239 Speaker 2: the provision of God is to give me what I 562 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: need in this season. 563 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: The day they left, the menu changed. 564 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: For forty years in the wilderness. God promised his provision 565 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 2: to the Israelites. He did it in a supernatural way. 566 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 2: He rained down mena from the heavens, and they saw it, 567 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 2: and they said, what is it? 568 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: Mana? That's what the word mana means. What is it? 569 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 2: That's what some of y'all said about your husband when 570 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 2: God brought him into your life. 571 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: It took you a minute to realize, Oh, this is 572 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: my husband. 573 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 2: I think Holly kind of felt that about me the 574 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 2: first time I was No. 575 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: I think she did. 576 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 2: I was kind of a pump rock guy, and the 577 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 2: way I dressed and everything. I had this whole style 578 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 2: that she wasn't really into. I think the first time 579 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: she met me, she said what is it? 580 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 5: Told me a while to show her what it is. Hey, 581 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 5: but watch this. Forty years, they got so used to it. 582 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: At one point they started yelling at Moses. They were like, Man, 583 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: all we ever get is this. Man. 584 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 2: Do you know you can become so accustomed to blessing 585 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 2: in a prolonged season that you begin to complain about 586 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: the very thing you prayed for. 587 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: And they wanted. 588 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 2: They wanted something different than mana mana falling down. 589 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: Oh it was sweet too, The Bible says it was sweet. 590 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 2: This was not a gluten free food item from Heaven's 591 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 2: culinary cuisine, and they ate it. 592 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: For forty years. Now, watch this. They crossed the Jordan. 593 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 2: Joshua was circumcises to people who haven't been circumcised yet. 594 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: So it's kind of bad timing for anything to change. 595 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 2: They're still recovering for the circumcision, getting ready to fight 596 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 2: the Battle of Jericho, and the Bible says that when 597 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 2: the mana would come, it would just fall, and all 598 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 2: they had to do to get it was gathering millions 599 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 2: of pounds of mana every day, and all they had 600 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 2: to do to get it was to gather it. All 601 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 2: they had to do was walk out of their tents 602 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 2: their buckets, bring in their manna. And then mama cooks 603 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 2: up the mana. Maybe she boils it, maybe she broils it, 604 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 2: maybe she bakes it, maybe she fries it, maybe she 605 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 2: roasts it. Maybe she gets creative. Maybe they eat some 606 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,280 Speaker 2: mana sushi. Maybe you can eat it raw. But they 607 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 2: had eaten mana for forty years. One day, Jimmy comes 608 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 2: out of his tent to gather his manna, because that's 609 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 2: his job. You know, men have jobs around the houses sometime. 610 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 2: And so Jimmy gets up to gather the mana, and 611 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 2: he's kind of walking kind of slow because of what 612 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 2: just happened that I told you about. So he's walking 613 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:36,919 Speaker 2: out the tent. 614 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: I was trying to make the Bible come alive for you. 615 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 2: So he's walking out the tent, still rubbing his eyes, 616 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 2: and he looks for his manna, and it's not there. 617 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 2: Have you ever showed up to a place where there 618 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 2: has been provisions so long that you took it for granted. 619 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 1: And it's not there. 620 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes somebody even dying in our life before 621 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 2: we appreciate what they brought. Sometimes it takes losing a 622 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 2: job to appreciate employment. 623 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,800 Speaker 1: And they come. They come out of tent. Jimmy. 624 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 2: Jimmy looking for his manna. And now he went from 625 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 2: what is it? To where is it? Come on, where 626 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 2: is it? So Jimmy goes over to Johnny's tent and 627 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 2: he comes over to Johnny. He said, hey, Johnny, man 628 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 2: the angel got mixed up. I think he dropped off 629 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,399 Speaker 2: my mana and yours too at your door today. It'd 630 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 2: be all right if I and Johnny said no, Jimmy, 631 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 2: I was just about to come over to your your 632 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,319 Speaker 2: place and ask you can I have some of your 633 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:54,799 Speaker 2: manna because I didn't get any either. Now can you 634 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 2: imagine the fear if this is the only way God 635 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 2: has fed you for forty years. God has been dropping 636 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 2: stuff out of the sky for forty years, and all 637 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,720 Speaker 2: you had to do was gather it. In many ways, 638 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,800 Speaker 2: God will allow seasons of your life where your faith 639 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 2: is the weakest to be the most miraculous. I remember 640 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 2: Ron Spivey chased my car down when I was going 641 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 2: back to college one semester. And Ron loved the Lord 642 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,479 Speaker 2: and he loved me, and he chased after my car. 643 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,760 Speaker 2: I remember I chased after my car. He said, Steeze, 644 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 2: Steez Steve. 645 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: Call me Steve. Nobody calls me Steve. That knows me, 646 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: but he knew me, called me Steve. Stee stee Steve. 647 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 2: It just dropped the in off my name, like his 648 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 2: wheel of fortune or something like he didn't want to buy. 649 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 1: An in, but it's Steez Steve. 650 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 2: He goes here, man, God loves you, and threw a 651 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 2: hundred dollar bill at me in my window. Got me 652 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 2: a rolled out my when I threw a hundred dollar 653 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 2: bill and ran the other way. You know how long 654 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 2: it's been since somebody threw a hundred dollars bill. 655 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,720 Speaker 1: At me. But see. 656 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 2: Now I'm the thrower. I'm not a college student anymore. 657 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 2: I'm I don't need that anymore. I don't need that anymore. 658 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 2: There was a season, everybody say season when Holly and 659 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 2: I were starting the church, and it was growing that 660 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,959 Speaker 2: every restaurant we went in, somebody paid for our meal. 661 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 2: In Charlotte, every restaurant. How many restaurants in a row? 662 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,400 Speaker 2: I think one time we counted seven. It got so 663 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,760 Speaker 2: predictable we almost stopped bringing our wallet and our purse 664 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 2: into the restaurant. 665 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: It was awesome. You know, it's been a couple of years. 666 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,879 Speaker 2: But see, I don't take that like a sign that 667 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 2: God doesn't love me. I take it as a sign 668 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 2: now it was time for me to look around the 669 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,800 Speaker 2: restaurant and see whose meal I can find cut on somebody, 670 00:37:59,200 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 2: are you doing. 671 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:02,479 Speaker 3: Or a need meter? 672 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 2: Need meeter, need meter, need meeter? Touch somebody say, I'm 673 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 2: a need meter. I'm blessed to be a blessing. I'm 674 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 2: made in the image of God. I give encouragement, I 675 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 2: give blessing. I'm looking for somebody to help. 676 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:30,720 Speaker 1: I'm in a new season. 677 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,160 Speaker 2: Some of you have been stuck in a survival season 678 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 2: where you've always had your handout, needing somebody to encourage 679 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 2: you or serve you. And God says, in this season, 680 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 2: the manna is off the menu. This is your season 681 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 2: to learn how to sew, and your season to learn 682 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:57,399 Speaker 2: how to water. And you will starve in your new 683 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 2: season if you don't learn how to access your new supply. 684 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 2: If you keep longing for Egypt and keep looking for 685 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 2: manna and don't learn how to farm in Canaan. 686 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:12,720 Speaker 1: You're going to start to death. 687 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 2: If you keep waiting for those old friends to call you. See, 688 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 2: God has to cut you off. From some things. God 689 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 2: has to cut you off from some things. The manna stopped, 690 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,319 Speaker 2: and the assumption could be, well, I guess God has 691 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 2: left us, But Joshua said. 692 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: No, that means we're on the border of Canaan. 693 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,959 Speaker 2: And this is a fertile land, and so we need 694 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,799 Speaker 2: to learn how to work this new crowd. Can I 695 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 2: stay right here for a minute? Can I stay right here? 696 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,400 Speaker 2: How many of you will give me seven minutes to 697 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 2: finish this? 698 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 3: I must stay right here. I must stay right here. 699 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 1: I must stay right here. 700 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 2: It's a new season, it's a new strategy. It's a 701 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 2: new season, it's new supply, it's a new season. 702 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,440 Speaker 3: It's the same source. 703 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 2: But God knows how to feed you what you need 704 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 2: for every season that you're in. 705 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,280 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that again. 706 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,760 Speaker 2: God knows how to feed you what you need. 707 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 3: For every season that you're in. 708 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,759 Speaker 2: So if you win outside of your tent and the 709 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 2: manna wasn't there, it doesn't mean God left you. 710 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 3: It just means that the way He's gonna feed you 711 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,759 Speaker 3: has changed forms. 712 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,320 Speaker 1: You're in a new season. 713 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 3: Come on shout about as somebody. 714 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 2: Come on, black people, teach my white people how to 715 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,239 Speaker 2: have church, teach him how to shout, Teach him how 716 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 2: to praise God, Teach him how to respond to say God, 717 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,880 Speaker 2: I'm not starving. 718 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 3: I'm in a new season, and whatever I don't have, 719 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 3: I don't need it in this season. It's a new season. 720 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: From season A. 721 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 2: Seasonal is seasonal is seasonal is seasonal. It's not that 722 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,840 Speaker 2: you're not blessed anymore. It's just that it's not going 723 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,479 Speaker 2: to fall down out of the sky anymore. That year 724 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 2: they hate the produce of Canaan Paul said, I used 725 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 2: to get my supply from circumstances, but I have learned. 726 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:31,799 Speaker 3: The secret in any season is that when I cross over. 727 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: And the supply that I'm used to isn't there, God's. 728 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,200 Speaker 3: Leading me to what's next. 729 00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,280 Speaker 1: This a new season. 730 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:48,640 Speaker 2: God's provision is seasonal, and it's unusual. It's unusual. Everybody 731 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:53,399 Speaker 2: shall what is it? God hides his provision for your 732 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 2: secret needs in unexpected places. 733 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 1: Nayman who had leprosy, are y'all bored? 734 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 2: You may be praying for wisdom and walking right past 735 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 2: the source of the wisdom. There may be a little 736 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,759 Speaker 2: boy who has your five loaves and two fish, and 737 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 2: you don't even recognize him because he doesn't seem important 738 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 2: to you. Nayman had leprosy, and it was a little 739 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 2: servant girl from Israel that told him to go to Elisha. 740 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,759 Speaker 2: If he had ignored that girl, his hidden needs would 741 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 2: have remained unmet because he didn't know how to look 742 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,680 Speaker 2: for God's supply in unusual places. Elijah, go to the 743 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 2: brook at the Karrath Ravine. There, I have ordered the 744 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 2: ravens to feed you. You're not gonna get it in 745 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,879 Speaker 2: this season from the places you expect. God said, I'm 746 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 2: gonna bless you in this season in unusual ways, in 747 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,319 Speaker 2: unexpected ways, through people that you used to discount. I'm 748 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 2: gonna give you wisdom. I'm gonna give you supply. But 749 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 2: stop walking by your supply because it looks like a seed. 750 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 2: God stores his provision in unusual places, unusual places. I 751 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:26,080 Speaker 2: can't understand why men don't listen to their wives. If 752 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 2: anybody is going to help you avoid disaster, wouldn't it 753 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,880 Speaker 2: be the one who has invested their life in your success. 754 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,680 Speaker 1: I thought a women's conference shout might break out right there. 755 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,040 Speaker 2: Some of you women are missing your husband because you're 756 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,520 Speaker 2: looking for a body type. God might give you a 757 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 2: good man that doesn't have a six pack. 758 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,279 Speaker 1: Hello, So. 759 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,680 Speaker 2: His supply is going to be it's going to be seasonal, 760 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:07,560 Speaker 2: is gonna be unusual, and it's gonna be proportional. God 761 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,080 Speaker 2: is going to give you what you need for this season. 762 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 2: Whatever manner they didn't gather. That they gathered, that they 763 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,680 Speaker 2: didn't eat that day, it went to waste, its spoiled. 764 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 2: They couldn't need it. Why give us this day our 765 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 2: daily bread? Give me this day my daily bread. You 766 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 2: know why some of you have ulcers because you're trying 767 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,360 Speaker 2: to fight tomorrow's battles with today's strength. 768 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:45,640 Speaker 1: So God said, I'm gonna give you what you need. 769 00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna supply all your needs according to my riches, 770 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,960 Speaker 2: but I'm gonna measure it out according to your need, 771 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,320 Speaker 2: and I know what you really need. I have learned 772 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,680 Speaker 2: in my life not to ask God too much for 773 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 2: an opportunity, because I might get more persistent than I 774 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 2: am ready. And if I get more persistent than I 775 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,319 Speaker 2: am ready, I'll have weight on me that I was 776 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 2: not built to carry in this season. So I learned 777 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 2: how to worship God for what he gave me and 778 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 2: for what he withheld for me, because he will bless 779 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,400 Speaker 2: me in a way that is proportional to my purpose 780 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:27,040 Speaker 2: and my teaching. 781 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,239 Speaker 1: God is just getting down deep in you. Come on, 782 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,799 Speaker 1: I want to feed you today. God's gonna feed you. 783 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,080 Speaker 2: He's gonna feed you in a way this proportional, and 784 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,719 Speaker 2: in a way this personal write it down is personal. 785 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,799 Speaker 2: God's provision is personal. That means you don't have to 786 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,840 Speaker 2: envy me. I don't have to envy you. God's gonna 787 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,040 Speaker 2: supply all of my needs, my needs. God give me 788 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,239 Speaker 2: what I need to do, what you called me to do. 789 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,520 Speaker 2: I don't have to envy anybody else's gift. I don't 790 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,400 Speaker 2: have to envy anybody else's family. I don't have to 791 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,000 Speaker 2: envy anybody else's back. I don't have to envy anybody 792 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 2: else's skill set. God is a personal god. He's numbered 793 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,000 Speaker 2: the hairs on my head. He fastened me in my 794 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,080 Speaker 2: mother's womb. He created me for a purpose. He's set 795 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 2: the exact time I was supposed to be born, for 796 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:20,480 Speaker 2: the exact purpose. How many are glad? He's a personal god. 797 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 2: He's up close and personal. He numbered the hairs on 798 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:33,320 Speaker 2: my head. He knows what I mean. And Elisha, Elijah 799 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,320 Speaker 2: asked the woman in the second king, spot said, said 800 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,920 Speaker 2: what do you need? She said, they're coming to take 801 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,759 Speaker 2: my sons away and I don't have anything to pay. 802 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,640 Speaker 2: And she said, I don't have anything to give them. 803 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,560 Speaker 2: And Elisha asked, what is in your house? So that 804 00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:58,000 Speaker 2: means that God's provision is local. That means God's provision 805 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:03,000 Speaker 2: for your life is within your grasp. He didn't cut 806 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 2: off the manna until they were close to Canaan. God's 807 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:12,120 Speaker 2: provision awaits your next step of faith. Please receive this word. 808 00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,960 Speaker 2: I'm not preaching this just to be entertaining. I'm not 809 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,440 Speaker 2: preaching this to be your hype man. I'm trying to 810 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,759 Speaker 2: get you to see that often we overlook what is 811 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,600 Speaker 2: right in front of us in praying about what's ahead 812 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:32,359 Speaker 2: of us. God, help me see the supply that you've 813 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,400 Speaker 2: put in my life through new eyes. 814 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,759 Speaker 1: Maybe it's not that I need God to give me 815 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,440 Speaker 1: something I don't have. 816 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,680 Speaker 2: Maybe it's said, I need to learn how to use 817 00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:47,880 Speaker 2: what He's already given. You have it, you have it 818 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,360 Speaker 2: in your house, you have it in your heart, you 819 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,480 Speaker 2: have it in your grass. 820 00:47:54,200 --> 00:48:02,000 Speaker 1: It's provision. What is it and what is it? 821 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,120 Speaker 2: It's local. I want to review the whole sermon. Now 822 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 2: I'm closing. Stand up, Stand up, and I'll close. Stay 823 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,520 Speaker 2: sitting there. I'll preach another thirty five minutes. I'll preach 824 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,160 Speaker 2: through the Panthers game. I'll preach through the Super Bowl, 825 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:23,400 Speaker 2: I'll preach through the playoffers. God's provision is seasonal. I 826 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 2: have what I need for now. If I have what 827 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,480 Speaker 2: I need for now, and I use it, and it'll lead 828 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,360 Speaker 2: me into what's next. The day they reached the border 829 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 2: of Canaan, the man of stopped. 830 00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,040 Speaker 1: It was a sign that you're in a new season. 831 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:40,480 Speaker 1: It's unusual. 832 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,680 Speaker 2: God, teach me how to not walk past the fountains 833 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,839 Speaker 2: of blessing that you placed in my life this week. 834 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,839 Speaker 2: Help me to look for your provision and unusual places. 835 00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,520 Speaker 2: Help me not to get so caught up in praying 836 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,520 Speaker 2: for one thing that I miss the real thing that 837 00:48:58,560 --> 00:48:59,759 Speaker 2: you were trying to do. 838 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:01,760 Speaker 3: Help me fix my eyes. 839 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:11,000 Speaker 2: And it's uh proportional and it's personal, and it's local, 840 00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:13,600 Speaker 2: and it's yours. 841 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:20,439 Speaker 1: And it's yours. I said, it's yours. I'm not even 842 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,920 Speaker 1: gonna shout. I'm gonna let you shout. It's yours. 843 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:23,680 Speaker 3: Shout. 844 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,879 Speaker 6: If you on a shout, it's yours. Somebody shout his mind. 845 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,359 Speaker 6: Come on, somebody shout his mind, And. 846 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:41,160 Speaker 3: My God shall he show what he shout? What he 847 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:48,360 Speaker 3: shout what? And my God shall suppli? Oh goody a 848 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,600 Speaker 3: coming till it's riches. 849 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:57,960 Speaker 2: Somebody give him a brase, Somebody give him a blame brad, Somebody. 850 00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:58,840 Speaker 3: Give him bread. 851 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:02,719 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 852 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,480 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 853 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,040 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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