WEBVTT - Handle It 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.080 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:18.200 In your life. Enjoy the message. So I thought we 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.400 would call on Moses. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.280 If we're talking about faith, he certainly deserves to be heard. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:26.640 As to how he did what he did. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.160 And I chose a selection in Exodus four one through five, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:34.040 and I want to read it to you. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:34.360 Now. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.400 Let's go over and see Moses on the far side 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.839 of the desert and Midian, the voice of God has 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:50.600 summoned him from the crackling of a bush that will 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.600 not burn, but is on fire. And I think that's 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.240 a picture of a life that is set on fire 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.840 by faith, is that it burns up but it doesn't 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:07.479 and out. And now he's negotiating with God and he says, 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.120 an exodus for one. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:11.480 What if. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:18.880 They do not believe me or listen to me and say, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.200 the Lord did not appear to you. And then the 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.720 Lord said to him, and what's that in your hand? 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:34.240 Staff? 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:41.560 He answered? The Lord said throw it down on the ground. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.280 And Moses threw it on the ground. It became a snake, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.600 and he ran from it. Somebody say, smart guy. Well 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 then the Lord said to him, reach out your hand 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.200 and take it by the tail. So Moses reached out, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.680 took hold of the snake, and it turned back into 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.560 a staff in his hand. This said the Lord, is 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.800 so that they may believe the Lord, the God of 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.280 their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:14.120 and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. I 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.840 really want to live. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:15.399 Verse four. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.160 The Lord said to him, reach out your hand and 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.560 take it by the tail. So Moses reached out, took 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.240 hold of the snake, and it turned back into a 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.239 staff in his hand. I need your help for one 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.520 moment before you take your seat, and I need you 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.280 to announce my message title to your neighbor. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.920 So put your hand on their shoulder. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.600 Get their attention, and when you give them my title 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.840 in a moment, I want you to holler at him 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:40.919 when you give. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:41.320 Them my title. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.639 I don't want you to whisper it, mumble it, suggest it. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.160 I want you to command it. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.560 Okay, tell your neighbor, say neighbor, I don't know what 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:51.320 you're going through. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.000 I don't know what you're dealing with. But God told me. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:08.440 To tell you handle it. That's my nigh kid, fight 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.760 your other neighbors, say neighbor, other neighbor. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.400 You were my second choice. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.200 Don't be offended, but just know that God wanted me 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.200 to tell you handle it. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:30.400 Amen, clap your hands. You may be seated. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:37.280 Thank you, Worship team. Don't we have fun together? Don't 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.040 we have a good time? 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.400 Amen? Look at this because. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.040 If you can have a flashback with me from when 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:55.920 Tom Hanks was on that island alone and he he 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.760 had to make friends with a volleyball. Now, those of 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.880 you who are participating in this portion of the sermon 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:04.040 are old. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.800 I know only five of y'all would remember this reference. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.440 But in the movie Castaway, where Tom Hanks had been 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:17.360 alone so long that his only companion was a volleyball, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.520 and he called the volleyball. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.960 What Wilson. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.160 And they did a good job with that movie that 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.440 that they bonded you enough with a volleyball that you 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.320 remember it as a character. You know, you can become 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.680 so attached to something inanimate that it becomes lifelike to you. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.960 Exhibit a right. I remember when I first asked Chris Brown, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.720 I was like, you think I should get an iPhone. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.320 I don't know if I don't think I would. I 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.480 don't think I would use it very much. Yeah right, 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.880 I just didn't know what it was capable of. Moses 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:58.920 has a staff. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.240 In his hand in Exodus chapter. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.960 And by the time God gets through showing Moses what 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.240 that staff can do, Mose, I wonder. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.359 I wonder if he got. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.839 So attached to the staff that he ever gave it 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.039 a name. Do you think do you think he called it? 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.320 What do you think he called it? I think he 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.000 called it rod. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:24.560 Even. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.800 I feel a connection to my microphone, this particular microphone. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.479 When I go preach other places and they give me 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.000 another mic it takes me like five minutes to get 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.800 it right in my hands because this one. I mean, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.760 I know this microphone, I know how to handle it, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.279 and I like having this microphone. I can control certain 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.720 things about it. So I like the handheld microphone. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:46.719 I really like it. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.119 When I want to preach. When I want to preach 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.719 like I'm Drake, I can grab it up here. It's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.119 not the professional way to hold it. My sound guys 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.880 hate that when I do that, but they put a 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.479 special thing on it because they know I do it, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.000 so it doesn't make all this feedback. But anyway, it's 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:02.400 my mic. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:03.200 It's see. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.200 You can tell I have a close relationship because I 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.760 gave it a name. I call it Mike. That's how 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.160 close we are. Okay, I'll stop now. But in Exodus 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:18.560 chapter four, Moses he's getting acquainted with his staff. He's 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.280 getting to know God and he's getting to know Rod, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.839 all in the same scene. And I like it because, well, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.880 I know something Moses doesn't know about what that thing 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.760 is capable of. And when I'm watching Moses deal with 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.680 this staff, that will become, in many ways so much 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.720 of a part of his life that I wonder did 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.440 he feel like it was a part of him. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.880 I know what this staff is going to do at 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:49.440 the Red Sea. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.400 I know that when the Egyptians are chasing Moses and 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.640 the Hebrew people two and a half million strong out 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:04.280 of Egypt, that that Moses is going to stretch that 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.760 staff over that sea, and the right side of the 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.520 sea is going to tell the left side of the sea. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.080 I'll see you in a little while. We got to 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.200 split up for a minute. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.840 I'll meet you back when the Egyptians hit the water, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.560 because we're going to drown them. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.440 But we've got a part for God's people. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.480 How many know that God will direct the elements on 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.360 your behalf when you walk in in faith. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.520 I found that to be true in my life. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.520 But but that was the staff that Moses stretched, That 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.080 was the sea he stretched it over. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.760 He doesn't know this yet, we do. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.440 So I'm really interested because I feel like I feel 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.040 like I know the staff because I see it so 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.640 many different times in the scripture. I saw it one 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.480 time when Pharaoh wouldn't let the people go, and God 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:53.080 told Moses, you know, take your staff and stretch it 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.400 out and strike the Nile river, the river in Egypt. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.440 And when you strike that river, it's going to turn 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.200 from water to blood, and that'll compel Pharaoh to give 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.920 a second thought to keeping you inslaved. And he did that, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.280 and the water turned to blood. That staff, it's the 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.560 same staff that's in chapter four. It's the same staff 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.520 in chapter seven when he does he strikes the nile, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.480 turns the blood. Then he strikes the bloody nile, and 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.480 then some frogs start coming out of the nile and 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.880 cover the land of Egypt. And it was that same 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.640 staff where he struck the nile, same staff that turned 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.960 into a snake in chapter four, same staff in chapter 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.040 seven he struck the nile, turned the blood, struck the 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.040 nile again, frogs came out. Then he struck the ground, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.240 he struck, struck the dust, and then the gnats came 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.520 out of the dust. And so all this is happening 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.319 with Moses in this staff. He doesn't know the staff 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.720 is capable of all this we do. And so I'm 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.439 intrigued to know how did it start? And I'm intrigued 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.400 to know that it started with a staff. I'm intrigued 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.199 by that started with something as simple as a staff, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.280 because that same staff when the people of God we're 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.640 thirsty one time and we're complaining about it. God told Moses, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.440 I hate when my people complained, but I still love 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.360 them enough to make sure they don't die. Aren't you 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.160 grateful for God's patience with you. Well, he took the 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.520 staff and he struck a rock with it, and the 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.640 water flowed out of the rock. And the staff had 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.040 this power that Moses couldn't have known, that he had 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.959 the potential that he couldn't have known that it had, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:21.480 but when he used. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.480 It in the right way, it did something. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.600 It was cool and water came out of the rock 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.320 and they all drank from the water in the rock 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.040 that staff. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:30.559 And so so. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.000 I want to learn everything I can about this staff. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.840 I almost feel like it's a person to me because 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.280 I saw Moses fight against the Amalekites. Well, he didn't 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.280 fight against him. Joshua fought against him, and Moses had 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.640 a job. He had to raise the staff. And while 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.880 Moses was raising the staff, and Aaron and Herb got 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.880 under his arms because he got tired holding it up. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.080 And when they supported him and he raised his staff, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.280 the Israelites were victorious on the battlefield. Often it's the 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.240 support system that you don't see that produces the results 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.120 that you're most concerned with. So while he's doing it 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.160 and his hands are up, the Israelites, when his hands dropped, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:04.080 they start losing. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.040 But it was the staff in his hands. It was 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.240 the staff in his hands. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:11.560 Tell somebody next to you, there's a staff in your hands. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.080 And what's cool about it is that there are many 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.480 lessons that we can learn and we don't even have 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.599 to be Moses delivering people out of four hundred and 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.440 thirty years of slavery to learn them. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.760 We can just learn them for our everyday lives. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.920 And the first thing that I think the staff is 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:31.320 saying to us in this message today is that everything 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:37.920 you need is within reach. I heard a motivational speaker 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.640 say that once. It rang true with me, that everything 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:48.360 you need is within reach. Moses, in response to God's calling. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.120 I feel the spirit of God on me today to 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.880 preach this message, by the way, so you ought to 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.480 be excited about what you're going to receive. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.760 He continues the. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.560 Conversation with God after God shows him who he is 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.960 with the phrase that I preached the whole series around 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.400 one time, and the phrase is what if? Verse one. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.720 Moses answered, what if? Do you know how many dreams 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.440 have died beneath the weight of that phrase? What if? 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.680 What if is a It's a phrase that I like 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.719 to refer to as fierce greatest hit. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.120 What if? What if? I mean, how many things in. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.320 Your life did you not do because what if? And 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.640 how many things in your life did you do that 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.000 you shouldn't have done because what if? How many nights 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.000 could you have slept? 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.480 But what if? Kept you awake. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.760 How many mornings did you wake up anxious? Because what 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.280 if was your alarm clock? 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.240 What if not? Just what if? 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.599 Moses wants to know? What if pay attention to the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:59.720 next word? What if they? What if they say. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:11:59.960 The third time? 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.240 Because I want to come on the screen and I 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.520 think there are times gonna be the charm? What if 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:09.800 is in verse one? What if they? What if the 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.520 scripture doesn't come up and I keep preaching anyway? But 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.760 it's a it's a it's a good question, what if, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.280 And it's where many of us wonder and wander our 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.960 whole lives. What if they? What if they laugh at me? 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.280 What if they don't accept me? Now, on one hand, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.840 Moses is in a hypothetical situation because he hasn't even 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.840 done anything yet, but he's just playing out. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.320 The possible after effects of his obedience. What if they? 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.160 But on the other hand, it's not hypothetical at all. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.640 It's historical because Moses is afraid of the same rejection 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.199 that he experienced forty years earlier, recurring, for it was 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:56.240 forty years earlier that Moses had killed an Egyptian in 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.720 defense of his people, and because he did the right thing, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.800 the wrong way he ended up on the run. And 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.319 there's something about when you've tried to do the right 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.280 thing and put your heart in something but you did 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:11.880 it the wrong way, that you don't even want to 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.719 try again. And so now Moses is asking something that's 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.520 hypothetical but is based out of what is historical, and 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.440 he's projecting his past into his potential and it's his 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.920 limiting factor. But God wants him to know that that 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.199 staff in your hand. Now, to us, a staff is 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.640 a shepherding instrument, and Moses was using it to tend 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.240 his father in last sheep. But to Moses, the staff 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.000 represented a whole lot more than his vocation. It represented 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.319 his mistakes. Because if he had never killed the Egyptian 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.800 and ended up a fugitive on the run from Egypt, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.959 where he was born into or adopted into royalty, he never. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.400 Would have had the staff in his hand. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 So when God tells him what's in your hand, it 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.360 causes Moses to have to reckon with the mistakes that 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.160 he's made that have landed him in the position that 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:02.720 he's in. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.640 Because when God speaks to you. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.400 About your potential, he will cause you to confront your past. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.680 Touch somebody say handle it. So he says, what's that 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.160 in your hand? And to Moses is his staff, But 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.080 to Moses is also his past, and to Moses is 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.960 also his instrument, the thing that he has to do 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.480 what he's doing. And so there's a whole lot happening 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.200 in this staff. And yet God says, what you have 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.240 is what you need. And God wanted to say that 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.080 to a single mom today, that what you have is 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:31.760 what you need. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.320 That he put enough in you to raise that child. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.320 He foresaw that you would be in the situation, and 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.160 he compensated for what others didn't give you by putting 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.520 a result and a determination in you. That's more than enough. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:55.560 And everything you need is within reach. So leave your 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:00.000 list of what you don't have alone today? 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.480 What is that in your hand? 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.800 The wisdom that you need is probably in a book 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:13.000 that's on your shelf that you haven't read. I was 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.800 talking to a guy who passed her to church one 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.120 time that was bigger than mine. I said, I need 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.800 some advice and he said, I gave you a book. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 I said, you mean that book three years ago? He said, yeah, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.160 that book three years ago. Did you read it? 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.680 I said no, I didn't get around to it. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.840 He said, I knew that you were going to be 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.680 at this place because I've been there, so I gave 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.160 you what I knew you would need. You missed it, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.440 he said. He said, call me back when you read 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:44.920 the book. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:46.480 At least read a. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.320 Couple chapters and we'll talk. What are we even going 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.240 to talk about? You know, sometimes when you pray and 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.920 ask God to download information about a decision, God, how 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:56.920 should I handle it? 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:04.720 He's like, did you even read the book that I book? 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.400 And we've never lived in a time where the information 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.480 that is in the Word of God has been more 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.480 accessible to us. My God, They'll send you alarms, They'll 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:16.720 break it down for you. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.320 They'll give you a Bible reading in a year. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.680 Plan Bible reading in the Book of Psalm's plan a 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.040 Bible reading in. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.119 Southern Dialect. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.200 Plan to give you a Bible reading Bible how to 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.960 read the Bible with your dog in thirty two days 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.360 every morning on your walk with your dog, an audio 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:40.280 Bible Bible in Braille. Touch somebody say grab it, grab it, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.560 grab it. You gotta grab it. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.000 You gotta go. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.640 Joy is there, you gotta grab it. Wisdom is there, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:45.640 you gotta grab it. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.800 It's there. The information that you need. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.320 For the transformation of your life is waiting to be 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.800 seized by those who will open their. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.240 Eyes to what they've been given. And I appreciate. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.960 Okay, So everything that you need is in your read 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.639 which it was something that he had already in his 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.200 hand that produced what he needed to move forward into 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.800 the future and to accomplish God's purpose in the earth. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.000 I'm moved by that because I get caught up in what. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.399 I don't have. I know you don't. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.200 I didn't say you did. I said I do. Get 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.199 caught up in what I don't have. But here's the 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.560 thing the Lord is teaching me. It's less about what 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.080 you have, and it's more about how you handle what 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:32.440 you have. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.200 I'll prove it to you. Do you have Netflix? All right? 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.800 Go on Netflix? Put it on. I think they have 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.480 this on Netflix. Thirty for thirty. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.680 It's a documentary series from ESPN. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.480 Put it on. Broke. Put it on the one called Broke. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.480 It will show you athletes that made millions of dollars 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.680 and by the time their careers were over, they were 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:09.240 in debt. Because it's not what you it's how you. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:11.520 What you have. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.480 Say it again, come on with me. It's not what 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:21.800 you it's how what you have. That's true with money. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.840 I've met rich people who are further behind than poor people. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.320 I've met poor people who are greedier than rich people. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.280 It's not what you have, it's how you handle what 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.080 you have. That's what God wants to know. How are 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:45.760 you handling it. It's not the woman you married, it's 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.600 how you handle the woman that you married that determines 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:49.840 whether you get the. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.679 Marriage that you want. Now, the selection process is important. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.600 You can cook better with good ingredients. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:04.720 But but I'm saying that somebody might be able to 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.840 take your same ingredients. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.919 And make something delicious. Because it's not what you have, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.040 is how you watch you that determines what you do. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:26.280 I found out that teenagers think they're busy. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:27.400 They do. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.359 They'll tell you I'm busy, how do it? Oh God, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.800 I'm busy. You're busy. And they're twelve. Now they're thirteen 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:36.639 years old. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.200 And I follow up with a question, do you have 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:45.159 a baby, because if you don't have a baby, you 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.080 don't know busy. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:50.639 Preach with me. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.439 In fact, I want all you busy thirteen year olds. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.240 You're so busy. I want you to find a twenty 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.080 five year old woman in the lobby, one that's got 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.399 a little car seat that she's trying to carry on 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.000 the way out the door from church, and walk up 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.560 to her and tell her how busy you are, and 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.040 watch her look back at you, and take about the 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.160 next five minutes to show you that it's not how 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.880 much stress you have, is how you handle the stress 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.159 that you have that determines. I'm saying, you could do 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.480 a lot more if you handled it differently. You could 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.360 accomplish a lot more if you handled it differently. It's 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:35.719 all in how you handle it. It's all in how 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.280 you handle it. It's usually not the things that you 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.200 think are stressing you out that are stressing you out. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.720 It's the things you are mishandling in other areas of 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.720 your life that make you hate your job. Or it's 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.760 the things you are mishandling in your job that make 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.200 you hate your life at home. So now you come 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.320 home and you take out your frustration from there on 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.040 them because you didn't handle it here. Now it's showing 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:01.040 up over there. Touch her name, paper, say handle it. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.600 You got to learn to handle it, whether it's weights 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.000 in a weight room, or whether it's life. See, because 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.040 you keep asking God to take some of the weight off. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:11.400 Of your life. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.320 But faith doesn't take the weight off of my life. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:19.679 It shows me how to handle it. How many of 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.320 you have a situation in your life today and you 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.960 want God to show you how to handle it. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:26.000 Just wave your hand. 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.320 If that's you, come on, just wave your hand if 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:28.840 that's you. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:29.600 Well. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.840 See, God is good and God is strong. God is great, 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.520 and God is good. And so God told Moses, I 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.280 heard my people crying out, and their cry reached me, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.600