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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I have a sneaking suspicion that we have a lot

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Speaker 3: of visitors today. How many of you travel to visit

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Speaker 3: with us today?

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Speaker 1: God bless you? Well, that's the whole church.

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Speaker 3: I could just preach what I've preached last week because

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Speaker 3: it's all visitors.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 3: We've got about one hundred of our evam, heart and

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Speaker 1: All over the world. Thank God for y'all. It's been mentioned,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't get down on it yet.

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Speaker 3: They're baptizing today over six hundred people at all of

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Speaker 3: our locations.

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Speaker 1: You said five hundred, but I heard six. Might be

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Speaker 1: seven by the time God gets through. Yeah, look at that.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 3: And there's still time for you to sign up as well.

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Speaker 3: If you believe that God is calling you to be

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Speaker 3: baptized today, be an awesome step of.

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Speaker 1: Faith for you to take.

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Speaker 3: Go down in that water, leave your shame, leave your sin, leave.

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Speaker 1: It all behind.

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Speaker 3: The mercy of God is why, and he can make

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Speaker 3: you a new creation. Well, today, just like any other day,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to open my Bible and share with you,

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Speaker 3: but it is not just like any other day. This

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Speaker 3: is a special week. This is the final week of

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Speaker 3: one of my.

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Speaker 1: Favorite series that I ever preached before in my life.

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Speaker 3: The series was called Called and we're finishing it up today.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about so many.

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Speaker 3: thank you. We've talked about Abraham and Moses, and Martha

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Speaker 3: and Simon, Simon, Peter, and we talked about who else

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Speaker 3: do y'all remember Jacob, Martha, Saul, the artist formerly known

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Speaker 1: And today we only have one.

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Speaker 3: think is kind of cool about this series. You've kind

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Speaker 3: Bible stories, and through that I might put out a

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Speaker 3: book called called One.

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Speaker 1: Day just with these stories, because it was based.

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Speaker 3: Around everybody in scripture that God called their name, but

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Speaker 3: he called it twice, so Martha Martha, Moses, Moses, Abraham, Abraham,

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Speaker 3: and today we're going to do the final person, Samuel Samuel.

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Speaker 3: Now my challenge is, I don't know how much of

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Speaker 3: this story you already know. And if you turn your

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Speaker 3: Bible to First Samuel, see there's a whole book called Samuel.

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Speaker 3: So I can't share everything, but there's actually a sequel

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Speaker 3: to Second Samuel. So I asked one of our church members,

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Speaker 3: how much do you know about Samuel? I was trying

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Speaker 3: she said, the only thing I know about Samuel is

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Speaker 3: that he spent the night in the lions Den, and

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Speaker 1: That's Daniel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but so touch your neighbor and say, we got

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Speaker 1: You're a little behind, but I love that man.

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Speaker 3: I don't ever want you to feel intimidated come into

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Speaker 3: this church because you don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know him either, and I paid to go

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Speaker 3: to school to learn him. I have to look him

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Speaker 3: up every week to preach them to you. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the Christian life isn't about how much of the Bible

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Speaker 1: God from this stay forward in your life with all

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Speaker 3: I actually think if you don't know the story, you

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Speaker 3: How many want the Lord to come today? How many

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Speaker 3: And the Lord came and stood calling as at other

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Speaker 3: might behold your wonder and your glory, and perhaps show

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Speaker 3: And I thank you now for the right now word that.

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Speaker 1: You are going to speak in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 3: Amen, you may be seated, And why don't y'all bring

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Speaker 3: out my screen today so I can do a little

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Speaker 3: teach you preachy, preachy teachee any country music fans in

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Speaker 3: our sermon time together. All right, So he's a Grammy

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Speaker 3: And he was in an interview and he started explaining

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Speaker 3: still cuts his own grass with a push lawnmower. He said,

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Speaker 3: I still cut my own grass. I've won all these

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Speaker 3: Grammys and Billboard Awards and CMA Awards, but I still

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Speaker 1: I go out there and I sweat and I cut

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Speaker 3: And my neighbor said to me one day, why do

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Speaker 3: But the reason that I still cut my grass myself

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Speaker 3: It's one of the only things left, if not the

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Speaker 3: And that's assuming it even gets recorded. Cutting the grass,

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Speaker 3: That grass might grow back in three days, but for

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Speaker 1: I did that.

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Speaker 3: You know, in songwriting, the most successful songwriters of all

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Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety nine were written but they didn't

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Speaker 3: get recorded. Not even did they not get released or

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Speaker 1: That's special, and we can see the result of it.

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Speaker 3: So he said, the way I deal with this failure

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Speaker 3: wait five years for the grass to go down. I

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Speaker 3: you talking about this, Pastor Steven, Because I wish serving

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Speaker 1: That's what I wish.

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Speaker 3: I wish serving God preaching sermons was like cutting grass.

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Speaker 3: all of the bad mindsets as you're cutting grass. Don't

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Speaker 3: some of you wish that parenting and raising kids was

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Speaker 3: the efforts that you make in your life that will

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Speaker 3: should be you. When you don't work out, we will

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Speaker 3: read you from First Samuel, chapter three, verse ten. It

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Speaker 1: It has never been easier to have the Bible in

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Speaker 3: dim so that he could not see, was lying down

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Speaker 3: in his own place. The lamp of God had not

447
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Speaker 3: yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the

448
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Speaker 3: temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

449
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Speaker 1: And then the Lord called.

450
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Speaker 3: To Samuel wait a minute. Verse ten says he called

451
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Speaker 3: to Samuel as at other times. So watch this for

452
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Speaker 3: everybody who was frustrated because you feel like you didn't

453
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Speaker 3: get it right the first time. Watch what God is

454
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Speaker 3: willing to do to call Samuel. The Lord called Samuel

455
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Speaker 3: and said and he said.

456
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Speaker 1: Here I am and ran to Eli, who.

457
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Speaker 3: Was the priest, who was his authority, who's the only

458
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Speaker 3: one he knew to go to, and said, here, I

459
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Speaker 3: am for you.

460
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Speaker 1: Called me. But Eli said, I didn't call you. Light

461
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Speaker 1: out again. Go back to Ben.

462
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Speaker 3: You need some melotonin, boy, get some sleep, It says.

463
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Speaker 3: The lamp had not yet gone out, so this is

464
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Speaker 3: in the middle of the night. So when laid out

465
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Speaker 3: and the Lord called again Samuel, and Samuel arose and

466
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Speaker 3: went to Eli and said, here, I am for you.

467
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Speaker 3: Called me, But he said, I didn't call my son

468
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Speaker 3: light out again. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord,

469
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Speaker 3: and the word of the Lord had not yet been

470
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Speaker 3: revealed to him. So what I see here in this passage,

471
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Speaker 3: if we could bring it together for a moment, is

472
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Speaker 3: a man who.

473
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Speaker 1: Would go on to preach God's word to the entire nation.

474
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Speaker 3: First Samuel, for to one put it on the screen

475
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Speaker 3: says that Samuel's word in the fullness of time, for

476
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Speaker 3: Samuel four one came to all Israel.

477
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Speaker 1: Look at that, in the.

478
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Speaker 3: Fullness of time, Samuel's word came to all Israel.

479
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Speaker 1: The entire nation heard his words.

480
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Speaker 3: He spoke for God, He spoke of righteousness, he spoke

481
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Speaker 3: of repentance.

482
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Speaker 1: The entire nation heard his words.

483
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Speaker 3: But before the nation could hear him, he had to

484
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Speaker 3: learn to hear God. And there are some things in

485
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Speaker 3: your life right now that before God can do externally

486
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Speaker 3: what you want to see him do externally, there are

487
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Speaker 3: some things that you have to learn internally so that

488
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Speaker 3: you can hear God, so that they can hear you,

489
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Speaker 3: so that you can get it on the inside so

490
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Speaker 3: that God can do it on the outside. There are

491
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Speaker 3: some things that we are waiting for God to manage,

492
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Speaker 3: and God is waiting for.

493
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Speaker 1: Us to mature.

494
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Speaker 3: Because the Bible says that he was just a boy.

495
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Speaker 3: He was a called boy, but just a boy. He

496
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Speaker 3: was an anointed boy, but just a boy. He was

497
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Speaker 3: a boy brought from a barren womb. But he was

498
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Speaker 3: just a boy. But he was more than a boy

499
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Speaker 3: because he was a boy that God had appointed to

500
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Speaker 3: be in a place that God had assigned him to do.

501
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Speaker 1: A task that.

502
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Speaker 3: God had appointed at a time that God had designated.

503
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Speaker 3: Now in the meantime, he does not yet know the Lord.

504
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Speaker 3: But that does not mean that he will not know

505
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Speaker 3: the Lord.

506
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Speaker 1: And I want to.

507
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Speaker 3: Say this to everybody who's discouraged right now about your

508
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Speaker 3: not yet situations.

509
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Speaker 1: In your life.

510
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not really yet able to deal with this.

511
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Speaker 3: I'm not really yet able to flow with this. I'm

512
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Speaker 3: not really yet certain about this. It ought to encourage

513
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 3: you to know that the one who spoke the word

514
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Speaker 3: of God to the entire nation started out not yet

515
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Speaker 3: knowing the Lord.

516
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Speaker 1: And watch this.

517
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Speaker 3: He didn't yet know the lad Lord, even though he

518
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Speaker 3: lived in the church. He did not yet know the Lord,

519
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Speaker 3: even though he served in the tabernacle, for the word

520
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Speaker 3: of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

521
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Speaker 3: And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. How

522
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Speaker 3: many times will God talk to somebody that he wants

523
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Speaker 3: to call.

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Speaker 1: As many times as it takes. I thought you'd be

525
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Speaker 1: happy about that. I thought you'd celebrate.

526
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Speaker 3: That, because sometimes I don't get.

527
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Speaker 1: It right the first time.

528
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Speaker 3: Sometimes my first response is not my best version. Sometimes

529
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Speaker 3: I don't show up like I wanted to. And now

530
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Speaker 3: I find myself in regret. But it makes me feel

531
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Speaker 3: good to know that even if I get on the.

532
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Speaker 1: Wrong ship, God will put a fish outside the wrong ship.

533
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Speaker 1: That's Jonah, not Daniel or Samuel. But I'm gonna preach.

534
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 3: About all these people today because it really doesn't matter

535
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: how fast you can run. It matters how much faster

536
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 3: God is to get to you and bring you back.

537
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 3: I'm calling somebody back today. I'm calling somebody back today.

538
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 3: Back to your right mind, back to your first love,

539
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 3: back to your original intended design, back to it. Because

540
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Speaker 3: God said, I'll call you back, I'll call you back.

541
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Speaker 3: I was trying to get your attention, but you didn't listen.

542
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Speaker 1: I'll call you back.

543
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Speaker 3: I was trying to get your attention, but you ran

544
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Speaker 3: to drugs to stuff the hole that you should have

545
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: filled with me. But I'll call you back because where

546
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 3: you've been putting those drugs, I.

547
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Speaker 1: Have a deposit that I want to put And.

548
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Speaker 3: After I deliver you from what you put in my place,

549
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something that you would not believe if

550
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Speaker 3: I I told you. He called him again, and Eli

551
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 3: finally got it. He said to Samuel, go lie down,

552
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Speaker 3: and if he calls you, I think this might be God.

553
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Speaker 3: If he calls you. He should know this. By the way,

554
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Speaker 3: he's the priest. He should not be guessing that this

555
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 3: is God's voice. But sometimes those who have walked with

556
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Speaker 3: God the longest are the weakest in their ability to

557
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Speaker 3: perceive him. He said, I think this might be God.

558
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Speaker 3: So here's what you need to do. Go lie down,

559
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Speaker 3: and if he calls you, you shall say, speak.

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Speaker 1: Lord for your servant.

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Speaker 3: Here's which is so cool because now we know that

562
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Speaker 3: Samuel means heard by God. And since he was the

563
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Speaker 3: answer to the prayer that his mother prayed, since she.

564
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Speaker 1: Was heard by God.

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Speaker 3: Now the one who was the answer to her prayers

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Speaker 3: is learning to hear the God who heard her.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I just love that.

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Speaker 3: Just let me sit in that for a minute.

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Speaker 1: That they heard his words.

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Speaker 3: He heard God's words because he had a mom who

571
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Speaker 3: prayed and God heard her words.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you your mother's day sermon. Early, God

573
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Speaker 1: heard you.

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Speaker 3: He heard you, He heard you. God show you this.

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Speaker 3: This is so crazy to me. Hannah, who was the

576
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Speaker 3: mom of Samuel, was also the wife of a man

577
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Speaker 3: named Elkana. Are y'all bored with all this background? I

578
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 3: love this stuff. I live for this stuff. I want

579
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Speaker 3: to show you this stuff. I live for this stuff.

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Speaker 1: This woman had a very, very, a very a very.

581
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Speaker 3: Difficult decision to make, and so do you. Here's the

582
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Speaker 3: decision she had to make. Am I going to keep

583
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Speaker 3: going to the House of God even with the broken heart?

584
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Speaker 3: Am I going to keep bringing this before God? Because

585
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Speaker 3: she couldn't have a child. And what made matters worse

586
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Speaker 3: in First Samuel chapter one is that the Bible tells

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Speaker 3: us that her husband, now her husband loved her. Elkina

588
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Speaker 3: loved her, but he also had another wife, which was

589
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Speaker 3: common in those days, and her name was Panina, and

590
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Speaker 3: so Elkina would try to make up the difference when

591
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Speaker 3: he would go to Shiloh to sacrifice. They would travel

592
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Speaker 3: like twenty miles to go sacrifice every year, the Bible

593
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Speaker 3: says verse five, But to Hannah, he gave a double

594
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Speaker 3: portion because he loved her though the Lord had closed

595
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Speaker 3: her womb. So he's trying to do what men do,

596
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Speaker 3: fix situations that we can't fix. And verse sixcess that

597
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Speaker 3: her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her

598
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Speaker 3: because the Lord had closed her womb.

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Speaker 1: So it went on year by year. It went on

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Speaker 1: year by year. As often as she went up to

601
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Speaker 1: the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her.

602
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 3: This other woman, Penina, the other wife who was able

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Speaker 3: to have children, would provoke Hannah year after year and

604
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Speaker 3: make fun of her and mock her, and post all

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Speaker 3: of her pictures of her beautiful mother's days with all

606
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Speaker 3: of her kids. And she would provoke her year after year,

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Speaker 3: And as often as Hannah went up to the house

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Speaker 3: of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore, Hannah

609
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: wept and would not eat. So I'm giving you this

610
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Speaker 3: situation for a reason, because I need you to understand

611
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 3: something about Samuel and something about you. But in order

612
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 3: to understand Samuel, you have to understand something about his mother, Hannah,

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Speaker 3: And that is this that year after year she could

614
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Speaker 3: not have a baby. They would go and sacrifice and

615
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: she would pray, God, give me a baby, and Panina

616
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Speaker 3: would have another baby, and she would have none. The

617
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: next year rolls around, I'm going back again, and she

618
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Speaker 3: would go and she would pray, and she would.

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Speaker 1: Ask God, and she would sacrifice.

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Speaker 3: God, please give me a baby. Now you might not

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Speaker 3: be praying for a baby today. You may be praying

622
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Speaker 3: for one of your children that you already have. You

623
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 3: may be praying for a certain thing that you need

624
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: God to do in your body. You may be praying

625
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 3: about a mental illness. You may be praying about a

626
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: way that you want God to give you clarity. It's

627
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 3: been kind of foggy, So I need you to put

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Speaker 3: yourself in the situation of Hannah today and not just

629
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Speaker 3: think about if I have a kid or if I

630
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Speaker 3: don't have a kid. This represents all of those things

631
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Speaker 3: in our hearts that we carry with us where there

632
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: is an empty space, but we keep going to the

633
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: House of God anyway. And what blessed me about Hannah

634
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Speaker 3: is what blessed.

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Speaker 1: Me about Samuel. Let me explain.

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Speaker 3: If you fast forward to the time that we read

637
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Speaker 3: about in First sin Old chapter three, verses one through eleven.

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Speaker 1: Samuel is a boy now not a baby.

639
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 3: So eventually God gives Hannah.

640
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Speaker 1: What she asked for, a baby.

641
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: But she had to take the baby back to the

642
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Speaker 3: temple and dedicate him to the Lord, because that's.

643
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Speaker 1: What she vowed she would do.

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Speaker 3: If God gives me a boy, I'll give him to you, Lord,

645
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Speaker 3: I'll let him serve you.

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Speaker 1: So after she had weaned him.

647
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: She took him and she put him there in Eli's temple,

648
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Speaker 3: which she knew.

649
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: Was corrupt, but she had no other choice, and she.

650
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Speaker 3: Had to trust God that God is going to take

651
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 3: care of this, even though I can't.

652
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Speaker 1: She had to trust God that I'm sending my.

653
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Speaker 3: Kid to this crazy school and I know what goes

654
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Speaker 3: on there, but I know the God who goes before

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Speaker 3: my kid that I'm sending to this school. And in

656
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Speaker 3: giving her child to God, it meant that she spent

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Speaker 3: almost every day of her life away from this boy.

658
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Speaker 3: Now God ended up giving her five other children.

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Speaker 1: Because you will never outgive God. You will never outgive God.

660
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Speaker 1: You will never outgive God.

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Speaker 3: You're whining and crying about that little twenty dollars that

662
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 3: you loaned your friend this week.

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Speaker 1: You didn't loan it to them. You loaned it to

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Speaker 1: the Lord.

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Speaker 3: And the Lord will pay back with interest those he

666
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Speaker 3: can trust with his substance. And every year she would

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Speaker 3: go to see Samuel, her boy that she gave to God,

668
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Speaker 3: she would bring with her a little ephod which was

669
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 3: what the priest would wear, a little linenipha that she

670
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 3: had made custom for him, and she'd have to kind

671
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 3: of guess how big it should be, because she hadn't

672
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 3: seen him for a year. So if you were to

673
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 3: see Hannah go into the temple at this point in

674
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 3: her life, you would see a proud mother, mother of

675
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 3: a future prophet. Her bumper sticker would have said. And

676
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 3: you would have seen her with her little Ephah that

677
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 3: she had made for him. Oh, he's growing up so much.

678
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: Here's the new Ephah. And you would have seen her

679
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 3: going to the temple and sacrificing and being blessed and

680
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: seeing her boy. But what about all those times you

681
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 3: didn't see when Hannah went to the temple year after

682
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 3: year after year, with her rival in one ear and

683
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 3: God in the other, and her rival saying, why do

684
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 3: you keep serving a God who won't even bless you

685
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 3: with a baby? Look how blessed I am.

686
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: Now.

687
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 3: I know people don't say that to us directly, but

688
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 3: don't they make us feel that way sometimes?

689
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: And yet she went. Notice what it says.

690
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 3: In verse seven, This is the real verse that I

691
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 3: want to preach about. It says that Hannah, you're like

692
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 3: you said you were preaching about Samuel. I can't preach

693
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 3: about Samuel without preaching about Hannah because I think what

694
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 3: Samuel did was based on something that Hannah did that

695
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 3: he never even saw.

696
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: Before he was even born.

697
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 3: His mom would go to the temple year after year,

698
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 3: and as often as she went up, circle went up.

699
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 3: As often as she went up to the house of

700
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 3: the Lord, she used to provoke her. Stop and let's

701
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: break this down back to the top of the verse.

702
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 3: It went on, circle went on.

703
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: Year by year. As often as she went up to

704
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: the house.

705
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 3: Of the Lord, her rival used to provoke her. Therefore,

706
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 3: Hannah wept, Circle wept. Here's my whole message in a sentence.

707
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 3: She wept, but she went up anyway.

708
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: Listen to me.

709
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: This might be the word to snatch you out of despondency,

710
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 3: This might be the word to shake you out of lethargy.

711
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 3: Is that Hannah wept? But she went up, And God

712
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 3: did not silence her enemy. But she went up anyway, And.

713
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: God did not give her her prayer request.

714
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 3: But she went up anyway, and she went up weeping.

715
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 3: And she went up, and while she would go up,

716
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: she would weep, and when she would get there, she

717
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 3: would weep. But it went on year after year, and

718
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: she went up. So I see a picture in this

719
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 3: text of a woman who was willing to keep coming

720
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 3: back even if I don't see the thing that I

721
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 3: asked God for. I'm going back not by sight, but

722
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 3: by faith. See a picture of every person who is

723
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: in this church right now, feeling unrecognized, feeling insignificant, feeling

724
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 3: like life is not cutting grass and you are sowing

725
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 3: seed and you are not seeing anything right now. I

726
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 3: want to remind you that you can go up weeping,

727
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 3: you can go up hurting, you can go up confused.

728
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: You can go back.

729
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 3: Because Samuel heard the voice of God and thought it

730
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 3: was the voice of Eli, and he went to Eli.

731
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: But God said wrong.

732
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 3: Guy, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back,

733
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 3: go back, go back, And you can have all your

734
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 3: fancy definitions of faith that you want. But I think

735
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 3: sometimes real faith is just a simple ass.

736
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: Go back, go back, go back, go back. You go

737
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: back and do it again.

738
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 3: You go back and love them again, You go back

739
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 3: and serve again, You go back and drop it again,

740
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 3: you go back and pray again, you go back and

741
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 3: think him again. You go back, and you go back,

742
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 3: and you go back and you go back.

743
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 1: You getting the point.

744
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 3: Because Samuel learned how to do this through something that

745
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 3: a woman did.

746
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: That he never even witnessed.

747
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 3: Her persistence led to his purpose, the only reason he

748
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 3: had it in him to go back to Eli, no

749
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 3: matter how many times it took.

750
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: I heard you call, I'm coming back. Go back and

751
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 1: lie down. I'm coming again, go back and lie down.

752
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: Where did he get the persistence to keep coming back

753
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: like that?

754
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: Because he had a mom, Because he came from a

755
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 3: womb that was barren, And every time she tried to

756
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: have a baby she couldn't, and every time.

757
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: She tried to consent, she couldn't.

758
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: But she kept crying out to God, and she cried

759
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 3: until she conceived, and she came back until she conceived,

760
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 3: and she prayed until she conceived. And I am preaching

761
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 3: to somebody today who has become convinced that God is

762
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 3: not with you and the devil is a liar, because

763
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 3: that same woman who left.

764
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: The temple all those years with an empty womb.

765
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 3: Came back one day carrying a priest's robe.

766
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: Because if you'll go back enough.

767
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 6: Times, all who all those times you didn't see when

768
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 6: she went back and prayed anyway.

769
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 3: When she went back and sacrificed anyway, when you showed

770
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 3: up at worked and smiled at hateful people. Anyway, go

771
00:42:55,239 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 3: back smiling, and you shall come home rejoicing. Such seven

772
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 3: people say, go back many times as you gotta do it.

773
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 3: Go back, pick up your bible again.

774
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: Go back. I know the.

775
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 3: Bible was drive the last time you read it, but

776
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 3: there shall be showers of blessing upon you.

777
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: In due season. Go back.

778
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 3: In that amazing holly. She stayed there and she prayed.

779
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 3: Give them Verse fifteen. Verse fifteen is so annointing. We

780
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 3: got to go to verse twelve to get to fifteen.

781
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: Give them Verse twelve. Verse twelve says that when Hannah

782
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 3: was there praying, she continued praying before the Lord. She

783
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 3: continued praying before the Lord. She continued praying before the Lord.

784
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: Did God not hear her the first time?

785
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 3: No? God heard her the first time. God just understands

786
00:43:52,200 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 3: something called due time, due time. Everybody say time, not

787
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 3: d o time, Due time, do time. It means that

788
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 3: God knows when Samuel needs to show up.

789
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: God knows when her wound needs to open.

790
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 3: God knew how to give her an enemy to keep

791
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 3: her praying.

792
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: God knows when it needs to happen.

793
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 3: God knows when to start the wheel turning. God knows

794
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 3: when the to'll fill you back up again. God knows

795
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 3: when they need to say no, when they need to

796
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 3: say yes, knows when to shut a door, knows when

797
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 3: to open a window, knows when to tear off a ceiling.

798
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: God knows.

799
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 3: It's almost like Hannah Red Galatians six'.

800
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 7: Nine galatians six', nine says and let us not.

801
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: Grow weary I'm doing god.

802
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 3: For in?

803
00:44:58,200 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: Do season?

804
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 7: What season?

805
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: Do season? What season?

806
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 3: Do? Season now high five to three people And say i'm.

807
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: Doing good.

808
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 3: I'm.

809
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: Doing good put it in. The chat i'm. Doing good i'm.

810
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm.

811
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: Doing, that yeah but you don't have your. Baby yet i'm.

812
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 3: Doing good i'm. Doing good Why the bible told Me

813
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 3: in galatians, six' nine let us.

814
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: Not grow weary. Of Doing good.

815
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 3: So i'm, not.

816
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: Feeling good but. I'm doing good it, doesn't Look good but.

817
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,479
Speaker 3: I'M doing good i can't see the grass going. DOWN

818
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 3: right now i can't see the money coming, UP right

819
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 3: now i can't see.

820
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: The season painting what there is? A DO season and

821
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: i know. WHAT to do i know.

822
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 7: What to do i'm.

823
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: A do good i'm gonna.

824
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 7: Praise this name i'm gonna workship. Him right here i'm

825
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 7: GONNA pray like i. Believe the answer he's already, in

826
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 7: the temple laying. On the bed, He heard me. He

827
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 7: hears me.

828
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: Shake, Your neighbors say. I'm doing good. I'm doing good.

829
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: He'll goose season.

830
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 7: I'm A so shall i, See some grass i'm gonna.

831
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: Cut it down and let.

832
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 7: It grow back the Word of the lord will not,

833
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 7: faith the grass fase. The flower Face but The word of,

834
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 7: god will say, forever and, ever somebody south forever for

835
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 7: a light and momentary afflictions are producing in us a

836
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 7: far exceeding.

837
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: Way of. Glory that's.

838
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 3: Amazing that's amazing all those times YOU didn't See.

839
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: I see hannah coming with her ephot again.

840
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 3: For her baby it was all those times you didn't

841
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 3: see her coming with no baby clothes that made her

842
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 3: produce a sign whose words Would. Come to israel they

843
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: heard his words Because he, heard God's words because god.

844
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: Heard her words and.

845
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 8: You're telling me your. Life doesn't matter you're telling me

846
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 8: you're thinking. About killing yourself you're telling me you almost

847
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 8: thought about not coming.

848
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 3: To church Today and the lord can speak to you and,

849
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 3: you Can, say speak lord.

850
00:47:55,160 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Your servant tears you can't hear if. You're not here

851
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: AND that's why. I keep coming.

852
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 3: I DON'T know if, i showed you but his mom

853
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 3: did something before he was born that was, instilled in

854
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 3: him even though she wasn't the. One raising him and

855
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 3: he Came back to Samuel, or to eli?

856
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: What'd you?

857
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 3: Say, WHAT me Okay i guess i'll. TRY that again

858
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 3: i think sometimes we make. It too Complicated sometimes all

859
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 3: god wants to say to you is let's.

860
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: Try this again.

861
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 3: Let's, try this, Again your dummy let's.

862
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: Try this Again that's the lord's. Nickname for me and

863
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 1: it's all those times.

864
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 3: YOU didn't see i think It's amazing that hannah was

865
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 3: able to leave her Son. With the lord don't you

866
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 3: little boarding school action never. Heard A kid but i

867
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 3: think was even more amazing than the fact that she

868
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 3: vowed and gave Him to The lord when god gave.

869
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 3: HER a baby i think what's even more amazing than

870
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 3: what She did when god gave her a baby is

871
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 3: what She did. When GOD didn't and i think sometimes

872
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 3: the greatest faith in your life is that you come

873
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 3: back From temptation when god doesn't take, the temptation away

874
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 3: but gives you the grace to stand.

875
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: UP under it.

876
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 3: I think it's when You pray for god to send

877
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,479
Speaker 3: you the relationship, and he doesn't and you press into him.

878
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: THAT much deeper i Think.

879
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 3: It's when god asks you to change the other person's

880
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 3: behavior and he doesn't. CHANGE your approach i think it's

881
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 3: When you ask god to take the strain off of you,

882
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 3: and he doesn't so he puts the. STRENGTH in you

883
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 3: I think what hannah did was amazing that she gave

884
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 3: her Baby to the lord when. HE was born i

885
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 3: think it's even more amazing that she kept going While.

886
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: Waiting on god.

887
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 3: I'm done preaching you can stand to your Feet because

888
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 3: the lord had a word.

889
00:50:31,440 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 4: For somebody today.

890
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 3: How many of you have had times in your life

891
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 3: Where you've seen god do something. Amazing for You you

892
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 3: praised him, for those times and you should also wants

893
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 3: you to learn How to praise him for all the

894
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:17,359
Speaker 3: times you didn't see that.

895
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: HE was doing i can't get off of it doing

896
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: something for. A due season the important.

897
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 3: Thing. Would Be look when god Finally spoke To Samuel,

898
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 3: in first, samuel chapter, three verse, ten, HE said speak.

899
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: I, hear you god and verse Eleven says.

900
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: The Lord, said, TO samuel behold i am about to

901
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 3: do A thing in israel at which the two ears

902
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 3: Of everyone in, israel will tingle and it would be.

903
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 3: A devastating thing eli and his two sons would both

904
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 3: die in the, heat Of battle so god could. Raise

905
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 3: Up another because god's transition are. Not always pretty but

906
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 3: in the process, of verse, eleven, HE says behold i

907
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 3: am about to do A thing in israel that will make,

908
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 3: everybody's spine, tingle ears tingle.

909
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: Two ears tingle this is going to. Be so big

910
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: god is going.

911
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 3: To do Something but if samuel had been born at,

912
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 3: any other time he could not have been The.

913
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: One that god used to bring.

914
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: The change about so Every year that hannah went to

915
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 3: worship That she thought god, Was ignoring her god was.

916
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 3: Not ignoring her god was positioning her to bring forth

917
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 3: from her womb what.

918
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: The nation needed and sometimes it's not about, what we

919
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: want it's.

920
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 8: About Do.

921
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: Time what god does. Is HIS business what i do

922
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: until he. Does is worship. TITH companies tif i just

923
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: SAW this while i. Was preparing, today right now, in

924
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: this moment.

925
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 3: She can lead you, in worship spontaneously without any lyrics,

926
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 3: on the screen. WITHOUT any planning i did NOT tell

927
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 3: her i. WOULD call her i did NOT prepare her i.

928
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: WOULD call her i didn't do. Any OF that but i,

929
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: just called. HER tif tif i didn't.

930
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 3: Even have to.

931
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: Call her twice.

932
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 3: She just came, and right now with your hands, lifted

933
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 3: in worship lead them.

934
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: For one minute and. It didn't worship whatever flows, from

935
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: your heart just do. It right now, m h.

936
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 5: Oh we. TRUST your teeth i can trust you d's because,

937
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 5: you know bads. You, KNOW best.

938
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 9: JEEZE i know i, Can, trust you jeez because your,

939
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 9: way IS bad so. I will swender.

940
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: I will surrender.

941
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 3: Your, way IS bad so.

942
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: I will swaner.

943
00:54:49,560 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 5: I, Can. Trust, you jeez hey that. Way wonder show

944
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 5: if we, do this straight they, show out up. GO

945
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 5: on away i can be and so they show and

946
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 5: not get a weird this. Shower and nothing that's what happens.

947
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 3: When you so, so come on clap your Hands.

948
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: And thank god so let me tell.

949
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 3: You why.

950
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: Why can?

951
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:42,399
Speaker 3: She do that because, She did that she did that

952
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 3: since she was. A little girl her dad, is a pastor.

953
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 3: AN amazing man i MET him when i met her

954
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 3: MOM and dad, I was like.

955
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: I get it i get.

956
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 3: While you're awesome but then they told me stories how

957
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 3: she used to be in, the church alone hours and

958
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 3: hours and hours pounding four chords, on a piano Just singing.

959
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: Till god game and somebody said to me the other,

960
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 1: day They said, When tiff, sings GOD comes and i knew.

961
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 3: What they meant that sounds bad if you just take it,

962
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 3: out Of context because god.

963
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: Is ALWAYS here but i knew.

964
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 3: What THEY meant what i, loved about IT and why

965
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 3: i called you OUT.

966
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: Here is i want all of them to get a picture, of.

967
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 3: Their life to realize that it is what you did

968
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 3: until this season.

969
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: That made you able TO do what i just called

970
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: you to do. In this moment. So it's.

971
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 3: Wonderful it's wonderful it's a great picture because you're doing

972
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 3: things right now. That seem insignificant you feel all, alone

973
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 3: right now you feel like it doesn't, matter right now

974
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 3: and you cut the grass and it grows back higher, And,

975
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 3: you go GOD why am?

976
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: I even bothering but remember there is.

977
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 3: A Due season what god does, is his business and

978
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 3: what you do until he. Does is Worship so when,

979
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 3: god Calls you When. God called samuel he was ready

980
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 3: because he had Ministered. To The lord maybe god has

981
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 3: you in a season of your life where you're. Ministering

982
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 3: to him it's not about. People appreciating you it's not about.

983
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 3: People acknowledging you it's not about comparing yourself. To other

984
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 3: people it's not about your rival in your ear telling

985
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 3: you how you should.

986
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: Be further along it's not.

987
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 3: About your insecurity it is about what you are doing.

988
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: Until due season they shall walk. Andnot get weary they

989
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: shall walk.

990
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 3: And not faint that's what happens when you Wait.

991
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 10: On the lord it's because she did it in a

992
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 10: church alone that she can do it in. This Room

993
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 10: today and i'm, Trying to say god.

994
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: Is preparing you god. Is preparing you would you huk

995
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: three people and tell them Wait, On the lord Wait,

996
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: On the lord Wait. On the lord do.

997
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 3: Not grow weary in well doing you shall receive.

998
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: In two season.

999
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,440
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1000
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:34,600
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1001
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,960
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1002
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,400
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00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:45,400
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00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,040
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