Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3: I have a sneaking suspicion that we have a lot
Speaker 3: of visitors today. How many of you travel to visit
Speaker 3: with us today?
Speaker 1: God bless you? Well, that's the whole church.
Speaker 3: I could just preach what I've preached last week because
Speaker 3: it's all visitors.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: We've got about one hundred of our evam, heart and
Speaker 3: soul from.
Speaker 1: All over the world. Thank God for y'all. It's been mentioned,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get down on it yet.
Speaker 3: They're baptizing today over six hundred people at all of
Speaker 3: our locations.
Speaker 1: You said five hundred, but I heard six. Might be
Speaker 1: seven by the time God gets through. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1: That's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: And there's still time for you to sign up as well.
Speaker 3: If you believe that God is calling you to be
Speaker 3: baptized today, be an awesome step of.
Speaker 1: Faith for you to take.
Speaker 3: Go down in that water, leave your shame, leave your sin, leave.
Speaker 1: It all behind.
Speaker 3: The mercy of God is why, and he can make
Speaker 3: you a new creation. Well, today, just like any other day,
Speaker 3: I'm going to open my Bible and share with you,
Speaker 3: but it is not just like any other day. This
Speaker 3: is a special week. This is the final week of
Speaker 3: one of my.
Speaker 1: Favorite series that I ever preached before in my life.
Speaker 3: The series was called Called and we're finishing it up today.
Speaker 1: We've talked about so many.
Speaker 3: Bible characters, and y'all can bring it down a little bit,
Speaker 3: thank you. We've talked about Abraham and Moses, and Martha
Speaker 3: and Simon, Simon, Peter, and we talked about who else
Speaker 3: do y'all remember Jacob, Martha, Saul, the artist formerly known
Speaker 3: as Saul who became Paul the Great Apostle.
Speaker 1: And today we only have one.
Speaker 3: Person left to talk about. And one thing that I
Speaker 3: think is kind of cool about this series. You've kind
Speaker 3: of gotten an overview of a lot of the different
Speaker 3: Bible stories, and through that I might put out a
Speaker 3: book called called One.
Speaker 1: Day just with these stories, because it was based.
Speaker 3: Around everybody in scripture that God called their name, but
Speaker 3: he called it twice, so Martha Martha, Moses, Moses, Abraham, Abraham,
Speaker 3: and today we're going to do the final person, Samuel Samuel.
Speaker 3: Now my challenge is, I don't know how much of
Speaker 3: this story you already know. And if you turn your
Speaker 3: Bible to First Samuel, see there's a whole book called Samuel.
Speaker 3: So I can't share everything, but there's actually a sequel
Speaker 3: to Second Samuel. So I asked one of our church members,
Speaker 3: how much do you know about Samuel? I was trying
Speaker 3: to figure out how much background to fill in, and
Speaker 3: she said, the only thing I know about Samuel is
Speaker 3: that he spent the night in the lions Den, and
Speaker 3: not Samuel.
Speaker 1: That's Daniel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so touch your neighbor and say, we got
Speaker 3: a lot of catching up to do.
Speaker 1: You're a little behind, but I love that man.
Speaker 3: I don't ever want you to feel intimidated come into
Speaker 3: this church because you don't.
Speaker 1: Know all these Hebrew and Greek words.
Speaker 3: I don't know him either, and I paid to go
Speaker 3: to school to learn him. I have to look him
Speaker 3: up every week to preach them to you. And you know,
Speaker 3: the Christian life isn't about how much of the Bible
Speaker 3: stories you can quote or how spiritual you can look,
Speaker 3: but it's just about trusting.
Speaker 1: God from this stay forward in your life with all
Speaker 1: that you have. And so doesn't matter to me if
Speaker 1: you know this story or not.
Speaker 3: I actually think if you don't know the story, you
Speaker 3: can hear it fresh sometimes and it puts you in
Speaker 3: an advantage. So today I want to take us to
Speaker 3: one verse to start out, and its first Samuel chapter three,
Speaker 3: verse ten, for the final sermon in my called series.
Speaker 3: And I'm so glad you made it out for this
Speaker 3: today the word of the Lord says for Samuel three
Speaker 3: verse ten. And the Lord came and stood calling, as
Speaker 3: at other times Samuel Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for
Speaker 3: your servant heres in that cool scripture, and the Lord came.
Speaker 3: How many want the Lord to come today? How many
Speaker 3: want the Lord to come today into your home? How
Speaker 3: many want the Lord to come today into your emotions?
Speaker 1: How many want the Lord to come?
Speaker 3: And the Lord came and stood calling as at other
Speaker 3: times Samuel Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for your servant heres,
Speaker 3: And today I want to talk to you. Here's my
Speaker 3: subject about all those times you didn't see, all those
Speaker 3: times you didn't see Father opened your word that we
Speaker 3: might behold your wonder and your glory, and perhaps show
Speaker 3: us something today that would be so specific that we
Speaker 3: would not miss your presence in this moment. We thank
Speaker 3: you for being God and every season of our life.
Speaker 3: And I thank you now for the right now word that.
Speaker 1: You are going to speak in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3: Amen, you may be seated, And why don't y'all bring
Speaker 3: out my screen today so I can do a little
Speaker 3: teach you preachy, preachy teachee any country music fans in
Speaker 3: the house. I heard a country songwriter say something the
Speaker 3: other day that I thought was an appropriate opening for
Speaker 3: our sermon time together. All right, So he's a Grammy
Speaker 3: winning country songwriter. He's written many number one hits. He's
Speaker 3: about fifty seven years old.
Speaker 1: He's been at it a long time.
Speaker 3: And he was in an interview and he started explaining
Speaker 3: to the younger songwriter who was interviewing him why he
Speaker 3: still cuts his own grass with a push lawnmower. He said,
Speaker 3: I still cut my own grass. I've won all these
Speaker 3: Grammys and Billboard Awards and CMA Awards, but I still
Speaker 3: cut my own grass with a push mower.
Speaker 1: I go out there and I sweat and I cut
Speaker 1: the grass.
Speaker 3: And my neighbor said to me one day, why do
Speaker 3: you still cut your own grass. Surely you can afford
Speaker 3: somebody to do that for you and do something more
Speaker 3: valuable with your time, like write another hit song or
Speaker 3: win another Grammy.
Speaker 1: And he said, no, I definitely could.
Speaker 3: But the reason that I still cut my grass myself
Speaker 3: is because it is one of the only, if not
Speaker 3: the only, thing left in my life that I can
Speaker 3: do and see an immediate.
Speaker 1: Return on with my eyes.
Speaker 3: It's one of the only things left, if not the
Speaker 3: only thing left in my life that the grass can
Speaker 3: look bad one minute and better the next. Songwriting isn't
Speaker 3: like that, he said. I might write a song today
Speaker 3: and five years later somebody records it on their album.
Speaker 3: And that's assuming it even gets recorded. Cutting the grass,
Speaker 3: I can cut a row right now and smell it
Speaker 3: and see it and bask in it. Every Man who
Speaker 3: likes to cut your own grass, say I did that.
Speaker 4: I did that.
Speaker 3: That grass might grow back in three days, but for
Speaker 3: the next three days, let the devil know, and let
Speaker 3: those grass blades know. You can't grow back yet, because
Speaker 3: I just cut you down.
Speaker 1: I did that.
Speaker 3: You know, in songwriting, the most successful songwriters of all
Speaker 3: time who end up in the Songwriting Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: don't get every song that they wrote recorded. That means
Speaker 3: they'll go in and write a song the best they
Speaker 3: can and it will never ever even see the light
Speaker 3: of day. In fact, keep this statistic in your mind
Speaker 3: the next time you hear a song on the radio.
Speaker 3: That for the professional songwriter who writes a song every
Speaker 3: day Monday through Friday, that's about two hundred songs per year.
Speaker 3: Which most of these professional writers will write two hundred
Speaker 3: songs a year, only one of those will end up
Speaker 3: being on the radio if they're lucky. That is a
Speaker 3: successful statistic. Of course, many more write thousands and they're
Speaker 3: never heard. But for everyone that you hear on the radio,
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety nine were written but they didn't
Speaker 3: get recorded. Not even did they not get released or
Speaker 3: on the radio. They didn't even get recorded one hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety nine times out of two hundreds. So that
Speaker 3: means that one hundred and ninety nine times that a
Speaker 3: songwriter shows up to work they know they're going to
Speaker 3: fail that year, hoping for the one time that maybe
Speaker 3: something will happen.
Speaker 1: That's special, and we can see the result of it.
Speaker 3: So he said, the way I deal with this failure
Speaker 3: rate is I cut my grass. I don't have to
Speaker 3: wait five years for the grass to go down. I
Speaker 3: cut it, I look at it. I cut another row,
Speaker 3: I look at it. It is one of the only
Speaker 3: things left in my life that has a visible and
Speaker 3: immediate return. So no matter how many grammys I win,
Speaker 3: I'm always going to cut my own grass. Why are
Speaker 3: you talking about this, Pastor Steven, Because I wish serving
Speaker 3: God was like cutting grass.
Speaker 1: That's what I wish.
Speaker 3: I wish serving God preaching sermons was like cutting grass.
Speaker 3: I wish I could watch sin go down lower while
Speaker 3: I was preaching to you today. You know how powerful
Speaker 3: that would be if I could see your shame going
Speaker 3: down like grass, just cutting it down, just mowing down
Speaker 3: all of the bad mindsets as you're cutting grass. Don't
Speaker 3: some of you wish that parenting and raising kids was
Speaker 3: more like cutting grass. Come on, where I could see
Speaker 3: that I took that bad attitude and I cut it down,
Speaker 3: and it might grow back, but I can cut it
Speaker 3: again in a week and at least for three days,
Speaker 3: you're not going to talk back to me. But kids
Speaker 3: aren't like that, So in the meantime, you got to
Speaker 3: buy a lawnmower and cut the grass. Because most of
Speaker 3: the efforts that you make in your life that will
Speaker 3: be the most valuable will be the least visible.
Speaker 1: At first.
Speaker 3: Most of the efforts that you make in your life
Speaker 3: that are the most valuable will be the least visible
Speaker 3: at first. This is contradictory to every cultural impulse that
Speaker 3: we have that encourages us to post every time we
Speaker 3: work out. If you post every time you work out
Speaker 3: as proof that you work out, I don't think you're
Speaker 3: working out right, because the proof that you work out
Speaker 3: should be you. When you don't work out, we will
Speaker 3: see it when you're not working out. But if you're
Speaker 3: only posting to show us that you worked out, I'm
Speaker 3: afraid that you're distracted from the real benefit of the workout.
Speaker 3: That is a side rant in the text that I
Speaker 3: read you from First Samuel, chapter three, verse ten. It
Speaker 3: is one of those amazing moments in the life of
Speaker 3: a prophet named Samuel. Samuel, of course, would go on
Speaker 3: to be the prophet that would anoint the first king
Speaker 3: of Israel, whose name was Saul. He would also anoint
Speaker 3: the replacement for Saul, whose name was David, because while
Speaker 3: Saul was the people's choice, David was God's choice. And
Speaker 3: when Saul was anointed to be a king, he didn't
Speaker 3: even want to be a king. In fact, God didn't
Speaker 3: even want his peace people to have a king. He
Speaker 3: wanted to be their king. He was their king, but
Speaker 3: they wanted a king like the other nations. Samuel would
Speaker 3: go on to anoint not only David, but he would
Speaker 3: go on to administer justice all throughout the Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 1: In his reign, he would go from Dan de.
Speaker 3: Birsheba yearly and seasonally in a circuit in order to
Speaker 3: administer justice. See, in the time before the kings, they
Speaker 3: had judges who were appointed by God seasonally. In other words,
Speaker 3: they were not necessarily going to be there for long,
Speaker 3: but they were given a job to do to bring
Speaker 3: the people back to God in the way that they
Speaker 3: could as deliverers. Samuel was the last judge, and he
Speaker 3: anointed the first king. So we begin to see that
Speaker 3: his life is a very transitional moment in the nation.
Speaker 3: But the Bible says in First Samuel, chapter three, verse ten,
Speaker 3: that one night, as he was sleeping in the temple
Speaker 3: at his usual place, the Lord came and called to Samuel,
Speaker 3: and he said his name Samuel.
Speaker 1: Samuel.
Speaker 3: Now, reading this on the surface is a really good
Speaker 3: story about a man who hears God's voice and responds.
Speaker 3: On the surface of this story, we see Samuel as
Speaker 3: somebody who really gets it right the first time.
Speaker 1: You can't do much better than that.
Speaker 3: And the Lord came and stood calling, as at other times,
Speaker 3: Samuel Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for your servant.
Speaker 1: Heres. By the way.
Speaker 3: Interesting side note, the name Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for.
Speaker 1: Heard by God, heard by God.
Speaker 3: The reason he was named Samuel was because his mother
Speaker 3: had trouble getting pregnant, and when she finally got her baby,
Speaker 3: she named him Samuel.
Speaker 1: Because she felt like God heard.
Speaker 3: Me finally, so she named him as an answer to
Speaker 3: her prayer, and he becomes the answer to the entire
Speaker 3: nation's prayer for somebody who can bring the presence of
Speaker 3: God back.
Speaker 1: The thing that.
Speaker 3: You're praying about is bigger than the prayer that you're praying.
Speaker 3: She's praying on one level for a baby, and God
Speaker 3: is thinking on another level to raise up a prophet.
Speaker 1: She's praying that she might have a son.
Speaker 3: But God is preparing to send someone to annoying a king.
Speaker 3: And it all starts right here when the Lord came
Speaker 3: and stood calling As at other times.
Speaker 1: Samuel, Samuel.
Speaker 3: What got my attention about this was how it said
Speaker 3: the Lord was calling As at other times. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you noticed that, but when it says
Speaker 3: he called As at other times, it made me want
Speaker 3: to back up and see what was happening in the
Speaker 3: rest of First Samuel chapter three. If you go all
Speaker 3: the way back to the beginning of First Samuel chapter three,
Speaker 3: you get a pretty great story that I want to
Speaker 3: share with you today about what was happening at the
Speaker 3: moment that God called Samuel. And I believe there are
Speaker 3: some people here that God has brought and He is
Speaker 3: calling you, and He has been calling you, but you
Speaker 3: do not yet recognize that he's calling you, so you
Speaker 3: are calling it something else. God is calling you to
Speaker 3: a deeper level of faith. You don't yet recognize that
Speaker 3: God is calling you to a deeper level of faith,
Speaker 3: so you just call it the devil is attacking me.
Speaker 3: God is calling some of us in this season to
Speaker 3: increase our service, but we don't recognize that God is
Speaker 3: calling us to increase our service, So we call it
Speaker 3: people are taking us for granted. When you don't know
Speaker 3: that it's God calling you, you call it what it's not.
Speaker 3: When you can't see it immediately, you call it what
Speaker 3: it's not. So you do something and you think it
Speaker 3: was work worthless? What if it was not worthless what
Speaker 3: you did? What if it was just in the womb
Speaker 3: getting ready to come forth? I will show you this
Speaker 3: from First Samuel, chapter three, verse one.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, now the boy Samuel.
Speaker 3: Was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli.
Speaker 1: What does that mean.
Speaker 3: It means that he was in a place where a
Speaker 3: man was in charge, and the word of the Lord
Speaker 3: was rare in those days, there was no frequent vision.
Speaker 3: But he was doing what he was supposed to do,
Speaker 3: even though the place where he was was not reflective
Speaker 3: of the values that he believed.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that Eli was a.
Speaker 3: Very bad priest who had two sons named Hofney and Phineas,
Speaker 3: who were doing all kinds of things in the temple
Speaker 3: that they shouldn't have done. Not only were they taking
Speaker 3: the sacrifices that the people brought for themselves, but they
Speaker 3: would sleep with some of the women who came to
Speaker 3: volunteer at the temple and Eli.
Speaker 1: Their father was more concerned.
Speaker 3: About his sons being happy than he was about God
Speaker 3: being holy.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: He was more concerned about not ruffling them than he
Speaker 3: was about being right with God.
Speaker 1: And all of this is.
Speaker 3: Happening in the temple, which is, of course, not the
Speaker 3: temple that would later be built.
Speaker 1: It was a tabernacle.
Speaker 3: It was a portable structure that was set up until
Speaker 3: the temple would be built. But Samuel was there ministering
Speaker 3: to the Lord as a boy in the presence of Eli.
Speaker 3: And the word of the Lord was rare in those days.
Speaker 3: There was no frequent vision.
Speaker 1: So notice this, and you have.
Speaker 3: To notice this that before Samuel went on to do
Speaker 3: all of the great things that we would see him do,
Speaker 3: he was doing stuff that nobody saw in a situation
Speaker 3: that he didn't want to be in. And because he
Speaker 3: was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli,
Speaker 3: God was able to honor his service, even though the
Speaker 3: situation he was in was not the situation he would
Speaker 3: have chosen to serve in. I'm saying this just in
Speaker 3: case you hate your job. I'm saying this just in
Speaker 3: case you hate your apartment and your landlord. I'm saying
Speaker 3: this just in case you hate having to go to
Speaker 3: chemo right now, but you still have to go. I'm
Speaker 3: saying this just in case you are in a season
Speaker 3: that you did not select. But to know that Samuel
Speaker 3: was able to minister to the Lord, and the Lord
Speaker 3: was able to mature him because as he ministered to God,
Speaker 3: God matured him. And sometimes where you want to be
Speaker 3: and where you are don't match. But there is a
Speaker 3: ministry where I am, if I will do what I'm
Speaker 3: called to do where I am, And I know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about because this is not the first church
Speaker 3: that I served in. I served in a church before
Speaker 3: this church that was falling apart. And as the church
Speaker 3: was falling apart, a group of men came to me
Speaker 3: and said you should be our pastor because.
Speaker 1: They wanted their pastor gone.
Speaker 3: And when he said it to me, a part of
Speaker 3: me thought that could be cool. And they start saying
Speaker 3: all this nice stuff like when you preach, it reminds
Speaker 3: us of Billy Graham. Wow, talk about an exaggeration, talk
Speaker 3: about a sales job. But it sounded kind of good,
Speaker 3: and I listened to him for about twenty minutes, and
Speaker 3: I was driving home, and when I got home, Holly
Speaker 3: was home.
Speaker 1: From teaching school.
Speaker 3: She was teaching seventh grade at the time, and she
Speaker 3: was waiting on the porch. And we were newlyweds, you know,
Speaker 3: second year of marriage, third year of marriage.
Speaker 1: Something like that, and still working through all of this.
Speaker 3: And as soon as I saw her on the porch,
Speaker 3: the Lord spoke to my and said, you go on
Speaker 3: that porch, and you make a vow with your wife
Speaker 3: right now that you will not do anything that will
Speaker 3: dishonor this pastor. You do not skip any of the
Speaker 3: steps that I want to use to develop you. You
Speaker 3: do not sow anything that you do not want to
Speaker 3: later reap in your life in this situation.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you this.
Speaker 3: I think the first important ceremony that I did with
Speaker 3: Holly was our wedding day. And I think the second
Speaker 3: most important ceremony I did with her was on our
Speaker 3: porch that day, where I decided that as we are
Speaker 3: planted in this church, we will make a decision that
Speaker 3: while we were here, even if we hate it here
Speaker 3: in certain ways, even if there are people trying to
Speaker 3: get in our heads and get in our ears and
Speaker 3: tell us that if we just angle and position like this,
Speaker 3: I think that was our moment with God where God
Speaker 3: was seeing could he trust us with you? And I'm
Speaker 3: not saying I'm perfect, baby, but I got that one right.
Speaker 1: I got that one right.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if I would have got stuck in scheming.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if I had gotten stuck in trying
Speaker 3: to steal something that wasn't even mine. Can you imagine
Speaker 3: if I would have let that affect me. And I'm
Speaker 3: not saying this because I don't think that you should
Speaker 3: lead this church. I'm saying this because I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been able to start this church if I had listened
Speaker 3: to what they said.
Speaker 1: So when I look at the camera and say, welcome.
Speaker 3: Our EPAM all around the world, I am very well
Speaker 3: aware that the ministry that we have today is largely
Speaker 3: connected to all those times you didn't see where we
Speaker 3: could have done something that we shouldn't have done and
Speaker 3: didn't do all that from verse one and Samuel isn't
Speaker 3: even in the lines then, yet he's just ministering to
Speaker 3: the Lord in the presence of Eli and the word
Speaker 3: of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Watch this was rare in those days, you're like, not anymore.
Speaker 1: We got the word of God.
Speaker 3: I got it on my phone, I got it in
Speaker 3: I got it in English, I got it in Spanish.
Speaker 1: I'm learning a little Spanish.
Speaker 3: Little what's it called dua lipa. I know I'm trying
Speaker 3: to make you critage. I know it's dual lingo abby.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says the word of the Lord.
Speaker 3: Was rare in those days, not because he wasn't willing
Speaker 3: to speak, but because he couldn't find people who were
Speaker 3: willing to listen. When God finds one person who will
Speaker 3: listen to him, really listen to him, watch what he
Speaker 3: can do. The boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord
Speaker 3: in the presence of Eli, and the word of the
Speaker 3: Lord was rare in those days. There was no frequent vision,
Speaker 3: you know, in those times, they didn't have great Bible
Speaker 3: books like Galatians or the Gospel of John. Jesus had
Speaker 3: not yet come, and it was like God stopped showing up.
Speaker 3: It was like God stopped showing up to meet with them.
Speaker 3: They were still doing sacrifices, but it was rare that
Speaker 3: they really heard from God.
Speaker 1: And I think it's rare that we really do.
Speaker 3: Not because of the lack of access to God's word,
Speaker 3: but because of the lack of attention that we give
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 1: It has never been easier to have the Bible in
Speaker 1: your ear.
Speaker 3: Right Like right now, I could be listening to for
Speaker 3: Samuel three and you wouldn't even know it, but.
Speaker 1: It was in your other ear. I had that on
Speaker 1: noised cancelation. That was really weird experience.
Speaker 3: Just now I couldn't hear anything, Isn't it like that?
Speaker 3: Got the word of God in one ear, the world
Speaker 3: in the n the word of God in one ear,
Speaker 3: and a constant feeding frenzy on my phone in the other.
Speaker 3: And this isn't a message about put down your phone,
Speaker 3: but I just want to point out some similarities.
Speaker 1: That the word of the Lord was rare and there was.
Speaker 3: No frequent vision. Now, look, the Bible says at that time.
Speaker 3: At that time, Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow
Speaker 3: dim so that he could not see, was lying down
Speaker 3: in his own place. The lamp of God had not
Speaker 3: yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the
Speaker 3: temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.
Speaker 1: And then the Lord called.
Speaker 3: To Samuel wait a minute. Verse ten says he called
Speaker 3: to Samuel as at other times. So watch this for
Speaker 3: everybody who was frustrated because you feel like you didn't
Speaker 3: get it right the first time. Watch what God is
Speaker 3: willing to do to call Samuel. The Lord called Samuel
Speaker 3: and said and he said.
Speaker 1: Here I am and ran to Eli, who.
Speaker 3: Was the priest, who was his authority, who's the only
Speaker 3: one he knew to go to, and said, here, I
Speaker 3: am for you.
Speaker 1: Called me. But Eli said, I didn't call you. Light
Speaker 1: out again. Go back to Ben.
Speaker 3: You need some melotonin, boy, get some sleep, It says.
Speaker 3: The lamp had not yet gone out, so this is
Speaker 3: in the middle of the night. So when laid out
Speaker 3: and the Lord called again Samuel, and Samuel arose and
Speaker 3: went to Eli and said, here, I am for you.
Speaker 3: Called me, But he said, I didn't call my son
Speaker 3: light out again. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord,
Speaker 3: and the word of the Lord had not yet been
Speaker 3: revealed to him. So what I see here in this passage,
Speaker 3: if we could bring it together for a moment, is
Speaker 3: a man who.
Speaker 1: Would go on to preach God's word to the entire nation.
Speaker 3: First Samuel, for to one put it on the screen
Speaker 3: says that Samuel's word in the fullness of time, for
Speaker 3: Samuel four one came to all Israel.
Speaker 1: Look at that, in the.
Speaker 3: Fullness of time, Samuel's word came to all Israel.
Speaker 1: The entire nation heard his words.
Speaker 3: He spoke for God, He spoke of righteousness, he spoke
Speaker 3: of repentance.
Speaker 1: The entire nation heard his words.
Speaker 3: But before the nation could hear him, he had to
Speaker 3: learn to hear God. And there are some things in
Speaker 3: your life right now that before God can do externally
Speaker 3: what you want to see him do externally, there are
Speaker 3: some things that you have to learn internally so that
Speaker 3: you can hear God, so that they can hear you,
Speaker 3: so that you can get it on the inside so
Speaker 3: that God can do it on the outside. There are
Speaker 3: some things that we are waiting for God to manage,
Speaker 3: and God is waiting for.
Speaker 1: Us to mature.
Speaker 3: Because the Bible says that he was just a boy.
Speaker 3: He was a called boy, but just a boy. He
Speaker 3: was an anointed boy, but just a boy. He was
Speaker 3: a boy brought from a barren womb. But he was
Speaker 3: just a boy. But he was more than a boy
Speaker 3: because he was a boy that God had appointed to
Speaker 3: be in a place that God had assigned him to do.
Speaker 1: A task that.
Speaker 3: God had appointed at a time that God had designated.
Speaker 3: Now in the meantime, he does not yet know the Lord.
Speaker 3: But that does not mean that he will not know
Speaker 3: the Lord.
Speaker 1: And I want to.
Speaker 3: Say this to everybody who's discouraged right now about your
Speaker 3: not yet situations.
Speaker 1: In your life.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not really yet able to deal with this.
Speaker 3: I'm not really yet able to flow with this. I'm
Speaker 3: not really yet certain about this. It ought to encourage
Speaker 3: you to know that the one who spoke the word
Speaker 3: of God to the entire nation started out not yet
Speaker 3: knowing the Lord.
Speaker 1: And watch this.
Speaker 3: He didn't yet know the lad Lord, even though he
Speaker 3: lived in the church. He did not yet know the Lord,
Speaker 3: even though he served in the tabernacle, for the word
Speaker 3: of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
Speaker 3: And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. How
Speaker 3: many times will God talk to somebody that he wants
Speaker 3: to call.
Speaker 1: As many times as it takes. I thought you'd be
Speaker 1: happy about that. I thought you'd celebrate.
Speaker 3: That, because sometimes I don't get.
Speaker 1: It right the first time.
Speaker 3: Sometimes my first response is not my best version. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I don't show up like I wanted to. And now
Speaker 3: I find myself in regret. But it makes me feel
Speaker 3: good to know that even if I get on the.
Speaker 1: Wrong ship, God will put a fish outside the wrong ship.
Speaker 1: That's Jonah, not Daniel or Samuel. But I'm gonna preach.
Speaker 3: About all these people today because it really doesn't matter
Speaker 3: how fast you can run. It matters how much faster
Speaker 3: God is to get to you and bring you back.
Speaker 3: I'm calling somebody back today. I'm calling somebody back today.
Speaker 3: Back to your right mind, back to your first love,
Speaker 3: back to your original intended design, back to it. Because
Speaker 3: God said, I'll call you back, I'll call you back.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get your attention, but you didn't listen.
Speaker 1: I'll call you back.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get your attention, but you ran
Speaker 3: to drugs to stuff the hole that you should have
Speaker 3: filled with me. But I'll call you back because where
Speaker 3: you've been putting those drugs, I.
Speaker 1: Have a deposit that I want to put And.
Speaker 3: After I deliver you from what you put in my place,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something that you would not believe if
Speaker 3: I I told you. He called him again, and Eli
Speaker 3: finally got it. He said to Samuel, go lie down,
Speaker 3: and if he calls you, I think this might be God.
Speaker 3: If he calls you. He should know this. By the way,
Speaker 3: he's the priest. He should not be guessing that this
Speaker 3: is God's voice. But sometimes those who have walked with
Speaker 3: God the longest are the weakest in their ability to
Speaker 3: perceive him. He said, I think this might be God.
Speaker 3: So here's what you need to do. Go lie down,
Speaker 3: and if he calls you, you shall say, speak.
Speaker 1: Lord for your servant.
Speaker 3: Here's which is so cool because now we know that
Speaker 3: Samuel means heard by God. And since he was the
Speaker 3: answer to the prayer that his mother prayed, since she.
Speaker 1: Was heard by God.
Speaker 3: Now the one who was the answer to her prayers
Speaker 3: is learning to hear the God who heard her.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just love that.
Speaker 3: Just let me sit in that for a minute.
Speaker 1: That they heard his words.
Speaker 3: He heard God's words because he had a mom who
Speaker 3: prayed and God heard her words.
Speaker 1: Let me give you your mother's day sermon. Early, God
Speaker 1: heard you.
Speaker 3: He heard you, He heard you. God show you this.
Speaker 3: This is so crazy to me. Hannah, who was the
Speaker 3: mom of Samuel, was also the wife of a man
Speaker 3: named Elkana. Are y'all bored with all this background? I
Speaker 3: love this stuff. I live for this stuff. I want
Speaker 3: to show you this stuff. I live for this stuff.
Speaker 1: This woman had a very, very, a very a very.
Speaker 3: Difficult decision to make, and so do you. Here's the
Speaker 3: decision she had to make. Am I going to keep
Speaker 3: going to the House of God even with the broken heart?
Speaker 3: Am I going to keep bringing this before God? Because
Speaker 3: she couldn't have a child. And what made matters worse
Speaker 3: in First Samuel chapter one is that the Bible tells
Speaker 3: us that her husband, now her husband loved her. Elkina
Speaker 3: loved her, but he also had another wife, which was
Speaker 3: common in those days, and her name was Panina, and
Speaker 3: so Elkina would try to make up the difference when
Speaker 3: he would go to Shiloh to sacrifice. They would travel
Speaker 3: like twenty miles to go sacrifice every year, the Bible
Speaker 3: says verse five, But to Hannah, he gave a double
Speaker 3: portion because he loved her though the Lord had closed
Speaker 3: her womb. So he's trying to do what men do,
Speaker 3: fix situations that we can't fix. And verse sixcess that
Speaker 3: her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her
Speaker 3: because the Lord had closed her womb.
Speaker 1: So it went on year by year. It went on
Speaker 1: year by year. As often as she went up to
Speaker 1: the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her.
Speaker 3: This other woman, Penina, the other wife who was able
Speaker 3: to have children, would provoke Hannah year after year and
Speaker 3: make fun of her and mock her, and post all
Speaker 3: of her pictures of her beautiful mother's days with all
Speaker 3: of her kids. And she would provoke her year after year,
Speaker 3: And as often as Hannah went up to the house
Speaker 3: of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore, Hannah
Speaker 3: wept and would not eat. So I'm giving you this
Speaker 3: situation for a reason, because I need you to understand
Speaker 3: something about Samuel and something about you. But in order
Speaker 3: to understand Samuel, you have to understand something about his mother, Hannah,
Speaker 3: And that is this that year after year she could
Speaker 3: not have a baby. They would go and sacrifice and
Speaker 3: she would pray, God, give me a baby, and Panina
Speaker 3: would have another baby, and she would have none. The
Speaker 3: next year rolls around, I'm going back again, and she
Speaker 3: would go and she would pray, and she would.
Speaker 1: Ask God, and she would sacrifice.
Speaker 3: God, please give me a baby. Now you might not
Speaker 3: be praying for a baby today. You may be praying
Speaker 3: for one of your children that you already have. You
Speaker 3: may be praying for a certain thing that you need
Speaker 3: God to do in your body. You may be praying
Speaker 3: about a mental illness. You may be praying about a
Speaker 3: way that you want God to give you clarity. It's
Speaker 3: been kind of foggy, So I need you to put
Speaker 3: yourself in the situation of Hannah today and not just
Speaker 3: think about if I have a kid or if I
Speaker 3: don't have a kid. This represents all of those things
Speaker 3: in our hearts that we carry with us where there
Speaker 3: is an empty space, but we keep going to the
Speaker 3: House of God anyway. And what blessed me about Hannah
Speaker 3: is what blessed.
Speaker 1: Me about Samuel. Let me explain.
Speaker 3: If you fast forward to the time that we read
Speaker 3: about in First sin Old chapter three, verses one through eleven.
Speaker 1: Samuel is a boy now not a baby.
Speaker 3: So eventually God gives Hannah.
Speaker 1: What she asked for, a baby.
Speaker 3: But she had to take the baby back to the
Speaker 3: temple and dedicate him to the Lord, because that's.
Speaker 1: What she vowed she would do.
Speaker 3: If God gives me a boy, I'll give him to you, Lord,
Speaker 3: I'll let him serve you.
Speaker 1: So after she had weaned him.
Speaker 3: She took him and she put him there in Eli's temple,
Speaker 3: which she knew.
Speaker 1: Was corrupt, but she had no other choice, and she.
Speaker 3: Had to trust God that God is going to take
Speaker 3: care of this, even though I can't.
Speaker 1: She had to trust God that I'm sending my.
Speaker 3: Kid to this crazy school and I know what goes
Speaker 3: on there, but I know the God who goes before
Speaker 3: my kid that I'm sending to this school. And in
Speaker 3: giving her child to God, it meant that she spent
Speaker 3: almost every day of her life away from this boy.
Speaker 3: Now God ended up giving her five other children.
Speaker 1: Because you will never outgive God. You will never outgive God.
Speaker 1: You will never outgive God.
Speaker 3: You're whining and crying about that little twenty dollars that
Speaker 3: you loaned your friend this week.
Speaker 1: You didn't loan it to them. You loaned it to
Speaker 1: the Lord.
Speaker 3: And the Lord will pay back with interest those he
Speaker 3: can trust with his substance. And every year she would
Speaker 3: go to see Samuel, her boy that she gave to God,
Speaker 3: she would bring with her a little ephod which was
Speaker 3: what the priest would wear, a little linenipha that she
Speaker 3: had made custom for him, and she'd have to kind
Speaker 3: of guess how big it should be, because she hadn't
Speaker 3: seen him for a year. So if you were to
Speaker 3: see Hannah go into the temple at this point in
Speaker 3: her life, you would see a proud mother, mother of
Speaker 3: a future prophet. Her bumper sticker would have said. And
Speaker 3: you would have seen her with her little Ephah that
Speaker 3: she had made for him. Oh, he's growing up so much.
Speaker 3: Here's the new Ephah. And you would have seen her
Speaker 3: going to the temple and sacrificing and being blessed and
Speaker 3: seeing her boy. But what about all those times you
Speaker 3: didn't see when Hannah went to the temple year after
Speaker 3: year after year, with her rival in one ear and
Speaker 3: God in the other, and her rival saying, why do
Speaker 3: you keep serving a God who won't even bless you
Speaker 3: with a baby? Look how blessed I am.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I know people don't say that to us directly, but
Speaker 3: don't they make us feel that way sometimes?
Speaker 1: And yet she went. Notice what it says.
Speaker 3: In verse seven, This is the real verse that I
Speaker 3: want to preach about. It says that Hannah, you're like
Speaker 3: you said you were preaching about Samuel. I can't preach
Speaker 3: about Samuel without preaching about Hannah because I think what
Speaker 3: Samuel did was based on something that Hannah did that
Speaker 3: he never even saw.
Speaker 1: Before he was even born.
Speaker 3: His mom would go to the temple year after year,
Speaker 3: and as often as she went up, circle went up.
Speaker 3: As often as she went up to the house of
Speaker 3: the Lord, she used to provoke her. Stop and let's
Speaker 3: break this down back to the top of the verse.
Speaker 3: It went on, circle went on.
Speaker 1: Year by year. As often as she went up to
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 3: Of the Lord, her rival used to provoke her. Therefore,
Speaker 3: Hannah wept, Circle wept. Here's my whole message in a sentence.
Speaker 3: She wept, but she went up anyway.
Speaker 1: Listen to me.
Speaker 3: This might be the word to snatch you out of despondency,
Speaker 3: This might be the word to shake you out of lethargy.
Speaker 3: Is that Hannah wept? But she went up, And God
Speaker 3: did not silence her enemy. But she went up anyway, And.
Speaker 1: God did not give her her prayer request.
Speaker 3: But she went up anyway, and she went up weeping.
Speaker 3: And she went up, and while she would go up,
Speaker 3: she would weep, and when she would get there, she
Speaker 3: would weep. But it went on year after year, and
Speaker 3: she went up. So I see a picture in this
Speaker 3: text of a woman who was willing to keep coming
Speaker 3: back even if I don't see the thing that I
Speaker 3: asked God for. I'm going back not by sight, but
Speaker 3: by faith. See a picture of every person who is
Speaker 3: in this church right now, feeling unrecognized, feeling insignificant, feeling
Speaker 3: like life is not cutting grass and you are sowing
Speaker 3: seed and you are not seeing anything right now. I
Speaker 3: want to remind you that you can go up weeping,
Speaker 3: you can go up hurting, you can go up confused.
Speaker 1: You can go back.
Speaker 3: Because Samuel heard the voice of God and thought it
Speaker 3: was the voice of Eli, and he went to Eli.
Speaker 1: But God said wrong.
Speaker 3: Guy, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back,
Speaker 3: go back, go back, And you can have all your
Speaker 3: fancy definitions of faith that you want. But I think
Speaker 3: sometimes real faith is just a simple ass.
Speaker 1: Go back, go back, go back, go back. You go
Speaker 1: back and do it again.
Speaker 3: You go back and love them again, You go back
Speaker 3: and serve again, You go back and drop it again,
Speaker 3: you go back and pray again, you go back and
Speaker 3: think him again. You go back, and you go back,
Speaker 3: and you go back and you go back.
Speaker 1: You getting the point.
Speaker 3: Because Samuel learned how to do this through something that
Speaker 3: a woman did.
Speaker 1: That he never even witnessed.
Speaker 3: Her persistence led to his purpose, the only reason he
Speaker 3: had it in him to go back to Eli, no
Speaker 3: matter how many times it took.
Speaker 1: I heard you call, I'm coming back. Go back and
Speaker 1: lie down. I'm coming again, go back and lie down.
Speaker 1: Where did he get the persistence to keep coming back
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 3: Because he had a mom, Because he came from a
Speaker 3: womb that was barren, And every time she tried to
Speaker 3: have a baby she couldn't, and every time.
Speaker 1: She tried to consent, she couldn't.
Speaker 3: But she kept crying out to God, and she cried
Speaker 3: until she conceived, and she came back until she conceived,
Speaker 3: and she prayed until she conceived. And I am preaching
Speaker 3: to somebody today who has become convinced that God is
Speaker 3: not with you and the devil is a liar, because
Speaker 3: that same woman who left.
Speaker 1: The temple all those years with an empty womb.
Speaker 3: Came back one day carrying a priest's robe.
Speaker 1: Because if you'll go back enough.
Speaker 6: Times, all who all those times you didn't see when
Speaker 6: she went back and prayed anyway.
Speaker 3: When she went back and sacrificed anyway, when you showed
Speaker 3: up at worked and smiled at hateful people. Anyway, go
Speaker 3: back smiling, and you shall come home rejoicing. Such seven
Speaker 3: people say, go back many times as you gotta do it.
Speaker 3: Go back, pick up your bible again.
Speaker 1: Go back. I know the.
Speaker 3: Bible was drive the last time you read it, but
Speaker 3: there shall be showers of blessing upon you.
Speaker 1: In due season. Go back.
Speaker 3: In that amazing holly. She stayed there and she prayed.
Speaker 3: Give them Verse fifteen. Verse fifteen is so annointing. We
Speaker 3: got to go to verse twelve to get to fifteen.
Speaker 3: Give them Verse twelve. Verse twelve says that when Hannah
Speaker 3: was there praying, she continued praying before the Lord. She
Speaker 3: continued praying before the Lord. She continued praying before the Lord.
Speaker 1: Did God not hear her the first time?
Speaker 3: No? God heard her the first time. God just understands
Speaker 3: something called due time, due time. Everybody say time, not
Speaker 3: d o time, Due time, do time. It means that
Speaker 3: God knows when Samuel needs to show up.
Speaker 1: God knows when her wound needs to open.
Speaker 3: God knew how to give her an enemy to keep
Speaker 3: her praying.
Speaker 1: God knows when it needs to happen.
Speaker 3: God knows when to start the wheel turning. God knows
Speaker 3: when the to'll fill you back up again. God knows
Speaker 3: when they need to say no, when they need to
Speaker 3: say yes, knows when to shut a door, knows when
Speaker 3: to open a window, knows when to tear off a ceiling.
Speaker 1: God knows.
Speaker 3: It's almost like Hannah Red Galatians six'.
Speaker 7: Nine galatians six', nine says and let us not.
Speaker 1: Grow weary I'm doing god.
Speaker 3: For in?
Speaker 1: Do season?
Speaker 7: What season?
Speaker 1: Do season? What season?
Speaker 3: Do? Season now high five to three people And say i'm.
Speaker 1: Doing good.
Speaker 3: I'm.
Speaker 1: Doing good put it in. The chat i'm. Doing good i'm.
Speaker 1: Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm.
Speaker 3: Doing, that yeah but you don't have your. Baby yet i'm.
Speaker 3: Doing good i'm. Doing good Why the bible told Me
Speaker 3: in galatians, six' nine let us.
Speaker 1: Not grow weary. Of Doing good.
Speaker 3: So i'm, not.
Speaker 1: Feeling good but. I'm doing good it, doesn't Look good but.
Speaker 3: I'M doing good i can't see the grass going. DOWN
Speaker 3: right now i can't see the money coming, UP right
Speaker 3: now i can't see.
Speaker 1: The season painting what there is? A DO season and
Speaker 1: i know. WHAT to do i know.
Speaker 7: What to do i'm.
Speaker 1: A do good i'm gonna.
Speaker 7: Praise this name i'm gonna workship. Him right here i'm
Speaker 7: GONNA pray like i. Believe the answer he's already, in
Speaker 7: the temple laying. On the bed, He heard me. He
Speaker 7: hears me.
Speaker 1: Shake, Your neighbors say. I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: He'll goose season.
Speaker 7: I'm A so shall i, See some grass i'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Cut it down and let.
Speaker 7: It grow back the Word of the lord will not,
Speaker 7: faith the grass fase. The flower Face but The word of,
Speaker 7: god will say, forever and, ever somebody south forever for
Speaker 7: a light and momentary afflictions are producing in us a
Speaker 7: far exceeding.
Speaker 1: Way of. Glory that's.
Speaker 3: Amazing that's amazing all those times YOU didn't See.
Speaker 1: I see hannah coming with her ephot again.
Speaker 3: For her baby it was all those times you didn't
Speaker 3: see her coming with no baby clothes that made her
Speaker 3: produce a sign whose words Would. Come to israel they
Speaker 3: heard his words Because he, heard God's words because god.
Speaker 1: Heard her words and.
Speaker 8: You're telling me your. Life doesn't matter you're telling me
Speaker 8: you're thinking. About killing yourself you're telling me you almost
Speaker 8: thought about not coming.
Speaker 3: To church Today and the lord can speak to you and,
Speaker 3: you Can, say speak lord.
Speaker 1: Your servant tears you can't hear if. You're not here
Speaker 1: AND that's why. I keep coming.
Speaker 3: I DON'T know if, i showed you but his mom
Speaker 3: did something before he was born that was, instilled in
Speaker 3: him even though she wasn't the. One raising him and
Speaker 3: he Came back to Samuel, or to eli?
Speaker 1: What'd you?
Speaker 3: Say, WHAT me Okay i guess i'll. TRY that again
Speaker 3: i think sometimes we make. It too Complicated sometimes all
Speaker 3: god wants to say to you is let's.
Speaker 1: Try this again.
Speaker 3: Let's, try this, Again your dummy let's.
Speaker 1: Try this Again that's the lord's. Nickname for me and
Speaker 1: it's all those times.
Speaker 3: YOU didn't see i think It's amazing that hannah was
Speaker 3: able to leave her Son. With the lord don't you
Speaker 3: little boarding school action never. Heard A kid but i
Speaker 3: think was even more amazing than the fact that she
Speaker 3: vowed and gave Him to The lord when god gave.
Speaker 3: HER a baby i think what's even more amazing than
Speaker 3: what She did when god gave her a baby is
Speaker 3: what She did. When GOD didn't and i think sometimes
Speaker 3: the greatest faith in your life is that you come
Speaker 3: back From temptation when god doesn't take, the temptation away
Speaker 3: but gives you the grace to stand.
Speaker 1: UP under it.
Speaker 3: I think it's when You pray for god to send
Speaker 3: you the relationship, and he doesn't and you press into him.
Speaker 1: THAT much deeper i Think.
Speaker 3: It's when god asks you to change the other person's
Speaker 3: behavior and he doesn't. CHANGE your approach i think it's
Speaker 3: When you ask god to take the strain off of you,
Speaker 3: and he doesn't so he puts the. STRENGTH in you
Speaker 3: I think what hannah did was amazing that she gave
Speaker 3: her Baby to the lord when. HE was born i
Speaker 3: think it's even more amazing that she kept going While.
Speaker 1: Waiting on god.
Speaker 3: I'm done preaching you can stand to your Feet because
Speaker 3: the lord had a word.
Speaker 4: For somebody today.
Speaker 3: How many of you have had times in your life
Speaker 3: Where you've seen god do something. Amazing for You you
Speaker 3: praised him, for those times and you should also wants
Speaker 3: you to learn How to praise him for all the
Speaker 3: times you didn't see that.
Speaker 1: HE was doing i can't get off of it doing
Speaker 1: something for. A due season the important.
Speaker 3: Thing. Would Be look when god Finally spoke To Samuel,
Speaker 3: in first, samuel chapter, three verse, ten, HE said speak.
Speaker 1: I, hear you god and verse Eleven says.
Speaker 3: The Lord, said, TO samuel behold i am about to
Speaker 3: do A thing in israel at which the two ears
Speaker 3: Of everyone in, israel will tingle and it would be.
Speaker 3: A devastating thing eli and his two sons would both
Speaker 3: die in the, heat Of battle so god could. Raise
Speaker 3: Up another because god's transition are. Not always pretty but
Speaker 3: in the process, of verse, eleven, HE says behold i
Speaker 3: am about to do A thing in israel that will make,
Speaker 3: everybody's spine, tingle ears tingle.
Speaker 1: Two ears tingle this is going to. Be so big
Speaker 1: god is going.
Speaker 3: To do Something but if samuel had been born at,
Speaker 3: any other time he could not have been The.
Speaker 1: One that god used to bring.
Speaker 3: The change about so Every year that hannah went to
Speaker 3: worship That she thought god, Was ignoring her god was.
Speaker 3: Not ignoring her god was positioning her to bring forth
Speaker 3: from her womb what.
Speaker 1: The nation needed and sometimes it's not about, what we
Speaker 1: want it's.
Speaker 8: About Do.
Speaker 1: Time what god does. Is HIS business what i do
Speaker 1: until he. Does is worship. TITH companies tif i just
Speaker 1: SAW this while i. Was preparing, today right now, in
Speaker 1: this moment.
Speaker 3: She can lead you, in worship spontaneously without any lyrics,
Speaker 3: on the screen. WITHOUT any planning i did NOT tell
Speaker 3: her i. WOULD call her i did NOT prepare her i.
Speaker 1: WOULD call her i didn't do. Any OF that but i,
Speaker 1: just called. HER tif tif i didn't.
Speaker 3: Even have to.
Speaker 1: Call her twice.
Speaker 3: She just came, and right now with your hands, lifted
Speaker 3: in worship lead them.
Speaker 1: For one minute and. It didn't worship whatever flows, from
Speaker 1: your heart just do. It right now, m h.
Speaker 5: Oh we. TRUST your teeth i can trust you d's because,
Speaker 5: you know bads. You, KNOW best.
Speaker 9: JEEZE i know i, Can, trust you jeez because your,
Speaker 9: way IS bad so. I will swender.
Speaker 1: I will surrender.
Speaker 3: Your, way IS bad so.
Speaker 1: I will swaner.
Speaker 5: I, Can. Trust, you jeez hey that. Way wonder show
Speaker 5: if we, do this straight they, show out up. GO
Speaker 5: on away i can be and so they show and
Speaker 5: not get a weird this. Shower and nothing that's what happens.
Speaker 3: When you so, so come on clap your Hands.
Speaker 1: And thank god so let me tell.
Speaker 3: You why.
Speaker 1: Why can?
Speaker 3: She do that because, She did that she did that
Speaker 3: since she was. A little girl her dad, is a pastor.
Speaker 3: AN amazing man i MET him when i met her
Speaker 3: MOM and dad, I was like.
Speaker 1: I get it i get.
Speaker 3: While you're awesome but then they told me stories how
Speaker 3: she used to be in, the church alone hours and
Speaker 3: hours and hours pounding four chords, on a piano Just singing.
Speaker 1: Till god game and somebody said to me the other,
Speaker 1: day They said, When tiff, sings GOD comes and i knew.
Speaker 3: What they meant that sounds bad if you just take it,
Speaker 3: out Of context because god.
Speaker 1: Is ALWAYS here but i knew.
Speaker 3: What THEY meant what i, loved about IT and why
Speaker 3: i called you OUT.
Speaker 1: Here is i want all of them to get a picture, of.
Speaker 3: Their life to realize that it is what you did
Speaker 3: until this season.
Speaker 1: That made you able TO do what i just called
Speaker 1: you to do. In this moment. So it's.
Speaker 3: Wonderful it's wonderful it's a great picture because you're doing
Speaker 3: things right now. That seem insignificant you feel all, alone
Speaker 3: right now you feel like it doesn't, matter right now
Speaker 3: and you cut the grass and it grows back higher, And,
Speaker 3: you go GOD why am?
Speaker 1: I even bothering but remember there is.
Speaker 3: A Due season what god does, is his business and
Speaker 3: what you do until he. Does is Worship so when,
Speaker 3: god Calls you When. God called samuel he was ready
Speaker 3: because he had Ministered. To The lord maybe god has
Speaker 3: you in a season of your life where you're. Ministering
Speaker 3: to him it's not about. People appreciating you it's not about.
Speaker 3: People acknowledging you it's not about comparing yourself. To other
Speaker 3: people it's not about your rival in your ear telling
Speaker 3: you how you should.
Speaker 1: Be further along it's not.
Speaker 3: About your insecurity it is about what you are doing.
Speaker 1: Until due season they shall walk. Andnot get weary they
Speaker 1: shall walk.
Speaker 3: And not faint that's what happens when you Wait.
Speaker 10: On the lord it's because she did it in a
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Speaker 10: today and i'm, Trying to say god.
Speaker 1: Is preparing you god. Is preparing you would you huk
Speaker 1: three people and tell them Wait, On the lord Wait,
Speaker 1: On the lord Wait. On the lord do.
Speaker 3: Not grow weary in well doing you shall receive.
Speaker 1: In two season.
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