1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Elevation Church Podcast. Today we have the 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: privilege of welcoming worship leader and recording artist Torn Wells. 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: We believe his message the Year I Saw will encourage you. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us and enjoy the message. What's time? 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: Let's go man? What do we do next? Yeah? So 6 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: grateful to be here with you guys today. And I 7 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: didn't come to play no games. This ain't high school 8 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: musical where I just say a couple of lines and 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: sing a few songs and entertain you. I really feel 10 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: like I have a word from God today. And I 11 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: try to avoid this moment for as long as possible. 12 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: I try to schedule trips, vacations, tours, everything possible, and 13 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: somehow the Lord just made it happen. And I am 14 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: so grateful to be here. I really can't say enough 15 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: of how much this church means to me. I don't 16 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: know if you realize how much you mean to me. 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: This is an incredible moment for myself. And you know, 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: I was listening to Pastor Steven when I was twenty one, 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: twenty two years old. That was just three years ago. Ha, 20 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: just kidding, It's been been about ten twelve years. But 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: based on age, so you know what I'm saying. So 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: still looking smooth, little revitalized lotion, you know what I'm saying. 23 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: But I was downloading podcasts sermons. This was when you 24 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: just download them from iTunes, and I would go back 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: in the archive and I would get series like Core. 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: Oh see, I'm a real one. This ain't no Badwagon. 27 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: And then I would listen to eighty See y'all don't 28 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: even know. It's got quiet in the room. Eighties rock 29 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: series Left High was a worship series. You'll remember that, No, 30 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: y'all remember three D Easter. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. See. 31 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: I was around for all that online somewhere jogging, listening 32 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: to a video iPod, listening to sermons, and Pastor Steven, 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: thank you so much for your ministry, for what you 34 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: have communicated to the world and into my heart. I 35 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: am so grateful. I was impressed from a distance, but 36 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: I've been impacted up close. And you know, my kids 37 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: last night they were watching a movie provided by the Verdicts. 38 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: They sent a little movie night in a box and 39 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: it had robes and slippers and candy and popcorn and 40 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: seasonings and all this. I just thought, you really just 41 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: don't get better than these people, and thank you so much. 42 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: I could cry, but I'm not going to. I love 43 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: you guys, and I'm grateful to be here today. I 44 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: got a shout out all my Elevation fam Chris Breezy, 45 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: love you, Love you Bro. Thank you Chris for letting 46 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: me participate in Elevation Worship singing songs like Echo. You 47 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, never lost, come on, and I 48 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: love all y'all. Jenna John sal You guys have sent 49 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: me some of the nicest text messages I've ever received 50 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: from human beings. Thank you so much, Aaron, Love you, bro. 51 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: I could literally talk about everyone, and I'm not going 52 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: to because the clock is ticking. But I love you 53 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: all so much. I've got my wife here with me 54 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: today and she looking all fine, and this is a 55 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: mountaintop moment for both of us. I'm not preaching today. 56 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: We're preaching because this woman holds it down. And we've 57 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: got those three little boys, seven, four and two years old, 58 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: and you can't tell she's had any children because she's fine. 59 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: But I was writing songs with Pastor Steven and with Chris, 60 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: and like every song ended up being about her and 61 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: I was like, no, this is about the Lord, not 62 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: the Lorna. Okay, we got to refocus this writing session. 63 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: But I love you. Thank you for your love support. 64 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: You're a treasure to me and I bring you greeting 65 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: today from Houston, Texas Lakewood Church Pastor Joe oh See 66 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,239 Speaker 1: representing h Town today. Well, you guys can go ahead 67 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: and sit down. You already exposed me with the video. 68 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: I was here in January. We were celebrating the kickoff 69 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: of my album, Citizen of Heaven, and I was out 70 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: here just dancing, you know what I'm saying, doing my 71 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: little thing. Had Holly in the front row. I was worried. 72 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: I was nervous. I was like this Holly liking this 73 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: is this? Okay? Am I gonna be kicked out? Am 74 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: I gonna be invited back? She's smiling, She's smiling. I'm 75 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: good and she makes me a little bit nervous, but 76 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: I love her. We were here, and we were it 77 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: was lit. I mean, I thought, I'm coming into twenty 78 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: twenty with a new album and I get to do 79 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: the first weekend that the music is released at a 80 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: church that I love, Elevation Church, and I was going 81 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: out of my mind, and then Pastor Stephen asked me 82 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: to come back and preach, and that just scared me 83 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: to death, maybe nervous. I started doing push ups immediately. Guys, 84 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: I've been in the gym. You can't tell you, but 85 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:44,239 Speaker 1: I've been there, and uh, I was just so filled 86 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: with expectation. But I have to be honest, this is 87 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: not what I saw. I dreamed about preaching an elevation church. 88 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it one hundred. What you see is 89 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: what you get. I've dreamed about it. I didn't dream 90 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: that it would look like the youth room that I 91 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: ap preached my first message in when I was sixteen. 92 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: I didn't know it was gonna be thirty of y'all. 93 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: But you're here, Phraise God. It's not what I saw. 94 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,559 Speaker 1: It's not what I envisioned. I mean, I came into 95 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty with so much expectation. That's the beauty of 96 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: a new year. That's the beauty of a new season. 97 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: We come into it with some expectation, We have our 98 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: hopes up. Possibility is in the air. The gym memberships 99 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: are up, the calorie counts are down. Where thinking about 100 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: this is the year, This is the year that God's 101 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: gonna restore my marriage. This is the year that I'm 102 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: gonna rebuild a relationship with my kids. This is the 103 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: year that I'm gonna graduate and I'm gonna step into 104 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: the real world. Nah, bro, you're gonna be at home. 105 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: Come on. This is the year. This is the year. 106 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: This is the year. And we've all said this, We've 107 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: all wrapped our minds around this idea that I'm going 108 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: somewhere this year. I'm doing something this year. So I 109 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: was putting together my plan for the year. She sounds 110 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: funny to say it now, but I was. I'm a 111 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: little journal and I was writting down and like many 112 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: of you do, I pick a word every year, and 113 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: the word for the year for me was build. I 114 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: wanted to build. I wanted to I wanted to build man. 115 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to build my health. I wanted to build 116 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,119 Speaker 1: my family. I wanted to build my ministry. I wanted 117 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: to build God's Church. I was ready to build, and 118 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: I prayed about it and I felt like I heard 119 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: from God on it. But I must have missed something 120 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: he said in the prayer meeting, because I didn't realize 121 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: that if God was going to really build something that 122 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: stood the test of time and gave him residual glory. 123 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: He was going to have to bring everything else down 124 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: to the dirt, and this year it's all been brought 125 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: down to the dirt. But there's good news. He knows 126 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: what to do with the dirt. He may bring it 127 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: down to the foundation, but he knows what to do, 128 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: for he is a lamb slaying from the foundation of 129 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: the earth. He knows what to do with the dirt. 130 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: He breathed into the dirt and created the object of 131 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: his affection in the humanity of Adam. He stepped down 132 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: into the dirt of humanity when he put on skin 133 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: and bones and climbed into the trenches with us. He 134 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: knows what to do with the dirt. When he was 135 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 1: walking through the dusty streets of Jerusalem and there was 136 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: a man who couldn't see, he reached down, not for 137 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: some medical supplies, not to a doctor, not to a physician, 138 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: for he was the great physician, and he had a prescription, 139 00:08:53,600 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: and the prescription was in the dirt. Now that's not 140 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: my message today, but it sure does preach good. You 141 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: can bring them your dirt. The year twenty ten, my 142 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: wife and I I proposed to my wife. We got engaged, 143 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you, man, I killed the engagement, 144 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: no cap I mean one of the best engagements all time. 145 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: Definitely the best one I've ever done. Okay, and there's 146 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: only been one. But I was in Nashville, Lorna was 147 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: in Houston, and I had this whole plan, man, I 148 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: had this whole plan. I went and I found these 149 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: jewelry boxes and they were vintage. And this is before 150 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: you could just order it on Etsy. Okay, that's too easy. 151 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: I had to actually go somewhere and find these vintage 152 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: jewelry boxes and gave one to one of her friends, 153 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: and I put a camera and a note in it. 154 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: My friend put it under her couch and her apartment. 155 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: So I sent her a text this morning in twenty 156 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: ten and said to go go look under your couch, 157 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: little cryptic, little creepy. She goes and opens it up 158 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: and there's a little flip camera and a note. Now 159 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: this was before like the camera and the phone had 160 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: been integrated. They actually used to be two separate objects, 161 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: little zoom camera. And I said, hey, record your day today. 162 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: Pick you out a good outfit. It's going to be 163 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: a great day, I'll talk to you later. So she 164 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: gets on there. She's got a little retainer in you know, 165 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: eh Turin put something under my couch and she's done 166 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: her a little thing and goes to the church. She's 167 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: working at the church. Her brother works at the church 168 00:10:54,679 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: as well. Shot out Royalwood and they're working and Brandon 169 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: comes in. That's my brother in law. He says, hey, 170 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: let's let's go get lunch. She's like, cool, so they go. 171 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: He gets on the phone. He's on the phone the 172 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: whole time. They show up at the airport. She's like, 173 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: what are we doing at the airport? He gives her 174 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: a second jewelry box and she opens it up and 175 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: there's some plane tickets in it. Boy had the size. 176 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: She opens it up. She's like, hey, this this is 177 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: a overnight this overnight ticket. Brandon reaches back, pulls out 178 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: the the bag. We already had another outfit plan for 179 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: I haven't made a plan since then, but I plan 180 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: this day. So she goes. She gets on the plane. 181 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: She flies to flies to Nashville and shows up. I've 182 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: got my friends there and they pick her up from 183 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: from the airport and they give her an iPod. This 184 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: sounds archaic when you just say it an iPod And 185 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: it had an inscription on the back Tory and LB 186 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: that she calls me Tori. You call me Toy, I 187 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: will send the SWAT team to your house. But that's 188 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: that's just for her. And it had a little love 189 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: songs on it, you know what I'm saying. So she 190 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: puts into little earbuds and then they blindfold her. Okay, 191 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: little scary, but you know it's not a Limbniesen movie. 192 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: So uh they they're they're driving, and they show up 193 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: to this venue I'd rented out a Venue's just a 194 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: little club, you know, nothing crazy, but I had it, 195 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: you know, I had it looking right, you know what 196 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying. There is a single chair in the middle 197 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: of the room, spot lit. And then I was up 198 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: on the on the stage. I'm a little stool, you know, 199 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: sitting with my little pose, you know what I'm saying. 200 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: And I had the third jewelry box. Yah, I told you, 201 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: I told you some movie. I told you some movie, 202 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: But you got my little jewelry box. She comes and 203 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: sits down. They take the blindfold off and you can 204 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: just see like the moment wash over her face. One 205 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: of the best moments of my life. And then I 206 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: got my homie in the back, got the little lights, 207 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: got a little haste. It kind of looks like a 208 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: youth room because that was my contact at the time, 209 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: but it was still still nice. And I started singing 210 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: a song, You're a diferent, beautiful a love song out 211 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: of control, written for me, beautifully different from me, for 212 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: me to Ryan Edgar song, y'all don't know it, and 213 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: step down off the stage. You know it's wearing my 214 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: little vest. I don't know why. Got down on that knee. Boy. 215 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: This is how you do it, guys. This is how 216 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: you do it right here. None of the taco bell 217 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: packets and weird stuff I've seen people doing onlines. You 218 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You gotta go classic, sometimes retro. 219 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Down on one knee, and 220 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: I say a bunch of stuf. I don't know if 221 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: I quoted the Notebook or Casey and Jojo, but I 222 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: was just I said a bunch of stuff I don't remember, 223 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: but I meant it. In the moment with God stood 224 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: up Gabral hug. It was it was the year of 225 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: our engagement, so then then we start making the wedding plans. 226 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: And by we, I mean she starts making the wedding plans. Tiffany, 227 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: remember this include him just a little, you know, he's 228 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: just happy to be there, but make him feel like 229 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: he's participating. And so we start, you know, getting everything together. 230 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: We start sending out wedding invitations, and uh, one of 231 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: the wedding invitations comes back, but it doesn't come back 232 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: to our house. It gets sent to the church that 233 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: we attend and work at. And I went in to 234 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: my father in law's office, who was the pastor. He said, 235 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: they they sent their wedding invitation back. Really, yeah, they 236 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: they don't agree with the two of y'all being married. 237 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: It's an interracial marriage. I thought maybe this was one couple, 238 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: you know, maybe they were disgruntled. They were looking for 239 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: escapegoat to leave the church. Know that there were many 240 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: families that felt like a biracial man black and white 241 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't be married to a white woman, So they left 242 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: the church. One hundred people deuces in a year that 243 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: was supposed to be framed by the joy of an 244 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: engagement is now framed with prejudice and dissension. But we 245 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: put our heads down, man, and we just piled through it. 246 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: We get to twenty eleven. My father in law is 247 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: a g He's a champion. He stands up in the 248 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: pulpit and he preaches with passion against this sin called 249 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: prejudice and racism, to the point where someone asked him, 250 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: what are we going to do when you know these 251 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: black people and these Mexicans are in heaven. He said, 252 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: don't worry about it, you won't be there. Some things 253 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: just don't go through the gate. So he took a 254 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: stand and he married us. He did the wedding ceremony 255 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: for us, and we got married. We sang to each other, 256 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: it was great. We went on our honeymoon, came back 257 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: and I went on tour. Was gone for three weeks. 258 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: Well halfway through the tour, I get a phone call 259 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: from Lorna and her voice is shaking and she's in tears, 260 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: and I'm like, babe, what's going on. She says that 261 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: her dad has been diagnosed with leukemia. Newly weds, y'all, 262 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: we just went through a church split me finding out 263 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: people didn't like me for the first time in my 264 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: life because I'm black. And now my father in law 265 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: who is one of my heroes, has now been diagnosed 266 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: with what we feel like is a death sentence. And 267 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: a year that's supposed to be framed with the joy 268 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: of marriage has now been framed by illness, sickness, heartache. Man, 269 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: those were hard and there was more stuff going on. 270 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: I know that we've all had years like this that 271 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty has been hard, but it may not even 272 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: be the hardest year you've ever been through. We've all 273 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: got years like this where the rug gets pulled out 274 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: from under us and we're wondering what do we do? 275 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: And what happened to our plans and what happened to 276 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: our calendar and what happened to the things that we 277 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: thought were going to happen. I had a different idea 278 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: of what this was going to be. This was not 279 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: the year that I saw. We're in the middle of 280 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: a year like that right now. Where where I mean? 281 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: We started off the year with like forty seven million 282 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: acres of Australia being burned to the ground. We started 283 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: off the year with the news of Kobe Bryant and 284 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: his daughter and seven seven other people passing away. We've 285 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: had our president go under two articles of impeachment. We've 286 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: had a worldwide pandemic and quarantine, and that's just like 287 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: at the macro level. This isn't the personal implications of 288 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: the loneliness that we felt and the hurt that we 289 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: felt in the heartache that we felt, and we've had 290 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: to watch grandparents die on the other side of a 291 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: piece of glass because you can't get into the facility 292 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: to see them. This is real. This is the year 293 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: that we've been living in. And that's where I have 294 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: to point myself, my soul, and my eyes to Scripture 295 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: because none of this is new to God. This isn't 296 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: anything that he hasn't seen before. It's not anything that 297 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: is outside of his control. And so I peered back 298 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: across the vast landscape of Scripture to look into the 299 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: heart of a young prophet named Isaiah, and he says, 300 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: in the year King Uziah died, maybe you feel like 301 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: that's the year you've been living in. It's the year 302 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: King Uziah died in your life. It wasn't the year 303 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: you saw, It wasn't the year you anticipated. It wasn't 304 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: the thing that you had in your heart for what 305 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: this was going to look like, and what you thought 306 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: was strong has been removed. Usiah means strength. In the 307 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: year that what I thought was strong dies, I realized 308 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: what true strengths really look like. Because Isaiah says, in 309 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: the year King Usiah died, I saw also the Lord 310 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: and maybe this year God has been removing some things 311 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: from your life that you've been dependent upon, that you 312 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: have placed your faith in, your confidence in because you 313 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 1: thought they were stronger than they really were. But there 314 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: is no one stronger than our God. We have discovered 315 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty what true strength really looks like. We've 316 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: discovered that Hope has a name, Peace has a name, 317 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Joy has a name, Comfort has a name. In the 318 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: year my strength died, I saw that God was stronger. 319 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:21,959 Speaker 1: Come on and put your hands together. I thought our 320 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: education system was pretty strong until I had to download 321 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: twenty apps, send nineteen emails, and God bless all y'all teachers. 322 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just hard for all of us, we 323 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: all just trying to make I thought our healthcare system 324 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: was pretty strong, y'all, until they said, stay home, we 325 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: don't have occupancy. Y'all get sick. You one yump. Thought 326 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: that healthcare system was pretty strong, boy, then we gotta 327 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: flatten the curve. I thought y'all was supposed to flatten 328 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: the curve. Y'all healthcare professionalists, They're in a tough spot. Man. 329 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: I thought the economy was pretty strong. I've been here 330 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: about that a lot. Greatest economy in the history of America, 331 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: it's been, and it's been great. Oh yeah, But one little, 332 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: teeny tiny bacteria took out a whole infrastructure. Thought as 333 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: strong as I thought it was. Thought my marriage was 334 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 1: pretty strong, until we were spending weeks on end together 335 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: with nothing to distract us from our dysfunction, and we 336 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: had to look at each other in the eyes. Thought 337 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: I was strong. I thought my kids teachers were wrong 338 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: about them, my son miss me. No. Then you put 339 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: them in your house day after day, hour after hour, 340 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: minute after and you realize, Man, some of my perceptions 341 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: weren't as strong as I thought they were. But I 342 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: saw something stronger. Yeah. And instead of running to a 343 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: building to fix all my problems, and running to a 344 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: marriage to fix all my problems, and running to a 345 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: prescription to fix all my problems, I had to learn 346 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: to run to the name. Because the name of the 347 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it 348 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: and they are safe. They that way upon the Lord 349 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: shall renew their strengths. They shall rise up on wings 350 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,719 Speaker 1: like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, they 351 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: will walk and not fay. I've discovered what true strength 352 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: really is. It's Jesus, always, only and forever Jesus. He's 353 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: my health, He's my strength. Found out what strength really was, 354 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: found out what strength really was. You got strength today. 355 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: I like how the King James frames it for us. 356 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 1: In the year that King Uziah died, I saw also 357 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: there's more to see. Many of us get stuck in 358 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: an isolated narrative where we only see one half of 359 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: what is true, and because of the pain that we're 360 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: experiencing and the trauma that comes with the pain, our 361 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 1: perception and our perspective is held captive and we become 362 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: imprisoned with our pain because the narrative has been isolated. 363 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: But there's more to the story. My kids are fantastic 364 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: at isolating narratives. They'll run downstairs, hit me, he hit me, 365 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: Kennon say it maybe hit me loss hit me me. 366 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: I for a while it was like I just get 367 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: onto the other one, like why did you hit him? Yeah? 368 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: Exactly what's I've learned to ask a question, guys, learned 369 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: to ask a question. And what did you do to 370 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: him first? Cause you're not bringing me the whole story. 371 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: It's an isolated narrative. Facebook is sending you an isolated narrative. 372 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: Twitter is sending you an isolated narrative. CNN and MSNBC 373 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: and Fox and all of them, they're sending us an 374 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: isolated narrative. There is more to this story. There is 375 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: more to be seen, there is more to experience. In 376 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: the year Strengths died, I saw also the Lord, and 377 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: he was upon the throne. Transition did not change his position. 378 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: He was still high and lifted up, and his glory 379 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: filled the temple. I wish you'd just give him a 380 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: little I wish I had just a little something on 381 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: the organ, just a little just give me, just a 382 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: little bit, gimme just to give me just I saw 383 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: something else and it looked like the Son of God. Mm, 384 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: thank you. I need some of them white girl amens too, 385 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: you know them little white girl amens. So she's like 386 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: so good, so good, Oh my god, oh my god, yeah, 387 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: so good. I was just journaling about this the other day. 388 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: I was drinking a chime, I tell you, I tell you, 389 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: and it was just free. Oh lady, man, I'm a whoa. 390 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. What narrative have you 391 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: been isolated in? I was talking to my dad about 392 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: some things, just you know, growing up, you got questions, 393 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: you're trying to figure it out, and as you come 394 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: into adulthood you start trying to dig around and see, 395 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: you know, the context of things. And I was asking 396 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: him some questions, and as he was telling me about 397 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 1: things that were happening around the context of my childhood, 398 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 1: I started seeing a story that I hadn't seen before. 399 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: In it, it changed the way that I saw some things. 400 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: I had been living from this place of pain, as 401 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: if that was the only reality, and that the effects 402 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: of that pain, those stressors, and those wounds were the 403 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: only reality. You see, Pain can restrict sight. Wow, Pain 404 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: can keep you from seeing the whole picture, y'all? That 405 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: sure can. Man. You get hurt by one person at church, 406 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: and now all Christians are bad. One pastor doesn't shake 407 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: your hand. He didn't stop to talk to me, I mean, 408 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: and now you all ministry is corrupt because somebody didn't 409 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: shake your hand. The pain can restrict your sight. You 410 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: can be hurt in your life, betrayed by a friend, 411 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: and now nobody's loyal. You can't even see the people 412 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: that want to love you because the pain has blinded 413 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: you to their very existence. You'll live from a place 414 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: of insecurity, where you're suspicious of everybody. Are you really 415 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: with me? Are you really with me? Are you really 416 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: with me? Are you really with me? Because a few 417 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: people that were with you weren't actually for you, and 418 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: you rob yourself of deep, meaningful relationships because the pain 419 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: has restricted your sight. You can't even see your kids. 420 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: You can't let your kids become who they were created 421 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: to be and live the life that God has called 422 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: them to live because you are trapped in an isolated 423 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: narrative and your pain is restricting your vision. But your 424 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: pain can also produce clarity. Because Isaiah saw something he 425 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: had never seen before, experienced something he never experienced before. 426 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: The scales came off of his eyes and he was 427 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: able to see the Lord. Also, he was able to 428 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: see the Lord in the midst of it. He was 429 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: able to recognize the presence of the Savior. And it 430 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: was that clarity of who Jesus was that allowed him 431 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: to write scriptures like Isaiah ninety six, for unto us, 432 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: a child is born, and unto us a son is given. 433 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: How could you write it, Isaiah? I saw it. I 434 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: saw it. I saw it. I saw it, and I 435 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: didn't see it when everything was going right. I didn't 436 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: see it when everything was lined up for me and 437 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: it was all falling into place. You see. I had 438 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: a vision in the year King Osiah died, and he 439 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: told me the government will be upon his shoulders, and 440 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: his name shall be called Wonderful counselor the Mighty God, 441 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. You see. It 442 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: created some clarity for Isaiah. He got to write scriptures 443 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: like God not only has power and strength, but he 444 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: graciously uses it to save us. His clarity gave him 445 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: authority when he wrote scriptures like when you pass through 446 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: the water, I will be with you. And when you 447 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. 448 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: When you walk through the fire, woo, you will not 449 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: be bursed. Come home if you allow it to. Your 450 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: pain will allow you to see what has always been 451 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: there but you never could quite put your finger on. 452 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: Pain can be a clarifier. You have to choose you 453 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: have to choose if losing a king makes you blind 454 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: to the king. Yeah, yeah, it's a king. It was 455 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: a job, it was a real relationship. It was a 456 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: opportunity of this. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's still 457 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: the king, the king, and he's not just any old king. 458 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: He's the King of kings, He's the Lord of lords. 459 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: He's the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. 460 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: I love this one. The author and the finisher. Your 461 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: story is not finished until God writes the final chapter. 462 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, he hasn't written it yet. 463 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: There is more story, more glory, more power, more presence, 464 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: more miracles, more life. You choose what you see. You 465 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: choose what you see. You choose the year King Uzaiah did. 466 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: I saw also the Lord. He was high and lifted up. 467 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: This glory feels when Isaiah died, I saw the Lord. 468 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: He was high and lifted up. Well, I thought the 469 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: greatest position in the early in an earthly kingdom was 470 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: the king. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But there's another realm 471 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: higher than the earth. So there happens to be a 472 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: king who is actually the king of the heavens and 473 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: the earth. There was an office above his office, there 474 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: was a higher court to appeal to, there was a 475 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: greater reality to see. And in the pain, the pain 476 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: of the loss, and the pain of the disappointment, we 477 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: don't ignore it. We don't act like it doesn't exist. 478 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: We just allow it to point us to a greater reality. 479 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: And what Isaiah saw was that the king that was 480 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: over him had somebody over him. But what I'm trying 481 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: to tell you today is the thing that has been 482 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: over you has someone over it. Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir. 483 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,479 Speaker 1: The thing that is over you has someone over it. 484 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 1: When you're going through something difficult, you'll hear people like 485 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: well intentioned trying to encourage you and say, you know what, 486 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna make it through it. You're gonna make it 487 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: through it. You're gonna make it through it. You're gonna 488 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: make it through it. Man, you're gonna get through this. 489 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: The either way I walk through the Valley of the 490 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: Shadow of Death, I'll fear not. Yeah, you're gonna get 491 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: through it. Yeah I've I got through it. But I'm 492 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: still not over it. I'm no longer living in that 493 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: season of my life. But man, every morning I wake up, 494 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: decisions that I make are being influ by the thing 495 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: I've been through. But I'm not over yet. I'm not 496 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: over yet. I'm not over how she hurt me. I'm 497 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: not over how he hurt me. I'm not over the 498 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: time we spent together, the time we didn't spend together. 499 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: I'm not quite over it yet. I'm not over it. 500 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: And if you're not over it, it's probably over you. 501 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: It's probably influencing decisions you don't even realize. It's probably 502 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: making you take a stand on things that you don't 503 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 1: really need to take a stand on. It's making you 504 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: view people a certain way, and they really have great 505 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: intentions and they want what's best for you. If you're 506 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: not over it, it's probably over you. And I'm not 507 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: an insensitive preacher today. I'm not saying just get over it, 508 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: just get over it. You gotta get over you gotta 509 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 1: climb over it. You gotta I'm not saying any of that. 510 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: But you can look over it. You can look over it. 511 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,319 Speaker 1: You can lift your eyes a little bit higher. You 512 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: can lift your eyes a little bit higher. You can 513 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 1: see a little bit further beyond the reality that you 514 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: think is all consuming. You can look a little higher 515 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,839 Speaker 1: and realize that the thing that is over you has 516 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: someone over it, that there is a higher office of command, 517 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: that he is in control, that he is ordering your footsteps, 518 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 1: that he is doing what he has purpose in your life, 519 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: that he's working all things together for the good. There's 520 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: somebody over it, somebody over it. God is still God. 521 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 1: God is still God, and you still aren't. God is 522 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 1: still God. So stop trying to control it, stop trying 523 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: to manipulate it, and look over it. I will lift 524 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:50,240 Speaker 1: mine eyes to the hills from which come in my help. 525 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 1: You have to look over it so that you can 526 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: see a greater reality. You're through it, but you're not 527 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: over it. Life is full of both wonders and wounds. 528 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: We choose which one we glance at and which one 529 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: we stare into. We choose which one we live from. 530 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 1: Are you gonna live from the wonder of who God is? 531 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 1: Or from the wounds of what people have done to you. 532 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: I'm gonna change gears a little bit here, and I'm 533 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: gonna move us to a little bit further down in 534 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: this scripture. Is this all right today? Yeah? Verse one, 535 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: it says, in the year King Uzaiah died, I saw. 536 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,839 Speaker 1: In verse three, Isaiah describes what he hears, and one 537 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 1: crowd into another, speaking of the angels, and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, 538 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 1: is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full 539 00:37:56,239 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: of his glory. So verse one he sees. Verse three 540 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 1: he hears, and then down in verse five he speaks, 541 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 1: I wonder what our world would look like. Wow, if 542 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: we would see listen, and then respond, I didn't come 543 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: to talk about that, but I drop it off and 544 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 1: see what y'all would do with it. He responds to 545 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 1: what he has seen, he sees the Lord. Now anyone 546 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 1: who sees the Lord and like the vision that Isaiah 547 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 1: has received, I don't want to know what they say next? 548 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:47,680 Speaker 1: What's the response? And he says, WHOA, it's me, And 549 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,720 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like David at like eight point thirty, 550 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 1: Like how why what do you do you wake up 551 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,320 Speaker 1: at four to like are you working up through the morning? 552 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: I don't understand this. He says, WHOA, it's me for 553 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: I am undone. See so many of us when we 554 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,920 Speaker 1: get a revelation of who God is, we want to 555 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,320 Speaker 1: run and tell somebody else what they should be doing. 556 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: Because you saw this in scripture. We miss we missed 557 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: the fact that revelation is for reevaluation of us, not 558 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,680 Speaker 1: everybody else. What I gotta The Lord told me, you 559 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: know he really wants me in that word six am 560 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,879 Speaker 1: every day. Well he told you, bro, he didn't tell 561 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: me six am. He told me nine pm something. We 562 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 1: want to click the share button on and God's like, na, Bro, 563 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: I need you to download that into your spirit because 564 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: I want to change some things. I want to transform 565 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: some things that anger. I'm gonna work on that. That perspective, 566 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna work on that a little bit. You cussing 567 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: out the TSA agent, Torrin, I'm gonna work. I'm gonna 568 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: work on it. God be testing my patience in the 569 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 1: TSA liney'd Oh my God. So I just I just 570 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 1: want to remind you today that the true response to 571 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 1: people who have really seen Jesus is an inward look, 572 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,839 Speaker 1: woe is me? You know, they should really fix that, 573 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: they should really work on that. They should. Doesn't anyone 574 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,200 Speaker 1: around here know what they're doing. I'm sure there's people 575 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 1: talk about church like that, not elevation church, that wouldn't 576 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: exist here. But everybody got an opinion, and they got 577 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: a revelation who Jesus. They want to share it with 578 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: everybody and tell everybody with their supposed to be doing. 579 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: You post articles on your timeline hoping that somebody else 580 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: sees it. You sub tweeting because you're gonna fix somebody 581 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,360 Speaker 1: on Twitter. No no, no, no non nine nah? Whoa 582 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: is me for? I am a man of unclean lips. 583 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: I got problems, I got issues. I'm dysfunctional. I'm not 584 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 1: here to call you out. I need work done in me. 585 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,400 Speaker 1: Fix me, heal me. I'm a sinner. I need Jesus. 586 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: Woe is me? Not woe is them? They should? How 587 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,959 Speaker 1: could they release everybody from all that you just saw 588 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: Jesus letting them come in and change some things in 589 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:46,480 Speaker 1: your life? Woe is me? Woe is me? I need him, 590 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 1: I need him, I need him, I need Jesus. I 591 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: need Jesus and he knows it, and a lot of us. 592 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: We would like to skip to verse eight right here, 593 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,480 Speaker 1: because Isaiah says that he hears the voice of the 594 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 1: Lord asking who will I send and who will go 595 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: for us? And and Isaiah says, ooh me, me, me, me, 596 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: me me, I'll go. I'll go. I'll go, lord Ship, 597 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'll go. I'll do it. I'll do it. 598 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll stand on stage, 599 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: I'll declare your glory, Lord, I'll do it. I'll lead 600 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,640 Speaker 1: that corporate that corporate boardroom to the glory of the Lord. 601 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 1: If you just blessed me with the influence God, I'll 602 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 1: do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. Whatever you 603 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: want me to do. Here am I send me And 604 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 1: we want to skip to verse eight, but we have 605 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 1: to go through the process from verse five to verse eight, 606 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,880 Speaker 1: which says one of the angels came down and touched 607 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,319 Speaker 1: the lips of Isaiah with a call and purified him 608 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,799 Speaker 1: and cleansed him from all of his iniquity. What I'm 609 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: trying to tell you today is before you touch a stage, 610 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 1: you got to touch the altar. Before you touch a mic, 611 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,479 Speaker 1: you need to touch the altar. We need to touch 612 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,160 Speaker 1: the altar. We need to touch the altar. I know 613 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,640 Speaker 1: church is about programming, and it's about lights, and it's 614 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: about all this stuff that we've built around the Gospel. 615 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,680 Speaker 1: I think it's all good. I use it all, I 616 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 1: love it all, but you cannot replace the altar with it. 617 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: We still got to get to the altar. We still 618 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: need a touch from heaven. We still need a touch 619 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: of his power. We need a touch of his goodness. 620 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: We need deliverance, we need transformation. We've got to get 621 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,760 Speaker 1: to an altar and what twenty twenty has taught us. 622 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 1: It may not be what we saw, but it can 623 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,520 Speaker 1: be the year that we saw. Also, the Lord and 624 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: I went to the altar, and the altar touched me 625 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,279 Speaker 1: and transformed me and changed me. That's the only way 626 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: you go from woe is me to hear am I 627 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: is a touch from the altar. Oh, God, touch our 628 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: hearts today, touch us. I don't care if it burns. 629 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: I don't care if it hurts. God, you can do 630 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:05,239 Speaker 1: more with a touch from the altar then you can 631 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 1: do with the lyric. You can do more with a 632 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:14,839 Speaker 1: touch from the altar than talent. You can do more 633 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:20,640 Speaker 1: with a touch from the altar. So do it, Lord, 634 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:27,719 Speaker 1: touch me. Yeah. I want to go. I want to lead, 635 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,360 Speaker 1: I want to be a part, I want to come alongside. 636 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,840 Speaker 1: But more than anything, God, I want to be touched. 637 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 1: I want to be touched God. I want to be changed. 638 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: I want to be more like you. Son about subscribers 639 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:54,400 Speaker 1: and followers and platforms and people and opportunities. Jesus, it's 640 00:44:54,480 --> 00:45:02,759 Speaker 1: about you, so touch me. To my father in law, 641 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 1: Pastor Ron Macy said, sometimes God has to change us 642 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:17,520 Speaker 1: before he can use us. And if change is the 643 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:27,200 Speaker 1: price to carry the cross, I'm here for it. Change 644 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:34,480 Speaker 1: anything you want in me, God, change my heart, change 645 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:41,279 Speaker 1: the motivations of it. Always striving, always reaching, always performing, 646 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:49,200 Speaker 1: always achieving. But nothing replaces a touch. So wherever people 647 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:54,960 Speaker 1: are listening from today, God, would you touch them, would 648 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,759 Speaker 1: you touch their relationships, would you touch their homes? Would 649 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,080 Speaker 1: you touch the places where they're lonely? And touch the 650 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: places where they're broken? Because if you're gonna really use it, 651 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:17,000 Speaker 1: we have to surrender to the process of transformation. In 652 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:24,480 Speaker 1: the year King Uzaiah died, I saw also the Lord. 653 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,319 Speaker 1: He was high, and he was lifted up in his 654 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:32,719 Speaker 1: glory filled the temple. Now this was not the year 655 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:37,279 Speaker 1: I saw, since the year I saw coming wasn't what 656 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 1: I expected. And yeah, I saw some valleys, I saw 657 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: some low places, I saw some hardships, I saw some disappointments, 658 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:52,440 Speaker 1: I saw some tears, But I also saw the lords 659 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,080 Speaker 1: and I saw attributes of his character I would to 660 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,880 Speaker 1: have known existed had I not have to live through 661 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: the year and now in twenty twenty, I see, I 662 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:18,759 Speaker 1: see that you're good. I see that you're real. I 663 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,759 Speaker 1: see that you're present. I see that your grace is 664 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:30,840 Speaker 1: weaving my story together with a needle called time and trust. 665 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,680 Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time today and Isaiah six. 666 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,920 Speaker 1: This is actually just the beginning of Isaiah's ministry. It's 667 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,400 Speaker 1: very young when this happened. There are sixty six books 668 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:56,040 Speaker 1: in Isaiah that lets me know that story doesn't end here. 669 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:04,400 Speaker 1: If it's not good, God's not done. The story doesn't 670 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:12,800 Speaker 1: in here. There's sixty more chapters to be written, sixty 671 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:19,279 Speaker 1: more seasons of life where you get to see who 672 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: God is and what he's capable of. So don't get 673 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 1: stuck here, don't get stuck in twenty twenty. Don't carry 674 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,799 Speaker 1: all of this with you. May this be the year 675 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:38,920 Speaker 1: that you say I saw something else. I saw something greater, 676 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:46,759 Speaker 1: something bigger. I saw Jesus. Let's pray, Lord, thank you 677 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,560 Speaker 1: so much for your word. It is a lamp unto 678 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:55,800 Speaker 1: our feet and a light unto our path. God. I 679 00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,359 Speaker 1: pray that your word would illuminate our hearts today, that 680 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,080 Speaker 1: we would see things we've never seen before that we 681 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,200 Speaker 1: would behold your glory God, and that we would be 682 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,800 Speaker 1: changed by it. God, I pray that there would be 683 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,600 Speaker 1: a transformation that would occur in the heart of every 684 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,759 Speaker 1: person under the sound of my voice. I pray that 685 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,080 Speaker 1: our perspective would be lifted, our hope would be lifted, 686 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,960 Speaker 1: our eyes would be lifted. God. We know that you 687 00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:30,080 Speaker 1: give us beauty for ashes. God, so would you bestow 688 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,279 Speaker 1: beauty upon us right now? God, Lord, you give us 689 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,799 Speaker 1: a song in the midst of our sorrows. God, so 690 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,920 Speaker 1: would you put the melody in our hearts again, even 691 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,719 Speaker 1: in difficulty. God, I pray that we would see that 692 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,799 Speaker 1: you are worthy to be praised, nor that you are 693 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 1: higher than it all seed, it high and in control. Lord. 694 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,239 Speaker 1: We love you. We worship you in Jesus' name, and 695 00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:01,200 Speaker 1: the church says Amen, God, bless you, Elevation. I love y'all, Man, 696 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:08,120 Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks 697 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,719 Speaker 1: to those of you who give generously to this ministry. 698 00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,000 Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 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