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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. Right now as I open

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Speaker 1: It's going to be an amazing time of worship. And

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Speaker 1: there was a website up there, but there's not. Just

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Speaker 1: directions and buy the ticket and we'll see you there. Also,

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Speaker 1: Elevation Nights is coming up. Let's thank God for Elevation Nights. Now.

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Speaker 1: I will be there. They gotta get the dates out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: October ninth through October eighteenth, and you can go to

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Speaker 1: Elevation Nights dot com. Kansas City, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama,

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Speaker 1: San Antonio, Texas, Lubbock, Texas, Texas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Come on shout like you're from Texas. Today. The Lord

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Speaker 1: has been speaking to us through this series. Would you

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Speaker 1: not agree? I Know That Voice? And today I want

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Speaker 1: to share with you another installment in this series. I

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Speaker 1: went home and told Holly that was my last sermon

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Speaker 1: in that I Know That Voice series, And the Lord said,

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Speaker 1: are you sure? Because it would be impossible for me

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Speaker 1: to do a series called I Know That Voice and

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Speaker 1: not stop by this passage of scripture. In One Kings nineteen,

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Speaker 1: the scripture has brought me, I minse comfort in times

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Speaker 1: of my life where I felt heavy. It's brought me

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Speaker 1: I felt weary. And I want to share it to

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Speaker 1: you today, with you today as a personal word, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to preach it just like the Lord gave

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Speaker 1: it to me. I actually packed two folders when I

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Speaker 1: left the house today. One was the safe sermon and

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Speaker 1: then one was the sermon where I really need the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to help me get it right. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to preach the second one because I believe I'll

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Speaker 1: hear from you a few weeks or months from now

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Speaker 1: about what God speaks today. So tune your heart and

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Speaker 1: turn over to First Kings nineteen. I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer scripture than I normally would, but

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Speaker 1: it's worth it. One Kings, chapter nineteen, Verse one. Now

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Speaker 1: Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he

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Speaker 1: this time tomorrow I do not make your life like

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Speaker 1: that of one of them. Elijah was afraid, ran for

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Speaker 1: I've had enough, Lord, he said, take my life. I

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Speaker 1: Because he God, he can do anything. Wouldn't be cool

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Speaker 1: if God just touched you and said eating and touched

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Speaker 1: God can do stuff like that. But I am amazed

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Speaker 1: him anyway. Because hadn't there been seasons in your life

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Speaker 1: Haven't there been seasons in your life where you knew

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Speaker 1: Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty

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Speaker 1: nights until he reached Horeb, the Mountain of God. There

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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to him. What are

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Speaker 1: zealous for the Lord God Almighty the Israelites have rejected

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Speaker 1: Lord was not in the wind. He sent the wind,

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Speaker 1: the earthquake. And after the earthquake came a fire, but

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Speaker 1: fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he

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Speaker 1: said to him, what are you doing here, Elijah? He replied,

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Speaker 1: The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars,

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Speaker 1: Also annoyed Jayhu's son of Nimshi, king over Israel, and

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Speaker 1: Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.

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Speaker 1: Thus a new beginning. This is the word of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: I have a strange subject today, but I want to

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Speaker 1: particular way that the enemy wants to steal, kill and

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Speaker 1: about death by echo, echo, death by echo, and don't worry.

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Speaker 1: This sermon has a happy ending. Father. I thank you

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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus for what you spoke to me.

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Speaker 1: Now speak it to them. May it echo across this

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Speaker 1: place in Jesus's name, I pray, and everybody said together, Amen,

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Speaker 1: clap your hands. If you love the Lord and receive

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Speaker 1: his word today, you may deceived.

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Speaker 2: Now, Elijah, in this passage that I just read, you

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Speaker 1: He may come across to you as somebody who is ungrateful,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps temporarily his view of what God has done

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Speaker 1: has been blocked by what he's going through. But I

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Speaker 1: think that's a good thing. One of the things that

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Speaker 1: people ask me often after I preach, and it's honestly

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Speaker 1: my favorite thing to uh, well, it's my least favorite

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Speaker 1: thing to be asked, but it's my favorite thing to answer, okay,

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Speaker 1: because here's what they'll last. Sometimes they'll go, I'll preach,

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Speaker 1: you know, you pour your heart out, you preach it

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Speaker 1: a go, hey, so how'd you feel about that? And

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Speaker 1: it was all right until you asked me how did

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah, but this is too late to

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Speaker 1: do anything about it. This is it, This is what

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Speaker 1: I feel is how I feel. How do I feel

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Speaker 1: it blessed you? That? It's just an awkward question to ask,

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Speaker 1: complicated because if I really answered you, the truth is

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Speaker 1: that I always feel like, watch this, I failed at

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Speaker 1: did I feel like I fell short of my goal?

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Speaker 1: And you are always going to feel that way when

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Speaker 1: you're speaking for God, unless you're a narcissist. And so

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Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is when someone is asking me,

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Speaker 1: how did you feel about that, I'm already re playing

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Speaker 1: the message in my brain the way that I meant

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Speaker 1: to say it, and you don't know how I meant

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Speaker 1: to say it. You only know how I said it.

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Speaker 1: So perhaps you thought that I hit the mark, but

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Speaker 1: in my mind it was a mess. Last week was

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Speaker 1: one of those weeks I preached my whole sermon called

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Speaker 1: what If I Got It Wrong? The message was about

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Speaker 1: how the enemy can beat you up with regret and

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Speaker 1: just cause you to doubt everything down to the core

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Speaker 1: of your faith in Christ. And I meant to say

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Speaker 1: before I left the stage that the better question isn't

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Speaker 1: what if I got it wrong, but what if God

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Speaker 1: got it right? And somehow, no matter how many times

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Speaker 1: I wrote that down in my notes, when I finished

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Speaker 1: that part. And to me, that was not the cherry

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Speaker 1: on top of the sunday. That was the Sunday, that

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Speaker 1: was the ice cream, that was the dish. That was

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Speaker 1: the whole thing that I wanted you to hear, But

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Speaker 1: somehow I forgot to say it. So I went home

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Speaker 1: and Holly was in tears, and she was like, that

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Speaker 1: was terrible? It touched me? And how was it touching

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Speaker 1: part I didn't say in my mind, and the part

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Speaker 1: Praise God because Elijah didn't die. He didn't die at

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Speaker 1: the hand of Jezebel. He didn't die from his own depression.

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Speaker 1: Elijah didn't die. In fact, my little sermon only has

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Speaker 1: three points today. You ready, One he didn't really pray.

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Speaker 1: Number two, God came anyway. Number three he didn't stay.

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Speaker 1: That's the whole sermon. If you need to meet somebody

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Speaker 1: for lunch, you're dismissed. But I came to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Number one he didn't really pray. Number two, God came anyway.

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Speaker 1: And number three he didn't stay. Write all of those

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Speaker 1: in the comments, please, I want to see it on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Number one he didn't really pray. Number two, God came anyway,

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Speaker 1: and number three he didn't stay. This is the word

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Speaker 1: of the Lord today. That Elijah prayed that he would die.

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Speaker 1: That is not really a prayer. A real prayer is

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Speaker 1: when you tell God, stop the rain. A real prayer

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Speaker 1: is when you tell God, now make it rain. A

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Speaker 1: real prayer is not just you complaining. A real prayer

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Speaker 1: is when you move from complaint to supplication. A real

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Speaker 1: prayer is when you go from saying how it is

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Speaker 1: to asking God to make it different. Turn in your

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Speaker 1: Bible to Philippians, chapter four, Let me teach you the

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Speaker 1: word of God today. Children. Elijah knew how to pray,

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Speaker 1: but he hits something in his life where he forgot

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Speaker 1: to do what he knew how to do. When you

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Speaker 1: hit enough pressure in your life, when you hit enough

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Speaker 1: pain in your life, you forget to do the thing

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Speaker 1: that you knew how to do, and you stop doing

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Speaker 1: the thing that got you where you were, and you

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Speaker 1: stop praising God like you used to praise God. The

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Speaker 1: apostle Paul says in Philippians Chapter four, verse six, do

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Speaker 1: not be anxious about anything. But in every situation, Jezebel,

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Speaker 1: every situation, bankruptcy, every situation, addiction, every situation and pain

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Speaker 1: in your body, every situation something that you can't talk about,

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Speaker 1: every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your

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Speaker 1: requests to God, and the peace of God, which transcends

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Speaker 1: all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in

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Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. But when Elijah got down from that mountain,

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Speaker 1: he dropped his guard because he was empty. And when

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Speaker 1: you are empty, you have to get intentional, because if

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Speaker 1: you don't fill that space, the enemy will Look what

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Speaker 1: he's said, Look what he said in the text. He said,

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Speaker 1: verse six, present your requests to God. Request. I thought

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Speaker 1: I was praying one time. And I don't know how

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Speaker 1: this works. Okay, I know the series is called I

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Speaker 1: know that voice. I don't know if the Lord spoke

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Speaker 1: this or just wisdom told me this. But after I

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Speaker 1: finished going through everything that I felt, it was as

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Speaker 1: if the Lord said, would you like to talk to

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Speaker 1: me about it now? But I thought I was, But

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Speaker 1: it was as if the Lord said to me, you

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Speaker 1: have been thinking for ten minutes, but you haven't made

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Speaker 1: a request yet. And Philippians for six says, in every situation,

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Speaker 1: by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

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Speaker 1: So I was just giving God reasons that I felt

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Speaker 1: the way I felt. I was just processing the regret.

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Speaker 1: And the Lord said, you have not truly prayed to me,

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Speaker 1: recognizing the power that I have to step in to

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Speaker 1: your situation until you come out of listing the reasons

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Speaker 1: that you feel like you feel and ask me to

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Speaker 1: do something about it. So have you made a request yet?

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Speaker 1: Because Elijah's only request was kill me. That's not really

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Speaker 1: a prayer, is it. That's an escape? And he runs

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Speaker 1: to a place called the Cave. Not just any cave,

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Speaker 1: this is the same cave, horror mountain of God, where

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Speaker 1: Moses had hidden the cleft of the rock for the

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Speaker 1: glory of the Lord to pass by. But the problem

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Speaker 1: I'm going to show you, this, I'm going to demonstrate now,

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Speaker 1: is that Moses went into this cave, and it took

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Speaker 1: him forty days in the wrong direction away from the

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Speaker 1: place where God had called him. So the cave that

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Speaker 1: Elijah went to was a forty day journey away, like

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Speaker 1: ninety miles away from the place that God had called

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Speaker 1: him to remember, God sent the rain, and he ran,

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Speaker 1: so God answered the thing that he prayed for, and

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Speaker 1: he ran and stopped praying. This is what pressure will

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Speaker 1: do to you. Pressure will let God send the blessing

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Speaker 1: into your life, but cause you to run from the

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Speaker 1: thing that God sent you, so that now you find

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Speaker 1: yourself pushing away relationships that you asked God to send you.

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Speaker 1: You're running from the wrong thing. You are running from

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing when you are empt when you are empty,

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Speaker 1: like Elijah was empty. He was not only physically empty

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Speaker 1: from running all the way past Ahabs chariots, but he

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Speaker 1: was spiritually empty because he had carried the burden in

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Speaker 1: the faith of an entire nation alone through three years

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Speaker 1: of drought. Come on don't act like you've never felt

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Speaker 1: a pity party for yourself that Why is nobody taking

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Speaker 1: care of me? Why is nobody meeting my needs? Why

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Speaker 1: is nobody cooking for me? Why is nobody cleaning for me?

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Speaker 1: And all the way away from let's let this represent

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Speaker 1: his post. He's walking away and he is not praying,

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Speaker 1: even after God feeds him, he does not pray. He

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Speaker 1: knew how to pray, he knew how to call on God,

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Speaker 1: he knew how to intercede for people, he knew how

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Speaker 1: to intercede for himself. And he and he walks away,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta imagine that with every day he went

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Speaker 1: toward the cave, he was replaying what Jezebel said. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you.

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Speaker 1: Now watch this. He's replaying the wrong thing, because what

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Speaker 1: he should have been replaying was when God sent down

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Speaker 1: fire to prove that he is God and that Bail

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Speaker 1: is not. He's replaying why would you replay what Jezebel

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Speaker 1: said when you know her threat is empty? Because when

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Speaker 1: when you are empty, the enemy feels real and your

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Speaker 1: victories feel invisible. When you are empty, you beg to

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Speaker 1: you begin to forget your victories. This is what I

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Speaker 1: want to say. When you're empty, you forget your victories

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Speaker 1: and you fixate on your enemy. And now all you

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Speaker 1: can see is what's against you. And now all you

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Speaker 1: can see is what you're up under. And now all

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Speaker 1: you can see is what you lost. And now all

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Speaker 1: you can see is what you fear. And now all

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Speaker 1: you can see is what you don't want. And now

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Speaker 1: all you can see is what if it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And now all you can see is all the people

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Speaker 1: who let you down. And with every step, remember he's

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Speaker 1: replaying it. He's replaying it, he's replaying it. And Jezebel's

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Speaker 1: threat is empty unless you let it echo. If she

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Speaker 1: said it once, I'm gonna kill you. And Elijah prayed

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Speaker 1: like he knew how to pray. God, you hear that,

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Speaker 1: and then step aside, because God's got something for Jezebel,

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Speaker 1: because God hasn't moved from his throne. Is my mic gone.

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Speaker 1: I said, God's got something for diabetes. God's got something

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Speaker 1: for this cancer. God's got something. God's got something. So

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Speaker 1: so if you just got to replace something, replay the ravens.

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Speaker 1: Remember Elijah was by the brook called Cherif in the

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Speaker 1: Kara Ravine, and there was no food and no water

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Speaker 1: in the land. But God sent ravens to feed his

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Speaker 1: revivalists in a time of famine. So if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: replace something, run back the ravens. This I recall to

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Speaker 1: my mind. Therefore I have hope it was God's mercies

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Speaker 1: that I wasn't consumed, because his compassions fail not They're new.

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Speaker 1: Every morning, and every morning I had bread, and every

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Speaker 1: evening I had something to drink. I remember those ravens,

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Speaker 1: God sid And if you don't remember the ravens, remember

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Speaker 1: the resurrection. Because Elijah was staying in a woman's house

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Speaker 1: and her little boy died, and Elijah stretched out his

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Speaker 1: that boy that was dead got up and started walking around.

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Speaker 1: If you just gotta replace something, replay the resurrection, and

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Speaker 1: remember that nothing is dead till God is gone with it.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is over till God says so Ron pons here

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Speaker 1: in the word of the Lord. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: just gotta run it back, run back the time that

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Speaker 1: he fed you, Run back the time that he led you.

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Speaker 1: Run back the time that he did come through. Run back.

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Speaker 1: The ones who put their arm around, who tot five

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Speaker 1: to seven? People say, run it back, run it back,

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Speaker 1: run it back, run it back right, run it back right,

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Speaker 1: running back right. You've been replaying the wrong things, hadn't you.

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Speaker 1: You've been replaying stuff that the devil can't even bring

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Speaker 1: up against you because it's nailed to the cross my sin,

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Speaker 1: all the bliss. I gotta stop. Let me illustrate. Run

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Speaker 1: it back, running back, run it back. That's what he

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Speaker 1: should have told JESSEP. Bell. She said, I'm gonna kill you.

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Speaker 1: Elijah should have said, let's run it back. Meet me

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Speaker 1: on the mountain. I know a name that's never failed.

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Speaker 3: I know a god who can't lock hone yet us whoa.

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Speaker 1: I'm changing my title. When you put it on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: call it running back, run it back, run it back,

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Speaker 1: run it back, running back. He's been good to you.

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Speaker 4: Run it back.

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Speaker 3: He's more than enough.

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Speaker 1: Run it back. Jehovah Jyro, always provide running back.

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Speaker 4: You're not a loving.

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Speaker 1: Again. We got to talk about the cave because all

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Speaker 1: he had to do was run it back. That's all

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Speaker 1: he had to do, But instead he turned his back

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Speaker 1: on the blessing God. Gave him because the pressure he

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Speaker 1: was under was too gray, and he didn't really pray.

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Speaker 1: He didn't really pray. He went into a cave. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go to the cave metaphorically now, just as

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Speaker 1: an illustration. He said, why do you do this? Are

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Speaker 1: you performing? I'm not perform but I am trying to

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Speaker 1: give a picture that will help you know what's really

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Speaker 1: killing your faith, what may be killing your relationships, what

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Speaker 1: may be killing your marriage. Is not death by Jezebel,

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Speaker 1: It's death by echo, because with every step you take

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Speaker 1: away from what God called you to do, and you

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Speaker 1: go to the cave. Now, the cave is the place

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Speaker 1: where you feel safe. It makes you feel safe, but

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Speaker 1: it actually makes you more anxious. Why does this addiction

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Speaker 1: that makes me feel safe only make me more anxious

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Speaker 1: and make me more crazy. It is because it's a cave.

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Speaker 1: It's a cave. And he went to the cave far

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Speaker 1: away from where he should be, with his back to

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Speaker 1: what God had for him and what God had just done.

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Speaker 1: And I want the Holy Spirit to help me right

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Speaker 1: now because he has a conversation with God in that cave.

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Speaker 1: Verse number nine says, there he went into a cave

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Speaker 1: and spent the night. It feels awkward having my back

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Speaker 1: turned to you like this when I know my job

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Speaker 1: is to preach to you. But isn't that exactly what

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Speaker 1: Elijah did? Isn't that exactly what we do? We turn

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Speaker 1: responsibility God gave us, even the blessings. We will turn

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Speaker 1: have had enough. Now. I got to face you for

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Speaker 1: one moment to tell you this. If he said I

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Speaker 1: have had enough, and he meant it in a pause

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Speaker 1: of sense, I would get it. Everywhere I've gone, You've provided.

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Speaker 1: I've had enough. When I was by the brook, I

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Speaker 1: had enough. When I was on the mountain, I had enough.

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Speaker 1: There was enough provision, there was enough power. But now

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Speaker 1: he's like, I'm not enough and I've had enough, and

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Speaker 1: he goes in the cave. Without over dramatizing it, there's

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Speaker 1: he went into the cave and spent the night, and

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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to him. This is

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Speaker 1: verse nine. Please on the screens. What are you doing here? Elijah?

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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy that he didn't really pray in the cave.

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Speaker 1: But the Lord came. You remember my three points? He

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Speaker 1: didn't really pray, and God came. I want to thank

638
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: God for the times you didn't even really pray, but

639
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: he came, Come on, you can do better than that.

640
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: You can do better than that. The times where you

641
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Speaker 1: said die and God said live. The times where you

642
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: said no, but God's yes was bigger. The times where

643
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Speaker 1: you thought, what if I got it wrong? But God said,

644
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: what if I got it right? See? I had to

645
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: get it in because I missed it last week. But

646
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: I got it in. You hear that devil? I ran

647
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: it back and I got it in. Now let me

648
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: alone in this, Kenny, I'm in this cave. And the

649
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: Lord asked a question. Watch this. You always want God

650
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Speaker 1: to give you answers. What if He wants to give

651
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: you better questions? You need a better question. What are

652
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: you doing here, Elijah? You who have seen miracles, you

653
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: who have called fire, you who have prayed for rain,

654
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: you who have been sustained, What are you doing here

655
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: ninety miles away? What are you doing here in this

656
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: jacked up toxic relationship just to get somebody to pretend

657
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: like they love you when you know they're not loyal

658
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: to you. What are you doing here in these destructive

659
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: patterns that promise you safety but only make you a

660
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: shame and the shame leads to the same behavior.

661
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Speaker 5: What are you doing in this cave? And you know

662
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Speaker 5: how to pray? And God came and said, what are

663
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 5: you doing here? And he replied, do you see that

664
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Speaker 5: in verse ten? Is it on the screen? He replied,

665
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 5: say yes, teacher, If it's on the screen, yes, teacher.

666
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Speaker 1: He replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord

667
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down

668
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword.

669
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Speaker 1: I am the only one left, and now they are

670
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Speaker 1: trying to kill me too. And then the Lord does

671
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: a little display. I know, I got my back to you.

672
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: I know it's awkward, but this is what he did.

673
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: He turned his back to his blessing because he was

674
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Speaker 1: caving in under the pressure. You've been caving in under

675
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: the pressure. The Lord put on a little show for him.

676
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: He sent he sent a wind, and he sent a fire,

677
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Speaker 1: and he sent an earthquake because he was running back

678
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Speaker 1: what he did when he appeared to Moses. This was

679
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: an echo of when God appeared to Moses. But God's

680
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: doing it different this time, because the Lord doesn't speak

681
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Speaker 1: in any of that. He speaks in verse twelve, a whisper,

682
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Speaker 1: a whisper, a whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he

683
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Speaker 1: pulled his cloak over his face and went and stood

684
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Speaker 1: at the mouth of the cave. Did you know that

685
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Speaker 1: the cave has a mouth? Did you know that when

686
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Speaker 1: you go in your cave, the cave talks back. Did

687
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: you know when you go in the cave and you

688
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: run away from God, and you run away from community,

689
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: and you run away from the right things, and you

690
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: run toward the wrong things. Did you know when you

691
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: replay the wrong things and the regrets and the rejection.

692
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Speaker 1: Did you know that when you talk to the cave,

693
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: the cave will talk back. And you think I'm crazy.

694
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Speaker 1: You're not crazy. You're just in a cave and the

695
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: cave is making you feel crazy. And now you're starting

696
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: to think crazy and you're starting to act crazy because

697
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: you've been in this cave because you stop praying. But

698
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: God came, and God came. When God came, he thought

699
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: it was going to be big and spectacular, but really

700
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: it was intimate and it was special. And yet the

701
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Speaker 1: Bible says, when the voice asked him the second time,

702
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Speaker 1: what are you doing here, Elijah? He replied, he replied,

703
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: according to what he replayed. And so listen what the

704
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 1: first word? He says? Put verse fourteen up on the screen.

705
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: He's in the cave. He's all alone, he's disappointed, he's

706
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Speaker 1: under pressure. And listen, you can tell why he's depressed

707
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: by the way he starts his speech. God says, what

708
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: are you doing here, elijahve more for you this? Why'd

709
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: you turn your back to what I blessed you with?

710
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: Why are you running from the right thing? Why are

711
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: you not trusting me anymore? Put the verse up on

712
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Speaker 1: the screen. He says, I ay, do you see that?

713
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: Because when you're in a cave, the sound bounces around. See.

714
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: So so he starts off his speech. He says, I

715
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: go and see. That's never gonna get you out of

716
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: the cave, because when you start with I have had

717
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: enough and I don't have what it takes. And I

718
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 1: I I I see I was filling the case. See

719
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: how's feeling the real spill? And now I can't hear

720
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: a whisky whisky.

721
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 4: Whisky, because I can't you hear.

722
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: It in our marriages. I guess I'll do the dishes again.

723
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: I ah, we'll just do it, so nobody else is

724
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: gonna do it, so I'll just do it. I ah,

725
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of this eyes. I don't have what

726
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: it takes. I I hear Gideon in a wine breast saying,

727
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: I am the smallest, in the weakest. I hear Moses

728
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: at the Burnham Bush saying I am not good as speaking.

729
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: I hear all of the people who have come before us.

730
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Speaker 1: And I hear Elijah in the cave saying I but

731
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: I hear God in verse fifteen turned to the prophet

732
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: who is empty, and speak in the cave which is empty.

733
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: And the voice of the Lord speaks into an empty.

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Speaker 6: Cave in verse fifteen, and God says, go, go, go,

735
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Speaker 6: because I've got something ahead of you that is bigger than.

736
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Speaker 1: Anything that's behind you. You've got a shout of praise

737
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: that he didn't pray. But God came. And because God came,

738
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Speaker 1: he didn't stay.

739
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Speaker 3: Somebody shall I'm coming out.

740
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 7: Of this cave. I'm coming out of this cave. I'm

741
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 7: coming out of this misery. I'm coming out of this

742
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 7: straight second. I'm coming out of this book. I'm coming

743
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 7: out of this suppression. I'm coming out of this cycle.

744
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 7: I'm coming out of this part. I'm coming out of

745
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 7: this cave.

746
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Speaker 1: Because I know how to pray. See, so I'm not

747
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: starting this prayer with I. I I I'm gonna say you, you,

748
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: you have brought me this far God, and you, you,

749
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: you are able to keep me from falling. And you, you,

750
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: you are gonna get the glory from my life. It's

751
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: about you, you, you.

752
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 5: It's not about me, me, me.

753
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: I don't care what they they, they say, I'm coming

754
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: out of this cave. I'm coming out of this cave.

755
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: God's been too good for me to stay in this cave.

756
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 1: I am coming out of this cave. As a matter

757
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: of fact, I just remembered another cave, another cave that

758
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: was loaned to somebody by a man named Joseph of Arimafia.

759
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: And they laid him in the cave for three days.

760
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 1: And you say, wait a minute, pastor, it wasn't a cave.

761
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: It was a grave. No, it wasn't a grave because

762
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: he didn't stay there. He did not stay.

763
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 3: And I came doing now this cave is not my grave. No, no, no,

764
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 3: I'm coming out. I'm coming out with my hands up.

765
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm coming out with my heart broken. But I'm coming

766
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: out because God can. Because God can.

767
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 8: And if you stay an eye I I.

768
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: It's gonna die. Die, die. But it won't be death

769
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: by Jessebel. It will be death by echo echo, because

770
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: the regret can only paralyze you if you keep replaying it.

771
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: Write this down. It's not the threat that kills me.

772
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: It's the way I let it echo echo, echo. It's

773
00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 1: the way you keep replaying your shame rather than realizing

774
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: that he paid for it. I said he paid for it.

775
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: I said he paid for it.

776
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 9: So hold on, devil, watch this. You want to put

777
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 9: me in a cave of shame. Let's run it back.

778
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 9: Let's run it back. What happened after he came down

779
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 9: off the cross? What happened after he went down in

780
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 9: the cave. You say it's a grave. Why do you

781
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 9: keep saying cave because it's empty? Yes, because it's empty.

782
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: For the empty people in the room today who have

783
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: felt just like Elijah. Maybe you don't say I want

784
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: to die, but maybe you say I can't live like

785
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: this anymore. There's too much pressure, man. And I'm blessed.

786
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful. I appreciate everything God's

787
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: done for me. But i'm thankful, I'm exhausted. I don't

788
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 1: have a word for it. I have had enough. Remember,

789
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: even though he didn't really pray, not like he was

790
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: supposed to pray, God came anyway, and this is your

791
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: day that God has heard you in the cave, cave, cave.

792
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: He's heard the way the thoughts keep rattling around in

793
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: your head. He knows how you can't expunge yourself of it.

794
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: He knows how you can't eliminate the fear. He knows

795
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: how you can't get rid of the things. He knows

796
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: that you are still trapped in the trauma of what

797
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: happened to you.

798
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 9: And so he came, came, and he said, let's go.

799
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Speaker 1: Because Elisha, the successor of Elijah, was already in the field,

800
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: but he's not in this cave. So you got to

801
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: come back to the place where you know God called

802
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: you to be and live the life that God wants

803
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: to enable you to live. And when they say how

804
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: do you feel about it? You could say it's complicated,

805
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: it's complicated because I got one voice telling me die,

806
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: Die Die.

807
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 8: But I heard a whisper that said live, Live, Live,

808
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 8: and I'm choosing to live by the whisper.

809
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: Would you stand for your feet? Would you stand all

810
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: over this room right now and with your head spowled

811
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: and eyes closed. Somebody be honest with me when I

812
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: say three, I want you to shoot your hand. If

813
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: you've been in the cave, okay, okay, I I they

814
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: they they, But he he, You're that whisper, that's him.

815
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 8: You feel that heart beating in your chest as him.

816
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: You're not done with you yet. He can't be jesse

817
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 1: Jessepel can't kill you. Jessepel can't The grave couldn't hold him.

818
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: What can hold you here? If it's been you and

819
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: you need me to pray for you today because you've

820
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: got a cave you need to come out of. I

821
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: want you to be bold and shoot your hand up

822
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: and hold it up. I'm praying for you. One, two, three,

823
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: Hold it up, Hold it up, Keep it up, keep

824
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: it up. Repeat after me. I'm coming out of this Father,

825
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, I declare that where your

826
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: spirit is there is freedom for these who have lifted

827
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: their hands, and you are asking what are you doing

828
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: here today? To them? God, I pray that they would

829
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: realize that that question is prophetic. What are they doing here?

830
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: They're here because you have something for them. They are

831
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: here because you are not done with They are here

832
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,240
Speaker 1: because you came to get them out the cave. That's why.

833
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: That's why you woke me up at three am to

834
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: come and get them out the cave. I believe it, God,

835
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: I believe somebody is coming out today. Somebody is coming

836
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: out today. Somebody is coming out of something that they

837
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: thought was gonna kill him. But it is not going

838
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: to kill them. It will not be the end of them.

839
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Speaker 1: So we lift our hands and we lift our eyes,

840
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: and we declare that just as Jezebel has an echo,

841
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: so does Heaven. The echo of Heaven is holy, Holy,

842
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: Holy is the Lord God, Almighty, Thank you Jesus. The

843
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: echo of Heaven is worthy, worthy, Worthy is the Lamb

844
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: of God. The echo of Heaven is hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah.

845
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: Come on, with your hands lifted up and a heart

846
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: filled with praise. You know how to praise. You just

847
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: stop praising, but praise them right now. When I say Halley,

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Speaker 1: you say lujah, Holley. Somebody say Hollylujah, Hallylujah to the

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Speaker 1: man on the middle cross, the one who didn't know

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Speaker 1: the dead but he paid it off, the one who

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Speaker 1: rolled away the stone, the one who came out of

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Speaker 1: the cave on the third day, and if he rolled

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Speaker 1: the stone away, and if he.

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Speaker 3: Got up, getting up too.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming out of this cave. I'm coming out of this.

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Speaker 7: I'm coming out better.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming out here.

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Speaker 4: I'm coming out.

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Speaker 3: Hole, I'm coming out bless, I'm coming out.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming out.

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Speaker 7: I'm coming out with a.

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Speaker 3: Phrase with a phrase, no the place with praise. Hey.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

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Speaker 1: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can

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Speaker 1: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 1: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 1: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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Speaker 1: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again

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