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

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: All right, somebody say, I'm in the choir. That's the

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Speaker 1: first time that some of you have ever been in

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Speaker 1: a choir not wearing a robe. Praise the Lord. We

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Speaker 1: are so thankful for his presence. If you're sitting here

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Speaker 1: going like I need to adjust my computer, everybody on

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Speaker 1: that stage seems happy and the world is really a

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Speaker 1: mess right now, do not adjust your monitor, adjust your mindset.

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Speaker 1: That pastor is preaching already and he didn't even get

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Speaker 1: his open Wow. So who gets to stay today? I

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Speaker 1: know that the Jane gets to stay. You know. I

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Speaker 1: leave these worship leaders up here just to have company.

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Speaker 1: We're used to having so many more people in the building.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean that to diminish those of you

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Speaker 1: That's great, Leota. They don't ever let you stay. Aaron,

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Speaker 1: you stay up there the whole time? Do you stand

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Speaker 1: preaching because I'm always playing this game while I'm talking.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, y'all can be seated by the way. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to jump into this part two of what I

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Speaker 1: started last week, the continuation. Let's keep it going. I've

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Speaker 1: heard so many testimonies of people remembering who they are

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Speaker 1: in Christ. Now, everybody in here, get ready because we've

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Speaker 1: got a job to do today. I'm just reminding you,

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Speaker 1: I only want faith in this room right now. There's

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Speaker 1: And when I scan, it's weird. When I scan people,

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Speaker 1: I have this bad habit of where I draw thought

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's surprising how their faces look. And I don't

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Speaker 1: How many multitasks when you listen to a message? All right,

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Speaker 1: go through wise counsel. Some things are best left in

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Speaker 1: the bubble. I wish you'd put it in the check

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Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble, Keep it in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble. My God, I just kept

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Speaker 1: you from sending an email that was going to take

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Speaker 1: you five years to repair. Keep it in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Save it as a draft, Pray on it, type it out,

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Speaker 1: pray on it, delete it, edit it, revise it. Some

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Speaker 1: things have to be Belief has to be incubated sometimes

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Speaker 1: in a bubble. Don't be afraid, just believe. And what's

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Speaker 1: the first thing he did after He told him that

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Speaker 1: that y'all back off, because this man needs to believe

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Speaker 1: something right now. This woman needs to believe something right now.

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Speaker 1: She was healed because she thought she didn't ask anybody's permission,

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Speaker 1: she acted on it. I mean, there's some things when

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Speaker 1: God calls me to do them, I don't tell anybody.

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Speaker 1: I don't even like to tell my team that puts

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Speaker 1: my sermon title on the screen what it is before

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Speaker 1: I preach it. How are they going to put it

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Speaker 1: on the screen if I don't tell him what it is?

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Speaker 1: But I'm weird about it. I don't want always talk

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Speaker 1: about stuff that God is doing it me. We put

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Speaker 1: something down this week. I said, Chris, just hold it

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Speaker 1: for a little while. He's got to live with it.

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Speaker 1: I won't keep it in the bubble. Keep it in

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Speaker 1: the bubble. Keep it in the bubble. Keep it in

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Speaker 1: the bubble, keep it in the bubble. Some thoughts you

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Speaker 1: have to hold on to. Some thoughts you have to release.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to let go because that's not really

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Speaker 1: what God said, that's not who you are, that didn't

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Speaker 1: come from him. Remember, my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought. Some of that you gotta

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Speaker 1: let it Floadelph. But when you get a god thought,

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Speaker 1: keep it in the bubble. Keep it in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Like when Jesus told the crowd, he thins out the crowd. Right.

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Speaker 1: First thing that he has to do is get Gyros

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Speaker 1: in a bubble. So Jesus says, don't be afraid, just believe.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's crazy. Gyros does not say a single thing

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Speaker 1: that indicates that he has faith. He didn't say I

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Speaker 1: believe Lord. He didn't make declarations of faith. I believe

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Speaker 1: in God, the Father, Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

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Speaker 1: Jeesis Christ only son, our Lord. He didn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes belief is best shown, not told. Sometimes faith is best.

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Speaker 1: If I touched the hem of his garment, she didn't

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Speaker 1: tell anybody. She just touched. I don't mean sneak around

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Speaker 1: and do weird stuff, joined seven different dating websites and

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Speaker 1: don't tell anybody. I'm talking about that. But Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe. And the next thing he did.

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Speaker 1: Watch this. Jesus is so relevant, right, He's relevant to

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Speaker 1: what we're going through right now. He put Gyros in

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Speaker 1: a bubble, he said, Peter James John y'all come, everybody else,

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Speaker 1: stay bubble, because if you let too much fear in

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Speaker 1: right now, if you let too much content in right now,

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Speaker 1: you are gonna go crazy. You're gonna go crazy. If

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Speaker 1: you start imagining what your kids are gonna be like

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Speaker 1: at their graduation of high school and they're in second grade,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go keep it in a bubble. Like. Let

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Speaker 1: me give you a Bible verse, sufficient is the day

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Speaker 1: for its own trouble. You got enough trouble in today's bubble.

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Speaker 1: Trouble bubbles. That's part three. I'm gonna do part three.

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Speaker 1: Will you help me preach part three? But Jesus, it

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Speaker 1: gets crazier than that. When he got to the house.

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Speaker 1: Give me the next verse. Police, when they came to

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Speaker 1: the home of the synagogue leader. Now we've got his

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Speaker 1: home where the issue is and his position. And he

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Speaker 1: comes into the home and watch what's going on. Jesus

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Speaker 1: sees a commotion, people crying, wailing loudly. Everybody's tweeting and

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Speaker 1: blogging and streaming and talking and pontificating, and a million opinions.

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Speaker 1: And Jesus went in and said to them, why all

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Speaker 1: this commotion and willing this child is not dead but asleep.

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Speaker 1: And they verse forty laughed at him. So watch what

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Speaker 1: he did. You say, you want to be like Jesus.

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Speaker 1: You wanna be like Jesus. After when did the miracle happen?

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Speaker 1: After he put them all out? After he put them

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Speaker 1: all out? I feel a delete party happening in in

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Speaker 1: your contact section while I preach the word of God. Now,

502
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Speaker 1: don't delete everybody. He took the disciples with him. You

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Speaker 1: don't put everybody out, You don't put every thought out.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes you have to believe in a bubble, right,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't ask everybody sometimes I mean, I mean

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Speaker 1: you gotta ask your boss, you gotta ask your wife,

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Speaker 1: you gotta ask the important people. You gotta have a few.

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Speaker 1: But it's too much, right, it's too much. Right now,

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Speaker 1: God send me with a word to get you in

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Speaker 1: a in a bubble, he said, everybody leave, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: breakthrough only happens in the bubble. In the bubble, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Lord. He's showing me things. He's showing me things.

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Speaker 1: He's giving me things right now as I speak to you.

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Speaker 1: And then while I'm getting those things, there's other things

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Speaker 1: being like oh that's dumb or wow, that's really stupid.

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Speaker 1: But I'm in the bubble. I gotta keep it in

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Speaker 1: the bubble. I got to remember while I'm preaching that

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Speaker 1: I'm not preaching for somebody who's going to criticize what

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Speaker 1: I say or I think it's weird. I think that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: So if you think I'm out of my mind, that's

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Speaker 1: the goal. That's the goal. My mind has made me

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Speaker 1: miserable for most of my life. Said they laughed at Jesus.

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Speaker 1: They laughed at Jesus not because he was weird, but

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Speaker 1: because he was he was focused, and he knew enough

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Speaker 1: to know the original Did you ever see this in

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Speaker 1: the text chunks? I bet you did. You probably preciate

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Speaker 1: this before. But Jesus had the original NBA bubble, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: not the National Basketball Association. No butts, allow, come on,

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Speaker 1: let's have some fun together for five minutes. I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to say it like this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to. We could probably edit it for

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Speaker 1: the archive. Get your butt out the bubble, the Bible said,

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Speaker 1: Does the Bible say butt? In verse forty? Does the

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Speaker 1: Bible say, but but they laughed at him? Get out,

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Speaker 1: get out, get out, get out, get out. You can

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Speaker 1: do it, but it's get out, wipe up, get out,

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Speaker 1: but get out, get out, get up, get out. I'm

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Speaker 1: doing this. Breakthroughs can only happen in the bubble, where

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Speaker 1: you got a few friends, where you got a few objectives.

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: We've got a few priorities, not trying to be everything

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Speaker 1: all the time. Now I'm gonna do this and this

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Speaker 1: and this, and I know who I am and I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to prove to anybody that I'm something else,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to play a different role. Come on,

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Speaker 1: just because we have to wear physical masks doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: we have to wear emotional ones. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: so weird when they said masks are it's weird to

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Speaker 1: see people in masks, I said, not for me. As

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Speaker 1: a pastor, I've been looking at people in masks, So

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Speaker 1: Jesus knew that sometimes it takes a bubble to maintain belief.

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Speaker 1: After we get done with this, you'll put in the

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Speaker 1: in the chat or in the comments this week with

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Speaker 1: the bub means for you, I mean like I need

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Speaker 1: to have like five minutes when I start my day

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Speaker 1: to remind myself where my health comes from. I did

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Speaker 1: it today because once I come here, there's too many stimulus,

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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be like, oh, the room's too hot,

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Speaker 1: the room's too cold. Why is that person not here?

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Speaker 1: Why is this person there? Why do I jeans saying,

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Speaker 1: can I get to the thing that I do? The

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Speaker 1: thing I said be too much? I sit there and

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Speaker 1: breathe in the bubble for a minute, right, and it

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Speaker 1: really helped me. I don't always do it, but when

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Speaker 1: I do, it helps me out loud. I started saying,

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Speaker 1: I popped the thought bubble and actually pray to I say, God,

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Speaker 1: thank you today that you have given me something that

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Speaker 1: will help and heal people. I thank you for it, Lord,

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Speaker 1: and I thank you today that, as I preach, I

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Speaker 1: stand in your authority, not my own. I thank you

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Speaker 1: that you've given me what I need for the role

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Speaker 1: I'm in. And maybe you want to start your day

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Speaker 1: that way. Maybe you want to start your day that way.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you want to clarify your priorities again, you know

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Speaker 1: what I've been so busy over here. Then of course,

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Speaker 1: after he made the bubble, he showed him what to

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Speaker 1: break through. Looks like, I don't even want to read

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Speaker 1: it because I'll be tempted to preach it because the

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Speaker 1: Bible said when he went in where the child was

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Speaker 1: Verse forty one, he did the impossible. He did the impossible.

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Speaker 1: He did the impossible. One daughter thought she was a

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Speaker 1: woman with an issue, but another daughter that they thought

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Speaker 1: was dead when he took her hand. Wow, what would

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Speaker 1: it feel like for something that you thought was dead?

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Speaker 1: Maybe not a person joy clarity. I took it by

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Speaker 1: the hand. This was not how Gyrus thought it would happen.

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Speaker 1: This was not what he believe for it was better.

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Speaker 1: It was better. It was even better. What if God

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00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: wants to burst your bubble to give you something better?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, I receive that. I receive it God.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to live my left checked in my bubble.

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Speaker 1: You know, Jesus took this girl by the hand. Gyros said, well,

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Speaker 1: you put your hands on her and she'll live. Remember that.

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Speaker 1: That's how he scripted it. That was his blueprint. That

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Speaker 1: was his blueprint. But Jesus didn't bless him. According to

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Speaker 1: his blueprint, he took her by the hand and said

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Speaker 1: to leave the comb. Little girl, get up, And when

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Speaker 1: she got up, Jiros didn't even ask for this looked

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Speaker 1: Verse forty two. Immediately, the girl stood up again to

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Speaker 1: walk around. She was twelve years old. At this they

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Speaker 1: were completely astonished. Next verse, he gave strict orders not

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Speaker 1: to let anyone know about this. Keep it in the bubble,

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Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble, Keep it in the bubble,

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Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble. Some things are for you,

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Speaker 1: and told them to give her something to eat. He

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Speaker 1: threw lunch in for free. When I say that God's

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Speaker 1: got something better, God said, I'm gonna put fries in

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Speaker 1: the bag that you didn't even ask for. I'm a

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Speaker 1: feed you something that's your faith didn't even know the

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Speaker 1: reach for. I'll call you back and make you a daughter.

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Speaker 1: I'll fix you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'm

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Speaker 1: a provider, speaking of extra Can I give you another scripture? Now?

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Speaker 1: I promise you I have preached you enough where I

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Speaker 1: can close the Bible in good conscience and we can

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Speaker 1: go on and watch something else, or you can stay

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Speaker 1: with me while I try verse centuries of history and

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Speaker 1: introduced Gyrus, the man whose bubble saved his faith, the

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Speaker 1: man who believed even when his daughter was dead, the

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Speaker 1: man who kept moving forward even through the worst pain

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Speaker 1: of his life. Like Levi Lusco, like fly Time, my barber,

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Speaker 1: the man who pressed through unimaginable pain to experience restoration.

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Speaker 1: And I want to show Gyrus about a man he

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Speaker 1: never met because he lived hundreds of years before him.

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Speaker 1: His name was Nayman, and Nayman had a bubble too. See,

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Speaker 1: Nayman was a great man. That's what the Bible says.

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Speaker 1: He's a great man. He was good at fighting. I

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Speaker 1: want to introduce Naman to Gyrus because they're very similar.

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Speaker 1: They're very similar. I think they would be good friends

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Speaker 1: if they met. I think they'd begin friends. If they met,

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Speaker 1: I think they'd be I think they'd be good friends.

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Speaker 1: So Gyros was a synagogue leader, Well, they probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been great friends because Gyrus was Jewish and naming.

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Speaker 1: Naming was over aeron modern day Syria and Israel and

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Speaker 1: Syria didn't like each other, so they would have a

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Speaker 1: lot to get past. Sometimes the people God wants to

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Speaker 1: bless you through. Sometimes the people God wants to use

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Speaker 1: in your life are going to be people from totally

637
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Speaker 1: different backgrounds. Aka, God wants to burst your bubble. I

638
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: thought about having a prop up here blowing the bubble.

639
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: You know, a sound effects or whatever. But I's like, no,

640
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: this isnt a cute message. Is a powerful message just

641
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: because I'm saying that as a bubble, it's so much

642
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: bigger than us. Like you know, I never knew Monks

643
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: Corner was gonna marry Miami. Holly was from Miami, Florida,

644
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: and I always thought I was marry a Southern girl.

645
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: And Holly's not. Let me think how not southern she is.

646
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: She thinks boiled peanuts taste like dirt. At least she did.

647
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: I showed her boiled peanuts. Some of y'all in other

648
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: places of the world. You're like, what is he? She's

649
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: speaking in tongues. He says something about a peanut being boiled.

650
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: But see, I grew up in the Monks Corner bubble,

651
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: where boiled peanuts were a delicacy. I cracking no crab legs.

652
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: I'm cracking the boiled peanuts, and from the gas station.

653
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: The homemade ones were a treat. But I alt do

654
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: it at a gas station if we need to. You

655
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: never had a boiled peanut in your life before you

656
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: came to Charlotte. That woman tasted boiled peanuts in my

657
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: mom's kitchen. I was so excited. I was like, I

658
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: had my dad fried. I was trying to impress her.

659
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: I had my dad fry some shrimp and I had

660
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: some boiled peanuts my mom. It was a whole family effort.

661
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: We were just dating and she tasted im and I

662
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: watched her to see what she would think. She said,

663
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: it tastes like dirt. I laid my hands on her

664
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: until every Miami demon came out of that woman. And

665
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: this day I stand to give God glory. She cooks

666
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: me boiled peanuts once every two weeks, and she eats

667
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: them too. Let's praise God for the miracle. Come on,

668
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: I got a testimony from death to life, from Miami

669
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: to Monkst. Corner. A man told me, I couldn't stand

670
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: to what you preached because you were white, But God

671
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: used to you. A man told me, I couldn't stand

672
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: to what you preached because you were young. God used

673
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: to you. A teenager told me, I used to not

674
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: like to listen to you because I thought you were boring,

675
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: But then God used you. God might not use who

676
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 1: you thought he would use. Namon was a great man.

677
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: Oh my God, many victories. That was his position. Look

678
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: at it in verse one. He was a great man

679
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: in the sight of his master and highly regarded. That

680
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: means in the public places, in the public places, in

681
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 1: the public places, it was. It's great. But the Bible says,

682
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: you see it in verse one. But is it up

683
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: there or did I make it up? The Lord gave

684
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: him victory. God's given you victory. God's given you some things.

685
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: But he had leprosy. Nobody would have known that under

686
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: his armor the woman was bleeding on the inside. Nayman

687
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: has something that is eating away at him even as

688
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: God is working room, and both both can happen at

689
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: the same time. So name in uh. He kind of

690
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: demonstrates what I was telling you about that often God

691
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: will spend you, send you an answer through an unexpected

692
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: person that you didn't even ask the question to. God

693
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: will answer your prayers in places that you didn't even

694
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: think to ask. Yeah, when that thing happened with school

695
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: last year, I did not know that you were going

696
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: to be my workout partner. But that's some of the

697
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: best times of every day for me. I'm talking to

698
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: my son Elijah. Sometimes when I'm down there, I don't

699
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: know whether to be a dad or to be a trainer.

700
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: You know, because I want to yell at him, and

701
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: then I also want to be a good dad and

702
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: comfort him, like it's okay, you don't have to kill

703
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: one more rep. I don't know which one to be.

704
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: And God used something we were both frustrated about with

705
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: school to get us down there in that pound. You

706
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: never thought you'd be throwing those big weights either. At first,

707
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: we wouldn't work out together because his weights were too small.

708
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like rewracking that much. You know, the

709
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: big guy, you know. But now we lift together, he's

710
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: getting strong. I never thought my son will be my

711
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: workout partner in this season. I know it's a silly analogy,

712
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: but sometimes got to use something to bond you with

713
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: your child. I mean, it's just amazing we talk about

714
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: everything and that I'm gonna write a book about the

715
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: things we talk about in that workout room. I already

716
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 1: wrote the introductory chapter. I'm gonna wait till he's fifty

717
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: years old to publish it in Casey, you know, doesn't

718
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: listen to any of it. But maybe I'll just give

719
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: it to him. Maybe I will never write the book.

720
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. See, I'm getting to this point in

721
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: my life where I don't start. Stop trusting so much

722
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: in what I fought. Bust the bubble. Bust the bubble.

723
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that there's only one style of ministry that

724
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: God can bless you through. Stop thinking that ravens can't

725
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 1: bring you food. Stop thinking that sticks can't part red seas.

726
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that only the first one in gets healed.

727
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that the Savior is going to look like Superman.

728
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: He might look like a baby. He busted their bubble.

729
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: That's why they could not receive Jesus. He was not

730
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: what they thought the Messiah would be, and he didn't

731
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: do what the Messiah thought he would do. And we're

732
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: right there now. So Nayman, I was told my naming

733
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: wasn't I I was till my name in Naman was

734
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: a great man, but he had a horrible issue. That's

735
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: true of everybody I'm speaking to. If you said no,

736
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't to the second part of that, that means

737
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: you struggle with pride. If you said no, I don't

738
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: to the first part of that, you struggle with insecurity,

739
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: which is an inverted form of pride. You're a great

740
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: person with some nasty issues. So was naming. But here's

741
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: Here's Here's the thing I wanted to show you about

742
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: Nayman and I wanted to show Gyrus is that there

743
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: was a little girl living in Nayman's house who was

744
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: from Israel. And she saw her master's condition first. Two

745
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: everybody else saw his position. She saw, I'm not saying

746
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: this to be cute. She saw under the armor. She

747
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: saw under the armor. She saw that there was something

748
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: happening on his skin that if it's left unattended long enough,

749
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: that issue would consume him, even his accomplishments. So then

750
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: she said to her mistress, go to verse two again,

751
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: she served Nayman's wife go to verse three. She said,

752
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: she said, she served, She said, she served. She said.

753
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: God spoke through a servant. One time in the Bible,

754
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: God spoke through a donkey. That's how I know he

755
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,959
Speaker 1: can use me too. I'm a servant and God, God

756
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: can speak to you. Some of you will listen to

757
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: me preach, but you won't listen to your wife. And

758
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: I can't speak to the things that I don't see.

759
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes we will not listen to the things that God

760
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: is speaking because we have so carefully constructed when he speaks.

761
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,919
Speaker 1: So you think the only time God speaks is when

762
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: you listen to a preacher, or you think the only

763
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: time God moves is when you're in a church room.

764
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: Can I tell you this. I had God in such

765
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: a bubble. I thought God could only grow our church

766
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: if we had buildings. I stood up here on this

767
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: stage and said, we're gonna reach one hundred thousand people

768
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: every week. And in my mind I saw what twenty

769
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: more buildings I did not know, could not have known,

770
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: and still don't understand that we are reaching way more

771
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: than one hundred thousand people, but not the way I thought.

772
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: It's not what I thought. Get your fingers on that

773
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: organ and get your hands on these sticks. It is

774
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: Ephesians three twenty exceeding abundantly a bull. Oh us are

775
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: imagined with pries in the bag. Give him praise. He's

776
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: been first in your bubble to release thirty seconds. You

777
00:49:54,520 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: got thirty seconds, you got, you got thirty seconds the

778
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: first your bubbles cut. His ways are not so ways,

779
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 1: and this fuss are not your thoughts. God was expected healing,

780
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: but he got resurrection and rise in the path. God's

781
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: gonna do some things in my life, in our ministry,

782
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: in our hearts that we didn't even know to ask for.

783
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: Come on, praise him by faith, by faith, by faith,

784
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: by faith, by faith. Ah, they didn't count that little boy,

785
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: but he had the meal that became a miracle. I'm

786
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: saying right, I don't even want to preach this, Oh God,

787
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: If I preach this like God feeling, your bubble might burst.

788
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: You might start realizing that it's not about what comes

789
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: from you, that's about what comes through you. He's doing

790
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: a great work. Great work, great word. Put it in

791
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: this head of great work. This is for you, big boy.

792
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: This is for you naming. This is for you little girl.

793
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: This is for your daughter. This is for you commander.

794
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: This is for your leprosy. This is for your hidden place,

795
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: This is for your issue, This is for your identity.

796
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:43,439
Speaker 1: This little girl says, if only, if only my master

797
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: would see the prophet who is in Samaria, the place

798
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: he would have never thought to go, the thing he

799
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: would have never thought to do. If you are the

800
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: commander of the army of Aaron, the last thing you

801
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: think of is going to see the enemy that you

802
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: attack all the time, The last thing he thought of.

803
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: Maybe I could say it like this his plan Z.

804
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: What was God's planing. Please receive this ministry. God might

805
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: have hidden your help. But see if you stay in

806
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 1: your bubble, those of us who need to plan everything,

807
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss his presence. That's why they say, why

808
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: don't you preach you with notes? Because I figure some

809
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: of the greatest stuff God might say might flow from

810
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: something I didn't know to write down. What if He

811
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: gives it to me in the moment? Am I open?

812
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: What if he gives it to you in twenty twenty?

813
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: Is it open? What if he gives it to you

814
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 1: through a time in your life that's the scariest time

815
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: of all? Are you open? Don't be afraid. That's hard

816
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: to do, man, my daughter's died. No, no, no, keep

817
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: it in the bubble. Just believe, Just believe, Just believe.

818
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: Thought bubbles. Something so simple, Just to say, what are

819
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 1: the thought bubbles? The things that I thought that God

820
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: was going to do, the things I've limited to. Just

821
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: like a thought can link you to the power of God,

822
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: a thought can limit you. Thought can limit you, just

823
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: like a thought can link you. The woman experienced a

824
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: point of connection by faith. She acted on a thought

825
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: and she was healed. Naming I wanted to introduce him

826
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: to Gyrus. Because Nayman almost missed it. The Lord said,

827
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody today who's in danger of missing it,

828
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: the thing that he's doing in your life. See Naming

829
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 1: got ready to go see the prophet. He burst his bubble.

830
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: He said, I'll go. I'll go to Samaria. How many know,

831
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: when it gets bad enough, you'll try stuff. You'll try

832
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: stuff that you didn't think about trying. You'll start eating

833
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: broccoli and stuff. You'll start fasting and stuff. You'll become

834
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: a vegan and stuff. You start praying and stuff, worshiping

835
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: and stuff. You become one of those Christians, one of

836
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:27,399
Speaker 1: those radical Christians. So he went to his master verse four,

837
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: follow me quick on the scripture, some clothing, and he

838
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: told them what the girl from Israel had said. By

839
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 1: all means go, The King of Aaron replied, I'll send

840
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: a letter to the king all the things that the

841
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: king thought would help name it. And Naming left and

842
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: he took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand

843
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: shekels of gold, ten sets of clothing, all the things

844
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: he thought he would need, all the things that he

845
00:54:54,719 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: thought were required for his life to be restored. You

846
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: got there with the letter that the king said, with

847
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Speaker 1: name it, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.

848
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 1: And the Bible says that when the King of Israel

849
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: read the letter, he tore his robes. Don't lock into

850
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: a song, just minister, I just want you to let

851
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: your gift flow. He tore his robes and said, am

852
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: I God, can I kill and bring back to life?

853
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: Why does this fellow send someone to me to be

854
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 1: cure of his leperty? See, I was trying to pick

855
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 1: a quarrel with me. But watch the prophet. The prophet Elisha,

856
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: the man of God, heard that the King of Israel

857
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: had torn his robes. Have you torn your robes? Has

858
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: you've forgotten who you are? Have you gone so deep

859
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,240
Speaker 1: into mourning that it's no longer just a necessary grief,

860
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 1: but it is becoming normal for you? Have you medicated

861
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: yourself with misery? No, Elisha said, don't tear your robes.

862
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: Have him come to me and he'll know there's a

863
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: prophet in Israel, so name and when with what his

864
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: horses his cheerious. He stopped at the door of Elisha's house.

865
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: God said, you're at the door today, at the door

866
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: and he's waiting on Alishai. He's waiting on a miracle.

867
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: How many you are waiting for something in your life

868
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: right now, some kind of breakthrough. Please raise your hand

869
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: if you're breathing, because if you're breathing, that means there's

870
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: more breakthroughs that God wants you to experience. He don't

871
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: want you to just stay stagnant, just stay at one level.

872
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 1: We're going from glory to glory. Come on, I'm gonna

873
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: keep preaching faith. I'm gonna keep preaching faith. I'm putting

874
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: all I'm creating a bubble. Elevation Church is gonna be

875
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: a bubble for you over these next few months. This

876
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: is gonna be a bubble where you're gonna get pure, honest,

877
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: raw faith. There is a word from the Lord Elisha.

878
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: Send a messenger to him. Huh, you told him, go

879
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: wash yourself seven times and the Jordan and your flesh

880
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: will be restored, and you will be cleansed. But name it,

881
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: but naming, but naming for all of you who are

882
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: hung up on that part that says, but you missed

883
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: the real message. He went away angry and said, I

884
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: thought the woman received a miracle because she thought Nayman

885
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: almost missed his Just like a thought can bring healing,

886
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: a thought can stop it. I thought that he would

887
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Speaker 1: surely stop trying to be so certain, be confident. Certainty

888
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: and confidence are two totally different things, Child of God.

889
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: Certainty is faith in what you thought he would do.

890
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: Confidence is faith in who's going to do it. This

891
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: is this is the word. I thought he was gonna

892
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: come out here and stand and call on the name

893
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over

894
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Speaker 1: the spot and cure me of my leprosy. I thought

895
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: he was gonna do one of you know, one of

896
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: these little things and says so so so God had

897
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: to burst name in's bubble, set him free from what

898
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: he thought. I believe there there's a miracle happening in

899
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: your heart right now. God is bursting the bubble of

900
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: what you thought, what you thought you needed, what you

901
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: thought you could be, what you thought you couldn't survive without.

902
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: What You're gonna discover new capabilities in this season that

903
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: you didn't even know you had. But Nayman almost went

904
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: off because I thought, how many things have I missed?

905
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: Because I thought, how many things has God wanted to

906
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: do in my life? But I didn't participate because it

907
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: didn't match what I thought. He's still gonna bless you.

908
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: It's not like you thought. God set me free from

909
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: what I thought. What a prayer set me free? Watch

910
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: this from my blueprint. That's not what I thought. And

911
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: then he took me all the way back to Isaiah,

912
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: who said, my ways were higher than your ways, and

913
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: my thoughts are not your thoughts. So the Lord wants

914
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: to do a thought transplant for you. Today, you got

915
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 1: approved on the donor list. He sent his son to

916
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: die for you. He said, he wants to give you

917
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:09,439
Speaker 1: a thought transplant. I said, what does that look like? God?

918
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: He said, well, it's going to have a rejection period.

919
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: My dad had a liver transplant, so I know all

920
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: this stuff. It's going to have a rejection period. But

921
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: tell them to begin to think. Tell them to spend

922
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: some time in the bubble with me, because my thoughts

923
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: are not your thoughts, My ways are not your ways.

924
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: Thank God that Naman had a good friend. Thank God

925
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: that Naman had a voice, because he almost missed what

926
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: God wanted to give him because it's not what he

927
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: thought it would be. Just about the time that the

928
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: man was going off like you've been going off. Just

929
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: about the time he was about to just get cynical

930
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 1: and bitter and mean and nasty. Just about the time

931
01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: he was saying why bother name? And Sir came to

932
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: him and said, can you imagine the conversation. I'm not

933
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: telling him you tell, I'm not telling you to to

934
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: to tell. But one of them said it from a

935
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: thought bubble to a dialogue box. You know he spoke it.

936
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: He said, he said, my father, respect mister Namon dead,

937
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: my father, if he told you to do a great thing,

938
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: would you not have done it? How much more than

939
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: when he tells you washed him, be cleansed and thank

940
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: God that he went down. Isn't it crazy how God's

941
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: thoughts are above our thoughts, but sometimes he calls us

942
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: to come down and to do something that seems so dumb.

943
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: Naymon said, I could have washed in the rivers of Damascus.

944
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: They were better than this. Your bubble is what you

945
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: think would be better. God wants to burst that bubble too.

946
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: It's not better to be somebody else. God wants to

947
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: set you free from your bubble of what you think

948
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: would be better, so you could enjoy where he has you.

949
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: I know I wanted to get better too. There's a

950
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 1: lot of things I want to get better. But God

951
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: invites Naman into a process. And I believe he's calling

952
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: you to to go down. Just stop worshiping what you thought,

953
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: realize that His ways are higher, embrace his purpose in

954
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: this season. And he dipped himself into Jordan seven times.

955
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: You know what that spoke to me, repetition. You don't

956
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: think differently because you heard a sermon. You don't. You

957
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: don't think differently because you don't. You don't grow texts

958
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: by doing it once every four weeks. God said, another rep.

959
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 1: God said, another rep. God said another rep. Until you

960
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 1: think like I think. And the Man of God told

961
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 1: him to do it seven times. And he did it

962
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 1: seven times, and his flesh was restored and became clean

963
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: like that of a young boy. He became who he

964
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: was all alone, before the leprosy, before the heartbreak, before

965
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: the addiction. God is restoring you. God is restoring you.

966
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: God is restoring the spirit of the Lord is restoring you.

967
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 1: Dip by dip, thought by thought, dip by dip, thought

968
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: by thought. He's bursting your bubble. You don't need your camels.

969
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: You don't need your spices, you don't need your clothes,

970
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: you don't need any of that. It's not gonna take

971
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: what you thought. God said, my ways are higher God.

972
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: So Lord, we've covered so much ground today, and then

973
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: it all comes down to something so simple. It comes

974
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: down to something so simple that we could miss it.

975
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: It comes down to us realizing that beneath all the

976
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: layers of what life has put on us and the

977
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: struggle has put on us, nay men had to become

978
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: a son, a boy, the woman had to become a daughter. God,

979
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: bring us back to who we really are. Thank you

980
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: that we are not our thoughts, our decisions, our mistakes,

981
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: our accomplishments. We stand here right now because we have

982
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: a name that has been given to us that is

983
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: above every name. Whatever people can call us, categorize us

984
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: by Yeah, I'm something different, different, something different than what

985
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:48,640
Speaker 1: I did. I'm something different than what I think. Who

986
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 1: am I? God, show me who I really am, Show

987
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: me who you really are. I'll dip into Jordan if

988
01:04:54,680 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: I have to. I'll apologize, rethink my life from your level.

989
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: I want to spend some time in the bubble. God.

990
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: I want you to pull down every stronghold. Every thought

991
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: that didn't come from you, cast it out right now. Hallelujah,

992
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: We worship you Lord. Lift your hands. God said, as

993
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: you think on his goodness. I hear the Lord saying,

994
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Not as a question, not what

995
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I hear the Lord saying, water your

996
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: thoughts with worship, with worship. Open up your mouth right now.

997
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: If you get serious enough, you won't care what everybody

998
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: thinks about it around you. You'll do it right there

999
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: in your living room and begin to worship them. I

1000
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: am a child of God. Even something that's simple. Come on,

1001
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: let's have a breakthrough right there in the bubble. Right

1002
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: they're in your home. Let's have God show up right

1003
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: in that place, right in that broken place. Give your glory. Lords,

1004
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: Come on, Chris, begin the minister, out of the bubble,

1005
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: out of the plan. Come on doing with my lady.

1006
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: Thank your work. Thank you for a new thought. I'm

1007
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: thank you for the things I didn't even pick up.

1008
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: I thank you for the provision. I didn't even know

1009
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: that mast fot. I thank you for the miracles beneath

1010
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: the surface. Come on, worse the worse, and worship. Come

1011
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: on see worship, worship water, your thoughts. My ways are

1012
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: not your ways. Nothing better than you not. Oh this

1013
01:06:56,240 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: is nothing, nothing is. Can we worship a moment? Can

1014
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: we worsop a moment? Let's go home. Of course you're

1015
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: better bubble now see nothing better than him. Better is

1016
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: one man in his book. Beer is one thought from

1017
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: his fung. He speaks of better. Well, somebody, don't say

1018
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm not a singer. I'll sing anyway to say I'm not.

1019
01:07:49,760 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 1: I have left her lift him anywhere. Let's prow aside

1020
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: the things that he does like this. You say, that's

1021
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 1: what he does. You gave you your I seen him

1022
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: do it in my life. Sir s, they go to me,

1023
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: only say that again. Listen on you turns. Let's read

1024
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: good to mess about. Let's think a Devin short. He's

1025
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: re story your short. He's a story your joy, the

1026
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: oil and blackness, a stirring of ways to the moment

1027
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: of beauty. We're lighting up, heaving us off your life,

1028
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: and we barny left hers in your room, stayers in

1029
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: your room, say God, say as you get away. This

1030
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: is getting to be kind of a tradition, me talking

1031
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: to you after the message right here at my desk

1032
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: just coming off stage. It took me a few minutes

1033
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: to collect myself. I really felt the Lord speaking through me,

1034
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: and I believe it was for you. I think God

1035
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: gives a preacher a word for a certain person, and

1036
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: that was you today. Pray that you receive it, that

1037
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: you would received the thought transplant, and that whatever God

1038
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,599
Speaker 1: is speaking to you about who you are in Him,

1039
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 1: or what he's called you to do or what he

1040
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: hasn't called you to do or be. I just pray

1041
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: you'll spend some time reflecting on it, or as I said,

1042
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: there water your thoughts water the word of God that

1043
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: has been planted. So much more to share, but I

1044
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: got to stop for now. I want to pray for you, Lord,

1045
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: thank you so much. For each person who heard this message,

1046
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 1: I want to pray for them like we were just

1047
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 1: sitting together. I pray that whatever it is that has

1048
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: been tormenting them, telling them that they're not enough, telling

1049
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: them that they won't make it, that it would be

1050
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,759
Speaker 1: shut out of the room and that only Peter, James

1051
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 1: and John would be allowed in in this moment, Holy

1052
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: Spirit come and give them a thought that can take

1053
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: them from from where they have been to where you're

1054
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 1: calling them to. But at the same time, Lord, we

1055
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 1: know that you are in this moment, So I thank

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Speaker 1: you for your peace, your joy. I pray that it

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Speaker 1: would flow in abundance, that this week we would see

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Speaker 1: thank you, Lord that your ways are higher than ours,

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Speaker 1: and we trust you in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, I

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Speaker 1: love you. I pray that you'll continue to hear the

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Speaker 1: of you who respond, those of you who give. That's

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Speaker 1: how the ministry happens. Man, it's because of you. You're

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Speaker 1: the reason we're touching so many lives and shining the

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Speaker 1: light of Christ. May the Lord multiply it back to

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Speaker 1: you one hundredfold. And for sharing, subscribing all of it.

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Speaker 1: It all matters. Oh man, Let's just stay connected in

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Speaker 1: this time. There's so much God wants to do. It's

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Speaker 1: the power of connection that makes it happen. I love you,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next time.