Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: All right, somebody say, I'm in the choir. That's the
Speaker 1: first time that some of you have ever been in
Speaker 1: a choir not wearing a robe. Praise the Lord. We
Speaker 1: are so thankful for his presence. If you're sitting here
Speaker 1: going like I need to adjust my computer, everybody on
Speaker 1: that stage seems happy and the world is really a
Speaker 1: mess right now, do not adjust your monitor, adjust your mindset.
Speaker 1: That pastor is preaching already and he didn't even get
Speaker 1: his open Wow. So who gets to stay today? I
Speaker 1: know that the Jane gets to stay. You know. I
Speaker 1: leave these worship leaders up here just to have company.
Speaker 1: We're used to having so many more people in the building.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that to diminish those of you
Speaker 1: who are here, but it's just a critical mass issue.
Speaker 1: And of course we've done more ministry than ever before
Speaker 1: in this season, so I'm glad Jane gets to stay.
Speaker 1: That's great, Leota. They don't ever let you stay. Aaron,
Speaker 1: you stay up there the whole time? Do you stand
Speaker 1: the whole time? Do you sit down here? It's weird
Speaker 1: preaching because I'm always playing this game while I'm talking.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, y'all can be seated by the way. I'm
Speaker 1: going to jump into this part two of what I
Speaker 1: started last week, the continuation. Let's keep it going. I've
Speaker 1: heard so many testimonies of people remembering who they are
Speaker 1: in Christ. Now, everybody in here, get ready because we've
Speaker 1: got a job to do today. I'm just reminding you,
Speaker 1: I only want faith in this room right now. There's
Speaker 1: enough fear everywhere else. I said, I only want faith
Speaker 1: in this room because somebody's got something going on in
Speaker 1: their life and we're going to join together and minister.
Speaker 1: And when I scan, it's weird. When I scan people,
Speaker 1: I have this bad habit of where I draw thought
Speaker 1: bubbles when I'm looking at people's face, and I make
Speaker 1: up all this stuff that people are thinking. And I
Speaker 1: can't do that with you because I can't see you.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice. I can picture you anyway
Speaker 1: I want. But when people are in the room man.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's surprising how their faces look. And I don't
Speaker 1: always mean in a bad way some people. I mean
Speaker 1: I every once in a while we'll see somebody who's
Speaker 1: very reserved and they'll be up shouting me down while
Speaker 1: I'm preaching. I'm like, oh, you need it that point.
Speaker 1: Don't shout too much. People will know your business. Then
Speaker 1: some people, like I know exactly what they're thinking because
Speaker 1: I know him. Chris is back there. I'll draw a
Speaker 1: thought bubble over his head and I look at him,
Speaker 1: and I'm the he's thinking, that'd be a good song lyric.
Speaker 1: When he's writing all that stuff down, he's just multi asking.
Speaker 1: He's just writing down song, lyric, grocery list, all of it.
Speaker 1: How many multitasks when you listen to a message? All right,
Speaker 1: stop that, just one thing at a time. Focus, Focus
Speaker 1: Holly's I know exactly what Holly's thinking. How can he
Speaker 1: be so annoying and so attractive? That's my man. He's
Speaker 1: a messenger, but he's my my messenger. She's thinking, how
Speaker 1: beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news?
Speaker 1: Then I get it close, Okay, that's good. My son, Elijah,
Speaker 1: my firstborn, he's always thinking is he going to say
Speaker 1: the part where da da da? Because he's the only
Speaker 1: when I tell my messages to before I appreach him.
Speaker 1: Somehow we get on the same frequency and he'll get
Speaker 1: it before I even say it. It's weird, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's weird. He'll just be He'll just be on it
Speaker 1: before I even say it. It's like we're connected or something.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. And then he's probably thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: making a beat too, but he's mostly thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: is he going to say the part that he told me?
Speaker 1: Larry Price thinking how am I going to rip this
Speaker 1: off and teach it to the campus fectors? Am I
Speaker 1: right about it? I heard him ripping my message from
Speaker 1: last week off on a conference call with our staff
Speaker 1: and it was the supervisors in our church, and he
Speaker 1: preached it better than I did. Yes, you did. He
Speaker 1: took that little one talent of a message that I
Speaker 1: preached and multiplied it to two four and I was
Speaker 1: taking notes and I was like, well, now I'm going
Speaker 1: to preach another part because we were talking about I'm
Speaker 1: not what I thought. Put it in the chat. I'm
Speaker 1: not what I thought. I'm not what I thought. And
Speaker 1: you know, you can be a wonderful person but have
Speaker 1: a terrible thought. You can be a sane person but
Speaker 1: have a crazy thought. You can be a happy person
Speaker 1: and have a depressing thought. So when we separate ourselves
Speaker 1: from our thoughts, it's kind of like Isaiah fifty five
Speaker 1: where God says, sighs the heavens are above the earth.
Speaker 1: So my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above
Speaker 1: your thoughts. And I want more God thoughts in my life,
Speaker 1: thoughts that come from God, Thoughts that lead to God.
Speaker 1: And I wonder do you want some. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. The signal to noise ratio is out of
Speaker 1: control in our world today. There is a famine for
Speaker 1: the word of God, words of peace, comfort, love, joy,
Speaker 1: and encouragement. My buddy called me yesterday and said, you
Speaker 1: got to keep on preaching from another place. He's been
Speaker 1: watching me preach for ten years. He said, God knows
Speaker 1: how much his people are needing right now, and you
Speaker 1: need to allow it to flow through you. I said,
Speaker 1: you're right. Pray for me about that, because people need
Speaker 1: faith and I don't have it. I need God to
Speaker 1: do it in me and then speak it through me
Speaker 1: for you. So this week I want to talk about
Speaker 1: thought bubbles. Thought bubbles. What if I could see what
Speaker 1: you're thinking right now? First of all, would you still
Speaker 1: have a job, Tiffany, would you still be married, would
Speaker 1: you still you know? The things you think, the things
Speaker 1: that you never mentioned, things that make you miserable, the
Speaker 1: things that you think about that you would like to
Speaker 1: really embrace. But to be honest, it's hard for you
Speaker 1: to sometimes think outside We say think outside the box,
Speaker 1: but it's also hard to think outside the bubble. And
Speaker 1: so I'm looking at the room today and I can't
Speaker 1: see you, and I wonder, like if I was drawing
Speaker 1: a thought bubble over your head, if I could see it,
Speaker 1: how God sees what's really going on? Because how many
Speaker 1: know there's a difference between a what's it called a
Speaker 1: die log box. I'm thinking of the old cartoons. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of Calvin and Hobbs specifically, and I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: how some things are best left in the bubble. Let
Speaker 1: me break that down. Just because you think it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to say it. Some things are best
Speaker 1: left in the bubble. And I'll tell you another thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to show you this from Mark chapter five,
Speaker 1: the same story we were in last weekend is that
Speaker 1: you don't have to believe everything you think. Are you ready,
Speaker 1: let's talk about thought bubbles. Remember that the woman with
Speaker 1: the Issue of Blood is no longer called that, not
Speaker 1: from God's perspective. That's not how God thought of earth.
Speaker 1: And the way that we talk about ourselves isn't how
Speaker 1: God thinks of us either. God doesn't categorize us. I
Speaker 1: hate to break this to you by ethnicity. God doesn't
Speaker 1: categorize us. In Christ. There's neither j nor gentile, male
Speaker 1: nor female. That doesn't mean we're not different. That means
Speaker 1: that our core identity is not determined by something external.
Speaker 1: So in Christ, I have a new nature. In Christ,
Speaker 1: I have infinite possibility. But my thoughts. Have you ever
Speaker 1: noticed how you often get stuck in your head and
Speaker 1: so you can never really receive what Heaven has to
Speaker 1: speak because you live under an open heaven, but you
Speaker 1: have a closed mind. Come on, let's go to Mark
Speaker 1: chapter five. Let's go to Mark chapter five where the
Speaker 1: woman formerly known as the Woman with the Issue of Blood,
Speaker 1: the artist, formerly known as the Woman with the Issue
Speaker 1: of Blood, now known as a Daughter of God. It
Speaker 1: just blew my mind that I've always read about this
Speaker 1: woman's persistence. She pressed through the crowd to get to Jesus.
Speaker 1: I've always studied about her intention if I can just
Speaker 1: touch the this garment, and I think all of that
Speaker 1: is important, but I never realized it was about her identity.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that she set her intention and she
Speaker 1: took action, and in verse twenty eight, it says that
Speaker 1: she was healed first of all because she thought, I know,
Speaker 1: you've already watched the sermon five times since last weekend
Speaker 1: because you loved the word of God, and you memorized
Speaker 1: Philippians too. But just for those who hadn't had the time,
Speaker 1: it said she was healed because she thought and always
Speaker 1: thought that she was healed because she touched and she
Speaker 1: was when she touched them. It represented faith. But there's
Speaker 1: two parts of faith. The flip side of works on
Speaker 1: faith starts with a thought and they say that every action.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I get the quote right, every
Speaker 1: action is the ancestor of a thought. No, every thought is.
Speaker 1: It's something about how thoughts I should have looked that up.
Speaker 1: It's something about I thought I had it, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I should have looked at it. The thought is always
Speaker 1: You know, people will say, follow your feelings. That would
Speaker 1: be a bad idea for ninety eight percent of us,
Speaker 1: a really bad idea for ninety eight percent of us.
Speaker 1: It would lead to violence, poverty, weirdness, and other stuff
Speaker 1: we can't talk about in church, but we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it sometime. So follow your feelings. But I want to
Speaker 1: say that a little differently. If you follow your feeling
Speaker 1: back to the thought that created it. If you follow
Speaker 1: your feelings backwards, a lot of times you can find
Speaker 1: that it starts with how you think about God, how
Speaker 1: you think about you, how you think about your season,
Speaker 1: and how you define a blessing. She thought she got
Speaker 1: what she came for, but Jesus was working off of
Speaker 1: a different blueprint because after the issue that she came for.
Speaker 1: You know, we come to God for many different reasons,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times the reason that we come
Speaker 1: to God isn't the reason he called us. He said,
Speaker 1: my thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways aren't
Speaker 1: your ways. So God thinks higher. And a lot of
Speaker 1: the things in my life start with the phrase I
Speaker 1: never would have thought. And I don't know if she
Speaker 1: knew it, but Joanna was preaching today because she helps
Speaker 1: us on our staff. And she said, I never would
Speaker 1: have thought we'd be in an auditorium with just the
Speaker 1: staff preaching the church. Well, I never thought it either.
Speaker 1: This is the year of I never would have thought.
Speaker 1: Go back through your phone, A fifty percent of your
Speaker 1: text are things that you never would have thought that
Speaker 1: you'd be sending. You never thought. You never would have
Speaker 1: thought you'd be buying a kid a new computer, not
Speaker 1: so they could play games on it, but so it
Speaker 1: could be a classroom. You never would have thought that.
Speaker 1: And the woman never would have thought that. On the
Speaker 1: way this is the woman we call the woman with
Speaker 1: the issue of blood. She never would have thought that.
Speaker 1: On the way to heal Gyrus's daughter, the important synagogue official,
Speaker 1: that the person who we would think was the priority
Speaker 1: that Jesus would call her daughter. She never thought of
Speaker 1: herself as a daughter. Now, the way that you think
Speaker 1: of yourself determines what you will do and what you
Speaker 1: won't do. The way that you think of yourself, and
Speaker 1: if you think of yourself, remember this is kind of
Speaker 1: a review from last week. If you think of yourself
Speaker 1: primarily in terms of your position, that's limiting, right, I
Speaker 1: didn't get to tell you this last week, but I
Speaker 1: told the campus pastors. I said, when I was at
Speaker 1: the ball field a couple of years ago, when I'm
Speaker 1: at the ball field, I'm a different I'm not a
Speaker 1: different person. I don't have multiple personalities or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I'm a very nice person in most situations. But at
Speaker 1: the ball field, it's just people can call it wearing
Speaker 1: different hats or different roles, like there's one you, but
Speaker 1: there's many roles, many manifestations of you at any moment.
Speaker 1: Right like just before I came out to preach to you,
Speaker 1: I was being dad and I enjoyed that. And so
Speaker 1: when I would go out to the ball field, I
Speaker 1: mean the ump would make a bad call, and you know,
Speaker 1: I got a good loud voice. God gave me to
Speaker 1: preach and to help people, you know. And one of
Speaker 1: my kids got called out and he wasn't out, and
Speaker 1: I had it on video. This was several years ago,
Speaker 1: back on when we played at mint Hill and I
Speaker 1: came out with the phone and I showed the umpire.
Speaker 1: I know you're not supposed to do this, but I said, hey,
Speaker 1: mister ump, I wouldn't mean him. I was very polite
Speaker 1: I said, I got it on video. The call was bad.
Speaker 1: You need to reverse the call. This is an instant
Speaker 1: replay booth. So come on, just watch this real quick.
Speaker 1: I got it. I'll put it in slow motion for you.
Speaker 1: I didn't yell at them or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: one of the other dads he thought it was cute
Speaker 1: when I came back over because I didn't reverse call
Speaker 1: to when we get off the field. And then and
Speaker 1: then when I came back over, the guy said, careful, verdict.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be a pastor. And you know what
Speaker 1: I said back right now, I'm a dad. And wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be great if every single one of your rules
Speaker 1: work together perfectly to compliment one another. And so people say, well,
Speaker 1: just be you. Which one the one that has to
Speaker 1: bite their tongue or the one who's allowed to be honest?
Speaker 1: Which one the one who keeps it real? Well, keeping
Speaker 1: it real will maybe keep you unemployed and single if
Speaker 1: you're bursting every thought bubble, saying everything you think, just
Speaker 1: being everything you are, because you have to know what's
Speaker 1: appropriate to the and the situation. But there comes a
Speaker 1: time where something in your life will drive you to
Speaker 1: a point where you will come outside of the confines
Speaker 1: of what you thought you were, and you will embrace
Speaker 1: something that you never knew you needed, Like the woman
Speaker 1: with the issue who became the only person that Jesus
Speaker 1: ever called daughter. I'm a daughter. I'm a son if
Speaker 1: I did it for myself. I'm a dad. I'm a pastor.
Speaker 1: I'm a songwriter, I'm an author. Some of these things
Speaker 1: I don't even like to say like that because it
Speaker 1: misses the point. I'm not a songwriter. I write songs.
Speaker 1: I'm not an author. I sometimes write books. Sometimes every
Speaker 1: ten years, I write a book. I'm not. You're supposed
Speaker 1: to be a pastor. I'm also supposed to be a parent,
Speaker 1: right And sometimes it's because I find myself in roles
Speaker 1: and I promise you I'm going to read the Bible
Speaker 1: verses in a minute, But I am preaching already. Just
Speaker 1: because it didn't come up on the screen yet doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I'm not preaching it. You categorize stuff too weird
Speaker 1: in your mind. You're like, he's gonna preach it. I
Speaker 1: am totally preaching the Word of God. Jyris was a
Speaker 1: campus pastor at Elevation, I mean a synagogue ruler. But
Speaker 1: he was also a dad, and he had a daughter.
Speaker 1: And he's no longer a campus pastor preaching a sermon
Speaker 1: or making phone calls, or a worship leader, a piano player, drummer.
Speaker 1: He's a dad. In this moment, he said, heal my daughter.
Speaker 1: I need you, I need you. Desperation will drive you
Speaker 1: to see yourself differently, to lift the limits. And I
Speaker 1: want to look at this one more time because the
Speaker 1: woman thought, if I touch him, I will be healed.
Speaker 1: And she was. And he called her back and he
Speaker 1: gave her the miracle of a restored identity. That's not
Speaker 1: so catchy, right, but that's what it was, the miracle
Speaker 1: of remembering who you were before your issue consumed you.
Speaker 1: You can go through things and you forget who you are.
Speaker 1: You think you're what you have accomplished. But what if
Speaker 1: God wants to reveal something that goes beyond your resume?
Speaker 1: And the ability to navigate all of the different names
Speaker 1: that I'm called by comes from knowing who I really
Speaker 1: am beneath all the layers. I don't know I've ever
Speaker 1: preached a more annointed introduction than right now. Now. Let's see,
Speaker 1: do y'all want to go deeper? Or is that I
Speaker 1: don't want to bring out if you're full on the rolls,
Speaker 1: the yeast rolls, y'all remember Quincy's I don't want to
Speaker 1: bring out any stake. So she thought she touched, and
Speaker 1: then she heard from Jesus daughter, what an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: And yet the text begs to be picked up at
Speaker 1: verse thirty five, right because Gyros, who asked Jesus to
Speaker 1: heal his daughter, at the same moment that the woman
Speaker 1: was delivered from her issue, he was devastated as she
Speaker 1: was being restored as a daughter, his own daughter died.
Speaker 1: And I want to pick up right there in mark five,
Speaker 1: verse thirty five, the Bible says, while Jesus was still
Speaker 1: speaking to the woman, telling her who she really was, daughter,
Speaker 1: look at it. In verse thirty four, daughter, he called
Speaker 1: her daughter. Sorry, Eddie vetter, but he did, he called
Speaker 1: her daughter. Come on, I gotta have fun up here, man.
Speaker 1: It's lonely up here. But as he's calling her daughter
Speaker 1: and reminding her of who she was, Gyros, the synagogue official,
Speaker 1: the man who had often been identified by his position,
Speaker 1: who was supposed to be a pastor, but right now
Speaker 1: he's a parent. Her deliverance led to his disappointment, and
Speaker 1: sometimes those two go together. Sometimes to deliver you, God
Speaker 1: has to do it through a disappointment, and he will
Speaker 1: allow people to let you down, to bring you things
Speaker 1: that you didn't know to pray for. You know how
Speaker 1: we quote Ephesians three twenty nine, and then who was
Speaker 1: able to do measurably more than we ask or imagine?
Speaker 1: Why do we always think that more is going to
Speaker 1: be bigger? Sometimes more is deeper. So while he's calling
Speaker 1: her daughter, he said, go in peace. She left with healing,
Speaker 1: but he wanted her to leave with peace. Peace only
Speaker 1: come from knowing who you are. Peace can't come from possessions.
Speaker 1: Peace can't come from positions. Peace can only come from
Speaker 1: knowing who I am. Purpose. That's where peace comes from,
Speaker 1: what God put me here for. And while he was
Speaker 1: still speaking, while she was being delivered from her issue,
Speaker 1: Gyrus was devastated. The Bible says in verse thirty five,
Speaker 1: some people came from the house of Gyrous the synagogue leader.
Speaker 1: What's it called when you put something in between the
Speaker 1: comments that you could take out of the sentences. I'm
Speaker 1: not good at grammar. Huh A positive? Well, this one's
Speaker 1: not positive, it's negative. Oh, a positive is the synagogue leader.
Speaker 1: It's called and a positive. Put it in the chat
Speaker 1: because me and Holly are having a marital fight right now.
Speaker 1: We need to be delivered. So just connect these two.
Speaker 1: Everything's connected, right. She's receiving something positive and he's losing
Speaker 1: something priceless. And yet he's still being identified by his
Speaker 1: position the synagogue ruler, Gyrus, the synagogue ruler. But today
Speaker 1: he's not a CEO. Today he's a dad with a
Speaker 1: broken heart. Let's just talk for just me and you
Speaker 1: for a minute. Let's pretend to be friends. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we would be. I'm sure you would. You would love
Speaker 1: me if you know me, and I would love you too.
Speaker 1: I know you're amazing, But let me get out of
Speaker 1: like preacher mode for a moment and just talk to
Speaker 1: you like a dad or like a brother, or like
Speaker 1: a friend or something like that. Like what is the
Speaker 1: thing that you thought God was going to do and
Speaker 1: the opposite happened? The opposite? I don't mean about a
Speaker 1: parking space. I'm trying to go a little bit beneath
Speaker 1: the surface. This whole year. How many of you predicted
Speaker 1: this year going exactly yeah? How many of you everything
Speaker 1: that was on your resolution list is right on schedule,
Speaker 1: because I want to meet you, and I want you
Speaker 1: to lay hands on me, and I want you to
Speaker 1: transfer that annoying to me. So his position, the synagogue ruler,
Speaker 1: the woman is restored to her rightful identity. His position
Speaker 1: is irrelevant because it really doesn't matter what title that
Speaker 1: you have in moments like this does It really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what title you have in moments like these. And
Speaker 1: so he thought Jesus was gonna heal her. What else
Speaker 1: would he have thought. Jesus was on the way, the
Speaker 1: crowd is around. I'm thinking he thought he was going
Speaker 1: to get his daughter healed. But Jesus stopped for another
Speaker 1: forgotten daughter, And in the process of restoring that daughter,
Speaker 1: he lost his daughter. You see it. He lost his
Speaker 1: twelve year old daughter to a woman who for twelve
Speaker 1: years had been consumed by an issue. So there's a
Speaker 1: trade off. There's she she got her miracle, he didn't.
Speaker 1: And what happens next. This is where I want to
Speaker 1: start my sermon. This is where I want to start
Speaker 1: my sermon. The Bible says that some people came from
Speaker 1: the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader. That's that's a
Speaker 1: positive your daughter is dead? They said, why bother the
Speaker 1: teacher anymore? I bet if I could see your thought bubble,
Speaker 1: a lot of it would say why bother? Or a
Speaker 1: less g rated version of that, right, why even bother?
Speaker 1: Like what's the point? Like why even put anything on
Speaker 1: the calendar these days? Like why even try right now?
Speaker 1: Like why bother? What's the point? I gotta show you something.
Speaker 1: You're ready and rule in my sleeves. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: preach now, why bo? I'm back full in preacher mode.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a preacher right now. I'm a preacher right now.
Speaker 1: I'm a preacher right now. I'm a preacher right now?
Speaker 1: Why bother the teacher anymore? That was what was in
Speaker 1: their bubble, right, and they said it out LOUDE I
Speaker 1: think about Jesus says he can read your thoughts, so
Speaker 1: he can see not only what you say, but he
Speaker 1: can pop your thought bubble and know what's really in
Speaker 1: your heart. I want to talk about thought bubbles today.
Speaker 1: So Jesus overheard what they said right and told Gyrus,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe. Depends on how you hear that,
Speaker 1: whether you hear it as being something that he said
Speaker 1: as a cliche or whether you hear it as something
Speaker 1: that he said to keep Cyrus's faith alive in the
Speaker 1: moment where I was about to die, because there's a
Speaker 1: crowd around, and everybody's telling he's hearing all these voices,
Speaker 1: why bother? Why bother? And so were you? So were you?
Speaker 1: Conspiracy theories. Some of y'all eat conspiracy theories for breakfast.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's a terrible time to try to
Speaker 1: listen to the crowd. Now, this is amazing. When I
Speaker 1: saw it in the text, I got so excited because
Speaker 1: not only did Jesus do the first contact tracing when
Speaker 1: he said, who touched me? When he felt a contact
Speaker 1: with the woman of the issue of blood, but Jesus
Speaker 1: watched this verse thirty seven, did not let anyone follow
Speaker 1: him except Peter James and John, the brother of James.
Speaker 1: Long before the NBA had bubble, My dumb self. You
Speaker 1: know how dumb I am. When they said they're putting
Speaker 1: the NBA in a bubble, I thought of a SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: What's the thing called on SpongeBob? Sophie's Sophie's, Yeah, Sandy's.
Speaker 1: I saw the But that's how dumb I am for
Speaker 1: five seconds, I thought they were. Did you think that too?
Speaker 1: You won't admit it. I bet if I can see
Speaker 1: your thought bubbles. You didn't know either. Well, well, Jesus
Speaker 1: knew something very important that sometimes there is a benefit
Speaker 1: to a bubble. Not everything belongs outside the bubble, ask Joseph.
Speaker 1: He told his brothers, hey man, God showed you something.
Speaker 1: His brothers busted his bubble so quick they threw him
Speaker 1: in a pit. Some things are best left in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Some things don't need to be posted right now. Some
Speaker 1: things need to be prayed about. Some things need to
Speaker 1: go through wise counsel. Some things are best left in
Speaker 1: the bubble. I wish you'd put it in the check
Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble, Keep it in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble. My God, I just kept
Speaker 1: you from sending an email that was going to take
Speaker 1: you five years to repair. Keep it in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Save it as a draft, Pray on it, type it out,
Speaker 1: pray on it, delete it, edit it, revise it. Some
Speaker 1: things have to be Belief has to be incubated sometimes
Speaker 1: in a bubble. Don't be afraid, just believe. And what's
Speaker 1: the first thing he did after He told him that
Speaker 1: that y'all back off, because this man needs to believe
Speaker 1: something right now. This woman needs to believe something right now.
Speaker 1: She was healed because she thought she didn't ask anybody's permission,
Speaker 1: she acted on it. I mean, there's some things when
Speaker 1: God calls me to do them, I don't tell anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't even like to tell my team that puts
Speaker 1: my sermon title on the screen what it is before
Speaker 1: I preach it. How are they going to put it
Speaker 1: on the screen if I don't tell him what it is?
Speaker 1: But I'm weird about it. I don't want always talk
Speaker 1: about stuff that God is doing it me. We put
Speaker 1: something down this week. I said, Chris, just hold it
Speaker 1: for a little while. He's got to live with it.
Speaker 1: I won't keep it in the bubble. Keep it in
Speaker 1: the bubble. Keep it in the bubble. Keep it in
Speaker 1: the bubble, keep it in the bubble. Some thoughts you
Speaker 1: have to hold on to. Some thoughts you have to release.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to let go because that's not really
Speaker 1: what God said, that's not who you are, that didn't
Speaker 1: come from him. Remember, my thoughts are not your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm not what I thought. Some of that you gotta
Speaker 1: let it Floadelph. But when you get a god thought,
Speaker 1: keep it in the bubble. Keep it in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Like when Jesus told the crowd, he thins out the crowd. Right.
Speaker 1: First thing that he has to do is get Gyros
Speaker 1: in a bubble. So Jesus says, don't be afraid, just believe.
Speaker 1: Here's what's crazy. Gyros does not say a single thing
Speaker 1: that indicates that he has faith. He didn't say I
Speaker 1: believe Lord. He didn't make declarations of faith. I believe
Speaker 1: in God, the Father, Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
Speaker 1: Jeesis Christ only son, our Lord. He didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Sometimes belief is best shown, not told. Sometimes faith is best.
Speaker 1: If I touched the hem of his garment, she didn't
Speaker 1: tell anybody. She just touched. I don't mean sneak around
Speaker 1: and do weird stuff, joined seven different dating websites and
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody. I'm talking about that. But Jesus said,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe. And the next thing he did.
Speaker 1: Watch this. Jesus is so relevant, right, He's relevant to
Speaker 1: what we're going through right now. He put Gyros in
Speaker 1: a bubble, he said, Peter James John y'all come, everybody else,
Speaker 1: stay bubble, because if you let too much fear in
Speaker 1: right now, if you let too much content in right now,
Speaker 1: you are gonna go crazy. You're gonna go crazy. If
Speaker 1: you start imagining what your kids are gonna be like
Speaker 1: at their graduation of high school and they're in second grade,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go keep it in a bubble. Like. Let
Speaker 1: me give you a Bible verse, sufficient is the day
Speaker 1: for its own trouble. You got enough trouble in today's bubble.
Speaker 1: Trouble bubbles. That's part three. I'm gonna do part three.
Speaker 1: Will you help me preach part three? But Jesus, it
Speaker 1: gets crazier than that. When he got to the house.
Speaker 1: Give me the next verse. Police, when they came to
Speaker 1: the home of the synagogue leader. Now we've got his
Speaker 1: home where the issue is and his position. And he
Speaker 1: comes into the home and watch what's going on. Jesus
Speaker 1: sees a commotion, people crying, wailing loudly. Everybody's tweeting and
Speaker 1: blogging and streaming and talking and pontificating, and a million opinions.
Speaker 1: And Jesus went in and said to them, why all
Speaker 1: this commotion and willing this child is not dead but asleep.
Speaker 1: And they verse forty laughed at him. So watch what
Speaker 1: he did. You say, you want to be like Jesus.
Speaker 1: You wanna be like Jesus. After when did the miracle happen?
Speaker 1: After he put them all out? After he put them
Speaker 1: all out? I feel a delete party happening in in
Speaker 1: your contact section while I preach the word of God. Now,
Speaker 1: don't delete everybody. He took the disciples with him. You
Speaker 1: don't put everybody out, You don't put every thought out.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you have to believe in a bubble, right,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't ask everybody sometimes I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: you gotta ask your boss, you gotta ask your wife,
Speaker 1: you gotta ask the important people. You gotta have a few.
Speaker 1: But it's too much, right, it's too much. Right now,
Speaker 1: God send me with a word to get you in
Speaker 1: a in a bubble, he said, everybody leave, because sometimes
Speaker 1: breakthrough only happens in the bubble. In the bubble, Thank
Speaker 1: you Lord. He's showing me things. He's showing me things.
Speaker 1: He's giving me things right now as I speak to you.
Speaker 1: And then while I'm getting those things, there's other things
Speaker 1: being like oh that's dumb or wow, that's really stupid.
Speaker 1: But I'm in the bubble. I gotta keep it in
Speaker 1: the bubble. I got to remember while I'm preaching that
Speaker 1: I'm not preaching for somebody who's going to criticize what
Speaker 1: I say or I think it's weird. I think that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So if you think I'm out of my mind, that's
Speaker 1: the goal. That's the goal. My mind has made me
Speaker 1: miserable for most of my life. Said they laughed at Jesus.
Speaker 1: They laughed at Jesus not because he was weird, but
Speaker 1: because he was he was focused, and he knew enough
Speaker 1: to know the original Did you ever see this in
Speaker 1: the text chunks? I bet you did. You probably preciate
Speaker 1: this before. But Jesus had the original NBA bubble, my goodness,
Speaker 1: not the National Basketball Association. No butts, allow, come on,
Speaker 1: let's have some fun together for five minutes. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to say it like this,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to. We could probably edit it for
Speaker 1: the archive. Get your butt out the bubble, the Bible said,
Speaker 1: Does the Bible say butt? In verse forty? Does the
Speaker 1: Bible say, but but they laughed at him? Get out,
Speaker 1: get out, get out, get out, get out. You can
Speaker 1: do it, but it's get out, wipe up, get out,
Speaker 1: but get out, get out, get up, get out. I'm
Speaker 1: doing this. Breakthroughs can only happen in the bubble, where
Speaker 1: you got a few friends, where you got a few objectives.
Speaker 1: We've got a few priorities, not trying to be everything
Speaker 1: all the time. Now I'm gonna do this and this
Speaker 1: and this, and I know who I am and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to prove to anybody that I'm something else,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to play a different role. Come on,
Speaker 1: just because we have to wear physical masks doesn't mean
Speaker 1: we have to wear emotional ones. I thought it was
Speaker 1: so weird when they said masks are it's weird to
Speaker 1: see people in masks, I said, not for me. As
Speaker 1: a pastor, I've been looking at people in masks, So
Speaker 1: Jesus knew that sometimes it takes a bubble to maintain belief.
Speaker 1: After we get done with this, you'll put in the
Speaker 1: in the chat or in the comments this week with
Speaker 1: the bub means for you, I mean like I need
Speaker 1: to have like five minutes when I start my day
Speaker 1: to remind myself where my health comes from. I did
Speaker 1: it today because once I come here, there's too many stimulus,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be like, oh, the room's too hot,
Speaker 1: the room's too cold. Why is that person not here?
Speaker 1: Why is this person there? Why do I jeans saying,
Speaker 1: can I get to the thing that I do? The
Speaker 1: thing I said be too much? I sit there and
Speaker 1: breathe in the bubble for a minute, right, and it
Speaker 1: really helped me. I don't always do it, but when
Speaker 1: I do, it helps me out loud. I started saying,
Speaker 1: I popped the thought bubble and actually pray to I say, God,
Speaker 1: thank you today that you have given me something that
Speaker 1: will help and heal people. I thank you for it, Lord,
Speaker 1: and I thank you today that, as I preach, I
Speaker 1: stand in your authority, not my own. I thank you
Speaker 1: that you've given me what I need for the role
Speaker 1: I'm in. And maybe you want to start your day
Speaker 1: that way. Maybe you want to start your day that way.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to clarify your priorities again, you know
Speaker 1: what I've been so busy over here. Then of course,
Speaker 1: after he made the bubble, he showed him what to
Speaker 1: break through. Looks like, I don't even want to read
Speaker 1: it because I'll be tempted to preach it because the
Speaker 1: Bible said when he went in where the child was
Speaker 1: Verse forty one, he did the impossible. He did the impossible.
Speaker 1: He did the impossible. One daughter thought she was a
Speaker 1: woman with an issue, but another daughter that they thought
Speaker 1: was dead when he took her hand. Wow, what would
Speaker 1: it feel like for something that you thought was dead?
Speaker 1: Maybe not a person joy clarity. I took it by
Speaker 1: the hand. This was not how Gyrus thought it would happen.
Speaker 1: This was not what he believe for it was better.
Speaker 1: It was better. It was even better. What if God
Speaker 1: wants to burst your bubble to give you something better?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, I receive that. I receive it God.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live my left checked in my bubble.
Speaker 1: You know, Jesus took this girl by the hand. Gyros said, well,
Speaker 1: you put your hands on her and she'll live. Remember that.
Speaker 1: That's how he scripted it. That was his blueprint. That
Speaker 1: was his blueprint. But Jesus didn't bless him. According to
Speaker 1: his blueprint, he took her by the hand and said
Speaker 1: to leave the comb. Little girl, get up, And when
Speaker 1: she got up, Jiros didn't even ask for this looked
Speaker 1: Verse forty two. Immediately, the girl stood up again to
Speaker 1: walk around. She was twelve years old. At this they
Speaker 1: were completely astonished. Next verse, he gave strict orders not
Speaker 1: to let anyone know about this. Keep it in the bubble,
Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble, Keep it in the bubble,
Speaker 1: Keep it in the bubble. Some things are for you,
Speaker 1: and told them to give her something to eat. He
Speaker 1: threw lunch in for free. When I say that God's
Speaker 1: got something better, God said, I'm gonna put fries in
Speaker 1: the bag that you didn't even ask for. I'm a
Speaker 1: feed you something that's your faith didn't even know the
Speaker 1: reach for. I'll call you back and make you a daughter.
Speaker 1: I'll fix you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'm
Speaker 1: a provider, speaking of extra Can I give you another scripture? Now?
Speaker 1: I promise you I have preached you enough where I
Speaker 1: can close the Bible in good conscience and we can
Speaker 1: go on and watch something else, or you can stay
Speaker 1: with me while I try verse centuries of history and
Speaker 1: introduced Gyrus, the man whose bubble saved his faith, the
Speaker 1: man who believed even when his daughter was dead, the
Speaker 1: man who kept moving forward even through the worst pain
Speaker 1: of his life. Like Levi Lusco, like fly Time, my barber,
Speaker 1: the man who pressed through unimaginable pain to experience restoration.
Speaker 1: And I want to show Gyrus about a man he
Speaker 1: never met because he lived hundreds of years before him.
Speaker 1: His name was Nayman, and Nayman had a bubble too. See,
Speaker 1: Nayman was a great man. That's what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: He's a great man. He was good at fighting. I
Speaker 1: want to introduce Naman to Gyrus because they're very similar.
Speaker 1: They're very similar. I think they would be good friends
Speaker 1: if they met. I think they'd begin friends. If they met,
Speaker 1: I think they'd be I think they'd be good friends.
Speaker 1: So Gyros was a synagogue leader, Well, they probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been great friends because Gyrus was Jewish and naming.
Speaker 1: Naming was over aeron modern day Syria and Israel and
Speaker 1: Syria didn't like each other, so they would have a
Speaker 1: lot to get past. Sometimes the people God wants to
Speaker 1: bless you through. Sometimes the people God wants to use
Speaker 1: in your life are going to be people from totally
Speaker 1: different backgrounds. Aka, God wants to burst your bubble. I
Speaker 1: thought about having a prop up here blowing the bubble.
Speaker 1: You know, a sound effects or whatever. But I's like, no,
Speaker 1: this isnt a cute message. Is a powerful message just
Speaker 1: because I'm saying that as a bubble, it's so much
Speaker 1: bigger than us. Like you know, I never knew Monks
Speaker 1: Corner was gonna marry Miami. Holly was from Miami, Florida,
Speaker 1: and I always thought I was marry a Southern girl.
Speaker 1: And Holly's not. Let me think how not southern she is.
Speaker 1: She thinks boiled peanuts taste like dirt. At least she did.
Speaker 1: I showed her boiled peanuts. Some of y'all in other
Speaker 1: places of the world. You're like, what is he? She's
Speaker 1: speaking in tongues. He says something about a peanut being boiled.
Speaker 1: But see, I grew up in the Monks Corner bubble,
Speaker 1: where boiled peanuts were a delicacy. I cracking no crab legs.
Speaker 1: I'm cracking the boiled peanuts, and from the gas station.
Speaker 1: The homemade ones were a treat. But I alt do
Speaker 1: it at a gas station if we need to. You
Speaker 1: never had a boiled peanut in your life before you
Speaker 1: came to Charlotte. That woman tasted boiled peanuts in my
Speaker 1: mom's kitchen. I was so excited. I was like, I
Speaker 1: had my dad fried. I was trying to impress her.
Speaker 1: I had my dad fry some shrimp and I had
Speaker 1: some boiled peanuts my mom. It was a whole family effort.
Speaker 1: We were just dating and she tasted im and I
Speaker 1: watched her to see what she would think. She said,
Speaker 1: it tastes like dirt. I laid my hands on her
Speaker 1: until every Miami demon came out of that woman. And
Speaker 1: this day I stand to give God glory. She cooks
Speaker 1: me boiled peanuts once every two weeks, and she eats
Speaker 1: them too. Let's praise God for the miracle. Come on,
Speaker 1: I got a testimony from death to life, from Miami
Speaker 1: to Monkst. Corner. A man told me, I couldn't stand
Speaker 1: to what you preached because you were white, But God
Speaker 1: used to you. A man told me, I couldn't stand
Speaker 1: to what you preached because you were young. God used
Speaker 1: to you. A teenager told me, I used to not
Speaker 1: like to listen to you because I thought you were boring,
Speaker 1: But then God used you. God might not use who
Speaker 1: you thought he would use. Namon was a great man.
Speaker 1: Oh my God, many victories. That was his position. Look
Speaker 1: at it in verse one. He was a great man
Speaker 1: in the sight of his master and highly regarded. That
Speaker 1: means in the public places, in the public places, in
Speaker 1: the public places, it was. It's great. But the Bible says,
Speaker 1: you see it in verse one. But is it up
Speaker 1: there or did I make it up? The Lord gave
Speaker 1: him victory. God's given you victory. God's given you some things.
Speaker 1: But he had leprosy. Nobody would have known that under
Speaker 1: his armor the woman was bleeding on the inside. Nayman
Speaker 1: has something that is eating away at him even as
Speaker 1: God is working room, and both both can happen at
Speaker 1: the same time. So name in uh. He kind of
Speaker 1: demonstrates what I was telling you about that often God
Speaker 1: will spend you, send you an answer through an unexpected
Speaker 1: person that you didn't even ask the question to. God
Speaker 1: will answer your prayers in places that you didn't even
Speaker 1: think to ask. Yeah, when that thing happened with school
Speaker 1: last year, I did not know that you were going
Speaker 1: to be my workout partner. But that's some of the
Speaker 1: best times of every day for me. I'm talking to
Speaker 1: my son Elijah. Sometimes when I'm down there, I don't
Speaker 1: know whether to be a dad or to be a trainer.
Speaker 1: You know, because I want to yell at him, and
Speaker 1: then I also want to be a good dad and
Speaker 1: comfort him, like it's okay, you don't have to kill
Speaker 1: one more rep. I don't know which one to be.
Speaker 1: And God used something we were both frustrated about with
Speaker 1: school to get us down there in that pound. You
Speaker 1: never thought you'd be throwing those big weights either. At first,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't work out together because his weights were too small.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like rewracking that much. You know, the
Speaker 1: big guy, you know. But now we lift together, he's
Speaker 1: getting strong. I never thought my son will be my
Speaker 1: workout partner in this season. I know it's a silly analogy,
Speaker 1: but sometimes got to use something to bond you with
Speaker 1: your child. I mean, it's just amazing we talk about
Speaker 1: everything and that I'm gonna write a book about the
Speaker 1: things we talk about in that workout room. I already
Speaker 1: wrote the introductory chapter. I'm gonna wait till he's fifty
Speaker 1: years old to publish it in Casey, you know, doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to any of it. But maybe I'll just give
Speaker 1: it to him. Maybe I will never write the book.
Speaker 1: I don't know. See, I'm getting to this point in
Speaker 1: my life where I don't start. Stop trusting so much
Speaker 1: in what I fought. Bust the bubble. Bust the bubble.
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that there's only one style of ministry that
Speaker 1: God can bless you through. Stop thinking that ravens can't
Speaker 1: bring you food. Stop thinking that sticks can't part red seas.
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that only the first one in gets healed.
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that the Savior is going to look like Superman.
Speaker 1: He might look like a baby. He busted their bubble.
Speaker 1: That's why they could not receive Jesus. He was not
Speaker 1: what they thought the Messiah would be, and he didn't
Speaker 1: do what the Messiah thought he would do. And we're
Speaker 1: right there now. So Nayman, I was told my naming
Speaker 1: wasn't I I was till my name in Naman was
Speaker 1: a great man, but he had a horrible issue. That's
Speaker 1: true of everybody I'm speaking to. If you said no,
Speaker 1: I don't to the second part of that, that means
Speaker 1: you struggle with pride. If you said no, I don't
Speaker 1: to the first part of that, you struggle with insecurity,
Speaker 1: which is an inverted form of pride. You're a great
Speaker 1: person with some nasty issues. So was naming. But here's
Speaker 1: Here's Here's the thing I wanted to show you about
Speaker 1: Nayman and I wanted to show Gyrus is that there
Speaker 1: was a little girl living in Nayman's house who was
Speaker 1: from Israel. And she saw her master's condition first. Two
Speaker 1: everybody else saw his position. She saw, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this to be cute. She saw under the armor. She
Speaker 1: saw under the armor. She saw that there was something
Speaker 1: happening on his skin that if it's left unattended long enough,
Speaker 1: that issue would consume him, even his accomplishments. So then
Speaker 1: she said to her mistress, go to verse two again,
Speaker 1: she served Nayman's wife go to verse three. She said,
Speaker 1: she said, she served, She said, she served. She said.
Speaker 1: God spoke through a servant. One time in the Bible,
Speaker 1: God spoke through a donkey. That's how I know he
Speaker 1: can use me too. I'm a servant and God, God
Speaker 1: can speak to you. Some of you will listen to
Speaker 1: me preach, but you won't listen to your wife. And
Speaker 1: I can't speak to the things that I don't see.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we will not listen to the things that God
Speaker 1: is speaking because we have so carefully constructed when he speaks.
Speaker 1: So you think the only time God speaks is when
Speaker 1: you listen to a preacher, or you think the only
Speaker 1: time God moves is when you're in a church room.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you this. I had God in such
Speaker 1: a bubble. I thought God could only grow our church
Speaker 1: if we had buildings. I stood up here on this
Speaker 1: stage and said, we're gonna reach one hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: every week. And in my mind I saw what twenty
Speaker 1: more buildings I did not know, could not have known,
Speaker 1: and still don't understand that we are reaching way more
Speaker 1: than one hundred thousand people, but not the way I thought.
Speaker 1: It's not what I thought. Get your fingers on that
Speaker 1: organ and get your hands on these sticks. It is
Speaker 1: Ephesians three twenty exceeding abundantly a bull. Oh us are
Speaker 1: imagined with pries in the bag. Give him praise. He's
Speaker 1: been first in your bubble to release thirty seconds. You
Speaker 1: got thirty seconds, you got, you got thirty seconds the
Speaker 1: first your bubbles cut. His ways are not so ways,
Speaker 1: and this fuss are not your thoughts. God was expected healing,
Speaker 1: but he got resurrection and rise in the path. God's
Speaker 1: gonna do some things in my life, in our ministry,
Speaker 1: in our hearts that we didn't even know to ask for.
Speaker 1: Come on, praise him by faith, by faith, by faith,
Speaker 1: by faith, by faith. Ah, they didn't count that little boy,
Speaker 1: but he had the meal that became a miracle. I'm
Speaker 1: saying right, I don't even want to preach this, Oh God,
Speaker 1: If I preach this like God feeling, your bubble might burst.
Speaker 1: You might start realizing that it's not about what comes
Speaker 1: from you, that's about what comes through you. He's doing
Speaker 1: a great work. Great work, great word. Put it in
Speaker 1: this head of great work. This is for you, big boy.
Speaker 1: This is for you naming. This is for you little girl.
Speaker 1: This is for your daughter. This is for you commander.
Speaker 1: This is for your leprosy. This is for your hidden place,
Speaker 1: This is for your issue, This is for your identity.
Speaker 1: This little girl says, if only, if only my master
Speaker 1: would see the prophet who is in Samaria, the place
Speaker 1: he would have never thought to go, the thing he
Speaker 1: would have never thought to do. If you are the
Speaker 1: commander of the army of Aaron, the last thing you
Speaker 1: think of is going to see the enemy that you
Speaker 1: attack all the time, The last thing he thought of.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could say it like this his plan Z.
Speaker 1: What was God's planing. Please receive this ministry. God might
Speaker 1: have hidden your help. But see if you stay in
Speaker 1: your bubble, those of us who need to plan everything,
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss his presence. That's why they say, why
Speaker 1: don't you preach you with notes? Because I figure some
Speaker 1: of the greatest stuff God might say might flow from
Speaker 1: something I didn't know to write down. What if He
Speaker 1: gives it to me in the moment? Am I open?
Speaker 1: What if he gives it to you in twenty twenty?
Speaker 1: Is it open? What if he gives it to you
Speaker 1: through a time in your life that's the scariest time
Speaker 1: of all? Are you open? Don't be afraid. That's hard
Speaker 1: to do, man, my daughter's died. No, no, no, keep
Speaker 1: it in the bubble. Just believe, Just believe, Just believe.
Speaker 1: Thought bubbles. Something so simple, Just to say, what are
Speaker 1: the thought bubbles? The things that I thought that God
Speaker 1: was going to do, the things I've limited to. Just
Speaker 1: like a thought can link you to the power of God,
Speaker 1: a thought can limit you. Thought can limit you, just
Speaker 1: like a thought can link you. The woman experienced a
Speaker 1: point of connection by faith. She acted on a thought
Speaker 1: and she was healed. Naming I wanted to introduce him
Speaker 1: to Gyrus. Because Nayman almost missed it. The Lord said,
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody today who's in danger of missing it,
Speaker 1: the thing that he's doing in your life. See Naming
Speaker 1: got ready to go see the prophet. He burst his bubble.
Speaker 1: He said, I'll go. I'll go to Samaria. How many know,
Speaker 1: when it gets bad enough, you'll try stuff. You'll try
Speaker 1: stuff that you didn't think about trying. You'll start eating
Speaker 1: broccoli and stuff. You'll start fasting and stuff. You'll become
Speaker 1: a vegan and stuff. You start praying and stuff, worshiping
Speaker 1: and stuff. You become one of those Christians, one of
Speaker 1: those radical Christians. So he went to his master verse four,
Speaker 1: follow me quick on the scripture, some clothing, and he
Speaker 1: told them what the girl from Israel had said. By
Speaker 1: all means go, The King of Aaron replied, I'll send
Speaker 1: a letter to the king all the things that the
Speaker 1: king thought would help name it. And Naming left and
Speaker 1: he took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand
Speaker 1: shekels of gold, ten sets of clothing, all the things
Speaker 1: he thought he would need, all the things that he
Speaker 1: thought were required for his life to be restored. You
Speaker 1: got there with the letter that the king said, with
Speaker 1: name it, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says that when the King of Israel
Speaker 1: read the letter, he tore his robes. Don't lock into
Speaker 1: a song, just minister, I just want you to let
Speaker 1: your gift flow. He tore his robes and said, am
Speaker 1: I God, can I kill and bring back to life?
Speaker 1: Why does this fellow send someone to me to be
Speaker 1: cure of his leperty? See, I was trying to pick
Speaker 1: a quarrel with me. But watch the prophet. The prophet Elisha,
Speaker 1: the man of God, heard that the King of Israel
Speaker 1: had torn his robes. Have you torn your robes? Has
Speaker 1: you've forgotten who you are? Have you gone so deep
Speaker 1: into mourning that it's no longer just a necessary grief,
Speaker 1: but it is becoming normal for you? Have you medicated
Speaker 1: yourself with misery? No, Elisha said, don't tear your robes.
Speaker 1: Have him come to me and he'll know there's a
Speaker 1: prophet in Israel, so name and when with what his
Speaker 1: horses his cheerious. He stopped at the door of Elisha's house.
Speaker 1: God said, you're at the door today, at the door
Speaker 1: and he's waiting on Alishai. He's waiting on a miracle.
Speaker 1: How many you are waiting for something in your life
Speaker 1: right now, some kind of breakthrough. Please raise your hand
Speaker 1: if you're breathing, because if you're breathing, that means there's
Speaker 1: more breakthroughs that God wants you to experience. He don't
Speaker 1: want you to just stay stagnant, just stay at one level.
Speaker 1: We're going from glory to glory. Come on, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep preaching faith. I'm gonna keep preaching faith. I'm putting
Speaker 1: all I'm creating a bubble. Elevation Church is gonna be
Speaker 1: a bubble for you over these next few months. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a bubble where you're gonna get pure, honest,
Speaker 1: raw faith. There is a word from the Lord Elisha.
Speaker 1: Send a messenger to him. Huh, you told him, go
Speaker 1: wash yourself seven times and the Jordan and your flesh
Speaker 1: will be restored, and you will be cleansed. But name it,
Speaker 1: but naming, but naming for all of you who are
Speaker 1: hung up on that part that says, but you missed
Speaker 1: the real message. He went away angry and said, I
Speaker 1: thought the woman received a miracle because she thought Nayman
Speaker 1: almost missed his Just like a thought can bring healing,
Speaker 1: a thought can stop it. I thought that he would
Speaker 1: surely stop trying to be so certain, be confident. Certainty
Speaker 1: and confidence are two totally different things, Child of God.
Speaker 1: Certainty is faith in what you thought he would do.
Speaker 1: Confidence is faith in who's going to do it. This
Speaker 1: is this is the word. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: come out here and stand and call on the name
Speaker 1: of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over
Speaker 1: the spot and cure me of my leprosy. I thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna do one of you know, one of
Speaker 1: these little things and says so so so God had
Speaker 1: to burst name in's bubble, set him free from what
Speaker 1: he thought. I believe there there's a miracle happening in
Speaker 1: your heart right now. God is bursting the bubble of
Speaker 1: what you thought, what you thought you needed, what you
Speaker 1: thought you could be, what you thought you couldn't survive without.
Speaker 1: What You're gonna discover new capabilities in this season that
Speaker 1: you didn't even know you had. But Nayman almost went
Speaker 1: off because I thought, how many things have I missed?
Speaker 1: Because I thought, how many things has God wanted to
Speaker 1: do in my life? But I didn't participate because it
Speaker 1: didn't match what I thought. He's still gonna bless you.
Speaker 1: It's not like you thought. God set me free from
Speaker 1: what I thought. What a prayer set me free? Watch
Speaker 1: this from my blueprint. That's not what I thought. And
Speaker 1: then he took me all the way back to Isaiah,
Speaker 1: who said, my ways were higher than your ways, and
Speaker 1: my thoughts are not your thoughts. So the Lord wants
Speaker 1: to do a thought transplant for you. Today, you got
Speaker 1: approved on the donor list. He sent his son to
Speaker 1: die for you. He said, he wants to give you
Speaker 1: a thought transplant. I said, what does that look like? God?
Speaker 1: He said, well, it's going to have a rejection period.
Speaker 1: My dad had a liver transplant, so I know all
Speaker 1: this stuff. It's going to have a rejection period. But
Speaker 1: tell them to begin to think. Tell them to spend
Speaker 1: some time in the bubble with me, because my thoughts
Speaker 1: are not your thoughts, My ways are not your ways.
Speaker 1: Thank God that Naman had a good friend. Thank God
Speaker 1: that Naman had a voice, because he almost missed what
Speaker 1: God wanted to give him because it's not what he
Speaker 1: thought it would be. Just about the time that the
Speaker 1: man was going off like you've been going off. Just
Speaker 1: about the time he was about to just get cynical
Speaker 1: and bitter and mean and nasty. Just about the time
Speaker 1: he was saying why bother name? And Sir came to
Speaker 1: him and said, can you imagine the conversation. I'm not
Speaker 1: telling him you tell, I'm not telling you to to
Speaker 1: to tell. But one of them said it from a
Speaker 1: thought bubble to a dialogue box. You know he spoke it.
Speaker 1: He said, he said, my father, respect mister Namon dead,
Speaker 1: my father, if he told you to do a great thing,
Speaker 1: would you not have done it? How much more than
Speaker 1: when he tells you washed him, be cleansed and thank
Speaker 1: God that he went down. Isn't it crazy how God's
Speaker 1: thoughts are above our thoughts, but sometimes he calls us
Speaker 1: to come down and to do something that seems so dumb.
Speaker 1: Naymon said, I could have washed in the rivers of Damascus.
Speaker 1: They were better than this. Your bubble is what you
Speaker 1: think would be better. God wants to burst that bubble too.
Speaker 1: It's not better to be somebody else. God wants to
Speaker 1: set you free from your bubble of what you think
Speaker 1: would be better, so you could enjoy where he has you.
Speaker 1: I know I wanted to get better too. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I want to get better. But God
Speaker 1: invites Naman into a process. And I believe he's calling
Speaker 1: you to to go down. Just stop worshiping what you thought,
Speaker 1: realize that His ways are higher, embrace his purpose in
Speaker 1: this season. And he dipped himself into Jordan seven times.
Speaker 1: You know what that spoke to me, repetition. You don't
Speaker 1: think differently because you heard a sermon. You don't. You
Speaker 1: don't think differently because you don't. You don't grow texts
Speaker 1: by doing it once every four weeks. God said, another rep.
Speaker 1: God said, another rep. God said another rep. Until you
Speaker 1: think like I think. And the Man of God told
Speaker 1: him to do it seven times. And he did it
Speaker 1: seven times, and his flesh was restored and became clean
Speaker 1: like that of a young boy. He became who he
Speaker 1: was all alone, before the leprosy, before the heartbreak, before
Speaker 1: the addiction. God is restoring you. God is restoring you.
Speaker 1: God is restoring the spirit of the Lord is restoring you.
Speaker 1: Dip by dip, thought by thought, dip by dip, thought
Speaker 1: by thought. He's bursting your bubble. You don't need your camels.
Speaker 1: You don't need your spices, you don't need your clothes,
Speaker 1: you don't need any of that. It's not gonna take
Speaker 1: what you thought. God said, my ways are higher God.
Speaker 1: So Lord, we've covered so much ground today, and then
Speaker 1: it all comes down to something so simple. It comes
Speaker 1: down to something so simple that we could miss it.
Speaker 1: It comes down to us realizing that beneath all the
Speaker 1: layers of what life has put on us and the
Speaker 1: struggle has put on us, nay men had to become
Speaker 1: a son, a boy, the woman had to become a daughter. God,
Speaker 1: bring us back to who we really are. Thank you
Speaker 1: that we are not our thoughts, our decisions, our mistakes,
Speaker 1: our accomplishments. We stand here right now because we have
Speaker 1: a name that has been given to us that is
Speaker 1: above every name. Whatever people can call us, categorize us
Speaker 1: by Yeah, I'm something different, different, something different than what
Speaker 1: I did. I'm something different than what I think. Who
Speaker 1: am I? God, show me who I really am, Show
Speaker 1: me who you really are. I'll dip into Jordan if
Speaker 1: I have to. I'll apologize, rethink my life from your level.
Speaker 1: I want to spend some time in the bubble. God.
Speaker 1: I want you to pull down every stronghold. Every thought
Speaker 1: that didn't come from you, cast it out right now. Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: We worship you Lord. Lift your hands. God said, as
Speaker 1: you think on his goodness. I hear the Lord saying,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Not as a question, not what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? I hear the Lord saying, water your
Speaker 1: thoughts with worship, with worship. Open up your mouth right now.
Speaker 1: If you get serious enough, you won't care what everybody
Speaker 1: thinks about it around you. You'll do it right there
Speaker 1: in your living room and begin to worship them. I
Speaker 1: am a child of God. Even something that's simple. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's have a breakthrough right there in the bubble. Right
Speaker 1: they're in your home. Let's have God show up right
Speaker 1: in that place, right in that broken place. Give your glory. Lords,
Speaker 1: Come on, Chris, begin the minister, out of the bubble,
Speaker 1: out of the plan. Come on doing with my lady.
Speaker 1: Thank your work. Thank you for a new thought. I'm
Speaker 1: thank you for the things I didn't even pick up.
Speaker 1: I thank you for the provision. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that mast fot. I thank you for the miracles beneath
Speaker 1: the surface. Come on, worse the worse, and worship. Come
Speaker 1: on see worship, worship water, your thoughts. My ways are
Speaker 1: not your ways. Nothing better than you not. Oh this
Speaker 1: is nothing, nothing is. Can we worship a moment? Can
Speaker 1: we worsop a moment? Let's go home. Of course you're
Speaker 1: better bubble now see nothing better than him. Better is
Speaker 1: one man in his book. Beer is one thought from
Speaker 1: his fung. He speaks of better. Well, somebody, don't say
Speaker 1: I'm not a singer. I'll sing anyway to say I'm not.
Speaker 1: I have left her lift him anywhere. Let's prow aside
Speaker 1: the things that he does like this. You say, that's
Speaker 1: what he does. You gave you your I seen him
Speaker 1: do it in my life. Sir s, they go to me,
Speaker 1: only say that again. Listen on you turns. Let's read
Speaker 1: good to mess about. Let's think a Devin short. He's
Speaker 1: re story your short. He's a story your joy, the
Speaker 1: oil and blackness, a stirring of ways to the moment
Speaker 1: of beauty. We're lighting up, heaving us off your life,
Speaker 1: and we barny left hers in your room, stayers in
Speaker 1: your room, say God, say as you get away. This
Speaker 1: is getting to be kind of a tradition, me talking
Speaker 1: to you after the message right here at my desk
Speaker 1: just coming off stage. It took me a few minutes
Speaker 1: to collect myself. I really felt the Lord speaking through me,
Speaker 1: and I believe it was for you. I think God
Speaker 1: gives a preacher a word for a certain person, and
Speaker 1: that was you today. Pray that you receive it, that
Speaker 1: you would received the thought transplant, and that whatever God
Speaker 1: is speaking to you about who you are in Him,
Speaker 1: or what he's called you to do or what he
Speaker 1: hasn't called you to do or be. I just pray
Speaker 1: you'll spend some time reflecting on it, or as I said,
Speaker 1: there water your thoughts water the word of God that
Speaker 1: has been planted. So much more to share, but I
Speaker 1: got to stop for now. I want to pray for you, Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. For each person who heard this message,
Speaker 1: I want to pray for them like we were just
Speaker 1: sitting together. I pray that whatever it is that has
Speaker 1: been tormenting them, telling them that they're not enough, telling
Speaker 1: them that they won't make it, that it would be
Speaker 1: shut out of the room and that only Peter, James
Speaker 1: and John would be allowed in in this moment, Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit come and give them a thought that can take
Speaker 1: them from from where they have been to where you're
Speaker 1: calling them to. But at the same time, Lord, we
Speaker 1: know that you are in this moment, So I thank
Speaker 1: you for your peace, your joy. I pray that it
Speaker 1: would flow in abundance, that this week we would see
Speaker 1: your glory in places we never thought to look. We
Speaker 1: thank you, Lord that your ways are higher than ours,
Speaker 1: and we trust you in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, I
Speaker 1: love you. I pray that you'll continue to hear the
Speaker 1: word and respond to it. And thank you to all
Speaker 1: of you who respond, those of you who give. That's
Speaker 1: how the ministry happens. Man, it's because of you. You're
Speaker 1: the reason we're touching so many lives and shining the
Speaker 1: light of Christ. May the Lord multiply it back to
Speaker 1: you one hundredfold. And for sharing, subscribing all of it.
Speaker 1: It all matters. Oh man, Let's just stay connected in
Speaker 1: this time. There's so much God wants to do. It's
Speaker 1: the power of connection that makes it happen. I love you,
Speaker 1: I'll see you next time.