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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 1: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 2: Hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 1: Grace and anal jests.

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Speaker 2: Like you to grab the hand of the person next

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Speaker 2: to you or put your hand on their shoulder, make

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Speaker 2: a connection.

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Speaker 1: No one untouched.

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Speaker 2: Father, We thank you for your presence and the permeation

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Speaker 2: of your grace in this temporal moment. In these are

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Speaker 2: mortal bodies, we invite the fullness of the Godhead in

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Speaker 2: Christ flow through us. Now, living water, saturate every parched place,

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Speaker 2: quench and phil to overflow every thirsty soul.

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Speaker 1: Here's our cup, Lord, We lift it up. Lord, I

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Speaker 1: pray for the person on my right and on my left.

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Speaker 2: Fill them, feed them until they want no more. We

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Speaker 2: declare this done in the mighty name of Jesus, and

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Speaker 2: we clap our hands.

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Speaker 1: Anticipation of your reign is in our hearts. Ay man

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Speaker 1: hed night Lord the God.

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Speaker 2: Alright, well, what a special presence of God? How many

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Speaker 2: appreciate his presence when He touches you? And nobody can

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Speaker 2: touch you like God can. There's no place like the

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Speaker 2: presence of God. Amen, no place like home. I hope

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Speaker 2: you feel at home here. Those of you who are

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Speaker 2: visiting for the first time, those of you who come

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Speaker 2: every week, I hope you feel at home here. Those

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Speaker 2: of you who are watching online, I hope you feel

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Speaker 2: at home here. And so we're excited to bring God's word.

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Speaker 2: There is a pop up in La today. He La.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, if you could see this weather

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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, you'd wish you were here. We get it all.

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Speaker 1: It's we could be seventy and seventeen in one week.

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Speaker 1: Here we drive in variety, here the forecast.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to our pop up, shout out to all

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Speaker 2: of our locations.

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Speaker 1: I don't take the time enough.

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Speaker 2: We have twenty locations meeting all across the region, in

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Speaker 2: different parts.

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Speaker 1: Of the country, in the world.

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Speaker 2: Less thank God for all of them, our evam around

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: We're all getting ready, so much to prepare for.

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Speaker 2: Ask you to stay standing for just a moment, because

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Speaker 2: after I get through these announcements, I'm going to read

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Speaker 2: my scripture and I want us to stand in honor

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Speaker 2: of the Word of God. But I want to underscore

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Speaker 2: that our Christmas services will begin Friday, December twenty second

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Speaker 2: through Sunday to twenty fourth. There are too many times

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Speaker 2: for me to list specific to each location. It gets

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Speaker 2: complicated with time zones and building capacities.

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Speaker 1: So you'll just go to Christmas at Elevation dot com, Christmas.

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Speaker 2: At Elevation dot com like that, and they'll give you

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Speaker 2: the times and locations.

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Speaker 1: On December thirty first, church will.

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Speaker 2: Be online only, and then we'll be back in person Sunday,

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Speaker 2: January seventh. Now before we give God praise for Christmas.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, before we get to any of that,

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Speaker 2: We've got our year end offering next Sunday, December ten.

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Speaker 2: Give God praise for that. Come on, we live to

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Speaker 2: get got so excited I went ahead and wrote my

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Speaker 2: check Thursday and put it in the offering.

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Speaker 1: Get it in the ground early in case it rains.

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Speaker 1: I want it to be ready and I love doing it,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you do too. No pressure to you.

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Speaker 2: You can come every week and never give anything we'll

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Speaker 2: give to you. But if you believe in this, if

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Speaker 2: this gospel saved you, if you want to help us

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Speaker 2: get it all around the world, then show up next

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Speaker 2: week with an offering and sew it in faith so

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Speaker 1: From God can be raised to lie.

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Speaker 3: Let's build up the kingdom together. Let's week, Let's lit

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Speaker 3: up Jesus together, Holly.

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Speaker 2: That will be awesome. It's our declaration of trust. We're

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Speaker 2: calling our trust offering. That's the subtitle, our expansion, our outreach.

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Speaker 2: And guess what today I want to read you the

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Speaker 2: most famous Bible verse on trust in the whole Bible,

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Speaker 2: other than Proverbs three to six, second most famous, and

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Speaker 2: I want to share it with you. Now.

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Speaker 1: This word for you may feel very personal.

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Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if it does, because the Lord gave

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Speaker 2: it to me, and he knows what you're going through.

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Speaker 2: word I believe for you. Actually, before we read Psalm

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Speaker 2: twenty three, I want to do it out of order.

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Speaker 2: Give me second Corinthians eight one and two. Then Psalm

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Speaker 2: twenty three Paul speaking. And now, brothers and sisters, I

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Speaker 2: want you to know about the grace that God has

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Speaker 2: given the Macedonian churches in the midst of a very

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Speaker 2: severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled

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Speaker 2: up in rich generosity. Beautiful. Now saal, I'm twenty three

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Speaker 2: of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

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Speaker 2: For thou art with me. Thy Rod and staff they

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Speaker 2: my cup, runneth over. Clap your hands for that, for

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Speaker 2: that promise, that timeless, ageless promise from Almighty God. Now

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Speaker 2: let me give you the message title repeat after me.

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Speaker 2: I'm going through, but I'm running over. Tell your neighbor

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Speaker 2: two things at once. Say I'm going through, but I'm

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Speaker 2: running over. Hallelujah. You feel that, say it. I'm going through.

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Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor you look like you're going through. You

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Speaker 2: look like it too, but you look like you're running over.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Bressed out

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Speaker 1: shakings again. All right, y'all be seated. I'll be seated. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll be seated. Be seated. How many married people in

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Speaker 1: How many would agree marriage changes everything.

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Speaker 2: It changes everything, and they don't tell you that marriage

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Speaker 2: not only changes everything in your relationship to the person

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Speaker 2: the time. But the thing that surprised me about my

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Speaker 2: relationship with Holly is how much my relationship with her

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Speaker 2: changed my relationship with other things, not just my time, like, oh.

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Speaker 1: Well, now I've got to be home, you know, the

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Speaker 1: old ball and chain. We don't feel like that. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel like that about her.

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Speaker 2: At all, But over time, how her preferences have assimilated

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Speaker 2: And so the way that my wife feels about things

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Speaker 2: sure she'd say the same about her relationship with me.

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Speaker 2: For the twenty one years we've been married, I've been

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Speaker 2: advocating to her that rock music is God's music, for

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Speaker 2: the Bible says he is a rock But I wonder

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Speaker 2: Her relationship with me changed her relationship with the genre.

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Speaker 2: One of the first times I knew that being married

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Speaker 1: Early when we were married, we woke up one.

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Speaker 2: Morning and it was raining outside, and I looked over

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Speaker 2: at her and she was awakened.

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Speaker 1: She was smiling.

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Speaker 2: She said, I just love a good rainy day, so relaxing,

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Speaker 2: Rain to me is depressing. I know it shouldn't be.

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Speaker 2: The joy of the Lord is my strength. Pray for me.

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Speaker 2: My sanctification process is still in progress. I'm buffering, and

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Speaker 2: she's like, oh, what a blessing a rainy day. Now

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Speaker 2: we can just you know, relax and all of that.

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Speaker 2: So through her eyes, over the last twenty one years,

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Speaker 2: I've kind of come to see it. It can be relaxing.

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Speaker 2: Rain can be relaxing. I never knew that. So what

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, just as a basic illustration to

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Speaker 2: set this up, is that my relationship with her changed

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Speaker 2: my relationship to something as simple as rain, just by

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Speaker 2: being with her. It didn't make it rain more or

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Speaker 2: less because we're married. It changed my relationship with the rain.

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Speaker 2: I saw Larry Brye on a video earlier as he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yea yeah. Remember when it rained early one Sunday.

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Speaker 2: About the third or fourth week we had this church yall,

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Speaker 2: and the attendance momentum was going good. It rained, The

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Speaker 2: attendants dropped by thirty percent. I found out people don't

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Speaker 2: disappointed in all because in those days we were just,

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Speaker 1: This goofball is smiling, just grinning ear to ear.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you know him, but he's just

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Speaker 2: a very over the top personality.

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Speaker 1: I said, what you're smiling about? Silly?

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Speaker 2: Had we had twenty percent? Did you not see all

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Speaker 2: those empty seats for the rain? He said, did you

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Speaker 2: not see our greeter team? He had bought these umbrellas

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Speaker 2: with elevation logos on him and he was waiting for

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Speaker 2: a rainy day he got to use his umbrellas. He's grinned.

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Speaker 2: He's in the grin and like Mary Poppins, I'm like

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Speaker 1: And really.

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Speaker 2: I bring that up because I wanted a simple way

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Speaker 2: to say something that's kind of deep and kind of

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Speaker 2: hard to talk about. Is that your relationship with Christ

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Speaker 2: should change your relationship with adversity. You like the metaphor

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Speaker 2: better about the rain, didn't you? The rain was cute? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my relationship with Christ. You know how we say Jesus

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Speaker 2: changes everything, true, but needs some explanation. Jesus didn't make

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Speaker 2: me sick foot three when he saved me.

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Speaker 1: He didn't change everything.

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Speaker 2: Jesus isn't fixing this bald spot on the back of

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Speaker 1: Jesus, not Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Jesus changes. Jesus changes the way I see everything. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: Jesus changes everything by changing me. And as he changes me,

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Speaker 2: having him, knowing him, walking with him, being in relationship

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Speaker 2: with him, like my relationship with Holly, it changes the

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Speaker 2: way I.

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Speaker 1: See the rain.

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Speaker 2: When you see these leaves falling off the trees around here,

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Speaker 2: if you're the one who has to blow them out

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Speaker 2: of the driveway, they're a nuisance. But if you're the soil,

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Speaker 2: those are nutrients. Is it a nuisance or is it

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Speaker 2: whether you're the person who's responsible of lawn maintenance and

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Speaker 2: making it look esthetically pleasing.

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Speaker 1: Now, Paul says, and I'm finally to the text. I

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Speaker 1: want you to know about this church in Macedonia.

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Speaker 2: They are amazing, but they are not affluent. They have

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Speaker 2: an abundant mentality in a scarcity situation.

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Speaker 1: Many of us are the opposite.

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Speaker 2: We have an abundant situation, a scarcity mindset, whether it's

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Speaker 2: God's grace. Sometimes God will allow adversity even if he

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Speaker 2: doesn't send adversity to adjust you in your life, because

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Speaker 2: he knows right now you're moving a little fast.

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Speaker 1: He knows right now you're looking down on people a

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Speaker 1: little bit.

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Speaker 2: He knows right now, if I give it to you,

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Speaker 2: you'll eat it, you won't sow it. So I've got

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Speaker 2: to get you in a place where you can recognize.

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Speaker 1: That I'm your shepherd. It's an adjuster.

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Speaker 2: God will use adversity to adjust you.

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Speaker 1: You still the kids all the time when they were

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Speaker 1: very little. Stop growing up. Stop it. You're so cute

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Speaker 1: right now, Stay really cute like this.

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Speaker 2: Stay at age nine where you think I'm smart, only

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Speaker 2: like seven years away from you.

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Speaker 1: Thinking I'm an idiot and being right. That's the worst part.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be right. You're gonna think I'm an idiot,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna be right and abby. You say same

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Speaker 1: thing every time I say stop.

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Speaker 2: Growing up, and she'd go, I can't, but spiritually you can.

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Speaker 2: Physical growth you have no choice about. Spiritual growth is

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Speaker 2: a choice.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: You don't always get to choose what you go through,

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Speaker 2: but you have to choose to grow through.

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Speaker 1: What you go through.

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Speaker 2: All right, three people in the back, I'll come appreciate

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Speaker 2: to you. All growth is chosen in the spirit, not

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Speaker 2: in the physical. You know, as it relates to our

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Speaker 2: height and certain things about our bodies, certain certain parts

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Speaker 2: of that are not chosen. But growth spiritually is. So

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Speaker 2: I would ask you the question about the valley.

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Speaker 1: In your life. Remember, David said, I walked through the valley,

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Speaker 1: Paul said.

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Speaker 2: The Macedonian Church, out of their severe affliction or adversity,

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Speaker 2: welled up generosity.

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Speaker 1: They learned how to give through what they lacked.

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Speaker 2: They were brought into a place of abundance by their adversity.

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Speaker 2: That's the way it works, if you choose to allow

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Speaker 2: God to do it through you. Adversity can often be

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Speaker 2: an adjuster. The second thing that adversity does, and I'll

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Speaker 2: give you a.

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Speaker 1: Few scriptures to prove this. It says that the Lord

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Speaker 1: is near to the broken hearted.

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Speaker 2: It says that God is a very present help in

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Speaker 2: the time of trouble. David's said, He's with me in

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Speaker 2: the valley. So the second thing that adversity will do,

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Speaker 2: it will give you access. Access. Adversity is an all

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Speaker 2: access pass to the places in God you can't get

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Speaker 2: any other way. Adversity is a like when we go

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Speaker 2: out on Elevation Nights, let me stop real quick in

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Speaker 2: do an advertisement. February twentyeth through twenty ninth Elevation Nights

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Speaker 2: dot com.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you there when we go out.

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Speaker 2: When we go out, I have do a little advertisement,

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Speaker 2: little product placement when we go out. The team that's

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Speaker 2: working on Elevation Nights, they have a pass. They can

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Speaker 2: go anywhere in the State Farm Arena, anywhere.

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Speaker 1: They want to go. If it says access all areas,

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Speaker 1: they can go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: I said to one of them one time, isn't it

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Speaker 2: funny if we tried to come back here tomorrow night

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Speaker 2: and just walk in, you know, and Florida Georgia line.

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Speaker 2: They don't even play together anymore, do they? Honey to

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Speaker 2: update the reference me going to Taylor Swift or something

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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm here.

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Speaker 2: They let me in at the last one on elevation nights.

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Speaker 2: I can go anywhere, right, No, no, no, you.

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Speaker 1: Got to have a pass for that.

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Speaker 2: And the fact that I'm here for this event gives

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Speaker 2: me access to certain areas. When you go through certain things,

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Speaker 2: you will discover a grace that you only get when

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Speaker 2: you go through those things. And even though the thing

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Speaker 2: is not what you would have chosen to go through,

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Speaker 2: it is going to, I declare prophetically and biblically.

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Speaker 1: It is going to give you grace.

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Speaker 2: So that adversity is the access point by which the

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Speaker 2: extra grace will be released by God. You will go

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Speaker 2: through things in your life, and when you get through them,

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00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 2: people will say how did you get through that, and

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Speaker 2: you will only be able to say, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: God gave me a grace for it. A grace for it.

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Speaker 2: Shout like you know the shepherd, say I got a

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Speaker 2: grace for it. Come on, tell your neighbor, I got

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Speaker 2: a grace for it. I'm going through it, but I

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Speaker 2: got a grace for it. And if I've got to

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Speaker 2: go through it, it is guaranteed grace. God will never

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Speaker 2: make me go through what He will not give me

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Speaker 2: grace for.

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Speaker 1: So if you're going.

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Speaker 2: Through something that you hadn't been through before, you're about

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Speaker 2: to get a grace that you've never had before. I

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Speaker 2: feel like preaching You're about to.

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Speaker 4: Receive an annointing overflowing like you've never known it before.

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Speaker 1: God'll feel you for this.

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Speaker 2: Elbow, your neighbors say, he'll feel me for this. This

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Speaker 2: is an event. This is an event. This is an event.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting through this. This is an event. I'm not

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Speaker 2: living here. Don't put this as my permanent mailing address.

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Speaker 1: Your one Valley road.

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Speaker 2: Don't come visit me in the valley next December, because

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Speaker 2: I'm going through this.

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Speaker 1: Yay.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking about the kind of grace that'll make

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Speaker 2: you say yay as you go through the valley.

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Speaker 1: Somebody saw yay, got a freach one name. Yay. Nobody

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Speaker 1: says yay when the bill's overdue.

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Speaker 2: Yay. That's crazy. David said, yay. I know it, manute

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Speaker 2: a little different. Let's have some fun.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, say yay. I wish

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Speaker 1: you would confuse the devil this week. He's got you

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Speaker 1: in the valley. You know when they.

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Speaker 2: Call you and tell you the bad news and you

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Speaker 2: just say, hang on a second, mute, yay. You know

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Speaker 2: how she broke up with you in October and you

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Speaker 2: thought you'd spend.

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Speaker 1: The rest of your life alone. I want you to

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Speaker 1: go back to October in your mind. Let God anoint

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Speaker 1: your head with oil.

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Speaker 2: Change the way you think about that thing, and realize,

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Speaker 2: if that was meant to me, it would be meant

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Speaker 2: to be. If it was meant for me, it would be.

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Speaker 2: But if it went away, it couldn't stay.

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Speaker 6: Somebody say yay shay, whoa.

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Speaker 2: I feel Jesus on this. I feel Jesus on this.

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Speaker 2: Jesus got to the tomb of Lazarus. He said he's dead,

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Speaker 2: and I'm glad. Somebody shall yay. Well, why would you

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Speaker 2: be glad? Because these are his friends and he's about

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Speaker 2: to show them something nobody else has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: I need you to get happy.

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Speaker 2: Not about the valley that you're going through, but about

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Speaker 2: the grace of God that is coming to you.

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Speaker 1: Somebody shout yay, yay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Whoo.

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid because yeay yay.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm telling you this message is real to me.

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Speaker 2: I was shouting like this at five forty five this morning.

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Speaker 2: I was scared I was gonna wake the dog up

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Speaker 2: and happy, said he pete on the couch.

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Speaker 1: I think I made the.

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Speaker 2: Dog Pius passed because I was walking around.

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Speaker 1: My living room at five forty five saying, yay, yay,

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Speaker 1: yay goes.

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Speaker 2: That's so in tears, we'll reaping joy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna get up now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is today the Lord today in.

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Speaker 1: My shepherdsy so he enables me.

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Speaker 2: You can't minimize people's pain like this, pastor Steven. I'm

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Speaker 2: not minimizing nothing. I'm just trying to reframe the way

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Speaker 2: you see the rain. I'm trying to get you to

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Speaker 2: rethink the leaves. Did you have somebody leave you? What

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Speaker 2: if that's nourishment for.

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Speaker 1: Your next season in the soul of your life.

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Speaker 2: I said, I'm going through, but watch this I'm going through.

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Speaker 2: Don't let what I'm going through fool you. I'm going through,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not dry inside. I'm going through, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not without a witness. I'm going through, but God is

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Speaker 2: speaking with me. I'm walking through this valley, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not walking through it by myself.

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Speaker 1: Yay, though I walk, I walk. You notice in the

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Speaker 1: text in verse five, in verse five, is this good

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Speaker 1: to y'all? The Lord said, ten people will love this message.

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Speaker 1: Ten people will love this message. He said.

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Speaker 2: In verse five something was running and it was the coup.

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Speaker 2: He said, my cup runneth over. But in verse four

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Speaker 2: something was walking and that was you. Yay, though I walk,

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Speaker 2: I walk, and the cup runs. I need y'all to

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Speaker 2: help me today because my voice is a little bit weak,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know what I was doing just now

611
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Speaker 2: pushing it because all week, every day I was recording

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Speaker 2: my book by audio and.

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Speaker 1: I did not hold back. I did not put my

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Speaker 1: late night FMDJ voice on this thing.

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Speaker 2: This was not boys to men intros like tone level,

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Speaker 2: voice level, This is no base in it.

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Speaker 1: I preach that thing all seventy thousand words.

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Speaker 2: Let me put an advertisement my new book, Do the

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Speaker 2: New You, February thirteenth, everywhere Books are Souls pre order

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Speaker 2: right now at dothanewu dot com.

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Speaker 1: Advertisement. And I did it.

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Speaker 2: I did it all week, and one thing I noticed

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Speaker 2: when I was doing it, when I would rush, I

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Speaker 2: would mess up because you want to get done, because

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Speaker 2: you get tired of hearing yourself talk. How many of

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Speaker 2: you'd like to hear yourself talk? It's not fun, okay,

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Speaker 2: So I do this out of love for you. I

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Speaker 2: don't like to hear myself talking more. You like to

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Speaker 2: hear yourself talk. And so I'm saying it. Listen myself

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Speaker 2: talk for like the second third day, and I start

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Speaker 2: trying to a little fast like that, and I'll make

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Speaker 2: ten mistakes, and every time it got hard.

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Speaker 1: The secret to getting through was to slow down. That's

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Speaker 1: why I.

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Speaker 2: Said that wait on the Lord will walk. Yea though

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Speaker 2: I walk, slow down. You're worried because you're trying to

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Speaker 2: get there too fast. You're worried because you're trying to

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Speaker 2: do it all in one day. You're worried because you're

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Speaker 2: trying to keep up with people who are ten years.

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Speaker 1: Older than you.

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Speaker 2: You're worried because you're trying to keep up with people

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Speaker 2: who are more messed up.

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Speaker 1: Than you are. They just hide it better. You're worried.

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Speaker 2: Because you're trying to take in all the information and

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Speaker 2: the human history all in the same device at the

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Speaker 2: same time. Slow down, shut down, and walk through the

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Speaker 2: valid you want to get out of the valley. I

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Speaker 2: understand well the way through it is to walk. When

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Speaker 2: you run to something else to escape it, you don't

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Speaker 2: become stronger through it. You can't run over if you

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Speaker 2: don't go through. That's the paradox of provision. You can't

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Speaker 2: run over and have wisdom to give others if you

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Speaker 2: do not go through the weakness.

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Speaker 1: With God for yourself. That's what the season has been about.

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Speaker 2: The enemy has been lying to you, telling you that

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Speaker 2: the valley, the shadow, and the enemies at the table

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Speaker 2: represent the end for you.

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Speaker 1: They don't. None of those things do for you.

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Speaker 2: See there's a cast of characters in Psalm twenty three,

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00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 2: including a valley, a shadow, and enemies.

661
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: Yay, though I walk through.

662
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 2: The valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil,

663
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: for thou art with me.

664
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Speaker 1: Thy rod and staff they come from me, aren't you glad?

665
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: God has a rod.

666
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: The staff is how he brings me back. The rod

667
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 2: is how he keeps everything away that threatened to devour me.

668
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 2: I need both of those. So then sometimes he'll use

669
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 2: an event to bring me back to him. Sometimes he'll

670
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 2: use an event to keep a wolf away from me.

671
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 2: But his identity is the lens through which I've view

672
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 2: every event. In my life, not the other way around.

673
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 2: Once I've decided he's the shepherd. That means I'm settled

674
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: in this and my cup is running over? Well, where

675
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 2: is the cup on the table? Where is the table?

676
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 2: We have this misconception that when we get through stuff,

677
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 2: it's going to get better. Now I'm going through right now,

678
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 2: but man, I can't wait for twenty twenty four. That's

679
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 2: gonna be my year. You've been saying that since nineteen

680
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 2: forty seven.

681
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: Elvis had a.

682
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: Number one song on the chart the last time you

683
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: said that. And then we have this misconception, don't we

684
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: that the adversity that we're going through will prevent us

685
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: from being blessed right now? And I think that's the

686
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: thing I really wanted to put us. The core of

687
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 2: this message is that it's one thing to say, when

688
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: I get through this, then I will be happy, hole successful,

689
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 2: reach there I will be when I get through this,

690
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 2: I will be at peace, amount of.

691
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: Money I'll be secured, and you won't.

692
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 2: Because it's never there, he said out of their trial.

693
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: In the midst of it welled up a rich generosity,

694
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: and David said, my cup runs over at the table

695
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 2: in the presence of my enemies in the shadow of

696
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: the valley of death. I want to walk through all

697
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 2: three of those very quickly. There are three symbols in

698
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 2: this text of adversity. Each of them represent adversity. Number

699
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 2: one is the valley. You're in the valley.

700
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: You're going through.

701
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 2: The valley you are going through. You will not live there.

702
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 2: You will not live there, you will not die there.

703
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 2: You will not move your kids and grandkids into that

704
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: spot in the valley. That's why you're going through it.

705
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: They won't have to go through it quite like you do.

706
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: I believe my.

707
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 2: Dad broke the spirit of suicide off of my life

708
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 2: by not killing himself because his dad did so.

709
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: Number One, it's a valley, but I'm passing through.

710
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: My friend Brandon Lake was telling me a couple years

711
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: ago he just wrote a song.

712
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: I said, was it good?

713
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 2: He said, that's just a song about the valley.

714
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: I said some advice.

715
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: Said yeah, valley represents hard things in our life. I said,

716
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: Brandon Lake, you have to explain to me what a

717
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 2: valley represents in the Bible. You think I'm an idiot.

718
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: I went to cemetery seminary.

719
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: I know about the valley well.

720
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: A valley is a metaphor in the Bible, and it

721
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: means any thing we.

722
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: Go through that we don't quite understand.

723
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: The low moments in a motion said man, I don't

724
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 2: know what the valley is.

725
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: Same as I know what the valley is. Do I

726
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: really do I really.

727
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: Hadn't gone through what some of you gone through. Do

728
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: I really know the valley? Do I really know the shepherd?

729
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: Until I've really known the valley? Can I really run

730
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:37,919
Speaker 2: over until I go through and go through and walk through.

731
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 2: You don't get the cup full lying down? Did you

732
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 2: notice the whole sermon will be you don't get the

733
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 2: cup filled lining down? He said, He makes me lie

734
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 2: down in green pastures, but then I had to get

735
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 2: up and walk, and then he filled my cup.

736
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: You will go through this. You will go through through

737
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: seasons where you're quite to your sanity. You will go

738
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: through seasons.

739
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: Where you quote train up a child in the way

740
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:05,959
Speaker 2: that should go in when.

741
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: They're old, they won't depart from it. And you will

742
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: go through.

743
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 2: Seasons of thinking, well, they're not going to get old,

744
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna kill them before they get old, and

745
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 2: then they're going to depart from the earth.

746
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: And you will.

747
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 2: He said, there's a shadow in the valley, the valley

748
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 2: of the shadow of death. You won't always see yourself

749
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 2: correctly Jesus, correctly your situation or your next step.

750
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 1: Clearly.

751
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: All these people that always know everything God spoke all

752
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 2: the time, check their medicine cabinet.

753
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say stuff now, because you know.

754
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: What, when you're really in a valley and people are

755
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: very mountain shouting cute stuff to you about it, and

756
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 2: you're in the shadows and people are on their turning

757
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 2: their iPhone light trying to tell.

758
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: You stuff, the valley has a shadow.

759
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 2: And in that place, listen to me, child of God,

760
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: as you walk through that valley, as you moved through

761
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: that shadow, he said, there's a table, and there's enemies.

762
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 2: And at this point you want to turn around, but

763
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 2: you shouldn't, because that adversity valley, that shadow valley, those enemies,

764
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 2: insecurities and things that you've been going through, whether they

765
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: were launched from Hell or whether they came from your

766
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 2: own decisions, those things represented in this passage, that valley,

767
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: that shadow, those enemies, they all represent adversity.

768
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: But the Lord showed me something.

769
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 2: He said, all of those adversities are advertisements. For there

770
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 2: to be a valley, there have to be two mountains.

771
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 2: For there to be a valley, there has to be

772
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: the mountain I came from, which is the last time

773
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 2: God did it for me, and the mountain He's taken

774
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 2: me to, which is my next testimony and my next

775
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: level of effectiveness. The valley is advertising the next mountain.

776
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 2: How about the shadow, which is advertising. For there to

777
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 2: be a shadow, there must be a sun. Since I

778
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 2: can't stare directly at the sun. When I see the shadow,

779
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 2: I assume that the sun is where it's supposed to

780
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 2: be and an object is blocking its path. So every

781
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 2: shadow in your life, every wicked thing in your life,

782
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 2: is proving the presence of a God's grace that is

783
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 2: greater than all your sin. The valley is telling you

784
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 2: there's a mountain. The shadow is telling you there's a sun.

785
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 2: And when you see your enemies, look for a table,

786
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 2: because if there are enemies in your path this week,

787
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 2: that means this supper time baby your enemies.

788
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: Oh God, He's a very present help in the time

789
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: of trouble. No weapon formed against me. I told you

790
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to preach.

791
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 2: Will prosper so if I've got an enemy, that means

792
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 2: there's a table.

793
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: If there's a table, that means there's a cup.

794
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 2: And if there's a cup, it's about to overflow.

795
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: Somebody. I find somebody say, I'm running over. I gotta

796
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 1: get to this table.

797
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 2: I'm running over. I gotta get to this miracle. I'm

798
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 2: running over. I was scrolling the other day. I was

799
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 2: watching something. I showed it to my kids. I said,

800
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 2: isn't that great? They said, no, Dad, that's sponsored content.

801
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 2: I said, what you mean sponsored? They said, right there,

802
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 2: paid promotion. I said, no, this is a good video

803
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 2: for fitness. They said no, he's trying to sell you

804
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: a twelve week course for nine hundred and ninety eight

805
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: dollars and some protein powder.

806
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: It's an AD. I said, it's an AD. They said, yes,

807
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: an AD. That's not a class. That's an AD. He's

808
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: just trying to get you. They hide it. They put

809
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: it there where you can't see us. An AD hide it,

810
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: you'll know it's an AD.

811
00:50:55,320 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 2: The devil puts suff in a shadow, an adversity, an

812
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:12,240
Speaker 2: extreme trial, a stubborn child, a breakup, a broken heart,

813
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 2: something that causes you to think you're going to lose

814
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 2: your mind. But you won't because the next time it happens,

815
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 2: you're gonna pray.

816
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 1: God anoint my head with oil.

817
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 2: Show me how to see this in a different way.

818
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: Everybody puts your hands out like this. Put your hands out.

819
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 2: Like this, like you're ready to receive a running over blessing.

820
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: Like you're ready to receive a running over blessing. All right, now, pray,

821
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 2: Lord fill my cop Well, the Lord said, before I

822
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 2: can fill your hands, I've got to fix your head.

823
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: He annoints my head with oil so I can see.

824
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: Is this good to you?

825
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 2: The next time is a valley moment in your life.

826
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 2: The next time it's a valley low in your emotion.

827
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: The next time you.

828
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 2: Go, oh, oh God, where's that come from? Realize it's

829
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: an adversity and it's an advertisement. It means that this

830
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 2: valley is pointing at another mountaintop experience that you will

831
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 2: stand on and see God's goodness and proclaim his faithfulness

832
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 2: to another generation. It's an ad The next time you

833
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 2: see a shadow, realize there could not be a shadow

834
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 2: if there were not a sun. So God, I thank

835
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 2: you for the revelation that is ahead of me. And

836
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 2: the next time you see enemies, get your napkin.

837
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: You're fork. This is the preachy side of the church.

838
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm on the wrong side of the church. The next time.

839
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 2: You see your enemies, the next time you see your adversary,

840
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 2: I want you to see an advertisement that he would

841
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: not be fighting you like this.

842
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: He would not be fighting you.

843
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're gonna fight him.

844
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 4: We're gonna fight him, because he wouldn't be fighting me

845
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 4: like this.

846
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: He wouldn't be fighting you like this. He wouldn't be

847
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: fighting The Lord is my shepherd.

848
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 2: I so.

849
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: Na one, annoying her mind. Yeah, you over here, over here.

850
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 2: Annoying her mind, annoying her mind, annoying her mind.

851
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: I don't understand the emotionalism. I'm not going through anything.

852
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: You better save this message on a book mark.

853
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: You better put this message on a favorite cous The miracle.

854
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: The miracle, if you really look back on.

855
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: It, it's not that I went through and then I

856
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 2: was running over. It's that I was running over while

857
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 2: I went through. And I don't know how, and I

858
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: don't know how, and I don't know why he did it.

859
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 2: But I want you to know about the grace God

860
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 2: gave the Macedonian Church. I want you to know about

861
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 2: the grace God gave me. When I think about him

862
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 2: and how He got me through some of the things

863
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 2: that looked at the time like the adversary had me

864
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 2: it was advertising.

865
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: How could I get you to see it? That's what

866
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: it's a product placement.

867
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 2: God wants you to know today that the thing you're

868
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: going through is pointing to what you're going to be

869
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 2: running over with. Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, I

870
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 2: need you to fill me in the valley if.

871
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: I get through this. No, no, no, as I go

872
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:16,800
Speaker 1: through this.

873
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 2: Right here, right now, and the presence of an adversary

874
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 2: does not mean the absence of the Lord. You just

875
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 2: got to do it with anxious feelings. Yay, though I walk,

876
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 2: you don't have to run. Your cup will.

877
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: Walk.

878
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 2: Why I got goodness and I got mercy.

879
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: If you have a Hallelujah, this is where it goes.

880
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: O God and I God, nurse.

881
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 2: Man. God.

882
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: It's gonna help you get your mind right. He's gonna

883
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: annoy your head with oil. I God, stay down like that.

884
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: I like that.

885
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like that, like a worship, like a worship.

886
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, the good sad bird leads me to the ward.

887
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 1: What's that next part seven, he annoys me. That's it,

888
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: annoys me.

889
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 5: Lads, they.

890
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: Sing the next one. Chris, now my call? How many

891
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: gotta running off?

892
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 5: Her heart?

893
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: Hes brothering, No, God, we're thankful today, Hovey, Yeah, I'm thankful.

894
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 5: Yay.

895
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 2: Hey, Tabo, I can see it, jee No, but I

896
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 2: don't fear it.

897
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 4: Hobby Telfy twelve.

898
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: It's time smoothing, Holly small a little man.

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Speaker 3: Let's have some charts now, Holly, Yeah.

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00:57:55,160 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 5: And I got Percy ays right there, right there.

901
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: This is what I pray for.

902
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: You lift your hands, annoyed their head with oil, Lord,

903
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 2: to see the things in their way as opportunities for

904
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 2: you to make them better.

905
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: Somebody say, annoy my head. Lord. That's where my real

906
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: challenge is.

907
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 2: Is in believing you and trusting you and thinking like

908
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 2: you think. God, I thank you for everything you brought

909
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 2: into my life. God, I thank you even for the

910
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 2: things that may leave my life, because I understand this

911
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 2: valley is an advertisement, this shadow.

912
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: Is an advertisement.

913
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 2: These enemies are preparing a table for me to demonstrate

914
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 2: your glory. God, I say the best part for last, Joe,

915
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 2: look at me second Corinthians four sixteen, give you the

916
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 2: heart of my message one more time. Therefore, we do

917
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away. I'm

918
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 2: not trying to talk about your wrinkles and saggy this

919
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 2: or that, or mine or either.

920
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: But I'm going through. But inwardly we are being renewed

921
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: day by day, step by step.

922
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 2: I see you walking in confidence this week that He's

923
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 2: with you, because the valley and the shadow and the

924
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 2: enemies all conspire to advertise one thing.

925
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: He's with me. He's with me, and he is my shepherd.

926
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 2: And if he advertises himself as a good shepherd.

927
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: There's got to be grass. God is as advertised.

928
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 2: If he advertises himself as water, there will be a rock.

929
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: God is as advertised.

930
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 2: If he advertises himself as bread, you will.

931
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Speaker 1: Not go hungry. He is as advertised if he said

932
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm the great, I am whatever you need him to be.

933
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: He is. I'm running over.

934
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 2: I know you can't see it right now, but I'm

935
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 2: running over. I know I can't feel it all the time,

936
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:48,439
Speaker 2: but I'm running over. Might take my emotions a little

937
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 2: while to get with the program and catch up, but

938
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 2: God says, I'm running over now with your head bowed

939
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 2: and your eyes closed that you've heard the message. I

940
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 2: want you to say the title again. See if it

941
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: feels different. I'm going through and I'm running over. You

942
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 2: got what you need. Absolutely, you're going through. You follow

943
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: through with this.

944
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Speaker 1: Father.

945
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 2: I never ever, ever like to make stuff up on

946
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 2: the spot. I feel like for somebody in this room,

947
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 2: if they don't give their life to you right now,

948
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: this might be their last chance.

949
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: I pray right now for that person. God, as I

950
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: lead into this moment of invitation, I want my whole

951
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: church praying with me.

952
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 2: There is somebody who is in here right now who

953
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 2: God has been speaking to and they have been running

954
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: and today in this message, the Lord spoke to them

955
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 2: and said it is time for you to give your

956
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:49,439
Speaker 2: life to Christ right now.

957
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: I want to pray for that person.

958
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 2: Those people there may be many, I don't know, but

959
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,919
Speaker 2: I want to pray right now. I want our entire

960
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 2: church to agree with me and to pray out loud

961
01:01:58,560 --> 01:01:59,959
Speaker 2: after me repeat this prayer.

962
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: It's not a magic prayers, not a magic pill.

963
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 2: But the Bible says that if you will confess with

964
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 2: your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart,

965
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 2: God raised them from the dead. You will be saved

966
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 2: and you will receive His grace. Right now, I'm calling

967
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 2: you to Jesus to leave your sin, to leave your excuses,

968
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 2: to leave your past, and to come into his arms.

969
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 2: They're open wide in this moment. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father.

970
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

971
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 2: and the savior of the world.

972
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the lord of my life.

973
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

974
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life.

975
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 1: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.

976
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: I am a child of God.

977
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 2: If you prayed that with me, lift your hands on

978
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 2: the count of three, one two degree every location, every location, put.

979
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: Among Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the name

980
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Going through. I'm

981
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: going through, but I'm running over. Clap those hands. If

982
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: you receive the word to them.

983
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 2: I love him. If you just prayed that prayer to

984
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 2: give your life to Jesus Christ, please see someone at

985
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 2: the tents on your way out. We don't want you

986
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 2: to leave before we have the opportunity to give you

987
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 2: a Bible. Pray with you. And celebrate your decision to

988
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 2: follow Christ. Holly, join me on the stage. My love,

989
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 2: your little rain lover. I got her love in rock

990
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 2: music now everybody. She still thinks food fighters are better

991
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 2: than Nirvana, But I'm working on him have his way.

992
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 2: I got her to love two things, boiled peanuts and

993
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 2: smashing pumpkins.

994
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: Isn't God good?

995
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 2: I want your relationship with Jesus to change the way

996
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 2: you go through your week.

997
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: I do. I want it to change the way you

998
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 1: see your challenges.

999
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 2: I wanted to change the way you talk about yourself

1000
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 2: and the way you speak to others. I want it

1001
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 2: to change the way we drive in traffic. We are

1002
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 2: horrible in our cars, y'all. I want it to change

1003
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 2: the way you feel about uncertainty. I want it to

1004
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 2: change it.

1005
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: Jesus changes every day everything.

1006
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 2: Say it again, I'm going through, but I'm not alone.

1007
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm running over. Now. What you tell your neighbor?

1008
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 2: You look so much better than you did an hour

1009
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 2: ago when he started preaching. You look full now. You

1010
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 2: look kind of empty of an hour ago, but you

1011
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 2: look full now. Hey, everybody, when we bring our offering

1012
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 2: next weekend, let's bring our best online Etham.

1013
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: You be a part two. Let's bring our best. Let's

1014
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: honor daughter. You never go wrong putting God first. He

1015
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: will not be OutGiving everybody leaving. I understand. I ran over.

1016
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: That's right, I get it.

1017
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 2: Grab hands repeat after me. The Lord is my shepherd.

1018
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 2: I shall not want. He leadeth me, He maketh me.

1019
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 2: He provides for me, and He is with me. Would

1020
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 2: you hug three people and tell him God is with

1021
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 2: you this week.

1022
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: I'll see y'all soon. I love you.

1023
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 2: Have the best week of your life. God is with

1024
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 2: you in the middle of it. Praise the Lord. Everybody,

1025
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 2: look at somebody say yay, yes's God be good.

1026
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: I'll see y'all soon.

1027
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us today. We pray that God has

1028
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 7: spoken to you in a unique and power way through

1029
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 7: the message.

1030
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 7: We are in our year in offering season as a

1032
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 7: church where we get the opportunity to reflect back on

1033
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 7: all the ways that God has been faithful to our

1034
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 7: ministry this year, but also to look ahead at what

1035
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 7: we're believing God for in the upcoming year and each

1036
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 7: year as a church. We get to come around a

1037
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 7: special offering and offering that contributes to both outreach efforts

1038
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 7: in local and global cities and as well as the

1039
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 7: expansion of our ministry continuing to reach people all over

1040
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 7: with the hope of the Gospel. And we'd invite you

1041
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 7: to take part and participate in our year end offering.

1042
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 7: To do so, you can go to Elevationchurch dot org.

1043
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 7: Just click the banner there at the top, and then

1044
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 7: you'll be able to see everything that you need to

1045
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 7: be a part of.

1046
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: Our year end offering.

1047
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Speaker 7: You'll see two options. The first is to begin tithing.

1048
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:44,440
Speaker 7: Maybe you've been wanting to prioritize God in your finances,

1049
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 7: but you haven't taken that step to make a commitment

1050
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 7: to doing so. This is a great place to begin.

1051
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 7: Or perhaps you've been giving consistently in this season, God

1052
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 7: may be challenging you to stretch above and beyond the

1053
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 7: tithe to give a sacrificial gift to our year end offering.

1054
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 7: If you're part of one of our physical lowe you

1055
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 7: can choose your campus there, or if you're part of

1056
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 7: our online ministry, of course you'll choose Epham or online

1057
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 7: and then enter the amount that you'd like to give.

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Speaker 7: We are believing for all the ways that God is

1059
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 7: going to stretch our faith in this season through our

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Speaker 7: year end offering and we can't wait to see what

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Speaker 7: God does through you. God bless and we'll see you soon.