Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Fernick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church,
Speaker 1: and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so
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Speaker 1: hope you're blessed today. With hands lifted all over this
Speaker 1: room listening to him. God is more. Oh, God is
Speaker 1: put on your mind? What your love? It's too hard
Speaker 1: for him? God is mony. God who went by to
Speaker 1: the gun. What the Let the way back then through,
Speaker 1: Let the light back on through. That's somebody's watch the
Speaker 1: story shouts. Let them pull through. Let the way they
Speaker 1: may come through. Why you made me knowing what they
Speaker 1: want to. Let the way make him through shore then
Speaker 1: Dunny the said they can't do it him. Let the
Speaker 1: way Hager through. Let awad I got you to. That's
Speaker 1: how you kinda know that's somebody's due. This star Chad
Speaker 1: out come through? Who did not? When let's go. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you right now that God is able
Speaker 1: to do immeasurably more. Can you ask, think, or think
Speaker 1: or imagine according to his power? Somebody sud his power.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to preach about today. I want
Speaker 1: to breach about his power. The title of this message
Speaker 1: are you ready. When God goes in, Gary cor conset
Speaker 1: lead you. Jacob come heracle worker. God goes in. Thank
Speaker 1: you Lord for your spirit. Thank you for your anointing
Speaker 1: to break chains, liberate those who are captive, to raise
Speaker 1: up those who are broken, to heal those who are hurting,
Speaker 1: to save those who are lost, to free those who
Speaker 1: are addicted. That anointing is in this house right now,
Speaker 1: and we release you to do what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Mighty God, miracle Worker, have your way in this place.
Speaker 1: You are more than able. In Jesus' name. Somebody's shout, Amen,
Speaker 1: come here. I'll start my sermon this way. I'll just
Speaker 1: go right in. You're ready to go right in, Let's
Speaker 1: go right in. This one of my favorite songwriting partners
Speaker 1: in the world, Chandler More. We have an enterprise called
Speaker 1: Morphurdic Enterprises. I kissed his sweaty cheek because he has
Speaker 1: brought so many wonderful gifts to my life and to
Speaker 1: our church. We have a long story. You could go
Speaker 1: back and watch me telling those stories. They're all online.
Speaker 1: One thing that makes us good songwriting partners is that
Speaker 1: we both respect one another's strengths, and we have different strengths.
Speaker 1: And I've never met anybody more intuitive than Chandler. So
Speaker 1: what I do to get him to sing? Now, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what I do a little trick,
Speaker 1: Because you ever want to write a song with Chandler,
Speaker 1: get him to think you're done writing the song, and
Speaker 1: then he'll do something more amazing than he did while
Speaker 1: you're writing the song, and then take that and write
Speaker 1: the song around that little trick. The songwriting trick true Christian,
Speaker 1: very true. One of the things that makes us good
Speaker 1: in collaboration, I think, is at he is very strong
Speaker 1: where I'm not as strong, and I'm very cool to
Speaker 1: be vulnerable in the way to say, hey, that's better,
Speaker 1: or he might say to me, oh that's better. And
Speaker 1: that's very important in a creative partnership. But you are
Speaker 1: in a partnership with God to bring about his purpose
Speaker 1: in the earth. Even if you're a single mom, you're
Speaker 1: in a partnership with God raising your child. You're not alone.
Speaker 1: And just like Chandler has strengths that I don't think
Speaker 1: about God and you, and what makes you and God
Speaker 1: good partners is that he's really good at what you're
Speaker 1: not good at. And that's a lot of stuff I've
Speaker 1: been checking on y'all. That's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: he can do that you can't do. And so today
Speaker 1: I want to preach about that, and I want to
Speaker 1: share continue We've been preaching off the song that we wrote,
Speaker 1: more than Able. It's out now, you can go download it.
Speaker 1: How many of you have already been riding around singing
Speaker 1: it with the windows down? It's been warm, Charlotte Weather.
Speaker 1: I'm scared people are hearing you sing that thing loud,
Speaker 1: and I'm scared you can't sing. And I'm scared you're
Speaker 1: scaring them. You're right around, and you start thinking you
Speaker 1: sound like Chandler to sounds just like him. Sounds just
Speaker 1: like him. But I've been preaching off of a thought
Speaker 1: in that song that said, there's so much more to
Speaker 1: the story. And I'm believing that in faith for everybody
Speaker 1: who might have been tempted to give up in the
Speaker 1: last few years, or even in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: for the last few days. You know. I met a
Speaker 1: lady this weekend. She said, I was sitting in the
Speaker 1: hospital parking lot trying to decide whether I needed to
Speaker 1: check myself in. She was standing there with her son.
Speaker 1: She said, I was trying to decide whether to check
Speaker 1: myself into the hospital because lately I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: going crazy, and I've made an appointment to see about that.
Speaker 1: But she said, but I was sitting in the parking
Speaker 1: lot listening to your sermons all day. I sat there
Speaker 1: for two hours. When I finished, I said, God, I
Speaker 1: need another sign that it's going to be all right.
Speaker 1: And then she saw me in the thing, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I think this counts as a sign, don't you?
Speaker 1: Don't you? I don't believe God has to bring me
Speaker 1: or any other individual in your life to give you
Speaker 1: a sign that he's with you. The fact that you've
Speaker 1: survived all that you've survived, and that he brought you
Speaker 1: to this point and that you still have breath in
Speaker 1: your lungs, he's not done with you yet. Say it.
Speaker 1: He's not done with me yet. He's not done with
Speaker 1: me yet. So let's go. You go dry off or something.
Speaker 1: You got me soaking wet. Now that was disgusting, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to give one scripture while you're standing. I'll
Speaker 1: let you sit down in just a moment, but I
Speaker 1: want to share one scripture from Judges, chapter six, verse fourteen,
Speaker 1: and then out of this verse. This will be a
Speaker 1: two week sermon. How many of you will commit to
Speaker 1: come back next next week? If I can get fifty
Speaker 1: percent of you to say you'll come back next week,
Speaker 1: I won't have to keep you here till three pm.
Speaker 1: Raise your hand. If you commit to come back next week,
Speaker 1: that's good. And then we'll be at Easter. And then
Speaker 1: we got to come on Easter. Even if we don't
Speaker 1: come any other time, we got to come to Easter.
Speaker 1: Go to hell, you go to double hell if you
Speaker 1: don't come on Easter. You know I'm teasing. Judges Chapter six,
Speaker 1: verse fourteen says something very powerful, and it's going to
Speaker 1: get more and more powerful as I preach it today
Speaker 1: and then as I preach it again next week. And
Speaker 1: it's just going to build momentum in your spirit. And
Speaker 1: you're going to see a breakthrough on Easter Sunday. And
Speaker 1: it's going to start right now. Judges, Chapter six, verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: The Lord turned to him and said, go in the
Speaker 1: strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand?
Speaker 1: Am I not sending you when God goes in and Father,
Speaker 1: have your way in Jesus' name, Hey man, touch somebody,
Speaker 1: say he's coming in. He's coming in. Let the way
Speaker 1: maker through. He's coming in. He's coming in to your home,
Speaker 1: to your heart, to your brokenness, to your questions, to
Speaker 1: your weeping. Right now, just make that confession online in
Speaker 1: the chat, say he's coming in. Come through. Lord, do
Speaker 1: what you want to do. When you think about the Bible.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about all of the strange
Speaker 1: elevations in the Bible. This is not the first strange
Speaker 1: elevation in history. This church. I know we're a little weird.
Speaker 1: I know it's a little different. How many of you
Speaker 1: the first time you came here, we scared you a
Speaker 1: little bit. Just raise your hand, even like they're too happy.
Speaker 1: This can't be real. This feels culted. Why because everybody
Speaker 1: seems really into it. Oh yeah, God forgive we be
Speaker 1: into Jesus and this kingdom. That would be weird make
Speaker 1: much more sense. It felt like a funeral when God
Speaker 1: is alive. I digress. My point is not that. My
Speaker 1: point is not about our church being strange. Although we
Speaker 1: are proudly strange and getting stranger every day. We hadn't
Speaker 1: even gotten weird yet. Let me tell you how weird
Speaker 1: it's gonna get we're gonna release a whole album on
Speaker 1: May nineteenth, Holly's birthday. It's called Can You Imagine? And
Speaker 1: on that night that we released those songs, we're gonna
Speaker 1: record eight more and I'm announcing it now because that's weird,
Speaker 1: but that's what we're gonna do, because we got to
Speaker 1: get the word of God out into as many hearts
Speaker 1: as we can. And if God gives it, we can't
Speaker 1: be stingy. We got to give it and release it
Speaker 1: so we can receive it and repeat it and do
Speaker 1: it again. So that's how weird we are. And we're
Speaker 1: weird in other ways too. We're not divided in ways
Speaker 1: that some churches are divided, and we don't have black
Speaker 1: songs and white songs. We just have songs songs about God.
Speaker 1: We don't do ministry to rich people or poor people.
Speaker 1: We just do ministry everybody needs Jesus. One thing that
Speaker 1: encourages me in my study of God's word is all
Speaker 1: of the people that God raised that from a human
Speaker 1: perspective wouldn't have been recognized as likely candidates to be
Speaker 1: vessels for the purpose of God. Clap on that. If
Speaker 1: you're an unlikely candidate too, Yeah, that's good. I called
Speaker 1: it a strange elevation because definitely, if you want to
Speaker 1: see that, look at what Paul says in First Corinthians one,
Speaker 1: verse twenty three. Check this out. Might be twenty four.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but whatever scripture it is, put it
Speaker 1: up because I'm stolen. But to those whom God has
Speaker 1: called touch your neighbors, say, that's me he's talking about.
Speaker 1: Paul never met me, but he's describing me right there.
Speaker 1: But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks,
Speaker 1: Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God
Speaker 1: next verse. For the foolishness of God is wiser than
Speaker 1: human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than
Speaker 1: human strength. More, brothers and sisters, think of what you
Speaker 1: were when you were called. Don't flash back too far.
Speaker 1: I might not get you back to church today. If
Speaker 1: you think about where you were, what you were, and
Speaker 1: where you were. Think of what you were when you
Speaker 1: were called. Many of your wives by human standards, not
Speaker 1: many were influential, Not many were of noble birth. Next verse.
Speaker 1: But God chose the foolish things of the world to
Speaker 1: shame the wise. Don't clap too hard. They might think
Speaker 1: you're the foolish one. I'm past the point of caring, ma'am.
Speaker 1: I'd rather somebody think I was foolish than actually be
Speaker 1: a fool. And the fool has said in his heart
Speaker 1: there is no God, but God shows the weak things
Speaker 1: of the world to shame the strong. So the subject
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about revolves kind
Speaker 1: of around this thought. The problem that you're having in
Speaker 1: your life right now, to align with what God spoke
Speaker 1: about you, has a very discernible diagnosis from the word
Speaker 1: of God. I'm going to give it to you upfront
Speaker 1: and then we'll unpack it together. It's that sometimes you
Speaker 1: get who you are confused with where you are. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of what you've been having severe and even
Speaker 1: crippling anxiety about is that you keep getting who you
Speaker 1: are confused with where you are, and God knows the
Speaker 1: difference even when you don't. I'm not going to fill
Speaker 1: this sermon with anecdotes from people that I met, but
Speaker 1: it just so happened going through Krispy Kreme the other night.
Speaker 1: I wasn't eating them, I was getting them for the
Speaker 1: sleepover gram. What's happened. Just want to tell you that
Speaker 1: right now because I can't eat one of those. And
Speaker 1: I pulled through, and I felt like it was a
Speaker 1: good test for me against temptation to have two dozen
Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme donuts in the car and just drive home
Speaker 1: and not touch them. And I did it, and I
Speaker 1: got a quest cookie and I called it even it
Speaker 1: took me a while to get to that place, or
Speaker 1: I could do that, So don't give up. There's hope
Speaker 1: for all of us. Anyway, the guy said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I know who you are. You are? I said, cool,
Speaker 1: what's your name? He said, I used to go to elevation.
Speaker 1: I said, great, what's your name? He said, no, I
Speaker 1: don't go anymore. I said, what does that have to
Speaker 1: do with what's your name? I didn't ask where you
Speaker 1: go to church? I asked who you are. In Judges
Speaker 1: chapter six, we meet a man who is being raised
Speaker 1: up by God, who is unlikely, being that he's from
Speaker 1: the tribe of Manassa, which is looked down upon among
Speaker 1: the nation of Israel in some ways for good reason.
Speaker 1: They were kind of messy tribe, but also within that designation,
Speaker 1: he saw himself as being the youngest in his family
Speaker 1: because he was biologically but God had chosen him for greatness.
Speaker 1: If you go through the Book of Judges, you'll see
Speaker 1: all kinds of strange elevations. What I mean is God
Speaker 1: will reach down and raise up somebody who no one
Speaker 1: else had noticed, and do something really great through them
Speaker 1: while nobody's looking. One of the stories is about Ehud,
Speaker 1: who was a left handed judge, and the good thing
Speaker 1: about him being left handed was he reached over to
Speaker 1: his right thigh and stabbed a fat king, and the
Speaker 1: attendants were outside thinking the king was in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: but he actually had a blade sucked into his cellulight,
Speaker 1: and he snuck out and saved the nation because he
Speaker 1: was left handed. Now, the tribe that he was from Benjamin.
Speaker 1: That means son on my right hand. So he was
Speaker 1: a left handed dude in a right handed tribe. But
Speaker 1: God raised him up at just the right time. Humble
Speaker 1: yourself under the mighty hand of God, that He may
Speaker 1: lift you up in due time. Of course, you never
Speaker 1: heard of Ehud because it's kind of nasty scriptures, so
Speaker 1: they don't teach it over there in Sunday school class
Speaker 1: very much. However, you have heard of Gideon, who I
Speaker 1: read about in Judges Chapter six. I think you have.
Speaker 1: I think you've heard about what he did, how he
Speaker 1: saved the nation with just three hundred men. My plan
Speaker 1: is to attack that next week and to show you
Speaker 1: how everything that has left your life is not needed
Speaker 1: for the next season that God is bringing you into.
Speaker 1: If you got him, you're going to do great things
Speaker 1: and greater things in the future. Yeah, I see it,
Speaker 1: got you now. Gideon is the least likely. He calls
Speaker 1: himself that in just a moment which we'll see his
Speaker 1: conversation with God. He calls himself the least, and he
Speaker 1: calls himself the weakest. He calls himself the least, and
Speaker 1: he calls himself the weakest. In fact, he calls the
Speaker 1: plan that he's from within his family the least, and
Speaker 1: he calls himself, well, he calls them the weakest, and
Speaker 1: he calls himself the least within that family. So the
Speaker 1: weakest in the least, and he goes on to save
Speaker 1: the nation. But before he does, before we talk about
Speaker 1: what Gideon did, or before we even talk about who
Speaker 1: Gideon is, I think we need to remember where he was,
Speaker 1: because I think that's where a lot of us are.
Speaker 1: I know it's where I've been and I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of my time in life in this place where
Speaker 1: Gideon was when God called him to do something amazing
Speaker 1: and raised him up. It's a strange elevation. It's God
Speaker 1: raising up an imperfect person. As Paul said, the foolish
Speaker 1: things of the world to shame the strong and the
Speaker 1: weak things to confound the wise. The Bible says in
Speaker 1: Judges chapter six, verse seven, when the Israelites cried out
Speaker 1: to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a
Speaker 1: prophet who said, this is what the Lord, the God
Speaker 1: of Israel, says. I brought you up out of Egypt elevation,
Speaker 1: out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from
Speaker 1: the hand of the Egyptians, and I delivered you from
Speaker 1: the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them out
Speaker 1: before you and gave you their lamb. I said to you,
Speaker 1: I am the Lord your God. Do not worship the
Speaker 1: gods of the emrits. Do not worship the gods of comparison.
Speaker 1: Do not worship the gods of status. Do not worship
Speaker 1: the worship the gods of sexual expression at the expense
Speaker 1: of addiction and entanglement and bondage. I said to you.
Speaker 1: You don't do it, don't become like where you are.
Speaker 1: Don't confuse who I made you to be with what
Speaker 1: you see in the place where I put you. The
Speaker 1: prophet said that, he said that. We don't even know
Speaker 1: his name, but he said that. But you have not
Speaker 1: listened to me. Now, I promise I'm gonna raise you
Speaker 1: up first. I got gonna start where we gotta start. Okay,
Speaker 1: because that's true about a lot of us. How hard
Speaker 1: you make me work is how deep I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: So just let's make a deal. You've been there before.
Speaker 1: I call it predictable misery. You know it's not where
Speaker 1: you need to go to get what you need to have,
Speaker 1: But you do it. Predictable misery, predictable pleasure. You do
Speaker 1: the thing, you get the thing, you lose the thing.
Speaker 1: Now you got nothing, and you cry out to God. Now,
Speaker 1: what I love about him is that he still lifts me.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about him is that he still
Speaker 1: lifts me. The question isn't will he lift you out
Speaker 1: of it? The question is how long do you insist
Speaker 1: on staying in it before you ask him to do
Speaker 1: what he said he would do. Now, for the Israelites,
Speaker 1: It was a seven year cycle, this time seven years
Speaker 1: of being oppressed by the Midianites. It would get really
Speaker 1: bad when they tried to plant. When they tried to plant,
Speaker 1: the Midianites would come, and the Bible says they came
Speaker 1: on camels, and the Bible says they were like swarms
Speaker 1: of locusts. That's how many there were. It was overwhelming,
Speaker 1: like swarms of locusts. They would come and raid and invade.
Speaker 1: Every time the Israelites got ready to grow and do
Speaker 1: something forward thinking and progress and put something in the ground,
Speaker 1: here came the Midianites. The Bible says, like swarms of locusts.
Speaker 1: Every time they went to sew into their future, here
Speaker 1: came a swarm of enemies to drive them back into
Speaker 1: their past. Every time they went to sew, here came
Speaker 1: a swarm. I'm setting this up so when I tell
Speaker 1: you where Gideon was, you won't judge him, because you
Speaker 1: will judge him if you just meet him where he is.
Speaker 1: But if you know what he's been warring against, maybe
Speaker 1: you can relate to this guy a little bit. Maybe
Speaker 1: you won't call him a whimp if you see why
Speaker 1: he's hidden. Maybe if you realize that every time he's
Speaker 1: tried to plant, every time he's tried to read, every
Speaker 1: time I tried to go for a job interview, every
Speaker 1: time I tried to move forward, every time I tried
Speaker 1: to get my feet under me, every time I tried
Speaker 1: to talk to him, every time I tried to apologize.
Speaker 1: So now we have Gideon who is hidden but he's
Speaker 1: a hero. But he's hidden but he's a hero. Which
Speaker 1: one It's both, And so it is with you. I'm
Speaker 1: preaching today to a hidden hero. I'm preaching today to
Speaker 1: somebody who is stronger than your life has been suggesting
Speaker 1: that you are. I'm preaching today to somebody who has
Speaker 1: more potential than you've been given yourself credit for. And
Speaker 1: God said, I'm coming in to show you who I am.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord, your God. Now let's go. Here
Speaker 1: comes the Angel. In verse number eleven, the Angel of
Speaker 1: the Lord came and sat down under the oak in
Speaker 1: uh Orfra. This is before she had her talk show.
Speaker 1: I like to point that out, she'd been doing it
Speaker 1: a long time. I always throw that joke in there
Speaker 1: because that's really good, really good little preature joke. Sorry
Speaker 1: about it. The Angel of the Lord came and sat
Speaker 1: down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to joe
Speaker 1: Ash the abbys right, shock of shock, horrors of horrors.
Speaker 1: Where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine
Speaker 1: press to keep it from the Midian eyes. And when
Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said,
Speaker 1: the Lord word is with you, mighty warrior. Now somebody's lying.
Speaker 1: These cannot coexist. You cannot be threshing wheat in a
Speaker 1: wine press and be a warrior while you're in a
Speaker 1: wine press threshing wheat hiding from the big bad Midianites.
Speaker 1: Somebody's lying, somebody's wrong, somebody is not seeing something correctly.
Speaker 1: One is an angel and one is Gideon. One is
Speaker 1: the messenger of God, and one is Gideon, a human
Speaker 1: from the tribe of Nnassa. So I'm asking you a question.
Speaker 1: If it's God and Gideon saying two different things about
Speaker 1: the same situation, which one is wrong? That is not
Speaker 1: a trick question. Shout this out loud. God is not wrong,
Speaker 1: So why are you hiding? If God is not wrong?
Speaker 1: So why are you worried about tomorrow? If God said
Speaker 1: He's already there? So why have you given up on yourself?
Speaker 1: When he didn't give up on you yet. So why
Speaker 1: do you talk to yourself like your trash when he
Speaker 1: spilt his blood for you, like your treasure. Why do
Speaker 1: you keep going into a dark place. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why you are hiding, Because you've been hit hard. I
Speaker 1: understood the more I studied about the Midianites. They were
Speaker 1: hit harder than any other tribe. When the Midianites, or
Speaker 1: excuse me, the tribe of Manassa, they were hit harder
Speaker 1: than any of the other tribes. When the Midianites would
Speaker 1: come in on their camels like locust. They hit midian
Speaker 1: the hardest. And and so Gideon has this little spirit
Speaker 1: on him. Why is everybody always picking on me? And
Speaker 1: that's because the enemy only picks on what he perceives
Speaker 1: to be powerful. You see why it's gonna take me
Speaker 1: two weeks to do this the right way. But he's
Speaker 1: in a wine press threshing weed. Nothing wrong with wine press.
Speaker 1: He's not down there getting drunk. He's not down there
Speaker 1: making making meth. Mister White, it's not that it's not
Speaker 1: it's not exactly that he's in the wrong place. It's
Speaker 1: that he's he's doing the thing that he's doing in
Speaker 1: a place that is not most appropriate for who he is.
Speaker 1: When you thresh wheat, and trust me, I've done it lot.
Speaker 1: Never thresh weet, but I understand from people who have
Speaker 1: done these things. When you thresh weet, the goal is
Speaker 1: to thresh it up on a hill in an elevated place,
Speaker 1: as high as you can get. Because if you thresh
Speaker 1: your wheat in a high place, and let's again remember
Speaker 1: what threshing is is separating what's useful the wheat, from
Speaker 1: what's useless, the chaff. And when you're threshing wheat, they say,
Speaker 1: if you throw it up and the wind is there,
Speaker 1: then the wind will take what's invaluable and blow it away. Well,
Speaker 1: I can appreciate this about the Holy Spirit. The wind
Speaker 1: will take you know, the Holy Spirit is like wind
Speaker 1: right num the breath of God. When God does what
Speaker 1: he does, it blows useless stuff away. I see chaff
Speaker 1: flying out of your mind today. I see chaff flying
Speaker 1: out of your emotions today. But you gotta get where
Speaker 1: the wind is is. But it's hard to be where
Speaker 1: the wind is when you're in a low place. That's
Speaker 1: what's wrong with the wine press. It's a low place.
Speaker 1: That's what's wrong with the wine press. It's a depressed place.
Speaker 1: That's what's wrong with the wine press. It feels like
Speaker 1: a safe place, but the wind can't blow there. That's
Speaker 1: what's wrong with pornography. It's a low place, makes you
Speaker 1: feel certain for a few minutes, but it really puts
Speaker 1: you in shame's in the end. It's not a safe place.
Speaker 1: That's what's wrong with states of anger and rage is
Speaker 1: that when you're in that state, you're crazy and you
Speaker 1: can't remember who you are because all you can deal
Speaker 1: with is where you are. Are you confused? Have you
Speaker 1: started conflating who you are with where you are? Because
Speaker 1: Gideon did? And maybe you got it than Gideon. That's possible.
Speaker 1: It is possible that you are holier being Gideon. I'm
Speaker 1: not so I get this guy. When I say I
Speaker 1: get him, and watch this, he doesn't even know he's
Speaker 1: going to be. I would put Gideon as the goat
Speaker 1: of all the judges that God raised up. I would
Speaker 1: say he is the greatest of all time, the greatest
Speaker 1: ever to do it. He had tacked diplomacy. He could
Speaker 1: talk people down who wanted to fight. But if you
Speaker 1: wanted to fight, if you want to fight, do you
Speaker 1: really want to do this. I'm warning you, Buck. We
Speaker 1: went to the wrestling tournament, all the guys with their
Speaker 1: ears all color flowered up. I was real nice to
Speaker 1: them because I know you've been through something. Man, whatever
Speaker 1: you did to get your ear like that, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to do it to me. So how you doing? Yes,
Speaker 1: go first, go right ahead, A hold the door for you.
Speaker 1: So Gideon, with rough talk, is depressed, and I'll watch this.
Speaker 1: Stop confusing yourself with your state. It's easy to do.
Speaker 1: It's easy to do. Gideon is threshing wheat in a
Speaker 1: wine press. He's a warrior. Come on, we just have
Speaker 1: to stop him. Marvel at this, that he could be
Speaker 1: a warrior in a wine press. That you could be
Speaker 1: a great man trapped in a really bad habit, That
Speaker 1: you could be a great woman going through a period
Speaker 1: of chronic pain followed by depression, but you could still
Speaker 1: be something and not see it in yourself because of
Speaker 1: where you are where you are. I don't even think
Speaker 1: I knew what that line meant when we wrote it. Chandler,
Speaker 1: I know who I am, but I can't stay where
Speaker 1: I'm at Now. I get it when I read Gideon,
Speaker 1: because the Lord says, mighty warrior, the Lord is with you.
Speaker 1: And Gideon look at verse number thirteen. He says, pardon me, sir,
Speaker 1: big strong, scary looking angel. Oh, by the way, angels
Speaker 1: aren't cute and comforting. You ever see what they're right
Speaker 1: about the angels in the Bible. The angel will make
Speaker 1: you throw up and pee your pants. Pee your pants?
Speaker 1: Why you're throwing up? The angels are scary, so the
Speaker 1: first instinct sometimes when the angel came, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. It's like, if the angel look cuddly
Speaker 1: like that little one you have up there on your
Speaker 1: mental piece, then why would he say don't be afraid?
Speaker 1: Angels got cauliflower ear, angels looking rough coming up in there.
Speaker 1: And Gideon it's like, hey, man, pardon me. I don't
Speaker 1: want to start anything because you're you're a bad man.
Speaker 1: But if the Lord is with us, why is all
Speaker 1: this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that
Speaker 1: our ancestors told us about when they said, did the
Speaker 1: Lord not bring us out of Egypt? And now the
Speaker 1: Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand
Speaker 1: of the Midia. And you know that's not what the
Speaker 1: prophet said when I read you verse seven, that's not
Speaker 1: what the prophet said. The prophet said, you abandon God.
Speaker 1: That is not what the prophet said. Gideon's wrong. Somebody
Speaker 1: say he's wrong. He's a warrior but he's wrong. He's
Speaker 1: gifted but he's wrong. He's anointed, but he's wrong. He's strong,
Speaker 1: but he's wrong. He has confused where he is with
Speaker 1: who he is, to the point when the angel calls
Speaker 1: him what he really is, He's like, who is there
Speaker 1: somebody else in this wine press that I haven't seen?
Speaker 1: He just said, mighty warrior? And here I am down
Speaker 1: here in a depressed place. You know, when you've been
Speaker 1: in a situation long enough, I don't care if it
Speaker 1: was done to you or if it was done through you.
Speaker 1: When you've been in it long enough, you begin to
Speaker 1: get the negative thing so embedded into your mind that
Speaker 1: you can no longer see anything but that, am I right.
Speaker 1: When you've been in it that long, the negativity becomes embedded,
Speaker 1: so you are no longer choosing to be negative. You
Speaker 1: now think that's normal to be negative. You have names
Speaker 1: for it. You call it keeping it one hundred, or
Speaker 1: when you do something really rude and out of pocket,
Speaker 1: you go, I just gotta be me, and I've been
Speaker 1: teaching you all year. That's not you anymore. God is
Speaker 1: raising you up out of that. God is calling you
Speaker 1: up out of that. God is saying, come up a
Speaker 1: little higher. I got something for you to do. It
Speaker 1: is not just a value. We're almost the verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: I believe we can get there by six o'clock if
Speaker 1: you pay attention. But God says to get in. You're
Speaker 1: a mighty warrior. He identifies him by something that he sees,
Speaker 1: which made me wonder, is Gideon the only one who
Speaker 1: is sifting in this passage? Or is God sifting to
Speaker 1: the first picture I saw in the passage? Was Gideon
Speaker 1: sifting right down? Sifting? That's my first point. That's only
Speaker 1: your first point. I'm gonna go quick writing down like
Speaker 1: this before lifting comes sifting. It better. If God raises
Speaker 1: you up to something and he hasn't sifted from your life,
Speaker 1: some of the attitudes you will sabotage what he brings
Speaker 1: you into. How many witnesses do I have that you
Speaker 1: tried to skip the sifting? You just thought, well, I'll
Speaker 1: just go ahead and do it anyway. Mm hmmm, how
Speaker 1: did that work for you. When you said, I know,
Speaker 1: I got seventeen warning bells going off. One of my
Speaker 1: buddies said, the other day, I was asking God should
Speaker 1: I marry this woman? He said she was so hot,
Speaker 1: he said, I didn't want to hear what God said.
Speaker 1: He said, we got in a fight. I reached in
Speaker 1: the window tried to take the car keys so she
Speaker 1: wouldn't drive off. She rolled my arm up in the
Speaker 1: window and squeezed it for a good ten seconds, and
Speaker 1: I married her. Anyway, we make some weird decisions when
Speaker 1: we really want something so bad and we just decide, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: this is what I want. I just decided, you better
Speaker 1: let God sift that thing. You better. I don't like
Speaker 1: being single. You better let God sift that thing. I'd
Speaker 1: rather be single and sifted than married and miserable. I
Speaker 1: want God to sift them out. You better let him
Speaker 1: sift it, all right, Be good, Be good. He's sifting it.
Speaker 1: He's sifting it, just like Gideon is sifting the weak.
Speaker 1: God is sifting Gideon. He's blowing out all the worthless thoughts,
Speaker 1: all the vile imaginations, all of the things that I
Speaker 1: think I am that I'm really not, all of the
Speaker 1: things that I think I need. That God is more
Speaker 1: than enough to cover for all of the ways I
Speaker 1: used to do it when I was a child. I
Speaker 1: spoke as a child, but when He raised me up
Speaker 1: to become a man, I'm coming into a season now
Speaker 1: where I gotta be the real thing for Jesus. I
Speaker 1: am so passionate about that, because if your faith does
Speaker 1: not survive the sifting, you will miss the best parts
Speaker 1: of being you. So I've been down before and thought
Speaker 1: about quit preaching. Sorry, but I have It's hard to
Speaker 1: get the wind of the Holy Spirit to get a
Speaker 1: word to give to you when I'm in a wine
Speaker 1: press of my own weakness, and I've been there many times.
Speaker 1: Makes me want to cry when I think about all
Speaker 1: the times that I tried to quit, but He sifted
Speaker 1: me to show me I don't even need a feeling
Speaker 1: to do this, that the word of God is powerful
Speaker 1: enough without my feelings for me to stand up and
Speaker 1: preach it. Let it flow, God, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't look at those notes anyway. Don't get nervous. It's
Speaker 1: in my spirit. I've been sitting with this for three
Speaker 1: weeks and God's been sifting it and getting there ready
Speaker 1: to feed you for the fight you're in, for the
Speaker 1: future that he sees. And it's not gonna look like
Speaker 1: where you are. It's gonna look like what he said.
Speaker 1: Oh so mighty water. See if you lact, that's the
Speaker 1: wind that response, that's the wind blowing out all that
Speaker 1: condemnation you've been putting on yourself. He died for you,
Speaker 1: be bled for you, be ruled against. He's a strange elevation,
Speaker 1: but he will let you. He's lifting me Hi five seven.
Speaker 1: People say, he's lifting me right now. He's lifting me
Speaker 1: right now. He's lifting me right now. It seems like
Speaker 1: a bad time. It seems like it's over. It's a
Speaker 1: strange elevation, but he said it's two times. You will
Speaker 1: reap that you don't say right now, right now, right now,
Speaker 1: right now, right now, right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1: I might be down right now, but I'm mighty in God.
Speaker 1: I might be sick right now, but I'm healed by
Speaker 1: his stripes. I might be broke right now, but my
Speaker 1: God shalls a fly. Oh my knees. I know who
Speaker 1: I am, and I'm not staying in this wine pressed,
Speaker 1: So take down they trust be called two men in
Speaker 1: a truck hones sit here. That's what a breakthrough feels life,
Speaker 1: what the wind feels like. This is what the spirit
Speaker 1: feels like. If I die in this wine press. My
Speaker 1: kids don't get this word. Do you understand how important
Speaker 1: it is? What you're fighting for right now? And the
Speaker 1: devil will send every little locust to get you in
Speaker 1: that hole? How many had the locusts come in this week?
Speaker 1: The locus the locust? I heard it called ANTS one time.
Speaker 1: Ants automatic negative thinking syndrome. Ain't that good. I didn't
Speaker 1: make that up. I read it one time on a
Speaker 1: paid subscription website to psychology today. They said ANTS, I said,
Speaker 1: that is it. It's automatic negative thinking syndrome. It becomes
Speaker 1: just who I think I am because my automatic response
Speaker 1: to anything God wants to do a hide sifting. I'm
Speaker 1: only going to get the point one this week. But
Speaker 1: let's just do it, Lord, let's just do it. Let's
Speaker 1: just do this one so good that they go home
Speaker 1: and realize that you are with them, sending your word
Speaker 1: into their wine press. God saw his people oppressed by
Speaker 1: the hand of Midian. He saw you oppressed by sin,
Speaker 1: he saw you oppressed by shame. And you know what
Speaker 1: he has to do before God can get you out.
Speaker 1: He has to get in. He's getting in, He's getting in.
Speaker 1: You tried to keep him out. You tried to do
Speaker 1: everything you could do. You tried to push them away.
Speaker 1: You tried not answer on your phone. You tried not
Speaker 1: texting the healthy people back, you texted to other people back.
Speaker 1: You tried everything you could do to love the locusts.
Speaker 1: But you know why it didn't work, because you got
Speaker 1: a lion inside. I'm about to up the doses. Are
Speaker 1: you ready? Lions don't hide from locusts. Mighty warrior, miserable situation,
Speaker 1: predictable systems of enslavement. God is not confused about you.
Speaker 1: You don't fool him with all that fake crap that
Speaker 1: fools people at them like this is just how I am.
Speaker 1: This is just how I'm gonna stay. You can't. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you can't because God is about to go in.
Speaker 1: And when God goes in, it's not like you know
Speaker 1: how you're getting a fight with somebody and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're going in right now. This is crazy. But they
Speaker 1: can only do so much. When God goes in, He's
Speaker 1: coming into the house that he built to remodel it.
Speaker 1: When God goes in, he's coming into something that only
Speaker 1: he knows the blueprint for. When God comes in, he
Speaker 1: knows where every busted pipe is. He knows where every
Speaker 1: traumatic event is. He knows where every fault line lies.
Speaker 1: He knows where everything is busted. He knows where you're disgusted.
Speaker 1: He knows where you're just about to give up. And
Speaker 1: he says, good. This is going to make a great partnership.
Speaker 1: Just like me and Chandler write good songs together, you
Speaker 1: and God are about to do good work together, because
Speaker 1: once you're not, he is, After all, that's his name.
Speaker 1: Moses said, I don't have good speech. God said, I am,
Speaker 1: I am. What does that have to do with good speech?
Speaker 1: That's not even good grammar? No, No, just plug in
Speaker 1: whatever you need behind the name of God, take it
Speaker 1: for yourself and walk in it for a purpose. And
Speaker 1: we are gonna get you up out of this in
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus I the career, because we've got to.
Speaker 1: We've got to. You've got to come out of that.
Speaker 1: You've got to stop deciding stuff in your depressed state.
Speaker 1: You keep cutting off the life of God. Man. You
Speaker 1: know all the things I would have missed. If I
Speaker 1: would have made my decisions based on where I was emotionally,
Speaker 1: best things that ever happened in my life, you are
Speaker 1: more than able. I didn't feel like writing music that day,
Speaker 1: and neither did Chandler. People say sometime I love to
Speaker 1: watch a song be written, though you wouldn't. It's the
Speaker 1: most horribly boring, vulnerable thing of people with ego trying
Speaker 1: to eke out their idea in a room, and everybody's
Speaker 1: egos fighting everybody's ego, and until everybody shuts up and
Speaker 1: let's go and just try something. Nothing happens, But boy, Chandler,
Speaker 1: start playing this thing. We wrote it, and you know what,
Speaker 1: Chris had to make me do it. In church, he said,
Speaker 1: more than Abele's awesome. I said, I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: kind of Broadway? Is it trendy? Chris said, come on, man,
Speaker 1: the people would need it. I write around listening to it.
Speaker 1: I need it. Let's do it, and then we released it.
Speaker 1: Now I just use it as an example. I'm not
Speaker 1: up here doing a class on communication, songwriting, fitness, donuts
Speaker 1: or anything else like that. Everything I bring you today
Speaker 1: I bring you to serve to you something that God
Speaker 1: has helped me to understand that a lot of times
Speaker 1: in my life I let the wrong thing be sifted out,
Speaker 1: and I kept the wrong things sitting in three weeks,
Speaker 1: four weeks? How long are we gonna need with this word?
Speaker 1: I'll be here in twenty twenty nine, saying there's so
Speaker 1: much more to the story. May not done with me yet,
Speaker 1: and he's not done with you yet. He's not finished fifty.
Speaker 1: It must have felt horrible for Peter saying I failed Jesus,
Speaker 1: but Jesus told him Satan's gonna sift you, and Jesus
Speaker 1: sai I'm letting. I'm gonna let him. The only way
Speaker 1: I can let you know that you have a lion
Speaker 1: inside and you won't turn it into pride is if
Speaker 1: I let the locusts come for a little while, but
Speaker 1: then comes a word from God. And it may be
Speaker 1: for you today that the Lord said he's about to
Speaker 1: go in to your insecurities, to your inadequacy, to your incapacity.
Speaker 1: I told the Lord one time, I'm not capable, and
Speaker 1: he said, I'm able, and I wear the cape, So
Speaker 1: you just do it. Isn't that cool how the Lord
Speaker 1: gives me wordplay because he knows that's my love language.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, Lord, talk clean to me. I love
Speaker 1: that wordplay what's wrong with me today? Y'all? I just
Speaker 1: decided now I'm gonna be me in this pulpit and
Speaker 1: everywhere I go. So we're just gonna have a good
Speaker 1: time in church. Y'all, can clip me, mean me, do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. But I gotta be me.
Speaker 1: I gotta go home with me. And Holly thinks it's okay.
Speaker 1: She thinks this attractive. Now I've almost got us to
Speaker 1: the point of verse fourteen, which is really what I
Speaker 1: stood up to tell you today. Almost there where the
Speaker 1: Lord said the Lord said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this verse fourteen. Before the Lord said
Speaker 1: anything to get in look at verse fourteen. I'll almost
Speaker 1: skip this. Oh glad I saw it. Verse fourteen. Come on, y'all,
Speaker 1: before the Lord said it, give you a minute to
Speaker 1: think about this. Why were they in this situation to
Speaker 1: begin with? Because they turned away from the Lord. And
Speaker 1: so the Lord says, even if you have a will
Speaker 1: to turn away, I've got a word to turn you back.
Speaker 1: This is a turning word today it's go in the
Speaker 1: strength you have. But before you can go in the
Speaker 1: strength that you have. You've got to stop worshiping your weaknesses.
Speaker 1: And you have spent enough time in your life in
Speaker 1: the form of the excuses that you made worshiping your weakness.
Speaker 1: For every time you make an excuse about something God
Speaker 1: called you to do, you worship the weakness instead of
Speaker 1: worshiping the God who gives you strength. I love the
Speaker 1: scripture that says I can do all things through Christ,
Speaker 1: who strengthens me. Well, that's just the New Testament version
Speaker 1: of what the Angel said to Gideon. He said, go
Speaker 1: in the strength that you have, and I'll be with
Speaker 1: you and you'll strike him down. Am I not sending
Speaker 1: you in? Gideon is like, I'm still not really convinced
Speaker 1: about this, but you don't have to be convinced to
Speaker 1: commit to it. I know that sounds controversial because we
Speaker 1: think it takes full surrender to God in order to
Speaker 1: be used by God. It doesn't start with full surrender.
Speaker 1: It starts with you. Watch this. It starts with you
Speaker 1: saying if God is strong and He's in me, then
Speaker 1: where I am is not who I am, and it
Speaker 1: can change because God doesn't. So if God called me
Speaker 1: a warrior, that didn't change because of decisions that I made.
Speaker 1: If God said that I can be free and pure
Speaker 1: and new, and God said I can be fresh, and
Speaker 1: God called me creative, and God is calling me forward.
Speaker 1: Whatever the locusts are saying is a lie. And God
Speaker 1: is true and God is right, and God is sovereign
Speaker 1: and God is judge. And God is still speaking to
Speaker 1: some of you, and he's stirring something up in this
Speaker 1: season of your life. And it hasn't been comfortable. Sifting
Speaker 1: isn't meant to be comfortable. It's meant to be profitable,
Speaker 1: so that when you get through this season, what's left
Speaker 1: over is His strength, not yours. Whatever's keeping me from
Speaker 1: seeing you, Get it out, God, whatever's keeping me from
Speaker 1: connecting with you, Get it out, God, whatever's keeping me
Speaker 1: from believing again, from having childlike faith, from speaking to
Speaker 1: mountains instead of bowing to them. Get it out, Get
Speaker 1: it out. I gotta grow up. I gotta be I'm
Speaker 1: not a kid anymore. Gideon, You're not a kid anymore.
Speaker 1: You're not a child anymore. God is raising you up now.
Speaker 1: You're not immature anymore. You're not a slave to that anymore.
Speaker 1: You're not in the hands of Midian anymore. The hand
Speaker 1: of God is on you, the spirit of God is
Speaker 1: in you. You are not under the law. You are
Speaker 1: under grace, and you can do anything he says you
Speaker 1: can do. But you need a reminder because sometimes you
Speaker 1: lose your mind and you hide because you don't want
Speaker 1: to fight. I don't want to fight, so I'll just hide.
Speaker 1: I'll just shrink my life down to the level of
Speaker 1: this problem. I'll just shrink my life down into this bottle.
Speaker 1: I'll just shrink my life down into this cynicism. I'll
Speaker 1: just shrink my life down into this stupid iPhone, and
Speaker 1: I will scroll my life away, hiding from real relationships
Speaker 1: because I'm scared of rejection. But it's a strange elevation
Speaker 1: happening today. Even as I preached this word, even as
Speaker 1: we worshiped, God was going in. You think God has
Speaker 1: to bring you out of prison for you to praise.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a little secret. When you praise
Speaker 1: in a prison, God goes in. No, I'm saying God
Speaker 1: goes in. And when God goes in, fear has to
Speaker 1: go out when God goes in. Depression has to go
Speaker 1: out when God goes in. Every excuse we made, let
Speaker 1: me give you an illustration of how much of a
Speaker 1: warrior I can be and how much of a weakling
Speaker 1: I can be. I'll give you an illustration from my
Speaker 1: own life. About four or five years ago, we were
Speaker 1: driving home from church. I was fried. Man. I preached
Speaker 1: that week. That same week in three other churches, came
Speaker 1: home preached here. I know I'm in a wine press.
Speaker 1: I'm whining and I'm depressed. I'm in a wine press.
Speaker 1: Why me, Lord, because you accepted too many invitations, dummy.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to take responsibility for my decisions.
Speaker 1: I just want miraculous deliverance. Illustration resumed. I'm so fried.
Speaker 1: I'm going home and I have no voice. I've been
Speaker 1: screaming at y'all for an hour, like I do. Why
Speaker 1: do you scream? The microphone works perfectly fine, Pastor, Let's
Speaker 1: take a microphone off frings so you don't have to
Speaker 1: holler so much. I know the microphone is fine, but
Speaker 1: there's something in me, like a fire, some up in
Speaker 1: my bones. I gotta get it out. But then, after
Speaker 1: all that mighty fire in the pulpit, all these different places,
Speaker 1: I'm riding home, I'm like, Holly, you gotta drive normally
Speaker 1: she drives home because I'm still so in my head
Speaker 1: about the message and what did I say that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to get in a wreck, so I let
Speaker 1: her drive. I'm smart enough to have discernment. And then
Speaker 1: and then I tell her to go faster and slower,
Speaker 1: which is really annoying. And then I try to She's like,
Speaker 1: do you want to drive? I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: just thank you so much. And so we're driving home
Speaker 1: and I'm tired, right and the kids, the boys, I
Speaker 1: don't remember if Abbey was in the car, if she
Speaker 1: was just being angelic, or if she wasn't there. Probably
Speaker 1: she just wasn't there. But the boys are fighting back
Speaker 1: and forth bum boao bom, and I'm like, y'all shut up.
Speaker 1: I can't take it right now. I can't take it
Speaker 1: right now. My last nerve is still in Toledo from
Speaker 1: Thursday night preaching. I don't have my last nerve. It's
Speaker 1: in Toledo. Y'all got to shut up. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: please shut up. Please, in the name of Jesus, please
Speaker 1: be quiet, peace, be still. I'm speaking to the storm.
Speaker 1: Nothing's working. So finally, you ever just get so overcome
Speaker 1: you do something that you're watching yourself do. You're not
Speaker 1: doing it anymore, You're watching yourself do it. I tell
Speaker 1: Holly on Providence Road, let me out where to stop? Like,
Speaker 1: I said, let me out? She said, babe. Now let's
Speaker 1: say we're only a couple miles mile half from home.
Speaker 1: I said, let me out. I said, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if you don't let me out of this car, someone's
Speaker 1: about to come out of me. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, and I don't want to know, and
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to know. I just want us
Speaker 1: to guess the rest of our life. What would have
Speaker 1: happened if I stayed in this car? Let out? And
Speaker 1: see I don't even have my voice, so I can't
Speaker 1: scream at the kids. I can't scream. I feel just trapped.
Speaker 1: They won't stop. I get out. She drives off. I'm walking,
Speaker 1: but I'm walking like I have a right to be
Speaker 1: walking on this road. I'm a taxpayer. And then I
Speaker 1: start thinking, well, if somebody from the church sees me,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna think? And then I think they'll
Speaker 1: probably think. Man. He is he is, he is NonStop.
Speaker 1: He preaches the word and walks home praying for us.
Speaker 1: What a man of God. God don't know any better.
Speaker 1: Just use the illusion, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: walking and that mid didn't take me about thirty seconds
Speaker 1: a minute until I'm regrets and the whole decision and
Speaker 1: what should come back my way. But Holly s Denali
Speaker 1: came back down toward me on Providence and I'm thinking, woman,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I can't do this right now. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a bad role model and me
Speaker 1: and that chlorinym is not a good thing. And so
Speaker 1: she comes, she pulls up, she pulls around, and I'm
Speaker 1: opening the door to tell her I can't right now.
Speaker 1: I'm walking it off, which isn't a bad strategy, could
Speaker 1: be worse. But when I opened the door, I noticed
Speaker 1: something different than when she left. It was only her
Speaker 1: in the car. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell ya.
Speaker 1: I said, where are the kids? She said, they're walking. Well, oh, revelation.
Speaker 1: Look what she said. I'm gonna release it in the spirit.
Speaker 1: She said, you don't get out, they do. I came
Speaker 1: to tell every devil that's been forcing you out of
Speaker 1: your right mind, you don't get out. Say zoom Henry there,
Speaker 1: Camry Henry trade, henry trade. I'm not getting out of
Speaker 1: the well. You don't get out, get out, get out,
Speaker 1: get out, get out, get out, get out, get out,
Speaker 1: mark come somewhere to don't. I got some funny to see.
Speaker 1: I've got some finding out out. I got I fear
Speaker 1: saying you don't get out. Fear does you don't get out?
Speaker 1: Panic attack dolls. You don't kill yourself. You run that
Speaker 1: devil out of your life in the power of God,
Speaker 1: and you live to declare his goodness, and you build
Speaker 1: a testimonious and you sing a song. He's not done
Speaker 1: with me yet. There's more than my story. I'm just
Speaker 1: getting started. I'm not staying in this wide Christ telling
Speaker 1: me locus, what got a lion inside? And lions don't
Speaker 1: hide from locusts? And the lion of the tribe of
Speaker 1: Suda is just about ready to roar, to break your
Speaker 1: seven year cycle, to break every cycle that has kept
Speaker 1: you stuck in sin and stuck in same and stuck
Speaker 1: in a situation, a predictable misery. But God is about
Speaker 1: to go in, and all you gotta do, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: by grace, we are saying all you gotta do get
Speaker 1: in is let the wind blow and let the waymaker through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I know who I am. I know who you are.
Speaker 1: You are Jehovah chiro. So my needs are provided. You
Speaker 1: don't get out, God limitation gets out. You are Jehovah shalom.
Speaker 1: You are my peace. Your peace is not going out
Speaker 1: of my life this week. My thought patterns that keep
Speaker 1: me in a place of panic. R you don't get out,
Speaker 1: they do as I've come a long way. I've seen
Speaker 1: how you were. There's so much should it's a great
Speaker 1: much more than jesuz if it has no meaning here
Speaker 1: because I know who the Lord is turning towards you
Speaker 1: right now, and I can't say where I see you
Speaker 1: walking forward. We've come this far laughing. Let's go. And
Speaker 1: Good is looking for a partner. He's looking for you.
Speaker 1: Should not done with me? Believes that you're not done
Speaker 1: with me. Here comes your second win, Man of God.
Speaker 1: There's so much more to the store. Declare it over
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