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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 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. We thank you for your presence today. God.

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Speaker 2: We do not take it for granted that we can

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Speaker 2: call upon that name, that name that moves mountains, that

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Speaker 2: name that saves souls, that name that forgives sin, that

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Speaker 2: name that rolls away shame. That name, and that name alone,

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Speaker 2: the name of Jesus is our banner today. I'm thankful

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Speaker 2: for thousands of people who are not ashamed to praise

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Speaker 2: the name of Jesus today, who are not shy or

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Speaker 2: quiet or too tired.

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Speaker 1: To praise the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I thank you for the chain breaking power of your

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Speaker 2: son Jesus today. I thank you for the yoke destroying

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Speaker 2: annointing of your son Jesus. Today. I thank you for

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Speaker 2: the great robbing presence but the Almighty God the Great,

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Speaker 2: I am the person in the work of Jesus today,

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Speaker 2: and we expect miracles in that name healing in that name,

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Speaker 2: breakthrough in that name. But we didn't come today just

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Speaker 2: to see what we could get out of that name.

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Speaker 2: We came to give that name the praise today, for

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Speaker 2: your name is worthy, Jesus, your name is worthy, always

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Speaker 2: has been, always will be. No matter what we go through,

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Speaker 2: You're worthy. No matter what we're facing. You're worthy, never changes,

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Speaker 2: never feels your great love. Grab the hand of the

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Speaker 2: person on either side of you. We're going to make

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Speaker 2: a connection right now by faith. And if you're watching

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Speaker 2: online and you're not at one of our physical locations,

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Speaker 2: that's all right. Just squeeze the hand of the person

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Speaker 2: next to you, and now say this out loud.

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Speaker 1: God, God is in this moment.

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Speaker 2: Father, we thank you and invite you into every single

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Speaker 2: situation represented in this room, good, bad, in between, epic

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Speaker 2: or boring. You are the lord of it all. I

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Speaker 2: thank you for the wonderful time we've.

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Speaker 1: Had today singing your praises. But worship is more than

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Speaker 1: a song. So now Lord, we bring you our lives, ourselves,

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Speaker 1: every single part of us.

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Speaker 2: I pray for the person on my right, the person

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Speaker 2: on my left. I don't just pray for myself today.

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Speaker 2: Would you touch my brother, touch my sister. Touch them

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Speaker 2: enough to let.

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Speaker 1: Them know they can make it another week.

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Speaker 2: Touch them enough to know that it's already worked out

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Speaker 2: in heaven, and it will be done on earth as

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Speaker 2: it is in heaven.

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Speaker 1: Touch them enough to.

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Speaker 2: Know that there is nothing that escapes your all seeing eye,

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Speaker 2: and that the wings of else should I, the Most

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Speaker 2: High God, are hovering over your children today. I thank you,

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Speaker 2: Lord for your promise that he who dwelleth in the

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Speaker 2: secret place of the Most High will abide under the

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Speaker 2: shadow of the Almighty. And I thank you that no

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Speaker 2: weapon formed against your children will prosper. We thank you

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Speaker 2: that the Church of Jesus Christ is being built, and

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Speaker 2: the gates of hell will not prevail, have not prevailed,

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Speaker 2: cannot prevail. For we know a name that is greater

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Speaker 2: than sasan greater than darkness, greater than cancer, greater than depression,

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Speaker 2: greater than diabetes, greater than sickness, greater than guilt. Grace

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Speaker 2: that is greater the nave of Jesus given.

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Speaker 3: Praise children, all right, guess no polite praise, Give in

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Speaker 3: your party, pray, give in your maiden, praise, Give in.

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Speaker 1: Your some kind of way.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna do it.

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Speaker 5: Praise hey, well, happy twenty twenty five everybody.

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Speaker 1: I thought I would give the year a catchy slogan.

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Speaker 2: This is my first year of twenty twenty five, so

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Speaker 2: I thought, I'll give you a range of options. If

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Speaker 2: you really aren't that goal oriented, just survive in twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors, say survive. If you had a little

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Speaker 2: more faith in that, look at them and say thrive

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Speaker 2: in twenty five.

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Speaker 1: If you got a little more faith than that, if.

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Speaker 2: You got faith like Lazarus, if you got faith like

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Speaker 2: the women who went to the tomb with the spices

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Speaker 2: when they said it was over look at your neighbor

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Speaker 2: and say.

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Speaker 1: Dead things come alive in twenty five. Oh oh oh.

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Speaker 2: I felt that when I said it in twenty five. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: come on, Brandon, come on, Chris. We're not gonna sing

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Speaker 2: anymore because I feel like preaching.

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Speaker 1: This is my first sermon of the year. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: put that song on on.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get it out as soon as we can.

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Speaker 1: I know a name.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna hold it hostage for two years like

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Speaker 2: we do. Sometimes that song is going into your ears

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Speaker 2: so it can go into.

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Speaker 1: People's homes into people's hearts, so you can call on

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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Do we have a date, boys, fourteenth Valentine's Day, that.

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Speaker 1: That thing's coming alive on Valentine? Can I get a name?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: She'd be like, that's great.

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Speaker 2: You can be singing like I don't have a day,

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Speaker 2: but I know a name. Give it up for the

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Speaker 2: Great Brandon Lake, the Great Christopher Brown. We got hey,

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Speaker 2: we got new music coming your way Friday, suns on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: God Dad, get it on Napster.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be back. I've seen you all in

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Speaker 5: Brace the Lord, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you also, stay standing.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you for your amazing, remarkable, once

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Speaker 2: in a generation generosity for our church giving in our

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Speaker 2: year end offering over ten million dollars, over ten million

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Speaker 2: dollars at least, praise Him on a ten for ten

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Speaker 2: million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's so many people we can help.

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Speaker 2: That's so many schools we can build. That's so many

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Speaker 2: people we can come to with water and with food

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Speaker 2: and with clothes, and with the gospel building and blessing

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Speaker 2: and touching the world and preaching Jesus. We're gonna build

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Speaker 2: a campus in Greenville, South Carolina. We're gonna build a

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Speaker 2: campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. We're gonna build a campus

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Speaker 2: in Uptown Charlotte. We're gonna preach the Gospel everywhere, all

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Speaker 2: around the world, and we're doing it together.

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Speaker 1: I five your neighbors say, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Alive in twenty five and the church is alive.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Feeling good, Gavin feeling good, Graham feeling dangerous today, feel

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Speaker 2: a revival spirit today. You know, the Lord led me

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Speaker 2: to a passage of scripture that I thought was so

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Speaker 2: strange that I was nervous to preach it.

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Speaker 1: But I find sometimes it's in the.

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Speaker 2: Simplest pictures that He gives us that the greatest and

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Speaker 2: most strategic breakthroughs occur. I want you to join me

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Speaker 2: for a moment today. In Second Kings chapter six, verses

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Speaker 2: one through seven, I took a poll of ten Christians,

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Speaker 2: ten people who went to Bible school. Nine point seven

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Speaker 2: of the ten said I've never heard that story preached before,

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Speaker 2: So that means today this will be the best sermon

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Speaker 2: on Second King six one through seven.

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Speaker 1: You've ever heard some stacking the odds in my favor?

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Speaker 1: You can't say anything else.

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Speaker 2: You say, Well, that's the best sermon I've ever heard

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Speaker 2: about that scripture, because it's the.

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Speaker 6: Only one I've heard about that scripture.

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Speaker 2: Now I am rested, but I might be a little rusty.

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Speaker 2: So I need your grace Amens today. While I'm preaching,

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Speaker 2: I said, I need your grace Amens today. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: get our timing down in the first ten minutes so

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Speaker 2: we can go to church here.

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Speaker 1: But I don't want you to miss anything that the

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Speaker 1: Lord has for you.

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Speaker 2: So lean in from the very beginning, because I'll read

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Speaker 2: you just three verses and then I'll tell you this

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Speaker 2: very peculiar story in the scripture, and you'll wonder like

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Speaker 2: I wondered why that scripture.

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Speaker 6: That's what I wondered too, But then God showed me.

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Speaker 2: Let's look together at tewod King's chapter six, verse one

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Speaker 1: Just those two verses for now.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, shout out to our Charleston, South

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Speaker 2: Carolina pop up today.

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Speaker 1: Do you know we were meeting in Charleston today.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, They're still shouting. Valentine's not that excited. They

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Speaker 2: don't care. What does it matter to them? You came

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Speaker 2: out in the cold, you know, you get an extra

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Speaker 2: dose of the Holy Ghost for coming out when it's

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Speaker 2: below forty degrees in the south. I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 2: good things are gonna happen. Your car is going to

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Speaker 2: get extra gas mileage this week because you came in

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Speaker 2: Chapter six, Verse one, the company of the prophets said

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Speaker 2: to Elisha, look, the place where we meet with you

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Speaker 2: is too.

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Speaker 1: Small for us.

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Speaker 2: Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us

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Speaker 2: can get a pole, and let us build a place

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Speaker 2: there for us to me. And he said, go, everybody

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Speaker 2: shall go. Let me read that one more time before

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Speaker 2: I give you my subject for today. Second King six,

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Speaker 2: verses one and two. The Bible says the company of

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Speaker 2: the prophets said to Elisha, look, the place where we

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Speaker 1: Small for us. Now that's a problem.

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Speaker 2: So verse two, they said, let us go to the Jordan,

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Speaker 2: a place there for us to meet.

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Speaker 1: And he said, go today.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you for a few moments

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Speaker 2: about where you meet with God, where you meet with God.

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Speaker 1: And get you to think about that.

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Speaker 2: Because I believe it is the key to so many

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Speaker 2: other things that you're worried about. This year where you

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Speaker 2: meet with God Father, we thank you that you're already here.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to beg you to come or entice you.

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Speaker 2: And I pray that now you would make your presence

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Speaker 2: so manifest that not a single one of us can

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Speaker 2: excuse it or explain it away. When they leave, Lord,

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Speaker 2: may they say not the music was good. May they

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Speaker 2: not say they kept it cold in that auditorium. May

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Speaker 2: they not say it was crowded. We got to get

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Speaker 2: May they say, surely the presence of the Lord was

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Speaker 2: in this place in Jesus' name. Amen, on your way

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Speaker 2: to your seat, touch your neighbor and say God is here,

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Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're here too. Never been easier to

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Speaker 2: pretend we're places that were not. Tim I had a

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Speaker 2: zoom meeting with a professional that I pay the other day.

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Speaker 2: I put that in because it's important. He has all

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Speaker 2: kinds of trophies and awards every time we meet, because

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Speaker 2: we meet regularly, and I can always see all his

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Speaker 2: trophies and a wars kind of like an ego wall

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Speaker 2: so he can keep.

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Speaker 1: Me convinced I need to pay him. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not judging it.

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Speaker 2: And the other day I was meeting with him and

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Speaker 2: while I was looking, I was like, oh man, maybe

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Speaker 2: something's wrong with my eyes, because some of the awards

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Speaker 2: started like disappearing.

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Speaker 1: I was like, that's weird.

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Speaker 2: Check my numb I'm forty four now, so I know

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Speaker 2: it the zoom connection? Is it just midlife? What's happening

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Speaker 1: No where he did that. I told you our building,

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Speaker 2: And so God commands you clearly to flee sexual immorality.

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Speaker 1: But I just want to spend more time this year.

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Speaker 2: In verse two, where they said, let us go to

445
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Speaker 2: the Jordan, where each of us can get a poll,

446
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: and let us build a place there for us to meet. Honestly,

447
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 2: if this is my prayer, I'm saying, God, this place

448
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: where we meet with you is too small.

449
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: Make us that's a bigger one. God.

450
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Speaker 2: These people you put around me are not talented enough.

451
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 2: Give me more talented people. God, this situation you put

452
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 2: me in, it's not important enough, it's not exciting enough.

453
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Speaker 1: God moved me to another place.

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Speaker 2: But I want you to notice in verse two, they

455
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Speaker 2: didn't ask the prophet for anything except permission. Let us

456
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Speaker 2: go to the place by the Jordan, the transitional body

457
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Speaker 2: of water where the people of God crossed over into Jericho.

458
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Speaker 2: Let us go to the place where the vegetation is,

459
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Speaker 2: and the wood is, and the tools are, and the

460
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: resources are, and let us go build a place there

461
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Speaker 2: for us to meet. Put that verse on the screen.

462
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Speaker 2: Verse two, and whoever circle him back there circle The

463
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Speaker 2: following words say let us circle us, go to the Jordan,

464
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Speaker 2: where each of us circle us again can get a pole,

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Speaker 2: and let us circle us again build a place there

466
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Speaker 2: for us circle us again. To me, that's their plan.

467
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Speaker 2: We got a plan. Somebody shout, I got a plan.

468
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Speaker 2: This is my year. I got a plan thrive in

469
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Speaker 2: twenty five. I got a plan. I'm eating carnivore, I'm

470
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 2: doing cardio, I'm drinking collagen. And then two weeks in

471
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 2: you got a cold, and where did that get you?

472
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Speaker 2: I got a plan. We're gonna go down here and

473
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Speaker 2: build a place. It's gonna be bigger, it's gonna be better,

474
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be amazing.

475
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Speaker 1: I got my plan I have.

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Speaker 2: I have my plan, and I had the plan last year,

477
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Speaker 2: but this is different. I had this plan. I had

478
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Speaker 2: the other year before that too, and the year and

479
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: the year before that, but that was COVID. That doesn't count.

480
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: I mean this year is different. So we're going. Somebody shout,

481
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Speaker 2: let's go. And I give them credit for their intive

482
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Speaker 2: because I think sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak,

483
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: he's waiting for us to step Yeah. Yeah, Sometimes when

484
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 2: we're waiting for God to move, he's waiting for us

485
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 2: to multiply what we've already been given. And so I

486
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 2: congratulate these men for their initiative. They didn't just complain

487
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: about the thing. They were willing to change the thing,

488
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 2: to work toward the thing, to collaborate toward the thing.

489
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: Are you.

490
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Speaker 2: Or are you waiting for something to happen externally? When

491
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 2: the Word of God is internal, internal and eternal, nothing

492
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Speaker 2: can stop it, and it can't be seen with human eyes,

493
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Speaker 2: And so they get fired up. One of my friends,

494
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: who is an athlete, tells me, I don't know if

495
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 2: this is going to encourage you, but I come to

496
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Speaker 2: church because it helps me feel like I can do

497
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Speaker 2: anything for about three days. I said, that's pretty good.

498
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Speaker 2: Three days, that's pretty good. Shelf life three days, that's

499
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Speaker 2: pretty good. Flowers can die quicker than three days, that's

500
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Speaker 2: pretty good. He said, yeah, felt I could do anything

501
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 2: for three days. I said, but what happens on day four?

502
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Speaker 2: He said, Well, that's where it gets tricky. I said, no,

503
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Speaker 2: it doesn't, because you can you can go back to God.

504
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: Between Sundays you can go back to God. You can

505
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Speaker 2: go back to God.

506
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: Between hours, you can go back to God.

507
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 2: You can go back to God as much as you

508
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Speaker 2: want in any situation that you're in.

509
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Speaker 1: And I think as simple as that sounds.

510
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Speaker 6: We don't really practice that. We don't really practice that.

511
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Speaker 2: I saw something here that was to be celebrated.

512
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Speaker 1: Let's go. We're gonna build a bigger school and e life.

513
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: So the prophet is gonna teach us.

514
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 2: We're gonna build something amazing for you God, and many

515
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: of us have started this year with good motives. I'm

516
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: gonna build something for my family. I'm gonna build something

517
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 2: so I can take.

518
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Speaker 1: Care of my kids. I'm gonna build something for God.

519
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna build something to make a difference. I'm gonna

520
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: work on my body. I'm gonna work on my mind.

521
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work on my future. I'm gonna work on

522
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: my career. I'm gonna work on myself. I'm gonna work

523
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: on my temper. I'm gonna work on my yoga.

524
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: I started doing yoga last year just so I can

525
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: keep it moving as much as I need to up here.

526
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: I'm just increasing the arsenal this year. And you know

527
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: what the thing about it is, Holly's better at it

528
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: than I am, and I can lift so much more

529
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: pounds than she can. But the instructor that's working with us,

530
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 2: she always is saying beautiful Holly, beautiful Holly, and comes

531
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Speaker 2: over to me and says it gets better. Stephen, Like,

532
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: the only word she has for me is the word

533
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: of false encouragement and delusional hope that I'll one day

534
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 2: be flexible.

535
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: And I found out something.

536
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,719
Speaker 2: When you're doing something new, it helps to have somebody

537
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: who can give you personal attention so you don't get

538
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: confused and quit.

539
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: And maybe the.

540
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: Reason you had a plan last year and it fell

541
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Speaker 2: apart in three days, three weeks, three months, Maybe the

542
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 2: reason that your motivation sometimes only lasts three minutes.

543
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: Maybe the reason it lasts too.

544
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: Short sometimes is because you only get permission and a plan.

545
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: But this is a year where your plan will not

546
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: be enough, because the most important things that will happen

547
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: in your life this year will not be in your plan.

548
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: The greatest things that God will bring into your life

549
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: will not be on your vision board. They will not

550
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 2: be manifested from the contours of your human mind or imagination.

551
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 2: You will not see them coming, so you won't have

552
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Speaker 2: time to plan a parade.

553
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: You will not see.

554
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 2: Them coming, so you won't have time to get in

555
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: your stance. The most important things that I'm gonna show

556
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: you in the text. What I'm talking about the most

557
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 2: important things that will happen in your life this year

558
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: will not be a part of your plan. How many

559
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: can testify that there has already been an unplanned event

560
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: that has superseded your planned year.

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00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: This year and we're just getting started. So they're excited. Man,

562
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna go build a place. We're gonna get a poll.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna build a.

564
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Speaker 2: Place, and the Lisha's gonna teach us. And it's not

565
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 2: like they're going to build a strip club. They're not

566
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: doing something terrible. They're not even doing something neutral. They're

567
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 2: building something for God. Okay, we're gonna build this for

568
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: God and God's gonna bless us. I just need to

569
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: stop right here and take a poll. How many have

570
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Speaker 2: something you want to do for God this year in

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Speaker 2: your life?

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00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: Shout out what it is on three, one, two, three?

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00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: All right? Cool.

574
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: God heard all that I don't need to and some

575
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: of what you said you're gonna do for God this year,

576
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: God was like, that's right, go do it. And some

577
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: of it God was like, why are you making a

578
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 2: plan for a purpose that I didn't call you two

579
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: just because you saw it in somebody else. Let me

580
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: tell you something, Haul, I don't want to build anything

581
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: in my life from this point on that God gave

582
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: somebody else the blueprint for because I've spent too much time,

583
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: too much energy, lost too much joy, forfeited too much

584
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: contentment and peace trying to build something that isn't even

585
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Speaker 2: in my blueprint. And the Prophet Elisha, and I need

586
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: to tell you something by Elisha. Elisha is a little moody.

587
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 2: You can't call a man of God moody. I sure

588
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: can because one time some boys called him baldy and

589
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: he called she bearers out of the woods to devour them.

590
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: That's temperamental qualifies.

591
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: So I think it would have taken a lot of nerve,

592
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: don't you to come up to the prophet and say, man,

593
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Speaker 2: this place you got us meeting respectfully, we need to

594
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Speaker 2: do a relocation project. And Alisha says go, and they

595
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Speaker 2: look at each other like this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: He said, we could go. He's letting us do it,

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna let us use stuff. Let's call let's go,

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00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: let's go, And thenn fired up, Let's go, We're gonna.

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Speaker 7: Build a house for God on three house on three

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Speaker 7: house on me what to do the house?

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Speaker 1: Let's go and suddenly watch this.

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Speaker 6: I'd read you this part of the story yet, but

603
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Speaker 6: it's the best part of the story.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, as they're going to build something

605
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Speaker 2: for God with good intentions, with the permission of the prophet,

606
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Speaker 2: he said, we could do it. God said, I'm a conqueror.

607
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: God said, I can do it. God said, this.

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Speaker 1: Is my year.

609
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Speaker 2: He's changed break. This is the year dead things come alive.

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Speaker 1: We're going. We're going. We're going put up verse three,

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Speaker 1: best verse I've read this year so far.

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Speaker 2: Then one of them said, now, this is the kid

613
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Speaker 2: in the class who raises his hand and says, excuse me, teacher,

614
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 2: how about that homework assignment?

615
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: This is that kid. And not only that.

616
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Speaker 2: I can't prove it to you, but I think he

617
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 2: was the smartest one in the whole group. I don't

618
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: know his name, but what he did was so important.

619
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: But he didn't know is important. It seems incidental, but

620
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Speaker 2: it's not. They're on their way. Everybody, shall let's go

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Speaker 2: put it in the comments. Let's go look at your neighbors. Say,

622
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 2: let's go tell them this year, let's go. Little louder

623
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Speaker 2: say this year, let's go right now, let's go get free,

624
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: let's go rise up, let's go be more.

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00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: Let's go Verse three.

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Speaker 2: One of them said, I'm gonna ask him.

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Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait no, no no. He said,

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Speaker 1: we can go. Yeah, yeah, I know. He said, we

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Speaker 1: can go. I know, but I'm asking.

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Speaker 2: You can't ask him that, yes I can, and yes,

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Speaker 2: you better like goo me right now. I'm asking him

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00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 2: because I don't just want his permission pray for me.

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00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: I don't just want his permission. I don't just want

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Speaker 2: his provision. I don't just want my plan. One of

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00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: them came back and said, Elisha, Elisha, I might be

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00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: out of line. I don't know if you want to.

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00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 2: I know you're busy.

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00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 6: You got kill little kids with bears and safe kings.

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00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: But verse three, won't you please come with your servants.

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Speaker 2: You can't ask him that this is the prophet.

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00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: This is the man of God.

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00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 8: You got time to swing an acts with you, chop

643
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 8: down a tree with you, relocate to the messy Jordan

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00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 8: banks with you.

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Speaker 1: This is Elisha. Are you crazy? You ask him if

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Speaker 1: you want I'm not getting killed by a bear.

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Speaker 8: I'm leaving well enough alone. No no, no, no, no,

648
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 8: I'm asking him. I'm asking him, Elisha. I appreciate the

649
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Speaker 8: fact that you gave me the opportunity. I appreciate the

650
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Speaker 8: fact that you're letting us go build.

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Speaker 2: That's real kind of you, because you could have just

652
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Speaker 2: told us to shut up and be content with what

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Speaker 2: we have.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not content with what we have if we

655
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Speaker 1: don't have you.

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Speaker 2: Now, remember, the prophet represents what the word of God,

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Speaker 2: the presence of God.

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Speaker 1: And so what I'm trying to say to you today

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Speaker 1: is I.

660
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: Don't want you to go for your goal without your God.

661
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: I don't want it to feel like you can do

662
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 2: anything for three days and then on the fourth day

663
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: it falls apart and you start thinking faith didn't work.

664
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: It wasn't that faith didn't work. You put your faith

665
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: in the faith rather than the God who gave the faith.

666
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 2: Because this year I have a plan, I have provision,

667
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 2: I have permission.

668
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: But this year my plan is His presence.

669
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: This year, my plan is that everywhere the soul of

670
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 2: my foot shall tread like Joshua.

671
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: I believe that.

672
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: God is giving me this place as Holy ground. This

673
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 2: is the year where I moved the church outside of

674
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 2: a physical location, and I move it to my car,

675
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: and I move it to my home, and I move.

676
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: It to I move it.

677
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: To my unchangeable situation, and I move it touch somebody

678
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: say move it. They came to elishahskin good Now and

679
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 2: they said the place we meet with you is too small.

680
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: And they were right, but not how they thought that

681
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: they were right.

682
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 2: It wasn't only too small in the physical dimensions of it.

683
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: It not only needed to be expanded physically, but the

684
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 2: place where they thought they could meet with God was

685
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: too small in their perception. Because God doesn't just want

686
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: to come when you build it.

687
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: He wants to be with you as you build. I

688
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: don't know if this makes sense. It does to me.

689
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: Is helping me get my confidence for this year, because

690
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: I've been in this too long to think that my

691
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: plan is going to go down how I plan for

692
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: it this year? So guess what presence is my plan

693
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 2: this year?

694
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: Yeah?

695
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 2: Somebody say, presence is my plan? Ask him what's your

696
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 2: five year plan? Ask him what's your five year plan?

697
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 2: Tell him presence. Ask them for your ten year plan.

698
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 2: What's your ten year plan presence. What do you mean

699
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: by that? When I'm ten years down the road or

700
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 2: ten minutes down the road, the God who is with

701
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: me in this moment will not leave me nor forsake

702
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 2: me until everything he spoke concerning his purpose for my

703
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: life has been fulfilled. So this year I got a

704
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 2: plan and the plan is his presence.

705
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: What's this? When I walk through the fire, I'm not alone.

706
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: When I walk through the storm, I'm not alone. He's

707
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 1: with me on the.

708
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: Boat, He's with me in the bowels of the furnace.

709
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: He's with me in this.

710
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: Hmm. That's the word of the Lord. Presence is the plan.

711
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: Presence is the plan. Presence is the plan. God says

712
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: you need a plan.

713
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: B this year. Uh huh, a plan B. Everybody say

714
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: Plan B, Plan B.

715
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 2: That means if I need if I'm in the wilderness,

716
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 2: he'll be my water.

717
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

718
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: If I'm in a hard place, he'll be my pillow.

719
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 2: If I'm in a sick bed, he'll be my physician.

720
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: I got a Plan B this year. The Great I

721
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 2: Am is my plan B. This year, his presence, the

722
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: Great I Am. This is a shift in mentalities for

723
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: all of us control freaks. Who think we are going

724
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: to perfectly design our life and I'm gonna chuck on

725
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 2: a tree and I'm going to build a building. But

726
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: the thing that you never saw coming is going to

727
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 2: require the God that you keep forgetting to bring along, beautiful, Holly,

728
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 2: beautiful Stephen. Would you like a few adjustments, I'm like, yes,

729
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 2: I would. I'm not trying to twist my lumbar like

730
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 2: a pretzel in here. I'm not trying to walk out

731
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: of here like I'm ninety one years old.

732
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: I already.

733
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 2: Why are you walking like I'm eighty nine. I need

734
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: some help in here. Come over here and help me.

735
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 2: Help me, God, help me.

736
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm using it as an analogy. You understand.

737
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 2: I'm not getting into new age mysticism and telling you

738
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 2: to do yoga. I'm just saying, just like the Holy Spirit,

739
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: I need you to come along this year, and I

740
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 2: need you to go with me this year.

741
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: God and God.

742
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 2: I can't walk in this house without you and God.

743
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 2: I can't get on this zoom without you. And I'm

744
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 2: tired of putting up plaques and trophies on a fake

745
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 2: green screen back behind me, pretending like I'm doing better

746
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: than I am. Come with us, see life. Shall come

747
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: with me, word of God. Come with me on the waters,

748
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: Come with me in the wave, Come with me back

749
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 2: to school. Come with me into this divorce. Come with

750
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 2: me into this addiction. Come with me into this crippling state.

751
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 2: Come with me into this contention. Come with me into

752
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: this argument. Come with me into this text thread. Come

753
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: with me into this seed. Done with me into this step,

754
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: Done with me into this heartbreak.

755
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: Verse three.

756
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 7: Will you come with us? Won't you come with us?

757
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 7: We don't want to go without your God. I don't

758
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 7: want to preach without you. I don't want to teach

759
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 7: without you. I don't want a dad without you. I

760
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 7: don't want a husband without you. I don't want a

761
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 7: man without you. I don't want it without you.

762
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 2: I don't want to plan without the great I am.

763
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 2: I want to plan be because I don't even know

764
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: what I need him to be till I get there.

765
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: That's why I.

766
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 4: Said I am that I am.

767
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 2: So when you run up on a red sea, you

768
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 2: gotta plan be. You don't understand what I just said,

769
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 2: you gotta plan be. You don't even know you need

770
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 2: him to be a partner of the waters till you're

771
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: looking at a sea. So the sea you didn't plan for,

772
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 2: you got to plan be. God said, I'll be what

773
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 2: you need me to be when you step your foot

774
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: where you're going with an awareness of my presence. And

775
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 2: the thing is He's already in you. It's an issue

776
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 2: not of ability. It's willingness that really blessed me. How

777
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: the prophet said, well, I don't even think I can

778
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: do this like I want to.

779
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: Not in this setting.

780
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: I'd have to be talking to a small group of

781
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: people who felt like you've been in situations where you

782
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: felt unwanted, and you notice the prophet said in verse two,

783
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 2: he said go. But what touched me was he wanted

784
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 2: to come. He was waiting to be asked. Because you

785
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: keep assuming, well, if God wanted to do it, he'd

786
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 2: do it. What if he's waiting to be asked? What

787
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: if he wants you to involve him? Elisha didn't say

788
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 2: to the school of the prophet to build a bigger place.

789
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 2: They said to him, can we do it? Elishah didn't say,

790
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: mind if I tag along? They said, will you come?

791
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 2: It took me back to something. This is why it

792
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: touched me. From when Elijah was very little Maya Elijah

793
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 2: not the prophet.

794
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: I don't know.

795
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: I don't know about when he was. That prophet was

796
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 2: little of my Elijah. He's he's so convincing and he's

797
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: so persuasive, and he always has been. And then he

798
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: started watching Ben Shapiro, and now he just wants to

799
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: argue all the time. But but when he even wants

800
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 2: to be sweet. I remember he wanted me to see

801
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 2: The Avengers. In me, I don't like superhero movies. I

802
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 2: think they're stupid. So I I'm like, man, we're not

803
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: going to the Avengers.

804
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you.

805
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 2: He he went in above like seven years old or

806
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 2: something like that, very way too young to be out

807
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 2: this late because it was showing at ten o'clock at night,

808
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 2: and he's like, can we can we go see the

809
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 2: ten o'clock And I'm going to take you to Avengers

810
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock.

811
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 6: I don't like I don't like superhero movies.

812
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: I don't like ten o'clock. I don't like you after

813
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. We're not doing this. That boy didn't say

814
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: a word. He went away.

815
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, good, we got that done.

816
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 2: He comes back, doesn't say a word, and brings me

817
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: my shoes and puts them down at my feet. And

818
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: he didn't say anything till he was almost all the

819
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: way out the door. He said, I'll be in the

820
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: car if you change your mind. How how do you

821
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 2: not take that kid to stone Crass and buy him

822
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 2: popcorn and coke and caffeinate him and sugar him up.

823
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 2: And he's up till seven am. But I got a

824
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 2: sermon illustration out of it.

825
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: Bring God his shoe? Whose bring God?

826
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: Oh, bring God, God.

827
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: I know you hadn't done it yet. And if you

828
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: don't want.

829
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 4: To, I trust you. But I'm gonna be in the

830
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 4: car if you change my mind. I'm gonna be in

831
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 4: my seat in elevation.

832
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: If you change your.

833
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 2: Mind, I'm gonna be in therapy.

834
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 4: If you change your mind, I'm gonna be working on this.

835
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 2: Will you come?

836
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: Ask your neighbor, will you come?

837
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised what God would say yes to if

838
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: you'd get in the vehicle. You'd be surprised what God

839
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: would say yes to.

840
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: If you bring him his shoes.

841
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be surprised where God would meet with you

842
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: if you bring him along. Why wait until you've built

843
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 2: the place to learn from the prophet Why wait till

844
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: you get the degree to celebrate the progress.

845
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: Why wait till the chains.

846
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: Are all the way broken to show somebody how to

847
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 2: smash the.

848
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: First link like you did.

849
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: Why wait for the presence of God when he is

850
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 2: a very present help in the time of trouble.

851
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you he wants to come. He

852
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: wants to come, he wants to come.

853
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 2: Stop trying to rebuke anxiety in the name of Jesus.

854
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: You don't get through anxiety. By rebuking anxiety in the

855
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 2: name of Jesus. You receive the grace of Jesus for

856
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 2: your anxiety, and the grace of Jesus in your anxiety

857
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 2: becomes Watch this the place where you meet with God.

858
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 2: Put your feet on the ground and sit there and

859
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: do your breathing exercises and do a downward dog in

860
00:47:54,760 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 2: a Hallelujah, and make it the place where you meet

861
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 2: with God because you're gonna need him. Let's let's talk

862
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 2: along the way, Elisha, you have so much to share.

863
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: God.

864
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 2: Would you show me along the way things that I

865
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 2: think I'm going to learn when I get there. I

866
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: think that's so important because I'm perfectionist and I'm a complainer.

867
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 6: I'm just guessed. I'm supposed to be helping you, but

868
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 6: this is helping me.

869
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: I just saw.

870
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 2: Not only do I get stuck in verse one, where

871
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 2: I say it's too small, it's not working.

872
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: I don't like this, it's terrible.

873
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: I'm confined and I complain, But sometimes I get stuck

874
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 2: in verse two. Let us go down and let us

875
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: do it, and let us try. Here's my plan, And

876
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 2: I never get the verse three his presence because when

877
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: they got down there, Look how Elisha responded. He didn't

878
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 2: call a bear to kill this boy.

879
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: He didn't he didn't tell him. You ridiculous for a

880
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: waste of my time.

881
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 2: You know how, sometimes you think that God is too small.

882
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 2: You think that what you're dealing with is something God

883
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: can't handle.

884
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: And we all think that.

885
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 2: We watch the news and we see crazy things that

886
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 2: are happening in the world, and it's not that we

887
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: think God is too small, but it doesn't seem like

888
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 2: he's doing anything about it. Sometimes I don't think we

889
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 2: realize how small God is willing to be to show

890
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: how big he is.

891
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 6: And that's why I chose this passage for my first

892
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 6: sermon of this.

893
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: Year, because I thought, if we talked about Goliath going down,

894
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 2: you would wait for a big giant to trust God.

895
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: And it's not the giants all the time that cause

896
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 2: you to lose your momentum.

897
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: And I know how it is.

898
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 2: I can do anything for three days, but that fourth day,

899
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 2: I really love Jesus to about nine forty five am,

900
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 2: and then nine forty six the devil meets with me.

901
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: I know that feeling, but I believe that not every

902
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 2: day presents a red sea, a Goliath, a burning bush.

903
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 2: I mean, all these things are wonderful, and you know

904
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 2: I love to preach about them. But I started my

905
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 2: year with the sermon called I don't know what your

906
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 2: bible heading says their autumn, but mine says uh An.

907
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: Axehead recovered, that's all that said on the subject, and

908
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: Axhead recovered, really, man, you got a whole Bible full

909
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: of nine foot giants and raging seas and you want

910
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 2: to preach about And axe said, yeah, because I think

911
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 2: the little moments with God that he wants you to

912
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: have are the ones that are slipping away. And I

913
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 2: think that's why the other stuff gets so big and

914
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 2: takes you down. Because the prophet said, I'll go with you,

915
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 2: and Verse four records what happened next he went with them.

916
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 6: Wonder what they talked about. Wonder if they talked at all.

917
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: Wonder if they were able to ask him more specifically

918
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 2: how you think we should build it?

919
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 6: You know you can ask God's stuff more specific.

920
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: God, is there another way to say that?

921
00:50:58,760 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 6: Now?

922
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 2: I have an advantage over you in this because every

923
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: week I have to try to talk for God to

924
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 2: you and I'm done, so I get a lot of

925
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 2: practice of just gods are another way to say that?

926
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 2: I don't know if I already said that before, they're

927
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 2: gonna hear. They're gonna get as I mean, he says,

928
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,439
Speaker 2: But that's the skill you need for your life too,

929
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: not just to preach. That's the skill you need for

930
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 2: your life. The skill you need is the presence of

931
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 2: God just right there in the middle of your zoom meeting,

932
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 2: with your fake trophies and your shorts, your underwear going

933
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 2: on under the.

934
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: Desk, and your tie up top.

935
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 2: You don't have to say it out loud, you don't

936
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 2: have to go off the screen, just right there, God

937
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 2: needs you forr ust me, just those little moments. I

938
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 2: really believe that because watch why did God include this

939
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: boring story in the Bible. You think Elisha didn't do

940
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 2: more fantastic miracles.

941
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: He did. But the Lord wanted us to have seven.

942
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 2: Verses to know what happens to us sometimes. And this

943
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 2: is what I see for so many of the people

944
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 2: that I pastor.

945
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: Who I meet, and when I meet you, when I.

946
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 2: Meet you, when I meet with you, you meet with

947
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 2: God in your own But when I meet you, sometimes

948
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: I hear about the things that the enemy is tormenting

949
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 2: you with, and it goes something like this. He went

950
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 2: with them verse four. They went to the Jordan and

951
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: began to cut down trees. It's going good. I'm making progress.

952
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 2: I apologized, I said, I'm sorry. I actually sent the text,

953
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 2: I actually looked up the help.

954
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: I actually joined the gym.

955
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 2: Now I'm not gonna go till about January twenty first,

956
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 2: when it clears out. That's just strategic. But I'm making

957
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 2: I'm making my steps. I'm clearing out that room. I'm

958
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 2: gonna do it this time. Now, I got some food

959
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 2: in the pantry I gotta clear out. I can't waste it.

960
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna eat the peanut butter, but after

961
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 2: that jar is gone. It's no more peanut butter. I'm

962
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 2: mea kill the rest of the year. Kale collagen, cardio carnivore.

963
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it all this year.

964
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a vegan carnivore this year.

965
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna cut down this tree.

966
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 2: And they begin to cut down the tree, and I

967
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 2: watch this as one of them it's cutting down a tree.

968
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 2: The iron axe fell into the water, and all of

969
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 2: a sudden we go from let's go.

970
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 1: Suh, oh no, have you ever be honest?

971
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 2: Or I'll prophesy, have you ever been doing pretty good?

972
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 2: Let's go I got this And in the middle verse

973
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 2: five again place of doing what you believe God gave

974
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: you permission to do.

975
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, you're like, it's not a big deal.

976
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: It's an axehead. When it's a big deal to you,

977
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: it's a big deal.

978
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 2: Stop telling people that God doesn't care about this, and

979
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 2: God doesn't care about that.

980
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: He numbers every year on your head.

981
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 2: He cares about everything that pertains to his child.

982
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: And even Elisha, the.

983
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 2: Rough and rugged prophet who had no time for any

984
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 2: nonsense as this young man, it says one of them,

985
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 2: you know, I wonder somebody looked this up for me

986
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 2: on chat GPT later and send me a text about it.

987
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 2: I wonder was it the same one that asked him

988
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 2: to come or was it a different one altogether, Because

989
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 2: the one that's cutting down the tree, they don't have

990
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 2: many tools. You understand, this is not a very sophisticated operation.

991
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 2: As he's cutting down the tree, boom, the head goes

992
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 2: off the stick and it flies into the Jordan.

993
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 1: And iron is supposed to be in water.

994
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 2: Iron is supposed to be on wood, and when iron

995
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: meets wood it makes progress.

996
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: But when iron meets water, you need presents.

997
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 2: Because the first thing he did when the axe had flew,

998
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 2: he said, Oh no, my lord, who's he talking to?

999
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: Elishah?

1000
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 2: Who do you talk to when it falls off? Who

1001
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 2: do you talk to when you fall? Who do you

1002
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 2: talk to when your momentum slips? This is so important?

1003
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 2: Oh no, my lord, he cried out. It was borrowed.

1004
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 2: Oh this is bad. I can't pay this back. Some

1005
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 2: of us are in situations this year that we can't

1006
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 2: afford to waste, another day that we can't afford to waste,

1007
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,439
Speaker 2: another year that we can't afford to just get through

1008
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 2: a month, just barely hanging on.

1009
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: He said, I need help, and thank God, help was there.

1010
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,959
Speaker 2: Remember if one of them hadn't gone back and asked

1011
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 2: him to come, there would have been no one to

1012
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 2: help when their plans stopped working. And this is what

1013
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 2: I'm saying about where you meet with God and the prophet,

1014
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 2: the great prophet Elisha, who had the power to turn

1015
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 2: the tides of wars, had the time to help a

1016
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 2: boy get it back. God said, he wants to help

1017
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 2: you get it back this year. God wants to help

1018
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 2: you get it back this year. If this joy, he

1019
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 2: wants to help you get it back this year. If

1020
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 2: this integrity, he wants to help you get it back

1021
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: this year. If it's the character to keep your commitments,

1022
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 2: he wants to help you get it back this year.

1023
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 2: If it's a vision for your family, he wants to

1024
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 2: help you get it back this year. If it's a

1025
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 2: perspective on what really matters, he wants to help you

1026
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 2: get it back this year.

1027
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: And I want you to.

1028
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 2: Notice very carefully what the prophet did in verse six,

1029
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 2: and this is what I see the Lord doing for us.

1030
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 2: The Man of God asked the boy, where did it fall?

1031
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 2: In that amazing He could have said anything.

1032
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: The boy says, oh, no, it was borrowed.

1033
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: Well, that was stupid. Why did you borrow it? You

1034
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 2: shouldn't be borrowing stuff anyway. Hadn't you heard Dave Ramsey

1035
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 2: on the radio. You're not supposed to be in debt anyway.

1036
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 2: You need to go drive a uver eats and get

1037
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 2: it paid for. Don't worry about that. That's a good thing,

1038
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 2: because if that's popping, that means the devil does not

1039
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 2: want you to hear the next part of this message.

1040
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: I'm very encouraged by that, and I want you all

1041
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: to fix it.

1042
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 2: At the same time, the Man of God said, where

1043
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:07,720
Speaker 2: did it fall?

1044
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: And when? Now? This is the message. This is the message.

1045
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: I was tricking you. I told you the other part

1046
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: was the message. This is the message.

1047
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick

1048
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 2: through it there and made the iron float. Thanks, but

1049
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 2: no thanks. I'm rocking on.

1050
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: I'm moving through. I'm walking on in Jesus' name. I

1051
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: want both of my hands.

1052
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 9: To preach this part because the Bible says the Bible,

1053
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 9: I don't care about what your fear says, I don't

1054
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 9: care about what your generation before you says, I don't

1055
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 9: care about what a political party says. I don't care

1056
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 9: about what your wired mind says.

1057
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 2: The Bible says, he didn't condemn him. He just guided

1058
00:57:54,160 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: him to the place and helped it to surface what

1059
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 2: he needed.

1060
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: He took a stick, he.

1061
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 2: Threw it there and made the iron float. Aren't you

1062
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: grateful for the stuff that God is bringing to the surface.

1063
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: This year in your life?

1064
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 2: Now hang on, y'all got six minutes, and I'll finish this.

1065
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 2: If y'all don't have six minutes, I'll just preach this.

1066
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 2: I'll just preach this to I'll preach it to Abbey

1067
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 2: today and she can sit there and give me an

1068
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 2: offering afterwards. Y'all got six minutes. I want to finish this.

1069
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 2: I really want to finish this. I really don't want

1070
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 2: to go home holding this.

1071
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 8: Because when he said, when he showed him the place

1072
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 8: for six when he showed him the place where it fell, that.

1073
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 2: Is where the miracle happened. So I want you to

1074
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 2: see what happened. He was building and it broke. That

1075
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 2: is some of us in the room. While we were

1076
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 2: building what we felt like we were supposed to build,

1077
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 2: it broke, broke our momentum broke our streak, broke our

1078
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 2: days of sobriety. Broke it broke the relationship, broke the heart,

1079
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 2: broke the passion.

1080
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: Broke it broke because he was building. Now when it broke,

1081
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: it flew into the water.

1082
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 2: So now it has been a functional acxid, and now

1083
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 2: it has fallen into the water.

1084
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: It does not belong in the water. Thank God for verse.

1085
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 2: Three where he says come with us, because that means

1086
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 2: that God is with me, not only when it's functional,

1087
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 2: but when it's falling.

1088
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: And so now I understand.

1089
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: The key of this message, and the key of this year,

1090
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 2: and the key to restoration in your life is that

1091
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 2: God does not only want to be with you when

1092
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 2: you build it, he wants to be with you when

1093
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 2: it breaks.

1094
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: And I want you to invite.

1095
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 2: God into the places where it breaks this year. I

1096
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 2: want you not to pretend like you've got the trophies,

1097
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Speaker 2: pretend like there hasn't been a flood, pretend like.

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Speaker 1: You're in a great place.

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Speaker 2: I want you to make the place that you struggle

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Speaker 2: the most.

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Speaker 1: The place where you meet with God. And what is

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Speaker 1: that place?

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Speaker 2: Because notice there is a part that God does and

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Speaker 2: there is a part that God does not do.

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Speaker 1: The Word of the Lord brought the iron.

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Speaker 2: Verse six, please to the surface, but it did not

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Speaker 2: bring it to the shore. Verse seven. Lift it out,

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Speaker 2: he said, I'm showing it to you. I'm revealing it

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Speaker 2: to you. There are things that the Spirit of God

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Speaker 2: will supernaturally reveal to you, but they must be practically recovered.

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Speaker 1: Lift it out. You can't make iron float. God can.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes something is floating, but it's.

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Speaker 2: Not fixed yet. And this is where you meet God.

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Speaker 2: Grace is where God meets you. Faith is where you

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Speaker 2: meet God. Lifted out, and then the man reached out

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Speaker 2: his hand and took it.

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Speaker 10: It's broken, but it's back, is broken, but it's back.

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Speaker 10: It's broken, but it's back.

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Speaker 2: My life is not exactly what I want it to

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Speaker 2: be at this agent stage.

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Speaker 1: It is broken, but it's back. I'm not on the

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Speaker 1: right path that I set out to be on. It's broken,

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Speaker 1: but it's back.

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Speaker 2: And I hear a calling from the Holy Spirit this

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Speaker 2: year to somebody's life. Who thinks that you can only

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Speaker 2: meet with God when you are in a perfectly manicured

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Speaker 2: environment full of meditative promises and meticulously kept character. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: the place you meet with God is in the place

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Speaker 2: you need him the most. If the axe head had

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Speaker 2: not fallen off, there would have been no miracle.

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Speaker 1: So I am telling you.

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Speaker 2: To stop waiting for a future place to meet God

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Speaker 2: and experience his presence and take him to the place

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Speaker 2: where the blade flung off your stick and watch him

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Speaker 2: bring something up. Here's the thing I learned, Ee, you

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Speaker 2: got to reach for it. The axe head did not swim.

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Speaker 1: To the boy. He reached for it. And I believe

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Speaker 1: that God has given.

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Speaker 6: You something today to show you something today.

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Speaker 1: That he's calling you to reach for.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna he not going to make you dive

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Speaker 2: down to the bottom and find it.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that.

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Speaker 2: That's what grace does. But what does faith do? Reach

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Speaker 2: out and lift it up. Grace reveals what faith retrieves.

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Speaker 2: May this be a year of recovery for you. May

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Speaker 2: this be a year of clarity for you, for God

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Speaker 2: to bring things out up out of the muddy Jordan river.

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Speaker 2: May this be a year that you don't stand swinging

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Speaker 2: your stick knowing this isn't working anymore. May this be

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Speaker 2: a year that you don't just keep pretending like everything's

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Speaker 2: fine when you know your effectiveness is at the bottom

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Speaker 2: of the water. May this be the year that you

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01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 2: meet with God in weird places. May this be the

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Speaker 2: year that you sneak into the bathroom and instead of pills,

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Speaker 2: you take a prayer.

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Speaker 1: May this be the year where you meet with God.

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Speaker 2: I had a friend tell me one time. I said,

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Speaker 2: I'm having my quiet time in the car these days,

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Speaker 2: my devotion time with God. Christians we call quiet time.

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Speaker 2: It's little christian Eese for you. I'm gonna do a

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Speaker 2: whole series one year called do you speak Christianese. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna take every little thing we say that we don't

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Speaker 2: even stop to define for people, and say this is

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Speaker 2: what that kind of means.

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Speaker 1: And I told him I was.

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Speaker 2: Meeting with God in my car a lot lately, and

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Speaker 2: God was coming in my car, and I was playing

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Speaker 2: all my.

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Speaker 1: Worship CDs, John P.

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Speaker 2: Key's Strength and Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Tabernacle.

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Speaker 1: I said, I have the best times with God in

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Speaker 1: my car, Paul Blash.

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Speaker 2: And Tommy Walker and all the Integrity Boys too. I said,

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Speaker 2: I had the greatest meetings with God.

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Speaker 1: In my car.

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Speaker 2: He said those don't count. I said, it doesn't count.

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Speaker 2: He said no, it's not set aside time for God.

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Speaker 2: You got to set a side time for God. God

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01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 2: wants to know you're serious. You got to set a

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Speaker 2: side time for God. I believe that the place that

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Speaker 2: you meet with God is too If you believe that,

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Speaker 2: put up verse one again. The place where we meet

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Speaker 2: with you is too small. If you want to meet

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Speaker 2: with God in your breakfast nook, by all means, play

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Speaker 2: a Brandon Lake CD and do it if you can

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Speaker 2: find a CD player. But when you leave that place,

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Speaker 2: you better meet with God in the next place too.

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Speaker 2: Because the place you meet with God is too small.

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Speaker 2: If the only place you meet with God is when

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Speaker 2: you get a holy ghost goose bump, the place you

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Speaker 2: meet with God is too small. So everybody stand up

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Speaker 2: on your feet, and I want you, by faith, just

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Speaker 2: to stretch your hands up like you're reaching for something

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Speaker 2: that was lost that the enemy tried to steal, and

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Speaker 2: just say this out loud.

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Speaker 1: God, will you come with me now? Wait?

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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, don't say anything. Answers yes. He already promised

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Speaker 2: his presence. It lives inside of you. May this be

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Speaker 2: the year where the place where you meet with God

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01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 2: becomes the mountaintop of your victory and the valley of

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Speaker 2: your midnight. The place you meet with God has been

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Speaker 2: too small. The church is the only place you meet

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Speaker 2: with God. The place you meet with God is too small.

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Speaker 2: Expand your expectation of God's presence. I declare over your

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Speaker 2: life a year of expansion, not just that you would

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Speaker 2: get more stuff, but that you would get more Him.

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Speaker 2: If you get more Him, you have everything. If you

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Speaker 2: have not Him, you have nothing. May this be the

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Speaker 2: year of His presence in your life. God come with

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Speaker 2: me to work this year. God, come with me as

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Speaker 2: I struggle to sleep at night. God, come with me

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Speaker 2: into the challenge this year. God come with me into

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Speaker 2: the uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: Will you come? And he says yes?

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Speaker 2: And he says when it falls, I'll show you where

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Speaker 2: to reach to get it back. Put your hands down

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Speaker 2: right now. There's somebody heads about, eyes closed, and this

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01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 2: is your moment to meet Jesus and be saved.

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Speaker 1: Listen to me.

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Speaker 2: God is not waiting for you to come to him.

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Speaker 1: He came to you. That is the message of the Gospel.

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Speaker 2: So anytime you spend thinking I'm going to work my

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01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 2: way to God, that's not how this works.

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Speaker 1: That's religion. That is not the gospel.

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Speaker 2: The gospel is this, God made him who knew no sin,

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Speaker 2: to become sin for us, that we might become the

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Speaker 2: righteousness of God. What am I trying to say to you,

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Speaker 2: I'm saying God has already done it, and now right now,

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Speaker 2: if this is your moment you say, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to go into this year doing it by myself. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to go into this yere pretending like I've

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Speaker 2: got it together. I want the grace of God. I

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Speaker 2: want to receive Jesus. I'm going to pray a prayer.

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Speaker 2: If you repeat this prayer after me and mean it

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Speaker 2: in your heart, the Bible says that God will hear

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Speaker 2: you from heaven.

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Speaker 1: And if you.

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Speaker 2: Confess with your mouth Jesus's Lord and believe in your

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Speaker 2: heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Speaker 2: Everybody who's coming back to God today, your life is broken,

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Speaker 2: but you can have it in Jesus' name. Repeat after me,

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Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. I am

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Speaker 2: a sinner in need of a savior, and I believe

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01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the

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Speaker 2: savior of the world.

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Speaker 1: Today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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Speaker 2: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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Speaker 2: This is my new beginning. On the counter of three shoots.

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Speaker 2: Your hand up if you've prayed that one too, free

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Speaker 2: all over the room, on every location. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: reach out and take it. It's the gift of God.

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 2: Reach out and take it. It's the gift of God.

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Speaker 2: Let's celebrate them church. Bring those Bibles around, pass them down.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,919
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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