WEBVTT - Where You Meet With God

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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<v Speaker 2>this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it

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<v Speaker 2>gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the message. We thank you for your presence today. God.

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<v Speaker 2>We do not take it for granted that we can

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<v Speaker 2>call upon that name, that name that moves mountains, that

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<v Speaker 2>name that saves souls, that name that forgives sin, that

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<v Speaker 2>name that rolls away shame. That name, and that name alone,

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<v Speaker 2>the name of Jesus is our banner today. I'm thankful

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<v Speaker 2>for thousands of people who are not ashamed to praise

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<v Speaker 2>the name of Jesus today, who are not shy or

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<v Speaker 2>quiet or too tired.

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<v Speaker 1>To praise the name of Jesus.

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<v Speaker 2>I thank you for the chain breaking power of your

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<v Speaker 2>son Jesus today. I thank you for the yoke destroying

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<v Speaker 2>annointing of your son Jesus. Today. I thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>the great robbing presence but the Almighty God the Great,

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<v Speaker 2>I am the person in the work of Jesus today,

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<v Speaker 2>and we expect miracles in that name healing in that name,

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<v Speaker 2>breakthrough in that name. But we didn't come today just

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<v Speaker 2>to see what we could get out of that name.

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<v Speaker 2>We came to give that name the praise today, for

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<v Speaker 2>your name is worthy, Jesus, your name is worthy, always

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<v Speaker 2>has been, always will be. No matter what we go through,

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<v Speaker 2>You're worthy. No matter what we're facing. You're worthy, never changes,

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<v Speaker 2>never feels your great love. Grab the hand of the

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<v Speaker 2>person on either side of you. We're going to make

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<v Speaker 2>a connection right now by faith. And if you're watching

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<v Speaker 2>online and you're not at one of our physical locations,

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<v Speaker 2>that's all right. Just squeeze the hand of the person

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<v Speaker 2>next to you, and now say this out loud.

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<v Speaker 1>God, God is in this moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Father, we thank you and invite you into every single

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<v Speaker 2>situation represented in this room, good, bad, in between, epic

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<v Speaker 2>or boring. You are the lord of it all. I

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for the wonderful time we've.

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<v Speaker 1>Had today singing your praises. But worship is more than

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<v Speaker 1>a song. So now Lord, we bring you our lives, ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>every single part of us.

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<v Speaker 2>I pray for the person on my right, the person

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<v Speaker 2>on my left. I don't just pray for myself today.

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<v Speaker 2>Would you touch my brother, touch my sister. Touch them

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<v Speaker 2>enough to let.

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<v Speaker 1>Them know they can make it another week.

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<v Speaker 2>Touch them enough to know that it's already worked out

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<v Speaker 2>in heaven, and it will be done on earth as

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<v Speaker 2>it is in heaven.

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<v Speaker 1>Touch them enough to.

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<v Speaker 2>Know that there is nothing that escapes your all seeing eye,

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<v Speaker 2>and that the wings of else should I, the Most

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<v Speaker 2>High God, are hovering over your children today. I thank you,

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<v Speaker 2>Lord for your promise that he who dwelleth in the

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<v Speaker 2>secret place of the Most High will abide under the

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<v Speaker 2>shadow of the Almighty. And I thank you that no

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<v Speaker 2>weapon formed against your children will prosper. We thank you

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<v Speaker 2>that the Church of Jesus Christ is being built, and

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<v Speaker 2>the gates of hell will not prevail, have not prevailed,

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<v Speaker 2>cannot prevail. For we know a name that is greater

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<v Speaker 2>than sasan greater than darkness, greater than cancer, greater than depression,

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<v Speaker 2>greater than diabetes, greater than sickness, greater than guilt. Grace

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<v Speaker 2>that is greater the nave of Jesus given.

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<v Speaker 3>Praise children, all right, guess no polite praise, Give in

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<v Speaker 3>your party, pray, give in your maiden, praise, Give in.

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<v Speaker 1>Your some kind of way.

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<v Speaker 4>He's gonna do it.

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<v Speaker 5>Praise hey, well, happy twenty twenty five everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought I would give the year a catchy slogan.

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<v Speaker 2>This is my first year of twenty twenty five, so

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, I'll give you a range of options. If

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

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<v Speaker 2>Touch your neighbors, say survive. If you had a little

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<v Speaker 2>more faith in that, look at them and say thrive

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty five.

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<v Speaker 1>If you got a little more faith than that, if.

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<v Speaker 2>You got faith like Lazarus, if you got faith like

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<v Speaker 2>the women who went to the tomb with the spices

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<v Speaker 2>when they said it was over look at your neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>and say.

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<v Speaker 1>Dead things come alive in twenty five. Oh oh oh.

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<v Speaker 2>I felt that when I said it in twenty five. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, Brandon, come on, Chris. We're not gonna sing

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<v Speaker 2>anymore because I feel like preaching.

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<v Speaker 1>This is my first sermon of the year. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>put that song on on.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna get it out as soon as we can.

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<v Speaker 1>I know a name.

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<v Speaker 2>We're not gonna hold it hostage for two years like

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<v Speaker 2>we do. Sometimes that song is going into your ears

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<v Speaker 2>so it can go into.

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<v Speaker 1>People's homes into people's hearts, so you can call on

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<v Speaker 1>the name of Jesus.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Man?

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<v Speaker 1>She'd be like, that's great.

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<v Speaker 2>You can be singing like I don't have a day,

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<v Speaker 2>but I know a name. Give it up for the

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<v Speaker 2>Great Brandon Lake, the Great Christopher Brown. We got hey,

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<v Speaker 2>we got new music coming your way Friday, suns on Sunday,

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<v Speaker 2>God Dad, get it on Napster.

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

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<v Speaker 1>a few weeks.

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<v Speaker 5>Brace the Lord, everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to thank you also, stay standing.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to thank you for your amazing, remarkable, once

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<v Speaker 2>in a generation generosity for our church giving in our

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<v Speaker 2>year end offering over ten million dollars, over ten million

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<v Speaker 2>dollars at least, praise Him on a ten for ten

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<v Speaker 2>million dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>That's so many people we can help.

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<v Speaker 2>That's so many schools we can build. That's so many

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<v Speaker 2>people we can come to with water and with food

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<v Speaker 2>and with clothes, and with the gospel building and blessing

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<v Speaker 2>and touching the world and preaching Jesus. We're gonna build

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<v Speaker 2>a campus in Greenville, South Carolina. We're gonna build a

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<v Speaker 2>campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. We're gonna build a campus

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

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<v Speaker 2>around the world, and we're doing it together.

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<v Speaker 1>I five your neighbors say, I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Alive in twenty five and the church is alive.

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<v Speaker 1>Praise the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>Feeling good, Gavin feeling good, Graham feeling dangerous today, feel

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<v Speaker 2>a revival spirit today. You know, the Lord led me

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<v Speaker 2>to a passage of scripture that I thought was so

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<v Speaker 2>strange that I was nervous to preach it.

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<v Speaker 1>But I find sometimes it's in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Simplest pictures that He gives us that the greatest and

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<v Speaker 2>most strategic breakthroughs occur. I want you to join me

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<v Speaker 2>for a moment today. In Second Kings chapter six, verses

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<v Speaker 2>one through seven, I took a poll of ten Christians,

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<v Speaker 2>ten people who went to Bible school. Nine point seven

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

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<v Speaker 2>So that means today this will be the best sermon

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<v Speaker 2>on Second King six one through seven.

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<v Speaker 1>You've ever heard some stacking the odds in my favor?

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<v Speaker 1>You can't say anything else.

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

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<v Speaker 2>about that scripture, because it's the.

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<v Speaker 6>Only one I've heard about that scripture.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I am rested, but I might be a little rusty.

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<v Speaker 2>So I need your grace Amens today. While I'm preaching,

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I need your grace Amens today. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get our timing down in the first ten minutes so

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<v Speaker 2>we can go to church here.

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't want you to miss anything that the

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<v Speaker 1>Lord has for you.

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<v Speaker 2>So lean in from the very beginning, because I'll read

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<v Speaker 2>you just three verses and then I'll tell you this

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<v Speaker 2>very peculiar story in the scripture, and you'll wonder like

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<v Speaker 2>I wondered why that scripture.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Let's look together at tewod King's chapter six, verse one

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<v Speaker 2>and two.

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<v Speaker 1>Just those two verses for now.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, shout out to our Charleston, South

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<v Speaker 2>Carolina pop up today.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know we were meeting in Charleston today.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome, Welcome, They're still shouting. Valentine's not that excited. They

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

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<v Speaker 2>out in the cold, you know, you get an extra

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<v Speaker 2>dose of the Holy Ghost for coming out when it's

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<v Speaker 2>below forty degrees in the south. I'm gonna tell you

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<v Speaker 2>good things are gonna happen. Your car is going to

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<v Speaker 2>get extra gas mileage this week because you came in

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<v Speaker 2>the cold, as long as it's a tesla now tewod Kings,

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<v Speaker 2>Chapter six, Verse one, the company of the prophets said

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<v Speaker 2>to Elisha, look, the place where we meet with you

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<v Speaker 2>is too.

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<v Speaker 1>Small for us.

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<v Speaker 2>Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us

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<v Speaker 2>can get a pole, and let us build a place

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<v Speaker 2>there for us to me. And he said, go, everybody

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<v Speaker 2>shall go. Let me read that one more time before

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<v Speaker 2>I give you my subject for today. Second King six,

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<v Speaker 2>verses one and two. The Bible says the company of

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<v Speaker 2>the prophets said to Elisha, look, the place where we

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<v Speaker 2>meet with you is too.

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<v Speaker 1>Small for us. Now that's a problem.

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<v Speaker 2>So verse two, they said, let us go to the Jordan,

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<v Speaker 2>where each of us can get a poll, and build

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<v Speaker 2>a place there for us to meet.

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<v Speaker 1>And he said, go today.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you for a few moments

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<v Speaker 2>about where you meet with God, where you meet with God.

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<v Speaker 1>And get you to think about that.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I believe it is the key to so many

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<v Speaker 2>other things that you're worried about. This year where you

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

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<v Speaker 2>Don't have to beg you to come or entice you.

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<v Speaker 2>And I pray that now you would make your presence

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<v Speaker 2>so manifest that not a single one of us can

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<v Speaker 2>excuse it or explain it away. When they leave, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>may they say not the music was good. May they

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<v Speaker 2>not say they kept it cold in that auditorium. May

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<v Speaker 2>they not say it was crowded. We got to get

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<v Speaker 2>out of here and get out of the park.

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<v Speaker 1>Lie.

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<v Speaker 2>May they say, surely the presence of the Lord was

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<v Speaker 2>in this place in Jesus' name. Amen, on your way

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<v Speaker 2>to your seat, touch your neighbor and say God is here,

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

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<v Speaker 2>pretend we're places that were not. Tim I had a

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<v Speaker 2>zoom meeting with a professional that I pay the other day.

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<v Speaker 2>I put that in because it's important. He has all

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<v Speaker 2>kinds of trophies and awards every time we meet, because

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<v Speaker 2>we meet regularly, and I can always see all his

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<v Speaker 2>trophies and a wars kind of like an ego wall

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<v Speaker 2>so he can keep.

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<v Speaker 1>Me convinced I need to pay him. I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not judging it.

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<v Speaker 2>And the other day I was meeting with him and

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<v Speaker 2>while I was looking, I was like, oh man, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>something's wrong with my eyes, because some of the awards

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<v Speaker 2>started like disappearing.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, that's weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Check my numb I'm forty four now, so I know

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<v Speaker 2>stuff's going to start just quitting. I'm like, the is

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<v Speaker 2>it the zoom connection? Is it just midlife? What's happening

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<v Speaker 2>right now? And then another award kind of started moving

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<v Speaker 2>and then it started moving around. I was like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>now that's not the connection. And they were pixelating and

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<v Speaker 2>they were moving positions all over the wall and I

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<v Speaker 2>called his name. I'm make up a name, I said, brother.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, why are the trophies moving around the wall?

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<v Speaker 2>I said, is that a zoom background? Are those not

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<v Speaker 2>real trophies that I've.

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<v Speaker 1>Been looking at the whole time?

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<v Speaker 2>And he dropped his head, and I knew that wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>true because I know as credentials. He said, I just

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<v Speaker 2>didn't want to distract you. I had a flood in

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<v Speaker 2>the regular place we meet, and I didn't want to

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<v Speaker 2>cause a disruption. So I just recreated that background, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've been putting it up the next weeks, and I

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<v Speaker 2>promise you those are real. And then the next time

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<v Speaker 2>we met, I made him pick up stuff and show

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<v Speaker 2>it to me to prove that you really did earn it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I came away with a valuable lesson. It's never

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<v Speaker 2>been easier to pretend like you're in a place and

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<v Speaker 2>hope that nobody stops to ask you, are you really here?

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<v Speaker 2>All this stuff that you show online, it's never been

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<v Speaker 2>easier to show it on a screen, even when you

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<v Speaker 2>know you don't really have it in your life to

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<v Speaker 2>be going through a flood in one location, but to

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<v Speaker 2>make it look like everything is fine in another. And again,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't say this as a judgment, but just sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>when we come to little obscure text in the Bible

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<v Speaker 2>that maybe we say, why of all the passages, pastor Steven,

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<v Speaker 2>I need a word for twenty twenty five, this is

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<v Speaker 2>your first sermon of the year. Maybe you're watching this

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty thirty eight. Maybe I'm a hologram floating over

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<v Speaker 2>you preaching this right now. I don't know what they'll

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<v Speaker 2>do in the future, but you're like, why this We

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<v Speaker 2>got a whole Bible full of big miracles, with big

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<v Speaker 2>old red seas and towering jericho walls and filthy grades

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<v Speaker 2>and blind eyes being open, and you would choose to

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<v Speaker 2>preach about a text as simple as the company of

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<v Speaker 2>the prophets said to Elisha, Look, the place, the place

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<v Speaker 2>where we meet with you is too small for us.

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<v Speaker 2>Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us

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<v Speaker 2>can get a pole, and let us build a place.

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<v Speaker 1>There for us to meet. And he said, go.

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<v Speaker 2>So why would the Holy Spirit select this scripture for

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<v Speaker 2>us on this pivotal week in our lives? And I

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<v Speaker 2>have a reason that I think the Holy Spirit wants

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<v Speaker 2>you to hear about this today.

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<v Speaker 1>Is first of all, because.

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<v Speaker 2>Most of the things that you struggle with in your

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<v Speaker 2>life have small beginnings. The better that you get with

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<v Speaker 2>identifying and recognizing your struggle in the small stage, the

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<v Speaker 2>less effort you will have to spend when that thing

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<v Speaker 2>is full grown to sabotage you in the future. And

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<v Speaker 2>I love these men in this passage. Okay, here's the situation.

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<v Speaker 2>They are students of a great prophet. Everybody say, great prophet,

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<v Speaker 2>not a pretty good prophet, not a minor league prophet,

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<v Speaker 2>a great profit, the prophet of Israel, who could call

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<v Speaker 2>for God to intervene supernaturally and he would, who could

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<v Speaker 2>locate enemies supernaturally, and God's people would get the victory.

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<v Speaker 2>A great prophet, Elisha, And he has gathered unto himself

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<v Speaker 2>a great company of students. And the students are kind

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<v Speaker 2>of looking around for a little while. As this movement

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<v Speaker 2>starts to grow, please be aware that if God really

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<v Speaker 2>blesses your life, blessing creates just as many problems as

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<v Speaker 2>struggle does. So at some point they begin to meet

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<v Speaker 2>with one another, meet with one another, and they say,

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<v Speaker 2>this sucks, man.

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<v Speaker 1>It's crowded. This is ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>This was fine when there were fifty of us, but

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<v Speaker 2>who knows how many there were by that time. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>Elisha has fixed a complete water system in one city.

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<v Speaker 2>He has fixed a drought for several kings and turned

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<v Speaker 2>the tide of the war. He's supplied a food supply

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<v Speaker 2>for a widow. He's given a barren woman a child,

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<v Speaker 2>and then raised that child from the dead when the

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<v Speaker 2>child got all that's already happened. He healed a Syrian

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<v Speaker 2>commander of leprosy by telling him to go dip into

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<v Speaker 2>Jordan river.

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<v Speaker 1>So you got to imagine that it was at least.

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<v Speaker 2>Double what it had been to start with, right, because

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<v Speaker 2>he had a double portion of Elijah, his predecessor spirit on.

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<v Speaker 1>Him, and he worked great miracles.

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<v Speaker 2>And so they look at each other one day like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>somebody ought to do something about this is crowded.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't hour.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no deodorant. It hasn't been invented. We got to

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<v Speaker 2>do something about this. And I want to focus in

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<v Speaker 2>for just a moment on verse one to show you

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<v Speaker 2>where the Holy Spirit convicted me about my life. He

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<v Speaker 2>told me that I live in verse one too often.

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<v Speaker 2>And verse one is where they give the complaint. Look,

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<v Speaker 2>the place where we meet with you is too small

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<v Speaker 2>for us.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's the whole verse one.

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<v Speaker 2>And I wonder, did you live most of last year

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<v Speaker 2>in verse one and never make it to verse two?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean make it to verse two? Verse two?

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<v Speaker 2>They say, let us go to the Jordan, where each

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<v Speaker 2>of us can get a pole, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Let us build a place there for us to meet.

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<v Speaker 1>And he said, go.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse one contains the problem. It's too crowded. This isn't

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<v Speaker 2>working anymore. We don't fit here anymore. We don't like this.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all need to build a parking decat elevution church. This

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<v Speaker 1>is too much.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all go too long and the services overlap and it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all need to get us out of this high school

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<v Speaker 2>auditorium and get us in a real building.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we got problems around here, and the only

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<v Speaker 1>thing about the problem is that God caused it.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I bet you they prayed for people to come

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<v Speaker 2>and be a part of their team, and now they're

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<v Speaker 2>complaining about something that they prayed for. Oh, you better

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<v Speaker 2>wear your steel toe this year.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't wear your crocs to this church this year.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm walking up and down those roads this year looking

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<v Speaker 2>for the person who's like me. Now, this is my

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<v Speaker 2>default setting to pray about something, possess what I prayed for,

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<v Speaker 2>complain about what I prayed for.

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<v Speaker 1>But they didn't do that. They said the place is

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<v Speaker 1>too small. Watch this verse two. Let us go. So

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<v Speaker 1>here's a challenge for you. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope you'll accept it, but maybe you won't. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's okay too, because I can just give you the challenge.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't make you do it. Every time you are

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<v Speaker 2>tempted to complain it is an invitation to create. Instead,

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<v Speaker 2>every time you are tempted to complain, it should be

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<v Speaker 2>a trigger or an invitation for you to create. I

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<v Speaker 2>know the Bible says do everything without complaining, but sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>the complaining stage is the stage you have to make

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<v Speaker 2>it through to get to the change stage. They were

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<v Speaker 2>not rebuked for complaining, but they were blessed for continuing. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>they were not rebuked for complaining. This place is too

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<v Speaker 2>small a prophet, so be grateful for what you had. No,

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<v Speaker 2>he was more than willing, And that's the word I

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<v Speaker 2>want us to come back to a few times today.

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<v Speaker 2>He was more than willing to give them permission. And

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<v Speaker 2>some of the things that we're praying about, complaining about,

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<v Speaker 2>worrying about and calling it prayer, God has already.

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<v Speaker 1>Given us permission to fix.

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<v Speaker 2>You ever worried about something and said you prayed about it,

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<v Speaker 2>You ever talked to everybody about it but the one

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<v Speaker 2>who could do something for you. May this be the

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<v Speaker 2>year that you stop complaining to people who can't change

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<v Speaker 2>it anyway. Maybe that's where I need to be preaching

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<v Speaker 2>from back there in the back where this is my year,

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<v Speaker 2>where the Bible says the company of the prophets.

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<v Speaker 1>Verse one said to Elisha, and I got to show

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<v Speaker 1>you how cool the Bible is.

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<v Speaker 2>A prophet speaks for God, right, a prophet represents God aphet.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have prophets like this today because we all,

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<v Speaker 2>as believers have the Holy Spirit. Jesus is our great

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<v Speaker 2>high Priest. The Holy Spirit lives in you. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>need me to get a word from God. If I'm

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<v Speaker 2>off any day, God is still on. If I don't

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<v Speaker 2>give you the word that you need, go back and

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<v Speaker 2>read the scripture I read, and God will preach it

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<v Speaker 2>better than I did. If I fall down dead preaching

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<v Speaker 2>this sermon today, somebody else will pick up the mic

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<v Speaker 2>and preach it before I can get out of the

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<v Speaker 2>door with the ems. Because God's word is eternal, It

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<v Speaker 2>does not originate with men.

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<v Speaker 1>It originates with God. And not only, oh, not only

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<v Speaker 1>is it.

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<v Speaker 2>Internal eternal, internal eternal. And when we say the place

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<v Speaker 2>where you meet with God, I want you to understand

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<v Speaker 2>that that place is never meant to be a building.

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<v Speaker 2>When I said I want to talk to you today

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<v Speaker 2>about where you meet with God, You're like, great, they're

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<v Speaker 2>starting a building campaign.

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<v Speaker 1>No where he did that. I told you our building,

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<v Speaker 1>where are built? The building are here? Anyman? You don't

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<v Speaker 1>have a build, and then we could put it on YouTube.

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<v Speaker 1>So we don't need all that.

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<v Speaker 2>But maybe I am starting a building campaign today where

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<v Speaker 2>you begin.

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<v Speaker 1>To build new patterns.

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<v Speaker 2>And recruit new people if necessary, so that the presence

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<v Speaker 2>of God permeates your life. This year, I want to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to you about where you meet with God. Now

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<v Speaker 2>let me slow down because I get excited because y'all start,

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<v Speaker 2>y'all start.

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<v Speaker 1>Drawing it out of me, and it's your fault.

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<v Speaker 2>When we think about a prophet, we think about somebody

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<v Speaker 2>who speaks for God and prophet to do that. In

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible, prophets can prophesy doom and judgment, and you

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<v Speaker 2>see this a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>In the Bible.

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<v Speaker 2>Prophets can also prophesy rain and blessing and life and increase.

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<v Speaker 2>But in this situation, didn't you find it interesting that

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<v Speaker 2>in verse one it says the company of the prophet

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<v Speaker 2>said to Elisha, not I just said to the company

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<v Speaker 2>of the prophets.

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<v Speaker 1>Why is that significant?

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<v Speaker 2>Because sometimes God commands you to do something clearly, clearly.

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<v Speaker 2>There are some things that God has commanded you to

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<v Speaker 2>do clearly. These are not opinions, suggestions, or advice. These

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<v Speaker 2>are not influencers giving you their tips and techniques. These

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<v Speaker 2>are the truths of God's word.

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<v Speaker 1>They are eternal.

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<v Speaker 2>And so God commands you clearly to flee sexual immorality.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't have to pray about the affair that you're

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<v Speaker 2>on the edge of having.

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<v Speaker 1>You got to run flee sexual immorality. That's clear.

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<v Speaker 2>I know another clear one that people don't like forgive others,

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<v Speaker 2>just as God in Christ forgave you.

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<v Speaker 1>That's clear. But Lord, which city should I live in?

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<v Speaker 2>Should I live in Charlotte or Atlanta or Roanoke or Raleigh?

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<v Speaker 1>The Lord don't.

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<v Speaker 2>The Lord is going to use you in the city

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<v Speaker 2>that you obey the clear thing that He showed you in. So,

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't forgiven Charlotte, when you move to Atlanta,

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna have just the same sewage that you had

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<v Speaker 2>in Charlotte when you get to Atlanta, because you didn't

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<v Speaker 2>do what was clear.

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<v Speaker 1>Wherever you go, there you are.

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<v Speaker 2>And so a lot of the prayers we pray about

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<v Speaker 2>moves we should make. When we can't get ourselves to

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<v Speaker 2>obey what God has clearly spoken, we create confusion so

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<v Speaker 2>that we don't take responsibility for our decisions. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to be like this the whole time. I will

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<v Speaker 2>be hopeful in a moment.

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<v Speaker 1>But I just want to spend more time this year.

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<v Speaker 2>In verse two, where they said, let us go to

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<v Speaker 2>the Jordan, where each of us can get a poll,

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<v Speaker 2>and let us build a place there for us to meet. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>if this is my prayer, I'm saying, God, this place

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<v Speaker 2>where we meet with you is too small.

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<v Speaker 1>Make us that's a bigger one. God.

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<v Speaker 2>These people you put around me are not talented enough.

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<v Speaker 2>Give me more talented people. God, this situation you put

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<v Speaker 2>me in, it's not important enough, it's not exciting enough.

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<v Speaker 1>God moved me to another place.

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<v Speaker 2>But I want you to notice in verse two, they

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<v Speaker 2>didn't ask the prophet for anything except permission. Let us

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<v Speaker 2>go to the place by the Jordan, the transitional body

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<v Speaker 2>of water where the people of God crossed over into Jericho.

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<v Speaker 2>Let us go to the place where the vegetation is,

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<v Speaker 2>and the wood is, and the tools are, and the

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<v Speaker 2>resources are, and let us go build a place there

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<v Speaker 2>for us to meet. Put that verse on the screen.

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<v Speaker 2>Verse two, and whoever circle him back there circle The

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<v Speaker 2>following words say let us circle us, go to the Jordan,

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<v Speaker 2>where each of us circle us again can get a pole,

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<v Speaker 2>and let us circle us again build a place there

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<v Speaker 2>for us circle us again. To me, that's their plan.

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<v Speaker 2>We got a plan. Somebody shout, I got a plan.

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<v Speaker 2>This is my year. I got a plan thrive in

0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:17.520
<v Speaker 2>twenty five. I got a plan. I'm eating carnivore, I'm

0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.639
<v Speaker 2>doing cardio, I'm drinking collagen. And then two weeks in

0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:23.840
<v Speaker 2>you got a cold, and where did that get you?

0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:32.679
<v Speaker 2>I got a plan. We're gonna go down here and

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<v Speaker 2>build a place. It's gonna be bigger, it's gonna be better,

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<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>I got my plan I have.

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<v Speaker 2>I have my plan, and I had the plan last year,

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<v Speaker 2>but this is different. I had this plan. I had

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<v Speaker 2>the other year before that too, and the year and

0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.520
<v Speaker 2>the year before that, but that was COVID. That doesn't count.

0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:56.440
<v Speaker 2>I mean this year is different. So we're going. Somebody shout,

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<v Speaker 2>let's go. And I give them credit for their intive

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<v Speaker 2>because I think sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak,

0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:09.080
<v Speaker 2>he's waiting for us to step Yeah. Yeah, Sometimes when

0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:12.200
<v Speaker 2>we're waiting for God to move, he's waiting for us

0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:16.479
<v Speaker 2>to multiply what we've already been given. And so I

0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:21.679
<v Speaker 2>congratulate these men for their initiative. They didn't just complain

0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:24.760
<v Speaker 2>about the thing. They were willing to change the thing,

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<v Speaker 2>to work toward the thing, to collaborate toward the thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you.

0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:35.520
<v Speaker 2>Or are you waiting for something to happen externally? When

0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:41.399
<v Speaker 2>the Word of God is internal, internal and eternal, nothing

0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:45.399
<v Speaker 2>can stop it, and it can't be seen with human eyes,

0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:50.560
<v Speaker 2>And so they get fired up. One of my friends,

0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:53.680
<v Speaker 2>who is an athlete, tells me, I don't know if

0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:55.159
<v Speaker 2>this is going to encourage you, but I come to

0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.239
<v Speaker 2>church because it helps me feel like I can do

0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:01.280
<v Speaker 2>anything for about three days. I said, that's pretty good.

0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:06.280
<v Speaker 2>Three days, that's pretty good. Shelf life three days, that's

0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:08.680
<v Speaker 2>pretty good. Flowers can die quicker than three days, that's

0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:10.959
<v Speaker 2>pretty good. He said, yeah, felt I could do anything

0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:13.920
<v Speaker 2>for three days. I said, but what happens on day four?

0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:16.680
<v Speaker 2>He said, Well, that's where it gets tricky. I said, no,

0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't, because you can you can go back to God.

0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:27.800
<v Speaker 2>Between Sundays you can go back to God. You can

0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:28.840
<v Speaker 2>go back to God.

0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:33.600
<v Speaker 1>Between hours, you can go back to God.

0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.919
<v Speaker 2>You can go back to God as much as you

0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:39.600
<v Speaker 2>want in any situation that you're in.

0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:42.280
<v Speaker 1>And I think as simple as that sounds.

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<v Speaker 6>We don't really practice that. We don't really practice that.

0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:50.000
<v Speaker 2>I saw something here that was to be celebrated.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go. We're gonna build a bigger school and e life.

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<v Speaker 1>So the prophet is gonna teach us.

0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:58.960
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna build something amazing for you God, and many

0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.640
<v Speaker 2>of us have started this year with good motives. I'm

0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:04.920
<v Speaker 2>gonna build something for my family. I'm gonna build something

0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:05.720
<v Speaker 2>so I can take.

0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.200
<v Speaker 1>Care of my kids. I'm gonna build something for God.

0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna build something to make a difference. I'm gonna

0:29:10.520 --> 0:29:12.040
<v Speaker 1>work on my body. I'm gonna work on my mind.

0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:13.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna work on my future. I'm gonna work on

0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.840
<v Speaker 1>my career. I'm gonna work on myself. I'm gonna work

0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:17.400
<v Speaker 1>on my temper. I'm gonna work on my yoga.

0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:21.080
<v Speaker 2>I started doing yoga last year just so I can

0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:22.920
<v Speaker 2>keep it moving as much as I need to up here.

0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:26.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm just increasing the arsenal this year. And you know

0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:28.680
<v Speaker 2>what the thing about it is, Holly's better at it

0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.920
<v Speaker 2>than I am, and I can lift so much more

0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:35.480
<v Speaker 2>pounds than she can. But the instructor that's working with us,

0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:41.760
<v Speaker 2>she always is saying beautiful Holly, beautiful Holly, and comes

0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:48.560
<v Speaker 2>over to me and says it gets better. Stephen, Like,

0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.800
<v Speaker 2>the only word she has for me is the word

0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:53.680
<v Speaker 2>of false encouragement and delusional hope that I'll one day

0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:54.959
<v Speaker 2>be flexible.

0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:58.120
<v Speaker 1>And I found out something.

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<v Speaker 2>When you're doing something new, it helps to have somebody

0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:07.040
<v Speaker 2>who can give you personal attention so you don't get

0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:08.120
<v Speaker 2>confused and quit.

0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:10.000
<v Speaker 1>And maybe the.

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<v Speaker 2>Reason you had a plan last year and it fell

0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:18.000
<v Speaker 2>apart in three days, three weeks, three months, Maybe the

0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:21.720
<v Speaker 2>reason that your motivation sometimes only lasts three minutes.

0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:24.400
<v Speaker 1>Maybe the reason it lasts too.

0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:29.520
<v Speaker 2>Short sometimes is because you only get permission and a plan.

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<v Speaker 2>But this is a year where your plan will not

0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:37.040
<v Speaker 2>be enough, because the most important things that will happen

0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:39.160
<v Speaker 2>in your life this year will not be in your plan.

0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:43.800
<v Speaker 2>The greatest things that God will bring into your life

0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:47.640
<v Speaker 2>will not be on your vision board. They will not

0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:51.640
<v Speaker 2>be manifested from the contours of your human mind or imagination.

0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:55.320
<v Speaker 2>You will not see them coming, so you won't have

0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:57.440
<v Speaker 2>time to plan a parade.

0:30:57.680 --> 0:30:58.600
<v Speaker 1>You will not see.

0:30:58.440 --> 0:31:00.720
<v Speaker 2>Them coming, so you won't have time to get in

0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:03.960
<v Speaker 2>your stance. The most important things that I'm gonna show

0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.400
<v Speaker 2>you in the text. What I'm talking about the most

0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:09.040
<v Speaker 2>important things that will happen in your life this year

0:31:09.360 --> 0:31:13.200
<v Speaker 2>will not be a part of your plan. How many

0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:16.680
<v Speaker 2>can testify that there has already been an unplanned event

0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:19.680
<v Speaker 2>that has superseded your planned year.

0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:26.600
<v Speaker 1>This year and we're just getting started. So they're excited. Man,

0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:28.800
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna go build a place. We're gonna get a poll.

0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:29.600
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna build a.

0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:32.160
<v Speaker 2>Place, and the Lisha's gonna teach us. And it's not

0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:34.280
<v Speaker 2>like they're going to build a strip club. They're not

0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:37.880
<v Speaker 2>doing something terrible. They're not even doing something neutral. They're

0:31:37.920 --> 0:31:43.440
<v Speaker 2>building something for God. Okay, we're gonna build this for

0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:45.640
<v Speaker 2>God and God's gonna bless us. I just need to

0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:48.240
<v Speaker 2>stop right here and take a poll. How many have

0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:50.280
<v Speaker 2>something you want to do for God this year in

0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:51.480
<v Speaker 2>your life?

0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:55.800
<v Speaker 1>Shout out what it is on three, one, two, three?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? Cool.

0:31:56.960 --> 0:32:00.880
<v Speaker 2>God heard all that I don't need to and some

0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:02.640
<v Speaker 2>of what you said you're gonna do for God this year,

0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:06.800
<v Speaker 2>God was like, that's right, go do it. And some

0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:11.320
<v Speaker 2>of it God was like, why are you making a

0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:13.400
<v Speaker 2>plan for a purpose that I didn't call you two

0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:16.280
<v Speaker 2>just because you saw it in somebody else. Let me

0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.640
<v Speaker 2>tell you something, Haul, I don't want to build anything

0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:20.840
<v Speaker 2>in my life from this point on that God gave

0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:28.560
<v Speaker 2>somebody else the blueprint for because I've spent too much time,

0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:33.440
<v Speaker 2>too much energy, lost too much joy, forfeited too much

0:32:33.480 --> 0:32:37.680
<v Speaker 2>contentment and peace trying to build something that isn't even

0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:41.480
<v Speaker 2>in my blueprint. And the Prophet Elisha, and I need

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:48.320
<v Speaker 2>to tell you something by Elisha. Elisha is a little moody.

0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:51.600
<v Speaker 2>You can't call a man of God moody. I sure

0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:54.000
<v Speaker 2>can because one time some boys called him baldy and

0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.640
<v Speaker 2>he called she bearers out of the woods to devour them.

0:32:57.480 --> 0:33:00.640
<v Speaker 1>That's temperamental qualifies.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think it would have taken a lot of nerve,

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<v Speaker 2>don't you to come up to the prophet and say, man,

0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:12.600
<v Speaker 2>this place you got us meeting respectfully, we need to

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:19.040
<v Speaker 2>do a relocation project. And Alisha says go, and they

0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.560
<v Speaker 2>look at each other like this is amazing.

0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:24.160
<v Speaker 1>He said, we could go. He's letting us do it,

0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.680
<v Speaker 1>so he's gonna let us use stuff. Let's call let's go,

0:33:26.760 --> 0:33:29.520
<v Speaker 1>let's go, And thenn fired up, Let's go, We're gonna.

0:33:29.280 --> 0:33:32.480
<v Speaker 7>Build a house for God on three house on three

0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:34.200
<v Speaker 7>house on me what to do the house?

0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:39.000
<v Speaker 1>Let's go and suddenly watch this.

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<v Speaker 6>I'd read you this part of the story yet, but

0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:42.080
<v Speaker 6>it's the best part of the story.

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<v Speaker 2>All of a sudden, as they're going to build something

0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:48.800
<v Speaker 2>for God with good intentions, with the permission of the prophet,

0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:51.600
<v Speaker 2>he said, we could do it. God said, I'm a conqueror.

0:33:51.760 --> 0:33:53.840
<v Speaker 2>God said, I can do it. God said, this.

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<v Speaker 1>Is my year.

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<v Speaker 2>He's changed break. This is the year dead things come alive.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going. We're going. We're going put up verse three,

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<v Speaker 1>best verse I've read this year so far.

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<v Speaker 2>Then one of them said, now, this is the kid

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:16.320
<v Speaker 2>in the class who raises his hand and says, excuse me, teacher,

0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:19.520
<v Speaker 2>how about that homework assignment?

0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:24.279
<v Speaker 1>This is that kid. And not only that.

0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:27.640
<v Speaker 2>I can't prove it to you, but I think he

0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:30.879
<v Speaker 2>was the smartest one in the whole group. I don't

0:34:30.880 --> 0:34:34.840
<v Speaker 2>know his name, but what he did was so important.

0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:37.640
<v Speaker 2>But he didn't know is important. It seems incidental, but

0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.040
<v Speaker 2>it's not. They're on their way. Everybody, shall let's go

0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:44.319
<v Speaker 2>put it in the comments. Let's go look at your neighbors. Say,

0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:49.480
<v Speaker 2>let's go tell them this year, let's go. Little louder

0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:56.320
<v Speaker 2>say this year, let's go right now, let's go get free,

0:34:56.960 --> 0:35:02.160
<v Speaker 2>let's go rise up, let's go be more.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go Verse three.

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<v Speaker 2>One of them said, I'm gonna ask him.

0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.200
<v Speaker 1>Wait wait wait wait wait wait no, no no. He said,

0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:17.440
<v Speaker 1>we can go. Yeah, yeah, I know. He said, we

0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:20.000
<v Speaker 1>can go. I know, but I'm asking.

0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:23.480
<v Speaker 2>You can't ask him that, yes I can, and yes,

0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 2>you better like goo me right now. I'm asking him

0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:42.719
<v Speaker 2>because I don't just want his permission pray for me.

0:35:43.640 --> 0:35:47.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't just want his permission. I don't just want

0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:52.239
<v Speaker 2>his provision. I don't just want my plan. One of

0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:59.520
<v Speaker 2>them came back and said, Elisha, Elisha, I might be

0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:03.839
<v Speaker 2>out of line. I don't know if you want to.

0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:04.600
<v Speaker 2>I know you're busy.

0:36:05.880 --> 0:36:10.400
<v Speaker 6>You got kill little kids with bears and safe kings.

0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:19.520
<v Speaker 2>But verse three, won't you please come with your servants.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't ask him that this is the prophet.

0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:26.320
<v Speaker 1>This is the man of God.

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:30.879
<v Speaker 8>You got time to swing an acts with you, chop

0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:34.440
<v Speaker 8>down a tree with you, relocate to the messy Jordan

0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:35.080
<v Speaker 8>banks with you.

0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:39.000
<v Speaker 1>This is Elisha. Are you crazy? You ask him if

0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:41.040
<v Speaker 1>you want I'm not getting killed by a bear.

0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:44.440
<v Speaker 8>I'm leaving well enough alone. No no, no, no, no,

0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:50.640
<v Speaker 8>I'm asking him. I'm asking him, Elisha. I appreciate the

0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:54.040
<v Speaker 8>fact that you gave me the opportunity. I appreciate the

0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:55.479
<v Speaker 8>fact that you're letting us go build.

0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:57.040
<v Speaker 2>That's real kind of you, because you could have just

0:36:57.120 --> 0:36:59.040
<v Speaker 2>told us to shut up and be content with what

0:36:59.080 --> 0:36:59.320
<v Speaker 2>we have.

0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:04.160
<v Speaker 1>But I'm not content with what we have if we

0:37:04.200 --> 0:37:04.759
<v Speaker 1>don't have you.

0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:14.120
<v Speaker 2>Now, remember, the prophet represents what the word of God,

0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:16.200
<v Speaker 2>the presence of God.

0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:19.240
<v Speaker 1>And so what I'm trying to say to you today

0:37:19.400 --> 0:37:20.279
<v Speaker 1>is I.

0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:24.520
<v Speaker 2>Don't want you to go for your goal without your God.

0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:29.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't want it to feel like you can do

0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:32.879
<v Speaker 2>anything for three days and then on the fourth day

0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:37.120
<v Speaker 2>it falls apart and you start thinking faith didn't work.

0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:41.160
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't that faith didn't work. You put your faith

0:37:41.280 --> 0:37:44.080
<v Speaker 2>in the faith rather than the God who gave the faith.

0:37:46.080 --> 0:37:50.239
<v Speaker 2>Because this year I have a plan, I have provision,

0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:51.560
<v Speaker 2>I have permission.

0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:57.480
<v Speaker 1>But this year my plan is His presence.

0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:04.520
<v Speaker 2>This year, my plan is that everywhere the soul of

0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:06.840
<v Speaker 2>my foot shall tread like Joshua.

0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:08.279
<v Speaker 1>I believe that.

0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:12.360
<v Speaker 2>God is giving me this place as Holy ground. This

0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:16.120
<v Speaker 2>is the year where I moved the church outside of

0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:19.960
<v Speaker 2>a physical location, and I move it to my car,

0:38:20.400 --> 0:38:23.560
<v Speaker 2>and I move it to my home, and I move.

0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:24.920
<v Speaker 1>It to I move it.

0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:30.520
<v Speaker 2>To my unchangeable situation, and I move it touch somebody

0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:35.000
<v Speaker 2>say move it. They came to elishahskin good Now and

0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:39.160
<v Speaker 2>they said the place we meet with you is too small.

0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:41.279
<v Speaker 1>And they were right, but not how they thought that

0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:41.879
<v Speaker 1>they were right.

0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:46.880
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't only too small in the physical dimensions of it.

0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:50.080
<v Speaker 2>It not only needed to be expanded physically, but the

0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:52.840
<v Speaker 2>place where they thought they could meet with God was

0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:58.160
<v Speaker 2>too small in their perception. Because God doesn't just want

0:38:58.200 --> 0:38:59.600
<v Speaker 2>to come when you build it.

0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:06.160
<v Speaker 1>He wants to be with you as you build. I

0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:08.880
<v Speaker 1>don't know if this makes sense. It does to me.

0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:14.120
<v Speaker 2>Is helping me get my confidence for this year, because

0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:16.080
<v Speaker 2>I've been in this too long to think that my

0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:18.080
<v Speaker 2>plan is going to go down how I plan for

0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:21.239
<v Speaker 2>it this year? So guess what presence is my plan

0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:21.840
<v Speaker 2>this year?

0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:23.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 2>Somebody say, presence is my plan? Ask him what's your

0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.919
<v Speaker 2>five year plan? Ask him what's your five year plan?

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<v Speaker 2>Tell him presence. Ask them for your ten year plan.

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<v Speaker 2>What's your ten year plan presence. What do you mean

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<v Speaker 2>by that? When I'm ten years down the road or

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<v Speaker 2>ten minutes down the road, the God who is with

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<v Speaker 2>me in this moment will not leave me nor forsake

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<v Speaker 2>me until everything he spoke concerning his purpose for my

0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:56.600
<v Speaker 2>life has been fulfilled. So this year I got a

0:39:56.640 --> 0:39:59.120
<v Speaker 2>plan and the plan is his presence.

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<v Speaker 1>What's this? When I walk through the fire, I'm not alone.

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<v Speaker 1>When I walk through the storm, I'm not alone. He's

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<v Speaker 1>with me on the.

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<v Speaker 2>Boat, He's with me in the bowels of the furnace.

0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:11.880
<v Speaker 1>He's with me in this.

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<v Speaker 2>Hmm. That's the word of the Lord. Presence is the plan.

0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:24.120
<v Speaker 2>Presence is the plan. Presence is the plan. God says

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<v Speaker 2>you need a plan.

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<v Speaker 1>B this year. Uh huh, a plan B. Everybody say

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<v Speaker 1>Plan B, Plan B.

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<v Speaker 2>That means if I need if I'm in the wilderness,

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<v Speaker 2>he'll be my water.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah.

0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:40.600
<v Speaker 2>If I'm in a hard place, he'll be my pillow.

0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:44.200
<v Speaker 2>If I'm in a sick bed, he'll be my physician.

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<v Speaker 2>I got a Plan B this year. The Great I

0:40:47.680 --> 0:40:51.239
<v Speaker 2>Am is my plan B. This year, his presence, the

0:40:51.280 --> 0:40:54.360
<v Speaker 2>Great I Am. This is a shift in mentalities for

0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:57.080
<v Speaker 2>all of us control freaks. Who think we are going

0:40:57.120 --> 0:41:00.239
<v Speaker 2>to perfectly design our life and I'm gonna chuck on

0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:02.319
<v Speaker 2>a tree and I'm going to build a building. But

0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:04.640
<v Speaker 2>the thing that you never saw coming is going to

0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:14.200
<v Speaker 2>require the God that you keep forgetting to bring along, beautiful, Holly,

0:41:15.440 --> 0:41:18.839
<v Speaker 2>beautiful Stephen. Would you like a few adjustments, I'm like, yes,

0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:22.680
<v Speaker 2>I would. I'm not trying to twist my lumbar like

0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:25.160
<v Speaker 2>a pretzel in here. I'm not trying to walk out

0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:27.080
<v Speaker 2>of here like I'm ninety one years old.

0:41:27.200 --> 0:41:27.560
<v Speaker 1>I already.

0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:30.439
<v Speaker 2>Why are you walking like I'm eighty nine. I need

0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:32.279
<v Speaker 2>some help in here. Come over here and help me.

0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:33.960
<v Speaker 2>Help me, God, help me.

0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:35.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm using it as an analogy. You understand.

0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm not getting into new age mysticism and telling you

0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:40.720
<v Speaker 2>to do yoga. I'm just saying, just like the Holy Spirit,

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<v Speaker 2>I need you to come along this year, and I

0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:43.919
<v Speaker 2>need you to go with me this year.

0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:44.719
<v Speaker 1>God and God.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't walk in this house without you and God.

0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:48.879
<v Speaker 2>I can't get on this zoom without you. And I'm

0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:51.479
<v Speaker 2>tired of putting up plaques and trophies on a fake

0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:54.520
<v Speaker 2>green screen back behind me, pretending like I'm doing better

0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:57.160
<v Speaker 2>than I am. Come with us, see life. Shall come

0:41:57.200 --> 0:41:59.880
<v Speaker 2>with me, word of God. Come with me on the waters,

0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:02.480
<v Speaker 2>Come with me in the wave, Come with me back

0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:05.839
<v Speaker 2>to school. Come with me into this divorce. Come with

0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:09.240
<v Speaker 2>me into this addiction. Come with me into this crippling state.

0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:12.359
<v Speaker 2>Come with me into this contention. Come with me into

0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:15.560
<v Speaker 2>this argument. Come with me into this text thread. Come

0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.560
<v Speaker 2>with me into this seed. Done with me into this step,

0:42:18.840 --> 0:42:20.520
<v Speaker 2>Done with me into this heartbreak.

0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:26.960
<v Speaker 1>Verse three.

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<v Speaker 7>Will you come with us? Won't you come with us?

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<v Speaker 7>We don't want to go without your God. I don't

0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:34.120
<v Speaker 7>want to preach without you. I don't want to teach

0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.640
<v Speaker 7>without you. I don't want a dad without you. I

0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:38.839
<v Speaker 7>don't want a husband without you. I don't want a

0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:41.520
<v Speaker 7>man without you. I don't want it without you.

0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:47.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to plan without the great I am.

0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:49.719
<v Speaker 2>I want to plan be because I don't even know

0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:51.560
<v Speaker 2>what I need him to be till I get there.

0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:52.560
<v Speaker 1>That's why I.

0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:56.960
<v Speaker 4>Said I am that I am.

0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:59.279
<v Speaker 2>So when you run up on a red sea, you

0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:02.760
<v Speaker 2>gotta plan be. You don't understand what I just said,

0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:04.520
<v Speaker 2>you gotta plan be. You don't even know you need

0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:06.359
<v Speaker 2>him to be a partner of the waters till you're

0:43:06.400 --> 0:43:10.000
<v Speaker 2>looking at a sea. So the sea you didn't plan for,

0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:12.319
<v Speaker 2>you got to plan be. God said, I'll be what

0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:14.400
<v Speaker 2>you need me to be when you step your foot

0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:17.000
<v Speaker 2>where you're going with an awareness of my presence. And

0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:22.800
<v Speaker 2>the thing is He's already in you. It's an issue

0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:29.160
<v Speaker 2>not of ability. It's willingness that really blessed me. How

0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:31.120
<v Speaker 2>the prophet said, well, I don't even think I can

0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:32.040
<v Speaker 2>do this like I want to.

0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:32.840
<v Speaker 1>Not in this setting.

0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:36.520
<v Speaker 2>I'd have to be talking to a small group of

0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:41.680
<v Speaker 2>people who felt like you've been in situations where you

0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:46.520
<v Speaker 2>felt unwanted, and you notice the prophet said in verse two,

0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:50.960
<v Speaker 2>he said go. But what touched me was he wanted

0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:59.279
<v Speaker 2>to come. He was waiting to be asked. Because you

0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:01.160
<v Speaker 2>keep assuming, well, if God wanted to do it, he'd

0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:05.319
<v Speaker 2>do it. What if he's waiting to be asked? What

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.480
<v Speaker 2>if he wants you to involve him? Elisha didn't say

0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:10.400
<v Speaker 2>to the school of the prophet to build a bigger place.

0:44:10.600 --> 0:44:13.799
<v Speaker 2>They said to him, can we do it? Elishah didn't say,

0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:17.160
<v Speaker 2>mind if I tag along? They said, will you come?

0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.239
<v Speaker 2>It took me back to something. This is why it

0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:23.640
<v Speaker 2>touched me. From when Elijah was very little Maya Elijah

0:44:23.680 --> 0:44:24.360
<v Speaker 2>not the prophet.

0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:25.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

0:44:25.640 --> 0:44:27.480
<v Speaker 2>I don't know about when he was. That prophet was

0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:32.799
<v Speaker 2>little of my Elijah. He's he's so convincing and he's

0:44:32.840 --> 0:44:37.040
<v Speaker 2>so persuasive, and he always has been. And then he

0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:39.239
<v Speaker 2>started watching Ben Shapiro, and now he just wants to

0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:44.080
<v Speaker 2>argue all the time. But but when he even wants

0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:45.560
<v Speaker 2>to be sweet. I remember he wanted me to see

0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:47.400
<v Speaker 2>The Avengers. In me, I don't like superhero movies. I

0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:54.719
<v Speaker 2>think they're stupid. So I I'm like, man, we're not

0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:55.960
<v Speaker 2>going to the Avengers.

0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:56.719
<v Speaker 1>And I'm telling you.

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<v Speaker 2>He he went in above like seven years old or

0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:02.279
<v Speaker 2>something like that, very way too young to be out

0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:04.319
<v Speaker 2>this late because it was showing at ten o'clock at night,

0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:07.239
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, can we can we go see the

0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:08.880
<v Speaker 2>ten o'clock And I'm going to take you to Avengers

0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:09.440
<v Speaker 2>at ten o'clock.

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<v Speaker 6>I don't like I don't like superhero movies.

0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:16.719
<v Speaker 1>I don't like ten o'clock. I don't like you after

0:45:16.760 --> 0:45:21.000
<v Speaker 1>ten o'clock. We're not doing this. That boy didn't say

0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:23.200
<v Speaker 1>a word. He went away.

0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:25.320
<v Speaker 6>I'm like, okay, good, we got that done.

0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:28.640
<v Speaker 2>He comes back, doesn't say a word, and brings me

0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:34.160
<v Speaker 2>my shoes and puts them down at my feet. And

0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:35.840
<v Speaker 2>he didn't say anything till he was almost all the

0:45:35.880 --> 0:45:37.600
<v Speaker 2>way out the door. He said, I'll be in the

0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:44.640
<v Speaker 2>car if you change your mind. How how do you

0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:48.440
<v Speaker 2>not take that kid to stone Crass and buy him

0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:53.719
<v Speaker 2>popcorn and coke and caffeinate him and sugar him up.

0:45:53.960 --> 0:45:56.080
<v Speaker 2>And he's up till seven am. But I got a

0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:57.759
<v Speaker 2>sermon illustration out of it.

0:45:58.360 --> 0:46:02.440
<v Speaker 1>Bring God his shoe? Whose bring God?

0:46:02.600 --> 0:46:06.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh, bring God, God.

0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.360
<v Speaker 1>I know you hadn't done it yet. And if you

0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:10.000
<v Speaker 1>don't want.

0:46:09.840 --> 0:46:12.600
<v Speaker 4>To, I trust you. But I'm gonna be in the

0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:16.040
<v Speaker 4>car if you change my mind. I'm gonna be in

0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:17.360
<v Speaker 4>my seat in elevation.

0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:19.040
<v Speaker 1>If you change your.

0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.280
<v Speaker 2>Mind, I'm gonna be in therapy.

0:46:21.360 --> 0:46:25.040
<v Speaker 4>If you change your mind, I'm gonna be working on this.

0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:26.799
<v Speaker 2>Will you come?

0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:31.560
<v Speaker 1>Ask your neighbor, will you come?

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<v Speaker 2>You'd be surprised what God would say yes to if

0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:39.120
<v Speaker 2>you'd get in the vehicle. You'd be surprised what God

0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:40.080
<v Speaker 2>would say yes to.

0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:41.880
<v Speaker 1>If you bring him his shoes.

0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:47.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you'd be surprised where God would meet with you

0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:53.520
<v Speaker 2>if you bring him along. Why wait until you've built

0:46:53.560 --> 0:46:57.480
<v Speaker 2>the place to learn from the prophet Why wait till

0:46:57.520 --> 0:46:59.880
<v Speaker 2>you get the degree to celebrate the progress.

0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:02.879
<v Speaker 1>Why wait till the chains.

0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:05.080
<v Speaker 2>Are all the way broken to show somebody how to

0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:05.719
<v Speaker 2>smash the.

0:47:05.680 --> 0:47:06.960
<v Speaker 1>First link like you did.

0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:10.320
<v Speaker 2>Why wait for the presence of God when he is

0:47:10.360 --> 0:47:12.720
<v Speaker 2>a very present help in the time of trouble.

0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:17.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to tell you he wants to come. He

0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:20.480
<v Speaker 1>wants to come, he wants to come.

0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:25.720
<v Speaker 2>Stop trying to rebuke anxiety in the name of Jesus.

0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:29.520
<v Speaker 2>You don't get through anxiety. By rebuking anxiety in the

0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:34.000
<v Speaker 2>name of Jesus. You receive the grace of Jesus for

0:47:34.239 --> 0:47:38.719
<v Speaker 2>your anxiety, and the grace of Jesus in your anxiety

0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:43.160
<v Speaker 2>becomes Watch this the place where you meet with God.

0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:50.839
<v Speaker 2>Put your feet on the ground and sit there and

0:47:50.920 --> 0:47:54.719
<v Speaker 2>do your breathing exercises and do a downward dog in

0:47:54.760 --> 0:48:00.200
<v Speaker 2>a Hallelujah, and make it the place where you meet

0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:05.680
<v Speaker 2>with God because you're gonna need him. Let's let's talk

0:48:05.719 --> 0:48:07.799
<v Speaker 2>along the way, Elisha, you have so much to share.

0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:08.120
<v Speaker 1>God.

0:48:08.120 --> 0:48:09.840
<v Speaker 2>Would you show me along the way things that I

0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:12.759
<v Speaker 2>think I'm going to learn when I get there. I

0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:17.520
<v Speaker 2>think that's so important because I'm perfectionist and I'm a complainer.

0:48:20.680 --> 0:48:22.319
<v Speaker 6>I'm just guessed. I'm supposed to be helping you, but

0:48:22.400 --> 0:48:23.080
<v Speaker 6>this is helping me.

0:48:24.440 --> 0:48:24.960
<v Speaker 1>I just saw.

0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:26.839
<v Speaker 2>Not only do I get stuck in verse one, where

0:48:26.880 --> 0:48:28.400
<v Speaker 2>I say it's too small, it's not working.

0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:29.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't like this, it's terrible.

0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:34.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm confined and I complain, But sometimes I get stuck

0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:37.440
<v Speaker 2>in verse two. Let us go down and let us

0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:42.080
<v Speaker 2>do it, and let us try. Here's my plan, And

0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:47.319
<v Speaker 2>I never get the verse three his presence because when

0:48:47.320 --> 0:48:49.680
<v Speaker 2>they got down there, Look how Elisha responded. He didn't

0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:51.960
<v Speaker 2>call a bear to kill this boy.

0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:54.920
<v Speaker 1>He didn't he didn't tell him. You ridiculous for a

0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:55.640
<v Speaker 1>waste of my time.

0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:59.840
<v Speaker 2>You know how, sometimes you think that God is too small.

0:49:00.440 --> 0:49:02.359
<v Speaker 2>You think that what you're dealing with is something God

0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:02.920
<v Speaker 2>can't handle.

0:49:03.320 --> 0:49:04.040
<v Speaker 1>And we all think that.

0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:05.680
<v Speaker 2>We watch the news and we see crazy things that

0:49:05.719 --> 0:49:07.239
<v Speaker 2>are happening in the world, and it's not that we

0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:08.880
<v Speaker 2>think God is too small, but it doesn't seem like

0:49:08.920 --> 0:49:13.080
<v Speaker 2>he's doing anything about it. Sometimes I don't think we

0:49:13.160 --> 0:49:16.799
<v Speaker 2>realize how small God is willing to be to show

0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:17.520
<v Speaker 2>how big he is.

0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:22.919
<v Speaker 6>And that's why I chose this passage for my first

0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:23.719
<v Speaker 6>sermon of this.

0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:27.759
<v Speaker 2>Year, because I thought, if we talked about Goliath going down,

0:49:28.680 --> 0:49:30.920
<v Speaker 2>you would wait for a big giant to trust God.

0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:35.200
<v Speaker 2>And it's not the giants all the time that cause

0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:36.320
<v Speaker 2>you to lose your momentum.

0:49:36.320 --> 0:49:37.239
<v Speaker 1>And I know how it is.

0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:39.960
<v Speaker 2>I can do anything for three days, but that fourth day,

0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:43.600
<v Speaker 2>I really love Jesus to about nine forty five am,

0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:47.440
<v Speaker 2>and then nine forty six the devil meets with me.

0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:52.000
<v Speaker 2>I know that feeling, but I believe that not every

0:49:52.080 --> 0:49:54.879
<v Speaker 2>day presents a red sea, a Goliath, a burning bush.

0:49:54.920 --> 0:49:56.840
<v Speaker 2>I mean, all these things are wonderful, and you know

0:49:56.920 --> 0:49:59.680
<v Speaker 2>I love to preach about them. But I started my

0:49:59.760 --> 0:50:02.160
<v Speaker 2>year with the sermon called I don't know what your

0:50:02.520 --> 0:50:06.560
<v Speaker 2>bible heading says their autumn, but mine says uh An.

0:50:06.600 --> 0:50:11.640
<v Speaker 2>Axehead recovered, that's all that said on the subject, and

0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:15.640
<v Speaker 2>Axhead recovered, really, man, you got a whole Bible full

0:50:15.680 --> 0:50:19.680
<v Speaker 2>of nine foot giants and raging seas and you want

0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:24.480
<v Speaker 2>to preach about And axe said, yeah, because I think

0:50:24.520 --> 0:50:26.560
<v Speaker 2>the little moments with God that he wants you to

0:50:26.560 --> 0:50:30.080
<v Speaker 2>have are the ones that are slipping away. And I

0:50:30.160 --> 0:50:32.520
<v Speaker 2>think that's why the other stuff gets so big and

0:50:32.560 --> 0:50:37.440
<v Speaker 2>takes you down. Because the prophet said, I'll go with you,

0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:44.040
<v Speaker 2>and Verse four records what happened next he went with them.

0:50:44.880 --> 0:50:48.080
<v Speaker 6>Wonder what they talked about. Wonder if they talked at all.

0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:51.000
<v Speaker 2>Wonder if they were able to ask him more specifically

0:50:51.280 --> 0:50:52.560
<v Speaker 2>how you think we should build it?

0:50:53.480 --> 0:50:55.880
<v Speaker 6>You know you can ask God's stuff more specific.

0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:58.359
<v Speaker 1>God, is there another way to say that?

0:50:58.760 --> 0:50:58.920
<v Speaker 6>Now?

0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:00.799
<v Speaker 2>I have an advantage over you in this because every

0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:03.040
<v Speaker 2>week I have to try to talk for God to

0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:06.759
<v Speaker 2>you and I'm done, so I get a lot of

0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:09.279
<v Speaker 2>practice of just gods are another way to say that?

0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:11.279
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I already said that before, they're

0:51:11.280 --> 0:51:12.840
<v Speaker 2>gonna hear. They're gonna get as I mean, he says,

0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:15.439
<v Speaker 2>But that's the skill you need for your life too,

0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:19.080
<v Speaker 2>not just to preach. That's the skill you need for

0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:21.840
<v Speaker 2>your life. The skill you need is the presence of

0:51:21.920 --> 0:51:25.440
<v Speaker 2>God just right there in the middle of your zoom meeting,

0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:28.160
<v Speaker 2>with your fake trophies and your shorts, your underwear going

0:51:28.160 --> 0:51:28.759
<v Speaker 2>on under the.

0:51:28.719 --> 0:51:30.319
<v Speaker 1>Desk, and your tie up top.

0:51:32.239 --> 0:51:33.640
<v Speaker 2>You don't have to say it out loud, you don't

0:51:33.640 --> 0:51:35.200
<v Speaker 2>have to go off the screen, just right there, God

0:51:35.280 --> 0:51:38.640
<v Speaker 2>needs you forr ust me, just those little moments. I

0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:41.239
<v Speaker 2>really believe that because watch why did God include this

0:51:41.360 --> 0:51:45.200
<v Speaker 2>boring story in the Bible. You think Elisha didn't do

0:51:45.239 --> 0:51:46.480
<v Speaker 2>more fantastic miracles.

0:51:46.520 --> 0:51:49.600
<v Speaker 1>He did. But the Lord wanted us to have seven.

0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:51.759
<v Speaker 2>Verses to know what happens to us sometimes. And this

0:51:51.800 --> 0:51:53.560
<v Speaker 2>is what I see for so many of the people

0:51:53.600 --> 0:51:54.680
<v Speaker 2>that I pastor.

0:51:54.560 --> 0:51:56.759
<v Speaker 1>Who I meet, and when I meet you, when I.

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<v Speaker 2>Meet you, when I meet with you, you meet with

0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:01.760
<v Speaker 2>God in your own But when I meet you, sometimes

0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:05.560
<v Speaker 2>I hear about the things that the enemy is tormenting

0:52:05.560 --> 0:52:07.879
<v Speaker 2>you with, and it goes something like this. He went

0:52:07.920 --> 0:52:10.680
<v Speaker 2>with them verse four. They went to the Jordan and

0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:15.920
<v Speaker 2>began to cut down trees. It's going good. I'm making progress.

0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:20.360
<v Speaker 2>I apologized, I said, I'm sorry. I actually sent the text,

0:52:20.440 --> 0:52:21.799
<v Speaker 2>I actually looked up the help.

0:52:22.120 --> 0:52:23.359
<v Speaker 1>I actually joined the gym.

0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:26.040
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm not gonna go till about January twenty first,

0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:29.560
<v Speaker 2>when it clears out. That's just strategic. But I'm making

0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:33.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm making my steps. I'm clearing out that room. I'm

0:52:33.480 --> 0:52:35.440
<v Speaker 2>gonna do it this time. Now, I got some food

0:52:35.440 --> 0:52:37.560
<v Speaker 2>in the pantry I gotta clear out. I can't waste it.

0:52:37.600 --> 0:52:39.720
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm gonna eat the peanut butter, but after

0:52:39.760 --> 0:52:42.640
<v Speaker 2>that jar is gone. It's no more peanut butter. I'm

0:52:42.680 --> 0:52:46.920
<v Speaker 2>mea kill the rest of the year. Kale collagen, cardio carnivore.

0:52:46.960 --> 0:52:48.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna do it all this year.

0:52:48.200 --> 0:52:50.040
<v Speaker 6>I'm gonna be a vegan carnivore this year.

0:52:50.239 --> 0:52:51.479
<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna cut down this tree.

0:52:51.719 --> 0:52:53.960
<v Speaker 2>And they begin to cut down the tree, and I

0:52:54.040 --> 0:52:57.560
<v Speaker 2>watch this as one of them it's cutting down a tree.

0:52:59.040 --> 0:53:04.239
<v Speaker 2>The iron axe fell into the water, and all of

0:53:04.280 --> 0:53:06.160
<v Speaker 2>a sudden we go from let's go.

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<v Speaker 1>Suh, oh no, have you ever be honest?

0:53:15.840 --> 0:53:19.359
<v Speaker 2>Or I'll prophesy, have you ever been doing pretty good?

0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:24.680
<v Speaker 2>Let's go I got this And in the middle verse

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<v Speaker 2>five again place of doing what you believe God gave

0:53:27.600 --> 0:53:28.560
<v Speaker 2>you permission to do.

0:53:29.480 --> 0:53:34.920
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, oh no, you're like, it's not a big deal.

0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:37.840
<v Speaker 1>It's an axehead. When it's a big deal to you,

0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:38.600
<v Speaker 1>it's a big deal.

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<v Speaker 2>Stop telling people that God doesn't care about this, and

0:53:43.680 --> 0:53:45.000
<v Speaker 2>God doesn't care about that.

0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:46.560
<v Speaker 1>He numbers every year on your head.

0:53:47.000 --> 0:53:50.240
<v Speaker 2>He cares about everything that pertains to his child.

0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:53.799
<v Speaker 1>And even Elisha, the.

0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:57.160
<v Speaker 2>Rough and rugged prophet who had no time for any

0:53:57.200 --> 0:54:01.200
<v Speaker 2>nonsense as this young man, it says one of them,

0:54:01.960 --> 0:54:03.759
<v Speaker 2>you know, I wonder somebody looked this up for me

0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:06.440
<v Speaker 2>on chat GPT later and send me a text about it.

0:54:07.120 --> 0:54:09.759
<v Speaker 2>I wonder was it the same one that asked him

0:54:09.800 --> 0:54:14.160
<v Speaker 2>to come or was it a different one altogether, Because

0:54:14.200 --> 0:54:16.279
<v Speaker 2>the one that's cutting down the tree, they don't have

0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:19.719
<v Speaker 2>many tools. You understand, this is not a very sophisticated operation.

0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:23.000
<v Speaker 2>As he's cutting down the tree, boom, the head goes

0:54:23.000 --> 0:54:26.000
<v Speaker 2>off the stick and it flies into the Jordan.

0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:28.280
<v Speaker 1>And iron is supposed to be in water.

0:54:28.400 --> 0:54:32.240
<v Speaker 2>Iron is supposed to be on wood, and when iron

0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:34.120
<v Speaker 2>meets wood it makes progress.

0:54:35.200 --> 0:54:38.839
<v Speaker 1>But when iron meets water, you need presents.

0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:42.359
<v Speaker 2>Because the first thing he did when the axe had flew,

0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:46.359
<v Speaker 2>he said, Oh no, my lord, who's he talking to?

0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:47.920
<v Speaker 1>Elishah?

0:54:47.960 --> 0:54:51.120
<v Speaker 2>Who do you talk to when it falls off? Who

0:54:51.120 --> 0:54:54.160
<v Speaker 2>do you talk to when you fall? Who do you

0:54:54.280 --> 0:54:57.400
<v Speaker 2>talk to when your momentum slips? This is so important?

0:54:58.440 --> 0:55:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, my lord, he cried out. It was borrowed.

0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:07.120
<v Speaker 2>Oh this is bad. I can't pay this back. Some

0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:09.840
<v Speaker 2>of us are in situations this year that we can't

0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:13.480
<v Speaker 2>afford to waste, another day that we can't afford to waste,

0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:16.439
<v Speaker 2>another year that we can't afford to just get through

0:55:16.480 --> 0:55:18.040
<v Speaker 2>a month, just barely hanging on.

0:55:18.520 --> 0:55:22.319
<v Speaker 1>He said, I need help, and thank God, help was there.

0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:25.959
<v Speaker 2>Remember if one of them hadn't gone back and asked

0:55:26.000 --> 0:55:29.279
<v Speaker 2>him to come, there would have been no one to

0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:34.600
<v Speaker 2>help when their plans stopped working. And this is what

0:55:34.680 --> 0:55:41.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying about where you meet with God and the prophet,

0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:47.799
<v Speaker 2>the great prophet Elisha, who had the power to turn

0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:52.920
<v Speaker 2>the tides of wars, had the time to help a

0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:57.480
<v Speaker 2>boy get it back. God said, he wants to help

0:55:57.520 --> 0:56:00.960
<v Speaker 2>you get it back this year. God wants to help

0:56:01.000 --> 0:56:02.880
<v Speaker 2>you get it back this year. If this joy, he

0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:04.799
<v Speaker 2>wants to help you get it back this year. If

0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:07.120
<v Speaker 2>this integrity, he wants to help you get it back

0:56:07.160 --> 0:56:10.040
<v Speaker 2>this year. If it's the character to keep your commitments,

0:56:10.239 --> 0:56:12.080
<v Speaker 2>he wants to help you get it back this year.

0:56:12.280 --> 0:56:14.759
<v Speaker 2>If it's a vision for your family, he wants to

0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:16.840
<v Speaker 2>help you get it back this year. If it's a

0:56:16.920 --> 0:56:19.759
<v Speaker 2>perspective on what really matters, he wants to help you

0:56:19.800 --> 0:56:20.879
<v Speaker 2>get it back this year.

0:56:21.320 --> 0:56:22.319
<v Speaker 1>And I want you to.

0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:25.200
<v Speaker 2>Notice very carefully what the prophet did in verse six,

0:56:25.560 --> 0:56:27.600
<v Speaker 2>and this is what I see the Lord doing for us.

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<v Speaker 2>The Man of God asked the boy, where did it fall?

0:56:33.200 --> 0:56:35.680
<v Speaker 2>In that amazing He could have said anything.

0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:39.440
<v Speaker 1>The boy says, oh, no, it was borrowed.

0:56:39.920 --> 0:56:43.400
<v Speaker 2>Well, that was stupid. Why did you borrow it? You

0:56:43.440 --> 0:56:47.120
<v Speaker 2>shouldn't be borrowing stuff anyway. Hadn't you heard Dave Ramsey

0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:50.400
<v Speaker 2>on the radio. You're not supposed to be in debt anyway.

0:56:50.719 --> 0:56:53.080
<v Speaker 2>You need to go drive a uver eats and get

0:56:53.080 --> 0:56:55.680
<v Speaker 2>it paid for. Don't worry about that. That's a good thing,

0:56:55.719 --> 0:56:57.839
<v Speaker 2>because if that's popping, that means the devil does not

0:56:57.880 --> 0:56:59.800
<v Speaker 2>want you to hear the next part of this message.

0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:03.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm very encouraged by that, and I want you all

0:57:03.120 --> 0:57:03.600
<v Speaker 1>to fix it.

0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:06.919
<v Speaker 2>At the same time, the Man of God said, where

0:57:06.960 --> 0:57:07.720
<v Speaker 2>did it fall?

0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:10.680
<v Speaker 1>And when? Now? This is the message. This is the message.

0:57:10.760 --> 0:57:12.080
<v Speaker 1>I was tricking you. I told you the other part

0:57:12.120 --> 0:57:13.400
<v Speaker 1>was the message. This is the message.

0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:18.720
<v Speaker 2>When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick

0:57:19.800 --> 0:57:23.840
<v Speaker 2>through it there and made the iron float. Thanks, but

0:57:23.880 --> 0:57:24.920
<v Speaker 2>no thanks. I'm rocking on.

0:57:25.080 --> 0:57:29.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm moving through. I'm walking on in Jesus' name. I

0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:30.720
<v Speaker 1>want both of my hands.

0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:35.200
<v Speaker 9>To preach this part because the Bible says the Bible,

0:57:35.280 --> 0:57:38.040
<v Speaker 9>I don't care about what your fear says, I don't

0:57:38.120 --> 0:57:41.240
<v Speaker 9>care about what your generation before you says, I don't

0:57:41.280 --> 0:57:44.320
<v Speaker 9>care about what a political party says. I don't care

0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:46.480
<v Speaker 9>about what your wired mind says.

0:57:46.840 --> 0:57:54.080
<v Speaker 2>The Bible says, he didn't condemn him. He just guided

0:57:54.160 --> 0:58:00.200
<v Speaker 2>him to the place and helped it to surface what

0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:00.760
<v Speaker 2>he needed.

0:58:02.840 --> 0:58:04.880
<v Speaker 1>He took a stick, he.

0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:11.200
<v Speaker 2>Threw it there and made the iron float. Aren't you

0:58:11.280 --> 0:58:14.040
<v Speaker 2>grateful for the stuff that God is bringing to the surface.

0:58:13.680 --> 0:58:14.720
<v Speaker 1>This year in your life?

0:58:15.600 --> 0:58:21.040
<v Speaker 2>Now hang on, y'all got six minutes, and I'll finish this.

0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:24.040
<v Speaker 2>If y'all don't have six minutes, I'll just preach this.

0:58:24.200 --> 0:58:26.400
<v Speaker 2>I'll just preach this to I'll preach it to Abbey

0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:28.320
<v Speaker 2>today and she can sit there and give me an

0:58:28.320 --> 0:58:32.200
<v Speaker 2>offering afterwards. Y'all got six minutes. I want to finish this.

0:58:32.240 --> 0:58:34.360
<v Speaker 2>I really want to finish this. I really don't want

0:58:34.360 --> 0:58:35.200
<v Speaker 2>to go home holding this.

0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:40.240
<v Speaker 8>Because when he said, when he showed him the place

0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:45.000
<v Speaker 8>for six when he showed him the place where it fell, that.

0:58:45.080 --> 0:58:48.880
<v Speaker 2>Is where the miracle happened. So I want you to

0:58:48.880 --> 0:58:53.280
<v Speaker 2>see what happened. He was building and it broke. That

0:58:53.400 --> 0:58:55.280
<v Speaker 2>is some of us in the room. While we were

0:58:55.320 --> 0:58:57.960
<v Speaker 2>building what we felt like we were supposed to build,

0:58:58.320 --> 0:59:04.760
<v Speaker 2>it broke, broke our momentum broke our streak, broke our

0:59:05.040 --> 0:59:10.600
<v Speaker 2>days of sobriety. Broke it broke the relationship, broke the heart,

0:59:10.680 --> 0:59:11.880
<v Speaker 2>broke the passion.

0:59:12.120 --> 0:59:16.200
<v Speaker 1>Broke it broke because he was building. Now when it broke,

0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:17.520
<v Speaker 1>it flew into the water.

0:59:17.840 --> 0:59:21.000
<v Speaker 2>So now it has been a functional acxid, and now

0:59:21.120 --> 0:59:22.920
<v Speaker 2>it has fallen into the water.

0:59:23.200 --> 0:59:26.680
<v Speaker 1>It does not belong in the water. Thank God for verse.

0:59:26.440 --> 0:59:29.560
<v Speaker 2>Three where he says come with us, because that means

0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:31.920
<v Speaker 2>that God is with me, not only when it's functional,

0:59:32.360 --> 0:59:33.400
<v Speaker 2>but when it's falling.

0:59:34.600 --> 0:59:36.880
<v Speaker 1>And so now I understand.

0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:39.160
<v Speaker 2>The key of this message, and the key of this year,

0:59:39.400 --> 0:59:42.280
<v Speaker 2>and the key to restoration in your life is that

0:59:42.360 --> 0:59:45.200
<v Speaker 2>God does not only want to be with you when

0:59:45.240 --> 0:59:48.600
<v Speaker 2>you build it, he wants to be with you when

0:59:48.600 --> 0:59:49.200
<v Speaker 2>it breaks.

0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:53.960
<v Speaker 1>And I want you to invite.

0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:57.160
<v Speaker 2>God into the places where it breaks this year. I

0:59:57.240 --> 0:59:59.840
<v Speaker 2>want you not to pretend like you've got the trophies,

1:00:00.280 --> 1:00:03.320
<v Speaker 2>pretend like there hasn't been a flood, pretend like.

1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:04.320
<v Speaker 1>You're in a great place.

1:00:04.680 --> 1:00:07.240
<v Speaker 2>I want you to make the place that you struggle

1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:08.280
<v Speaker 2>the most.

1:00:09.480 --> 1:00:16.360
<v Speaker 1>The place where you meet with God. And what is

1:00:16.400 --> 1:00:16.920
<v Speaker 1>that place?

1:00:18.920 --> 1:00:23.080
<v Speaker 2>Because notice there is a part that God does and

1:00:23.120 --> 1:00:24.960
<v Speaker 2>there is a part that God does not do.

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<v Speaker 1>The Word of the Lord brought the iron.

1:00:28.240 --> 1:00:32.000
<v Speaker 2>Verse six, please to the surface, but it did not

1:00:32.040 --> 1:00:38.000
<v Speaker 2>bring it to the shore. Verse seven. Lift it out,

1:00:38.040 --> 1:00:43.840
<v Speaker 2>he said, I'm showing it to you. I'm revealing it

1:00:43.880 --> 1:00:46.760
<v Speaker 2>to you. There are things that the Spirit of God

1:00:46.800 --> 1:00:51.520
<v Speaker 2>will supernaturally reveal to you, but they must be practically recovered.

1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Lift it out. You can't make iron float. God can.

1:00:59.200 --> 1:01:01.440
<v Speaker 1>But sometimes something is floating, but it's.

1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Not fixed yet. And this is where you meet God.

1:01:06.000 --> 1:01:11.480
<v Speaker 2>Grace is where God meets you. Faith is where you

1:01:12.400 --> 1:01:23.760
<v Speaker 2>meet God. Lifted out, and then the man reached out

1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:27.840
<v Speaker 2>his hand and took it.

1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:36.400
<v Speaker 10>It's broken, but it's back, is broken, but it's back.

1:01:38.160 --> 1:01:40.800
<v Speaker 10>It's broken, but it's back.

1:01:42.120 --> 1:01:43.960
<v Speaker 2>My life is not exactly what I want it to

1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:45.080
<v Speaker 2>be at this agent stage.

1:01:45.080 --> 1:01:49.880
<v Speaker 1>It is broken, but it's back. I'm not on the

1:01:49.960 --> 1:01:52.880
<v Speaker 1>right path that I set out to be on. It's broken,

1:01:54.360 --> 1:01:55.080
<v Speaker 1>but it's back.

1:01:56.440 --> 1:02:00.280
<v Speaker 2>And I hear a calling from the Holy Spirit this

1:02:00.400 --> 1:02:04.439
<v Speaker 2>year to somebody's life. Who thinks that you can only

1:02:04.480 --> 1:02:07.880
<v Speaker 2>meet with God when you are in a perfectly manicured

1:02:08.000 --> 1:02:12.640
<v Speaker 2>environment full of meditative promises and meticulously kept character. No, no, no,

1:02:13.400 --> 1:02:16.760
<v Speaker 2>the place you meet with God is in the place

1:02:16.800 --> 1:02:21.360
<v Speaker 2>you need him the most. If the axe head had

1:02:21.360 --> 1:02:23.720
<v Speaker 2>not fallen off, there would have been no miracle.

1:02:24.600 --> 1:02:26.040
<v Speaker 1>So I am telling you.

1:02:26.280 --> 1:02:30.200
<v Speaker 2>To stop waiting for a future place to meet God

1:02:30.240 --> 1:02:34.520
<v Speaker 2>and experience his presence and take him to the place

1:02:34.560 --> 1:02:40.880
<v Speaker 2>where the blade flung off your stick and watch him

1:02:40.960 --> 1:02:44.440
<v Speaker 2>bring something up. Here's the thing I learned, Ee, you

1:02:44.560 --> 1:02:49.280
<v Speaker 2>got to reach for it. The axe head did not swim.

1:02:48.840 --> 1:02:53.080
<v Speaker 1>To the boy. He reached for it. And I believe

1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:54.400
<v Speaker 1>that God has given.

1:02:54.160 --> 1:02:57.080
<v Speaker 6>You something today to show you something today.

1:02:57.680 --> 1:02:58.800
<v Speaker 1>That he's calling you to reach for.

1:02:59.080 --> 1:03:01.080
<v Speaker 2>He's not gonna he not going to make you dive

1:03:01.120 --> 1:03:02.440
<v Speaker 2>down to the bottom and find it.

1:03:02.520 --> 1:03:04.000
<v Speaker 1>You can't do that.

1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:08.760
<v Speaker 2>That's what grace does. But what does faith do? Reach

1:03:08.840 --> 1:03:17.080
<v Speaker 2>out and lift it up. Grace reveals what faith retrieves.

1:03:19.520 --> 1:03:23.760
<v Speaker 2>May this be a year of recovery for you. May

1:03:23.800 --> 1:03:26.959
<v Speaker 2>this be a year of clarity for you, for God

1:03:27.000 --> 1:03:29.720
<v Speaker 2>to bring things out up out of the muddy Jordan river.

1:03:30.080 --> 1:03:33.360
<v Speaker 2>May this be a year that you don't stand swinging

1:03:33.440 --> 1:03:38.160
<v Speaker 2>your stick knowing this isn't working anymore. May this be

1:03:38.200 --> 1:03:41.160
<v Speaker 2>a year that you don't just keep pretending like everything's

1:03:41.200 --> 1:03:43.720
<v Speaker 2>fine when you know your effectiveness is at the bottom

1:03:43.800 --> 1:03:48.000
<v Speaker 2>of the water. May this be the year that you

1:03:48.960 --> 1:03:52.800
<v Speaker 2>meet with God in weird places. May this be the

1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:55.920
<v Speaker 2>year that you sneak into the bathroom and instead of pills,

1:03:55.960 --> 1:03:56.720
<v Speaker 2>you take a prayer.

1:03:57.040 --> 1:04:01.800
<v Speaker 1>May this be the year where you meet with God.

1:04:03.200 --> 1:04:05.160
<v Speaker 2>I had a friend tell me one time. I said,

1:04:05.280 --> 1:04:08.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm having my quiet time in the car these days,

1:04:08.120 --> 1:04:10.680
<v Speaker 2>my devotion time with God. Christians we call quiet time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's little christian Eese for you. I'm gonna do a

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<v Speaker 2>whole series one year called do you speak Christianese. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna take every little thing we say that we don't

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<v Speaker 2>even stop to define for people, and say this is

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<v Speaker 2>what that kind of means.

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<v Speaker 1>And I told him I was.

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<v Speaker 2>Meeting with God in my car a lot lately, and

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<v Speaker 2>God was coming in my car, and I was playing

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<v Speaker 2>all my.

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<v Speaker 1>Worship CDs, John P.

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<v Speaker 2>Key's Strength and Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Tabernacle.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I have the best times with God in

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<v Speaker 1>my car, Paul Blash.

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<v Speaker 2>And Tommy Walker and all the Integrity Boys too. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I had the greatest meetings with God.

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<v Speaker 1>In my car.

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<v Speaker 2>He said those don't count. I said, it doesn't count.

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<v Speaker 2>He said no, it's not set aside time for God.

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<v Speaker 2>You got to set a side time for God. God

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<v Speaker 2>wants to know you're serious. You got to set a

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<v Speaker 2>side time for God. I believe that the place that

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<v Speaker 2>you meet with God is too If you believe that,

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<v Speaker 2>put up verse one again. The place where we meet

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<v Speaker 2>with you is too small. If you want to meet

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<v Speaker 2>with God in your breakfast nook, by all means, play

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<v Speaker 2>a Brandon Lake CD and do it if you can

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<v Speaker 2>find a CD player. But when you leave that place,

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<v Speaker 2>you better meet with God in the next place too.

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<v Speaker 2>Because the place you meet with God is too small.

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<v Speaker 2>If the only place you meet with God is when

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<v Speaker 2>you get a holy ghost goose bump, the place you

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<v Speaker 2>meet with God is too small. So everybody stand up

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<v Speaker 2>on your feet, and I want you, by faith, just

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<v Speaker 2>to stretch your hands up like you're reaching for something

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<v Speaker 2>that was lost that the enemy tried to steal, and

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<v Speaker 2>just say this out loud.

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<v Speaker 1>God, will you come with me now? Wait?

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<v Speaker 2>Wait, wait, don't say anything. Answers yes. He already promised

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<v Speaker 2>his presence. It lives inside of you. May this be

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<v Speaker 2>the year where the place where you meet with God

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<v Speaker 2>becomes the mountaintop of your victory and the valley of

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<v Speaker 2>your midnight. The place you meet with God has been

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<v Speaker 2>too small. The church is the only place you meet

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<v Speaker 2>with God. The place you meet with God is too small.

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<v Speaker 2>Expand your expectation of God's presence. I declare over your

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<v Speaker 2>life a year of expansion, not just that you would

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<v Speaker 2>get more stuff, but that you would get more Him.

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<v Speaker 2>If you get more Him, you have everything. If you

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<v Speaker 2>have not Him, you have nothing. May this be the

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<v Speaker 2>year of His presence in your life. God come with

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<v Speaker 2>me to work this year. God, come with me as

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<v Speaker 2>I struggle to sleep at night. God, come with me

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<v Speaker 2>into the challenge this year. God come with me into

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<v Speaker 2>the uncertainty.

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<v Speaker 1>Will you come? And he says yes?

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<v Speaker 2>And he says when it falls, I'll show you where

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<v Speaker 2>to reach to get it back. Put your hands down

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<v Speaker 2>right now. There's somebody heads about, eyes closed, and this

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<v Speaker 2>is your moment to meet Jesus and be saved.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to me.

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<v Speaker 2>God is not waiting for you to come to him.

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<v Speaker 1>He came to you. That is the message of the Gospel.

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<v Speaker 2>So anytime you spend thinking I'm going to work my

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<v Speaker 2>way to God, that's not how this works.

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<v Speaker 1>That's religion. That is not the gospel.

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<v Speaker 2>The gospel is this, God made him who knew no sin,

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<v Speaker 2>to become sin for us, that we might become the

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<v Speaker 2>righteousness of God. What am I trying to say to you,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying God has already done it, and now right now,

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<v Speaker 2>if this is your moment you say, I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to go into this year doing it by myself. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to go into this yere pretending like I've

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<v Speaker 2>got it together. I want the grace of God. I

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<v Speaker 2>want to receive Jesus. I'm going to pray a prayer.

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<v Speaker 2>If you repeat this prayer after me and mean it

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<v Speaker 2>in your heart, the Bible says that God will hear

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<v Speaker 2>you from heaven.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you.

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<v Speaker 2>Confess with your mouth Jesus's Lord and believe in your

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<v Speaker 2>heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody who's coming back to God today, your life is broken,

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<v Speaker 2>but you can have it in Jesus' name. Repeat after me,

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<v Speaker 2>Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. I am

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<v Speaker 2>a sinner in need of a savior, and I believe

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<v Speaker 2>that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the

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<v Speaker 2>savior of the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe he died that I would be forgiven and

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<v Speaker 2>rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.

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<v Speaker 2>This is my new beginning. On the counter of three shoots.

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<v Speaker 2>Your hand up if you've prayed that one too, free

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<v Speaker 2>all over the room, on every location. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>reach out and take it. It's the gift of God.

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<v Speaker 2>Reach out and take it. It's the gift of God.

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