Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these
Speaker 2: new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today.
Speaker 3: I want you to take your hands and just put
Speaker 3: them like this. Today's going to be a special day.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a special day. I want to
Speaker 3: teach you that prayer we were singing. That prayer came
Speaker 3: out of my personal time with God dealing with my
Speaker 3: own anxiety and fear and stress and all the things that.
Speaker 1: We deal with.
Speaker 3: And Holly shared it a few weeks ago, and it
Speaker 3: just gives you an opportunity to reset.
Speaker 1: And I want to give you that opportunity right now.
Speaker 1: Just take a deep breath.
Speaker 4: And breathe out again, and just repeat after me, say,
Speaker 4: I breathe you in Holy Spirit, and your strength comes suddenly,
Speaker 4: and your peace fills me completely.
Speaker 1: Let's pray it again. I breathe you in.
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, and your strength comes suddenly, and your peace.
Speaker 1: Fills me completely. Come Holy Spirit, with every breath.
Speaker 3: Come, Come have your way, Come show us Jesus, Come
Speaker 3: teach us your word, Come lead us.
Speaker 1: In your ways.
Speaker 3: Come renew our minds. We're waiting here for you and
Speaker 3: breathe you in. Thank you today, Lord, for each person
Speaker 3: that you drew to be a part of this moment.
Speaker 3: I believe that it was you that made the arrangements
Speaker 3: for us to be here at this time. And I
Speaker 3: believe that there's something that you are going to speak today,
Speaker 3: words of comfort, conviction, healing, and instruction. We want to
Speaker 3: say to you that unless you come, we're not enough.
Speaker 3: But if you come, and we believe that you're here
Speaker 3: right now, we believe that you're filling us right now.
Speaker 3: We believe that you're doing it right now. If you come,
Speaker 3: we can do all things through Him who gives us strength.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your strength, Lord, Thank you for the
Speaker 3: confidence that only comes from you.
Speaker 1: We receive it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's clap
Speaker 1: our hands and thank God for his presence.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to share these moments with you today,
Speaker 3: and I want to share with you right from my
Speaker 3: personal time with God remains standing for a moment, and
Speaker 3: I want to just tell you this before.
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you before I tell you what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you what I'm gonna tell you. It's been
Speaker 3: several years since I've preached on this particular weekend. It's
Speaker 3: a holiday weekend, and normally I take this weekend off.
Speaker 3: But something God was stirring in me was so strong
Speaker 3: that I felt that it was meant to be released
Speaker 3: on this particular day. And I don't say that to
Speaker 3: get your expectations too high, because you know then there's
Speaker 3: no possible way that we could live up to it.
Speaker 3: But there is something that God has been speaking, and
Speaker 3: this is Pentecost Sunday.
Speaker 1: Now Pentecost Sunday.
Speaker 3: You're like, do they have Episcopalian Sunday, Baptist Sunday? Does
Speaker 3: every one of these denominations get a Sunday. We're not
Speaker 3: celebrating a denomination today, but Pentecost is where the Church
Speaker 3: celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: And that was not a Pentecostal response to that.
Speaker 3: So this is definitely an interesting situation, like the least
Speaker 3: Pentecostal response that could possibly be that's how we do it,
Speaker 3: but it's really beyond any certain tradition. There's there is
Speaker 3: a stirring in my spirit to give you two scriptures
Speaker 3: today and kind of come right out of that song
Speaker 3: where we were singing.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I listened to this.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to give you two scriptures, and then
Speaker 3: I'm going to have you be seated and teach what
Speaker 3: I believe is one of my life messages. They used
Speaker 3: to come around all the time when the church was growing,
Speaker 3: and these consultants would come and they'd say, you need
Speaker 3: to develop a life message. And I was twenty nine.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I haven't lived, but at this stage of
Speaker 3: my life, there are some things that I believe God
Speaker 3: has called me to impart and I'm learning about that,
Speaker 3: and I believe.
Speaker 1: This is one of them.
Speaker 3: Now, the first scripture I want to give you is
Speaker 3: from Second Kings chapter three. You're not going to know
Speaker 3: what's going on around here, but you will know when
Speaker 3: you need to. So Second King's Chapter three, just one
Speaker 3: verse and then I'll tell you the story behind it. Now,
Speaker 3: it happened in the morning when the grain offering was offered,
Speaker 3: that suddenly water came by way of Eaedom as the wilderness.
Speaker 1: Now, it happened in.
Speaker 3: The morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly
Speaker 3: water came by way of Eatom and the land was
Speaker 3: filled with water.
Speaker 1: Somebody shouts, suddenly.
Speaker 3: Now let's go over to Acts chapter two, the original
Speaker 3: Pentecost Sunday. It's been ten days since Jesus ascended to heaven.
Speaker 3: It's been fifty days since he rose from the dead.
Speaker 3: Pentam means five, So it's been It's a celebration that
Speaker 3: is in progress.
Speaker 1: But the scripture says, and suddenly, Acts Chapter two, verse two.
Speaker 3: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of
Speaker 3: a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the whole house
Speaker 3: where they were sitting.
Speaker 1: I don't think you heard me.
Speaker 3: It filled the whole house, every single nook, every single cranny.
Speaker 3: It filled the kitchen, It filled the bathrooms, It filled
Speaker 3: the living room, It filled the whole house. God told
Speaker 3: me to preach a message today and release a word
Speaker 3: to you. This is called a steady hand for a
Speaker 3: sudden blessing. A steady hand for a sudden blessing. Touch
Speaker 3: three people and scare them on your way to your seat,
Speaker 3: Say suddenly it's gonna come suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, Wow,
Speaker 3: thank you Lord. I'm so excited I might sweat. I
Speaker 3: shouldn't have warned this sweat, or I might sweat. I
Speaker 3: can't tell what temperature is going to be right here
Speaker 3: in Charlotte right now, from day to day.
Speaker 1: I'm so confused. It'll change on you like that, feel
Speaker 1: like summer one day and fall the next. Did it
Speaker 1: just switch on you suddenly? So so that's all right.
Speaker 3: I was even glad it was raining today because I
Speaker 3: thought it was a sign that God wanted me to
Speaker 3: preach when the rain comes suddenly.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. You'll think I'm playing around. That's not a joke,
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 3: Thank God wanted me to share this steady hand for
Speaker 3: a sudden blessing. Put that title right in the chat,
Speaker 3: say a steady hand for a sudden blessing. Now we'll
Speaker 3: talk about both of those, because both are important. I'll
Speaker 3: write this down if you'd like to take notes, to
Speaker 3: give you a good sense of momentum as we begin
Speaker 3: this sermon. What we experience suddenly was usually engineered steadily.
Speaker 3: What we experience suddenly was usually not all the time,
Speaker 3: but usually engineered steadily. And so what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is behind most things that happened quickly to our eyes,
Speaker 3: there was consistency that enabled it to happen that we
Speaker 3: didn't see. So, just for an example of that, one
Speaker 3: of my friends, who is a professional fighter, knocked out
Speaker 3: one of his opponents in like thirty seconds. And I
Speaker 3: had paid sixty dollars to watch the pay per view.
Speaker 3: And when I called to congratulate him, I said, I'm
Speaker 3: so glad you won, and congratulations on the victory.
Speaker 1: But did you have to knock him out so quick?
Speaker 1: It was sixty dollars.
Speaker 3: I was doing the math on the price per second,
Speaker 3: and of course I was joking, but he got real
Speaker 3: mad about it, and uh, and he's a professional fighter,
Speaker 3: and so that was really intimidating. But I never forgot
Speaker 3: what he said. He said what he said, what you
Speaker 3: saw me do with one with one blow? I trained
Speaker 3: six months to be able to do that. And beside
Speaker 3: the fact that I trained six months, I've been doing
Speaker 3: this all my life.
Speaker 1: He was trying to get me to.
Speaker 3: See that what looked like luck through the lens of
Speaker 3: my experience.
Speaker 1: Was anything.
Speaker 3: But what we experienced quickly is over already.
Speaker 1: I was just I was just giving my popcorn.
Speaker 3: What we experienced quickly was engineered through consistency.
Speaker 1: Isn't that true in your life?
Speaker 3: Since our church did grow fast a lot of people
Speaker 3: called us an overnight success. One thing I love about
Speaker 3: the reason of life that I'm in is that not
Speaker 3: only have I been pastoring this church now for over
Speaker 3: seventeen years, but this Thursday I will celebrate twenty one
Speaker 3: years of marriage to Holly this Thursday. And yesterday when
Speaker 3: my barber asked me, what's one nugget of wisdom from
Speaker 3: twenty one years, I said, easy, Mary, Holly, that's the
Speaker 3: best thing I ever did. That's my whole marriage book,
Speaker 3: Mary Her. I really do think the selection process was
Speaker 3: a blessing. But of course, I mean, we want it
Speaker 3: in one principle for twenty one years. There's no one
Speaker 3: principle for twenty one years, there's no one anything for anything.
Speaker 1: And yet I have preached.
Speaker 3: And taught that so much out of a desire to
Speaker 3: be balanced that sometimes I think I fail to remind
Speaker 3: you that with our God, it happen suddenly. Now I
Speaker 3: feel my faith rising up today, so I don't even
Speaker 3: need yours to say what God gave me to say,
Speaker 3: it can come suddenly. It can, and it often does
Speaker 3: come suddenly. So that's why I wrote a prayer for
Speaker 3: myself that said, I breathe you in Holy Spirit, and
Speaker 3: your strength comes suddenly, Because there will be moments in
Speaker 3: my life where I need God to do it right now.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're in one of those moments today. I want
Speaker 3: to speak to that moment. If you are in that
Speaker 3: moment where you need God to give you wisdom and
Speaker 3: you don't have six years to study the subject to
Speaker 3: get the wisdom, the wisdom can come suddenly. Say it
Speaker 3: out loud, let's get this confession turning in our spirits.
Speaker 3: It can come suddenly. Say it again. It can come suddenly.
Speaker 3: In the chat, it can come suddenly. No sooner can
Speaker 3: you start to think it's never gonna happen than it
Speaker 3: does happen while you were wondering how it was going
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: It can come suddenly.
Speaker 3: And on the day of Pentecost there came a sudden sound,
Speaker 3: a sudden sound for a people who were sitting in
Speaker 3: the middle of a very difficult and uncertain season. See,
Speaker 3: not only has it been ten days since Jesus left
Speaker 3: the earth, they have no clue how and when He's
Speaker 3: going to restore the Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's you.
Speaker 3: Maybe you need God to come right now because you
Speaker 3: have no clue, no clue, just graduated college and you
Speaker 3: have no clue who's going to hire. You told me
Speaker 3: to put a little graduation speech energy in this today,
Speaker 3: So I'm put a little graduation speech energy in this
Speaker 3: today for everybody who is in high school right now,
Speaker 3: and they're all asking you where are you going to college?
Speaker 3: And what are you going to do with your life?
Speaker 3: And where are you going to retire to? I mean,
Speaker 3: we start asking everybody everything so soon before I even
Speaker 3: get a chance to know who I am. I can't
Speaker 3: even hang my middle school diploma on my wall, my
Speaker 3: eighth grade graduation participation trophy certificate on my wall before
Speaker 3: you want to know, well, where are you going to college?
Speaker 3: And nowadays there is so much pressure. Let me rant,
Speaker 3: Let me rant, Let me rant. I came in on
Speaker 3: a holiday weekend, so let me rant. Let me have
Speaker 3: a little fun, Let me have a little therapy. So
Speaker 3: is so necessary that our kids have a nine point
Speaker 3: seven gpa in the third grade, so that in case
Speaker 3: they want to go to Harvard? What if in case
Speaker 3: I don't want to pay for Harvard? Stop asking my
Speaker 3: kids are you going to Harvard? I want them to
Speaker 3: go to Harvard. I want them to go to online
Speaker 3: school because it's cheaper. Leave my kids alone, somebody that's
Speaker 3: had somebody pressuring you to make a decision, just shout,
Speaker 3: real quick.
Speaker 1: Leave me alone. I don't low when y'all gonna have
Speaker 1: kids and you gonna give me some grand babies. Leave
Speaker 1: me alone. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You can't say that to your mom's face, but you
Speaker 3: could say in church right now. So I'm kind of
Speaker 3: reminded of what Jesus said when the disciples were like.
Speaker 1: Is it time? Is it time? Is it time?
Speaker 3: This is in Acts chapter one. They're like, is it time?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna restore the kingdom to Israel? And Jesus
Speaker 3: is like, this is a great little Bible verse for
Speaker 3: everything you think you need to know that you don't
Speaker 3: know right now, and you think you can't go forward
Speaker 3: to you know everything you think you need to know,
Speaker 3: and so you are staying frozen in what you don't know.
Speaker 3: Look at Acts chapter one, verse seven, on this Pentecost Sunday,
Speaker 3: here you go, and he Jesus capital Ah, that's the
Speaker 3: big guy, that's the big boss, that's the chef in
Speaker 3: the back of the kitchen, and the owner all rolled
Speaker 3: up into one, and he said to them, it is
Speaker 3: not for you to know the times or seasons which
Speaker 3: the Father has put in his own authority. This is
Speaker 3: not permission to be ignorant. It's just an invitation into mystery.
Speaker 3: Because watch what he says next verse eight. But you
Speaker 3: shall receive.
Speaker 1: Power. So I like this little thing like.
Speaker 3: I don't know the plan, but that doesn't mean I
Speaker 3: don't have the power.
Speaker 1: I love that, don't you.
Speaker 3: I don't know the plan and I don't know how
Speaker 3: this ends, and I don't know when, but I definitely
Speaker 3: know who.
Speaker 1: See, the Holy Spirit doesn't just give power, he is power.
Speaker 3: So if you believe in Jesus, are there any believers
Speaker 3: in the house, and if you've called on his name
Speaker 3: to save you, not only did he save you, but
Speaker 3: he's stepping through every season with you. And you have power.
Speaker 3: Somebody shout power. I even need my security to shout power. Power, power, power, power, power.
Speaker 3: That's what I've got. You got a plan, No I
Speaker 3: got power, You got it all worked out.
Speaker 1: No I got power.
Speaker 3: You got a seven step strategy. No I got power.
Speaker 3: Power enough to do what? Power enough to walk it?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I gotta get back to it. I gotta
Speaker 1: get back to it.
Speaker 3: He said, it is not for you to know the
Speaker 3: times that the Father has called you to trust him
Speaker 3: with so a lot of times. It is not about
Speaker 3: us knowing what time it's going to be when it happens.
Speaker 3: It's about us trusting God enough that until he does
Speaker 3: show us what he's doing, we can trust him that
Speaker 3: his hand is steady, that his hand is active, that
Speaker 3: his heart is full of love for me. And this
Speaker 3: enables me to stand in uncertain seasons. I mean, it
Speaker 3: is an uncertain season when Jesus just vanishes and you
Speaker 3: don't know when he's coming back. The disciples were like,
Speaker 3: we need to know. I'm speaking to somebody today who
Speaker 3: thinks you need to know something that you don't need
Speaker 3: to know right now.
Speaker 1: And what I want you to begin to.
Speaker 3: Say to yourself over the next seven days, for all
Speaker 3: of those times that you think you need to know
Speaker 3: something that God is trusting you to let him control,
Speaker 3: is just over and over say, I'll know, this is
Speaker 3: my first point of the sermon. I'm like, I've already
Speaker 3: made some points, but this is the first one. I
Speaker 3: told him to put on the screen when I need to.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I need to that thing hit me.
Speaker 3: That thing hit me the other day because I was
Speaker 3: praying about something. Well, okay, that's very generous to call
Speaker 3: it prayer. I was worrying about something. I don't know
Speaker 3: why I wanted to label it prayer in front of you.
Speaker 3: Y'all make me want to get up here and pretend
Speaker 3: I'm holier than I am. I was stress eating about something.
Speaker 3: I really don't want to get any more honest than.
Speaker 1: This about it. That's about as far as I'm.
Speaker 3: Willing to go with you. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 3: What were you stress eating? Don't worry about it. That's
Speaker 3: all you need to know. This relationship is on a
Speaker 3: need to know basis, and so is your relationship with God.
Speaker 1: I'll know when I need to say that. I'll know
Speaker 1: when I need to.
Speaker 3: I love participation in response because I think when you
Speaker 3: speak something that God speaks to you, it has a
Speaker 3: lot more of an opportunity to get in you than
Speaker 3: just when you listen to me say it.
Speaker 1: I'll know when I need to.
Speaker 3: And this is what Jesus is saying to the disciples
Speaker 3: right like, there are some things that God can only control,
Speaker 3: and then there are some things that you are responsible for.
Speaker 3: So it is not for you to know the times,
Speaker 3: but it is for you to walk in the power.
Speaker 3: Now that helps me with this, because if I were
Speaker 3: teaching this like a seminar and not preaching it like
Speaker 3: a sermon, I would talk about how desperation drives you
Speaker 3: to revelation, How desperation drives you to revelation.
Speaker 1: Some things you will never.
Speaker 3: Know in your life until you become convinced that you
Speaker 3: need to know them.
Speaker 1: And the best.
Speaker 3: Example I can give you is there are books that
Speaker 3: you bought that you never read, that are sitting on
Speaker 3: your shelf waiting for you to hit a situation that
Speaker 3: makes you go pull that book off of your shelf.
Speaker 1: Hello, parents.
Speaker 3: There was a book that I bought because I thought
Speaker 3: it had a cool title about parenting years ago, but
Speaker 3: I never read it until my oldest son turned thirteen.
Speaker 1: I went to find that book.
Speaker 3: I grabbed the hardcover paper book off the shelf. I
Speaker 3: downloaded the digital one so I could have it on
Speaker 3: my Kindle so I could take it on my phone.
Speaker 3: I downloaded the audio book so the author could read
Speaker 3: it to me in their own voice, because they had
Speaker 3: a British accent and I thought that sounded kind of sophisticated.
Speaker 3: But I didn't even watch this what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 3: I didn't dig for it until I got desperate for it.
Speaker 3: And a lot of things that we say we want
Speaker 3: to know about God, we don't really want to know
Speaker 3: them badly enough yet because we don't think we need.
Speaker 1: It badly enough yet. So we approach God.
Speaker 3: Kind of wanting surface levels, superficial knowledge about decisions in
Speaker 3: our life. But some things are only going to become
Speaker 3: plain and real to us as we get past the
Speaker 3: place of thinking that we can control it, and we'll
Speaker 3: start saying, what was that scripture Pastor Stephen was preaching
Speaker 3: that Sunday when I went and it was raining and
Speaker 3: I was kind of sleepy, and I didn't write it down?
Speaker 1: Did you write it down?
Speaker 3: And you'll be going to your neighbor asking did you
Speaker 3: take notes? Because when you need those notes, I'm saying,
Speaker 3: when you need those notes, put everything that I say
Speaker 3: that sounds even like it might be good at some
Speaker 3: time in the future in your phone, because you don't
Speaker 3: know how the devil's going to be fighting you this Friday,
Speaker 3: And what if God has given you the word right now?
Speaker 3: For the fight you're going to be in Friday. But
Speaker 3: you don't know about that fight yet, But put it
Speaker 3: in your phone so when the fight comes, you will
Speaker 3: know where to go.
Speaker 5: That God gave me this word for this fight before
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 1: Ever even the first round.
Speaker 3: See, I can't hit the gym and start lifting when
Speaker 3: it's time for a competition. And I'm gonna be in
Speaker 3: some situations in my life where I need sudden strength.
Speaker 3: So how do I get sudden strength? This with a
Speaker 3: steady hand. It's gonna come all of a sudden. And
Speaker 3: I believe that there are many here today who are
Speaker 3: standing in front of something that God is calling you
Speaker 3: to walk into, but you won't go into it because
Speaker 3: you don't know what's on the other side of it.
Speaker 1: Enter Elisha the Prophet.
Speaker 3: Now this is what I got up to talk to
Speaker 3: you about on this Pentecost Sunday, little Bible story.
Speaker 1: I really love.
Speaker 3: I hope you love it too by the time that
Speaker 3: we're done. And I don't need you to know every
Speaker 3: single detail about the Kingdom of Israel to get this
Speaker 3: Bible passage.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 3: I know some people when they get into this stuff,
Speaker 3: they're like, I feel so dumb. Man I don't know
Speaker 3: any of these Bible stories, and I know I should,
Speaker 3: but I don't know what.
Speaker 1: You're talking about.
Speaker 3: You don't need to know every bed of the background
Speaker 3: of this just to get what God has for you
Speaker 3: from it. So here's what I think you need to
Speaker 3: know about this passage. The King of Israel, the King
Speaker 3: of Judah. So there's a northern kingdom of Israel, southern
Speaker 3: Kingdom of Judah. Jehasha Fat he's a pretty good king
Speaker 3: in Judah. Jehoram terrible king, but his mom was Jezebel.
Speaker 3: She was really really bad, and Ahab was bad. So
Speaker 3: he came by it honest and so he didn't really
Speaker 3: get a lot of good training in how to do this,
Speaker 3: but he was terrible. These two kings are with another
Speaker 3: king from Moab and are from uh, excuse me, I
Speaker 3: messed that up from Edom. See I get this stuff
Speaker 3: mixed up too, from Edom, which was the wilderness where
Speaker 3: they were attacking through. So they pick up this king
Speaker 3: of Edom and they're going to fight against Moab, and
Speaker 3: Moab is trying to be But let me explain the situation.
Speaker 1: Let's see if you've ever been there before.
Speaker 3: On their way to go to war, they run out
Speaker 3: of water in the wilderness. Has that ever happened to
Speaker 3: anybody in here? That on your way to fight one battle,
Speaker 3: you encounter something that you didn't plan for that weakens
Speaker 3: you on your way to war. It's this feeling you
Speaker 3: can get sometimes that I was already juggling enough.
Speaker 1: I was already struggling enough. I feel so annointed to
Speaker 1: break chains today for people. I'm excited about it. I
Speaker 1: was already stressed enough. I was already overwhelmed enough. Now
Speaker 1: this and in the King.
Speaker 3: James, one of the King's looks up, the King James
Speaker 3: version of my He looks up and says, Alas, I
Speaker 3: love that, because.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a King James cussword. He's like, Alas,
Speaker 1: dang it.
Speaker 3: Like we're out here trying to fight the Lord's battles
Speaker 3: and the Lord won't give us water now, So they
Speaker 3: march seven days through the desert and eatam Is Is
Speaker 3: butted up right against the dead sea.
Speaker 1: So it's a dry place.
Speaker 3: So they can't even defeat their enemy without passing through
Speaker 3: a dry place to do it. And that's half the
Speaker 3: problem with us keeping our faith is that we just
Speaker 3: don't get to show up to stuff fresh. We don't
Speaker 3: just get to show up to stuff feeling good. We
Speaker 3: don't just get to show up to our mission in
Speaker 3: a good mood. A lot of times you will have
Speaker 3: to do the mission when you're not in the mood
Speaker 3: that you were in when you said you would do
Speaker 3: the mission. A lot of times I have to preach
Speaker 3: the sermon when the feeling that I got when I
Speaker 3: received the sermon is sitting back in Thursday when I
Speaker 3: studied the sermon. But I've got to do it then,
Speaker 3: and I've got to do it not for my own glory,
Speaker 3: but I've got to do it so somebody can be helped. Now, Now,
Speaker 3: what do you do when you're on your way to
Speaker 3: a war and you run out of water, when you're
Speaker 3: trying to raise your own children and you are still
Speaker 3: dealing with things from your childhood that nobody showed you
Speaker 3: how to process, that nobody taught you how to break
Speaker 3: down trauma and convert it into triumph.
Speaker 1: I mean, that.
Speaker 3: Sounds cute, but I don't know how to do it.
Speaker 3: But God says you'll know when you need to know.
Speaker 3: So even if you didn't get it when you think
Speaker 3: you ought, I mean, stop screaming because I think I'm
Speaker 3: preaching too hard. I don't think you can hear what
Speaker 3: I'm saying because you're just listening to me.
Speaker 1: Holler.
Speaker 3: If you and get it when you should have gotten it,
Speaker 3: then that wasn't when you should have gotten it. There's
Speaker 3: something about now that God knew. There is something about
Speaker 3: your future that God still knows. Just because I don't
Speaker 3: get it suddenly, and just because I'm not walking in
Speaker 3: it presently doesn't mean that God isn't giving it steadily.
Speaker 1: For you See, if I look back at my life.
Speaker 3: The hymn I will sing is great is thy faithfulness,
Speaker 3: Oh God, my Father, there is no shadow of turning
Speaker 3: with thee.
Speaker 1: All I have needed Thy hand hath provided.
Speaker 3: Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me, Great is thy faithfulness.
Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness?
Speaker 3: How did you get morning by morning by morning by morning?
Speaker 1: What's that? When you need it when you need it?
Speaker 3: So when you woke up this morning, the grace that
Speaker 3: you needed for today was in today. The strength that
Speaker 3: you need for today is in today. And when you
Speaker 3: get to tomorrow there will be a truckload of what
Speaker 3: you need for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Back it up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But you can't get tomorrow's strength though today's praise.
Speaker 1: You just gotta say God.
Speaker 6: That need you right now, morning by morning. So the
Speaker 6: hand of God was steady holding me up even when
Speaker 6: the help didn't suddenly come.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't like to preach.
Speaker 3: Suddenly, because it sets an expectation that everything that I
Speaker 3: want and wish is gonna happen when I want and wish.
Speaker 1: For it to happen.
Speaker 3: There are sometimes that it comes suddenly, there are sometimes
Speaker 3: that it doesn't. And in the times when it doesn't
Speaker 3: come suddenly, his hand holds me steadily. It's a steady hand.
Speaker 3: You know how the hand of God can snatch you
Speaker 3: out just like that. If you don't know that, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you. The hand of God can snatch you out
Speaker 3: of depression just like that.
Speaker 1: Suddenly.
Speaker 3: The hand of God can get you out of that situation,
Speaker 3: just like that.
Speaker 1: Let me prophesy, Let me prophesy. It's pentecost.
Speaker 3: Can we be Pentecostal for one single week?
Speaker 1: Let me prophesy. The hand of God.
Speaker 3: Can get that no good guy that you keep chasing
Speaker 3: because you don't want to be.
Speaker 1: Alone, and snatch him out of your life just like that.
Speaker 3: And You'll be praying God bring it him back, and
Speaker 3: God will say I can't bring it back because I'm
Speaker 3: trying to take you forward. And what you've been calling
Speaker 3: a blessing is really a blockage. God can move stuff
Speaker 3: just like like.
Speaker 1: What like that shot suddenly.
Speaker 3: And just because he does stuff suddenly doesn't mean that
Speaker 3: when he's not doing it suddenly he went away. The
Speaker 3: absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Please
Speaker 3: leave me alone. I just want to teach a Bible class.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go Sunday. That's all I want to do.
Speaker 3: And that is not my original quote. I don't know
Speaker 3: who said it, but it just came up in my spirit.
Speaker 3: See now that's a good example. That's a good example.
Speaker 3: How did I say that suddenly? Because every day of
Speaker 3: my life I try to study, so when we needed
Speaker 3: that word.
Speaker 1: Suddenly?
Speaker 3: But see behind every sudden blessing there is a steady hand.
Speaker 1: Anybody who built a successful business wave at me.
Speaker 3: Don't it make you laugh when they think it was
Speaker 3: sudden when it starts working.
Speaker 1: Wow, you just came out of nowhere. You blew up.
Speaker 3: No, I dug down and stop saying people blew up.
Speaker 3: Stop saying people blew up. That makes it sound like
Speaker 3: something bad happened. Man, they blew up.
Speaker 1: No, they built something. Promise you they did.
Speaker 3: Wave at me again, if you've ever had a business
Speaker 3: succeed or anything succeed like you. Okay, let's get the
Speaker 3: baseline down. You sent a successful text message one time?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, there was all.
Speaker 1: Don't find coming around.
Speaker 3: There were all kinds of spelling, punctuation, grammar, all of that.
Speaker 1: None of that comes suddenly.
Speaker 3: We just see it suddenly, and a lot of times,
Speaker 3: a lot of times, not every time, but a lot
Speaker 3: of times you don't even know what you're doing there
Speaker 3: until you can look back later and say, twenty one years.
Speaker 3: Because the reason I shared with you about my twenty
Speaker 3: one year anniversary was to brag number two to get
Speaker 3: you all ready for our marriage series we're going to
Speaker 3: be doing sometime soon.
Speaker 1: I don't know when.
Speaker 3: I already know what to call it. I just don't
Speaker 3: know what to talk about. So the Lord was show
Speaker 3: me when I need to know. Must not be time yet.
Speaker 3: Can we get a little more open handed in our
Speaker 3: life and let go of when we think stuff is
Speaker 3: supposed to happen and how we think it was supposed
Speaker 3: to happen, and who we think it was supposed to
Speaker 3: happen through?
Speaker 1: Because when I went to college. Now, I remember when
Speaker 1: I was nine years old, I wanted to go to Harvard.
Speaker 1: I want to go to Harvard, and.
Speaker 3: I probably could have done it, but the Lord had
Speaker 3: different plans for me.
Speaker 1: That's my narrative.
Speaker 3: But why am I at North Greenville? Remember how bad
Speaker 3: you wanted me to go to Charleston Southern. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was close to home, and I kind of wanted to
Speaker 3: go to because there was this girl, and there was
Speaker 3: this job and all that.
Speaker 1: But something, something, something come here twenty one years.
Speaker 3: Something, something was coming to Tigerville, South Carolina. That's where
Speaker 3: North Greenville is. What am I doing here? I wondered
Speaker 3: when my parents dropped me off at that college. This
Speaker 3: is for everybody who's stressed out about stuff you don't
Speaker 3: understand and you don't know. God, I wanted to go
Speaker 3: home for months at that little school.
Speaker 1: But something something, it must have been. It must have
Speaker 1: been a holly and a boy knot.
Speaker 3: It must have been that girl staying over there Incline nine.
Speaker 1: I remember the number of the dorm. I was stalking
Speaker 1: you before you knew how sexy.
Speaker 7: I was, Hey, Now, how many of y'all think that
Speaker 7: while I was in those first three weeks wanting to
Speaker 7: go home, God saw this girl on the front row
Speaker 7: that has built this church, in this ministry, right by
Speaker 7: my side every step of the way.
Speaker 1: How many think that God saw that I do?
Speaker 3: And do you think that God sees stuff about your
Speaker 3: life that you don't see right now? And is it
Speaker 3: possible that you're not in a sudden season, you're in
Speaker 3: a steady season.
Speaker 1: We used to say, will you go steady with me?
Speaker 3: Actually I think that was in the fifties, but they
Speaker 3: used to say I think that was the Fonds that
Speaker 3: used to say that.
Speaker 1: We used to just.
Speaker 3: Say go with me, go with me where I don't know,
Speaker 3: just go with me. And sometimes God will just say
Speaker 3: go with me, go with me. I need you to
Speaker 3: take this next step because I need to get you
Speaker 3: steady because for what I'm going to do in your
Speaker 3: life that you don't know yet, if your hands aren't steady,
Speaker 3: you won't be able to handle the blessing that I'm
Speaker 3: going to sin. So even when God isn't doing stuff suddenly,
Speaker 3: he's doing stuff steadily.
Speaker 1: And when he's doing stuff steadily. I can hold on
Speaker 1: to my hope that all of.
Speaker 3: A sudden and everybody else will say, oh, it happens
Speaker 3: so quick. But you'll know it was consistent. You'll know
Speaker 3: that you cried for it. You won't have to tell
Speaker 3: them that. You'll know that you wondered about it. You
Speaker 3: won't have to explain to them how deep.
Speaker 1: The questions went.
Speaker 3: You'll know what it actually cost you to stay faithful
Speaker 3: to God. You'll know how painful it was when you
Speaker 3: went to therapy and started rooting out stuff that you
Speaker 3: wanted to push back down. And they won't know, but
Speaker 3: they don't need to. What they will know is that
Speaker 3: the glory of God is on you.
Speaker 1: And they will look it through life not many days from.
Speaker 3: Now, and they won't know how, but you will, and
Speaker 3: you will say it was by his hand, it was
Speaker 3: by his mercy. It was because he loved me, It
Speaker 3: was because he came close.
Speaker 1: It was a divine design. See, he was connecting DUTs.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 3: They had to say no so he could.
Speaker 5: Say yes so I could be here so I could
Speaker 5: do this. They had to say no so he could
Speaker 5: say yes so I could be here so I could
Speaker 5: do this. I tell you to believe it.
Speaker 1: They had to say no, I speak to every rejection
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 8: I speak to the.
Speaker 3: Next level of your effectiveness.
Speaker 1: On the other side of this rejection. They had to
Speaker 1: say no. So he told say yes, so you could be.
Speaker 8: Here, so you could do.
Speaker 3: This. Praise in force, send for it, praising for it.
Speaker 1: Come on, quiet personalities, get loud, praising for it.
Speaker 5: Come on, piscopelion, get pentecostal.
Speaker 1: Freeze it for it. Do this, do this, do.
Speaker 9: This, five five, five people and say I'm doing this. Absolutely,
Speaker 9: I'm doing this. I'm doing this. That's what Elisa said,
Speaker 9: the prophet. Are you ready for Elisa the prophet?
Speaker 3: We got three kings in the desert about to die.
Speaker 3: There's somebody the devil's been telling you. You're about to die.
Speaker 3: You're about to die. The dream is dead. It's over.
Speaker 3: You're dead.
Speaker 1: It's over. You won't make it. They're gonna cancel you.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take you out.
Speaker 3: The economy this time, your industry, this time, your business
Speaker 3: is And this is where we need Elisha the prophet,
Speaker 3: because he knew how to do what he knew how
Speaker 3: to do until God did what God does, isn't this good.
Speaker 1: You don't feel like preaching, feel like preaching.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put this sermon up also on the basin.
Speaker 1: I already recorded it. I preached it Friday.
Speaker 3: Holly came downstairs to say, you want to eat sandwiches
Speaker 3: or eggs? And I was hollering at the camera. I
Speaker 3: heard her go back up the stairs. Leave him alone,
Speaker 3: let him work it out. And I preached this to
Speaker 3: an hour. Why because when God showed up, and when
Speaker 3: you showed up, I wanted to be ready for the rain.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it in the basement so I could be
Speaker 3: steady in the pulpit.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this LJ. So.
Speaker 3: So Elisha has a bad attitude because he thinks these
Speaker 3: kings should have done it differently, and then they wouldn't
Speaker 3: be in this situation.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you would.
Speaker 3: Have done it God's way, you wouldn't even be needing
Speaker 3: this water. There are wilderness seasons that we send ourselves
Speaker 3: into gaphy guilty as charged. But look at verse fourteen.
Speaker 3: Let's back up a little bit and get the context.
Speaker 3: And Elisha said, oh, he is a new prophet to them.
Speaker 3: They've never used him before. Elijah was the one they
Speaker 3: were familiar with. He was the new one. Elijah went
Speaker 3: up with chariots of fire and they went to look
Speaker 3: for him. And Elisha said, you can go look for him.
Speaker 3: All you want is he's not coming back. We got
Speaker 3: to figure this out right now. And the Lord will speak.
Speaker 1: That to you. Sometimes you can go chase down that.
Speaker 3: Disgruntled employee and do all the exit interviews you want to,
Speaker 3: all you want to.
Speaker 1: That's not coming back. You better get with this, You
Speaker 1: better get with this. You're gonna miss this chasing that.
Speaker 3: So Elishah gives him a little speech, a little talking
Speaker 3: to verse fourteen second King's three, and Elishah said, as
Speaker 3: the Lord of Hosts lived before whom I stand, surely,
Speaker 3: were it not that I regard the presence.
Speaker 1: Of Jehoshaphat, You're all right.
Speaker 3: If I didn't regard him, Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, I
Speaker 3: would not look at you, and turns to the other
Speaker 3: king Joram, and.
Speaker 1: Says, I wouldn't even look at you.
Speaker 3: Touch your neighbor, saying I wouldn't even look at you
Speaker 3: if you weren't so good looking. I don't want you
Speaker 3: to have any fights going home. But he said, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't even look at you nor see you. Now I've
Speaker 3: read that because it's important, He's going, I don't feel
Speaker 3: like prophesying, for y'all. What does feeling it have to
Speaker 3: do with flowing in it? I wouldn't do this if
Speaker 3: I were just going to my feelings. I love verse fifteen.
Speaker 3: The whole thing hinges on two of my favorite words.
Speaker 1: But now.
Speaker 3: You can get a whole lot out of those two words.
Speaker 3: But now that's how you got to reset in your heart.
Speaker 3: I wish I would have known it sooner. I didn't,
Speaker 3: but now I do. I wish I would have got
Speaker 3: the memo about your character three months before we met,
Speaker 3: but I didn't.
Speaker 1: But now I got the mimo loud and clear.
Speaker 3: You are absolutely crazy, and so am I, and our
Speaker 3: craziest collide in a way that is not acceptable.
Speaker 1: For the foreseeable future. Now I know somebody's shout. Now
Speaker 1: that was a whispered hush shout. Say now, but.
Speaker 3: Now bring me a musician.
Speaker 1: Then it happened.
Speaker 3: Then it happened when the musician played that, the hand
Speaker 3: of the Lord came upon him, came upon who elisha.
Speaker 1: So let's get this straightened out.
Speaker 3: We've got a need for water that nobody saw coming.
Speaker 3: Nobody knew they were going to be in need of water.
Speaker 3: They thought they were just going to war. How many
Speaker 3: are standing looking at a need right now that you
Speaker 3: didn't see coming in your life, Like, even if it's
Speaker 3: just the surgery that you might have to have, but
Speaker 3: it's freaking you out, Raise your hand, even if it's
Speaker 3: just the challenge that you feel emotionally, but everything's good
Speaker 3: in your life, Raise your hand right now. I was
Speaker 3: with some pastors this week, and what they said that
Speaker 3: helped them the most.
Speaker 1: I was imparting to.
Speaker 3: Them and teaching them and helping them, and they said,
Speaker 3: it was just good to hear from you that there's
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with us.
Speaker 1: It was good for us.
Speaker 3: To hear from you, because there's a part of us
Speaker 3: that thinks I'm not supposed to be angry. I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to be grateful, but I find myself getting angry and
Speaker 3: I don't know why. So when you told us how
Speaker 3: you get angry, it helped us because it let us
Speaker 3: know that sometimes on your way to war, you run
Speaker 3: out of water too. And what do you do when
Speaker 3: the fight is right now but the knowledge isn't coming
Speaker 3: and the feeling isn't coming. And Elisha knew what to do.
Speaker 3: He said, give me a musician. And when the musician
Speaker 3: began to play the hand of verse fifteen up. You
Speaker 3: won't believe this. When the musician started playing, the hand
Speaker 3: of the Lord came upon Elisha how suddenly? But does
Speaker 3: it say that when the musician started practicing that the
Speaker 3: hand of the Lord came upon Elisha.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 3: How long did that musician have to practice? How many
Speaker 3: hours of practice does it take that if they come
Speaker 3: recruit you and say, hey, we need you in the
Speaker 3: wilderness real quick, running out of water and need you
Speaker 3: to play something snappy for Elishah is his first chance
Speaker 3: prophesies got an audience.
Speaker 1: With three kings in If he doesn't do it right,
Speaker 1: they'd die. Come play.
Speaker 3: That is not the time to work on your scales.
Speaker 3: So if I bust into.
Speaker 10: Great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father, there is
Speaker 10: no shadow of turning with thee all I have needed
Speaker 10: thy hand had provided.
Speaker 3: His hands started playing all of a sudden. We did
Speaker 3: not talk about that. Him.
Speaker 1: I did not prepare him for that. Him. I did
Speaker 1: not say ljay at moment number blah blah blah. In
Speaker 1: the sermon. After I say this, get ready to play.
Speaker 3: Great is our faithfulness, because I need him to know
Speaker 3: that it is.
Speaker 1: Great is I faithfulness?
Speaker 11: Oh God, my father, there is no shadow of turning
Speaker 11: with thee. All I have needed thy hand had provided.
Speaker 11: Great is thy faithfulness. Who's hand all I have needed?
Speaker 3: Thy hand had providing thy hand had providing his hand.
Speaker 3: But who who's hand had to practice? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She's all right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they give me that holiday energy, and I got
Speaker 9: that holy ghost annoying to I said, y'all.
Speaker 3: Give me that holiday energy, and I got that holy
Speaker 3: ghost annoyming.
Speaker 1: You look sleepy too, Scottie. I'll send your hands, your.
Speaker 3: Hands, Your hands better be busy. You better get your
Speaker 3: hand busy, Guklyn.
Speaker 1: God did freddie to do what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be looking for some hands, but nowhere to go.
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm praising him. I'm getting my hand, Freddy.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm forgiving them.
Speaker 8: I gotta let it go.
Speaker 3: So when he comes suddenly, I can't be thou my bitterness.
Speaker 3: I can't be flatter, I can't be weak, be stabbing
Speaker 3: im those hands and get them ready.
Speaker 1: Why are you clapping? I don't have a big drink.
Speaker 3: I'm getting my hands ready.
Speaker 1: I'm praising him when I comes.
Speaker 8: I just said it.
Speaker 1: I'm praising him.
Speaker 8: Comes to my spirit.
Speaker 3: S See, I'm a free woman.
Speaker 1: I'm a free man. I'm a blessed man. I'm a
Speaker 1: blessed woman. I'm a running over kind of vessel. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Gets her hands ready, gets her hands ready.
Speaker 5: The cats are blessings, Dave, there's one far one.
Speaker 12: Then it might surprise you what is already done.
Speaker 8: I'm getting my hands ready.
Speaker 5: Oh my here comes to lion, it comes to bear,
Speaker 5: Here comes Golia.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: My hands are ready, my spirit is ready, my art
Speaker 3: is ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready.
Speaker 13: I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. He's steady.
Speaker 13: I'm ready. He's steady. I'm ready. He's steady. I'm ready.
Speaker 13: So he didn't put me in it. If he didn't
Speaker 13: put it in me, he's steady, I'm ready. He's not
Speaker 13: an overnight sensation god. He's not a god who blows
Speaker 13: you up. He's a god who will dig your ruth down. See,
Speaker 13: I can't to announce to your storm.
Speaker 3: You better pick on a different Christian because this one
Speaker 3: is ready. She's ready. She knows how to pray in
Speaker 3: a storm, she knows how to sing at midnight. She
Speaker 3: knows how to work him through a panic attack.
Speaker 12: See the ready head, Sit redead, Sit Ready.
Speaker 5: Elisha said, I don't need anything to do what God called.
Speaker 3: Me to do, but somebody with a steady hand. God's
Speaker 3: looking for a steady hand. Now you joined the gym
Speaker 3: in January. A steady hand, A steady hand. I read
Speaker 3: my Bible today. What'd you get out of it?
Speaker 1: Nothing? I'm in steadiness school.
Speaker 3: I study when I don't see anything in the scripture.
Speaker 3: I study when it looks like pig Latin. I'll study
Speaker 3: when it looks like Japanese characters, and I speak English.
Speaker 1: I study because I'm a steady God help me.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't have let me preach on Pentecost. Someday I knew
Speaker 3: God was gonna do this. This is point number one.
Speaker 3: Oh no, just there's just coming. Man, It's coming suddenly
Speaker 3: because he was working steadily. I'll know when I need to.
Speaker 3: When I get my mind made up that I want
Speaker 3: to be set free from this addiction, God will send keys.
Speaker 3: I'll know when I need to. You tried it before hey,
Speaker 3: look at me, dove's nest. It's going to be different
Speaker 3: this time, but this is my fourth time. I'm forty
Speaker 3: seven years old. I didn't ask you about your age.
Speaker 3: Stop giving me information. I didn't ask you for I
Speaker 3: asked are you ready? Are you ready to experience the
Speaker 3: person that is beneath those patterns that keep pulling you
Speaker 3: back down? Because if you're ready, God has a steady hand.
Speaker 3: And even if you fall again, that's what the steady
Speaker 3: hand is for. So let's go forward and let's flow
Speaker 3: in it, because you'll know when you're supposed, you'll know
Speaker 3: when you need to.
Speaker 1: And this is the other thing God gave me.
Speaker 3: And we might need a part two of this sermon,
Speaker 3: but the Lord told me to tell you one more thing.
Speaker 1: Before I get off this stage.
Speaker 3: The prophet looked at the musician. He said, play go
Speaker 3: at play LJ play play play play play. He said,
Speaker 3: play play play, And then it happened when the musician played,
Speaker 3: that's a steady hand. That's a man who has practiced
Speaker 3: his scales. That's a man who has learned his courts.
Speaker 3: That's a man who has learned his character. That is
Speaker 3: a woman that has learned how to apologize. A man
Speaker 3: who has learned how to say I'm sorry. That is
Speaker 3: a trained player who knows how to get back up again.
Speaker 3: I hear you, Laurid. That's why Ella got that scholarship.
Speaker 3: You didn't expect it. That's why she was practicing since
Speaker 3: she was eight. That's why she got the scholarship. A
Speaker 3: steady hand, a sudden scholarship, And then somebody will have
Speaker 3: the nerve to say, wasn't she lucky?
Speaker 1: No, she was steady, but I'm not.
Speaker 3: You're not talking to me because I'm not stable, because
Speaker 3: I'm that other person you're talking about.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not talking just about your hand, You're
Speaker 1: talking about his.
Speaker 3: Do you remember who was in the upper room and
Speaker 3: Acts two, verse two, the first verse I read you.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say in the verse. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember. I had to think about it for a
Speaker 1: moment myself. It said, Acts chapter two, verse two.
Speaker 3: It's gonna come up suddenly, I promise it is. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be slow, then sudden. Oh that's the word of
Speaker 3: the lord businessman in my church. I don't even know
Speaker 3: how many millions of dollars of business he's done.
Speaker 1: He said, make sure you tell the church.
Speaker 3: It was slow, steady, sudden, slow, steady, sudden. We saved
Speaker 3: for years, we tied for years. We lived beneath our
Speaker 3: means for years. We went through cycles. We went through
Speaker 3: the two he's a homebuilder. We went through the two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight crisis, and it was slow, but we
Speaker 3: were steady. And then it was sudden. And then he
Speaker 3: used the word. I want you to hear this, he said,
Speaker 3: And now God has a stewarding more than we could
Speaker 3: have ever imagine. I don't know if I remind you
Speaker 3: of this enough, because I'm telling you, do the work,
Speaker 3: do the work, do the work, do the work.
Speaker 1: And I want you to.
Speaker 3: But what I need you to know is that God
Speaker 3: can do stuff suddenly that you had given up on.
Speaker 3: Receive it. If it's your word, put it in your phone.
Speaker 3: If it's not, it will be.
Speaker 1: One day, and when you need that.
Speaker 3: Word for your life, it will be there for you.
Speaker 1: This is how God works.
Speaker 3: He plants things that we need based on things that
Speaker 3: only he sees.
Speaker 1: Every experience that I've been through, I can look back
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 3: But see I'm not just looking back on things that
Speaker 3: I've been through and saying that was the hand of God.
Speaker 3: I'm needing to believe forward into what I don't know
Speaker 3: that about yet, so that it's not just twenty years
Speaker 3: later where I say, well, I guess it was God
Speaker 3: that sent me to that college.
Speaker 1: But it's me saying while I'm wondering, does anybody see me?
Speaker 3: Does anybody know me? Does anybody care that I'm doing this?
Speaker 3: So back in that upper room, you know, Jesus has
Speaker 3: been gone ten days. He rose forty days before that
Speaker 3: ten It's been fifty days since the resurrection. The Bible
Speaker 3: says in Acts, chapter two, verse two, and suddenly there
Speaker 3: came a sound from heaven.
Speaker 14: And suddenly there came a sound as if a mighty
Speaker 14: rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they
Speaker 14: were sitting.
Speaker 1: Now there's a whole sermon.
Speaker 3: In that day, because sitting in that house was a
Speaker 3: guy named Simon Peter. He wasn't very steady. Fifty days earlier.
Speaker 3: He fell down pretty bad fifty days earlier. I don't
Speaker 3: know who I'm preaching to, but you stumbled pretty bad
Speaker 3: in this last season. The Lord said, you need to
Speaker 3: know that he's steady when you stumble. They Peter, What's
Speaker 3: Peter gonna do? He already made a fool of himself,
Speaker 3: nothing but preach on the day of Pentecost and see
Speaker 3: three thousand converts. Are you telling me God can't still
Speaker 3: use you in this season because you've got bresidas. Are
Speaker 3: you telling me that that credit card debt is too
Speaker 3: big for God? God, you can do all things, you
Speaker 3: are the master. Only if it's master card, then you
Speaker 3: can't do.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: God said, I'm gonna help you pay it off steady.
Speaker 3: And then suddenly one day there is going to come
Speaker 3: am Man where you will be able to not only
Speaker 3: feel your own freedom, but I'm going to use you
Speaker 3: as a vessel to bring others to freedom in that
Speaker 3: very same path that you struggle. So you'll be able
Speaker 3: to tell him you can flush the pills, so you'll
Speaker 3: be able to tell them you can beat this disorder,
Speaker 3: so you'll be able to tell him you can't get
Speaker 3: set free from this pattern. So you'll be able to
Speaker 3: tell him.
Speaker 12: The curse can be reversed.
Speaker 3: And he can do it.
Speaker 15: Fall up, Hey, sudden sudden blessings, come sudden winns, come
Speaker 15: sudden rage, come sudden floods, Come sudden love. Sun feeling
Speaker 15: sun breakthrough, su second chances.
Speaker 8: Sudden new beginnings, shout, shun in sun in, suddenly a
Speaker 8: sound long, a mighty running wind.
Speaker 1: We'll fill the room.
Speaker 5: And even Peter gets the breach, and even you get
Speaker 5: to go forward.
Speaker 1: Gets your hands ready, get your heart ready.
Speaker 3: We're not thinking about those toxic things this week. This
Speaker 3: is the Lord's stay, This is the Lord's holy home,
Speaker 3: This is his habitation.
Speaker 1: You are his chosen instrument.
Speaker 3: And the Lord wanted me to tell you you won't
Speaker 3: sea wind.
Speaker 1: And you won't sea rain.
Speaker 3: See this is where the song we were singing earlier
Speaker 3: came from. Did you know this was a scripture the
Speaker 3: prophet told the kings in verse seventeen. Suddenly, everybody breathe
Speaker 3: in the Holy Spirit right now? Ooh, I love that
Speaker 3: that same holy spirit that can make me want to shout,
Speaker 3: can make me want to breathe.
Speaker 1: To be still and know that he is God, or
Speaker 1: to shout that he is God. It's the same.
Speaker 3: Spirit now here comes to prophetic words. Stand up and
Speaker 3: receive that. Nobody moving. This is a holy moment. If
Speaker 3: you receive it, lift your hands. This is the word
Speaker 3: of the Lord. And guess what for next Sunday I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give you the second.
Speaker 1: Part of this. Yeah, I'm gonna give your second part.
Speaker 1: But lift your hands.
Speaker 3: Well next week it's gonna be so practical, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be so important, it's gonna be so significant. But unless
Speaker 3: you get this, no symbols please. I want you to
Speaker 3: get this so you can get that. This is gonna
Speaker 3: be the foundation. No symbols, please, I want you to
Speaker 3: get this so this can be the foundation.
Speaker 1: You're ready for, Thus says the Lord. You shall not.
Speaker 3: See wind, well, of course you can't. You can only
Speaker 3: feel it. Nor shall you see rain. Yet I'm about
Speaker 3: to go home, y'all. Everybody say yet, this may be
Speaker 3: the most important word of all.
Speaker 1: Get your hands back up. We're not done yet yet.
Speaker 3: That valley shall be filled with water. So that watch
Speaker 3: how good God is. He went from kings not having
Speaker 3: anything to drink. He says, when God gets done with
Speaker 3: the situation, not only you, but your cattle and your.
Speaker 16: Animals may drink. God said, I'm gonna do it so big.
Speaker 16: Your dog is gonna be drinking this. I'm gonna do
Speaker 16: it so big. You're gonna help others, You're gonna change others.
Speaker 16: You're gonna start a school with what I'm gonna teach you.
Speaker 16: You're gonna be there for other people.
Speaker 3: And that's why God gave me the word, because there
Speaker 3: have been seasons in my life when I.
Speaker 1: Have felt so dry. I didn't think I could do it.
Speaker 1: But this Tuesday, past Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I was helping pastors and telling them, you're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Now, how does that happen? Only God, only God, only God.
Speaker 3: Everybody gets to drink, everybody gets to benefit. Nothing that
Speaker 3: you've been through shall be wasted. Nothing that you've walked
Speaker 3: through slipped his attention.
Speaker 1: It is going to come all of a sudden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't see it. You don't have to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I can't quantify it. You don't have to. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But every time I go to talk about it, I
Speaker 3: can't even get.
Speaker 1: It up because it's too painful. Then let the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit do the talking right now. The Bible says that there.
Speaker 3: Are groans that can't be uttered by words, and the
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit will intercede for you.
Speaker 1: When you can't speak for yourself. Hands lifted, you won't
Speaker 1: see you, when you won't see.
Speaker 11: Rain, But the drout will end. Everything can change all
Speaker 11: of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel the coming. He will come when you.
Speaker 11: Call his name, the Holy One will renew your strength.
Speaker 11: All of a sudden, I feel it coming, all of
Speaker 11: a sudden.
Speaker 1: No, you won't see you win. You won't see rain,
Speaker 1: but your drought will end. Everything can shame. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I feel it coming. So he will come.
Speaker 1: Call his name the Holy up.
Speaker 3: Receive this ministry all love the study.
Speaker 1: He's lifted high before you go, come home and steering
Speaker 1: google study.
Speaker 17: No, you won't see you when then you will see
Speaker 17: you right, the traveling and everything and change on the sunny.
Speaker 17: I feel it coming on the sunny, and he will
Speaker 17: go me bull his thing, the Lord.
Speaker 1: Your stay.
Speaker 12: I need any comment of the study.
Speaker 1: You will see you in and you will see you right.
Speaker 12: The trap fee everything can channie job up the side.
Speaker 17: Being this pandemic side.
Speaker 8: He will come home where you go.
Speaker 1: We're in the wheel stream the side happy looking.
Speaker 3: Us.
Speaker 1: Come out on the side. He's gonna come out on
Speaker 1: the side. He's gonna come out on the side. Right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna drump on.
Speaker 3: The side, cracking it.
Speaker 13: Side o.
Speaker 3: The second.
Speaker 8: He's got a drop side it's greens lady, He's get free.
Speaker 12: The same they don't he.
Speaker 1: If he's going.
Speaker 12: To trauma, Let's go the Trump on the side.
Speaker 1: He's got the.
Speaker 8: Drama on the side, lapping the cot, the stick, he's
Speaker 8: gonna jump out.
Speaker 12: Of the side.
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