1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today. Come on, family, were. 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: Ready for a great day today? 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: Or what? Come on? 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 4: We ready for God to move in our hearts and 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 4: our lives today? 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: Come on, let's clap our hands a little bit longer. 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 5: Come on. 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 4: He's been faithful, he's been good, he's been merciful, he's 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 4: been kind, He's given us another day. Come on, the 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 4: goodness of God has been chasing you and me our 15 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 4: entire lives, and today's gonna be a day of victory 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 4: and breakthrough, hope and life. So glad you are here 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 4: at every location, say standing for just a moment if 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 4: you wouldn't mind, love you all, so so very much, 19 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 4: my better two thirds. My wife is not here with me. 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 4: She's preaching back at our church today, but she sends 21 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 4: her love. You already know this, but this is a 22 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 4: very very special place. What God is doing here at Elevation, 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 4: it's not the buildings, it's the people. 24 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: It's that God has. 25 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 4: Been moving in everyday, men and women and you are 26 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 4: a part of a much larger story that God is 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 4: pouring out his spirit and his grace in our day 28 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 4: and age. And I'm so so honored to be here today. 29 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: But I want to. 30 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 4: Make sure, as you are in this church, you don't 31 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,479 Speaker 4: take it for granted. You don't take for granted all 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 4: the team that showed up early to roll out the 33 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 4: red carpet for you today. You don't take for granted 34 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 4: all the people who are leading worship. You don't take 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 4: for granted all the people that are watching your kids. 36 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: You don't even want to watch your kids. 37 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: But I pray that you definitely do not take for 38 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: granted the amazing pastors that God has given you. 39 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: Can we put our hands together from. 40 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 4: Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. Who they are and how 41 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 4: they live their lives is quite remarkable. Humility, kindness, surrender, generosity. 42 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: The team that you. 43 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 4: Get all this love from the campus pastors and all 44 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 4: the people who are volunteering and serving, it's because your pastors, 45 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 4: your leaders, that's the heart that they have. So whenever 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 4: you're being prayed for, just so you know, that's the 47 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 4: culture and the heart that they set here. So this 48 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 4: place is holy ground. Not a perfect church. There isn't one. 49 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 4: You're here, so it's not perfect. I'm here. It's not perfect. 50 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 4: You're not gonna find perfect. But you found healthy, you 51 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 4: found Christ centered, you found God glorifying, you found Bible believing, 52 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 4: you found grounded in faith. So let's continue to see 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 4: God do something transformational and powerful in our lives. 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: I want to read. 55 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 4: I mean, while you're already standing, let's read our bibles together. 56 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: If you have your bible's turn with me to. 57 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 4: Neomiah chapter one, and I'm gonna read these verses together. 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 4: I like how holy elevation is too y'all stand for 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: the reading of God's word. My church, it's ratchet, so 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 4: they're sitting. They're sitting when we read. We're gonna fix it, though. 61 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 4: I think it's mean, y'all. I think it's me. 62 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: Neamiyah chapter number one. 63 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 4: If you didn't bring your bibles, we're gonna put the 64 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 4: verses on the screen so that you can follow along 65 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: with us. Neamiyah chapter one. I'm gonna jump down to 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 4: verse number two. Hannah and I, one of my brothers 67 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 4: came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned 68 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, 69 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 4: and also about Jerusalem verse number three. They said to me, 70 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 4: those who survived the exile and are back in the 71 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem 72 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 4: is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire. 73 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 4: When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. 74 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: For some days. 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 4: I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven. 76 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 4: Skip with me to verse number ten. They are your servants. 77 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 4: This is part of his prayer, and your people, whom 78 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. Lord, 79 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 4: Let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this 80 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 4: your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who 81 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 4: delight in revering your name. Give your servants success today 82 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 4: by granting him favor. In the presence of this man, 83 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 4: I was cupbearer to the king. If you are ready 84 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 4: for today, I have a title for us, and it's 85 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: let's build something. Let's build something. Turn to somebody next 86 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 4: you say let's build something. Let's build something, and you 87 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 4: may be seated, my friends, Let's build something. I am 88 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 4: so so excited to have these moments together as a family. 89 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 4: God is moving and working in beautiful ways. And when 90 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 4: Chunks had texted me and I was texting with your 91 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: amazing pastor about serving here at Elevation this weekend, in 92 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 4: campuses all over the place, in our whole e fan, 93 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 4: we love you so very much. 94 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't help. Yeah, you can clatform for sure. 95 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 4: I couldn't help but feel in my heart a high 96 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 4: level of anticipation about what God was going to do. 97 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 4: I was thinking of. I was just praying, Lord, what 98 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 4: do you want me to share? What do you want 99 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 4: me to share? What do you want to share? And 100 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 4: this past the scripture dropped in my heart. Let's build something. Now, 101 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 4: let me give you a little bit a backstory on me. 102 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 4: I've been married. I'm an uncle. I've been married now 103 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 4: for twenty nine years. Okay, so it has been a minute. 104 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 4: And I call my wife my sexy piece of dark chocolate. Okay, 105 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 4: And I say this with a big smile on my face, 106 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 4: because that is who she is. She is my best friend. 107 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 4: We have three amazing kids, and I even have a 108 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 4: daughter in law. Now, y'all, I can't even believe that. 109 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 4: And I like my daughter in law more than I 110 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: like my son. That she married. So I think I 111 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 4: have a picture of our family, so I'll put it 112 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 4: on the screen for you real fast so you can 113 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 4: see I just I love these guys so very much. 114 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 4: So our oldest son is now twenty one years old. 115 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 4: I remember, I remember the day he was born. 116 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: I remember this day. 117 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 4: I couldn't wait to be a dad when I was 118 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 4: growing up, I couldn't wait to be a husband and 119 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 4: a father. Is pregnant, I mean she's pregnant. Pregnant, I mean, 120 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: the belly is out there and it ought to be right. 121 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: I mean, she's carrying another human being. This belly is 122 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 4: out there, and she's. 123 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: Got the wattle that. 124 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 4: You get and the swollen ankles. 125 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: And she looked beautiful to me. 126 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 4: But people were rude, of course, like well your nose 127 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 4: got big. I punched those people on the face whenever 128 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 4: they said that. But she looked beautiful, wonderful and amazing. 129 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 4: But we were at Gold's gym. Even if Gold Gym 130 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 4: still exist, maybe it does, right, Gold's Gym. This is 131 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 4: twenty one years ago. She's on the elliptical and fully pregnant, 132 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 4: I mean, just. 133 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: Getting after it on the elliptical. 134 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 4: And I was not there with her because I don't 135 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 4: love to do the elliptical, especially twenty one years ago. 136 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm like, no, I'm not doing the elliptical. 137 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm going the lift. Right. 138 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 4: So she's on the elliptical and she's feeling all these 139 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 4: pains in her stomach and she's like, man, I got 140 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 4: all these pains. 141 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, honey, let's go ahead, and you know, 142 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: well go home. We go home. 143 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 4: I still got all these pains. But she still just 144 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 4: does her whole workout. We get back home. We talked 145 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 4: to some friends of ours. We're like, oh, yeah, she's 146 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 4: got some pains, and then they say you should go 147 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 4: to the hospital. We go to the hospital. Come to 148 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 4: find out Onika was in labor. My wife was in 149 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 4: labor while she was on the elliptical. 150 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: Now she's just thinking. 151 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 4: Oh, I got some little pains. There's a baby about 152 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 4: to come out, and she does not even recognize it. 153 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 4: You know, Parker was born that day. It was beautiful. 154 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 4: We had to have a c section because his heart 155 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 4: rate was going down every time a contraction happened. But 156 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 4: he came out healthy and wonderful. He was ugly when 157 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 4: he came out as a baby, but other than but 158 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 4: now he's handsome. I showed you the picture. He's handsome now. 159 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 4: But he came out and it was. 160 00:08:49,640 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 6: Like, woo, I love him with my whole heart, but dang, we'll. 161 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: Dress him cute so we bring them home. It's wonderful. 162 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 4: But I was remembering this moment when I was thinking 163 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 4: about today that my wife, we knew she was pregnant, 164 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 4: but we did not know that she was in labor. 165 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 4: There was some signs that she was in labor, but 166 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 4: we didn't totally recognize the signs. Now, we knew at 167 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 4: some point in time this baby was coming, but there. 168 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: Was a disconnect in our brain a little. 169 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 4: Bit between where she was and what the next season 170 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 4: and the next thing that God was about to do 171 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 4: in our lives. And I was thinking about you, Elevation Church, 172 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 4: thinking about every family, every man, every woman, every son, 173 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 4: every daughter, every teenager, every young adult, even looking at 174 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 4: thinking about the old heads in here, the unks and 175 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 4: the aunties, people in other countries and people here that 176 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 4: are in the States. I was thinking about you, that 177 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 4: you there are many of you. You know you're a Christian, 178 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 4: but I don't know if you know you're a builder. 179 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: Like you know. 180 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 4: Jesus has saved me of my sins. 181 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: He's made me brand new. 182 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 4: He's taken me from darkness to light, and we might 183 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 4: have some friends today. You might not know that yet. 184 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 4: Maybe you're still trying to figure out this whole God thing. 185 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 4: And we're glad you're here. You're in a safe place that. 186 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: You can belong. Even before you. 187 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 4: Believe, Jesus sat with sinners, and we're happy to sit 188 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 4: with you because we all came in the exact same way, 189 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 4: not knowing anything. So we are glad you are here. 190 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: But understand, there are some people at Elevation that fully 191 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: understand that the cross of Jesus Christ took us from 192 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 4: lost to found, from dead to alive, took us from 193 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 4: blind to seeing. That we understand that through his death, 194 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 4: prayerlyn resurrection, not by our own merit and our own works, 195 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 4: but by the finished work of Jesus Christ, I. 196 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: Have been made new. 197 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 4: I'm not who I used to be anymore. 198 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: I'm not walking how I used to walk. 199 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 4: The grace of God picked me up and carried me 200 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 4: and brought me to a brand new place and put 201 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 4: me on a firm foundation that if it was not 202 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 4: for God, I don't know where I would be. 203 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: He found me. He found me. 204 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 2: Man. 205 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 4: There are some times I still think back and I'm like, Jesus, 206 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 4: thank you so much for interrupting my life. Thank you 207 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 4: so much for finding me. Thank you so much that 208 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 4: if I didn't know what to pray, you still kept 209 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 4: pursuing me. This has been the grace of God that 210 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 4: we have experience. And as we have experienced this grace, 211 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 4: I know I'm a Christian, But do I know I'm 212 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 4: a builder? 213 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: Do I know that God didn't just save me just 214 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: to save me? 215 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 4: That God didn't just rescue me so I can have 216 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 4: a testimony. 217 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 1: But there is. 218 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 4: Something that God has wanted to do in me and 219 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 4: through me, to reach the generation that He put me in. 220 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 4: That I could have been born at any time, but 221 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 4: God decided that you were supposed. 222 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: To be born right now. 223 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 4: You're looking at this world, You're like, this world is crazy. Hey, 224 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 4: That's why God puts you here because He recognizes that 225 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 4: the spirit of God living on the inside of you 226 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 4: is greater than anything that this world can throw at you. 227 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: So here, No, you're abuilder. 228 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 4: Do you know that you have been called for such 229 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 4: a time as this to be a part of something 230 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 4: that's bigger than you are. In this text, Nehemiah, he's 231 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 4: one of my favorite Bible characters. 232 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: Not my favorite, that's Jesus gotta be. 233 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 4: But Niamiah is one of my favorites because when you 234 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 4: read through his book, he does no miracles. There's no healings, 235 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 4: no one's raised from the dead. There's nothing spectacular like 236 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 4: that that happens. Your boys. Just got a job. He's 237 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 4: going to work. He's cut bearer. 238 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: To the king. 239 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 4: He's essentially the head of security, head of the secret 240 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 4: service for the king. He's an important job, but he 241 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 4: goes to work each day. His job is to make 242 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 4: sure nobody poisons the king. His job is to make 243 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 4: sure that the king is safe. He's got proximity to 244 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 4: the king, so he's got a trustworthy job and he's 245 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 4: a loyal individual. 246 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: But he just works like you. 247 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 4: Some of you know what, not right now, actually in between, 248 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 4: I got a situation right now. 249 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: God knows that too. He can answer that. 250 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 4: But he just wakes up each day, does the same thing, 251 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 4: wakes up the next day, does the same thing. Wakes 252 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 4: up the next day, does the same thing, And then 253 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 4: all of a sudden, his brothers come to visit him. 254 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 4: And when his brothers come to visit him, he discovers 255 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 4: that there's a problem that's taking place with his people. 256 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: Now he Neemiah, his. 257 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 4: Job is about one thousand miles away from where the 258 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 4: problem is. They were in exile for years his people. 259 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 4: Namayah was not alive when they came out of exile. 260 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: It's about one. 261 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 4: Hundred years after they get out of the exile that 262 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 4: Namayah comes on the scene. So this is a problem 263 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 4: that he was not all that involved in. But he 264 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 4: hears that there's an issue going on in another part 265 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 4: of the world with his people, and God gives it 266 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 4: Niamaiyah a glimpse into the heart that God has for 267 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 4: his people. 268 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: So now Niamayah. 269 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 4: Begins to have a burden on his heart for people 270 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 4: that he has not met yet but he is connected to, 271 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 4: and he's got this regular, everyday job. And then all 272 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 4: of a sudden, God interrupts his regular everyday job to say, 273 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 4: I'm gonna put a burden on your heart for people 274 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 4: you have not met yet, because you're call to go 275 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 4: there and rebuild the walls that have been torn down. 276 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: Neea Maiah mourns and fast. 277 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 4: And praise, and he's in his room going back and forth, 278 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,359 Speaker 4: and you can read his prayer later in your eGroup. 279 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 4: All of chapter one, he cries out to God and 280 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 4: he confesses his sin and the sin of the people, 281 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 4: in the sin of his father's family. And then he 282 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 4: begins to call on remember Moses and the promises that 283 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 4: God gave the Moses, and he also remembers the warnings 284 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 4: that God gave him. And then he says, God, I'm 285 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 4: gonna need you to do something here. God, I'm gonna 286 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 4: need you to move somehow, some way. 287 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: God. 288 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 4: I know that my sister is on drugs right now, 289 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna need you to do something in her life. 290 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: God. 291 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 4: I know that my high school friends right now, they're 292 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 4: not living for you, and they don't know the truth 293 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 4: of the Gospel. 294 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna need you to do something in their life. God. 295 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 4: I know my family has been bound in alcoholism years 296 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 4: and years and years, and I'm gonna need you to 297 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 4: do something for my family, God, my community. I've heard 298 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 4: what's happening back home, and the drugs are going crazy, 299 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 4: and everybody's fafing, and everybody seems to be addicted to porn, 300 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 4: and it seems like everybody is getting a divorce. So God, somehow, 301 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 4: some way, I'm gonna need you to move in might 302 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 4: and in. 303 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: Power so that these people don't stay where they are 304 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: any longer. 305 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 4: And God begins to give this man a burden for 306 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 4: some people. 307 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you that. 308 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 4: This is what God is wanting to do when you 309 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 4: is give you a burden for this world. That would say, God, 310 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 4: would you move and might and in power? Would you 311 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 4: bring revival? Would you send your spirit? Would you pour 312 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 4: out your love and your grace? Because there's people. 313 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: Whose walls are broken down? 314 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 5: The problem Sometimes even we start praying for people whose 315 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 5: walls are broken down, it's when you're the person. 316 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 4: Whose walls are broken you can feel like I don't 317 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 4: even have space to be thinking about anybody else because 318 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 4: this is where I'm finding myself. 319 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: My own walls are broken down. I know it looks 320 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: everybody like I'm good. 321 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 4: I got the car, I got the house, i got 322 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 4: the gear, I've got the pictures to post. But beyond 323 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 4: the pictures, there's something else going on in my family, 324 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 4: beyond what everybody else sees. There's some things that were 325 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 4: just navigating and fighting through right now, my wife and 326 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 4: I were just not clicking. We're not clicking, not clicking. 327 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 4: We're trying to figure out, but this is not clicking. 328 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 4: It's not clicking with me and my siblings. It's not clicking. 329 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 4: I don't know what what's wrong. 330 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: It's just not clicking. 331 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 4: I've been trying to get this business off the ground. 332 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: It's not clicking. It's not clicking. And now I've got trying. 333 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 4: I gotta pay my mortgage or I gotta pay my rent, 334 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 4: and I also gotta pay this, and I gotta pay 335 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 4: that my. 336 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: Own walls are broken down. 337 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 4: I just need you to know you're at a church 338 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 4: where you actually don't have to fake it. You're out 339 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 4: of church that you don't have to pretend let you 340 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 4: have it all together. You're at a church that is 341 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 4: not asking you to be perfect and look some certain 342 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 4: part and do some song and dance. You are at 343 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 4: a church and you are under the leadership of people 344 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 4: are like, hey, you. 345 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: Can take off your mask here. You can be. 346 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 4: Exactly who you are right now. You can navigate the 347 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 4: pains and the difficulties of life. If you're crying at home, 348 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 4: you can cry here. If you're suffering at home. We 349 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 4: want to know about it. You're E fam your E 350 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 4: group wants to know about it. Your campus pastor wants. 351 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: To know about it. 352 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 4: Your leadership wants to know about it. You're not in 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 4: some place where you have to be perfect. You can 354 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 4: say my walls are broken down. I also want to 355 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 4: say thank you to everyone behind the scenes who is serving. 356 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: To help put people's walls in. Police are are Are you? 357 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 4: Everybody with kids right now and they be able to 358 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 4: hear this message right now because they're serving in kids. 359 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, because what you're doing when you're changing, 360 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 4: you're playing with kids and playing with toys and sitting 361 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 4: on the ground and reading and Bible stories and telling 362 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 4: them about Moses and Joshua, is helping rebuild walls in families. 363 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 4: That's really what you're doing. Those are your parking cars. 364 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 4: Really what you're doing when you're smiling when everybody comes in, 365 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 4: is you're helping to rebuild walls because they haven't had 366 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 4: anybody smile at them the whole time they came in 367 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 4: all week. All week, people been mean mugging them, and 368 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 4: this week they're happening to see somebody going. You're bringing life, 369 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 4: You're rebuilding walls and you don't even know it. Individuals 370 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 4: that are behind cameras, You're rebuilding walls right now. 371 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: I want to say thank you. 372 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 4: To every single one that is helping to rebuild walls. 373 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 4: Even why things might not be perfect in your own life, 374 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 4: you're still helping rebuild walls. I want to say thank 375 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 4: you to those of you, even giving financially, when you 376 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 4: got your own struggles, and you have your own dead 377 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 4: and you have your own problems, and you have your 378 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 4: own weights, and you're saying God, I trust you anyway, 379 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 4: and you keep on giving. You're rebuilding people's walls, and. 380 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: You're part of a story that. 381 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 4: Is bigger than anything you could possibly imagine. 382 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: Let's build something. 383 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 4: Let's build something, build something for the glory of God. 384 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: This is the culture is trying to tell you. The 385 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: culture is trying to tell all of. 386 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 4: Us, Hey, chill, relax, take a step back, get your 387 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 4: meed time. 388 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: You need your meed time. 389 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 4: How here's one of the lives of culture. How are 390 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 4: you gonna pour out unless you're filled up? 391 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: Huh? Ask everybody, Ask everybody who's a parent of a newborn. 392 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: If you're filled up? 393 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 4: Every time your kid cries, at three seventeen in the morning. 394 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 4: Are you are your parents? Help me out here? Are 395 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 4: you filled up? 396 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: No? 397 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 4: I'm dead tired. I'm trying to figure out what is 398 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 4: going on with this child. I've already changed the diaper, 399 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 4: I have already given milk. Shoot, I'm trying to breast feed. 400 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: Myself and I can't even breast feed. 401 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 4: I'm trying to feel. How do I get this child? 402 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 4: Just to sleep tonight? God, would you give me ninety 403 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 4: minutes the Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, 404 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 4: ninety minutes of sleep. Just help me sleep for ninety minutes. Lord, 405 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 4: you're not filled up during that time, but you still 406 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 4: have to pour out because God has given you an 407 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 4: assignment in that moment. You and I can't be waiting 408 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 4: until I'm all filled up. Now listen, Does that mean 409 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 4: you don't rest? Of course you rest, Sabbath, Yes, Sabbath. 410 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 4: You'll go on vacation, Yes, go on vacation, Go on 411 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 4: your walks, do the things that you need to do 412 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 4: to or fill yourself. 413 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: Up, no doubt about that. 414 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 4: But do not believe the lie that you have to wait, 415 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 4: that everything is in order in your life in order 416 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 4: to be a part of the move of God that 417 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 4: is happening all around you. I'm gonna get this fixed. 418 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 4: I'm gonna get that fixed. And when I get done 419 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 4: with this and I get done with that, and then 420 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 4: I'll get involved. No, you get involved or right now 421 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 4: you can play keys. Get involved right now, you can 422 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 4: help lead worship. Get involved, right now, you could be 423 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 4: a prayer partner. Get involved, right now, let's build something. 424 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 4: What are we waiting for for everything to be in order? 425 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: I don't. Honestly, I don't know anybody's life who's all 426 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: in order. I haven't met him yet. I haven't met 427 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: a person. 428 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 4: It's like, you know what, Everything in my life right now. 429 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: It's perfect. 430 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 4: I don't have one prayer request. I'm not asking God 431 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 4: for anything. I haven't met a person like that. The 432 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 4: people that I mean, even when they're on the mountaintops, 433 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 4: they got something else. Who they got something going on 434 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 4: with the kid. Everything's great. But if I can just 435 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 4: get this one kid to act right. That's not smacking 436 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 4: the kid that's smacking the air because we don't smack. 437 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: My mother did she wasn't my behind. 438 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 4: I told my mom, I said, Mom, just so you know, 439 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 4: I could have had you in jail, She goes, I'll. 440 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: Get over here right now. You're behind right now for me, right. 441 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 4: Have one kid, one friend, one issue, one struggle. So 442 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 4: if you're waiting for everything to be perfect, it's really 443 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 4: just an excuse that you and I like to hold 444 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 4: on to. So we won't obey what God is calling 445 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 4: us to do to live for the glory of God. 446 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 4: Now here's the thing. Me and my chapter two go 447 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 4: verse number ten. I'm not going to go through the 448 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 4: whole book today. Okay, we won't do that. Me and 449 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 4: my chapter two, verse number ten, I do want to 450 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 4: show you this. When Sambought Ballad, the horrorm Knight and Tobiah, 451 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 4: the Ammonite official, heard about this, they were very disturbed 452 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 4: that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites. 453 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 4: I'm skipping here. Nehemiah praise has a moment with the 454 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 4: King again. You can read it on your own during 455 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 4: your Bible study time. Beautiful, just clear book. He didn't 456 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 4: know what to say. He just pauses for a second 457 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 4: and answers. He prays, and then he answers the king, 458 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 4: and then the King gives him resources to go and 459 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 4: accomplish his mission. 460 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: To rebuild the walls. 461 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 4: And now he's on assignment from God to do something 462 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 4: on behalf of God, to serve the Kingdom of God, 463 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 4: to lift the lives of people, to remind God's kids 464 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 4: that God is still good and God is still faithful, 465 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 4: and God has not forgotten about them, to take them 466 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 4: from a place of being. 467 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: Utterly vulnerable and bringing them into. 468 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 4: A place of safety and purity that is found in God, 469 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 4: not just in the walls, but found in the God 470 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 4: that loves them and serves them. 471 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: And as he has all of. 472 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 4: These resources and he's about to take this step, something 473 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 4: happens to him that inevitably will happen to all of us. 474 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: Opposition. 475 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 4: Any time you begin to take steps to rebuild walls 476 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 4: and to be the man or the woman that God 477 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 4: has calling you to be, you can expect, don't be surprised. 478 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 4: You can expect that the enemy of your soul is 479 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 4: going to bring opposition into your life. These individuals come 480 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 4: in and they go, what are you doing. They're trying 481 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 4: to stop them, They're trying to push him back. And 482 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 4: the unfortunate thing is in today's day and age, not 483 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 4: here at this church, just some places narrative out there 484 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 4: that if you're getting resistance, then somehow, some way, you 485 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 4: must not be in God's will. And I say the 486 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 4: scriptures seem to teach that when you are smack dab 487 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 4: in the middle of God's will, there are winds coming 488 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 4: against you because you are now trying to move forward 489 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 4: to be who God has called you to be. If 490 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 4: you're a teenager, if you're a young adult, if you're 491 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 4: at school and you're saying, hey, I'm gonna start a 492 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 4: Bible study. 493 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: Hey I'm gonna live for God. 494 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 4: Hey, we're not partying anymore, don't expect everybody to applaud you. 495 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 4: You can expect some people to go, oh, yeah, man, 496 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 4: that's great, good job, bro, I love that. 497 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: Yeah man, And they'll dap you up. 498 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,719 Speaker 4: And there's gonna be some people talking about you behind 499 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 4: your back, thinking that you're better than everybody else, thinking 500 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 4: that you're. 501 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: Holier than now. 502 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,959 Speaker 4: But don't let their words stop you from moving forward 503 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 4: to build what God is calling you to build. You 504 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 4: keep on standing strong, and you keep on moving forward. 505 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 4: This is the DNA that you have as a follower 506 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 4: of Jesus Christ. Try not to pushover. You have the 507 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 4: same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that's alive 508 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 4: on the inside of you. I'm gonna show you this verse. 509 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 4: I'm gonna show you one of my favorite verses. I 510 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 4: can't get away from this verse. I love this verse. Luke, 511 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 4: chapter thirteen. Look at this verse. This verse might surprise 512 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 4: some of us. This is Jesus, the meek and mild savior, 513 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 4: the kind, loving, warm Jesus. Okay, and he is loving, 514 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 4: he's kind, he's all those things, of course, but he 515 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,719 Speaker 4: also has that dog in him. Come on, come on, 516 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 4: come on, Luke, chapter thirteen, verse thirty one. 517 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: Look at this. 518 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 4: At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus and they 519 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 4: said to him. The religious leaders come to him, and 520 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 4: they say, leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod 521 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 4: wants to kill you, death threat, government coming at him. 522 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: What does Jesus say, Oh so scared, So I'm sure 523 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: who who Herod? 524 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 3: Who? 525 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Wait wait they posted 526 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: what oh they said what? 527 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 4: Who? 528 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: Wait? Wait they don't like me? 529 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 4: Is that what Jesus does? Watch this, Watch this, watch this, 530 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 4: watch it. Look what your savior says. Okay, he replied, 531 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 4: go tell that fox. 532 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: I'm not making it up. This is the Bible right here. 533 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: Go tell that Fox. 534 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 4: I will keep on driving out demons and healing people 535 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 4: today and tomorrow, and on the third. 536 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: Day, I will reach my goal. 537 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 4: In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow 538 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 4: and the next day. 539 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: Come on, go tell that Fox, I'm gonna drive. 540 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 4: Out demons today and tomorrow and the next day. You 541 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 4: think I'm taking steps back, You think I'm stopping. You 542 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 4: think I'm not gonna serve in church. You think I'm 543 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 4: not gonna be found in the house of God. 544 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: You're wrong. Yeah, you go. 545 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 4: Cancer can come, diabetes can come, the lies can come, 546 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 4: the fear can come. You'll find me ten toes down, 547 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 4: lifting up the name of Jesus, living for his glory 548 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 4: and building his kingdom. 549 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: Go tell that Fox. I must press on. Come on, 550 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: is it anybody? 551 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 4: It's like, I must, I must, I must, I must 552 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 4: press on. I must press on, I must press on. 553 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 4: I must press on. There's a lot of things trying 554 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 4: to tell me to stop, but I must press on. 555 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 4: There's a lot of things coming at me, but I 556 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 4: must press There's a lot of things trying to confuse me, 557 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 4: and a lot of things I don't understand, but I. 558 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: Must press song. Okay, okay, back to Neema. 559 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,479 Speaker 4: Go back, go back, go ahack, come back, go back, 560 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 4: go aheacky man, You'll got me more fired up than 561 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 4: I want to be. Me and Mayah, I can't even 562 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 4: find my book. Nea and Mayah, you get your chapter 563 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 4: number three. In the chapter number three, I'm fast forwarding here. 564 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 4: Everyone takes their section of the wall. Different people take 565 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 4: different sections of the wall. Everyone has to do their part. 566 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 4: The walls are broken down, and each family has to 567 00:32:50,560 --> 00:33:01,959 Speaker 4: do their part. Here at elevation, each family has to 568 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 4: do their part. We can't keep thinking, oh, it's elevation, 569 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 4: everything's done. It's not done, I promise you. Each week 570 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 4: we're figuring it out. We're like Lord in Jesus name, 571 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 4: bring it together. Lord, doing all these elevation nights and 572 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 4: reaching the world and putting out songs. 573 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: It's all so beautiful, it's wonderful. 574 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 4: You can be tricked into thinking everything must be done, 575 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 4: there must be no more holes in the wall. I'm 576 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 4: just telling you there's holes in the wall because some 577 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 4: of us aren't doing our part. Guilt, no shame at all. 578 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 4: You're loved exactly how you are, but also God loves 579 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,719 Speaker 4: you too. Much to let you stay that way. So 580 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 4: we got to rise up and understand. I'm not just 581 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 4: a consumer here. I'm a contributor to be a part 582 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 4: of the mission to reach people who are far from 583 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 4: God and to bring them to life in Jesus Christ. 584 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 4: In chapter three, everybody did their section of the wall. 585 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 4: I got my section, got my section, got my section, 586 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 4: got my section, got my section, got my section, got 587 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 4: my section. And as everybody did their part of the wall, 588 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 4: though a miracle happened. In fifty two days, these walls 589 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 4: were rebuilt. Can I say this? I put it like 590 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 4: this in my head whenever you want to put put 591 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 4: that on the screen for me, because I forgot how 592 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 4: I said it. 593 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 1: Go to the next, my next slide, my next one. 594 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: What's my one? Am I messing this up? Oh? 595 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 4: Yes, I was gonna mess it up. What you build now, 596 00:34:48,200 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 4: someone you love will live in later. My wife holiest 597 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,720 Speaker 4: person I know. But before she got saved, she was crazy. Okay, 598 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 4: she was out there. She'll tell you, She'll tell you, 599 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 4: crop tops it all and got the pictures to prove it. 600 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 4: I don't hold on any of those pictures. This is 601 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,760 Speaker 4: what she told me. Okay, I only know her as 602 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 4: perfect and wholly impure. But back in the day she 603 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:24,959 Speaker 4: was like, oh yeah, I could drink a whole forty 604 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 4: I'm like what, I did not need to know this? 605 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 4: So and neither are we recommending that at all. Anybody's like, 606 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 4: well she did it? No, no, Well, she ends up 607 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 4: giving her heart to Christ. In college, she's working at 608 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,320 Speaker 4: of a clothing store. This young lady that she becomes 609 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 4: best friends with. One day they're talking, you know, Nica 610 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 4: finds out that she's twenty one. She was, oh, you're 611 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 4: twenty one. Oh my gosh, I could believe you're twenty 612 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 4: one years old. That means you don't have to get 613 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 4: carted when you go to a club. And she goes, oh, 614 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 4: I don't drink. I'm a Christian. I don't go on club. 615 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 4: I'm a Christian. And Anika said she heard that, and 616 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 4: now she understands that the Holy Spirit put like an 617 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 4: arrow straight into her heart of conviction, going hmm, what's 618 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 4: different about her than me? 619 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 1: She gives her heart to Christ. 620 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 4: This young lady Jory and her sister mentor pour into 621 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 4: my wife, and now you know, we're living happily of after. 622 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 4: But Jory was a part of a college ministry. And 623 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 4: then there was this guy that Jory knew, and Jory 624 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 4: asked him if he would be willing to show into 625 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 4: her give her money for this missionary endeavor that she 626 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 4: was on. 627 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 1: That guy's name was Philip. 628 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 4: Philip gave her money to help her be at this 629 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 4: college ministry where she met on Aka and Onnika gave 630 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,879 Speaker 4: her heart to Christ. Now Nick and I are are 631 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 4: building Shoreline City. Well, Philip Wagner was a pastor at 632 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 4: a church in La, and when he's a pastor of 633 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 4: this church in La. He led it for thirty years. 634 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 4: He's now giving the church over. But then he moved 635 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,400 Speaker 4: away from his church in La. Lived with integrity, character, 636 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,160 Speaker 4: great people. He and his wife Holly moved from La 637 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 4: to Dallas. And now they were actually sitting on the 638 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,800 Speaker 4: front row at our church every single week. 639 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: So now. 640 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 4: I go, wait, all those years ago when he sewed 641 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 4: in the jewelry, he was actually sewing into himself, because 642 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 4: he says, Earl, I'm here at the church, and by light, 643 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,320 Speaker 4: my heart is coming alive. I know I'm not running 644 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 4: this church, but I feel as alive as I did 645 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 4: when I was running my church all those years ago. 646 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 4: What you If you sow now and build now, someone 647 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 4: you love will live in laser. Are you serving and 648 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 4: giving and praying and involved in a way that your 649 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,160 Speaker 4: kids will still want to be a part of this 650 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,320 Speaker 4: church ten, fifteen, twenty years from now. 651 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 1: Let it not just be good for Come. 652 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 4: On, don't start, don't don't stop clapping. Now, you gotta 653 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,879 Speaker 4: have to clap on that one. We're gonna say, yes, 654 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 4: I want you be those types of people. Okay, I'm 655 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 4: gonna shut this party down. Go with me to Neami 656 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,279 Speaker 4: chapter six. Then everybody you can get ready to come 657 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 4: come in place. Okay, look at this, Look at this, 658 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 4: Look at this. I'm on all my time. When NIAI 659 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 4: Chapter six, verse number one, Chapter four beautiful, Um. 660 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:45,960 Speaker 1: You gotta read it. 661 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 4: Chapter five intentional caring for the poor and the needy 662 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,320 Speaker 4: like we do here at Elevation. 663 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 1: Verse Chapter six, verse number one. 664 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:00,800 Speaker 4: It says, when when word came to Sam Ballot, Tobia, Getsham, 665 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 4: the Arab and the rest of our enemies, that I 666 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 4: had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left 667 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 4: in it. Up to that time, I had not set 668 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 4: the doors in the gates. Sam Ballot and Gesham sent 669 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 4: me this message. So here are the enemies DM ing them. 670 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 4: Come let us meet together in one of the villages 671 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 4: on the plane of oh No. Whenever you get a 672 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,719 Speaker 4: DM from someone and they want to meet you in 673 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 4: a place called oh No, we ain't. 674 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: Got to pray about that. 675 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 4: Okay, the answer to the question is in the name. 676 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: Okay, oh no. 677 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 4: But they were scheming to harm me, so I sent 678 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 4: messengers to them with this reply, I am carrying on 679 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 4: a great project and cannot go down. Why should the 680 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 4: work stop up while I leave it and go down 681 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 4: to you? Four times they sent me the same message, 682 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 4: and each time, I love this. I gave them the 683 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 4: same answer. Four times. Hey, won't come off that wall. Hey, 684 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 4: come on here, Hey stop living for God. Hey, that's 685 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 4: not who you are. Come on, sup pretended, stop acting 686 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:27,399 Speaker 4: like you live for Jesus. 687 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: Now I know who you are. I remember who you are. 688 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 4: I got the pictures, I got the Facebook posters to 689 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 4: show you, I got the Instagram to sure I've seen 690 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 4: your TikTok. Come on, now you have to say, come on, 691 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 4: come on, come up, come on, back down, come on, 692 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,759 Speaker 4: back down, come on back down, come on back down. 693 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: Come on. I'm your frat brother. Come on back down 694 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: to who you used to be. 695 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 4: Come on, let's let's let's talk how we used to talk, live, 696 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,399 Speaker 4: how we used to live, act, how we used to act. 697 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,640 Speaker 4: And they keep on pressing, keep on pressing, keep on pressing, 698 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,919 Speaker 4: four times, four times, four times, four times. And each 699 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 4: time he gave the same answer. Each time he gave 700 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 4: the same answer. Each time he gave the same answer, opposition, 701 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:06,760 Speaker 4: same answer, opposition, same answer, opposition, same answer, opposition, same answer. 702 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 4: Then the fifth time, Sam Belton, now's five The fifth 703 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,560 Speaker 4: time Sam Bellant sent his aid to the same message 704 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 4: in this handwritten. 705 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 1: Note five times? Are you serious? 706 00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:26,279 Speaker 3: Me? 707 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 4: And Maya stands strong because this is the DNA, the 708 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:38,919 Speaker 4: follower of God. I stand strong, not in my own 709 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,719 Speaker 4: strengthened power, but in the grace and the power that 710 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:47,239 Speaker 4: He provides. So now he goes back and forth. But 711 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 4: look at this. In chapter nine, I'm all done here? 712 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,799 Speaker 4: Can you bring me out my microphone? Bring out my 713 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,520 Speaker 4: microphone from my microphone stand rather my chapter six, verse 714 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,239 Speaker 4: number eight, it says I sent him this reply. 715 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thank you so much. 716 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:06,880 Speaker 4: I'll take that I sent him this reply. Nothing like 717 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 4: what you are saying is happening. You were just making 718 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 4: it up out of your head. First number nine. They 719 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,319 Speaker 4: were all trying to frighten us. They were all trying 720 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 4: to frighten us. Do you have anything in your life 721 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,960 Speaker 4: it's trying to frighten you. And then in your life, 722 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 4: trying to tell you stop. It's not gonna work for you. 723 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,359 Speaker 4: Guy's not on your side anything, trying to lie to you, 724 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 4: tell you you're. 725 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 1: Not gonna make it. It's over for you. The divorce, 726 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:40,759 Speaker 1: it bid you in. 727 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 4: You're done, You're finished. We know you already made the mistake. 728 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:47,520 Speaker 1: It's done. It's over. 729 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 4: Trying to intimidate you, trying to frighten you. They were 730 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:59,200 Speaker 4: all trying to frighten us, thinking their hands will get 731 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 4: to for the work and it will not be completed. 732 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,040 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say because I can't. 733 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 4: Like, I'll say, put the rest of that verse up 734 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,960 Speaker 4: there for me real quick, if you want mine said. 735 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,720 Speaker 4: They were all trying to frighten us, thinking their hands 736 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,920 Speaker 4: we'll get too weak for the work and will not 737 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 4: be completed. But I prayed, but I prayed, but I prayed. 738 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,520 Speaker 4: Had a lot of weight on my shoulders, but I prayed, 739 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:59,240 Speaker 4: and I prayed something very specific. Now strengthen my hands. 740 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,960 Speaker 4: Man the grace of God, walking up and down every aisle. 741 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 4: But I prayed strengthened my hands. I want, I want 742 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:12,920 Speaker 4: to do something. I saw this in my head. I 743 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 4: saw this in my head. But I prayed strengthen my hands. 744 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,000 Speaker 4: So I'm gonna say, but I prayed, and all of 745 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,160 Speaker 4: you are gonna clap, Then you're gonna say, strengthen my hands. 746 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 4: But I prayed strengthen my hands. But I prayed strengthened 747 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 4: my hands. But I prayed strengthen my hands. But I 748 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:47,640 Speaker 4: prayed strengthened my hands. I'm crying myself to sleep at night, 749 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:53,040 Speaker 4: but I prayed strengthened my hands. I'm battling cancer right now, 750 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,240 Speaker 4: but I prayed strengthen my hands. I know this world 751 00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,120 Speaker 4: seems like it's going. 752 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,520 Speaker 1: To hell in a hand basket. I prayed strengthened my hands. 753 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,360 Speaker 4: I said my kid was gonna stay here forever. 754 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,000 Speaker 1: But I prayed strengthen my hands. 755 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,040 Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm gonna get through this anxiety. 756 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,560 Speaker 1: And this depression. It feels like it's gonna. 757 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 3: Take me over. 758 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,640 Speaker 4: It feels like it's an overwhelming tidal wave. 759 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 1: What I prayed strengthen my hands. I don't know which 760 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:25,719 Speaker 1: way is up. 761 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,080 Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like I'm confused. 762 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,320 Speaker 1: What I prayed? 763 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:36,360 Speaker 4: Strengthen my hands, strengthened my hands, strengthened my hands. Strengthen 764 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:41,840 Speaker 4: my hands. Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands. Come on, 765 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,000 Speaker 4: strengthen my hands. No cock, strengthen my hands. No cock 766 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,200 Speaker 4: strengthen my back. O cock, strengthen my legs. So cod, 767 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:51,640 Speaker 4: strengthen my knees. 768 00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:52,280 Speaker 3: O COD. 769 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 4: Strengthen my faith, O cod that I keep my eyes 770 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,160 Speaker 4: fixed on you. 771 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 1: Strengthen my hands. But I prayed strengthen my hands. Strengthen 772 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:24,920 Speaker 1: my hands. Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands, Strengthen my hands. 773 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to musterle the strength up in myself. 774 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,960 Speaker 1: Strengthen my hands. I don't have the powering of myself. 775 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,600 Speaker 1: Strengthen my hands. Oh God, My I lift. 776 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,959 Speaker 4: My eyes to the heels from where my health comes from. 777 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,160 Speaker 4: Strengthen my hands, Oh God, Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands, 778 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:51,520 Speaker 4: Strengthened my hands. The grace of God. It's available for 779 00:46:51,680 --> 00:47:00,719 Speaker 4: every single one of us. And wherever you're feeling weak, 780 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:09,040 Speaker 4: you might find yourself in your office. Go and I 781 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:20,520 Speaker 4: can't deal with these people. Strengthen my hands the spirit 782 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:25,200 Speaker 4: of God. We'll be right there with you in offices 783 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,759 Speaker 4: and in schools, and in car lines and in e 784 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:33,080 Speaker 4: groups and in the church, in that playgrounds and on 785 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,360 Speaker 4: basketball courts and every place. 786 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:36,520 Speaker 1: God is sending here. 787 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 4: For you to build something not for your name and fame, 788 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 4: but for the glory and the fame of Jesus Christ. 789 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 4: By your heads, if you wouldn't mind at all of 790 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:58,560 Speaker 4: our locations, Lord God, I speak a blessing over your 791 00:47:58,560 --> 00:47:59,440 Speaker 4: sons and daughters. 792 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,080 Speaker 1: I ask in the name of Jesus. 793 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,759 Speaker 4: That you would fill us up with your spirit and 794 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,200 Speaker 4: with your power. I ask o God that you would 795 00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,560 Speaker 4: do something deep within us that can only be done 796 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 4: by the finished work of Jesus Christ upon that cross. 797 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 4: I ask o God that over every single family, over 798 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,960 Speaker 4: every single young person, an older person, every man, every woman, 799 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,000 Speaker 4: Oh God, would you pour out your spirit in might 800 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,880 Speaker 4: and in power and those of us whose walls have 801 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,879 Speaker 4: been torn down. I think you, o God, that you're 802 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,480 Speaker 4: sending in the right people, and you're rebuilding what needs 803 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,520 Speaker 4: to be rebuilt so that we can live our. 804 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:39,440 Speaker 1: Lives for your glory. 805 00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 4: But Father, I pray a fresh fire and a fresh 806 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,560 Speaker 4: passion and a fresh seal over. 807 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:46,520 Speaker 1: This entire church. 808 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,560 Speaker 4: I ask that the next twenty years of Elevation would 809 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,040 Speaker 4: be stronger and better and more filled with faith than 810 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,880 Speaker 4: we ever thought possible. I ask for there to be 811 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,640 Speaker 4: a unity. I ask for there to be an anointing, 812 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 4: ask for there to be a strength. 813 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,239 Speaker 1: I ask for them to be a result. I ask 814 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,880 Speaker 1: for them to be a confidence. And I pray that 815 00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,600 Speaker 1: this church would be a city on a hill. 816 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,680 Speaker 4: Every family belongs to you, every heart belongs to you, 817 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,080 Speaker 4: every mind belongs to you, every future belongs to you. 818 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:25,000 Speaker 4: Jesus be exalted and do exceedingly abundantly above all by 819 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:29,320 Speaker 4: did we get ask, think or even imagine, and Jesus. 820 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,240 Speaker 1: Saying, we pray, Amen and Amen. 821 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:35,279 Speaker 3: Hey. 822 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,720 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 823 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,839 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 824 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 825 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,279 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 826 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,160 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 827 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 828 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,120 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 829 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world and if 830 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,160 Speaker 2: you want more information how to be a part of Elevation, 831 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,520 Speaker 2: click the link in the description. 832 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. 833 00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,400 Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe. 834 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:09,319 Speaker 3: God bless you.