1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: You ready? You sure? 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 3: Ready for the work? A good catch, y'all. Don't have 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 3: confidence in me. You got nervous? 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: Ready? You ready? 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 4: Josh better stick with the front row. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 5: It's a very retigious society. 13 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: Ready, It's like she did. We're about to do. 14 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: Around the audience response to my best premium minister, my 15 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: brother look at somebody next to you and say, I. 16 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 6: Caught a thought. I caught a thought. Chunks you ready, 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 6: let's see. 18 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: Caught it? Sorry about that, Collie caught something. 19 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: By the way. This guy who just threw me the Bible, 20 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: it's like my best friend in the world. But he's 21 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: the worst. He's always blaming people when he gets sick. 22 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: He's always trying to track back to who had a 23 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: running nose four months ago, blaming it on my kids. 24 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: You know it soon So you came back from the 25 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: mission trip. I think I caught it from them. It 26 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: was food poisoning. You can't catch food poisoning. Why are 27 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: you trying to blame the missionary because you've got a 28 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: stomach virus. 29 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: He's magnum pi trying to investigate. It's a pop culture 30 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: reference for the young people, very relevant and current. I 31 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: caught it. Look at somebody and say, I caught a thought. 32 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. 33 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: Is it possible to catch an attitude? You got anybody 34 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: just when you see their name on your phone. Y'all 35 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: responding a little too much to this, you might be 36 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 2: giving yourself away. 37 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 1: I caught a thought? 38 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 2: Can you catch Can you catch faith? Can you catch fear? 39 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: Can you catch an idea? Can you catch a dream? 40 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: Can you catch a vision? Can you catch a word 41 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: from God that will cause you to worship from a 42 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: deep place past the shallows of feelings and emotions? You're 43 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 2: here today because you caught a thought. You thought you 44 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: should come to church. You caught a ride and you came. 45 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: But before you caught a ride, you caught a thought 46 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 2: I should go to church. And because you caught a thought, 47 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: you're about to look at twelve people. Ready, that's how 48 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 2: we all too. I caught a thought. Now I'm them 49 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: fonstrating this physically, but I want to demonstrate it scripturely. 50 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: Go in your Bible to Numbers, chapter thirteen, and I 51 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 2: want to look at a passage of scripture. 52 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: That has been really helpful to me. 53 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: So many times through the years when I am caught 54 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: between two thoughts, and when one thought says you should 55 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 2: and you can, and one thought says you can't, so 56 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: don't try. 57 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: This passage has often helped my perspective. 58 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 2: And it's a familiar story for anybody who knows about 59 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 2: Father Abraham had many sons, and many sons had Father Abraham. 60 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 2: I am one of them, and so are you. So 61 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 2: let's just praise the Lord. That Bible school stuff. It 62 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: works in grown up life too, because the children of 63 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: Abraham are of course coming into the land that God 64 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: promised them, and in the Book of Numbers, they have 65 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: the opportunity to receive the gift, but they get more 66 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: focused on the giants that oppose them than the gift 67 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: that God has given them. 68 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: And that happens to us all the time. 69 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 2: So what we see in Numbers chapter thirteen, verse thirty, 70 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: and I'm so excited to show you this. 71 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: I'm having to contain. My excitement. 72 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: Is that there will always be a thought that God 73 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 2: will bring you to deliver you. There will always be 74 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 2: a thought that the enemy will bring to destroy you. 75 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: And they're both right here in numbers. Chapter thirteen. Let's 76 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 2: study this together. The Bible says, then Caleb silenced the 77 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: people before Moses and said, we should go up and 78 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it. 79 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: But the men who had gone up with him said, 80 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 2: we can't. 81 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: Attack those people. 82 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 2: They are stronger than we are. And they spread among 83 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. 84 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: They said, the land we explored devours those living in it. 85 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: All the people we saw there are of great size. 86 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: We saw the Nephilum there, the descendants of Anak come 87 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 2: from the Nephilum. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, 88 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 2: and we looked the same to them. 89 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: Stop. 90 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 2: There was no conversation between the giants and the spies 91 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: about who was bigger. That wasn't what they heard, that 92 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: was what they thought. The nation never saw the promised 93 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: land for themselves. They relied on the support or the 94 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 2: report of the spies to give them a picture of 95 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: the promise of God as well as give them a 96 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 2: prediction about the outcome. And it wasn't because they saw something. 97 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: It was because they heard something. And what they heard 98 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 2: was a result of something that the spies thought. So 99 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: when it said in the scripture, they spread among the 100 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 2: Israelites a bad report, and that report kept the Israelites 101 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: from going into the land that God had given them. 102 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: I realized it is possible to be stopped not because 103 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: of your giants, but because of your thoughts, not because 104 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: of something that is actually bigger than you, but because 105 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: of something that you have made bigger than you on 106 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 2: the movie screen of your mind. How many of you 107 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 2: have an Imax screen in your mind, and you can 108 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 2: blow things up all to all different proportions. The whole 109 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: nation caught a thought, and it made their faith weak. 110 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 2: And God had given them the land, and they could 111 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: have had the land. In fact, the land was already theirs. 112 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: Because the enemy can't take away anything that God has 113 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: given to you. However, if he can attack your faith 114 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 2: through weakening your immune. 115 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: System, that faith immune system that is. 116 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: Supposed to filter out those microscopic germs, those seeds of 117 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: discontent that will cause you to walk away from what 118 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 2: God has calling you to walk into. Although he can't 119 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 2: take it away from you, if he can get to 120 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: your faith, if he can get to that part of 121 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 2: you that believes God and cause it to be disrupted 122 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 2: by something that your eyes see or your ears. Here, 123 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, help me say this the right way. He 124 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 2: can't take it. So what he wants to do is 125 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: to move you from a place of believing that He 126 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: loves you, called you, qualified you, set you apart, put 127 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 2: you there to do it. 128 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: And the issue with me is that I. 129 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: Experience both thoughts, both voices simultaneously. 130 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: Let me try to break this down. 131 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 2: I got Caleb telling me this is one thought you 132 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: should you can, and then I got ten other spies. 133 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: You ever noticed how it seems to be more reasons 134 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: why you shouldn't than that you should. 135 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: You ever felt outnumbered in your thought life? Yeah? 136 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: I got ten spies. Now the spies are going into 137 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 2: the land. And the number one rule of being a 138 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 2: spy is don't get caught, right yo with me? Yeah, 139 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: it's the number one rule of being a spy. Whatever 140 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 2: you do, sneak in. And Joshua told him, or Moses 141 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 2: told him. Joshua was one of the two spies that 142 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: sought the right way, and he told him. Moses told 143 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: Joshua and Caleb into ten other spies. He said, when 144 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: you go in there, make sure, make sure that they 145 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: don't see you. Okay, But then they got caught. But 146 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 2: they didn't get caught by their enemies. They got caught 147 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 2: by their insecurities. I'm a preached to you. They got 148 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 2: caught by a thought. And the thought was, we're not 149 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: big enough. The thought was we don't have enough. 150 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: The thought is, we can't they're bigger. 151 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 2: And so then now all of a sudden they are 152 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: dominated not by their enemies, but by their thoughts. And 153 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 2: God said that I was preaching to somebody today who 154 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 2: is caught between two thoughts. One is telling you that 155 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 2: God gave you everything you need to raise that child. 156 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 2: The other is telling you that you're the one who 157 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: screwed them up. I'm a preaching to your business today. 158 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: One is telling you that it's all right. God can 159 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: restore the years that the locusts have eaten. The other 160 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: is telling you you've wasted too much time and now 161 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 2: nothing good can happen in your life. 162 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: So I'm caught between two. 163 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: Thoughts and On one hand, I see the size of 164 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: the grapes, I see the size of the promise, and 165 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 2: I know the size of my God. On the other hand, 166 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 2: I hear all of the reasons why a great, big 167 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 2: God could not use a little puny person like me 168 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 2: from Monks Corner, South Carolina, a little puny person like 169 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 2: me who never did this on this level before. 170 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: Even as I preach to you, I'm caught between two thoughts. 171 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 2: She looks like she's never heard a better sermon in 172 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 2: her life. 173 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: Somebody up there looks. 174 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 2: Like they hate me and are contemplating how they can 175 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 2: slip out. And how did I get stuck in the 176 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 2: middle of this row for this sermon? And why is 177 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 2: he yelling like that? And that shirt is too bright 178 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: and it hurts my eyes, and I just want to 179 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: get out of here. I'm a preach to you. I'm 180 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: a preach to the I'm a preach to the love 181 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: in the room. I'm going to preach to the faith. 182 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 2: You're feeling better, Lja. He had to miss last Sunday. 183 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: It's the first time he's missed playing behind me in 184 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: three years. 185 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: He's never missed, but he caught. He caught a stomach bug, 186 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie to you. This may make 187 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: me a bad pastor. 188 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 2: When I saw him Tuesday, I waved at him. 189 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: I didn't wap him up. I don't love him that much. 190 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 2: I'm not going to spend the whole week throwing up 191 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: just to tell you, hello, we can do this virtually. 192 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: I love you, man, praying for you from a distance, 193 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 2: I'm not getting close enough to catch it. 194 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: M hm. 195 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 2: And honestly, this is why I had to stop hanging 196 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 2: out with some certain people, because I started realizing, you 197 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 2: catch what you're close to. Now, if you need to 198 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 2: take out your phone at this point in my sermon 199 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 2: and do some surgery with that, swipe left, delete, move. 200 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 2: Some of y'all don't need to lift your hands to 201 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 2: have more faith, you need to swipe your thumb because 202 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: it is your contacts. I caught something. I catch something 203 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 2: every time I'm around them, every time I scroll. 204 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: I noticed this the other day. 205 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 2: I get in a certain mood and I can't figure 206 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 2: out how was I so happy three minutes ago? 207 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 1: And now have you ever had a switch that quick? Yeah? 208 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: So I started studying it, and I realized that before 209 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 2: I caught a feeling, I caught a thought. Now, sometimes 210 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,599 Speaker 2: that thought is just me going through my feed and 211 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 2: I will see something that won't register. Now, here's what 212 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 2: I noticed. You don't feel it while you're scrolling. When 213 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: I ate a whole bag of oreos one Thanksgiving after 214 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: I'd already eaten three meals, I didn't feel sick while 215 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 2: I was eating them. My taste buds didn't tell me 216 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: to stop. So I'm scrolling and I don't feel sick 217 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 2: until after I've stopped. 218 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: What I realized about myself. 219 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 2: And maybe you're more spiritually mature than me, and you 220 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: can find a church where the pastor is whole. 221 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: Healthy and doesn't have these issues. 222 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: But for all of us who understand that, sometimes you 223 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: are mad about something that you saw ten minutes minutes 224 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 2: ago on your phone because you were in everybody else's 225 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: life but your own, trying to figure out am I 226 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: better than them? Are they better than me? And so 227 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 2: what happened while I was scrolling? I saw them on vacation, 228 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: and I know they're in debt. So I caught a 229 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 2: thought of judgment. Why should they be on vacation when 230 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: I know they're in debt? And now I feel sick? 231 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 2: Ten minutes later because of the thought that I caught 232 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: while I scrolled through somebody else's situation that has nothing 233 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: to do with my responsibility. Y'all gonna help me with this, 234 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: or am I gonna? So what happened to me was 235 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 2: I caught a thought of offense, and then I reaped 236 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 2: an attitude of frustration. 237 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: I got offended the other. 238 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: Day because I saw God blessing somebody that he wasn't supposed. 239 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: To bless. 240 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: Did you ever watch godja do something awesome for the 241 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: wrong person? 242 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: He didn't consult you? 243 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 2: And so I found myself feeling insecure. The reason that 244 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: I felt insecure in myself is because I caught a 245 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: thought of offense about somebody else. Now here's what happens. 246 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 2: You become a victim of your own judgment. When you 247 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: judge others that way, you judge you that way. So 248 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 2: when you catch a thought of judging others, don't be 249 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: surprised when the judgment comes upon you. The less y'all say, amen, 250 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 2: the more I know I'm preaching. 251 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: So I caught a thought. 252 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: I caught a thought, and I realized that the thought 253 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 2: that I hold on to the thought. 254 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: That I you know, like you can catch a wave. 255 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 2: You could catch a football for the game win touchdown, 256 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: like Graham Fredick did yesterday, just this very yesterday. But 257 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 2: I never knew I could catch a thought. I knew 258 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: you could catch a case. I had some relatives that 259 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 2: did it. I knew you could catch a cold. But 260 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: I found out you could catch a thought. And then 261 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: I trace sometimes the weakness of my faith, and I 262 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 2: ask myself the question, where did that thought come from? 263 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 2: And it's important where it came from, because where it 264 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: comes from determines where it leads to. My issue is 265 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 2: that when I say I hear from God, I don't 266 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: hear him out loud. God bless you if you do. 267 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: I've never heard the audible voice of God ever. I mean, 268 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 2: he speaks through my wife all the time. But other 269 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: than that exception, I've never heard the audible voice of God. 270 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 2: If you have, I'm not mad at you unless you 271 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 2: start trying to use it to manipulate people by making 272 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 2: up stuff that God told you, because God has three 273 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 2: way calling and he can tell us both. So don't 274 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 2: tell me God spoke to you something that I'm not 275 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 2: in agreement with and try to get me to do 276 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: something you. 277 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,959 Speaker 1: Want to do by saying God told you to, especially 278 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: if you. 279 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,719 Speaker 2: Say God told you to quit your job because you're 280 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 2: just tired of dealing with frustrating people. I don't know 281 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 2: if that's God or if you're just tired. Need to 282 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 2: get some sleep and have better attitude when you show up. 283 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 2: I've never heard from God out loud. One guy asked 284 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 2: me one time. He was like, when you say God 285 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 2: spoke to you. 286 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: How do you know? 287 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 2: Great question, because I don't hear God at an auditory level, 288 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: so when I say God spoke, that can be misleading. 289 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: You know. 290 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 2: When Peter said Jesus spoke to me, it was literal. 291 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 2: Jesus was a person. He spoke to me. I was 292 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 2: fishing one night. I hadn't caught anything. I was frustrated, 293 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: and Jesus said, let down your nets in the deep 294 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 2: for a catch. And Peter would say, at first, I 295 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 2: was frustrated because I thought you're a carpenter. I'm a fisherman. 296 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: You do your job, I'll do mine. You wanted my 297 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 2: boat to preach from. I didn't know you were going 298 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 2: to try to drive it. But watch this, because you 299 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 2: say so, I will let down the nets. 300 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: Now. 301 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 2: When he let down the nets. He caught a great 302 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 2: number of fish. But God was showing me that before 303 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: he caught the fish, he caught a you like this church, 304 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 2: Before there was a seat, there was a thought. 305 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 7: Now see the issue with this is I don't hear 306 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 7: God out loud like that, and so I connect with 307 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 7: God not at an auditory or sensory level. 308 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 2: I connect with God at the level of thought. Which 309 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 2: would be fine if God spoke to me at the 310 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 2: level of thought, and he was the only one who 311 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: spoke that way. 312 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: But I got this other joker. They call him the devil. 313 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 2: But when I say the devil tempts me or the 314 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 2: devil discourages me, I'm not talking about a guy in 315 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 2: a Halloween costume that he got on clearance at Target, 316 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 2: walking up with a pitchfork and a cape and some horns. 317 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 2: I never saw the devil like that. I just put 318 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 2: him off my shoulder. He's not on my shoulder when 319 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 2: he comes to me. He comes to me through a thought. 320 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 2: So now I got God. 321 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: Speaking to me through my thoughts. 322 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 2: I've got the enemy trying to speak against what God 323 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 2: spoke to me through my thoughts. I got two voices 324 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 2: on the same. 325 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: Device, and I'm caught between a thought. 326 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 2: One is telling me your greatest years are ahead of you. 327 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 2: One is telling me, you've already done all the good 328 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: things you're gonna do. You better write it out because 329 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 2: it won't be much longer. One is telling me go 330 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 2: ahead and speak it and say it and do it 331 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 2: and step into it and believe for it. And the 332 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 2: other one is telling me, well, you better not go 333 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 2: too far out there. You know, if you go too 334 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 2: far out there, you be embarrassed. And after off you 335 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 2: climb high, they can pull you down. 336 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: And I'm caught between Caleb we Can and the other spies. 337 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,360 Speaker 1: I'm caught. 338 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 2: Caught got a thought. I got caught. I got caught 339 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: by a thought. I don't know how it happened, but y'all, 340 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 2: I got this thought that goes through my mind all 341 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 2: the time that says it doesn't matter, just all the time. 342 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 2: I could be doing anything and it'll be like it's 343 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 2: almost the way the thought. You know that eye roll 344 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: emoji that you yeah, that's that would be the face 345 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: of it, But the thought behind it is like, you know, 346 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 2: who cares doesn't matter? You ever had that thought catch 347 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 2: you trying to do something? Mm hmm raise your hand again. 348 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 2: If you've ever had that. 349 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: Thought, why did y'all raise y'all saying so much higher? 350 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: The second time? 351 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 2: I asked her, Oh oh, oh. 352 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: You're not enough. 353 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 2: I don't know if you say it exactly like that, 354 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 2: but it's crazy how many people I talked to. And 355 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 2: I used to think it was people who didn't have 356 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 2: a lot of confidence, but then I realized professional athletes 357 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: have this thought that. 358 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm not enough. 359 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 2: They are the ones who are society worships. And still 360 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 2: there's a thought. It's a thought that's going around. The 361 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 2: reason is going around so much more now than it 362 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 2: used to go around is because now we don't judge 363 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 2: ourselves or measure ourselves. 364 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: According to the calling God has given us. 365 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: We compare ourselves to a fictionalized account of somebody else's life. 366 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: That's where you always get in trouble. Now, get this point. 367 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 2: You always get in trouble when you start comparing your 368 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 2: calling to somebody else's because when you compare callings, you 369 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 2: catch insecurity. When you compare callings, you catch in sufficiency. 370 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: When I think I'm not enough, you know I'm not enough. 371 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 2: Even the disciples, you know it's not enough food to 372 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 2: go around. 373 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: Jesus, you need to send them away. 374 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 2: How many times have I sent away something that God 375 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 2: put in my life because I caught a thought that 376 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 2: I'm not enough. They wandered around and around and around 377 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 2: in the wilderness for forty years, not because of their enemy, 378 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 2: but because of their thought. 379 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: And then even sometimes when things are going. 380 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 2: Good, I got this thought. I don't know where it 381 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 2: comes from. I don't think it's God. I don't think 382 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 2: it is. It's hard to tell sometimes because it's not 383 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 2: like he talks like this. I don't even know what 384 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 2: that was. I'm glad he didn't talk like that. That 385 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: was super weird. 386 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: Yes, like Morgan Freeman. It's just a thought. 387 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 2: Come on, if God sounded like Morgan Freeman, you could 388 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 2: do it. If you narrated your life like that, you 389 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 2: could do it. 390 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: You could make it. You would go to sleep and 391 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: wake up and just be ready for the day. 392 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 2: But it comes like a thought. You know, even when 393 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 2: it's going good, it won't last. They'll leave you too. 394 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 2: You can't count on them. Then you sabotage the gift 395 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: because you're not securing it, because even while it's happening, 396 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 2: you don't believe this is real. This is my thoughts. 397 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 2: I don't know where I caught them. I had a 398 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 2: good mom, good dad. I mean, they weren't perfect, don't 399 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: get me wrong. I wish I could trace it back 400 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 2: to just one traumatic event. I think that would be easier, 401 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 2: not enough. Where that thought come from. I'm not sure 402 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 2: where it comes from, but I know where it takes me. 403 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 2: And when I look back on the seasons of my 404 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 2: life that I was so deep in depression. Oh yeah, 405 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 2: and I know the Bible verses. Yeah, I know better 406 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 2: than you. Let's have a quote in contest, Rejoice in 407 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 2: the Lord Always. I will say it again, rejoice see 408 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 2: my hand motions. 409 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: I know the verse rejoicing the Lord Always. 410 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: And then Paul says, I will say it again, rejoice. Well, 411 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,479 Speaker 2: you can say it as many times as you want to. 412 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 5: Paul. 413 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: I'm sad right now and I can't find my way out, 414 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 2: and so now I'm fighting on the. 415 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: Level of my feelings. But watch this before it became 416 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: a feeling. 417 00:26:52,320 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 2: And look, even Paul, it wasn't just like most was 418 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: a bad leader. Even Paul had to fight against opposing 419 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 2: voices and thought systems that undermine the essence of the grace. 420 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 2: Of God in the gospel, even in the churches that 421 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 2: he started, even in the church at Corinth he would 422 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 2: write to that church, and what would happen to them 423 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 2: was they would they would they would be led astray 424 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: or the word he likes to use in Second Corinthians 425 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 2: is deceived. He says, I fear that you're being deceived 426 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 2: by the power of suggestion. He uses the example. He says, 427 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 2: like Eve was deceived by the serpent. You remember that 428 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: story when God said you can eat any of this, 429 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 2: And then she caught a thought from a snake. She 430 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 2: allows something that was beneath her to speak to her, 431 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 2: and she caught a thought. 432 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: See, I never had a snake slither up to me 433 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: and talk to me. I wish I did. 434 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: I wish it was a snake that I could chop 435 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 2: the head off of it. 436 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: It's a thought. And I have to live with this 437 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: and I have to deal with it. 438 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 2: And the serpent said to Eve, did God really say 439 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 2: you see it? He introduces a doubt into the possibility 440 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: and potential of faith, causing her to focus on what 441 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 2: is not available rather than what is. And Paul says, 442 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 2: I'm afraid that you will be deceived because there's these 443 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: there's these spies in the church at Corinth, and there 444 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: they're leading the Christians astray. They're doing it by the 445 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 2: power of thought. They are introducing the thought into the 446 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 2: Church that you need something other than Christ to justify you. 447 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 2: He says, I fear that you have been led astray 448 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 2: from your pure devotion to Christ. And pure is the 449 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: right word. That's the important word. 450 00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: Pure. 451 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 2: It's that uncontaminated place that you access occasionally where you 452 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: know that God's got you and everything is going to 453 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 2: be all right. You ever just felt that and you 454 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: had no reason to, and you didn't even have the 455 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 2: facts to back it up. You ever just felt that, 456 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 2: Like Wow, I just feel like I feel like I'm 457 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 2: gonna make it and God's going to do it. And 458 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 2: I just feel it. And I can't even prove it 459 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 2: on a flow chart or anything like that, but I 460 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 2: just What happens is the enemy deceives you. He can't 461 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 2: take what God gave you. 462 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: You know that, right. 463 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 2: I need to make sure you know that he can't 464 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 2: take what God gave you. But if he can get 465 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 2: you to catch a thought that opposes it, he can 466 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 2: keep you so weak that you will not walk into it. 467 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: And this is what he says to the church at 468 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 2: Corinth Because they got spies running and around introducing lies 469 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 2: to the church. They got thoughts that oppose the knowledge 470 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: of God. In fact, that's how he phrases it in 471 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 2: tewod Corinthians ten, verse four. He says, the weapons we 472 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 2: fight with are not the weapons of the world. On 473 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 2: the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. What's 474 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 2: a stronghold in military terms is a place that you 475 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 2: go to seek refuge, a stronghold where you set up 476 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 2: to do a battle where the enemy can't get to you, 477 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 2: or it can become a place where the enemy traps 478 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 2: you in He says, what happens in a physical battle 479 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 2: can happen mentally, spiritually, emotionally to any one of us 480 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: at any time. 481 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: See, because it is. 482 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 2: With the thought that I can experience God. I can 483 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: catch a thought of g Jesus and his grace for me, 484 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 2: and his love for me, and his mercy toward me, 485 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 2: and that thought can move me to worship Him in 486 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 2: the beauty of holiness, in the splendor of his magnificence. 487 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: In fact, I want to say this one thought of 488 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 2: Jesus can lift you above any wave of worrying. One 489 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 2: thought of Jesus. Have you been having trouble breathing this week? 490 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: Get a thought on your mind of the goodness of God. 491 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 2: You see that battle he brought you through, You see 492 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 2: that way he made for you, And. 493 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: Just one thought of Jesus. 494 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 2: How many no one thought can lift me out of 495 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: the pit one thought. But a stronghold can also Ensnare 496 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 2: you a thought I'm not enough? A thought I wonder 497 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 2: what they're thinking about me right now. 498 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: They're not. 499 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 2: But that thought I thought, this isn't gonna end. Well, 500 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 2: that thought, I'm not what they think I am. Here's 501 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: one of my here's one of my strongholds. If they 502 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 2: really knew you, they wouldn't like you, if they really knew. 503 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: Because all of us are bluffing. All of us are 504 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: faking it. All your little cool friends are faking it. 505 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 2: They all got acne, they all got his shoes, They 506 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 2: all feel lonely, and none of y'all are cool. Everybody's 507 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 2: faking it the expense. If your shoes are you ain't perfect. 508 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 2: But Paul, they were coming in the church like, oh, 509 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 2: he's an impostor, he's not a real one. They were 510 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 2: introducing a thought to rob them. You know, the devil 511 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 2: is a thief. Right, he can't take your promise, so 512 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 2: now he wants to steal your thoughts. Bob was reading 513 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 2: something in Proverbs. Can I show you this real quick? 514 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 2: I didn't get show him last night. In Proverbs, Chapter six, 515 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 2: verse thirty, it says people do not despise a thief 516 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 2: if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he's starving. 517 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 2: A thief is just a thief. You know, the enemy 518 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 2: is a thief. You can't blame him for trying to 519 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 2: steal what he doesn't want you to have. But check 520 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: the next verse. I love this verse thirty one. Yet 521 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 2: if he is caught. Yet, if he is caught, he 522 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 2: must pay seven full. So today we came into this 523 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 2: service to catch a thief and to let him know. 524 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 2: Give me my joy back, give me my peace back, 525 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 2: give me my wisdom back, give me the joy of 526 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 2: my salvation. 527 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: Restore seventh fall con talk. 528 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 2: I kind of thought, I realize that he loves me, 529 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 2: and if he loves me, it doesn't. 530 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: Matter if you like me. I kind of thought, I'm 531 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: bold about it. I form for it. I'm made for it, 532 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: I'm called to it. 533 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 2: I believe I'll walk right forward into my future holding 534 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 2: on to a thought of the favor of God. 535 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,839 Speaker 1: Some of y'all need to catch this. Come on, catch this. 536 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 2: Favor, catch this word, catch this joy, catch this peace. 537 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 2: You've been hanging around Facebook, but you came in here 538 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 2: for some faith today. 539 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: Didn't you. Well, catch this. God is for you. He's 540 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: more than the world against you. 541 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,280 Speaker 2: Kick those ten spies out of your hand and listen 542 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 2: to Caleb. 543 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: We can, we should, we will. 544 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 8: He is. 545 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 2: I have my air. 546 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: Hi five of them and say, I caught a thought. 547 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: I caught a thought. 548 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 2: I caught a thought, just like I caught a cold 549 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 2: last February. 550 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: I caught a thought. I found out that he is Avil. 551 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,920 Speaker 1: I found out that he who. 552 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 2: Began a good work in me will be faithful to 553 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 2: complete it. I found out he is the bread of life. 554 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 2: He is how Shadai, He is more than enough. I 555 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 2: caught a thought of God. A thought brought me into depression, 556 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 2: and a thought he was going to bring me out. 557 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 2: When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince 558 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 2: of Glory died. 559 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,760 Speaker 1: My richest gain I count but loss and poor contempt 560 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: on all my pride. What's he saying? I caught a 561 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: thought the. 562 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 2: Goodness of God, and that lifted me out of the 563 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:08,840 Speaker 2: pit of my despair. You can't keep the thought from coming. 564 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 2: But what's what Paul said? He said, we demolish strongholds. 565 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:19,839 Speaker 2: How do we destroy it? Verse five is important? He said, 566 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 2: we demolish every spy that says we can't and every 567 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 2: pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. 568 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,839 Speaker 2: How many knows something about God that is deeper than 569 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 2: a feeling. I mean, you've known it since you were 570 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 2: a child. You've known it in your soul, you've known 571 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:45,399 Speaker 2: it in your spirit. Deep calls to deep. So when 572 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,919 Speaker 2: I have a thought that opposes what I know about God, 573 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 2: what you're gonna do about it? I can't keep it 574 00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 2: from coming. But he said, we take captive, yeah, every 575 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 2: thought to make it obey Christ. And so when they 576 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 2: say you seem different this week, you don't look so 577 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 2: stressed this week, tell them, oh, yeah, it's craziest thing. 578 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 1: I caught a thought. It was about this big I 579 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: found out God is about this. I caught a thought 580 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 1: of his greatness. 581 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 2: I magnified him in my mind, I begin to rejoice 582 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 2: in the rock of my salvation. This I recall to 583 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 2: my mind. Therefore I have hope. I caught a thought 584 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 2: and it led me. 585 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: To a hope. 586 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 2: Now the thought that you hold on to, the one 587 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 2: that you allow to dominate, that will be the stronghold 588 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 2: of your life. If the Lord is your stronghold, if 589 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 2: he is the place where you hide, if you catch 590 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,880 Speaker 2: a thought, a glimpse of your calling. 591 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: Okay, here it is. 592 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 2: There was a woman who was bleeding on the inside. 593 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 2: She heard Jesus coming through her part of town. She 594 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 2: had done everything to fix it at the level. 595 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 9: Of the symptom, but nothing worked. The condition that she 596 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 9: had was a deep one. It was causing her to 597 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 9: hemorrhage and lose blood, just like many of us are 598 00:38:55,360 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 9: hemorrhaging emotionally and losing energy and losing hope. When she 599 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 9: heard Jesus passing through, her desperation for a change caused 600 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 9: her to do something dramatic in her life because she 601 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 9: had gotten a second opinion, and a third opinion, in 602 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 9: a fourth opinion, and none of that word. 603 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:20,120 Speaker 1: But here comes healing and here comes hope. 604 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 5: And the Bible says that she did what she had 605 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 5: to do to get through all of the people who 606 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 5: could have blocked her, and to grab a hole to 607 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 5: catch Jesus as he was passing by to heal somebody else. 608 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: And he's moving quickly, and Peter's backing everybody away. Don't 609 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 1: touch him. He's in a hurry. 610 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 2: But she reaches out, and the Bible says that she 611 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 2: is this verse thirty seven. 612 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: Yes, she touched his cloak. She caught him. She caught 613 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 1: his cloak. She caught what could heal her. 614 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 8: She caught a flow, she caught a miracle, she caught 615 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 8: a change verse thirty eight because she thought. 616 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,320 Speaker 1: Before I caught the answer. I caught a thought. 617 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:45,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, before I caught forgiveness. I caught a thought before 618 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 2: I caught bitterness. I caught a thought. If I can 619 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 2: catch a thought, I can catch his cloak. And if 620 00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,879 Speaker 2: I can touch him, he can make me well. With 621 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,880 Speaker 2: everyone standing and your hands lifted to heaven like you 622 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 2: need to catch what Heaven has today, I declare over 623 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 2: your life. 624 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 1: That faith and favor are flowing. 625 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,920 Speaker 2: From the person of Jesus in the form of the 626 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit in this moment, across every location and our 627 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 2: epam around the world. 628 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: Catch this. 629 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 2: You've been holding on to thoughts of low self worth 630 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 2: and low self esteem, all to lead you to this 631 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,799 Speaker 2: moment in the presence of Jesus, that if you can 632 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 2: catch a thought, the woman was made well because she 633 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 2: touched his cloak. 634 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,680 Speaker 1: She touched his cloak because she caught a thought. 635 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,960 Speaker 2: And there are great opportunities for love and for joy, 636 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,800 Speaker 2: and for peace and for provision. There is a great 637 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 2: calling and assignment on your life, My sister. There is 638 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:08,000 Speaker 2: a tremendous promise in front of you. And there's Caleb 639 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,640 Speaker 2: saying you should. You can, And there's ten other spies 640 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,319 Speaker 2: saying you can. And I don't care if you're out 641 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 2: number ten to two. If you will follow Caleb into Canaan, 642 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,480 Speaker 2: you can eat the fruit of the land. You can 643 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 2: experience the joy of the Lord, if you can catch 644 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 2: this thought. This I recall to my mind. I caught 645 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 2: a thought, and it lifted me from my despair. I 646 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,320 Speaker 2: caught a thought and it lifted me from my addiction. 647 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,279 Speaker 2: I caught a thought of Jesus, and it lifted me 648 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,760 Speaker 2: from my shame. And I begin to rejoice and worship Him. 649 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 1: With gladness because I caught a thought. 650 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 2: A victory for the battle belongs to the Lord. He 651 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 2: is my stronghold. He is the strength of my life, 652 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 2: and I will not be put to shame, for the 653 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,800 Speaker 2: joy of the Lord is my strength. Come on, catch 654 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 2: this victory, catch this wind. Lift your sails and catch 655 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:16,480 Speaker 2: this victory. 656 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 1: Catch this wind. 657 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,160 Speaker 2: Sing it over the people, Chris till they catch it. 658 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,640 Speaker 2: I'm gonna see it in the land of the Living. 659 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:28,279 Speaker 2: I'm gonna see the goodness of God. I'm gonna sing it. 660 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna see till I see it. 661 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see sixy. Come on, touches. 662 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 2: God, touch his resence, touches Healingna Tom, I'm gonna see 663 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,960 Speaker 2: you sixy. 664 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: For come on, you can catch It's an impartation. 665 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 2: Gonna see your fixy. 666 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 667 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,840 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 668 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,400 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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