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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: How great is this just to have another opportunity. We

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Speaker 1: don't take it for granted, the opportunity to worship God,

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Speaker 1: to give him glory and to receive from him. Come on,

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Speaker 1: somebody just say right there in the chat, I'm here

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Speaker 1: for it. Whatever you want to do, Lord, I'm here

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Speaker 1: for it. I'm here for it. You just fill in

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Speaker 1: the blank. I'm here for I'm here for healing. I'm

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Speaker 1: here for restoration. I'm here for instruction. I'm here for direction.

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Speaker 1: But above all of that, God, if you want to

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Speaker 1: correct me, that's fine. If you want to comfort me,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. But I'm here to worship you. Are there

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Speaker 1: any worshipers in the chat? Are there any words a

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Speaker 1: verse on YouTube? Facebook? From whop? Yeah, I'm here for

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Speaker 1: I'm here for it. And be more specific, where are

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Speaker 1: you here from? Please in the chat right now if

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Speaker 1: you haven't had the opportunity yet to just identify yourself

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Speaker 1: on a basis of first name, city, state, township, hamlet, village.

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Speaker 1: We've got them all represented today. Praise the Lord. Everybody

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Speaker 1: in the room, shout your name and your location. Do

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Speaker 1: it on the chat name and location. Whether you're watching

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Speaker 1: it right now, whether you've been you know, slacking and

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Speaker 1: you have to catch up later in the week. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: God's word is not found by time, I believe that

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Speaker 1: He is going to customize this word to the exact

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Speaker 1: continuity of the circumstance that you are facing, to remind

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Speaker 1: you that you are not going anywhere that He is

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Speaker 1: not already there. You have not been anywhere that He

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Speaker 1: did not bring you through. If it's behind you, it's covered.

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Speaker 1: If it's ahead of you, it's covered. All you gotta

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Speaker 1: do is be here right now. Somebody say I'm here

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Speaker 1: for it, I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: Who's here for him? Wave at wave at wave, act

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. I want to get

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Speaker 1: right into the Word of God. Get your Bible, paper,

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Speaker 1: digital apyrus, doesn't matter the format. What really matters today

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Speaker 1: is that you clear out a little bit of space

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Speaker 1: in your very distracted, busy heart, fearful heart, uncertain heart.

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Speaker 1: How are you saying all those things about me? You

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Speaker 1: don't even know me. Maybe I'm just autobiographical right now

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Speaker 1: I have a fearful heart, anxious heart, distracted heart. So

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Speaker 1: we just make this space for God. We welcome them

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Speaker 1: into this in every moment. And I want to read

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Speaker 1: you a scripture. Play while I read the scripture, and

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Speaker 1: then let's just see where it goes from there. All right.

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Speaker 1: Somebody asked me one time, do y'all plan when when

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Speaker 1: you're preaching sometimes and the music comes in, it scares me.

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Speaker 1: It comes out of nowhere. You got a guy back

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Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere. But we don't plan it doing

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Speaker 1: we don't plan it. The best parts are not planned.

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Speaker 1: I've noticed that the best parts are not planned. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were planning to watch today

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Speaker 1: or if you accidentally got clickbaited into this sermon. We

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Speaker 1: ought to start doing that with our YouTube videos to

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Speaker 1: lead people to Jesus. Amen. We'll put a thumbnail that

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Speaker 1: says seven seven ways to get a girl, and then

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Speaker 1: or something like that on people to Christ. I'm kidding

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Speaker 1: kind of Acts Chapter one is really cool and really confusing,

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Speaker 1: not for us, but certainly would have been for the disciples.

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Speaker 1: On one occasion, while Jesus was eating with them. This

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Speaker 1: I didn't plan to say. On one occasion, not a

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Speaker 1: instructions that would really explain to them his kingdom in

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Speaker 1: He gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but

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Speaker 1: which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized

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Speaker 1: waiting on the Holy Spirit. But then watch this. This

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Speaker 1: and here's what they wanted to know. He's speaking about

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Speaker 1: And then they gathered around and asked him, Lord, are

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Speaker 1: you at this time, at this time going to restore

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Speaker 1: the kingdom to Israel? At this time, somebody say, at

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Speaker 1: the Father has set by his own authority. But you

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Speaker 1: will receive power. Here's the guarantee. You will receive power

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Speaker 1: when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be

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Speaker 1: my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria

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Speaker 1: of the Lord. Be seated. Somebody, lift your hands in

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Speaker 1: ready to receive it, both hands, both hands. I'm ready

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Speaker 1: Shout out to my fifteen year old son, Elijah B. Verdict.

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Speaker 1: The bee stands for beats. He's a beat maker, he's

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Speaker 1: sure he would appreciate a subscribe. Happy fifteenth birthday to

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Speaker 1: he's getting strong. The Beast stands for beasts too down

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Speaker 1: He is a great blessing. Children are a blessing, Chris,

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Speaker 1: Children are a blessing? Amen? Amen. And when you're getting

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Speaker 1: But when you're having your first one, right, since you

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Speaker 1: don't know what to expect, all the experts come out

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Speaker 1: the rehab three times. But they just start telling you

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Speaker 1: tell you it perfectly. They will prescribe for you perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Like kids are blenders, you know, and like you can

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Speaker 1: telling us with Elijah the whole time, put him on

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Speaker 1: It's just put them on a schedule. First schedule, Elijah

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Speaker 1: was unschedulable. Is that a word unschedulable? If it's not

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Speaker 1: kids do. You're looking at me like you can schedule

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Speaker 1: You know, you should have from seven to nine, just

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Speaker 1: a good time to praise him? Well, do it? Then

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Speaker 1: do it? Then I will bless the Lord had all times,

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Speaker 1: had all ties come on? Check your schedule? Did he

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Speaker 1: wake you up? Did he give you another day? This

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Speaker 1: is the day. Check your schedule. This is the day

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Speaker 1: that the Lord has made. It's a good time to

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Speaker 1: praise him right now. Fifteen seconds. Do what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: Come on in the chat, Come on in the chat,

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Speaker 1: Come on in the chat. It's only two times to

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Speaker 1: prais him when I feel it and when I don't.

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Speaker 1: I was young and now I'm old, and I've never

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Speaker 1: seen the righteous forsaken. I'm sorry it is it a

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Speaker 1: bad time? Is it a bad time? My kids never

435
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Speaker 1: asked that. I'm sorry, it's a bad time. It's bad time. Dad.

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Speaker 1: Let's say want something. They want to catch me in

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Speaker 1: a good mood, then they might ask me it's a

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Speaker 1: bad time. Never unschedulable, God is unschedulable, so he doesn't

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Speaker 1: ask is it a bad time? Is it bad time

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Speaker 1: for me to be your provider? Actually, if he asked that,

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Speaker 1: it's only for the purpose that it's going to make

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Speaker 1: him look that much better when he does it, they

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Speaker 1: missed what I just said. If God ever ask you,

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Speaker 1: is this a bad time? I hear somebody saying it's

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Speaker 1: a bad time for a blessing. It's a bad time.

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Speaker 1: I can't be happy right now. I can't I can't

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Speaker 1: have peace right now, I can't be content right now.

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Speaker 1: It's a bad time. It's a bad time. I'm single,

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Speaker 1: it's a bad time. We just got married, we don't

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Speaker 1: have much money. It's a bad time. Our kids are little,

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Speaker 1: it's a bad time. Our kids are toddlers, it's a

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Speaker 1: bad time. Our kids are teenagers. It's bad time. My

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Speaker 1: kids are going When would be a good time? When

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Speaker 1: would be? One time? I read a book on sales

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Speaker 1: and Eric is a salesman, a recovering salesman. And they

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Speaker 1: said that never ask them? Can I come see you?

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Speaker 1: They said, when would be a good time? When would be?

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Speaker 1: What's a good time? You don't ask them? Can I

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Speaker 1: just say? When would be a good time? God doesn't

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Speaker 1: ask that. God. In fact, God's like, you need to

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Speaker 1: illustrate it from the text, or do you just want

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Speaker 1: me to tell you want a text already gave you

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Speaker 1: Genesis twelve and you're so greedy? John eleven, John eleven,

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Speaker 1: John eleven, Lazarus, the one you love is sick. When

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Speaker 1: he heard Lazarus was sick, he waited where he was

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Speaker 1: two more days. Check me out in your bible. You

467
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Speaker 1: think I'm making this up. You're like, oh no, Pastor's

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Speaker 1: been locked in an empty auditorium with forty staff members

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Speaker 1: too long. He forgot that God is an on time God.

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Speaker 1: Jesus was like, oh, yeah, he's sick. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: wait a little bit. We got to wait to us

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Speaker 1: a bad time. It's a bad time. If you go

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Speaker 1: right now, it'll be a good time. It'll be the

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Speaker 1: right time. But I want to show up at the

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Speaker 1: wrong time. I want to bless you at a bad time.

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Speaker 1: I want to show you how powerful I am in

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Speaker 1: a bad time. All right, Jesus, you got to stay

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Speaker 1: on schedule. The Ministry of Jesus must have been so

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Speaker 1: frustrating that it's like, hey, Mary and Martha are major donors, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: this is not good for him for you to not

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Speaker 1: go to bet They that demon possessed man that you

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Speaker 1: just heal, You probably could have left him off the schedule.

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Speaker 1: You can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule.

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Speaker 1: And just because it wasn't on the Disciples schedule, what

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Speaker 1: makes us think it wasn't on Jesus' schedule. Just because

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Speaker 1: you didn't see it come in doesn't mean it didn't

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Speaker 1: come from God. Thank you, Lord, I received that from

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Speaker 1: my own life. You know that that God isn't going

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Speaker 1: to check my schedule to do his will. Lord, Okay,

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Speaker 1: is this it you go? Are you gonna get it?

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna get him now? Is this the time

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna start the kingdom? That's what the disciples

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Speaker 1: wanted to know. But remember when you remember this JJ

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Speaker 1: Mark five. Gyrus comes and he's a synagogue leader. He's important,

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Speaker 1: he's important. You can tell what's important to someone by

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Speaker 1: what they schedule his twelve year old daughter. I have

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Speaker 1: a twelve year old son, Grandma's twelve right now, so

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Speaker 1: I can picture this. His twelve year old daughter is

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Speaker 1: about to die. This is an urgent and urgent need

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Speaker 1: for Jesus to go and heal this little girl. And

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Speaker 1: some of you have an urgent need with your kids

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Speaker 1: right now. So that's why I wanted to bring the

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Speaker 1: scripture into the conversation. Is that Jesus was on his

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Speaker 1: way to heal Gyrous, who was an important official. This

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Speaker 1: is a a political figure. He has a lot of

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Speaker 1: power and he's he's and he's asking Jesus to come

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Speaker 1: to his house. On the way, a woman stops Jesus,

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Speaker 1: who is unclean by society standards. He stops because she

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Speaker 1: thinks if I can touch him, I'll be made whole.

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Speaker 1: And and and what she said was true. She touched him,

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Speaker 1: he stopped, she was healed. Gyrus's daughter died. Now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I ever saw it this way before.

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Speaker 1: Some of y'all, especially with what we're going through right now,

514
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Speaker 1: you're real worried about your kids because your kids are

515
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Speaker 1: off schedule right now. I need every mom. I need

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Speaker 1: every mom who needs to know whether your kids are

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Speaker 1: going back to school. In the chat, I want you

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Speaker 1: to put in the chat the following prayer request. I

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Speaker 1: need details, Jesus, I need details, Jesus. I just need

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Speaker 1: to know if it's going to be Furdic education academy

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Speaker 1: this year. I want to apply for my nonprofit status

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Speaker 1: if I'm going to have to educate these kids again.

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Speaker 1: Come on, because it's crazy. Some of y'all are watching

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Speaker 1: this message in the year twenty thirty five, so you're

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Speaker 1: watching this at a weird time in history. We have

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Speaker 1: had an unschedulable year. Life is unschedulable. We laugh at

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Speaker 1: each other. Now, hey man, let's get together next week.

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Speaker 1: If the world isn't over. We put an asterisk by

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Speaker 1: everything right now? Hey man, I'll see you tomorrow if

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Speaker 1: armageddon doesn't come. And we're only halfway kidding, right. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to watch the Clemson Tigers if they ever

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Speaker 1: play again. How will I know it's fall if there

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Speaker 1: are no college boys in tight pants with tainted helmets

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Speaker 1: to signify the season. I don't even know what time

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Speaker 1: it is. It's unschedulable. And now I'm supposed to prioritize

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Speaker 1: the gods, but I'm not even allowed to go to church.

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Speaker 1: But how do you keep your priorities when life recks

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Speaker 1: your schedule. While Jesus was healing the woman, the little

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Speaker 1: girl died. The little girl die, and the servant said

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Speaker 1: something that's been going through your mind too. They told Gyrus,

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Speaker 1: don't bother the teacher anymore. The girl is daddy. It's

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Speaker 1: too late. He got off scheduled. Peter tried to get

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Speaker 1: that woman away. Su were away, but she was persistent.

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Speaker 1: Jesus healed her anyway. Jesus is always stopping for stupid stuff.

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Speaker 1: Let the children come to me, Jesus. The children don't

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Speaker 1: have any money to put into offering account. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to Bethany. And he a Lazarus. Why

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Speaker 1: are you stopping and knock knock jokes with the kids.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Jesus, you can tell somebody's priorities by what

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Speaker 1: they schedule. Now, if that's true, and God still has

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Speaker 1: you here in this season, at this time, if God

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Speaker 1: has you parenting those children, if God has you in

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Speaker 1: that position, if God has you in that Assida, at

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Speaker 1: that place, that city time, if God puts you here

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Speaker 1: right now, you must be important to his purpose. If

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Speaker 1: God is speaking this word to you right now, you

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Speaker 1: can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule.

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Speaker 1: And just like he stopped for a woman who most

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Speaker 1: priests wouldn't have touched for fear of defilement, just like

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Speaker 1: he stopped for a leper who he could have stone,

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Speaker 1: just like he sat on a well to speak to

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Speaker 1: a woman from Samaria, a place the Jews would walk

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Speaker 1: around to avoid having to confront people that they hated.

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Speaker 1: God has stopped this moment to speak to you. I'm

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Speaker 1: not closing. I got more to say. When I talk soft,

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Speaker 1: I'm scared he'll start playing beautifully. But I'm not done.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, check your schedule right now.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you one more thing? Do you have

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Speaker 1: time to hear from God? Some of you for the

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Speaker 1: first time in your life. You've had time lately, and

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Speaker 1: now you crowded out your schedule with even more crap,

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Speaker 1: and your bored and your mind is busy, and you

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Speaker 1: can't figure out why we want to compartmentalize God. You

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Speaker 1: know Jesus was Jesus was still on schedule. Come on,

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Speaker 1: put it in the chat. He's still on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule. Don't touch

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Speaker 1: your neighbor. I don't want to get sued by my

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Speaker 1: own staff. But look at him and say, he's still

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Speaker 1: on schedule. He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule.

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, you want us to go to the other

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Speaker 1: side on the boat. Okay, we'll go. Wait wait, there's

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Speaker 1: a storm. It's going to throw us off schedule. No, no no,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you're still on schedule. In fact, even

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Speaker 1: the storm has an appointment, even the trial has an appointment.

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Speaker 1: You don't hear me. Even the thing that we did

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Speaker 1: not put on our calendar is a part of our calling.

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Speaker 1: Don't you believe he's sovereign? Don't you believe he's immutable?

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Speaker 1: So if he can't change, no matter how much the

589
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: world does, he doesn't. But maybe we need to reset

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Speaker 1: our schedule. Reset our schedule. So when Jesus finally gets

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Speaker 1: to the tomb of Lazarus and he's he's gonna raise

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Speaker 1: his friend from the dead, but he's late, and if

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Speaker 1: he would have gotten there on schedule, Lazarus never would

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Speaker 1: have died. Lean in, I got to tell you something,

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Speaker 1: he said, Uh, Martha, Martha. He met her at the gate,

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Speaker 1: He said, do you believe she said, if you would

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Speaker 1: have been here, he wouldn't have died. Jesus said, let's reschedule.

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Speaker 1: I know I didn't show up when you wanted me.

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Speaker 1: I know I didn't do it by the time that

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Speaker 1: you thought I was gonna do it. But I hear

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Speaker 1: God saying, can we reschedule? I know this year hasn't

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Speaker 1: gone like you thought it was gonna go. I know

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Speaker 1: you don't know how to teach your kid algebra and

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Speaker 1: you're worried they're gonna grow up dumb and can't count.

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Speaker 1: But can we reschedule. I'm gonna make up lost time.

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Speaker 1: God is a good driver. God knows the back roads.

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Speaker 1: God knows how to get there. Anyway. God knows how

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Speaker 1: to reroute an expectation. And this is a faith word.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a sit there and cry cause us over word.

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Speaker 1: This is a Martha your brother will rise again. And

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Speaker 1: she said, even now, somebody shout. Now that's the magic word.

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Speaker 1: God said, can we reschedule? I know you've been stuck

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Speaker 1: in the past, worried about what you should have done

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Speaker 1: by now. I know you've been stuck in the future,

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00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: wondering what's coming next. Can we reschedule? My name is

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Speaker 1: the Great? I am. I am in this moment. Hey, Moses,

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Speaker 1: take off your shoes. I know you didn't schedule a

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Speaker 1: meeting with destiny, but this is holy ground. Whoo, whoo,

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Speaker 1: let's reach schedule. Come on, let's reschedule. God said, I

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Speaker 1: will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. I

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Speaker 1: will restore the years that depression has stolen. I will

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Speaker 1: restore the joy that fear has wronged. I am resurrection.

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Speaker 1: Resurrection works on a different schedule. Resurrection has faith to

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Speaker 1: know on Saturday Sunday starm it less. Reschedule. How meets

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Speaker 1: you on Sunday, How meets you in the valley, How

626
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Speaker 1: meets you in the storm. How meets you in the pain?

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Speaker 1: I got your kids, I got your money, I got

628
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Speaker 1: your mind, I got your nation. I got let's free schedule,

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Speaker 1: less ree schedule. I didn't miss church this morning. I

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Speaker 1: just moved church. My living room is the Anointed Apostolic

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Speaker 1: Holy Temple of the first Baptist, Methodist Presbyterian Elevation Church. Location.

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Speaker 1: Let's free schedule, les's reschedule. He didn't give him a schedule.

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Speaker 1: We ain't gonna come up with that vaccine. Man. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, well, do I look like a doctor? Doctors

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Speaker 1: don't wear sweaters? This trendy? I don't know. But he

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Speaker 1: did not give them a schedule. Are you at this time?

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Speaker 1: He didn't give Abraham a schedule. You know what's really

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Speaker 1: gonna mess you up? Sit down because this is depressing.

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Speaker 1: Abraham was seventy five when God told him I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make your father and his wife's wound was buried. So

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Speaker 1: he gave him the source of the blessing. I will

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Speaker 1: bless you the scope of the blessing. All people will

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Speaker 1: be blessed. But he didn't have a seed, he didn't

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Speaker 1: have a son, and he wouldn't until he was one

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Speaker 1: hundred years old. And in case you're that one that

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Speaker 1: can't do math that I was talking about, that's twenty

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Speaker 1: five years that God did not tell Abraham about. But

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Speaker 1: he was right on the schedule. How can I make

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Speaker 1: you feel this? That's longer than we've known each other, Holly,

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Speaker 1: we hadn't even known each other. Twenty five years. That's

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Speaker 1: older than y'all put together. Twenty five years. He didn't

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Speaker 1: tell him to schedule. How many y'all think I could

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Speaker 1: trust you better? God? If you show me the schedule,

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Speaker 1: it's not a trick question. You're allowed to want it. It

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Speaker 1: It don't mean he's gonna do it. Not gonna show

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Speaker 1: you the schedule. You can't handle the schedule, I promise you.

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Speaker 1: When Jesus said, right after they caught fish, hey follow me.

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Speaker 1: He left out some details that part about the cross.

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Speaker 1: He told me that a little later. He tells you

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Speaker 1: some stuff a little later. He's an unschedulable God, and

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Speaker 1: so he doesn't tell them, Hey, they're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: kill me. You are always gonna be on the move,

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Speaker 1: always gonna be on the run. I'm gonna do per

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Speaker 1: P PR nightmare kind of stuff. That's gonna get us

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Speaker 1: in the headlines every day. It's gonna be terrible. Follow me,

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Speaker 1: he said, Hey, you like those fish, Follow me. That's

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Speaker 1: all he told him. Apron, go to the land. I'll

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Speaker 1: show you now. My wife never would have gone along

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Speaker 1: with God on this one because she loves details. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: I am much more like God than Holly in this area.

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Speaker 1: Because I don't need the details. I don't need the

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Speaker 1: de I just want to know what time are we

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Speaker 1: picking up the kids. I don't need to know which

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Speaker 1: of their friends might be coming with them. I don't

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Speaker 1: need to know if that friend's parent is mad at

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Speaker 1: the other friends parents. I don't need to know whether

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Speaker 1: or not they're saying by switching schools. I don't need

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Speaker 1: to know whether their great uncle had a coronavirus test

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Speaker 1: they came back negative, but they thought. She loves the

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Speaker 1: d tales. I don't need all that. Abraham's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't need all that. You said you bless me, you

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Speaker 1: said you'd be with me, You told me the source,

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Speaker 1: you told me the scope, you handle the skeedule. Within

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Speaker 1: about year eleven, it started getting kind of sketchy. Now

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Speaker 1: God is sketchy with the details, and I'm gonna prove

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Speaker 1: it to you. That sounds heretical, but I promise you

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Speaker 1: God is sketchy with the details on some stuff, on

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Speaker 1: some stuff, on some stuff. Told them to build the

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Speaker 1: tabernacle when they were in the wilderness, right, He told

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Speaker 1: them what kind of yarn, what kind of curtains, what

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Speaker 1: kind of brass. He gave them all the dimensions, but

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Speaker 1: he left out a few details because this was the

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Speaker 1: place where in the tent of meeting that God's glory

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Speaker 1: would fill in the middle of the camp. They're wandering

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Speaker 1: around in the wilderness. They need a place to meet

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Speaker 1: with God. Right, Can I show you this numbers Chapter nine,

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Speaker 1: Watch how sketchy God is with the details, he said.

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Speaker 1: The historian is recording how it would work, how God

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Speaker 1: would guide his people, And how many of you want

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Speaker 1: God to guide your life? Just raise your hand right

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Speaker 1: there in the chat. I want God to guide me.

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Speaker 1: I want a GPS, a God positioning system, right because

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Speaker 1: I want to be where God wants me to be,

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Speaker 1: and I want to know what he wants me to know,

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Speaker 1: and I want to do what he calls me to

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Speaker 1: do because everything else is a waste of my time.

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Speaker 1: All Right, This is how he would guide them. On

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Speaker 1: the day the Tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law

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Speaker 1: was set up, the cloud covered it from evening till morning.

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Speaker 1: The cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. You got

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Speaker 1: the picture. Here's the tabernacle. He told him how to

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Speaker 1: build it. He told him how high, how wide, how long,

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Speaker 1: all the dimensions. But then there would be a cloud

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Speaker 1: above the tabernacle, which represented God's presence, market presence. It

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Speaker 1: represented his presence. And this is how it continued to be.

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Speaker 1: It went on like this. The cloud covered it, and

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Speaker 1: at night it looked like fire. Next verse, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to roll through all of them. Just go quick. Whenever

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Speaker 1: the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out.

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Speaker 1: Wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. This is the

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Speaker 1: system how God guided them. At the Lord's command, the

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Speaker 1: Israelites set out at his command. They encamped. As long

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Speaker 1: as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

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Speaker 1: When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time,

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Speaker 1: the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days.

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Speaker 1: At the Lord's command, they wouldn't camp, and then in

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Speaker 1: his command they would set out. Sometimes the cloud stayed

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Speaker 1: only from evening till morning. When it lifted in the morning,

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Speaker 1: they set out, whether by day or by night. Wherever

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Speaker 1: the cloud lifted, they set out. Whether the cloud stayed

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Speaker 1: over the tabernacle for two days or a month or

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Speaker 1: a year. WHOA, Okay, that's a wide range. So you're

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Speaker 1: following this presence of God and and and I'm not

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Speaker 1: telling you to be flaky. God. I can't stand when

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Speaker 1: people are just flaky and they call it faith. God

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Speaker 1: calls you to quit every job after three months, once

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Speaker 1: everybody that works with you sees how dysfunctional you are,

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Speaker 1: so you just transplant your dysfunction to another place and

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Speaker 1: you just move it around like it's some kind of

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Speaker 1: like you could just avoid having to give attention to

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Speaker 1: your issues. I lost every amen in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with y'all. I'm not talking about just moving.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about how God guides us in our daily life,

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Speaker 1: how we experience him. You're listening to me. I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about everybody just moving all around and and and

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Speaker 1: and and just chasing the next feeling and just chasing

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Speaker 1: the next trend. But what they had to do was

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Speaker 1: they had to pay attention to what God was doing

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Speaker 1: in that moment. They had to pay attention watch just

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Speaker 1: whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days

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Speaker 1: or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain

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Speaker 1: in camp and set out, but when they lifted, when

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Speaker 1: the cloud lifted, they would set out. Is that the

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Speaker 1: last verse. At the Lord's comand they encamped. At the

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Speaker 1: Lord's command, they set out, you see in the pattern here.

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Speaker 1: They obeyed the Lord's order in accordance with his command

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Speaker 1: through Moses. Here's the whole thing I got up here

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Speaker 1: to tell you, okay, and it ties together with Acts

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Speaker 1: chapter one, where he said, I'm not going to tell

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Speaker 1: you when, but I will tell you who the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you when, but I will

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Speaker 1: tell you what power. I'm not going to tell you

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Speaker 1: all of all of the details, but i will tell

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Speaker 1: you the scope of the blessing. I'm going to use

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Speaker 1: you to do way more than you could ever picture. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now that we got that out of the way, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you this from Numbers Chapter nine. God's presence

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Speaker 1: is unschedulable. I'm not sure or about that, preacher. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I read my Bible every morning at the same time,

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Speaker 1: and the Lord speaks to me. I'm sure he does.

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Speaker 1: But you can't leave him with your coffee cup in

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Speaker 1: the sink when you go out the door. You got

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Speaker 1: to move with him. You got to move with him.

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Speaker 1: The cloud would stay. And God knows how we are

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Speaker 1: as humans. If he did it at the same time

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Speaker 1: every day, they would worship how he did it and

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Speaker 1: lose sight of him. So when we're working out, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: they always talk about muscle confusion. If you do the

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Speaker 1: same exercises over and over, you won't get stronger. I

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Speaker 1: call this miracle confusion where God knew. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: teach you to move when I move. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: teach you to obey when I speak. I'm gonna show

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Speaker 1: you not how to set your schedule and worship your schedule.

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Speaker 1: God is not a monument. God is not a formula.

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Speaker 1: God is not a concept. God is not human logic. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: God does not check your schedule, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: neither does the devil. The devil doesn't look and see

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Speaker 1: We'll be all right if I stopped by three thirty

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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon and visit you with depression, anxiety attack, panic attack,

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Speaker 1: and shortness of breath. No, you gotta stay in a

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Speaker 1: place where you know how to breathe in the presence

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Speaker 1: of God. You gotta stay in a place where you

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Speaker 1: are looking at the presence of God. When Psalmus said,

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Speaker 1: I lift my eyes to the hills, my help doesn't

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Speaker 1: come from the north, the south, the east, or the west.

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Speaker 1: My help comes from the Lord. Now who does your

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Speaker 1: help come from? Who does your help come from? And

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Speaker 1: if God wants to reset your schedule, will you let him?

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Speaker 1: If God wants to move, He's like, Hey, I know

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Speaker 1: all your other friends are over here doing this, that

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Speaker 1: and the other. But I got something different for you.

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Speaker 1: God said, can we reschedule? I know you had all

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Speaker 1: this stuff that you were gonna do this year, Can

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Speaker 1: we reschedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me

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Speaker 1: make it up to you. I almost hear the Lord saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do exceeding abundantly above what you had on

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Speaker 1: your schedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me

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Speaker 1: get you ready for what I have scheduled. See to

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Speaker 1: really trust God. We can sing about that and quote

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Speaker 1: about that, but to trust in the Lord with all

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Speaker 1: your heart means that you have to move with him.

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Speaker 1: You have to move with him. And life has come

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Speaker 1: along this year and interrupted your rhythm. I know it sucks.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to like it, but what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do with it? He didn't promise you

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Speaker 1: a schedule. He promised you a spirit. See that's better.

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Speaker 1: That's better. That's better because his spirit will give me

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Speaker 1: the ability to step out if I need to step out,

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Speaker 1: or to stay put if I need to stay put.

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Speaker 1: So this is for you. If you feel behind schedule.

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Speaker 1: I should have more money in the bank by now,

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Speaker 1: I should know more of the Bible by now. It

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Speaker 1: does not matter what your schedule was. It matters what

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Speaker 1: God spoke about you before you were born. Do you

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Speaker 1: get it now? You can be seventy five and eleven

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Speaker 1: years into waiting. Abraham tried to have a baby with

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Speaker 1: Hagar because he got tired of waiting for the schedule.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that the disciples waited for the spirit, and

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Speaker 1: whatever you're waiting for today, I just needed to make

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Speaker 1: it clear as clear as I can. I can't make

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Speaker 1: it as clear as I saw it. I'd never be

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Speaker 1: able to do that, but I just saw God saying,

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Speaker 1: stop trying to schedule me, like build your schedule, but

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Speaker 1: realize some of the best things that I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: in your life are not gonna be on your schedule.

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Speaker 1: Can anybody testify that one of the greatest blessings God

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Speaker 1: gave you, the greatest blessings are unschedulable. And if you

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Speaker 1: are so stuck on what you thought this stage of

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Speaker 1: life or what you thought this day would be, like,

841
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you are gonna miss the gift. Wait

842
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. If that's

843
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: your word, you can put it in the chat or

844
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: you can just put it on a post. I'm waiting

845
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift, and I'm

846
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: looking for the gift, and I'm looking for the cause.

847
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: And I can't schedule God's presence now. I can't schedule

848
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,959
Speaker 1: God's presence and say you should have done this then,

849
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 1: and you should have done that there, and you need

850
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: to give me details, then I'm sorry, You're not gonna

851
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: get all the details. God will tell you what to

852
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: build but he will not tell you when to move it.

853
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: He wants you to depend on him. This is the

854
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: most anointed word I've preached all year, because God is

855
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 1: resetting our schedules, and what we are calling interruptions are

856
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: really invitations. Praise Him for him, Praise h for him.

857
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Jyrus, don't be afraid. Just believe. When

858
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: he got to the house, the little girl was dead.

859
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: To the other people, she was sleeping to Jesus because

860
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: he has his own schedule. Heaven has a schedule, Heaven

861
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: has a purpose, Heaven has a blueprint, Heaven has a process.

862
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:44,919
Speaker 1: Have you submitted your schedule to the Lord? Just to say, Lord,

863
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm I want to reschedule. I thought you were going

864
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: to do this, but let's reschedule. Lord. I thought you

865
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: were gonna heal Lazarus, but hey, if you want to

866
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,959
Speaker 1: raise him from the dead, let's go to the tomb.

867
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: I roll the stone. Yeah. I've been disappointed. I've been depressed.

868
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 1: I've been stressed out, but less reschedule. I've been confused,

869
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 1: but I've been trying to control the timing, and you've

870
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: been calling me to trust you, so I receive power.

871
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: Lift your hands I receive power. I receive power. I

872
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on me, and

873
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a witness wherever I go. Father, I

874
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: thank you in this moment for the unschedulable. Unschedulable God,

875
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: help me say it. That's what happens when you make

876
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: up a word. You mess up your prayer. The unschedulable

877
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: blessings that are coming to your people all over the world,

878
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: the unschedulable blessings, the testimonies that are coming because you

879
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: are an unschedulable God. You give a hundred year old

880
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: man a baby. You can bless us behind schedule. At

881
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: the same time, you can be interrupted by a woman

882
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: with the issue of blood. You can bless us ahead

883
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: of schedule. You can do that. You can do anything

884
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: because you're God. You can prepare a table in the

885
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 1: presence of our enemies. You don't even have to get

886
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 1: rid of the problem to bless us. You're unschedulable. It's

887
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: not for us to know the time. We can't control anything.

888
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: We can't even control our kids little league schedule. We

889
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: certainly can't control how things unfold in our life. So

890
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 1: we just gonna We're just gonna wait, not because we're lazy,

891
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: just because we know you love us. Some of the

892
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: best stuff I think God will do in your life

893
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: will not be on your schedule, Brandon. I was in

894
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: your neck of the woods on Sullivan's Island in twenty

895
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: sixteen on vacation. It's a beautiful place. I love going

896
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: there with the family. And Holly wanted us to go

897
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: to some farmers market at Sullivan's Island, and she somehow

898
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: canned me into going with them. And you remember the

899
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: girl Addie May who came over and do you remember

900
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: her or do you yeah? Do you remember she had

901
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: that She had cupcakes and pastries and stuff. And she

902
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: said she listened to the podcasting could we get a

903
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: picture together? And you know, I had my hat on

904
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: and my sunglasses. She was like, I thought that was you.

905
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: I've thought I recognized you, and she was she was

906
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: so kind and nice, and then she said, you know what,

907
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: my pastor's going to be jealous that I met you.

908
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: She said, he invited you to speak at our church.

909
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: And this week we're having convocation at our church and

910
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: holy convocation, and they invited you to come speak. And

911
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: your office said you couldn't come because you were on

912
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 1: vacation with your family. And I said, well, that's exactly what. No,

913
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you're seeing here. You will be witnesses.

914
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: She said, okay, okay, and she brought over a box

915
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: of sugar for my kids so that they could be

916
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: crack addicts all night, which I greatly appreciate it. Thanks

917
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: for taking a picture. Let me dope up your kids

918
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: on sugar as a way of saying thank you, appreciate

919
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: your ministry. And she said, oh yeah, she said, I

920
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: just talked to my pastor again. He told me to

921
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: make sure to invite you to come to convocation. I said, no,

922
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: Addie May, I said, vacation, not no con con You know,

923
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: sometimes God will con you, right, I don't mean he'll

924
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: I don't mean he'll trick you because he's deceptive. He's impeccable. Remember,

925
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: but sometimes you will think that you're going to the

926
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: farmer's market. But God, who He just knows the future,

927
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: and you have to know that about him. He knows

928
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: the future. I know the plans I have for you,

929
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: plans to prospcure, not the harm you, plans to give

930
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: you hope in the future. So now, don't you want

931
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: the one who knows the future to set the schedule.

932
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: Don't you want him to bring the right people into

933
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: your life? Don't you want him to get the wrong

934
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: ones out shout over the second one, the second ones

935
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: one to shout about too. Don't you want him to

936
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: open the doors, the one who knows the future, don't

937
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: you want him to close some too. So it's just,

938
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, a normal afternoon. She said, you should come

939
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: to convocation. That's uh huh, sounds good. Now I'm trying

940
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: to find a way to end the conversation. Now that

941
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: this conversation went to the convocation, I was trying to

942
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: have a vacation. She said, we've got great speed, and

943
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: she named a bunch of people I didn't know, and

944
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: then she said one for one of the nights that

945
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: I did know, and I always wanted to hear him preach.

946
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: I said, huh. Got suddenly got interested, And I thought, well,

947
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm still not going to go, but let me at

948
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: least write it down. You know, maybe they have a

949
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: live stream or something I can watch and preach. Maybe

950
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: I could have lunch with him. Maybe I could skip

951
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: church and meet him if he's coming this way. You know,

952
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: church is just right down the road. And she gave

953
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: me the crack, let me the cupcakes for my kids,

954
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: and she wrote down the name of the church and

955
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: the date of the thing for convocation, and I didn't

956
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: think much about it. I asked Jess, who is my sister,

957
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: to say, reach out to this preacher. He's coming to

958
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: this church on this night, and just see if we

959
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: can say hello. We've talked a few times, but I

960
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: never really got to beat him. It'd be good. And

961
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 1: she hit me back and said, yeah, he wants to

962
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: do it. He wants to meet with you. And the

963
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: next week world around, and I'd kind of forgot. I

964
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: was in my vacation flow, you know, limited showers, no

965
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: shaving or anything like that, and I was like, Oh,

966
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: this is the day I'm going to meet with the pastor.

967
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: And Jess texted me. She's like, oh, by the way,

968
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: so and so had to cancel. They had emergency back surgery.

969
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: He can't come. And you know how, sometimes you'll get

970
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: an idea and it's not God, and you're like, I

971
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: rebuke you, devil, I'm not doing that. And then sometimes

972
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: you'll get an idea and you will try to rebuke it,

973
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: and it remains. And the more you think about it,

974
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: you're like, I think this might be what God wants

975
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: me to do. Something inside of me. I believe it

976
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: was the Holy Spirit, because I don't think the Holy

977
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 1: Spirit just gets you to speak in tongues. I think

978
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: it gets you to take steps and do simple things.

979
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: You better hear me. It's not all something sensational. It

980
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: can be very simple how the Spirit can guide you.

981
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: And this is what the unschedulable God did. Okay, he

982
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: spoke to me just in a kind of an impression,

983
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: call the church and offer to fill in for the preacher.

984
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: I said, Lord, that's creepy. Hey, you want me to

985
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: come over and preach for you. I could come preach

986
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: for you. I'm over here just wanting to preach. I

987
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: got my Bible. I got a a Bible skipture. I

988
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: could come free. I got I'm not calling the church.

989
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: And the Lord said you were the one they wanted

990
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: on that night. They couldn't get you because you were

991
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: on vacation. Not call the church, I said, Lord, she

992
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: didn't write down the number. The Lord spoke to me

993
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: very powerful, he said, Google, he's very practical, right, you're

994
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: asking God for all kinds of big stuff. God just

995
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: wants you to do practical things. Sometimes I called and

996
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: it rang like six times and nobody answered. I said,

997
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 1: thank you, or six is the number of men? And

998
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, and before the seventh ring, no kidding, and

999
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: I remember, man, I'm in my I don't have a

1000
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: shirt on, I don't have shoes on, I don't have

1001
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: church clothes. I'm so glad it's three in the afternoon.

1002
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Lord. It was like a ram in

1003
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: the bush, like you remember when he called Abraham and

1004
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: he said, uh, I sacrificed. I said, just kidding, sacrifice

1005
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: the ram. I'm like, oh cool. This was like one

1006
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: of those steals. And on the after the sixth ring,

1007
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: the man picks up says the name of the church,

1008
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: and I said, oh hey, hey, uh it's called to

1009
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: speak to the pastor. Pastor so and so. I say,

1010
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 1: he's not available. Can I take a message? I said,

1011
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: oh no, I don't. I don't want to bother me. He

1012
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: He said no, that the pastor would want you to

1013
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: leave a message. Like okay, okay, all right. My name's

1014
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdie. I met a girl name Addie May. She

1015
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: gave my kids cupcakes the farmer's market. She said, there

1016
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: was convocation. I don't know your name of your church.

1017
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: I don't know your pastor. I've never met him before,

1018
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: never even heard of him before. But they said, do

1019
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: you want me to come preach? And I'm thirty minutes

1020
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: down the road and I'll come preach. And I just

1021
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: tell him that, he said, I'll tell him, and then

1022
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 1: here comes the call back. Five minutes later. He was crying.

1023
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: The pastor was crying. He said, I'm sorry we missed

1024
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: your call. We were in prayer meeting. We were praying

1025
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: God would give us a speaker for tonight. I had

1026
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: three funerals this week. See funerals don't schedule themselves. Funerals

1027
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: will come right in the middle of convocation, he said,

1028
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm so out of energy. I was going to preach,

1029
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: but I'm dry. And we were praying. He said, did

1030
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: you know that you're the first person that we asked.

1031
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: The one we were having was going to be the

1032
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: second choice. Do you know that we asked you first?

1033
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,439
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, Adie Mae told me that's crazy. I said,

1034
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: this is the weirdest thing. I never invite myself to

1035
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: preach anywhere. I don't even invite myself over to people's houses,

1036
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: let alone to people's pulpits. But man, do you want

1037
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: me to come? He said, Yes, Before I go, he said,

1038
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: you'll come, I said, I will. I said, but I

1039
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: don't have convocation clothes, I said, and really, the dressiest

1040
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: thing I have is some pirate black easies. And he said,

1041
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: I'll wear my easies too. We'll both wear our easies.

1042
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: You'll come preach. And I and I went out that

1043
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: night convacation. You hear me. I thought I was going

1044
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: to the farmer's market. Do you know what I mean?

1045
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: I thought I was just doing You don't. You don't

1046
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: know what Heaven has scheduled. And some of the best

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Speaker 1: stuff doesn't come when you say, okay, well this is

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Speaker 1: this is where it's going to be. Your kids might

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Speaker 1: not turn out like you wanted them to. God might

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Speaker 1: do something better on a different schedule. Right, train up

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Speaker 1: a child in the way they should go, and when

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Speaker 1: they are old, they will not depart from it. How old, Lord,

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Speaker 1: he said, let me set the schedule. Some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff I'm gonna lead them through at age seventeen, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna use it until they're seventy. You let me set

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Speaker 1: the schedule, You train, you obey, you show up. Look

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Speaker 1: that convocation that night. I did not know this until

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Speaker 1: this year, but the pastor, who was just a delightful guy,

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Speaker 1: we had the best night, I mean the best night.

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Speaker 1: And his son was leading worship on the worship team.

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Speaker 1: He said, that's my son. He was proud. I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's amazing. What an amazing It was your friend, Chandler More, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was your friend. Now me and him have been

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Speaker 1: writing songs with Chris. And you know what's funny. You

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Speaker 1: told me one time, and can I share this publicly

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Speaker 1: that when I was coming to preach at a church

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Speaker 1: one time, he said, I walked over and said. I

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Speaker 1: walked over and said to him, God's gonna use you

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Speaker 1: in a great way. You're handsome, you got good hair,

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Speaker 1: You're handsome. I'm real spiritual, you know. Man looks at

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Speaker 1: the outward appearance. That's my job. God looks at the heart,

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Speaker 1: not me. Can't see your heart, see your hair. I

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Speaker 1: said the Lord, I said, the Lord's gonna use you

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Speaker 1: or something you told me. I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 1: He said. He was sixteen God's got your kids. His

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Speaker 1: dad's a great man of God. And I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know who your dad was. Your dad was somebody whose

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Speaker 1: leadership book I read. I didn't know any of that.

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Speaker 1: Was wasn't on my schedule to stop by, you know,

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Speaker 1: before I was preaching. I think we were at Pastor

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Speaker 1: Greg Surat's church, shout out Seacoast Church. You know, I

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Speaker 1: had one on my thing, my itinerary, stopped buy and

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Speaker 1: encouraged Samson on your way up to the pulpit. Wasn't

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Speaker 1: on my schedule. Some of the best stuff in some

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Speaker 1: of the blessings. God said to tell you, get ready

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Speaker 1: for the unschedulable blessing. Come on, spell it in the chat.

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Speaker 1: If you're still with me, I've been preaching way longer

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Speaker 1: than normal. But if you're ready for an unschedulable blessing,

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Speaker 1: come on. I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: I got nowhere to go. I'm here for it. I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. God,

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Speaker 1: you give me the direction, I'll give you the details. Hallelujah,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Brandon. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: one more thing. We were writing a song. You weren't

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Speaker 1: there that day, but in the same studio where we

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Speaker 1: wrote Graves into Gardens, which by the way, was the

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Speaker 1: second song we wrote that day, and it was the

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Speaker 1: song that really defined the season for our church, right,

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Speaker 1: and we went in and wrote. Me and Chris were

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Speaker 1: in there a couple of months ago and we had

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Speaker 1: a songwriting appointment, so she got to show up. You

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Speaker 1: got to show up, right, You got to show up.

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Speaker 1: That's the only way that you're gonna be there. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: God has scheduled something for you, but you're waiting on

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Speaker 1: an opportunity. The Bible says on one occasion, on one occasion,

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Speaker 1: and you never know when it's gonna be the breakthrough.

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Speaker 1: You never know when your kid's gonna need You're just

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Speaker 1: gonna be driving them to another stupid dance recital and

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Speaker 1: the conversation happens. So you don't know these things. So

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Speaker 1: you have to show up. And we were writing music

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Speaker 1: one day and we wrote a little song and I

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Speaker 1: still like it, and we haven't done it yet. And

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Speaker 1: it was and the songwriting appointment was over, and I

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Speaker 1: remember looking at my watch and going, okay, cool, I

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Speaker 1: got time to get home for dinner. Great, glad you

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Speaker 1: finished up. Okay, let's get in here and let's uh

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Speaker 1: set up the mics and let's record it real quick.

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Speaker 1: Jack was setting up a mic, jay mix was in

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Speaker 1: the control room, and I verified this with him the

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Speaker 1: other day to make sure I remembered it right. And

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Speaker 1: I told Christy, we don't need dinner. We're done. We

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Speaker 1: don't need dinner. We're done. It's over. We're all gonna

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Speaker 1: go our separate ways for dinner. We got we got

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Speaker 1: a song. We're done. And as they were setting up mikes,

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Speaker 1: a little melody idea came to mind that we recorded.

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Speaker 1: It almost sounded like a lullaby. It was, May the

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Speaker 1: favor of the Lord be upon you, May the glory

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Speaker 1: of the Lord be your strength. May the presence of

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Speaker 1: the Lord go before you. I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: that line was gonna be. And give you peace, I said,

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Speaker 1: court record, record, record, cocord done. All right, let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the other one. And other people in the

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Speaker 1: room said no, no no, no, no, let's let's work on that.

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you'll like it, right, We got to

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Speaker 1: go home, right, No no, no, no, no, no, no

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Speaker 1: no no no, no, let's see let's see that might

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Speaker 1: be something. That might be something somebody put in the chat.

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Speaker 1: It might be something. It might be something. It might

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Speaker 1: be something. It might be something. It might be something.

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Speaker 1: It might be something. Never forget. Cody Carran started singing U.

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Speaker 1: I said, go to number six and see if we

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Speaker 1: can sing it. We could write a benediction. He said, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Lord bless you and keep you. May U s

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Speaker 1: face shine upon you, be gracious to you. The Lord

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Speaker 1: turn is face stard you. Thank you. You know please

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Speaker 1: that we don't need dinner. We're done. God said, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You'd go home if you want to, but I want

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Speaker 1: to bless you. You could give up if you want to.

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Speaker 1: I want to bless you. You can write this year

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Speaker 1: off if you want to. I'm gonna bless you. Then

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Speaker 1: discuss said, amen, amen, you remember where we sat there

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Speaker 1: work getting Let's carry Joe doing over there. She's saying

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Speaker 1: something about your family and your children, let's say in

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Speaker 1: their children and their children. I just thought it was

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Speaker 1: significant that the blessing came after we thought the session

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Speaker 1: was over. He wanted me to tell you that your

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Speaker 1: latter will be greater. He wanted me to tell you

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Speaker 1: that just like a cana in Galilee. He saves the

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Speaker 1: best wine. So you think you've run out, And don't

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Speaker 1: you go home yet, And don't you very that blessing yet?

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Speaker 1: Don't you cast your confidence away yet? God said, I'm

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Speaker 1: an unschedulable God. I'm made up a word. Paul made

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Speaker 1: up a word. He said, Alpa kara Dokia. I expect you,

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Speaker 1: oh blessing in the unexpected season. I'm not too young,

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Speaker 1: I'm not too old. It's not too soon, it's not

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Speaker 1: too late. Here comes the blessing, blessing. I will bless you, blessing.

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Speaker 1: I will bless you, I will bless you, I will

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Speaker 1: sup will bless you you. I won't favor you, I

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Speaker 1: will favor you, I will mutch you, I will use you,

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Speaker 1: and you fa me and p I'm on wait for

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Speaker 1: the guess, jensious, I'm a worse and words somebody, sir.

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Speaker 1: But and then you may say, either receive the blessing

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Speaker 1: you that, jencious, hold on, you're gonna be blessed. And

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Speaker 1: then schedule and you're gonna be blessed in the secret

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Speaker 1: like Steve, You're gonna be blessed you. That was a

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Speaker 1: forty day You're gonna be blessed morassy he is so

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Speaker 1: badly is yeah day given line, give the brig thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, my good sees, seracious in your family, in

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Speaker 1: your shoe man. I can't believe that I used all

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Speaker 1: of those scriptures. I thought maybe I would pick one

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Speaker 1: or two, but it felt like a series, you know,

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Speaker 1: unschedulable blessings. That's what I'm calling that message. And I

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Speaker 1: just pray that you'll be looking everywhere this week for

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Speaker 1: ways that God is trying to bless you and use

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Speaker 1: you to be a blessing. Goes both ways. You know,

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Speaker 1: whether you're handing somebody cupcake or whether you're preaching a

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Speaker 1: sermon grabbing the mic of your own. God has a

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Speaker 1: plan for you. Don't forget we have Love Week this week.

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Speaker 1: You can get a Love Week Elevation lovely No Elevationoutreach

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Speaker 1: dot org forget everything else. I said. Elevation Outreach dot

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Speaker 1: Org can find all the opportunities to serve. Or if

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Speaker 1: it's after Love Week and you're watching this later, you

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01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: can still go to Elevation Outreach dot org. By the way,

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Speaker 1: thank you to all of you who give. I talked

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Speaker 1: about the power of showing up. So many of you

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Speaker 1: show up regularly through your giving, and it's praying and

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Speaker 1: it's serving, and right now is the sacrificial systematic giving

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Speaker 1: of God's people that keeps us doing outreach, that keeps

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Speaker 1: us flooding our communities with love when the world is

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Speaker 1: flooded with so much uncertainty. I want to encourage you

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Speaker 1: to keep on doing that and thank you for showing

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Speaker 1: up for these sermons. Share it, but just know that

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Speaker 1: we love you. Our entire family is praying that your

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Speaker 1: eyes would be open as we continue to be blessed

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Speaker 1: and be a blessing. I pray both over you of

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Speaker 1: life this week. We love you so much. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: to subscribe.