Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: How great is this just to have another opportunity. We
Speaker 1: don't take it for granted, the opportunity to worship God,
Speaker 1: to give him glory and to receive from him. Come on,
Speaker 1: somebody just say right there in the chat, I'm here
Speaker 1: for it. Whatever you want to do, Lord, I'm here
Speaker 1: for it. I'm here for it. You just fill in
Speaker 1: the blank. I'm here for I'm here for healing. I'm
Speaker 1: here for restoration. I'm here for instruction. I'm here for direction.
Speaker 1: But above all of that, God, if you want to
Speaker 1: correct me, that's fine. If you want to comfort me,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But I'm here to worship you. Are there
Speaker 1: any worshipers in the chat? Are there any words a
Speaker 1: verse on YouTube? Facebook? From whop? Yeah, I'm here for
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. And be more specific, where are
Speaker 1: you here from? Please in the chat right now if
Speaker 1: you haven't had the opportunity yet to just identify yourself
Speaker 1: on a basis of first name, city, state, township, hamlet, village.
Speaker 1: We've got them all represented today. Praise the Lord. Everybody
Speaker 1: in the room, shout your name and your location. Do
Speaker 1: it on the chat name and location. Whether you're watching
Speaker 1: it right now, whether you've been you know, slacking and
Speaker 1: you have to catch up later in the week. Whatever,
Speaker 1: God's word is not found by time, I believe that
Speaker 1: He is going to customize this word to the exact
Speaker 1: continuity of the circumstance that you are facing, to remind
Speaker 1: you that you are not going anywhere that He is
Speaker 1: not already there. You have not been anywhere that He
Speaker 1: did not bring you through. If it's behind you, it's covered.
Speaker 1: If it's ahead of you, it's covered. All you gotta
Speaker 1: do is be here right now. Somebody say I'm here
Speaker 1: for it, I'm here for it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: Who's here for him? Wave at wave at wave, act
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. I want to get
Speaker 1: right into the Word of God. Get your Bible, paper,
Speaker 1: digital apyrus, doesn't matter the format. What really matters today
Speaker 1: is that you clear out a little bit of space
Speaker 1: in your very distracted, busy heart, fearful heart, uncertain heart.
Speaker 1: How are you saying all those things about me? You
Speaker 1: don't even know me. Maybe I'm just autobiographical right now
Speaker 1: I have a fearful heart, anxious heart, distracted heart. So
Speaker 1: we just make this space for God. We welcome them
Speaker 1: into this in every moment. And I want to read
Speaker 1: you a scripture. Play while I read the scripture, and
Speaker 1: then let's just see where it goes from there. All right.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me one time, do y'all plan when when
Speaker 1: you're preaching sometimes and the music comes in, it scares me.
Speaker 1: It comes out of nowhere. You got a guy back
Speaker 1: there and he starts playing and he scares me. It
Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere. But we don't plan it doing
Speaker 1: we don't plan it. The best parts are not planned.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that the best parts are not planned. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were planning to watch today
Speaker 1: or if you accidentally got clickbaited into this sermon. We
Speaker 1: ought to start doing that with our YouTube videos to
Speaker 1: lead people to Jesus. Amen. We'll put a thumbnail that
Speaker 1: says seven seven ways to get a girl, and then
Speaker 1: you click on it and it's me preaching about holiness
Speaker 1: or something like that on people to Christ. I'm kidding
Speaker 1: kind of Acts Chapter one is really cool and really confusing,
Speaker 1: not for us, but certainly would have been for the disciples.
Speaker 1: On one occasion, while Jesus was eating with them. This
Speaker 1: is Acts one, verse four. By the way, I should
Speaker 1: have said that, sorry, Act chapter one, verse four in IV.
Speaker 1: Twenty eleven. On one occasion, while he was eating with them.
Speaker 1: He I'm sorry, I can't skip over that phrase, but
Speaker 1: I didn't plan to say. On one occasion, not a
Speaker 1: special occasion, just any old Sunday morning, any old Monday afternoon,
Speaker 1: you know. On one occasion, he would give them the
Speaker 1: instructions that would really explain to them his kingdom in
Speaker 1: a way they'd never seen. And he gave them the
Speaker 1: greatest promise of the greatest gift that they would ever
Speaker 1: that they would ever know. Okay, on one occasion, we'll
Speaker 1: have to go a little faster than this if we're
Speaker 1: going to get through it. On one occasion, while he
Speaker 1: was eating with them, this is Jesus eating with his disciples.
Speaker 1: He gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but
Speaker 1: wait for the gift. Wait for the gift. My Father promised,
Speaker 1: which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized
Speaker 1: with water. But in a few days, you will be
Speaker 1: baptized with the Holy Spirit. In a few days, you
Speaker 1: will receive the greatest gift. And it's not going to
Speaker 1: come in the form of a car or house, or
Speaker 1: bonus or something like that. It's going to be the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. The greatest gifts come from within. Waiting on
Speaker 1: an amen. I'm waiting on an amen like they were
Speaker 1: waiting on the Holy Spirit. But then watch this. This
Speaker 1: is this is the part I want us to jump
Speaker 1: from today. And we have a lot of ground to cover,
Speaker 1: but let's jump from here. Then they gathered around him,
Speaker 1: and here's what they wanted to know. He's speaking about
Speaker 1: the gift that he wants to give them, the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: He's already died on the cross, risen from the dead,
Speaker 1: he's about to send to heaven. But he said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you a gift, and you have to wait.
Speaker 1: And then they gathered around and asked him, Lord, are
Speaker 1: you at this time, at this time going to restore
Speaker 1: the kingdom to Israel? At this time, somebody say, at
Speaker 1: this time, at this time? He said to them, it
Speaker 1: is not for you to know the times or dates
Speaker 1: the Father has set by his own authority. But you
Speaker 1: will receive power. Here's the guarantee. You will receive power
Speaker 1: when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be
Speaker 1: my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria
Speaker 1: and to the ends of the earth. It's the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord. Be seated. Somebody, lift your hands in
Speaker 1: the chat. Just say I'm ready to receive it. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to receive it, both hands, both hands. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to receive it. Oh, by the way, I almost forgot.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my fifteen year old son, Elijah B. Verdict.
Speaker 1: The bee stands for beats. He's a beat maker, he's
Speaker 1: a producer. Do the Dash is his YouTube and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he would appreciate a subscribe. Happy fifteenth birthday to
Speaker 1: my oldest son, the one who changed my name to
Speaker 1: Daddy and then changed it again to dad. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the day he dropped the d y off the end.
Speaker 1: It was a horrifying moment. And just even saying my
Speaker 1: fifteen year old son, do you know how how archaic
Speaker 1: that makes my bones feel? My knees started hurting. I
Speaker 1: just felt like automatically old. When I said it, I
Speaker 1: was feeling sprightly, and then all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: started feeling saggy. Just sat of saying I have a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old son. But his birthday was yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I love him so much, and he's watching right now.
Speaker 1: He'd better be if he wants to use his phone
Speaker 1: this week, and I'm going to quiz him on the sermon.
Speaker 1: He's my number one conversationalist. He's my workout partner now
Speaker 1: he's getting strong. The Beast stands for beasts too down
Speaker 1: there when we're working out together and we have a
Speaker 1: good time, and I love talking to him about my sermons.
Speaker 1: He is a great blessing. Children are a blessing, Chris,
Speaker 1: you didn't say amen, And you have a couple, so
Speaker 1: I'm worried, what's going on at the house. Do you need?
Speaker 1: Children are a blessing? Amen? Amen. And when you're getting
Speaker 1: ready to have kids, they give you all kinds of advice.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the birth of the church, and
Speaker 1: I was talking about the birth of my firstborn son.
Speaker 1: But when you're having your first one, right, since you
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect, all the experts come out
Speaker 1: of the woodworks telling you how they raised their kids.
Speaker 1: They don't tell you that the one they're telling you
Speaker 1: how they raised and giving you advice based of when
Speaker 1: the rehab three times. But they just start telling you
Speaker 1: all this advice and they'll tell you, oh, and they'll
Speaker 1: tell you it perfectly. They will prescribe for you perfectly.
Speaker 1: Like kids are blenders, you know, and like you can
Speaker 1: put them together and plug them in. And they were
Speaker 1: telling us with Elijah the whole time, put him on
Speaker 1: a schedule, Put him on a schedule. What you want
Speaker 1: to do, what you want to do. What we did
Speaker 1: with our kids when we were your age and now
Speaker 1: our kids are grown. But what was really helpful for us,
Speaker 1: that just really helped us establish just order, and it's
Speaker 1: very good for the child and it's good for you.
Speaker 1: It's just put them on a schedule. First schedule, Elijah
Speaker 1: was unschedulable. Is that a word unschedulable? If it's not
Speaker 1: a word, it's it needs to be Come on, how
Speaker 1: many agreed after the year we've been having. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you do this, but if anybody knows, wester
Speaker 1: and we can get a word added to the dictionary.
Speaker 1: I looked it up before I came out. I don't
Speaker 1: know how we're going to spell it, but I want
Speaker 1: to suggest that we get after the year we've been having.
Speaker 1: I want to add after being a parent of three kids.
Speaker 1: I want to suggest we get this word in the
Speaker 1: dictionary as soon as possible. Unschedulable. Everybody say it unschedulable.
Speaker 1: My firstborn son was unschedulable. I mean, you can set
Speaker 1: the schedule, but he don't care. But he doesn't give
Speaker 1: a crap about your skate. He does not care for sleeping,
Speaker 1: for eating. And my kids still don't. They do not
Speaker 1: check my schedule. Y'all are looking at me like your
Speaker 1: kids do. You're looking at me like you can schedule
Speaker 1: my children. Oh you know what else? My sermon preparation
Speaker 1: process is unschedulable. I don't know how to spell it,
Speaker 1: but that's what it is. I was thinking of a
Speaker 1: way to explain it to you. It's like it's you know,
Speaker 1: I set aside time to study, right, and then I'll
Speaker 1: just sit there and look at the Bible. I'll get
Speaker 1: five Bibles and spread them out, and none of them
Speaker 1: make any since. And then while I'm trying to go
Speaker 1: do something else and I got something else going on.
Speaker 1: Then the sermon will just come, you know, walking through
Speaker 1: the door, like hey here, I am. I don't care
Speaker 1: that you're on a date night. How many movie theaters
Speaker 1: have we been in trying to have a date on
Speaker 1: a Thursday night? And I'm like, I'm sorry, babe, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to tell me what happens to Tanya Harding
Speaker 1: on the ice skating movie. I gotta write this down
Speaker 1: real quick because the sermon doesn't check my schedule. I
Speaker 1: wish it did. That's why I sent you all these
Speaker 1: scriptures five minutes before I walked out, and I just
Speaker 1: sent you all of them because I had ten. I've
Speaker 1: been working on ten of them ten and I sent
Speaker 1: them all to you, and I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: where we'll start. I'm not the one setting the schedule here.
Speaker 1: I went to seminary. They taught me how to prepare sermons.
Speaker 1: You know, you should have from seven to nine, just
Speaker 1: like people telling you how to be a parent, tell
Speaker 1: you how to be a pastor. Shoid it from seven
Speaker 1: to nine and you're gonna study. That's great, I do
Speaker 1: I have study time. I believe you ought to prioritize
Speaker 1: what's important to you, and if it's not on your schedule,
Speaker 1: it might not be your priority. And that's good for
Speaker 1: working out, that's good for dating your wife, that's good
Speaker 1: for taking time to be alone. We talked about this
Speaker 1: last week as well. But some things don't check your schedule.
Speaker 1: Saw my friend from London says it says schedule. I
Speaker 1: don't care how you say it, but certain things in
Speaker 1: life do not consult your calendar. And in seminary they
Speaker 1: taught me that God was immutable. These are big words.
Speaker 1: Write this down, pee Wegg. What's wrong with you? Man?
Speaker 1: This is like eighty thousand dollars education I'm giving you.
Speaker 1: You get paid, I pay you. Write this down, immutable.
Speaker 1: You can't change God. How many are glad? You can't
Speaker 1: change him? If he called you, he called you. You
Speaker 1: know why you're not clopping. You don't have anything wrong
Speaker 1: with you. So for me, sometimes I think God might
Speaker 1: have changed his mind about me when he sees what
Speaker 1: he got when he drafted me. He knew all my injuries,
Speaker 1: he knew all of my susceptibilities, he knew all of
Speaker 1: my vulnerabilities. In fact, some of the stuff he picked
Speaker 1: me for is stuff that I'm trying to get out
Speaker 1: of my life. But he wants to take that weakness
Speaker 1: and fill it and turn it into something that can
Speaker 1: be called strength. He's immutable, he's Another word they taught
Speaker 1: me in seminary is that he is. He is impeccable. Holy,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. He's perfect. That's another thing I'm not. He's impeccable,
Speaker 1: he's he's others separate, he's set apart. He's holy, he's peckable.
Speaker 1: Another one, Philip, this is a good one too. You
Speaker 1: got this one. Write all this down because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of these attributes of God that you learn. You
Speaker 1: learned that he's you learned. He's immutable, impectable, incomprehensible. You
Speaker 1: can know God, but you can't totally know God. He
Speaker 1: doesn't change, but the way that you see him better
Speaker 1: change or you're not growing. You're not growing. He is,
Speaker 1: like we say, mysterious, faith is mystery, not mechanics. When
Speaker 1: people say the Bible's an instruction manual for life, what
Speaker 1: a horrible analogy to boil the living word of the
Speaker 1: living God down to something that can help you put
Speaker 1: together a scooter. An instruction manual for life. No, it's
Speaker 1: an invitation to mystery because he's incomprehensible. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to add anything to the theology book, but might
Speaker 1: I add that not only is he immutable, impeccable, and
Speaker 1: what's the other one? I said incomprehensible, he's unschedulable. God
Speaker 1: is unschedulable. And what I have to say to you
Speaker 1: over the next twenty thirty forty fifty sixty minutes today
Speaker 1: may mess with a category or two that you have
Speaker 1: about God. But I want you to stay with me
Speaker 1: because some of you are off schedule, but you're right
Speaker 1: on time. Some of you your life is off schedule,
Speaker 1: but you're right on time. And the reason I chose
Speaker 1: to start with Acts chapter one is because the disciples
Speaker 1: have been through a lot with Jesus that they didn't understand,
Speaker 1: have you. Have you been through some seasons with God
Speaker 1: that made no sense to you? Right? So they want
Speaker 1: to know, Okay, now that the Cross is over, and
Speaker 1: now that you did that thing on the third Day
Speaker 1: that we'll still be singing about in two thousand years,
Speaker 1: Now that that's over, are you at this time going
Speaker 1: to restore the kingdom to Israel? Jesus spent three and
Speaker 1: a half years teaching these boys about the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 1: but they were still thinking about the kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 1: And that's important. But what drew my attention today is
Speaker 1: the idea that Jesus said, it's not for you to
Speaker 1: know the times. Now, let's notice a few things that
Speaker 1: God does to get them. Because God does speak, Amen,
Speaker 1: he speaks specifically. God will show you things that you
Speaker 1: don't even know how you know it. He never did
Speaker 1: it out loud. For me, I never had that experience.
Speaker 1: I have friends who say they have. Honestly, they're the
Speaker 1: kind that are a little bit you know, you know,
Speaker 1: just different personality than mine. With me, it's a wisdom within.
Speaker 1: It's like how Elijah the prophet heard a whisper in
Speaker 1: a cave and at his weakest moment, God spoke. And
Speaker 1: so the Lord speaks to us in ways. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of specifics to go off of.
Speaker 1: By the way, well, I don't know what God's will
Speaker 1: is for my life. I mean everything's crazy. Love your neighbor,
Speaker 1: as you forgive us, Christ also forgave you. Do everything
Speaker 1: with albinterness. Sarah complaining for this will of God, Christ,
Speaker 1: he's concerning you. And when you master that, come back
Speaker 1: and I'll give you the extra credit work all right.
Speaker 1: I wonder if God sometimes is laughing, you know, while
Speaker 1: we make our plans in our schedule, Don't you know
Speaker 1: God was just laughing his head off in Heaven. I
Speaker 1: looked to see if there was a time when Jesus
Speaker 1: laughed in the scripture, and there's not one where it
Speaker 1: says that he laughed. But you know, he was laughing
Speaker 1: while he was watching Peter try to fish all night.
Speaker 1: You know, he was laughing while you watched him, like, Ah,
Speaker 1: I'm about to mess with his whole theology of fishing.
Speaker 1: I'm about to mess with his whole concept, his whole system.
Speaker 1: I'm about to blow wide open his whole idea of
Speaker 1: how the water works. Because I'm the one who walks
Speaker 1: some water, So I don't need the laws of water,
Speaker 1: or the laws of economics, or the laws of politics,
Speaker 1: or the laws of medicine to regular late what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do. Can I just tell you something, God
Speaker 1: is laughing at some of the stuff that we're stressed
Speaker 1: out about because while we can't figure it out and
Speaker 1: we don't see a way he's just about ready to
Speaker 1: walk up watch this behind schedule and show us something
Speaker 1: that we could not see in our own strength. Somebody
Speaker 1: told me the other day, you're gonna look back and
Speaker 1: laugh at this. One day, I said, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna I didn't say this. I just thought you're gonna look.
Speaker 1: You're gonna look back and cry when I punch you
Speaker 1: in your nose for telling me I'm gonna look because
Speaker 1: it's not funny. Right now. What I was going through
Speaker 1: was pample the heal. You look back and laugh. You
Speaker 1: look back and laugh. Abraham, That's who the nation of
Speaker 1: Israel started through Abraham. He didn't have fancy seminary words
Speaker 1: for God to go off of. He came from er
Speaker 1: of the Chaldeans, and he was called out of everything
Speaker 1: that was familiar to him to follow a God that
Speaker 1: he could not see visibly or predict. It's kind of
Speaker 1: similar to Acts chapter one, but instead of starting the church,
Speaker 1: it was when God was starting the nation. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of parallels, and I'll show it to you
Speaker 1: real quick. In Genesis chapter twelve, verses one through four,
Speaker 1: it's very similar to Acts one, four through eight, And
Speaker 1: I'll show you how give me the scripture. The Lord
Speaker 1: had said to Abram, go from your country, your people,
Speaker 1: and your father's household to the land I will show you.
Speaker 1: Keep going. Next verse, I will make you into a
Speaker 1: great nation, which implies what process. So there's a promise,
Speaker 1: and then I will make you is a process That
Speaker 1: means just because I spoke it to you doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you will automatically see it. But just because you don't
Speaker 1: automatically see it doesn't mean I didn't speak it. Who
Speaker 1: am I preaching to today? That you're waiting for something
Speaker 1: to be revealed and manifested that God, that God showed
Speaker 1: you he said, I'm gonna make you a great nation, Okay, Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac Jacob. And then, of course you note about how
Speaker 1: the nation of Israel came through Jacob, his generational promise
Speaker 1: that God was making to Abraham. I got so much
Speaker 1: to share with you. Can you check your schedule real
Speaker 1: quick and see if you have anything after this. You're good.
Speaker 1: You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good.
Speaker 1: You good, You're good, You're good. Good. Okay, you're good,
Speaker 1: you're good. You got ant you gotta Okay, So I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you a great nation, and I will
Speaker 1: bless you. I will bless you, I will bless you.
Speaker 1: I might use your job to pay you, but I
Speaker 1: will bless you. I might use somebody else to encourage you,
Speaker 1: but I will bless you. I did not thank the
Speaker 1: pan that she cooked in last night for the food.
Speaker 1: I think the one who used the pan to cook
Speaker 1: the food. And it's important, especially in this season of
Speaker 1: your life, that you remember the source of your blessing.
Speaker 1: The source of your blessing. He is immutable, He doesn't change.
Speaker 1: He is also impeccable, he doesn't make mistakes. At the
Speaker 1: same time that he is immutable and impeccable, he is
Speaker 1: also incomprehensible, which means that you don't always know how,
Speaker 1: even though you know who. But he said I will
Speaker 1: bless you, and then he says something really crazy. I
Speaker 1: will make your name great and you will be a
Speaker 1: blessed You will be a blessing. Blessing is not something
Speaker 1: that I get. Blessed is who I am, and so
Speaker 1: blessing is what I do. I can bless and not
Speaker 1: curse because I know the source of my blessings. This
Speaker 1: is an anointed word. Share it with your aunt, Share
Speaker 1: it with your uncle, Share it with your friend, Share
Speaker 1: it with your brother, Share it with your cousin. Right now,
Speaker 1: hit the share button on this word and be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You know the best way to be blessed. Be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You know the best way to be happy. Encourage somebody else.
Speaker 1: You know the best way to receive the word of God.
Speaker 1: Share the word of God. You know. The best way
Speaker 1: to reap is to sew. Even in a famine, even
Speaker 1: in a drought. God is my source, He is my supply,
Speaker 1: He is my shield and my exceeding great reward. Come on,
Speaker 1: give him praise. If you know your blessings come from above,
Speaker 1: your blessings come from beyond. They said, I'll bless those
Speaker 1: who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse,
Speaker 1: and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
Speaker 1: See what God can do. And then it said Abram
Speaker 1: went as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him.
Speaker 1: Could stop there, but it probably would do justice to
Speaker 1: the text. Abram was seventy five years old. And you know, Isaac,
Speaker 1: that we were talking about Abraham, Isaac Jacob, He's not
Speaker 1: even born yet. So God makes an appointment with Abram
Speaker 1: to make him the father of many nations. A little
Speaker 1: bit behind schedule, a little late. The devil's been telling
Speaker 1: somebody under the sound of my voice, it's too late.
Speaker 1: It's too late. It's too late. Back in February, you
Speaker 1: could pray for that, but it's too late now, back
Speaker 1: before you started, you know, year over here now, and
Speaker 1: you're wrapped in the chains of this addiction. If you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have done that, then you could have been used.
Speaker 1: It is too late. And I wonder if God showed
Speaker 1: us that he does not need a human schedule to
Speaker 1: accomplish a divine purpose. And you're like, that's fine, faster,
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen. When Timothy was getting ready to minister in Ephesis,
Speaker 1: which was a hard place, Paul told him, let no
Speaker 1: one look down on you because you were too young.
Speaker 1: When Jeremiah got ready to prophesy, God said, I formed
Speaker 1: you in the womb before you were born. I set
Speaker 1: you apart. See, I ordained your days before any of
Speaker 1: them came to be. He said, don't say I am
Speaker 1: only a youth. What that means is God is not
Speaker 1: bou by human timelines. What that means is God is
Speaker 1: not looking at twenty twenty and saying, well, I can't
Speaker 1: wait till December thirty first, where I can turn it
Speaker 1: all around for my glory. Next year will be better. Guys,
Speaker 1: hang in there, God said, I don't need to check
Speaker 1: your schedule to bless you, my God. I don't need
Speaker 1: to check your schedule. If you come into elevation as
Speaker 1: an intern, I can raise you up to tour the
Speaker 1: world leading worship. John sal has been in Europe worshiping God,
Speaker 1: leading people into the presence of God. He's been in places.
Speaker 1: What's that place in Ohio? They always route y'all through huh, Canton, Ohio,
Speaker 1: leading people into the presence of God, from Canton to Cambodia.
Speaker 1: I just said it because it's alliterated. Lift your hands,
Speaker 1: do not be limited, he said, all people, all people,
Speaker 1: all people, all people, all people, all things, all people.
Speaker 1: I will bless the Lord at all times. Is it
Speaker 1: a good time to praise him? Well, do it? Then
Speaker 1: do it? Then I will bless the Lord had all times,
Speaker 1: had all ties come on? Check your schedule? Did he
Speaker 1: wake you up? Did he give you another day? This
Speaker 1: is the day. Check your schedule. This is the day
Speaker 1: that the Lord has made. It's a good time to
Speaker 1: praise him right now. Fifteen seconds. Do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Come on in the chat, Come on in the chat,
Speaker 1: Come on in the chat. It's only two times to
Speaker 1: prais him when I feel it and when I don't.
Speaker 1: I was young and now I'm old, and I've never
Speaker 1: seen the righteous forsaken. I'm sorry it is it a
Speaker 1: bad time? Is it a bad time? My kids never
Speaker 1: asked that. I'm sorry, it's a bad time. It's bad time. Dad.
Speaker 1: Let's say want something. They want to catch me in
Speaker 1: a good mood, then they might ask me it's a
Speaker 1: bad time. Never unschedulable, God is unschedulable, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: ask is it a bad time? Is it bad time
Speaker 1: for me to be your provider? Actually, if he asked that,
Speaker 1: it's only for the purpose that it's going to make
Speaker 1: him look that much better when he does it, they
Speaker 1: missed what I just said. If God ever ask you,
Speaker 1: is this a bad time? I hear somebody saying it's
Speaker 1: a bad time for a blessing. It's a bad time.
Speaker 1: I can't be happy right now. I can't I can't
Speaker 1: have peace right now, I can't be content right now.
Speaker 1: It's a bad time. It's a bad time. I'm single,
Speaker 1: it's a bad time. We just got married, we don't
Speaker 1: have much money. It's a bad time. Our kids are little,
Speaker 1: it's a bad time. Our kids are toddlers, it's a
Speaker 1: bad time. Our kids are teenagers. It's bad time. My
Speaker 1: kids are going When would be a good time? When
Speaker 1: would be? One time? I read a book on sales
Speaker 1: and Eric is a salesman, a recovering salesman. And they
Speaker 1: said that never ask them? Can I come see you?
Speaker 1: They said, when would be a good time? When would be?
Speaker 1: What's a good time? You don't ask them? Can I
Speaker 1: just say? When would be a good time? God doesn't
Speaker 1: ask that. God. In fact, God's like, you need to
Speaker 1: illustrate it from the text, or do you just want
Speaker 1: me to tell you want a text already gave you
Speaker 1: Genesis twelve and you're so greedy? John eleven, John eleven,
Speaker 1: John eleven, Lazarus, the one you love is sick. When
Speaker 1: he heard Lazarus was sick, he waited where he was
Speaker 1: two more days. Check me out in your bible. You
Speaker 1: think I'm making this up. You're like, oh no, Pastor's
Speaker 1: been locked in an empty auditorium with forty staff members
Speaker 1: too long. He forgot that God is an on time God.
Speaker 1: Jesus was like, oh, yeah, he's sick. All right, let's
Speaker 1: wait a little bit. We got to wait to us
Speaker 1: a bad time. It's a bad time. If you go
Speaker 1: right now, it'll be a good time. It'll be the
Speaker 1: right time. But I want to show up at the
Speaker 1: wrong time. I want to bless you at a bad time.
Speaker 1: I want to show you how powerful I am in
Speaker 1: a bad time. All right, Jesus, you got to stay
Speaker 1: on schedule. The Ministry of Jesus must have been so
Speaker 1: frustrating that it's like, hey, Mary and Martha are major donors, Jesus,
Speaker 1: this is not good for him for you to not
Speaker 1: go to bet They that demon possessed man that you
Speaker 1: just heal, You probably could have left him off the schedule.
Speaker 1: You can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule.
Speaker 1: And just because it wasn't on the Disciples schedule, what
Speaker 1: makes us think it wasn't on Jesus' schedule. Just because
Speaker 1: you didn't see it come in doesn't mean it didn't
Speaker 1: come from God. Thank you, Lord, I received that from
Speaker 1: my own life. You know that that God isn't going
Speaker 1: to check my schedule to do his will. Lord, Okay,
Speaker 1: is this it you go? Are you gonna get it?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna get him now? Is this the time
Speaker 1: where you're gonna start the kingdom? That's what the disciples
Speaker 1: wanted to know. But remember when you remember this JJ
Speaker 1: Mark five. Gyrus comes and he's a synagogue leader. He's important,
Speaker 1: he's important. You can tell what's important to someone by
Speaker 1: what they schedule his twelve year old daughter. I have
Speaker 1: a twelve year old son, Grandma's twelve right now, so
Speaker 1: I can picture this. His twelve year old daughter is
Speaker 1: about to die. This is an urgent and urgent need
Speaker 1: for Jesus to go and heal this little girl. And
Speaker 1: some of you have an urgent need with your kids
Speaker 1: right now. So that's why I wanted to bring the
Speaker 1: scripture into the conversation. Is that Jesus was on his
Speaker 1: way to heal Gyrous, who was an important official. This
Speaker 1: is a a political figure. He has a lot of
Speaker 1: power and he's he's and he's asking Jesus to come
Speaker 1: to his house. On the way, a woman stops Jesus,
Speaker 1: who is unclean by society standards. He stops because she
Speaker 1: thinks if I can touch him, I'll be made whole.
Speaker 1: And and and what she said was true. She touched him,
Speaker 1: he stopped, she was healed. Gyrus's daughter died. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I ever saw it this way before.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all, especially with what we're going through right now,
Speaker 1: you're real worried about your kids because your kids are
Speaker 1: off schedule right now. I need every mom. I need
Speaker 1: every mom who needs to know whether your kids are
Speaker 1: going back to school. In the chat, I want you
Speaker 1: to put in the chat the following prayer request. I
Speaker 1: need details, Jesus, I need details, Jesus. I just need
Speaker 1: to know if it's going to be Furdic education academy
Speaker 1: this year. I want to apply for my nonprofit status
Speaker 1: if I'm going to have to educate these kids again.
Speaker 1: Come on, because it's crazy. Some of y'all are watching
Speaker 1: this message in the year twenty thirty five, so you're
Speaker 1: watching this at a weird time in history. We have
Speaker 1: had an unschedulable year. Life is unschedulable. We laugh at
Speaker 1: each other. Now, hey man, let's get together next week.
Speaker 1: If the world isn't over. We put an asterisk by
Speaker 1: everything right now? Hey man, I'll see you tomorrow if
Speaker 1: armageddon doesn't come. And we're only halfway kidding, right. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch the Clemson Tigers if they ever
Speaker 1: play again. How will I know it's fall if there
Speaker 1: are no college boys in tight pants with tainted helmets
Speaker 1: to signify the season. I don't even know what time
Speaker 1: it is. It's unschedulable. And now I'm supposed to prioritize
Speaker 1: the gods, but I'm not even allowed to go to church.
Speaker 1: But how do you keep your priorities when life recks
Speaker 1: your schedule. While Jesus was healing the woman, the little
Speaker 1: girl died. The little girl die, and the servant said
Speaker 1: something that's been going through your mind too. They told Gyrus,
Speaker 1: don't bother the teacher anymore. The girl is daddy. It's
Speaker 1: too late. He got off scheduled. Peter tried to get
Speaker 1: that woman away. Su were away, but she was persistent.
Speaker 1: Jesus healed her anyway. Jesus is always stopping for stupid stuff.
Speaker 1: Let the children come to me, Jesus. The children don't
Speaker 1: have any money to put into offering account. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's go back to Bethany. And he a Lazarus. Why
Speaker 1: are you stopping and knock knock jokes with the kids.
Speaker 1: Come on, Jesus, you can tell somebody's priorities by what
Speaker 1: they schedule. Now, if that's true, and God still has
Speaker 1: you here in this season, at this time, if God
Speaker 1: has you parenting those children, if God has you in
Speaker 1: that position, if God has you in that Assida, at
Speaker 1: that place, that city time, if God puts you here
Speaker 1: right now, you must be important to his purpose. If
Speaker 1: God is speaking this word to you right now, you
Speaker 1: can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule.
Speaker 1: And just like he stopped for a woman who most
Speaker 1: priests wouldn't have touched for fear of defilement, just like
Speaker 1: he stopped for a leper who he could have stone,
Speaker 1: just like he sat on a well to speak to
Speaker 1: a woman from Samaria, a place the Jews would walk
Speaker 1: around to avoid having to confront people that they hated.
Speaker 1: God has stopped this moment to speak to you. I'm
Speaker 1: not closing. I got more to say. When I talk soft,
Speaker 1: I'm scared he'll start playing beautifully. But I'm not done.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, check your schedule right now.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you one more thing? Do you have
Speaker 1: time to hear from God? Some of you for the
Speaker 1: first time in your life. You've had time lately, and
Speaker 1: now you crowded out your schedule with even more crap,
Speaker 1: and your bored and your mind is busy, and you
Speaker 1: can't figure out why we want to compartmentalize God. You
Speaker 1: know Jesus was Jesus was still on schedule. Come on,
Speaker 1: put it in the chat. He's still on the schedule.
Speaker 1: He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule. Don't touch
Speaker 1: your neighbor. I don't want to get sued by my
Speaker 1: own staff. But look at him and say, he's still
Speaker 1: on schedule. He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, you want us to go to the other
Speaker 1: side on the boat. Okay, we'll go. Wait wait, there's
Speaker 1: a storm. It's going to throw us off schedule. No, no no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you're still on schedule. In fact, even
Speaker 1: the storm has an appointment, even the trial has an appointment.
Speaker 1: You don't hear me. Even the thing that we did
Speaker 1: not put on our calendar is a part of our calling.
Speaker 1: Don't you believe he's sovereign? Don't you believe he's immutable?
Speaker 1: So if he can't change, no matter how much the
Speaker 1: world does, he doesn't. But maybe we need to reset
Speaker 1: our schedule. Reset our schedule. So when Jesus finally gets
Speaker 1: to the tomb of Lazarus and he's he's gonna raise
Speaker 1: his friend from the dead, but he's late, and if
Speaker 1: he would have gotten there on schedule, Lazarus never would
Speaker 1: have died. Lean in, I got to tell you something,
Speaker 1: he said, Uh, Martha, Martha. He met her at the gate,
Speaker 1: He said, do you believe she said, if you would
Speaker 1: have been here, he wouldn't have died. Jesus said, let's reschedule.
Speaker 1: I know I didn't show up when you wanted me.
Speaker 1: I know I didn't do it by the time that
Speaker 1: you thought I was gonna do it. But I hear
Speaker 1: God saying, can we reschedule? I know this year hasn't
Speaker 1: gone like you thought it was gonna go. I know
Speaker 1: you don't know how to teach your kid algebra and
Speaker 1: you're worried they're gonna grow up dumb and can't count.
Speaker 1: But can we reschedule. I'm gonna make up lost time.
Speaker 1: God is a good driver. God knows the back roads.
Speaker 1: God knows how to get there. Anyway. God knows how
Speaker 1: to reroute an expectation. And this is a faith word.
Speaker 1: This isn't a sit there and cry cause us over word.
Speaker 1: This is a Martha your brother will rise again. And
Speaker 1: she said, even now, somebody shout. Now that's the magic word.
Speaker 1: God said, can we reschedule? I know you've been stuck
Speaker 1: in the past, worried about what you should have done
Speaker 1: by now. I know you've been stuck in the future,
Speaker 1: wondering what's coming next. Can we reschedule? My name is
Speaker 1: the Great? I am. I am in this moment. Hey, Moses,
Speaker 1: take off your shoes. I know you didn't schedule a
Speaker 1: meeting with destiny, but this is holy ground. Whoo, whoo,
Speaker 1: let's reach schedule. Come on, let's reschedule. God said, I
Speaker 1: will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. I
Speaker 1: will restore the years that depression has stolen. I will
Speaker 1: restore the joy that fear has wronged. I am resurrection.
Speaker 1: Resurrection works on a different schedule. Resurrection has faith to
Speaker 1: know on Saturday Sunday starm it less. Reschedule. How meets
Speaker 1: you on Sunday, How meets you in the valley, How
Speaker 1: meets you in the storm. How meets you in the pain?
Speaker 1: I got your kids, I got your money, I got
Speaker 1: your mind, I got your nation. I got let's free schedule,
Speaker 1: less ree schedule. I didn't miss church this morning. I
Speaker 1: just moved church. My living room is the Anointed Apostolic
Speaker 1: Holy Temple of the first Baptist, Methodist Presbyterian Elevation Church. Location.
Speaker 1: Let's free schedule, les's reschedule. He didn't give him a schedule.
Speaker 1: We ain't gonna come up with that vaccine. Man. I
Speaker 1: don't know, well, do I look like a doctor? Doctors
Speaker 1: don't wear sweaters? This trendy? I don't know. But he
Speaker 1: did not give them a schedule. Are you at this time?
Speaker 1: He didn't give Abraham a schedule. You know what's really
Speaker 1: gonna mess you up? Sit down because this is depressing.
Speaker 1: Abraham was seventy five when God told him I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make your father and his wife's wound was buried. So
Speaker 1: he gave him the source of the blessing. I will
Speaker 1: bless you the scope of the blessing. All people will
Speaker 1: be blessed. But he didn't have a seed, he didn't
Speaker 1: have a son, and he wouldn't until he was one
Speaker 1: hundred years old. And in case you're that one that
Speaker 1: can't do math that I was talking about, that's twenty
Speaker 1: five years that God did not tell Abraham about. But
Speaker 1: he was right on the schedule. How can I make
Speaker 1: you feel this? That's longer than we've known each other, Holly,
Speaker 1: we hadn't even known each other. Twenty five years. That's
Speaker 1: older than y'all put together. Twenty five years. He didn't
Speaker 1: tell him to schedule. How many y'all think I could
Speaker 1: trust you better? God? If you show me the schedule,
Speaker 1: it's not a trick question. You're allowed to want it. It
Speaker 1: It don't mean he's gonna do it. Not gonna show
Speaker 1: you the schedule. You can't handle the schedule, I promise you.
Speaker 1: When Jesus said, right after they caught fish, hey follow me.
Speaker 1: He left out some details that part about the cross.
Speaker 1: He told me that a little later. He tells you
Speaker 1: some stuff a little later. He's an unschedulable God, and
Speaker 1: so he doesn't tell them, Hey, they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: kill me. You are always gonna be on the move,
Speaker 1: always gonna be on the run. I'm gonna do per
Speaker 1: P PR nightmare kind of stuff. That's gonna get us
Speaker 1: in the headlines every day. It's gonna be terrible. Follow me,
Speaker 1: he said, Hey, you like those fish, Follow me. That's
Speaker 1: all he told him. Apron, go to the land. I'll
Speaker 1: show you now. My wife never would have gone along
Speaker 1: with God on this one because she loves details. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I am much more like God than Holly in this area.
Speaker 1: Because I don't need the details. I don't need the
Speaker 1: de I just want to know what time are we
Speaker 1: picking up the kids. I don't need to know which
Speaker 1: of their friends might be coming with them. I don't
Speaker 1: need to know if that friend's parent is mad at
Speaker 1: the other friends parents. I don't need to know whether
Speaker 1: or not they're saying by switching schools. I don't need
Speaker 1: to know whether their great uncle had a coronavirus test
Speaker 1: they came back negative, but they thought. She loves the
Speaker 1: d tales. I don't need all that. Abraham's like, I
Speaker 1: don't need all that. You said you bless me, you
Speaker 1: said you'd be with me, You told me the source,
Speaker 1: you told me the scope, you handle the skeedule. Within
Speaker 1: about year eleven, it started getting kind of sketchy. Now
Speaker 1: God is sketchy with the details, and I'm gonna prove
Speaker 1: it to you. That sounds heretical, but I promise you
Speaker 1: God is sketchy with the details on some stuff, on
Speaker 1: some stuff, on some stuff. Told them to build the
Speaker 1: tabernacle when they were in the wilderness, right, He told
Speaker 1: them what kind of yarn, what kind of curtains, what
Speaker 1: kind of brass. He gave them all the dimensions, but
Speaker 1: he left out a few details because this was the
Speaker 1: place where in the tent of meeting that God's glory
Speaker 1: would fill in the middle of the camp. They're wandering
Speaker 1: around in the wilderness. They need a place to meet
Speaker 1: with God. Right, Can I show you this numbers Chapter nine,
Speaker 1: Watch how sketchy God is with the details, he said.
Speaker 1: The historian is recording how it would work, how God
Speaker 1: would guide his people, And how many of you want
Speaker 1: God to guide your life? Just raise your hand right
Speaker 1: there in the chat. I want God to guide me.
Speaker 1: I want a GPS, a God positioning system, right because
Speaker 1: I want to be where God wants me to be,
Speaker 1: and I want to know what he wants me to know,
Speaker 1: and I want to do what he calls me to
Speaker 1: do because everything else is a waste of my time.
Speaker 1: All Right, This is how he would guide them. On
Speaker 1: the day the Tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law
Speaker 1: was set up, the cloud covered it from evening till morning.
Speaker 1: The cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. You got
Speaker 1: the picture. Here's the tabernacle. He told him how to
Speaker 1: build it. He told him how high, how wide, how long,
Speaker 1: all the dimensions. But then there would be a cloud
Speaker 1: above the tabernacle, which represented God's presence, market presence. It
Speaker 1: represented his presence. And this is how it continued to be.
Speaker 1: It went on like this. The cloud covered it, and
Speaker 1: at night it looked like fire. Next verse, I'm going
Speaker 1: to roll through all of them. Just go quick. Whenever
Speaker 1: the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out.
Speaker 1: Wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. This is the
Speaker 1: system how God guided them. At the Lord's command, the
Speaker 1: Israelites set out at his command. They encamped. As long
Speaker 1: as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
Speaker 1: When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time,
Speaker 1: the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days.
Speaker 1: At the Lord's command, they wouldn't camp, and then in
Speaker 1: his command they would set out. Sometimes the cloud stayed
Speaker 1: only from evening till morning. When it lifted in the morning,
Speaker 1: they set out, whether by day or by night. Wherever
Speaker 1: the cloud lifted, they set out. Whether the cloud stayed
Speaker 1: over the tabernacle for two days or a month or
Speaker 1: a year. WHOA, Okay, that's a wide range. So you're
Speaker 1: following this presence of God and and and I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you to be flaky. God. I can't stand when
Speaker 1: people are just flaky and they call it faith. God
Speaker 1: calls you to quit every job after three months, once
Speaker 1: everybody that works with you sees how dysfunctional you are,
Speaker 1: so you just transplant your dysfunction to another place and
Speaker 1: you just move it around like it's some kind of
Speaker 1: like you could just avoid having to give attention to
Speaker 1: your issues. I lost every amen in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with y'all. I'm not talking about just moving.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about how God guides us in our daily life,
Speaker 1: how we experience him. You're listening to me. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about everybody just moving all around and and and
Speaker 1: and and just chasing the next feeling and just chasing
Speaker 1: the next trend. But what they had to do was
Speaker 1: they had to pay attention to what God was doing
Speaker 1: in that moment. They had to pay attention watch just
Speaker 1: whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days
Speaker 1: or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain
Speaker 1: in camp and set out, but when they lifted, when
Speaker 1: the cloud lifted, they would set out. Is that the
Speaker 1: last verse. At the Lord's comand they encamped. At the
Speaker 1: Lord's command, they set out, you see in the pattern here.
Speaker 1: They obeyed the Lord's order in accordance with his command
Speaker 1: through Moses. Here's the whole thing I got up here
Speaker 1: to tell you, okay, and it ties together with Acts
Speaker 1: chapter one, where he said, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you when, but I will tell you who the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you when, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you what power. I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 1: all of all of the details, but i will tell
Speaker 1: you the scope of the blessing. I'm going to use
Speaker 1: you to do way more than you could ever picture. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that we got that out of the way, let
Speaker 1: me tell you this from Numbers Chapter nine. God's presence
Speaker 1: is unschedulable. I'm not sure or about that, preacher. I mean,
Speaker 1: I read my Bible every morning at the same time,
Speaker 1: and the Lord speaks to me. I'm sure he does.
Speaker 1: But you can't leave him with your coffee cup in
Speaker 1: the sink when you go out the door. You got
Speaker 1: to move with him. You got to move with him.
Speaker 1: The cloud would stay. And God knows how we are
Speaker 1: as humans. If he did it at the same time
Speaker 1: every day, they would worship how he did it and
Speaker 1: lose sight of him. So when we're working out, Andrew,
Speaker 1: they always talk about muscle confusion. If you do the
Speaker 1: same exercises over and over, you won't get stronger. I
Speaker 1: call this miracle confusion where God knew. I'm going to
Speaker 1: teach you to move when I move. I'm going to
Speaker 1: teach you to obey when I speak. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you not how to set your schedule and worship your schedule.
Speaker 1: God is not a monument. God is not a formula.
Speaker 1: God is not a concept. God is not human logic. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: God does not check your schedule, and by the way,
Speaker 1: neither does the devil. The devil doesn't look and see
Speaker 1: We'll be all right if I stopped by three thirty
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon and visit you with depression, anxiety attack, panic attack,
Speaker 1: and shortness of breath. No, you gotta stay in a
Speaker 1: place where you know how to breathe in the presence
Speaker 1: of God. You gotta stay in a place where you
Speaker 1: are looking at the presence of God. When Psalmus said,
Speaker 1: I lift my eyes to the hills, my help doesn't
Speaker 1: come from the north, the south, the east, or the west.
Speaker 1: My help comes from the Lord. Now who does your
Speaker 1: help come from? Who does your help come from? And
Speaker 1: if God wants to reset your schedule, will you let him?
Speaker 1: If God wants to move, He's like, Hey, I know
Speaker 1: all your other friends are over here doing this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. But I got something different for you.
Speaker 1: God said, can we reschedule? I know you had all
Speaker 1: this stuff that you were gonna do this year, Can
Speaker 1: we reschedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me
Speaker 1: make it up to you. I almost hear the Lord saying,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do exceeding abundantly above what you had on
Speaker 1: your schedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me
Speaker 1: get you ready for what I have scheduled. See to
Speaker 1: really trust God. We can sing about that and quote
Speaker 1: about that, but to trust in the Lord with all
Speaker 1: your heart means that you have to move with him.
Speaker 1: You have to move with him. And life has come
Speaker 1: along this year and interrupted your rhythm. I know it sucks.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to like it, but what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do with it? He didn't promise you
Speaker 1: a schedule. He promised you a spirit. See that's better.
Speaker 1: That's better. That's better because his spirit will give me
Speaker 1: the ability to step out if I need to step out,
Speaker 1: or to stay put if I need to stay put.
Speaker 1: So this is for you. If you feel behind schedule.
Speaker 1: I should have more money in the bank by now,
Speaker 1: I should know more of the Bible by now. It
Speaker 1: does not matter what your schedule was. It matters what
Speaker 1: God spoke about you before you were born. Do you
Speaker 1: get it now? You can be seventy five and eleven
Speaker 1: years into waiting. Abraham tried to have a baby with
Speaker 1: Hagar because he got tired of waiting for the schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the disciples waited for the spirit, and
Speaker 1: whatever you're waiting for today, I just needed to make
Speaker 1: it clear as clear as I can. I can't make
Speaker 1: it as clear as I saw it. I'd never be
Speaker 1: able to do that, but I just saw God saying,
Speaker 1: stop trying to schedule me, like build your schedule, but
Speaker 1: realize some of the best things that I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: in your life are not gonna be on your schedule.
Speaker 1: Can anybody testify that one of the greatest blessings God
Speaker 1: gave you, the greatest blessings are unschedulable. And if you
Speaker 1: are so stuck on what you thought this stage of
Speaker 1: life or what you thought this day would be, like,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you are gonna miss the gift. Wait
Speaker 1: for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. If that's
Speaker 1: your word, you can put it in the chat or
Speaker 1: you can just put it on a post. I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking for the gift, and I'm looking for the cause.
Speaker 1: And I can't schedule God's presence now. I can't schedule
Speaker 1: God's presence and say you should have done this then,
Speaker 1: and you should have done that there, and you need
Speaker 1: to give me details, then I'm sorry, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get all the details. God will tell you what to
Speaker 1: build but he will not tell you when to move it.
Speaker 1: He wants you to depend on him. This is the
Speaker 1: most anointed word I've preached all year, because God is
Speaker 1: resetting our schedules, and what we are calling interruptions are
Speaker 1: really invitations. Praise Him for him, Praise h for him.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to Jyrus, don't be afraid. Just believe. When
Speaker 1: he got to the house, the little girl was dead.
Speaker 1: To the other people, she was sleeping to Jesus because
Speaker 1: he has his own schedule. Heaven has a schedule, Heaven
Speaker 1: has a purpose, Heaven has a blueprint, Heaven has a process.
Speaker 1: Have you submitted your schedule to the Lord? Just to say, Lord,
Speaker 1: I'm I want to reschedule. I thought you were going
Speaker 1: to do this, but let's reschedule. Lord. I thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna heal Lazarus, but hey, if you want to
Speaker 1: raise him from the dead, let's go to the tomb.
Speaker 1: I roll the stone. Yeah. I've been disappointed. I've been depressed.
Speaker 1: I've been stressed out, but less reschedule. I've been confused,
Speaker 1: but I've been trying to control the timing, and you've
Speaker 1: been calling me to trust you, so I receive power.
Speaker 1: Lift your hands I receive power. I receive power. I
Speaker 1: receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on me, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a witness wherever I go. Father, I
Speaker 1: thank you in this moment for the unschedulable. Unschedulable God,
Speaker 1: help me say it. That's what happens when you make
Speaker 1: up a word. You mess up your prayer. The unschedulable
Speaker 1: blessings that are coming to your people all over the world,
Speaker 1: the unschedulable blessings, the testimonies that are coming because you
Speaker 1: are an unschedulable God. You give a hundred year old
Speaker 1: man a baby. You can bless us behind schedule. At
Speaker 1: the same time, you can be interrupted by a woman
Speaker 1: with the issue of blood. You can bless us ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule. You can do that. You can do anything
Speaker 1: because you're God. You can prepare a table in the
Speaker 1: presence of our enemies. You don't even have to get
Speaker 1: rid of the problem to bless us. You're unschedulable. It's
Speaker 1: not for us to know the time. We can't control anything.
Speaker 1: We can't even control our kids little league schedule. We
Speaker 1: certainly can't control how things unfold in our life. So
Speaker 1: we just gonna We're just gonna wait, not because we're lazy,
Speaker 1: just because we know you love us. Some of the
Speaker 1: best stuff I think God will do in your life
Speaker 1: will not be on your schedule, Brandon. I was in
Speaker 1: your neck of the woods on Sullivan's Island in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen on vacation. It's a beautiful place. I love going
Speaker 1: there with the family. And Holly wanted us to go
Speaker 1: to some farmers market at Sullivan's Island, and she somehow
Speaker 1: canned me into going with them. And you remember the
Speaker 1: girl Addie May who came over and do you remember
Speaker 1: her or do you yeah? Do you remember she had
Speaker 1: that She had cupcakes and pastries and stuff. And she
Speaker 1: said she listened to the podcasting could we get a
Speaker 1: picture together? And you know, I had my hat on
Speaker 1: and my sunglasses. She was like, I thought that was you.
Speaker 1: I've thought I recognized you, and she was she was
Speaker 1: so kind and nice, and then she said, you know what,
Speaker 1: my pastor's going to be jealous that I met you.
Speaker 1: She said, he invited you to speak at our church.
Speaker 1: And this week we're having convocation at our church and
Speaker 1: holy convocation, and they invited you to come speak. And
Speaker 1: your office said you couldn't come because you were on
Speaker 1: vacation with your family. And I said, well, that's exactly what. No,
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you're seeing here. You will be witnesses.
Speaker 1: She said, okay, okay, and she brought over a box
Speaker 1: of sugar for my kids so that they could be
Speaker 1: crack addicts all night, which I greatly appreciate it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for taking a picture. Let me dope up your kids
Speaker 1: on sugar as a way of saying thank you, appreciate
Speaker 1: your ministry. And she said, oh yeah, she said, I
Speaker 1: just talked to my pastor again. He told me to
Speaker 1: make sure to invite you to come to convocation. I said, no,
Speaker 1: Addie May, I said, vacation, not no con con You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes God will con you, right, I don't mean he'll
Speaker 1: I don't mean he'll trick you because he's deceptive. He's impeccable. Remember,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you will think that you're going to the
Speaker 1: farmer's market. But God, who He just knows the future,
Speaker 1: and you have to know that about him. He knows
Speaker 1: the future. I know the plans I have for you,
Speaker 1: plans to prospcure, not the harm you, plans to give
Speaker 1: you hope in the future. So now, don't you want
Speaker 1: the one who knows the future to set the schedule.
Speaker 1: Don't you want him to bring the right people into
Speaker 1: your life? Don't you want him to get the wrong
Speaker 1: ones out shout over the second one, the second ones
Speaker 1: one to shout about too. Don't you want him to
Speaker 1: open the doors, the one who knows the future, don't
Speaker 1: you want him to close some too. So it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, a normal afternoon. She said, you should come
Speaker 1: to convocation. That's uh huh, sounds good. Now I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find a way to end the conversation. Now that
Speaker 1: this conversation went to the convocation, I was trying to
Speaker 1: have a vacation. She said, we've got great speed, and
Speaker 1: she named a bunch of people I didn't know, and
Speaker 1: then she said one for one of the nights that
Speaker 1: I did know, and I always wanted to hear him preach.
Speaker 1: I said, huh. Got suddenly got interested, And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'm still not going to go, but let me at
Speaker 1: least write it down. You know, maybe they have a
Speaker 1: live stream or something I can watch and preach. Maybe
Speaker 1: I could have lunch with him. Maybe I could skip
Speaker 1: church and meet him if he's coming this way. You know,
Speaker 1: church is just right down the road. And she gave
Speaker 1: me the crack, let me the cupcakes for my kids,
Speaker 1: and she wrote down the name of the church and
Speaker 1: the date of the thing for convocation, and I didn't
Speaker 1: think much about it. I asked Jess, who is my sister,
Speaker 1: to say, reach out to this preacher. He's coming to
Speaker 1: this church on this night, and just see if we
Speaker 1: can say hello. We've talked a few times, but I
Speaker 1: never really got to beat him. It'd be good. And
Speaker 1: she hit me back and said, yeah, he wants to
Speaker 1: do it. He wants to meet with you. And the
Speaker 1: next week world around, and I'd kind of forgot. I
Speaker 1: was in my vacation flow, you know, limited showers, no
Speaker 1: shaving or anything like that, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the day I'm going to meet with the pastor.
Speaker 1: And Jess texted me. She's like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: so and so had to cancel. They had emergency back surgery.
Speaker 1: He can't come. And you know how, sometimes you'll get
Speaker 1: an idea and it's not God, and you're like, I
Speaker 1: rebuke you, devil, I'm not doing that. And then sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll get an idea and you will try to rebuke it,
Speaker 1: and it remains. And the more you think about it,
Speaker 1: you're like, I think this might be what God wants
Speaker 1: me to do. Something inside of me. I believe it
Speaker 1: was the Holy Spirit, because I don't think the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit just gets you to speak in tongues. I think
Speaker 1: it gets you to take steps and do simple things.
Speaker 1: You better hear me. It's not all something sensational. It
Speaker 1: can be very simple how the Spirit can guide you.
Speaker 1: And this is what the unschedulable God did. Okay, he
Speaker 1: spoke to me just in a kind of an impression,
Speaker 1: call the church and offer to fill in for the preacher.
Speaker 1: I said, Lord, that's creepy. Hey, you want me to
Speaker 1: come over and preach for you. I could come preach
Speaker 1: for you. I'm over here just wanting to preach. I
Speaker 1: got my Bible. I got a a Bible skipture. I
Speaker 1: could come free. I got I'm not calling the church.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said you were the one they wanted
Speaker 1: on that night. They couldn't get you because you were
Speaker 1: on vacation. Not call the church, I said, Lord, she
Speaker 1: didn't write down the number. The Lord spoke to me
Speaker 1: very powerful, he said, Google, he's very practical, right, you're
Speaker 1: asking God for all kinds of big stuff. God just
Speaker 1: wants you to do practical things. Sometimes I called and
Speaker 1: it rang like six times and nobody answered. I said,
Speaker 1: thank you, or six is the number of men? And
Speaker 1: you know, and before the seventh ring, no kidding, and
Speaker 1: I remember, man, I'm in my I don't have a
Speaker 1: shirt on, I don't have shoes on, I don't have
Speaker 1: church clothes. I'm so glad it's three in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Lord. It was like a ram in
Speaker 1: the bush, like you remember when he called Abraham and
Speaker 1: he said, uh, I sacrificed. I said, just kidding, sacrifice
Speaker 1: the ram. I'm like, oh cool. This was like one
Speaker 1: of those steals. And on the after the sixth ring,
Speaker 1: the man picks up says the name of the church,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh hey, hey, uh it's called to
Speaker 1: speak to the pastor. Pastor so and so. I say,
Speaker 1: he's not available. Can I take a message? I said,
Speaker 1: oh no, I don't. I don't want to bother me. He
Speaker 1: He said no, that the pastor would want you to
Speaker 1: leave a message. Like okay, okay, all right. My name's
Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdie. I met a girl name Addie May. She
Speaker 1: gave my kids cupcakes the farmer's market. She said, there
Speaker 1: was convocation. I don't know your name of your church.
Speaker 1: I don't know your pastor. I've never met him before,
Speaker 1: never even heard of him before. But they said, do
Speaker 1: you want me to come preach? And I'm thirty minutes
Speaker 1: down the road and I'll come preach. And I just
Speaker 1: tell him that, he said, I'll tell him, and then
Speaker 1: here comes the call back. Five minutes later. He was crying.
Speaker 1: The pastor was crying. He said, I'm sorry we missed
Speaker 1: your call. We were in prayer meeting. We were praying
Speaker 1: God would give us a speaker for tonight. I had
Speaker 1: three funerals this week. See funerals don't schedule themselves. Funerals
Speaker 1: will come right in the middle of convocation, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm so out of energy. I was going to preach,
Speaker 1: but I'm dry. And we were praying. He said, did
Speaker 1: you know that you're the first person that we asked.
Speaker 1: The one we were having was going to be the
Speaker 1: second choice. Do you know that we asked you first?
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, Adie Mae told me that's crazy. I said,
Speaker 1: this is the weirdest thing. I never invite myself to
Speaker 1: preach anywhere. I don't even invite myself over to people's houses,
Speaker 1: let alone to people's pulpits. But man, do you want
Speaker 1: me to come? He said, Yes, Before I go, he said,
Speaker 1: you'll come, I said, I will. I said, but I
Speaker 1: don't have convocation clothes, I said, and really, the dressiest
Speaker 1: thing I have is some pirate black easies. And he said,
Speaker 1: I'll wear my easies too. We'll both wear our easies.
Speaker 1: You'll come preach. And I and I went out that
Speaker 1: night convacation. You hear me. I thought I was going
Speaker 1: to the farmer's market. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I thought I was just doing You don't. You don't
Speaker 1: know what Heaven has scheduled. And some of the best
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't come when you say, okay, well this is
Speaker 1: this is where it's going to be. Your kids might
Speaker 1: not turn out like you wanted them to. God might
Speaker 1: do something better on a different schedule. Right, train up
Speaker 1: a child in the way they should go, and when
Speaker 1: they are old, they will not depart from it. How old, Lord,
Speaker 1: he said, let me set the schedule. Some of the
Speaker 1: stuff I'm gonna lead them through at age seventeen, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use it until they're seventy. You let me set
Speaker 1: the schedule, You train, you obey, you show up. Look
Speaker 1: that convocation that night. I did not know this until
Speaker 1: this year, but the pastor, who was just a delightful guy,
Speaker 1: we had the best night, I mean the best night.
Speaker 1: And his son was leading worship on the worship team.
Speaker 1: He said, that's my son. He was proud. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's amazing. What an amazing It was your friend, Chandler More, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was your friend. Now me and him have been
Speaker 1: writing songs with Chris. And you know what's funny. You
Speaker 1: told me one time, and can I share this publicly
Speaker 1: that when I was coming to preach at a church
Speaker 1: one time, he said, I walked over and said. I
Speaker 1: walked over and said to him, God's gonna use you
Speaker 1: in a great way. You're handsome, you got good hair,
Speaker 1: You're handsome. I'm real spiritual, you know. Man looks at
Speaker 1: the outward appearance. That's my job. God looks at the heart,
Speaker 1: not me. Can't see your heart, see your hair. I
Speaker 1: said the Lord, I said, the Lord's gonna use you
Speaker 1: or something you told me. I didn't even know that.
Speaker 1: He said. He was sixteen God's got your kids. His
Speaker 1: dad's a great man of God. And I didn't even
Speaker 1: know who your dad was. Your dad was somebody whose
Speaker 1: leadership book I read. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 1: Was wasn't on my schedule to stop by, you know,
Speaker 1: before I was preaching. I think we were at Pastor
Speaker 1: Greg Surat's church, shout out Seacoast Church. You know, I
Speaker 1: had one on my thing, my itinerary, stopped buy and
Speaker 1: encouraged Samson on your way up to the pulpit. Wasn't
Speaker 1: on my schedule. Some of the best stuff in some
Speaker 1: of the blessings. God said to tell you, get ready
Speaker 1: for the unschedulable blessing. Come on, spell it in the chat.
Speaker 1: If you're still with me, I've been preaching way longer
Speaker 1: than normal. But if you're ready for an unschedulable blessing,
Speaker 1: come on. I'm here for it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: I got nowhere to go. I'm here for it. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. God,
Speaker 1: you give me the direction, I'll give you the details. Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Brandon. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: one more thing. We were writing a song. You weren't
Speaker 1: there that day, but in the same studio where we
Speaker 1: wrote Graves into Gardens, which by the way, was the
Speaker 1: second song we wrote that day, and it was the
Speaker 1: song that really defined the season for our church, right,
Speaker 1: and we went in and wrote. Me and Chris were
Speaker 1: in there a couple of months ago and we had
Speaker 1: a songwriting appointment, so she got to show up. You
Speaker 1: got to show up, right, You got to show up.
Speaker 1: That's the only way that you're gonna be there. Sometimes
Speaker 1: God has scheduled something for you, but you're waiting on
Speaker 1: an opportunity. The Bible says on one occasion, on one occasion,
Speaker 1: and you never know when it's gonna be the breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You never know when your kid's gonna need You're just
Speaker 1: gonna be driving them to another stupid dance recital and
Speaker 1: the conversation happens. So you don't know these things. So
Speaker 1: you have to show up. And we were writing music
Speaker 1: one day and we wrote a little song and I
Speaker 1: still like it, and we haven't done it yet. And
Speaker 1: it was and the songwriting appointment was over, and I
Speaker 1: remember looking at my watch and going, okay, cool, I
Speaker 1: got time to get home for dinner. Great, glad you
Speaker 1: finished up. Okay, let's get in here and let's uh
Speaker 1: set up the mics and let's record it real quick.
Speaker 1: Jack was setting up a mic, jay mix was in
Speaker 1: the control room, and I verified this with him the
Speaker 1: other day to make sure I remembered it right. And
Speaker 1: I told Christy, we don't need dinner. We're done. We
Speaker 1: don't need dinner. We're done. It's over. We're all gonna
Speaker 1: go our separate ways for dinner. We got we got
Speaker 1: a song. We're done. And as they were setting up mikes,
Speaker 1: a little melody idea came to mind that we recorded.
Speaker 1: It almost sounded like a lullaby. It was, May the
Speaker 1: favor of the Lord be upon you, May the glory
Speaker 1: of the Lord be your strength. May the presence of
Speaker 1: the Lord go before you. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: that line was gonna be. And give you peace, I said,
Speaker 1: court record, record, record, cocord done. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: back to the other one. And other people in the
Speaker 1: room said no, no no, no, no, let's let's work on that.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you'll like it, right, We got to
Speaker 1: go home, right, No no, no, no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: no no no, no, let's see let's see that might
Speaker 1: be something. That might be something somebody put in the chat.
Speaker 1: It might be something. It might be something. It might
Speaker 1: be something. It might be something. It might be something.
Speaker 1: It might be something. Never forget. Cody Carran started singing U.
Speaker 1: I said, go to number six and see if we
Speaker 1: can sing it. We could write a benediction. He said, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Lord bless you and keep you. May U s
Speaker 1: face shine upon you, be gracious to you. The Lord
Speaker 1: turn is face stard you. Thank you. You know please
Speaker 1: that we don't need dinner. We're done. God said, I'm not.
Speaker 1: You'd go home if you want to, but I want
Speaker 1: to bless you. You could give up if you want to.
Speaker 1: I want to bless you. You can write this year
Speaker 1: off if you want to. I'm gonna bless you. Then
Speaker 1: discuss said, amen, amen, you remember where we sat there
Speaker 1: work getting Let's carry Joe doing over there. She's saying
Speaker 1: something about your family and your children, let's say in
Speaker 1: their children and their children. I just thought it was
Speaker 1: significant that the blessing came after we thought the session
Speaker 1: was over. He wanted me to tell you that your
Speaker 1: latter will be greater. He wanted me to tell you
Speaker 1: that just like a cana in Galilee. He saves the
Speaker 1: best wine. So you think you've run out, And don't
Speaker 1: you go home yet, And don't you very that blessing yet?
Speaker 1: Don't you cast your confidence away yet? God said, I'm
Speaker 1: an unschedulable God. I'm made up a word. Paul made
Speaker 1: up a word. He said, Alpa kara Dokia. I expect you,
Speaker 1: oh blessing in the unexpected season. I'm not too young,
Speaker 1: I'm not too old. It's not too soon, it's not
Speaker 1: too late. Here comes the blessing, blessing. I will bless you, blessing.
Speaker 1: I will bless you, I will bless you, I will
Speaker 1: sup will bless you you. I won't favor you, I
Speaker 1: will favor you, I will mutch you, I will use you,
Speaker 1: and you fa me and p I'm on wait for
Speaker 1: the guess, jensious, I'm a worse and words somebody, sir.
Speaker 1: But and then you may say, either receive the blessing
Speaker 1: you that, jencious, hold on, you're gonna be blessed. And
Speaker 1: then schedule and you're gonna be blessed in the secret
Speaker 1: like Steve, You're gonna be blessed you. That was a
Speaker 1: forty day You're gonna be blessed morassy he is so
Speaker 1: badly is yeah day given line, give the brig thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, my good sees, seracious in your family, in
Speaker 1: your shoe man. I can't believe that I used all
Speaker 1: of those scriptures. I thought maybe I would pick one
Speaker 1: or two, but it felt like a series, you know,
Speaker 1: unschedulable blessings. That's what I'm calling that message. And I
Speaker 1: just pray that you'll be looking everywhere this week for
Speaker 1: ways that God is trying to bless you and use
Speaker 1: you to be a blessing. Goes both ways. You know,
Speaker 1: whether you're handing somebody cupcake or whether you're preaching a
Speaker 1: sermon grabbing the mic of your own. God has a
Speaker 1: plan for you. Don't forget we have Love Week this week.
Speaker 1: You can get a Love Week Elevation lovely No Elevationoutreach
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Speaker 1: can still go to Elevation Outreach dot org. By the way,
Speaker 1: thank you to all of you who give. I talked
Speaker 1: about the power of showing up. So many of you
Speaker 1: show up regularly through your giving, and it's praying and
Speaker 1: it's serving, and right now is the sacrificial systematic giving
Speaker 1: of God's people that keeps us doing outreach, that keeps
Speaker 1: us flooding our communities with love when the world is
Speaker 1: flooded with so much uncertainty. I want to encourage you
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Speaker 1: we love you. Our entire family is praying that your
Speaker 1: eyes would be open as we continue to be blessed
Speaker 1: and be a blessing. I pray both over you of
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