1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: If you're joining us for the first time, Welcome to 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: Elevation Church. Welcome to twenty twenty two. This is a 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: faith church. Gold On. I'm gonna try it again. I 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: know it's the first Sunday. I know you've been watching 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: ELF movies for a long time, so I'm gonna try 11 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: it again. This is a faith church. Chunks. You know, 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: the first time I ever came to Elevation, first time 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: I ever came to Elevation was for an Orange Code 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: Revival night and Joyce Meyer was preaching that night and 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: we pulled up here to the campus. We pulled up 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: at the stoplight. I could feel the faith out on 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: the street. You could feel the expectation. What I'm trying 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: to say to you, if you are in that amazing 19 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: connect group in Virginia, if you're watching online, We're a 20 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: believing church. We believe that God can do it. We 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: believe that God is with you. We believe that God 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: is for you. We believe that no eye has seen, 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: and no ear has heard, and no mine can even 24 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: imagine the things that God has in store for those 25 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: who love Him and are called according to His name. 26 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: This is a fa church. Come on, clap like you 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: believe it today. I'm excited. I want to give honor 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: where honor is due today. Anybody love your pastors? Come on, 29 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: I figure you out to go crazier than that. Anybody 30 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: love the pastors of this amazing church. Passa Stephen at 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: Holly Ferdick. We love you, We honor you. The Bible 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: literally teaches us to give honor where it is due, 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: and so we honor this fan family. We honor this 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: amazing couple. We honor Pastor Stephen for not just his gift, 35 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,239 Speaker 1: but to use his gift to preach the good news 36 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: and to point people to Jesus. And we just thank 37 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: God for them. I think we ought to pray for 38 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: our pastors. Come on, right now, let's pray for Pastor 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: Stephen to Holly. God. We cover the leaders of this 40 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: amazing church. We bless them right now. We thank you God, 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: that prophetically you're speaking to them about this year. We 42 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: cover their home, we cover their children, we cover their mind. 43 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: Right now, we thank you that their soul will prosper. 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 1: Their soul will prosper. God, thank you for every relationship 45 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: they have. God, thank you that it's in alignment right now. 46 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for great wisdom, the wisdom from above. Give 47 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: them great wisdom to govern your people. We bless them 48 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: today in Jesus' name. And everybody said, come on, clap 49 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: like you got faith for your pastor Amen, are you 50 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: fired up? Now? I left Los Angeles to come out 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: here to Charlotte because I'm fired up, because I gotta 52 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: put a little country on it. I'm fired up. I 53 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: might as well. I should get Christ's I should get 54 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 1: Chris's outfit and say it. Chris, I need you to 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: say fired up, give me your best country, fired up 56 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: for me. I'm fired up, Chad. Thank God for Chris Brown. 57 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: Right here. Make some noise. Give somebody a high five, 58 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: Give somebody a high five. In your house, give somebody 59 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: a high five, and take a seat. If you have 60 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: a Bible, go to First Kings. Go to First Kings 61 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: chapter nineteen. Go to First Kings I'm gonna jump in 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: in just a moment, but before I do, keep playing. 63 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: If you're the keyboard player, don't don't leave me. Can 64 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: we thank God for the amazing worship today? My God 65 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: first King's nineteen. I'm gonna jump in in just a moment. 66 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: I have to just bring greetings from my amazing family. 67 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: I'm a married man. Are there any married people here today? 68 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: I am thirteen years married? Okay, I don't know what 69 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: that was, but my wife, she is so blessed. I'm 70 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: just kidding. Come on, you guys, we're in church today. Okay, 71 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: but can I show you a photo of my amazing 72 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: family real fast? These are my four kids and my 73 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: incredible wife. Look at these guys right here. This is 74 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: my daughter Georgia and my son Winston Maverick. And then 75 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: that's my little nugget, my last one. His name is 76 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: Clive Ellington veach. But I need you to pray that 77 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: boy is not saved yet. He needs some Jesus. But 78 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: God has been so good to us. Has God been 79 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: good to you? Come on, let's clap one time and 80 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: thank God for his grace, his mercy. And I'm really 81 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: excited to share with you today if it's okay with 82 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: I wrote a message just for today, and I wrote 83 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: a message for us coming into twenty twenty two because 84 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: I was thinking about, you know, a year. The other day, 85 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: we were in our I call it our swagger wagon. 86 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: When you got four kids, you get a minivan. So 87 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: I was up in you know, on Christmas break, I 88 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: was up in our Toyota Sienna. You know you bothering 89 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: when you in a Toyota Sienna, when you can hit 90 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: the button and the doors open, ball out. And so 91 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: we're talking with our boys about a year now. I 92 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: was asking my guys, what happens in the year, in 93 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: the calendar year. Tell me all the holidays that happened 94 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: the year. Some of my guys right away Christmas, other 95 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: guy Easter. They start going through all the holidays, Thanksgiving 96 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: and fourth of July, and start going through a year. 97 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: They've named almost all of them until my wife was like, 98 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: you forgot one. And I was like, what did we forget? 99 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 1: I thought we had all of them. She's like single. 100 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: I was like, that's what I'm Taco Tuesday ba lao 101 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: guacam only for Holy That's why that's my girl. Right there, 102 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: we were talking about a year, you know a year. 103 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: A year has highs and lows. A year has good 104 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: times and bad times. When we have dinner at our house, 105 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: I don't know what dinner at your house looks like. 106 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: When we sit down as a family, every day we 107 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: go through an order and we talk about our highs 108 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 1: and lows of the day. Every day we have a 109 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: different theme, a different emphasis. So like my Maverick, he's Maverick, 110 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: Maverick Monday, or my Winston he's Winston Wednesday. They get 111 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 1: to choose the meal and they get to choose the 112 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: order of the high and low. So on Wednesdays, my 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: son will be like, you're going first, You're going second, 114 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: and whoever he's mad has going last. But we talk 115 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 1: about the high of the day and we talk about 116 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,119 Speaker 1: the low of the day. In one year, think about 117 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: your next year. You're gonna have some highs and you're 118 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: gonna have some lows. You're gonna have some good times, 119 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna have some bad times. Think about last year. 120 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: Last year you had some mountaintop success, but you had 121 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: some valley of despair. One of the things I know 122 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: about three hundred and sixty five days, you never know 123 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: what a year will bring to you. You never know 124 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: what this next season has for you. But you've got 125 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: to make the resolve and the decision today that says, 126 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: no matter what high or low I'm in, I'm gonna 127 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: choose to put my faith in Jesus, I'm gonna choose 128 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: to worship God. Come on clap today if you believe 129 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: that we're making it. Before we get there, we're already 130 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: saying yes to God. So we're talking about, you know, 131 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: a year, we're talking about, you know, going through you know, 132 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: a calendar year and everything that's about to happen this 133 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: this next year. Then and then I don't know what 134 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: came over me. I started to, you know, just kind 135 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: of wonder the biblical literacy of my own children. You know, 136 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: do my kids know the Bible? So I started I 137 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: went straight from the calendar into Bible trivia, and I 138 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: was like, okay, boys, you were in my swagger wagon, 139 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you some Bible questions. Immediately, all the 140 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: pastor's kid eyes they just start to roll. They're just 141 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: like Dad, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Who was the 142 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: guy who's brothers sodom into slavery? My boy in the back. 143 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: Six year old Joseph caught him many colors. He's like, 144 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: that's my guy. There you go, Okay, okay. In the Bible, 145 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: who was the disciple that Jesus asked to come walk 146 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: on water? Now, my three year old, no matter what 147 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: question I ask, he has the same person. He's always 148 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: like Jonah. I'm like, no, I love you so much. 149 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: That's the whale guy. He's the whale guy. He's the 150 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: whale guy. Jonah Like, no, it's not Jonah. But we 151 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: start talking. We're going through all this Bible trivia and 152 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: I probably exhaust them, but I want to make sure 153 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: my boys know the stories. Come on, anybody believe what 154 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: the Bible says, raise up a child in the way 155 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,599 Speaker 1: they should go. Oh, come on, clap parents, like you 156 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: got faith for your children to walk with Jesus all 157 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: the days of their life. I'm a pastor's kid. I 158 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: made it. A lot of people in the church didn't 159 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: think I'd be here, but I made it. So I'm 160 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: going through all these questions and going through all these 161 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: you know, Bible trivia, and finally I get to the 162 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: last one. Okay, last one, last one? I said, who 163 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: in the Bible was the God who goes up against 164 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: all these hundreds of false prophets and he tears them down. 165 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: And my boys love this part. And he talks trash 166 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: and he says, where is your God? Is your God 167 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: on the toilet? Dude, is your God taking a nap? 168 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: And this guy demolished these false prophets and showed that 169 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: our God is the only true God. I said, who 170 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: was it? My little boy in the beck Jonah, he's 171 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: the whale guy. It's nothing no, So that's Elijah. And 172 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: it was like, as soon as I said that, I 173 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: just kept thinking about the story of Elijah. I kept 174 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: thinking about what happened right after some of his biggest 175 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: success came some of his biggest failure. Right after the 176 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: high of the high came the low of the low, 177 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: and right after he killed these false prophets. The Bible says, 178 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: he runs from a lady named Jezebel. He goes into hiding. 179 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: God provides an angel and some cookies, and then all 180 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: of a sudden God shows up and talks to him. 181 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: Watch here, High and Low, watch Elijah one kings nineteen, 182 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: it says. So he got up and he ate and 183 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: drank and Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days 184 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: in forth forty nights, until he reached Horror, the Mountain 185 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: of God. There he went into a cave and spent 186 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: the night, and the Word of the Lord came to 187 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: him and said, what are you doing here? Elijah? He replied, 188 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: Oh God, I've been very zealous for the Lord, God Almighty. 189 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your 190 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. 191 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: I am the only one left, and now they're trying 192 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: to kill me too. You ever whined a god? Elijah's 193 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: speaking whines right here. He's like, Oh God, his coven's 194 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: been so bad, and the panthers are terrible, and everything's 195 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: just it's a hard luck life and I just don't 196 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: know our WiFi slow, But I love God. God shows 197 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: up in the place of his low and says, my man, 198 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Has God ever had to 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: ask you that question? What are you doing here? Why 200 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: in the world are you thinking this way? Why in 201 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: the world are you running? No, No, you're not filled 202 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: with fear, You're filled with faith. You're the same one 203 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: that just cast the false prophets. We don't need you here. 204 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: I want to preach a message this first Sunday of 205 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Right down the title, it's called highs 206 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: and Lows. We live in a culture that says, don't 207 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: let your highs get too high and don't let your 208 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: lows get too low. But that's not what the Bible says. 209 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: The Bible says in Romans twelve, we rejoice with those 210 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: that rejoice, and we weep with those that weep. Come 211 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: on clap today. If you're excited, this year is gonna 212 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: be filled with rejoicing. And even if it's filled with weeping, 213 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna choose Jesus, it's gonna have highs and lows. 214 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna have highs and lows. You're gonna have highs 215 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: and lows. But no matter what you face, and no 216 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: matter what you go through, you're gonna make the decision 217 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: on the mountain top of success. I will lift my 218 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: voice as loud as in the valley of despair whether 219 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: I walk. That's why I love Pho Psalm twenty three. Yay, 220 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 221 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: I will fear no evil. Why you are with me. 222 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: Rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a 223 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: table before me, and the presence of my enemies. You 224 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: anoint my head with oil. Surely goodness and mercy will 225 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: follow me all the days of my life, and I 226 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: will dwell in the house of the Lord, saying, even 227 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: if I'm in the hospital, even if I get a 228 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: bad report, even if we face death or sorrow, or 229 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: sickness or tragedy, even in the valley of despair, You're 230 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: gonna see my hands raised, Even in the high of 231 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: the High, I'm still gonna choose God. Amen to that. 232 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: I wanna give you a few things to write down 233 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: that you're gonna need this year in twenty twenty two. 234 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: I try to think of what do you need to 235 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: go through a year that's filled with highs and lows? 236 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: What do you need this year? Right down? Number one, 237 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: here's the first thing that you need is you need 238 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: vision from God. Oh I love that thought right there. 239 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: You need vision this year coming into this next year. 240 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: You need vision from God. By the way, vision does 241 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: not come from church. Vision comes from the Holy Spirit. 242 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: The Bible literally says in the Book of Joel, in 243 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: these last days, he will pour out his spirit in 244 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: such a way that our old men will dream dreams 245 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: and our young people will prophesied translation. It doesn't matter 246 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: how old you are today. God has something for every person. 247 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: God has a vision for your life. God has a dream. Oh, 248 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: we already talked about it Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. 249 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: He knows the plans that He has for you. So 250 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: you don't have to come up with the vision. You 251 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: don't have to sit down with your resolutions and your 252 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: goals and go this is what I'm going to do. 253 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: You need to go to God and say, God, what 254 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: do you want for my life? What's the plan that 255 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: you have for my family? What do you want to 256 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: do with my finance? What relationships do you want me 257 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: to invest in? Doo? Come on? Anybody want vision from 258 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: God this next year? What's what the Bible says in Proverbs. 259 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: Oh I love this scripture. It says where there is 260 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. When you 261 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: don't have prophetic vision. Say you don't need vision from 262 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: movies or commercials or YouTube, you need vision from heaven. 263 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: We call this getting a word from God. I pray 264 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: over your twenty twenty two that you have some mantra, 265 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: some scripture, some thought, something from heaven that God's like, 266 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: stand on this word. The Bible literally says, what I 267 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: whisper into your ear, proclaim upon housetops, that utterance, I 268 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: give you, that unction, I give you. I don't know 269 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: what you feel like for ye for your year. But 270 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: I've been feeling this for the last month, and I 271 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: keep telling my wife, this is gonna be a big year. 272 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: This is gonna be a big year. I'm walking around 273 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: my house telling my wife, this is gonna be a 274 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: big year. This is gonna be a big year. Finally 275 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: she walked up to me. She says, Babe, I'm with it. 276 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big year. But can we just 277 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: say big year? Small frame? And I was like, what 278 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: do you mean. She's like, I just don't want to grow. 279 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: I just want to I want to stay small. I 280 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: was like, okay, ball out, you do you do you boo. 281 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: But can you get some vision for your life? Can 282 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: you get some prophetic vision and start writing down here's 283 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: what God is saying to me this year. Oh I 284 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: love to have backkick. Watch this in chapter two, watch 285 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: what the Bible teaches us about vision. Then the Lord replied, 286 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets, 287 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: so that a herald may run with it. For the 288 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: revelation awaits for an appointed time. It speaks of the end, 289 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: and it will not prove false. Though it linger wait 290 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: for it. It will certainly come, and it will not delay. 291 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: Write down that vision. This is what God is saying 292 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: over my children. This is what God is saying over 293 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: my church. This is what God is saying over my future. 294 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: This is what God is saying over my business. I'm 295 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: getting vision from God. And let me just say this 296 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: to you. If you can see it, you can achieve it. 297 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: If you can see it, you can have it. The 298 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: first thing God does is open your eyes. He opens 299 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: your eyes, not just to see in the natural, but 300 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: even into the supernatural. He opens your eyes so you 301 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 1: can see the God. Thing everybody else sees ruins. You 302 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: see redemption. Everybody else sees garbage. You see gold. Come 303 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: on clap today. If you're excited to get vision for 304 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: your fear, I'm telling you you get vision. It'll get 305 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: you up in the morning. You get vision, and it'll 306 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: keep you disciplined. Why in the world would you live 307 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: a life of restraint without vision, the only thing that's 308 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: going to keep you on the straight and the narrow 309 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: is getting a word from God. I'm not here for 310 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: my own gain. I'm not here for my own fame. 311 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: I live for something bigger than myself. This world is 312 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: not my home. I'm not a citizen of this planet. 313 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: So while I'm here for me, to live is Christ 314 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: and to die is I'm getting vision. I'm getting vision. 315 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: I'm getting vision. See See, If you don't have vision, 316 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,479 Speaker 1: you have no restraint. Why would you restrain your tongue 317 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: and not gossip and not have all kinds of filthy language? 318 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: Why would you restrain your finances if you don't have vision? 319 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: Why would you restrain and live a life of discipline, 320 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: devotion and dedication to God? If you don't have vision, 321 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: unique vision? Oh, I'll never forget Separate September tenth, nineteen 322 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: ninety nine. September tenth, nineteen ninety nine. The first time 323 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: I moved to LA. I'm from Seattle. The first time 324 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: I moved to LA was straight out of high school. 325 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: I went to Bible College in Los Angeles, so I 326 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: had I had long hair back then. I had long 327 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: wavy hair cause I can't I couldn't get a girl, 328 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: but they said surfers could. So I can't surf, but 329 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: I grew up my hair like a surfer. It's a 330 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: little Samson vibe going on. So I'm down in La. 331 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: I got long hair. I'm in Bible College. I don't 332 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,239 Speaker 1: want to be in Bible College. I want to I 333 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: have my own idea for my life. But I knew that, 334 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: I knew I was supposed to be there, so I'm 335 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: still kind of living my own life. September tenth, nineteen 336 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: ninety nine. I'm in a car with a buddy and 337 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: he puts in a cassette tape. Come on, the old 338 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: people said amen. Like as soon as I said, I 339 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: felt the room shift like lo he preaching. Now, oh 340 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: he preaching, He preaching, preaching. What he say, cassette tete 341 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: he real, they do. Real. My buddy puts in the 342 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: tape of a preacher named Kreflow Dollar. Kreflow Dollar starts 343 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: preaching out the Galatians six seven and eight. He starts teaching, 344 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: do not be deceived, for God cannot be mocked. For 345 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: whatsoever a man sows that he shall reap, for the 346 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: man that sews to his flesh will of the flesh 347 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: reap corruption. But the man that sews to the spirit 348 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: will from the spirit reap everlasting life. I'm in the car, 349 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: long hair, don't care, and the Holy Spirit grabs a 350 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: hold of my life. And the Holy Spirit says to me, 351 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,719 Speaker 1: You've been a young man that has been ruled and 352 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: led by your flesh your whole life, and I'm about 353 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: to wrest you by my spirit. God gave me a vision. 354 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: I downloaded my future. I'm telling you. I went back home, 355 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: I cut my hair, I got a spirit felled by 356 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: I started reading the Bible. I started studying the Bible. 357 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: I started being dedicated. Why I got a vision from God? 358 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: Clap if you're excited to get a word from the Lord, 359 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: come on. God's got marching orders for you. Clapling expectation. 360 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: Just open your ear and open your eye and what 361 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: God has for you. So the first thing that you 362 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: need is you need vision. You need you need a 363 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: word from God. Here's the second thing you need. You 364 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: need faith for the future. You need vision to see 365 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: what God has for you, and you need faith to 366 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: believe it. Now, faith by definition, right down the definition. 367 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: It is trust, confidence and belief. It is trust, confidence, 368 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,959 Speaker 1: and belief. So what I what I say when I 369 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,239 Speaker 1: have faith, it means I have trust in God, I 370 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: have belief in God, and I have confidence in God. 371 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: You need to have trust in God this year. You 372 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: need to have all your confidence in God this year. 373 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: And you need to have all your belief in God. 374 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,959 Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to tap into yourself. You are 375 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: not the solution to your sadness. We don't believe in 376 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: self help. We believe in God help. I don't lift 377 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: my eyes to myself. I lift my eyes to the mountains. 378 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: Where does my help come from. My help comes from You, 379 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: the maker of heaven and earth. Give them a praise today. 380 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: If you've got faith for your future, you gotta have faith. Now. 381 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: You might be here going like, I don't got that 382 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: much faith. I don't. I'm not big on faith. First 383 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: of all, you know, the biggest faith that you need 384 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: is mustard seed size faith. So you know. And by 385 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: the way, the reason why elevation is so powerful is 386 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: if you bring your mustard seed faith, and I bring 387 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: my mustard see faith, and they bring their mustard see faith, 388 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a whole lot of faith for God 389 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: to heal the sick for God to do miracles, for 390 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: God to bring prodigals home. Come on, just throw your mustard. 391 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: See faith in the middle. But even if you don't 392 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: have faith, you can learn faith. You can receive faith. 393 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: All love the story about this one parent. He's got 394 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: a child that's got a major issue in his life, 395 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 1: and he comes to Jesus and asks for help. And 396 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: he's like, my son has got a bad problem happening 397 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,959 Speaker 1: in his life? Can you help us? Watch what Jesus 398 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: says to this parent in Mark Watch this Mark nine. 399 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: Jesus asked the boy's father how long has he been 400 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: like this? How from childhood? He answered? It has often 401 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: thrown him into the fire in the water and tried 402 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: to kill him. But if you can do anything, take 403 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: pity on us and help us. If you can, said Jesus, 404 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: everything is possible for the one who believes. Immediately, the 405 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: boy's father answered back, I do believe, But can you 406 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: help me overcome my unbelief? Can you help me? God? 407 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: There's a part of me that's like, is this virus 408 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: ever gonna go away? Is this stuff ever gonna change? 409 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: Is our country gonna be okay? Are things gonna get 410 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: any better? At home? God, I believe, but can you 411 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: help the part of my heart that has some unbelief. 412 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: Jesus is not repulsed by this, He's not put off 413 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: by this. No, he comes to give you faith today. 414 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: He comes to give you the gift of confidence, the 415 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: gift of trust, and the gift of belief. Anybody want 416 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: to receive the gift of faith this next year? Anybody 417 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: want to have crazy faith this next year? Lift your 418 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: hand right there in your house, lift your hand. Let 419 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: me pray God. I pray for the gift of faith 420 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: right now. I prayed over business owners. I prayed over parents, 421 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: I prayed over leaders, I prayed over the staff. I 422 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: prayed over pastors, Stephen the Hawley. Let us have more 423 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: faith this next year. Let us trust in you, believe 424 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: in you, and have greater confidence in you. In Jesus' name, 425 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: And everybody said, together, come on, clap one more time. 426 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: If you come on, believe that God will give you faith. 427 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: You learn how to believe God, You learn how to 428 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: trust God. I grew up. I told you, I'm a 429 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: preacher's kid on a pastor's kid, and we grew up. 430 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: I grew up in a small little town, and we didn't. 431 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: We didn't have a lot of money, Like my mom 432 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: used to make our clothes. You know, nothing like rocking 433 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: up to the pool in summer with homemade speedo's. You 434 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: never been through it. You don't know my struggle. Okay, 435 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: you don't know the pain in my platform. Okay, so 436 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: don't judge me. But but but growing up, we didn't 437 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: have money, so I don't forget. One time I was 438 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: walking through the farmer's market with my mom and they 439 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: were raffling off of VCR a little kid, but we 440 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: couldn't afford a VCR, and so my mom. I looked 441 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: at my mom, I said, Mom, listen, look at this 442 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: beautiful VCR. She said, well, son, let's buy a raffle 443 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 1: and let's believe God that we'll win that VCR. So 444 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: we paid for the little raffle and we took it 445 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 1: home to our kitchen, and every morning when I got up, 446 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: my mom would take the raffle with me and we'd pray. 447 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, you never seen a kid pray 448 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: before until you're believing for a VCR. I shout that 449 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: thing down, I said, Jesus name, we just declared that 450 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: we're gonna watch Salty's praise book on this VCR, we 451 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: thank you for McGee and me to be up in 452 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: our home in Jesus name. And I'm telling you we 453 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: would pray, we would pray, we would lay hands on them. 454 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: And my mom was teaching me faith. She was showing 455 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: me what it meant to believe in God. She was 456 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: showing me how to speak things that don't exist as 457 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: though they do. She was saying that faith is having confidence, 458 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: having trust, and believe. I'll never forget when one night 459 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: the phone rang and that person on the other line said, 460 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: congratulations your raffle one the VCR. I'm telling you we 461 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: did a praise party like it was New Year's even 462 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: elevation Church. Come on clap if you're believing that this 463 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: year you'll have greater faith. I wrote a book years 464 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: ago called Faith Forward Future, because you have to have 465 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: faith to move forward into your future. The enemy wants 466 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: you to get stuck. What are you doing here? The 467 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: enemy is like, I'll tell you what they're doing here. 468 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: They've got setbacks, they've got disappointment, they've got destructive thinking. 469 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: But praise be to God that is the lifter of 470 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: my head. Praise be to God. That says no, fix 471 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: your eyes on Jesus, the Author and the finisher of 472 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: your faith. Come on, I'm believing that this year you 473 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: go to new levels of belief, new levels of trust, 474 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: and new levels of confidence in our God. Oh, let 475 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: me just show you one more scripture. Look at you. 476 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: This is my prayer for you, Jeremiah. Look at Jeremiah 477 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: thirty two seventeen. Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the 478 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: heavens and the earth by your great power and your 479 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you, ah Lord God. 480 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: Nothing is too hard for you. Ah. You gotta just 481 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: come into this year going. Ah Lord God, put some 482 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: awe on it. Ah Lord God, nothing is too hard 483 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: for you. Nothing. He shuts the mouth of life, He 484 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: feeds the five thousand plus the women and the children. 485 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: He allows us to walk on dry ground while the 486 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: sea is split in two. He provides a pillar of 487 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: cloud and a fire by night. He gives us fresh 488 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: manna in the day. Anybody believe that our goa Oh 489 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: Lord God, nothing is too difficult for you. Now. I'm 490 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: telling you, whatever you're coming up against and it ain't 491 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 1: bigger than God. And so listen, we're not gonna let 492 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: our circumstance determine our faith. We're gonna let our faith 493 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 1: determine our circumstance. Come on, clap like you believe it 494 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: for your year. I feel faith in this place today. 495 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: Oh right down number three today. I love this. You 496 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: need a renewed mind, You need a mind. I'm telling 497 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: you what God is fighting for is the same thing 498 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: the enemy is fighting for. And they are both fighting 499 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: for your mind. Or speaking of Joyce Myers, she wrote 500 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: a brilliant book years ago. The mind is a battlefield. 501 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: This is the thing the enemy's trying to fight for. 502 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: The way that God changes you is he changes your mind. 503 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: The way that He changes you is he changes your thinking. See, 504 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: because if you get stinking thinking, you're gonna get stuck 505 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: in places you shouldn't be. But if you get your 506 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,239 Speaker 1: your mind right, if you get your mind right, you 507 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: get your life right. You listen, you'll never live past 508 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: your thought life. You'll never live better than your thought life. 509 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: Your thought life is the limit. It's the lid of 510 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: your life. So watch how God changes your mind. Look 511 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: at Romans chapter twelve, verse two. I love this scripture 512 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: right here. Romans chapter twelve, Do not conform to the 513 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing 514 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: of your mind. Then you will be able to test 515 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and 516 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: perfect will. So let's just stop there. God's will for 517 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: your life is three things. It's good, it's pleasing, and 518 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: it's perfect. The will of God for your life is good, pleasing, 519 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: and perfect. How in the world will you ever know 520 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: the will of God for you if you don't let 521 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: God renew your mind. It says, do not conform to 522 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: the patterns of this world, but be transformed. Like again, 523 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm exposing my age. But when I grew up, Transformers 524 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: was the thing. I mean, I could sing the whole 525 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: song Transformers more than meets the eye. I mean, there's 526 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: a whole thing. We would be in the house playing 527 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: with these little Transformers. It'd be like a police car 528 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: and we just do the little thing and it's like bam, 529 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: just this huge transformer like Bob Bob. How does God 530 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: take you from your insecurity? How does God take you 531 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: from all your jealousy, all your inadequacy, all your stinking things? 532 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: How does God pull you out of the pit he 533 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: changes your mind? You gotta understand this about your mind. 534 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: Your mind keeps no record of success. It only keeps 535 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: record of failure. You realize that you think, on average, 536 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: you think forty thousand negative thoughts a day. You realize 537 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,719 Speaker 1: eighty five percent of your thoughts are reoccurring thoughts. And 538 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: so you know a lot of us we wait till 539 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: we're in a bad place. We rehab. But can I 540 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: encourage you in twenty twenty two? You need a prehab. 541 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: You need to get your mind right before you get 542 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: in the gutter. You need to get your mind elevated. 543 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: You need to get your mind of the things above. 544 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: Oh I love this. In two Timothy, watch what God 545 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: says through the Paul of the Apostle. He says, for 546 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,719 Speaker 1: the spirit of God, he has not given us timidity, 547 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: but gives us power and love and self discipline. Now, 548 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: the other translations say power, love, and a sound mind. 549 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: If you study the Greek word for sound mind is 550 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: literally translated discipline. Thinking translation, God gave you the ability 551 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: that when your mind gets low, you can bring it 552 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: back high. Or, as the Bible teaches us, we capture 553 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: every thought and we make it obedient to God. I'm 554 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: not thinking that way about that person. I'm not thinking 555 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: that way about this situation. I'm not thinking that way 556 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: about last year. I'm not thinking that way about the 557 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: answers we're gonna be blessed. I'm not thinking that way 558 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: about so and so. Come on, and I appreciate anybody. 559 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my mind right. You get your mind right, 560 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: you get your life right, you get your mind. That's 561 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: why the Bible says we put on the first thing 562 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: is the helmet of salvation. I put on God's thoughts 563 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: over my thoughts. When you think about yourself, listen. Your 564 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: mind was not meant to thrive, it was only built 565 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: to survive. So if I want to thrive, I gotta 566 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: get scripture, I gotta get God's thoughts. I gotta have. 567 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: You know you need in twenty twenty two, you need 568 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: a confidence ritual. You need to build your confidence back 569 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: this next year. You need to start walking around your 570 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: home and start declaring over your life. Don't listen to 571 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: the serpent, don't listen to the liar, don't listen to 572 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: the accuser of the brethren. Don't don't listen to the 573 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,479 Speaker 1: one that only shows you all the bad stuff that 574 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: happened to you. No you gotta get all God's thoughts. 575 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: You gotta say no, no, I'm more than a conquer 576 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. No, I'm the head and I'm not 577 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: the tale. No, I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 578 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: No, no no, no. If God is for me, who can 579 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: be against me? Come on, anybody down to build a 580 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: confidence ritual in twenty twenty two. Then you're gonna start 581 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: leaving your home in the morning feeling like I'm gonna 582 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: be okay. Sometimes your mind gets into a bad place 583 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,719 Speaker 1: and you get you ever feel negative. When I get negative, 584 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: I get scared of myself. I'm like, I need to 585 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: eat right now. I feel like a walking Snicker's commercial. 586 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: And I'm like when I get low, when I get 587 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: Because listen, don't kid yourself. We all go through highs 588 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: and lows. We all have good times and bad times. 589 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: Don't listen. Don't believe the live Instagram You're comparing your 590 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: lows to somebody else's highlight reel. Everybody has lows, Everybody 591 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: has bad days, everybody cries, everybody has pain. There's only 592 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: one hero in this story, and it ain't you or me. 593 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: Jesus is the only perfect so when you get low, 594 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,239 Speaker 1: how are you gonna build yourself back up? Watch what 595 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: Paul says. Philippians for I love the Scripture. Philippins for 596 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: are finally brethren. Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, 597 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things 598 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: are lovely, whatever things are of good report, If there 599 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: is any virtue, if there's any praiseworthy meditate on these things. 600 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: I wonder what twenty twenty two would look like if 601 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: you stop watching the news and started looking at God's word. 602 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: Clap like you believe what I'm saying today. Whatever's true, 603 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: whatever's a good report, whatever's praise. Meditate on these things. 604 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: I live in LA you know, I'm in Los Angeles, 605 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: so people can't figure it out. People are always like, 606 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I love your vibes. Your vibes are crazy, dude, 607 00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 1: you got crazy energy, bro crazy, And I don't like thanks, eh, Jonah, 608 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: How can you get the spirit of God running through 609 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: your life this year? It's because I don't spend time 610 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: crying over spilled milk. I don't spend time thinking about 611 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: all the bad things that I've done. Why do you 612 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: keep thinking about your past when God doesn't he says, 613 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: as far as the east is from the west, I 614 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: have removed your transgressions from you. Somebody clapped today, and 615 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: thank God, I'm getting my mind right. I'm getting Come on, 616 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: God's changing your premise, He's changing your perspective. He's changing 617 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: your thinking. You can't do what God's called you to 618 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: do with thinking thinking. You gotta get the mind of God. 619 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: Oh worship team, come join me. There's the last one 620 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: I want to teach you today, right down the last one. 621 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,839 Speaker 1: You need a life full of thanksgiving. All think about 622 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: what you would look like this year. If you've got vision, 623 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: and you've got faith, and you've got your mind right, 624 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: and you've got gratitude. Whoah, you know you need. You 625 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: need the attitude of gratitude you need. You need to 626 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: wake up tomorrow and say, this is the day the 627 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. 628 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: You need to start getting Come on, there's nothing like 629 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: a grateful people. You know, God is always looking for 630 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: a grateful person, is a humble person. And God says 631 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: in the Bible he opposes the proud, He put a 632 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: heisman trophy on that thing, but he gives grace to 633 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: the humble. See, humble people are grateful people. God. I 634 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: just praise you. I listen. I may not be where 635 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: I want to be, but thank God, I'm not where 636 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: I used to be. Thank God, I'm out of that 637 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,240 Speaker 1: old miss clap today in your house. If you're grateful 638 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,399 Speaker 1: that you're not where you were six months ago, one 639 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: year ago, come on? Has God been faithful? Has God 640 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: been good? Has God brought you? Oh? I love that 641 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: song today. He pulled me out of my repent. He 642 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: set my feet upon a rock. He put a new 643 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: song in my mouth. Many will hear of it, many 644 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: will see of it. Dive him a praise right now. 645 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: If you're grateful, I'm not there yet, but I'm not 646 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 1: where I was. Thank you Jesus. Think about what God 647 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 1: has brought you out of. Think about what God has 648 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 1: delivered you from this. Just pause and thank God for 649 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: some of the fashion. When I think about the goodness 650 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,240 Speaker 1: of God, when I think about the faithfulness, you're not amazing. 651 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: He is. My Bible says, when you were faithless, he 652 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: remained faithful. My Bible says, when you left, he left 653 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: the ninety nine church folk, and he hunted you down, 654 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: and he said, what are you you're doing here? Why 655 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: are you living in this apartment? How come you're messing around? 656 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 1: You know this ain't a man of God. He don't 657 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: even go to jailb get out this place. We gonna 658 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: get you back on christianmingo dot com. We're gonna get 659 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: you an MG. He ties he's in church and he 660 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: has hygiene. One of my favorite stories about Jesus. One 661 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 1: of my favorite stories about Jesus is the story of 662 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,359 Speaker 1: the Ten Lepers. The Bible says Jesus is walking through 663 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: Samerian golie translation between some people that never should have 664 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 1: been in church and some church folk, and these ten 665 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:43,240 Speaker 1: lepers cry out with a loud voice, Jesus have mercy 666 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,919 Speaker 1: on me. Let me just say this. Never be too 667 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: proud to beg for God's help. If you give yourself 668 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,879 Speaker 1: in the valley this year, can you just cry out? 669 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: Come on? If you go through some lows, can you 670 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: just make the decision. If I kind of cry myself 671 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,760 Speaker 1: to slap, if my children don't want to believe in Jesus, 672 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,439 Speaker 1: if I lose it all, I'm still gonna cry out. 673 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:12,760 Speaker 1: Jesus have mercy on me. Jesus says to these ten lepers, 674 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 1: he said, go and show yourself to the priest. See 675 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: because this is why you need vision. To one, he said, 676 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: stretch out your hand. To another, he said, I already 677 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 1: healed your kid. God has something specific just for you. 678 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 1: To one young man, he said, go sell everything you got, 679 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: then come follow. For these lepers, he said, I'll tell 680 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,280 Speaker 1: you what we're gonna do for y'all. Go show yourself 681 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,359 Speaker 1: to the priest. And it says as they went they 682 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,800 Speaker 1: were cleansed. Let me just tell you something coming to 683 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 1: your next year. The blessing of God is on the 684 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:57,359 Speaker 1: other side of obedience. It's on the other side. You're 685 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: not blessed because you get a word. That's because you 686 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: obey the word Jonah. Just because you get the word 687 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: done mean you're blessed. The blessing of God it's on 688 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: the other side of them. And as they went they 689 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: were cleansed. It says one of them, one of them 690 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: came back ten percent. Can you make a decision that 691 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, I'm going to be the one. 692 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:45,399 Speaker 1: I'm going to be the one one of them came back. 693 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: Theologians believed that the one that came back he was 694 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 1: he was the one that knew he should have never 695 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 1: He's the Samaritan, the one that knew he should have 696 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 1: never gotten grace, he should have never received God's forgiveness. 697 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 1: Most believe that the nine that went out, you know, 698 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: the nine that got healed. They ran off to Applebee's 699 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:10,879 Speaker 1: and Chevys and Westfield Malls. The nine that went out, 700 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 1: They were like, we deserve this. You know how many 701 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,319 Speaker 1: Sundays I've been in church. You know how many New 702 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: Years Eve praise parties I've been to. You know, I 703 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:29,239 Speaker 1: was at the first Orange Code Revival entitlement. But the 704 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: one that said I I can't even believe that he 705 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: knows me, loves me, helps me. I know what a 706 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,200 Speaker 1: sinner I am? Says. He comes back in the language 707 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 1: in the Texas with a loud voice, the same volume 708 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: that he had in the low It's the same volume 709 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 1: he had in the hot said, what God's trying to 710 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,279 Speaker 1: say to you today is just gonna be Low's and 711 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: there's gonna be highs, and you gotta decide today, no 712 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: matter what comes my way, you'll see my hands raised. 713 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 1: No matter what I face this year, you're gonna see 714 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,279 Speaker 1: my mouth fell with praise. I don't praise God. On 715 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: the bad days, I praise him on the good days. 716 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 1: I praise Him in the springtime, in the winter time, 717 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,120 Speaker 1: in the summertime, in the fall time. Clap today. If 718 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 1: you got faith, no matter what comes my way, I'm 719 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: gonna praise Jesus. He said, he said, he said, he said, 720 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, he's praising God. Jesus goes, hold on, 721 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:36,320 Speaker 1: stop stop talking them. Ah, He's like, hey, Mark, John, 722 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 1: come on here, it's crazy. Hold on, hold on, hey man, 723 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:47,840 Speaker 1: cool Hey, so was we're busy these days? Hey? So, 724 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: wasn't there ten of y'all? Hey John, look at this, 725 00:41:54,680 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: and the one that came back was a foreigner. He says, So, 726 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: come on, get up. Your faith has made you will today. 727 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: Come on, anybody thankful today. I'm gonna be the one 728 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 1: this year. I don't care what high comes my way 729 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: or low comes my way. You're gonna find me with 730 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,320 Speaker 1: my mouth filled with praise. Oh this is Stand to 731 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: your feet, wherever you're at, whatever location, Just worship team, 732 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: come back. Psalm seven seventeen. I will give thanks to 733 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,359 Speaker 1: the Lord because of his righteousness. I will sing the 734 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,440 Speaker 1: praises of the name of the Lord Most High. What 735 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 1: about Psalm nine one and two. I will give thanks 736 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 1: to you Lord with all my heart. I will tell 737 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,000 Speaker 1: of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad, and I 738 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: will rejoice in you. I will sing the praises of 739 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: your name almost high Psalm ninety five. Oh come, let 740 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,720 Speaker 1: us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout 741 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 1: aloud to the rock of our salvation. Let us come 742 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,959 Speaker 1: before him with thanksgiving and extole him with music and song. 743 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 1: For the Lord is the great God, the great King 744 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,320 Speaker 1: above all the gods. Psalm one O three. Bless the Lord, 745 00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,879 Speaker 1: oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless 746 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,960 Speaker 1: his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, who 747 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 1: forgives all my iniquities, who heals from all diseases, who 748 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 1: crowns my life with tender mercies. Come on, licks your 749 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 1: hands right where you're at. Father, We come into this 750 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,720 Speaker 1: year more dealed with thanksgiving. We asked today. Give us vision, 751 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,359 Speaker 1: give us faith, give us the mind of God, give 752 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,240 Speaker 1: us gratitude. Come on, this sifted up, Come on rever 753 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,160 Speaker 1: forever we knows you morning a phrase. It ain't Jesus, 754 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:35,360 Speaker 1: who did you ask? Seek cool? Imagine? Accordity too is 755 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:42,880 Speaker 1: found holleylujah, eating you're more than enough. It's morning, hollelujah. 756 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:50,880 Speaker 1: Who did you ask seek cool? Imagine accordy too is fine? Worrying? 757 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,920 Speaker 1: Come on singing again more? Did you ask me for 758 00:43:54,080 --> 00:44:01,000 Speaker 1: a mansion? Honeylujo? Did you ask he cool? Man? Jim 759 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:11,800 Speaker 1: according too is hard worthy? It's morning in mony things 760 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: imagine according too is bad worrying, it's waming shine pin chin. 761 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,720 Speaker 1: You are in the we gave you phrase gim job. 762 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 1: You are in the to how we'll be why will 763 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:50,200 Speaker 1: be content? In every circumceentt job you are. Come on 764 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,960 Speaker 1: the ceil it with a clap today, Come on the 765 00:44:52,080 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: ceil it. You know it's it's almost like before the touchdown, 766 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 1: before the ball goes through the net. We're already thanking God. 767 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,320 Speaker 1: The greatest force in the history of the world is 768 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,520 Speaker 1: the love of Jesus. Cannot be stopped. He's in love 769 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:31,160 Speaker 1: with you. If you're in a pit today, he's not 770 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:38,080 Speaker 1: mad at you. He's not asking you what are you 771 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:43,799 Speaker 1: doing here? He's saying, what are you doing here? I've 772 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,200 Speaker 1: got a plan, I've got a future. Jesus. We say 773 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:57,960 Speaker 1: yes to you, We surrender, we say praise be to God. 774 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,320 Speaker 1: That leads us in all triumph and in all victory 775 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,560 Speaker 1: and God, we vow today on the first Sunday of 776 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, that in the highs and the lows, 777 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:20,120 Speaker 1: in the peaks and the pits, you find us turning 778 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:25,000 Speaker 1: to you. Jesus, you are the author, you are the finisher. 779 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:32,239 Speaker 1: Help our unbelief today. Give us mustard seed sized faith, 780 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:41,759 Speaker 1: a pray, vision, faith, the mind of God, and a 781 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:48,839 Speaker 1: heart filled with gratitude. Don't let us run, don't let 782 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: us hide this year. Don't let us be filled with 783 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:58,800 Speaker 1: imposter syndrome, afraid of what people think. I pray that 784 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:03,480 Speaker 1: you deliver people from faux poe, fear of other people's opinions. 785 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,759 Speaker 1: We live for an audience of one, and we say 786 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,000 Speaker 1: today it doesn't matter what the others are doing. That 787 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,440 Speaker 1: if we're the only one that comes back, if we're 788 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,360 Speaker 1: the only one that's loud and praise and worship, we 789 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:24,760 Speaker 1: say we'll be that one today. Thank you Jesus, Praise 790 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,719 Speaker 1: you Jesus. Come on, let's clap and thank God one 791 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:35,960 Speaker 1: more time. Amen, thank you for joining us. Special thanks 792 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,560 Speaker 1: to those of you who give generously to this ministry. 793 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,840 Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You 794 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,239 Speaker 1: can click the link in the description to give now 795 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 796 00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,839 Speaker 1: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 797 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,359 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 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