WEBVTT - What To Do In A Valley (Jabin Chavez) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.480 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:18.000 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Man, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.560 it's been fun worshiping today so far. Are we ready 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.280 for the Word of God though? Amen? We're so blessed. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.400 We've got Pastor Jabin Chavez with us this weekend from 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.000 Citylight Church in Las Vegas. He and his wife Shannon 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.839 planted this church just a couple of years ago, and 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.640 since then they've just seen God do unbelievable, miraculous things. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.400 People come in and know the Lord just by the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.640 hundreds and just see seeing the evidence of God's faithfulness. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.760 He's been a friend of Pastor Stevens in our ministry 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.720 for several years now, and I believe God gave him 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.520 a word specifically for our church, for me and you 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.960 this week, and so help me. Welcome Pastor Javin Chaven 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:08.119 right now. Everybody, come on, keep those hands together, Let's 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:16.199 give God some praise. Wow. Greetings from Las Vegas. Anyone 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.640 been to Vegas. Can I see your hands? Wow, a 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.480 couple more hands than I was expecting. Okay, Well, if 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.320 you're ever in Vegas, come say hi to us at 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.679 City Light Church. And if you if you had a 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.080 really good night on Saturday night, bring a little offering 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.720 with you, Amen, Praise the Lord. If you had a 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.000 really bad night, we'll lay hands on you and cast 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.920 the devil out of you and send you back home 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:52.760 holy and healthy and delivered. But we were very grateful 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.160 to be here. And my wife sends her love as 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.160 she's holding it down for us today back home, and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.120 I want to go straight to God. This is Ezekiel 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.760 thirty seven. I'm going to read out of the message translation, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.559 so you may just want to fall along on the screen. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.000 I'm gonna read about ten verses to you, and then 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.720 we're just gonna I'm all preach quick, and we're gonna 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.800 sing that song again. Amen. And then I'm gonna eat 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.760 fried chicken because I'm in the South, and that's a 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.320 true story that's really gonna happen. Ezekiel thirty seven. Verse one, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.880 God grabbed me, and God's spirit he took me up 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.720 and he sat me down in the middle of an 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.200 open plain covered in bones. He led me around and 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.040 among them a lot of bones. There were bones all 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.720 over the plain, dry bones, bleached by the sun. And 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.880 he said to me, son of Man, can these bones live? 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.920 I said, Master, God, only you know that, And he said, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.640 prophesy over the bones. Speak to the bones, dry bones, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.880 listen to the message of God. God, the Master told 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.800 the dry bones, watch this. I'm bringing the breath of 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.280 life to you. You'll come to life. I'll attach sin 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.840 yous to you. I'll put meat on your bones. I'll 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.080 come you a skin. I'll breathe life into you. You'll 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.200 come alive, and you'll realize that I'm God. So I prophesied, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.440 just as I'd been commanded. And as I prophesied, there 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.280 was a sound, oh a wrestling. The bones moved together 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.800 and boned a bone. I kept watching sinews form and 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.320 then muscles on the bones, and then skin stretched over them. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.000 But they had no breath in them. So he said, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.280 prophesied to the breath. Prophesy, son of Man, tell the breath, God, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.400 the Master says, come from the four winds, come breath. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.320 Breathe on these slang bodies. Breathe life. So I prophesied, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.560 as he commanded me, and the breath entered them. They 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.920 came alive, and they stood up on their feet a 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.760 huge army. I want to preach this for a couple 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.960 of moments this morning, from the subject what to do 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.080 in a valley? What to do in a valley? Father, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.760 thank you for your word. Thank you for this moment. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.200 And I do thank you for your word. It is living, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:03.880 it's active, supernatural, it holds the power of life and death. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.960 And I thank you Lord that one word from God 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:12.080 can change our entire life. So we're praying today that 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.680 you would speak to us. We're listening, we're expecting. I'm 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.560 praying for a tailor made word today, the right word 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.479 for every person in every season in the room. Go 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.360 beyond my voice, be the wheel within the wheel. I 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.800 say what you need to say to every one of us, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.240 so that we could all leave church today saying I 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.760 heard from God and I'll never be the same. This 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.360 is our prayer in Jesus' name. And everyone said Amen. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:41.840 And if you are believing God for a word, let's 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.520 clap our hands some more time, and let's let the 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:50.400 Lord know we're ready. I'm ready. What to do in 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.400 a Valley? I guess I need to start by telling 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.800 you I wish I could preach how to have a 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:05.520 valley free life. Yo, that would be bomb. Hey, here's 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.200 seven steps, do these things. No more valleys, wouldn't that 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.120 be great? No more valleys? What a great book. I'm 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.160 all write a book. No more valleys. Would't that be great? 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.520 Going through a valley? Hey, may you've seen have more faith? 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.880 You see him, Believe God. Don't have to go through that. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.000 But I've come to learn that he is the God 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.640 of the mountain, but he is the God of the valley. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.480 I've learned that valleys are necessary, and I've learned that 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.520 God does a great work in me that he can 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.320 only do in the valley. I want to remind someone 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.280 today that there is no fruit on the mountaintop. There 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.400 is only fruit in the valley. I've learned that God 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.440 wants to do something great through me, so he must 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.800 first do something very deep in me, and he can 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.560 only do that in the valley. The valley is the 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.560 stretching place. The valley is the place that, when you're 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.600 in it, you think it's warfare. If you're a costal 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.160 like me, you plead the blood you speak in tongues, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.120 you cast out devils, you annoint with oil, You get 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:12.840 your intercessors to lay hands on you. You start sending offering. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.520 The TV preachers come on somebody, because you think I'm 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.200 under attack, only to find out on the other side 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.800 of it, it was not a demonic spirit, but the 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.760 Holy Spirit that led you into the wilderness, led you 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.000 into the desert, led you into the valley to do 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:32.039 something in you that could not happen outside of the valley. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.240 So I've learned to love the valley. The valley is 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.800 the gem of the Holy Spirit. Now I've never been 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:44.960 to a gym, but I heard Chunks told me. Pastor 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.080 Steven told me the gym's good for me. I heard 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.160 it's good for me. I'm gonna try it out one day. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.560 I'm thirty six. It ain't looking too good, but it's 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.000 that place that it hurts when you're in it, but 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.080 it's actually good for you, and when you come out 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.799 of it, you go, thank you Jesus for the valley. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.880 I want to remind someone you're not gonna die in 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.000 the valley, because though you go through the Valley of 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.120 the Shadow of Death, you don't have to fear any 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.520 evil because his rod and his staff, they do come 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.920 for you. Goodness and mercy are following you. You're coming 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.920 out of the valley, and you're gonna come out with 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.320 everything God has for you in the valley. But I 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.360 have learned that there's some things you have to do 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.960 when you're in it so that it actually does make 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.040 you better and bigger and stronger and doesn't destroy you. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.720 And I think there's some things from the text today 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.120 that we can find that will help you, and they've 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.000 helped me, and I believe that God's really going to 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.400 speak to you today. So let me just give you 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.480 a few things today. If you're taking notes, write these down. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:48.040 If you're not taking notes, write these down. Ah, I'm 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.960 embarrassed that I did that, but I'm a dad and 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.560 a senior pastor, so that was like a bad senior 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:58.880 pastor dad joke. But I'm okay with it, like I'm 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:06.400 I'm doing me okay. Number one. Number one, never forget this. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.880 God is with you in the valley. God is with 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:15.400 you in the valley. Ezekiel starts the text by saying, God, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.880 grab me in the valley. Now. I do appreciate and 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.360 love the poetic king James that says that the hand 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.720 of the Lord was upon me. But I kind of 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.480 like that gritty rated our version, the message that said 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.560 God grabbed me. And I think if you've served God 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.480 long enough, you know there are just times where God 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.160 has to grab you. Yeah. Yeah, I preaching anybody. There's 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.760 times where you let go of God. But thank you Jesus, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.320 he didn't let go of me. There's times I've run 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.520 from God, but He's run after me. There's times I've 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.200 tried to hide from God, but he is awesome at 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.559 hide and seek. He just has a way of finding me. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.079 I want to tell someone today, you feel like you're 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.520 in a valley. You feel like you're all alone. You 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.120 feel like there are bones everywhere, you feel like they're 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.400 dry bones bleached by the sun. But I want to 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.320 remind you God's with you. The hand of the Lord 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.520 is upon you, and he is not letting go. And 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.240 God is doing something in you in the valley. Don't 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.760 let the valley lie to you and tell you you're alone. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.120 Don't let circumstances intimidate you and tell you is over. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.439 I will take a valley with Jesus over a mountaintop 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.360 without him, because as long as I have Jesus, I 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.320 have possibilities, I have a future, I have a promise. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:35.040 Give me Jesus in any situation, I'll take that. God's 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.400 with you in the valley. And you may not feel it. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.120 You may not be able to clap for that yet. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.480 You may you may be saying Amen, but in your 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.360 heart you're going I don't feel it. That's okay. We 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.600 don't live by feelings. And when I cannot trace his hand, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.760 I can trust his heart. God's doing something in me 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.679 right now. I don't see it all yet, but I 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.680 do know I will see the goodness of the Lord 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.480 in the land of the Living. I do know God 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.199 is doing something great right now, and I can't really 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.319 sense it. I can't really see it. I can't really 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.720 feel it. Quite frankly, it took every ounce of faith 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.920 just to get here this morning. But I do believe 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.000 that God is still doing a work in my life. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.040 And maybe you feel today like Jamn, I just feel 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.720 like all of hell is against me. I just feel 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.280 like I am coming up literally against the gates of Hell. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.640 That's actually good because Jesus said the gates of Hell 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.080 won't prevail against the Church, and you is the church. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.280 And that means that if you're coming up against hell, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.240 that is the devil's last defense to try to stop 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.640 you before you inherit everything God has for you. So 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.960 you might as well just clap your hands and shout 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.920 and thank God in advance that you are about to 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.679 cross over into something good. Come on, God has good 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.480 days for you. God has good things for you. And 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.920 while he's doing a good work in me, I will 0:10:54.960 --> 0:11:00.920 not quit. God's with you in the valley. Number two, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.920 number two, Look, look, look, look for the possibility. Look 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.640 for the possibility. Hey, Ezekiel, Okay, I get it, I 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.200 get it. I get it. Bones everywhere, yeah, verse one, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.079 verse two, bones everywhere, try bones, spleach by the sun. Bones, bones, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.319 bones but the bone, bone bone, but bones. I s 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.800 brought my nineties children right there. Bones. I get it. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:33.120 But Ezekiel, can can they live? I'm remembering Pastor's message 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.960 from two weeks ago. I caught a thought because because 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.000 eight jokers walked into that promised lane and said, there's 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:45.480 giants and the land's going to eat us up. And 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.720 two other guys, Caleb and Joshua, said, we're well able. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:56.439 Same circumstance, same enemy, same bones, same valley, same situation, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.560 same promise. Eight guys couldn't believe it. Two guys could 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.880 believe it. I'm not making light of your situation. I'm 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.640 just telling you God is greater than your situation. I'm 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.920 not making light of your giants. I'm just telling you 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.080 God's bigger than your giants. I'm not making light of 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.240 your valley and the bones that are surrounding you. I'm 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.600 just telling you. I'm begging you today to look for 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.199 the possibility. I'm begging you today to forget about all 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.760 the stuff that's going wrong, and for one moment, gaze 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.400 your eyes on Jesus. Look at him, Focus on him, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.160 look at this from his perspective. As Ekiel said, I 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.240 was standing in a valley, but then God sat me 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.920 down and he said, look at it from my perspective. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.040 There's something about seeing it from where God sees it. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.840 There's something about God's perspective. There's something about saying, I'm 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.920 not in denial of my situation, but I choose to 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.440 see this through the lens of faith and not the 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.880 lens of doubt. I refuse to just keep talking about it, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.360 and I'm going to see this from God's possibility, Look 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.640 for the possibility. And y'all we all have this, this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.640 natural bent towards doubt, don't we all right? No one 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.439 said amen in Valentine. But I know y'all shout me 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.640 down on the other campuses. I know it. Driving on 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.680 the road, tire blows out, like, man, the devil's after 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.720 my tires. I just know. No, you're cheap. You were 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.559 supposed to change your tires six months ago, and you 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:27.560 then hold it out. Air conditioner breaks in your house, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.800 I'll be in the devil's after our ac No. No, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.760 I don't think so. I think you're good. I think 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.720 life is life. It's amazing. When it's rainy outside, you're like, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 oh my gosh, ma arthritis. I just know it's gonna be. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.800 But when it's sunny outside, you're like, oh man, we're 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.040 in a trout. God's judging America. You know, it's always something. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:55.560 It's like, don't don't choose to see everything through through 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.240 a negative lens. Choose to see the possibility. Today used 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.160 to say, man, I'm going through a lot, But at 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.680 least I made it to church. At least I got 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.680 to praise God with some brothers and sisters at least, 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.160 I'm still hearing the word of the Lord. I think 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.240 God still has a future for me. I refuse to 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.480 die in my doubt. I'm gonna believe God. Look look 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.800 for the possibility. To Ezekiel it was hopeless, But to God, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:30.200 the situation was perfect for a miracle. Look for the possibility, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.400 and Niomiah thirteen to two. Niemiah said, our God can 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.960 turn a curse into a blessing. Can I just tell 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.320 you God can turn it around? Can I tell you 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.560 life can get better? But while you're waiting on life 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.520 to get better, you can get better. Yeah. And while 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.680 you're waiting on things to turn around in your life, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.000 things can turn around in your heart. And you don't 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:03.760 have to be a victim to circumstance. Look for the possibility. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.760 Number three. I have to admit this is my favorite point. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.360 Take a step into the unknown. Touch your neighbor, Tell 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.200 him take a step, take a step. That neighbor was 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:24.240 so stuck up. Touch somebody else, tell him take a step, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 take a step, take a step, take a step, take 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.400 a step. They were rude to you. Did you feel 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.080 that they were rude? They're still a little hungover from 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:38.080 last night, They're like, what take a step, Hey, Ezekiel, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:49.240 can these bones live? Lord? Uh? You know that was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:54.080 a really kind and sweet and really Southern way of saying, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:16:03.120 I don't know your God? Why you asking men? God 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.160 is never asking us questions because he doesn't know the answer. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:15.160 He knows he's God. He's trying to give us a revelation. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.240 He's trying to level up our faith. He's trying to 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.440 build us up. And he's not asking a question because 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.800 he doesn't know the answer. He's asking us a question 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.760 because he wants to reveal something to us. Isel can 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:34.600 these bones live? And his eqal says Lord you know, yeah, Yeah, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:41.800 God will take a yes with a question mark. Yeah. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.920 And the higher picture of voices, the less faith you have. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:52.440 Can these bones live? Y'all? Never squeaked? Thank God for 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.760 this loud music, huh, because sometimes all you can get 0:16:54.800 --> 0:17:05.919 out is a God's okay with a squeak, God's okay. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.760 I think he appreciates the yes with a exclamation mark. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.840 I think those come. I think they're awesome, but I 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.480 think a lot of life is in the yeah. I 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.040 love that Ezekiel did not say, of course they can live. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.040 I know who my God is and I'm persuaded by 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:27.240 the promises of God. Hallelujah. I'm honestly, I'm glad he 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.800 didn't do that, because if you would have done that, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.359 I'd have just keet to thirty eight and been like, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.280 I don't get you, Ezekiel, because a lot of life 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:44.200 is in the oh. Lord. Maybe I think and I 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.840 think that depending upon where you're at in your season, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.920 there's something that's got to ask you, and it's like, yes, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.320 can I bless your business? Yes, twenty twenty God be good. Yes, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.919 I already got twenty twenty visits. Yah. Yes, can I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:07.119 help your marriage? Lord? Do you know the woman you 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.879 gave me in the garden? Do you know her husbands 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.400 looks straight ahead? Don't you dare touch your wife right now? 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:20.520 In Jesus trying to save your marriage. Somebody stood in 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.520 the nine thirty. I said, sirs, please sit down, Security, security, okay, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.720 trying to protect you. It's gone security on his wife, amen, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:35.760 because he wasn't laughing. I think you actually have to 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.200 get comfortable giving God a yes with a question mark. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.680 I want to say it like this, You have to 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.600 get comfortable giving God. You're not enough. Yeah, you have 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:52.440 to get okay with giving God less than you want 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.000 to give him, but giving him all you got. Because 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.320 I think a lot of you are waiting to do 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.159 something for God when you have great faith. But you 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.919 don't get great faith till you give God small faith. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.720 You don't have all some faith until you give God 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.280 broken faith, until you give God whatever faith you do have. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.080 And I know you want to feed five thousand with 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.360 five thousand pieces of bread and fish, but sometimes all 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.359 you got is a couple of loads and a couple 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.439 of fish. And you actually have to learn how to 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.120 give God you're not enough. You have to learn how 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.280 to give him whatever you do have. Because God can 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.600 use your not enough. He can bless it, he can 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.320 break it, he can multiply it, and he can turn 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.840 him into more than enough. And a lot of y'all 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.359 are waiting on more than enough. But God says, I 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.800 don't just start with more than enough, I start with 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.120 not enough. Oh can I get some faith in here? 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.760 And a lot of you are not gonna do anything 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:49.040 for God until you get comfortable giving him your not enough. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.679 But God can do a lot with a little. And 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.440 God forbid, by the way, by the way, God forbid 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.560 you ever feel like you're enough. Like if you feel 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.480 like you're ready, your pride is too high and your 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:13.119 vision is too small. I always want to be shaken 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.040 in my boots. I always want to be a lot like. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:22.840 I woke up this morning scarred. Y'all scared. Don't let 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.640 this smile fool you. I'm crying on the inside. Amen, pastors, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.239 I can you preach? I'm like I used to know 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.960 how to preach. I think I forgot. I don't know 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.639 I'm already. I don't think I'm the guy for you. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:43.280 I like that. I like I like feeling a little unqualified. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:44.879 Oh that's a good book title. I'm gonna write me 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.480 a book called Unqualified. Watch it. I like that because 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.399 it means I have to rely on Jesus. I have 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.480 to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit. I 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.199 need grace in my weakness. And a lot of you 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.600 are waiting to be ready before you do something. But 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.240 you actually have to learn how to take a step 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:11.200 on a Lord. You know. Faith is risky. Faith is gutsy. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:17.399 Faith is grown people talk. Faith requires a backbone, not 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:23.080 a wishbone. Faith. Faith puts you in scary situations. By 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.800 the way, By the way, you're in a faith church. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.479 I don't know if you know that your pastor's gift 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.919 is he has the gift of faith, the biblical gift 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.200 of faith. It's in the Bible. He has it. And 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.320 so anytime you get around pastor, you want to believe more. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.120 But never forget this. Your flesh, your earth suit, your 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:48.120 carnal mind, your dirt suit. It hates faith. That's why 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.760 it wants comfort clothes and a comfortable chair and a 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.640 comfortable band, comfort food, because we want our flesh wants comfort, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.840 but our spirit is begging for adventure. Our flesh wants 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.520 to stay in the boat, but our spirit saying, call 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.840 me out on the water. And you actually have to 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:09.760 learn how to give your spirit first place, because your 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.720 flesh will always go to the comfort zone and God 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:17.159 can't do anything great in the comfort zone. I've heard 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.920 it said by preachers that faith and fear cannot coexist, 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:26.120 and I thought, I think they're married. I think they're 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:31.399 sleeping in the same bed. The very fact that I 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.720 need faith is because I'm afraid. The very fact that 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.119 I'm believing God is because this is too big for me. 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.160 The very the very fact that I'm I'm I'm believing 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.440 for a miracle is because I need a miracle. The 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.840 very fact that I that I that I'm stepping out 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.760 in faith is because I have I have fear in 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.359 my life. A lot of you have mistaken faith in facts. 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:59.400 Faith is not always factual, but it's always truth, huh. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.840 And you have to learn how to break past the 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.160 circumstance and the facts and break into the faith zone 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.040 where God is and where your destiny is. Am I 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.479 helping anybody right now? Come on, say may clap your 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:14.479 hands one time. I'm gonna keep preaching, but you have 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:19.360 to learn how to take a step into the unknown. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:25.120 Did God call you to start that business? I think 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:29.480 he did in January, but now it's October. Jaman to 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.400 God call you to plant that church in Vegas? Well, 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:38.560 some Sundays for sure, Other Sunday nights I will kind 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:45.280 of want to sell cars. God called you to move 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.720 to Charlotte? I thought so. I think I was a 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:54.480 lot more confident a few months ago. Yah, you actually 0:23:54.480 --> 0:24:00.000 have to get okay there. Faith is a total assurance 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.440 and who God is. But but life is changing, y'all, 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:06.640 and you have to get okay with that. I've learned 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.760 that faith is like a pit in my stomach. Yeah, yeah, 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:12.280 you know, you know, the pit in your stomach, the 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:17.399 thing that you call the lack of peace. Yeah, you know, 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:19.600 I just don't. And you know you're charismatic if you 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.680 touch your stomach. You know. I just didn't have a 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.520 piece about us praying about it. I know you guys 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.359 need people to serve. But like right now, like the 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:43.200 Lord has me resting. It's funny because it's true and 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:48.200 and and we're running from the pit in our stomach. 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:53.760 But I actually think is where faith really is. Peace, 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:55.600 by the way, is not a feeling in your stomach. 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.159