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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in

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Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go to the scriptures now, First Kings, chapter nineteen,

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Speaker 2: verse two through five contains my assignment. Hey, let's do

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Speaker 2: this in the Message translation of the Bible.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very vivid.

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Speaker 2: How Eugene Peterson translated this passage. How many are excited

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Speaker 2: that there is a cloud heavy with blessing hanging over

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Speaker 2: your life. We rejoice today for the reign of God's

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Speaker 2: presence in our life and the promise of things to come.

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Speaker 2: And so we're standing on the foundation of his faithfulness,

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Speaker 2: and we are declaring that He is with us in

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Speaker 2: every season of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 2: And so as we declare that we want to go

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Speaker 2: right here to First Kings nineteen, I am switching translations

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Speaker 2: on my Youth version Bible app Thank you Pastor Craig

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Speaker 2: Grosschell and Bobby Gruenwald and Life Church for creating this

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Speaker 2: wonderful application where I can stall while I tell it

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Speaker 2: I will update later and read as follows.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to verse three one Kings nineteen eight. No,

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Speaker 1: it didn't work. Hang on a second. Don't need to

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Speaker 1: fix this app, Pastor Craig. Now the app is fine.

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Speaker 1: It's a user error. Okay, here we go. You're ready,

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Speaker 1: say I'm ready. Ask your neighbor.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: Tell him?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready?

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Speaker 1: Now compliment them on something they're wearing. Your neighbor? All right?

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Speaker 1: Where to God? Where to God? Coming up on the screen.

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Speaker 2: When Elijah saw how things were, he ran for dear life.

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Speaker 1: To Beersheba, far south of Judah. Huh, a lot must

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Speaker 1: be talking about Jonah.

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Speaker 2: I know Elijah's not going to run, especially with revival

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Speaker 2: breaking out in the nation, But no, he did.

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Speaker 1: He did.

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Speaker 2: Strong faith doesn't preclude weak moments. Weak moments don't preclude

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Speaker 2: strong faith. Sometimes the two have to walk side by side,

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Speaker 2: and he is running Forrest Gump has nothing on this profit.

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Speaker 1: Running. Like we talked about last week, he's running from

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Speaker 1: the rain. Now.

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Speaker 2: His faith released the rain, and just as the nation

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Speaker 2: is coming out of a drought, he's entering into one.

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Speaker 1: It's not the kind you can see.

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Speaker 2: It's not that he's having to sell stuff on eBay

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Speaker 1: It's not that kind of drought anymore.

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Speaker 2: It is that inner wilderness that many of us live in,

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Speaker 2: and nobody can see it. And since they can see it,

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Speaker 2: they sometimes can't encourage us in it, because we're dealing

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Speaker 2: with it all alone. And Elijah is not just going

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Speaker 2: him because he just destroyed all of her prophets and

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Speaker 2: the gods that she swears by on a mountain called Karmel.

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Speaker 1: But the one who had the faith to.

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Speaker 2: Climb to Mount Carmel is now starting to cave. His

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Speaker 2: is starting to implode. And it says that not only

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Speaker 2: in Beersheba, and then he went on into the desert

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Speaker 2: another day's journey. He came to a lone broombush and

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Speaker 2: collapsed in its shade, wanting in the worst way, to

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Speaker 2: be done with it all, to just die. For some reason,

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Speaker 2: this seemed like an appropriate Mother's Day scripture to me,

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Speaker 2: you have to forgive me.

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Speaker 1: I have a bleak view of parenthood. But listen what

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Speaker 2: Doesn't this sound like something a mom would say at

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Speaker 2: some point? This? God, Oh, y'all are going to be

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Speaker 2: like that today, Like you're always baking brownies, your kids

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Speaker 2: because sometimes you hit a place, come on a place

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Speaker 1: It's like we have pushed the woman too far. Amen.

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Speaker 2: So it's actually it's actually a very serious scripture. I'm

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Speaker 1: But he has come to this place called enough enough.

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Speaker 1: I've had enough. Listen how bad it is take my life.

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Speaker 2: Exhausted, he fell asleep under the lone broom bush, and

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Speaker 2: do that today, okay, and said, get up and eat.

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Speaker 2: I want to minister to you for a few moments

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Speaker 2: on this very special Mother's Day at Elevation Church.

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Speaker 1: And my subject is the drop zone. The drop zone.

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Speaker 2: Father, bless your word, open hearts to hear it in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 2: touch somebody and say God's trying to hook you up,

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Speaker 2: and then take a seat please. Where I first heard

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Speaker 2: this term drop zone was from my brother serves in

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Speaker 2: the United States Air Force.

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Speaker 1: Oh you can clap for that.

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Speaker 2: It takes a lot of pressure off of me because

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Speaker 2: I want my mom to be proud of her children,

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Speaker 2: and she only has two, and so if I screw

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Speaker 2: it up, she can always say, but I have a

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Speaker 2: son in the Air Force and so, you know, so

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Speaker 2: that's kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: I never really understood what he did.

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Speaker 2: He's been in the Air Force for like fifteen years

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Speaker 2: an airplane called the one. Yeah, and he drops stuff

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Speaker 2: and he was telling me about it one day.

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Speaker 1: It's not that I don't care about what he does.

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Speaker 2: It's just that sometimes I don't understand what he's trying

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Speaker 2: to tell me because he's bad at communication. And he

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Speaker 2: was telling me one thing that they did, which again

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Speaker 2: it's kind of I don't know. It makes me feel

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Speaker 2: like maybe what I do isn't that important? Because he

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Speaker 1: They flew out and went to like the.

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Speaker 2: Remotest part of the Earth or something like that, the

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Speaker 2: Micronesian Islands.

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Speaker 1: Did I say that correctly? Is that what it's called?

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Speaker 2: Let's pretend like it is altogether, okay, since none of

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Speaker 2: us know, we'll be collectively ignorant. And he said they

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Speaker 1: And I was like, man, that's cool, you did that.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, he's explained it to me.

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Speaker 2: He said they had to get down really low, like

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Speaker 2: I think he said three hundred feet, which I didn't

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Speaker 2: And he said they have to first find it, and

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Speaker 1: Now, when he said drop zone.

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Speaker 2: My mind went to preaching, because again, I'd never done

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Speaker 2: He said that they have dropped refrigerators with concrete for

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Speaker 2: So he's telling me about all these air drops and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, yeah, well, well I drop wisdom.

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Speaker 1: So what you drop boats? I drop truth bombs. Amen.

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Speaker 3: I'm proud of me, momb mo.

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Speaker 1: And he's telling me all these things. So I'm thinking,

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Speaker 2: Drop zone that The term just got my attention, and

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about that in a preacherly way. I

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Speaker 2: was thinking about that as it relates to God's provision.

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Speaker 2: And you know, isn't it cool how sometimes God will

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about it, because Yeah, for me, I

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Speaker 1: And it is amazing to me how many.

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Speaker 2: Times in my life, even when I have felt so

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Speaker 2: You stay close to Him through daily de voe and prayer, meditation, fasting,

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Speaker 2: and living a righteous life. But sometimes, like me and Elijah,

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Speaker 2: kind of grateful today, because if you will be honest,

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Speaker 2: you will admit that there were times that God provided

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Speaker 2: assume that if Elijah is supposed to be prophesying in

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Speaker 2: I always heard where God guides, he provides, and that

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Speaker 2: He was guided by God to Ahab, where he declared

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Speaker 2: or you could say guided him to the Carrith Bravine.

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Speaker 2: Look this up in your Bible. You're gonna take any

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day all right, this is one king seventeen. God said,

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Speaker 2: I have some birds that I have directed to drop

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Speaker 2: me to provide through, but I will provide. That's my name, Jehovah.

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Speaker 2: Jiro looked up and see it. Here comes the truth,

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Speaker 2: not somebody's. I got the draw, and no matter what

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Speaker 1: I got to draw.

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Speaker 2: So then when the birds got done dropping off food

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Speaker 2: about to drop dead of hunger, and because there had

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Speaker 2: Elijah called for a drought, and yet God sent the

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Speaker 2: know that because she was about to drop.

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Speaker 1: And so you got this exchange happening.

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Speaker 2: Like Carlinz one time in New York City. He just

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Speaker 1: And I said, what was that all about? Man?

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Speaker 2: Was that legal what you just did? He said, yes,

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Speaker 2: our drop spot. I grew up in Monk's corner. We

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Speaker 2: didn't have drop spots in Monk's corner. But he told

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Speaker 2: See, it's not the dysfunction, because if I hadn't raised

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Speaker 2: I don't want this responsibility anymore. Oh, the responsibility that

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Speaker 2: this anymore. I'm tired of being unique. I'm tired of

444
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: being different. I'm tired of fighting against the culture and

445
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: trying to raise my kids in a godly way when

446
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 2: all it does is make them hate me.

447
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm sick of this.

448
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: Oh I'm going to preach to the three real people,

449
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 2: not the little angelic Christians who came in here like

450
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: Seraphim floating above the trouble. I'm talking about the people

451
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: that know that the blessing of God gets heavy sometimes.

452
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: Hey hey, hey, the parents that never complain about being

453
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 2: parents aren't.

454
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:25,239
Speaker 1: Doing it right. They gave up.

455
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: It's only the one who gave it all that they

456
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: had that can really know how much it costs. So

457
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 2: I'm just going to break this down because I've never

458
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: been a mother, so I can't talk about it like

459
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 2: I want to talk about it. But I have been

460
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: a preacher, and it is a privilege to preach God's word.

461
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 2: Don't clap for that, you don't need to. It's a privilege. Oh,

462
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 2: it's a privilege. It's a great privilege. And I'm sure

463
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: Elijah felt that way too. You know, I can't find

464
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 2: in the whole Scripture of Elijah, because I've been studying

465
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 2: him now for years, probably Bible character I've preached the

466
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: most sermons, I can't find one time that God gets

467
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: mad at him, and here he is writing a suicide

468
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 2: note when he should be celebrating.

469
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: And what does God do? Because you have this idea.

470
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 2: That if you really told God and got honest with

471
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 2: God about how things were, that he would strike you down.

472
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 2: According to this story, when prophets run from God and

473
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 2: have the honesty to open up and say, here's where

474
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: I am and here's how I feel, he puts Crispy

475
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 2: Kream donuts beside their head. Can I fix the scripture

476
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 2: like I want to fix it for others day?

477
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: What do you want?

478
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 2: Cream filled original glaze?

479
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: Now I want you to notice this.

480
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 2: Up until this point, God has provided for Elijah everywhere

481
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: that God has sent Elijah. But now Elijah's going somewhere

482
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 2: that God didn't send him.

483
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 3: And he still provides. Can we take twenty.

484
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: Three seconds and praise God for the provision we did

485
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: not earn, for the mercy we did not deserve. Yeah,

486
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 2: that kind of grace, that kind.

487
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: Of God.

488
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 2: Micronesian Island mercy. I said it wrong, didn't I?

489
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't care. God knows what I'm trying to say,

490
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: and so do you.

491
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say that he collapsed and they're at

492
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: the place of his fainting and the shade of the

493
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 2: broom tree, which he never should have seen away from

494
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: his post.

495
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: There he wakes and finds bread beside.

496
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: Him, so that he can continue the journey. Being a

497
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: preacher as a privilege. But I'd be lying to say

498
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: that there are not times. Oh man, how much should

499
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 2: I tell him? Lord? I tell them too much. They

500
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: won't respect me anymore. I don't tell them enough. They

501
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: won't relate with me. I don't know what to if

502
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: I preach too hard, they think I don't love them,

503
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 2: but I don't preach hard enough. They won't have any

504
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: change in their life because it all just be sugarcoated nonsense.

505
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: The difference between me and you is you don't know

506
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 2: what I meant to say when I get up here. Wow,

507
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: you don't have the blueprint. So people will say that

508
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: was a great sermon. And meanwhile, I'm I'm I'm.

509
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: Telling God to take my life. I mean, I don't

510
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: want to die, but I don't want to preach the

511
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:58,239
Speaker 1: eleven thirty either. Yeah, somewhere between those two. Because now,

512
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: because I.

513
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: Don't love it, please don't hear me. Oh so iron

514
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: to be a fastor so hard as a sorry where

515
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: you're a phrase where you fais.

516
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I don't appreciate it.

517
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: That's what I used to think. It used to make

518
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: me feel bad because I would feel like the fact

519
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 2: that that I didn't want to do it anymore was

520
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: because I didn't appreciate the opportunity to do it. Okay,

521
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna break down this.

522
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: Wall for a minute.

523
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: Where y'all are looking at me like I'm the only one.

524
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: How many parents have ever had a fantasy of just leaving,

525
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: just just I mean, just out, Just fix your own

526
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: easy mac, pop your own pop tars, how about it?

527
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 3: No, no no map.

528
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 2: See, y'all ain't got no kids. That's why you're not

529
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 2: standing up. You had never been a preacher. That's why

530
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: you can't relate. That's why I make Holly. I usually

531
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: make a preat on Mother's Day. She said, if you

532
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: do that to me this year, I'm gonna make you

533
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 2: a stay home with the kids for a win.

534
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: I said, O, Preaze, it.

535
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: Costs you to carry something, It costs you to wear

536
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: a mantle, It costs you to stay in Raso's kids.

537
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 3: It costs you to stay.

538
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: In the rain.

539
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: But what happens to you over time. It's not that

540
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: you're not grateful, and it's not that you're rebellious. That's

541
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: not why you run. That's not why you run. The

542
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 2: reason you say I've had enough is because you don't

543
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: feel like you are.

544
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: No, that's why he ran. I don't know what else

545
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: to do.

546
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,479
Speaker 2: I called for the drought, I released the rain, and

547
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: nothing's changed.

548
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm done.

549
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: When he said I'm done, he wasn't telling God, I

550
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: don't want to do it anymore.

551
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: He was saying, I don't know what else to do.

552
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: Let me draw.

553
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: He's done.

554
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 2: I can't carry this anymore. I can't do it. So

555
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily gonna leave my house. I'm not necessarily

556
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: gonna leave my marriage physically, but emotionally, I'm gonna withdraw

557
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 2: fifteen percent of the time.

558
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: And you'll never even know. I was taking my heart out.

559
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: Of him one day at a time.

560
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: He went into.

561
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: The wilderness running from the disappointment.

562
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: He wasn't running from Jezebel bro He had to drop

563
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: on Jezebel.

564
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: And it's interesting to me that the most dangerous place

565
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: that he could have gone was away from the one.

566
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: Who was threatening him.

567
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: He would have been safer to walk right up in

568
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: Ahab's palace and say, bring your wife out here.

569
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: I want to tell her something. He would have been.

570
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: Safer to drop a disc track on Jezebel and tell

571
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 2: her what you want. Some to hashtag hey Jezebel. I

572
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: thought about writing a letter to Jezebel. Hey Jezebel, you can.

573
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: Go to.

574
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 2: Write down the word opposition because certain battles you expect

575
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: to have to fight. I went on Twitter one time

576
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: that enough should produce tears. I went on Twitter one time.

577
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 2: Now somebody said something. It was crazy. Now, please, I

578
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 2: don't mean this to be a depressing sermon. We were

579
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: just talking today, all right. They said they hoped that

580
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: I had pancreatic cancer and died a slow, painful death.

581
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: So I clicked on the profile. I was like, what

582
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: kind of atheist is this? Their handle had a Scripture

583
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 2: verse in it. What was weird about that is I

584
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 2: expected to have to fight people who.

585
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: Didn't know God. What I didn't mix?

586
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: Why aren't church people some of the meanest people around.

587
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: I expect to fight you if you're jer see, it's

588
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 2: a different color. That's how the game goes, but you

589
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: were supposed to be blocking for me.

590
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 3: Elijah wasn't scared of jess about.

591
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 2: Let me tell you what broke his heart? Can I

592
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 2: show you this? Go to verse ten. I think it's

593
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: nineteen first Kings, nineteen ten. When God asked him a question.

594
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 2: It's a very strategic question. He said, what are you

595
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: doing here? Elijah? By this time, Elijah has long passed

596
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 2: through Beersheba where he left his servant. Now the enemy's

597
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: got him right where he wants him, in isolation, because

598
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: the first thing that the devil will do when he

599
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 2: wants to drop you is make sure he catches you alone.

600
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: The attack will not come here in the church.

601
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: He's too stupid to show up and fight you here.

602
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 2: It will be when you leave here. It'll be about

603
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: three twenty six, when you go into a good carbohydrate comma.

604
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,959
Speaker 2: That's when the thoughts come. That's when the fears come.

605
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: It's gonna come tonight, when you got nobody to talk

606
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: to and nobody to message. And he leads his servant

607
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 2: and he goes into the wilderness, and the thoughts come,

608
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 2: and he's having this conversation with a god that he

609
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 2: can't see about an opponent that he did not expect

610
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: to have to fight. Here's why I ran, Here's why

611
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: I want to quit. Here's why I dropped because I

612
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: did my job.

613
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: I was responsible, and.

614
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed because the Israelites. Notice how he has separated

615
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 2: himself from the very people that he was called to serve.

616
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: He is, He's talking about him like they're a third party.

617
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: He is an Israelite. Okay, the Israelites. You know how

618
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 2: you do your kids. She does that to me all

619
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: the time. You need to talk to your son. I

620
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: know it's not because he just mastering a new piece

621
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 2: of piano music when she says it like that, better

622
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 2: talk to your son. You better talk to your people. God,

623
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: you better talk to your children.

624
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: Because I did my job, and I did my best.

625
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes I talk to God like that about y'all. God,

626
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: you better show these people how good I'm preaching right now,

627
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 2: because they don't understand what it costs me to bring

628
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: them this word. And there just looking at me real crazy.

629
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 2: I did my job, but they they they tore down

630
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 2: your altars, rejected your covenants, and try to put your

631
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 2: prophets to death. And now I'm the only one and

632
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: they're trying to kill me too. Now you know that

633
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 2: they can't kill you, or else you wouldn't have said

634
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: they're trying. But it's not Jezebel you're fighting. It's not

635
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: even really the Israelites. I expected to have to fight people.

636
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 2: I expected to have to fight for a parking space.

637
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 2: I expected to have to fight against the corrupt world system.

638
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: I expected that. What I didn't expect what's the enemy.

639
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: To be my greatest enemy.

640
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm out, I'm done.

641
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 2: I could fight the false prophet, I could even deal

642
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 2: with Jezebel. But I'm sick of this. I'm sick of

643
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: being like this. I'm sick of thinking like this. I'm

644
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 2: sick of pretending like this. I'm sick of telling everybody

645
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 2: fine when I'm.

646
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: Really frustrated.

647
00:38:52,600 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: Done and he drops I thought I might in the

648
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: sermon here in the drop zone.

649
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 2: You know, it's an interesting thing, is that when Elijah

650
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: tells God how he feels, the spirit of God is

651
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: in this place right now, and he's about to put

652
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: something on a parachute and drop it right into your spirit.

653
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 2: Let me tell you who he's speaking to right now,

654
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 2: the one who doesn't even want to hear it.

655
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: The one who doesn't even want to hear it.

656
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: Elijah said, I don't even want to be a mom anymore.

657
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 2: You know Bible, he went, he went and hit in

658
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 2: a cave. We talk a lot about man caves, but

659
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: how about mom caves. Wow, I'm sick of it. I

660
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: am sick of all these other moms. I'm sick of

661
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: their fake pinteresque.

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Speaker 1: I'm sick.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of all of it. I'm sick. I am

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Speaker 2: sick of this. Now, maybe you don't need this message today.

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Speaker 2: You can either sit there judgmental, or you could file

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Speaker 2: it for Tuesday.

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00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: When you go into your own cave. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what he's talking about.

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Speaker 2: Your kid is five, When they are fifteen, you will

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Speaker 2: need this message. Put it on your favorites on YouTube,

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00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: because something will make you want to run. Help me

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Speaker 2: preach left section of Balentine Spiritual Session.

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Speaker 1: Elijah said about.

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Speaker 2: Gus said, not so fast, because the reason that you

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Speaker 2: have collapsed is not because of your situation.

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Speaker 1: It's because of your position. Position.

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Speaker 2: I never dropped a parachute with a refrigerator filled with

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Speaker 2: concrete for target practice. I never dropped the gift supply

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Speaker 2: for somebody who never received a pair of flo flops

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Speaker 2: or a pair of shorts for Christmas. I never did that.

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Speaker 2: But I found on my iPhone. I found air drop.

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00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 2: I found air drop. Have you ever seen it? I

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Speaker 2: don't use it much, but I have used it once

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Speaker 2: or twice. And one thing I found out about airdrop.

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Speaker 1: Is when do you have an iPhone? Stacey? You got

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Speaker 1: an iPhone? Now? Now I don't need your phone. I

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Speaker 1: want mine.

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00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: And I got something I want to give you from

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Speaker 2: my phone to your phone. Now we could do a

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00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 2: couple different things. One thing we could do, I could

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Speaker 2: text it to you. But what fun would that be?

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Speaker 2: When I have air drops? Somebody shall drop it Because

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Speaker 2: I found this thing on my phone, it says air drop.

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Speaker 2: I found out that if our phones are close enough,

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Speaker 2: and if we have a connection on Wi Fi and Bluetobe,

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Speaker 2: come on, I'm about to preach this technology until somebody

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Speaker 2: comes out of hiding. If I got something on my

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Speaker 2: device and you need it on your device, if I

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Speaker 2: can get close enough to your device with my device,

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Speaker 2: what's on my device could sup on your device. If

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Speaker 2: I got a connection, if I come out of the cave,

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Speaker 2: if I get close to the one who created me

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Speaker 2: close to the one who called me. If I stop

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Speaker 2: running and return to the place of mile.

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Speaker 4: Side, I got the dup.

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Speaker 3: God said, I'm calling you closer. I'm calling you back.

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Speaker 3: This day is for reconnection.

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Speaker 2: I didn't bring you here so you could sit under

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Speaker 2: a broom bush and die.

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Speaker 3: This is the drop zone.

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Speaker 2: Who is it for?

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Speaker 1: Who is it for?

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00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 2: Who is a form? Who is a form? Who is

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Speaker 2: it fore? Gaston?

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Speaker 3: Who is it for?

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Speaker 2: You? See?

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Speaker 1: Who is it for?

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00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 3: Blakeney? Who is it for?

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Speaker 1: You're under the covers. You didn't even come to church.

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Speaker 3: God, I had to get this message to you through

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Speaker 3: and half. But He's about to drop.

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Speaker 4: Drops in your spirit to stringthen you.

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Speaker 1: My brother said, they put out red flags.

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Speaker 2: They put out red flags in remote locations to let

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Speaker 2: me know that this is the drop zone. They put

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Speaker 2: out a red flag and we fly down close. See

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Speaker 2: that's the thing about God. He can't shout it to you.

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00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 2: He has to get down to that three hundred foot level,

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Speaker 2: real close, where you can't hide how you really feel.

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Speaker 1: And maybe we should do today what Elijah had to do.

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Speaker 2: To return to the calling and return to the rain

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Speaker 2: and return to the blessing of God. Look, look, It

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Speaker 2: doesn't require a change in feelings. It's a change in focus.

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Speaker 1: You got it. I'm preaching to y'all in the back.

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Speaker 2: I'm preaching to people who are too tired to stand

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Speaker 2: up and.

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Speaker 3: Say, Amen, this is your mail.

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Speaker 2: This is your package, this is your supply.

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Speaker 3: God's trying to drop it.

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Speaker 2: And God told Elijah verse fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Is so beautiful, He said, go back the way. You

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Speaker 1: can change your position.

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Speaker 2: To receive the provision that is already waiting in the

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Speaker 2: place where you belong. Because I'm seated in heavenly places

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00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: with Christ, I said, I've seated in a divine position,

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Speaker 2: far above rulers, far above principalities. Who am I preacher to.

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00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 2: I'm looking in the camera. I need to know where

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Speaker 2: to drop it.

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Speaker 1: So go back the way you came. Change your position.

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Speaker 2: Go back to the place of your opposition.

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Speaker 1: That's where your opportunity is. Did you hear me.

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Speaker 2: Your greatest opportunity is in the place of your greatest opposition.

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Speaker 2: If it were not hard, it would not be worth

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Speaker 2: fighting for. If it were not hard, it would not

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Speaker 2: be worth surviving for.

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Speaker 5: Go back, go back, go back to the place of

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Speaker 5: your responsibility. I've already got God told Elijah, I've already

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Speaker 5: got Elijah, son of Shafat.

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Speaker 2: He's your successor. He's waiting for your mantle. You weren't

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Speaker 2: supposed to do this alone to again with, And the

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Speaker 2: reason that I let you run out of strength is

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Speaker 2: so that you would be in a place of surrender

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Speaker 2: and dependence. You were not supposed to do this alone,

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Speaker 2: so I had to let you run.

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Speaker 1: All the way to the cave, all.

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Speaker 2: The way to the disappointment, so you could get this drop.

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Speaker 2: Have you been fighting lately? Have you been fighting yourself?

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Speaker 2: Stand up and raise your red flag. If this message

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Speaker 2: was for you. If you don't need it, sit there

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Speaker 2: and receive it. But if you need it, raise your

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00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 2: red flag. Until I realized that the same God who

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Speaker 2: had birds dropping food for Elijah at the karth Ravine,

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Speaker 2: the same God who had supply of oil and food

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Speaker 2: for Elijah at the widow house inside in the same

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Speaker 2: God who had provision waiting for Elijah in the form

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Speaker 2: of wood on Mount Carmel.

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Speaker 1: And fire from heaven. That same God, this is what

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Speaker 1: I got.

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Speaker 2: The same place where the enemy is fighting you the most,

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Speaker 2: It's the same place where God's supply will be the

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Speaker 2: greatest Lift your hands.

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Speaker 1: This is the drop zone. Lift your hands. This is

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Speaker 1: the drop zone.

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Speaker 3: You are not going.

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Speaker 1: To get it until you admit how much you need it.

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Speaker 2: Brother, I thank you for the word you gave me today.

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Speaker 2: I believe that it is the power of God for

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Speaker 2: the salvation of those who believe. I believe that you

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Speaker 2: want to change our blueprint of what a blessing looks like,

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Speaker 2: to see that it is not always in the places

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Speaker 2: of our greatest joy and the feelings of elation, but

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Speaker 2: sometimes when we are exhausted and have had enough.

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Speaker 1: That your provision is released.

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Speaker 2: Lift those hands until your arms hurt, Lift those hands

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Speaker 2: until your shoulders are sore.

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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