Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdeik. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody saying in the chest shout now out now,
Speaker 1: dance now, love now, live now, trust now. Thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: What an awesome, awesome, awesome thing to celebrate. Please do
Speaker 1: not groove back there, because I will take up all
Speaker 1: of my preaching time. That bass guitar in Shae Wooten's
Speaker 1: hands is dangerous. He does these little leaks that make
Speaker 1: me start singing again, and I'm not going to fall
Speaker 1: for it. The devil is a liar, all right. He's
Speaker 1: got hair like Jesus, but he's acting like Judas right now.
Speaker 1: He's trying to betray me. Oh, if you know the
Speaker 1: joy of the Lord is in this place. If the
Speaker 1: joy of the Lord is your strength, come on and
Speaker 1: give God your favorite emoji. I don't know your favorite emoji,
Speaker 1: but if it is church appropriate, put it in the chat.
Speaker 1: I want to see you. I want to see you.
Speaker 1: You want to fight me, devil, you gotta fight my friend.
Speaker 1: I love it. My friend's name was Ish Hall. Remember Ish.
Speaker 1: He was the biggest, the biggest, baddest dude. And I
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, if you start any ish with me,
Speaker 1: you got to go through Ish to finish it. How
Speaker 1: many know that if if the Devil started it, God
Speaker 1: is gonna finish it. Bad no way, way, way, way way,
Speaker 1: no way. Do we need to pray? Lord? I pray
Speaker 1: for Pastor Steve, and he appears to be losing his
Speaker 1: mind in quarantine. I'm kind of glad to lose my mind.
Speaker 1: My mind is always overthinking and overanalyzing and making up stories.
Speaker 1: I want to live from my spirit. I want to
Speaker 1: see what God is showing me. I want to hear
Speaker 1: what God is speaking Lord. In these moments we have
Speaker 1: gathered together, we would much prefer to be together in
Speaker 1: a watch party in Chicago, or maybe in a building
Speaker 1: at our Concord location or our Greenville location. We barely
Speaker 1: got to start that campus and we had to close
Speaker 1: it because of quarantine. But we thank you Lord that
Speaker 1: you are still making a way for us to meet together,
Speaker 1: and we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
Speaker 1: That might look like buildings in one season, and it
Speaker 1: may look like streams and screens in the next season.
Speaker 1: That's not our concern. But in this moment we have
Speaker 1: decided to meet with you. I thank you for my
Speaker 1: brother and my sister on the other side of this screen.
Speaker 1: Right now. I pray that you would connect us by
Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit, that the words I
Speaker 1: speak today would go straight to their heart. Do a
Speaker 1: bypass surgery, bypass all the beliefs that would keep them
Speaker 1: from hearing what you want to say. Get into the
Speaker 1: place where they can, where they can receive your word,
Speaker 1: receive a revelation. We give you all the glory today.
Speaker 1: We thank you that Holli Ferdick looks better at forty
Speaker 1: than she did when I met her. I thank you
Speaker 1: Lord that you gave me a wife who she only
Speaker 1: goes from glory to glory, from pretty to pretty, from
Speaker 1: strength to strength. We bless her today before her fortieth birthday,
Speaker 1: that the best is yet to that her ministry has
Speaker 1: just begun. We thank you for the words she delivered
Speaker 1: to us last week. She told us how you are
Speaker 1: the bread God. Would you continue to feed her? Speak
Speaker 1: to her nourish her as she refreshes us, may she
Speaker 1: herself be refreshed. We thank you for what she means
Speaker 1: to our church community around the world. Bless her so
Speaker 1: much that she has to ask you to stop. Give
Speaker 1: her a good measure, press down, shaking together, running over,
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, I pray the same thing over your
Speaker 1: life today. Put it in the chat. Which one you
Speaker 1: like the best? Good measure, pressed down, shaking together, running over?
Speaker 1: Pick one. I gave you four options. Good measure, pressed out,
Speaker 1: shaking together, running over, Good measure, pressed out, shaking together,
Speaker 1: running over. Put it in the chack. God is with you.
Speaker 1: What a mighty god we serve. Anybody who loves him,
Speaker 1: say amen at the top of your voice. I love him.
Speaker 1: I love him so much. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: are ready to receive this word today. It's probably too
Speaker 1: encouraging for you. You probably don't want to be encouraged.
Speaker 1: You probably want to be scared watching the news or
Speaker 1: something like that, hearing them talk about all of bad
Speaker 1: things that might happen. But I thought, you know, we're
Speaker 1: all get in our fill of that anyway. I want
Speaker 1: to bring you a good report today, A good report
Speaker 1: and let me share this passage. It's a very, very
Speaker 1: very beautiful selection of scripture. Indeed, one of the most
Speaker 1: foundational for me in understanding faith and even in church leadership.
Speaker 1: How many times have you heard me talk about Isaiah
Speaker 1: fifty four where he says to the nation of Israel
Speaker 1: that I want you to enlarge and expand your frame
Speaker 1: of reference. And I believe God is going to show
Speaker 1: you some opportunities today that you haven't been seeing. He's
Speaker 1: going to show you, by the spirit, some opportunities that
Speaker 1: your mind has been unable to recognize. One opportunity that
Speaker 1: you have right now is to invite somebody to join
Speaker 1: in this worship experience. I'm going to give you just
Speaker 1: a moment to find Isaiah fifty four and also to
Speaker 1: invite someone to join with you. Send them a text
Speaker 1: message say come to church with me. They're going to
Speaker 1: be like I didn't think we were allowed to go
Speaker 1: to church. Let me get my mask ready, let me
Speaker 1: get dressed. I'm not dressed to be like. You don't
Speaker 1: even have You don't need a mask, you don't need mascara,
Speaker 1: you need anything. But God has a message for you today.
Speaker 1: If you know somebody who's trying to put their life
Speaker 1: back together. Text them right now or share this on
Speaker 1: your social media. Put it on your story right now,
Speaker 1: because there is a word from the Lord. I'm giving
Speaker 1: you a minute. Text me if the people are sharing
Speaker 1: or not. I can't see whether or not they're sharing,
Speaker 1: so give me a statistic real quick. Do you remember
Speaker 1: that show with Diddy where he was shut down the
Speaker 1: studio if they didn't do what he wanted. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shut down the pulpit until y'all share this link. God
Speaker 1: bless Shawn Combs Isaiah fifty four, verse one, Sing baron woman,
Speaker 1: you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout
Speaker 1: for joy? Why y'all waiting? We just said, don't wait.
Speaker 1: Shout now. I read you a scripture. What are y'all
Speaker 1: waiting for? One thousand people? Two thousand people in the room,
Speaker 1: he said, Sing barn woman and shout for joy. I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna scare your kids, but shout real quick,
Speaker 1: come on, shout a shout of joy. You've been yelling
Speaker 1: at your kids all week to clean up, But shout
Speaker 1: right now, he said, because more are the children of
Speaker 1: the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.
Speaker 1: Enlarge the place of your tent. Look at somebody and say,
Speaker 1: you look bigger than the last time I saw you.
Speaker 1: You were scared to say that to your wife, weren't you, Josh.
Speaker 1: That's wisdom, brother, enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch
Speaker 1: your tent curtains wide, Do not hold back. Strengthen your chords,
Speaker 1: or rather, lengthen your chords. Strengthen your steaks. Lengthen your cords.
Speaker 1: Strengthen your steaks. We're going to talk about those words
Speaker 1: in a moment. For you will spread out to the
Speaker 1: right and to the left. Tell somebody I need room.
Speaker 1: I need room. Well, y'all got plenty of it out
Speaker 1: there today. For your descendants will dispossess nations and settle
Speaker 1: in their desolate cities. Do not be afraid. You will
Speaker 1: not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace. You
Speaker 1: will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of
Speaker 1: your youth, and remember no more at the reproach of
Speaker 1: your widowhood. I want to speak to you from an
Speaker 1: unusual title today, but those of you in the construction industry,
Speaker 1: or if you've been renovating a house, or maybe you're
Speaker 1: looking at buying a house. Maybe this term will be
Speaker 1: a little more familiar. And since we've all been at
Speaker 1: home a lot lately, more than usual, I thought I
Speaker 1: would use as a title for this sermon, flex space.
Speaker 1: Flex space. You may be seated, Go get your stools
Speaker 1: and come back. Ten nine eight seven six five. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to beat the buzzer on this one.
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you a story I I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've ever heard this one for when we
Speaker 1: were trying to get the Matthews Plaza where our offices are.
Speaker 1: Now you only know those as the offices of Elevation Church,
Speaker 1: But it used to be an Ashley Furniture warehouse, and
Speaker 1: then there was a couple other stores. Okay, now stores
Speaker 1: were these things that we used to go into to
Speaker 1: buy supply. Oh man, The story, though, Abby goes like this,
Speaker 1: and then you can ask mister Chunks later if I'm
Speaker 1: getting all the details right. But we were planning to
Speaker 1: rent about forty two thousand square feet to make it
Speaker 1: our offices and to have our Matthews campus back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. In two thousand and seven, now,
Speaker 1: some of y'all are just new to this ministry, and
Speaker 1: you've never been to one of our physical locations. Because
Speaker 1: now we have EPAM all over the world and God
Speaker 1: is redefining what church is as we speak. We're excited
Speaker 1: about that because our old preconceptions about needing to gather
Speaker 1: together in a physical space to have a spiritual connection
Speaker 1: were so limited that God did not place those limitations
Speaker 1: on his church to begin with. He told Abram, go
Speaker 1: to the land. I'll show you, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: make you a blessing to the whole earth. He told Joshua,
Speaker 1: everywhere you put your foot, I'm going to give it
Speaker 1: to you. So God is not confined to a location.
Speaker 1: We've just been confined to a mindset for so long
Speaker 1: that God is exploding some of our limitations in this
Speaker 1: season because he wants out of the box. Nevertheless, we
Speaker 1: needed an office space. God doesn't need an office. The
Speaker 1: earth is his footstool, but we need a desk and
Speaker 1: internet connection. So we thought it'd be great because we
Speaker 1: could get this forty two thousand square feet rent it.
Speaker 1: The church was growing and exploding, and listen, you need
Speaker 1: to know some of the history of the church, because
Speaker 1: there are tens of thousands of new family members that
Speaker 1: were welcoming to Elevation Church. Over the course of the
Speaker 1: last sixty six days, since we have not been able
Speaker 1: to meet physically, God has increased our reach like never before.
Speaker 1: It's just like him to use a shut down to
Speaker 1: show off all ain't ready for me. So we were
Speaker 1: going to raise some money, which you have to have
Speaker 1: to rent space. Okay, God inhabits the praises of his people,
Speaker 1: but if you want to inhabit a physical space, God
Speaker 1: inhabits the rent payment and then you get to go there.
Speaker 1: That's how that works. It's transactional. And we set up
Speaker 1: a meeting to take our donors over to the space
Speaker 1: where we were going to lease forty two thousand square
Speaker 1: feet and we were going to show them the space
Speaker 1: and ask them to pay for it. Okay, I know
Speaker 1: you probably remember certain moments in your life where you
Speaker 1: got the worst news of your life, and I want
Speaker 1: you to think about it right now. It's going to
Speaker 1: bring the mood way down. We've been having fun so far.
Speaker 1: This is going to be very much a slam on
Speaker 1: the brakes moment, but I want you to do it anyway.
Speaker 1: Think of the worst news that you ever got in
Speaker 1: your life. This is not the worst news I ever
Speaker 1: got in my life. At the time it was in
Speaker 1: the top five. A lot of crap has happened since then.
Speaker 1: I don't even think this makes the top fifty. Now
Speaker 1: at age forty, Live a little while, and it'll demote
Speaker 1: the things. You know, God, this is a disaster. Live
Speaker 1: a little while, you'll be saying that was a mild disappointment,
Speaker 1: that was a temporary setback, or you might even say
Speaker 1: that was actually a blessing in disguise. Give it time,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. Give it time, and
Speaker 1: upon reflecting on some of the events of your life,
Speaker 1: you can see how the spaces where you thought God
Speaker 1: had left you were actually the setups for him to
Speaker 1: do some of the greatest things he did in your life.
Speaker 1: And So Chunks, who's our CFO. That's not his legal name,
Speaker 1: but he goes by Chunks. James is his legal name.
Speaker 1: But this day I wanted to throw him out of
Speaker 1: my office because he brought me some bad news. And
Speaker 1: he walked in my office Abby and told me the
Speaker 1: deal is dead. Don't he said, don't get too upset,
Speaker 1: because I've done everything I can do. Don't throw anything
Speaker 1: at me. It's not my fault. But there is a
Speaker 1: tenant in the strip, mall am I saying this right,
Speaker 1: there's a tenant in the plaza that doesn't want us
Speaker 1: to meet there, and they have an option in their
Speaker 1: least to say that we can't meet there, and they've
Speaker 1: decided to exercise their right to say we can't meet.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, who can we call? He said,
Speaker 1: I can't call anybody. Can we call ghost No, it
Speaker 1: can't call Ghostbusters, can't call anybody. There's nothing left to do.
Speaker 1: The deal is dead. I said, okay, and he said,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll go ahead and cancel the buses. And
Speaker 1: now I don't know what it came over me next,
Speaker 1: because I don't always have this much faith. I usually
Speaker 1: don't have this much faith, but something in me. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had something in you tell you that although
Speaker 1: everything seems to be against you, that God is for you.
Speaker 1: And see in these moments where you feel that on
Speaker 1: the inside you don't even know how God is going
Speaker 1: to do it, but something in you becomes so convinced
Speaker 1: that neither life nor death, nor angels nor demons, nor
Speaker 1: the present, nor the future, nor the past, nor any
Speaker 1: other power shall be able to separate me. So something
Speaker 1: on the inside of me in that moment. I need
Speaker 1: you to get this stood up against what was going
Speaker 1: on around me at the moment. And although I didn't
Speaker 1: understand what was going on around me, what was inside
Speaker 1: of me? And I almost like felt myself saying do
Speaker 1: you ever watch yourself saying stuff? And it's like you're
Speaker 1: having an out of body experience and you're like, who
Speaker 1: even is this talking right now? And I said to him,
Speaker 1: don't cancel anything going anyway. What are we going over
Speaker 1: there to do? I said, I don't know, yeah, but
Speaker 1: don't cancel the buses. We had two buses booked. Apparently
Speaker 1: they were booked on a low budget because they had
Speaker 1: no air conditioning. It was a Carolina muggy summer when
Speaker 1: we loaded up our donors and said we are taking
Speaker 1: you over to a building tonight and we are going
Speaker 1: to pray. Now. We didn't march around the building seven
Speaker 1: times or anything like that because we didn't want it
Speaker 1: to fall down. We just wanted God to let us in.
Speaker 1: But we got down and we prayed. And I will
Speaker 1: never forget the sight because some of you come on
Speaker 1: this church and you're like in a consumer mode, and
Speaker 1: you don't know this part of the faith that it
Speaker 1: took for this family to exist all around the world.
Speaker 1: When they got down on their knees in the loading
Speaker 1: dock of the Matthews Plaza and prayed, God make a way.
Speaker 1: And I need somebody to pray that right now, just
Speaker 1: as boldly as you can. God make away. Now. See
Speaker 1: the thing about praying God make away is you don't
Speaker 1: get to define the way that He makes. So we prayed,
Speaker 1: and I think they have a picture of the plaza.
Speaker 1: I want to just show you something. This is where
Speaker 1: we were, and this is what it looked like. And
Speaker 1: now go to the next picture. This is what it is.
Speaker 1: I thought y'all would holler for y'ahweigh on that one.
Speaker 1: I thought y'all would shout to the Lord like Darlene
Speaker 1: check in nineteen ninety six, because show them the first
Speaker 1: one again, that's what it was. You can't get in
Speaker 1: and here's what it is. Every time I drive up
Speaker 1: to our offices, I have to remember that between what
Speaker 1: it was go back and what it is was a
Speaker 1: space where I did not know what God was doing.
Speaker 1: Why are you talking to me about an office plaza?
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm talking to you about this season of
Speaker 1: your life, and God told me to call it flex space.
Speaker 1: Flex space, the space between. Give them the pictures one
Speaker 1: more time, please the space between. Go to the second one,
Speaker 1: and that this and that. Don't worry. I'm not raising
Speaker 1: any money. We don't even have, can't even go in
Speaker 1: our buildings right now. I don't need to buy one.
Speaker 1: This is not a message about buildings. This is a
Speaker 1: message about belief, about belief. And it was so cool
Speaker 1: when Chunks was showing me all the plans for when
Speaker 1: we finally were able to rent the space, because he
Speaker 1: called me one morning and said the tenant that didn't
Speaker 1: want us in just went out of business. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that God put them out of business. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that God made a way. I'm not here to
Speaker 1: tell you the details of how he did. How many
Speaker 1: of you know. I'm not saying that I deserve it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I've got it. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: it all makes sense. I'm just saying I have faith. Granma,
Speaker 1: my preaching too hard for these quarantine Christians. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's not scary. I'm just saying God is with me.
Speaker 1: I can't explain that, but I got it. So he
Speaker 1: was showing me how on the blueprint because I'm not
Speaker 1: very good at visualizing. This isn't my expertise. This is
Speaker 1: Josh Blackson and chunks. They were showing me the square
Speaker 1: footage that we were going to take over. We don't
Speaker 1: own forty two thousand square feet of it. We don't
Speaker 1: rent any of it. We own one hundred and four
Speaker 1: thousand square feet of it because God blessed us so
Speaker 1: much that we're able to use all of it to
Speaker 1: get the gospel out all over the world. That's not
Speaker 1: my point. My point is this. When he was showing
Speaker 1: me the square footage, there was one piece that when
Speaker 1: we were buying the property, we were buying the entire
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty thousand square feet. I said, what
Speaker 1: about that space because it didn't have anything in it.
Speaker 1: This was going to be the creative office, and this
Speaker 1: was going to be the auditorium, and this was going
Speaker 1: to be the meeting room, and this was going to
Speaker 1: be the conference room. I said, what about this space?
Speaker 1: And there was a blank part right there where it
Speaker 1: was just all this square footage that I said, we
Speaker 1: We're just going to waste all that space. Now, Keshu's revelation.
Speaker 1: He said, no, it's not wasted space. That's flex space.
Speaker 1: I said, uh huh, And I know what flex space is,
Speaker 1: but just so I can hear your definition of it,
Speaker 1: What exactly do you mean when you say flex space?
Speaker 1: And he didn't know it. He thought he was talking
Speaker 1: about a building, but he wasn't. He was talking about faith.
Speaker 1: He thought he was showing me a floor plan, but
Speaker 1: really he was showing me faith. He thought he was
Speaker 1: pointing to a blueprint, but really he was teaching me
Speaker 1: something about belief. He said, we want to leave this
Speaker 1: space empty on purpose, so we can grow into it.
Speaker 1: You remember saying all this, You said something like this.
Speaker 1: This is the edited version, he said, because he didn't
Speaker 1: probably say it this eloquently, but this is how I
Speaker 1: heard it. Okay. He said, this space can be anything
Speaker 1: we want. So at the time, look how it look.
Speaker 1: This was the Ashley Furniture showroom. Look at that. I said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna waste all that space. We're not putting anything
Speaker 1: in it. He said, it's not wasted, it's flex space.
Speaker 1: It's designed to be flexible. We don't want to put
Speaker 1: permanent fixtures in this place yet because we don't know
Speaker 1: what it needs to be based on how God is
Speaker 1: going to bless our ministry, so we don't know what
Speaker 1: ministry is exactly going to look like. But we're gonna leave.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and take the space over, but
Speaker 1: we're not going to assign a purpose for it. He said,
Speaker 1: it's flex space. Now. In the last few years, let
Speaker 1: me show you what I've seen. Next picture, I've seen
Speaker 1: this space become an opportunity for us to stage and
Speaker 1: set up campuses. You went too far, go back. This
Speaker 1: is the equipment that is going out to one of
Speaker 1: our campuses that we started in the last few years
Speaker 1: flex space. Do you see all of those cases. That's
Speaker 1: our teams getting ready to send out equipment to our
Speaker 1: location so we can have church. Now, we didn't even
Speaker 1: know we were starting the location yet when we were
Speaker 1: dayed the space as flex space. But God knew the
Speaker 1: space that we would need for the opportunity. We didn't
Speaker 1: even know we would have. Next picture, this is our
Speaker 1: Love Week team where we served our city over one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand hours with Jamie Waldron's air pods Beta air
Speaker 1: Pods with the cord in our ears, smiling because we're
Speaker 1: feeding the hungry, and we're touching the people who know
Speaker 1: nobody else is touching, and we're moving from this space.
Speaker 1: This is not a warehouse, it's a headquarters. It's a
Speaker 1: staging room. The stage is being set for compassion to
Speaker 1: be released. Next picture. I saw our staff worship in
Speaker 1: this space as we were growing and expanding, and what
Speaker 1: looked like it was wasted was a stage that God
Speaker 1: was setting. How many No, he takes what the enemy
Speaker 1: means for evils. So he told me that Abby, He said,
Speaker 1: that's called flex space. Flex space. Isaiah's preaching about flex
Speaker 1: space to the nation of Israel. See, because this is
Speaker 1: a very encouraging scripture on the surface, let's read it again.
Speaker 1: Sing O baron, sing for you're about to have more
Speaker 1: children than the woman who had children by natural means.
Speaker 1: But I need you to sing before you see. I
Speaker 1: got to tell you this because it's just been going
Speaker 1: through my mind all week. Whatever you do, whatever the
Speaker 1: enemy takes away from you in this season, For some
Speaker 1: of you, he's limited your mobility. Your business is three
Speaker 1: quarters of what it was, or one quarter of what
Speaker 1: it was, or for some of you. You know, in
Speaker 1: this season, it's almost like you lost all the progress
Speaker 1: that you made on the last level. Did you ever
Speaker 1: have somebody cut off your video game and you lost
Speaker 1: your progress? That is kind of what the devil did
Speaker 1: and come along and unplugged it while we were in
Speaker 1: the middle. And Graham's looking at his mom right now,
Speaker 1: because sometimes she'll call him to come take out the
Speaker 1: trash and he'll say, Mom, I'm losing and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose all my progress, and she just shout back, I
Speaker 1: don't care about your progress. I care about this trash,
Speaker 1: and I am calling you to a higher level of responsibility.
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about this kitchen being a mess than
Speaker 1: I am about your progress with your Fortnite and your
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong multi generational sermon. But listen to me. Are
Speaker 1: you listening to me? If you're listening, say man, in
Speaker 1: this season of feeling like you've lost some progress, oh man,
Speaker 1: I was just getting here. And I even heard somebody
Speaker 1: say to me the other day, I was just getting
Speaker 1: in shape and they closed the gym. You can't do pushups.
Speaker 1: Somebody else was telling me the other day. They said,
Speaker 1: they said communication has gotten harder during this time, because
Speaker 1: you can't see anybody face to face. I said, what
Speaker 1: is this nineteen seventy two. When's the last time you
Speaker 1: saw anybody face to face? Anyway? But see how excuses
Speaker 1: come in to keep us from expanding. Excuses come in
Speaker 1: to keep us from expanding. And instead of saying, what's
Speaker 1: another way I could do this? Instead of saying, you know,
Speaker 1: how could God? How could God actually take what the
Speaker 1: enemy means for evil and turn it for good? We
Speaker 1: wed ourselves to what it was, thereby prohibiting the potential
Speaker 1: for it to be transformed. And the thing that I
Speaker 1: wanted to say to somebody is, whatever you lose in
Speaker 1: this season, whatever the devil takes, whatever the quarantine takes,
Speaker 1: whatever the virus takes, whatever it takes, don't you ever
Speaker 1: let the devil have your song? Your song? And I know,
Speaker 1: I know you don't sing very good, but you still
Speaker 1: need to sing. I asked one of my friends one time,
Speaker 1: why don't you sing along in church? He goes, I
Speaker 1: love the church and I love the music so much.
Speaker 1: I said, that's weird because I always watch you and
Speaker 1: you never sing. He said, well, I'm not a good singer.
Speaker 1: And he said sometimes I don't want to sing it.
Speaker 1: If I don't mean it, I said, tell me more
Speaker 1: about that second part. And I know you're not a
Speaker 1: good singer. I've known that for a long time. But
Speaker 1: the second one, what do you mean? He said, Well,
Speaker 1: when we're singing something like you can have it all here,
Speaker 1: I am you can have it all. That's a newer
Speaker 1: song that we've been singing called Available Here. I am
Speaker 1: you can have it all, he said. If I don't
Speaker 1: mean that, I don't want to sing it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Lord gave me this or if it
Speaker 1: was just my idea. I said, well, then sing it
Speaker 1: till you mean it, Sing it till you do mean it,
Speaker 1: Sing it till you do mean it. When you start singing,
Speaker 1: it might be like a car that's kind of slow
Speaker 1: to start up on a Michigan January fourteenth morning, and
Speaker 1: it might go and your praise might be like that.
Speaker 1: You know, it might take a little while to start up.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, some of y'all are just starting to
Speaker 1: listen to the sermon. You have been running around. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that I love about this this
Speaker 1: time where we can't meet together, is it is teaching
Speaker 1: you to multipurpose your home as a house for God's
Speaker 1: presence to dwell. Now, one thing that I pray does
Speaker 1: not happen. Whenever we can come back together physically. I
Speaker 1: hope you don't shut the church down in your home,
Speaker 1: because the same way the Church is coming into your
Speaker 1: home right now, your car, right now, your kitchen, right now.
Speaker 1: That's what God wants to do. Psalm twenty two to
Speaker 1: three says he inhabits the praises of his people. Say it,
Speaker 1: He inhabits the praises of his people. God lives where
Speaker 1: praise does. God lives, Where praise does God lives, where
Speaker 1: gratitude is Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and enter his
Speaker 1: courts with praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
Speaker 1: He inhabits the praises of his people. So what I
Speaker 1: do when I praise God, even if I don't feel it.
Speaker 1: When I praise Him, I set the stage for the
Speaker 1: feeling to come when I praise Him by faith. And
Speaker 1: He inhabits the praises of his people. I need everybody
Speaker 1: to do me a favor. We do me a favor.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching as hard as I can preach. I'm giving
Speaker 1: you everything I have. I've been up here for the
Speaker 1: last sixty six days of quarantine, giving you the Word
Speaker 1: of God, doing everything I know how to do for you.
Speaker 1: But now I need you to do something for me.
Speaker 1: I want you to take your phone, or if you're
Speaker 1: watching this on a phone, take somebody else's phone, or
Speaker 1: if you could just turn it off for one second
Speaker 1: and do what I'm about to tell you to do,
Speaker 1: then in turn it back on. I want you to
Speaker 1: take a picture of where you are watching this sermon
Speaker 1: and where you are worshiping God, and where you are
Speaker 1: praising God. And I want you to take a selfie
Speaker 1: of it real quick. And I want you to tag
Speaker 1: me on Instagram stories or on Facebook, or just tell
Speaker 1: me in the comments of YouTube. But I want you
Speaker 1: to tell me because I want see where God went
Speaker 1: this morning. I want to see where God went this evening.
Speaker 1: I want to see a picture of a place where
Speaker 1: the presence of God was. Where you realize, like Jacob,
Speaker 1: surely the presence of the Lord is in this place.
Speaker 1: And when you put your picture up and when you
Speaker 1: tag me, say God was here. God was here. God
Speaker 1: was here. God was here. I didn't go to church
Speaker 1: to meet with God. God came to me. I didn't
Speaker 1: work my way to God. Grace came down, breaking out
Speaker 1: of heaven and save my soul. Now, don't let the
Speaker 1: devil take your song. He's taking it off. Give him
Speaker 1: a soud of praise right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's not just the living room. That's flex space.
Speaker 1: That's flex face. You didn't know when you were building
Speaker 1: your house or signing the leaks on your apartment it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a church. But God did his flex face.
Speaker 1: Watch this, oh zeke, I appreciate you being a multi
Speaker 1: purpose worshiper. He said, I can sing where I can serve.
Speaker 1: I'm flexible. Somebody say I'm flexible. Look how he'd been
Speaker 1: down and picked that up. I didn't even know he
Speaker 1: was that fast. I didn't know your hamstrings for that loose.
Speaker 1: He just bent down. Come on, let's do a flex test.
Speaker 1: How flexible are you? How flexible is your faith? Can
Speaker 1: you touch your toes? Get up and let me see
Speaker 1: you stretched. Come on, you've been closed up. The nation
Speaker 1: has been closed down, your faith has been closed up.
Speaker 1: But if you'll get moving, God will start working. Seesus
Speaker 1: on the inside, working on the outside. Come on, I'm singing,
Speaker 1: I'm stretching. What can we do? Come on, get them up,
Speaker 1: Get them up. My faith is flexible. I am not
Speaker 1: bound to what I thought God was going to do.
Speaker 1: My plans changed, but Gods don't my plans. See was
Speaker 1: his plan a good? What's wrong with y'all? Y'all are
Speaker 1: supposed to be on lockdown. They didn't tell you it
Speaker 1: was lockdown. You are not give me your attention real quick, class.
Speaker 1: This behavior is inappropriate. You are supposed to be afraid.
Speaker 1: You are supposed to be captive in Babylon. Don't you know?
Speaker 1: Did I say A fifty four was not written on
Speaker 1: the beach? It was not written when the dow Jones
Speaker 1: was at thirty thousand. Don't you know that Isaiah was
Speaker 1: a prophet, and the job of the prophet is to
Speaker 1: give people a vision that is not dependent on a situation.
Speaker 1: Don't you know that The only reason Isaiah was able
Speaker 1: to say, you can sing when you're barn, and you
Speaker 1: can sing when you're scared, and you can sing and
Speaker 1: you can praise, and you can get a thought and
Speaker 1: let it flood your mind. The only reason he was
Speaker 1: able to see that in Isaiah fifty four is because
Speaker 1: he saw it. In Isaiah six. He said, I see
Speaker 1: the Lord seated on a throne high and lifted up
Speaker 1: in the king in the year King. Issaiah died, I
Speaker 1: feel like preaching now. I don't know what happened to
Speaker 1: me today, but I've been I've been in the house
Speaker 1: long enough. I've been I've been listening to the wrong
Speaker 1: voices long enough. I've been trying to worry and figure
Speaker 1: it out long enough. And God said, this is a space.
Speaker 1: I am creating space. Look, Isaiah said, the captivity is
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Okay, so the nation of Israel, please let
Speaker 1: me teach. This is getting completely out of hand. The
Speaker 1: nation was in captivity for seventy years. It hasn't even
Speaker 1: been seventy days since we stopped having physical church. And
Speaker 1: some people not you. I mean, you're watching, right, you're here,
Speaker 1: You're good. Send this over to the person who isn't watching,
Speaker 1: because they had to keep hope for seventy years that
Speaker 1: what Isaiah spoke would come to pass. That sounds so sexy.
Speaker 1: And this is where we really need to deconstruct the
Speaker 1: context in order to underst than the premise. When Isaiah
Speaker 1: says seeing barren woman. He's not talking about a physical pregnancy.
Speaker 1: He's talking about a nation. You will remember that the
Speaker 1: nation of Israel was started in the womb of a
Speaker 1: barren woman. God was trying to show us something from
Speaker 1: the jump. He's trying to show us from the jump
Speaker 1: that he fills the space as we call empty. We're
Speaker 1: gonna waste all that space. No, we're going to use it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna use what you thought was wasted. We're going
Speaker 1: to use what you thought was wasted. I wonder is
Speaker 1: that what God is saying to you today, that what
Speaker 1: you thought was wasted. God is going to use watch
Speaker 1: this to show himself strong flex space. He gave them
Speaker 1: a weird command, and he gave them this command. This
Speaker 1: what was interesting. Two hundred years before it would come
Speaker 1: to pass. Isaiah did not even live to see what
Speaker 1: he spoke of. He spoke of, Jesus, build a virgin,
Speaker 1: will conceive embarrasson whose name will be a man? You
Speaker 1: want the Grovern movie up on his shoulders. Isaiah said that,
Speaker 1: but he never saw it. He said stuff that he
Speaker 1: never saw. He said stuff that he never saw. And
Speaker 1: isn't that The challenge of faith is to keep speaking
Speaker 1: and believing what God showed you. God, give me a vision.
Speaker 1: I need a vision or I'll get distracted. I need
Speaker 1: a vision or I'll get discouraged. I need a vision
Speaker 1: or I'll die. Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Speaker 1: A lot of us are dying right now because we
Speaker 1: lost sight of what God spoke seventy years of exile.
Speaker 1: By the time that they were taken captive into Babylonia,
Speaker 1: everything they knew as a way of life was destroyed.
Speaker 1: To the time that the first exiles came back was
Speaker 1: seventy years. You know, Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, did
Speaker 1: you ever have it on a cross stitch or a
Speaker 1: quilt or a Bible memory scripture page. I know the
Speaker 1: plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and
Speaker 1: not to harm you. After seventy years, the plan became
Speaker 1: a parent. That means it took an entire lifetime for
Speaker 1: them to see what God spoke. And here's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. It may take our whole lives before
Speaker 1: we make sense of certain things, but it is not wasted.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching this to somebody. I got somebody on my
Speaker 1: mind right now. Your life was not wasted. Before you
Speaker 1: were four in the womb, God knew you, and God
Speaker 1: knew what would happen to you, and God knew what
Speaker 1: would not come to pass that you planned on, and
Speaker 1: he knows the plans that He has for you. And
Speaker 1: what you've been calling wasted God sees as a stage.
Speaker 1: Can I take it a little bit deeper? One prophet
Speaker 1: said to the king that the eyes of the Lord
Speaker 1: are going to and fro all over the earth, searching
Speaker 1: to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts
Speaker 1: are fully committed to him. Let's work backwards. Your heart
Speaker 1: is fully committed to God. That's the space that you've
Speaker 1: given him. How much space have you given God to
Speaker 1: work in your life? Or do you keep secret corners
Speaker 1: for yourself. God, I'm gonna trust you with this much,
Speaker 1: but not that much. God. I'm gonna give you this part,
Speaker 1: but not that part. God. I'm gonna let you in here,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna fake it over here. God, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go this far, but if this happens, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: pulling back. Isaiah said, don't hold back, because the part
Speaker 1: of your heart that you don't give God becomes enemy.
Speaker 1: Held territory. And that's where doubt takes over, and that's
Speaker 1: where fear takes over. And that's why you can't seem
Speaker 1: to get short. Mine's straight because you gave God's territory
Speaker 1: to your enemy. But today we came to take it back.
Speaker 1: Here's my heart, Lord, he wants to show himself strong.
Speaker 1: Somebody say strong, strong. For those whose hearts are committed strong,
Speaker 1: go ahead, make a muscle, say strong strong. God wants
Speaker 1: to give you a strong heart. God said, the space
Speaker 1: in your life where you don't know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do next, that's the flex space. That's the flex your
Speaker 1: muscle real quick. If you got one, come on, flex it.
Speaker 1: If you don't have one, give me an emoji if
Speaker 1: you don't like the one you got, but you want
Speaker 1: to use the one that's on the screen. Somebody say
Speaker 1: flex I find out God loves to show off. God
Speaker 1: likes to take a nine foot giant down through a
Speaker 1: five foot three little boy. Why the differential between the
Speaker 1: size of my giant and the size of me is
Speaker 1: God's flex space. God said, I'm coming into your situation.
Speaker 1: I'm breaking through like I'm strong and mighty. The Lord
Speaker 1: is my name. I know We're not supposed to flex
Speaker 1: in church, but let's flex on the devil real quick
Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. Come on, I'm not
Speaker 1: backing down from any giant. I'm not backing down from uncertainty.
Speaker 1: I'm not walking away from my promises. Flex space, flex space, God,
Speaker 1: I love it. Graham, stand up in flex flex space. Son.
Speaker 1: There are gonna be times in your life where you
Speaker 1: feel weak. But guess what Paul said. When I am weak,
Speaker 1: he is, so guess what your weakness is. Huh, what
Speaker 1: is it? What kind of space? Flex You mean my
Speaker 1: weakness is in wasted No, it's not wasted space. It's
Speaker 1: flex space. Come on, instruments, do I have to tell
Speaker 1: you what to do. God inhabits the praises of his people.
Speaker 1: Let's take twenty seconds and praise him that twenty twenty
Speaker 1: is not wasted. It's a setup flex space. You gotta
Speaker 1: stop acting like you're so perfect so God can have
Speaker 1: some flex space. He can't operate, He can't be strong
Speaker 1: while you're pretending to be. You need to come before
Speaker 1: God and say I need you like I needed that breath.
Speaker 1: I need you, God, I need you. This is not
Speaker 1: the time to hold back Isaiah said, he said, strengthen
Speaker 1: your steaks linked in your course. Strengthen and stretch. Strengthen
Speaker 1: and stretch, strengthen and stretch. It's no good to have
Speaker 1: strong faith if it's not flexible faith. Because he has
Speaker 1: strong faith. But your confidences and circumstances. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do when they threw Paul in prison? Say the
Speaker 1: word from two weeks ago, apple kara doquilla. Don't even
Speaker 1: try on dictionary dot com. It's a Greek word and
Speaker 1: it's not even a real Greek word. Paul made it up.
Speaker 1: He was saying, look at the scripture from Philippians one twenty.
Speaker 1: This is the fourth week of a series. Y'all thought
Speaker 1: the series was over, but it's not. This is the
Speaker 1: flex space, This is the extra bonus sermon. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I'll stop this week, because I feel
Speaker 1: God is doing every time we expose our old normal
Speaker 1: to God's king order, our hearts grow, our faith grows.
Speaker 1: Don't you feel it? God is growing your heart. God
Speaker 1: is growing your capacity to trust him. But he needed
Speaker 1: an uncertain place, like Paul needed a prison. So Paul's
Speaker 1: in prison, and you know the church is praying get
Speaker 1: him out, Get him out, Get him out, Get him out,
Speaker 1: get him out, get him out. Take it away, Take
Speaker 1: it away, Take it away, Take it away, Take it away,
Speaker 1: take it away. Everybody's always praying about that, circumstantial prayers.
Speaker 1: You know, is that my sweat on the ground. Look
Speaker 1: at that, Chris. That's amazing. Yeah. I found it interesting
Speaker 1: that Paul decided to multipurpose his prison cell and turn
Speaker 1: it into a pulpit. He said in Philippians one twenty.
Speaker 1: He said, I know that no matter what happens to me, circumstantially,
Speaker 1: that what is within me can withstand. I know this
Speaker 1: from my experience, and I know this from my revelations.
Speaker 1: So I eagerly expect. Have you got the verse on
Speaker 1: the lower third? I eager Is it up on the
Speaker 1: on the screen? I look at it? Is it up there?
Speaker 1: That's the feed right there? Is it on the screen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Put it up Philippians one twenty. I need it up there.
Speaker 1: I need it up there. Somebody say, flex face, flex face,
Speaker 1: He says, I eagerly expect. Y'all got Philippians one twenty
Speaker 1: for me? Is up? Is up? Are you ready? I
Speaker 1: gotta get you to see this? Eagerly expect apple kara dokia.
Speaker 1: Apple means to turn away, ignoring other interests. That's the
Speaker 1: prefix kara means head. We could use this to understand
Speaker 1: Paul's not talking about a physical situation, is he? Because
Speaker 1: when he says apple kara dokia, dokia means to stretch forward.
Speaker 1: And I know Paul never met Isaiah, but it's almost
Speaker 1: like they collaborated on these two scriptures. Because Paul is
Speaker 1: doing for the gospel in p what Isaiah was prophesying
Speaker 1: to the nation in Babylon. He's stretching, stretching. You know
Speaker 1: why all of the planners are having heart palpitations right now.
Speaker 1: It's like this season that we've been in, it is
Speaker 1: punishing the planners. The procrastinators are loving quarantine. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. I'm suffering for the Lord. You're
Speaker 1: not suffering for the Lord. You're eating ice cream and
Speaker 1: loving it. You haven't been out of your pajamas in
Speaker 1: four days. Even watching this church you are loving it.
Speaker 1: But see Paul. We talk a lot about Paul's faith,
Speaker 1: right Oh man, he went through a shipwreck. He wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to get in a shipwreck, but he was flexible
Speaker 1: enough to know that even if the boat breaks, I
Speaker 1: won't drown. We admire people with strong faith, people who
Speaker 1: set a goal and reach it, who have a vision
Speaker 1: and make it happen. But I found out that the
Speaker 1: people whose faith is the strongest is strong because they
Speaker 1: stretched it. They stretched it. He said. It's flex space.
Speaker 1: It's flex space. The seventy years is flex space. Your
Speaker 1: life is a breadth. It's flex space. God is trying
Speaker 1: to take your life and show the world what he
Speaker 1: can do through a heart that is committed to him.
Speaker 1: He wants to show himself strong. He said. Strengthen your
Speaker 1: stakes and stretch your chords. And as you stretch your chords,
Speaker 1: you're strengthening your stakes because your faith can never be
Speaker 1: in a circumstance. It must be in the character of
Speaker 1: Christ revealed in you. This is flex space, is not wasted.
Speaker 1: Paul said, I eagerly expect apple kara Dokia is the
Speaker 1: Greek word, and I hope that I will in no
Speaker 1: way be a shit. You know what happens in our life.
Speaker 1: This is what Isaiah was saying. He was saying, you
Speaker 1: need to keep expanding your expectation. Expand your expectation to
Speaker 1: include what you did not plan for. Because God is
Speaker 1: going to work in everything. By the time this is over,
Speaker 1: after seventy years are completed, God is going to work
Speaker 1: it all in. And this is what it means to
Speaker 1: say that all things work together. It is to say God,
Speaker 1: here is the space I don't understand. So now let
Speaker 1: me get real personal. What is that space for you today?
Speaker 1: What is that space for you today? You've already turned
Speaker 1: your living room into a church. You're halfway there. Some
Speaker 1: of you already turned your hospital room into a sanctuary.
Speaker 1: You're halfway there. It's flex space. You get the picture.
Speaker 1: You didn't know this would be church, but it is.
Speaker 1: You didn't know God was gonna show up in your
Speaker 1: living room, but he did. And you didn't know God
Speaker 1: was going to use this trial in your life to
Speaker 1: make your faith strong. But he is his flex space,
Speaker 1: his flex space in my weakness. He is strong in
Speaker 1: my uncertainty. My faith grows. It's flex space. Don't you
Speaker 1: feel it getting stronger. Blessed are the flexible, for their
Speaker 1: faith cannot be broken. That's a beatitude that I just
Speaker 1: made off. Blessed are the flexible God. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it would look this way. God, I thought I'd be
Speaker 1: married by now. God I thought my marriage would be different. God,
Speaker 1: I thought I was going on a honeymoon to Europe. God,
Speaker 1: I didn't know about backyard was gonna be my vacation.
Speaker 1: This summer is flex space. God's about the so off
Speaker 1: watch us. I learned this from last rece. When he
Speaker 1: doesn't show up when you want him, it's because he's
Speaker 1: gonna show off when he comes. Hit a lick l
Speaker 1: J is flex space. Four days dead, rolled the stone
Speaker 1: away up in the grate, coming out. I needs some
Speaker 1: flex space. He inhabits the praises of his people. He flat,
Speaker 1: he flat, He inhabits the praises of his people. Would
Speaker 1: you give him praise right where you are? Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: That Paul turned a prison into a puppet. It's a
Speaker 1: flex space. That Babylon became a testing ground for faith
Speaker 1: is flex space. And in this season, I'm not shrinking
Speaker 1: up because of shame. I'm stretching forth by faith. The
Speaker 1: strength is in the stretch. Don't tell me how strong
Speaker 1: your faith is because you imagine something and it happened
Speaker 1: just like you imagined. Tell me how strong your faith
Speaker 1: is when it happened exactly the opposite of the way
Speaker 1: you saw it going. But you didn't let the devil
Speaker 1: take over your imagination. You still stretched forward your faith
Speaker 1: Apple kru Dokia to a greater day, a brighter horizon,
Speaker 1: a higher hope. How many have hope today? How many
Speaker 1: have an eager expectation of faith? So God said, I'm
Speaker 1: about to show off in the situation, in the space
Speaker 1: that you make for me. Have you made space for him?
Speaker 1: God can only feel what we bring him. Whereas your
Speaker 1: mind still so crowded with the expectations that you had
Speaker 1: that God can't bless you with the blessing that he
Speaker 1: wants to bring. I feel God filling somebody's heart right now.
Speaker 1: Your heart is his flex space. They don't let the
Speaker 1: devil have have God's territory. Are you crazy? Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: you will dispossess nations. That means you've got to kick
Speaker 1: him out. That means you've got to eliminate the enemy
Speaker 1: to reclaim your imagination. Eliminate the enemy to reclaim your imagination.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. This is God's face, this is
Speaker 1: flex space. You can't have it. You can't have it, devil.
Speaker 1: You can't have my song. You can't have my hope.
Speaker 1: I'm turning away from other interests Apple, and I'm stretching
Speaker 1: my head Karl Dokiah in the direction faith so to
Speaker 1: a community that would be completely shut down by exile.
Speaker 1: Stand up on your feet right where you are. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you're watching this on the archive. If
Speaker 1: you want to pull your car over and you're listening
Speaker 1: on a podcast on Spotify or Apple, do it. This
Speaker 1: word is coming to your Car's coming to your situation.
Speaker 1: It's coming to your hopelessness. It's coming to your disappointment.
Speaker 1: It's coming to your tomb. It's coming to your tears.
Speaker 1: It's coming to your trauma. It's coming to your setback.
Speaker 1: It's coming to a recession. It's coming to your sickness.
Speaker 1: It's coming. Make room for it is a flex space. God,
Speaker 1: do what you want to do. And you know what.
Speaker 1: I keep turning because I want to say it and
Speaker 1: I can't remember how God gave it to me. God
Speaker 1: always changes my message right before I come out a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think it's because he wants flex space.
Speaker 1: I think we need to leave God a little room
Speaker 1: of how we want our kids to turn out while
Speaker 1: we're raising them, and give him some flex space. Maybe
Speaker 1: God doesn't want my kids to be a preacher, so
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't tell them one day that they have
Speaker 1: to be preachers. Maybe they can do something else for
Speaker 1: God and it'll be even greater flex space. Have you
Speaker 1: given God any room to show off in your life?
Speaker 1: Or have you got him in a little tiny box?
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't do it just like you wanted
Speaker 1: him to do it, can God encourage you through anyone?
Speaker 1: Or do you only let him encourage you through people
Speaker 1: that you have pre selected as those that you receive
Speaker 1: validation from, or can he use someone else? It's not wasted,
Speaker 1: it's flex space. Waiting isn't wasted. That's flex face. That's
Speaker 1: where faith grows. That's where hope is illuminated. You hear
Speaker 1: the word of the Lord, Barb. It's flex space. No,
Speaker 1: we don't understand. It's been two years that you've been
Speaker 1: living with this. Two years then to find out what
Speaker 1: you found out this week. But I'm telling you God
Speaker 1: is about to God is about to show his power
Speaker 1: through you to you. I'm telling you, Barbara, He's about
Speaker 1: to use you in an amazing way. There will be
Speaker 1: glory after this. There will be glory after this, so
Speaker 1: you keep stretching and don't Hey, the devil, the devil
Speaker 1: took your brother, but don't let him take your song.
Speaker 1: You can't have my song. No, no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: can't have my joy. God's about to show off in
Speaker 1: my life. God's and I'm gonna keep singing. I still
Speaker 1: got a song. Come on, somebody, I still got a song.
Speaker 1: I still got a song. How many of you still
Speaker 1: have hands? Lift them? How many of you still got hands?
Speaker 1: Clap them? How many of you still have a mouth?
Speaker 1: Magnify the Lord with me? He's great. Hey, family, this
Speaker 1: is a family. Number one wanted to say, wanted the
Speaker 1: same number one. I think I just screamed my voice
Speaker 1: into every country that's watching this on YouTube. Make sure
Speaker 1: you let me know in the comments where you watched
Speaker 1: from if you made it to the end of the message,
Speaker 1: and give me one of these GiMA flex, Graham coome
Speaker 1: On flex on the Devilish holly Don Flex. You're driving
Speaker 1: remember Holly terms forty this week. Maybe you're watching this
Speaker 1: long after, but I just wanted to thank you. Thanks
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Speaker 1: continue to create opportunities of O, there's the camera. I
Speaker 1: was looking at the wrong place. Look at the camera.
Speaker 1: That we continue to create opportunities for God to move
Speaker 1: and for God to use this. So thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1: Thank you for just being the most amazing church family.
Speaker 1: I never knew that our church family would expand to
Speaker 1: all parts of the world, but God did. He's amazing,
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