Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base and
Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
Speaker 1: for you to break it down a little more, to
Speaker 1: take it a little deeper.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know,
Speaker 2: let's go listen to me. If it left your life,
Speaker 2: it's not necessary for what's next. If it left your life,
Speaker 2: it's not necessary for what's next. This is going to
Speaker 2: be a deep surgical word for somebody, and you're gonna go, yeah,
Speaker 2: but what about no, no, no, no no. If it left
Speaker 2: your life. Remember, Elisha was crying out in anguish when
Speaker 2: Elijah was taken up from him. This is a lot
Speaker 2: of scripture I'm giving you, but I'm just flowing in
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit right now, trusting that God is going
Speaker 2: to apply the part that you need. When Elijah was
Speaker 2: taken up by chariots and fire, Elisha was left holding
Speaker 2: only his mantle and wondering what next. And even the
Speaker 2: prophets around him went to go look for Elijah. They're like,
Speaker 2: let's go get him back, but he's not coming back.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't have to because God's doing a new thing.
Speaker 2: And for everything that left your life, whether it was
Speaker 2: abandonment or whether it was just tragedy. I declared that
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit is going to fill all of those gaps,
Speaker 2: that the Holy Spirit is going to give the oil
Speaker 2: of joy. He's going to give the balm of healing.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. Even right now, I prophesy songs of joy
Speaker 2: from barren wombs. I prophesy over every family prodigals returning,
Speaker 2: because you're so stuck on the time that you lost.
Speaker 2: But God's going to give you something back that's greater,
Speaker 2: even with the relations where you've wasted time. The Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit said, I want to restore the years that the
Speaker 2: locusts have eaten. Our God is a God of restoration,
Speaker 2: and Elisha is now doing ministry without his mentor, and
Speaker 2: the Kings are trying to go to war without water,
Speaker 2: and God steps into desperate situations. I want you to
Speaker 2: know that God, the God we serve, the God who
Speaker 2: sin his son to die for us, the God who
Speaker 2: turned Friday's disappointment into Sunday's empty tomb, and then fifty
Speaker 2: days later, on the day of Pentecoon, sin his spirit
Speaker 2: to a battered, broken people who wondered Jesus has left us?
Speaker 2: What next think about that?
Speaker 1: Think?
Speaker 2: How torn they were without the physical presence of Jesus.
Speaker 2: But Jesus says something crazy. He said, if I leave,
Speaker 2: I'll send something greater. I'll send the spirit. God never
Speaker 2: allows something to be taken away without replace it with
Speaker 2: something greater, even though we'll never ever ever get back
Speaker 2: that thing. Are you open to a great thing that
Speaker 2: God will do in its place? Because Elishah is standing
Speaker 2: there and he's like, but now verse fifteen, bring me
Speaker 2: a musician. One version says harpist. But now bring me
Speaker 2: a musician. Now, this next phrase is very key, lean
Speaker 2: in it, says verse fifteen, part B. Then it happened
Speaker 2: when the musician played that the hand of the Lord
Speaker 2: came upon him. Wait a minute, was the hand of
Speaker 2: the Lord gone before then? No, it's a steady hand.
Speaker 2: But the hand of the Lord came upon him in
Speaker 2: a special way, in a special season. The hand of
Speaker 2: the Lord is coming upon you right now. When the
Speaker 2: musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha.
Speaker 2: The musician started to play. Imagine that. Yes, the moment
Speaker 2: that the musician put his hand on the harp, the
Speaker 2: Lord put his hand on Elisha. God said, when you
Speaker 2: put your hand on it, I'll put my hand on it.
Speaker 2: That's what the Lord is saying. When you put your
Speaker 2: hand on it, God will put his hand on it.
Speaker 2: And think about this musician. Man he was called upon suddenly,
Speaker 2: wasn't he There was not time. They're dying of thirst.
Speaker 2: I need a musician. He didn't have time to practice.
Speaker 2: And it is everything that he had practiced in his
Speaker 2: life up until this point that made him ready when
Speaker 2: he was called upon for this moment of revelation. I
Speaker 2: feel God on that for somebody, Like everything that you're
Speaker 2: practicing right now. Some of you are working in counseling
Speaker 2: and it feels like, man, I still am not getting
Speaker 2: any further along. Oh you are. It's gonna come suddenly,
Speaker 2: but you've got to stay steady until it comes suddenly.
Speaker 2: A steady hand is ready to receive a sudden blessing.
Speaker 2: That's why the musician was called, because he was appointed
Speaker 2: for this. They would appoint musicians for the prophets that
Speaker 2: were ready, and they're practicing their scales, and they're practicing
Speaker 2: one of the scales. I thought this was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: One of the scales in music is the pentatonic scale.
Speaker 2: Penta is for five pentecost is fifty days, and so
Speaker 2: it's a five note scale. Well I thought about that,
Speaker 2: how he probably practices pentatonic pentatonic scales. And you know
Speaker 2: Pentecostal power comes to prepared people. Well put it in
Speaker 2: the chat. Pentecostal power comes to prepared people. They were
Speaker 2: in one accord and they were sitting, and it came
Speaker 2: suddenly acts two verse two. Suddenly came a sound, A
Speaker 2: sudden sound came to a sitting people. And I'm so
Speaker 2: glad you invested in this word today because you're sitting
Speaker 2: under this word today. You're getting ready for what God
Speaker 2: is going to do suddenly. And behind every sudden blessing
Speaker 2: is a steady hand. Because what Elisha starts prophesying, the
Speaker 2: musician starts playing. And I mean, this is not something
Speaker 2: you can just like hear with your mind. You've got
Speaker 2: to picture this with your senses. The hand of the
Speaker 2: Lord comes on, Elisha. Everybody's waiting to see what God
Speaker 2: will do. They don't know yet, they don't know how,
Speaker 2: they don't know when. And the hand of the Lord
Speaker 2: came on in verse sixteen, and he said, thus says
Speaker 2: the Lord, there it is. And he Elisha said, thus
Speaker 2: says the Lord. Okay, I'm gonna give you one more
Speaker 2: principle before we really preach here. Stop saying what you
Speaker 2: see and start saying what God says. Stop saying my
Speaker 2: kids are so annoying. Stop saying this is so frustrating,
Speaker 2: like you can process it. Fine, vent for a minute,
Speaker 2: and then say what God says. But you know what,
Speaker 2: everybody has their own gift, and God has given this
Speaker 2: person a gift, and I'm going to receive their gift.
Speaker 2: That's what God says. Stop saying the bones bones are
Speaker 2: very dry. That's what you see, Ezekiel, and start saying.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord says, breath come from the
Speaker 2: four winds. That's what Pentecost is about. That's what faith
Speaker 2: is about. And he said, thus says the Lord. And
Speaker 2: he said, thus says the Lord. And here's the word
Speaker 2: of the Lord. May this valley full of ditches? What
Speaker 2: that's dumb? We're in a desert drought. The Seven Day
Speaker 2: March they did to get there through Eat them, the
Speaker 2: wilderness of eat Them. It is dry, it is salty.
Speaker 2: It butts up against the dead sea, and it is dry.
Speaker 2: And you want us to dig ditches in a dry place? Yes,
Speaker 2: because watch this. You don't know how God's gonna do it,
Speaker 2: but he does, and you'll know when you need to.
Speaker 2: You don't know when it's gonna come. You don't know
Speaker 2: which time you're gonna be picking up your kid from
Speaker 2: school and they're gonna open up and you're gonna get
Speaker 2: to talk to them. You don't know what time you're
Speaker 2: gonna show up. And God's gonna give you somebody who
Speaker 2: shares a little thing that goes like, oh that changes
Speaker 2: my business. Oh that's gonna be the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: You don't know when the introduction's gonna happen. That's gonna
Speaker 2: contain your solution, But God does. It will flow when
Speaker 2: it's supposed to. You'll know when you need too. It
Speaker 2: flows when it's supposed to, and until it does. Get
Speaker 2: busy digging, make this falley full of ditches. Say it
Speaker 2: out loud. I'm going to dig. Say it. I'm going
Speaker 2: to dig. So if you're looking for me, you will
Speaker 2: find me with a shovel in my hand. I wish
Speaker 2: I had a prop. I didn't plan to preach this,
Speaker 2: but God planned for me too. I wish I had
Speaker 2: a shovel. What could I use? I gotta have an instrument.
Speaker 2: We use these scissors. We don't have a shovel, but
Speaker 2: we we got some scissors. I'm gonna take ayes. Kind
Speaker 2: of awkward. I'll put them down. You can imagine it.
Speaker 2: I got this shovel. No, I don't have the solution yet,
Speaker 2: but I got a shovel. No. I don't have the
Speaker 2: funding yet, but I got faith. No. I don't have
Speaker 2: the best friend that I always wanted yet, but I
Speaker 2: got the Holy Spirit. No. I don't have the companionship
Speaker 2: that I want yet in my life. But you know
Speaker 2: what I've got. I got a few people I can
Speaker 2: call today and encourage. No, I don't have the seven
Speaker 2: year strategy yet. No, I don't know what college I'm
Speaker 2: going to. No, I don't know what I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: when I grow up. And I'm fifty three. But I'm
Speaker 2: digging because I'm growing again. I'm going forward again. I'm
Speaker 2: moving in it, flowing in it, trusting in it. I
Speaker 2: trust God in this. So I'm digging right now for
Speaker 2: something that I can't see yet. Why because I have
Speaker 2: a word from God Verse seventeen. For thus says the Lord,
Speaker 2: now here it comes. This is the crux of the message.
Speaker 2: Please get this. You shall not see wind nor shall
Speaker 2: you see rain yet that valley. Now, you got to
Speaker 2: point at something in your life when you read this verse.
Speaker 2: You got to point at it. You got to point
Speaker 2: by faith. I went rafting one time, and the rafting
Speaker 2: God was telling us, Hey, when we get out here
Speaker 2: on the river, we're not gonna give you a lot
Speaker 2: of like commands and stuff and say, don't hit that rock.
Speaker 2: Don't hit that rock, because if we talk about what
Speaker 2: we don't want you to hit, you won't hear us
Speaker 2: over the rapids and you probably hit the rock. So
Speaker 2: we're going to point positive, say that point positive. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you too right, too left. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you where to paddle and what to paddle toward.
Speaker 2: And do what I say, not what you see. That's
Speaker 2: what God is saying. When you're in a season of
Speaker 2: transition like this, you gotta do what he says, not
Speaker 2: what you see, not what you feel, not what you think,
Speaker 2: not what they say, not what some report says, not
Speaker 2: what the market says. You've got to do what God says.
Speaker 2: For thus says the Lord, you shall not see wind,
Speaker 2: nor shall you see rain. Well, If I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: see wind to rain, why am I gonna dig a ditch?
Speaker 2: You'll know when you need to. I didn't know why
Speaker 2: I started teaching this today. Now I do, because God
Speaker 2: wanted me to give it to you. I didn't know
Speaker 2: why God wanted me to go to North Greenville College.
Speaker 2: Now I do. He wanted me to meet Holly so
Speaker 2: we could be here ministering to you, celebrating twenty one
Speaker 2: years of marriage. You don't have to know why you
Speaker 2: just got to dig. You don't know. I have to
Speaker 2: know why. You just got to be in your seat?
Speaker 2: Touch somebody say, be in your seat. Aren't you glad
Speaker 2: you didn't skip church today? Aren't you glad you didn't
Speaker 2: click over to some dumb YouTube video about seven things
Speaker 2: that are destroying your gut health. You got in here
Speaker 2: to get this spiritual work, get this spiritual word. For
Speaker 2: thus says the Lord. One word from God can release water.
Speaker 2: One word from God can bring you out of a wilderness.
Speaker 2: For thus says the Lord. You shall not see wind,
Speaker 2: nor shall you see rain. Yet that valley, that low place,
Speaker 2: that depression shall be filled. I don't have to see it.
Speaker 2: I don't have to know how I don't have to
Speaker 2: have it happen when I feel it should happen. None
Speaker 2: of that. I don't need any of that. All I
Speaker 2: need to do is dig, dig, dig, dig dig. What
Speaker 2: do I mean by dig? I mean listen. I mean
Speaker 2: decide inside God. Decide d inside God. Okay, God knows
Speaker 2: I'm deciding inside that God is with me right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not looking for proof around me. You shall not
Speaker 2: see when you shall not see, right, I decide inside.
Speaker 2: God is with me. That's what I mean by dig.
Speaker 2: And then you do instructions given. You do instructions given.
Speaker 2: So if you don't know this, but you do know that,
Speaker 2: you do that, you point to the valley and you dig.
Speaker 2: For that, says the Lord. You should he not win
Speaker 2: what shoes? He ring, This valley should be filled. Hell,
Speaker 2: you'll know when you need to. And he said that
Speaker 2: the consequence of this will be great, so that you,
Speaker 2: your cattle, and your animals may drink. And this is
Speaker 2: verse eighteen. A simple matter. Let's simplify it. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: get overwhelmed because you try to do God's job and
Speaker 2: it's complicated. But watch, he said, this is a simple
Speaker 2: matter in the sight of the Lord. Well, it's anything
Speaker 2: but simple to you. How am I going to get
Speaker 2: this to turn out, turn around and sustain it? And
Speaker 2: how in the world am I going to crawl through this?
Speaker 2: How in the world am I going to make this
Speaker 2: one right? How in the world am I going to
Speaker 2: explain this? It's a simple thing to God. See when
Speaker 2: you break it down into steps, it gets simple. And
Speaker 2: God will always give you one step to take, and
Speaker 2: he will give you the power of His Spirit for
Speaker 2: the next step. And you won't see wind and you
Speaker 2: won't see rain, but I'll breathe you in Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: and your strength comes suddenly. It's a simple thing. Bring
Speaker 2: yourself back right now to this moment and breathe in
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. And what's what happens? His strength comes suddenly,
Speaker 2: and his peace fills us completely. Because when the Spirit comes,
Speaker 2: he comes with gifts. What gifts he comes with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
Speaker 2: self control Galatians five twenty two and twenty three. That's
Speaker 2: the fruit of the Spirit. It's a simple thing for God.
Speaker 2: It's complicated to us. It's not to us. We don't
Speaker 2: know how to pray, but the Holy Spirit intercedes for us.
Speaker 2: And the Holy Spirit is here right now, and listen
Speaker 2: what he'll do. He will also deliver the moa bites
Speaker 2: into your hand. God is going to give the enemy
Speaker 2: into your hand, your hand. If your hand is steady,
Speaker 2: God's hand is steady. He's doing it. He's already doing it.
Speaker 2: We're not praying asking God to start doing something. He's
Speaker 2: already doing it. He's been doing this bigger than you.
Speaker 2: It's not even about you. He wants to give you
Speaker 2: this victory. Is your hand steady to receive it? Are
Speaker 2: you digging a ditch for it? Or are you just
Speaker 2: looking around you? He wants to give it into your hand. Everybody,
Speaker 2: say a steady hand for a sudden blessing.
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