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Speaker 1: Then the word of the Lord came to him. Elijah,

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Speaker 1: A widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her

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Speaker 1: As surely as the Lord your God lives. She replied.

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Speaker 1: This is an indication of the magnitude of the miracle,

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Speaker 1: As surely as the Lord your God lives, she replied,

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Speaker 1: Go home and do as you have said, But first

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Speaker 1: because that's so good. But y'all are still mad at

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Speaker 1: So let me do verse fourteen again because you need

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Speaker 1: to savor how good this is. This is awesome. This

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Speaker 1: because I'm surely not going to give a parenting sermon

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Speaker 1: practical things from this passage about a prophet, a problem

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Speaker 1: She said, you know, there's a lot of great songs

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Speaker 1: opening sermon illustration right. We always do it every time.

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Speaker 1: You're our way maker, You're our miracle worker. Okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: This sermon isn't for you. This word is for you.

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Speaker 1: context of confrontation in One King seventeen with a prophet,

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Speaker 1: a Phoenician princess. But they worshiped different gods than Yahweh.

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Speaker 1: the holy scriptures of Almighty God. Yeah, Wah, maker of

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Speaker 1: Heaven and Earth. He said, do everything without complaining and grumbling.

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Speaker 1: I'm still working on that word. You hear me, And

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, a lot of time you'll use it

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Speaker 1: as an excuse. Well, I don't know how, I don't

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Speaker 1: know where, I don't know what. God. If you show me, God,

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Speaker 1: if you tell me God, no no, no, no no no,

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Speaker 1: you know enough right now, and if you need it

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Speaker 1: to know more, he would show you. You know enough

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Speaker 1: exercises to be in good shape. You've heard of push ups,

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Speaker 1: You've heard of sit ups, You've heard of dumbbells. You

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Speaker 1: know to put this down and pick this up and

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Speaker 1: do that over and over again. You know enough, it

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Speaker 1: was enough. He was by the brooks. He wasn't stressed,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't confused. If he was, the Bible doesn't say.

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Speaker 1: He just waited until the next word, knowing that if

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Speaker 1: God fed me here, if God replenished me here, if

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Speaker 1: God sustained me here, if he took me in this wilderness,

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Speaker 1: if the birds brought my food, whatever is next will

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Speaker 1: have what I Whatever is next, we'll have what I need.

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Speaker 1: Whatever is next, we'll have what I need. And I

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Speaker 1: don't even need to know what it is. So the

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Speaker 1: Lord was preparing you in Canada while my last MD

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Speaker 1: was leaving. I'm not mad at him, but God had

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Speaker 1: you in Canada. He was practicing in Canada to my sermons,

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Speaker 1: and we had never met, we had never interviewed him.

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Speaker 1: And LJ would play organ to my sermons to practice

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Speaker 1: before I ever even knew that. On the eighth day,

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Speaker 1: God made LJ. Now, let me break this down real

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Speaker 1: specific for you. That means, like I know, we all

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Speaker 1: want to know, especially if we're talking about with our kids.

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Speaker 1: We all want to know every struggle that they're going

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Speaker 1: to face, and we all secretly fear that we're screwing

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Speaker 1: them up because we all the kids. Cover your ears.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to hear this part. We don't

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Speaker 1: know what we're doing. Cover you years. I don't want

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Speaker 1: you to know that I am bluffing you every day.

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Speaker 1: I am tour guiding you through a terrain that I

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Speaker 1: barely survived as a teenager. And I love God because

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Speaker 1: he's so good. Oh Lord, oh Lord, help me, help me.

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Speaker 1: Help them see that you know enough, and when you

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Speaker 1: need more wisdom, God will send more wisdom. And when

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Speaker 1: it comes to point, remember when Harold Staley used to

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Speaker 1: teach me guitar, and then he finally said, you need

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Speaker 1: another teacher. I have taught you everything I know, so

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Speaker 1: he moved me to another teacher. I'm glad he did that.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he did that because it gave me an

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Speaker 1: illustration for how I can trust God that when it's

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Speaker 1: time for a new stream or a new teacher, he

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Speaker 1: will use something to move me along. Now, can we

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Speaker 1: do a quick parenting conference? God knows what's next. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't want you to, because if you did, you'd screw

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Speaker 1: it up trying to be him. You would make an

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Speaker 1: idol out of your idea of what your kid's life

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Speaker 1: needs to be, and you would end up depending on

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Speaker 1: bail to send rain instead of waiting on God to

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Speaker 1: send his So a confession. God is going to send

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Speaker 1: everybody that my kids need into their life. And while

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Speaker 1: you're at it, Lord, keep all those other ones out.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what you have to do. Relocate their

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Speaker 1: parents at another job in Kansas City, whatever, Lord, because

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Speaker 1: you know what they need and I don't. That's my

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Speaker 1: favorite prayer to pray before I preach. I've tried a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them. Okay, but this one seems to work best. Lord,

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Speaker 1: they need something I don't have, You do give it

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Speaker 1: to them through me, and then the Lord speaks to me.

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Speaker 1: It said, the word of the Lord came to Elijah,

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Speaker 1: and then it came through Elijah. Because really, the brooks

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Speaker 1: drying up had nothing to do with the prophet, did it.

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Speaker 1: It had everything to do with this mom talk about vague.

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Speaker 1: God said, I'm gonna send you to a widow in

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Speaker 1: a region. Go to Sidon. Now, Zara Fhat is seven

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Speaker 1: miles south of Sidon, so he actually has to go

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Speaker 1: even past he has to go way out there. And

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Speaker 1: the Lord's like, I'm gonna send you to a widow.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. A zip code is not

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Speaker 1: an address. So when the Lord says, go to Sidon,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, all right, socif it can, I

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Speaker 1: get the street number. And the scripture says, I know

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Speaker 1: you might have forgotten it. I read it a few

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Speaker 1: minutes ago and said that when he got to the gate,

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Speaker 1: there was a woman there that was gathering sticks, two twigs.

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Speaker 1: The original language says, and so she's got two twigs,

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Speaker 1: and she's got a son. And I noticed this as

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Speaker 1: Elijah's brook was drying up. This woman's son was dying.

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Speaker 1: So God the need meter knows that his prophet needs

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Speaker 1: a meal, and this mother needs a miracle. And God

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Speaker 1: is this sovereign. God is this sovereign that he will

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Speaker 1: take a need, and take a need, and put a

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Speaker 1: need next to a need, and he will get in

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Speaker 1: the middle of those needs, and he will create a

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Speaker 1: space for himself that is called grace, and supply all

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Speaker 1: of your needs according to his riches in glory. I

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Speaker 1: might stay at eleven thirty and preci this again, God

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Speaker 1: is that good at his job. God is good at

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Speaker 1: his job. God is good at his job. And in

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Speaker 1: some of our lives. God wants his job back. We

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Speaker 1: have been trying to do God's job. We have been

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Speaker 1: trying to make it happen in our own strength. We

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Speaker 1: have been trying to manipulate it in our own strength.

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Speaker 1: And that's why we're stressed, because any strategy that does

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Speaker 1: not start with God as the source will dry up.

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Speaker 1: And now your strength is dried up. And now your

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Speaker 1: friends aren't calling you back, and now nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: talk to you, and now you have no energy, and

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Speaker 1: now you have no ideas because you're too tired to think,

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Speaker 1: and you're filling all of the empty spaces with everything

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Speaker 1: but God. And he redirects this prophet to a mom

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Speaker 1: so that the mom can feed the prophet, or is

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Speaker 1: it so that the prophet can feed the mom. I

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Speaker 1: can't figure out who God is trying to meet the

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Speaker 1: need of today? Is he? You did? God give me

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Speaker 1: this word? Because He gave Elijah her word. But unless

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Speaker 1: his brook dried up, she couldn't get her word. Everything

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Speaker 1: that you go through isn't just about you. His brook

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Speaker 1: was drying, her son was dying. Gossip I gotta get

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Speaker 1: you there. She's not even a follower of y'ah wigh.

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Speaker 1: She says, the Lord, your God. You got this god

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Speaker 1: telling you to ask me for bread. I don't have it.

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Speaker 1: Come on, be real. Have there been some moments in

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Speaker 1: your life this week where you said I don't have it?

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Speaker 1: Maybe you said it about I don't have it. I

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Speaker 1: certainly don't have it to give to you. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: said that this week I don't have it. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: were lying, but you just don't want to give it.

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Speaker 1: I don't have it. I know somebody in here has

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Speaker 1: said that this week about patience. I do not have

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Speaker 1: a single nerve left for you to get on. I

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Speaker 1: would invite you gladly to get on my last nerve,

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Speaker 1: but my last nerve was gotten on three weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: And so if you come on this nerve, you need

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Speaker 1: to know it's already gone. So whatever happens when you

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Speaker 1: try to get on this nerve, you just need to

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Speaker 1: be forewarned. I don't have it. I'm out. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you caught me making the final arrangements because I have

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Speaker 1: just enough left. Of all the widows, Jesus mentioned this

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Speaker 1: woman and looked for right beside naming, he says that

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Speaker 1: there were many widows in Israel, in the time of

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Speaker 1: Elijah the prophet. But he was sent to one and

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Speaker 1: he said, give me some water, and she said fine,

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Speaker 1: because it was customary. But when she asked, when he

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Speaker 1: asked her for bread, she had enough, and she told

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Speaker 1: him how it really was, I don't have it. In fact,

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Speaker 1: translated like this, it would be like we're saying, I

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Speaker 1: swear to God, I don't have it. That's what she said.

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Speaker 1: By the Lord your God, as he lives, I don't

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Speaker 1: have it. I'm not lying to you, I don't have it.

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Speaker 1: So Lura said, you're going to be preaching today to

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Speaker 1: some people who are weak and weary, and they don't

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Speaker 1: have their own water, and they're trying to give water

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Speaker 1: to others. Look at me preaching the Mother's Day message

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Speaker 1: after all, trying to organize somebody else's life when you

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Speaker 1: wish somebody would come help and organize yours, telling them

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Speaker 1: to clean up their room when you've got a few

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Speaker 1: spots that you would like to get to also. But

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Speaker 1: now you've got to teach them responsibility even as you

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Speaker 1: deal with your own resistance. This is the scene at

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Speaker 1: zerafad Zeriafad Jezebel's hometown, the one he would ultimately confront

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Speaker 1: and the Lord said, I'm going to send you to

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Speaker 1: this place with your need so you can meet a need,

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Speaker 1: so I can meet your need. That's parenting. God uses

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Speaker 1: what your kids need that you don't have to show

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Speaker 1: you what he's given you that you don't recognize yet.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're ready for this. This is what I

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Speaker 1: got up to tell y'all. Honestly, y'all need to bring

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Speaker 1: a little more energy for me to give you this point,

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Speaker 1: because I've been in these arenas all week and they

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Speaker 1: were excited to be there. Okay, okay, all right. That's

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Speaker 1: my son and I feed him to support me. So

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Speaker 1: that's how bad it got. All right, sit down, sit down,

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Speaker 1: let me teach you. The prophet was the problem, and

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Speaker 1: the problem was the prophet. They both start with pe

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Speaker 1: Can you break it down a little bit? I sure can.

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Speaker 1: When he said there's no rain, that's why she was

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Speaker 1: gathering sticks, because the land had stoppedroducing because of the

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Speaker 1: word he spoke. In obedience to God. The word he

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Speaker 1: spoke was responsible for the problem she had. So he

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Speaker 1: shows up as a prophet and as a problem. Some

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Speaker 1: of the problems that show up in your life aren't

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Speaker 1: just problems. They are prophecies in disguise, designed to show

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Speaker 1: you what you have that you don't. No, no, no.

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Speaker 1: I remember Holly preaching on running on empty last Mother's Day,

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Speaker 1: and it was so good because she preached about this

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Speaker 1: this widow. She preached about this widow and second King's

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Speaker 1: four and the woman was in the same situation. She

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Speaker 1: was desperate, she didn't have she didn't have it. She

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Speaker 1: was she was in a bad situation. The creditors were

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Speaker 1: coming to take our kids. And so she went to

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Speaker 1: the prophet, and the prophet said, what do you have

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Speaker 1: in your house? And she said nothing there excepted a

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Speaker 1: little oil. And he said, well, go get some jars.

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Speaker 1: And it said that the jars were filled. I mean

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Speaker 1: so many jars were filled that they ran out of

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Speaker 1: jars before they ran out of oil. But let me

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Speaker 1: show you something specific about this miracle. Oh, when the

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Speaker 1: Lord showed me this, I had to stop and write

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Speaker 1: it down because I didn't want to forget it. It

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Speaker 1: was in verse fourteen when Elijah gives the prophecy. And

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Speaker 1: I believe I'm prophescient to some moms, some dads, some teenagers.

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Speaker 1: I believe I'm prophecying to some single people, some married people,

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Speaker 1: and other words. If this is your word and you

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Speaker 1: need a word from the Lord today, I believe God

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Speaker 1: has authorized me to tell you this from verse fourteen.

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Speaker 1: From his word. This is a word for you. Say it.

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Speaker 1: This is a word for me. Say it. This is

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Speaker 1: a word for me. Say it again. This is a

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Speaker 1: word for me. For this is what the Lord, God

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Speaker 1: of Israel says. The jar of flower will not be

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Speaker 1: used up, and the jug of oil will not run

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Speaker 1: dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.

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Speaker 1: There's a prophet who is waiting for God to give

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Speaker 1: him a word that he can speak that will open

639
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Speaker 1: the heavens and bring the rain, and bring the repentance

640
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Speaker 1: of the nation, and bring the destruction of the false

641
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: prophets of bail and deliver the people to the freedom

642
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 1: of worshiping Yahweh. There's a prophet waiting for the rain.

643
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: There's a woman waiting for the rain. And while they

644
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: are both waiting, God sends a word. And this word

645
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: is for your situation and for your children and for

646
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Speaker 1: your family. The jar and the job. He said, there's

647
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: gonna be enough. Somebody say enough. Put it in the chat.

648
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: Enough enough enough, There's gonna be enough in the jar

649
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: and enough in the jog. Wait a minute, Elijah, don't

650
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Speaker 1: you mean jars and jugs plural? Nope? I said what

651
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: God told me to say. There's gonna be enough in

652
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: the jar and the jog. One jar, one job. It's

653
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Speaker 1: not gonna be ten jars and tin jogs. It's not

654
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Speaker 1: gonna be one hundred jars and one hundred jogs. As

655
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it's not even gonna look like

656
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Speaker 1: it was any more than it was before you brought

657
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Speaker 1: it to God. But it won't run out. It won't

658
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: run out. I'm praising him for all the times in

659
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: my life where it seemed like it wasn't enough. But

660
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: he said, my graces sufficient, My strength is made perfect

661
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: in your weakness. It was one job and one junk,

662
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: But watch God, what was in that jug was enough.

663
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: And I came to tell somebody, you got enough in

664
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Speaker 1: your junk to do your job. You got enough in

665
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: your junk to raise your family. You got enough in

666
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: your jog to make it through this dry season, this

667
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: hard place. There's enough in your junk. There's a word

668
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: in your spirits, there's a breath in your love. I

669
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: feel God on that there's enough in my job. There's

670
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: enough in my jog. I don't have fifteen jugs, but

671
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: I've got enough oil in one jug that if I

672
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: would use it, watch this daily, drop by drop by drop.

673
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: She ate through the whole famine and fed the prophet

674
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: and served God's purpose and saved her kids, all by

675
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: understanding that God promised to make it enough until the

676
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: rain comes. When God said you needed to hear today

677
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: that He's going to give you enough until it comes,

678
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: enough until it comes, because you may not feel freedom

679
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: right now, but God is going to give you enough

680
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: grace to make it until freedom comes. When we fight

681
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: to be free of things, we feel like we're never

682
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: gonna be free, and we think that until we feel

683
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: free God, God can't really use us. But God said,

684
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: my grace is sufficient for you, and my strength is

685
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: made perfect in your weakness. So I see what you

686
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: still struggle with. But greater is he You want this

687
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: word or not? He said it will be enough until

688
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: the rain comes. He does not tell her it's going

689
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: to reign in a year because he doesn't know either.

690
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 1: But they are both in the same place. The prophet

691
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: and the mom looking at the same problem, trusting in

692
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: the same God, believing in the same word. It was

693
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: the word at the brook, It was the word in

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Speaker 1: zarah Fath. It was the word when you were twelve.

695
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: It is the word when you are seventy two. It

696
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: will be the word that sustained, and it will be enough.

697
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: So while you wait for the rain, rejoice in the

698
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: space between, because God said, I'm gonna give you meantime

699
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 1: miracles while you're waiting for the change, while you're waiting

700
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: for the maturity, while you're waiting for it to take through.

701
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: The Bible says train up a child in the way

702
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: they should go in. When they are old, they won't

703
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: depart from it. So how do I have enough patience

704
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: to keep from killing him till they can get old

705
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: enough to do what I taught them? God said, my

706
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: grace is sufficient, and if you will lean on me

707
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: and learn from me and listen to me, it will

708
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: be enough until it comes. And all your life, God

709
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: has been leading you from Brooks to Sidonce to Caramels,

710
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: from Brooks to Sidonce to Carmels, and every space in between.

711
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: He has been good, and he has been God. So

712
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: as simple as it sounds whatever you have like the

713
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: woman that isn't even enough to feed an extra guest.

714
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: Whatever strength do you have, whatever skill you have, just

715
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: so I can know, just so I can know, because

716
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: I need to know, because I need to adjust my

717
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: approach if I miss this bad. Is there any moms

718
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: in here that had been feeling in the last little bit,

719
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: in the last season. I don't mean thirty years ago

720
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: that you are not enough for the job, just feeling

721
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: like that. There are literally eight people here who felt

722
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: like they're not enough. Okay, so let me tell y'all

723
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: what you need to know. For the eight of y'all

724
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: that feel that way. There is enough in your jar

725
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: and your job for you to do your job, but

726
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: there's not enough for you to do God's job. He's

727
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: the one who has to make it happen. He's the

728
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: one who has to make it work. He's the one

729
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: who has to prove himself faithful. Not you. You're a steward.

730
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: That means you get to give it back. I love

731
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: being a pastor because I know it's God's church. So

732
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: I tell the Lord here it is back. It's covid Lord,

733
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: we can't have church here. It is back, what do

734
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: we do now. I don't know what the future is

735
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: ten years from now, neither do you. But God said,

736
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: until I show you what's next, what you know will

737
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: be enough until it comes. Now you go worrying about tomorrow.

738
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: God cannot defend you from a battle. He didn't call

739
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: you to fight. And if you keep waiting, if you

740
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: keep waiting for fifty more jars, if you keep waiting

741
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 1: to the fact, because I'm telling you what's gonna happen,

742
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: You're gonna think when I have this much money, when

743
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: my kids get this old, when I get this opportunity,

744
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: it still will never be enough until you really truly

745
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: believe that He is enough. So come on, thing, come on, singers,

746
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: I want us to I want us to sing the

747
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 1: words we sang them earlier. Today we sang them many times,

748
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: but I want to sing it over every prophet who

749
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: God is giving a word to, every mom that God

750
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: is giving a miracle too. And I want us to

751
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: sing it over every problem that you need to bring

752
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: to God today. Did you notice what the prophet said?

753
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: He said, bring me some of what you have. And

754
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: when she did that, it was always enough. As we

755
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: wait in these spaces, for answered prayers. As we wait

756
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: in these spaces for test results, as we wait in

757
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: these spaces for situational resolve, we have to know that

758
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: His word is enough until it comes. So God, just

759
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: like Abraham finally got to the place and you had

760
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: a ram in the bush, and he called that place

761
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: Jehovah Gyrah, we choose and decide today in our hearts

762
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 1: to call you Jehovah, and we call this place Gyra.

763
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: That the Lord will provide. And I want to pray

764
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: for somebody who's been tormented by what they don't have.

765
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: They've been, They've been threatened by what they don't have.

766
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:04,959
Speaker 1: They've been, They've been restless, withdrawn, depressed because I don't

767
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: have it. I mean, if it's a mom, if it's

768
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: a dad, if it's somebody who doesn't have kids, you

769
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: see every need God, I don't. But whatever they thought

770
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: they were not when they came in here today, it's

771
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: just a space for you to show off who you are.

772
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: We talk tough and we say these things God, but

773
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: we need to live like that to bring you the

774
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: little that we have and watch it become more than

775
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: enough in the hands of Jehovah. Jirah just like you

776
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: did when I started. I want you to cup your

777
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: hands toward heaven, like if you had a father who

778
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: knew how to feed you, Like if he would send

779
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: birds to drop food for you, like if he would

780
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: send Elijah to your doorstep as you were gathering sticks

781
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: to feed your family. And I want you to take

782
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: a moment in silence all of those voices that have

783
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 1: been telling you. Look at you, you're not smart enough

784
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: to raise that daughter. You can't even help her with

785
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: her math homework. Look at you, you're not tough enough

786
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: to raise that boy. You don't even have a man

787
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: around the house. For everything that you're not, you are

788
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: a candidate for revelation of who God is. After all,

789
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: when God gave his name to Moses, he chose to

790
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: self identify as I Am. That leads all the space

791
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: in the world for any need that you will ever have. Now,

792
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: I believe God is calling some people away from dry

793
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: places of self dependence. I believe God is calling people

794
00:53:52,120 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: into their next assignment. Today. Your jar, your jug more

795
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: than enough. If your jug needed to be bigger, if

796
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: your jar needed to be wider, he would have made

797
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: it bigger, wider. He would have made it, but he

798
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: he put you there. You are the one that he chose.

799
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be all right. God's got tomorrow, and

800
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all right. God's got your babies, and

801
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all right. For the jar of flower

802
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: will not run dry, neither will the jug of oil,

803
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 1: until the day the Lord sends rain. I know you're

804
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: waiting on rain, You're waiting on some things. But God said,

805
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be enough until it comes. I'm gonna send

806
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: you everything you need. But until it comes, God is

807
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:47,280
Speaker 1: no less enough