WEBVTT - Enough Until It Comes 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:09.520 One King, Chapter seventeen, verse seven. Sometime later, the brook 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.840 dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.240 Then the word of the Lord came to him. Elijah, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.560 the prophet that we're reading about. Then the word of 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.800 the Lord came to him, Go at once to Zaraphath 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.440 in the region of Sidon, and stay there. I have 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.720 directed a widow there to supply you with food. So 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.320 he went to Zarapath, and he came to the town gate. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.519 A widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.519 and asked, would you bring me a little water in 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.920 a jar so I may have a drink. And as 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:54.960 she was going to get it, he called and ugh, 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:00.000 this guy, and bring me please a piece of bread. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.880 As surely as the Lord your God lives. She replied. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.520 This is an indication of the magnitude of the miracle, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.679 that it's not even her God that the prophet represents, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.480 and she's going to have to make a choice to obey. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.240 As surely as the Lord your God lives, she replied, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.720 I don't have any bread, only a handful of flour 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.959 in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.880 I am gathering a few sticks to take home and 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:38.000 make a meal for myself and my son, that we 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:49.240 may eat it and die. How many of you, if 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.680 you're the prophet, you're sorry you asked at this point 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:57.280 because you didn't really ask all that. I didn't ask 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.600 all that. Elijah said to her verse thirteen. Don't be afraid. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.560 Go home and do as you have said, But first 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.920 make a small loaf of bread for me from what 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.079 you have, and bring it to me, And then make 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.839 something for yourself and your son. For this is what 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.160 the Lord, the God of Israel, says. The jar of 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:27.200 flower will not be used up, and the jug of 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.560 oil will not run dry until the day the Lord 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.240 sends rain on the land. I read that scripture again 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.080 because that's so good. But y'all are still mad at 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.600 me about the other verses where he said bring me 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.520 some bread, and bring it to me first, and you're like, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.120 this is just like a man to preach this on 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.480 Mother's Day, And where is Holly, And we want Holly, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.320 we wan Holly, we wan Holly. I'm just reading you 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.919 the scripture that the Lord gave me to preach, all right, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.040 So let me do verse fourteen again because you need 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.640 to savor how good this is. This is awesome. This 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.040 is awesome, for this is what the Lord, the God 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.880 of Israel, says. The jar of flower will not be 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.360 used up and the jug of oil will not run 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.560 dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.920 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.280 So there was food every day for Elijah and for 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.680 the woman and her family, for the jar of flower 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.280 was not used up, and the jug of oil did 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.520 not run dry, in keeping with the word the Lord 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:39.840 had spoken through Elijah, or by the word spoken by Elijah. Okay, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.600 the Lord told me to tell you this for our 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.800 message today. Look at your neighbor and say, God promised 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.200 to give you enough. Look at your other neighbors, say 0:03:51.480 --> 0:04:00.360 God promised to give you enough until it comes. This 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:07.760 is the Mother's Day message. Enough until it comes. You're 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.160 waiting on something from God. He told me to tell 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:17.680 you prophetically, not pathetically, that he promised to give you 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:27.120 enough until it comes. All right, y'all, take your premium seat, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.479 and let's talk about this text, this story for a moment, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.320 because I'm surely not going to give a parenting sermon 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:39.520 on Mother's Day, but I might just preach a few 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:46.200 practical things from this passage about a prophet, a problem 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:52.720 and a mom, a prophet a problem and a mom. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:05:00.680 All the moms in the house make some crazy nolds. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.880 So you beat a mom and I'll be the prophet, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.720 and we want to talk about what God said enough 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:20.080 until it comes bias. But I think Holli Fredick would 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.520 beat all of y'all in a momming competition, not that 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.680 there is such a competition. We do give her a 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.200 hard time because every family that can't make fun of 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.919 itself is dysfunctional. So if you ever see a family 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:41.520 and nobody picks on anybody, that is a sad family, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.159 and trust me, I have to regulate and referee in 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.640 our house. Like that's enough. That's three times with Abby 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.840 and one time with Graham, and five times with Alla. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.159 Y'all leave your mom alone. But there's one thing we 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.440 all pick on her about. It happened right here on 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.279 this very stage. I want to say it was on 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.320 Mother's Day. I'm not sure make the story better if 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.159 it was, So let's say it was Mother's Day. She 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.200 was up here preaching, and after her sermon, I'm gonna 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.520 tell you why she did it. I'm gonna tell you 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.240 what she did after her sermon, She said, I want 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.440 to go into Waymaker. Y'all know the song Waymaker. Now, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.680 let me tell you something. I have written many songs 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.800 to bless our church. Waymaker is not one of them. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.599 I wish I wrote Waymaker. That's a great song, but 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.240 I didn't write that song. We didn't write that song. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:30.120 She stands in my pulpit, in my pulpit, and she 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.080 closes her message, and she's thinking about Jesus is the Way, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.080 and I know the way, so I know how she 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.640 got there. I know why she got there. But what 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.920 she said was devastating. She ripped out this songwriter pastor's heart. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.360 She said, you know, there's a lot of great songs 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:52.400 out there, graves into gardens, the Blessing Rattle, the songs 0:06:52.440 --> 0:07:00.679 we wrote, but my favorite is a Waymaker. You'll never 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.040 let her live it down. And what better way to 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.159 earn points with your wife after a two week tour 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.480 than to pick on her on Mother's Day And you're 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.400 opening sermon illustration right. We always do it every time. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.400 We'll say, mom, you want to see your favorite song, Waymaker, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.000 miracle Worker, promise Keeper. We love her so much, we 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.000 love her. You love you so much. You're so amazing. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.080 You're our way maker, You're our miracle worker. Okay, okay, okay, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.400 giving it up since it's your favorite song. If I 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.920 could have written it, I would have added one thing 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.480 to it. I want you to think about this real quickly, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.800 not just for the moms. Don't log off because I 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.640 said Mother's Day. That's not a code word to mean. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.680 This sermon isn't for you. This word is for you. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.480 But if we're gonna call out a waymaker, miracle worker, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:50.800 promise keeper, light in the darkness, also want to talk 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:57.320 about how he's a need meter, right, a need meter? 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.600 How good are you at letting God meet your needs? 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:12.400 And what do you tend to run to instead of 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:20.080 God in times that you need relief resource? And is 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.720 it possible that those things you run to are the 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.440 things that you have replaced God with in your life. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.400 Let me just look right here at my pulpit and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.600 not look at y'all, because y'all do not like this 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.680 sermon so far. But it's going to get good in 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.000 a minute. But first we got to talk about the 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.560 context of confrontation in One King seventeen with a prophet, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.920 a mom and a problem. Now the whole nation has 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:56.200 a problem called famine. Drought which causes famine, has now 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.680 become so severe that they've got the king's men out 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.000 search for grasp. And it's really his fault because he 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.640 brought this woman named Jezebel. I don't think there's many 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.200 preachers in America bold enough to preach on Jezebel on 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.920 Mother's Day except yours truly. And she is catched us 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:21.439 a Phoenician princess. But they worshiped different gods than Yahweh. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.160 So when Ahab decided to bring this Phoenician princess into 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:33.120 the ecosystem and the religious system of Israel, it caused 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.000 all kinds of compromise. Maybe not all at first, but 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.440 gradually it began to corrupt everything about the way God's 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.319 people worshiped the God who had called them and named them. Eventually, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.600 Ahab got so bald about it that he set up 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.120 a center for bail worship b Aal that was the 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.080 name of one of their gods that controlled the rain 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.200 and the fertility. So they thought, and they thought that 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.760 all the way up until Yahweh, the God that's the 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.600 real God, said okay, if Bail is so big and bad. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.200 Tell him to make it rain. Oh he can't. That's right, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.040 because I am God, I am the source. I am 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.320 the one I have the word that sustains life, starts life, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.480 ends life. And so that's kind of the context of 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.520 First Kings seventeen. I'll point that out to you because 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.200 both of the people in this passage of scripture that 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.839 I read to you are dealing with a problem that's 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:36.719 not completely their fault. The prophet Elijah has prophesied there 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.160 will be no rain nor do except at my word 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.440 over the space of the next few years. And he 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.840 said that to Ahab, and then he went into hiding 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.680 this woman. She's not even in Israelite. She's hanging out 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:56.640 inside on which happens to be Jezebel's hometown. That's the 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.080 one who is going to try to kill Elijah in 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.760 a few chapters after, he goes up on Mount Carmel 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.600 and says, hey, Bail, are you busy? Are you using 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.040 the bathroom? Send some rain since you're really God, because 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.080 you have to understand, this was a tremendously cruel and 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.040 tormenting system that the people were living under. Trying to 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.000 appease Bail, who wasn't a God at all. Depending on 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.240 a God who can't say it, depending on a God 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:26.560 who is not a God will leave you dry. I 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.960 want you to hear something from me today. I'm not 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.920 a prophet, but just as a preacher prophesy in God's word, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.040 everything you depend on that does not come from God 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:50.360 will eventually dry up. Preaching good pastor everything you depend on. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.959 I'll take it further, that is not God, even if 0:11:55.000 --> 0:12:00.800 it's good, will eventually dry up. Even people who like you, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.920 we'll get tired of you if you start needing them 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:10.000 to meet needs that God is designed to me. Some 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.840 of the people that you're angry with, they are good people, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.520 but they are not God. When you try to make 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.319 a good relationship of God in your life, it becomes 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:26.120 a idle. The passage in One King seventeen is about idolatry. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.200 It's about what happens when you decide to run to 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:36.640 the resource and neglect the source. I'm gonna break this 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.240 down till everybody in the room can confront it. When 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.400 I fill every spare moment of my life with social media, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.319 how can God speak to me if I run to that, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.400 If that becomes my first resource and recourse. Anytime I 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.680 want to escape my mind, then how can the peace 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.640 of God guard my heart and my mind? In Christ 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.079 Jesus or you could say that about sex, or you 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.360 could say that about a pill, or you could say 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.360 that about a doughnut. I can go all day long. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.720 How long do you have? I mean, I got a 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.440 big list of stuff that I've tried to run through, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.400 run to that wasn't God. And I said that accidentally, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.720 But it's kind of good. If you run to something 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.000 that's not God, you will run through it. Eventually. It 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.280 will not sustain you, it will not last forever, and 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:29.240 it can only give you so much. Now there's been 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.160 no rain in the land. Why because the people needed 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.360 to repent and come back to God. And maybe you 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.760 do too. Maybe you do too. Maybe you need to say, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.760 you know, God, I'm experiencing a dryness in my life 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.360 right now. That indicates the fact that I have been 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.440 replacing you with something that is not you. And see, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.360 I think dryness is often a gift that God uses 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:04.240 to direct us. God. God directs by dryness to show 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.880 you that something's wrong here. This isn't working here. Wow, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.920 I keep on putting more effort more effort, more effort, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.600 but I'm not getting more results. I'm not getting more joy, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.400 I'm not getting more peace. I keep doing more and 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.240 I keep feeling less. And that is a sign that 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.600 God is redirecting you to the text to the text 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.560 to the text. In One Kings, chapter seventeen, it says 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.720 that Elijah is hang it out by a brook because 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.000 there had been no rain in the land. You don't 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.320 know what restraint I am using not to preach about 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.520 the fact that he is suffering from the problem that 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:46.360 his prophecy cost. Did you catch it? He said there's 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.160 gonna be no rain. So God says, since I made 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.480 you say there's gonna be no rain, and since nothing 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.760 can grow where there is no rain, I'm gonna show 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.640 you where to run where you can receive even though 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.520 there's no rain. And it works for for a while. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.320 Eventually the Bible says that the the late autumn rains 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.680 and the early winter rains that were meant to replenish 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.160 the land didn't come. Now we know by nature that 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.880 the brook didn't dry up all at once. I mean, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.560 you don't go from a brook that's filled with water 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.000 to a brook that has no water. Just like that, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.880 And so every day Elijah wakes up, it's a pretty 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.480 good setup he has. All right, let me tell you 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.480 what God did. God's like, I'm gonna give you water 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.080 from the brook, even though there's no rain in the land, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.160 because you spoke a word. You spoke a word to 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.720 bring the people to a place, back to worshiping me. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.160 I'm gonna bring you to a brook, and I'm gonna 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.640 let you drink from the brook. But you need to 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.400 eat too, So I'm gonna send birds, not just any 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:55.160 birds you already dirty birds. I'm gonna send some ravens. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.520 These are unclean birds. For Jewish boy to eat from 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:03.400 a dirty bird, that's a bad system already. But God 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:09.880 would meet Elijah's needs daily through the mouth of a 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.280 bird that he considered unclean, and he would meet his 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.680 needs daily at the brook cad char it Ah the 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.560 Hebrew the charith Ravene. It gives the impression that he's 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.840 by this brook, and every day he wakes up there's 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.040 something for him to drink. How many of you would 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.040 say that in your life there were seasons where God 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:37.840 provided new mercies every day in your life, And let 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.960 me be more specific, you didn't know how, but he 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:47.440 kept you going. You didn't know how. I didn't add 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:54.600 uh like, it doesn't even make sense. But you had 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.480 something to drink doesn't even make sense. But you had 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.680 something to eat. Doesn't even make sense. But you got 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.120 up and went to your job, and your job sucks. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.400 You didn't want to be there. Sorry, Mom, you didn't 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.560 ask to be there. But I have watched in my 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:19.639 own life the times where something that was sustaining me 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.600 in one season started to go away in the next season, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.240 and it goes away slowly, And the Lord sent me 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.760 to minister to somebody today. Whose brook is drying up? 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.520 Whose brook is drying up? The thing that used to 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.479 bring your joy or comfort, it's no longer bringing it 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:49.160 to you anymore. Your brook is drying up, and you're thinking, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.880 maybe I did something bad, maybe I did something wrong. No, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:58.119 Elijah did exactly what God told him to and his 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:05.480 brook still tried. There is no indication that God gave 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:10.360 him a warning. Incrementally, in fourteen days, this brook will 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:16.840 be dry. He watched the water level go down, down, down, 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.560 and waited for a word from God to tell him 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.040 what to do about it. And when it says in 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.840 the Bible, the Word of the Lord came. In verse eight, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.480 it says nothing of the space before the Word of 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.320 God came, where Elijah had to sit there watch the 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.840 water level go down while his thirst increased and his 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.000 hunger was not abated, but his resource was not replenished. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.359 I don't know what's going on with my mic. The 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.520 devil must not want you to hear this. And the 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.280 Bible says that as it went down, Elijah, waiting for 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.240 the word of God to come, has to wait in 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.919 a place where he doesn't know where he's going next. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.560 I'm preaching to somebody today who is waiting for God 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.040 to give you your next step? Who is it? Who 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.720 is it? And you don't know what it is? Yet 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.320 you need God to show you your next step? Who 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.520 is it? You need God to show you a next 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.800 step in your life because God, I can't stay where 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.960 I am like I am where it is. This isn't 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.159 going to work. I have to move on, but I 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.280 don't know where. And now you feel like Abraham, who 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.000 God said, go to the place I'll show you. What 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:35.400 kind of weird life coaching is this? Go where I'm 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.520 gonna show you. It makes me think of Psalm one 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.200 oh three, verse one oh five, Verse one oh five. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.080 That's how long Psalm one oh three is you get 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.480 all the way to verse one oh five. And the 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:54.080 Psalmist says, your word is a lamp to my feet 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.040 and a light to my path. But I don't really 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.159 like the fact that God's w is compared to a 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.760 lamp to my feet, because what I really want is 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.399 a floodlight where I can see all the way to 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.639 my future ten years from now, especially as a parent. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.960 God show me exactly where my kids need to go 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.920 to college, so I can know how much I need 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.640 to save and when I need to put it there. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.359 And my kid is three. But God is not going 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.000 to give me the name of the college when my 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.640 kid is three, when I have barely got them walking. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.320 But in our walk with God, a lot of times 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.280 we won't take a step toward a destination we don't 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.640 know until God gives us all the details. That's not faith, 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.560 that's not faith. That's not faith. He had to wait, 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.440 wait for the next word from God, and until it came, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.200 God kept him sustained in a place that was enough. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:01.600 Wasn't fancy, but it was enough. It wasn't but the 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.040 birds got the job done. It wasn't five star, but 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.679 his belly stayed full. And God is sustaining some of 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.240 us in a place in this season of our life 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.080 watch this where it's enough. But we don't know what's next. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.119 And the problem isn't that God isn't faithful to us 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.120 in this moment. Wrong with us is we haven't read 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:29.359 Matthew six thirty four. Jesus has a word for everybody 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.560 who is trying to project out into the future, a 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.719 promise that God will not give you until you get there. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.639 If I came to preach this message today, just to 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.879 me and Holly, it will have been worth me putting 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.280 on this itchy Levi's jacket they tre Siah gave me 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.679 because Jesus said, here's your problem. Look at Matthew six 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.080 thirty four. Y'all got it? Well? I know the number 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:08.119 I need the verse. Thanks, that's helpful. Put it up 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:09.840 on the screen, y'all. Wake up, Wake up, wait, go 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.120 get somebody some coffee. Back there. Matthew six thirty four. 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:17.000 You got it. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:23.240 tomorrow will worry about itself. And then I love this part. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:31.520 Each day has enough trouble of its own, So wait 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.600 for the day to bring the trouble. It's gonna don't 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.280 borrow trouble from tomorrow that you may never even have 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.800 to face anyway, because God might do something about it 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:46.600 overnight Mother's Day. But I got a word from God, 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.359 and I realize that a lot of us are not 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.040 really losing the battle that we're fighting in the moment. 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.120 We're losing the battle that we're a imagining that's going 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:05.800 to happen out there. But sufficient is theday for its 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:10.840 own trouble, and sufficient is today's strength for today's struggles. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:17.800 But today's strength is not sufficient for tomorrow's struggles. And 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.960 God will not give you the entire plan. He told 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.720 him kind of like a GPS. He told Elijah, turn 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.919 by turn, go east of the Jordan, and there I 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.919 have directed these birds. Now he can't leave Elijah there forever, 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.040 because if he leaves Elijah in one spot long enough 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.080 where he provides for him, Elijah will begin to worship 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:48.520 the spot and think that the spot is God. Have 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.040 you confused the spot where God blessed you with the 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:59.000 God who blessed you there and worship the situation or 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.280 even worship the y'all. I say this about once a 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.400 year just to make sure y'all know it. If I don't, 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.359 if I don't show up to preach next week, you know, 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.639 my head gets cut off or something like that. I 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:12.359 don't know what might happen to me. Might be riding 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.400 a bike, might run under some cut my head off, 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.680 and I can't come preach. Got it. If that happens, 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.200 y'all still need to get to church because God will 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:30.199 put up here the person that you need. It's not me. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:37.879 I'm I'm just a dirty bird. I'm just dropping off 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.760 the stuff God wants you to have. God's got a 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.320 lot more birds now. I want to be the best 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.639 bird I can be. I'm trying to stay clean, stay holy, 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:51.520 stay studied, and all that. But God will not leave 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:54.439 you with the need that He will not meet. He 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:58.280 just might meet it differently in different seasons. And that's 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:06.040 intentional me. That's intentional because if Elijah had stayed at 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.280 the brook for the whole three years during the famine, 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.760 he probably would have been tempted to start worshiping the birds. 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:17.280 And how can he confront bail worship if he thinks 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.280 the birds that are bringing him. The food is God. 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.440 So the brook dried up, and God uses the dryness 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:27.679 in our lives, to dry places, to dry seasons, to 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:31.600 lead us to our next assignment. That make a little 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.760 bit more sense of why you've been feeling like you've 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:39.200 been feeling that God is using what is God using 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.520 in your life to move you. Now, Remember he doesn't 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:47.359 move him to somewhere more comfortable. He calls him to 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:52.199 somewhere even crazier. Is one thing to get water in 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:55.680 the wilderness, it's another thing to be sent to get 0:25:55.720 --> 0:26:01.280 it from a widow in enemy territory. So God will 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.720 send you to places to provide for you that you 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:11.119 may not prefer. I can't buy it. Amen, Holli, you 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.760 want to take over. I know it's good. The Lord 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.200 told me it was good. He told me to preach 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:19.920 this word to you today because He wants to show 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:23.560 you that the dryness in your life is not a 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:27.639 sign that He has left you. It is a sign 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.800 that He is moving you. I don't mean physically. I 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.720 don't mean physically. I mean moving you to new patterns, 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:37.800 moving you to a new way of doing things, moving you. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.560 If we want to make it a Mother's Day, sermon 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:43.720 to a new way of parenting your kids. And I 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.679 think the greatest skill to learn in life is the 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:52.560 difference between what you can control and what you can't control. 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:58.680 Now in the story, in the story, both the prophet 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.639 Elijah and the mom who he's going to meet, he 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.520