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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Say amen, somebody, y'all are going to have to say

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Speaker 1: it real loud today because you know, it's normally pretty

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Speaker 1: quiet at the nine thirty at Valentine anyway, usually at

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Speaker 1: nine thirty. I don't know about our Gaston campus or

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Speaker 1: University City or Roanoke, but at this building usually they

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Speaker 1: are not caffeinated. The Holy Spirit doesn't kick in until

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Speaker 1: about ten to fifteen Eastern Standard time. But it's real

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Speaker 1: quiet today, and so we're gonna need to We're gonna

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Speaker 1: need to make a connection. And the team here is

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Speaker 1: so smart. Le'm to smart. They are. Everybody say how

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Speaker 1: smart are they? Okay, here's how smart. They put up

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Speaker 1: a big screen where it's just and scrolling and scrolling,

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Speaker 1: where I can see your names. But it's going so fast.

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Speaker 1: Stop it for a second, just stop it can stop

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Speaker 1: it scrolling so fast? Can y'all see that this is

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Speaker 1: on YouTube, so I know Facebook and the Elevation app

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Speaker 1: and Roku and MySpace and no not MySpace. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: using everything right now to reach people. Instagram, using all

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Speaker 1: of it, Dropbox, Napster. Can we put this sermon on Napster.

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Speaker 1: We're just trying to get the word out. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: I can see Travis P. Jackson, I can see rob

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Speaker 1: I can see Colin Lowe. I can just see your amends.

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Speaker 1: Let it go again, let it scroll. This is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Just go ahead and say I'm in in the chat,

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Speaker 1: say I'm in. If you're watching this later on the archive,

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Speaker 1: just put I'm in. I'm in, and do this for me.

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Speaker 1: Tell me where your amen is coming from. I'm in

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Speaker 1: from from you know, Sweden. I'm in from Cowpins, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: From Sweden to South Carolina. Say I'm in, because I

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Speaker 1: notice different people say I'm indifferently. I got one dude

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Speaker 1: So when he says, somebody, do it real quick, how

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Speaker 1: But and then I remember when I first realized some

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Speaker 1: people say amen, Amen. And of course in every language,

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Speaker 1: every tongue, the goal is for us to come into

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Speaker 1: agreement with God by faith. Faith is a language. And

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Speaker 1: so what we want to do together today is realize

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Speaker 1: that God is cross cultural, and God can reach from

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Speaker 1: heaven to earth. He can certainly reach through a screen.

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Speaker 1: And I'm so thankful for the privilege to minister to

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Speaker 1: you today. Go ahead right now, and don't just say amen,

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Speaker 1: but share with somebody the link to this sermon. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be here with you for the next

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Speaker 1: I might preach three or four hours. I haven't decided yet.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, they're bringing out my table and my stool.

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Speaker 1: We're bringing church to you, and then you're gonna come.

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Speaker 1: Where are y'all watching from? Because God is in the house.

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Speaker 1: Somebody say God is in the house. God is in

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Speaker 1: I told the Lord that our church would be here

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Speaker 1: the little things in scripture come alive when you stop

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Speaker 1: and think about them, you know, just go through them.

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Speaker 1: And since this message is called when God says, stop,

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Speaker 1: I want to stop on something that's significant. Early in

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Speaker 1: the morning, Joshua and all the Israelites there you go.

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Speaker 1: All the Israelites set out from Shidam and went to

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Speaker 1: the Jordan, which is the place where God always reveals identity.

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Speaker 1: You remember, that's where Jesus went to be baptized the Jordan.

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Speaker 1: This is my son. That's where God always shows you

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Speaker 1: who you really are by what he brings you through.

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Speaker 1: That spoke to me. When we're going through something, the

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Speaker 1: goal isn't just to get through it. The goal is

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Speaker 1: for God to show us something in it that will

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Speaker 1: make us better on the other side. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be better on the other side. I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: better on the other side. It may look different. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to be normal. It's not we're not going

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Speaker 1: back to normal, but but I'm going to be better

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Speaker 1: on the other side of this. You got to go

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Speaker 1: in with that assurance or else you're gonna stand like

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Speaker 1: like the Israelites stayed for forty years on the wrong

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Speaker 1: side of the Jordan. And I'm gonna tell you something else.

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Speaker 1: God didn't stop from going into the Promised Land. God

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Speaker 1: didn't stop them. I used to preach that they got

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Speaker 1: stuck in the wilderness, and how some of us get

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Speaker 1: stuck in temptation, or we get stuck in unbelief, or

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Speaker 1: we get stuck in fear. And one day I was

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Speaker 1: preaching that, and the Lord slowed me down and said,

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Speaker 1: they didn't get stuck. They stopped. There was nothing keeping

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Speaker 1: them in. There's nothing keeping us right now from being grateful. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: you hadn't seen my bank acount. I'm talk about you

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Speaker 1: bank account. I talk about your belief system. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about you believe that God is good at the bottom,

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Speaker 1: and you have this hope as an anchor for your soul.

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Speaker 1: That's a rock, that's a foundation. They can't be shaken

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Speaker 1: by a storm. The winds can come, the streams can rise,

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Speaker 1: beat against the house, and it didn't fall. It only

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Speaker 1: showed the foundation for what it was. And so when

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Speaker 1: they crossed the Jordan, they were doing what the previous

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Speaker 1: generation could have done. But they stopped. They stopped. They stop.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we tell ourselves that we're stuck, when the fact

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Speaker 1: is we just stopped. Oh man, I've just been depressed lately,

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Speaker 1: like just like everywhere I look as bad news, stop

468
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Speaker 1: watching it. I feel an annointing on one word, because

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Speaker 1: I preached so many sermons on go go. You know,

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Speaker 1: God told Abraham go to the land. I will show you.

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Speaker 1: He said, go and make disciples. That was the great commission,

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Speaker 1: go go, go. But what about when God says, stop stop.

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Speaker 1: I believe God is issuing. Like I yelled at the

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Speaker 1: top of my lungs the other day, stop stop scrolling.

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Speaker 1: Oh I wonder why I don't have any peace. God

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Speaker 1: give me peace. But you got a leaky bucket that

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Speaker 1: you're asking God to put peace in because you won't

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Speaker 1: turn off your phone. It needs to charge, it's getting hot,

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Speaker 1: it's burning your hand. So you're gonna feed yourself fear

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Speaker 1: and then pray for more faith. God says stop stop. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: will it need to be informed? Hey, nobody knows right now.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. I mean you know everything. Everybody knows right now.

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Speaker 1: You know enough, you know enough, You know enough, and

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Speaker 1: I'm wanna tell you something else. You know enough about

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Speaker 1: God to get you through this valley we talk about

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Speaker 1: going through. I know I'm gonna get through this. And

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Speaker 1: I don't say that in a callous way or a

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Speaker 1: cliche way or a hashtag kind of faith. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: the Lord is my shepherd. I know that he's my guy.

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Speaker 1: I know that I shall not want. Hang on a second,

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Speaker 1: there's a weird part of this passage. The Lord's my

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Speaker 1: not want. He maketh me lie down in green pastors.

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Speaker 1: It's like you're saying, God will guide you, guide you,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes in order to get you to green pastors,

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Speaker 1: he has to give you a red light. He makes

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Speaker 1: me lie down, he makes me lie down, And it's

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Speaker 1: right there in Joshua three. It's right there. How God

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Speaker 1: is leading his people. He's led them forty years in

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Speaker 1: a wilderness. They've been through things before, but now they're

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Speaker 1: standing at something new, just like we are. Some of you.

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Speaker 1: God has seen you through divorce. He's seen you through

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Speaker 1: a miscarriage. He's seen you through a suicidal impulse that

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Speaker 1: you almost took your own life and then you didn't.

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Speaker 1: He saw you through the worst decision of your life.

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Speaker 1: He saw you through financial mistakes. He saw you through

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Speaker 1: all of that. And now you are standing at this

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Speaker 1: and you're like, I've never been here before. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: but in that moment, what you know has to take

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Speaker 1: over what you feel. And that's what I want to

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Speaker 1: illustrate in the text. When God says stop living by

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Speaker 1: feelings and start living by faith, stop living by sight,

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Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Spirit when God says stop is

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Speaker 1: so important that we listen to the Holy Spirit. When

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Speaker 1: he says stop, stop, stop playing out all the worst

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Speaker 1: what if scenarios in your brain. You've gone way past planning.

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Speaker 1: I'm just getting a plan. Is that what you call

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Speaker 1: it a plan? When you're projecting every possible scenario trying

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Speaker 1: to predict, you think you're miss Cleo or something like that.

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Speaker 1: You ain't a prophet and give yourself an ulcir I

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Speaker 1: prophecy peptobismal in your future every night before you go

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Speaker 1: to bed if you don't stop it. And I love

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Speaker 1: what God gave him and how the presence of God

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Speaker 1: sometimes will tell you to stop. Give me verse one again,

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Speaker 1: all this in verse one, and don't y'all get scared.

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Speaker 1: But I got like seventeen verses. Okay, but I will

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Speaker 1: stop at some point so the next service can run.

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Speaker 1: But it says early in the morning, Josh, when all

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Speaker 1: the Israelites set out from Shitham and went to the Jordan,

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Speaker 1: the place of identity, and the instruction was camp before

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Speaker 1: crossing over. Isn't that cool? How God was bringing them

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Speaker 1: into something new, and before he could bring them into

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Speaker 1: this new space, he told him to stop and camp.

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Speaker 1: And what he tells them to do next, I want

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Speaker 1: to give you as a prophetic word for what God

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Speaker 1: might be saying to you for this season of your life.

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Speaker 1: We're all going through this at the same time, but

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Speaker 1: we're not all going through the same thing. Some people

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Speaker 1: are making real decisions right now, Like our church. All week,

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Speaker 1: it was just decision after decision after decision. And the

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Speaker 1: problem is, you know we're all trying to Okay, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: give you the next point. You're ready. Stop wasting today's

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Speaker 1: strength fighting tomorrow's battles. Stop stop stop trying to stop

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Speaker 1: trying to defend yourself against doomsday that may or may

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Speaker 1: not happen. Make decisions, Make decisions. God will give you

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Speaker 1: the wisdom for the decisions you need to make right now.

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Speaker 1: I believe that he will. I'm believing that for every

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Speaker 1: healthcare worker. I'm believing that for our leaders. I'm believing

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Speaker 1: that God is gonna bring our country together in a

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Speaker 1: way right now that we're gonna figure out some stuff

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Speaker 1: that we needed to fix for a long time, and

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00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: your nation and God's gonna bring us together. We're positioned

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Speaker 1: for a miracle, but we got to go through together.

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Speaker 1: We got to get through this together. If the church

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Speaker 1: stops giving right now and we start acting like we

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00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: need a building to be blessed. We're gonna miss it.

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Speaker 1: We got to come together like never before. That's why

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00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: we were given out over two hundred thousand meals this

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Speaker 1: week as a church, because this is a time for

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Speaker 1: us to stop, pause before we go into what's next.

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Speaker 1: Look what the scripture says in verse two, I love

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Speaker 1: my big Bible up here on the screen. After three days.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good number when it's in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: After three days. Now we're living through something right now

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Speaker 1: that's going to take longer than three days. The economic

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Speaker 1: impact of the coronavirus, this global pandemic is going to

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Speaker 1: take longer than three days. But notice this that they

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Speaker 1: camped before crossing over, and yet God didn't call it quarantine.

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Speaker 1: He called it something else. Okay, so watch this. After

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Speaker 1: three days, the officers went throughout the camp. These are

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Speaker 1: the leaders, first three giving orders to the people. So

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Speaker 1: God has teaching us how to follow instructions. God is

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Speaker 1: teaching us how to come together. God is teaching us

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Speaker 1: how to put our preferences in our pride to side.

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Speaker 1: And he said, when you see the arc of the

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Speaker 1: covenant of the Lord, your God and the levitical priests

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Speaker 1: carrying it. You are to move out from your positions

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Speaker 1: and follow it. When you see the art, follow it

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Speaker 1: verse four. Then you will know which way to go

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Speaker 1: since you have never been this way before. Is that

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Speaker 1: not a word for twenty twenty? Was the Bible written yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I feel like this just got an update, and it

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Speaker 1: just spoke right to our situation. We've never been this

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Speaker 1: way before, and that gives us an amazing opportunity to

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Speaker 1: rely on God like never before. We are positioned for

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Speaker 1: a miracle. We are a candidate for the presence of

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Speaker 1: God to show up and do something awesome in our crisis.

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Speaker 1: But yet it requires us in this moment to stop

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Speaker 1: and to pause, and the Bible says something very interesting.

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Speaker 1: Then you will know it way to go since you

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Speaker 1: have never been this way before. It doesn't mean it's

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00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: never been this way before. It doesn't mean bad things

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Speaker 1: have never happened before. Someone said to me, this could

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Speaker 1: be the end of the church as we know it.

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Speaker 1: I was like, huh, the churches you know it. The

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Speaker 1: churches they knew it in the Bible. I hate to

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Speaker 1: break this to y'all. They didn't have YouTube live, they

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Speaker 1: didn't have campuses, they did not have and I know

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Speaker 1: this is gonna break some of your hearts. They did

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Speaker 1: not have a vest of you. They did not have

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Speaker 1: points set us, they did not have a pipe board. Again,

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Speaker 1: so this is nothing new for God. It's nothing new.

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Speaker 1: It's new to you. It's not new to God. God

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Speaker 1: saw it coming. God is already in your tomorrow. God

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Speaker 1: put it in the chat. God is already in my tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I know you'd shouted if you could, if you were here.

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Speaker 1: But somebody's saying the chat. God is already in my tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: God is already in my tomorrow. And God says, give

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Speaker 1: me my job back. God's job is tomorrow. Your job

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Speaker 1: is today. Give us this day our daily bread. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do today. I'm gonna keep from killing my kids.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do today. All right, good, that's

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Speaker 1: your job. I'm gonna pray today. Give me that camera.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do today. I'm gonna sit set aside some

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Speaker 1: time and listen to the word of God this day.

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Speaker 1: And we get so confused because we get well, we

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Speaker 1: get to the point where we think we can help

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Speaker 1: God with this job a little bit. So in a

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Speaker 1: moment like this, We're like, well, maybe if I'll just

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Speaker 1: freak out and call it prayer, then God will do something, okay,

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Speaker 1: because some of y'all know, the only thing you're doing

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Speaker 1: when you're praying is you are applying a spiritual dialect

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Speaker 1: to a fearful position. And by the time we get

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Speaker 1: done with all of that, we're worse off than if

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Speaker 1: we had, you know, just gone for a walk. So

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Speaker 1: here's all I show you today. It said they before crossing,

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Speaker 1: And this was weird to me too, because I'm used

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Speaker 1: to God saying go and he told them to stop,

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Speaker 1: So that was weird. And the second thing was I'm

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Speaker 1: used to God coming close, and the relevance of the text.

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Speaker 1: It's almost scary, it's almost spooky. It's a little freaky

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Speaker 1: to me. How God said, since you've never been this

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Speaker 1: way before, since you're not God, how many are glad

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Speaker 1: you're not God? Right now? I was watching the President

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Speaker 1: and the Vice President and the task Force the other

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Speaker 1: day press conference. I was like, I'm so glad I'm

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Speaker 1: not the President. I'm so glad I'm not God. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that I don't have to I don't have

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Speaker 1: to figure it all out. I'm so glad I've got

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Speaker 1: a God who has gone before me. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: I have a father. If I did not have to

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Speaker 1: run around like the pagans. What am I gonna eat?

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Speaker 1: What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear?

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Speaker 1: Jesus says, stop worrying about what God is already working on.

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Speaker 1: So he says, I'm going to lead you. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to take my presence from you. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be different this time. It's not going to feel familiar.

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Speaker 1: Your faith grows in unfamiliar places when you don't know

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Speaker 1: where to go. That's when you get to know who

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Speaker 1: God really is. I feel that for somebody right now.

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Speaker 1: What about my business? What about my boat? How's my

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Speaker 1: boat going to be in this storm? Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something. When God says stop, the storm has to listen. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One time Jesus was in a storm and the disciples

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Speaker 1: felt like some of us feel right now, you don't care.

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Speaker 1: This is weird. I thought you were like the son

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Speaker 1: of God and stuff. You know what Jesus was doing.

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Speaker 1: I know you know, Anna, he was doing the most

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Speaker 1: inappropriate thing you can do in a storm. He was

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Speaker 1: a he was sleeping That's why I gave y'all these

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Speaker 1: hard stools to sit on, because I didn't want you

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Speaker 1: to fall asleep during my servant I was like, give

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Speaker 1: him an uncomfortable stool. I don't want them to sleep

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Speaker 1: through my sermon. But Jesus was sleeping through a storm.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I want you to know. After the disciples

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Speaker 1: had stressed out and scrambled. So you got the disciples scrambling,

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Speaker 1: and Jesus is sleeping because he knows something that they

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Speaker 1: don't know. And I want you to do me a favor.

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Speaker 1: Ask that storm. What happened when Jesus told it to stop.

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Speaker 1: When God says stop, the elements have no choice but

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Speaker 1: to obey him. When God says stop, the red sea

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Speaker 1: has no choice but to stop standing in my way.

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Speaker 1: When God says stop, any weapon that is formed against

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Speaker 1: me has to bow its name to the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: So I want you to insert God's name over and

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Speaker 1: against whatever need you have. His name is I am,

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Speaker 1: not I was, and not I will be. God is

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Speaker 1: with you in this moment, not just when I get

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Speaker 1: to the other side, but when God says stop, every

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Speaker 1: storm has to stop raging. I wish I had an organ.

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Speaker 1: I wish I had a beat. Three. We can still

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Speaker 1: have church. When God says stop, Ask Lazarus what happens.

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Speaker 1: When God says stop, the worms had already started eating

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Speaker 1: his body. The process of decomposition was already in progress.

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Speaker 1: But when God says stop, When God says stop, the

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Speaker 1: consequences have to be reversed. When God says stop. When

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Speaker 1: God says stop, God speaks peace to every anxious heart.

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Speaker 1: When God says stop, I want you to tell the

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Speaker 1: terror right now, God says stop. Put your hand out

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Speaker 1: like this, put your hands up like this on an

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Speaker 1: emoji and fight the devil with an emoji God. God

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Speaker 1: says stop. Fear stops here. You can have my finances,

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Speaker 1: but you can't have my faith. It stops here. Here's

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Speaker 1: a lot. God says, stop. Don't give him space, don't

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Speaker 1: give him your gon down ferdig it's an empty room.

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Speaker 1: Stop stop stop, stop, stop stop stop. Get some sleep

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Speaker 1: in the stern of the ship. Because if Jesus is

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Speaker 1: in the boat, we're all in the same storm. But

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Speaker 1: we're not all in the same boat. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I found out. Faith doesn't keep me from having to

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Speaker 1: go through a storm. It doesn't exempt me from the challenges.

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Speaker 1: We're all in this together. I got somebody in the

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Speaker 1: stern and when he says stop, God says stop. I

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Speaker 1: wonder what God is saying stop right now, patterns of pessimism.

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Speaker 1: God said to tell some of y'all stop talking. I

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Speaker 1: know they didn't tell you to take a bow of silence.

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Speaker 1: They just told you not to come out the house.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, shut up now. You don't have to put

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Speaker 1: this in the comments. But do you remember we're talking

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Speaker 1: about Joshua right. Do you remember what Joshua told them

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Speaker 1: to do when they marched around the walls of Jericho.

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Speaker 1: Because they did get through it. And we will get

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Speaker 1: through this. We will get through this. We will put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat, put it in the comments. We

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Speaker 1: will get through this, and tag somebody and say you

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Speaker 1: will get through this. Yeah. The question is that will

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Speaker 1: we get through? The question is will we go through

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Speaker 1: in a way that makes us better when we do.

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Speaker 1: Just like Jesus interrupted the storm cycle from the boat,

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Speaker 1: there are some cycles that he wants to interrupt in

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Speaker 1: our lives right now. And he wants to do a

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Speaker 1: miracle in your home. I see marriages coming together while

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Speaker 1: y'all are stuck in the house together. Y'all are going

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Speaker 1: to stop living two separate lives and come together and

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Speaker 1: figure out how do we all get through this. I

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Speaker 1: believe God's position in us from miracle. I see our

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Speaker 1: church getting stronger. I see people watching this sermon right now.

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Speaker 1: And you know you normally would not be watching a

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Speaker 1: sermon on Sunday morning, but you didn't have a club

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Speaker 1: to go to last night, so you woke up and

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Speaker 1: you were bored. And here I am. God stopped you

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Speaker 1: right in your tracks to speak his word to you.

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Speaker 1: When God says stop, and they can't before crossing, and

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Speaker 1: it says that they saw the arc. Look at verse

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Speaker 1: four again. Put it off on the big led bible

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Speaker 1: back behind me, zoom out and get the shot. Are

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Speaker 1: all the worship leaders smiling behind me? Big smiles here?

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Speaker 1: When God says stop? Now, you see this phrase where

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Speaker 1: it says in verse four, then you want know which

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Speaker 1: way to go since you've never been this way before.

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Speaker 1: But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits that's

741
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Speaker 1: three thousand feet one thousand yards ten football fields nine

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Speaker 1: hundred meters. It's a worldwide audience. I got to get

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Speaker 1: everybody in here, and it said that God, who normally

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Speaker 1: comes closer, told them that the arc needed to be

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Speaker 1: kept at a distance. And that's a big distance, that's

746
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Speaker 1: way more than six feet. I heard of social distancing,

747
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: I never heard of spiritual distancing until I read this text.

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Speaker 1: And I was wondering, why would God, when he's leading

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Speaker 1: his people tell them that the arc put it back

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Speaker 1: up the ark of the testimony. It's also called the

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Speaker 1: arc of Yahweh. I am God's name. God has a

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Speaker 1: name for every need in your life. God says, I am.

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Speaker 1: He's a present help. So it's the ark of the testimony.

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Speaker 1: How many have a testimony? So why do we keep

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Speaker 1: thinking we're going to get a testimony without having a

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Speaker 1: test God said He's using the season to show us

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Speaker 1: stop expecting to have a testimony with no test That's

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Speaker 1: how we want it now. We want the pecks without

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Speaker 1: the push ups. I'm just trying to modernize it. I

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Speaker 1: got nobody else to preach to, I might as well

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Speaker 1: preach to myself. We want to try SEPs without the try?

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Speaker 1: Can I get a witness from the drum riser hit

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Speaker 1: the symbol dom fill lonely in here? Testimony starts with

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Speaker 1: test I know it's corny, but it's true. And it

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Speaker 1: said that the arc. We haven't seen the art in

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Speaker 1: a long time. And God said, you're going to bring

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Speaker 1: some things out of storage, like Joshua three. This is

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Speaker 1: the first time we've seen it. Remember, it's not very big.

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Speaker 1: It's like twenty seven inches high, twenty seven inches wide,

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Speaker 1: and then it's like fifty inches long approximately. And yet

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Speaker 1: God was going to guide them by something that was small,

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Speaker 1: a cacial wood overlaid with gold. The wood represents humanity,

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Speaker 1: the gold represents s divinity. God's got you cover. God's

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Speaker 1: got you covered. God's got you covered. God's got you covered.

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00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: God's got you cover. God's got you cover. God's got

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Speaker 1: you cover. Tax somebody and let them know God's got

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Speaker 1: you cover. God's got you cover. And you're coming out

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Speaker 1: as gold. You're coming out of this fire. You're going

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Speaker 1: to get through this, and God is going to purify

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Speaker 1: us in He said, I want you to follow the

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Speaker 1: arc now, but don't follow it too close. And I

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Speaker 1: was so confused. In God's supposed to come close in

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Speaker 1: a crisis. This is a traumatic moment. They've been in

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Speaker 1: the wilderness for forty years most of the people that

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Speaker 1: they've relied on are dead. Now they have to go through,

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Speaker 1: and I have to go through together. Not three kids,

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Speaker 1: two million people and twelve of them couldn't even agree

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Speaker 1: on the church vote forty years ago, and that's why

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Speaker 1: they didn't go in. Now they have to get through together.

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Speaker 1: God said, I'm going to give you something to guide you.

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Speaker 1: But in the season of your life, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you the gift of distance. And I pondered that for

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Speaker 1: a long time because I was like, that's that's not

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Speaker 1: what I want when I'm going through something. Come on,

795
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Speaker 1: I got to go through the Jordan River and trust

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Speaker 1: you to bring me through it. But you're gonna be distant. No.

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Speaker 1: God is teaching us that when he feels distant, he

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Speaker 1: isn't okay. So if God feels distant to you right now,

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Speaker 1: you're not alone. All of us, even in our strongest moments,

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Speaker 1: have this place in us where it's like, God, I

801
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: wish I had a sign right now. I just feel uneasy,

802
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: I don't feel at rest. I just feel that's all

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00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: completely human and completely normal. Sometimes God uses distance in

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Speaker 1: our feelings to call us deeper in our faith. And

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Speaker 1: I thought it was important to say that right now,

806
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Speaker 1: because while we're having to keep physical distance, I believe

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00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: that God is calling us to spiritual death. See. I

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00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: don't want to just get through it. I'm tired of

809
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Speaker 1: just getting through it. What's the point. Let's just all

810
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Speaker 1: go to heaven right now. If all we're going to

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Speaker 1: do is get through it, they gotta harp with my

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Speaker 1: name on it up there. Come on, I sing like

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Speaker 1: zeke in heaven. Just let me get to heaven and

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Speaker 1: get my glorified vocal chords. Let me get my eternal

815
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Speaker 1: larynx in heaven, and just go ahead and glorify the

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Speaker 1: Lord with the No, no, no, God, don't just get

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Speaker 1: me through it. Teach me. There's something about distance. Graham said,

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Speaker 1: why did God do all the miracles back then? But

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Speaker 1: he doesn't now. It's not that God does less miracles.

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00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: It's just we see him better in the distance, see

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Speaker 1: it better in the distance. It's like, God, why won't

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Speaker 1: you do a miracle while you're watching me preach on

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Speaker 1: your phone? This is a miracle, you see, Like right now,

824
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: in this moment, take a breath is a miracle. Think

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Speaker 1: about all the sin that he canceled. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: everything that was canceled. I'll tell you what was canceled.

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Speaker 1: The record of wrong that stood against me, that he

828
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Speaker 1: nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more.

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Speaker 1: So it is well with my soul. I looked at

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00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: my portfolio for finances, it wasn't well. But then I

831
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: looked at my soul and I found out He's still

832
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Speaker 1: with me, and he's in me. And there's some kind

833
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: of hope that comes rising up to the surface. When

834
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Speaker 1: God feels distant, He isn't. He's positioning you for a miracle.

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Speaker 1: You know what's really cool about the ark. It was

836
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 1: called the Ark of the Testimony, the Ark of Yahweh,

837
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: and the Ark of the Covenant. And that's really cool

838
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: because in a time when they were going through something

839
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Speaker 1: they'd never been through before. You hear me, you're going

840
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: through something you've never been through before. We all are.

841
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Speaker 1: We're all going through it. Be nice. We're all going

842
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: through it. Think about it before you post. We're all

843
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: going through it. We are all going through it in

844
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: different ways. And maybe God is going to make you

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Speaker 1: a miracle for somebody else. You thought about that, See,

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Speaker 1: because in moments where we're going through places we've never

847
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Speaker 1: been through before. It feels like God is distant. He isn't.

848
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Speaker 1: He's showing us what can't be canceled, shutting down everything

849
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: right now. They are shutting down everything right now. I'm

850
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: waiting on Holly to close the kitchen. I hope she

851
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: doesn't cancel the kitchen, but I don't know. Everything is

852
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: shut every time I turn around. I'm waiting to turn

853
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: on my phone and its canceled. Instagram told me to

854
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: stay home. Everything is being canceled. So it is so

855
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: cool that as God is bringing them across the Jordan,

856
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: the ark of the Covenant, that's what it's called the Covenant.

857
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: That's not your agreement with God, that's God's agreement with you.

858
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. If it was dependent on the first one,

859
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: if it was dependent on you, you wouldn't make it through.

860
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: If it was dependent on me to have perfect faith,

861
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't make it through. But I'm so grateful that

862
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: when I'm going through what I can't understand, what I've

863
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: never been through before, God gives me something to look

864
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: at that represents what cannot be taken away, His oath,

865
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: his covenant, his blood, watch this support me in the

866
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: whelming flood. That's the old hymn from the Methodist Church.

867
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: You know what I found myself doing the other day.

868
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: I found myself breaking out the arc the old stuff,

869
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,479
Speaker 1: the old hymns. I started quoting hymns around my house

870
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: the other day. Some of us we're going through a

871
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: new thing, so we need to break out the old stuff.

872
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: You have not prayed in three months. You might want

873
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: to pray a little bit right now. You have not

874
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: been very grateful lately. Now would be a good time

875
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: to bless the Lord. Now be a good time for

876
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: Martin Luther to come to Elevation Church. A mighty fortress

877
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: is our God. A bullwark? What a bullwark? You hadn't

878
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: talked about bullwarks in a long time. Well, I need

879
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: a bullwark right now I'm finding a big devil. I

880
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: need a mighty fortress. I need a safe place. I

881
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: need a shelter. God is with me. Joshua told the

882
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: people verse five, consecrate yourselves. Watch this first. This is

883
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing. All right, y'all thought I was preaching.

884
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: I wasn't preaching yet. This is the sermon. Consecrate yourselves.

885
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: That's your part. Not isolation, consecration. It's just all in

886
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: how you look at it. I wonder what God is

887
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: preparing us for right now. I wonder what He is mending.

888
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: He mended Peter's nets after he stopped fishing in those

889
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: moments God is mending. I wonder what He's mending in

890
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: our hearts in this moment when we just stopped for

891
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: a minute to be still and know he is God,

892
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: and he'll be exalted above the heavens. The horse and

893
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: his rider, he's thrown into the sea. All the old

894
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: stuff comes back, and see here it comes. It is

895
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: the convergence of what God has done, what he will do.

896
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: But it's all found in his presence. Presence, presence, presence.

897
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: Consecrate yourselves. Give me the verse for tomorrow the Lord

898
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: will do amazing things among you. You see how clear

899
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: that is In that verse. God's got a job and

900
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: you've got a job. You see that word tomorrow that's

901
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: on God's job description. You see it in the scripture,

902
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: put it in the chat. I need you to say this,

903
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: I need you to say it. Tomorrow is God's job.

904
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is God's job. So here's what we have to do.

905
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:11,280
Speaker 1: We have to trust God with tomorrow's problems and embrace

906
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: today's process. Consecrate yourself. That's today's process. That's cleansing, that's

907
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: setting apart. That's knowing He is God. That's devotion. That's this.

908
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: That's like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop coming

909
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: to church just because I can't physically get there. In fact,

910
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this time. I'm gonna start sharing the

911
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: gospel war with people. I'm gonna make the devil so mad,

912
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna have to let me out the house.

913
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start forwarding every cliff, every sermon, every song.

914
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: We put this song out the other day called the Blessing,

915
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: And the reason we put it out is because you know,

916
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: God gave us this song. And I don't know how

917
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: to stop the virus, but I know how to spread

918
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: the blessing. And so I have a job. God has

919
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: a job. What is God's job? God's job is tomorrow.

920
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: That's like when I went to Australia the first time.

921
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: Is anybody watching from Australia right now? Yeah, I see

922
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: you lighten up the comments. I see Cheryl Eric Brandon,

923
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: I see from the Ukraine, tomorrow is God's job. But

924
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: here's what's awesome. Somebody watching in Australia and it's already tomorrow.

925
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: It's already tomorrow. The first time I went to Australia

926
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: to preach, I got off the plane because I was

927
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: stupid and went straight to the stage to preach. But

928
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: before I went to the stage, I landed at like

929
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: ten am, and then I was preaching at twelve pm,

930
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: so I just had time to take a shower. And

931
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: just before I started to head over to the arena

932
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: where I was preaching in Sydney, I facetimed the kids.

933
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: This was years ago, so the kids were real little,

934
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: and I facetimed them because my room had this beautiful view.

935
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: Pastor Phil Pringle put me up in this beautiful room

936
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: and I could see the I could see the Sydney Harbor,

937
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: and I wanted the kids to see it. And so

938
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: the sun was shining so pretty over over the harbor,

939
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: and I took a FaceTime and I say, hey, kids,

940
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say hey to you from tomorrow.

941
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: And I was telling them how we're across the international

942
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: date line. I was telling them how we we uh, well,

943
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: it's tomorrow. In Australia. But it's nighttime there. And remember

944
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: they were real little, and so Holly was tucking them

945
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: into bed and they're all gathered around the FaceTime and

946
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: everything like that. I think Abby was already asleep, she

947
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: was real little. And then Graham and Elijah and we

948
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: talked for a minute. Said I gotta go preach now,

949
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: and Elijah interrupted me, says, hey, Dad, before you go,

950
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: will you tell us what happens tomorrow. It was like

951
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 1: he had this moment, You're already there. You're my father. See.

952
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: I gotta let I let, I gotta let God be

953
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: in my tomorrow and consecrate myself today. That's all I

954
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: can do. I cannot predict the path. All I can

955
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: do is walk in it. And yet the beauty of

956
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 1: the passage is this, If you will consecrate yourself today,

957
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 1: God is already in your tomorrow. So all this, how

958
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: long is it going to last? That's God's job. And

959
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: you know what I think. God, for everybody who is

960
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: helping in a practical way around the clock to bring

961
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: remedies and solutions to our nation for this virus. We

962
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: are praying for you, We celebrate you, we love you.

963
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: One of the good things that's going to come out

964
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: of this is we are going to appreciate people that

965
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: we used to think we're unimportant. Who are going to

966
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: be the very people that God uses to stop the

967
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: virus are the people. It's not going to be just

968
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: celebrities who we've always been used to celebrating. It's going

969
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: to be people who are standing on the front lines

970
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: like those priests did. God told the priest, you go

971
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: stand in the middle of the Jordan. That must have

972
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: been scary. They had to go stand. God was bringing

973
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: them through. God's going to bring us through. We see.

974
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: It's so important that we don't just get so focused

975
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: on getting through it. We don't get what God wants

976
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: us to get out of it. When God says stop,

977
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: he makes me lie down. God is my God. He

978
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: he told him to camp before crossing over. And then

979
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: if you can go all the way to verse fifteen,

980
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: I want to show you one more thing I'm closing.

981
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: Is this worth helping you? If this is helping you,

982
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: just put something on the screen right now. Put a heart,

983
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: put a purple heart, put an orange heart, put a

984
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: red heart, put three pink hearts. I'll take anything right now. Holly,

985
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: is this good? This is the message God gave me.

986
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 1: And I was gonna approach it the other way. I

987
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: was gonna approach it the other way. I was going

988
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: to say, we're positioned for a miracle. But I thought,

989
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: you know what if I call it that, people are

990
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: gonna think it has to be something big. You know,

991
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna think, oh, when this virus is gone, that's

992
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: a miracle. What about the miracle in the middle of it?

993
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: And that's what my attention was drawn to him. And

994
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: before I go, I want to show you Joshua with

995
00:58:54,160 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: three fifteen. When God says stop because the Bible says

996
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: that the Jordan is at flood stage, all deering harvest,

997
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: Well that's a sermon right there. God didn't bring him

998
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: through some shallow water, some little problem. The size of

999
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: the problem creates the opportunity. So when I say we're

1000
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: positioned for a miracle, it doesn't mean the problem gets smaller.

1001
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: And when I say we're positioned for a miracle, it

1002
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: doesn't always mean that God is going to do something

1003
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: we see as really big. Sometimes we have to see

1004
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: it from a distance. Can you imagine happened to follow

1005
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: that little arc the arc of the Covenant, The Covenant,

1006
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: the Covenant. God keeps his covenant, and I have to

1007
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: remember that right now. If he said it is sure,

1008
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: if he promised it, it's rock solid. God promised me

1009
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: the grace for today and the hope for tomorrow. So

1010
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: I gotta let him do his job. And what that

1011
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,959
Speaker 1: means is I can't wait for something to be over

1012
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: in my life. I need to know what are they

1013
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,080
Speaker 1: going to do. I need to know what we I

1014
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: want to know. But we've never been here before. How

1015
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: many weeks still we're coming back together? Pastor I don't know,

1016
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: But if God give me the strength, I'm gonna keep

1017
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: preaching to you through it, and we're gonna get better together.

1018
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: I promise you we are. In fact, when I finished preaching,

1019
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: in a minute, y'all are all going over to a

1020
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: Facebook group and instead of going out to try to

1021
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: eat Mexican and get a speedy Gonzales for lunch after

1022
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: the preacher's sermon and not even think about what I said,

1023
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: or turn on some game, all the games are off.

1024
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: Now you got to talk about God for fifteen minutes

1025
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: after I get done preaching, and you know you're too

1026
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,959
Speaker 1: scared to go shopping on Amazon. So just talk about

1027
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: the sermon because God is with me, not just to

1028
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: get me through it. He's my guy. He's with me

1029
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: in it. That's the message. That's why it's called the

1030
01:00:54,640 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: Arc of His Presence. Consecrate yourself today, be present. God's

1031
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: calling us the greater presence, not less. Be careful that

1032
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: you don't sit there and go like, oh, I'm so connected,

1033
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: I'm so connected. I'm so connected. Connection is about depth,

1034
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: not about bread, And in this moment, I believe God

1035
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: wants to connect with us in a deep way, deep

1036
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: way and do a deep work in our lives. People

1037
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: do amazing things among you, things you don't even know

1038
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: to ask for. Ephesians three twenty. God give them a miracle.

1039
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: There's a mom right now that needs a miracle. There's

1040
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: someone who can't get to their mom or dad. They're

1041
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: not able to be with them physically. They need a

1042
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: miracle from you. Give it to them. But not when

1043
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: it's over. While I'm in it. There's a miracle in it.

1044
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: Because the Bible says that the Jordan is at flood

1045
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: stage all during harvest. There was no way that they

1046
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: could have crossed it on their own go ahead and

1047
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: begin to minister lj. As soon as the priests who

1048
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: carried the art reached the Jordan and their feet touched

1049
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: the water's edge, the water upstream stopped flowing. When God

1050
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: said stop, the water was cut off when God said stop.

1051
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: You see it. When God says stop, the Jordan river

1052
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: had to obey him. When Jesus said stop, the storm

1053
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: had to cease. But before he stopped what was happening

1054
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: outside the boat, he had to stop what was happening

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Speaker 1: inside their heart. I believe God is saying stop today

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Speaker 1: to the terrorist of anxiety that had been ruining your

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Speaker 1: imagination and interrupting your rest. It said. As soon as

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Speaker 1: their feet touched, the water from upstream stopped flowing. And

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Speaker 1: when God said stop, the water that was in front

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Speaker 1: of them, the thing that was keeping them separated, stopped

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Speaker 1: flowing and piled up in a keep a great distance away.

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Speaker 1: I love the word of God. It's in the distance.

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Speaker 1: See God's going to keep it at a distance. God

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Speaker 1: is going to get you through this, and He is

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Speaker 1: using distance right now as a gift to call us

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Speaker 1: closer to himself. Do you see it. It's the revelation

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Speaker 1: right there in the text, and it stopped flowing opposite Jericho,

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Speaker 1: verse seventeen, thank you for your word, Lord, and the

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Speaker 1: priest who carried the ark of the Covenant of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: What did they do? Stopped in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: Jordan and stood on dry ground. Get sick, because we're

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Speaker 1: going to worship in a minute. We don't worship when

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Speaker 1: we get through hard things. We worship while we're in them.

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Speaker 1: And stood on dry ground while all Israel passed by

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Speaker 1: until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're going to get through this. We're going

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Speaker 1: to get through this. That's not the question. The question

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Speaker 1: is why did the pri stop in the middle. See,

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Speaker 1: God had told Joshua was something very important that he's

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Speaker 1: been speaking to me. It's not just that you get

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Speaker 1: through it, it's that you take something from it. When

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Speaker 1: the priest stopped, God said, stop right in the middle,

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Speaker 1: stop right now, and say, this is the day the

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Speaker 1: Lord has made. We can't take things for granted anymore, y'all.

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Speaker 1: This morning is a miracle, His mercies are a miracle.

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Speaker 1: We can't take it for granted anymore. More. So God says,

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Speaker 1: stop in the middle of it and stop projecting, and

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Speaker 1: stop living in what it was and worrying about what

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Speaker 1: it will be. Stop right here in the middle. And

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Speaker 1: they each took out a stone and they carried it

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Speaker 1: to the other side. So I declare over your life today. Now.

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Speaker 1: I want you to receive this right now. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if you're watching this with five other people and

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Speaker 1: three of them are eating pancakes. One of them's on

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Speaker 1: their phone. This word is for you. For you, God

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Speaker 1: is saying, stop. There has been a spirit of fear

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Speaker 1: that has been washing over you, has been keeping you

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Speaker 1: from your piece, has been robbing you of your joy.

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Speaker 1: You've been living in a fictional tomorrow. And right now

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Speaker 1: God says, stop and make the decision. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: trust God in it, and I'm not going to miss

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Speaker 1: the miracle of today because I'm living in tomorrow. God.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for miracles in your presence. We thank

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Speaker 1: you that even right now, connections are being repaired, homes

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Speaker 1: are being rebuilt. I thank you that in the months

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Speaker 1: to come, you're going to give strategies, innovation, ideas, creativity, wisdom,

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Speaker 1: unity to your people. Do it, God, do it. God.

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Speaker 1: We are positioned for a miracle. Your presence is with us.

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Speaker 1: You are not far away, you are within us. You

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Speaker 1: made a covenant. You keep your word. You never break

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Speaker 1: your promise, and we believe you right now, not when

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Speaker 1: it's over, right now, not when we get through it.

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Speaker 1: Right now, somebody saying in the chat, right now, a

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Speaker 1: miracle can happen right now. Grace is available right now,

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Speaker 1: just like your next breath is here. God's presence is here.

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Speaker 1: Not only is he gonna get me through this, but

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Speaker 1: I declare in the name of the Lord, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have better priorities. I'm gonna have more peace. I'm going

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Speaker 1: deeper in my walk with God. I'm gonna get through this.

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Speaker 1: I'm not waiting till I'm on the other side to sing.

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Speaker 1: I know my Redeemer lives. He is with me, He

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Speaker 1: is for me. He is more than enough. And we

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Speaker 1: declare Miracles over your house, miracles over your children, miracles

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Speaker 1: in your body, miracles in your minds, miracles, provision, peace, joy, love, perspective.

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Speaker 1: He do it, God, U do it. God. We see

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Speaker 1: the arc of your cousins, the speering in the name

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Speaker 1: of blood. Come on, lift your hair right in that room. Here,

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Speaker 1: His cousins is here. He has enough. He is enough

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Speaker 1: for the se He is enough. Here is enough by

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Speaker 1: Gods toe Hopedzion, the habit Shamah. The Lord is pressive.

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Speaker 1: It is here the s Lift your hairs. There's an

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Speaker 1: annoyed things. There's an annoyed thing that breaks say anxiety.

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Speaker 1: This an annoyed thing that breaks the fact of saying,

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Speaker 1: had declaring his presence for the seer. Come on, words

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Speaker 1: of them, not Homie, words of them London, see worse

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Speaker 1: of them, words of them, words of l God, lift

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Speaker 1: your hands, sleep up there come what there It comes

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Speaker 1: right in the middle of the dr write, in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the crisis, right in the middle of the start.

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Speaker 1: Pace to your mind. They see your heart. Pease see

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Speaker 1: your mind, pea, stee your heart for right now no

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Speaker 1: ci ask for you, and they cannot sease at be

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Speaker 1: a pencil. Yeah, God, a great praise in the place.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of

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Speaker 1: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of

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Speaker 1: you that this ministry is possible. You can click the

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Speaker 1: link in the description to give now, or visit Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church dot org slash podcast for more information and if

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe, You can share

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Speaker 1: tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening. God

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Speaker 1: bless you.