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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. Hey,

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Speaker 1: let's do a roll call real quick. Just turn around

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Speaker 1: somebody in your area, if you're in physical location, if

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Speaker 1: you are watching online before or after the fact that

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Speaker 1: I preach it, I want you to just put your

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Speaker 1: first name from and your city, your first name from

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Speaker 1: and your city. Do it right now. Turn around and

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Speaker 1: tell somebody my name is. Tell him I come from

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Speaker 1: and tell him I'm here to praise the Lord. I'm here.

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Speaker 1: Come on, state your intention. Tell him I'm here to

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Speaker 1: praise the Lord. I'm glad to be with you, but

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Speaker 1: I'm here to praise the Lord. I didn't come to

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Speaker 1: look at you. I didn't come to listen to you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't come to hear a preacher in a plaid jacket.

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Speaker 1: I came to hear from God and give him glory.

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Speaker 1: That's what I came for, praise the Lord. Let's get

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Speaker 1: into the word of God. Remain standing or stand up

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Speaker 1: if you didn't yet, shake off all those lazy devils

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Speaker 1: and all of those get that sleep out of your eyes,

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Speaker 1: wipe it right out of the inside of your sockets,

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Speaker 1: and get ready because God is going to speak to you.

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Speaker 1: I thought about texting y'all that are going to be

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Speaker 1: on the stools in a minute. You should have put

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Speaker 1: a five hour energy drink in your omelet today. You

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Speaker 1: should have just cooked it right into your omelet because

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Speaker 1: I've got quite a quite a few miles to cover today.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready? You're ready now. I've been been teaching

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Speaker 1: and preaching in a stream about making room for the

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Speaker 1: new things that God is doing in our life. I

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Speaker 1: want to continue in that stream, and I want to

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Speaker 1: share a story that is really, really a life saver.

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Speaker 1: It's really a lifesaver, and so don't underestimate the power

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Speaker 1: in this little story. I wonder if you've ever heard

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Speaker 1: this one before. It's not very well known, but I

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Speaker 1: think it's very very rich. In tewod Samuel twenty one,

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Speaker 1: verse fifteen, did I give you my scripture yet? Or

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Speaker 1: was that the first time I said it? Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a second. I've been in this scripture so long.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we. I feel like we just we've

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Speaker 1: been together all week because while I've been preparing it,

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Speaker 1: I've been picturing you and praying and hoping that God

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Speaker 1: would communicate it. So they moved my camera way back

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Speaker 1: to the back of the room like it always was

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Speaker 1: for months. I had it real close. But let's just

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Speaker 1: there's no distance in the spirit, all right. So wherever

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Speaker 1: you're watching this, we're right there together. Second Samuel twenty

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Speaker 1: one fifteen. If you're in Philippians, just look at the

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Speaker 1: screen because you won't find it. Once again, there was

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Speaker 1: a battle between the Philistines and Israelites, and David went

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Speaker 1: he became exhausted. And everybody feels that that scripture is

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Speaker 1: not about David. It's about you. Say amen real quick

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Speaker 1: and ish Fai Benob, one of the descendants of Reifa,

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Speaker 1: whose bronze spearhead weighed three hundred shekels and who was

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Speaker 1: He threatened to kill David King David, but Abashi, son

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Speaker 1: so that the lamp of Israel will not be extinguished.

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Speaker 1: There's quite a few preacher cliches and I like them.

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Speaker 1: They're really cool. I like to use them in my

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Speaker 1: sermons because they stick things that you might hear preachers

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Speaker 1: to kind of ask the preacher who saying that, well,

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Speaker 1: could you please tell the one who holds tomorrow? Ask

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Speaker 1: him what I should do today, and ask him to

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Speaker 1: let me in on it, because I had some decisions

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Speaker 1: to make. Amen. I heard another one one time. I've

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Speaker 1: doesn't take Mother Goose Bible Verse spin offs for payment.

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Speaker 1: You know, I got paid the bills to help me

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Speaker 1: when you're moving forward in your relationship with God, you'll

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Speaker 1: this one, New Levels, New Devils. Have you heard that before?

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Speaker 1: It's true on Mario brothers. You know, the more you win,

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Speaker 1: the bigger the bosses get, And it's true in life.

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Speaker 1: I'm not discounting that fact. But today I want to

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Speaker 1: same devils, new levels. Father, what you gave me was good.

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Speaker 1: Don't let me mess it up. The needs are too great,

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Speaker 1: So I put it in your hands. I know that

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Speaker 1: over the world. In Jesus' name, everybody, say amen, Come on,

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Speaker 1: say amen, Say amen. In the chat you may be seated.

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Speaker 1: Reminded me of Thanksgiving when I think the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: play every Thanksgiving, Is that right? My Thanksgiving memories consist

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Speaker 1: of going over to Uncle Tommy's and Aunt Mary's in Florence,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, then feasting, but always Uncle Tommy had the

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Speaker 1: NFL on TV. It was always the Lions, the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: We will know that Jesus is about to come back

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Speaker 1: for real when the Lions don't play on Thanksgiving. A

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Speaker 1: lot of crazy crap has happened over the last twelve months,

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Speaker 1: but when that happens, the signs of his coming are near.

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Speaker 1: And my Papa, at the end of his life, he

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Speaker 1: would play dumb, but he would know what was going on,

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Speaker 1: and his mind was sharper than he would let you think,

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Speaker 1: and he'd sit there for a long time and then

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Speaker 1: And one Thanksgiving, I must have been about eleven or twelve,

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Speaker 1: remember this, You know, you just remember little dumb stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's like the spice of life, these little weird memories.

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Speaker 1: And he goes, ah, he looks at the Lions playing

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Speaker 1: football and Thanksgiving, and he goes, they're still going at

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Speaker 1: for you to write those words down or just put

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Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. Once again. It kind

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Speaker 1: of signifies a cyclical struggle. Once again, put it on

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Speaker 1: that it sinks in. I'm going to use repetition here

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Speaker 1: because it's describing something that's repetitive in David's life, is

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Speaker 1: that he's fighting the Philistines. Now, all of you Bible

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Speaker 1: students are like, hey, wait a minute. He can't be

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Speaker 1: or theology. But Second Samuel twenty one comes way after

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Speaker 1: Samuel seventeen. His name was Goliath. He was nine foot

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Speaker 1: talking trash, and he defied the armies of the Living God.

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Speaker 1: And David had five stones, but he sold the other

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Speaker 1: So you're correct, you're correct, you're correct, you're correct. He's

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Speaker 1: fighting a different philistine enemy, the same the same opponent,

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Speaker 1: the same thing. I had these moments in my life

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Speaker 1: So when I called the message, same devils I knew

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Speaker 1: I mean, for David, he's come a long way to

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Speaker 1: Now I relate to David in this way, not in

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Speaker 1: many ways. I don't have a harp in my music room.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that. I don't relate to

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Speaker 1: Then what are we doing studying history? God gave these

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Speaker 1: and so I relate to David in certain ways. In

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Speaker 1: some ways, he's very different than me. I don't have

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Speaker 1: are feeling cornered right now. And if you don't figure

426
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: out what to do in this weary place, that same

427
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: instinct that God gave you for survival that David had.

428
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: Remember he said, I killed the bear, I killed the lions.

429
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: Papa said, they're still going at it. It was the

430
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: lions That's what made me remember it, because David was

431
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: killing lions right But now if he tries to fight

432
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: in this season like he fought in that season, he

433
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: will die at the hands of his own instinct you

434
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: want to go home or you want me to keep going.

435
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: So I realized I can't keep going in all these meetings.

436
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: It's just taken all. So I want to ask you

437
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: the question again, where in your life are you using

438
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: an old strategy in a new season. Where does that

439
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: need to be upgraded? You know, like when you do

440
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: go through the legend of Zelda. This is a current

441
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: pop culture reference here, Okay for all the young people.

442
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: When you do go through a video game, you got

443
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: to pick up all the weapons along the way. And

444
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: now the shame of it is when you're fighting with

445
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: an inferior weapon, because it reminds you of Gowiath. You know,

446
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: when you're defensive but nobody's attacking you. That's bad. The

447
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: whole thing of whether David lives or died, the whole

448
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: thing on whether your joy lives or died, The whole

449
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: thing on whether or not you make it, the whole

450
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: thing on whether or not you live to show your

451
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: kids something different. See, I feel sorry for David. He

452
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to be a king in this way.

453
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: He had a bad example in Saul. He was only

454
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: the second king that Israel ever had. The whole reason

455
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: israel wanted a king was because the Philistines were oppressing them.

456
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: The whole reason the Philistines were oppressing them is because

457
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: the Philistines were metalworkers, so they had more weapons. The

458
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: Israelites didn't have the weapons, so they wanted a king.

459
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: But they got a bad king because they selected on

460
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: the basis of hight, not heart. When David came into

461
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: the throne, he had the heart for it, but he

462
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: didn't know how. And that's the thing about the people

463
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: I passed her. I have the heart to be a

464
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: good dad. I have the heart to be a good woman.

465
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: I have the heart to be a good employee. I

466
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: have the heart to make it. I have the heart

467
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: to break these changes. I want to get free, but

468
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: I never saw a how So now I'm out here

469
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: fighting forty year old giants with fifteen year old tactics,

470
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: and you can't fight grown up battles with teenage tactics.

471
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 1: You've got to grow into this season. You've got to

472
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: grow into this challenge. You've got to grow into this assignment.

473
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: You've got to grow into the annoying thing that you've

474
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: had all along. It's not automatic, it's not automatic. And

475
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: whenever I face something that scares me. You know what

476
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: I do? They say, what is it? New levels, new devils? No,

477
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: when I hit a new devil, I sink back to

478
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: the same level. I go back to the sewer, you know.

479
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: I go back to the dumpster, back when I was

480
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: emotionally homeless and had nothing to eat. Go back inside

481
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: myself and keep counsel with the most unreliable person that

482
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: I know, me unchecked. How does it go? See all

483
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: these crazy things preachers say, new levels, new devils. So

484
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to show you, on one hand, how this

485
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: is not Goliath. It just reminds you of him and

486
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: that you have grown. But really, what I want to

487
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: show you is what God did for David when he

488
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: was cornered, and I believe He's going to do it

489
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: for you. I know what we want to happen. That

490
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: is not going to be what happens we want when

491
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: David's got a sword to his throat. Remember this guy,

492
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: this Ish. I like how his name starts with ish

493
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: because we're all dealing with some Ish, aren't we. That's

494
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: the part of his name. I can't say. Somebody put

495
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: in the chat new Ish, same God, all right, stop

496
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 1: stop it? He had a sword three hundred sheecls. Can

497
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,239
Speaker 1: you believe that that's seven pounds? Can you believe that

498
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: Golias was fifteen pounds six hundred shekels? It was only

499
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: half the size of golias sword. So why couldn't David

500
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: beat him? I should be able to do this. I

501
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: should be able to movement. I always did it this

502
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: way before, and I got up and you know, my

503
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: get up and go, got up and went. While we're

504
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: doing cliches. You know what's happening right now? Why isn't

505
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,959
Speaker 1: this working? Because it sucks because the moment you mastered

506
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: the strategy of chefs. So like when my oldest became

507
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: a teenager, I'm so proud of him, but I didn't

508
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: know how to raise a teenager. And you know, everybody

509
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: start telling me, just give him his space, I says space.

510
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: So let me get this right. This human being that

511
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: gave me no space or sleep for the first two

512
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: years of his life now so it's just back off.

513
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: That's hard to do. Why are y'all looking at me crazy?

514
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: You can't parent a fifteen year old the way you

515
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: parent a two year old. I see people try to

516
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: do it, and then I see the kid explode when

517
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: they get out from under that supervision because you did

518
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: not shift the strategy to match the season. Do you

519
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: think pastoring this church now is like how it was

520
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: pastoring when we had nineteen people. Imagine if we imagine

521
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: if we tried to have the cookout on my grill

522
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: after this sermon like we did back then. There's not

523
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: enough propane in North Carolina. Uh huh uh huh huh

524
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: huh huh. So what you have to do is what Abashi?

525
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: I want somebody to their baby that I wish I

526
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: would a name one of my kids Abishai. It's a

527
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: good name. No, it's a good name. It means father

528
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: of a gift. And what I wanted for the Bible

529
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: to say, because when I feel like the enemy is

530
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: closing in on me and I'm tired and I'm spent,

531
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: and I'm out of ideas and I'm sick of people,

532
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: I want him to send me an angel. God did

533
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: not send an angel to rescue David. He sent abishaid.

534
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: God did not send an angel. He sent a person.

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00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: What David does when Abishai comes determines whether he lives

536
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: or dies. Are you pushing your abishi away because it's

537
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: like I'm waiting on God. You know the old story

538
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: the man was dying and the Lord sent him a helicopter.

539
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: And how's the story going, Danny, you heard it before.

540
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: He's like, God, if you'll save me, he's dying, he's

541
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: about to drown, and helicopter flies by. He says, no,

542
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm waiting on God. The boat comes by. I'm waiting

543
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: on God. Jet ski comes by. He said, I'm waiting

544
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 1: on God. And he dies and he gets to heaven

545
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: and they said, Lord, I waited on you. He said,

546
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: I sent you a helicopter and a boat and a

547
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: jet ski. I sent you aver ashire. But you know

548
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: what you keep doing. You keep reverting back to when

549
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: you had no help. How stupid does a king look

550
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: with a sling like this. You're not stupid. We look

551
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: when we start trying to fight things in the flesh.

552
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 1: I'll show them. I got in a fight with a

553
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: woman the other day, not a physical fight or anything.

554
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: She was just talking crap. She was saying some stuff

555
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: and I checked her. It wasn't inappropriate. You wouldn't have

556
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: been ashamed to call me your pastor. But I checked

557
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: her enough enough enough, and do you know what I

558
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: got for it? Y'all are clapping. Y'all are cardinal. Y'all

559
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: are real cardinal. Y'all are real cardinal. Just like me.

560
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: I got two hours of an elevated heart ray, good job,

561
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: didn't get a check, didn't get a royalty, didn't even

562
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: get a belt, you know, like nothing, no metal, no nothing.

563
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm used to doing, right, That's what

564
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: I'm used to doing. I going back to what I

565
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: used to do. In some cases, that's worked well for me.

566
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: You know, in some cases that's what I had to do.

567
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: But you don't always have to. In some cases you

568
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: had to make it alone. But maybe you don't have

569
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: to right now. Maybe God's got somebody carrying the Father's gift.

570
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: Abashi Abishai, pray for the next seven days, God, make

571
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: me aware of the abishi, the help that you've said

572
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 1: in my life. Pray it and see what happens. Get

573
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: some cards, Get two or three cards, and handwrite some

574
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: notes to people who have been an abashi for you

575
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 1: in a season. Because at the moment that David would

576
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: have died in steps abashi and Abishai is like no, no, no,

577
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: we can't let the light go out. David is symbolic

578
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: of the land. He's the one who keeps the covenant

579
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: for Israel. He's the one that God gave. They were

580
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: protective of their light. Are you protect of your light?

581
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: He said, You can't put Verse seventeen up. You can't

582
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: go out to battle like this anymore. You can't keep

583
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: doing this like this anymore. You have got to upgrade

584
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: how you do this or the light is going to

585
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: go out. And what I'm seeing in this season of

586
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: being a pastor, if I can be honest with you,

587
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of people's lights go out. I'm

588
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: seeing the light in their eyes go out. I'm seeing

589
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: the light in their mind go out. They're not thinking clearly.

590
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: They're just tripping over stuff in the dark, just getting

591
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: real reckless right now, getting real crazy, going back to

592
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: stuff they left alone for six years, going back to

593
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: stuff they hadn't thought about in a long time, because

594
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: that's what you do in survival. But you're in a

595
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: different season. Now, You've got ABESHI. Now God has put

596
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: something between you and your enemy. I'm talking about Jesus.

597
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the grace of God. Because while I

598
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: was praying for those who are long dogs, said, if

599
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: they don't have a human amphcide, I'll be their aber shod.

600
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: I will stand between them and the pestilence and the

601
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: sword and the depression. I will stand between you and

602
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: the darkness. Stop pushing abashid away. I'm waiting on God. No,

603
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: God has given you some help in the form of humans.

604
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: And if you keep pushing people away like you're pushing

605
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: people away, you will die at the hands of a

606
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: giant that is under your feet. One more layer of

607
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: this sermon. I want to show you who skinner. It

608
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: got so good to me, and every word I was

609
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: seeing was showing me something. Everybody say, same devil, new level.

610
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: It means that, yes, I'm dealing with the same thing. Yes,

611
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with the same uncertainty. No, there is no

612
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: abracadabra annoying thing. I wish I had that power, man Ah,

613
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: sprinkle it all over all of y'all. I'd just be

614
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: out sprinkling it all through the hospitals, all through the streets,

615
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: all through the divorce courts, all through the custody course,

616
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: all through everything you're going, all through the unemployment lines.

617
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: I just sprinkled Abricaabra's gone, but God sent him Abishi Abashi.

618
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: And what really got my attention was not only did

619
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: ish by benob have a sword half the size of Golias,

620
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: but look what it said in verse here, It is

621
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Speaker 1: verse sixteen. You ready, is it bad that I'm this

622
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: giddy over a scripture? Okay? I feel bad. I feel

623
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 1: like I'm like being corny because I'm like excited about

624
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: the Bible and stuff, the Word of God and all

625
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: that stuff. It's like I'm paying too much attention to

626
00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: the Word of God. All right, it said that he

627
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: was armed with a new sword. I'm wondering, why, Why

628
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: does it matter if it's new or used? Why did

629
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: it same new sword? I believe God is using the

630
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: new sword that the enemy had to point to a

631
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: deeper reality. Not only did the enemy have a new weapon,

632
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: so did David. Not only did the enemy have a

633
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: new weapon, so did David. Yeah. Remember this is the

634
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: same David that struck down the lion, the same David

635
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: that struck down a bear, the same David that put

636
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Speaker 1: a smooth stone in Goliath's forehead. You remember when he

637
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: came up on Goliath and Goliath coming closer, closer, closer,

638
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: but David doesn't let him come all the way. David

639
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: is practicing watch this spiritual distancing, spiritual distancing. It's that

640
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: David ran to the battle line and he took his

641
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: stone and he hit him from a distance, because look, look, look, look,

642
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: you got to keep your enemies out there and your

643
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: abishize here. Many of us do the exact opposite. We

644
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: bring our enemies right here, and we keep our abbesshiys

645
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: out there. So what we'll do. We will go in

646
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: and spend five hours on Facebook having imaginary battles with

647
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: people we don't know and wouldn't like if we did,

648
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: or somehow we think we owe the universe an account

649
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: of how we spent our day and our money and

650
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: our week. So I don't go on social much anymore.

651
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: I was reminded why the other night somebody in our

652
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: family we were having a Friday night dinner. We had

653
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: a very very busy, fruitful week last week. I can't

654
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: wait to share what we created. It's amazing, one of

655
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: my favorite things I've ever been a part creating, and

656
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: I can't wait to share it with you. But right

657
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: after that, right after that, while I was trying to rest.

658
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: Somebody in our family was like, Oh, somebody's saying something

659
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: bad about the church on social Da da da da dah.

660
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: And I noticed in that moment, I had a decision

661
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: to make. I had a decision to make in that moment.

662
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: Do I want to be a part of a gang

663
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: fight in a fish tank? Because if I choose to,

664
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: y'all better listen to the man of God. This is

665
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: wisdom for your life. If I choose to at that moment,

666
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: I can go so deep into this. Who said what,

667
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: and they said this, and they said that. And then

668
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: when I'm preaching to you today, I'm mad. And you

669
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: didn't even say anything but praise the Lord. So now

670
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: I'll be fighting you in the pulpit. So I said,

671
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear anymore. I made a phone call.

672
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, if anything happens about this, let me

673
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: know if let me do it. Boom boom. Now let's

674
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: go watch that movie because I had told the kids

675
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: that we were gonna now for us, movie night is

676
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: like a big endeavor anyway. I mean, game night is

677
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: like I can the Himalayas. We don't even try game

678
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: night anymore. And that's a bloody sport in the Predict family.

679
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: We can't do game night, but movie night. I just said, hey,

680
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: y'all want to watch a movie to night. Everybody's stealing it.

681
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: We had this big week as a family ministry. God's

682
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: doing a great work in our church and I can't

683
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: wait to share with you. But we all experienced it together.

684
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 1: I said, let's watch a movie tonight and they said okay.

685
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: I said, without our phones, they're like, okay, you would

686
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: have thought. I said, let's go on a mission trip,

687
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: right like this is some huge thing, like we're gonna

688
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: watch a two hour like just very very very very

689
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: brave of us. And I said, what do y'all want

690
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: to watch? And then I realized, don't put it to

691
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: a vote. I said, I'll figure out what to watch.

692
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: And while that was happening, somebody said, hey, so and

693
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: so is saying so and so about so and so

694
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: and so and so, and I says, stop. They don't

695
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: get to come to my movie night. You get it.

696
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: They don't get free space in the movie theater. On

697
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: my hand, if they want a ticket, they gotta buy it.

698
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: Ah ah, no right there, Ah, you don't come in

699
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: the front door. So so what about you, Because I

700
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: meet in a lot of people and they are letting

701
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: all these voices come all in, and you are dying

702
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: at the hands of ish come on, pushing away the

703
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: gift of the Father. Wow, it's complicated, it's not easy.

704
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: David got this far by fighting, but to stay alive

705
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 1: the same freaking philistines, these same habits, these same christ

706
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: is same fifteen this again, really so God said, it's

707
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: the same devil. But I want you to fight it

708
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: at a new level. Because if you don't come up

709
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: higher and see it from God's perspective and seek him

710
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: and be with him and start your day different Injurre

711
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: day different and make some adjustments, you'll be walking around

712
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: with a sling shot when you're supposed to be wearing armor.

713
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: The Lord said, put down the sword, put on the armor.

714
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: Say it with me. Put down the sword, put on

715
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: the armor. When David fought Goliath, he tried on the

716
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: King's armor, but it didn't fit him. Yet it fits

717
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: now it fits now, I said, it fits. Now. You're

718
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: not that scared little girl anymore. No, no, you're not

719
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 1: that weak, little defeated, little anemic. I'll take every crumb

720
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: you you are not that now it fits now. Now

721
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: step into this season with the confidence that you have

722
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: the anointing for this assignment. Come on, let the week

723
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: say I am strong. That fits me now. I got

724
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: a little tired, but I'm strong. I got a little vulnerable.

725
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: But I got the victory. I got it. I got it,

726
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: I got it right now, I got it. I got it.

727
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: Get back devil. I got it out of a shode.

728
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: I got it. Annoint I got the shield of faith.

729
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: I've got the helmet of salvation. I got a new wardrobe. Yeah,

730
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: I'm dressed different now. I don't have the rags of

731
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: my filthy unrighteousness. I come into the presence of a

732
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 1: God who has clothed me with a garment that is white,

733
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: with a rangment that is righteous. I got it. Same David,

734
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: new sword, Sing David, new sword, sing. You new altitude,

735
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 1: same you, new focus, same devil, same insecurity, same problemh

736
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: same problem, new passion. I want you to protect your

737
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: light this week. I want you to take Abashi's advice. Man,

738
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: Remember what you asked me the other day on the campus, Pesto.

739
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: What happens when we see people who are really strong fall.

740
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: I think they don't take Abashai's advice. They keep going

741
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: out over and over again to fight the wrong battles

742
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: and pushing the right people away. At least that's what

743
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: I've noticed. I told you i'd answer you, and that's

744
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: my answer, that's God's answer. Are you pushing Abishai away?

745
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 1: Abishai wasn't an angel. Abishai was just one of David's guys,

746
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, one of those dirty he was now he was.

747
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: He was a fighter like David. He said, stop letting

748
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: people get your light, stop letting things steal your light.

749
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: You remember in Revelation too, where the church at emphasis

750
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: they're having trouble keeping what the author calls your first love.

751
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: That's what the angel said. He said, you're losing your

752
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: first love. And he gave a warning in Revelation two

753
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: five that I want to show you before I pray

754
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: for you today, because I know somebody's been caught and

755
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: cornered on the battlefield and you are very weary. You

756
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: are very weary. Not calling you weak, I'm saying you're weary,

757
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: not because you've been fighting for a few days. You've

758
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: been fighting for almost all your life. And the way

759
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: the Lord said it in the revelation to John, he said,

760
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: consider how far you have fallen. Repent and do the

761
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: things you did at first. If you do not repent,

762
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: I will come to you and remove your lampstand from

763
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: his place. That's not a threat from God. It's a warning.

764
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: It's a warning. Don't guard your light. And I wrote

765
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: them three things for light. You can write them down later,

766
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: just receive it right now. I said that light represents perspective,

767
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:17,280
Speaker 1: it represents passion, it represents purpose. So when they said

768
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: stop fighting these battles this way, and that might mean

769
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: a lot of things for you, you you know, like a

770
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: lot of times we'll say, well, I prayed about it,

771
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: did you like a real prayer, like a not you

772
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: know where you're playing out every worst case scenario in

773
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: your imagination and calling it prayer because you said, dear

774
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: Lord when you started that exercise, But like, did you

775
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 1: really say God? I mean, I was coming in today

776
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: to preach, write and the Lord is like, this message

777
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 1: is good, but you hadn't really asked me much about it.

778
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: I said, all right, let's go. Holy Spirit. Felt like

779
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: Abishai came in the room right, like you need some help, right,

780
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: And when we get back to that when we get

781
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: back to it wasn't anything wrong with David. It wasn't

782
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: that he was It wasn't that he was a bad person.

783
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: It's just that if he kept fighting, not from a distance,

784
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: but in the way he was fighting, the light would

785
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: go out. Have you lost your perspective? Have you lost

786
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: your light? He said? Repent, come up higher change levels.

787
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: Repent you see it in the text. Repent, Consider how

788
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: you fallen. Consider where you've brought your enemies too close

789
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: and kept your absh eyes at a distance. And I'll

790
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: bring your light back. I hope you start seeing clearly again.

791
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: You'll know what to do in the season, You'll know

792
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: what to do. I'll give you an open door for

793
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: how to win your kid's heart back. I'll give you

794
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: an open door for how to win your wife's heart back.

795
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: I'll give you an open door for how to re

796
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: establish yourself as the leader. I'll show you how to

797
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: start spending your time, since you have a lot of

798
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: free time, show you how to reinvent yourself for a

799
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: new career. Since things are happening going to be on

800
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: your control. I will give you your life back. That's

801
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: what God wants to do. But now, not if you

802
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 1: keep fighting battles at the wrong level, same devil, new level.

803
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: Are you saying when I go home that all of

804
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 1: my giants will be dead. Nope, I'm saying that between

805
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: once again and never again. Between once again and never again.

806
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: It's not about a devil. It's about a decision. You've

807
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: got a decision to make. You're gonna keep coming down

808
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: to these battles, keep coming down to these streams, keep

809
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: coming down to these sores. Or are you coming back

810
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: up and getting where the light is? Are you swinging

811
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: stuff in the dark? No? God, I thank you today

812
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: that Abashi is coming to help your people. Not just

813
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: kings and leaders, certainly, not just preachers or parents, but

814
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: for every person in the room. I pray that you

815
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: would sign a sign an Abashi to their life. I

816
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: thank you, Lord, I thank you that Abashi is standing

817
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: by for someone who will open their eyes and see.

818
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: Oh I don't have to fight this way. Oh I

819
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: don't have to do this alone. Oh I don't have

820
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: to fight it like I used to fight it. Oh,

821
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: there's new leverage, there's new levels, there's new awareness, there's

822
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 1: new weapons. Not only does my enemy have a new weapon,

823
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: I have a new weapon. I have the blood of Jesus,

824
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: I have the righteousness of Christ. I have the new mind,

825
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: I have the new heart. I am a new creation.

826
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: Same David, new sword, same David, new sword, same devil,

827
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: new level. You're raising us up. We're seated with you.

828
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: We don't have to be afraid. We don't have to

829
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: die by the sword. We can put on the full

830
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: armor of God and stand. You don't have to die, David.

831
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: But you got to stop pushing Abishai away. You've got

832
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: to let God fight for you. Sometimes you have to

833
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: ask for Abishai. You have to tell people what you need.

834
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: I don't mean be needy. We all have that, friend.

835
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,439
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you need to reach out. Stop telling

836
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: everybody I got this. I'm David. I've got a smooth stone.

837
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: Right now, you're weary, and you need to receive the

838
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 1: help that God has given you. Stop letting your enemies

839
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: close and pushing your friends away. Received this word. It

840
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 1: came just for you at this time. He has given

841
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: me a tongue to know how to encourage the weary,

842
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: and he sent this word for us today. Are you

843
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: weak now? You're just weary, But God has given us

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Speaker 1: new weapons. Now lift your hands all over the world.

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Speaker 1: Wherever this word finds you today, I want you to

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Speaker 1: know you're not alone. You have an Abeshi, you have

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Speaker 1: an elder brother Jesus. You have a great salvation, You

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Speaker 1: have an unlimited grace, you have a fresh anointing. You

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Speaker 1: have a holy spirit. Lord, as you open the eyes

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Speaker 1: of every weary warrior this week to see the help

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Speaker 1: that is already there. I thank you for the testimonies

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to receive where people are glorifying you

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Speaker 1: because they thought it was over, because ish came with

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Speaker 1: a new sword. But we came with a greater weapon.

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Speaker 1: But you spoke a better word. But you sent your help.

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Speaker 1: But you sent your word. But you sent an army,

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Speaker 1: but you sent deliverance, but you sent an instruction. But

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Speaker 1: you sent a grace, but you sent a mercy. And

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Speaker 1: when the enemy came in like a flood, you raised

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Speaker 1: up a standard. And David didn't die. And we will

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Speaker 1: live in the name of the Lord, same devil, new weapons,

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Speaker 1: he'll steak now, revelation, new words, brash soil, no seple,

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Speaker 1: no health, no zoys, no socks, no straks, no seasons,

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Speaker 1: Brass soil, brash soil from photos. It's still huts, shug

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Speaker 1: good rounding, it's swamy goods, running okay, shows, running down

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Speaker 1: swim for you, it is running down study. So the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit stopped me on my tracks. And there's two

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Speaker 1: things we're going to do in response to this word,

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Speaker 1: because I do think that somebody's life is in the balance,

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Speaker 1: and if not your physical life, your spiritual one. So

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Speaker 1: what I want to do is this week, I want

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Speaker 1: our prayer team to stand in agreement with those who

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Speaker 1: need God to show you and abashi in your life.

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Speaker 1: And right now, if that's you, look at me. You're

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Speaker 1: not alone, you're not alone. You're weary, you're confused, you're conflicted,

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Speaker 1: you're between two things. That's all right. But I want

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Speaker 1: you to put your name in the chat. And if

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Speaker 1: you do that right now, and I'm assigning our prayer teams.

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Speaker 1: We have hundreds of people around the world who are

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Speaker 1: here just for this and they're going to pray for

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Speaker 1: you this week specifically, God show them their ab a shi. Now,

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Speaker 1: this may not be a boyfriend or a girlfriend, or

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Speaker 1: a husband or a wife or something like that. It

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Speaker 1: may not be what you expect, but something to stand

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Speaker 1: between you and your light going out. We stand in

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Speaker 1: agreement with you this week. God show me my abit

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Speaker 1: Shid if you have the guts for it. There's a

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Speaker 1: second prayer that we will pray for you this week,

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Speaker 1: and you know what it is already. God show me

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Speaker 1: where I need to be ab a shi for somebody

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Speaker 1: that you've called me to fight for. All right, all right,

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Speaker 1: because I'm sick of seeing David's die in the absence

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Speaker 1: of Abashi. So would you be that too. I don't

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Speaker 1: want it to be creepy, like we're running around and

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Speaker 1: Valentine's like, be my Abba shot, be my Valentine. Not

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Speaker 1: like that. But we need to pray about this. It's

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Speaker 1: real out there right now. People are turning to crazy

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Speaker 1: things in this season and they're reverting back to old ways.

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Speaker 1: And can we stand in the gap as a church

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Speaker 1: this week and just pray for the people around us?

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Speaker 1: Can we do that? I don't want you to die

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Speaker 1: at the hands of a giant that God gave you

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Speaker 1: the victory over. I don't want you pulling out slingshots

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Speaker 1: that should be in a trophy case. I want your

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Speaker 1: strategy to match your season. I want you to embrace

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Speaker 1: who you are now and be that person, be that parent,

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Speaker 1: be that manager, you know, be that in the season.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't make the Devil's abracadabrah way, but

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Speaker 1: I am praying that God would give you have a

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Speaker 1: shot the father's gift. After all, if six hundred shekel

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Speaker 1: tip of a spear couldn't kill you, what makes you

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Speaker 1: think this ish? Well, you made it through a whole

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Speaker 1: lot crazier. You made it through a whole lot crazier.

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Speaker 1: Stand right now all over the world, living rooms, kitchens,

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Speaker 1: hospital rooms. Pull your car over, pull over, pull over,

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Speaker 1: pull over. Let me pray for you, and then our

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Speaker 1: teams will take it. Lord. I uh wow, I feel

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Speaker 1: like really I just began to unpack some of the

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Speaker 1: things that we learned from David. But I pray that

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Speaker 1: the one thing that they needed to hear, that it

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Speaker 1: won't get snatched up now, and that they won't stand

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Speaker 1: up and say I've got this and pretend like they

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Speaker 1: don't need help. Give us the humility to receive your help,

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Speaker 1: give us the boldness to believe that we've got it.

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Speaker 1: I thank you that these enemies that we face, we

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Speaker 1: don't look them in the eye, but we stand on

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Speaker 1: the promise of your word, and we will not run

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Speaker 1: from a defeated foe. Thank you for standing between me

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Speaker 1: and the darkness. Thank you for giving light back. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for giving light back to homes, light back to churches,

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Speaker 1: light back to pastors. I feel an annoying to pray

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Speaker 1: for pastors right now. There are pastors who are dying

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Speaker 1: in this season. Your light has gone out. You haven't

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Speaker 1: been protecting it. You've been trying to do the old stuff.

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Speaker 1: But this is a new season. God has given you

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Speaker 1: fresh bread, a fresh word. God's gonna give you your

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Speaker 1: passion back. You're gonna get happy to preach the word

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Speaker 1: of God again, worship leaders, campus fasters. God's gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: God's gonna restore it. God's gonna light your lamp again.

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Speaker 1: You're not out of oil, not yet. The Holy ghost,

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Speaker 1: the holy ghosts, the Holy Ghost is coming upon you

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Speaker 1: in a greater measure than ever before. And I pray

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Speaker 1: for you right now. I pray for parents, pastors, teachers,

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Speaker 1: school teachers, business owners. I thank you for them. Lord.

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Speaker 1: I thank you for students, sick of being in and

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Speaker 1: out of online class, sick of having to wear masks,

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Speaker 1: sick of not knowing, sick of God. We come into

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Speaker 1: their life and we stand as an Abishai to say,

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Speaker 1: you can't have these children, you can't have this generation,

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Speaker 1: you can't have what we've worked so hard to build.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for the victory. In Jesus' name. I

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Speaker 1: pray Amen hear your testimony this week. We want to

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Speaker 1: hear from you. We love you, We bless you in

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Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. It's not over. You've got the

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Speaker 1: same spirit. You killed the lion, you killed the bear.

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Speaker 1: You'll take it. A lot of phillos things down and

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Speaker 1: this what can't kill you either. Bed bless We love you.

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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: it with your friends. You can click the share button,

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

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Speaker 1: God bless you.