WEBVTT - God's Got Your Back 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.280 Hello Evams, especially our West Coast family, we have an 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:10.760 announcement for you, Elevation Nights twenty twenty two West Coast. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.040 Are you ready for this? October twenty fifth through November third, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.480 We're coming your way so exciting. You can get your 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.240 tickets right now at Elevation Nights dot com. It's gonna 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:26.480 be me Holly, Elevation Worship. It's gonna be amazing, unbelievable 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.840 these nights. Don't want to miss. So if you're in Glendale, Arizona, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:35.920 Las Vegas, Sacramento, California, Eugene, Oregon, Seattle, Oakland, California, San 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.279 Diego and La or anywhere near those areas, we want 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.360 to see you. Elevation Nights dot com. Don't miss it. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.600 Elevation Nights dot com. Get your tickets Elevation Nights dot com. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.000 Let's see you there. Let's go to the message. God 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.200 is really moving through this minister. So thanks to all 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.360 of you who give and pray and serve and believe 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.440 and show up and invite and invest and do all 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.200 the stuff that makes it possible. God has using you 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.840 in a great way. And to that end, I believe 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.920 He's given me a word today that will empower your spirit, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.240 encourage your faith, and strengthen your heart. Who's ready for 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:20.720 the word of God. I want to call your attention 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:32.160 to Isaiah chapter thirty, verse nineteen through twenty one. In 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:37.960 this prophecy, there is a promise from God that he 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.560 spoke to me on a personal level a few months ago. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.759 And sometimes I have to hold onto something personally before 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.720 I can preach it prophetically into your life. But I 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.960 believe today He's called me to do just that. Let 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.800 he who has an ear to hear hear what the 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:58.200 Spirit is saying to the church. Isaiah thirty, verse nineteen. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.080 Listen to this awe some exceeding, great and precious promise 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.840 from the Word of God. People of Zion who live 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:13.320 in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. Eugene Peterson said, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:22.120 your time for tears is over. How gracious He will 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.120 be when you cry for help. As soon as he hears, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.160 he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.920 bread of adversity in the water of affliction, your teachers 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.920 will be hidden no more. With your own eyes, you 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:44.120 will see them. Whether you turn to the right or 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.639 to the left. Your ears will hear a voice behind 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:53.480 you saying this is the way walk in it. Wow. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.360 The Lord put me up behind this pulpit today to 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:02.320 remind you something very simple, very strong. He wanted me 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:15.720 to tell you God's got your back. God's God your back, 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.800 and on your way to your seat. Just tell three people. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.160 I can't reach them. You can't say God's got your back. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:29.200 He's absolutely committed. And connect it to whatever is concerning you. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:38.440 God's got your back. Say it, God's got my back. Amen, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:43.040 you receive it. God's got my back. I need thirteen 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.680 people to put it in the chat. God's gotten my back. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:53.160 God's got my back. Amen. And I'm learning, at least 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.280 in this season or stage of my life, how important 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.400 it is for me to stay in constant communication with 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.800 the Lord, because I forget that. I can't be one 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.480 of these pray five minutes in the morning and see 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.720 God again tomorrow morning Christians, because that's too long for 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.200 me to get in trouble. You give me twenty three 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.480 hours and fifty five minutes between prayer times. I'm a mess. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.800 I mean imagine this, that we would just talk to 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.960 God in the morning, run off, see you back here tomorrow. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.720 You might not make it back tomorrow. If you don't 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.159 say something to God between that morning and the next morning, 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.680 how many know I'm right? And has it gotten more 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.400 that way for you? I used to be a little cockier. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.640 I think I used to be cockier when I was 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.720 younger or something like that. But now just little aches 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.479 and pains in your body will even remind you to 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.720 talk to the Lord. I don't know if I could 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.560 pick up my fork unless He helps me do it. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.680 I'm not trying to say I'm old in decrepit or 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.160 anything like that, but just every once in a while, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.919 God'll give you a little signal like you can't do 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.160 this with without meaning. I promise you the whole thing 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.000 will end up in the junkyard and you better talk 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.479 to me along the way. And that's how I that's 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.680 how I keep my heart with God, just to talk 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.600 to him in constant conversation. Now, I don't mean I'm 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.000 walking around out loud talking to God. I do that too. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:19.640 One trick I learned is put your AirPod in and 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.440 that will help you talk to God and people won't 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.680 lock you up in the middle institution while you're doing it. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.880 That's a little trick I use. I like that. Just 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.040 put that AirPod in. I just talk to God sometimes, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.400 even if I'm driving down the road, I put the 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.640 AirPod in in case anybody looks over my window and 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.840 sees me talking and there's nobody in the passenger seat. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.560 There is somebody in the passenger seat. In fact, there's 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.200 somebody in the driver's seat. And if he stops driving 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.680 my life, I'm headed off this road so quick. I'm 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.080 telling you, I need constant course correction. So I was 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.200 telling my son this, how your attitude is like that. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.480 You know, you don't just get in the car and 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.200 touch the wheel once unless pay extra for your car 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.400 to do that. You have to sit there and bring 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.560 it back all the time. Well, our minds are like that, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.359 our hearts are like that. At least mine is like 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.160 the infomercial used to say, set it in forget it. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.800 I don't know if y'all ever saw that infomercial. Well, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.680 my heart is not a set it and forget it 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.880 kind of heart. My heart is a set it and 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.560 reset it and reset it and reset it and reset it. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.440 And seems like, no matter how many things God does 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.040 for me, it's almost like he's too good at his job. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.440 God is so good at his job. I almost forget 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.279 he's doing it, so then I ask God to help me, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.760 and then I take off and like I discovered in 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.320 my body the other day, I was talking about aches 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.159 and pains. My shoulder had been hurting me for a while. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.960 It finally got bad enough where I called doctor Gullason. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.600 I said, can you help me? He came over and 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.279 helped me with my shoulder, but he asked me how 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.920 long has it been hurting? I said four months. Because 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.160 I'm a man, I'm not going to say anything about 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.560 it till I you know, I'm only sleeping two hours 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.080 a night because I'm waking up every ten minutes. And 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.320 he was angry with me about that. He said, why 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.600 didn't you say something sooner? Why didn't you call me 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.760 over here after four days? I would have been happy 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.640 to help you if you had said something sooner. Or 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.800 I'll tell Holly, I've had a headache all day. That 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.480 woman has a pharmacy in her purse. It comes out 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:39.720 like an accordion file when she opens it, unbelievable. And 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.680 she has all kinds of stuff with caffeine, without caffeine, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.080 just all kinds of different things in her purse. And 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.800 I'll tell her my head's been hurting all day, and 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:54.200 she'll say, why didn't you say something sooner? And so 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.520 that seems to be it with God. You know, why 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.160 didn't you say something sooner? Why did you run around 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.320 all day long feeling like a loser? And I've talked 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:07.880 to me so I could remind you who I am. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.600 And I know why we don't talk to God because 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.120 it is easier to turn to something that we can 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.560 see for immediate relief than it is to trust in 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.679 a father that we can't see, so that he builds 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.160 our faith. And that's the thing. You can't just talk 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.920 to God when you come here on Sunday. You really 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.320 can't just listen to a sermon a week or God 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.960 forbid you just listen to clips. I mean some people 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.200 won't even do the full sermon, just a clip. Okay, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.880 that's not going to cut it when you really start 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.359 facing the challenges of life. Clips won't cut it. Cliches 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:56.160 won't cut it. Little you know, little little thank you 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.439 Lord help me as I go today and bless me 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.720 along my way. And you know, little prayer over dinner 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.400 is not going to cut it. I'm not saying God 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.480 will not love you, but you're just not going to 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.440 feel his love. You're not going to know it's there, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.040 and you're going to turn to things that will work 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.760 for you for a little while, but they will not 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.680 sustain you. I just want to talk to you about 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.000 this before we get into the direct passage that we read, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.760 because I have to constantly talk with God, and the 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.520 Lord was telling me pretty clearly before I came out today. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.760 You don't talk to him enough. You don't talk to 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.640 him enough, and when you stop talking with God, the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:44.719 enemy starts working on you when you stop coming to him. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.360 I mean, in just that moment by moment way, It's 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.720 great to come to church. Trust me, I have a 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:55.080 lot invested in this. But you know, imagine if we 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.920 were Imagine if we were sitting together in the morning 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:05.600 and you saw me going and you let it go 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.560 for a little while, but finally you get up the 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.160 courage to ask what are you doing? And I'm like, oh, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.280 I'm getting my breathing in. It's because average human takes 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.439 twenty thousand breaths a day. So I really want to 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.520 be bothered with breathing later in today because I'm real busy. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:28.520 Later today, I'm gonna just get all twenty thousand in 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.680 right now. I don't think it works like that, but 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:40.320 we think worship works like that. Three songs, three days later, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.160 you're going to be defeated. And I love the language 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.040 of Isaiah because listen, he's talking to a king, a 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.600 good king, good king, Hazekiah. He's a good king. And 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.480 Israel had a lot of bad kings. Hazekiah was not 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.920 one of them. He had a great heart. The Bible 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.320 says that his heart was turned to the Lord. It 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.600 was committed to the Lord. But just because you're a 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.040 good king doesn't mean that you don't do dumb things. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.920 Just because you're a good parent, a good spouse, good person, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.280 doesn't mean you don't do dumb things. Hazekaiah did something 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.600 really dumb. I'll tell you what he did. He made 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.200 an alliance with the king of Egypt because he was 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.240 being attacked by the Assyrians. Now, the Assyrians were fears 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.360 so much so that when they went to attack the 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.200 Northern Kingdom of Israel, they wiped them out, laid siege 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.840 on the city, and Hasekiah, after seeing that, decides I 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:45.840 need some help, so I'll go to Pharaoh. Pharaoh rings 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.680 a bell for a lot of us who come to church, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:53.120 because we remember hundreds of years earlier, when Pharaoh was 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.040 in charge of Egypt. That wasn't his name, that was 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.320 his title. Pharaoh was the one who fed the children 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.600 of Israel for a little while, and then something happened 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.600 where they became enslaved in the system that they had 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.000 escaped to. You remember that now this is a different pharaoh, 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.080 This is several centuries later. But there is something in 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.920 this moment of attack that causes Hezekiah to make an 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.760 unwise alliance. Lean in. When you're under attack, you make 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:31.360 unwise alliances. And when you feel tired, when you feel tested, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.400 when you feel like you're in trouble, what do you 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.120 turn to? Just think about that for a moment. What 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.240 do you turn to? What do you turn to when 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:51.160 you're tired, when you're tested, when you're in trouble? What 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.360 do you turn to? Now see a lot of people 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.160 that'll go through something in life and it'll get so bad, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.960 so out of control, so unmanned that at the end 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.880 of asking every other person that they can think of, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.920 what should I do? How should I do it? Can 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.120 you help me? After going through everybody on their phone 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:21.200 so many times that they start getting blocked. After all 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.840 of that, they'll say, well, all we can do now 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:35.400 is pray in that backwards like in the beginning, was 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.040 the word, The Word was with God, and the Word 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.880 was God. The scripture says in Hebrews eleven three that 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:47.360 by faith we understand that everything which was visible was 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.439 made by something that was invisible, the Word of God. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.880 That the Word of God created the world and framed 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.079 the world. So that everything you step into in your 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.880 life is something that God spoke before you got to it. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.320 So everything I'm stepping into in this season of my 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.080 life is something that God has already spoken. If he 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.080 doesn't speak it, I can't step into it. If he 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.840 didn't speak it, there would not be ground beneath my feet. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.160 If he didn't speak it, there wouldn't be a next 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.520 step for me to take. If he didn't speak it, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.400 it wouldn't be here. So everything I'm stepping into God 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.400 has already spoken. Why would I speak to others about 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.280 something that God spoke into existence before I spoke to 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:37.720 the one who knows where my path leads. And in 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.560 the text, Isaiah says something very powerful. He says that 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.960 that that that you will weep no more and watch this. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.200 I love I love the time frame reference here because 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.000 this really gives me hope because sometimes I need God quick. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.720 I need God quick. How many of you came here 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.480 to church today and you need God to do something 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.120 quick in your life, something quick in your life because 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.000 you don't always have time. I know, wait on the Lord. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.840 I know be a good cur I know he will 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.400 strengthen your heart. But some things in your life you 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.720 need God to do for you quickly. Well, this is 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.800 your verse all right, get ready to shout. If you 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.880 need God to do it, and do it quick. Watch 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.640 this how gracious He will be when you cry for help. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.120 This is verse nineteen. As soon as you get your 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.160 act together, as soon as you clean up your act, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.880 as soon as you learn these seven principles from the 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.760 Word of God, as soon as you memorize Isaiah thirty. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.280 As soon as you go back and repair every relationship 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.560 you screwed up, as soon as we get through this recession, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.120 as soon as you get married, as soon as you 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.920 get kids. As soon now, he said, as soon as 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:52.080 he hears he will help you. As soon. Come quickly, Lord, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.880 you gotta have those come quick prayers. Come quickly, Lord, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.880 Come quickly, Holy Spirit. Come quickly before I slip. Come 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.440 quickly before I fall. Come quickly before I lose my mind. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.920 Come quickly before I lose my testimony. Come quickly before 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.840 I relapse. Come quickly before our backslide. Come quickly before 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.960 I go off. Come quick, Lord, I need you quick. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.240 Why did he go to Egypt for help when he 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:35.720 knew the God of Elijah. It's because we reach for 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:43.440 what's immediate, not always was helpful. One of the attendants 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.800 of the Assyrian army came out and said, you went 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.240 to the king of Egypt. This is in Second Kings, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.640 around chapter nineteen. He said, you went to that splintered staff. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:02.240 Everyone who leans on him gets pierced. This ain't gonna work. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.080 This isn't gonna work at all. Where do you turn 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:12.160 when you're tired? Where do you turn when you're in trouble? 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:20.840 And why don't you do it sooner? Why didn't I 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.800 go to God? I know it's easier for us to 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.600 go with what we can see. This is the challenge 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:31.160 to depend on an invisible God that you can't see 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.640 when you're facing challenges that are so big that they 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.000 are all that you can't see. Come here, time, Come on, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.920 come on, come and come here. This is the one 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.480 I told the story about a few months ago, but 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.359 I need you to visualize it. And since he's here today, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.120 we're going to take our opportunity. He does so many things. Well, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.200 he's so gifted, he's so talented, y'all see my fate. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.840 Every week that's fly tie to Jacobs, the one and only, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.320 the one and only. I always tell him in my 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.679 chair everything I'm going to preach for Orre, I preach it, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.639 and then I preach none of it because God always 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.919 changes it between Saturday and Sunday. But come here, because 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.359 he was going to give somebody a haircut recently. You know, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.640 this is like crazy sponsorship life right here. What I'm 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.479 doing for you right oh man, I'm telling you you 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.800 owe me like seven free haircut something of this. There's 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.600 a lot of people that watch. But this will be 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.680 worth it you, This will be worth it for the illustration. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.280 He said. I went to cut somebody's here the other day, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.439 and when I was going in, you know what I'm 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.640 gonna tell them. When I was going in, I got 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.359 intimidated because their house was crazy and I started thinking, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.040 first of all, about why they get this house, and 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.280 I don't get it because he's petty, so y'all pray 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.919 for money. Secondly, he said, it started to get in 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.720 my head. It started to get in my head. I 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.359 got distracted by how nice the house was. I started 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.000 getting intimidated. And he said, but when I went in 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.920 and I started doing what I do, what God gives 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.000 didn't need to do, He said, it was amazing because 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.800 when I left, I got a text from everybody that 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.959 was in the house that said, man, it changed our 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:18.040 lives having you in our house today. Yeah. Yeah, did 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:19.879 you make that up? Or is that true? True? You 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.480 have a good he said, this is a true story, 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.199 all right. I only have his word to go off of. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.760 He is an exaggerator, but I believe it. And I 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.600 looked at him and I said, it sounds like you 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.440 got so distracted by what you were walking into, Yeah, 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.840 that you forgot what you were walking in with. Yes, 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:51.439 won't that breach Tom? And that like the children of 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.119 Israel going into Canaan to spy out the land carrying 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.399 the promise of a covenant keeping God talking about the 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.520 giants are big. What happened They got so distracted by 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.480 what they were walking into that they forgot the promise 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.080 they were walking in with. That's so good. So when 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.240 you remember, I'm done with you. So when you remembered, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.479 I just wanted to use that illustration because I saw 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:15.760 him there and it came to my heart, and I 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.160 think it might be for somebody, because when you are 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.159 not in constant communication with God, and I mean just 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.400 throughout the day, God is there. I go. I get 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.280 off track. God, there I go. I get off track. God, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.280 there I go, I get off track. You will be 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:35.000 all the way through the whole bag of fridos before 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.040 you realize. Oh, I need the Holy Spirit to fill me, 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.160 because these freedoms are filling me. But it doesn't feel 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.320 very good now that they fill me. I'm not less stressed. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.240 I just got three more pounds to carry when I 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.760 get off this couch and now don't feel like doing anything. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:51.080 And now I'm gonna take a nap and I'm gonna 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:52.399 miss my job, and now I'm gonna get fired, and 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.120 then my wife's gonna leave me, and everything fell apart 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:58.119 because I ate FreeDOS. But what I'm saying is what 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:04.080 I'm saying is listen to me. Say something sooner, Say 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:10.200 something sooner. Catch yourself quicker. Instead of running to pills, 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.040 say something to God instead of running to porn, Say 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.760 something to God, instead of running to pessimism. Say something 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.120 to God instead of watch this crying out for help. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.879 Because everybody has a different way they yell for help. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:29.040 Some people yell for help through anger. They're really not mad, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.919 they're scared, so they get angry. It's a way of saying, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.399 help me. I'm afraid, but I don't know how to 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.639 ask for help. So I get angry because I'm yelling 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.399 for help because I never learned how to ask for help. 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.240 So if you would say something sooner, maybe it wouldn't 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.040 get to this point. Maybe it wouldn't get this ridiculous. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.440 Maybe it wouldn't come to the point where you blow up. 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.879 Maybe it wouldn't get to the point where it crushes you. 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.080 Maybe it wouldn't get to the point where you're carrying 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.960 it so long and the load weighs so much that 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.359 you don't see any other way out. Why didn't you 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:06.080 say something sooner? When your God has medicines of all descriptions, 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.000 When your God says has healing for everything, that hurts you. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.440 When your God says, I'll answer you as soon as 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.639 I hear you, not as soon as you hurt, but 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.080 as soon as you pray about it. You can hurt 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.680 a long time and not get help, because hurting does 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:29.840 not attract help, fake does. Prayer does praise us. Eh. 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:40.000 When you are prayerless, you are paralyzed. A lot of 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.280 the paralysis in our lives. Oh I don't know what 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:43.959 to do. Oh I don't know how to handle it. 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:49.879 Oh I can't go forward. It's because prayerlessness leads to paralysis, 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.120 keeps you focused on what you're walking into. How many 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.040 are walking into a season right now that you just 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.359 don't see any way it's going to turn out? Okay, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.879 and it may be five or maybe five hundred or 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.160 maybe fifty thousand, but raise your hand right now, I'm 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.360 walking into something. Okay, that isn't enough. Let me try 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:11.120 another way in how many of y'all are going back 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:20.159 to school this week? Okay? Stand up, look at me, 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:29.840 a God's got your back. Look at me, look at me, 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:35.600 look at me, stand up straight. God's got your back. 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:43.879 God's got your back. Everybody say it out loud, God's 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.840 got my back. I need you to go back to 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:53.440 school knowing that God is behind you in your y'all 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:59.639 want to sit down? Stand up one more second? Stand up? 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:02.680 On more said, I sent it one more second. You 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:07.399 can't afford to go back to school alone. You're not 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:09.760 ready to go back to school just because you got 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:13.000 new shoes for it. We all get new shoes to 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.159 go back to school. I got my Rebod pumps, but 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.119 my Rebod pumps weren't enough. If God doesn't have my back, 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:23.719 I can't make it through the temptation. If God doesn't 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:31.640 have my back. But if God be for meoo can 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:37.600 be against me? Come on, slap yourself on the chest, 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:41.920 say God's got my back. And I'm telling you say 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:44.439 no, no no, I'm telling you you can call on God. Now. 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:46.359 Don't call on God when you didn't study for the 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:48.240 test and ask him to help you pass it. Lord 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:50.560 don't really work like that. You gotta pray for God 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.160 when you feel like playing video games instead of studying, 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:56.080 and involve Him at that point. If you involve him sooner, 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:58.480 maybe you won't get to the test sweating and having 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:00.720 to wonder if I gonna make it. If you will 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:07.280 come to God sooner, anybody wish they would have started 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:09.439 living for God when they were in the eighth grade, 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:17.560 learned how to talk to God sooner run around trying 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:19.880 to fulfill all these desires you to understand in sexual 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:23.000 ways and in social ways, trying to climb the ladder 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:25.080 of status, to only realize that there's no substance in 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.080 status if you don't know who you are in the spirit. 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.400 God's got your back. We get so distracted by what 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:34.479