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Speaker 1: Let's see you there. Let's go to the message. God
Speaker 1: is really moving through this minister. So thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you who give and pray and serve and believe
Speaker 1: and show up and invite and invest and do all
Speaker 1: the stuff that makes it possible. God has using you
Speaker 1: in a great way. And to that end, I believe
Speaker 1: He's given me a word today that will empower your spirit,
Speaker 1: encourage your faith, and strengthen your heart. Who's ready for
Speaker 1: the word of God. I want to call your attention
Speaker 1: to Isaiah chapter thirty, verse nineteen through twenty one. In
Speaker 1: this prophecy, there is a promise from God that he
Speaker 1: spoke to me on a personal level a few months ago.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I have to hold onto something personally before
Speaker 1: I can preach it prophetically into your life. But I
Speaker 1: believe today He's called me to do just that. Let
Speaker 1: he who has an ear to hear hear what the
Speaker 1: Spirit is saying to the church. Isaiah thirty, verse nineteen.
Speaker 1: Listen to this awe some exceeding, great and precious promise
Speaker 1: from the Word of God. People of Zion who live
Speaker 1: in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. Eugene Peterson said,
Speaker 1: your time for tears is over. How gracious He will
Speaker 1: be when you cry for help. As soon as he hears,
Speaker 1: he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the
Speaker 1: bread of adversity in the water of affliction, your teachers
Speaker 1: will be hidden no more. With your own eyes, you
Speaker 1: will see them. Whether you turn to the right or
Speaker 1: to the left. Your ears will hear a voice behind
Speaker 1: you saying this is the way walk in it. Wow.
Speaker 1: The Lord put me up behind this pulpit today to
Speaker 1: remind you something very simple, very strong. He wanted me
Speaker 1: to tell you God's got your back. God's God your back,
Speaker 1: and on your way to your seat. Just tell three people.
Speaker 1: I can't reach them. You can't say God's got your back.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely committed. And connect it to whatever is concerning you.
Speaker 1: God's got your back. Say it, God's got my back. Amen,
Speaker 1: you receive it. God's got my back. I need thirteen
Speaker 1: people to put it in the chat. God's gotten my back.
Speaker 1: God's got my back. Amen. And I'm learning, at least
Speaker 1: in this season or stage of my life, how important
Speaker 1: it is for me to stay in constant communication with
Speaker 1: the Lord, because I forget that. I can't be one
Speaker 1: of these pray five minutes in the morning and see
Speaker 1: God again tomorrow morning Christians, because that's too long for
Speaker 1: me to get in trouble. You give me twenty three
Speaker 1: hours and fifty five minutes between prayer times. I'm a mess.
Speaker 1: I mean imagine this, that we would just talk to
Speaker 1: God in the morning, run off, see you back here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You might not make it back tomorrow. If you don't
Speaker 1: say something to God between that morning and the next morning,
Speaker 1: how many know I'm right? And has it gotten more
Speaker 1: that way for you? I used to be a little cockier.
Speaker 1: I think I used to be cockier when I was
Speaker 1: younger or something like that. But now just little aches
Speaker 1: and pains in your body will even remind you to
Speaker 1: talk to the Lord. I don't know if I could
Speaker 1: pick up my fork unless He helps me do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say I'm old in decrepit or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but just every once in a while,
Speaker 1: God'll give you a little signal like you can't do
Speaker 1: this with without meaning. I promise you the whole thing
Speaker 1: will end up in the junkyard and you better talk
Speaker 1: to me along the way. And that's how I that's
Speaker 1: how I keep my heart with God, just to talk
Speaker 1: to him in constant conversation. Now, I don't mean I'm
Speaker 1: walking around out loud talking to God. I do that too.
Speaker 1: One trick I learned is put your AirPod in and
Speaker 1: that will help you talk to God and people won't
Speaker 1: lock you up in the middle institution while you're doing it.
Speaker 1: That's a little trick I use. I like that. Just
Speaker 1: put that AirPod in. I just talk to God sometimes,
Speaker 1: even if I'm driving down the road, I put the
Speaker 1: AirPod in in case anybody looks over my window and
Speaker 1: sees me talking and there's nobody in the passenger seat.
Speaker 1: There is somebody in the passenger seat. In fact, there's
Speaker 1: somebody in the driver's seat. And if he stops driving
Speaker 1: my life, I'm headed off this road so quick. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I need constant course correction. So I was
Speaker 1: telling my son this, how your attitude is like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't just get in the car and
Speaker 1: touch the wheel once unless pay extra for your car
Speaker 1: to do that. You have to sit there and bring
Speaker 1: it back all the time. Well, our minds are like that,
Speaker 1: our hearts are like that. At least mine is like
Speaker 1: the infomercial used to say, set it in forget it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all ever saw that infomercial. Well,
Speaker 1: my heart is not a set it and forget it
Speaker 1: kind of heart. My heart is a set it and
Speaker 1: reset it and reset it and reset it and reset it.
Speaker 1: And seems like, no matter how many things God does
Speaker 1: for me, it's almost like he's too good at his job.
Speaker 1: God is so good at his job. I almost forget
Speaker 1: he's doing it, so then I ask God to help me,
Speaker 1: and then I take off and like I discovered in
Speaker 1: my body the other day, I was talking about aches
Speaker 1: and pains. My shoulder had been hurting me for a while.
Speaker 1: It finally got bad enough where I called doctor Gullason.
Speaker 1: I said, can you help me? He came over and
Speaker 1: helped me with my shoulder, but he asked me how
Speaker 1: long has it been hurting? I said four months. Because
Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm not going to say anything about
Speaker 1: it till I you know, I'm only sleeping two hours
Speaker 1: a night because I'm waking up every ten minutes. And
Speaker 1: he was angry with me about that. He said, why
Speaker 1: didn't you say something sooner? Why didn't you call me
Speaker 1: over here after four days? I would have been happy
Speaker 1: to help you if you had said something sooner. Or
Speaker 1: I'll tell Holly, I've had a headache all day. That
Speaker 1: woman has a pharmacy in her purse. It comes out
Speaker 1: like an accordion file when she opens it, unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: she has all kinds of stuff with caffeine, without caffeine,
Speaker 1: just all kinds of different things in her purse. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell her my head's been hurting all day, and
Speaker 1: she'll say, why didn't you say something sooner? And so
Speaker 1: that seems to be it with God. You know, why
Speaker 1: didn't you say something sooner? Why did you run around
Speaker 1: all day long feeling like a loser? And I've talked
Speaker 1: to me so I could remind you who I am.
Speaker 1: And I know why we don't talk to God because
Speaker 1: it is easier to turn to something that we can
Speaker 1: see for immediate relief than it is to trust in
Speaker 1: a father that we can't see, so that he builds
Speaker 1: our faith. And that's the thing. You can't just talk
Speaker 1: to God when you come here on Sunday. You really
Speaker 1: can't just listen to a sermon a week or God
Speaker 1: forbid you just listen to clips. I mean some people
Speaker 1: won't even do the full sermon, just a clip. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not going to cut it when you really start
Speaker 1: facing the challenges of life. Clips won't cut it. Cliches
Speaker 1: won't cut it. Little you know, little little thank you
Speaker 1: Lord help me as I go today and bless me
Speaker 1: along my way. And you know, little prayer over dinner
Speaker 1: is not going to cut it. I'm not saying God
Speaker 1: will not love you, but you're just not going to
Speaker 1: feel his love. You're not going to know it's there,
Speaker 1: and you're going to turn to things that will work
Speaker 1: for you for a little while, but they will not
Speaker 1: sustain you. I just want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: this before we get into the direct passage that we read,
Speaker 1: because I have to constantly talk with God, and the
Speaker 1: Lord was telling me pretty clearly before I came out today.
Speaker 1: You don't talk to him enough. You don't talk to
Speaker 1: him enough, and when you stop talking with God, the
Speaker 1: enemy starts working on you when you stop coming to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, in just that moment by moment way, It's
Speaker 1: great to come to church. Trust me, I have a
Speaker 1: lot invested in this. But you know, imagine if we
Speaker 1: were Imagine if we were sitting together in the morning
Speaker 1: and you saw me going and you let it go
Speaker 1: for a little while, but finally you get up the
Speaker 1: courage to ask what are you doing? And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm getting my breathing in. It's because average human takes
Speaker 1: twenty thousand breaths a day. So I really want to
Speaker 1: be bothered with breathing later in today because I'm real busy.
Speaker 1: Later today, I'm gonna just get all twenty thousand in
Speaker 1: right now. I don't think it works like that, but
Speaker 1: we think worship works like that. Three songs, three days later,
Speaker 1: you're going to be defeated. And I love the language
Speaker 1: of Isaiah because listen, he's talking to a king, a
Speaker 1: good king, good king, Hazekiah. He's a good king. And
Speaker 1: Israel had a lot of bad kings. Hazekiah was not
Speaker 1: one of them. He had a great heart. The Bible
Speaker 1: says that his heart was turned to the Lord. It
Speaker 1: was committed to the Lord. But just because you're a
Speaker 1: good king doesn't mean that you don't do dumb things.
Speaker 1: Just because you're a good parent, a good spouse, good person,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you don't do dumb things. Hazekaiah did something
Speaker 1: really dumb. I'll tell you what he did. He made
Speaker 1: an alliance with the king of Egypt because he was
Speaker 1: being attacked by the Assyrians. Now, the Assyrians were fears
Speaker 1: so much so that when they went to attack the
Speaker 1: Northern Kingdom of Israel, they wiped them out, laid siege
Speaker 1: on the city, and Hasekiah, after seeing that, decides I
Speaker 1: need some help, so I'll go to Pharaoh. Pharaoh rings
Speaker 1: a bell for a lot of us who come to church,
Speaker 1: because we remember hundreds of years earlier, when Pharaoh was
Speaker 1: in charge of Egypt. That wasn't his name, that was
Speaker 1: his title. Pharaoh was the one who fed the children
Speaker 1: of Israel for a little while, and then something happened
Speaker 1: where they became enslaved in the system that they had
Speaker 1: escaped to. You remember that now this is a different pharaoh,
Speaker 1: This is several centuries later. But there is something in
Speaker 1: this moment of attack that causes Hezekiah to make an
Speaker 1: unwise alliance. Lean in. When you're under attack, you make
Speaker 1: unwise alliances. And when you feel tired, when you feel tested,
Speaker 1: when you feel like you're in trouble, what do you
Speaker 1: turn to? Just think about that for a moment. What
Speaker 1: do you turn to? What do you turn to when
Speaker 1: you're tired, when you're tested, when you're in trouble? What
Speaker 1: do you turn to? Now see a lot of people
Speaker 1: that'll go through something in life and it'll get so bad,
Speaker 1: so out of control, so unmanned that at the end
Speaker 1: of asking every other person that they can think of,
Speaker 1: what should I do? How should I do it? Can
Speaker 1: you help me? After going through everybody on their phone
Speaker 1: so many times that they start getting blocked. After all
Speaker 1: of that, they'll say, well, all we can do now
Speaker 1: is pray in that backwards like in the beginning, was
Speaker 1: the word, The Word was with God, and the Word
Speaker 1: was God. The scripture says in Hebrews eleven three that
Speaker 1: by faith we understand that everything which was visible was
Speaker 1: made by something that was invisible, the Word of God.
Speaker 1: That the Word of God created the world and framed
Speaker 1: the world. So that everything you step into in your
Speaker 1: life is something that God spoke before you got to it.
Speaker 1: So everything I'm stepping into in this season of my
Speaker 1: life is something that God has already spoken. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't speak it, I can't step into it. If he
Speaker 1: didn't speak it, there would not be ground beneath my feet.
Speaker 1: If he didn't speak it, there wouldn't be a next
Speaker 1: step for me to take. If he didn't speak it,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be here. So everything I'm stepping into God
Speaker 1: has already spoken. Why would I speak to others about
Speaker 1: something that God spoke into existence before I spoke to
Speaker 1: the one who knows where my path leads. And in
Speaker 1: the text, Isaiah says something very powerful. He says that
Speaker 1: that that that you will weep no more and watch this.
Speaker 1: I love I love the time frame reference here because
Speaker 1: this really gives me hope because sometimes I need God quick.
Speaker 1: I need God quick. How many of you came here
Speaker 1: to church today and you need God to do something
Speaker 1: quick in your life, something quick in your life because
Speaker 1: you don't always have time. I know, wait on the Lord.
Speaker 1: I know be a good cur I know he will
Speaker 1: strengthen your heart. But some things in your life you
Speaker 1: need God to do for you quickly. Well, this is
Speaker 1: your verse all right, get ready to shout. If you
Speaker 1: need God to do it, and do it quick. Watch
Speaker 1: this how gracious He will be when you cry for help.
Speaker 1: This is verse nineteen. As soon as you get your
Speaker 1: act together, as soon as you clean up your act,
Speaker 1: as soon as you learn these seven principles from the
Speaker 1: Word of God, as soon as you memorize Isaiah thirty.
Speaker 1: As soon as you go back and repair every relationship
Speaker 1: you screwed up, as soon as we get through this recession,
Speaker 1: as soon as you get married, as soon as you
Speaker 1: get kids. As soon now, he said, as soon as
Speaker 1: he hears he will help you. As soon. Come quickly, Lord,
Speaker 1: you gotta have those come quick prayers. Come quickly, Lord,
Speaker 1: Come quickly, Holy Spirit. Come quickly before I slip. Come
Speaker 1: quickly before I fall. Come quickly before I lose my mind.
Speaker 1: Come quickly before I lose my testimony. Come quickly before
Speaker 1: I relapse. Come quickly before our backslide. Come quickly before
Speaker 1: I go off. Come quick, Lord, I need you quick.
Speaker 1: Why did he go to Egypt for help when he
Speaker 1: knew the God of Elijah. It's because we reach for
Speaker 1: what's immediate, not always was helpful. One of the attendants
Speaker 1: of the Assyrian army came out and said, you went
Speaker 1: to the king of Egypt. This is in Second Kings,
Speaker 1: around chapter nineteen. He said, you went to that splintered staff.
Speaker 1: Everyone who leans on him gets pierced. This ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: This isn't gonna work at all. Where do you turn
Speaker 1: when you're tired? Where do you turn when you're in trouble?
Speaker 1: And why don't you do it sooner? Why didn't I
Speaker 1: go to God? I know it's easier for us to
Speaker 1: go with what we can see. This is the challenge
Speaker 1: to depend on an invisible God that you can't see
Speaker 1: when you're facing challenges that are so big that they
Speaker 1: are all that you can't see. Come here, time, Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, come and come here. This is the one
Speaker 1: I told the story about a few months ago, but
Speaker 1: I need you to visualize it. And since he's here today,
Speaker 1: we're going to take our opportunity. He does so many things. Well,
Speaker 1: he's so gifted, he's so talented, y'all see my fate.
Speaker 1: Every week that's fly tie to Jacobs, the one and only,
Speaker 1: the one and only. I always tell him in my
Speaker 1: chair everything I'm going to preach for Orre, I preach it,
Speaker 1: and then I preach none of it because God always
Speaker 1: changes it between Saturday and Sunday. But come here, because
Speaker 1: he was going to give somebody a haircut recently. You know,
Speaker 1: this is like crazy sponsorship life right here. What I'm
Speaker 1: doing for you right oh man, I'm telling you you
Speaker 1: owe me like seven free haircut something of this. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that watch. But this will be
Speaker 1: worth it you, This will be worth it for the illustration.
Speaker 1: He said. I went to cut somebody's here the other day,
Speaker 1: and when I was going in, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell them. When I was going in, I got
Speaker 1: intimidated because their house was crazy and I started thinking,
Speaker 1: first of all, about why they get this house, and
Speaker 1: I don't get it because he's petty, so y'all pray
Speaker 1: for money. Secondly, he said, it started to get in
Speaker 1: my head. It started to get in my head. I
Speaker 1: got distracted by how nice the house was. I started
Speaker 1: getting intimidated. And he said, but when I went in
Speaker 1: and I started doing what I do, what God gives
Speaker 1: didn't need to do, He said, it was amazing because
Speaker 1: when I left, I got a text from everybody that
Speaker 1: was in the house that said, man, it changed our
Speaker 1: lives having you in our house today. Yeah. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you make that up? Or is that true? True? You
Speaker 1: have a good he said, this is a true story,
Speaker 1: all right. I only have his word to go off of.
Speaker 1: He is an exaggerator, but I believe it. And I
Speaker 1: looked at him and I said, it sounds like you
Speaker 1: got so distracted by what you were walking into, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you forgot what you were walking in with. Yes,
Speaker 1: won't that breach Tom? And that like the children of
Speaker 1: Israel going into Canaan to spy out the land carrying
Speaker 1: the promise of a covenant keeping God talking about the
Speaker 1: giants are big. What happened They got so distracted by
Speaker 1: what they were walking into that they forgot the promise
Speaker 1: they were walking in with. That's so good. So when
Speaker 1: you remember, I'm done with you. So when you remembered,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to use that illustration because I saw
Speaker 1: him there and it came to my heart, and I
Speaker 1: think it might be for somebody, because when you are
Speaker 1: not in constant communication with God, and I mean just
Speaker 1: throughout the day, God is there. I go. I get
Speaker 1: off track. God, there I go. I get off track. God,
Speaker 1: there I go, I get off track. You will be
Speaker 1: all the way through the whole bag of fridos before
Speaker 1: you realize. Oh, I need the Holy Spirit to fill me,
Speaker 1: because these freedoms are filling me. But it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: very good now that they fill me. I'm not less stressed.
Speaker 1: I just got three more pounds to carry when I
Speaker 1: get off this couch and now don't feel like doing anything.
Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna take a nap and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: miss my job, and now I'm gonna get fired, and
Speaker 1: then my wife's gonna leave me, and everything fell apart
Speaker 1: because I ate FreeDOS. But what I'm saying is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is listen to me. Say something sooner, Say
Speaker 1: something sooner. Catch yourself quicker. Instead of running to pills,
Speaker 1: say something to God instead of running to porn, Say
Speaker 1: something to God, instead of running to pessimism. Say something
Speaker 1: to God instead of watch this crying out for help.
Speaker 1: Because everybody has a different way they yell for help.
Speaker 1: Some people yell for help through anger. They're really not mad,
Speaker 1: they're scared, so they get angry. It's a way of saying,
Speaker 1: help me. I'm afraid, but I don't know how to
Speaker 1: ask for help. So I get angry because I'm yelling
Speaker 1: for help because I never learned how to ask for help.
Speaker 1: So if you would say something sooner, maybe it wouldn't
Speaker 1: get to this point. Maybe it wouldn't get this ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wouldn't come to the point where you blow up.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wouldn't get to the point where it crushes you.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wouldn't get to the point where you're carrying
Speaker 1: it so long and the load weighs so much that
Speaker 1: you don't see any other way out. Why didn't you
Speaker 1: say something sooner? When your God has medicines of all descriptions,
Speaker 1: When your God says has healing for everything, that hurts you.
Speaker 1: When your God says, I'll answer you as soon as
Speaker 1: I hear you, not as soon as you hurt, but
Speaker 1: as soon as you pray about it. You can hurt
Speaker 1: a long time and not get help, because hurting does
Speaker 1: not attract help, fake does. Prayer does praise us. Eh.
Speaker 1: When you are prayerless, you are paralyzed. A lot of
Speaker 1: the paralysis in our lives. Oh I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. Oh I don't know how to handle it.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't go forward. It's because prayerlessness leads to paralysis,
Speaker 1: keeps you focused on what you're walking into. How many
Speaker 1: are walking into a season right now that you just
Speaker 1: don't see any way it's going to turn out? Okay,
Speaker 1: and it may be five or maybe five hundred or
Speaker 1: maybe fifty thousand, but raise your hand right now, I'm
Speaker 1: walking into something. Okay, that isn't enough. Let me try
Speaker 1: another way in how many of y'all are going back
Speaker 1: to school this week? Okay? Stand up, look at me,
Speaker 1: a God's got your back. Look at me, look at me,
Speaker 1: look at me, stand up straight. God's got your back.
Speaker 1: God's got your back. Everybody say it out loud, God's
Speaker 1: got my back. I need you to go back to
Speaker 1: school knowing that God is behind you in your y'all
Speaker 1: want to sit down? Stand up one more second? Stand up?
Speaker 1: On more said, I sent it one more second. You
Speaker 1: can't afford to go back to school alone. You're not
Speaker 1: ready to go back to school just because you got
Speaker 1: new shoes for it. We all get new shoes to
Speaker 1: go back to school. I got my Rebod pumps, but
Speaker 1: my Rebod pumps weren't enough. If God doesn't have my back,
Speaker 1: I can't make it through the temptation. If God doesn't
Speaker 1: have my back. But if God be for meoo can
Speaker 1: be against me? Come on, slap yourself on the chest,
Speaker 1: say God's got my back. And I'm telling you say
Speaker 1: no, no no, I'm telling you you can call on God. Now.
Speaker 1: Don't call on God when you didn't study for the
Speaker 1: test and ask him to help you pass it. Lord
Speaker 1: don't really work like that. You gotta pray for God
Speaker 1: when you feel like playing video games instead of studying,
Speaker 1: and involve Him at that point. If you involve him sooner,
Speaker 1: maybe you won't get to the test sweating and having
Speaker 1: to wonder if I gonna make it. If you will
Speaker 1: come to God sooner, anybody wish they would have started
Speaker 1: living for God when they were in the eighth grade,
Speaker 1: learned how to talk to God sooner run around trying
Speaker 1: to fulfill all these desires you to understand in sexual
Speaker 1: ways and in social ways, trying to climb the ladder
Speaker 1: of status, to only realize that there's no substance in
Speaker 1: status if you don't know who you are in the spirit.
Speaker 1: God's got your back. We get so distracted by what
Speaker 1: we're walking into and what other people have and what
Speaker 1: they look like. Come on, man, they didn't even buy
Speaker 1: that Gucci bag with cash. They put it on a
Speaker 1: credit card that's matched out and it's the fourth one,
Speaker 1: and now you feel insecure because you don't have what
Speaker 1: they have. I'm just talking from my heart, y'all. I
Speaker 1: told the Lord after last week's sermon, I said, I
Speaker 1: will never I will never after how God convicted me
Speaker 1: about David taking the census. I will go by how
Speaker 1: many views a sermon gets to verify and validate whether
Speaker 1: or not it was the word of God. I will
Speaker 1: never do it again. That's when I get up here
Speaker 1: to preach. I only need to know one thing. Did
Speaker 1: God say it? Is it true? Because if he did.
Speaker 1: That means what he begins, he backs what God begins,
Speaker 1: He backs. The Bible says that before you were born
Speaker 1: in your mother's womb, God fashioned you. That's right before
Speaker 1: you got here. God spoke it. You stepped into this world.
Speaker 1: But God spoke you before you stepped into it. So
Speaker 1: at the moments you feel too weak to walk on,
Speaker 1: you got to remember this truth that the preacher gave
Speaker 1: you on this Sunday morning, on this Tuesday night, on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday afternoon. Whenever you're listening to it, God is
Speaker 1: speaking it. But he is going to speak it now,
Speaker 1: for when you step into it later, that you remember
Speaker 1: that He backs what he begins. He finishes what he starts.
Speaker 1: He does not progress today. He's right on time. He's
Speaker 1: not running behind. He didn't forget about you. He said
Speaker 1: that soon as I hear you, AH help you. That's soon.
Speaker 1: That's your call. I answer you. In the day I'm trouble,
Speaker 1: I'm reach down and do it. Good quick, law good quick,
Speaker 1: and help me stop quick and do it. Cup quick
Speaker 1: with the red seam miracle. Duck quick, move a mountain,
Speaker 1: Doug quick, make me strong, God quick, break these chains.
Speaker 1: He said, I'll do it. God is strengthening me. Watch
Speaker 1: verse twenty, gotta throw verse twenty in he said, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get the bread of affliction and the water of adversity,
Speaker 1: or one or the other. I don't remember which one
Speaker 1: came first, adversity or affliction. But he he calls a
Speaker 1: fight food. Isaiah at thirty twenty isaid, thirty twenty, I'm stolen.
Speaker 1: So then get on the screen the bread of adversity,
Speaker 1: the water of affliction, adversity, affliction. That's the fight, God said,
Speaker 1: that's the food. That's how I'm building you. I'm bringing
Speaker 1: you through things right now, and even the things that
Speaker 1: are coming against you are going to work for you,
Speaker 1: because God's God. My bad. You don't need the king
Speaker 1: of Egypt for this fight. When Hezekiah got serious and
Speaker 1: prayed to God, look it up. God sent angels into
Speaker 1: the tents of the enemy and slew one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty five thousand of them. And all you get when
Speaker 1: you lean on Pharaoh's staff is a splinter. So why
Speaker 1: didn't you say something sooner? Why don't you say something?
Speaker 1: Watch this, not after they ruined your day. Stop letting
Speaker 1: people ruin your five minutes. Say something to God. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm off track. Now you see how they looked at me. Lord,
Speaker 1: Now I will do it to an extreme, and you
Speaker 1: may not need this extreme, but maybe God sent you
Speaker 1: an extreme preacher because you are extremely dysfunctional. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I tell you how I do it. I got to
Speaker 1: drop on my knees sometimes, just right in the middle
Speaker 1: of stuff, just sneak off and get on my knees.
Speaker 1: And I think that's better than to fall flat on
Speaker 1: my face because I didn't get on my knees. Now,
Speaker 1: you have to get a style that works for you.
Speaker 1: But God said, you're not talking to them enough, and
Speaker 1: that's why the enemy is busy. That's what worry is.
Speaker 1: It's the substitute for the prayers you didn't pray. That's
Speaker 1: how the enemy fills the space with the things that
Speaker 1: you won't pray about. He gets your faith in reverse,
Speaker 1: so it starts working against you, starts tearing your part.
Speaker 1: Got you now, got you now? But the Lord said,
Speaker 1: as soon as you cry, I hear you, and I
Speaker 1: help you. You can't make that stuff happen. You know what,
Speaker 1: that was an illustration. We didn't work that out. But
Speaker 1: God got my back. God said, you need an illustration.
Speaker 1: I'll make a baby cry at that moment. I'll set
Speaker 1: it up, I'll make it work, I'll bring it together.
Speaker 1: I cannect it, I'll hold it on. And just like that,
Speaker 1: you can trust and the knowledge and the wisdom of God.
Speaker 1: I can quit right here, we can keep going. It's
Speaker 1: up to you. That was the set up. Because we
Speaker 1: did at who what? When? Where? Right? We did who?
Speaker 1: The Lord said, I want to help you. We did
Speaker 1: a a What will he do? He said that he
Speaker 1: will hear you. Yeah, we did a win. As soon
Speaker 1: as you cry. As soon as you cry, the Lord
Speaker 1: will quickly deliver you. But then he will also direct you. Now,
Speaker 1: this is what I had to meditate on because verse
Speaker 1: twenty one upended a lot of my understanding. It messed
Speaker 1: with me because in twenty one he says, whether you
Speaker 1: turn to the right or to the left, did you
Speaker 1: hear a voice behind you saying this the way? Walk
Speaker 1: in it? So it sounds like that wherever you go,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, God will be with you to tell
Speaker 1: you when to turn. If you're not stubborn. If you're
Speaker 1: stubborn and you won't pray and you just stuff it
Speaker 1: all down all the time, and you won't join any group.
Speaker 1: It's called a call back. Then the Lord can't direct you.
Speaker 1: So you know. I'm look, I'm not a bad driver
Speaker 1: as long as I don't have to find where to
Speaker 1: turn right. Holly's much better. She is much better, And
Speaker 1: usually I listen to her other thight. I didn't. We're
Speaker 1: coming home from my mom's I'm going in traffic circle,
Speaker 1: she said. Now I'm not this one. The third one,
Speaker 1: the third one, the third one, the third one, the
Speaker 1: third one, the third one. Now watch what she didn't do.
Speaker 1: She didn't grab the wheel, she didn't yell at me,
Speaker 1: she didn't reprimand me. She just said very softly, which
Speaker 1: is usually not Holly's normal gear for talking. But she said,
Speaker 1: not this, not this. And I was like, you know, woman,
Speaker 1: you how many times I came back from my mom's house.
Speaker 1: It's the second one. It's the second one. She said, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not the same circle. This is the one
Speaker 1: they put in since the last six months, since we've
Speaker 1: been going the other way to go to your mom's
Speaker 1: house on Wednesday night to eat dinner and watch Wheel
Speaker 1: of Fortune. This is the new We do that every
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. I love it. From the highlights of my week.
Speaker 1: She cooks so good, so nostalgic. Stay with me, Stay
Speaker 1: with me, She said, this is the new circle. This
Speaker 1: is not the same circle. This the new circle. This
Speaker 1: is not the same circle. Your challenge is going to
Speaker 1: be in your life that you are going to try
Speaker 1: to memorize the miracles that God does for you and
Speaker 1: the ways that He takes you. Not to realize that
Speaker 1: things are always changing, and the way that you raise
Speaker 1: your kids or approach your life in one season may
Speaker 1: not produce success in the next season, because this is
Speaker 1: not the same circle. And if you don't have the
Speaker 1: voice of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit, either
Speaker 1: one will do to tell you where to turn, you
Speaker 1: miss it. But sometimes even when the Lord tells you.
Speaker 1: My friend the other day said I had a really
Speaker 1: bad marriage, but God tried to tell me so many
Speaker 1: times not to marry that person. It was crazy. I said,
Speaker 1: what kind of little signs did he give? You? Said,
Speaker 1: not little signs. She cocked a gun and pointed it
Speaker 1: at me. I still married her. That was the first time.
Speaker 1: So that might be God saying, you know, there's other
Speaker 1: fish in the sea. Even if there's not another fish
Speaker 1: in the sea, go kill a deer, eat that get
Speaker 1: out of the sea. But the passage was so powerful
Speaker 1: to me. It said, whether you turn to the right
Speaker 1: or to the left, whether you go to Elon or
Speaker 1: Chapel Hill. Let's think of a college. Right now. You
Speaker 1: are so stressed about did you make the right decision
Speaker 1: to go to school? Here it's the freshman year and
Speaker 1: you're thinking, is this the right school? It really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter right now. What you got to do is find
Speaker 1: the right people. We can get paralyzed in decision making
Speaker 1: about things that don't matter as much. I was telling
Speaker 1: them one time in church, how in the town I
Speaker 1: grew up and there weren't so many schools to choose
Speaker 1: from where to put your kids. I mean, there weren't
Speaker 1: so many schools like that. So you just did it,
Speaker 1: and you got along with it, and you made peace
Speaker 1: with it. Sometimes our options are the enemy of our peace.
Speaker 1: Oh I should have done this, Oh I should have
Speaker 1: done that. Oh I could have done that. The Lord said,
Speaker 1: whether you turn to the right or to the left.
Speaker 1: The important thing isn't necessarily the road that you take.
Speaker 1: The important thing isn't necessarily I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to come to church here
Speaker 1: for God to bless you. You can go to another
Speaker 1: church and God will speak to you there. You can
Speaker 1: go to another church and God will have a word
Speaker 1: for you there. That's fine, But the important thing is
Speaker 1: not necessarily about that initial decision. Is itant thing is
Speaker 1: not necessarily which way you go, but how you walk
Speaker 1: on that path. The important thing isn't necessarily which church
Speaker 1: you go to. Y'all, I think this is an amazing church.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. This is my favorite church
Speaker 1: in the world. As a matter of fact, if y'all
Speaker 1: run me out of this church, I don't think I'll
Speaker 1: will go find another one to preach in, because what
Speaker 1: could I ever do after pastoring Elevation Church that would
Speaker 1: live up? It would be such, it would be so
Speaker 1: all I spent my whole time doing was comparing it
Speaker 1: to this. I don't even think. I mean, if God
Speaker 1: told me too, I have to do it, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to. I would do with a bad attitude.
Speaker 1: If the Lord make me pastor another church, well, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And yet the important thing isn't what church you go to,
Speaker 1: Because you could sit in the back of this church
Speaker 1: and never get involved and never get helped, and never
Speaker 1: get hooked up, and never get connected, and never be successful,
Speaker 1: and never be set free. And it's a great church.
Speaker 1: You came to the right church. You turn to the right. Okay,
Speaker 1: good job, But how are you walking on that path
Speaker 1: whether you turn to the right or the left? Give
Speaker 1: me Verse twenty one is so annoying. It is so annoying.
Speaker 1: The Lord said, you will hear a voice. God will
Speaker 1: speak to you there. God will speak to you in
Speaker 1: your rebellion. Even when you turn your back on him,
Speaker 1: He'll still speak. Even when you walk away from him,
Speaker 1: He'll still speak. He is always speaking. He's still speaking,
Speaker 1: He's still talking, He's still directing. God didn't stop talking
Speaker 1: when you graduated. God didn't stop talking when you got
Speaker 1: the job. God didn't stop talking when you got saved.
Speaker 1: He's still talking. Are you still stepping? Are you still growing?
Speaker 1: Are you still going? Are you still maturing? Are you
Speaker 1: still changing? Are you going around in the same circle,
Speaker 1: the same circle? Missing your turn? Because there's something God
Speaker 1: is speaking, but you can't see it. As the Bible said,
Speaker 1: something crazy. You will hear a voice behind you saying
Speaker 1: this is the way. Walk in there. We found a
Speaker 1: video of Graham's some of Graham's first steps the other day.
Speaker 1: I show it to you. It's only thirty seconds. It
Speaker 1: was too cute. Watch it, me and Graham watching it together.
Speaker 1: Can you stand up and walk? No? No, stand up? Please? Graham?
Speaker 1: Stand up? There you go. Good job. Come on, come on?
Speaker 1: Oh do it again? Do it again? Come on? Stand up?
Speaker 1: Kee y come, come, come come in. Look what all
Speaker 1: he just did? And she went and clapping. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a much more complicated journey than the one
Speaker 1: that was on that video. No, yay, Graham. He just
Speaker 1: did that. That even involved steps. It even involved steps.
Speaker 1: He didn't even trip like you did on the video.
Speaker 1: Now he's just doing it. Now, he's just doing it.
Speaker 1: And y'all were just as bad, none of y'all platform.
Speaker 1: He came all the way up here. I wish I
Speaker 1: could have told him that. I wish I could have
Speaker 1: told him that that is about as much encouragement as
Speaker 1: you're ever gonna get for doing so little. From this
Speaker 1: point forward in your life. You got to do crazy
Speaker 1: stuff to get that level of applause. You've got to win,
Speaker 1: like at least a state championship before your mom is
Speaker 1: ever going to be that proud of you again for that.
Speaker 1: And see that's where it shifts, because remember in the
Speaker 1: picture where was she couldn't you couldn't see her. You
Speaker 1: couldn't see Holly in that picture, could you. You couldn't
Speaker 1: see her in that video. But she was right there
Speaker 1: in front of him saying, you know, yay, Graham, please
Speaker 1: don't crawl, please, please don't crawl. She's begging him to
Speaker 1: do something that he just did. And she was barely
Speaker 1: even aware he did. I watched her. She was so
Speaker 1: bored while he walked up here, and he just did it.
Speaker 1: And and early in your in your walk, it'll be
Speaker 1: like God, it'll be like yay, okay, okay, okay. If
Speaker 1: you get baptized at elevation, we'll cheer for you. We'll
Speaker 1: cheer for you in that wonderful in that awesome and
Speaker 1: I want some of you to get baptized. I'd be great.
Speaker 1: We'll be there to cheer for you, and they'll be
Speaker 1: around that tank going yay Graham, that's amazing that you
Speaker 1: gave your life to Christ. That it's amazing that you
Speaker 1: did that. That's so great that you put your faith
Speaker 1: in Christ. And that's about as good as it's ever
Speaker 1: gonna get. If you raise your hand in a minute,
Speaker 1: when I give the invitation, who wants to give their
Speaker 1: life to Christ, Who wants to turn their life over
Speaker 1: to Jesus, who wants to receive the gift of his salvation,
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of sins, the remission of sins by the
Speaker 1: shedding of His blood. When your hand goes up, everybody
Speaker 1: start clapping, and the angels in heaven will start rejoicing,
Speaker 1: and it'll be amazing. And it's our way of saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, w walk do it. Do it. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. But watch Isaiah thirty twenty one for the revelation.
Speaker 1: Then you will hear a voice behind you saying, watch this.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in. Yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: way walk in it. This is the way walk in it.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in. Trust me. This is
Speaker 1: the way walking in. This is the way walk in it.
Speaker 1: Turn to the left. This is the way walk away.
Speaker 1: This is the way. Do it again, turn to the left.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. Y'all. He could
Speaker 1: have walked right off the edge and it wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been my fault. This is the way this is the way.
Speaker 1: Notice that God's word comes as you walk. This is
Speaker 1: the way walk in it. This is the way walk
Speaker 1: in it. This is the way walk in it. Now
Speaker 1: we've come a long way from yay Graham, yay that
Speaker 1: It wasn't that awesome what he did on that video.
Speaker 1: It was basic. But then God calls you to walk
Speaker 1: by faith, not by sight. God pass God my back.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. This is the
Speaker 1: way go slow walk in it. This is the way
Speaker 1: walk in it. This is the way walk in it.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. This is the
Speaker 1: way walk in it. This is the way walk in it.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't even have to touch me to turn me.
Speaker 1: This is the way walk in it. Turn left. This
Speaker 1: is the way walk in it. This is the way.
Speaker 1: It assumes that I will stay close enough. If you
Speaker 1: get too far ahead, maybe you can't hear him anymore
Speaker 1: if you get too far in the future. Somebody asked
Speaker 1: me the other day, do you plan on pastoring Elevation
Speaker 1: Church when you're eighty? If I even start thinking about
Speaker 1: having to have a new sermon thirty eight years from now,
Speaker 1: y'all will watch me have a panic attack on YouTube
Speaker 1: in front of the world. I can't think that far out.
Speaker 1: All I know is today he told me to tell
Speaker 1: you God's got your back. God s got your back.
Speaker 1: God s got your back. God Scott, You're back. This
Speaker 1: is the way. This is the way. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: This is the way. You can't see me, but you
Speaker 1: believe me. This is the way. Walk in it. We
Speaker 1: walk by faith, not by sight. I'm not looking at
Speaker 1: what I'm wanting into. I know what I'm walking in with.
Speaker 1: I got a word from Almighty God over my shoulder
Speaker 1: to fight every devil and to tell every Jezebel. I
Speaker 1: am no prophet. I will stand up on the mountain
Speaker 1: of the Lord. I will proclaim illustration and progress. I
Speaker 1: will declare the works of the Lord. This diet will
Speaker 1: go down. This is the way walk in in and
Speaker 1: one word from God is all you need to walk
Speaker 1: into this day. This is the way. Walk in it.
Speaker 1: This is the way. Walk in it. When you get
Speaker 1: to the next day, I'll give you the next word.
Speaker 1: When you get to the next turn, I'll give you
Speaker 1: the next word. When you get to the next decision,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the next word. When you get to
Speaker 1: the next challenge, I'll give you the next word, because
Speaker 1: I got your back, see, because I'm right back here.
Speaker 1: See because I'm fighting stuff behind you that you don't
Speaker 1: even know about. That's why I got your back. That's
Speaker 1: why you can't see me, because I'm dealing with every
Speaker 1: bar ol Hey therec see hey ho you So you
Speaker 1: don't sack God, you're bad. God's got your back. Let
Speaker 1: baral No. I don't need you anymore. God's gotten my back.
Speaker 1: So I'm not just going back to school. I'm going back.
Speaker 1: I'm going back. God's got my back. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you like me. God loves me. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you notice me. God knows me. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you recognize me. What God is revealed is this
Speaker 1: guy my bad and I can trust him because when
Speaker 1: I was in the ninth grade, you went in ninth grade,
Speaker 1: ninth grade, trying to be taller than me and he
Speaker 1: last crowd. I still I'm still stronger than him, at
Speaker 1: least psychologically. Don't look back at I'm talking to them.
Speaker 1: But take something. Man, you're not good. You have it
Speaker 1: at the school, me and Uncle Irquin too. When you
Speaker 1: were freshmen, they throw you in the trash can as
Speaker 1: an initiation, and there was a lot of rednecks, so
Speaker 1: they'd be spitting, dip in the trash can and throw
Speaker 1: you in their head. First, it goes to a bougie school.
Speaker 1: They don't throw you in the trash can at his school.
Speaker 1: But now his brother is a senior. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing is it reminds me of the exact age gap
Speaker 1: between my brother and me. I was a senior, he
Speaker 1: was a freshman by that time. I don't mean the brag,
Speaker 1: but I was the man at Berkeley High School weight
Speaker 1: leave me and watch this. Watch this. My brother was
Speaker 1: a freshman, I was a senior. I said, oh, on
Speaker 1: the first day of school, when they go to throw
Speaker 1: you in that trash can, come find me because I
Speaker 1: won't let him. And he did. I was standing out
Speaker 1: there in the courtyard talking to Eric and he was running.
Speaker 1: He was running, and he said, tell him, they can't
Speaker 1: do it. And I said, all right, y'all can't do it.
Speaker 1: And they didn't do it. And he never went in
Speaker 1: in trash can because I had it's back. There comes
Speaker 1: a point where you've done all that you can do
Speaker 1: and it's bigger than you. But my confidence isn't because
Speaker 1: us I'm big. My confidence is because I'm backed. I'm back,
Speaker 1: and you have an elder brother named Jesus. See, you
Speaker 1: got a big brother and you can't see him. He
Speaker 1: is invisible, so it's hard to depend on. But I
Speaker 1: just need you to get this picture before you go
Speaker 1: into whatever you're going into this week, that God has
Speaker 1: got your back, and I want us to confess it.
Speaker 1: I want us to confess it like you got a
Speaker 1: big brother that can keep you out of the trash,
Speaker 1: can see if they can't throw you away, because God's
Speaker 1: got my back. You hear a word behind you, you
Speaker 1: won't see it. I'm not looking for proof. That's how
Speaker 1: you stood up at your mom's funeral. Buck preached. He
Speaker 1: did a thing at his mom's funeral. It was so beautiful.
Speaker 1: He did such a beautiful tribute to his mom at
Speaker 1: the end of a long battle with als. He did
Speaker 1: such a beautiful trip to his mom. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: I was in tears. I told him afterwards, that was
Speaker 1: so beautiful, Buck, because he doesn't preach. He's not a preacher.
Speaker 1: He's had my back for what now, seventeen years. He's
Speaker 1: had my back, But I didn't know he could preach
Speaker 1: like that. I said, you should have never showed me
Speaker 1: you could preach like that. I'm gonna have you do
Speaker 1: a series. It was so beautiful, man, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the truth. He got up there. He said, if my
Speaker 1: mom could see all of you here today, she would
Speaker 1: say what she always said when she was surprised, really
Speaker 1: for me. His mom was Taiwanese, and he showed when
Speaker 1: she would get really surprised, she would say, really for me.
Speaker 1: And he went on and he told about her hard
Speaker 1: life but her faith in God. And every time he
Speaker 1: was talking about it, it was a situation where, Wow,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really look like God was with her in that. Wow,
Speaker 1: it didn't look like God lifted a finger to help
Speaker 1: her during the abuse. Wow, it didn't look like God
Speaker 1: provided for a while she was working three jobs and
Speaker 1: still having to stretch. But it's not about what you
Speaker 1: can see, it's about what you can hear. God has
Speaker 1: your back. Say it, God's God mind back. I'm not
Speaker 1: pointing to something I can prove it with. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not showing the devil my bank balance right now. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not showing the devil to medical report right now,
Speaker 1: because if I look at that, I'm gonna get more
Speaker 1: focused on what I'm walking into than who I'm walking
Speaker 1: in with. I got a big brother name Jesus. Walk
Speaker 1: in it, walk in it. Walk in the confidence of God,
Speaker 1: Walk in the favor of the Lord, walk in the
Speaker 1: strength he gives. When Buck finished talking about that amazing
Speaker 1: life well live, he said, I know my mom is
Speaker 1: watching right now, and I know she's singing in the
Speaker 1: choir in Heaven Love, even though she's not the best singer.
Speaker 1: And I know that she saw her mansion, and I
Speaker 1: know what she said when she saw it. Really, for me,
Speaker 1: I lost it sitting right there in the pew because
Speaker 1: I knew what it meant, because he told me. I
Speaker 1: almost didn't even get up and do it because I
Speaker 1: thought it was trash. But God had your back. That's
Speaker 1: how you did it. That's how you did That's how
Speaker 1: you're gonna make it, son, because God has your back.
Speaker 1: Don't get too far out ahead of him, and never
Speaker 1: stop walking toward what he called you to be. Don't
Speaker 1: get paralyzed. You talk to him, you walk with him,
Speaker 1: You get in the rhythm with him. You let him lead.
Speaker 1: You can't get you back on track. God to say,
Speaker 1: oh no, turn around, dummy and the Lord to talk
Speaker 1: to you like that sometimes. But if we don't, let
Speaker 1: there be this distance. Hey, the next time that you
Speaker 1: hear from God can't be next Sunday when we get together.
Speaker 1: That's too far apart. God has your bat and I
Speaker 1: walk right off that stage and go take your seat.
Speaker 1: Everybody stand up from a list of the Lord of
Speaker 1: praise that he has my back, that he has my back,
Speaker 1: that he has my back. God has my back. Tell Hazekiah,
Speaker 1: I'll send an angel in the tent of your enemy.
Speaker 1: I got your kids, I got your future, I got
Speaker 1: your finances. I got it in my hands. But you
Speaker 1: got to walk in this word now. Father, you said
Speaker 1: in your word that if you begin a good work
Speaker 1: in us, you'd be faithful to complete it. And here
Speaker 1: we are today again, Heavenly Father, asking you for your
Speaker 1: help to hear your voice saying this is the way,
Speaker 1: walk in it. I want you to lift your hands.
Speaker 1: We're going to sing this is how I fight my battles.
Speaker 1: And we're just gonna remember that God can do more.
Speaker 1: He can do more sneaking in the tent of your
Speaker 1: enemy than you can relying on the splintered staff of Pharaoh,
Speaker 1: and I want you to lift those hands so high,
Speaker 1: because it's been too long since you ask God for
Speaker 1: his help. And he said, as quick as you can
Speaker 1: say it, I can do it. It may take some
Speaker 1: time for you to walk it out, but I'll help
Speaker 1: you so quick. I'll hold you so quick, I'll grab
Speaker 1: you as quickly as any parent would grab a child
Speaker 1: going out into the street. But today, if you hear
Speaker 1: his voice, harden not your heart. Don't wander around in
Speaker 1: the wilderness because you won't ask for help, ask him.
Speaker 1: Say it out loud. I need your help, Lord. I
Speaker 1: got some hard things up ahead. I'm carrying some heavy
Speaker 1: things in my heart. I got some history that I'm
Speaker 1: not proud of. Lord, I need your help with that.
Speaker 1: I've made some decisions like Azekiah that were really dumb,
Speaker 1: some unwise alliances. But when I see that you're behind me,
Speaker 1: and remember that you've gone before me. Now, remember, our
Speaker 1: faith isn't what we see ahead of us. Our faith
Speaker 1: is not in what we see ahead of us, or
Speaker 1: how clear that path is. Our faith is in how
Speaker 1: great our God is, who fights our battles behind us.
Speaker 1: I know I said lift your hands, but I want
Speaker 1: you to clap them now and begin to celebrate the victory. Well,
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