Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special.
Speaker 2: Bonus teaching that I recorded just for you to break
Speaker 2: it down a little more, to take it a little deeper.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this overflow message. Let me know,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 2: The enemy loves to keep us stuck in a space
Speaker 2: where we are frozen in what we don't know. You
Speaker 2: feel me frozen in what we don't know, because then
Speaker 2: if we're frozen writing it down in what we don't know,
Speaker 2: we don't go forward. We don't go forward and learn
Speaker 2: because we're frozen. I don't know well learn now Here
Speaker 2: comes the second part of this confession, say I know
Speaker 2: when I need to.
Speaker 1: Not only does that mean that God.
Speaker 2: Reveals things in his timing, according to his schedule, not
Speaker 2: always ours, but it also means that sometimes we don't
Speaker 2: know what we need to know because we haven't gotten
Speaker 2: desperate to know it yet. There are certain books you
Speaker 2: won't read until you've experienced a brokenness that makes you
Speaker 2: need to read them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had books on my shelf that when I was
Speaker 2: going through a certain challenge in my life, I had
Speaker 2: to dig around for them because when I got the books,
Speaker 2: they were nice.
Speaker 1: Nice book, nice cover, nice jacket, nice title, nice subtitle.
Speaker 1: When I needed them, I dug for them. And when
Speaker 1: I say.
Speaker 2: I'll know when I need to, I mean that sometimes
Speaker 2: we haven't really reached the level where we're reaching for
Speaker 2: the answers because we haven't hit the thing in our
Speaker 2: life yet that makes us go oh, I got to
Speaker 2: get this one.
Speaker 1: Right, you know. I was telling a group of leaders
Speaker 1: this week that I was.
Speaker 2: Privileged to spend an entire day with, and most of
Speaker 2: them were pastors of churches from different parts of the
Speaker 2: country and different parts of the world, and it was
Speaker 2: a very small group, so I was able to be
Speaker 2: very personal, very specific with them. And one of the
Speaker 2: things that I shared with them that really really really
Speaker 2: was heavy in my heart to say to them is.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't really.
Speaker 2: Think that in certain seasons of my life I was
Speaker 2: ready yet for certain things that God wanted to show me,
Speaker 2: and until I was ready, God couldn't say yes. I
Speaker 2: was stuck in that yes but not yet phase. And
Speaker 2: I hope you can hear this when I say it,
Speaker 2: because we all have certain things that we encounter in
Speaker 2: our life that make us go oh no. I don't
Speaker 2: know how to do this, Like I don't know how
Speaker 2: to be a good husband. I don't know how to
Speaker 2: do midlife. And oh, I remember what I was going
Speaker 2: to tell you. I got a little I got a
Speaker 2: little sidetracked thinking about the meeting that I had with
Speaker 2: the pastors. But I was telling them how something about
Speaker 2: the ages of my kids right now twelve, fifteen, seventeen,
Speaker 2: that age in them is making me confront some things
Speaker 2: in me because I've got to win in some certain areas.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't really get serious.
Speaker 2: About my self talk, myself talk until I saw in
Speaker 2: my own kids some of the things that they were
Speaker 2: saying about themselves and to themselves and processing.
Speaker 1: And when I saw that, it became a mirror for me.
Speaker 2: Last week, I talked about the mirror of the Word
Speaker 2: of God, how the Word of God is like a
Speaker 2: mirror the perfect law that gives freedom.
Speaker 1: I didn't spend a long time.
Speaker 2: There, but I did talk about how a mirror actually
Speaker 2: projects the image back in reverse. So I could have
Speaker 2: taken more time with this in the sermon, But I
Speaker 2: was wearing a hoodie that says can you imagine on it?
Speaker 2: From our new album, But it says it backwards on
Speaker 2: the hoodie, so that when you look at it in
Speaker 2: the mirror, it puts it back. You know, the light
Speaker 2: off of the mirror, it reflects back correctly. And so
Speaker 2: the shirt is backwards and the mirror shows me correctly.
Speaker 2: And I think that God's word is like that, where
Speaker 2: a lot of the things that we believe are backwards,
Speaker 2: and God's Word is that mirror that shows us.
Speaker 1: No, you think that you know that.
Speaker 2: Your human accomplishments and human achievements are the thing that
Speaker 2: bring fulfillment, But no, those things are great and fine,
Speaker 2: and they come from God too. But the real gift,
Speaker 2: the real gift of fulfillment, is found in service and
Speaker 2: connection and flowing in what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Right. So I didn't really.
Speaker 2: I didn't really see certain things in myself and get
Speaker 2: self aware until I needed to.
Speaker 1: And the reason I needed to is because.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my kids and I love them more
Speaker 2: than anybody else in the world except Holly. And I
Speaker 2: do love Holly more than I love them, and they
Speaker 2: know that. But next to Holly, they're They're the people
Speaker 2: in the world that I love the most. And in
Speaker 2: saying that I love them enough to confront me. So
Speaker 2: it's been in the last few years that I've done
Speaker 2: a lot of my growth, because man, I need to
Speaker 2: know how to tell my son, here's how you deal
Speaker 2: with these feelings that rise up in you, because I
Speaker 2: have them too, and I almost was willing to put
Speaker 2: up with them and myself until I saw them in
Speaker 2: my kids and I said, Okay, we've got to uproot
Speaker 2: this and it starts with my heart.
Speaker 1: So say it again. I'll know when I need to
Speaker 1: when I need to.
Speaker 2: If you're not in the Word of God and you
Speaker 2: say like, well, I don't really know scripture.
Speaker 1: I don't read scripture, then you haven't.
Speaker 2: You haven't become aware enough yet of your need for scripture.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 2: Blessed are the poor and spirit for theirs the Kingdom
Speaker 2: of Heaven. Blessed those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
Speaker 2: for they will be filled when you get hungry enough.
Speaker 2: When you get hungry enough. Now, I need somebody who
Speaker 2: really wants God to show you what he can do
Speaker 2: and what he has for you, and what he wants
Speaker 2: you to do. I want you to say, I'm hungry enough.
Speaker 2: I'm hungry enough. I'm thirsty enough. Blessed are those who
Speaker 2: hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Speaker 2: This is Pentecost Sunday we're talking about right. Well, on
Speaker 2: the day of Pentecost, the Spirit of God came and
Speaker 2: it suddenly filled the room. Well, they didn't know when
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit was coming. They needed the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: and so they sought God and they were all together.
Speaker 1: Let's look at this scripture Acts chapter two.
Speaker 2: When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were
Speaker 2: all with one accord, in one place seeking God. Watch
Speaker 2: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of
Speaker 2: a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled.
Speaker 1: The whole house where they were sitting. So watch this.
Speaker 2: They are sitting there and they don't know when this
Speaker 2: promised Holy Spirit is going to come, and it comes
Speaker 2: suddenly to the place where they were sitting. It comes suddenly. Now,
Speaker 2: that's the beautiful thing about God is that his blessings
Speaker 2: come suddenly, but his hand moves steadily. Say that out loud,
Speaker 2: his blessings come suddenly, but his hand moves steadily.
Speaker 1: What am I trying to say. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: say it. I'm saying it.
Speaker 2: His blessings come suddenly, but his hand moves steadily, which
Speaker 2: means that behind the scenes, even when I'm not experiencing
Speaker 2: this sudden blessing like oh, a promotion, boom, an idea, wow,
Speaker 2: a relationship, now a phone call, now a breakthrough, now
Speaker 2: a new dimension of God's glory, now a horizon. While
Speaker 2: I'm not experiencing all of those things all the time,
Speaker 2: Suddenly his hand is moving steadily. Let's go from Acts
Speaker 2: chapter two into second Games three. Somebody say, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, that's how God does it. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: when you see him move, You're like, what, how that happen?
Speaker 2: How many of you have ever happened had a moment
Speaker 2: in your life where you said, how'd that happen? Like
Speaker 2: you watched a turnaround, like something that you thought wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna change, and then all of a sudden it changed,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden it does. And I'm
Speaker 2: never gonna and all of a sudden you do, and
Speaker 2: it's just like an amazing, amazing thing. Say suddenly say
Speaker 2: it again, Say suddenly, look at your neighbor and scare them,
Speaker 2: Say suddenly put it in the chat, say suddenly, Wow,
Speaker 2: Well look.
Speaker 1: At this passage.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a little story from Second Kings,
Speaker 2: Chapter three, one of my favorites, where the three kings
Speaker 2: got together, not the three wise men, the three different kings. Jehosha,
Speaker 2: king of Judah, Joram, who was over the Northern Kingdom
Speaker 2: of Israel. Not a good king. He had bad parents.
Speaker 2: Ahab and Jezebel have died, and they left Joram to lead.
Speaker 2: He was terrible. And then you've got the king of
Speaker 2: Moab and he's rebelling. And so the watch this. I'll
Speaker 2: give it to you real quick. Somebody say, suddenly, the
Speaker 2: king Jehoshaphat and the king of the Northern Kingdom Jehora,
Speaker 2: Did I say, Johoram?
Speaker 1: Or did I say? I might have said it wrong,
Speaker 1: but you could correct me later, all right.
Speaker 2: And so they went together, and they got together and
Speaker 2: they start marching around, and they're marching around for seven
Speaker 2: days and they run out of water.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 2: They're basically getting ready to attack Moab. And as they
Speaker 2: get ready to attack Moab, they get thirsty and they're about.
Speaker 1: To die for lack of water on their way to
Speaker 1: a war.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm gonna pause here. Sometimes on your way to
Speaker 2: a war, you run.
Speaker 1: Out of water.
Speaker 2: They were going, let me break this down. They were
Speaker 2: going to wage war. Are you writing this down? You
Speaker 2: got to write some of this down, because sometimes you
Speaker 2: are going to wage a war. You're going to a meeting,
Speaker 2: and before the meeting something happens with the car, or
Speaker 2: you're going to have a tough conversation, and before the
Speaker 2: tough conversation comes bad news, and in those moments, your
Speaker 2: strength can feel completely drained. Now, Holly talked about this
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, how you need sudden strength, and
Speaker 2: we were praying this prayer. I breathe you in Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: and your strength comes suddenly, somebody says, suddenly, and your
Speaker 2: peace fills me completely. Well, that's from prayer that God
Speaker 2: gave me to to recognize the Holy Spirit in my
Speaker 2: own life, because I noticed there were so many moments
Speaker 2: where I needed God's strength. Right now, I need it now.
Speaker 2: I don't have time to learn the Book of Revelation,
Speaker 2: the Seven Churches, the lampstands, the candlestands.
Speaker 1: I'll know all that when I need to.
Speaker 2: But right now, I just need God to help me
Speaker 2: from saying something crazy. I need God to help me.
Speaker 2: How many of you say I need God to help
Speaker 2: me right now? Well, that was the situation that the
Speaker 2: Kings were in. That's the situation that I was praying about.
Speaker 2: I breathe you in Holy Spirit, because sometimes I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm losing it. Sometimes I feel like I'm coming unhinged, unglued.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I feel like if I don't get God to
Speaker 2: help me right now, I'm gonna make a mess of this.
Speaker 2: I don't have time to spend the next ten years
Speaker 2: growing out of my own dysfunction. My kids need to
Speaker 2: see a good example now. I need to make this
Speaker 2: to now. I need to be able to figure out
Speaker 2: what God wants me to do now. And the beautiful
Speaker 2: thing is when you get to your now, I need
Speaker 2: it now. God already knew you'd be there. So God's
Speaker 2: not surprised about where you are. He's not surprised about
Speaker 2: where you struggle. He's not surprised about where you're dry.
Speaker 2: He's not surprised that you're depending on him in this situation.
Speaker 2: He's like, I was waiting on you to figure out
Speaker 2: that you needed me so I could flow into your situation.
Speaker 2: Somebody touched somebody right now on every location and online,
Speaker 2: and say God knew what he would do. Say it
Speaker 2: God knew what he would do in the chat right now,
Speaker 2: God knew what he would do when before you came
Speaker 2: to this moment, and I'm gonna show you in the scripture.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you in the scripture that God knew
Speaker 2: what he would do when when Jesus asked the disciples,
Speaker 2: where shall we get bread enough to feed all these people?
Speaker 2: He was trolling them. He knew what he would do.
Speaker 2: The scripture says he knew what he would do. He
Speaker 2: was saying it to test them. Would they trust them?
Speaker 2: That's all it is. Do you trust God enough? That's
Speaker 2: all it is. To take a step forward and say,
Speaker 2: this is the next thing. Ah, breathe in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Let's go. This is the next thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's next after next, but this is next.
Speaker 2: Stop putting so much pressure on yourself, students, to know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do with your life in five years.
Speaker 2: It's not five years. Let's get five seconds. Breathe in
Speaker 2: and be nice. Breathe in and do the next problem
Speaker 2: on the sheet. Breathe in and do the next thing.
Speaker 2: I was preaching a few weeks ago on the next
Speaker 2: Best Thing, and I was talking about how in the
Speaker 2: sequence of God.
Speaker 1: We don't know what's coming three years from now.
Speaker 2: We can't judge what we're going through in a generic
Speaker 2: way in any given moment of our life because we
Speaker 2: don't know that we might be one nudge away. Somebody say,
Speaker 2: I'm one nudge away. I'm one nudge away. God can
Speaker 2: nudge someone that you don't even know right now. And
Speaker 2: you might have a wife next year, even though you've
Speaker 2: been single for twenty two.
Speaker 1: God knows. But you better get to church.
Speaker 2: You better get your butt in a good place so
Speaker 2: you can meet the right one. Somebody needs to go
Speaker 2: say I'm gonna join that Greeter team, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it right now. Can I start next week? Because
Speaker 2: watch this, I want to be sitting in the right place.
Speaker 2: Acts Chapter two. They were sitting in one accord when
Speaker 2: the spirit came. They were sitting, and it came suddenly,
Speaker 2: but they were sitting. This message is called a steady
Speaker 2: hand for a sudden blessing. God's hand is steady moving
Speaker 2: in your life right now. God's hand is steady.
Speaker 1: Upholding you through your dark seasons.
Speaker 2: God's hand is steady making sure you don't fall, even
Speaker 2: as you're walking forward in dark places like Abraham, go
Speaker 2: to the land. I will show you, and I will
Speaker 2: guide you, and I will give you my direction step
Speaker 2: by step, like the hymn said, great is thy faithfulness,
Speaker 2: Oh God, my Father, there is no shadow of turning
Speaker 2: with thee. All I have needed, Thy hand hath provided
Speaker 2: morning by morning new mercies I see Thy hand has provided,
Speaker 2: how morning by morning steady, that's Steady's I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: the grace for today today, and I'm gonna put the
Speaker 2: faith for tomorrow in the hands of the God who
Speaker 2: has given me the grace for today. I feel Jesus,
Speaker 2: somebody shall I got it today because the steady hand
Speaker 2: of God is giving me what I need for today today,
Speaker 2: and what I don't know about tomorrow, I'll know when
Speaker 2: I need it. So somebody shouts something real quick, say
Speaker 2: sorry tomorrow. Wave your hand like this, say sorry tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Do it.
Speaker 2: You're not doing it, Do it right now, Say sorry tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I know you want me to worry about you, but
Speaker 2: I got to put you in God's hands.
Speaker 1: The steady hand of God can hold you tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: your heart can't because God designed you to live in
Speaker 1: this day. So now watch this. The kings have come together.
Speaker 1: They're leading into a battle against an enemy named Moab.
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do. They go get the prophet.
Speaker 2: His name is Elishah. He's relatively new as well. He
Speaker 2: is following a great prophet named Elijah. I named my
Speaker 2: oldest son that I talked about earlier, after this prophet Elijah.
Speaker 2: Well this is elisha he's the successor of Elijah. And
Speaker 2: now he's got a new job. And these kings are
Speaker 2: fighting a new battle, and none of them know what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: But God does.
Speaker 2: The disciples didn't know when the Holy Spirit was going
Speaker 2: to come. They don't know when it's gonna happen, but
Speaker 2: God does.
Speaker 3: And all you gotta do I want you to get
Speaker 3: this is stay steady for the stuff you don't know,
Speaker 3: Stay steady for the stuff you can't see.
Speaker 1: Stay steady, because watch what the word of the Lord is.
Speaker 2: And I deliver this to you by the Spirit of
Speaker 2: God on this day where we celebrate Pentecost.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit that God breathed out.
Speaker 2: See when Jesus breathed his final breath on the cross,
Speaker 2: he was getting ready fifty days after his resurrection to
Speaker 2: send his spirit.
Speaker 1: And that spirit is here with us now.
Speaker 2: This is the time, this is the season, this is
Speaker 2: the day of the Lord's favor. We're not waiting for
Speaker 2: his Spirit to come. The hand of God that moved
Speaker 2: through history, the hand of God that sent Jesus at
Speaker 2: just the right time, the hand of God that was
Speaker 2: shaping all of the events of your life has sent
Speaker 2: the spirit.
Speaker 1: And that hand is on you right now, right now.
Speaker 2: He's blessing, right now, he's saving, right now, he's healing,
Speaker 2: right now, he's delivering.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: He's coming into your room, into your loneliness, into your situation,
Speaker 2: into your heart break.
Speaker 1: But you gotta be ready for it to receive it.
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