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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today right now online.

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Speaker 2: If you're joining us as a part of our efam,

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Speaker 2: put in the chat where you're joining us from. We

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Speaker 2: have been in a flow in the church and God

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Speaker 2: has been speaking to us the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's been speaking to me.

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Speaker 2: And I learned a long time ago just to stay

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Speaker 2: in the flow with the Holy Spirit and as long

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Speaker 2: as he would. And so I'm going to stay in

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Speaker 2: the same flow that I've been in the last few

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Speaker 2: weeks and continue with the scripture that I love in

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Speaker 2: one Peter, first Peter, chapter five, and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: pick up in verse eight. I want you to go

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Speaker 2: back and read the whole chapter when you get home,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to pick up in verse eight today

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Speaker 2: for the sake of time and give you this. We

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Speaker 2: have an instruction and a promise, And first comes the

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Speaker 2: instruction in verse eight verse Peter five eight, be alert

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Speaker 2: and of sober mind your enemy. The devil prowls around

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Speaker 2: like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him,

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Speaker 2: standing firm in the faith because you know that the

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Speaker 2: family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same

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Speaker 2: kind of sufferings.

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Speaker 1: This is the verse that I want us to really

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Speaker 1: think about today.

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Speaker 2: And the God of all Grace, who called you to

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Speaker 2: his eternal glory in Christ after you have suffered a

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Speaker 2: little while, will himself restore you and make you strong,

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Speaker 2: firm and steadfast.

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Speaker 1: And that good.

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Speaker 2: Let's read it again, that verse and the God of

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Speaker 2: all Grace. The first week we talked about the God

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Speaker 2: of also, and then we talked about the God of again,

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Speaker 2: and we talked about last week the God of Already

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Speaker 2: I'm still not over that message. I'm still not over

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Speaker 2: that message. But today I thought we would talk from

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Speaker 2: verse ten in verse Peter, where he said, and the

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Speaker 2: God of all Grace, who called you to his eternal

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Speaker 2: glory in Christ, after you've suffered a little while, will

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Speaker 2: himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

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Speaker 2: Can you guess my subject for today? And the God

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Speaker 2: of that we could do that too, but little bit later,

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Speaker 2: who called you to his eternal glory in Christ after

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Speaker 2: you have suffered a little while will himself restore you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the God of After, the

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Speaker 2: God of After.

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Speaker 1: Would you join me in praying again?

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Speaker 2: Father, I thank you for each precious person that you

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Speaker 2: brought under the covering of your word. Today, in your

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Speaker 2: shadow most high, we find refuge and strength and safety.

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Speaker 2: I prayed that this could be a place of safety,

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Speaker 2: a place of strength for everybody who needs your voice

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Speaker 2: today in a specific way in their life.

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Speaker 1: Hit the target. Holy Spirit, I offer you.

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Speaker 2: All of me, and I asked that you would make

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Speaker 2: up the difference what they need and what I know.

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Speaker 2: There's a really really wide chasm between the two, but

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Speaker 2: not for you. You can speak to the exact thing

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Speaker 2: that they need. And I trust that you will, and

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Speaker 2: that you already are. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may

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Speaker 2: be seated the God of After. You ever had a

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Speaker 2: like too late to laugh without kind of looking kind

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Speaker 2: of bad. Or you get the perfect comeback for somebody,

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Speaker 1: You can't exactly meet up with them and do it again.

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes the delayed reaction would be a good

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Speaker 2: and how I act wouldn't hurt that bad, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes because I'm quick on my feet. But that works

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Speaker 2: against me, because sometimes I'm quick on my feet, and

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Speaker 2: so I get myself into situations before I've had the

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Speaker 2: love this scripture where Peter is saying, be alert and

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Speaker 1: That's just the fact of it, you know.

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Speaker 2: And there is no amount of preaching in the world

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Speaker 2: that can prevent the enemy's attack. In your life specifically,

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Speaker 2: there is a suffering that we all must endure. But

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Speaker 2: two things I want you to know about this suffering

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Speaker 2: Number one, this scripture suggests that whatever suffering you're going through,

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Speaker 2: it's only for now. It's only for now. Say that

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Speaker 2: it's only for now. Tell your neighbor it's only for now.

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Speaker 2: That's number one. And number two, it's not for nothing.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel that when I said it? Somebody's under

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Speaker 2: it a tact in this room right now? It was

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Speaker 2: a battle for you to even get to church because

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Speaker 2: of what you've been dealing with. And two things about

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Speaker 2: this suffering that the scripture says, it's only for now,

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Speaker 2: and it's not for nothing. It's a productive kind of suffering,

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Speaker 2: not the stupid kind of suffering that you do when

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Speaker 2: you're stubborn. You know, when you hit yourself with the

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Speaker 2: hammer and hit yourself with the hammer again and ask

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Speaker 2: God to take the swelling down.

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Speaker 1: But this is a.

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Speaker 2: Type of suffering that he's talking about that is common,

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Speaker 1: Actually come for a reason. Now.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I was talking about last Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: I spoke to my staff Wednesday, and after I spoke

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Speaker 2: to the staff, I spoke to a smaller group of

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Speaker 2: had a conversation with a young lady because in the

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Speaker 2: staff teaching, I was talking about how you deal with

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Speaker 2: correction or specifically not fighting against things that God is

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Speaker 2: trying to sin to help you in your life, which

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Speaker 2: follow up question after the session that I did with

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Speaker 2: the staff. She said, well, when you're a fighter and

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Speaker 2: you or saying something that's really making you go crazy,

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Speaker 2: just fight back. How do you, in the moment receive

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Speaker 1: And I said, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I never process positively in the moment, almost never.

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Speaker 1: You don't either, But after.

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Speaker 2: After, you know, then that's usually where a lot of

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Speaker 2: my spiritual growth happens is after I screw it up

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Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit shows me how you screwed that up?

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Speaker 1: Would you like to keep screwing that up?

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Speaker 2: Would you like to have me show you how to

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Speaker 2: stop screwing stuff up in your life? And I'm like, well, lord,

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Speaker 1: And I gonna have to go back and apologize.

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Speaker 2: And I want you to realize that spiritual growth is

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Speaker 2: correctible by Christ so you don't get frustrated with yourself.

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Speaker 2: I told the staff member who asked me that, I said,

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Speaker 2: just yesterday, just yesterday, this guy honked at me, you

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Speaker 2: know where this is going, and with my elevation sticker

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Speaker 2: on my car, he hanked at me and he pulled

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Speaker 1: This brother.

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Speaker 2: Figuring out who I'm talking to today when he pulls

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Speaker 2: out in front of me, I'm going to speed limit.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing nothing wrong. I mean nothing wrong.

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Speaker 2: I can't always say that on the road, but in

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Speaker 1: He hanks it me and he pulled out in front

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Speaker 2: So yes, I stopped the car, and yes.

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Speaker 1: I backed up, and yes, I said are you good?

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Speaker 2: But I smiled when I said it, and I kept

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Speaker 2: And I said, I don't know. That depends are you good?

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Speaker 2: Because if you're good, I'm good. But if you're not good,

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Speaker 1: Now you know.

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Speaker 2: I had to get all the way back to my

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Speaker 2: and talk to this guy on the road like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy might be getting.

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Speaker 1: I don't know this guy. He might be some special Forces.

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Speaker 2: He might have something in the glove box that will

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Speaker 2: make my last Sunday, my last Sunday preaching.

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Speaker 1: I don't know any of it. I don't even think

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Speaker 2: I think about all that after And then I tracked

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Speaker 2: back and I was like, why was I so tight?

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't I just laugh at this.

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Speaker 2: Blessed tool of the Lord for my sanctification and drive on.

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Speaker 2: I realized what we did right before that was take

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Speaker 1: Of course I'm edgy.

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Speaker 2: So I'm bringing this up as a humorous example and

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Speaker 2: But that I realized that something happened and before he

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Speaker 1: Way to back up and ask the question, what was.

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Speaker 2: It that put me in that frame of mind to

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Speaker 1: Act away we don't want to act. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: could have gone much worse.

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Speaker 2: It was ended up being a pretty mild story in

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Speaker 2: my estimation of how it could have gone. But you know,

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Speaker 2: there are other things in my life that I look at,

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Speaker 2: like times when I am completely unreasonable, and I have

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Speaker 2: to go back.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes and say what was it before?

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Speaker 2: I think that's what Peter means when he says in

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Speaker 2: verse eight, put it back up, be alert, sober minded,

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Speaker 2: to recognize when the enemy attacks you where you are

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Speaker 2: most vulnerable to his attacks, because without asking that question,

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Speaker 2: over again. Some of my best growth moments in God

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Speaker 2: have been after my worst performance moments outside of God.

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Speaker 1: Where I go back and say, what was it?

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Speaker 2: You ever had something you did where you're like, well,

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Speaker 2: I know, it wasn't that that made me act like that,

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Speaker 2: So what was it that made me act like that?

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Speaker 2: What was it that made me so irritated about something

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Speaker 2: that was so insignificant? Why did something so small, like

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Speaker 2: And sometimes when you go back and you look at it,

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Speaker 2: say what was it that got me ready for that?

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Speaker 2: scrolled through fifteen minutes ago that made you judge something,

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00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 2: feel something, see something that triggered a response in you.

445
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: But at the moment that it was triggered, it didn't

446
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 2: show up. It doesn't show up in the moment that

447
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 2: you see it. It shows up.

448
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: After.

449
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 2: If the moment you were looking at this stuff, you

450
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 2: were like, this is making me more judgmental and less content,

451
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: and this is causing me to kill my own appreciation

452
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: for my own life and only as.

453
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Speaker 1: Fire to things that aren't even a part of my calling.

454
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 2: If you thought that while you were looking at it,

455
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Speaker 2: you would stop looking at it.

456
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 4: But the devil hides the hook. The devil hides the hook.

457
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 4: The devil hides the hook. Somebody say, the devil hides

458
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 4: the hook. Now touch somebody and say stop biting. How

459
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 4: many times is he going to have to reel you

460
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 4: in before.

461
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 2: You resist him, before you can see it coming, and

462
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 2: say no, I'm not even gonna take the bait.

463
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: I don't even get paid to argue with you.

464
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: I don't even nobody is worth that in my life.

465
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: I'm not coming down.

466
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 2: There for this anymore, because if you don't see it,

467
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 2: he will eat you alive. He's looking for someone to devour,

468
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: and the one he can devour the most is the

469
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: one who is vulnerable and doesn't know it. When you

470
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 2: know you're vulnerable. It gives you an opportunity to be

471
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: vigilant when you know where you're vulnerable. And so this

472
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: great Apostle writes a letter to the church that's being

473
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: persecuted somewhere between eighty sixty and seventy, and he's writing

474
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 2: to them about their sufferings and their time, but it

475
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: also applies to ours. He says, be alert and sober minded,

476
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 2: because the enemy is looking for someone.

477
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: To devour. Is it you? Is it you?

478
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: Have you trained him that anytime he tries that you'll

479
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 2: lie down and go with it. That anytime he takes

480
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 2: you down that dark path, all he has.

481
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: To do is lure you out there? Is it you?

482
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 2: Is it you that every time he can even suggest

483
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: an anxious thought to you, the enemy can get you

484
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: to go down so deep in it that it's going

485
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: to take you three days to recover.

486
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: Is it you that if he.

487
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: Can make you a little uncomfortable about something, you will

488
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: reach for something to feel instant relief that is going

489
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 2: to bring you an after effect that's going to cause

490
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: you to be in captivity?

491
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: Is it you? Is it you?

492
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: If you're not paying attention to the patterns in your life.

493
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: You are easy pray for the enemy. You gotta get

494
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: into spirit lad reflection, where the Holy Spirit takes you

495
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: back through your day and shows you ways that you

496
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: can handle things next time. Not so you can blame

497
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: what happened in your day or in your life, but

498
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,719
Speaker 2: so that you can beat it next time, because there

499
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: will be a next time. There will be a next time.

500
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: If the devil hadn't messed with you, good news. You

501
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 2: can practice this message. Very soon.

502
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: He'll mess with you again. You're like, I don't I

503
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: know that he's just been leaving me alone. I don't

504
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: really need this message.

505
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 2: Keep this message right there, like, don't put it in

506
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: the fridge, because it's just you gonna need it. You

507
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: could leave it right there. It's gonna be right there soon.

508
00:29:52,840 --> 00:30:00,479
Speaker 2: He's looking for someone to devour. He's looking for somebody,

509
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: somebody who's vulnerable. You got to ask the question, don't

510
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: you what came before this attack that caused me to

511
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: be in a vulnerable position. That's a great question to ask.

512
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: And the more you ask it, I believe, the more

513
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 2: that God will show you and give you an awareness

514
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: and an alertness. Because you can't prevent the attack, but

515
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: you can plan for it after. I don't usually respond

516
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: right in the moment, but it's when I go back

517
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: and ask the question, God, what do you want me

518
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: to see about that that I can know next time?

519
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: And that's how I grow.

520
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: It's not fancy, I know, it's not amazing, it's not sexy,

521
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: but it's what Peter said.

522
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: He said, be alert and a sober mind. Your enemy.

523
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: The devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking.

524
00:30:53,880 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: For someone. Who's he looking for someone? Someone he can devour?

525
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: And you got to ask the question, don't you If

526
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: the enemy is attacking me right now? How is he

527
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: attacking me? When does he tend to attack me? I

528
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: want to be alert to this. I don't want to

529
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 2: be ignorant of his schemes. When does he attack me?

530
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: How does he attack me? What are those access points

531
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: where I let him get to me? What are the things?

532
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: And that is a valid question, and we have to

533
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: ask it or we'll keep repeating.

534
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: The same patterns.

535
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: But there's another question I want you to start asking,

536
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: and I want you to ask this question right after

537
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: you ask where is the enemy attacking me? Because you

538
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: can mention a few areas today I know you could

539
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 2: if we passed the mic around and you were honest

540
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: and weren't scared to be in judge, you could name

541
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 2: a few.

542
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: Places he attacks you. They might be some.

543
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: Areas that are more socially acceptable, or they might be

544
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 2: some areas that cost shame. But you could answer the question.

545
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: And if I asked it, where is it that the

546
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: enemy attacks you? And what usually comes before it that

547
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: causes you to give into it, that makes you weak

548
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: for it?

549
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: What is that? But there's another question that I want

550
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: you to learn to ask, and I think this is

551
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: also very powerful.

552
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: If the enemy is attacking you as much as he's

553
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: attacking you in your life, I want to ask the.

554
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: Question, what is it about you that he knows that

555
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: is causing him to attack you like that?

556
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: If he's looking for someone to devour and he's picking

557
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 2: on you, then what is it about you that causes

558
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: you to be a target? In other words, how many

559
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: of you feel like the devil has just really been

560
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 2: after you or someone that you love in this last season?

561
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: And this is not a trick question. I really want

562
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 2: to see who to aim this spit at when I

563
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I want to know if the enemy is

564
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: attacking you like that? What is he after? What is

565
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: it that God has inside of you that may even

566
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: be unknown to you right now that he sees about

567
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: your future that is causing him.

568
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: To fight you so hard like that?

569
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: What is this spirit of heaviness that's been on you lately?

570
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: Really about? See? Because I know on the surface we.

571
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: Tell ourselves, well, the reason I'm depressed is because I

572
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: just suck, because I'm not much, because I don't have

573
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: the resilience, I don't have the fortitude, I don't have.

574
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: The moral character. That's why I'm dealing with this insecurity?

575
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: Is it?

576
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 2: Is that why you're dealing with the insecurity because you're

577
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: really a nobody?

578
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Or is the devil looking for someone.

579
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: Someone who has something, something that they don't see the

580
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: true value of yet, so that he can catch you

581
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 2: in your vulnerability, so that you never see your true value,

582
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 2: so that you never.

583
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: Do what God gave you to do in the earth?

584
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: What's the after? What's the after? If you've been.

585
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 2: Discouraged, really discouraged and down in your soul lately and

586
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: you've been thinking that must mean that my bestness behind me?

587
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: Is that really true? Or is there something I'm just curious.

588
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: Is there something so significant in the next stage of

589
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: your life and you can't see it? But maybe the

590
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 2: enemy has more vision for your life than you do,

591
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 2: because he sees something that's in you.

592
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: In the scene form. And if it ever comes forward,

593
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: if it ever gets watered.

594
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: If it ever gets l liked, if it ever gets

595
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 2: full grown, it's gonna spread out and bear fruit and

596
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 2: touch lines and change the world.

597
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: What's he after?

598
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 2: Get real good at answering how the enemy's attacking. Well,

599
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 2: you give me these headaches, Well, he's give me these

600
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: problems on my job. Well he's surrounding me with these people. Well,

601
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: nobody gives me credit. Okay, we can focus on how

602
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 2: he's attacking you, or we can spend a minute and

603
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 2: think about why.

604
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: What is he after? In my life?

605
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 5: The greatest seasons of temptation to quit, just before the

606
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 5: most significant moments of breakthrough, I came to prop.

607
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: Aside of somebody today.

608
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: I don't care what has been before.

609
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 6: I didn't come to preach about the God that you

610
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 6: knew before. I didn't come to preach about the time

611
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 6: you wasted last year. I didn't come to preach about

612
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 6: how your week went last week is.

613
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, and I came with a message about the

614
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: god of after.

615
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: It's just a question, ask your neighbor, what's he after?

616
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: What's he after?

617
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: Because the enemy doesn't have unlimited artillery, So if he's

618
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 2: coming at you and he shouldn't at you, that must

619
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: mean you have something that he wants. That must mean

620
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: that you have something of value. I've been to about

621
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 2: ten Carolina Panthers game since I lived in Charlotte.

622
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: Nobody ever tackled me.

623
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: I guess I didn't have anything they wanted.

624
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: I bet if I had that ball and I was

625
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: on that field and I was headed towards something that could.

626
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: Actually inflict damage on the opponent, I get tackled.

627
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: I get hit. Some of us aren't getting hit because.

628
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 2: We're not headed toward anything. But if you're headed towards something,

629
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 2: I need three people in a Vand if you're handed

630
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: towards something, if you're handed towards something, maybe.

631
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: That's why he's been on your heels. Maybe that's why

632
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: spit kind of rough. Maybe that's why is Ben kind

633
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: of rocky. Maybe that's why that storm has been blowing.

634
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 7: Because when I get to that stong knock out somebody

635
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 7: who's like needs my life.

636
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: I wonder what he's after. I wonder what your.

637
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 2: Carrier that you're not even aware of yet. I wonder

638
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 2: what you're gonna be talking about a year from now

639
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: that you don't even not asking for yet. Woo. It's powerful, y'all,

640
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: it's powerful. Has that devil been after you? We'll get

641
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 2: happy because that means you have something worth attacking.

642
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: That means it's not over for you. That means it's something.

643
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 7: Oh oh oh, I'm gonna sup this.

644
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: The devil sort of took you out before you heard

645
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: this sermon, because after this, look.

646
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 7: You're tack on track, backing up, fight, you're backing up.

647
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

648
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 3: No, we should have took a selfie before I started appreciating,

649
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 3: so you could have a before picture.

650
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Because when you leave this church.

651
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: Today, No, no, I gotta appreciate it like God gave

652
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 2: it to me.

653
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: I can't mess it up. I can't mess it up.

654
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: And the God of all grace who called you to

655
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 2: eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while,

656
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 2: set your timer for a minute flat. I set your

657
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 2: timer for a minute, one minute, one minute on the timer,

658
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: one minute on your phone.

659
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: One minute on the.

660
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 2: Timer, somebody say, after, after, after, tell me.

661
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: What you got it set for one minute? For one minute.

662
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: I want one minute. I want one minute. Peter uses

663
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Speaker 1: a very very significant phrase.

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Speaker 2: He says, after you have suffered a little while, somebody say,

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Speaker 2: a little while, a little while? How many have you

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Speaker 2: been suffering for a little while? Oh, it's been a while.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while I've been dealing with this. It's

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Speaker 2: been a while i've been dealing with this.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while that I felt like this. He

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Speaker 1: still hadn't started his timer yet. He's about to start

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Speaker 1: it in a minute.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's prolonged suffering, right. Sometimes you ask the question

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Speaker 2: like I asked the Lord one time.

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Speaker 1: I read that scripture. It said in a little while, after.

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Speaker 3: You've suffered a little while, I asked God.

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Speaker 2: How long is a little while? So I want one

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Speaker 2: minute on the timer. That's an hour.

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Speaker 1: I need a minute. We have a different definition of

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Speaker 1: a little while.

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Speaker 2: I need the countdown timer, not the count up timer.

681
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Speaker 2: I need the alarm where it's going to go off

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Speaker 2: in a minute. Because God gave me something to say

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Speaker 2: to somebody, and I don't know who it is. We

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Speaker 2: got fifty seconds left now.

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Speaker 8: Not all suffering ends in a short time, but there

686
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Speaker 8: is a decision that you can make in a moment

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Speaker 8: where you can say, you know what, I have stayed

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Speaker 8: stuck in this season long enough.

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Speaker 2: I have replayed this memory long enough, I have laid

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Speaker 2: down and died twenty eight long enough. And Peter says

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Speaker 2: that after you have suffered a little while, just a

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Speaker 2: little while, it's just a little while. It's only for now.

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Speaker 2: I know it seems like forever when you're going through it.

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Speaker 2: But ten seconds, nine seconds, eight seconds, seven.

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Speaker 1: Seconds, six y five. Hold be real quiet, be real quiet.

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Speaker 2: Oh, his ringer is off.

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Speaker 3: You are the worst illustration and partners, all right.

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Speaker 1: So since his alarm filled, I need you to help me.

699
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to help me.

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Speaker 2: Since his ringer was on silent, I'm gonna need you

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Speaker 2: to be the alarm for your neighbor. I'm gonna need

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Speaker 2: you to be the alarm for your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Stand out, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up,

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Speaker 1: stand up. We're getting ready now. We're getting ready.

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Speaker 2: Now because it's been a minute for some of you,

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Speaker 2: it's been a minute since you felt the joy of

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Speaker 2: the Lord it's been a minute since you've seen yourself

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Speaker 2: in the future. It's been a minute since you've opened

709
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Speaker 2: yourself up to a new possibility. But I want you

710
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Speaker 2: to look at your neighbor when I say three, I

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Speaker 2: want you to look at your neighbor and say, it's

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Speaker 2: been a minute. One, two, three, it's been a minute.

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Speaker 1: But guess what.

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Speaker 2: Look back at them and say it has been a minute.

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Speaker 2: Tell him it's been kind of hard. I've been crying

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Speaker 2: about it. I've been stressing about it. I got a

717
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Speaker 2: lot of questions about it, and I'm not exp in

718
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Speaker 2: a quick fix. But tell him it's been a minute.

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Speaker 2: And this is my after. This is oh God, my after.

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Speaker 2: This is my after.

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Speaker 1: Watch. No, the problem's not over yet.

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Speaker 2: But my.

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Speaker 1: It's our set. My that's a sets, our set.

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Speaker 2: This is my after not when I'm perfect. But I've

725
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Speaker 2: suffered enough to know now that he's the god.

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Speaker 1: Of Who better to teach us this than Peter Peter?

727
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Speaker 2: Why would the enemy pick on Peter? He wasn't anything

728
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Speaker 2: but a fisherman. The devil never attacks what you are

729
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Speaker 2: right now, He attacks what you're gonna be.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's after.

731
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Speaker 2: Because wait till you see what your kids are gonna be,

732
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Speaker 2: that's what he's after. Wait till you see what they're

733
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Speaker 2: gonna do, that's what he's after. Wait till you see

734
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Speaker 2: how the grace of God flows through you generationally.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's after. The Bible says that.

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Speaker 2: A righteous man walks in his integrity.

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Speaker 1: You gotta see this from Proverbs twenty seven. I saw this, and.

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Speaker 2: His children are list after him.

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Speaker 1: You didn't get it.

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Speaker 2: Some of the stuff you're fighting right now is not

741
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: about what you are right now.

742
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Speaker 1: It's about what's coming after you. Shout after.

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Speaker 2: So even as Peter was warming himself by the fire,

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Speaker 2: denying Christ, even as Peter was denying that he even

745
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Speaker 2: knew Jesus, even as Peter was doubting that he wanted

746
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Speaker 2: to be a disciple, the enemy was after him because

747
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Speaker 2: if he can kill Peter and take his faith by

748
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Speaker 2: the fire.

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Speaker 1: Peter never preaches.

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Speaker 2: On the day of Pentecost, three thousand were saved that day.

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Speaker 2: After the suffer a little while, after you suffer a

752
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Speaker 2: little while. That's what the attack is about. Stop thinking

753
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Speaker 2: that the things that you struggle with prove your insignificance.

754
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 2: They actually point to your value.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to change the trigger response.

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Speaker 2: This week, something bad starts coming to you as a

757
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 2: feeling or a temptation. Oh, there must be something that

758
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 2: the enemy is after that I'm meant to do this week.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it. You will never know it while

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Speaker 1: you're in it. That's what your faith is for. That's

761
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Speaker 1: what your faith is for. We never know how God

762
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Speaker 1: is using us or what He's doing in the moment.

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Speaker 2: Most specifically, there are some of the things that you

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Speaker 2: will not feel in the moment that you will, by faith,

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Speaker 2: experience in the future if you resist the enemy. Because

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you I have stood many times to pray

767
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Speaker 2: with people and preach to people who had little faith,

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Speaker 2: and it had been worn down to a nub, and

769
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 2: in the moment that we prayed, we experienced nothing resembling

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Speaker 2: the feeling of a breakthrough.

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Speaker 1: We only knew after.

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Speaker 2: A little while what God would do, And sometimes trusting

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Speaker 2: Him with that timeline called a little while is the

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Speaker 2: hardest part of all.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: I was back after preaching different song I don't want

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Speaker 2: that one. It was I don't remember what city, maybe

778
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Speaker 2: in Denver, that they brought back a guy to pray

779
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Speaker 2: with me, and they said his seven year old has

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Speaker 2: a They explained the condition to me at the time.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really even understand everything they were saying, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not really good at explaining medical things, but they

783
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Speaker 2: his brain tissue. The seven year old, his brain tissue

784
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Speaker 2: had extended into a spinal column, and they diagnosed that

785
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Speaker 2: a few years earlier, but then assists developed in the

786
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Speaker 2: spinal column, so then that was something that would be

787
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Speaker 2: life threatening but would be operated on when he.

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Speaker 1: Was a little bit older.

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Speaker 2: So now they had just taken them in for a

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Speaker 2: scan and they were going back in two days to

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Speaker 2: get the meeting with the specialist and maybe schedule the surgery.

792
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Speaker 2: So in the meantime, they came to Elevation Nights and

793
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 2: someone brought them over and said pray for them, would you?

794
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Speaker 2: Their son is having surgery, and I said I will,

795
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Speaker 2: and I learned as much as I could learn in

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Speaker 2: that short time and pray.

797
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Speaker 1: I don't even really remember praying the prayer.

798
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Speaker 2: But the dad that I prayed for, he just last

799
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 2: week told me the end of the story that I

800
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: didn't know. He said, when you prayed for us back there,

801
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 2: he said, I did not even want for you to

802
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 2: pray for me. It made me angry that you were

803
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 2: praying because you didn't know our situation. And how dare

804
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Speaker 2: you say a prayer that God would heal our child

805
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 2: when you don't even though the situation. And he said,

806
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 2: but whatever little bit of faith was left in me,

807
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 2: and whatever faith was in my wife, it kicked a

808
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 2: little bit when you prayed. Two days later, we went

809
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 2: to our appointment and the doctor brought the scan. The

810
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 2: specialists said, so, when did you have the surgery. He said,

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Speaker 2: we haven't had the surgery. That's why we're here to

812
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Speaker 2: talk to you about possibly scheduling the surgery.

813
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Speaker 1: But we need to see the scan.

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00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 2: And he held up the scan, and he held up

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Speaker 2: the scan from the cyst, and then he held up

816
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 2: the scan from a few days ago, and he said.

817
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: This one, this one, this is the one.

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00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 2: Of what it would should look like if there were

819
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Speaker 2: a perfectly executed surgery.

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Speaker 1: This is what it would look like.

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Speaker 2: This if it were a perfectly executed surgery, this is

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Speaker 2: what the picture would look like.

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00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: And he told me, I didn't even want you to

824
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: pray for me, and I didn't really feel anything when

825
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: you prayed. But when we went back.

826
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Speaker 2: After, I know you don't even feel like praying about

827
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 2: that thing anymore. Sometimes I know you don't really feel

828
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 2: like going and trying to get this thing under control

829
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Speaker 2: one more time. I'm not saying that everybody with the

830
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 2: disease can expect a different report next week. I don't

831
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Speaker 2: have the power to say that, but I can tell

832
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Speaker 2: you this. He's the God of all grace. He's the

833
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: God of all grace. So if you need a healing

834
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Speaker 2: and he gives you the grace for healing, that's wonderful.

835
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Speaker 2: But if he gives you the grace to endure the suffering,

836
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Speaker 2: that's wonderful too. He's the God of all grace, and

837
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 2: he's the God of after No matter how many times

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00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: Peter denied Christ, it could not outrun the revelation that

839
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 2: He had. You are Peter, and upon this rock I

840
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 2: will build my church. Has the enemy been attacking your

841
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 2: mind lately? He is after the ideas that God is

842
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: going to give you in the future to make this

843
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 2: world so much more like heaven honor.

844
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:09,240
Speaker 1: That's what he's after. Now.

845
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 2: Faith is standing right in the middle of it, even

846
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Speaker 2: as you don't know how long a little while may be,

847
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 2: and knowing that after this there will be more grace.

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Speaker 1: It's not over for you. God is not through with you. Father.

849
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Speaker 2: As I have released your word today, I have since

850
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: virtue going forth and flowing to your people. There are

851
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 2: specific situations, specific names and needs diagnosies. There is a

852
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 2: very certain thing that you wanted to say to somebody today,

853
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 2: and I pray that you have echoed that Now. I

854
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 2: ask God that your Holy Spirit would make the direct

855
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:04,399
Speaker 2: application so that it can go deep into their soul. Lord,

856
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: they may never know what comes after this season of

857
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 2: struggle if they don't stand firm, But if they can

858
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 2: make it through this, then God of all grace, who

859
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 2: has called them to eternal glory after they have suffered

860
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 2: a little while, will himself make them strong.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,

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00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,239
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Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and

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Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.

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Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or

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00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're

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00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world.

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Speaker 1: And if you want more information, on how to be

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Speaker 1: a part of Elevation. Click the link in the description.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.