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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Come on, everybody, praise the Lord. Let everything that has

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Speaker 1: spread that includes you too, whether you're in a soup

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Speaker 1: or a bathrobe, come on, give him praise today. Oh,

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Speaker 1: praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. How are you doing? I know my sermon

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Speaker 1: last week was called did I ask? But I'm asking,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Come on, let me know how you're

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Speaker 1: doing right there in the chat. Use your favorite emoji

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Speaker 1: to tell me how you're doing, your favorite church appropriate emoji.

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Speaker 1: You gotta specify. Got all kind of people that tune in.

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Speaker 1: You know, you never know what they'll I don't want

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to leave the YouTube page. Give God praise.

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Speaker 1: If you hold on, we're gonna bring it back. Give

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Speaker 1: God praise if you're doing better than could be expected.

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Speaker 1: So in other words, like hey, preacher, that's a complicated question.

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Speaker 1: But when I think about where I could have been,

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Speaker 1: should have been, would have been. I want to put

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Speaker 1: up one of those, one of those worship hand emojis.

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Speaker 1: Come on, throw a worse of hand emoji in the

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Speaker 1: chat all the way from Paul Kong to parties fill

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. If you got a reason of praise and

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Speaker 1: praise it whoo wow. So anyway, I just I thank

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Speaker 1: God for this opportunity to minister the word of God

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Speaker 1: to you. And you may notice that it feels a

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Speaker 1: little different. We're going to do it a little different today.

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Speaker 1: We're having to do almost everything different right now. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: But so what happened to me was that after I

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Speaker 1: got done preaching to you last week, God kept speaking.

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Speaker 1: That's a weird sensation to be done preaching. But God's

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Speaker 1: not done speaking. And I wasn't seeking God for a

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Speaker 1: sermon or anything. And me and Holly went for a

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Speaker 1: walk and she started sharing with me something God was

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Speaker 1: And I said, I'm going to take that and preach it.

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Speaker 1: She said, you can't. I'm preaching soon. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: She said, you can't have it. I said, you're like

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Speaker 1: our kids when we go and buy them. Did you

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Speaker 1: ever buy your kids a whole meal? And then you

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Speaker 1: wanted one fry, and you wanted one fry, and it

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Speaker 1: She told me about this one verse in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: preach that. She said, you can't have it. I said,

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Speaker 1: stolen from the woman of God, Holly Ferdie. How appropriate.

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Speaker 1: I told her, I'm taking your sermon, but you can

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Speaker 1: it up to you. I'll preach it just to you.

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Speaker 1: And so I've got some of the most amazing musicians

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Speaker 1: that snuck in who were here working. I told him

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Speaker 1: God kave Holly that I that I came from her,

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Speaker 1: and they said, we can do it in an hour.

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Speaker 1: And so here we are to bring God's word to

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Speaker 1: this one's for me, This one's for me, And those

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Speaker 1: to share with you a scripture today from tewod Kings,

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Speaker 1: chapter four, kind of a continuation of did I ask.

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Speaker 1: We were saying last week that when we stop asking

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Speaker 1: gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can

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Speaker 1: be done for her? Elisha asked, wonder what I could

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Speaker 1: if God is not inspiring about how to curse you?

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Speaker 1: don't mislead your servant. But the woman became pregnant, and

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Speaker 1: how we started. How many would say that about your life.

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Speaker 1: God's really been working on me. And the crazy thing

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Speaker 1: you up until two am. But they don't know anything

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Speaker 1: about a host home. You didn't have a contract or

427
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Speaker 1: a writer, And so the prophet is staying at Carmel,

428
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Speaker 1: and it's lonely to be a prophet. But God uses

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Speaker 1: a woman. The Bible calls her a well to do woman,

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Speaker 1: but the Hebrew word is great. She was a great woman.

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Speaker 1: She was a great woman. She was great materially. She

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Speaker 1: was also great in the ways that you can't see.

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Speaker 1: She was great. She was so great as a woman

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Speaker 1: that she had the means to do something for God

435
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Speaker 1: and the humility to do it. That makes you great.

436
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: And what got my attention was that Elishah didn't even

437
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Speaker 1: have to ask Does God have to ask you to

438
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Speaker 1: do everything? You remember when Graham asked just a few

439
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: weeks ago? Actually I think it was a few few

440
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: months ago. Maybe it was a few years ago. I

441
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: can't remember when. When did he ask you? Mom Am,

442
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: I supposed to brush my teeth every day, mom Am,

443
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: I supposed to change my underwear every day. These are

444
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Speaker 1: things kids ask, And it's like, do you really need

445
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: to ask that? Do you really need to ask God

446
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: certain stuff? There's some stuff that God shouldn't have to

447
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: put a sign in the sky to get you to do.

448
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: There's some stuff you shouldn't have to ask God. You

449
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: mean you mean you want me to praise you today.

450
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: God shouldn't have to ask you for praise. If He

451
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Speaker 1: gave you breath, you I don't want to give it back.

452
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: It belongs to him. There are some things I love

453
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Speaker 1: when I'm dealing with somebody and you don't have to

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Speaker 1: ask them to do every single little thing. Maybe it's

455
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Speaker 1: just me as a pastor, but I love when you

456
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Speaker 1: don't have to ask for every every little thing. You know,

457
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to ask everything. That's what I love

458
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Speaker 1: about our staff at the church. You don't have to

459
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Speaker 1: ask everything. I don't have to ask every single thing.

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Speaker 1: All I said is get me a guitar so in

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Speaker 1: case I want to play it when I preach just

462
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Speaker 1: the two of us in the empty room. I didn't

463
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Speaker 1: have to ask him to tune it. He just did that.

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Speaker 1: He just did that. I texted Chris this morning. I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going over to preach. I'm doing it on just

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Speaker 1: the two of us. I'm gonna put just Holly out

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Speaker 1: there and the cameras and the musicians, but I want

468
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Speaker 1: you to come over to He said, I'm already on

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Speaker 1: my way. I didn't even have to ask. He wanted

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Speaker 1: the word. He's like, oh, you think I need to

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Speaker 1: be on a stage to support you. I want this word.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to ask me. I want to do it.

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Speaker 1: I want to serve God. I want to preach. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to. I get to. I get to. I

475
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: used to walk around thinking, our volunteers. We would have

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Speaker 1: these nights when, back when I used to be able

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Speaker 1: to shake people's hands legally, back before it was again

478
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Speaker 1: us the law in human customs and social etiquette to

479
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Speaker 1: shake a neighbor's hand, I would shake their hand. We

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Speaker 1: would have these nights where I would thank all the

481
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Speaker 1: volunteers and I would preach, and I would shake their house,

482
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Speaker 1: say thank you for serving, thank you forgiving. And almost

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Speaker 1: every time they say no thank you, I say no

484
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Speaker 1: thank you. They say no thank you. I'd be like

485
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Speaker 1: quick canceling out my thank you. I'm giving you gratitude.

486
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Speaker 1: You receive it, like we're both standing there trying to

487
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Speaker 1: thank each other. I get to do this, I get

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Speaker 1: to do this. I get to do this. Elijah said

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Speaker 1: to me the other day, not the prophet Elijah, my

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Speaker 1: son Elijah. He said, thank you for working out with me.

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Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to fun to work out with you.

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Speaker 1: I love working out with you. I can do more

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Speaker 1: weight than you, so it's good for my ego and

494
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Speaker 1: I love talking to you. I didn't have to beg

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Speaker 1: her to come preach this sermon today. She said, what time?

496
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Speaker 1: I said, I don't know yet. She said, all clear

497
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Speaker 1: of the schedule. You know what it's like to know

498
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Speaker 1: that in such an uncertain moment of ministry, you got

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Speaker 1: somebody you can count on it that I don't have

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Speaker 1: to ask you. Are you still with me that I

501
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: don't have to ask you? We used to say, like

502
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Speaker 1: Jonathan's armor bearer said, do whatever you have in mind,

503
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm with you. Do you have that

504
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of spirit? God, I'm with you. If the wheels

505
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: fall off, I'm with you. If they shut it down,

506
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: I'm with you. If it's good, I'm with you. If

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Speaker 1: we're in the limo, I'm with you. If we have

508
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: to hitch hip, I'm with you. If we have to

509
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: get on a scooter, if we have to walk, I'm

510
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: with you. I love it. I love it. And God

511
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Speaker 1: will send you somebody in every season. God will send you.

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Speaker 1: It might not be who you expected, It might not

513
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Speaker 1: be who you ask, But God will find a way

514
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: to get it to you, and he will use someone.

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00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: It was someone he didn't even ask, someone he didn't

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Speaker 1: even ask. She just had an idea. She didn't go

517
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Speaker 1: into a trance. Lord, I want to be used by you. God, Speak,

518
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: Will you speak to me? Speak? You know how we do? Lord?

519
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Speaker 1: Show me your will? What is your will? Lord? For

520
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: thine is the kingdom. Bust off the king James English,

521
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: asking God to do stuff like, if you get real deep,

522
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: God will show you something real deep. She did something simple,

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00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: She did something simple. Notice the connection, The deepest desire

524
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: of her life was met when she did something simple.

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Speaker 1: And it's even more powerful when you consider her disappointment.

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Speaker 1: Because this great woman with a great, big house and

527
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Speaker 1: an old husband. The Bible says he was so old

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Speaker 1: that when the boy got sick, he couldn't even carry

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Speaker 1: him upstairs, had to send him to his mom. That's

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Speaker 1: who she was living with. And she said to the prophet,

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Speaker 1: come over in eat some spaghetti. Come over, and you

532
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Speaker 1: know what the Bible says. The Bible says, she urged him. Yeah, see,

533
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Speaker 1: I didn't even have asked. You have to ask him

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Speaker 1: to put the scripture back up. They just did it.

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00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to ask, They just put it

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Speaker 1: up there. You see how this works. I didn't even

537
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: have to ask. They just did it. That's how God's

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00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: That's called a prompter. That's called a prompter. This is crazy.

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00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: They are so in tune the people who are who

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Speaker 1: are running this today. They are so in tune with

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Speaker 1: my spirit and my flow that the moment I said

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Speaker 1: urged them, they put the prompter on. Now. I want

543
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: to ask, how sensitive are you to the prompting of

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00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit? Or does God have to push you?

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00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: Or does God have to proud you? Or can he

546
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: just prompt you? How hard is it for God to

547
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: get you to say I'm sorry when you're wrong? How

548
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: hard is it for God to get you to do

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00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: something encouraging when He laid on your heart? How hard

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Speaker 1: is it for God to get you to do something

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00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: that you ought to just naturally do as a child

552
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: of God. It's not hard. It was harder for her

553
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: to convince him to come eat than it was for

554
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: God to get her to feed him. She had to

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00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: urge him, please come eat. She had to ask him

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Speaker 1: more than once. Now I'm gonna sit down because this

557
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: is too rich to rush through. Y'all ready for this?

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: Come on, I know where you're watching this from. It's

559
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: just the two of us right now. I want to

560
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: show you something. I wanted to share this message with

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00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: just the two of us. I wanted to show you

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00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: how God will send people into your life even in

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Speaker 1: the loneliest seasons, Even in the seasons Elisha the prophet

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Speaker 1: he had a servant who was a scoundrel. He had

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Speaker 1: a servant, Gahesi, who had no character. And see, Elisha

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Speaker 1: knew what it was like to stand by somebody in

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Speaker 1: the season of loneliness. You remember, can I go back

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Speaker 1: to win Elijah with a jay? The prophet was hiding

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Speaker 1: in a cave because he had lived through a three

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Speaker 1: year drought, and he stood up on the top of

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Speaker 1: Mount Carmel. But even on top of Mount Carmel with

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Speaker 1: so much power, there's often a difference between what you

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Speaker 1: show publicly and what you wrestle with privately. Did you

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00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: hear me? You can have great power publicly and great

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Speaker 1: pain privately. And when he was up on the mountain,

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00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: he said, I'm the only one of the Lord's prophets

577
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: left and he called down fire. You remember this, You

578
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: remember this, Holly. He said, I'm the only one left.

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Speaker 1: Then when Jezebel threatened him, he ran for his life.

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Speaker 1: Forty days he had to run, and he left his servant,

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Speaker 1: and he went in a cave. And God sent him

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Speaker 1: the fire, and God sent him the wind. But he

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Speaker 1: spoke in the whisper, because God speaks in the whisper,

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Speaker 1: because God doesn't have to shout, because he's not far way.

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00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: God doesn't have to shout. That's what the devil does

586
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: to scare you away. But he whispered, and he said,

587
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? He asked him a question,

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00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: and Elijah said, I'm the only one left, the only

589
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: one you ever felt like that. I'm the only one

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Speaker 1: who cares. I'm the only one in this marriage who cares.

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00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: I'm the only one carrying this responsibility. I know you

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Speaker 1: felt this way as a leader before. Chet I'm the

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00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: only one who sees what needs to be done. And

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00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: God told him, go back the way you came, because

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Speaker 1: I've already got somebody to support you. His name is Elisha.

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Speaker 1: It sounds a lot like yours because y'all are meant

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Speaker 1: to go together. And when you get to him, I

598
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: want you to take your cloak and throw it on him.

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00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: And I know you feel alone, but I've got somebody

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00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: plow in the field right now. I don't mean to

601
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: turn this into a dating seminar, but sometimes we get

602
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: so oh lonely, and in our seasons of loneliness, we isolate.

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00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: But God said, I have put somebody in your pack.

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00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: I have put somebody even if you are not married

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Speaker 1: right now, even if you don't have the support system

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Speaker 1: you want to right now. I know what that feels like.

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00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 1: I've been lonely and I am married. I've been lonely

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Speaker 1: and I have kids. I've been lonely in this room

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00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: filled with two thousand people and they were shouting, and

610
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: on the inside I was crying, and on the outside

611
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: I was smiling, but on the inside I was crying.

612
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: And nobody knew what I was carrying, and nobody knew

613
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: what had just happened thirty minutes to go backstage, and

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00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: nobody knew the hate that I was dealing with from critics.

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00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 1: But I had to smile and show love. And seeing

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Speaker 1: these moments of isolation, you might feel like the only one.

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00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: But God has somebody for you. God, even if it's

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00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: just this moment, what if God sit this message today.

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Speaker 1: You've been on the brink of suicide. You've been on

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Speaker 1: the brink of giving up. And God prompted my heart

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Speaker 1: to come in this room and put Holly and Todd

622
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: and Doug and all them and they're back there. But

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00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: it's just the two of us right now. And God

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00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: is trying to bring you back to a place of

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00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: understanding that before you even asked, he answered, he hears

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00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: before I call. And Elishah followed Elijah for many years.

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00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: The two of them had a special connection. You don't

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00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: read many of the details, but they must have been

629
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Speaker 1: so close because when it came time for the Lord

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Speaker 1: to take Elijah from Elishah. On the day that Elijah

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Speaker 1: was taken up in chariots the fire by the way

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00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: bonus point, Elijah was scared that Jezebel was going to

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Speaker 1: kill him. But he's one of the few characters in

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Speaker 1: scripture that never experienced physical death. The thing that you're

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00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: worrying about may never even happen. The thing that you're

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Speaker 1: running from. Who's this for? Who's this for? Is it

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Speaker 1: for you. Come on, I'm asking, I'm asking, is it

638
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: for you? Say it in the chat? This is my word.

639
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't have to I don't have to run from him.

640
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: And I love Elisha because when Elijah said, stay here,

641
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: the Lord has called me away. Look what Elishah said

642
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: in verse two second Kings two, stay here the Lord

643
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: sent me about. But Elisha said, as surely as the

644
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Speaker 1: Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.

645
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: I will not leave you. That sounds like Jesus. I

646
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: will never leave you nor forsake you. So somebody else did,

647
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: and it's just the two of us. The Lord sent

648
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: me to tell you you're not alone. God will give

649
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: you someone that you need in every season of your life.

650
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: And I've been praying a new prayer lately. Every morning

651
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: I've been praying this just in my heart. I don't

652
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't take me long. I just say, Lord, puts

653
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: somebody on my mind today. Put somebody on my mind today.

654
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: Somebody I can call, somebody I can bless. Put somebody

655
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: on my mind today. And then I gotta be honest.

656
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:27,479
Speaker 1: I'm selfish. God put me on somebody's mind today. Put

657
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: me on somebody's mind today because God uses people. See see, yes,

658
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: just me and Jesus. But but but God uses people.

659
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: So the way that he meets needs is through people.

660
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: And so so the prophet Elisha, he's used to a

661
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: lonely life. He's he's he's been with a mentor who

662
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: hid in caves. He's been with a mentor who was

663
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: unpopular at times. So he knows how to be lonely.

664
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: So when the woman invites him, right, this woman, this

665
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: Shuna Mike woman who is a great woman, who has

666
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: an old husband, and she looks at her husband one

667
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: day and says, you know, it's just the two of us,

668
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: it's just the two of us. I get tired of

669
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: just cooking for the two of us. Let's have the

670
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: profit over Look. She didn't even pray about it. You

671
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: don't have to pray about everything, Just do something for God.

672
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: She didn't go on a forty day fast to see

673
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: if she could have the profit over Well, Lord, I

674
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: just don't know if you want me to give to

675
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: the church. Give me a sign. What other sign does

676
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: he need to give you than his son that died

677
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: for you? Really, let me a sign. She didn't have

678
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: a sign. She had an idea I want to keep going.

679
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: How is it how you like your personal life? Sermon, girl,

680
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: aren't you glad I took your French fry? All right? Now?

681
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: Listen when she said to the husband, you know how

682
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to calculate how many when you're cooking for people.

683
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: Holly was cooking for me and the boys when we

684
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: were when a couple of years ago, when the boys

685
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: were smaller and Abby does and eat much. But the

686
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: boys now we got a fifteen year old and a

687
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: twelve year old, and so their needs change. And the

688
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: other day we realize we're always running out of food

689
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: because she has not upgraded the quantities of the food.

690
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: It's still just as good, but there's not enough because

691
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: seasons change, and a season's change needs change. And who

692
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: God uses in one season of your life, who am

693
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: I preaching to might not be who he uses in

694
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: the next. And he'll give you what you need for

695
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: the season that you're in. I'm annointed right now to

696
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: preach to somebody. Come on, it's just the two of us.

697
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: It's like I'm talking to you. And she turns to

698
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: her husband and she says, let's have him over, and

699
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: she urged him she begged the prophet, please let me

700
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: cook for you. Please, please God, let me do it. Ah,

701
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: just let me do it. One of my friends said

702
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: the other day, I'll beat up one of your staff

703
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: members to come to church right now. I will beat

704
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,439
Speaker 1: them black and blue with a tire iron. I said,

705
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: calm down, this is disturbing, they said, I'll beat them

706
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: unconscious to get in the room. I want to be

707
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: there so bad, and some people in the room probably

708
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, I got to get over there.

709
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: When did you start having to do what God gave

710
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: you as a privilege to do. It's a privilege to

711
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: serve God. It's a privilege to preach to you. It's

712
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: a privilege. It's a privilege to do ministry. She said,

713
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: will you please come eat? And she urged him. He

714
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: probably pushed her away the first time. You know how

715
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: you get used to pushing people away when you're not

716
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: used to people being good to you, when you're used

717
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: to being unpopular. Elisha finally accepted and he got there

718
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: and he found out she can cook. She can cook,

719
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: she can cook, so he came back. He said he

720
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: would come there often. He stopped buy it and he

721
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 1: would eat and one day she said to her husband,

722
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: I think we ought to take the extra room we

723
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: have in this house, the room that we had in

724
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: case God ever gave us a child. But he didn't.

725
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: You know, this woman, this woman had probably prayed for years,

726
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: God give me a child. She probably asked God many times,

727
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: God give me a child, and he didn't, and she

728
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: would ask again, and she would ask harder and he didn't.

729
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: And so eventually at some point she stopped asking. I

730
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: don't know when if it was the first year, the

731
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: fifth year, or the tenth year. Remember her husband is old,

732
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: so they've been praying about this a long time, and

733
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: now it's too late, and she stopped. Eventually she stopped asking,

734
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: and instead of asking God to give her something, she

735
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: decided to offer God what she had. There comes a

736
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: point where instead of being bitter about what you didn't get,

737
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: it's better to offer God what you have. She said,

738
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: We've got this extra room here, and this man who

739
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: keeps coming by, I keep feeding him, but I feel

740
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: bad every time he has to leave, because I don't

741
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: know where he stays on his way back to Karma

742
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: when he passes through Shunam. So since it's just the

743
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: two of us. Since we didn't get the child that

744
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: we wanted from God, since I didn't get the opportunity

745
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: that I want, Since we can't have church full on Sunday,

746
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: why don't you meet me over at the church early,

747
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: And why don't we just take advantage of the opportunity

748
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: we do have. See, I was complaining the first few

749
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: months of quarantine. I was complaining, I can't preach with

750
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: no crowd in the room. And God said, I thought

751
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: you didn't preach for them. I thought you preached for me.

752
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: So then I stopped asking God, why can't the people

753
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: come back? And I started asking God, what are the

754
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: opportunities that we have? Here's a great question, God, what

755
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: are the opportunities that I have right now that are

756
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: in my life because of my disappointments? She offered God

757
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: the place of her disappointment. She said, we have that

758
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,959
Speaker 1: room on the roof that we never got to finish.

759
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: We never got to buy a bed for our son

760
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: because God didn't give us one. We never got to

761
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: put a desk in his room for his homework because

762
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: God didn't give us one. We didn't get to give

763
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: him a lamp for a night light. We never got

764
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: to buy him any pajamas. But there's a man of

765
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: God who passes through here, and I refuse to stay

766
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: stuck in the bitterness of what I didn't get. You

767
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: be Paul, I'll be Silas, and we will turn this

768
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: prison into a place of praise. We will turn this

769
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if two of you will cut agreed

770
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: concerning anything in his name, he will do it. So

771
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: you might be saying I'm all alone right now, No

772
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: you're not. There's no stipulation on geography. In Matthew eighteen twenty,

773
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: he said, if two of you will touch and agreed,

774
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 1: So even if you're watching this by yourself, and even

775
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: if you just signed divorce papers last week, or even

776
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: if your kid just told you they hate your guts,

777
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: or even if the third person just told you no,

778
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: we do not have the position available, or even if

779
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the addiction that makes you feel like

780
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: a fraud when you smile at people. But there's change

781
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: on the inside. God came to tell you are not alone.

782
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: I'll be Paul, You'll be Silas, and let's make a

783
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: space for God to fill. I feel praise rising up

784
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: in this place right now. Whoa, I'm glad I came

785
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: over today. Come on this, what's the two of us? Les?

786
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: Let's we got more. We got more house than we

787
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: have family. Come on, I got more time than I

788
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: ever had before. God, I didn't plan on having all

789
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: this extra time. God said, I gave you the extra

790
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: to see would you trust me? What would you do

791
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: with it? What would you do with it? What would

792
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: you do with the extra? In this place? What place?

793
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: The place of her disappointment? Don't you realize? This is

794
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: what Holly told me on the walk before I ripped

795
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: off her sermon and I started appreciating it back to her.

796
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: I said, this is too good to keep just between

797
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: the two of us. I gotta go preach it. I

798
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: gotta preach it for the weekend. I gotta pach it

799
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: for the Evam. I gott appreach it to all of

800
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: the different countries and all the different people. But it

801
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: started with just the two of us. She turned to

802
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: her husband and said, since it's just the two of us,

803
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: let's meet the needs of this profit. You know that

804
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: that room that we were gonna Yeah, we when we

805
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: when we built this house, we built it with extra

806
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: room for the kid. God was going to give us.

807
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: But why don't we just uh, you know, I thought

808
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: by now in my life I was going to be here.

809
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this situation. But let me offer

810
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: this situation. I didn't ask for this disappointment. I didn't

811
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: asked for the storm. What would it be like to

812
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: offer God your disappointment, the deep one, the one you

813
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: smile over. Elisha is laying down one night, he's getting comfortable. Now.

814
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: At first she had to urge him for a meal.

815
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: Now she can't get rid of him. I'm telling you,

816
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: if you make God a place, if you make God

817
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: a place, he doesn't want to visit. He wants to stay.

818
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 1: He wants to stay. He doesn't just want to speak

819
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: to you. You're like, oh, man, I just you know,

820
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: I just wish I was. I wish I could listen

821
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: until you preach all day. You don't have to listen

822
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: to me me preach all day. God will speak to you

823
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: long after I shut up, just making my place. So

824
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: Elisha's laying down right, and he asked, Ga Hazi, what

825
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: can we do for this woman? That's what drew me

826
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: to preaching it because last week I preached on the

827
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: question how far will they go. I talked about how

828
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: Jesus asked three hundred and eight questions and only directly

829
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: answered eight of them, and how God is a god

830
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: of questions even though we want so many answers. Put

831
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: a question mark in the chat. That's God's favorite punctuation.

832
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: I think his second favorite is a comma, because the

833
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: comma means it might have stopped, but it's not over. Okay,

834
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: I'll give you ten seconds. I gotta give you ten

835
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: seconds for the comma. He's the god of the comma,

836
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 1: but he's the god of the question, and the question

837
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: is what will you do with this disappointment? She turned

838
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: it into a place that God could use. Are you

839
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: doing that right now? Are you bitter? Are you in resentment, regret, shame?

840
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: All those places that we stay. You know what's crazy, Holly,

841
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: And since it's just the two of us, I can

842
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: show you this. The question that led me to this

843
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: text wasn't the question that told me I needed to

844
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 1: preach it. When he asked her that the first time,

845
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: she pushed him off. She said in verse thirteen, Part B,

846
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: I have a home among my own people. But Elisha

847
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: asked again what can be done for her now? This

848
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: is amazing. Can I drop this on you? Okay, he's

849
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: up there asking God for something that she stopped asking

850
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: him for a long time ago. You know how you

851
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: can learn to live with certain things. I'll give you

852
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: a version of this. I'll never be free from that.

853
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: I'll just learn to finesse it. That could be anything

854
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: in your life. Somebody thought of drugs, somebody thought of sex,

855
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: somebody thought of negative thought patterns. It doesn't matter. So

856
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: you say I'll never be free from it. I'm just

857
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: gonna stop asking. Especially if you raised your hand in

858
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: church and went down and prayed and okay, this is

859
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: the time. This is the breakthrough, this is the one

860
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, this is it. And so now it's kind

861
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: of a way where you click on church and watch church,

862
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: but you only let God's word in so far so

863
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 1: you get God's word to cope with stuff, but you've

864
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 1: lost hope that it can change. This is the woman.

865
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: She's a great woman. She's a great woman, and God

866
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: is using her. But there is still something that she

867
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: stopped asking God for. What is that for you? Because

868
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: because after you've done everything you can do, this is

869
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 1: a proactive woman. Didn't you see her pushing the prophet around.

870
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: If you're gonna boss Elisha around, you've got to be

871
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,479
Speaker 1: a proactive woman. She's proactive. You see how she's talking

872
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: to her husband. Get a table, get a lamp, go

873
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: down there. I know you're old. I know your niece hurt,

874
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: but we got to take care of the man of God.

875
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: Let's get this room set up. She's not some passive woman,

876
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: but in this area and everybody has one. Well, I

877
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: guess I'll never be happy. I'll be happy when I

878
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: get to heaven. I'll be happy when I get to heaven.

879
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: Down here on earth, just I'm gonna just make it through. Oh,

880
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: this is the value of the shadow of death, God said,

881
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: I didn't want you to make the value of the

882
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: shadow of death your permanent mailing address. I guess I'll

883
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: just stay in the cave. I guess I'll just be anxious.

884
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just live in this state. I guess

885
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 1: this is just what it is. This is not all

886
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: it is. What can be done for her. Elisha wanted

887
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: to know. I know she said nothing. I know she

888
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,479
Speaker 1: said she's all right. I know she said she he's good.

889
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: I know she's stable. I know she's great. I know

890
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm staying in her house. But everybody has a need

891
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: in their heart, everybody, even if nobody else knows it.

892
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: And Gehesi the scoundrel said she doesn't have a son.

893
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: And then like just said, get her back. I heard

894
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: God saying come back, come back, come back, come back,

895
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: come back, come back. You remember how he told Elijah,

896
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 1: go back the way you came. You don't belong in

897
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: a cave. You don't belong in this low state. You

898
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: don't belong in this pattern, you don't belong in this place.

899
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: This is not you. You're a child of God. Bring

900
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: her back, bring her back. I gotta do it. I

901
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: want to bless her. I've been brainstorming ways to bless you.

902
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: Nothing can cancel it, nothing can stop it. I came

903
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: all this way. I'm not gonna stop now. I brought

904
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: you this far. Come back. And then he he made

905
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: her the promise that she had stopped praying about about

906
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: this time next year. It's one thing to tell her

907
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: she's gonna have a baby, but he said, you're going

908
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 1: to hold it in your arms. That's emotional. He's giving

909
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: her a picture of something that has cost her so

910
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: much pain, and she stopped praying. I went through a depression.

911
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: And the thing about me and Holly when we were

912
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: talking about this the other day, and I didn't know

913
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: if I could share this with you, but she was

914
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: saying how there were times where she would see me

915
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: hurting and she can only help so much, and she

916
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: would feel so helpless, and she would see me hurting,

917
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: but she would see me continuing to do what I

918
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: had to do, and it would come and it would go,

919
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: and it would come and it would go. And during

920
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: that time, I think I started to convince myself that

921
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 1: I didn't deserve to feel good, so I would cover

922
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: it up by saying, well, I'm just going to serve God.

923
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how I feel. But to bury your

924
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: disappointment is not a sustainable strategy. And Elijah said about

925
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: this time next year, the thing that you've stopped as

926
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: the thing, don't you love the passage? He didn't ask

927
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: for a bed and she didn't ask for a baby,

928
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: and God is giving them both what they didn't ask for.

929
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: Is God giving you right now what you didn't even

930
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: ask for in a way that you could have never anticipated.

931
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: Come on, it's just the two of us right now.

932
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: You don't have to put it in the chat. But

933
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: between me and you, is there something that you've buried,

934
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: something that God promised? He said, He said, I'm gonna

935
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: be out of a guest room soon because about this

936
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: time next year, there's gonna be blue all over these walls.

937
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: About this time next year. Oh man, I could just

938
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: see us right now on December thirty first, twenty twenty,

939
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: like bringing in the new year, you know, like, oh,

940
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: next year is gonna be better. But she did not

941
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: respond with praise. Her instinct was to push him away.

942
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: You know, when God really speaks something significant to you,

943
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: you push it away. I can't hear that. No, no,

944
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, that doesn't even when something good happens,

945
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: you get threatened by it. Because the last time that

946
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: I got my hopes of this is what the woman said,

947
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: don't mislead me. I've been down this path before. I've

948
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: hoped before, and it hurts the hope. It hurts the hope.

949
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: I'd rather just show everybody publicly how good it is.

950
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: I'd rather just pretend like everything's okay. But just like

951
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: the prophet said, just like God said, just like he said,

952
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: Verse seventeen. The woman became pregnant, and the next year,

953
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: about that same time, she gave birth to a son,

954
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: just as Elisha had told her. And before we stop

955
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: and shout over that the Bible only gives one verse

956
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: to this little boy's life. The whole chapter has been

957
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:18,919
Speaker 1: about her frustration, one verse about his life. Here's the verse,

958
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: verse seventeen of verse eighteen, verse eighteen, the child grew.

959
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: One day he went out to his father, who was

960
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: with the reapers. Verse nineteen. He said to his father,

961
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: my head, my head. His father told a servant carry

962
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: him to his mother verse twenty. After the servant had

963
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the

964
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

965
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: The only thing the boy ever said in the text

966
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: is my head. That's the only words he got to say.

967
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: And then he died. And this is what brought me

968
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: to the sermon, because after the servant had lifted him

969
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: up and carried him to his mother, he sat on

970
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: her lap and died. In verse twenty one, Oh this

971
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: is so amazing, Holly. I gotta show you this. I

972
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: gotta show you this. God showed me this. It was

973
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: so good. When we were walking around talking about it.

974
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this was in it. She went

975
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: up and laid him on the bed of the Man

976
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: of God. Then shut the door. Somebody say shut the door.

977
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: That's important. Shut the door. Shut the door. She shut

978
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: the door and went out. She called her husband and said,

979
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: please send me one of the servants and a donkey

980
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: so I can go to the Man of God quickly.

981
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: In return. Notice what she didn't ask her husband to do,

982
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: what he didn't have the power to do. She said,

983
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: you can give me a donkey, but you can't give

984
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: me a miracle. Stop expecting out of people what only

985
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: God can give. This is why we get depressed. We

986
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: keep waiting on people to complete us. Renee Selwigger was

987
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: lying to you. If you wait on somebody to complete you,

988
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: you are going to be in a constant state of suspension. Ljay,

989
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: They can help you. God can use people to bless you.

990
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: But there are some things that are just between you

991
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: and God, only God, just the two of us. I

992
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: hear God saying, quit putting demands on people that are unreasonable.

993
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: Let me build those spaces, let me have that room,

994
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: let me have that question. She said, give me a donkey.

995
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: You can give me a donkey. But that's all you

996
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: can do because I gotta I gotta go back to

997
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: the one who gave me the promise. I've got to

998
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: go back to the one. And I want to ask

999
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: you a question they used to ask us in middle

1000
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: school when we got in a fight. Who started it?

1001
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: Who started? Who started? That's what my dad wanted to know.

1002
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: I come home. I didn't get in many fights, but

1003
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: he want to know two things, who started it and

1004
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: who won? And if the answer was him and me,

1005
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: he was happy he started it and I won. He

1006
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: was like, all right, let's go to Ryan's, let's go

1007
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: to Quincy's, let's eat a yeastroll. So so she says,

1008
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: I gotta go to the one who started, because watch this,

1009
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: it's good to go back. It's good to go back.

1010
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: It's good to go back. That's why I wanted. I

1011
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: wanted them to show on the camera. It was like this,

1012
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: you've always been on my front row. You've always been

1013
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: on my front row. A lot has changed, but it

1014
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: was us then and it's us now. But somebody's saying,

1015
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: I don't have Holly. I don't I don't have the

1016
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You got the Holy One? You got the

1017
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, You've got the you've got the spirit of

1018
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: God on the inside of you. So she said, give

1019
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: me a donkey and saddle him up. And she's calling

1020
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: the shots too. Man. Remember this woman is not waiting

1021
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: on God. Oh God, show me what to do. No,

1022
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: the boy is dead. She carries him upstairs. She put

1023
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,479
Speaker 1: him in the bed that never would have been there

1024
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 1: if she hadn't been proactive, if she would have been

1025
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: bitter about the child she didn't have, she wouldn't have

1026
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: had a bed to put the child in. When he died,

1027
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: she laid him on the bed that was a result

1028
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: of the prompting of the Holy Spirit. She didn't know

1029
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: what it would lead to, but God did. And she said,

1030
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: saddle up the donkey. The king. James says it different,

1031
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: but saddle off the donkey. Put a saddle on the donkey.

1032
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: I know where to go to. I know who the

1033
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: bread is, I know who's fuck it. I know where

1034
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: this started. I know who called me. Do you know

1035
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: who started it? He began a good work in you?

1036
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: Who started it? She said, lead on, don't slow down

1037
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: for me unless I tell you too. I love this woman.

1038
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: She's like, leave me and do what I say, I

1039
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: love her. What I love about it is she's so

1040
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: proactive to build a room. She's so she's so full

1041
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 1: of faith and boldness to say, saddle the donkey. But

1042
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: watch how humble she is. This is what makes her great.

1043
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: This is what's gonna make you great. This is what's

1044
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: gonna make this year not the worst year of your life,

1045
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 1: but the greatest. This is it. Right here she came

1046
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: to the man of God, Karmel. I know what comes next.

1047
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: So I'm happy because you're like her son is dead.

1048
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? I know? I know, I know

1049
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: what's about to happen. I know what's about to happen

1050
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: in the story. You can you can praise God in

1051
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: places that make no sense when you know what happens

1052
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: next in the story, not the details of it, but

1053
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: I know who started it. So I know that he

1054
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: who began a good work in me. I didn't learn

1055
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: much Greek. But Alpha is the first letter, Omega is

1056
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Speaker 1: the last one, and he's both. He's both of those.

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01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: He finishes what he starts. And so when she came

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Speaker 1: to the prophet it Mount Carmel. See first of all,

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01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: she's she's coming up and I want you to know

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01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: a couple of things from this passage. He saw her

1061
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: in the distance. He saw her in the distance. He

1062
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: saw her in the distance. That that blesses me, even

1063
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: if I'm far off from where I'm supposed to be.

1064
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 1: He sees me in the distance. Does that remind you

1065
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: of the prodigal son? Or is it just me? Saw

1066
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: him coming? He saw her coming, He told gahes I.

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Speaker 1: He said, look the shoe of my twenty six, He

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01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: told gajes I. Run the meter and ask her. This

1069
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: is a loaded question, Okay, are you all right? What

1070
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: if I asked you that just two of us? Are

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01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: you all right? It's one of those questions that we

1072
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: ask that we really don't want to know the answer to.

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Speaker 1: You know, how you doing? You all right? Yeah? Man,

1074
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm all right. Got this thing on my back. I

1075
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's changing colors. I'm all right.

1076
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: It's a complicated question. Are you all right? That depends

1077
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: because this woman would say I've got a lot of money,

1078
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: but I just lost my son. You all right? Well,

1079
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: that depends. You know. I'm I'm kind of disappointed about

1080
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: what's going on with my company, But you know what,

1081
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: God's been doing a miracle in my family. What a question?

1082
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: Are you all right? Ask her? Are you all right?

1083
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 1: You know the difference between God and people. He really

1084
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: wants to know the other people who ask you that

1085
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: they do not expect a detailed answer with some points.

1086
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: And I love the woman because Ghesi comes to ask

1087
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: her are you all right? He's not the one who

1088
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: prophesied the baby to begin with. So what what she does?

1089
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: Watch what she does in verse twenty six, Watch what

1090
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: she does in verse twenty six. I know we said

1091
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: she's a great woman, but he said, are you all right?

1092
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,439
Speaker 1: Is your husband all right? Is your child all right? Neither?

1093
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: None of these are all right. She's not alright. The

1094
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: husband is so old he can't carry Bobby up the stairs.

1095
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna give the boy a name. And the son

1096
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: that he's asking about is dead. And she does something.

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01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: Even though she's a great woman, she lies everything is

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01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: all right. She's lying like you, everything's all right, It's alright. No,

1099
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: then this is here. I'm good. She's lying like your

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01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: Instagram feed. I said, she's lying like your Instagram feed.

1101
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: She is lying like that picture you posted from the

1102
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: family vacation on Facebook. She is lying. Why did she lie?

1103
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: Maybe she wasn't lying, Maybe she just knew something. Maybe

1104
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: she knew I don't need to talk about my problems

1105
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,919
Speaker 1: to somebody who doesn't have the power to solve them.

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01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 1: This is a word for somebody. I don't need to

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01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: I don't need the assess this in a place that

1108
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: is powerless to help me. And I want to stop

1109
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: asking everybody else about stuff that only God can fix.

1110
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 1: I want to stop trying to fix things publicly that

1111
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: can only be dealt with privately. I want to quit

1112
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: seeking affirmation in public places and let God speak to

1113
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: the place. Come on, is this for you? I'm asking?

1114
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 1: Tell me right now in the comments? Is this for you?

1115
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:27,600
Speaker 1: She said, I'm all right, but I'm not really And

1116
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: look what she did next. She pushed right past the

1117
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,719
Speaker 1: person who had no power to solve it. Quit talking

1118
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: to everybody about everything, Quit complaining to everybody about everything,

1119
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,600
Speaker 1: Quit letting everybody know all your business, Quit trying to

1120
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 1: cover up stuff for people, and go back to the

1121
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: one who spoke it to start with. And when she

1122
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: got verse twenty seven, to the man of God at

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Speaker 1: the mountain, she took hold of his feet. She's great

1124
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Speaker 1: enough to saddle up the donkey, and she's humble enough

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01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: to follow his feet, and you've got to be both.

1126
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: She came down and haze I came to push her away.

1127
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 1: I bet you got something right now as I preach

1128
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: this word trying to push you away. Don't listen to that.

1129
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: Don't listen to him. Don't under says this isn't for

1130
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: you to someone else. You're not good enough for that.

1131
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, I mean right

1132
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 1: to expect that. But the Man of God said, leave

1133
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: her alone, Leave her alone. This is between the two

1134
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 1: of us. See, I spoke this to her. I spoke

1135
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: this to her. She's in bitter distress. But the Lord

1136
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:49,760
Speaker 1: has hidden it from me, and I don't know why. Yeah, Holly,

1137
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 1: the next verse is what brought me over, because after

1138
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 1: I've preached last week sermon, I saw this verse. Did

1139
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: I ask? I stopped? I said, yeah, of course, of course,

1140
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 1: you want me to preach this Lord for everybody who's

1141
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: dealing with something they didn't ask for. I was just

1142
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: trying to take care of you. I wasn't trying to

1143
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 1: invite this in my life. I didn't even want all

1144
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: this God, you shouldn't have called me to do this

1145
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: if you were gonna let it be so hard that

1146
01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. Did I ask? She sai at

1147
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: his feet. Now she's off for donkey. Now did I ask?

1148
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: I didn't. I asked you to come eat, I asked

1149
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 1: you to come stay. I didn't ask you to ruin

1150
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: my life. I didn't ask for this. I didn't ask

1151
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: for this. You did this. You started this. I told

1152
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 1: you it. We didn't like this. I didn't want to

1153
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: get my hopes up. It hurts the hope. The more

1154
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 1: I hope, the more open I am to disappointment. I

1155
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: told you this was gonna happen. Every time I try,

1156
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: I fail, every time I start, I stumble. I told

1157
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: you it would be like this. I knew it would

1158
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,720
Speaker 1: end like this. I knew I shouldn't feel good. I

1159
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: knew I shouldn't try it. I knew they would betray me.

1160
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 1: I knew they would let it. Did I ask? She

1161
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: had the good sense to know how to get back

1162
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: to the one who started it. I know you didn't

1163
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: ask for a special needs child. I know you didn't

1164
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: ask for I know you didn't ask for the economy

1165
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: to do what it's doing right now. I know you

1166
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: didn't ask for it, but just because you didn't ask

1167
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:50,640
Speaker 1: for it doesn't mean you can't handle it. You just

1168
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: gotta know what to do with it. Put it back

1169
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: on the bed, put it back in the place she

1170
01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:00,839
Speaker 1: stood in the doorway where the prophet may the promise.

1171
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: She put the boy that God gave her on the bed.

1172
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 1: She went to the prophet. She fell at his feet

1173
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 1: and looked like she said, are you ready for this? Oh?

1174
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: This is so annoying because in verse thirty after GEHEYESEI

1175
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: went back to do what he could do, the child's

1176
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: mother said, as surely as the Lord lives, and as

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: you live, I will not leave you. Where have we

1178
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:30,520
Speaker 1: heard that before. That's the same thing Elisha said to Elijah.

1179
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 1: That's the same thing Elisha said to Elijah. That's the

1180
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: same persistence that started his ministry. I will not leave you.

1181
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 1: I will not forsake you. And God is saying, if

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01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 1: I did, then I will now if I spoke it,

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01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,840
Speaker 1: I will perform it in an empty room, in a

1184
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: full room with many, with little a bounding or a baste.

1185
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: I will not leave you. She said, you spoke this,

1186
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: you started this. Now you got to do something about it.

1187
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: You know how You know you're growing in your relationship

1188
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: with God when you can tell him the real stuff

1189
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 1: at his feet and trust him like that. Everybody else

1190
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 1: sees what you do. Oh, she's got a big house.

1191
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,559
Speaker 1: She keeps the preacher over there. They didn't know the

1192
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 1: depth of disappointment of her barren womb. Only God knew

1193
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: that some things only God knows. First Corinthians, who says,

1194
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,679
Speaker 1: the spirit of a man surches the man, only God

1195
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: in you knows. There are some things that I can't

1196
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: say through this camera today. It's just between you and God.

1197
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: So maybe God puts you in this moment so he

1198
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: could tell you a few things, just the two of us.

1199
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 1: God said, I need you right now. I need you

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01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: at my feet right now. I'm trying to bring some

1201
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: things to life, but I need this to just be

1202
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: the two of us. I'm going to use people. But

1203
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: when Elisha followed the woman back to the house, look

1204
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: at it. The boy was there on his couch and

1205
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: the mom, the woman, the great woman, the proactive woman.

1206
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:42,679
Speaker 1: She did something that we all have to do sometimes

1207
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 1: in our life. That after you've done all you can do.

1208
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: The Bible says verse thirty three, Elisha went in shut

1209
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: the door on the two of them, and now the

1210
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: woman who birthed this boy has to stand outside the

1211
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: door and trust God's prophet to do what only he

1212
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: can do. Are you standing on the other side of

1213
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 1: a closed door today wondering how God is going to

1214
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: get your kid out of this one? I imagine that

1215
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: this woman, who was proactive enough to tell her husband

1216
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: saddle up the donkey and buy a lamb, rushed into

1217
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: the room. And maybe she thought she was going to

1218
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 1: stand there and give orders. You know, she's that kind

1219
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: of woman. But the prophet knew something about when God

1220
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 1: wants to do something really amazing in your life. He

1221
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: turned to the woman and said, I know that you

1222
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: gave birth to this boy, and I know you're great

1223
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you. But right now, it's just the

1224
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:57,840
Speaker 1: two of us. He sent her out the room. He

1225
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: sent her out the room where she couldn't see. He

1226
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: sent her out the room. Verse thirty four says he

1227
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 1: got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth

1228
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: to mouthed, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. Somebody say

1229
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: out loud, it's personal, it's personal. He didn't just lay

1230
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: a staff on him. Be haz. I tried that and

1231
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: it didn't work. It's gonna be personal what God does

1232
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: in your life. This is a personal word. God says,

1233
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, actually, I'm gonna actually connect with

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01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: you your eyes, you see, so you could touch and feel.

1235
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 1: It's personal. He laid down on the boy and stretched

1236
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:36,679
Speaker 1: himself out on him, and the boy's body grew warm,

1237
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: but he still wasn't alive. So Elisha turned away and

1238
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: walked back and forth in the room, walked back and

1239
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: forth in the room. Everybody say, it's a process. Come on,

1240
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: say it out loud, it's a process. I want you

1241
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: to say that, shay about everything in your life that

1242
01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:01,639
Speaker 1: you don't understand. He's pacing around the room. He's pacing

1243
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: in the room, and the woman has no idea what's

1244
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: going on on the other side of that door. And

1245
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 1: you have no idea what God is doing behind the

1246
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: scenes in your life. And the prophet is pacing. I

1247
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: think he's sent her out of the room, not just

1248
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: because it was personal, and not just because it was

1249
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: a process, not because it was private. I hear the

1250
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:27,719
Speaker 1: spirit of God saying, right now, I need some alone

1251
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 1: time with your problem. I don't need you standing over

1252
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: me so much telling me what to do. So I'm

1253
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 1: gonna close this door. I must spend some time with

1254
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: that thing you've been worrying about, and I need you

1255
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: to just go right now, and you can walk around

1256
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 1: downstairs and I'll walk around upstairs. But the Bible says

1257
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: that she had to stand on the other side of

1258
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: the door. You know how much faith it takes to

1259
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,640
Speaker 1: stand there with the thing that you gave birth to.

1260
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 1: Some of you, God is saying, give me my promise back.

1261
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm the one who gave it. I can't have you

1262
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: standing over me telling me how I'm supposed to do it,

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Speaker 1: and when I'm supposed to do it. Leave this thing

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Speaker 1: with me for a little while. You've been stressing so much,

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Speaker 1: and every time you stress about it, it interrupts what

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Speaker 1: God is doing. So shut the door. Like the woman

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Speaker 1: with the oil earlier in Second King's fourth she shut

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Speaker 1: the door in the oil flowed, and he shut the door,

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Speaker 1: and he got with the boy. And the Bible says,

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Speaker 1: how many believed the Bible, how many believe in miracles,

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Speaker 1: That on the other side of that door the word

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Speaker 1: of God did for that woman what she could not

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Speaker 1: do for herself. I feel the word of the Lord

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Speaker 1: coming forth into your situation today. And when he got

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Speaker 1: back on the boys, the boy slee seven times. That's

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Speaker 1: the number of completion. God said, let me finish this.

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Speaker 1: I started it. Let me finish this. Got your promise,

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Speaker 1: I've got short dreams, I've got your destiny, I've got

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Speaker 1: your hope, I've got your petitions, I've got your prayers.

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Speaker 1: And God says, give it back to me, just the

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Speaker 1: two of us. God's working while you're waiting. He's working

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Speaker 1: while you're waiting. We thank God for open doors. We

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Speaker 1: thank him for closed doors because what he's doing in

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Speaker 1: this moment is greater than you know. What he's doing

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Speaker 1: in that room in your life is greater than you know.

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Speaker 1: You thought you built it for one thing, you really

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Speaker 1: built it for another. Give him that space. This is

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Speaker 1: a holy spirit moment. What do you do when the

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Speaker 1: thing that you didn't ask for happens in your life?

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Speaker 1: The thing that you were holding in your arms one

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Speaker 1: moment dies in the shifting seasons, I hear God saying,

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Speaker 1: take it back, put it in that place, because today

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Speaker 1: is a day of miracles. Elisha verse thirty six, summoned

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Speaker 1: Gaze and said, call the shunami, and he did. When

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Speaker 1: she came, he said, take your son. She had no

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Speaker 1: idea that he had been pacing the floor in there.

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Speaker 1: How many of you you don't know what God's doing

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Speaker 1: right now, but you trust that whatever he is doing,

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Speaker 1: lift your hands right where you are. Come on, God said,

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Speaker 1: do you really need to be in a crowd to

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Speaker 1: worship me? Or can you worship me when it's just

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Speaker 1: the two of us. She came in verse thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: fell at his feet, bowed to the ground, and then

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Speaker 1: she took her son and went out. Lord, I thank

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Speaker 1: you that today your people are receiving back joy, peace, hope,

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Speaker 1: and a right spirit. We trust you today. Lord. As

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Speaker 1: much as we thank you for open doors, we trust

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Speaker 1: you with closed doors. I thank you that, just like

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Speaker 1: your prophet, Elisha was working a miracle in a room

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Speaker 1: that a woman built by faith, you are working a

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Speaker 1: miracle in every place where we will, by faith trust

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Speaker 1: you today. You know who's on the other side of

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Speaker 1: this message. You know what's happening in their house. You

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Speaker 1: know what's happening in their heart. Lord, if they feel

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Speaker 1: alone right now, I touch and agree with them in Jesus'

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Speaker 1: name that you are the God who sees beyond the surface.

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Speaker 1: You are the God of the question in the comma,

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Speaker 1: I thank you that you're doing a great thing in

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Speaker 1: our lives, just the two of us. If this message

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Speaker 1: was for you today and you know it, I want

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Speaker 1: you to tell me in the comments. I want you

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Speaker 1: to tell me in the chat say that was for me,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll know together. God spoke this word to

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Speaker 1: me so I can share it with you. Just the

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Speaker 1: two of us, we're praying for you. We're believing God

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Speaker 1: for great things in your life. And God wants you

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Speaker 1: to know today that anytime something in your life dies,

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Speaker 1: and anytime you feel like it's over, go back to

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Speaker 1: where you started, stand with the one who will never

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Speaker 1: leave you nor forsake you. She said to the prophet.

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Speaker 1: As the Lord lives and as you live, I won't

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Speaker 1: leave you. God is saying that to somebody today. I

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Speaker 1: didn't leave you. Just give me some time. Close the door,

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Speaker 1: worship on the other side. Don't wait until you hold

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Speaker 1: it again. Come on, lift your hands right now. That

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Speaker 1: God who will never leave you nor forsake you, is

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Speaker 1: with you in this moment, and no matter what people do,

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Speaker 1: and no matter how the world ebbs and flows, God

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Speaker 1: wants you to know that His presence is your promise

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Speaker 1: now and forevermore. What a friend we have in Jesus,

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Speaker 1: Oh our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege

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Speaker 1: to carry everything to God in prayer. Go back to

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Speaker 1: the one that started with He's always been for you. Oh,

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Speaker 1: what peace we often for fect and all what needless

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Speaker 1: pain we bear. This is a different season, but it's

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Speaker 1: the same God. Oh, because we do not care everything

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Speaker 1: to God in prayer? Have we trials and temptations? Is

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Speaker 1: there trouble anywhere? What is it? We should never be discouraged?

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Speaker 1: Take into the Lord in prayer, just me and you, Now, God,

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Speaker 1: just me and you. You know what's going on in

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Speaker 1: my life. You know what I You know what I

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Speaker 1: wonder about. You know what I deal with? Do thy

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Speaker 1: friends despise for sake? Take it to the Lord in prayer.

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Speaker 1: And here's what I want you to know. In his

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Speaker 1: arms he'll take and she'll be noow. We'll find a

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Speaker 1: solace there, just the two of us. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give

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Speaker 1: generously to this ministry is because of you that this

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Speaker 1: ministry is possible. You can click the link in the

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Speaker 1: description to give now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash

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Speaker 1: podcast for more information and if you enjoyed the podcast,

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