WEBVTT - Just The 2 Of Us 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:18.280 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:24.040 Come on, everybody, praise the Lord. Let everything that has 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:29.440 spread that includes you too, whether you're in a soup 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:35.680 or a bathrobe, come on, give him praise today. Oh, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.839 praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Thank you, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:45.000 thank you. How are you doing? I know my sermon 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.440 last week was called did I ask? But I'm asking, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.639 how are you? Come on, let me know how you're 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.120 doing right there in the chat. Use your favorite emoji 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:59.520 to tell me how you're doing, your favorite church appropriate emoji. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.160 You gotta specify. Got all kind of people that tune in. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.640 You know, you never know what they'll I don't want 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.600 the Holy Spirit to leave the YouTube page. Give God praise. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.560 If you hold on, we're gonna bring it back. Give 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.600 God praise if you're doing better than could be expected. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.639 So in other words, like hey, preacher, that's a complicated question. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.520 But when I think about where I could have been, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.959 should have been, would have been. I want to put 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.800 up one of those, one of those worship hand emojis. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.080 Come on, throw a worse of hand emoji in the 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:41.920 chat all the way from Paul Kong to parties fill 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 South Carolina. If you got a reason of praise and 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:57.000 praise it whoo wow. So anyway, I just I thank 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.600 God for this opportunity to minister the word of God 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.840 to you. And you may notice that it feels a 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.880 little different. We're going to do it a little different today. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.840 We're having to do almost everything different right now. Anyway, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.960 But so what happened to me was that after I 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.880 got done preaching to you last week, God kept speaking. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.639 That's a weird sensation to be done preaching. But God's 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.000 not done speaking. And I wasn't seeking God for a 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.400 sermon or anything. And me and Holly went for a 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.400 walk and she started sharing with me something God was 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.280 speaking to her. And what God was speaking to her 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.000 was kind of like what God was speaking to me. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.320 And I said, I'm going to take that and preach it. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.280 She said, you can't. I'm preaching soon. I'm going to 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.799 preach it. I said, oh, I'm taking that in preaching it. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.120 She said, you can't have it. I said, you're like 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.240 our kids when we go and buy them. Did you 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.280 ever buy your kids a whole meal? And then you 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.800 wanted one fry, and you wanted one fry, and it 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.560 wasn't even a hot fry, it was one cold fry 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.200 in the It was one of those bottom of the 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.640 bag fries. And you went to get that one fry. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.800 She told me about this one verse in the Bible. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.160 I'm going to show you. I said, I want to 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:09.839 preach that. She said, you can't have it. I said, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:15.200 give me that fry. Girl. So this sermon today was 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:21.480 stolen from the woman of God, Holly Ferdie. How appropriate. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.760 I told her, I'm taking your sermon, but you can 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.880 come here me preach it. And I said, to make 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.519 it up to you. I'll preach it just to you. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.000 And so I've got some of the most amazing musicians 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.480 in the world here today and some of our staff 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.080 that snuck in who were here working. I told him 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.440 you could sit in the back, but I wanted to 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.040 in addition to just those who are here helping me 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.640 get this recorded. I asked him, how quick can you 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.600 get over here? It helped me record this message that 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:55.440 God kave Holly that I that I came from her, 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.760 and they said, we can do it in an hour. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.200 And so here we are to bring God's word to 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.120 you fresh and relevant, and I believe that God is 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:05.760 going to give you a personal You know what you 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.640 might want to say in the chat right now, say 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.040 this one's for me, This one's for me, And those 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.560 of you who are in the room, come on, Shay, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.040 tell Dom, this one's for me, This one for me. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.440 Little drummer boy Dom look back at Shay and say, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.279 oh no, you long haired bass playing hippie, This one's 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.120 for me. This one's mine. Come on, if you know 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.960 this one's for you, say it in the chat, This 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:35.120 one's for me, This one's for me. Amen. I want 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.480 to share with you a scripture today from tewod Kings, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.480 chapter four, kind of a continuation of did I ask. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.560 We were saying last week that when we stop asking 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.960 God what he wants to do in our lives and 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.840 what he put inside of us, and start assuming we 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.600 limit the potential that is in us because we kind 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.480 of confine ourselves. And I believe that there's so much 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.360 more that God wants to do than what we can 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.960 ask or imagine. And so I want to share this 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.839 passage with you today. L Jason, it's only three of 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.320 us in the room, Go ahead and keep playing for 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.599 a moment. And the message that I want to minister 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:19.719 today is actually appropriate that it's just a few in 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.800 the room, because I want to talk to you today 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.360 about just the two of us, just the two of us, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.680 And so as we share this time together today, I 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.200 want you to hear it in a personal way. The 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.320 Bible says in verse eight, one day Elisha went to 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.440 shun him, and a well to do woman was there 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.880 who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.479 he came by, he stopped there to eat. And she 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.800 said to her husband, I know that this is I 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.920 know that this man who often comes our way is 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.200 a holy man of God. Let's make a small room 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.560 on the roof and put in it a bed and 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:07.279 a table. Bought us a chair and a lamb. Let's 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.200 put a lamb to go over there to Ikia, and 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.479 let's hook up this man of God. Then he can 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.040 stay there whenever he comes to us. Now, one day, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.120 when Elisha came, he went up to his room and 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.840 lay down there. So he said to his servant Gehese, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.920 call the Shounamite. So he called her, and she stood 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.640 before him. Elishah said to him, tell her, you have 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:40.360 gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.920 be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.479 to the king or the commander of the army. She replied, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.160 I have a home among my own people. What can 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.520 be done for her? Elisha asked, wonder what I could 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.160 do for? I wonder what I could do for? What 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.760 if God is not inspiring about how to curse you? 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.119 What if God is brainstorming how to bless you today? 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.360 What if God isn't up in heaven trying to figure 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.680 out when to hit you with a lightning bolt or 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.360 a hernia or a flat tire to get you back 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.440 for what you did in tenth grade? What if God 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.280 is think? What if God and the angels today are 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:29.000 brainstorming away to bless you in this season? So gehees 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:34.040 I said, she had no son and her husband is old. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.440 Then Elisha said, call her. So he called her and 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.559 she stood in the doorway. I love this, she stood 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.640 in the doorway. About this time next year, how many 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.559 of y'all are ready for next year. About this time 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.960 next year, Elisha said, you will hold a son in 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:06.680 your arms. No, no, my lord, not that she objected, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:14.640 gave up on that, not that, please, Man of God, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:21.840 don't mislead your servant. But the woman became pregnant, and 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.280 the next year, about that same time, she gave birth 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.640 to a son, just as Elisha had told her. Can 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.520 I read a few more verses? Because the child grew 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.280 and one day he went out to his father, who 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.360 was with the reapers. He said to his father, my head, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.560 my head. His father told a servant carry him to 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.400 his mother. After the servant had lifted him up and 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.000 carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.679 lap until noon, and then he died, and she went 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.720 up and laid him on the bed of the Man 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:56.560 of God. Then shut the door, shut the door, and 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.880 went out. She called her husband and said, please send 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.320 me one of the servants and a donkey, so I 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.640 can go to the Man of God quickly and return. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.079 Why go to him today, he asked, it's not the 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.680 new moon or the sabbath. That's all right, she said. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.800 She sat with the donkey and said to her servant, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:20.040 lead on. Don't slow down for me unless I tell you. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.000 She set out and came to the Man of God 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.959 at Mount Carmel, and when he saw her in the distance, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.600 the Man of God said to his servant, Ghesi, I've 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.679 been saying Gahazi and Gajese. I don't know how to 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.520 pronounce his name. But he was a scoundrel anyway, and 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.959 so watch this. The Man of God said to Gehesi, Gahazi, look, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.680 there's the shoe of mine. Run to meet her and 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.840 ask her, are you all right? Is your husband all right? 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:54.439 Is your child all right? Everything is all right? She said. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.880 When she reached the Man of God at the mountain, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.480 she took hold of his feet. Hey as I came 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.839 over to push her away, but the Man of God said, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.720 leave her alone. She is in bitter distress. But the 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.520 Lord has hidden it from me and has not told 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.880 me why. Just the two of us, Lord, would you 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.400 fill every heart with your presence in this moment? Would 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.480 you make it so that there is a direct connection 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.559 from Heaven to their heart and they could hear from 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.960 you the words that they need to make it in 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.280 this season of their life. We thank you that anything 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.040 is possible in your presence. We thank you that nothing 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.360 is impossible for you. Is there anything too hard for you? 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.960 There's nothing too hard for you. Is there anything too 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.960 small for you? Nothing is too small for you. You You 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.840 can do anything. We believe it, and we receive it 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:54.240 in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, you may be seated, Holly 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.800 and others, just the two of us. This is kind 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.600 of girl. You get a personal life sermon. Never before. Well, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:10.640 this is been close because people were asking me, what 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.520 was it like preaching in an empty room? That's one 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.920 of the questions. I was preaching about questions last week, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.480 and people will say, was it like preaching in an 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.120 empty room? I said, kind of. It kind of takes 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.560 me back. I said, I kind of like it. And 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.680 then I could see they were offended. They were like, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.760 you don't like having us there. You don't want us there, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.079 you don't want us in the room. I was like, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.160 it's not that. But sometimes it's good to go back. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.839 Sometimes it's good to go back. And there were times 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.040 when we first started, like our ministry didn't start when 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.880 people saw it, and what you see now is not 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.680 how we started. How many would say that about your life. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.640 You should have seen me you should have seen the 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.640 beta version of me. Oh you think I'm messed up? Now, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.400 God's really been working on me. And the crazy thing 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.720 about this season of Quarantine was I kind of knew 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.520 when they were saying, you know, we can't have mass 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.839 gatherings of church and all that, I knew that if 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.000 it came down to it, that Holly would hold the camera. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.000 In fact, the first thing I did when they started 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.600 shutting everything down, I called many of these same people 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.960 who are in here running the cameras today in this building. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.040 I called him in I said, get over to my house. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.160 I want a camera in the basement. I want a 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.360 laminated instruction thing printed out so I can see how 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.360 to run it. Because if it comes to it, I 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.200 know that I can put Holly behind that camera. And 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.480 if I can have that camera, and if it can 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.040 go out, we can find a way to get the 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.079 word out. It might not be pretty professional, well lit 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.760 in a big room, but God will find a way 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.480 to get his word out. God will find a way 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.000 to get his word out. So we didn't have to 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.800 do it, but we could have. As a matter of fact, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.880 what a lot of people don't know is even before 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:04.320 competent professional musicians like LJ. Were, We're here to play 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.360 me and Holly. So when you're first starting out, I 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.120 just want to take y'all back for a minute. When 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.560 you're first starting out in ministry, you might not have 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:20.120 all of the all of the desired instruments, you know 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.880 what I mean. And when we would travel around I 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.320 told you last week how Holly was on my my 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.240 summer impact team. I was the leader, and we would 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.320 go into these little churches. A lot of times we'd 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.560 be with we'd be with little kids at a backyard 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.760 Bible club in the morning, and then we would be 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.280 with some senior adults in the afternoon. So we had 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.440 to diversify. And so I would go out there with 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.600 the kids in the morning and Holly was like on 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.800 my praise. Sometimes we would go just the two of us. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.400 Somebody say, just the two of us, come and put 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.400 it in the chat, just the two of us. And 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.720 this is what I always remember, Like if the whole 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:10.000 worship team quit, I could grab this Martin guitar. I 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.760 could and I could tune it myself by ear because 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.400 I've had experience. Sometimes it's good to go back. And 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.640 one reason I said Holly, I want to go over 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.160 and preach it just with you. And I want to 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.600 remember how we used to walk into those churches and 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:29.280 I would strum a d bar cord and say, cast 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:38.000 your burdens unto Jesus, he cares for you. Cast your 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:45.160 burdens unto Jesus, he cares for you. And you know 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.640 you'd be going into these places where nobody really wanted 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.160 to worship, and it would be like you'd have to 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.040 start it from zero. I mean, it was worse than this, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.400 this empty room. At least the camera operators want to 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.720 be here. But in those rooms you'd have somebody who 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.320 got dropped all. They didn't want to be there, So 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.880 you make them do hand motions, right, Holly, show show 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.440 what we used to do. I did not ask her 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.360 if she would do this. I just figured if I 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.320 turned on the cameras and told her to, she would 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.920 do it. Stand up, do it real quick, Show how 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.920 we do it? Higher higher, higher, higher, higher higher, Show 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.360 them how to lift them higher Jesus, Holly, show him 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.640 how to lift Jesus higher higher, higher, higher, higher, higher 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:25.600 higher higher, higher, lift Jesus higher. Y'all are ready lower 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:32.080 lower lower lower, Lou lower, Lou stop SATs and lower 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:40.080 lower lower lower lower, lou Lord, stop SATs and lower 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:47.640 super super Man. Oh, it's good to go back, because 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.720 I just I figure, if they if they didn't let 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.720 anybody come out and run a camera, or we couldn't 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.040 get in the church, we could go in the basement. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.600 And if I had Holly, if I had the Holly 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.040 Ghost and the Holy Ghost, we can preach this word. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.240 Come on, if it's just the two of us, we 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.040 can stomp him. We can. We can lift Jesus and 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.480 stop Satan, just the two of us. That's how we started. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.400 And then you know we couldn't we couldn't do that 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.000 at night because the people were ministering to at night 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.640 were over eighty be a Baptist church revival. Everybody in 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.800 there was, you know, doing their best to walk in. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.560 They weren't trying to lift him or stomp him or 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.240 nothing like that. They were just trying to So you 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:38.240 slow it down, you know, you do something like when 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:44.640 I think about the Lord, how he saved me, how 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:50.200 he raised me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.080 how he healed me to the uttermost, then Hollywood hit 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.960 the harmony for me. When I think about the Lord, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:05.640 how he picked me up and turned me around, how 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:13.240 he plays my feet on solid ground. It makes me 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:22.560 on a shower, Hollia. Thank you Jesus, all your worthy 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:30.639 of all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.280 It's good to think back, you know, and I think 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:41.159 about the Lord man you remember that. Just it's just 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:46.720 me and you, Me and you singing stuff like what 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:56.520 a friend we have in Jesus, Oh our sense in 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:12.080 greets to bed, what a privilege to care everything to 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:17.840 God in prayer? Hit him a little d run Chris Brown. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.480 And then after you get done with that, him a 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:25.080 little James Taylor. You just call have my name, little 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.639 Carol Key, and you know wherever I am, I'll calm 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:37.320 running see you again. No, you're not alone, even if 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.960 it's just the two of us. When to spring, summer, fall, 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:50.040 All you gotta do is call and I'll be there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.640 you know, make it Christian, Thank you Jesus, you got 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.440 a friend. And then I like those hymns that nobody 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:16.399 knows to com Yes, come soul land, where ye land lnguish, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:40.920 come to the b CC furvant the he bring it 0:19:43.440 --> 0:20:04.640 he f your language art has no sign vas kally 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:23.600 my geeesus, I love, I know thou art mine for 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:43.640 the all the five huson. I resign my graveacious reader, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:58.080 my safe if you're art by if aver I love. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:10.000 It all comes back, man, nazeezsus this now, it's good 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.080 to go back. This is good to go back. Come on, 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:18.639 giveing praise. It's good to go back. Oh man. So 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.679 I like the worship team that we have now, and 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.480 I don't want to go back to doing it all myself. 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.240 I'm not trying to take anybody off the payroll, but 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:32.080 it's just good sometimes to go back. Put it in 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.760 the chat. It's good to go back. And I know 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.800 you're thinking like I thought we were supposed to go forward, 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.399 you know, and all that. Well, sometimes you got to 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.800 look back to go forward. Say amen, because sometimes if 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.560 I look too far forward, I'll freak out. Just look 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:51.439 back real quick, lion bear cool. God is strong, and 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:56.240 I believe that God's resume gives me reason to believe 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.240 in resurrection, gives me reason to rejoice. I just need 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.159 to know how many of you, even though you felt 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.040 lonely in this season and you don't really know what 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.760 God's gonna do. But you have some kind of faith 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.520 in some kind of way. The same God that did 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.359 the things for you, did the stuff back then, He's 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.280 gonna do the stuff tomorrow that I need him to do. Wow, 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.719 even if it's just me and Jesus, some of us 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.520 are watching this by ourselves. We'd rather be with other people, 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.480 but we're watching it on a screen. But even through 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.000 this screen, the spirit of God is speaking to me. 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.359 God's got a word for me today. Or I just 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:43.720 felt something. Paul and Silas were in Philippi all by themselves. 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.040 I feel like Precian in a semi empty room. I 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:51.399 feel like Christian Holly. I'll be Paul, you'd be Silas. 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.520 We're not where we wanted to be. The situation looks bleak, 0:22:56.000 --> 0:23:00.800 gotta chain on our wrists, been in quarantine, on lockdown, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:06.880 been persecuted, felt abandoned. But you be Paul, I'll be Silas. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.959 The church isn't fall. But if we start praising at midnight, 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:17.720 change break doors open, things happened, miracles come. Just the 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.880 two of us, we can get this sun. We can 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:28.480 get this sun. It doesn't take many if you got much, 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:33.159 just the two of us. So something about that just 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.119 comforted me just walking around the block with Holly, and 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:39.960 God was using her to speak to me, and I 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:45.200 was like wow, thinking about how how God, God is 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:50.160 enough in my life in every season. In the passage 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:54.879 that we read, we talked about Elisha the prophet. You know, 0:23:54.920 --> 0:24:00.840 Elisha's ministry is interesting because it was very lonely. The 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:05.240 ministry of a prophet was a was a lonely life. 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.280 Not only were you standing up the kings in ways 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.840 that made you popular. Oh, prophets would have got canceled 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:16.919 so quick in twenty twenty. Every prophet would have been 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.840 out of business. You had some of them walking around naked. 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:24.119 Some of them were lighting up animal excrements for their 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:28.080 sermon illustration. Tim, do not get any ideas for rhythm night. 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:30.560 I could see your wheels turning right now. You're like, Oh, 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.600 I get it, dune nudity. No, I'm telling you right now, 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:36.399 you're not going to do any of this stuff that 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.840 the prophets did because the prophets man, they just really 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.520 had to rely on God. And yet the thing about saying, 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:45.720 you know, all I need is Jesus, just me and Jesus. 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:50.880 What a friend I have in Jesus? He can't hug you. Yes, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:53.440 he does. He embraces me in my shut up. I'm 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:59.280 talking about like a human hug. A human hug. He 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:02.160 can't hug your like. And so as simple as this sounds, 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.879 I want you to write it down. God uses people. 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:11.399 God uses people. God uses people, and sometimes when we 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:13.879 ask God to use us, we have no idea what 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.200 we're asking. Have you ever asked a question you wished 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:21.520 immediately you didn't ask? I asked somebody one time, how 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.280 was my sermon? And they started telling me everything theologically 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:28.160 incorrect that I said in the sermon, and I mispronounced 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.360 heyes I, and I called him the wrong thing. I said, Man, 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.840 I'll never ask you again. I will never ask you again. 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.640 I've learned, don't ask your kids unless you really want 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:42.000 to know. Other people have this layer of professional politeness 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:44.560 that comes with maturity in adulthood. But if you ask 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:48.320 your kids, they'll tell you. They'll tell you. Graham told 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.280 me in Singapore preaching over there in Singapore, he said, Dad, 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.040 watching you try to say that Moses at the burning 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:58.040 Bush was lit was the cringiest moment of my childhood. 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.280 You can never use that again, Dad, It was so bad, 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:04.600 I said, I got it, Graham, I got it. But 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:06.800 did I say anything good? He said, I couldn't hear 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.320 anything you said after you said, but Moses at the 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:12.120 burning bush was lit. Please, Dad, don't try to be cool, 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:14.000 don't try to be relevant. So don't ask your kids. 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.359 I feel pretty cool compared to you know. If I 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:23.000 ask Larry Bry, I feel pretty cool. Don't ask your kids. 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:28.480 Sometimes it's best not to ask, right. And what I 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:33.240 love about the passage is that God provided for Elisha. 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:35.080 And now get this if this is for you, because 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:37.040 I promise you God has a word for you today. 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:38.760 And if you'll stay with me, you'll see exactly what 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:43.440 it is. God met the prophet's needs through someone who 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:47.240 he didn't even ask to do it. Remember last week 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:49.720 the crowds got fed and they didn't even ask for 0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:53.600 a meal. Remember those times in your life where God 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:56.359 had people walk away from you and you didn't even 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:58.520 ask him to remove them. But He was so good 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:00.439