3 Habits Of A Healthy Heart

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.600 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.560 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.760 I shared a teaching with our staff. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.200 A couple weeks ago, what was it about two months ago? 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.080 And I came in and taught this teaching called three 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.640 Habits of a Healthy Heart, and several of them said you. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:32.640 Need to share that with the church. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.239 And I couldn't find a good weekend to share it 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.199 because of all of the scheduling and well, when I 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.600 realized we would have to postpone our series for a week, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.199 I thought, this is the time, this is the window 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:43.400 for me to. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.760 Share this with you. So I want to teach you 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.240 a little bit today. You may be seated. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.320 Thank you for your enthusiasm in God's presence today. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.239 This teaching. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.200 Is going to require your full attention, and I don't 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.560 just mean with your mind, I mean your emotional attention 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.600 and kind of while I get set up here to 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:10.080 teach you today, Three Habits of a Healthy Heart how many, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.039 No real lasting change has to happen in your heart? 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.399 Talk to me, please, I said, how many? No real 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:25.000 lasting change has to happen in your heart? Can't just 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:30.920 be in your behavior. You really have to fundamentally change 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.240 your belief. And that's kind of what the Psalmist is 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:39.600 talking about in Someone nineteen, verse one twelve. There aren't 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.720 many chapters in the Bible that have one hundred and 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.000 twelve verses. I think Some one nineteen is on record as. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.080 The longest chapter in the Bible. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.640 It's constructed grammatically in a specific way that we won't 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.680 go into in this class. I kind of want to 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.760 teach a little bit today, if that's all right, he said, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.280 all right, if I don't even shout. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.160 Or holler or anything. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.120 If you wanted to hear me holler, you should have 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.640 come to the praise party. We had an amazing time 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.400 saying good morning midnight, because we welcome not only in 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.839 new year, but we welcomed our challenges this year, knowing 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.079 that often our calling is contained in our challenges if 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:20.640 we learn. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:21.520 How to see it correctly. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.880 Everything begins with perspective, and the perspective of the Psalmist 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.359 in Psalm one hundred and nineteen is kind of all 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.040 over the place. I think he's dealing with some inner 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.320 issues and getting beyond. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.560 The grammar of the song. We can know a little. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.079 Bit of the intention of it because the Psalmist says 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.600 in one twelve, I incline my heart to perform your statutes, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.840 forever to the end, Forever to the end. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.720 I want this to last. I don't just want to. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.880 See some changes in my life for a few weeks 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.000 in January. Come on, somebody, I didn't hand them much 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.760 membership and sign up for a year just to be 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.480 eaten chocolate by Valentine's Day. I want to see some 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:11.400 lasting change in my life this year. The Psalma said, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:17.079 I incline my heart. It has to happen within, not 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.520 just the behavior, but the belief that drives the behavior 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.120 has to change or the change won't stay. We found 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.000 this out over and over again. Every new year we 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.320 learn it again, and so lasting change is what I'm after, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.160 and I incline my heart. Interesting choice of works. If 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.600 you incline something that means that it was naturally not 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:38.480 in that position. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.120 That means you had to. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.320 Act upon it in order to orient it in a 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:49.840 different direction right, So we don't incline something that's already upright. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.640 Must have meant that his heart was declined. And the 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.880 problem with a lot of us is we go through 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:00.200 life reclined. That is just however we wake up. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:01.440 That's how we stay. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.560 However we feel, that's how we act. This almost said, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.200 I act upon my attitude and I incline my heart. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.280 Did you know you're in charge of your heart? Quit 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.520 saying people broke your heart. They can't break it if 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:24.920 you don't give it to them. Hey, and so he said, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.800 I'm setting my heart in the direction of Heaven. I 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:34.240 wonder is your heart set in a divine direction today? 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.400 Incline my heart. I don't think this is something you 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.920 do like one time. You know, you just incline your 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.279 heart to God when you were twelve at summer Bible 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.200 camp and you never were tempted again. And we want 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.760 it to be that way. I want it to be 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 like the infomercial. Do you remember the infomercial with the 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.440 rotissary Show time rotisseriy Oven and the man said, set 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.000 it and and forget it. That's how I want my 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.720 heart to be like that infomercial. Set it and forget it. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.320 I want my heart to just stay there, you know. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.279 Just hey, I went to church first Sunday in January. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.279 That ought to get me by. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.320 I said it, but the Psalmist said, it's not enough 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.320 to set it and forget it. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.080 He said it, it's more like you said it. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.640 You check it, you reset it, you check it, because. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.520 All through your day and all through your year, your. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.520 Heart is going to be tempted to decline to a 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.320 default position. And maybe it's a default position of discouragement 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.280 or despair or dysfunction. But when you take charge of 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.080 your heart, touch your neighbors, say, take charge of your heart. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.400 That's what the writer of Proverbs said. It's not just 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.839 a Psalmist that did it. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.880 The writer of Proverbs said, guard your heart. It's your heart, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.680 and that's where the issues of life flow from. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.159 So before we can. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.559 Get the windows working, we gotta get our hearts open. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.880 Hey man, the doctor was fussinate at me a couple 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.039 months ago about my cholesterol. Let's me know, I'm getting 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.000 on up there in age. I never had a conversation 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.440 like this with the doctor before. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.120 And he just talking talking, blah blah. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.320 Blah ldl HDL. Try glysseride all. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.479 This stuff, and I know we could tell he wasn't 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:32.760 getting through to me because. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.920 He took a real drastic turn. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.800 He said, hey, I don't want you to be one 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.320 of those guys who looked real fit on the outside, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.760 which made me feel happy that he said that about me. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.159 But then one day you're just outside running and you 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.280 just fall over of a heart attack, and to listen 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.440 to me, And I corrected him. I said, doctor, I 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.560 know you got some degrees that I don't have it 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.599 all that, but you're wrong about that. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.159 I don't run, so if fall over, it's not going 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.400 to be on cardio. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.560 But he said, you can be blocked on the inside, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.760 look good on the outside and be successful and fall over, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.520 and be sexy and fall over, and be married and 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.960 fall over, come on, get a promotion and fall over, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.640 be religious and fall over. It has to happen in 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:33.280 the heart. But it doesn't start with the heart. It 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:40.200 starts with the habits. Your habits create the condition of 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:40.679 your heart. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:43.240 It is good. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.280 Every once in a while, you got to stop and 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:45.760 clap for. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:46.880 The word God speaks through you. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.520 I feel like God is going to help somebody set 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.240 your heart on things above. Get your heart set in 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.840 the right direction. But it's going to require some. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.400 And they're all right there in the Sawmu. I want 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:03.760 to read you the. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.440 Next two verses because my three habits are right there. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.480 In the verses. Forever to the end. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.280 I set my heart to perform your statutes. I hate 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.360 this is one thirteen. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.280 I hate. I hate what's that we're doing in the Bible. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.600 I thought I was supposed to love everything. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:25.360 Now I hate the double minded, but I love your law. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.960 I don't think we should go on until we talk 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.160 about that. He said. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:33.880 I hate this. I hate the double minded. I hate 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.000 It's not a person. I hate, it's I hate the 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.840 condition of double mindedness. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:40.920 I hate it. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.960 And see, the thing about the thing about hate is 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.200 hate is the most powerful motivation to change, not love. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.200 And so before you start with wanting to reach your goals, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.640 maybe the first thing for you to do is to 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.400 make a decision and about some things that you hate. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.360 And it's going to be complicated, because you know, ask 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.680 for me. I have a love hate relationship with some 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:10.320 of the things. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:11.880 I feel kind of like David. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.160 One time, David's son Absolom died and Joe ab came 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:15.480 to him. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:16.960 He said, your son is dead. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.080 And David started weeping, and Joe Ab was mad because 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.880 Absolom was trying to take the throne from David, and 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.480 so Absolom had become David's enemy. But David's heart was 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.560 connected to Absolom. So he was crying, and Joe Ab said, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.080 you need to get it together. You hate those who 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.679 love you, and you love those who hate you. You 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.160 hate what's trying to deliver you, and you love what's 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.120 trying to destroy you. And I feel that way about 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:46.040 certain things in my life. Certain action, certain behaviors in 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:46.880 my life. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.160 I love how they feel. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:55.440 For a minute, but I hate the crash and certain 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.800 things in my life I hate how they feel when 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:05.960 I'm doing them. I hate the plank Exhibit A. I 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.680 mean I was for years. I was one of these people. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.040 I would tell you to your face, I hate to exercise. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.079 You can go back and watch my sermon videos from 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:16.800 three years ago. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.679 I was standing on the stage and say I hate 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.719 to exercise. You know why I hated it because it 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.120 wasn't to have it. I didn't do it enough to 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:30.640 love it. I hated it. But you don't have to 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:38.360 accept your default attitude toward anything. I incline my heart. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.000 I'm gonna teach today. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.520 You came out. I'm gonna make it work your while. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.400 I'm gonna teach today. Get that elevation pen ready. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.000 We're gonna burn it up today and get a new 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:46.680 one next week. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:50.920 I grew to hate. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.679 I think the moment of realization for me was when 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.480 I was paying Andy four hundred and fifty dollars to 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.840 come over to my house and let my pants out. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.000 I hated it. I looked at. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.319 Andy and I said, I hate this, man. I could 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.079 be using this money to buy new clothes, and I'm 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.520 paying it to you to make my clothes bigger. I 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.760 hate this. And he said, hey, keep eating. It's job 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.959 security for me. That's what my Taylor said. I said, no, man, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:26.720 I hate this. I hate this feeling. And sometimes sometimes 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.400 before you can make a change, you have to be 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.240 motivated by I know it's a strong word of some 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:36.680 very pastoral you. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.120 Have to hate it. You have to hate it. You 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.520 have to hate self pity. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:43.280 Wow. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.640 And the problem with hating self pity. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.679 Is Ooh, it feels good like a bag of Dorito's 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:55.240 on your tongue. See, it's not that I hate the 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.920 taste of Doritos. I just hated what it did to 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:03.880 my waist. This is so good, sounds simple, but it's 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.120 real deep, he said. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.520 I hate the double minded. I love your law. Before 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:09.040 I can. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.360 Do what I love, I have to know what to hate. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.600 I hate this, I hate the way. I hate the 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:20.600 way watch watch. I love what it does for me, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.160 but I hate what it does to me. It's a 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.880 complicated relationship. A bag of Doritos does something for me. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.080 Am I not doing anything for you. It does something 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.040 for me. I have a long standing relationship with carbohydrates. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.439 They have been there for me in the midnight hour 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.199 when I couldn't call on anybody else. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:44.880 I could call on chocolate. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.040 So I love it, but I hate I love what 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.840 it does for me, but I hate what it. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:54.920 Does to me. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.680 I hate all this. I hate anger. Oh it makes 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.640 me feel good. It even gets me some results. I 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.040 have a complicated relationship with anger. If you get mad enough, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.400 you can get people to do what you want, but 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.840 then you're all alone. After they do it, nobody wants 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.040 to be with you. I hate being angry because I 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.840 hate being alone. Somebody shall outcome. I hate the outcome 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.760 of this and that I hate it. I hate what 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.080 it does to my marriage. I hate what it does 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.400 to my relationships. I hate how it disturbs my inner 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.600 peace and puts me in a state of turmoil. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:32.959 And it's complicated. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.199 It's a complicated relationship that I have with complaining. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.280 I love to complain. Ooh. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.520 I love to tell somebody you can look at there 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.079 at me when the woman Basil who's doing to do it, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.680 Bible says, don't do it, but it didn't say it 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.800 doesn't feel good? Hey man, It feels real good to complain. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.679 It feels like a choice morsel going down. I mean, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.000 just as it's coming out of your mouth, just to 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.640 unload on them. When somebody says how you doing, Just 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.199 let them know for five minutes, every age, every pain, 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.480 every day, disappointment, every struggle. But guess what, the next 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:10.960 time they see you coming, they're going the other way 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:17.520 because it's it's it's the law of diminishing returns. It 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.640 gets you high for a minute. I love to talk 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.000 bad about people I do. I shouldn't say these things. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.960 I tell myself every week after I finish on Sunday, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.760 when I'm watching back my sermon verdict. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.160 Don't say stuff like that. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.360 People put it on YouTube and use it against you 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:33.000 as a weapon. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.520 But I just got to tell you. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.960 I love it makes me feel really good about my 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.480 dysfunction to spend a little time discussing yours. I love 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.600 to talk about other people's dumb decisions. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:44.520 I love it. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.600 It's just it's a natural high because if I can 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.720 get you down here, then I feel right like I'm 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:55.520 right here. Only problem is I'm setting myself up for decline, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.440 and now the next time I see you, I can't 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.840 treat you better than I talk about you, so it 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.520 ruins my relationships. I love what it does for me. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.440 It does something for me. Come on, how many will 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.200 admit it does something for you to talk about what 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.760 Henry did and what Susie wore, and what they should 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.680 have done and what their kids are like. But by 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.840 the same measure you judge, you will be judged. I 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.400 love the taste, but I hate the outcome. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:30.720 I hate it. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.760 The problem with a lot of our resolutions for change 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.880 is that they are not motivated by a healthy kind 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:41.240 of hate. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.880 Healthy hate. Yeah, there is a healthy way to hate. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.200 I hate racism, I hate. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.120 Poverty, that's the only thing that will motivate me to 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.760 do anything about it is I've got to hate it. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.320 I hate bullying. I hate bullying. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:00.640 US bullied. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.520 Tony Wigfall jacked me up against the wall. I still 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.680 remember my head cracking against the wall on my friend 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.880 Hamilton looking at me, saying, don't look at me, man. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.240 I still remember the view from up there, and I 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.800 can't see somebody being picked on without seeing myself from 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.000 up there, just wondering, there is this guy gonna. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:23.600 Break my face. I hate it. I hate it. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.280 Holly said to me the other day, she said, I 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.600 hate being late. Notice she didn't say I love being early, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.480 because she doesn't. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.560 But you got to get to. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.560 The point we were going to see somebody, she said, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.600 I don't want to walk in like that. And until 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.360 you hate being late more than you love hitting snooze, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.120 you won't make the change. Yeah, get that thing on 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.160 your mind, that back of Dorito's, and say I hate it. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.160 Look at your neighbors, say I hate it, not I 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.200 hate you. I hate it. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:57.880 I hate it, I hate it, I hate the double minded, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:59.480 I hate indecision. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:01.040 I hate it. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.440 I'd rather make a bad decision than make no decision. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.080 I hate procrastination. I hate it. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.639 I did it a lot, but I finally got to 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.520 the point where I hate it now. I hate the 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.159 discipline of preparation too, but I hate the pain of 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:26.880 procrastination more than I hate. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:28.840 I hate it. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.520 And I actually said to somebody the other day, I said, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.119 I never thought i'd hear myself say this, and I 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.439 used to hate people who said this. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.040 I think I like exercise. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.760 After three years of doing it five days a week 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.160 and finding out what works for me, I think I'm 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.960 one of those people that I used to roll my 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.880 eyes at. I think I like the exercise. I think 0:17:53.920 --> 0:18:01.000 I've reset my heart. I reset, I declare reset. There 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.000 are some things in your life that have been on 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.439 the decline. But God brought you to church on the 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.840 first weekend of the year, and you're setting your heart 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.360 in a different direction. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.520 Come on, you're gonna love the presence of God this year. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.480 You're gonna love the Word of God this year. You're 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:23.760 gonna love the right things this year. Train your brain 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.160 to hate it. Train your brain. I know that's what my. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.480 Dad was trying to do when he made us eat 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.280 all the food on our plate, when we overfilled it. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.320 At the Ryan's buffet Vacation Memories. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.440 He said, you're. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.879 Gonna eat every bite on that plate. And me and 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.800 my brother took turns causing diversions while the other one 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.760 stuffed our pockets, and we walked out of Ryan's with 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.280 pockets full of food. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:50.199 Never forget it. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.040 He wanted me to have an association, he said, I want. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.840 You to hate waste. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.680 Maybe that's why sometimes God lets us get so low. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.880 So I hate it, so I will despise Egypt, because 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.919 if I didn't despise it, I would be tempted to 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:07.680 go back. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:21.480 Hate the double minded. And I love your law. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:29.440 And I know what the hate, and this is healthy 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:34.159 habit number two. I know where to hide. Do you 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:34.920 know where to hide? 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:36.160 You better? 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.040 Because the attacks are going to come, and the missiles 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.280 are going to fly, and the doubts and discouraging thought 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.320 are going to try to set your heart on the decline, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.600 get you off track, take you back where you've been, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.280 keep you stuck from moving forward. Do you know where 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:03.280 to hide when discouragement comes flying past your head? Or 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.840 do you run to the same enemy that is attacking 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:12.120 you in an effort to hide. I'm not talking about 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:18.679 physical places, because the hiding places that we create that 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:24.160 destroy us are usually the ones in our heart emotional states. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:30.320 He said, you are my hiding place. Lord, you are 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.560 my shield. That's a powerful thought, isn't it. Look at 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.639 what he says. He says, you are my hiding place. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:46.480 And when attacks come, I've learned where to run. And 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.480 the reason that I'm moving forward in my life this 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.840 year isn't because I won't be attacked. It's because I 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:53.480 know what to run to when I am. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:55.520 Help me preach this. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.840 The expectation of no attack is a. 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.160 Set up for disappointment. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.080 But the sum is said, I set myself up for 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:07.320 success because I designated in advance where I would hide 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:12.600 when the attack came. You can't find the place to 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.159 hide once the attack starts. I'm gonna teach more on 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:18.120 this in the weeks to come. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.320 Are you coming back for the series? This series? 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.440 When I say this series is something worth canceling your 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.680 life to make sure you don't miss I mean it. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:28.399 I mean it's so. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.120 What God has shown me is so explosive. I think 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.240 it might even be my next book. I don't even 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.040 want to write another book, but it's so strong. I 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.240 think I might have to because I'm gonna teach you 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.200 in this about the power of making decisions and sticking 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.400 with them. That I'm not going back there. I'm not 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.840 running to that. I can't. I can't. I can't ask 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.119 God to protect me from the enemy that I'm running to. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.480 Where do you hide when it gets hard? 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:06.680 Set it up in advance that I'm running to the places. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:09.200 Where there's real. 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.440 Protection, not the illusion of protection. Because some of us 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:17.320 hide in places that seem safe. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.600 He said, you are my hiding place. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.720 Elijah went and hid in a cave because it seems safe. 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:25.480 It was far away from Jezebel, and she was threatening 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.120 his very life. This is an Old Testament story that's 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.600 worth reading if you hadn't read it, because the whisper 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.760 of God came into the cave as Elijah ran from 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.439 his calling. Or you're running from the conflict, or you're 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.159 running into the conflict, because the place of conflict is 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.960 the place of calling. But you have to be comfortable 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.879 hiding in the midst of hardships to know that God 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:51.040 is your refuge, your strong tower in the battle, not 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:56.119 from it. And Elijah ran south as far as he 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.040 could go, went in a cave and spent the night, 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:01.800 and the voice of the Lord went in the cave 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.160 and said, what are you doing here, Elijah? Why are 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:10.159 you hiding here? Why would you choose to hide in 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:14.120 the place that would keep you confined when you're calling 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:17.920 is out there? Did I not protect you on Mount Carmel? 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.680 Did I not send down fire from heaven? You can 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:26.880 hide in plain sight when you trust in the goodness 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:27.359 of God. 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:29.680 I will see the goodness. 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.359 Of the Lord in the land of the living. But 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.760 I want to experience life and dead places, so I 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:39.200 got to know where to hide. One of the staff 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.359 members that heard this teaching, when I taught it to 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:44.760 the staff, and to be honest with you, I'm teaching 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:46.240 it better to you than I taught it to them. 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:51.919 I had some practice now. She said that her hiding 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:53.320 place is blame. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.040 She said, when. 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:58.760 I'm confronted with a need to change a hide behind blame. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.280 When we were picturing our hiding place, because I had 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:04.080 all of the staff members, I could have you do this, 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:05.520 but I don't want to embarrass you and you might 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.879 be a first time guest. I had them turned to 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:09.919 each other and say what their hiding place was, and 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:11.879 they went deep. Some of them said porn, some of 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.840 them said eating, some of them said destructive thought patterns. 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:16.760 Some of them said this, and some of them said that. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:18.719 But they all had a hiding place. Everybody in here 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:22.520 has a hiding place. In fact, you have multiple hiding places. 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:29.120 And she said, her hiding place is blame something goes wrong. Well, 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:35.919 if the kids hadn't, well, if the car hadn't, you know, 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.680 blame just It's a convenient hiding place because it will 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:44.440 shield you from the inconvenience of change. 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:49.159 If it's somebody else that needs to change. It's a 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:50.280 convenient hiding place. 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:56.720 Yeah, for a little while, but it's a it's a 0:24:56.720 --> 0:25:03.560 paper mache shield. It can only keep you from so much. 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.320 She said, I blame I blame everybody. I blame everything. 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:09.760 I blame the way I was raised. 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:11.160 I blame my. 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:12.560 Parents for being too hard on me, and then I 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:13.520 blame them for being. 0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:14.000 Too easy on me. 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:16.280 I blame them if they would have made me stick 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:18.280 with piano lessons. And then I blame them that they 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:20.280 made me show up the choir practice. I mean, I 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.400 blame them. I blame I blame what I did get. 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:26.840 I blame what I didn't get blame. What's her hiding place? 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:33.560 What's yours? What's yours? Elijah had a cave, she had blamed. 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:38.680 I wonder do you hide behind low expectations? This one 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:41.320 is real common because if you don't expect much, you 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:51.359 can't be disappointed, and so you learn how to hide 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:54.280 behind this fake smile. 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:56.800 You don't really have a whole heart. 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.000 You have a fake smile to cover up your half 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:01.680 hearted interior life. 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:03.800 And we hide. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.120 Ourselves from even those closest to us. And we hide 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:10.760 ourselves because if I hide behind an image that I present, 0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:15.399 I don't have to deal with who I am. 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:17.359 And the call of God is coming forth. 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:19.600 Like the voice of the Lord went into the cave, 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.440 the voice of the Lord is coming into your heart today, saying, 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:27.119 come out, Come out of hiding, Come out of fear, 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:32.760 come out of low expectations, come out of hypocrisy, Come 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:35.960 out from the stake spirituality, come out, come. 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:37.160 Out wherever you are. 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:41.399 You know when you hide in the shadow of the 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:45.879 most High, you can abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:47.199 I have a shelter. 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:56.640 I don't have to hide behind anything, but gosh, I'm 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:59.400 glad it's snows so I can breach this message. 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:01.400 What's going to open your heart? 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.440 What good will it do for the windows of heaven 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:05.119 to be open? 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:06.440 If your heart is blocked. 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:11.280 You gotta know where to hide, or you'll be running 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:13.920 doing your thing this year and just collapse. 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:16.440 The doctor said, because you. 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:21.920 Didn't know where to hide. I know where to hide. 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.280 I don't always do it, but I know where. And 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:27.840 I said, start, I. 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:28.480 Know where to hide. 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:31.840 Somebody shout, I know where to hide. My kids were 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:33.800 playing hide and seek one time and they got locked in. 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:35.600 The crass space. That's what you don't want to do. 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.399 And sometimes, just like that, you're running from something, thinking 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:45.480 you're hiding, but you end up locking yourself. I mean, 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:47.840 you can lock yourself in a pattern, in an attitude 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:49.760 and an effort to escape something, and what you get 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:50.920 locked in is worse than what. 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:53.840 You were running from. 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:57.800 Reaching to myself on the media's sermon, and you think, 0:27:58.240 --> 0:27:59.640 and you need a better hiding place. 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:03.280 You got hide somewhere. So memorize some songs, the little 0:28:03.320 --> 0:28:05.280 songs that you like. The little songs will be singing 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:05.720 the church. 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:10.000 You can sing them other than Sunday. You can run 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:12.399 the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:15.800 righteous run into it. So you might have to sing 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:19.920 in the shower to incline your heart to keep his commands. 0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:24.480 You might have to hide in a different place. Where 0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:26.439 else are you gonna hide? You're gonna hide and feeling 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:33.160 sorry for yourself. You're gonna hide in enemy held territory 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:34.600 and expect to be safe there. 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:39.880 I know where to hide. I know how to say 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:40.680 I love. 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:47.360 You, Lord, and I lift my voice to word you. 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:52.760 Oh my soul, rejoice they joy my king this old song. 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:54.080 But it will still work to run the devil off 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:55.400 when he starts messing with you in the middle of 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:55.680 the night. 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:57.280 Why are you here? 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:04.160 May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your I 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:05.440 can sing when I'm squeezed. 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:08.120 I can sing when I'm pressed. I can rejoice. Hit 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:09.320 and reset on my heart. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:14.600 I've set my heart that keep put the man. Come on, 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.520 we're hitting reset. I want you to picture yourself. 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:22.360 You're playing Nintendo, remember Bill, and you hit reset. You're 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:24.760 about to go have to start over all your progress 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.440 and you hit reset. The psalm is set. I know 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:30.160 where to go to reset my heart. It's not that 0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:33.120 the missiles never fly. I just learned how to duck, 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:36.840 and I know where to hide, and I pointed my 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:41.320 heart in the direction of my destiny. I know where 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:44.800 to hide. I know what to hate, and my heart 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:47.080 knows how to hope. Want you to stand up if 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:50.000 you have hope, Stand up if you have hope. 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:56.760 It's good to have hope. I said, it's good to 0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:58.400 have hope. 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:03.760 If a whole Christmas sermon on we have this hope, 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.600 I hope everybody at every location is standing up because 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.280 you have hope. But the Psalmist doesn't say, in this 0:30:10.320 --> 0:30:18.400 particular instance, I have hope. He says I hope. And 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:22.000 I'm not sure if I learned this in third grade 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:26.920 English or fourth But when he says I hope instead 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:30.800 of saying I have hope, that makes it a verb 0:30:31.440 --> 0:30:34.360 and not a noun. Any English teachers can verify what 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:35.000 I just said. 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:39.320 It's not just something I have. 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:45.760 It's something that I what, is something that I do. 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:47.880 It's an active hope. 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:52.880 And you cannot go into another year of your life 0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:59.040 hoping it gets better. Like the lady I sat next 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:04.680 to on the plane, she said, here's Mulfulow's feet. Hope 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:10.800 for the best, expect the worst. That's clever, but it's crap. 0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:17.760 Hope doesn't just wish it would. And I'll tell you 0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:19.200 what if you don't know how to hope. If you 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.880 think hope is just when we say I hope in 0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:24.320 your word, that's not a bookmark in your Bible that 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:26.240 you look at every once in a while or something 0:31:26.240 --> 0:31:27.160 on your coffee mouth. 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:28.960 It is a way of living. 0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:34.200 I hope somebody saying I hope, I hope, not just I. 0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:37.400 Wish I hope. What does hope do. Hope puts its 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:40.360 hand to work. 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:46.120 Hope, not just in my heart, but hope. Look, have 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:50.120 you put your hand to what you're hoping for? Because 0:31:50.200 --> 0:31:55.560 faith is the substance of things hope for and the 0:31:55.880 --> 0:32:00.720 evidence of things not seen. God wants to open your 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:03.400 heart this new year to possibility. 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:05.320 But you're going to have. 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:10.640 To put your hand to what you're hoping for. In 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:16.920 other words, you've got to work your window and watch this. 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:22.360 I don't hope. It's not cold. I wear a coat. 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:28.880 When I was leaving for church this weekend, Elijah said, 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:30.040 Daddy is going to be great. 0:32:30.960 --> 0:32:31.600 He said. 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:35.480 It's going to be record attendants. I said, no, it's not. 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:39.080 He said, yes, it is. Daddy, have a little faith 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:46.760 practice what you preache. But I said, boy, let me 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:47.880 teach you a little lesson. 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:49.200 About church growth and hope. 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.160 Okay, some of my campuses have to be closed, so 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.760 it can't be record attendants and Charlotte people are kind 0:32:54.760 --> 0:32:57.040 of crazy, some of them anyway, not you' all, but 0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:58.360 some people watching a line. 0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:03.640 And I said, my hope isn't that the rooms are 0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:04.200 going to be full. 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:06.400 My hope is that God is going to show up 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:14.440 and speak to whoever calls. That's how I hope. I 0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:17.440 don't hope it's not cold. I put on a cold 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:18.640 and go outside. 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:22.680 Anyway, I don't hope it's not hard. I SARTs to who. 0:33:29.320 --> 0:33:30.840 My hope is not in the path. My hope is 0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:31.400 in the promise. 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:33.880 So the path can look like this, but I'm still 0:33:33.880 --> 0:33:38.640 headed to the promise. I hope in your word, how 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:43.200 many received something from the Lord today? You tell your 0:33:43.200 --> 0:33:49.480 heart opening enough, you can feel it, you can feel 0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:52.080 God doing something this This is going to be an 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:55.960 amazing year church. If I were you, I wouldn't miss 0:33:56.000 --> 0:34:01.400 the window. I wouldn't miss it. Next weekend, I'm really 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:04.240 going to start the series this time, work your window. 0:34:05.440 --> 0:34:09.200 What I feel like today was a little w D 0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:13.080 forty amy on the window on the hinges. We got 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:16.800 the window crack. We got our hearts open. 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:20.680 If you feel comfortable, I don't know if you do 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:21.000 or not. 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.000 Would you just lift your hands like this to the 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:28.480 Lord to receive what he has for you, hoping your word, 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:33.279 hope in your promise. Thank you for your presence, Lord, 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:44.080 I thank you for the expectation of change. We incline 0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:49.200 our hearts. We're set up for success. The windows of 0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:55.719 heaven are open, and so are our hearts. We won't 0:34:55.719 --> 0:35:01.200 be blocked. We've set our hearts. We'll set it again 0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:05.160 and again and again. I will bless the Lord at 0:35:05.200 --> 0:35:11.760 all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:13.600 Come on say it. 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:19.040 I will bless the Lord at all times, and his 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:26.280 praise shall continually be in my mouth. I will bless 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:32.760 the Lords at all times, and his phrase shall continually 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:34.600 be in my mouth. 0:35:35.840 --> 0:35:36.960 Thank you for joining us. 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:39.719 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:43.280 this ministry. 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