A Steady Hand For A Sudden Blessing

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.639 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:20.800 new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.919 I want you to take your hands and just put 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:30.360 them like this. Today's going to be a special day. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.880 It's going to be a special day. I want to 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.879 teach you that prayer we were singing. That prayer came 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.360 out of my personal time with God dealing with my 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.200 own anxiety and fear and stress and all the things that. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:48.760 We deal with. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.279 And Holly shared it a few weeks ago, and it 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.440 just gives you an opportunity to reset. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.720 And I want to give you that opportunity right now. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:58.880 Just take a deep breath. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:06.560 And breathe out again, and just repeat after me, say, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:13.680 I breathe you in Holy Spirit, and your strength comes suddenly, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.479 and your peace fills me completely. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.880 Let's pray it again. I breathe you in. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:34.880 Holy Spirit, and your strength comes suddenly, and your peace. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:46.279 Fills me completely. Come Holy Spirit, with every breath. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:02:00.640 Come, Come have your way, Come show us Jesus, Come 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.720 teach us your word, Come lead us. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.280 In your ways. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:16.800 Come renew our minds. We're waiting here for you and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:23.080 breathe you in. Thank you today, Lord, for each person 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.000 that you drew to be a part of this moment. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.400 I believe that it was you that made the arrangements 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.680 for us to be here at this time. And I 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.280 believe that there's something that you are going to speak today, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:49.560 words of comfort, conviction, healing, and instruction. We want to 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.000 say to you that unless you come, we're not enough. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.239 But if you come, and we believe that you're here 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.360 right now, we believe that you're filling us right now. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.280 We believe that you're doing it right now. If you come, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.560 we can do all things through Him who gives us strength. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.600 Thank you for your strength, Lord, Thank you for the 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.359 confidence that only comes from you. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:22.680 We receive it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's clap 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.520 our hands and thank God for his presence. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.720 I'm so excited to share these moments with you today, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.480 and I want to share with you right from my 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.880 personal time with God remains standing for a moment, and 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.800 I want to just tell you this before. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:47.720 I tell you what I'm gonna tell you. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.520 Let me tell you before I tell you what I'm 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.080 gonna tell you what I'm gonna tell you. It's been 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.200 several years since I've preached on this particular weekend. It's 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.920 a holiday weekend, and normally I take this weekend off. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.560 But something God was stirring in me was so strong 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.160 that I felt that it was meant to be released 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.080 on this particular day. And I don't say that to 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.560 get your expectations too high, because you know then there's 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.000 no possible way that we could live up to it. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.039 But there is something that God has been speaking, and 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.719 this is Pentecost Sunday. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.839 Now Pentecost Sunday. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.159 You're like, do they have Episcopalian Sunday, Baptist Sunday? Does 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.479 every one of these denominations get a Sunday. We're not 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:41.400 celebrating a denomination today, but Pentecost is where the Church 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.320 celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.240 And that was not a Pentecostal response to that. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:54.239 So this is definitely an interesting situation, like the least 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.960 Pentecostal response that could possibly be that's how we do it, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:07.240 but it's really beyond any certain tradition. There's there is 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.920 a stirring in my spirit to give you two scriptures 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.200 today and kind of come right out of that song 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.120 where we were singing. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:16.719 All of a sudden, I listened to this. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.120 So I'm going to give you two scriptures, and then 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.000 I'm going to have you be seated and teach what 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.440 I believe is one of my life messages. They used 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.080 to come around all the time when the church was growing, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.560 and these consultants would come and they'd say, you need 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.960 to develop a life message. And I was twenty nine. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.359 I'm like, I haven't lived, but at this stage of 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.680 my life, there are some things that I believe God 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.000 has called me to impart and I'm learning about that, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.919 and I believe. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:43.360 This is one of them. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.080 Now, the first scripture I want to give you is 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.760 from Second Kings chapter three. You're not going to know 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.200 what's going on around here, but you will know when 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.560 you need to. So Second King's Chapter three, just one 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.480 verse and then I'll tell you the story behind it. Now, 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:04.600 it happened in the morning when the grain offering was offered, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:12.560 that suddenly water came by way of Eaedom as the wilderness. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:13.719 Now, it happened in. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.600 The morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.760 water came by way of Eatom and the land was 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.520 filled with water. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.600 Somebody shouts, suddenly. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.240 Now let's go over to Acts chapter two, the original 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:38.279 Pentecost Sunday. It's been ten days since Jesus ascended to heaven. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.240 It's been fifty days since he rose from the dead. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.479 Pentam means five, So it's been It's a celebration that 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:46.800 is in progress. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:54.479 But the scripture says, and suddenly, Acts Chapter two, verse two. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:07:00.640 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:06.360 a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the whole house 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.679 where they were sitting. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.320 I don't think you heard me. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:17.680 It filled the whole house, every single nook, every single cranny. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:23.120 It filled the kitchen, It filled the bathrooms, It filled 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:29.400 the living room, It filled the whole house. God told 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.280 me to preach a message today and release a word 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.400 to you. This is called a steady hand for a 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:44.520 sudden blessing. A steady hand for a sudden blessing. Touch 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.720 three people and scare them on your way to your seat, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:54.600 Say suddenly it's gonna come suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, Wow, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:01.480 thank you Lord. I'm so excited I might sweat. I 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.960 shouldn't have warned this sweat, or I might sweat. I 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.160 can't tell what temperature is going to be right here 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.800 in Charlotte right now, from day to day. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:14.480 I'm so confused. It'll change on you like that, feel 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.840 like summer one day and fall the next. Did it 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.520 just switch on you suddenly? So so that's all right. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.960 I was even glad it was raining today because I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.160 thought it was a sign that God wanted me to 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.320 preach when the rain comes suddenly. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.000 I'm serious. You'll think I'm playing around. That's not a joke, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:36.720 I really do. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:42.600 Thank God wanted me to share this steady hand for 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.600 a sudden blessing. Put that title right in the chat, 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.920 say a steady hand for a sudden blessing. Now we'll 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.920 talk about both of those, because both are important. I'll 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.800 write this down if you'd like to take notes, to 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.680 give you a good sense of momentum as we begin 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:07.800 this sermon. What we experience suddenly was usually engineered steadily. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.520 What we experience suddenly was usually not all the time, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:21.079 but usually engineered steadily. And so what I mean by 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.600 that is behind most things that happened quickly to our eyes, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.880 there was consistency that enabled it to happen that we 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.400 didn't see. So, just for an example of that, one 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.280 of my friends, who is a professional fighter, knocked out 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.360 one of his opponents in like thirty seconds. And I 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.000 had paid sixty dollars to watch the pay per view. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.480 And when I called to congratulate him, I said, I'm 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.320 so glad you won, and congratulations on the victory. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.400 But did you have to knock him out so quick? 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.520 It was sixty dollars. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.320 I was doing the math on the price per second, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.920 and of course I was joking, but he got real 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.480 mad about it, and uh, and he's a professional fighter, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.520 and so that was really intimidating. But I never forgot 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.080 what he said. He said what he said, what you 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.920 saw me do with one with one blow? I trained 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.120 six months to be able to do that. And beside 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.720 the fact that I trained six months, I've been doing 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.000 this all my life. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.839 He was trying to get me to. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.080 See that what looked like luck through the lens of 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.760 my experience. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:33.520 Was anything. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.840 But what we experienced quickly is over already. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.239 I was just I was just giving my popcorn. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:49.319 What we experienced quickly was engineered through consistency. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.760 Isn't that true in your life? 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.520 Since our church did grow fast a lot of people 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.720 called us an overnight success. One thing I love about 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.160 the reason of life that I'm in is that not 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.760 only have I been pastoring this church now for over 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:11.280 seventeen years, but this Thursday I will celebrate twenty one 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:21.120 years of marriage to Holly this Thursday. And yesterday when 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.800 my barber asked me, what's one nugget of wisdom from 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:28.679 twenty one years, I said, easy, Mary, Holly, that's the 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.920 best thing I ever did. That's my whole marriage book, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.000 Mary Her. I really do think the selection process was 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.160 a blessing. But of course, I mean, we want it 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.600 in one principle for twenty one years. There's no one 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.040 principle for twenty one years, there's no one anything for anything. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.560 And yet I have preached. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.440 And taught that so much out of a desire to 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:56.680 be balanced that sometimes I think I fail to remind 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:05.240 you that with our God, it happen suddenly. Now I 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.680 feel my faith rising up today, so I don't even 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.760 need yours to say what God gave me to say, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:18.040 it can come suddenly. It can, and it often does 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.920 come suddenly. So that's why I wrote a prayer for 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.960 myself that said, I breathe you in Holy Spirit, and 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:34.199 your strength comes suddenly, Because there will be moments in 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:39.599 my life where I need God to do it right now. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.959 Maybe you're in one of those moments today. I want 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.000 to speak to that moment. If you are in that 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.920 moment where you need God to give you wisdom and 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.640 you don't have six years to study the subject to 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:57.840 get the wisdom, the wisdom can come suddenly. Say it 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.600 out loud, let's get this confession turning in our spirits. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:06.520 It can come suddenly. Say it again. It can come suddenly. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.600 In the chat, it can come suddenly. No sooner can 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.360 you start to think it's never gonna happen than it 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.240 does happen while you were wondering how it was going 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:17.800 to happen. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.000 It can come suddenly. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.720 And on the day of Pentecost there came a sudden sound, 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.200 a sudden sound for a people who were sitting in 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:35.680 the middle of a very difficult and uncertain season. See, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.720 not only has it been ten days since Jesus left 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.760 the earth, they have no clue how and when He's 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.640 going to restore the Kingdom of Israel. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.080 And maybe that's you. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.520 Maybe you need God to come right now because you 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:56.320 have no clue, no clue, just graduated college and you 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.400 have no clue who's going to hire. You told me 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.320 to put a little graduation speech energy in this today, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.160 So I'm put a little graduation speech energy in this 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.840 today for everybody who is in high school right now, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.200 and they're all asking you where are you going to college? 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.320 And what are you going to do with your life? 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.440 And where are you going to retire to? I mean, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.720 we start asking everybody everything so soon before I even 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.800 get a chance to know who I am. I can't 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:31.520 even hang my middle school diploma on my wall, my 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:38.320 eighth grade graduation participation trophy certificate on my wall before 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.880 you want to know, well, where are you going to college? 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.200 And nowadays there is so much pressure. Let me rant, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.080 Let me rant, Let me rant. I came in on 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.280 a holiday weekend, so let me rant. Let me have 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.320 a little fun, Let me have a little therapy. So 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.560 is so necessary that our kids have a nine point 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.480 seven gpa in the third grade, so that in case 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.760 they want to go to Harvard? What if in case 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.400 I don't want to pay for Harvard? Stop asking my 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.280 kids are you going to Harvard? I want them to 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.480 go to Harvard. I want them to go to online 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:15.800 school because it's cheaper. Leave my kids alone, somebody that's 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.960 had somebody pressuring you to make a decision, just shout, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:19.640 real quick. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:25.680 Leave me alone. I don't low when y'all gonna have 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.080 kids and you gonna give me some grand babies. Leave 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:28.960 me alone. I don't know. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.880 You can't say that to your mom's face, but you 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:37.440 could say in church right now. So I'm kind of 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:42.680 reminded of what Jesus said when the disciples were like. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.400 Is it time? Is it time? Is it time? 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.680 This is in Acts chapter one. They're like, is it time? 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.560 Are you gonna restore the kingdom to Israel? And Jesus 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.920 is like, this is a great little Bible verse for 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.240 everything you think you need to know that you don't 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.360 know right now, and you think you can't go forward 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.880 to you know everything you think you need to know, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.840 and so you are staying frozen in what you don't know. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.920 Look at Acts chapter one, verse seven, on this Pentecost Sunday, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.000 here you go, and he Jesus capital Ah, that's the 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.040 big guy, that's the big boss, that's the chef in 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.040 the back of the kitchen, and the owner all rolled 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.000 up into one, and he said to them, it is 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:23.440 not for you to know the times or seasons which 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.880 the Father has put in his own authority. This is 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.560 not permission to be ignorant. It's just an invitation into mystery. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.040 Because watch what he says next verse eight. But you 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.080 shall receive. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.520 Power. So I like this little thing like. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.480 I don't know the plan, but that doesn't mean I 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.480 don't have the power. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.320 I love that, don't you. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.000 I don't know the plan and I don't know how 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.880 this ends, and I don't know when, but I definitely 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:04.400 know who. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:12.000 See, the Holy Spirit doesn't just give power, he is power. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.639 So if you believe in Jesus, are there any believers 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.560 in the house, and if you've called on his name 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.879 to save you, not only did he save you, but 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.919 he's stepping through every season with you. And you have power. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:38.280 Somebody shout power. I even need my security to shout power. Power, power, power, power, power. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.560 That's what I've got. You got a plan, No I 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.680 got power, You got it all worked out. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.040 No I got power. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.800 You got a seven step strategy. No I got power. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.040 Power enough to do what? Power enough to walk it? 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.920 Okay, okay, I gotta get back to it. I gotta 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:53.320 get back to it. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.560 He said, it is not for you to know the 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.359 times that the Father has called you to trust him 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.920 with so a lot of times. It is not about 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.440 us knowing what time it's going to be when it happens. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.280 It's about us trusting God enough that until he does 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:21.840 show us what he's doing, we can trust him that 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:29.639 his hand is steady, that his hand is active, that 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:38.200 his heart is full of love for me. And this 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.679 enables me to stand in uncertain seasons. I mean, it 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:49.560 is an uncertain season when Jesus just vanishes and you 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:57.399 don't know when he's coming back. The disciples were like, 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.080 we need to know. I'm speaking to somebody today who 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.560 thinks you need to know something that you don't need 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:06.399 to know right now. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:10.920 And what I want you to begin to. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.960 Say to yourself over the next seven days, for all 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.200 of those times that you think you need to know 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.800 something that God is trusting you to let him control, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:27.280 is just over and over say, I'll know, this is 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.760 my first point of the sermon. I'm like, I've already 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.520 made some points, but this is the first one. I 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.159 told him to put on the screen when I need to. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:44.639 I don't know when I need to that thing hit me. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.000 That thing hit me the other day because I was 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.840 praying about something. Well, okay, that's very generous to call 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.240 it prayer. I was worrying about something. I don't know 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.200 why I wanted to label it prayer in front of you. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.480 Y'all make me want to get up here and pretend 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.320 I'm holier than I am. I was stress eating about something. 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.560 I really don't want to get any more honest than. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.320 This about it. That's about as far as I'm. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:14.199 Willing to go with you. That's all you need to know. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.480 What were you stress eating? Don't worry about it. That's 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.840 all you need to know. This relationship is on a 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:27.280 need to know basis, and so is your relationship with God. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.480 I'll know when I need to say that. I'll know 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:36.280 when I need to. 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.560 I love participation in response because I think when you 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.280 speak something that God speaks to you, it has a 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.240 lot more of an opportunity to get in you than 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:48.800 just when you listen to me say it. 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.000 I'll know when I need to. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.320 And this is what Jesus is saying to the disciples 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.160 right like, there are some things that God can only control, 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.680 and then there are some things that you are responsible for. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.600 So it is not for you to know the times, 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.320 but it is for you to walk in the power. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.920 Now that helps me with this, because if I were 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.119 teaching this like a seminar and not preaching it like 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.760 a sermon, I would talk about how desperation drives you 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:28.200 to revelation, How desperation drives you to revelation. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.320 Some things you will never. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.720 Know in your life until you become convinced that you 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:35.680 need to know them. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:37.600 And the best. 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.680 Example I can give you is there are books that 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:45.320 you bought that you never read, that are sitting on 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:49.919 your shelf waiting for you to hit a situation that 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.400 makes you go pull that book off of your shelf. 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:55.200 Hello, parents. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.040 There was a book that I bought because I thought 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.520 it had a cool title about parenting years ago, but 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:06.520 I never read it until my oldest son turned thirteen. 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:09.119 I went to find that book. 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.919 I grabbed the hardcover paper book off the shelf. I 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.320 downloaded the digital one so I could have it on 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:17.280 my Kindle so I could take it on my phone. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.200 I downloaded the audio book so the author could read 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.199 it to me in their own voice, because they had 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:24.960 a British accent and I thought that sounded kind of sophisticated. 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:27.920 But I didn't even watch this what I'm trying to say, 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.920 I didn't dig for it until I got desperate for it. 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.160 And a lot of things that we say we want 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.280 to know about God, we don't really want to know 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:45.480 them badly enough yet because we don't think we need. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:50.280 It badly enough yet. So we approach God. 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:54.480 Kind of wanting surface levels, superficial knowledge about decisions in 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.800 our life. But some things are only going to become 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.240 plain and real to us as we get past the 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.280 place of thinking that we can control it, and we'll 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.479 start saying, what was that scripture Pastor Stephen was preaching 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.840 that Sunday when I went and it was raining and 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.680 I was kind of sleepy, and I didn't write it down? 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:12.480 Did you write it down? 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.760 And you'll be going to your neighbor asking did you 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:21.399 take notes? Because when you need those notes, I'm saying, 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:26.119 when you need those notes, put everything that I say 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.000 that sounds even like it might be good at some 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.120 time in the future in your phone, because you don't 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.040 know how the devil's going to be fighting you this Friday, 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.760 And what if God has given you the word right now? 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.119 For the fight you're going to be in Friday. But 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.239 you don't know about that fight yet, But put it 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:50.000 in your phone so when the fight comes, you will 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:50.920 know where to go. 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.040 That God gave me this word for this fight before 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:55.480 it was. 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.000 Ever even the first round. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.640 See, I can't hit the gym and start lifting when 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:10.560 it's time for a competition. And I'm gonna be in 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:14.800 some situations in my life where I need sudden strength. 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.880 So how do I get sudden strength? This with a 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:26.040 steady hand. It's gonna come all of a sudden. And 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:29.240 I believe that there are many here today who are 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.399 standing in front of something that God is calling you 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.800 to walk into, but you won't go into it because 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.760 you don't know what's on the other side of it. 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:44.840 Enter Elisha the Prophet. 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:48.200 Now this is what I got up to talk to 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:51.600 you about on this Pentecost Sunday, little Bible story. 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:52.320 I really love. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:53.879 I hope you love it too by the time that 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:56.800 we're done. And I don't need you to know every 0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:59.199 single detail about the Kingdom of Israel to get this 0:24:59.240 --> 0:24:59.919 Bible passage. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:00.359 Please. 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:02.679 I know some people when they get into this stuff, 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:04.720 they're like, I feel so dumb. Man I don't know 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:06.760 any of these Bible stories, and I know I should, 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:08.760 but I don't know what. 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:09.440 You're talking about. 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:11.480 You don't need to know every bed of the background 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:13.199 of this just to get what God has for you 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:15.399 from it. So here's what I think you need to 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:19.520 know about this passage. The King of Israel, the King 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:22.240 of Judah. So there's a northern kingdom of Israel, southern 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.640 Kingdom of Judah. Jehasha Fat he's a pretty good king 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:30.040 in Judah. Jehoram terrible king, but his mom was Jezebel. 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:34.479 She was really really bad, and Ahab was bad. So 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.040 he came by it honest and so he didn't really 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:38.800 get a lot of good training in how to do this, 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:42.879 but he was terrible. These two kings are with another 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:46.679 king from Moab and are from uh, excuse me, I 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:49.480 messed that up from Edom. See I get this stuff 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:53.320 mixed up too, from Edom, which was the wilderness where 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:55.640 they were attacking through. So they pick up this king 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:58.959 of Edom and they're going to fight against Moab, and 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:03.080 Moab is trying to be But let me explain the situation. 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:04.760 Let's see if you've ever been there before. 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:10.480 On their way to go to war, they run out 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:16.679 of water in the wilderness. Has that ever happened to 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:23.320 anybody in here? That on your way to fight one battle, 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:30.280 you encounter something that you didn't plan for that weakens 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:34.359 you on your way to war. It's this feeling you 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:38.639 can get sometimes that I was already juggling enough. 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:44.679 I was already struggling enough. I feel so annointed to 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:48.199 break chains today for people. I'm excited about it. I 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:54.520 was already stressed enough. I was already overwhelmed enough. Now 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.320 this and in the King. 0:26:57.200 --> 0:26:59.440 James, one of the King's looks up, the King James 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:04.280 version of my He looks up and says, Alas, I 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:05.400 love that, because. 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:08.840 It's kind of like a King James cussword. He's like, Alas, 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:10.080 dang it. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:12.920 Like we're out here trying to fight the Lord's battles 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:15.600 and the Lord won't give us water now, So they 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:20.159 march seven days through the desert and eatam Is Is 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.160 butted up right against the dead sea. 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:23.119 So it's a dry place. 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:28.520 So they can't even defeat their enemy without passing through 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:32.119 a dry place to do it. And that's half the 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.439 problem with us keeping our faith is that we just 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:38.720 don't get to show up to stuff fresh. We don't 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:41.719 just get to show up to stuff feeling good. We 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.960 don't just get to show up to our mission in 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:47.840 a good mood. A lot of times you will have 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:50.840 to do the mission when you're not in the mood 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:52.840 that you were in when you said you would do 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:57.359 the mission. A lot of times I have to preach 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.320 the sermon when the feeling that I got when I 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:04.119 received the sermon is sitting back in Thursday when I 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:07.000 studied the sermon. But I've got to do it then, 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:10.200 and I've got to do it not for my own glory, 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:14.760 but I've got to do it so somebody can be helped. Now, Now, 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.840 what do you do when you're on your way to 0:28:17.920 --> 0:28:21.440 a war and you run out of water, when you're 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.880 trying to raise your own children and you are still 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:32.240 dealing with things from your childhood that nobody showed you 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:36.320 how to process, that nobody taught you how to break 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.040 down trauma and convert it into triumph. 0:28:39.360 --> 0:28:40.080 I mean, that. 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:42.880 Sounds cute, but I don't know how to do it. 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:47.720 But God says you'll know when you need to know. 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:52.040 So even if you didn't get it when you think 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:54.280 you ought, I mean, stop screaming because I think I'm 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:56.400 preaching too hard. I don't think you can hear what 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:57.960 I'm saying because you're just listening to me. 0:28:58.000 --> 0:28:58.280 Holler. 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:03.200 If you and get it when you should have gotten it, 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:08.880 then that wasn't when you should have gotten it. There's 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:14.440 something about now that God knew. There is something about 0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:20.800 your future that God still knows. Just because I don't 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:24.640 get it suddenly, and just because I'm not walking in 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:29.320 it presently doesn't mean that God isn't giving it steadily. 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:34.560 For you See, if I look back at my life. 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:38.240 The hymn I will sing is great is thy faithfulness, 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:42.960 Oh God, my Father, there is no shadow of turning 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:44.280 with thee. 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:48.440 All I have needed Thy hand hath provided. 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:55.400 Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me, Great is thy faithfulness. 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:59.000 Great is thy faithfulness? 0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:05.120 How did you get morning by morning by morning by morning? 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.560 What's that? When you need it when you need it? 0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:12.160 So when you woke up this morning, the grace that 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:16.600 you needed for today was in today. The strength that 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:20.440 you need for today is in today. And when you 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.720 get to tomorrow there will be a truckload of what 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:25.480 you need for tomorrow. 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:27.400 Back it up tomorrow. 0:30:27.720 --> 0:30:31.160 But you can't get tomorrow's strength though today's praise. 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.360 You just gotta say God. 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:44.720 That need you right now, morning by morning. So the 0:30:44.800 --> 0:30:48.600 hand of God was steady holding me up even when 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.280 the help didn't suddenly come. 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:53.360 That's why I don't like to preach. 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:57.760 Suddenly, because it sets an expectation that everything that I 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:00.200 want and wish is gonna happen when I want and wish. 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:00.880 For it to happen. 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:08.200 There are sometimes that it comes suddenly, there are sometimes 0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:13.200 that it doesn't. And in the times when it doesn't 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:21.880 come suddenly, his hand holds me steadily. It's a steady hand. 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:25.400 You know how the hand of God can snatch you 0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:28.360 out just like that. If you don't know that, I'll 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:30.320 tell you. The hand of God can snatch you out 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:31.640 of depression just like that. 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:33.840 Suddenly. 0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:39.080 The hand of God can get you out of that situation, 0:31:39.520 --> 0:31:40.200 just like that. 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:43.960 Let me prophesy, Let me prophesy. It's pentecost. 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:47.600 Can we be Pentecostal for one single week? 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.880 Let me prophesy. The hand of God. 0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:53.520 Can get that no good guy that you keep chasing 0:31:53.560 --> 0:31:54.560 because you don't want to be. 0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:58.080 Alone, and snatch him out of your life just like that. 0:31:58.400 --> 0:32:00.840 And You'll be praying God bring it him back, and 0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:02.800 God will say I can't bring it back because I'm 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:05.480 trying to take you forward. And what you've been calling 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:09.040 a blessing is really a blockage. God can move stuff 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:12.360 just like like. 0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:16.240 What like that shot suddenly. 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:20.880 And just because he does stuff suddenly doesn't mean that 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:30.680 when he's not doing it suddenly he went away. The 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:44.200 absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Please 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.640 leave me alone. I just want to teach a Bible class. 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.720 I'm going to go Sunday. That's all I want to do. 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:52.040 And that is not my original quote. I don't know 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:54.000 who said it, but it just came up in my spirit. 0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:56.240 See now that's a good example. That's a good example. 0:32:57.040 --> 0:33:01.120 How did I say that suddenly? Because every day of 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:06.360 my life I try to study, so when we needed 0:33:06.400 --> 0:33:07.520 that word. 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:12.520 Suddenly? 0:33:14.200 --> 0:33:21.000 But see behind every sudden blessing there is a steady hand. 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:25.640 Anybody who built a successful business wave at me. 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:30.360 Don't it make you laugh when they think it was 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:32.840 sudden when it starts working. 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:38.200 Wow, you just came out of nowhere. You blew up. 0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:47.680 No, I dug down and stop saying people blew up. 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.800 Stop saying people blew up. That makes it sound like 0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:53.680 something bad happened. Man, they blew up. 0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:59.360 No, they built something. Promise you they did. 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:02.080 Wave at me again, if you've ever had a business 0:34:02.120 --> 0:34:05.080 succeed or anything succeed like you. Okay, let's get the 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:08.560 baseline down. You sent a successful text message one time? 0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:11.840 All right, Well, there was all. 0:34:14.520 --> 0:34:15.520 Don't find coming around. 0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:19.560 There were all kinds of spelling, punctuation, grammar, all of that. 0:34:19.640 --> 0:34:20.960 None of that comes suddenly. 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:26.240 We just see it suddenly, and a lot of times, 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:30.399 a lot of times, not every time, but a lot 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:35.239 of times you don't even know what you're doing there 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:39.640 until you can look back later and say, twenty one years. 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:44.640 Because the reason I shared with you about my twenty 0:34:44.640 --> 0:34:49.719 one year anniversary was to brag number two to get 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:51.759 you all ready for our marriage series we're going to 0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:52.879 be doing sometime soon. 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:54.520 I don't know when. 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:57.200 I already know what to call it. I just don't 0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:00.239 know what to talk about. So the Lord was show 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:02.160 me when I need to know. Must not be time yet. 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:04.359 Can we get a little more open handed in our 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.640 life and let go of when we think stuff is 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:08.880 supposed to happen and how we think it was supposed 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:10.520 to happen, and who we think it was supposed to 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:10.960 happen through? 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:14.359 Because when I went to college. Now, I remember when 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:16.040 I was nine years old, I wanted to go to Harvard. 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:18.919 I want to go to Harvard, and. 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:20.480 I probably could have done it, but the Lord had 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:21.440 different plans for me. 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:23.160 That's my narrative. 0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:28.480 But why am I at North Greenville? Remember how bad 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.759 you wanted me to go to Charleston Southern. Yeah, it 0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:33.640 was close to home, and I kind of wanted to 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:35.799 go to because there was this girl, and there was 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:36.759 this job and all that. 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:46.640 But something, something, something come here twenty one years. 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:58.240 Something, something was coming to Tigerville, South Carolina. That's where 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:01.920 North Greenville is. What am I doing here? I wondered 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:04.640 when my parents dropped me off at that college. This 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:07.000 is for everybody who's stressed out about stuff you don't 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:10.239 understand and you don't know. God, I wanted to go 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:13.240 home for months at that little school. 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:20.759 But something something, it must have been. It must have 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:21.879 been a holly and a boy knot. 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:28.960 It must have been that girl staying over there Incline nine. 0:36:29.120 --> 0:36:32.520 I remember the number of the dorm. I was stalking 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:34.120 you before you knew how sexy. 0:36:34.160 --> 0:36:42.880 I was, Hey, Now, how many of y'all think that 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:45.040 while I was in those first three weeks wanting to 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:48.600 go home, God saw this girl on the front row 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:52.920 that has built this church, in this ministry, right by 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:54.279 my side every step of the way. 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:59.520 How many think that God saw that I do? 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:05.640 And do you think that God sees stuff about your 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:09.799 life that you don't see right now? And is it 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:14.520 possible that you're not in a sudden season, you're in 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:15.480 a steady season. 0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:19.640 We used to say, will you go steady with me? 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.160 Actually I think that was in the fifties, but they 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:24.840 used to say I think that was the Fonds that 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:25.560 used to say that. 0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:27.080 We used to just. 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:29.160 Say go with me, go with me where I don't know, 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:31.879 just go with me. And sometimes God will just say 0:37:31.920 --> 0:37:36.560 go with me, go with me. I need you to 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:39.640 take this next step because I need to get you 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.799 steady because for what I'm going to do in your 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:48.680 life that you don't know yet, if your hands aren't steady, 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.200 you won't be able to handle the blessing that I'm 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:59.360 going to sin. So even when God isn't doing stuff suddenly, 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:02.520 he's doing stuff steadily. 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:07.319 And when he's doing stuff steadily. I can hold on 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:09.640 to my hope that all of. 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:13.440 A sudden and everybody else will say, oh, it happens 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:18.480 so quick. But you'll know it was consistent. You'll know 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.040 that you cried for it. You won't have to tell 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:24.680 them that. You'll know that you wondered about it. You 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:26.960 won't have to explain to them how deep. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:27.719 The questions went. 0:38:28.560 --> 0:38:31.840 You'll know what it actually cost you to stay faithful 0:38:31.840 --> 0:38:35.360 to God. You'll know how painful it was when you 0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:38.800 went to therapy and started rooting out stuff that you 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:42.839 wanted to push back down. And they won't know, but 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:47.799 they don't need to. What they will know is that 0:38:47.880 --> 0:38:50.000 the glory of God is on you. 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:54.360 And they will look it through life not many days from. 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:59.040 Now, and they won't know how, but you will, and 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:03.759 you will say it was by his hand, it was 0:39:04.000 --> 0:39:08.560 by his mercy. It was because he loved me, It 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:10.440 was because he came close. 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:15.360 It was a divine design. See, he was connecting DUTs. 0:39:16.000 --> 0:39:16.280 See. 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:19.279 They had to say no so he could. 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:22.800 Say yes so I could be here so I could 0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:26.920 do this. They had to say no so he could 0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:31.000 say yes so I could be here so I could 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:33.680 do this. I tell you to believe it. 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:37.799 They had to say no, I speak to every rejection 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:39.760 in the name of Jesus. 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:41.120 I speak to the. 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:44.320 Next level of your effectiveness. 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:47.319 On the other side of this rejection. They had to 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:51.759 say no. So he told say yes, so you could be. 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:53.799 Here, so you could do. 0:39:55.520 --> 0:40:03.680 This. Praise in force, send for it, praising for it. 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:09.680 Come on, quiet personalities, get loud, praising for it. 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:15.879 Come on, piscopelion, get pentecostal. 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:23.359 Freeze it for it. Do this, do this, do. 0:40:23.520 --> 0:40:36.239 This, five five, five people and say I'm doing this. Absolutely, 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:39.719 I'm doing this. I'm doing this. That's what Elisa said, 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:42.240 the prophet. Are you ready for Elisa the prophet? 0:40:42.800 --> 0:40:45.040 We got three kings in the desert about to die. 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:47.759 There's somebody the devil's been telling you. You're about to die. 0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:50.640 You're about to die. The dream is dead. It's over. 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:51.560 You're dead. 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:54.719 It's over. You won't make it. They're gonna cancel you. 0:40:54.840 --> 0:40:55.919 They're gonna take you out. 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:59.720 The economy this time, your industry, this time, your business 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:02.680 is And this is where we need Elisha the prophet, 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:08.200 because he knew how to do what he knew how 0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:18.479 to do until God did what God does, isn't this good. 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:26.000 You don't feel like preaching, feel like preaching. 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:29.840 I'm gonna put this sermon up also on the basin. 0:41:31.040 --> 0:41:34.160 I already recorded it. I preached it Friday. 0:41:35.080 --> 0:41:37.360 Holly came downstairs to say, you want to eat sandwiches 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:40.520 or eggs? And I was hollering at the camera. I 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:43.760 heard her go back up the stairs. Leave him alone, 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:48.000 let him work it out. And I preached this to 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:52.719 an hour. Why because when God showed up, and when 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:57.879 you showed up, I wanted to be ready for the rain. 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:04.360 I appreciate it in the basement so I could be 0:42:04.440 --> 0:42:06.600 steady in the pulpit. 0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:14.560 You're gonna love this LJ. So. 0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:17.200 So Elisha has a bad attitude because he thinks these 0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:19.720 kings should have done it differently, and then they wouldn't 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:20.520 be in this situation. 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:23.880 Okay, if you would. 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:27.080 Have done it God's way, you wouldn't even be needing 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:30.880 this water. There are wilderness seasons that we send ourselves 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:40.680 into gaphy guilty as charged. But look at verse fourteen. 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:42.520 Let's back up a little bit and get the context. 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:48.680 And Elisha said, oh, he is a new prophet to them. 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:50.839 They've never used him before. Elijah was the one they 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:54.040 were familiar with. He was the new one. Elijah went 0:42:54.160 --> 0:42:57.279 up with chariots of fire and they went to look 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:01.040 for him. And Elisha said, you can go look for him. 0:43:01.040 --> 0:43:03.080 All you want is he's not coming back. We got 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:06.560 to figure this out right now. And the Lord will speak. 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:08.759 That to you. Sometimes you can go chase down that. 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:11.200 Disgruntled employee and do all the exit interviews you want to, 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:11.920 all you want to. 0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:17.840 That's not coming back. You better get with this, You 0:43:17.880 --> 0:43:20.680 better get with this. You're gonna miss this chasing that. 0:43:25.280 --> 0:43:29.560 So Elishah gives him a little speech, a little talking 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:34.839 to verse fourteen second King's three, and Elishah said, as 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:37.920 the Lord of Hosts lived before whom I stand, surely, 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.680 were it not that I regard the presence. 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:41.759 Of Jehoshaphat, You're all right. 0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:48.319 If I didn't regard him, Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, I 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.160 would not look at you, and turns to the other 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:52.160 king Joram, and. 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:53.680 Says, I wouldn't even look at you. 0:43:55.200 --> 0:44:00.000 Touch your neighbor, saying I wouldn't even look at you 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.200 if you weren't so good looking. I don't want you 0:44:03.239 --> 0:44:07.239 to have any fights going home. But he said, I 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:11.160 wouldn't even look at you nor see you. Now I've 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:14.040 read that because it's important, He's going, I don't feel 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:20.040 like prophesying, for y'all. What does feeling it have to 0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:26.160 do with flowing in it? I wouldn't do this if 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:31.400 I were just going to my feelings. I love verse fifteen. 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:33.680 The whole thing hinges on two of my favorite words. 0:44:35.120 --> 0:44:37.480 But now. 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:42.680 You can get a whole lot out of those two words. 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:48.600 But now that's how you got to reset in your heart. 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:50.960 I wish I would have known it sooner. I didn't, 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:54.920 but now I do. I wish I would have got 0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:57.439 the memo about your character three months before we met, 0:44:58.200 --> 0:44:58.960 but I didn't. 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:03.200 But now I got the mimo loud and clear. 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.920 You are absolutely crazy, and so am I, and our 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:10.239 craziest collide in a way that is not acceptable. 0:45:09.719 --> 0:45:16.520 For the foreseeable future. Now I know somebody's shout. Now 0:45:17.800 --> 0:45:21.000 that was a whispered hush shout. Say now, but. 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:25.960 Now bring me a musician. 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:28.640 Then it happened. 0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:35.120 Then it happened when the musician played that, the hand 0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:39.440 of the Lord came upon him, came upon who elisha. 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:41.520 So let's get this straightened out. 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:45.320 We've got a need for water that nobody saw coming. 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:48.439 Nobody knew they were going to be in need of water. 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:50.799 They thought they were just going to war. How many 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.160 are standing looking at a need right now that you 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:56.759 didn't see coming in your life, Like, even if it's 0:45:56.880 --> 0:45:59.000 just the surgery that you might have to have, but 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:01.600 it's freaking you out, Raise your hand, even if it's 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:04.960 just the challenge that you feel emotionally, but everything's good 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:07.080 in your life, Raise your hand right now. I was 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:09.640 with some pastors this week, and what they said that 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:10.479 helped them the most. 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:11.440 I was imparting to. 0:46:11.400 --> 0:46:14.200 Them and teaching them and helping them, and they said, 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:18.239 it was just good to hear from you that there's 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:19.319 nothing wrong with us. 0:46:21.800 --> 0:46:23.000 It was good for us. 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:25.839 To hear from you, because there's a part of us 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:30.560 that thinks I'm not supposed to be angry. I'm supposed 0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:34.160 to be grateful, but I find myself getting angry and 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:37.960 I don't know why. So when you told us how 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:41.759 you get angry, it helped us because it let us 0:46:41.840 --> 0:46:45.879 know that sometimes on your way to war, you run 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:50.719 out of water too. And what do you do when 0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:54.920 the fight is right now but the knowledge isn't coming 0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:59.560 and the feeling isn't coming. And Elisha knew what to do. 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:04.480 He said, give me a musician. And when the musician 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:09.080 began to play the hand of verse fifteen up. You 0:47:09.080 --> 0:47:14.920 won't believe this. When the musician started playing, the hand 0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:21.600 of the Lord came upon Elisha how suddenly? But does 0:47:21.640 --> 0:47:26.640 it say that when the musician started practicing that the 0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:29.240 hand of the Lord came upon Elisha. 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:31.000 Here's what I'm wondering. 0:47:31.880 --> 0:47:40.000 How long did that musician have to practice? How many 0:47:40.040 --> 0:47:43.640 hours of practice does it take that if they come 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:46.400 recruit you and say, hey, we need you in the 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:48.239 wilderness real quick, running out of water and need you 0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:50.480 to play something snappy for Elishah is his first chance 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:51.959 prophesies got an audience. 0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:53.000 With three kings in If he doesn't do it right, 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:53.839 they'd die. Come play. 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:58.480 That is not the time to work on your scales. 0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:01.360 So if I bust into. 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:06.680 Great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father, there is 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:10.640 no shadow of turning with thee all I have needed 0:48:10.680 --> 0:48:13.320 thy hand had provided. 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:23.560 His hands started playing all of a sudden. We did 0:48:23.600 --> 0:48:26.440 not talk about that. Him. 0:48:26.920 --> 0:48:29.680 I did not prepare him for that. Him. I did 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:32.600 not say ljay at moment number blah blah blah. In 0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:34.959 the sermon. After I say this, get ready to play. 0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:37.560 Great is our faithfulness, because I need him to know 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:38.360 that it is. 0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:40.080 Great is I faithfulness? 0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:42.840 Oh God, my father, there is no shadow of turning 0:48:42.960 --> 0:48:46.520 with thee. All I have needed thy hand had provided. 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:51.200 Great is thy faithfulness. Who's hand all I have needed? 0:48:51.640 --> 0:48:58.520 Thy hand had providing thy hand had providing his hand. 0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:06.920 But who who's hand had to practice? Yeah? 0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:07.480 She's all right. 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:09.839 Yeah, they give me that holiday energy, and I got 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:12.760 that holy ghost annoying to I said, y'all. 0:49:12.560 --> 0:49:14.879 Give me that holiday energy, and I got that holy 0:49:14.920 --> 0:49:15.600 ghost annoyming. 0:49:15.719 --> 0:49:20.040 You look sleepy too, Scottie. I'll send your hands, your. 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:25.120 Hands, Your hands better be busy. You better get your 0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:27.560 hand busy, Guklyn. 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:31.799 God did freddie to do what he wants to do. 0:49:33.040 --> 0:49:37.759 She's gonna be looking for some hands, but nowhere to go. 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:43.040 And that's why I'm praising him. I'm getting my hand, Freddy. 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:46.720 That's why I'm forgiving them. 0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:48.080 I gotta let it go. 0:49:49.280 --> 0:49:54.920 So when he comes suddenly, I can't be thou my bitterness. 0:49:55.719 --> 0:50:01.000 I can't be flatter, I can't be weak, be stabbing 0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:04.160 im those hands and get them ready. 0:50:06.000 --> 0:50:09.160 Why are you clapping? I don't have a big drink. 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:11.600 I'm getting my hands ready. 0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:14.319 I'm praising him when I comes. 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:15.120 I just said it. 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:17.920 I'm praising him. 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:19.040 Comes to my spirit. 0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:21.480 S See, I'm a free woman. 0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:25.040 I'm a free man. I'm a blessed man. I'm a 0:50:25.080 --> 0:50:29.400 blessed woman. I'm a running over kind of vessel. I'm ready. 0:50:31.200 --> 0:50:34.960 Gets her hands ready, gets her hands ready. 0:50:35.840 --> 0:50:39.799 The cats are blessings, Dave, there's one far one. 0:50:40.440 --> 0:50:44.240 Then it might surprise you what is already done. 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:47.480 I'm getting my hands ready. 0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:52.840 Oh my here comes to lion, it comes to bear, 0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:54.440 Here comes Golia. 0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:55.960 It doesn't matter. 0:50:56.360 --> 0:51:00.279 My hands are ready, my spirit is ready, my art 0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:00.920 is ready. 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:01.840 I'm ready. 0:51:02.040 --> 0:51:06.480 I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. He's steady. 0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:11.600 I'm ready. He's steady. I'm ready. He's steady. I'm ready. 0:51:11.800 --> 0:51:14.520 So he didn't put me in it. If he didn't 0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:18.600 put it in me, he's steady, I'm ready. He's not 0:51:18.680 --> 0:51:22.400 an overnight sensation god. He's not a god who blows 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:26.919 you up. He's a god who will dig your ruth down. See, 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:29.640 I can't to announce to your storm. 0:51:30.000 --> 0:51:32.799 You better pick on a different Christian because this one 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:36.200 is ready. She's ready. She knows how to pray in 0:51:36.239 --> 0:51:39.960 a storm, she knows how to sing at midnight. She 0:51:40.239 --> 0:51:42.800 knows how to work him through a panic attack. 0:51:43.360 --> 0:52:00.120 See the ready head, Sit redead, Sit Ready. 0:52:00.760 --> 0:52:04.880 Elisha said, I don't need anything to do what God called. 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:10.040 Me to do, but somebody with a steady hand. God's 0:52:10.080 --> 0:52:13.960 looking for a steady hand. Now you joined the gym 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:21.839 in January. A steady hand, A steady hand. I read 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:23.600 my Bible today. What'd you get out of it? 0:52:23.680 --> 0:52:27.120 Nothing? I'm in steadiness school. 0:52:28.840 --> 0:52:31.400 I study when I don't see anything in the scripture. 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:34.040 I study when it looks like pig Latin. I'll study 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:36.800 when it looks like Japanese characters, and I speak English. 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:42.640 I study because I'm a steady God help me. 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.359 Shouldn't have let me preach on Pentecost. Someday I knew 0:52:46.400 --> 0:52:54.040 God was gonna do this. This is point number one. 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:59.480 Oh no, just there's just coming. Man, It's coming suddenly 0:53:01.960 --> 0:53:11.480 because he was working steadily. I'll know when I need to. 0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:15.320 When I get my mind made up that I want 0:53:15.360 --> 0:53:19.000 to be set free from this addiction, God will send keys. 0:53:19.560 --> 0:53:24.759 I'll know when I need to. You tried it before hey, 0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:27.800 look at me, dove's nest. It's going to be different 0:53:27.840 --> 0:53:34.560 this time, but this is my fourth time. I'm forty 0:53:34.560 --> 0:53:37.080 seven years old. I didn't ask you about your age. 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:41.680 Stop giving me information. I didn't ask you for I 0:53:41.800 --> 0:53:48.480 asked are you ready? Are you ready to experience the 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:53.360 person that is beneath those patterns that keep pulling you 0:53:53.440 --> 0:54:00.240 back down? Because if you're ready, God has a steady hand. 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:05.360 And even if you fall again, that's what the steady 0:54:05.360 --> 0:54:13.760 hand is for. So let's go forward and let's flow 0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:17.880 in it, because you'll know when you're supposed, you'll know 0:54:17.920 --> 0:54:18.719 when you need to. 0:54:19.000 --> 0:54:20.600 And this is the other thing God gave me. 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:22.680 And we might need a part two of this sermon, 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:24.840 but the Lord told me to tell you one more thing. 0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:27.040 Before I get off this stage. 0:54:27.320 --> 0:54:29.920 The prophet looked at the musician. He said, play go 0:54:29.920 --> 0:54:32.279 at play LJ play play play play play. He said, 0:54:32.280 --> 0:54:38.720 play play play, And then it happened when the musician played, 0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:43.400 that's a steady hand. That's a man who has practiced 0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:48.040 his scales. That's a man who has learned his courts. 0:54:48.160 --> 0:54:51.759 That's a man who has learned his character. That is 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:55.719 a woman that has learned how to apologize. A man 0:54:55.800 --> 0:54:58.840 who has learned how to say I'm sorry. That is 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:05.720 a trained player who knows how to get back up again. 0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:13.160 I hear you, Laurid. That's why Ella got that scholarship. 0:55:13.200 --> 0:55:15.640 You didn't expect it. That's why she was practicing since 0:55:15.680 --> 0:55:19.960 she was eight. That's why she got the scholarship. A 0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:25.560 steady hand, a sudden scholarship, And then somebody will have 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:28.080 the nerve to say, wasn't she lucky? 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:34.879 No, she was steady, but I'm not. 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:37.080 You're not talking to me because I'm not stable, because 0:55:37.080 --> 0:55:38.760 I'm that other person you're talking about. 0:55:39.480 --> 0:55:47.319 That's why I'm not talking just about your hand, You're 0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:48.160 talking about his. 0:55:53.800 --> 0:55:57.080 Do you remember who was in the upper room and 0:55:57.120 --> 0:55:59.160 Acts two, verse two, the first verse I read you. 0:56:00.000 --> 0:56:01.400 He doesn't say in the verse. I don't know if 0:56:01.400 --> 0:56:04.279 you remember. I had to think about it for a 0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:09.120 moment myself. It said, Acts chapter two, verse two. 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:14.960 It's gonna come up suddenly, I promise it is. It's 0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:18.440 gonna be slow, then sudden. Oh that's the word of 0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:22.440 the lord businessman in my church. I don't even know 0:56:22.440 --> 0:56:24.640 how many millions of dollars of business he's done. 0:56:24.800 --> 0:56:26.280 He said, make sure you tell the church. 0:56:26.320 --> 0:56:35.920 It was slow, steady, sudden, slow, steady, sudden. We saved 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:38.600 for years, we tied for years. We lived beneath our 0:56:38.640 --> 0:56:42.920 means for years. We went through cycles. We went through 0:56:42.960 --> 0:56:44.680 the two he's a homebuilder. We went through the two 0:56:44.680 --> 0:56:50.920 thousand and eight crisis, and it was slow, but we 0:56:50.920 --> 0:56:54.440 were steady. And then it was sudden. And then he 0:56:54.520 --> 0:56:56.240 used the word. I want you to hear this, he said, 0:56:56.360 --> 0:57:00.759 And now God has a stewarding more than we could 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:06.239 have ever imagine. I don't know if I remind you 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:09.040 of this enough, because I'm telling you, do the work, 0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:10.840 do the work, do the work, do the work. 0:57:11.200 --> 0:57:11.920 And I want you to. 0:57:13.000 --> 0:57:15.840 But what I need you to know is that God 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:19.680 can do stuff suddenly that you had given up on. 0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:25.840 Receive it. If it's your word, put it in your phone. 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:27.360 If it's not, it will be. 0:57:27.320 --> 0:57:30.520 One day, and when you need that. 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:34.520 Word for your life, it will be there for you. 0:57:34.640 --> 0:57:35.640 This is how God works. 0:57:36.520 --> 0:57:40.160 He plants things that we need based on things that 0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:41.200 only he sees. 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:45.960 Every experience that I've been through, I can look back 0:57:46.360 --> 0:57:46.840 on it. 0:57:46.920 --> 0:57:49.720 But see I'm not just looking back on things that 0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:52.840 I've been through and saying that was the hand of God. 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:58.720 I'm needing to believe forward into what I don't know 0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:02.520 that about yet, so that it's not just twenty years 0:58:02.600 --> 0:58:04.360 later where I say, well, I guess it was God 0:58:04.400 --> 0:58:05.680 that sent me to that college. 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:10.880 But it's me saying while I'm wondering, does anybody see me? 0:58:10.960 --> 0:58:14.720 Does anybody know me? Does anybody care that I'm doing this? 0:58:16.760 --> 0:58:18.720 So back in that upper room, you know, Jesus has 0:58:18.760 --> 0:58:21.400 been gone ten days. He rose forty days before that 0:58:21.400 --> 0:58:25.600 ten It's been fifty days since the resurrection. The Bible 0:58:25.640 --> 0:58:29.120 says in Acts, chapter two, verse two, and suddenly there 0:58:29.160 --> 0:58:32.520 came a sound from heaven. 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:38.360 And suddenly there came a sound as if a mighty 0:58:38.520 --> 0:58:42.080 rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:43.680 were sitting. 0:58:44.720 --> 0:58:46.240 Now there's a whole sermon. 0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:51.600 In that day, because sitting in that house was a 0:58:51.640 --> 0:58:57.480 guy named Simon Peter. He wasn't very steady. Fifty days earlier. 0:58:58.880 --> 0:59:02.960 He fell down pretty bad fifty days earlier. I don't 0:59:02.960 --> 0:59:05.200 know who I'm preaching to, but you stumbled pretty bad 0:59:05.400 --> 0:59:10.320 in this last season. The Lord said, you need to 0:59:10.400 --> 0:59:23.240 know that he's steady when you stumble. They Peter, What's 0:59:23.240 --> 0:59:25.280 Peter gonna do? He already made a fool of himself, 0:59:25.560 --> 0:59:27.600 nothing but preach on the day of Pentecost and see 0:59:27.600 --> 0:59:32.760 three thousand converts. Are you telling me God can't still 0:59:32.920 --> 0:59:38.680 use you in this season because you've got bresidas. Are 0:59:38.720 --> 0:59:41.720 you telling me that that credit card debt is too 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:45.920 big for God? God, you can do all things, you 0:59:45.960 --> 0:59:48.760 are the master. Only if it's master card, then you 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:49.240 can't do. 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:50.520 No, no, no, no no. 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:54.920 God said, I'm gonna help you pay it off steady. 0:59:55.960 --> 0:59:59.680 And then suddenly one day there is going to come 0:59:59.720 --> 1:00:02.680 am Man where you will be able to not only 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:06.360 feel your own freedom, but I'm going to use you 1:00:06.960 --> 1:00:11.280 as a vessel to bring others to freedom in that 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:17.000 very same path that you struggle. So you'll be able 1:00:17.000 --> 1:00:20.720 to tell him you can flush the pills, so you'll 1:00:20.760 --> 1:00:24.040 be able to tell them you can beat this disorder, 1:00:24.520 --> 1:00:27.040 so you'll be able to tell him you can't get 1:00:27.120 --> 1:00:30.520 set free from this pattern. So you'll be able to 1:00:30.560 --> 1:00:32.040 tell him. 1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:35.680 The curse can be reversed. 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:36.439 And he can do it. 1:00:37.120 --> 1:00:43.960 Fall up, Hey, sudden sudden blessings, come sudden winns, come 1:00:44.440 --> 1:00:49.480 sudden rage, come sudden floods, Come sudden love. Sun feeling 1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:53.680 sun breakthrough, su second chances. 1:00:52.920 --> 1:01:00.640 Sudden new beginnings, shout, shun in sun in, suddenly a 1:01:00.880 --> 1:01:03.720 sound long, a mighty running wind. 1:01:04.360 --> 1:01:05.880 We'll fill the room. 1:01:06.240 --> 1:01:11.400 And even Peter gets the breach, and even you get 1:01:11.480 --> 1:01:12.600 to go forward. 1:01:17.000 --> 1:01:19.680 Gets your hands ready, get your heart ready. 1:01:19.920 --> 1:01:23.320 We're not thinking about those toxic things this week. This 1:01:23.360 --> 1:01:26.320 is the Lord's stay, This is the Lord's holy home, 1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:27.920 This is his habitation. 1:01:28.440 --> 1:01:30.120 You are his chosen instrument. 1:01:34.760 --> 1:01:38.000 And the Lord wanted me to tell you you won't 1:01:38.200 --> 1:01:39.280 sea wind. 1:01:41.280 --> 1:01:42.960 And you won't sea rain. 1:01:43.320 --> 1:01:45.760 See this is where the song we were singing earlier 1:01:45.880 --> 1:01:49.320 came from. Did you know this was a scripture the 1:01:49.360 --> 1:01:55.360 prophet told the kings in verse seventeen. Suddenly, everybody breathe 1:01:55.400 --> 1:01:59.800 in the Holy Spirit right now? Ooh, I love that 1:01:59.800 --> 1:02:02.240 that same holy spirit that can make me want to shout, 1:02:02.320 --> 1:02:07.120 can make me want to breathe. 1:02:06.240 --> 1:02:08.040 To be still and know that he is God, or 1:02:08.080 --> 1:02:10.240 to shout that he is God. It's the same. 1:02:10.080 --> 1:02:13.360 Spirit now here comes to prophetic words. Stand up and 1:02:13.360 --> 1:02:17.840 receive that. Nobody moving. This is a holy moment. If 1:02:17.880 --> 1:02:21.439 you receive it, lift your hands. This is the word 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:26.440 of the Lord. And guess what for next Sunday I'm 1:02:26.480 --> 1:02:27.600 gonna give you the second. 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:32.320 Part of this. Yeah, I'm gonna give your second part. 1:02:32.800 --> 1:02:33.680 But lift your hands. 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:36.920 Well next week it's gonna be so practical, it's gonna 1:02:36.960 --> 1:02:40.040 be so important, it's gonna be so significant. But unless 1:02:40.040 --> 1:02:42.400 you get this, no symbols please. I want you to 1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:44.880 get this so you can get that. This is gonna 1:02:44.920 --> 1:02:47.960 be the foundation. No symbols, please, I want you to 1:02:48.000 --> 1:02:49.640 get this so this can be the foundation. 1:02:49.840 --> 1:02:55.920 You're ready for, Thus says the Lord. You shall not. 1:02:56.400 --> 1:02:59.560 See wind, well, of course you can't. You can only 1:02:59.600 --> 1:03:08.320 feel it. Nor shall you see rain. Yet I'm about 1:03:08.320 --> 1:03:14.960 to go home, y'all. Everybody say yet, this may be 1:03:15.040 --> 1:03:16.280 the most important word of all. 1:03:16.280 --> 1:03:19.720 Get your hands back up. We're not done yet yet. 1:03:21.520 --> 1:03:28.200 That valley shall be filled with water. So that watch 1:03:28.240 --> 1:03:31.680 how good God is. He went from kings not having 1:03:31.680 --> 1:03:35.320 anything to drink. He says, when God gets done with 1:03:35.320 --> 1:03:39.800 the situation, not only you, but your cattle and your. 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:45.120 Animals may drink. God said, I'm gonna do it so big. 1:03:45.280 --> 1:03:48.640 Your dog is gonna be drinking this. I'm gonna do 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:52.520 it so big. You're gonna help others, You're gonna change others. 1:03:52.680 --> 1:03:55.520 You're gonna start a school with what I'm gonna teach you. 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:57.280 You're gonna be there for other people. 1:04:01.240 --> 1:04:03.760 And that's why God gave me the word, because there 1:04:03.800 --> 1:04:05.959 have been seasons in my life when I. 1:04:05.880 --> 1:04:09.040 Have felt so dry. I didn't think I could do it. 1:04:09.840 --> 1:04:12.640 But this Tuesday, past Tuesday. 1:04:12.440 --> 1:04:15.720 I was helping pastors and telling them, you're gonna make it. 1:04:15.960 --> 1:04:22.240 Now, how does that happen? Only God, only God, only God. 1:04:22.480 --> 1:04:26.440 Everybody gets to drink, everybody gets to benefit. Nothing that 1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:29.360 you've been through shall be wasted. Nothing that you've walked 1:04:29.360 --> 1:04:30.480 through slipped his attention. 1:04:30.920 --> 1:04:37.000 It is going to come all of a sudden. Yeah, 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:39.520 but I don't see it. You don't have to. Yeah, 1:04:39.520 --> 1:04:43.040 But I can't quantify it. You don't have to. Yeah. 1:04:43.080 --> 1:04:44.520 But every time I go to talk about it, I 1:04:44.520 --> 1:04:45.240 can't even get. 1:04:45.080 --> 1:04:47.640 It up because it's too painful. Then let the Holy 1:04:47.720 --> 1:04:52.520 Spirit do the talking right now. The Bible says that there. 1:04:52.360 --> 1:04:55.040 Are groans that can't be uttered by words, and the 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:57.080 Holy Spirit will intercede for you. 1:04:57.920 --> 1:05:02.920 When you can't speak for yourself. Hands lifted, you won't 1:05:02.920 --> 1:05:05.560 see you, when you won't see. 1:05:05.480 --> 1:05:12.000 Rain, But the drout will end. Everything can change all 1:05:12.040 --> 1:05:12.880 of a sudden. 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:22.400 Yeah, I feel the coming. He will come when you. 1:05:22.560 --> 1:05:28.000 Call his name, the Holy One will renew your strength. 1:05:28.240 --> 1:05:34.840 All of a sudden, I feel it coming, all of 1:05:34.920 --> 1:05:35.640 a sudden. 1:05:36.440 --> 1:05:40.120 No, you won't see you win. You won't see rain, 1:05:40.720 --> 1:05:44.760 but your drought will end. Everything can shame. All of 1:05:44.920 --> 1:05:53.880 a sudden, I feel it coming. So he will come. 1:05:54.600 --> 1:05:57.600 Call his name the Holy up. 1:05:58.280 --> 1:06:01.160 Receive this ministry all love the study. 1:06:01.840 --> 1:06:05.400 He's lifted high before you go, come home and steering 1:06:06.160 --> 1:06:07.040 google study. 1:06:07.880 --> 1:06:11.040 No, you won't see you when then you will see 1:06:11.080 --> 1:06:16.760 you right, the traveling and everything and change on the sunny. 1:06:19.400 --> 1:06:24.439 I feel it coming on the sunny, and he will 1:06:24.640 --> 1:06:28.160 go me bull his thing, the Lord. 1:06:29.840 --> 1:06:30.560 Your stay. 1:06:33.680 --> 1:06:36.720 I need any comment of the study. 1:06:38.720 --> 1:06:41.840 You will see you in and you will see you right. 1:06:42.440 --> 1:06:47.360 The trap fee everything can channie job up the side. 1:06:49.120 --> 1:06:52.760 Being this pandemic side. 1:06:54.160 --> 1:06:56.120 He will come home where you go. 1:06:59.360 --> 1:07:06.640 We're in the wheel stream the side happy looking. 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:08.120 Us. 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:13.080 Come out on the side. He's gonna come out on 1:07:13.240 --> 1:07:18.800 the side. He's gonna come out on the side. Right, 1:07:19.320 --> 1:07:20.520 he's gonna drump on. 1:07:20.800 --> 1:07:22.840 The side, cracking it. 1:07:24.800 --> 1:07:26.840 Side o. 1:07:28.440 --> 1:07:29.280 The second. 1:07:30.800 --> 1:07:35.560 He's got a drop side it's greens lady, He's get free. 1:07:36.120 --> 1:07:39.280 The same they don't he. 1:07:41.760 --> 1:07:42.920 If he's going. 1:07:42.800 --> 1:07:48.000 To trauma, Let's go the Trump on the side. 1:07:49.800 --> 1:07:50.480 He's got the. 1:07:50.600 --> 1:07:57.640 Drama on the side, lapping the cot, the stick, he's 1:07:57.680 --> 1:07:58.800 gonna jump out. 1:07:58.720 --> 1:07:59.480 Of the side. 1:08:05.400 --> 1:08:07.880 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1:08:08.480 --> 1:08:11.040 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1:08:11.120 --> 1:08:13.720 get you all of these new messages as soon as 1:08:13.720 --> 1:08:16.439 they're available. 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