Dig Until God Does

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 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.360 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.920 Let's go back to our scripture in Second King's Second 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:31.880 Kings chapter three. If you're seated, stand real quick for 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:45.800 the word of God all of a sudden, put that 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.120 little phrase in the chat if you're joining us online, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.480 or look at the person next to you and say, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:57.560 all of a sudden the scripture that we were singing 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.680 about a little bit. And by the way, that song 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:04.400 is not released, so no, you can't get it. Guess 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.000 if you screen recorded, I can't stop you. But if 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.000 you put it on YouTube, we will take it down 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.400 because it's not out yet. And the scripture, one of 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.040 the scriptures that we were singing there in Second Kings 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:23.720 chapter three, pretty amazing Bible story. I would say one 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.959 of my top ten favorites. It it really I want 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.800 to go to verse thirteen, y'all. I gave them verse 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.119 thirteen just in case that we need it for context. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.600 Then Elisha said to the King of Israel, what have. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.640 I to do with you? 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.039 Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:41.600 of your mother. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.440 But the King of Israel said to him. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.760 No, for the Lord has called these three kings together 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.280 to deliver them into the hand of Moab. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.040 And Elisha said, as. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.960 The Lord of Hosts lives before whom I stand. Surely, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.880 were it not that I regard the presence of Jehasaphat, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.280 King of Judah, I would not look at you nor 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.240 see you. And this is what I was preaching about 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:13.360 a little bit last week. But now bring me a musician. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:21.560 Then it happened somebody shall Then when when the musician 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.320 began to play, Then it happened when the musician. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.200 Played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.880 And he said, thus says the Lord, make this valley 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:39.040 full of ditches. For thus says the Lord, you shall 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.600 not see wind, nor shall you see rain. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:52.800 Yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:58.200 you, your cattle, and your animals may drink. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.079 Just start pointing to everything in your house right now 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:06.280 and say, everything around me gets to drink from this blessing. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.480 And this is watch a simple matter in the sight 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.000 of the Lord. He will also deliver the Moabites into 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.480 your hand. Also, you shall attack every fortified city and 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.880 every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.480 and stop up every spring of water, and ruin every 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.080 good piece of land with stones. Now it happened in 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.600 the morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.360 water came. Who suddenly you heard it? You like that, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.680 You like that sudden stuff. We're gonna talk about that 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.720 sudden stuff today. Suddenly water came by way of edom, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:51.120 and the land was filled with water. So it's kind 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.520 of appropriate that I didn't get to my second point 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.280 last week, because my first point was you'll know when 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.120 you need to and then my second point. Check this out. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.480 How ironic is this that I didn't get to this point. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:08.200 My second point was it will flow when it's supposed to. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:11.040 Isn't that crazy? 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.480 The part I didn't get to that I was supposed 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.159 to say was it will flow when. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:17.800 It's supposed to. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.320 And guess what, I couldn't preach it until right now, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.880 because this is the word that God wants spoken. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:29.120 In this moment, somebody shout, it will flow when it's 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:29.719 supposed to. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.239 High five five people on your way to your seat, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:38.640 say let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.880 Let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.320 It's not Christmas time. Not let it snow. Let it flow, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:48.920 Let it flow. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:58.640 Suddenly, kind of re establishing something that I said last week, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.920 say a little different hearing, get up the top. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.800 By the way, I want. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.640 You to understand something about all of the things that 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.760 you see in life that just seemed to come out 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.880 of nowhere, They don't come out of nowhere. Most of 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:18.919 the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:25.479 from something that wasn't all of a sudden. Most, not 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.880 all of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.760 flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:38.440 When I stood in. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.679 Front of the mirror about twenty years ago and realized 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.760 that Holly had made me fat in our first year 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:50.200 of marriage, my realization that my waist slide had gone 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:56.000 from a collegiate thirty eight or thirty thirty two to a. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:03.799 First year of marriage thirty eight. That six sizes didn't 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:04.640 happen suddenly. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.440 That six size expansion project on my stomach wasn't sudden. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.760 But I did walk in front of the mirror one 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:20.760 day with my shirt off and suddenly realized, So most 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.520 of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, Wow, I. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.520 Look more pregnant. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.680 My wife is not pregnant, and if any of us 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.479 is going to be pregnant, it needs to be heard. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.360 But this is bad. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.800 So the way I am wired, I went on a. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:44.000 Sudden Atkins diet and it was delightful because through bacon, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.840 peanuts and the power of diet coke, I got it 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:55.200 back down slowly, not suddenly. And so just kind of 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.680 saying it in a playful way that most of the 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.400 stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows from 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:07.719 something like a steady diet of pasta doritos. I didn't 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.880 suddenly eat seven hundred bags of doritos. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.000 I just date to a day for a year. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.680 And so when we shout about suddenly, we want to 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.080 take just a moment to recognize that while certain things 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.360 come into our life all of a sudden that are desirable, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.000 other things I could call these the other suddenly. It's 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.120 where you wake up and realize, all of a sudden, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:37.840 I don't like the. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.480 Person that I'm living with anymore. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.320 All of a sudden, this thing in my life has 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.840 gone from something that I can control to something that 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.320 I can't all of a sudden, I'm drinking not just 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.080 for the sake of winding down but getting through each day. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:04.679 Suddenly something that was helpful to me all of a sudden, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.760 it feels like something. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.480 That is holding me now. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.680 I don't want to be negative about this beautiful scripture 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.960 in Second King's three because it is such an exciting scripture. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.080 But understanding that we will often find ourselves in sudden 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:29.240 situations that were created through gradual decisions can help us 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.360 to go back in our lives and allow the Holy 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.120 Spirit of God to begin to reverse some of the 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.480 things that our routines created. And the Holy Spirit is 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.760 speaking to me about the things all of a sudden 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.840 in our lives that he can change. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.360 But it has to start somewhere. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.960 So if there is something in your life like these 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.920 kings in this passage that I read to you, the 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.200 King of the Northern Kingdom, the King of the Southern Kingdom, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.040 and the King of Edom have all gathered together and 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.600 on their way to a war, they run out of water, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.480 and they have marched seven days through the desert, and 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.480 suddenly they realize, we need a word from God or 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.320 we're not going to make it. We need God to 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.400 intervene or we are not going to survive. And they 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:27.600 realized that suddenly, But what had started before their moment 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:33.800 of realization was subtle. It was a turning away from 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.200 God that resulted in them being in a vulnerable spot. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.440 And so a lot of times in my life I 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:46.480 have recognized something suddenly that built slowly. One of my 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.520 buddies told me about a line in a book. I 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.280 think he said it was a heming Way book. I 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.480 didn't read the book by like the quote. One character 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.400 said to the other, how did you go bankrupt? And 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:05.199 the other character said, two ways gradually? Then suddenly, how'd 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.000 you get divorced? 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.160 Two ways gradually? 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.440 Then suddenly a sudden moment to realize something that had 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.960 started long before, all of a sudden. So most of 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.800 the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, That's 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.360 what we were singing a minute ago, all of a sudden. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.760 Most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.440 flows from something. Maybe it wasn't caused by one thing, 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:42.240 but it flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.559 And touch somebody next to you and say it wasn't sudden, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.400 showed up sudden, but it wasn't sudden. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.240 The same could be said for success. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:55.960 All right, let's turn this real quick, because it feels 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:56.560 kind of dark. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.440 In here, all right, and it feels kind of feels 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.160 kind of negative in here. I want to shift this 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.079 energy real quick. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.200 I'm calling on the God of Jacob, the God of Jolostine. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.880 I'm going some positivity in here real quick. All right. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:13.000 Success isn't really sudden. Now. If it is sudden, that's 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.360 troublesome as well. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.320 Because if the success is too sudden, it won't be sustainable. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.640 But most success that God gives will take you up 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.719 the stairs. Very few elevators to this our church is 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.000 called elevation. But to really grow through this ministry, or 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.600 any ministry through the Word of God, there will be 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.239 steps that God. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.600 Will use to strengthen you. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.200 And they won't all feel like they're going upward. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.440 Sometimes it will feel like you are going down, down, down, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:47.320 down down. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.640 But if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.719 one scripture said, in due time, he. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:58.000 Will lift you up. And the lifting might happen. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.520 Suddenly, but there are layers beneath every sudden lifting that 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.000 unless you peel them back and see you will misunderstand 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.880 the nature of success, just like you can misunderstand the 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:16.880 nature of struggle. Struggles don't ingrain themselves all of a sudden. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:23.640 They happen slowly, and so do successes. One of my 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.560 friends was telling me about I'll tell you who he was, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.960 because it'd be a little bit better if I make 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.079 it specific. He's one of the greatest songwriters that I've 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.600 ever written with. His name is Jason Jason Ingram. I've 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.959 written I don't know twenty thirty songs with him in 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.959 the last few years, and I love getting in a 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.120 room with him because he has this ability to just 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.199 spit out a bridge for a song that will blow 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.280 you away. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.160 I saw him do it one time. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.600 We were writing this one song and he just goes, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.360 you take what the enemy ment for evil, and. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.319 You turn it for good? 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.600 Do you turn it for good? 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:06.200 And then he goes or something like that all of 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:06.720 a sudden. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.000 So when we finished writing that particular song, he looks 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.680 at me and goes, that's the song that you write 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.440 three hundred other songs to get to that one song. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.720 And I realized. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.719 Something about his skill set as a songwriter. Watch me 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.679 that what he did suddenly in that moment was the 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:32.640 result of stuff that he did steadily. A steady hand 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.280 brings a sudden blessing. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.199 Now asked him a little bit more about his story. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.480 And he's one of the most successful songwriters, not only 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.319 one of the best songwriters, but one of the most 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:50.400 successful songwriters. He's won Grammys and Dove Awards and probably 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.880 Stellar Awards, and he's probably on his way to an 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.280 Emmy or a Tony or an Oscar that I don't 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.280 know about at this moment. But he told me that 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.720 when he first started as a songwriter. And I'm going 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.679 to get back to Second King's chapter three, but just 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.000 let me get there slowly and then suddenly, when it 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.000 hits it'll mean more, because if it starts slow, when 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.640 it hits sudden, it'll mean more. When it starts slow 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.360 and it hits sudden, it'll mean more. I am preaching, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.200 and you don't know that I'm preaching because if it 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.840 starts slow, when it hits sudden, it'll mean more and 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.920 it can last longer. So is it bad luck or 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.400 was it God's design that when he first started writing 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.960 songs and went to Nashville, every publisher that he met 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.960 with rejected him in town. His wife had quit her 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.240 job and had moved with him to start his career, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.280 and he couldn't find one publisher that said yes. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.280 Many of them said you just don't have it. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.680 One woman named Cindy was willing to give him a 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.200 publishing contract. It wasn't much money, but it was enough 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.760 to live off of with a newborn bab So he 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.800 began to write songs off of that publishing advance from 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.240 one woman that believed in him. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:06.920 For a year, he wrote. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.840 He turned in one hundred and fifty songs in the 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.120 first year. At the end of the first year, not 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.360 one of them had been recorded. Not one had been 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.920 recorded other than on his demo machine. It was probably 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.480 like a task scam portas Studio four to fourteen before 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.000 we were doing it on our voice memos on our iPhone. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.520 I didn't ask him that detail. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.040 But it was probably something arka like that. And even 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.800 if it wasn't, let me tell the story that way 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.680 because it makes it better. The second year, for some reason, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.600 Cindy decided to renew his contract for another year. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.920 He wrote one hundred and fifty more songs. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.120 One got recorded, but before you shout about the one 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.840 that got recorded and you think I'm going to tell 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.600 you it was, I can only imagine and it went 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:52.720 on to be a smash movie. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.080 It wasn't. That song was put as a secret track. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.200 Now half this room. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.960 Doesn't know what a secret track is because the secret track. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.600 Is not available in the digital age. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.920 A secret track was on the compact disc when after 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.560 the last song had finished playing, it would go about 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.960 four minutes and then another song, a throwaway song, a 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.560 bonus song that nobody ever heard. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.960 Because they turned the CD off. That's where his song went. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.920 We got three hundred songs, one recorded, and that's a 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:21.720 secret track. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.240 And in the third year, when he was nominated for 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.000 a Grammy. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:39.040 A lot of people said, where did this guy come from? 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.160 Secret to sudden? 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.000 When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites and go 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.600 out and go hey, does anybody see me serving? 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.280 Does anybody see the three hundred songs in our road? No, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.720 we don't want to hear them. They suck. Keep writing songs, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:02.600 and then maybe one. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.000 Day, if you're doing enough in the secret place, I'll 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.919 know why I'm preaching this heart twenty minutes in. But 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:15.120 one day, what is secret? God can make it sudden. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.160 But we live in a day where nobody has any 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.800 time to be shut up in the secret place. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.200 Everybody wants the sudden. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.320 Thing, but it is the secret things that produced the 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.479 sudden things. Now I feel the Holy Spirit, Now I 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.000 feel the wind. Now I feel it blowing. Somebody shouts 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:46.240 secretly then suddenly, and whether whether it is our secret 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.080 struggles that we need to bring to God and say, God, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.600 help me deal with this, help me process this, help 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.000 me deal with this with you, just me and you, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.960 before something that you could have secretly healed becomes suddenly exposed. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.960 God, I want to get this done in. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.280 The secret place, where you can minister, where you can touch, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.640 where you can uproot, where. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.320 You can make it right. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:21.080 Because everything that we realize suddenly started secretly and built 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.240 slowly a secret track. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.200 And the next year he's at the Grammys. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.879 And I'm not saying you'll win a Grammy, and I 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.000 don't even think you really care as much as you 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:38.159 thought you would if you did. But I am saying 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:46.920 that it can happen suddenly, and when it does, when 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.639 it does, when it does, what you have done secretly 0:18:52.800 --> 0:19:01.120 will be the treasure of the process. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.320 In our story. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.480 Not only is there a sudden need that they bring 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.200 the prophets to speak to these three kings who are 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.480 I just want to make sure you know the situation. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.680 They went through the desert and they ran out of water, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.600 and they're getting ready for a war. And that is 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:23.119 definitely familiar to me, is that sometimes you go through 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:30.600 you go through desert seasons on your way to fight battles, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.959 and what it takes for you to get to the 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.680 battle takes so much out. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:38.760 Of you. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.120 That you definitely don't have what it takes to fight 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:50.680 the battle. And so the prophet comes and he begins 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.800 to prophesy, and he prophesies about a few different things. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.040 And I'm going to show you the contrast here. He says, 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.399 first of all, the Lord came on him, and in 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.199 verse sixteen he said, thus says the Lord, make this 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:06.320 valley full of ditches. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:08.200 For thus says the Lord. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:13.040 Verse seventeen, you shall not see when, nor shall you 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.240 see rain. Yet that valley shall be filled with water, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.679 so that you, your cattle and animals may drink. Now, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.679 let's break that down a little bit. What is he 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.800 saying in these two verses. Well, the first thing that 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:32.399 he is not saying is what he is seeing. Before 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.439 we get into what he says, let's get into what 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:39.520 he isn't saying. He doesn't say the ground is dry. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:46.960 He doesn't say this battle is hopeless. He doesn't say 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:53.920 this situation is desperate, although it is. And it makes 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.360 me wonder if one of the reasons that we get 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:01.600 dry inside is because we need to stop saying so 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:09.320 much about what we see and start saying more about 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:14.919 what God says. The structure of this is really helpful 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.919 for your daily life, because there's what He sees, and 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.040 there's what God says. And twice he says, thus says 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.480 the Lord. In verse sixteen, he said it, Thus says 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.720 the Lord. In verse seventeen, he says, Thus says the Lord. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.359 Just put that in the comments, Thus says the Lord, 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.920 Thus says the Lord. And so you might be in 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.440 a situation where you're like, this is terrible, but thus 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:50.520 says the Lord. This is painful, but thus says the Lord. 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.399 Are teaching us to live in denial. No, I'm just 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:58.520 teaching you not to live in dryness, because it only 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.480 makes it feel drier. To drive down and dig down, 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.880 deep into the things that you see. When what you 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.160 see doesn't match what God says. Now, this is where 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.000 I lose a lot of people. And I can always 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:12.840 feel I lose a lot of people here because they 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.800 think this is the abracadabrajocus pocus part of the preaching 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.320 of the Word of God, and it's not. This is 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:24.160 the greatest skill that I would get you to learn 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.720 in regards to dealing with the disappointments in your life, 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.399 the dry places in your soul, and even the needs 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.199 that you have that you tend to meet in all 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:39.959 of the wrong ways. Is to begin to Okay, I 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:42.560 didn't plan any of this, but this flows how it's 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:44.040 supposed to when it's supposed to. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:45.520 And I told you to let it flow, so I'm 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:51.639 gonna let it flow. This is the says, that's a 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:52.960 shift I want you to begin to make. 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:53.880 This is. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:56.080 The says. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.840 Both are important. This is in aables you to deal 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:05.920 with where you are. Thus says when you get a 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.760 word from God and hold on to it and believe 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.919 God for it, and walk. 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.560 In it and work with it. 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:17.960 The Thus says the Lord is what gets you from 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:24.480 this is to what can be. And I believe there 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.800 are some people who are sitting under this message today, 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:32.800 who have been so stuck, And this is that you forgot, 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:40.320 Thus says. When you don't feel like a conqueror and 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.160 you make yourself a victim and you forget that he 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.879 called you a victor, it is just a matter of 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.679 time before you feel very dry. So this is the 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:56.680 switch you have to make. This is unfair victim language, 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:02.200 thus says the Lord. He will reach pay me double 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:07.880 for my trouble. And no weapon. I can't do it. 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.399 No organ yet, no organ yet, stead of your hand. 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:19.240 Because the thing about God is he will tell you 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:26.600 to do crazy stuff that completely contradicts what makes sense in. 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:31.439 Your logical mind. I'll prove it. This is what the 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:32.040 Lord says. 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.960 Everybody say, Thus says the Lord. 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:37.080 Verse sixteen. Put it up on the screen, because they 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:37.640 won't believe. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:38.399 It if I don't show it to him with their 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:41.880 own eyes, Thus says the Lord. Make this valley full 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:50.760 of ditches a ditch for what is dry. I don't 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:56.000 need a ditch in a dry place. Not yet, but 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.680 thats says, now be three. 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:03.600 This is a getting ready moment for you. 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:13.359 The salsed, Lord, I love the word of God. 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:14.120 How about you? 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.920 Because it's what God uses to dig in my spirit 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:25.560 to prepare me to receive what he's bringing by his 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:32.560 hand into my life. And no, digging doesn't feel good, 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:35.240 not for the digger or the dirt. 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:37.720 Trust me, I know. 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:41.280 Don't you remember my story from a few weeks ago 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:46.080 how I used to dig graves for dogs. Did you 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:46.960 hear that story? 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:48.640 Were you here? 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:53.920 I had a job digging graves for dogs and cats, 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.240 and that prepared me for ministry. 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.960 I believe it did. It prepared me for parenting. I 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:05.080 told Abby the other day, I said, Hey, I want 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:06.120 you to memorize this. 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:08.440 So if a boy ever wants to date you, here's 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:12.239 your opening speech. Hey, before you date me, you just 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:18.200 need to know my dad has experience doing weddings and 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:24.040 digging grave because I'm that dude, So tell him, oh 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:27.960 when he shows up, before we start this relationship, you 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:31.680 need to know either way it goes, my dad can do. 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:35.480 What needs to be done. I'm the man for the job. 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:42.320 So I told her that when you start dating in 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:46.000 about thirty five years, tell your first boyfriend that when 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:53.920 you turn fifty. Now, listen, it's amazing what God speaks. 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:58.320 He says, there's gonna be, there's gonna be water flowing 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:02.040 from the land to beat them In't that a crazy 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:05.959 place for water to flow from the same desert that 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:10.920 they march through to begin with? Is it crazy how 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:15.080 sometimes God will bring the greatest blessings from the driest places. 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:21.680 The same desert that you just marched through for seven 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:26.320 days and became dehydrated as you did, is the same 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:29.400 place that the blessing is going to flow from. 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:33.639 Thus, as the Lord, the same. 0:27:33.440 --> 0:27:37.920 Comfort with which God is comforting you through this crisis 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:41.200 in your life is going to be the same comfort 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:44.439 that you are going to give to others when you 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:49.959 get to your place of service. The same lessons that 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:52.720 you're learning through this breaking seasons are going to be 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.000 the same lessons that turn into blessings for the people 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:58.040 that you help when you get through it. 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:02.600 That's amazing. 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:07.000 It's amazing what he told him to do dig ditches 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.600 in the valley. It's debatable whether he meant it literally 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:11.320 or figuratively. 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:12.160 I really don't care. 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:17.320 It speaks to a mindset for me, whether they really 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:19.760 started digging all night to get ready for the rain, 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:21.639 or whether he was just kind of saying it, like 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:25.440 fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride. 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:32.320 That doesn't necessarily mean that there is a actual seatbelt involved. 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:37.280 It's a saying, and I think maybe dig ditches in 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:41.720 the valley was a saying, but I know for a 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:48.280 fact it was an expectation. And he tells them to 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:50.920 do that. For thus, as the Lord, you shall not 0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:53.000 see wind, nor shall you see rain. Yet that valley 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:55.320 shall be filled with water. He also tells him what 0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:59.440 God intends to do. The thing that he doesn't say 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:02.120 that I found almost as interesting as what he did 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:09.960 say is how it would happen and when it would happen. 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:17.640 That's interesting because if you went seven days without water, 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:20.200 that's long enough to be desperate. 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:23.760 Seven days is a long time. 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:28.080 I don't even know how they've stayed alive these seven days, 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:31.680 if they passed through their rations. But we're talking about water, 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:37.160 not Wi Fi. How many of you think that you 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:39.479 would go on a fast Seven days without Wi Fi 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:41.680 would be enough to drive you to sackcloth and ashes, 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:43.720 just seven days without the internet connection. 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:54.000 We have to really realize how weak they were in. 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:57.680 This moment to really appreciate the value of the word 0:29:57.760 --> 0:30:01.640 that God gave. There's always this part of us that 0:30:01.680 --> 0:30:05.720 will listen to a little faith message like this and go, yeah, 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:12.320 but my situation, huh huh. We're talking about water, no water, 0:30:13.760 --> 0:30:16.520 And I don't care how many awards you win. I 0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:19.800 don't care how many great things you accomplish. I don't 0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:25.240 care what number your network says. No water, it's over. 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:30.880 That's how bad it is. And so if it's that bad, 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.600 in God's word comes the way we would expect to 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:37.400 read this verse is the hand of the Lord came 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:42.959 upon Elisha, and he began to prophesy. And when the 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:44.840 hand of the Lord came on Elisha and he began 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:48.120 to prophesy, make this valley full of ditches, all of 0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:53.760 a sudden water came. That all of a sudden, the 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:57.160 thing that I need will be released in my life. 0:30:57.840 --> 0:31:01.080 But the Bible doesn't say that the water suddenly came. 0:31:02.200 --> 0:31:08.160 The Bible says that an instruction was given. Now sometimes 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:13.200 before the intervention of God. There is an instruction to you. 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:24.480 And I'm wondering, what is God calling you to dig today? 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:27.520 I thought about this sermon from multiple levels. 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:31.520 My buddy who wrote three hundred songs, who showed up 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:35.280 and dug every day, my friends who sold a business 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:39.240 for over one hundred million dollars last year, who had 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:42.440 to go back to being a substitute teacher and was 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.480 waking up at five in the morning and going to 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:47.920 sleep at two thirty in the morning to build his 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.520 company in the beginning in order to get to the 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:52.000 point where he sold the company. 0:31:52.760 --> 0:31:55.720 When I see somebody who God did. 0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:59.560 Something great for them, now I've learned to ask a 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:04.960 second question, not only what God did for them, that's 0:32:05.000 --> 0:32:09.520 my first question. The second question that I ask is 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:15.280 I wonder what they dug for God to do that. 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.480 I wonder what God dug for them to be able 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.280 to have that kind of relationship. 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:24.920 When I see families that. 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.080 Are really happy, and I don't just mean like happy 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:31.160 in the picture. I mean like families that are really 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:34.840 together and they've survived some tough seasons and one of 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:37.560 their marriages ended, and one of their kids is in 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:40.160 a bad spot, but they're praying for it and all 0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:41.120 coming back around. 0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:44.200 I don't just wonder what God did for them anymore. 0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:48.640 I wonder what did they have to dig through to 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:52.280 get to this kind of family strength. And you do 0:32:52.320 --> 0:32:54.960 yourself a real favor when you see somebody that God 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.160 did something great for, and you want God to do 0:32:57.240 --> 0:33:03.000 that for you. If you get a chance, ask them, 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:03.760 what did. 0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:07.680 You have to dig for God to do that? 0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:13.320 Because the water came suddenly, and if you only showed 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:16.200 up in the sunlight of the next day, you would 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:20.520 have mistakenly believed that the water just came when the 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:25.840 word came. And if you just think that everybody who's blessed, 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:29.760 and everybody who has peace, and everybody who's free, and 0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:31.480 everybody who's walking in. 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:34.120 A measure of the favor of God. 0:33:33.880 --> 0:33:36.800 And everybody who has influence, if you just think that 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:39.080 God did it, then you missed the point. 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:45.320 God did it when they dug it. 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:53.400 That's why I loved this passage because it means. 0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:55.800 That God is sovereign. He did it. 0:33:56.160 --> 0:33:59.640 Nobody else can make it rain, Nobody else can tell 0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:04.400 the come up now, nobody else can drive back the darkness. 0:34:04.480 --> 0:34:13.920 But God, God did it. But they dug it. God 0:34:13.960 --> 0:34:17.080 didn't write three hundred songs for Ingram. 0:34:17.400 --> 0:34:19.680 If he did, all of them would have been smash hits. 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:21.640 They would all been. 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:25.320 Number one first day out. Can you imagine God writing 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:29.360 the song. It would dominate the charts. You could dance 0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:32.400 to it, you could sway to it, you could cry 0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:35.520 to it, you could laugh to it. No, he wrote 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:41.440 three hundred songs, he dug it, and God did it. 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:43.880 In that order. 0:34:46.800 --> 0:34:50.279 It didn't flow the moment the prophet spoke about it. 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:56.360 Thus says the Lord, water flow. No water will flow 0:34:56.760 --> 0:35:03.040 when you dig dig where this valley? 0:35:03.520 --> 0:35:08.319 Wait, A valley that's dry, A valley that's low, a 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:13.000 valley that's painful, a feeling that I can't shake. Yes, 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:18.520 the lower and the deeper the valley, the more the water. 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:19.440 It can hold. 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:23.000 I am telling you that this is not your breaking 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:25.120 this is your breakthrough. 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:26.400 This is it. 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:28.640 This valley shall. 0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:32.960 The says the Lord. 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:34.759 Hot fog. 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:37.560 At least three people in say, Thus says the Lord, 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:42.640 this is a valley. But thus says the Lord, he 0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:47.160 is my shepherd. I shall not walk, This, says the Lord. 0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:48.360 He's making a. 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:49.840 Table right now. 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:58.760 Yeah. 0:35:58.800 --> 0:36:01.280 And the only thing what the devil can do, says 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.879 he can't take the word of God away from you, 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:07.440 is to get you so weary and discouraged that you 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:15.640 stop digging because it's dry. You can't dig your dry 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:19.719 That's why I'm digging cause I'm dry. That's why I'm 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:23.840 praising because I'm dry. That's why I'm doing it. Because 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:32.040 I'm dry, digging or drought. 0:36:33.560 --> 0:36:34.560 Digging or drought. 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:38.520 You will have to decide in this moment of your life, 0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:39.760 digging or drought. 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:45.280 I'll be digging. 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:53.080 Yeah. Yeah, because I didn't drought and I didn't like it, 0:36:55.400 --> 0:37:01.440 I throw a pity party. Nobody are svp'd. They surely 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:09.239 didn't bring presents. I did bitterness. I did bitterness. I 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:11.680 got down to the bottom of the bitterness, and guess. 0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:14.640 What I found dry. 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:20.000 Once I drank all that bitterness, I was dry. I 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:24.359 did blame. Y'all want me to dig or do y'all 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:26.160 want me to dance up here? I can just dance 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:27.880 up here. I can just dance up here. 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:29.200 See. 0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:32.840 I noticed a lot of preaching is like we're dancing 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:38.360 around what's really happening rather than digging through what's really 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:48.239 causing it. And so this happens in parts, right, the 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:53.640 word comes suddenly. The musician started playing, and the word 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:57.439 came suddenly. But since we talked about the steady hand 0:37:57.440 --> 0:37:59.160 of the musician last week who. 0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:01.800 Played the harp, we should also talk. 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:04.400 About the steady hand of the diggers who held the shovels. 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:11.440 That's where sudden blessings come from, constant digging. Are you 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:13.440 saying I have to work my way into a relationship 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:15.040 with God because I got set free from that because 0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:16.799 I grew up in that church and that burned me out. Man, 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:18.160 So don't you start telling me I got to read 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:20.400 seventeen chapters of the Bible today because I tried the 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:22.480 seventeen chapters of the Bible to today plan and I 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:24.880 hated the Bible because I couldn't have pronounced Methusalam and 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:27.160 methisiafact and all these people that you got me reading about, 0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:29.640 and I got real, real born in Litlemiticus, I'm not 0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:36.399 talking about working your way to God. I'm talking about 0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:41.280 digging your way to water where the grace can flow, 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:45.600 where the joy can flow. And let me tell you 0:38:45.640 --> 0:38:52.600 when it's gonna flow when it's supposed to, when it's 0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:56.799 supposed to. Let me tell you when they're gonna take 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:59.880 you off the secret tracks and bring you to the 0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:06.640 stage when they're supposed to, And let me tell you 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:09.839 what you can do in the meantime until it does. 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:14.480 Because I think a lot of us are really confused 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:18.160 about what we need to surrender in our lives. We 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:21.440 don't need to surrender the desires God has put in 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:26.239 our heart, if God put them there. What we need 0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:29.400 to surrender in this season of our life is the 0:39:29.400 --> 0:39:31.279 way we thought it was supposed to go. 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:37.920 Did you say say that again? 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:45.000 All right? Just for you let go of how you 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:51.000 thought it was supposed to go, And while you're at it, 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:55.000 let go of when you thought it was supposed to 0:39:55.000 --> 0:40:03.520 get there. Because the issue isn't will God, it's when God. 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:12.240 It's not will God, it's when God. And it doesn't 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:14.640 just depend on what he wants to do. It depends 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:20.040 on what you are willing to do until God does. 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:24.440 I shared with one of the people that I'm mentored 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:26.919 the other day. They were needing clarity, and I said, 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:30.360 the issue isn't whether God will reveal this or not. 0:40:31.160 --> 0:40:36.720 The issue is what will you do until God does 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:41.279 give you clarity? Because if you flail right now, and 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:44.600 if you thrash right now, and if you act nasty 0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:47.560 right now, and if you cope with stuff that's going 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:51.520 to put you in a cage later right now, then 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:54.560 when God gives you clarity, you won't even be able 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:57.759 to act on it because you will be so constrained 0:40:57.760 --> 0:41:00.520 by the decisions that you made while you were waiting. 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:07.200 The issue is not will God. The issue is. 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:11.680 Not his sovereignty. It's you're supposed to. Let me ask 0:41:11.760 --> 0:41:14.920 you a question when it flows. Are you going to 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:16.840 be where you're supposed to be. 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:19.000 In the valley? 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:25.200 Big and bitchous in the valley transporting? 0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:28.000 You know, that's a lot of times what parenting is. 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:31.719 It's just taking your kids back and forth and back 0:41:31.760 --> 0:41:34.960 and forth and back and forth, and in certain seasons 0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:39.920 they won't talk to you. How is your day fine? 0:41:40.840 --> 0:41:43.680 If you get a fine out of them, that's a 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:49.040 grade eight response, that is a premium response in this 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.000 season I'm talking about. And then they're going to be 0:41:52.040 --> 0:41:54.239 in your room at twelve thirty in the morning. Now 0:41:54.239 --> 0:41:59.000 they want to talk. You're asleep. And part of being 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:00.799 a parent is being able to flow with all of that, 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:04.439 because you know, if you pick them up and drop 0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:08.040 them off enough, eventually they open up enough and you 0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:09.040 get to have the conversation. 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:11.040 But if you don't show up when they say nothing, 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:15.600 when they open up, you won't be there. Everything is 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:18.120 like that. Everything is like that. 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:23.640 Everything God did in my life was something that I 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:26.759 was digging in a dry place when he was doing it, 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:30.000 and the same thing for Holly. 0:42:30.040 --> 0:42:32.000 The same thing for Holly. 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:35.560 Usually when we meet people and we're meeting them for 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:37.719 the first time and they're a part of the ministry, 0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:42.279 they'll go, oh, Pastor Stephen, Hey, Holly, doesn't bother me 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:45.080 a bit. Doesn't bother me a bit. I'm like I 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:47.120 like her more than I like me too. Hey, trust me, 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:49.160 I'm in her fan club. I'm the president. Would you 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:54.040 like a picture of her? And I'm exaggerating a little bit, 0:42:54.040 --> 0:42:58.719 but just to make a point that I remember when 0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:05.680 Holly felt completely useless in this ministry. I remember the 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:08.799 season when the kids were very little, that I would 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:14.400 take them out on a Wednesday night and she would 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:20.000 invite maybe like twelve women. I don't know if it 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:22.719 would be smaller or larger than that, but she would 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:25.680 have them into our home and she would walk them 0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:30.000 through a Bible study. But it wasn't just a Bible study, 0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:32.080 because she didn't really feel like she had that much 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:33.600 to teach for the Bible. But she would show them 0:43:33.600 --> 0:43:36.960 how to cook, how to cook quick meals, because she 0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:38.279 would say, when you have little kids, you have to 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:40.120 cook quick meals. So I'm gonna show you quick meal stuff 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:41.759 you can do, real easy stuff that doesn't take much 0:43:41.760 --> 0:43:45.880 brain power, stuff that'll take your husband's waist size from. 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.439 A thirty two to a thirty eight. 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:54.640 That class should have been called Project thirty eight. And 0:43:54.760 --> 0:43:59.439 so so I watched it expand, like my waistline from 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:02.400 when she did the Bible study in our house. So 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:04.200 then I watched they said you need to do that 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:07.000 for all the ladies of our church. And she made 0:44:07.040 --> 0:44:10.440 a little study called missus betterhef. 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:12.840 You know how many. 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:15.239 People I have overheard while they're getting their selfie with 0:44:15.280 --> 0:44:17.399 her while I'm standing over in the cornersuck of my thumb, 0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:22.319 say it saved our marriage. But it means more to 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:27.759 me because I saw where it started real slow, and 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:30.200 I saw that it was out of her personal dryness 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:32.440 of where she could have felt sorry for herself. 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:34.279 What do I do? 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:43.040 What's my job? What's my value? Where's my Grammy? Where's 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:48.399 my oscar? For best supporting role? I watched what she did, 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:52.520 and I watched how she did it at such a 0:44:52.800 --> 0:44:57.000 level it was almost like a decimal, like you know, 0:44:57.040 --> 0:44:59.720 like you got the number, then the decimal It's almost 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:04.799 like I watched what was behind the decimal move and 0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:08.880 I watched God add zero's to it where it was 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:12.360 ten women, and then it was one hundred women, and 0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:14.920 then it was a thousand women. I feel God enlarging 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:16.360 somebody's vision right now. 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:19.680 Not your waistline, your vision, your vision, your vision, your vision, 0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:20.200 your vision. 0:45:20.400 --> 0:45:22.920 Come on, can you see it by the spirit? Because 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:26.880 you won't see wind and you won't see rain. And 0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:29.439 nobody came to her with a publishing in advance and said, 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:30.080 would you make. 0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:33.759 A study about Wife Them? She never got the Wife 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:34.920 Them publishing advance. 0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:39.279 But when the pandemic hit and everybody was trapped in 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:44.360 their homes, hating each other, hating each other a little 0:45:44.360 --> 0:45:48.200 bit on each other's nerves, we were taking a walk 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:51.680 and I said, you know what, you've got better half. 0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:55.320 I want you to release better half into the world 0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:58.520 right now so we can help families get through this 0:45:58.640 --> 0:46:04.400 challenging time. She did that, and she did that, and 0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:07.759 it wasn't ten anymore. It wasn't even a hundred, it 0:46:07.800 --> 0:46:10.920 wasn't a thousand. It wasn't just our church, it was 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:15.480 all over the world. I watched as women all over 0:46:15.520 --> 0:46:19.160 the world were gathered saying, can we drink some of 0:46:19.200 --> 0:46:22.719 that water that you started digging. 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:23.920 For a decade ago. 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:27.600 That's why God did it, because you dug it. 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:29.120 You dug it. 0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:33.160 God did it. You dug it. 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:39.160 God did it. This is gonna be your testimony, so practice. 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:40.279 I dug it. 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:46.760 God did it. I dug it. God did it. 0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:47.960 Too heavy flat with me. 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:48.960 You dug it. 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:54.160 God did it. You dug it. God did it. You 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:56.120 dug it. God did it. 0:46:56.719 --> 0:46:58.920 That's what you're gonna be telling people a little bit 0:46:59.000 --> 0:47:03.080 from now, secret track, after three hundred songs. 0:47:03.280 --> 0:47:06.320 I had a secret prayer life, I had a secret 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:07.000 reading plan. 0:47:07.440 --> 0:47:10.680 I had a secret ambition. But I surrendered it to. 0:47:10.800 --> 0:47:14.080 Him and I gave up on what others were gonna. 0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:16.640 Think, and I got serious about service. 0:47:18.239 --> 0:47:19.160 I dug it. 0:47:20.480 --> 0:47:21.359 God did it. 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:23.799 I dug I'm getting hurty now. 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:25.040 I dug it. 0:47:26.960 --> 0:47:27.799 God did it. 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:32.960 We're gonna be looking back on something not many days 0:47:32.960 --> 0:47:33.399 from now. 0:47:33.600 --> 0:47:39.000 Tom up dung it about I dug it. God did it. 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:45.359 Now, let's get into this a little bit. Say, when 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:46.000 I dig. 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:53.439 It, God can fill it when I feel it. When 0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:58.200 I dig it, when I don't feel it, God will 0:47:58.280 --> 0:47:58.719 fill it. 0:48:00.360 --> 0:48:05.760 And this my friend is the word of the Lord. 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:18.920 Why is it not here yet? 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:24.319 Imagine the digging that took place with people who were 0:48:24.360 --> 0:48:30.879 already dehydrated because they dug all night. They waited all night. 0:48:32.000 --> 0:48:34.120 That's a long time to dig with nothing to drink. 0:48:34.840 --> 0:48:36.400 Trust me, I've dug. 0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:41.240 I've dug. Come on, take it from the grave, digger, 0:48:42.800 --> 0:48:44.640 I've dug, and. 0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:46.480 I'm not filling the valley with ditches and i had 0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:52.240 better tools. So digging while you're dry, right, that sounds 0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:55.799 so inspirational, but it can be so difficult. 0:48:57.760 --> 0:48:59.520 So they need water right now. 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:08.120 Why didn't God make it flow the moment Elisia spoke it? 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:12.600 Why do we have to go all the way to 0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:15.120 verse twenty for the water to come? 0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:21.000 Let me tell you why. Because the sun wasn't up yet. 0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:23.400 The sun wasn't up yet. 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:26.920 Some of the things that make you want to give 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:32.120 up and think it's never coming. The sun isn't up yet. 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:37.879 The sun isn't up yet. Say not loud, the sun 0:49:37.920 --> 0:49:42.719 isn't up yet. The sun isn't up yet. Imagine them 0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:47.640 digging all night, and they're dry, and they're desperate, and 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:53.239 in many ways they're defeated. They've already expressed that the 0:49:53.280 --> 0:49:55.080 Lord has brought us here to hand us over. 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:56.640 So they've completely. 0:49:56.080 --> 0:50:02.080 Lost their confidence, but they're digging anyway. Verse seventeen says, 0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:05.200 thus says the Lord. You shall not see wind, nor 0:50:05.239 --> 0:50:08.200 shall you sea rain. Yet that valley shall be filled 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:12.480 with water. So every time they check to see, hasn't 0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:17.160 happened yet? Somebody says, no, I want to talk for 0:50:17.200 --> 0:50:20.920 a moment about what to do when you're navigating a No. 0:50:24.360 --> 0:50:25.600 Is there wind yet? 0:50:26.360 --> 0:50:26.440 No? 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:31.960 Do you feel the mist yet? No? 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:33.879 No, I'm not talking about a thunderstorm. 0:50:34.000 --> 0:50:35.759 Do you even feel a drop yet? 0:50:36.640 --> 0:50:36.719 No? 0:50:38.520 --> 0:50:39.080 Are you this? 0:50:39.200 --> 0:50:41.840 Some people love to ask me, are you ready to preach? 0:50:42.760 --> 0:50:46.680 I never answer that with a complete yes, because the 0:50:46.719 --> 0:50:50.000 truth of the matter is there's no real way to 0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:54.719 be ready to release the word of God. It flows 0:50:55.640 --> 0:50:59.640 when it's supposed to. God gives me what I need 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:04.440 as I preach it. So shall it be in your life? 0:51:04.640 --> 0:51:06.239 I want you to receive this. I want you to 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:09.840 receive this. I don't know if you're getting it. Every 0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:12.920 time they asked, did God do it yet? 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:15.600 While they're digging, it was a no. 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:22.920 Sometimes, when you get enough nos, you make know your 0:51:22.960 --> 0:51:35.959 emotional home no when, no reign, no body to talk 0:51:36.000 --> 0:51:41.400 to about this, no one that you really trust, no 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:44.040 end in sight to this battle. 0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:51.000 No good news. Lately I can make it really good. 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:55.520 No deposits in the account, no matter how many times 0:51:55.560 --> 0:51:58.840 the day you check it. You ever just check, wondering 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:00.520 if something happened overnight, like. 0:52:00.480 --> 0:52:05.239 Maybe I don't know. God is big, Maybe the bank 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:05.879 made in error. 0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:09.040 Maybe Y two K will be twenty three years late 0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:11.279 and it is all get wiped out. Let me just 0:52:11.360 --> 0:52:16.200 check this one more time. No, I see youse refreshing 0:52:16.320 --> 0:52:23.719 your phone. No, maybe they text No, well, maybe they know. 0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:29.000 And the way you negotiate that no, which is a 0:52:29.080 --> 0:52:30.800 type of value of its own, is intent. 0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:36.880 It's so important. Do you make that know your home. 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:42.959 Or do you dig through it to find what God 0:52:43.040 --> 0:52:48.359 will do? If you don't, let the know that life 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:55.040 has told you become the final word over your life. 0:52:55.680 --> 0:53:02.200 In verse twenty, we get a very different word. And 0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:05.000 what we've basically done is we've gone from no wind, 0:53:05.360 --> 0:53:07.480 everybody say no wind, say. 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.600 That la, to say no wind. Put it in the chat, 0:53:09.640 --> 0:53:10.320 say no wind. 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:14.640 The refreshing that you wanted didn't come. The momentum that 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:17.880 you wanted didn't come. How many can relate to this? 0:53:18.040 --> 0:53:20.279 Just put a raised hand up in the room or 0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:21.640 in the chat. I don't care how you do it, 0:53:21.640 --> 0:53:23.279 but put it up. Say yeah, no, Wind, I don't 0:53:23.280 --> 0:53:26.600 feel it right now. No rain, that's the resource that 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:28.839 they need. So sometimes it's going to come in this way. 0:53:29.040 --> 0:53:31.080 You are not going to get the feeling that you want, 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:33.560 the resource that you want, and it's going to be 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:34.000 a no. 0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:34.160 Now. 0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:39.560 The way that you negotiate this no has everything connected 0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:43.920 to what is next. It does not just depend on 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:48.720 what God can do. It depends on what you will 0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:51.880 do until God does. 0:53:53.040 --> 0:53:54.040 That's what it depends on. 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:58.600 Right now, what will you do until God does? 0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:01.759 And I've got another. 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:03.399 Confession of faith that God gave me, And it might 0:54:03.440 --> 0:54:07.880 be for somebody that I may have doubts, and I 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:11.320 may have disappointments, and I may have a lot of knows. 0:54:11.600 --> 0:54:13.759 There may be three hundred of them. There may be 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:17.320 three hundred more. There may be rejections in my futures 0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:19.680 and failures in my future. I'm sure that there are. 0:54:19.760 --> 0:54:22.400 If I keep living, there will be. There may be 0:54:22.440 --> 0:54:24.919 people who don't like me. There may be people who 0:54:24.960 --> 0:54:28.280 turn on me. There may be dryness in my future. 0:54:28.320 --> 0:54:33.160 And I don't know exactly how God is going to 0:54:33.239 --> 0:54:36.360 do this, but I'll tell you what I have decided 0:54:36.400 --> 0:54:43.080 in my spirit that I'll be digging until God does it. 0:54:45.200 --> 0:54:48.680 That's all I can control. That's all I can do. 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:53.160 I can't make it rain. I can't make people change 0:54:53.160 --> 0:54:56.960 their minds. I certainly can't control things that are beyond 0:54:57.000 --> 0:54:59.319 the sphere of the domain that God has given me. 0:55:00.160 --> 0:55:03.160 I can't make that person love me. I can't make 0:55:03.239 --> 0:55:06.880 that person like me. I can't make this situation change. 0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:09.600 I can't make them see my value. But I know 0:55:09.680 --> 0:55:17.640 one thing. I'll be digging until God does because he knows. 0:55:18.719 --> 0:55:20.399 Somebody shout he knows. 0:55:21.000 --> 0:55:25.440 I don't, But he knows Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:31.640 For I know the plans I have for you. He knows. 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:35.080 He knows what he's gonna do, who he's gonna do 0:55:35.120 --> 0:55:38.040 it through, at the exact time he's going to do it. 0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:39.839 And until he shows me. 0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:43.960 How it's gonna happen, I'll be digging put this on 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:48.000 the screen until God does it. So I believe He's 0:55:48.040 --> 0:55:50.560 gonna give me the joy. I believe he's gonna give 0:55:50.600 --> 0:55:53.080 me the second chance. I believe he's gonna show me 0:55:53.120 --> 0:55:56.480 the next chapter. But until he does, I'll be digging. 0:55:57.480 --> 0:56:01.839 Cause guess what, when they dug it, God did it. 0:56:02.600 --> 0:56:06.360 Shout it when they dug it, God did it. 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:08.759 So give me my next lie. This is what I mean. 0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:15.680 I'll be digging until God does. That's why I doug 0:56:16.800 --> 0:56:20.520 because he puts something in me. That's why I dug 0:56:21.320 --> 0:56:24.480 because He has something for me. Don't you get it? 0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:29.359 Hi has not seen and he has not heard. 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:31.400 And neither has an answer. 0:56:31.880 --> 0:56:34.440 It's to your heart what God can do? 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:44.120 So what's he gonna do? While be digging until God does? 0:56:45.760 --> 0:56:46.840 And if it takes. 0:56:46.600 --> 0:56:51.480 Another night, and if it takes another year, and if 0:56:51.480 --> 0:56:54.200 it takes another prayer, and if. 0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:56.839 It takes another song, and if it. 0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:59.600 Takes another step back, that's all right. 0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:04.080 Dig it down deep, mock bill, dump strong. I will 0:57:04.239 --> 0:57:05.080 not fool. 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:14.040 High five everybody you feel like high five minutes say 0:57:14.040 --> 0:57:19.000 Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't. 0:57:20.720 --> 0:57:21.480 You need water? 0:57:21.640 --> 0:57:22.000 All right? 0:57:22.320 --> 0:57:26.479 Weeping may endure for a knife, but Jo. 0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:38.160 Sho soush put it in the chap with fourteen os 0:57:38.640 --> 0:57:40.000 sho shun. 0:57:41.440 --> 0:57:43.000 You can dig it this right. 0:57:42.840 --> 0:57:47.160 Now, open your mouth and pray him jo. 0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:53.720 Like coming, shot I come, or shoot like come him 0:57:54.560 --> 0:57:57.520 and streaks come suddenly. 0:58:05.640 --> 0:58:11.360 Verse twenty. We went from no to watch this now 0:58:13.400 --> 0:58:17.720 that's just no, with something after it now, No. 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:25.439 No, now now now now now now, I'm digging now 0:58:26.360 --> 0:58:27.680 for what I will see later. 0:58:28.760 --> 0:58:43.560 Now I need three people I can freach too, God said, no, 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:51.520 is just now waiting for what's next. When you get 0:58:51.600 --> 0:58:57.040 done digging, you know how strong your foundation is gonna be, 0:58:59.360 --> 0:59:02.720 and when it gets there, you'll be ready for it. 0:59:05.680 --> 0:59:07.680 That's why I'm getting my spending under control. 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:11.320 So when God wants to make me a steward to 0:59:11.440 --> 0:59:20.720 bless more people than just my family. I started budgets 0:59:20.800 --> 0:59:24.440 when we were broke. You didn't hear a word. I 0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:27.880 just said for the last hour. I started my budget 0:59:27.920 --> 0:59:31.240 when we were broke. Because if God moves the zero 0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:32.960 to the other side of the decimal, what am I 0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:33.560 going to do with it? 0:59:36.000 --> 0:59:36.680 That's a ditch. 0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:42.840 Now there is a decision to be made on your part. 0:59:44.360 --> 0:59:46.840 And then there is a destiny that has been created 0:59:47.120 --> 0:59:54.640 in God's heart. Because the Bible said, what now it 0:59:54.760 --> 1:00:02.200 happened when in the morning, Why did God wait all night. 1:00:04.000 --> 1:00:08.080 Why didn't God make it happen right when you needed it? 1:00:08.960 --> 1:00:09.160 Why? 1:00:10.360 --> 1:00:13.640 Well, the Bible said, Now, it happened in the morning 1:00:14.480 --> 1:00:18.480 when the grain offering was offered. That suddenly, but it's 1:00:18.520 --> 1:00:21.200 not sudden. We've been digging all night. 1:00:23.320 --> 1:00:27.960 It looked sudden if you were watching it, but it 1:00:28.080 --> 1:00:32.760 was steady if you were digging in. Isn't that the truth? 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:39.800 Suddenly water came by way of eating, and the land 1:00:39.920 --> 1:00:43.120 was filled with water. I still don't know why would 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:45.960 God wait until the morning when they were about to 1:00:46.040 --> 1:00:47.240 die through the night. 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:51.760 But I read the next verse. Watch what happened next. 1:00:52.720 --> 1:00:54.280 When all the mobites. 1:00:53.840 --> 1:00:57.160 That's the enemy, heard that the kings had come up 1:00:57.200 --> 1:01:01.160 to fight against them. All the enemies who were able 1:01:01.200 --> 1:01:03.240 to bear arms and older were gathered. They stood at 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:05.040 the border. They thought they were about to kill the 1:01:05.120 --> 1:01:11.680 people of God. But get ready to shout shout now, no, no, no, no, 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:14.560 I want you to shout the word now now, yeah, yeah, okay, 1:01:15.000 --> 1:01:21.560 I'll be clear in the future. When they saw oh 1:01:21.840 --> 1:01:26.760 oh oh. By the way, edom means red. When they 1:01:26.960 --> 1:01:30.400 saw the water on the other side, the enemies, they 1:01:30.480 --> 1:01:34.720 thought it was blood because it was red. Why was 1:01:34.760 --> 1:01:40.720 it red because the sun came up. When the amber 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:46.840 son kissed the sudden flood, it looked like blood to 1:01:46.960 --> 1:01:51.360 the enemy. So watch what they did next verse, please, 1:01:52.600 --> 1:01:54.160 And they said, this is blood. 1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:55.800 The kings have. 1:01:56.360 --> 1:01:59.320 Surely struck swords and have killed one another. Now therefore 1:01:59.400 --> 1:02:02.320 moab to the spoil. So the enemy rushes in. But 1:02:02.400 --> 1:02:06.160 it wasn't blood. It was the meeting of the flood 1:02:07.080 --> 1:02:11.560 and the sun that came together. So I picture God 1:02:11.720 --> 1:02:14.240 all night long that the prophet spoke there will be 1:02:14.280 --> 1:02:17.320 a flood, and God is saying, not yet, flood. 1:02:18.400 --> 1:02:19.440 The sun isn't up yet. 1:02:20.840 --> 1:02:24.800 See, you can't flow just yet, because when the sun 1:02:24.920 --> 1:02:28.520 comes up, the sun is going to hit the flood 1:02:29.000 --> 1:02:32.479 in just the right way, at just the right time, 1:02:33.160 --> 1:02:37.800 to confuse your enemy, at just the right place, at 1:02:38.040 --> 1:02:39.000 just the right time. 1:02:39.720 --> 1:02:41.600 And God says it. 1:02:41.680 --> 1:02:45.560 Will flow when it's supposed to. 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:49.400 You're right on schedule. God has not abandoned you. 1:02:50.000 --> 1:02:53.920 The sun is coming up over your life, and God says, it's. 1:02:53.960 --> 1:02:59.280 Time for you to dig again. It's time for you 1:03:00.120 --> 1:03:05.240 to sing again. It's time for you to rejoice again. 1:03:05.800 --> 1:03:10.040 Let's take twenty seconds and do it now, begin to praise. 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:16.920 Him all of a sudden, like a flood, all of 1:03:17.000 --> 1:03:22.520 a sudden, All of a sudden, God said the sun. 1:03:23.320 --> 1:03:27.000 You can rise, waters, you can flow. 1:03:27.760 --> 1:03:32.520 I release healing in your life. I release joy in 1:03:32.760 --> 1:03:36.240 your life. I release freedom in your life. 1:03:39.080 --> 1:03:49.400 Now, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all 1:03:49.480 --> 1:03:50.320 of a sudden. 1:03:52.440 --> 1:03:59.800 But even if it doesn't, I'll be digging until he doesn't. 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:01.640 All of a sudden. 1:04:02.240 --> 1:04:05.280 Whoa all of a sudden. 1:04:07.720 --> 1:04:14.320 But even if it doesn't, I'll still be digging until 1:04:14.400 --> 1:04:15.040 he doesn't. 1:04:15.840 --> 1:04:18.560 All of a sudden, Son works. 1:04:18.360 --> 1:04:23.919 On a cycle, scene of facada, but he then when 1:04:24.040 --> 1:04:30.280 it doesn't, I'll still be digging until he doesn't. 1:04:31.080 --> 1:04:31.640 Oh of a. 1:04:31.760 --> 1:04:38.480 Sada cats, all of a suda, leave it in buddy 1:04:38.960 --> 1:04:47.160 it he doesn't, I'll still be digging. I still Hollo Sun. 1:04:47.560 --> 1:04:51.240 I ensure you're in the name of the Lord the Sunny. 1:04:51.840 --> 1:04:53.959 Dig until my God. 1:04:54.400 --> 1:05:04.960 He doesn't dig until God, by Signy's sign, he. 1:05:08.960 --> 1:05:12.520 Does, and. 1:05:15.400 --> 1:05:23.760 He's gonna do. 1:05:28.480 --> 1:05:35.320 Hear me, He's good. 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:37.400 Hey. 1:05:37.480 --> 1:05:39.760 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1:05:40.360 --> 1:05:42.960 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1:05:43.000 --> 1:05:45.600 get you all of these new messages as soon as 1:05:45.600 --> 1:05:48.320 they're available. 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