Enough Until It Comes

0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:09.520 One King, Chapter seventeen, verse seven. Sometime later, the brook 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.840 dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.240 Then the word of the Lord came to him. Elijah, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.560 the prophet that we're reading about. Then the word of 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.800 the Lord came to him, Go at once to Zaraphath 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.440 in the region of Sidon, and stay there. I have 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.720 directed a widow there to supply you with food. So 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.320 he went to Zarapath, and he came to the town gate. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.519 A widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.519 and asked, would you bring me a little water in 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.920 a jar so I may have a drink. And as 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:54.960 she was going to get it, he called and ugh, 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:00.000 this guy, and bring me please a piece of bread. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.880 As surely as the Lord your God lives. She replied. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.520 This is an indication of the magnitude of the miracle, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.679 that it's not even her God that the prophet represents, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.480 and she's going to have to make a choice to obey. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.240 As surely as the Lord your God lives, she replied, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.720 I don't have any bread, only a handful of flour 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.959 in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.880 I am gathering a few sticks to take home and 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:38.000 make a meal for myself and my son, that we 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:49.240 may eat it and die. How many of you, if 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.680 you're the prophet, you're sorry you asked at this point 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:57.280 because you didn't really ask all that. I didn't ask 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.600 all that. Elijah said to her verse thirteen. Don't be afraid. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.560 Go home and do as you have said, But first 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.920 make a small loaf of bread for me from what 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.079 you have, and bring it to me, And then make 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.839 something for yourself and your son. For this is what 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.160 the Lord, the God of Israel, says. The jar of 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:27.200 flower will not be used up, and the jug of 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.560 oil will not run dry until the day the Lord 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.240 sends rain on the land. I read that scripture again 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.080 because that's so good. But y'all are still mad at 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.600 me about the other verses where he said bring me 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.520 some bread, and bring it to me first, and you're like, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.120 this is just like a man to preach this on 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.480 Mother's Day, And where is Holly, And we want Holly, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.320 we wan Holly, we wan Holly. I'm just reading you 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.919 the scripture that the Lord gave me to preach, all right, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.040 So let me do verse fourteen again because you need 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.640 to savor how good this is. This is awesome. This 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.040 is awesome, for this is what the Lord, the God 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.880 of Israel, says. The jar of flower will not be 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.360 used up and the jug of oil will not run 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.560 dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.920 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.280 So there was food every day for Elijah and for 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.680 the woman and her family, for the jar of flower 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.280 was not used up, and the jug of oil did 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.520 not run dry, in keeping with the word the Lord 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:39.840 had spoken through Elijah, or by the word spoken by Elijah. Okay, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.600 the Lord told me to tell you this for our 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.800 message today. Look at your neighbor and say, God promised 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.200 to give you enough. Look at your other neighbors, say 0:03:51.480 --> 0:04:00.360 God promised to give you enough until it comes. This 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:07.760 is the Mother's Day message. Enough until it comes. You're 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.160 waiting on something from God. He told me to tell 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:17.680 you prophetically, not pathetically, that he promised to give you 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:27.120 enough until it comes. All right, y'all, take your premium seat, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.479 and let's talk about this text, this story for a moment, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.320 because I'm surely not going to give a parenting sermon 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:39.520 on Mother's Day, but I might just preach a few 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:46.200 practical things from this passage about a prophet, a problem 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:52.720 and a mom, a prophet a problem and a mom. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:05:00.680 All the moms in the house make some crazy nolds. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.880 So you beat a mom and I'll be the prophet, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.720 and we want to talk about what God said enough 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:20.080 until it comes bias. But I think Holli Fredick would 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.520 beat all of y'all in a momming competition, not that 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.680 there is such a competition. We do give her a 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.200 hard time because every family that can't make fun of 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.919 itself is dysfunctional. So if you ever see a family 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:41.520 and nobody picks on anybody, that is a sad family, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.159 and trust me, I have to regulate and referee in 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.640 our house. Like that's enough. That's three times with Abby 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.840 and one time with Graham, and five times with Alla. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.159 Y'all leave your mom alone. But there's one thing we 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.440 all pick on her about. It happened right here on 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.279 this very stage. I want to say it was on 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.320 Mother's Day. I'm not sure make the story better if 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.159 it was, So let's say it was Mother's Day. She 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.200 was up here preaching, and after her sermon, I'm gonna 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.520 tell you why she did it. I'm gonna tell you 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.240 what she did after her sermon, She said, I want 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.440 to go into Waymaker. Y'all know the song Waymaker. Now, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.680 let me tell you something. I have written many songs 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.800 to bless our church. Waymaker is not one of them. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.599 I wish I wrote Waymaker. That's a great song, but 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.240 I didn't write that song. We didn't write that song. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:30.120 She stands in my pulpit, in my pulpit, and she 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.080 closes her message, and she's thinking about Jesus is the Way, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.080 and I know the way, so I know how she 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.640 got there. I know why she got there. But what 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.920 she said was devastating. She ripped out this songwriter pastor's heart. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.360 She said, you know, there's a lot of great songs 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:52.400 out there, graves into gardens, the Blessing Rattle, the songs 0:06:52.440 --> 0:07:00.679 we wrote, but my favorite is a Waymaker. You'll never 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.040 let her live it down. And what better way to 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.159 earn points with your wife after a two week tour 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.480 than to pick on her on Mother's Day And you're 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.400 opening sermon illustration right. We always do it every time. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.400 We'll say, mom, you want to see your favorite song, Waymaker, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.000 miracle Worker, promise Keeper. We love her so much, we 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.000 love her. You love you so much. You're so amazing. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.080 You're our way maker, You're our miracle worker. Okay, okay, okay, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.400 giving it up since it's your favorite song. If I 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.920 could have written it, I would have added one thing 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.480 to it. I want you to think about this real quickly, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.800 not just for the moms. Don't log off because I 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.640 said Mother's Day. That's not a code word to mean. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.680 This sermon isn't for you. This word is for you. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.480 But if we're gonna call out a waymaker, miracle worker, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:50.800 promise keeper, light in the darkness, also want to talk 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:57.320 about how he's a need meter, right, a need meter? 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.600 How good are you at letting God meet your needs? 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:12.400 And what do you tend to run to instead of 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:20.080 God in times that you need relief resource? And is 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.720 it possible that those things you run to are the 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.440 things that you have replaced God with in your life. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.400 Let me just look right here at my pulpit and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.600 not look at y'all, because y'all do not like this 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.680 sermon so far. But it's going to get good in 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.000 a minute. But first we got to talk about the 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.560 context of confrontation in One King seventeen with a prophet, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.920 a mom and a problem. Now the whole nation has 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:56.200 a problem called famine. Drought which causes famine, has now 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.680 become so severe that they've got the king's men out 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.000 search for grasp. And it's really his fault because he 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.640 brought this woman named Jezebel. I don't think there's many 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.200 preachers in America bold enough to preach on Jezebel on 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.920 Mother's Day except yours truly. And she is catched us 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:21.439 a Phoenician princess. But they worshiped different gods than Yahweh. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.160 So when Ahab decided to bring this Phoenician princess into 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:33.120 the ecosystem and the religious system of Israel, it caused 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.000 all kinds of compromise. Maybe not all at first, but 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.440 gradually it began to corrupt everything about the way God's 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.319 people worshiped the God who had called them and named them. Eventually, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.600 Ahab got so bald about it that he set up 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.120 a center for bail worship b Aal that was the 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.080 name of one of their gods that controlled the rain 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.200 and the fertility. So they thought, and they thought that 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.760 all the way up until Yahweh, the God that's the 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.600 real God, said okay, if Bail is so big and bad. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.200 Tell him to make it rain. Oh he can't. That's right, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.040 because I am God, I am the source. I am 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.320 the one I have the word that sustains life, starts life, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.480 ends life. And so that's kind of the context of 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.520 First Kings seventeen. I'll point that out to you because 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.200 both of the people in this passage of scripture that 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.839 I read to you are dealing with a problem that's 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:36.719 not completely their fault. The prophet Elijah has prophesied there 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.160 will be no rain nor do except at my word 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.440 over the space of the next few years. And he 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.840 said that to Ahab, and then he went into hiding 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.680 this woman. She's not even in Israelite. She's hanging out 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:56.640 inside on which happens to be Jezebel's hometown. That's the 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.080 one who is going to try to kill Elijah in 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.760 a few chapters after, he goes up on Mount Carmel 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.600 and says, hey, Bail, are you busy? Are you using 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.040 the bathroom? Send some rain since you're really God, because 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.080 you have to understand, this was a tremendously cruel and 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.040 tormenting system that the people were living under. Trying to 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.000 appease Bail, who wasn't a God at all. Depending on 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.240 a God who can't say it, depending on a God 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:26.560 who is not a God will leave you dry. I 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.960 want you to hear something from me today. I'm not 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.920 a prophet, but just as a preacher prophesy in God's word, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.040 everything you depend on that does not come from God 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:50.360 will eventually dry up. Preaching good pastor everything you depend on. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.959 I'll take it further, that is not God, even if 0:11:55.000 --> 0:12:00.800 it's good, will eventually dry up. Even people who like you, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.920 we'll get tired of you if you start needing them 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:10.000 to meet needs that God is designed to me. Some 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.840 of the people that you're angry with, they are good people, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.520 but they are not God. When you try to make 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.319 a good relationship of God in your life, it becomes 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:26.120 a idle. The passage in One King seventeen is about idolatry. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.200 It's about what happens when you decide to run to 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:36.640 the resource and neglect the source. I'm gonna break this 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.240 down till everybody in the room can confront it. When 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.400 I fill every spare moment of my life with social media, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.319 how can God speak to me if I run to that, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.400 If that becomes my first resource and recourse. Anytime I 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.680 want to escape my mind, then how can the peace 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.640 of God guard my heart and my mind? In Christ 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.079 Jesus or you could say that about sex, or you 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.360 could say that about a pill, or you could say 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.360 that about a doughnut. I can go all day long. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.720 How long do you have? I mean, I got a 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.440 big list of stuff that I've tried to run through, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.400 run to that wasn't God. And I said that accidentally, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.720 But it's kind of good. If you run to something 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.000 that's not God, you will run through it. Eventually. It 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.280 will not sustain you, it will not last forever, and 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:29.240 it can only give you so much. Now there's been 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.160 no rain in the land. Why because the people needed 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.360 to repent and come back to God. And maybe you 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.760 do too. Maybe you do too. Maybe you need to say, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.760 you know, God, I'm experiencing a dryness in my life 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.360 right now. That indicates the fact that I have been 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.440 replacing you with something that is not you. And see, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.360 I think dryness is often a gift that God uses 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:04.240 to direct us. God. God directs by dryness to show 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.880 you that something's wrong here. This isn't working here. Wow, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.920 I keep on putting more effort more effort, more effort, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.600 but I'm not getting more results. I'm not getting more joy, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.400 I'm not getting more peace. I keep doing more and 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.240 I keep feeling less. And that is a sign that 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.600 God is redirecting you to the text to the text 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.560 to the text. In One Kings, chapter seventeen, it says 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.720 that Elijah is hang it out by a brook because 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.000 there had been no rain in the land. You don't 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.320 know what restraint I am using not to preach about 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.520 the fact that he is suffering from the problem that 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:46.360 his prophecy cost. Did you catch it? He said there's 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.160 gonna be no rain. So God says, since I made 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.480 you say there's gonna be no rain, and since nothing 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.760 can grow where there is no rain, I'm gonna show 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.640 you where to run where you can receive even though 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.520 there's no rain. And it works for for a while. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.320 Eventually the Bible says that the the late autumn rains 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.680 and the early winter rains that were meant to replenish 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.160 the land didn't come. Now we know by nature that 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.880 the brook didn't dry up all at once. I mean, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.560 you don't go from a brook that's filled with water 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.000 to a brook that has no water. Just like that, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.880 And so every day Elijah wakes up, it's a pretty 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.480 good setup he has. All right, let me tell you 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.480 what God did. God's like, I'm gonna give you water 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.080 from the brook, even though there's no rain in the land, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.160 because you spoke a word. You spoke a word to 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.720 bring the people to a place, back to worshiping me. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.160 I'm gonna bring you to a brook, and I'm gonna 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.640 let you drink from the brook. But you need to 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.400 eat too, So I'm gonna send birds, not just any 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:55.160 birds you already dirty birds. I'm gonna send some ravens. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.520 These are unclean birds. For Jewish boy to eat from 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:03.400 a dirty bird, that's a bad system already. But God 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:09.880 would meet Elijah's needs daily through the mouth of a 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.280 bird that he considered unclean, and he would meet his 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.680 needs daily at the brook cad char it Ah the 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.560 Hebrew the charith Ravene. It gives the impression that he's 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.840 by this brook, and every day he wakes up there's 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.040 something for him to drink. How many of you would 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.040 say that in your life there were seasons where God 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:37.840 provided new mercies every day in your life, And let 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.960 me be more specific, you didn't know how, but he 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:47.440 kept you going. You didn't know how. I didn't add 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:54.600 uh like, it doesn't even make sense. But you had 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.480 something to drink doesn't even make sense. But you had 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.680 something to eat. Doesn't even make sense. But you got 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.120 up and went to your job, and your job sucks. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.400 You didn't want to be there. Sorry, Mom, you didn't 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.560 ask to be there. But I have watched in my 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:19.639 own life the times where something that was sustaining me 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.600 in one season started to go away in the next season, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.240 and it goes away slowly, And the Lord sent me 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.760 to minister to somebody today. Whose brook is drying up? 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.520 Whose brook is drying up? The thing that used to 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.479 bring your joy or comfort, it's no longer bringing it 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:49.160 to you anymore. Your brook is drying up, and you're thinking, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.880 maybe I did something bad, maybe I did something wrong. No, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:58.119 Elijah did exactly what God told him to and his 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:05.480 brook still tried. There is no indication that God gave 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:10.360 him a warning. Incrementally, in fourteen days, this brook will 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:16.840 be dry. He watched the water level go down, down, down, 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.560 and waited for a word from God to tell him 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.040 what to do about it. And when it says in 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.840 the Bible, the Word of the Lord came. In verse eight, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.480 it says nothing of the space before the Word of 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.320 God came, where Elijah had to sit there watch the 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.840 water level go down while his thirst increased and his 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.000 hunger was not abated, but his resource was not replenished. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.359 I don't know what's going on with my mic. The 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.520 devil must not want you to hear this. And the 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.280 Bible says that as it went down, Elijah, waiting for 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.240 the word of God to come, has to wait in 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.919 a place where he doesn't know where he's going next. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.560 I'm preaching to somebody today who is waiting for God 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.040 to give you your next step? Who is it? Who 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.720 is it? And you don't know what it is? Yet 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.320 you need God to show you your next step? Who 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.520 is it? You need God to show you a next 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.800 step in your life because God, I can't stay where 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.960 I am like I am where it is. This isn't 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.159 going to work. I have to move on, but I 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.280 don't know where. And now you feel like Abraham, who 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.000 God said, go to the place I'll show you. What 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:35.400 kind of weird life coaching is this? Go where I'm 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.520 gonna show you. It makes me think of Psalm one 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.200 oh three, verse one oh five, Verse one oh five. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.080 That's how long Psalm one oh three is you get 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.480 all the way to verse one oh five. And the 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:54.080 Psalmist says, your word is a lamp to my feet 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.040 and a light to my path. But I don't really 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.159 like the fact that God's w is compared to a 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.760 lamp to my feet, because what I really want is 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.399 a floodlight where I can see all the way to 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.639 my future ten years from now, especially as a parent. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.960 God show me exactly where my kids need to go 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.920 to college, so I can know how much I need 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.640 to save and when I need to put it there. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.359 And my kid is three. But God is not going 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.000 to give me the name of the college when my 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.640 kid is three, when I have barely got them walking. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.320 But in our walk with God, a lot of times 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.280 we won't take a step toward a destination we don't 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.640 know until God gives us all the details. That's not faith, 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.560 that's not faith. That's not faith. He had to wait, 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.440 wait for the next word from God, and until it came, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.200 God kept him sustained in a place that was enough. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:01.600 Wasn't fancy, but it was enough. It wasn't but the 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.040 birds got the job done. It wasn't five star, but 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.679 his belly stayed full. And God is sustaining some of 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.240 us in a place in this season of our life 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.080 watch this where it's enough. But we don't know what's next. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.119 And the problem isn't that God isn't faithful to us 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.120 in this moment. Wrong with us is we haven't read 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:29.359 Matthew six thirty four. Jesus has a word for everybody 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.560 who is trying to project out into the future, a 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.719 promise that God will not give you until you get there. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.639 If I came to preach this message today, just to 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.879 me and Holly, it will have been worth me putting 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.280 on this itchy Levi's jacket they tre Siah gave me 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.679 because Jesus said, here's your problem. Look at Matthew six 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.080 thirty four. Y'all got it? Well? I know the number 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:08.119 I need the verse. Thanks, that's helpful. Put it up 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:09.840 on the screen, y'all. Wake up, Wake up, wait, go 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.120 get somebody some coffee. Back there. Matthew six thirty four. 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:17.000 You got it. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:23.240 tomorrow will worry about itself. And then I love this part. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:31.520 Each day has enough trouble of its own, So wait 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.600 for the day to bring the trouble. It's gonna don't 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.280 borrow trouble from tomorrow that you may never even have 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.800 to face anyway, because God might do something about it 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:46.600 overnight Mother's Day. But I got a word from God, 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.359 and I realize that a lot of us are not 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.040 really losing the battle that we're fighting in the moment. 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.120 We're losing the battle that we're a imagining that's going 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:05.800 to happen out there. But sufficient is theday for its 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:10.840 own trouble, and sufficient is today's strength for today's struggles. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:17.800 But today's strength is not sufficient for tomorrow's struggles. And 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.960 God will not give you the entire plan. He told 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.720 him kind of like a GPS. He told Elijah, turn 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.919 by turn, go east of the Jordan, and there I 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.919 have directed these birds. Now he can't leave Elijah there forever, 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.040 because if he leaves Elijah in one spot long enough 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.080 where he provides for him, Elijah will begin to worship 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:48.520 the spot and think that the spot is God. Have 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.040 you confused the spot where God blessed you with the 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:59.000 God who blessed you there and worship the situation or 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.280 even worship the y'all. I say this about once a 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.400 year just to make sure y'all know it. If I don't, 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.359 if I don't show up to preach next week, you know, 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.639 my head gets cut off or something like that. I 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:12.359 don't know what might happen to me. Might be riding 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.400 a bike, might run under some cut my head off, 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.680 and I can't come preach. Got it. If that happens, 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.200 y'all still need to get to church because God will 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:30.199 put up here the person that you need. It's not me. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:37.879 I'm I'm just a dirty bird. I'm just dropping off 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.760 the stuff God wants you to have. God's got a 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.320 lot more birds now. I want to be the best 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.639 bird I can be. I'm trying to stay clean, stay holy, 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:51.520 stay studied, and all that. But God will not leave 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:54.439 you with the need that He will not meet. He 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:58.280 just might meet it differently in different seasons. And that's 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:06.040 intentional me. That's intentional because if Elijah had stayed at 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.280 the brook for the whole three years during the famine, 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.760 he probably would have been tempted to start worshiping the birds. 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:17.280 And how can he confront bail worship if he thinks 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.280 the birds that are bringing him. The food is God. 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.440 So the brook dried up, and God uses the dryness 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:27.679 in our lives, to dry places, to dry seasons, to 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:31.600 lead us to our next assignment. That make a little 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.760 bit more sense of why you've been feeling like you've 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:39.200 been feeling that God is using what is God using 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.520 in your life to move you. Now, Remember he doesn't 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:47.359 move him to somewhere more comfortable. He calls him to 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:52.199 somewhere even crazier. Is one thing to get water in 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:55.680 the wilderness, it's another thing to be sent to get 0:25:55.720 --> 0:26:01.280 it from a widow in enemy territory. So God will 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.720 send you to places to provide for you that you 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:11.119 may not prefer. I can't buy it. Amen, Holli, you 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.760 want to take over. I know it's good. The Lord 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.200 told me it was good. He told me to preach 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:19.920 this word to you today because He wants to show 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:23.560 you that the dryness in your life is not a 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:27.639 sign that He has left you. It is a sign 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.800 that He is moving you. I don't mean physically. I 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.720 don't mean physically. I mean moving you to new patterns, 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:37.800 moving you to a new way of doing things, moving you. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.560 If we want to make it a Mother's Day, sermon 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:43.720 to a new way of parenting your kids. And I 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.679 think the greatest skill to learn in life is the 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:52.560 difference between what you can control and what you can't control. 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:58.680 Now in the story, in the story, both the prophet 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.639 Elijah and the mom who he's going to meet, he 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.520 doesn't know he's going to meet her yet. We'll be 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:07.360 about to find out. And you're about to find out 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:10.680 why God is working in your life. But he will 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:13.359 not tell you that and tell it's time for you 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:19.440 to know. So say this out loud. I know enough 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:32.440 for now, eat memm. I know enough for now. When 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.400 I need to know more, God will show me more. 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:40.199 And sometimes while I'm waiting for the next word to 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:44.440 come from God, I am still stuck in the last 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.199 thirty words he spoke to me that I haven't done 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:56.080 a thing about you. You have enough Bible verses in 0:27:56.160 --> 0:28:01.600 your phone right now to beat the devils behind back 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.119 to Timbuck two every time, or wherever he comes from, 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.639 you can beat him back to the sixth level of 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:10.840 Hell with the scripture you have. Well, I need a 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:13.200 word from God today. Okay, I know what you mean 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.520 by that. But the last word you heard from God, 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:21.720 did you walk in it because a lot of times 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:24.719 I don't. The Lord already told me some stuff to do. 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:29.679 I just don't like that stuff. So I'm addicted to 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:31.919 the feeling of the next thing that he tells me 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:37.320 to do, because the next is sexier, and the last 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:39.160 thing he told me to do, I don't like it 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:41.160 very much. One thing he told me to do in 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:43.000 the Bible. This is a Bible verse, y'all. This is 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:45.680 not a personal word. This is a universal word in 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:48.200 the holy scriptures of Almighty God. Yeah, Wah, maker of 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:51.840 Heaven and Earth. He said, do everything without complaining and grumbling. 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:58.720 I'm still working on that word. You hear me, And 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:00.760 in the meantime, a lot of time you'll use it 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:02.520 as an excuse. Well, I don't know how, I don't 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:04.720 know where, I don't know what. God. If you show me, God, 0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:06.640 if you tell me God, no no, no, no no no, 0:29:07.160 --> 0:29:11.760 you know enough right now, and if you need it 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:17.680 to know more, he would show you. You know enough 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:24.520 exercises to be in good shape. You've heard of push ups, 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:30.360 You've heard of sit ups, You've heard of dumbbells. You 0:29:30.400 --> 0:29:33.959 know to put this down and pick this up and 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:38.920 do that over and over again. You know enough, it 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:42.440 was enough. He was by the brooks. He wasn't stressed, 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:44.960 he wasn't confused. If he was, the Bible doesn't say. 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:48.680 He just waited until the next word, knowing that if 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:52.200 God fed me here, if God replenished me here, if 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:55.520 God sustained me here, if he took me in this wilderness, 0:29:55.680 --> 0:29:59.240 if the birds brought my food, whatever is next will 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:03.080 have what I Whatever is next, we'll have what I need. 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.880 Whatever is next, we'll have what I need. And I 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:10.160 don't even need to know what it is. So the 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.880 Lord was preparing you in Canada while my last MD 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:17.720 was leaving. I'm not mad at him, but God had 0:30:17.760 --> 0:30:22.480 you in Canada. He was practicing in Canada to my sermons, 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:25.280 and we had never met, we had never interviewed him. 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:29.800 And LJ would play organ to my sermons to practice 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:32.960 before I ever even knew that. On the eighth day, 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:36.920 God made LJ. Now, let me break this down real 0:30:36.960 --> 0:30:39.960 specific for you. That means, like I know, we all 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:42.520 want to know, especially if we're talking about with our kids. 0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:45.000 We all want to know every struggle that they're going 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:47.680 to face, and we all secretly fear that we're screwing 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:53.800 them up because we all the kids. Cover your ears. 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:55.600 I don't want you to hear this part. We don't 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:59.000 know what we're doing. Cover you years. I don't want 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:03.840 you to know that I am bluffing you every day. 0:31:05.600 --> 0:31:08.480 I am tour guiding you through a terrain that I 0:31:08.640 --> 0:31:15.360 barely survived as a teenager. And I love God because 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:24.920 he's so good. Oh Lord, oh Lord, help me, help me. 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:32.480 Help them see that you know enough, and when you 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:37.560 need more wisdom, God will send more wisdom. And when 0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:41.040 it comes to point, remember when Harold Staley used to 0:31:41.040 --> 0:31:43.560 teach me guitar, and then he finally said, you need 0:31:43.600 --> 0:31:48.400 another teacher. I have taught you everything I know, so 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:52.320 he moved me to another teacher. I'm glad he did that. 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:55.520 I'm glad he did that because it gave me an 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:59.360 illustration for how I can trust God that when it's 0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:03.080 time for a new stream or a new teacher, he 0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:07.520 will use something to move me along. Now, can we 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:14.600 do a quick parenting conference? God knows what's next. He 0:32:14.640 --> 0:32:18.240 doesn't want you to, because if you did, you'd screw 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:24.120 it up trying to be him. You would make an 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:28.160 idol out of your idea of what your kid's life 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.680 needs to be, and you would end up depending on 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.120 bail to send rain instead of waiting on God to 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:42.840 send his So a confession. God is going to send 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:49.040 everybody that my kids need into their life. And while 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:51.600 you're at it, Lord, keep all those other ones out. 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:55.640 I don't care what you have to do. Relocate their 0:32:55.720 --> 0:33:00.880 parents at another job in Kansas City, whatever, Lord, because 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:02.960 you know what they need and I don't. That's my 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:05.160 favorite prayer to pray before I preach. I've tried a 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:08.400 bunch of them. Okay, but this one seems to work best. Lord, 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:11.480 they need something I don't have, You do give it 0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:15.320 to them through me, and then the Lord speaks to me. 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:19.360 It said, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:23.400 and then it came through Elijah. Because really, the brooks 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:27.280 drying up had nothing to do with the prophet, did it. 0:33:27.280 --> 0:33:33.000 It had everything to do with this mom talk about vague. 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:37.080 God said, I'm gonna send you to a widow in 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:42.120 a region. Go to Sidon. Now, Zara Fhat is seven 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:44.280 miles south of Sidon, so he actually has to go 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:47.680 even past he has to go way out there. And 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:49.640 the Lord's like, I'm gonna send you to a widow. 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:53.200 Let me tell you something. A zip code is not 0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:56.720 an address. So when the Lord says, go to Sidon, 0:33:56.800 --> 0:34:01.920 I'm gonna be like, all right, socif it can, I 0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:05.920 get the street number. And the scripture says, I know 0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:07.440 you might have forgotten it. I read it a few 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.360 minutes ago and said that when he got to the gate, 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:14.160 there was a woman there that was gathering sticks, two twigs. 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.840 The original language says, and so she's got two twigs, 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:23.200 and she's got a son. And I noticed this as 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:28.960 Elijah's brook was drying up. This woman's son was dying. 0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:36.120 So God the need meter knows that his prophet needs 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:42.280 a meal, and this mother needs a miracle. And God 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:45.680 is this sovereign. God is this sovereign that he will 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:49.920 take a need, and take a need, and put a 0:34:50.040 --> 0:34:54.200 need next to a need, and he will get in 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:58.160 the middle of those needs, and he will create a 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:03.600 space for himself that is called grace, and supply all 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:10.080 of your needs according to his riches in glory. I 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:14.120 might stay at eleven thirty and preci this again, God 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:17.839 is that good at his job. God is good at 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:23.520 his job. God is good at his job. And in 0:35:23.600 --> 0:35:27.680 some of our lives. God wants his job back. We 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:31.160 have been trying to do God's job. We have been 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:34.160 trying to make it happen in our own strength. We 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:36.600 have been trying to manipulate it in our own strength. 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.879 And that's why we're stressed, because any strategy that does 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:43.959 not start with God as the source will dry up. 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:46.719 And now your strength is dried up. And now your 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:49.400 friends aren't calling you back, and now nobody wants to 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.160 talk to you, and now you have no energy, and 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:54.840 now you have no ideas because you're too tired to think, 0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:57.920 and you're filling all of the empty spaces with everything 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:05.880 but God. And he redirects this prophet to a mom 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.400 so that the mom can feed the prophet, or is 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:12.759 it so that the prophet can feed the mom. I 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:17.040 can't figure out who God is trying to meet the 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:21.239 need of today? Is he? You did? God give me 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:25.400 this word? Because He gave Elijah her word. But unless 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:29.400 his brook dried up, she couldn't get her word. Everything 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:36.120 that you go through isn't just about you. His brook 0:36:36.239 --> 0:36:38.120 was drying, her son was dying. Gossip I gotta get 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:41.399 you there. She's not even a follower of y'ah wigh. 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:44.759 She says, the Lord, your God. You got this god 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:49.520 telling you to ask me for bread. I don't have it. 0:36:50.560 --> 0:36:53.080 Come on, be real. Have there been some moments in 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:57.319 your life this week where you said I don't have it? 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:03.680 Maybe you said it about I don't have it. I 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.319 certainly don't have it to give to you. Maybe you 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:08.160 said that this week I don't have it. Maybe you 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:09.560 were lying, but you just don't want to give it. 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:13.239 I don't have it. I know somebody in here has 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:18.839 said that this week about patience. I do not have 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:26.160 a single nerve left for you to get on. I 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:28.359 would invite you gladly to get on my last nerve, 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:30.719 but my last nerve was gotten on three weeks ago. 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:32.520 And so if you come on this nerve, you need 0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:35.200 to know it's already gone. So whatever happens when you 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:37.000 try to get on this nerve, you just need to 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:44.120 be forewarned. I don't have it. I'm out. In fact, 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:50.840 you caught me making the final arrangements because I have 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:59.480 just enough left. Of all the widows, Jesus mentioned this 0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:02.920 woman and looked for right beside naming, he says that 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:04.960 there were many widows in Israel, in the time of 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:09.960 Elijah the prophet. But he was sent to one and 0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:12.920 he said, give me some water, and she said fine, 0:38:14.080 --> 0:38:18.160 because it was customary. But when she asked, when he 0:38:18.239 --> 0:38:23.480 asked her for bread, she had enough, and she told 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:28.560 him how it really was, I don't have it. In fact, 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.000 translated like this, it would be like we're saying, I 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:34.280 swear to God, I don't have it. That's what she said. 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:36.520 By the Lord your God, as he lives, I don't 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:40.239 have it. I'm not lying to you, I don't have it. 0:38:42.040 --> 0:38:45.000 So Lura said, you're going to be preaching today to 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:50.439 some people who are weak and weary, and they don't 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:54.040 have their own water, and they're trying to give water 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:57.000 to others. Look at me preaching the Mother's Day message 0:38:57.040 --> 0:39:06.200 after all, trying to organize somebody else's life when you 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:11.560 wish somebody would come help and organize yours, telling them 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:13.759 to clean up their room when you've got a few 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:15.759 spots that you would like to get to also. But 0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:19.200 now you've got to teach them responsibility even as you 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:23.319 deal with your own resistance. This is the scene at 0:39:23.400 --> 0:39:30.640 zerafad Zeriafad Jezebel's hometown, the one he would ultimately confront 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:32.680 and the Lord said, I'm going to send you to 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:38.279 this place with your need so you can meet a need, 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:46.719 so I can meet your need. That's parenting. God uses 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:50.799 what your kids need that you don't have to show 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:53.040 you what he's given you that you don't recognize yet. 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:03.279 All right, you're ready for this. This is what I 0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:05.480 got up to tell y'all. Honestly, y'all need to bring 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:07.319 a little more energy for me to give you this point, 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:10.399 because I've been in these arenas all week and they 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:17.520 were excited to be there. Okay, okay, all right. That's 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:19.400 my son and I feed him to support me. So 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:22.000 that's how bad it got. All right, sit down, sit down, 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:32.719 let me teach you. The prophet was the problem, and 0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:39.200 the problem was the prophet. They both start with pe 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:41.560 Can you break it down a little bit? I sure can. 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:44.960 When he said there's no rain, that's why she was 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:48.320 gathering sticks, because the land had stoppedroducing because of the 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:51.799 word he spoke. In obedience to God. The word he 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:57.279 spoke was responsible for the problem she had. So he 0:40:57.360 --> 0:41:04.400 shows up as a prophet and as a problem. Some 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:06.439 of the problems that show up in your life aren't 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:14.200 just problems. They are prophecies in disguise, designed to show 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:18.520 you what you have that you don't. No, no, no. 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:22.279 I remember Holly preaching on running on empty last Mother's Day, 0:41:22.560 --> 0:41:25.160 and it was so good because she preached about this 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:27.399 this widow. She preached about this widow and second King's 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:29.960 four and the woman was in the same situation. She 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.480 was desperate, she didn't have she didn't have it. She 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:35.440 was she was in a bad situation. The creditors were 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:37.040 coming to take our kids. And so she went to 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:38.400 the prophet, and the prophet said, what do you have 0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:40.319 in your house? And she said nothing there excepted a 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:42.080 little oil. And he said, well, go get some jars. 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:44.759 And it said that the jars were filled. I mean 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:47.680 so many jars were filled that they ran out of 0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:50.680 jars before they ran out of oil. But let me 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:54.160 show you something specific about this miracle. Oh, when the 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.520 Lord showed me this, I had to stop and write 0:41:56.560 --> 0:41:58.680 it down because I didn't want to forget it. It 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:01.960 was in verse fourteen when Elijah gives the prophecy. And 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:05.920 I believe I'm prophescient to some moms, some dads, some teenagers. 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:08.920 I believe I'm prophecying to some single people, some married people, 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:11.960 and other words. If this is your word and you 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.640 need a word from the Lord today, I believe God 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:17.840 has authorized me to tell you this from verse fourteen. 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:20.759 From his word. This is a word for you. Say it. 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.520 This is a word for me. Say it. This is 0:42:23.560 --> 0:42:26.000 a word for me. Say it again. This is a 0:42:26.040 --> 0:42:29.080 word for me. For this is what the Lord, God 0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:32.840 of Israel says. The jar of flower will not be 0:42:33.000 --> 0:42:36.439 used up, and the jug of oil will not run 0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:41.600 dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:44.680 There's a prophet who is waiting for God to give 0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:47.000 him a word that he can speak that will open 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:49.600 the heavens and bring the rain, and bring the repentance 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.200 of the nation, and bring the destruction of the false 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:55.160 prophets of bail and deliver the people to the freedom 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:58.919 of worshiping Yahweh. There's a prophet waiting for the rain. 0:42:59.200 --> 0:43:02.279 There's a woman waiting for the rain. And while they 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:05.600 are both waiting, God sends a word. And this word 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:09.319 is for your situation and for your children and for 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:20.040 your family. The jar and the job. He said, there's 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:23.600 gonna be enough. Somebody say enough. Put it in the chat. 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:27.359 Enough enough enough, There's gonna be enough in the jar 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:33.359 and enough in the jog. Wait a minute, Elijah, don't 0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:40.880 you mean jars and jugs plural? Nope? I said what 0:43:41.000 --> 0:43:44.160 God told me to say. There's gonna be enough in 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:52.239 the jar and the jog. One jar, one job. It's 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:56.560 not gonna be ten jars and tin jogs. It's not 0:43:56.600 --> 0:44:00.439 gonna be one hundred jars and one hundred jogs. As 0:44:00.480 --> 0:44:03.400 a matter of fact, it's not even gonna look like 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:06.200 it was any more than it was before you brought 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:11.279 it to God. But it won't run out. It won't 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:15.840 run out. I'm praising him for all the times in 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:20.319 my life where it seemed like it wasn't enough. But 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:24.840 he said, my graces sufficient, My strength is made perfect 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:29.600 in your weakness. It was one job and one junk, 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:33.360 But watch God, what was in that jug was enough. 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:37.000 And I came to tell somebody, you got enough in 0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:40.040 your junk to do your job. You got enough in 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:43.400 your junk to raise your family. You got enough in 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:46.920 your jog to make it through this dry season, this 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:51.160 hard place. There's enough in your junk. There's a word 0:44:51.239 --> 0:44:57.000 in your spirits, there's a breath in your love. I 0:44:57.080 --> 0:45:00.839 feel God on that there's enough in my job. There's 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:05.000 enough in my jog. I don't have fifteen jugs, but 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:08.360 I've got enough oil in one jug that if I 0:45:08.440 --> 0:45:15.840 would use it, watch this daily, drop by drop by drop. 0:45:16.120 --> 0:45:19.040 She ate through the whole famine and fed the prophet 0:45:19.160 --> 0:45:22.799 and served God's purpose and saved her kids, all by 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:30.320 understanding that God promised to make it enough until the 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:35.720 rain comes. When God said you needed to hear today 0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:47.600 that He's going to give you enough until it comes, 0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:54.360 enough until it comes, because you may not feel freedom 0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:56.720 right now, but God is going to give you enough 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:03.200 grace to make it until freedom comes. When we fight 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.399 to be free of things, we feel like we're never 0:46:05.480 --> 0:46:08.280 gonna be free, and we think that until we feel 0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:11.480 free God, God can't really use us. But God said, 0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:16.840 my grace is sufficient for you, and my strength is 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:18.880 made perfect in your weakness. So I see what you 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:30.799 still struggle with. But greater is he You want this 0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:36.080 word or not? He said it will be enough until 0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:38.960 the rain comes. He does not tell her it's going 0:46:39.000 --> 0:46:41.000 to reign in a year because he doesn't know either. 0:46:42.040 --> 0:46:44.800 But they are both in the same place. The prophet 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:47.880 and the mom looking at the same problem, trusting in 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:50.759 the same God, believing in the same word. It was 0:46:50.800 --> 0:46:52.920 the word at the brook, It was the word in 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:55.600 zarah Fath. It was the word when you were twelve. 0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:58.359 It is the word when you are seventy two. It 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:03.200 will be the word that sustained, and it will be enough. 0:47:04.719 --> 0:47:08.560 So while you wait for the rain, rejoice in the 0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:14.160 space between, because God said, I'm gonna give you meantime 0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:19.240 miracles while you're waiting for the change, while you're waiting 0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:22.239 for the maturity, while you're waiting for it to take through. 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:24.480 The Bible says train up a child in the way 0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:26.480 they should go in. When they are old, they won't 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:29.480 depart from it. So how do I have enough patience 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.080 to keep from killing him till they can get old 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:35.080 enough to do what I taught them? God said, my 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:38.080 grace is sufficient, and if you will lean on me 0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:41.480 and learn from me and listen to me, it will 0:47:41.520 --> 0:47:49.600 be enough until it comes. And all your life, God 0:47:49.640 --> 0:47:53.840 has been leading you from Brooks to Sidonce to Caramels, 0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:57.880 from Brooks to Sidonce to Carmels, and every space in between. 0:47:58.400 --> 0:48:05.719 He has been good, and he has been God. So 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:11.440 as simple as it sounds whatever you have like the 0:48:11.480 --> 0:48:15.760 woman that isn't even enough to feed an extra guest. 0:48:16.800 --> 0:48:19.200 Whatever strength do you have, whatever skill you have, just 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:20.719 so I can know, just so I can know, because 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:22.000 I need to know, because I need to adjust my 0:48:22.040 --> 0:48:25.080 approach if I miss this bad. Is there any moms 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:28.520 in here that had been feeling in the last little bit, 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:30.560 in the last season. I don't mean thirty years ago 0:48:31.280 --> 0:48:35.080 that you are not enough for the job, just feeling 0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:39.640 like that. There are literally eight people here who felt 0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:42.600 like they're not enough. Okay, so let me tell y'all 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:44.040 what you need to know. For the eight of y'all 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:47.960 that feel that way. There is enough in your jar 0:48:49.120 --> 0:48:55.160 and your job for you to do your job, but 0:48:59.760 --> 0:49:07.800 there's not enough for you to do God's job. He's 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:10.960 the one who has to make it happen. He's the 0:49:10.960 --> 0:49:13.600 one who has to make it work. He's the one 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:18.560 who has to prove himself faithful. Not you. You're a steward. 0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:24.080 That means you get to give it back. I love 0:49:24.200 --> 0:49:27.440 being a pastor because I know it's God's church. So 0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:31.480 I tell the Lord here it is back. It's covid Lord, 0:49:31.520 --> 0:49:34.000 we can't have church here. It is back, what do 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:37.200 we do now. I don't know what the future is 0:49:37.239 --> 0:49:40.359 ten years from now, neither do you. But God said, 0:49:40.400 --> 0:49:44.399 until I show you what's next, what you know will 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:47.840 be enough until it comes. Now you go worrying about tomorrow. 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:51.480 God cannot defend you from a battle. He didn't call 0:49:51.520 --> 0:49:59.480 you to fight. And if you keep waiting, if you 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:05.400 keep waiting for fifty more jars, if you keep waiting 0:50:05.440 --> 0:50:07.280 to the fact, because I'm telling you what's gonna happen, 0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:09.719 You're gonna think when I have this much money, when 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:12.480 my kids get this old, when I get this opportunity, 0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:17.680 it still will never be enough until you really truly 0:50:18.400 --> 0:50:28.000 believe that He is enough. So come on, thing, come on, singers, 0:50:29.000 --> 0:50:31.400 I want us to I want us to sing the 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:34.280 words we sang them earlier. Today we sang them many times, 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:39.640 but I want to sing it over every prophet who 0:50:39.640 --> 0:50:43.359 God is giving a word to, every mom that God 0:50:43.440 --> 0:50:45.880 is giving a miracle too. And I want us to 0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:49.600 sing it over every problem that you need to bring 0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:52.120 to God today. Did you notice what the prophet said? 0:50:52.280 --> 0:50:57.000 He said, bring me some of what you have. And 0:50:57.040 --> 0:51:04.080 when she did that, it was always enough. As we 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:07.000 wait in these spaces, for answered prayers. As we wait 0:51:07.080 --> 0:51:09.960 in these spaces for test results, as we wait in 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:15.440 these spaces for situational resolve, we have to know that 0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:25.319 His word is enough until it comes. So God, just 0:51:25.320 --> 0:51:29.200 like Abraham finally got to the place and you had 0:51:29.200 --> 0:51:32.360 a ram in the bush, and he called that place 0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:37.800 Jehovah Gyrah, we choose and decide today in our hearts 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:41.760 to call you Jehovah, and we call this place Gyra. 0:51:45.040 --> 0:51:50.000 That the Lord will provide. And I want to pray 0:51:50.000 --> 0:51:53.680 for somebody who's been tormented by what they don't have. 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:57.080 They've been, They've been threatened by what they don't have. 0:51:57.120 --> 0:52:04.959 They've been, They've been restless, withdrawn, depressed because I don't 0:52:04.960 --> 0:52:09.839 have it. I mean, if it's a mom, if it's 0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:13.319 a dad, if it's somebody who doesn't have kids, you 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:18.839 see every need God, I don't. But whatever they thought 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:22.040 they were not when they came in here today, it's 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:24.120 just a space for you to show off who you are. 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:28.799 We talk tough and we say these things God, but 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:32.239 we need to live like that to bring you the 0:52:32.280 --> 0:52:36.120 little that we have and watch it become more than 0:52:36.239 --> 0:52:42.000 enough in the hands of Jehovah. Jirah just like you 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:44.520 did when I started. I want you to cup your 0:52:44.520 --> 0:52:48.640 hands toward heaven, like if you had a father who 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:52.200 knew how to feed you, Like if he would send 0:52:52.239 --> 0:52:57.000 birds to drop food for you, like if he would 0:52:57.000 --> 0:53:00.520 send Elijah to your doorstep as you were gathering sticks 0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:03.480 to feed your family. And I want you to take 0:53:03.520 --> 0:53:06.360 a moment in silence all of those voices that have 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:08.919 been telling you. Look at you, you're not smart enough 0:53:08.920 --> 0:53:11.000 to raise that daughter. You can't even help her with 0:53:11.040 --> 0:53:13.719 her math homework. Look at you, you're not tough enough 0:53:13.760 --> 0:53:15.560 to raise that boy. You don't even have a man 0:53:15.640 --> 0:53:20.520 around the house. For everything that you're not, you are 0:53:20.520 --> 0:53:30.319 a candidate for revelation of who God is. After all, 0:53:30.360 --> 0:53:34.560 when God gave his name to Moses, he chose to 0:53:34.600 --> 0:53:40.360 self identify as I Am. That leads all the space 0:53:40.560 --> 0:53:44.920 in the world for any need that you will ever have. Now, 0:53:44.920 --> 0:53:47.399 I believe God is calling some people away from dry 0:53:47.520 --> 0:53:52.040 places of self dependence. I believe God is calling people 0:53:52.120 --> 0:54:00.359 into their next assignment. Today. Your jar, your jug more 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:04.120 than enough. If your jug needed to be bigger, if 0:54:04.160 --> 0:54:06.120 your jar needed to be wider, he would have made 0:54:06.160 --> 0:54:09.080 it bigger, wider. He would have made it, but he 0:54:09.080 --> 0:54:14.560 he put you there. You are the one that he chose. 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:19.279 And it's gonna be all right. God's got tomorrow, and 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:23.600 it's gonna be all right. God's got your babies, and 0:54:23.680 --> 0:54:28.120 it's gonna be all right. For the jar of flower 0:54:28.239 --> 0:54:31.839 will not run dry, neither will the jug of oil, 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:35.399 until the day the Lord sends rain. I know you're 0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:39.319 waiting on rain, You're waiting on some things. But God said, 0:54:39.360 --> 0:54:42.680 it's gonna be enough until it comes. I'm gonna send 0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:46.360 you everything you need. But until it comes, God is 0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:47.280 no less enough