FLEX 💪 SPACE

0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdeik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.480 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:18.720 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:25.480 Come on, somebody saying in the chest shout now out now, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:40.040 dance now, love now, live now, trust now. Thank you Lord. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:47.000 What an awesome, awesome, awesome thing to celebrate. Please do 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.040 not groove back there, because I will take up all 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.440 of my preaching time. That bass guitar in Shae Wooten's 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.639 hands is dangerous. He does these little leaks that make 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.600 me start singing again, and I'm not going to fall 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.160 for it. The devil is a liar, all right. He's 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.720 got hair like Jesus, but he's acting like Judas right now. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.480 He's trying to betray me. Oh, if you know the 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.240 joy of the Lord is in this place. If the 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.959 joy of the Lord is your strength, come on and 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.160 give God your favorite emoji. I don't know your favorite emoji, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.119 but if it is church appropriate, put it in the chat. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.640 I want to see you. I want to see you. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.039 You want to fight me, devil, you gotta fight my friend. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:34.800 I love it. My friend's name was Ish Hall. Remember Ish. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.440 He was the biggest, the biggest, baddest dude. And I 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.160 was like, Hey, if you start any ish with me, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.440 you got to go through Ish to finish it. How 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.680 many know that if if the Devil started it, God 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:57.040 is gonna finish it. Bad no way, way, way, way way, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:10.959 no way. Do we need to pray? Lord? I pray 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.080 for Pastor Steve, and he appears to be losing his 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.680 mind in quarantine. I'm kind of glad to lose my mind. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.000 My mind is always overthinking and overanalyzing and making up stories. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.040 I want to live from my spirit. I want to 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.919 see what God is showing me. I want to hear 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.520 what God is speaking Lord. In these moments we have 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.160 gathered together, we would much prefer to be together in 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.040 a watch party in Chicago, or maybe in a building 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:47.160 at our Concord location or our Greenville location. We barely 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.320 got to start that campus and we had to close 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.880 it because of quarantine. But we thank you Lord that 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.600 you are still making a way for us to meet together, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.040 and we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.880 That might look like buildings in one season, and it 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.480 may look like streams and screens in the next season. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.760 That's not our concern. But in this moment we have 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.520 decided to meet with you. I thank you for my 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.840 brother and my sister on the other side of this screen. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.480 Right now. I pray that you would connect us by 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.000 the power of the Holy Spirit, that the words I 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.360 speak today would go straight to their heart. Do a 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.680 bypass surgery, bypass all the beliefs that would keep them 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.200 from hearing what you want to say. Get into the 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.000 place where they can, where they can receive your word, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.680 receive a revelation. We give you all the glory today. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.520 We thank you that Holli Ferdick looks better at forty 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.920 than she did when I met her. I thank you 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.160 Lord that you gave me a wife who she only 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:53.520 goes from glory to glory, from pretty to pretty, from 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:58.160 strength to strength. We bless her today before her fortieth birthday, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:03.000 that the best is yet to that her ministry has 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.200 just begun. We thank you for the words she delivered 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.960 to us last week. She told us how you are 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.680 the bread God. Would you continue to feed her? Speak 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.200 to her nourish her as she refreshes us, may she 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.119 herself be refreshed. We thank you for what she means 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.760 to our church community around the world. Bless her so 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.640 much that she has to ask you to stop. Give 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.320 her a good measure, press down, shaking together, running over, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.240 In Jesus' name, I pray the same thing over your 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.000 life today. Put it in the chat. Which one you 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.760 like the best? Good measure, pressed down, shaking together, running over? 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.120 Pick one. I gave you four options. Good measure, pressed out, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.240 shaking together, running over, Good measure, pressed out, shaking together, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.240 running over. Put it in the chack. God is with you. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.400 What a mighty god we serve. Anybody who loves him, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:57.400 say amen at the top of your voice. I love him. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.279 I love him so much. I don't know if you 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:08.960 are ready to receive this word today. It's probably too 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.320 encouraging for you. You probably don't want to be encouraged. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.560 You probably want to be scared watching the news or 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.880 something like that, hearing them talk about all of bad 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.960 things that might happen. But I thought, you know, we're 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.680 all get in our fill of that anyway. I want 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.160 to bring you a good report today, A good report 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.720 and let me share this passage. It's a very, very 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.839 very beautiful selection of scripture. Indeed, one of the most 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:42.040 foundational for me in understanding faith and even in church leadership. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.800 How many times have you heard me talk about Isaiah 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.240 fifty four where he says to the nation of Israel 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.280 that I want you to enlarge and expand your frame 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.480 of reference. And I believe God is going to show 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:03.560 you some opportunities today that you haven't been seeing. He's 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.720 going to show you, by the spirit, some opportunities that 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.800 your mind has been unable to recognize. One opportunity that 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.800 you have right now is to invite somebody to join 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.680 in this worship experience. I'm going to give you just 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.479 a moment to find Isaiah fifty four and also to 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:26.440 invite someone to join with you. Send them a text 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.160 message say come to church with me. They're going to 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.760 be like I didn't think we were allowed to go 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.760 to church. Let me get my mask ready, let me 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.200 get dressed. I'm not dressed to be like. You don't 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.360 even have You don't need a mask, you don't need mascara, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.520 you need anything. But God has a message for you today. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.400 If you know somebody who's trying to put their life 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.560 back together. Text them right now or share this on 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.640 your social media. Put it on your story right now, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:57.120 because there is a word from the Lord. I'm giving 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.720 you a minute. Text me if the people are sharing 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.200 or not. I can't see whether or not they're sharing, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:11.640 so give me a statistic real quick. Do you remember 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.200 that show with Diddy where he was shut down the 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.840 studio if they didn't do what he wanted. I'm gonna 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:21.320 shut down the pulpit until y'all share this link. God 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:32.440 bless Shawn Combs Isaiah fifty four, verse one, Sing baron woman, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:39.200 you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.840 for joy? Why y'all waiting? We just said, don't wait. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.120 Shout now. I read you a scripture. What are y'all 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.640 waiting for? One thousand people? Two thousand people in the room, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:55.880 he said, Sing barn woman and shout for joy. I 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.800 know it's gonna scare your kids, but shout real quick, 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.880 come on, shout a shout of joy. You've been yelling 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.720 at your kids all week to clean up, But shout 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:15.560 right now, he said, because more are the children of 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.040 the desolate woman than of her who has a husband. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.840 Enlarge the place of your tent. Look at somebody and say, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.240 you look bigger than the last time I saw you. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.560 You were scared to say that to your wife, weren't you, Josh. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.600 That's wisdom, brother, enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:41.120 your tent curtains wide, Do not hold back. Strengthen your chords, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:47.080 or rather, lengthen your chords. Strengthen your steaks. Lengthen your cords. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.560 Strengthen your steaks. We're going to talk about those words 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.640 in a moment. For you will spread out to the 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:59.600 right and to the left. Tell somebody I need room. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.080 I need room. Well, y'all got plenty of it out 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.080 there today. For your descendants will dispossess nations and settle 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.319 in their desolate cities. Do not be afraid. You will 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.199 not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace. You 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.240 will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.320 your youth, and remember no more at the reproach of 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.360 your widowhood. I want to speak to you from an 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.480 unusual title today, but those of you in the construction industry, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.400 or if you've been renovating a house, or maybe you're 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.240 looking at buying a house. Maybe this term will be 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.840 a little more familiar. And since we've all been at 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.560 home a lot lately, more than usual, I thought I 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.880 would use as a title for this sermon, flex space. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.160 Flex space. You may be seated, Go get your stools 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:53.319 and come back. Ten nine eight seven six five. I 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.839 don't think they're going to beat the buzzer on this one. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.960 I wanted to tell you a story I I don't 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.600 know if you've ever heard this one for when we 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.280 were trying to get the Matthews Plaza where our offices are. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.960 Now you only know those as the offices of Elevation Church, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:12.679 But it used to be an Ashley Furniture warehouse, and 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:17.880 then there was a couple other stores. Okay, now stores 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.760 were these things that we used to go into to 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:27.000 buy supply. Oh man, The story, though, Abby goes like this, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.800 and then you can ask mister Chunks later if I'm 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.760 getting all the details right. But we were planning to 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.120 rent about forty two thousand square feet to make it 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.560 our offices and to have our Matthews campus back in 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.600 two thousand and seven. In two thousand and seven, now, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.560 some of y'all are just new to this ministry, and 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.600 you've never been to one of our physical locations. Because 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.079 now we have EPAM all over the world and God 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.600 is redefining what church is as we speak. We're excited 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.440 about that because our old preconceptions about needing to gather 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.640 together in a physical space to have a spiritual connection 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.440 were so limited that God did not place those limitations 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.480 on his church to begin with. He told Abram, go 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:05.959 to the land. I'll show you, and I'm going to 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.960 make you a blessing to the whole earth. He told Joshua, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.920 everywhere you put your foot, I'm going to give it 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.000 to you. So God is not confined to a location. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.439 We've just been confined to a mindset for so long 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.800 that God is exploding some of our limitations in this 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.760 season because he wants out of the box. Nevertheless, we 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:27.680 needed an office space. God doesn't need an office. The 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.760 earth is his footstool, but we need a desk and 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.679 internet connection. So we thought it'd be great because we 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.720 could get this forty two thousand square feet rent it. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.760 The church was growing and exploding, and listen, you need 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.520 to know some of the history of the church, because 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.400 there are tens of thousands of new family members that 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.920 were welcoming to Elevation Church. Over the course of the 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.600 last sixty six days, since we have not been able 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.760 to meet physically, God has increased our reach like never before. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.440 It's just like him to use a shut down to 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:09.240 show off all ain't ready for me. So we were 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.840 going to raise some money, which you have to have 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:18.360 to rent space. Okay, God inhabits the praises of his people, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.160 but if you want to inhabit a physical space, God 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.000 inhabits the rent payment and then you get to go there. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.560 That's how that works. It's transactional. And we set up 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.640 a meeting to take our donors over to the space 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.960 where we were going to lease forty two thousand square 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.560 feet and we were going to show them the space 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.720 and ask them to pay for it. Okay, I know 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.400 you probably remember certain moments in your life where you 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.000 got the worst news of your life, and I want 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.360 you to think about it right now. It's going to 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.080 bring the mood way down. We've been having fun so far. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.320 This is going to be very much a slam on 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.920 the brakes moment, but I want you to do it anyway. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.680 Think of the worst news that you ever got in 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.960 your life. This is not the worst news I ever 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.560 got in my life. At the time it was in 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.600 the top five. A lot of crap has happened since then. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.520 I don't even think this makes the top fifty. Now 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.280 at age forty, Live a little while, and it'll demote 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:19.559 the things. You know, God, this is a disaster. Live 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.959 a little while, you'll be saying that was a mild disappointment, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.960 that was a temporary setback, or you might even say 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.199 that was actually a blessing in disguise. Give it time, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.520 That's what I'm trying to say. Give it time, and 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.199 upon reflecting on some of the events of your life, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.280 you can see how the spaces where you thought God 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.120 had left you were actually the setups for him to 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.840 do some of the greatest things he did in your life. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:53.960 And So Chunks, who's our CFO. That's not his legal name, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:59.720 but he goes by Chunks. James is his legal name. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.240 But this day I wanted to throw him out of 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.400 my office because he brought me some bad news. And 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:10.600 he walked in my office Abby and told me the 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:17.160 deal is dead. Don't he said, don't get too upset, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.600 because I've done everything I can do. Don't throw anything 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.920 at me. It's not my fault. But there is a 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.640 tenant in the strip, mall am I saying this right, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.760 there's a tenant in the plaza that doesn't want us 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.280 to meet there, and they have an option in their 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:31.840 least to say that we can't meet there, and they've 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.120 decided to exercise their right to say we can't meet. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.000 And I said, well, who can we call? He said, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.880 I can't call anybody. Can we call ghost No, it 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.640 can't call Ghostbusters, can't call anybody. There's nothing left to do. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:48.880 The deal is dead. I said, okay, and he said, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.880 I guess I'll go ahead and cancel the buses. And 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.040 now I don't know what it came over me next, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.840 because I don't always have this much faith. I usually 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.320 don't have this much faith, but something in me. Have 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.360 you ever had something in you tell you that although 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.600 everything seems to be against you, that God is for you. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.680 And see in these moments where you feel that on 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.200 the inside you don't even know how God is going 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.440 to do it, but something in you becomes so convinced 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:20.320 that neither life nor death, nor angels nor demons, nor 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.880 the present, nor the future, nor the past, nor any 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.520 other power shall be able to separate me. So something 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.880 on the inside of me in that moment. I need 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.360 you to get this stood up against what was going 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.120 on around me at the moment. And although I didn't 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.560 understand what was going on around me, what was inside 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.600 of me? And I almost like felt myself saying do 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.640 you ever watch yourself saying stuff? And it's like you're 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.240 having an out of body experience and you're like, who 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.600 even is this talking right now? And I said to him, 0:15:51.800 --> 0:16:01.040 don't cancel anything going anyway. What are we going over 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.960 there to do? I said, I don't know, yeah, but 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:14.360 don't cancel the buses. We had two buses booked. Apparently 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.760 they were booked on a low budget because they had 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.560 no air conditioning. It was a Carolina muggy summer when 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.000 we loaded up our donors and said we are taking 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.960 you over to a building tonight and we are going 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.280 to pray. Now. We didn't march around the building seven 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.440 times or anything like that because we didn't want it 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.800 to fall down. We just wanted God to let us in. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.840 But we got down and we prayed. And I will 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.800 never forget the sight because some of you come on 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.360 this church and you're like in a consumer mode, and 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.520 you don't know this part of the faith that it 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.200 took for this family to exist all around the world. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.520 When they got down on their knees in the loading 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.880 dock of the Matthews Plaza and prayed, God make a way. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.920 And I need somebody to pray that right now, just 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.400 as boldly as you can. God make away. Now. See 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.160 the thing about praying God make away is you don't 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:12.399 get to define the way that He makes. So we prayed, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.520 and I think they have a picture of the plaza. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.080 I want to just show you something. This is where 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.879 we were, and this is what it looked like. And 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.199 now go to the next picture. This is what it is. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.840 I thought y'all would holler for y'ahweigh on that one. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.960 I thought y'all would shout to the Lord like Darlene 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.880 check in nineteen ninety six, because show them the first 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.480 one again, that's what it was. You can't get in 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:53.880 and here's what it is. Every time I drive up 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.720 to our offices, I have to remember that between what 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.959 it was go back and what it is was a 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:08.240 space where I did not know what God was doing. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.200 Why are you talking to me about an office plaza? 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.159 I'm not. I'm talking to you about this season of 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.720 your life, and God told me to call it flex space. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.840 Flex space, the space between. Give them the pictures one 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.680 more time, please the space between. Go to the second one, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.520 and that this and that. Don't worry. I'm not raising 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.040 any money. We don't even have, can't even go in 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.440 our buildings right now. I don't need to buy one. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.480 This is not a message about buildings. This is a 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:51.240 message about belief, about belief. And it was so cool 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.280 when Chunks was showing me all the plans for when 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.800 we finally were able to rent the space, because he 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.840 called me one morning and said the tenant that didn't 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.240 want us in just went out of business. I'm not 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.760 saying that God put them out of business. I'm just 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:14.399 saying that God made a way. I'm not here to 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.800 tell you the details of how he did. How many 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.280 of you know. I'm not saying that I deserve it. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.399 I'm just saying I've got it. I'm not saying that 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.560 it all makes sense. I'm just saying I have faith. Granma, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:32.439 my preaching too hard for these quarantine Christians. I'm not 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:37.359 saying it's not scary. I'm just saying God is with me. 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:44.840 I can't explain that, but I got it. So he 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.840 was showing me how on the blueprint because I'm not 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.240 very good at visualizing. This isn't my expertise. This is 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.280 Josh Blackson and chunks. They were showing me the square 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.560 footage that we were going to take over. We don't 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.520 own forty two thousand square feet of it. We don't 0:19:58.520 --> 0:19:59.959 rent any of it. We own one hundred and four 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.359 thousand square feet of it because God blessed us so 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.359 much that we're able to use all of it to 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.199 get the gospel out all over the world. That's not 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.240 my point. My point is this. When he was showing 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.840 me the square footage, there was one piece that when 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.200 we were buying the property, we were buying the entire 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.040 one hundred and forty thousand square feet. I said, what 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.760 about that space because it didn't have anything in it. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.600 This was going to be the creative office, and this 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.639 was going to be the auditorium, and this was going 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.320 to be the meeting room, and this was going to 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.479 be the conference room. I said, what about this space? 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.119 And there was a blank part right there where it 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.600 was just all this square footage that I said, we 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.160 We're just going to waste all that space. Now, Keshu's revelation. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.479 He said, no, it's not wasted space. That's flex space. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.000 I said, uh huh, And I know what flex space is, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.680 but just so I can hear your definition of it, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.399 What exactly do you mean when you say flex space? 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:57.840 And he didn't know it. He thought he was talking 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.040 about a building, but he wasn't. He was talking about faith. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:03.359 He thought he was showing me a floor plan, but 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.560 really he was showing me faith. He thought he was 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.439 pointing to a blueprint, but really he was teaching me 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.480 something about belief. He said, we want to leave this 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:16.040 space empty on purpose, so we can grow into it. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.639 You remember saying all this, You said something like this. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:26.600 This is the edited version, he said, because he didn't 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.560 probably say it this eloquently, but this is how I 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.439 heard it. Okay. He said, this space can be anything 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.120 we want. So at the time, look how it look. 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.760 This was the Ashley Furniture showroom. Look at that. I said, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.399 we're gonna waste all that space. We're not putting anything 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.320 in it. He said, it's not wasted, it's flex space. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.200 It's designed to be flexible. We don't want to put 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.439 permanent fixtures in this place yet because we don't know 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:50.800 what it needs to be based on how God is 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.320 going to bless our ministry, so we don't know what 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.320 ministry is exactly going to look like. But we're gonna leave. 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.320 We're gonna go ahead and take the space over, but 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.440 we're not going to assign a purpose for it. He said, 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.639 it's flex space. Now. In the last few years, let 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.200 me show you what I've seen. Next picture, I've seen 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.600 this space become an opportunity for us to stage and 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.240 set up campuses. You went too far, go back. This 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.480 is the equipment that is going out to one of 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.679 our campuses that we started in the last few years 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.080 flex space. Do you see all of those cases. That's 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.120 our teams getting ready to send out equipment to our 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.200 location so we can have church. Now, we didn't even 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.399 know we were starting the location yet when we were 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.119 dayed the space as flex space. But God knew the 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.399 space that we would need for the opportunity. We didn't 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.960 even know we would have. Next picture, this is our 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.679 Love Week team where we served our city over one 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:52.440 hundred thousand hours with Jamie Waldron's air pods Beta air 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.200 Pods with the cord in our ears, smiling because we're 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.800 feeding the hungry, and we're touching the people who know 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:03.280 nobody else is touching, and we're moving from this space. 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.320 This is not a warehouse, it's a headquarters. It's a 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:12.600 staging room. The stage is being set for compassion to 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:17.040 be released. Next picture. I saw our staff worship in 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.359 this space as we were growing and expanding, and what 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:25.320 looked like it was wasted was a stage that God 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:30.040 was setting. How many No, he takes what the enemy 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:41.680 means for evils. So he told me that Abby, He said, 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:47.919 that's called flex space. Flex space. Isaiah's preaching about flex 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:53.159 space to the nation of Israel. See, because this is 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.280 a very encouraging scripture on the surface, let's read it again. 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:05.400 Sing O baron, sing for you're about to have more 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:09.520 children than the woman who had children by natural means. 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:19.320 But I need you to sing before you see. I 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:23.000 got to tell you this because it's just been going 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:28.679 through my mind all week. Whatever you do, whatever the 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.879 enemy takes away from you in this season, For some 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.720 of you, he's limited your mobility. Your business is three 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:36.480 quarters of what it was, or one quarter of what 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.720 it was, or for some of you. You know, in 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:44.600 this season, it's almost like you lost all the progress 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.400 that you made on the last level. Did you ever 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.200 have somebody cut off your video game and you lost 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.840 your progress? That is kind of what the devil did 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:52.720 and come along and unplugged it while we were in 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.399 the middle. And Graham's looking at his mom right now, 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:58.080 because sometimes she'll call him to come take out the 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.960 trash and he'll say, Mom, I'm losing and I'm gonna 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:03.760 lose all my progress, and she just shout back, I 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.280 don't care about your progress. I care about this trash, 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:10.919 and I am calling you to a higher level of responsibility. 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.080 I'm more concerned about this kitchen being a mess than 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.080 I am about your progress with your Fortnite and your 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:23.560 Donkey Kong multi generational sermon. But listen to me. Are 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:27.560 you listening to me? If you're listening, say man, in 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:30.480 this season of feeling like you've lost some progress, oh man, 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:33.119 I was just getting here. And I even heard somebody 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:35.879 say to me the other day, I was just getting 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.240 in shape and they closed the gym. You can't do pushups. 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.880 Somebody else was telling me the other day. They said, 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.480 they said communication has gotten harder during this time, because 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:53.800 you can't see anybody face to face. I said, what 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:58.000 is this nineteen seventy two. When's the last time you 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:01.399 saw anybody face to face? Anyway? But see how excuses 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:05.960 come in to keep us from expanding. Excuses come in 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:08.480 to keep us from expanding. And instead of saying, what's 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:11.159 another way I could do this? Instead of saying, you know, 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:14.040 how could God? How could God actually take what the 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:18.840 enemy means for evil and turn it for good? We 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:25.680 wed ourselves to what it was, thereby prohibiting the potential 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:30.320 for it to be transformed. And the thing that I 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:34.760 wanted to say to somebody is, whatever you lose in 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:38.760 this season, whatever the devil takes, whatever the quarantine takes, 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:44.320 whatever the virus takes, whatever it takes, don't you ever 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:53.119 let the devil have your song? Your song? And I know, 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.480 I know you don't sing very good, but you still 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:00.920 need to sing. I asked one of my friends one time, 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:02.840 why don't you sing along in church? He goes, I 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.800 love the church and I love the music so much. 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:06.800 I said, that's weird because I always watch you and 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:09.600 you never sing. He said, well, I'm not a good singer. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:15.000 And he said sometimes I don't want to sing it. 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:19.119 If I don't mean it, I said, tell me more 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:20.560 about that second part. And I know you're not a 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:23.359 good singer. I've known that for a long time. But 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:25.520 the second one, what do you mean? He said, Well, 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:29.920 when we're singing something like you can have it all here, 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.639 I am you can have it all. That's a newer 0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:35.400 song that we've been singing called Available Here. I am 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:37.680 you can have it all, he said. If I don't 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:40.800 mean that, I don't want to sing it. I don't 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.159 know if the Lord gave me this or if it 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:44.199 was just my idea. I said, well, then sing it 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:49.520 till you mean it, Sing it till you do mean it, 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:53.800 Sing it till you do mean it. When you start singing, 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.320 it might be like a car that's kind of slow 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.679 to start up on a Michigan January fourteenth morning, and 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:03.560 it might go and your praise might be like that. 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:05.800 You know, it might take a little while to start up. 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:08.280 Let's be honest, some of y'all are just starting to 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:10.679 listen to the sermon. You have been running around. And 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:12.760 one of the things that I love about this this 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.840 time where we can't meet together, is it is teaching 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.800 you to multipurpose your home as a house for God's 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:23.480 presence to dwell. Now, one thing that I pray does 0:28:23.600 --> 0:28:27.400 not happen. Whenever we can come back together physically. I 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:30.160 hope you don't shut the church down in your home, 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:33.920 because the same way the Church is coming into your 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:38.640 home right now, your car, right now, your kitchen, right now. 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.600 That's what God wants to do. Psalm twenty two to 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:47.360 three says he inhabits the praises of his people. Say it, 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:51.880 He inhabits the praises of his people. God lives where 0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:57.240 praise does. God lives, Where praise does God lives, where 0:28:57.280 --> 0:29:02.000 gratitude is Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and enter his 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:06.160 courts with praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name. 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:10.160 He inhabits the praises of his people. So what I 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.120 do when I praise God, even if I don't feel it. 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:15.920 When I praise Him, I set the stage for the 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:19.680 feeling to come when I praise Him by faith. And 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:23.960 He inhabits the praises of his people. I need everybody 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:25.280 to do me a favor. We do me a favor. 0:29:25.400 --> 0:29:27.040 I'm preaching as hard as I can preach. I'm giving 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:28.520 you everything I have. I've been up here for the 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.080 last sixty six days of quarantine, giving you the Word 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:32.800 of God, doing everything I know how to do for you. 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:34.240 But now I need you to do something for me. 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:36.120 I want you to take your phone, or if you're 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:38.720 watching this on a phone, take somebody else's phone, or 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:40.240 if you could just turn it off for one second 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:41.280 and do what I'm about to tell you to do, 0:29:41.280 --> 0:29:42.880 then in turn it back on. I want you to 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.640 take a picture of where you are watching this sermon 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:48.400 and where you are worshiping God, and where you are 0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:50.600 praising God. And I want you to take a selfie 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:52.560 of it real quick. And I want you to tag 0:29:52.640 --> 0:29:56.200 me on Instagram stories or on Facebook, or just tell 0:29:56.240 --> 0:29:58.320 me in the comments of YouTube. But I want you 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:01.760 to tell me because I want see where God went 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:05.720 this morning. I want to see where God went this evening. 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:08.960 I want to see a picture of a place where 0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:12.960 the presence of God was. Where you realize, like Jacob, 0:30:13.480 --> 0:30:18.000 surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:20.560 And when you put your picture up and when you 0:30:20.720 --> 0:30:24.720 tag me, say God was here. God was here. God 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:28.080 was here. God was here. I didn't go to church 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:31.640 to meet with God. God came to me. I didn't 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:35.680 work my way to God. Grace came down, breaking out 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:40.360 of heaven and save my soul. Now, don't let the 0:30:40.440 --> 0:30:44.280 devil take your song. He's taking it off. Give him 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:51.840 a soud of praise right now, right now, right now. 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:58.800 Come on, that's not just the living room. That's flex space. 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:03.520 That's flex face. You didn't know when you were building 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.840 your house or signing the leaks on your apartment it 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:11.400 was gonna be a church. But God did his flex face. 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:20.720 Watch this, oh zeke, I appreciate you being a multi 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:25.120 purpose worshiper. He said, I can sing where I can serve. 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:30.280 I'm flexible. Somebody say I'm flexible. Look how he'd been 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:32.240 down and picked that up. I didn't even know he 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:35.560 was that fast. I didn't know your hamstrings for that loose. 0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:38.720 He just bent down. Come on, let's do a flex test. 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:42.800 How flexible are you? How flexible is your faith? Can 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:45.200 you touch your toes? Get up and let me see 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:48.880 you stretched. Come on, you've been closed up. The nation 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:52.840 has been closed down, your faith has been closed up. 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:58.440 But if you'll get moving, God will start working. Seesus 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:03.600 on the inside, working on the outside. Come on, I'm singing, 0:32:03.960 --> 0:32:12.400 I'm stretching. What can we do? Come on, get them up, 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:15.880 Get them up. My faith is flexible. I am not 0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:18.720 bound to what I thought God was going to do. 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:24.680 My plans changed, but Gods don't my plans. See was 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:34.719 his plan a good? What's wrong with y'all? Y'all are 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:38.680 supposed to be on lockdown. They didn't tell you it 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:44.400 was lockdown. You are not give me your attention real quick, class. 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:50.920 This behavior is inappropriate. You are supposed to be afraid. 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:57.480 You are supposed to be captive in Babylon. Don't you know? 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:02.080 Did I say A fifty four was not written on 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:07.240 the beach? It was not written when the dow Jones 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:12.120 was at thirty thousand. Don't you know that Isaiah was 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:16.080 a prophet, and the job of the prophet is to 0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:20.720 give people a vision that is not dependent on a situation. 0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:25.200 Don't you know that The only reason Isaiah was able 0:33:25.240 --> 0:33:29.160 to say, you can sing when you're barn, and you 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:33.800 can sing when you're scared, and you can sing and 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.200 you can praise, and you can get a thought and 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:38.760 let it flood your mind. The only reason he was 0:33:38.800 --> 0:33:42.920 able to see that in Isaiah fifty four is because 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:46.200 he saw it. In Isaiah six. He said, I see 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:49.320 the Lord seated on a throne high and lifted up 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:52.680 in the king in the year King. Issaiah died, I 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:55.280 feel like preaching now. I don't know what happened to 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.800 me today, but I've been I've been in the house 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:01.360 long enough. I've been I've been listening to the wrong 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:04.959 voices long enough. I've been trying to worry and figure 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:08.600 it out long enough. And God said, this is a space. 0:34:09.000 --> 0:34:13.080 I am creating space. Look, Isaiah said, the captivity is 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:20.160 an opportunity. Okay, so the nation of Israel, please let 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:24.480 me teach. This is getting completely out of hand. The 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:31.879 nation was in captivity for seventy years. It hasn't even 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:38.799 been seventy days since we stopped having physical church. And 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:43.319 some people not you. I mean, you're watching, right, you're here, 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.959 You're good. Send this over to the person who isn't watching, 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:52.359 because they had to keep hope for seventy years that 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:56.040 what Isaiah spoke would come to pass. That sounds so sexy. 0:34:56.040 --> 0:34:58.680 And this is where we really need to deconstruct the 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:03.200 context in order to underst than the premise. When Isaiah 0:35:03.200 --> 0:35:06.400 says seeing barren woman. He's not talking about a physical pregnancy. 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:09.800 He's talking about a nation. You will remember that the 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:11.880 nation of Israel was started in the womb of a 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:15.719 barren woman. God was trying to show us something from 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:20.480 the jump. He's trying to show us from the jump 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:26.399 that he fills the space as we call empty. We're 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:28.880 gonna waste all that space. No, we're going to use it. 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:36.480 We're gonna use what you thought was wasted. We're going 0:35:36.560 --> 0:35:41.799 to use what you thought was wasted. I wonder is 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:46.359 that what God is saying to you today, that what 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:50.400 you thought was wasted. God is going to use watch 0:35:50.440 --> 0:36:00.759 this to show himself strong flex space. He gave them 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:04.880 a weird command, and he gave them this command. This 0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:08.520 what was interesting. Two hundred years before it would come 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:13.840 to pass. Isaiah did not even live to see what 0:36:13.920 --> 0:36:17.879 he spoke of. He spoke of, Jesus, build a virgin, 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:19.680 will conceive embarrasson whose name will be a man? You 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:21.440 want the Grovern movie up on his shoulders. Isaiah said that, 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:24.920 but he never saw it. He said stuff that he 0:36:25.000 --> 0:36:29.680 never saw. He said stuff that he never saw. And 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:35.080 isn't that The challenge of faith is to keep speaking 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:41.560 and believing what God showed you. God, give me a vision. 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:46.279 I need a vision or I'll get distracted. I need 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:48.880 a vision or I'll get discouraged. I need a vision 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:54.640 or I'll die. Where there is no vision, the people perish. 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:58.120 A lot of us are dying right now because we 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:02.880 lost sight of what God spoke seventy years of exile. 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:08.640 By the time that they were taken captive into Babylonia, 0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:11.920 everything they knew as a way of life was destroyed. 0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:14.719 To the time that the first exiles came back was 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:18.839 seventy years. You know, Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, did 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:21.640 you ever have it on a cross stitch or a 0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:26.799 quilt or a Bible memory scripture page. I know the 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:29.120 plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:32.640 not to harm you. After seventy years, the plan became 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:37.839 a parent. That means it took an entire lifetime for 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:41.399 them to see what God spoke. And here's what I'm 0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:45.480 trying to say. It may take our whole lives before 0:37:45.560 --> 0:37:50.040 we make sense of certain things, but it is not wasted. 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:54.320 I'm preaching this to somebody. I got somebody on my 0:37:54.440 --> 0:37:59.440 mind right now. Your life was not wasted. Before you 0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:03.640 were four in the womb, God knew you, and God 0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:06.560 knew what would happen to you, and God knew what 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:09.560 would not come to pass that you planned on, and 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:12.480 he knows the plans that He has for you. And 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:16.839 what you've been calling wasted God sees as a stage. 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:20.360 Can I take it a little bit deeper? One prophet 0:38:20.400 --> 0:38:23.160 said to the king that the eyes of the Lord 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:27.239 are going to and fro all over the earth, searching 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:31.880 to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:35.520 are fully committed to him. Let's work backwards. Your heart 0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:38.600 is fully committed to God. That's the space that you've 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:41.319 given him. How much space have you given God to 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:44.040 work in your life? Or do you keep secret corners 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:46.560 for yourself. God, I'm gonna trust you with this much, 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:49.239 but not that much. God. I'm gonna give you this part, 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:51.560 but not that part. God. I'm gonna let you in here, 0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:53.959 but I'm gonna fake it over here. God, I'm gonna 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:56.040 go this far, but if this happens, I'm gonna start 0:38:56.080 --> 0:38:59.879 pulling back. Isaiah said, don't hold back, because the part 0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:02.960 of your heart that you don't give God becomes enemy. 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:06.520 Held territory. And that's where doubt takes over, and that's 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:09.560 where fear takes over. And that's why you can't seem 0:39:09.560 --> 0:39:13.640 to get short. Mine's straight because you gave God's territory 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:17.280 to your enemy. But today we came to take it back. 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:22.920 Here's my heart, Lord, he wants to show himself strong. 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:29.640 Somebody say strong, strong. For those whose hearts are committed strong, 0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:33.680 go ahead, make a muscle, say strong strong. God wants 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:37.000 to give you a strong heart. God said, the space 0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:40.080 in your life where you don't know what I'm gonna 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:44.080 do next, that's the flex space. That's the flex your 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:46.640 muscle real quick. If you got one, come on, flex it. 0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:49.279 If you don't have one, give me an emoji if 0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:50.759 you don't like the one you got, but you want 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:53.319 to use the one that's on the screen. Somebody say 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:57.359 flex I find out God loves to show off. God 0:39:57.520 --> 0:40:00.440 likes to take a nine foot giant down through a 0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:05.160 five foot three little boy. Why the differential between the 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.920 size of my giant and the size of me is 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:14.319 God's flex space. God said, I'm coming into your situation. 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:18.880 I'm breaking through like I'm strong and mighty. The Lord 0:40:19.040 --> 0:40:22.960 is my name. I know We're not supposed to flex 0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.080 in church, but let's flex on the devil real quick 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:28.400 in the name of the Lord. Come on, I'm not 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:33.440 backing down from any giant. I'm not backing down from uncertainty. 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:41.120 I'm not walking away from my promises. Flex space, flex space, God, 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:45.160 I love it. Graham, stand up in flex flex space. Son. 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:47.440 There are gonna be times in your life where you 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:50.800 feel weak. But guess what Paul said. When I am weak, 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:57.440 he is, so guess what your weakness is. Huh, what 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:01.440 is it? What kind of space? Flex You mean my 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:05.800 weakness is in wasted No, it's not wasted space. It's 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:09.560 flex space. Come on, instruments, do I have to tell 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:14.080 you what to do. God inhabits the praises of his people. 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:20.480 Let's take twenty seconds and praise him that twenty twenty 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:33.359 is not wasted. It's a setup flex space. You gotta 0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:36.399 stop acting like you're so perfect so God can have 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:41.480 some flex space. He can't operate, He can't be strong 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:44.840 while you're pretending to be. You need to come before 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:48.360 God and say I need you like I needed that breath. 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:51.600 I need you, God, I need you. This is not 0:41:51.719 --> 0:41:55.160 the time to hold back Isaiah said, he said, strengthen 0:41:55.680 --> 0:42:03.200 your steaks linked in your course. Strengthen and stretch. Strengthen 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:09.040 and stretch, strengthen and stretch. It's no good to have 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:17.480 strong faith if it's not flexible faith. Because he has 0:42:17.520 --> 0:42:21.480 strong faith. But your confidences and circumstances. What are you 0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:26.759 gonna do when they threw Paul in prison? Say the 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:32.560 word from two weeks ago, apple kara doquilla. Don't even 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:34.600 try on dictionary dot com. It's a Greek word and 0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:36.640 it's not even a real Greek word. Paul made it up. 0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.839 He was saying, look at the scripture from Philippians one twenty. 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:43.839 This is the fourth week of a series. Y'all thought 0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:46.239 the series was over, but it's not. This is the 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:51.279 flex space, This is the extra bonus sermon. I don't 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:53.799 even know if I'll stop this week, because I feel 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:57.760 God is doing every time we expose our old normal 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:03.680 to God's king order, our hearts grow, our faith grows. 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:06.959 Don't you feel it? God is growing your heart. God 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:09.720 is growing your capacity to trust him. But he needed 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:14.920 an uncertain place, like Paul needed a prison. So Paul's 0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:17.680 in prison, and you know the church is praying get 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:19.160 him out, Get him out, Get him out, Get him out, 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:20.960 get him out, get him out. Take it away, Take 0:43:20.960 --> 0:43:22.799 it away, Take it away, Take it away, Take it away, 0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:26.800 take it away. Everybody's always praying about that, circumstantial prayers. 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:29.000 You know, is that my sweat on the ground. Look 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:36.480 at that, Chris. That's amazing. Yeah. I found it interesting 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:41.759 that Paul decided to multipurpose his prison cell and turn 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:48.520 it into a pulpit. He said in Philippians one twenty. 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:54.320 He said, I know that no matter what happens to me, circumstantially, 0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:59.920 that what is within me can withstand. I know this 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.520 from my experience, and I know this from my revelations. 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:05.279 So I eagerly expect. Have you got the verse on 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:07.160 the lower third? I eager Is it up on the 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:09.279 on the screen? I look at it? Is it up there? 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:11.959 That's the feed right there? Is it on the screen? Yeah? 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:15.040 Put it up Philippians one twenty. I need it up there. 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:18.560 I need it up there. Somebody say, flex face, flex face, 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.600 He says, I eagerly expect. Y'all got Philippians one twenty 0:44:21.600 --> 0:44:25.000 for me? Is up? Is up? Are you ready? I 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:29.560 gotta get you to see this? Eagerly expect apple kara dokia. 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:33.440 Apple means to turn away, ignoring other interests. That's the 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:38.480 prefix kara means head. We could use this to understand 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:43.280 Paul's not talking about a physical situation, is he? Because 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:49.239 when he says apple kara dokia, dokia means to stretch forward. 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:52.680 And I know Paul never met Isaiah, but it's almost 0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:57.359 like they collaborated on these two scriptures. Because Paul is 0:44:57.440 --> 0:45:02.560 doing for the gospel in p what Isaiah was prophesying 0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:11.520 to the nation in Babylon. He's stretching, stretching. You know 0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:17.960 why all of the planners are having heart palpitations right now. 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:21.759 It's like this season that we've been in, it is 0:45:21.920 --> 0:45:27.799 punishing the planners. The procrastinators are loving quarantine. It's like, yeah, 0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:31.120 let's go, let's go. I'm suffering for the Lord. You're 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.120 not suffering for the Lord. You're eating ice cream and 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.200 loving it. You haven't been out of your pajamas in 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:38.279 four days. Even watching this church you are loving it. 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:43.040 But see Paul. We talk a lot about Paul's faith, 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:46.239 right Oh man, he went through a shipwreck. He wasn't 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.120 trying to get in a shipwreck, but he was flexible 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:53.560 enough to know that even if the boat breaks, I 0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:59.359 won't drown. We admire people with strong faith, people who 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:01.520 set a goal and reach it, who have a vision 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.440 and make it happen. But I found out that the 0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:10.359 people whose faith is the strongest is strong because they 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:20.960 stretched it. They stretched it. He said. It's flex space. 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:27.719 It's flex space. The seventy years is flex space. Your 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:32.200 life is a breadth. It's flex space. God is trying 0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:35.480 to take your life and show the world what he 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:37.879 can do through a heart that is committed to him. 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:43.839 He wants to show himself strong. He said. Strengthen your 0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:49.320 stakes and stretch your chords. And as you stretch your chords, 0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:52.640 you're strengthening your stakes because your faith can never be 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:56.759 in a circumstance. It must be in the character of 0:46:56.880 --> 0:47:05.680 Christ revealed in you. This is flex space, is not wasted. 0:47:07.440 --> 0:47:10.400 Paul said, I eagerly expect apple kara Dokia is the 0:47:10.440 --> 0:47:13.640 Greek word, and I hope that I will in no 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:16.040 way be a shit. You know what happens in our life. 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:18.759 This is what Isaiah was saying. He was saying, you 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:26.759 need to keep expanding your expectation. Expand your expectation to 0:47:27.080 --> 0:47:32.080 include what you did not plan for. Because God is 0:47:32.120 --> 0:47:35.200 going to work in everything. By the time this is over, 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:38.279 after seventy years are completed, God is going to work 0:47:38.320 --> 0:47:41.520 it all in. And this is what it means to 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:46.960 say that all things work together. It is to say God, 0:47:47.200 --> 0:47:49.759 here is the space I don't understand. So now let 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:54.520 me get real personal. What is that space for you today? 0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:57.560 What is that space for you today? You've already turned 0:47:57.560 --> 0:48:00.799 your living room into a church. You're halfway there. Some 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:03.399 of you already turned your hospital room into a sanctuary. 0:48:03.680 --> 0:48:06.760 You're halfway there. It's flex space. You get the picture. 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.000 You didn't know this would be church, but it is. 0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:11.000 You didn't know God was gonna show up in your 0:48:11.000 --> 0:48:13.560 living room, but he did. And you didn't know God 0:48:13.680 --> 0:48:16.560 was going to use this trial in your life to 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:19.880 make your faith strong. But he is his flex space, 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:25.799 his flex space in my weakness. He is strong in 0:48:25.920 --> 0:48:30.560 my uncertainty. My faith grows. It's flex space. Don't you 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:36.160 feel it getting stronger. Blessed are the flexible, for their 0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:40.480 faith cannot be broken. That's a beatitude that I just 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:44.000 made off. Blessed are the flexible God. I didn't think 0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:46.360 it would look this way. God, I thought I'd be 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:50.600 married by now. God I thought my marriage would be different. God, 0:48:50.640 --> 0:48:53.680 I thought I was going on a honeymoon to Europe. God, 0:48:53.719 --> 0:48:56.400 I didn't know about backyard was gonna be my vacation. 0:48:56.560 --> 0:49:00.640 This summer is flex space. God's about the so off 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:03.239 watch us. I learned this from last rece. When he 0:49:03.280 --> 0:49:06.279 doesn't show up when you want him, it's because he's 0:49:06.320 --> 0:49:09.239 gonna show off when he comes. Hit a lick l 0:49:09.360 --> 0:49:14.400 J is flex space. Four days dead, rolled the stone 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:18.560 away up in the grate, coming out. I needs some 0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:28.360 flex space. He inhabits the praises of his people. He flat, 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:33.920 he flat, He inhabits the praises of his people. Would 0:49:33.920 --> 0:49:37.719 you give him praise right where you are? Thank you Jesus. 0:49:38.280 --> 0:49:42.040 That Paul turned a prison into a puppet. It's a 0:49:42.200 --> 0:49:46.720 flex space. That Babylon became a testing ground for faith 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:51.560 is flex space. And in this season, I'm not shrinking 0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:57.560 up because of shame. I'm stretching forth by faith. The 0:49:57.640 --> 0:50:06.600 strength is in the stretch. Don't tell me how strong 0:50:06.640 --> 0:50:10.080 your faith is because you imagine something and it happened 0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:12.640 just like you imagined. Tell me how strong your faith 0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:17.279 is when it happened exactly the opposite of the way 0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:21.600 you saw it going. But you didn't let the devil 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:25.720 take over your imagination. You still stretched forward your faith 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:29.640 Apple kru Dokia to a greater day, a brighter horizon, 0:50:29.800 --> 0:50:32.520 a higher hope. How many have hope today? How many 0:50:32.560 --> 0:50:42.160 have an eager expectation of faith? So God said, I'm 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:46.800 about to show off in the situation, in the space 0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:52.239 that you make for me. Have you made space for him? 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:57.560 God can only feel what we bring him. Whereas your 0:50:57.600 --> 0:51:00.560 mind still so crowded with the expectations that you had 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:04.759 that God can't bless you with the blessing that he 0:51:04.840 --> 0:51:11.400 wants to bring. I feel God filling somebody's heart right now. 0:51:13.280 --> 0:51:16.960 Your heart is his flex space. They don't let the 0:51:17.000 --> 0:51:23.640 devil have have God's territory. Are you crazy? Isaiah said, 0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:26.359 you will dispossess nations. That means you've got to kick 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:30.560 him out. That means you've got to eliminate the enemy 0:51:31.000 --> 0:51:37.799 to reclaim your imagination. Eliminate the enemy to reclaim your imagination. 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:43.160 Get out of here. This is God's face, this is 0:51:43.239 --> 0:51:48.320 flex space. You can't have it. You can't have it, devil. 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:52.200 You can't have my song. You can't have my hope. 0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:56.560 I'm turning away from other interests Apple, and I'm stretching 0:51:56.600 --> 0:52:05.080 my head Karl Dokiah in the direction faith so to 0:52:05.200 --> 0:52:09.600 a community that would be completely shut down by exile. 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:12.400 Stand up on your feet right where you are. I 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:14.200 don't care if you're watching this on the archive. If 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:16.120 you want to pull your car over and you're listening 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.680 on a podcast on Spotify or Apple, do it. This 0:52:18.760 --> 0:52:21.560 word is coming to your Car's coming to your situation. 0:52:21.880 --> 0:52:24.839 It's coming to your hopelessness. It's coming to your disappointment. 0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:27.560 It's coming to your tomb. It's coming to your tears. 0:52:27.680 --> 0:52:30.280 It's coming to your trauma. It's coming to your setback. 0:52:30.440 --> 0:52:33.399 It's coming to a recession. It's coming to your sickness. 0:52:33.880 --> 0:52:39.040 It's coming. Make room for it is a flex space. God, 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:40.600 do what you want to do. And you know what. 0:52:41.880 --> 0:52:43.480 I keep turning because I want to say it and 0:52:43.520 --> 0:52:45.759 I can't remember how God gave it to me. God 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:48.239 always changes my message right before I come out a 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:50.680 little bit. I think it's because he wants flex space. 0:52:52.680 --> 0:52:54.759 I think we need to leave God a little room 0:52:55.000 --> 0:52:56.680 of how we want our kids to turn out while 0:52:56.680 --> 0:53:00.400 we're raising them, and give him some flex space. Maybe 0:53:00.400 --> 0:53:02.319 God doesn't want my kids to be a preacher, so 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:04.040 maybe I shouldn't tell them one day that they have 0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:06.120 to be preachers. Maybe they can do something else for 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:11.200 God and it'll be even greater flex space. Have you 0:53:11.239 --> 0:53:13.280 given God any room to show off in your life? 0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:16.000 Or have you got him in a little tiny box? 0:53:16.040 --> 0:53:17.399 And if he doesn't do it just like you wanted 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:20.240 him to do it, can God encourage you through anyone? 0:53:20.760 --> 0:53:23.120 Or do you only let him encourage you through people 0:53:23.360 --> 0:53:25.760 that you have pre selected as those that you receive 0:53:25.800 --> 0:53:30.680 validation from, or can he use someone else? It's not wasted, 0:53:32.880 --> 0:53:39.799 it's flex space. Waiting isn't wasted. That's flex face. That's 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:43.120 where faith grows. That's where hope is illuminated. You hear 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:45.400 the word of the Lord, Barb. It's flex space. No, 0:53:45.520 --> 0:53:48.440 we don't understand. It's been two years that you've been 0:53:48.480 --> 0:53:51.920 living with this. Two years then to find out what 0:53:52.040 --> 0:53:54.600 you found out this week. But I'm telling you God 0:53:54.680 --> 0:53:57.760 is about to God is about to show his power 0:53:57.920 --> 0:54:01.200 through you to you. I'm telling you, Barbara, He's about 0:54:01.239 --> 0:54:04.480 to use you in an amazing way. There will be 0:54:04.600 --> 0:54:08.960 glory after this. There will be glory after this, so 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:13.080 you keep stretching and don't Hey, the devil, the devil 0:54:13.239 --> 0:54:15.480 took your brother, but don't let him take your song. 0:54:16.800 --> 0:54:19.960 You can't have my song. No, no, no, no, you 0:54:20.000 --> 0:54:23.719 can't have my joy. God's about to show off in 0:54:23.800 --> 0:54:28.000 my life. God's and I'm gonna keep singing. I still 0:54:28.040 --> 0:54:31.720 got a song. Come on, somebody, I still got a song. 0:54:32.360 --> 0:54:35.520 I still got a song. How many of you still 0:54:35.560 --> 0:54:39.680 have hands? Lift them? How many of you still got hands? 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:43.480 Clap them? How many of you still have a mouth? 0:54:44.320 --> 0:54:53.239 Magnify the Lord with me? He's great. Hey, family, this 0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:59.719 is a family. Number one wanted to say, wanted the 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:03.200 same number one. I think I just screamed my voice 0:55:03.560 --> 0:55:06.920 into every country that's watching this on YouTube. Make sure 0:55:06.960 --> 0:55:08.799 you let me know in the comments where you watched 0:55:08.840 --> 0:55:10.680 from if you made it to the end of the message, 0:55:10.840 --> 0:55:13.879 and give me one of these GiMA flex, Graham coome 0:55:13.880 --> 0:55:17.120 On flex on the Devilish holly Don Flex. You're driving 0:55:17.680 --> 0:55:21.960 remember Holly terms forty this week. Maybe you're watching this 0:55:22.080 --> 0:55:26.200 long after, but I just wanted to thank you. Thanks 0:55:26.200 --> 0:55:28.800 for subscribing, thank you for following, thank you for giving. 0:55:28.840 --> 0:55:31.839 You're amazing and this time it's so important that we 0:55:31.880 --> 0:55:33.920 continue to create opportunities of O, there's the camera. I 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:35.400 was looking at the wrong place. Look at the camera. 0:55:35.880 --> 0:55:38.799 That we continue to create opportunities for God to move 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:41.520 and for God to use this. So thank you for sharing. 0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:45.240 Thank you for just being the most amazing church family. 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:49.640 I never knew that our church family would expand to 0:55:49.719 --> 0:55:53.120 all parts of the world, but God did. He's amazing, 0:55:53.200 --> 0:55:55.520 and you're amazing, and we love you very much. Don't 0:55:55.520 --> 0:56:02.399 forget to subscribe, share comments, rel