Highs And Lows (Chad Veach)

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:06.960 Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.920 thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.480 Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.240 to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.680 If you're joining us for the first time, Welcome to 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.840 Elevation Church. Welcome to twenty twenty two. This is a 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.760 faith church. Gold On. I'm gonna try it again. I 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.920 know it's the first Sunday. I know you've been watching 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:32.760 ELF movies for a long time, so I'm gonna try 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:39.440 it again. This is a faith church. Chunks. You know, 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.519 the first time I ever came to Elevation, first time 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.800 I ever came to Elevation was for an Orange Code 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:51.040 Revival night and Joyce Meyer was preaching that night and 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.920 we pulled up here to the campus. We pulled up 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.200 at the stoplight. I could feel the faith out on 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:03.200 the street. You could feel the expectation. What I'm trying 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.240 to say to you, if you are in that amazing 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.640 connect group in Virginia, if you're watching online, We're a 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.399 believing church. We believe that God can do it. We 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.679 believe that God is with you. We believe that God 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.319 is for you. We believe that no eye has seen, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.360 and no ear has heard, and no mine can even 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.520 imagine the things that God has in store for those 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.200 who love Him and are called according to His name. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.720 This is a fa church. Come on, clap like you 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:37.119 believe it today. I'm excited. I want to give honor 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:41.959 where honor is due today. Anybody love your pastors? Come on, 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.640 I figure you out to go crazier than that. Anybody 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.080 love the pastors of this amazing church. Passa Stephen at 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:53.680 Holly Ferdick. We love you, We honor you. The Bible 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.240 literally teaches us to give honor where it is due, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.960 and so we honor this fan family. We honor this 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:05.840 amazing couple. We honor Pastor Stephen for not just his gift, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.239 but to use his gift to preach the good news 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.040 and to point people to Jesus. And we just thank 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.680 God for them. I think we ought to pray for 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.840 our pastors. Come on, right now, let's pray for Pastor 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.520 Stephen to Holly. God. We cover the leaders of this 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.760 amazing church. We bless them right now. We thank you God, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.000 that prophetically you're speaking to them about this year. We 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.040 cover their home, we cover their children, we cover their mind. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.200 Right now, we thank you that their soul will prosper. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.679 Their soul will prosper. God, thank you for every relationship 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.840 they have. God, thank you that it's in alignment right now. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.480 Thank you for great wisdom, the wisdom from above. Give 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.680 them great wisdom to govern your people. We bless them 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.800 today in Jesus' name. And everybody said, come on, clap 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:59.280 like you got faith for your pastor Amen, are you 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:06.880 fired up? Now? I left Los Angeles to come out 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:12.320 here to Charlotte because I'm fired up, because I gotta 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:17.000 put a little country on it. I'm fired up. I 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.840 might as well. I should get Christ's I should get 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.959 Chris's outfit and say it. Chris, I need you to 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.280 say fired up, give me your best country, fired up 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:30.080 for me. I'm fired up, Chad. Thank God for Chris Brown. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.080 Right here. Make some noise. Give somebody a high five, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.920 Give somebody a high five. In your house, give somebody 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.080 a high five, and take a seat. If you have 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.520 a Bible, go to First Kings. Go to First Kings 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.400 chapter nineteen. Go to First Kings I'm gonna jump in 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.880 in just a moment, but before I do, keep playing. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.040 If you're the keyboard player, don't don't leave me. Can 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.600 we thank God for the amazing worship today? My God 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.240 first King's nineteen. I'm gonna jump in in just a moment. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.120 I have to just bring greetings from my amazing family. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.320 I'm a married man. Are there any married people here today? 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:13.600 I am thirteen years married? Okay, I don't know what 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.520 that was, but my wife, she is so blessed. I'm 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.200 just kidding. Come on, you guys, we're in church today. Okay, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.000 but can I show you a photo of my amazing 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.839 family real fast? These are my four kids and my 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.039 incredible wife. Look at these guys right here. This is 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.640 my daughter Georgia and my son Winston Maverick. And then 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.480 that's my little nugget, my last one. His name is 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.200 Clive Ellington veach. But I need you to pray that 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.839 boy is not saved yet. He needs some Jesus. But 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.920 God has been so good to us. Has God been 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.520 good to you? Come on, let's clap one time and 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:56.080 thank God for his grace, his mercy. And I'm really 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.880 excited to share with you today if it's okay with 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.480 I wrote a message just for today, and I wrote 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.840 a message for us coming into twenty twenty two because 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.800 I was thinking about, you know, a year. The other day, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.920 we were in our I call it our swagger wagon. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.040 When you got four kids, you get a minivan. So 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.000 I was up in you know, on Christmas break, I 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.159 was up in our Toyota Sienna. You know you bothering 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.120 when you in a Toyota Sienna, when you can hit 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.840 the button and the doors open, ball out. And so 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.200 we're talking with our boys about a year now. I 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.320 was asking my guys, what happens in the year, in 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.320 the calendar year. Tell me all the holidays that happened 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.320 the year. Some of my guys right away Christmas, other 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.760 guy Easter. They start going through all the holidays, Thanksgiving 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.640 and fourth of July, and start going through a year. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.320 They've named almost all of them until my wife was like, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.960 you forgot one. And I was like, what did we forget? 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.799 I thought we had all of them. She's like single. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.599 I was like, that's what I'm Taco Tuesday ba lao 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.880 guacam only for Holy That's why that's my girl. Right there, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.640 we were talking about a year, you know a year. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.400 A year has highs and lows. A year has good 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.680 times and bad times. When we have dinner at our house, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.279 I don't know what dinner at your house looks like. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.720 When we sit down as a family, every day we 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.719 go through an order and we talk about our highs 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.840 and lows of the day. Every day we have a 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.359 different theme, a different emphasis. So like my Maverick, he's Maverick, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.279 Maverick Monday, or my Winston he's Winston Wednesday. They get 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:38.919 to choose the meal and they get to choose the 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.479 order of the high and low. So on Wednesdays, my 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.920 son will be like, you're going first, You're going second, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.920 and whoever he's mad has going last. But we talk 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.799 about the high of the day and we talk about 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.119 the low of the day. In one year, think about 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.720 your next year. You're gonna have some highs and you're 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.920 gonna have some lows. You're gonna have some good times, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.200 you're gonna have some bad times. Think about last year. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.000 Last year you had some mountaintop success, but you had 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.880 some valley of despair. One of the things I know 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.800 about three hundred and sixty five days, you never know 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.280 what a year will bring to you. You never know 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.440 what this next season has for you. But you've got 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.600 to make the resolve and the decision today that says, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.720 no matter what high or low I'm in, I'm gonna 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.160 choose to put my faith in Jesus, I'm gonna choose 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.800 to worship God. Come on clap today if you believe 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.480 that we're making it. Before we get there, we're already 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.480 saying yes to God. So we're talking about, you know, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.040 a year, we're talking about, you know, going through you know, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.400 a calendar year and everything that's about to happen this 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.160 this next year. Then and then I don't know what 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.040 came over me. I started to, you know, just kind 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.840 of wonder the biblical literacy of my own children. You know, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.520 do my kids know the Bible? So I started I 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.920 went straight from the calendar into Bible trivia, and I 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.320 was like, okay, boys, you were in my swagger wagon, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.480 We're gonna ask you some Bible questions. Immediately, all the 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.080 pastor's kid eyes they just start to roll. They're just 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.760 like Dad, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Who was the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:22.840 guy who's brothers sodom into slavery? My boy in the back. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.680 Six year old Joseph caught him many colors. He's like, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.520 that's my guy. There you go, Okay, okay. In the Bible, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.319 who was the disciple that Jesus asked to come walk 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.040 on water? Now, my three year old, no matter what 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.640 question I ask, he has the same person. He's always 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:46.160 like Jonah. I'm like, no, I love you so much. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.120 That's the whale guy. He's the whale guy. He's the 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:55.120 whale guy. Jonah Like, no, it's not Jonah. But we 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.280 start talking. We're going through all this Bible trivia and 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.000 I probably exhaust them, but I want to make sure 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.720 my boys know the stories. Come on, anybody believe what 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.760 the Bible says, raise up a child in the way 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.599 they should go. Oh, come on, clap parents, like you 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.679 got faith for your children to walk with Jesus all 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.079 the days of their life. I'm a pastor's kid. I 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.080 made it. A lot of people in the church didn't 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.080 think I'd be here, but I made it. So I'm 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.120 going through all these questions and going through all these 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:26.880 you know, Bible trivia, and finally I get to the 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.320 last one. Okay, last one, last one? I said, who 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.640 in the Bible was the God who goes up against 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:37.440 all these hundreds of false prophets and he tears them down. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.080 And my boys love this part. And he talks trash 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.600 and he says, where is your God? Is your God 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:50.400 on the toilet? Dude, is your God taking a nap? 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:55.360 And this guy demolished these false prophets and showed that 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.000 our God is the only true God. I said, who 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:03.200 was it? My little boy in the beck Jonah, he's 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:09.560 the whale guy. It's nothing no, So that's Elijah. And 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.960 it was like, as soon as I said that, I 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.280 just kept thinking about the story of Elijah. I kept 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.800 thinking about what happened right after some of his biggest 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.480 success came some of his biggest failure. Right after the 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.120 high of the high came the low of the low, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.440 and right after he killed these false prophets. The Bible says, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.120 he runs from a lady named Jezebel. He goes into hiding. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.760 God provides an angel and some cookies, and then all 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.960 of a sudden God shows up and talks to him. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.120 Watch here, High and Low, watch Elijah one kings nineteen, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.680 it says. So he got up and he ate and 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.200 drank and Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.160 in forth forty nights, until he reached Horror, the Mountain 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.880 of God. There he went into a cave and spent 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.640 the night, and the Word of the Lord came to 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:04.400 him and said, what are you doing here? Elijah? He replied, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.559 Oh God, I've been very zealous for the Lord, God Almighty. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.960 The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.640 altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.520 I am the only one left, and now they're trying 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.520 to kill me too. You ever whined a god? Elijah's 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:26.240 speaking whines right here. He's like, Oh God, his coven's 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.440 been so bad, and the panthers are terrible, and everything's 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.080 just it's a hard luck life and I just don't 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:42.000 know our WiFi slow, But I love God. God shows 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.720 up in the place of his low and says, my man, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.360 what are you doing here? Has God ever had to 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:55.520 ask you that question? What are you doing here? Why 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.920 in the world are you thinking this way? Why in 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.920 the world are you running? No, No, you're not filled 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.760 with fear, You're filled with faith. You're the same one 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.960 that just cast the false prophets. We don't need you here. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.680 I want to preach a message this first Sunday of 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.280 twenty twenty two. Right down the title, it's called highs 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.960 and Lows. We live in a culture that says, don't 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.440 let your highs get too high and don't let your 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.840 lows get too low. But that's not what the Bible says. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.320 The Bible says in Romans twelve, we rejoice with those 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.600 that rejoice, and we weep with those that weep. Come 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.240 on clap today. If you're excited, this year is gonna 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.680 be filled with rejoicing. And even if it's filled with weeping, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.480 we're gonna choose Jesus, it's gonna have highs and lows. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.400 You're gonna have highs and lows. You're gonna have highs 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.640 and lows. But no matter what you face, and no 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.080 matter what you go through, you're gonna make the decision 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.760 on the mountain top of success. I will lift my 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.640 voice as loud as in the valley of despair whether 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.320 I walk. That's why I love Pho Psalm twenty three. Yay, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.520 though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.679 I will fear no evil. Why you are with me. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.200 Rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.560 table before me, and the presence of my enemies. You 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.120 anoint my head with oil. Surely goodness and mercy will 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.640 follow me all the days of my life, and I 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:18.480 will dwell in the house of the Lord, saying, even 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.080 if I'm in the hospital, even if I get a 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.520 bad report, even if we face death or sorrow, or 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.640 sickness or tragedy, even in the valley of despair, You're 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.200 gonna see my hands raised, Even in the high of 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.600 the High, I'm still gonna choose God. Amen to that. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.040 I wanna give you a few things to write down 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.480 that you're gonna need this year in twenty twenty two. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.560 I try to think of what do you need to 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.720 go through a year that's filled with highs and lows? 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.120 What do you need this year? Right down? Number one, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.280 here's the first thing that you need is you need 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.000 vision from God. Oh I love that thought right there. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.040 You need vision this year coming into this next year. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:59.400 You need vision from God. By the way, vision does 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.800 not come from church. Vision comes from the Holy Spirit. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.400 The Bible literally says in the Book of Joel, in 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.240 these last days, he will pour out his spirit in 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.960 such a way that our old men will dream dreams 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.680 and our young people will prophesied translation. It doesn't matter 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.560 how old you are today. God has something for every person. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.960 God has a vision for your life. God has a dream. Oh, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.400 we already talked about it Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.680 He knows the plans that He has for you. So 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.600 you don't have to come up with the vision. You 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.040 don't have to sit down with your resolutions and your 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.000 goals and go this is what I'm going to do. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.200 You need to go to God and say, God, what 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.440 do you want for my life? What's the plan that 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.680 you have for my family? What do you want to 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.400 do with my finance? What relationships do you want me 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.640 to invest in? Doo? Come on? Anybody want vision from 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.840 God this next year? What's what the Bible says in Proverbs. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.480 Oh I love this scripture. It says where there is 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:01.800 no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. When you 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.360 don't have prophetic vision. Say you don't need vision from 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.440 movies or commercials or YouTube, you need vision from heaven. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.200 We call this getting a word from God. I pray 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.120 over your twenty twenty two that you have some mantra, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:21.680 some scripture, some thought, something from heaven that God's like, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 stand on this word. The Bible literally says, what I 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:30.400 whisper into your ear, proclaim upon housetops, that utterance, I 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.120 give you, that unction, I give you. I don't know 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.200 what you feel like for ye for your year. But 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.440 I've been feeling this for the last month, and I 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.440 keep telling my wife, this is gonna be a big year. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.040 This is gonna be a big year. I'm walking around 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.400 my house telling my wife, this is gonna be a 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.560 big year. This is gonna be a big year. Finally 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.800 she walked up to me. She says, Babe, I'm with it. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.520 It's gonna be a big year. But can we just 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.760 say big year? Small frame? And I was like, what 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.320 do you mean. She's like, I just don't want to grow. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.040 I just want to I want to stay small. I 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.480 was like, okay, ball out, you do you do you boo. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.960 But can you get some vision for your life? Can 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.520 you get some prophetic vision and start writing down here's 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.640 what God is saying to me this year. Oh I 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.200 love to have backkick. Watch this in chapter two, watch 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.280 what the Bible teaches us about vision. Then the Lord replied, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.560 Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.400 so that a herald may run with it. For the 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.040 revelation awaits for an appointed time. It speaks of the end, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.680 and it will not prove false. Though it linger wait 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.280 for it. It will certainly come, and it will not delay. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.400 Write down that vision. This is what God is saying 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.840 over my children. This is what God is saying over 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.760 my church. This is what God is saying over my future. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.400 This is what God is saying over my business. I'm 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.000 getting vision from God. And let me just say this 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.160 to you. If you can see it, you can achieve it. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.400 If you can see it, you can have it. The 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.040 first thing God does is open your eyes. He opens 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.240 your eyes, not just to see in the natural, but 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.200 even into the supernatural. He opens your eyes so you 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.439 can see the God. Thing everybody else sees ruins. You 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.520 see redemption. Everybody else sees garbage. You see gold. Come 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.080 on clap today. If you're excited to get vision for 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.040 your fear, I'm telling you you get vision. It'll get 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.160 you up in the morning. You get vision, and it'll 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.920 keep you disciplined. Why in the world would you live 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.320 a life of restraint without vision, the only thing that's 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.040 going to keep you on the straight and the narrow 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.800 is getting a word from God. I'm not here for 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.480 my own gain. I'm not here for my own fame. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.760 I live for something bigger than myself. This world is 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.600 not my home. I'm not a citizen of this planet. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.080 So while I'm here for me, to live is Christ 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:46.400 and to die is I'm getting vision. I'm getting vision. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.960 I'm getting vision. See See, If you don't have vision, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.479 you have no restraint. Why would you restrain your tongue 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.320 and not gossip and not have all kinds of filthy language? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.119 Why would you restrain your finances if you don't have vision? 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.679 Why would you restrain and live a life of discipline, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.760 devotion and dedication to God? If you don't have vision, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.600 unique vision? Oh, I'll never forget Separate September tenth, nineteen 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.480 ninety nine. September tenth, nineteen ninety nine. The first time 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.000 I moved to LA. I'm from Seattle. The first time 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.199 I moved to LA was straight out of high school. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.960 I went to Bible College in Los Angeles, so I 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.560 had I had long hair back then. I had long 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.440 wavy hair cause I can't I couldn't get a girl, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.480 but they said surfers could. So I can't surf, but 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.359 I grew up my hair like a surfer. It's a 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.440 little Samson vibe going on. So I'm down in La. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.920 I got long hair. I'm in Bible College. I don't 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.239 want to be in Bible College. I want to I 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.639 have my own idea for my life. But I knew that, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.400 I knew I was supposed to be there, so I'm 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.399 still kind of living my own life. September tenth, nineteen 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.399 ninety nine. I'm in a car with a buddy and 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.040 he puts in a cassette tape. Come on, the old 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.840 people said amen. Like as soon as I said, I 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.760 felt the room shift like lo he preaching. Now, oh 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.879 he preaching, He preaching, preaching. What he say, cassette tete 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.040 he real, they do. Real. My buddy puts in the 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:11.480 tape of a preacher named Kreflow Dollar. Kreflow Dollar starts 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.320 preaching out the Galatians six seven and eight. He starts teaching, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.280 do not be deceived, for God cannot be mocked. For 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.560 whatsoever a man sows that he shall reap, for the 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.320 man that sews to his flesh will of the flesh 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.880 reap corruption. But the man that sews to the spirit 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:36.840 will from the spirit reap everlasting life. I'm in the car, 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.639 long hair, don't care, and the Holy Spirit grabs a 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.679 hold of my life. And the Holy Spirit says to me, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.719 You've been a young man that has been ruled and 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.399 led by your flesh your whole life, and I'm about 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.879 to wrest you by my spirit. God gave me a vision. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.440 I downloaded my future. I'm telling you. I went back home, 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.879 I cut my hair, I got a spirit felled by 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.280 I started reading the Bible. I started studying the Bible. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.160 I started being dedicated. Why I got a vision from God? 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.960 Clap if you're excited to get a word from the Lord, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.640 come on. God's got marching orders for you. Clapling expectation. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.240 Just open your ear and open your eye and what 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.040 God has for you. So the first thing that you 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.080 need is you need vision. You need you need a 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.280 word from God. Here's the second thing you need. You 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:27.760 need faith for the future. You need vision to see 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.960 what God has for you, and you need faith to 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.919 believe it. Now, faith by definition, right down the definition. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:40.280 It is trust, confidence and belief. It is trust, confidence, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.959 and belief. So what I what I say when I 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.239 have faith, it means I have trust in God, I 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.680 have belief in God, and I have confidence in God. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.639 You need to have trust in God this year. You 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.080 need to have all your confidence in God this year. 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.119 And you need to have all your belief in God. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.959 I'm not asking you to tap into yourself. You are 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.800 not the solution to your sadness. We don't believe in 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.600 self help. We believe in God help. I don't lift 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.560 my eyes to myself. I lift my eyes to the mountains. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.840 Where does my help come from. My help comes from You, 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.800 the maker of heaven and earth. Give them a praise today. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:20.240 If you've got faith for your future, you gotta have faith. Now. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.040 You might be here going like, I don't got that 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.840 much faith. I don't. I'm not big on faith. First 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.080 of all, you know, the biggest faith that you need 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.320 is mustard seed size faith. So you know. And by 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.359 the way, the reason why elevation is so powerful is 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.920 if you bring your mustard seed faith, and I bring 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.880 my mustard see faith, and they bring their mustard see faith, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:40.880 We're gonna have a whole lot of faith for God 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.439 to heal the sick for God to do miracles, for 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.200 God to bring prodigals home. Come on, just throw your mustard. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:51.040 See faith in the middle. But even if you don't 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:56.200 have faith, you can learn faith. You can receive faith. 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.280 All love the story about this one parent. He's got 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.879 a child that's got a major issue in his life, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.199 and he comes to Jesus and asks for help. And 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.240 he's like, my son has got a bad problem happening 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.959 in his life? Can you help us? Watch what Jesus 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.240 says to this parent in Mark Watch this Mark nine. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:17.960 Jesus asked the boy's father how long has he been 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.439 like this? How from childhood? He answered? It has often 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:23.840 thrown him into the fire in the water and tried 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.840 to kill him. But if you can do anything, take 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.800 pity on us and help us. If you can, said Jesus, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.439 everything is possible for the one who believes. Immediately, the 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.800 boy's father answered back, I do believe, But can you 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:44.720 help me overcome my unbelief? Can you help me? God? 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.760 There's a part of me that's like, is this virus 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:53.080 ever gonna go away? Is this stuff ever gonna change? 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.200 Is our country gonna be okay? Are things gonna get 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:02.439 any better? At home? God, I believe, but can you 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.800 help the part of my heart that has some unbelief. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.640 Jesus is not repulsed by this, He's not put off 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.199 by this. No, he comes to give you faith today. 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:14.879 He comes to give you the gift of confidence, the 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.280 gift of trust, and the gift of belief. Anybody want 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.760 to receive the gift of faith this next year? Anybody 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.240 want to have crazy faith this next year? Lift your 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:25.359 hand right there in your house, lift your hand. Let 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.960 me pray God. I pray for the gift of faith 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.800 right now. I prayed over business owners. I prayed over parents, 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:35.080 I prayed over leaders, I prayed over the staff. I 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:38.000 prayed over pastors, Stephen the Hawley. Let us have more 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:41.280 faith this next year. Let us trust in you, believe 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.920 in you, and have greater confidence in you. In Jesus' name, 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:47.720 And everybody said, together, come on, clap one more time. 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.040 If you come on, believe that God will give you faith. 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.560 You learn how to believe God, You learn how to 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.560 trust God. I grew up. I told you, I'm a 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:58.760 preacher's kid on a pastor's kid, and we grew up. 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.800 I grew up in a small little town, and we didn't. 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:02.520 We didn't have a lot of money, Like my mom 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.320 used to make our clothes. You know, nothing like rocking 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:07.920 up to the pool in summer with homemade speedo's. You 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.800 never been through it. You don't know my struggle. Okay, 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:13.280 you don't know the pain in my platform. Okay, so 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:16.320 don't judge me. But but but growing up, we didn't 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.399 have money, so I don't forget. One time I was 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.760 walking through the farmer's market with my mom and they 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.040 were raffling off of VCR a little kid, but we 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:28.280 couldn't afford a VCR, and so my mom. I looked 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:30.320 at my mom, I said, Mom, listen, look at this 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:34.000 beautiful VCR. She said, well, son, let's buy a raffle 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.360 and let's believe God that we'll win that VCR. So 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.800 we paid for the little raffle and we took it 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:43.400 home to our kitchen, and every morning when I got up, 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.280 my mom would take the raffle with me and we'd pray. 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:48.640 And I'm telling you, you never seen a kid pray 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:53.080 before until you're believing for a VCR. I shout that 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.879 thing down, I said, Jesus name, we just declared that 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:59.119 we're gonna watch Salty's praise book on this VCR, we 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:00.760 thank you for McGee and me to be up in 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:03.359 our home in Jesus name. And I'm telling you we 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:05.600 would pray, we would pray, we would lay hands on them. 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.639 And my mom was teaching me faith. She was showing 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:10.760 me what it meant to believe in God. She was 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:13.520 showing me how to speak things that don't exist as 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:17.359 though they do. She was saying that faith is having confidence, 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:20.480 having trust, and believe. I'll never forget when one night 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.240 the phone rang and that person on the other line said, 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:27.640 congratulations your raffle one the VCR. I'm telling you we 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:30.200 did a praise party like it was New Year's even 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:33.359 elevation Church. Come on clap if you're believing that this 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:40.520 year you'll have greater faith. I wrote a book years 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:45.240 ago called Faith Forward Future, because you have to have 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:50.639 faith to move forward into your future. The enemy wants 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:53.480 you to get stuck. What are you doing here? The 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:55.280 enemy is like, I'll tell you what they're doing here. 0:25:55.480 --> 0:26:00.439 They've got setbacks, they've got disappointment, they've got destructive thinking. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.040 But praise be to God that is the lifter of 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:05.720 my head. Praise be to God. That says no, fix 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.359 your eyes on Jesus, the Author and the finisher of 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:11.040 your faith. Come on, I'm believing that this year you 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:14.040 go to new levels of belief, new levels of trust, 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:17.679 and new levels of confidence in our God. Oh, let 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:19.399 me just show you one more scripture. Look at you. 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:22.200 This is my prayer for you, Jeremiah. Look at Jeremiah 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:26.359 thirty two seventeen. Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the 0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:30.800 heavens and the earth by your great power and your 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:37.760 outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you, ah Lord God. 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:44.639 Nothing is too hard for you. Ah. You gotta just 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:49.359 come into this year going. Ah Lord God, put some 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:55.200 awe on it. Ah Lord God, nothing is too hard 0:26:55.200 --> 0:27:01.560 for you. Nothing. He shuts the mouth of life, He 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:05.440 feeds the five thousand plus the women and the children. 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:09.280 He allows us to walk on dry ground while the 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:12.359 sea is split in two. He provides a pillar of 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:15.560 cloud and a fire by night. He gives us fresh 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.480 manna in the day. Anybody believe that our goa Oh 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:22.360 Lord God, nothing is too difficult for you. Now. I'm 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:24.640 telling you, whatever you're coming up against and it ain't 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.360 bigger than God. And so listen, we're not gonna let 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:30.919 our circumstance determine our faith. We're gonna let our faith 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:34.680 determine our circumstance. Come on, clap like you believe it 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:37.639 for your year. I feel faith in this place today. 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:40.040 Oh right down number three today. I love this. You 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.720 need a renewed mind, You need a mind. I'm telling 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:46.760 you what God is fighting for is the same thing 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:49.760 the enemy is fighting for. And they are both fighting 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:53.920 for your mind. Or speaking of Joyce Myers, she wrote 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:57.160 a brilliant book years ago. The mind is a battlefield. 0:27:57.440 --> 0:27:59.480 This is the thing the enemy's trying to fight for. 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:03.520 The way that God changes you is he changes your mind. 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:07.760 The way that He changes you is he changes your thinking. See, 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:10.359 because if you get stinking thinking, you're gonna get stuck 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:12.680 in places you shouldn't be. But if you get your 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:15.239 your mind right, if you get your mind right, you 0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:18.520 get your life right. You listen, you'll never live past 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:21.560 your thought life. You'll never live better than your thought life. 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.040 Your thought life is the limit. It's the lid of 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:27.000 your life. So watch how God changes your mind. Look 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:29.600 at Romans chapter twelve, verse two. I love this scripture 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:33.000 right here. Romans chapter twelve, Do not conform to the 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:37.120 pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing 0:28:37.160 --> 0:28:39.520 of your mind. Then you will be able to test 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:43.600 and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:47.040 perfect will. So let's just stop there. God's will for 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:50.480 your life is three things. It's good, it's pleasing, and 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:54.120 it's perfect. The will of God for your life is good, pleasing, 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.640 and perfect. How in the world will you ever know 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:58.520 the will of God for you if you don't let 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:02.720 God renew your mind. It says, do not conform to 0:29:02.840 --> 0:29:06.680 the patterns of this world, but be transformed. Like again, 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:09.320 I'm exposing my age. But when I grew up, Transformers 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:12.000 was the thing. I mean, I could sing the whole 0:29:12.040 --> 0:29:14.960 song Transformers more than meets the eye. I mean, there's 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:16.880 a whole thing. We would be in the house playing 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:19.160 with these little Transformers. It'd be like a police car 0:29:19.360 --> 0:29:22.080 and we just do the little thing and it's like bam, 0:29:22.120 --> 0:29:25.040 just this huge transformer like Bob Bob. How does God 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:28.200 take you from your insecurity? How does God take you 0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:32.840 from all your jealousy, all your inadequacy, all your stinking things? 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.040 How does God pull you out of the pit he 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:39.200 changes your mind? You gotta understand this about your mind. 0:29:39.280 --> 0:29:43.440 Your mind keeps no record of success. It only keeps 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:48.320 record of failure. You realize that you think, on average, 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:54.320 you think forty thousand negative thoughts a day. You realize 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:58.719 eighty five percent of your thoughts are reoccurring thoughts. And 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:00.720 so you know a lot of us we wait till 0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:04.440 we're in a bad place. We rehab. But can I 0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:07.000 encourage you in twenty twenty two? You need a prehab. 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:09.920 You need to get your mind right before you get 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.560 in the gutter. You need to get your mind elevated. 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:14.680 You need to get your mind of the things above. 0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:17.840 Oh I love this. In two Timothy, watch what God 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:20.320 says through the Paul of the Apostle. He says, for 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:23.719 the spirit of God, he has not given us timidity, 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:29.400 but gives us power and love and self discipline. Now, 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:33.800 the other translations say power, love, and a sound mind. 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:36.360 If you study the Greek word for sound mind is 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:42.840 literally translated discipline. Thinking translation, God gave you the ability 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.800 that when your mind gets low, you can bring it 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:49.240 back high. Or, as the Bible teaches us, we capture 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:52.720 every thought and we make it obedient to God. I'm 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:55.200 not thinking that way about that person. I'm not thinking 0:30:55.200 --> 0:30:57.680 that way about this situation. I'm not thinking that way 0:30:57.680 --> 0:30:59.800 about last year. I'm not thinking that way about the 0:31:00.000 --> 0:31:02.040 answers we're gonna be blessed. I'm not thinking that way 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.360 about so and so. Come on, and I appreciate anybody. 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:07.640 I'm gonna get my mind right. You get your mind right, 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:10.640 you get your life right, you get your mind. That's 0:31:10.640 --> 0:31:12.440 why the Bible says we put on the first thing 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:16.600 is the helmet of salvation. I put on God's thoughts 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:19.760 over my thoughts. When you think about yourself, listen. Your 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:23.240 mind was not meant to thrive, it was only built 0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:26.080 to survive. So if I want to thrive, I gotta 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.040 get scripture, I gotta get God's thoughts. I gotta have. 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:31.080 You know you need in twenty twenty two, you need 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:34.480 a confidence ritual. You need to build your confidence back 0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:36.800 this next year. You need to start walking around your 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:39.600 home and start declaring over your life. Don't listen to 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:42.440 the serpent, don't listen to the liar, don't listen to 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:44.880 the accuser of the brethren. Don't don't listen to the 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:47.479 one that only shows you all the bad stuff that 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:50.160 happened to you. No you gotta get all God's thoughts. 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:52.600 You gotta say no, no, I'm more than a conquer 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:55.640 in Christ Jesus. No, I'm the head and I'm not 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:59.560 the tale. No, I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:01.920 No, no no, no. If God is for me, who can 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:04.320 be against me? Come on, anybody down to build a 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:08.040 confidence ritual in twenty twenty two. Then you're gonna start 0:32:08.120 --> 0:32:11.160 leaving your home in the morning feeling like I'm gonna 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:17.920 be okay. Sometimes your mind gets into a bad place 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:21.719 and you get you ever feel negative. When I get negative, 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.120 I get scared of myself. I'm like, I need to 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:26.360 eat right now. I feel like a walking Snicker's commercial. 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:30.560 And I'm like when I get low, when I get 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:33.800 Because listen, don't kid yourself. We all go through highs 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:36.280 and lows. We all have good times and bad times. 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:42.880 Don't listen. Don't believe the live Instagram You're comparing your 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:49.080 lows to somebody else's highlight reel. Everybody has lows, Everybody 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:54.840 has bad days, everybody cries, everybody has pain. There's only 0:32:54.920 --> 0:32:57.600 one hero in this story, and it ain't you or me. 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:03.160 Jesus is the only perfect so when you get low, 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:07.239 how are you gonna build yourself back up? Watch what 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:09.880 Paul says. Philippians for I love the Scripture. Philippins for 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:14.400 are finally brethren. Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, 0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:18.640 whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:21.760 are lovely, whatever things are of good report, If there 0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:26.800 is any virtue, if there's any praiseworthy meditate on these things. 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:30.000 I wonder what twenty twenty two would look like if 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:33.680 you stop watching the news and started looking at God's word. 0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:38.720 Clap like you believe what I'm saying today. Whatever's true, 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:43.800 whatever's a good report, whatever's praise. Meditate on these things. 0:33:45.280 --> 0:33:47.160 I live in LA you know, I'm in Los Angeles, 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:48.760 so people can't figure it out. People are always like, 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:54.560 oh my gosh, I love your vibes. Your vibes are crazy, dude, 0:33:54.600 --> 0:34:10.240 you got crazy energy, bro crazy, And I don't like thanks, eh, Jonah, 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:13.600 How can you get the spirit of God running through 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.360 your life this year? It's because I don't spend time 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:20.960 crying over spilled milk. I don't spend time thinking about 0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:24.000 all the bad things that I've done. Why do you 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:27.120 keep thinking about your past when God doesn't he says, 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:30.160 as far as the east is from the west, I 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.719 have removed your transgressions from you. Somebody clapped today, and 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:37.080 thank God, I'm getting my mind right. I'm getting Come on, 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:42.000 God's changing your premise, He's changing your perspective. He's changing 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:45.200 your thinking. You can't do what God's called you to 0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:48.880 do with thinking thinking. You gotta get the mind of God. 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:51.920 Oh worship team, come join me. There's the last one 0:34:51.920 --> 0:34:53.680 I want to teach you today, right down the last one. 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.839 You need a life full of thanksgiving. All think about 0:34:56.840 --> 0:34:59.160 what you would look like this year. If you've got vision, 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:02.600 and you've got faith, and you've got your mind right, 0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:07.279 and you've got gratitude. Whoah, you know you need. You 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:11.680 need the attitude of gratitude you need. You need to 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.520 wake up tomorrow and say, this is the day the 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:19.600 Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:23.640 You need to start getting Come on, there's nothing like 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:27.000 a grateful people. You know, God is always looking for 0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:31.120 a grateful person, is a humble person. And God says 0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:34.040 in the Bible he opposes the proud, He put a 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:37.920 heisman trophy on that thing, but he gives grace to 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:42.239 the humble. See, humble people are grateful people. God. I 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:45.120 just praise you. I listen. I may not be where 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:47.120 I want to be, but thank God, I'm not where 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:49.120 I used to be. Thank God, I'm out of that 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:53.240 old miss clap today in your house. If you're grateful 0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:56.399 that you're not where you were six months ago, one 0:35:56.520 --> 0:35:59.919 year ago, come on? Has God been faithful? Has God 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:02.480 been good? Has God brought you? Oh? I love that 0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:05.560 song today. He pulled me out of my repent. He 0:36:05.680 --> 0:36:08.120 set my feet upon a rock. He put a new 0:36:08.200 --> 0:36:11.080 song in my mouth. Many will hear of it, many 0:36:11.120 --> 0:36:13.200 will see of it. Dive him a praise right now. 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:17.239 If you're grateful, I'm not there yet, but I'm not 0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:23.879 where I was. Thank you Jesus. Think about what God 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.399 has brought you out of. Think about what God has 0:36:26.440 --> 0:36:29.239 delivered you from this. Just pause and thank God for 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:36.880 some of the fashion. When I think about the goodness 0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:41.240 of God, when I think about the faithfulness, you're not amazing. 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:46.520 He is. My Bible says, when you were faithless, he 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:52.560 remained faithful. My Bible says, when you left, he left 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:56.160 the ninety nine church folk, and he hunted you down, 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:02.120 and he said, what are you you're doing here? Why 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:06.040 are you living in this apartment? How come you're messing around? 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:07.839 You know this ain't a man of God. He don't 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.000 even go to jailb get out this place. We gonna 0:37:10.000 --> 0:37:12.359 get you back on christianmingo dot com. We're gonna get 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.440 you an MG. He ties he's in church and he 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:24.560 has hygiene. One of my favorite stories about Jesus. One 0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:28.000 of my favorite stories about Jesus is the story of 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:31.359 the Ten Lepers. The Bible says Jesus is walking through 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:35.000 Samerian golie translation between some people that never should have 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:38.319 been in church and some church folk, and these ten 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:43.240 lepers cry out with a loud voice, Jesus have mercy 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:47.919 on me. Let me just say this. Never be too 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:52.920 proud to beg for God's help. If you give yourself 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:54.879 in the valley this year, can you just cry out? 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:57.000 Come on? If you go through some lows, can you 0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:59.680 just make the decision. If I kind of cry myself 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:02.760 to slap, if my children don't want to believe in Jesus, 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:05.439 if I lose it all, I'm still gonna cry out. 0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:12.760 Jesus have mercy on me. Jesus says to these ten lepers, 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:16.719 he said, go and show yourself to the priest. See 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:20.319 because this is why you need vision. To one, he said, 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:24.640 stretch out your hand. To another, he said, I already 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:28.319 healed your kid. God has something specific just for you. 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:31.279 To one young man, he said, go sell everything you got, 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:33.839 then come follow. For these lepers, he said, I'll tell 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:37.280 you what we're gonna do for y'all. Go show yourself 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:42.359 to the priest. And it says as they went they 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.800 were cleansed. Let me just tell you something coming to 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:49.640 your next year. The blessing of God is on the 0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:57.359 other side of obedience. It's on the other side. You're 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:00.600 not blessed because you get a word. That's because you 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:09.719 obey the word Jonah. Just because you get the word 0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:14.600 done mean you're blessed. The blessing of God it's on 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:19.480 the other side of them. And as they went they 0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:27.000 were cleansed. It says one of them, one of them 0:39:28.480 --> 0:39:33.600 came back ten percent. Can you make a decision that 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:38.120 in twenty twenty two, I'm going to be the one. 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:45.399 I'm going to be the one one of them came back. 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.960 Theologians believed that the one that came back he was 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:52.759 he was the one that knew he should have never 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:55.799 He's the Samaritan, the one that knew he should have 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:59.719 never gotten grace, he should have never received God's forgiveness. 0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:03.440 Most believe that the nine that went out, you know, 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:05.520 the nine that got healed. They ran off to Applebee's 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:10.879 and Chevys and Westfield Malls. The nine that went out, 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:15.759 They were like, we deserve this. You know how many 0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:19.319 Sundays I've been in church. You know how many New 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:23.120 Years Eve praise parties I've been to. You know, I 0:40:23.160 --> 0:40:29.239 was at the first Orange Code Revival entitlement. But the 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.480 one that said I I can't even believe that he 0:40:32.560 --> 0:40:36.440 knows me, loves me, helps me. I know what a 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:41.200 sinner I am? Says. He comes back in the language 0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:45.480 in the Texas with a loud voice, the same volume 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:49.560 that he had in the low It's the same volume 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.719 he had in the hot said, what God's trying to 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:55.279 say to you today is just gonna be Low's and 0:40:55.360 --> 0:40:58.920 there's gonna be highs, and you gotta decide today, no 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.920 matter what comes my way, you'll see my hands raised. 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:04.680 No matter what I face this year, you're gonna see 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:07.279 my mouth fell with praise. I don't praise God. On 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:10.360 the bad days, I praise him on the good days. 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:13.560 I praise Him in the springtime, in the winter time, 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:17.120 in the summertime, in the fall time. Clap today. If 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:20.080 you got faith, no matter what comes my way, I'm 0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:26.200 gonna praise Jesus. He said, he said, he said, he said, 0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:29.279 hold on, hold on, he's praising God. Jesus goes, hold on, 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:36.320 stop stop talking them. Ah, He's like, hey, Mark, John, 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:40.319 come on here, it's crazy. Hold on, hold on, hey man, 0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:47.840 cool Hey, so was we're busy these days? Hey? So, 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:53.640 wasn't there ten of y'all? Hey John, look at this, 0:41:54.680 --> 0:42:00.600 and the one that came back was a foreigner. He says, So, 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:04.920 come on, get up. Your faith has made you will today. 0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:08.080 Come on, anybody thankful today. I'm gonna be the one 0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:10.960 this year. I don't care what high comes my way 0:42:11.040 --> 0:42:13.759 or low comes my way. You're gonna find me with 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:16.320 my mouth filled with praise. Oh this is Stand to 0:42:16.320 --> 0:42:19.359 your feet, wherever you're at, whatever location, Just worship team, 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:22.040 come back. Psalm seven seventeen. I will give thanks to 0:42:22.080 --> 0:42:25.359 the Lord because of his righteousness. I will sing the 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:28.440 praises of the name of the Lord Most High. What 0:42:28.560 --> 0:42:31.240 about Psalm nine one and two. I will give thanks 0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:34.120 to you Lord with all my heart. I will tell 0:42:34.239 --> 0:42:37.000 of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad, and I 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:40.000 will rejoice in you. I will sing the praises of 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:43.080 your name almost high Psalm ninety five. Oh come, let 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:45.720 us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:48.279 aloud to the rock of our salvation. Let us come 0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:51.959 before him with thanksgiving and extole him with music and song. 0:42:52.160 --> 0:42:54.440 For the Lord is the great God, the great King 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.320 above all the gods. Psalm one O three. Bless the Lord, 0:42:57.520 --> 0:42:59.879 oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.960 his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, who 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:07.160 forgives all my iniquities, who heals from all diseases, who 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:09.880 crowns my life with tender mercies. Come on, licks your 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.080 hands right where you're at. Father, We come into this 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:16.720 year more dealed with thanksgiving. We asked today. Give us vision, 0:43:17.280 --> 0:43:20.359 give us faith, give us the mind of God, give 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:23.240 us gratitude. Come on, this sifted up, Come on rever 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:29.160 forever we knows you morning a phrase. It ain't Jesus, 0:43:29.800 --> 0:43:35.360 who did you ask? Seek cool? Imagine? Accordity too is 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:42.880 found holleylujah, eating you're more than enough. It's morning, hollelujah. 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:50.880 Who did you ask seek cool? Imagine accordy too is fine? Worrying? 0:43:51.440 --> 0:43:53.920 Come on singing again more? Did you ask me for 0:43:54.080 --> 0:44:01.000 a mansion? Honeylujo? Did you ask he cool? Man? Jim 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:11.800 according too is hard worthy? It's morning in mony things 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:25.759 imagine according too is bad worrying, it's waming shine pin chin. 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:32.720 You are in the we gave you phrase gim job. 0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:39.719 You are in the to how we'll be why will 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:50.200 be content? In every circumceentt job you are. Come on 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:51.960 the ceil it with a clap today, Come on the 0:44:52.080 --> 0:45:04.239 ceil it. You know it's it's almost like before the touchdown, 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:09.960 before the ball goes through the net. We're already thanking God. 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:19.320 The greatest force in the history of the world is 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:24.520 the love of Jesus. Cannot be stopped. He's in love 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:31.160 with you. If you're in a pit today, he's not 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:38.080 mad at you. He's not asking you what are you 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:43.799 doing here? He's saying, what are you doing here? I've 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:48.200 got a plan, I've got a future. Jesus. We say 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:57.960 yes to you, We surrender, we say praise be to God. 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:01.320 That leads us in all triumph and in all victory 0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:07.560 and God, we vow today on the first Sunday of 0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:11.720 twenty twenty two, that in the highs and the lows, 0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:20.120 in the peaks and the pits, you find us turning 0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:25.000 to you. Jesus, you are the author, you are the finisher. 0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:32.239 Help our unbelief today. Give us mustard seed sized faith, 0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:41.759 a pray, vision, faith, the mind of God, and a 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:48.839 heart filled with gratitude. Don't let us run, don't let 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:52.920 us hide this year. Don't let us be filled with 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:58.800 imposter syndrome, afraid of what people think. I pray that 0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:03.480 you deliver people from faux poe, fear of other people's opinions. 0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:08.759 We live for an audience of one, and we say 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:12.000 today it doesn't matter what the others are doing. That 0:47:12.120 --> 0:47:15.440 if we're the only one that comes back, if we're 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:19.360 the only one that's loud and praise and worship, we 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:24.760 say we'll be that one today. Thank you Jesus, Praise 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:27.719 you Jesus. Come on, let's clap and thank God one 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:35.960 more time. Amen, thank you for joining us. Special thanks 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:38.560 to those of you who give generously to this ministry. 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:41.840 Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 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