I’m Going Through But I’m Running Over

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.639 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:13.720 new sermons every week. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.360 Hope you're blessed today. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.200 Grace and anal jests. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.280 Like you to grab the hand of the person next 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.559 to you or put your hand on their shoulder, make 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:36.120 a connection. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:37.720 No one untouched. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.879 Father, We thank you for your presence and the permeation 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.919 of your grace in this temporal moment. In these are 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.360 mortal bodies, we invite the fullness of the Godhead in 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:58.680 Christ flow through us. Now, living water, saturate every parched place, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.039 quench and phil to overflow every thirsty soul. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.920 Here's our cup, Lord, We lift it up. Lord, I 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.919 pray for the person on my right and on my left. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:24.200 Fill them, feed them until they want no more. We 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.120 declare this done in the mighty name of Jesus, and 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.120 we clap our hands. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.840 Anticipation of your reign is in our hearts. Ay man 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.800 hed night Lord the God. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:45.280 Alright, well, what a special presence of God? How many 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:54.680 appreciate his presence when He touches you? And nobody can 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:59.440 touch you like God can. There's no place like the 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.000 presence of God. Amen, no place like home. I hope 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.480 you feel at home here. Those of you who are 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.480 visiting for the first time, those of you who come 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.320 every week, I hope you feel at home here. Those 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.120 of you who are watching online, I hope you feel 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.240 at home here. And so we're excited to bring God's word. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:22.120 There is a pop up in La today. He La. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.000 I'll tell you what, if you could see this weather 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.560 in Charlotte, you'd wish you were here. We get it all. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.080 It's we could be seventy and seventeen in one week. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.760 Here we drive in variety, here the forecast. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.880 Shout out to our pop up, shout out to all 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:41.720 of our locations. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.400 I don't take the time enough. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.800 We have twenty locations meeting all across the region, in 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:48.679 different parts. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:49.320 Of the country, in the world. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.359 Less thank God for all of them, our evam around 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:52.840 the world. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.400 We're all getting ready, so much to prepare for. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.280 Ask you to stay standing for just a moment, because 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.960 after I get through these announcements, I'm going to read 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.720 my scripture and I want us to stand in honor 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.959 of the Word of God. But I want to underscore 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.480 that our Christmas services will begin Friday, December twenty second 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.760 through Sunday to twenty fourth. There are too many times 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.679 for me to list specific to each location. It gets 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.160 complicated with time zones and building capacities. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.720 So you'll just go to Christmas at Elevation dot com, Christmas. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.560 At Elevation dot com like that, and they'll give you 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.160 the times and locations. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.600 On December thirty first, church will. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.760 Be online only, and then we'll be back in person Sunday, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.480 January seventh. Now before we give God praise for Christmas. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:50.360 All right, now, before we get to any of that, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.760 We've got our year end offering next Sunday, December ten. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.520 Give God praise for that. Come on, we live to 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:06.760 get got so excited I went ahead and wrote my 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.360 check Thursday and put it in the offering. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.840 Get it in the ground early in case it rains. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.640 I want it to be ready and I love doing it, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.720 and I hope you do too. No pressure to you. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.200 You can come every week and never give anything we'll 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.360 give to you. But if you believe in this, if 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.520 this gospel saved you, if you want to help us 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.160 get it all around the world, then show up next 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.400 week with an offering and sew it in faith so 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:39.799 that people far. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.760 From God can be raised to lie. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:48.000 Let's build up the kingdom together. Let's week, Let's lit 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:59.480 up Jesus together, Holly. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.600 That will be awesome. It's our declaration of trust. We're 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.680 calling our trust offering. That's the subtitle, our expansion, our outreach. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:07.360 It will be amazing. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:13.240 And guess what today I want to read you the 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.920 most famous Bible verse on trust in the whole Bible, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.599 other than Proverbs three to six, second most famous, and 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:22.920 I want to share it with you. Now. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.840 This word for you may feel very personal. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.400 Don't be surprised if it does, because the Lord gave 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.080 it to me, and he knows what you're going through. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.600 So don't get worried. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.719 Does past our half cameras in my house when I 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.919 start saying some of this stuff. I don't know what 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.719 you're going through, But God does. He gave me this 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.240 word I believe for you. Actually, before we read Psalm 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.920 twenty three, I want to do it out of order. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.120 Give me second Corinthians eight one and two. Then Psalm 0:05:54.120 --> 0:06:00.040 twenty three Paul speaking. And now, brothers and sisters, I 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.440 want you to know about the grace that God has 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:08.359 given the Macedonian churches in the midst of a very 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:14.640 severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:20.960 up in rich generosity. Beautiful. Now saal, I'm twenty three 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:26.440 four and five. Yea, though I walk through the valley 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.400 of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:40.240 For thou art with me. Thy Rod and staff they 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:45.720 comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:52.720 presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:07:00.200 my cup, runneth over. Clap your hands for that, for 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:07.400 that promise, that timeless, ageless promise from Almighty God. Now 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.640 let me give you the message title repeat after me. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:15.440 I'm going through, but I'm running over. Tell your neighbor 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.360 two things at once. Say I'm going through, but I'm 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:27.920 running over. Hallelujah. You feel that, say it. I'm going through. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.000 Tell your neighbor you look like you're going through. You 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.280 look like it too, but you look like you're running over. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.160 Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Bressed out 0:07:54.680 --> 0:08:01.760 shakings again. All right, y'all be seated. I'll be seated. Yeah, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:10.080 I'll be seated. Be seated. How many married people in 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:17.200 the house. You better put some enthusiasm on that will. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.840 How many would agree marriage changes everything. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:28.840 It changes everything, and they don't tell you that marriage 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.920 not only changes everything in your relationship to the person 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.839 you're marrying when you commit to be with them all 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.760 the time. But the thing that surprised me about my 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.439 relationship with Holly is how much my relationship with her 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:47.560 changed my relationship with other things, not just my time, like, oh. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:48.760 Well, now I've got to be home, you know, the 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.320 old ball and chain. We don't feel like that. I 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:52.319 don't feel like that about her. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.640 At all, But over time, how her preferences have assimilated 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.640 into me, and now her references have become the prism 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.800 not prison prism through which. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.079 I experienced so much of life. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:13.000 And so the way that my wife feels about things 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.320 changes the way that I feel about so many things 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.960 in my life. My relationship with my wife changed my 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.199 relationship with so many other things in my life. I'm 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.640 sure she'd say the same about her relationship with me. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.120 For the twenty one years we've been married, I've been 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:37.679 advocating to her that rock music is God's music, for 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:43.920 the Bible says he is a rock But I wonder 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:49.080 over slowly from her having the perspective of that rock 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.520 most rock music was annoying, and now she knows it's annointed. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.080 Her relationship with me changed her relationship with the genre. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.240 One of the first times I knew that being married 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.800 to this person was going to change me and change 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.440 my orientation towards simple, elemental, basic things. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.320 Early when we were married, we woke up one. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.360 Morning and it was raining outside, and I looked over 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:15.400 at her and she was awakened. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:16.160 She was smiling. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.840 She said, I just love a good rainy day, so relaxing, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.079 so cozy, and I'm like, oh, you're one of these people. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.160 Rain to me is depressing. I know it shouldn't be. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.160 The joy of the Lord is my strength. Pray for me. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.200 My sanctification process is still in progress. I'm buffering, and 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.280 she's like, oh, what a blessing a rainy day. Now 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.679 we can just you know, relax and all of that. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.199 So through her eyes, over the last twenty one years, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.160 I've kind of come to see it. It can be relaxing. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.040 Rain can be relaxing. I never knew that. So what 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.480 I'm trying to say, just as a basic illustration to 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.880 set this up, is that my relationship with her changed 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.280 my relationship to something as simple as rain, just by 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.480 being with her. It didn't make it rain more or 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.920 less because we're married. It changed my relationship with the rain. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.240 I saw Larry Brye on a video earlier as he 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:15.600 in the room. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.320 Yeah, yea yeah. Remember when it rained early one Sunday. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.400 About the third or fourth week we had this church yall, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.079 and the attendance momentum was going good. It rained, The 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.400 attendants dropped by thirty percent. I found out people don't 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.720 need much to stay home from church, and I was 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.760 mad about it, and I went back just kind of 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.480 disappointed in all because in those days we were just, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.520 you know, really trying to survive week the week. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.040 This goofball is smiling, just grinning ear to ear. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.320 I don't know if you know him, but he's just 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.120 a very over the top personality. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:48.960 I said, what you're smiling about? Silly? 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.360 Had we had twenty percent? Did you not see all 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.800 those empty seats for the rain? He said, did you 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.839 not see our greeter team? He had bought these umbrellas 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.640 with elevation logos on him and he was waiting for 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:12.760 a rainy day he got to use his umbrellas. He's grinned. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.880 He's in the grin and like Mary Poppins, I'm like 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.120 Ebenezer Scrooge, and it's just about you know. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.680 And really. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.840 I bring that up because I wanted a simple way 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.640 to say something that's kind of deep and kind of 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.920 hard to talk about. Is that your relationship with Christ 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:42.400 should change your relationship with adversity. You like the metaphor 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:48.600 better about the rain, didn't you? The rain was cute? Yeah, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.440 my relationship with Christ. You know how we say Jesus 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:59.560 changes everything, true, but needs some explanation. Jesus didn't make 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.199 me sick foot three when he saved me. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.680 He didn't change everything. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.720 Jesus isn't fixing this bald spot on the back of 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.000 my head. I'd have to pay somebody in Miami to 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:18.280 do that. He's not gonna change everything. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.240 Jesus, not Jesus. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:31.800 Jesus changes. Jesus changes the way I see everything. Therefore, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:38.840 Jesus changes everything by changing me. And as he changes me, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.360 having him, knowing him, walking with him, being in relationship 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.520 with him, like my relationship with Holly, it changes the 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.040 way I. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:48.600 See the rain. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.840 When you see these leaves falling off the trees around here, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.679 if you're the one who has to blow them out 0:13:55.679 --> 0:14:01.720 of the driveway, they're a nuisance. But if you're the soil, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:12.680 those are nutrients. Is it a nuisance or is it 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:18.280 a nutrient. It depends on whether you're the soil or 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.840 whether you're the person who's responsible of lawn maintenance and 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.480 making it look esthetically pleasing. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.160 Now, Paul says, and I'm finally to the text. I 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.880 want you to know about this church in Macedonia. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.240 They are amazing, but they are not affluent. They have 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.280 an abundant mentality in a scarcity situation. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.000 Many of us are the opposite. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:50.400 We have an abundant situation, a scarcity mindset, whether it's 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.920 because of our over commitment to all of the things 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.520 that we've done to impress people or get people to 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.360 like us. And it doesn't even really work because the 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.080 moment that you stop doing it, they stop liking you. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.400 So they didn't really like you, they liked what you 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.200 were doing for them. And now you've run yourself ragged 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.480 for somebody you don't even have a real relationship with, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.359 and it can leave you feeling depleted. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.080 Paul says, just the opposite. 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.240 Always thought this scripture was a paradox not a contradiction. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.920 A paradox a contradiction to things that can't. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.080 Both be true, can't both be true? 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.120 Paradox doesn't look true on the surface, but dig beneath 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.000 it a little bit, it's true. I'll give you a paradox. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:41.440 Less it's more. No, more is more unless it's not. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.440 And no, that doesn't mean I'm only going to preach 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.440 for twenty minutes this week because less it's more. But 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.520 there are times where your silent presence will mean more 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.800 than your best advice. You know that you ever had 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.840 somebody on what they didn't say was a blacks so 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:08.560 less was more. That's a paradox. How About the paradox 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.280 of your personality? How About the paradox of your purpose? 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.560 How about the paradox of the provision in your life. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.320 I'll go through all three of those. Your personality, the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.040 fact that there are times where you are very outgoing 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.520 and there are times you want to be left alone. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.400 That doesn't make you a hypocrite, makes you a human. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.160 How about your purpose? The fact that sometimes you're very 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.560 sure God told you to take that job, and other times. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.840 You feel the Lord might be in the moving truck. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.720 Ministry sometime in twenty twenty four. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:50.400 Huh, how about the paradox of purpose and then the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.760 paradox of provision, which is really central to this text. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.880 Paul said, there was a church in Macedonia and out 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.520 of their poverty. It's unclear in this situation exactly what 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.280 was happening to them, other than it was the effect 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.760 of persecution. Now they're giving an offering to the Church 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.359 at Jerusalem and they don't have themselves many basic needs met. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:19.800 Paul says, out of this is a miracle. And I 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.280 believe that one of the things christ enables us to do. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.359 And I want you to shout or clap or throw 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.800 something at me if you don't disagree with what I'm 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.400 saying too much, is that we should never let an 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.000 event become our identity. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:36.960 Ever. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.639 Watch me work this out now, because I'm talking about 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:51.680 our adversities and our achievements. No event should become your identity. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:56.919 That is a fragile, flawed foundation to build your house on. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.199 One storm can knock it down. No achievement. It should 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:09.040 be me in my mind. No achievement, no talent, no 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.920 ability should be conflated with my character. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.920 As I decide who is it that I am? I 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.040 remember a lady told me one time, I grew up 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.120 in the Low Country where you did. And she said, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.399 I have a bone to pick with you. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.800 I said, a bone to pick with me? You are 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.399 from the low country talking like this, let's pick. She said, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:29.040 I got. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:29.840 A bone to pick with you. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.520 She said, I listened to your sermons, and you don't 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.400 talk like where you come from. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.040 She had a deep Southern accent. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.480 She said, why don't you talk if you're from Monk's Corner, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.640 South Carolina? Why can't I hear your Southern accent when 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:45.119 you preach? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.679 I said, lady, I don't know. I didn't take a class, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.000 I didn't have it cast out. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.320 I don't know. I can put it on anytime I 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.440 want to, but I don't know. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:00.560 It just kind of fell off along the way. And 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.480 it's a good question, right, Like what she asked me, why. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:11.840 Don't you talk like where you come from? 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.679 I got a bone to bid with a lot of believers. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.360 How our mouths speaks so much about what we're missing, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.399 and we claim to have Christ as the center of 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:27.000 our life. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:28.440 I feel like preaching. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.760 In the beginning was the word, and the word was 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.840 with God. And the word was God, and through him 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.520 were all things made that were made. Colossian says, so 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.680 the beginning was the word. The word was Jesus. Jesus 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.520 is in you. If Jesus is in you and you 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.399 came from him, then why do you say you can't 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:54.560 make it? If Jesus is in you and you come 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.080 from him, and all the fullness of the deity dwells 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:02.679 in Jesus, not baby g Jesus. I'm talking about reigning Jesus. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.400 I'm talking about Christ in you, the hope of glory. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.200 Touch your neighbors, say, talk like where you came from. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:12.320 Come on, let's practice. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.120 Say I'm blessed, I'm highly favor I'm anointed for this. 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.480 I'm absolutely dead smack in the center of God's will 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.320 for my life. He woke me up this morning. My 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.800 cup is overflowing. Hi oe him the praise. You know 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:36.560 where I come from. And I wonder, did you forget 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.479 where you came from. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:44.399 Because of what you went through? Yay, though I walk. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.600 Through the valley of the Shadow of death, but that 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.080 Psng'm twenty three verse four. We're not there yet. David 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.639 started this whole thing off by saying the Lord is 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:12.080 my shepherd identity I walk through the valley event. Flip 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.919 the whole thing around and you'll feel better. Flip the 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.399 whole thing around and you'll be able to breathe again. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.400 Flip the whole thing around and you might be surprised. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:27.639 What you see about your situation is that no success 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:33.040 makes me who I am. No failure limits what I 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.840 can be. Because the Lord is my shepherd, I shall 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:45.440 not want. We could go home, but we're not going 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:50.439 to because some of y'all are going through It would 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.880 shock you what someone on your row might be going through. 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.960 I had two conversations in the last twenty four hours. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:58.359 That shocked me. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.639 People I have been around and had no idea what 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.480 they were going through. People I was in regular contact with, 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.480 and I had no idea their family member committed suicide. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:15.600 They didn't tell anybody, didn't even tell their pastor didn't. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.080 Know if they could, felt ashamed about it. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.920 I had a conversation with someone that I loved very 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.679 much the other day and they made a statement that 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.960 I believe expresses the sentiment of many of us, spoken 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:32.560 or unspoken. He was in the middle of a spiraling 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.640 emotional state and he said to me. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:41.520 I hate myself so much right now. I hate myself 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:43.720 so much right now. 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:48.560 I didn't say anything because that kind of statement needs. 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:49.360 A little bit of space. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:52.600 But after he had said it as much as he 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.639 needed to say it, I said, let's say it a 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:56.159 little bit differently this time. 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.840 Let's say it, but let's say it different. Let's say 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:01.760 it like we know where we come from. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:08.480 Not. I hate myself right now. I hate how this 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:14.360 is making me feel right now. You see it now 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:18.679 I'm talking to addicts. Not I hate myself because I 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:23.199 do this. I hate how this sin change me to 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:25.919 the me that I don't have to be anymore. That 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:31.800 is pattern, program based, not potential conscious. I hate this event, 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.080 but the event is not the identity. 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.960 So now I can fight it because I am not it. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:46.520 Say this. I am not it. My mama told me. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.080 Pick the best one, and I. 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.960 Am not it. Give God praise that you're not it. 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:01.280 I did it, but I'm not it. I'm in it, Oh, 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:05.399 but I'm not it. It's with me in church this morning, 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:09.960 but I'm not it. It came with me, but it's 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:11.199 not gonna get in me. 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:12.919 And even if it's in. 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.360 Me, it's gonna get out because I'm not built. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:27.600 Right. So my relationship with Holly changed the way I 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:32.680 saw the rain. My relationship with christ then therefore changes 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:34.720 my relationship with what I'm going through? 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:39.200 What are you going through? That nobody really knows? 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:42.399 Don't say it out loud because you won't say the 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:48.520 real one. I don't need a single one of you 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:51.560 to put it in the chat because what it really 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:53.280 is doesn't belong on YouTube, does it? 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.880 What are you going through? Going through? 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:00.680 My friend texted me this is probably like four years ago, 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.280 and he said that was a great sermon. What are 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:08.480 you going through? I said, what you mean? He said, 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:12.399 nobody preaches like that unless they're going through something. And 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:16.720 that is one thing about adversity, isn't it adversity. I'm 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.879 gonna tell you three things that adversity is. If you 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:22.560 know Jesus. Okay, if you don't know Jesus, adversity is 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:24.560 a closed door that you can't get past. If you 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:26.640 don't know Jesus, it's a Jericho wall you can't get over. 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:30.280 If you don't know Jesus, adversity is an endpoint of 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.560 a dream. If you don't know Jesus, adversity is a 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:34.439 reason for you to throw your hands up in disgust, 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:35.919 feel sorry for yourself, and eat three. 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:37.880 Gallons of ice cream and let's just get in shape. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:38.520 January one. 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:44.320 If you don't know Jesus, but if my relationship with 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:48.600 you changed my relationship with the rain, maybe my relationship 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:55.800 with Jesus can change my relationship with adversity. The first 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:57.200 thing that it won't do. I'm gonna give you three 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.040 things that it does do. But the first thing that 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:03.439 it won't do is it wont make you avoid. And 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.639 if it would, then David wouldn't say yay though I 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:14.480 walk through the valley. You can't avoid certain adversity. I 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:19.880 should say this through wisdom, all right. And I want 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:21.800 to let that sink in because sometimes I think, I 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:27.000 think sometimes in church we glorify adversity as if it's 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:28.560 always God's first way. 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:30.480 But sometimes God gives. 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:34.719 You a command as your first school of learning and 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:40.359 adversity as your summer school. Does that make any sense, 0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:42.240 y'all looking at me? 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:45.800 Kind of weird? I can't decide if yeah, it won't 0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:48.960 because if it said yay though. 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:50.280 I look at the valley of the shadow of Death 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:50.720 and God. 0:26:50.560 --> 0:26:54.800 Air lifts me out I will fear no evil. Yea, 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:55.200 though I. 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:56.600 Glide over the valley of the Shadow of Death, I 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:58.280 will fear no Well, I bet you won't. You're gliding 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:00.200 over it. 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:01.200 Somebodys they go through. 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:06.080 So when you go through adversity, whatever that adversity is, 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:07.800 and I don't mean to say that in a generic way. 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.199 The Lord specifically gave me that word adversity, and he 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:13.639 told me to focus on that adversity in your life. 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:17.520 The first thing that adversity is when you put it 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:23.320 in the hands of Jesus, it is an adjuster. Adversity 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:28.320 in the hands of God serves as an adjuster. Not 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:31.960 all adversity comes from the hand of God. It al 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:35.840 must passed through the hand of God. Whatever you're going through, 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.680 it had to go through God before it got to you, 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.160 and before it's over, it has to go through God 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:47.119 again so he can work it for the good in 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:47.800 your life. 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:51.520 Shout about that. Shout about that. 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:56.159 You should and watch this not all the time, But 0:27:56.200 --> 0:28:00.639 Paul said, sometimes our tendency is to get too high 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:05.680 to identify ourselves with our achievement. So Paul said, this 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:08.520 is later in Second Corinthians. I just remember the scripture 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.920 he said. Therefore, to keep me from becoming conceited, there 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.960 was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:16.480 of Satan sent to buffet me. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:19.679 Buffett is not like Warren. 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:21.720 This sitting a stock in his account. 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.720 It beat me, but it didn't defeat me. 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:30.639 It was an adversity sent to get me grounded in 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:35.080 God's grace. Sometimes God will allow adversity even if he 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:40.080 doesn't send adversity to adjust you in your life, because 0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:42.600 he knows right now you're moving a little fast. 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:45.760 He knows right now you're looking down on people a 0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:46.200 little bit. 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:49.400 He knows right now, if I give it to you, 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.120 you'll eat it, you won't sow it. So I've got 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:58.800 to get you in a place where you can recognize. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:59.560 That I'm your shepherd. It's an adjuster. 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:04.560 God will use adversity to adjust you. 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:05.880 You still the kids all the time when they were 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:10.320 very little. Stop growing up. Stop it. You're so cute 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:13.160 right now, Stay really cute like this. 0:29:14.280 --> 0:29:19.360 Stay at age nine where you think I'm smart, only 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:20.640 like seven years away from you. 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:25.120 Thinking I'm an idiot and being right. That's the worst part. 0:29:25.120 --> 0:29:27.000 You're gonna be right. You're gonna think I'm an idiot, 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:29.880 and you're gonna be right and abby. You say same 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:31.360 thing every time I say stop. 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:36.920 Growing up, and she'd go, I can't, but spiritually you can. 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:43.200 Physical growth you have no choice about. Spiritual growth is 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:45.720 a choice. 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:46.320 I'm saying. 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:48.360 You don't always get to choose what you go through, 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:51.440 but you have to choose to grow through. 0:29:53.040 --> 0:29:53.800 What you go through. 0:29:55.920 --> 0:29:57.960 All right, three people in the back, I'll come appreciate 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:03.320 to you. All growth is chosen in the spirit, not 0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:06.800 in the physical. You know, as it relates to our 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:09.600 height and certain things about our bodies, certain certain parts 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:13.600 of that are not chosen. But growth spiritually is. So 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.880 I would ask you the question about the valley. 0:30:16.880 --> 0:30:20.200 In your life. Remember, David said, I walked through the valley, 0:30:20.760 --> 0:30:21.240 Paul said. 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:25.400 The Macedonian Church, out of their severe affliction or adversity, 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:27.360 welled up generosity. 0:30:27.720 --> 0:30:30.920 They learned how to give through what they lacked. 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:36.360 They were brought into a place of abundance by their adversity. 0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:39.440 That's the way it works, if you choose to allow 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:43.600 God to do it through you. Adversity can often be 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:47.560 an adjuster. The second thing that adversity does, and I'll 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:47.920 give you a. 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:51.200 Few scriptures to prove this. It says that the Lord 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:52.400 is near to the broken hearted. 0:30:53.760 --> 0:30:56.400 It says that God is a very present help in 0:30:56.440 --> 0:31:00.880 the time of trouble. David's said, He's with me in 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:04.000 the valley. So the second thing that adversity will do, 0:31:04.320 --> 0:31:11.640 it will give you access. Access. Adversity is an all 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.920 access pass to the places in God you can't get 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:20.280 any other way. Adversity is a like when we go 0:31:20.360 --> 0:31:22.320 out on Elevation Nights, let me stop real quick in 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:25.720 do an advertisement. February twentyeth through twenty ninth Elevation Nights 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:26.200 dot com. 0:31:26.200 --> 0:31:28.680 We can't wait to see you there when we go out. 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:31.400 When we go out, I have do a little advertisement, 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:35.600 little product placement when we go out. The team that's 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.960 working on Elevation Nights, they have a pass. They can 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:42.240 go anywhere in the State Farm Arena, anywhere. 0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:43.960 They want to go. If it says access all areas, 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:44.880 they can go anywhere. 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:47.280 I said to one of them one time, isn't it 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.080 funny if we tried to come back here tomorrow night 0:31:50.480 --> 0:31:54.840 and just walk in, you know, and Florida Georgia line. 0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:56.520 They don't even play together anymore, do they? Honey to 0:31:56.560 --> 0:32:01.920 update the reference me going to Taylor Swift or something 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:02.320 like that. 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:03.640 Hey, I'm here. 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.920 They let me in at the last one on elevation nights. 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:07.800 I can go anywhere, right, No, no, no, you. 0:32:07.800 --> 0:32:08.920 Got to have a pass for that. 0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:13.360 And the fact that I'm here for this event gives 0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:17.920 me access to certain areas. When you go through certain things, 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:23.280 you will discover a grace that you only get when 0:32:23.320 --> 0:32:27.360 you go through those things. And even though the thing 0:32:27.440 --> 0:32:29.800 is not what you would have chosen to go through, 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:34.560 it is going to, I declare prophetically and biblically. 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:36.160 It is going to give you grace. 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:41.760 So that adversity is the access point by which the 0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:46.000 extra grace will be released by God. You will go 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.840 through things in your life, and when you get through them, 0:32:48.880 --> 0:32:51.479 people will say how did you get through that, and 0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:54.080 you will only be able to say, I don't know. 0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:59.040 God gave me a grace for it. A grace for it. 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:02.920 Shout like you know the shepherd, say I got a 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:06.560 grace for it. Come on, tell your neighbor, I got 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:12.080 a grace for it. I'm going through it, but I 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:14.840 got a grace for it. And if I've got to 0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:18.760 go through it, it is guaranteed grace. God will never 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:21.000 make me go through what He will not give me 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:21.840 grace for. 0:33:22.520 --> 0:33:24.080 So if you're going. 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:28.120 Through something that you hadn't been through before, you're about 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:32.120 to get a grace that you've never had before. I 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:34.320 feel like preaching You're about to. 0:33:34.320 --> 0:33:38.920 Receive an annointing overflowing like you've never known it before. 0:33:42.000 --> 0:33:43.480 God'll feel you for this. 0:33:45.240 --> 0:33:48.920 Elbow, your neighbors say, he'll feel me for this. This 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:52.600 is an event. This is an event. This is an event. 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:56.080 I'm getting through this. This is an event. I'm not 0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:59.960 living here. Don't put this as my permanent mailing address. 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:01.320 Your one Valley road. 0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:04.920 Don't come visit me in the valley next December, because 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:06.080 I'm going through this. 0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:07.080 Yay. 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:08.239 Wow. 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:17.120 Yeah, I'm talking about the kind of grace that'll make 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.120 you say yay as you go through the valley. 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:30.880 Somebody saw yay, got a freach one name. Yay. Nobody 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:33.040 says yay when the bill's overdue. 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:39.359 Yay. That's crazy. David said, yay. I know it, manute 0:34:39.400 --> 0:34:40.719 a little different. Let's have some fun. 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:44.520 Come on, come on, come on, say yay. I wish 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:48.200 you would confuse the devil this week. He's got you 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.800 in the valley. You know when they. 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:54.520 Call you and tell you the bad news and you 0:34:54.600 --> 0:35:05.680 just say, hang on a second, mute, yay. You know 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:09.200 how she broke up with you in October and you 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:10.320 thought you'd spend. 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.840 The rest of your life alone. I want you to 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:16.600 go back to October in your mind. Let God anoint 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:17.680 your head with oil. 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.000 Change the way you think about that thing, and realize, 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:24.239 if that was meant to me, it would be meant 0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:27.040 to be. If it was meant for me, it would be. 0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:29.880 But if it went away, it couldn't stay. 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:36.680 Somebody say yay shay, whoa. 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:42.200 I feel Jesus on this. I feel Jesus on this. 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:47.040 Jesus got to the tomb of Lazarus. He said he's dead, 0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:51.960 and I'm glad. Somebody shall yay. Well, why would you 0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:55.760 be glad? Because these are his friends and he's about 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.960 to show them something nobody else has ever seen. 0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:01.120 I need you to get happy. 0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:04.280 Not about the valley that you're going through, but about 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:07.120 the grace of God that is coming to you. 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:15.320 Somebody shout yay, yay, yeah, yeah. 0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:17.520 Whoo. 0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:23.760 I'm not afraid because yeay yay. 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.440 Now I'm telling you this message is real to me. 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:30.720 I was shouting like this at five forty five this morning. 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:33.160 I was scared I was gonna wake the dog up 0:36:33.360 --> 0:36:35.200 and happy, said he pete on the couch. 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:36.440 I think I made the. 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.239 Dog Pius passed because I was walking around. 0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:43.520 My living room at five forty five saying, yay, yay, 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:45.720 yay goes. 0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:49.920 That's so in tears, we'll reaping joy. 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:53.839 Yeah, I'm gonna get up now. 0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:56.080 Yeah. 0:36:56.280 --> 0:37:09.640 Yeah, this is today the Lord today in. 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:12.799 My shepherdsy so he enables me. 0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:16.600 You can't minimize people's pain like this, pastor Steven. I'm 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.239 not minimizing nothing. I'm just trying to reframe the way 0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:24.840 you see the rain. I'm trying to get you to 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:29.480 rethink the leaves. Did you have somebody leave you? What 0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:30.799 if that's nourishment for. 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:32.720 Your next season in the soul of your life. 0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:38.880 I said, I'm going through, but watch this I'm going through. 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:42.640 Don't let what I'm going through fool you. I'm going through, 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:46.120 but I'm not dry inside. I'm going through, but I'm 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:49.080 not without a witness. I'm going through, but God is 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:52.040 speaking with me. I'm walking through this valley, but I'm 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:53.839 not walking through it by myself. 0:37:54.080 --> 0:38:02.920 Yay, though I walk, I walk. You notice in the 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:08.200 text in verse five, in verse five, is this good 0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:12.239 to y'all? The Lord said, ten people will love this message. 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.680 Ten people will love this message. He said. 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:20.120 In verse five something was running and it was the coup. 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:25.839 He said, my cup runneth over. But in verse four 0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:31.360 something was walking and that was you. Yay, though I walk, 0:38:33.560 --> 0:38:40.960 I walk, and the cup runs. I need y'all to 0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:43.960 help me today because my voice is a little bit weak, 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:46.719 and I don't know what I was doing just now 0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:50.720 pushing it because all week, every day I was recording 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:52.879 my book by audio and. 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:55.759 I did not hold back. I did not put my 0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:57.480 late night FMDJ voice on this thing. 0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:01.040 This was not boys to men intros like tone level, 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:02.960 voice level, This is no base in it. 0:39:03.440 --> 0:39:07.240 I preach that thing all seventy thousand words. 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:10.440 Let me put an advertisement my new book, Do the 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:15.440 New You, February thirteenth, everywhere Books are Souls pre order 0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:18.800 right now at dothanewu dot com. 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:22.560 Advertisement. And I did it. 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:25.360 I did it all week, and one thing I noticed 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:28.400 when I was doing it, when I would rush, I 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:32.640 would mess up because you want to get done, because 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:34.200 you get tired of hearing yourself talk. How many of 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:37.400 you'd like to hear yourself talk? It's not fun, okay, 0:39:37.480 --> 0:39:40.080 So I do this out of love for you. I 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:41.520 don't like to hear myself talking more. You like to 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.080 hear yourself talk. And so I'm saying it. Listen myself 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:44.439 talk for like the second third day, and I start 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.040 trying to a little fast like that, and I'll make 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:49.239 ten mistakes, and every time it got hard. 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:56.680 The secret to getting through was to slow down. That's 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:57.040 why I. 0:39:56.960 --> 0:40:02.080 Said that wait on the Lord will walk. Yea though 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:08.120 I walk, slow down. You're worried because you're trying to 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:12.040 get there too fast. You're worried because you're trying to 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:14.960 do it all in one day. You're worried because you're 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:16.920 trying to keep up with people who are ten years. 0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:18.319 Older than you. 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.800 You're worried because you're trying to keep up with people 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.000 who are more messed up. 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.800 Than you are. They just hide it better. You're worried. 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.279 Because you're trying to take in all the information and 0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:31.000 the human history all in the same device at the 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:35.440 same time. Slow down, shut down, and walk through the 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:37.400 valid you want to get out of the valley. I 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:42.160 understand well the way through it is to walk. When 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.960 you run to something else to escape it, you don't 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:50.759 become stronger through it. You can't run over if you 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:56.600 don't go through. That's the paradox of provision. You can't 0:40:56.640 --> 0:41:01.160 run over and have wisdom to give others if you 0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:03.680 do not go through the weakness. 0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:07.360 With God for yourself. That's what the season has been about. 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:12.399 The enemy has been lying to you, telling you that 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:17.480 the valley, the shadow, and the enemies at the table 0:41:18.360 --> 0:41:19.480 represent the end for you. 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:23.400 They don't. None of those things do for you. 0:41:23.440 --> 0:41:26.799 See there's a cast of characters in Psalm twenty three, 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:34.600 including a valley, a shadow, and enemies. 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:37.560 Yay, though I walk through. 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:41.640 The valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, 0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:42.279 for thou art with me. 0:41:42.560 --> 0:41:44.799 Thy rod and staff they come from me, aren't you glad? 0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:45.640 God has a rod. 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:49.640 The staff is how he brings me back. The rod 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:52.560 is how he keeps everything away that threatened to devour me. 0:41:54.000 --> 0:41:58.880 I need both of those. So then sometimes he'll use 0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:01.879 an event to bring me back to him. Sometimes he'll 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:03.840 use an event to keep a wolf away from me. 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:08.719 But his identity is the lens through which I've view 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:10.640 every event. In my life, not the other way around. 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:14.960 Once I've decided he's the shepherd. That means I'm settled 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:19.120 in this and my cup is running over? Well, where 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:24.240 is the cup on the table? Where is the table? 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.840 We have this misconception that when we get through stuff, 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:35.560 it's going to get better. Now I'm going through right now, 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:40.280 but man, I can't wait for twenty twenty four. That's 0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:45.320 gonna be my year. You've been saying that since nineteen 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:46.240 forty seven. 0:42:47.840 --> 0:42:48.560 Elvis had a. 0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:50.640 Number one song on the chart the last time you 0:42:50.680 --> 0:42:55.600 said that. And then we have this misconception, don't we 0:42:57.280 --> 0:42:59.560 that the adversity that we're going through will prevent us 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:02.640 from being blessed right now? And I think that's the 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:04.319 thing I really wanted to put us. The core of 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:08.160 this message is that it's one thing to say, when 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:15.279 I get through this, then I will be happy, hole successful, 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:17.839 reach there I will be when I get through this, 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.799 I will be at peace, amount of. 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:22.840 Money I'll be secured, and you won't. 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:29.760 Because it's never there, he said out of their trial. 0:43:30.120 --> 0:43:33.520 In the midst of it welled up a rich generosity, 0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:41.040 and David said, my cup runs over at the table 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:47.520 in the presence of my enemies in the shadow of 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:51.759 the valley of death. I want to walk through all 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:55.200 three of those very quickly. There are three symbols in 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:59.759 this text of adversity. Each of them represent adversity. Number 0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:02.760 one is the valley. You're in the valley. 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:03.800 You're going through. 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:07.399 The valley you are going through. You will not live there. 0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:12.000 You will not live there, you will not die there. 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.440 You will not move your kids and grandkids into that 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:19.600 spot in the valley. That's why you're going through it. 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:22.120 They won't have to go through it quite like you do. 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:25.480 I believe my. 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:28.440 Dad broke the spirit of suicide off of my life 0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:32.400 by not killing himself because his dad did so. 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:35.560 Number One, it's a valley, but I'm passing through. 0:44:35.840 --> 0:44:38.560 My friend Brandon Lake was telling me a couple years 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:39.600 ago he just wrote a song. 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:40.319 I said, was it good? 0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:42.200 He said, that's just a song about the valley. 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:43.640 I said some advice. 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:46.279 Said yeah, valley represents hard things in our life. I said, 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:48.279 Brandon Lake, you have to explain to me what a 0:44:48.360 --> 0:44:50.600 valley represents in the Bible. You think I'm an idiot. 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:52.520 I went to cemetery seminary. 0:44:52.680 --> 0:44:57.239 I know about the valley well. 0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:59.560 A valley is a metaphor in the Bible, and it 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:00.319 means any thing we. 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:01.400 Go through that we don't quite understand. 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:02.920 The low moments in a motion said man, I don't 0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:03.560 know what the valley is. 0:45:03.520 --> 0:45:09.799 Same as I know what the valley is. Do I 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:14.360 really do I really. 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:21.000 Hadn't gone through what some of you gone through. Do 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:25.680 I really know the valley? Do I really know the shepherd? 0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:32.480 Until I've really known the valley? Can I really run 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:37.919 over until I go through and go through and walk through. 0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:43.920 You don't get the cup full lying down? Did you 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:48.160 notice the whole sermon will be you don't get the 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:49.680 cup filled lining down? He said, He makes me lie 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:51.200 down in green pastures, but then I had to get 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.359 up and walk, and then he filled my cup. 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:59.160 You will go through this. You will go through through 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.520 seasons where you're quite to your sanity. You will go 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:03.680 through seasons. 0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:05.160 Where you quote train up a child in the way 0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:05.959 that should go in when. 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:07.640 They're old, they won't depart from it. And you will 0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:08.080 go through. 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:11.399 Seasons of thinking, well, they're not going to get old, 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:14.719 so I'm gonna kill them before they get old, and 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:16.120 then they're going to depart from the earth. 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:17.319 And you will. 0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:24.720 He said, there's a shadow in the valley, the valley 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:28.760 of the shadow of death. You won't always see yourself 0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:31.840 correctly Jesus, correctly your situation or your next step. 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:32.240 Clearly. 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:34.960 All these people that always know everything God spoke all 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:37.400 the time, check their medicine cabinet. 0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:41.359 I'm gonna say stuff now, because you know. 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:45.719 What, when you're really in a valley and people are 0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:48.640 very mountain shouting cute stuff to you about it, and 0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:51.480 you're in the shadows and people are on their turning 0:46:51.520 --> 0:46:52.960 their iPhone light trying to tell. 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:57.720 You stuff, the valley has a shadow. 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:02.040 And in that place, listen to me, child of God, 0:47:02.880 --> 0:47:06.279 as you walk through that valley, as you moved through 0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:11.120 that shadow, he said, there's a table, and there's enemies. 0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:14.319 And at this point you want to turn around, but 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:23.440 you shouldn't, because that adversity valley, that shadow valley, those enemies, 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:27.440 insecurities and things that you've been going through, whether they 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:29.920 were launched from Hell or whether they came from your 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:34.160 own decisions, those things represented in this passage, that valley, 0:47:35.440 --> 0:47:42.200 that shadow, those enemies, they all represent adversity. 0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:44.360 But the Lord showed me something. 0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:57.879 He said, all of those adversities are advertisements. For there 0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:02.520 to be a valley, there have to be two mountains. 0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:12.040 For there to be a valley, there has to be 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:15.640 the mountain I came from, which is the last time 0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:19.640 God did it for me, and the mountain He's taken 0:48:19.719 --> 0:48:23.960 me to, which is my next testimony and my next 0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:32.160 level of effectiveness. The valley is advertising the next mountain. 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:41.279 How about the shadow, which is advertising. For there to 0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:47.839 be a shadow, there must be a sun. Since I 0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:52.560 can't stare directly at the sun. When I see the shadow, 0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:56.799 I assume that the sun is where it's supposed to 0:48:56.800 --> 0:49:01.280 be and an object is blocking its path. So every 0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:04.920 shadow in your life, every wicked thing in your life, 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:08.600 is proving the presence of a God's grace that is 0:49:08.640 --> 0:49:15.719 greater than all your sin. The valley is telling you 0:49:15.800 --> 0:49:20.600 there's a mountain. The shadow is telling you there's a sun. 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:25.280 And when you see your enemies, look for a table, 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:29.160 because if there are enemies in your path this week, 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:33.760 that means this supper time baby your enemies. 0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:40.000 Oh God, He's a very present help in the time 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:43.680 of trouble. No weapon formed against me. I told you 0:49:43.760 --> 0:49:44.920 I wanted to preach. 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:48.720 Will prosper so if I've got an enemy, that means 0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:49.600 there's a table. 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.800 If there's a table, that means there's a cup. 0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:56.239 And if there's a cup, it's about to overflow. 0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:05.720 Somebody. I find somebody say, I'm running over. I gotta 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:06.840 get to this table. 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:11.359 I'm running over. I gotta get to this miracle. I'm 0:50:11.480 --> 0:50:17.960 running over. I was scrolling the other day. I was 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:20.239 watching something. I showed it to my kids. I said, 0:50:20.239 --> 0:50:22.680 isn't that great? They said, no, Dad, that's sponsored content. 0:50:23.680 --> 0:50:25.560 I said, what you mean sponsored? They said, right there, 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:28.080 paid promotion. I said, no, this is a good video 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.719 for fitness. They said no, he's trying to sell you 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.200 a twelve week course for nine hundred and ninety eight 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:36.480 dollars and some protein powder. 0:50:36.600 --> 0:50:40.359 It's an AD. I said, it's an AD. They said, yes, 0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:42.719 an AD. That's not a class. That's an AD. He's 0:50:42.760 --> 0:50:45.040 just trying to get you. They hide it. They put 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:50.400 it there where you can't see us. An AD hide it, 0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:53.440 you'll know it's an AD. 0:50:55.320 --> 0:51:05.319 The devil puts suff in a shadow, an adversity, an 0:51:05.360 --> 0:51:12.240 extreme trial, a stubborn child, a breakup, a broken heart, 0:51:13.239 --> 0:51:15.839 something that causes you to think you're going to lose 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:20.320 your mind. But you won't because the next time it happens, 0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:21.040 you're gonna pray. 0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:23.760 God anoint my head with oil. 0:51:25.680 --> 0:51:30.400 Show me how to see this in a different way. 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:33.840 Everybody puts your hands out like this. Put your hands out. 0:51:33.719 --> 0:51:36.680 Like this, like you're ready to receive a running over blessing. 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:40.200 Like you're ready to receive a running over blessing. All right, now, pray, 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:44.880 Lord fill my cop Well, the Lord said, before I 0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:47.840 can fill your hands, I've got to fix your head. 0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:56.520 He annoints my head with oil so I can see. 0:51:56.760 --> 0:51:58.000 Is this good to you? 0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:05.160 The next time is a valley moment in your life. 0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:07.880 The next time it's a valley low in your emotion. 0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:09.080 The next time you. 0:52:09.080 --> 0:52:12.759 Go, oh, oh God, where's that come from? Realize it's 0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:19.359 an adversity and it's an advertisement. It means that this 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:24.920 valley is pointing at another mountaintop experience that you will 0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:29.920 stand on and see God's goodness and proclaim his faithfulness 0:52:30.200 --> 0:52:37.360 to another generation. It's an ad The next time you 0:52:37.440 --> 0:52:41.040 see a shadow, realize there could not be a shadow 0:52:41.400 --> 0:52:43.960 if there were not a sun. So God, I thank 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:48.360 you for the revelation that is ahead of me. And 0:52:48.440 --> 0:52:53.440 the next time you see enemies, get your napkin. 0:52:55.560 --> 0:52:59.160 You're fork. This is the preachy side of the church. 0:52:59.160 --> 0:53:03.000 I'm on the wrong side of the church. The next time. 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:10.320 You see your enemies, the next time you see your adversary, 0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:14.440 I want you to see an advertisement that he would 0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:16.040 not be fighting you like this. 0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:18.239 He would not be fighting you. 0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:19.640 Oh yeah, we're gonna fight him. 0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:22.440 We're gonna fight him, because he wouldn't be fighting me 0:53:22.680 --> 0:53:23.080 like this. 0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:27.080 He wouldn't be fighting you like this. He wouldn't be 0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.360 fighting The Lord is my shepherd. 0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:33.719 I so. 0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:43.440 Na one, annoying her mind. Yeah, you over here, over here. 0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:46.800 Annoying her mind, annoying her mind, annoying her mind. 0:53:52.960 --> 0:53:57.680 I don't understand the emotionalism. I'm not going through anything. 0:53:58.320 --> 0:54:00.560 You better save this message on a book mark. 0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:04.600 You better put this message on a favorite cous The miracle. 0:54:04.280 --> 0:54:09.080 The miracle, if you really look back on. 0:54:09.080 --> 0:54:13.640 It, it's not that I went through and then I 0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:17.960 was running over. It's that I was running over while 0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:22.440 I went through. And I don't know how, and I 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:26.200 don't know how, and I don't know why he did it. 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:27.759 But I want you to know about the grace God 0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:32.839 gave the Macedonian Church. I want you to know about 0:54:32.840 --> 0:54:36.279 the grace God gave me. When I think about him 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:39.640 and how He got me through some of the things 0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:42.960 that looked at the time like the adversary had me 0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:45.360 it was advertising. 0:54:45.719 --> 0:54:48.239 How could I get you to see it? That's what 0:54:48.960 --> 0:54:50.280 it's a product placement. 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:54.960 God wants you to know today that the thing you're 0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:58.160 going through is pointing to what you're going to be 0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:06.200 running over with. Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, I 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:13.280 need you to fill me in the valley if. 0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:16.160 I get through this. No, no, no, as I go 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:16.800 through this. 0:55:20.440 --> 0:55:25.480 Right here, right now, and the presence of an adversary 0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:33.080 does not mean the absence of the Lord. You just 0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:36.600 got to do it with anxious feelings. Yay, though I walk, 0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:40.080 you don't have to run. Your cup will. 0:55:45.920 --> 0:55:46.200 Walk. 0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:57.840 Why I got goodness and I got mercy. 0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:07.200 If you have a Hallelujah, this is where it goes. 0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:13.560 O God and I God, nurse. 0:56:15.840 --> 0:56:17.520 Man. God. 0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:19.359 It's gonna help you get your mind right. He's gonna 0:56:19.360 --> 0:56:26.520 annoy your head with oil. I God, stay down like that. 0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:27.000 I like that. 0:56:29.560 --> 0:56:33.200 Yeah, just like that, like a worship, like a worship. 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:43.560 Yeah, the good sad bird leads me to the ward. 0:56:48.760 --> 0:56:56.760 What's that next part seven, he annoys me. That's it, 0:56:56.800 --> 0:56:57.520 annoys me. 0:56:57.719 --> 0:57:01.520 Lads, they. 0:57:06.040 --> 0:57:10.759 Sing the next one. Chris, now my call? How many 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:11.719 gotta running off? 0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:12.120 Her heart? 0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:17.840 Hes brothering, No, God, we're thankful today, Hovey, Yeah, I'm thankful. 0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:20.680 Yay. 0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:28.840 Hey, Tabo, I can see it, jee No, but I 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:29.560 don't fear it. 0:57:30.080 --> 0:57:38.600 Hobby Telfy twelve. 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:49.360 It's time smoothing, Holly small a little man. 0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:53.640 Let's have some charts now, Holly, Yeah. 0:57:55.160 --> 0:58:13.960 And I got Percy ays right there, right there. 0:58:17.520 --> 0:58:18.360 This is what I pray for. 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:22.000 You lift your hands, annoyed their head with oil, Lord, 0:58:23.840 --> 0:58:28.000 to see the things in their way as opportunities for 0:58:28.040 --> 0:58:29.040 you to make them better. 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:35.400 Somebody say, annoy my head. Lord. That's where my real 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:36.480 challenge is. 0:58:36.240 --> 0:58:41.480 Is in believing you and trusting you and thinking like 0:58:41.560 --> 0:58:45.600 you think. God, I thank you for everything you brought 0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:50.160 into my life. God, I thank you even for the 0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:54.320 things that may leave my life, because I understand this 0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:59.320 valley is an advertisement, this shadow. 0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:01.440 Is an advertisement. 0:59:02.280 --> 0:59:08.560 These enemies are preparing a table for me to demonstrate 0:59:08.640 --> 0:59:13.880 your glory. God, I say the best part for last, Joe, 0:59:14.480 --> 0:59:19.920 look at me second Corinthians four sixteen, give you the 0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:23.520 heart of my message one more time. Therefore, we do 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:32.400 not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away. I'm 0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:35.000 not trying to talk about your wrinkles and saggy this 0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:36.240 or that, or mine or either. 0:59:36.280 --> 0:59:45.240 But I'm going through. But inwardly we are being renewed 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:50.840 day by day, step by step. 0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:56.919 I see you walking in confidence this week that He's 0:59:56.960 --> 1:00:00.040 with you, because the valley and the shadow and the 1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:02.400 enemies all conspire to advertise one thing. 1:00:02.960 --> 1:00:09.440 He's with me. He's with me, and he is my shepherd. 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:13.960 And if he advertises himself as a good shepherd. 1:00:13.720 --> 1:00:18.320 There's got to be grass. God is as advertised. 1:00:19.320 --> 1:00:22.520 If he advertises himself as water, there will be a rock. 1:00:23.480 --> 1:00:25.040 God is as advertised. 1:00:26.000 --> 1:00:28.440 If he advertises himself as bread, you will. 1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:32.720 Not go hungry. He is as advertised if he said 1:00:32.800 --> 1:00:35.840 I'm the great, I am whatever you need him to be. 1:00:36.400 --> 1:00:39.080 He is. I'm running over. 1:00:40.200 --> 1:00:41.560 I know you can't see it right now, but I'm 1:00:41.640 --> 1:00:44.919 running over. I know I can't feel it all the time, 1:00:44.920 --> 1:00:48.439 but I'm running over. Might take my emotions a little 1:00:48.440 --> 1:00:51.040 while to get with the program and catch up, but 1:00:51.160 --> 1:00:54.360 God says, I'm running over now with your head bowed 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:57.440 and your eyes closed that you've heard the message. I 1:00:57.480 --> 1:00:59.080 want you to say the title again. See if it 1:00:59.120 --> 1:01:07.840 feels different. I'm going through and I'm running over. You 1:01:07.920 --> 1:01:12.120 got what you need. Absolutely, you're going through. You follow 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:12.800 through with this. 1:01:14.840 --> 1:01:15.120 Father. 1:01:15.280 --> 1:01:19.920 I never ever, ever like to make stuff up on 1:01:19.960 --> 1:01:23.040 the spot. I feel like for somebody in this room, 1:01:23.560 --> 1:01:25.640 if they don't give their life to you right now, 1:01:26.120 --> 1:01:27.480 this might be their last chance. 1:01:28.440 --> 1:01:31.400 I pray right now for that person. God, as I 1:01:31.480 --> 1:01:33.560 lead into this moment of invitation, I want my whole 1:01:33.600 --> 1:01:34.520 church praying with me. 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:37.800 There is somebody who is in here right now who 1:01:37.880 --> 1:01:40.640 God has been speaking to and they have been running 1:01:41.600 --> 1:01:44.480 and today in this message, the Lord spoke to them 1:01:44.600 --> 1:01:47.400 and said it is time for you to give your 1:01:47.440 --> 1:01:49.439 life to Christ right now. 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:50.920 I want to pray for that person. 1:01:51.040 --> 1:01:53.560 Those people there may be many, I don't know, but 1:01:53.640 --> 1:01:55.919 I want to pray right now. I want our entire 1:01:56.000 --> 1:01:58.520 church to agree with me and to pray out loud 1:01:58.560 --> 1:01:59.959 after me repeat this prayer. 1:02:00.000 --> 1:02:02.040 It's not a magic prayers, not a magic pill. 1:02:02.280 --> 1:02:04.800 But the Bible says that if you will confess with 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:07.680 your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart, 1:02:07.800 --> 1:02:10.520 God raised them from the dead. You will be saved 1:02:10.800 --> 1:02:13.760 and you will receive His grace. Right now, I'm calling 1:02:13.760 --> 1:02:17.400 you to Jesus to leave your sin, to leave your excuses, 1:02:17.640 --> 1:02:20.400 to leave your past, and to come into his arms. 1:02:20.560 --> 1:02:23.880 They're open wide in this moment. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father. 1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:29.440 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 1:02:30.240 --> 1:02:31.600 and the savior of the world. 1:02:32.400 --> 1:02:37.520 And today I make Jesus the lord of my life. 1:02:37.600 --> 1:02:41.600 I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 1:02:41.720 --> 1:02:44.680 rose again to give me life. 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:50.000 I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:52.800 I am a child of God. 1:02:53.400 --> 1:02:55.200 If you prayed that with me, lift your hands on 1:02:55.200 --> 1:02:58.680 the count of three, one two degree every location, every location, put. 1:02:58.640 --> 1:03:07.320 Among Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the name 1:03:07.360 --> 1:03:15.840 of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Going through. I'm 1:03:15.880 --> 1:03:19.960 going through, but I'm running over. Clap those hands. If 1:03:19.960 --> 1:03:24.520 you receive the word to them. 1:03:22.760 --> 1:03:28.520 I love him. If you just prayed that prayer to 1:03:28.520 --> 1:03:30.920 give your life to Jesus Christ, please see someone at 1:03:30.920 --> 1:03:33.760 the tents on your way out. We don't want you 1:03:33.800 --> 1:03:35.720 to leave before we have the opportunity to give you 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:39.080 a Bible. Pray with you. And celebrate your decision to 1:03:39.120 --> 1:03:41.880 follow Christ. Holly, join me on the stage. My love, 1:03:44.720 --> 1:03:50.200 your little rain lover. I got her love in rock 1:03:50.280 --> 1:03:56.640 music now everybody. She still thinks food fighters are better 1:03:56.680 --> 1:04:00.720 than Nirvana, But I'm working on him have his way. 1:04:02.440 --> 1:04:06.800 I got her to love two things, boiled peanuts and 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:08.040 smashing pumpkins. 1:04:10.240 --> 1:04:10.960 Isn't God good? 1:04:12.320 --> 1:04:14.880 I want your relationship with Jesus to change the way 1:04:14.920 --> 1:04:15.800 you go through your week. 1:04:16.800 --> 1:04:19.040 I do. I want it to change the way you 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:20.040 see your challenges. 1:04:20.840 --> 1:04:22.880 I wanted to change the way you talk about yourself 1:04:22.880 --> 1:04:25.160 and the way you speak to others. I want it 1:04:25.200 --> 1:04:26.920 to change the way we drive in traffic. We are 1:04:26.960 --> 1:04:30.840 horrible in our cars, y'all. I want it to change 1:04:30.840 --> 1:04:33.640 the way you feel about uncertainty. I want it to 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:34.080 change it. 1:04:34.600 --> 1:04:38.960 Jesus changes every day everything. 1:04:40.000 --> 1:04:43.840 Say it again, I'm going through, but I'm not alone. 1:04:44.440 --> 1:04:47.040 I'm running over. Now. What you tell your neighbor? 1:04:47.080 --> 1:04:48.480 You look so much better than you did an hour 1:04:48.520 --> 1:04:51.240 ago when he started preaching. You look full now. You 1:04:51.280 --> 1:04:53.720 look kind of empty of an hour ago, but you 1:04:53.800 --> 1:04:58.280 look full now. Hey, everybody, when we bring our offering 1:04:58.520 --> 1:05:01.680 next weekend, let's bring our best online Etham. 1:05:02.320 --> 1:05:04.080 You be a part two. Let's bring our best. Let's 1:05:04.080 --> 1:05:08.640 honor daughter. You never go wrong putting God first. He 1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:13.640 will not be OutGiving everybody leaving. I understand. I ran over. 1:05:15.360 --> 1:05:16.920 That's right, I get it. 1:05:17.680 --> 1:05:22.480 Grab hands repeat after me. The Lord is my shepherd. 1:05:23.720 --> 1:05:28.360 I shall not want. He leadeth me, He maketh me. 1:05:29.400 --> 1:05:34.760 He provides for me, and He is with me. Would 1:05:34.800 --> 1:05:37.200 you hug three people and tell him God is with 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:37.800 you this week. 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:40.800 I'll see y'all soon. I love you. 1:05:41.400 --> 1:05:43.920 Have the best week of your life. God is with 1:05:44.080 --> 1:05:48.360 you in the middle of it. Praise the Lord. Everybody, 1:05:48.920 --> 1:05:53.000 look at somebody say yay, yes's God be good. 1:05:53.520 --> 1:05:54.360 I'll see y'all soon. 1:05:56.120 --> 1:05:58.280 Thanks for joining us today. We pray that God has 1:05:58.320 --> 1:06:00.640 spoken to you in a unique and power way through 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:01.360 the message. 1:06:01.600 --> 1:06:01.760 Well. 1:06:01.760 --> 1:06:03.880 We are in our year in offering season as a 1:06:03.960 --> 1:06:06.720 church where we get the opportunity to reflect back on 1:06:06.840 --> 1:06:08.600 all the ways that God has been faithful to our 1:06:08.640 --> 1:06:11.640 ministry this year, but also to look ahead at what 1:06:11.640 --> 1:06:14.440 we're believing God for in the upcoming year and each 1:06:14.520 --> 1:06:16.200 year as a church. We get to come around a 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:19.800 special offering and offering that contributes to both outreach efforts 1:06:19.880 --> 1:06:22.440 in local and global cities and as well as the 1:06:22.480 --> 1:06:25.520 expansion of our ministry continuing to reach people all over 1:06:25.760 --> 1:06:28.040 with the hope of the Gospel. And we'd invite you 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:30.480 to take part and participate in our year end offering. 1:06:30.720 --> 1:06:32.840 To do so, you can go to Elevationchurch dot org. 1:06:33.000 --> 1:06:34.920 Just click the banner there at the top, and then 1:06:34.920 --> 1:06:37.000 you'll be able to see everything that you need to 1:06:37.000 --> 1:06:37.520 be a part of. 1:06:37.440 --> 1:06:38.360 Our year end offering. 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:41.440 You'll see two options. The first is to begin tithing. 1:06:41.760 --> 1:06:44.440 Maybe you've been wanting to prioritize God in your finances, 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:46.960 but you haven't taken that step to make a commitment 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:49.120 to doing so. This is a great place to begin. 1:06:49.560 --> 1:06:52.560 Or perhaps you've been giving consistently in this season, God 1:06:52.600 --> 1:06:55.040 may be challenging you to stretch above and beyond the 1:06:55.120 --> 1:06:58.320 tithe to give a sacrificial gift to our year end offering. 1:06:58.560 --> 1:07:00.520 If you're part of one of our physical lowe you 1:07:00.520 --> 1:07:02.640 can choose your campus there, or if you're part of 1:07:02.680 --> 1:07:05.760 our online ministry, of course you'll choose Epham or online 1:07:05.920 --> 1:07:07.840 and then enter the amount that you'd like to give. 1:07:08.320 --> 1:07:10.080 We are believing for all the ways that God is 1:07:10.080 --> 1:07:12.240 going to stretch our faith in this season through our 1:07:12.320 --> 1:07:14.280 year end offering and we can't wait to see what 1:07:14.320 --> 1:07:16.960 God does through you. God bless and we'll see you soon.