It’s Not Over (Jabin Chavez)

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.880 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.480 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.880 Come on, let's get Jesus the best phrase if you've 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.160 been saving it all day. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:30.800 Come on, let's lift up the name that's above every name. Wow. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.159 I'm so honored to be here. And just while you're standing, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.080 I want to first of all think my friend and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.000 my big brother, Pastor Stephen Ferdick, not only for this opportunity, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:54.240 but you know, God uses people. How many know that? 0:00:54.240 --> 0:01:00.080 Can I get an amen? Somebody? God uses people, and 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.360 God use your pastor to change my life. And I 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.600 am honestly where I'm at today because of his wisdom, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.720 his friendship, his care and just the way his sermons, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:19.080 his songs. And I want to just say to God 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.920 be the glory for a man that is so important 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.040 to everyone in this room, every location, every e fam member, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.000 to the world. And I want to honor Pastor Steven 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.680 and Pastor Hollifredick today just for the gift that they 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.800 are to all of us. Can we put our hands 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:46.480 together let them know we love them? Amen, And it 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.040 is such a huge honor to be with you today. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.800 Before you're seated, find at least three people. Tell them 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.680 it looks like you're losing weight. Come on, tell them, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:02:02.440 tell them it looks like you're All the epham around 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.040 the world looks like you're losing weight. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.320 You're looking good. All of our locations, you're looking good. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.280 Wow, wow, wow. I don't know what. I don't know 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.880 if it's keto or oh sim pick, I don't know 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:26.120 what it is, but you're looking good. Hey, thank you 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.160 to uh. I feel like was that elevation rhythm? I 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.080 don't know? But or am I just old? Am I 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:33.560 just old? 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:33.760 Now? 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.720 Where it all looks like kids leading worship, But make 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:42.119 some noise for that amazing worship. That is wow. Great job, Tim, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.320 great to see a great job with man. The youth 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.680 ministries just incredible. Let's go right to the word. I'm 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.280 I'm I'm fired up. We're gonna go to First Kings seventeen. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.919 I got a lot to say, so I want to 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.440 go to the word First King Chapter seventeen. While you're 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.000 turning there. If you don't have a Bible, don't worry 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.600 to come up on the screen. But if you do, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.600 go ahead and turn with me. I do want to 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.239 bring greetings from Las Vegas. We started City Light Church 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.720 six years ago and God is just really blessing and 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.240 breathing on that work. And I'm grateful. And if you're 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:23.160 if you're ever in Vegas, don't laugh. Hey, y'all guilty. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.440 I don't know what happened at every other location, but 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.240 it's a real little naughty smile that just filled the whole. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.320 I don't know why you come to Vegas. I think 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:41.000 you come to Street of Angelism. Amen. Uh, you're you're, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.800 you're all the people with the signs right on the 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:48.360 strip preaching you reach out to the blackjack dealers, Amen 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.480 and to. I don't know why you come, but if you, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.680 if you're ever in Vegas, come say hi. I'd love 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.360 to see you and uh to uh love to see 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.360 you in church on a Sunday morning, First King's Chapter seventeen. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.520 Then the Lord said to Elijah, anybody grateful that God 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.920 speaks Hallelujah, go and live in the village of Zaraphath, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.320 near the city of Sedon. I've instructed a widow there 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:19.279 to feed you. So he went to Zarafath. As he 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.520 arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.280 widow gathering sticks there, and he asked her, would you 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.839 bring me a little cup of water? And as she 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.039 was going to get it, he called to her, I love, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.280 this is the most man move in the Bible. Y 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.600 Already every husband and wife knows this move right here. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:43.599 And can you get me a little snack? Jesus gamelo, babe. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.560 Can you get me a little a little bread, Get 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.920 me a little sandwich, babe? She said, I swear by 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.640 the Lord your God, I don't even have a single 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.599 piece of bread in this house. I only have a 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.440 handful of flour left in a jar, and a little 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.560 cooking oil left in the bottom of this jug. I 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.520 was just gathering sticks to cook the last meal, and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.720 then my son and I will die. Elijah said to her, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.160 don't be afraid. Go do what you've said, but make 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.600 a little bread for me first. This is amazing that 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.680 God did not say, make one big piece of bread, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.400 cut it three ways, and we'll all have a peace. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.120 He said, make mine first, because when you put God 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.159 first in your life. I have to believe that every 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.919 time I put God first in my life, a miracle 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:38.280 is happening in the kitchen. So he said, make mine first, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.479 then use what's left over to prepare a meal for 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.560 you and your son. For this is what the Lord, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.640 the God of Israel, says. There will always be flour 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.239 and olive oil left in your containers until the time 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.440 So she did as Elijah said. She and Elijah and 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.479 her family continue to eat for many days. There was 0:05:58.640 --> 0:05:59.560 always enough. Man. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.760 I love this about God. There was always enough flower. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.719 And olive oil left in the containers, just as the 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.920 Lord had promised through Elijah. I want to just look 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.480 at verse twelve very quickly, and then we're gonna We're 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:19.760 going to dismantle a lie that she believed. I'm gonna 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:26.360 eat this meal and die. And it's here that Elijah 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:32.200 comes with a different word, faith word, hope word, God word, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.719 a prophetic word. And I want to come with that. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.400 I want to I want to contradict the devil. Today. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.400 I've come to disagree with the demons that have been 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.239 lying to you. I've got good news for you today, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.799 and I want to I want to speak from this idea. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.760 It's not over, It's not over. Can you can you 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 just maybe elbow who's next to you, make them a 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.280 little uncomfortable, tell them it's not over. Come on, tell 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.520 a come on online around the world. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.240 Tell him it's not over. It's not over. Do y'all 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.040 believe it today? 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.800 Give the Lord one more shout of praise, and we're 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.240 going to get into this word. Bless your word, Lord, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:20.120 in Jesus's name, Amen and Amen. Prophets in the Old 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:26.680 Testament are called seers, seers see r s. They are seers. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.640 They see. We think of prophets as speaking, and they do. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.160 But before they would say a thing, they would see 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.840 a thing. God would take them up into the spirit realm. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.880 Pastor preached about trainces last week and about Peter getting 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.280 caught up into the spirit. He would he would take 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.040 prophets up into the spirit, and he would say, Ezekiel, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.680 what do you see, Jeremiah, what do you see? Isaiah? 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.400 What do you tell me what you see? And then 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.880 they would say what they saw. Because it was very 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.000 important for God to communicate that there is more going 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:06.520 on than meets the natural eye. Oh, I'm trying to 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.040 slow down already, but I'm I already feel like preaching, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.920 and I just started. He's trying to tell them that 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.080 there's more than the five senses, There's more than the natural, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.720 There's more than what your eyes can see. There is 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.760 a spiritual realm, there is a spiritual place, there is 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.400 an element called faith. In that place, in the Kingdom place, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.240 in the God place, nothing is impossible. So he has 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.199 to get them to see that there's more to see 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.560 than what they see, and then they are to say 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.160 what they see in the spirit realm because God knows something. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.040 God knows that if you can get a vision from 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.840 God and a word from God, you become unstoppable. That 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.079 when I get a vision from God and a word 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.880 from God, nothing is impossible. That though the giants are great, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.120 I have a word from God, and though the mountains 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.000 are high, I have a word from God. And though 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.520 my kids are acting crazy right now, I got a 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.120 word from God. And though I don't even know where 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.839 my spouse was last night, I got a word from God. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.680 And though I don't know how I'm gonna pay the bills, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.560 I got a vision from God. And what I see 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.640 right now with my eyes does not look like what 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.280 I saw in the spirit. But if I can get 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.800 a vision, I can make it. Because without a vision, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.040 the people perish, They lose control, they lose hope, they 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.040 lose all of their hope. But with a vision, I 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.680 can make it. This is what happened to Elisha and 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.320 second Kings when the enemy surround Elisha and his servant, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.480 and his servant comes to him and says, my Lord, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.920 we're surrounded by enemies. And Elisha prays, and Elisha does 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.480 not pray, God help us. Elisha does not pray, God, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.680 where are you. Elisha does not pray, God, we need 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.240 a vis Elisha prays, not for himself or against his enemies. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.520 Elisha prays for his servant. And here's his prayer. And 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.400 I don't think his servant was expecting it. Lord, open 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.199 his eyes, because he thinks we have an enemy problem. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.360 But he has a vision problem. You think you got 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.600 a devil problem. You got a vision problem. You think 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.280 you got a demon problem. You got a vision problem. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.840 You might think you got a boss problem. Maybe you 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.120 have a vision problem. You might think you got a 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.880 wife problem, Sir, Maybe you have a vision problem because 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.320 once God opens my eyes. I can now see what's 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.120 God open my eyes, so I don't live my entire 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.120 life sing with these but never see what You're doing 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.120 in my life, or I will end up praying the 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.600 wrong prayers, go into the wrong places, hang in with 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.880 the wrong people, singing the wrong songs. But if God 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.360 can open my eyes, I can do everything what God's 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.839 called me to do. I think we ought to give 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.640 God a praise right there, because that's the power of 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.960 this church. That's the power of every song we sing. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.760 That's the power of doing a new You is that 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.679 I can now see from Heaven's perspective. I remember the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.120 first time my little daughter realized we were in an 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.800 airplane as she looked out the window and the world 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.600 started to get his own small And she goes, Dad, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:34.440 the car the people are small, Dad, the mountains are small. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.720 And I go they didn't get any smaller, You just 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:45.360 got higher. I'm telling you, God, God can take you 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:50.120 somewhere where you see and where you hear, and where 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.480 you say something radically different. And it's here that God 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.440 helps this woman to see. It's here that God helps 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:06.320 this woman to hear a better word, It's it's here 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.720 that she catches a vision for herself or her family 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.480 and for the famine that she finds herself in it. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.880 I believe today, this is a vision day. I believe 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:22.720 God's gonna release sight today. Firstly, you have to see 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:28.120 your future. You have to see your future. The woman says, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:35.000 I'm gonna eat this meal and die. Wow, put that 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.240 on your dream board. Huh, that's a that's an awkward 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:44.480 Instagram post. But this is what she believed. This is 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.120 what she thought. Let me let me let me say 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.640 the obvious that maybe even ever thought about. She did 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:55.720 not know that. She didn't know it'd be her last meal. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.199 She didn't have a weather app on her phone. She 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.120 didn't know if God was in the sin rain tomorrow. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.480 She didn't know if someone was gonna bring her food 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.280 in the morning. She didn't know she was in the 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:13.520 presence of a prophet. She had no idea about her future, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.120 but she was predicting her future based off of the 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.920 worst case scenario. I'm gonna eat this meal and die. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.240 She didn't know that. And every time we speak from 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.280 a spirit of fear, we are declaring the worst case scenario, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.280 even though we don't know. See, this is fear. Fear 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.720 is not always frighted. Fear is not always this feeling 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:43.960 of panic like we think. Fear is it's over. Fear 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.480 is I guess the famine wand Fear is I tried 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.280 and failed. Fear is I guess this is my last meal. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.320 Fear doesn't feel like what you think is gonna feel like. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:57.520 Now. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.600 I know this because since i'veted our church six years ago, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.240 I've had three panic attacks. Now, I didn't have panic 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.440 attacks before I planted the church. Before I planted the church, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.400 I was an evangelist, I preached, I traveled, and I 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.120 lived in Newport Beach, California. Amen, it was just you 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:21.920 don't have panic attacks in Newport Beach. You just everybody's 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.760 a Christian. The dolphins are saved. You go see them 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.680 out swimming, speaking in tongues, you know. I mean, it's 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.600 like it's anointed. Everybody's smiling, or at least has enough boatox. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.720 It looks like they're smiling the other everybody's happy, everybody's 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.320 got tan. Life was good. And then I moved to 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.840 Sin City and I planted this church. I thought I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.440 was having a heart attack. Three times I thought I 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.400 was having a heart attack. I'd go into the emergency room. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.920 Hi are you good? Good good? I'm good. I see 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.080 a sign in sir, what's wrong. I'm dying. I'm having 0:14:55.120 --> 0:15:00.840 a heart attack. Man, they freak out. They get you 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.520 to the front of the line. I mean it goes 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.800 into code ight. By the way, if you ever want 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.360 to get to the front of an ear no, never mind, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.520 don't do that. But I was just telling you. I mean, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.840 they get you. I mean it's like it's twenty minutes 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.240 in Mayhem. They're taking blood, they're putting a little electrical things 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.720 all over. I mean it's they're freaking out for twenty minutes, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.600 and all of a sudden, boom, they're gone. And there 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.320 I am just sitting there in a in a gown 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.920 for an hour in a cold room. The breeze is 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:36.040 blowing in places I didn't know I had, and the 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:36.920 doctor walks in. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.320 Mister Tavis, I got good news and I got bad news. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.440 The good news is you are not having a heart attack. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.840 The bad news is you're having a panic attack. You're depressed, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.920 I said number one, I am having a heart attack. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.920 I feel like a like an elephants on my chest. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.680 I can I can feel my heart. I can't breathe. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.840 I know because you now you have a panic. All 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.920 the numbers are good grabbing a panic attack, and it 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:11.520 felt like I was dying. But really I was just 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:16.720 so fearful of my future that I told myself this 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.520 must be it. But I've come to declare to somebody 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:25.600 at Elevation Church today, it's not over. This is not 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.800 your last meal. This is not the end of the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.400 road for you. This is not how it ends, This 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.720 is not your last year. This is not how it 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:42.240 ends for you. God is still writing your story. Oh 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.360 can I get a good amen? In the House of 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:55.960 the Lord. See fear lies, Fear lies to you, and 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.960 fear assumes and declares the worst case scenario you. Fear 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:07.720 tries to predict my tomorrow by the challenges of yesterday. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.520 She judged her future by the drought that she's been in, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.000 and she cursed her tomorrow based off of the pain 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:25.120 of her past. I understand there's challenges in this room. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.280 I understand there's pain in this room. I understand there 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.240 are very hard seasons in this room, in every room, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.399 people watching all over the world and you going. But 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.240 you don't know what what I'm going through but I 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.440 want to declare a truth over you. Your past is 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:50.000 not your prophecy. Oh I felt that, am I sanctified soul. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.280 Just because it's been one way doesn't mean it will 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.440 always be that way. Just because I've been in a 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.920 season doesn't mean that sea and last. Every season changes. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:07.479 The storm can't last forever. Eventually God will make it 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.160 rain again. Eventually, the trout ends. Eventually things can chain. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:17.400 Your past is not your prophecy, It is not my prediction. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.240 It is a real part of my story, but it's 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.760 not the end of my story. It's a chapter in 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.560 my book, but it's not the final chapter of my book. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.600 Let me tell you some about about the enemy of 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.440 your soul. Let me tell you some about the devil. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:37.320 The devil is a is a present devil. Let me 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:42.919 say it like this. He is. He roams around like 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.719 a lion seeking whom he made divide. He is, he is, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:53.760 He's present. This is radically different than the God that 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:59.440 you serve. They're not in some crazy cosmic battle. They're 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.080 not armor sling for your soul. Don't don't worry about it, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:11.040 because because God is radically different. God is everywhere. Oh 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:17.480 God was, do I have a scholar in the house, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.800 and he and he is and he is to come, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.919 which means that God is in your past. God is 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.639 working in your future, and God God is preparing you 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.720 in your present. God is all places at once. Paul 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.959 said about Jesus that he feels time and space, that 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.000 he's here, and he's there, and he's everywhere, all at 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.280 the same time. This is good news because see, when 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.080 the enemy speaks to you, he can only speak to 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:53.159 you in your present. I'm going somewhere. He doesn't know 0:19:53.280 --> 0:20:01.320 your future. He speaks to you in your today, and 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:05.240 he lies to you about tomorrow, and he hopes you 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:05.840 believe it. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.040 But his guess is as good as yours. So he 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.800 whispers in the woman's ear, this is your last meal. 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.280 You're gonna die. You go listen my last meal. I'm 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.680 gonna die. He don't know that, just like she don't 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:27.640 know that. This is radically different than God. God establishes 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:28.760 the end. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:37.520 From the beginning. He starts in your future. He doesn't 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.000 guess about your tomorrow. Oh, this is good news. This 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.240 means that when God gives you a promise, he's not guessing. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.320 Am I helping anybody right now? He doesn't go. I 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.760 hope it works out. I got good plains for you. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:03.000 Let's see, he said, as I know the plans that 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.199 I have for you, they are plans to give you 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.240 a hope. Can we get a little rowdy at this 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.480 first service of the day. I'm talking to somebody of 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.200 what God talks to you. He talks to you. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:20.440 From your future into your present, and he says. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.159 Come on over to this side. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:28.680 I've got good plans. I've got a good and he's 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:34.280 not hoping it happens. He knows it'll happen. Oh, this 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.560 is so different. This is the God you serve. This 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.439 is the God who gives you promises. This is the 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:47.960 God we sing about. He knows exactly what he's doing 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.359 and he's got good plans for you. Jesus talks about 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.040 a spirit. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:05.679 In the last Day. He talks about a mentality that 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.720 would fill the earth in the last days. Luke twenty 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:14.119 one says that the people will be terrified. How you know, 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:19.520 that's just like the spirit of the world just scared. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:22.359 It is the world scared today that it was one 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.480 hundred years ago. I'm not sure. But now we got 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.800 these little phones, y'all know what I'm saying, and you 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:29.399 wake up in the morning and you turn them on 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.280 and it tells you. That phone tells you the worst. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:37.800 So we're terrified because one hundred years ago, they didn't 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.480 know there was a tornado in Nebraska and an earthquake 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.199 in Japan and a war in the Middle League. They 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.720 didn't know. They were just living their life. But now 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:53.040 we have twenty four hour access to news, and good 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.000 news doesn't sell, only bad news sells. So it's constant 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.920 bad news, and we are feeding and it become addicted 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:04.640 to bad news. We've become addicted to concern, we become 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.960 addicted to panic, and now we feed on it twenty 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.480 four hours a day. And Jesus said, this would be 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:13.960 the tone, this would be the spirit, this would be 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:18.440 the stronghold, this would be the mentality of the world's system. 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:24.720 That fear would grip us. We would be terrorized, terrified. Oh, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:27.040 but there is another spirit. For the child of God. 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:33.600 I want to declare to you that the opposite of 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.760 fear is not faith. The opposite of fear is the 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:43.199 Holy Spirit. Ha ha. Because the Spirit of God is 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.960 not a spirit of fear, but he is power, love, 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.800 and a sound mind. And there is another spirit for 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.960 the people of God. At chapter two, verse seventeen, God says, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.400 in the last days, see this is the last day scripture. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.440 Preachers don't preach about. But this is my favorite Last 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.400 Day scripture. And by the way, it's the clearest Last 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.159 Day scripture in the Bible. In the last days, i 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.480 will pour out my spirit on all flesh. I'm gonna 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.560 pour out my spirit on your sons and your daughters. 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.359 I've got a plan for your children. I've got a 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:17.600 plan for families. I've got a plan for your six 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:19.720 year old, and I've got a plan for your sixteen 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.119 year old. I've got a plan for your mayor. I 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:23.720 got a plan for families. 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:27.640 I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, and. 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:31.280 You will prophesy, and you will see dreams, and you 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:38.440 will have visions. And when the spirit of God comes 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:44.679 upon you, he he removes the fear. You will not 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:48.359 allow it in your soul. God can turn it around 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:54.400 for you. It's not over. This is not your last meal. 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:58.000 I want you to see. I want you to see 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.119 your future. I want you to see like God sees it. 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.879 They shall prophesy, he said, prophecy. That's not that's not 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:10.119 just closing your eyes and speaking in King James English. 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.000 It's talking like God talks. It's getting a word for 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.080 your family. It's getting a word for your future. It's 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:23.359 getting a word for your business. It's speaking about tomorrow 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:29.159 like God speaks about tomorrow. Number two, you have to 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:37.320 see your calling. I have I have instructed, I have 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:44.240 commanded a widow there. I have I have commanded a 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:46.760 widow there, I have instructed a widow there. I don't 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.399 know if you if you think about this language, but 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:54.800 it feels like it feels like Elijah is going to 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:59.400 walk into the village and and say, hey, I'm here, 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:04.360 and she's gonna go, omg, it's you. You're the guy. 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:07.639 I was in prayer and the Lord talked to me 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:09.840 about you. He's given me an instruction. He's given me 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:14.159 a commandment. Come on in. I got bread, bacon, I 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:16.680 got water in the jug. Let's go, come on, come 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:18.639 in heat. God's been talking to me. That's what happens. 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:20.560 He walks into town and she has no idea who 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:24.520 he is. And I think the reason is this because 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:28.720 this word instructed isn't the best English word, the better 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.359 word from the Hebrew language that it was written in. 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:40.440 Is I have appointed a woman there, I have chosen 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:50.280 for special use. I have anointed a woman there, and 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:59.560 she thinks she's gonna die, but she's anointed. She's given 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:04.560 up on her future, but she's appointed. She has no 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:08.600 more hope, but my calling is on her. She thinks 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:11.080 it's the end for her and for her family, but 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:13.960 she has no idea that my hand is upon her. 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:16.600 Some of you are in a very low place right now. 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:18.960 Some of you think this must be the end of 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:21.840 the road. I've tried everything, but I guess the drought 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.040 want No, there's an annoying on your light. There's a 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:31.080 calling on your life. You have been chosen for special use. Hey, 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:37.320 you don't even know it. Because see, Elijah had an 0:27:37.359 --> 0:27:40.720 anoying on his life that she needed. But listen, she 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:45.800 had an annoying on her life that he needed. They 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:46.840 both had oil. 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:56.800 Why do you always asking me to serve in this 0:27:57.040 --> 0:28:01.200 church because you have oil? Why do I got to 0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:03.800 lead an e group because you have oil? Why do 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:06.040 you want me serving in the house because you got oil? 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:08.560 Why are they pushing next year ministry? I don't feel 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:11.280 I hold in a baby. You got oil? We need 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:12.480 you in the youth ministry. 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:14.959 We need we need you in the children's ministry, we 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.840 need you serving in a ministry. We need you using 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:20.760 your gifts telling. And I know you're at a low point, 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:22.000 but we need you in the. 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:27.200 House of God, because there's actually oil that this house needs. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:36.480 She thought it was over. God was anointing her. Oh, 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:40.160 and I've been there. I have been at places where 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:45.760 I've been so lone, but I said yes to my gift. Anyway, 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:50.480 one time I was preaching for my friend, and I 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:54.120 preach preacher preaching. I preach pretty good. I gotta be honest. 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:55.840 I don't like all my sermons. I like that one. 0:28:56.600 --> 0:28:58.760 And I was in a low place. I didn't want 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:00.720 to be there. I wanted to cancel, but I preached, 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:02.600 and we got off. We got off the stage, and 0:29:02.640 --> 0:29:04.160 we went to dinner, and my friend looked at me 0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:11.760 and said, boy, you must be going through it. I said, 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:13.960 say last, I said no, I said what I said, 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:15.800 What Why lest I be going through it? He goes 0:29:15.800 --> 0:29:18.680 because you preach good. He said. 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:22.800 You preach like you were dying. You preach, you preach 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:25.920 like this was your last servant. You preach like you 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:26.800 were giving. 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:29.720 It your all. I said, I am going through it, and. 0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:33.080 I'm so grateful that even in my lowest moments, I've 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:35.920 got oil on my life. There's a gift on my life, 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:37.520 and there's a gift on your life. 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:39.400 And if we need you right now, it is not 0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:42.440 time to quit. It's not time to leave. It's not 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:45.920 time for you to die. God's oil is on your 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:50.400 Come on, somebody's out. I'm anointed. Come on, sap somebody 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:57.920 a high five. Tell them you're anointed. They needed each 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:07.120 other's annoying to be sustained through the trought I've appointed. 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:09.840 It was almost like God knew that if she got 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:18.280 in the atmosphere of the prophetic. Sorry, my pentecostal just 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:20.920 showed I try to keep it. I know I'm that 0:30:21.000 --> 0:30:22.680 all of a I'm trying to behave right now. That 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:28.760 organ doesn't help. It's like he knew that if she 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:32.480 could just get in the atmosphere of the prophet, something 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:35.400 would come up. And so why I try not never 0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:39.200 to miss church, whether I'm in, whether I'm in person, 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.680 whether I'm have to be online, whether I'm traveling. I 0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:43.320 just tried to be in the house of God, because 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:49.280 you never know You never know when God's gonna dry. 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:52.160 You never know when you're appointing and your annoying, it's 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:56.640 gonna rise up, and he goes, that's for me. I'm 0:30:56.640 --> 0:31:01.440 gonna make it. I got a calling. I remember twenty sixteen, 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:03.360 sitting right over that. This is the anointed section. 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.920 If there, if the if the rapture happens, you go first, 0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:08.720 because that's where I was sitting, right here with this 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:09.560 woman pointing at me. 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:12.560 That's where I was sitting. And I was at inside 0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:14.120 an elevation. I was sitting right there and they were 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:16.560 doing a conference for pastors. And it was there that 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:18.720 I got the green light from heaven to plant my church. 0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:21.880 It was there that God said, don't plan an elevation church. 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:24.160 Don't don't try to be like Pastor Stephen be. You 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:27.480 go plant that church, go do what. It was there 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:30.680 that I got permission. It was there that God said 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:35.040 yes to my dream. I'm just telling you never know 0:31:35.120 --> 0:31:37.000 when you come, Well, there's gonna be a lot of people, 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:38.480 and there's gonna be a lot of crowds, and I 0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:40.160 don't know, and there's a night of worship. I'm gonna 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:45.800 have to wait and wait a lot ring a bottle 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:50.680 of water, ring a protein bought, bring a banana, get 0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:52.920 the get to the House of God, because you just 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.600 never know. And by the way, some of you are 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:57.800 like when you when you really don't want to come 0:31:57.840 --> 0:31:59.400 to church, that's when you need to come to church. 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:06.720 My best sermons are the sermons I don't want to preach. 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.280 And my most powerful encounters with God in the House 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:12.840 of God is when I didn't want to go, but 0:32:12.960 --> 0:32:20.080 I chose to get into his presence, and that appointing 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:25.080 rows up. Two men I want to tell you about 0:32:25.160 --> 0:32:29.320 very quickly, Victor Frankel and Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was 0:32:29.080 --> 0:32:34.400 a brilliant philosopher. He was an atheist. Sigmund Freud believed 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:38.520 that the chief end of man, the highest expression of man, 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:40.880 the thing that every man wants is they just want pleasure. 0:32:42.040 --> 0:32:44.680 That if they can find pleasure and sexual pleasure, they're good. 0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:52.240 That's all they want. And Frankel disagreed, and I disagree, 0:32:52.800 --> 0:32:54.360 And I think you can look at our culture right 0:32:54.400 --> 0:32:57.640 now and disagree, because we got a lot of pleasure, 0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:05.160 not a lot of happiness. So so Frankel said, no, 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:08.040 I don't I don't think it's pleasure, he said. I 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:10.920 actually think what people want and what people really need 0:33:11.040 --> 0:33:17.400 is purpose. But if you can't find your purpose, walking 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:20.520 your purpose, step into your purpose, you will numb yourself 0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:31.360 and medicate yourself with pleasure. And I'm not against pleasure, 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:34.920 but you can't fall in love with it, because if 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:40.280 you make pleasure you're god. You'll never have enough. How 0:33:40.280 --> 0:33:42.000 do I know I love it? You can't give it away? 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:47.680 This is my fifth time here. Can I just be 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:49.600 a little more? I said, all right? Can I just 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:51.640 let me just push you a little bit? Get the house, 0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:54.080 drive the car, get the boat. I want you to 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:56.480 have a boat. I don't want a boat. I want 0:33:56.480 --> 0:33:59.920 you to have a boat. And when I visit Charlotte, 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:02.960 I want to go on your boat for free. So 0:34:03.080 --> 0:34:05.200 I want you to have a boat, but don't fall 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.200 in love with it. Give it a beautiful female name. 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:13.480 She won't love you back. You don't get because it's 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:19.319 not ultimately. Your life is not ultimately about pleasure. It's 0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:22.959 about purpose. Can I say it this way? She could 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:28.960 have made her bread, and she would have died with 0:34:29.080 --> 0:34:36.480 a full belly and an empty heart. She could have said, 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:41.040 knock on the next woman's door, and she could have 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:47.239 resisted her calling, but instead, in the presence of God, 0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:51.960 she said yes. And it was in that yes that 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:56.680 the miracle began to happen. Lastly, you have to see 0:34:56.719 --> 0:35:07.040 the possibility. See the possibility. The story starts with Elijah 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:14.200 walking into town and here's his request. Hey, Sis, that's 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:16.120 how it says in the Hebrew language, he says, Sis, 0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:18.880 in the Hebrew. Y'all need to learn Hebrew. He says, hey, Sis, 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:25.560 can I have a piece of bread? Can I have 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:33.720 some bread? And she says, you already, I don't have bread. 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:42.920 Watch watch And she wasn't lying. She didn't have bread yet, 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:58.800 but she but she did have the ingredients for bread. 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:07.839 I don't have exactly what God's asking of me yet. 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:13.000 I don't have my miracle yet. I don't have the 0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:19.560 answer yet. But maybe I have the ingredients for the miracle. 0:36:20.200 --> 0:36:23.520 Can say it? Can I say it like this? Let 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:26.239 me say it like this. I preached forever that God 0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:27.920 will never ask you for something you don't have, and 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:29.560 I still kind of believe that, and I kind of 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:33.920 disagree with that now because he asked for bread and 0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:40.879 she didn't have it. But maybe what God wants from 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:47.399 you is not a thing. Maybe he wants a yes. 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:53.439 Maybe he doesn't need you to have bread, to ask 0:36:53.480 --> 0:37:00.960 you for bread. Maybe you just give it your oil. 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:10.960 Because this is in this, in this is in this, 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:17.239 and I want to give God this. I want to 0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:19.719 be all ready and I want to be all mature, 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:21.759 and I want to have it all worked out. And 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:24.480 I want to pray enough and fast enough, and talk 0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:27.359 that tongues enough and not cuss anymore, and not that 0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:30.600 I do. Don't judge me over here. I want to 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.480 I want to have every elevation worships song memorized, and 0:37:35.640 --> 0:37:38.720 I see. I want to come into elevation when pastor 0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:40.720 invites me, and I want to come in with bread. 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:46.400 Oh I'm glad you called. I got a word for 0:37:46.440 --> 0:37:49.800 your church. But I ain't there yet. 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.120 I'm forty years old and I've been preaching for twenty 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:56.080 years and I'm still not there. Every time I get 0:37:56.120 --> 0:37:58.879 the text, I look at God and I go, God, 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:08.319 you got a problem. So I walk up See, y'all, 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.360 you might think I walk up here feeling like Elijah. 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:14.200 I don't. I feel like the widow woman. I walk 0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:17.000 up here, going God, can you do something with this. 0:38:22.960 --> 0:38:24.200 Go ahead, Clay, Go ahead, Clay. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:29.600 God, I don't I don't have what I feel like 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:35.360 I need, but here's my oil. I don't have what 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.239 I feel like I need to raise these kids. 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:41.000 But here's my oil. I don't know how to run 0:38:41.040 --> 0:38:44.320 this business in this economy, but here's my oil. 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:46.880 I don't know how our marriage is gonna make it, 0:38:47.040 --> 0:38:50.280 but here's my oil. I don't know how I'm gonna 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:54.160 start this business, but here's my oil. And God, I 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:57.919 don't feel like I have what I need to do 0:38:58.200 --> 0:38:59.520 what you're requiring of me. 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:05.160 But I but I do have some flower, and I 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:09.040 do have an annoying a And if you'll take what 0:39:09.160 --> 0:39:14.480 I got, I'll just trust you to do something with it. 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:26.080 See God, God doesn't need what you need to get 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:34.200 you what you need. Man, God's asking this on me, 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:40.960 but I don't, So give him a yes. While you're 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:46.680 waiting on the thing you've told yourself you need, can 0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:49.960 I prove it? Jesus. Jesus shows up to a wedding 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:52.800 with his with his best friends. They showed to a 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:57.000 wedding John chapter two, and and uh pretty much immediately, 0:39:57.040 --> 0:40:00.680 pretty much immediately, Mary comes to Jesus and says, they're 0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:05.080 out of wine. Jesasd go, why are you making this 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:10.440 my problem? I think she's making it his problem. Now, Okay. 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:12.560 I don't know if this is my sanctified imagination or 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:16.480 if I've just been in Vegas too long, but something 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:18.719 in me feels like Mary went. You know, we had 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:22.360 we had plenty of wine for the wedding until Judas 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:27.839 showed up and John got a little emotional and Peter 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:31.279 had to be the life of the party and fix it. 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:37.160 You know what Jesus does. Jesus does not say, you know, Peter, 0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:40.879 go go grab some grapes from the local vineyards, bring 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:44.359 them to me. Hey, Judas, you got the money, go 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:47.240 go go over to Walmart and grab grab some cases 0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:51.360 of wine. Jesus doesn't do that. Jesus says, can I 0:40:51.400 --> 0:41:01.480 have some water? Can somebody get me some water. I 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.840 know nothing about fermentation. I know nothing about red wine, 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:08.520 but I do know this. I know that this can't 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:18.680 become red wine. But I ain't Jesus, because if you 0:41:18.719 --> 0:41:21.920 want wine, you need time, and if you want wine, 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:24.480 you need grapes, and if you want wine you need 0:41:24.480 --> 0:41:29.360 wooden berrels. But if Jesus wants wine all he needs 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:36.160 his vessels. I'm come to ask elevation. 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:42.120 Can you see the wine in your water? Can you 0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:46.320 see the super in your natural Can you see God's 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:50.880 abundance and you're not alone? Can you see what God 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:57.040 to do through a yes, through a surrender? Because maybe 0:41:57.080 --> 0:42:01.719 God does not need Why do you need to get 0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:04.040 to what's your name? 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:06.839 Oh? 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.440 I wish somebody would shut right now. I might not 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:14.600 have greats, I might not have barrels. I've run out 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:19.320 of time. But God, here's my water, here's my oil, 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:21.560 here's my flower. 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:27.600 God, do something with the life. Well, come on, give 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:29.439 and praise everybody. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:44.480 Please passing post all, So who am I to deny anything? 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:49.239 My Skillo lives up your hands every location de fam 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:53.560 around the worlds Oh he sound to Heaven to say anything? 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.239 Many please passing in the home? 0:42:57.080 --> 0:43:01.600 Who am to den Come on? Any is possible. 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:04.480 Any day? 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:08.919 Or take what the hell? 0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:16.320 Yes, it's for your glory and me take my lossing off? 0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:27.200 Okay, okay, okay, just stay standing. Yeah, thank you Lord, 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:35.360 I thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody shout 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:36.080 it's not over. 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:43.799 Nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, there's 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:48.799 a young preacher, pastor Larry. There's a young preacher name 0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:52.960 Bobby Schuler. Bob. 0:43:54.520 --> 0:44:00.600 Little Bobby was a pastor in Iowa, David, and he 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:04.680 wanted to come to Orange County, California and start a 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:05.759 work for God. 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:08.400 So he wrote a letter to a friend in his 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:11.520 denomination and said, I feel like the Lord has put 0:44:11.520 --> 0:44:14.160 it on my heart to start a church nineteen fifty five. 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:18.719 Could you help me find a location I would love? 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:22.879 Maybe a school, gym, or a Seventh Day Advantaged church, 0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:25.759 maybe a Jewish synagogue, maybe a church that doesn't meet 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:28.960 on Sunday night. Maybe a movie theater, maybe a drive 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:31.520 in theater, maybe a school that we could rent. Could 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:36.319 you help me find a location? And a young Bob 0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:45.240 Schuler's friend wrote this letter back, Boh, this is not Iowa, 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:54.880 this is Orange County, California. It is impossible to find 0:44:54.880 --> 0:45:00.000 a church location in Orange County, California. Bob received that letter, 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:02.320 crumpled it up, he threw it in the trash. He 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:04.920 grabbed a fresh piece of paper, and he wrote down 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:19.400 these words impossible quotation marks. What an irresponsible word, Bob, go, 0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:26.239 that's gangster Bob and a young Bob Schuler would move 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:31.239 to Orange County with nothing. He ended up starting a 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:33.399 church in a drive in movie theater where he would 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:38.359 stand on the snackshack preached to a microphone, and then 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:40.600 it would go to all the cars. And that church 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:45.200 grew in the fifties to two thousand cars a Sunday. 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.080 He would end up buying property all over that Anaheim 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:54.440 area near Disneyland, with property upwards of over a billion 0:45:54.520 --> 0:45:59.560 dollars of real estate. He started the Crystal Cathedral the 0:45:59.680 --> 0:46:06.359 Hour of Power every Sunday morning. He became the late 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:20.160 Great Doctor Robert Schuler. Impossible What an irresponsible word. I 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:24.720 don't know what you're facing, but I've come to declare 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:29.080 anything is possible. I don't know what the doctor said, 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:32.440 but I've come to tell you all things are possible. 0:46:32.520 --> 0:46:35.560 I don't know what the school counselor told you about 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:38.720 your child, but I've just come to tell you. Impossible. 0:46:39.600 --> 0:46:44.000 What an irresponsible word. What could God do if you 0:46:44.040 --> 0:46:47.239 would invite him into your famine? What could God do 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:50.080 if you would invite him into your drought? What could 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:52.960 God do if you would give him your water? If 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:55.520 you would give him your flower if you would give 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:57.440 him your oil. Can we just say this. 0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:00.120 One more time all over the room and let's the 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:01.880 clearing with all of our heart. 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:14.000 Anything, anything is possible, Cliver, Look, anything is possible. 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:25.520 Anything anything up? Am I? 0:47:26.200 --> 0:47:26.279 Jo? 0:47:33.640 --> 0:47:41.239 You're not done with me? Yeah, you're not done with me? Yeah, 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:49.920 because there's so much more to the store. You're not 0:47:50.239 --> 0:47:52.080 done with me. 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:55.440 You're not done with me. 0:47:56.920 --> 0:48:03.640 I dare you to prophesy right now with me? Every husband, 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:07.520 grab your white's hands. Tell them God's still working on me. 0:48:08.640 --> 0:48:10.520 God still gotta playing park family. 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:14.760 So you are marine you to this that He's not done. 0:48:15.200 --> 0:48:16.240 You're not done. 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:30.279 I feel my God is wiving gonads. Just Jo're not 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:31.080 done with. 0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:33.880 You're not done. 0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:35.600 You're not done with me? 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:45.360 Whoa you're not doing with me? There's not. 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:54.279 So Jo're not dun me. I just want to ask, 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:57.959 at every location which you close your eyes about your heads, 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:04.640 thank you Lord, every location, even if you can epham 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:06.640 around the world, would you just settle your heart for 0:49:06.719 --> 0:49:08.600 a moment. I want to ask you the most important 0:49:09.280 --> 0:49:11.239 question you've ever been asked in your life. Do you 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:17.680 know Jesus? Are you right with God? Do you know 0:49:17.840 --> 0:49:22.960 Him for yourself? I know you know about him. I 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.600 know you know him through Pastor Stephen, but do you 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:31.760 know him. I know you know him through the songs, 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:33.759 and I know you know him through this ministry, But 0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:38.000 do you know him? Have you had a moment where 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:39.960 you've said, Jesus, I need you in my life. I 0:49:40.040 --> 0:49:45.200 need forgiveness of sin. I need to be born. I 0:49:45.360 --> 0:49:51.200 can't not to become a better version, but a brand 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:58.279 new creation. The scripture says anyone who calls on his 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:02.480 name would be saved. Anyone who would say, Jesus, I 0:50:02.560 --> 0:50:04.520 believe you died for me. I believe you rose again 0:50:04.640 --> 0:50:07.680 for me. I believe that you are Lord. Anyone who 0:50:07.680 --> 0:50:13.240 would call on his name right now, would you surrender 0:50:13.320 --> 0:50:16.800 your heart? Javon, I'm gonna. I'm gonna work on this 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:18.600 and I'll come back at the end of the summer. No, 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:21.520 let me, let me let me stop drinking, let me 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:23.600 stop cussing, let me let me stop, let me get 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:25.120 this hatred out of my heart, let me let me 0:50:25.160 --> 0:50:27.120 get off drugs. Let me let me work it out 0:50:27.440 --> 0:50:29.239 with my wife, and then I'm gonna come back and 0:50:29.239 --> 0:50:31.040 we're gonna and I'm gonna make it right with God. No, no, no, 0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:35.560 you can't. If you could, you would have. But you 0:50:35.920 --> 0:50:41.360 you cannot do it. But God can do it. I 0:50:41.440 --> 0:50:44.080 need Jesus. You're about to pray the prayer I pray. 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:46.600 June ten, nineteen ninety eight, in Del Rio, Texas. I 0:50:46.719 --> 0:50:50.040 was fifteen years old and I gave Jesus my life. 0:50:50.120 --> 0:50:55.359 And when I did, everything changed. All over this room, 0:50:55.520 --> 0:51:00.600 every location, Pray with me from your heart. These aren't 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:03.839 magic words, I promise you. This is not an incantation. 0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:10.080 This is not this is not some abracadabra say something that. No, no, 0:51:10.320 --> 0:51:13.759 this is your heart. Cry to Heaven. Pray with me, 0:51:13.840 --> 0:51:18.399 say Jesus, I believe in you. I believe you died 0:51:18.440 --> 0:51:23.960 for me. Then he rose again. Forgive me of my 0:51:24.120 --> 0:51:31.240 sins for the things I've done, and make me brand new. Jesus. 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:37.160 I make you my lord and my savior. I surrender 0:51:37.280 --> 0:51:42.880 all today. Thank you, Lord, Jesus. Keep your eyes closed 0:51:42.920 --> 0:51:44.719 all over this room, all over this rooms, keep your 0:51:44.760 --> 0:51:48.880 eyes closed. I can't call you forward, I can't have 0:51:49.000 --> 0:51:55.399 you moved from your seat. I've run out of time. 0:51:55.760 --> 0:52:00.000 But right where you're standing, at every location and even online, 0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:02.000 I'm gonna want you to go into the chat and 0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:06.120 make a commitment to Christ. But at every location, on 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:07.759 the count of three, I'm gonna ask you to raise 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:10.799 your hand. If that was your prayer, Jabin, today, I'm 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:15.040 giving my life to Christ. Jabin. Today, I'm recommitting my 0:52:15.120 --> 0:52:18.080 life to Christ. I've walked away from God. I've turned 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:22.680 from God. I got distracted, I got discouraged, I got tempted. 0:52:22.800 --> 0:52:25.719 I went through a trial and a tribulation, and I 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:29.200 walked away from the Lord. But today I'm coming home. Today, 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:33.359 I've come back. Today, I'm running back to the God 0:52:33.440 --> 0:52:36.480 who's been chasing me. I'm giving my life to Jesus. 0:52:36.719 --> 0:52:40.320 Or I'm recommitting my life to Christ. If that's you, 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:42.640 on the counter of three, right here at Valentine and 0:52:42.680 --> 0:52:45.359 at every location and around the world, you're gonna say 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.200 yes to Jesus. Right now, I'm giving my life to Christ. 0:52:48.320 --> 0:52:50.320 Rededicating my life to Christ. On the counter three, I 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:52.759 want to see your hand one, two, three, shoot your 0:52:52.800 --> 0:52:56.359 hand uf all over, all, over, all over, I see him. God, 0:52:56.400 --> 0:52:58.480 bless you, God, bless you. Hold on, hold on, God, 0:52:58.520 --> 0:52:59.400 bless you, God, bless you. 0:52:59.480 --> 0:53:01.319 God bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you, God 0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:03.120 bless God, bless you guys. 0:53:02.960 --> 0:53:04.759 All back here. God, let me just see your hand. 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:07.120 I want to see you. God bless you, God bless you. 0:53:07.280 --> 0:53:08.759 If I didn't see your hand, let me see it. 0:53:08.800 --> 0:53:09.120 I see you. 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:11.799 God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Here 0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:14.120 all over here, anybody else, I see you. 0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:17.080 God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:17.480 bless you. 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:17.839 Wow. 0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:18.480 Wow Wow. 0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:21.640 Come on, letsten give God praise for all bees that 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:23.000 are given their lives to Christ. 0:53:25.360 --> 0:53:29.560 Oh, come on, you can do better than that. Let's celebrate. Amen. Amen, 0:53:32.840 --> 0:53:33.920 Thank you for joining us. 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:36.680 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:40.240 this ministry. 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