Let’s Build Something (Earl McClellan)

0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.280 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.680 new sermons every week. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:24.479 I hope you're blessed today. Come on, family, were. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.560 Ready for a great day today? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.000 Or what? Come on? 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.720 We ready for God to move in our hearts and 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:29.560 our lives today? 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.320 Come on, let's clap our hands a little bit longer. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:32.559 Come on. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.480 He's been faithful, he's been good, he's been merciful, he's 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:41.320 been kind, He's given us another day. Come on, the 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.000 goodness of God has been chasing you and me our 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.839 entire lives, and today's gonna be a day of victory 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.880 and breakthrough, hope and life. So glad you are here 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.360 at every location, say standing for just a moment if 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.000 you wouldn't mind, love you all, so so very much, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.840 my better two thirds. My wife is not here with me. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.320 She's preaching back at our church today, but she sends 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.280 her love. You already know this, but this is a 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.200 very very special place. What God is doing here at Elevation, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.200 it's not the buildings, it's the people. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.839 It's that God has. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.479 Been moving in everyday, men and women and you are 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.399 a part of a much larger story that God is 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.600 pouring out his spirit and his grace in our day 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.880 and age. And I'm so so honored to be here today. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:37.759 But I want to. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.080 Make sure, as you are in this church, you don't 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.479 take it for granted. You don't take for granted all 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.720 the team that showed up early to roll out the 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.320 red carpet for you today. You don't take for granted 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.720 all the people who are leading worship. You don't take 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.880 for granted all the people that are watching your kids. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.520 You don't even want to watch your kids. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.600 But I pray that you definitely do not take for 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.160 granted the amazing pastors that God has given you. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.640 Can we put our hands together from. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:13.720 Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. Who they are and how 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:20.840 they live their lives is quite remarkable. Humility, kindness, surrender, generosity. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.120 The team that you. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.560 Get all this love from the campus pastors and all 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.639 the people who are volunteering and serving, it's because your pastors, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.959 your leaders, that's the heart that they have. So whenever 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.959 you're being prayed for, just so you know, that's the 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.240 culture and the heart that they set here. So this 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.799 place is holy ground. Not a perfect church. There isn't one. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:49.040 You're here, so it's not perfect. I'm here. It's not perfect. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.680 You're not gonna find perfect. But you found healthy, you 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.760 found Christ centered, you found God glorifying, you found Bible believing, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.079 you found grounded in faith. So let's continue to see 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.359 God do something transformational and powerful in our lives. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.160 I want to read. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.880 I mean, while you're already standing, let's read our bibles together. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.200 If you have your bible's turn with me to. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.200 Neomiah chapter one, and I'm gonna read these verses together. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.800 I like how holy elevation is too y'all stand for 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.400 the reading of God's word. My church, it's ratchet, so 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.440 they're sitting. They're sitting when we read. We're gonna fix it, though. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.680 I think it's mean, y'all. I think it's me. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.480 Neamiyah chapter number one. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.000 If you didn't bring your bibles, we're gonna put the 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:36.880 verses on the screen so that you can follow along 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:41.680 with us. Neamiyah chapter one. I'm gonna jump down to 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.240 verse number two. Hannah and I, one of my brothers 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.160 came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.560 them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.880 and also about Jerusalem verse number three. They said to me, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.040 those who survived the exile and are back in the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.360 are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.720 is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:13.880 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.880 For some days. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:22.120 I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.520 Skip with me to verse number ten. They are your servants. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.040 This is part of his prayer, and your people, whom 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:38.200 you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. Lord, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.880 Let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.280 your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.839 delight in revering your name. Give your servants success today 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.680 by granting him favor. In the presence of this man, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:00.400 I was cupbearer to the king. If you are ready 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.680 for today, I have a title for us, and it's 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.440 let's build something. Let's build something. Turn to somebody next 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.279 you say let's build something. Let's build something, and you 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:18.960 may be seated, my friends, Let's build something. I am 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.880 so so excited to have these moments together as a family. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.960 God is moving and working in beautiful ways. And when 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.480 Chunks had texted me and I was texting with your 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.120 amazing pastor about serving here at Elevation this weekend, in 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.680 campuses all over the place, in our whole e fan, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.800 we love you so very much. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.200 I couldn't help. Yeah, you can clatform for sure. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.039 I couldn't help but feel in my heart a high 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.160 level of anticipation about what God was going to do. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.160 I was thinking of. I was just praying, Lord, what 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.360 do you want me to share? What do you want 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.320 me to share? What do you want to share? And 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.240 this past the scripture dropped in my heart. Let's build something. Now, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.839 let me give you a little bit a backstory on me. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.160 I've been married. I'm an uncle. I've been married now 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.960 for twenty nine years. Okay, so it has been a minute. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.119 And I call my wife my sexy piece of dark chocolate. Okay, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.159 And I say this with a big smile on my face, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.120 because that is who she is. She is my best friend. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.359 We have three amazing kids, and I even have a 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.200 daughter in law. Now, y'all, I can't even believe that. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.800 And I like my daughter in law more than I 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:37.880 like my son. That she married. So I think I 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.840 have a picture of our family, so I'll put it 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.840 on the screen for you real fast so you can 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.120 see I just I love these guys so very much. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.920 So our oldest son is now twenty one years old. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.080 I remember, I remember the day he was born. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.440 I remember this day. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.200 I couldn't wait to be a dad when I was 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.600 growing up, I couldn't wait to be a husband and 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:03.160 a father. Is pregnant, I mean she's pregnant. Pregnant, I mean, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.000 the belly is out there and it ought to be right. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.880 I mean, she's carrying another human being. This belly is 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.040 out there, and she's. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.200 Got the wattle that. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.920 You get and the swollen ankles. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.600 And she looked beautiful to me. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.119 But people were rude, of course, like well your nose 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.240 got big. I punched those people on the face whenever 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.680 they said that. But she looked beautiful, wonderful and amazing. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.520 But we were at Gold's gym. Even if Gold Gym 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.080 still exist, maybe it does, right, Gold's Gym. This is 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.520 twenty one years ago. She's on the elliptical and fully pregnant, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:35.200 I mean, just. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.040 Getting after it on the elliptical. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.160 And I was not there with her because I don't 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.920 love to do the elliptical, especially twenty one years ago. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.000 I mean, I'm like, no, I'm not doing the elliptical. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.440 I'm going the lift. Right. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.560 So she's on the elliptical and she's feeling all these 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.560 pains in her stomach and she's like, man, I got 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:56.080 all these pains. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.240 I'm like, okay, honey, let's go ahead, and you know, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:59.680 well go home. We go home. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.400 I still got all these pains. But she still just 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.200 does her whole workout. We get back home. We talked 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.360 to some friends of ours. We're like, oh, yeah, she's 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.800 got some pains, and then they say you should go 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.560 to the hospital. We go to the hospital. Come to 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.200 find out Onika was in labor. My wife was in 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.840 labor while she was on the elliptical. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.560 Now she's just thinking. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:27.960 Oh, I got some little pains. There's a baby about 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.680 to come out, and she does not even recognize it. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.280 You know, Parker was born that day. It was beautiful. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.760 We had to have a c section because his heart 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.000 rate was going down every time a contraction happened. But 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.520 he came out healthy and wonderful. He was ugly when 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.560 he came out as a baby, but other than but 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.640 now he's handsome. I showed you the picture. He's handsome now. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.640 But he came out and it was. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:09:02.360 Like, woo, I love him with my whole heart, but dang, we'll. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:10.440 Dress him cute so we bring them home. It's wonderful. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.480 But I was remembering this moment when I was thinking 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:18.720 about today that my wife, we knew she was pregnant, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.679 but we did not know that she was in labor. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.000 There was some signs that she was in labor, but 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:32.080 we didn't totally recognize the signs. Now, we knew at 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.360 some point in time this baby was coming, but there. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.880 Was a disconnect in our brain a little. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.080 Bit between where she was and what the next season 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.240 and the next thing that God was about to do 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.360 in our lives. And I was thinking about you, Elevation Church, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.360 thinking about every family, every man, every woman, every son, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.640 every daughter, every teenager, every young adult, even looking at 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.120 thinking about the old heads in here, the unks and 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.520 the aunties, people in other countries and people here that 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.880 are in the States. I was thinking about you, that 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.200 you there are many of you. You know you're a Christian, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.760 but I don't know if you know you're a builder. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.760 Like you know. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.640 Jesus has saved me of my sins. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:23.760 He's made me brand new. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.120 He's taken me from darkness to light, and we might 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.840 have some friends today. You might not know that yet. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.720 Maybe you're still trying to figure out this whole God thing. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.680 And we're glad you're here. You're in a safe place that. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.719 You can belong. Even before you. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.840 Believe, Jesus sat with sinners, and we're happy to sit 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.959 with you because we all came in the exact same way, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.240 not knowing anything. So we are glad you are here. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.160 But understand, there are some people at Elevation that fully 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.120 understand that the cross of Jesus Christ took us from 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.200 lost to found, from dead to alive, took us from 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.840 blind to seeing. That we understand that through his death, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.480 prayerlyn resurrection, not by our own merit and our own works, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.439 but by the finished work of Jesus Christ, I. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.360 Have been made new. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.960 I'm not who I used to be anymore. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.080 I'm not walking how I used to walk. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.040 The grace of God picked me up and carried me 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.720 and brought me to a brand new place and put 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.600 me on a firm foundation that if it was not 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.360 for God, I don't know where I would be. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.800 He found me. He found me. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:36.520 Man. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.720 There are some times I still think back and I'm like, Jesus, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.120 thank you so much for interrupting my life. Thank you 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.080 so much for finding me. Thank you so much that 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.800 if I didn't know what to pray, you still kept 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.800 pursuing me. This has been the grace of God that 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.679 we have experience. And as we have experienced this grace, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.960 I know I'm a Christian, But do I know I'm 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:07.640 a builder? 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:17.600 Do I know that God didn't just save me just 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:18.200 to save me? 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.520 That God didn't just rescue me so I can have 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.959 a testimony. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.079 But there is. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.440 Something that God has wanted to do in me and 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.280 through me, to reach the generation that He put me in. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.200 That I could have been born at any time, but 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.319 God decided that you were supposed. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.160 To be born right now. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.959 You're looking at this world, You're like, this world is crazy. Hey, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.160 That's why God puts you here because He recognizes that 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.920 the spirit of God living on the inside of you 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.760 is greater than anything that this world can throw at you. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.640 So here, No, you're abuilder. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.200 Do you know that you have been called for such 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.600 a time as this to be a part of something 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:19.880 that's bigger than you are. In this text, Nehemiah, he's 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.200 one of my favorite Bible characters. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.480 Not my favorite, that's Jesus gotta be. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.600 But Niamiah is one of my favorites because when you 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:39.319 read through his book, he does no miracles. There's no healings, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:46.200 no one's raised from the dead. There's nothing spectacular like 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:52.920 that that happens. Your boys. Just got a job. He's 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.600 going to work. He's cut bearer. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:57.600 To the king. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.680 He's essentially the head of security, head of the secret 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.120 service for the king. He's an important job, but he 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.160 goes to work each day. His job is to make 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.840 sure nobody poisons the king. His job is to make 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.760 sure that the king is safe. He's got proximity to 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.520 the king, so he's got a trustworthy job and he's 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.000 a loyal individual. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.600 But he just works like you. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.000 Some of you know what, not right now, actually in between, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.000 I got a situation right now. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.560 God knows that too. He can answer that. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.040 But he just wakes up each day, does the same thing, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.600 wakes up the next day, does the same thing. Wakes 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.360 up the next day, does the same thing, And then 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.320 all of a sudden, his brothers come to visit him. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.680 And when his brothers come to visit him, he discovers 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.440 that there's a problem that's taking place with his people. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.440 Now he Neemiah, his. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.160 Job is about one thousand miles away from where the 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.760 problem is. They were in exile for years his people. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.000 Namayah was not alive when they came out of exile. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.120 It's about one. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.840 Hundred years after they get out of the exile that 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.720 Namayah comes on the scene. So this is a problem 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.120 that he was not all that involved in. But he 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.840 hears that there's an issue going on in another part 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.160 of the world with his people, and God gives it 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.360 Niamaiyah a glimpse into the heart that God has for 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:34.040 his people. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.800 So now Niamayah. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.600 Begins to have a burden on his heart for people 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.520 that he has not met yet but he is connected to, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.000 and he's got this regular, everyday job. And then all 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.120 of a sudden, God interrupts his regular everyday job to say, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.480 I'm gonna put a burden on your heart for people 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.000 you have not met yet, because you're call to go 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.760 there and rebuild the walls that have been torn down. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:12.040 Neea Maiah mourns and fast. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:18.080 And praise, and he's in his room going back and forth, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.359 and you can read his prayer later in your eGroup. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.400 All of chapter one, he cries out to God and 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.360 he confesses his sin and the sin of the people, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.080 in the sin of his father's family. And then he 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.040 begins to call on remember Moses and the promises that 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.880 God gave the Moses, and he also remembers the warnings 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.120 that God gave him. And then he says, God, I'm 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.520 gonna need you to do something here. God, I'm gonna 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.680 need you to move somehow, some way. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:44.280 God. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.160 I know that my sister is on drugs right now, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.400 and I'm gonna need you to do something in her life. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:49.720 God. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.920 I know that my high school friends right now, they're 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.800 not living for you, and they don't know the truth 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:54.480 of the Gospel. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.000 So I'm gonna need you to do something in their life. God. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.480 I know my family has been bound in alcoholism years 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.400 and years and years, and I'm gonna need you to 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.840 do something for my family, God, my community. I've heard 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.840 what's happening back home, and the drugs are going crazy, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.359 and everybody's fafing, and everybody seems to be addicted to porn, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.440 and it seems like everybody is getting a divorce. So God, somehow, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.360 some way, I'm gonna need you to move in might 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:19.680 and in. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.440 Power so that these people don't stay where they are 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:23.359 any longer. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.439 And God begins to give this man a burden for 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:27.280 some people. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.440 And I'm telling you that. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.720 This is what God is wanting to do when you 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.720 is give you a burden for this world. That would say, God, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.720 would you move and might and in power? Would you 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.480 bring revival? Would you send your spirit? Would you pour 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.600 out your love and your grace? Because there's people. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.920 Whose walls are broken down? 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:58.560 The problem Sometimes even we start praying for people whose 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.879 walls are broken down, it's when you're the person. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:11.880 Whose walls are broken you can feel like I don't 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:18.960 even have space to be thinking about anybody else because 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.680 this is where I'm finding myself. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:31.080 My own walls are broken down. I know it looks 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:32.120 everybody like I'm good. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.600 I got the car, I got the house, i got 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:45.800 the gear, I've got the pictures to post. But beyond 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.480 the pictures, there's something else going on in my family, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:56.960 beyond what everybody else sees. There's some things that were 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.479 just navigating and fighting through right now, my wife and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.680 I were just not clicking. We're not clicking, not clicking. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.280 We're trying to figure out, but this is not clicking. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.720 It's not clicking with me and my siblings. It's not clicking. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:12.760 I don't know what what's wrong. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:13.960 It's just not clicking. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.520 I've been trying to get this business off the ground. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.640 It's not clicking. It's not clicking. And now I've got trying. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.960 I gotta pay my mortgage or I gotta pay my rent, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.280 and I also gotta pay this, and I gotta pay 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:24.880 that my. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.600 Own walls are broken down. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.560 I just need you to know you're at a church 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:37.320 where you actually don't have to fake it. You're out 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.520 of church that you don't have to pretend let you 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.760 have it all together. You're at a church that is 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.000 not asking you to be perfect and look some certain 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.200 part and do some song and dance. You are at 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.680 a church and you are under the leadership of people 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:55.800 are like, hey, you. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.120 Can take off your mask here. You can be. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.920 Exactly who you are right now. You can navigate the 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.680 pains and the difficulties of life. If you're crying at home, 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.280 you can cry here. If you're suffering at home. We 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.800 want to know about it. You're E fam your E 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.000 group wants to know about it. Your campus pastor wants. 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:15.359 To know about it. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.800 Your leadership wants to know about it. You're not in 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.960 some place where you have to be perfect. You can 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:27.200 say my walls are broken down. I also want to 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:34.560 say thank you to everyone behind the scenes who is serving. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.560 To help put people's walls in. Police are are Are you? 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.240 Everybody with kids right now and they be able to 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.119 hear this message right now because they're serving in kids. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.679 Thank you, Thank you, because what you're doing when you're changing, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.800 you're playing with kids and playing with toys and sitting 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.280 on the ground and reading and Bible stories and telling 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.960 them about Moses and Joshua, is helping rebuild walls in families. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.440 That's really what you're doing. Those are your parking cars. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.959 Really what you're doing when you're smiling when everybody comes in, 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.159 is you're helping to rebuild walls because they haven't had 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.760 anybody smile at them the whole time they came in 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.600 all week. All week, people been mean mugging them, and 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:14.440 this week they're happening to see somebody going. You're bringing life, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.520 You're rebuilding walls and you don't even know it. Individuals 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.639 that are behind cameras, You're rebuilding walls right now. 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:22.280 I want to say thank you. 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.600 To every single one that is helping to rebuild walls. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.119 Even why things might not be perfect in your own life, 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.840 you're still helping rebuild walls. I want to say thank 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.679 you to those of you, even giving financially, when you 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.480 got your own struggles, and you have your own dead 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.880 and you have your own problems, and you have your 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.240 own weights, and you're saying God, I trust you anyway, 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:49.760 and you keep on giving. You're rebuilding people's walls, and. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.040 You're part of a story that. 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.840 Is bigger than anything you could possibly imagine. 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:56.399 Let's build something. 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.560 Let's build something, build something for the glory of God. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.119 This is the culture is trying to tell you. The 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:05.800 culture is trying to tell all of. 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:12.240 Us, Hey, chill, relax, take a step back, get your 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:12.879 meed time. 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:15.000 You need your meed time. 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.879 How here's one of the lives of culture. How are 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.120 you gonna pour out unless you're filled up? 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:28.840 Huh? Ask everybody, Ask everybody who's a parent of a newborn. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:31.600 If you're filled up? 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.440 Every time your kid cries, at three seventeen in the morning. 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:37.320 Are you are your parents? Help me out here? Are 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:38.400 you filled up? 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:38.800 No? 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.879 I'm dead tired. I'm trying to figure out what is 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.639 going on with this child. I've already changed the diaper, 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.240 I have already given milk. Shoot, I'm trying to breast feed. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:49.760 Myself and I can't even breast feed. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.840 I'm trying to feel. How do I get this child? 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.720 Just to sleep tonight? God, would you give me ninety 0:22:57.760 --> 0:22:59.480 minutes the Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.800 ninety minutes of sleep. Just help me sleep for ninety minutes. Lord, 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.840 you're not filled up during that time, but you still 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.520 have to pour out because God has given you an 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.200 assignment in that moment. You and I can't be waiting 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.159 until I'm all filled up. Now listen, Does that mean 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:21.000 you don't rest? Of course you rest, Sabbath, Yes, Sabbath. 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:23.760 You'll go on vacation, Yes, go on vacation, Go on 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:25.600 your walks, do the things that you need to do 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:26.760 to or fill yourself. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:27.760 Up, no doubt about that. 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.000 But do not believe the lie that you have to wait, 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.760 that everything is in order in your life in order 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:35.719 to be a part of the move of God that 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.560 is happening all around you. I'm gonna get this fixed. 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:40.320 I'm gonna get that fixed. And when I get done 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.240 with this and I get done with that, and then 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:44.960 I'll get involved. No, you get involved or right now 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.800 you can play keys. Get involved right now, you can 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.359 help lead worship. Get involved, right now, you could be 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.200 a prayer partner. Get involved, right now, let's build something. 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:03.800 What are we waiting for for everything to be in order? 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:08.560 I don't. Honestly, I don't know anybody's life who's all 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:13.080 in order. I haven't met him yet. I haven't met 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:13.360 a person. 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.240 It's like, you know what, Everything in my life right now. 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:20.680 It's perfect. 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.080 I don't have one prayer request. I'm not asking God 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.280 for anything. I haven't met a person like that. The 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.560 people that I mean, even when they're on the mountaintops, 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:32.800 they got something else. Who they got something going on 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:37.080 with the kid. Everything's great. But if I can just 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:42.560 get this one kid to act right. That's not smacking 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:44.600 the kid that's smacking the air because we don't smack. 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:51.280 My mother did she wasn't my behind. 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:53.879 I told my mom, I said, Mom, just so you know, 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:58.920 I could have had you in jail, She goes, I'll. 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.600 Get over here right now. You're behind right now for me, right. 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:14.879 Have one kid, one friend, one issue, one struggle. So 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:20.119 if you're waiting for everything to be perfect, it's really 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:23.680 just an excuse that you and I like to hold 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:27.720 on to. So we won't obey what God is calling 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.440 us to do to live for the glory of God. 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.840 Now here's the thing. Me and my chapter two go 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:40.440 verse number ten. I'm not going to go through the 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.000 whole book today. Okay, we won't do that. Me and 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:45.639 my chapter two, verse number ten, I do want to 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:54.920 show you this. When Sambought Ballad, the horrorm Knight and Tobiah, 0:25:54.960 --> 0:26:00.000 the Ammonite official, heard about this, they were very disturbed 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:05.360 that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites. 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:12.359 I'm skipping here. Nehemiah praise has a moment with the 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.520 King again. You can read it on your own during 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:21.400 your Bible study time. Beautiful, just clear book. He didn't 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:24.080 know what to say. He just pauses for a second 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:27.560 and answers. He prays, and then he answers the king, 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.520 and then the King gives him resources to go and 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:33.040 accomplish his mission. 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:34.320 To rebuild the walls. 0:26:35.200 --> 0:26:39.440 And now he's on assignment from God to do something 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:43.200 on behalf of God, to serve the Kingdom of God, 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:47.920 to lift the lives of people, to remind God's kids 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:50.760 that God is still good and God is still faithful, 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.720 and God has not forgotten about them, to take them 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:55.639 from a place of being. 0:26:55.400 --> 0:26:57.880 Utterly vulnerable and bringing them into. 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:01.800 A place of safety and purity that is found in God, 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.639 not just in the walls, but found in the God 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:06.280 that loves them and serves them. 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:08.359 And as he has all of. 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:12.000 These resources and he's about to take this step, something 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:16.080 happens to him that inevitably will happen to all of us. 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:18.399 Opposition. 0:27:21.080 --> 0:27:29.000 Any time you begin to take steps to rebuild walls 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.040 and to be the man or the woman that God 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:36.800 has calling you to be, you can expect, don't be surprised. 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.879 You can expect that the enemy of your soul is 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:47.000 going to bring opposition into your life. These individuals come 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:49.760 in and they go, what are you doing. They're trying 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:52.399 to stop them, They're trying to push him back. And 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:56.800 the unfortunate thing is in today's day and age, not 0:27:56.880 --> 0:28:01.359 here at this church, just some places narrative out there 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:05.639 that if you're getting resistance, then somehow, some way, you 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:11.280 must not be in God's will. And I say the 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:15.919 scriptures seem to teach that when you are smack dab 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:20.119 in the middle of God's will, there are winds coming 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:23.400 against you because you are now trying to move forward 0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:27.480 to be who God has called you to be. If 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:30.400 you're a teenager, if you're a young adult, if you're 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:32.439 at school and you're saying, hey, I'm gonna start a 0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:33.119 Bible study. 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:34.400 Hey I'm gonna live for God. 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:38.680 Hey, we're not partying anymore, don't expect everybody to applaud you. 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:40.320 You can expect some people to go, oh, yeah, man, 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:41.680 that's great, good job, bro, I love that. 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:43.160 Yeah man, And they'll dap you up. 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:45.719 And there's gonna be some people talking about you behind 0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:48.680 your back, thinking that you're better than everybody else, thinking 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:49.240 that you're. 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:49.840 Holier than now. 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:52.959 But don't let their words stop you from moving forward 0:28:53.120 --> 0:28:55.320 to build what God is calling you to build. You 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:58.360 keep on standing strong, and you keep on moving forward. 0:28:58.680 --> 0:29:01.640 This is the DNA that you have as a follower 0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:04.480 of Jesus Christ. Try not to pushover. You have the 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:07.840 same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that's alive 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.960 on the inside of you. I'm gonna show you this verse. 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:12.840 I'm gonna show you one of my favorite verses. I 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:14.800 can't get away from this verse. I love this verse. Luke, 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:18.080 chapter thirteen. Look at this verse. This verse might surprise 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:23.840 some of us. This is Jesus, the meek and mild savior, 0:29:25.920 --> 0:29:31.600 the kind, loving, warm Jesus. Okay, and he is loving, 0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:34.760 he's kind, he's all those things, of course, but he 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:39.719 also has that dog in him. Come on, come on, 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:45.040 come on, Luke, chapter thirteen, verse thirty one. 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:45.520 Look at this. 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:49.280 At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus and they 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.320 said to him. The religious leaders come to him, and 0:29:51.320 --> 0:29:56.080 they say, leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod 0:29:56.080 --> 0:30:03.200 wants to kill you, death threat, government coming at him. 0:30:03.480 --> 0:30:10.840 What does Jesus say, Oh so scared, So I'm sure 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:13.640 who who Herod? 0:30:13.760 --> 0:30:14.160 Who? 0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:18.400 Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Wait wait they posted 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:22.840 what oh they said what? 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:24.440 Who? 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:26.800 Wait? Wait they don't like me? 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:33.840 Is that what Jesus does? Watch this, Watch this, watch this, 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:38.200 watch it. Look what your savior says. Okay, he replied, 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:40.120 go tell that fox. 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:44.640 I'm not making it up. This is the Bible right here. 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:48.160 Go tell that Fox. 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:52.280 I will keep on driving out demons and healing people 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:55.160 today and tomorrow, and on the third. 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:56.640 Day, I will reach my goal. 0:30:56.920 --> 0:31:00.880 In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:05.320 and the next day. 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:11.280 Come on, go tell that Fox, I'm gonna drive. 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:15.640 Out demons today and tomorrow and the next day. You 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:19.040 think I'm taking steps back, You think I'm stopping. You 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.520 think I'm not gonna serve in church. You think I'm 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:23.320 not gonna be found in the house of God. 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:25.080 You're wrong. Yeah, you go. 0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:28.880 Cancer can come, diabetes can come, the lies can come, 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:32.400 the fear can come. You'll find me ten toes down, 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:36.200 lifting up the name of Jesus, living for his glory 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:40.480 and building his kingdom. 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:47.720 Go tell that Fox. I must press on. Come on, 0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:48.320 is it anybody? 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:50.680 It's like, I must, I must, I must, I must 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.080 press on. I must press on, I must press on. 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:55.440 I must press on. There's a lot of things trying 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:57.400 to tell me to stop, but I must press on. 0:31:57.600 --> 0:31:59.440 There's a lot of things coming at me, but I 0:31:59.520 --> 0:32:02.040 must press There's a lot of things trying to confuse me, 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:04.440 and a lot of things I don't understand, but I. 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:10.080 Must press song. Okay, okay, back to Neema. 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:12.479 Go back, go back, go ahack, come back, go back, 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:16.160 go aheacky man, You'll got me more fired up than 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:21.000 I want to be. Me and Mayah, I can't even 0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:27.680 find my book. Nea and Mayah, you get your chapter 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:33.760 number three. In the chapter number three, I'm fast forwarding here. 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:38.480 Everyone takes their section of the wall. Different people take 0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:42.720 different sections of the wall. Everyone has to do their part. 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:50.480 The walls are broken down, and each family has to 0:32:50.560 --> 0:33:01.959 do their part. Here at elevation, each family has to 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:08.080 do their part. We can't keep thinking, oh, it's elevation, 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:11.520 everything's done. It's not done, I promise you. Each week 0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:15.120 we're figuring it out. We're like Lord in Jesus name, 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:20.760 bring it together. Lord, doing all these elevation nights and 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:23.240 reaching the world and putting out songs. 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:24.920 It's all so beautiful, it's wonderful. 0:33:25.240 --> 0:33:29.160 You can be tricked into thinking everything must be done, 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:34.880 there must be no more holes in the wall. I'm 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:39.680 just telling you there's holes in the wall because some 0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:46.280 of us aren't doing our part. Guilt, no shame at all. 0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:50.680 You're loved exactly how you are, but also God loves 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:52.719 you too. Much to let you stay that way. So 0:33:52.760 --> 0:33:55.480 we got to rise up and understand. I'm not just 0:33:55.520 --> 0:33:58.880 a consumer here. I'm a contributor to be a part 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.600 of the mission to reach people who are far from 0:34:01.680 --> 0:34:04.440 God and to bring them to life in Jesus Christ. 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.480 In chapter three, everybody did their section of the wall. 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.920 I got my section, got my section, got my section, 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:13.600 got my section, got my section, got my section, got 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:16.000 my section. And as everybody did their part of the wall, 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:18.520 though a miracle happened. In fifty two days, these walls 0:34:18.520 --> 0:34:24.640 were rebuilt. Can I say this? I put it like 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:30.520 this in my head whenever you want to put put 0:34:30.560 --> 0:34:31.840 that on the screen for me, because I forgot how 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:32.160 I said it. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.839 Go to the next, my next slide, my next one. 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:40.160 What's my one? Am I messing this up? Oh? 0:34:40.280 --> 0:34:46.839 Yes, I was gonna mess it up. What you build now, 0:34:48.200 --> 0:35:02.640 someone you love will live in later. My wife holiest 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:07.720 person I know. But before she got saved, she was crazy. Okay, 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:10.440 she was out there. She'll tell you, She'll tell you, 0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:14.520 crop tops it all and got the pictures to prove it. 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:18.320 I don't hold on any of those pictures. This is 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:20.760 what she told me. Okay, I only know her as 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:23.680 perfect and wholly impure. But back in the day she 0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:24.959 was like, oh yeah, I could drink a whole forty 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:28.759 I'm like what, I did not need to know this? 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:35.120 So and neither are we recommending that at all. Anybody's like, 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:39.200 well she did it? No, no, Well, she ends up 0:35:40.400 --> 0:35:45.080 giving her heart to Christ. In college, she's working at 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:48.320 of a clothing store. This young lady that she becomes 0:35:48.360 --> 0:35:53.520 best friends with. One day they're talking, you know, Nica 0:35:53.520 --> 0:35:55.120 finds out that she's twenty one. She was, oh, you're 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:56.480 twenty one. Oh my gosh, I could believe you're twenty 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:57.600 one years old. That means you don't have to get 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:00.359 carted when you go to a club. And she goes, oh, 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:04.600 I don't drink. I'm a Christian. I don't go on club. 0:36:04.600 --> 0:36:09.120 I'm a Christian. And Anika said she heard that, and 0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:12.480 now she understands that the Holy Spirit put like an 0:36:12.680 --> 0:36:17.120 arrow straight into her heart of conviction, going hmm, what's 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:20.080 different about her than me? 0:36:21.239 --> 0:36:22.239 She gives her heart to Christ. 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:26.759 This young lady Jory and her sister mentor pour into 0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:32.200 my wife, and now you know, we're living happily of after. 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:39.319 But Jory was a part of a college ministry. And 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:44.440 then there was this guy that Jory knew, and Jory 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:48.520 asked him if he would be willing to show into 0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:52.160 her give her money for this missionary endeavor that she 0:36:52.320 --> 0:36:52.600 was on. 0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:54.360 That guy's name was Philip. 0:36:55.360 --> 0:36:58.080 Philip gave her money to help her be at this 0:36:58.120 --> 0:37:01.640 college ministry where she met on Aka and Onnika gave 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:03.879 her heart to Christ. Now Nick and I are are 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:09.000 building Shoreline City. Well, Philip Wagner was a pastor at 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.160 a church in La, and when he's a pastor of 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:14.040 this church in La. He led it for thirty years. 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:16.600 He's now giving the church over. But then he moved 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.400 away from his church in La. Lived with integrity, character, 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:24.160 great people. He and his wife Holly moved from La 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.440 to Dallas. And now they were actually sitting on the 0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.800 front row at our church every single week. 0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:31.239 So now. 0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:38.200 I go, wait, all those years ago when he sewed 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:43.759 in the jewelry, he was actually sewing into himself, because 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:46.319 he says, Earl, I'm here at the church, and by light, 0:37:46.440 --> 0:37:49.320 my heart is coming alive. I know I'm not running 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:52.160 this church, but I feel as alive as I did 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:55.520 when I was running my church all those years ago. 0:37:56.120 --> 0:37:59.880 What you If you sow now and build now, someone 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:04.960 you love will live in laser. Are you serving and 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:10.520 giving and praying and involved in a way that your 0:38:10.600 --> 0:38:12.160 kids will still want to be a part of this 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:15.320 church ten, fifteen, twenty years from now. 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:17.680 Let it not just be good for Come. 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:19.799 On, don't start, don't don't stop clapping. Now, you gotta 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:21.879 have to clap on that one. We're gonna say, yes, 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:28.279 I want you be those types of people. Okay, I'm 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:30.040 gonna shut this party down. Go with me to Neami 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:34.279 chapter six. Then everybody you can get ready to come 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:35.960 come in place. Okay, look at this, Look at this, 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:39.360 Look at this. I'm on all my time. When NIAI 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:44.920 Chapter six, verse number one, Chapter four beautiful, Um. 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:45.960 You gotta read it. 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:49.680 Chapter five intentional caring for the poor and the needy 0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:52.320 like we do here at Elevation. 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:55.520 Verse Chapter six, verse number one. 0:38:55.640 --> 0:39:00.800 It says, when when word came to Sam Ballot, Tobia, Getsham, 0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:03.520 the Arab and the rest of our enemies, that I 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.080 had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:08.239 in it. Up to that time, I had not set 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:11.480 the doors in the gates. Sam Ballot and Gesham sent 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:16.920 me this message. So here are the enemies DM ing them. 0:39:17.080 --> 0:39:21.360 Come let us meet together in one of the villages 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:27.200 on the plane of oh No. Whenever you get a 0:39:27.280 --> 0:39:30.719 DM from someone and they want to meet you in 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:35.640 a place called oh No, we ain't. 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:36.200 Got to pray about that. 0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:41.759 Okay, the answer to the question is in the name. 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:43.640 Okay, oh no. 0:39:46.480 --> 0:39:50.120 But they were scheming to harm me, so I sent 0:39:50.320 --> 0:39:53.719 messengers to them with this reply, I am carrying on 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:59.440 a great project and cannot go down. Why should the 0:39:59.520 --> 0:40:02.360 work stop up while I leave it and go down 0:40:02.400 --> 0:40:07.680 to you? Four times they sent me the same message, 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:13.000 and each time, I love this. I gave them the 0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:18.839 same answer. Four times. Hey, won't come off that wall. Hey, 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:23.000 come on here, Hey stop living for God. Hey, that's 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:26.680 not who you are. Come on, sup pretended, stop acting 0:40:26.719 --> 0:40:27.399 like you live for Jesus. 0:40:27.480 --> 0:40:29.120 Now I know who you are. I remember who you are. 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:31.239 I got the pictures, I got the Facebook posters to 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:34.759 show you, I got the Instagram to sure I've seen 0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:37.000 your TikTok. Come on, now you have to say, come on, 0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:38.600 come on, come up, come on, back down, come on, 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:40.759 back down, come on back down, come on back down. 0:40:40.840 --> 0:40:42.640 Come on. I'm your frat brother. Come on back down 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:43.520 to who you used to be. 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:46.120 Come on, let's let's let's talk how we used to talk, live, 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:48.399 how we used to live, act, how we used to act. 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:51.640 And they keep on pressing, keep on pressing, keep on pressing, 0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:54.919 four times, four times, four times, four times. And each 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:57.480 time he gave the same answer. Each time he gave 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:00.799 the same answer. Each time he gave the same answer, opposition, 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:06.760 same answer, opposition, same answer, opposition, same answer, opposition, same answer. 0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:13.640 Then the fifth time, Sam Belton, now's five The fifth 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:16.560 time Sam Bellant sent his aid to the same message 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:18.560 in this handwritten. 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:24.000 Note five times? Are you serious? 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:26.279 Me? 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:31.560 And Maya stands strong because this is the DNA, the 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:38.919 follower of God. I stand strong, not in my own 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:41.719 strengthened power, but in the grace and the power that 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:47.239 He provides. So now he goes back and forth. But 0:41:47.280 --> 0:41:49.040 look at this. In chapter nine, I'm all done here? 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:50.799 Can you bring me out my microphone? Bring out my 0:41:50.800 --> 0:41:55.520 microphone from my microphone stand rather my chapter six, verse 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:59.239 number eight, it says I sent him this reply. 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:01.160 Thank you so much, thank you so much. 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:06.880 I'll take that I sent him this reply. Nothing like 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:09.960 what you are saying is happening. You were just making 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:15.719 it up out of your head. First number nine. They 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:19.319 were all trying to frighten us. They were all trying 0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:20.799 to frighten us. Do you have anything in your life 0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:23.960 it's trying to frighten you. And then in your life, 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:28.080 trying to tell you stop. It's not gonna work for you. 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:32.359 Guy's not on your side anything, trying to lie to you, 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:36.640 tell you you're. 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:39.840 Not gonna make it. It's over for you. The divorce, 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:40.759 it bid you in. 0:42:40.880 --> 0:42:45.960 You're done, You're finished. We know you already made the mistake. 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:47.520 It's done. It's over. 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:53.440 Trying to intimidate you, trying to frighten you. They were 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:59.200 all trying to frighten us, thinking their hands will get 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:04.440 to for the work and it will not be completed. 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:10.040 I'm not gonna say because I can't. 0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:16.759 Like, I'll say, put the rest of that verse up 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:19.960 there for me real quick, if you want mine said. 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:24.720 They were all trying to frighten us, thinking their hands 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:29.920 we'll get too weak for the work and will not 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:48.880 be completed. But I prayed, but I prayed, but I prayed. 0:43:50.440 --> 0:43:52.520 Had a lot of weight on my shoulders, but I prayed, 0:43:53.880 --> 0:43:59.240 and I prayed something very specific. Now strengthen my hands. 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:04.960 Man the grace of God, walking up and down every aisle. 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:11.719 But I prayed strengthened my hands. I want, I want 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:12.920 to do something. I saw this in my head. I 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:19.560 saw this in my head. But I prayed strengthen my hands. 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:23.000 So I'm gonna say, but I prayed, and all of 0:44:23.000 --> 0:44:28.160 you are gonna clap, Then you're gonna say, strengthen my hands. 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:36.560 But I prayed strengthen my hands. But I prayed strengthened 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:42.239 my hands. But I prayed strengthen my hands. But I 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:47.640 prayed strengthened my hands. I'm crying myself to sleep at night, 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:53.040 but I prayed strengthened my hands. I'm battling cancer right now, 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:57.240 but I prayed strengthen my hands. I know this world 0:44:57.280 --> 0:44:58.120 seems like it's going. 0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:02.520 To hell in a hand basket. I prayed strengthened my hands. 0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:06.360 I said my kid was gonna stay here forever. 0:45:06.480 --> 0:45:10.000 But I prayed strengthen my hands. 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:14.040 I don't know if I'm gonna get through this anxiety. 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:16.560 And this depression. It feels like it's gonna. 0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:17.040 Take me over. 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:19.640 It feels like it's an overwhelming tidal wave. 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:25.040 What I prayed strengthen my hands. I don't know which 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:25.719 way is up. 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:29.080 Sometimes I feel like I'm confused. 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:30.320 What I prayed? 0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:36.360 Strengthen my hands, strengthened my hands, strengthened my hands. Strengthen 0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:41.840 my hands. Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands. Come on, 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:46.000 strengthen my hands. No cock, strengthen my hands. No cock 0:45:46.640 --> 0:45:50.200 strengthen my back. O cock, strengthen my legs. So cod, 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:51.640 strengthen my knees. 0:45:51.719 --> 0:45:52.280 O COD. 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:55.680 Strengthen my faith, O cod that I keep my eyes 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:57.160 fixed on you. 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:14.680 Strengthen my hands. But I prayed strengthen my hands. Strengthen 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:24.920 my hands. Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands, Strengthen my hands. 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:28.040 I'm not trying to musterle the strength up in myself. 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:31.960 Strengthen my hands. I don't have the powering of myself. 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.600 Strengthen my hands. Oh God, My I lift. 0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:36.959 My eyes to the heels from where my health comes from. 0:46:37.200 --> 0:46:41.160 Strengthen my hands, Oh God, Strengthen my hands. Strengthen my hands, 0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:51.520 Strengthened my hands. The grace of God. It's available for 0:46:51.680 --> 0:47:00.719 every single one of us. And wherever you're feeling weak, 0:47:03.600 --> 0:47:09.040 you might find yourself in your office. Go and I 0:47:09.080 --> 0:47:20.520 can't deal with these people. Strengthen my hands the spirit 0:47:20.560 --> 0:47:25.200 of God. We'll be right there with you in offices 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:28.759 and in schools, and in car lines and in e 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:33.080 groups and in the church, in that playgrounds and on 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:35.360 basketball courts and every place. 0:47:35.400 --> 0:47:36.520 God is sending here. 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:43.080 For you to build something not for your name and fame, 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:46.480 but for the glory and the fame of Jesus Christ. 0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:50.200 By your heads, if you wouldn't mind at all of 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:58.560 our locations, Lord God, I speak a blessing over your 0:47:58.560 --> 0:47:59.440 sons and daughters. 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:04.080 I ask in the name of Jesus. 0:48:04.960 --> 0:48:06.759 That you would fill us up with your spirit and 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:10.200 with your power. I ask o God that you would 0:48:10.239 --> 0:48:12.560 do something deep within us that can only be done 0:48:12.840 --> 0:48:15.600 by the finished work of Jesus Christ upon that cross. 0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:20.080 I ask o God that over every single family, over 0:48:20.160 --> 0:48:23.960 every single young person, an older person, every man, every woman, 0:48:24.320 --> 0:48:27.000 Oh God, would you pour out your spirit in might 0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:29.880 and in power and those of us whose walls have 0:48:30.040 --> 0:48:32.879 been torn down. I think you, o God, that you're 0:48:32.920 --> 0:48:36.480 sending in the right people, and you're rebuilding what needs 0:48:36.480 --> 0:48:38.520 to be rebuilt so that we can live our. 0:48:38.360 --> 0:48:39.440 Lives for your glory. 0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:43.040 But Father, I pray a fresh fire and a fresh 0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:45.560 passion and a fresh seal over. 0:48:45.400 --> 0:48:46.520 This entire church. 0:48:46.800 --> 0:48:50.560 I ask that the next twenty years of Elevation would 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:54.040 be stronger and better and more filled with faith than 0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:56.880 we ever thought possible. I ask for there to be 0:48:56.920 --> 0:48:59.640 a unity. I ask for there to be an anointing, 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:01.640 ask for there to be a strength. 0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:04.239 I ask for them to be a result. I ask 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:06.880 for them to be a confidence. And I pray that 0:49:06.960 --> 0:49:09.600 this church would be a city on a hill. 0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:13.680 Every family belongs to you, every heart belongs to you, 0:49:14.000 --> 0:49:18.080 every mind belongs to you, every future belongs to you. 0:49:18.280 --> 0:49:25.000 Jesus be exalted and do exceedingly abundantly above all by 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:29.320 did we get ask, think or even imagine, and Jesus. 0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:31.240 Saying, we pray, Amen and Amen. 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:35.279 Hey. 0:49:35.360 --> 0:49:37.720 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:49:38.239 --> 0:49:40.839 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:49:40.880 --> 0:49:43.480 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:46.279 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:48.160 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:52.040 Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:55.120 just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:58.040 able to reach people all around the world and if 0:49:58.080 --> 0:50:01.160 you want more information how to be a part of Elevation, 0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:03.520 click the link in the description. 0:50:04.040 --> 0:50:05.040 Thanks again for listening. 0:50:05.040 --> 0:50:08.400 Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe. 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:09.319 God bless you.