Not As Long As My Song!

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.440 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.080 Enjoy the message. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:31.560 You God, how. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:59.520 You praise the Lord. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:12.440 God is good all the time. God is good all 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.560 the time. In the valley, he's good. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.000 Say Amen. On the mountain, he's good. Say Amen. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.800 In the morning, he's good. In the evening, he's good. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.480 I will bless the Lord at and his praise shall 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.640 be in my mouth. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.200 O magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.039 name together. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.720 Today I want to move right into our sermon. I 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.880 want to move right into the Word of God. Grab 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:56.800 your Bible, open your heart, stand up on your feet, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.600 and get ready to re from the Lord. Tell your 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.120 neighbor I'm ready. Tell them you need to get ready too. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:13.600 I can't sit next to a lazy neighbor today. Come on, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.720 if your neighbor looks hateful, you still got a minute 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.200 to move before I start preaching. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.640 Let's welcome our global EPHAM online all around the world. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:23.680 All right. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.000 I know you only got one hand. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.640 Because you're holding your Bible, but clap a little better 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:35.240 than that. Come on, welcome our Ethham. God is so 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:43.880 good and so faithful, got one for you today. The 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.240 Lord has been speaking to me. You mind if I 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:48.760 pray before I read the scripture? 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:50.639 And I don't really care if you mind or not. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.400 I'm gonna pray before I read the scripture. Lord. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.480 I enjoyed so much as you showed me this message. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.840 It helped me, administered to me and gave me that 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.520 it helped my mindset. It really gave me something to 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.320 hang on to in my own life this week, and 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.400 something to encourage those I love with. And now I'm 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.760 standing before thousands of people that I love with your love. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.640 Now I don't know them personally, most of them, but 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.280 you know each of them intimately. And I pray that 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.160 you would help me in these moments that we have 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.200 together that are so precious and so rare, just undistracted, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.440 unencumbered moments in your presence where hearts have been tilled 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.560 by the truths that we've sang through the praise that 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.200 we've lifted to your wonderful name. And now we're ready 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.360 to receive a word from you. Help me to show 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.920 them what you showed me. I believe if that happens, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.000 they'll be helped. I believe if that happens, they'll be 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.840 set free. I believe that happens, stronghold will break in 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:53.520 this place, not just one stronghold, but stronghold after stronghold 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.320 after stronghold, be broken by your word. I thank you 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.680 in advance for testimonies that I will receive from this 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.280 word that you will release through me today in Jesus' name. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.560 Psalm thirteen is our passage for today. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.800 We're in part four of a series called That's What 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:15.360 I Thought. We're trying to take some of these patterns 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.600 that are in our lives that are paralyzing us, the 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.400 patterns that keep causing us needless pain, and to replace 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:28.440 those patterns with God's promises in God's processes for our thinking. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.839 And so far we've looked at this from several different angles, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.039 but today's will be the most practical one so far. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.880 The Psalmist in Psalm thirteen has a prayer to lift 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.640 to God, and it starts like this, How long Lord 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.920 will you forget me forever? How long will you hide 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:56.600 your face from me. How long must I wrestle with 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.280 my thoughts, and day after day have sorrow in my heart? 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.160 How long will my enemy triumph over me? 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.600 Look on me and answer, Lord, my God, give light 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.120 to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.680 my enemy will say I have overcome him, and my 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:20.400 foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:26.560 your unfailing love. You see how that just lifted. The 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.520 sum is a lament. It's a cry for help. It's 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.320 filled with anguish. That's in the tone of sorrow. But 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.960 there is a lift within the lament. There is a 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.880 lift within your lament today when you cry to. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.560 God, he won't just leave you crying. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.080 For weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.760 with the mourning. Somebody say, good morning. But I trust 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.680 in your unfailing love. My heart rejoices in your salvation. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.600 I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.880 good to me. Go ahead and clap your hands for 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:12.159 the word of God. I want to give you my 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.480 title in a special way today, and I need you 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:15.920 to turn to your neighbor one more time. You know 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.360 i't to talk to him again after this. You don't 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.320 want to, but start by asking them a question. It's 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.960 gonna set up my subject for today. Tell your neighbor 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.600 first things first, Just tell them I know you've been 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:28.680 going through some trouble. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.679 Look at them and say I can tell now. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.320 Now, look back at them and ask how long do 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:42.560 you think it's gonna last? 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:46.559 Are you ready? 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:47.160 Now? 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.680 Look back at them and answer that question. They just 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.600 ask you. Look them right in their eyes and tell them, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.279 not as long as. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.120 My song. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.560 That's what I want to preach you about today. Not 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.920 as long ask my song Father. Make it plain and 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.960 powerful and personal. In Jesus' name, I give you praise. Amen, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:25.080 you may be seated, Give three hugs before you sit down, and. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:40.280 Then be seated. God is good all the time. God 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.120 is good four times. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.920 In the Psalm, the Psalmist asked the question that every 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.559 parent has heard on a road trip. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:52.520 How long. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.680 We had a pretty rainy week of weather in Charlotte, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.400 North Carolina. Holly looked at me Friday and said, am 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:02.880 I ever going to see the sun again? 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:09.400 How long? Lord? Doesn't take long, does it? 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.440 It doesn't take long for us to get gloomy, doesn't 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.920 take long for us to buy into a narrative that's 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.760 very negative, at least for me, doesn't take long. And 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:24.800 I have discovered that even the strongest faith only can 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:30.160 hold on so long through certain situations. And I have 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:37.120 discovered that the human will has its limits even when 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.040 you're in the will of God. Now I know I'm 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.560 starting early, but that would have been worth writing down 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.520 had you had your notebook ready, had I given you 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:49.640 a moment to get situated. Every human will has its limits, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.400 even when you're in the will of God. Even when 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.360 you're doing what God called you to do, there is 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.960 a place that you hit a wall. So today I 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.000 want to talk from the subject how long Lord, But 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.240 I want to talk about three l's that I think 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.559 will help you. I'm going to give them to you 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.839 up front and we'll review them at the end. And 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.560 you've heard of lions and tigers and bears, right, this 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.960 is modeled after that, But it's not exactly that. I 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:26.880 want to talk about limits and levels and loops. Limits 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.400 and levels and loops. Put those in the chat please, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.400 if you're watching online or the comments, limits and levels 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:35.960 and loops. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:36.360 Oh my. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.960 Amen, limits and levels and loops. Amen, you say, I 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:52.560 say amen. My mind went to a personal experience that 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.280 we had this summer, which I mentioned briefly, but my 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.040 oldest son, Elijah, spent the very first weeks after he 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.200 graduated college in the hospital, and the first part of 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.280 it was planned because he had an issue with his 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.480 spine that we've been monitoring with the neurosurgeon for five years, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.240 and upon the neurosurgeon's advice, we decided that he needed 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.240 to have the surgery. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.679 And the surgery was not going to be easy. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.720 No surgery is minor, No surgery is minor, and this 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.440 surgery wasn't even billed as minor, and so we were expecting. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.080 A pretty rough recovery. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.840 Now I'm not saying Elijah is not tough, but after 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.520 his surgery, it. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.240 Was amazing to me how good he kept his attitude. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.640 Because part of the surgery where they operated on him, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.280 it was at the and I'm about to say stuff, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:47.520 I don't really know what it means, but I heard 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.959 a doctor say it, and I'm regurgitating it to you. It 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.839 somehow affected his nausea, and so for the first four 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.920 days after his surgery he was just throwing up. He 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.960 couldn't need anything, but he didn't complain much and it 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.320 was amazing that he didn't complain much, because I've lived 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.480 with this kid twenty years, and I'm like, who are 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.840 you from? Whence cometh this strength and power and self 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.600 control and positive mental attitude. You've been watching David Goggins 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.160 and reading the Bible or something like that. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.520 You're not complaining, You're just ugging it out. And he 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.079 did that for. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.280 Several days, and I tried to keep him company in 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.319 those days, and just any way I could think I've 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.760 spent time with him since he couldn't really eat, and 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.040 we watched entire seasons of Better Call, so I mean 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:43.920 the chosen and you know, right about the time when 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.079 it looked like his body was bouncing back, his fever 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.960 went up. And Holly is our family doctor, and so 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.400 she knew, I think that it's become infected, and she 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.360 took him to the er and it. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.880 Had become infected at the sight of the surgery. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.120 And so while we thought we might be able to 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.640 get him on any biotics, when he developed how do 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:11.800 you say it, Holly brunt bacterial meningitis. They came to 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.560 get him and said, we're going to have to do 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:20.640 the whole surgery over again. That was the moment where 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:25.960 his positive mental attitude left the building. And I got 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:32.240 it because I thought, remember the series, that I was 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:36.240 getting better, and I thought that this was almost over. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.800 And I set a clock for myself that I am 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.480 not going to complain on this clock. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.400 But that clock has run out. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:52.720 And even the strongest human will has a limit, even 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:59.520 the strongest resolve has a limit when your win has 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.320 no inn in sight come because after the surgery, not 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.360 only was it worse the second time, but he stayed 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.800 in the hospital that time for the better part of 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.400 a week, went home. They put a pick line in 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.840 him to give him as antibiotics, and then what they 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.000 were putting in his body to keep him from becoming 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.080 infected and to get the infection out of his body 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.240 was making him nauseous again. So now I can't eat again. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.520 And when I can't eat, I am not very happy 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.480 about anything. And don't tell me to praise the Lord, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.440 because I praised the Lord for the first week, but 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.320 I wasn't planning on the second week or to have 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.680 these tubes for thirty days in my arms. And I 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.760 know there are people who are going through a lot 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.079 worse than that. And your condition is a lot more 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.720 serious than what I'm describing. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.560 But perhaps we can agree together that. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:50.120 Even the strongest human will has a limit, and it 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.160 seems like the person who wrote Psalm thirteen has hit 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.680 his limit. He doesn't start the beginning of the psalm 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:05.360 with praise or glory be or hallowd He says how long? 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.480 Not hallelujah, but how long Alujah. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:11.839 It's a different kind of prayer. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.640 And I'm choosing these psalms throughout our series to show 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.319 you that you can come to God honestly and sincerely 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.840 with your problems, but not focus on your problems and 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.320 not remain in the same place that you came when 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.040 you brought your problems to God. By the way, Elijah 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.840 is doing so well, he's doing so incredibly well. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.440 He's actually working for me now, clipping my sermons for TikTok. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.200 That's right. He's on the front road today. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.240 They gave him today off, but he said, if you 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:44.880 get preaching too good, I might have to run to 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.240 the back and clip you real quick. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:48.080 Now. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:55.440 The interesting thing about the psalmist complaint that ends in 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.400 praise but that starts with complaint is he says. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.640 How long you forget me? Lord? How long? Are you 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.000 going to hide from me? I can't find you. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:07.240 Man. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.320 It's like you keep telling me God. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.600 To do something, but then I do what I thought 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:11.880 you told me to do, and I'm not sure if 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.200 that's what you told me to do because I don't 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.000 feel you. I moved because I thought I was moving 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.680 in obedience to the will of God. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.160 For my life. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.640 But even when you're in the will of God, the 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.480 strongest human will can only hold on so long. And 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.320 when you get in that place of how long, how long? 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.480 I think I should say it like this. You can 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.760 only be strong for so long. You can only feel 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.160 forgotten for so long, you can only feel taken for 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.320 granted for so long. You can only do for others 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.200 so long, and say, well, I'm doing it for the Lord. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:47.920 I'm doing it for the Lord. I'm doing it for 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.280 the Lord. I'm doing it for the Lord. Think you 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.080 would be nice, but I'm not doing it for thank you. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.800 I'm doing it for the Lord. And then you explode 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:01.160 on us because even the nicest, most polite, most servant 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.360 hearted person can only serve strong for so long before 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.240 you start wondering how long till they reciprocate for me? 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.200 Don't say amen. They'll know you're agitated with them and 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.400 you're about to explode any minute, and they need to duck. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.480 How long will you forget me? How long will you 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.480 hide from me? He actually says something that I know 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.360 we've all felt in here. How long will my enemy 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.960 triumph over me? In other words, how long till I. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:26.360 Get a win. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.800 I don't feel like I'm winning anywhere. Maybe you felt 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.120 that way as a husband this week. If I'm winning 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.600 as a provider, I'm not winning as a parent. I'm 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.360 paying for stuff, but I don't have time to play 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.120 with my kids, because if I play with my kids, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.200 I can't pay for the stuff, and they don't want 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.560 to play with nothing. But if I'm going to pay 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.400 for it, I gotta work for it. If I'm working 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.119 for it, I can't be with them. I can't win anywhere. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.520 How long. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:54.360 I can retire? 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:55.360 How long? 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:57.120 Lord? 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.800 And I'm making light of it, although there is nothing 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.400 light about the feeling, just to bring us into the thought, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.680 how long will you forget me? Lord? How long will 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.800 you hide from me? How long will it be till 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.400 I feel you? How long will it be. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.360 Till you confirm for me that this is the right 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:14.920 thing to do? 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.240 How long Lord, till I get this thing out of 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:18.560 my arm? 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:19.520 How long till I can. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:24.040 Eat again, smile again, breathe deeply again and not feel 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.040 that shallow, crippling anxiety that I've been managing for three months. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.800 And I can't tell anybody, But how long you expect 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.560 me to smile at them while I'm stressed inside of myself? 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.280 How long is my enemy gonna win? 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.160 And I know you're mighty, and I know you're great, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.080 and I know you're awesome, and I know you're wonderful, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.720 But when are you going to do something about what 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.479 my enemy is doing to me? Do you see how 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.119 they're talking about me? Do you see how they're taking 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.200 advantage of me? Do you see how they're walking all 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:54.639 over me? 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.920 How long until you rise up and defend me? Lord? 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:58.840 How long? 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.879 But the one that felt so personal to me, and 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.159 perhaps it will feel personal to you as well, was 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.560 the one sandwiched right in the middle of all of that, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.000 where he said in verse two. And I don't know 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.760 if you ever had an experience where you thought that 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.400 the Lord wrote a special verse in your Bible because 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.560 he's been following you around. And the Lord just took 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.080 a verse that wasn't there before and put it in 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.200 there for you. I felt that way when I read thirteen, 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.280 verse two, how long must I wrestle. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.719 With my thoughts? 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:37.280 I totally get that question, How long will I wrestle 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.119 with my thoughts? You know, whoever wrote this song, he 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.720 must not be very tough, because if he was tough, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:49.680 he would just buck up buckaroo, He would just get 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.879 over it. When life gave him lemons, he would just 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:58.520 make some lemonade. He must not be very strong in 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.879 the Lord this man. 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.320 Look in your Bible, Abby. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.840 Verse not verse one, but right before verse one, and 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:15.720 you will see above Psalng thirteen the attribution of who 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.800 wrote this song. Although it does not mention what the 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.000 situation was that inspired the song, it gives us the 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.080 name of the person who wrote the song, and he's 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:30.600 a man named David. So I take back everything I 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.080 just said a minute ago about he must be a whimp, 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.720 he must not be very strong. I would never say 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.919 that about David, and I definitely wouldn't say it to 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.439 his face, even if I thought that David was an 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.080 emotional basket case. I wouldn't say it to David because 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:51.720 if David could find a rock. I might comment it 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:59.159 in the YouTube section about David, I wouldn't say it 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.919 to his face. Internet courage. That's what some people have 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:10.160 comment courage. But David had strong courage and strong faith, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.639 which is why we are surprised to hear him talking 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.520 this way. Most scholars tell us that David wrote this 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:19.679 at the time of his life that he was no 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:24.240 longer a kid but not yet a king. Those transitional 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.600 moments in life, and in his specific instance, the king 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.320 who was king was trying to kill him because he 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.400 was threatened by him, and it is highly likely that 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.719 David wrote some thirteen. David wrote some thirteen in this 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.240 transitional moment of needing to trust God. But I'm stuck 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.159 on the fact that it was David, because when he 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:51.040 says how long must I wrestle with my thoughts? It 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.920 occurs to me that David was really good at wrestling. 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.800 I'll take you to the moment that David's name became famous. Now, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.119 this is the one that put David on the map. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.240 You've heard it, you know it, you love it. It 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:10.080 involves an uncircumcised Philistine named Goliath. He hails from Philicitia 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.040 nine foot three inches tall, weighing in at three hundred 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:18.199 and twenty pounds, carrying a bronze spear, a javelin, and 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.919 a shield that's bigger than David. Here comes Goliath, and 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.119 for forty days he taunts the nation of Israel. For 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:31.679 Samuel seventeen, David shows up one day with cheese and bread, 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:36.920 disguised as a door dasher, but coming in as a deliverer. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.919 You hear what I just said? Did you hear what 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:41.760 I just said? 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:47.840 He's disguised like door dash, but he's carrying deliverance, and 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.800 he hears the giant taunting the people of God and says, 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.520 how long has he been talking to you all like this? 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.800 How long are you gonna let him keep talking trash 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.520 when you have the truth? Well, see, David, he's a 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.320 big giant and you're a little boy. And the king 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.639 that was threatened by David, that didn't even really know 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.320 his name yet, says to David, you can't fight against him. 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:13.960 He's too big for you. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.399 Now, I just want to remind you of David's resume 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.439 pick up in First Samuel seventeen, verse thirty four. But 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:25.200 David said to Saul, that's the king that's the kid 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.280 talking to the king. Your servant has been keeping his 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:33.720 father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.760 carried off a sheep from the flop, I went after it. 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:41.200 I struck it. I rescued the sheep from its mouth. 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.040 Checked this phrase. When it turned on me. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:52.080 I seized it by its hair, struck and killed it. 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.040 You see what I'm saying. 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:54.800 He didn't just kill. 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.560 The lion from a distance or say a prayer over it, 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.760 and God gave it a tumor and it died. He said, 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:05.520 I grabbed it up close, and I wrestled with a lion. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.919 And tore the sheep out of his mouth. 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.760 That's David. That's what he did. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.359 And when Saul heard what he was capable of doing 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.639 with the mane of a lion, he sent him to 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.359 the battle line to fight the lion, and with one 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:25.360 smooth Stones had five ready, but only needed one. Smooth 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.879 Stone knocked the giant down, cut off his head, and 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.000 the Bible says with a sling and a not a 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:32.960 sword in his hand, he triumphed. 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:34.159 Over the giant in verse fifty. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.520 But the moment that I realized that David was very 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:43.919 good at dealing with a lion that turned on him. 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.000 Is the moment that I realized that this time in 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:52.560 Psalm thirteen, he is not dealing with a lion. He 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:56.840 is not dealing with a bear. And the problem in 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:00.240 Psalm thirteen is that David knows what to do with 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:05.840 an external threat. I can rip it apart. Give me 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:10.320 a challenge, I'll figure it out. If there was a problem, yo, 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.840 I'll solve it. David Newt as a saw. I'm also 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:19.320 if there's a lion in front of me, I know 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:22.640 what to do with the lion. I have a reliable 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:26.919 strategy for a lion. I can beat a bear. But 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:31.960 this time, David says, I am wrestling with my thoughts. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:36.600 I'm not wrestling with a lion this time, I'm wrestling 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:37.879 with my mind. 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:39.920 How long can I. 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:43.800 Wrestle with something that isn't coming from the outside. I 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.440 can deal with that, not with a to do list. 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:49.439 I can deal with that, not with a challenge that 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:51.800 I'm facing that I can plan for in an appointment, 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:54.080 or something that I can prep for with my knowledge 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.840 and my intellect and my skill. I've been able to 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.920 do that on several levels throughout the years. But now 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.520 now I'm dealing with something and it's not a bear. 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.480 It's my brain. It's not a lion, it's my mind. 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.240 So it bets the question what do I do when 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:14.560 the enemy moves the fight to the inside where I 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.240 can't leave it at the office where I can't leave 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:21.080 it in a location where I can't leave. 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:27.680 It for a nine to five And he hits his limit. 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:32.400 And he says, how long I could deal with this 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:35.359 until they had to operate again? 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:36.400 I could deal with it. 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.639 You know what I was saying to the Lord the 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:44.240 other week, I said, I thought I was through with this, 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:46.440 And you. 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:47.720 Ever felt that way about something? 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.520 I thought I was through with this because you already 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.320 praise the Lord for all your progress publicly at your group, 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:57.800 and you don't really know how to go back and 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:02.040 tell the group that I got bad news, it got infected, 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:06.600 and I got to do it again because the first 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:09.520 time they prayed me through it, but this time they 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:14.320 might judge me because of it. Y'all, getting quiet, Preacher 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:16.480 is preaching truth. This is Holy goes truth. 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:22.640 Right now. I am on your case right now, how 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.520 long I could deal with it? 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.960 If you just give me a dumbbell, I can curl 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:34.080 a dumbell, But when I am a dumbbell, when I'm 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:36.800 dealing with stuff that's happening on the inside. You remember 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.320 last week we talked about Paul saying I put. 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:40.720 The ways of childhood behind me. 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:44.800 That's wonderful. You can put certain ways of childhood behind you. 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:48.280 I sold all my wrestling figures, all my lex Luger 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:50.760 and Sting and Ultimate Worrying Halkog, and I sold them all. 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:52.800 Wish I hadn't. They're worth a lot more money now. 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:54.280 But I put all that behind me. 0:26:54.320 --> 0:27:01.199 But I still wrestle with the ways of childhood. And 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:04.280 so it begs the question, what do you do when 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:05.880 you hit your limit? 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:10.000 I'm speaking to somebody today and you feel like I have. 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:11.520 Hit my limit. 0:27:11.560 --> 0:27:15.800 I'm a pretty strong person, but I've hit my limit. 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:19.200 I can carry a lot, but I have hit my limit. 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.000 I have dealt with this, and I have coped with this, 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.760 and I have managed this, and I have managed not 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.960 to make everybody else crazy around me. But I'm going crazy. 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:32.960 I have hit my limit. How long will you forget me? 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:34.320 How long will you hide? 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:34.680 God? 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:36.840 I can go a little while without feeling your presence, 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.000 but I haven't felt you in months. God, I can 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:41.840 go a little while without confirmation and just stay obedient 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:43.160 to the last thing that I heard. 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:44.520 But I need a side. 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:48.159 How long I can't believe I'm going through this again? 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:50.600 I thought I was through with this. I thought I 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.359 was done with this. Why am I more tempted than ever? 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:55.879 Why am I more angry than ever? Why am I 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:57.400 having bitterness flashbacks? 0:27:57.400 --> 0:27:57.680 Now? 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.320 I thought I forgave them. I thought they cut it 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:02.159 out of me. I thought they fixed it, and I 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.480 went back and they put me back into ICU. How 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:09.240 long am I gonna be here? I can only pretend 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.240 to be strong. So long I can't wear this uniform 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:15.359 home and wear it to work and pretend to be strong. 0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:19.560 So David opens up to the Lord, and he realizes 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:22.640 that when you have hit your limit, and you can't 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:25.840 kill this with your hands, and you can't kill this 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.080 with your biceps, and you can't kill this with your 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:32.679 rational thinking, and you can't kill this with your college degree, 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.719 and you can't kill this with your willpower, and you 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:38.880 can't kill this with your focus determination, and you can't 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:41.680 kill this with your vitamins, and you can't kill this 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:45.320 with your collagen and your health routine and your cold plunge, 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:47.680 and I'll keep doing the stuff I'm supposed to do, 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.560 but it's not fixing the real problem I have. And 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:54.200 David realized that when you hit your limit, it's a 0:28:54.240 --> 0:29:00.800 sign that you need to change your level. So whoever 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:06.880 I'm preaching to, when you hit your limit, change your level. 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.680 When you hit your limit, when you feel that in 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:13.080 the course of a twenty four hour period, in the 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.600 course of your college career, in the course of you 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:18.280 trying to raise your own family, in the course of 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:21.120 you feeling your way through the forest of your emotions 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:24.120 and your feelings of forsakenness. 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:27.600 When you hit your limit, change your level. 0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:36.800 Limits and levels and loops, Oh my lions and tigers 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:42.840 and bears, Oh my. Wrestling with my thoughts of depression, 0:29:43.320 --> 0:29:47.160 Wrestling with my thoughts of insecurity, Wrestling with my old 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:51.800 ways of handling situations, Wrestling with things that were passed 0:29:51.800 --> 0:29:55.280 down to me or exemplified, Wrestling with my sin nature, 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:57.719 which is crucified with Christ but keeps trying to have 0:29:57.760 --> 0:30:01.520 a resurrection. Wrestling with the things that I thought drowned 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:04.120 in the red sea. But why are they swimming after 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:07.280 me when I am wrestling with something that I can 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:08.680 tear apart with my hands. 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:09.520 That's one thing. 0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:15.240 But sometimes the Bible says in Ephesians chapter six, verses 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:18.080 eleven and twelve, You've got to put on the whole 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:22.040 armor of God for the king. James says in verse twelve, 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:27.760 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood. This is 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:31.560 not a lion you're wrestling with. For we wrestle not 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:35.120 against flesh and blood. This is not a bear this time. 0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:39.000 I'm wrestling with my thoughts. I'm wrestling with some secrets. 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:43.200 I'm wrestling with some shame. I'm wrestling with some strong temptation. 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:46.600 I'm wrestling with some not me. I'm wrestling with some 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:49.760 why me. I'm wrestling with some what about me? Well, 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:52.960 I am not wrestling anymore with flesh and blood, but 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:59.080 I am wrestling against principalities, against powers, against the rulers 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:05.400 of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness. 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:06.720 In high places. 0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:07.600 See. 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:12.120 I understand something about wrestling, not because I watched Taul Hogan, 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:15.520 but because I have a son who is a wrestler. 0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:19.360 Not WWF, but the kind of wrestling where they put 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:21.680 you on a mat for six minutes and. 0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:24.240 You've got to outscore or pin the other person. 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.640 Now, in wrestling, I have a little experience because I 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:31.120 was a state champion in the eighth grade in a 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:34.200 freestyle tournament where there were no other entries in my 0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:35.520 weight class category. 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:37.280 But Graham is pretty good. 0:31:37.600 --> 0:31:40.120 And I took him to see the National Championship where 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:43.560 all the greatest college wrestlers were wrestling, and Carl Perry 0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:46.640 was sitting next to me, who was a former national champion, 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:49.200 and I said, tell me what to watch when they wrestle. 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:51.960 I don't really know what to watch. I understand wrestling, 0:31:52.000 --> 0:31:55.160 but not at your level. I said, what do you 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:58.920 look for at your level? He said, at this level, 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:01.440 all of the guys were out there know how to 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:05.200 change levels. I said, I know what that means, but 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:07.280 pretend like I didn't. Then explain it to me so 0:32:07.360 --> 0:32:09.080 I could explain it to somebody. 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:10.560 Else who doesn't know what it means. 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:13.520 He said, Well, when you stay too still too long, 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.400 you become predictable. But what you got to do at 0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:19.600 this level, you got to change levels so quick that 0:32:19.680 --> 0:32:21.719 I can't tell if you're about to pop me on 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.120 my head or pop me on my head to set 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:27.040 me up to grab my ankle, and the devil will 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:29.040 come at you so many different ways. 0:32:29.480 --> 0:32:31.440 And have you standing still. 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:34.800 So long talking about how long am I gonna feel 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:37.600 like this? And how long is it gonna be like this? 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.120 And how long are they gonna forget about me? 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:42.560 And how long till they recognize me? 0:32:43.080 --> 0:32:45.800 But if you have hit a wall called how long today, 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:48.520 and you have hit your limit and you don't see 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:51.760 a way to win this fight, the spirit of God said, 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:56.680 change levels. If you've been down too long, stand up 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:57.840 and praise the Lord. 0:32:58.360 --> 0:32:59.080 Wake up the. 0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:01.040 Lion inside your lungs. 0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:05.000 You've been sitting there thirty four minutes thinking about my sermon, 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:10.400 But change levels for ten seconds. Jump up on your feet, 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:17.200 stick your chest out, and tell the devils I'm saved. 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:22.800 Say it, I'm saved. Change levels. 0:33:24.600 --> 0:33:28.800 Before we wrestle none against low things. 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:33.480 We wrestle against high things. And if I'm. 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:37.560 Wrestling against the high thing, I know a higher thing 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:40.040 that can't bring it down. 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:48.680 I cast down strongholds, I cast down depression, I guess 0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:53.240 out fear, I cast out padding, I guess out say, 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.520 I cast out suicide, hot castings. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:02.440 Sit today that is above. 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:20.400 Every day help me live this day high five fourteen. 0:34:20.480 --> 0:34:25.400 People say I'm changing levels. I'm changing levels. 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:29.480 I'm saying, Oh, there he goes, Oh there he goes, 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:31.160 there he goes, there she goes. 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:32.759 I can't predict her. 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.040 When I think I got her down, said gets back up. 0:34:36.719 --> 0:34:40.080 When I think just getting browned, she starts to pray. 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:42.239 I'm facing. 0:35:11.000 --> 0:35:13.040 David, said, I don't know how long this is going 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:16.759 to last. I don't know how long I'm going to 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:20.319 be hurting like this. I'll know how long I'm going 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.480 to have to push through this without any evidence that 0:35:22.600 --> 0:35:25.200 God is working. I'll know how long. But I'll tell 0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:27.080 you one thing, not as long. 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:30.960 As my. 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:32.839 Song. 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.520 And I talked about lions, and I talked about bears, 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.040 and I talked about limits, and I talked about levels, 0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:52.880 But I want to talk about loops. Because when you 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:57.040 get to verse five, David has disrupted his own despair. 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.960 And prayer for deliverance. Y'all are sitting down like you're 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:02.319 not in a. 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:03.840 Hurry to get out of here and go back to 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:05.160 whatever hell you've been fighting. 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:08.279 I ain't not waiting at home, but a lion and 0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:08.920 a bear for you. 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:10.279 Huh. 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:12.640 You might as well go ahead and get this Bible lesson. 0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:17.800 But what happens so many times and an experience like 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:20.760 this that we won't admit is we get the lesson 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:22.520 and we leave. 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:28.919 And we don't get in the loop. Because David said 0:36:28.960 --> 0:36:31.160 something so powerful in verse four. 0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:33.919 He says, if you don't do something soon, God, I'm 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:39.480 going to fail, and my foes will rejoice when I fall. Now, 0:36:39.520 --> 0:36:41.160 I told the Lord that I would share this with 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:43.200 you if the atmosphere fell open to it, and so 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:46.560 I will. There was a season of my ministry where 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:49.600 Holly and I were so paralyzed by the nature of 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.600 public ministry, public criticism in the age of AI, when 0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:54.839 people can make up things that you said and make 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:56.399 it sound like you say it, and make it look 0:36:56.480 --> 0:36:58.440 like you were standing there with Oscar the Grouch if 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:01.840 they want to. It's no longer to photoshop you into anything. 0:37:01.880 --> 0:37:05.800 There was a time where I was so consumed with 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:11.240 the fear that something in ministry would cause me to fail, 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:16.960 or that my best had been behind me and it 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:19.440 was only going to get worse from here. So if 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:22.399 you're struggling with that in your own way, the fear 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:25.520 of failure or the fear of looking like a fool. 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:29.799 Listen to what the Lord gave me. And it really 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:32.080 parallels the thought process of David. 0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:36.240 Not to compare myself to David, but I do relate 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:39.360 to the resistance and the wrestling that he felt. And 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:41.840 I thought for many years that the wrestling meant that 0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:45.640 something was wrong with me. I thought that the fact 0:37:45.719 --> 0:37:49.239 that I wrestle with this means that I am this. 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:53.520 I thought the wrestling meant that something was wrong with me. 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.440 I need to slow down before I show you what 0:37:57.560 --> 0:38:02.240 I want to show you. In verse four, he says, 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.439 my foes will rejoice when I fall. 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:11.160 You see that. And there was a loop in my 0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:12.239 mind that. 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:17.000 Went on for months and months and months. It's going 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:19.760 to end in failure. It's going to end in failure. 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:22.799 It's going to end in failure. I couldn't pinpoint why. 0:38:23.200 --> 0:38:25.319 I did see other things that were happening to other 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.719 people all around me, and I thought, oh, man, you know, 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:32.640 I I'll know how long can I keep preaching and 0:38:33.400 --> 0:38:35.240 you know, writing songs and doing ministry. 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:36.480 I don't want to do it in the flesh. I 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:37.920 want to do it in the spirit. But sometimes you 0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:38.480 get tired. 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:43.800 Sometimes you get tired too, and you wonder is this 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:45.800 going to end in failure? 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:53.840 So one day the Lord gave me a thought and 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:56.200 it busted me out of the prison. 0:38:57.440 --> 0:39:01.600 That I was in that came from the loop of 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:08.360 thinking that I had entertained what if it is in failures? 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:10.840 Can infaiures can in failures, can in failure? And the 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.239 way he gave it to me was something that I 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:14.880 could latch onto. And I give it to you exactly 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:16.399 as he gave it to me, and I wrote it down. 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:20.680 He said, I want you to start confessing this over 0:39:20.760 --> 0:39:22.279 your life, and I did it out loud every day 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:28.840 for a year. It may end in failure, but I 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:39.959 will not live in fear. And I've struggled to hold 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:41.440 to that and I've struggled to live it out. 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:43.520 But he gave it to me. It was one line. 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:46.839 He gave me, one line to deal with the lie. 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:48.880 Because see, the lie I was in the loop was 0:39:49.400 --> 0:39:53.440 that if something fails, I'm a failure. But when I 0:39:53.560 --> 0:39:56.040 realized that he loved me before I started a church. 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:01.279 He loved me when y'all got here. He'll love me 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:05.080 if you leave, He'll love me if I preach good. 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:08.280 He'll love me if I stand up here in stammer 0:40:08.320 --> 0:40:09.000 and stutter and ud. 0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:13.200 He knows what I'm trying to say, and he'll even 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:15.400 take his spirit and interpret and you'll tell me, Pastor, 0:40:15.440 --> 0:40:16.959 that was awesome when you said this, And I won't 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:18.399 even have said that, and you'll have heard that because 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:20.680 God wanted to get it to you. So even if 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:24.640 it fails, watch this. It may end in failure, but 0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:30.879 I will not live in fear. And that has done 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:34.920 more for me than all of my resistancy. Because you 0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:37.680 try to wrestle at a certain level, You're like, oh, no, well, 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.120 I'm gonna study you and I'm gonna do take my 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:43.399 creatine and I'm gonna do you know. But but even 0:40:43.480 --> 0:40:49.040 that has his limits, So I change the level, change 0:40:49.040 --> 0:40:52.840 the level. And David can't figure out how to battle 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.320 his thoughts because this is not something he is fighting 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:58.680 that is turning on him on the outside. His own 0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:01.319 mind is turning on him. We are do when your 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:06.520 mind turns on you? And why did David's mind attack 0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:12.000 him so viciously? Is it possible that the minds that 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:15.320 are under the most vicious attack are also carrying the 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:16.480 most brilliant potential. 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:24.920 Think about what David went on to do David went on. 0:41:25.040 --> 0:41:28.480 To become not only a king, but he became the 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:32.160 designer of the temple that was the house of God, 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:35.720 for which he gave the plans to his son Solomon. 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:39.120 And when he gave him the plans for the temple, 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:42.279 he said something very interesting in First Chronicles twenty eight. 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:48.880 He said, well, that says he gave him the plans portico, building, storems, 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:51.239 upper parts, enterans, place of Atomas. So he had all 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:53.400 that mapped out verse twelve. And he gave him the 0:41:53.520 --> 0:41:58.520 plans of all that the spirit had put in his 0:42:00.560 --> 0:42:03.359 mind for the courts of the Temple of the Lord, 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:05.960 and all the surrounding rooms, treasuries, Temple of God, treasures 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.520 of the dedicated things. It goes onto lists in the 0:42:08.760 --> 0:42:15.240 most specific detail, everything that God put into David's mind. 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:22.160 Now we understand why in Psalm thirteen he was wrestling 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:28.920 with his thoughts, because that mind was under attack by 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:32.680 the enemy, because it was the place that would conceive 0:42:32.920 --> 0:42:38.200 something awesome for God, that mind from which the temple 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:42.880 would come, where the people would worship. That mind, that beautiful, 0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:47.640 brilliant mind. It wasn't a broken mind. It was a 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:52.560 brilliant mind. The level of your battle tells you something 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:55.280 about the level that God is calling you to build. 0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:57.840 The level of your battle. 0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:01.120 See, when you have an overactive imagine nation, you can 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:04.160 build a temple. But if you have an overactive imagination, 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:07.000 you can also call Bathsheba to come and sleep with you, 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.239 even though she's not your wife, and make a plan 0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:11.240 for her husband to get killed on the front lines 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:11.720 of battle. 0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:14.200 And that is why it's important. 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:16.880 In this season of your life that you win the 0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:20.719 battle for your mind, because there is something that God 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:23.880 wants to bring forth from your mind. I'm trying to 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:27.320 say that the place of the blueprint is always the 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:30.640 place of the battle. I'll say it again when God 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:33.200 is going to give you a blueprint. Some of you 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:36.640 are creating generational change. Some of you are doing it 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:39.719 different than your family ever did. Some of you are 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:42.800 setting a new direction, a new course for everybody with 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:46.560 your last name or maiden name in the future. And 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:50.240 the reason the battle has been so fierce in your mind. 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.840 There is so much material in your mind. There is 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:57.560 so much potential in your mind. David's mind would go 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:01.279 on to lead armies. His mind was capable of navigating 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:04.480 through the most arid terrain he can find water in 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:07.320 places that the troops that were chasing him would not 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:10.720 even dare to follow him into that mind. Of course 0:44:10.840 --> 0:44:13.680 it was under attack. Of course it was a battle 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:17.640 that was the place of a blueprint. Of course you're struggling. 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:21.320 Of course you're dealing with issues. There's nothing wrong with you. 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:25.720 You're just a real one. You are resisting the enemy. 0:44:26.120 --> 0:44:29.200 You are wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:30.960 spiritual wickedness. 0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:36.040 And isn't it amazing that the mind that created. 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:40.800 Something so magnificent as the Temple experienced so much misery? 0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:44.120 And doesn't it give you hope to know that the 0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:47.520 misery that you've been going through is just a clue 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:48.880 to the magnificence. 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:51.160 Let me say it like the Bible says it. 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:56.279 For our light and momentary afflictions are achieving for us 0:44:56.640 --> 0:45:00.960 a far exceeding weight of glory. It will way everything 0:45:01.040 --> 0:45:03.880 you've been through when you see what God builds. And 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:06.800 I'll prove it to you right now. Psalm thirteen is 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:10.960 written by David about a situation that we don't even 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:14.120 know what it was, and whatever situation he was going 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:15.040 through when he wrote it. 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:19.239 The situation is over, but we're still preaching about what 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:19.760 he wrote. 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:26.440 I said, the situation only lasted so long, but the 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:29.839 song was longer than the situation. 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:31.960 Because I'm standing. 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:36.360 Up in front of you thousands of years after he wrestled, 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:39.279 and I'm reading what he wrote, because he went through 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:42.440 what he went through. I came to tell you that 0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:45.560 what you are going to see on the other side 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:48.400 of this will make what you're going through feel like 0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:49.560 a short. 0:45:49.440 --> 0:45:53.000 Time, a little while, just a little while, just a 0:45:53.160 --> 0:45:53.719 little while. 0:46:01.040 --> 0:46:06.160 And it all starts with verse five. I'm wrestling. 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:10.160 How long I'm forgotten, how long I'm forsaken, how long 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:12.480 you're hiding, how long I'm losing? 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:13.279 How long? 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:21.080 Verse five comes out of nowhere? But I trust, I trust, 0:46:21.360 --> 0:46:24.240 But I trust you know how we love the shout 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:28.120 in church about but God. Yeah, sometimes it's not but 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:35.000 God that you're waiting on is but I Because sometimes 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:37.360 when you're asking God how long, he's asking you the 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:43.680 same question I see on that Sunday. But the Lord 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:47.399 wants you to know I've been wondering the same thing. 0:46:47.840 --> 0:46:49.480 I've been wondering, how long you. 0:46:49.560 --> 0:46:52.759 Gonna let the devil just tell you anything he wants 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:53.239 to tell you. 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:57.040 Unchallenged before you rebuke him and plead the. 0:46:57.080 --> 0:47:00.480 Blood of Jesus for everything concerning your life. 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:06.160 How long, Oh I love it. I'm happy. Don't think 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:08.680 I'm mad. I'm not mad at you. I'm happy for you. 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:14.200 Because God said he's about to butt in. God said, you're. 0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:20.480 Wrestling with some stuff that's unclean, unfamiliar, unmanageable, overwhelming. But 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:28.440 I trust in your unfailing love. My heart rejoices in 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:32.040 your salvation. Put me in f sharp verse six. I 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:38.879 will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good 0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:40.880 to me. 0:47:45.760 --> 0:47:46.280 So watching. 0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:53.320 When you have hit your limit, Blessed to the porn spirit, 0:47:53.760 --> 0:47:54.520 for there's kingdom of heim. 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:56.640 Blessed those who home and thirst that for ushless they feel. 0:47:56.920 --> 0:47:59.600 When you have hit your limit, Come to the waters, 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:00.399 all you who are. 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:03.120 Thirsty and by, come by bread and milk without why 0:48:03.320 --> 0:48:05.960 without price? You can get it for free if you 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:12.000 come on your knees. He said, you need a new loop. 0:48:12.040 --> 0:48:15.160 You've been in the How long till it gets better? 0:48:16.040 --> 0:48:16.279 Loop? 0:48:16.360 --> 0:48:19.840 How long till it changes loop? How long am I 0:48:19.920 --> 0:48:21.839 going to be like this loop? How long are they 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:22.560 going to ignore me? 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.440 Loop? And I want to get you in a new 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:39.040 loop of how good God has already been to you. 0:48:40.120 --> 0:48:42.799 Something just shifted in David in verse five. I can 0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:45.880 tell it he realized, I can't fight this like a lion. 0:48:46.160 --> 0:48:48.640 I can't fight this like a bear. I can't fight 0:48:48.760 --> 0:48:52.719 this like my previous fights. I gotta fight this by 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.680 getting in a new loop, like when I killed the 0:48:55.760 --> 0:48:59.240 lion and when I killed the bear, and I started 0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:02.920 thinking to myself, how great my God was, not how 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:06.520 big my giant was, but I trust. 0:49:08.280 --> 0:49:14.200 And when he said but when God butted in, he 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:15.440 ends his song. 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:21.600 Not singing about the struggle, but singing about the goodness 0:49:22.960 --> 0:49:24.280 of God, for he has. 0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:28.239 Been good to me. 0:49:30.480 --> 0:49:33.000 And sometimes you get this message, and sometimes you watch 0:49:33.080 --> 0:49:35.800 these videos, and sometimes you listen to this podcast and 0:49:35.920 --> 0:49:36.720 you get the lesson. 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:40.239 But you don't get in the loop. You don't get 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:44.640 in the loop. You think worship is over because. 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:45.840 You've got to get out to your car, and you 0:49:45.920 --> 0:49:47.279 think you got to get to your car, because you 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:48.640 got to get to your lunch, and you got to 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:50.080 get to your lunch, because you've got to get back 0:49:50.120 --> 0:49:50.919 home and take your nap. 0:49:51.040 --> 0:49:51.799 And you got to take your. 0:49:51.800 --> 0:49:53.480 Nap so you can still wake up tired and go 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:55.040 into another week talking about God. 0:49:55.360 --> 0:50:03.319 How long? How long? 0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:06.960 David said, I don't know, but not as long as 0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:11.440 my song, because I'm gonna outsing my struggle. 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:23.800 Hear me, if you can, I am gonna out praise 0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:29.960 this problem. Let me go deeper. 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:35.879 I'm gonna out trust this trouble. And it's a sign 0:50:35.960 --> 0:50:37.560 that I can't fight it in my own flesh. I 0:50:37.600 --> 0:50:41.439 wrestle not against flesh and blood. I'm wrestling against. 0:50:41.120 --> 0:50:41.719 A high thing. 0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:45.319 But I have a higher thing, So I will sing 0:50:46.800 --> 0:50:52.440 and praise for he has everybody say he has been 0:50:52.560 --> 0:50:57.600 good to me, and then then you might even get convinced. 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:03.680 You might, you might say he's been so good to me. 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:07.560 January of twenty twenty. 0:51:07.400 --> 0:51:09.320 Three, we were having a recording and we got together 0:51:09.400 --> 0:51:13.040 to write some songs before the recording, and me and 0:51:13.160 --> 0:51:15.719 Brandon and Chandler wrote a song one night called Ben 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:19.720 so Good and the chorus just said, you have been. 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:28.200 So good to me, God, I can't believe how you. 0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:33.960 Love me, What a friend you have been. 0:51:45.360 --> 0:51:45.640 Wow. 0:51:49.760 --> 0:51:51.600 And you see what happened, how you just started singing 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:54.840 it again and you almost can't stop singing it. 0:51:57.520 --> 0:52:10.680 That's because we wrote it be a loop and here's 0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:11.360 what that means. 0:52:12.560 --> 0:52:15.680 The first line of that chorus, which we ripped off 0:52:15.760 --> 0:52:19.600 from Song thirteen, verse six, which we got from David, 0:52:20.400 --> 0:52:24.000 who felt like God had left him, but he sang 0:52:24.080 --> 0:52:26.400 a song that lasted longer than his trouble. 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:29.839 This trouble is not gonna last as long as my song. 0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:32.759 If the devil thinks he's gonna outlast me, he's got 0:52:32.800 --> 0:52:35.160 another thing called Me and the devil are having a 0:52:35.280 --> 0:52:39.160 staring contest right now, And I'm looking unto Jesus, and 0:52:39.280 --> 0:52:40.520 I'm looking I'm taking. 0:52:40.360 --> 0:52:43.840 My eyes off the wind in the waves. So I 0:52:43.880 --> 0:52:46.279 don't know how long this storm is gonna last. For 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:52.400 somebody shout, not as long as my song. So is 0:52:52.440 --> 0:52:55.759 it possible that God doesn't always deliver us from it? 0:52:55.880 --> 0:53:01.520 But he calls us to decide in it? David said, 0:53:01.560 --> 0:53:07.759 But I trust in your unfailing love, and I'll sing. 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:11.239 If the trouble lasts seven days, I'm gonna sing eight. 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:12.040 I will sing. 0:53:13.760 --> 0:53:16.840 If this illness lasts three months, I'll sing three months 0:53:17.239 --> 0:53:20.719 and fourteen hours. Because I'm gonna outsing this struggle. I'm 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:25.760 going to outsing this doubt. I'm gonna outsing this issue 0:53:25.880 --> 0:53:28.840 with my prodigal child. I'm going to outphrase that you 0:53:29.040 --> 0:53:32.080 understand because I'm changing levels. 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:36.560 And the way it works is this. The first line 0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:40.640 of the chorus leads into the last line of the chorus. 0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:47.440 I'll show you how you love what a friend you 0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:49.319 have been? First line? 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:59.000 So to me, God, I can't believe how you love me. 0:54:00.640 --> 0:54:03.640 What you have been. 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:09.480 You can't stop singing, can you? You can't stop praising, 0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:14.960 can you? Because you got in the loop. See see 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:15.520 that's the loop. 0:54:15.560 --> 0:54:18.680 I want you living in this week, not how hard 0:54:18.719 --> 0:54:22.640 it's been, but you have been so good to me. 0:54:24.480 --> 0:54:26.000 God, I can't. 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:33.799 Stop singing just a second. I got to tell you something. 0:54:33.880 --> 0:54:38.000 When we sang the song at the recording, it literally 0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:43.799 went eighteen minutes in the room and the church had 0:54:43.880 --> 0:54:44.800 never heard it before. 0:54:46.360 --> 0:54:47.040 You don't believe me. 0:54:47.760 --> 0:54:49.600 I took a screenshot of the voice memo of the 0:54:49.640 --> 0:54:51.520 front of house mixed from the night we recorded. 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:54.279 Look at the timestamp on this. I don't know if 0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:54.840 you can see it. 0:54:55.719 --> 0:55:01.759 Eighteen minutes and forty seven second guests of a song 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:06.600 that the church had never sang. Why because it took 0:55:06.680 --> 0:55:12.160 a line and made it a loop. Ye, And that's 0:55:12.239 --> 0:55:15.759 what needs to happen in your heart. You understand, So 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:21.760 you just start thanking him. Now, be careful. The devil 0:55:21.800 --> 0:55:26.720 will attack your thankfulness. He will attack your gratitude, because 0:55:26.760 --> 0:55:28.839 if he can keep you down here fighting, he can 0:55:28.960 --> 0:55:32.200 keep you down here losing and gasping for breath and 0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:34.800 feeling sorry for yourself. 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:37.200 Because if I start. 0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:41.800 Thanking him for the new day, I might start thinking 0:55:42.200 --> 0:55:43.800 that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow. 0:55:45.400 --> 0:55:46.840 And if I start thanking. 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:49.759 Him that I'm gonna make it till tomorrow, I might 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:52.320 start thinking that he has a hope in a future 0:55:52.360 --> 0:55:52.600 for me. 0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:55.080 And if I start thanking. 0:55:54.840 --> 0:55:56.680 Him that he has a hope in a future for me, 0:55:57.440 --> 0:55:59.560 I might get some friends and make a plan to 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:02.480 move my life for her. And if I start thanking 0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:04.560 him for the new people he brought in my life, 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:06.840 I might start thinking that. 0:56:06.960 --> 0:56:09.640 I don't have to do this by myself. And if 0:56:09.680 --> 0:56:11.400 I start thinking him that. 0:56:11.520 --> 0:56:15.879 I'm not in this by myself, I might start praising him. 0:56:16.320 --> 0:56:19.680 At the midnight hour, Hey Paul, Hey. 0:56:19.680 --> 0:56:24.040 Silas, how long you're gonna be in this prison? How 0:56:24.160 --> 0:56:25.480 long is your sentence? 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:29.960 Silace said, I don't know, but not as long as 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:33.800 my song I got a song in midnight. 0:56:34.640 --> 0:56:42.879 I gott a song through the age. How why? And singing. 0:56:44.880 --> 0:56:46.000 So good? 0:56:47.960 --> 0:56:51.920 Oh God? Again? Lift your head here. 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:56.960 You hell. 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:12.359 Job you sing? 0:57:18.680 --> 0:57:19.000 Uh huh. 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:25.280 I don't know how long it's gonna last, but sing 0:57:25.360 --> 0:57:36.440 it again. Not as long. H get that stuck in 0:57:36.480 --> 0:57:39.000 your head for a minute. See what happens. Say it again. 0:57:55.280 --> 0:58:02.400 Yeah. And when the doctor's report doesn't look good. And 0:58:02.520 --> 0:58:04.160 when you don't think you have what it takes to 0:58:04.280 --> 0:58:11.040 move on, keep singing. If the storm keeps raging, keep singing. 0:58:13.120 --> 0:58:14.200 And when you start. 0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:19.400 Thinking, and you start thinking, don't be surprised. 0:58:20.800 --> 0:58:24.720 If the enemies you see today you will see. 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:25.280 Them no more. 0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:31.840 Because when I praise, when I praise, when I praise, 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:36.000 come on bad. I need to sing it one more time. 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:41.840 When peace like a river attended my way, When. 0:58:41.880 --> 0:58:49.400 Sorry slight sea billows roll, I gotta song, I gotta praise. 0:58:50.840 --> 0:58:58.000 Keep singing, can't singing, can't singing. 0:59:00.120 --> 0:59:06.680 Fire through the stupe. 0:59:13.240 --> 0:59:14.320 Thank you for joining us. 0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:17.080 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:59:17.200 --> 0:59:20.640 this ministry. 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