On My Way Back (Chad Veach)

0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Fernick. 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. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:21.040 I hope you're blessed today. I just want to take 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.759 a moment before we jump into the word. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.800 Anybody excited to get into the scripture today? We're going 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.480 to open up God's word. But two things I want 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.680 to pray for. Anybody that needs a miracle today. Anybody 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:38.479 that needs healing today. Anybody that needs finances. You know 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.720 the Bible says our Lord God, nothing is too difficult 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.680 for you. If you've got a prodigal today, I know 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.519 the God that can wake them up with kindness. If 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.800 you've got a situation, I know the God that can 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.080 remove that mountain and put it into the sea. Come on, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.240 anybody believe today that God is who he says he is. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.400 Anybody we have faith that he could do what he 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.640 said he would do. Come on, clap. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.760 Let's have done some faith and thanksgiving today. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.480 Do me a favor. If you need a miracle, just 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.360 lit your hand. Lord. We thank you for your grace, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.319 We thank you for your power. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.440 We trust not in riches or mammon or chariots or horsemen. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.360 But our trust is in the name of the Lord. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.200 We thank you God that you are who you. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.479 Say you are and you can accomplish what concerns us. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:29.920 Today. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.920 We cast all of our cares onto you because we 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.240 know you care for us. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.080 In the name of Jesus. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.040 And everybody said together, come on, clap one more time 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:50.360 and thank God. Come on elevation twenty years, twenty years. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.640 And I just want to say, thank God for Elevation Church. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.960 Thank God for all that He's done in this place. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.360 Thank God for all that He's done through this place. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.880 And the Bible says not to us, not to us 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.560 be the glory, but to his name. Can we give 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.359 God some glory for twenty years. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.679 Of his faithfulness? Come on, anybody believe the vest is 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.959 yet to come for Elevation Church. And I just want 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.440 to say, thank God, not. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.799 Just for Elevation Church, but anybody love your pastors today. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.320 Pastor Stephen at Holly Fernick, come on, oh, come on, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.280 you can clap louder than that today if you love 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.680 your fine goodness. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.200 We thank God for pastors Stephen to Hally, Thank God 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.520 for their faithfulness, for their continual. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.120 Yes. Anybody could say yes for. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:53.120 One year or maybe ten, but twenty years of faithfulness, serving, giving, preaching, writing. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.480 Oh, come on this, give honor where honor is due 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.960 to our pastors today. Thank God for pastors Stephen and Holley. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.520 And you know they've just been out on tour. They've 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:05.280 been out on tour. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.120 They're sewing into Chicago, sewing into New York. I believe 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.440 they were in Columbus, Ohio, sewing in. You know, I've 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.040 always believed that when you sow into somebody else's field, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:16.840 you're going to reap it. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:17.200 In your own. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.960 And I pray that we would be a church that 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.600 covers them in prayer. Amen, Why don't we take a 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.000 moment and pray for our pastors right now? Lord, We 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.560 thank you for our leaders, our pastors that you've given 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:30.160 to us. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.640 What a gift to have pastors like them. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.640 We pray that their soul would be refreshed, their soul 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:42.120 would be encouraged. Thank you God for protection over their home, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.200 over their children. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.880 We thank you that you're speaking to them, giving them. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.560 Vision, dreams, allow signs and wonders and miracles to continue 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.160 to break out through their ministry. We think you that 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.160 they would feel rested in their soul, and we just 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.960 bless them today. We thank you God for the gifts 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.080 of our pastors in Jesus name. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.440 And everybody said, come on one more time, clapping, thank God. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.520 Do me a favorite before you sit down. Turn it 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.200 against somebody a high five. Tell them you woke up 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:11.200 on time today. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.560 You woke up on time today. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.479 You woke up you ain't late. You woke up on 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.560 time today. Go to the Book of Numbers, chapter twenty one. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.680 If you have a Bible number is twenty one. Again. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.280 My name is Chad. I live in La. I'm blessed. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.480 Any married people here in the house today sounds painful. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.560 Any happily married people in the house today? 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.240 Yeah, yuh. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.599 My wife and I have been married for seventeen years. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.719 We got four children. Any parents here today? 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:44.919 Parents? 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.560 I got a fourteen year old, a twelve year old, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.280 a ten year old, and an eight year old. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.400 We're like a rock group. We put one out every two. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:58.520 Years and fourteen, twelve, ten, eight. And my eight year 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.080 old is not saved. Please pray for my saving hey 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.599 year old. He needs Jesus right now. But we're blessed. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.800 In California, We're blessed in La and I'm just so 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.760 honored and thrilled to. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.960 Be here today. Can we clap? This was his first 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.960 time being up without his mom and dad. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.359 Didn't Cram do a great job, my guy right there clapping, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:19.360 Thank God for my God. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.559 I love you so much. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.440 I love you so much. Number twenty one, go there 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.000 in your Bible. We're gonna go to the Old Testament today. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:28.640 It says this. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.120 Then they journeyed from Mount Horror by the way of 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:38.359 the Red Sea to go around the land of Eel, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.000 and the soul of the people became very discouraged on 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:48.640 the way, and the people spoke against God and against Moses. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.359 Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.559 die in the wilderness, for there's no food and no water. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.720 And are soul lows? This worthless bread? I just have 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.400 to believe. That's gluten free bread right there, first, gluten 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.600 free bread, and all of the Bible right there is 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.359 worthless bread. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:13.160 Amen. I want to say, I'm pro gluten. Amen. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.480 So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.880 they bit the people, and many of the people of 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.600 Israel died, And therefore the people came to Moses and said, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.599 we have we've done messed up. We send for we 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.480 have spoken against the Lord and against you. Prayed to 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.800 the Lord that he may take away the fiery serpents 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:36.160 from us. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.480 So Moses prayed for the people. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.919 And the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.800 set it on a pole, and it shall be that 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.279 everyone who is bitten when he looks at it shall live. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.200 So Moses made a bronze serpent, put it on a pole, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.360 and so it was. If a serpent had bitten anybody, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.080 when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.960 I want to preach a message today. Right down the title. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:10.520 It's called on my Way Back, On my Way Back, and. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.040 I just want to tell you today, I don't know 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.119 how far you drifted away from God. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.920 It's never too late to come back to Jesus. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.480 I don't know how far you feel like you are 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.600 a way from the will of God for your life. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.559 But anybody thankful that it's never too late with God. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.920 You're never too far gone from God if you believe 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.560 that we serve the God that welcomes. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.920 You home with open arms. On my way Back, I. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.400 Just like this idea because you know, I feel like 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.120 every Monday morning I start my diet again. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.280 Who am I preaching to you right now? 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.480 Every Sunday night, I'm like, you know, tomorrow morning, I'm 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.640 getting this body back in shape. Every Monday morning, I'm like, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.600 you know what, maybe tomorrow morning we are going to 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.720 start working out a few mondays ago of alls in 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.520 that Monday flow and we do Orange Theory Fitness. We 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.840 like to go to this place called Orange Theory Fitness. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.920 It's diabolical by nature, makes you sweat and work out. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.840 But I was like, babe, tomorrow morning, we're gonna go back. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.480 And so when I walked in, I signed up on 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:16.920 the app. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.480 When I walked into the gym, there was a guy 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.560 standing there and he had made me like a sign 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.760 Chad's four hundredth workout, And I was like, what a 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.720 welcome back sign. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.720 This is amazing. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.400 I had no idea that I was nearing my four 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:33.960 hundredth workout. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.280 So I walked in. I kind of laughed because I was. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.320 With my wife and I was thinking to my head, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.480 if this is my four hundredth workout, this have to 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.040 be her one thousandth workout. In fact, she had just 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.720 about to cross two days later her seventh hundredth workout. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.040 Come on clap from my wife Julia. She's putting in 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.840 the work. But I just liked that idea that I 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.400 had no idea. I was coming back into the gym. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.280 I my nikes on, I was ready to go, and 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.080 I walk in and here is this sign. It said 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.520 four hundred workout, But I really felt it was saying like, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:16.280 welcome back, lazy man of God. Welcome back slacker. See 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.400 what I want you to understand today about God. It 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.720 doesn't matter how far away you are from God. God 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.559 always loves to welcome his children home. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.160 See. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.000 God never turns away anybody that comes to him when 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.920 you come to him desperate, when you come to him 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.640 with humility, when you come to him hungry. God always 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.160 opens his arm for any prodigal that would come back home. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.839 Come on clap today if you're thankful for the grace 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.640 of God. God never turns away those that come to 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.480 him empty. He only turns away those that come to 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:55.840 him full of themselves. And today we come with desperation. Oh. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:56.360 I love this. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.600 Story in number twenty one because really it's a story 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.640 about a route back to God. Did you catch what 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.720 happened In numbers twenty one, verse number four, it says 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.200 that they were on the way to eat them, but 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.240 the Lord took them around the long way, and it 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.840 said on the way they became impatience. Have you ever 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.240 felt like God was taken longer than he should? 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.120 Have you ever felt like God's. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.800 Timetable is different than your timetable. I want to remind 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.839 you today that our God is never too early and 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.440 he's never too late. Our God is a what on 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.040 time God? Oh, come on, give him a praise today. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.880 If you believe that about God, I'm going to give 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.240 you four things to write down today. Write down number one. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.640 The first thing God deals with me as I come 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.440 back is he deals with my faith in God's timing. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.560 He deals with my trust in the timing of the Lord. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.080 See. I love this about God. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.600 God said, my ways are above your ways, My thoughts 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.760 are above your thoughts. A day is like a thousand 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.520 year years to the Lord, and a thousand years is 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.760 like a day. God knows the end from the beginning. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.880 He is the Alpha and the Omega. We believe that 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.000 God is sovereign and seated on the throne, and God 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.960 knows just what you need, and he knows just when 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.280 you need it. Anybody thankful today that God will supply 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.760 all of your needs according to his riches and according 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:22.600 to his glory. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.120 Oh I love Isaiah forty put on the screen. Have 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.480 you not known? Have you not heard? 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.960 The Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.160 of the earth. He neither faints nor is weary. His 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.760 understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. That's 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:47.880 cowboy fans. I'm prophilying to somebody right now. And to 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.240 those who have no might, he increases their strength. Even 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.880 youths like Graham shall faint and be weary, and the 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.960 young men shall utterly fall. But those that wait on 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:03.439 the Lord, they shall renew their strength. They shall mount 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.800 up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.040 grow weary. They shall walk and not what faint. That's 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.120 what God does. That's why I love that Elevation worship song. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.319 I'm gonna wait on you. Man. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.319 If I could sing like Pastor Stephen, I sing the 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.880 whole song right now, But I'm gonna wait on you. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.080 I'm gonna wait on you. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.480 See what happened is there on this journey and they're 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.680 on the way to eat him, and the Lord took 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.839 them around the long way. See what I love about 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.120 God is that God sometimes knows that you're not ready 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.880 for what you think you're ready for, and sometimes God 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.199 loves you enough to not shortcut your blessing. Sometimes God 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.560 will take you around the long way, and it's on 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.000 the long way that something's being developed in you, something 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.280 is being put inside of you that's lacking. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.640 Oh, I'm thankful that I didn't get what. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.640 I thought I deserved when I thought I deserved it. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.400 I'm grateful that God took me on the path and 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.000 the journey that I needed for my life. Anybody else, Oh, 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.920 look at what Lamentations, chapter three, verse twenty five says. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:05.640 It says. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.199 It says the Lord is good to those who wait 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.400 for him, to the soul who seeks him. The Lord 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.920 is good to those who wait for him. I'm just 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.720 telling you nothing reveals more about what you believe about 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:27.960 God than the way that you wait. I live in 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:34.160 La We are masters of waiting on the freeway. I 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.960 learn how to wait on the four or five, but 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.120 I've learned with God. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.760 I gotta wait on the Lord. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.600 I gotta wait on God's strength and I've learned not 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:45.320 to wait like this. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.880 I've learned to wait like this. God is faithful, God is. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:02.480 Generous, God is compassionate, God is God is sovereign, God 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.880 is loving. Oh, come on clap today if you believe 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:11.000 that God is worthy of your weight. One of my 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.360 wife's best friend, she is a widow, and she went 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.560 through a tragic situation years ago, and we after this situation, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.440 the Lord started to heal her heart and do a 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.160 great work in her life, and we started together to 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.720 believe God for a husband. We started to pray and 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.680 believe that God would send her somebody, and so together 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.600 as a church and our community, we started to pray 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.520 and believe that God would send her somebody. And a 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.160 couple of years ago, during our fast we do twenty 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.520 one days of prayer and fasting in the month of January. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.560 She was faster than praying, and on the last day 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.600 of the fast, a friend of hers connected her with 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:50.000 a guy. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.080 She got a five minute. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.040 Coffee, because you don't want to get stuck in a coffee. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:55.680 Because it could go bad. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.200 So she told this guy, I could stop by the 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.760 coffee shop, pick up the coffee you order, and then 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.240 I gotta go, ladies. I'm just telling you that's how 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.080 you do it. Right there for the first one, just 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.640 to breeze through. Are you okay, okay, then we'll be back. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.400 I'm just trying to give some knowledge to somebody today. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:18.840 And so she met this guy in the last day 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:19.080 of the. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:24.680 Fast, and sure enough, he ended up being a man 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:25.160 of God. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.880 He had good hygiene and a tiler. That's a candidate 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:30.600 right there, amen. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:38.000 And long story short, they end up getting married and 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.880 she's in her forties and that's so cool. But can 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.880 I tell you, not only does she get married, but 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.640 this last year she got pregnant. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.160 And I'm just telling you. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.680 It's one of the greatest miracles I've ever seen. You know, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.640 sometimes we think that miracles are these crazy healings, but 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.000 sometimes it's like to find somebody to get married to, to 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.640 get pregnant when you've been believing God. And one of 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.640 the things that stands out to me about this lady's 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.320 story is that she could have just taken matters into 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.760 her own hands and married somebody years ago, but she 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.720 waited on the timing of the Lord. She waited on 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.520 the perfect person. And I just want to encourage you 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.880 today God is worthy of your weight. He's got the 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.600 best in store for his children. And if you'll just 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.880 keep holding out for God's best, if you'll just keep 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.400 waiting along the journey, I promise you God's got something 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.680 better for you than you could ever ask, think or imagine. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.720 Anybody believe that God is good and greatly to be praised. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.400 Oh, I love what it says here. The Lord is 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.240 good to those who wait for him, to the soul 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.120 who seeks him. So they're waiting on God. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.120 They're like God, this has taken too long, This journey 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.280 has taken so much time. Why can't we get to 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.200 eat them faster? But Babe, open up the ways app. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.920 There's got to be a faster way to get there. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:00.360 Now. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.240 I got the Apple Map, the Google app, and the 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.280 ways app. I'm trying to get to eat them. I 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.400 gotta get to eat them. And it says that as 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.680 they're on the way and it's taking longer than they want, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.879 that the soul of the people get discouraged. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.040 Write down number two. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.760 Today, God deals with my discouragement. I don't know if 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.960 you've ever felt discouraged, but when you feel like man, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.520 it's not going as good as I wanted it to go. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.840 Life's not happening at the space, at the pace or 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.160 the rate that I wanted it to happen. Oh, I'm 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.560 just so thankful today that in times that I've felt down, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.679 times that I felt discouraged, the Bible says, Thou, Old Lord, 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.639 are the lifter of my head. Anybody thankful today that 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.879 God will turn your mourning into dancing? Come on, the 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.639 Bible says those that so in tears will read with 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.639 songs of joy. Come on, clap if you believe that 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.800 God will turn your mourning around into danccene. Oh I 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.320 love Psalm three, verse three. It says, but you, oh Lord, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.640 are a shield. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.360 For me my glory, and the one who lifts up 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.600 my head. Proverbs seventeen twenty two. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.760 Mary Hart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:17.040 dries up the bones. This is not feeling like I 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.440 had a bad day. They're dealing with discourage. Have you 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:25.960 ever felt discouraged? You ever feel like I'm not? I 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.040 wish I was a better parent. I wish I was 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.720 a better husband or a wife. I wish my business 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.199 was doing better than it is. You know, it's like 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.240 I don't know anybody today that's like, you know, my 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:44.960 biggest problem is I just feel way too encouraged and 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.000 I'm just I'm quite frankly, I'm sick of it. I 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.160 just wake up and I just think I'm killing it. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.200 I don't know anybody that struggles with being too encouraged, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.840 but I know tons of people today that are like, man, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.840 am I good enough? 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:04.399 Am I doing a? 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.800 How come you ever get on social media and it 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.480 looked like God's blessing everybody else? 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.560 But you Sometimes you just grow like this. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:21.359 Whoa They're in Italy again? 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.560 Whoa? 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.200 And See the problem with waiting on God is it 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.000 doesn't just deal with your impatience. You gotta be careful 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.360 because it will develop into discouragement. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.000 And I don't know who this is for today, but 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:40.880 you need to understand. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:48.320 Get your eyes off them, put your eyes on him. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.680 The Bible says, looking under Jesus, the Author and the 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.240 finisher of our faith. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.000 I can't listen. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.840 I pray everybody's blessed, and I hope everybody doing great, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.400 But I gotta be grateful for what God's doing in 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.280 my house. I gotta be excited about what God's doing 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.000 in my children. I gotta be thankful for what God's 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.960 doing in my city. Come on, anybody got that attitude 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.640 of gratitude today? Anybody thankful? Come on, clap and give 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.800 God praise. If you're great, come on, let's get encouraged 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:24.480 in the Lord. And you gotta be careful with discouragement 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.480 because if you're not, discouragement will result in rebellion. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.400 If you're not careful with discouragement. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.040 In fact, put this on the screen, they say this 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:39.680 worthless bread. Miracles seem meaningless when you're discouraged, and that 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.280 often leads into rebellion. You gotta be careful with the 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.679 discouraged soul because if you're not, it'll lead into rebellion. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.440 All of a sudden, this miracle of manna, this miracle 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.399 of bread, they're gone. This bread ain't that good, This 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.639 ain't that this is this is not that. This is 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.520 not that awesome, this is not that great. The things 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.960 that want cause you to shout for joy are now 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.800 just meaningless in the presence of God. I've got to 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.800 get my eyes back, I've got to get my heart back, 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.360 I've got to get my faith back to say, this 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.240 is the marriage you gave me, this is the house 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.120 you bless me with These are the children that are 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.280 a gift from God. Come on, clap if you're thankful today, 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.440 Come on, let's get the eye and the heart of gratitude. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.719 Come on, lift up a shut of praise today. 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:29.119 If you're grateful to God. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.880 The Bible says, bless the Lord, oh my soul and all. 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:37.920 That is within me. Bless his holy name. 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.479 The Bible says, enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.119 enter into his courts with praise. I will lift up 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.959 my hands in your sanctuary. Why because your love is 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.040 better than life. And when you stop having that attitude, 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:59.240 it's just bread, just these kids, this old house, you know, figs, 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:04.760 the plumbia go thing's electricity. You gotta be careful because complainers. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.480 I never met a man complaint like this. You know, 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:18.359 I have a complaint complainers. I like weasels, this meaningless bread. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.920 And it says they were waiting and God was taken 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.919 too long, and the path was much further and there 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.880 was it was not in the in the rate, the 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.399 pace or the plan that they had first what God had, 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:37.679 and their soul became very discouraged. And I know that 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.480 at church, you know, we we have a great time 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.879 lifting up our hands and praising the Lord. But I 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.399 just want to ask you, are you discouraged today? Because 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.960 God doesn't have a disdain for you. God has a 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.400 grace for you. God says, come to me with all 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:58.280 of your burdens. He says, be anxious for nothing, but 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:02.400 in everything through prayer and socation with thanksgiving. 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.560 Let your requests be made known to God and. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:09.240 The peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Wiguard your 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:13.320 heart and your mind in Christ, Jesus. God wants to 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:17.280 turn your mourning into dancing. If you're sow in tears, 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.320 you're gonna reap with songs of joy because I know 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.919 the God that can turn around the terrible situation that 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:27.119 you're going through and bring glory for ashes. Come on 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:36.760 clapping praising today and their souls became discouraged. I'll never forget. 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.520 In June of twenty twenty, I felt so discouraged in 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.880 June of twenty twenty this during COVID. I finally got 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:47.320 COVID for the first time in June, and at that time, 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.760 we're going through so much in the world, and it 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.000 just felt like at church and every everywhere else turned out. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:57.280 I felt so torn and felt so defeated, and I've 0:23:57.320 --> 0:23:59.800 never been through a season like this. And my covid 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:04.520 into shingles and I got shingles right here on my ear. 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:06.880 And so I go into the urgent care and I 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.240 was in so much pain, and I was in pain 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:11.359 in my in my body, I was in pain in 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.880 my soul. And I went in the lady. She said, sir, 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:19.640 you have shingles. It comes from stress. She said, are 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:30.000 you stressed about anything? Well, I'm a man of God, 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.440 So I said no, And she said, surely you must 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:36.760 be stressed about something. I'm a man of confession. I 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.560 said no, I'm not stressed about anything. She said, well, 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:46.639 your body says contrary, and I'll never forget. Feeling discouraged. 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:51.120 You got to be careful with discouragement because discouragement will 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:52.760 turn into rebellion. 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:55.600 You notice what they did. 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:59.520 They started to complain against God, and they started to 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:04.159 complain against their pastor. It's never encouraged people that complain 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:05.480 against God and their pastor. 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:06.800 It's discouraged people. 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:09.439 And I'm just telling you guard your heart when you 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.840 feel discouraged. That's why it's so important that you put 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:15.360 on the word of God in your house. That's why 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.040 it's so important that you listen to elevation worship. You 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.159 listen to elevation rhythm, and you get the spirit of 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.919 faith and the spirit of worship into your house, and 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.359 you say, no weapon that's formed against me is going 0:25:26.440 --> 0:25:29.399 to prosper, And every tongue that rises against me in 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:33.000 judgment I will condemn. I am more than a conqueror 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:36.280 in Christ Jesus, I'm the head and not the tale. 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:40.160 I am a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a marvelous life. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:41.879 Come on, clap and give God praise. 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:44.000 That you might not have what you want to have, 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.199 might not be where you want to be, But come on, 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:49.800 clap and thank God you not where you're used to be. 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:54.720 Come on, Has God been good and faithful and generous 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.800 to any Oh? Come on, let the redeemed of the Lord, 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:01.320 So give him. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:06.040 A shot of praise today. If you're grateful to God, you. 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:09.000 Gotta be careful with discouragement. 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:12.879 You gotta be careful with seasons of frustration. 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.840 Because what I noticed about God, God loves to take. 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:20.439 Us along the long way. He loves to take us 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:24.960 on the path of much resistance. He loves to develop 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:27.840 his character. Let me preach to somebody. God loves you 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.160 just the way you are. He just loves you way 0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:31.520 too much to leave you that way. 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:36.439 God's working something inside of you. God's developing something that's lacking. 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:39.200 God's straining you, fir Us, come on, clap and praise 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:39.840 him today. 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:43.360 God's doing something, and. 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:46.400 He who has begun a good work will be faithful 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:48.800 to complete it. You want to know what's crazy about 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:51.800 the story in numbers twenty one, they were fresh off 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:52.400 of victory. 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:54.320 They were fresh off of w. 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.360 They had just had a win by taking out one 0:26:57.359 --> 0:26:59.399 of the kings, and yet there was frustration. 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:00.880 Because you saw a. 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:03.360 Win last year doesn't mean you're gonna get an automatic 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:04.280 victory this year. 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:06.359 You gotta be patient with the Lord. 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:10.120 You gotta trust God's perfect timing. God is in control, 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:13.280 seated on the throne. And if God before you, who 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:19.439 can be against you, give him a praise. And so 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:23.200 and so the soul of the people became very discouraged. 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:26.600 And they're so discouraged that the result of the discouragement. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.000 I don't know what you do when you're discouraged. I 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:35.960 usually go to McDonald's for mcflurry's and so, but what 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:39.359 they did. What they did was they complained against God, 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:44.520 and they complained against Moses because a lot of times, 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.159 what usually all that energy will result in taking it 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:53.280 out on your leaders, my good shepherd and the shepherd that. 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:54.240 God's placed over me. 0:27:55.119 --> 0:27:57.680 And I'm just I'm just asking you, when you're discouraged, 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:01.880 run to the house of God. When you're discouraged, get 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:04.600 around somebody that will refresh you and lay hands on 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.879 you and pray for you. As iron sharpens iron, so 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:09.359 one man sharpens another. 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:11.800 Come on, I got to get around the people of God. 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:13.800 I got to get around some worshipers. 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.800 Anybody grateful for your godly friends today, come on, clap 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:18.199 and thank God for the ones that I. 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:18.920 Pray for you. 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.840 I was talking to this man of God recently and 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.880 we laid hands and prayed for him, and he said, 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:30.680 you don't know how long I've longed. 0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:32.960 For somebody to pray for me. Get you some friends 0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:33.280 that you know. 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:35.879 I don't like when people apologize, like, hey, you know, 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:39.040 I just I hate to be spiritual, but can I 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:39.680 pray for you? 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:42.920 It's like, yes, you could pray for me. We're going 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:43.720 through hell on earth. 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:46.880 We need somebody to lay hands and PROPHESI and tell 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:48.360 me that God has for mea with me. 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:52.720 And the soul of the people became. 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:57.080 Very discouraged, and they started to speak against God and Moses. 0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:00.520 And as they're speaking against God and Moses, the Lord 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:04.680 sent some snakes. I don't know how you feel about snakes, 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:08.200 but they're my biggest fear. Some are afraid of spiders, 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:10.840 some are afraid of the dark, some are afraid of 0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:14.080 close talkers, some are afraid of bad breath. I'm afraid 0:29:14.080 --> 0:29:16.280 of snakes. I don't care if they're on the ground 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:20.160 or in the plane. I'm afraid of snakes. And the 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.480 Lord sends snakes to bite them, and all of a 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:26.480 sudden they're dealing with a snake bite. And as they're 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:29.280 dealing with a snake bite, they realize, oh no, we. 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:30.280 Done messed up. 0:29:30.720 --> 0:29:33.880 And so they come back to Moses and they say, Moses, 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:39.600 we have sinned against you and against God. Please forgive 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:42.920 us right down number three today. Sometimes God will deal 0:29:43.200 --> 0:29:47.000 with your confession. I've got to confess my sins. I've 0:29:47.000 --> 0:29:49.520 got to listen. If you can name it, God can 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:52.160 heal it. But until you can come clean about that 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:54.200 thing that you're dealing with and till you can be 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.000 open about that struggle that you've been going through. 0:29:57.120 --> 0:30:00.000 How could God touch what you're not willing to reveal? 0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:03.040 The Bible says the man that conceals his sin, we 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:04.080 will not prosper. 0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:07.000 Oh, I love what the Bible says in Psalm fifty. 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:10.680 One, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:14.800 always before me against you, and you alone? Have I 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:18.040 sin and done this evil in your sight? What about 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:21.160 first John one to nine, If we confess our sins, 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:24.280 he is faithful and just to forgive us. 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:26.360 Of our sins and to cleanse. 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:30.200 Us from all Was that word right there unrighteousness? 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:32.400 If I want to put an emphasis. 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.520 Right there on the word if if we confess our sins, 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.200 God is faithful and just to forgive us of our 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:42.800 sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I like 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:45.520 this thing. Confession. We've got to confess. You know where 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:52.040 confession comes from. Conviction leads to confession when you feel 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:55.760 the conviction of God. These guys looked at these snake bities. 0:30:55.760 --> 0:31:03.000 They said, oh no, we didn't. It's one thing to 0:31:03.040 --> 0:31:06.680 have a mosquito bite. God's messing with you when you 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:10.520 get a snake bite, and they say, we need to 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:16.280 confess our sin. We need to be honest about our transgressions. 0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:24.240 You are only as sick as your secrets. Your authority 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:28.960 is in your authenticity. And when you get real with God, 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:30.520 God already saw it. 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:32.640 God already knows about it. 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:35.960 God never looks away when you and I make mistakes. 0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:39.200 His face is set a flint. And when you feel 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:43.320 the conviction of the Holy Spirit, anybody thankful today for 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:50.080 the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Conviction shows me you're alive. 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:54.200 Conviction shows me God's still working with you. Remember, you 0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:57.120 gotta be careful with conviction, because if you do something once, 0:31:57.200 --> 0:32:00.200 you're gonna feel bad. But if you don't talk about it, 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:02.200 do it again, you're gonna feel kind of bad. You 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:04.160 do it a third time, you ain't gonna feel nothing. 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:07.960 What keeps your conviction is your confession. When I come 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:11.440 before the Lord and I say, Lord, i've sin and 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:13.920 fallen short of the glory of God. Thank you for 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:16.800 the Blood of Jesus, Thank you for the Cross of Christ. 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.440 Thank you for a new beginning and a second chance. 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:21.440 Think you that you always make a way for me 0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:23.440 to come back to your house. Come on clap and 0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:25.640 give God praise if you believe that he's the God 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:26.960 of second. 0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:29.800 Third, fourth, fifth, Come on clap. 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:31.800 If you believe he's the God of second. 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:32.760 Chances today. 0:32:34.240 --> 0:32:37.280 And I want to encourage you to get good at confession, 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.280 get good at naming the thing that could have power 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:44.600 or stronghold over you. But the moment you confess the blood, 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:47.320 the moment you confess it to God, it loses all 0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:49.959 his sting and he loses all his power. 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:52.840 If you can name it, God can heal it. 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:56.760 I'll never forget. There's this pastor that I really love 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.240 and respect. He's going to be with the Lord now. 0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:00.440 But he's just a. 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:05.240 Real righteous, holy, powerful man of God. And he tells 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:08.160 this story that one time, early in the morning, he 0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:10.959 woke up and he called like his second in command, 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:12.520 kind of right hand pastor. 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:15.760 Early in the morning. I said, there's been an incident. 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:18.400 I need you to get over to my house immediately. 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:23.280 Something's happened, something bad. And so the associate pastor got 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:24.960 in the car and he drove as fast as he 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:27.160 could in the pastor's house and he's thinking in his head, 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:28.120 what happened. 0:33:27.760 --> 0:33:30.600 What did he do? What went on? Is it the kids? 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:32.600 Is the what happened? 0:33:32.960 --> 0:33:34.920 And he gets to the pastor's house early in the 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:37.920 morning and the pastor opens the front door and he's 0:33:37.920 --> 0:33:41.240 in his robe and he says, please come in, and 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:43.800 he's got community out. He said, you need to serve 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:46.320 communion to me and you need to pray for me. 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:50.000 I've sinned. And the associate pastors thinking, oh no, we 0:33:50.120 --> 0:33:53.240 lost the church. Oh no, what did you do? Oh 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:55.040 my gosh, this is terrible. Oh no. 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:57.680 He's like, yes, Pastor, of course, and he said, and 0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:00.160 the Pastor's really serious and he goes, last night, that 0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:00.840 made a mistake. 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:09.240 Can I send I ate Orioles? And the associate pastors 0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:10.840 like Jus. 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:13.560 He's like, but I made a vow to the Lord 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.640 years ago that I would never have another OREO. 0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:20.120 I was thinking, that's a vow I ain't never making. 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:21.120 In Jesus name. 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:24.480 That's got between you and the Holy ghost. I ain't 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:28.040 touching that one. You can man you on another level, 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:28.800 man of God. 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:35.439 But can you hear the fear of the Lord? Can 0:34:35.520 --> 0:34:40.000 you hear the closeness to Jesus? Serve me communion? 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:42.839 And I did it last night, So I'm confessing the 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:45.640 next morning, I have sinned against the Lord. 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:46.480 I made a vow. 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:49.319 I've got a fulfill a vow. I want you to 0:34:49.360 --> 0:34:52.359 be quick with your confession. Don't hold off for six 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:55.360 months or nine months. The Bible says, repent therefore and 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:58.719 be converted, that your sins may be washed away, and 0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:02.800 times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord. 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.120 When you confess the cross and confess the blood of Jesus. 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:09.480 There's nothing you've done, there's nothing you've touched. There's no 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.440 place that you've gone that My God can't heal. My 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:16.640 God can't forgive, My God can't deliver anybody thankful today 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:23.120 for the grace of Jesus. So he deals with my 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:28.120 faith in God's timing. He deals with my discouragement. He 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:31.280 deals with my confession, and then I love. 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:33.239 This last one. He deals right down the last one. 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:34.959 He deals with my obedience. 0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:41.920 So the Lord says to Moses, Moses, get a fiery snake, and. 0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:44.520 I want you to put it on a pole, and I. 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:48.040 Want you to lift it up high in anybody that 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:51.440 looks at this fiery serpent, if. 0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:53.640 They look, they will be healed. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.120 All throughout the scriptures, God asks people to do stuff 0:35:57.320 --> 0:36:00.799 that are not conventional, but it will unlock their mid Oh, 0:36:00.840 --> 0:36:03.040 come on, do you remember when Joshua had to walk 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:06.239 around Jericho seven times? Do you remember when that man 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:08.920 had to dip into the water seven times? Do you 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:11.200 remember when the man with the withered hand had to 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:13.640 stretch out his hand? Do you remember when the widow 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:15.719 had to make the room for the prophet? Do you 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:18.160 remember when Abraham had to leave his land? 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:19.840 Do you remember when? Come on? 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:23.640 Everybody through the Bible had to do something to unlock. 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:26.640 The miracle of God. It all happened through obedience. 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.680 And the Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verse eight, 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:37.360 in Jesus being found in appearance as a man, he 0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:41.800 humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:43.520 even death. 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:44.520 Of the cross. 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:50.600 Jesus himself had to humble himself and become obedient, even 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:53.600 to the point of death and death on the cross. 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:54.280 See. 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:56.520 One of the things I love about God is that 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.279 this is a foreshadow. This is a type cast of 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:02.560 what's to come. See here in the Old Testament they 0:37:02.640 --> 0:37:05.440 lifted up a snake, and the Bible says that if 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:08.280 you looked, you would live. But In the New Testament, 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:10.760 we lift up the son of Man. His name is Jesus, 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:12.560 And if you believe, you shall live. 0:37:12.920 --> 0:37:13.680 In the Old. 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:17.520 Testament, their cure represented their curse. But in the New Testament, 0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:20.279 Jesus became the curse for us, and he is. 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:22.280 Now lifted above all names. 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:26.759 Anybody thankful today for the grace that's found in Jesus Christ, Oh, 0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:30.120 come on, clap and give him a praise today. 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:32.840 John chapter three, verse thirteen. 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:37.279 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:40.919 even so must the son of Man be lifted up, 0:37:41.320 --> 0:37:45.919 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:52.279 eternal life. In the Old Testament, it's look and live. 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:55.279 In the New Testament, it's believe in live. 0:37:56.840 --> 0:38:00.560 But in both cases I'm gonna obey. I've got to 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:01.400 do what God. 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:06.359 Said to unlock the miracle of salvation, to unlock the 0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:09.960 miracle of God's best. And I'll just tell you the 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:14.640 Bible says God takes not delight in sacrifice. 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:20.799 As much as God loves obedience, God is attracted to 0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:24.879 your obedience. And sometimes God doesn't give you something new 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:27.359 to do until you go back and do the last 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:31.280 thing He told you to do, And I wonder how's 0:38:31.719 --> 0:38:40.319 your obedience, Because obedience preceedes blessing. Obedience unlocks miracles when 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:41.719 you obey the voice of. 0:38:41.719 --> 0:38:44.239 God, when you do what God tells you to do. 0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.480 I'm telling you nothing will unlock the Kingdom of God 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.160 in your life like obeying the voice of the Lord. 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:53.240 Jesus said my voice. My sheep will. 0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:54.960 Recognize a stranger's voice. 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.759 They will not follow anybody. Believe today that God's got 0:38:57.800 --> 0:39:00.319 a plan for your life. God's got something for you 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.879 to do. There's a will of God for your There's 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:04.239 a will of God for all of us. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:07.840 There's a will of God for you. And you gotta obey. 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:12.040 You gotta trust and obey, for there's no other way. 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:15.360 I gotta obey God. I gotta say, God, if you 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:19.680 want to take me along the long road, if you 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:22.040 want it to take as long as the four or 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:26.600 five takes to get to eat them, your will above 0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:27.080 my will. 0:39:30.080 --> 0:39:31.720 Not my will be done, but your will. 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:35.960 If you want to take me along the way, help 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:38.960 me to decrease so that you can increase. 0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:41.959 And Lord, help me to obey at every turn. 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:45.760 Help me to obey in every season unless I grow discouraged, 0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:52.200 and I start to complain these kids, this spouse. 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:54.000 Some of you today. 0:39:54.040 --> 0:39:57.200 You don't need a new spouse, You need a new perspective. 0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:02.000 You need to see this person as the miracle that God. 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:03.239 Come on, clap if you believe it. 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:05.600 Married people, I gotta see you the way God has 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:06.480 called me to see you. 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:08.919 I gotta talk to you the way God has called 0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:12.760 me to talk to you. I gotta get all that discouragement. 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:17.480 I gotta get all that frustration, and I gotta turn 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:20.760 it into praise. And there are some things I gotta confess. 0:40:21.640 --> 0:40:24.439 I gotta confess that I am a sinner in need 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.520 of grace. But I confess that you love me and 0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:31.080 that you're for me, and that you're with me. And 0:40:31.080 --> 0:40:34.640 I'll obey you no matter what the cost. I'll obey you, 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:38.440 no matter what you tell me to do. You just 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:42.240 think about the youth ministry of the Israelites at the time. 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:47.840 No, mom and dad likes Son. I noticed snake, big you, 0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:51.439 But I need you to trust me. Here we're gonna 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:51.920 lift it up. 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:55.400 I want you to stare at it, son, kids like 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:56.719 I'm not looking at the. 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:57.520 Thing that just hurt me. 0:40:58.440 --> 0:41:01.399 No, no, no, sun yet you have to owe, because if 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:06.440 you obey, you're gonna live. If you obey, you're gonna flourish. 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:08.799 And I just want to just tell you about God. 0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:12.919 God's into your life. God's gonna ask some things of you. 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:16.760 The Bible says, the steps of the righteous are ordered 0:41:16.760 --> 0:41:19.560 by the Lord. God's gotta plan for your life. No 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:22.000 eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:24.480 mind can imagine the things that God has in stored 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:26.840 for those who love Him and are called according to 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:27.360 His purpose. 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:30.600 God's got a plan for your life, and We're gonna 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:31.120 have to obey. 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:35.600 Anybody want God's best for your family, anybody want God's 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:37.600 best for your life, Come on, clap. 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:39.160 And give and pray. You're gonna have to obey. 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:47.239 It's talking to a friend the other day. Let's being 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:52.000 the great church. Things are going off. It's going like crazy, 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:56.400 tons of people. The people are coming, the money is not. 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:01.359 And he felt like the Lord told him, I want 0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:01.759 you to. 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.319 Fast and pray for the finances of the church. 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:07.239 I felt like the Lord told him, fast and pray 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:09.279 for the finances of this church. 0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:10.600 He said, if the Lord told me to do it, 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:14.440 I gotta do it. So he went on a fast, and. 0:42:14.400 --> 0:42:18.600 He started to pray, And when he finished the fast 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:22.000 on the last day, his phone rang and there was 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:24.680 a man that he hadn't spoke to in nine years. 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:28.720 And the man on the other line said, it's crazy. 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:33.480 I know we haven't spoken in nine years. But this 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:36.800 morning the Lord woke me up and showed me your face. 0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.080 And the Lord spoke to my heart and told me 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:44.200 to wire you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to 0:42:44.320 --> 0:42:44.839 your church. 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:48.880 Oh, come on, clap if you believe it today. 0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:53.400 Clap if you believe that obedience will unlock something. 0:42:55.120 --> 0:42:55.400 Clap. 0:42:55.400 --> 0:42:57.399 If you believe that God's ways are better than. 0:42:57.320 --> 0:42:59.560 Your ways, come on, clap. 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:01.760 If you belie if he knows the end from the beginning, 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:05.960 wonder you give God praise if He's taken you along 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:07.400 the long way. 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:11.480 I'm gonna wait on you. I'm gonna worship you. 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:14.839 In the midnight hour, even when I don't feel like it, 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:16.800 even when it doesn't make sense. 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:18.800 I will not be discouraged. 0:43:19.080 --> 0:43:22.919 I will lift up my hands and your sectuary because. 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:24.480 Your love is better than life. 0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:27.600 I confess the blood, I confess them. 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:29.360 Oh, come on, life, if you believe it, and I 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:31.760 will pay the Lord. I will oh pay God. 0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:36.120 Jesus humbled himself to the point of death on the cross. 0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:39.920 That's why God exalted him and gave him the name 0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:42.799 that is above every name. Oh, come on, if you 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:46.200 believe it today, let's worship our King. Let's give our 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:54.520 God praise. Come on this, worship God together today. Hallelujah. 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:56.520 Give me wanna. 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:12.359 I'm gonna lift it up today. 0:44:13.520 --> 0:45:04.200 I'm speak, I'm listening. I'm come on, lit it up. 0:45:04.640 --> 0:45:05.440 Allelujah. 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:13.600 Say you have. 0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:55.040 Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, one more day. 0:45:57.080 --> 0:46:01.759 Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Want to just put your hands 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:02.400 out in front of you. 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:06.640 Thank God for the way that he's developing you. Thank 0:46:06.680 --> 0:46:08.719 God today for the path that he's got you on. 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:10.799 Thank God for the long road. 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:14.120 Just thank God right now for his sovereignty. Thank God 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:17.200 for his shepherding. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:19.759 not want. Just give him a praise today in your 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:22.719 heart for the goodness of God. Even if you take 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:26.080 me along the long path, even if it takes longer than. 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:29.520 I ever expected, I'll worship you. I'll wait on you. 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.040 For those that wait on the Lord will renew their 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.640 strength Today I'm not in a hurry because you're not 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:37.520 in a hurry. You're the author of my salvation. You 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.160 know the beginning from the end. You're the outfit the 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:40.400 old me. 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:40.719 God. 0:46:41.080 --> 0:46:44.000 I've placed my trust in you today. Forgive me for 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:47.960 my discouragement. Forgive me for setting false expectations. 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:48.920 Release me. 0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:52.560 I release gratitude in this house today. If you're thankful 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:55.440 the God just slipped up a hand. We release our gratitude. 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:57.600 We thank the Lord. Bless the Lord. 0:46:58.080 --> 0:46:59.520 Bless the Lord and all. 0:46:59.400 --> 0:47:02.040 That is with in me. At all times, I will 0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:05.320 praise you. Come on, I will thank you without seizing. 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:09.080 Make me a worshiper, Make me a true worshiper that 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:10.080 will worship you in. 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:13.720 Spirit and in truth. I thank you God. 0:47:14.080 --> 0:47:17.000 I praise you Lord that you put on a garment 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:20.040 of praise for the spirit of despair, that you're trading 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:22.880 me beauty for ashes. I thank you for the oil 0:47:22.960 --> 0:47:26.080 and joy that's landing on my house. I'm thank you 0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:29.880 that new songs of joy, new psalms of praise and 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:32.200 deliverance are coming to my house. 0:47:32.520 --> 0:47:33.719 I confess my sin. 0:47:34.160 --> 0:47:37.360 I will not hide. Where can I go from your presence? 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:39.240 Where can I hide from. 0:47:39.040 --> 0:47:41.799 You, even if I try to make my pad in 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:43.680 the depths of shee Old, You're there. 0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:45.440 I think you that your eye. 0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:48.600 Is upon your sprow, and I've found my obedience. 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:52.040 I'm coming back to the heart of worship. I'm coming 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:53.840 back to living for Jesus. 0:47:54.239 --> 0:47:57.120 I'm grunning back like the prodigal son. Come on, if 0:47:57.160 --> 0:47:59.680 you believe it, today lives your voice, lives. 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:05.040 Your head asked, hallelujah, hallelujah. 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:15.520 You mean everything to me. 0:48:27.920 --> 0:49:27.200 I really want a patient a day. Hallelujah. 0:49:28.200 --> 0:49:33.479 Sing that again, one more day. Coming back, I'm coming back. 0:49:33.960 --> 0:49:34.839 I'm coming back. 0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:42.400 Oh, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, 0:49:43.640 --> 0:49:51.240 Thank you Jesus. God has not quit on you. God's 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:53.319 not mad at you. He's madly in love with you. 0:49:55.000 --> 0:50:01.480 God has no plan B for your life. Today, We're 0:50:01.520 --> 0:50:03.000 coming back to the heart of worship. 0:50:05.719 --> 0:50:08.680 This message came to me about a week ago. I 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:18.520 was driving in my car getting on the four or five, and. 0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:20.560 I didn't have time to do my read through that morning, 0:50:22.640 --> 0:50:23.719 so I pressed play. 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:27.080 And it started to read through. 0:50:27.000 --> 0:50:34.759 Numbers twenty one, and I heard the word discouraged, and 0:50:34.880 --> 0:50:39.880 I press pause, and I said, what it is you say, discouraged. 0:50:41.120 --> 0:50:45.600 And I thought of you, and I thought about today, 0:50:46.000 --> 0:50:48.040 and I thought there'd be somebody here today that just 0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:50.719 needs to hear the word of the Lord. Say to 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:55.000 you that I'm the God that refreshes souls. I'm the 0:50:55.040 --> 0:50:57.400 God that will make you lie down in green pastures. 0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:01.240 I'm the God that will lead you side still waters. 0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:08.000 You know what the gospel is. I was wrong. I'm forgiven. 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:14.600 I'm restored. I was wrong. 0:51:16.040 --> 0:51:20.160 I'm forgiven, but thank God, I'm restored today. 0:51:21.560 --> 0:51:22.680 You know what this story was. 0:51:22.920 --> 0:51:28.399 I was wrong, but I'm forgiven and I'm walking out 0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:29.839 of today restored. 0:51:30.680 --> 0:51:33.160 Get your confidence back, elevation. 0:51:34.400 --> 0:51:39.279 I can do all things through Who Christ. Through who 0:51:40.120 --> 0:51:43.080 Christ that strengthens me. So, Lord, we thank you that 0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:46.400 we're built up in our holy faith. We thank you 0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:49.720 that you never looked away, because you're God of mercy 0:51:49.760 --> 0:51:54.239 and compassion, and you sent solutions for the Israelites, and 0:51:54.280 --> 0:51:56.439 you sent solution for us. 0:51:56.600 --> 0:52:02.640 The son of Man, Jesus, the Living God. And we 0:52:02.760 --> 0:52:03.839 believe on a day like. 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:10.960 Today, through his obedience, we can walk in victory. We 0:52:11.040 --> 0:52:14.839 pray today that as we celebrate your goodness, we will 0:52:15.080 --> 0:52:20.080 understand the grace that's found in Christ. We will believe 0:52:20.200 --> 0:52:24.879 and live because of Jesus. And Jesus we celebrate your obedience. 0:52:25.520 --> 0:52:28.640 Thank you that you obeyed the Father, even to the 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.759 point of death on the cross. Thank you that you 0:52:31.840 --> 0:52:36.560 obeyed the Father and you chose us rather than yourself. 0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:39.520 In the same way you obeyed the Father. 0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:42.279 We want to obey the Father. We want to walk 0:52:42.320 --> 0:52:44.839 with you and serve you. We love you more than 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:47.680 anything else. In Jesus' name, and everybody said together. 0:52:48.040 --> 0:52:49.799 Come on, let's clap and thank God one more time. 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:55.120 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:52:55.680 --> 0:52:58.279 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:52:58.320 --> 0:53:00.920 get you all of these new message as soon as 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:03.719 they're available. 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