The Power Of Precision

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.800 --> 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 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.600 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.040 The scripture I want to use for this series as 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.000 a window into the principles that I believe God wants 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.320 to teach us is in Second King's thirteen. I don't 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.639 know if you've ever heard this Bible story. It's a 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.559 little bit obscure, but sometimes it's in the stuff that 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.760 you skip over in the Bible that God can speak 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.120 to you in a fresh way because you don't think 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.920 that you know it already. And this would be a 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.360 little story that I bet a lot of us have. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.360 Never really studied. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.239 And it's going to give us, as I said, a 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.240 window into the way God works in our lives over 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:52.519 the next few weeks. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:53.640 And I'm excited about it. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.160 I preached this passage in the year twenty thirteen around 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:57.640 the world. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.400 I never preached it in our church. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.000 I'm glad I didn't, because when I was preaching it 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.280 in other places, I was skimming the surface. But as 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.319 I've been studying it, I've been seeing some things that 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.760 are very significant and relevant to our lives and the 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.920 season that we're in and the opportunities that God is 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.039 calling us to seize. So I want to share the 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.679 scripture with you. In tewod King's thirteen, verse fourteen, rock Hill, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.679 y'all doing okay today, Matthews, I saw our university city location, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:35.560 Lake Norman, Melbourne, Florida, Roanoke, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Toronto, Canada, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:49.520 Uptown Charlotte, Gaston County, Concord, Blakeney, and Ballentine. We had 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.480 a full house at Valentine. And when I say full house, 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.000 I don't just mean no empty seats. I mean this 0:01:55.160 --> 0:02:03.800 place is full of expectation. Y'all weren't too convincing. I said, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.400 this place is full of expectation. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.600 There it is there, it is there, It is amen. Now. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.799 Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.880 Jeho Ash, King of Israel, went down to see him. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.200 He went down to see him because he wouldn't be 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:25.120 around much longer. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.440 The window was closing. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.720 Elisha was the seer for the nation of Israel, and 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.040 it was his sight, his insight, his divine insight, that gave. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:36.720 Them their victories. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.959 And he's dying, and the king, who has just newly 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.920 been crowned, wants to see the prophet, to see the 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.920 seer one more time before the window of opportunity closes. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.240 How many knowe all opportunities are not created equal, and 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.520 every opportunity has an expiration day. And he wants to 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.600 hear the word of the Lord from Elisha one time 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.400 before the window closes. And so we went down to 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.560 see him, which was uncommon for kings to do, but 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.640 he was in a desperate situation. And sometimes it takes 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.919 a desperate situation to drive you. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.240 To God for guidance. And we haven't heard. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.800 From Elijah the Prophet in a couple of decades. But 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.040 the window is closing, and he's weeping over the loss 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:21.040 of this. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.400 Great prophetic figure, and. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.560 He cries out, my father, my father, the chariots and 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.800 horsemen of Israel. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.840 What are we going to do without you? He seems to. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.720 Be saying, it wasn't our troops that won the battles, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.160 It was the word of God threw you that brought 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:36.920 us the victory. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.320 And we don't know what we'll do without you. But 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.680 Elijah said, get a bow and some arrows. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:50.080 God is about to teach you how to fight, how 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.760 to fight battles on a spiritual level. You've been fighting 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.119 on a physical level. That's why you've been losing. That's 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.680 why you've been tired. But the prophet said, get a 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.120 bow and some arrows. And he did so. And then 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.000 he told him take that bow in your hands. And 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.840 he said to the King of Israel, to take a 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.800 bow and some arrows. And when he had taken it, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.720 Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. He gave 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.440 him guidance, divine guidance from the man of God. And 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.760 verse seventeen is our key verse for the series. He said, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:28.599 open the east window. There's our word. Open the east window. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.560 Notice the prophet didn't open it for him. He told 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.640 him to open it. We've been asking God to give 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.560 us opportunities. God is waiting for us to seize the 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.360 opportunities that are right in front of our own eyes. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:49.680 I feel like preaching today. I feel like preaching. Open 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.320 the east window, he said, and he opened it. Shoot, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.680 Elisha said, and he shot the Lord's arrow of victory, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.680 the arrow of victory over Iram. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.120 Elisha declared, the arrow. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.320 Of victory over depression, the arrow of victory over addiction, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.480 the arrow of victory over rebellion, the arrow of victory 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.239 over doubt, the arrow of victory over bitterness, the arrow 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:23.680 of victory. I see a victory in this house. You 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:29.000 will completely destroy the Aramians at affect And I want 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.400 to use for installment one of this series. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:37.560 Work your window, the power of precision. On your way to. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.839 Your seat, Touch your neighbors. Say I'm aiming at something 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 this year. I'm aiming at something this year, the power 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:52.320 of precision. You may be seated. I'm gonna talk to 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.920 this guy. He's leaning forward, he looks interested. I feel 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:01.560 real sorry for King Jehoash because I understand and his predicament, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.320 because I was studying what would bring him to Elisha 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:05.760 in such a desperate state. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.200 And to really. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.080 Understand his plight, you have to understand the patterns that 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.960 he inherited all the kings that had gone before him. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.599 The examples that he had seen set in his lifetime 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.240 were negative examples of half hearted kings who tried to 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.000 fulfill their God given role their own way, and when 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.400 you're stuck in a pattern. When you're stuck in a 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:37.599 predictable pattern, the feet becomes automatic, and victory is a 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:43.320 strange sight. Now, so much oppression has besieged God's. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.200 People that not only is. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.800 Jeho Ash, the king that I mentioned in tewod King's thirteen, 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:55.760 trying to deal with this transitional responsibility shift. Now he's 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.320 wearing a crown that's a little big for his head. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.200 Have you ever had the step into a situation that you. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:02.760 Didn't feel quite prepared for? 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.920 If you are a father or a mother, you ought 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.360 to raise your hand. You were so cocky when you 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:17.160 were reading baby books. And not only is he transitioning 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.120 into a new role, but he's going to have to 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:26.200 do it without Elisha because the window is closing. And 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.200 before the window closes, he goes to the prophet and 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:36.760 he receives some final instructions. He wants to know what 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:44.200 to do next. He's weeping, probably because of Elisha's lost, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.560 but also because of the pressure he was under. And 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.360 it wasn't just pressure coming from one enemy. It was 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.840 pressure coming from the north and the south, and. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.600 The east and the west. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.160 And if you never felt that kind of pressure, you 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.520 won't relate to joho Ash's predicament. But he feels it 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.960 closing in from every side, and it seems like he's 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.400 being attacked over here and attacked over there, and he's 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.480 having a hard time at work, and then he goes home, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.080 and he is hard at home. And sometimes it'd be 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.760 easier to be at work than it would be to 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.520 be at home. And it's one thing when you've got 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.600 pressure coming from one direction, but when it's coming from 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.120 every side, it can get a little overwhelming to be 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.560 pressured from every side, to be pressured from every direction. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.120 No wonder he's weeping. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.080 No wonder he's made the trek as uncommon as it 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.160 would be for a king to condescend to a dying profit. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.960 No wonder he showed up to kneel down at his 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.840 bedside and cry, my father, my father, What do I do. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.480 I'm attacked on the right, I'm attacked on the left. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.760 I'm attacked in my finances, I'm attacked in my family. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.040 I'm under attack internally externally. Seems like I can't get 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:55.760 any relief. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:57.079 What do I do? 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.480 He needs some comfort, but Elisha does and give him 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:01.160 any comfort. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.040 He gives him an instruction. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.559 Because God is a god of action, touch somebody. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.559 And say work your window, work your window. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.360 He doesn't tell him everything's going to be all right, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.040 or sing him the fourth Stanza of amazing Grace when 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.679 we've been there ten thousand years. Instead, he gives him 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:25.160 a simple instruction. Get a bow, get an arrow. You 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.120 are not going to experience victory weeping over what is dying. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.400 You are not going to see victory in this season 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.840 if you are stuck in a memory of the last one. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.320 Who am I preaching to today? Get your bow, Get 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.760 your bow and your arrows, because everything you need for 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:54.880 victory in this season is within your reach. You have 0:09:54.920 --> 0:10:01.120 a window of opportunity now. Leonard Ravenhill said that the 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:07.360 opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:15.760 of the opportunity. Trouble doesn't last always, and neither does opportunity. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.960 Trying to teach this to my children, trying to teach 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.840 them that their brain has plasticity right now, and there 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.719 are things they can learn while they're young that will 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.560 be difficult if they wait until they're older. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.720 So that's why you got to go to piano lessons. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:32.600 I know you hate it. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.160 But you will thank your mom one day because your 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.800 fingers will memorize it better with your brain right now 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.800 than they will later. So seize this opportunity. Learn stuff 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.720 in school so you won't be stupid later on googling 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.280 stuff that you could have found out in fifth grade. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.040 You got a window. You got a window. That's why 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.920 I don't understand any of y'all that are texting while 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.360 I'm preaching. Can't you give God fifty solid minutes to 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.280 speak to you out of a whole twenty four seven, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:17.240 three sixty five, this is your window? And he comes 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.720 to the prophet. Now it's an old prophet and a 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.600 young king, and he says, show me what to do. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.600 And the prophet put his hands on his hands, and 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.680 he showed him three things that will kind of set. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.240 The course for I want this series to go. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.640 I pray to the Lord of Heaven and Earth that 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.760 you will give me more than one week to preach 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.280 this word to you, because as it unfolds, it's going 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.479 to become very practical. But before we get to the practicality, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.400 I want to show you the power in it. There's 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.480 three things. It's a very simple parable inaction. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.040 That we see here. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.320 It is highly symbolic, and see in Eastern literature you'll 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.920 see this often. We as Western minds, we like lists. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.880 But God is a god of action. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.840 So often when the prophets would prophesy, they would work 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.600 the word rather than just speaking the word. And so 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.360 it's not a surprise to me that Elijah says, get 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:21.880 a bow, get some arrows, stop crying, take action. Push 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.079 your neighbors say, take action. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:25.079 Take action. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.880 You are not blessed according to the word of God 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.120 that you hear, but according to the word of God 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.920 that you apply and act upon. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:33.640 Take action. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.880 God doesn't give a biology lesson about healing. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.600 He heals. He's not just a god of instruction. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.359 He is a god of implementation and execution is everything. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.720 So instead of instructing him about what to do, he shows. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.560 Him how to do it. That's what my mom used 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.000 to say. She would say, I can show you better 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.840 than I can tell you. And that's what God is saying. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.600 He's saying, get your bow, get your arrow, let's get 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.360 to work. I want to work on this word for 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.559 the next six weeks. And the first thing I want 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.520 to encourage you to do in accordance with this little perihope. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.840 That's a seminary word. You got to bust out that 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.560 education every once in a while. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.240 Just a fancy word that means story. This little story 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.640 is highly symbolic, but is highly instructive. And the first 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:28.880 thing God told me to tell you is view the victory. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.760 He told him to open the window. Open the window. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:41.600 You've been staring at your walls long enough. Open the window. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.600 You've been looking at your limitations long enough. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:47.480 Open the window. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.600 And after he had opened the window, he told him 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.720 to do something strange. He told him to shoot an 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.880 arrow in the direction of aarm. Aarm was a loose 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.840 federation of nations that would only assemble together to fight 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.880 a common enemy. You might know it better as Syria. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.319 You probably never heard of King jase L, but he 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:09.760 would be. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:10.600 Similar to Hitler. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.560 The way he had oppressed God's people, the way he 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.280 had decimated the fighting forces of Israel. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.400 He seemed unbeatable. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.920 And the man of God tells the newly minted king, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:29.240 open the window, the one that faces your enemy and 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.480 gets your bow and gets your arrow, and shoot your 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:40.800 arrow over Aram. This is important because the battle hasn't 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:41.840 even begun yet. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.800 But the prophet wants the king to see. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:53.080 The victory before the fight starts. This is why I 0:14:53.120 --> 0:15:00.920 love being a Christian, because I don't fight for victory. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.280 I fight from victory. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.440 I need you to see this year the arrow a 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:18.800 victory over Aram before you fight the battle. And I 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:24.760 certain I certainly as a. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.400 Pastor, want to encourage. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.720 You to review your victories as regularly as possible. I 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.960 told Grahama on Monday night, I said, you watch all 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.680 the highlights you can of this Clemson National championship because 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.200 they might not be Bama like this again, this might 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.000 be once in a lifetime. The opportunity of a lifetime 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.920 must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity. In fact, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.040 my son Graham has no frame of reference. Last year 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.280 the Clemson Tigers and the Carolina Panthers were in the 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.640 championship and I had to explain to him this is 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.800 not normal. This is like a lunar eclipse. Man, this 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.160 might not happen much. So enjoy it why you can. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.000 And you know, when God gives you a victory, you 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.800 gotta ce you gotta you gotta celebrate your wins where 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.680 you can get them. Even if God does small things 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.840 in your life don't just climb to the top of 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.360 the mountain and climb back down. Do a little dance 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.840 while you're there. I mean, if you're gonna climb, why 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.920 not celebrate. Graham has been watching all the highlights of 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.320 uh of, of Dabbo Sweeney's Clemson Tigers and Deshaun Watson's 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:35.360 championship game, and I'm glad that he's doing it. I 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:40.320 I want my son to learn how to review victories. Yeah, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.800 because there's gonna be enough hard stuff in life for 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.080 you to replay your regrets and not review your victories. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:49.840 Amen. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.760 I'm gonna tell you I have to do this. Occasionally, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.000 something good will happen to me, and if I'm not 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.760 quick to celebrate it, I'll forget it. We released a 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.600 song this week on iTunes, Quick Little plug. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:05.760 I wanna. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.760 Take a moment and tell you about There is a 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.480 Cloud released in March seventeen, twenty seventeen. You could download 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.680 it on iTunes or wherever music and sold. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.320 Sorry about that. We're my window, my plug in. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.040 And we released a single this week, There is a Cloud. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.240 We released a single and I logged onto iTunes and 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:33.959 I saw it was number one on the Christian charts. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.359 And I'll tell you what I did. I got my phone. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.320 I took my phone, and as quick as I could, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.040 I took a screenshot. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.000 Of that chart position. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.040 Because I might not be number one for long, but 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.760 I was number one for a minute. Come on, somebody, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.119 Every once in a while, you gotta take a screenshot 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.400 and say, I don't know what I have to fight next, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:04.440 but right now I'm happy. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.240 Got that screen shot. I don't know, Hillsong might knock 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.120 us off the top, but I got a screen shot. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.200 Touch your neighbors, say I got a screenshot. Yeah, you 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.200 gotta take a screenshot because your next battle might be tough. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.720 So you gotta get your victories really embedded in your 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.399 spirit to give you the strength and the courage to fight. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.720 But Elisha was not telling the king to look back 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:27.440 on a battle. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.680 He was telling him to look. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.680 Forward to a battle as if it had already been won. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:43.240 View your victory. You gotta see it before you can 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:49.960 seize it. You gotta see it before you can seize it. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:51.840 And to see it before you can seize it, you 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.199 got to see it before you see it. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.680 That sounded kind of confusing, didn't it? All right? 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.960 He Bruce eleven says that faith is the substance of 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:12.359 things hope for and the evidence of things not seen. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:15.959 So close your eyes real quick. Will you do this. 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:17.960 I promise nobody's gonna take your purse. This is a 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:23.080 safe place. We've got great security. Close your eyes. And 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.320 I know that this concept has been abused and people 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:25.760 use it. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:26.800 For all kinds of purposes. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:32.480 But I want you to visualize, visualize your victory this year. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:39.720 I want you to see yourself according to what God 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.320 has spoken over your life. I want you to see 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:51.080 yourself healed, see your hearthole, See yourself passionate, See yourself 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:56.200 fulfilling your purpose. See yourself powerful and mighty in God. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:03.040 See yourself pulling down strongholds. See yourself free from pornography, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.280 free from drugs, free from alcohol, See your self loving, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.760 See your self kind, see your marriage in a different light. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.800 See you gotta see it before you see it. You 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.960 gotta see it before you see it. And we should 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:27.000 understand as Christians how to see the unseen. We should 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.719 understand more than anybody the hope of an empty grave. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.960 Sometimes you gotta see resurrection while you're still hanging. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:36.520 On a cross. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.560 Sometimes you gotta see liberty while you're still in bondage. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.240 Sometimes you gotta see joy while you're still weeping over 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.880 the dying body of Elisha. My faith is the substance 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:56.320 of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.760 I see an aerrow flying over an arrow. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.200 I am more than a conqueror for a hand O 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.320 love me wats it takes seventeen seconds, and give God 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:12.800 a pre praise for every victory it's gonna break to pass. 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:23.040 In your life this year by a swear. This is 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:24.520 called a preview praise. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.159 This is when you see yourself in the future stronger 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.280 than you've ever been, why ser than you've ever. 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.800 Been, and you rejoice in it. Dance I guess already done. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.040 I gotta pray you I win. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:52.680 I see an arrow flying over aarrow. Everybody's got an 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.440 rob everybody's. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.080 Got something oppressing you. 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:02.960 State of mind, situation in life, emotional dysfunction. I could 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.960 spend three minutes with you and guess your erum. I've 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.120 been pastoring people a long time. I know I look 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:15.000 twenty three, but I got experience. I met crazy people, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:21.200 rich crazy people, skinny crazy people, poor crazy people, fat 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:27.040 crazy people, black crazy people, like crazy people Latino crazy people. 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:29.639 I know crazy when I see it, and I'm. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.760 Looking at twenty seven thousand crazies in the church today. 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.119 Everybody has an AERM. Why are you cheering about that? 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:37.520 It's awkward. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.879 Cheering because you're crazy. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:44.280 It's that thing. 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:50.880 Watch this view of the victory, but focus the fight. 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:57.760 He told him which window to open, which signified. 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.160 Which battle he needed to fight. A lot of us aren't. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.480 Winning anywhere because we're trying to win everywhere. 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:14.760 Y'all don't remember the scene. 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:19.800 But Rocky told Polly, he said, I three, I see 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:21.440 I see three of them out there. 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:22.480 He was fighting. 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:26.159 Drago in Russia on Christmas Day. You need to know 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:32.960 your history, and Polly told him, Ray, I think I 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.560 think it's a word for somebody. He said, hit the 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:40.760 one in the middle. I got it coming from the 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:42.840 north and the south and the east and the west, 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:47.439 and I don't I don't know where to fight first. 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:55.879 Any IT department will tell you that you can't do 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:57.840 any work if you've got too many windows open. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:11.320 I'm gonna help you this year. Open one window at 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:11.720 a time. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:19.000 View your victory, but clarify the conflict. God, here's a 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:24.440 prayer to pray, pray this prayer, God, show me where 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:29.960 to shoot. See because action without aim leads to exhaustion. 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:35.680 And a lot of people go into a new year 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:43.240 not with a sense of apathy, but with a sense 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:47.760 of activity that is aimless, and they are out of 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:59.360 arrows before February starts. Seventeen resolutions. Can't keep one too 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:06.040 many windows. Oh, I could preach on the power of priority. 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:10.160 It's not just that the prophet showed him the victory. 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:13.840 He showed him which one needed to be next. And 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:17.119 you know God wants to speak to you if you 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.840 will get with him. The king went down to the prophet, 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:25.119 and the prophet pointed, not only at the victory, the 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:28.920 arrow flying over aarm. Everybody in here has an arm, 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:31.200 and everyone has an arrow. 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:36.160 Are you more focused on your aram or your arrow? 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:40.440 A lot of us get so focused on the aram 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:43.800 that we're facing that we lose sight of the arrow 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:47.199 of victory. We become discouraged in the fight because we 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:54.000 have no focus. Watch the arrow, because if you look 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.280 at arim, you'll always be intimidated. If you look at 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:00.440 how big the enemy is, you will always loose strength, 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:02.400 heart and courage. 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:04.440 But if you'll watch the arrow. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.640 If you'll look for the activity of God, he will 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:11.520 show you where to shoot. He will show you what 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:16.320 to work on. And you can't win everywhere at once. 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:19.800 I've had to learn this the hard way because I 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:23.280 can be a very arrogant person. I can think I 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:26.000 can handle stuff I can't handle, and do more than 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.680 I can do until I collapse. 0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:31.919 And it was in a. 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:35.320 Ministerial meltdown that Pastor Craig taught me the most valuable 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:37.320 lesson he ever taught me, and he's taught me a lot. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.600 He said, you've spent. 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:42.560 Your whole life trying to figure out how to win. 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:47.480 Now you need to decide where to win. Where does 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:55.000 God want you to win? I'm asking you where Concord, Where? 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:57.520 Lake Norman? Where Blakeney? 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:03.800 Where does God want you to win? Because you can't 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:07.840 win every battle at once. Aaron wasn't the only enemy, 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:12.200 it was the next one. I can't win everywhere at once. 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:22.119 And I'm gonna tell you something else. I can't please everybody. 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:25.840 I've got to let some people down. 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:29.919 In order to aim my life in the direction of 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:35.480 my destiny. I can't please everybody. Can you imagine what 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:37.879 kind of pastor I would be if I tried to 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:39.720 please everybody. 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:42.200 Huh, how many times would. 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.119 I have to change clothes during one sermon if I 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:50.679 wanted to please everybody. Can't please everybody. I'm not aiming to. 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:58.560 If I please God and Holly, I'm good. Did you 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:05.280 notice a footnote? I'm aiming at something. I'm aiming at something. 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:10.520 I'm aiming at something. I'm not just shooting every direction 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:13.320 this year. I'm aiming at something That means I have 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:16.120 to be realistic, not only about where I want to win, 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:17.760 but where I might. 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:18.320 Have to lose. 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:24.600 I don't want to hurt your feelings. But you might 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:30.400 not get around to all of it this year. Okay, 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:35.920 you might lose some this year. You might not get 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:40.600 to eat organic and get out of debt this year. 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:46.360 You might have to save a little bit so you 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:53.400 can afford to shop at whole foods. So get the money, 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:55.200 then get the apples. 0:28:55.320 --> 0:29:01.960 You follow me. You might not get to take. 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:03.760 The promotion while your kids are young and be at 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:06.520 the house like you want to. You might need to 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:09.680 make a little less because the window of more money 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.600 will be there in ten years, but the window of 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:12.880 childhood is closing. 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:18.400 You might have to make some decisions to win. 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:29.960 To aim, you might not get to take Tina. 0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:33.560 To every dance competition. You might have to teach her 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:42.200 that we go to church on the weekend. I'm closing. No, 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:42.840 I mean. 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:50.320 He said, shoot out the east window. God show me 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:54.400 the right direction to aid my arrows this year. 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:56.880 I don't want to waste my time. I don't want 0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:59.480 to waste my money. I don't want to waste my thoughts. 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:01.080 I want to waste my pain. 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:05.560 I want to apply myself in. 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:07.880 The direction of my destiny. 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:11.040 And I believe God's going to show us some stuff 0:30:11.600 --> 0:30:14.320 in this series. He's going to show you how to 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:16.400 point your life in the direction of your purpose. 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:18.440 Oh that's going to be a good week when we 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:22.360 get to that. People, Please, this is just an introduction. 0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:24.960 I got some stuff to show you from the word 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:26.800 of God. I hope you're going to be here every 0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:27.840 week of this series. 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:29.600 Make it your. 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:34.480 Aim, make it your aim, you show up to other 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:40.840 stuff consistently. I don't feel angry when I'm saying this. 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:45.080 I just feel accurate. I just feel like this is 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:49.040 exactly what you need to hear. Take the bow, open 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:52.600 the window, shoot let's go through the passage one more time, 0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:59.000 he said verse fifteen, get a bow, take the bow, 0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:09.600 open the window, and when he shot the arrow out 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:16.440 the window, he promised him victory. The progression of the 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:23.120 text is a little unsettling at this point. What happens 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:26.520 next is what happens in a lot of our lives 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:31.440 when church is over and we have to apply what 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:36.080 we have heard. And my first point is view your victory, 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:38.440 and I want you to see it, and I want 0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:39.360 you to shout about it. 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:40.600 That's important. 0:31:42.120 --> 0:31:47.480 My second point was focus the fight, because you can't 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:49.440 win everywhere at once, and you've got to decide what 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:51.000 God has called you to do. You don't have to 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:53.280 raise your kids like they raise their kids. You raise 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:57.360 your kids the way God shows you to raise your kids. Amen, 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:03.520 And you got to focus the fight for your fight, 0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:07.560 for your battle, for your calling. It might not look 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:13.680 like everybody else's, But can I tell you something. Jehoesh's 0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:19.160 real fight was not against aaron, even though they were 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:21.760 his external enemy. 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:23.240 His biggest fight was not. 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:29.120 Out the east window, and your biggest fight is never 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:34.360 out there. After the prophet told him to open the 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:38.320 window and get a victory in view, shoot the arrow 0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:43.040 in the direction of his next battle, focus his attention, 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.000 focus his energy, focus his effort. 0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:49.040 The next thing he tells him to do is what 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:52.760 you must do if you're going to move past intention 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:55.080 into implementation. 0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:01.760 And go from seeing it to seizing it. Then he said, 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:06.680 next instruction verse eighteen. Take the arrows, the same ones 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:11.040 that were just flying. Now take them. And the king 0:33:11.120 --> 0:33:11.560 took them. 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:14.560 Elizha told him strike the. 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:22.880 Ground, and he struck it three times and stopped three 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:30.360 times and stopped. I heard the prophet say get, I 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:34.560 heard the prophet say take, I heard him say open, 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:40.240 I heard him say shoot, and I heard him say strike, 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:49.320 but I didn't hear him say stop. And I hear 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:55.520 God saying to someone someone who has taken the arrow 0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:58.640 in your hand, and you've kind of half heartedly done 0:33:58.680 --> 0:34:01.440 it and kind of met around with it and kind 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:05.400 of try it at it and stopped short. 0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:07.560 See this is what I used to preach. 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:09.920 I had this sermon, and when I would get to 0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:11.840 this point, I would take my microphone. 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:13.200 I preached this all over the world. 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:17.000 I didn't I ap preached it in Australia, in London, 0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:20.520 England and South America. And I'll get to this point 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:23.320 and I would demonstrate. I'd take the microphone, I start. 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:28.240 Pounding it on my Bible. I pound that microphone. 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:32.520 I was the most feared preacher for every sound technician. 0:34:34.280 --> 0:34:36.879 In the world. And I'm not going to do. 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:40.319 That illustration here because this microphone is expensive and I 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:41.000 pay for it. 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:44.879 But but he. 0:34:44.960 --> 0:34:50.840 Stopped short, and he stopped striking, and the prophet watched this. 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:54.799 The Man of God Verse nineteen was angry with him 0:34:54.800 --> 0:35:00.600 and said, you should have struck the ground five or 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:08.520 six times. In other words, I didn't say stop. You're 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:14.279 good at starting stuff, but the moment your hands get 0:35:14.360 --> 0:35:17.680 tired and the ground gets hard, you stop. 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:24.640 You should have. 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:30.920 What a terrible place to end your year. You should 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:35.960 have kept striking. Then you would have defeated Aerin and 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:39.800 completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only 0:35:40.120 --> 0:35:44.560 three times. Look at verse twenty Elisha died and was buried. 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:52.920 And the window closed, and you should have you should have. 0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:57.960 I don't know about you, but I don't want to 0:35:57.960 --> 0:36:02.560 look back on any more seasons of my life thinking 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:09.799 about what I should have and what could have. This year, 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:20.560 I will work my window this year, and let me 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:22.839 tell you. Let me tell you how I know I 0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:29.880 have determined the decision in advance. Quitting is not an option. 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:35.000 It's not an option. It's not an option for me 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:43.040 to stop short. It's not optional. I have determined the decision. 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.480 I don't wait until I get tired to decide if 0:36:47.480 --> 0:36:53.000 I'm going to do it. I decided it in advance. 0:36:53.120 --> 0:37:00.000 I predecided it. I pre decided, I pre I pre side. 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:06.320 I did pre decision, pre decision before I get into temptation. 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:12.759 I determine my response before I get discouraged. I determined 0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:18.600 to keep going. It's the power of precision. I have 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:22.719 aimed in the direction of completion, and I will. 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.920 Not stop until it comes to past. 0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:28.160 Somebody give us seventy seconds of praise. 0:37:30.120 --> 0:37:39.480 I'm aiming at it. Take aame, Take action, take ame. 0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:42.200 Come on, the arrow is flying. Take aame. 0:37:43.600 --> 0:37:49.680 Take action, take aame, take action. Tell your neghver take aim, 0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:54.680 take action, take aim, take action. 0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:59.440 My God is fighting for me. I cannot be defeated. 0:38:07.080 --> 0:38:07.920 Stand to your feet. 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:11.680 It is not what happened in the air that determined 0:38:11.680 --> 0:38:14.160 the outcome of the battle. It's what happened on the ground. 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:24.759 The arrow flew over aaron. The victory was his. But 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:25.840 because he stopped. 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:35.440 He lost over the next Uh, what do you think 0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:41.560 we should do? Four weeks, five weeks, six weeks. 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:46.280 We can't stuck on six shibo is seven weeks. 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:49.920 I'm gonna tell you what. 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:53.560 I'm approached this until your window is open. If I 0:38:53.560 --> 0:39:00.640 have to bust it open with a rock, how many 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:02.799 of y'all thought I might throw that microphone? 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:08.200 I said, we're going to get this thing open this year. 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:12.360 We're going to get your focus off of your wishes 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:17.719 and put the word to work in your life. Many 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:21.120 of us already know enough to do it. If we 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:24.040 would do what we knew. Tell your neighbor, if you 0:39:24.080 --> 0:39:27.480 would do what you knew, you could win the battle. 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:32.760 It wasn't what you don't know. He told him the window, 0:39:33.440 --> 0:39:37.520 and he told him what to do. But when the 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.640 prophet took his old hands. Some think that Elishah could 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:41.560 have been one hundred and ten. 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:42.439 Years old at this point. 0:39:43.719 --> 0:39:45.840 And when he took his hands, his old, tired hands, 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:48.759 his callous hands that had worked miracles. Remember, Elisha was 0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:51.080 an action man. He's the one who told the kings 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:52.839 to dig the ditches in the valley where they saw 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:53.279 no rain. 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:57.839 Because if you will do it. If you will do 0:39:57.920 --> 0:39:59.879 what you can do, God will do what you can't. 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:07.680 Listen to me, I never felt so strong and so 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.400 clear in my spirit about what to say. I never have. 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:13.560 God said, it's his arrow, but it's your effort. 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:22.160 It's his victory. But it starts with your vision. And 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:23.319 so we're gonna drive it down. 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:25.359 He said, you should strike five or six times. That's 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:27.560 what we're gonna do over the next several weeks. And 0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:29.520 every week you come, it's gonna be a principle. 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:33.840 I'm gonna call them my six power windows. None of 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:39.319 this come on. 0:40:39.400 --> 0:40:41.560 Somebody, roll it down, Roll it down, Roll it down, 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:42.959 roll it down. 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:44.960 Six power windows. 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:47.160 And I want you to come, and I want you 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.480 to tune in online. And I want some of you 0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:50.799 to make a trip and come be with. 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:52.359 Us, live, make a road trip out of it, make 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:56.840 a weekend out of it, because this is our open season. 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:03.960 Precision, Take aim, God, what is it you want me 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:04.960 to focus on this year? 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:08.680 We're gonna sort that out. Take action? What do you 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:10.960 want me to do? 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:14.239 Do it like it's already done. Do it like it's 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:18.759 already done. Mom, Is it true? I used to walk 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:21.920 around with my walkman all around the neighborhood listening to 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:24.560 cassette tapes of Pentecostal preachers. 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:27.640 I went to a Baptist church, so I had to 0:41:27.640 --> 0:41:29.680 pull out my cassette tapes to get some real preacher. 0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:32.480 I'm just kidding. That was a joke. I went to 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:33.360 a Baptist school. 0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:38.440 Leave me alone, and I would envision the day I 0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:43.840 could preach to people. They found a tweet from Deshaun Watson. 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:47.680 I'm sorry to keep talking about Clemson, but I had 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:52.840 to work my window. We're four years ago as a 0:41:52.920 --> 0:41:55.200 high school junior. Google this, I promise. 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:55.680 You is the truth. 0:41:56.400 --> 0:42:01.560 Google will verify what I'm saying to you. He tweeted 0:42:01.640 --> 0:42:05.480 as a junior in high school, me in a national 0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:12.680 championship game, waiting for that chance, and Graham is reviewing 0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:19.320 the victory because he previewed the victory. 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:21.960 And he didn't just wait for it, he worked on it. 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:25.240 We're going to get to work this year. Hans lifted 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:27.439 all over this place. The spirit of God is here. 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:29.120 Pray it out loud. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:36.120 Lord, show me where to shoot, show me where to focus. 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:38.239 Now let's make some declarations. 0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:44.600 I declare the victory of God over every weakness in 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:51.560 my life. I declare the arrow of victory over aerim 0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:56.440 over fear, over anxiety, over my past. 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:04.120 Come on, I declare, so come to pass. This is 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:08.080 my ear. Come on high by somebody. 0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:08.840 That'll take the shock. 0:43:09.680 --> 0:43:10.520 Take the shot. 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:14.040 You'll see, don't it if you'll take it, doll me, 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:21.720 You'll make it if you'll take it. 0:43:23.040 --> 0:43:25.480 What the enemies of Jesus didn't know as he was 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:29.080 hanging on the cross is that the cross was always 0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:34.279 pointing toward the empty tomb. Every crucifixion points to resurrection, 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.080 every defeat points toward victory. 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:39.200 Come on, lift your hands one more time. 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:42.160 Why don't you point your praise in the direction. 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:42.640 Of your promise. 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.719 Come on, point at it, point at call it out, 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:47.719 call it out, call your shot. 0:43:47.880 --> 0:43:51.359 This year, This year I will, This year I win. 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:53.400 I'm declaring in advance. 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:56.920 I am a victor, I am an overcomer. 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:10.719 I am ill. Thank you for joining us. 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:13.440 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:17.000 this ministry. 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