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The Step Of Faith And The Sound Of Praise (The Basin)
Steven FurtickAbout this sermon
You are an instrument in the hands of a God whose power is infinite. In this bonus teaching from The Basin, we learn that when we use the tools in our hands, God does what only He can do. Today, take a step of faith and let out a shout of praise. If you’ve just made a decision for Christ, please respond HERE: http://ele.vc/tIepfr To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: http://www.elevationchurch.org/giving/ Scripture References: Judges 7, verses 17-19 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.280 Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.520 is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.600 you to break it down a little more, to take 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.200 it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:15.880 Let me know. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:25.000 Let's go. Hey, if you saw the sermon Sunday, I 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:30.640 told you that I would try to teach a little 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.720 bit more and I would put it on YouTube. So 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.720 guess what I'm doing. I'm picking up my sermon from Sunday. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.800 The message was called Instruments of Victory. I'm in the basin. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:52.000 This is a place where God gives me overflow. That's 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.680 why I named it the Basin. Great things flow from 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.520 this place for me, and I'm hoping to do a 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.560 few of these as we get out on Elevation Nights 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.240 Spring twenty twenty three. The Lord was speaking to me 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.280
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0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.280 Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.520 is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.600 you to break it down a little more, to take 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.200 it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:15.880 Let me know. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:25.000 Let's go. Hey, if you saw the sermon Sunday, I 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:30.640 told you that I would try to teach a little 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.720 bit more and I would put it on YouTube. So 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.720 guess what I'm doing. I'm picking up my sermon from Sunday. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.800 The message was called Instruments of Victory. I'm in the basin. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:52.000 This is a place where God gives me overflow. That's 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.680 why I named it the Basin. Great things flow from 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.520 this place for me, and I'm hoping to do a 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.560 few of these as we get out on Elevation Nights 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.240 Spring twenty twenty three. The Lord was speaking to me 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.280 this morning. I was seeking him on what to do 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.840 over these next eight cities we're going to. Let's see Austin, Texas, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.679 Oklahoma City, Minneapolis. I don't have the list in front 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:27.080 of me other places to eight cities that we're planning 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.800 to be in. You can still get tickets to some 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.920 of them. Elevation Nights Dot com and I would love 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.280 to be with you in person if that's a possibility, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.120 even if you have to fly in I think I 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.600 think it will be worth it because there's something special 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.959 God is doing. I feel it in my spirit. I 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.160 know our team does too. I'm talking to several of 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.080 them over the last week and we just sense it. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.640 We sense that we're in a season of integration. And 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.240 don't worry, I'm not going to sing, although you love 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.400 my singing. Right one of these days, I want to 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.240 put out a project where I sing different hymns and 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.680 old choruses that I used to sing when I was 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.840 a worship leader, and we'll auto tune my voice and 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.520 they'll make it sound great. Maybe they'll put some AI 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.720 on my voice and make me be able to sound 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.440 like justin Vernon. Maybe they can combine it where I 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.680 sound like justin Vernon meets Chris Stapleton meets Eddie Vedder 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.720 meets Darius Rucker. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:28.760 That would be amazing. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.519 Meets Billy Joe Armstrong meets Marvin sap meets John Peakey 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.240 That's what I really want in life meets Chandler Moore 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:42.280 meets Brandon Lake meets Chris Brown, The real Chris Brown. Anyway, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.280 I don't have long because we're about to journey and 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.000 hit the road. And I told Holly today, what an 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.560 amazing privilege to do ministry. You know that girl is 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.720 the same girl that was by my side when I 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.680 was eighteen years old, nineteen years old, singing, Lord, I 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.959 lift your name on high. And every move I make, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.960 every on the straps in a way a little rush 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.639 to hear y'all. Every move I make, I'm making you. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.480 You make me move, Jesus. I don't want to get 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.480 copyright strike, so I'm not gonna sing it. Hopefully they 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.560 get copyright a one four or five chord progression. I 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:29.880 don't know. But it's just amazing that when we were 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.720 eighteen nineteen years old, we were in little churches. I'm 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:40.720 telling you, twenty people in the church was packed a 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.160 lot of the places that we went. We had four 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.120 other people on our team. The first summer we ministered together. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.240 We were eighteen, like just a little older than Elijah, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.560 and we were out there, you know, leading the ministry 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.800 and stuff. It's crazy to think about, and really wanted 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:06.560 God to use us. I remember back then, twenty five 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.000 years ago, man twenty five years ago. This is even 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.840 before we were dating. But I was working my angles. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.320 You know, hey, come be on my summer ministry team, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:23.320 and yeah, and come get on this bus with me 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.000 and let's go glorify the Lord. And maybe just maybe, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.120 maybe just maybe the residual effect of that will be 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.279 you'd be my girlfriend, maybe be my wife. Anyway, we 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.000 would lead worship and preach the word and our theme. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.279 I remember that first summer was run to win, and 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.120 we got to the first church and there were no 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.400 kids signed up for the event. Hampton Heights was that 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.279 the name, Hampton Heights. I believe that was the church. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.279 So we end up recruiting kids all week, you know, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.560 knocking doors and putting flyers on when shields in the 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.479 Walmart parking lot of true story, By the end of 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.440 the week, we had something like twenty thirty kids and 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:12.640 it felt like we had a Billy Graham crusade. And 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.039 she was by my side during that. On the last 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.279 elevation nights to where we were at the Forum in 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.000 La getting ready to do ministry, and it was sold 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.240 out at the Forum, and you know, it's just amazing 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.800 because you walk up and down the halls of the 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.800 Forum that kind of iconic venue. And there's all the 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.160 people that have been there. Oh there's Mick Jagger okay, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.240 and right beside, and there's Madonna okay, and whoever. You know, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.960 I'm just saying names here, but it's just halls and 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.640 halls of all the people who have played there. And 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.120 you know, there's only one reaction to that, all right, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.880 When you're a kid from Monkst Corner, South Carolina and 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.000 you grew up in a town that at the time 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.480 I've had six thousand people, you just go, what the 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:10.239 heck am I doing here? You know, we started our church. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.360 Many of the people who started with me are still 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.200 with me. My friend Eric, who I brought up on stage, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.159 that's my best friend in high school. You know, he 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.080 started the church with me. He was one of the 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:27.960 families that came here in Nicole. And you know my 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.279 main guy, his name is Chunks. He's kind of famous 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.520 in our church. He's a physical therapist. Started with me. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.200 And there's Chris Brown. And I've known Chris, our main 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.480 worship leader for elevision worship. I've known him since we 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.400 were boys. We were playing at a club called p 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:49.040 S one fifty for Psalm one fifty and the owner, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.200 the guy named Ross. I remember. I remember his name 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:59.000 was Ross. That's about all I remember about. And you know, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.279 there's a sense in which me and Holly and Chris 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.119 and Chunks and Eric flies out. I think he's flying 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.560 out to see me on this tour two and we 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.000 just look at each other and look at God. Isn't 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:17.920 God amazing? And yet there's this sense of fear. Oh man, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.040 you know I've done this a bunch of times. I've 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.360 been doing this since I was in my twenties. But 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.000 I still always feel and I want you to hear this, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:32.320 I still always feel a lot of fear when I 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.600 get ready to step into the moments that God has 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.600 called me to step into. And maybe you do too, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.400 and Gideon certainly did. And that's why I was preaching 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:49.480 about Gideon over the past several weeks. And I believe 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.240 that God is going to call me to take that 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.800 same spirit of faith that I've been preaching in our 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.600 church over the last month from the life of Gideon 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.640 and take it into the cities and impart faith to you, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.040 those of you who will be there for Elevation nights, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.640 as as well as those of you who have been 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.920 listening to the messages and hearing the messages all right, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.600 Because the idea behind the life of Gideon, in your 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.800 life and my life, and the things God has called 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.400 each of us to do, is that we are instruments 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.440 who need to be put in the right hands. And 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.640 yesterday when I was preaching, I don't know when you'll 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.040 be watching this, but I preached yesterday on how Gideon 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.640 was an instrument who had been in the hands of 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.680 the Midianites, the people who were oppressing the Israelites, and 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:51.479 he had started to believe his insecurities more than his potential. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.520 And that's what happens when you put your instruments in 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.800 the wrong hands. What are your instruments? Two that come 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.920 to my mind, your mind, So that comes to my mind, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.520 your mind, and your mouth. I'm using right now, I'm 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.760 using two instruments. I'm also using a computer. I'm also 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.960 holding a guitar. I also know there's some Wi Fi 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.640 signal that is making this all go to you. But 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.600 there are instruments involved in this communication right now, and 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.840 I'm using my instrument, my mind, and my mouth so 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.199 I can speak encouragement to you. But the thing is, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:38.280 these instruments on your end, how you manage them, how 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:44.880 you care for them, and what you allow to control. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.959 The instruments that God has given you will determine where 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.480 you end up at the end of this day, at 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.280 the end of this week, at the end of this month, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.080 at the end of this year, and ultimately where your 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:02.360 life goes. So that's why we need a word from 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:09.880 God to renew our minds, and that's why we need worship. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:17.479 Worship coming out of our mouth. It purifies our atmosphere, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:23.360 It resets our intention, it realigns our motives. And that's 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.480 why I'm going out with our whole team over the 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.720 next two weeks. That's why we show up each week 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:33.280 and invite people into the presence of God and honor 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.600 what He says from his word. And that's why we 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.559 sing songs of declaration of truth when we don't feel it, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.720 when we do feel it, by faith, we declare what 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:53.640 God says. We use our instruments instruments. So what was interesting? 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.920 Interesting instruments? What was interesting? Touch somebody right now and 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.320 say you are an interesting instrument. I had everybody do 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:02.880 that in church yesterday, but just put it in the 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.679 comments right now. I am an interesting instrument. That means 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.880 God has given me. This is a hollow body guitar. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.960 That's how I can pick it up so easy. I'm 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.240 not that strong. A guy sent me this. This is 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.439 a gretch guitar. A guy sent me this from California. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.600 He said, Pastor Ferdick, I want you to have this guitar. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.160 I appreciate your ministry. I hope somebody will write a 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.160 song on it one day to glorify God. A few 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.360 weeks later, I took it into an appointment with Chris 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.280 and Brandon and Tiffany, and we wrote the song Graves 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:41.160 into Gardens. That song was in this guitar, and the 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.120 man from California he sent me the guitar and we 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.480 took it in and we collaborated together, and God sent 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.679 a song, Graves into Gardens that has now gone around 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.560 the world to touch people. How grateful am I that 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.920 he sent me this instrument. Something in him new and 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.440 I need to thank him again. I hope you're watching this. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.080 I hope he's watching this. I don't want to make him. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.400 I don't want to publicly say his name, but you 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.000 know who you are. It wasn't that I needed a 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.720 new guitar. I had guitars, we have guitars here. But 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.040 and then cool that he sent the instrument and the 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.280 song came out. And I wonder what instrument God is 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.760 trying to send to you today, An idea that he 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.000 wants to put in your mind, and encouragement that he 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.319 wants to put in your mouth. You go, well, I'm 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.640 not a songwriter, I'm not a preacher. I'm not talking 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.400 about that. I'm talking about how God uses you in 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.120 your daily life. Nobody can encourage your best friend like 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.440 you can. Nobody can encourage your husband like you can. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.600 Nobody can speak the word of life and faith over 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:50.800 your family like you can. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:52.880 Nobody. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.680 The instrument is in your hands. And yesterday I called 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.840 my buddy Eric up and the only thing he knows 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.160 on guitar is one half song intro from the nineties, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.840 and I knew that, so I handed him my first guitar, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.240 not this one, the first one I bought, the Paul 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.560 Reid Smith that I bought when I was about fourteen 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.040 for about fourteen hundred dollars, and I said play it, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.880 and it wasn't plugged in, and he didn't really know anything. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.480 And then we handed it to E, which is funny 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.240 because in my phone there's E, my best friend from 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.520 high school. And then E who's one of our guitar 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.120 players at Elevation, very gifted. Look him up. He's got 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.559 a lot of guitar tutorials out as well. All the 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.400 musicians at Elevation Worship are to me, world class, no 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.679 argument about it. And when I put the instrument in 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.560 his hands, you should have heard it. Go watch the sermon. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.760 It's available right now. You can go watch it. It's 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.679 called Instruments of Victory and man, when we got it 0:13:53.720 --> 0:14:02.439 in his hands, it sounded like clapped and it sounded 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:08.480 like John Mayer. Probably I'm probably embellishing a little bit, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:13.120 but it's how really good. It sounded really good. Same guitar. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.680 It still had six strings, not eight. Nothing changed, but 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.160 it got plugged in and it got put in the 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.000 right hands. And I think that's sometimes what has to 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.480 happen in our life is that we feel defeated, we 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:31.480 feel deflated, we feel discouraged, we feel depressed. Remember that's 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:37.720 just a state. That's not your true self. God calls 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:43.040 you what more than a conqueror an overcomer. He calls 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.120 you precious He proved that because he paid for your 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.280 life with his blood. Remember Romans six thirteen from yesterday, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.360 that he has brought you from death to life. How 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.520 did he do that? How did Jesus bring you from 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.760 death to life? He I went from a perfect sinless life, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.120 shed his spotless blood, the spotless lamb shed his blood 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.440 and brought you from death to life. Because he went 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.240 from life to death, He died for you, rose again, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.680 sent his spirit to live in you. And now he 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.800 wants to make you an instrument of victory. But for 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.120 that to happen, there are two things I want to 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.640 point out and just picture all day as you go 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:35.120 through that you're not a hollow body, gretch guitar. You 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.920 are a wind instrument for the Holy Spirit. What I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.440 mean wind instrument? Well, I shared yesterday that in the 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.040 passage where Gideon gets the victory over the Midianites, I 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.600 didn't get time to get all the way to the 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:55.320 end of Judges chapter seven. But the enemy turns against 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:00.680 itself the Midianites. That they were so afraid of Midianites 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:07.080 that outnumbered each other. They got confused when Gideon told 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.560 his men to do two things. Okay, remember that only 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.800 three hundred men stayed, only three hundred men who lapped 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.120 water like dog. I got that dog. Put it in 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:20.880 the chat. I got that dog. I don't have to 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.960 be fancy with my faith. I got that dog. I 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.360 don't have to be proper with my praise. I got 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.960 that dog. Put both of those in the comments. That's good. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.800 I don't have to be fancy with my faith. I 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.480 don't have to be proper with my praise. I got 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.520 that dog. Man. I thought about that woman who said, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.960 even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:51.000 master's table. Jesus said, go, your daughter is healed. Don't 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.360 be too dignified to fight the devil back man, Praise 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.560 God in your current situation. Praise God with what you've got. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.640 Take your trumpet and blow your breath and praise God. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:08.679 See when I say Gideon is a wind instrument, wind 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.160 represents the Holy Spirit a lot of times in the scriptures. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.040 So I think the reason God loves the instrument of 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.920 the trumpet as a symbol is because it signifies how 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:26.480 he breathes the breath of life into us. And sometimes 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.480 we're so busy trying to figure out solutions to situations 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.840 when really we need to get in the spirit by 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:39.160 being grateful, by spending time with God's Word, by aligning 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.879 our day just those three things along by getting grateful 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.960 starting from that place I've been teaching lately on that 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.320 here in the basin. You can go find one of 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.600 those teachings too. I'll load you up, man, I'm gonna 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.440 get you ready this week. It's gonna be a good week. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.200 You're gonna worship God this week. But you're gonna start 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.119 from a grateful place, right, And then you're going to 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.120 start from a place of God's word. A chapter a day, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.000 a little passage a day. I want you reading more 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.000 than one verse a day. Though a verse you can 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.120 focus on a verse, but I want you to get 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:19.560 enough context to understand what this meant originally, so then 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.480 you can say, well, what does it mean to me? 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.600 Gives you more accuracy. Let's the word penetrate a little deeper. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.199 But it doesn't have to be a whole book of 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.720 the Bible. Be a few verses, but you're going to 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.360 get that going in your life. And then on top 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.920 of that, the gratitude to God for what He's already 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.280 given that gives you breath. The Word of God, which 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.360 is going to speak to you. The spirit of God 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 will never contradict the Word of God, and then aligning 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.760 each day. And that's the image that I didn't get 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.439 to in my sermon. That I may come back and 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.760 preach a little bit here in the next few weeks. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.000 We'll see, but I want to share it with you today, 0:18:58.200 --> 0:18:59.800 and you can think about it and we come back 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.720 to it another time, all right. I hope I get 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.600 to do some more of these from the tour bus 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.320 the basin on the bus, somebody on my team needs 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.920 to make me a little sign that I can take 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.640 on the road. It could say the bustin the bustin. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.600 Somebody make me a little sign. I'll put it up 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.879 and I'll come on here and teach you. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:21.840 While we're out and about this week. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.440 God willing no promises, but I'll try pray for us. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.680 But listen to this. And there's this one cool part 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.920 where Gideon tells the Israelites in verse seventeen. This is 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.240 Judges seven, verse seventeen. I'm back into NIV. Watch me, 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.760 he told them. Follow my lead. When I get to 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.840 the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:51.320 Now this takes guts. Gideon has come a long way. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:58.000 He's seen how God works. You recognize that song, you 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.040 put it in the comments. If you recognize it, we're 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.320 gonna be singing that on elevation nights. I promise you 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.840 that he's come a long way. He's seen how God works. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.240 And he just heard the enemy saying, oh, no, Gideon 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.600 is coming. Gideon is coming, and he's like, wait, the 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:17.840 enemy is intimidated by me. Yeah, he's gone from an 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.480 army of twenty thousand men who were trembling and turned back, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.959 and he himself is trembling. And you might be too, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.960 You might be kind of trembling on the inside, like, oh, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:29.359 another week of this job. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.520 I can't do it. Oh the meeting today, I can't 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.120 do it. I'm not going to be able. I got 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:35.960 to be here at four o'clock. I gotta be there 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.960 at six o'clock. Ah, my knee is still. Man, I 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.080 can't even get up out of this chair without it. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:41.439 Heard it. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.760 And every time I think about this, it just gets 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.640 a fest to me. I can't do it. I can't 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.199 do it. Gideon was there, But then he has a flip. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:56.560 He reinterprets the the intact what's the word when somebody 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:01.720 antagonizes you, he rethinks, let me say it this way. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.600 He rethinks, the intimidation of the enemy, because the enemy 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.600 will try to intimidate you. You can't do that. You're 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.760 the smallest, you're the least, you're the worst, You're terrible. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:10.679 You tried that already. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.040 Nobody's everybody's gonna laugh you, nobody saying attention to you. 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:14.399 Just go do what God called you to do. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.400 Right, And he thinks to himself, Wait a minute, if 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:23.359 the enemy is talking about me, if the enemy is 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:28.919 focused on me, the enemy must know something about me 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.840 that I don't even believe. So if all hell is 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:42.040 coming against you, that might be because Heaven, all of Heaven, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.280 has an agenda for you, and the enemy doesn't want 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:50.119 you to realize that that you are an instrument in 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:57.480 the hands of a god whose power is infinite. Say 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.280 it in the comments. I am an instrument in the 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:08.000 hands of a god whose power is infinite. Again, i 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:14.119 am an instrument in the hands of a god whose 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:19.719 power is infinite. I'm in his hands. I'm in his hands. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.720 And not only that am I in his hands? But 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.800 I'm a wind instrument. And he breathes the breadth of 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.879 life into me, and He's put something in my hands today. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.960 What I want to ask you as I close this 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.000 little teaching today, and not a little teaching, it's a 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.560 big teaching. This could change your life, is since you 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.320 are in his hands, right, God, renew my mind, it's yours. 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.960 I'm sorry God that I've spent so much time thinking 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.000 like you don't exist, worry in like you don't exist, 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:56.680 trading my imagination where there should be faith for thoughts 0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:00.320 of fear that lead me to dead ends. God, I 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.280 repent of that way of thinking. Thank you that you 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:07.160 forgive me. And I'm moving forward and I'm putting all 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.359 these situations I can't control in your hands. I'm putting 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.720 all my gifts in your hands. I'm believing that you're 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:15.880 enough and I'm trusting in your enoughness and that you 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.520 breathe into me and I can make it one step 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.600 at a time. Watch this giddy and says to all 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:26.200 the people, do what I do. And man, that really 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:30.120 touched me because I realize in this season of my life, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:31.800 I need to be a leader, and so do you. 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.280 I don't care if you're sixteen or sixty, somebody in 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.760 your life needs to watch you win today. They need 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:42.560 to watch you win so that they can believe that 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.439 God can do it for them. Don't be selfish and 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:48.480 just think about Oh man, I don't have enough and 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.720 I can't do enough. I realize now I got a 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.800 teenage daughter. Oh she's going to be a teenager next year. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.919 Two teenage boys. I can't play around with this stuff. 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.440 I got to come into the truth. You got to 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:03.240 come into the truth of who God says you are. 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.680 My teenagers are watching. My teenagers need to see me win. 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.480 They need to see me win over any battle that 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.440 I am facing that tries to keep me from being 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.440 who God has said that I can be and doing 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:20.080 what He called me to do. And the same is 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:25.520 true of you, even those little battles. Your daughter needs 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:30.119 to see you blow your trumpet. Your son needs to 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.520 see you blow your trumpet to rise up, mighty warrior 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.240 and watch you win so you can say to your 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.240 kids one day, watch me win. I'm not doing it 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:44.520 in my own strength. This is God. He gives me 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:47.680 the victory. Watch God help me. He'll help you too. 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.720 I think a lot of times in certain religious traditions 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.000 we get into this thing. I'm like, oh no, I 0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:58.000 can't do it. It's all God is great, and I'm terrible. 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.919 The Great I am put his name on you, and 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.040 you say terrible after that, I'm terrible. I'm horrible, I'm worthless, 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:12.080 I'm a loser, I'm an idiot, I'm stupid. Stop stop. 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:16.160 Gideon said, all right, the Lord has given them into 0:25:16.160 --> 0:25:20.320 our hands. Now let's go. And then he's going from 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:27.200 letting go of how he saw himself, letting go of 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.600 things and people that he thought he needed. That God 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.160 is now saying it's that season is over. Send them home. 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:34.199 And some of you have been in a season of 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.840 a great letting go. Well, now he goes from letting 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:44.160 go to let's go, and the Bible says, you're ready. 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.800 The Bible says Gideon, and the hundred men with him. 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.760 So he's got thirty two twenty three hundred. Now he 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.399 takes one hundred from the three hundred and reaches the 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:56.080 edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:58.520 of watch, just to say, it changed the guard, and 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.800 this is what I want to challenge you to do today. 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:07.440 They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:11.280 in their hands. They blew their trumpets, everybody put that 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:13.720 in the comments. They blew their trumpets. I'm so glad 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:16.560 God led me to do this bonus teaching. Holly's the 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:18.600 one who told me. She said, get on the basin 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:21.280 and do the stuff you didn't get to do Sunday. 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:22.760 I said, I got a lot to do. I don't 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.359 know if I have time. She's like, okay, she planted 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:26.840 the seed and the Lord told me to do it. 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:29.479 So I know this word is ministering. I know it. 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:35.560 They blew their trumpets and broke the jars. Remember, the 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:40.560 trumpets were what they took when they had ten thousand, 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:44.240 and they only kept three hundred out of the ninety 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.240 seven hundred that left, there were three hundred trumpets enough 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:52.320 for every man. You've got enough. You've got enough. Now. 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:54.800 You can't beat the enemy to death with a trumpet. 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:57.520 I mean, I guess you can, but probably not gonna happen. 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:01.160 There's too many of them. But it wasn't that God 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:04.879 wanted him to use the trumpet in order to defeat 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.399 the enemy. He wanted him to confuse the enemy. And 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:13.440 sometimes you've just got to come from within. And whether 0:27:13.480 --> 0:27:17.600 it's anxiety, fear, greed, lust, any of the things that 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.919 we struggle with, each and every one of us. You 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:24.280 blow your trumpet, and watch the second one break the jars. 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.920 Because the Bible says he put a trumpet in one hand. 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:29.840 Gideon told the man, come here, three hundred I got left. Okay, 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:32.040 here's who I've got left. He put a trumpet in 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:35.679 their right hand and a torch in their left, and 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:37.480 it was a jar with a light under it, and 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:40.520 he said, blow the trumpet. When I blow it, break 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:46.919 the jar. Blow the trumpet, break the jar. When they 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:49.520 broke the jar, it created a light all around the camp. 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:51.800 Because this is like two in the morning, and they're 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:55.000 they're looking at a big enemy, numerous enemy, but they've 0:27:55.040 --> 0:28:00.920 got a greater God. Remember that your enemy is numerous, 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:14.440 but God's name is greater. So whatever your enemy is, fear, depression, disease, 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:20.239 you know a name that is greater. We have this 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:24.080 treasure in earth and vessels. The New Testament says that 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.879 the excellency of the power might be of God and 0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:31.200 not of us. So we have weird weapons. Right, they 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:36.439 broke the jars, and they blew the trumpets, and the enemy, 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:40.640 you're not going to believe this turned on the enemy. 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:47.800 So the enemy had swords, and Gideon and his boys 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:53.520 and his dogs. Ohoo, his dogs had a torch and 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:57.960 a trumpet. When they took what they had in their hands, 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:06.720 God took his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, and he 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:10.040 took what was in the enemy's hands. Remember, he takes 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:12.680 what the enemy means for evil and turns it for good. 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:18.080 And the enemy wiped itself out, and they started running. 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:23.680 I see your enemy starting to flee. As you take 0:29:23.720 --> 0:29:27.240 a step of faith and make a sound of praise. 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:32.920 Two things. The broken jar. Boom, that's a step of faith. 0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:36.400 What do you mean to break the jar? It means 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.800 that you're gonna go in the light that you have 0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:44.760 right boom. I don't know how God's going to do this, boom, 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:47.640 but I'm going in the knowledge I have. Go in 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:49.960 the strength that you have. You say, when I know, 0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:52.920 I'll go. No, when you go, you'll know how's God 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:56.040 going to do it. You'll know as you go. Remember 0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:58.040 what God told Gideon. He said, if you're afraid to 0:29:58.080 --> 0:29:59.400 go down to the camp, you have to watch the 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:01.800 sermon to get this. If you're afraid to go down 0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:04.560 to the camp, go down, and when you see the 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:06.720 enemy you're gonna hear they're talking about you. 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:08.520 And if the enemy is trying to. 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:12.720 Discourage you, he must know he's already. 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:15.560 Defeated, and he is. He's defeated by the blood of Jesus. 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:17.680 He's defeated by the cross of Christ. 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:21.200 He's defeated by the word of your testimony. So there's 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:22.400 the step of faith. 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:26.320 What is that in your life today? The call, the appointment, 0:30:26.520 --> 0:30:29.840 the apology, the prayer, the commitment. 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:33.040 The next thing, the step of faith. The light that 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:33.520 you have. 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:37.160 His word is what a lamp unto our feet and 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.280 a light unto our path enough for the next step. 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:43.000 Say that out loud. He has given me enough light, 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:48.800 enough revelation, enough grace, enough strength. His grace is sufficient, 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:52.440 His strength is enough for today. I can't get out 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:56.080 in tomorrow. I can't control tomorrow. I can break the jar, 0:30:57.000 --> 0:31:00.920 and I can blow the trumpet. The trumpet is the 0:31:00.960 --> 0:31:01.680 sound of praise. 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:05.400 I don't just mean shot ja das Jada. 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:08.320 There's always an elevation nights. Every night, somebody who waits 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:09.480 till it gets quiet and goes. 0:31:09.680 --> 0:31:10.720 We love you, Jadas. 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.600 And I always look at holland there he is always 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:16.479 every time. It never fails. Probably, like I don't know, 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:19.640 ninety seven percent of the time, there will be that guy. 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:23.000 I don't mean that, I mean you can do that whatever. 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:29.080 It's also a sound that comes from within. And when 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:31.440 you get those two together, what do you get an 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:35.600 instrument of victory? Now, go watch the sermon from Sunday. 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:42.680 Go watch the sermon Instruments of Victory. Read that passage 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:47.320 again where it says break the jar, blow the trumpet, 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:53.920 and watch the part where I said that the guitar 0:31:54.000 --> 0:31:56.400 that I bought when I was fourteen, Oh, I love 0:31:56.440 --> 0:31:59.240 that guitar. I had to empty out my bank account 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:02.720 to by that guitar business. As a fourteen year old have 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:05.120 buying a fourteen hundred dollars guitar. You say, well, were 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.840 you a drug dealer? No? I actually worked for the 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.960 pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation service. I had a beeper, 0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:14.960 but I wasn't a drug dealer. When it would beep, 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:18.560 I would have to come run the crematory. Don't judge me. 0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:21.480 You're like, oh, you did you kill dogs? I kill dogs. 0:32:21.480 --> 0:32:24.959 I lovingly help people say goodbye to their dogs. It 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:27.560 was a great job. Actually, Thank you Diane for giving 0:32:27.600 --> 0:32:30.680 me that job, an amazing job, and I saved up 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:32.600 and I bought the guitar. And two weeks after I 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:34.040 bought it. You can see it if you go watch 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:36.880 the sermon. I dropped it and it cracked all down 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:40.240 the back. I took it to one guy, I said, 0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:41.840 I can't fix it. I took it to another guy. 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:45.440 He glued it together. You can see the cracks down 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:48.840 the back to this day, but you can't hear it 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:52.800 when he plays it, because when I get it in 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:58.040 the right hands, a broken instrument can still make a 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:04.760 beautiful sound. Is that why a broken jar and a 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:09.320 blown trumpet are side by side in the passage? Is 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:11.360 God trying to get you to see that, Yeah, there's 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:13.720 places in your life that are broken. We all have 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:20.320 those broken places his cough being human. But in his hands, 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:27.760 your life has still got songs in it, melodies. After all, 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:33.200 he turns graves into gardens. It's cool. I'm holding the 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:42.320 guitar that he sent me about to travel around different 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:45.520 parts of the country, telling people that God can do 0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:49.320 something very beautiful out of something that you think is broken. 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:53.040 Leonard Cohen said, ring the bells that still can ring. 0:33:53.360 --> 0:33:57.160 Forget your perfect offering there's a crack in everything. That's 0:33:57.160 --> 0:34:00.000 how the light gets in, and that's how the sound 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:05.960 comes out too. You're a wind instrument. God is breathing 0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:11.120 new life into you as we speak. Receive it. Receive it. 0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:13.920 Everything you can't control, let it go, put it in 0:34:13.960 --> 0:34:17.520 his hands. And after you've put it in his hands, 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:21.880 let's go. You got a jar to break today, you 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:23.839 got a trumpet to blow. You got something to thank 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:24.279 him for. 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:27.719 Do it. 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:31.200 Use your mouth to thank him. You got something to 0:34:31.239 --> 0:34:35.839 think about, something he's calling you to do. Get those 0:34:35.840 --> 0:34:41.040 instruments and glorify God with them. I appreciate your prayers. 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.760 What an amazing day we live in that I can preach. 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:46.879 I ran out of times Sunday, I said, I got 0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:50.520 to finish this, and the Lord really did speak to us, 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:52.200 didn't He let me know in the comments. I think 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:55.160 y'all like these teachings hearing from people, They're like, oh, 0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:58.080 we love the basin. Not everybody knows about it yet. 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:01.879 It's just our secret for now. But it's a real 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:05.400 privilege to minister to you. And I appreciate your prayers. 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:07.440 Let me know if you come into elevation nights, if 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.719 you're anywhere near the cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:13.040 com go check out the sermon from Sunday. Let's stay connected, 0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:16.480 let's encourage each other. 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