Unschedulable Blessings

0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.480 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.960 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.320 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.360 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.160 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.159 How great is this just to have another opportunity. We 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.240 don't take it for granted, the opportunity to worship God, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.320 to give him glory and to receive from him. Come on, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.000 somebody just say right there in the chat, I'm here 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.800 for it. Whatever you want to do, Lord, I'm here 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.159 for it. I'm here for it. You just fill in 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.080 the blank. I'm here for I'm here for healing. I'm 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.879 here for restoration. I'm here for instruction. I'm here for direction. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.879 But above all of that, God, if you want to 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.720 correct me, that's fine. If you want to comfort me, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.639 that's fine. But I'm here to worship you. Are there 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.440 any worshipers in the chat? Are there any words a 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:07.880 verse on YouTube? Facebook? From whop? Yeah, I'm here for 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.640 I'm here for it. And be more specific, where are 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.880 you here from? Please in the chat right now if 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.720 you haven't had the opportunity yet to just identify yourself 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.520 on a basis of first name, city, state, township, hamlet, village. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.960 We've got them all represented today. Praise the Lord. Everybody 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.920 in the room, shout your name and your location. Do 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.679 it on the chat name and location. Whether you're watching 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.560 it right now, whether you've been you know, slacking and 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.520 you have to catch up later in the week. Whatever, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.600 God's word is not found by time, I believe that 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:49.400 He is going to customize this word to the exact 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.440 continuity of the circumstance that you are facing, to remind 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.560 you that you are not going anywhere that He is 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.640 not already there. You have not been anywhere that He 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.040 did not bring you through. If it's behind you, it's covered. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.560 If it's ahead of you, it's covered. All you gotta 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.400 do is be here right now. Somebody say I'm here 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.840 for it, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.880 Who's here for him? Wave at wave at wave, act 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:28.160 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. I want to get 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.040 right into the Word of God. Get your Bible, paper, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:39.600 digital apyrus, doesn't matter the format. What really matters today 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.400 is that you clear out a little bit of space 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:49.799 in your very distracted, busy heart, fearful heart, uncertain heart. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.239 How are you saying all those things about me? You 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.280 don't even know me. Maybe I'm just autobiographical right now 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.040 I have a fearful heart, anxious heart, distracted heart. So 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.839 we just make this space for God. We welcome them 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.200 into this in every moment. And I want to read 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.400 you a scripture. Play while I read the scripture, and 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.040 then let's just see where it goes from there. All right. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.280 Somebody asked me one time, do y'all plan when when 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.240 you're preaching sometimes and the music comes in, it scares me. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.959 It comes out of nowhere. You got a guy back 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.960 there and he starts playing and he scares me. It 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.920 comes out of nowhere. But we don't plan it doing 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.920 we don't plan it. The best parts are not planned. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.040 I've noticed that the best parts are not planned. So anyway, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.040 I don't know if you were planning to watch today 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.920 or if you accidentally got clickbaited into this sermon. We 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.400 ought to start doing that with our YouTube videos to 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.800 lead people to Jesus. Amen. We'll put a thumbnail that 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.720 says seven seven ways to get a girl, and then 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.080 you click on it and it's me preaching about holiness 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:02.240 or something like that on people to Christ. I'm kidding 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:13.240 kind of Acts Chapter one is really cool and really confusing, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.640 not for us, but certainly would have been for the disciples. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.720 On one occasion, while Jesus was eating with them. This 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.000 is Acts one, verse four. By the way, I should 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.880 have said that, sorry, Act chapter one, verse four in IV. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.120 Twenty eleven. On one occasion, while he was eating with them. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.279 He I'm sorry, I can't skip over that phrase, but 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.240 I didn't plan to say. On one occasion, not a 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:44.280 special occasion, just any old Sunday morning, any old Monday afternoon, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.279 you know. On one occasion, he would give them the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.680 instructions that would really explain to them his kingdom in 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.599 a way they'd never seen. And he gave them the 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.479 greatest promise of the greatest gift that they would ever 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.200 that they would ever know. Okay, on one occasion, we'll 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.720 have to go a little faster than this if we're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.080 going to get through it. On one occasion, while he 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.000 was eating with them, this is Jesus eating with his disciples. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.200 He gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.720 wait for the gift. Wait for the gift. My Father promised, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.920 which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.279 with water. But in a few days, you will be 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.840 baptized with the Holy Spirit. In a few days, you 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.960 will receive the greatest gift. And it's not going to 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.640 come in the form of a car or house, or 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.240 bonus or something like that. It's going to be the 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:46.359 Holy Spirit. The greatest gifts come from within. Waiting on 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.640 an amen. I'm waiting on an amen like they were 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.480 waiting on the Holy Spirit. But then watch this. This 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.200 is this is the part I want us to jump 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.080 from today. And we have a lot of ground to cover, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.680 but let's jump from here. Then they gathered around him, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.479 and here's what they wanted to know. He's speaking about 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.320 the gift that he wants to give them, the Holy Spirit. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.520 He's already died on the cross, risen from the dead, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.280 he's about to send to heaven. But he said, I'm 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.080 gonna give you a gift, and you have to wait. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.320 And then they gathered around and asked him, Lord, are 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.080 you at this time, at this time going to restore 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.920 the kingdom to Israel? At this time, somebody say, at 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.960 this time, at this time? He said to them, it 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.840 is not for you to know the times or dates 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.520 the Father has set by his own authority. But you 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:40.240 will receive power. Here's the guarantee. You will receive power 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.440 when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.280 and to the ends of the earth. It's the word 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.760 of the Lord. Be seated. Somebody, lift your hands in 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.920 the chat. Just say I'm ready to receive it. I'm 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.960 ready to receive it, both hands, both hands. I'm ready 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.880 to receive it. Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:08.479 Shout out to my fifteen year old son, Elijah B. Verdict. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.680 The bee stands for beats. He's a beat maker, he's 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.840 a producer. Do the Dash is his YouTube and I'm 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.360 sure he would appreciate a subscribe. Happy fifteenth birthday to 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.200 my oldest son, the one who changed my name to 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.560 Daddy and then changed it again to dad. I'll never 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.920 forget the day he dropped the d y off the end. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.360 It was a horrifying moment. And just even saying my 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.520 fifteen year old son, do you know how how archaic 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.240 that makes my bones feel? My knees started hurting. I 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.360 just felt like automatically old. When I said it, I 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.720 was feeling sprightly, and then all of a sudden, I 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.200 started feeling saggy. Just sat of saying I have a 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.040 fifteen year old son. But his birthday was yesterday, and 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.480 I love him so much, and he's watching right now. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.280 He'd better be if he wants to use his phone 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.000 this week, and I'm going to quiz him on the sermon. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.560 He's my number one conversationalist. He's my workout partner now 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.920 he's getting strong. The Beast stands for beasts too down 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.280 there when we're working out together and we have a 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.280 good time, and I love talking to him about my sermons. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.920 He is a great blessing. Children are a blessing, Chris, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.600 you didn't say amen, And you have a couple, so 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.520 I'm worried, what's going on at the house. Do you need? 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.520 Children are a blessing? Amen? Amen. And when you're getting 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.440 ready to have kids, they give you all kinds of advice. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.040 We were talking about the birth of the church, and 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.800 I was talking about the birth of my firstborn son. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:37.240 But when you're having your first one, right, since you 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.240 don't know what to expect, all the experts come out 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.559 of the woodworks telling you how they raised their kids. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.440 They don't tell you that the one they're telling you 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.040 how they raised and giving you advice based of when 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.480 the rehab three times. But they just start telling you 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.440 all this advice and they'll tell you, oh, and they'll 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.280 tell you it perfectly. They will prescribe for you perfectly. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.920 Like kids are blenders, you know, and like you can 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.640 put them together and plug them in. And they were 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.800 telling us with Elijah the whole time, put him on 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.719 a schedule, Put him on a schedule. What you want 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.760 to do, what you want to do. What we did 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.480 with our kids when we were your age and now 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.559 our kids are grown. But what was really helpful for us, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.760 that just really helped us establish just order, and it's 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.559 very good for the child and it's good for you. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:32.920 It's just put them on a schedule. First schedule, Elijah 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:42.560 was unschedulable. Is that a word unschedulable? If it's not 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.040 a word, it's it needs to be Come on, how 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.240 many agreed after the year we've been having. I don't 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.680 know how you do this, but if anybody knows, wester 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.280 and we can get a word added to the dictionary. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.719 I looked it up before I came out. I don't 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.400 know how we're going to spell it, but I want 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.480 to suggest that we get after the year we've been having. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.240 I want to add after being a parent of three kids. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.840 I want to suggest we get this word in the 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:14.000 dictionary as soon as possible. Unschedulable. Everybody say it unschedulable. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.920 My firstborn son was unschedulable. I mean, you can set 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.720 the schedule, but he don't care. But he doesn't give 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.000 a crap about your skate. He does not care for sleeping, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.040 for eating. And my kids still don't. They do not 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.360 check my schedule. Y'all are looking at me like your 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.479 kids do. You're looking at me like you can schedule 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.920 my children. Oh you know what else? My sermon preparation 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.760 process is unschedulable. I don't know how to spell it, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.880 but that's what it is. I was thinking of a 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.520 way to explain it to you. It's like it's you know, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.240 I set aside time to study, right, and then I'll 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.000 just sit there and look at the Bible. I'll get 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.600 five Bibles and spread them out, and none of them 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 make any since. And then while I'm trying to go 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.959 do something else and I got something else going on. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.240 Then the sermon will just come, you know, walking through 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.079 the door, like hey here, I am. I don't care 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.280 that you're on a date night. How many movie theaters 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.040 have we been in trying to have a date on 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.480 a Thursday night? And I'm like, I'm sorry, babe, you're 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.360 gonna have to tell me what happens to Tanya Harding 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.640 on the ice skating movie. I gotta write this down 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:29.120 real quick because the sermon doesn't check my schedule. I 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.600 wish it did. That's why I sent you all these 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.280 scriptures five minutes before I walked out, and I just 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.120 sent you all of them because I had ten. I've 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.240 been working on ten of them ten and I sent 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.480 them all to you, and I said, I don't know 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.520 where we'll start. I'm not the one setting the schedule here. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.320 I went to seminary. They taught me how to prepare sermons. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.200 You know, you should have from seven to nine, just 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.079 like people telling you how to be a parent, tell 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.640 you how to be a pastor. Shoid it from seven 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.400 to nine and you're gonna study. That's great, I do 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.640 I have study time. I believe you ought to prioritize 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.080 what's important to you, and if it's not on your schedule, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.080 it might not be your priority. And that's good for 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.440 working out, that's good for dating your wife, that's good 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 for taking time to be alone. We talked about this 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.599 last week as well. But some things don't check your schedule. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.559 Saw my friend from London says it says schedule. I 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.800 don't care how you say it, but certain things in 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:33.040 life do not consult your calendar. And in seminary they 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:39.200 taught me that God was immutable. These are big words. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.800 Write this down, pee Wegg. What's wrong with you? Man? 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.840 This is like eighty thousand dollars education I'm giving you. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.000 You get paid, I pay you. Write this down, immutable. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.440 You can't change God. How many are glad? You can't 0:12:53.520 --> 0:13:00.160 change him? If he called you, he called you. You 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.280 know why you're not clopping. You don't have anything wrong 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.600 with you. So for me, sometimes I think God might 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.400 have changed his mind about me when he sees what 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.600 he got when he drafted me. He knew all my injuries, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.800 he knew all of my susceptibilities, he knew all of 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.000 my vulnerabilities. In fact, some of the stuff he picked 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.360 me for is stuff that I'm trying to get out 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.840 of my life. But he wants to take that weakness 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.200 and fill it and turn it into something that can 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:33.360 be called strength. He's immutable, he's Another word they taught 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:38.720 me in seminary is that he is. He is impeccable. Holy, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:45.720 it's perfect. He's perfect. That's another thing I'm not. He's impeccable, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:53.000 he's he's others separate, he's set apart. He's holy, he's peckable. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.360 Another one, Philip, this is a good one too. You 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.400 got this one. Write all this down because there's a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.360 lot of these attributes of God that you learn. You 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:08.560 learned that he's you learned. He's immutable, impectable, incomprehensible. You 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:13.360 can know God, but you can't totally know God. He 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.680 doesn't change, but the way that you see him better 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:21.960 change or you're not growing. You're not growing. He is, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.800 like we say, mysterious, faith is mystery, not mechanics. When 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.120 people say the Bible's an instruction manual for life, what 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.920 a horrible analogy to boil the living word of the 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.360 living God down to something that can help you put 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.440 together a scooter. An instruction manual for life. No, it's 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:45.280 an invitation to mystery because he's incomprehensible. And I don't 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.440 want to add anything to the theology book, but might 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.160 I add that not only is he immutable, impeccable, and 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:58.360 what's the other one? I said incomprehensible, he's unschedulable. God 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.040 is unschedulable. And what I have to say to you 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.360 over the next twenty thirty forty fifty sixty minutes today 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.880 may mess with a category or two that you have 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.280 about God. But I want you to stay with me 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.520 because some of you are off schedule, but you're right 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.240 on time. Some of you your life is off schedule, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.120 but you're right on time. And the reason I chose 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.840 to start with Acts chapter one is because the disciples 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.560 have been through a lot with Jesus that they didn't understand, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.040 have you. Have you been through some seasons with God 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.560 that made no sense to you? Right? So they want 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.440 to know, Okay, now that the Cross is over, and 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.240 now that you did that thing on the third Day 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.840 that we'll still be singing about in two thousand years, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.280 Now that that's over, are you at this time going 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:02.000 to restore the kingdom to Israel? Jesus spent three and 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.560 a half years teaching these boys about the Kingdom of God, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.960 but they were still thinking about the kingdom of Israel. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.760 And that's important. But what drew my attention today is 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.680 the idea that Jesus said, it's not for you to 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.120 know the times. Now, let's notice a few things that 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.200 God does to get them. Because God does speak, Amen, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.400 he speaks specifically. God will show you things that you 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.840 don't even know how you know it. He never did 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.560 it out loud. For me, I never had that experience. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.760 I have friends who say they have. Honestly, they're the 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.960 kind that are a little bit you know, you know, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:42.240 just different personality than mine. With me, it's a wisdom within. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.640 It's like how Elijah the prophet heard a whisper in 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.480 a cave and at his weakest moment, God spoke. And 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.080 so the Lord speaks to us in ways. I mean, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.960 we have a lot of specifics to go off of. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.840 By the way, well, I don't know what God's will 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.760 is for my life. I mean everything's crazy. Love your neighbor, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:06.160 as you forgive us, Christ also forgave you. Do everything 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.560 with albinterness. Sarah complaining for this will of God, Christ, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.280 he's concerning you. And when you master that, come back 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.840 and I'll give you the extra credit work all right. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.320 I wonder if God sometimes is laughing, you know, while 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.600 we make our plans in our schedule, Don't you know 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.760 God was just laughing his head off in Heaven. I 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.920 looked to see if there was a time when Jesus 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.280 laughed in the scripture, and there's not one where it 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.600 says that he laughed. But you know, he was laughing 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.120 while he was watching Peter try to fish all night. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.520 You know, he was laughing while you watched him, like, Ah, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.520 I'm about to mess with his whole theology of fishing. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.560 I'm about to mess with his whole concept, his whole system. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.679 I'm about to blow wide open his whole idea of 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.840 how the water works. Because I'm the one who walks 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.879 some water, So I don't need the laws of water, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.880 or the laws of economics, or the laws of politics, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.800 or the laws of medicine to regular late what I'm 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.560 going to do. Can I just tell you something, God 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.880 is laughing at some of the stuff that we're stressed 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.720 out about because while we can't figure it out and 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.199 we don't see a way he's just about ready to 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:17.280 walk up watch this behind schedule and show us something 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:25.800 that we could not see in our own strength. Somebody 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.600 told me the other day, you're gonna look back and 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.680 laugh at this. One day, I said, you know you're 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.000 gonna I didn't say this. I just thought you're gonna look. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.280 You're gonna look back and cry when I punch you 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.560 in your nose for telling me I'm gonna look because 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.960 it's not funny. Right now. What I was going through 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.240 was pample the heal. You look back and laugh. You 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:53.560 look back and laugh. Abraham, That's who the nation of 0:18:53.640 --> 0:19:01.480 Israel started through Abraham. He didn't have fancy seminary words 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.040 for God to go off of. He came from er 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.159 of the Chaldeans, and he was called out of everything 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.159 that was familiar to him to follow a God that 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.159 he could not see visibly or predict. It's kind of 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:20.040 similar to Acts chapter one, but instead of starting the church, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.000 it was when God was starting the nation. And there's 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.560 a lot of parallels, and I'll show it to you 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.880 real quick. In Genesis chapter twelve, verses one through four, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.159 it's very similar to Acts one, four through eight, And 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.600 I'll show you how give me the scripture. The Lord 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.679 had said to Abram, go from your country, your people, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.720 and your father's household to the land I will show you. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.000 Keep going. Next verse, I will make you into a 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:52.280 great nation, which implies what process. So there's a promise, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:57.639 and then I will make you is a process That 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.560 means just because I spoke it to you doesn't mean 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.080 you will automatically see it. But just because you don't 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.200 automatically see it doesn't mean I didn't speak it. Who 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.680 am I preaching to today? That you're waiting for something 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:17.119 to be revealed and manifested that God, that God showed 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:23.080 you he said, I'm gonna make you a great nation, Okay, Abraham, 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.080 Isaac Jacob. And then, of course you note about how 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.520 the nation of Israel came through Jacob, his generational promise 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.320 that God was making to Abraham. I got so much 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.080 to share with you. Can you check your schedule real 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.520 quick and see if you have anything after this. You're good. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.600 You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.600 You good, You're good, You're good. Good. Okay, you're good, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.359 you're good. You got ant you gotta Okay, So I said, 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.360 I'm gonna make you a great nation, and I will 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:57.000 bless you. I will bless you, I will bless you. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.399 I might use your job to pay you, but I 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.480 will bless you. I might use somebody else to encourage you, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.800 but I will bless you. I did not thank the 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.359 pan that she cooked in last night for the food. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.760 I think the one who used the pan to cook 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:24.040 the food. And it's important, especially in this season of 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.680 your life, that you remember the source of your blessing. 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.960 The source of your blessing. He is immutable, He doesn't change. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.719 He is also impeccable, he doesn't make mistakes. At the 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.840 same time that he is immutable and impeccable, he is 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:45.400 also incomprehensible, which means that you don't always know how, 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:53.080 even though you know who. But he said I will 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.520 bless you, and then he says something really crazy. I 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.679 will make your name great and you will be a 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:04.720 blessed You will be a blessing. Blessing is not something 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.439 that I get. Blessed is who I am, and so 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.199 blessing is what I do. I can bless and not 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.160 curse because I know the source of my blessings. This 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:19.640 is an anointed word. Share it with your aunt, Share 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:22.080 it with your uncle, Share it with your friend, Share 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.480 it with your brother, Share it with your cousin. Right now, 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.360 hit the share button on this word and be a blessing. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.480 You know the best way to be blessed. Be a blessing. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.440 You know the best way to be happy. Encourage somebody else. 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.240 You know the best way to receive the word of God. 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.320 Share the word of God. You know. The best way 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.960 to reap is to sew. Even in a famine, even 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:48.040 in a drought. God is my source, He is my supply, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:52.720 He is my shield and my exceeding great reward. Come on, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.600 give him praise. If you know your blessings come from above, 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:05.240 your blessings come from beyond. They said, I'll bless those 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:07.639 who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse, 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.280 and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:17.000 See what God can do. And then it said Abram 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:21.159 went as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.199 Could stop there, but it probably would do justice to 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:30.159 the text. Abram was seventy five years old. And you know, Isaac, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.119 that we were talking about Abraham, Isaac Jacob, He's not 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:40.720 even born yet. So God makes an appointment with Abram 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:45.359 to make him the father of many nations. A little 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:52.080 bit behind schedule, a little late. The devil's been telling 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.200 somebody under the sound of my voice, it's too late. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:59.600 It's too late. It's too late. Back in February, you 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.080 could pray for that, but it's too late now, back 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.560 before you started, you know, year over here now, and 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.080 you're wrapped in the chains of this addiction. If you 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:11.280 wouldn't have done that, then you could have been used. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.959 It is too late. And I wonder if God showed 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:22.240 us that he does not need a human schedule to 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:27.080 accomplish a divine purpose. And you're like, that's fine, faster, 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:33.160 I'm nineteen. When Timothy was getting ready to minister in Ephesis, 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.159 which was a hard place, Paul told him, let no 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.240 one look down on you because you were too young. 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.399 When Jeremiah got ready to prophesy, God said, I formed 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.879 you in the womb before you were born. I set 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:51.760 you apart. See, I ordained your days before any of 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:55.480 them came to be. He said, don't say I am 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:59.480 only a youth. What that means is God is not 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:04.399 bou by human timelines. What that means is God is 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:06.880 not looking at twenty twenty and saying, well, I can't 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:09.679 wait till December thirty first, where I can turn it 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:13.200 all around for my glory. Next year will be better. Guys, 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:16.440 hang in there, God said, I don't need to check 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:21.240 your schedule to bless you, my God. I don't need 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:25.080 to check your schedule. If you come into elevation as 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:28.080 an intern, I can raise you up to tour the 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:33.000 world leading worship. John sal has been in Europe worshiping God, 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.720 leading people into the presence of God. He's been in places. 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:41.400 What's that place in Ohio? They always route y'all through huh, Canton, Ohio, 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:46.280 leading people into the presence of God, from Canton to Cambodia. 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.720 I just said it because it's alliterated. Lift your hands, 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:54.159 do not be limited, he said, all people, all people, 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:59.679 all people, all people, all people, all things, all people. 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:03.840 I will bless the Lord at all times. Is it 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:08.360 a good time to praise him? Well, do it? Then 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:15.120 do it? Then I will bless the Lord had all times, 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:20.879 had all ties come on? Check your schedule? Did he 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:26.560 wake you up? Did he give you another day? This 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:29.880 is the day. Check your schedule. This is the day 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.399 that the Lord has made. It's a good time to 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:38.240 praise him right now. Fifteen seconds. Do what you gotta do. 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.399 Come on in the chat, Come on in the chat, 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:48.359 Come on in the chat. It's only two times to 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:52.399 prais him when I feel it and when I don't. 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:56.320 I was young and now I'm old, and I've never 0:26:56.480 --> 0:27:06.960 seen the righteous forsaken. I'm sorry it is it a 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:11.000 bad time? Is it a bad time? My kids never 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:15.960 asked that. I'm sorry, it's a bad time. It's bad time. Dad. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:18.000 Let's say want something. They want to catch me in 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:19.159 a good mood, then they might ask me it's a 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:27.359 bad time. Never unschedulable, God is unschedulable, so he doesn't 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:32.640 ask is it a bad time? Is it bad time 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:36.480 for me to be your provider? Actually, if he asked that, 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:40.040 it's only for the purpose that it's going to make 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:43.560 him look that much better when he does it, they 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:47.199 missed what I just said. If God ever ask you, 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:52.600 is this a bad time? I hear somebody saying it's 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:57.960 a bad time for a blessing. It's a bad time. 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:00.560 I can't be happy right now. I can't I can't 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:02.840 have peace right now, I can't be content right now. 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:06.199 It's a bad time. It's a bad time. I'm single, 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:08.960 it's a bad time. We just got married, we don't 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:11.800 have much money. It's a bad time. Our kids are little, 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:14.960 it's a bad time. Our kids are toddlers, it's a 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.439 bad time. Our kids are teenagers. It's bad time. My 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:22.240 kids are going When would be a good time? When 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:25.240 would be? One time? I read a book on sales 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:30.800 and Eric is a salesman, a recovering salesman. And they 0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.159 said that never ask them? Can I come see you? 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:35.920 They said, when would be a good time? When would be? 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:40.239 What's a good time? You don't ask them? Can I 0:28:40.440 --> 0:28:42.240 just say? When would be a good time? God doesn't 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:47.800 ask that. God. In fact, God's like, you need to 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:49.320 illustrate it from the text, or do you just want 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:53.800 me to tell you want a text already gave you 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:57.960 Genesis twelve and you're so greedy? John eleven, John eleven, 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:03.360 John eleven, Lazarus, the one you love is sick. When 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:06.560 he heard Lazarus was sick, he waited where he was 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:09.840 two more days. Check me out in your bible. You 0:29:09.880 --> 0:29:12.520 think I'm making this up. You're like, oh no, Pastor's 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:14.960 been locked in an empty auditorium with forty staff members 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:17.720 too long. He forgot that God is an on time God. 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:21.040 Jesus was like, oh, yeah, he's sick. All right, let's 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:24.520 wait a little bit. We got to wait to us 0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:30.120 a bad time. It's a bad time. If you go 0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:33.000 right now, it'll be a good time. It'll be the 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:35.320 right time. But I want to show up at the 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:40.040 wrong time. I want to bless you at a bad time. 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:43.480 I want to show you how powerful I am in 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:47.760 a bad time. All right, Jesus, you got to stay 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:51.400 on schedule. The Ministry of Jesus must have been so 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:56.520 frustrating that it's like, hey, Mary and Martha are major donors, Jesus, 0:29:57.320 --> 0:29:59.760 this is not good for him for you to not 0:29:59.840 --> 0:30:01.960 go to bet They that demon possessed man that you 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:05.000 just heal, You probably could have left him off the schedule. 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:09.400 You can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule. 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:14.920 And just because it wasn't on the Disciples schedule, what 0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:20.240 makes us think it wasn't on Jesus' schedule. Just because 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:23.320 you didn't see it come in doesn't mean it didn't 0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:29.920 come from God. Thank you, Lord, I received that from 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:35.040 my own life. You know that that God isn't going 0:30:35.080 --> 0:30:39.040 to check my schedule to do his will. Lord, Okay, 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:40.840 is this it you go? Are you gonna get it? 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:42.160 Are you gonna get him now? Is this the time 0:30:42.200 --> 0:30:43.880 where you're gonna start the kingdom? That's what the disciples 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:47.360 wanted to know. But remember when you remember this JJ 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:52.360 Mark five. Gyrus comes and he's a synagogue leader. He's important, 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:55.760 he's important. You can tell what's important to someone by 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:58.800 what they schedule his twelve year old daughter. I have 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:01.840 a twelve year old son, Grandma's twelve right now, so 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:04.360 I can picture this. His twelve year old daughter is 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:07.960 about to die. This is an urgent and urgent need 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:10.360 for Jesus to go and heal this little girl. And 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:12.280 some of you have an urgent need with your kids 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:14.720 right now. So that's why I wanted to bring the 0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:17.760 scripture into the conversation. Is that Jesus was on his 0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:21.280 way to heal Gyrous, who was an important official. This 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.560 is a a political figure. He has a lot of 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:26.400 power and he's he's and he's asking Jesus to come 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:29.800 to his house. On the way, a woman stops Jesus, 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:36.640 who is unclean by society standards. He stops because she 0:31:36.840 --> 0:31:41.080 thinks if I can touch him, I'll be made whole. 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:46.120 And and and what she said was true. She touched him, 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:52.560 he stopped, she was healed. Gyrus's daughter died. Now. I 0:31:52.600 --> 0:31:54.320 don't know that I ever saw it this way before. 0:31:57.120 --> 0:31:59.440 Some of y'all, especially with what we're going through right now, 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:04.240 you're real worried about your kids because your kids are 0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:10.440 off schedule right now. I need every mom. I need 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:15.000 every mom who needs to know whether your kids are 0:32:15.000 --> 0:32:18.720 going back to school. In the chat, I want you 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:23.000 to put in the chat the following prayer request. I 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:29.920 need details, Jesus, I need details, Jesus. I just need 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:34.280 to know if it's going to be Furdic education academy 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:37.800 this year. I want to apply for my nonprofit status 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:39.880 if I'm going to have to educate these kids again. 0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:42.720 Come on, because it's crazy. Some of y'all are watching 0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:45.160 this message in the year twenty thirty five, so you're 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:47.880 watching this at a weird time in history. We have 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:55.320 had an unschedulable year. Life is unschedulable. We laugh at 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:57.800 each other. Now, hey man, let's get together next week. 0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:04.520 If the world isn't over. We put an asterisk by 0:33:04.640 --> 0:33:08.920 everything right now? Hey man, I'll see you tomorrow if 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:18.840 armageddon doesn't come. And we're only halfway kidding, right. I 0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:22.600 can't wait to watch the Clemson Tigers if they ever 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:26.480 play again. How will I know it's fall if there 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:30.280 are no college boys in tight pants with tainted helmets 0:33:30.480 --> 0:33:33.600 to signify the season. I don't even know what time 0:33:33.640 --> 0:33:41.400 it is. It's unschedulable. And now I'm supposed to prioritize 0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:43.560 the gods, but I'm not even allowed to go to church. 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:51.360 But how do you keep your priorities when life recks 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:58.960 your schedule. While Jesus was healing the woman, the little 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:05.080 girl died. The little girl die, and the servant said 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:07.840 something that's been going through your mind too. They told Gyrus, 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:13.600 don't bother the teacher anymore. The girl is daddy. It's 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:18.439 too late. He got off scheduled. Peter tried to get 0:34:18.440 --> 0:34:20.960 that woman away. Su were away, but she was persistent. 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:26.000 Jesus healed her anyway. Jesus is always stopping for stupid stuff. 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:29.480 Let the children come to me, Jesus. The children don't 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.759 have any money to put into offering account. Come on, 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:33.799 let's go back to Bethany. And he a Lazarus. Why 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:35.800 are you stopping and knock knock jokes with the kids. 0:34:35.840 --> 0:34:39.120 Come on, Jesus, you can tell somebody's priorities by what 0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:47.560 they schedule. Now, if that's true, and God still has 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:52.600 you here in this season, at this time, if God 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:56.200 has you parenting those children, if God has you in 0:34:56.280 --> 0:35:00.319 that position, if God has you in that Assida, at 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:03.040 that place, that city time, if God puts you here 0:35:03.480 --> 0:35:11.080 right now, you must be important to his purpose. If 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:14.600 God is speaking this word to you right now, you 0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:18.120 can tell what's important to someone by what they schedule. 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:21.960 And just like he stopped for a woman who most 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:25.600 priests wouldn't have touched for fear of defilement, just like 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:29.000 he stopped for a leper who he could have stone, 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.440 just like he sat on a well to speak to 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:34.439 a woman from Samaria, a place the Jews would walk 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.120 around to avoid having to confront people that they hated. 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:41.919 God has stopped this moment to speak to you. I'm 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:45.680 not closing. I got more to say. When I talk soft, 0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:49.360 I'm scared he'll start playing beautifully. But I'm not done. 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.080 As a matter of fact, check your schedule right now. 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:54.040 Can I tell you one more thing? Do you have 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.480 time to hear from God? Some of you for the 0:35:56.520 --> 0:36:02.080 first time in your life. You've had time lately, and 0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:05.720 now you crowded out your schedule with even more crap, 0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:09.400 and your bored and your mind is busy, and you 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:16.319 can't figure out why we want to compartmentalize God. You 0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:22.400 know Jesus was Jesus was still on schedule. Come on, 0:36:22.480 --> 0:36:23.920 put it in the chat. He's still on the schedule. 0:36:23.960 --> 0:36:26.719 He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule. Don't touch 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:28.120 your neighbor. I don't want to get sued by my 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:29.719 own staff. But look at him and say, he's still 0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:32.600 on schedule. He's still on schedule. He's still on schedule. 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:34.919 Oh Jesus, you want us to go to the other 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.799 side on the boat. Okay, we'll go. Wait wait, there's 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:39.799 a storm. It's going to throw us off schedule. No, no no, 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:42.560 no, no no, no, you're still on schedule. In fact, even 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:47.520 the storm has an appointment, even the trial has an appointment. 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:51.239 You don't hear me. Even the thing that we did 0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:53.760 not put on our calendar is a part of our calling. 0:36:54.640 --> 0:36:58.279 Don't you believe he's sovereign? Don't you believe he's immutable? 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:00.920 So if he can't change, no matter how much the 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:05.480 world does, he doesn't. But maybe we need to reset 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:11.319 our schedule. Reset our schedule. So when Jesus finally gets 0:37:11.360 --> 0:37:15.359 to the tomb of Lazarus and he's he's gonna raise 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:17.799 his friend from the dead, but he's late, and if 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:21.600 he would have gotten there on schedule, Lazarus never would 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:24.440 have died. Lean in, I got to tell you something, 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:29.080 he said, Uh, Martha, Martha. He met her at the gate, 0:37:29.520 --> 0:37:32.240 He said, do you believe she said, if you would 0:37:32.239 --> 0:37:37.279 have been here, he wouldn't have died. Jesus said, let's reschedule. 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:41.000 I know I didn't show up when you wanted me. 0:37:42.360 --> 0:37:44.680 I know I didn't do it by the time that 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:47.239 you thought I was gonna do it. But I hear 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:51.600 God saying, can we reschedule? I know this year hasn't 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:54.279 gone like you thought it was gonna go. I know 0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:56.880 you don't know how to teach your kid algebra and 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:59.480 you're worried they're gonna grow up dumb and can't count. 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:02.759 But can we reschedule. I'm gonna make up lost time. 0:38:03.120 --> 0:38:06.400 God is a good driver. God knows the back roads. 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:10.399 God knows how to get there. Anyway. God knows how 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:13.960 to reroute an expectation. And this is a faith word. 0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:17.120 This isn't a sit there and cry cause us over word. 0:38:17.360 --> 0:38:21.520 This is a Martha your brother will rise again. And 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:27.120 she said, even now, somebody shout. Now that's the magic word. 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:31.200 God said, can we reschedule? I know you've been stuck 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:34.239 in the past, worried about what you should have done 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:37.160 by now. I know you've been stuck in the future, 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:42.680 wondering what's coming next. Can we reschedule? My name is 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:47.239 the Great? I am. I am in this moment. Hey, Moses, 0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:51.360 take off your shoes. I know you didn't schedule a 0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:58.760 meeting with destiny, but this is holy ground. Whoo, whoo, 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:04.120 let's reach schedule. Come on, let's reschedule. God said, I 0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:10.080 will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. I 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:16.000 will restore the years that depression has stolen. I will 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:23.120 restore the joy that fear has wronged. I am resurrection. 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:30.680 Resurrection works on a different schedule. Resurrection has faith to 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:41.439 know on Saturday Sunday starm it less. Reschedule. How meets 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:44.960 you on Sunday, How meets you in the valley, How 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:48.320 meets you in the storm. How meets you in the pain? 0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:52.200 I got your kids, I got your money, I got 0:39:52.280 --> 0:40:01.920 your mind, I got your nation. I got let's free schedule, 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:07.279 less ree schedule. I didn't miss church this morning. I 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:11.759 just moved church. My living room is the Anointed Apostolic 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:16.360 Holy Temple of the first Baptist, Methodist Presbyterian Elevation Church. Location. 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:23.920 Let's free schedule, les's reschedule. He didn't give him a schedule. 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:28.400 We ain't gonna come up with that vaccine. Man. I 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:34.280 don't know, well, do I look like a doctor? Doctors 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:41.480 don't wear sweaters? This trendy? I don't know. But he 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:44.480 did not give them a schedule. Are you at this time? 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:47.959 He didn't give Abraham a schedule. You know what's really 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:50.680 gonna mess you up? Sit down because this is depressing. 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:54.600 Abraham was seventy five when God told him I'm gonna 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:58.440 make your father and his wife's wound was buried. So 0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:01.399 he gave him the source of the blessing. I will 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:05.600 bless you the scope of the blessing. All people will 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:09.560 be blessed. But he didn't have a seed, he didn't 0:41:09.560 --> 0:41:15.160 have a son, and he wouldn't until he was one 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.200 hundred years old. And in case you're that one that 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:21.240 can't do math that I was talking about, that's twenty 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:26.520 five years that God did not tell Abraham about. But 0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:31.279 he was right on the schedule. How can I make 0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:35.720 you feel this? That's longer than we've known each other, Holly, 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:40.040 we hadn't even known each other. Twenty five years. That's 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:48.319 older than y'all put together. Twenty five years. He didn't 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:51.600 tell him to schedule. How many y'all think I could 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:53.440 trust you better? God? If you show me the schedule, 0:41:55.440 --> 0:41:57.719 it's not a trick question. You're allowed to want it. It 0:41:57.600 --> 0:42:00.600 It don't mean he's gonna do it. Not gonna show 0:42:00.640 --> 0:42:06.319 you the schedule. You can't handle the schedule, I promise you. 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:10.279 When Jesus said, right after they caught fish, hey follow me. 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:14.760 He left out some details that part about the cross. 0:42:15.239 --> 0:42:18.120 He told me that a little later. He tells you 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:23.360 some stuff a little later. He's an unschedulable God, and 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:25.640 so he doesn't tell them, Hey, they're gonna try to 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:27.359 kill me. You are always gonna be on the move, 0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:29.399 always gonna be on the run. I'm gonna do per 0:42:29.600 --> 0:42:33.120 P PR nightmare kind of stuff. That's gonna get us 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:36.400 in the headlines every day. It's gonna be terrible. Follow me, 0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:40.040 he said, Hey, you like those fish, Follow me. That's 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:42.120 all he told him. Apron, go to the land. I'll 0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:45.400 show you now. My wife never would have gone along 0:42:45.600 --> 0:42:51.520 with God on this one because she loves details. Oh yes, 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:55.720 I am much more like God than Holly in this area. 0:42:56.440 --> 0:42:59.719 Because I don't need the details. I don't need the 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:03.000 de I just want to know what time are we 0:43:03.000 --> 0:43:04.879 picking up the kids. I don't need to know which 0:43:04.920 --> 0:43:06.759 of their friends might be coming with them. I don't 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:08.759 need to know if that friend's parent is mad at 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:11.080 the other friends parents. I don't need to know whether 0:43:11.200 --> 0:43:13.480 or not they're saying by switching schools. I don't need 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:15.799 to know whether their great uncle had a coronavirus test 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:18.640 they came back negative, but they thought. She loves the 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:25.520 d tales. I don't need all that. Abraham's like, I 0:43:25.520 --> 0:43:30.160 don't need all that. You said you bless me, you 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:33.240 said you'd be with me, You told me the source, 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:40.800 you told me the scope, you handle the skeedule. Within 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:46.520 about year eleven, it started getting kind of sketchy. Now 0:43:46.520 --> 0:43:48.680 God is sketchy with the details, and I'm gonna prove 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:53.080 it to you. That sounds heretical, but I promise you 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:57.160 God is sketchy with the details on some stuff, on 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:00.640 some stuff, on some stuff. Told them to build the 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:03.000 tabernacle when they were in the wilderness, right, He told 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:05.920 them what kind of yarn, what kind of curtains, what 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:09.560 kind of brass. He gave them all the dimensions, but 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.440 he left out a few details because this was the 0:44:12.480 --> 0:44:14.799 place where in the tent of meeting that God's glory 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.840 would fill in the middle of the camp. They're wandering 0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:19.839 around in the wilderness. They need a place to meet 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:23.960 with God. Right, Can I show you this numbers Chapter nine, 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:27.319 Watch how sketchy God is with the details, he said. 0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:30.640 The historian is recording how it would work, how God 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:32.600 would guide his people, And how many of you want 0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:34.840 God to guide your life? Just raise your hand right 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:37.080 there in the chat. I want God to guide me. 0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:42.600 I want a GPS, a God positioning system, right because 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:44.080 I want to be where God wants me to be, 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:45.440 and I want to know what he wants me to know, 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:46.759 and I want to do what he calls me to 0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:48.920 do because everything else is a waste of my time. 0:44:49.640 --> 0:44:52.160 All Right, This is how he would guide them. On 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:54.000 the day the Tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:56.200 was set up, the cloud covered it from evening till morning. 0:44:56.400 --> 0:44:59.279 The cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. You got 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:01.960 the picture. Here's the tabernacle. He told him how to 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.879 build it. He told him how high, how wide, how long, 0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:08.200 all the dimensions. But then there would be a cloud 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:12.920 above the tabernacle, which represented God's presence, market presence. It 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:16.520 represented his presence. And this is how it continued to be. 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:19.839 It went on like this. The cloud covered it, and 0:45:19.920 --> 0:45:23.080 at night it looked like fire. Next verse, I'm going 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:25.240 to roll through all of them. Just go quick. Whenever 0:45:25.239 --> 0:45:28.319 the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out. 0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:31.400 Wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. This is the 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:34.000 system how God guided them. At the Lord's command, the 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:37.640 Israelites set out at his command. They encamped. As long 0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:40.320 as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:43.480 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.080 the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:49.640 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days. 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:53.320 At the Lord's command, they wouldn't camp, and then in 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:57.400 his command they would set out. Sometimes the cloud stayed 0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:00.319 only from evening till morning. When it lifted in the morning, 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:02.160 they set out, whether by day or by night. Wherever 0:46:02.200 --> 0:46:05.439 the cloud lifted, they set out. Whether the cloud stayed 0:46:05.480 --> 0:46:07.480 over the tabernacle for two days or a month or 0:46:07.520 --> 0:46:16.359 a year. WHOA, Okay, that's a wide range. So you're 0:46:16.400 --> 0:46:21.080 following this presence of God and and and I'm not 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:23.040 telling you to be flaky. God. I can't stand when 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:25.839 people are just flaky and they call it faith. God 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.080 calls you to quit every job after three months, once 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:30.279 everybody that works with you sees how dysfunctional you are, 0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:32.880 so you just transplant your dysfunction to another place and 0:46:32.920 --> 0:46:34.799 you just move it around like it's some kind of 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:37.680 like you could just avoid having to give attention to 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:41.719 your issues. I lost every amen in Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:44.280 What's wrong with y'all. I'm not talking about just moving. 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:47.520 I'm talking about how God guides us in our daily life, 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:50.560 how we experience him. You're listening to me. I'm not 0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:53.920 talking about everybody just moving all around and and and 0:46:53.920 --> 0:46:57.680 and and just chasing the next feeling and just chasing 0:46:57.719 --> 0:46:59.920 the next trend. But what they had to do was 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.919 they had to pay attention to what God was doing 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:05.960 in that moment. They had to pay attention watch just 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:08.479 whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days 0:47:08.560 --> 0:47:11.040 or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain 0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:13.879 in camp and set out, but when they lifted, when 0:47:13.920 --> 0:47:17.080 the cloud lifted, they would set out. Is that the 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:19.960 last verse. At the Lord's comand they encamped. At the 0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:21.960 Lord's command, they set out, you see in the pattern here. 0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:25.320 They obeyed the Lord's order in accordance with his command 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:28.680 through Moses. Here's the whole thing I got up here 0:47:28.680 --> 0:47:31.359 to tell you, okay, and it ties together with Acts 0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:33.200 chapter one, where he said, I'm not going to tell 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:35.560 you when, but I will tell you who the Holy Spirit. 0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:37.399 I'm not going to tell you when, but I will 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:40.120 tell you what power. I'm not going to tell you 0:47:40.200 --> 0:47:42.200 all of all of the details, but i will tell 0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:44.560 you the scope of the blessing. I'm going to use 0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:47.920 you to do way more than you could ever picture. Okay, 0:47:48.080 --> 0:47:49.640 now that we got that out of the way, let 0:47:49.640 --> 0:47:53.440 me tell you this from Numbers Chapter nine. God's presence 0:47:54.239 --> 0:48:05.399 is unschedulable. I'm not sure or about that, preacher. I mean, 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:08.160 I read my Bible every morning at the same time, 0:48:08.200 --> 0:48:09.919 and the Lord speaks to me. I'm sure he does. 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:13.400 But you can't leave him with your coffee cup in 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:16.120 the sink when you go out the door. You got 0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:20.000 to move with him. You got to move with him. 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:23.319 The cloud would stay. And God knows how we are 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:26.439 as humans. If he did it at the same time 0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:30.480 every day, they would worship how he did it and 0:48:30.520 --> 0:48:35.200 lose sight of him. So when we're working out, Andrew, 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:37.880 they always talk about muscle confusion. If you do the 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:40.600 same exercises over and over, you won't get stronger. I 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:44.640 call this miracle confusion where God knew. I'm going to 0:48:44.719 --> 0:48:47.840 teach you to move when I move. I'm going to 0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:51.279 teach you to obey when I speak. I'm gonna show 0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:55.040 you not how to set your schedule and worship your schedule. 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.520 God is not a monument. God is not a formula. 0:48:58.880 --> 0:49:03.040 God is not a concept. God is not human logic. No, no, no, 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:06.400 God does not check your schedule, and by the way, 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:09.520 neither does the devil. The devil doesn't look and see 0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:11.239 We'll be all right if I stopped by three thirty 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.480 Tuesday afternoon and visit you with depression, anxiety attack, panic attack, 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:17.279 and shortness of breath. No, you gotta stay in a 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:20.000 place where you know how to breathe in the presence 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:23.040 of God. You gotta stay in a place where you 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:26.680 are looking at the presence of God. When Psalmus said, 0:49:27.040 --> 0:49:30.920 I lift my eyes to the hills, my help doesn't 0:49:30.920 --> 0:49:34.760 come from the north, the south, the east, or the west. 0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:38.000 My help comes from the Lord. Now who does your 0:49:38.200 --> 0:49:43.680 help come from? Who does your help come from? And 0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:51.000 if God wants to reset your schedule, will you let him? 0:49:51.080 --> 0:49:53.440 If God wants to move, He's like, Hey, I know 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:55.319 all your other friends are over here doing this, that 0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:57.080 and the other. But I got something different for you. 0:49:57.280 --> 0:50:03.239 God said, can we reschedule? I know you had all 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:06.960 this stuff that you were gonna do this year, Can 0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:11.560 we reschedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me 0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:15.360 make it up to you. I almost hear the Lord saying, 0:50:16.200 --> 0:50:19.120 I'm gonna do exceeding abundantly above what you had on 0:50:19.160 --> 0:50:23.040 your schedule. I almost hear the Lord saying, let me 0:50:23.160 --> 0:50:28.600 get you ready for what I have scheduled. See to 0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:32.080 really trust God. We can sing about that and quote 0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:34.919 about that, but to trust in the Lord with all 0:50:35.000 --> 0:50:39.680 your heart means that you have to move with him. 0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.759 You have to move with him. And life has come 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:46.280 along this year and interrupted your rhythm. I know it sucks. 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:49.640 I'm not saying you have to like it, but what 0:50:49.680 --> 0:50:53.560 are you gonna do with it? He didn't promise you 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:58.400 a schedule. He promised you a spirit. See that's better. 0:50:58.640 --> 0:51:01.799 That's better. That's better because his spirit will give me 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:04.879 the ability to step out if I need to step out, 0:51:05.600 --> 0:51:08.560 or to stay put if I need to stay put. 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:13.080 So this is for you. If you feel behind schedule. 0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:15.600 I should have more money in the bank by now, 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:18.040 I should know more of the Bible by now. It 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:22.040 does not matter what your schedule was. It matters what 0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:25.560 God spoke about you before you were born. Do you 0:51:25.640 --> 0:51:31.640 get it now? You can be seventy five and eleven 0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:35.160 years into waiting. Abraham tried to have a baby with 0:51:35.239 --> 0:51:40.800 Hagar because he got tired of waiting for the schedule. 0:51:42.840 --> 0:51:49.480 I'm glad that the disciples waited for the spirit, and 0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:54.600 whatever you're waiting for today, I just needed to make 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:56.799 it clear as clear as I can. I can't make 0:51:56.840 --> 0:51:58.719 it as clear as I saw it. I'd never be 0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:01.040 able to do that, but I just saw God saying, 0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:06.480 stop trying to schedule me, like build your schedule, but 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:09.759 realize some of the best things that I'm gonna do 0:52:09.760 --> 0:52:12.080 in your life are not gonna be on your schedule. 0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:17.359 Can anybody testify that one of the greatest blessings God 0:52:17.400 --> 0:52:21.759 gave you, the greatest blessings are unschedulable. And if you 0:52:21.800 --> 0:52:24.840 are so stuck on what you thought this stage of 0:52:24.880 --> 0:52:26.840 life or what you thought this day would be, like, 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:31.200 I'm telling you you are gonna miss the gift. Wait 0:52:31.200 --> 0:52:34.879 for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. If that's 0:52:34.920 --> 0:52:36.520 your word, you can put it in the chat or 0:52:36.560 --> 0:52:38.400 you can just put it on a post. I'm waiting 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:41.080 for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift, and I'm 0:52:41.080 --> 0:52:43.080 looking for the gift, and I'm looking for the cause. 0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:46.640 And I can't schedule God's presence now. I can't schedule 0:52:46.640 --> 0:52:48.959 God's presence and say you should have done this then, 0:52:49.040 --> 0:52:50.839 and you should have done that there, and you need 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:53.560 to give me details, then I'm sorry, You're not gonna 0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:56.360 get all the details. God will tell you what to 0:52:56.440 --> 0:52:58.920 build but he will not tell you when to move it. 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:04.040 He wants you to depend on him. This is the 0:53:04.040 --> 0:53:07.759 most anointed word I've preached all year, because God is 0:53:07.800 --> 0:53:12.400 resetting our schedules, and what we are calling interruptions are 0:53:12.440 --> 0:53:17.400 really invitations. Praise Him for him, Praise h for him. 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:22.839 Jesus said to Jyrus, don't be afraid. Just believe. When 0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:25.280 he got to the house, the little girl was dead. 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:29.560 To the other people, she was sleeping to Jesus because 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:34.120 he has his own schedule. Heaven has a schedule, Heaven 0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:38.400 has a purpose, Heaven has a blueprint, Heaven has a process. 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:44.919 Have you submitted your schedule to the Lord? Just to say, Lord, 0:53:44.960 --> 0:53:51.200 I'm I want to reschedule. I thought you were going 0:53:51.280 --> 0:53:54.560 to do this, but let's reschedule. Lord. I thought you 0:53:54.600 --> 0:53:57.000 were gonna heal Lazarus, but hey, if you want to 0:53:57.080 --> 0:53:58.959 raise him from the dead, let's go to the tomb. 0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:04.320 I roll the stone. Yeah. I've been disappointed. I've been depressed. 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:07.919 I've been stressed out, but less reschedule. I've been confused, 0:54:08.360 --> 0:54:12.719 but I've been trying to control the timing, and you've 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:15.799 been calling me to trust you, so I receive power. 0:54:15.840 --> 0:54:19.960 Lift your hands I receive power. I receive power. I 0:54:20.040 --> 0:54:23.600 receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on me, and 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:31.000 I'm gonna be a witness wherever I go. Father, I 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:36.439 thank you in this moment for the unschedulable. Unschedulable God, 0:54:36.480 --> 0:54:39.400 help me say it. That's what happens when you make 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:42.160 up a word. You mess up your prayer. The unschedulable 0:54:42.200 --> 0:54:46.320 blessings that are coming to your people all over the world, 0:54:46.960 --> 0:54:52.480 the unschedulable blessings, the testimonies that are coming because you 0:54:52.600 --> 0:54:58.680 are an unschedulable God. You give a hundred year old 0:54:58.719 --> 0:55:05.319 man a baby. You can bless us behind schedule. At 0:55:05.320 --> 0:55:07.520 the same time, you can be interrupted by a woman 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:11.320 with the issue of blood. You can bless us ahead 0:55:11.320 --> 0:55:15.520 of schedule. You can do that. You can do anything 0:55:15.880 --> 0:55:20.600 because you're God. You can prepare a table in the 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:23.399 presence of our enemies. You don't even have to get 0:55:23.480 --> 0:55:28.919 rid of the problem to bless us. You're unschedulable. It's 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:32.480 not for us to know the time. We can't control anything. 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:36.839 We can't even control our kids little league schedule. We 0:55:36.920 --> 0:55:39.680 certainly can't control how things unfold in our life. So 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:44.720 we just gonna We're just gonna wait, not because we're lazy, 0:55:45.600 --> 0:55:49.759 just because we know you love us. Some of the 0:55:49.760 --> 0:55:55.360 best stuff I think God will do in your life 0:55:57.719 --> 0:56:04.600 will not be on your schedule, Brandon. I was in 0:56:04.640 --> 0:56:08.880 your neck of the woods on Sullivan's Island in twenty 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:14.480 sixteen on vacation. It's a beautiful place. I love going 0:56:14.480 --> 0:56:18.000 there with the family. And Holly wanted us to go 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:22.920 to some farmers market at Sullivan's Island, and she somehow 0:56:22.960 --> 0:56:27.440 canned me into going with them. And you remember the 0:56:28.200 --> 0:56:31.200 girl Addie May who came over and do you remember 0:56:31.440 --> 0:56:33.960 her or do you yeah? Do you remember she had 0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:38.480 that She had cupcakes and pastries and stuff. And she 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:40.400 said she listened to the podcasting could we get a 0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:44.200 picture together? And you know, I had my hat on 0:56:44.360 --> 0:56:46.480 and my sunglasses. She was like, I thought that was you. 0:56:47.480 --> 0:56:50.880 I've thought I recognized you, and she was she was 0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:54.160 so kind and nice, and then she said, you know what, 0:56:54.239 --> 0:56:56.080 my pastor's going to be jealous that I met you. 0:56:56.960 --> 0:57:03.000 She said, he invited you to speak at our church. 0:57:03.400 --> 0:57:07.920 And this week we're having convocation at our church and 0:57:08.040 --> 0:57:10.920 holy convocation, and they invited you to come speak. And 0:57:10.960 --> 0:57:12.600 your office said you couldn't come because you were on 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:19.480 vacation with your family. And I said, well, that's exactly what. No, 0:57:20.200 --> 0:57:23.240 it's exactly what you're seeing here. You will be witnesses. 0:57:25.920 --> 0:57:29.320 She said, okay, okay, and she brought over a box 0:57:29.360 --> 0:57:33.200 of sugar for my kids so that they could be 0:57:33.280 --> 0:57:35.760 crack addicts all night, which I greatly appreciate it. Thanks 0:57:35.800 --> 0:57:38.160 for taking a picture. Let me dope up your kids 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:40.320 on sugar as a way of saying thank you, appreciate 0:57:40.360 --> 0:57:45.640 your ministry. And she said, oh yeah, she said, I 0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:47.960 just talked to my pastor again. He told me to 0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:51.120 make sure to invite you to come to convocation. I said, no, 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:57.960 Addie May, I said, vacation, not no con con You know, 0:57:58.080 --> 0:58:01.560 sometimes God will con you, right, I don't mean he'll 0:58:01.760 --> 0:58:05.160 I don't mean he'll trick you because he's deceptive. He's impeccable. Remember, 0:58:05.400 --> 0:58:07.920 but sometimes you will think that you're going to the 0:58:07.960 --> 0:58:12.960 farmer's market. But God, who He just knows the future, 0:58:13.000 --> 0:58:14.880 and you have to know that about him. He knows 0:58:14.880 --> 0:58:16.760 the future. I know the plans I have for you, 0:58:17.400 --> 0:58:19.120 plans to prospcure, not the harm you, plans to give 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:22.320 you hope in the future. So now, don't you want 0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:24.280 the one who knows the future to set the schedule. 0:58:25.240 --> 0:58:27.080 Don't you want him to bring the right people into 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:29.480 your life? Don't you want him to get the wrong 0:58:29.520 --> 0:58:32.280 ones out shout over the second one, the second ones 0:58:32.360 --> 0:58:34.640 one to shout about too. Don't you want him to 0:58:34.640 --> 0:58:37.320 open the doors, the one who knows the future, don't 0:58:37.320 --> 0:58:42.640 you want him to close some too. So it's just, 0:58:43.000 --> 0:58:46.320 you know, a normal afternoon. She said, you should come 0:58:46.360 --> 0:58:51.360 to convocation. That's uh huh, sounds good. Now I'm trying 0:58:51.400 --> 0:58:54.080 to find a way to end the conversation. Now that 0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:56.640 this conversation went to the convocation, I was trying to 0:58:56.720 --> 0:59:00.520 have a vacation. She said, we've got great speed, and 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:03.000 she named a bunch of people I didn't know, and 0:59:03.040 --> 0:59:05.920 then she said one for one of the nights that 0:59:06.000 --> 0:59:08.480 I did know, and I always wanted to hear him preach. 0:59:09.120 --> 0:59:13.000 I said, huh. Got suddenly got interested, And I thought, well, 0:59:13.040 --> 0:59:14.400 I'm still not going to go, but let me at 0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:15.800 least write it down. You know, maybe they have a 0:59:15.800 --> 0:59:17.680 live stream or something I can watch and preach. Maybe 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:19.280 I could have lunch with him. Maybe I could skip 0:59:19.360 --> 0:59:21.240 church and meet him if he's coming this way. You know, 0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:25.120 church is just right down the road. And she gave 0:59:25.160 --> 0:59:28.120 me the crack, let me the cupcakes for my kids, 0:59:29.840 --> 0:59:33.960 and she wrote down the name of the church and 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:38.160 the date of the thing for convocation, and I didn't 0:59:38.200 --> 0:59:42.760 think much about it. I asked Jess, who is my sister, 0:59:43.080 --> 0:59:46.080 to say, reach out to this preacher. He's coming to 0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:48.600 this church on this night, and just see if we 0:59:48.640 --> 0:59:50.760 can say hello. We've talked a few times, but I 0:59:50.880 --> 0:59:54.560 never really got to beat him. It'd be good. And 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:56.360 she hit me back and said, yeah, he wants to 0:59:56.360 --> 1:00:01.480 do it. He wants to meet with you. And the 1:00:01.800 --> 1:00:03.480 next week world around, and I'd kind of forgot. I 1:00:03.520 --> 1:00:08.200 was in my vacation flow, you know, limited showers, no 1:00:08.360 --> 1:00:13.200 shaving or anything like that, and I was like, Oh, 1:00:13.200 --> 1:00:15.960 this is the day I'm going to meet with the pastor. 1:00:16.640 --> 1:00:20.800 And Jess texted me. She's like, oh, by the way, 1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:24.720 so and so had to cancel. They had emergency back surgery. 1:00:24.720 --> 1:00:29.120 He can't come. And you know how, sometimes you'll get 1:00:29.120 --> 1:00:32.520 an idea and it's not God, and you're like, I 1:00:32.640 --> 1:00:35.640 rebuke you, devil, I'm not doing that. And then sometimes 1:00:35.640 --> 1:00:38.600 you'll get an idea and you will try to rebuke it, 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:43.800 and it remains. And the more you think about it, 1:00:43.880 --> 1:00:46.200 you're like, I think this might be what God wants 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:48.640 me to do. Something inside of me. I believe it 1:00:48.720 --> 1:00:50.800 was the Holy Spirit, because I don't think the Holy 1:00:50.840 --> 1:00:52.720 Spirit just gets you to speak in tongues. I think 1:00:52.720 --> 1:00:57.080 it gets you to take steps and do simple things. 1:00:58.200 --> 1:01:01.120 You better hear me. It's not all something sensational. It 1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:03.320 can be very simple how the Spirit can guide you. 1:01:04.280 --> 1:01:08.200 And this is what the unschedulable God did. Okay, he 1:01:08.280 --> 1:01:10.440 spoke to me just in a kind of an impression, 1:01:11.560 --> 1:01:14.640 call the church and offer to fill in for the preacher. 1:01:15.440 --> 1:01:21.480 I said, Lord, that's creepy. Hey, you want me to 1:01:22.080 --> 1:01:23.880 come over and preach for you. I could come preach 1:01:23.960 --> 1:01:26.760 for you. I'm over here just wanting to preach. I 1:01:26.760 --> 1:01:30.960 got my Bible. I got a a Bible skipture. I 1:01:31.000 --> 1:01:33.360 could come free. I got I'm not calling the church. 1:01:33.720 --> 1:01:36.160 And the Lord said you were the one they wanted 1:01:36.200 --> 1:01:38.160 on that night. They couldn't get you because you were 1:01:38.200 --> 1:01:40.560 on vacation. Not call the church, I said, Lord, she 1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:43.920 didn't write down the number. The Lord spoke to me 1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:51.720 very powerful, he said, Google, he's very practical, right, you're 1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:54.000 asking God for all kinds of big stuff. God just 1:01:54.040 --> 1:01:57.160 wants you to do practical things. Sometimes I called and 1:01:57.200 --> 1:01:59.560 it rang like six times and nobody answered. I said, 1:01:59.560 --> 1:02:01.920 thank you, or six is the number of men? And 1:02:02.480 --> 1:02:05.840 you know, and before the seventh ring, no kidding, and 1:02:05.920 --> 1:02:08.120 I remember, man, I'm in my I don't have a 1:02:08.160 --> 1:02:10.000 shirt on, I don't have shoes on, I don't have 1:02:10.080 --> 1:02:12.480 church clothes. I'm so glad it's three in the afternoon. 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:15.240 I'm like, okay, Lord. It was like a ram in 1:02:15.280 --> 1:02:17.240 the bush, like you remember when he called Abraham and 1:02:17.240 --> 1:02:20.600 he said, uh, I sacrificed. I said, just kidding, sacrifice 1:02:20.600 --> 1:02:22.120 the ram. I'm like, oh cool. This was like one 1:02:22.120 --> 1:02:26.280 of those steals. And on the after the sixth ring, 1:02:26.320 --> 1:02:28.000 the man picks up says the name of the church, 1:02:28.000 --> 1:02:36.520 and I said, oh hey, hey, uh it's called to 1:02:36.560 --> 1:02:39.080 speak to the pastor. Pastor so and so. I say, 1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:40.920 he's not available. Can I take a message? I said, 1:02:41.320 --> 1:02:42.680 oh no, I don't. I don't want to bother me. He 1:02:42.640 --> 1:02:44.160 He said no, that the pastor would want you to 1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:47.240 leave a message. Like okay, okay, all right. My name's 1:02:47.240 --> 1:02:49.120 Stephen Ferdie. I met a girl name Addie May. She 1:02:49.160 --> 1:02:51.640 gave my kids cupcakes the farmer's market. She said, there 1:02:51.680 --> 1:02:53.520 was convocation. I don't know your name of your church. 1:02:53.520 --> 1:02:55.040 I don't know your pastor. I've never met him before, 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:57.000 never even heard of him before. But they said, do 1:02:57.000 --> 1:02:58.720 you want me to come preach? And I'm thirty minutes 1:02:58.760 --> 1:03:00.280 down the road and I'll come preach. And I just 1:03:00.320 --> 1:03:05.320 tell him that, he said, I'll tell him, and then 1:03:05.360 --> 1:03:10.680 here comes the call back. Five minutes later. He was crying. 1:03:10.840 --> 1:03:15.720 The pastor was crying. He said, I'm sorry we missed 1:03:15.760 --> 1:03:20.520 your call. We were in prayer meeting. We were praying 1:03:20.560 --> 1:03:27.560 God would give us a speaker for tonight. I had 1:03:27.600 --> 1:03:33.200 three funerals this week. See funerals don't schedule themselves. Funerals 1:03:33.200 --> 1:03:35.000 will come right in the middle of convocation, he said, 1:03:35.000 --> 1:03:36.840 I'm so out of energy. I was going to preach, 1:03:36.920 --> 1:03:40.480 but I'm dry. And we were praying. He said, did 1:03:40.480 --> 1:03:43.280 you know that you're the first person that we asked. 1:03:43.840 --> 1:03:45.520 The one we were having was going to be the 1:03:45.520 --> 1:03:47.400 second choice. Do you know that we asked you first? 1:03:48.280 --> 1:03:50.439 I said, yeah, Adie Mae told me that's crazy. I said, 1:03:50.440 --> 1:03:52.480 this is the weirdest thing. I never invite myself to 1:03:52.520 --> 1:03:55.680 preach anywhere. I don't even invite myself over to people's houses, 1:03:55.760 --> 1:03:59.760 let alone to people's pulpits. But man, do you want 1:03:59.800 --> 1:04:02.760 me to come? He said, Yes, Before I go, he said, 1:04:02.800 --> 1:04:06.160 you'll come, I said, I will. I said, but I 1:04:06.160 --> 1:04:11.520 don't have convocation clothes, I said, and really, the dressiest 1:04:11.560 --> 1:04:17.040 thing I have is some pirate black easies. And he said, 1:04:17.160 --> 1:04:20.360 I'll wear my easies too. We'll both wear our easies. 1:04:20.640 --> 1:04:24.360 You'll come preach. And I and I went out that 1:04:24.520 --> 1:04:32.400 night convacation. You hear me. I thought I was going 1:04:32.400 --> 1:04:35.640 to the farmer's market. Do you know what I mean? 1:04:37.320 --> 1:04:41.240 I thought I was just doing You don't. You don't 1:04:41.280 --> 1:04:46.120 know what Heaven has scheduled. And some of the best 1:04:46.120 --> 1:04:48.600 stuff doesn't come when you say, okay, well this is 1:04:48.880 --> 1:04:51.360 this is where it's going to be. Your kids might 1:04:51.400 --> 1:04:54.200 not turn out like you wanted them to. God might 1:04:54.280 --> 1:05:00.440 do something better on a different schedule. Right, train up 1:05:00.480 --> 1:05:03.920 a child in the way they should go, and when 1:05:03.960 --> 1:05:08.160 they are old, they will not depart from it. How old, Lord, 1:05:08.440 --> 1:05:11.880 he said, let me set the schedule. Some of the 1:05:11.920 --> 1:05:15.960 stuff I'm gonna lead them through at age seventeen, I'm 1:05:15.960 --> 1:05:19.320 gonna use it until they're seventy. You let me set 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:23.960 the schedule, You train, you obey, you show up. Look 1:05:24.360 --> 1:05:28.080 that convocation that night. I did not know this until 1:05:28.120 --> 1:05:31.560 this year, but the pastor, who was just a delightful guy, 1:05:31.720 --> 1:05:33.760 we had the best night, I mean the best night. 1:05:34.120 --> 1:05:36.880 And his son was leading worship on the worship team. 1:05:36.880 --> 1:05:39.480 He said, that's my son. He was proud. I was like, Oh, 1:05:39.480 --> 1:05:46.840 he's amazing. What an amazing It was your friend, Chandler More, Yeah, yeah, 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:50.240 it was your friend. Now me and him have been 1:05:50.240 --> 1:05:54.120 writing songs with Chris. And you know what's funny. You 1:05:54.240 --> 1:05:56.480 told me one time, and can I share this publicly 1:05:56.720 --> 1:05:58.360 that when I was coming to preach at a church 1:05:58.400 --> 1:06:00.640 one time, he said, I walked over and said. I 1:06:00.680 --> 1:06:02.920 walked over and said to him, God's gonna use you 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:07.240 in a great way. You're handsome, you got good hair, 1:06:07.280 --> 1:06:10.320 You're handsome. I'm real spiritual, you know. Man looks at 1:06:10.320 --> 1:06:13.439 the outward appearance. That's my job. God looks at the heart, 1:06:13.520 --> 1:06:17.200 not me. Can't see your heart, see your hair. I 1:06:17.240 --> 1:06:20.320 said the Lord, I said, the Lord's gonna use you 1:06:20.360 --> 1:06:21.880 or something you told me. I didn't even know that. 1:06:23.520 --> 1:06:28.240 He said. He was sixteen God's got your kids. His 1:06:28.360 --> 1:06:30.840 dad's a great man of God. And I didn't even 1:06:30.840 --> 1:06:33.120 know who your dad was. Your dad was somebody whose 1:06:33.200 --> 1:06:35.680 leadership book I read. I didn't know any of that. 1:06:36.480 --> 1:06:38.560 Was wasn't on my schedule to stop by, you know, 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:40.520 before I was preaching. I think we were at Pastor 1:06:40.560 --> 1:06:44.240 Greg Surat's church, shout out Seacoast Church. You know, I 1:06:44.280 --> 1:06:46.920 had one on my thing, my itinerary, stopped buy and 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:49.959 encouraged Samson on your way up to the pulpit. Wasn't 1:06:50.000 --> 1:06:56.440 on my schedule. Some of the best stuff in some 1:06:56.520 --> 1:07:00.000 of the blessings. God said to tell you, get ready 1:07:00.800 --> 1:07:05.600 for the unschedulable blessing. Come on, spell it in the chat. 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:08.360 If you're still with me, I've been preaching way longer 1:07:08.400 --> 1:07:12.600 than normal. But if you're ready for an unschedulable blessing, 1:07:13.000 --> 1:07:15.320 come on. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. 1:07:15.600 --> 1:07:20.000 I got nowhere to go. I'm here for it. I'm 1:07:20.040 --> 1:07:25.880 waiting for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. God, 1:07:25.960 --> 1:07:30.680 you give me the direction, I'll give you the details. Hallelujah, 1:07:31.280 --> 1:07:39.240 Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Brandon. I'll tell you 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:46.479 one more thing. We were writing a song. You weren't 1:07:46.480 --> 1:07:48.480 there that day, but in the same studio where we 1:07:48.520 --> 1:07:51.520 wrote Graves into Gardens, which by the way, was the 1:07:51.520 --> 1:07:54.200 second song we wrote that day, and it was the 1:07:55.360 --> 1:07:58.600 song that really defined the season for our church, right, 1:08:00.320 --> 1:08:04.160 and we went in and wrote. Me and Chris were 1:08:04.200 --> 1:08:08.600 in there a couple of months ago and we had 1:08:08.600 --> 1:08:10.640 a songwriting appointment, so she got to show up. You 1:08:10.640 --> 1:08:13.120 got to show up, right, You got to show up. 1:08:14.160 --> 1:08:17.120 That's the only way that you're gonna be there. Sometimes 1:08:17.160 --> 1:08:20.559 God has scheduled something for you, but you're waiting on 1:08:20.640 --> 1:08:27.960 an opportunity. The Bible says on one occasion, on one occasion, 1:08:29.360 --> 1:08:32.120 and you never know when it's gonna be the breakthrough. 1:08:32.160 --> 1:08:34.280 You never know when your kid's gonna need You're just 1:08:34.280 --> 1:08:39.000 gonna be driving them to another stupid dance recital and 1:08:39.040 --> 1:08:42.920 the conversation happens. So you don't know these things. So 1:08:42.920 --> 1:08:46.120 you have to show up. And we were writing music 1:08:46.120 --> 1:08:48.120 one day and we wrote a little song and I 1:08:48.160 --> 1:08:50.479 still like it, and we haven't done it yet. And 1:08:50.520 --> 1:08:54.960 it was and the songwriting appointment was over, and I 1:08:55.000 --> 1:08:57.320 remember looking at my watch and going, okay, cool, I 1:08:57.360 --> 1:08:59.479 got time to get home for dinner. Great, glad you 1:08:59.520 --> 1:09:02.160 finished up. Okay, let's get in here and let's uh 1:09:02.400 --> 1:09:04.120 set up the mics and let's record it real quick. 1:09:05.200 --> 1:09:07.160 Jack was setting up a mic, jay mix was in 1:09:07.160 --> 1:09:09.120 the control room, and I verified this with him the 1:09:09.160 --> 1:09:10.640 other day to make sure I remembered it right. And 1:09:10.680 --> 1:09:14.120 I told Christy, we don't need dinner. We're done. We 1:09:14.160 --> 1:09:17.320 don't need dinner. We're done. It's over. We're all gonna 1:09:17.320 --> 1:09:18.840 go our separate ways for dinner. We got we got 1:09:18.840 --> 1:09:23.679 a song. We're done. And as they were setting up mikes, 1:09:23.960 --> 1:09:27.360 a little melody idea came to mind that we recorded. 1:09:27.520 --> 1:09:30.800 It almost sounded like a lullaby. It was, May the 1:09:30.840 --> 1:09:36.280 favor of the Lord be upon you, May the glory 1:09:36.320 --> 1:09:46.040 of the Lord be your strength. May the presence of 1:09:46.040 --> 1:09:52.439 the Lord go before you. I don't even know what 1:09:52.439 --> 1:09:56.320 that line was gonna be. And give you peace, I said, 1:09:57.000 --> 1:10:02.240 court record, record, record, cocord done. All right, let's go 1:10:02.360 --> 1:10:05.560 back to the other one. And other people in the 1:10:05.600 --> 1:10:08.240 room said no, no no, no, no, let's let's work on that. 1:10:10.080 --> 1:10:12.080 I said, yeah, you'll like it, right, We got to 1:10:12.120 --> 1:10:15.080 go home, right, No no, no, no, no, no, no 1:10:15.280 --> 1:10:17.920 no no no, no, let's see let's see that might 1:10:17.960 --> 1:10:20.160 be something. That might be something somebody put in the chat. 1:10:20.160 --> 1:10:21.519 It might be something. It might be something. It might 1:10:21.560 --> 1:10:22.960 be something. It might be something. It might be something. 1:10:22.960 --> 1:10:26.640 It might be something. Never forget. Cody Carran started singing U. 1:10:27.080 --> 1:10:28.880 I said, go to number six and see if we 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:31.320 can sing it. We could write a benediction. He said, Uh, 1:10:31.800 --> 1:10:36.880 the Lord bless you and keep you. May U s 1:10:36.880 --> 1:10:42.200 face shine upon you, be gracious to you. The Lord 1:10:42.240 --> 1:10:49.599 turn is face stard you. Thank you. You know please 1:10:52.360 --> 1:10:55.720 that we don't need dinner. We're done. God said, I'm not. 1:11:00.240 --> 1:11:03.880 You'd go home if you want to, but I want 1:11:03.880 --> 1:11:08.240 to bless you. You could give up if you want to. 1:11:08.280 --> 1:11:13.639 I want to bless you. You can write this year 1:11:13.680 --> 1:11:19.000 off if you want to. I'm gonna bless you. Then 1:11:19.000 --> 1:11:29.040 discuss said, amen, amen, you remember where we sat there 1:11:29.040 --> 1:11:33.559 work getting Let's carry Joe doing over there. She's saying 1:11:33.600 --> 1:11:39.120 something about your family and your children, let's say in 1:11:39.200 --> 1:11:44.360 their children and their children. I just thought it was 1:11:44.400 --> 1:11:54.960 significant that the blessing came after we thought the session 1:11:55.040 --> 1:12:03.760 was over. He wanted me to tell you that your 1:12:03.800 --> 1:12:09.040 latter will be greater. He wanted me to tell you 1:12:10.720 --> 1:12:14.400 that just like a cana in Galilee. He saves the 1:12:14.439 --> 1:12:19.360 best wine. So you think you've run out, And don't 1:12:19.360 --> 1:12:24.080 you go home yet, And don't you very that blessing yet? 1:12:25.800 --> 1:12:29.880 Don't you cast your confidence away yet? God said, I'm 1:12:29.920 --> 1:12:35.720 an unschedulable God. I'm made up a word. Paul made 1:12:35.800 --> 1:12:39.560 up a word. He said, Alpa kara Dokia. I expect you, 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:44.759 oh blessing in the unexpected season. I'm not too young, 1:12:45.120 --> 1:12:48.720 I'm not too old. It's not too soon, it's not 1:12:48.920 --> 1:12:55.320 too late. Here comes the blessing, blessing. I will bless you, blessing. 1:12:55.400 --> 1:12:59.679 I will bless you, I will bless you, I will 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:05.280 sup will bless you you. I won't favor you, I 1:13:05.320 --> 1:13:10.200 will favor you, I will mutch you, I will use you, 1:13:11.400 --> 1:13:16.800 and you fa me and p I'm on wait for 1:13:17.000 --> 1:13:22.160 the guess, jensious, I'm a worse and words somebody, sir. 1:13:23.840 --> 1:13:29.320 But and then you may say, either receive the blessing 1:13:29.439 --> 1:13:36.920 you that, jencious, hold on, you're gonna be blessed. And 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:42.160 then schedule and you're gonna be blessed in the secret 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:46.080 like Steve, You're gonna be blessed you. That was a 1:13:46.320 --> 1:13:52.120 forty day You're gonna be blessed morassy he is so 1:13:52.520 --> 1:14:09.640 badly is yeah day given line, give the brig thank you, 1:14:11.360 --> 1:14:30.080 thank you, my good sees, seracious in your family, in 1:14:30.280 --> 1:14:39.280 your shoe man. I can't believe that I used all 1:14:39.320 --> 1:14:42.200 of those scriptures. I thought maybe I would pick one 1:14:42.320 --> 1:14:44.240 or two, but it felt like a series, you know, 1:14:44.800 --> 1:14:49.200 unschedulable blessings. That's what I'm calling that message. And I 1:14:49.400 --> 1:14:51.400 just pray that you'll be looking everywhere this week for 1:14:52.040 --> 1:14:55.760 ways that God is trying to bless you and use 1:14:55.880 --> 1:14:57.960 you to be a blessing. Goes both ways. You know, 1:14:58.800 --> 1:15:03.080 whether you're handing somebody cupcake or whether you're preaching a 1:15:03.120 --> 1:15:05.800 sermon grabbing the mic of your own. 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