What To Do In A Valley (Jabin Chavez)

0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.480 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:18.000 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Man, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.560 it's been fun worshiping today so far. Are we ready 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.280 for the Word of God though? Amen? We're so blessed. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.400 We've got Pastor Jabin Chavez with us this weekend from 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.000 Citylight Church in Las Vegas. He and his wife Shannon 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.839 planted this church just a couple of years ago, and 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.640 since then they've just seen God do unbelievable, miraculous things. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.400 People come in and know the Lord just by the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.640 hundreds and just see seeing the evidence of God's faithfulness. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.760 He's been a friend of Pastor Stevens in our ministry 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.720 for several years now, and I believe God gave him 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.520 a word specifically for our church, for me and you 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.960 this week, and so help me. Welcome Pastor Javin Chaven 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:08.119 right now. Everybody, come on, keep those hands together, Let's 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:16.199 give God some praise. Wow. Greetings from Las Vegas. Anyone 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.640 been to Vegas. Can I see your hands? Wow, a 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.480 couple more hands than I was expecting. Okay, Well, if 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.320 you're ever in Vegas, come say hi to us at 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.679 City Light Church. And if you if you had a 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.080 really good night on Saturday night, bring a little offering 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.720 with you, Amen, Praise the Lord. If you had a 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.000 really bad night, we'll lay hands on you and cast 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.920 the devil out of you and send you back home 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:52.760 holy and healthy and delivered. But we were very grateful 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.160 to be here. And my wife sends her love as 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.160 she's holding it down for us today back home, and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.120 I want to go straight to God. This is Ezekiel 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.760 thirty seven. I'm going to read out of the message translation, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.559 so you may just want to fall along on the screen. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.000 I'm gonna read about ten verses to you, and then 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.720 we're just gonna I'm all preach quick, and we're gonna 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.800 sing that song again. Amen. And then I'm gonna eat 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.760 fried chicken because I'm in the South, and that's a 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.320 true story that's really gonna happen. Ezekiel thirty seven. Verse one, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.880 God grabbed me, and God's spirit he took me up 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.720 and he sat me down in the middle of an 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.200 open plain covered in bones. He led me around and 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.040 among them a lot of bones. There were bones all 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.720 over the plain, dry bones, bleached by the sun. And 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.880 he said to me, son of Man, can these bones live? 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.920 I said, Master, God, only you know that, And he said, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.640 prophesy over the bones. Speak to the bones, dry bones, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.880 listen to the message of God. God, the Master told 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.800 the dry bones, watch this. I'm bringing the breath of 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.280 life to you. You'll come to life. I'll attach sin 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.840 yous to you. I'll put meat on your bones. I'll 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.080 come you a skin. I'll breathe life into you. You'll 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.200 come alive, and you'll realize that I'm God. So I prophesied, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.440 just as I'd been commanded. And as I prophesied, there 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.280 was a sound, oh a wrestling. The bones moved together 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.800 and boned a bone. I kept watching sinews form and 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.320 then muscles on the bones, and then skin stretched over them. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.000 But they had no breath in them. So he said, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.280 prophesied to the breath. Prophesy, son of Man, tell the breath, God, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.400 the Master says, come from the four winds, come breath. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.320 Breathe on these slang bodies. Breathe life. So I prophesied, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.560 as he commanded me, and the breath entered them. They 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.920 came alive, and they stood up on their feet a 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.760 huge army. I want to preach this for a couple 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.960 of moments this morning, from the subject what to do 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.080 in a valley? What to do in a valley? Father, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.760 thank you for your word. Thank you for this moment. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.200 And I do thank you for your word. It is living, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:03.880 it's active, supernatural, it holds the power of life and death. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.960 And I thank you Lord that one word from God 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:12.080 can change our entire life. So we're praying today that 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.680 you would speak to us. We're listening, we're expecting. I'm 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.560 praying for a tailor made word today, the right word 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.479 for every person in every season in the room. Go 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.360 beyond my voice, be the wheel within the wheel. I 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.800 say what you need to say to every one of us, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.240 so that we could all leave church today saying I 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.760 heard from God and I'll never be the same. This 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.360 is our prayer in Jesus' name. And everyone said Amen. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:41.840 And if you are believing God for a word, let's 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.520 clap our hands some more time, and let's let the 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:50.400 Lord know we're ready. I'm ready. What to do in 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.400 a Valley? I guess I need to start by telling 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.800 you I wish I could preach how to have a 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:05.520 valley free life. Yo, that would be bomb. Hey, here's 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.200 seven steps, do these things. No more valleys, wouldn't that 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.120 be great? No more valleys? What a great book. I'm 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.160 all write a book. No more valleys. Would't that be great? 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.520 Going through a valley? Hey, may you've seen have more faith? 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.880 You see him, Believe God. Don't have to go through that. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.000 But I've come to learn that he is the God 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.640 of the mountain, but he is the God of the valley. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.480 I've learned that valleys are necessary, and I've learned that 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.520 God does a great work in me that he can 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.320 only do in the valley. I want to remind someone 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.280 today that there is no fruit on the mountaintop. There 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.400 is only fruit in the valley. I've learned that God 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.440 wants to do something great through me, so he must 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.800 first do something very deep in me, and he can 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.560 only do that in the valley. The valley is the 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.560 stretching place. The valley is the place that, when you're 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.600 in it, you think it's warfare. If you're a costal 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.160 like me, you plead the blood you speak in tongues, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.120 you cast out devils, you annoint with oil, You get 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:12.840 your intercessors to lay hands on you. You start sending offering. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.520 The TV preachers come on somebody, because you think I'm 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.200 under attack, only to find out on the other side 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.800 of it, it was not a demonic spirit, but the 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.760 Holy Spirit that led you into the wilderness, led you 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.000 into the desert, led you into the valley to do 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:32.039 something in you that could not happen outside of the valley. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.240 So I've learned to love the valley. The valley is 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.800 the gem of the Holy Spirit. Now I've never been 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:44.960 to a gym, but I heard Chunks told me. Pastor 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.080 Steven told me the gym's good for me. I heard 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.160 it's good for me. I'm gonna try it out one day. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.560 I'm thirty six. It ain't looking too good, but it's 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.000 that place that it hurts when you're in it, but 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.080 it's actually good for you, and when you come out 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.799 of it, you go, thank you Jesus for the valley. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.880 I want to remind someone you're not gonna die in 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.000 the valley, because though you go through the Valley of 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.120 the Shadow of Death, you don't have to fear any 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.520 evil because his rod and his staff, they do come 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.920 for you. Goodness and mercy are following you. You're coming 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.920 out of the valley, and you're gonna come out with 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.320 everything God has for you in the valley. But I 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.360 have learned that there's some things you have to do 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.960 when you're in it so that it actually does make 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.040 you better and bigger and stronger and doesn't destroy you. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.720 And I think there's some things from the text today 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.120 that we can find that will help you, and they've 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.000 helped me, and I believe that God's really going to 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.400 speak to you today. So let me just give you 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.480 a few things today. If you're taking notes, write these down. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:48.040 If you're not taking notes, write these down. Ah, I'm 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.960 embarrassed that I did that, but I'm a dad and 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.560 a senior pastor, so that was like a bad senior 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:58.880 pastor dad joke. But I'm okay with it, like I'm 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:06.400 I'm doing me okay. Number one. Number one, never forget this. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.880 God is with you in the valley. God is with 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:15.400 you in the valley. Ezekiel starts the text by saying, God, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.880 grab me in the valley. Now. I do appreciate and 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.360 love the poetic king James that says that the hand 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.720 of the Lord was upon me. But I kind of 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.480 like that gritty rated our version, the message that said 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.560 God grabbed me. And I think if you've served God 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.480 long enough, you know there are just times where God 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.160 has to grab you. Yeah. Yeah, I preaching anybody. There's 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.760 times where you let go of God. But thank you Jesus, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.320 he didn't let go of me. There's times I've run 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.520 from God, but He's run after me. There's times I've 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.200 tried to hide from God, but he is awesome at 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.559 hide and seek. He just has a way of finding me. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.079 I want to tell someone today, you feel like you're 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.520 in a valley. You feel like you're all alone. You 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.120 feel like there are bones everywhere, you feel like they're 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.400 dry bones bleached by the sun. But I want to 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.320 remind you God's with you. The hand of the Lord 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.520 is upon you, and he is not letting go. And 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.240 God is doing something in you in the valley. Don't 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.760 let the valley lie to you and tell you you're alone. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.120 Don't let circumstances intimidate you and tell you is over. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.439 I will take a valley with Jesus over a mountaintop 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.360 without him, because as long as I have Jesus, I 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.320 have possibilities, I have a future, I have a promise. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:35.040 Give me Jesus in any situation, I'll take that. God's 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.400 with you in the valley. And you may not feel it. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.120 You may not be able to clap for that yet. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.480 You may you may be saying Amen, but in your 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.360 heart you're going I don't feel it. That's okay. We 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.600 don't live by feelings. And when I cannot trace his hand, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.760 I can trust his heart. God's doing something in me 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.679 right now. I don't see it all yet, but I 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.680 do know I will see the goodness of the Lord 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.480 in the land of the Living. I do know God 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.199 is doing something great right now, and I can't really 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.319 sense it. I can't really see it. I can't really 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.720 feel it. Quite frankly, it took every ounce of faith 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.920 just to get here this morning. But I do believe 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.000 that God is still doing a work in my life. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.040 And maybe you feel today like Jamn, I just feel 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.720 like all of hell is against me. I just feel 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.280 like I am coming up literally against the gates of Hell. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.640 That's actually good because Jesus said the gates of Hell 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.080 won't prevail against the Church, and you is the church. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.280 And that means that if you're coming up against hell, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.240 that is the devil's last defense to try to stop 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.640 you before you inherit everything God has for you. So 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.960 you might as well just clap your hands and shout 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.920 and thank God in advance that you are about to 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.679 cross over into something good. Come on, God has good 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.480 days for you. God has good things for you. And 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.920 while he's doing a good work in me, I will 0:10:54.960 --> 0:11:00.920 not quit. God's with you in the valley. Number two, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.920 number two, Look, look, look, look for the possibility. Look 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.640 for the possibility. Hey, Ezekiel, Okay, I get it, I 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.200 get it. I get it. Bones everywhere, yeah, verse one, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.079 verse two, bones everywhere, try bones, spleach by the sun. Bones, bones, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.319 bones but the bone, bone bone, but bones. I s 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.800 brought my nineties children right there. Bones. I get it. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:33.120 But Ezekiel, can can they live? I'm remembering Pastor's message 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.960 from two weeks ago. I caught a thought because because 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.000 eight jokers walked into that promised lane and said, there's 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:45.480 giants and the land's going to eat us up. And 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.720 two other guys, Caleb and Joshua, said, we're well able. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:56.439 Same circumstance, same enemy, same bones, same valley, same situation, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.560 same promise. Eight guys couldn't believe it. Two guys could 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.880 believe it. I'm not making light of your situation. I'm 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.640 just telling you God is greater than your situation. I'm 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.920 not making light of your giants. I'm just telling you 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.080 God's bigger than your giants. I'm not making light of 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.240 your valley and the bones that are surrounding you. I'm 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.600 just telling you. I'm begging you today to look for 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.199 the possibility. I'm begging you today to forget about all 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.760 the stuff that's going wrong, and for one moment, gaze 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.400 your eyes on Jesus. Look at him, Focus on him, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.160 look at this from his perspective. As Ekiel said, I 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.240 was standing in a valley, but then God sat me 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.920 down and he said, look at it from my perspective. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.040 There's something about seeing it from where God sees it. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.840 There's something about God's perspective. There's something about saying, I'm 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.920 not in denial of my situation, but I choose to 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.440 see this through the lens of faith and not the 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.880 lens of doubt. I refuse to just keep talking about it, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.360 and I'm going to see this from God's possibility, Look 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.640 for the possibility. And y'all we all have this, this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.640 natural bent towards doubt, don't we all right? No one 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.439 said amen in Valentine. But I know y'all shout me 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.640 down on the other campuses. I know it. Driving on 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.680 the road, tire blows out, like, man, the devil's after 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.720 my tires. I just know. No, you're cheap. You were 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.559 supposed to change your tires six months ago, and you 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:27.560 then hold it out. Air conditioner breaks in your house, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.800 I'll be in the devil's after our ac No. No, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.760 I don't think so. I think you're good. I think 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.720 life is life. It's amazing. When it's rainy outside, you're like, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 oh my gosh, ma arthritis. I just know it's gonna be. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.800 But when it's sunny outside, you're like, oh man, we're 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.040 in a trout. God's judging America. You know, it's always something. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:55.560 It's like, don't don't choose to see everything through through 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:00.240 a negative lens. Choose to see the possibility. Today used 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.160 to say, man, I'm going through a lot, But at 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.680 least I made it to church. At least I got 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.680 to praise God with some brothers and sisters at least, 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.160 I'm still hearing the word of the Lord. I think 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.240 God still has a future for me. I refuse to 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.480 die in my doubt. I'm gonna believe God. Look look 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.800 for the possibility. To Ezekiel it was hopeless, But to God, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:30.200 the situation was perfect for a miracle. Look for the possibility, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.400 and Niomiah thirteen to two. Niemiah said, our God can 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.960 turn a curse into a blessing. Can I just tell 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.320 you God can turn it around? Can I tell you 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.560 life can get better? But while you're waiting on life 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.520 to get better, you can get better. Yeah. And while 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.680 you're waiting on things to turn around in your life, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.000 things can turn around in your heart. And you don't 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:03.760 have to be a victim to circumstance. Look for the possibility. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.760 Number three. I have to admit this is my favorite point. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.360 Take a step into the unknown. Touch your neighbor, Tell 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.200 him take a step, take a step. That neighbor was 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:24.240 so stuck up. Touch somebody else, tell him take a step, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 take a step, take a step, take a step, take 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.400 a step. They were rude to you. Did you feel 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.080 that they were rude? They're still a little hungover from 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:38.080 last night, They're like, what take a step, Hey, Ezekiel, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:49.240 can these bones live? Lord? Uh? You know that was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:54.080 a really kind and sweet and really Southern way of saying, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:16:03.120 I don't know your God? Why you asking men? God 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.160 is never asking us questions because he doesn't know the answer. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:15.160 He knows he's God. He's trying to give us a revelation. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.240 He's trying to level up our faith. He's trying to 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.440 build us up. And he's not asking a question because 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.800 he doesn't know the answer. He's asking us a question 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.760 because he wants to reveal something to us. Isel can 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:34.600 these bones live? And his eqal says Lord you know, yeah, Yeah, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:41.800 God will take a yes with a question mark. Yeah. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.920 And the higher picture of voices, the less faith you have. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:52.440 Can these bones live? Y'all? Never squeaked? Thank God for 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.760 this loud music, huh, because sometimes all you can get 0:16:54.800 --> 0:17:05.919 out is a God's okay with a squeak, God's okay. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.760 I think he appreciates the yes with a exclamation mark. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.840 I think those come. I think they're awesome, but I 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.480 think a lot of life is in the yeah. I 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.040 love that Ezekiel did not say, of course they can live. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.040 I know who my God is and I'm persuaded by 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:27.240 the promises of God. Hallelujah. I'm honestly, I'm glad he 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.800 didn't do that, because if you would have done that, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.359 I'd have just keet to thirty eight and been like, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.280 I don't get you, Ezekiel, because a lot of life 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:44.200 is in the oh. Lord. Maybe I think and I 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.840 think that depending upon where you're at in your season, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.920 there's something that's got to ask you, and it's like, yes, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.320 can I bless your business? Yes, twenty twenty God be good. Yes, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.919 I already got twenty twenty visits. Yah. Yes, can I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:07.119 help your marriage? Lord? Do you know the woman you 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.879 gave me in the garden? Do you know her husbands 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.400 looks straight ahead? Don't you dare touch your wife right now? 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:20.520 In Jesus trying to save your marriage. Somebody stood in 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.520 the nine thirty. I said, sirs, please sit down, Security, security, okay, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.720 trying to protect you. It's gone security on his wife, amen, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:35.760 because he wasn't laughing. I think you actually have to 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.200 get comfortable giving God a yes with a question mark. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.680 I want to say it like this, You have to 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.600 get comfortable giving God. You're not enough. Yeah, you have 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:52.440 to get okay with giving God less than you want 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.000 to give him, but giving him all you got. Because 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.320 I think a lot of you are waiting to do 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.159 something for God when you have great faith. But you 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.919 don't get great faith till you give God small faith. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.720 You don't have all some faith until you give God 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.280 broken faith, until you give God whatever faith you do have. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.080 And I know you want to feed five thousand with 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.360 five thousand pieces of bread and fish, but sometimes all 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.359 you got is a couple of loads and a couple 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.439 of fish. And you actually have to learn how to 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.120 give God you're not enough. You have to learn how 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.280 to give him whatever you do have. Because God can 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.600 use your not enough. He can bless it, he can 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.320 break it, he can multiply it, and he can turn 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.840 him into more than enough. And a lot of y'all 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.359 are waiting on more than enough. But God says, I 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.800 don't just start with more than enough, I start with 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.120 not enough. Oh can I get some faith in here? 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.760 And a lot of you are not gonna do anything 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:49.040 for God until you get comfortable giving him your not enough. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.679 But God can do a lot with a little. And 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.440 God forbid, by the way, by the way, God forbid 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.560 you ever feel like you're enough. Like if you feel 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.480 like you're ready, your pride is too high and your 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:13.119 vision is too small. I always want to be shaken 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.040 in my boots. I always want to be a lot like. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:22.840 I woke up this morning scarred. Y'all scared. Don't let 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.640 this smile fool you. I'm crying on the inside. Amen, pastors, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.239 I can you preach? I'm like I used to know 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.960 how to preach. I think I forgot. I don't know 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.639 I'm already. I don't think I'm the guy for you. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:43.280 I like that. I like I like feeling a little unqualified. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:44.879 Oh that's a good book title. I'm gonna write me 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.480 a book called Unqualified. Watch it. I like that because 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.399 it means I have to rely on Jesus. I have 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.480 to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit. I 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.199 need grace in my weakness. And a lot of you 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.600 are waiting to be ready before you do something. But 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.240 you actually have to learn how to take a step 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:11.200 on a Lord. You know. Faith is risky. Faith is gutsy. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:17.399 Faith is grown people talk. Faith requires a backbone, not 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:23.080 a wishbone. Faith. Faith puts you in scary situations. By 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.800 the way, By the way, you're in a faith church. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.479 I don't know if you know that your pastor's gift 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.919 is he has the gift of faith, the biblical gift 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:36.200 of faith. It's in the Bible. He has it. And 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.320 so anytime you get around pastor, you want to believe more. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.120 But never forget this. Your flesh, your earth suit, your 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:48.120 carnal mind, your dirt suit. It hates faith. That's why 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.760 it wants comfort clothes and a comfortable chair and a 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.640 comfortable band, comfort food, because we want our flesh wants comfort, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.840 but our spirit is begging for adventure. Our flesh wants 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.520 to stay in the boat, but our spirit saying, call 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.840 me out on the water. And you actually have to 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:09.760 learn how to give your spirit first place, because your 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.720 flesh will always go to the comfort zone and God 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:17.159 can't do anything great in the comfort zone. I've heard 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.920 it said by preachers that faith and fear cannot coexist, 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:26.120 and I thought, I think they're married. I think they're 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:31.399 sleeping in the same bed. The very fact that I 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.720 need faith is because I'm afraid. The very fact that 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.119 I'm believing God is because this is too big for me. 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.160 The very the very fact that I'm I'm I'm believing 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.440 for a miracle is because I need a miracle. The 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.840 very fact that I that I that I'm stepping out 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.760 in faith is because I have I have fear in 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.359 my life. A lot of you have mistaken faith in facts. 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:59.400 Faith is not always factual, but it's always truth, huh. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.840 And you have to learn how to break past the 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.160 circumstance and the facts and break into the faith zone 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.040 where God is and where your destiny is. Am I 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.479 helping anybody right now? Come on, say may clap your 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:14.479 hands one time. I'm gonna keep preaching, but you have 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:19.360 to learn how to take a step into the unknown. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:25.120 Did God call you to start that business? I think 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:29.480 he did in January, but now it's October. Jaman to 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.400 God call you to plant that church in Vegas? Well, 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:38.560 some Sundays for sure, Other Sunday nights I will kind 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:45.280 of want to sell cars. God called you to move 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.720 to Charlotte? I thought so. I think I was a 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:54.480 lot more confident a few months ago. Yah, you actually 0:23:54.480 --> 0:24:00.000 have to get okay there. Faith is a total assurance 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.440 and who God is. But but life is changing, y'all, 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:06.640 and you have to get okay with that. I've learned 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.760 that faith is like a pit in my stomach. Yeah, yeah, 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:12.280 you know, you know, the pit in your stomach, the 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:17.399 thing that you call the lack of peace. Yeah, you know, 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:19.600 I just don't. And you know you're charismatic if you 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.680 touch your stomach. You know. I just didn't have a 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.520 piece about us praying about it. I know you guys 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.359 need people to serve. But like right now, like the 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:43.200 Lord has me resting. It's funny because it's true and 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:48.200 and and we're running from the pit in our stomach. 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:53.760 But I actually think is where faith really is. Peace, 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:55.600 by the way, is not a feeling in your stomach. 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.159 Can I help you? Piece is not That piece is 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:03.120 a person is named Jesus. And peace will be right 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.320 in the middle of a storm on the waves, and 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:07.439 he will call you to come. Peace will lead you 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.199 into some crazy situations that are way bigger than you, 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.879 but they're under his feet. That's where peace is. Peace 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:20.800 will lead you into some unpeaceful places to build you up. 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:25.879 That's peace. I've honestly for last twenty months. We planted 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:27.720 our church twenty months ago. I had a pit mustomach 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:33.000 for twenty months. Like I used to live in Newport Beach, California. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.159 No one could even cheer because y'all just mad about it, right, 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:42.520 because it's just Newport. It's beautiful. Newport is like like 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:44.639 the Garden of Eden before the fall. Y'all know what 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:47.439 I'm saying, Like it's good. We used to wake up 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.480 the same way every morning. Alarm would go off. If 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:54.280 we go ah, birds will start chirping. Like, birds don't 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:57.520 chirp in Vegas. It's one hundred and fifteen degrees. They 0:25:57.560 --> 0:25:59.879 can't open their mouth or they will die. They'll explode. 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:04.040 You know, they don't chirt. We don't. I don't even 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.000 seen a bird. I know they're there somewhere and haven't 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:08.639 seen one. Birds would be chirp and you wake up. 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:10.080 Look at your wife, Hey, babe, what do you want 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:11.720 to do to anyone? To go to the ocean and pray? Yeah, 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.040 then let's go to Dissey Land and witness to Mickey 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:20.040 and like, oh, it's this Orange County. Just let's float there. Yeah, 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:25.560 let's just float. And then we moved to Vegas. We're 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.399 trying to pass through this shirts, trying to help people. 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.159 It's scary. Like I don't need an alarm clock anymore. 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:34.520 I wake up the same way every day, five am, 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:41.560 same way, every day, just like this, in a pool 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:45.720 of sweat. My wife will roll over you. Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:48.000 just thinking about Sunday. I gotta preach another message, gotta 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:54.560 write another one, another one, another one. Okay, we'll wake 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:56.119 up some morning some all to go. Hey, babe, you 0:26:56.119 --> 0:27:00.400 were screaming again in your sleep. Oh way, just thinking 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:08.440 about that new building. I like that thing. You know 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:10.679 what that pit does. He keeps me right on my knees. 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.320 That pit keeps me on my face. That pit keeps 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.600 me in the word. That pit of my stomach keeps 0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:21.120 me humble. That pit of my stomach keeps me praising God, clapping, shouting, cheering, 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.000 saying thank you Jesus. That pit of my stomach keeps 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:27.359 me praying in English and tongues. That bit in my 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:30.879 stomach keeps me hungry for God and keeps me in community. 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:33.520 And a lot of y'all are running from that pit. 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:35.840 But actually what God has for you is right there. 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:37.280 Because by the way, God is not going to give 0:27:37.280 --> 0:27:43.320 you a life where He is unnecessary. And y'all trying 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:49.680 to follow God from the comfort zone. You gotta learn 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:55.720 how to take a step into the unknown, wow, believing God, 0:27:56.440 --> 0:28:03.480 taking a risk, taking a step, hang it out, moving 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:10.399 on a maybe. First Samuel fourteen and six. Jonathan goes 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.520 to his friend and he goes, hey, there's an enemy 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:19.840 around the ridge. Let's go pick a fight. Maybe Jonathan 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:22.199 was hood rat. Y'all know what I'm saying. Let's go 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:24.760 pick a fight. Got nothing else to do today, Let's 0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:29.000 go pick a fight. Maybe the Lord will give us 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:31.760 the victory. Maybe not have been on a forty day 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.880 fascy angel, Lord, talk to me, we have the victory 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:39.440 in Jesus name. No, no no, no, Maybe And on a maybe, 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:44.200 Jonathan's assistant says, turned down for what, Let's go on 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:50.320 a maybe. On a maybe, you actually have to get 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.440 comfortable with a maybe. I call it a holy ghost maybe. 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.360 I call it a holy spirit hunch. I call it 0:28:56.400 --> 0:28:59.680 a book of acts. The apostles pray and they go 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:03.080 it seems good to us in the Holy Spirit. That 0:29:03.160 --> 0:29:06.240 word seems it feels like, it feels good. Like we 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:07.880 don't really have a yes sort of note. It just 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.880 seems good and a lot of life is right there. 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:12.480 It's like I think I got a word from God. 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:16.160 My pastors are cool with it. Me and my spouse 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:21.120 are in agreement, but it's still scary. Let's take a 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:26.040 step of faith, let's think of maybe, let's believe God. 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:30.680 Let's try, and even when you do it at first, 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:33.520 your flesh and your faith are still fighting so much. 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:37.440 But it's like, you know what, I'm gonna forgive that person. 0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:40.520 I'm gonna take a step. You know what, We're gonna 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:42.160 go to counseling. We're gonna try to make this work. 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.640 We're gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna try, We're gonna 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:46.760 give it a shot. We're gonna do all we can do. 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:48.720 You know what, I'm gonna start giving in the offering, y'all. Ever, 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:50.920 remember when you first started giving in the offering? How 0:29:50.960 --> 0:29:55.480 scary that was? Okay, no one's talking to me, y'all. 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:58.680 Remember how scary that was when you first started giving. 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:03.560 You finally must okay, end of the year giving. I'm 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:05.560 gonna do it, babe, We're gonna do it, all right, 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:09.080 We're gonna stretch. Okay, we gonna believe big. Okay, let's 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:13.680 go write that check. You don't even have checks, but 0:30:13.720 --> 0:30:16.120 you went and got a check trying to be official. 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:20.840 Get that check, bucket, passes by, you put it in, 0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:23.760 you're feeling good, but then you look down and it 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:27.760 starts leaving your life, and all of a sudden, that 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:33.080 check goes hey bye, and it starts waving to you, 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:36.320 and you go, baby, baby, baby, come back, baby baby baby. 0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:38.240 I'm sorry, baby baby, I didn't mean to do that, 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:39.600 and he goes, oh, you don't love me no more, 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:43.760 and it leaves, and then you get mad and you 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:48.640 start staring at past her Steven. He's preaching good, but 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:50.120 you don't care. You can't even hear it, and you're like, 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:54.600 they manipulated me. He got me all worked up. Chris 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.240 started singing those high notes. The light hit in my eyes. 0:30:57.280 --> 0:31:02.720 I added as zero. I want my money back, y'all 0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:05.480 ever give it online and you finally get the faith 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:15.520 give back and you actually have to learn how to 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:20.160 obey God's scared. Don't wait till you're ready to give. 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.960 You're not ready to do anything God's called you to do. 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:28.560 Y'all ready to get married? No, y'all rady have that baby. No, 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:34.760 you just gotta do it, and there's grace on the 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:40.880 other side of your step of faith. Don't feel I 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:42.680 don't know if my parents can remember that all the 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:45.360 parents in here before you have the baby, You're like, 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:49.200 I don't know how we're gonna do this until they're 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:51.200 in your arms and you go, we can do this. 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:55.320 It's like on the other side of it, there's the 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:57.960 grace to do what God's called you to do. So 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.240 you have to learn how to move on a maybe 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:12.120 number four prophesy, prophesy to your situation. And now the 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:14.680 rooms split. I can feel it because half y'all don't 0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:18.840 come from this background, and you go, prophecy, what you 0:32:18.880 --> 0:32:20.720 a prophet? What we do? Say it the Lord? What 0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:24.760 repredicting the future? And then half y'all are cares maniacts 0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:27.040 like me and you're like, yes, shun die, I feel 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:31.640 this right now. So I'm gonna try to bring some balance. 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:36.560 Amen to both y'all, because some of y'all got too scared. 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:38.960 Some of y'all at too excited. So I'm all bring 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:44.120 it to the middle. God said Ezekiel verse one and two. 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:47.760 You've been talking about the bones a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:53.680 stop talking about him. Watch me talk to them. Jesus 0:32:53.720 --> 0:32:57.080 did not say talk about the mountain, and he did 0:32:57.120 --> 0:33:01.120 not say deny the mountain. He said, talk to the mountain, 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:04.520 and there comes a point in your life, Ezekiel, where 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:08.520 you have to become a prophet in your family and 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:10.760 you have to speak the word of the Lord over 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:14.480 your destiny. So when I say prophecy, I'm not talking 0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:17.840 about predicting the future. I'm not talking about a King 0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:23.520 James utterance during a service. I'm talking about here's prophecy 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:25.720 one oh one, Every New Testament believer in the house, 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:27.480 here's prophecy one on one. You get a word from 0:33:27.480 --> 0:33:31.120 the word. Amen, everybody say amen. You get a word 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:35.720 from the word, and you say it, and you say it, 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:40.800 and you say it till you believe it, and then 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:44.840 you say it until you see it. You say it 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:48.560 until Psalm one nineteen. It gets hidden in your heart. 0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:51.640 You say it to like Joshua chapter one, it becomes 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:54.320 the meditation of your mind and comes out of your 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:57.360 mouth constantly. You say it, and you say it and 0:33:57.400 --> 0:34:01.120 you say it. And it's not that you're denying your circumstance. 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:05.920 You're just choosing a promise from God over the problem. 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.439 And you're saying, this is more real to me than this, 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:12.919 because the earth is gonna fade away. But your word 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:16.400 is gonna last forever. So I'm gonna stick with your word, 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:18.960 and I'm just gonna keep saying it and saying it 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:22.719 and saying it until I eventually see it. You get 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:27.600 a promise from God over your life. This is the 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:32.920 prophetic for us. We believe God, and we keep declaring 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:37.959 and we keep trusting, and we choose God's word over 0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:40.680 everything else. And it feels a little crazy, and it 0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:45.040 feels a little uncomfortable, but you're choosing in that moment 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:47.040 to say, I'm not just gonna talk about it anymore. 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:51.400 I'm gonna talk to it. I'm not gonna keep posting 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:54.120 about it. I love that God did not say zeke. 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.719 You'll grab your phone, get on your Instagram story right now, 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:01.840 post the video with super Zoom Tom Tom, come on, somebody. 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:09.320 He said talk to it. He said, get a word 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:14.880 and speak that word. And that word becomes powerful in 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:19.600 your mouth. God's word in your mouth becomes a double 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:24.080 edged sword. It becomes Hebrews chapter four. Out of one 0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:25.960 side it comes out of God's mouth, and out of 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:27.960 the other side, it comes out of your mouth. And 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:30.839 when you start saying what God has already said, God 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.040 starts moving and heaven meets earth, and earth meets heaven, 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:37.000 and all of the sudden, something supernatural can begin to 0:35:37.080 --> 0:35:40.479 happen because it's no longer just a book that's collecting dust, 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:42.480 but it now becomes the living word, the ram a 0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:45.640 word out of your mouth, and God begins to move 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:48.880 at his word, not your word, his word in your mouth. 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:51.680 So we don't believe that we just get whatever we 0:35:51.719 --> 0:35:54.560 say and we can just you know, confess it and 0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:56.319 possess it, blab it and grab it. That's not what 0:35:56.320 --> 0:35:58.560 I'm talking about, but I am saying. But I am saying. 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:04.160 If this word becomes a compass, it becomes my true north, 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:08.640 and over time my life begins to go in the 0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:13.239 direction of the word. Y'all with me. Over time this 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:20.160 becomes my guiding north star. God said, speak to it, 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:23.000 not just about it. We can have the team come up. 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:27.120 I'm almost done. I remember as a child, all of 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:29.080 us kids on one of five, we all went crazy. 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:34.080 All the parents of teenagers started laughing. Just now, that 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:39.160 wasn't like a funny laugh as like, we all went crazy. 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:42.360 We all did things we regret and put our parents 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:45.240 through a lot. But can I tell you my parents 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:48.160 they just never left the word. It was weird. It's 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:51.359 like anytime we woke up in the morning, they were 0:36:51.360 --> 0:36:56.040 in the Word, and to chattingson, we called it a 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:59.960 quiet time. They were always in the word. They always 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:02.640 new a word, and I always had a word. And 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:05.000 it got a little annoying to us kids, But really 0:37:05.000 --> 0:37:09.880 it was agitating something deep in our soul. I remember. 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:12.239 I remember waking up one night in the middle of 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:17.520 the night and I felt liquid hitting my head. Now again, 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:21.839 every Pentecostal is with me. Every Baptist online right now 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:26.720 is like, what is he talking about? And I remember 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:28.759 waking up thinking there must be a leak in the roof, 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.480 and it must be there must be water hitting my forehead. 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:33.120 And all of a sudden I finally come to and 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:36.320 there's my mama, five foot nothing with a bottle of 0:37:36.360 --> 0:37:40.879 olive oil. Come on, somebody, and the promise of God 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:44.320 in her mouth. Devil, take your hands off of my child. 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:47.279 As for me and my whole household, we shall serve 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:50.400 the Lord. Me and my whole household shall be saved. 0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:53.439 I plead the blood of Jesus over this baby right now, 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:56.120 and I tell the death angel to leave this house 0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:59.760 in Jesus' name. I command angels to surround this room. 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:03.440 Every spirit that's not the Holy Spirit, get out. In 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.520 the name of Jesus. I'd wake God. Start freaking out 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:11.320 my mouth start. It looked like an NBA championship with Champagne, 0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:15.320 but it was oil and my parents never left the word. 0:38:16.480 --> 0:38:19.240 Can I tell you today we are all in God's house. 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:22.040 We're all in love with Jesus. All of our children 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:24.480 are in God's house. Friend, I'm not here to tell 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:27.440 you that by this time tomorrow everything's gonna be perfect. 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:29.319 But here's what I'm telling you that if you will 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:31.239 get the word of God in your heart, and you 0:38:31.280 --> 0:38:33.560 will get the Word of God in your mouth, your 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:37.680 life will start to come into alignment. Because as Ezekiel 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:41.720 spoke the word, bones came together, flesh came together, muscle 0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:45.280 came together, Skin began to form, sinews begin to form. 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:51.280 God started doing something. When you speak God's word, things 0:38:51.320 --> 0:39:01.919 begin to happen. Hallelujah. Lastly, though lastly, praise the Lord. 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:03.680 Go ahead and clap if you want to. I feel 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:07.399 this right now. Don't let her praise alone. You don't 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.440 know what she's going through. But maybe a miracle's emotion 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:21.600 right now. Why don't you praise with him right now? Hallelujah. 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:26.279 This last point is why elevation is so special. This 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:28.359 last point I want to tell you about is why 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:33.400 you love this house. It's beyond just the natural gifting, 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.160 hard work and talent of your pastor. It's beyond just 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:41.120 the beautiful production and lighting and music. I want to 0:39:41.160 --> 0:39:50.520 lastly tell you about the wind. Invite the wind, Speak 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:57.080 to the wind. I want to remind you today that 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:01.400 we believe in the power, the presence, and the person 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:05.680 of the Holy Spirit. The Godhead is not father, son 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:11.759 and holy Scripture. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:14.200 believe in the wind of God, the breath of God, 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:18.400 the life of God. We believe that the wind can 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:21.719 blow in your life. We believe that grace can begin 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:28.480 to breathe upon your life again. We love the structure, 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:32.600 we love the form, and we love the muscle. Oh, 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:36.759 but when we've done all we can do, I need 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:44.960 the wind to blow. This is not by Mike nor 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:49.520 by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of Host. 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:54.520 There is something about leaving just your natural grit and 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:58.040 hustle and crime and say the Holy Spirit I need 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:01.640 you to breathe upon my life. And Lord, I don't 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:04.399 just need you, I want you. I want the move 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:06.399 of the Holy Spirit. I want the breath of God 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:08.759 in my life. Lord, would you speak to me? Would 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:10.880 you leave me? Would you guide me? Would you convict me? 0:41:10.920 --> 0:41:13.360 Would you correct me? Would you comfort me? Would you 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:16.200 empower me? God, we don't want to do this without you. 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:18.840 And like Moses said, God, we ain't going to the 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:22.040 Promised Land without you. If you don't go, we don't 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:25.960 go because we want you more than we want anything else. 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:29.240 And God said Ezekiel, why don't you invite the wind 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:31.840 to begin to blow? Why don't you invite the breath 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:35.600 of God to begin to breathe upon your life? Thank 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:38.040 you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you 0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:41.080 who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:44.200 that this ministry is possible. You can click the link 0:41:44.200 --> 0:41:47.640 in the description to give now or visit Elevation Church 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:51.120 dot org slash podcast for more information and if you 0:41:51.200 --> 0:41:54.440 enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 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