When God Goes In

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.000 Hey, this is Stephen Fernick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.760 and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.920 we can get you these new sermons every week. I 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:21.640 hope you're blessed today. With hands lifted all over this 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:36.200 room listening to him. God is more. Oh, God is 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.360 put on your mind? What your love? It's too hard 0:00:42.479 --> 0:01:02.200 for him? God is mony. God who went by to 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:10.559 the gun. What the Let the way back then through, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:21.400 Let the light back on through. That's somebody's watch the 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:30.040 story shouts. Let them pull through. Let the way they 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.679 may come through. Why you made me knowing what they 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:39.840 want to. Let the way make him through shore then 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:49.680 Dunny the said they can't do it him. Let the 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:57.640 way Hager through. Let awad I got you to. That's 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:05.200 how you kinda know that's somebody's due. This star Chad 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:27.040 out come through? Who did not? When let's go. I 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.360 want to tell you right now that God is able 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:37.480 to do immeasurably more. Can you ask, think, or think 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:44.280 or imagine according to his power? Somebody sud his power. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.840 That's what I want to preach about today. I want 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:52.120 to breach about his power. The title of this message 0:02:52.160 --> 0:03:01.720 are you ready. When God goes in, Gary cor conset 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:12.839 lead you. Jacob come heracle worker. God goes in. Thank 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.840 you Lord for your spirit. Thank you for your anointing 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:23.200 to break chains, liberate those who are captive, to raise 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.880 up those who are broken, to heal those who are hurting, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.960 to save those who are lost, to free those who 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.760 are addicted. That anointing is in this house right now, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.880 and we release you to do what you want to do. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.800 Mighty God, miracle Worker, have your way in this place. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:47.720 You are more than able. In Jesus' name. Somebody's shout, Amen, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.400 come here. I'll start my sermon this way. I'll just 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.360 go right in. You're ready to go right in, Let's 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.000 go right in. This one of my favorite songwriting partners 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.880 in the world, Chandler More. We have an enterprise called 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:13.720 Morphurdic Enterprises. I kissed his sweaty cheek because he has 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.720 brought so many wonderful gifts to my life and to 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.560 our church. We have a long story. You could go 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.960 back and watch me telling those stories. They're all online. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.240 One thing that makes us good songwriting partners is that 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.760 we both respect one another's strengths, and we have different strengths. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.080 And I've never met anybody more intuitive than Chandler. So 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.680 what I do to get him to sing? Now, hold on, 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:39.920 let me tell you what I do a little trick, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.320 Because you ever want to write a song with Chandler, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.440 get him to think you're done writing the song, and 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.440 then he'll do something more amazing than he did while 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.360 you're writing the song, and then take that and write 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.120 the song around that little trick. The songwriting trick true Christian, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.040 very true. One of the things that makes us good 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:02.000 in collaboration, I think, is at he is very strong 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.360 where I'm not as strong, and I'm very cool to 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.840 be vulnerable in the way to say, hey, that's better, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.280 or he might say to me, oh that's better. And 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:15.800 that's very important in a creative partnership. But you are 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:21.200 in a partnership with God to bring about his purpose 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.680 in the earth. Even if you're a single mom, you're 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.120 in a partnership with God raising your child. You're not alone. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.680 And just like Chandler has strengths that I don't think 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.920 about God and you, and what makes you and God 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.120 good partners is that he's really good at what you're 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.800 not good at. And that's a lot of stuff I've 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.480 been checking on y'all. That's a lot of things that 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.839 he can do that you can't do. And so today 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.360 I want to preach about that, and I want to 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.679 share continue We've been preaching off the song that we wrote, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.120 more than Able. It's out now, you can go download it. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.560 How many of you have already been riding around singing 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.200 it with the windows down? It's been warm, Charlotte Weather. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.359 I'm scared people are hearing you sing that thing loud, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.640 and I'm scared you can't sing. And I'm scared you're 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.960 scaring them. You're right around, and you start thinking you 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:24.120 sound like Chandler to sounds just like him. Sounds just 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.320 like him. But I've been preaching off of a thought 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.000 in that song that said, there's so much more to 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.600 the story. And I'm believing that in faith for everybody 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.520 who might have been tempted to give up in the 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.120 last few years, or even in the last few weeks, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.040 for the last few days. You know. I met a 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.640 lady this weekend. She said, I was sitting in the 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.200 hospital parking lot trying to decide whether I needed to 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.440 check myself in. She was standing there with her son. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.680 She said, I was trying to decide whether to check 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.680 myself into the hospital because lately I feel like I'm 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.080 going crazy, and I've made an appointment to see about that. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.279 But she said, but I was sitting in the parking 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.120 lot listening to your sermons all day. I sat there 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.040 for two hours. When I finished, I said, God, I 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.200 need another sign that it's going to be all right. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.920 And then she saw me in the thing, and I 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.760 was like, I think this counts as a sign, don't you? 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.320 Don't you? I don't believe God has to bring me 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.280 or any other individual in your life to give you 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.680 a sign that he's with you. The fact that you've 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.160 survived all that you've survived, and that he brought you 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.400 to this point and that you still have breath in 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.160 your lungs, he's not done with you yet. Say it. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.040 He's not done with me yet. He's not done with 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.200 me yet. So let's go. You go dry off or something. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.320 You got me soaking wet. Now that was disgusting, And 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.200 I'm going to give one scripture while you're standing. I'll 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.760 let you sit down in just a moment, but I 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.840 want to share one scripture from Judges, chapter six, verse fourteen, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.360 and then out of this verse. This will be a 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.320 two week sermon. How many of you will commit to 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.600 come back next next week? If I can get fifty 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.440 percent of you to say you'll come back next week, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.320 I won't have to keep you here till three pm. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.520 Raise your hand. If you commit to come back next week, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.840 that's good. And then we'll be at Easter. And then 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.800 we got to come on Easter. Even if we don't 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.679 come any other time, we got to come to Easter. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.520 Go to hell, you go to double hell if you 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:26.120 don't come on Easter. You know I'm teasing. Judges Chapter six, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.080 verse fourteen says something very powerful, and it's going to 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.440 get more and more powerful as I preach it today 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.319 and then as I preach it again next week. And 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.400 it's just going to build momentum in your spirit. And 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.520 you're going to see a breakthrough on Easter Sunday. And 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:43.960 it's going to start right now. Judges, Chapter six, verse fourteen. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:52.160 The Lord turned to him and said, go in the 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.800 strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand? 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:10.200 Am I not sending you when God goes in and Father, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.640 have your way in Jesus' name, Hey man, touch somebody, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.839 say he's coming in. He's coming in. Let the way 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:22.640 maker through. He's coming in. He's coming in to your home, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.920 to your heart, to your brokenness, to your questions, to 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.240 your weeping. Right now, just make that confession online in 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.800 the chat, say he's coming in. Come through. Lord, do 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:40.480 what you want to do. When you think about the Bible. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.880 I want you to think about all of the strange 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.160 elevations in the Bible. This is not the first strange 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.040 elevation in history. This church. I know we're a little weird. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.760 I know it's a little different. How many of you 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.880 the first time you came here, we scared you a 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.520 little bit. Just raise your hand, even like they're too happy. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:08.400 This can't be real. This feels culted. Why because everybody 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.319 seems really into it. Oh yeah, God forgive we be 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:16.840 into Jesus and this kingdom. That would be weird make 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.240 much more sense. It felt like a funeral when God 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.959 is alive. I digress. My point is not that. My 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.360 point is not about our church being strange. Although we 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:32.040 are proudly strange and getting stranger every day. We hadn't 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.440 even gotten weird yet. Let me tell you how weird 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.000 it's gonna get we're gonna release a whole album on 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:44.439 May nineteenth, Holly's birthday. It's called Can You Imagine? And 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.760 on that night that we released those songs, we're gonna 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:53.480 record eight more and I'm announcing it now because that's weird, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.000 but that's what we're gonna do, because we got to 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.600 get the word of God out into as many hearts 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.960 as we can. And if God gives it, we can't 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.959 be stingy. We got to give it and release it 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.959 so we can receive it and repeat it and do 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.480 it again. So that's how weird we are. And we're 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.760 weird in other ways too. We're not divided in ways 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.319 that some churches are divided, and we don't have black 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.720 songs and white songs. We just have songs songs about God. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.000 We don't do ministry to rich people or poor people. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:34.280 We just do ministry everybody needs Jesus. One thing that 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.040 encourages me in my study of God's word is all 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.360 of the people that God raised that from a human 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.240 perspective wouldn't have been recognized as likely candidates to be 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.080 vessels for the purpose of God. Clap on that. If 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:55.520 you're an unlikely candidate too, Yeah, that's good. I called 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.319 it a strange elevation because definitely, if you want to 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.559 see that, look at what Paul says in First Corinthians one, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.400 verse twenty three. Check this out. Might be twenty four. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.040 I don't remember, but whatever scripture it is, put it 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.440 up because I'm stolen. But to those whom God has 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.880 called touch your neighbors, say, that's me he's talking about. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.199 Paul never met me, but he's describing me right there. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.960 But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:32.640 Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.960 next verse. For the foolishness of God is wiser than 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:44.640 human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.439 human strength. More, brothers and sisters, think of what you 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.920 were when you were called. Don't flash back too far. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.640 I might not get you back to church today. If 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.839 you think about where you were, what you were, and 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.160 where you were. Think of what you were when you 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.920 were called. Many of your wives by human standards, not 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.680 many were influential, Not many were of noble birth. Next verse. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.360 But God chose the foolish things of the world to 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:15.000 shame the wise. Don't clap too hard. They might think 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.160 you're the foolish one. I'm past the point of caring, ma'am. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.959 I'd rather somebody think I was foolish than actually be 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.600 a fool. And the fool has said in his heart 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.559 there is no God, but God shows the weak things 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.360 of the world to shame the strong. So the subject 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.760 I want to talk to you today about revolves kind 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.079 of around this thought. The problem that you're having in 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.079 your life right now, to align with what God spoke 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:50.120 about you, has a very discernible diagnosis from the word 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:51.920 of God. I'm going to give it to you upfront 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.959 and then we'll unpack it together. It's that sometimes you 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:04.840 get who you are confused with where you are. That's 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:09.000 a lot of what you've been having severe and even 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.319 crippling anxiety about is that you keep getting who you 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:18.640 are confused with where you are, and God knows the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.800 difference even when you don't. I'm not going to fill 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.640 this sermon with anecdotes from people that I met, but 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.200 it just so happened going through Krispy Kreme the other night. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.400 I wasn't eating them, I was getting them for the 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.480 sleepover gram. What's happened. Just want to tell you that 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.320 right now because I can't eat one of those. And 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.160 I pulled through, and I felt like it was a 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.480 good test for me against temptation to have two dozen 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.560 Krispy Kreme donuts in the car and just drive home 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.800 and not touch them. And I did it, and I 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:52.160 got a quest cookie and I called it even it 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.000 took me a while to get to that place, or 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.920 I could do that, So don't give up. There's hope 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.320 for all of us. Anyway, the guy said, hey, man, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:00.840 I know who you are. You are? I said, cool, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.320 what's your name? He said, I used to go to elevation. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.560 I said, great, what's your name? He said, no, I 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.000 don't go anymore. I said, what does that have to 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.960 do with what's your name? I didn't ask where you 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:21.520 go to church? I asked who you are. In Judges 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:26.920 chapter six, we meet a man who is being raised 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.920 up by God, who is unlikely, being that he's from 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.600 the tribe of Manassa, which is looked down upon among 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.720 the nation of Israel in some ways for good reason. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:45.720 They were kind of messy tribe, but also within that designation, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.000 he saw himself as being the youngest in his family 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.120 because he was biologically but God had chosen him for greatness. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.760 If you go through the Book of Judges, you'll see 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.280 all kinds of strange elevations. What I mean is God 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.280 will reach down and raise up somebody who no one 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.400 else had noticed, and do something really great through them 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.480 while nobody's looking. One of the stories is about Ehud, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.800 who was a left handed judge, and the good thing 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.720 about him being left handed was he reached over to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.440 his right thigh and stabbed a fat king, and the 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.160 attendants were outside thinking the king was in the bathroom, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.840 but he actually had a blade sucked into his cellulight, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.160 and he snuck out and saved the nation because he 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.960 was left handed. Now, the tribe that he was from Benjamin. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.520 That means son on my right hand. So he was 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.160 a left handed dude in a right handed tribe. But 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.360 God raised him up at just the right time. Humble 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.600 yourself under the mighty hand of God, that He may 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:58.200 lift you up in due time. Of course, you never 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.400 heard of Ehud because it's kind of nasty scriptures, so 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.280 they don't teach it over there in Sunday school class 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.760 very much. However, you have heard of Gideon, who I 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.040 read about in Judges Chapter six. I think you have. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:17.119 I think you've heard about what he did, how he 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.880 saved the nation with just three hundred men. My plan 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.200 is to attack that next week and to show you 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.760 how everything that has left your life is not needed 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.040 for the next season that God is bringing you into. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.800 If you got him, you're going to do great things 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.520 and greater things in the future. Yeah, I see it, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:44.120 got you now. Gideon is the least likely. He calls 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.760 himself that in just a moment which we'll see his 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.440 conversation with God. He calls himself the least, and he 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:56.960 calls himself the weakest. He calls himself the least, and 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.879 he calls himself the weakest. In fact, he calls the 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.399 plan that he's from within his family the least, and 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.480 he calls himself, well, he calls them the weakest, and 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.000 he calls himself the least within that family. So the 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:13.400 weakest in the least, and he goes on to save 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.879 the nation. But before he does, before we talk about 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.680 what Gideon did, or before we even talk about who 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.359 Gideon is, I think we need to remember where he was, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.840 because I think that's where a lot of us are. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.600 I know it's where I've been and I spent a 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.080 lot of my time in life in this place where 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.280 Gideon was when God called him to do something amazing 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.840 and raised him up. It's a strange elevation. It's God 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:52.920 raising up an imperfect person. As Paul said, the foolish 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.040 things of the world to shame the strong and the 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:02.359 weak things to confound the wise. The Bible says in 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.080 Judges chapter six, verse seven, when the Israelites cried out 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.480 to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.520 prophet who said, this is what the Lord, the God 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.600 of Israel, says. I brought you up out of Egypt elevation, 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.960 out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.600 the hand of the Egyptians, and I delivered you from 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:33.080 the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them out 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.200 before you and gave you their lamb. I said to you, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.720 I am the Lord your God. Do not worship the 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:46.760 gods of the emrits. Do not worship the gods of comparison. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.520 Do not worship the gods of status. Do not worship 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.639 the worship the gods of sexual expression at the expense 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.840 of addiction and entanglement and bondage. I said to you. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.800 You don't do it, don't become like where you are. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:14.000 Don't confuse who I made you to be with what 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:20.000 you see in the place where I put you. The 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:24.600 prophet said that, he said that. We don't even know 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:29.399 his name, but he said that. But you have not 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.680 listened to me. Now, I promise I'm gonna raise you 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.760 up first. I got gonna start where we gotta start. Okay, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:45.760 because that's true about a lot of us. How hard 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.720 you make me work is how deep I'm gonna go. 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.920 So just let's make a deal. You've been there before. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:59.200 I call it predictable misery. You know it's not where 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.760 you need to go to get what you need to have, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:08.760 But you do it. Predictable misery, predictable pleasure. You do 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.240 the thing, you get the thing, you lose the thing. 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.040 Now you got nothing, and you cry out to God. Now, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.680 what I love about him is that he still lifts me. 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.720 That's what I love about him is that he still 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.080 lifts me. The question isn't will he lift you out 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:33.800 of it? The question is how long do you insist 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.639 on staying in it before you ask him to do 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.719 what he said he would do. Now, for the Israelites, 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.600 It was a seven year cycle, this time seven years 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:51.240 of being oppressed by the Midianites. It would get really 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.480 bad when they tried to plant. When they tried to plant, 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.080 the Midianites would come, and the Bible says they came 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.359 on camels, and the Bible says they were like swarms 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.800 of locusts. That's how many there were. It was overwhelming, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.560 like swarms of locusts. They would come and raid and invade. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.720 Every time the Israelites got ready to grow and do 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:20.000 something forward thinking and progress and put something in the ground, 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:25.800 here came the Midianites. The Bible says, like swarms of locusts. 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.920 Every time they went to sew into their future, here 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.760 came a swarm of enemies to drive them back into 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.080 their past. Every time they went to sew, here came 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.320 a swarm. I'm setting this up so when I tell 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:48.680 you where Gideon was, you won't judge him, because you 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.480 will judge him if you just meet him where he is. 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:57.680 But if you know what he's been warring against, maybe 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.440 you can relate to this guy a little bit. Maybe 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.280 you won't call him a whimp if you see why 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.800 he's hidden. Maybe if you realize that every time he's 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.240 tried to plant, every time he's tried to read, every 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:13.320 time I tried to go for a job interview, every 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.560 time I tried to move forward, every time I tried 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.080 to get my feet under me, every time I tried 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:23.119 to talk to him, every time I tried to apologize. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:30.200 So now we have Gideon who is hidden but he's 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:34.880 a hero. But he's hidden but he's a hero. Which 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:41.480 one It's both, And so it is with you. I'm 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:46.240 preaching today to a hidden hero. I'm preaching today to 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.760 somebody who is stronger than your life has been suggesting 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.600 that you are. I'm preaching today to somebody who has 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:59.119 more potential than you've been given yourself credit for. And 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:02.960 God said, I'm coming in to show you who I am. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:09.560 I am the Lord, your God. Now let's go. Here 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:13.920 comes the Angel. In verse number eleven, the Angel of 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:17.639 the Lord came and sat down under the oak in 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:22.200 uh Orfra. This is before she had her talk show. 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.760 I like to point that out, she'd been doing it 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:27.160 a long time. I always throw that joke in there 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:32.200 because that's really good, really good little preature joke. Sorry 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:35.440 about it. The Angel of the Lord came and sat 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:39.560 down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to joe 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:45.399 Ash the abbys right, shock of shock, horrors of horrors. 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.159 Where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:56.160 press to keep it from the Midian eyes. And when 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:58.879 the Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:04.680 the Lord word is with you, mighty warrior. Now somebody's lying. 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:15.680 These cannot coexist. You cannot be threshing wheat in a 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:20.280 wine press and be a warrior while you're in a 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.880 wine press threshing wheat hiding from the big bad Midianites. 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:32.840 Somebody's lying, somebody's wrong, somebody is not seeing something correctly. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:37.800 One is an angel and one is Gideon. One is 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.520 the messenger of God, and one is Gideon, a human 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.440 from the tribe of Nnassa. So I'm asking you a question. 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:50.800 If it's God and Gideon saying two different things about 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:56.680 the same situation, which one is wrong? That is not 0:25:56.760 --> 0:26:00.960 a trick question. Shout this out loud. God is not wrong, 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:06.760 So why are you hiding? If God is not wrong? 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:16.240 So why are you worried about tomorrow? If God said 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:23.080 He's already there? So why have you given up on yourself? 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:27.560 When he didn't give up on you yet. So why 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.159 do you talk to yourself like your trash when he 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:38.920 spilt his blood for you, like your treasure. Why do 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:41.879 you keep going into a dark place. I'll tell you 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:46.760 why you are hiding, Because you've been hit hard. I 0:26:46.840 --> 0:26:49.479 understood the more I studied about the Midianites. They were 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:53.920 hit harder than any other tribe. When the Midianites, or 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.760 excuse me, the tribe of Manassa, they were hit harder 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:59.320 than any of the other tribes. When the Midianites would 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:03.200 come in on their camels like locust. They hit midian 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:07.879 the hardest. And and so Gideon has this little spirit 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:12.159 on him. Why is everybody always picking on me? And 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:18.320 that's because the enemy only picks on what he perceives 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:24.080 to be powerful. You see why it's gonna take me 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:28.600 two weeks to do this the right way. But he's 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:32.520 in a wine press threshing weed. Nothing wrong with wine press. 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.679 He's not down there getting drunk. He's not down there 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:43.560 making making meth. Mister White, it's not that it's not 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:48.320 it's not exactly that he's in the wrong place. It's 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:52.480 that he's he's doing the thing that he's doing in 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.760 a place that is not most appropriate for who he is. 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.280 When you thresh wheat, and trust me, I've done it lot. 0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:04.879 Never thresh weet, but I understand from people who have 0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:08.359 done these things. When you thresh weet, the goal is 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:13.280 to thresh it up on a hill in an elevated place, 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:17.960 as high as you can get. Because if you thresh 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.600 your wheat in a high place, and let's again remember 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:25.920 what threshing is is separating what's useful the wheat, from 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:30.520 what's useless, the chaff. And when you're threshing wheat, they say, 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.400 if you throw it up and the wind is there, 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:39.360 then the wind will take what's invaluable and blow it away. Well, 0:28:39.360 --> 0:28:42.120 I can appreciate this about the Holy Spirit. The wind 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:44.360 will take you know, the Holy Spirit is like wind 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:48.000 right num the breath of God. When God does what 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:52.080 he does, it blows useless stuff away. I see chaff 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:55.240 flying out of your mind today. I see chaff flying 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:58.560 out of your emotions today. But you gotta get where 0:28:58.680 --> 0:29:04.720 the wind is is. But it's hard to be where 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:10.520 the wind is when you're in a low place. That's 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:13.600 what's wrong with the wine press. It's a low place. 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:17.920 That's what's wrong with the wine press. It's a depressed place. 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:21.520 That's what's wrong with the wine press. It feels like 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:25.080 a safe place, but the wind can't blow there. That's 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:28.960 what's wrong with pornography. It's a low place, makes you 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:32.240 feel certain for a few minutes, but it really puts 0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:35.280 you in shame's in the end. It's not a safe place. 0:29:35.840 --> 0:29:39.040 That's what's wrong with states of anger and rage is 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.000 that when you're in that state, you're crazy and you 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:45.640 can't remember who you are because all you can deal 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:56.360 with is where you are. Are you confused? Have you 0:29:56.560 --> 0:30:04.400 started conflating who you are with where you are? Because 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:07.760 Gideon did? And maybe you got it than Gideon. That's possible. 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:12.680 It is possible that you are holier being Gideon. I'm 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:16.160 not so I get this guy. When I say I 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:19.440 get him, and watch this, he doesn't even know he's 0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:22.600 going to be. I would put Gideon as the goat 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.280 of all the judges that God raised up. I would 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:27.760 say he is the greatest of all time, the greatest 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:31.160 ever to do it. He had tacked diplomacy. He could 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:33.240 talk people down who wanted to fight. But if you 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:38.200 wanted to fight, if you want to fight, do you 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:41.040 really want to do this. I'm warning you, Buck. We 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.320 went to the wrestling tournament, all the guys with their 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:45.920 ears all color flowered up. I was real nice to 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:48.880 them because I know you've been through something. Man, whatever 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:50.840 you did to get your ear like that, I don't 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:54.600 want you to do it to me. So how you doing? Yes, 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:56.680 go first, go right ahead, A hold the door for you. 0:30:58.120 --> 0:31:01.240 So Gideon, with rough talk, is depressed, and I'll watch this. 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:12.160 Stop confusing yourself with your state. It's easy to do. 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:20.240 It's easy to do. Gideon is threshing wheat in a 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:26.160 wine press. He's a warrior. Come on, we just have 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:28.840 to stop him. Marvel at this, that he could be 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:34.440 a warrior in a wine press. That you could be 0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:39.440 a great man trapped in a really bad habit, That 0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:43.240 you could be a great woman going through a period 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:47.400 of chronic pain followed by depression, but you could still 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:54.160 be something and not see it in yourself because of 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:58.720 where you are where you are. I don't even think 0:31:58.720 --> 0:32:00.880 I knew what that line meant when we wrote it. Chandler, 0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:04.760 I know who I am, but I can't stay where 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:08.440 I'm at Now. I get it when I read Gideon, 0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:12.960 because the Lord says, mighty warrior, the Lord is with you. 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:19.920 And Gideon look at verse number thirteen. He says, pardon me, sir, 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.480 big strong, scary looking angel. Oh, by the way, angels 0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:25.920 aren't cute and comforting. You ever see what they're right 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:28.239 about the angels in the Bible. The angel will make 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:30.800 you throw up and pee your pants. Pee your pants? 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.480 Why you're throwing up? The angels are scary, so the 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:35.760 first instinct sometimes when the angel came, they'd be like, 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:38.920 don't be afraid. It's like, if the angel look cuddly 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:40.520 like that little one you have up there on your 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:42.959 mental piece, then why would he say don't be afraid? 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:47.680 Angels got cauliflower ear, angels looking rough coming up in there. 0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:50.360 And Gideon it's like, hey, man, pardon me. I don't 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:53.760 want to start anything because you're you're a bad man. 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:59.880 But if the Lord is with us, why is all 0:32:59.880 --> 0:33:05.000 this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:08.240 our ancestors told us about when they said, did the 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:09.880 Lord not bring us out of Egypt? And now the 0:33:09.960 --> 0:33:12.040 Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand 0:33:12.080 --> 0:33:13.600 of the Midia. And you know that's not what the 0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:15.840 prophet said when I read you verse seven, that's not 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:19.280 what the prophet said. The prophet said, you abandon God. 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:26.240 That is not what the prophet said. Gideon's wrong. Somebody 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:32.720 say he's wrong. He's a warrior but he's wrong. He's 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:40.800 gifted but he's wrong. He's anointed, but he's wrong. He's strong, 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:46.400 but he's wrong. He has confused where he is with 0:33:46.560 --> 0:33:50.160 who he is, to the point when the angel calls 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:54.959 him what he really is, He's like, who is there 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.240 somebody else in this wine press that I haven't seen? 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.480 He just said, mighty warrior? And here I am down 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:03.680 here in a depressed place. You know, when you've been 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:05.520 in a situation long enough, I don't care if it 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:07.240 was done to you or if it was done through you. 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.960 When you've been in it long enough, you begin to 0:34:11.040 --> 0:34:16.560 get the negative thing so embedded into your mind that 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:20.560 you can no longer see anything but that, am I right. 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:25.440 When you've been in it that long, the negativity becomes embedded, 0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:29.680 so you are no longer choosing to be negative. You 0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:36.320 now think that's normal to be negative. You have names 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:42.279 for it. You call it keeping it one hundred, or 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:45.160 when you do something really rude and out of pocket, 0:34:45.280 --> 0:34:48.920 you go, I just gotta be me, and I've been 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:54.920 teaching you all year. That's not you anymore. God is 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:57.920 raising you up out of that. God is calling you 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.480 up out of that. God is saying, come up a 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.480 little higher. I got something for you to do. It 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:10.520 is not just a value. We're almost the verse fourteen. 0:35:10.560 --> 0:35:12.560 I believe we can get there by six o'clock if 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:19.080 you pay attention. But God says to get in. You're 0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:24.920 a mighty warrior. He identifies him by something that he sees, 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:30.200 which made me wonder, is Gideon the only one who 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:36.360 is sifting in this passage? Or is God sifting to 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:43.160 the first picture I saw in the passage? Was Gideon 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:48.040 sifting right down? Sifting? That's my first point. That's only 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:54.440 your first point. I'm gonna go quick writing down like 0:35:54.560 --> 0:36:05.080 this before lifting comes sifting. It better. If God raises 0:36:05.160 --> 0:36:08.680 you up to something and he hasn't sifted from your life, 0:36:08.760 --> 0:36:11.520 some of the attitudes you will sabotage what he brings 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:16.440 you into. How many witnesses do I have that you 0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:19.719 tried to skip the sifting? You just thought, well, I'll 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:23.600 just go ahead and do it anyway. Mm hmmm, how 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.640 did that work for you. When you said, I know, 0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:28.640 I got seventeen warning bells going off. One of my 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:31.160 buddies said, the other day, I was asking God should 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.359 I marry this woman? He said she was so hot, 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:35.440 he said, I didn't want to hear what God said. 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:37.400 He said, we got in a fight. I reached in 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:39.160 the window tried to take the car keys so she 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.840 wouldn't drive off. She rolled my arm up in the 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:47.759 window and squeezed it for a good ten seconds, and 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:57.399 I married her. Anyway, we make some weird decisions when 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:02.160 we really want something so bad and we just decide, oh, oh, 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:04.759 this is what I want. I just decided, you better 0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:08.719 let God sift that thing. You better. I don't like 0:37:08.840 --> 0:37:12.239 being single. You better let God sift that thing. I'd 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:17.640 rather be single and sifted than married and miserable. I 0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:25.759 want God to sift them out. You better let him 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:31.120 sift it, all right, Be good, Be good. He's sifting it. 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:34.760 He's sifting it, just like Gideon is sifting the weak. 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:39.440 God is sifting Gideon. He's blowing out all the worthless thoughts, 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:43.200 all the vile imaginations, all of the things that I 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:45.600 think I am that I'm really not, all of the 0:37:45.680 --> 0:37:47.960 things that I think I need. That God is more 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:50.719 than enough to cover for all of the ways I 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:53.239 used to do it when I was a child. I 0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:56.359 spoke as a child, but when He raised me up 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.799 to become a man, I'm coming into a season now 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:09.480 where I gotta be the real thing for Jesus. I 0:38:09.640 --> 0:38:13.520 am so passionate about that, because if your faith does 0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:17.160 not survive the sifting, you will miss the best parts 0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:25.080 of being you. So I've been down before and thought 0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:29.800 about quit preaching. Sorry, but I have It's hard to 0:38:29.880 --> 0:38:31.600 get the wind of the Holy Spirit to get a 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:33.279 word to give to you when I'm in a wine 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:37.880 press of my own weakness, and I've been there many times. 0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:40.840 Makes me want to cry when I think about all 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:44.160 the times that I tried to quit, but He sifted 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:51.800 me to show me I don't even need a feeling 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:56.000 to do this, that the word of God is powerful 0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:59.200 enough without my feelings for me to stand up and 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:03.759 preach it. Let it flow, God, I don't care. I 0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:06.440 don't look at those notes anyway. Don't get nervous. It's 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:09.160 in my spirit. I've been sitting with this for three 0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:12.360 weeks and God's been sifting it and getting there ready 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:15.600 to feed you for the fight you're in, for the 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.480 future that he sees. And it's not gonna look like 0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:21.560 where you are. It's gonna look like what he said. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:35.560 Oh so mighty water. See if you lact, that's the 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:41.880 wind that response, that's the wind blowing out all that 0:39:42.080 --> 0:39:46.480 condemnation you've been putting on yourself. He died for you, 0:39:47.160 --> 0:39:52.440 be bled for you, be ruled against. He's a strange elevation, 0:39:53.120 --> 0:40:02.640 but he will let you. He's lifting me Hi five seven. 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.800 People say, he's lifting me right now. He's lifting me 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:09.239 right now. He's lifting me right now. It seems like 0:40:09.320 --> 0:40:12.480 a bad time. It seems like it's over. It's a 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:16.719 strange elevation, but he said it's two times. You will 0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:23.399 reap that you don't say right now, right now, right now, 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:27.160 right now, right now, right now, right now, right now. 0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:31.160 I might be down right now, but I'm mighty in God. 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:34.440 I might be sick right now, but I'm healed by 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:37.800 his stripes. I might be broke right now, but my 0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:41.799 God shalls a fly. Oh my knees. I know who 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:44.840 I am, and I'm not staying in this wine pressed, 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.239 So take down they trust be called two men in 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:59.120 a truck hones sit here. That's what a breakthrough feels life, 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:02.600 what the wind feels like. This is what the spirit 0:41:02.760 --> 0:41:09.480 feels like. If I die in this wine press. My 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:12.640 kids don't get this word. Do you understand how important 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:19.040 it is? What you're fighting for right now? And the 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:21.840 devil will send every little locust to get you in 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:26.200 that hole? How many had the locusts come in this week? 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:30.120 The locus the locust? I heard it called ANTS one time. 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:34.520 Ants automatic negative thinking syndrome. Ain't that good. I didn't 0:41:34.520 --> 0:41:37.680 make that up. I read it one time on a 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:42.919 paid subscription website to psychology today. They said ANTS, I said, 0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:45.960 that is it. It's automatic negative thinking syndrome. It becomes 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:48.920 just who I think I am because my automatic response 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:52.960 to anything God wants to do a hide sifting. I'm 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:54.400 only going to get the point one this week. But 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:56.399 let's just do it, Lord, let's just do it. Let's 0:41:56.440 --> 0:41:58.799 just do this one so good that they go home 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:03.720 and realize that you are with them, sending your word 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:08.799 into their wine press. God saw his people oppressed by 0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:11.839 the hand of Midian. He saw you oppressed by sin, 0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:14.920 he saw you oppressed by shame. And you know what 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:17.919 he has to do before God can get you out. 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:28.279 He has to get in. He's getting in, He's getting in. 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.040 You tried to keep him out. You tried to do 0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:32.200 everything you could do. You tried to push them away. 0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:34.480 You tried not answer on your phone. You tried not 0:42:34.560 --> 0:42:37.359 texting the healthy people back, you texted to other people back. 0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:40.520 You tried everything you could do to love the locusts. 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:49.040 But you know why it didn't work, because you got 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:57.160 a lion inside. I'm about to up the doses. Are 0:42:57.200 --> 0:43:10.680 you ready? Lions don't hide from locusts. Mighty warrior, miserable situation, 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:16.400 predictable systems of enslavement. God is not confused about you. 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:22.120 You don't fool him with all that fake crap that 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:26.319 fools people at them like this is just how I am. 0:43:26.480 --> 0:43:31.400 This is just how I'm gonna stay. You can't. I'm sorry, 0:43:31.520 --> 0:43:36.200 but you can't because God is about to go in. 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:41.520 And when God goes in, it's not like you know 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:43.359 how you're getting a fight with somebody and you're like, oh, 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.680 they're going in right now. This is crazy. But they 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:53.919 can only do so much. When God goes in, He's 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:57.200 coming into the house that he built to remodel it. 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:02.759 When God goes in, he's coming into something that only 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:06.920 he knows the blueprint for. When God comes in, he 0:44:07.080 --> 0:44:10.720 knows where every busted pipe is. He knows where every 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:14.680 traumatic event is. He knows where every fault line lies. 0:44:15.160 --> 0:44:19.439 He knows where everything is busted. He knows where you're disgusted. 0:44:19.920 --> 0:44:22.440 He knows where you're just about to give up. And 0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:26.480 he says, good. This is going to make a great partnership. 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.800 Just like me and Chandler write good songs together, you 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:36.400 and God are about to do good work together, because 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:42.680 once you're not, he is, After all, that's his name. 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:47.080 Moses said, I don't have good speech. God said, I am, 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:49.680 I am. What does that have to do with good speech? 0:44:49.760 --> 0:44:52.400 That's not even good grammar? No, No, just plug in 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:55.680 whatever you need behind the name of God, take it 0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:58.960 for yourself and walk in it for a purpose. And 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:03.160 we are gonna get you up out of this in 0:45:03.320 --> 0:45:13.680 the name of Jesus I the career, because we've got to. 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:19.360 We've got to. You've got to come out of that. 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:23.760 You've got to stop deciding stuff in your depressed state. 0:45:25.400 --> 0:45:29.400 You keep cutting off the life of God. Man. You 0:45:29.480 --> 0:45:31.040 know all the things I would have missed. If I 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.920 would have made my decisions based on where I was emotionally, 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:42.080 best things that ever happened in my life, you are 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:46.879 more than able. I didn't feel like writing music that day, 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:53.560 and neither did Chandler. People say sometime I love to 0:45:53.600 --> 0:45:56.560 watch a song be written, though you wouldn't. It's the 0:45:56.680 --> 0:46:00.479 most horribly boring, vulnerable thing of people with ego trying 0:46:00.560 --> 0:46:02.720 to eke out their idea in a room, and everybody's 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:05.080 egos fighting everybody's ego, and until everybody shuts up and 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:09.000 let's go and just try something. Nothing happens, But boy, Chandler, 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:11.800 start playing this thing. We wrote it, and you know what, 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:17.680 Chris had to make me do it. In church, he said, 0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:20.920 more than Abele's awesome. I said, I don't know. It's 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:30.239 kind of Broadway? Is it trendy? Chris said, come on, man, 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:32.320 the people would need it. I write around listening to it. 0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:35.560 I need it. Let's do it, and then we released it. 0:46:35.640 --> 0:46:37.640 Now I just use it as an example. I'm not 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:42.360 up here doing a class on communication, songwriting, fitness, donuts 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:46.080 or anything else like that. Everything I bring you today 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:48.799 I bring you to serve to you something that God 0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:53.080 has helped me to understand that a lot of times 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:57.959 in my life I let the wrong thing be sifted out, 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:07.520 and I kept the wrong things sitting in three weeks, 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:11.080 four weeks? How long are we gonna need with this word? 0:47:12.520 --> 0:47:14.719 I'll be here in twenty twenty nine, saying there's so 0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:20.120 much more to the story. May not done with me yet, 0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:23.640 and he's not done with you yet. He's not finished fifty. 0:47:25.920 --> 0:47:29.960 It must have felt horrible for Peter saying I failed Jesus, 0:47:31.120 --> 0:47:34.759 but Jesus told him Satan's gonna sift you, and Jesus 0:47:34.760 --> 0:47:39.640 sai I'm letting. I'm gonna let him. The only way 0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:42.080 I can let you know that you have a lion 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:49.279 inside and you won't turn it into pride is if 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:55.440 I let the locusts come for a little while, but 0:47:55.560 --> 0:47:58.239 then comes a word from God. And it may be 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:04.080 for you today that the Lord said he's about to 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:11.480 go in to your insecurities, to your inadequacy, to your incapacity. 0:48:11.880 --> 0:48:15.080 I told the Lord one time, I'm not capable, and 0:48:15.160 --> 0:48:17.640 he said, I'm able, and I wear the cape, So 0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:21.239 you just do it. Isn't that cool how the Lord 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:23.600 gives me wordplay because he knows that's my love language. 0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:25.960 I'm like, Oh, Lord, talk clean to me. I love 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:33.200 that wordplay what's wrong with me today? Y'all? I just 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:36.200 decided now I'm gonna be me in this pulpit and 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:39.439 everywhere I go. So we're just gonna have a good 0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:43.400 time in church. Y'all, can clip me, mean me, do 0:48:43.520 --> 0:48:45.960 whatever you want to do. But I gotta be me. 0:48:46.360 --> 0:48:49.840 I gotta go home with me. And Holly thinks it's okay. 0:48:50.000 --> 0:48:54.719 She thinks this attractive. Now I've almost got us to 0:48:54.800 --> 0:48:58.560 the point of verse fourteen, which is really what I 0:48:58.600 --> 0:49:03.759 stood up to tell you today. Almost there where the 0:49:03.840 --> 0:49:10.279 Lord said the Lord said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 0:49:10.760 --> 0:49:15.120 I gotta do this verse fourteen. Before the Lord said 0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:19.920 anything to get in look at verse fourteen. I'll almost 0:49:19.960 --> 0:49:22.520 skip this. Oh glad I saw it. Verse fourteen. Come on, y'all, 0:49:23.320 --> 0:49:31.880 before the Lord said it, give you a minute to 0:49:32.520 --> 0:49:37.000 think about this. Why were they in this situation to 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:45.040 begin with? Because they turned away from the Lord. And 0:49:45.160 --> 0:49:48.840 so the Lord says, even if you have a will 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:55.719 to turn away, I've got a word to turn you back. 0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:07.120 This is a turning word today it's go in the 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:14.880 strength you have. But before you can go in the 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:20.279 strength that you have. You've got to stop worshiping your weaknesses. 0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:25.880 And you have spent enough time in your life in 0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:29.360 the form of the excuses that you made worshiping your weakness. 0:50:29.840 --> 0:50:32.799 For every time you make an excuse about something God 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:39.040 called you to do, you worship the weakness instead of 0:50:39.120 --> 0:50:44.160 worshiping the God who gives you strength. I love the 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:50.760 scripture that says I can do all things through Christ, 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:56.080 who strengthens me. Well, that's just the New Testament version 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:59.000 of what the Angel said to Gideon. He said, go 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:02.920 in the strength that you have, and I'll be with 0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:04.920 you and you'll strike him down. Am I not sending 0:51:04.960 --> 0:51:09.600 you in? Gideon is like, I'm still not really convinced 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:13.120 about this, but you don't have to be convinced to 0:51:13.239 --> 0:51:17.080 commit to it. I know that sounds controversial because we 0:51:17.160 --> 0:51:19.680 think it takes full surrender to God in order to 0:51:19.719 --> 0:51:22.480 be used by God. It doesn't start with full surrender. 0:51:23.800 --> 0:51:28.040 It starts with you. Watch this. It starts with you 0:51:28.200 --> 0:51:34.040 saying if God is strong and He's in me, then 0:51:34.120 --> 0:51:37.440 where I am is not who I am, and it 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:42.200 can change because God doesn't. So if God called me 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:45.719 a warrior, that didn't change because of decisions that I made. 0:51:46.920 --> 0:51:49.720 If God said that I can be free and pure 0:51:50.080 --> 0:51:53.160 and new, and God said I can be fresh, and 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:56.760 God called me creative, and God is calling me forward. 0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:02.680 Whatever the locusts are saying is a lie. And God 0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:07.480 is true and God is right, and God is sovereign 0:52:08.040 --> 0:52:11.440 and God is judge. And God is still speaking to 0:52:11.560 --> 0:52:14.160 some of you, and he's stirring something up in this 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:17.920 season of your life. And it hasn't been comfortable. Sifting 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:21.400 isn't meant to be comfortable. It's meant to be profitable, 0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:24.919 so that when you get through this season, what's left 0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:31.799 over is His strength, not yours. Whatever's keeping me from 0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:35.319 seeing you, Get it out, God, whatever's keeping me from 0:52:35.400 --> 0:52:39.000 connecting with you, Get it out, God, whatever's keeping me 0:52:39.120 --> 0:52:43.560 from believing again, from having childlike faith, from speaking to 0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:48.640 mountains instead of bowing to them. Get it out, Get 0:52:48.680 --> 0:52:52.960 it out. I gotta grow up. I gotta be I'm 0:52:53.000 --> 0:52:56.239 not a kid anymore. Gideon, You're not a kid anymore. 0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:59.719 You're not a child anymore. God is raising you up now. 0:53:00.040 --> 0:53:03.240 You're not immature anymore. You're not a slave to that anymore. 0:53:03.520 --> 0:53:06.400 You're not in the hands of Midian anymore. The hand 0:53:06.480 --> 0:53:09.160 of God is on you, the spirit of God is 0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:11.920 in you. You are not under the law. You are 0:53:12.080 --> 0:53:14.920 under grace, and you can do anything he says you 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:22.880 can do. But you need a reminder because sometimes you 0:53:23.040 --> 0:53:26.759 lose your mind and you hide because you don't want 0:53:26.760 --> 0:53:29.799 to fight. I don't want to fight, so I'll just hide. 0:53:30.000 --> 0:53:33.759 I'll just shrink my life down to the level of 0:53:33.920 --> 0:53:38.120 this problem. I'll just shrink my life down into this bottle. 0:53:39.680 --> 0:53:44.919 I'll just shrink my life down into this cynicism. I'll 0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:50.040 just shrink my life down into this stupid iPhone, and 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:55.480 I will scroll my life away, hiding from real relationships 0:53:55.920 --> 0:54:01.960 because I'm scared of rejection. But it's a strange elevation 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:07.480 happening today. Even as I preached this word, even as 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:14.799 we worshiped, God was going in. You think God has 0:54:14.880 --> 0:54:16.880 to bring you out of prison for you to praise. 0:54:17.239 --> 0:54:19.840 Let me tell you a little secret. When you praise 0:54:20.040 --> 0:54:24.680 in a prison, God goes in. No, I'm saying God 0:54:24.840 --> 0:54:29.719 goes in. And when God goes in, fear has to 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:33.440 go out when God goes in. Depression has to go 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:37.160 out when God goes in. Every excuse we made, let 0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:39.480 me give you an illustration of how much of a 0:54:39.680 --> 0:54:42.160 warrior I can be and how much of a weakling 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:44.440 I can be. I'll give you an illustration from my 0:54:44.560 --> 0:54:47.759 own life. About four or five years ago, we were 0:54:47.880 --> 0:54:51.480 driving home from church. I was fried. Man. I preached 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:55.120 that week. That same week in three other churches, came 0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:58.680 home preached here. I know I'm in a wine press. 0:54:58.800 --> 0:55:03.520 I'm whining and I'm depressed. I'm in a wine press. 0:55:03.680 --> 0:55:06.720 Why me, Lord, because you accepted too many invitations, dummy. 0:55:06.960 --> 0:55:09.640 But I don't want to take responsibility for my decisions. 0:55:09.680 --> 0:55:14.560 I just want miraculous deliverance. Illustration resumed. I'm so fried. 0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:17.520 I'm going home and I have no voice. I've been 0:55:17.600 --> 0:55:20.879 screaming at y'all for an hour, like I do. Why 0:55:20.920 --> 0:55:23.759 do you scream? The microphone works perfectly fine, Pastor, Let's 0:55:23.760 --> 0:55:25.400 take a microphone off frings so you don't have to 0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:27.960 holler so much. I know the microphone is fine, but 0:55:28.040 --> 0:55:30.520 there's something in me, like a fire, some up in 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:34.919 my bones. I gotta get it out. But then, after 0:55:34.960 --> 0:55:37.320 all that mighty fire in the pulpit, all these different places, 0:55:37.600 --> 0:55:40.040 I'm riding home, I'm like, Holly, you gotta drive normally 0:55:40.120 --> 0:55:41.960 she drives home because I'm still so in my head 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:44.040 about the message and what did I say that. I 0:55:44.080 --> 0:55:45.640 don't want to get in a wreck, so I let 0:55:45.680 --> 0:55:48.680 her drive. I'm smart enough to have discernment. And then 0:55:48.920 --> 0:55:51.360 and then I tell her to go faster and slower, 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:53.680 which is really annoying. And then I try to She's like, 0:55:53.760 --> 0:55:55.160 do you want to drive? I'm like, no, no, no, 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:57.600 just thank you so much. And so we're driving home 0:55:57.760 --> 0:56:00.040 and I'm tired, right and the kids, the boys, I 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:01.960 don't remember if Abbey was in the car, if she 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:04.080 was just being angelic, or if she wasn't there. Probably 0:56:04.080 --> 0:56:06.319 she just wasn't there. But the boys are fighting back 0:56:06.360 --> 0:56:08.520 and forth bum boao bom, and I'm like, y'all shut up. 0:56:08.560 --> 0:56:10.200 I can't take it right now. I can't take it 0:56:10.320 --> 0:56:14.640 right now. My last nerve is still in Toledo from 0:56:14.680 --> 0:56:17.640 Thursday night preaching. I don't have my last nerve. It's 0:56:17.680 --> 0:56:20.040 in Toledo. Y'all got to shut up. I'm telling you, 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:22.279 please shut up. Please, in the name of Jesus, please 0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:25.920 be quiet, peace, be still. I'm speaking to the storm. 0:56:26.160 --> 0:56:29.680 Nothing's working. So finally, you ever just get so overcome 0:56:29.800 --> 0:56:33.000 you do something that you're watching yourself do. You're not 0:56:33.080 --> 0:56:36.440 doing it anymore, You're watching yourself do it. I tell 0:56:36.520 --> 0:56:44.680 Holly on Providence Road, let me out where to stop? Like, 0:56:44.800 --> 0:56:48.920 I said, let me out? She said, babe. Now let's 0:56:48.920 --> 0:56:51.160 say we're only a couple miles mile half from home. 0:56:51.440 --> 0:56:53.160 I said, let me out. I said, I'm telling you, 0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:55.800 if you don't let me out of this car, someone's 0:56:55.800 --> 0:56:58.000 about to come out of me. And I don't know 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:00.200 what it is, and I don't want to know, and 0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:02.239 I don't want anybody to know. I just want us 0:57:02.320 --> 0:57:04.239 to guess the rest of our life. What would have 0:57:04.360 --> 0:57:09.200 happened if I stayed in this car? Let out? And 0:57:09.320 --> 0:57:11.120 see I don't even have my voice, so I can't 0:57:11.160 --> 0:57:14.440 scream at the kids. I can't scream. I feel just trapped. 0:57:14.480 --> 0:57:24.480 They won't stop. I get out. She drives off. I'm walking, 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:31.000 but I'm walking like I have a right to be 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:35.160 walking on this road. I'm a taxpayer. And then I 0:57:35.240 --> 0:57:37.520 start thinking, well, if somebody from the church sees me, 0:57:37.840 --> 0:57:40.200 what are they gonna think? And then I think they'll 0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:44.240 probably think. Man. He is he is, he is NonStop. 0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:47.600 He preaches the word and walks home praying for us. 0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:51.600 What a man of God. God don't know any better. 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:56.240 Just use the illusion, you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:58.920 walking and that mid didn't take me about thirty seconds 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:04.440 a minute until I'm regrets and the whole decision and 0:58:04.560 --> 0:58:09.480 what should come back my way. But Holly s Denali 0:58:12.360 --> 0:58:17.080 came back down toward me on Providence and I'm thinking, woman, 0:58:17.160 --> 0:58:19.680 I'm telling you, I can't do this right now. I 0:58:19.960 --> 0:58:22.960 don't want to be a bad role model and me 0:58:23.120 --> 0:58:25.520 and that chlorinym is not a good thing. And so 0:58:25.680 --> 0:58:29.560 she comes, she pulls up, she pulls around, and I'm 0:58:29.640 --> 0:58:32.000 opening the door to tell her I can't right now. 0:58:32.120 --> 0:58:36.640 I'm walking it off, which isn't a bad strategy, could 0:58:36.680 --> 0:58:40.040 be worse. But when I opened the door, I noticed 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:43.360 something different than when she left. It was only her 0:58:43.400 --> 0:58:50.800 in the car. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell ya. 0:58:54.200 --> 0:59:05.880 I said, where are the kids? She said, they're walking. Well, oh, revelation. 0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:12.000 Look what she said. I'm gonna release it in the spirit. 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:19.280 She said, you don't get out, they do. I came 0:59:19.440 --> 0:59:23.920 to tell every devil that's been forcing you out of 0:59:24.000 --> 0:59:33.560 your right mind, you don't get out. Say zoom Henry there, 0:59:35.440 --> 0:59:45.960 Camry Henry trade, henry trade. I'm not getting out of 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:50.280 the well. You don't get out, get out, get out, 0:59:50.320 --> 0:59:52.760 get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:56.840 mark come somewhere to don't. I got some funny to see. 0:59:57.280 --> 1:00:00.480 I've got some finding out out. I got I fear 1:00:00.680 --> 1:00:12.760 saying you don't get out. Fear does you don't get out? 1:00:13.120 --> 1:00:17.360 Panic attack dolls. You don't kill yourself. You run that 1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:20.080 devil out of your life in the power of God, 1:00:20.440 --> 1:00:24.520 and you live to declare his goodness, and you build 1:00:24.560 --> 1:00:29.080 a testimonious and you sing a song. He's not done 1:00:29.200 --> 1:00:35.960 with me yet. There's more than my story. I'm just 1:00:36.200 --> 1:00:42.040 getting started. I'm not staying in this wide Christ telling 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:49.520 me locus, what got a lion inside? And lions don't 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:55.200 hide from locusts? And the lion of the tribe of 1:00:55.440 --> 1:01:00.200 Suda is just about ready to roar, to break your 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:05.400 seven year cycle, to break every cycle that has kept 1:01:05.520 --> 1:01:09.439 you stuck in sin and stuck in same and stuck 1:01:09.520 --> 1:01:14.800 in a situation, a predictable misery. But God is about 1:01:15.320 --> 1:01:19.440 to go in, and all you gotta do, I'm telling you, 1:01:19.800 --> 1:01:23.040 by grace, we are saying all you gotta do get 1:01:23.120 --> 1:01:33.120 in is let the wind blow and let the waymaker through. Yeah, 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:40.120 because I know who I am. I know who you are. 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:49.360 You are Jehovah chiro. So my needs are provided. You 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:57.480 don't get out, God limitation gets out. You are Jehovah shalom. 1:01:58.200 --> 1:02:02.560 You are my peace. Your peace is not going out 1:02:02.600 --> 1:02:06.080 of my life this week. My thought patterns that keep 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:10.520 me in a place of panic. R you don't get out, 1:02:12.520 --> 1:02:19.800 they do as I've come a long way. I've seen 1:02:20.000 --> 1:02:27.200 how you were. There's so much should it's a great 1:02:29.400 --> 1:02:33.120 much more than jesuz if it has no meaning here 1:02:33.720 --> 1:02:37.560 because I know who the Lord is turning towards you 1:02:37.720 --> 1:02:42.360 right now, and I can't say where I see you 1:02:42.440 --> 1:02:49.040 walking forward. We've come this far laughing. Let's go. And 1:02:49.720 --> 1:02:52.760 Good is looking for a partner. He's looking for you. 1:02:53.520 --> 1:02:59.400 Should not done with me? Believes that you're not done 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:03.160 with me. Here comes your second win, Man of God. 1:03:03.960 --> 1:03:08.120 There's so much more to the store. Declare it over 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:12.720 your life. You're not turn with Sing it to your neighbor, somebody, 1:03:13.280 --> 1:03:17.200 he's not up with you. I'll sing it till the 1:03:17.240 --> 1:03:20.680 person next to you he's not turn with you. Sing 1:03:20.800 --> 1:03:23.960 it to the person next to your co pay so 1:03:24.240 --> 1:03:30.680 much more to your so he's not talk with that. 1:03:30.960 --> 1:03:33.600 You're in the way they go, so that a way 1:03:34.000 --> 1:03:43.560 I could do, God, go back up, come on, they're 1:03:43.720 --> 1:03:53.960 so much. Shall let the law shall say that back 1:03:54.080 --> 1:03:58.320 up through he's covered in your white horse left away? 1:03:59.320 --> 1:04:22.520 Please coming up, in, coming in, please coming, please come in, 1:04:23.680 --> 1:04:31.440 Come in, Please come in. Hey. I hope you enjoyed 1:04:31.480 --> 1:04:34.360 the podcast, and if you did, make sure to share 1:04:34.440 --> 1:04:36.920 it and subscribe so we can get you all of 1:04:37.040 --> 1:04:40.280 these new messages as soon as they're available. I also 1:04:40.320 --> 1:04:42.280 want to take a moment and thank all of you 1:04:42.320 --> 1:04:45.720 who are a part of Elevation. 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