May 4, 2025 • 61 mins
We all find ourselves in seasons when we feel like we don’t have what it takes, and we don’t know what to do. But don’t be afraid or discouraged, because God isn’t late — He’s working according to His timing. Don’t lose hope, and don’t give up.
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Scripture References:
Galatians 6, verses 8-9
Matthew 6, verse 34
2 Chronicles 20, verses 1 & 12-18
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
in your life.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Enjoy the message. When I say God is good, you
say all the time, and then I say all the time,
and you say God is good all the time. Grab
the hand of the person next to you. Father, thank
you for this moment, a holy moment, a sanctified moment,
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a set apart moment, a special moment, a moment that
we'll never see again. Thank you for this day. Thank
you for the sunrise. Thank you for that breath. Thank
you for the person whose hand I'm holding. Thank you
for bringing them through and bringing them here. Thank you
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for what you brought them out of. Thank you for
what you're leading them into. I ask for the person
that's on my right and on my left today that
you would give them the kind of confidence that comes
from knowing that they will never take a step that
you haven't already gone before them. I thank you that
you are the God who goes before us when we
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feel like falling. I thank you that you are the
God who catches us a firm foundation beneath our feet.
And when we sometimes forget how big you are, I
want to thank you that you are the God who
is above us, and your ways are higher than our ways.
Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts. As the rain
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falls from the heaven and waters the earth and doesn't
return to it without accomplishing that which it was sent
to do, so shall your word be that comes forth
from your mouth today. It will not return unto your void.
It never does, it can't. It must accomplish what you
sent it to do. I thank you for the worship
that your people have given you today. You're worthy of it.
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We clap our hands right now because you're worthy of it.
Your worship you because you're worthy. Now repeat after me, say,
and God, I thank you for this word that you
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are about to speak. I receive it. It's true. Amen,
high five fifteen people, and stay standing for the reading
of God's word. Put all of that in the chat,
would you. I receive it. It's true. Put it in
the chat right now, God speak. I receive it. It's true.
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God Speak, I receive it. It's true standing I thought
I said that. Sorry about that. Just all kinds of
exercise you're getting today, jumping and sitting and standing. Tell
your neighbor discount says your workout. Got to the point
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in my life where I don't like to skip physical workouts,
but I really if I had to skip either a
physical workout or if I had to skip the Word
of God, I would skip the physical one. Because the
things that I'm battling in my life right now are
not flesh and blood. There are some of us in
the room who are wrestling against principalities and spirits of discouragement,
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spirits of despair. And you never know what news you're
gonna get when you leave this place. But I promise
you God's got good news for you today. That's what
gospel means. It means good news that we were dead
and alive in Christ, that Jesus Christ is King of
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kings and Lord of lords, and he has come to
bind up the broken hearted, to set the captive free,
and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Somebody shout,
this is my year. I don't know what the first
four months were like, but tell them these next eight
these next eight are going to be great. Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord. I want to share with you today
from a passage of scripture that I mentioned last week.
When I mentioned it last week, I knew immediately that
this is where we would start today because something very
special happened in the moment that I read Galatians six'.
Nine and this may be a scripture that you want to.
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Memorize you may need to quote this one back to the,
devil and you may need to quote it to your,
yourself or you may need to give it to a
friend who's fighting. Cancer BUT i really love this, verse
And i'm gonna share with you today From galatian six to.
Nine at least that's where we'll. Start you're, like, oh,
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short sermon only one. Verse do not be Deceived galatians,
six verse, nine and let us not grow weary of doing,
good for in due season we will reap if we
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do not give. Up told you the word Of god is.
Powerful let's read it out loud, together, please verse nine
and let us not grow weary of doing, good for
in due season we will reap if we do not give.
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Up now that you got my, cadence let's read it together,
again and let us not grow weary of doing, good
for in due season we will reap if we do
not give. Up, yeah go ahead and respond to that
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however you want. To all, Right SO i want to
give you my title to your neighbor today and just
look at them real quick in their eyes and, SAY
i know you're going through a. LOT i know you've
been confused about a few. Things AND i know you
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don't know who to talk to because you don't know
who you can. Trust AND i know it feels like
there's more on you then you can. Bear now here
comes the. Title tell them. This but all you've got
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to do is. Don't all you've got to do is
don't see how that big to do list you came
to church with just got. Smaller all you've got to
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do is. Don't father helped me show it to them
how you showed it to, me and we'll all be.
BETTER i give you praise In jesus'. Name, amen, shout
don't on your way to your, seat be. Seated be.
Seated sometimes your teenagers help you to understand your sermon
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a little bit. Better abby came downstairs after sleeping till
noon yesterday AND i, said how are? You good? Morning she,
Said i'm. Tired, now why are you? Tired you went
to bed at ten, pm you woke up at twelve.
Pm fourteen hours is sufficient. REST i get. It there
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have been times in my life WHERE i went on,
vacation came back and needed a vacation for recovery from the.
Vacation and really it's your expectations of vacations that mess you,
up because you, think, like, oh IF i can just
make it to this, beach IF i can just make
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it to these. Mountains but every single thing that you
had with you in the valley goes with you to the,
mountain and every single mountain that you have in your
life goes with you to the. Beach so In galatians chapter,
six verse, nine The Great Apostle, paul speaking to the
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church in modern Day, turkey is giving an encouragement to
Some christians who are being tempted to go back to
an old way of life And. Judaism, now these Particular
christians are Gentile, christians so they're not familiar With jewish.
Customs and one of the customs that The jewish believers
wanted to put on their gentile counterparts was this custom called,
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circumcision and they were, saying if you really want to Follow,
christ you need to be. Circumcised And paul, said, no
you don't turn to your neighbor and, say, no you
don't half the rules that people tell you about being
A christian that you have to do this and you
have to do. That no you. Don't somebody told ME
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i want to come to, elevation BUT i heard you
have to dress. Up that was, like you have to.
Dress that's the dress code at. Elevation do just do
dress and that's. IT a lot of the things that
you think you need to enter in the presence Of,
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god no you. Don't you just need the name Of,
jesus the blood Of, jesus and an open. Heart so
if you think you need to have a perfect week
before you can pray To, god no you don't tell your.
Neighbor no you. Don't in, fact if there's somebody here
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today and you're thinking about becoming a follower Of christ
and you think you need to clean up your life
to come to, him much like these people In galatia
might have thought they needed to be circumcised externally in
order to come To. Christ if you think you need
to make an outward behavior modification before you can have
an inward renewal or. Change, no you. Don't in, fact
if the sun, sets you're. Free you're. Free, Indeed and
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sometimes what wears us out and exhausts us is. Expectations
The lord spoke that me one. Time NOW i want
to tell you this in the most personal way, possible
but not share any inappropriate. Details there was a moment
in my ministry WHERE i felt very close to What
i've heard called. Burnout and it's been several years, ago
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but it was intense enough THAT i was telling The
lord things LIKE i can't do, THIS i can't go,
on AND i don't have what it. Takes and in
the process of that being, cyclical not just once on
A wednesday for a hard, meeting but week after week
after week after. Week the chronic urge to quit is
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a signal that something needs to. Shift the chronic urge
to quit not the, passing fleeting urge to, quit but
the chronic urge to quit is a signal that something
needs to. Shift and in my particular, CASE i felt
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like all of the work that was on, me combined
with the work of raising family and you're, like, no
raising a family isn't. Work raising a family is a.
Reward children are a blessing from The, lord and they.
Are but have you ever had your quiver full quiver
full with sharp objects called. ARROWS a full quiver hurts
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sometimes you want to quit fill in that quiver. Sometimes
but AS i was processing all of that in my
heart and in my, prayers The lord showed me something very,
powerful AND i think that it will help you. Today he,
said you keep thinking that the problem is that the
work is too great for, you and you assume that
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you are weary because of the work THAT i gave,
you the work of being a, dad the work of
being a, husband the work of being a, pastor the
work of leading a, church and all of the. Work
the travel was intense at that point in, Time the
organizational life cycle was at a very immature stage of,
development and it was moving through some. Transitions And he's,
said you think that the reason you're, Weary paul, said
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let us not grow weary of doing. Good you think
that the reason you're weary is because of the. Work
but the reason you're weary is not because of the.
Work it's because of your worry about the. Work AND
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i started to see that it was not WHAT i
was doing For god that was wearing me. Out it
was WHAT i was doing For god That god never
asked me to do to begin, with that was wearing me.
Out does this sermon feel like a lifeline to anybody
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in the room? Today so when he, says let us
not grow weary of doing, good for in due season
we will reap if we do not give, up we
have to start by asking the, question why AM i?
Weary and this is not intended for those of you
who are visiting a relative at the nursing home every
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day right, now or you are in a custody battle
that is sucking all of your. Resources although there is
a word for you, TODAY i am not telling you
that if you would simply turn it, over it would
no longer be. HARD i am saying that you would
be able to handle much more weight if you would
change the way you do the. Work for The bible
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says let us not grow weary in doing good and
don't grow weary is kind of one of those things
that people say that sounds good until you really think about.
It how AM i supposed to don't grow weary with
this schedule THAT i. Have how AM i supposed to
not grow weary when it's twenty four to? Seven how
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AM i supposed to not grow weary when everybody is
wearing me? Out it's kind of like people telling you
get well soon when you're. Sick oh, gee, Thanks i'll
get right on. That that sounds like a, plan and
don't grow weary can kind of sound like get well
soon unless you stop and realize that beneath the, injunction
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don't grow weary is an invitation to understand why you're.
Weary and in my, case AS i begin to break
down all of the, EXPECTATIONS i realized that it was
expectations that were exhausting. Me expectations can be. Exhausting expectations
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can be, Exhausting AM i right about? It the expectations
that others have of you can be. Exhausting the expectations
of what it means to be a mom in this
day and age can be exhausting of. You the expectation
WHEN i was growing up to have your kid in
sports was just to get them to the field On
tuesday And thursday for their baseball. Game but now if
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your kid is going to be a real baseball. Player
you've got to sign them up for A TRIPLE a
team when they're seven years. Old oh, no you will
no longer have time for church On. Sunday you are
going to be in travel, ball because if your kid
misses one season of travel, ball they will be traumatized
by the fact that they didn't play travel. Ball and
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it feels like to me there is greater and greater
expectation not only for, parents but there is greater expectation
on our kids than ever before, too not just because
they have to be on this team or that, team
but because they are spending so much time on everybody else's.
Timeline and now our kids no longer have fomo fear
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of missing. Out they have pomo proof of missing, out
because not only DO i have to think about the
fact that they might be doing something without, ME i
actually see the proof that they're doing something without. Me
so Now i've got anxiety coupled with depression and isolation
at the most vulnerable time in my, life And i'm
only fourteen years, old AND i don't know how to handle.
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It why AM i? Tired why are kids going so
crazy these? Days why does there seem to be such
a surge in mental health epidemics that we keep reading
about statistically that can only be fixed, spiritually because The bible,
says let us not grow weary in doing. Good and
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what The lord gave me during that season of burnout
that was very helpful to, me AND i share it
with you in the offer that it can be of
use IS i will give you the strength you need
to do your, job BUT i will not give you
the strength to do. Mine god, SAID i will give
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you all the strength you need to do your, job
BUT i will not give you the strength to do.
Mine and so this phrase comes up in the. Text it,
says let us not grow weary of doing. Good doing
good is an interesting phrase, too by the, way because
it's never been harder to feel like you're doing good
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than it is right. NOW i THOUGHT i was good
at playing guitar growing up because none of my other
friends played, guitar so compared to, THEM i was doing.
GOOD i didn't have proof in my pocket that there
are nine year olds who can play guitar better than.
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Me at age forty, Five it's never been harder to do.
Good you used to have to go to the lake
to see your friend had a better boat than. You,
now all you have to do is pick up your
same device that has Your bible lap on, it and
you have to see their boat on the same device
that you picked up to see Your bible when you
scroll Their instagram. Account and what you don't know is
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that they went broke to buy the, boat and you
are blind to their. Brokeness so you are discouraged by their. Boat, yeah,
no wonder you're. Tired no wonder you're. Tired you thought
you weren't getting enough, Protein you thought you weren't getting enough,
sleep and you might not. Be but why? Not and
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The lord showed, ME i will give you the hours
that you need to do your, job not. MINE i
will give you the wisdom you need to do your,
job not. MINE i will give you the strength you
need to do What i've assigned you to. Do but
the MOMENT i forget That god is, sovereign the moment
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THAT i forget That god makes the, SCHEDULE i negate
the topic called do. Time let us not grow weary
of doing, good doing, good for in due season we will.
Reap and here's the, problem is that somebody on your
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row is doing better than, you and somebody on your
row is doing worse than, you and you are comparing
how you know you're doing to how you think they're.
Doing AM i preaching this? Thing or AM i just caffeinated?
Today due Season it's one of those phrases in church
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that just makes us want to shout for in due,
season there is a due season That god knows how
to bring everything you need into a. Moment The greek
for this is cairo. Idio it means the appointed. Time
the word chiros In greek does not mean time like
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a clock or a. Calendar that word is. Kronos that
word is a word that challenges my, Wife. Holly holly
struggles with kronos, time like what it. Is she brought
me an article recently that showed me that scientifically there
is a condition called time, blindness and she, Said, Babe
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i've figured out Why i'm always. Late but you, know
worse than being blind to kronos time is being blind
to chiros. Time the word for due season In galatians six'
nine is. Chiros time chronos time means you showed up
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at eight thirty and you were supposed to be there.
At eight that's. CHRONOS conflict i don't have enough time
to get. It. Done chiros time MEANS that i can
be on time for Everything that i'm supposed to do
and miss the very Reason that god brought me to.
That moment because a lot of the things that we
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worry about Kill the cairos in. Our life there are
many here Today that god wants to speak a word
to and he brought you to speak it. To you
but if you check your Phone while, i'm preaching you
could Kill. Your cairos you could kill the Moment that
god wanted to show you a distinction in a battle
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that you're. Dealing with you could kill that moment because
you had to check a text and, you, SAY well
i have to check the text. Right now you don't
have to multitask when you're in the presence Of the
master of. The universe with maybe. Three exceptions in this
room you've got a sick kid in they're not. With
you you don't have to check out. Right now and
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many are the times in my LIFE where i have
Killed a cairos MOMENT because i was. CHRONOS aware i
was trying to get it, all DONE and i Missed
what god wanted to DO because i was busy trying
to get it. All done But sometimes god will stop
you in your tracks, And say i'm shifting the priority in.
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This season i'm shifting what you think you need. To
do i'm shifting where you think you need. To be
i'm tired of you Killing your, cairos moments and nothing
will kill it quicker. Than comparison nothing will Kill your.
Chiros moments The season god has you in as, a
man has, you in as a, single person has, you
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in as, a mom has, you in as somebody who
is waiting for your next step to. Be revealed nothing
will Kill what god is doing in you quicker than
you comparing it to what You think god is doing in.
Someone else somebody shall do season Do. Season now this
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does not mean the season when you get what you Deserve,
from GOD because i promise you don't ever want that season.
To come i'm gonna come over to the real side of.
THE room i stumbled over Into The super saved section for,
that POINT and i should have been. Over here there
are some of us in this room who Don't want
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god to give us what. We deserve i'm gonna come
to the back of the Room because i'm surrounded by
holy angels who always, live right who always, lived good
who always said their prayers and ate their Vitamins Like
hulk hogan taught. Them to but there are some of
us who Don't want god to give us what. We deserve.
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That's mercy mercy Is when god does not give you what.
You deserve mercy is when your sin is nailed to
the cross and you, can, say oh the bliss of this.
Glorious thought my sin not, in part but the whole
is nailed to, the CROSS and i bear it. No
more Praise, the lord oh. My soul that's Mercy when
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god doesn't give me the wrath and punishment that my,
sin deserve, but grace grace takes it a. Step further
not Only that god did not give me what my,
sins deserved but that grace gives ME what i did,
not DESERVE that i could. Never earn that grace gave
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ME what i could never grind, to GET that i
could grind my, whole life sow my, whole life work my.
Whole life and how many know one Moment, of cairos
one moment, of grace one Moment of, god's favor one
Moment of god's hand moving things around in. YOUR life
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i want to put this out there. For somebody god
can give you so much grace it will make the
time you. Wasted irrelevant so when we say, do season
it may be easy for you to shout about that
because you may be living in it. Right now you
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may be living in the blessing that you prayed for.
Right now you may be experiencing things that you dreamed about.
Right now you may have your family back together, right
now and it may be a happy time around. Your
table and we rejoice with. YOU today i think we've
got Some jealous christians. In here we rejoice with. You
today if the man of your dreams just proposed to you,
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last night took you to a restaurant with table cloths,
and menus and you came in here today not only
to Worship, the lord but to show off. Your ring
if it's we celebrate, with you we celebrate with. You season, come.
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On y'all they prayed for a long time about that is.
Do season if you just got, TO raise i celebrate,
with you and you. Better Tide but god said there
are some people on your role that while you are Celebrating,
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do season there are just as many people in here
who are in. Don't SEASON so i want to preach
about what to do in. Don't season what to do in.
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Don't season when you feel the Presence, of god that
is a wonderful time To. Praise GOD but i want
to preach about the season when you don't when you
don't believe the words that are coming up on, the
screen but you sing Them like he saved you to,
believe them not just. FEEL them i want to preach
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about don't, season today don't season when she's got a
ring and. YOU don't i want to preach to empty ring.
FINGERS today i want to preach to. DON'T season i
want to preach to when people call them and asked
them to go to parties and they don't call you
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because you are trying to. LIVE different i want to
preach about. Don't season and the reason we don't preach
about don't season is because it doesn't clip good. For
TikTok nobody wants to hear that The same god who
will bring you into a due season will walk you
through a. Don't season and there are Some things god
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help me preach that can only be Learned about god
in the don't SEASON when i don't, feel ENCOURAGED when
i don't, feel HOPEFUL when i don't know what, to
DO but i do the last thing that, he SAID
when i don't doubt in the darkness what he showed
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me in. The light there are five hundred of you
who are in adult. Season today but you did what
you did when you came, to Church because god is who,
he is whether he does or he doesn't do what
you thought he was gonna do when you thought he
was gonna, do IT or i feel it so. Somebody
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shall this is my season to do it when. HE
doesn't I thank god for THE times i stand up
to preach to YOU and i Feel like he's given
me a WORD and i know what he told me.
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To speak those are. Wonderful times they are cotton candy
and licorice and blow pops and. Jolly ranchers oh how
sweet it is to Know that god spoke. To ME
but i still gotta do IT when. I don't you
gotta do it when. You Don't bro i'm gonna say it.
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Real nice forget your. Feelings stuff sewing to, the flesh
sew to. The Spirit that's galatians. Six eight because if
we sew to, the flesh we from the flesh. Reap
corruption but if we sew to, the spirit we will
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from the spirit. Reap life by, the way what you
sew too is where you. Reap from so whenever you're,
doing good do it, two people but not, four people
because if you do good, for people then you got
to get good. From people but if you do Good,
for god then whether people do good back to you,
or not you will reap From. The SPIRIT and i
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wanted to tell you Something that, jesus SAID but i
want to give it to you in. Three points now
you're going to have something to write down today so
you will have proof that you went. To church, number
one the THING that i Hear the lord saying for
everybody who is in a dun't season of your life
is don't hold. Too tight or maybe grammatically it should,
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be tightly but you can either write it down how
it sounds cool or how. It's correct the cool way
to say it is don't hold. Too tight how many
TIMES was? I worried AND so i, was WEARY and
i thought it was, the work but it was. The
worry galatian sixty nine says due Time is, god's Job
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and god will give you the strength to do, your
job but Not his god to give you the strength to.
Do good, he said don't grow weary of. Doing good
god will give you the strength to, do Good but
he will not give you the strength To. Do, god
so if one enemy of cairos in, your life And
when god aligns things in, your life if one enemy
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is comparison to somebody, else's chiros another enemy of that.
Is control and if the metaphor of this is sowing,
a seed if, he says let us not grow weary
in doing good for. Induce season that seed will become
a harvest and you will reap if you don't. Give
up if that is, the metaphor then the seed is
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not effective. Without release and so there is an element
of control of timing that we all want To put
god on. Our chronos We want god to do his
chiros in, Our chronos wow to do his stuff on. Our.
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SCHEDULE now i preach about this all the time because
our deadlines kill. Our chiros and that's why, he said
you you got to understand. Do season god. Does stuff
how many agree? WITH that i should make a point
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and put that on. The screen god. Does stuff god
does stuff on. His schedule how many agree? With that
so it's. Due season don't hold, too tight don't strangle,
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a seed don't hold. Too TIGHT when i first started
lifting real, heavy weights AND y'all i can lift pretty,
HEAVY weights i got an injury in my ELBOWS and
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i Came, to chunks who was our executive pastor of,
the church and he used to be a. Physical THERAPIST and,
I said I guess i'm going to have to stop lifting.
So heavy i'm lifting so heavy my elbows. Are hurting
and he looked at me like he had seen this a.
Thousand times, he goes you're not lifting. Too heavy you're
not lifting. Too heavy you're gripping. Too tight, he said
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you're holding. Those dumbells at, THE time i was bench
pressing ninety five pound dumbbells on an. Incline, bench yeah some.
Heavy weight he hadn't been excited. All day i've been
talking About the lord and that's the FIRST clap i
got out. Of him. Right there i'll, take, it brother,
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He said, he said do you REMEMBER when i shared
this BACK when covid. First started I'LL be. I said,
he said you can lift more if you would fix.
Your grip you can lift that weight if you would
change the way you. Lift it and so one of
the THINGS that i have to come back to again
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and again in my life IS am i weary because of,
the work because sometimes you have to narrow? Things down
OR am i Weary because i'm worrying about, the work
which leads me to point. Number two don't? Time travel don't,
Time travel jesus said Clearly in matthew, chapter six verse.
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Thirty four do not worry. About tomorrow time travel for
tomorrow will worry hurry. About itself each day has enough
trouble of. Its own SO am i tired because of
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my to? Do list OR am i tired because of my? Tomorrow?
List god remember the FIRST time i Went to australia,
to PREACH and i was so jet lagged because when
you Go, to australia it's like fourteen hour. Time difference
you cross over the international, date line so you are literally.
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In tomorrow your body comes from yesterday. Into tomorrow that's.
What happens and nobody told me how bad the jet.
Lag WAS so i flew in the SAME day i
had to preach the. First session so it's my first
time preaching on, the, continent Right and i'm just landing
and back home it's like, seven pm And in australia it's,
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Nine am AND so i figured i'd freak the. Kids
out holly was them, to BED and i FACETIMED and
i opened the blinds and the, sun was of course
shining brightly because it's nine Am in australia and at
seven pm where, they are so it was. Dark outside
and they were, so confused how is the? Sun up
they were. Very young, you understand they're much more. Sophisticated
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now they understand the solar system in all of its complexities.
And sophistication but how is the sun up over there
when You're. In australia AND so i Told them i'm.
In tomorrow i'm. In tomorrow they thought that was. So
cool and just before we hung up, the CALL because
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i had to go preach and they had to go,
to sleep one of them looked at me, and, Said,
hey daddy before, you go can you tell us what?
Happens tomorrow in that a powerful thing to have a
father who's already in, your future, come on and not
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a powerful Thing that jesus Said the pagans run after
all these things, to wear what, to drink what, to
eat all the things that we put on our to.
Do List but jesus summarizes all of those, worries down
all of those worries that have you so weary and
running around and now can't sleep even when you have time,
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to sleep because when you should, be sleeping, you're scrolling
and you're scrolling when you should be sleeping because you're
trying to see something that will suit something from trying
to control something that is outside of. Your control and
so now not ONLY am i gripping, too TIGHT but
i am trying to do today, from TOMORROW and i
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am worried. About tomorrow but tomorrow has somebody already in
it who. Controls It if I'm, a CHRISTIAN if i Believe,
in GOD if i Believe, in JESUS then i have
a father who is already in. The future and there
are some of us who are spiritually jet lagged because
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we get to tomorrow. Too soon you keep crossing over
the international. Date line you are not only thinking, about
tomorrow you are thinking about ten thousand tomorrows. From now
WHY am? I tired WHY am i weary of? Doing
GOOD because i am no longer only focused on the
Good that god has given me to. DO today i
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am focused on the GOOD that i am Concerned that
he will not do for. Me tomorrow but if he
was good to, me yesterday and if he's, good today
And if god, is good then all, the TIME and
i will Bless the lord at, all times and his
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praise will continually be in. My NOW so i can plan.
For tomorrow but THE part i can't PLAN for i can.
Pray about and THE part i can't, PRAY about i can,
praise about because EVEN when i don't know what, To
pray god is already in tomorrow doing what he needs.
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To do, do season. Do season sometimes you got, To,
say god you. DO it. I can't it's. Due season
it's time for you to do something About. This god
i've TRIED everything i know. To try i've SET everything
i know. To say i've wished everything i've learned. To
wish i've FOLLOWED everybody i thought. To follow i've asked
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everybody whose number is in. My PHONE but i need
to call on somebody who's not in. MY phone i
need a father who's in, my future WHO knows i need.
These THINGS so i can seek first. The kingdom you
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keep talking to yourself about tomorrow and you're not. In
it so now you've got jet lag because you're trying
to go to tomorrow with. TODAY'S strength i told you
your to do list just got shorter because you can
put your plan for next month. On there we all
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have to, keep calendars we all have to, do kronos
but chiros can swallow cronos. LIKE that i was meeting
with some pastors a couple of, weeks ago And the
lord told me to tell them that some of you
are worried that the time you took to be at
this meeting is going to cost, too much and you
have too much to do to. Be here but you,
flew in and you sacrificed to, be Here and god
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can do something in one moment that will make six
months of. Meetings unnecessary when you get, back home you,
believe that or you might have to have, the meeting
which gives me my. Third point don't hold, too tight don't,
time travel don't time travel, to tomorrow and don't time
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travel to the. Past either do you think you Got
a DeLorean up in? This church you Think you're marty
McFly up in. This church but, number three don't, turn
back and let us not grow weary in. Doing good
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this might be the first time they've heard it. All
week would you turn to the person next to you
and shake their hand, and say you're, Doing good you're,
Doing good you're doing good to be, In church you're
doing good to be watching a YouTube sermon. On YouTube
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there's other things. On YouTube chose this or? The ALGORITHM
did i pray all? The time lord hijack the algorithm
and get this message to somebody's phone who needs a
just do a terrorist takeover of? Their algorithm And the,
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lord said don't. Turn BACK so i want to tell
you a story that Parallels with galatians, six' nine just
to illustrate what we're Saying. FROM the bible i love
To illustrate the Bible. With the bible so, when we
say and let us not grow weary in doing good for,
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in due season we will read if we do, not
give up put the verse up one more time before,
We move forward and let us not grow weary. Of
doing good underline doing good for. In due season. Underline
due season god's going. To do it god Does stuff.
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On god's schedule due season, in due season. We will
reap and all you've got to do is. Don't, give
up underline do not because somebody's in a. DON'T season
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today i don't have what IT takes and i don't know.
What to do you don't have to. RAISE your hand
i would not single you, out for that but you
listen to me if you are in, ADULT season today
i don't have what IT takes and i don't know.
WHAT to do i want to Tell You an old
testament story about A. King named joshuapad you can find
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A Story in. Second chronicles twenty there are several chapters.
About his reign there are some peaks, in some valleys,
some good decisions. Some bad decisions Sometimes he trusted god
and sometimes when he trusted, his own flesh in. His
own mind but in, THIS particular case i think he's
a wonderful example for what to do in. A, dult
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season see he, was doing good he was. Doing really
good he was A, king of judah which was, the
southern kingdom and this was, a very, rebellious idolatrous nation.
Much like ours. Much like ours we don't have all
these same shrines, that they have but we have all
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of our same, priorities mixed up and we worship status and,
we worship stuff and we worship people's opinions more Than
we seek god's. Validation and commands so we. Relate to
this and he was doing good. AS a, king i
mean he went out on one Bad Run with, ahab ahab,
died HE lived and i think he was sobered up
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by coming that. Close to death you know how when
you have, a close call, when, you're, LIKE oh well
i got to. Get IT together and i think that's what,
happened to him because he started sending all these priests
all through the kingdom to reestablish the covenant that the
People had with god that he was to, be their
God that, the lord said do not put any other
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gods beside me. Or before me. Don't do it so
he was kind of sending a revival wave through the
nation and in the process of all of this building
a lot. Of military power but there came a battle
upon him that he, was not expecting was, not prepared
for and didn't know. What to do so when they
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came To Him in second chronicles twenty verse one and
told him there, was an attacker, says after this after
all the good things. He was doing, by the way
we tend to assume that if things are going bad
in our life that we must be Off. Track with
god if things are going good, in our life then
we must be On. Track with god sometimes the devil
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will leave you alone if You're, not following christ and
you'll actually feel like you're in a good season when
actually you are in a season. Of compromised, faith not
always But sometimes now jehasha fat who is, doing good
reforms religious. Reforms, And revival remember god corrects his, people
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for rebellion but The enemy attacks god's people when. They're
in revival and you might be in a revival in your,
life right now but the. Attack is strong, so they
said they're, coming At, you The, ammonites the Moabites, even
The meuites which i'd never. Heard of before so like
enemies are coming, Out Of everywhere enemies i've never even
heard of Before in the bible are coming. After this
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Guy and the bible says he was, alarmed by this
he was. Surprised, by it now one of the reasons
that we struggle with spiritual attacks is because we're surprised.
When they happen if we could just make up our. Minds,
To know then. I'm not surprised i'm not. Surprised by
this i'm not surprised that the temptation. Came back strong
i'm not surprised that things are. Starting to act this
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would be, my fourth point. Don't be surprised but his
surprise drove him to a place of seeking strength And,
seeking the lord and seeking Strength. From the lord so
now he, begins to pray and he begins to he
Begins to remind god of all that he did for
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his people. In the past, And, he said god you
said if we would stand here and, pray to you
that you would drive back your enemies. For your glory
you promised this from The. Time of abraham you've been
doing this. A. Long TIME god now i need you
to do What. You do god and here is the
Key Phrase, of second, chronicles chapter. Twenty verse, Twelve, he Said,
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oh our god will you? Not judge them these are
enemies that are. Bigger than us these are enemies that
are positioned, to kill us and they. Are close by
they are already in a. Day's march away so by
this time tomorrow they are going. To overtake us we
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do not have. Time to strategize we do not have
time to build. Up for this our enemies did not
ask our permission or give us advanced notice before they snuck.
Up on us this season of my life did not
ask my permission. Before it came it didn't even schedule
Itself on. A kronos calendar i didn't, see this coming just,
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Out Of, nowhere our god will you not judge them
for we. Have no power we don't have. What it
takes we don't have. What it takes do you feel?
That way today we don't have what IT takes and
i don't have, what THEY need and i don't have what.
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This moment requires we have no power to face this
vast army that, is attacking us and we don't know.
What to do we don't have, what it takes and
we don't know. What to do is that you today?
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IN adult season i don't have? What it takes is
too strong, For, ME now god i don't have. What
it takes you have been saying. THAT this week i.
KNOW you have a lady told, MY mom yesterday I
Think that pastor STEPHEN is sending I Think that pastor
stephen has cameras in my house when he preaches because
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he says THE thing that i was. SAYING all week
i know what you've Been saying because i've been, saying
It too because i've been, holding Too tight and i've been,
traveling TO tomorrow and i only can come TO the
conclusion i don't have. What it takes and this is
the worst. PART of all i don't know. What to
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do we don't have. What it takes we don't know.
What to do we did not come to church because
we have. It all together we did not come to
church because we. Have all knowledge we did not come
to church. Because we're omniscient we Did not praise god
because we. Have no problems we Are not praising god
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because the truth. Always feels true we are not singing
because we always intellectually make sense out of the. Words
we sing we Are not worshiping god because we know
why everything is happening. In our life that Is not why.
I'm serving you i'm Looking to YOU god because i
don't have what put it back, up IT takes and
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i don't know. What to do but our eyes, Are
on you so let me tell You what to don't
if you don't know, what to do don't look. At
other stuff let me tell you. What to don't if
you don't know, what to do don't look around. For
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your help you lift your eyes, to the hills, beyond
the hills to where. Your health comes your health Comes,
from the lord the maker of. Heaven and, Earth he
said i'm not LOOKING around because i don't have what
IT takes and i don't know. What to do but
my eyes, are On. YOU so god i need you
to show me what to do. ABOUT this situation i
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need you to show me what to do. ABOUT this
loan i need you to show me what to do.
ABOUT this relationship i need you to show me what
to do ABOUT this decision i got to make about My.
FUTURE by tuesday i need you to show me what
to do. ABOUT this apartment i need you to show
me what to do. ABOUT this job i need you
to show me what to do ABOUT this person, i
can't fire but. THEY won't quit i need you to
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show me what to do. ABOUT this depression i need
you to show me what to do ABOUT this bipolar
i need you to show me what to do about
these thoughts that are going through my head. MAKING me
crazy i need you to show me what to do
about the stretching schedule and. THE shrinking timeframe i have to.
GET it done i need you to show me what to.
Do verse thirteen and all The, men of judah with
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their wives and children, and little ones stood There, before
the lord not knowing. What to do they are in,
a don't season, a don't season and They need the
lord to show them. What to do and here's where.
It gets, good you say this is already pretty. Good
to me it's about, to get good or it's about,
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to get good or it's about, to get goodest this
is about to be the goodest sermon you, ever heard
It because the bible says they stood There before the
lord in, a dunt moment in. A dun't moment i
don't know, what TO do but i know. Where to
go i'm standing here. Till, you speak now Watch what
the bible. Says verse fourteen then the Spirit of the Lord,
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came upon Jehesel, son of Zechariah son Of, ben and
ayah Son, of j Yell son Of, matt and i
Son of a levi And. Descendant of asaf as he
stood in the a, and, He Said, listen king jooshaphat
and all Who live In. Judah and jerusalem this Is
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what the lord. Says to you so he's about to
show me, what, To do right he's about to show
me what to do about this attack coming up. From
behind me he's about to show me what to do
about these enemies that are. Coming after me he's about
to show me what to Do about what. I'm going
through he's about to show me. What to do this
Is what the lord. Says to you don't be afraid and.
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Don't be discouraged so When YOU tell god i don't know,
what to do the first thing he will tell you
is what to don't don't be afraid because you can't
hear what he says next if you filter, It through
fear because if fear, is your filter you will not
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clearly hear The. Voice of god so the first thing
you need to do is. Don't be afraid i'm not.
Afraid of tomorrow i'm not ashamed. Of my past i'm
standing in The presence of god Because of what jesus.
Did for me, don't be afraid and don't be discouraged
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because of, this vast army for the battle, is Not,
yours but god get. Ready to shout i'm giving you
five seconds. To warm up because, the prophet said because
The word, of god Said because, the bible said for
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the battle, is Not. Yours but god's verse. Six See tomorrow,
it's god's. Tomorrow not Yours tomorrow. Is god's jobs, don't
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be afraid, don't run away, don't turn back don't, stress
about this don't pick, up the phone don't. Run yourself
ragged this battle. Is not yours It. Belongs to god
now let's time. Travel, verse sixteen tomorrow march down, against
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your enemies the ones you don't know what, to do
about the ones you don't know, how to handle the
ones you don't know how to the ones you don't know,
how to defeat the ones you don't know how, to
deal with the ones you. Didn't see coming march, against
them tomorrow and they will be climbing up, by the
passives'es and you will find them at the end, of
the gorge in The Desert. Of jerry will and here
is the good news for everybody who's on the verge.
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Of giving up when, you get There, HOLD on god
i don't know how to. Fight this battle all you
got to do is don't you will not have to fight.
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This battle you you will not have to. Fight this
battle this is all you. Got to do don't don't
fight it in. Your own strength don't fight it in.
Your own flesh don't fight it with. Your own logic
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don't fight it with. Your own strength don't fight it in.
Your own flesh don't fight it in. Your own logic
all you've got to do when you don't know what
to do is don't you take. Up your positions, you
stand firm and you see the Deliverance of the lord
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which he. Will give You, judah and jerusalem do not be,
afraid somebody shall don't do not be. Discouraged somebody shall
don't go out to, face them Tomorrow and the lord will.
Be with you and it good to have a father
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who's already in tomorrow that can tell you, what happens
tomorrow so you can do what you need. To do
today so let us not grow weary, in doing good
for in due season. We will reap all we gotta
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do is. Don't give, up and y'all when they march
down there, in verse eighteen with a Word, FROM the
lord i see you marching. Toward your challenge with the Word,
FROM the lord i see you marching out of this
church with the Word. FROM the lord i see you marching,
out of church, still not knowing but going forward in
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the Strength, of the lord by the Word. Of the
lord jehosha fact bowed with his face to the ground
because he didn't know. What to do and he bowed
with his face to the ground because he didn't have.
What it took and all of the, people fell down
face down with him and Worship. Before The lord what
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god does. Is his business what you do until he
does is, worship and walk and all you gotta. Do
is gone david is in The. Cave with saul he's
called to be. A future king he has the Opportunity
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to kill saul right now and, take a shortcut but.
Don't do. It God's way shadrack mishak in a bed.
And to go We're in the persian kingdom and they
were told to bow down and Worship. A false god
but don't because even if they throw you, in the
fire you. Can't Burn up if god is in, there.
With you don't all you've got to. Do is don't
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jesus could have called legions of angels from the cross,
and come, down but don't because if, he came down
we could not be saved. Through his blood and all
you got to do when you don't know, what to
do when you are, in adult season all you got
to Do is don't we will reap if we.
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Don't give up what a relief it was when they
found out you don't even have to.
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Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
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Enjoy the message. When I say God is good, you
say all the time, and then I say all the time,
and you say God is good all the time. Grab
the hand of the person next to you. Father, thank
you for this moment, a holy moment, a sanctified moment,
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a set apart moment, a special moment, a moment that
we'll never see again. Thank you for this day. Thank
you for the sunrise. Thank you for that breath. Thank
you for the person whose hand I'm holding. Thank you
for bringing them through and bringing them here. Thank you
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for what you brought them out of. Thank you for
what you're leading them into. I ask for the person
that's on my right and on my left today that
you would give them the kind of confidence that comes
from knowing that they will never take a step that
you haven't already gone before them. I thank you that
you are the God who goes before us when we
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feel like falling. I thank you that you are the
God who catches us a firm foundation beneath our feet.
And when we sometimes forget how big you are, I
want to thank you that you are the God who
is above us, and your ways are higher than our ways.
Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts. As the rain
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falls from the heaven and waters the earth and doesn't
return to it without accomplishing that which it was sent
to do, so shall your word be that comes forth
from your mouth today. It will not return unto your void.
It never does, it can't. It must accomplish what you
sent it to do. I thank you for the worship
that your people have given you today. You're worthy of it.
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We clap our hands right now because you're worthy of it.
Your worship you because you're worthy. Now repeat after me, say,
and God, I thank you for this word that you
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are about to speak. I receive it. It's true. Amen,
high five fifteen people, and stay standing for the reading
of God's word. Put all of that in the chat,
would you. I receive it. It's true. Put it in
the chat right now, God speak. I receive it. It's true.
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God Speak, I receive it. It's true standing I thought
I said that. Sorry about that. Just all kinds of
exercise you're getting today, jumping and sitting and standing. Tell
your neighbor discount says your workout. Got to the point
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in my life where I don't like to skip physical workouts,
but I really if I had to skip either a
physical workout or if I had to skip the Word
of God, I would skip the physical one. Because the
things that I'm battling in my life right now are
not flesh and blood. There are some of us in
the room who are wrestling against principalities and spirits of discouragement,
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spirits of despair. And you never know what news you're
gonna get when you leave this place. But I promise
you God's got good news for you today. That's what
gospel means. It means good news that we were dead
and alive in Christ, that Jesus Christ is King of
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kings and Lord of lords, and he has come to
bind up the broken hearted, to set the captive free,
and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Somebody shout,
this is my year. I don't know what the first
four months were like, but tell them these next eight
these next eight are going to be great. Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord. I want to share with you today
from a passage of scripture that I mentioned last week.
When I mentioned it last week, I knew immediately that
this is where we would start today because something very
special happened in the moment that I read Galatians six'.
Nine and this may be a scripture that you want to.
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Memorize you may need to quote this one back to the,
devil and you may need to quote it to your,
yourself or you may need to give it to a
friend who's fighting. Cancer BUT i really love this, verse
And i'm gonna share with you today From galatian six to.
Nine at least that's where we'll. Start you're, like, oh,
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short sermon only one. Verse do not be Deceived galatians,
six verse, nine and let us not grow weary of doing,
good for in due season we will reap if we
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do not give. Up told you the word Of god is.
Powerful let's read it out loud, together, please verse nine
and let us not grow weary of doing, good for
in due season we will reap if we do not give.
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Up now that you got my, cadence let's read it together,
again and let us not grow weary of doing, good
for in due season we will reap if we do
not give. Up, yeah go ahead and respond to that
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however you want. To all, Right SO i want to
give you my title to your neighbor today and just
look at them real quick in their eyes and, SAY
i know you're going through a. LOT i know you've
been confused about a few. Things AND i know you
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don't know who to talk to because you don't know
who you can. Trust AND i know it feels like
there's more on you then you can. Bear now here
comes the. Title tell them. This but all you've got
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to do is. Don't all you've got to do is
don't see how that big to do list you came
to church with just got. Smaller all you've got to
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do is. Don't father helped me show it to them
how you showed it to, me and we'll all be.
BETTER i give you praise In jesus'. Name, amen, shout
don't on your way to your, seat be. Seated be.
Seated sometimes your teenagers help you to understand your sermon
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a little bit. Better abby came downstairs after sleeping till
noon yesterday AND i, said how are? You good? Morning she,
Said i'm. Tired, now why are you? Tired you went
to bed at ten, pm you woke up at twelve.
Pm fourteen hours is sufficient. REST i get. It there
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have been times in my life WHERE i went on,
vacation came back and needed a vacation for recovery from the.
Vacation and really it's your expectations of vacations that mess you,
up because you, think, like, oh IF i can just
make it to this, beach IF i can just make
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it to these. Mountains but every single thing that you
had with you in the valley goes with you to the,
mountain and every single mountain that you have in your
life goes with you to the. Beach so In galatians chapter,
six verse, nine The Great Apostle, paul speaking to the
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church in modern Day, turkey is giving an encouragement to
Some christians who are being tempted to go back to
an old way of life And. Judaism, now these Particular
christians are Gentile, christians so they're not familiar With jewish.
Customs and one of the customs that The jewish believers
wanted to put on their gentile counterparts was this custom called,
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circumcision and they were, saying if you really want to Follow,
christ you need to be. Circumcised And paul, said, no
you don't turn to your neighbor and, say, no you
don't half the rules that people tell you about being
A christian that you have to do this and you
have to do. That no you. Don't somebody told ME
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i want to come to, elevation BUT i heard you
have to dress. Up that was, like you have to.
Dress that's the dress code at. Elevation do just do
dress and that's. IT a lot of the things that
you think you need to enter in the presence Of,
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god no you. Don't you just need the name Of,
jesus the blood Of, jesus and an open. Heart so
if you think you need to have a perfect week
before you can pray To, god no you don't tell your.
Neighbor no you. Don't in, fact if there's somebody here
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today and you're thinking about becoming a follower Of christ
and you think you need to clean up your life
to come to, him much like these people In galatia
might have thought they needed to be circumcised externally in
order to come To. Christ if you think you need
to make an outward behavior modification before you can have
an inward renewal or. Change, no you. Don't in, fact
if the sun, sets you're. Free you're. Free, Indeed and
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sometimes what wears us out and exhausts us is. Expectations
The lord spoke that me one. Time NOW i want
to tell you this in the most personal way, possible
but not share any inappropriate. Details there was a moment
in my ministry WHERE i felt very close to What
i've heard called. Burnout and it's been several years, ago
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but it was intense enough THAT i was telling The
lord things LIKE i can't do, THIS i can't go,
on AND i don't have what it. Takes and in
the process of that being, cyclical not just once on
A wednesday for a hard, meeting but week after week
after week after. Week the chronic urge to quit is
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a signal that something needs to. Shift the chronic urge
to quit not the, passing fleeting urge to, quit but
the chronic urge to quit is a signal that something
needs to. Shift and in my particular, CASE i felt
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like all of the work that was on, me combined
with the work of raising family and you're, like, no
raising a family isn't. Work raising a family is a.
Reward children are a blessing from The, lord and they.
Are but have you ever had your quiver full quiver
full with sharp objects called. ARROWS a full quiver hurts
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sometimes you want to quit fill in that quiver. Sometimes
but AS i was processing all of that in my
heart and in my, prayers The lord showed me something very,
powerful AND i think that it will help you. Today he,
said you keep thinking that the problem is that the
work is too great for, you and you assume that
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you are weary because of the work THAT i gave,
you the work of being a, dad the work of
being a, husband the work of being a, pastor the
work of leading a, church and all of the. Work
the travel was intense at that point in, Time the
organizational life cycle was at a very immature stage of,
development and it was moving through some. Transitions And he's,
said you think that the reason you're, Weary paul, said
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let us not grow weary of doing. Good you think
that the reason you're weary is because of the. Work
but the reason you're weary is not because of the.
Work it's because of your worry about the. Work AND
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i started to see that it was not WHAT i
was doing For god that was wearing me. Out it
was WHAT i was doing For god That god never
asked me to do to begin, with that was wearing me.
Out does this sermon feel like a lifeline to anybody
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in the room? Today so when he, says let us
not grow weary of doing, good for in due season
we will reap if we do not give, up we
have to start by asking the, question why AM i?
Weary and this is not intended for those of you
who are visiting a relative at the nursing home every
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day right, now or you are in a custody battle
that is sucking all of your. Resources although there is
a word for you, TODAY i am not telling you
that if you would simply turn it, over it would
no longer be. HARD i am saying that you would
be able to handle much more weight if you would
change the way you do the. Work for The bible
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says let us not grow weary in doing good and
don't grow weary is kind of one of those things
that people say that sounds good until you really think about.
It how AM i supposed to don't grow weary with
this schedule THAT i. Have how AM i supposed to
not grow weary when it's twenty four to? Seven how
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AM i supposed to not grow weary when everybody is
wearing me? Out it's kind of like people telling you
get well soon when you're. Sick oh, gee, Thanks i'll
get right on. That that sounds like a, plan and
don't grow weary can kind of sound like get well
soon unless you stop and realize that beneath the, injunction
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don't grow weary is an invitation to understand why you're.
Weary and in my, case AS i begin to break
down all of the, EXPECTATIONS i realized that it was
expectations that were exhausting. Me expectations can be. Exhausting expectations
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can be, Exhausting AM i right about? It the expectations
that others have of you can be. Exhausting the expectations
of what it means to be a mom in this
day and age can be exhausting of. You the expectation
WHEN i was growing up to have your kid in
sports was just to get them to the field On
tuesday And thursday for their baseball. Game but now if
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your kid is going to be a real baseball. Player
you've got to sign them up for A TRIPLE a
team when they're seven years. Old oh, no you will
no longer have time for church On. Sunday you are
going to be in travel, ball because if your kid
misses one season of travel, ball they will be traumatized
by the fact that they didn't play travel. Ball and
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it feels like to me there is greater and greater
expectation not only for, parents but there is greater expectation
on our kids than ever before, too not just because
they have to be on this team or that, team
but because they are spending so much time on everybody else's.
Timeline and now our kids no longer have fomo fear
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of missing. Out they have pomo proof of missing, out
because not only DO i have to think about the
fact that they might be doing something without, ME i
actually see the proof that they're doing something without. Me
so Now i've got anxiety coupled with depression and isolation
at the most vulnerable time in my, life And i'm
only fourteen years, old AND i don't know how to handle.
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It why AM i? Tired why are kids going so
crazy these? Days why does there seem to be such
a surge in mental health epidemics that we keep reading
about statistically that can only be fixed, spiritually because The bible,
says let us not grow weary in doing. Good and
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what The lord gave me during that season of burnout
that was very helpful to, me AND i share it
with you in the offer that it can be of
use IS i will give you the strength you need
to do your, job BUT i will not give you
the strength to do. Mine god, SAID i will give
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you all the strength you need to do your, job
BUT i will not give you the strength to do.
Mine and so this phrase comes up in the. Text it,
says let us not grow weary of doing. Good doing
good is an interesting phrase, too by the, way because
it's never been harder to feel like you're doing good
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than it is right. NOW i THOUGHT i was good
at playing guitar growing up because none of my other
friends played, guitar so compared to, THEM i was doing.
GOOD i didn't have proof in my pocket that there
are nine year olds who can play guitar better than.
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Me at age forty, Five it's never been harder to do.
Good you used to have to go to the lake
to see your friend had a better boat than. You,
now all you have to do is pick up your
same device that has Your bible lap on, it and
you have to see their boat on the same device
that you picked up to see Your bible when you
scroll Their instagram. Account and what you don't know is
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that they went broke to buy the, boat and you
are blind to their. Brokeness so you are discouraged by their. Boat, yeah,
no wonder you're. Tired no wonder you're. Tired you thought
you weren't getting enough, Protein you thought you weren't getting enough,
sleep and you might not. Be but why? Not and
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The lord showed, ME i will give you the hours
that you need to do your, job not. MINE i
will give you the wisdom you need to do your,
job not. MINE i will give you the strength you
need to do What i've assigned you to. Do but
the MOMENT i forget That god is, sovereign the moment
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THAT i forget That god makes the, SCHEDULE i negate
the topic called do. Time let us not grow weary
of doing, good doing, good for in due season we will.
Reap and here's the, problem is that somebody on your
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row is doing better than, you and somebody on your
row is doing worse than, you and you are comparing
how you know you're doing to how you think they're.
Doing AM i preaching this? Thing or AM i just caffeinated?
Today due Season it's one of those phrases in church
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that just makes us want to shout for in due,
season there is a due season That god knows how
to bring everything you need into a. Moment The greek
for this is cairo. Idio it means the appointed. Time
the word chiros In greek does not mean time like
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a clock or a. Calendar that word is. Kronos that
word is a word that challenges my, Wife. Holly holly
struggles with kronos, time like what it. Is she brought
me an article recently that showed me that scientifically there
is a condition called time, blindness and she, Said, Babe
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i've figured out Why i'm always. Late but you, know
worse than being blind to kronos time is being blind
to chiros. Time the word for due season In galatians six'
nine is. Chiros time chronos time means you showed up
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at eight thirty and you were supposed to be there.
At eight that's. CHRONOS conflict i don't have enough time
to get. It. Done chiros time MEANS that i can
be on time for Everything that i'm supposed to do
and miss the very Reason that god brought me to.
That moment because a lot of the things that we
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worry about Kill the cairos in. Our life there are
many here Today that god wants to speak a word
to and he brought you to speak it. To you
but if you check your Phone while, i'm preaching you
could Kill. Your cairos you could kill the Moment that
god wanted to show you a distinction in a battle
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that you're. Dealing with you could kill that moment because
you had to check a text and, you, SAY well
i have to check the text. Right now you don't
have to multitask when you're in the presence Of the
master of. The universe with maybe. Three exceptions in this
room you've got a sick kid in they're not. With
you you don't have to check out. Right now and
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many are the times in my LIFE where i have
Killed a cairos MOMENT because i was. CHRONOS aware i
was trying to get it, all DONE and i Missed
what god wanted to DO because i was busy trying
to get it. All done But sometimes god will stop
you in your tracks, And say i'm shifting the priority in.
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This season i'm shifting what you think you need. To
do i'm shifting where you think you need. To be
i'm tired of you Killing your, cairos moments and nothing
will kill it quicker. Than comparison nothing will Kill your.
Chiros moments The season god has you in as, a
man has, you in as a, single person has, you
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in as, a mom has, you in as somebody who
is waiting for your next step to. Be revealed nothing
will Kill what god is doing in you quicker than
you comparing it to what You think god is doing in.
Someone else somebody shall do season Do. Season now this
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does not mean the season when you get what you Deserve,
from GOD because i promise you don't ever want that season.
To come i'm gonna come over to the real side of.
THE room i stumbled over Into The super saved section for,
that POINT and i should have been. Over here there
are some of us in this room who Don't want
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god to give us what. We deserve i'm gonna come
to the back of the Room because i'm surrounded by
holy angels who always, live right who always, lived good
who always said their prayers and ate their Vitamins Like
hulk hogan taught. Them to but there are some of
us who Don't want god to give us what. We deserve.
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That's mercy mercy Is when god does not give you what.
You deserve mercy is when your sin is nailed to
the cross and you, can, say oh the bliss of this.
Glorious thought my sin not, in part but the whole
is nailed to, the CROSS and i bear it. No
more Praise, the lord oh. My soul that's Mercy when
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god doesn't give me the wrath and punishment that my,
sin deserve, but grace grace takes it a. Step further
not Only that god did not give me what my,
sins deserved but that grace gives ME what i did,
not DESERVE that i could. Never earn that grace gave
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ME what i could never grind, to GET that i
could grind my, whole life sow my, whole life work my.
Whole life and how many know one Moment, of cairos
one moment, of grace one Moment of, god's favor one
Moment of god's hand moving things around in. YOUR life
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i want to put this out there. For somebody god
can give you so much grace it will make the
time you. Wasted irrelevant so when we say, do season
it may be easy for you to shout about that
because you may be living in it. Right now you
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may be living in the blessing that you prayed for.
Right now you may be experiencing things that you dreamed about.
Right now you may have your family back together, right
now and it may be a happy time around. Your
table and we rejoice with. YOU today i think we've
got Some jealous christians. In here we rejoice with. You
today if the man of your dreams just proposed to you,
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last night took you to a restaurant with table cloths,
and menus and you came in here today not only
to Worship, the lord but to show off. Your ring
if it's we celebrate, with you we celebrate with. You season, come.
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On y'all they prayed for a long time about that is.
Do season if you just got, TO raise i celebrate,
with you and you. Better Tide but god said there
are some people on your role that while you are Celebrating,
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do season there are just as many people in here
who are in. Don't SEASON so i want to preach
about what to do in. Don't season what to do in.
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Don't season when you feel the Presence, of god that
is a wonderful time To. Praise GOD but i want
to preach about the season when you don't when you
don't believe the words that are coming up on, the
screen but you sing Them like he saved you to,
believe them not just. FEEL them i want to preach
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about don't, season today don't season when she's got a
ring and. YOU don't i want to preach to empty ring.
FINGERS today i want to preach to. DON'T season i
want to preach to when people call them and asked
them to go to parties and they don't call you
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because you are trying to. LIVE different i want to
preach about. Don't season and the reason we don't preach
about don't season is because it doesn't clip good. For
TikTok nobody wants to hear that The same god who
will bring you into a due season will walk you
through a. Don't season and there are Some things god
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help me preach that can only be Learned about god
in the don't SEASON when i don't, feel ENCOURAGED when
i don't, feel HOPEFUL when i don't know what, to
DO but i do the last thing that, he SAID
when i don't doubt in the darkness what he showed
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me in. The light there are five hundred of you
who are in adult. Season today but you did what
you did when you came, to Church because god is who,
he is whether he does or he doesn't do what
you thought he was gonna do when you thought he
was gonna, do IT or i feel it so. Somebody
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shall this is my season to do it when. HE
doesn't I thank god for THE times i stand up
to preach to YOU and i Feel like he's given
me a WORD and i know what he told me.
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To speak those are. Wonderful times they are cotton candy
and licorice and blow pops and. Jolly ranchers oh how
sweet it is to Know that god spoke. To ME
but i still gotta do IT when. I don't you
gotta do it when. You Don't bro i'm gonna say it.
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Real nice forget your. Feelings stuff sewing to, the flesh
sew to. The Spirit that's galatians. Six eight because if
we sew to, the flesh we from the flesh. Reap
corruption but if we sew to, the spirit we will
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from the spirit. Reap life by, the way what you
sew too is where you. Reap from so whenever you're,
doing good do it, two people but not, four people
because if you do good, for people then you got
to get good. From people but if you do Good,
for god then whether people do good back to you,
or not you will reap From. The SPIRIT and i
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wanted to tell you Something that, jesus SAID but i
want to give it to you in. Three points now
you're going to have something to write down today so
you will have proof that you went. To church, number
one the THING that i Hear the lord saying for
everybody who is in a dun't season of your life
is don't hold. Too tight or maybe grammatically it should,
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be tightly but you can either write it down how
it sounds cool or how. It's correct the cool way
to say it is don't hold. Too tight how many
TIMES was? I worried AND so i, was WEARY and
i thought it was, the work but it was. The
worry galatian sixty nine says due Time is, god's Job
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and god will give you the strength to do, your
job but Not his god to give you the strength to.
Do good, he said don't grow weary of. Doing good
god will give you the strength to, do Good but
he will not give you the strength To. Do, god
so if one enemy of cairos in, your life And
when god aligns things in, your life if one enemy
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is comparison to somebody, else's chiros another enemy of that.
Is control and if the metaphor of this is sowing,
a seed if, he says let us not grow weary
in doing good for. Induce season that seed will become
a harvest and you will reap if you don't. Give
up if that is, the metaphor then the seed is
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not effective. Without release and so there is an element
of control of timing that we all want To put
god on. Our chronos We want god to do his
chiros in, Our chronos wow to do his stuff on. Our.
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SCHEDULE now i preach about this all the time because
our deadlines kill. Our chiros and that's why, he said
you you got to understand. Do season god. Does stuff
how many agree? WITH that i should make a point
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and put that on. The screen god. Does stuff god
does stuff on. His schedule how many agree? With that
so it's. Due season don't hold, too tight don't strangle,
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a seed don't hold. Too TIGHT when i first started
lifting real, heavy weights AND y'all i can lift pretty,
HEAVY weights i got an injury in my ELBOWS and
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i Came, to chunks who was our executive pastor of,
the church and he used to be a. Physical THERAPIST and,
I said I guess i'm going to have to stop lifting.
So heavy i'm lifting so heavy my elbows. Are hurting
and he looked at me like he had seen this a.
Thousand times, he goes you're not lifting. Too heavy you're
not lifting. Too heavy you're gripping. Too tight, he said
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you're holding. Those dumbells at, THE time i was bench
pressing ninety five pound dumbbells on an. Incline, bench yeah some.
Heavy weight he hadn't been excited. All day i've been
talking About the lord and that's the FIRST clap i
got out. Of him. Right there i'll, take, it brother,
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He said, he said do you REMEMBER when i shared
this BACK when covid. First started I'LL be. I said,
he said you can lift more if you would fix.
Your grip you can lift that weight if you would
change the way you. Lift it and so one of
the THINGS that i have to come back to again
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and again in my life IS am i weary because of,
the work because sometimes you have to narrow? Things down
OR am i Weary because i'm worrying about, the work
which leads me to point. Number two don't? Time travel don't,
Time travel jesus said Clearly in matthew, chapter six verse.
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Thirty four do not worry. About tomorrow time travel for
tomorrow will worry hurry. About itself each day has enough
trouble of. Its own SO am i tired because of
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my to? Do list OR am i tired because of my? Tomorrow?
List god remember the FIRST time i Went to australia,
to PREACH and i was so jet lagged because when
you Go, to australia it's like fourteen hour. Time difference
you cross over the international, date line so you are literally.
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In tomorrow your body comes from yesterday. Into tomorrow that's.
What happens and nobody told me how bad the jet.
Lag WAS so i flew in the SAME day i
had to preach the. First session so it's my first
time preaching on, the, continent Right and i'm just landing
and back home it's like, seven pm And in australia it's,
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Nine am AND so i figured i'd freak the. Kids
out holly was them, to BED and i FACETIMED and
i opened the blinds and the, sun was of course
shining brightly because it's nine Am in australia and at
seven pm where, they are so it was. Dark outside
and they were, so confused how is the? Sun up
they were. Very young, you understand they're much more. Sophisticated
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now they understand the solar system in all of its complexities.
And sophistication but how is the sun up over there
when You're. In australia AND so i Told them i'm.
In tomorrow i'm. In tomorrow they thought that was. So
cool and just before we hung up, the CALL because
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i had to go preach and they had to go,
to sleep one of them looked at me, and, Said,
hey daddy before, you go can you tell us what?
Happens tomorrow in that a powerful thing to have a
father who's already in, your future, come on and not
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a powerful Thing that jesus Said the pagans run after
all these things, to wear what, to drink what, to
eat all the things that we put on our to.
Do List but jesus summarizes all of those, worries down
all of those worries that have you so weary and
running around and now can't sleep even when you have time,
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to sleep because when you should, be sleeping, you're scrolling
and you're scrolling when you should be sleeping because you're
trying to see something that will suit something from trying
to control something that is outside of. Your control and
so now not ONLY am i gripping, too TIGHT but
i am trying to do today, from TOMORROW and i
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am worried. About tomorrow but tomorrow has somebody already in
it who. Controls It if I'm, a CHRISTIAN if i Believe,
in GOD if i Believe, in JESUS then i have
a father who is already in. The future and there
are some of us who are spiritually jet lagged because
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we get to tomorrow. Too soon you keep crossing over
the international. Date line you are not only thinking, about
tomorrow you are thinking about ten thousand tomorrows. From now
WHY am? I tired WHY am i weary of? Doing
GOOD because i am no longer only focused on the
Good that god has given me to. DO today i
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am focused on the GOOD that i am Concerned that
he will not do for. Me tomorrow but if he
was good to, me yesterday and if he's, good today
And if god, is good then all, the TIME and
i will Bless the lord at, all times and his
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praise will continually be in. My NOW so i can plan.
For tomorrow but THE part i can't PLAN for i can.
Pray about and THE part i can't, PRAY about i can,
praise about because EVEN when i don't know what, To
pray god is already in tomorrow doing what he needs.
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To do, do season. Do season sometimes you got, To,
say god you. DO it. I can't it's. Due season
it's time for you to do something About. This god
i've TRIED everything i know. To try i've SET everything
i know. To say i've wished everything i've learned. To
wish i've FOLLOWED everybody i thought. To follow i've asked
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everybody whose number is in. My PHONE but i need
to call on somebody who's not in. MY phone i
need a father who's in, my future WHO knows i need.
These THINGS so i can seek first. The kingdom you
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keep talking to yourself about tomorrow and you're not. In
it so now you've got jet lag because you're trying
to go to tomorrow with. TODAY'S strength i told you
your to do list just got shorter because you can
put your plan for next month. On there we all
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have to, keep calendars we all have to, do kronos
but chiros can swallow cronos. LIKE that i was meeting
with some pastors a couple of, weeks ago And the
lord told me to tell them that some of you
are worried that the time you took to be at
this meeting is going to cost, too much and you
have too much to do to. Be here but you,
flew in and you sacrificed to, be Here and god
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can do something in one moment that will make six
months of. Meetings unnecessary when you get, back home you,
believe that or you might have to have, the meeting
which gives me my. Third point don't hold, too tight don't,
time travel don't time travel, to tomorrow and don't time
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travel to the. Past either do you think you Got
a DeLorean up in? This church you Think you're marty
McFly up in. This church but, number three don't, turn
back and let us not grow weary in. Doing good
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this might be the first time they've heard it. All
week would you turn to the person next to you
and shake their hand, and say you're, Doing good you're,
Doing good you're doing good to be, In church you're
doing good to be watching a YouTube sermon. On YouTube
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there's other things. On YouTube chose this or? The ALGORITHM
did i pray all? The time lord hijack the algorithm
and get this message to somebody's phone who needs a
just do a terrorist takeover of? Their algorithm And the,
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lord said don't. Turn BACK so i want to tell
you a story that Parallels with galatians, six' nine just
to illustrate what we're Saying. FROM the bible i love
To illustrate the Bible. With the bible so, when we
say and let us not grow weary in doing good for,
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in due season we will read if we do, not
give up put the verse up one more time before,
We move forward and let us not grow weary. Of
doing good underline doing good for. In due season. Underline
due season god's going. To do it god Does stuff.
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On god's schedule due season, in due season. We will
reap and all you've got to do is. Don't, give
up underline do not because somebody's in a. DON'T season
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today i don't have what IT takes and i don't know.
What to do you don't have to. RAISE your hand
i would not single you, out for that but you
listen to me if you are in, ADULT season today
i don't have what IT takes and i don't know.
WHAT to do i want to Tell You an old
testament story about A. King named joshuapad you can find
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A Story in. Second chronicles twenty there are several chapters.
About his reign there are some peaks, in some valleys,
some good decisions. Some bad decisions Sometimes he trusted god
and sometimes when he trusted, his own flesh in. His
own mind but in, THIS particular case i think he's
a wonderful example for what to do in. A, dult
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season see he, was doing good he was. Doing really
good he was A, king of judah which was, the
southern kingdom and this was, a very, rebellious idolatrous nation.
Much like ours. Much like ours we don't have all
these same shrines, that they have but we have all
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of our same, priorities mixed up and we worship status and,
we worship stuff and we worship people's opinions more Than
we seek god's. Validation and commands so we. Relate to
this and he was doing good. AS a, king i
mean he went out on one Bad Run with, ahab ahab,
died HE lived and i think he was sobered up
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by coming that. Close to death you know how when
you have, a close call, when, you're, LIKE oh well
i got to. Get IT together and i think that's what,
happened to him because he started sending all these priests
all through the kingdom to reestablish the covenant that the
People had with god that he was to, be their
God that, the lord said do not put any other
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gods beside me. Or before me. Don't do it so
he was kind of sending a revival wave through the
nation and in the process of all of this building
a lot. Of military power but there came a battle
upon him that he, was not expecting was, not prepared
for and didn't know. What to do so when they
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came To Him in second chronicles twenty verse one and
told him there, was an attacker, says after this after
all the good things. He was doing, by the way
we tend to assume that if things are going bad
in our life that we must be Off. Track with
god if things are going good, in our life then
we must be On. Track with god sometimes the devil
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will leave you alone if You're, not following christ and
you'll actually feel like you're in a good season when
actually you are in a season. Of compromised, faith not
always But sometimes now jehasha fat who is, doing good
reforms religious. Reforms, And revival remember god corrects his, people
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for rebellion but The enemy attacks god's people when. They're
in revival and you might be in a revival in your,
life right now but the. Attack is strong, so they
said they're, coming At, you The, ammonites the Moabites, even
The meuites which i'd never. Heard of before so like
enemies are coming, Out Of everywhere enemies i've never even
heard of Before in the bible are coming. After this
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Guy and the bible says he was, alarmed by this
he was. Surprised, by it now one of the reasons
that we struggle with spiritual attacks is because we're surprised.
When they happen if we could just make up our. Minds,
To know then. I'm not surprised i'm not. Surprised by
this i'm not surprised that the temptation. Came back strong
i'm not surprised that things are. Starting to act this
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would be, my fourth point. Don't be surprised but his
surprise drove him to a place of seeking strength And,
seeking the lord and seeking Strength. From the lord so
now he, begins to pray and he begins to he
Begins to remind god of all that he did for
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his people. In the past, And, he said god you
said if we would stand here and, pray to you
that you would drive back your enemies. For your glory
you promised this from The. Time of abraham you've been
doing this. A. Long TIME god now i need you
to do What. You do god and here is the
Key Phrase, of second, chronicles chapter. Twenty verse, Twelve, he Said,
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oh our god will you? Not judge them these are
enemies that are. Bigger than us these are enemies that
are positioned, to kill us and they. Are close by
they are already in a. Day's march away so by
this time tomorrow they are going. To overtake us we
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do not have. Time to strategize we do not have
time to build. Up for this our enemies did not
ask our permission or give us advanced notice before they snuck.
Up on us this season of my life did not
ask my permission. Before it came it didn't even schedule
Itself on. A kronos calendar i didn't, see this coming just,
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Out Of, nowhere our god will you not judge them
for we. Have no power we don't have. What it
takes we don't have. What it takes do you feel?
That way today we don't have what IT takes and
i don't have, what THEY need and i don't have what.
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This moment requires we have no power to face this
vast army that, is attacking us and we don't know.
What to do we don't have, what it takes and
we don't know. What to do is that you today?
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IN adult season i don't have? What it takes is
too strong, For, ME now god i don't have. What
it takes you have been saying. THAT this week i.
KNOW you have a lady told, MY mom yesterday I
Think that pastor STEPHEN is sending I Think that pastor
stephen has cameras in my house when he preaches because
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he says THE thing that i was. SAYING all week
i know what you've Been saying because i've been, saying
It too because i've been, holding Too tight and i've been,
traveling TO tomorrow and i only can come TO the
conclusion i don't have. What it takes and this is
the worst. PART of all i don't know. What to
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do we don't have. What it takes we don't know.
What to do we did not come to church because
we have. It all together we did not come to
church because we. Have all knowledge we did not come
to church. Because we're omniscient we Did not praise god
because we. Have no problems we Are not praising god
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because the truth. Always feels true we are not singing
because we always intellectually make sense out of the. Words
we sing we Are not worshiping god because we know
why everything is happening. In our life that Is not why.
I'm serving you i'm Looking to YOU god because i
don't have what put it back, up IT takes and
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i don't know. What to do but our eyes, Are
on you so let me tell You what to don't
if you don't know, what to do don't look. At
other stuff let me tell you. What to don't if
you don't know, what to do don't look around. For
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your help you lift your eyes, to the hills, beyond
the hills to where. Your health comes your health Comes,
from the lord the maker of. Heaven and, Earth he
said i'm not LOOKING around because i don't have what
IT takes and i don't know. What to do but
my eyes, are On. YOU so god i need you
to show me what to do. ABOUT this situation i
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need you to show me what to do. ABOUT this
loan i need you to show me what to do.
ABOUT this relationship i need you to show me what
to do ABOUT this decision i got to make about My.
FUTURE by tuesday i need you to show me what
to do. ABOUT this apartment i need you to show
me what to do. ABOUT this job i need you
to show me what to do ABOUT this person, i
can't fire but. THEY won't quit i need you to
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show me what to do. ABOUT this depression i need
you to show me what to do ABOUT this bipolar
i need you to show me what to do about
these thoughts that are going through my head. MAKING me
crazy i need you to show me what to do
about the stretching schedule and. THE shrinking timeframe i have to.
GET it done i need you to show me what to.
Do verse thirteen and all The, men of judah with
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their wives and children, and little ones stood There, before
the lord not knowing. What to do they are in,
a don't season, a don't season and They need the
lord to show them. What to do and here's where.
It gets, good you say this is already pretty. Good
to me it's about, to get good or it's about,
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to get good or it's about, to get goodest this
is about to be the goodest sermon you, ever heard
It because the bible says they stood There before the
lord in, a dunt moment in. A dun't moment i
don't know, what TO do but i know. Where to
go i'm standing here. Till, you speak now Watch what
the bible. Says verse fourteen then the Spirit of the Lord,
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came upon Jehesel, son of Zechariah son Of, ben and
ayah Son, of j Yell son Of, matt and i
Son of a levi And. Descendant of asaf as he
stood in the a, and, He Said, listen king jooshaphat
and all Who live In. Judah and jerusalem this Is
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what the lord. Says to you so he's about to
show me, what, To do right he's about to show
me what to do about this attack coming up. From
behind me he's about to show me what to do
about these enemies that are. Coming after me he's about
to show me what to Do about what. I'm going
through he's about to show me. What to do this
Is what the lord. Says to you don't be afraid and.
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Don't be discouraged so When YOU tell god i don't know,
what to do the first thing he will tell you
is what to don't don't be afraid because you can't
hear what he says next if you filter, It through
fear because if fear, is your filter you will not
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clearly hear The. Voice of god so the first thing
you need to do is. Don't be afraid i'm not.
Afraid of tomorrow i'm not ashamed. Of my past i'm
standing in The presence of god Because of what jesus.
Did for me, don't be afraid and don't be discouraged
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because of, this vast army for the battle, is Not,
yours but god get. Ready to shout i'm giving you
five seconds. To warm up because, the prophet said because
The word, of god Said because, the bible said for
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the battle, is Not. Yours but god's verse. Six See tomorrow,
it's god's. Tomorrow not Yours tomorrow. Is god's jobs, don't
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be afraid, don't run away, don't turn back don't, stress
about this don't pick, up the phone don't. Run yourself
ragged this battle. Is not yours It. Belongs to god
now let's time. Travel, verse sixteen tomorrow march down, against
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your enemies the ones you don't know what, to do
about the ones you don't know, how to handle the
ones you don't know how to the ones you don't know,
how to defeat the ones you don't know how, to
deal with the ones you. Didn't see coming march, against
them tomorrow and they will be climbing up, by the
passives'es and you will find them at the end, of
the gorge in The Desert. Of jerry will and here
is the good news for everybody who's on the verge.
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Of giving up when, you get There, HOLD on god
i don't know how to. Fight this battle all you
got to do is don't you will not have to fight.
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This battle you you will not have to. Fight this
battle this is all you. Got to do don't don't
fight it in. Your own strength don't fight it in.
Your own flesh don't fight it with. Your own logic
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don't fight it with. Your own strength don't fight it in.
Your own flesh don't fight it in. Your own logic
all you've got to do when you don't know what
to do is don't you take. Up your positions, you
stand firm and you see the Deliverance of the lord
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which he. Will give You, judah and jerusalem do not be,
afraid somebody shall don't do not be. Discouraged somebody shall
don't go out to, face them Tomorrow and the lord will.
Be with you and it good to have a father
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who's already in tomorrow that can tell you, what happens
tomorrow so you can do what you need. To do
today so let us not grow weary, in doing good
for in due season. We will reap all we gotta
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do is. Don't give, up and y'all when they march
down there, in verse eighteen with a Word, FROM the
lord i see you marching. Toward your challenge with the Word,
FROM the lord i see you marching out of this
church with the Word. FROM the lord i see you marching,
out of church, still not knowing but going forward in
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the Strength, of the lord by the Word. Of the
lord jehosha fact bowed with his face to the ground
because he didn't know. What to do and he bowed
with his face to the ground because he didn't have.
What it took and all of the, people fell down
face down with him and Worship. Before The lord what
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god does. Is his business what you do until he
does is, worship and walk and all you gotta. Do
is gone david is in The. Cave with saul he's
called to be. A future king he has the Opportunity
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to kill saul right now and, take a shortcut but.
Don't do. It God's way shadrack mishak in a bed.
And to go We're in the persian kingdom and they
were told to bow down and Worship. A false god
but don't because even if they throw you, in the
fire you. Can't Burn up if god is in, there.
With you don't all you've got to. Do is don't
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jesus could have called legions of angels from the cross,
and come, down but don't because if, he came down
we could not be saved. Through his blood and all
you got to do when you don't know, what to
do when you are, in adult season all you got
to Do is don't we will reap if we.
Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Don't give up what a relief it was when they
found out you don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Fight this battle you don't. Not by yourself now you have,
to face it but you don't have to. Fight it
alone thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
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