September 28, 2025 • 63 mins
Do you ever feel like your prayers are going unanswered? The enemy wants you to believe God’s not listening, but the truth is He hears you. His presence is with you in the mountains and the valleys, and He’s working one moment at a time.
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Scripture References:
Psalm 120, verses 1-7
1 John 5, verses 14-15
John 20, verses 11-17
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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.
I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I want you to give out ten hugs all around you.
Make everybody in your section feel so welcome. Tell them
I'm so glad you're in church today.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Roll call who made it online? Right now? Let us
know your name, your country. I'm pulling out my phone.
I'm checking the role. Hey, Rai's in the house front row.
Good to see you. Ay, ray Man, what are you
doing over there? That's not your seat? He never sits there.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah? How'd you get over there?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It is gonna throw off the entire cosmic balance of
my preaching if you are sitting there instead of there.
I'm not telling the person down there to trade seats
with you. But you got big shoes to fill right there. Yeah,
in the jersey in the Washington Commander's jersey, big shoes
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to fill.
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That's my guy right there.
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But apparently he's holding a town on this side today.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So who do I have over here on this side
of the road. Come on, who came to worship God?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Get a word from him, hear from him, worship him,
glorify him, put our attention on him.
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Feel's good to give God all the glory, doesn't it.
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I have a tattoo on my back that says cavad.
It's the Hebrew word for weight w e i g ht,
and it also means glory. And I found out when
I try to take the glory for myself, I have
to carry the weight myself. But when I give God
the glory, I feel like I can move better.
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I feel like I can stand longer. I feel like
I can make him all right. A few shout outs
for online, y'all remain standing.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Forgive us if we're a little loopy. Kind of goes
along with my series. We're talking about same lies, new loops.
We're a little loopy because we just recorded thirteen songs
of brand new worship melodies and anthems. I'm so excited
that's one of them. Call God, Jesus be the Name.
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Just so much good stuff we're gonna be putting in.
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Your ears, in your heart, in your life, in your car,
gonna be playing these songs in your kids nursery. Some
of y'all got a kid on the way in twenty
twenty six. I got some anthems coming for your baby.
Some of y'all gonna be pushing that baby out to
one of these new songs.
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I prophesia right now.
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Gonna be good too. You're gonna be calling God and
call him on. Everything is going to be really good,
all right. Shout outs from Adam from Oklahoma, Priscilla from Texas,
Someone's joint.
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Someone came to church from Kenya today. Praise the Lord.
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Kenya, Cape Town, Palestine, Madagascar, Cape Co, Chicago.
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Of all the places I've said, which one would you
most like to go to if you could be transported?
Right now?
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I read a few more where else. Somebody said, just
not here, that's horrible.
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Out of here.
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Lewis, Hello, Lewis, Hello from Maryland. Anyway, you get the point.
Let's welcome our Epham all over the world.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Post watching it a later time.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I want to get right into the word.
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If it's all right with you, Praise the Lord.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The Lord spoke something to my heart for our next
installment on same lies, New Loops showing.
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My graphic real quick.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It kind of looks like an infinity loop and zoom
out so everybody can see it at the campuses.
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Please no, not that.
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Yeah took my thunder there.
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Praise the Lord.
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And I'm trying to get you out of these things
that go on in your mind that keep you from
meeting with God and keep you from believing what He
says about you. And to do that, we got to
get you out of the thought patterns. The renewal of
your mind is not a one time event. Salvation is
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Jesus saves you as done, is paid for, it's finished.
But the renewal of your mind is not a one
time event. It is a moment by moment decision. So
when we get into God's word, when we worship God
like you've done today, go ahead and give yourself a
hand because you made a new loop today as you
were worshiping God, you were joining the angels around the
Throne of God, singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And today for
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this installment, the Lord led me the Psalm one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We've been sharing from a lot.
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Of the psalms because the psalms speak to the heart
in such a unique way. This is one of fifteen
psalms that is categorized as a song of a scent,
a scent meaning going up, because literally they would be
sung as the people were going up to Jerusalem for
their pilgrimage to worship the Lord for all of the
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different feasts that they would celebrate. Some were written by David,
some by his son Solomon, and some by an unknown author.
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They were designed to be sung not only along the.
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Way, but on those fifteen steps going up to the temple,
and there were fifteen of them. So it's really beautiful
sometimes to understand that God has given us a song
for every season, and this is a song of a sin.
And go ahead and tell your neighbor, just go ahead
and prophesy over them, say you're.
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Going up today. Put it in the chat, say I'm
going up today.
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Yeah, a song of a sense. How many of you
have your Bible? And it says that over the heading
it says a song of a sense. Right, So here's
what he says. In my distress, I called to the
Lord and he answered me, y'all, don't have anything. You're
happy that God answered you about not one thing, not
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even just you had peanut butter in the pantry this week,
and you wanted it, and you put it on that
cracker and it tasted real good and it didn't get
stuck on the roof of your mouth. Come on, how
many have at least one thing that God did for you?
Praise the Lord, he said. In my distress, I called
to the Lord, and he answered me. I'm going to
read the full psalm for context. He says, deliver me,
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o Lord, from lying lips from a deceitful tongue. Same
lies new loops Verse three, What shall be given to you,
and what more shall be done to you? You deceitful tongue,
a warrior's sharp arrow with glowing coals of the broom tree.
Woe to me that I sojourn in mishek that I
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dwell among the tents of Kdar. Too long have I
had my dwelling among those who hate peace?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Wow? Does that, Firse mean you should delete Instagram? I
don't know.
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Too long have I had my dwelling among those who
hate peace? I am for peace, but when I speak,
they are for war. Now go back to verse one.
Now that you've heard the whole thing, and let's make
a loop in my distress, I called to the Lord
and he answered me, Today I'm going to talk about
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the lie that the Devil has been telling you.
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This message is called not here, not here.
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Just reach around and tell seven people on your way
to your seat not here, not here.
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You may be seated not here.
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Oh, I want to tell you why I'm here today,
why I'm in the pulpit today. You like, isn't it
your job? Well, not every single Sunday. I would have
scheduled this Sunday off because of all of the intensive
labor around our songwriting. But number one, I thought, if
the team's gonna be here, I'm going to be here.
But number two, I thought you needed this next word
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in the series. And I didn't want the Devil to
disrupt the flow of what we're doing because I really
feel like we've got some momentum and I'm really here
in testimonies, and I really feel like there's something special
that he's doing in some of our minds and delivering
us from the devil that keeps us from making decisions
and keeps us from rejoicing and keeps us depressed.
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So I wanted to keep that going.
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But thirdly, I'm here because it's my son, Graham's eighteenth
birthday today. Occasionally I tell a little bit about our
family because of a scripture that Paul said, we were
delighted not only to share the Gospel of God with you,
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but our lives as well. And in this pulpit a
lot of times I get things wrong, but I'm willing
to do that sometimes because if I never get it wrong,
I can never get it real. So I also share
from my own heart and my own life of the
things that I'm processing, as well as what the Bible
says about other people's process.
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And Graham found.
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Out that I was going to take this week off
because of the scheduling of our recording so I could
focus on that. And he said, wait a minute, Sunday,
the twenty eighth is my birthday. And Mom said we
can get a guest, and Graham said, no, guest, it's
my birthday. And we started naming some of his favorite
preachers and said, well, we could have, and we named
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him and he said no, no, no, no no. And
Holly even said, how about if I preach and Graham goes,
it's my eighteenth birthday.
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I want Dad. I want Dad.
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So Graham, you got me. Whatever happens. We're in this together.
If the ship goes down, come help me bail some water.
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He wanted me, and he got me.
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And there was a moment a few years ago in
Graham's life, where as every parent does, I was teetering
on the edge of not trusting God because as he
was starting to move into manhood, I started to worry
about the temptations. And it's one thing to protect your kids.
It's one thing to pray for your kids. It's another
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thing to become so possessive about your kids that you
don't realize that they were gods before they were yours.
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And we all can relate to that, either as a
child or a parent. All the kids are like, did
you hear that?
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Mom? I am God's God said I could come home
at twelve thirty nine eleven thirty.
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Don't use my sermon like a weapon later.
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But I was sitting down one Saturday to prepare a
sermon for our church, and I was so worried about Graham,
and not because he had done anything wrong. It was
just that transitional season. Remember I taught you last week.
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When you vent.
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About a situation without God in it, you start to
invent scenarios in your head, and so nothing was really
even wrong.
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Yet there was just the possibility.
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Of him getting on a bad path, and it started
to possess my mind. Right now, the Lord spoke to me,
what do you mean when you say that? It was
an impression that was louder than a conversation. It was
an impression that was deeper than a text message. And
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all I felt from God was that he said, I've
got Graham. It was a short sentence, but I knew
I heard it. I've got Graham. Immediately, a flood of
peace filled my heart, my soul. I got back to work,
and since that day he has not sinned. I can't
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say that, but it's funny. You said, I get Dad
on my birthday, and God told me I got Graham.
And you know, he's doing pretty good, y'all. He's doing
pretty good. Started a little Bible study. He's doing pretty good.
Now I'm getting emotional, and I'm forgetting the outline of
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my message. Will y'all pray for me please that I
could just preach this.
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From some one twenty.
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He started a Bible study in the house, and about
six to eight of y'all would come over right, and
he started recruiting me on Sunday nights to come teach
you a little bit, and you talk about loopy after
I've preached on Sunday. I definitely don't know Hebrew and
Greek words. I can barely speak English. And so I
go up there and try to help the boys. And
you know, when you're talking to high school boys, it
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really revolves around a few struggles over and over again
what they're dealing with. And one of those conversations that
comes up is how do I deal with the times
when I have a spiritual high but then it goes away?
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And how do I keep the spiritual high?
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Well, of course I told this person who asked this question,
I'm not interested.
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In teaching you to keep the high.
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I want to teach you how to look for God
in the lows, because if you can look for Him
in the lows, you can only go so low. Because
one psalm says, if I make my bed in shield,
you are there. If I make my bed in hell,
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you are there. Where shall I go from your presence?
Where shall I ascend? If I ascend to the heavens,
you are there. If I descend to the hell, you
are there. If I say, surely the darkness will cover thee,
surely light will become as night to thee.
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For you are there.
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Your presence is everywhere, So I want you to look
for God in the lows.
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Now, the contrast we have in someone twenty.
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Why I thought it would be so great for us
to study together today is because on one hand, this
Psalmist is going up.
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He's going up to Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem is in the mountain region, so to go to Jerusalem,
you go up every.
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Time a song of ascent.
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He's singing a song of a scent as he's going up,
but it's also a song of lament.
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Which is grief.
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So he's on his way headed up to worship, but
there is something that is weighing him down as he walks.
Every single person who is here in this room today,
on your way up to worship, on your way up
to lift your hands and praise God, on your way
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over here, there.
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Was something that was weighing you down.
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It's surprising you don't have a flat tire from all
the weight that was in the car. With the tension
that is in your family and the tension that is
in your heart, and the tension of your faith and
your frustration. And I got this picture that we all,
like the Psalmist, while we are on our way up,
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we are weighed down. And I want to tell you, Graham,
and I want to tell you, my friend, that's normal.
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And learning to live with this.
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It's the ascent and the lament, all in the same song,
all in the same room, all on the same row,
all in the same mind. I could get you to
think about something right now that would make you so happy.
You would start dancing. You would even forget that you
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don't know how to dance. You would forget you don't
have any rhythm, and you would I saw some of
y'all doing it, Dearian alelujah, I saw it.
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It got you so happy.
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We start thinking about God and how he deserves the praise,
and so happy. And then I could mention something else.
If I really knew you, if I could really get
in your life for five minutes, I could say something else,
and you would be so heavy. Your hands would drop,
your head would drop, your heart would fall out. Because
as I'm on the way up, it doesn't mean I'm
not way down. I never praise God because my situation
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is perfect. And to wait for a perfect situation to
praise God, to wait for a perfect situation to have peace.
That's a setup for the enemy. If you procrastinate your
praise or your peace until your situation is perfect, you'll
never get the peace. Because I'm on my way.
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Up and I'm way down. And it was.
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Different in his time because listen to some of the
things he was dealing with. Verse two, he said, deliver me,
oh Lord, from lying lips. Back in the Bible times,
they had liars. And you know, we've evolved as a species,
but in those days there were rampant lies. You couldn't
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even tell what was truth and what was a lie.
You couldn't even tell if it was their real voice
or not, or if it was really their lips moving.
Or Graham showed me a picture the other day or
a video of some lion jumping to the sky snatching
a baby lion from a bird of prey, and he's like, Dad,
why are you crying? It was like about praying moms
jumping up and grabbing they're young from the talons of
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the enemy. And he saw tear in my eyes. That Dad,
that's Ai. You are crying at Ai. It's not real
but it was powerful and it was good, and you
should look it up when I'm gone preaching. I don't
even know what's real anymore, the man said, because.
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On one hand, watch this I'm going up.
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On one hand, there are good things happening in my life.
On one hand, I'm kind of excited about this new relationship.
On one hand, I'm kind of excited about what I
sensed that God might be moving around. But on the
other hand, there is something heavy. I'm on the way up,
and I'm way down, and I'm on my way to
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the House of God. But there's something waiting for me
at home that I have to deal with. So let
me illustrate this with a picture. Okay, I thought of
how do I break this down? Not only for Graham's
Bible study. Who's wondering, how do I stay in the
youth camp energy year round? You know, kind of all
of us wish we could live in that youth camp
energy all year, or at the very least at the
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Sunday Morning energy year round. If we would all be
as nice to each other in our vehicles as we
are in this church, what the world'll be like. It
doesn't take much to get you acting like you are
not a Christian?
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Does it?
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All I got to do is put you in four
doors with some glass and aluminum, and you forget all
about the presence.
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The Lord is everywhere except your car.
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And in that space all is forgiven. I thought about
it like this. I thought about the song we were
singing earlier. We've got this song that says, I call
God on the mountain, I call God in the valley,
I call God on the good days.
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Don't forget those.
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Sometimes the moments of our victory make us more vulnerable
than the moments of our defeat, because sometimes in the
moment of defeat you're depending on God. Sometimes in the
moments of your victory you pretend like He wasn't the
one who gave it to you. So it's a great song.
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Are y'all enjoying singing it? I call God on the mountain,
I call God in the And then we name everything
where you could call God, because you could call him anywhere,
and you can put anything in there with two syllables,
it'll sing good. I call God in the kitchen, I
call God in the bathroom. You can't say that, yes,
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you can say that the Lord can go where he
wants to, and he can do what he wants. He
gave me a lot of sermons in the bathroom. I
call God everywhere.
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I call God in the shower.
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Some of us that's the only place we sound good singing,
so we might as well call him in there, right.
But here's what I wanted to show you. I wanted
to show you that the mountain in the valleys look
like this. And if you ever go just with the
first graphic please okay, yeah, no, not that one, guys,
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the first one that's hold on, hold on, do the
other one.
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We'll do it like that. That's fine.
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That if you go into a hospital and they check
your heartbeat and it looks like that, the good news
is you're not going to be in the hospital very long.
You go in somewhere else. But that's EKG. This is
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the one I wanted them to put up first, because
this is normal. This is a normal heartbeat. I am
going to say as little about this as possible because
there are nurses and doctors that go to my church,
and I don't want you to judge me. Basically is
telling me about the heartbeat, and it's EKG. And those
waves that you see, those peaks and those valleys.
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That that's what life looks like.
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Yeah, y'all see point R. I call God on the mountain,
But do you see point S.
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I call God in the Come on, be the choir, y'all.
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And both of them are necessary for life to be present,
the ussent and the limit. I had one just the
other day. Man, You know how it happens. You're feeling
so good and you're feeling so much God, and it
takes one text message. One This is how strong my
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faith is. One text message, and I can go from
trusting God to wanting to tear into Okay, Okay, I'm
gonna come back behind the pulpit. I can go from
everything is so wonderful and I love my neighbor and
I love you Jesus. In fact, I think I was
singing and working on a worship lyric when the text
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came through. And as I'm looking for the lyric, here
comes a text, a mean text, a nasty text, and
unnecessary text, and all of a sudden, I felt the
bottom drop out, just like that, and I'm like, where
did you go?
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God? For the next hour, it got in my head.
Has this ever happened to you?
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Y'all are looking at me so confused, just so quick,
so offended. I was so offended that I just I
was having this moment with God, and then boom dropped down.
I went from put it back up there real quick, y'all,
I went from R to S just like that. You
ever gone from R to S?
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Just like that. I used to think God was R
and the devil was S.
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But I found out that in between the prayer and
the answer is faith, and faith is the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
You don't see your heart beating. That's what the readout
is showing you that you are still here. Your heart
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is beating while I'm talking, and you're still here. There
are peaks and valleys in your life while you are
journeying and sojourning through this pilgrim experience of being a
human being a person, and you keep thinking it's not normal,
and you keep thinking that you're broken because you think
that Christianity is always riding the high. But the moment
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that you learn that the God who is the God
of this is the God of that, and.
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This is what life looks like.
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It looks like I'm headed up in one.
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Area, and I'm wayed down in another.
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And I'm headed up in one area and I'm way
down in another. And I got one foot up and
I got one foot down. And I'm doing better with
my health, but I'm doing worse in my mind. And
I'm doing better with my money, but I'm doing worse
with my time. And here I am thinking that there's
something wrong with me, when God wanted me to know
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that both steps are ordered by the Lord.
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The one here the one there.
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They are both ordered by the Lord. Bring me my
teaching scream, I gotta teach you about this because the
enemy wants you to think that God.
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Is here, but not here. But without here here does
not happen.
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So this message is designed to help you with your
mind today because you keep thinking, what's wrong with me
that it keeps dropping out, What's wrong with me that
I keep having to.
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Fight for this? What's wrong with me that I keep
having to relearn the same lessons.
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The transformation and renewal of your mind is not a
one time event.
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You have to walk this out. You have to walk
this out. You have to walk this out one moment
at a time. Because another thing I found out. Put
the chart back up.
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Yeah, is that not only are both of those important
for my heart to be not only are both of
those important for me to know God as my shepherd
in the valley so I can praise Him as my
provider on the mountain.
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But all of those things are happening at the same time.
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We used to talk about seasons of blessing and seasons
of burdens, right like, praise God on the mountain and
call God on the mountain, and then when God's blessing
you in season, and then when you're in.
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The valley season.
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If I went around the room today and asked, are
you in a mountain season or a valley season? The
only answer that would be appropriate is yes.
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So let's try it. Class.
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Are you in a mountain season or a valley season?
You mean you can go from the valley to the
mountain in a moment, with a text, with a thought.
Because put the thing back up, y'all. I am so
not done with this yet. There's so much in this.
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I don't know if the other campuses can see I'm
directing the canus today.
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I got to get this word across.
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There is something to be said for seasons where God
answers your prayers and you're looking at it. There's something
to be said for seasons when you see no proof
that He heard your prayer, and you're going.
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By faith not sight.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
But what I realized looking at that heartbeat is that
those events are not months apart, those are moments apart. See,
I thought God will bless you real good for about
a month, and you'll be on the mountain for a month.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But God doesn't bless you a month at a time.
He blesses you a moment at a time. And it
is not only.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The seasons that we need to celebrate, and not only
the seasons.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That we need to be strategic. The Lord said to
tell you think seconds, not seasons. Seconds not seasons. Seconds.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
As a matter of fact, this chart that is on
the screen right now, this chart is showing you what
happens not in one second in your heart, but in
a millisecond.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I had to study that. I know some certain things.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I know that a season is made up of about
three months. I know that a month is made up
of about four weeks. I know that a week is
made up of about seven days. I know that he
is made up of well, not about seven days exactly
seven days, let's be clear about it. And those days
are made up of twenty four hours, and an hour
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is made up of sixty minutes, and a minute.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Is made up of sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
But to get to a millisecond, I had to find
out that is one one thousandth of a second.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
That makes up a minute.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That makes up an hour, that makes up a day,
that makes up a week, that makes up a month,
that makes up a season, And you keep trying to
handle things a season at a time. When God says
I am a God who beats inside of your heart,
not every second. Take that second and slice it down
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to one thousand, and I am in every millisecond. So
the reason I praise him isn't because I'm on the
mountain NonStop, but it's that God can do a miracle
in a millisecond.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, set it, I got a.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Millisecond miracle working way making, coming in keeping, never leave.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Me, never forsaking God.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Give your neighbor five high fives and tell him he
could do it in a millisecond.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Doesn't this make sense to us? Don't we know now? Why? Wow?
I could go from the mountain up here to the.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Valley and for everybody who's self righteous, eye bliss the
Lord at all times.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
His phrase shall continually be on my mouth.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Okay, Moses, when you come off the mountain, make sure
you cover your face because.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You're not always shining.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
And I can interview your family members and find out
more details if I need to, But please be honest.
I'm on the mountain for a minute, but most of
us are one spilled cup of coffee on our Khaki
breeches away from saying the name of the Lord in
a different way because it is not a one time event.
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And if you can go from the mountain to the
valley in a millisecond, I wonder, can God bring you
from the valley? Come on, let's turn this thing around.
Let's turn this thing aroud. Think of the goodness of
Jesus and oh that He's done for you, and command
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your soul cry up, hollyah, thank you God for saving me. Yeah,
come on, baseball tease, praise God with me.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I'm glad you are in the house. You had to
be here. God wanted you to get this word. So
what it is.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
When you're here, you're like, oh, that's God. The sun
is back to some one hundred and twenty. I am
not going to get to all this all week unless.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Y'all would like to stay until about three.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Damn, that did not sound convincing. I'll plan on wrapping up,
he said verse one. In my distress, I called to
the Lord, and he answered me past tense, circle answered justin.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
How'd he do that?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
He not even here in this room, but he hears
what I said, and even though I can't see him,
he can do well.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I asked him to do from a room where I
cannot see him with my eyes, he said.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I called to the Lord and I couldn't see him,
but he answered me past tense. Well, if he answered you,
then what is verse two all about? Deliver me, o Lord,
from lying lips from a deceitful tongue. Why does he
say in verse one? He answered me, and go on
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through the next six verses to describe a problem that
is still waiting.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
For him at home. I tell you next week, y'all
want it today, all right? I'm not like the Lord.
I won't make you wait, all right. The lie is this.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know God is with you, but the devil wants
you in this loop, not here now. In the Old Testament,
the temple was in Jerusalem. Right, we are the temple
of the Spirit of God. Now God is not in
this room until you show up.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yes he is.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He's in the empty room. You know what I mean.
God does not fill buildings. He feels people. But in
the Old Testament construct the glory of the Lord would
fill the temple, so they had to go to a
location to worship.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
So now get the contrast with me.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
He's going, I'm headed here to worship, but I'm holding
some stuff as I do, and I'm in between. I'm
in between a battle and a blessing all in one heartbeat.
You keep thinking the season is gonna change and it's
going to be all mountains. I hope not, because then
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you're dead. Then your faith will flat life. And God's
going to give you some of these. And He's gonna
give you some of these, and you will have to
learn to praise Him and worship him in the same
heartbeat that your heart is broken, and praise him and
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call him holy anyway the enemy, I say, not here.
You can't praise him here, Not in this hospital, not
in this prison. No, this rehab. When you get out, yeah,
when you get out, you can give a testimony. You
can give a testimony right now, because he's the master
of the millisecond.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When I put it online, I might call it the
master of the millisecond.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He doesn't just command the times and the seasons and
creation from eternity. Not only is call and response built
into the cadence of creation, but in this moment, in
this heart, he's shown me goo gooka gooka, I'm all
of it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Gock goca gooka.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I reveal myself in the rhythms of the ups, the downs,
the ebbs, the flows, the yes, the nose, the leavings,
the comings. I'm in all of it. It's all me.
I'm in all of it. And the devil will say, well,
God is not in this, not here, not here. And
when he says not here, have your confidence like the
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Psalmist did, because what's so beautiful about the Psalm is
that he says, God answered my prayer, but he doesn't
even see the proof yet. The answer is in past tense,
but the trouble is in present tense. But he knows
Wat's just here's your new loop. The devil is telling
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me God is not here. But I tell the devil.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
He heard.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Last week I preached on he answered, And in that
wonderful when the Lord answers, when you see your kid
leading the Bible study, it's a beautiful thing. But between
the prayer and the Bible study is a stage called
he heard, and I don't have the answer yet. It's
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not here. The answer isn't here. I'm speaking to somebody
today and the answer isn't here. The healing isn't here,
the result isn't here, the reconciliation isn't here, the proof
isn't here. And the enemy, he keeps trying to tell
you what's not here. But in this moment it is
so vital and important for the health of your heart
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and the life of your faith that every time the
enemy points to an area and says God didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Do that yet, how can you trust him? That hasn't
happened yet, And you are not whole.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
This is not complete yet, and so you cannot call
yourself a real Christian. Every time he says not here,
you remind yourself. But He hears me. When I pray.
He heard me. When I prayed, he heard me. He's
not hard of hearing. God hears me. He heard me.
There is a space between prayed and answered called heard.
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And when you know God hears you, you have confidence.
First John chapter four, verse fourteen and fifteen says something
very interesting that if we know Verse John chapter five,
verse fourteen says something very interesting. This is the confidence
that we have in approaching God. If we ask anything
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according to his will, shout it.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
He hears us. Let's read it again.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And if we have confidence in approaching God, we ask
anything according to his will, he hears us. I can't
hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us
better than Siri. He hears us better than the people
advertising to you on your phone. When you're talking about
lawnmowers and all of a sudden, a weed eater shows
up on your phone, he hears us. That's why God
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spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've
got Graham. But he did not tell me the timeline,
and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows.
And nobody knows what the future holds, and nobody knows
what there will be in the next season. But I'm
not serving God season by season. I'm serving him step
by step, second by second. And since he's the master
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of the millisecond. I can trust him right now and
know that he heard me. Tell three people he heards you.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Tell him he heard you the first time. I'm gonna
say that again, he heard you the first time.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Sometimes you keep asking him to take things away, and
he leaves them.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He heard you.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He just isn't gonna take it away right now because
he's gonna teach you something with it, and after he
gets done teaching you with it, you will thank.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Him for it.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
But that does not mean that it's fun to go
through the season called heard. Have you ever left somebody
on red on a text message? Have you ever left
somebody unheard in a conversation. My family picks on Holly
all the time. They'll say, Mom will leave you unheard,
meaning that they're just asking her what they want, telling
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her what they want like she's an uber driver, telling
her what they want, like she's some kind of servant
to their every desire, and she's.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Just looking right back at him.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
And they'll say, Mom will leave you unheard, And I'm
thinking to myself, it's not that she didn't hear you,
it's just that she doesn't have to. She doesn't have
to do everything you ask. Look at first John, Chapter five,
verse fifteen.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
This is powerful.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
The Bible says, if we know that he hears us
whatever we ask, we know that we have what we.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Asked of him. But verse fourteen gives a condition.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
It says, if we ask anything according to his will,
he hears us. And this is the part we don't
know because we think this is always his will. What
if this is too.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Thank you so much. You don't know how much I
needed that encouragement. I'm gonna get your.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Seat on the front row next week, all right? He
says he heard me, and I can't really describe it
to you like I want to. But another one of
our songs says I sought the Lord and he answered.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
But there is a part that says I sought the
Lord and he heard, and he heard.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
So hot.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I'm dropping stuff here.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
And I realized that when he hears my prayer, when
he hears my needs, when he hears my do you know?
The Bible says that God even speaks the language called groaning.
One scripture says that God can interpret your groans in
the Holy spirit, will turn them into a prayer. God
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hears all those sounds you make. One Psalmis said I
love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know
that God speaks grief, God speaks grown, God speaks pain
that you can't express in a word. God gets in
that stuff too. And the devil will say not here,
And God will say.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Right here, in your tears, in your fears, in your.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Sorrow, in your worry, in your anxiety, right there, I'm
coming right here, right here, right.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Here, new loot, because he hears.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And what I learned while I'm waiting for the answer
is to trust that what he hasn't answered.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
He's holding. He's holding the Bible says the Lord, to
keep your tears in a jar. He's holding.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
The Bible says that he will keep your prayers in
a bowl like incense, like a fray grass. He's holding it,
and he heard you. And sometimes he's holding it because
he's got two hands. And sometimes he needs to do
this for you, and he will, and sometimes he needs
to do this for you, an he will, And he's
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the same whether the hand is.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Like this or like this job.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
And we don't like to be left unheard. We definitely
don't like to be left on hold. How long will
you give somebody before you hang up on hold?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
But you don't really have that option with God, do you.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
You can't press star one three to speak to a supervisor.
He ain't gotten a supervisor. You ask for God's supervisor,
You're gonna.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Get God beside him, there is no other. So what
are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (43:22):
I'm trusting that he's holding I got Graham. What else
are you going to do with your kid? But give
him back to God? What else are you going to
do with this thing? You can't control it anyway, you
might as well give it to him. I promise you
can walk up better if you let him hold.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
It at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
You can go to work better, even if you don't
like the job, if you let him hold the part
you can't control.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
So I realize everybody say he heard Do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Do you believe he heard you? He heard you? And
I don't profess to know why God does what he does.
He's my supervisor. I can't speak to that. But what
I can see is times in my life that he
was holding a problem for me. And I cannot only
see times where he was holding a problem.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
But I can look back.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
If I look back, I can't always see it when
I'm in it.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Because it's this and it's that.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
But if I look back over my life, sometimes I
see how he.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Used a problem to answer a prayer because he's holding both.
He's holding both.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Sometimes the stuff I was asking him to take away
is the stuff that he used to give me grace
for the thing that I didn't know what I was
going to do about.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Am I right about it?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Sometimes God sends a problem to answer a prayer. But
if you can realize that he is big enough to
hold both and you're not, and.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
You don't have to be.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
But I called to the Lord and he answered my prayer.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
And the proof that he answered it isn't that the
problem went away.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
The proof that he answered it is.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
That he can. He came.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
He didn't just give the answer. Get ready to shout.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
He is the answer.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
So not only am I saying, listen to me, Not
only am I saying to every person who's praying about
a situation that he heard everybody's shout. He heard, And
not only am I saying that he's holding everybody say
he's holding Yeah, he's holding it.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
He's holding it, he holds it all together.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Not you when Chad was up here earlier, I know
you didn't get to see it online, but he said
those exact words to you. I was like, thank you
for the confirmation. God, this is the word somebody needs.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You're not holding it together.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
He is, And all things work together for the good
of them.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
That love the Lord.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
So it's this, and it's this, and it's this, and
it's this, and it's.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
This and it's this.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
And they're not a season apart, and they're not a
month apart, and they're not a minute apart. It is
second by second, bless the Lord. It is second by second.
The Lord has been good to you. It is second
by second. His mercy endures forever. That's why I couldn't
believe when I told you after your dad's death. I
didn't know what to say to you, and all I
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could think of to say was you have one job
breathe next breath.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
When your son died and I cried.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
On the porch and I felt so incompetent to advise
you at that moment because what would I do, And
through my tears, I told you one job, next breath.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I got off the phone with him, and I.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Left your house feeling like such a failure, because that's
all I could think of to say. But he told me,
and he told me that that simple thing next breath
was enough to get them through the hardest season of
their life, one millisecond at a time. I thought I
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failed when I told him that. But he heard, he heard,
he heard, he heard, he heard what you didn't say,
he heard what you don't.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Know how to say.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Still, he heard how disappointed you were and how they
responded to you and didn't reciprocate after all you.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Did for them. He heard what they said about you
that wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
He heard, he heard what they said about you that
was true that you wish wasn't. He heard, he heard
what you said about yourself that wasn't so.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
He heard, he heard what you said about yourself that
was so. But he speaks a better word. He heard.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
I'm here to remind somebody today that he heard, and
he's holding. The God of seasons is the god of
seconds and milliseconds. And I realize why I'm alive now,
because my first point is he heard, and my second
point is he's holding, and my third point is.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
It's him. Y'all can't decide whether to write that down
or clap your hands. I see a lot of conflict.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
In the in the crowd is him, and sometimes you
don't recognize as him because it feels like this. The
Sommers said, Man, I got some stuff waiting for me
back home, don't we all? I hate when y'all go
fake on me. Don't we have some stuff waiting for
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us at home? Every bed is not going to be
made up in your house when you go home, just
because you made up your mind to worship God today
and everybody that's around you hear this message like you did,
and they are not going to encourage you in your dream.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Go for it. The Lord is with you.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
He said, I got some lion tongues, and if God
doesn't step in, but see he did. Now I realized
why he said answered in past tense, because the answer
to his prayer wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (49:22):
The answer was him?
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Remember what Graham said, He said, I want Dad on
my birthday. He didn't ask for a cake, but he's
gonna get a cake. He didn't ask for any of
those things.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
That I've got wrapped back there. Let's be honest that
Holly's got wrapped back there. See I am the gift today.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I don't have to wrap anything, just put on a
black hoodie and preach. But since you called for me,
if you need something, I got it. And since I'm here,
and since you're here, what do you need, you can
have it. Oh I'm not saying God to give you
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everything that you greed.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
I'm saying He will meet all your needs.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
According So if you need another one, I got you
because I'm here.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Because when you said I want Dad.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
You got everything that Dad has with Dad. This is
the confidence, not that the answer came, but the one
who is the answer. Pastor Mickey used to say, I
went to school, and when you know the answer, you
raise your hand. I wonder, is there anybody in here who.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Knows the answer. And his name is God. His name
is El Shadaid, his name.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Is Helllly'd, his name is Jehovah Shirah.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And your father has what's it asked for.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
It's him that is the answer to this. It is
not when it goes away that you can say he
answered me.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
It's when he shows.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
Up to remind you that if you make your bet
in Hell, I will be your bunk mate. If you
make your bet in a bad decision, I'll.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Start breaking prison doors to get you out.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
If you make your bet in depression. I'll give you
a burst of joy in this moment, and as long
as you're breathing, I want you to know that God's God, Graham,
God's God.
Speaker 5 (52:00):
You.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
God's got this.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
I fought chills on my What do you call these traps?
When I said it, God's God.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
This no pastor not here. I made too many mistakes. Yeah,
it's Him that shows up in this and in this.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's Him. That's what life looks like. How can I
ride the spiritual high? I don't know. When you figure
it out, write a book, we'll all buy it.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
We will make you a New York Times bestselling author
every day for the rest of our life.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
But in the meantime, most of us have to look.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
For God in the lows, wow and to praise Him
with the next breath. He said, I'm going to worship,
but I'm dealing with some things back home.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
I wonder is that you today? It's to your feet.
I'm here to worship. I'm here to worship.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
How many of you are here to worship today?
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Hey, don't raise your hand.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
If you didn't come to worship, if somebody made you come,
don't raise your hand. It's all right, but even in
the chat say I'm here to worship.
Speaker 5 (53:20):
Okay, what you have to do is get this word
to go, because what good is it for you to
go to Jerusalem for a minute if you're.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Not going to invite God into the low places too?
Speaker 1 (53:43):
I remember a Bible story.
Speaker 3 (53:45):
It's normally for Easter, but it doesn't have to be
where this woman named Mary Magdalene who had had seven
demons and Jesus had cast them out of her mind.
Tradition says she was a prostitute. Extraal evidence for that,
the tradition will label a lot.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Of things wrong on it.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
Bible says that she went to the tomb of Jesus
early in the morning while it was still dark, and
Peter and John were having his arm wrestling match to
see who could see him first, and he wasn't there.
What would be like to get to the tomb and
an angel tell you not here? And what do you
do when you look for Jesus in the last place
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you saw.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Him and you feel like he's not here?
Speaker 3 (54:35):
What do you do when you experience God in one
season of your life and it was so high and
now he's got you down here? I loved the Word
of God because it helps me get a new way
of thinking about those moments for myself.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
Hey, I go through them too.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
I got flipped off on Friday on the road.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
In my jeep wind the roof down. You know what
the roofdown means.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
That means easy access for reciprocation, and the Lord helped
me so much. Holly said, don't look at this guy
because here what happened. Well, that was such a tender moment,
and I feel like I need to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Real quick to make it practical.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
He's driving this big pickup truck right and I already
let two people out ahead of him, and it's a
busy intersection. I don't know how you feel about good
Samaritan rules on the road, but I think if you
let more than two people go out and I have
to stop behind you and the light is green, you
are no longer a good Samaritan.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
You are overdoing it.
Speaker 3 (55:39):
Okay, you just do what the light says and let
the Lord work out when they get out. You can
let one, maybe two out, but two is the max. Okay,
You're not helping anymore. You're overdoing it.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
That's the loudest joke, shout it all day. So now listen,
I let not one.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
But two people out, but he thought he should get
out too, But no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
We got to go.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
The light's green is busy, so I don't And Ally said, ooh,
don't look over there at him.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
He is mad at you. I said, don't look over
at who.
Speaker 3 (56:04):
And he had that that middle finger.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Up in his truck and the Lord.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
I I called on the Lord, and he answered, and
he told me what to do. I stuck my finger
back up at him, this one right out my top
of my roof.
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You know how good that felt?
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I said, hey, yeah, praise the Lord.
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And I drove on to my house and.
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I checked to make sure he wasn't following me, because
sometimes the Lord will call you to answer something a
little different than you normally would have, and take but
a milliseconds just to go from what you wanted to
do to hey, boy, I even can see you walking
around this week just doing this to situations.
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I can see it.
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I can see it in my mind, putting them up.
Turned to three people say hey, hey, hey body, Yeah,
I say, the renewal of your mind is moment by moment.
It is not on this row on Sunday. It is
on the road on Monday that it will be tested.
Did you get this message? Yeah, And it is sometimes
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in the place where you expected God to be that
he is not, that he shows you the greatest revelation
of who he is. So the Bible says in John
chapter twenty, verse eleven that as she stood there at
the tomb, crying, and as she wept, she bent over
to look into the tomb and saw two angels in.
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White seated where Jesus' body had been. Past tense. He's
not here, He's not here. There was one at the head,
the other at the foot.
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They asked her, woman, why are you crying? She said,
They take my Lord away? And I don't I don't
know where he is. I don't know where is God
in this. I don't know where the answer is. I
don't know what the right thing to do is. I
don't know what doctor to.
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Talk to next. I don't know what to do about it.
I don't know if I should call him. I don't
know if I should block him. I don't know what
to do. I don't know what God wants me to do.
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I'm just kind of like Honestly, I thought faith was
like this all of my life, trying to get God
to do what I want him to do, And now
realize it's more like this.
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Yeah, thank you.
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And in the dark outside the tomb, as she's weeping,
she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. Oh wait,
it's him, but she doesn't realize that it was Jesus.
And he asked her, woman, why are you crying? Not
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only a savior who speaks the language of tears can
ask a question like that. Who is it you are
looking for? Jesus is so funny who you're looking for?
Thinking he was the gardener and he kind of is.
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She said, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell
me where you have put him, and I will get him.
And Jesus said to her Mary, and she turned toward
him and cried out in air mag rabb oneye, which
means teacher. And Jesus said, do not hold on to me,
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for I have not yet ascended.
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To the Father.
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Go instead to my brothers and tell them I am
ascending to my Father.
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And your father, to my God and your God.
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This is the gospel that God in human form died
for your sin, descended to the grave, defeated death, and
Hell awoke, holding the keys to death. He in the grave,
and he heard when you called to him for salvation.
And he's holding the cues of death, Hell and the graves.
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And it is him in life, in death, on.
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The mountain, in the valley, it's him. It's him. Yes,
it's God. You're called on him. He's here.
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That's God making your heart feat that's God giving you
the next breath. That's God holding your tomorrow. That's God
taking care of your knees.
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That's God. That's him. Give him a praise.
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Like you would give him if you knew he was here,
if you knew.
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He was worthy, if you knew he was holy, if
you knew he was holding your life.
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So now you know why it says, I call God
on the mountain, I call God in the valley, I
call God.
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It's all God. Oh God, just don't even need anything. Lord, just.
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I just love you because you love me first. And
I'm so thankful that you're here with me, that you
got up out of that grave.
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Oh God.
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So I call you when it's good, I call yall here,
I call you down there. Your Godwin is gone, Your
Godwin is hard. So I calling.
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Today just to say I love you. I just to
say I love you. Now listen. I don't know if
they got a broken heart, but.
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He's a healer.
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And I don't know what you need.
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But he's a provider, and I don't know what you're frighten.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Special thanks to those of you who give generously to
this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.
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Thanks again for listening. God bless you.
Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
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I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
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Enjoy the message.
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I want you to give out ten hugs all around you.
Make everybody in your section feel so welcome. Tell them
I'm so glad you're in church today.
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Roll call who made it online? Right now? Let us
know your name, your country. I'm pulling out my phone.
I'm checking the role. Hey, Rai's in the house front row.
Good to see you. Ay, ray Man, what are you
doing over there? That's not your seat? He never sits there.
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What are you doing?
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Yeah? How'd you get over there?
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It is gonna throw off the entire cosmic balance of
my preaching if you are sitting there instead of there.
I'm not telling the person down there to trade seats
with you. But you got big shoes to fill right there. Yeah,
in the jersey in the Washington Commander's jersey, big shoes
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to fill.
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That's my guy right there.
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But apparently he's holding a town on this side today.
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So who do I have over here on this side
of the road. Come on, who came to worship God?
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Get a word from him, hear from him, worship him,
glorify him, put our attention on him.
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Feel's good to give God all the glory, doesn't it.
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I have a tattoo on my back that says cavad.
It's the Hebrew word for weight w e i g ht,
and it also means glory. And I found out when
I try to take the glory for myself, I have
to carry the weight myself. But when I give God
the glory, I feel like I can move better.
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I feel like I can stand longer. I feel like
I can make him all right. A few shout outs
for online, y'all remain standing.
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Forgive us if we're a little loopy. Kind of goes
along with my series. We're talking about same lies, new loops.
We're a little loopy because we just recorded thirteen songs
of brand new worship melodies and anthems. I'm so excited
that's one of them. Call God, Jesus be the Name.
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Just so much good stuff we're gonna be putting in.
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Your ears, in your heart, in your life, in your car,
gonna be playing these songs in your kids nursery. Some
of y'all got a kid on the way in twenty
twenty six. I got some anthems coming for your baby.
Some of y'all gonna be pushing that baby out to
one of these new songs.
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I prophesia right now.
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Gonna be good too. You're gonna be calling God and
call him on. Everything is going to be really good,
all right. Shout outs from Adam from Oklahoma, Priscilla from Texas,
Someone's joint.
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Someone came to church from Kenya today. Praise the Lord.
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Kenya, Cape Town, Palestine, Madagascar, Cape Co, Chicago.
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Of all the places I've said, which one would you
most like to go to if you could be transported?
Right now?
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I read a few more where else. Somebody said, just
not here, that's horrible.
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Out of here.
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Lewis, Hello, Lewis, Hello from Maryland. Anyway, you get the point.
Let's welcome our Epham all over the world.
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Post watching it a later time.
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I want to get right into the word.
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If it's all right with you, Praise the Lord.
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The Lord spoke something to my heart for our next
installment on same lies, New Loops showing.
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My graphic real quick.
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It kind of looks like an infinity loop and zoom
out so everybody can see it at the campuses.
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Please no, not that.
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Yeah took my thunder there.
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Praise the Lord.
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And I'm trying to get you out of these things
that go on in your mind that keep you from
meeting with God and keep you from believing what He
says about you. And to do that, we got to
get you out of the thought patterns. The renewal of
your mind is not a one time event. Salvation is
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Jesus saves you as done, is paid for, it's finished.
But the renewal of your mind is not a one
time event. It is a moment by moment decision. So
when we get into God's word, when we worship God
like you've done today, go ahead and give yourself a
hand because you made a new loop today as you
were worshiping God, you were joining the angels around the
Throne of God, singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And today for
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this installment, the Lord led me the Psalm one hundred
and twenty.
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We've been sharing from a lot.
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Of the psalms because the psalms speak to the heart
in such a unique way. This is one of fifteen
psalms that is categorized as a song of a scent,
a scent meaning going up, because literally they would be
sung as the people were going up to Jerusalem for
their pilgrimage to worship the Lord for all of the
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different feasts that they would celebrate. Some were written by David,
some by his son Solomon, and some by an unknown author.
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They were designed to be sung not only along the.
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Way, but on those fifteen steps going up to the temple,
and there were fifteen of them. So it's really beautiful
sometimes to understand that God has given us a song
for every season, and this is a song of a sin.
And go ahead and tell your neighbor, just go ahead
and prophesy over them, say you're.
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Going up today. Put it in the chat, say I'm
going up today.
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Yeah, a song of a sense. How many of you
have your Bible? And it says that over the heading
it says a song of a sense. Right, So here's
what he says. In my distress, I called to the
Lord and he answered me, y'all, don't have anything. You're
happy that God answered you about not one thing, not
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even just you had peanut butter in the pantry this week,
and you wanted it, and you put it on that
cracker and it tasted real good and it didn't get
stuck on the roof of your mouth. Come on, how
many have at least one thing that God did for you?
Praise the Lord, he said. In my distress, I called
to the Lord, and he answered me. I'm going to
read the full psalm for context. He says, deliver me,
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o Lord, from lying lips from a deceitful tongue. Same
lies new loops Verse three, What shall be given to you,
and what more shall be done to you? You deceitful tongue,
a warrior's sharp arrow with glowing coals of the broom tree.
Woe to me that I sojourn in mishek that I
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dwell among the tents of Kdar. Too long have I
had my dwelling among those who hate peace?
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Wow? Does that, Firse mean you should delete Instagram? I
don't know.
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Too long have I had my dwelling among those who
hate peace? I am for peace, but when I speak,
they are for war. Now go back to verse one.
Now that you've heard the whole thing, and let's make
a loop in my distress, I called to the Lord
and he answered me, Today I'm going to talk about
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the lie that the Devil has been telling you.
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This message is called not here, not here.
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Just reach around and tell seven people on your way
to your seat not here, not here.
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You may be seated not here.
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Oh, I want to tell you why I'm here today,
why I'm in the pulpit today. You like, isn't it
your job? Well, not every single Sunday. I would have
scheduled this Sunday off because of all of the intensive
labor around our songwriting. But number one, I thought, if
the team's gonna be here, I'm going to be here.
But number two, I thought you needed this next word
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in the series. And I didn't want the Devil to
disrupt the flow of what we're doing because I really
feel like we've got some momentum and I'm really here
in testimonies, and I really feel like there's something special
that he's doing in some of our minds and delivering
us from the devil that keeps us from making decisions
and keeps us from rejoicing and keeps us depressed.
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So I wanted to keep that going.
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But thirdly, I'm here because it's my son, Graham's eighteenth
birthday today. Occasionally I tell a little bit about our
family because of a scripture that Paul said, we were
delighted not only to share the Gospel of God with you,
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but our lives as well. And in this pulpit a
lot of times I get things wrong, but I'm willing
to do that sometimes because if I never get it wrong,
I can never get it real. So I also share
from my own heart and my own life of the
things that I'm processing, as well as what the Bible
says about other people's process.
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And Graham found.
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Out that I was going to take this week off
because of the scheduling of our recording so I could
focus on that. And he said, wait a minute, Sunday,
the twenty eighth is my birthday. And Mom said we
can get a guest, and Graham said, no, guest, it's
my birthday. And we started naming some of his favorite
preachers and said, well, we could have, and we named
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him and he said no, no, no, no no. And
Holly even said, how about if I preach and Graham goes,
it's my eighteenth birthday.
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I want Dad. I want Dad.
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So Graham, you got me. Whatever happens. We're in this together.
If the ship goes down, come help me bail some water.
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He wanted me, and he got me.
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And there was a moment a few years ago in
Graham's life, where as every parent does, I was teetering
on the edge of not trusting God because as he
was starting to move into manhood, I started to worry
about the temptations. And it's one thing to protect your kids.
It's one thing to pray for your kids. It's another
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thing to become so possessive about your kids that you
don't realize that they were gods before they were yours.
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And we all can relate to that, either as a
child or a parent. All the kids are like, did
you hear that?
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Mom? I am God's God said I could come home
at twelve thirty nine eleven thirty.
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Don't use my sermon like a weapon later.
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But I was sitting down one Saturday to prepare a
sermon for our church, and I was so worried about Graham,
and not because he had done anything wrong. It was
just that transitional season. Remember I taught you last week.
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When you vent.
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About a situation without God in it, you start to
invent scenarios in your head, and so nothing was really
even wrong.
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Yet there was just the possibility.
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Of him getting on a bad path, and it started
to possess my mind. Right now, the Lord spoke to me,
what do you mean when you say that? It was
an impression that was louder than a conversation. It was
an impression that was deeper than a text message. And
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all I felt from God was that he said, I've
got Graham. It was a short sentence, but I knew
I heard it. I've got Graham. Immediately, a flood of
peace filled my heart, my soul. I got back to work,
and since that day he has not sinned. I can't
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say that, but it's funny. You said, I get Dad
on my birthday, and God told me I got Graham.
And you know, he's doing pretty good, y'all. He's doing
pretty good. Started a little Bible study. He's doing pretty good.
Now I'm getting emotional, and I'm forgetting the outline of
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my message. Will y'all pray for me please that I
could just preach this.
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From some one twenty.
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He started a Bible study in the house, and about
six to eight of y'all would come over right, and
he started recruiting me on Sunday nights to come teach
you a little bit, and you talk about loopy after
I've preached on Sunday. I definitely don't know Hebrew and
Greek words. I can barely speak English. And so I
go up there and try to help the boys. And
you know, when you're talking to high school boys, it
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really revolves around a few struggles over and over again
what they're dealing with. And one of those conversations that
comes up is how do I deal with the times
when I have a spiritual high but then it goes away?
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And how do I keep the spiritual high?
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Well, of course I told this person who asked this question,
I'm not interested.
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In teaching you to keep the high.
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I want to teach you how to look for God
in the lows, because if you can look for Him
in the lows, you can only go so low. Because
one psalm says, if I make my bed in shield,
you are there. If I make my bed in hell,
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you are there. Where shall I go from your presence?
Where shall I ascend? If I ascend to the heavens,
you are there. If I descend to the hell, you
are there. If I say, surely the darkness will cover thee,
surely light will become as night to thee.
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For you are there.
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Your presence is everywhere, So I want you to look
for God in the lows.
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Now, the contrast we have in someone twenty.
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Why I thought it would be so great for us
to study together today is because on one hand, this
Psalmist is going up.
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He's going up to Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem is in the mountain region, so to go to Jerusalem,
you go up every.
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Time a song of ascent.
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He's singing a song of a scent as he's going up,
but it's also a song of lament.
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Which is grief.
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So he's on his way headed up to worship, but
there is something that is weighing him down as he walks.
Every single person who is here in this room today,
on your way up to worship, on your way up
to lift your hands and praise God, on your way
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over here, there.
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Was something that was weighing you down.
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It's surprising you don't have a flat tire from all
the weight that was in the car. With the tension
that is in your family and the tension that is
in your heart, and the tension of your faith and
your frustration. And I got this picture that we all,
like the Psalmist, while we are on our way up,
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we are weighed down. And I want to tell you, Graham,
and I want to tell you, my friend, that's normal.
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And learning to live with this.
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It's the ascent and the lament, all in the same song,
all in the same room, all on the same row,
all in the same mind. I could get you to
think about something right now that would make you so happy.
You would start dancing. You would even forget that you
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don't know how to dance. You would forget you don't
have any rhythm, and you would I saw some of
y'all doing it, Dearian alelujah, I saw it.
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It got you so happy.
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We start thinking about God and how he deserves the praise,
and so happy. And then I could mention something else.
If I really knew you, if I could really get
in your life for five minutes, I could say something else,
and you would be so heavy. Your hands would drop,
your head would drop, your heart would fall out. Because
as I'm on the way up, it doesn't mean I'm
not way down. I never praise God because my situation
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is perfect. And to wait for a perfect situation to
praise God, to wait for a perfect situation to have peace.
That's a setup for the enemy. If you procrastinate your
praise or your peace until your situation is perfect, you'll
never get the peace. Because I'm on my way.
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Up and I'm way down. And it was.
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Different in his time because listen to some of the
things he was dealing with. Verse two, he said, deliver me,
oh Lord, from lying lips. Back in the Bible times,
they had liars. And you know, we've evolved as a species,
but in those days there were rampant lies. You couldn't
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even tell what was truth and what was a lie.
You couldn't even tell if it was their real voice
or not, or if it was really their lips moving.
Or Graham showed me a picture the other day or
a video of some lion jumping to the sky snatching
a baby lion from a bird of prey, and he's like, Dad,
why are you crying? It was like about praying moms
jumping up and grabbing they're young from the talons of
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the enemy. And he saw tear in my eyes. That Dad,
that's Ai. You are crying at Ai. It's not real
but it was powerful and it was good, and you
should look it up when I'm gone preaching. I don't
even know what's real anymore, the man said, because.
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On one hand, watch this I'm going up.
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On one hand, there are good things happening in my life.
On one hand, I'm kind of excited about this new relationship.
On one hand, I'm kind of excited about what I
sensed that God might be moving around. But on the
other hand, there is something heavy. I'm on the way up,
and I'm way down, and I'm on my way to
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the House of God. But there's something waiting for me
at home that I have to deal with. So let
me illustrate this with a picture. Okay, I thought of
how do I break this down? Not only for Graham's
Bible study. Who's wondering, how do I stay in the
youth camp energy year round? You know, kind of all
of us wish we could live in that youth camp
energy all year, or at the very least at the
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Sunday Morning energy year round. If we would all be
as nice to each other in our vehicles as we
are in this church, what the world'll be like. It
doesn't take much to get you acting like you are
not a Christian?
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Does it?
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All I got to do is put you in four
doors with some glass and aluminum, and you forget all
about the presence.
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The Lord is everywhere except your car.
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And in that space all is forgiven. I thought about
it like this. I thought about the song we were
singing earlier. We've got this song that says, I call
God on the mountain, I call God in the valley,
I call God on the good days.
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Don't forget those.
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Sometimes the moments of our victory make us more vulnerable
than the moments of our defeat, because sometimes in the
moment of defeat you're depending on God. Sometimes in the
moments of your victory you pretend like He wasn't the
one who gave it to you. So it's a great song.
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Are y'all enjoying singing it? I call God on the mountain,
I call God in the And then we name everything
where you could call God, because you could call him anywhere,
and you can put anything in there with two syllables,
it'll sing good. I call God in the kitchen, I
call God in the bathroom. You can't say that, yes,
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you can say that the Lord can go where he
wants to, and he can do what he wants. He
gave me a lot of sermons in the bathroom. I
call God everywhere.
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I call God in the shower.
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Some of us that's the only place we sound good singing,
so we might as well call him in there, right.
But here's what I wanted to show you. I wanted
to show you that the mountain in the valleys look
like this. And if you ever go just with the
first graphic please okay, yeah, no, not that one, guys,
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the first one that's hold on, hold on, do the
other one.
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We'll do it like that. That's fine.
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That if you go into a hospital and they check
your heartbeat and it looks like that, the good news
is you're not going to be in the hospital very long.
You go in somewhere else. But that's EKG. This is
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the one I wanted them to put up first, because
this is normal. This is a normal heartbeat. I am
going to say as little about this as possible because
there are nurses and doctors that go to my church,
and I don't want you to judge me. Basically is
telling me about the heartbeat, and it's EKG. And those
waves that you see, those peaks and those valleys.
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That that's what life looks like.
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Yeah, y'all see point R. I call God on the mountain,
But do you see point S.
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I call God in the Come on, be the choir, y'all.
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And both of them are necessary for life to be present,
the ussent and the limit. I had one just the
other day. Man, You know how it happens. You're feeling
so good and you're feeling so much God, and it
takes one text message. One This is how strong my
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faith is. One text message, and I can go from
trusting God to wanting to tear into Okay, Okay, I'm
gonna come back behind the pulpit. I can go from
everything is so wonderful and I love my neighbor and
I love you Jesus. In fact, I think I was
singing and working on a worship lyric when the text
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came through. And as I'm looking for the lyric, here
comes a text, a mean text, a nasty text, and
unnecessary text, and all of a sudden, I felt the
bottom drop out, just like that, and I'm like, where
did you go?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
God? For the next hour, it got in my head.
Has this ever happened to you?
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Y'all are looking at me so confused, just so quick,
so offended. I was so offended that I just I
was having this moment with God, and then boom dropped down.
I went from put it back up there real quick, y'all,
I went from R to S just like that. You
ever gone from R to S?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Just like that. I used to think God was R
and the devil was S.
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But I found out that in between the prayer and
the answer is faith, and faith is the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
You don't see your heart beating. That's what the readout
is showing you that you are still here. Your heart
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is beating while I'm talking, and you're still here. There
are peaks and valleys in your life while you are
journeying and sojourning through this pilgrim experience of being a
human being a person, and you keep thinking it's not normal,
and you keep thinking that you're broken because you think
that Christianity is always riding the high. But the moment
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that you learn that the God who is the God
of this is the God of that, and.
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This is what life looks like.
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It looks like I'm headed up in one.
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Area, and I'm wayed down in another.
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And I'm headed up in one area and I'm way
down in another. And I got one foot up and
I got one foot down. And I'm doing better with
my health, but I'm doing worse in my mind. And
I'm doing better with my money, but I'm doing worse
with my time. And here I am thinking that there's
something wrong with me, when God wanted me to know
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that both steps are ordered by the Lord.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
The one here the one there.
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They are both ordered by the Lord. Bring me my
teaching scream, I gotta teach you about this because the
enemy wants you to think that God.
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Is here, but not here. But without here here does
not happen.
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So this message is designed to help you with your
mind today because you keep thinking, what's wrong with me
that it keeps dropping out, What's wrong with me that
I keep having to.
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Fight for this? What's wrong with me that I keep
having to relearn the same lessons.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
The transformation and renewal of your mind is not a
one time event.
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You have to walk this out. You have to walk
this out. You have to walk this out one moment
at a time. Because another thing I found out. Put
the chart back up.
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Yeah, is that not only are both of those important
for my heart to be not only are both of
those important for me to know God as my shepherd
in the valley so I can praise Him as my
provider on the mountain.
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But all of those things are happening at the same time.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
We used to talk about seasons of blessing and seasons
of burdens, right like, praise God on the mountain and
call God on the mountain, and then when God's blessing
you in season, and then when you're in.
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The valley season.
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If I went around the room today and asked, are
you in a mountain season or a valley season? The
only answer that would be appropriate is yes.
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So let's try it. Class.
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Are you in a mountain season or a valley season?
You mean you can go from the valley to the
mountain in a moment, with a text, with a thought.
Because put the thing back up, y'all. I am so
not done with this yet. There's so much in this.
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I don't know if the other campuses can see I'm
directing the canus today.
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I got to get this word across.
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There is something to be said for seasons where God
answers your prayers and you're looking at it. There's something
to be said for seasons when you see no proof
that He heard your prayer, and you're going.
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By faith not sight.
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But what I realized looking at that heartbeat is that
those events are not months apart, those are moments apart. See,
I thought God will bless you real good for about
a month, and you'll be on the mountain for a month.
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But God doesn't bless you a month at a time.
He blesses you a moment at a time. And it
is not only.
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The seasons that we need to celebrate, and not only
the seasons.
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That we need to be strategic. The Lord said to
tell you think seconds, not seasons. Seconds not seasons. Seconds.
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As a matter of fact, this chart that is on
the screen right now, this chart is showing you what
happens not in one second in your heart, but in
a millisecond.
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I had to study that. I know some certain things.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I know that a season is made up of about
three months. I know that a month is made up
of about four weeks. I know that a week is
made up of about seven days. I know that he
is made up of well, not about seven days exactly
seven days, let's be clear about it. And those days
are made up of twenty four hours, and an hour
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is made up of sixty minutes, and a minute.
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Is made up of sixty seconds.
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But to get to a millisecond, I had to find
out that is one one thousandth of a second.
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That makes up a minute.
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That makes up an hour, that makes up a day,
that makes up a week, that makes up a month,
that makes up a season, And you keep trying to
handle things a season at a time. When God says
I am a God who beats inside of your heart,
not every second. Take that second and slice it down
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to one thousand, and I am in every millisecond. So
the reason I praise him isn't because I'm on the
mountain NonStop, but it's that God can do a miracle
in a millisecond.
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Yeah, set it, I got a.
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Millisecond miracle working way making, coming in keeping, never leave.
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Me, never forsaking God.
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Give your neighbor five high fives and tell him he
could do it in a millisecond.
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Doesn't this make sense to us? Don't we know now? Why? Wow?
I could go from the mountain up here to the.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Valley and for everybody who's self righteous, eye bliss the
Lord at all times.
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His phrase shall continually be on my mouth.
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Okay, Moses, when you come off the mountain, make sure
you cover your face because.
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You're not always shining.
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And I can interview your family members and find out
more details if I need to, But please be honest.
I'm on the mountain for a minute, but most of
us are one spilled cup of coffee on our Khaki
breeches away from saying the name of the Lord in
a different way because it is not a one time event.
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And if you can go from the mountain to the
valley in a millisecond, I wonder, can God bring you
from the valley? Come on, let's turn this thing around.
Let's turn this thing aroud. Think of the goodness of
Jesus and oh that He's done for you, and command
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your soul cry up, hollyah, thank you God for saving me. Yeah,
come on, baseball tease, praise God with me.
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I'm glad you are in the house. You had to
be here. God wanted you to get this word. So
what it is.
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When you're here, you're like, oh, that's God. The sun
is back to some one hundred and twenty. I am
not going to get to all this all week unless.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Y'all would like to stay until about three.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Damn, that did not sound convincing. I'll plan on wrapping up,
he said verse one. In my distress, I called to
the Lord, and he answered me past tense, circle answered justin.
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How'd he do that?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
He not even here in this room, but he hears
what I said, and even though I can't see him,
he can do well.
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I asked him to do from a room where I
cannot see him with my eyes, he said.
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I called to the Lord and I couldn't see him,
but he answered me past tense. Well, if he answered you,
then what is verse two all about? Deliver me, o Lord,
from lying lips from a deceitful tongue. Why does he
say in verse one? He answered me, and go on
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through the next six verses to describe a problem that
is still waiting.
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For him at home. I tell you next week, y'all
want it today, all right? I'm not like the Lord.
I won't make you wait, all right. The lie is this.
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You know God is with you, but the devil wants
you in this loop, not here now. In the Old Testament,
the temple was in Jerusalem. Right, we are the temple
of the Spirit of God. Now God is not in
this room until you show up.
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Yes he is.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He's in the empty room. You know what I mean.
God does not fill buildings. He feels people. But in
the Old Testament construct the glory of the Lord would
fill the temple, so they had to go to a
location to worship.
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So now get the contrast with me.
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He's going, I'm headed here to worship, but I'm holding
some stuff as I do, and I'm in between. I'm
in between a battle and a blessing all in one heartbeat.
You keep thinking the season is gonna change and it's
going to be all mountains. I hope not, because then
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you're dead. Then your faith will flat life. And God's
going to give you some of these. And He's gonna
give you some of these, and you will have to
learn to praise Him and worship him in the same
heartbeat that your heart is broken, and praise him and
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call him holy anyway the enemy, I say, not here.
You can't praise him here, Not in this hospital, not
in this prison. No, this rehab. When you get out, yeah,
when you get out, you can give a testimony. You
can give a testimony right now, because he's the master
of the millisecond.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When I put it online, I might call it the
master of the millisecond.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He doesn't just command the times and the seasons and
creation from eternity. Not only is call and response built
into the cadence of creation, but in this moment, in
this heart, he's shown me goo gooka gooka, I'm all
of it.
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Gock goca gooka.
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I reveal myself in the rhythms of the ups, the downs,
the ebbs, the flows, the yes, the nose, the leavings,
the comings. I'm in all of it. It's all me.
I'm in all of it. And the devil will say, well,
God is not in this, not here, not here. And
when he says not here, have your confidence like the
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Psalmist did, because what's so beautiful about the Psalm is
that he says, God answered my prayer, but he doesn't
even see the proof yet. The answer is in past tense,
but the trouble is in present tense. But he knows
Wat's just here's your new loop. The devil is telling
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me God is not here. But I tell the devil.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
He heard.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Last week I preached on he answered, And in that
wonderful when the Lord answers, when you see your kid
leading the Bible study, it's a beautiful thing. But between
the prayer and the Bible study is a stage called
he heard, and I don't have the answer yet. It's
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not here. The answer isn't here. I'm speaking to somebody
today and the answer isn't here. The healing isn't here,
the result isn't here, the reconciliation isn't here, the proof
isn't here. And the enemy, he keeps trying to tell
you what's not here. But in this moment it is
so vital and important for the health of your heart
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and the life of your faith that every time the
enemy points to an area and says God didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Do that yet, how can you trust him? That hasn't
happened yet, And you are not whole.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
This is not complete yet, and so you cannot call
yourself a real Christian. Every time he says not here,
you remind yourself. But He hears me. When I pray.
He heard me. When I prayed, he heard me. He's
not hard of hearing. God hears me. He heard me.
There is a space between prayed and answered called heard.
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And when you know God hears you, you have confidence.
First John chapter four, verse fourteen and fifteen says something
very interesting that if we know Verse John chapter five,
verse fourteen says something very interesting. This is the confidence
that we have in approaching God. If we ask anything
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according to his will, shout it.
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He hears us. Let's read it again.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And if we have confidence in approaching God, we ask
anything according to his will, he hears us. I can't
hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us
better than Siri. He hears us better than the people
advertising to you on your phone. When you're talking about
lawnmowers and all of a sudden, a weed eater shows
up on your phone, he hears us. That's why God
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spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've
got Graham. But he did not tell me the timeline,
and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows.
And nobody knows what the future holds, and nobody knows
what there will be in the next season. But I'm
not serving God season by season. I'm serving him step
by step, second by second. And since he's the master
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of the millisecond. I can trust him right now and
know that he heard me. Tell three people he heards you.
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Tell him he heard you the first time. I'm gonna
say that again, he heard you the first time.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Sometimes you keep asking him to take things away, and
he leaves them.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He heard you.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He just isn't gonna take it away right now because
he's gonna teach you something with it, and after he
gets done teaching you with it, you will thank.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Him for it.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
But that does not mean that it's fun to go
through the season called heard. Have you ever left somebody
on red on a text message? Have you ever left
somebody unheard in a conversation. My family picks on Holly
all the time. They'll say, Mom will leave you unheard,
meaning that they're just asking her what they want, telling
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her what they want like she's an uber driver, telling
her what they want, like she's some kind of servant
to their every desire, and she's.
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Just looking right back at him.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
And they'll say, Mom will leave you unheard, And I'm
thinking to myself, it's not that she didn't hear you,
it's just that she doesn't have to. She doesn't have
to do everything you ask. Look at first John, Chapter five,
verse fifteen.
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This is powerful.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
The Bible says, if we know that he hears us
whatever we ask, we know that we have what we.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Asked of him. But verse fourteen gives a condition.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
It says, if we ask anything according to his will,
he hears us. And this is the part we don't
know because we think this is always his will. What
if this is too.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Thank you so much. You don't know how much I
needed that encouragement. I'm gonna get your.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Seat on the front row next week, all right? He
says he heard me, and I can't really describe it
to you like I want to. But another one of
our songs says I sought the Lord and he answered.
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But there is a part that says I sought the
Lord and he heard, and he heard.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
So hot.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I'm dropping stuff here.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
And I realized that when he hears my prayer, when
he hears my needs, when he hears my do you know?
The Bible says that God even speaks the language called groaning.
One scripture says that God can interpret your groans in
the Holy spirit, will turn them into a prayer. God
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hears all those sounds you make. One Psalmis said I
love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know
that God speaks grief, God speaks grown, God speaks pain
that you can't express in a word. God gets in
that stuff too. And the devil will say not here,
And God will say.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Right here, in your tears, in your fears, in your.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Sorrow, in your worry, in your anxiety, right there, I'm
coming right here, right here, right.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Here, new loot, because he hears.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
And what I learned while I'm waiting for the answer
is to trust that what he hasn't answered.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
He's holding. He's holding the Bible says the Lord, to
keep your tears in a jar. He's holding.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
The Bible says that he will keep your prayers in
a bowl like incense, like a fray grass. He's holding it,
and he heard you. And sometimes he's holding it because
he's got two hands. And sometimes he needs to do
this for you, and he will, and sometimes he needs
to do this for you, an he will, And he's
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the same whether the hand is.
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Like this or like this job.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
And we don't like to be left unheard. We definitely
don't like to be left on hold. How long will
you give somebody before you hang up on hold?
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But you don't really have that option with God, do you.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
You can't press star one three to speak to a supervisor.
He ain't gotten a supervisor. You ask for God's supervisor,
You're gonna.
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Get God beside him, there is no other. So what
are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (43:22):
I'm trusting that he's holding I got Graham. What else
are you going to do with your kid? But give
him back to God? What else are you going to
do with this thing? You can't control it anyway, you
might as well give it to him. I promise you
can walk up better if you let him hold.
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It at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
You can go to work better, even if you don't
like the job, if you let him hold the part
you can't control.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
So I realize everybody say he heard Do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Do you believe he heard you? He heard you? And
I don't profess to know why God does what he does.
He's my supervisor. I can't speak to that. But what
I can see is times in my life that he
was holding a problem for me. And I cannot only
see times where he was holding a problem.
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But I can look back.
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If I look back, I can't always see it when
I'm in it.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Because it's this and it's that.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
But if I look back over my life, sometimes I
see how he.
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Used a problem to answer a prayer because he's holding both.
He's holding both.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Sometimes the stuff I was asking him to take away
is the stuff that he used to give me grace
for the thing that I didn't know what I was
going to do about.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Am I right about it?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Sometimes God sends a problem to answer a prayer. But
if you can realize that he is big enough to
hold both and you're not, and.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
You don't have to be.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
But I called to the Lord and he answered my prayer.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
And the proof that he answered it isn't that the
problem went away.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
The proof that he answered it is.
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That he can. He came.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
He didn't just give the answer. Get ready to shout.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
He is the answer.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
So not only am I saying, listen to me, Not
only am I saying to every person who's praying about
a situation that he heard everybody's shout. He heard, And
not only am I saying that he's holding everybody say
he's holding Yeah, he's holding it.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
He's holding it, he holds it all together.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Not you when Chad was up here earlier, I know
you didn't get to see it online, but he said
those exact words to you. I was like, thank you
for the confirmation. God, this is the word somebody needs.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You're not holding it together.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
He is, And all things work together for the good
of them.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
That love the Lord.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
So it's this, and it's this, and it's this, and
it's this, and it's.
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This and it's this.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
And they're not a season apart, and they're not a
month apart, and they're not a minute apart. It is
second by second, bless the Lord. It is second by second.
The Lord has been good to you. It is second
by second. His mercy endures forever. That's why I couldn't
believe when I told you after your dad's death. I
didn't know what to say to you, and all I
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could think of to say was you have one job
breathe next breath.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
When your son died and I cried.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
On the porch and I felt so incompetent to advise
you at that moment because what would I do, And
through my tears, I told you one job, next breath.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I got off the phone with him, and I.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Left your house feeling like such a failure, because that's
all I could think of to say. But he told me,
and he told me that that simple thing next breath
was enough to get them through the hardest season of
their life, one millisecond at a time. I thought I
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failed when I told him that. But he heard, he heard,
he heard, he heard, he heard what you didn't say,
he heard what you don't.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Know how to say.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Still, he heard how disappointed you were and how they
responded to you and didn't reciprocate after all you.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Did for them. He heard what they said about you
that wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
He heard, he heard what they said about you that
was true that you wish wasn't. He heard, he heard
what you said about yourself that wasn't so.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
He heard, he heard what you said about yourself that
was so. But he speaks a better word. He heard.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
I'm here to remind somebody today that he heard, and
he's holding. The God of seasons is the god of
seconds and milliseconds. And I realize why I'm alive now,
because my first point is he heard, and my second
point is he's holding, and my third point is.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
It's him. Y'all can't decide whether to write that down
or clap your hands. I see a lot of conflict.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
In the in the crowd is him, and sometimes you
don't recognize as him because it feels like this. The
Sommers said, Man, I got some stuff waiting for me
back home, don't we all? I hate when y'all go
fake on me. Don't we have some stuff waiting for
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us at home? Every bed is not going to be
made up in your house when you go home, just
because you made up your mind to worship God today
and everybody that's around you hear this message like you did,
and they are not going to encourage you in your dream.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Go for it. The Lord is with you.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
He said, I got some lion tongues, and if God
doesn't step in, but see he did. Now I realized
why he said answered in past tense, because the answer
to his prayer wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (49:22):
The answer was him?
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Remember what Graham said, He said, I want Dad on
my birthday. He didn't ask for a cake, but he's
gonna get a cake. He didn't ask for any of
those things.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
That I've got wrapped back there. Let's be honest that
Holly's got wrapped back there. See I am the gift today.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I don't have to wrap anything, just put on a
black hoodie and preach. But since you called for me,
if you need something, I got it. And since I'm here,
and since you're here, what do you need, you can
have it. Oh I'm not saying God to give you
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everything that you greed.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
I'm saying He will meet all your needs.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
According So if you need another one, I got you
because I'm here.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Because when you said I want Dad.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
You got everything that Dad has with Dad. This is
the confidence, not that the answer came, but the one
who is the answer. Pastor Mickey used to say, I
went to school, and when you know the answer, you
raise your hand. I wonder, is there anybody in here who.
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Knows the answer. And his name is God. His name
is El Shadaid, his name.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Is Helllly'd, his name is Jehovah Shirah.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And your father has what's it asked for.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
It's him that is the answer to this. It is
not when it goes away that you can say he
answered me.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
It's when he shows.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
Up to remind you that if you make your bet
in Hell, I will be your bunk mate. If you
make your bet in a bad decision, I'll.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Start breaking prison doors to get you out.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
If you make your bet in depression. I'll give you
a burst of joy in this moment, and as long
as you're breathing, I want you to know that God's God, Graham,
God's God.
Speaker 5 (52:00):
You.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
God's got this.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
I fought chills on my What do you call these traps?
When I said it, God's God.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
This no pastor not here. I made too many mistakes. Yeah,
it's Him that shows up in this and in this.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's Him. That's what life looks like. How can I
ride the spiritual high? I don't know. When you figure
it out, write a book, we'll all buy it.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
We will make you a New York Times bestselling author
every day for the rest of our life.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
But in the meantime, most of us have to look.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
For God in the lows, wow and to praise Him
with the next breath. He said, I'm going to worship,
but I'm dealing with some things back home.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
I wonder is that you today? It's to your feet.
I'm here to worship. I'm here to worship.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
How many of you are here to worship today?
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Hey, don't raise your hand.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
If you didn't come to worship, if somebody made you come,
don't raise your hand. It's all right, but even in
the chat say I'm here to worship.
Speaker 5 (53:20):
Okay, what you have to do is get this word
to go, because what good is it for you to
go to Jerusalem for a minute if you're.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Not going to invite God into the low places too?
Speaker 1 (53:43):
I remember a Bible story.
Speaker 3 (53:45):
It's normally for Easter, but it doesn't have to be
where this woman named Mary Magdalene who had had seven
demons and Jesus had cast them out of her mind.
Tradition says she was a prostitute. Extraal evidence for that,
the tradition will label a lot.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Of things wrong on it.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
Bible says that she went to the tomb of Jesus
early in the morning while it was still dark, and
Peter and John were having his arm wrestling match to
see who could see him first, and he wasn't there.
What would be like to get to the tomb and
an angel tell you not here? And what do you
do when you look for Jesus in the last place
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you saw.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Him and you feel like he's not here?
Speaker 3 (54:35):
What do you do when you experience God in one
season of your life and it was so high and
now he's got you down here? I loved the Word
of God because it helps me get a new way
of thinking about those moments for myself.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
Hey, I go through them too.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
I got flipped off on Friday on the road.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
In my jeep wind the roof down. You know what
the roofdown means.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
That means easy access for reciprocation, and the Lord helped
me so much. Holly said, don't look at this guy
because here what happened. Well, that was such a tender moment,
and I feel like I need to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Real quick to make it practical.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
He's driving this big pickup truck right and I already
let two people out ahead of him, and it's a
busy intersection. I don't know how you feel about good
Samaritan rules on the road, but I think if you
let more than two people go out and I have
to stop behind you and the light is green, you
are no longer a good Samaritan.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
You are overdoing it.
Speaker 3 (55:39):
Okay, you just do what the light says and let
the Lord work out when they get out. You can
let one, maybe two out, but two is the max. Okay,
You're not helping anymore. You're overdoing it.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
That's the loudest joke, shout it all day. So now listen,
I let not one.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
But two people out, but he thought he should get
out too, But no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
We got to go.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
The light's green is busy, so I don't And Ally said, ooh,
don't look over there at him.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
He is mad at you. I said, don't look over
at who.
Speaker 3 (56:04):
And he had that that middle finger.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Up in his truck and the Lord.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
I I called on the Lord, and he answered, and
he told me what to do. I stuck my finger
back up at him, this one right out my top
of my roof.
Speaker 1 (56:23):
You know how good that felt?
Speaker 3 (56:25):
I said, hey, yeah, praise the Lord.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
And I drove on to my house and.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
I checked to make sure he wasn't following me, because
sometimes the Lord will call you to answer something a
little different than you normally would have, and take but
a milliseconds just to go from what you wanted to
do to hey, boy, I even can see you walking
around this week just doing this to situations.
Speaker 1 (56:56):
I can see it.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
I can see it in my mind, putting them up.
Turned to three people say hey, hey, hey body, Yeah,
I say, the renewal of your mind is moment by moment.
It is not on this row on Sunday. It is
on the road on Monday that it will be tested.
Did you get this message? Yeah, And it is sometimes
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in the place where you expected God to be that
he is not, that he shows you the greatest revelation
of who he is. So the Bible says in John
chapter twenty, verse eleven that as she stood there at
the tomb, crying, and as she wept, she bent over
to look into the tomb and saw two angels in.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
White seated where Jesus' body had been. Past tense. He's
not here, He's not here. There was one at the head,
the other at the foot.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
They asked her, woman, why are you crying? She said,
They take my Lord away? And I don't I don't
know where he is. I don't know where is God
in this. I don't know where the answer is. I
don't know what the right thing to do is. I
don't know what doctor to.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
Talk to next. I don't know what to do about it.
I don't know if I should call him. I don't
know if I should block him. I don't know what
to do. I don't know what God wants me to do.
Speaker 3 (58:15):
I'm just kind of like Honestly, I thought faith was
like this all of my life, trying to get God
to do what I want him to do, And now
realize it's more like this.
Speaker 1 (58:25):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (58:28):
And in the dark outside the tomb, as she's weeping,
she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. Oh wait,
it's him, but she doesn't realize that it was Jesus.
And he asked her, woman, why are you crying? Not
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only a savior who speaks the language of tears can
ask a question like that. Who is it you are
looking for? Jesus is so funny who you're looking for?
Thinking he was the gardener and he kind of is.
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She said, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell
me where you have put him, and I will get him.
And Jesus said to her Mary, and she turned toward
him and cried out in air mag rabb oneye, which
means teacher. And Jesus said, do not hold on to me,
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for I have not yet ascended.
Speaker 1 (59:36):
To the Father.
Speaker 3 (59:39):
Go instead to my brothers and tell them I am
ascending to my Father.
Speaker 1 (59:43):
And your father, to my God and your God.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
This is the gospel that God in human form died
for your sin, descended to the grave, defeated death, and
Hell awoke, holding the keys to death. He in the grave,
and he heard when you called to him for salvation.
And he's holding the cues of death, Hell and the graves.
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And it is him in life, in death, on.
Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
The mountain, in the valley, it's him. It's him. Yes,
it's God. You're called on him. He's here.
Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
That's God making your heart feat that's God giving you
the next breath. That's God holding your tomorrow. That's God
taking care of your knees.
Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
That's God. That's him. Give him a praise.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Like you would give him if you knew he was here,
if you knew.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
He was worthy, if you knew he was holy, if
you knew he was holding your life.
Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
So now you know why it says, I call God
on the mountain, I call God in the valley, I
call God.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
It's all God. Oh God, just don't even need anything. Lord, just.
Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
I just love you because you love me first. And
I'm so thankful that you're here with me, that you
got up out of that grave.
Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
So I call you when it's good, I call yall here,
I call you down there. Your Godwin is gone, Your
Godwin is hard. So I calling.
Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Today just to say I love you. I just to
say I love you. Now listen. I don't know if
they got a broken heart, but.
Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
He's a healer.
Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
And I don't know what you need.
Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
But he's a provider, and I don't know what you're frighten.
Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Special thanks to those of you who give generously to
this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.
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