May 27, 2025 • 17 mins
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In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
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Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So if God feels distant to you right now, you're
not alone.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All of us, even in our strongest moments, have this
place in us where it's like God. I wish I
had a sign right now. I just feel uneasy. I
don't feel at rest. I just feel that's all completely
human and completely normal. Sometimes God uses distance in our
feelings to call.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Us deeper in our faith.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I thought it was important to say that right now,
because while we're having to keep physical distance, I believe
that God is calling us to spiritual depth.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
See.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't want to just get through it. I'm tired
of just getting through it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What's the point. Let's just all go to heaven right now.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
If all we're going to do is get through it,
they gotta harp with my name on it up there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Come on, I sing like Zeke in heaven.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Just let me get to heaven and get my glorified
vocal chords. Let me get my eternal larynx in heaven
and just go ahead and glorify the Lord with the No. No, no, God,
don't just get me through it. Teach me there's something
about distance. Graham said, why did God do all the
(01:12):
miracles back then?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Now, it's not that God does less miracles. It's just
we see him better in the distance. We see it
better in the distance. It's like, God, why won't you
do a miracle while you're watching me preach on your phone?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
This is a miracle, you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
See, Like, right now in this moment, take a breath
is a miracle. Think about all the sin that he canceled.
We're talking about everything that was canceled. I'll tell you
what was canceled. The record of wrong that stood against me,
that he nailed to the cross, and I bear.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It no more. So it is well with my soul.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I looked at my portfolio for finances, it wasn't well.
But then I looked at my soul and I found
out He's still with me, and he's in me, And
there's some kind of hope that comes rising up to
the surface. When God feels distant, he isn't. He's positioning
you for a miracle. You know what's really cool about
(02:12):
the Ark. It was called the ark of the Testimony,
the Ark of Yahweh, and the Ark of the Covenant.
And that's really cool because in a time when they
were going through something they'd never been through before you
hear me.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're going through something you've never been through before. We
all are. We're all going through it. Be nice.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We're all going through it. Think about it before you post.
We're all going through it. We are all going through
it in different ways. And maybe God is going to
make you a miracle for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You thought about that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
See, because in moments where we're going through places we've
never been through before, it feels like God is distant.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He isn't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's showing us what can't be canceled, shutting down everything
right now. They are shutting down everything right now. I'm
waiting on Holly to close the kitchen. I hope she
doesn't cancel the kitchen, but I don't know. Everything is
shut every time I turn around. I'm waiting to turn
(03:17):
on my phone in this canceled Instagram told me to
stay home.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Everything is being canceled.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So and it's so cool that as God is bringing
them across the Jordan, the arc of the Covenant, that's
what it's called the covenants. That's not your agreement with God,
that's God's agreement with you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let's be honest. If it was dependent on the first one,
if it was dependent on you, you wouldn't make it through.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If it was dependent on me to have perfect faith,
I wouldn't make it through. But I'm so grateful that
when I'm going through what I can't understand, what I've
never been through before, God gives me something to look
at that represents what cannot be taken away, His oath,
his covenant, his blood. Watch this support me in the
whelming flood. That's the old hymn from the Methodist Church.
(04:04):
You know what I found myself doing the other day,
I found myself breaking out the arc, the old stuff,
the old hymns. I started quoting hymns around my house
the other day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Some of us.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We're going through a new thing, so we need to
break out the old stuff. You have not prayed in
three months. You might want to pray a little bit
right now. You have not been very grateful lately. Now
would be a good time to bless the Lord. Now
be a good time for Martin Luther to come.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
To Elevation Church.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A mighty fortress is our God? A bullwark? What a bulwark?
You hadn't talked about bullwarks in a long time. Well,
I need a bulwark right now. I'm fighting a big devil.
I need a mighty fortress. I need a safe place.
I need a shelter. God is with me, Joshua told
the people Verse five, consecrate yourselves. Watch this first. This
(04:59):
is the whole thing. Right, y'all thought I was preaching.
I wasn't preaching yet. This is the sermon. Consecrate yourselves.
That's your part. Not isolation, consecration, It's just all in
how you look at it. I wonder what God is
preparing us for right now. I wonder what He is mending,
(05:21):
Like he mended Peter's nets after he stopped fishing.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
In those moments, God is mending.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I wonder what he's mending in our hearts in this
moment when we just stopped for a minute to be
still and know he is God, and he'll be exalted
above the heavens. The horse and his rider he's thrown
into the sea. All the old stuff comes back, and
see here it comes. It's the convergence of what God
has done, what he will do. But it's all found
in His presence. Presence, presence, presence. Consecrate yourselves. Give me
(05:54):
the verse for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Among you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You see how clear that is in that verse. God's
got a job and you've got a job. You see
that word tomorrow that's on God's job description. You see
it in the scripture, put it in the chat. I
need you to say this. I need you to say it.
(06:23):
Tomorrow is God's job. Tomorrow is God's job. So here's
what we have to do. We have to trust God
with tomorrow's problems and embrace today's process.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Consecrate yourself. That's today's process.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's cleansing, that's setting apart, that's knowing He is God.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's devotion, that's this.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop coming
to church just because I can't physically get there. In fact,
I'm gonna use this time. I'm gonna start sharing the
gospel war with people.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm gonna make the devil so mad he's gonna he's
gonna have to let me out the house.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm gonna start forwarding every cliff, every sermon, every song.
We put this song out the other day called the Blessing,
And the reason we put it out is because you know,
God gave us this song and I don't know how
to stop the virus. But I know how to spread
the blessing. And so I have a job. God has
a job. What is God's job. God's job is tomorrow.
(07:21):
That's like when I went to Australia the first time.
Is anybody watching from Australia right now? Yeah, I see
you lighting up the comments. I see Cheryl Eric Brandon,
I see you from the Ukraine. Tomorrow is God's job.
But here's what's awesome. Somebody watching in Australia and it's
already tomorrow. It's already tomorrow. The first time I went
to Australia to preach, I got off the plane because
(07:44):
I was stupid and went straight to the stage to preach.
But before I went to the stage, I landed at
like ten am, and then I was preaching at twelve pm,
so I just had time to take a shower. And
just before I started to head over to the arena
where I was preaching in Sydney, I facetimed the kids.
This was years ago, so the kids were real little,
(08:05):
and I facetimed them because my room.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Had this beautiful view.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Pastor Phil Pringle put me up in this beautiful room
and I could see the I could see the Sydney
Harbor and I wanted the kids to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And so the sun was shining so pretty over the
over the harbor, and I took.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
A FaceTime and I say, hey, kids, I just wanted
to say hey to you from tomorrow. And I was
telling them how we're across the international date line. I
was telling them how we h well, it's tomorrow in Australia,
but it's nighttime there. And remember they were real little,
and so Holly was tucking them into bed and they're
all gathered around the FaceTime and everything like that. I
think Abby was already asleep, she was real little. And
(08:42):
then Graham and Elijah and we talked for a minute.
I said, I gotta go preach now, and Elijah interrupted me, says, hey, Dad,
before you go, will you tell us what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It was like he had this moment, You're already there.
You're my father.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See. I gotta let I let I gotta let God
be in my tomorrow and consecrate myself today.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's all I can do. I cannot predict the path.
All I can do is walk in it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And yet the beauty of the passage is this if
you will consecrate yourself today. God is already in your tomorrow.
So all this how long is it gonna last? That's
God's job. And you know what, I thank God for
everybody who is helping in a practical way around the
clock to bring remedies and solutions to our nation for
(09:38):
this virus. We are praying for you, We celebrate you,
we love you. One of the good things that's going
to come out of this is we are going to
appreciate people that we used to think we're unimportant. Who
are going to be the very people that God uses
to stop the virus are the people. It's not going
to be just celebrities who we've always been used to celebrating.
It's gonna be people who are standing on the front
(09:59):
line like those priests did. God told the priest you
go stand in the middle of the Jordan. That must
have been scary. They had to go stand. God was
bringing them through. God's going to bring us through. But see,
it's so important that we don't just get so focused
(10:19):
on getting through it. We don't get what God wants
us to get out of it. And God says stop,
He makes me lie down. God is my God. He
he told him to camp before crossing over. And then
if you can go all the way to verse fifteen,
I want to show you one more thing. I'm closing.
Is this worth helping you? If it's helping you, just
(10:40):
put something on the screen right now. Put a heart,
Put a purple heart, put a orange heart, put a
red heart, Put three pink hearts. I'll take anything right now, Holly,
is this good? This is the message God gave me.
And I was going to approach it the other way.
I was going to approach it the other way. I
was going to say, we're positioned for a miracle. But
I thought, you know what if I call it that,
people are going to think it has to be something big.
(11:03):
You know, they're going to think, oh, when this virus
is gone, that's a miracle. What about the miracle in
the middle of it? And that's what my attention was
drawn to him. And before I go, I want to
show you Joshua with three point fifteen. When God says
stop because the Bible says that the Jordan is at
flood stage, all dering harvest, Well that's a sermon right there.
(11:28):
God didn't bring them through some shallow water, some little
problem the size of the problem creates the opportunity. So
when I say we're positioned for a miracle, it doesn't
mean the problem gets smaller. And when I say we're
positioned for a miracle, it doesn't always mean that God
is going to do something we see as really big.
(11:49):
Sometimes we have to see it from a distance. Can
you imagine happening to follow that little arc? The arc
of the covenant, the covenant, the covenant. God keeps this covenant.
And I have to remember that right now.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If he said it is sure, if he promised it,
it's rock solid.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
God promised me the grace for today and the hope
for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I gotta let him do his job.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Because God is with me, not just to get me
through it. He's my guy. He's with me in it.
That's the message. That's why it's called the Arc of
His Presence. Consecrate yourself today.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Be present.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
God's calling us the greater presence, not less. Be careful
that you don't sit there and go like, oh, I'm
so connected. I'm so connected. I'm so connected. Connection is
about depth, not about bread, And in this moment, I
believe God wants to connect with us in a deep way,
deep way, and do a deep work in our lives.
(12:59):
He will do an amazing things among you, things you
don't even know to ask for. Ephesians three twenty. God,
give them a miracle. There's a mom right now that
needs a miracle. There's someone who can't get to their
mom or dad. They're not able to be with them physically.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They need a miracle from You. Give it to them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But not when it's over. While I'm in it. There's
a miracle in it. Because the Bible says that the
Jordan is at floodstage all during harvest. There was no
way that they could have crossed it on their own.
Go ahead and begin to minister lj Yet, as soon
as the priests who carried the art reached the Jordan
(13:40):
and their feet touched the water's edge, the water upstream
stopped flowing. When God said stop, The water was cut
off when God said stop.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You see it. When God says stop, the Jordan river
had to obey him. When Jesus said stop, the storm
had to cease.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But before he stopped what was happening outside the boat,
he had to stop.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What was happening inside their heart.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I believe God is saying stop today to the terrorist
of anxiety that had been ruining your imagination and interrupting
your rest. It said, as soon as their feet touched,
the water from upstream stopped flowing. And when God said stop,
the water that was in front of them, the thing
(14:31):
that was keeping them separated stopped flowing and piled up
in a heap a great distance away. I love the
word of God. It's in the distance. See God's going
to keep it at a distance. God is going to
get you through this. And He is using distance right
now as a gift to call us closer to himself.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you see it. It's the revelation right there in
the text.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And it stopped flowing opposite Jericho, verse seventeen, Thank you
for your word. Lord, And the priest who carried the
ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What did they do?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on
dry ground. Get sick, because we're gonna worship in a minute.
We don't worship when we get through hard things. We
worship while.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We're in them.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And stood on dry ground while all Israel passed by,
until the whole nation had completed the crossing.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
On dry ground Oh, yeah, we're going to get through this.
We're going to get through this. That's not the question.
The question is why did the priest stop in the middle.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
See, God had told Joshua was something very important that
he's been speaking to me. It's not just that you
get through it, it's that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You take something from it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
When the priest stopped, God said, stop right in the middle,
stop right now, and say, this is the day the
Lord has made. We can't take things for granted anymore, y'all.
This morning is a miracle, His mercies are a miracle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We can't take it for granted anymore more.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So God says, stop in the middle of it, and
stop projecting, and stop living in what.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It was and worrying about what it will be. Stop
right here in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And they each took out a stone, and they carried
it to the other side.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So I declare over your life today. Now. I want
you to receive this right now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't care if you're watching this with five other
people and three of them are eating pancakes. One of
them's on their phone. This word is for you. It's
for you. God is saying stop. There has been a
spirit of fear that has been washing over you, has
been keeping you from your piece, has been robbing you
of your joy. You've been living in a fictional tomorrow.
(16:48):
And right now God says, stop and make the decision.
I'm going to trust God in it, and I'm not
going to miss the miracle of today. I'm living in tomorrow. Hey,
thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to this
channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream,
and share this video with a friend, and don't forget
(17:10):
you can join me live every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Thanks again for watching.
So if God feels distant to you right now, you're
not alone.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All of us, even in our strongest moments, have this
place in us where it's like God. I wish I
had a sign right now. I just feel uneasy. I
don't feel at rest. I just feel that's all completely
human and completely normal. Sometimes God uses distance in our
feelings to call.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Us deeper in our faith.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I thought it was important to say that right now,
because while we're having to keep physical distance, I believe
that God is calling us to spiritual depth.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
See.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't want to just get through it. I'm tired
of just getting through it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What's the point. Let's just all go to heaven right now.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
If all we're going to do is get through it,
they gotta harp with my name on it up there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Come on, I sing like Zeke in heaven.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Just let me get to heaven and get my glorified
vocal chords. Let me get my eternal larynx in heaven
and just go ahead and glorify the Lord with the No. No, no, God,
don't just get me through it. Teach me there's something
about distance. Graham said, why did God do all the
(01:12):
miracles back then?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Now, it's not that God does less miracles. It's just
we see him better in the distance. We see it
better in the distance. It's like, God, why won't you
do a miracle while you're watching me preach on your phone?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
This is a miracle, you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
See, Like, right now in this moment, take a breath
is a miracle. Think about all the sin that he canceled.
We're talking about everything that was canceled. I'll tell you
what was canceled. The record of wrong that stood against me,
that he nailed to the cross, and I bear.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It no more. So it is well with my soul.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I looked at my portfolio for finances, it wasn't well.
But then I looked at my soul and I found
out He's still with me, and he's in me, And
there's some kind of hope that comes rising up to
the surface. When God feels distant, he isn't. He's positioning
you for a miracle. You know what's really cool about
(02:12):
the Ark. It was called the ark of the Testimony,
the Ark of Yahweh, and the Ark of the Covenant.
And that's really cool because in a time when they
were going through something they'd never been through before you
hear me.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're going through something you've never been through before. We
all are. We're all going through it. Be nice.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We're all going through it. Think about it before you post.
We're all going through it. We are all going through
it in different ways. And maybe God is going to
make you a miracle for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You thought about that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
See, because in moments where we're going through places we've
never been through before, it feels like God is distant.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
He isn't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's showing us what can't be canceled, shutting down everything
right now. They are shutting down everything right now. I'm
waiting on Holly to close the kitchen. I hope she
doesn't cancel the kitchen, but I don't know. Everything is
shut every time I turn around. I'm waiting to turn
(03:17):
on my phone in this canceled Instagram told me to
stay home.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Everything is being canceled.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So and it's so cool that as God is bringing
them across the Jordan, the arc of the Covenant, that's
what it's called the covenants. That's not your agreement with God,
that's God's agreement with you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let's be honest. If it was dependent on the first one,
if it was dependent on you, you wouldn't make it through.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If it was dependent on me to have perfect faith,
I wouldn't make it through. But I'm so grateful that
when I'm going through what I can't understand, what I've
never been through before, God gives me something to look
at that represents what cannot be taken away, His oath,
his covenant, his blood. Watch this support me in the
whelming flood. That's the old hymn from the Methodist Church.
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You know what I found myself doing the other day,
I found myself breaking out the arc, the old stuff,
the old hymns. I started quoting hymns around my house
the other day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Some of us.
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We're going through a new thing, so we need to
break out the old stuff. You have not prayed in
three months. You might want to pray a little bit
right now. You have not been very grateful lately. Now
would be a good time to bless the Lord. Now
be a good time for Martin Luther to come.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
To Elevation Church.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A mighty fortress is our God? A bullwark? What a bulwark?
You hadn't talked about bullwarks in a long time. Well,
I need a bulwark right now. I'm fighting a big devil.
I need a mighty fortress. I need a safe place.
I need a shelter. God is with me, Joshua told
the people Verse five, consecrate yourselves. Watch this first. This
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is the whole thing. Right, y'all thought I was preaching.
I wasn't preaching yet. This is the sermon. Consecrate yourselves.
That's your part. Not isolation, consecration, It's just all in
how you look at it. I wonder what God is
preparing us for right now. I wonder what He is mending,
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Like he mended Peter's nets after he stopped fishing.
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In those moments, God is mending.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I wonder what he's mending in our hearts in this
moment when we just stopped for a minute to be
still and know he is God, and he'll be exalted
above the heavens. The horse and his rider he's thrown
into the sea. All the old stuff comes back, and
see here it comes. It's the convergence of what God
has done, what he will do. But it's all found
in His presence. Presence, presence, presence. Consecrate yourselves. Give me
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the verse for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Among you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You see how clear that is in that verse. God's
got a job and you've got a job. You see
that word tomorrow that's on God's job description. You see
it in the scripture, put it in the chat. I
need you to say this. I need you to say it.
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Tomorrow is God's job. Tomorrow is God's job. So here's
what we have to do. We have to trust God
with tomorrow's problems and embrace today's process.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Consecrate yourself. That's today's process.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's cleansing, that's setting apart, that's knowing He is God.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's devotion, that's this.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop coming
to church just because I can't physically get there. In fact,
I'm gonna use this time. I'm gonna start sharing the
gospel war with people.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm gonna make the devil so mad he's gonna he's
gonna have to let me out the house.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm gonna start forwarding every cliff, every sermon, every song.
We put this song out the other day called the Blessing,
And the reason we put it out is because you know,
God gave us this song and I don't know how
to stop the virus. But I know how to spread
the blessing. And so I have a job. God has
a job. What is God's job. God's job is tomorrow.
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That's like when I went to Australia the first time.
Is anybody watching from Australia right now? Yeah, I see
you lighting up the comments. I see Cheryl Eric Brandon,
I see you from the Ukraine. Tomorrow is God's job.
But here's what's awesome. Somebody watching in Australia and it's
already tomorrow. It's already tomorrow. The first time I went
to Australia to preach, I got off the plane because
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I was stupid and went straight to the stage to preach.
But before I went to the stage, I landed at
like ten am, and then I was preaching at twelve pm,
so I just had time to take a shower. And
just before I started to head over to the arena
where I was preaching in Sydney, I facetimed the kids.
This was years ago, so the kids were real little,
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and I facetimed them because my room.
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Had this beautiful view.
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Pastor Phil Pringle put me up in this beautiful room
and I could see the I could see the Sydney
Harbor and I wanted the kids to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And so the sun was shining so pretty over the
over the harbor, and I took.
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A FaceTime and I say, hey, kids, I just wanted
to say hey to you from tomorrow. And I was
telling them how we're across the international date line. I
was telling them how we h well, it's tomorrow in Australia,
but it's nighttime there. And remember they were real little,
and so Holly was tucking them into bed and they're
all gathered around the FaceTime and everything like that. I
think Abby was already asleep, she was real little. And
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then Graham and Elijah and we talked for a minute.
I said, I gotta go preach now, and Elijah interrupted me, says, hey, Dad,
before you go, will you tell us what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It was like he had this moment, You're already there.
You're my father.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
See. I gotta let I let I gotta let God
be in my tomorrow and consecrate myself today.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's all I can do. I cannot predict the path.
All I can do is walk in it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And yet the beauty of the passage is this if
you will consecrate yourself today. God is already in your tomorrow.
So all this how long is it gonna last? That's
God's job. And you know what, I thank God for
everybody who is helping in a practical way around the
clock to bring remedies and solutions to our nation for
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this virus. We are praying for you, We celebrate you,
we love you. One of the good things that's going
to come out of this is we are going to
appreciate people that we used to think we're unimportant. Who
are going to be the very people that God uses
to stop the virus are the people. It's not going
to be just celebrities who we've always been used to celebrating.
It's gonna be people who are standing on the front
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line like those priests did. God told the priest you
go stand in the middle of the Jordan. That must
have been scary. They had to go stand. God was
bringing them through. God's going to bring us through. But see,
it's so important that we don't just get so focused
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on getting through it. We don't get what God wants
us to get out of it. And God says stop,
He makes me lie down. God is my God. He
he told him to camp before crossing over. And then
if you can go all the way to verse fifteen,
I want to show you one more thing. I'm closing.
Is this worth helping you? If it's helping you, just
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put something on the screen right now. Put a heart,
Put a purple heart, put a orange heart, put a
red heart, Put three pink hearts. I'll take anything right now, Holly,
is this good? This is the message God gave me.
And I was going to approach it the other way.
I was going to approach it the other way. I
was going to say, we're positioned for a miracle. But
I thought, you know what if I call it that,
people are going to think it has to be something big.
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You know, they're going to think, oh, when this virus
is gone, that's a miracle. What about the miracle in
the middle of it? And that's what my attention was
drawn to him. And before I go, I want to
show you Joshua with three point fifteen. When God says
stop because the Bible says that the Jordan is at
flood stage, all dering harvest, Well that's a sermon right there.
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God didn't bring them through some shallow water, some little
problem the size of the problem creates the opportunity. So
when I say we're positioned for a miracle, it doesn't
mean the problem gets smaller. And when I say we're
positioned for a miracle, it doesn't always mean that God
is going to do something we see as really big.
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Sometimes we have to see it from a distance. Can
you imagine happening to follow that little arc? The arc
of the covenant, the covenant, the covenant. God keeps this covenant.
And I have to remember that right now.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If he said it is sure, if he promised it,
it's rock solid.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
God promised me the grace for today and the hope
for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I gotta let him do his job.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Because God is with me, not just to get me
through it. He's my guy. He's with me in it.
That's the message. That's why it's called the Arc of
His Presence. Consecrate yourself today.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Be present.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
God's calling us the greater presence, not less. Be careful
that you don't sit there and go like, oh, I'm
so connected. I'm so connected. I'm so connected. Connection is
about depth, not about bread, And in this moment, I
believe God wants to connect with us in a deep way,
deep way, and do a deep work in our lives.
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He will do an amazing things among you, things you
don't even know to ask for. Ephesians three twenty. God,
give them a miracle. There's a mom right now that
needs a miracle. There's someone who can't get to their
mom or dad. They're not able to be with them physically.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They need a miracle from You. Give it to them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But not when it's over. While I'm in it. There's
a miracle in it. Because the Bible says that the
Jordan is at floodstage all during harvest. There was no
way that they could have crossed it on their own.
Go ahead and begin to minister lj Yet, as soon
as the priests who carried the art reached the Jordan
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and their feet touched the water's edge, the water upstream
stopped flowing. When God said stop, The water was cut
off when God said stop.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You see it. When God says stop, the Jordan river
had to obey him. When Jesus said stop, the storm
had to cease.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But before he stopped what was happening outside the boat,
he had to stop.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What was happening inside their heart.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I believe God is saying stop today to the terrorist
of anxiety that had been ruining your imagination and interrupting
your rest. It said, as soon as their feet touched,
the water from upstream stopped flowing. And when God said stop,
the water that was in front of them, the thing
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that was keeping them separated stopped flowing and piled up
in a heap a great distance away. I love the
word of God. It's in the distance. See God's going
to keep it at a distance. God is going to
get you through this. And He is using distance right
now as a gift to call us closer to himself.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you see it. It's the revelation right there in
the text.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And it stopped flowing opposite Jericho, verse seventeen, Thank you
for your word. Lord, And the priest who carried the
ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What did they do?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on
dry ground. Get sick, because we're gonna worship in a minute.
We don't worship when we get through hard things. We
worship while.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We're in them.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And stood on dry ground while all Israel passed by,
until the whole nation had completed the crossing.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
On dry ground Oh, yeah, we're going to get through this.
We're going to get through this. That's not the question.
The question is why did the priest stop in the middle.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
See, God had told Joshua was something very important that
he's been speaking to me. It's not just that you
get through it, it's that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You take something from it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
When the priest stopped, God said, stop right in the middle,
stop right now, and say, this is the day the
Lord has made. We can't take things for granted anymore, y'all.
This morning is a miracle, His mercies are a miracle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We can't take it for granted anymore more.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So God says, stop in the middle of it, and
stop projecting, and stop living in what.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It was and worrying about what it will be. Stop
right here in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And they each took out a stone, and they carried
it to the other side.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So I declare over your life today. Now. I want
you to receive this right now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I don't care if you're watching this with five other
people and three of them are eating pancakes. One of
them's on their phone. This word is for you. It's
for you. God is saying stop. There has been a
spirit of fear that has been washing over you, has
been keeping you from your piece, has been robbing you
of your joy. You've been living in a fictional tomorrow.
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And right now God says, stop and make the decision.
I'm going to trust God in it, and I'm not
going to miss the miracle of today. I'm living in tomorrow. Hey,
thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to this
channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream,
and share this video with a friend, and don't forget
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you can join me live every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Thanks again for watching.
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