# On My Way Back (Chad Veach)

An episode of [Elevation with Steven Furtick](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/216015753), 8 Mar 2026, 54 min.

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When it feels like God’s taking you the long way, remember: He’s worthy of your wait. If you’re feeling discouraged or struggling with obedience while you wait, start by being honest with God about where you are and trusting that His timing is always working for your good. If you’ve just made a decision for Christ, please respond HERE: ele.vc/tIepfr Scripture References: Numbers 21, verses 4-9 Isaiah 40, verses 28-31 Lamentations 3, verse 25 Psalm 3, verse 3 Proverbs 17, verse 22 Psalm 51, verses 3-4 1 John 1, verse 9 Philippians 2, verse 8 John 3, verses 13-15 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:04] Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Fernick.
[0:06] Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
[0:09] Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these
[0:11] Speaker 2: new sermons every week.
[0:13] Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. I just want to take
[0:21] Speaker 1: a moment before we jump into the word.
[0:22] Speaker 3: Anybody excited to get into the scripture today? We're going
[0:26] Speaker 3: to open up God's word. But two things I want
[0:30] Speaker 3: to pray for. Anybody that needs a miracle today. Anybody
[0:33] Speaker 3: that needs healing today. Anybody that needs finances. You know
[0:38] Speaker 3: the Bible says our Lord God, nothing is too difficult
[0:42] Speaker 3: for you. If you've got a prodigal today, I know
[0:45] Speaker 3: the God that can wake them up with kindness. If
[0:48] Speaker 3: you've got a situation, I know the God that can
[0:50] Speaker 3: remove that mountain and put it into the sea. Come on,
[0:54] Speaker 3: anybody believe today that God is who he says he is.
[0:59] Speaker 1: Anybody we have faith that he could do what he
[1:01] Speaker 1: said he would do. Come on, clap.
[1:03] Speaker 4: Let's have done some faith and thanksgiving today.
[1:08] Speaker 1: Do me a favor. If you need a miracle, just
[1:10] Speaker 1: lit your hand. Lord. We thank you for your grace,
[1:14] Speaker 1: We thank you for your power.
[1:15] Speaker 3: We trust not in riches or mammon or chariots or horsemen.
[1:20] Speaker 1: But our trust is in the name of the Lord.
[1:23] Speaker 1: We thank you God that you are who you.
[1:26] Speaker 3: Say you are and you can accomplish what concerns us.
[1:29] Speaker 1: Today.
[1:30] Speaker 3: We cast all of our cares onto you because we
[1:33] Speaker 3: know you care for us.
[1:34] Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
[1:36] Speaker 3: And everybody said together, come on, clap one more time
[1:39] Speaker 3: and thank God. Come on elevation twenty years, twenty years.
[1:51] Speaker 3: And I just want to say, thank God for Elevation Church.
[1:56] Speaker 3: Thank God for all that He's done in this place.
[1:59] Speaker 3: Thank God for all that He's done through this place.
[2:02] Speaker 3: And the Bible says not to us, not to us
[2:06] Speaker 3: be the glory, but to his name. Can we give
[2:08] Speaker 3: God some glory for twenty years.
[2:11] Speaker 4: Of his faithfulness? Come on, anybody believe the vest is
[2:14] Speaker 4: yet to come for Elevation Church. And I just want
[2:19] Speaker 4: to say, thank God, not.
[2:21] Speaker 3: Just for Elevation Church, but anybody love your pastors today.
[2:25] Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen at Holly Fernick, come on, oh, come on,
[2:28] Speaker 1: you can clap louder than that today if you love
[2:30] Speaker 1: your fine goodness.
[2:34] Speaker 3: We thank God for pastors Stephen to Hally, Thank God
[2:37] Speaker 3: for their faithfulness, for their continual.
[2:40] Speaker 1: Yes. Anybody could say yes for.
[2:43] Speaker 3: One year or maybe ten, but twenty years of faithfulness, serving, giving, preaching, writing.
[2:53] Speaker 1: Oh, come on this, give honor where honor is due
[2:55] Speaker 1: to our pastors today. Thank God for pastors Stephen and Holley.
[3:00] Speaker 1: And you know they've just been out on tour. They've
[3:04] Speaker 1: been out on tour.
[3:05] Speaker 3: They're sewing into Chicago, sewing into New York. I believe
[3:10] Speaker 3: they were in Columbus, Ohio, sewing in. You know, I've
[3:13] Speaker 3: always believed that when you sow into somebody else's field,
[3:16] Speaker 3: you're going to reap it.
[3:16] Speaker 1: In your own.
[3:18] Speaker 3: And I pray that we would be a church that
[3:21] Speaker 3: covers them in prayer. Amen, Why don't we take a
[3:23] Speaker 3: moment and pray for our pastors right now? Lord, We
[3:26] Speaker 3: thank you for our leaders, our pastors that you've given
[3:29] Speaker 3: to us.
[3:30] Speaker 1: What a gift to have pastors like them.
[3:34] Speaker 3: We pray that their soul would be refreshed, their soul
[3:37] Speaker 3: would be encouraged. Thank you God for protection over their home,
[3:42] Speaker 3: over their children.
[3:43] Speaker 1: We thank you that you're speaking to them, giving them.
[3:45] Speaker 3: Vision, dreams, allow signs and wonders and miracles to continue
[3:50] Speaker 3: to break out through their ministry. We think you that
[3:53] Speaker 3: they would feel rested in their soul, and we just
[3:56] Speaker 3: bless them today. We thank you God for the gifts
[3:58] Speaker 3: of our pastors in Jesus name.
[4:01] Speaker 1: And everybody said, come on one more time, clapping, thank God.
[4:04] Speaker 1: Do me a favorite before you sit down. Turn it
[4:07] Speaker 1: against somebody a high five. Tell them you woke up
[4:10] Speaker 1: on time today.
[4:11] Speaker 5: You woke up on time today.
[4:14] Speaker 3: You woke up you ain't late. You woke up on
[4:16] Speaker 3: time today. Go to the Book of Numbers, chapter twenty one.
[4:20] Speaker 1: If you have a Bible number is twenty one. Again.
[4:23] Speaker 1: My name is Chad. I live in La. I'm blessed.
[4:27] Speaker 3: Any married people here in the house today sounds painful.
[4:33] Speaker 3: Any happily married people in the house today?
[4:36] Speaker 1: Yeah, yuh.
[4:38] Speaker 3: My wife and I have been married for seventeen years.
[4:40] Speaker 3: We got four children. Any parents here today?
[4:44] Speaker 1: Parents?
[4:44] Speaker 3: I got a fourteen year old, a twelve year old,
[4:47] Speaker 3: a ten year old, and an eight year old.
[4:50] Speaker 1: We're like a rock group. We put one out every two.
[4:52] Speaker 3: Years and fourteen, twelve, ten, eight. And my eight year
[4:58] Speaker 3: old is not saved. Please pray for my saving hey
[5:01] Speaker 3: year old. He needs Jesus right now. But we're blessed.
[5:04] Speaker 3: In California, We're blessed in La and I'm just so
[5:08] Speaker 3: honored and thrilled to.
[5:09] Speaker 1: Be here today. Can we clap? This was his first
[5:13] Speaker 1: time being up without his mom and dad.
[5:15] Speaker 3: Didn't Cram do a great job, my guy right there clapping,
[5:18] Speaker 3: Thank God for my God.
[5:19] Speaker 5: I love you so much.
[5:21] Speaker 1: I love you so much. Number twenty one, go there
[5:25] Speaker 1: in your Bible. We're gonna go to the Old Testament today.
[5:28] Speaker 1: It says this.
[5:29] Speaker 3: Then they journeyed from Mount Horror by the way of
[5:33] Speaker 3: the Red Sea to go around the land of Eel,
[5:39] Speaker 3: and the soul of the people became very discouraged on
[5:43] Speaker 3: the way, and the people spoke against God and against Moses.
[5:49] Speaker 3: Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to
[5:53] Speaker 3: die in the wilderness, for there's no food and no water.
[5:58] Speaker 3: And are soul lows? This worthless bread? I just have
[6:02] Speaker 3: to believe. That's gluten free bread right there, first, gluten
[6:06] Speaker 3: free bread, and all of the Bible right there is
[6:08] Speaker 3: worthless bread.
[6:09] Speaker 1: Amen. I want to say, I'm pro gluten. Amen.
[6:15] Speaker 3: So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and
[6:18] Speaker 3: they bit the people, and many of the people of
[6:20] Speaker 3: Israel died, And therefore the people came to Moses and said,
[6:24] Speaker 3: we have we've done messed up. We send for we
[6:28] Speaker 3: have spoken against the Lord and against you. Prayed to
[6:32] Speaker 3: the Lord that he may take away the fiery serpents
[6:35] Speaker 3: from us.
[6:36] Speaker 1: So Moses prayed for the people.
[6:38] Speaker 3: And the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent,
[6:42] Speaker 3: set it on a pole, and it shall be that
[6:46] Speaker 3: everyone who is bitten when he looks at it shall live.
[6:50] Speaker 3: So Moses made a bronze serpent, put it on a pole,
[6:54] Speaker 3: and so it was. If a serpent had bitten anybody,
[6:58] Speaker 3: when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
[7:02] Speaker 1: I want to preach a message today. Right down the title.
[7:05] Speaker 1: It's called on my Way Back, On my Way Back, and.
[7:10] Speaker 3: I just want to tell you today, I don't know
[7:12] Speaker 3: how far you drifted away from God.
[7:14] Speaker 1: It's never too late to come back to Jesus.
[7:18] Speaker 3: I don't know how far you feel like you are
[7:20] Speaker 3: a way from the will of God for your life.
[7:22] Speaker 3: But anybody thankful that it's never too late with God.
[7:25] Speaker 3: You're never too far gone from God if you believe
[7:28] Speaker 3: that we serve the God that welcomes.
[7:31] Speaker 1: You home with open arms. On my way Back, I.
[7:36] Speaker 3: Just like this idea because you know, I feel like
[7:39] Speaker 3: every Monday morning I start my diet again.
[7:44] Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to you right now?
[7:47] Speaker 3: Every Sunday night, I'm like, you know, tomorrow morning, I'm
[7:50] Speaker 3: getting this body back in shape. Every Monday morning, I'm like,
[7:54] Speaker 3: you know what, maybe tomorrow morning we are going to
[7:56] Speaker 3: start working out a few mondays ago of alls in
[8:00] Speaker 3: that Monday flow and we do Orange Theory Fitness. We
[8:04] Speaker 3: like to go to this place called Orange Theory Fitness.
[8:07] Speaker 3: It's diabolical by nature, makes you sweat and work out.
[8:11] Speaker 1: But I was like, babe, tomorrow morning, we're gonna go back.
[8:14] Speaker 1: And so when I walked in, I signed up on
[8:16] Speaker 1: the app.
[8:17] Speaker 3: When I walked into the gym, there was a guy
[8:19] Speaker 3: standing there and he had made me like a sign
[8:23] Speaker 3: Chad's four hundredth workout, And I was like, what a
[8:27] Speaker 3: welcome back sign.
[8:28] Speaker 1: This is amazing.
[8:30] Speaker 3: I had no idea that I was nearing my four
[8:32] Speaker 3: hundredth workout.
[8:34] Speaker 1: So I walked in. I kind of laughed because I was.
[8:36] Speaker 3: With my wife and I was thinking to my head,
[8:38] Speaker 3: if this is my four hundredth workout, this have to
[8:41] Speaker 3: be her one thousandth workout. In fact, she had just
[8:45] Speaker 3: about to cross two days later her seventh hundredth workout.
[8:49] Speaker 3: Come on clap from my wife Julia. She's putting in
[8:52] Speaker 3: the work. But I just liked that idea that I
[8:56] Speaker 3: had no idea. I was coming back into the gym.
[8:59] Speaker 3: I my nikes on, I was ready to go, and
[9:02] Speaker 3: I walk in and here is this sign. It said
[9:05] Speaker 3: four hundred workout, But I really felt it was saying like,
[9:08] Speaker 3: welcome back, lazy man of God. Welcome back slacker. See
[9:16] Speaker 3: what I want you to understand today about God. It
[9:18] Speaker 3: doesn't matter how far away you are from God. God
[9:22] Speaker 3: always loves to welcome his children home.
[9:25] Speaker 1: See.
[9:26] Speaker 3: God never turns away anybody that comes to him when
[9:30] Speaker 3: you come to him desperate, when you come to him
[9:33] Speaker 3: with humility, when you come to him hungry. God always
[9:36] Speaker 3: opens his arm for any prodigal that would come back home.
[9:40] Speaker 3: Come on clap today if you're thankful for the grace
[9:42] Speaker 3: of God. God never turns away those that come to
[9:46] Speaker 3: him empty. He only turns away those that come to
[9:50] Speaker 3: him full of themselves. And today we come with desperation. Oh.
[9:55] Speaker 1: I love this.
[9:56] Speaker 3: Story in number twenty one because really it's a story
[9:59] Speaker 3: about a route back to God. Did you catch what
[10:02] Speaker 3: happened In numbers twenty one, verse number four, it says
[10:05] Speaker 3: that they were on the way to eat them, but
[10:08] Speaker 3: the Lord took them around the long way, and it
[10:12] Speaker 3: said on the way they became impatience. Have you ever
[10:16] Speaker 3: felt like God was taken longer than he should?
[10:21] Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like God's.
[10:22] Speaker 3: Timetable is different than your timetable. I want to remind
[10:26] Speaker 3: you today that our God is never too early and
[10:29] Speaker 3: he's never too late. Our God is a what on
[10:33] Speaker 3: time God? Oh, come on, give him a praise today.
[10:36] Speaker 3: If you believe that about God, I'm going to give
[10:38] Speaker 3: you four things to write down today. Write down number one.
[10:41] Speaker 3: The first thing God deals with me as I come
[10:43] Speaker 3: back is he deals with my faith in God's timing.
[10:48] Speaker 3: He deals with my trust in the timing of the Lord.
[10:51] Speaker 1: See. I love this about God.
[10:53] Speaker 3: God said, my ways are above your ways, My thoughts
[10:56] Speaker 3: are above your thoughts. A day is like a thousand
[10:59] Speaker 3: year years to the Lord, and a thousand years is
[11:02] Speaker 3: like a day. God knows the end from the beginning.
[11:06] Speaker 3: He is the Alpha and the Omega. We believe that
[11:08] Speaker 3: God is sovereign and seated on the throne, and God
[11:12] Speaker 3: knows just what you need, and he knows just when
[11:15] Speaker 3: you need it. Anybody thankful today that God will supply
[11:18] Speaker 3: all of your needs according to his riches and according
[11:21] Speaker 3: to his glory.
[11:23] Speaker 1: Oh I love Isaiah forty put on the screen. Have
[11:26] Speaker 1: you not known? Have you not heard?
[11:28] Speaker 3: The Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends
[11:32] Speaker 3: of the earth. He neither faints nor is weary. His
[11:35] Speaker 3: understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. That's
[11:39] Speaker 3: cowboy fans. I'm prophilying to somebody right now. And to
[11:48] Speaker 3: those who have no might, he increases their strength. Even
[11:51] Speaker 3: youths like Graham shall faint and be weary, and the
[11:55] Speaker 3: young men shall utterly fall. But those that wait on
[11:59] Speaker 3: the Lord, they shall renew their strength. They shall mount
[12:03] Speaker 3: up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not
[12:06] Speaker 3: grow weary. They shall walk and not what faint. That's
[12:11] Speaker 3: what God does. That's why I love that Elevation worship song.
[12:15] Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait on you. Man.
[12:18] Speaker 3: If I could sing like Pastor Stephen, I sing the
[12:20] Speaker 3: whole song right now, But I'm gonna wait on you.
[12:23] Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait on you.
[12:25] Speaker 3: See what happened is there on this journey and they're
[12:27] Speaker 3: on the way to eat him, and the Lord took
[12:29] Speaker 3: them around the long way. See what I love about
[12:32] Speaker 3: God is that God sometimes knows that you're not ready
[12:36] Speaker 3: for what you think you're ready for, and sometimes God
[12:38] Speaker 3: loves you enough to not shortcut your blessing. Sometimes God
[12:42] Speaker 3: will take you around the long way, and it's on
[12:44] Speaker 3: the long way that something's being developed in you, something
[12:48] Speaker 3: is being put inside of you that's lacking.
[12:50] Speaker 1: Oh, I'm thankful that I didn't get what.
[12:52] Speaker 3: I thought I deserved when I thought I deserved it.
[12:55] Speaker 3: I'm grateful that God took me on the path and
[12:58] Speaker 3: the journey that I needed for my life. Anybody else, Oh,
[13:02] Speaker 3: look at what Lamentations, chapter three, verse twenty five says.
[13:05] Speaker 1: It says.
[13:05] Speaker 3: It says the Lord is good to those who wait
[13:09] Speaker 3: for him, to the soul who seeks him. The Lord
[13:13] Speaker 3: is good to those who wait for him. I'm just
[13:16] Speaker 3: telling you nothing reveals more about what you believe about
[13:21] Speaker 3: God than the way that you wait. I live in
[13:28] Speaker 3: La We are masters of waiting on the freeway. I
[13:34] Speaker 3: learn how to wait on the four or five, but
[13:38] Speaker 3: I've learned with God.
[13:39] Speaker 1: I gotta wait on the Lord.
[13:41] Speaker 3: I gotta wait on God's strength and I've learned not
[13:44] Speaker 3: to wait like this.
[13:52] Speaker 1: I've learned to wait like this. God is faithful, God is.
[13:56] Speaker 3: Generous, God is compassionate, God is God is sovereign, God
[14:02] Speaker 3: is loving. Oh, come on clap today if you believe
[14:04] Speaker 3: that God is worthy of your weight. One of my
[14:11] Speaker 3: wife's best friend, she is a widow, and she went
[14:15] Speaker 3: through a tragic situation years ago, and we after this situation,
[14:21] Speaker 3: the Lord started to heal her heart and do a
[14:23] Speaker 3: great work in her life, and we started together to
[14:26] Speaker 3: believe God for a husband. We started to pray and
[14:29] Speaker 3: believe that God would send her somebody, and so together
[14:32] Speaker 3: as a church and our community, we started to pray
[14:35] Speaker 3: and believe that God would send her somebody. And a
[14:38] Speaker 3: couple of years ago, during our fast we do twenty
[14:41] Speaker 3: one days of prayer and fasting in the month of January.
[14:43] Speaker 3: She was faster than praying, and on the last day
[14:46] Speaker 3: of the fast, a friend of hers connected her with
[14:49] Speaker 3: a guy.
[14:50] Speaker 1: She got a five minute.
[14:51] Speaker 3: Coffee, because you don't want to get stuck in a coffee.
[14:54] Speaker 1: Because it could go bad.
[14:56] Speaker 3: So she told this guy, I could stop by the
[14:58] Speaker 3: coffee shop, pick up the coffee you order, and then
[15:00] Speaker 3: I gotta go, ladies. I'm just telling you that's how
[15:03] Speaker 3: you do it. Right there for the first one, just
[15:05] Speaker 3: to breeze through. Are you okay, okay, then we'll be back.
[15:12] Speaker 3: I'm just trying to give some knowledge to somebody today.
[15:17] Speaker 1: And so she met this guy in the last day
[15:18] Speaker 1: of the.
[15:19] Speaker 3: Fast, and sure enough, he ended up being a man
[15:24] Speaker 3: of God.
[15:25] Speaker 1: He had good hygiene and a tiler. That's a candidate
[15:29] Speaker 1: right there, amen.
[15:33] Speaker 3: And long story short, they end up getting married and
[15:38] Speaker 3: she's in her forties and that's so cool. But can
[15:41] Speaker 3: I tell you, not only does she get married, but
[15:43] Speaker 3: this last year she got pregnant.
[15:47] Speaker 1: And I'm just telling you.
[15:48] Speaker 3: It's one of the greatest miracles I've ever seen. You know,
[15:52] Speaker 3: sometimes we think that miracles are these crazy healings, but
[15:57] Speaker 3: sometimes it's like to find somebody to get married to, to
[16:01] Speaker 3: get pregnant when you've been believing God. And one of
[16:04] Speaker 3: the things that stands out to me about this lady's
[16:06] Speaker 3: story is that she could have just taken matters into
[16:09] Speaker 3: her own hands and married somebody years ago, but she
[16:13] Speaker 3: waited on the timing of the Lord. She waited on
[16:16] Speaker 3: the perfect person. And I just want to encourage you
[16:19] Speaker 3: today God is worthy of your weight. He's got the
[16:22] Speaker 3: best in store for his children. And if you'll just
[16:25] Speaker 3: keep holding out for God's best, if you'll just keep
[16:28] Speaker 3: waiting along the journey, I promise you God's got something
[16:32] Speaker 3: better for you than you could ever ask, think or imagine.
[16:35] Speaker 3: Anybody believe that God is good and greatly to be praised.
[16:39] Speaker 1: Oh, I love what it says here. The Lord is
[16:42] Speaker 1: good to those who wait for him, to the soul
[16:46] Speaker 1: who seeks him. So they're waiting on God.
[16:49] Speaker 3: They're like God, this has taken too long, This journey
[16:52] Speaker 3: has taken so much time. Why can't we get to
[16:55] Speaker 3: eat them faster? But Babe, open up the ways app.
[16:58] Speaker 3: There's got to be a faster way to get there.
[17:00] Speaker 1: Now.
[17:00] Speaker 3: I got the Apple Map, the Google app, and the
[17:02] Speaker 3: ways app. I'm trying to get to eat them. I
[17:04] Speaker 3: gotta get to eat them. And it says that as
[17:06] Speaker 3: they're on the way and it's taking longer than they want,
[17:09] Speaker 3: that the soul of the people get discouraged.
[17:13] Speaker 1: Write down number two.
[17:13] Speaker 3: Today, God deals with my discouragement. I don't know if
[17:17] Speaker 3: you've ever felt discouraged, but when you feel like man,
[17:21] Speaker 3: it's not going as good as I wanted it to go.
[17:23] Speaker 3: Life's not happening at the space, at the pace or
[17:26] Speaker 3: the rate that I wanted it to happen. Oh, I'm
[17:29] Speaker 3: just so thankful today that in times that I've felt down,
[17:33] Speaker 3: times that I felt discouraged, the Bible says, Thou, Old Lord,
[17:36] Speaker 3: are the lifter of my head. Anybody thankful today that
[17:40] Speaker 3: God will turn your mourning into dancing? Come on, the
[17:43] Speaker 3: Bible says those that so in tears will read with
[17:46] Speaker 3: songs of joy. Come on, clap if you believe that
[17:49] Speaker 3: God will turn your mourning around into danccene. Oh I
[17:54] Speaker 3: love Psalm three, verse three. It says, but you, oh Lord,
[17:58] Speaker 3: are a shield.
[17:59] Speaker 1: For me my glory, and the one who lifts up
[18:03] Speaker 1: my head. Proverbs seventeen twenty two.
[18:08] Speaker 3: Mary Hart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit
[18:12] Speaker 3: dries up the bones. This is not feeling like I
[18:17] Speaker 3: had a bad day. They're dealing with discourage. Have you
[18:20] Speaker 3: ever felt discouraged? You ever feel like I'm not? I
[18:26] Speaker 3: wish I was a better parent. I wish I was
[18:29] Speaker 3: a better husband or a wife. I wish my business
[18:32] Speaker 3: was doing better than it is. You know, it's like
[18:37] Speaker 3: I don't know anybody today that's like, you know, my
[18:39] Speaker 3: biggest problem is I just feel way too encouraged and
[18:45] Speaker 3: I'm just I'm quite frankly, I'm sick of it. I
[18:49] Speaker 3: just wake up and I just think I'm killing it.
[18:53] Speaker 3: I don't know anybody that struggles with being too encouraged,
[18:58] Speaker 3: but I know tons of people today that are like, man,
[19:00] Speaker 3: am I good enough?
[19:03] Speaker 1: Am I doing a?
[19:05] Speaker 3: How come you ever get on social media and it
[19:09] Speaker 3: looked like God's blessing everybody else?
[19:11] Speaker 1: But you Sometimes you just grow like this.
[19:15] Speaker 3: Whoa They're in Italy again?
[19:24] Speaker 1: Whoa?
[19:27] Speaker 3: And See the problem with waiting on God is it
[19:30] Speaker 3: doesn't just deal with your impatience. You gotta be careful
[19:34] Speaker 3: because it will develop into discouragement.
[19:38] Speaker 1: And I don't know who this is for today, but
[19:40] Speaker 1: you need to understand.
[19:40] Speaker 3: Get your eyes off them, put your eyes on him.
[19:49] Speaker 3: The Bible says, looking under Jesus, the Author and the
[19:53] Speaker 3: finisher of our faith.
[19:55] Speaker 1: I can't listen.
[19:57] Speaker 3: I pray everybody's blessed, and I hope everybody doing great,
[20:01] Speaker 3: But I gotta be grateful for what God's doing in
[20:03] Speaker 3: my house. I gotta be excited about what God's doing
[20:06] Speaker 3: in my children. I gotta be thankful for what God's
[20:09] Speaker 3: doing in my city. Come on, anybody got that attitude
[20:12] Speaker 3: of gratitude today? Anybody thankful? Come on, clap and give
[20:15] Speaker 3: God praise. If you're great, come on, let's get encouraged
[20:19] Speaker 3: in the Lord. And you gotta be careful with discouragement
[20:24] Speaker 3: because if you're not, discouragement will result in rebellion.
[20:29] Speaker 1: If you're not careful with discouragement.
[20:31] Speaker 3: In fact, put this on the screen, they say this
[20:34] Speaker 3: worthless bread. Miracles seem meaningless when you're discouraged, and that
[20:39] Speaker 3: often leads into rebellion. You gotta be careful with the
[20:43] Speaker 3: discouraged soul because if you're not, it'll lead into rebellion.
[20:47] Speaker 3: All of a sudden, this miracle of manna, this miracle
[20:51] Speaker 3: of bread, they're gone. This bread ain't that good, This
[20:54] Speaker 3: ain't that this is this is not that. This is
[20:56] Speaker 3: not that awesome, this is not that great. The things
[20:59] Speaker 3: that want cause you to shout for joy are now
[21:03] Speaker 3: just meaningless in the presence of God. I've got to
[21:05] Speaker 3: get my eyes back, I've got to get my heart back,
[21:09] Speaker 3: I've got to get my faith back to say, this
[21:11] Speaker 3: is the marriage you gave me, this is the house
[21:14] Speaker 3: you bless me with These are the children that are
[21:17] Speaker 3: a gift from God. Come on, clap if you're thankful today,
[21:21] Speaker 3: Come on, let's get the eye and the heart of gratitude.
[21:25] Speaker 3: Come on, lift up a shut of praise today.
[21:27] Speaker 1: If you're grateful to God.
[21:31] Speaker 3: The Bible says, bless the Lord, oh my soul and all.
[21:35] Speaker 1: That is within me. Bless his holy name.
[21:38] Speaker 3: The Bible says, enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and
[21:41] Speaker 3: enter into his courts with praise. I will lift up
[21:45] Speaker 3: my hands in your sanctuary. Why because your love is
[21:49] Speaker 3: better than life. And when you stop having that attitude,
[21:52] Speaker 3: it's just bread, just these kids, this old house, you know, figs,
[21:59] Speaker 3: the plumbia go thing's electricity. You gotta be careful because complainers.
[22:05] Speaker 3: I never met a man complaint like this. You know,
[22:07] Speaker 3: I have a complaint complainers. I like weasels, this meaningless bread.
[22:19] Speaker 3: And it says they were waiting and God was taken
[22:21] Speaker 3: too long, and the path was much further and there
[22:25] Speaker 3: was it was not in the in the rate, the
[22:27] Speaker 3: pace or the plan that they had first what God had,
[22:31] Speaker 3: and their soul became very discouraged. And I know that
[22:37] Speaker 3: at church, you know, we we have a great time
[22:41] Speaker 3: lifting up our hands and praising the Lord. But I
[22:43] Speaker 3: just want to ask you, are you discouraged today? Because
[22:47] Speaker 3: God doesn't have a disdain for you. God has a
[22:51] Speaker 3: grace for you. God says, come to me with all
[22:54] Speaker 3: of your burdens. He says, be anxious for nothing, but
[22:58] Speaker 3: in everything through prayer and socation with thanksgiving.
[23:02] Speaker 1: Let your requests be made known to God and.
[23:05] Speaker 3: The peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Wiguard your
[23:09] Speaker 3: heart and your mind in Christ, Jesus. God wants to
[23:13] Speaker 3: turn your mourning into dancing. If you're sow in tears,
[23:17] Speaker 3: you're gonna reap with songs of joy because I know
[23:20] Speaker 3: the God that can turn around the terrible situation that
[23:23] Speaker 3: you're going through and bring glory for ashes. Come on
[23:27] Speaker 3: clapping praising today and their souls became discouraged. I'll never forget.
[23:36] Speaker 3: In June of twenty twenty, I felt so discouraged in
[23:40] Speaker 3: June of twenty twenty this during COVID. I finally got
[23:43] Speaker 3: COVID for the first time in June, and at that time,
[23:47] Speaker 3: we're going through so much in the world, and it
[23:50] Speaker 3: just felt like at church and every everywhere else turned out.
[23:53] Speaker 3: I felt so torn and felt so defeated, and I've
[23:57] Speaker 3: never been through a season like this. And my covid
[24:00] Speaker 3: into shingles and I got shingles right here on my ear.
[24:05] Speaker 3: And so I go into the urgent care and I
[24:06] Speaker 3: was in so much pain, and I was in pain
[24:09] Speaker 3: in my in my body, I was in pain in
[24:11] Speaker 3: my soul. And I went in the lady. She said, sir,
[24:15] Speaker 3: you have shingles. It comes from stress. She said, are
[24:19] Speaker 3: you stressed about anything? Well, I'm a man of God,
[24:30] Speaker 3: So I said no, And she said, surely you must
[24:34] Speaker 3: be stressed about something. I'm a man of confession. I
[24:36] Speaker 3: said no, I'm not stressed about anything. She said, well,
[24:39] Speaker 3: your body says contrary, and I'll never forget. Feeling discouraged.
[24:46] Speaker 3: You got to be careful with discouragement because discouragement will
[24:51] Speaker 3: turn into rebellion.
[24:54] Speaker 1: You notice what they did.
[24:56] Speaker 3: They started to complain against God, and they started to
[24:59] Speaker 3: complain against their pastor. It's never encouraged people that complain
[25:04] Speaker 3: against God and their pastor.
[25:05] Speaker 1: It's discouraged people.
[25:07] Speaker 3: And I'm just telling you guard your heart when you
[25:09] Speaker 3: feel discouraged. That's why it's so important that you put
[25:12] Speaker 3: on the word of God in your house. That's why
[25:15] Speaker 3: it's so important that you listen to elevation worship. You
[25:18] Speaker 3: listen to elevation rhythm, and you get the spirit of
[25:21] Speaker 3: faith and the spirit of worship into your house, and
[25:23] Speaker 3: you say, no weapon that's formed against me is going
[25:26] Speaker 3: to prosper, And every tongue that rises against me in
[25:29] Speaker 3: judgment I will condemn. I am more than a conqueror
[25:33] Speaker 3: in Christ Jesus, I'm the head and not the tale.
[25:36] Speaker 3: I am a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a marvelous life.
[25:40] Speaker 1: Come on, clap and give God praise.
[25:42] Speaker 3: That you might not have what you want to have,
[25:44] Speaker 3: might not be where you want to be, But come on,
[25:47] Speaker 3: clap and thank God you not where you're used to be.
[25:50] Speaker 3: Come on, Has God been good and faithful and generous
[25:54] Speaker 3: to any Oh? Come on, let the redeemed of the Lord,
[26:00] Speaker 3: So give him.
[26:01] Speaker 1: A shot of praise today. If you're grateful to God, you.
[26:06] Speaker 3: Gotta be careful with discouragement.
[26:09] Speaker 1: You gotta be careful with seasons of frustration.
[26:13] Speaker 3: Because what I noticed about God, God loves to take.
[26:16] Speaker 1: Us along the long way. He loves to take us
[26:20] Speaker 1: on the path of much resistance. He loves to develop
[26:25] Speaker 1: his character. Let me preach to somebody. God loves you
[26:28] Speaker 1: just the way you are. He just loves you way
[26:30] Speaker 1: too much to leave you that way.
[26:31] Speaker 3: God's working something inside of you. God's developing something that's lacking.
[26:36] Speaker 3: God's straining you, fir Us, come on, clap and praise
[26:39] Speaker 3: him today.
[26:40] Speaker 1: God's doing something, and.
[26:43] Speaker 3: He who has begun a good work will be faithful
[26:46] Speaker 3: to complete it. You want to know what's crazy about
[26:48] Speaker 3: the story in numbers twenty one, they were fresh off
[26:51] Speaker 3: of victory.
[26:52] Speaker 1: They were fresh off of w.
[26:54] Speaker 3: They had just had a win by taking out one
[26:57] Speaker 3: of the kings, and yet there was frustration.
[26:59] Speaker 1: Because you saw a.
[27:00] Speaker 3: Win last year doesn't mean you're gonna get an automatic
[27:03] Speaker 3: victory this year.
[27:04] Speaker 1: You gotta be patient with the Lord.
[27:06] Speaker 3: You gotta trust God's perfect timing. God is in control,
[27:10] Speaker 3: seated on the throne. And if God before you, who
[27:13] Speaker 3: can be against you, give him a praise. And so
[27:19] Speaker 3: and so the soul of the people became very discouraged.
[27:23] Speaker 3: And they're so discouraged that the result of the discouragement.
[27:26] Speaker 3: I don't know what you do when you're discouraged. I
[27:29] Speaker 3: usually go to McDonald's for mcflurry's and so, but what
[27:36] Speaker 3: they did. What they did was they complained against God,
[27:40] Speaker 3: and they complained against Moses because a lot of times,
[27:44] Speaker 3: what usually all that energy will result in taking it
[27:48] Speaker 3: out on your leaders, my good shepherd and the shepherd that.
[27:53] Speaker 1: God's placed over me.
[27:55] Speaker 3: And I'm just I'm just asking you, when you're discouraged,
[27:58] Speaker 3: run to the house of God. When you're discouraged, get
[28:01] Speaker 3: around somebody that will refresh you and lay hands on
[28:04] Speaker 3: you and pray for you. As iron sharpens iron, so
[28:08] Speaker 3: one man sharpens another.
[28:09] Speaker 1: Come on, I got to get around the people of God.
[28:12] Speaker 1: I got to get around some worshipers.
[28:14] Speaker 3: Anybody grateful for your godly friends today, come on, clap
[28:16] Speaker 3: and thank God for the ones that I.
[28:18] Speaker 1: Pray for you.
[28:21] Speaker 3: I was talking to this man of God recently and
[28:25] Speaker 3: we laid hands and prayed for him, and he said,
[28:27] Speaker 3: you don't know how long I've longed.
[28:30] Speaker 1: For somebody to pray for me. Get you some friends
[28:32] Speaker 1: that you know.
[28:33] Speaker 3: I don't like when people apologize, like, hey, you know,
[28:35] Speaker 3: I just I hate to be spiritual, but can I
[28:39] Speaker 3: pray for you?
[28:40] Speaker 1: It's like, yes, you could pray for me. We're going
[28:42] Speaker 1: through hell on earth.
[28:43] Speaker 3: We need somebody to lay hands and PROPHESI and tell
[28:46] Speaker 3: me that God has for mea with me.
[28:50] Speaker 1: And the soul of the people became.
[28:52] Speaker 3: Very discouraged, and they started to speak against God and Moses.
[28:57] Speaker 3: And as they're speaking against God and Moses, the Lord
[29:01] Speaker 3: sent some snakes. I don't know how you feel about snakes,
[29:04] Speaker 3: but they're my biggest fear. Some are afraid of spiders,
[29:08] Speaker 3: some are afraid of the dark, some are afraid of
[29:10] Speaker 3: close talkers, some are afraid of bad breath. I'm afraid
[29:14] Speaker 3: of snakes. I don't care if they're on the ground
[29:16] Speaker 3: or in the plane. I'm afraid of snakes. And the
[29:20] Speaker 3: Lord sends snakes to bite them, and all of a
[29:23] Speaker 3: sudden they're dealing with a snake bite. And as they're
[29:26] Speaker 3: dealing with a snake bite, they realize, oh no, we.
[29:29] Speaker 1: Done messed up.
[29:30] Speaker 3: And so they come back to Moses and they say, Moses,
[29:34] Speaker 3: we have sinned against you and against God. Please forgive
[29:39] Speaker 3: us right down number three today. Sometimes God will deal
[29:43] Speaker 3: with your confession. I've got to confess my sins. I've
[29:47] Speaker 3: got to listen. If you can name it, God can
[29:49] Speaker 3: heal it. But until you can come clean about that
[29:52] Speaker 3: thing that you're dealing with and till you can be
[29:54] Speaker 3: open about that struggle that you've been going through.
[29:57] Speaker 1: How could God touch what you're not willing to reveal?
[30:00] Speaker 3: The Bible says the man that conceals his sin, we
[30:03] Speaker 3: will not prosper.
[30:04] Speaker 1: Oh, I love what the Bible says in Psalm fifty.
[30:06] Speaker 3: One, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is
[30:10] Speaker 3: always before me against you, and you alone? Have I
[30:14] Speaker 3: sin and done this evil in your sight? What about
[30:18] Speaker 3: first John one to nine, If we confess our sins,
[30:21] Speaker 3: he is faithful and just to forgive us.
[30:24] Speaker 1: Of our sins and to cleanse.
[30:26] Speaker 3: Us from all Was that word right there unrighteousness?
[30:30] Speaker 1: If I want to put an emphasis.
[30:32] Speaker 3: Right there on the word if if we confess our sins,
[30:34] Speaker 3: God is faithful and just to forgive us of our
[30:37] Speaker 3: sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I like
[30:42] Speaker 3: this thing. Confession. We've got to confess. You know where
[30:45] Speaker 3: confession comes from. Conviction leads to confession when you feel
[30:52] Speaker 3: the conviction of God. These guys looked at these snake bities.
[30:55] Speaker 3: They said, oh no, we didn't. It's one thing to
[31:03] Speaker 3: have a mosquito bite. God's messing with you when you
[31:06] Speaker 3: get a snake bite, and they say, we need to
[31:10] Speaker 3: confess our sin. We need to be honest about our transgressions.
[31:16] Speaker 3: You are only as sick as your secrets. Your authority
[31:24] Speaker 3: is in your authenticity. And when you get real with God,
[31:29] Speaker 3: God already saw it.
[31:31] Speaker 1: God already knows about it.
[31:33] Speaker 3: God never looks away when you and I make mistakes.
[31:36] Speaker 3: His face is set a flint. And when you feel
[31:39] Speaker 3: the conviction of the Holy Spirit, anybody thankful today for
[31:43] Speaker 3: the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Conviction shows me you're alive.
[31:51] Speaker 3: Conviction shows me God's still working with you. Remember, you
[31:54] Speaker 3: gotta be careful with conviction, because if you do something once,
[31:57] Speaker 3: you're gonna feel bad. But if you don't talk about it,
[32:00] Speaker 3: do it again, you're gonna feel kind of bad. You
[32:02] Speaker 3: do it a third time, you ain't gonna feel nothing.
[32:04] Speaker 3: What keeps your conviction is your confession. When I come
[32:08] Speaker 3: before the Lord and I say, Lord, i've sin and
[32:11] Speaker 3: fallen short of the glory of God. Thank you for
[32:14] Speaker 3: the Blood of Jesus, Thank you for the Cross of Christ.
[32:17] Speaker 3: Thank you for a new beginning and a second chance.
[32:19] Speaker 3: Think you that you always make a way for me
[32:21] Speaker 3: to come back to your house. Come on clap and
[32:23] Speaker 3: give God praise if you believe that he's the God
[32:25] Speaker 3: of second.
[32:26] Speaker 1: Third, fourth, fifth, Come on clap.
[32:29] Speaker 3: If you believe he's the God of second.
[32:31] Speaker 1: Chances today.
[32:34] Speaker 3: And I want to encourage you to get good at confession,
[32:38] Speaker 3: get good at naming the thing that could have power
[32:41] Speaker 3: or stronghold over you. But the moment you confess the blood,
[32:44] Speaker 3: the moment you confess it to God, it loses all
[32:47] Speaker 3: his sting and he loses all his power.
[32:50] Speaker 1: If you can name it, God can heal it.
[32:54] Speaker 3: I'll never forget. There's this pastor that I really love
[32:56] Speaker 3: and respect. He's going to be with the Lord now.
[32:59] Speaker 1: But he's just a.
[33:00] Speaker 3: Real righteous, holy, powerful man of God. And he tells
[33:05] Speaker 3: this story that one time, early in the morning, he
[33:08] Speaker 3: woke up and he called like his second in command,
[33:11] Speaker 3: kind of right hand pastor.
[33:12] Speaker 1: Early in the morning. I said, there's been an incident.
[33:16] Speaker 3: I need you to get over to my house immediately.
[33:18] Speaker 3: Something's happened, something bad. And so the associate pastor got
[33:23] Speaker 3: in the car and he drove as fast as he
[33:24] Speaker 3: could in the pastor's house and he's thinking in his head,
[33:27] Speaker 3: what happened.
[33:27] Speaker 1: What did he do? What went on? Is it the kids?
[33:30] Speaker 1: Is the what happened?
[33:32] Speaker 3: And he gets to the pastor's house early in the
[33:34] Speaker 3: morning and the pastor opens the front door and he's
[33:37] Speaker 3: in his robe and he says, please come in, and
[33:41] Speaker 3: he's got community out. He said, you need to serve
[33:43] Speaker 3: communion to me and you need to pray for me.
[33:46] Speaker 1: I've sinned. And the associate pastors thinking, oh no, we
[33:50] Speaker 1: lost the church. Oh no, what did you do? Oh
[33:53] Speaker 1: my gosh, this is terrible. Oh no.
[33:55] Speaker 3: He's like, yes, Pastor, of course, and he said, and
[33:57] Speaker 3: the Pastor's really serious and he goes, last night, that
[34:00] Speaker 3: made a mistake.
[34:00] Speaker 1: Can I send I ate Orioles? And the associate pastors
[34:09] Speaker 1: like Jus.
[34:11] Speaker 3: He's like, but I made a vow to the Lord
[34:13] Speaker 3: years ago that I would never have another OREO.
[34:18] Speaker 1: I was thinking, that's a vow I ain't never making.
[34:20] Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
[34:22] Speaker 3: That's got between you and the Holy ghost. I ain't
[34:24] Speaker 3: touching that one. You can man you on another level,
[34:28] Speaker 3: man of God.
[34:31] Speaker 6: But can you hear the fear of the Lord? Can
[34:35] Speaker 6: you hear the closeness to Jesus? Serve me communion?
[34:40] Speaker 3: And I did it last night, So I'm confessing the
[34:42] Speaker 3: next morning, I have sinned against the Lord.
[34:45] Speaker 1: I made a vow.
[34:46] Speaker 3: I've got a fulfill a vow. I want you to
[34:49] Speaker 3: be quick with your confession. Don't hold off for six
[34:52] Speaker 3: months or nine months. The Bible says, repent therefore and
[34:55] Speaker 3: be converted, that your sins may be washed away, and
[34:58] Speaker 3: times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord.
[35:03] Speaker 3: When you confess the cross and confess the blood of Jesus.
[35:06] Speaker 3: There's nothing you've done, there's nothing you've touched. There's no
[35:09] Speaker 3: place that you've gone that My God can't heal. My
[35:12] Speaker 3: God can't forgive, My God can't deliver anybody thankful today
[35:16] Speaker 3: for the grace of Jesus. So he deals with my
[35:23] Speaker 3: faith in God's timing. He deals with my discouragement. He
[35:28] Speaker 3: deals with my confession, and then I love.
[35:31] Speaker 1: This last one. He deals right down the last one.
[35:33] Speaker 1: He deals with my obedience.
[35:36] Speaker 3: So the Lord says to Moses, Moses, get a fiery snake, and.
[35:41] Speaker 1: I want you to put it on a pole, and I.
[35:44] Speaker 3: Want you to lift it up high in anybody that
[35:48] Speaker 3: looks at this fiery serpent, if.
[35:51] Speaker 1: They look, they will be healed.
[35:53] Speaker 3: All throughout the scriptures, God asks people to do stuff
[35:57] Speaker 3: that are not conventional, but it will unlock their mid Oh,
[36:00] Speaker 3: come on, do you remember when Joshua had to walk
[36:03] Speaker 3: around Jericho seven times? Do you remember when that man
[36:06] Speaker 3: had to dip into the water seven times? Do you
[36:08] Speaker 3: remember when the man with the withered hand had to
[36:11] Speaker 3: stretch out his hand? Do you remember when the widow
[36:13] Speaker 3: had to make the room for the prophet? Do you
[36:15] Speaker 3: remember when Abraham had to leave his land?
[36:18] Speaker 1: Do you remember when? Come on?
[36:19] Speaker 3: Everybody through the Bible had to do something to unlock.
[36:23] Speaker 1: The miracle of God. It all happened through obedience.
[36:30] Speaker 3: And the Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verse eight,
[36:34] Speaker 3: in Jesus being found in appearance as a man, he
[36:37] Speaker 3: humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,
[36:42] Speaker 3: even death.
[36:43] Speaker 1: Of the cross.
[36:45] Speaker 3: Jesus himself had to humble himself and become obedient, even
[36:50] Speaker 3: to the point of death and death on the cross.
[36:54] Speaker 1: See.
[36:54] Speaker 3: One of the things I love about God is that
[36:56] Speaker 3: this is a foreshadow. This is a type cast of
[36:59] Speaker 3: what's to come. See here in the Old Testament they
[37:02] Speaker 3: lifted up a snake, and the Bible says that if
[37:05] Speaker 3: you looked, you would live. But In the New Testament,
[37:08] Speaker 3: we lift up the son of Man. His name is Jesus,
[37:11] Speaker 3: And if you believe, you shall live.
[37:12] Speaker 1: In the Old.
[37:13] Speaker 3: Testament, their cure represented their curse. But in the New Testament,
[37:17] Speaker 3: Jesus became the curse for us, and he is.
[37:20] Speaker 1: Now lifted above all names.
[37:22] Speaker 3: Anybody thankful today for the grace that's found in Jesus Christ, Oh,
[37:26] Speaker 3: come on, clap and give him a praise today.
[37:31] Speaker 1: John chapter three, verse thirteen.
[37:32] Speaker 3: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
[37:37] Speaker 3: even so must the son of Man be lifted up,
[37:41] Speaker 3: that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have
[37:46] Speaker 3: eternal life. In the Old Testament, it's look and live.
[37:52] Speaker 3: In the New Testament, it's believe in live.
[37:56] Speaker 1: But in both cases I'm gonna obey. I've got to
[38:00] Speaker 1: do what God.
[38:01] Speaker 3: Said to unlock the miracle of salvation, to unlock the
[38:06] Speaker 3: miracle of God's best. And I'll just tell you the
[38:09] Speaker 3: Bible says God takes not delight in sacrifice.
[38:15] Speaker 7: As much as God loves obedience, God is attracted to
[38:20] Speaker 7: your obedience. And sometimes God doesn't give you something new
[38:24] Speaker 7: to do until you go back and do the last
[38:27] Speaker 7: thing He told you to do, And I wonder how's
[38:31] Speaker 7: your obedience, Because obedience preceedes blessing. Obedience unlocks miracles when
[38:40] Speaker 7: you obey the voice of.
[38:41] Speaker 3: God, when you do what God tells you to do.
[38:44] Speaker 3: I'm telling you nothing will unlock the Kingdom of God
[38:47] Speaker 3: in your life like obeying the voice of the Lord.
[38:50] Speaker 3: Jesus said my voice. My sheep will.
[38:53] Speaker 1: Recognize a stranger's voice.
[38:55] Speaker 3: They will not follow anybody. Believe today that God's got
[38:57] Speaker 3: a plan for your life. God's got something for you
[39:00] Speaker 3: to do. There's a will of God for your There's
[39:02] Speaker 3: a will of God for all of us.
[39:04] Speaker 1: There's a will of God for you. And you gotta obey.
[39:08] Speaker 3: You gotta trust and obey, for there's no other way.
[39:12] Speaker 3: I gotta obey God. I gotta say, God, if you
[39:15] Speaker 3: want to take me along the long road, if you
[39:19] Speaker 3: want it to take as long as the four or
[39:22] Speaker 3: five takes to get to eat them, your will above
[39:26] Speaker 3: my will.
[39:30] Speaker 1: Not my will be done, but your will.
[39:33] Speaker 3: If you want to take me along the way, help
[39:36] Speaker 3: me to decrease so that you can increase.
[39:40] Speaker 1: And Lord, help me to obey at every turn.
[39:42] Speaker 3: Help me to obey in every season unless I grow discouraged,
[39:46] Speaker 3: and I start to complain these kids, this spouse.
[39:53] Speaker 1: Some of you today.
[39:54] Speaker 3: You don't need a new spouse, You need a new perspective.
[39:58] Speaker 3: You need to see this person as the miracle that God.
[40:02] Speaker 1: Come on, clap if you believe it.
[40:03] Speaker 3: Married people, I gotta see you the way God has
[40:05] Speaker 3: called me to see you.
[40:07] Speaker 1: I gotta talk to you the way God has called
[40:08] Speaker 1: me to talk to you. I gotta get all that discouragement.
[40:14] Speaker 3: I gotta get all that frustration, and I gotta turn
[40:17] Speaker 3: it into praise. And there are some things I gotta confess.
[40:21] Speaker 3: I gotta confess that I am a sinner in need
[40:24] Speaker 3: of grace. But I confess that you love me and
[40:27] Speaker 3: that you're for me, and that you're with me. And
[40:31] Speaker 3: I'll obey you no matter what the cost. I'll obey you,
[40:34] Speaker 3: no matter what you tell me to do. You just
[40:38] Speaker 3: think about the youth ministry of the Israelites at the time.
[40:43] Speaker 1: No, mom and dad likes Son. I noticed snake, big you,
[40:49] Speaker 1: But I need you to trust me. Here we're gonna
[40:51] Speaker 1: lift it up.
[40:51] Speaker 3: I want you to stare at it, son, kids like
[40:55] Speaker 3: I'm not looking at the.
[40:56] Speaker 1: Thing that just hurt me.
[40:58] Speaker 3: No, no, no, sun yet you have to owe, because if
[41:01] Speaker 3: you obey, you're gonna live. If you obey, you're gonna flourish.
[41:06] Speaker 3: And I just want to just tell you about God.
[41:09] Speaker 3: God's into your life. God's gonna ask some things of you.
[41:13] Speaker 3: The Bible says, the steps of the righteous are ordered
[41:16] Speaker 3: by the Lord. God's gotta plan for your life. No
[41:19] Speaker 3: eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no
[41:22] Speaker 3: mind can imagine the things that God has in stored
[41:24] Speaker 3: for those who love Him and are called according to
[41:26] Speaker 3: His purpose.
[41:27] Speaker 1: God's got a plan for your life, and We're gonna
[41:30] Speaker 1: have to obey.
[41:32] Speaker 3: Anybody want God's best for your family, anybody want God's
[41:35] Speaker 3: best for your life, Come on, clap.
[41:37] Speaker 1: And give and pray. You're gonna have to obey.
[41:44] Speaker 3: It's talking to a friend the other day. Let's being
[41:47] Speaker 3: the great church. Things are going off. It's going like crazy,
[41:52] Speaker 3: tons of people. The people are coming, the money is not.
[41:59] Speaker 3: And he felt like the Lord told him, I want
[42:01] Speaker 3: you to.
[42:01] Speaker 1: Fast and pray for the finances of the church.
[42:05] Speaker 3: I felt like the Lord told him, fast and pray
[42:07] Speaker 3: for the finances of this church.
[42:09] Speaker 1: He said, if the Lord told me to do it,
[42:10] Speaker 1: I gotta do it. So he went on a fast, and.
[42:14] Speaker 3: He started to pray, And when he finished the fast
[42:18] Speaker 3: on the last day, his phone rang and there was
[42:22] Speaker 3: a man that he hadn't spoke to in nine years.
[42:26] Speaker 3: And the man on the other line said, it's crazy.
[42:29] Speaker 3: I know we haven't spoken in nine years. But this
[42:33] Speaker 3: morning the Lord woke me up and showed me your face.
[42:37] Speaker 3: And the Lord spoke to my heart and told me
[42:40] Speaker 3: to wire you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
[42:44] Speaker 3: your church.
[42:47] Speaker 1: Oh, come on, clap if you believe it today.
[42:49] Speaker 3: Clap if you believe that obedience will unlock something.
[42:55] Speaker 5: Clap.
[42:55] Speaker 3: If you believe that God's ways are better than.
[42:57] Speaker 1: Your ways, come on, clap.
[42:59] Speaker 3: If you belie if he knows the end from the beginning,
[43:02] Speaker 3: wonder you give God praise if He's taken you along
[43:06] Speaker 3: the long way.
[43:08] Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait on you. I'm gonna worship you.
[43:11] Speaker 3: In the midnight hour, even when I don't feel like it,
[43:15] Speaker 3: even when it doesn't make sense.
[43:17] Speaker 1: I will not be discouraged.
[43:19] Speaker 3: I will lift up my hands and your sectuary because.
[43:22] Speaker 1: Your love is better than life.
[43:24] Speaker 3: I confess the blood, I confess them.
[43:27] Speaker 1: Oh, come on, life, if you believe it, and I
[43:29] Speaker 1: will pay the Lord. I will oh pay God.
[43:32] Speaker 3: Jesus humbled himself to the point of death on the cross.
[43:36] Speaker 3: That's why God exalted him and gave him the name
[43:40] Speaker 3: that is above every name. Oh, come on, if you
[43:42] Speaker 3: believe it today, let's worship our King. Let's give our
[43:46] Speaker 3: God praise. Come on this, worship God together today. Hallelujah.
[43:54] Speaker 8: Give me wanna.
[43:57] Speaker 9: I'm gonna lift it up today.
[44:13] Speaker 8: I'm speak, I'm listening. I'm come on, lit it up.
[45:04] Speaker 5: Allelujah.
[45:09] Speaker 8: Say you have.
[45:50] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, one more day.
[45:57] Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Want to just put your hands
[46:01] Speaker 3: out in front of you.
[46:03] Speaker 1: Thank God for the way that he's developing you. Thank
[46:06] Speaker 1: God today for the path that he's got you on.
[46:09] Speaker 1: Thank God for the long road.
[46:10] Speaker 3: Just thank God right now for his sovereignty. Thank God
[46:14] Speaker 3: for his shepherding. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall
[46:17] Speaker 3: not want. Just give him a praise today in your
[46:19] Speaker 3: heart for the goodness of God. Even if you take
[46:22] Speaker 3: me along the long path, even if it takes longer than.
[46:25] Speaker 1: I ever expected, I'll worship you. I'll wait on you.
[46:29] Speaker 3: For those that wait on the Lord will renew their
[46:32] Speaker 3: strength Today I'm not in a hurry because you're not
[46:34] Speaker 3: in a hurry. You're the author of my salvation. You
[46:37] Speaker 3: know the beginning from the end. You're the outfit the
[46:40] Speaker 3: old me.
[46:40] Speaker 1: God.
[46:41] Speaker 3: I've placed my trust in you today. Forgive me for
[46:44] Speaker 3: my discouragement. Forgive me for setting false expectations.
[46:48] Speaker 1: Release me.
[46:49] Speaker 3: I release gratitude in this house today. If you're thankful
[46:52] Speaker 3: the God just slipped up a hand. We release our gratitude.
[46:55] Speaker 3: We thank the Lord. Bless the Lord.
[46:58] Speaker 5: Bless the Lord and all.
[46:59] Speaker 1: That is with in me. At all times, I will
[47:02] Speaker 1: praise you. Come on, I will thank you without seizing.
[47:05] Speaker 3: Make me a worshiper, Make me a true worshiper that
[47:09] Speaker 3: will worship you in.
[47:10] Speaker 1: Spirit and in truth. I thank you God.
[47:14] Speaker 3: I praise you Lord that you put on a garment
[47:17] Speaker 3: of praise for the spirit of despair, that you're trading
[47:20] Speaker 3: me beauty for ashes. I thank you for the oil
[47:22] Speaker 3: and joy that's landing on my house. I'm thank you
[47:26] Speaker 3: that new songs of joy, new psalms of praise and
[47:30] Speaker 3: deliverance are coming to my house.
[47:32] Speaker 5: I confess my sin.
[47:34] Speaker 1: I will not hide. Where can I go from your presence?
[47:37] Speaker 1: Where can I hide from.
[47:39] Speaker 3: You, even if I try to make my pad in
[47:41] Speaker 3: the depths of shee Old, You're there.
[47:44] Speaker 1: I think you that your eye.
[47:45] Speaker 3: Is upon your sprow, and I've found my obedience.
[47:49] Speaker 1: I'm coming back to the heart of worship. I'm coming
[47:52] Speaker 1: back to living for Jesus.
[47:54] Speaker 3: I'm grunning back like the prodigal son. Come on, if
[47:57] Speaker 3: you believe it, today lives your voice, lives.
[47:59] Speaker 9: Your head asked, hallelujah, hallelujah.
[48:14] Speaker 1: You mean everything to me.
[48:27] Speaker 5: I really want a patient a day. Hallelujah.
[49:28] Speaker 1: Sing that again, one more day. Coming back, I'm coming back.
[49:33] Speaker 1: I'm coming back.
[49:35] Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus,
[49:43] Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus. God has not quit on you. God's
[49:51] Speaker 3: not mad at you. He's madly in love with you.
[49:55] Speaker 3: God has no plan B for your life. Today, We're
[50:01] Speaker 3: coming back to the heart of worship.
[50:05] Speaker 1: This message came to me about a week ago. I
[50:08] Speaker 1: was driving in my car getting on the four or five, and.
[50:18] Speaker 3: I didn't have time to do my read through that morning,
[50:22] Speaker 3: so I pressed play.
[50:25] Speaker 1: And it started to read through.
[50:27] Speaker 3: Numbers twenty one, and I heard the word discouraged, and
[50:34] Speaker 3: I press pause, and I said, what it is you say, discouraged.
[50:41] Speaker 3: And I thought of you, and I thought about today,
[50:46] Speaker 3: and I thought there'd be somebody here today that just
[50:48] Speaker 3: needs to hear the word of the Lord. Say to
[50:50] Speaker 3: you that I'm the God that refreshes souls. I'm the
[50:55] Speaker 3: God that will make you lie down in green pastures.
[50:58] Speaker 3: I'm the God that will lead you side still waters.
[51:03] Speaker 1: You know what the gospel is. I was wrong. I'm forgiven.
[51:09] Speaker 1: I'm restored. I was wrong.
[51:16] Speaker 3: I'm forgiven, but thank God, I'm restored today.
[51:21] Speaker 1: You know what this story was.
[51:22] Speaker 3: I was wrong, but I'm forgiven and I'm walking out
[51:28] Speaker 3: of today restored.
[51:30] Speaker 1: Get your confidence back, elevation.
[51:34] Speaker 3: I can do all things through Who Christ. Through who
[51:40] Speaker 3: Christ that strengthens me. So, Lord, we thank you that
[51:43] Speaker 3: we're built up in our holy faith. We thank you
[51:46] Speaker 3: that you never looked away, because you're God of mercy
[51:49] Speaker 3: and compassion, and you sent solutions for the Israelites, and
[51:54] Speaker 3: you sent solution for us.
[51:56] Speaker 1: The son of Man, Jesus, the Living God. And we
[52:02] Speaker 1: believe on a day like.
[52:03] Speaker 3: Today, through his obedience, we can walk in victory. We
[52:11] Speaker 3: pray today that as we celebrate your goodness, we will
[52:15] Speaker 3: understand the grace that's found in Christ. We will believe
[52:20] Speaker 3: and live because of Jesus. And Jesus we celebrate your obedience.
[52:25] Speaker 3: Thank you that you obeyed the Father, even to the
[52:28] Speaker 3: point of death on the cross. Thank you that you
[52:31] Speaker 3: obeyed the Father and you chose us rather than yourself.
[52:37] Speaker 1: In the same way you obeyed the Father.
[52:39] Speaker 3: We want to obey the Father. We want to walk
[52:42] Speaker 3: with you and serve you. We love you more than
[52:44] Speaker 3: anything else. In Jesus' name, and everybody said together.
[52:48] Speaker 1: Come on, let's clap and thank God one more time.
[52:52] Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did,
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[53:00] Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and
[53:03] Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation.
[53:06] Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or
[53:09] Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of.
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